THE FUNERALL-SERMON OF MR MILES PINCKENEY ALIAS THOMAS car confessor to the English Canonesses Regulars of the holly Order of S. Augustin established in Paris.  
Preached to the said Religious at his solemn funerals by his successor E. L.  
AT PARIS, BY VINCENT DU MOUTIER, M. DC. LXXV. 〈…〉 PERMISSION   

TO THE truly VENERABLE LADY abbess mary TREDWAY: TO THE VERY reverend MOTHER DOROTHEE MOLINS; And all the Religious daughters of Sion, the English Cannonesses Regulars of the holly Order of S. Augustin established in Paris.  
MOST Hd LADY, VERY Rde MOTHER,& religious SISTERS.  
HAD I been as ready to give the public a testimony of my folly, as I was always willing the World might know how much I esteem& respect you, I would long since have found some means to have got into Print; but, I thank God, I never found myself transported with that imagination; contrary waise, I am persuaded that had I experienced any kind of tickling caused by the conceit of getting into the press, I should have chosen rather to have spett upon the thought, and so have killed that itch, then exposed myself to have been scratched in public. 'tis upon this account, that as I most willingly Preface this sheet of paper to give a public testimony of the most cordial esteem and respect I have for you, so am I not unwilling to let the Reader know, 'tis you will needs trouble him with it. I must confess I can not well imagine and frame to myself an occasion which could more powerfully force me to what I do not much relish, I mean appearing in Print, then this which hath now put me upon it, the making this little memorial of worthy Mr Carre's deserts become the subject of a dutiful testimony of your Gratitude. To me( and I think other men are much of that humour) there is nothing so acceptable and pleasing as a grateful mind. 'tis true that the rendering any services, or doing any favours out of a craving hope of being rewarded or even thanked for them, is indeed traffic rather then fellowship, nevertheless there are few men who take satisfaction to see their kindness and fellowship wholly lost, 
●… tium post ●… ficium est ●… ficii sepul●… m.  which yet are never more truly cast away, then when thrown upon an ungrateful hart. This consideration easily excuseth to me your eagerness for the publishing this paper; and I believe will justify the same in the thoughts of others, who certainly, whatever they shall think of my Composition, will allow of your Intention.  
As for this little discourse its being addressed to you, I think no body will much find fault therewith, because it seems very justly due to you, both upon the account of its Subject, and its author. Me thinks it is a very equitable congruity to Dedicate to you an half-hower's discourse of that life, forty years whereof had been dedicated to your assistance and advantage. And for the author, there is much the same reason, because, though he pretends not to his Predecessour's excellent qualities and endowments for your help and service, yet doth he( and hopes without offence) to an equality of good will and and best wishes, or, which is the same, to be, as that worthy person was, most entirely Yours in JESVS-CHRIST.  
E. L.   

THE FVNERALL-SERMON OF MR MILES PINCKENEY ALIAS THOMAS car &c. Viae Sion lugent. Thren. 1.4. zion in mourning.  
WERE Love and Gratitude to be regulated by Ceremony, the solemnity of this day would put an end-to your just mourning, Religious Sisters. In the written law 30 days was the usual time for bewailing the deaths of great men, and friends, as appears by the last chapter of deuteronomy, 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 friends, as they do in the could beds of their silent Graues! 
Ps. 9.  periit memoria eorum cum sonitu: sometimes their being thus suddenly forgotten is occasioned by their own mean deserts, but many times 'tis their misfortune to have so ungrateful friends as to bury them in their Harts almost as soon as in the Earth, to whom we may with some kind of compassion appropriate the Epithet of the royal Prophet, and call them mortuos à cord. 
