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A26728	Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ...	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1008; ESTC R16054	101,636	192

Deed another of the same Tenour written in Paper which he signed with his Manual Seal in the presence also of the same witnesses All this I heard saw and therefore know to be done In testimony whereof I have subscribed and thereto put my usual and accustomed Notaries signe Tob. Holder 99. To this Protestation were annexed these three following Attestations from the Bishops Temporal Lords and Clerks The Attestation of the Bishops WHereas we the surviving Bishops of the Church of England who sate in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November 1640. are requested by our Reverend Brother the Lord Bishop of Duresme to declare and attest the truth concerning an Imputation cast upon him in the Pamphlet of that nameless Author mentioned in his Protestation and Declaration here prefixed and whereas we are obliged to perform what he requesteth both for the justification of the truth and for the clearing of our selves of another slanderous aspersion which the same Author casteth upon us as if we had heard our said Reverend Brother make such a speech as is there pretended and by our silence had approved what that Libeller falsely affirmeth was delivered in it we do hereby solemnly Protest and Declare before God and all the world that we never knew of any such Book presented to the House of Peers as he there pretendeth nor believe any such was ever presented and therefore could never hear any such Speech made against it as he mentioneth by our said Reverend Brother or any other much less approve of it by our silence And if any such Book had been presented or any such Speech had been made there is none among us so ignorant or negligent in his duty in defending the truth but would have been both able and ready to have confuted so groundless a Fable as the pretended Consecration of Bishops at the Nags-head out of the Authentick and known Registers of the Church still extant mentioned and faithfully transcribed and published by Mr. Mason so long before For the Confirmation of which Truth and Attestation of what our said Reverend Brother hath herewith Protested and Declared we have hereunto set our hands dated the nineteenth day of July Anno Dom. 1658. Guil. London Will. Bath and Wells Ma. Elie. Ro. Oxon. Jo. Roffens Br. Sarum The Attestation of the Lords Temporal 100. WE of the Lords Temporal whose names are he under written who sate in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November 1640. being desired by the Bishop of Duresme to testifie our knowledge concerning an Imputation cast upon him about a Speech pretended to be made by him in that Parliament more particularly mentioned and disavowed in his prefixed Protestation do hereby Testifie and Declare that to the best of our knowledge and remembrance no such Book against Bishops as is there mentioned was presented to the House of Peers in that Parliament and consequently that no such Speech as is there pretended was or could be made by him or any other against it In witness whereof we have signed this our Attestation with our own hands Dated the nineteenth day of July Anno Dom. 1658. Hertford Dorchester Lindsey Rutland T. Southamton T. Lyncoln W. Devonshire E. Manchester Berkshire Cleveland Monmouth Hen. Dover M. Newport F. Willughbye J. Lovelace The Attestation of the Clerks of the House 101. WE whose names are hereunto subscribed being Clerks in the Honourable House of Peers during the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November 1640. who according to our several places and Offices did give continual attendance in the said House and as our duty required did respectively and particularly observe whatsoever was debated and concluded in it do hereby Testifie and Declare that to the best of our knowledge and remembrance no such Book was presented to that honourabe House nor any such Speech made in it by the Reverend Bishop of Duresme or any other as are mentioned and disavowed in his Lordships Protestation and Declaration here prefixed And therefore we have freely voluntarily given this our Attestation for the Confirmation of the Truth of what is affirmed and declared by the said Bishop in his said Protestation In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands Dated the twenty seventh day of December Anno Domini 1658. Jo. Browne Cleric Parliamentorum Jo. Throckmorton Sam. Smith 102. This is so full a vindication of this Reverend Bishop from this foul aspersion and so clear and honourable an Attestation to the cause of the Church of England in point of Succession that I cannot see what more needs be added to it excepting only this ensuing Certificate out of the Journal of the House of Peers which I must ascribe to the great pains and civility of Mr. Scobel who after a long and diligent search wrote these following words over against the place where the objection is made Page 9. in the Margine of the Book which I have in my custody Upon search made in the Book of the Lords House I do not finde any such Book presented nor any entry of any such Speech made by Bishop Morton Hen. Scobell Clerk of the Parliament 103. And now I speak it unfainedly I know not what N.N. can reply to all these