THEOLOGO-HISTORICVS Or the True LIFE OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Written by his Son in Law JOHN BARNARD D. D. Rec. of Waddington near Lincoln To correct the Errors supply the Defects and confute the Calumnies of a late Writer Also an Answer to Mr. BAXTERS false Accusations of Dr. HEYLYN Quisquis patitur peccare peccantem is vires subministrat Audaciae Arnob. L. 4. LONDON Printed for J. S. and are to be sold by Ed. Eckelston at the Sign of the Peacock in Little-Britain 1683. TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD NATHANIEL Lord Bishop of DURHAM My Honour'd Lord I Here present to your Lordship the true Effigies of Dr. Heylyn drawn to the Life so far as my Pen is able to preserve the memory of his person among the number of worthy men for his extraordinary merits I hope may be truly said to this Church and Nation wherein he labour'd while he liv'd to promote the publick Good of both that his Name will never be forgotten whil'st his Books are extant if we may believe the words of St. Jerome in this particular Vir sapiens saith he diebus noctibus laborat componit Libros ut memoriam suam posteris derelinquat so the Works which this painful Presbyter has publish'd to the World the Catalogue of them being not ordinary with the Writers of our Age and the matter in them upon several Subjects not vulgarly handled I doubt not will perpetuate his Memory to future Posterity especially among all good men who are sincere Lovers of Monarchy and Episcopacy I am sure for his Religion and Loyalty for the Cause of the King and Church of England no man could declare himself a more faithful and zealous example by constant writing and sufferings And for his conversation not only as a good Christian but as becomes a Clergy man it was so unblameable that his most inveterate enemies could never throw dirt in his Face for the least Immoralities Therefore for his sake whom your Lordship hath seen in his house at Abingdon where he made you heartily welcome in those dayes when I had the honour though so unworthy a person to dictate the first Principles of Academical Learning to you which God has since well blessed that you are one and I wish may long continue so of the Cheif Prelates in this Realm I doubt not I say for this Reverend and Learned Mans sake more than mine your Lordship will be pleased to take into your Patronage the Narrative of his Life which I have faithfully composed and retriv'd from the Ignorances and unpardonable deficiencies of a late Writer I am the more nearly concern'd for my Relation sake because Dr. Heylyn was not an ordinary common Clergy-man though he acted in a lower Sphere than the highest Dignitaries in our Church it s sufficiently known he was singularly well acquainted above many others with the principal motions and grand Importances in his time both of Church and State as any man may perceive who will take the pains to peruse his Writings And that he had not only a speculative Science in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Polity of this Nation but was oftentimes employed an Agent by the late King and Arch-Bishop the two blessed Martyrs of this Land in several matters committed to his particular Charge for which he incurr'd the odium of the Mobile and especially of those Factious People then call'd Puritans but now Fanaticks a Name though seems new and strange to them was of old first given by Calvin himself to those who deserting his and the Lutheran way of Reformation out of an aversion to Popery fell upon a contrary extreme Their hair-brain'd zeal without understanding and accompanied with invincible obstinacy in their Enthusiastical Dotages if Power was answerable to their Wills would bring a second desolation upon our Church and confusion in the Kingdom Both which God and his good Angels evermore protect that we may enjoy the inestimable comforts of Peace and Government our true Religion establish'd by Law and Scripture our sacred Ministry second to none for Learning and good Life generally and the ancient Order of Episcopacy deriv'd from the pure Fountain of Apostolical Times heartily prayeth Your Lordships most faithful Servant JOHN BARNARD Errata PAge 3. line 10. read acquainted p. 5. l. 16. r. transcriptions for transcription p. 10. l. 10. r. multavit for mulcavit p. 12. l. 15. r. volumes for volumnes p. 17. l. 2. r. E. p 19. l. 6. dele to p. 20. l. 7. r. joculari for voculari p. 20. l. 19. dele the p. 28. l. 8. r. two for too ibid. r. extremes for extreams p. 24. l. 28. r. thought for think p. 25 l. 4 dele which I sup p. 26 l 20 r. temerarius for teneâ—…arius p. 28 l. 14 r. believe for believed p. 29 l. 20 r. incesserat p. 31 l. 29 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 40 l. 23 r. supra for supera p. 32 in the marg r. Mileu p. 53 r. Euseb for Eusib. p. 54 l. 2 r. horresco for honesco ib. r. nefanda for nefranda p. 55 marg r. Suid. for Suida p. 57 l. 13 r. tends for bend p. 57 l. 24 r. Optatus for Oplatus p. 58 l. 25 r. Presbyterians for Presbiteriaas p. 93 l. 27 r. for p. 95 l. 21. r. manifestaque for manitestaque p. 101 l. 29 r. Levit. for Lenit p. 109 l. 20 r. Antagonist for Antogonist ib. marg r. And. for Aud p. 115 l. 11 add Justice of Peace for the County of Oxon. p. 123 marg r. in for tae p. 125 l. 3 r. Allegations for Accusations ibid r. Retractation for Retraction p. 139 l. 21 r. conference for conferrence p. 143 l. 29 r. where for when p. 144 l. 29 r. Turret for Tower p. 151 l. dele and p. 153 l. 20 r. sitting for sitting p. 186 l. 21 r. rights for right p. 157 l. 15 r. ut for p. p. 191 l. 18 add afterward p. 198 l. 3 r. commended for commanded p. 199 l. 8 r. he for be p. 209 l. 10 r. was for were p. 226 l. 9 r. himself for he p. 228 l. 15 r. there for their p. 255 l. 16. r. the Doctor lived p. 268 l. 23 r. faces for face p. 246 l. 28 dele Lux. r. 〈◊〉 There are more Errors than in the Errata which the good Reader is desired to pass by A Necessary Vindication OF Dr. HEYLYN AND THE AUTHOR of the following LIFE I Had never put my self to the trouble of writing and the Reader to his pains in reading the third Publication of Dr. Heylyn's Life but that I have been most grosly abused in the first and second upon the same Subject At the sight of both which I was not a little amazed but ashamed First to see an anonymous piece printed before the Doctors works which I had ordered otherwise And lately a little Book crept forth
in this Case that most Writers are in love with their Paper-works but the World should first judge whether there is any excellency or real worth in them otherwise it is a fond fancy Narcissus like for any one to be inamoured with his own Shaddow But that which is worse than all this I perceive the Writer is not consistent with himself but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Poets words difficilis facilis juâ—…undus acerbus es idem Because one while he plays the Satyrist against the Fanaticks and afterward turns Factor for the Papists whose cause he could not plead better to please the holy Fathers of the Ignatian Society founded since Luther's time than to render the Name of Protestant odious ` A Name ` saith he that imports little in it of `the positive part of Christianity God forbid and let us then put this into our Litany Lord have mercy upon our Souls who profess our selves to be Protestants and not Papists if the positive part of Christianity be wanting among us For by Name what doth he or can he mean but our Religion and Christian Profession For the Name of Protestant it self is but Thema simplex I may say vox praeterea nihil no more is Catholick Christian Orthodox or any other Name Nomina imponuntur rebus Names are given to things to diversify and distinguish them one from another or else how are they significative of themselves While he goes about to unchristian the Name Protestant or at least makes it Terminus diminuâ—…ns a very slighty Name indeed he endeavours to overthrow the true Protestant Religion For ever since the first Reformation and change of Religion wrought among us by our just and necessary separation from communion with the Church of Rome we and our Fore-fathers have constantly gone under the Name of Protestants though originally I acknowledge this Name was taken up by those Princes of Germany who adhering to Luther's Doctrine made