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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30956	A remembrancer of excellent men ...; Remembrancer of excellent men	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1670 (1670)	Wing B806; ESTC R17123	46,147	158

upon a general charge imputing to the Church of England the great crime of Schism and by this they thought they might with most probability deceive unwary and unskilful Readers for they saw the Schism and they saw we had left them and because they consider'd not the Causes they resolved to out-face us in the Charge The Bishop now having an Argument fit to employ his great abilities undertakes the question and in a full Discourse proves the Church of Rome not only to be guilty of the Schism by making it necessary to depart from them but they did actuate the Schism and themselves made the first separations in the great point of the Pope's Supremacy which was the palladium for which they principally contended He made it appear that the Popes of Rome were Usurpers of the Rights of Kings and Bishops that they brought in new Doctrines in every Age that they impos'd their own devices upon Christendom as Articles of Faith that they prevaricated the Doctrines of the Apostles that the Church of England only return'd to her Primitive purity that she joyn'd with Christ and his Apostles that she agreed in all the sentiments of the Primitive Church 18. The old Bishop of Chalcedon known to many of us replyed to this excellent Book but was soon answer'd by a Rejoynder made by the Lord Bishop of Derry in which he so pressed the former Arguments refuted the Cavils brought in so many imimpregnable Authorities and probations and added so many moments and weights to his Discourse that the pleasures of reading the Book would be the greatest if the profit to the Church of God were not greater Whenever men will desire to be satisfied in those great questions the Bishop of Derry's Book shall be their Oracle 19. I will not insist upon his other excellent Writings but it is known every where with what Piety and acumen he wrote against the Manichaean Doctrine of fatal necessity which a late witty man had pretended to adorn with a new Vizor but this excellent person washed off the ceruss and the meretricious paintings rarely well asserted the Oeconomy of the Divine Providence and having once more triumph'd over his Adversary betook himself to the more agreeable attendance upon Sacred Offices and having usefully and wisely discoursed of the Sacred Rite of Confirmation impos'd hands upon the most illustrious Princes the Dukes of York and Glocester and the Princess Royal and ministred to them the promise of the Holy Spirit and ministerially established them in the Religion and Service of the Holy Jesus 20. And one thing more I shall remark that at his leaving those parts upon the Kings Return some of the Remonstrant Ministers of the Low-Countries coming to take their leaves of his great man and desiring that by his means the Church of England would be kind to them He had reason to grant it because they were learned men and in many things of a most excellett Belief yet he reproved them and gave them caution against it that they approached too near and gave too much countenance to the great and dangerous errours of the Socinians 21. He thus having serv'd God and the King abroad God was pleas'd to return to the King and to us all as in the days of old and we sung the Song of David In convertendo captivitatem Sion When King David and all his Servants returned to Jerusalem this great person having trod in the Wine-press was called to drink of the Wine and as an honorary Reward of his great Services and Abilities was chosen Primate of this National Church He had this Remark in all his Government that as he was a great hater of Sacriledge so he professed himself a publick enemy to non-residence and religiously against it allowing it in no case but of necessity or the greater good of the Church 22. There are great things spoken of his Predecessor St. Patrick that he founded 700 Churches and Religious Covents that he ordained 5000 Priests and with his own hands Consecrated 350 Bishops How true the story is I know not but we are all witnesses that the late Primate whose memory we now Celebrate did by an extraordinary contingency of Providence in one day consecrate two Archbishops and ten Bishops and did benefit to almost all the Churches in Ireland and was greatly instrumental to the endowments of the whole Clergy and in the greatest abilities and incompararable industry was inferiour to none of his most glorious Antecessors 23. The Character which was given of that Learned Primate Richard of Armagh by Trithemius does exactly fit this our Father Vir in divinis c. He was learned in the Scriptures skilled in secular Philosophy and not unknowing in the Civil and Canon Laws in which studies I wish the Clergy were with some carefulness and diligence still more conversant He was of an excellent Spirit a Scholar in his Discourses an early and industrious Preacher to the People And as if there were a more particular sympathy between their souls our Primate had so great a veneration to his Memory that he purposed if he had lived to have restor'd his Monument in Dundalk which time or impiety or unthankfulness had either omitted or destroyed So great a lover he was of all true and inherent worth that he loved it in the very memory of the Dead and to have such great examples transmitted to the intuition and imitation of Posterity 24. At his coming to the Primacy he knew he should at first espy little besides the ruines of Discipline a Harvest of Thorns and Heresies prevailing in the hearts of the people the Churches possessed by Wolves and Intruders mens hearts greatly estranged from true Religion and therefore he set himself to weed the Fields of the Church He treated the Adversaries sometimes sweetly sometimes he confuted them learnedly sometimes he rebuked them sharply He visited his Charges diligently and in his own person not only by proxies and instrumental deputations he design'd nothing that we know of but the Redintegration of Religion the Honour of God and the King the restoring of collapsed Discipline and the renovation of the Faith and the Service of God in the Churches and still he was indefatigable and even in the last Scene of his life not willing that God should take him unemployed 25. The last of January God sent him a brisk alarm of Death whereupon he made his Will in which beside the prudence and presence of Spirit manifested in making a just and wise settlement of his Estate and provisions for his descendants at midnight and in the trouble of his sickness and circumstances of addressing death he kept still a special sentiment and made confession of Gods admirable mercies and gave thanks that God had permitted him to live to see the blessed Restauration of his Majesty and the Church of England confessed his Faith to be the same as ever gave praises to God that he was born and bred up in this Religion and prayed

