depart away with admiration of his skill Additions out of Mr. Priors Sermon at his Funeral 12. His merit in the new Translation of the Bible preferred him to this place of Government in the Church For with Basilius Magnus Non ex majoribus sed ex propria virtute nobilitatem duxit He ennobled himself with his own worth and virtue 13. Two singular ornaments crowned him which seldom meet in one man Learning and Humility On a time and many such I could tell you a poor Minister sending in to speak with him abruptly he brake off a most serious discourse saying But the Minister must not stay lest we should seem to take state upon us Therein imitating the great Athanasius being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazianz. 14. When in his sickness one hoped for his recovery he gave the answer that St. Ambrose gave to the Nobles of Milain that desired him to pray for life Non ita inter vos vixi ut pudeat ms vivere nec timeo mori quoniam dominum bonuns habemus 15. Not many hours before his departure for non obiit sed abiit I found him as me seemed victorious upon some conflict Quis sarctorum sine certamine coronatur I drew near his bed he reached for my hand and greezed it saying I know whom I have believed and I am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day This occasioned something about relyance on God by Faith Yea said he I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living And again The mercies of the Lord are from generation to generation on them that fear him Mercy brought in thoughts of Christ Oh saith he in the words of that holy Martyr none but Christ none but Christ Being told how pretiously the Lord esteemeth the death of such He replyed Right dear right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Some prayers made for him upon his desire at conclusion he said Amen I thank God Amen enough Amen I thank God 16. When he was leaving this life he looked on his daughter and on the rest of his children in the chamber present and said Christ bless you all And like that old Patriarch he moved himself upon the bed and cried Christ Jesus help and so Christ took him and conclamatum est â—is soul is now at rest his Name is among the Worthies of our Church His Motto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ob. A. S. 1624. aet supra 70. FINIS A Letter To fill up this void leaf or rather to promote conformity which is partly the designe of these Memorials I take leave to translate hither out of the Oxford-book very worthy to be Reprinted A Letter of the Vice-Chancellour and others the Heads of the Vniversity of Cambridge to the Vice-Chancellour and others of the Vniversity of Oxford Octob. 7. 1603. E Latino WHen neâ—ly and indeed very late there came unto us a report of the Petition for Reformation forsooth of the Church of England offered to his Majestie as is pretended by a thousand Ministers though we found in it nothing new and what hath been answered heretofore a thousand times Yet because they boast of their number that these Millenaries may know if Saul hath his thousand David in this cause will never want his ten thousand we were desirous notwithstanding the work was altogether unworthy of it to provide an answer Whilst we were meditating thereof there is brought unto our hands that most Elegant answer of the Vniuersity of Oxford being a most rational and brief confutation of all that had by those men so laboriously been framed and feigned upon sight whereof nothing seemed to remain for us whom in this best of causes the zeal and industry of our Brethren easily able to refute such Adversaries had prevented but this to add unto the weight of their Arguments because those men glory most in their multitudes the number of our Suffrages This we did formerly as it were divining both foresee and provide for For when after the death of our Excellent Queen Elizabeth alwaies the same and most constant a singular and incomparable example in a woman in this best of causes those men did not so much deplore the loss of a most Religious Princess and the case of Religion it self if not dying with her yet at least in very great hazard as meditate and every day attempt Innovations against the new Kings approach Our Vniversity very opportunely judged her aid to be needful and a decree to be made in a full and solemn Convocation That whosoever shall in the Vniversity of Cambridge publickly oppose in word or writing or any other way the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England or any part thereof by Law established He shall be excluded from taking any degree and be suspended ipso facto from the degree he hath taken Which decree even by Unanimous consent of the whole House voted and recorded publickly Jun. 9. 