WERE Love and Gratitude to be regulated by Ceremony , the solemnity of this day would putt an end-to your just mourning , Religious Sisters . In the written law 30 days was the usuall time for bewayling the deaths of great men , and freinds , as appears by the last chapter of Deuteronomie , and other passages of the ancient Testament . And in our dayes , alas ! how many , after the last solemn ringing of the bells , ly as still in the memory of their freinds , as they doe in the cold beds of their silent Graues ! Ps. 9. periit memoria eorum cum sonitu : sometimes their being thus suddainly forgotten is occasioned by their own mean deserts , but many times 't is their misfortune to have so ungratefull freinds as to bury them in their Harts almost as soone as in the Earth , to whom we may with some kind of compassion appropriate the Epithet of the Royall Prophet , and call them mortuos à corde . Ps. 30. But our worthy Deceased , whose solemn funeralls this Noble and freindly company is pleased this day to celebrate and honour ; the worthy Deceased , I say , the world knows was not so little deserving in himself as to be immediatly forgotten ; and I dare assure the world not so unhappy in his freinds as to be buryed in oblivion as soone as layd in his Grave . I dare say the days of Mourning which you designe him will have no other measure then those of your life , and the gratefull memory of Him will never dy in you , but with you : so that I thinke it s needlesse for me to use any other meanes to gaine your favorable attention , then to tell you that the subject of this little discourse is some of the many of deceased Mr Carre's excellent qualities in himself , and goodnesses to you , which as you now love to remember , so you will allwayes remember to love . I shall speake but of some of his many excellent endowments , and that with all the breifty that is possible , both that the present Ceremony may not proue too tedious to those his freinds who understand me , This was sayd in order to the French who were present . 1. Cor . 14. Ovid . and that I may not prove intollerably importune to those , to whom , because they understand me not , I am , according to S. Paul's expression a barbarian , ero ei cui loquor barbarus ; and the Poet barbarus his ego sum quia non intelligor ulli ; and who , for want of understanding me , can not , as otherwaise they would , say Amen to the known truths I intend to insist upon .

It hath bin a frequent conduct of allmighty God to foretell the eminent greatnesse of some of his servants by very particular effects of his Providence and Grace , either at their birth , their calling , or their conversion . Thus Abraham being designed for the first father of the faithfull was miraculously call'd out of the land of Vr ; was treated by allmighty God with a particular familiarity , blest with a miraculous issue , & the rest . Moyses was miraculously preserved from perishing in the Nile ; was miraculously brought up in Pharao's own Court , whilst that proud and hard-harted King was contriving the totall extirpation of the innocent Israelites ; and when call'd to his strange Mission for conducting the children of Israel into the desert ▪ it was by the miraculous burning of a bush without consuming . S. John-Baptist being designed for the Precursour of CHRIST was sanctifyed in his Mother's womb , and his dumb father restored to his speech at his birth . And S. Paul being to be the great Apostle of Christianity was miraculously struck off his Persecutour's horse , and instructed by Christ himself in his devine Apostleship . And to come to my present subject , I thinke I may say something of this nature of our worthy Deceased . But mistake me not , Noble and Courteous Auditours , I doe not pretend to make exorbitant paralells between great Saints and Mr Carre ; I can not forbear to professe my self too great an enimy to sordid flattery , and must owne Mr Carre too great a freind to a certain plain truth , and an honest uprightnesse , to use such hyperbolicall extravagancies upon his account . I must confesse my very worthy and much obliging freind was very unhappy to fall into such poor hands as mine to have his deserverd prayses sett forth ; but yet it shall not be so very ill neither , and which I am confident he would have esteemed the basest of all pretended good-offices , I meane he shall not be flattered : and yet some thing of this nature may stand with truth , and I without any flattery may say , his Conversion had something of extraordinary , and thence inferre that God had intended him an Instrument of very much good . It was his misfortune to have spent his childhood and some part of his youth in a Church which hath unhappily divided herself from that Church which God had most graciously designed him to be a considerable member of , which he effected by bringing him to see a possest person exercised by a Roman-Catholike Priest : the poor possest gave such testimonies of his misfortune , that the sad truth was altogether unquestionable : and the wicked spirit's strange subjection to the Priest's commands was a great conviction that the sacred spirit of God must needs be in that Church , whose Pastours and Ministers could so command the wicked spirits of the Devills . You know that , according to our Saviour's expression , dispossessing of Devills is done by the fingar of God , ●… uc . 11. si in digito Dei ejicio Daemonia , now this fingar of God could not but point out to our deceased his true Church : and 't was very easy for him to know which was the true company of the faithfull by comparing what he had seen , Mar. 16. with what Christ had foretold , signa autem eos qui crediderint haec sequentur , in nomine meo Daemonia eijcient . Nor can it be reasonably objected that his youth made him foolishly Credulous ; those who were acquainted with his temper knew him to be farre from so weake an humour as to be easily imposed upon ; and his remembring that passage with much admiration even in his old age , is a strong confirmation of the reasonable proceeding of his youth . But this was only a signe and foretelling that God had designed him for some very particular Good , and that was to be yours , Religious sisters , whose Beginning , Proceeding , and Present condition owes very much to Mr Carre's Wisdome and Labour , his Learning and Piety .