clear Testimonies either in truth or modesty but only by confessing his error If all these persons of Honour and ingenuity after such a solemn charge laid upon them by this pious Bishop to speak nothing but the truth in sincerity must be thought to conspire together in a Lye rather then his Ancient Peer shall incur the suspicion of being mistaken yet the Authentick Record of the proceedings in the Lords House will sufficiently justifie them against that Calumnie Or if on the other side the journal of the House shall be condemned by N.N. either as imperfect or obliterated in this particular yet the Readers even of the Romish perswasion will be satisfied as many of them as will be satisfied with reason that this is a poor and groundless shift when they shall seriously consider these concurrent testimonies of so many persons of all ranks and orders that are most likely both to know the truth and remember it But both of these concurring together will make it as clear as the sun at noon-day that either N. N. or his Ancient Peer is mistaken 104. And hence I conceive it is that N. N. as I here in a late reply which I have not yet seen to the above-mentioned Book of the learned Bishop of Derrie hath not the confidence to deny the truth of what is both there and here testified but only betakes himself to the last reserve of a bad cause downright railing venting all the malice he can upon the innocent Ashes of this deceased Bishop Wherein I shall not gratifie him so much as to make even that return which Michael the Archangel did to him that suggested this Topick to him but rather that which better becomes a Christian and was

weighty office of a Bishop almost 44. years in which respects I think he hath not left his equal behinde him in Europe but especially considering that there is hardly a day in those years nor scarce an houre in that day whereof some good account may not be given if I should go about such a thing And therefore seeing I must of necessity omit much that might be said in this case according to custome I shall confine my discourse to that which cannot be omitted without violating my Text and prevaricating in a good cause And for the rest if God permit I may have occasion hereafter to give the world an account in some brief narrative of his Life You have seen the copy already in St. Paul I shall now endeavour to shew you how well it was transcribed by this Reverend Bishop who was as great an admirer of him as I have known though indeed no man can sufficiently admire him It is this Apostles exhortation to us all to be followers of him as he was of Christ and it was the special care and endeavour of this pious Bishop to yield obedience to that exhortation we have already seen as far as my Text led me to it how well this Apostle followed Christ it now remains I should shew you how well this Bishop followed the Apostle in those particulars I have already insisted upon And here in the first place if I would allow my self that liberty of wandring from my Text which too many others assume in the contrary cause I could bring my first parallel from their offices in the Church the one an Apostle the other a Bishop and shew you even from St. Hierome himself whose authority is so much urged against Bishops how little difference there is between them seeing as that Father tells us Bishops succeed the Apostles in the Church as a Son doth his Father in his inheritance and consequently that Bishops do now sustain the place of the Apostles or to come closer to my Text that a Bishop is to us instead of St. Paul But this is a subject too large for this time and neither proper for the place nor suitable with the Text and my present intention For it is their actions and sufferings their fight and their course and not their place or their office which my Text leads me to to make up the parallel and even in that I must stint my discourse from those limits which I first intended When I first observed in St. Pauls fight the substance and the quality of it branching the former into his actions and sufferings and the latter into the justness of his cause and justifiableness of the way of managing it and that again both as an Apostle and as a Christian my intentions were to have shewed you in the parallel what this Reverend Bishop did and what he suffered both as a Bishop and as a Christian and again how good his cause was the cause of God and his Church and how Christianly it was managed without running either to the God of Ekron or to the Witch of Endor without worshipping the golden image or vailing the bonnet to Baal Berith without committing murder in the fear of God or shutting up Churches for the propagation of the Gospel And then in the second place my intention was to have extended the parallel to his imitation of the Apostle in the whole course of his life in running with him the same race that was set before them both and then last of all to have shewed you how well he kept the faith till his last gasp both in his fighting and running And I hope I shall say something to all these particulars though neither so largely nor so methodically as I once intended The first thing mentioned by the Apostle here in my Text is the good fight which he fought and the like according to the proportion of his ability was performed by this Bishop 1. His whole life was a fight even as he was a