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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41038	The life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond written by John Fell ...	Fell, John, 1625-1686.; Waring, Robert, 1614-1658.; Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.	1662 (1662)	Wing F618; ESTC R35672	58,303	255

THE LIFE OF The most Learned Reverend and Pious D r H. HAMMOND Written By JOHN FELL D. D. Dean of Christ-Church in Oxford The Second Edition LONDON Printed by J. Flesher for Jo. Martin Ja. Allestry and Tho. Dicas at the Bell in Saint Paul's Church-yard MDCLXII THE LIFE OF The most Learned Reverend and Pious D R H. HAMMOND DOctor Henry Hammond whose Life is now attempted to be written was born upon the 18 of August in the year 1605. at Chersey in Surrey a place formerly of remark for J. Caesar's supposed passing his Army there over the Thames in his Enterprise upon this Island as also for the entertainment of Devotion in its earliest reception by our Saxon Ancestors and of later years for the Charity of having given burial to the equally pious and unfortunate Prince King Hen. VI. He was the youngest Son of D r John Hammond Physician to Prince Henry and from that great favourer of meriting servants and their relations had the honour at the Font to receive his Christian Name Nor had he an hereditary interest in Learning onely from his Father by his Mothers side he was allied both unto it and the Profession of Theologie being descended from D r Alexander Nowell the Reverend Dean of S t Paul's that great and happy Instrument of the Reformation and eminent Light of the English Church Being yet in his long Coats which heretofore were usually worn beyond the years of Infancy he was sent to Eaton School where his pregnancy having been advantag'd by the more then paternal care and industry of his Father who was an exact Critick in the learned Languages especially the Greek became the observation of those that knew him for in that tenderness of age he was not only a Proficient in Greek and Latine but had also some knowledge in the Elements of Hebrew in the later of which Tongues it being then rarely heard of even out of Grammar Schools he grew the Tutor of those who begun to write themselves men but thought it no shame to learn of one whose knowledge seem'd rather infus'd then acquir'd or in whom the learned Languages might be thought to be the Mother-Tongue His skill in Greek was particularly advantag'd by the conversation and kindness of M r Allen one of the Fellows of the College excellently seen in that Language and a great assistant of S r Henry Savile in his magnificent edition of S t Chrysostome His sweetness of Carriage is very particularly remembred by his Contemporaries who observ'd that he was never engag'd upon any occasion into fights or quarrels as also that at times allowed for Play he would steal from his fellows into places of privacy there to say his Prayers Omens of his future pacifick temper and eminent Devotion Which softness of temper his Schoolmaster M r Bush who upon his Fathers account had a tender kindness for him lookt upon with some jealousie for he building upon the general observation that Gravity and Passiveness in Children is not from discretion but phlegme suspected that his Scholars faculties would desert his Industrie and end onely in a laborious well-read non-proficiency but the Event gave a full and speedie defeat to those well-meant misgivings for he so emprov'd that at Thirteen years old he was thought and what is much more rare was indeed ripe for the University and accordingly sent to Magdalen College in Oxford where not long after he was chosen Demie and though he stood low upon the roll by a very unusual concurrence of providential Events happen'd to be sped and though having then lost his Father he became destitute of the advantage which potent recommendation might have given yet his merit voting for him as soon as capable he was chosen Fellow Being to proceed M r of Arts he was made Reader of the natural Philosophy Lecture in the College and also was employed in making the Funeral Oration on the highly-meriting President D r Langton Having taken His Degree he presently bought a Systeme of Divinity with design to apply himself straightway to that study but upon second thoughts he returned for a time to Humane Learning and afterwards when he resum'd his purpose for Theology took a quite different Course of reading from the other too much usual beginning that Science at the upper end as conceiving it most reasonable to search for primitive Truth in the primitive Writers and not to suffer his Understanding to be prepossest by the contrived and interessed Schemes of modern and withal obnoxious Authors Anno 1629. being twenty four years of age the Statutes of his House directing and the Canons of the Church then regularly permitting it he entred into Holy Orders and upon the same grounds not long after took the degree of Bachelor in Divinity giving as happy proof of his proficiency in Sacred as before he had done in Secular knowledge During the whole time of his abode in the University he generally spent 13 hours of the day in Study by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole Course of Philosophy he read over in a manner all Classick Authors that are extant and upon the more considerable wrote as he passed Scholia and critical emendations and drew up Indexes for his private use at the beginning and end of each book all which remain at this time and testify his indefatigable pains to as many as have perus'd his Library In the year 1633. the Reverend D r Frewen the then President of his College now Lord Arch-bishop of York gave him the honor to supply one of his courses at the Court where the right Honorable the Earl of Leicester happening to be an Auditor he was so deeply affected with the Sermon and took so just a measure of the merit of the Preacher thence that the Rectory of Pensehurst being at that time void and in his gift he immediately offer'd him the presentation which being accepted he was inducted on the 22 of August in the same year and thenceforth from the Scholastick retirements of an University life applied himself to the more busy Entertainments of a rural privacy and what some have call'd the being buried in a Living and being to leave the House he thought not fit to take that advantage of his place which from Sacrilege or selling of the Founders Charity was by custom grown to be prudence and good husbandry In the discharge of his Ministerial function he satisfied not himself in diligent and constant Preaching only a performance wherein some of late have phansied all Religion to consist but much more conceived himself obliged to the offering up the solemn daily Sacrifice of Prayer for his people administring the Sacraments relieving the poor keeping Hospitality reconciling of differences amongst Neighbours Visiting the sick Catechising the youth As to the first of these his Preaching 't was not at the ordinary rate of the Times an unpremeditated undigested effusion of shallow and crude conceptions but a rational and just discourse that

