Hammonds Worth deserved or the Reverend Dr. Peirces affection could Indite upon whose affectionate Pen the Elogy grew thus Sed latere qui voluit ipsas latebras illustrat Et Pagum alias obscurum Invitus cogit inclarescere Nullibi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 illi potest deesse Qui msi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nihil aut dixit aut fecit unquam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Animi dotibus ita annos anteverterat ut in ipsa linguae infantia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eaque aetate Magister artium Qua vix alii Tyrones esset Tam sagaci fuit industria ut horas etiam subsicivas utilius perderet Quam Plerique Mortalium serias suas collocarunt Nemo rectius de se meruit Nemo sensit demissius Nihil eo aut exceltius erat aut humilius Scriptis suis factisque Sibi uni non placuit Qui tam calamo quam vita â—umano generi complacucrat Ita Labores pro Dei sponsa ipsoque Deo exant-lavit ut Coelum ipsum ipsius humeris incubuisse videretur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnem super gressus Romanenses vicit Profligavit Genevates De utrisque merito triumpharunt Et Veritas Hammondus utrisque merito triumphaturis ab Hammondo victis veritate Qualis ille inter amicos censendus erit Qui demâ—reri sibi adversos vel hostes potuit Omnes haereses incendiarias Atramento suo deleri maluit Quam ipsorum aut sanguine extingui Aut dispendio Animae expiari Coeli Indigena Eo divitias praemittebat ut ubi cor jam erat ibi etiam thesaurus Quod prolixe bene-volus prodiga manu erogavit aeternitatem in faenore lucraturus Quicquid habuit voluit habere etiam invalidae valetudinis Ita habuit in deliciis non magis facere quam sufferre Totam Dei voluntatem ut frui etiam videretur vel morbi taedio Summam animi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 testatam fecit Hilaris frons exporrecta Nusquam alius in filiis hominum Gratior ex pulchro veniebat corpore virtus omne jam tulerat punctum omnium plausus Cum Mors quasi suum adjciens Calculum Funesta lithiase Coeli avidum Maturum Coelo Abi viator Pauca sufficiat delibasse Reliqua serae posteritati narranda restant Quibus pro merito enarrandis una aetas non sufflcit The Third are his Books more lasting than Marble viz. ANnotations on the New Testament Fol. Annotations on the Psalms Fol. A Volume of Sermons Fol. Practical Catechism Octavo A Vindication of some Passages therein from the Censures of the London Ministers Quarto Tracts 1. Of Conscience 2. Of Scandal 3. Of Will-Worship 4. Of Superstition 5. Idolatry 6. Sins of Weakness and Willfulness 7. Of a late or Death-bed Repentance Of Fraternal Admonition or Correction Quarto Of the Power of the Keys of Binding and Loosing Quarto A View of the New Directory and Vindication of the Ancient Lyturgy of the Church of England Quarto Considerations concerning the danger of Changing Church-government Quarto Of Resisting the Lawful Magistrate under the colour of Religion Quarto A View of some Exceptions made by a Romanist to the Lord Viscount Faeulkland's discourse of the Infallibility of the Church of Rome Quarto A Copy of some Papers passed at Oxford between the Author and Master Cheynell An Address to the Lord Fairfax with a Vindication thereof A Vindication of the Dissertations concerning Episcopacy from the London Ministers Exceptions in their Ius Divinum Ministeri Evangelii Six Queries resolved 1. Of the way of Resolving Controversies 2. Of Marrying the Wives Sister 3. Of Poligamy and Divorce 4. Of Infant Baptism 5. Of Imposition of Hands for Ordination 6. Of the Observation of Christmass and other Festivals of the Church Twelves Of Fundamentals in a Nation referring to Practice Octavo Of Schism against the Romanists Twelves A Reply to the Catholique Gentleman about the Book of Schism Quarto A second Defence of that Book Quarto Controversies about Ignatius his Epistles Quarto Defences of the learned Hugo Grotius An Account of Mr. Cawdreys Triplix Diatuba of Superstition Will-worship and Christmass Festivals The Baptizing of Infants Revived and Defended against Master Tombes Dissertationes quatuor de Episcopatu contra Blondellum c. Paraenesis Or a seasonable Exhortatory to all true Sons of the Church of England wherein is inserted a discourse of Heresies in defence of our Church against the Romanists Twelves Discourses against Mr. Ieanes about the Ardency of Christs Prayer and other then agitated Controversies A Latine Tract of Confirmation wherein Mounsieur Daillee is concerned A single Sheet shewing to what shifts the Papists are driven Two Prayers for the Nation when under its great Crisis and hopeful method of Cure His fourth and last as durable as the rest is his Life I know not whether better lived by himself or writ by the Reverend Doctor Fell from whose exact Syllables it were a vanity impardonable in me while I have before me Dr. Hamond that compleat Idea of what is fit to vary further than my enjoyed brevity enforced me because no Pen can more elegantly express that Person than his who so severely practiseth his virtues To the Church of Englands honour and advantage be it spoken in this last age when ancient virtue had lost its reputation and was outshined by the success and gallantry of new vices it recovered its own amiableness in Dr. Hamonds person and Dr. Fells Character A character that is his nature not his fancy and writ well because lived so THE Life and Death OF Dr. RALPH BROWNRIG Lord Bishop of Exceter BIshop Brownrig was a person of that soundnesse of Iudgement of that conspicuity for an unspotted Life of that unsuspected Integrity that his life was Virtutum norma as Ierome of Nepolian ita in singulis virtutibus eminebat quasi caeteras non habuisset So eminent in every good and perfect gift as if he had but oâ—e only There was never any thing said by him which a wise and good man would have wished unsaid or undone He was born at Ipswich a Town of good note in Suffolk in the year of our Lord 1592. His Parents of Merchantly condition of worthy reputation and of very Christian conversation When he was not many weeks old God took away â—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 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 than either his years or standing in rigor 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 none more than Brownrig When Bachelor and
reply to Cartwrights Answers till his Antagonist laid down the Cudgels For these were inconsiderable troubles given him when we reflect on the great Oppositions and dangerous Motions in Parliament that forced him twice on his knees to the Queen intreating the continuance of her Grace and Favour towards him and the Church the first time and with grief of heart they are his own words craving her Majesties protection the second And add to them the several Contrasts he had with the Lords by whom in Councel upon their sending to him the Complaints of the Norfolk-Ministers against Bishop Preake of Norwich and of the Kentish-Ministers against himself he was forced to write that it was Irregular for Ministers to address themselves to the Council-Table in Affairs of the Church wherein he alone was Intrusted by God and her Majesty and to tell them that it was not for the Queen to sit in her Throne if such men might so boldly offer themselves to reason and dispute as in their Bill they vaunt against the state established in matter of Religion nor for himself to keep his place if every Curate within his Diocess or Province may be permitted so to use him it being impossible as he saith for him to perform the Duty which her Majesty looked for at his hands if he might not without Interruption proceed in that which her Highness had especially committed unto him And that the disorderly flocking and gadding from place to place was dangerous concluding that the sending for him to appear before the Council-Table as a Party and to call his doings in question which from her Majesty were immediately committed unto him and wherein he supposed he had no other Judge but her self and this upon the suggestion of unlearned despicable and troublesome men the meanest and fewest of the places where they lived was a thing unexpected from them from whom as their Pastor he expected all aid and assistance in his Office for the quietness of the Church and State the Credit of the established Religion and the maintenance of the Laws made for the same Neither was this all alas what a sad Complaint doth this Reverend Person make against one Beal Clerk of the Council who reviled and threatned him to his face if he proceeded to put the Ecclesiastical Laws in execution as he had done telling him boldly loudly and bitterly That he would overthrow the Church and that his hands should be shortly stopped His words are That were it not for his Conscience and well-grounded perswasion in the things he did the peace of the Church her Majesty and some Noble Lords constancy to him in the Service he should hardly be able to endure so great a Burden Nay writing to my Lord Hatton the good Arch-bishop saith That my Lord Hatton's kindness did not a little comfort him having received saith he not long since unkinde speeches where I least looked for them onely for doing my duty in the most necessary Business which I have in hand disobedient wilful persons I will term them no worse are animated Laws contemned her Majesties Will and Pleasure little regarded and the Executors thereof in word and deed abused Howbeit these Overthwarts grieve me yet I thank God so the good Prelate goeth on I am contented to sustain all these Displeasures and fully resolved not to depend upon Man but upon God and her Majesty If you saith he to my Lord Burleigh take the part of unlearned young ambitious Disturbers of Order against the established State of Religion and forsake me especially in so good a Cause I shall think my coming to this place to be for my punishment and my very hard hap that when I think to deserve best and in a manner to consume my self to satisfie that which God her Majesty the Church requireth of me I should be evil rewarded and having risen early and sate up late to give all men satisfaction have my Labour lost and called wilful Papist Knave and charged that I require men to subscribe onely to maintain my own Book and so sacrifice the publick to my own private Reputation These were the sufferings of Whitgift Dr. Fulke for writing against the Brownists professeth that he had not an hours rest for twelve years together And how bold Traverse was set up in the Temple against modest Hooker How the loud Lectures of the first of these were cried up against the solid Sermons of the other What siding and bandying there was in the House What confuting in the Afternoon of what was proved in the Morning What Addresses to the Lords of the Council And how meek Mr. Hooker weary of the Contrast was forced to retire is obvious to all that do but dip into the History of Queen Elizabeth's time not to mention either Dr. Baroe or Mr. Barrets Sufferings in Cambridge with Dr. Howson and Mr. Land 's at Oxford for Anti-Calvimsm which was onely another little occasion found to quarrel with Authority and to draw in more persons to their Party many learned men who favoured not the Faction in point of Calvinistical Discipline yet were very Indulgent and serviceable to them in respect to their Calvinistical Doctrine Well during Queen Elizabeth's Reign the Quarrel being confined within the Church and Schools few acted or suffered thereby besides Church-men and Scholars the Laity of the Nobility and Commons seldom engaging either way further than by private tampering encouraging interceding motioning c. and none of them suffering any further than that if they stood to the great and generous Principles of Government and Religion they were censured as Papists profane Enemies of the Power of Godliness c. or so But upon the Entrance of King Iames whom the Factious thought a Presbyterian from his Cradle as frighted to their way in his Mothers belly the Laity and Clergy began to side more openly Dr. Nevil Dean of Canterbury was not so soon with that King from Arch-bishop Whitgift and the rest of the Clergy as Mr. Lewis Pickering a Northamptonshire Gentleman waited upon him from the Presbyterians upon whose return judging by the Kings temper that they who had most Voices and Friends were likely to carry it at least for Liberty and Toleration a great Multitude was thought by them a strong Argument with that Prince they set up the mille-manus Petition called so for the thousand hands they pretended were to it Mr. Cartwright in the mean time Caressing his Majesty with all the Presbyterian Courtships in the world in an Epistle Dedicatory to his Latine Commentary on Ecclesiastes with the Importunity whereof together with the Mediation of some Lords especially the Scotch for now Presbytery had got a whole Nation I mean Scotland of their side there was a Conference held at Hampton-Court before the King and the Lords of the Council between eight Bishops eight Deans and two other Divines on the one side Dr. Reynolds Dr. Sparkes Mr. Knewstubs and Mr. Chadderton on the other The issue whereof notwithstanding
