man can expect any thing considerable in the Will of a person deceased who made his own hand his Executors while he lived This Reverend Bishop in this particular was much of the temper of his great kinsman the Cardinal and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury above mentioned who chose rather to inrich his kindred and servants in his life-time then at his death or rather of William Warham who succeeded him not long after both in his Metropolitical See and Chancellourship of England of whom I well remember I have read though I have forgot where that lying upon his death-bed he called for his steward to let him know what money he had and understanding from him it was but thirty pounds he thanked God for it and said his time was then come for he never desired to die richer 111. It is true indeed this Reverend Bishop had somewhat more money by him at his death according to the number of pounds though less according to the value and proportion of money now to what it was then But to be sure he dyed far poorer in Estate for his debts were either none or desperate which is all one and his goods were either plundered or sold not excepting his Books in his life-time Of that small remnant which his professed enemies and seeming friends and urgent necessities had left him he gave 40. l. to the one of his servants that attended him at his death having abundantly provided for the other in his life and ten pounds to the poor of the Parish where he dyed and his Chalice with a Patin for the cover both double guilt to the noble Baronet in whose family he dyed for the use of his Chappel lately built The rest deducting some small Remembrances he ordered for his Burial which though not much above one hundred pounds was so well husbanded though I say it as to have a small remnant for a Monument at his own charge which though of necessity it must be far below his worth yet will it be such a one as will sute better with his great modesty then one much more sumptuous at the cost of another and will tell posterity he dyed a Confessour in a good cause and bad times to the great reproach of a wicked and ungrateful generation though the year he dyed in should not be written upon it 112. I cannot here omit to mention again the chief Legacy of his Will that which he designed for the common good of all pious and sober Christians living in the Communion of the Church of England but bequeathed as his pastoral charge required more particularly to those of his own Diocess of Duresme And this was paid in part by his Executor in the conclusion of his Funeral Sermon and will be more fully discharged now that both that and this are made publick in print and therefore I refer the Reader to that place for it 113. Having thus carefully disposed of all outward things in order to his long journey seaven moneths and of some of them seventeen before he took it we may reasonably presume he did the like much more carefully and timely in relation to those things which concerned his Spiritual and Eternal welfare For beside the principles of Christianity he had also his great Calling Learning and Years to mind him of his great account at a little distance And he had studied the point so well as it became a very familiar saying with him for many years together before his death that he had Vitam in patientia but mortem in desiderio till at last God was pleased to Crown his desires with what he had patiently waited for so long a time The knife that cut the thred of his long life beside old age which is an incurable disease was an infirmity with which he had wresled for a long time though it had much exercised his patience and impaired his strength It was an Hernia or Rupture which at last falling down more violently then ordinary became so painful to him as he could not endure to have it reduced Hereupon he was cast upon his death-bed for a moneth wanting three dayes during which time God did wonderfully supply him with a great measure of patience and other Christian virtues requisite for his condition in that extremity as I have elsewhere manifested and shall not here repeat till at last God was graciously pleased to grant him his last and infinitely happiest Translation from the vale of misery to a Throne of glory this he obtained the 22. day of September 1659. in the 95. year of his Age being the 44. of his Episcopal Consecration and 28. of his Translation to the See of Duresme 114. Upon the eight day after his death being the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-Angel his Body was solemnly interred according to the Order of the Church of England in the Chancel of the Parish Church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit where he dyed And though his Estate was so small as could not well consist with any solemn Invitation to his Funeral yet had he so great respect from the Neighbouring people of all ranks and qualities for all he had been so short a time among them that some of the Nobility many of the Gentry and most of the Clergy did freely and voluntarily give their attendance at his Funeral solemnity the chief of them carrying up the skirts of the Pall and the rest in due rank and order accompanying his Body to the grave where now it resteth in Peace till a glorious and happy Resurrection shall once more Translate it to life everlasting Animam quidem Christus Scripta possidet Ecclesia CHAP. II. A Catalogue of the Books written by this Learned Bishop 1. HE led his life in a holy and chaste Celibate being never married to any beside God and the Church which he had committed to his care and trust so that what is usually added to the History of other mens lives concerning their Children may and must be spared in this seeing he never had any but such