Ps. 30.  But our worthy Deceased, whose solemn funerals this Noble and friendly 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 immediately forgotten; and I dare assure the world not so unhappy in his friends as to be buried in oblivion as soon as laid in his Grave. I dare say the days of Mourning which you design him will have no other measure then those of your life, and the grateful memory of Him will never dy in you, but with you: so that I think its needless for me to use any other means to gain your favourable 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 always remember to love. I shall speak but of some of his many excellent endowments, and that with all the breifty that is possible, both that the present Ceremony may not prove too tedious to those his friends who understand me, 
This was said in order to the French who were present. 1. Cor. 14. Ovid.  and that I may not prove intolerably importune to those, to whom, because they understand me not, I am, according to S. Paul's expression a barbarian, ero ei cvi 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 been a frequent conduct of almighty God to foretell the eminent greatness 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 faithful was miraculously called out of the land of ur; was treated by almighty God with a particular familiarity, blessed 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-hearted King was contriving the total extirpation of the innocent Israelites; and when called 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 sanctified 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 divine Apostleship. And to come to my present subject, I think I may say something of this nature of our worthy Deceased. But mistake me not, Noble and Courteous auditors, I do not pretend to make exorbitant parallels between great Saints and Mr car; I can not forbear to profess myself too great an enemy to sordid flattery, and must own Mr car too great a friend to a certain plain truth, and an honest uprightness, to use such hyperbolical extravagancies upon his account. I must confess my very worthy and much obliging friend was very unhappy to fall into such poor hands as mine to have his deserverd praises set 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 mean 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 infer 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 possessed person exercised by a Roman-Catholike Priest: the poor possessed 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 'twas very easy for him to know which was the true company of the faithful 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 far from so weak an humour as to be easily imposed upon; and his remembering 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 sign 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 wisdom and Labour, his Learning and Piety.  
And to begin with his wisdom: As the Art of governing is the greatest of all Arts, so the greatest of all moral virtues is necessary for its happy performance, I mean that great and universal virtue, called Prudence, or a practical wisdom; 'twas this virtue which still looks round about her, and is so necessary for Gouernours that the spirit of God( which alone knows 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. grant me o Lord! that the heavenly wisdom which always waits at thy divine 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 extremely grateful to the divine Majesty, who therefore most copiously replenished his royal Hart therewith, whom he had designed for a great and glorious King: and I think we may with much truth say that the same God bestowed some measure of the same spirit upon Mr car whom he had designed for an undertaking which stood in much need of that assistance. I say nothing of his sharp and piercing iudgment, his excellent goodsence, and admirable discernment. I pass over the great and constant assistance you always had of his wise advice and counseils in troublesone and pinching circumstances, which, I think, still proved so happy, as you hardly ever had reason to repent your having hearkened thereunto. These and the like effects of his singular wisdom I pass over, and will content myself to insist only on one. 'twas a hard task! 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 car had so courageously ventured upon: so that if we reflect on the great and considerable Credit he had gained himself, I think it must needs be attributed to a singular wisdom and discretion, which is a participation of that holly Spirit the wise Salomon so earnestly prayed 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. 'tis true, and I can not but acknowledge it, his goodness is easily gained, he is of very facile access, and a man needs nothing to gain 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 faithful poor servant, and looked 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 esteem, nay I dare add a fellowship, which he was pleased to give a signal 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 chancellor of France. It must needs be a very particular effect of God's goodness, 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 kingdom esteemed themselves extreme happy in being only taken notice of by him. Our Deceased could upon occasions haue speedy Audience, and be treated with a most friendly kindness, whilst persons of great note were forced to come frequently, wait 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 royal Protection. Thus we often red in holly Scripture that those, whom almighty God intended for the assistance and relief of his afflicted people were by him ingratiated with the Gouernours and Princes of the places where they were, as Joseph with Putiphar, and pharaoh himself in Egypt for the relief of his old father Jacob with his Bretheren the patriarches; and the good toby, for the comfort of the Israelites in the Assyrian captivity, with the triumphant Prince King Salmanasar. What I haue now said of Mr car, are truths which many know although with a kind of an unconcerned speculation, but you, Religious Sisters, by a happy gainful experience of the many favours, bounties, liberalities, and protections of the mentioned great persons, which was Mr Carre's main endeavour, whose principal end was only to become instrumental to your happiness, and as it were, the channel by which all the friends he could make should discharge their bounties and favours upon you. I pass over the great Credit he had with many others of lesser note, which yet proved very necessary for your establishment and subsistence: the dreadful civill warres both in England and this kingdom, which caused a kind of an universal desolation, were sad circumstances for the beginning of your Monastery: your friends in England in an impossibility of succouring you, and times in France so deplorable, that had not Mr Carre's Credit supplied your necessities, you must have broken up almost as soon as you began to keep house, and your Monastery must have sunk in its very foundations.  