to do many courtesies as it is to suffer once than to do many times for a friend he may do what he will that will do but what they may 7. It s the ruin of many men that because they cannot be best they will be none and if they may not do as well as they would they will not do as well as they may 9 Whiles wisdom makes art the ape of nature pride makes nature the ape of art The proud man shapes his body to his apparel the wise man his apparel to his body there is great reason that we should be ashamed of our pride no reason to be proud of that which is only the covering of our shame 10. Entertain no thoughts that will blush in words 11. Be in the company of those among whom thou mayst be wise rather than with those among whom thou mayst be accounted so 12. In things necessary go along with the ancient Church in things indifferent with the present 13. Neither upbraid men with your own kindness nor forget theirs 14. Be not constant against reason nor change your mind without it 15. Believe not all you hear nor speak all you believe 16. Acknowledge ignorance and learn rather than pretend knowlegde and be ignorant 17. Do well to satisfie a good Conscience and you shall hear well by a good report 18. Measure not your self by other mens reports nor others by your own thoughts 19. Live as men that shall dye and prepare to dye as men that shall live for ever Ne hae zelantis animae sacriores Scintillulae ipsum unde deciderant spirantes Coelum Author magnus ipsa quam Aliis dedit careret memoria Interesse Posteris putavimusbrevem Honoratissimi Viri Iohannis Sucklingii vitam historia esse perennandam Ut pote qui nobilissima Sucklingiorum Familiaeoriundus cui tantum reddidit quantum accepit honorem Nat. Cal. April 1613. Withamiae in Agro Middles Renatus ibid. Maii 7 mo denatus 164 ... haud jam Trigesimus scriptu dignissima fecit factu dignissima scripsit Calamo pariter gladio celebris pacis artium gnarus belli THE Life and Death OF Dr. SAMUEL WARD PASS now from a pretty Gentleman that was all wit and festivity time and place making the connexion to a Reverend person that was all gravity and judgment and sad certainly the Cause of the Faction when the wittiest part of mankind laughed at it and the most judicious declined it among whom as none more solid so none more zealous than Dr. Samuel Ward born at Bishops-Middleham in the Bishoprick of Durham being a Gentleman of more ancientry than estate bred first Scholar of Christs then Fellow of Emanuel and afterwards Master of Sidney-Colledge in Cambridge and Margaret Professor therein for above twenty years His character which one who knew him as well as most men and could judge of him as well as any man doth bestow upon him is this AGe perge cathredam ornare quod facis sacram Subtilitate non levi rapida vaga Sed orthadoxa quam coronat veritas Et justa firmat solidit as patiens librae Antiquitatis crypta tu penetras frequens Scholasticorum tu profundes vortices Te nulla fallit nulla te scium latet Distinctionum tela rationum stropha Tam perspicacem mente judicio gravem Linguis peritum tamque nervosum stylo His addo genium temperatum animo Placidum modestum lite rixosa procul GO to go on deck as thou dost the Chair With subtilty not light slight Vageas Hair But such as truth doth Crown and standing sure Solidly fixed will weighing well endure Antiquities hid depths thou oft dost sound And School-mens Whirl-pools which are so profound Distinctions threads none can so finely weave Or reason wrench thy knowledge to deceive None thy Quick-sight grave Judgment can beguile So skill'd in Tongues so sinewy in stile Add to all these that Peaceful Soul of thine Meek modest which all brawlings doth decline He turned with the times as a Rock riseth with the Tide and for his uncomplying there with was imprisoned in St. Iohns Colledge He was counted a Puritane before these times and Papish in these times and yet being alwayes the same was a true Protestant at all times How many men suffered in this one 1. First an exact Linguist by the same token that when towards the most excellent and last Translation of the Bible in King Iames his time the Prayer of Manasseh and the rest of the Apocrypha was committed to his trust among Eight other Cambridge Men when he was but Master of Arts of Emanuel Colledge the Revisers never reviewed his performance Dr. Smith and Dr. Reynolds who were Intrusted with the last Revises saying We have heard of second thoughts Correcting the first but thought shall Correct the twentieth And not many passages cost him fewer for he would say had never been a Scholar but for a habit of exactness which he got under an accurate Master and there is no other advantage in either going to good Schools or continue in Universities than to keep the Soul from being unravelled and loose by a constant acting of thoughts and expressions to the Rule of accuracy taught in those Schools and practiced in those Universities whence by never missing exactness of thoughts seldom failed of hitting things and his steady words seldom fell either beyond besides or short of his thoughts 2. A sound Scholar and therefore by an Excellent Scholar as well as good man Bishop Iames Mountague chosen Chaplain for his Family and Assistant for his Study 3. A discreet man and upon that score by the same Bishop chosen by him his Notery that is his Eye and his Ear For when Mr. Thrash the violent Sabbatarian came to be Ordained and it was a Question whether he had ever sucked of the Breast of the Universities or brought up by hand in some petty School Mr. Ward refused him as altogether insufficient however afterwards he crept into Christian Orders to broach Judaizing Doctrines by some rash hands which might wish with Martianus a Bishop of Constantinople who made Sabbatius a Jew and turbulent man Priest they had been laid on Thorns and Briars than on such a mans head upon a Certificate which was then matter of Courtesie and not matter of Conscience the good Bishop trusting to his own Eye for the sufficiency and to other mens hands for the carriage of the Man an error in the first concoction is seldom corrected in the second an unworthy and therefore turbulent man for worthless men must make up that in trouble which they lack in worth Dwarfs are troublesome and peevish and Children clamber where they cannot reach being not so easily got out of the Church by suspension and deprivation as might be kept out without Ordination which doth perpetuate the Faction and make the Party Immortal 4. A grave governor and successeful and therefore by the Honorable H. Lord Grey Earl of Kent who
To be disabled for ever after from Preaching at Court 6. To be for ever disabled of having any Ecclesiastical Dignity in the Church of England 7. To be uncapable of any secular Office or Preferment 8. That his books are worthy to be burned and his Majesty to be moved that it may be so in London and both the Universities According to the third Branch of this Censure he was brought to the Bar Iune twenty three and injoyned this Submission on his knees I do here in all sorrow of heart and true repentance acknowledge those many errors and indiscretions which I have committed in preaching and publishing the two Sermons of mine which I called Religion and Allegiance and my greatâ— fault in falling upon this Theam again and handling the same rashly scandalously and unadvised in my own Parish-Church in St. Giles in the Fields the fourth of May last past I humbly acknowledge these three Sermons to have been full of dangerous Passages Inferences and scandalous Aspersions in most part of the same And I do humbly acknowledge the just proceedings of this honorable House against me and the just Sentence and Judgement passed upon me for my great offence And I do from the bottom of my heart crave pardon of God the King this Honorable House and the Common-weal in general and those worthy Persons adjudged to be reflected upon by me in particular for those great offences and errors And according to the first he was imprisoned in the Tower untill that Parliament was dissolved and then in recompence of his Sufferings and Services he was preferred 1. To the Rich Parsonage of Stâ—mon-Rivers in Essex then void by Bishop Mountague his Fellow-sufferers Preferment Iuly 16. with a Dispensation to hold it with the Vicarage of St. Giles 2. To the Deanery of Worcester May. 1633. And 3. To the Bishoprick of St. Davids Dec. 1635. with a pardon drawn Ian. 1628. according to His Majesties Pardon of Grace to his Subjects at his Coronation with some particulars for the pardoning of all errors committed either in speaking writing or printing whereby he might be hereafter questioned How afterwards he was apprehended 1640. suddenly confined severely fined heavily plundered violently and persecuted from place to place continually that for the two last years of his Life not a week passed over his head without either a Message or an Injury he desired God not to remember against his Adversaries and adjured all his Friends to forget Onely the faults alledged against him must not be forgot for besides the aforesaid Sermons first warranted by a Bishop for the Press as containing only the same points delivered with offence from the Pulpit which Serjeant Heal delivered with applause in a Parliament who said That he marvelled the House stood so much either at the granting of a Subsidy or time of payment when all we have is her Majesties and she may lawfully at her pleasure take it from us and that she had as much right to all our Lands and Goods as to any Revenue of the Crown and that he had Presidents to prove it and to be suffered for once and the old demurrer is Deus non punit in id idem he was charged I. with Popish Innovations by which you are to understand his care to reduce the Cathedrals he belonged to to order and decency As for instance it is reckoned as his fault that he gave the Archbishop of Canterbury Sept. 24. 