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A60568	The life and death of Mr. William Moore, late fellow of Caius Colledge, and keeper of the University-Library as it was delivered in a sermon preached at his funeral-solemnity, April 24, 1659, in St Maries Church in Cambridge / by Tho. Smith ...	Smith, Thomas, 1623 or 4-1661.; Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4231A; ESTC R566	10,541	34

let thy Spirit of peace overshadow the minds of all contending parties and if it be thy will restore this Church to her pristine state renew her days as of old let her escape out of Egypt be so entire that not an hoof may be left behinde But if thy wisdome see it not yet a season for so full a deliverance Lord defer not we beseech thee such a degree of it as may at least secure her a being If she cannot recover her beauty yet O Lord grant her health such a soundness of constitution as may preserve her from dissolution Let thy providence find out some good Samaritans to cure her present wounds And to whomsoever thou shalt commit that important work Lord give them skilful hands and compassionate hearts direct them to such applications as may most speedily and yet most soundly heal the hurt of the daughter of Sion and make them so advert to the interests both of truth and peace that no lawfull condescension may be omitted nor any unlawfull made And do thou who art both the wonderful Counsellor and Prince of peace so guide and prosper all pacifick endeavors that all our distractions may be composed and our Jerusalem may again become a City at unity in it self that those happy primitive days may at length revert wherein Vice was the onely heresie that all our intestine contentions may be converted into a vigorous opposition of our common enemy our unbrotherly feuds into a Christian zeal against all that exalts it self against the obedience of Christ Lord hear us and ordain peace for us even for his sake whom thou hast ordained our Peace-maker Jesus Christ our Lord Prayer II. Evening O Most gracious Lord who doest not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men who smitest not till the importunitie of our sins enforce thee and then correctest in measure we thy unworthy creatures humbly acknowledge that we have abundantly tasted of this patience and lenity of thine To what an enormous height were our sins arrived ere thou beganst to visit them and when thou couldst no longer forbear yet mastering thy power thou hast not proportioned thy vengeance to our crimes but to thy own gracious design of reducing and reclaiming us Lord had the first stroke of thy hand been exterminating our guilts had justified the method but thou hast proceeded by such easy and gentle degrees as witness how much thou desiredst to be interrupted and shew us that all that sad weight we have long groaned under hath been accumulated onely by our own incorrigibleness 'T is now O Lord these many years that this Nation hath been in the furnace and yet our dross wasts not but increases it is owing onely to thy unspeakable mercy that we who would not be purified are not consumed that we remain a Nation who cease not to be a most sinfull and provoking Nation O Lord let not this long-suffering of thine serve onely to upbraid our obstinacy and enhanse our guilt but let it at last have the proper effect on us melt our hearts and lead us to repentance And oh that this may be the day for us thus to discern the things that belong to our peace that all who are yea and all who are not cast down this day in an external humiliation may by the operation of thy mighty Spirit have their souls laid prostrate before thee in a sincere contrition O thou who canst out of the very stones raise up children unto Abraham work our stony flinty hearts into such a temper as may be malleable to the impressions of thy grace that all the sinners in Sion may tremble that we may not by a persevering obstinacy seal to our selves both temporal and eternal ruine but instead of our mutinous complaining at the punishments of our sins search and try our ways and turn again to the Lord O be thou pleased to grant us this one grand fundamental mercy that we who so impatiently thirst after a change without us may render that possible and safe by this better more necessary change within us that our sins may not as they have so often done interpose and eclipse that light which now begins to break out upon us Lord thy dove seems to approach us with an olive-branch in her mouth oh let not our filth noisomness chase her away but grant us that true repentance which may atone thee and that Christian charity which may reconcile us with one another Lord let not our breach either with thee or among our selves be incurable but by making up the first prepare us for the healing of the latter And because O Lord the way to make us one fold is to have one shepheard be pleas'd to put us all under the conduct of Him to whom that charge belongs bow the hearts of this people as of one man that the onely contention may be who shall be most forward in bringing back our David O let none reflect on their past guilts as an argument to persevere but to repent and to make their return so sincere as may qualify them not onely for his but thy Mercy And Lord be pleased so to guide the hearts of all who shall be intrusted with that great concernment of setling this nation that they may weigh all their deliberations in the