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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89689	The life and death of Mr. Ignatius Jurdain, one of the aldermen of the city of Exeter; who departed this life July 15th. 1640. Drawn up and published by Ferd. Nicolls, minister of the Gospel at Mary Arches, Exon.	Nicolls, Ferdinando, 1598?-1662.	1655 (1655)	Wing N1139; Thomason E730_9; ESTC R206858	29,189	39

Pemb. Expos the Holy One or Holy God and in your more private conversing with men and most secret retirements Holinesse to the Lord that under the Law was engraven upon the High Priests Miter and to be worn upon his forehead (q) Exod. 28.36 Exod. 28. should now be written on things of common use (r) Zech. 14.20 N. Annot. in loc Zech. 14. you should consecrate your selves and all your actions to the service of the Holy God the more sincere and constant you are herein with the greater comfort you will give up your account unto the righteous Judge when you shall be called unto it and your account drawes very nigh Jam. 5. (s) Jam. 5.10 Behold the Judge standeth before the door 2. His impartial administration of Justice against Swearers open profaners of the Sabbath unclean persons and other scandalous Offenders wherein he shewed himself another (t) N h. 13.17 Nehemiah and (u) Psal 106.30 Phinehas will but mind you of that which I have cause to be perswaded that you resolve to do And you have advantage to do more in some respects then he had because many of those disorders and pollutions (w) Esay 56. 2-6 of the Sabbath the removing of which found great resistance in those daies have been for many years taken away and yet I dare not say that he was the first that brake the ice and set upon the reformation of abuses upon the Lords holy day for I am informed by one that was an Active Officer in the redressing of those profane abuses that his immediate * Mr. John Sheere Major A.D. 1616. Predecessour in the Office of the Majoralty did begin to reform some open profanations of the Sabbath Whether any did attempt it before is more then I can learn it being long before my coming to the City But God hath a perfect Record of all things that are done by men especially for his names sake whether men take notice of it or no. 3. And for his Charity and beneficence to the poor and other pious uses I leave it to your serious consideration how far he was a pattern to you therein if you think it too much to do as much as he did yet liberality and forwardnesse in well-doing is left as a charge upon you by God himself (x) 1 Tim. 6.17 18. 1 Tim. 6. and he would not have you to forget it Heb. 13. (y) Heb. 13.16 seeing it is well-pleasing to him And you will be no losers by it here but great gainers the more free you are this way you may expect that the Lord will deal the more freely and bountifully with you or yours you have his Word and that 's as good as any bond for you (z) Prov. 11.24 25. Eccles 11.1 Psal 37.26 Esay 32.8 see Prov. 11. Eccles 11. Psal 37. and Esay 32. And this will f●rther your account (a) Phil. 4.17 Phil. 4. in the great day of reckoning for then the Lord will take special notice not so much of that which you have laid up for your selves or yours as of that which you have laid out for him and his But I am here prevented in pressing one point of Charity upon you for providing for the poor for in your late act of Charity shall I tearm it or Justice and Mercy meeting together I mean the erecting of a Work house You have taken the best care that the ranging and disorderly poor might be set on work and so be better provided for by their own labour then by being relieved at mens doors and that no (b) Psal 144.14 complaining by that clamorous sort of idle people may for the future be heard in our streets The Lord strengthen your hearts and hands for the perfecting of that righteous and charitable work and for the (c) Psal 41.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pisc Qui prudenter segerit Gen. Translation Judgeth wisely Ainsw Prudently attendeth wise considering the condition of the impotent poor that they being restrained from begging may have no just cause of complaining to God or man by reason of want God hath honoured you above many I beseech you let it be your chiefest care to honour him in the faithful discharge of your duty unto him and of the trust committed by him unto you that this City may be truly stiled the faithful City Esay 1. (d) Esay 1.26 Fidelis in aeternum The City's Motto and we may say with the Prophet Jer. 31. (e) Jer. 31.23 The Lord blesse thee thou habitation of Justice and mountain of holinesse This is the sincere desire of him that is willing to sign himself Sirs Yours to be Commanded in the service of the Gospel Ferdinando Nicolls Exon. Decemb. 24. 1653. TO The READER Good Reader IT is a truth which alwaies God hath made good in his providence that the memorial of the just shall be blessed therefore since the Canon and rule of faith or those Authentick records which we call The Scriptures have been closed up The Lord hath stirred up in every age some that could handle the pen of the writer to continue the memory of his eminent and faithful servants to posterity with praise and honour It would be vain in a case so known to tell you particularly what hath been done in this kind by Dorotheus Sophronius Jerome Gennadius Epiphanius c. and by modern Writers without number the Ancient Church had her Diptychs or publick Tables wherein the names of persons most noted for piety were recorded and though the modern Canonization used among the Romanists be ridiculous and some Sainted that were * Hominum monsira heu quam multi inter homines Scripti sunt in Sanctorum albo qui in arcano dei consilio descripti sunt in reproborum nigro quam multi sunt ac quorum imagines ardent cereis qui ipsi ardent in flamma Molinaei Hyperaspistes pag. 48. scarce men and their legends bundles of lyes the very stain and infamy of Christianity yet there is no reason that the true Saints Gods Worthies should be defrauded of their publick honour and buried in obscurity and silence without any Monument of their worth and religious eminency especially when we do consider how much Gods glory is concerned in the credit of his servants as also the profit of others partly that they may be acquainted with the ancient wayes of the Spirit and those Good old pathes wherein the Children of God walked and enjoyed communion with him partly that they may be provoked by their examples to follow them in faith and patience and heavenlinesse and strictnesse of conversation we see many times that examples work more then precepts not onely as they convince but as they do encourage they convince more because they are real we look upon precepts as words spoken of course wherein Religion may be counterfeited at a cheaper rate therefore Noah though a Preacher of righteousnesse is said to convince the world by preparing