1635. this account concerning his Services in the Church of Worcester 1. An Altar-stone of Marble erected and set upon four Coâ—umes 2. The Wall behinde the Altar covered with Azure Coloured stuffe with a White silk lace down each seam 3. The Altar it self adorned with a Pall an upper and lower front 4. A perfect Inventory taken of all Ornaments Vestments and Implements of the Church as well sacra as focalia divers Vestments and other Ornaments of the Church as Copes Carpets Fronts c. being turned into Players Caps Coats and imployed to that use by the direction of Mr. Nathaniel Thomkins burnt and the Silver extracted put into the treasury of the Church 5. The Kings Scholars being forty usually coming tumultuously into the Chore ordered to come in Bimatim and to do reverence towards the Altar II. He was accused for conversing with Papists whereof many in his Parish loved his Company which was no more than his prudent civility to gain them by his worth and addresses to him who were reported to have gained him to them when all that knew him understood well that like the Lapwing he fluttered furthest from his nest having at once the closest and therefore the smoothest way of conveying his Design and Project III. He was looked upon as sociable and jovial whereby you must understand a good nature ready to communicate its self in instruction to the ignorant in free discourses to the wise in civil mirth and a becoming chearfulness among his friends usually saying at his Table that there were three things requisite to one good Meal to pray heartily to eat heartily and in a sober way to laugh heartily In an orderly Hospitality among his rich Neighbours and Charity among his poor ones especially the modest whose craving he expected not but prevented some grounds will rather burn than chap though otherwise he was as severe in reducing disorderly Beggars as he was pittiful in relieving impotent and unfortunate Expectants usually saying That King Edward the sixth was as Charitable in granting Bridewell for the punishment of Sturdy Rogues as in bestowing St. Thomas Hospital for the relief of the poor and helpless Liking the Picture of Charity drawn with Honey in the one hand to feed Bees and a Whip in the other to drive away Drones In a frakness and freedom among his Tenants whose thriving he consulted as much as his own esteeming three particulars the honor of a Church 1. Punctual Discipline 2. An Exemplary Clergy And 3. Improving Tenants King William Rufus not so tender in other sacred points as he was conscientious in this had two Monks come to him to buy an Abbots place who outvied each other in the sums they offered while a third Monk stands by and saith nothing to whom the King said what wilt thou give for the place Not a Penny answered he for it is against my Conscience Then quoth the King thou of the three best deservest the Place and thou shalt have it Three Tenants at one time standing in competition about a considerable Lordship to be Let by the Doctor one offering a great Fine and a small Rent the second proposing a small Fine and a great Rent and the third no Fine and a good reasonable Rent with the improvement of the Vicarage and the Church Nay said the Doctor this is my Tenant that comes not to ensnare me with great overtures for my self but to treat with me upon fair proposals for the Church expecting nothing from him but his prayers to God for the
the way of an active conformity to the Church is to crack the sinews of Government for it weakens the hands and damps the spirit of the obedient And if only scorn and rebuke shall attend men for asserting the Churches dignity many will chuse rather to neglect their duty in the Churches service only to be rewarded with that that shall break their hearts too That very little he had got in the time of peace he lost in the time of war their practices and designs had been a long time the subject of his smart reproofs and his estate now become a prey to their revenge To see the good man escape them in his Clarks habit that had been certainly murthered in his own when it was safe to be any thing but a Minister and withal to hear the chearful man smile out his old Motto I have as much as I desire if I have as much as I want and I have as much as the most if I have as much as I desire 'T was a spectacle that had melted any spirit but that in which the custom of cruelty had taken away the conscience of it whom yet he was very tender of according to his usual Maxim Nature may induce me to shew so much care of my self as to look to my adversaries reason shall perswade me to shew so much wit as to beware of those that deceived me once but Religion hath taught me so much love as to be injurious to none For estate Abundance he thought a trouble want a misery honor a burthen business a scorn advancement dangerous disgrace odious but competency a happiness I will not climb lest I fall nor lye on the ground lest I am trod on He for carriage He did so much forâ— think what he would promise that he might promise only what he would do that he would often do a kindness and not promise it and never promise a kindness and not to do it In Religion His heart spake more devoutly than his tongue when as too many peoples tongues speak more piously than their hearts The good man hath oftentimes God in his heart when in his mouth there is no good mentioned The Hypocrite hath God often in his mouth when the fool hath said in his heart there is no God The tongue speaks loudest to men the heart truest to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Its pity to part intimate Friends the one dying under the sense the other under the fear of this Nations Calamity THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN BARKHAM JOhn Barkham that said he had lived under a good Government and was afraid to live any longer lest he should see none at all was born in the City of Exeter bred in Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford whereof he was Fellow Chaplain afterwards to Archbishop Bancroft and Parson of Bocking in Essex Much his Modesty and no less his Learning who though never the publick Parent of any was the careful Nurse of many Books who otherwise had expired in their Infancy had not his care preserved them He set forth Dr. Crackenthorp his Posthume Book against Spalato and was helpful to Iohn Speed in the composing of his English History â—ea he wrote the whole Life of the Reign of King Iohn which 〈◊〉 â—he King of all the Reigns in that Book for profound Penning discoverable from the rest of the different style and much Scripture cited therein Mr. Guillim in his Heraldry was much beholden to this Doctors Emendations He was a greater lover of Coyn than of Money rather curious in the Stamps than covetous for the Mettal thereof That excellent Collection in Oxford Library was his gift to the Arch-bishop before the Archbishop gave it to the University richer in M. SS than Printed Books and richer in the skill he had by the phrase and Character to fill up the defects and guess at the meaning of a Moth-eaten Record than in the possession of the Paper when the Factious were admitted to look upon his Rarities they did him the kindness to supect him of his Religion thinking that the rust of his old Inscriptions cankered his Soul with as old Superstition When it is in the study of Antiquity as it is in that of Phylosophy a little skill in either of them inclines men to Atheism or Heresie but a depth of either study brings them about to their Religion When both extreams as he called them to the virtue of the Church of England the Partizans of Rome and Geneva the men of the old Doctrine and the new Discipline met with any little remnant of Antiquity that made for them they ran to him with it and he would please himself infinitely with a story which hath been since his death Printed the story was this A Nobleman who had heard of the extream age of one dwelling not far off made a journey to visit him and finding an aged person in the the Chymney corner addressed himself to him with admiration of his age till his mistake was rectified so Oh Sir said the young old man I am not he whom you seek for but his Son my Father is further off in the Field They mistaking middle Antiquity for Primitive History wherein he was so versed that he had not the Fathers books only but their hearts not their History only but their Piety So strict in his life that he went among Fathers himself being observed as much a rule to others as they were to him Skilled he was in many Tongues and yet a man of a single heart When God made him rich he made not himself by coveteousness poor and if God had made him poor he could have made himself by contentment rich Bishop Vsher and he had one useful quality above many others that they understood men better than they did themselves and so employed men that could not tell what to do with themselves upon what was most suitable to them and most profitable to the publick having Dr. Iames his motion much upon their spirits that all the Manuscripts of England should be collected and compared A design that would have proved very beneficial to the Protestant considering how many M. SS England hath still notwithstanding her loss at the dissolution of Monasteries if prosecuted with as great indeavor as it was proposed with good intention You would think you were at St. Augustine and St. Cyprians House when you saw the poor at the Doctors doors the Neighbors welcome at his Table young Scholars in his Study Bibles and other godly books in each room of his house the Servants and all the Houshold so used to Psalms and Chapters that they spoke familiarly the holy Language the hours of Devotion and Instruction constantly observed the people being at all the returns of duty in Gods service to forget their own business though in their own business they never forgot Gods service When you saw a man making the errors of men the subject of his grief not of his discourse so prudently
High Chamberlain of England 1631. Upon the Trial of a Combate between Donald Rey and David Ramsey he was constituted Lord High-Constable of England for the day 1635. He is Commander in Chief of forty sail assisted by the Vice Admiral the Earl of Essex to secure the Kingdoms Interest Trade and Honor in the narrow Seas against all Pyrates and Pretenders that either Invaded our Rights by the Pen or might incroach upon them with the Sword And in the years 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641. when he had looked through the whole Plot of the Conspirators on the one hand and comprehended the gracious Overtures and design of his Majesty on the other when the Expedients he offered were neglected the warnings he gave of the consequence of such proceedings slighted the earnest Arguments he urged publickly and privately were not regarded and all the Interest and Obligation he had in the Conspirators forgotten withdrew after his Majesty that he might not seem to countenance those courses by his presence which he could not hinder being not able to stop the Current of the â—umults he was resolved not to seem to approve it but followed his Royal Master to York to injoy the freedom of his Conscience where we finde him among other Noble Persons attesting under their hands his Majesties averseness to War as long as there was any hope of Peace and when neither He nor any of his Loyal Subjects when neither Law nor Religion neither Church nor State could be secured from the highest violations and prophanations men could offer or Christians endure without a War and the King not having his Sword in vain but drawing it for a terror to evil doers and an encouragement to them that did well He and his Son the Lord Willoughby of Eresby afterwards Earl of Lindsey first joyned with the rest of the Nobility in a Protestation of their resolution according to their Duty and Allegiance to stand by his Majesty in the maintenance of the Established Laws and Religion with their Lives and Fortunes and accordingly raised the Countreys of Lincoln Nottingham c. as his retainers in love and observance to whom the holding up of his hand was the displaying of a Banner as other Honorable and Loyal Persons did other parts of England untill his Majesty with an incredible diligence and prudence up and down the Kingdom discovered to the deluded people his own worth deserving not only their reverence but also their Lives and Fortunes incouraging the good with his discourses exciting the fearful by his example concealing the Imperâ—ections of his Friends but always praysing their virtues and prevailing upon all not too guilty or too much debauched so far as to raise an Army that amazed his Enemies who had represented him such a Prodigy of Folly and Vice that they could not imagine any person of Prudence or Conscience would appear in his service expecting every day when deserted by all as a Monster he should in Chains deliver himself up to the Commands of the Parliament and surprized even his Friends who despaired that ever he should be able to defend their Estates Lives or Liberties by a War who to make his people happy if they had not despised their own mercies had by passing Acts against his own Power to Impress Souldiers his right in Tonnage and Poundage the Stannary Courts Clerk of the Market the Presidial Court in the North and Marches of Wales deprived himself of means to manage viz. of a Revenue without which no Discipline in an Army as without Discipline no Victory by it and who esteemed it an equal misery