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A30977	The genuine remains of that learned prelate Dr. Thomas Barlow, late Lord Bishop of Lincoln containing divers discourses theological, philosophical, historical, &c., in letters to several persons of honour and quality : to which is added the resolution of many abstruse points published from Dr. Barlow's original papers.	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.	1693 (1693)	Wing B832; ESTC R3532	293,515	707

and Learn the Greek Tongue 3. But that which most incouraged and necessitated the study of Languages and especially the Hebrew and Greek was Luther and the Reformation by him begun Anno 1517. Luther which was rare in those times in a Monk understood Hebrew and Greek and having many disputes with Cardinal Cajetan who was then Legat in Germany the Cardinal urging Scripture against him according to their Vulgar Latin Translation Luther told him that Translation was false and dissonant from the Original This puzl'd the Cardinal though a great Schoolman who thereupon set himself to study both Greek and Hebrew which with great diligence he did that he might be better able to Answer and Confute Luther and his followers many of which were excellent Grecians such were Melanchton and many others And hence it was that the Pope and his Party seeing the necessity of Languages especially Hebrew and Greek for the Defence of their Religion or Superstition rather against the Protestants Pope Paul the fifth Renews the Decree of Clement the fifth and the Council of Vienna before mention'd and though that Decree had been neglected and the Greek Tongue damn'd in their Canon Law yet he earnestly injoins the profession of it and of the Hebrew Chaldee and Arabick in all their (a) Vide Constitutionem 67. Pauli 5. in ●●llario Romano Editionis Rome 1638. pag. 185 186. Vniversities Monasteries and Schools to this end that they might be better able to Confute the Hereticks I am Sir Your affectionate friend and Servant Tho. Lincolne A Letter concerning the Kings being empower'd to make a Lay-man his Vicar-General Sir THAT my Lord D. of Ormonds Commission which you say you have seen has no particular mention of the Kings Ecclesiastical Power deputed I wonder not The Commission which makes him Vice-roy Deputy or Lieutenant to the King does ipso facto make him his Vicar-General to execute both powers Ecclesiastical and Civil and by that Commission he does so Does not the Lieutenant there de jure ordinario and as Lieu-tenants call Synods collate Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical Dignities and Preferments does he not hear and determine Ecclesiastical Causes by himself or some commissioned by him does he not punish Ecclesiastical persons when they are criminal Do not your Articles of Religion established in a National (a) Articles of Religion in the National Synod or Convocation at Dubl●n 1615. § 57 58. c. Synod of Ireland give our Kings the same Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Causes there as he has here And do not our Kings here execute their Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction partly in Person in giving Arch-Bishopricks Bishopricks calling Synods c. partly by Commission so the Chancellors of England by their Commission have power to give some Ecclesiastical Dignities and Livings to visit Winsor I mean the Collegiate Church there and all his royal Chappels and Churches of his Foundation if he have not otherwise appointed other visitors c. In short I do believe that in England never any but Cromwel had such a large Commission and full power to Visit all persons in all Ecclesiastical Causes yet I believe it most evident that he may when he shall think it convenient give such a Commission I am Sir Your affectionate Friend and Servant T. L. A Letter concerning the allowance and respect that the Sentences of Protestant Bishops may expect from Popish ones writ by way of answer to a friend of Mr. Collington's who acquainted the Bishop that the Court of Arches here was of opinion that the Sentence of the Arch-bishop of Turin could not here be question'd by reason of the practice of Popish and Protestant Bishops allowing each others Sentences Sir FOR the contempt they of Rome have of our Bishops and all their Sentences and Judicial Acts especially in foro exteriori contentioso it is notoriously known that they have no value at all of our Bishops and pronounce all their sentences and judicial Acts null and every way invalid For 1. They generally deny our Bishops and Ministers to be true Bishops or Priests but admit them to be Lay-men only A Sorbon (a) Anth Champney P. and D. of the Sorbonne Douay 1616. Dr. In a Treatise about the Vocation of Bishops and Ministers indeavours to prove against Du Plessin Dr. Field and Mr. Mason that Protestant Bishops particularly those of England are not true Bishops nor have any lawful Calling Another and he a Popish Bishop speaking of our English Bishops and Pastors says (b) R. Smith Bp. of Chalcedon in praefat ad Collationem Doctrinae Catholicorum ac Pr testant Paris 1622. Eos quos nunc pro Pastoribus habent NIHIL EORVM OBTINERE quae ad