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
extollebantur Therefore the Parsonage of Houghton in the Bishoprick of Durham worth near 400 l. per Annum being made void by the Preferment of Dr. Lindsel to the Sea of Peterborough the King bestowed upon Mr. Heylyn which afterward he exchanged with Dr. Marshal Chanter of the Church of Lincoln for the Parsonage of Alresford in Hampshire that was about the same value to which exchange Mr. Heylyn was commanded by his Majesty that he might live nearer the Court for readiness to do his Majesty service Neither was he envyed for this or his other Preferments because every one knew his merits was the only cause of his promotion For men of eminent Worth and Vertue when they are advanced saith my Lord Bacon Their Fortune seemeth but due to them for no man envyeth the Payment of a Debt That as his Majesty was pleased most graciously to express upon his loss of the Living by the Bishop of Lincoln so according to his Royal Promise he doubly repayed that Debt by a Living of twice the value into which he was no sooner instituted and inducted but he took care for the Service of God to be constantly performed by reading the Common-prayers in the Church every morning which gave great satisfaction to the Parish being a populous Market Town and for the Communion Table where the blessed Sacrament is consecrated he ordered that it should be placed according to ancient Custom at the East end of the Chancel and Railed about decently to prevent base and profane usages and when the Chancel wanted any thing of Repairs or the Church it self both to be amended Having thus shewed his care first for the house of God to set it in good order the next work followed was to make his own dwelling-house a fit and convenient Habitation that to the old Building he added a new one which was far more graceful and made thereto a Chappel next to the Dining-room that was beautified and adorned with Silk hangings about the Altar in which Chappel himself or his Curate read Morning and Evening-prayeâ—… to the Family calling in his Labourers and Work-folks for he was seldom without them while he lived saying that he loved the noise of a Work-mans Hammer For he thought it a deed of Charity as well as to please his own fancy by often building and repairing to set poor people a work and encourage painful Artificers and Tradesmen in their honest Callings He built a Hall in the middle of the House from the very Foundation upon the top whereof was a high Tower of Glass on one side of the Hall a fair Garden with pleasant Walks Cypress Trees and Arbours on the other side upon the Front a spacious Court at the Gate of which next the Street a high wooden Bridge that went cross over the Street into the Church-yard on which himself and Family went to Church to avoid the dirty common way which was almost unpassable Besides he made many new Conveniences to the Out-houses and Yards belonging to them all which was no small charge to his Purse for I have heard him say it cost him several hundreds of Pounds in Alresfords-house where he in a manner buried his Wifes Portion yet after his Death his Eldest Son was unreasonably sued for dilapidations in the Court of Arches by Dr. Beamont his Fathers Successor but the Gentleman pleaded his Cause so notably before Sir Giles Swet then Judge of the Court that he was discharged there being no reason or justice he should be troubled for dilapidations occasioned by the long War when his Father was unjustly turned out of his House and Living After so much cost bestowed upon Alresford and his Prebend-house in Westminster he constanly resided in one of those places where he kept good Hospitality and took care to relieve the Poor following also his wonted studies not only in History but Fathers Councils and Polemical Divinity the better to prepare himself for a new encounter with the old Professor Dr. Prideaux for he resolved to go on in his Universitâ—… Degrees notwithstandiug his removal from Oxon and to perform those Exercises required in that Case in which he always came off with credit and applause Being now to take his Degree of Batchelor in Divinity in July An. Dom. 1630. Upon these words Mat. 4. 19. Faciam vos fieri Piscatores hominum Upon the Sunday after he preached the Act Sermon upon this Text Mat. 13. 14. But while men slept his Enemy came and sowed Tares among the Wheat and went his way Where he made a seasonable Application of this Subject as the Times then stood of the danger of Lay-Feofees in buying up Impropriations A godly project it appeared at the first sight but afterwards a Tare fit to be rooted up Pulchra Laverna Da mihi fallere da justum sanctumque videri The Pretension of those Feofees seemed to be very just and pious but their Intention and Practice was quite contrary by planting many pentionary Lectures in many places where the Preachers were Non-conformists from whom could be expected no better fruits than the overthrow of Episcopal Government The words of Mr. Heylyn's Sermon as to this particular are as followeth For what is that which is most aimed at in it but to cry down the standing Clergy of this Kingdom to undermine the publick Liturgy by Law established to foment factions in the State Schisms in the Church and to have ready Sticklers in every place for the advancement of some dangerous and deep design And now we are fallen upon this point we will proceed a little further in the proposal of some things to be considered The Corporation of Feofees for buying in Impropriations to to the Church doth it not seem in appearance to be an excellent piece of Wheat a noble and gracious part of Piety Is not this Templum Domini Templum Domini But blessed God that men should thus draw near to thee with their mouths and be so far from thee in their hearts For what are those entrusted in the management of this great business Are they not most of them the most active and best affected men in the whole Cause magna partium momenta and chief Patrons of this growing Faction And what are those that they prefer Are they not most of them such men as are and must be serviceable to their dangerous Innovations And will they not in time have more Preferments to bestow than all the Bishops of the Kingdom And so by consequence a greater number of Dependents to promote their Interest Yet all this while we sleep à nd slumper and fold our hands in sloth and see perhaps but dare not note it High time it is assuredly you should be awaked and rouse your selves upon the apprehension of so near a danger If we look further upon this new devise and holy project it being observed as Fuller saith that those who hold the Helm of the Pulpit always steer the peoples hearts as they please The Feofees