And to begin with his Wisdome : As the Art of Gouerning is the greatest of all Arts , so the greatest of all morall vertues is necessary for its happy performance , I meane that great and universall vertue , call'd Prudence , or a practicall Wisdome ; 't was this vertue which still lookes round about her , and is so necessary for Gouernours that the spirit of God ( which alone knowes what we ought to pray for ) made the great King Salomon petition for , ●… ap . 9. Da mihi sedium tuarum assistricem sapientiam ut mecum sit , & mecum laboret . Graunt me ô Lord ! that the heavenly wisdome which always waites at thy devine Throne , may never desert me , but may always stand by me , inspire and assist me in all my difficulties , and all my labours : a petition extreamely gratefull to the devine Majesty , who therefor most copiously replenished his Royall Hart therewith , whom he had designed for a great and glorious King : and I thinke we may with much truth say that the same God bestowed some measure of the same spirit upon Mr Carre whom he had designed for an undertaking which stood in much need of that assistance . I say nothing of his sharpe and peircing iudgment , his excellent goodsence , and admirable discernment . I passe over the great and constant assistance you always had of his wise advice and counseils in troublesome and pinching circumstances , which , I thinke , still proued so happy , as you hardly ever had reason to repent your having harkened thereunto . These and the like effects of his singular Wisdome I passe over , and will content my self to insist only on one . 't was a hard taske ! for a private man , a stranger , one that neither had riches to purchase , nor yet such great alliance as might procure the credit which seemed necessary for the undertaking which Mr Carre had so couragiously ventured upon : so that if we reflect on the great and considerable Credit he had gained himself , I thinke it must needs be attributed to a singular Wisdome and discretion , which is a participation of that holly Spirit the wise Salomon so earnestly pray'd for , that he might be enabled for a worthy governing the people of God . My Lord Abbot Montagu . Who knows not Mr Carre's particular credit with that Pious , Excellent Noble-man , whose Modesty will not allow me to name him , who may be known by that of the Joseph of our Nation , the common Father of the distressed poor English . 't is true , and I can not but acknowledg it , his Goodnesse is easily gain'd , he is of very facile accesse , and a man needs nothing to gaine his favour , but only to want his Protection : but yet the Credit our worthy Deceased had with him was very particular , and although he pretended nothing but the honour of being esteemed his faithfull poor servant , and look'd upon as one that might deserve his Protection both for his place and his person , yet was he honoured by him with a most particular esteeme , nay I dare add a Freindship , which he was pleased to give a signall testimony of when he thought fitt to trust him with what is most sacred and most dear to us , the performance and execution of our last wills and Testaments . It is also very well known how considerable his Credit was with that great and famous man the late deceased Chancellour of France . It must needs be a very particular effect of God's Goodnesse , and Mr Carre's wise Conduct that a good honest Priest , a private English-man , a poor Stranger should so ingratiate himself with that eminent person as to be treated by him with a most particular familiarity , when so many great and considerable persons of the Kingdome esteemed themselves extreame happy in being only taken notice of by him . Our Deceased could upon occasions haue speedy Audience , and be treated with a most freindly kindnesse , whilst persons of great note were forced to come frequently , waite long , and in the end hardly have one word according to their wish and desire . This certainly was very much , but not all : our late Queen-Mother of pious and sacred memory voutsafed not only most graciously to take notice of him , but further made appear that her Majesty thought his concerns not unworthy of her appearing in them , and his person not unworthy of her Royall Protection . Thus we often read in holly Scripture that those , whom Allmighty God intended for the assistance and releif of his afflicted people were by him ingratiated with the Gouernours and Princes of the places where they were , as Joseph with Putiphar , and Pharao himself in Egypt for the releif of his old father Jacob with his Bretheren the Patriarchs ; and the good Tobie , for the comfort of the Israelites in the Assyrian captivity , with the tryumphant Prince King Salmanasar . What I haue now sayd of Mr Carre , are truths which many know although