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A REMEMBRANCER OF Excellent Men. I. Dr. John Reynolds II. Mr. Richard Hooker III. Dr. William Whitaker IV. Dr. Andrew Willet V. Dr. Daniel Featley VI. Walter Norban Esq VII Mr. John Gregory VIII Bishop Duppa IX Archbishop Bramhall X. Bishop Taylor Ecclus. 44. 1. Let us now praise Famous Men. LONDON Printed for John Martyn at the Bel without Temple-Bar 1670. TO THE Noble and Ingenious Gentleman-Scholar J. H. In hopes he will live to increase the Number of Excellent Men. THIS REMEMBRANCER Is Dedicate by C. B. A REMEMBRANCER OF Excellent Men. I. Dr. John Reynolds From Sir Wake 's Latin Oration 1. HOW Frail and uncertain is the Life of Man I wish if it had pleased God we might have learned some other way than by this present spectacle Yet must we not lament overmuch the death of this excellent Person whose happiness we cannot doubt of being well assured of his Piety and Virtue one to whom no part of felicity is wanting but that of Virginius Rufus to have another Tacitus to give him a Funeral Commendation As for me whilst I behold this concourse of Scholars at other times pleasant to me now upon this occasion sad and call to mind the Royal tears of Xerxes poured forth at the view of his numerous Army I cannot choose but mourn and sigh having before my eyes as in a glass the image of your Mortality also 2. For who is there that in confidence of Learning Wisdom and Virtue can far extend the hope of Life when the inexorable power above hath not pleased to spare this great propugnator of the Orthodox Religion notwithstanding the tears of our Mother the University and the importunate Prayers of the grieved Church Certainly if those inestimable riches of the mind and unperishable Graces could impart their efficacy to the Body and give strength and vigour to it Reynolds had still lived here not according to his own desire who preferred Heaven but ours who would enjoy him he had lived so as never to dye to grow old or to be sick 3. But to the great loss of Mankind it falls out contrary that the more any man hath enriched his mind with those Divine Ornaments of Learning and Wisdom so much the more hastily does the Soul it self weary of her earthly Tabernacle aspire to a higher dwelling and the Body having spent all the spirits in those noble but laboursome studies fail and decay This was the Reason why this Learned Man after so many Scholastick Victories and triumphs his strength of Body being wasted breathed forth his glorious Soul and left us to lament his departure Indeed he hath lived long enough for himself long enough for Fame which yet he could not have out-lived but not long enough for the Common-wealth which hath need of so perfect a pattern of all Virtue not for the University which wanteth that Light of Learning now extinguished not for the Common Interest of Religion which being deprived of such a Patron is liable to danger 4. For although he hath pull'd off the disguise from the Roman Idolatry and expos'd it to the hatred of God and Man although he hath almost cut the throat of the Antichristian Monster though he hath transfixed the very heart of Popery through the sides of Hart yet Sanders is still untouch'd but he hath felt the hand of God in the Irish Mountains where he wandred Bellarmine is not quite broken Baronius his frauds are not all discovered not to speak of our growing Adversaries In the midst of so much work how could such a man find the leisure to dye the Harvest being so great and the Labourers so few scarce any at all like unto him 5. This is matter of Lamentation to the Church whereof she is so sensible as if she seemed ready to faint at the Death of Reynolds But our Mother the University hath a countenance more sorrowful if more may be and all bedewed with her tears She thinks upon nothing but her Reynolds seemeth still to see her Reynolds to hear Reynolds and to embrace his shadow I cannot deny that our happy Mother hath in this Age so numerous an off-spring of Learned Sons that she may rather rejoyce in her fruitfulness than complain of her loss and if ever now take up that speech of Brasidas his Mother Brasidas indeed was a Worthy and Valiant man but Sparta hath many more such Nevertheless I cannot choose but favour and excuse her pious tears and just grief when I consider she hath lost a person who let not Envy hear so far outshined the rest of her Sons 8. Now let that foul impudent Railer Weston go vomit forth what scurrilities he will and accuse our Doctor of slowness and of pretending Sickness He thinks us all very dull who held such a person in so high Veneration and believed him to be sick whom alas we see dead And yet Weston himself when he so inveighed against the Heads of our University that even for being Married some of them he by name accusing of wickedness could not find so much as one act to be reprehended in the whole life of this most Holy man 9. But he was far off what did they that stood at nearer distance They all dearly lov'd the man they lov'd his manners and integrity And if perhaps his resolute severity and stiffness of mind without favour and partiality might be blamed in him or if any thing else but what could Verily that fault would sooner become a Virtue than our Saint be made Vitious No question but he is in a blessed condition among the Holy Angels As for us who reverence the Memory of this best and wisest man we shall not doubt to pronounce Oxford will then be happy when any equal and like to him shall succeed into his place For we may have whom their great Eloquence infinite Reading sublimity of Wit gravity of Judgment Virtue Humanity Candor and all these shewed in excellent Monuments and Writings may very much commend Reynolds certainly we shall not have In B. Mariae Ox. Maii 25. 1607. Concerning Doctor Reynolds out of Dr. Crackanthorps Defensio Ecclesiae Anglicanae c. 69. p. 491. An. 1625. DOctor Crackanthorp there tells the Archbishop of Spalato that Dr. Reynolds was no Puritan as he called him but he himself a great Calumniator For first he professed that he appeared unwillingly in the Cause at Hampton-Court and meerly in obedience to the Kings Command And then he spake not one word there against the Hierarchy Nay he acknowledged it to be consonant to the Word of God in his Conference with Hart. And in Answer to Sanders his Book of the Schism of England which is in the Archbishops Library he professes that he approves of the Book of Consecrating and Ordering Bishops Priests and Deacons He was a strict observer also of all the Orders of the Church and University both in publick and his own Colledge wearing the square Cap and Surplice kneeling at the Sacrament and he