man Militia est hominis vita super terram but a far greater fight as a Christian because it was not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness in high places The greater the difficulties are against which we strive the greater is the fight and the victory the more glorious and so the case was with him considered as a Christian and so it still is and ever will be with us For our enemies in this battel are the Devil the World and the Flesh and all of them compleatly armed the world with power the flesh with treachery and the Devil with subtilty Yet such hath been the power of Gods grace in this great Champion that he hath got a clear conquest over them all and left us his good example both for our encouragement and imitation 2. But these enemies being common to others with him though seldome subdued by any so well as by him I shall rather divert my discourse to the other branch which I proposed and shew you what a hot encounter he did undergo in respect of his office in the Church as a Bishop and that both in what he did and what he suffered And in this God was pleased to deal very graciously with him as indeed he did in all other things for while he had strength he wanted not opportunities to be doing something for the good of the Church and when that began to decay God was still graciously pleased to assist him with a plentiful measure of his grace to suffer patiently for righteousness sake In all ages the office of a Bishop was enough to engage the person that sustained it in a fight of action and of late the very name of a Bishop was more then enough to engage him in the fight of suffering I pray God forgive them that occasioned it They might have foreseen at first whither it naturally tended and cannot but now see what it hath undoubtedly brought upon themselves as well as others since the quarrel was improved against all the other offices of Ministery in the Church which at first was commenced only against the Bishops Nay the very Church it self if we look upon her as a branch of the Holy Catholick Church of Christ which we profess in our Creed is now at last assaulted by those that will allow of no Churches but of their own gathering which is a thing of more dangerous consequence then most are aware of I pray God I may be a false prophet in this thing when I tell you my fears that the end of it if not timely prevented is like enough to be confusion and Atheism which begin already to flow in upon us or rather to overwhelm us How worthily this our Champion hath carried himself in this fight is a thing so well known as I shall not need to inlarge my discourse upon it Witness those many learned Volumes he hath written against all the adversaries of this poor afflicted

to the County Palatine nor concerned this Bishop any otherwise then as one of the Judges in the High commission Court if the charge had been made good as it never was against him or any of the rest And yet for all that he was troubled by him very undeservedly if the truth were known in a long vexatious suit for a pretended false imprisonment though he never could recover any thing upon it 67. It is a thing too notorious that the people were wrought upon in some places to make complaints where there was no cause and therefore I mention this the rather to the honour of the Gentry and others of this County that they could see when they were well And they are the more to be pittied in that respect in being deprived of that just and moderate government under which they and their forefathers had lived so happily for so many generations It is no part of my present designe to enquire how his predecessors administred that Government though if it were it would not any way deminish their honour And yet what he did was not inferriour to any of them I shall here observe some generall rules which he set to himself because particular instances would be endless and they shall be such wherein his own particular profit was concerned because his moderation in them will abundantly satisfy the Reader concerning his carriage in other affaires where he had not the like temptations 68. I have formerly observed that he was possessed of Jura Regalia by reason of the County palatine of Duresme annexed to his Episcopall See And by reason of this beside his Ordinary Rents and Revenues he had the disposall of all Wardships and all Wrecks and Deodans and other things of like nature were also confiscated to him And therein his moderation was conspicuous And first for his Fines at the renewing of Leases he never intermedled in setting them himself but referred the business to foure Gentlemen of the Neighbour-hood to make a moderat composition between him and his Tenents 2. In wrecks he took such a small sum of the person that had suffered them as was not worthy of the name of a composition having no other aime in taking any thing then only to preserve the right to himself and his successours and assist the destressed person in the preservation and recovery of his goods from the Neighboring multitude who are usually too ravenous in such Cases herein truly imitating that of Justinian the Emperour in the like Case Nolo siscum meum alienâ jacturâ ditescere 3. In Deodans where any man had made himself away though by law the whole estate was confiscated in detestationem criminis to deterre others from committing the like horrid