ESSENTIAM hujus muneris requiruntur Another thus (c) Rich. B●istow Motivo 21. Qualis est illa Ecclesia cujus Ministri NIHIL ALIVD sunt quam MERE LAICI NON MISSI NON VOCATI NON CONSECRATI Our Countrey-man Card. Alan and the Rhemish Annotators say (d) Annotatores Rhemenses in Rom. 10.15 All our Clergy-men from the highest to the lowest are false Prophets running and usurping being NEVER LAWFULLY CALLED And Dr. Kellison speaking of our Bishops and Ministers (e) Kellison in Repl. contra D. Sutlisse p. 31. NEC ORDINES nec JVRISDICTIONEM habent And Bellarmine (f) Bellarmin De Ecclesiâ militant l. 4. c. 8. Nostri temporis Haeretici nec ordinationem nec successionem habent ideo longè inverecundiùs quam ulli unquam Haeretici nomen munus Episcopi usurpant And some Popish Priests in their Petition to King James expresly tell the King (g) Supplicat ad Jacobum Regem 1604. NVLLI ministrorum vestrorum ad Catholicam fraternitatem accedentes habentur alii quam MERE LAICI Lastly Not to trouble you or my self with more Quotations Turrian tells us that Donatists and Luciferian Hereticks have some kind of Bishops and Priests (h) Turrian de Jure Ordinand lib. 1. cap. 7. Protestantes vero NULLAM PENITVS formam Ecclesiae habent quia NULLOS PENITUS Ecclesiae Verbi MINISTROS habent sed MEROS LAICOS This is their opinion of our Bishops and Clergy that they have no just Call or Ordination and consequently no Jurisdiction and then it necessarily follows if this were true that all their Sentences and Judicial Acts are invalid and absolute nullities 2. They say that all Protestants especially the Bishops and Clergy are Hereticks and Schismaticks extra Ecclesiam and neither have nor can have any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction so that whatever cause be brought before them in their Consistories it is coram non Judice and so whatever they do is a nullity That Hereticks and Schismaticks and such they declare all Protestants to be forfeit all their Ecclesiastical Authority and Jurisdiction their own (i) Gratian. Can. 4. Audivimus Can. vit Caelestinus 35. Can. Apertè 36. Can. Miramur 37. Caus 24. Quaest 1. vid. Card. de Turre-Cremata ad dictos Canones Canons expresly say And besides

times a Loyal Subject and faithful Servant to his Prince and a true Son of the Church of England c. So that the commendation I can give him although it be great will be ivtra laudem sed infra meritum The old saying is still true Cicerone opus est ut dignè laudetur Cicero I shall only name two passages which concern my Lord which shew his ingenuity and Learning Being with my Lord in Oxford some time after Dr. Hoyle was by the Reb●llio●s Parliament invited out of Ireland and by them design'd Regius Professor of Divinity it seems that we had not then amongst all our English Dissenters any one who durst undertake that Office although it was both for dignity and revenue very considerable Now Dr. Hoyle a known Rebell and Presbyterian being so exceedingly magnify'd in all our Mercuries and News-Books for a most Learned Divine I ask'd my Lord whether Dr. Hoyle was a person of such great parts as was pretended My good Lord presently told us only Dr. Morly since Bishop of Winton and my self were present That he very well knew Dr. Hoyle in Dublin and had him many times at his Table and that he was a person of some few weak parts but of very many strong infirmities This Character which my Lord gave of Dr. Hoyle is like himself very ingenious and the University did find it true Another thing concerning that very ingenious and Learned Lord and very well known to me and many others was this When Mr. Chillingworth undertook the Defence of Dr. Potter's Book against the Jesuite he was almost continually at Tew with my Lord examining the Reasons of both Parties pro and con and their invalidity or consequence where Mr. Chillingworth had the benefit of my Lords Company and his good Library The benefit he had by my Lord's Company and rational Discourse was very great as Mr. Chillingworth would modestly and truly confess But his Library which was well furnish'd with choice Books I have several times been in it and seen them such as Mr. Chillingworth neither had nor ever heard of many of them 'till my Lord shew'd him the Books and the passages in them which were significant and pertinent to the purpose So that it is certain that most of those Ancient Authorities which Mr. Chillingworth makes use of he owes first to my Lord of Falkland s Learning that he could give him so good directions and next to his civility and kindness that he would direct him But no more of this You desire to know some more Authors who in the War between Charles the I. and the Parliament writ for the King you name Dudly Diggs Dr. Ferne Dr. Hammond and you might have named many more all Ingenuous and Loyal persons and my Friends and Acquaintance but I do not think their Reasons so cogent or their Authority so great that we may safely rely upon them I shall rather commend unto you two Writers on this subject both of them of great Authority and in several respects of greater Judgment I mean 1. Arch-Bishop Vsher whose judgment in Antiquity is far greater 