to expose his people to a War and himself to ruine Yet an Army by the large Contributions and extraordinary endeavors of this Noble Lord and other Honorable persons to be be mentioned in due time which being under several who could abide no Equal as none of them could endure a Superior having no Chief or indeed being all Chiefs the Swarm wanted a Master 〈◊〉 a Supream Commander who should awe them all into obedience It was observed by Livy that in the great Battel the Criâ—â—cal day of the worlds Empire betwixt Hannibal and Scipio that the Shouts of Hannibals Army was weak the voices disagreeing as consisting of divers I angâ—ages and the shouting of the Romans far more terrible as being all as one voice When they who agreed in few other particulars conspired in this that the Earl of Lindsey pitched upon as Lord General of the Army by his Majesty was an expedient worthy the choice and prudence of a Prince to command and train a fresh Army to credit and satisfie a suspecting people when they saw the Kings Cause managed by persons of such Integrity Popularity and Honor as they could trust their own with In which Command his first service was the drawing up of Articles for Discipline to be observed by the Army wherein he took care 1. Of Piety as the true ground of Prowess 2. Of Chastiâ—y remembring how Zisca intangled his enem is by commanding so many thousand Women to cast their Keâ—cheifs and Partlets on the ground wherein the other Army were caught by the Spurs and ensâ—ared Little hopes that they will play the Men who are overcome by Women 3. Civility that he might win the Country in order to the reducing of the Faction it being sad to raise more enemies by boisterousness in their Marches and Quarters than they engaged by their Valour in the Field so increasing daily the manyâ— headed Hydra 4. Sobriety without which he said the Engagement would prove a Revel and not a War and besides the scandal render the best Army unfit either for Council or Action and uncapable of meeting with a sober enemies active designs much less of carrying on any of their own so loosing the great advantages of war as G. Adolphus called them Surprizes Next the Discipline of the Army he took care of their numbers a great Army being not easily manageable and the Commands of the General cool and loose some virtue in passing so long a journey through so many and next that of their suitableness and agreeableness one with another and after that of their order that they might help one another as an Army rather than hinder one another as a Croud and then their Provision and Pay that they might not range for Necessaries when they should fight for Victory Thirty thousand men as brave Gonzaga said thus disciplined and thus accommodated are the best Army as being as good as a Feast and far better than a Surfeit In the Head of this Army a foot with a Pike in his Hand having trained up his Souldiers by Skirmishes before he brought them to Battle he appeared at Edge-hill Octob. 23. 1642. too prodigal of his Person which was not only to fill one Place but to inspire and guide the whole Army But that it is a Maxime of the Duke of Roan That never great person performed great undertaking but by making war in
them as friends yet deprived and imprisoned they were so that the good Doctor could attend his Sacred Majesty now calling for him no otherwise than by the excellent Sermons he earnestly demanded and the Doctor dutifully sent and gaining no more favour till the Kings death but with the mediation of his Brother-in-law Sir Iohn Temple than to be his own prisoner at the honorable Sir Philip Warwicks house at Clapham in Bedford-shire whence on the approach of that unparallelled villany he drew up most pathetique Addresses to the Army that perpetrated it and an unanswerable Reply to Ascham and Goodwyn those two only monsters of mankind that durst defend it Which when now past though it transported him as far as either affection or duty could carry him yet sunk him not in an useless amazement for redoubling his fasting his tears and solemn prayer he resumed his wonted studies And Reflecting on the Atheism that Horrid Fact and other Black Circumstances threatned he published his equally seasonable and applauded Reasonableness of Christian Religion Considering that there was not a more dangerous step to irreligion than for those who durst not but own it yet to deprave it to a most scandalous Theory and a most horrid Systeme he cleared its wrested Original in two Latine Quarto Volumes with Reference to the Jewish and Heathen Customs the Primitive usages among Christians and Heretiques the Importance of the Hellenistical Dialect by which means in a manner he happened to take in all the difficulties of the New Testament a Collation of several Greek Copies and a New Translation drawn up many years ago for his own use which on second thoughts to serve all capacities he cast into the present frame and method of the Annotations on the New Testament The careful and publick spirited man adverting that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Religion though never so cleared could not inwardly oblige without a power confessed did outwardly awe Upon the Archbishop of Armaghs request 1. To clear some Exceptions Blondel had made against his Edition of Ignatius from some Eastern Counsels 2. And according to his promise of a fuller account to publish that in Latine which he had writ to him in English as well for his own honor whom Salmasius had unworthily called Nebulo as the honor of Episcopacy now as L. Capellus intimated in his Thesis of Church-government at Sedan deserted by all men he drew up those nervous and unanswerable Dissertations Thus cleared and vindicated he our Religion in bonds that was first published there notwithstanding 1. The loss of his dear Mother whose last blessing he was forbid to attend her For 2. The defeat of his Majesty at Worcester from whose own hand he received then a most gracious letter for the satisfaction of his Loyal Subjects concerning his adherence to the established Religion of the Church of England wherein his Royal Father lived a Saint and died a Martyr And 3. The calamity that fell on the honorable Sir Iohn Packingtons Family thereupon at Westwooâ—â—â— whither he was now removed Bearing up himself with the providence of his Maâ—esties miraculous Deliverance in expectation of his no less miraculous Restauration To use his own words That God who had thus powerfully rescued him out of Aegypt would not suffer him to perish in the Wilderness but though his possage be through the Red Sea he would at last bring him unto Canaan that he should come out of tribulation as gold out of the fire purified but not consumed But others having not that happy prospect of nor those pious and â—iducial reflections on those occurrences and therefore some in that dark juncture falling on the one side to the Pompous way of the Catholicks others on the other side to that more Novel of the Schismaticks the prudent watchman equally provided for both For the first in his Treatise of Heresie and Schism his discourses against the Catholick Gentleman and his Armor-bearer S.W. and his Tract of Fundamentals Forthe second in his six Queries his Replies to Mr. Cawdry Mr. Ieanes and the noble provincial Assembly at London on the Presbyterian account and to Mr. Owen and Mr. Tombes on the Independants and Anabaptists adding that pathetick Paraenesis upon the Interdict Ian. 1. 1655. writ first in his Tears and then with his Ink he looking on this sad dispensation as a reproaching to use his own words his and his brethrens former unprofitableness By casting them out as straw to the Dunghall A dispensation that had even broken his great heart had he not admitted of an expedient that secured all real duties in the Family where he was Neither was he more troubled for the Silence imposed on the Orthodox Ministry at present than amazed at the failure threatned them for the future both in the superior order of Episcopacy which he provided against by a correspondence with his Majesty abroad and in the inferior of Priesthood which he designed to supply a seminary of pious learned and â—ellâ— pâ—â—ncipled Pensioners be kept on foot till his death in a way more suitable to his Heroick minde than his low fortune in which business it was observable how his choice fixed on piety it being his prinple That exemplary virtue must restore the Church But the Nation being too narrow a circle for his diffusive goodness his care extended to the banished abroad as well as his vigilance to the afflicted at home and several sums of money did he send over notwithstanding that the Vsurpers discovered it and convented him whose commanding worth awed them to that reverence of him that when others were amazed at the surprized he made it only an opportunity of saying something home to the fierce Monster concerning his soul and discourse the appropriate ways remaining to alleviate at least if not expiate for them coming off with a new experiment of his old observation That they who least considered hazzard in the doing of their duties fared still best Amidst which sad diversion his labours yet grew up in an un-interrupted course His Review of the Annotations his Exposition of the Book of Psalms his Pacifick Discourse of Gods Grace and Decrees to Bishop Sanderson upon some Letters that passed between that reverend and learned Prelate and Dr. Pierce his Latine Tract of Confirmation in answer to Mr. Daillee together with his Enterprize upon the Old Testament begun at the Provâ—rbs and pursued to a third part of that Book until at the opening of the year 1660. when all things tended visibly to the great Restauration and the good Dr. was invited to London to assist in the great work of the composure of breaches in the Church against which undertaking and the ensuing publick employments he was to expect He 1 Examined his inclinations temptations and defects with the assistance of his friends 2. He contrived such publick good works as he might lay himself out in the Diocess of Worcester designed his charge And 3. Fell to
him as one of the four Brittish Divines to Dort where his weak body agreeing not with the unquietness of those Garrisoned Towns after some pathetick Speeches and motions for accommodation after the expedient called Sintentia 4. Theol. Brit. for reconciliation and the Elegant Latine Sermon the night before he preached which he was wonderfully refreshed and enlivened beyond what he had been a moneth before for Peace he retired first to my Lord Ambassador Carletons at the Hague and with his Majesties leave Dr. Goad being substituted in his place to England taking his farewell of the Synod in these words Non facile vero mecum in gratiam redierit Cadaverosa haec moles quam aegre usque circum gesto quae mihi hujus conventus celebritatem toties inviderit jamque prorsus invitissimum a vobis Importune avocat divellit neque enim ullus est sub coalo locus aeque coalis aemulus in quo tentorium mihi figi malverim cujusque adeo gestiet mihi animus meminisse Beatos vero vos quibus hoc frui datur non dignus eram ego ut fidelissimi Romani querimoniam imitari liceat qui Christi ecclesiae suae nomine sanctam hanc provinciam diutius sustinerem illud vero 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nempe audito quod res erat non alia me quam adversissima hic usum valetudine serenissimus rex meus misertus miselli famuli sui revocat me domum quippe quod cineres meos aut sandapylam nihil vobis prodesse norit succentariavitque mihi virum e suis selectissimum quantum Theologum De me profecto mero jam silicernio quicquid fiat viderit ille Deus meus cujus ego totes sum vobis quidem ita faeliciter prospectum est ut sit cur infirmitati meae haud Parum gratulemini cum hujusâ—odi instructissimo succedaneo caetum hunc vestrum beaverit Neque tamen committam 〈◊〉 Deus mihi vitam vires indulserit ut Corpore simul animo abesse videar Interea sane huic Synodo ubicunque terrarum sim vobis constliis conatibusque meis quibuscunque res vâ—stras me pro virili sedulo ac serio promoturum sancte voveo Interim vobis omnibus ac singulis Honoratissimi Domini Legati Reverendissime praeses gravissimi assessores