flourish of expression must be to seek what point of vacant time remain'd yet undisposed I do not say to write books but even to breath and rest a little in After a serious reflexion on the premisses and full debate thereon the account given by that excellent person who had the happiness of being the nearest and most constant witness of the before-recited severals seems the best and chiefly satisfactory that possibly can be made that he gain'd time for his writing Books by the time he spent in Prayer whilest a more then ordinary assistance attending his Devotions his Closet prov'd his Library and he studied most upon his knees As to his Memory 't was serviceable but not officious faithful to things and business but unwillingly retaining the contexture and punctualities of words which defect he frequently lamented it being harder with him to get one Sermon by heart then to pen twenty His way of Speech and faculty of communicating notions was sufficiently happy having onely this best kind of defect exuberance and surplusage of plenty the tide and torrent of his matter being not easily confined by periods whereby his style though round and comprehensive was incumbred sometimes by Parentheses and became difficult to vulgar understandings but by the use of writing and his desire to accommodate himself to all capacities he in his later years had master'd that defect which was so slight that notwithstanding it he deserved from the most accurate Judge and greatest Master of English Rhetorick which this age hath given His late Sacred Majesty this Character and Testimony That he was the most natural Orator he ever heard His Judgement as in it self the highest Faculty so was it the most eminent among his natural endowments for though the finding out the similitudes of different things wherein the Phansie is conversant is usually a bar to the discerning the disparities of similar appearances which is the business of Discretion and that store of notions which is laid up in Memory assists rather Confusion then Choice upon which grounds the greatest Clerks are frequently not the wisest men He had to his sufficient Memory and incomparable Invention a clear discerning Judgement and that not onely in Scholastical affairs and points of Learning which the arguings and besides them the designment of his writings manifest beyond dispute but in the concerns of publick nature both of Church and State wherein his guesse was usually as near to Prophecy as any mans as also in the little mysteries of private manage by which upon occasion he has unravell'd the studied cheats of great Artificers in that liberal Science wherein particularly he vindicated a person of Honour for whom he was intrusted and assisted frequently his friends in their domestick intercurrent difficulties As to acquir'd habits and abilities in Learning his Writings having given the World sufficient account of them there remains onely to observe that the range and compass of his knowledge fill'd the whole Circle of the Arts and reach'd those severals which single do exact an entire man unto themselves and full age To be accurate in the Grammar and idioms of the Tongues and then as a Rhetorician to make all their graces serve his Eloquence to have traverst ancient and yet be no stranger in modern Writers to be studied in Philosophy and familiarly vers'd in all the politer Classick Authors to be learn'd in School-divinity and a master in Church-antiquity perfect and ready in the sense of Fathers Councils Ecclesiastical Historians and Liturgicks to have devour'd so much and yet digested it is a rarity in nature and in diligence which has but few Examples But after all we must take leave to say and do it upon sober recollection that the Doctor 's Learning was the least thing in him the Scholar was here less eminent then the Christian His Speculative knowledge that gave light to the most dark and difficult proposals became eclipsed by the more dazling lustre of his Practick In the Catalogue of his Vertues his Chastity and Temperance may claim the earliest place as being the Sacrists to the rest and in him were therefore onely not the greatest of his Excellencies because every thing else was so And first his chaste thoughts words and carriage so disciplin'd his lower faculties as not onely restrain'd through all the heats of youth made more then usually importunate by the full vigour of a high and sanguine constitution which his escape he gratefully referr'd unto the onely mercy of Almighty God but gave a detestation of all those verbal follies that have not onely the allowance of being harmless mirth but the repute of wit and gaiety of humor so that the scurrilous jest could sooner obtain his tears in penance for it then the approbation of a smile and all approaches to this sin he look'd upon not onely with an utter disallowance in his Will but a kinde of natural abhorrence and antipathy in his lower outward faculties In his first remove to Pensehurst he was perswaded by his friends that the Matrimonial state was needful to the bearing off those houshold cares and other intercurrent troubles which his condition then brought with it and on this ground he gave some ear to their advices which he did then more readily for that there was a person represented to him of whose Vertue as well as other more-usually-desired accomplishments he had been long before well satisfied But being hindred several times by little unexpected accidents he finally laid down all his pretensions upon a ground of perfect self-denial being inform'd that one of a fairer fortune and higher quality then his was or else was like to be and consequently one who in common account would prove the better match had kindness for her Having thus resolv'd the charity of his Mother who undertook the manage of his Family became a seasonable assistant and expedient in this single state till after several years her age making those cares too great a burthen for her shoulders he again was induc'd to resume his thoughts of Marriage But the National disturbances that afterwards brake out in War and Ruine appearing then in ferment he was again diverted by recollecting the Apostles advice 1 Cor. 7. 26. enforc'd upon his thoughts by the reading of S t Jerom's Epistle to Agereuchia where after glorious Elogies of Marriage the Father concluded in an earnest dehortation from it upon a representation of a like face of things the Goths then breaking into Italy as they before had done into the other near parts of the Roman Empire and filling all with slaughter cruelty and ruine Upon which prospect the good Doctor casting a serious Eye and with prophetick sorrows and misgivings fearing a parallel in this our Nation the second time deposited his conjugal intendments and thenceforth courted and espoused what he preserv'd inviolate unto his death the more eminent perfection of spotless Virgin Chastity His Appetite was good but the restraint of it was very eminent and extraordinary