ballance of the Sanctuary that conscience not interest may be the ruling principle and that they may render to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods that they may become healers of our breaches and happy repairers of the sad ruines both in Church and in State Grant O Lord that as those sins which made them are become National so the repentance may be National also and that evidenc'd by the proper fruits of it by zeal of restoring the rights both of thee and thine Anointed And do thou O Lord so dispose all hearts and remove all obstacles that none may have the will much less the power to hinder his peaceable restitution And Lord let him bring with him an heart so intirely devoted to thee that he may wish his own honour onely as a means to advance thine O let the precepts and examples of his Blessed Father never depart from his mind and as thou wert pleas'd to perfect the one by suffering so perfect the other by acting thy will that He may be a blessed instrument of replanting the power instead of the form of Godliness among us of restoring Christian vertue in a prophane and almost barbarous Nation And if any wish him for any distant ends if any desire his shadow as a shelter for their riots and licenciousness O let him come a great but happy defeat to all such not bring fewel but cure to their inordinate appetites and by his example as a Christian and his Authority as a King so invite to good and restrain from evil that he may not onely release our temporal but our spiritual bondage suppress those foul and scandalous vices which have so long captivated us and by securing our inward provide for the perpetuating our outward peace Lord establish thou his throne in righteousness make him a signall instrument of thy glory and our happiness and let him reap the fruits of it in comfort here and in bliss hereafter that so his earthly crown may serve to enhanse and enrich his heavenly Grant this O King of Kings for the sake and intercession of our Blessed Mediator Jesus Christ THE END The manner of Dr H's death D H. Hammond whose works both of charity and learning praise him in the gate was about the beginning of April 1660. seized with a fit of the stone which at first put him to acute pain but soon after changed it self into a languishment sorenes over the whole body attended with nauseatings and vomits usual symptomes in such cases and a suppression of urin for three days then a fit of bleeding c. Thus he remained till April 25 when a second fit of bleeding came After it succeeded a faintness which increased till one a clock at night which began a perpetual day to him and to us as great a darkness as the remove of such a luminary could create to the Church His disease though of the acutest kinde was in a manner without pain His soft departure would make a Christian in love with death for whereas at other times he was upon the like occasions subject to a lethargick stupor now he had his intellectuals perfect to the last and breathed out his soul in a Veni Domine Jesu FINIS * Not in Caius Colledge as he desired because Mr Dell would not suffer him to be buried by the Liturgy which was his last request * He was the last who read it in Caius Colledge-Chapel a De modo orandi Edit. Maire p 115. b Precum p. 302. fol.

that faith into which he was baptized the true ancient catholick and Apostolick Church of England whose doctrine is contained in the 39 Articles the Book of Homilies and our * LITURGIE which he lookt upon as the onely probable medium to reunite the shatter'd pieces of decaying Christendome In this Religion he lived and in this he died commending his soul in my hearing to God with a loud voice in those our prayers which a Erasmus and b Gilbertus Cognatus say do savour of an Apostolical spirit and while both his hands and eyes were lifted up to heaven his soul peaceably departed Thus died Mr Moor as David in a good old age threescore and ten full of days I will not say riches and honour but full of that which David saith is far beyond them peace of conscience and joy in the holy Ghost Shall I tell you how he added to his true faith vertue 2 Pet. 1. 5 as that word signifies courage and constancy in well-doing and conforming our actions to the rule which our consciences approve He would oft say That if men would generally take courage and shew themselves bare-faced without mask or vizard and profess what they do indeed beleeve it were the onely way to secure themselves and all others and make those few that be factiously bent unable to hurt them but that foolish fear hath always betrayed and brought evil upon men from the time of the Gnosticks till now To this vertue he added patience an admirable submission to all manner of Superiours though perverse a most meek and quiet spirit under what governours Ecclesiastical or Civil soever Which I note the rather because I see some men write large books and many disputations to prove that the members of the old English Church are not to be suffered in any civil society which books and disputations are in my opinion far better confuted by such lives as Mr Moors then by volumes And to patience how did he add brotherly kindness A true Samaritan Every man was his neighbour loving to all I cannot say to his enemies because I never heard he had any for he walkt so far from offence toward God and man that he attracted the love or wonder rather even of the froward And though in these