their Protestation at Spires the imperial Chamber and afterward set forth the Augustane Confession since which time the Church of England having cast off the Papacy this Name hath been the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or remark of distinction betwixt us and Papists Our Kings and Princes not only acknowledging the same but have defended the Protestant Religion his most sacred Majesty whose Life God long preserve among us in most or all his Speeches unto his High Court of Parliament hath graciously declared to secure and defenâ—… the Protestant Interest and Religion His Royal Father the most glorious Martyr of our Church but two days before his Death told the Princess Elizabeth That he should die for the maintaining the true Protestant Religion and charged her to read Arch-Bishop Laud's Book against Fisher to ground her against Popery And why were the Jesuiâ—…s so active about his Death that some of them became Agitators in the Independant Army but because it was agreed before by the Pope and his Council saith Dr. du Moulin that there was no way for advancing the Catholick Cause in England but by making away the King of whom there was no hope to turn from hiâ—… Heresie because he was a Protestant I cannot omit Arch-Bishop Laud's words at the time of his Tryal before the Lords Anno Dom. 1643. Saith he Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business of Religion so far from all practice or so much as thought of practice for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing of the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my Mother first â—…are me into the World In his Speech upon the Scaffold before his Death he saith thus of the King I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign He hath â—…een mâ—…d traduced for bringing in of Popery â—…ut on my Conscience of which I shall give God a very present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any Man living and I hold him to bâ—… as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any Man in this Kingdom And now hath not this Name Protestant which imports our Religion been owned by all our Judges and Lawyers the Lord chief Justice speaking of Papists If they cannot saith he at this time live in a Protestant Kingdom with security to their Neighbours but cause such fears and dangers and that for Conscience sake then let them keep their Conscience and leave the Kingdom Mr. Justice Wild in like manner Had such a thing as this been acted by us Protestants in any Popish Country in the World I doubt there would not have been scarce one of us left a live I might bring in here Sir William Jones Mr. Finch Mr. Recorder of London And truly if we are ashamed of our Name we may be of our Religion and cannot blame Popish Plots to subvert it if we hold not funâ—…lamentals which are the positive parts of Christianiâ—…y The Jesuit hawketh not for â—…parrows his zeal to destroy our Religion carries him through Fire and Water Sea and Land over Rocks and Mountains to gain a Proselyte according to those Verses I find in Pareus alluding to the Pharisee and Hor the Poet. Impiger extremos Jesuita excurrit ad Indos Per mare discipulum quaerens per saxa per ignes Juventumque facit se duplo deteriorem Sea Land Fire craggy Rocks and Indian Shore A Jesuit's frantick zeal transports him o're One Romish Proselyte to make once made Child of the Devil twice then before he 's said Nay he hath the patience to stay at home and there no dull Stoick can excel him in this Vertue if he be once commanded by his Superior he will obey though his work be no other saith Mapheus than to water a dry log of Wood for a year together he will not presume to ask the reason why but does it Then how much more ready is he to propagate the Gatholick Cause and in order thereto adventure upon any action if it be to the hazard of his Life while he is commanded by his Father General at Rome and the Congregatio de Propaganda fide What will not he undertake to extirpate the Name of Protestant and think he does God Service for if positive Christianity be not imported in it then we are Negatives we are Jews Infidels Pagans and cannot be denominated Christians for Positive and Negative are contradicentia there can be no reconciling or tacking them together and accoâ—…ding to my Logick a Contradiction is omnium oppositorum fortissima the strongest and most forcible of all oppositions But I would know what are the Principles of Protestantisâ—… that are so contradictory to Christianity they must be either credenda or facienda matters relating to Faith or Christian practice Do we hold any points of Faith contrary to the Primitive Catholick Church Or deny Obedience to the Commands of God either in his Law or Gospel
that the dear Saints in England had their Nose and their Ears slit for the profession of the Gospel The Parliament then might pretend the revenge of Mr. Pryns sufferings by a retaliation of a worse punishment upon Dr. Heylyn but the real cause that exasperated them was the good Doctors Loyalty to his King and fidelity to his Arch-Bishop the two great Pillars of the Church to whom all true Sons of the Church of England ought to be faithful And finally the many Books the Doctor had written and still likely to write more against the Puritan Faction was the grand cause of all his flights and sufferings in the time of War Est fuga dicta mihi non est fuga dicta Libellis Qui Domini paenam non meruere sui Though I am forc'd to fly my Books they are not fled No reason for my sake they should be punished At what Friends house he was now secured from danger though I have heard it named indeed I have forgot but from thence he travelled to Doctor Kingsmil a Loyal Person of great worth and ancient Family where he continued and sent for his Wife and Daughter from Winchester to him and from thence removed to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire the pleasant Seat of his elder Brother in the year An. Dom. 1648. which he farmed of his Nephew Collonel Heylyn for six years Being deprived of his Eâ—…astial Preferments he must think of some honest way for a Livelihood Fruges lustramus agros Ritus ut a prisco traditus extat aevo Yet notwithstanding he followed his studies which was his chief delight for though the 〈◊〉 Powers had silenced his Tongue from preaching they could not withold his Pen from writing and that in an acute and as sharp a stile as formerly after he had done with his frequent visits of Friends and long perambulations For the publick good of the Church to uphold her ancient maintenance by Tithes being rob'd then of all her other dues and dignities though himself was sequestred of both his Livings and made inâ—…apable of receiving any benefit by Tithes yet for the common cause of Christianity and in mere compassion of the Presbyterian Clergy though his profest Enemies he published at that time when Tithes were in danger to be taken away from them an excellent little Tract to undeceive the People in the point of Tithes and proveth therein That no man in the Realm of England payéth any thing of his own toward the maintenance of his Parish Minister but his Easter Offerings At the same time he enlarged his Book of Geography into a large Folio which was before but a little Quarto and intitâ—…led it with the name of Cosmography of which it may be truly said it does contain a world of Learning in it as well as the Description of the World and particularly sheweth the Authors most excellent Abilities not only in History and smoothness of its style that maketh the whole Book delightful to the Reader but in Chronology Genealogy and Heraldry in which last any one may see that he could blazon the Arms and describe the Descent and Pedigree of the greatest Families in Europe In which pleasing study while he spent his time his good Wife a discreet and active Lady looked both after her Housewifery within doors and the Husbandry without thereby freeing him from that care and trouble which otherwise would have hindred his laborious Pen from going through so great a work in so short a time And yet he had several divertisements by company which continually resorted to his House for having God be thanked his Temporal Estate cleared from Sequestration by his Composition with the Commissioners at Gold-Smiths Hall and this Estate