Saint Stevens last will and testament A funeral sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…Saint Stevens last will and testament A funerall sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…

But I forget my self: The time spendeth, and my strength and speech with it; and I must therefore of necessity omit many things, that might else have well been mentioned.

But I forget my selfe: The time spendeth, and my strength and speech with it; and I must therefore of necessitie omit many things, that might else have well beene mentioned.

I draw toward an end, together with her end. And the ^pend indeed is that, that is all in all. Yea, the main end of a mans whole life, should be to make a good end of his life. ( ^qWe should be all our life long a learning to dye, •aith Seneca.) ^rIt is perseverance alone, saith Bernard, that carr•eth away the Crown. And, ^sThe latter part of a mans life carrieth it away from the former, saith another, if the latter be not answerable to the former. But it was not so with her. The close of her life was suitable to its fore-passed tenor, in renewed acts of piety and ⟨p. 30⟩charity enter-woven together the one with the other. For, beside other Legacies, to the value of three hundred and forty pounds, and upwards, by the free consent of her worthy Consort, disposed to pious and charitable uses; she hath given to this Parish, wherein she drew her first breath, the sum of four pounds per annum for ever; partly, for a Sermon, a work of piety; and partly, for the relief of the poor, an office of charity. And to the Church of Lambeth, in which Parish she spent the greatest part of her life, and gave up her last breath, she hath bequeathed a fair Communion Cup, to be raised from the sale of some of her principal Jewels; that so those ornaments (I give it you in her own words) that had adorned her, while she lived, might adorn the Church of God, when she was dead.