scribae doctissimi symmystae Colendissimi tibique venerandissima Synodus universa aegro animo ac corpore aeternum valedico Rogovos omnes obnixius ut precibus vestris imbecillem reducem facere comitari prosequi velitis Though yet surviving all his Colleagues and living to see them and the whole Synod charged with a pre-ingagement by Oath to Vote down the Remonstrants and living likewise to vindicate them with the States and Princes that deputed them who had deserved well of him the President and Assistants waiting upon him by publick Vote the Deputies of the States by Daniel Hensâ—us with acknowledgement of his service in a Golden Medal containing the Pourtraict of the Synod These were his publick employments neither were his private less eminent 1. His Theses at Cambridge when Batchelor and Doctor of Divinity as seasonably chosen as prudently asâ—erted against the Adversaries of our Doctrine and of our Discipline 2. His Meditations and Sermons plausible at the Princes Court that failed and at the Earl of Carlisles that stood by him 3. His Letters and Resolutions that setled so many eminent Persons and obliged more solid and witty 4. His accorded truths upon the Dutch quarrel which we composed there raised here after Mr. Mountagues Books which expressed Overall rather than Arminius and the sidings in Press Pulpits and Parliaments thereupon out of Bishop Overall and our Divines at Dorts propositions shewing that these parties mistaked rather than mis-believed so reasonable that being presented to his Majesty Charles I. by Dr. Young the worthy Dean of Winchester with a Petition to confine the Debates thereof in their University and silence them in the Church Mr. Mountague offered to subscribe them on the one hand and most Anti-monstrants English Scottish and French on the other 5. His prudent assertion That when as the Papists urge us where our Church was before Luther and we produce witnesses of itâ— in every age with some disadvantage since our Church is not another from theirs but the same more Reformedâ— the Church of Rome is an ancient and true Church only it hath new Errors an assertion which with his former expedient exposed him so far to the zeal of narrow-sighted men that an Apologetical advertisement a rational reconciler backed by Bishop Mortor Bishop Davenant Dr. Prideaux and Dr. Primroses unquestionable testimony and his own moderation in silencing all the Writers of both sides as there were indeed to lay hold of any Controversie in order to the publick disturbance were little enough to allay the jealousie of his Lukewarmness and abatement of former zeal when alas he was only grown older and so wiser especially since it was but a little before that he was made Bishop of Exeter having refused Glocester where Providence setled him 1. By the delay of the Duke of Buckinghams Letter which coming two hours sooner had defeated him 2. By the unthought of Addition of the R. of St. Breock to a poor Bishoprick 3. By a prudent resolution put into his heart notwithstanding the spies laid upon him the jealousie entertained of him The expostulating Letters and wary Cautions sent to him his contests with Lords his three purgations of himself from some envious suggestions upon his knees before his Majesty in so much that he declared that be would be a Bishop no longer while so liable to mis informations to follow those courses which might most conduce to the peace and happiness of his new and divided charge winning the misguded encouraging the painful and corresponding so fairly withall his numerous Clergy who submitted to all anciently received Orders but two that fled from censure 6. His successful Letter to the House of Commons about their delay of supply and misapprehensions 7. His happy unanimity within his charge till the last year he was there when some factious Neighbor unkindly undermined him in the choice of Convocation-men for the Convocation 1639. only desiring to recommend grave persons to their Election leaving them to their freedom of choice and they polling to his face for persons he heard not of though he carryed it and at his return home was nobly welcomed by hundreds of the Diocesse which that year by his Majesties special favor he exchanged for that of Norwich which his prudent management of the former of Exceter wherein he miscarried only in some inadverted expressions which yet he submitted to the Churches censure and in an over-credulous Charity whereby yet he designed the Kingdoms peace First his motion to the Archbishop for a General Counsel of his Majesties three Kingdoms to shame the Scottish insolence and the English pretences against Episcopacy
and when that was not judged expedient his second for the Archbishop of Armagh Bishops of Kilmore Down and Conner in Ireland the Bishops of Durham Salisbury and his own in England with three more of Scotland and the Professors of Divinity of the respective Universities judgment in that point and when that was not convenient considering the variety of mens apprehensions his chearful undertaking of the Treatise called Episcopacy by Divine Right upon my Lord of Canterburies noble motion and one G. Grahum a Bishop in Scotland most ignoble Recantation referring the fifteen heads of his discourse to my Lords examination who altered some of them to more expressiveness and advantage and perused each head when finished and compleated with the irrefragable propositions deserved But the Plot against Episcopacy being too strong for any remedy this good man was one of thâ—se Charged in the House of Lords and a strong Demurrer stopping that proceeding one of those endangered by the Rabble hardly escaping who one night vowed their ruin from the House under the Earl of Manchesters protection having in vain moved both Houses for assistance One of them that protested against all Acts done in the House during that violence in pursuance of their own right and the trust reposed in them by his Majesty and that being not as was intended proposed either to his Majesties Secretary to himself or the Lord Keeper to be weighed but hastily read in the House apprehensive enough of misconstruction He being able to do no good in the Subcommittee for Reformation in the Ierusalem Chambers with 11 of his Brethren Ian. 30. late in a bitter frosty night was Voted to the Tower after a Charge of High-treason for owning his Parliamentary right received upon his Knees where Preaching in his course with his Brethren and Meditating he heard chearfully of the Bonfires Ringing in the City upon their Imprisonment he looked unconcernedly on the aspersions cast on them here and in Forreign parts in Pamphlets and other methods he suffered patiently the Dooms prepared for them he Pleaded resolutely several times at the Bar. The pretended Allegations brought against them being admitted to Bail by the Lords he went patiently again to the Tower upon the Motion of the Commons and being Released upon 50000 l. Bond retired to Norwich his and his Brethrens Votes being Nulled in Parliament where being Sequestred to his very Cloaths he laying down mony for his Goods and for his Books his Arrearages being stopped his Pallace rifled in Norwich his Temporal Estate in Norfolk Suffolk Essex was Confiscated the 400 l. per annum Ordered by the Houses as each Bishops competency was stopped the Synodals were kept back Ordination was restrained The very Mayor of Norwich and his Brethren summoning the grave Bishop before them an unheard of peremptorinesse for ordaining in his Chappel contrary to the Covenant And when they allowed him but a fifth part Assessements were demanded for all extremities none could bear but he who exercised moderation and patience as exemplarily as he recommended them to others pathetically and eloquently who often passionately complained of the sacrilegious outrages upon the Church but was silent in those unjust ones on himself who in the midst of his miseries provided for the Churches Comfort by his Treatises of Consolation for its Peace by the Peace-maker Pax Terris and Modest offer for its Instruction by his frequent Sermons as often as he was allowed for its Poor by a Weekly Contribution to distressed Widows to his death and a good sum in the Place where he was born and the City where he died after it for its Professors by holy admonitions counsels and resolutions for its Enemies by dealing with some of them so effectually that they repented and one among the rest a great Commissioner and Justice of Peace I mean Esquire Lucas who though a man of a great Estate received Orders at his hands and recompenced in injuries to the Church as Committee-man by being a faithful Minister of it to this day and when he could not prevail with men especially about the horrid Murder of his Gracious Soveraign he wrestled with God according to his Intimation in his Mourners of Sion to all other Members of our Church in a Weekly Fast with his Family to his death the approaches to which was as his whole life solemn staid composed and active both in Presse and Pulpit his intellectuals and sensuals the effect of his temperance being fresh to the last till the Stone and Stangury wasted his natural strength and his Physicians Arts and he aser his fatherly reception of many persons of honor learning and piety who came to crave his dying Prayers and Benedictions one whereof a Noble Votary he saluted with the words of an ancient Votary Vide hominem mox pulverem futurum After many holy prayers exhortations and discourses he rouzed up his dying spirits to a heavenly Confession of his Faith wherein his Speech failed him and with some Struglings of Nature with the Agonies of Death he quietly gradually and even insensibly gave up the Ghost Having Preached to two Synods reconciled â—ix Controversies for which he had Letters of Thanks from Forreigners of all sides Served two Princes and as many Kings Sate in three Parliaments kept the Pulpit for fifty three years managed one Deanery and two Bishopricks written forty six Excellent Treaties seen his and the Churches enemies made as odious at last as they were popular at first directed the most hopeful Members of the Church in courses that might uphold it 1656. And of his Age eighty two years leaving behind him three Monuments of himself 1. His excellent Children in some of whom we yet see and enjoy him 2. His incomparable Writings of which it was said by one that called him The English Seneca That he was not unhappy at Controsies more happy at Comments very good in Characters better in his Sermons best of all in his Meditations now Collected in three Volumes with his Remains And 3. In his inimitable Virtues so humble that he would readily hear the youngest at Norwich so meek that he was never transported but at three things 1. Grehams horrid Apostacy 2. The infamous Sacriledge at Norwich And 3. The Kings unparalled Murder So religious that every thing he saw did or suffered exercised his habitual devotion so innocent that Musick Mathematick and Fishing were all his Recreations so temperate that one plain meal in thirty hours was his diet so generally accomplished that he was an excellent Poet Orator Historian Linguist Antiquary Phisolopher School Divine Casuist and what not no part of Learning but adorns some or other of his Works in a most eminent manner I cannot express him more properly than his worthy Sons Heirs to his worth and to his modesty intimate him with Pericles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Socrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Pythagoras Ejus singula
