where he had run through so hard a Task with the Regius Professor though he missed Windsor took this occasion to make himself merry as the Poet did musa jocosa mea est Ov. And so fell into this vein of Poetry When Windsor Prebend late disposed was One ask'd me sadly how it came to pass Potter was chose and Heylyn was forsaken I answer'd 't was by Charity mistaken But this Fancy was soon turned into a mournful Elegy by the death of his noble Friend the Attorny General Mr. Noy whose memory he could never forget for the honour of delivering to him the gracious message from his Majesty and for the intimacy he was pleased to bear to him as a bosom friend that he imparted to the Doctor all the affairs of State and transactions of things done in his time which made him so perfect an Historian in this particular and shewed him his papers manuscripts and laborious Collections that he had gathered out of Statutes and ancient Records for the proof of the Kings Prerogative particularly before his death at his house in Brainford where the Doctor kept Whitsontide with him in the year 1634. he shewed to him a great wooden Box that was full of old Precedents for levying a Naval aid upon the Subjects by the sole Authority of the King whensoever the preservation and safety of the Kingdom required it of them Mr. Hammond L' Strange acknowledges that Mr. Noy was a most indefatigable plodder and searcher of old Records The learned Antiquary Mr. Selden though no friend to the King nor Church confesses in his excellent book entituled Mare Clausum That the Kings of England â—…sed to levy mony upon the Subjects without the help of Parliament for the providing of Ships and other necessaries to maintain that Soveraignity which anciently belonged to the Crown Yet the honest Attorny General for the same good service to the King and Country is called by Hammond Le Strange The most pestilent vexation to the Subjects that this latter Age produced So true is the old Proverb some may better steal a Horse than others look on For it is usual with many not to judge according to the merits of the cause but by the respect or disrepect they bear to the Person as the Comedian once said Duo cum idem faciunt saepe possis dicere Hoc licet impune facere huic illi non licet Non quod dissimilis res sit sed quod qui facit When two does both alike the self same Act One suffers pain the other for the Fact Not the lest shame or punishment and why Respect of persons makes Crimes differently The death of Mr. Noy the more sadly afflicted the Doctor to lose so dear a Friend and an entire Lover of learned men during whose time no unhappy differences brake out betwixt the Dean of Westminster and the Prebends of that Church but all things were carried on smoothly by his Lordship because he knew well that Dr. Heylyn had a sure Advocate in Court both in behalf of himself and his Brethren if they stood in need of help that no sooner this worthy person departed the World but the Bishop so extremely tyrannized over the Prebendaries infringing their Priviledges violating their Customes and destroying their ancient Rights that for the common preservation of themselves and their Successors they were forced to draw up a Charge against his Lordship consisting of no less than thirty six Articles which were presented by way of complaint and petition of redress to his sacred Majesty who forthwith gave order for a Commission to be issued out unto the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and York the Earl of Manchester Lord Privy Seal Earl of Portland the Lord Cottington the two Secretaries of State Sir John Cook and Sir Francis Windebank Authorizing them to hold a Visitation of the Church of Westminster to examine the particular charges made against John Lord Bishop of Lincoln and to redress such grievances and pressures as the Prebends of the said Church suffered by his misgovernment The Articles were ordered by the Council Table to be translated into Latin by Dr. Heylyn which accordingly he performed to avoid the common talk and scandal that might arise if exposed to the publick veiw of the vulgar on April 20. A. D. 1634. the Commission bore date which was not executed but lay dormant till December 1635 the Bishop expecting the business would never come to a hearing he raged more vehemently dispossessed the Prebends of their Seats refused to call a Chapter and to passe their Accounts conferred holy Orders in the said Church without their consent contrary to an ancient Priviledge which had been inviolably retained from the first foundation of the Church he permitted also Benefices in their gift to be lapsed unto himself that so he might have absolute power to dispose them to whom he pleased Quo teneam nodo With many other grievances which caused the Prebends to present a second Petition to his Majesty humbly beseeching him to take the ruinous and desperate estate of the said Church into his Princely consideration Upon which the former Commission was revived a day of hearing appointed and a Citation fixed upon the Church door of Westminster for the Bishops and Prebends to appear on Jan. 27. Upon the 25th instant The Prebends were warned by the Subdean to meet the Bishop in Jerusalem Chamber where his Lordship foreseeing the Storm that was like to fall upon his head carried himself very calmly towards them desiring to know what those things were that were amiss and he would presently redress them though his Lordship knew them very well without an Informer to which Dr. Heylyn replyed that seeing they had put this business into his Majesties hands it would ill become them to take the matters out oâ—… his into their own Therefore on Jan. 27th both Parties met together before the Lords in the Inner-star Chamber where by their Lordships Order the whole business was put into a methodical course each Mâ—…day following being appointed for a day of hearing till a Conclusion was made of the whole affair On February the 1st The Lords Commissioners with the Bishop and Prebends met in the Council-Chamber at White-hall where it was first ordered that the Plaintifs should be called by the name of Prebends supplicant Secondly they should be admitted upon Oath as Witnesses Thirdly they should have a sight of all Registers Records Books of account c. which the Bishop had kept from them Fourthly that the first business they should begin with should be about their Seat because it made the difference or breach more visible and offensive to the World than those matters which were private and domestick And lastly it was ordered that the Prebends should have an Advocate to plead their Cause defend their Rights and represent their Grievances Accordingly the Prebends unanimously made choice of Dr. Peter Heylyn for their Advocate The business now brought on so fairly
Book of Nature and Scripture This Knowledge excelleth all other and without it who knoweth not the saying Omnem Scientiam magis obesse quam prodesse si desit scientia optimi that all other Knowledge does us more hurt than good if this be wanting Notwithstanding he met with some discouragements to take upon himself the Profession of a Divine for what reasons it is hard for me to conjecture but its certain at first he fonnd some reluctancy within himself whether for the difficulties that usually attend this deep mysterious Science to natural reason incomprehensible because containing many matters of Faith which we ought to belâ—…eve and not to question though now Divinity is the common mystery of Mechanicks to whom it seems more easie than their manual Trades and Occupations or whether because it drew him off from his former delightful Studies more probably I believe his fears and distrusts of himself were very great to engage in so high a Calling and Profession and run the hazards of it because the like Examples are very frequent both in Antiquity and modern History however so timerous he was upon this account lest he should rush too suddenly into the Ministry although his abilities at that time transcended many of elder years that he exhibited a Certificate of his Age to the President of the Colledge and thereby procured a Dispensation notwithstanding any local Statutes to the contrary that he might not be compelled to enter into holy Orders till he was twenty four years old at which time still his fears did continue or at least his modesty and self-denyal wrought some unwillingness in him till at last he was overcome by the Arguments and powerful Perswasions of his Learned Friend Mr. Buckner after whose excellent Discourses with him he followed his Studies in Divinity more closely than ever having once tasted the sweetness of them nothing can ravish the Soul more with pleasure unto an Extasie than Divine Contemplation of God and the Mysteries in his holy Word which the Angels themselves prye into and for which reason they love to be present in Christian Assemblies when the Gospel is preached as the Apostle intimates to us That by continual study and meditation and giving himself wholly to read Theological Books he found in himself an earnest desire to enter into the holy Orders of Deacon and Priest which he had conferred upon him at distinct times in St. Aldates Church at Oxon by the Reverend Father in God Bishop Howson At the time when he was ordained Priest he preached the Ordination Sermon upon the words of our Saviour to St. Peter Luke 22. 32. And when thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren An apposite Text upon so solemne Occasion Being thus ordained to his great satisfaction and contentment the method which he resolved to follow in the Course of his Studies was quite contrary to the common Rode of young Students for he did not spend his time in poring upon Compendiums and little Systems of Divinity whereby many young Priests â—…hink they are made absolute Divines when perhaps a Gentleman of the â—…ish doth oftentimes gravel them in an ordinary Argument But he fell upon the main Body of Divinity by studying Fathers Councils Ecclesiastical Histories and School-men the way which King James commended to all younger Students for confirming them in the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England that is most agreeable to the Doctrine of the Primitive Church By this time his Book of Geography in the first Edition bought up by Scholars Gentlemen and almost every Housholder for the pleasantness of its reading was reprinted and enlarged in a second Edition and presented again to his Highness the Prince of Wales who not only graciously accepted the Book but was pleased to pass a singular Commendation upon the Author But afterward the Book being perused by his Royal Father King James the second Solomon for Wisdom and most Learned Monarch in Christendom the Book put into his Majesties hand by Dr. Young then Dean of Winton and Mr. Heylyn's dear Friend the Kings peircing Judgement quickly spyed out a fault which was taken no notice of by others as God always endows Kings his Vice-gerents with that extraordinary gift the Spirit of discerning above other Mortals Sicut Angelus Dei est Dominus meus Rex saith the holy Scripture as an Angel of God so is my Lord the King who lighting upon a Line that proved an unlucky Passage in the Author who gave Precedency to the French King and called France the more famous Kingdom with which King James was so highly displeased that he presently ordered the Lord Keeper to call the Book in but this being said in his Anger and Passion no further notice was taken of it in the mean time Dr. Young took all care to send Mr. Heylyn word of his Majesties displeasure the News of which was no small sorrow to him that he was now in danger to lose the Kings Favour Nil nisi peccatum manitestaque culpa falenda est Paenitet ingenij judiciique mei that Mr. Heylyn could have wished them words had been left out Dr. Young advised him to repair to Court that by the young Prince's Patronage he might pacifie the Kings Anger but not knowing whethâ—… the Prince himself might not be also offended he resided still in Oxford and laid open his whole grief to the Lord Danvers desiring his Lordships Counsel and best advice what Remedy he should seek for Cure according to the good Lord's Counsel he sent up an Apology to Dr. Young which was an Explanation of his meaning upon the words in question and then under Condemnation The Error was not to be imputed to the Author but to the Errata of the Printer which is most ordinary in them to mistake one word for another and the grand mistake was by printing is for was which put the whole Sentence out of joynt and the Author into pain if it had been of a higher Crime than of a Monosylable it had not been pardonable for the intention of the Author was very innocent Quis me deceperit error Et culpam in facto non scelus essemeo The words of his Apology which he sent up to Dr. Young for his Majesties satisfaction are these that followeth That some Crimes are of a nature so injustifiable that they are improved by an Apology yet considering the purpose he had in those places which gave offence to his sacred Majesty he he was unwilling that his Innocence should be condemned for want of an Advocate The Burdens under which he suffered was a mistake rather than a Crime and that mistake not his own but the Printers For if in the first Line of Page 441. was be read instead of is the Sense runs as he desired it And this appears from the words immediately following for by them may be gathered the sense of this corrected reading When Edward the third quartered the Arms of France and England he gave