1603. we do now desire to publish to the whole World that all may be assured what is the judgment not of some Opiniasters in their corners and Conventicles but of allmost all the Cantabrigians in open senate concerning that Discipline which we have not forced on us but freely received and entertained Whose consent so fraternally and sweetly concurring with the Oxford-answer with Scripture Fathers and Councils with the decrees of our Princes our Laws and Parliaments Away with those thousand Ministers let them go and answer at thousand Books of ours already written and set forth for their satisfaction before they do so impudently obtrude their Crambe so often boiled upon so wise a King and so excellently learned Or if they would have Suffrages rather to be numbred then weighed let the poor Fellows forsaken of the Universities and Muses bethink themselves of how little account what nothings they are Thus we take our leave of our most dear Brehren in Christ and as we and our Vniversity beng united to you both by similitude of studies and manners are most fitmly Yours So we intreat you alwaies to continue your love to Us. Camb. Oct. 7. 1603.
fair Stable of great Horses insomuch as he was able to arme at all points both horse and foot and divers times had one hundred foot and fifty horse of his own servants mustered and trayned for which purpose he entertained Captains c. His house for the Lectures and Scholastick exercises therein performed might justly be accounted a little Academy and in some respects superiour c. His Domestick Chaplains both before and since his death attained to the chiefest honours and dignities in our Church and Common-wealth namely Bancroft Ravis Barlow c. 37. He carried himself with great Resolution and courage in the determination of Causes belonging to his proper Cognizance When a Gentleman of good note told him once that the Lords of the Council were of another opinion then his Grace What tellest thou me said the Arch-bishop of the Lords of the Council I tell thee they are in these Cases to be advised by us and not we by them He would upon such occasions oftentimes say unto his private friends toward his later time That two things did help much to make a man confident in good causes namely Orbitas Senectus and said he they steed me both 38. He gave Audience unto Suitors twice a day and afforded them set hours for their dispatch at which time he would so courteously intreat them giving so mild and gentle Answers that even they that sped not in their suits did depart without discontentment Wherein I may justly compare him unto Titus qui neminem unquam à se tristem dimisit He often feasted the Clergy Nobility and Gentry of his Diocess and Neighbourhood at Christmas especially his Gates were alwayes open and his Hall set twice or thrice over with strangers Every year he entertained the Queen at one of his houses and some years twice or thrice who besides other favours would bid him Farewell by the name of her Black Husband c. 39. His Charity is testifyed by that notable Monument his Hospital of the blessed Trinity in Croydon which he built very fair and Colledge-wise for a Warden and eight and twenty Brothers and Sisters He builded also near unto it a goodly free School with a School-masters house allowing to the School-master twenty pounds by year for ever And when he had finished and done the whole work he found himself no worse in his estate then when he first began which he ascribed unto the extraordinary blessing and goodnesse of God After which when the French Ambassador by whom he was reputed a peerlesse Prelate for piety and learning enquiring what Books he had written was told He had only published certain Books in the English tongue in defence of the Ecclesiastical Government and that he had founded an Hospital and a School The Embassador replyed Profecto Hospitale ad sublevandam paupertatem Schola ad instruendam juventutem sunt optimi libri quos Archiepiscopus conscribere potuit 30. 1603. Ap. 28. He was the principal Mourner at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth crowned and anointed King James Jul. 25. being visited by his Majesty in his sicknesse spake to him earnestly in Latin and by his last words pro ecclesia Dei pro ecclesia â—ei was conceived by the King to commend unto his royal care as he had done sundry times before the Church of England Ob. ult Feb. hora 8. pomerid An. Dom. 1603. Aet 73. M. Richard Hooker Author of the Bookes of â—cclesiasticall Politye V. Mr RICHARD HOOKER Out of his life written by the R. R. Bishop of Exeter Dr Gauden 1. HE was born in the West either in or not far from the City of Exeter An. 1550. A Country that is as Mr Cambden observes ferax ingeniorum But with what presages of his future eminency there is not any notice to be had One of his Vncles was Chamberlain of Exeter in Mr Hookers Youth and contributed both care and cost toward his