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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

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 let thy Spirit of