when he thought it would digest The Scruple troubled all the rest Notwithstanding this scrupulosity in them the World knows their hypocritical Practices under all those zealous Pretences how light they are in the Ballance and how extraordinary a thing it is to find from their hands downright honesty and plain dealing they are too much like the Scribes and Pharisees who by godly shews of long Prayers sad Countenances Justification of themselves that they were the only Righteous and all others Sinners played the Hypocrites most abominably to deceive the vulgar sort they made Religion a meer mock and empty show 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith our Saviour to be seen like Stage-players in a Theater Nam tota actio est histrionica as Erasmus well observeth their whole carriage was dramatick to make a feigned Pageantry and Ostentation of Piety Yet John Lord Bishop of Lincoln in compliance with this Sect out of discontent and revenge because deprived of the great Seal and commanded by the King to retire from Westminster transformed himself into one of these Angels of new Light and made himself the Archangel and Head of their Party First of all by writing his pretended Letter to one Titly Vicar of Grantham against the holy Communion Table standing Altar-wise to which Dr. Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply in his Book entituled A Coal from the Altar to which the Bishop within a Twelve-month after he took time enough for the Work did return an Answer under the Title of The Holy Table Name and Thing pretending withal that this was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire against Dr. Cole a Divine in Queeu Marys Reign No sooner the King heard of this new Book but he sent a Command to Dr. Heylyn to write a speedy Answer to it and not in the least to spare the Bishop Neither did the Doctor baulk the grand Sophos but detected all his false Allegations and answered them that were true which the Bishop had wrested to a contrary sense if we will look into the Doctors Book called by him Antidotum Lincolniense All this while the Bishop as it must be confest being a man of Learning writ against his own Science and Conscience so dear is the passion of revenge to gratifie which some men wilfully sin against the Light of their own Souls therefore the Bishop according to the Apostles word was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 condemned of himself For look upon him in the point of practice and we shall find the Communion Table was placed Altar-wise in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln whereof he was Bishop and in the Collegiate Church of Westminster of which he was Dean and lastly in the private Chappel of his own house as Dr. Heylyn saith in whieh it was not only placed Altar-wise but garnished with rich Plate and other costly Utensils in more than ordinary manner By all which the Bishop needed no further refutation of his Book than his own Example that in those places where he had Authority the Holy Table did not stand in Gremio and Nave of the Quire as he would have it fixed but above the Steps upon the Altar close to the East end of the Quire ex vi catholicae consuetudinis according to the ancient manner and custom in the Primitive Catholick Church But hinc illae lachrymae ever since this mischief followed his Book that in most Country Churches to this day the Table is set at the hither end of the Chancel whithout any Traverse or Rails to fence it Boys fling their Hats upon it and that which is worse Dogs piss against it Country Juries write their Parish accounts Amerciaments By-Laws c. all which is a most horrible profanation and not to be suffered But now John Lord Bishop of Lincoln who would have removed the holy Communion Table from its proper place and had displaced his Prebends of their ancient Seat was himself at this time Anno Dom. 1637. thrown out of his Episcopal Chair by sentence of the Star-Chamber for endeavouring to corrupt the Kings Evidence in a Cause of Bastardy brought before his Majesties Justices of Peace at Spittle Sessions in the County of Lincoln which business afterward came to a hearing before the Lords in Star-Chamber by whose definitive sentence the Bishop was suspended ab Officio Beneficio deprived of all his Ecclesiastical Preferments deeply fined and his Complices with him and afterward committed to the Tower of London where he continued Prisoner for three years and in all that space of time his Lordship did never hear Sermon or publick Prayers to both which he was allowed liberty but instead thereof he studied Schism and Faction by his own Example and his Pen disguisedly During the time of his Lorships Imprisonment Dr. Heylyn was chosen Treasurer for the Church of Westminster in which Office he discharged himself with such diligence and fidelity that he was continued in it from year to year till the Bishops release out of tâ—…e Tower and his removal back again to Westminster While he was Treasurer he took care for the repairs of the Church that had been neglected for many years First of the great West-Isle that was ready to fall down was made firm and strong and of the South-side of the lower West-Isle much decayed he caused to be new timbred boarded and leaded but chiefly the curious Arch over the preaching place that looketh now most magnificently he ordered to be new vaulted and the Roof thereof to be raised up to the same height with the rest of the Church the charge of which came to 434 l. 18 s. 10 d. He regulated also some disorders of the Quire perticularly the exacting of Sconses or perdition mony which he divided among them that best deserved it who diligently kept Prayers and attended upon other Church Duties Whilest he was Treasurer his Brethren the Prebendaries to testifie their good affections to him presented him to the Parsonage of Islip near Oxford a very good Living worth about 200l per Annum then by the death of Dr. King made void but by reason of the distance from Alresford though standing most conveniently to taste the sweet pleasures of the University he thought fit to exhange it for another nearer hand the Rectory of South-warnborough in the County of Hampshire that was in the gift of St. Johns Colledge in Oxon to which exchange he was furthered by the Arch-Bishop who carried a great stroke in that Colledge of which he had been President It pleased God soon after to visit him and his Family at Alresford with a terrible fit of Sickness of which none escaped the Disease was so contagious but the Cook 's boy in the Kitchen who was then Master Cook for the whole Family and he performed his part so well in making their broths and other necessaries that he was the best Physitian among the Doctors for by his Kitchen Physick the Sick was cured No sooner Dr. Heylyn recovered of the
that the dear Saints in England had their Nose and their Ears slit for the profession of the Gospel The Parliament then might pretend the revenge of Mr. Pryns sufferings by a retaliation of a worse punishment upon Dr. Heylyn but the real cause that exasperated them was the good Doctors Loyalty to his King and fidelity to his Arch-Bishop the two great Pillars of the Church to whom all true Sons of the Church of England ought to be faithful And finally the many Books the Doctor had written and still likely to write more against the Puritan Faction was the grand cause of all his flights and sufferings in the time of War Est fuga dicta mihi non est fuga dicta Libellis Qui Domini paenam non meruere sui Though I am forc'd to fly my Books they are not fled No reason for my sake they should be punished At what Friends house he was now secured from danger though I have heard it named indeed I have forgot but from thence he travelled to Doctor Kingsmil a Loyal Person of great worth and ancient Family where he continued and sent for his Wife and Daughter from Winchester to him and from thence removed to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire the pleasant Seat of his elder Brother in the year An. Dom. 1648. which he farmed of his Nephew Collonel Heylyn for six years Being deprived of his Eâ—…astial Preferments he must think of some honest way for a Livelihood Fruges lustramus agros Ritus ut a prisco traditus extat aevo Yet notwithstanding he followed his studies which was his chief delight for though the 〈◊〉 Powers had silenced his Tongue from preaching they could not withold his Pen from writing and that in an acute and as sharp a stile as formerly after he had done with his frequent visits of Friends and long perambulations For the publick good of the Church to uphold her ancient maintenance by Tithes being rob'd then of all her other dues and dignities though himself was sequestred of both his Livings and made inâ—…apable of receiving any benefit by Tithes yet for the common cause of Christianity and in mere compassion of the Presbyterian Clergy though his profest Enemies he published at that time when Tithes were in danger to be taken away from them an excellent little Tract to undeceive the People in the point of Tithes and proveth therein That no man in the Realm of England payéth any thing of his own toward the maintenance of his Parish Minister but his Easter Offerings At the same time he enlarged his Book of Geography into a large Folio which was before but a little Quarto and intitâ—…led it with the name of Cosmography of which it may be truly said it does contain a world of Learning in it as well as the Description of the World and particularly sheweth the Authors most excellent Abilities not only in History and smoothness of its style that maketh the whole Book delightful to the Reader but in Chronology Genealogy and Heraldry in which last any one may see that he could blazon the Arms and describe the Descent and Pedigree of the greatest Families in Europe In which pleasing study while he spent his time his good Wife a discreet and active Lady looked both after her Housewifery within doors and the Husbandry without thereby freeing him from that care and trouble which otherwise would have hindred his laborious Pen from going through so great a work in so short a time And yet he had several divertisements by company which continually resorted to his House for having God be thanked his Temporal Estate cleared from Sequestration by his Composition with the Commissioners at Gold-Smiths Hall and this Estate which he farmed besides he was able to keep a good house and relieve his poor Brethren as himself had found relief from others Charity that his House was the Sanctuary of sequestred men turned out of their Livings and of several ejected Fellows out of Oxford more particularly of some worthy persons I can name as Dr. Allibone Mr. Levit Mr. Thornton Mr. Ashwel who wrote upon the Creed who would stay for two or three Months at his House or any other Acquaintance that were suffering men he cheerfully received them and with a hearty welcom they might tarry as long as they pleased The Doctor himself modestly speaks of his own Hospitality how many that were not Domesticks had eaten of his Bread and drunk of his Cup. A Vertue highly to be praised and most worthy of commendation in it self for which Tacitus giveth this Character of the old Germanes Convictibus Hospitiis non alia gens Effusius indulget Greater Hospitality saith he and Entertainment no Nation shewed more bountifully accounting it as a cursed thing not to be civil in that kind according to every mans ability and when all was spent the good Master of the House would lead his Guest to the next Neighbours House where he though not invited was made welcom with the like courtesie Among others kindly entertained Mr. Marchamont Needham then a zealous Loyalist and Scourge to the Rump Parliament was sheltered in the Doctors House being violently pursued till the Storm was over the good Doctor then as his Tutelar Angel preserved him in a high Room where he continued writing his weekly Pragmaticus yet he afterward like Balaam the Son of Beor hired with the wages of Unrighteousness corrupted with mercinary Gifts and Bribes became the only Apostate of the Nation and writ a Book for the pretended Common-wealth or rather I may say a base Democracy for which the Doctor could never after endure the mention of his name who had so disobliged his Country and the Royal Party by his shameful Tergiversation The good Doctors Charity did not only extend it self to ancient Friends and Acquaintance but to mere Strangers by whom he had like to run himself into a Premunire For word being carried to him in his Study there was a Gentleman at the door who said he was a Commander in the Kings Army and carâ—…estly desired some relief and harbour the Doctor presently went to him and finding by his Discourse and other Circumstances what he said was true received him into his House and made him very welcom the Gentleman was a Scotch Captain who having a Scotch Diurnal in his Pocket they read it fearing no harm thereby but it proved otherwise for one of the Doctors Servants listning at the door went straight way to Oxford and informed the Governour Collonel Kelsey that his Master had received Letters from the King whereupon the Governour sent a Party of Horse to fetch him away Strange News it was knowing his own Innocency to hear that Soldiers had beset his House so early in the Morning before he was out of Bed But go he must to appear before the Governour and when he came that treacherous Rogue his Man did confidently affirm that he heard the Letters read and was sure
he could remember the very words if his Master would produce the Letters Upon which the Doctor relates the whole story to the Governour and withal shews the Diurnal which the Governour read to the Fellow often asking him is this right Is this the same you heard To whom he answered Yes Sir yes that is the very thing and those words I remember Upon which the Governour caused him to be soundly whipt instead of giving him a reward for his Intelligence and dismissed the Doctor with some Complements ordering the same Party of Horse that fetcht him to wait upon him home Being thus delivered from the treachery of his Servant his great care was to provide one more faithful which the good Lady Wainman his Neighbour hearing of commended to him one of her own Servants whom Sr. Francis her Husband had bred up from a Child whose fidelity he need not fear in the Worst of times when a Mans enemies may be of his own Household as Q. Vibius Serenus was betrayed by his own Son Reus pater accusator filius idem Judex et Testis saith the Historian the Son was both Acuser Judge and witness against his Father After he had lived many years in Minster-Lovel he removed from thence to Abingdon where he bought a House called Lacies-Court of which he bestowed much cost in repairing and building some Additions to it particularly of a little Oratory or Chappel which about the Altar was adorned with Silk Hangings the other part of the Room plain but kept very decent wherein himself and his Family went to prayers most Rooms of his house were well furnished and the best Furniture in them as in the Dining-Chamber and next Room to it were saved by his good Neighbours at Alresford who were so far from thinking except some malicious persons among them that they should never fixe eye on him more unless they took a journy which I hate to mention to a Gaol or a Gallowes that they questioned not his return again to Alsford and the enjoyment of his plundered goods This house in Abingdon he purchased for the pleasantness of its situation standing next the Feilds and not distant five Miles from Oxford where he might be furnished with Booksat his pleasure either from the Book-Sellers Shops or the Bodlean-Library perticularly he was beholden to his Reverend and Learned Friend Doctor Barlow now Lord-Bishop of Lincoln who sometimes accommodated him with choice Bookes of whom I have heard the Doctor say if the Times ever altered he was confident that man of learning would be made a Bishop which indeed is now come to pass Such a fresh appetite to Study and Writing he still retained in his old Age that he would give his mind no time of vacancy and intermission from those Labours in which he was before continually exercised t is said of Julius Coesar Scaliger an indefatigable Student as his Son Writes of him Nullum tempus a Studiis Literarum et lucubrationibus relinquebat but he was then forty years of Age before he began the course of his Studies having spent his former dayes in the Camp of Mars and not of the Muses The Doctor from a Child devoted his whole Life to painful Study not allowing himself ease in the worst of times and in the midst of his troubles For at the time of his sad Pilgrimage when he was forced to wander and take Sanctuary at any Freinds House his thoughts were not extravagant but studiously intent upon these matters which he digested afterward into Form and Use when he came to a settled condition And in the begining of his troubles being under the displeasure of the House of Commons on the complaint of Mr. Pryn when his Enemies took the advantage some to Libel and others to write against him perticularly Doctor Hackwel before mentioned at such an unseasonable time with whom Doctor Heylyn saith he would not refuse an encounter upon any Argument either at the sharp or at the Smooth afterward when Monarchy and Episcopacy was troden under foot then did he stand up a Champion in defence of both and feared not to publish the stumbling Block of Disobedience and his Certamen Epistolare in which Mr. Baxter fled the Feild because there was impar congressus betwixt him and as I may say an old Soldier of the Kings who had been used to fiercer Combats with more famous Goliahs Also Mr. Thomas Fuller was sufficiently chastised by the Doctor for his Church History as he deserved a most sharp correction because he had been a Son of the Church of England in the time of her prosperity and now deserted her in her adverse Fortune and took to the Adversaries side And it was then my hap having some business with Mr. Taylor my fellow Collegian in Lincoln-Colledge then Chaplain to the Lord-Keeper Mr. Nathanial Fines to see Mr. Fuller make a fawning address to my Lord with his great Book of Church History hugged under his Arm which he presented to the Keeper after an uncouth manner as Horace describeth Sub ala fasciculum portas librorum ut rusticus agnum The many falsities defects and mistakes of that Book the Doctor discovered and refuted of which Mr. Fuller afterward being ingeniously ashamed came to the Doctors House in Abingdon were he made his Peace both became very good Friends and between them for the future was kept an inviolable bond of Friendship In the Year 1656. the Doctor printed some observations upon the History of the Reign of King Charles published by H. L. Esq with whom the Doctor dealt very candidly and modestly corrected some of his mistakes in most mild and amicable terms telling him viz. Between us both the History will be made more perfect and consequently the Reader will be better satisfied which makes me somewhat confident that these few Notes will be so far from making your History less vendible then it was before that they will very much advantage and promote the Sale And if I can do good to all without wrong to any I hope no man can be offended with my pains and Industry In answer to which Mr. Hammond L' Estrange led by his passion and not by reason fell upon the Doctor in such uncivil words unbecoming a Gentleman that as the Doctor saith he never was accustomed to such Billings-gate Language There was indeed a time saith he when my name was almost in every Libel which exercised the Patience of the State for seven years together and yet I dare confidently say that all of them together did not vomit so much filth upon me as hath proceeded from the Mouth of the Pamphleter whom I have in hand Therefore the Doctor returned a quick and sharp reply to him in his Book Entituled Extraneus Vapulans wherein with admired Wit and Eloquence he gave Mr. L' Estrange a most severe yet civil correction His Brother Mr. Roger L' Estrange a most Loyal Gentleman hath since made amends for his Brothers