offence Yet was he so compassionate as not to exceed a fourth part of the estate in his composition after the most moderate valuation not willing to add more misery to the living who had incurred so much affliction by the dead 4. And last of all for Wardships they were managed with that tenderness of care and moderation within the liberties of this Palatine as none of the Gentry had ever any cause of any wrong done either to their persons or Estates during their Minority 69. By these instances of his great compassion and Moderation in administring the Temporall affaires of the County palatine even then when the Lawes of the Land would have warranted him to have advanced his own interest much higher then he did we may measure tanquam ex pede Herculem how much greater his Fatherly care was for the Spirituall affaires of the Bishoprick seeing that by the Law of God the loss of any one soul which he had committed to his charge would have been the hazzard of his own I must not inlarge into many instances to illustrate this and I need not alledge more then this one following because it contains so many under it The thing I mean was his pious endeavours to redress that grosse abuse which is so common in starving the souls of the people for want of a sufficient maintenance for the Clergie by settling some competent Augmentations upon the smaller benefices within his Diocesses whereof the greater half were very meanly endowed Vicaridges or which was far worse Stipendiarie Cures some of which not above five pound per annum and few above ten pounds or twenty marks 70. His Interest was so great in that Country as gave him the advantage above most of his Brethren to be a leading man in so good a work and he doubted not but the rest of the Bishops who saw the abuse as well as he but foresaw withal how odious and difficult a thing it would be to apply a remedy to it might the more easily proceed to do the like when the the Ice was once broken He had given a good example long before whiles he was Bishop of Lichfield in abating a good part of his sine to increase the portion of the Minister in the Vicarage of Pitchley in Northamptonshire as a learned person and exact observer of such things hath told us and if either his own example or power could redress a grievance of so bad consequence he was resolved neither of them should be wanting 71. And therefore to lay his foundation the surer in a work of so great difficulty as well as importance he applied himself for Councel to three of the most learned and eminent persons that were in England for their knowledge both of the Common and Civil Law the Lord Keeper Coventrie Mr. Noy the Kings Attorney general and Sir Henry Martin Judge of the Prerogative Court of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who all of them unanimously concurred in these four points 1. That all Abbots Priors and other Religious persons who had Rectories or personages of Churches Appropriated to their several Convents were bound by law especially since the time of King Richard the second upon every avoidance of the incumbent to present an able Clerk sufficiently endowed out of the Tithes belonging to the said Rectory to the Bishop of the Diocess wherein any such Rectory was to be instituted and admitted to the cure of souls within the said Parish 2. That in case they did not present such a person so endowed within six Moneths after any vacancie then the Bishop of the Diocess might Collate the said Vicarage jure de voluto post lapsum temporis upon any fit person and endow it with sufficient maintenance proportionable to the merit of the person and quantity of the Tithes 3. That at the Dissolution of Abbies Priories and other Religious Houses all such Rectories Appropriate were setled upon the Crown no otherwise then the said religious persons formerly had and enjoyed them And therefore 4. That the Bishops authority over Churches appropriate was neither taken away nor any way infringed either by the Common or Statute Law but that he may now as lawfully appoint a competent Augmentation out of the Impropriate Tithes where the

should use the liberty of his own Conscience in Voting in Parliament 19. But there is yet more contained in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then I have yet observed For the Vulgar Latine in this place renders it Modestia which signifieth Modesty and implieth Moderation both which were very observable in this Reverend Bishop 20. First His Modesty was remarkable in refusing the Honour of being a Bishop till a kinde of Necessity cast it upon him and yet undertaking the work when it did as I have already shewed In this particular he was perfectly of the same temper with S. Gregory Nazianzen who would neither take a Bishoprick before it was profered nor reject it when it was because as that Father hath resolved the case the one is an effect of Rashness the other of Disobedience and both of Ignorance 21. Secondly His Moderation was very great in order to matters both of Doctrine and Practise whereof there are so many clear instances given in that excellent codicill annexed to his will and herewith printed that I should have very little to add here if it had not been for a Question concerning that Codicil which was put to me by a reverend and learned person that heard it read both at his Death and Funeral whereunto I