receive the greatest share of Knowledge and Understanding it being the principal Organ of sensâ—… for that use But the loss of his Eyes considering the Cause was no blemish to his Person but rather a Mark of Honour as the Caeci among the Romans a noble Family were so called because of the notable service they did for the publick good Claros illustres viros militiae domique ex oculorum vitio cognomenta invenere saith Alex. ab Alexand. Thus Constantine the great in honour of Paphnutius sufferings for Christian Religion kissed the hole in his face out of which the Tyrant Maximinus had bored his eye the good Emperor making much of the Socket saith Mr. Fuller when the Candle was pâ—…t out These outward Windows being shut the Doctor enjoyed more perfectly the sweet and seraphical contemplations of his own Mind without â—… disturbance from other Objects which â—…eing removed he did take a complacency and delight only in himself as Tully saith Habet animus quo se delectet etiam occlusis sensibus I may say truly of him thus though he was my Father in Law that he was the venerable Bede of our Age for many excellent Tractates he published which he never saw with his own Eyes and they were done in as exact a manner as when he had his faculty of sight at the best The like Socrates saith of Dydimus when he was blind he not only interpreted Origens Writings and made Commentaries upon them but set forth excellent Treatises to defend the Orthodox Faith against the Arians The Doctors Cosmography was the last Book he writ with his own hand after which voluminous work his Eyes failed him that he could neither see to write nor read without the help of an Amanuensis whom he kept to his dying day yet he was not so totally deprived of his sight as some imagin but he could discern a Body or Substance near hand though not the Phisiognomy of a Face so as to follow his Leader when he walk'd abroad He macerated his Body with the immoderate exercises of his mind ofteâ—… fasting and taking little or nothing for the space of two or three days when he was upon painful studies which made him look at such times like a Sceleton yet then he was also of a cheerful Spirit He followed no excercise for his health but walking in his Garden and then he used a kind of low whistling with himself either to recreate his Spirits or else as it were to sound an Alarm against his Enemies like the old Germans who affected a such like Tone asperitas soni fractum murmur when they went to War All this while he was in deep Meditation preparing for an encounter with his Adversary in some polemical discourse The Pen being his only Weapon in which he was as fortunate as Alexander with his Sword of whom it s said Cum nullo hostium unquam congressus est quem non vicerit He fought with none of his Enemies but he overcame them so the Doctor had the same good fortune in all his Pen-Combates to be Conqueror For which cause he was ordinarily called the Primipilus and chief Defender of Prelacy by Smectymnus the Bishops Darling by others the Puritan Episcopal man For his Zeal and Courage I may truly say of him he was a right Peter of whom Casaubon observes out of the Greek Fathers Petrum suisse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…ervido ingenio virum St. Peter was a man of a hot temper and disposition that set him forward on all occasions more than the other Disciples So the Doctor was of the like disposition naturally and inclined the more by study much watching and sitting up late at Nights that threw him often into Fevers to which he was very subject not withstanding his hot temper and constitution he did so wisely correct and govern it that he never fell into those Paroxisms as to suffer his reason to be extinguished with passion but his most fervent zeal was ever attended with deep knowledge for he had an acute Wit a solid judgement and exuberant fancy to which was adjoyned that which is rare to be found in all these excellences together a most prodigious and yet faithful Memory that he did not usually take Notes or make Collections of Readings out of Authors as most Scholars do but committed what he read to his own Memory which I believe never failed him in whatsoever he treasured up to make use of hereafter Therefore it was a pittiful charge of Mr. H. L' Estrange against him that he misreported the words of Pareus in putting down quomodo for quando to which the Doctor answers thus for himself whereby we may see what a true Repository of things his Memory was I must tell you saith he for him that is plundred of his Books and keeping no Remembrances and Collections of his Studies by him he cannot readily resolve what Eâ—…ition he followed in his consulting with that Author He always thought that Tenure in Capite was a nobler and and more honourable Tenure than to hold by Copy and therefore carelesly neglected to commit any part of his Readings unto Notes and Papers of which he never found such want as in this perticular which you so boldly charge upon him When the Esquire tax'd him again for having many Helpers as if he were beholden to other mens studies and pains about the composing of his Books that was such a notorious Scandal that every one who knew him could confute he in modest and most pious manner replied thus Though I cannot say that I have many Helpers yet I cannot but confess in all humble gratitude that I have one great Helper which is instar omnium even the Lord my God Auxilium meum a Domino my help cometh even from the Lord which hath made Heaven and Earth as the Psalmist hath it And I can say with the like humble acknowledgements of Gods mercies to me as Jacob did when he was askt about the quick dispatch which he had made in preparing savory meat for his Aged Father Voluntas Dei fuit tam cito occurreret mihi quod volebam Gen. 27. 20. It is Gods goodness and his only that I am able to do what I do And as for any humane Helpers as the French Courtiers use to say of King Lewis the Second That all his Council rid upon one Horse because he relyed upon his own Judgement and Abilities only So I may very truly say that one poor Hackny-horse will carry all my Helpers used be they never so numerous The greatest help which I have had since it pleased God to make my own sight unuseful to me as to writing and reading hath come from one whom I had entertained for my Clerk or Amanuensis who though he reasonably well understood both Greek and Latin yet had he no further Education in the way of Learning than what he brought with him from the