of the Founders in each University by changing Prayers for the Souls first by them intended into a commemoration of their bounties as was practised All dispositions of this kind must vary with their changes which befall the Church or else be alienated and estranged to other purposes I know it must needs be some discouragement to you to read to Walls or to pray in publick with so thin a company as hardly will amount to a Congregation but withal I desire you to consider that magis minus as Logicians say do not change the species of things that quantities of themselves are of little efficaâ—…y if at all of any and that he who promised to be in the midst of two or three when they meet together in his Name hath clearly shewed that even the smallest Congregations shall not want his presence and why then should we think much to besâ—…ow our pains where he vouchsafeth his prâ—…sence or think our labour ill bestowed if some few only do pertake of the present benefiâ—… And yet no doubt the benefit extends to more than the Parties present for â—…ou know well that the Priest or Minister is not only to pray with but for the People that he is not only to offer up the Peoples Praâ—…ers to Almighty God but to offer up his own Prayers for them the benefit whereof may charitably be presumed to extend to as well as it was intended for the absent also And if a whole Nation may be represented in a Parliament of â—…our hundred persons and they derive the blessings of peace and comfort upon all the Land why may we not conceive that God will look on three or four of this little Parish as the representation of the whole and for their sakes extend his Grace and Blessing unto all the rest that he who would have saved that sinful City of Sodom had he â—…ound but ten righteous persons in it may not vouchsafe to bless a less sinful people upon the Prayers of a like or less number of pious and religious persons When the High Priest went into the Sanctum Sanctorum to make attonement for the Sins of the People went he not thither by himself None of the people being suffered to enter into that place Do not we read that when Zacharias offered up Incense which figured the Prayers of the Saints within the Temple the people waited all that while in the outward Courts or find we any where that the Priest who offered up the daily Sacrifice and this comes nearest to our Case did ever intermit that Office by reason of the slackness and indevotion of the people in repairing to it But you will say there is a Lyon in the way there is danger in it Assuredly I hope none at all or if any none that you would care for The Sword of the Committee had as sharp an edge and was managed with as strong a malice as any Ordinance of a late date can impower men with Having so fortunately escaped the danger of that why should you think of any thing but despising this as Tully did unto Mark Antony Catilinae gladios contempsi non timebo tuos Why may you not conclude with David in the like sense and apprehensions of Gods preservation that he who saved him from the Bear and from the Lyon would also save him from the Sword of that railing Philistine And you may see that the Divine Providence is still awake over that poor remnant of the regular and othodox Clergy which have not yet bowed their knees to the Golden Calves of late erected by putting so unexpectedly a Hook into the Nostrils of those Leviathans which threatned with an open mouth to devour them all I will not say as Clemens of Alexandria did in Case much like that it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to indulge too much to apprehension of this nature in matters which relate to Gods publick Service All I shall add is briefly thus that having presented you with these considerations I shall with greediness expect the sounding of the Bell to morrow morning and in the mean time make my prayers to Almighty God to direct you in this business as may be most for his glory your own particular comfort and the good of this people with which expressions of my Soul I subscribe my self Your most affectionate Friend and Brother in Christ Jesus Peter Heylyn After this good Letter Mr. Huish went on in his Prayers as formerly and this little Church withstood all the batteries and fierce assaults of its Enemies who were never able to demolish it or unite it to St. Ellens so well had the Doctor managed the business for the publick good and the benefit of the Parish for as to his own particular he might have spared that pains and charge having as we said before a Chappel in his own house where he constantly used the Common-prayer for his Family devotions being no lover of other Forms much less of extemporary Effusions for the impertinencies tautologies and irreverent expressions that usualy attends them though such Prayers are most admired by the Vulgar because some of them think themselves excellently gifted that way as the Doctor tells us a story of a Puritan Tradesman Meeting â—…ne time saith he by chance my old Chaâ—…r-fellow Mr. L. D. at Dinner my Chamber-fellow being the only Scholar in the company was requested to say Grace which he did accordingly and having done the Tradesman lifting up both his Hands and Whites to Heaven calls upon the company saying dearly beloved Brethren let us praise God better and thereupon began a long extempore Grace of his own conceiving But to return again As he had a respect to the Cause of the Church so he was careful of his own concern to answer Dr. Bernard an Irish Dean but now Chaplain to Oliver one of his Almoners and a Preacher in Grays-Inn who had put forth a Book entituled The Judgement of the late Primate of Ireland c. in reply to which the Doctor published Respondet Petrus and an Apendix in answer to certain passages of H. L' Est. History of the Reign of King Charles In the one he treateth learnedly about the Sabbath the other relating to the Lord Primate the Articles of the Church of Ireland and the Earl of Strafford to neither of which his Adversaries could make a Reply but instead thereof Dr. Bernard endeavoured to procure an Order froâ—… Olivers Privy-Council to burn the Book which caused a common report that Dr. Heylyn's Book of the Sabbath was publickly burnt but according to the old saying Fama est mendax for the Book never saw the Fire nor any Answer to it and if it had been martyr'd in the Fire it would have proved more for the Authors credit than disgrace as Tacitus tells us in the like Case of Cremutius Cordus whose Book was decreed by the Senate to be burnt punitis Ingeniis saith he gliscit authoritas when good Wits are punished their
Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quam mihi When will they find another such his Fall Was most by me lamented much by All God Almighty had blessed him with eleven Children four of which are still living His Monument is erected on the North side of the Abbey in Westminster over aganst the Sub-Deans Seaâ—… with this following Epitaph which the Reverend Dean of the Church then Dr. Earl did himself compose in honour of his Memory DEPOSITUM MORTALE PETRI Heylyn S. â—… P. Hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarii Subdecaniâ—…s Viri plane memorabilis Egregiis dotibus instructissimi Ingenio acri faecundo Judicio subacto Memoria ad prodigium tenaci Cui adjunxit incredibilem in studiis patientiam Quae cessantihus oculis non cessarunt Scripsit varia Plurima Quae jam manibus hominum teruntur Et argumentis non vulgaribus Stylo non vulgari suffecit Constans ubique Ecclesiae Et. Majestatis Regiae assertor Nec florentis magis utriusque Quam afflictâ—… Idemque perduellium Schismâ—…ticae factionis Impugnator acerrimus Contemptor invidiae Et animo infracto Plura ejusmodi meditanti Mors indixit silentium Ut sileatur Efficere non potest Obiit Anno Etat 63. In English A Monument of Mortality Of Peter Heylyn Doctor of Divinity Prebendary and Sub-Dean of this Church A man truly worthy of remembrance Endowed with excellent parts Of sharp and pregnant Wit A solid and clear Judgement A memory tenacious to a Miracle Whereunto he added an incredible Patience in Study And therein still persisted when his Eye sight ceased He Writ many Books upon various Subjects that are now in mens hands containing in them nothing that 's Vulgar either for Style or Argument On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches Right and the Kings Prerogative as well in their afflicted as prosperous estate Also he was a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks A despiser of Envy and a man of undaunted Spirit While he was seriously intent on these and many more like Studies Death commanded him to be silent but could not silence his Fame He died in the Sixty third year of his Age. A Catalogue of such Books as were written by the Learned Doctor SPurius a Tragedy M. S. 1616. Theomachia a Comedy M. S. 1619. Geography printed at Oxon twice A. D. 1621. and 1624. in Quarto and afterwards in A. D. 1652. inlarged into Folio under the Title of Cosmography An Essay called Augustus 1631. since inserted into his Cosmography The History of St. George Lond. 1631. reprinted 1633. The History of the Sabbath 1631. reprinted 1636. An Answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's Letter to the Vicar of Grantham 1636. twice reprinted An Answer to Mr. Burton's two Seditious Sermons A. D. 1637. A short Treatise concerning A Form of Prayer to be used according to what is enjoyned in the Fifty fifth Canon written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester 1637. Antidotum Lincolniense or an Answer to the Bishop of Lincolns Book entituled Holy Table Name and Thing 1637. reprinted 1638. An uniform Book of Articles fitted for Bishops and Arch-Deacons in their Visitations 1640. De Jure paritatis Episcoporum or concerning the Peerage of Bishops 1640. M. S. A Reply to Dr. Hackwel concerning the Sacrifice of the Eucharist M. S. 1641. The History of Episcopacy first under the Name of Theoph. Churchman afterwards in his own Name reprinted 1657. The History of Liturgies written 1642. A Relation of the Lord Hoptons Victory at Bodmin A View of the Proceedings in thâ—… â—…est for a Pacification A Letter to a Gentleman in Lincolnshire about the Treaty A Relation of the Proceedings of Sir John Gell. A Relation of the Queens Return from Holland and the Siege of Newark The Black Cross shewing that the Londoners were the Cause of the Rebellion The Rebels Chatechism All these printed at Oxon. 1644. An Answer to the Papists groundless Clamor who nick-name the Religion of the Church of England by the Name of a Parliamentary Religion 1644. A Relation of the Death and Sufferings of Will. Laâ—…d Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1644. The stumbling Block of Disobedience removed written 1644. printed 1658. The Promised Seed in English Verse Theologia Veterum or an Exposition of the Creed Fol. 1654. Survey of France with an account of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey 1656. Quarto Exâ—…men Historicum or a Discovery and Examination of the Mistakes Falsities and Defects in some Modern Histories Lond. 1659 Certamen Epistolare or the Letter-Combat managed with Mr. Baxter Dr. Bernard Mr. Hickman Oct. Lond. 1659. Historia Quinque-Articularis Quarto Lond. 1660. Respondet Petrus or the Answer of Peter Heylyn D. D. to Dr. Bernard's Book entituled the Judgment of the late Primate c. Quarto Lond. 1658. Observations on Mr. Hamond L' Estrange's History of the Life of King Charles the First 1648. Extraneus Vapulans or a Defence of those Observations Lond. 1658. A short History of King Cbarles the First from his Cradle to his Grave 1658. Thirteen Sermons some of which are are an Exposition of the Parable of the Tares printed at London 1659. and again 1661. A Help to English History containing a Succession of all the Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls Bishops c. of England and Wales first written in the year 1641. under the 〈◊〉 of Robert Hall but now enlarged and in Dr. Heylyn's Name Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified c. Quarto 1657. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library Octavo Ecclesia Restaurata or the History of the Reformation Folio Lond. 1661. Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the Life and Death of William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Folio Aerius Redivivus or the History of the Presbyterians Folio FINIS S. Jer. Com. in cap. 2. Esdr. Instit. lib. 1. cap. 9. Pref. to Hist. of Ref. Hor. de Ar. po Berâ—… Epis 135. Mart. Piaut His Preface Preface Pag. 59 60 61 62 63. Pag. 101. 102. 103. 104. Cic. de orat ftom p. 67 to 89. from p. 212 to p. 227. from p. 228 to 236. p. 61 to 174. pag. 241. Plat. in Parmen p. 38. p. 35. p. 123. p. 31. p. 120. pag. 13. Arist. Eth. lib. cap. 10. A. Gell. lib. 12. cap. 11. pag. 32. pag. 14. Pag 43. Pag. Epist. deep Jact lib. 7. c. 14. pag. 1. pag. 7. pag. 2. Chr. Astrol. lib. 1. cap. 11 pag. 2. Diog. Laer in vit Tacit. Annal lib. 6. Trith de Scrip. Eccl. pag. 86. Suid. Hist. Luth. colliq Vindicat. of the sincerity of the Prot. Rel. p. 11 12. Arch Bish. Life p. 5 6. At the Tryal of Pickering Groâ—… and Ireland 1678. David Par. Comment in Evang. S. Mat. Cap. 23. Maph in vita Ign. Oplat l. 5. c. 29. Lact. Instit. lib. 4. cap. 30. Thu. Hist. l. 22. Theod. Bez. de Minist Evang. Grad Pag. 91. Thu. Hist. â—… 13. Chr. Ocland 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Elizab. Diodor. Sicul l. 3. Tacit. l.