2. My Predecessor Bishop Sanderson the best and most rational Casuist ever England had whose judgment will be confest far greater 1. First Arch-Bishop Usher does expresly and datâ operâ make it his business to prove our King's Supremacy in all Civil and Ecclesiastical Causes against all Popes and Parliaments and to the same purpose does amongst others cite Bp. Andrews Hooker Dr. Saravia and which is very considerable there 's a long Preface to the Book of at least 20 pages in Quarto The Book was publish'd by Dr. Bernard Bishop Usher's Chaplain Anno 1661. and Printed at London and Sold by Richard Mariott in St. Dunstan's Church-yard in Fleetstreet The Title of the Book is this Clavi Trabales confirming the King's Supremacy and the Subjects Duty c. 2. This second Author I mention was Dr. Sanderson Bishop of Lincoln in his Tracts 1. De solemni Ligâ Foedere 2. De Juramento Negativo 3. De Ordinationibus Parliamenti circa disciplinam cultum And that which adds honour and weight to these Tracts is this that although Dr. Sanderson then Regius Professor of Divinity composed them yet they contain not his judgment but the judgment of the whole Vniversity of Oxford for it is call'd in the Title page Judicium Vniversitatis Oxoniensis in plena Convocatione Communibus suffragijs nemine contradicente promulgatum 1 Junii 1647. In the last and best Edition besides the 3. Tracts above mention'd you have his excellent Prelections 1. De Obligatione Juramenti promissorii 2. De obligatione conscientiae The last and best Edition I above mention'd was at London Anno 1671. By Richard Royston in St. Paul's Church-yard For answering your other Questions I must as poor men do crave some more time The Circumstances I am in and the very many publick businesses which at this time trouble me did disable me to return to you a speedier answer with my thanks for your kind Letter I beg your pardon for the rude Scrible and my great Age Anno 85. currente and the Infirmities which accompany it consider'd I hope your goodness will grant it I shall only add that God Almighty would be graciously pleas'd to bless you and your Studies is the Prayer of Your Affectionate Friend and Servant Thomas Lincoln The Substance of a Letter Written by Dr. Barlow late Lord Bishop of Lincolne to Mr. Isaac Walton upon his design of Writing the Life of his Predecessour Bishop Sanderson AFTER he has Congratulated Mr. Walton upon his design to write the Life of Bishop Sanderson and that upon two accounts viz. Because he was satisfied both of his ability to know and his Integrity to write Truth And that he was no less assured that the Life of that Prelate would afford him matter enough both for his commendation and for the Imitation of Posterity He next proceeds to gratifie his desires in assisting him towards the said intended Work with the Communication of such particular passages of that Prelates Life as were certainly known to him and gives him a short Narration of which this is the substance First he professes he had known him about twenty Years and that in Oxford he had injoyed his Conversation and Learned and Pious Instructions when he was Royal Professor of Divinity in that University and that after he was by the cross events that hapned in the Civil Wars in the time of King Charles the First forced to retire into the Country he had the benefit of conversing with him by Letters wherein with great candour and affection he answered all doubts he proposed to him and gave him more satisfaction than he ever had or expected from others But to proceed to particulars he further says that having hapned in one of his Letters to the said Dr. Sanderson to mention two or three Books Written professedly against the being of Original Sin and asserting

fee'd one of the Doctors who is a Judge of one of those Courts where Matrimonial Causes are conusable and obtained his Opinion in Writing that the Marriage as being in jest was void You said the Divine had the character of one who was very dextrous and prudent and successful in the management of business But if you think fit to lay the Scene of the Law Suit in that Court where the party consulted is Judge as that you may do if you will you will have no cause to fear want of justice there when matters of fact come to be rightly stated in the Libel and back'd by proofs Every Proctor's Clerk can tell you that by the Style and constant practice of the Court you will be sure to effect the Gentleman's being examined upon Oath by the Judge himself as to all the particulars of the Facts you shewed me in the Case by you drawn after your Kinswomans Proctor hath put them into the Libell and to effect the Judge his causing him to give a plain full and Categorical answer on Oath as to each particular and you will be sure to effect the Sequestration of the Gentlemans person into some indifferent place for some days where being out of his Fathers Custody she or you or her Proctor will be allowed to go to him and discourse him privately of past matters and to read over to him the Facts as laid down in her Libell and advise him when he comes to be examined upon Oath by the Judge as to them he would not be