unhappy times difference in religion as 't is the nature of it hath caused a vast difference in most mens affections yet I cannot hear of any one man that spoke one single word against Mr Moor nor do I remember that I have heard him speak ill of any one man or woman but I have heard him in general blame the men of this age for pulling down and looking into other mens faults more then their own He would say that he had oft heard an apt proverb After a good dinner let us sit down and BACK-BITE our neighbours the discourse of most men now adays being nothing else And I confess I have seen him very oft both in sickness and health upon the mention of schism heresie or sacriledge shake his head and profess that he would not have had the least finger in the ruin of the Church of England for a million But let us go to the Colledge Ask those who were his contemporaries in Gonvile and Caius concerning him and you shall hear them beside all this wonder at his contentedness his joy in the most private condition the most mean and toylsome employment from first to last Though he had as many fair opportunities for preferment offered him as any man yet he slighted them all trampling this world under his feet saying that since he was but a passenger here it was a folly not to behave himself as a traveller in an inn a madness to set his minde on such things as there is no use of at his journeys end adding that God sent no man hither to get money His contemporaries will tell you how far he was from disturbing the peace of the Society wherein he lived from beginning or fomenting any faction or sedition in the House That he never asked any Fellow for his vote nor politickly as the custome is enquired before hand what other men would do in any election nor spoke one word for any pupil of his own either to get a scholarship or fellowship and yet even lately he had five or six senior fellows at once in Caius Colledge his own pupils but he went on his own road chose that man whom he in his soul thought fittest for the place fall how it would so his vote oft stood alone doing no man any good And though some laughed at his singularity he had his reward within and above which told him that a time would come ere long when it would be declared by strange effects that wealth was never the greatest happiness nor worldly policy the best counsellour that to lie and forswear for a good cause was no piety and to do wickedness for the glory of God was ill worshipping him In a word that there would come as sure as that God is true a day of visitation when we shall all be judged not by the flexible rules of our factions or interests non est judicium Dei sicut hominum but by the straight regularities of the Word of God by the rules of S. Paul and justice and charity by the laws of the nation and our local statutes And thus he brought up his pupils not choosing the richest such as be ordinarily the tulips of the University stay a while onely to show themselves see fashions but such as were of the choicest parts though never so poor and such as he thought he was likely to do most good upon with whom he took more pains usually in one day then many do in a moneth knowing that doing good to them he did good not onely to single persons but sometimes to whole families whole parishes whole Counties he made it his business to principle them in true Religion as well as learning And now here be pleased to behold and admire the strange blessing of God upon his precepts and example though I know many scores of his pupils some in this and some in other nations yet I never knew any who continued not firm to those good principles which his Tutour Moor instilled into him quo semel est imbuta recens notwithstanding all the temptations of schisme and heresie on the right and on the left both from Rome and Amsterdam {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} except onely one I should transgress the bounds though not of your patience yet I am sure of the time if I should tell you now of his almes which are almost incredible Where is the poor man from whom he turned his face or where the poor pupil that ever he turned from the Colledge for lack of money and yet what almes he gave was in the most private manner he could devise {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} how communicative was he how

ready to lend any thing he had even the choicest of his books or Manuscripts to any man in Town or Countrey that would make good use of them I must not stand to tell you what pains he took to collect our University Statutes now scattered in many scarce legible Manuscripts into one body how he was chearfull without lightness grave and serious without distrust sorrowfull for nothing but sin delighting in nothing but doing good And by that ye may trace his footsteps where-ever he went 'T is well known that he was through his whole life a diligent collectour transcriber of the choicest Manuscripts which he could possibly purchase by love or money All these he gave to Caius Colledge While he was in the University library how diligent he was for the publick good from first to last what incredible pains he took there for you and for how trifling a recompense ye all sufficiently know And when the sharpness of his disease would not suffer him to frequent that place he delivered to me a catalogue of all the Manuscripts in that library except the Oriental writ every word with his own hand which I am to deliver into the publick library as soon as it is open again But my strength faileth and will not suffer me to tell you half the excellent things I have heard from him seen by him his modesty he could scarce moderate an Act without blushing even when his almond tree did flourish his temperance and sobriety in diet and apparrel abating all superfluities and even robbing himself to bestow upon the poor remembring the causal particle for Matt. 25. 