with a kind of an unconcerned speculation , but you , Religious Sisters , by a happy gainefull experience of the many favours , bounties , liberalities , and protections of the mentioned great persons , which was Mr Carre's maine endeavour , whose principall end was only to become instrumentall to your happinesse , and as it were , the channell by which all the freinds he could make should discharge their bounties and favours upon you . I passe over the great Credit he had with many others of lesser note , which yet proued very necessary for your establishment and subsistance : the dreadfull civill warres both in England and this Kingdome , which caused a kind of an universall desolation , were sad circumstances for the beginning of your Monastery : your freinds in England in an impossibility of succouring you , and times in France so deplorable , that had not Mr Carre's Credit supplyed your necessities , you must have broke up almost as soone as you began to keepe house , and your Monastery must have sunke in its very foundations .

But Mr Carre's Credit , which his wise Conduct had procured , was not beneficiall to you only ; his industry , his paines , his labours for your advantage were so great and so many , that I dare not enter into all the particulars , they alone would take up much more time , then I dare allott my self for the whole discourse ; I may tell you in short that all Mr Carre's life was a continuall series of paines and labours for your good and advantage , and although it pleased God , for your good also , to bring him to a faire age , yet certainly the labours of his young days shortned his old ones , and the continuall tourmoiles of his life putt him into a fitt of a languishing sicknesse , which lasted above twelue years , and at length brought him to his Graue . Moyses crossed the red sea but once , to lead the children of Israel into the Desert , but Mr Carre crossed our English seas 56 times , and that principally to bring you into this happy Solitude , this spiritual Desert , where he conducted you for the space of 40 years , & fed you with the heavenly Manna of the holly Sacraments , and pious Instructions in Solid Christianity : but , to be as good as what I professed of not extravagantly comparing him to great Saints , I am farre from pretending the stupendious and miraculous proceedings in the one which we read of the other . As our Deceased was never any pretender to Miracles , so neither doe I pretend to any upon his account , unlesse we may , in some measure , say of this poor house what S. Augustin hath sayd of Christianity it self , that the greatest miracle which God wrought in order to the establishing thereof was its establishment . Once again , I say , I doe not pretend to any miracles , but yet I thinke this Monastery's establishment had something of particular Providence . What ? for 4 or 5 persons to come into a strange Country to make a perpetuall settlement with ten pistolls ? The effect shew what the undertaking was in Mr Carre , but in an ordinary person , I know what it must needs have bin thought , especially if there be any establishing of Monasteries , as well as building of Castles , in the Air . But 't was Mr Carre's laborious industry and industrious labours which made that a feasible and glorious undertaking in him , which would have bin an absurd and egregious folly in an other . God allmighty had not only enriched Mr Carre with many great Talents , he further bestowed on him severall Mnas , many lesser sort of endowments , which all contributed to the compassing his great undertaking : we read in Exodus that the same God particularly inspired Beseleel and Ooliab with a knowledg and insight into all sorts of workes and contrivances which were necessary for the making and compleating of the Arke , which knowledges and Arts allmighty God calls his own devine spirit , r . 31. implevi eum spiritu Dei , sapientiâ , & intelligentiâ , & scientiâ in omni opere : and I hope it will be no extravagancy in me to say something of this nature of our Deceased : his perfect knowledg , admirable insight , and excellent skill in bookes , painting , sculpture , cutts in brasse , and the like , were as well known , as they were very necessary , and seemed inspired by God for compleating the great worke he had ventured upon , the setting up this little spirituall Arke of Alliance , especially considering the lamentable circumstances of its beginning which I have hinted at . Serm . 