aeternae suae salutis immemor If at his Examination by the Judge he shall confess the matters as laid down in the Libell there will be no doubt of her obtaining Sentence for the Marriage But on the whole matter tho it should so happen that neither by the young Gentlemans examination by the Judge nor by the proofs arising from her Witnesses there could be sufficient ground for the Judge his giving Sentence for the Marriage which latter may be feared if Mr. F. hath been tamper'd with as your Case mentions yet if your proof shall extend so far as this namely but to a kind of Semiplena probatio and to what may make impressions on the Judge his belief and private Conscience that the Gentleman did at the Marriage or some one 〈◊〉 of the Acts of the Ratification of it reverà intend a consent to the same and that if Mr. F. had not been tampered with he would have sworn the truth about the Marriage and what he knew of the subsequent ratifications of it tho he cannot give Sentence for the Marriage but shall give Sentence for the Defendant yet you may expect that he will condemn the Defendant in the Charges made by the Plaintiff and under the notion of Charges order her a good round Sum of Money for the dammage she sustained by the Defendants means They at Doctors-Commons can tell you how in the famous Marriage Cause between Mrs. Isabella Jones and Sir Robert Carr in the Arches where Sir Robert was claimed by her for her Husband tho' for want of full proof of the Marriage Sir Gyles Sweit the Dean of the Arches pronounced Sentence against the Marriage yet however he condemned Sir Robert Carr in 1500 l. Costs to Mrs. Jones and from which Sir Robert appealed not but paid the Mony Sir Gyles was in his Conscience convinced that Sir Robert and Mrs. Jones had been really married tho by reason of one of the Witnesses to it having been tamper'd with the Marriage could not be fully proved by her I can at any time acquaint you with the Circumstances of that Cause and give you an account of the remarkable Judgments of God inflicted on the Persons who tamper'd with the Witness in that Cause whereby the Marriage between Sir Robert Carr and Mrs. Jones failed of Sentence But one Circumstance of hers I shall not here omit namely that she was but a Servant a Waiting-woman to Sir Robert's Mother and your Kinswoman being the Daughter of an Arch-deacon vertuous and of good Education her Case is thereby rendred more favourable in the eye of the Law than Mrs. Jones was I know the Rule is that Victus Victori condemnabitur in expensis But all Practitioners in the Ecclesiastical Courts know the exception from that Rule even in Common Causes Si just am causam litigandi victus habuerat and that particularly in Matrimonial Causes ex justâ Causâ litigandi ipse Vincens in expensis Condemnatur ut si matrimonium allegans sponsalia prohaverit aut tractatum and other like Circumstaces And that not only the ordinary expensae litis are here to be allow'd but extraordinary ones I pray God direct your Kinswoman in this her weighty Concern I doubt not but some of the Clergy who were her Father's Acquaintance will not grudge their pains in advising her what to do in point of Conscience Perhaps after the Citation hath been served on the Gentleman the result of it may be that he will not be able to master his Affection to her If he had forsworn her love yet may Nature possibly over-power him and thus according to the old Verse you have met with Jupiter é Caelis ridet perjuria amantûm I am sorry for the Prospect you have of the great Charge in the Law shortly after you have enter'd into the Suit but I have before mention'd your prospect of this being returned to your Kinswoman again tho Sentence should go against the Marriage We know the Saying of the Prophet The liberal man deviseth liberal things c. and the hearts of some good men may be inclined acco●ding to the Tenor of a London Divine's good practical Discourse call'd Charity Directed printed in the Year 1676. to afford the Widow and Fatherless your Kinswomen their help whereby they may be enabled the better to bear the Burthen of the expenceful Suit at the present But methinks if the Father of the young Gentleman who is a wealthy man be a man swayed by Principles of Conscience some wise and sober man of that Perswasion of Religion he professeth might be found out to apply to him in a friendly serious manner and discourse to him of the particulars of the Facts mention'd in your Case whereby he will see how much your Kinswoman hath been damnified by his Son The Case of Biretti before referr'd to in Bishop Taylor 's Cases of Conscience mentions Biretti's being oblig'd to make a Compensation to the Gentlewoman he first married without his intending a Consent to the Marriage I know that regularly Compromissum contra matrimonium initum non valet But if on a Case of the Fact truly stated and laid before Divines for their consideration and directing either Party what to do in point of Conscience thereupon they shall be of opinion that God never joined the Parties and that the young Gentleman bred at home and in the Country here in England having at 18 years of Age equalled