Education in the free School there His Parents need no other monument of honour then this that they were blessed with so worthie a Son 2. This excellent Person had a body and soul every way so adjusted and suited to each other that they were like meet pairs happily married together and living peaceably His outward aspect and carriage was rather comely than Couâ—tly his looks alwaies grave and reserved his soul more looking inward then exspatiating at his eyes or taking the outward prospect of his senses He went alwaies as if he meditated some great and good design what he designed he industriously acted without affectation or ostentation 3. His words were alwaies sober and well-ordered not more in number then weight He was like an hive full of honey of a plain outside and a narrow accesse and orifice but heavy as having in him all manner of good literatute industriously gathered and aptly digested His friends or Confidents were few but choise as one that had no great opinion of himself nor sought the applause of others 4. While he continued in Corpus Christi Colledge few men of any note in either University but promised more than he did as to any great and publick undertaking not that he wanted a publick spirit or excellent Abilities in nature and education but he was so locked up and reserved by a natural modestie and self-distrust that he seemed to think it reward sufficient to have the conscience of weldoing and pleasure enough to see himself dayly profit in his studies and preferment even to envy to enjoy vertue though never so cloistred and confined to his own breast 5. Mr Hooker did not look upon the ease and â—uietnesse of a Colledge life as the ultimate design of his studies nor did he say with the Apostle It is good to be here as in a settled Tabernacle but gently embraced those small offers of Ministerial Employments in the Country which were made to him by such as thought them somewhat proportionate if not to his worth and learning yet to that humble plainnesse and simplicity of his Genius and mode of living His first living was Boscomb in the West to which the Colledge presented him his next in Lincolnshire called Drayton Beauchamp An. 1584. 6. The â—oise which some Non-Conformists made kept this good Country Parson awake who however he could bear with patience and silence the reproaches cast upon himself as a private man yet he thought it stupor to hear without just indignation his Mother reviled by ungrateful children Hence sprang that excellent work of the Ecclesiastical Politie Wherein he hath justly obtained this Encomium from all intelligent Readers That never any man undertook a better cause since the antient conflicts of the Fathers nor handled it with an honester heart an abler judgment or an eloquenter stile 7. His first five Books he lived to publish providence in time brought forth those esteemed Abortive the three last Books with such lineaments of their fathers virtue and vigour on them that they may be easily and justly owned
Communions inviolably yea though himself had received at the Court the same month In which his Carriage was not only decent and religious but also exemplary He ever offer'd twice at the Altar and so did every one of his servants to which purpose he gave them mony lest it should be burthensome to them 17. He was such an enemy to Simony that he endured many Troubles by Quare impedit and Duplex querela As for himself he seldome gave a Benefice or Preferment to him that petition'd for it he rather sent for men of note that he thought wanted preferment and gave them Prebends and Benefices under Seal before they knew of it as to Mr. Boys and Mr. Fuller 18. Sacriledge he did abhor as one principal cause among many of the forrein and civil Wars in Christendom and invasion of the Turk And at home he wished some man would take the pains to collect how many Families that were raised by the spoils of the Church are now vanished and the place thereof knows them no more 19. He was a great Almes-giver When he liv'd at St. Giles his certain Almes there was ten pound per an paid quarterly by equal portions and twelve pence every Sunday he came to Church and five shillings at every Communion c. The total of his pious and charitable works mentioned in his will amounts to the sum of six thousand three hundred twenty six pound He gave in private Alms in some few years before his death to the sum of one thousand three hundred and forty pound 20. A great part of five hours every day did he spend in prayer and devotion to God and a good while before he sickned he spent all his time in prayer and in the time of his sicknesse he continually prayed until it pleased God to receive his blessed Soul to himself Lo here a Prelate in whom Light Heate Learning Zeale Meeknesse Courage met In Gods cause the Kings our Brownrige