passenger is said to have poured into his wounds both Oil and Wine i. e. Oil to cherish and refresh it and Wine to cleanse it Oleum quo foveatur vinum quo mordeatur He had not been a skilfuâ— Chirurgeon if he had done otherwise And the Doctor being to contend with so many and malicious Adversaries had been a very unwary writer had he made no distinction but accosted them all after one and the same manner The grand Exemplar of Sweetness Candor and Ingenuity used the severest invectives against the hypocritical Scribes and Pharisees Certainly one Plaister is not medicinal to all kind of sores some of which may be cured with Balm when others more corrupt aud putrified do require a Lancing And thus did this Reverend man deal with the enemies of the King and Church insomuch that he received thanks from the Ministers of Surrey and Bucks in the name of themselves and that party for his fair and respectful language to them both in his Preface to his History of the Sabbath and conclusion of the same To conclude unless good words may receive pollution by confuting bad principles and describing bad things nothing of any rude or uncharitable language can be found in any of the Writings of Dr. Heylyn But as all men have not abilities to write Books so neither to pass sentence on them when written And yet whatever hard censures the Doctors Books have met with in the world I am persuaded his most inveterate enemies who will have but so much patience as to peruse impartially this Account given of his Life will believe that one who had acted written and suffered so much in the defence of the King and Church might have met with some Rewards or Respects in some measure suitable to his merits But God Almighty and wise Providence had otherwise ordered the Event of things purposing no doubt that this excellent person who had for the greatest part of his pilgrimage encountred with the spite and threatnings oppositions and persecutions of those who had subverted Monarchy in the State and Order and Decency in the Church should notwithstanding the Kings Restauration have administred to him another Trial of his passive Fortitude and that was to wrestle with the neglects and ingratitude of his Friends Indeed some Right Reverend Fathers in the Church amongst whom Bishop Cousins ought not to be passed over in silence protested not their wonder only but their grief that so great a Friend and Sufferer for the Royal Family and Church should like the wounded men in the Gospel be passed by both by Priest and Levite and have no recompence for his past Services besides the pleasure of reflecting on them But the States-men of those days rank'd the Doctor with the Milites emeriti the old Cavaliers of whose Principles there could be no fear and of whose Services there could be no more need But notwithstanding all the frowns of Fortune yet he could say his Nunc Dimittis with more sensible joy and chearfulness than he was able to do for many of the precedent years having the satisfaction to live I cannot say to see till the King was restored to his Throne and the Church to its Immunities and Rights Yea let them take all forasmuch as my Lord the King is come again in peace unto his own House The Doctor had nothing given him but what neither Law nor Justice could detain from him and that was the former Preferments that he had in the Church from the profits and possession of which he had been kept above seventeen years And with those he contentedly acquiesced and not unlike some of the old famous Romans after they had done all the Services they could for their Country returned home to their poor Wives and little Farms yoking again their Oxen for the Plough when they had fettered their enemies in Chains Above all this excellent Scholar enjoyed the inward peace and tranquillity of his own mind in that he fought a good fight kept the Faith finished his course discharged his Duty and Trust and had been counted worthy to suffer the loss of all things except his Conscience for the best of Princes and the most righteous of Causes in the world And I pray God grant that an old observation which I have somewhere met withal may not be verified either as to the concerns of Dr. Heylyn or any of the old Royallists viz. It is an ill sign of prosperity to any Kingdom where such as deserve well find no other recompence than the peace of their own Consciences But alas all these unkindnesses and neglects were trivial to the irreparable loss of his eye-sight of which he found a sensible and gradual decay for many years and therefore was the better enabled to endure it But about the year 1654. tenebrescunt videntes per foramina those that looked out of the windows were darkened and he was constrained to make use of other mens eyes but not in the sense as great persons do to guide him in the Motions of his Body tho not in the Contemplations of his Mind Like good old Iacob his eyes were dim and he could not see but there was this difference between them that the Patriarchs eyes were grown dim by reason of Age but Dr. Heylyns were darken'd with Study and Industry As the whole frame of his Body was uniform comely and upright his Stature of a middle size and proportion so his Eye naturally was strong sparkling and vivacious and as likely to continue useful and serviceable to its Owner as any mans whatsoever But by constant and indefatigable Study which for many years he took in the night being hurried up and down with a successive crowd of Business in the day either the Crystalline humor was dried up or the optick Nerves became perforated and obstructed by which means the Visive Spirits were stop'd and an imperfect kind of Cataract was fixed in his eyes which neither by inward Medicines nor outward Remedies could ever be brought to that maturity and consistence as to be fit for cutting Detestabilis est caecitas si nâ—mo oculos perdiderit nisi cui eruendi snnt No punishment would be more dreadful than blindness if none lost their eyes but those that had them pulled out by tortures and burning basons But this Sors Letho dirior omni this heavy affliction was by God laid upon Dr. Heylyn to exercise his Faith to quicken Devotion to try his Patience and to prepare him for his merciful Rewards Animo multis modis variisque delectari licet etiamsi non adhibeatur Aspectus Loquor autem de docto homine erudito cui vivere est cogitare Sapientis autem cogitatio non fermè ad investigandum adhibet oculos advocatos etenim si nox non adimit vitam beatam cur dies nocti similis adimat A man may recreate himself various ways altho his sight fail if he be knowing and learned For a wise man will entertain himself
execution there being intended an English Pontifical which was to contain the Form and Manner of the Coronation of King Charles I. and to serve as a standing Rule to succeeding Ages on the like occasions Another Form to be observed by all Archbishops and Bishops for consecrating Churches Church-yards and Chappels And a third for reconciling such Penitents as either had done open Pennance or had revolted from the Faith of Christ to the Law of Mahomet Which three together with the Form of Confirmation and that of ordering Bishops Priests and Deacons which were then in force were to make up the whole Body of the Book intended But the troubles of the times increasing it was thought expedient to defer the prosecution of it till a fitter conjuncture And yet notwithstanding all the storms that were then rising this excellent person went through the Book of Articles the compiling of which gave no obstruction to him from attending the service of the Committee upon all occasions And for the better Authorizing of the Articles he placed before every one of them in the Margin the Canon Rubrick Law Injunction or other Authentick Evidence upon which they were grounded Which being finished were by him openly read in the House and by the House approved and passed without any alteration only that exegatical or explanatory clause in the fourth Article of the fourth Chapter touching the reading of the Communion-Service at the Lords Table was desired by some to be omitted which was done accordingly Finally it was Dr. Heylyn who proposed a Canon for enjoyning the said Book to be only used in Parochial Visitations for the better settling of Uniformity in the outward Government and Administration of the Church and for preventing of such just Grievances as might be laid upon the Church-Wardens and other sworn men by any impertinent inconvenient or illegal Enquiries in the Articles for Ecclesiastical Visitations Neither were these the only Fruits of his labours and travels in this business there being six Subsidies granted to the King and the Bishops and Clergy in Convocation upon the 20th of May received his Majesties Letters Sealed with his Royal Signet and attested by his Sign Manual which required and authorized them to proceed in making Synodical Constitutions for levying of those Subsidies which had been before granted And this was easily done there being nothing to be altered but the changing of the name of Subsidy into that of Benevolence Friday May 29. the Canons were formally subscribed unto by the Bishops and Clergy no one dissenting except the Bishop of Glocester who died in the Communion of