have been able to draw; and this too from Strokes that are chiefly borrow'd from Himself: The more Peculiar Senfations that were still habitually in him, or the Inward Myfteries and Experiences of his Mind, are (as I faid at firft) more difficult to be known or reprefented. He affected little that was Singular to Outward Appearance, or rather Nothing at all; while his Inward Temper was Confcious to it felf of many Singularities and Excellencies it enjoy'd. 'Twas what he profefs'd indeed upon Occasion to one (if it may not be taken by a wrong handle) That to be really wiser than others, and yet not to affect, or appear to be so, was the greatest Wisdom.

He was exceeding much in that weighty Difpenfation defcrib'd by him in the end of Maftix his Letter now fo often Cited; where speaking of the Advantages of Stardness and Gravity beyond the Profufenefs of Mirth and Levity, he concludes thus: "But the grave and fad Mind, that "feldom ruminates on fmall Matters, "whofe Carriage being Calm and Quiet "to the World, yet is full of Workings "within, and ftrong Breathings after the "Nobleft Acquifitions, doth not fail, in "the Conclufion, to enjoy her Content"ment fecretly and apart from others; "being fully Compenfated for her Patience, "with all that Wisdom and Holiness that "the Spirit of God beftows on them "that have long waited for him. See the whole of this, as it there follows. And

this minds me (by the way) of a Passage I have heard of him: That a Perfon ask'd him once, how he did; as thinking, by fome Appearances, he had not been well; when he profefs'd afterwards to another, That he was at that very time full of inward Light and Joy.

Few, I believe, were of a Chearfuller Spirit than himself: None of a more deep Felicity and Enjoyment. And he was fo far from any Sournefs in Temper or Religion, that he hath noted it as a fort of Maxime of his own in these Words; For believe it, there is nothing more Civil, nothing more Humane, nothing more gentle and governable, than a Mature and well-grown Chriftian.

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fefs, I think alfo, there are no Perfons in the World have fuch a Right to be Chearful as the Virtuous and Pious; and it is but a juft Fruit of fo Excellent and Harmonious a Difpofition, as well as a worthy Recom→ mendation of Piety unto Others. And thus the Doctor himself, with all his foregoing Allays that we have heard, obferves in another Place thus; "Mirth and Chearful Dial. i. "ness, O Sophron, are but the due Reward Numb. 1. " of Innocency of Life: Which if any where, "I believe, is to be found in your man"ner of living; who do not quit the "World out of any Hypocrify, Sullenness, "or Superftition, but out of a fincere Love "of true Knowledge and Virtue. But when this again is faid, the Satisfactions of Holy and Divine Perfonages are for the most part filent and inward. It is the quiet and

Still Mind (faith the Philofopher in his Phy ficks) that is Wife, or Prudent. Nor is it less the Seat of the beft Enjoyment, as well as deepest Contemplation of Divine Things. Crede mihi, res fevera eft verum Gaudium. Believe me (faith the Stoick) true Joy is a Serious (or well compofed) thing. But having touched upon this largely before, I fhall conclude here with that other Passage of the Doctor himself; In folâ altâ mente, & placiPræfati gene- dâ, &c. "In the deep and calm Mind r.liff. p. 24. « alone, in a Temper clear and ferene, "fuch as is purg'd from the Dregs, and "devoid of the more diforderly Tumults " of the Body, doth true Wisdom, or "genuine Philofophy, as in its own proper "Tower, fecurely refide.

He wrote to the very laft; and had then under his Hands Medela Mundi, or a Practical Treatife which he call'd in that Title, The Cure of the World: Which also I fuppofe to be much of the fame Nature, with that he speaks of to Mr. Elys, under the Letters to Mr. Notion of The fafe Guide. "If it please Elys, P. 27. "God, that I live to finifh the present "Task I am taken up with, it is likely "enough I may write fuch a Practical "Treatife in English, which I have long "fince call'd, The fafe Guide. But what"ever becomes of me, I doubt not but "God will ftir up thofe that will assist "his true Church, and the main Ends of "Religion.

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This Catholicon for the World, (thus left imperfect now) if Life and a Happy Temperament had ferv'd, he intended to have finish'd. But though he did not live to do this; yet we fhall do well to confider, that, as a fufficient Reparation, we have his Prefcriptions at large in his Works; if the World fhall think fit to make Ufe of them. He was, with fome others I could name, for thrusting them upon None; and yet he thought them not perhaps the lefs Medicinal or Sovereign: Nay, when he was told by one, that he had pick'd out fome Chiet places in his Writings, in order to recommend them unto fome Perfons, and to point them to them, he feem'd not to be pleas'd fo well with it; but faid, They fhould be left to find them out of themselves.

I AM brought now at length to give an An Account Account of his Death and Last Illness of his Laft Which I fhall do chiefly from one that was Sickness and a faithful Attender on him in it; and Death. who, as he ever honour'd him with a very Particular Honour, fo did he fignally fhew it upon this Occafion. A very Great Perfon in our Church, and no lefs Friend to the Doctor, was pleas'd to fay; That he never obferv'd a greater Inftance of Friendfhip in any Perfon, than in this Party at that Time. And to my Knowledge it was very Extraordinary; and no lefs Grateful and Serviceable to his Dear Friend the Doctor: Who would feveral times tell him; That he was a mighty Cordial and Refreshment to

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him. To my felf he exprefs'd how greatly he was oblig'd to him for his Company; and that he should not have known what almost to have done without him. From this Worthy and Reverend Perfon, my Honoured Friend Dr. John Davies, it is (I fay) mainly, that I fhall with all Faithfulness give the Reader an Account of that Cloud and Weaknefs, which after fome time carried off the Doctor from this to a Better Life.

He enjoy'd in the general (though Checquer'd with fome Illnefles, and what he call'd, I remember, once a Valetudinarian State) an excellent Habit both of Body and of Mind; as may fufficiently be collected (amongst other things) from the Nature and Frequency of his Writings. But for fome time before his Laft Sickness, he found himself to be often pretty much out of Order; and had particularly many times every 3d or 4th Turn an intermitting Pulfe; and once for Six Hours together (though he feem'd otherwife to be well, and went into the Hall) no Pulfe at all. He was taken one Night after Supper very Ill in the Fellows Room, and fwooned away He complained afterwards, That his Diftemper was Wind, but he hoped it would not carry him away in a Storm. This was about a Year before he died. And the Summer before this, for many Nights together, he felt himself in a perfect Fever: But it going off again after a few Hours, and he Aleeping well the rest of the Night, and finding himself at Eafe, and fit for Study