THEOLOGO-HISTORICVS Or the True LIFE OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Written by his Son in Law JOHN BARNARD D. D. Rec. of Waddington near Lincoln To correct the Errors supply the Defects and confute the Calumnies of a late Writer Also an Answer to Mr. BAXTERS false Accusations of Dr. HEYLYN Quisquis patitur peccare peccantem is vires subministrat Audaciae Arnob. L. 4. LONDON Printed for J. S. and are to be sold by Ed. Eckelston at the Sign of the Peacock in Little-Britain 1683. TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD NATHANIEL Lord Bishop of DURHAM My Honour'd Lord I Here present to your Lordship the true Effigies of Dr. Heylyn drawn to the Life so far as my Pen is able to preserve the memory of his person among the number of worthy men for his extraordinary merits I hope may be truly said to this Church and Nation wherein he labour'd while he liv'd to promote the publick Good of both that his Name will never be forgotten whil'st his Books are extant if we may believe the words of St. Jerome in this particular Vir sapiens saith he diebus noctibus laborat componit Libros ut memoriam suam posteris derelinquat so the Works which this painful Presbyter has publish'd to the World the Catalogue of them being not ordinary with the Writers of our Age and the matter in them upon several Subjects not vulgarly handled I doubt not will perpetuate his Memory to future Posterity especially among all good men who are sincere Lovers of Monarchy and Episcopacy I am sure for his Religion and Loyalty for the Cause of the King and Church of England no man could declare himself a more faithful and zealous example by constant writing and sufferings And for his conversation not only as a good Christian but as becomes a Clergy man it was so unblameable that his most inveterate enemies could never throw dirt in his Face for the least Immoralities Therefore for his sake whom your Lordship hath seen in his house at Abingdon where he made you heartily welcome in those dayes when I had the honour though so unworthy a person to dictate the first Principles of Academical Learning to you which God has since well blessed that you are one and I wish may long continue so of the Cheif Prelates in this Realm I doubt not I say for this Reverend and Learned Mans sake more than mine your Lordship will be pleased to take into your Patronage the Narrative of his Life which I have faithfully composed and retriv'd from the Ignorances and unpardonable deficiencies of a late Writer I am the more nearly concern'd for my Relation sake because Dr. Heylyn was not an ordinary common Clergy-man though he acted in a lower Sphere than the highest Dignitaries in our Church it s sufficiently known he was singularly well acquainted above many others with the principal motions and grand Importances in his time both of Church and State as any man may perceive who will take the pains to peruse his Writings And that he had not only a speculative Science in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Polity of this Nation but was oftentimes employed an Agent by the late King and Arch-Bishop the two blessed Martyrs of this Land in several matters committed to his particular Charge for which he incurr'd the odium of the Mobile and especially of those Factious People then call'd Puritans but now Fanaticks a Name though seems new and strange to them was of old first given by Calvin himself to those who deserting his and the Lutheran way of Reformation out of an aversion to Popery fell upon a contrary extreme Their hair-brain'd zeal without understanding and accompanied with invincible obstinacy in their Enthusiastical Dotages if Power was answerable to their Wills would bring a second desolation upon our Church and confusion in the Kingdom Both which God and his good Angels evermore protect that we may enjoy the inestimable comforts of Peace and Government our true Religion establish'd by Law and Scripture our sacred Ministry second to none for Learning and good Life generally and the ancient Order of Episcopacy deriv'd from the pure Fountain of Apostolical Times heartily prayeth Your Lordships most faithful Servant JOHN BARNARD Errata PAge 3. line 10. read acquainted p. 5. l. 16. r. transcriptions for transcription p. 10. l. 10. r. multavit for mulcavit p. 12. l. 15. r. volumes for volumnes p. 17. l. 2. r. 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Retractation for Retraction p. 139 l. 21 r. conference for conferrence p. 143 l. 29 r. where for when p. 144 l. 29 r. Turret for Tower p. 151 l. dele and p. 153 l. 20 r. sitting for sitting p. 186 l. 21 r. rights for right p. 157 l. 15 r. ut for p. p. 191 l. 18 add afterward p. 198 l. 3 r. commended for commanded p. 199 l. 8 r. he for be p. 209 l. 10 r. was for were p. 226 l. 9 r. himself for he p. 228 l. 15 r. there for their p. 255 l. 16. r. the Doctor lived p. 268 l. 23 r. faces for face p. 246 l. 28 dele Lux. r. 〈◊〉 There are more Errors than in the Errata which the good Reader is desired to pass by A Necessary Vindication OF Dr. HEYLYN AND THE AUTHOR of the following LIFE I Had never put my self to the trouble of writing and the Reader to his pains in reading the third Publication of Dr. Heylyn's Life but that I have been most grosly abused in the first and second upon the same Subject At the sight of both which I was not a little amazed but ashamed First to see an anonymous piece printed before the Doctors works which I had ordered otherwise And lately a little Book crept forth
in this Case that most Writers are in love with their Paper-works but the World should first judge whether there is any excellency or real worth in them otherwise it is a fond fancy Narcissus like for any one to be inamoured with his own Shaddow But that which is worse than all this I perceive the Writer is not consistent with himself but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Poets words difficilis facilis juâ—…undus acerbus es idem Because one while he plays the Satyrist against the Fanaticks and afterward turns Factor for the Papists whose cause he could not plead better to please the holy Fathers of the Ignatian Society founded since Luther's time than to render the Name of Protestant odious ` A Name ` saith he that imports little in it of `the positive part of Christianity God forbid and let us then put this into our Litany Lord have mercy upon our Souls who profess our selves to be Protestants and not Papists if the positive part of Christianity be wanting among us For by Name what doth he or can he mean but our Religion and Christian Profession For the Name of Protestant it self is but Thema simplex I may say vox praeterea nihil no more is Catholick Christian Orthodox or any other Name Nomina imponuntur rebus Names are given to things to diversify and distinguish them one from another or else how are they significative of themselves While he goes about to unchristian the Name Protestant or at least makes it Terminus diminuâ—…ns a very slighty Name indeed he endeavours to overthrow the true Protestant Religion For ever since the first Reformation and change of Religion wrought among us by our just and necessary separation from communion with the Church of Rome we and our Fore-fathers have constantly gone under the Name of Protestants though originally I acknowledge this Name was taken up by those Princes of Germany who adhering to Luther's Doctrine made their Protestation at Spires the imperial Chamber and afterward set forth the Augustane Confession since which time the Church of England having cast off the Papacy this Name hath been the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or remark of distinction betwixt us and Papists Our Kings and Princes not only acknowledging the same but have defended the Protestant Religion his most sacred Majesty whose Life God long preserve among us in most or all his Speeches unto his High Court of Parliament hath graciously declared to secure and defenâ—… the Protestant Interest and Religion His Royal Father the most glorious Martyr of our Church but two days before his Death told the Princess Elizabeth That he should die for the maintaining the true Protestant Religion and charged her to read Arch-Bishop Laud's Book against Fisher to ground her against Popery And why were the Jesuiâ—…s so active about his Death that some of them became Agitators in the Independant Army but because it was agreed before by the Pope and his Council saith Dr. du Moulin that there was no way for advancing the Catholick Cause in England but by making away the King of whom there was no hope to turn from hiâ—… Heresie because he was a Protestant I cannot omit Arch-Bishop Laud's words at the time of his Tryal before the Lords Anno Dom. 1643. Saith he Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business of Religion so far from all practice or so much as thought of practice for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing of the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my Mother first â—…are me into the World In his Speech upon the Scaffold before his Death he saith thus of the King I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign He hath â—…een mâ—…d traduced for bringing in of Popery â—…ut on my Conscience of which I shall give God a very present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any Man living and I hold him to bâ—… as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any Man in this Kingdom And now hath not this Name Protestant which imports our Religion been owned by all our Judges and Lawyers the Lord chief Justice speaking of Papists If they cannot saith he at this time live in a Protestant Kingdom with security to their Neighbours but cause such fears and dangers and that for Conscience sake then let them keep their Conscience and leave the Kingdom Mr. Justice Wild in like manner Had such a thing as this been acted by us Protestants in any Popish Country in the World I doubt there would not have been scarce one of us left a live I might bring in here Sir William Jones Mr. Finch Mr. Recorder of London And truly if we are ashamed of our Name we may be of our Religion and cannot blame Popish Plots to subvert it if we hold not funâ—…lamentals which are the positive parts of Christianiâ—…y The Jesuit hawketh not for â—…parrows his zeal to destroy our Religion carries him through Fire and Water Sea and Land over Rocks and Mountains to gain a Proselyte according to those Verses I find in Pareus alluding to the Pharisee and Hor the Poet. Impiger extremos Jesuita excurrit ad Indos Per mare discipulum quaerens per saxa per ignes Juventumque facit se duplo deteriorem Sea Land Fire craggy Rocks and Indian Shore A Jesuit's frantick zeal transports him o're One Romish Proselyte to make once made Child of the Devil twice then before he 's said Nay he hath the patience to stay at home and there no dull Stoick can excel him in this Vertue if he be once commanded by his Superior he will obey though his work be no other saith Mapheus than to water a dry log of Wood for a year together he will not presume to ask the reason why but does it Then how much more ready is he to propagate the Gatholick Cause and in order thereto adventure upon any action if it be to the hazard of his Life while he is commanded by his Father General at Rome and the Congregatio de Propaganda fide What will not he undertake to extirpate the Name of Protestant and think he does God Service for if positive Christianity be not imported in it then we are Negatives we are Jews Infidels Pagans and cannot be denominated Christians for Positive and Negative are contradicentia there can be no reconciling or tacking them together and accoâ—…ding to my Logick a Contradiction is omnium oppositorum fortissima the strongest and most forcible of all oppositions But I would know what are the Principles of Protestantisâ—… that are so contradictory to Christianity they must be either credenda or facienda matters relating to Faith or Christian practice Do we hold any points of Faith contrary to the Primitive Catholick Church Or deny Obedience to the Commands of God either in his Law or Gospel