the Roman Church and was all that part of his life in which he revolted from the Church of England a dear Favourite and Servant of Oliver Cromwel unto whom he dedicated some of his Books for which he was voted worthy of Suspension by the Convocation and was accordingly Suspended by the Archbishop of Canterbury Which being done the Convocation was dissolved Proceed we now from the Active to the more Passive part of Dr. Heyly's life For the Long Parliament the Churches as well as the Kings Scourge began to sit at Westminster and a general Rumor was spread both in City and Country that our Doctor being conscious to himself of many Crimes durst not stand the brunt of their displeasure and therefore had made use of his heels as his best weapons of defence being run away out of a fear and foresight of an approaching storm When these rumors were raised he was at his Parsonage of Alresford from whence he hastened with all conveniâ—nt speed confuting the Calumny by shewing himself the very next day after his coming to London in his Gown and Tippet in Westminster-Hall And upon a Vote passed in the House of Lords that no Bishop should be of the Committee for the Preparatory Examinations in the Cause of the Earl of Strafford under colour that they were excluded from acting in it by some antient Canons as in cause of Blood our learned Divine did thereupon draw up a brief Discourse entituled De jure Paritatis Episcoporum now inserted in the Re-printed Volume of his Works which he presented unto many of the Bishops to assert all their Rights of Peerage and this of being of that Committee among the rest which either by Law or antient custom did belong unto them The Parliament began their Session Novemb. 3. 1640. and upon the 9th of December following upon the Complaint of Mr. Pryn our Doctor was called before the Committee of the Courts of Justice who accosted him with that fierce fury that no one could have withstood the Torrent but one whose Soul was fortified with Innocence equal to his Courage The Crime objected against him was that he had been a subservient Instrument under the Archbishop of Canterbury all the sufferings of Mr. Pryn having read the Histriomastix out of which he had furnished the Lords of the Council and many other persons with matter to proceed against its Author But our Doctor made a bold and just Defence for himself telling his Accusers That the Task was imposed upon him by Royal Authority which he would readily prove if they would have so much patience as to allow him time for that purpose Great hopes they had to squeeze something out of him concerning his being engaged in it by the Archbishop but he was too wary to be ensnared by any of their Artifices and being faithful to his Friend and Patron was kept four days under Examination suffering for the two first the brutish Rage of the People more perhaps than St. Paul did at Ephesus for that blessed man did not adventure himself amongst those Savages But our poor Doctor was tossed up and down by the fury of an ungovern'd multitude and railed at as he passed through them by their leud and ungoverned tongues But God who sets bounds to the Waves of the proud Ocean rebuked their rage and rescued him from their malice But alas what civility can be expected from the ill-bred Rabble unto Clergy-men when they themselves like the Eagle in the Greek Apologue wound one another with Arrows feathered with their own Plumes For four days after he had received order to appear before the Committee he preach'd his turn in the Abbey at Westminster and in the midst of his Sermon was insufferably affronted by the Bishop of Lincoln who knocking the Pulpit with his Staff cried out aloud No more of that Point No more of that Point Peter This happened to the poor man in very ill circumstances for it occasioned new clamours and animated his enemies to proceed on with greater violence against him But notwithstanding all their united malice he held out bravely sending the whole passage of his Sermon as he designed to Preach it both to his Friends at Court and Enemies in Parliament and taking Sir Robert Filmore with some other Gentlemen that were his Auditors out of the Church along with him to his House where he immediately sealed
Sermon had as kindly an effect upon the Committee as his Visit had upon the Bishop For he found those fierce Gentlemen after the perusal of his Notes much more favourable and respective than before They demanded a Copy of the Charge which he drew up against Mr. Pryn which being delivered Mr. Pryn accused him of Libelling and Preaching against him for proof of which he produced in Court some of the Doctor 's Books urging many passages out of them but all concluded nothing That which was at last most insisted on was a Sermon Preach'd some years before Mr. Pryn's Censure in the Star-Chamber before his Majesty but the sense of his past dangers before the Committee was in some measure recompenc'd by this days mirth and jollity For Mr. Pryn resolving effectually to damnifie the Doctor produced a company of Butchers to bring in Evidence against him about a Sermon formerly Preach'd by him And after the Testimony of these great Criticks had been mannag'd to the best advantage of Raillery and Mirth the Criminal was favourably dismissed and never more called before them 'T is true many attempts were made to create him new Disturbances some being employed to make a severe inquisition into his Life and Manners which they found too spotless for their spleen and malice Others engaged his Neighbours at Alresford to draw up Articles against him which was accordingly done by two of them and few others of the most inconsiderable Inhabitants who were prevailed on to make their Marks for Write they could not by telling them it was a business in which the Town were very much concerned But when the Articles were produced before the Committee they appeared so foolish and frivolous as not to be deemed worthy of consideration and upon that were returned to be amended upon a Melius Inquirendum and this being done in a more correct and enlarg'd Edition they were again return'd to the Committee and a set day was appointed for a Hearing And that being come the Complaint was put off sine die and a Copy of the Articles delivered to the person accused together with those newly put in against him by Mr. Pryn collected out of his Printed Books But the poor Doctor being quite tir'd with Business and Attendance obtained leave of the Chair-man to retire into the Country who freely promised to send a private Messenger to him if there were any occasion for his return Upon which he removed his Study to Alresford setting his House for no more than 3 l. a year with a purpose never more to come back to Westminster whilst those two incomparable Friends remained in it viz. the House of Commons and Bishop of Lincoln At his coming to Alresford the people were amazed to see him having been persuaded that they should never more fix eye on him unless they took a journey to a Goal or a Gallows About this time it was that Doctor Hacwel taking advantage of the innumerable troubles and enemies of this learned man publish'd a book against him concerning the Sacrifice of the Eucharist It was not without some difficulty that he obtained one of them to be sent to him in the Country where he wrote a speedy Answer to it But Dr. Hackwel's Friends thought fit to call in the Book so soon as it first came into light and then our Doctor was easily persuaded to suppress his Answer diverting his Studies to more pleasing and no less necessary subjects viz. The History of Episcopacy and the History of Liturgies The first was Printed presently after it was written and Presented to the King by Mr. Secretary Nicholas and Published under the name of Theophilus Churchman but the other although sent to London and received by the Bookseller was not Printed till some years after For now there was more employment found out for the Sword than the Pen the noise of Bellona and Mars silencing the Laws of God and Men and Christians conceiving it their duty rathâ—r to spill the Blood of their Country-men for Religion than to part with one drop out of their own veins and to plunder the Goods of their Neighbours than to endure the spoiling of their own Sir Will. Waller sent eighty of his Soldiers to be quartered at the Doctors house with full Commission to strip him naked of all he had But his fair and affable carriage towards them did so mollifie the Austerity of their natures that they quite dismissed all thoughts of violence and revenge So were Esau's bloody resolutions quite converted into kindness and respect by the humble deportment as well as noble presents that were made to him by his Brother Iacob But notwithstanding the Diversion of this storm the Reverend man was early the next morning brought before Sir William by his Provost-Marshal by whom he was told that he had received Commands from the Parliament to seize upon him and send him Prisoner unto Portsmouth The Doctor had the like privilege with St. Paul being permitted to plead for himself and by his powerful reasoning did so far prevail upon the General as to be dismissed back to his house in safety But prudently fore-seeing that this would only be a Reprieve