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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81899	The life and death of that judicious divine, and accomplish'd preacher, Robert Harris, D.D. late president of Trinity Colledge in Oxon. Collected by a joynt-concurrence of some, who knew him well in his strength, visited him often in his sickness, attended him at his death, and still honour his memory. Published at the earnest request of many, for the satisfaction of some, for the silencing of others, and for the imitation of all. / By W.D. his dear friend and kinsman.	Durham, William, 1611-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing D2831; Thomason E1794_1; ESTC R209698	30,977	127

any thing for God as I ought Loss of time sits heavy upon my spirit Work work apace assure your selves nothing will more trouble you when you come to dye than that you have done no more for God who hath done so much for you Sometimes he would breathe out himself thus I never in all my life saw the worth of a Christ ner tasted the sweetness of Gods love in that measure as now I do Therefore being asked what should bee done for him hee answered Do not onely pray for mee but praise God for his unspeakable mercy to mee and in particular that hee hath kept Satan from mee in this my weakness Oh saith hee how good is God! entertain good thoughts of him However it bee with us wee cannot think too well of him or too bad of our selves The sense of Gods goodness was deeply imprinted on his heart to his very last and therefore in all his Wills this legacy was alwaies renewed Item I bequeath to all my children and their childrens children to each of them a Bible with this Inscription None but Christ At what time hee was visited by two Reverend Doctors Dr. S. Dr. C. which were his choice friends who before they prayed with him desired him to tell them what hee chiefly requested hee answered I praise God hee supports mee and keeps off Satan Beg that I may hold out I am now in a good way home even quite spent I am now at the shore I leave you tossing on the Sea Oh it is a good time to dye in Yet nearer his end being often asked How hee did hee answered In no great pain I praise God onely weary of my unuseful life If God have no more service for mee to do here I could bee gladly in Heaven where I shall serve him better freed from sin and distractions I pass from one death to another yet I fear none I praise God I can live I dare dye If God have more work for mee to do here as that Antient said Domine si tibi sim necessarius non recuso c. Pomer to which hee seemed to allude I am willing to do it although my infirm body bee very weary Desiring one to pray That God would hasten the work It was asked Whether pain c. put him upon that desire Hee replied No But I do now no good I hinder others which might bee better imployed if I were not Why should any desire to live but to do God service Now I cease from that I do not live By this time the violence of his distempers and advice of his Physicians forbad speech yet did hee call upon his attendants to read the Scriptures to him constantly especially upon a Son of his with him to pray with him frequently and whilst life and language lasted hee concluded all prayers with a loud Amen Hee slumbered much the nearer hee came to his last sleep Once upon his awake hee found himself exceeding ill called for his Son and taking him by the hand said Pray with mee it is the last time in likelihood that ever I shall joyn with you and complaining to him of his wearisomeness his Son answered There remains a rest To whom hee replied My Sabbath is not far off and yours is at hand Ere that I shall bee rid of all my trouble and you will bee eased of some At length this ruinous Fort which onely in obedience to his great Commander had held out beyond his own desire and all mens expectations from the height of Summer to the depth of Winter comes to bee yeelded up About Saturday even hee began to set himself to dye forbids all cordials to bee administred upon whatsoever extremity gives his dying blessing to his Son who onely of all his children was with him and upon his request enjoyns him to signifie upon occasion in that Country where hee was longest known That hee lived and died in the Faith which he had preached and printed and now hee found the comfort of it Something else hee began to speak but his distempers interrupted his desires and from that time never entertained any discourse with the sons of men onely commanded the 8th of the Romans to bee read to him And herein God was exceedingly good to him in the return of those petitions put up for him that afternoon by those two eminent Divines and his dearest Brethren above mentioned for whereas his distempers gave occasion to fear that his death would bee exceeding painful yet was it so easie that his son and other attendants could but guess at the particular time of his departure his breathings were easie and even his eyes open and full of water till at the last having lifted them up towards Heaven they closed of themselves and his soul without the least motion or resistance of body entred into rest whilst wee below were entring into the day of rest For then began hee a perpetual Sabbath in Heaven when wee began ours on Earth twixt twelve and one on Saturday Decemb. 11. 