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A36875	The glory of Chelsey Colledge revived by John Darley.	Darley, John, 1622?-1699.	1662 (1662)	Wing D259; ESTC R24871	34,540	59

in Contributing towards the Erection and Donation of Chelsey College We have thought it very fit together with his Majesties Letters seconded by my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury to declare the Reasons that caused this work to be undertaken and to adde such Motives as we have supposed may be most effectual to give satisfaction to his Majesties desire and perfection to this Honourable Design First It was considered That the Popes Agents travelled Sea and Land wrote Books in favour of their Faction devised Lyes and Slanders to bring Religion and Professors thereof into hatred and not sparing any standing in their way by falshood and Treachery oppugned Kings and Princes that could not endure the Popes Tyrannical Government and to this end men of ready Wits good Speech long Experience and competent Learning have been maintained in Colleges furnished with Books holpen with Counsell and Direction bound with Laws and Oaths to uphold the Papal Hierarchie and Heresie and which moveth most with most men encouraged with great Promises and large Rewards Whereunto albeit private men piously affected have from time to time opposed themselves yet because they wanted incouragement to undertake so great a labour Counsels of the Ancients to direct them Books and Libraries to instruct them Forms of proceedings to keep them in compass and Rewards to maintain them those excepted that are due for Ecclesiastical Cures it was further advised That to make a sufficient defence for the Truth of Religion and Honour of the State and a strong and continued opposition against the continued Lyes Slanders Errors Heresies Sects Idolatries Blasphemies of our Adversaries that it was necessary to unite our forces and to appoint special men that without other distraction might attend the Cause of Religion and of the State being furnished with Directions Instructions Counsels Books Presses competent Maintenance and other necessaries This then was the reason why this College by his Majesty and the State was first designed and a Corporation granted with large Privileges viz. That a select number of Divines and others should be gathered together into one body and united with one form of Laws and there maintained who being furnished with Books and directed by men of experience and action might alwaies be ready to maintain our Christian Faith to answer the Adversaries Calumniations as wel against Religion as the State to defend the Majesty of Kings and Princes against the Vsurpation of Popes the Liberty of Christians against the yoke of Superstition to supply the defect of Teaching where Appropriations have devoured Ministry by Teaching and Conference to convince the obstinate Papist and Atheist and by all means to maintain Truth and discover Falshood This is the College commended to his Majesty and intended by the State and easie to be perfected if it please all true Christians to further it with their help and favour according to some proportion of their means His Majesties Letters directed to my Lord of Canterbury follow in these words Right trusty and welbeloved Counsellor We greet you well Whereas the Enemies of the Gospel have been forward to write and publish Books for confirming of Erroneous Doctrine and impugning the Truth and now of late seem more carefull then before to send daily into Our Realms such their Writings whereby Our loving Subjects though otherwise wel-disposed may be seduced unless some remedie thereof should be provided We by the advice of Our Councel have lately granted a Corporation and given Our allowance for erecting a College at Chelsey for learned Divines to be imployed to write as occasion shall require for maintaining the Religion professed in Our Kingdoms and confuting the oppugners thereof Whereupon Dr Sutcliffe designed Provost of the said College hath now humbly signified unto Vs that upon divers promises of help and assistance towards the erecting and indowing the said College he hath at his own Charge begun and well preceeded in the building as doth sufficiently appear by a good part thereof already set up in the place appointed for the same We therefore being willing to favour and further such a Work will and require you to write your Letters to the Bishops of your Province signifying unto them in Our Name that Our Pleasure is they deal with the Clergy and others of their Diocese to give their charitable Benevolence for the perfecting of this good work so well begun And for the better performance of Our desire We have given order to the said Provost and his Associates to attend you and others unto whom it may appertain and to certifie Vs from time to time of their Proceeding Thetford the 5th of May 1616. These Letters the Lord of Canterbury Archbishop sendeth abroad to the Bishops of his Province and secondeth them in these terms Now because it is so Religious and Pious a work conducing both to God's Glory and the saving of many Souls within this Kingdome I cannot but wish that all devout and well-affected persons should by your self and the Preachers in your Diocese as well publickly as otherwise be excited to contribute in some measure to so holy an intendment now well begun And although these and the like motions have been frequent in these latter times yet let not those whom God hath blessed with any wealth be weary of well-doing that it may not be said that the Idolatrous and Superstitious Papists be more forward to advance their Falshood then we are to maintain God's Truth Whatsoever is collected I pray your Lordship may be carefully brought in to me partly that it pass not through any defrauding hand partly that His Majesty may be acquainted with what is done in this behalfe Your Lordships very loving Brother G. Canterb. The like Letters are written to my Lord Chancellor and my Lord Maior of London So that by this that has been said it must manifestly appear that Chelsey College has not only King James his Majesties and his first full Parliament's and Convocation's the intire representative body with the Head of Church and State but that of the prime Powers and Prudencies of both of them the Archbishops the Chancellour and the Lord Maior of London the acclamation of their Energetical Prudence and Zeale By these Letters it may appear that this College is not an idle Project merely of any private man but a most Pious Work projected or rather approved and applauded by the King and State for Dr Sutcliffe must have the eternal Honour in that his most pious and sedulous wisdome moved the first stone as from God about it and that all that profess Religion and desire the continuance and advancement thereof yea all that honour his Majesty and wish the prosperity of the State and desire the increase of Learning have Interest therein and I hope shall receive comfort content and good satisfaction by the same if they put their hands and hearts unto it Being then such a work of Piety for the maintenance of true Religion who can be accounted truly Pious and