till a further mischief within a few days he left Hampshire and went to Oxon where he no sooner arrived but he received his Majesties Commands by the Clerk of his Closet to address himself to Mr. Secretary Nicholas from whom he was to take directions for some special and important Service which was at last signified to Dr. Heylyn under the Kings own hand viz. to write the Weekly Occurrences which befel his Majesties Government and Armies in the unnatural War that was raised against him The Reverend Man was hugely unwilling to undertake the employment conceiving it not only somewhat disagreeable to the Dignity and Profession that he had in the Church and directly thwarting his former Studies and Contemplations but that by a faithful discharge of his Duty in that Service he should expose both his Family and himself to the implacable malice of those persons whose very mercies were Cruelty and Blood But no Arguments or Intercessions could prevail to have him excused from that Employment at least for some time till he had made it facile by his own diligence and example Neither were dangers or difficulties of any moment with him when the Service of his Prince and Master required his Labours and Assistance Discere à peritis sequi optimos nihil appetere ob jactationem nihil ob formidinem recusare simulque anxius intentus agere is a Character as truly applicable to Dr. Heylyn as to the brave Roman of whom it was first written For he desired no employment out of vain-glory and refused none out of fear but equally was careful and intent in whatever he undertook and at that time too when he was denied the poor Deanery of Chichester for which his Majesty was earnestly importuned in his behalf by Mr. Secretary Nicholas The Weekly Occurrences that were
the Country and more ease to the Clergy He proved That the changing of Tithes into Stipends would bring greater trouble to the Clergy than is yet considered and far less profit to the Country than was then pretended So zealous was this excellent person not only for his Friends and Fellow-sufferers viz. the poor oppressed and ejected Clergy but for his very enemies the Intruders that had Preach'd the King out of his Life and himself and Brethren out of all their Livelihoods and Preferments And at that time too his zeal appeared when he was by a small temporal Estate incapacitated to receive the least benefit by any Act of Mercy that could accrue to him by his labours in that particular Nay had the project of removing Hirelings out of the Church as it was then phrased taken effect Doctor Heylyn's Estate would have received considerable improvements and advantages For which he was fain to compound with the Committee-men in Goldsmiths-Hall in the year 1645. But he has left no memorial of what he paid to those insatiable Leeches and Oppressors However he sped well as the case stood with him For being as was before observed voted a Delinquent the Parliament marked him out for an Oblation resolving that whenever they could get Heylyn into their snares who had been an instrument of so much mischief to them his Blood should appease their Fury and expiate his own Guilts But being at the Siege at Oxon he shared with the Royallists in the common benefit of those Articles that were made at the surrender of that City and by that means saved his Life as well as his Estate Anno Dom. 1648. he settled himself and Family at Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire And although he had lost his Library which for choiceness of Authors was inferior to few Clergy-mens in England and therefore might well be deemed unfit to write Books for others when he was robb'd of his own yet he would not permit his own private Oeconomicks to swallow up his precious minutes but endeavoured to benefit his Country and to divert his mind from the sad complexion of the times by enlarging his Geography into a Cosmography which as it now remains perfected by him may be truly averr'd to be a Repository of as much useful and delightful Learning as any published either in that present or in preceding Ages It is true many material Errors were justly charged upon it when it was a Geography but his own Apology is more powerful than any can be made in his behalf for being writ in an Age on which the pride of Youth and Self-opinion might have some predominancies I thought it freer from mistakes than since I have found it and those mistakes by running through eight Editions six of them without my perusal or supervising so increased and multiplied that I could no longer call it mine or look upon it with any tolerable degree of patience If it be said that as 't is now completed by him he has as well run into new Errors as corrected the old ones it may be so too For those humane Abilities are yet to be named that were in all things governed by an infallible Spirit And no man that is not so guided can plead the privilege of not being liable to mistakes But his own words are the most satisfactory answer to this objection I must have been a greater Traveller than either the Greek Vlysses or the English Mandeville all Purchase his Pilgrims many of our late Iesuites and Tom Coriot into the bargain if in describing of the whole world with all the Kingdoms Provinces Seas and Isles thereof I had not relied more on the Credit of others than any knowledg of my own But if any Gentleman Merchant or other Traveller shall please to let me understand in what those Authors which I trusted have misinformed me let it be done in jest or earnest in love or anger in a fair manner or a foul with respect or dis-respect unto me in what way soever I shall most thankfully receive the Instructions from him and give him the honour of the Reformation when that Book shall come out in another Edition I will neither kick against those who rub upon such sores as I have about me nor fling dirt on them who shall take the pains to bestow a brushing on my Coat I was trained up when I was a Child to kiss the Rod and I can do it I thank God now I am a man Cur nescire pudens pravae quam discere mallem Rather to be ashamed of mistaking in any thing I have written than to learn of any body what I was to write was taken by me both for a Rule and a Resolution in the first putting out of my Geography and I shall be at the very same pass to the very last In the year 1653. he removed to Lacies-Court in Abingdon For being robb'd of his choicest Companions his Books he resolved to fix himself as near as possibly he could to Oxford loss of time together with the charge and trouble of a Journey rendring his Visits less frequent to the Bedleian Library than would well comport with his condition For although he was a Living Library a Locomotive Study a Scribe fully instructed in the Kingdom of God a Housholder that could bring out of his Treasury things both new and old yet for all that he resolved to continue a laborious Searcher after Wisdom and gave his Flesh no rest that he might entertain his mind with the noblest Contemplations neither would he fix his thoughts upon notional and useless Speculations but whenever he could by any kind of labour either of Body or Brain be really serviceable to the just Interests of his Prince or Church he refused no pains or expences but would undergo to others the most unsupportable burthens to restifie his zealous affection unto both One instance of which is evident in what he contributed to Saint Nicholas Church in Abingdon the utter demolishing of which was resolved on by the Sacrilegious Schismaticks of those times The then Vsurping Powers had by the severest Edicts solemnly interdicted the Regular Clergy the discharge of their publick Ministry in the sacred Offices of Religion Nay they were forbid the teaching and instructing of Youth in all private houses though they wanted the necessaries of Humane Life for themselves and Families In which sad prospect of Affairs our Divine built a private Oratory where he had frequency of Synaxes the Liturgy of the Church being daily read by him and the Holy Eucharist administred as often as opportunity gave leave many devout and well-affected persons after the manner of the Primitive Christians when they lived under Heathen persecutions resorting to his little Chappel that there they might wrestle with the Almighty for his blessing upon themselves and upon a divided infatuated people But in a few years the rage of the Higher Powers abating the Liturgy of the Church began in some places to be