as were spiritual whom he begat to God in the Gospel of Christ 2. And yet if we look upon the Issue of his brain those learned works he hath left to the world we shall find him more fruitful in them then his Parents were in the issue of their Body though that was very remarkable They had indeed nineteen Children he left above twenty several volumes in Print and several others that wanted only his last hand and some not so much but only the obstetrication of the Press to bring them into the world It is true indeed that many of his Fathers issue have multiplied into a numerous posterity and so had His also but only for this paradox that their strength caused their Imbecillity for if his Books had been less unanswerable they had produced Replies and Duplies before this time considering how long it is since most of them were published as will appear by this ensuing
Church of ours of what party soever especially those in the Roman Communion And the manner of his writing brings him very pertinently under the first branch of my Text in two several respects For first his custome was to disarm the enemy where possibly it might be done and turn their own cannon upon them by making use of their own confessions against themselves and secondly the word fighting was in a manner peculiar to him above all other polemical divines that I have seen in that his arguments which he bringeth to establish his own cause are most commonly concluded with a challenge to his Adversaries While he was thus engaged against a puissant enemy in the front a peevish enemy from an ambuscado charged him and the rest of his Reverend Brethren and fellow Champions in the Rear I cannot but say he foresaw him because it is clear he endeavoured to prevent his design in his Book of the three Innocent Ceremonies printed above forty years agoe but yet I cannot deny but if all of us had buckled our selves more vigorously against him before the Cockatrice egge brake out into such a dangerous serpent the other Adversary had never got half the advantage against us which now he hath by making use of these as his Auxiliaries and Instruments For whatsoever they may outwardly pretend they cannot better be resembled to any thing then Samsons Foxes tyed by the tails with fire-brands between them though hitherto they look several wayes they agree well enough to burn up all the good wheat in this field of our poor afflicted Church How careful this our Champion was to suppress this Monster before it was perfectly fledged will appear by two Excellent Sermons of his now in print the one preached with great applause at Newcastle on Rom. 13.1 before it had got the wing over Tweed and the other with no less since that time in St. Pauls Church in London on 1 Cor. 11.16 In the former whereof he teacheth the duty of subjects towards their undoubted Soveraign and in the latter the duty of all Christians towards their lawful Superiours in the Church the want of which two duties hath opened those two great sluces of Sedition and Schisme which then began to flow in upon us and since that time have almost utterly drowned us It is the part of a good souldier when he findes his first designe not like to take the effect he desireth to have another in reserve and our Champion was not wanting in this neither for when the Pulpit was shut against him he put on a stronger resolution to supply that in private with his Pen which he was not suffered to perform in publick with his tongue And to this we owe that little Treatise of his though printed without his name intituled Confessions and Proofs c. which he compiled from the suffrages of the most learned Protestants of forraign Reformed Churches in defence of the sacred order of Bishops and which he hath since enlarged and fitted for a second Impression I wish I could say the like for two other litle Treatises which were designed by him but not brought to perfection the one in defence of Infants Baptisme the other against the poysonous doctrine of the Antinomians His Printed Books are so well known to the world as I need not speak of them and therefore I have brought these instances out of his papers that I may tell you something more then the world knowes of him All that I shall need to adde is that while he was engaged in these conflicts he was again alarm'd by a nameless Romish Adversary with a mask of J. S. before his face and the title of Anti-Mortonus before his Book whereunto he had prepared a full and large Answer about a dozen years ago though since that time by some misadventure or other I finde those papers have lost much of their former perfection In these quarrels was he engaged and charged thus by several adversaries both in the front and rear for very many years after his age had exceeded holy Davids span even for a good many years after it was past fourescore when in the Holy dialect our strength is nothing but labour and sorrow insomuch as excepting one litle Treatise of Gods providence in his Meditations upon the vision of Ezekiels wheeles we may say he dyed in the field though he was not vanquished Mori potuit succumbere non potuit That saying of Vespasian oportet imperatorem stantem mori may very properly be accommodated to this our Champion who fought a good fight and kept the faith till he had finished his course here upon Earth All this while I have instanced only in those conflicts which he undertook in matters of Doctrine but to make up a compleat Christian souldier there will be requisite some perfection of manners as well as integrity of faith but much more to make up a good Bishop And this appeared in him very conspicuously through the whole course of his life and will bring in the second Act of St. Paul mentioned here in my Text. 2. I have finished my