lima Sincerae solidae sed acre Novae hujus Legodaedalae sonorae fucatae meretriciae flagellum Atlas Religionis Orthodoxae Tibicen fidei Columna veri falsi malleus haeresin retundens Retundens quoque schisma hypocritarum Doctrinae Jubar cruditionis fundus Fax Crticae politiorum fons linguarum Idiomatumque nidus Cunct as tam bene continens loquelas loquelas veteres et eruditas eos quot quot habet quot occidensque Nido scilicet Adde quas ad unguenâ— modernas tenuit Cubabat isto Chaldaeus Syrus Aethiops Arabsque Hebraeus Samarita Persa Coptus Flumen nectaris Ingeni Scatebra Thesauri sed et Ausoni Pclasgi Penus flos latialis umbra Tulli Athenae merae Attici Leporis Favus mellis Aymethi Alveare Torrens eloquii medulla suadae Dicendi veneresque Gratiaeque Sagax arbiter elegantiarum Legendi sine fine Dipsas Atrox Librorum Hâ—lluo literarum Abyssus Aevi surculus aurei renascens morum stella nitens in his tenebris exemplar probitatis atque gemma in hoc stercore temporum refulgens candor simplicitasque comitasque et mista gravitas suavitate Frons jucunda decor verendus oris Jecur Felle carens cor absque fuco Ingens pectoris Integri serenum musarum meliorum amor voluptas et gentis decus et dolor togatae hoc uno pariter facesse livor Quo Combare jaces jacent Sepulchro THE Life and Death OF Dr. SAMUEL COLLINS Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge WHen I observe one Star exactly in the Firmament others at first sight not so discernable offer themselves to my observation taking the character of the foregoing eminent â—ight in the University of Cambridge others that shined equally with him in the same Orb and suffered as eminent an Eclips appeared as 1. Dr. Samuel Collins Son of Mr. Baldwin Collins called for his piety pains and bountiful Almes-giving by Queen Elizabeth Father Collins was born August 5. a day observable to him in many passages of his life 1570. at Eaton where he was bred and whence after nine years study under a severe School-Master whom yet sensible how seasonably that severity fixed his too nimble nature thanked that School-Master as publickly as his predecessor Dr. Whitacre who when his Tutor took his Doctors Degree under him thanked him publickly for giving him frequent Correction with an admirable proficiency by reason as he would say himself of emulation and ambition that provoked him to learn by the example of some leading Boys that his Master kept in each Form to draw on the rest and to use his own word to Co-extend their souls by a natural Memory improved by Art taught him by his Father and by his great phancy which helped him to a deep notion and lively similitude of things and so to a more retentive memory of them A natural eloquence and facetiousness symbolizing with and so more tenacious of any Elegancy he ever met with in any Poet or Orator especially in his beloved Ovid and Pindar â—ully or Isocrates and the modern Ciceronians as Longolius Bembus Politian c Some pieces of whom he read yearly to his dying day giving this reason for it to the young men whom he advised to do the like Iisdem nutrimur ex quibus constamus those Authors enlarge and quicken our parts that first moulded and formed them and a decaying soul like a decaying body should go to its native air and congenial author to recover its self He was chosen Fellow by Dr. Roger Goad who upon his smart Translation of a piece in Horâ—ce at the Election and by the way he would say he improved himself much by translating himself taking notice how others translated one Language into another and observing the Idiotisms and proper Elegancies of each Author and Language clapping his Hand on his Head and against six eminent Competitors saying This is my Child that if he lives wise men dwell next door to Prophets shall be my Heir and Successor As he was 1615. being chosen Provost and 1621. Regius Professor of Divinity having deserved well of the Church both by his excellent discourse against the Papists and his accurate Sermon 1608. at St. Pauls about the Non-conformists upon 1 Tim. 6. 3 4 5. Of the former of whom he converted seven and of the latter sixteen by reason of his admirable wit and memory which he would say Was a mans learning for quantum memini tantum scio he was the most â—luent Latinist of our age Disputants encountring the torrent of his eloquence with no better success than Caligula's Souldiers did upon his Command with the Tide as clear as fluent not desiring to be thought deep because muddy and dark Not at all affected with the endless disputes of our Times which any Sciolist may move but the best Scholars cannot end about Predestination and the other busie Articles determining one day on the one side in those points and the next day on the other as the Disputants put up their Positions telling his amazed Auditors that both sides in those intricate Disputes however aggravated by zeal and ignorance were if rightly understood agreeable with the Analogy of Faith He would neither multiply needless Controversies nor compound necessary ones being resolute and stable in Fundamentals those his fixed Poles and Axeltree about which he moved while they stood immovaeble not tossed to and fro with pro and con upon the sea of Controversies as some others so long as the very ground seemed to move to him and his judgment grow sceptical and unstable in the most settled points of Divinity though he brought some controversies near together as those mountains in Wales whose hanging tops come so close together that Shepherds on the tops of several Hills may audibly talk together Being no curious searcher of nice Questions no cunning Sector as Antonius Pius who had that name for his desire to Study and examine the least differences remembring very well that Captain Martin Forbisher fetched from the farthest Northern Countries a ships lading of Mineral Stones as he thought which afterwards were cast out to mend the High-ways He defeated as well as escaped the arguments brought against him not only putting by the thrust but breaking the weapon knowing well otherwise that though he might shut the Opponents mouth he might open the difficulty the wider in the hearts of the hearers but he either fairly resolved the doubt or shewed the falseness of the argument by beggering the Opponent to maintain such a fruitful generation of absurdities as his argument had begotten or lastly retorts it back upon him again The first way unties the knot the second cuts it asunder and the third whips the Opponent with the knot himself tied He always commended a clear Answerer above a cunning Opposer because the latter takes advantage of mans ignorance which is ten times more than his knowledge He knew that all arguments for errors were resolved into a fallacy and therefore he used every time to urge a
admire the disordered glories of such magnificent Structures which were venerable in their very dust He ever was used to overcome all difficulties only mortality was too hard for him but still his Vertues and his Spirit was immortal he took great care and still had new and noble designs and propsed to himself admirable things He governed his Province with great justice and sincerity Vnus amplo consulens pastor gregi Somnos tuetur omnium solus Vigil And had this Remark in all his Government that as he was a great hater of Sacriledge so he professed himself a publick enemy to non-residence and would declare wisely and religiously against it allowing it no case but of necessity or the greater good of the Church There are great things spoken of his Predecessor St. Patrick that he founded 700. Churches and Religious Convents that he ordained 5000. Priests and with his own hands Consecrated 350. Bishops How true this story is I know not but we are all witnesses that the late Primate did by an extraordinary contingency of Providence in one day Consecrate two Arch-bishops and ten Bishops and benefit to almost all the Churches in Ireland and was greatly instrumental to the Re-endowments of the whole Clergy and in the greatest abilities and incomparable industry was inferior to none of his most glorious Antecessors Since the Canonization of Saints came into the Church we finde no Irish Bishop Canonized except St. Laurence of Dublin and St. Milachias of Down indeed Richard of Armagh's Canonization was propounded but not effected but the Character which was given of that Learned Primate by Trithemius does exactly fit this our late Father Vir in Divinis Scripturis eruditus sccularis philosophiae jurisque Canonici non ignarus Clarus ingenio Sermone Scholasticus in declamandis Sermonibus ad populum excellentis industriae He was learned in the Scriptures skilled in secular Philosophy and not unknowing in the Civil and Canon Laws he was of an excellent Spirit a Scholar in his discourses an early and industrious Preacher to the people And as if there were a more particular sympathy between their souls our Primate had so great a Veneration to his Memory that he purposed if he had lived to have restored his Monument in Dundalke which Time or Impiety or Unthankfulness had either omitted or destroyed So great a lover he was of all true inherent worth that he loved it in the very memory of the dead and to have such great examples to intuition and imitation of Posterity At his coming to the Primacy he knew he should at first espy little besides the Ruines of Discipline a Harvest of Thorns and Heresies prevailing in the hearts of the people the Churches possessed by Wolves and Intruders mens hearts greatly estranged from true Religion and therefore he set himself to weed the Field of the Church he treated the Adversaries sometimes sweetly sometimes he confuted them learnedly sometimes he rebuked them sharply He visited his Charges diligently and in his own person not by Proxies and instrumental Deputations Quaerens non nostra sed nos quae sunt Iesu Christi He designed nothing that we knew of but the Redintegration of Religion the Honor of God the King the restoring of collapsed Discipline and the Renovation of Faith and the service of God in the Churches And still he was indefatigable and even as the last Scene of his life intended to take a Regal Visitation Quid enim vultis me otiosum a Domino comprehendi said one he was not willing that God should take him unimployed But good man he felt his Tabernacle ready to fall in pieces and could go no further for God would have no more work done by that hand he therefore espying this put his House in order and had lately visited his Diocesse and done what he then could to put his Charge in order for he had a good while since received the sentence of death within himself and knew he was shortly to render an account of his Stewardship he therefore upon a brisk Alarm of death which God sent him the last Ianuary made his Will in which besides the prudence and presence of Spirit manifested in making a just and wise settlement of his Estate and Provisions for his Descendants at midnight and in the trouble of his sickness and circumstances of addressing death still kept a special sentiment and made confession of Gods admirable mercies and gave thanks that God had permitted him to live to see the blessed Restauration of his Majesty and the Church of England confessed his faith to be the same as ever gave praises to God that he was born and bred up in this Religion and pray'd God and hoped he should die in the Communion of this Church which he declared to be the most pure and Apostolical Church in the world He prayed to God to pardon his frailties and infirmities relied upon the mercies of God and the Merits of Jesus Christ and with a singular sweetness resigned up his soul into the hands of his Redeemer But God who is the great Choragas and Master of the Scenes of Life and Death was not pleased then to draw the Curtains there was an Epilogue to his life yet to be acted and spoken He returned to actions and life and went on in methods of the same procedures as before was desirous still to establish the Affairs of the Church complained of some disorders which he purposed to redress girt himself to the work but though his spirit was willing yet his flesh was weak and as the Apostles in the Vespers of Christs Passion so he in the Eve of his own dissolution was heavy not to sleep but heavy unto death and looked for the last warnning which seized on him in the middest of his business and though it was sudden yet it could not be unexpected or unprovided by surprize and therefore could be no more than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Augustus used to wish unto himself a civil and well-natured death without the amazement of troublesome circumstances or the great cracks of a falling house or the convulsions of impatience Seneca tells us that Bassus Anfidius was wont to say Sperare se nullum lorem esse in illo extremo anhelita si tamen esset habere aliquantums in ipsa brevitate solatii He hoped that the pain of the vast dissolution were little or none or if they were it was full of comfort that they could be short It happened so to this Excellent Man his passive fortune had been abundantly tryed before and therefore there was the less need of it now his active Graces had been abundantly demonstrated by the great and good things he did and therefore his last Scene was not so laborious but God called him away something after the manner of Moses which the Iews express by Osculum Oris Dei The Kiss of Gods Month that is as death indeed fore-signified but gentle and serene and without temptation To sum