which he farmed besides he was able to keep a good house and relieve his poor Brethren as himself had found relief from others Charity that his House was the Sanctuary of sequestred men turned out of their Livings and of several ejected Fellows out of Oxford more particularly of some worthy persons I can name as Dr. Allibone Mr. Levit Mr. Thornton Mr. Ashwel who wrote upon the Creed who would stay for two or three Months at his House or any other Acquaintance that were suffering men he cheerfully received them and with a hearty welcom they might tarry as long as they pleased The Doctor himself modestly speaks of his own Hospitality how many that were not Domesticks had eaten of his Bread and drunk of his Cup. A Vertue highly to be praised and most worthy of commendation in it self for which Tacitus giveth this Character of the old Germanes Convictibus Hospitiis non alia gens Effusius indulget Greater Hospitality saith he and Entertainment no Nation shewed more bountifully accounting it as a cursed thing not to be civil in that kind according to every mans ability and when all was spent the good Master of the House would lead his Guest to the next Neighbours House where he though not invited was made welcom with the like courtesie Among others kindly entertained Mr. Marchamont Needham then a zealous Loyalist and Scourge to the Rump Parliament was sheltered in the Doctors House being violently pursued till the Storm was over the good Doctor then as his Tutelar Angel preserved him in a high Room where he continued writing his weekly Pragmaticus yet he afterward like Balaam the Son of Beor hired with the wages of Unrighteousness corrupted with mercinary Gifts and Bribes became the only Apostate of the Nation and writ a Book for the pretended Common-wealth or rather I may say a base Democracy for which the Doctor could never after endure the mention of his name who had so disobliged his Country and the Royal Party by his shameful Tergiversation The good Doctors Charity did not only extend it self to ancient Friends and Acquaintance but to mere Strangers by whom he had like to run himself into a Premunire For word being carried to him in his Study there was a Gentleman at the door who said he was a Commander in the Kings Army and carâ—…estly desired some relief and harbour the Doctor presently went to him and finding by his Discourse and other Circumstances what he said was true received him into his House and made him very welcom the Gentleman was a Scotch Captain who having a Scotch Diurnal in his Pocket they read it fearing no harm thereby but it proved otherwise for one of the Doctors Servants listning at the door went straight way to Oxford and informed the Governour Collonel Kelsey that his Master had received Letters from the King whereupon the Governour sent a Party of Horse to fetch him away Strange News it was knowing his own Innocency to hear that Soldiers had beset his House so early in the Morning before he was out of Bed But go he must to appear before the Governour and when he came that treacherous Rogue his Man did confidently affirm that he heard the Letters read and was sure
In a word are Protestants Christians or no Or only nominal and not real I think they are the best and purest sort of Christians ever since the Apostolick times that they come nearest the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the example of them at Antioch who were first called Christians We do not know how to distinguish men of the Church of England from the Church of Rome but by this characteristial Name or Appellation because in the times of Popery as appears not only by Linwood but by the constitutions of Otho and Othobon The Ecclesiastical Body of this Nation was anciently called the Church of England Ecclesia Anglicana and so it continueth to this day but with this discrimination only that we are Protestants in the Church of England and not Papists I know it will be objected this Name is abused by Fanaticks who impudently dare arrogate it to themselves and are ordinarily now called Protestants What then Abusus non tollit usum they are Protestants Catachrestice as Papists call themselves Catholicks And if they will boldly usurp the Name which no way belongs to them their Tongues are their own and they will speak Who is Lord over us say they And who can hinder them The Hereticks of old time who were ex parte Donati of Donatus side did the like and yet the Orthodox deemed themselves never the worse for their Pride and Usurpation The Name of Christian was common both to them and the Orthodox as Optatus the good Father tells them Pro utrisque illud est quod nobis commane est vobis Such Scandals are unavoidable therefore with patience must be born And it was the like complaint of Lactantius but what Remedy The Novatians Valentinians Marcionites and Arrians saith he Quilibet alij nominantur Christiani Christiâ—…i esse desâ—…runt any other Hereticks were called Christians though they were none So that 't is no wonder the Sectaries of our Age will confidently take upon themselves the Name of Protestants they do but as other Schismaticks who were their ancient Predecessors Mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur Yet some of the baser sort of them as Quakers and Independents despise the Name of Protestant and hold it in as great derision as the Papists do and no doubt have learned from the soul Mouth of Father Doleman alias Parsons and from Watson in his Quodlibets to call us of the Church of England Queen Besses Protestants However it does not become any Son of the Church much less the Rector of Bourton to bite and snarl at the Name of Protestant which distinguishes him from a Mass-priest especially in such times as ours when Papist and Fanatick joyn hand in hand mouth and tongue together against us because our Church is of Queen Elizabeths Religion and Reformation A Queen notwithstanding the malicious slanders of her Enemies the Popes Bull of Damnation against her and the Non-Conformists now Condemnation of her She was the most admired Princess of Europe in her time the glory and wonder of her Sex etiam supera Sexum saith Thuanus though himself a Papist and Beza the Successor of Calvin at Geneva gives her this Character of high praise which methinks our Dissenters should assent unto that she was a Queen God sent from Heaven to be a Nursing Mother at home unto the Church of England and to Protestant Churches abroad Let us hear his words more fully In Anglia opus Domini qui serenissimam illam ecclesiarum non tantum Anglicanarum fortissimam instauraticem verum etiam peregrinarum religiosissimam nutricem Flizabetham instaurandae suae Domui quasi sua ipsius manu coelitus demisit God be thanked also the Reformation of Religion and the Church of England became Protestant before her time Our Religion being established by Law in the Reign of her young Brother the most excellent Prince Edward the 6th whose Laws were written in Milk and not in Blood like those of Queen Mary his Sister who succeeded him Our Religion and Ecclesiastical Government by Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. is still the same as was in the Reigns of Edward the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth of blessed Memory in whose time this Kingdom was accounted Regnum Evangelii the Kingdom of the Gospel Now why our Dissenters should dissent why they should be so averse to the Protestant Religion then established by Law and is now the very same in all Articles of Faith Form of Worship and Ecclesiastical Discipline and yet they are not satisfied I must profess that I see no reason for their dissatisfaction but Will and Humor that they are as they have been and still resolve to be of a perverse and democratical Spirit in all matters relating to Church and State much less cause have they to reproach the Name of the most Renowned Queen Elizabeth which has been held in exceeding great veneration among all Protestants in forreign Kingdoms whose incomparable Vertues of Learning Piety Prudence Modesty Meekness Stoutness and other rare Perfections are described by a Poet living in her days and are as followeth O 〈◊〉 solum sapias 〈◊〉 Anglia parte hac Ut grate agnoscas Jovis benefacta 〈◊〉 En dedit affectam divina mente 〈◊〉 Imperij quae â—…um docta ingeniosa severa Et 〈◊〉 veneranda pudica