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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67470	The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert written by Izaak Walton ; to which are added some letters written by Mr. George Herbert, at his being in Cambridge : with others to his mother, the Lady Magdalen Herbert ; written by John Donne, afterwards dean of St. Pauls.	Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.	1670 (1670)	Wing W671; ESTC R15317	178,870	410

continued bounty might intitle themselves to be his Alms-people for all these he made provision and so largely as having then six children living might to some appear more than 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 John Donne by the mercy of Christ Jesus 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 chearful resolution which the same Spirit hath establisht in me to live and dye 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 St. Pauls Church London that the now Residentiaries have at my request designed for that purpose c. And this my l●st 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 Superiors 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 and 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 small Debts he was a continual Giver to poor Scholars both of this and foreign 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 Festival 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 and by a too liberal heart and carelesness became decayed in his Estate and when the receiving of it was denied by the Gentlemans saying He wanted not for as there be some spirits so generous as to labour to conceal and endure a sad poverty rather than 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 desire is that you who in the dayes of your plenty have cheered and raised the hearts of so many of your dejected friends would now receive this from me and use it as a cordial 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 dutiful Son to his Mother careful 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 foreign 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 Deane●y as he numbred his years he at the foot of a private account to which God and his Angels were only 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 then blest each years poor remainder with a thankful Prayer which for that they discover a more than common Devotion the Reader shall partake some of them in his own words So all is that remains this year Deo Opt. Max benigno Largitori à me● ab iis Quibus haec à me reservantur Gloria gratia in aeternum Amen So that this year God hath blessed me and mine with Multiplicatae a sunt super Nos misericordiae tuae Domine Da Domine ut quae ex immensâ Bonitate tu● nobis elargiri Dignatus sis in quorumcunque Manus devenerint in tuam Semper cedant gloriam Amen In fine horum sex Annorum manet Quid habeo quod non accepi à Domino Largitur etiam ut quae largitus est Sua iterum fiant bono eorum usu ut Quemadmodum nec officiis hujus mundi Nec loci in quo me posuit dignitati nec Servis nec egenis in toto hujus anni Curriculo mihi conscius sum me defuisse Ita liberi quibus quae supersunt Supersunt grato animo ea accipiant Et beneficum authorem recognescant Amen But I return from my long Digression We left the Author sick in Essex where he was forced to spend much of that Winter by reason of his disability to remove from that place And having never for almost twenty years omitted his personal attendance on His Majesty in that month in which he was to attend and preach to him nor having ever been left out of the Roll and number of Lent-Preachers and there being then in January 1630. a report brought to London or raised there that Dr. Donne was dead That report gave him occasion to write this following Letter to a dear friend Sir This advantage you and my other friends have by my frequent fevers that I am so much the oftner at the gates of Heaven and this advantage by the solitude and close imprisonment that they reduce me to after that I am so much the oftner at my prayers in which I shall never leave out your happiness and I doubt not among his other blessings God will add some one to you for my prayers A man would almost be content to dye if there were no other benefit in death to hear of so much sorrow and so much good testimony from good men as I God be blessed for it did upon the report of my death yet I