Mr. Baxter makes a hideous cry As Murder it self cannot be concealed no more can those Actions that border upon it but Divine Vengeance will pursue whosoever is guilty of either which the very Heathen took notice of when he saith Raro antecedentem scelestum deseruit pede paena claudo The innocent Doctor is falsly accused of words but now his Accuser is truly arraigned and upon his indictment found guilty of bloody deeds For he that is a Partizan with cruel men or an Abettor and Encourager of them is certainly a Pertaker with them and not only an Accessary to the Fact but a Principal as in all Sanguinary Causes according to our Statute Laws there are no Accessaries but Principals and I am sure in Foro poli or the Court of Heaven such Offenders are alike But the Man is still alive What then the intention of killing him and their leaving him for dead is a breach of the sixth Commandment as if it were actual homicide Murther was intended Mr. Baxter standing by not once reproving Hurdman but setting him thereon by his own example calling the Major Rogue I say it had been Murther with all cruelty to the height if the poor man had dyed because it is against the Law of Arms after a Battel fought to kill our Enemy in cold blood And as the Case now stands aggravated with all the Circumstances alledged Mr. Baxter can no ways acquit himself because he cannot be ignorant of this Rule Nullum Praeceptum consistit in indivisibili that no Precept of Gods Law is tyed up to one single or individual act but has a greater latitude in it as all kinds of Murther is forbidden whether of the bea rt tongue or hand unmercifulness cruelty revenge hatred malice is Murther Whosoever hateth his Brother saith the Apostle he is a Murtherer and you know that no Murtherer hath eternal Life in him Also every Precept of Gods Law is both affirmative and negative under the affirmative all duties that possibly can be reduced to it are implyed and under the negative which is of greater force because it binds ad semper as the Schools say all things which come within the verge of it as cruelty inhumanity c. are absolutely forbidden Mr. Baxters personal presence gave countenance to the bloody action much more in being a delightful Spectator of it which ought to have been abhorred by him Nero himself could not behold bloody Tragedies though he commanded them saith the Historian Et jussit scelera Nero non spectavit Much more barbarous actions are hateful to the Eyes of all Christians that Constantine after his Conversion by publick Edict did forbid all monstrous and bloody Spectacles in the Amphitheater For a Minister of Jesus Christ as he calls himself who preaches against hardness of heart to be so cruel hearted himself as not to pity a poor Christian weltring in his blood and wounds for the cause only of his King and Country to shew no mercy nor Cristian compassion towards him not so much as we would do to a Turk or an Infidel but call him Rogue Popish Rogue violently pulling from his Neck the Kings Picture and seeing him dragg'd up and down in the Fields by merciless Souldiers Honesco referens It was a more lamentable sight than the Spectacula nefranda when Christians were torn in pieces by wild Beasts in the Roman Theater I must therefore say to Mr. Baxter as the High-priest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Are these things so I sincerely wish from my heart that he may and I hope he will repent and ask God and the Major forgiveness which is the lest part of pennance and satisfaction he can perform for so heinous an Offence and till then with what confidence can Mr. Baxter preach to his Auditors being a silenced Minister both by the Laws of the Land and his own Conscience that must needs fly in his face and sorely exagitate him as it was once the Case of Origen who sinned not maliciously but out of fear and cowardice to save his life This Scripture struck him to the heart Why doest thou preach my Laws and takest my Covenant in thy mouth whereas thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my words behind thee If Mr. Baxter will look out of his broken Church History into true Ecclesiastical History he shall find Origen's Repentance set forth by Suidas for a most excellent Example to imitate He was called Syntacticus for compiling many Books in which Mr. Baxter does strive to follow him in writing many Books full of Errors but not so learnedly erreth as Origen did and and probably if he will not leave the odious quality of abusing reverend and worthy men his Books may hereafter run the same fortune with Origens to be publickly condemned For He cannot forbear railing upon Dr. Heylyn after he hath laid in his Grave near twenty years Speaking of the late Wars saith he Not only Lads that knew it not but Heylyn the great Reproacher of Reformers would make men believe that it was Presbyterians in England that began the strife and War What Heylyn There be many Heylyns in England which of them So profest an Enemy he is to Degrees because he was himself I hear never a Graduate or an University-man that he is a Despiser of those Dignities in others For his insolency in this kind and errors in other matters he was once soundly swinged by the Doctor and the Correction put an end to all the Epistolary Controversies between them that he was fain then to lower his Top-sail and durst never appear in the Doctors time top and top gallant In revenge of which and therein he thinks he hath done a great Act not to call him so much as Peter Heylyn Mr. Heylyn or Good-man Heylyn nay he will not allow him a Christian Name because he will be out of Charity with him both alive and dead This is the man that prefesseth so much mortification humility and self-denyal Yet no man swelleth with more spiritual pride Mare Adriatico superbior But why is Heylyn a Reproacher of the Reformers I cannot tell unless this be accounted a reproach which rather tendeth to his credit that he is an impartial Writer of Histories relating the naked Truth of things without respect of Persons and chiefly because he utterly dislikes such a Reformation of Religion that is carried on in a popular and tumultuary way which I think cannot be justifiable neither by Law Reason nor Scripture nor by all the Learning Mr. Baxter hath or ever shall have to prove the contrary I appeal to the ancient Fathers and the primitive Christians in the first Centuries whether this was judged by them an approvable way of Reformation that is effected by the vulgar sort who are not competent Judges of Religion but by the Authority of the Christian Magistrate with the advice and good counsel of the Clergy which is the only regular and most Scriptural
Peutre Heylyn from whom the said Grono-ap Heylyn descended in a direct Line removed not their station for all the Ages past but continued their Seat until the year An. Dom. 1637. At which time Mr. Rowland Heylyn Alderman and Sheriff of London and Cousin German to Dr. Heylyn's Father dying without Issue-male the Seat was transferred into another Family Into which the Heiresses married This Mr. Rowland Heylyn was a man of singular Goodness and Piety that before his Death caused the Welch or Brittish Bible to be printed at his own charge in a portable Volume for the benefit of his Country men which was before in a large Church Folio also the Practice of Piety in Welch a Book though common not to be despised besides a Welch Dictionary for the better understanding of that Language All which certainly was a most pious work notwithstanding their opinion to the contrary who think that the Bible in a vulgar Tongue is not for Edification but Destruction Yet God hath been pleased in all Ages to stir up some devout men of publick Spirits as Sixtus Senensis the Monk confesseth that Christians may read the holy Bible 〈◊〉 their own Edification and Comfort and not be kept hood-wink'd in blindness and heathenish ignorance Not to mention what other Nations hath done King Alfred caused both the Old and New Testament to be published in the vulgar Tongue for the benefit of this Land and in the Reign of Richard the Second the whole Scripture was set forth in English as Polyder Virgil testifies that when the Parliament endeavoured to suppress the same John Duke of Lancaster stood up in defence thereof saying We will not be the refuse of all men for other Nations have Gods Laws in their own Language so ought we Therefore seeing such noble Precedents of godly Zeal for the general instruction of the People it was a most excellent work of the good Alderman Mr. Rowland Heylyn to print those Welch Bibles which were before rare and costly but now grown common in every mans hand and in his own Mothers Tongue As the Doctor was of honourable extraction by his Father's side so his Mothers Pedigree was not mean and contemptible but answered the Quality of her Husband being a Gentlewoman of an ancient Family whose Name was Eliz. Clampard Daughter of Francis Clampard of Wrotham in Kent and of Mary Dodge his Wife descended in a direct Line from Peter Dodge of Stopworth in Cheshire unto whom King Edward the First gave the Seigniory or Lordship of Paden hugh in the Barony of Coldingham in the Realm of Scotland as well for his special Services that he did in the Seige of Barwick and Dunbar as for his valour showed in several Battels Encontre son grand Enemy Rebelle Le Baillol Roy d' Escose Vassal d' Angle terre as the words are in the original Charter of Arms given to the said Peter Dodge by Guyen King of Arms at the Kings command dated April the 8th in the 34 〈◊〉 year of the said King Edward the First One of the Descendants from the said Peter Dodge was Uncle to Dr. Heylyn's Mother and gave the Mannor of Lechlade in the County of Glocester worth 1400 l. per An. to Robert Bathurst Esq Uncle to the Doctor and Father to the Loyal Knight and Baronet Sir Edward Bathurst lately deceased The Doctor in his green and tender years was put to School at Burford the Place of his Nativity and Education under the care of Mr. William North then School-master by whose good Instructions and his own wonderful Ingenuity he grew up to that proficiency in Learning that he was admired both by his Master and Scholars because his entrance into the Free-School was at the time of Child-hood when he was but six years old betwixt which time and the space of four years after he plyed his Book so well that he appeard more than an ordinary Latinist being Composer of several Exercises both in Prose and Verse particularly a Tragy-Comedy upon the Wars and Destruction of Troy with other exercises Historical which foreshewed what an excellency he would after attain unto in all kind of generous Learning Such early Blossoms are for the most part blasted or seldom bring forth fruit to ripeness and perfection that few Examples can be named of precocious Wits as have been long Liv'd or come near to the years of Old Age as the Doctor did excepting one famously known above others Hermogenes the Rhetorician of whom it was said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was an old Man when he was a Child and a Child when he was an old Man In his Child-hood he was often brought before Marcus Ant. the Roman Emperor who delighted to hear his Talk for the natural Eloquence that flowed from him But though he lived long his Wit and admired Parts soon decayed and for his long Life saith Rhodiginus of him ut unus ex multis he was one as it were of a thousand Yet a Reverend Father of the Christian Church the glory of his time St. Augustine did far excel Hermogenes the Orator for he tells us in his Confessions that in secunda pueritia that is about the Age of twelve Legisse intellexisse Logicos Rhetoricos Aristotelis Libros he read and understood the Books of Aristotles Logick and Rhetorick by which Learning and Study of Divinity well managed together St. Augustin appeared the only Champion in the Field for the Orthodox Faith confounded the Manichees Donatists and other Hereticks and finally he lived to a great old Age a Blessing which ordinarily accompanied the Primitive Bishops and holy Fathers and still is continued as may be observed to the worthy Prelates of our Church But to find many of prodigious Wits and Memories from Child-hood and for such Persons to live unto extraordinary years and keep up their wonted Parts most Vigorously after they are turned Sixty which is the deep Autumne of Mans Life I believe Dr. Heylyn had the happy Fortune in Youth and Age above many others that his Vertues and excellent Abilities kept equal ballance together for all his Life primus ad extremum similis sibi that as he began happily so he went on like Isocrates his Master who being always the same could say Nihil habeo quod senectutem meam accusem He had nothing to accuse his old Age with After he was first diciplin'd under his Master North whom Death took from the School to another World he was committed to his Successor Mr. Davis a right worthy Man and painful Schoolmaster who train'd him up in all points of Learning befitting a young Scholar for the University where he was admitted at the fourteenth year of his Age Commoner in Hart-hall and put under the Tuition of Mr. Joseph Hill an ancient Batchelor of Divinity and formerly one of the Fellows of Corpus Christi Colledge but then a Tutor in Hart-hall After whom Mr.
