BY DR. DERHAM. 



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The first draft of which sermon, as also of some of his 

 other Discourses, I have seen, but not nearly so much 

 enlarged as in the printed tracts. 



Having mentioned thus much of Mr. Ray's preaching, 

 I shall take notice of two sermons I have met with, 

 which he delivered at the funerals of tw^o of his friends : 

 one I imagine was at the funeral of Dr. Arrow^smith,* 

 master of his college, on Romans xii, 12, " Patient in 

 tribulation." Which words, he saith, he made choice 

 of, by reason the life of that reverend and learned 

 person, especially the last scene of it, was eminently re- 

 markable for the practice and exercise of the grace of 

 patience, occasioned, I find, by a valetudinarian state of 

 body. But as for the particulars w^hich Mr. Ray recounts 

 of his life, his education at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, his ad- 

 mission into St. John's College, and being called thence 

 to be fellow of Catherine Hall, then preacher at King's- 

 Lynn, after that Regius Professor, Vice- Chancellor of 

 Cambridge, and lastly Master of Trinity College, his wise 

 and good behaviour in all those places and trusts, his 

 meekness, peacefulness, industry, and learning, &c., I 

 say, as for such particulars, mentioned in Mr. Ray's 

 sermon, I shall pass them by as foreign to my pm"pose. 



The other sermon was at the funeral of his most in- 

 timate and dear colleague, Mr. John Nid, on Psalm 

 xxxix, 5, " Verily, every man at his best state is altogether 

 vanity." How great the friendship was between these 

 two, may be seen in Mr. Ray's Preface to his ' Catal. 

 Plant, circa Cantabr.' where he calls him amicissimus et 

 individuus comes; and applauds him (as he doth more 

 largely in his funeral sermon) for his admirable sweetness 

 and candid temper of mind, his exact probity, and inno- 

 cence of life and manners, his singular modesty, and his 

 excellent learning, particularly his great and exact skill 



* Arrowsmith, John, was bom at Newcastle-upon-Tyiie in 1602, and died 

 in 1658. He was author of 'Tactica Sacra sen de Milite Spirituali/ Cam- 

 bridge 1657, 4)to, 'and other religious works and sermons. He was one of 

 the Assembly of Divines in 1643, and assisted in drawing up the 'Assembly's 

 Catechism.' 