Manners and Learning of other Nations that they might thereby become the more serviceable unto their own made to put off their Gowns and leave Mr. Hooker to his Colledge and private Studies 10. Thus he continued his Studies in all quietness for the space of three or more years about which time he entred into Sacred Orders and was made Deacon and Priest and not long after in obedience to the Colledge Statutes being to Preach at St. Pauls Cross London to London he came to the Shunamites house a house so called for that beside the Stipend paid the Preacher there is provision made for his Lodging and Diet two days before and one day after his Sermon but to this house Mr. Hooker came so wet so weary and weather-beaten that hardly with much diligent attendance was he enabled to perform the office of the day which was in or about the year 1581. 11. An. 1584. Decemb. 9. he was presented by John Cheney Esquire to a Country Parsonage which was Draiton-Beauchamp in Buckinghamshire not far from Alesbury and in the Diocess of Lincoln where he continued about a year in which time his two Pupils Edwin Sandys and George Cranmer were returned from Travel and took a Journey to see their Tutor where they found him with a Book in his hand it was the Odes of Horace being then tending his small allotment of Sheep in a common field which he told his Pupils he was forced to do for that his Servant was gone home to dine and assist his Wife to do some necessary houshold business When his Servant returned and released him his two Pupils attended him to his house where their best entertainment was his Company and having stayed till next morning which was time enough to discover and pity their Tutors condition and having given him as much present comfort as they were able they return to London Then Edwin Sandys acquaints his Father of his Tutors sad case and solicits for his removal to some Benefice that might give him a more comfortable subsistence 12. Not long after Mr. Alvie Master of the Temple died a man of strict Life of great Learning and of so venerable behaviour as to gain such a degree of Love and Reverence from all men that he was generally known by the name of Father Alvie into whose place Bishop Sandys commended Hooker with such effectual earnestness and so many testimonies of his worth that he was sent for to London and there the place was proposed to him by the Bishop as a greater freedom from cares and the advantage of a better Society a more liberal Pension than his Country Parsonage did afford him and at last notwithstanding his averseness he was perswaded to accept of the Bishops proposal being by Patent for life made Master of the Temple March An. 1585. 13. Mr. Walter Travers was Lecturer at the Temple for the Evening Sermons a man of competent Learning of a winning Behaviour and a blameless Life but ordained by the Presbytery in Antwerp He had hope to set up the Geneva Government in the Temple and to that end used his endeavours to be Master of it and his being disappointed by Mr. Hookers admittance proved some occasion of opposition betwixt them in their Sermons Many of which were concerning the Doctrine Discipline and Ceremonies of this Church insomuch that as one hath pleasantly express'd it The Forenoon Sermon spake Canterbury and the Afternoon Geneva 14. The oppositions became so visible and the Consequences so dangerous especially in that place that the prudent Archbishop put a stop to Mr. Travers his Preaching by a positive Prohibition Mr. Travers appeals and Petitions her Majesty and the Privy Council to have it recalled but in vain For the Queen had entrusted the Archbishop with all Church Power Hereupon the party intending the Archbishop's and Mr. Hooker's disgrace privately printed the Petition and scattered it abroad Now is Mr. Hooker forced to appear publickly and print an Answer to it which he did and it proved a full Answer writ with such clear Reason and so much Meekness and Majesty of Style that the Bishop began to wonder at the man to rejoyce that he had appeared in his cause and disdained not earnestly to beg his friendship even a familiar friendship with a man of so much quiet Learning and Humility 15. The Foundation of his eight Books of Ecclesiastical Politie was laid in the Temple but he found it no fit place to finish what he had there designed and therefore solicited the Archbishop for a remove saying When I lost the freedom of my Cell which was my Colledge yet I found some degree of it in my quiet Country Parsonage But I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place And indeed God and Nature did not intend me for Contentions but for Study and Quietness I have begun a work in which I intend the Justification of our Laws of Church Government and I shall never be able to finish it but where I may study and pray for Gods Blessings upon my Endeavours and keep my self in peace and privacy and behold Gods Blessing spring out of my Mother Earth and eat my own Bread without oppositions and therefore if your Grace can judge me worthy such a favour let me beg it that I may perfect what I have begun 16. About this time the Rectory of Boscum in the Diocess of Sarum and six miles from that City became void to which Mr. Hooker was presented in the vacancy of that Bishoprick by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 1591. And in the same year July 17. was he made a minor Prebend of Salisbury the Corps to it being Neather Havin about ten miles from that City which Prebend being of no great value was intended chiefly to make him capable of a better preserment in that Church In this Boscum he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed Books and these were publish'd with that large and affectionate Preface An. 1594. 17. The Parsonage of Bishops-Borne in Kent three miles from Canterbury is that Archbishops Gift In the latter end of the year 1594. Dr. William Redman the Rector of it was made Bishop of Norwich by which means the power of presenting to it was pro ea vice in the Queen And she presented Hooker whom she loved well to this good living of Borne July 7.1595 In which Living he continued till his death without any addition of dignity or profit His fifth Book of Eccl. Politie was Printed first by it self being larger than his first four and dedicated to his Patron Archbishop Whitgift An. 1597. 18. These Books were read with an admiration of their excellency in this and their just same spread it self into Forein Nations Dr. Stapleton having read the first four boasted to Pope Clement VIII That a poor obscure English Priest had writ four such Books of Laws and Church Politie and in a style that express'd so grave and such humble Majesty with