was A Boanerges though a Barnabas W Faithorne sculp VII RALPH BROVNRIG Bishop of Exeter Out of Doctor Gauden's Sermon at his Funeral 1. BIshop Brounrig was a person of that soundnesse of Judgment of that conspicuity for an unspotted life of that unsuspected Integrity that his life was virtutism norma as St. Jerom of Nepotian Ita in singulis virtutibus eminebat quasi caeteras non habuisset so eminent in every good and perfect gift as if he had had but one onely I never heard of any thing said by him which a wise and good man would have wished unsaid or undone yet I had the happinesse to know him above thirty years 2. The spring of this so fair so deep so clear so noble a stream of Learning Piety and Wisdom was at Ipswich a Town of good note in Suffolk where he was born An. 1592. His parents of Merchantly condition of worthy reputation and of very Christian Conversation When he was not many weeks old God took away his earthly Father that himself might have the more tender care of the Orphan By the prudence of his pious Mother his Youth and first years of reason were carefully improved for his breeding in all good Learning 3. He was sent in his fourteenth year to Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge There his Modesty Pregnancy and Piety soon invited preferment He was first made Scholar of the House and after Fellow a little sooner then either his years or standing in rigour of Statute permitted but the Colledge was impatient not to make sure of him by grafting him firmly into that Society which had been famous for many excellent men but for none more then Brounrig 4. When King James that most learned Prince was pleas'd to honour the University of Cambridge by his presence and to make Exercises of Scholars the best part of his Entertainment this person then a young man was one of those who were chosen by the University to adorn that Reception of the King The part he performed was Jocoserious of praevaricator a mixture of Philosophy with Wit and Oratory This he discharged to the admiration more then the mirth of the King and the other learned Auditors who rejoyced to see such a luxuriancy of Wit was consistent with innocency that jesting was confined to conveniency and Mirth married with that Modesty which became the Muses 5. Among his learned and accurate performances in publick I cannot but observe that when he took the Degree of B. D. the Text upon which he chose to preach his Latin Sermon was prophetick and preparatory to his after sufferings Phil. 1. 29. Vobis autem datum c. To you it is given on the behalf of Christ not only to believe in him but also to suffer for his sake Which eloquent and pious Sermon he afterwards was to fulfill indeed Quod docuit verbo firmavit exemplo He made his Doctrin good by his practice taking up the cross of Christ and following him 6. He was preferred to be Prebend of the Collegiate Church of Eli by the favour and love of the then Bishop of that Seat Doctor Felton a very holy and good man He had also a good living at Barlow not far from Cambridge a Country Village where he condiscended in his preaching and catechising to ordinary capacities He oft deplored the disuse and want of Catechising After that this great Lamp was set and shined in a Sphere more proper and proportionate being chosen Master of Katharine Hall Here it was wonderfull to see how the Buildings the Revenues the Students and the studiousness of that place increased by the care counsell prudence diligence and Fame of Doctor Brounrig who had such an eye to all that he oversaw none frequenting the Studies and examining even younger â—cholars that they might be encouraged in Learning and Piety 7. He kept up very much as good Learning and good Manners so the honour of Orthodox Divinity and orderly Conformity He kept to the Doctrin Worship Devotion and Government in the Church of England Which he would say he liked better and better as he grew older If any out of scruple or tendernesse of Conscience was lesse satisfied with some things no man had a more tender heart or a gentler hand to heal them He would convince though he did not convert Gain-sayers and if he could not perswade them yet he would pity and pray for them 8. He could endure differences among learned and godly men in opinions especially sublime and obscure without distance in affection He thought that Scripture it self was in some points left unto us lesse clear and positive that Christians might have wherewith to exercise both Humility in themselves and Charity towards others He very much venerated the first worthy Reformers of Religion at home and abroad yet was he not so addicted to any one Master as not freely to use his own great and mature Judgment He hoped every good Man had his Retractations either actual or intentional though all had no time to write