publickly read and Mr. Huish then Minister in Abingdon had a numerous Auditory of Loyal persons who frequented publick Prayers at St. Nicholas which became so greatly offensive to the Factious party that they laboured all they could to have the Church raz'd to its very Foundations But notwithstanding the Authority which then ruled God rendred the endeavours of Dr. Heylyn and some other Royallists successful in the preâ—ervation of his own house And because Mr. Huish either out of a principle of prudence or fear had for some time whilst those contests continued desisted from performing the sacred Offices of Religion therefore our Doctor to animate him unto the performance of his Duty sent him the following Letter after his return from London where he had been soliciting in the common Cause of the Church which was to have been laid even with the ground SIR We are much beholden to you for your chearful condescending unto our desires so for as to the Lords-days Service which though it be Opus Diei in Die suo yet we cannot think our selves to be fully masters of our requests till you have yielded to bestow your pains on the other days also We hope in reasonable time to alter the condition of Mr. Blackwel's pious Gift that without hazzarding the loss of his Donation which would be an irrecoverable blow unto this poor Parish you may sue out your Quâ—etus est from that daily Attendance unless you find some further motives and inducements to persuade you to it yet so to alter it that there shall be no greater wrong done to his Intentions than to most part of he Founders of 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 those changes which befal the Church or else be alienated and estranged to other purposes I know it must 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 and minus all Logicians say do not change the Species of things that Quantities of themselves are of little efficacy 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 bestow our pains where he vouchsafes his presence or think our labour ill bestowed if some few only do partake of the present benefit And yet no doubt the benefit extends to more than the parties present For you 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 Prayers 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 400 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 Representative of the whole and for their sakes extend his Grace and Blessings unto all the rest that he who would have saved that sinful City of Sodom had he found 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 Atonement 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 or indevotion of the people in repairing to it But you will say There is a Lion 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 edg and was managed with as strong a malice as any Ordinance of later 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 Antonie 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 the Lion 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 Orthodox 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 a case much like that it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to indulge too much to apprehensions of this nature in matters which relate to Gods publick Service All I shall add is briefly this 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 so 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 Iesus Peter Heylyn Upon the receipt and reading of this Letter Mr. Huish betook himself to his wonted duty reading the Churches Prayers with that frequency gravity and devotion as became a man of his Reverence and Profession And the daily visits which were paid by our Doctor to the place of Gods publick Worship the better enabled him as well to undergo the severity of Study as to contend with the hardships of Fortune And amongst the products of his Studies the Theologia Veterum or Exposition of the Apostles Creed does first merit our Commendations Indeed many other Books were written by him when the King and Church were in their low and calamitous condition some of which were Historical relating to matters of Fact some Political relating to the power of Princes and various Forms of Government and lastly others Theological and those either Didactical tending to the settling and informing of mens understandings or Practical that conduced to the amending of their manners or Polemical that vindicated the Truths of God
and Unity of his Church against the Errors Schisms and Persecutions of its Enemies whether Papists Socinians or Disciplinarians His Book upon the Creed is a mixture of all these excellent Ingredients insomuch that whoever would be acquainted with the Sence of the Greek and Latine Fathers upon the Twelve Articles of our Faith as also with Positive Polemical and Philological Theology he will not find either his labour lost or his time mispended if he peruse what our learned Doctor has writ upon that Subject But neither Learning or Innocency are a sufficient safe-guard against the assaults of mischievous and malicious men many of whom combined together to render Dr. Heylyn as infamous in his Name as they had before made him improsperous in his Estate And to that purpose they used their utmost endeavours to have one of his Books burned called Respondet Petrus by an Order from Olivers Council-Table For Dr. N. Bernard Preacher of Grays-Inn putting out a Book entituled The Iudgment of the Lord Primate of Ireland c. our Reverend Doctor being therein accused for violating his Subscription and running cross to the publick Doctrine of the Church or England as also being taxed with Sophistry Shamelesness and some other things which he could not well endure either from the Dead or the Living he returned an Answer to it against which Articles were presently formed and presented to the then Council-Table and the common Rumor went that the Book was publickly burnt A fame as the Doctor says that had little truth in it though more colour for it than many other charges which had been laid upon him He was in London when he received the first notice of it and though he was persuaded by his friends to neglect the matter as that which would redound to his honour and knew very well what Sentence had been passed by Tacitus upon the Order of Senate or Roman Consul for burning the Books of Cremutius Cordus the Historian Neque aliud externi Reges aut qui eâdem saevitiâ usi sunt nisi dedecus sibi atque illis gloriam peperere i. e. they gained nothing but ignominy to themselves and glory to all those whose Books they burnt yet our Doctor was rather in that particular of Sir Iohn Falstaff's mind not liking such grinning honour and therefore rather chose to prevent the Obloquy than boast in it To which purpose he applied himself to the Lord Mayor of London and a great Man in the Council of State and receiving from them a true information of what had passed he left his Solicitude being quite freed from all fear and danger About this time it was that the King Church and Church-men were arraigned and traduced by many voluminous Writers of the Age and the Doctor being solicited to answer them by Letters Messages and several personal Addresses by men of all Orders and Dignities in the Church and of all Degrees in the Universities was at last overcome by their Importunities the irresistible Intreaties of so many Friends having something in them of Commands And the first Author whose Mistakes Falsities and Defects he examined was Mr. Thomas Fuller the Church-Historian who intermingling his History with some dangerous Positions which if reduced into practice would overthrow the Power of the Church and lay a probable Foundation for Disturbances in the Civil-State the Doctor made some Animadversions on him by way of Antidote that so if possible he might be read without danger Another was Mr. Sanderson's long History of the Life and Reign of King Charles I. whose errors being of that nature as might mis-guide the Reader in the way of Knowledg and Discourse our Doctor rectified him with some Advertisements that so he might be read with the greater profit It would swell these Papers into too great a bulk if I should give a particular account of the Contests that this Reverend man had with Mr. Harington Mr. Hickman and Mr. Baxter the last of which was so very bold as to disgorge himself upon the whole Clergy of England in his Grotian Religion which caused in our Doctor as he tells his Brethren the old Regular Clergy So great an horror and amazement that he could not tell whether or no he could give any credit to his Senses the words sounding loud in his ears and not sinking at first into his heart Neither Did Mr. Baxter arraign the whole Clergy in general but more particularly directed his Spleen against Dr. Heylyn whose name he wish'd afterwards he had spared But it was whilst he was living he has made more bold with him since he was dead and that for no other reason that I can learn but for exposing the Follies Falshoods and uncharitableness of a daring and rash Writer who never returned one word of Answer besides Railing and Reproaches unto what our Doctor Published against him And having made mention of these Authors against whom our excellent Doctor appeared in the Lists it may not perhaps be deemed unacceptable to those Readers who are either unable to buy or unwilling to read the Books written against them to transcribe some particular passages which may be a farther testification of the zeal of this great Scholar for the King and Church And the first relating to the King shall be about the Coronation it being a piece of new State-Doctrine that the Coronation of the King should depend upon the consent of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament For in the Form and Manner of the Coronation of King Edward VI. described in the Catalogue of Honour set forth by Thomas Mills of Canterbury Anno Dom. 1610 we find it thus The King being carried by certain Noble Courtiers in another Chair unto the four sides of the Stage was by the Archbishop of Canterbury declared to the people standing round about both by Gods and mans Laws to be the Right and Lawful King of England France and Ireland and proclaimed that day to be Crowned Consecrated and Anointed unto whom he demanded Whether they would Obey and Serve or not By whom it was again with a loud cry answered God save the King and ever live his Majesty The same we have in substance both in fewer words in the Coronation of King Iames where it is said The King was shewed to the people and that they were required to make acknowledgment of their Allegiance to his Majesty by the Archbishop which they did with Acclamations But assuredly says Dr. Heylyn the difference is exceeding vast between Obeying and Consenting between the peoples acknowledging their Allegiance and promising to Obey and Serve their Lawful Sovereign and giving their Consent to his Coronation as if it could not be performed without it This makes the King to be either made or unmade by his people according to the Maxim of Buchanan Populo jus est imperium cui velit deferat than which passage there is nothing in all his Books more pestilent or seditious Neither is another Position any less