Walter Newbery a zealous Puritan in those days undertook the Charge of him who little thought his Pupil would afterward prove so sharp an Enemy to the Puritan-faction But by the help of his two Tutors who faithfully discharged their Office in reading Logical Lectures to him and other kind of Learning his own Industry also and earnest desire to attain unto Academical Sciences setting him forward beyond his years and standing he was encouraged by his Tutor and good Friends who saw his Parts were prodigious to stand for a Demy's Place in Magdalen Colledge at the time of their Election But he being very young and the Fellows already preingaged for another he missed the first time as is usual in this Case with which disappointment he was not at all discouraged but cheerfully followed the course of his Studies and among other Exercises for recreation sake and to shew his Wit and Fancy he framed a Copy of Verses in Latin on occasion of a pleasant Journy he took with his two Tutors to Woodstock which Verses he presented to the President and Fellows of Magdalen Colledge who at the next Election in the year 1615. unanimously chose him Demy of the House where soon after he was made Impositor of the Hall which Office no small honour to him being then but fifteen years of Age he executed with that trust and diligence that the Dean of the Colledge continued him longer in it than any of his Predecessors for which he was so envyed by his Fellow Demies as that malignant passion is always the Concomitant of honour that they called him by the Name of perpetual Dictator About the same time being very eager upon his juvenile Studies he composed an English Tragedy called by him Spurius that was so generally well liked by the Society that Dr. Langton the President commanded it to be acted in his Lodgings After those and many other Specimina Ingenii fair Testimonies of his Wit and Schollarship he easily obtained his grace for the Degree of Batchelor of Arts in the year 1617. Then according to the Colledge Statutes and Custom that requires some Exercise to be performed by a junior Batchelor in the long Vacation he read several Lectures of Geography to which his Genius naturally led him and carried them on so pleasantly in a new Method not observed by others by joyning History with Cosmography that made the Work very delightful For scarce any memorable Action done in any Nation Country or famous City in the World but he hath recorded it which was a wonderful Task for a Youth of his years that all his Auditors grave Fellows as well as others was struck into deep admiration of his profound Learning and Wisdom that forthwith the whole Society nemine contradicente admitted him Probationer Fellow in the Place of Mr. Love and that before such time he had fully finished the reading of his Lectures And for a further encouragement of him in his Studies being also a good Philosopher as well as Geographer the Colledge chose him Moderator of the Senior Form in the Hall that brought both credit to his Name and profit to his Purse for which in Gratitude to them as he ever shewed a grateful mind to his Patrons and Benefactors he presently writ a Latin Comedy called by him Theomachia which he finished and transcribed in a Fortnights time and dedicated the same to the Fellows who were so highly pleased with his Ingenuity and Pains that on July the 19th 1619. he waâ—… admitted Fellow in that honourable Society according to the usual Form In verum perpetuum Socium After which followed a new honour upon him as all Degrees in the University are honourable and but the just reward of Learned Men that in the year 1620. the University conferred on him the Degree of Master of Arts and surely a young Master he was that not one of twenty is capable of this Degree at his years but more remarkable it was at that time because he was one of those Masters that first sate with their Caps on in the Convocation-house by Order of the Earl of Pembroke then Chancellor of the University who signified his Lordships Pleasure by his especial Letters That from that time forward the Masters of Arts who before sate bare should wear their Caps in all Congregations and Convocations which has been ever since observed He now a Master of Arts in the University and Fellow of a Noble Colledge than which no greater encouragements can be imagined for young Men to follow their Studies and put audacity into them to shew their Parts especially when they have gained by their Learning and Merits both Preferment and Honour He was perswaded by several Friends to publish those Geographical Lectures which he read in the long Vacation that others might taste the sweetnes and pleasure of those Studies besides his own Fellow Collegians Accordingly having got his Fathers consent for the printing of them and the perusal and approbation of his Book by some Learned Men at the Age of twenty and one years the young Writer comes forth November the 7th Anno Dom. 1621. Whose ingenious Writings found such general Acceptance manibus omnium teruntur that scarce any Scholars Study was without them and to this day since their enlargement by several Editions are as commonly cited upon occasion as any Authentick Author that 's extant The First Copy was presented to his Royal Highness King Charles the First then Prince of Wales unto whom the young Author dedicated his Work and by the young Prince was as graciously received being brought into his Highness presence by Sir Robert Carr afterward Earl of Ancram but then one of the Gentlemen of the Princes Bed-Chamber Having so fortunate a Beginning to gain the Prince his Patron he desisted in Geography and proceeded to higher Studies that might capacitate him for greater Services hereafter both in Church and State In order thereto first piously he took along with him the Episcopal Blessing of Confirmation by the Hands of Bishop Lake in the Parish Church of Wells September the 15th Anno Dom. 1623. the fruits of whose Fatherly Benediction devout Prayers with imposition of Hands did manifestly appear in this true Son of the Church Whom the Almighty did bless and daily increase in him the manifold gift of Grace bestowed on him the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding c. And certainly such singular benefits does accompany this Apostolical Institution mentioned in Scripture constantly used in the Primitive Church that the neglect or contempt thereof from the hands of Gods Bishops no doubt deprives us of many good Blessings which we should otherwise receive from the hands of God Being thus confirmed by the Bishop according to the Order of the Church of England he afterward applyed himself to the Study of Divinity which St. Basil calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Theory or Contemplation of the Great God or his Being so far as he hath revealed himself to us in the
precedency to the French First because France was the great and more famous Kingdom 2. That the French c. These reasons are to be referred to the time of that King by whom the Arms were first quartered with the Arms of England and who desired by honour done unto their Arms to gain upon the good Opinion of that Nation for the Crown and Love thereof he was then a Sutor For at this time besides it may seem incongruous to use a Verb of the Present-Tense in a matter done so long agoe that reason is not of the least force or consequence the French King having so long since forgot the Rights of England and our late Princes claiming nothing but the Title only The Place and Passage so corrected I hope I may without detraction from the Glory of this Nation affirm That France was at that time the more famous Kingdom our English Swords for more than half the time since the Norman Conquest had been turned against our own Bosomes and the Wars we then made except some fortunate Excursions of King Edward the First in France and King Richard in the Holy Land in my Opinion were fuller of Piety than of Honour For what was our Kingdom under the Reigns of Edward the Second Henry the Third John Stephen and Rufus but a publick Theater on which the Tragedies of Blood and civil Dissentions had been continually acted On the other side the French had exercised their Arms with Credit and Renown both in Syria Palestine and Egypt and had much added to the Glory of their Name and Nation by conquering the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicilia and driving the English themselves out of France Guyen only excepted If we look higher we shall find France to be the first Seat of the Western Empire and the forces of it to be known and felt by the Saracens in Spain the Saxons in Germany and the Lombards in Italy At which time the Valour of the English was imprisoned in the same Seas with their Island And therefore France was at that time when first the Arms were quartered the more famous Kingdom 'T is true indeed that since the time of those victorious Princes those duo fulmina belli Edward the Third and the Black Prince his Son the Arms of England have been exercised in most parts of Europe Nor am I ignorant how high we stand above France and all other Nations in true fame of our Atcheivements France it self diverse times over run and once conquered The House of Bâ—…rgundie upheld from Ruin The Hollanders supported Spain awed The Ocean commanded are sufficient Testimonies that in pursuit of Fame and Honour we had no Equals That I always was of this opinion my Book speaks for me and indeed so unworthy a Person needs no better Advocate in which I have been no where wanting to commit to Memory the honourable performances of my Country The great Annalist Baronius pretending only a true and sincere History of the Church yet tells the Pope in his Epistle Dedicatory that he principally did intend that Work Pro Sacrarum Traditionum Antiquitate Authoritate Romanae Ecclesiae The like may I say of my self though not with like imputation of imposture I promised a Description of all the World and have according to the measure of my poor Ability fully performed it yet have I apprehended withal every modest occasion of enobling and extolling the Souldiers and Kings of England Concerning the other place at which his most sacred Majesty is offended viz. The precedency of France before England besides that I do not speak of England as it now stands augmented by the happy Addition of Scotland I had it from an Author whom in my poverty of reading I conceived above all Exception Cambdeâ—… Clarenceux that general and accomplish'd Scholar in the fifth page of his Remains had so informed me If there be Error in it 't is not mine but my Authors The Precedency which he there speaks of is in general Councils And I do heartily wish it would please the Lord to give such a sudden blessing to his Church that I might live to see Mr. Cambden confuted by so good an Argument as the sitting of a general Council Thus Mr. Heylyn apologized for himself in his Letter written to the Dean of Winton who shewed the whole Apology to the King with which his Majesty was fully satisfied as to the sincere intention and innocent meaning of Author yet to avoid all further scruples and misconstructions that might arise hereafter Mr. Heylyn by the advise of his good Friend the wise and most worthy Dean took order that whole Clause which gave so much offence should be left out of all his Books It a plerique ingenio sumus omnes nostri nosmet paenitet as once the Comedian said Having undergone such troubles about France he was resolved upon a further Adventure to take a Voyage thither with his faithful Friend Mr. Leuet of Lincolns Inn who afterward poor Gentleman through misfortune of the Times lived and dyed Prisoner in the Fleet. They both set out An. Dom. 1625. and after their safe arrival in France took a singular interview of the chief Cities and most eminent Places in the Realm of which Mr. Heylyn gives a more accurate account and description though his stay was not there above five Weeks than Lassel the Priest doth of his five years Voyage into Italy And now Mr. Heylyn was sufficiently convinced with his own Eyes which was the more famous Kingdom that after his return home he composed a History of his Travels into France and being put into the Hands of several Friends was at first printed by a false Copy full of gross Errors and insufferable mistakes that he caused his own true Copy to be printed one of the most delightful Histories of that nature that hath been ever heretofore published wherein is set out to the Life the Monsieurs and the Madams the Nobility and the Pezantry the Court and Country their ridiculous Customs fantastical Gate Apparel and Fashions foolish common Talk so given to levity that without singing and dancing they cannot walk the open Streets in the Church serious and superstitious the better sort horridly Atheistical Besides all he hath written in that ingenious Book I think he hath in short most excellently deciphered them in his Cosmography where he maketh a second review of their pretty Qualities and Conditions as thus if the Reader has a mind to read them They are very quick witted of a sudden and nimble apprehension but withal rash and hair-brain'd precipitate in all their actions as well military as civil falling on like a clap of Thunder and presently going off in Smoke full of Law-suits and Contentions that their Lawyers never want work so litigious that there are more Law-suits tryed among them in seven years than have been in England from the Conquest Their Women witty but Apish sluttish wanton and incontinent generally at the first fight as