animosa venenda 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tenera 〈◊〉 commoda 〈◊〉 Tot tibi contulerit quot 〈◊〉 nemo priorum Et quae vera Dei sit religione fruare Papa fugit solio Patris Regina locatur May be Englished thus O England native Soil of mine pay thanks to Jove The great and powerful God of Heaven above No one with larger gifts he could inspire Than such a noble Princess for Empire Learn'd ingenious modest meek and bold England's great Scepter in her hand to hold Queen of all Blessings to this Nation more Hath brought than all her Ancestors before Gods true Religion flourish'd Pope he 's gone When she ascended to her Fatherâ—… Throne Let us then not be ashamed of our Religion nor judge the worse of it much less deny our Christian Name since our departure from the Church of Romé because Papists and Fanaticks nick-name us Queen Besses Protestants Such dirt flung upon Majesty rebounds back with shame on their own Faces and will hereafter to their eternal confusion who dare reproach the Lords anointed The Pope himself first played 〈◊〉 part to throw Dirt and Stones at her by calling her misera Faemina a wretched Woman afterward followed many Rabsâ—…eka's especially Sanders and Rishton who termed her Lupam Anglicanam the Wolf-Bitch of England though she had more of the Lamb than the Wolf for she thirsted not after Blood as her Sister Queen Mary did Finally Parsons alias Cow 〈◊〉 a Priest's Bastard writ a Cart-load of Libels against her These were the Popes Birds and many other of the same Feather employed by his Holiness as the Alexandrians kept their Ibides to devour the
Mr. Baxter makes a hideous cry As Murder it self cannot be concealed no more can those Actions that border upon it but Divine Vengeance will pursue whosoever is guilty of either which the very Heathen took notice of when he saith Raro antecedentem scelestum deseruit pede paena claudo The innocent Doctor is falsly accused of words but now his Accuser is truly arraigned and upon his indictment found guilty of bloody deeds For he that is a Partizan with cruel men or an Abettor and Encourager of them is certainly a Pertaker with them and not only an Accessary to the Fact but a Principal as in all Sanguinary Causes according to our Statute Laws there are no Accessaries but Principals and I am sure in Foro poli or the Court of Heaven such Offenders are alike But the Man is still alive What then the intention of killing him and their leaving him for dead is a breach of the sixth Commandment as if it were actual homicide Murther was intended Mr. Baxter standing by not once reproving Hurdman but setting him thereon by his own example calling the Major Rogue I say it had been Murther with all cruelty to the height if the poor man had dyed because it is against the Law of Arms after a Battel fought to kill our Enemy in cold blood And as the Case now stands aggravated with all the Circumstances alledged Mr. Baxter can no ways acquit himself because he cannot be ignorant of this Rule Nullum Praeceptum consistit in indivisibili that no Precept of Gods Law is tyed up to one single or individual act but has a greater latitude in it as all kinds of Murther is forbidden whether of the bea rt tongue or hand unmercifulness cruelty revenge hatred malice is Murther Whosoever hateth his Brother saith the Apostle he is a Murtherer and you know that no Murtherer hath eternal Life in him Also every Precept of Gods Law is both affirmative and negative under the affirmative all duties that possibly can be reduced to it are implyed and under the negative which is of greater force because it binds ad semper as the Schools say all things which come within the verge of it as cruelty inhumanity c. are absolutely forbidden Mr. Baxters personal presence gave countenance to the bloody action much more in being a delightful Spectator of it which ought to have been abhorred by him Nero himself could not behold bloody Tragedies though he commanded them saith the Historian Et jussit scelera Nero non spectavit Much more barbarous actions are hateful to the Eyes of all Christians that Constantine after his Conversion by publick Edict did forbid all monstrous and bloody Spectacles in the Amphitheater For a Minister of Jesus Christ as he calls himself who preaches against hardness of heart to be so cruel hearted himself as not to pity a poor Christian weltring in his blood and wounds for the cause only of his King and Country to shew no mercy nor Cristian compassion towards him not so much as we would do to a Turk or an Infidel but call him Rogue Popish Rogue violently pulling from his Neck the Kings Picture and seeing him dragg'd up and down in the Fields by merciless Souldiers Honesco referens It was a more lamentable sight than the Spectacula nefranda when Christians were torn in pieces by wild Beasts in the Roman Theater I must therefore say to Mr. Baxter as the High-priest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Are these things so I sincerely wish from my heart that he may and I hope he will repent and ask God and the Major forgiveness which is the lest part of pennance and satisfaction he can perform for so heinous an Offence and till then with what confidence can Mr. Baxter preach to his Auditors being a silenced Minister both by the Laws of the Land and his own Conscience that must needs fly in his face and sorely exagitate him as it was once the Case of Origen who sinned not maliciously but out of fear and cowardice to save his life This Scripture struck him to the heart Why doest thou preach my Laws and takest my Covenant in thy mouth whereas thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my words behind thee If Mr. Baxter will look out of his broken Church History into true Ecclesiastical History he shall find Origen's Repentance set forth by Suidas for a most excellent Example to imitate He was called Syntacticus for compiling many Books in which Mr. Baxter does strive to follow him in writing many Books full of Errors but not so learnedly erreth as Origen did and and probably if he will not leave the odious quality of abusing reverend and worthy men his Books may hereafter run the same fortune with Origens to be publickly condemned For He cannot forbear railing upon Dr. Heylyn after he hath laid in his Grave near twenty years Speaking of the late Wars saith he Not only Lads that knew it not but Heylyn the great Reproacher of Reformers would make men believe that it was Presbyterians in England that began the strife and War What Heylyn There be many Heylyns in England which of them So profest an Enemy he is to Degrees because he was himself I hear never a Graduate or an University-man that he is a Despiser of those Dignities in others For his insolency in this kind and errors in other matters he was once soundly swinged by the Doctor and the Correction put an end to all the Epistolary Controversies between them that he was fain then to lower his Top-sail and durst never appear in the Doctors time top and top gallant In revenge of which and therein he thinks he hath done a great Act not to call him so much as Peter Heylyn Mr. Heylyn or Good-man Heylyn nay he will not allow him a Christian Name because he will be out of Charity with him both alive and dead This is the man that prefesseth so much mortification humility and self-denyal Yet no man swelleth with more spiritual pride Mare Adriatico superbior But why is Heylyn a Reproacher of the Reformers I cannot tell unless this be accounted a reproach which rather tendeth to his credit that he is an impartial Writer of Histories relating the naked Truth of things without respect of Persons and chiefly because he utterly dislikes such a Reformation of Religion that is carried on in a popular and tumultuary way which I think cannot be justifiable neither by Law Reason nor Scripture nor by all the Learning Mr. Baxter hath or ever shall have to prove the contrary I appeal to the ancient Fathers and the primitive Christians in the first Centuries whether this was judged by them an approvable way of Reformation that is effected by the vulgar sort who are not competent Judges of Religion but by the Authority of the Christian Magistrate with the advice and good counsel of the Clergy which is the only regular and most Scriptural