35. For I was hungred and ye gave me meat for I was naked and ye clothed me his retiredness his contentedness his humility you see I can but name them nor shall I need when they are known to most of you as well as to my self especially to that numerous company of his pupils who had the happiness of the Queen of Sheba to be perpetually at the elbow of our Solomon Ye who lamented him to his grave give me leave to speak to every one of you dear friends particularly as methought I heard him on his death-bed in the words of the dying Romane Non est amici defunctum vano ejulatu deflere sed quae voluerit meminisse quae mandaverit exequi 'T is not the part of a friend to bewail a dead friend with vain lamentation but to remember what he advised and to perform what he commanded There is not one of you who had any relation to him that were in the sad condition with most other Gentlemen whose follies are termed wisdome who are applauded when they talk vainly and are let alone when they do shamefull things No every mothers childe of you was as sure to meet with his portion of sage and sober counsel as of his diet And in your hearing he oft lamented the misery of our English Gentry who are commonly brought up to nothing but hawks and hounds and know not how to bestow their time in a rainy day and in the midst of all their plenty are in want of friends necessary reproof and most loving admonition And now when the Preacher hath done all the use that most men make of such discourses as these or indeed of any sermons is to pass a censure I doubt not but some of you will say I have spoke too much others that I have said too little of him de quo praestat nihil quàm pauca dicere And for the first I confess I am so far of my reverend friend Dr Jeremy Taylers minde as to be no friend to funeral sermons but I know M● Moor was such a person that if the Dr himself were in my stead this day he would say far more of him then I have done that he was a man of whom though I had said nothing and though he have no tombe-stone here before you yet he cannot want a monument or a remembrance while Caius Colledge stands while we have an University or publick-Library of which we never before had such a custos and I believe hereafter never shall THE LAST WORDS Which were writ by the Reverend Pious and Learned Dr HAMMOND Being Two PRAYERS for the Peaceful re-settlement of this Church and State Prayer I. O Blessed Lord who in thine infinite mercy didst vouchsafe to plant a glorious Church among us and now in thy just judgement hast permitted our sins and follies to root it up be pleased at last to resume thoughts of peace towards us that we may do the like to one another Lord look down from heaven the habitation of thy holiness and behold the ruines of a desolated Church and compassionate to see her in the dust Behold her O Lord not onely broken but crumbled divided into so many sects and fractions that she no longer represents the Ark of the God of Israel where the Covenant and the Manna were conserved but the Ark of Noah filled with all various sorts of unclean beasts and to complete our misery and guilt the spirit of division hath insinuated it self as well into our affections as our judgments that badge of Discipleship which thou recommendedst to us is cast off and all the contrary wrath and bitterness anger and clamor called in to maintain and widen our breaches O Lord how long shall we thus violate and defame that Gospel of peace that we profess how long shall we thus madly defeat our selves lose that Christianity which we pretend to strive for O thou which makest men to be of one mind in an house be pleased so to unite us that we may be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment And now that in civil affairs there seems some aptness to a composure O let not our Spiritual differences be more unreconcilable Lord let not the roughest winds blow out of the Sanctuary let not those which should be thy Embassadors for peace still sound a Trumpet for war but do thou reveal thy self to all our Eliah's in that still small voice which may teach them to eccho thee in the like meek treating with others Lord let no unseasonable stiffness of those that are in the right no perverse obstinacy of those that are in the wrong hinder the closing of our wounds but let the one instruct in meekness and be thou pleased to give the other repentance to the acknowledgment of the Truth To this end do thou O Lord mollifie all exasperated minds take off all animosities and prejudices contempt and heart-burnings and by uniting their hearts prepare for the reconciling their opinions And that nothing may intercept the clear sight of thy truth Lord let all private and secular designs be totally deposited that gain may no longer be the measure of our Godliness but that the one great and common concernment of truth and peace may be unanimously and vigorously pursued Lord the hearts of all men are in thy hands O be thou pleased to