But Mr Carre's Credit, which his wise Conduct had procured, was not beneficial to you only; his industry, his pains, 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 allot myself for the whole discourse; I may tell you in short that all Mr Carre's life was a continual series of pains 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 shortened his old ones, and the continual tourmoiles of his life put him into a fitt of a languishing sickness, which lasted above twelve years, and at length brought him to his grave. Moyses crossed the read sea but once, to led the children of Israel into the Desert, but Mr car 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 far from pretending the stupendious and miraculous proceedings in the one which we red of the other. As our Deceased was never any pretender to Miracles, so neither do I pretend to any upon his account, unless we may, in some measure, say of this poor house what S. Augustin hath said of Christianity itself, that the greatest miracle which God wrought in order to the establishing thereof was its establishment. Once again, I say, I do not pretend to any miracles, but yet I think this Monastery's establishment had something of particular Providence. What? for 4 or 5 persons to come into a strange Country to make a perpetual settlement with ten pistols? The effect show what the undertaking was in Mr car, but in an ordinary person, I know what it must needs have been thought, especially if there be any establishing of Monasteries, as well as building of Castles, in the Air. But 'twas Mr Carre's laborious industry and industrious labours which made that a feasible and glorious undertaking in him, which would have been an absurd and egregious folly in an other. God almighty had not only enriched Mr car with many great Talents, he further bestowed on him several Mnas, many lesser sort of endowments, which all contributed to the compassing his great undertaking: we red in Exodus that the same God particularly inspired Beseleel and Ooliab with a knowledge and insight into all sorts of works and contrivances which were necessary for the making and completing of the ark, which knowledges and Arts almighty God calls his own divine 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 knowledge, admirable insight, and excellent skill in books, painting, sculpture, cuts in brass, and the like, were as well known, as they were very necessary, and seemed inspired by God for completing the great work he had ventured upon, the setting up this little spiritual ark 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 car what S. Bernard said in his admirable Funerall-Sermon upon the excellent and virtuous monk Gerard, his Brother both in blood and Religion, Nec in maximis tantùm, said& 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 took the pains to commend his Brother extremely for his skill in Architecture, Husbandry, Gardens, Waters, nay even some of the meanest Mechanikes, I think we may with great reason give Mr car his due commendations for the liberal knowledges and ingenuous skills, which I have spoken of, particularly since employed for so commendable an end. 'twas Mr Carre's particular insight, knowledge, and skill in the things I have mentioned, joined with his unspeakable toils, and indefatigable industry which strangely concurred to the settling and carrying on of this Monastery, so that I think we may very justly apply to him that of the royal Prophet in intellectibus manuum suarum deduxit eas. 
Ps. 77.  His daily running about, his constant care and contrivances, his continual labours, which very frequently took up the time even of rest, and other necessary refreshments, principally contribured to getting these stones together, to the raising 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 grateful children( I still speak in a wild and impossible supposition) could refuse his memory their just acknowledgements, the stones would speak, 
Lucae 19.  si hae tacuerint, lapides clamabunt: so that in my opinion, Religious Sisters, we needed not to have been so very solicitous what piththy Remembrance should have been written over his Grave: every ston will prove a standing monument, and grateful memory will red in every part of this building a glorious epitaph of Mr Carre's constant pains and continual labours.  
But yet the excellent qualities which I have heitherto lightly touched upon, were not the principal. We must look upon his undertaking as twofold; he had two buildings to raise up, two houses to establih, a material, and a spiritual 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 soul, which was the spiritual edisice he had to raise up, 
● Cor. 5. ●d Haebr. 3.  Domum non manufactam..... quae Domus estis vos, to speak in S. Paul's language, a house not raised up with hands, a spiritual house made up of yourselves, Religious Sisters. This was Mr Carre's principal work, this was his great masterpiece: for the effecting whereof Learning and virtue were absolutely and equally necessary, and were so conspicuous in Mr car, that it will be a very easy task for me to make good things so evident and so public.  
For his Learning you can produce convicting proofs, I mean your little Libraries, a great part whereof consists in the products of his pious learning: The Meditations which he hath compiled for your daily mentall-prayer, and spiritual employment, for your Retreats, Cloathings, Professions, and what not? The many Miscelaneous treatises, disputations, explications, and instructions: the several works 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 spiritual good of your House only, he farther engaged his pen for the honour and concern of your whole Order, joined with the learned P. Fronteau and writ a book to maintain that admirable work which relisheth so devoutly to every ones gust, the Imitation of Christ, 
judgment contradictoire de Messicurs des requests du palace au Parlement de Paris apres six Audiences le 12. Fevrier 1652.  to have been writ by Thomas of Kempis a Canon-Regular of the Order of S. Augustin: which undertaking proved so successful that a favourable sentence was given for our Deceased his pretensions, and a peremptory prohibition for the printing of the said work under his name, whom our adverse party contended for, but in vain. Besides your House and your Order, our whole Nation is beholding to him for the Piety of Paris composed by him: the divine book of the Love of God several of cardinal de Richelieu's works, the draft of Eternity, and many others were by him taught to speak 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 several works he hath composed for the vindication of its sacred Faith against the mistaken zeal and false conceits of some of her enemies.  