all parties tho I have made it my endeavour to dissatisfie none but those that hate to be reformed or otherwise are so tenaciously wedded to their own opinion that neither Reason nor Authority can divorce them from it In short his love to Truth and veneration to the Church of England were the only motives that made him undertake to write that History The one was the Mistris which he ever serv'd and the other was the Mother whose Paps he had always suck'd And whoever dis-regards or deviates from either of those may perhaps be offended with some particular passages in Ecclesia Restaurata As for his never vouching Authority fâ—r what he writ which is not to be forgiven him I hope he has met with a more merciful Judg in another world than it seems Dr. Burnet is in this But who is to pardon Dr. B. for accusing Dr. Heylyn of violent prejudices against persons of writing things so strangely as if he had been a Factor for the Papists and yet not specifying one particular Instance wherein he was thus partial and perfidious He began the writing of that History in September 1638 communicating his design to Archbishop Laud from whoâ— he received all imaginable encouragement And what benefit would any Reader receive to have quoted to him the pages of Manuscripts Acts of Parliament Registers of Convocation old Records and Charters orders of Council-Table or other of those rare pieces in the Cottonian Library which were made use of in that elaborate History Had Dâ— Heylyn borrowed his materials out of Vulgar or Printed Authors he ought then to have vouch'd particular Authorities for what he writ but making use of those which few Scholars either could or had perused it had been the part of a Pedant not of an Historian to have been exact and particular in his Quotations Not to mention either Greek or Latine Historians Does not Dr. B. esteem the Lord Bacon's History of Henry VII to contain as complete and judicious an account of the Affairs of that Princes Reign as any thing of that nature that is extant in English Story But the Margent of that Book is not stust with many more Quotations than the Doctors Ecclesia Restaurata And yet the Lord Bacon writ of Transactions beyond his own time and lived as far distant from the Reign of King Henry VII as Dr. Heylyn did from King Henry VIII who laid the first Foundation of our Reformation For my own part I cannot with the most diligent search find out any passages in Ecclesia Restaurata which evert the great Rule that ought to be observed by all Historians viz. Ne quid false audeant to commit nothing unto Writing which they know to be false or cannot justifie to be true History is the Record of time by which the Revolutions of Providence are transmitted from one Age unto another And if it can be proved that Dr. Heylyn has either suborned Witnesses falsified Records or so wrested Evidence that posterity cannot make a certain judgment of those Transactions of which he undertook to inform his Country-men then it must be confessed that he was led by Passion more than Judgment and by violent prejudices more than the substantial evidences of Truth And yet if all this were made out 't is no more than what may be laid at the door of that Author who not many years since writ the History of Duke Hamilton where are reported the most abominable Scandals broach'd by the malicious Covenanteers against the Hierarchy of the Scotish Church And the Historian without the least contradiction or confutation permits them to pass for infallible Truths that so Posterity as well as the present prejudiced Age might be leavened with an implacable enmity and hatred against the whole Order of Bishops And altho the Hamiltons were the old inveterate enemies of the Stuarts and the Duke of whom that large History is compiled was an enemy as treacherous to K. Charles I. as any that ever appeared against him in open Arms drawing the Scots in the English Court to be his Dependents alienating their Affections from the King his Master Tho wise men of both Nations thought that the first Tumult at Edinborough was raised by his Instruments and the Combustions that ensued were secretly fomented by him Tho when he was High Commissioner he drew the King from one Condescention to another in behalf of the Covenanteers till he had little else left to give but his Crown and Life Tho he drew him first to suspend and then to suppress the Liturgy and Canons made for the use of the Scotish Church and to abrogate the five Articles of Perth procured with so much difficulty by K. Iames and confirmed by Parliament Tho he authorized the Covenant with some few alterations in it and generally imposed it on that Kingdom Tho he yielded to the calling of the Assembly and was assured by that means that the Bishops by the Majority of their Enemies Voices should be Censured and Excommunicated that Episcopacy should be abolished and all the Regular Clergy exposed to Ruine Tho he got to himself so strong a Party in the Kingdom that the King stood but for a Party in the Calculation Tho when he had Command over a considerable part of the Royal Navy in the Frith at Edinburough he made good that saying of the Scots That the Son of so good a Mother being a most rigid Covenanter could do them no hurt by loitering about on purpose till he heatd that the Treaty of Pacification was begun at Barwick whither he came in Post-hast pretending to disturb that business when he knew it would be concluded before he came thither Tho he was guilty of the vilest Treachery to the Best of Princes and the Best of Subjects viz. Charles I. and the Marquess of Montross who returning out of France and designing to put himself into the Kings Service made his way to Hamilton who knowing the gallantry of the man and fearing a Competitor in his Majestiâ—s Favour told Montross on the one hand That the King slighted the Scottish Nation that he designed to reduce it unto a Province and that he would no longer continue in the Court were it not for some services that he was engaged to do for his Country And on the other hand told the King That Montross was so popular and powerful among the Scots that he would embroil the Affairs and endanger the Interest of his Majesty in that Kingdom which suggestions made the King take little notice of him and the Martyred Heroe was confirmed in the belief of what Hamilton had secretly whispered to him which caused him to go to Scotland and there to list himself with the Male-contents of that Kingdom whose concerns he espoused till he saw his own Error and Hamilton's Treachery Tho D. Hamilton was the man that prevailed with the King to pass that Act for continuation of the Parliament during the pleasure of the Two Houses and boasted how