26. in Cant . We may with much truth say of Mr Carre what S. Bernard sayd in his admirable Funerall-Sermon upon the excellent and vertuous Monke Gerard , his Brother both in blood and Religion , Nec in maximis tantùm , sed & in minimis maximus erat , he was not only excellent at great things , Caementariis , fabris , agricolis hortulanis , su toribus atque textoribus faci le Magister erat . id . ibid . he was also admirable at little ones : and seeing S. Bernard tooke the paines to commend his Brother extreamely for his skill in Architecture , Husbandry , Gardens , Waters , nay even some of the meanest Mechanikes , I thinke we may with great reason give Mr Carre his due commendations for the liberall knowledges and ingenuous skills , which I have spoken of , particularly since employed for so commendable an end . 't was Mr Carre's particular insight , knowledg , and skill in the things I have mentioned , joyned with his unspeakable toyles , and indefatigable industry which strangely concurr'd to the setling and carying on of this Monastery , so that I thinke we may very justly apply to him that of the Royall Prophet in intellectibus manuum suarum deduxit eas . Ps. 77. His daily running about , his constant care and contrivances , his continuall labours , which very frequently tooke up the time even of rest , and other necessary refreshments , principally contribured to getting these stones together , to the raysing up of these walls , so that , in the well known impossible supposition that he could be forgotten by those he hath so much deserved of , and that these his gratefull children ( I still speake in a wild and impossible supposition ) could refuse his memory their just acknowledgments , the stones would speake , Lucae 19. si hae tacuerint , lapides clamabunt : so that in my opinion , Religious Sisters , we needed not to have bin so very sollicitous what piththy Remembrance should have bin written ouer his Grave : every stone will proue a standing monument , and gratefull memory will read in every part of this building a glorious Epitaphe of Mr Carre's constant paines and continuall labours .

But yet the excellent qualities which I have heitherto lightly touched upon , were not the principall . We must looke upon his undertaking as twofold ; he had two buildings to raise up , two howses to establih , a materiall , and a spirituall one : His endowments which I have mentioned , were very necessary for the one , but , in my opinion , not so very considerable but in as much as they related to the other : the first was but , as it were , the body of his design , which only ought to be esteemed in order to the soule , which was the spirituall edifice he had to raise up , ● Cor . 5. ●d Haebr . 3. Domum non manufactam ..... quae Domus estis vos , to speake in S. Paul's language , a house not raised up with hands , a spirituall house made up of your selves , Religious Sisters . This was Mr Carre's principall worke , this was his great Master-peice : for the effecting whereof Learning and Vertue were absolutely and equally necessary , and were so conspicuous in Mr Carre , that it will be a very easy taske for me to make good things so evident and so publick .

For his Learning you can produce convicting proofs , I meane your little Libraries , a great part whereof consists in the products of his pious learning : The Meditations which he hath compiled for your dayly mentall-prayer , and spirituall employment , for your Retreats , Cloathings , Professions , and what not ? The many Miscelaneous treatises , disputations , explications , and instructions : the severall workes of the Devout and truly Religious Thomas of Kempis which he hath made yours , by making them intelligible to you . Nay he was not content to employ his Learning for the spirituall good of your House only , he farther engaged his pen for the honour and concerne of your whole Order , joyned with the learned P. Fronteau and writt a booke to maintain that admirable worke which relisheth so devoutly to every ones gust , the Imitation of Christ , Iugement contradictoire de Messicurs des Requestes du Palais au Parlement de Paris apres six Audiences le 12. Fevrier 1652. to have bin writt by Thomas of Kempis a Canon-Regular of the Order of S. Augustin : which undertaking prou'd so succesfull that a favorable sentence was given for our Deceased his pretentions , and a peremptory prohibition for the printing of the sayd worke under his name , whom our adverse partie contended for , but in vaine . Besides your House and your Order , our whole Nation is beholding to him for the Piety of Paris composed by him : the devine booke of the Love of God severall of Cardinall de Richelieu's workes , the Draught of Eternity , and many others were by him taught to speake english for English-mens sakes . Not only your particular House , not only your whole Order , not only our whole Nation is beholding to him , he hath further well deserved of the whole Church of God by the severall workes he hath composed for the vindication of its sacred Faith against the mistaken zeale and false conceipts of some of her enimies .