way the other bends to Sedition Blood-shed and Confusion if it be left to the Multitude Which caused the good Father to complain of the Donatists Basilicas invasistis multi ex numero vestro per loca plurima cruentas operati sunt caedes And what outragious acts were done by the Donatists against Churches Altars consecrated Vessels and necessary utensils for the Sacrament Haec omnia furor vester aut rasit aut fregit aut removit saith Oplatus All these things your fury hath raz'd down or defaced or taken them away And hath not this been the practice of some Reformers God be thanked not in the Church of England and let other Churches of the reformed Religion look to themselves I am sure it is a detestible Principle which the Primitive Christians from their hearts did abhor that if the Magistrate will not reform the Church and State then the people must Their Piety and Patience is most exemplary to us that we should rather suffer for true Religion than make resistance or Reformation by rebellion It was a seditious saying of Donatus Quid est Imperatori cum Ecclesia What hath the Emperor to do with the Church But be he either Heathen or Christian and if Christian either Orthodox or Heterodox in the Faith the good Catholicks did not then seek to establish their Religion vi armis much less without his Authority or at least connivance of their Emperors publickly exercise their Religion Secondly that which so imbitters Mr. Baxter against Dr. Heylyn is saith he That Heylyn would make men believe that it was Presbyteriaas in England that began the late Strife and War And who believes otherwise but they who have a bloody mind to War again Have we not seen it with our Eyes and others who were unborn then have heard with their Ears the same by many Witnesses and Writers besides Dr Heylyn What must men deny their senses It is not in the power of the Doctor nor any other to possess people with a belief and perswasion of things whether they will or no but as they appear evident to sense reason or understanding they give credit to them accordingly Mr. Baxter imitates the Papists He thinks of the War as they do of the Gun-powder Plot that it is so long ago it must be either forgotten or cannot be proved He and those of his Tribe would be blowing their Trumpets again for a second War and cry out to your Tents O Israel but God in his mercy I hope will preserve the Land that is grown more wise by sad experience of the late troubles than to be twice deceived The pretence of Reformation and Reformers whose Credit Mr. Baxter would still hold up he cannot endure they should be touched was the Pulchra Laverna of Rebelion both in England and Scotland Who were the first Reformers but the Presbyterians Who was it An Episcopal man or a Presbyterian that said Strike the Basilick vein for nothing else will cure the plurisy of our State and after followed the fatal stroke given upon the Lords anointed to the terror and consternation of the whole Kingdom but much more to the shame and confusion of it And how many years after was this Nation ridden with the Reformers That it might have been called instead of France Regnum Asinorum for the unmerciful loads of Oppression it groaned under till at last wearied and tired out with them it kickt off her Riders and I am confident will never take to them again For what were the fruits of the godly Reformation Sacriledge and a continued Rebellion Church and Crown Robberies the King deprived of all his Right and Revenues and the Church of her ancient Demeans and Dignities from both which as no good consequence any one might conceive did follow a horrible Anarchy and confusion not only Dr. Heylyn but the World it self is judge of these things whether the Presbyterians were not the Principal and I may say the only causes of the late Wars and those evils attending them I think the Doctor set the Sadle upon the right Horse But I am sure Mr. Baxter doth not when he puts Lads and Dr. Heylyn together who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and very irreverently conjoyned together yet perhaps those Boys think themselves as good Men as Mr. Baxter and possibly to have as much Learning however more discretion in them than appears in him who shamefully complains of his feebleness to his Wife For modesty sake I dare not set down the words written at the end of his Letter to her which he hath printed in his Narrative of her Life But who are these Lads that knew not the War and yet will be talking of it I very well apprehend his meaning and confess I was then but a Youth but now am old and gray-headed that what I have written I hope to make good and fear not to meet Mr. Baxter upon a fair Challenge any where in the half-way except between Lynsel and Longford In the mean while he who Styles himself so proudly in the Title page of his Church History Richard Baxter a Hater of false Histories Let him not falsisie Dr. Heylyn nor others who approve themselves truer Historians than himself whom I now attach for falshood in saying this scandalous story of the Doctor That he himself had laid much of the War on the Arch-Bishops and Bishops and on the Parliaments complaints of Popery Arminianism and arbitrary illegalities In his Hist. of Presb. pag. 465. pag. 470. In all which pages ne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quidem there is not a word or syllable can be found of these things nor to such purpose that I wonder he hath the face to charge Dr. Heylyn with them when he pro fesseth himself to be a Hater of false Histories no sooner the word is out of his mouth but within a page or two he makes this abominable falsity I do suspect him now more than ever about Major Iennings business and conclude him to be guilty Could any one rationally think that the Doctor who in all his Time and Books appeared a most zealous Champion for the Bishops and in that cause I may say was Dr. Irrefr agabilis would lay to their charge much or little that they were procatarcical causes of the War especially when he vindicates them in all his Writings from this malicious aspersion which the Puritan Faction would have thrown upon them He was not a man of contradictions like Richard Baxter in most of his Writings for which every Lad is apt to lug his Beard as the Poet said of the Stoick vellent tibi barbam lascivi pueri No no he had a wiser Head-piece and better Memory than any Baxter That he never exposed himself to shame or censure for any contradiction that could be fouud in all his Writings Qualis ab inâ—…epto processerit sibi constet Instead of Mr Baxters Allegation the Doctor tells us in the same page 464
distemper but he betook himself from his Bed to his Book and fell upon a more than ordinary piece of study The History of the Church of England since the Reformation An easie matter for others to tread the Path when he had found out the Way Though he is dead he yet speaketh and the truth of things without respect of persons not to ingratiate himself with the Parliament and Presbyterian party to make our Religion it self Parliamentary which Papists and Presbyterians affirm he spared no pains nor cost to search into old Records Registers of Convocation Acts of Parliament Orders of Council Table and had the use of Sir Robert Cottons Library to take out what Books he pleased leaving a pawn of Mony behind for them In all his other Writings what a faithful Historian he hath appeared to the World is sufficiently known and will be shewed in this particular In the mean while let not men be too credulous of anothers Transcriptions that are under question an verbum de verbo expressum extulit Whether they are copyed out exactly from the originals wherein lyes the main controversie in matter of fact which I am not bound nor other men to believe till we are convinced by our own Eyes besides it is an inglorious encounter to fight with a mans Ghost after he has been dead near twenty years with whom the late Historian nor any other whilst he was living durst venture with him in the point The Heathens scorn'd to rake in the Ashes of the dead but as Tacitus says of Agricola ut in loco Piorum manibus destinato placide quiescat that he might rest without disturbance in the place appointed for Souls However the Doctors Learning and Fidelity in History is so publickly known that it is not in the power of any Scot or English Aristarchus to blast his