therefore placed their Lecturers in Market Towns and Corporations that were most populous where they might carry the greater sway of electing Burgesses to serve in Patliament or for the most part these zealous Preachers were such as had been silenced and suspended in the Ecclesiastical Courts or those that were well Wishers to Non-conformists The Parties themselves trusted in this design of buying Impropriations were of such affections as promised no good unto the peace and happiness of the Church of England being twelve in number four Ministers four common Lawyers and four Citizens all of them known to be averse unto the Discipline of the Church that as Dr. Heylyn saith If such publick mischiefs be presaged by Astrologers from the Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn though the first of these be a Planet of a most sweet and gentle influence what dangers what calamities might might not be feared from the Conjunction of twelve such persons of which there was not one that wished well to the present Government And therefore I may say of them as Domitiâ—…s Aenobarbus said unto his friends when they came to congratulate with him for the Birth of Nero. Nihil ex se Agrippina nisi detestabile malo publico nasci potest But now we must come to the Divinity Schools again where Mr. Heylyn must undergo the publick exercise of disputation for his degree of Doctor and appear before his severe Judge and Moderator Dr. Prideaux whose animosities and angers since the former Disputation in all the tract of time from the year 1627. to 1633. were not abated or in the least cooled but more inflamed that the Professor took upon himself the Office of an Opponent rather than of a Moderator so that those to whom the Opponents part belonged could hardly put in an Argument for his passion In the former Disputation Mr. Heylyn asserted the visibility and infallibility of the Church but now he insisteth upon its Authority and his Questions were these following 1. An Ecclesia habeat authoritatem in determinandis fidei controversiis 2. Interpretandi S. scripturas 3. Discernendi ritus ceremonias All which he held in the affirmative as himself gives an account of the whole disputation according to the plain and positive Doctrine of the Church of England in the twentieth Article which runs thus in terminis viz Habet Ecclesia ritus sive ceremonias statuendi jus in fidei controversiis authoritatem c. But the Doctor was as little pleased with these Questions and the Respondents stating of them as he was with the former and therefore to create to the Respondent the greater odium he openly declared that the Respondent had falsified the publick Doctrine of the Church and charged the Article with that Sentence viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus sive ceremonias c. Which was not to be found in the whole Body of it And for the proof thereof he read the Article out of a Book which lay before him beginning thus Non licet Ecclesia quicquam instituere quod verbo Dei scripto adversetur c. To which the Respondent readily answered that he perceived by the lines of the Book which lay on the Doctors Cushion that he had read that Article out of the Harmony of Consessions publisht at Geneva Anno 1612. which therein followed the Edition of the Articles in the time of King Edward the Sixth Anno 1652. in which that sentence was not found but that it was otherwise in the Articles agreed on in the Convocation Anno 1561. to which most of us had subscribed in our several places but the Doctor still persisting upon that point and the Respondent seeing some unsatisfiedness in the greatest part of the Auditory he called on one Mr. Westly who formerly had been his Chamber-fellow in Magdalen Colledge to step to the next Booksellers-shop for a Book of Articles which being observed by the Doctor he declared himself very willing to decline any further profecution of that particular and to go on directly to the Disputation But the Respondent was resolved to proceed no further usque dum liberaverit animam suam ab ista calumnia as his own words were till he had freed himself from that odious calumny but it was not long before the coming of the Book had put an end to the Controversie out of which the Respondent read the Article in the English tongue in his verbis viz. The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in controversies of Faith c. which done he delivered the Book to one of the standers by who desired it of him the Book passing from one hand to another till all men were satisfied And at this point of time it was that the Queens Almoner left the Schools professing afterwards that he could see no hope of a fair Disputation from so foul a beginning The Doctor went about to prove that it was not the Convocation but the High Court of Parliament which had the power of ordering matters in the Church in making Canons ordaining Ceremonies and and determining Controversies in Religion and could find out no other medium to make it good but the Authority of Sir Edward Cook a learned but meer common Lawyer in one of the Books of his Reports An Argument if by that name it may be called which the Respondent thought not fit to gratifie with a better answer than Non credendum esse cuique extra suam artem And certainly a better answer could not be given by Mr. Heylyn I may say Non Apollinis magis verum atque hoc responsum This last exercise completed him in all degrees that the University could conferre upon him being now a Doctor in Divinity he returned home with honour where shortly after news was sent him that the King had bestowed upon him a Prebendary at Windsor by the intercession of Dr. Neale then Arch-Bishop of York but it proved otherwise for that Prebendary was promised to Dr. Potter when he presented to the King his Book called Charity mistaken and he also went without it by reason of the Bishop of Glâ—…cester not being translated to the Church of Hereford as was then commonly reported who kept the same Prebend in his hands by which means both the Candidates were disapointed This Goodman Bishop of Glocester at that time affected a remove to the See of Hereford and had so far prevailed with some great Officers of State that for mony which he offered like Simon magus and it was taken his â—…onge d' eslir issued out and his Election passed But Arch-Bishop Laâ—…d coming opportunely to the knowledge of it and being ashamed of so much baseness in the man who could pretend no other merit than his mony the wretched Bishop was glad to make his Peace not only with the resignation of his Election but the loss of his Bribe While these things were agitated the the young Doctor new come from the University
the Lords Commissioners met again on February the 8th following before whom the Bishop put in his Plea about the Seat or Great Pew under Rich. 2. from which he had disgracefully turned out the Prebends and possest it wholly to himself or the use of those Strangers to whom he had a special favour thinking scorn that honoured Society should sit with him a Bishop But the Prebends Advocate proved their Right of sitting there by these particulars First their original Right Secondly their derivative Right Thirdly their possessory Right How excellently he managed their Cause and what a mean defence the Bishop made for himself would be too tedious and impertinent to insert here concerning none but the Church of Westminster Finally upon hearing the matters on both sides it was ordered by general consent of the Lords Commissioners That the Prebends should be restored to their old Seat and that none should sit there with them but Lords of the Parliament and Earls eldest Sons according to the ancient custom But what were those differences about a Seat to the Disputes risen at that time about the Sabbath In the History of which Dr. Heylyn was then engaged and in a short time he perfected it to satisfie the scrupulous minds of some misguided Zelots who turned the observation of the Lords-day into a Jewish Sabbath not allowing themselves or others the ordinary Liberties nor works of absolute necessity which the Jews themselves never scrupled at Against which sort of Sabbatarians the Doctor published his History of the Sabbath The Argumentative part of that Subject was referred to Dr. White Bishop of Ely the Historical part of it to Dr. Heylyn Huic nostro tradita est provincia Both of their Books never answered to this day but pickird at by Mr. Palmer and Mr. Cawdrey two Divines of the Smectymnian Assembly and by some other sorry Writers of less account But the foundation and superstructure both in the logical and historical Discourses of those two Pillars of our Church stand still unmovable the latter though an Historian upon the Subject does fully answer all the material Arguments of the Adversaries side brought out of Scripture as well as History Neither doth the Bishop nor the Doctor in the least encourage or countenance in all their Writings any Profaneness of the Day when Christian Liberty is abused to Licentiousness Nor on the other side would they have the Religious Observation of the Day brought into superstition For Sunday amongst some I have known hath been kept as a Fast Day contrary to the ancient Opinion and Practice of the primitive Church who judged it a Heresie and not an Act of Piety Nefas est die Dâ—…minica jejunare that the day should be spent from Morning to Evening so strictly in preaching and praying in repetition upon repetitions in doing works of superogation which God never required at their hands nor any Christian Church commanded to make the Sabbath a burden that ought to be a Christians delight is new Divinity among the reformed Churches in Geneva it self before and after Divine Service the People are at liberty for manly Recreations and Exercises Upon complaint made before Lord chief Justice Richardson of some disorders by Feasts Wakes Revels and ordinary pastimes on Sundays perticularly in the County of Somerset His Majesty ordered that the Bishop of Bath and Wells should send a speedy account of the same The Bishop called before him seventy two of the Orthodox and ablest Clergy men among them who certified under their several hands that on the Feasts dayes which commonly fell upon Sundayes the service of God was more solemnly performed and the Church was better frequented both in the forenoon and afternoon then upon any Sunday in the year To decry the clamours of the Sabbatarians a Lecture read by Doctor Prideaux at the Act in Oxon Anno 1622. was translated into english in which he solidly discoursed both of the Sabbath and Sunday according to the judgment of the ancient Fathers and the most approved Writers of the Protestant and Reformed Churches This Lecture was also ushered with a preface In which there was proofe offered of these three propositions First that the keepiug holy one day of seven is not the moral part of the fourth Commandement Secondly that the alteration of the day is only an humane and ecclesiastical constitution Thirdly that still the Church hath power to change the day and transfer it to some other The name of Prideaux was then so sacred that the Book was greedily bought up by those of the Puritan faction but when they found themselves deceived of their expectation The Book did cool their colors and abate their clamour Since our Saviours reproof of the Jews for their superstitious fear of transgressing the traditions and Commanddements of their Fathers by which they kept the Sabbath with more rigour than God had commanded they are now bent upon the other extreme as Buxtorf tells us so hard a thing it is to keep a medium between two extreams Quanto voluptatis isti percipiunt saith he tanto se devotius Sabbatum colere statuunt The more pleasures they take on the Sabbath day the more devoutly they thought that they keep the Sabbath So that the rigid Sabbatarian hath no example of Jew or Christian and I am sure no Command of God in Scripture nor President in Antiquity or Ecclesiastical History but will find there the Lords-day is from Ecclesiastical Institution I speak not this I abhor it to animate or the least encourage people in looseness and debauchery to neglect the Duties of Religion or the Worship and Service of God upon this holy day which they ought as they tender their Souls with singular Care and Conscience to observe but hereby I think my Father in Law is justified though his own Book is best able to vindicate himself that his Opinion is orthodox both according to the Doctrine of the Church of England and the judgement and practice of Protestant Churches that the Lords-day should be Religiously observed and yet withal the lawful liberties and urgent necessities of the People preserved and not to be so tied up and superstitiously fearful that they dare not kindle a Fire dress Meat visit their Neighbours sit at their own Door or walk abroad no nor so much as talk with one another except it be in the Poets words Of God Grace and Ordinances As if they were in heavenly Trances To which I may add a more smart and witty Epigram upon the scruple and needless disatisfaction in them not onlâ—… about the Sabath but our Church and Religion in those Verses of Dr. Heylyn to Mr. Hammond L' Estrange as followeth A learned Prelate of this Land Thinking to make Religion stand With equal poise on either side A mixture of them thus he tryed An Ounce of Protestant he singleth And then a Dram of Papist mingleth With a Scruple of a Puritan And boyled them in his Brain pan But
close and dangerous Factions because some points of speculative Divinity are otherwise maintained by some than they would have them Also regardless of the common Peace that rather than be quiet we will quarrel with our blessed Peace-maker for seeking to compose the differences though to the prejudice of neither party Thus do we foolishly divide our Saviour and rent his sacred Body on the least occasion rarely conceiving that a difference in a point of Judgment must needs draw after it a disjoyning of the affections also and that conclude at last in an open Schism Whereas diversity of Opini ons if wisely managed would rather tend to the discovery of the Truth than the disturbance of the Church and rather whet our industry than excite our passions It was S. Cyprians resolution Neminem licet alicui senserit a Communione amovere not to suspend any man from the Communion of the Church although the matter then 〈◊〉 was as I take it of more weight than any of the points now controverted which moderation if the present Age had attained unto we had not then so often torn the Church in pieces nor by our frequent broils offered that injury and inhumanity to our Saviours Body which was not offered to his Garments At this and all the other parts of his Sermon the Auditory was highly pleased but the Bishop in so great wrath that his voice and the noise of his Pastoral Staff if I may so call it had lik'd to have frighted the whole Flook or Congregation out of the Fold Considering the ill posture of Affairs in which the Nation then stood overflowing with seditions and schisms Navem Reipub. Fluitantem in alto tempestatibus seditionum et discordiarum as Tully once said I think a more seasonable Sermon could not have been preached to move men of different perswasions unto Peace and Unity one with another which is a most Christian Doctrine After the Sermon was ended he took St. Robert Filmore his learned Freind with some other Gentlemen of quality that were his Auditors out of the Church along with him to his House where he immediately sealed up the Book that contained this Sermon and other Notes to which they also set their Seales that so there might not be the least alteration made in the Sermon nor any ground to suspect it which was presently after sent to the Bishop who kept it in his hands for some days in which time his passions allayed being more calm at home than in the Church sent the Book untouched back again to Dr. Heylyn in whose Study it had lain dormant for the space of fifteen years when the danger of an old Sermon being called in question must needs be over by my perswasion and his conâ—…ent he was pleased to give me leave to open that Apocalyptical Book that I might read and see the mystery that lay hid under the Seals for so many years which indeed only proved a pious and practical Sermon foâ—… Edification to moderate the heats of those fiery Spirits that were like to make a Combustion in the whole Kingdom The Bishop deserved a sharper rebuke for his own Sermon which about that time he preached before the King when he made a strange Apostrophe from his Text to the Sabbath falling down upon his knees in the Pulpit at the middle of his Sermon beseeching his Majesty in most earnest and humble manner That greater care might be taken for the better Observation of the Sabbath day Which was looked upon by many as a piece of most grand Hypocrisie who knew his opinion well by his practice for he did ordinarily play at Bowles on Sundays after Evening Service shot with Bows and Arrows and used other exercises and recreations according to his Lordships pleasure Nay more than all this as the Doctor informs us in his Animadversions on the Church-History of Brittain he caused a Comedy to be acted before him at his house at Bugden not only on a Sunday in the Afternoon but upon such a Sunday also on which he had publickly given sacred Orders both to Priests and Deacons And to this Comedy he invited the Earl of Manchester and diverse others of the Neighbouring Gentry though on this turning of the Tide he did not only cause these Doctors to be condemned for some Opinions which formerly himself allowed of but moved at the Assembly in Jerusalem Chamber that all Books should be publickly burnt which had disputed the Morality of the Lords Day-Sabbath