His Vertue was nothing inferiour to his Learning : he most eminently deserved the title which we usually bestow upon a man we thinke deserves a syncere and cordiall commendation , and whom we call an Honest man : An encomium that sounds but little , yet says very much : it meanes one that goes streight before him , a Candid , Syncere , Vpright man : a worthy member of human society , one that deserves to be trusted and confided in . A precious thing in this our Age , where there is so much cunning , intriguing , dissembling , double-dealing , and covert driuing on of private designes and interests , that 't is almost as hard for an honest plainly-meaning man to finde an other to fix and rely upon , as it was for Archimedes to finde a place out of the world to sett his Engine upon , with which he pretended to have moved the Machine of the whole Vniverse : and yet the God of goodnesse and charity , for the entertaining thereof between man and man , would have them stand in need of their mutuall help and the assistance of each other , and there is hardly that man so stored with temporall blessings as never stands in need of an others freindship , counseil , or the like assistance . 't is upon this account that I dare say the English world had a considerable losse in Mr Carre , whose just proceedings , upright and honest behaviour were as well known as his name , men usually putt them together , and the word was , HONEST Mr CARRE . The great dealings , the many emploiments , which the circumstances he was in unavoydably putt him upon ; the vast trusts and confidences our miserable times occasioned him to be tryed with , were excellent tests of the Honest man I have spoken of , and who gave undeniable testimonies of his being such , since in all these great and many occasions no man was ever a looser , except himself , who still preferr'd to suffer , rather then an other should who had thought him fitt to be trusted and confided in . His advice and counseils were of the same straine with his Trust , honest and upright : Worth , Truth , and Vertue were still the measures of his proceedings , so that none came more dissatisfied with him , then those who desired to be flattered by him . 't was the great maxime of his proceedings that Truth and honesty would still be justified , and beare up at last , however for a while trampled upon , so that his motto should have bin Magna est Veritas & praevalet Great is Truth and alwayes prevalent . This was his proceeding in order to those who thought fitt to confide either their affaires to his conduct and trust , or themselves to his aduice and counseils . Those who stood in need of the assistance of his purse were not more unhappy , and 't is hard to say whether were greater his uprightnesse and honesty , or his compassion and charity : hardly ever any one craved it that was refused it , but many had the comfort of enjoying it , without the confusion of begging it . When he had it not in money ; his bookes , pictures , cloaths were sold , any thing so the Poor were releived ; and because the promise of Christ of still having Poor amongst us hath of late years bin so plentifully fulfill'd , when his goods could not reach to help the needy , his Credit was to be employed for them , and principally with that Vertuous Noble-man I haue hinted at : he knows very well that although our Deceased had many occasions to trouble him for his Credit and Assistance , yet did he never more frequently importune him upon any account , then the releiving the Poor . Great comfort in order to our Deceased ! especially if we may in any sort rely upon that passage of the Authour of that worke putt amongst those of S. Augustin , and intituled sermones ad fratres in Eremo ; the sayd passage is the beginning of the 44. chapter , and runs in these termes ; numquam recordor me legisse malâ morte periisse illum qui libenter opera Charitatis vel pietatis exerceret . I doe not remember ever to have read that a harty charitable man ever dyed a bad death and perished : and the reason he adds is , multos habet intercessores , he hath many to plead and intercede for him . 't is upon this account that I can not forbeare to professe what I was most pleased and satisfyed with at his Buriall . He had indeed the honour to be accompanied to his Graue by many persons of note , and severall of eminent quality . 't was a Civility equall to their Quality , very Great , and which chalengeth his freinds particular gratitude to be exprest in their due thankes and acknowledgments , but still the Goodnesse was theirs , honor est in honorante . 't was something to see the Corpse accompanied with great multitudes , and the Streets crowded with throughs of spectatours : but alas ! some of these might be there out of mere Idlenesse , others by Chaunce , and some again out of Curiosity : but to heare severall of the Poor say ; oh ! he was a good man , he often releived me : he was truly charitable ; we all loose a great freind , a common father : God reward him , God graunt him everlasting rest and peace : that he may meet his Almes in heaven : that he may never want any thing in the next world , who so charitably releived ours in this . Oh! this a comfortable hearing ; these are efficacious prayers for the Dead ; these are powerfull Intercessours with the Devine Justice for a poor sinner , Ps. 40. habet multos Intercessores . In die mala liberabit eum Dominus .