course upon which words I might have just occasion to speak of the whole course of his life during the whole time of his pilgrimage here upon earth but only that it is a task much too large either for my time or your patience It might perhaps be some satisfaction to your curiosity but little advantage to your edification to tell you either the place of his birth or of his education or of his several offices and dignities in the Church but to tell you how much he adorned the place of his birth and how much he profited under those from whom he had his education and how well he discharged himself in those several places and offices he sustained in the Church this may and will be much more useful to us And these three have such immediate dependence one upon another that I need but speak of one of them for all For the good discharge of his offices in the Church declareth how much he profited by his good education and both of these together will make a new addition of honour to the place of his Birth the City of YORK though that hath been very famous for many generations I do not now speak of his great learning whereof I have given you so many instances already but of his singular piety and exquisite carriage in matters of Morality which he expressed in a grave virtuous and Christian conversation attended with much sweetness and affability all his life long And in this he was so eminent that none of his greatest Adversaries and many great ones he hath had could ever affix any reproach upon him for any defect in this particular though their eyes were sharp enough to pry into his actions and their mouthes wide enough to censure them if it had been in the power of malice to have done it To say he had no
Church And for his qualifying thereunto he did not as is now too frequent run before he was duly called and sent but according to the method of holy Church was admitted to the sacred order first of Deacon in the same year 1592. and the next year after of Priesthood by Richard Howland then Lord Bishop of Peterburgh who had formerly been Master of the same College whereof he then was Fellow 12. Having thus received his commission from God and his Church he was very ready to assist others in the way of Charity but not too forward to take upon himself a particular cure of soules And accordingly we find him for about five yeares after this continuing in the College prosecuting his own privat studie and reading to such young Scholars as were committed to his care and Tuition 13. In the year 1598. Dr. Iegon Master of Corpus Christi College being Vicechancellor and Mr. Moon of Katherin Hall and Mr. Sutton of Kings College Proctors he took his Degree of Bachellor in Divinity And about the same year being presented instituted and inducted to the Rectory of Long Marston foure miles distant from his Native Citty of York he betook himself wholly to the Cure of Soules there committed to him which he discharged with great care and diligence And yet he did not intermit his higher studies for the generall good of the Church while he attended it And to that end he had alwayes some person to be his assistent whom he knew to be pious and learned as Mr. John Price and Mr. Matthew Levet who were both formerly his Pupills in Cambridge the former afterward a prebendary of Leichfeild the later of Duresme and also Subdean of Rippon 14. And this assistence was the more necessary because his great parts and worth would not suffer him to enjoy his privacy in a Country cure For first he was made choyce of by the Earle of Huntington then Lord President of the North to be his Chaplain for his dexterity and accuteness in disputing with the Romish Recusants For it was Queen Elizabeths express command to him to convince them by arguments rather then suppress them by force and this she expressed as his Lord-ship was wont to say in the words of the Prophet Nolo mortem peccatoris 15. But the Earle dying presently after he returned again to his privacy at Marston where he continued not long before the Lord Sheffeild who succeeded as Lord president commanded him to hold a publick Conference before his Lord-ship and the Councell at the Manner house in York with two Romish Recusants who were then prisoners in the Castle the one was Mr. Young a Priest the other Mr. Stillington a Lay-man Which he performed with great satisfaction to the Auditory among whom were many of the chief Gentry and Clergy of York-shire I have heard there is still in some mens hands a true relation of that conferrence in writing But he would never suffer it to be Printed because he and his Adversaries engaged themselves by mutuall promise not to Print it but by common consent which he never could obtain from them though he earnestly desired and sought it 16. In the year 1602. began the great Plague at York at which time he carryed himself with so much heroicall charity as will make the Reader wonder to hear it For the poorer sort being removed to the Pest-house he made it his frequent exercise to visit them with food both for their bodys and soules His chief errand was to instruct and comfort them and pray for them and with them and to make his coming the more acceptable he carried usually a sack of provision with him for those that wanted it And because he would have no man to run any hazard thereby but himself he seldom suffered any of his servants to come near him but sadled and unsadled his own Horse and had a private door made on purpose into his house and chamber 17. The next year following the Lord Ever being sent Embassadour extraordinary by Queen Elizabeth both to the Emperour of Germany and King of Denmark he made choyce of him and Mr. Richard Crakanthorp famous also for his learned works in Print to be his Chaplaines