he had got a perpetual Parliament for the English and would do the like for the Scots too and contrary to the wishes of all good men prevailed with the King to Dissolve that Parliament which was immediately precedent playing with both hands at once pulling with one hand back the Commons from all Compliance with the King and thrusting on the King with the other hand to Dissolve the Parliament In fine for the repetition of these things is not very delighting Tho this D. Hamilton did in the opinion of very many wise men aim at nothing less than the Crown of Scotland and had so courted the Common Soldiers raised for the Service of the Swedes and obliged their Commanders that David Ramsey openly began an health to King Iames the Seventh yet all these with many more particulars are either quite smothered or so painted over by Dr. Burnet that the Volume he has writ upon Hamilton may rather be called an Apology or a Panegyrick than a History But Dr. Heylyn had the courage to acquaint the world with these harsh Truths in the Life of the Archbishop and in the Observations that he has writ upon Mr. L'Estrange's History of King Charles I. And there was no other way to be revenged on him than to traduce his Labours and blast his Memory as if he had been secretly set on to write by those of the Church of Rome A Calumny so improbable that 't is confuted in the very Preface to Ecclesia Restaurata where he tells how the Owners of the Abby-Lands had all the reason in the world to maintain that Right which by the known Laws of the Land had been vested in them And that the Exchanges Grants and Sales of the Monasteries and Religious Houses were passed and confirmed by the Kings Letters-Patents under the Great Seal of England in due form of Law which gave unto the Patentees as good a Title as the Law could make them and that Pope Julius the Second in Queen Maries Reign confirmed all those Lands by his Decree to the present Occupants of which they stood possessed justo titulo by a lawful Title But the Doctors Observation is verified in himself viz. That 'T is the Faction a man joyns with not the Life or Principles of the man himself that makes him a good or a bad man And I will add a learned or good Writer He did not write Books or Preach Sermons as anciently Poets did Comedies of whom Terence tells us Poeta cum primum animum ad scribendum appulit Id sibi negotii credidit solum dari Populo ut placerent quas fecissit fabulas Thus Englished by Dr. Heylyn Thus Poets when their mind they first apply In looser Verse to frame a Comedy Think there is nothing more for them to do Than please the people whom they speak unto But this Reverend man was of no crouching temper to popular Factions or Opinions And whoever they are that oppose those will be charged with Railing and Reviling as well as with Falsities and Mistakes tho they use the most unaffected propriety of words to represent the conceptions of their minds in giving an account of things in their proper and due circumstances Dr. Heylyn had too much in him of a Gentleman and a Scholar to use any unseemly expressions in his Writings to render either Persons Opinions or Actions odious If he found them so he ought so to represent them or else he would not have acquitted himself like an Historian i. e. faithful to the just interests of Truth Had he but employed his Pen to have written one half of those things against the King and Church of England which he writ for them he would have been accounted by very many persons I will not say by Dr. B. the greatest Scholar the greatest Protestant the most faithful Historian or in their own phrase the most precious man that ever yet breath'd in this Nation But he had the good luck to be a Scholar and better luck to employ his Learning like an honest man and a good Christian in the defence of a Righteous and pious King of an Apostolical and true Church of a Venerable and Learned Clergy And this drew upon him all the odium and malice that two opposite Factions Papist and Sectary could heap upon him Had he writ only against the first his name had received no more disturbance from men upon earth than his Soul does amongst its blessed associates in Heaven But diving into unbeaten paths in his Theological Studies he gives an account of the first entrance of the Calvinian Tenets into this Kingdom viz. How the controversies about Grace Predestination c. had had been long agitated in the Schools between the Dominicans on the one side and the Franciscans on the other the Dominicans grounding their opinion on the Authority of S. Austin Prosper and some others of the following Writers The Franciscans on the general current of the ancient Fathers who lived ante mota certamina Pelagiana before the rising of the Pelagian Heresies Which Disputes being after taken up in the Lutheran Churches the moderate Lutherans as they call them followed the Doctrine of Melancthon conformable to the Franciscans in those particulars The others whom they call Stiff or Rigid Lutherans of whom Flaccius Illyricus was chief go in the same way with the Dominicans The Authority of which last opinion after it had been entertained and published in the works of Calvin for his sake found admittance in the Schools and Pulpits of most of the Reformed Churches And being controverted pro and con by some of the Confessors in Prison in Qu. Maries days after her death many of our exiled Divines returning from Geneva Basil and such other places where Calvins Dictates were received as celestial Oracles brought with them his opinions in the points of Predestination Grace and Perseverance which being dispersed and scattered over all the Church by Calvins authority and the diligence of the Presbyterian party then busie in advancing their Holy Discipline they came to be received for the only true and orthodox Doctrine and were so publickly maintained in the Schools of Cambridge till Dr. Peter Baroe Professor for the Lady Margaret in that University revived the Melancthonian way in his publick Lectures and by his great Learning and Arguments had drawn many others to the same persuasions From which words it appears what little shew of reason there is to call those Divines Arminians who are of a different judgment from Mr. Calvin in the points aforesaid For first The Arminians are rather a Branch of the Sect of Calvin to whose Discipline in all particulars they conform themselves and to this Doctrines in most differing from him only in Predestination and the Points subordinate but managing those differences with a far better temper than their Opposites as may be seen at large in Mr. Hales's Letters And secondly Arminius as our Doctor Tells us was too much a puisne of
too late standing in the world to be accounted the first Broacher of those Doctrinal Points which have such warrant from the Scriptures and were so generally held by the ancient Fathers both Greek and Latine till St. Austins time defended since that time by the Iesuites and Franciscans in the Church of Rome by all the Melancthonian Divines among the Lutherans by Castalio in Geneva it self by Bishop Latimer and Bishop Hooper in the time of K. Edward VI by some of our Confessors in Prison in the days of Qu. Mary by Bishop Harsnet in the Pulpit by Dr. Peter Baroe in the Schools in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth by Hardem Bergius the first Reformer of the Church and City of Emden and finally by Anastasius Velvanus A. D. 1554. and afterward by Henricus Antonii Iohannes Ibrandi Clemens Martini Cornelius Meinardi the Ministers generally of the Province of Vtrecht by Manaus the Divinity Professor of Leyden by Gellius Succanus in the Province of Friezeland before the name of Iacob van Harmine was heard of in the world And if it be objected that the whole stream of Protestant Divines who were famous either for Piety or Learning embraced the Calvinian Doctrines to this also the Doctor gives a satisfactory answer in many places of his learned Writings The Reader may please to consider 1. That this being granted to be a truth we are rather to look upon it as an infelicity which befel the Church than as an argument that she concurr'd with those Divines in all points of judgment That which was most aimed at immediately after the Reformation and for a long time after in preferring men to the highest dignities of the Church and chief places in the Universities was their zeal against Popery and such a sufficiency of learning as might enable him to defend those Points on which our separation from the Church of Rome was to be maintained and the Queens Interest most preserved The Popes Supermacy the Mass with all the Points and Nicities which depended on it Iustification by Faith Marriage of Priests Purgatory the Power of the Civil Magistrate were the Points most agitated And whoever appeared right in those and withal declared himself against the corruptions of that Church in point of Manners was seldom or never looked into for his other Opinions until the Church began to find the sad consequences of it in such a general tendency to Innovation both in Doctrine and Discipline as could not easily be redress'd 2. In answer to the fâ—re-mentioned objection It is recorded in St. Marks Gospel cap. 8. that the blind man whom our Saviour restored to sight at Bethsaida at the first opening of his eyes saw men as Trees walking ver 24. i. e. walking as Trees quasi dicat homines quos ambulantes video non homines sed arbores mihi viderentur as we read in Maldonate By which words the blind man declared saith he se qauidem videre aliquid cum nihil antè videret imperfectè tamen videre cum inter homines arbores distinguere non posset More briefly Estius upon the place Nondum ita clarè perfectè video ut discernere possim inter homines arbores I discern somewhat said the poor man but so imperfectly that I am not able to distinguish between Trees and Men. Such an imperfect sight as this the Lord gave many times to those whom he recovered out of the Egyptian darkness who not being able to discern all Divine Truths at the first opening of the eyes of their understandings were not to be a Rule and Precedent to those that followed and lived in clearer times and under a brighter Beam of Illumination than others did What grounds were laid down by this excellent person for Unity and Charity in the Worship of God and in the Doctrine and Government of the Church may be seen in these words to Mr. Baxter Unity and Charity in the ancient simplicity of Doctrine Worship and Government no man likes better than my self bring but the same affections with you and the wide Breach that is between us in some of the Causes which