But it may be , after you have seen so much compassion and tendernesse in his hart , you hardly expect to finde much fortitude and magnanimity in his soule ; and so you might indeed , had he bin mollified by Nature , more then by Charity ; but such is the excellence of that vertue that she tempers our harts with so admirable a Meane , that we are at once hott and cold , soft and hard , sweet and sower , yeelding and stiff , complying and inexorable . 't was thus that Mr Carre was soft and compassionate for the necessities of the poor , whilst he was resolute and unshakable for uprightnesse , justice , and truth : a great vertue in a person of his calling ! Christian fortitude , and Priestly magnanimity certainly is one of the most necessary vertues for persons of our Profession , because there is nothing more ruinous to Christian Piety then the base Compliance of Priests . Their Vnchristian Cowardlinesse , their Vnpriestly Lasheté not only occasions , it incourages and authorizeth Vice . 't was the want of this Priestly vertue of couragiously standing up for God's cause , when occasion should requier , that made great Prophets apprehend their Missions , Exod . 3. although immediatly sent from God himself : hence that of Moyses quis sum ego ut vadam ad Pharaonem , & educam filios Israel ? Who am I that shall dare speake to Pharao to dismisse the children of Israel ? Jer . 1. that of the Prophet Jeremy A , a , a , Domine Deus , ecce , nescio loqui , quia puer ego sum . A , a , a , my Lord and God! A fine Missionair to be sent to thy people , poor child that I am who can not speake . But those whom allmighty God designed for his servants , he still strengthned them with his devine assistance , and enabled them to withstand the frownes and fiercest lookes of their proud enimies . Exod . 9. Dixit Dominus ad Moysen ecce constitui te Deum Pharaonis . Moyses , saith our Lord , be of good courage , I have made thee proud Pharao's God : and to the Prophet Jeremie Ne timeas à facie eorum , Ier . 1. quia ego tecum sum ut eruam te dicit Dominus . Fear them not , I 'l ever stand hy thee , and protect thee , sayth our Lord : or , as the Prophet Ezechiel expresseth it , ecce dedi faciem tuam valentiorem faciebus eorum , Ezech . 3. & frontem tuam duriorem frontibus eorum . I have given thee a face to outface their faces , which Tertullian calls a modest impudence , honestâ impudentiâ veritatem annunciet nullius faciem reveritus . The exact practise of our Deceased : when Truth , Justice , and Vprightnesse were concerned , he fear'd no body ; he never spared any , when there was a just occasion of telling them non licet tibi ; 't is not lawfull for you , Marc , 6. you must not . He hath upon occasions spoken with so much Christian libertie to persons of very great quality , whose freindship he valued infinitely , and no lesse stood in need of their favour and Protection , that had they not bin as considerable for their Vertue and Goodnesse , as they were for their Power and Greatnesse , he might have lost his Freinds and Patrons , and sacrificed his Satisfaction and Interest to Truth and Justice .