good Name And let this suffice at present Magnus Aristarcho major Homerus erat Whilst he was so intent upon the History of Reformation he found little encouragement to go on in these studies for the discontents that boyled in this Nation and the Commotions then begun in Scotland upon pretence of the Common-prayer imposed upon them And a mere pretence indeed it was for herein was nothing done but with the consent and approbation of their own Scottish Bishops who made what Alterations in the Liturgy they pleased to which they had his Majesties Royal Assent but the blame was wholly laid upon the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who only commended the Book to them spe quidem laudabili sed eventu pessimo as the learned Dr. Bates said the success being improsperous though the enterprise commendable the Arch-Bishop unjustly censured for it he caused Dr. Heylyn to translate the Scotch Liturgy into Latin and his Lordship intended to set out his own Apology with the Book to vindicate himself from those aspersions thrown upon him that the World might be satisfied with his Majesties Piety and Goodness and his Lordships own care and readiness to serve that Nation but their hasty Rebellion to which they were ever precipitant put an end to the Bishops Apology and the Doctors Translation Hamilton whom Dr. Burnet doth so highly applaud had a party that not only opposed this Liturgy but betrayed the King on all occasions nay some of the Bed-Chamber who were Scots were grown so sawcy and impudent that they used to ransack the good Kings Pockets when he was in Bed to transcribe such Letters as they found and send the Copies to their Country-men in the way of Intelligence To speak the matter in a word he was grown of Scots in Fact a King though not in Title His Majesty being looked on by them as a Cypher in the Arithmatick of State The Scotch Covenanters after the unhappy War was begun called it Bellum Episcopale the Bishops War raised only to uphold their Hierarchy but the truth is as the Doctor proveth Though Liturgy and Episcopacy were made the occasions yet they were not the causes of the war Religion being but the Vizard to disguise the business which Covetousness Sacriledge and Rapine had the greatest hand in for the King resolving to revoke all grants of Abby Lands the Lands of Bishopricks and Chapters and other Religious Corporations which have been vested in the Crown by Act of Parliament were conferred on many of the Nobility and Gentry in his Fathers Minority when he was under Protectors whence the Nobility of Scotland made use of discontented and seditious Spirits under colour of the Canons and Common prayer to embroyl that Kingdom that so they might keep their Lands and hold up their Power and Tyranny over the people To appease the Tumults in Scotland and quench the sparks of Sedition that began to kindle in England the King called a Parliament and issued out his Writ for Clerks in Convocation at which time the Doctor was chosen by the Colledge of Westminster their Clerk to sit in Convocation where he proposed a most excellent expediency which would be of happy use if still continued for the satisfaction of some scrupolous Members in the House of Commons about the Ceremonies of our Church That there might be a mutual conference by select Commitees between the House of Commons and the lower House of the Convocation that the Clergy might give the Commons satisfaction in the point of Ceremonies and all other things relating to the Church which motion from him was well accepted and generally assented thereto And no doubt a most happy success would have followed upon it not only to take away all scruples but to beget a Reverence and Love from the Commons to the Clergy by such a mutual Conference and Conversation But this Parliament being then suddenly dissolved put a period to that and all other business at the news of which brought unexpectedly to the Doctor while he was bufie then at the election for the School of Westminster his pen fell from his hand himself struck dumb with admiration Obstupuit steteruntque comae vox fancibus haesit A sad and unfortunate day it was saith the Doctor and the news so unpleasing brought hiâ—… by a friend whilst he was writing some dispatches it so astonished him though he â—…ad heard some inkling of it the night before that suddenly the Pen fell out of his hand and long it was before he could recollect his Spirits to give an answer The Convocation usually endeth in course the next day after the dissolution of Parliament But the Doctor well knowing that one great end of calling Parliaments is to raise the King money for the publick concerns he therefore went to Lambeth and showed the Arch-Bishop a preced ent in the reign of Queen Elizabeth for granting subsidies or a benevolence by Convocation to be levyed upon the Clergy without the help of a Parliament whereby the Kings necessities for mony might be supplyed and so it successfully fell out the Arch-Bishop acquainting the King with this present expediency
the Convocation still continued sitting notwithstanding the dissolution of Parliament And when this was scrupled at by some of the house the Doctor resolved their doubts and rid them of their fears by shewing them the distinction betwixt the Kings Writ for calling a Parliament and that for assembling a Convocation Their different forms and independence of one upon another Finally it was determined by the King himself and his learned counsel in the Law That the Convocation called by his Majesties Writ was to be continued till it was dissolved by his Writ notwithstanding the dissolution of Parliament This benefit the King got by their fitting six subsidies under the name of Benevolences which the Clergy payd to him On Friday May 29 the Canons of that Convocation were unanimously subscribed unto by all the Bishops and Clergy No one of them dissenting but the Bishop of Glocester for which he was deservedly suspended who afterward turned Papist and was the only renegado Prelat of this Land Of this Convocation Sir Edward Deering to shew his wit which he dearly payd for after in one of his speeches to the house of Commons was pleased to say that every one that had a hand in making their Ganons should come unto the Bar of the House of Commons with a Candle in one hand and a book in the other and there give fire to his own Canons which good fortune afterward fell upon his own book of speeches NecLex est justior ulla which by order of the House of Commons was burnt in the Fire by the hand of the common Hang-man A publick disgrace that he worthily deserv'd for his proud Eloquence in often pratling against the King and Church In another of his speeches he tells them That if they câ—…uld bring the Lords to sit in the House of Commons and the King to be but as one of the Lords then the work was done And finally in a nother he so abuseth all the Cathedrals in the Kingdom with so foul a mouâ—… as if he had licked up the filth of all the former Libells to vomit it at once upon them And yet this Gentleman afterward as Doctor Heylyn saith made it his earnest suit to be Dean of Canterbury which being denied him by the King in a great discontent he returned to the Parliament c. But lastly to consider the sad condition of that Convocation before they were dissolved the Doctor as one of their fellow members speaks most feelingly during all the time of their sitting they were under those horrid fears by reason of the discontents falling upon the Parliaments dissolution that the King was fain to set a Guard about Westminster-Abby for the whole time of their fitting Poor men to what a distress were they brought in danger of the Kings displeasure if they rose of the peoples fury if they sate in danger of being beaten down by the following Parliament when the work was done and after all obnoxious to the Lash of censorious tongues for their good intendments for notwithstanding their great care that all things might be done with decency and to edification every one must have his blow at them For Pryn published the unbishoping of Timothy and Titus and his other Libel of news from Ipswich wherein he called the Arch-Bishop of Cant. Arch-Agent of the Devil that Belzebub himself had been Arch-Bishop and all the Bishops were Luciferian Lords The like reproaches were thundered out of the Pulpit by Burton in his Sermon on Pro. 24. v. 22. where he abused the Text and Bishops sufficiently calling them instead of Fathers Step-Fathers for Pillars Cater-Pillars limbs of the Beast Factors for Antihcrist and antichristian Mushromes Bastwick laid about him before in his Flagellum Episcoporum Latialium when he had worn out that Rod took another in his Litany Finally the Rabble had a cursed Song among them to affront the poor Clergy with as they met them saying Your Bishops are bite-Sheep Your Deans are Dunces Your Preists are the Preists of Baal The Devil fetch them all by bunches And now the Fire smothering in the Embers at last broke forth into an open flame at the Session of the next Parliament which was fatall both to Chureh and State and finally to themselves that with scorn they were turn'd out of doors by their own Servants who became their Masters The first fitting of them was on a dismal day notable and infamous Novemb. 