we manage on either side will be suddenly closed but then you must be sure to stand to the word Ancient also and not keep your self to simplicity only If Unity and Charity will content you in the ancient Doctrine in the simplicity thereof without subsepuent mixtures of the Church I know no Doctrine in the Church more pure and Ancient than that which is publickly held forth by the Church of England in the Book of Articles the Homilies and the Catechism authorized by Law of which I may safely affirm as St. Austin does in his Book Ad Marcelinum His qui contradicit aut a Christi fide alienus est aut est Haereticus i. e. He must either be an Inâ—idel or an Heretick who assents not to them If Vnity and Charity in the simplicity of Worship be the thing you aim at you must not give every man the liberty of worshiping in what Form he pleaseth which destroys all Vnity nor Cursing many times instead of Praying which destroys all Charity The ancient and most simple way of Worship in the church of God was by regular Forms prescribed for the publick use of Gods people in the Congregations and not by unpremeditated undigested Prayers which every man makes unto himself as his fancy shall lead him And if set Forms of Worship are to be retained you will not easily meet with any which hath more in it of the ancient simplicity of the Primitive Times than the English Liturgy And if ancient simplicity of Government be the point you drive at what Government can you find more pure or Ancient than that of Bishops of which you have this Character in the Petition of the County of Rutland where it is said to be That Government which the Apostles left the Church in that the Three Ages of Martyrs were governed by that the thirteen Ages since have always gloried in by their Succession of Bishops from the Apostles proving themselves Members of the Catholick and Apostolick Church that our Laws have established that so many Kings and Parliaments have protected into which we were Baptized as certainly Apostolical as the Lords day as the distinction of Books were written by such Evangelists and Apostles as the Conâ—ecration of the Eucharist by Presbyters c. An ample commendation of Episcopal Government but such as exceeds not the bounds of Truth or Modesty Stand to these grounds for keeping Vnity and Charity in the ancient simplicity of Doctrine Worship and Government in the Church of God and you shall see how chearfully the Regal and Preâ—atical Party will joyn hands with you and embrace you with most dear affections But you tell me That if I will have men in peace as Brethren our Union must be Law or Ceremonies or indifferent Forms This is a pretty Speculation but such as would not pass for
with the noblest Contemplations without the help of his bodily organs the life of such an one consisting more in Meditation than Action And if a dark night cannot render our lives miserable why should day-light be able to effect it which to a blind man is no other than night And that incomparable Author proceeds in presenting his Reader with many instances of persons that were highly useful in their Generations after they were deprived of their sight And Dr. Heylyn as well as Cnëus Aufidius having Animum acutum was able to give advice to his Friends to solve Doubts to clear and defend Truth to write Histories videre in literis For when the windows were quite darkened the Candle of the Lord his itellectual lamp burnt more clear and bright within him Democritus as the Orator goes on luminibus amissis Alba scil Atra discernere non poterat at verò bona mala equa iniqua honesta turpia utilia inutilia magna parva poterat sine varietate colorum licebat vivere beatè sine notione rerum non licebat Our Reverend Divine when he had lost his eyes could not 't is true discern white from black but which was a more advantageous Speculation he could discern good from evil and just from unjust and things lovely and honest and profitable from those which were impure unrighteous and incommodions And a man may be happy tho he does not discern variety of Colours but he cannot be so unless he his senses exercised to discern between good and evil Another of the Roman Orators reckons up many advantages of blindness telling us Caecus non irascitur non odit non concupiscit cum corpora nostra vigorem de luminibus accipiunt pereunt cum suis vitia causis i. e. one that is deprived of sight has no objects to kindle his Anger to precipitate his Revenge to inflame his Lips which must needs languish and decay when those bodily Members through which they commonly gain admission into our Souls are impaired and become useless And amongst other advantages which the Doctor received from this heavy misfortune he acquaints Mr. Harington of one For looking on him as he writes as a generous and ingenuous Adversary I should count it no crime to be ambitious of your society and friendship had not my great decay of sight besides other infirmities growing on me rendred me more desirous of a private and retired life than of such an agreeable conversation And so apprehensive was he of his approaching End that he elsewhere tells his Reader The small remainder of my life will be better spent in looking back upon those errors which the infirmities of nature and other humane frailties have made me subject to that so I may redeem the time because my former days were evil And I can truly say that of those short Memoirs which he left behind him of the eleven first Lustrums of his Life for they extended no further he ever and anon intersperses some Religious Sentence or other relating to those Vicissitudes with which the Divine Providence was pleased to exercise him to express the devout affections that he had toward his Maker and Redeemer taking all occasions according to the various accidents aud occurrences that happened unto him to stir up his Soul either to magnifie the Mercies or acknowledg the Justice or adore the Wisdom or trust in the Power or rely upon the promises of God When one of his Adversaries was surprized with the Advertisements that were so speedily made upon one of his Books and twitted him with having numerous Helpers conceiving it impossible that a Treatise so accurately writ should be exposed to publick light within so short a space of time the Doctor replies Tho I cannot say that I have many Hâ—lpers yet I cannot but confess in all humble Gratitude that I have one great Helper which is instar â—mnium even the Lord my God Auxilium meum a Domino my help cometh even from the Lord which made Heaven and Earth And I can say with the like humble acknowledgments of Gods mercies to me as Iacob did when he was ask'd about the quick dispatch which he made in preparing savoury meat for his aged Father Voluntas Dei fuit ut tam citò occurreret mihi quod volebam Gen. 27. 20. It is Gods goodness and his only that I am able to do what I do That name is yet to be mentioned that was ever loaded with more reproach and infamy than Dr. Heylyn's And he ever kept silence unless it was when he was accused of gross errors against any Fundamentals in Religion For that he looked upon to be a self-conviction having that advice of St. Hierom frequently in his Writings but oftener in his thoughts In suspicione haereseos se nolle quenquem fore patientem But as for private whispers or bold calumnies which reach'd only to the private concerns of his Name and Repute they did not in the least move him having long learned with him in the old Historian as he once told one of his friends civili animo laceratam existimationem ferre to bear with an undisturbed mind the greatest calumnies which either the tongues or pens of malicious men could lay upon him But when ever the concerns of Church or State in general or his Friends in particular required his helping hand then like the dumb Son of Craesus he found a Tongue and a Pen too tho no extremity of his own unless in the Instance now mentioned could remove him from his espoused silence And as he had learned to contemn calumnies himself so he endeavoured to fix the same resolution in the poor ejected Clergy thus writing to them You my Brethren who have been so long trained up in the School of patience the suffering of Reproaches whether from theTongue or Pen from the Press or Pulpit cannot be taken out as a new Lesson never learnt before I know I speak to men who are not to be put in mind of that which you have learned in Aesop's Fables In one of the Morals you are taught to imitate those generous Horses Qui latrantes caniculos cum contemptu praetereunt which use to pass by barking Curs with neglect and scorn Or to be told of that which you once read in the Annals of Tacitus viz. Convitia spreta exolescunt Those contumelies die soonest that are least regarded or to be remembred of that memorable saying of St. Cyprian who had suffered as much in this kind as the most amongst us but having suffered no more from the tongues of his enemies than Christ our Saviour did before from the hands of Iudas he thus encouraged himself and others by this golden sentence Nec nobis turpe esse pati quae passus est Christus nec illis gloriam facere quae fecerit Judas Which passages tho very full of use and comfort how infinitely short are they of that celestial consolation which our Saviour