But time calls upon me to make an end , and so I will , having first sayd one word concerning his Doctrine in order to the directing of you , Religious Sisters ; and that was like the rest of his proceedings , upright , syncere , solid , and Christian : I thinke I may without any scandall or offence say , that he endeavoured to conduct you , as God doth the just man , per vias rectas by streight ways , Sap . 10. in the high rode , and beaten path of Christianity . His great endeavour was , that Tertullian's excellent expression should be verified in you , non magna loquimur , sed vivimus : he much rather wisht that men should read great things in your actions , then heare them in your discourses : nay you know his constant labour was that you should rather doe little things without pretending to great ones , then pretend to great matters , and not practise smale things . Enfine his great principle was , that your Religious Perfection was to consist in a Christian vanquishing your passions , and overcomming your imperfections ; in an assiduous and constant performance of your Religious duties ; in a worthy , respectfull approaching to the holly sacraments : in a modelling your selves in some measure after the great Originall of all Saints and Predestinate CHRIST-JESUS , and that , by copying out , by your practise , some of the Christian vertues , which alone can make us like Christ , Patience , Humility , Meekenesse , Sweetnesse , Charity towards our Neighbour , together with a profound Esteeme , Respect , and Reverentiall Love of Allmighty God . These were the lessons and documents which he never ceased to inculcate to you , to settle and imprint in your mindes , at all seasons , all times , all occasions , 2. Tim . 4. opportunè importunè .

But I must conclude , and I thinke I may with S. Bernard's words in his funerall sermon which I have already spoken of : Plango , primùm super mea ipsius plaga , atque hujus jactura Domus . Plango deinde super Pauperum necessitatibus , quorum ...... pater erat . Plango certè & super universo statu nostri ordinis , nostrae Professionis , qui de tuo ..... zelo , consilio , & exemplo robur non mediocre capiebat . I lament , first for my own and this poor house's losse ; next for that of the Poor who had a father in him ; and lastly for our whole body which received no smale advantage from his harty zeale , his solid advice , and his Preistly example . For my part I have reason to bewaile Mr Carre's death for my own sake , because his Kindenesse to me hath bin almost of the same durance with my self . In my childehood he was pleased to charge himself with a care of me , and had an ey over me at my being but 8 years of age : he continued his Freindship towards me during the rest of his life , and gave me most signall tokens therof by the trust and confidence he putt in me in his declining years , and at his Death . For you , Religious Sisters , what a losse you have had in him , the world knows very well , but you your selves yet better . All the endeavours of his body and minde seemed to be only for your advantage : he seemed to live only for your good and assistance , and having most earnestly recommended it to your and his noble Patron , as if then all had bin done , soon after he Dyed . He not only most hartily employed all he had , he employed himself also to the utmost of his power for your good and advantage . Libentissimè impendam , & superimpendar ipse . 2. Cor . 12. But not to run a new into a subject which I have by meer force broke out of , I will content my self to tell you in short , that you have lost in Mr Carre , a Freind , a Founder , a Father . For the Poor , they have lost a zealous Advocat , and a Cordiall Patron . And for our Body , I mean the Pastorall Hierarchicall Clergy of the English Roman-Catholike Church it hath lost a very worthy and excellent member , and such as they have testified they would not have bin ashamed it should have bin their Head .

But we are not come heither meerly to bewaile our losses in him , we are rather mett , some to exercise their Religious charity ; others to make their Christian returns for whatsoeuer he may have obliged them in ; wherfor lett us all joyne our harts and vows with the Priest ; lett us all meet in spirit at the foot of the Altar to make the dread Sacrifice truly Propitiatory for all our Deceased's oversights , imperfections , and faylings ; ( for , alas ! who hath not some ? or rather who hath not many ? ) Lett us all joyne to beseech , and obtain of the Devine Majesty that all worthy Mr Carre's charities , pieties , and goodnesses may now be gently showred down upon his own head in Eternall Glory : that all his Paines , Labours , and Toyles may be rewarded with everlasting Rest and Peace . Lett us all pray with holly Church sit in pace locus eius : that all his paines and labours in this world for you , Religious Sisters , may finde rest and peace in the next , sit in pace locus ejus : that all his labours and paines for rich and poor , gentle and simple , freinds and foes , for all , that all may be crown'd with Rest and Peace , sit in pace locus ejus . AMEN , AMEN .