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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41036	The life of that reverend divine, and learned historian, Dr. Thomas Fuller	Fell, John, 1625-1686.	1661 (1661)	Wing F616; ESTC R4382	29,554	118

the Patron or other inducements to the Doctors acceptance but yet he did not over-readily entertain the kindness of the proffer till after a serious scrutiny of himself and his Abilities to discharge the requisite duties the place called for and after a very full and satisfactory enquiry of his Parishioners It was the Rectory of Broad Winsor in Dorsetshire a place far distanced from his native Country remoter from his University A Prophet hath no Honour in his own and therefore it was doubled to him in another The Accomodation both in reference to his maintenance and respect from this people was very noble and which afforded great expedience to the Doctors other labours which were bountifully cherished under the tuition of his Ministry After some while employed here in the pastoral Office the Doctor was desired by some Friends to dignifie his Desert with the Degrees which his Time and standing by the Rules of the University afforded him whereunto the Doctor out of a reverence to his Honourable Cailing was well inclined and accordingly prepared for his departure to Cambridge to take the Degree of Batchelour of Divinity Having taken care therefore to supply his place for the time of his absence at his setting forth he was acquainted that 4 of his chief Parishioners with his good leave were ready to wait on him to Cambridge to testifie their exceeding engagements it being the sense and request of his whole Parish This kindnesse was so present and so resolutely prest that the Doctor with many thanks for that and other demonstrations of their Love towards him gladly accepted of their Company and with his customary innate pleasantnesse entertained their time to the Journies end At his comming to Cambridge he was most welcomly treated and saluted by his friends and acquaintance and visited almost by all considerable persons of the University and Town especially of his Parishioners of St. Bennet Fame and Love vying which should render him most Addresses to the great delight and satisfaction of his fellow-Travellers and Neighbours in having a Minister who was so highly and yet no lesse deservedly honoured but to the Trouble of the modest Doctor who was then forced to busie his invention with Complements to which he was most naturally averse At this Commencement there proceeded with him in the same Degree of Batchelour of Divinity three other reverend persons all with general applause and commendation and therefore to doe them no wrong must forbear to give the Deceased Doctor his particular due Onely thus much by the way may be added that this Commencement cost the Doctor for his particular the sum of sevenscore pounds an evidence of his liberality and largenesse of mind proportionable to his other capacity's and yet then which nothing was lesse studied At his departure he was dismissed with as Honourable valedictions and so he returned in the same company who had out of their own purse contributed another addition of honour to that solemnity to his said Rectory at Broad Winsor resolving there to spend himselfe and the time of his pilgrimage amongst his deare and loving charge In the amaenity and retirements of this rurall life some perfection was given to those pieces which soon after blest this age an account of all which is reserved to the conclufion of these Collections from this pleasant prospect he drew that excellent Piece of the Holy Land Pisgah sight and other Tracts relating thereto so that what was said bitterly of some Tyrants that they made whole Countries vast solitudes and desarts may be inverted to the Eulogie of this Doctor that he in these recesses made desarts the solitudes of Israel the frequented path and track of all ingenuous and studious persons But Contemplation and the immurement of his vast spirit within the precincts of his Parish although both delightfull and profitable those foraign Travels of his brain above mentioned affording the One and his pious labours at home yeilding the other grew tedious and wearisom to his active and free Genius which was framed by nature for converse and general Intelligence not to be smothered in such an obscurity To this inclination also the unquietness and trepidations of those times then scared with the news of a war about Religion and reformation which the Scots pretended did oversway him He was very Tensible whither those first commotions did tend and that some heavy disaster did in those angry clouds which impended over the Nation more particularly threaten the Clergy He was then also married unto a vertuous young Gentlewoman and by her had born there his eldest son now a hopefull plant in the same Colledge and University where his Father had his education These motives concurring with that generall fame and esteem of him drew him to the consultation of a City life where both security honour and the advantages of learning did demonstratively promise the completion of his desires intended tranquillity destined already to some publique workes which were then in designment Removing therefore to London having obtained his fair dismission from that charge in the Countrey he continued his pious endeavour of preaching in most of the voyced Pulpits of London being cryed up for one of the most excellent preachers of his age but most usually in the Inns of Court He was from thence by the Master and Brotherhood of the Savoy as well as earnestly desired and intreated by that small parish complemented to accept of the Lecturers place which having undertaken after some instance he● did most piously and effectually discharge witness the great confluence of affected Hearers from distant congregations insomuch that his own Cure were in a sense excommunicated from the Church unless their timous diligence kept pace with their devotion the Doctor affording them no more time for their extraordinaries on the Lords day then what he allowed his habituated abstinence on all the rest He had in his narrow Chappel two Audiences one without the pale the other within the windows of that little Church and the Sextonry so crowded as if Bees had swarmed to his mellifluous discourse He continued here to the great satisfaction of his people and the neighbouring Nobility Gentry till our unhappy unnaturall warres had made a dismall progress through the whole Nation labouring all that while in private and in publique to beget a right understanding among all men of the Kings most righteous cause which through seduction and popular fury was generally maligned His exhortations to peace and obedience were his constant subjects in the Church all his Sermons were such Liturgies while his secular daies were spent in vigorously promoting the Kings affairs either by a sudden reconciliation or potent assistance To this end on the Anniversary day of his late Majesties inauguration which was the day of March 1642. hee preached at St. Peters Westminster on this Text 2 Sam. 19. 30. Yea let him take all so that my Lord the King return in peace A Theam so distastfull to the