His virtue was nothing inferior to his Learning: he most eminently deserved the title which we usually bestow upon a man we think deserves a sincere and cordial commendation, and whom we call an Honest man: An encomium that sounds but little, yet says very much: it means one that goes streight before him, a Candid, sincere, upright 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 driving on of private designs and interests, that 'tis almost as hard for an honest plainly-meaning man to find an other to fix and rely upon, as it was for Archimedes to find a place out of the world to set his Engine upon, with which he pretended to have moved the Machine of the whole universe: and yet the God of goodness and charity, for the entertaining thereof between man and man, would have them stand in need of their mutual help and the assistance of each other, and there is hardly that man so stored with temporal blessings as never stands in need of an others fellowship, counsel, or the like assistance. 'tis upon this account that I dare say the English world had a considerable loss in Mr car, whose just proceedings, upright and honest behaviour were as well known as his name, men usually put them together, and the word was, HONEST Mr car. The great dealings, the many employments, which the circumstances he was in unavoidably put him upon; the vast trusts and confidences our miserable times occasioned him to be tried 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 loser, except himself, who still preferred 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 strain with his Trust, honest and upright: Worth, Truth, and virtue were still the measures of his proceedings, so that none came more dissatisfied with him, then those who desired to be flattered by him. 'twas the great maxim of his proceedings that Truth and honesty would still be justified, and bear up at last, however for a while trampled upon, so that his motto should have been Magna est Veritas& praevalet Great is Truth and always prevalent. This was his proceeding in order to those who thought fitt to confided either their affairs to his conduct and trust, or themselves to his advice and counseils. Those who stood in need of the assistance of his purse were not more unhappy, and 'tis hard to say whether were greater his uprightness 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 books, pictures, clothes were sold, any thing so the Poor were relieved; and because the promise of Christ of still having Poor amongst us hath of late years been so plentifully fulfilled, when his goods could not reach to help the needy, his Credit was to be employed for them, and principally with that virtuous 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 relieving the Poor. Great comfort in order to our Deceased! especially if we may in any sort rely upon that passage of the author of that work put amongst those of S. Augustin, and entitled sermons ad fratres in Eremo; the said passage is the beginning of the 44. chapter, and runs in these terms; numquam recordor me legisse malâ morte periisse illum qui libenter opera Charitatis vel pietatis exerceret. I do not remember ever to have red that a hearty charitable man ever dyed a bad death and perished: and the reason he adds is, multos habet intercessores, he hath many to pled and intercede for him. 'tis upon this account that I can not forbear to profess what I was most pleased and satisfied with at his burial. He had indeed the honour to be accompanied to his grave by many persons of note, and several of eminent quality. 'twas a Civility equal to their Quality, very Great, and which challengeth his friends particular gratitude to be expressed in their due thankes and acknowledgements, but still the goodness was theirs, honor est in honorant. 'twas something to see the Corpse accompanied with great multitudes, and the Streets crowded with throughs of spectators: but alas! some of these might be there out of more idleness, others by chance, and some again out of Curiosity: but to hear several of the Poor say; oh! he was a good man, he often relieved me: he was truly charitable; we all loose a great friend, a common father: God reward him, God grant him everlasting rest and peace: that he may meet his alms in heaven: that he may never want any thing in the next world, who so charitably relieved ours in this. Oh! this a comfortable hearing; these are efficacious prayers for the Dead; these are powerful intercessors with the divine 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 tenderness in his hart, you hardly expect to find much fortitude and magnanimity in his soul; and so you might indeed, had he been mollified by Nature, more then by Charity; but such is the excellence of that virtue that she tempers our harts with so admirable a mean, that we are at once hot and could, soft and hard, sweet and sour, yielding and stiff, complying and inexorable. 'twas thus that Mr car was soft and compassionate for the necessities of the poor, whilst he was resolute and unshakable for uprightness, justice, and truth: a great virtue in a person of his calling! Christian fortitude, and Priestly magnanimity certainly is one of the most necessary virtues for persons of our Profession, because there is nothing more ruinous to Christian Piety then the base Compliance of Priests. Their Vnchristian cowardliness, their Vnpriestly Lasheté not only occasions, it encourages and authorizeth 'vice. 'twas the want of this Priestly virtue of courageously standing up for God's cause, when occasion should require, that made great Prophets apprehended their Missions, 
Exod. 3.  although immediately sent from God himself: hence that of Moyses quis sum ego ut vadam ad Pharaonem,& educam filios Israel? Who am I that shall dare speak to pharaoh to dismiss 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 speak. But those whom almighty God designed for his servants, he still strengthened them with his divine assistance, and enabled them to withstand the frowns and fiercest looks of their proud enemies. 
