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A67467	The life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln written by Izaak Walton ; to which is added, some short tracts or cases of conscience written by the said Bishop.	Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Judgment concerning submission to usurpers.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Pax ecclesiae.; Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600. Sermon of Richard Hooker, author of those learned books of Ecclesiastical politie.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Judgment in one view for the settlement of the church.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Judicium Universitatis Oxoniensis. English.	1678 (1678)	Wing W667; ESTC R8226	137,878	542

heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed where true joy is to be found His thought sseem'd now to be wholly of death for which he was so prepar'd that that King of Terrors could not surprise him as a thief in the night for he had often said he was prepar'd and long'd for it And as this desire seem'd to come from Heaven so it left him not till his Soul ascended to that Region of blessed Spirits whose Imployments are to joyn in consort with him and sing praise and glory to that God who hath brought them to that place into which sin and sorrow cannot enter Thus this pattern of meekness and primitive innocence chang'd this for a better life 'T is now too late to wish that my life may be like his for I am in the eighty fifth year of my Age but I humbly beseech Almighty God that my death may and do as earnestly beg of every Reader to say Amen Blessed is the man in whose Spirit there is no guile Postscript IF I had had time to have review'd this Relation as I intended before it went to the Press I could have contracted some and altered other parts of it but 't was hastned from me and now too late for this impression If there be a second which the Printer hopes for I shall both do that and upon information mend any mistake or supply what may seem wanting I. W. Dr. PIERCE's LETTER Good Mr. Walton AT my return to this place I made a yet stricter search after the Letters long ago sent me from our most excellent Dr. Sanderson before the happy Restoration of the King and Church of England to their several Rights in one of which Letters more especially he was pleas'd to give me a Narrative both of the rise and the progress and reasons also as well of his younger as of his last and riper Judgment touching the famous Points controverted between the Calvinians and the Arminians as they are commonly though unjustly unskilfully miscalled on either side The whole Letter I allude to does consist of several sheets whereof a good part has been made publick long ago by the most learned most judicious most pious Dr. Hammond to whom I sent it both for his private and for the publick satisfaction if he thought fit in his excellent Book intituled A Pacifick Discourse of God's Grace and Decrees in full accordance with Dr. Sanderson To which Discourse I referr you for an account of Dr. Sanderson and the History of his Thoughts in his own hand-writing wherein I sent it to Westwood as I receiv'd it from Boothby Pannel And although the whole Book printed in the year 1660. and reprinted since with his other Tracts in Folio is very worthy of your perusal yet for the Work you are about you shall not have need to read more at present than from the 8 th to the 23 th page and as far as the end of § 33. There you will find in what year the excellent man whose life you write became a Master of Arts. How his first reading of learned Hooker had been occasioned by certain Puritanical Pamphlets and how good a preparative he found it for his reading of Calvin's Institutions the honour of whose name at that time especially gave such credit to his Errors How he erred with Mr. Calvin whilst he took things upon trust in the sublapsarian way How being chosen to be a Clerk of the Convocation for the Diocese of Lincol 1625. He reduced the Quinquarticular Controversie into five Schemes or Tables and thereupon discerned a necessity of quitting the Sublapsarian way of which he had before a better liking as well as the Supralapsarian which he could never phancy There you will meet with his two weighty Reasons against them both and find his happy change of Iudgment to have been ever since the year 1625 even 34 years before the World either knew or at least took notice of it And more particularly his Reasons for rejecting Dr. Twiss or the way He walks in although his acute and very learned and ancient Friend I now proceed to let you know from Dr. Sanderson's own hand which was never printed and which you can hardly know from any unless from his Son or from my self That when that Parliament was broken up and the Convocation therewith dissolved a Gentleman of his Acquaintance by occasion of some discourse about these Points told him of a Book not long before published at Paris A. D. 1623. by a Spanish Bishop who had undertaken to clear the Differences in the great Controversie De Concordiâ Gratiae Liberi Arbitrij And because his Friend perceived he was greedily desirous to see the Book he sent him one of them containing the four first Books of twelve which he intended then to publish When I had read says Dr. Sanderson in the following words of the same Letter his Epistle Dedicatory to the Pope Greg. 15. he spake so highly of his own Invention that I then began rather to suspect him for a Mountebank than to hope I should find satisfaction from his performances I found much confidence and great pomp of words but little matter as to the main Knot of the Business other than had been said an hundred times before to wit of the coexistence of all things past present and future in mente divinâ realiter ab aeterno which is the subject of his whole third Book only he interpreteth the word realiter so as to import not only praesentialitatem objectivam as others held before him but propriam actualem existentiam Yet confesseth 't is hard to make this intelligible In his fourth Book he endeavours to declare a twofold manner of God's working ad extra the one sub ordine Praedestinationis of which Eternity is the proper measure the other sub ordine Gratiae whereof Time is the measure And that God worketh fortiter in the one though not irresistibiliter as well as suaviter in the other wherein the Freewill hath his proper working also From the Result of his whole performance I was confirmed in this Opinion That we must acknowledge the work of both Grace and Free-will in the conversion of a sinner And so likewise in all other events the Consistency of the Infallibility of God's foreknowledge at least though not with any absolute but conditional Predestination with the liberty of man's will and the contingency of inferiour causes and effects These I say we must acknowledge for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I thought it bootless for me to think of comprehending it And so came the two Acta Synodalia Dordrectana to stand in my Study only to fill up a room to this day And yet see the restless curiosity of man Not many years after to wit A.D. 1632. out cometh Dr. Twiss his Vindiciae Gratiae a large Volume purposely writ against Arminius And then notwithstanding my former resolution I must needs