after his Copy and Example And renewing the charge to her he went to Bed in as good bodily health as he had done before for many years but after his first sleep he found himself taken with a violent Fever occasioned as was conceived by his Physician by eating of a little Tansey at Supper It seized him May 1. 1662. and deprived him of his understanding for seven days the eighth day he died but for some hours before had the use of his Faculties restored to him telling one of the Vergers of the Church who came to him I know it is Church-time with you and this is Asâ—ension-day I am ascending to the Church triumphant I go to my God and Saviour into Ioys Celestial and to Hallelujahs Eternal He died in his great Climacterical upon Ascension-day 1662. when our Blessed Saviour entred into his Glory and as a Harbinger went to prepare his place for all his faithful Followers and Disciples The Synagogus annexed to Mr. Herbert's Poems Mount mount my Soul and climb or rather fly With all thy force on high Thy Saviour rose not only but ascended And he must be attended Both in his Conquest and his Triumph too His Glories strongly woo His Graces to them and will not appear In their full lustre until both be there Where he now sits not for himself alone But that upon his Throne All his Redeemed may Attendants be Rob'd and Crown'd as he Kings without Courtiers are lone men they say And do'st thou think to stay Behind one earth whilst thy King Reigns in Heaven Yet not be of thy happiness bereaven Nothing that thou canst think worth having's here Nothing is wanting there That thou canst wish to make thee truly blest And above all the rest Thy Life is hid with God in Iesus Christ Higher than what is high'st O grovel then no longer here on earth Where misery every moment drowns thy mirth But towre my Soul and soar above the Skies Where thy true Treasure lies Tho with corruption and mortality Thou clogg'd and pinion'd be Yet thy fleet thoughts and sprightly wishes may Speedily glide away To what thou canst not reach at least aspire Ascend if not indeed yet in desire As for the Off-spring of his Loins God gave him the blessing of the Religious man in Psalm 128. his Wife being like a fruitful Vine and his Children being in all eleven as Olive-plants encompassed his Table nay he saw his Childrens Children and which to him was more than all he saw peace upon Israel i. e. the Church and State restored quieted and established after many concussions and confusions and a total Abolition of their Government But the issue of his Brain was far more numerous than that of his Body as will appear by the following Catalogue of Books written by him viz. Spurius a Tragedy MSS. Written An. Dom. 1616. Theomachia a Comedy MSS. 1619. Geography twice Printed at Oxon in Quarto 1621. 1624. and four times in London but afterward in 1652. enlarged into a Folio under the Title of Cosmography An Essay call'd Augustus 1631. inserted since into his Cosmography The History of St. George London 1631. Reprinted 1633. The History of the Sabbath 1635. Reprinted 1636. An Answer to the Bishop of Lincolns Letter to the Vicar of Grantham 1636. Afterward twice Reprinted An Answer to Mr. Burtons two Seditious Sermons 1637. A short Treatise concerning a Form of Prayer to be used according to what is enjoyned in the 55. Canon MSS. Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester Antidotum Lincolniense or an Answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's 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 Iure partialis Episcoporum or containing the Peerage of the Bishops Printed in the last Collection of his Works 1681. A Reply to Dr. Hackwel concerning the Sacrifice of the Eucharist MSS. 1641. A Help to English History containing a Succession of all the Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls Bishops c. of England and Wales Written An. Dom. 1641. under the name of Robert Hall but now enlarged under the name of Dr. Heylyn The History of Episcopacy London 1641. And now Reprinted 1681. The History of Liturgies Written 1642. and now Reprinted 1681. A Relation of the Lord Hopton's Victory at Bodmin A View of the Proceedings in the West for a Pacification A Letter to a Gentleman in Leicestershire about the Treaty A Relation of the Proceedings of Sir Iohn Gell. A Relation of the Queens return from Holland and the Siege of Newark The + or Black Cross shewing that the Londoners were the cause of the Rebellion The Rebels Catechism All these seven Printed at Oxon 1644. An Answer to the Papists Groundless Clamor who nick-name the Religion of the Church of England by thâ— name of a Parliamentary Religion 1644. and now Reprinted 1681. A Relation of the Death and Sufferings of William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1644. The Stumbling-Block of Disobedience removed Written 1644. Printed 1658. and Reprinted 1681. An Exposition of the Creed Folio London 1654. A Survey of France with an account of the Isles of Guernsey and Iersey London 1656. Quarto Examen Historicum or a Discovery and Examination of the Mistakes Faâ—sities and Defects in some modern Histories in two Books London 1659. Octavo Certamen Epistolare or the Letter-Combat managed with Mr. Baxter Dr. Bernard Mr. Hickman and I. H. Esq London 1658 Octavo Historia Quinque-Articularies Quarto London 1660. Reprinted 1681. Respondet Petrus or An Answer of Peter Heylyn D. D. to Dr. Bernards Book entituled The Iudgment of the late Primate c. London 1658. Quarto Observations on Mr. Ham. L'Strange's History on the Life of King Charles I. London 1658. Octavo Extraneus Vapulans or a Defence of those Observations London 1658. Octavo A Short History of King Charles I. from his Cradle to his Grave 1658. Thirteen Sermons some of which are an Exposition of the Parable of the Tares London 1659. Reprinted 1661. The History of the Reformation London 1661. Fol. Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the Life and Death of Arch-Bishop Laud. Folio London 1668. Aërius Redivivus or the History of the Presbyterians from the year 1636 to the year 1647. Oxon. 1670. Fol. His Monument has since the erection of it had violence offered it by some rude and irreligious hand there being ever in the world those ill men who regard the Names of the Learned neither whilst they are living nor when they are dead It is erected on the North-side of the Abbey in Westminster over against the Sub-Deans Seat and the Right Reverend Dr. Earl then Dean of Westminster and afterward Bishop of Salisbury was pleased to honor the memory of his dear Friend with this following Inscription Depositum morâ—ale Petri Heylyn S. Th. D. Hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarii Subdecani Viri planè memorabilis Egregiis dotibus instructissimi Ingenio acri foecundo Iudicio subacto Memoriâ ad prodigium tenaci Cui adjunxit incredibilem in Studiis patientiam Quae cessantibus oculis non cessarunt Scripsit varia plurima Quae jam manibus teruntur Et argumentis non vulgaribus Stylo non vulgari suffecit Constans ubique Ecclesiae Et Majestatis Regiae Assertor Nec florentis magis utriusque Quam afflictae Idemque perduellium Schismaticae Factionis Impugnator acerrimus Contemptor Invidiae Et animo infracto Plura ejusmodi meditanti Mors indixit Silentium Vt sileatur Efficere non potest Obiit Anno Aetat 63. Posuit hoc illi moestissima Conjux FINIS Sleid. Com. l. 6. * So he did in a Letter to Dr. Heylyn Theol. Vet. Pref. to the Reader K. Iames Instructions to the University Ian. 18. 1616. Appendix to the Adv. on Mr. Sanderson's Histories Wisdom 4. 8 9. Pryn Burtoâ— Bastwick Page 426. Archbishops Life page 429. Page 430. * At these words the Bishop knock'd with his Staff on the Pulpit Tacit. in Vit. lul Agr. Observations on the History of the Reign of K. Charles 34. * Committee of Affectioâ—s * Exam. Hist. p. 111. Preface to the Cosmography Certam Epist. 369. As Euscapius said of Longinus * Certam Epist. 100. Tacit. An. lib. 4. Epist. Ded. before Cert Epist. Exam. Histor. 201. Cert Epist. 243. Tacit. Hist. l. 1. Tacit. Hist. l. 1. Page 6. General Preface to an Answer of several Treatises * Preface to Theo. Vet. p. 13. Theol. Vet. p. 27 28. Edit 1. b Ib. 72. c Ib. 152. d Ib. 187. e Ib. 418 419 420. f 130. g 138. h 152. i 277. k 195. ib 269 270 294. l 292. m 294. n 304. o 384. p 305. q 332. r 359. s 361 362. t 371 372. De not Eccles. l. 4. c. 4. u 386 387. w 397 398. x 457 458. y 403 404. Mat. 27. 63. Dr. Burnet's Preface to the History of the Reformation Vol. I. Epist. Ded. Hist. D. Ham. p. 29 30. Page 6. Exam. Hist. 162. Observat. on the History of the Reign of K. Charles 72. Cert Epist. 22. Cert Epist. 173. Ib. 153. Cert Epist. 57. Exam. Hist 126. Observat. on the History of the Reign of K. Charles 220. Exam. Hist. 97. Obs. 196. Exam. Hist. 237. Introduct unto Exam. Hist. Observ. on 151. Exam. Hist. â—46 Cert Epist. 44. Obser. 183. 1 Pet 2. 25. 1 Pet. 5. 1. Ib. 188. P. 224. Yitles of Hon. p. 2. cap. 5. Observ. on the Hist. page 2. Pref. to Theol. Vet. Acts 6. 10. Cert Epist. 31. Gen. 48. 10. * Stalius calls blindness so Tul. Tus. Quaest. lib. 5. Ibid. Quintilian in Declam Certam Epist. 310. * Sir W. S. Cert Epistola Epist. Ded. Tacit. Anal. l. 13. 2 Cor. 11. 27. Psal. 32. 4. Ecclus. c. 34. 2 7. Verse 6.