dwelt, five pounds; to St. Andrew's in Holborn, where Elyhouse stands, ten pounds. And to this parish of St. Saviour in Southwark where he died, twenty pounds; which parishes he hath remembered, for his alms to the poor, when the land shall be purchased for the relief and use of the poor. When he came to Oxford, attending King James in the end of his progress, his custom was to send fifty pounds to be distributed among poor scholars. And the like he did at Cambridge, in his journey to Ely. And lest his left hand should know what his right hand did, he sent great alms to many poor places under other men's names, and he stayed not till the poor sought him, for he first sought them-as his servants employed in that service can witness-as appeareth at Farnham, at Waltham, and Winchester; and in the last year of great sickness he gave in this parish of St. Saviour a hundred marks. Besides, since the year one thousand six hundred and twenty, as I have my information from him that kept his books of accounts and delivered him the money, he gave in private alms to the sum of one thousand three hundred and forty pounds. The total of his pious and charitable works mentioned in his will, amounts to the sum of six thousand three hundred and twenty-six pounds. Of which, to Pembroke Hall, for the erection of two Fellowships, and other uses mentioned in the codicil, a thousand pounds, to buy fifty pound land per annum to that purpose. Besides a bason and ewer, like that of their foundress, and some books. To buy two hundred pounds per annum, four thousand pounds: namely, for aged poor men, fifty pounds per annum ; for poor widows, the wives of one husband, fifty pounds; for the putting of poor orphans to prentice, fifty pounds; to prisoners, fifty pounds. He was always a diligent and painful preacher. Most of his solemn Sermons he was most careful of, and exact; I dare say few of them but they passed his hand, and were thrice revised, before they were preached; and he ever misliked often and loose preaching without study of antiquity, and he would be bold with himself and say, when he preached twice a day at St. Giles', he prated once: and when his weakness grew on him, and that by infirmity of his body he grew FUNITA unable to preach, he began to go little to the Court, not so SERM. much for weakness as for inability to preach. 13.] After he came to have an episcopal house with a chapel, he kept monthly communions inviolably, yea though himself had received at the Court the same month. In which, his carriage was not only decent and religious, but also exemplary; he ever offered twice at the altar, and so did every one of his servants, to which purpose he gave them money, lest it should be burthensome to them. Now before I come to his last end, give me leave to tell you that privately he did much find fault and reprove three sins, too common, and reigning in this latter age. 1. Usury was one, from which, what by his Sermons, what by private conference, he withdrew many. 2. Another was simony, for which he endured many troubles by Quare impedit, and duplex querela. As for himself, he seldom gave a benefice or preferment to him that petitioned or made suit for it; he rather sent for men of note that he thought wanted preferment, and gave them prebends and benefices, under seal, before they knew of it, as to Master Boys and Master Fuller. 3. The third and greatest was sacrilege, which he did abhor as one principal cause among many of the foreign and civil wars in Christendom, and invasion of the Turk. Wherein even the reformed, and otherwise the true professors and servants of Christ, because they took God's portion and turned it to public profane uses, or to private advancements, did suffer just chastisement and correction at God's hand; and at home it had been observed, and he wished some man would take the pains to collect, how many families that were raised by the spoils of the Church were now vanished, and the place thereof knows them no more. And now I draw to an end. God's house is truly called, [Mat. 21. and is indeed, domus orationis, "the house of prayer," it accompanies all acts done in God's house. Of this Reverend Prelate I may say, Vita ejus vita orationis, His life was a life of prayer; a great part of five hours every day did he spend in prayer and devotion to God. After the death of his brother Master Thomas Andrewes in the sickness time, whom he loved dearly, he began to foretel his own death before the end of summer or before the beginning of winter. And when his brother Master Nicholas Andrewes died, he took that as a certain sign and prognostic and warning of his own death, and from that time till the hour of his dissolution he spent all his time in prayer; and his prayer-book, when he was private, was seldom seen out of his hands; and in the time of his fever and last sickness, besides the often prayers which were read to him, in which he repeated all the parts of the Confession and other petitions with an audible voice, as long as his strength endured, he did-as was well observed by certain tokens in him-continually pray to himself, though he seemed otherwise to rest or slumber; and when he could pray no longer voce, with his voice,' yet oculis et manibus, 'by lifting up his eyes and hands' he prayed still; and when nec manus nec vox officium faciunt, both voice, and eyes, and hands failed' in their office, then corde, with his heart,' he still prayed, until it pleased God to receive his blessed soul to Himself. 6 And so, hujus mortalitas magis finita quam vita, 'his mortality had an end,' and he died peaceably and quietly in the Lord, but his life shall have no end;' yea, then his life did begin, when his mortality made an end; that was natalis, 'his birth-day,' September the twenty-fifth, being Monday, about four of the clock in the morning. So died he aliorum majore damno quam suo, with greater damage to others,' even to all this English Church and all Christendom, than to himself.' And God grant that many ages may be so happy to bring forth and enjoy such a Prelate, so furnished with all endowments of learning and knowledge, with innocency and holiness of life, and with such piety and charity as he shewed in his life and death. My conclusion is short. I have spoken somewhat of this most Reverend Prelate, but much short of his graces and worth. In sum thus much: In his life he was concionator et scriptor potentissimus, a most powerful preacher and writer;' in his deeds and actions, he was potentior et diuturnior, more powerful and lasting.' Death hath bereaved us of him; but his life, and his works of learning, and his works of piety and charity, I doubt not but God in His goodness will make them monumentum ære perennius, a monument more lasting than [Hor. Od. brass' and stone, even to the coming of our Lord Christ. 3. 30. 1.] FUNERAL SERM. For no doubt while he lived he sowed the sincere word of life in the souls of men, and in his life and death, posuit eleemosynam in sinu pauperis, he put his alms into the bosom of the poor;' and shall I say, Oravit pro eo, ‘It prayed for him,' and by it he procured himself a strong army, and bellatores fortes, valiant soldiers,' whose many prayers and blessings God could not resist, the rather because they knew him not? That is too short, and the text goes further, Exorabit, 'It shall pray and prevail too;' and he and they have prevailed, and [Rev. 14. he is now at rest and peace in heaven, and "follows the Lamb wheresoever He goes." 4.] And after him let us all send this blessing, which the voice Rev.14.13. from heaven uttered, "Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord." For the Lord, there was no cause he should die; but he died "in the Lord" because he always lived to the Lord, and a happy death must needs accompany and crown such a life. "From henceforth, saith the Spirit, they rest from their labours;" all tears are wiped from their eyes, and all sighs from their hearts, and "their works follow 1 Tim. 5. them;" opera sequuntur et opera præcedunt, their works go before them.' So no doubt but his works have done, as the [Acts 10. prayer and alms and fasting of Cornelius did; they have procured a place for him in heaven, and his works shall follow him, and the fame of them shall stir up many to follow his example. 24. 4.] [Rev. 20. 5.1 And so I end, beseeching God to give to us all, as He gave to him, our parts in the "first resurrection" from sin to grace; and to grant to him, and all the faithful and saints departed, and us all with him, a joyful resurrection to everlasting life and glory in Jesus Christ. Amen. |