But the Bishop now restored to his dignity by means of that unhappy Parliament with whom he was in high favour expected that Dr. Heylyn should have submitted himself to his Lordship and particularly acknowledge his Error in putting out the Antidotum Lincolniense which he commanddend him to call in to which the Doctor replyed that he received his Majesties Royal Command for the writing and printing of that Book in which he had asserted nothing but what he was still ready to justifie and defend against the Opposers of it And how could it be imagined otherwise but he would vindicate his own Writings For men of known Learning and Integrity satisfied with the truth and right of their Cause its impossible to bring them over to a Retractation against their own Conscience The Case ran thus betwixt St. Jerom the Presbyter and St. Augustin the Bishop Hortaris me ut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 super quodam Apostoli Capitulo Canam absit unusquisque abundet suo sensu No sooner was the Doctor out of the Pulpit but he must come again before the Chair of the old Committee to answer unto new Articles that Mr. Pryn had drawn up against him more especially for a Sermon that he had preached many years agoe which Mr. Pryn who had then Ears heard himself and brought along with him some other Auditors a Company of the Rabble sort to vex him Urgeris turba circum te Stante thrusting and justling the Doctor in the Croud and railing against him with most vile speeches to which be made no reply in this sorry Condition but patiently endured all their affronts and injuries for it was to no purpose to take further notice of an ungovern'd Multitude Non opus est argumentis sed fustibus with whom nothing can prevail but Club-Law But contrary to all their expectation he got the victory of the day and was dismissed with a Quietus est by reason of a Letter which he had wisely sent before hand Ingenium res adversae nudare solent to a leading Gentleman of that Committee who was before his most bitter Enemy but now mollified with the Letter he allayed the fury of his Brethren And glad was he to be so delivered out of the Lyons mouth telling his Friends that he would now go to Alresford with a purpose never to come back to Westminster whilst these two good Friends of his abode in it viz. the House of Commons and the Lord of Lincoln Accordingly he hastened down to
Faults by his good service done both to Church and State The next Book which the Doctor published An. Dom. 1657. Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified he deâ—…ted it as a gratefuâ—… Testimony of his mind to his Master then living Mr. Edward Davis formerly School-Master of Burford and now Vicar of Shelton in the County of Berks to whom he ever shewed a Love and Reverence and had the Doctors Power been answerable to his will and intention he had design'd more considerable Preferments for him but the sudden and unexpected alteration in his own affairs prevented so soon almost as he was preferred that he could shew no other Specimen of his gratitude What saith the Heathen Diis parentibus Precaeptoribus non redditur aequivalens An amends can never be made to God our Parents and Tutors and certainly he hath but little of a Christian in him that can forget this Lesson About the same time he was harassed before Olivers Major General for the Decimation of his Estate hoc novum est aucupium For he thought there had been an end of all further payments and punishment for his Loyalty by compounding for his Estate in Goldsmiths-Hall that he argued the Case notably with them but all in vain for Arguments though never so acutely handled are obtuse Weapons against the Edge of the Sword He tells us that his temporal Estate was first brought under Sequestration and under a Decimation since only for his adhaesion to those sacred Verities to which he hath béen principled by Education and confirmed by Study While he was arguing his cause before the Major General and his Captains one Captain Allen formerly a Tinker and his Wife a poor Tripe-Wife took upon him to reprove the Doctor for maintaining his Wife so highly like a Lady to whom the Doctor roundly replyed That he had married a Gentlewoman and did maintain her according to her quality and so might he his Tripe-wife Adding withal that this Rule he always observed For his Wife to go above his Estate his Children according to his Estate and himself below his Estate so that at the years end he could make all even Soon after these things came out the Order of Decimation against him a Heathenish Cruelty in this Case if Mens Estates are as dear to them as their Lives because the one without the other renders them miserable may be compared to that of Maximian the Tyrant and cruel Persecutor of the Church that put the Christians to such a bloody Decimation that every tenth man of them was to be killed And this other was barbarous enough in its kind that all the Gentry of the Nation not only the tenth part of them who had engaged in his Majesties Service should first be compelled to compound for their own Estates and afterward without mercy Decimated that brought an utter ruin upon many of their Families Notwithstanding all this the Doctor like the Palm-Tree crescit sub pondere virtus the more he was pressed with their heavy loads did flourish and grow up in his Estate that through the blessing of God being neither the Subject of any mans Envy nor the Object of their Pity he lived in good Credit â—…nd kept a noble House for I my self being often there can say I have seldom seen him sit down at his Table without company for being nigh the University some out of a desire to be acquainted with him and others to visit their old Friend whom they knew rarely could be seen but at Meals made choice of that time to converse with him And likewise his good Neighbours at Abingdon whom he always made welcom if they were honest men that had been of the Royal party and was ready to assist them upon all occasions particularly in upholding the Church of St. Nicholas which otherwise had been pulled down on pretence of uniting it to St. Ellens but in truth to disable the sober party of the Town who were loyal people from enjoying their wonted Service and Worship of God in their own Parish Church of which they â—…ad a Reverend and Orthodox man one Mr. Huish their Minister and in his absence the Doctor took care to get them supplied with able men from Oxford Great endeavours were on both sides the one party to preserve the Church and the other to pull it down because it was thronged with Malignants who seduced others from their godly way Religion always hath been the pretence of factious minds to draw on others to their party as one saith well Sua quisque arma sancta praedicat suam causam Religiosam Deus Pietas cultus divinus praetexuntur Every one proclaimeth their own Quarrels to be a holy War the cause Religion God Godliness and Divine Worship must be pretended Several Journies the good Doctor took to London sparing neither his pains nor purse in so pious a cause for the managing of which he employed diverse Solicitors sometimes before Committees at other times before Oliver's Council where it was carried dubiously and rather inclining to the other side at which the Presbyterian party caused the Bells to be rung and made Bonefires in the Town to express their Joy triumphing in the Ruin of a poor Church but the day was not so clearly their own as they imagined Dum res quamvis afflictae nondum tamen perditae forent as the Orator said for the Church yet stood against all its Enemies God protecting his own House and his zealous Servants for it in a time when they could look for little favours from the Powers that then ruled who had not so much respect for Gods House as the Heathens had for their Idol Temples and for those that vindicated them as Justin saith on this occasion Diis proximus habetur per quem Deâ—…rum majestas vindicata sit For which he praiseth Philip of Macedon calling him Vindicem Sacrilegii ultorem Religionum c. During those troubles about the Church Mr. Huish the Minister thereof durst not go on in his ministerial Duties which no sooner the Doctor heard of but to animate and encourage him he writ a pious Letter a Copy of which I then transcribed which is as followeth and worth the inserting here Sir WE are much beholden to you for your chearful condiscending unto our desires so far as the Lords-days Service wich though it be Opus diei in die suo yet we cannot think our selves to be fully Masters of our Requests till you have yeilded to bestow your pains on the other days also We hope in reasonable time to alter the condition of Mr. Blackwels pious gift that without hazarding the loss of his donation which would be an irrecoverable blow to this poor Parish you may sue out your Qietus est from that daily Attendance unless you find some further motives and inducements to perswade you to it yet so to alter it that there shall be no greater wrong done to his Intentions than to most part
credit groweth greater An ordinary Scandal hath been thrown upon learned men who have been zealous Defenders of the Church of England to brand them with the ignominious name of Papists or being Popishly affected because they have abhorred the other extreme of Puritanism in which kind of Slanders the Doctor hath sufficiently received his share that Hammond L' Estrange called him An Agent for the Sea of Rome A heavy charge this is if it carried the least semblance of Truth but what honest man may not be so belyed Si accusare suffecerit quis innocens erit When the Doctor in all his Writings and no man I may say more hath declared his judgement against the Church of Rome and upon every occasion as he meets with her whets his Pen most sharply to lance her old sores and and let the World see what filthy corruptions and errors abound in her more particularly in his Book of Books Theologia Veterum upon the Apostles Creed the Sum of Christian Theology positive polemical and philological and in all his Court Sermons upon the Tares especially the fourth Sermon also in his great Cosmography where he sets out the Popes of Rome in their pontifical Colours Therefore for the Vindication of him from this foul aspersion with which some have maliciously bespattered many of our excellent Divines I particularly thank the Reverend and Learned Dr. Stillingsleet for his Answer to T. G. who would have made use of the Puritans accusation for the Papists purpose but the worthy Doctor quickly refuted him and ever after put him to silence in citing Dr. Heylyns fourth Sermon upon the Tares where he lays at the Door of Papists the most gross Idolatry greater than which was never known among the Gentiles This being brought into discourse at such time as the Arch-Bishops Book against Fisher the Jesuit was newly published it was affirmed by some that the Doctor in his Sermon had pulled up Popery by the Roots yet one of the Company most maliciously replyed thereunto That the Arch-Bishop might print and the Doctor might preach what they pleased against Popery but that he should never think them or either of them to be the less Papists for all that A Censure of so strange a nature saith the Doctor himself that he believed it is not easie to be parallel'd in the worst of times But what need is there of producing Sermons or other Testimonies in his behalf when his general Conversation more severe than ordinary fully attested that as he was a strict Observer of all the Rites and Orders of the Church of England so a perfect Abhorrer of Popery and Roman Superstitions that he would not so much as hold correspondency with a Papist or with one so reputed as I can instance an Example of one Mr. Hood whose Family and the Doctors were very kind when he lived at Minster being near Neighbours but the Gentleman afterward changing his Religion and turning Papist came to Abington to give him a Visit in his new House the Doctor sent his Man Mr. Gervis who was his Amanueâ—… to bid the Gentleman be gone and â—…t the Doors of him saying that he heard he was turn'd Papist for which he hated the sight of him and so my Gentleman went away never daring to give him another Visit. In which he followed the Example of his Lords Grace of Canterbury that when Con was sent hither by the Pope to be assistant to the Queen in her Religion the wise Bishop kept himself at such a distance with him that neither Con nor Panzani before him who acted for a time in the same capacity could fasten any acquaintance on him nay he neglected all intercessions in that Case and did shun as it were the Plague the company and familiarity of Con. THEOLOGO-HISTORICVS Or the True Life Death OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Written by his Son in Law John Barnard D. D. Part. II. BEATI MORTUI qui in Domino Moriuntur Apoc. Cap. 14. v. 13. LONDON Printed 1683. THE TRUE LIFE and DEATH OF THE Most Reverend and Learned DIVINE Dr. PETER HEYLYN Part. II. LIKE a true Christian and obedient Son of the Church the good Doctor did patiently undergo all the persecutions reproaches and clamorous speeches both of Papists and Puritans not regarding what the height of their malice could speak or their virulent Pens could write against him because he was able to defend himself But that which drew all the odium and inveterate malice upon him from the several Factions then prevalent was his Loyalty Learning and Conscieuce that he constantly asserted the Kings Prerogative the Churches Rights not infringing the Peoples priviledges in the defence of which he was continually employed untill his Majesties most happy Restauration which was the longed hope and earnest desire of this poor distracted Nation Quia non aliud patriae discordantis remedium fuisse quam ut ab uno regeretur As the Historian said which cannot be Englished better than in the words of his Majesties late gracious declaration That Religion Liberty and property were all lost and gone when the Monarchy was shaken of and could never be reviv'd till that was restored Therefore the Peoples Representative in Parliament induced by necessity as well as duty did unanimously vote like the Elders of Judah to bring home their Lord the King to his native Kingdom of whose wish'd return we did then all sing as the Poet of Augustus Custos Gentis abes iam nimium Diu Maturum reditum pollicitus Patrum Sancto Concilio Luâ—…m redde lux Dux bone Patriae Instar veris enim vultus ubi tuus Affulsit populo gratior it dies Et Soles melius nitent That is to say Most Soveraign Guardian of this Nation Thy absence all lament Return to joy the expectation Of thy whole Parliament Good Prince the Glory of our Land Shine with thy Beams of Majesty Thy countenance like the Spring at hand Cheers up thy People merrily Our days now more delightfully are spent The Sun looks brighter in the Firmament And now the Sun shone more gloriously in our Hemisphere then ever the Tyrannical powers being dissolved as the historian said Non Cynnae non Syllae dominatio Pompei Crassique potentia in Caesarem The Kingdom ruled by its own natural Prince and only lawful Soveraign the Church restored to her ancient Rights and true Religion established among us every man sitting under his own Vine with joy who had been a good Subject and a Sufferer the Doctor was restored to all his former preferments of which he had been deprived for Seventeen years After his re-entrance into his Preâ—…dary of Westminster he had the Hoâ—…r to attend his Sacred Majesty at the â—…e of his Coronation in the Soâ—…y of which according to his office and place as Subdean of the Church he presented upon his knees the Royal Scepter unto his Majesty in whose exile