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but towards others that needed ; especially poor scholars and C H A P. 

 poor strangers; whether Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian, 



Grecian exiles: gratefully remembering, no question, that 

 his father was once an exile for his religion, as they now 

 were : to whom therefore he could not but have a peculiar 

 compassion. Mr. Squire, his nephew by his sister, Minister 

 of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, London, would often shew to 

 him the necessities of certain persons, and ask an alms on 

 their behalf; when he would usually give him twice as 

 much as he demanded ; whence the said Squire would say, 

 he was constrained to conceal from him many objects of 

 charity, because he conceived him to be too bountiful in his 

 liberality, even to the injuring of his family. So that it was 

 said by the foresaid person, who knew him and his concerns 

 intimately well, that had he been but ordinarily frugal, he 

 might have reserved from his charity to the poor, as much 

 as he left for the entire maintenance of his wife and family. 

 It was this made him say on his death-bed, &quot; that the poor 

 &quot; could not expect any gift at his death, because he had 

 &quot; given them as much as he could, while he was alive ; and 

 &quot; that, to his soul s comfort, he had already made his own 

 &quot; hands to be his executors, and his own eyes his over seer 8.&quot; 



And as he was thus of a charitable, so he was also of an Humble 

 humble and mortified spirit. He exercised himself upon 

 occasions in praying and fasting; living contentedly and 

 thankfully with what he had. And though he were one 

 of the ancientest Chaplains to King James, and might have 

 deservedly attained more preferment in the Church, and 

 have been placed in a higher sphere, in respect of his fa 

 ther and his own learning, when many of his inferiors and 

 juniors obtained greater and more wealthy places, yet he 

 never repined nor envied. 



His preparation for death, and his behaviour of himself His prepa 

 in his sickness, was remarkable, and truly Christian. He J 1 &amp;lt;or 

 was at first taken with a feverish distemper, which though 

 not violent, yet he apprehended would cause his death, say 

 ing, Nemo moritur sine febre. Wherefore his first work 

 was to put his house in order, and to make his will : and 



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