1658. Hee died in a good old age and full of daies having out-lived fourscore years much bewailed by the Colledge by the City and whole University Thus have wee for the satisfaction of some and the silencing of others given you a plain and impartial narrative of the life and death of this eminent Divine collected partly out of his own letters and partly from their mouths who best understood him Let us now look upon himself within himself and there see what was in him for the imitation of all Dr. Harris was confessedly a man of admirable prudence profound judgement eminent gifts and graces and furnished with all qualifications which might render him a compleat man a wise governour a profitable Preacher and a good Christian Here is a large field but I shall contract and speak in few First Look upon him as a Christian because that was his and our greatest ornament Hee was a man that had much acquaintance with God much communion with him in private meditation and devotion accounting those his best daies wherein hee had most converse with him One in his sickness asking him how hee did Oh saith hee this hath been a sweet day I have had sweet communion with God in Jesus Christ Hee was none of them that were all for promises and priviledges mean while neglect duties Hee made them his exercise but not his Christ Hee was much in the work of those severer points of Religion as private humiliation mortification and self-denial whereby hee gained the conquest of himself In truth hee was as far as is consistent with humane frailty Master of his corruptions whatsoever passions reason appetite language all The Lord wrought upon him betimes Though hee knew not the Preacher or Sermon that converted him yet his course was in the daies of his strictest examination to set down his evidences for salvation in writing now in Propositions from Scripture now in Syllogisms These hee often subscribed to

receive good Solomon gives you best Counsel for this in many places Read the Proverbs and remember him in this 1 Forsake not an old friend 2 Bee friendly and faithful to your friends 3 Never trouble or trust friends unless there bee a necessity 4 Lastly bee long in closing with friends and loath to lose them upon experience of them For your Marriages In Marriage you lay the foundation of your Present wo and weal therefore here bee not rash go not alone yet remember Paul 1 Cor. 7.2 1. Study whether you have a Calling to marry yea or no and advise well of that if none forbear if so advise with friends before your affections be ingaged In your choice 1 Aim at grace 2 Good nature and Education the best woman is not ever the best wife 3 Good parts of understanding huswifery c. As for Portion bee it more or less be upon certainties and trust not words and for Parentage let not the distance bee too great lest you despise or bee despised however be sure that the Person likes not your fancy but judgement For your Children Make it your chiefest work to make them 1 Godly 2 Useful Bestow most of their portions in good Education and if grace make no difference do you make none in your affections countenances portions Partiality this way ends in nothing else but envy strangeness c. For your selves within your selves My desire hath been to carry an even hand over you all and have laboured to reduce you as neer as I could all circumstances considered to an equality and therefore my last request and charge is that you will live together in an undivided bond of love you are many of you and if you joyn together as one man you need not want any thing what counsel what comfort what mony what friends may not you help your selves unto if you will contribute your ayds wherefore my dear children I pray beseech command adjure you by all the relations and dearness that hath ever been betwixt us that you know one another visit as you may each other comfort counsel relieve succour help admonish one another Whilst your Mother lives meet there if possible yeerly When she is dead pitch upon some other place if it may be your eldest Brothers house or if you cannot meet yet send to and hear from one another yearly and when you have neither Father nor Mother bee so many Fathers and Mothers each to other so you shall understand the blessing mentioned in Psal 133. For your Estates Be not troubled that you are below your kinred get more wisdome humility goodness and you are above them only this do 1 Study work more than wages 2 Deal with your hearts to make them less 3 Begin low 4 Joyn together to help one another 5 Rest upon the promises which are many and precious this way 6 Sow mercy take of your Mother to this end a piece give that in works of mercy and if all other means fail you that shall maintain you I know I know I say and am confident in it that if you will be humbled for my barrenness and will trust God in his own way hee will make comfortable provision for you object no more but trust him For the Publique Bless God that you are born English-men and bear your selves dutifully and conscionably toward Authority see God in the Magistrate and hold Order a precious thing and for the Church neither set her above her Husband Christ nor below her Children give her that honour obedience respect that is her due and if you will bee my children and heirs of my comfort in my dying age be neither Authors nor Fautors of any either faction or novelty 'T is true this is not a rising way but it is a free fair comfortable way for a man to follow his own judgement without warping to either hand Perhaps you may hear variety of judgements touching my walk when I sleep in silence some taxing mee for too much some for too little Conformity but be not ye troubled I did what in my circumstances seemed best to me for the present howsoever the event hath not in some points answered expectation yet I have learned to measure things by another rule than events and satisfie my self in this that I did all for the best as I thought Sure I am my Surety Christ is perfect and never failed so much as in Circumstance To him I commit your souls bodies estates names posterities lifes deaths all and my self waiting when hee shall change my vile body and make it glorious like unto his own Amen Even so come Lord Jesus Amen FINIS