3d. when Henry 8 began the dissolution of Abbyes and Papists with Protestants were laid both on one hurdle and burnt together at the same Stake the King then promised his people should for ever be acquitted of Taxes ut facilius illi monasteia concederentur saith Sanders that Monasteries and Religious houses might be more easily granted to him The Parliment opening on that critical day Arch-Bishop Laud was advertised in a letter to move the King that for good luck sake their Session might be put off to another day but this being looked upon by his Lordship as a superstitious conceit he waved the motion of it to the King which proved afterward the fall of himself and the Hierarchie At the opening of this long Parliament a general Rumor was spread abroad that Doctor Heylyn was run away for fear of an approaching storm that was like to fall on his own head as well as on his Lordships Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury but he who was ever of an undaunted Spirit would not pusillanimously desert the Cause of the King and Church then in question but speedily hastned up to London from Alrèsford to coufute the common Calumny and false report raised on him by the Puritan faction that he appeared the next day in his Gown and Tippet in Westminster Hall and in the Church with his accustomed formalities of Cap Hood and Surplice employed also his Pen boldly in defence of the Bishops right when the temporal Lords began to shake the Hierarchy in passing a vote that no Bishop should be of the Committee for examination of the Earl of Strafford being causa sanguinis upon which the Doctor drew up a breif and excellent discourse full of Law and History entituled de jure paritatis Episcoporum The Bishops right of Peerage so consequently that they ought to sit in that Committee their priviledge and right are maintained by him which by Law or ancient custom doth belong unto theâ—… It is worth our while to see what he hath written upon this point in the cause of Bloud many years after the first discourse of the Bishops Peerage when there was little hopes of ever their returning again into the House of Peers That the Bishops were disabled by some ancient Canons saith he from sentencing any man to death and it may be from being present when any such sentences was pronounced I shall easily grant but that they were disabled from being assistants in such case from taking the examinations or hearing the depositions of Witnesses or
â—…o the utmost of his power he had exercised his Pen in the defâ—…nce both of the Crown Scepter and Miter his Soul then transported with joy that he should survive the usurped powers and see with his old bad eyes the King settled upon his Fathers Throne and peace upon Israel In the Evening after the Ceremonies of the Coronation were over while the Ordinance was playing from the Tower it happened to thunder violently at which some persons who were at supper with him seemed much affrighted I very well remember an expression of his upon the same according to the Poets word Intonuit laetus that the Ordinance of Heaven answered those of the Tower rejoycing at the solemnity with which the Company being exceedingly pleased there followed much Joy and Mirth Thus being settled in Westminster he fell upon the old work of building again and repairing which is the costly pleasure of Clergy men for the next Generation because building is like planting the chief benefit of which accrues to their Successors that live in another Age as Cicero said of them who took delight in planting Oake-Trees Serunt Arbores quae prosiâ—…t alteri saeculo He enlarged his Prebends House by making some convenient Additions to it perticularly he erected a new Dining Room and beautified the other Rooms all which he enjoyed but for a little time of which he made the best use while he lived to serve his God and seek after the Churches good in which work he was as industrious after his Majesties happy Restauration as he was before to testifie his Religious zeal and care that all things might run on in the old right Channel for which reason he writ a fervent Letter to a great States-man of that time earnestly pressing him to advise the King that a Convocation might be called with the present Parliament which was a thing then under question his Letter is as followeth Right Honourable and my very good Lord I Cannot tell how welcom or unwelcom this Address may prove in regard of the greatness of the Cause and the low Condition of the Party who negotiates in it But I am apt enough to perswade my self that the honest zeal which moves me to it not only will excuse but endear the boldness There is my Lord a general speech but a more general fear withal amongst some of the Clergy that there will be no Convocation called with the following Parliament which if it should be so resolved on cannot but raise sad thoughts in the hearts of those who wish the peace and happiness of this our English Sion But being Bishops are excluded from their Votes in Parliament there is no other way to keep up their honour and esteem in the Eyes of the People than the retaining of their places in Convocation Nor have the lower Clergy any other means to shew their duty to the King and keep that little freedom which is left unto them than by assembling in in such meetings where they may exercise the Power of a Convocation in granting Subsidies to his Majesty though in nothing else And should that Power be taken from them according to the constant but unprecedented practice of the late long Parliament and that they must be taxed and rated with the rest of the Subjects without their liking and consent I cannot see what will become of the first Article of Magna Charta so solemnly so frequently confirmed in Parliament or what can possibly be left unto them of either the Rights or Liberties belonging to an English Subject I know it is conceived by some that the distrust which his Majesty hath in some of the Clergy and the diffidence which the Clergy have one of another is looked on as the principle cause of the Innovation For I must needs behold it as an Innovation that any Parliament should be called without a meeting of the Clergy at the same time with it The first year of King Edward the Sixth Qeen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were times of greater diffidence and distraction than this present conjuncture And yet no Parliament was called in the beginning of their several Reigns without the company and attendance of a Convocation though the intendments of the State aimed then at greater Alterations in the face of the Church than are now pretended or desired And to say truth there was no danger to be feared from a Convocation thâ—…ugh the times were ticklish and unsetled and the Clergy was divided into sides and Factions as the Case then stood and so stands with us at the present time For since the Clergy in their Convocations are in no Authority to propound treat or conclude any thing more than the passing of a Bill of Subsidies for his Majesties use untill they are impowered by the Kings Commission The King may tye them up for what time he pleaseth and give them nothing but the opportunity of entertaining one another with the News of the Day But if it be objected That the Commission now on foot for altering and explaining certain passages in the publick Liturgy shall