And Mr. Morton being desirous to improve himself by seeing forraigne Kingdomes Churches and Universities did willingly accept of the employment 18. He had leave from the Lord Embassadour while he stayed at Breme to visit some of the chief Cityes and Universityes of High Germany In which travell while he was at Mentz he fell into a very familiar acquaintance with Father Mulhusinus a learned Jesuit who gave him a Book of his own writing inscribed with his own hand pro Domino Mortono and also with Nicholas Serarius another learned Father of the same Society and Rector of the College there who afterward mentioned him with civility in a Book he wrot against Joseph Scaliger Both these were so well satisfied with his learning and piety as to treat him with much courtesy while he stayed there and to desire his prayers when he departed thence and that ex animo too when he pressed them to know whether it was not merely out of civility and complement I cannot say he found Beccanus in the contrary temper at Colen though he left him so For being gaulled with some Arguments in a disputation between them he sleighted his prayers as of one whom he miscalled an Heretick I only instance in this to shew that many learned men of the Church of Rome and some even of the Jesuits order do not in their hearts and privat discourses condemne us of the Church of England for Hereticks whatsoever ever they publickly write or speak out of designe and policy 19. His stay in these parts was the shorter because the Embassadours commission determined at the death of the Queen But however he improved his time so well partly in furnishing his own library with Bookes at Frankfurt and else-where but chiefly in his conversation with learned men and in his forraign observations that he alwayes very highly valued that oppertunity 20. At his return he was sollicited by Roger Earle of Rutland to be his domesticall Chaplain Which profer he was the more willing to accept for the privacy he hoped to enjoy in a place where he was not known for making use of that Treasure of Bookes he had got in his travells And the rather because thereby he was brought so much nearer to London then before whither he must have many occasions to travell for the putting forth of such Bookes as he had in designe to write For it was not long after that he Printed the first part of his Apologia Catholica of which and the rest of his works I shall speak more particularly hereafter 21. About this time it was that the Arch-Bishop of York Toby Matthews that most exquisit preacher conferred upon him a Prebend in that Metropoliticall Church 22. In the year of our Lord 1606. Dr. Clayton
Mason pretends c. 96. These are the Authors words and they have already been proved to be so notoriously imposterous and false in a Book written by the accurate pen of the right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Derrie that I might have saved my Reader this trouble but only that I measure this action by what I know was the minde of this Reverend Bishop while he lived who was so exceedingly sensible of the wrong done him in this particular that he never thought any thing too much to vindicate himself from it And this is evident by his tripling his guard against it first in that Codecil annexed to his Will which is herewith published then by a Letter to Mr. Gunning desiring him to take notice of the injury in a Book which he was then preparing for the Press and last of all in a Formal Protestation made by him in the presence of a publick Notarie before several competent witnesses and attested unto afterwards by all the Bishops now surviving who sate in that Parliament excepting only the Bishop of Bangor who lives so far remote in Wales as he could not conveniently be sent unto and likewise by as many of the Temporal Lords who sate in that Parliament as with any convenience it could be presented unto and last of all by all the Clerks that attended in the House of Peers and who are sworn officers to keep true and perfect Records of what passeth there The form whereof and of the Attestations annexed to it are word for word as followeth and for the other circumstances of that Action I shall refer the Reader to my Preface before the Learned Bishop of Derries Book above mentioned The Bishop of DURESMES Protestation 97. WHereas I am most injuriously and slanderously traduced by a nameless Author calling himself N. N. in a Book said to be printed at Rouen 1657. intituled A Treatise of the Nature of Catholick Faith and Heresie as if upon the presenting of a certain Book to the Vpper House in the beginning of the late Parliament proving as he saith that the Protestant Bishops had no Succession nor Consecration and therefore were no Bishops and by consequence ought not to sit in Parliament I should make a speech against the said Book in my own and all the the Bishops behalf endeavouring to prove succession from the last Catholick Bishops as he there stiles them who by Imposition of hands ordained the first Protestant Bishops at the Nags-head in Cheapside as was notorious to all the world c. I do hereby in the presence of Almighty God solemnly protest and Declare to all the world that what this Author there affirms concerning me is a most notorious untruth and a gross slander For to the best of my knowledge and remembrance no such Book as he there mentions was ever presented to the Vpper House in that or any other Parliament that I ever sate in and if there had I could never have made such a speech as is there pretended seeing I have ever spoken according to my thoughts and alwayes believed that Fable of the Nags-head Consecration to have proceeded from the Father of Lyes as the Authentick Records of the Church still extant which were so