Convocations as in that 1640. when he made a motion for a new Edition of the Welch Bible set out sixty years ago by Bishop Morgan but in several places misprinted which I would some again consider of And in the Convocation 1662. when he concurred effectually in drawing up the Act of Uniformity and making the alterations in the Common-prayer then set out the form for Baptizing those of riper years being I think of his composing Dr. Robert Wright the youngest Fellow as ever was admitted of Trinity-colledge and the first Warden that ever was of Wadham-colledge in Oxford the richest Bishop that ever was of Bristol whither he was preferred 1622. and the strictest that had been of Coventry and Lichfield where he sat 1632. and died 1643. his Castle being kept for his Majesty by Dr. Bird a well known Civilian and half his estate devoted to his service by himself whose advise to his Clergy was that they should not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 embody and enervate their souls by idleness and sloath Be it remembred that he was one of the twelve Bishops that suffered for protesting against the Laws that Passed in Parliament during the tumults and one of the two that for his painfulness and integrity for his moderation and wariness had the most favourable imprisonment for that protestation being Committed only to the Black-rod while the rest went to the Tower His virtues having indeed the vices of the times for his enemies but not the men Dr. George Cooke a meek and grave man Brother to Secretary Cooke in temper as well as bloud born at Trusley in Derbyshire bred in Pembroke-hall Cambridge Beneficed at Bigrave in Hertfordshire where three houses yielded him almost 300 l. a year advanced to the Bishoprick of Bristol 1632. and to that of Hereford 1636. wherein he died 1650. much beloved by those that were under him and yet much persecuted about the protest in Parliament 1641. and other matters by those that where above him insomuch that he who was thrist it self had wanted had not his Relations helped out his merit and he been as Honorable as Pious and Learned He dropped Sentences as easily as others spoke sence happy in expressing as well as conceiving though as Plotin he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wholly taken up with his minde a serene and quiet man above the storm the result of that unsettledness of lower minds Dr. Iohn Towers born in Northfolk bred in Cambridge Fellow of Queens Colledge Chaplain to Will. Earl of Northampton and by his Donation Rector of Castle-Ashby in Northampton-shire and upon his recommendation Chaplain to King Charles the I. successively Dean and Bishop of Peterborough he indeavoured to put the humors of the times out of countenance by acting of them in his younger days and by punishing them in his elder but both failing dying about 1650. under great torments in his body and great afflictions from the times he suffered chearfully what he could not amend effectually thereby shewing that he could suffer as handsomely as he could act When rich only in Children whereof one Mr. Towers of Christ-church was an Ingenious man and an excellent Scholar as appears by his book against Atheism and Patience Godfrey Goodman a man of his name born of a Worshipful Family of the Goodmans near Ruthen in Denbigh-shire to which place he was yearly when I was at School there even in his lowest condition a good Benefactor though his Unkle Gabriel Goodman for forty years Dean of Westminster was a better under whom he was bred at Westminster and by whom preferred Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge as he was afterwards by Bishop Andrews Bishop Vaughan and Bishop Williams made successively Prebendary of Windsor Dean of Rochester and Bishop of Gloucester 1624. maintaining several Heterodox Opinions in his Sermons at Court for which he was checked 1626. dissenting from the Canons 1640. for which after three admonitions pronounced by Bishop Laud in half an hour to subscribe he was to his great honor imprisoned and of all the Bishops since the Reformation was the only man whom the miscarriages of the Protestants Scandalled into Popery a harmless man pitiful to the poor Hospitable to his Neighbors and compassionate to dissenters Dying at Westminster in the year of our Lord 1654. and of his Age eighty giving this Posie in his Funeral Rings Requiem defunctis having leave in those as it is said of Bishop Leoline that he asked leave of Edward the 1. to make his he gave directions in one Draught how Impropriations might be recovered to the Church to make it much the richer and no man a jot the poorer He was a great incourager of Sir Henry Middletons design of bringing the New River-water through so many difficulties to London as Davids Worthies did the Water of Bethlem to his Majesty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without which saith one we should have burnt with the thirst and been buryed with the filth of our own bodies Dr. Iohn Warner born in St. Clements Danes Westminster bred in Magdalen Colledge Oxford to which he is a great Benefactor preferred Prebend of the Church of Canterbury to which he gave a Font most Curious and most Costly the first gift by a private hand to that Church in latter times and Rector of St. Dyonis Back Church London on which he bestowed a yearly Pension advanced Lord Bishop of Rochester in which he built an Alms-house with 20 l. a year a piece to forty poor Ministers Widdows himself having practised a single life A great assertor of Episcopacy while he had a voice in Parliament and when he had lost his voice as he was deputed by the Bishops soliciting their Cause with his Purse and Head and when all failed suffering for it being Sequestred of all his Spiritual Estate and compounding for his Temporal which being very great by his Father a Citizen of Londons thrift and greater by his own who would say for his frugal and close way that he eat the craggy Necks of Mutton that he might leave the poor the Shoulder enabled him to relieve his Brethren the Clergy and their Wives when others of his Order were glad to be relieved A man to his last of accurate Parts a good Speech a chearful and undaunted Spirit He dyed Octob. Anno. Dom. 1666. Aetat 81. Episcopatus 29. being as one calls Whitehall A good hypocriâ—e promising less than he performed and more hearty within than Courtly without Dr. Iohn Ganden a Ministers Son in Essex bred first at Colledge Cambridge and afterwards Tutor to the Strangwayes in Wadham Colledge in Oxford by the comeliness of his Person the vastness of his Parts strangely improved by his astronishing industry bestowing most of the seasonable hours of day and night on study and the unseasonable ones on Mechanisms to keep his soul always intent as appears by making the exquisite Common-place Cabinet with other Rarities of his own left behind him the majesty and copiousness of his
unsuitable to his honor as to his inclination Go thy way saith the King thou art a good man So that he might have said when persecuted and imprisoned as our Saviour Io. 10. 32. when reviled for which of my good deeds Sir Christopher Cletherow a great stickler for the Church and a great Benefactor to it a great honorer of Clergy-men in the best times to whom some of his nearest Relations were marryed in the worst espousing their Persons as well as their Cause He was careful by Industry in getting his Estate and forward by Charity to bestow it having learned the best derivation of dives a dividendo dividing much of his Estate among those that were indigent He was much intent upon the clearing and cleansing of the River Thames from Sholes Sands and other obstructing impeachments that might drein dry or divert it so as they might not leave it to Posterity as they found it conveyed to them by their Fathers to Ease Adore and inrich feed and fortisie the City to which we may apply the Millers Riddle If I have Water I will drink Wine But if I have no Water I must drink Water Sir Henry Garraway Sheriff of London 1628. and Lord Mayor 1639. effectually suppressed the Tumults at Lambeth when he was a Magistrate executing the Ring-leaders and imprisoning the promoters of that Sedition clearing the streets with his Presence and awing the combination with his Orders and zealously opposed the Rebellion at London when a private man For those smart words in a Speech at Guild-Hall These are strange courses my Masters they secure our Bodies to preserve our Liberty they take away our Goods to maintain Popery and what can we expect in the end but that they should hang us up to save our lives he was tossed as long as he lived from prison to prison and his Estate conveyed from one rebel to another He dying of a grievous fit of the Sone used to say I had rather have the Stone in my Bladder than where some have it in the Heart That was the case of Sir Edward Bromfield who was made a prey by the Factious after his Mayoralty 1636. for keeping a strict hand over them during it being troubled as was Alderman Abel for what he levyed of the Sope-money Ship-money and Customs in his Office immediately after it Honest Alderman Avery and the Aldermen Iohn and George Garnet men of that publick honesty that they hated Caesars temper who said Melior causa Cassii sed denegare Bruto nihil possum private respects swaying nothing with them in publick Trusts of very private Devotions knowing well the Import of the good Fathers saying Non est vera Religio cum templo relinquitur pitying the Controversies of our ages which they looked upon as Childrens falling out and fighting about the Candle till the Parents come in and take it away leaving them to decide the differences in the dark fearing that those who would not be such good Protestants now as they might be should not dare to be so good Christians the common Enemy coming in upon us through our breaches as they should Good Benefactors to Churches that we might repair at least what our Fathers built Mr. Thomas Bowyer whose Grand-father Francis Bowyer Sheriff of London 1577. obliged the Church of England much under the Romish persecution under Queen Mary in saving and conveying away one eminent servant of God Dr. Alexander Nowel as he did in the Genevian Persecution in King Charles his time in relieving many keeping above forty Orthodox Ministers Widows in constant pay all his life and leaving an 100 l. to be divided among twenty at his death besides a competent provision left by him to relieve ten Sea-men maimed in Merchants service to put ten poor but hopeful youths forth to Apprentice-ships and to maintain the poor of several Parishes besides private Charities which my hand cannot write because though both his were giâ—ving hands yet his right hand knew not what his left gave Zeaâ—lously he asserted the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church and piously did he retire by a chast coelibacy all his life and by giving over his secular affairs some years before his death to her devotion much delighting to hear honest men and more to converse with them He dyed Feb. 8. and was buryed Feb. 22. 