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 jeremy Ne timeas à fancy eorum, 
jer. 1.  quia ego tecum sum ut eruam te dicit Dominus. Fear them not, I'l ever stand hy thee, and protect thee, saith 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 uprightness were concerned, he feared no body; he never spared any, when there was a just occasion of telling them non licet tibi; 'tis not lawful for you, 
Marc, 6.  you must not. He hath upon occasions spoken with so much Christian liberty to persons of very great quality, whose fellowship he valued infinitely, and no less stood in need of their favour and Protection, that had they not been as considerable for their virtue and goodness, as they were for their Power and greatness, he might have lost his friends 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 said one word concerning his Doctrine in order to the directing of you, Religious Sisters; and that was like the rest of his proceedings, upright, sincere, solid, and Christian: I think I may without any scandal 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 road, and beaten path of Christianity. His great endeavour was, that Tertullian's excellent expression should be verified in you, non magna loquimur, said vivimus: he much rather wished that men should red great things in your actions, then hear them in your discourses: nay you know his constant labour was that you should rather do little things without pretending to great ones, then pretend to great matters, and not practise small things. Enfine his great principle was, that your Religious Perfection was to consist in a Christian vanquishing your passions, and overcoming your imperfections; in an assiduous and constant performance of your Religious duties; in a worthy, respectful approaching to the holly sacraments: in a modeling yourselves in some measure after the great original of all Saints and Predestinate CHRIST-JESUS, and that, by copying out, by your practise, some of the Christian virtues, which alone can make us like Christ, Patience, Humility, meekness, sweetness, Charity towards our Neighbour, together with a profound esteem, Respect, and reverential Love of almighty 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 think I may with S. Bernard's words in his funeral sermon which I have already spoken of: Plango, primùm supper mea ipsius plaga, atque hujus jactura Domus. Plango deinde supper Pauperum necessitatibus, quorum...... pater erat. Plango certè& supper 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 loss; next for that of the Poor who had a father in him; and lastly for our whole body which received no small advantage from his hearty zeal, his solid advice, and his priestly example. For my part I have reason to bewail Mr Carre's death for my own sake, because his kindness to me hath been almost of the same durance with myself. In my childhood 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 fellowship towards me during the rest of his life, and gave me most signal tokens therof by the trust and confidence he put in me in his declining years, and at his Death. For you, Religious Sisters, what a loss you have had in him, the world knows very well, but you yourselves yet better. All the endeavours of his body and mind 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 been done, soon after he Dyed. He not only most heartily 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 mere force broken out of, I will content myself to tell you in short, that you have lost in Mr car, a friend, a Founder, a Father. For the Poor, they have lost a zealous Advocat, and a cordial Patron. And for our Body, I mean the pastoral hierarchical 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 been ashamed it should have been their Head.  
But we are not come heither merely to bewail our losses in him, we are rather met, some to exercise their Religious charity; others to make their Christian returns for whatsoever he may have obliged them in; wherefore let us all join our harts and vows with the Priest; let 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 failings;( for, alas! who hath not some? or rather who hath not many?) let us all join to beseech, and obtain of the divine Majesty that all worthy Mr Carre's charities, pieties, and goodnesses may now be gently showered down upon his own head in eternal Glory: that all his pains, Labours, and toils may be rewarded with everlasting Rest and Peace. let us all pray with holly Church sit in place locus eius: that all his pains and labours in this world for you, Religious Sisters, may find rest and peace in the next, sit in place locus ejus: that all his labours and pains for rich and poor, gentle and simplo, friends and foes, for all, that all may be crowned with Rest and Peace, sit in place locus ejus. AMEN, AMEN.