faithfully transcribed and published by Mr. Mason do evidently testifie And whereas the same impudent Libeller doth moreover say that what he there affirms was told to many by one of the Ancientest Peers of England present in Parliament when I made this pretended speech and that he is ready to depose the same upon his oath and that he cannot believe any will be so impudent as to deny a thing so notorious whereof there are as many witnesses living as there are Lords and Bishops that were that day in the Vpper House of Parliament c. I answer that I am very unwilling to believe any Peer of England should have so little sense of his Conscience and Honour as either to swear or so much as affirm so notorious an untruth And therefore for the justification of my self and manifestation of the truth in this particular I do freely and willingly Appeal as he directs me to those many Honourable persons the Lords Spiritual and Temporal yet alive who sate in the House of Peers in that Parliament or to as many of them as this my Protestation can come to for a true Certificate of what they know or believe concerning this matter humbly desiring them and charging upon their Souls as they will answer it to God at the Day of Judgement that they will be pleased to testifie the truth and nothing but the truth herein to the best of their knowledge and remembrance without any favour or affection to me at all I cannot reasonably be suspected by any indifferent man of denying any thing that I know or believe to be true seeing I am so shortly in all probability to render an account to the Searcher of hearts of all my words and actions being now at the least upon the Ninty fifth year of my Age and I acknowledge it a great mercy and favour of God that he hath reserved me thus long to clear the Church of England and my self of this most notorious slander before he takes me to himself for I cannot imagine any reason why this shameless writer might not have cast the same upon any of my Reverend Brethren as well as me but only that I being the Eldest it was probable I might be in my grave before this untruth could be taken notice of in the world And now I thank God I can chearfully sing my Nunc dimittis unless it shall please him to reserve me for the like service hereafter for I desire not to live any longer upon Earth then he shall be pleased to make me his instrument to defend the truth and promote his glory And for the more sosolemn and full confirmation of this my Free and Voluntary Protestation and Declaration I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of July Anno Dom. 1658. Signed Sealed published and declared in the presence of Tho. Duresme Tho. Saunders Senior Tho. Saunders Jun. Jo. Barwick Cler. R. Gray Evan Davies 98. Hereunto was added the Attestation of a Publick Notarie subscribed with his hand and Signed with his Notarial mark and Motto in these words I Tobie Holder publick Notarie being requested by the right Reverend Father in God Thomas Lord Bishop of Duresme at the House of Thomas Saunders Esq in the parish of Flamestead in the County of Hertford in the year of our Lord Moneth and Day above specified was then and there personally present where and when the said Reverend Bishop did signe publish and declare this his Protestation and Declaration above written to be his Act and Dead and did cause his Authentick-Episcopal Seal to be thereto affixed in the presence of the Witnesses whose names are there subscribed And did there and then likewise signe publish and declare as his Act and
Catalogue 1. APOLOGIA CATHOLICA par 1. Lond. 1605. 4o. 3. This was the first-fruits of his great labours in writing which he dedicated to God and the Church under the patronage of that wise Prelate Richard Bancroft then L. Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 4. But before the second part of this laborious work could be fitted for the Press that horrid designe of the Gunpowder Treason occasioned another little Treatise which he dedicated to the Seduced Brethren and intituled 2. An exact discovery of Romish Doctrine in the case of CONSPIRACY and REBELLION or ROMISH POSITIONS and PRACTICES c. London 1605. 4o. 5. And yet not long after he published and dedicated to King James his Book intituled 3. APOLOGIA CATHOLICA Par. 2. Lond. 1606. 4o. 6. The forementioned Book intituled Romish Positions c. did not a little gall those that were concerned in it in so much as a nameless Author was provoked by it to return a Moderate answer to it as he styled it Whereunto this Learned Author presently returned a Reply which he dedicated to King James The subject whereof was concerning the Rebellion and Equivocation of the Romish Priests and Jesuits and the Title 4. A full SATISFACTION concerning a double Romish Iniquity c. Lond. 1606. 4o. 7. And here steps in Mr. Parsons the Jesuit upon the stage under the mask of P. R. to vindicate his dear friend the Moderate Answerer in his two Positions of Rebellion and Equivocation by a Book which he wrote and called A Treatise of Mitigation But he having a very dexterous wit very handsomely skipped over the former Position that of Rebellion and betook himself to vindicate their other Practice of Equivocation I will say nothing of his Blasphemie in attributing Equivocation to our B. Saviour himself because I have heard he afterward repented of it All that concerns my present purpose is that this Learned Author returned a very acute Answer to him which he dedicated to Robert Earl of Salisbury and intituled 5. A PREAMBLE unto an INCOUNTER with P. R. the Author of the deceitful Treatise of MITIGATION Lond. 1608. 4o. 8. Against which Book and some others written by this Learned Author Mr. Parsons having made a reply under the title of A sober Reckoning c. he was answered in a Book dedicated to Prince Henry and intituled 6. THE ENCOUNTER against Mr. Parsons Lond. 1609. 