either pass instead of a Convocation or else is thought to be neither competable nor consistent with it I hope for better in the one and must profess that I can see no reason in the other For first I hope that the selecting of some few Bishops and other learned men of the lower Clergy to debate on certain points contained in the Common Prayer-Book is not intended for a Representation of the Church of England which is a Body more diffused and cannot legally stand by their Acts and Councils and if the Conference be for no other purpose but only to prepare matter for a Convocation as some say it is not why may not such a Conference and Convocation be held both at once For neither the selecting of some learned men out of both the Orders for the composing and reveiwing of the two Liturgies digested in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth proved any hindrence in the calling of their Convocation which were held both in the second and third and in the fifth and sixth years of the said Kings Reign Nor was it found that the holding of a Convocation together with the first Parliament under Queen Elizabeth proved any hinderance to that Conference in disputation which was designed between the Bishops and some learned men of the opposite Parties All which considered I do most humbly beg your Lordship to put his Majesty in mind of sending out his Mandates to the two Arch Bishops for summoning a Convocation according to the usual Form in their several Provinces that this poor Church may be held with some degree of veneration both at home and abroad And in the next place I do no less humbly-beseech your Lordship to excuse this freedom which nothing but my zeal to Gods Glory and my affection to this Church could have forced from me I know how ill this present Office doth become me and how much better it had been
the regular Clergy In the year 1639. when his Majesty began his Journy against the Scots upon the liberal contribution of the Clergy he gave fifty Pounds out of his Parsonage in Alresford and for Southwarn-borough thirteen pounds thirteen shillings and four pence at the same time when he had not payed of his first Fruits for this Living He was the first of all the Clergy that subscribed in Hampshire being a leading man his good Example so moved others that the Clergy of that County exceeded their other Brethren they raised for the Kings use the sum of 1348l 2s 4d After his Majesty King Charles the Second most happy Restauration towards the Royal Benevolence he gave fifty Pounds for his Parsonage of Alresford besides his share of a thousand Pound as he was Prebendary of Westminster I should have added also which I had almost forgotten in the beginning of the War he gave to the Old King Mony and Plate to the value of an hundred Pounds by all which freely parted out of his Purse and more than his Estate could well bear having many Children to provide for he sufficiently confuted the Calumny of L' Strange who said according to his gentile and new mode of writing hard words the Doctor was Philargurous when poor man what he parted with and what he was plundred of he had scarce enough left to insconse his Person from frigidity according to the good squires Language For his Charity to the Poor he had always a liberal Heart to cast his Bread upon the Waters when he had Bread to cast that is when he was in a condition to relieve others at which time he gave Alms to his Enemies as well as to the honest Poor of the Kings Party for being asked the question when he lived in Abingdon whether he would serve St. Ellens poor being of the adverse Party against the Royalists He answered no exception ought to be made in the Case of Charity Wherein he followed the Example of our blessed Lord who had compassion on the poor Samaritans as well as upon the Jews to whom he shewed many acts of piety and goodness besides the Cure of their bodily infirmities its probable he gave them an Alms-peny for which reason Judas carried the Bag that had a common stock in it for the Poor to be used as occasion served The good Doctor hath sent Meat from his own Table to the Prisoners in Goal and at Abington such as were condemned to dye he took pains to instruct and prepare them for Death and to administer the holy Sacrament unto them before their Execution particularly to one Captain Francis and his Company condemned with him at Abingdon Assizes the Captain being a known Royalist for which reason it was thought the Judge was so severe against him upon his Tryal and plainly partial in the Examination of Witnesses of both sides The Doctor after the Sentence of Condemnation went to Prison to pray with him and administred the Sacrament to him and the other Prisoners who were penitent provivided Bread and Wine for them at his own Charge all which certainly was the most Christian Act of Piety and Charity that could be shewed to those miserable Souls I could instance many other particulars which manifested his goodness wherein he ought to be followed as a worthy Example but that its time now to draw near to his End For do the Prophets live for ever as the good Prophet himself said No 't is the deplored Condition of Mankind to live a while for to dye after the holy men of God had served God in their Generation they must fulfil the end of their Prophesie with their Lives as God said to Daniel Tu autem abi ad termiuum Go thou thy way till the end be for thou shalt rest and stand in the Lot at the end of the days on which Geierus and Junius Comment thus Compara te ad mortem disposita domo â—…ua contentus hac revelatione non ultra labores requiesces a laboribus corpore in Sepulchro Anima vero in sinu Abrahae stabis in haereditate tua caelesti aeterna vel illa ejus parte quae tibi ex dècreto Dei continget Prepare thy self for Death set thy house in order be content with this Revelation thou shalt labour no more but rest from all thy labours and troubles with thy Body in the Grave but thy Soul in Abraâ—…ams Bosom thou shalt abide for ever in thy caelestial Inheritance and in that degree of Glory which God hath decreed for thee So all these things happened to this good man and I may call him prophetical because he strangely foresaw his own Death set his house in order and prepared himself accordingly and an end was soon put after to his Days and of making many Books because much study as Solomon â—…aith is a weariness of the flesh though the Mind or Spirit of a Man is never tired out or can be satisfied because Knowledge is no burden By the Almighties good pleasure and providence he was now removed from his House in Abingdon to his house in Westminster where he lived not long and from thence to the House of Darkness where all must take up their last Lodging The Grave is mine house saith Job I have made my Bed in the Darkness What Man is he that liveth and shall not see Death Shall â—…e deliver his Soul from the hand of the Grave Is not this the House appointed for all Living According to the French Proverb three things carry away all with them L'Eglise la Court la Mort L'Eglise prend de vif mort La Court prend le droiet le tort La Mort prend le foible le fort The Church the Court and Death take all The Church both Living and the Dead install To Court all Causes come either right or wrong But Death destroys all Mortals weak or strong Therefore we shall speak of the Circumstances foregoing his Death and the memorable Accidents happning to him about the same time He had before been greivously afflicted with a Quartan Ague that deadly Enemy unto old Age and seldom cured by the Physician Febris quartana opprobrium medici The poor Doctor had wrastled with the Disease a long time and seemingly got the victory of it for the paroxysms or usual fits of this sore distemper had departed from him but withal so violently shaken him and left such a weakness behind them so exhausted his strength and vital Spirits that any one might perceive what strange alterations his sickness had wrought in him for he was before of a fresh lively complexion a man vigorous in action but now grown feeble and weak of a pale discoloured countenance the fore-runner of Death his Cheeks fallen his Eyes a little sunk within his Temples and leanness of Face and whole Body that shewed he was hastning on fast to the end of his Pilgrimage Yet I dare not say there is