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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41038	The life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond written by John Fell ...	Fell, John, 1625-1686.; Waring, Robert, 1614-1658.; Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.	1662 (1662)	Wing F618; ESTC R35672	58,303	255

ten and eleven in the morning he had a solemn intercession in reference to the National Calamities to this after a little distance succeeded the Morning Office of the Church which he particularly desired to perform in his own person and would by no means accept the ease of having it read by any other In the afternoon he had another hour of private prayer which on Sundayes he enlarg'd and so religiously observed that if any necessary business or charity had diverted him at the usual time he repair'd his Soul at the cost of his Body and notwithstanding the injunctions of his Physicians which in other cases he was careful to obey spent the supper-time therein About five of the clock the solemn private Prayers for the Nation and the Evening Service of the Church return'd At bed-time his private Prayers closed the Day and after all even the Night was not without its Office the LI Psalm being his design'd midnight entertainment In his Prayers as his Attention was fixt and steddy so was it inflam'd with passionate fervors insomuch that very frequently his transport threw him prostrate on the Earth his tears also would interrupt his words the later happening not onely upon the pungent exigencies of present or impending Judgements but in the common Service of the Church which notwithstanding his concealments being taken notice of by a person of good sufficiency once a member of his House in Oxford that became of late years a Proselyte to the new extemporary way he among his other Topicks whereby he thought to disparage set Forms us'd in discourse to urge the heartless coldness of them and to adorn his triumph would make it his solemn wonder how a person of so good parts as D r Hammond was certainly master of could finde motive for his tears in the confession in the beginning of the Liturgy So much does Passion and mis-guided Zeal transport the most sensible that this man otherwise sagacious enough never consider'd how ill an instance he had made which shew'd 't was the coldness of the Votary and not the Prayer that was in fault whenever fervor was deficient at the publick Office of the Church The Charity and extent of his Prayers was as exuberant as the Zeal and fervour he thought it very unreasonable that our Intercessions should not be as universal as our Saviours Redemption was and would complain of that thrift and narrowness of minde to which we are so prone confining our Care either to our selves and relatives or at most to those little angles of the world that most immediately concern'd us and which on due account bear very low proportions to the whole There was no emergent distress however remote but it inlarg'd his Litany every years harvest and new birth of mischiefs which for several ones past constantly fell on the Orthodox and Loyal party in the Nation remov'd it self from the sanguinary Edicts of the Tyrant to be transcrib'd and expiated by his pathetical office of Devotion In which Calendar and Rubrick the thirtieth of January was sure to have a very solemn place and a peculiar Service prepar'd for it Nor did he onely take to heart general National concernments but even the more private Exigencies of the sick and weak had a staple interest in his Prayers Among all which none had so liberal a part as they that merited them least yet wanted them most his and what was usually the same thing the Churches and God's Enemies He never thought he had assur'd his forgiveness of injuries unless he returned good for them and though other opportunities of this best kinde of retaliation might fail him that of his intercessions never did Three persons there were who above all men by unworthy malice and impotent virulence had highly disobliged him but he in recompence of their guilt had a peculiar dayly Prayer purposely in their behalf and though in the openness of his Conversation with his most intimate acquaintance he confest thus much yet he never nam'd the persons though probably that was the onely thing which he conceal'd it being his method to withhold nothing especially of confidence or privacy from one he own'd as Friend And having mentioned the name of Friend however incidentally we must not leave it without homage Friendship being the next sacred thing unto Religion in the apprehensions of our Excellent Doctor a Vertue of which he was a passionate lover and with which he ever seem'd to have contracted Friendship The union of Mindes thereby produced he judg'd the utmost point of humane Happiness the very best production that Nature has in store or grows from earth So that with compassion he reflected on their ignorance who were strangers to it saying that such must needs lead a pitiful insipid herb-John-like life Upon this ground he us'd with all industrious art to recommend and propagate Friendship unto others and where he saw several persons that he judg'd capable of being made acquainted to mutual advantage he would contrive that league and where himself had kindness unto any so allied he would still enjoyn them to be kinder to each other then to him besides he still labour'd to make all his friends endeared to each of them resolving it to be an Errour bottomed on the common narrowness of Soul which represented Amity like sensual love to admit no rivals confin'd unto two persons When he ever happen'd to see or be in company with such as had an intimate and hearty kindness for each other he would be much transported in the contemplation of it and where it was seasonable would openly acknowledge that his satisfaction In the list and number of his Friends there chanced to be three persons who having in their youth contracted a strict intimacy had undertaken the same profession and accordingly had the same common studies and designments and with these the opportunity through the late Troubles to live in view of each other whom for that reason he was us'd with an obliging envy to pronounce the most happy men the Nation had Accordingly he profest that for his particular he had no such way of enjoying any thing as by reflexion from the person whom he loved so that his friend's being happy was the readiest way to make him so Therefore when one eminently near to him in that relation was careless of health his most pressing argument was his complaint of unkindness to him And this way of measuring selicities was so natural to him that it would occur even in the most trivial instances when there has been any thing at the Table peculiarly wholesome in relation to his infirmities if his Friend who was in a like weak condition forbare to eat of it in civility to him he would with vehemence of grief resent it as his singular unhappiness after so many professions not to be believed that he had a thousand times rather that his friend should have that which was conducible to health then to have it himself and then assum'd