4o. 9. But while this Book was in Writing and Printing before it could come forth one of the Champions died and so the combate fell to the ground 10. During all these skirmishes with so nimble an Adversary as Mr. Parsons this Learned Author was not afraid to engage himself in a much hotter battel against a whole Army of Apologists led out into the Field under the conduct of Mr. Roger Brereley Parque novum fortuna videt concurrere bellum Atque Virum Only this encouragement he found that as his great friend Arch-Bishop Bancroft put him upon the work so Doctor James took the pains to examine some of his Quotations in the University Library of Oxford This Answer to the Protestants Apology was dedicated to King James and intituled 7. The CATHOLICK APPEAL for Protestants c. Lond. 1609. fol. 11. This learned and laborious work gave such a deadly blow to his Romish Adversaries as none of them hitherto and yet it is above 50. years since it was written have ever been so hardy as to attempt any Answer to it And therefore it is no wonder if we finde this learned writer so much retired for some years after prosecuting the private course of his own positive studies excepting only that at the very same time he wrote another little Book which he intituled 8. An Answer to the Scandalous Exceptions of THEOPHILUS HIGGONS Lond. 1609. 4o. 12. The next Controversie he had was with some Adversaries of the contrary Principles the Non-conformists of his own Diocess while he was Bishop of Chester whereof one Mr. Hynd was the ring leader whom he first laboured to convince by a Conference but finding them very perverse and obstinate as that is too usually their temper he wrote a very excellent Book by way of a Relation of that Conference concerning the use of the Surplice Cross after Baptisme and Kneeling at the receiving of the B. Sacrament which he dedicated to the Marquis of Buckingham and intituled 9. A Defence of the INNOCENCY of the three CEREMONIES of the Church of England c. Lond. 1619. 4o. 13. This Book though it was very strongly fortified with many excellent Arguments was nevertheless impugned by a nameless Author generally supposed to be Mr. Ames which occasioned a very acute defence of it written by Dr. John Burges of Sutton-Coldfeild in Warwick-shire by the Kings Command and printed in the year 1631. 14. And now this trouble being taken off his hand and committed to the management of such an accurate pen this Reverend Author betook himself again to his former studies in his former way of controversie with his Adversaries of the Church of Rome And the first Champion he singled out was no less then their Achilles Cardinal Bellarmine and the subject of the Controversie no meaner then that of the Authority and Dignity of Kings and the Person that put him upon the work no worse then the most learned of Kings which infused so much generous spirit into him as he performed the work so excellently that the Book hath not in 40. years found any so hardy as to Answer it and which is more that King James appointed it to be read to his Son our late most incomparable Soveraign to whom it was dedicated while he was Prince of Wales It was written against that Book of of Cardinal Bellarmine which he inscribed De officio Principis Christiani intituled 10. CAUSA REGIA Lond. 1620. 4o. 15. The next Book he published he dedicated to the same Gracious Prince then newly advanced to the Crown upon the death of his Father of happy memory The subject of it was whether the Roman Church be the Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church the Mother and Mistress of all Churches out of which there is no salvation which he proves at large in the Negative The Title of it is 11. The GRAND IMPOSTURE of the now Church of Rome c. The second Edition enlarged was printed at London 1628. 4o. 16. And here it will be necessary to advertise the Reader that there is an Answer written against this Book by a nameless Author or Authors under the mask of J.S. which he calleth Anti-Mortonus whereunto as yet no reply is published though there was one prepared for the Press within a year after the Adversaries Book first came to this Authors knowledge Whereof the reason is this the designe of the reply being thus largely laid First to re-print the Book it self and then after every section excepted against the exceptions of J. S. and last of all this Authors reply to those exceptions the Book hereby grew so
voluminous as no Bookseller durst adventure the charge of Printing it especially in such a dismal age of the Church as hath been of late wherein those that desired to read such Books had not money to buy them being sequestred and stripped of all their estates and those that succeed in their Benefices have generally no affections to such studies being led in this as in most other things by their own interest which directs them only to such studies as may qualifie them for the Pulpit This is a sad truth which the Adversaries know well enough to be so have not a little contributed unto it and I hope this will satisfie every moderate and indifferent man that it was the infelicity not the negligence of this learned and laborious Author that he should thus be necessitated to dye in debt to his Adversaries 17. It was some years after before his next work came forth and well might be so considering how large and laborious it was And yet it was re-printed with Additions in the year 1635. This Book he dedicated to all learned men especially of the two Universities Cambridge and Oxford and entituled 12. Of the INSTITUTION of the SACRAMENT c. by some called the MASSE c. Lond. 1635. fol. 18. But before this second Edition saw the light there were some strictures written upon the former by a Romish Author under the name of an English Baron which occasioned this Author to write another little Book which he dedicated to the Lord Ar. Baron intituled 13. A DISCHARGE of five Imputations of MIS-ALLEGATIONS Lond. 1633. 