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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67468	The life of John Donne, Dr. in divinity, and late dean of Saint Pauls Church London	Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.	1658 (1658)	Wing W668; ESTC R17794	42,451	172

he surprized by a sudden apprehension of death but it was made with mature deliberation expressing himself an impartiall Father by making his childrens portions equall and a lover of his friends whom he remembred with Legacies fitly and discreetly chosen and bequeathed I cannot forbear a nomination of some of them for methinks they be persons that seem to challenge a recordation in this place as namely to his brother-in-law Sir Th. Grimes he gave that striking Clock which he had long worn in his pocket To his deare friend and executor Dr. King now Bishop of Chichester that model of Gold of the Synod of Dort with which the States presented him at his last being at the Hague and the two Pictures of Padrie Paulo and Fulgentio men of his acquaintance when he travelled Italy and of great note in that Nation for their remarkable learning To his ancient friend Dr. Brook Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge he gave the picture of the blessed Virgin and Ioseph To Dr. Winniff who succeeded him in the Deanry he gave a picture called the Sceleton To the succeeding Dean who was not then known he gave many necessaries of worth and usefull for his house and also severall Pictures and Ornaments for the Chappel with a desire that they might be registred and remain as a Legacy to his Successors To the Earles of Dorset and of Carlile he gave several Pictures and so he did to many other friends Legacies given rather to express his affection then to make any addition to their Estates but unto the poor he was full of Charity and unto many others who by his constant and long continued bounty might intitle themselves to be his almes-people for all these he made provision and so largely as having then six children living might to some appear more then proportionable to his estate I forbear to mention any more lest the Reader may think I trespass upon his patience but I will beg his favour to present him with the beginning and end of his Will In the name of the blessed and glorious Trinity Amen I Iohn Donne by the mercy of Christ Iesus and by the calling of the Church of England Priest being at this time in good health and perfect understanding praised be God therefore do hereby make my last Will and Testament in manner and form following First I give my gracious God an intire sacrifice of body and soul with my most humble thanks for that assurance which his blessed Spirit imprints in me now of the Salvation of the one and the Resurrection of the other and for that constant and cheerfull resolution which the same Spirit hath establisht in me to live die in the Religion now professed in the Church of England In expectation of that Resurrection I desire my body may be buried in the most private manner that may be in that place of S. Pauls Church London that the now Residentiaries have at my request designed for that purpose c. And this my last Will and Testament made in the fear of God whose mercy I humbly beg and constantly relie upon in Jesus Christ and in perfect love and charity with all the world whose pardon I ask from the lowest of my servants to the highest of my superiours written all with my own hand and my name subscribed to every page of which there are five in number Sealed Decem. 13. 1630. Nor was this blessed sacrifice of Charity expressed onely at his death but in his life also by a cheerful frequent visitation of any friend whose mind was dejected or his fortune necessitous he was inquisitive after the wants of Prisoners and redeemed many from thence that lay for their fees or for small debts he was a continuall giver to poor Scholars both of this and forraign nations Besides what he gave with his own hand he usually sent a servant or a discreet and trusty friend to distribute his charity to all the Prisons in London at all the Festivall times of the year especially at the Birth and Resurrection of our Saviour He gave an hundred pounds at one time to an old friend whom he had known live plentifully by a too liberall heart then decayed in his estate and when the receiving of it was denied by saying he wanted not for as there be some spirits so generous as to labour to conceal and endure a sad poverty rather then those blushes that attend the confession of it so there be others to whom Nature and Grace have afforded such sweet and compassionate souls as to pity and prevent the distresses of mankind which I have mentioned because of Dr. Donne's reply whose answer was I know you want not what will sustain nature for a little will do that but my defire is that you who in the dayes of your plenty have cheered the hearts of so many of your friends would receive this from me and use it as a cordiall for the cheering of your own and so it was received He was an happy reconciler of many differences in the families of his friends and kindred which he never undertook faintly for such undertakings have usually faint effects and they had such a faith in his judgement and impartiality that he never advised them to any thing in vain He was even to her death a most dutifull son to his Mother carefull to provide for her supportation of which she had been destitute but that God raised him up to prevent her necessities who having sucked in the Religion of the Roman Church with her Mothers milk spent her estate in forraign Countreys to enjoy a liberty in it and died in his house but three moneths before him And to the end it may appear how just a steward he was of his Lord and Masters revenue I have thought fit to let the Reader know that after his entrance into his Deanery as he numbred his yeares and at the foot of a private account to which God and his Angells were onely witnesses with him computed first his revenue then what was given to the poor and other pious uses and lastly what rested for him and his he blest each yeares poor remainder with a thankfull prayer which for that they discover a more then common Devotion the Reader shall partake some of them in his own words So all is that remaines of these two yeares Deo Opt. Max. benigno Lirgitori à me ab iis Quibus haec à me rese●vantur Gloria gratia in aeternum Amen So that this year God hath blessed me land mine with Multiplicatae sunt super Nos misericordi ae tuae Domine Da Domine ut quae eximmensû Bonitate tuâ nobis elargiri Dignatus sis in quorumcunque Manus dovenerint in tuam Semper cedant gloriam Amen In sine horum sex Annorum manet Quid habeo quid non accepi à Domino Lirgiatur etiam ut quae largitus est Sua iterum fiant bono corum usu ut