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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	church_n	receive_v	time_n	2,475	5	3.7384	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86131	A sermon prepared to be preached at the funerall of Walter Norbane, esq; by W. Haywood Dr. in divinity: one of the chaplains in ordinary to his late Majesty of glorious memory.	Haywood, William, 1599 or 1600-1663.	1663 (1663)	Wing H1239; Thomason E1027_16; ESTC R208879	23,782	34

long after the death of his Mother his Father at his decease ordained him sole Executor left him all his personal Estate besides his proportion of land suitable to the rest of his children Which over-plus bequeathed to him alone he yet with such charity and tendernesse imparted to his brothers again that of his meer voluntary goodness he gave them as I am informed to the value of 2000. These things received on hear-say I let goe and observe that in his honest industrie God so blest him that he grew to a fortune such as scant any of his family had the like yet not to be charged for ought I could ever hear of ruining any person or family or rising by the fall impoverishing of others But eminent for his faithfull diligence and honest trustinesse and wise secrecie and abundant sufficiencie in his profession so that great and eminent ones in the same profession and some elder than he have repaired to him for his opinion and to be assisted with his advice In all the long time of his life and practise never heard I of any that could taxe him of the least breach of trust of any extortion bribery or injustice or of being feed on both sides or for deserting any cause which he thought just for want of his poore clients purses ability Well might he say with Samuel whose oxe or whose asse have I taken or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes withall Notable late instances might be given of this if particulars of this nature were fit here to be mentioned His integrity so great and his abilities so eminent could not fail to have preferred him to a seat of judicature among the highest had not the tempest of the warres coverd him with a cloud Wherein yet he perferred his conscience before all worldly ends nor followed any side because he thought it would prosper nor forsook that side when he saw it prospered not but persevered as he had first ingaged and engaged not weakly but fervently actively and couragiously And yet so prudently that though he suffered imprisonment and payed large compositions yet he scaped easier than some that were lesse active So great was his wisdome and in such esteem was his worth had even by the adverse party I will not say he was courted by some of them to accept of preferment among them but such things have been averred in my hearing and to my knowledge his constancie was such the world could not have wrought him to accept of promotion against his conscience for all that was offered to our Saviour upon the Mountaine During the time of warres and troubles though he were far in years yet he made no hast to marry No nor in times more quiet before the war though he could not have wanted great offers as any man of his quality yet he preferred the discharge of his calling and the continuall employments he had that way in the service of many noble friends before all conjugall delights and no lesse free was he from intemperance in eating or drinking Where is the man can say he ever saw him cup-shotten the reigning disease of this Town and Countrey as abstemious was he knowen that way as from pleasures more effeminate And when maturity of years and a faire estate of his owne at length invited him to marry in times more calme he looked not farr abroad to raise his fortunes but chose him a consort neer home of a neighbouring family both worthy and eminent one of his own perswasion and whose Father had sometimes been high Sherife of this County With whom God blest him to live most happily and lovingly and to have hopefull budds of posterity even in his old age The greater sorrow at present to all his friends the babes should be left fatherlesse so young And whereas he might have planted himself in the City neer his practise or in Towns of more trade and credit than this mean place so abounding with poore he chose rather here to fix his mansion here to build and settle and here to keep hospitality amongst his poor neighbours and to have the blessing and prayers of many such as how highly he deserved them how constant a reliever of the needy both at his dores and in their houses how ready to lend to any in want how bountifull at his Table what a constant inviter of his poor neighbours at solemne times of the yeare I leave it to many of this place to report who have felt the benefit of it and may condole the losse of it as well as I. A great lover of antient good order he was and no friend to innovations a constant frequenter of the Church in quieter times till his health began to fail him and newer customes to creep in which he fancied not A devout Receiver of the blessed Sacraments and a frequent Communicant in publick when he might receive it in the beauty of holinesse as he desired to see it Seldome failed he at the three solemn times of the year especially to make one at the Communion if he were in the Countrey To the suffering party of the Clergy to those of his own perswasion very loving kind respectfull and bountifull To none of any sort that I know uncivil though in more special manner he favour'd countenanced Divines of known learning gravity and experience nor much respecting others whom he thought time-serving hypocritical ignorant raw or scandalous A friend to Peace he was though his profession rather thrived by strife a willing Reconciler and taker up of differences where both parties would hear reason rather than a prolonger of suits A man such as Moses would have chosen for a Judge fearing God and hating covetousness hating it not only in himself but in others yea not caring to my knowledge to displease some of his very good friends where he thought them too worldly enclined very bountifull to the poor he was himself and would fain have had all of ability like him Far from flattering lying and soothing up though such vices are too frequent with many of his profession loving Truth and delighting in them that loved it as one rightly sensible of the great calamities this Kingdome hath been involved in through the licencious and unconscionable liberty of lying tongues These vertues made him honoured and respected far and near scant a Nobleman or Gentleman in these parts that made not much use of him and frequently as their occasions required resorted to him so that he was the eminent beauty ornament and shelter of this poor place wherein he lived A Staffe to the poor a Counsellour to the rich a Sanctuary to the oppressed a Terrour to the unconscionable deceitfull and worldly minded a comfort to those in need and to such as for need desired his help Our hearts sorrow it was that so soon in his bodily health he began to decline having yet scant added three years to threescore but to his joy in the