8o. 19. The next Book he wrote was not against any particular adversary but yet upon a particular subject which he thought was too generally mistaken at lest if not abused He dedicated it as his Book of the Masse to both the Universities and other learned men intituling it 14. ANTIDOTUM adversus Ecclesiae Romanae de MERITO EX CONDIGNO venenum Cantabrig 1637. 4o. 20. But here steps in a particular Adversary and that a person of eminent note and learning if by C. R. we are to understand the Bishop of Chalcedon And though his Book contained not much when it appeared it had been or might have been very long in contriving being written against the first Book that ever this Author published the former volume of his Catholick Apologie which he had printed above as he saith 32. but I believe it is the mistake of the Amanuensis or Printer for two and forty years before viz. in the year 1605. This Book occasioned a brief Velitation from this Author in defense of his former work for he thought it deserved no more which he dedicated to all Scholars of the English Seminaries beyond Sea and intituled 15. REPLICA five Refutatio Confutationis C. R. c. Lond. 1638. 4o. 21. Having thus wiped off this great Adversary he betook himself to a review of his Book concerning the Masse which he altered so far both for Matter and Method as well as Language as it may justly challenge a peculiar place among his works It was dedicated to King Charles the first and intituled 16. DE EUCHARISTIA Controversiae Decisio Cantabrig 1640. 4o. 22. But before this came forth he had an occasion to Preach before the King at Newcastle May 5. 1639. which he performed so well that he was commanded to print his Sermon The Text was Rom. 13.1 17. Let every soul be subject c. Lond. 1639. 4o. 23. About two years after he was sollicited to preach at the Spittle in London April 26. 18. A Sermon on the Resurrection Lond. 1641. 8o. 24. The next year after viz. Jun. 19. 1642. upon the like sollicitation he preached at St. Pauls that excellent Sermon upon I Cor. 11.16 But if any man seem to be contentious c. since printed and entituled 19. The presentment of a SCHISMATICK Lond. 1642. 4o. 29. His next Book that was printed came forth both without his name to it and knowledge of it thought not without his full consent to it ex post facto and that testified in an Authentick manner in the Codicil annexed to his Will It was written in defense of Episcopal government and sent to the late Reverend and learned Primate of Ireland who committed it to the Press with some other excellent collections of his own upon the same subject the title of it is 20. CONFESSIONS and PROOFS of Protestant Divines c. Oxford 1644. 4o. 26. I come now to the last Book he lived to publish the subject whereof was his Meditations upon Gods providence a very fit study for his declining years in these sad times during his solitude and retirement being a thing both comfortable to himself and profitable to others the title of it is 21. EZEKIELS WHEELS c. Lond. 1653. 8o. 26. Having been thus large I wish I could not say tedious in a bare narrative of what Books he hath left in Print I shall not wrong either the Author or Reader so far as to continue this discourse any longer upon my weak commendations of them My only advice shall be in the words of my great Master COME and SEE 27. And yet beside these already Printed there are a considerable number in Manuscript some in my custody which I found by him at his Death and some that I hear of in the hands of others all of them once intended for the Press whereof some have lost their first perfection by the carelesness and negligence of some that should have kept them others want his last hand and eye to perfect them and others only a seasonable time to publish them And he might and would have left many more considering how vigorous his parts were even in his extream old Age if the iniquity of the Times had not deprived him of most of his Notes and Papers 28. There were in his own hands at his Death and they are still in mine Anciently Written M. S. 1. Tractatus DE EXTERNO JVDICE INFALLIBILI ad Doctores Pontificios inprimis vero ad Sacerdotes Wisbicenses 2. Tractatus DE JUSTIFICATIONE Two Copies but both imperfect 3. Some Papers written upon the Controversie between Bishop MONTAGVE and the GAGGER Imperfect 4. A Latine Edition of his Book called the GRAND IMPOSTVRE Imperfect 5. Another Edition of both the parts of his Book called APOLOGIA CATHOLICA 29. Books lately Written M. S. 6. The above mentioned ANSWER to I. S. his ANTIMORTONUS Imperfect 7. The above mentioned Treatise concerning EPISCOPACY revised and enlarged 8. A Treatise concerning PRAYER in an VNKNOWN TONGUE 9. A Defence of INFANTS BAPTISM against Mr. Tombes and others 10. Several SERMONS 30. But I must be so just to the Reader as to give him this Advertisement concerning these two last Books First that his Sermons are not yet perused so that I know not yet whether any of them will be thought fit for the Press And secondly that he himself had laid aside his thoughts of