shall now publish the Answer I then gave though I suppose the Question proceeded chiefly from curiosity 21. The Question was Why this Reverend Bishop had not in all that Codicill declared any thing of his opinion concerning the matters of Controversie between the Remonstrants and Anti-remonstrants And though the Answer was easie That I could give no account of the Actions much less of the omissions of another man especially my Superior yet I added withall and gave him some Instances of it that I conceived his great Moderation made him unwilling to interpose in that controversie 22. My Instances were 1. That ever since I had the happiness to be near him I had found him very reserved in his Discourses upon that subject 2. That though he had a very high esteem of Mr. Calvin yet in a discourse with a very learned Lay Gentleman whereat I was present he much disliked Mr. Calvins opinion concerning Reprobation and would not believe he was so rigid in it as it appeared he was upon perusal of the place And 3. I shewed him afterwards the Duplicat of a Letter which I found among the papers of this Reverend Bishop to the late most Reverend learned Primat of Ireland concerning a passage in Corvinus which the late Reverend and learned Bishop of Salisbury hath objected and answered in his Book entituled DISSERTATIONES DVAE c. p. 201. whereupon he saith in that Letter he must have a Melius inquirendum to finde out the subtlety how creatió hominis damnandi non sit subordinatum medium ad damnationem c. By which it appeareth his Moderation in that Controversie was greater then that of the learned Bishop of Salisbury though he was one of the British Divines at the Synod of Dort who surpassed all that were there present for Moderation 23. I cannot omit one instance more of his Moderation which relates to practise as the former did to Doctrine because there are still some that are willing to mistake him and to abuse that repute and reverence which he hath in many good mens minds to the ingendring of jealousies concerning those ancient practises which have been derived from the Fathers and continued by uninterrupted custome in his Majesties Chappel and Cathedrals and in many Colleges and other places And because I will not go beyond my warrant in what I shall say upon this particular I shall keep me to the express words of a letter from him to St. Johns College in Cambridge dated the 20. of April 1635. which stands still upon record in the said College and was thus occasioned 24. I have formerly mentioned one Mr. Loe a person of very good parts but especially of a singular Memory whom this Reverend Bishop maintained in that College at his own Charge when he came to be capable of it the Bishop was desirous and the College willing to make him one of the Fellowes only he had been wrought upon by some that laboured to inveigle so hopeful a young man to their party to express some dislike to the Ceremonies and practises then used in Gods publick Worship and service Whereof this Reverend Bishop being informed by a Letter from the College returned his Answer to them expressing the same dislike of him in this particular which they did His words are these LOVM nostrum quod attinet saepe equidem inaudivi per totam Universitatem vestram extare prorsus neminem qui Ceremoniis illis quarum ego innocentiam sartam tectam olim defendendam suscepi repugnet aut reluctetur Quod si vero gestui illi flectendi se versus sacram Domini mensam hic juvenis adversetur me multo seniorem habebit sibi utique adversarium Nec sane immerito Cum c. And then he proceeds on to prove his assertion by reasons and Authorities which would be too long here to insert 25. There are still some other Qualifications of a Bishop which I have not yet mentioned whereof one is that he must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the word being rendred Modest in the margin of our English Bible makes it to be of so much affinity with the last as to view it in the next place The Vulgar Latine translates it Ornatus which St. Hierom tels us signifieth such a person as keeps a Decorum in his motion walking habit and speech which is all comprised in our English phrase in that place A person of good behaviour And this complex Qualification was so eminent in him that his greatest enemies could not tax him of the contrary in any branch of it His motion was upright his walking sprightfull his speech grave and sober and his habit Episcopal even then when it was hazardous to be seen in a Clerical garment wherein he was decent in his lowest ebb and never excessive in his highest tide As St. Augustine usually took his example from St. Cyprian so did this Reverend Bishop from both With St. Augustine he was neither too spruce nor too mean in his bodily apparel and furniture of his house and for the fashion it was such as was commonly used by others of his own rank and quality And with St. Cyprian beside the comeliness of his Apparel there was in his carriage such an exact mixture of gravity and courtesie as carried him in an equal line between pride on the one hand and meanness of spirit on the other 26. It is not without cause that I have fetched down this Practise as high as St. Cyprian and St. Augustine seeing the contrary corruption began to infest the Church even in those ancient times which extorted very grievous complaints from St. Ambrose