Chaos of Libertinisme Licentiousness c. But yet if Chelsey College find favour I hope that Rome's word of hope for all their insulting may never be found to be verified upon us I will set and men shall see it the Egyptians against the Egyptians that is say they the Protestants against the Protestants the Lutherans against the Calvinists as Bishop Morton reports it and Breerly has seemed to have done it as Bishop Morton I say in his Catholick Appeale to Breerly the Priest in his Protestants Plea But if we may not be so happy to see such a sure established Preservation of holy Truth and Peace Zach. 8. 16 19. as our Palladium or holy Arke which will keep us safe unto Salvation so long as we keep it it will be requisite yet that order be taken that none may be allowed to enter into the lists to maintain the Combat with Heretical seducers but those who upon egregious experiment are approved Champions For certainly there cannot be a greater advantage to prevalency of Error then a weak oppugnation I remember St Austine professes in his Manicheism this was it that heartned him that he met with feeble Opponents and such as his nimble wit was able easily to overturn When therefore any overbold Champion shall step forth and cast down his Gauntlet in defiance of Truth it is fit that he be incountred with an Assailant that hath brawn in his Arms and marrow in his bones and holy spirit in his head and heart not with some weak and wearyish Combatant whose heart may be as his hand is feeble and so may rather betray the better Cause with an imprudent and impotent managing Now this strong plea for Chelsey College thus far having so much Sanctuary-weight in it and witness for it I need not adde any graine more to it for it will hold certainly currant in the ballance of sanctified Judgment so that it will be vanity to draw a line after Protogenes But yet further for the establishing your Judgments and the attracting of your Affections in the third place for A threefold cord is not easily broken and Vnder the mouth of three witnesses shall every word be established 2 Cor. 13. 1. let me produce the venerable Relation and Judgement of one who may be well called a Chrysostome and so be joyned with a Bishop that is Dr Thomas Fuller out of his Church-History This College was intended saith he for a spiritual Garison of Stationary Church-Champions with a Magazine of books to that purpose as a well-furnished Armory where learned Divines should study and write in maintenance of all Controversies against the Papists the grand Wolves and also against the subserving Heresies of the little Foxes Indeed the Romanists in this may rise up and condemn those of the Protestant Profession for as Solomon used not his Military men for any servile work in building the Temple whereof the text assigneth the reason For they were men of war so the Romish Church does not burden their Professors with Preaching or any Parochial incumbrances but reserves them only for Polemical exercises and studies whereas in England the same man Reads Preaches Catechises Disputes delivers Sacraments c. so that were it not for God's marvellous blessings on our studies and the infinite odds of truth on our side it were in humane probability impossible that we should hold up the bucklers against them And further this College was further intended to be Acted with 20 choicer School-divines and to have amongst them two able and prudent Historians to be maintained in this College faithfully and learnedly to record and publish all memorable passages in Church and Commonwealth And further this College or Corporation was to consist of such a competent and steady number of Divines as I said before at least 20. And let us hear Dr Fuller's going on still to furnish us with the first List of first Heroes who engaged themselves to be on the Frontiers our Scipioes Fulminae belli 1. Matthew Sutcliffe Deane of Exceter Provost and Promoter of this College a man worthy to be Captain because a Champion whose skill as well as zeal whose Art as well as heart adorned him with Prudence as well as spirit 2. John Overall Deane of Pauls 3. Thomas Morton Deane of Winchester 4. Richard Field Deane of Gloucester 5. Robert Abbott 6. John Spencer 7. Miles Smith 8. William Covett 9. John Howson 10. John Layfield 11. Benjamin Carrier 12. Martin Fotherby 13. John Boys 14. Richard Brett 15. Peter Lilly 16. Francis Burley Doctors of Divinity 17. William Hellier Archdeacon of Barnstable 18. John White Fellow of Manchester College 19. William Cambden Clarenceaux 20. John Haywood Doctor of Law Historians Loe here saith Dr Fuller none who were actual Bishops were capable of places in this College and when some of these were advanced to Bishopricks as Deane Morton and Doctor Abbott and others translated to heaven King James by his new Letters patents 1622. November 2 substituted others in their places And yet since such Rapine and Sacrilegious sale of Bishops Revenues has of late been made so as that they are rather Titular then Real Bishops this College if Bishops in true Christian high magnanimity will submit their necks to this yoak of Christ and what can be more honourable may best fit and be ordained for such a Patriarchy of Bishops as a Jericho till their beards be grown and their garments be repaired For Jericho was not only the City of Palm-trees but the City and the great School yea the College of and for Prophets whereof the two great Prophets that were in their time called the Chariots and horse men of Israel were the heads having younger Prophets under them 2 Kings 4. 38. O that by their superintending in this School they might shew against Baal's Prophets the spirit of Eliah and Elisha doubled upon them In which College of Iericho Elisha succeeded Eliah as Father of the sonnes of the Prophets healing both their City fountain and their College common Pot of infected pottage and multiplying the loaves of barley So these Prophets are fittest to heal the Pot of Protestants which is so poisoned with the Coloquintida of the Popish wild gourds of Traditions Falshoods and corrupting of Scriptures that there may be no more evil in them 2 Kings 4. 41. Now to these for the building of their College and their Mansion as Dr Fuller saith K. James gave all the Timber requisite thereunto which was to be fetched out of Windsor Forrest And that long range which alone is extant scarce finished at this day yet thus the College made not of free-stone but of free timber cost O the dearness of College and Church work full three thousand pounds But alas what is this piece not an eighth part to a double Quadrant besides wings on each side as it was intended If the Ancient Fathers which remembred the magnificence of Solomon's wept at the meanness of the second Temple such must needs