28 30. St. Greg. prolog in lib. 40 Homil. in Evangel quarundam quidem dictata expositio assistentiplebi est per Notarium recitata quarundam vero explanationem coram populo ipse locutus sum Idem Hom. 21. in princip Multis vobis lectionibus per dictatum loqui consuevi sed quia lassescente stomacho ea quae dictaveram legere ipse non possum c. (a) Febr. 26. 1658. (b) The first clause in his Will after the commending of his soul to God and his body to the Earth is Nedel I will that this profession of my Faith Approbation of the Discipline of the Church of Christ by Bishops and Vindication of my own innocency hereunto annexed be esteemed and accounted part of this my last Will and Testament (c) Tho. Bâ—rwell Tho. King and Rob. Gray (a) Antiqua quaedam observantia imo Apostolica traditio in Ecclessis diu obtinuit c. Concil Nicen. 2. Act. 3. Bin. Tom. 3. p. 318. (b) Hoc enim praestitit St. Greg. magnus lib. 1. Ep. 24. idquesecundum priscum praedecessorum suoruÌ„ morem teste Johanne Diacono in vita ejus l. 2. c. 3. Quid enim facit exceptâ ordinatione Episcopus quod Presbyter non facit S. Hieron Ep. ad Euagr. Heb. 11 4. Jud. 16 30. S. Luke 9.56 Psal 116 15. Psal 106 16. Can. 29. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See the Sermon at his Funerall Confes Aug. Cap. ult de potest Eccl. Non petunt Ecclesiae ut Episcopi honoris sui jacturâ sarciant concordiam tantum petunt ut injusta onera remittant quae nova sunt praeter consuetudinem Ecclesiae Catholicae recepta Io. Budden vit Io. Mort. Archiep. Cant. pag. 50. Thomam Mortonum Et Johanem Mortonum duos ex fratribus filios Scripsit haredes Hincmar in Vit. S. Remigii Vt primum disciplinarum capax factus est Non modo natu majores ingenii felicitate discendique ardore sed morum maturitate singulari Excelluit Epist ad dict Col. dat Ian. 30 1634. in Regist Epist p. 336. Quod olim antistes literarum divinus ille Whittakerus Non collegium sed propter omnium in eo Artium infignem Mercaturam Academium ipsam indigitabat Regist Coll. Regist Academ Regist Coll. Regist Fundat dict Col. Regist Academ Psal 141 6. Mr. Brown Mr. Barlow Mr. Hurward and others Hincmar in vit S. Remig. Ad pontificii culmen non tam electus quam violentur raptus fuit Bed Hist gent. Anglor lib. Episcopatum suscipere fuit coactus Lib. 7. ad An. 1616. In a book written on this subject by Mr. Rich. Baddleley this Bishops Secretary see also Mr. Wilson in his narrative of the life of K. James pag. 170. Mr. Stephens pref to S. Hen. Spelmans larger work of Tithes * In his larger works of Tithes chap. 29. p. 161. p. 153. Plowd f. 500. p. 152. p. 153. p. 157. * Well and sufficiently endowed 15. R. 2. c. 6. p. 161. p. 154. p. 158. Acts 19.31 1 King 21. Chap. 2. Sect. 3. p. 9. Sect. 28. p 36 27. S. Jude ver 9. 1 S Pet. 2 23. S Mat. 5.44 1 King 17.6 Psalm 114.8 Antiq. Brit. in vit Jo. Morton Caeteris suis necessariis admodum parce legavit quia ejus liberalitaetem in vivis uberrime senserant * Triginta aureos * See above in the Funeral Sermon Annis jam triginta duobus praeter fluxis à quo c. Replic init vid sup Sect. 3 Joh. 1.39 Dated Jan 29. 1654 In vit S. Aug. Sermon at his Funeral Orat. de S. Athanas Act. 25.15 a 1 Tim. â— 2 b Tit. 1.6 c 1 S. Jo. 1.10 d Aquin. in Loc. e S. Aug. lib. cont duas Ep. Pelagianor Multi sine crimine sunt fine querela vivunt sed nemo sine pâ—ccato f 1 Tim. 3.7 See above Chap. 1. sect 84. * See the Funeral Serm. p. 30 31. Arist Eth. l. 6. c. 13. Psal 45.14 S. Greg. Nazianz Apologet 1. Plutar. lib. de Doctrinâ prin cipum Act. 20 28. Tit. 2.7 a St. Bernard lib. 4. de consid ad Eugen. in fine Oppertet to esse formaâ— justitiae Sanctimoniae speculum pietatis exemplar b S. Chrys Hom. 3. in Act. Apost c S. Greg. Naz. Apologet 1. 1 Tim. 3.3 Lib. 1. cont Pelagian Job 1.21 1 Sam. 4.18 Diog. Laer. in vit ejus 1 Pet. 4.9 Rom. 12.13 Heb. 13.2 1 Tim. 3.2 Tit. 1.8 S. Hieron epist ad Ocean Laicus unum aut duos aut paucos recipiens implebit Hospitalitatis officium Episcopus nisi omnes recipiat inhumanus est * Chap. 1. sect 62. Regist Epistolar dicti Collegii p. 371. * Ibid. pag. 351. qui ita annuus in teipsum redis ita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beneficia repetis ac si novissima quaequc munera recentiore fulgore castigares Et pag. 359. Tam frequentia sunt erga nos beneficia vestra tam perpetuis choreis in orbem acta ut ducat ilia gratitudo nostra nec anbela tamen liberalitati tanta responders possit c. * Vide supr pag. 33. a Possid in vita ejus Pauperum prima illi semper cura erat eisque abundè succurrebat b Vita ejus apud Garsium ad diem 14. Sept. In pauperum inopiâ sublevandâ mirè beneficus fuit cum ipse interim tenuissimo victu vitam non tam sustineret quam afflixit c St. Hieron Epist ad Ocean Gloria Episcopi est pauperum opibus providere ignominia Sacerdotis est propriis studere In vitâ Jo. Mortoni pag. 300. Aristot Ethic. lib. 5. c. 10. Supra cap. 1. sect 68. Ser. pag. 32. S. Mat. 23.24 Justin lib. 2. S. Mat. 7.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chap. 17. Chap. 1. sect 32 33 34 35. S. Greg. Nazianz. Apologet. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Supra p. 43. Dr. Samuel Bolton now one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary Mr. Lawrence Maydwell Bishop Davenant Edit Cantabr 1650. Registr E stol pag. 343. Supra sect 13. 1 Tim. 2.9 Epist ad Ocean Ornatus vocatur qui decorum servat in motu incessu habitu sermone a Possid in vita S. Aug. c. 16. Vestis ejus aliaque corporis cubiculi ornamenta nec nitida nimium nec abjecta plurimum erant veste honesta nequaquam à vulgari consuetudine temporis illius abhorrente utebatur b S. Greg. Nazianzen Orat. 18. in Laud. S. Cypriani In vestitu philosophiam in Congressibus gravitatem cum humanitate conjunctam pari intervallo à vilitate arrogantia remotam c. a S. Ambr. de dignit Sacerd c. 6. b S. Greg. Hom. 17. in Evangel Ezra 3.10 See also Ezr. 2 69. Polycrat apud Euseb Hist l. 3. c. 31. 1 Tim. 5.23 a S. Hieron Epist ad Ocean Sed quod populo praecepturus est prius à domesticis exigat b Lib. 4. de confid ad Eugen. Interest gloriae sanctitatis tuae ut quos prae oculis habes ita