1659. at Olaves Iury. Richard Edes and Marmaduke Roydon Esq Mr. Thomas Brown Mr. Peter Paggon Mr. Charles Iennings Mr. Edward Carleton Mr. Robert Abbot Sir Andrew King Mr. William White Mr. Stephen Baltonâ— Mr. Robert Aldem Mr. Edmund Foster Mr. Thomas Blinkhorn belonging to Sir Nicholas Crisp no other Memorial than that Commission of great importance sent them 1643. to London by the Lady D' Aubigney to their lasting honor and executed by them as far as it was possible to their great danger Mr. Iefferson Mr. Austin Mr. Bedle Mr. Batty Mr. Long Mr. Lewis all of Broadstreet Ward Mr. Blunt Mr. Wright Mr. Drake Mr. Walter c. refusing to contribute Arms towards the Rebellion and so were disarmed themselves Mr. Iohn Crane a native of Wisbich Cambridgeshire and Apothecary in Cambridge-town with whom Dr. Butler of Clare-hall lived himself and to whom he left most of his estate with which he would entertain openly all the Oxford Scholars at the Commencement and relieve privately all distressed Royalists during the Usurpation and whereof he bestowed 3000 l. to charitable uses whereof 200 l. to two Bishops Bishop Wren and Bishop Brownrigge 500 l. to forty Orthodox Ministers his fair house to the Cambridge Professor of Physick the rest equally and discreetly on Wisbich where he was born Lyn where he was well acquainted Ipswich where Dr. Butler was born Kingston where his estate lay and Cambridge where he lived where observing the bad effects of naughty fish and fowls bought for the University he gave 200 l. to be lent gratis to an honest man the better to enable him to buy good He died May 1650. Mr. William Collet the faithful and methodical keeper of the Records in the Tower which he neither washed to make them look clear nor corrected to make them speak plain Mr. Selden and others entertain us with a feast of English rarities whereof Mr. William Collet is the Caterer He was born at Over in Cambridge-shire bred a Clerk in London and died beloved and missed by all Antiquaries in the Tower 1644. Mr. Edward Norgate Son to Dr. R. Norgate Master of C. C. C. and Son-in-law to Dr. Felton Bishop of Ely encouraged in his natural inclination to Limning and Heraldry lest he might by a force upon nature be diverted to worse became the best Illuminer and Herald of his age wherefore and because he was a right honest man the Earl of Arundel employed him to Italy for some Pictures whence returning by Marseilles he missing the money he looked for and walking up and down melancholy in the walk of that City was thus accosted by a civil Monsieur
like Xeuxes his Picture being adorned with all Arts and Costliness while the English Peer like the plain sheet of Apelles got the advantage of him by the Rich Plainness and Gravity of his Habit was the greatest solemnity ever known in the Memory of Man the composition for his large Estate is the greatest in the whole Catalogue being one and twenty thousand five hundred and ninety seven pound six shillings not abating the odde two pence The Right Honorable Ierome and Charles Weston Earls of Portland son and Grand-child of Richard Weston Earl of Portland 8 Car. I. Lord High Treasurer of England the first a Person of a very able and searching judgment the first discoverer of the so artificially masked Intentions of the Faction well furnished as well as polished with various Learning which enabled him to speak pertinently and fully to all propositions signified by the gravity and modesty of his Aspect made up of quick and solid apprehensions set off with the dignity and dependance of his Port and Train supported by magnificence and frugality sweetned with courtesie without complement obligingness without slattery he being a great observer of solid respects and an Enemy of empty formalities died 1663 4. a great Statesman well seen in Sea Affairs under King Charles II. and the other a very hopeful Gentleman was slain at Sea Iune 1665. in his Voluntary attendance upon his Highness the Duke of York when fell the Rear-Admirall Sansum a private man of a publick spirit that aimed not so much to return wealthier as wiser not always to enrich himself but sometimes to inform Posterity by very useful Discoveries of Bayes Rivers Creeks Sands Autens whereof some were occasional others intentional The Honorable the Lord Muskerry and Mr. Boyle second son to the Right Honorable the Earl of Burlington The Right Honorable the Lord Francis Villiers Brother to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham the comeliest man to see to and the most hopeful to converse with in England slain for refusing Quarter at Comb-Park Iuly 7. Anno Dom. 1648. Aet suoe 19. the sweetness of his temper the vastness of his Parts and Abilities the happiness of his Education and his admirable Beauty which had charmed the most barbarous to a Civility being the occasion of the Enemies Beastly usage of him not fit to be mentioned The Right Honorable William Lord Widdrington President of the Councel of War under my Lord of Newcastle in the North and Commander in chief of Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire and Rutlandshire under Prince Rupert of as great affections towards his Majesty as the Country was towards him whom they desired to live and die under for his four excellent Qualities 1 Skill 2 Vigilance 3 Sobriety 4 Integrity and Moderation When he went over with the Duke of Newcastle to Hamborough Holland and France after the defeat of Marstoâ—moor he told a friend of his that he lost 35000l by the War and when after he had waited on his Highness the Prince of Wales in his Councels at Paris and the Hague in his Treaties with the Scots and English in the command of the Fleet 1648. and in the Conduct of the Northern Army that same year he lost his life in marching to his assistance into England with the Earl of Derby at Wiggan in Lancashire Aug. 3. 1650. Col. Thomas Blague hath at the coming in at the North-door of Westminster Abbey on the left hand this Elegant History drawn up as I am informed by Dr. Earls then Dean of that Church Tho. Blague Armiger in Agro Suffolciensi nobili Antiqua familia oriundus vir Egregiis animi Corporis Dotibus quibus artes honestas conjunxerat clarus militia duobus Regibus Carolo I. II. sidus Imprimis ac gratus Quibus ad utriusque Interioris Cubiculi honorislca ministeria ad lectus utilem operam navaverat praecipue in bello Arci Wallingfordiensi Impositus quam Caeteris paene omnibus expugnatis diu fortiter tenuit nec nisi rege Iubante praesidio excessit Nec minora foras pertulit pro regis Causa diu in exilio jactatus saepe in patria Captivus Fidem Integram singulari exemplo approbavit Et tandem sub Regis Faelicissimo reditu Cohortis stipatorum Tribunatu praefectura Iarmuthiae Praesidii Langurensis donatus Potuit majora sperare sed Immatura morte Interceptus Principem plane suum Cui in adversis constantissime adhaeserat jam muneratorem suturum in secundis desoruit Obiit Christiane ac pic 14. die Nov. Anno Salutis 1660. Aetatis suae 47. An History that Caeteris paribus will suit with 1. Sir W. Campian as famous for his services at Borstall House whereof he was Governor as Col. Blague was at Wallingford both restless men The latter accomplishments puts me in mind of the Maid presented to King Iames for a Rarity because she could speak and write pure Latine Greek and Hebrew the King returned But can she spin meaning was she as useful as this Knight was Learned as none more stern if occasion required so none more gentle in so much that he deserved the Honor and Title Sigismund the Emperor being here in England with King H. the 5 ths leave bestowed on the greatest Souldier of his time viz. true Courage and Courtesie are Individual Companions the Father of Courtesie He said he went to the Wars to fight with his Loyal-Countrymen but to Colchester to perish with them as he did in a brave salley Iuly 1648. 2. Sir Thomas Armestrong who having done as much as a man could do in England and Ireland offered to do more than a man in the Isle of Man that is maintain it against all the Parliaments Forces by Sea and Land 3. Sir Iohn Bois Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick being likely to be cast away in his passage to France desired that he should be tied to the Mast with his Arms about him that he might if any either Noble or Charitable found his body be Honorably buried Sir Iohn Bois need desire no more than one plain stone of Dennington Castle where he did the King faithful service refusing to surrender it either to Essex or Manchester or Horton or the Scots Army who plied him for six weeks night and day bidding them spare bloud as they pleased for he would venture his denying a Treaty with his own Brother to make him an honorable Monument Ancient his Family in Kent and well-deserving of the Church especially since Dr. Iohn Bois his time the best Postiller of England and therefore since the Restauration of the Church he was near the most eminent Person in it being Steward to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and his saving the Kings Army and Artillery in their coming off from the second Newberry fight with a pace faster than a Retreat and slower than a flight His Epitaph There was another Sir John Bois a Col. a Gentleman of great Expedition in dispatching Affairs in the Kings Army
Margaret Professor but the bare Title without the Profits and Emoluments of the Place to which the unanimous consent of the University Voted him in the face of his enemies in his absence and in his affliction Neither lasted these Injoyments long for not being able to forbear the Men so sacred to him was his Majesties Cause and Person when they had the Impudence to Vote no more Addresses to the King for a smart Sermon against them he is put as well as his Master into safe Custody by the Juncto who Declared That either he must be forbid the Pulpit or they must forbear their Seats he being able they said to overthrow in an hour what they had been carrying on several years But he continued performing Divine Service and Preaching as long as he had liberty thought-full of mens souls and his charge of them regardless of his own person and the calamities of that He was more afraid of St. Pauls Wo is me if I Preach not the Gospel than of St. Pauls Chain or of St. Peters Bonds The Life he lost he found and the more he despised Liberty the more he injoyed it Abroad he comes the King writes for him and his other Chaplains to come to him to Holdenby and is refused but at Hampton-Court the reasonable request was granted there he that would not accept of the Bishoprick of Bristol because he might with the more advantage being no Bishop desend Episcopacy accepted of the Deanery of Worcester a bare Title without profit to shew he waved not that Bishoprick for its little Revenue saying as some said of him that he would not take a Bristol-stone when he took a dignity with none At Hampton-Court he made bold to ask his Majesty Whether he thought himself safe with those men meaning Cromwell c. and was answered by his Majesty Yeas if they have any souls The Monsters of Men having with Hands on their Breasts and Eyes lift up to Heaven pawned their Souls and their Posterity upon his Restauration As he had attended his Majesty at Hampton-Court to comfort him so with several other Divines he waited on him at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight to assist and serve him in offering expedients for moderation till all moderate men were hurried to Prisons and the most innocent Majesty to the Block whose Murther affected him so much that he was never well after either in body or mind O what Fasts what Watchings what Tears that unheard of Villany cost the good man till a Black Jaundice prevailed over his whole body and thence an humor that could neither be dispelled nor mitigated settled into a Swelling about his Throat which with a slow Ague arising from the Inflammation of the foresaid Tumor let out his sick soul that could say The hand of God was light upon him and that he had never tasted a sweeter Cup. Ianuary 1648 9. He saw his Royal Master dying a Martyr and August 1649. saw him dying a Confessor weeping for Charles the First and expecting Charles the Second lamenting the present and hoping for the ancient state of things in Church and State Insomuch that when some comforted him That he should be taken away from the evil to come No no answered he somewhat more vehemently than ordinary I fore-see I fore-see from the good things to come He departed praying for those things we now injoy wishing well to all men and desired of most Being a man of a neat personage convenient stature a comely aspect grave manners a fluent wit a short anger an even and constant zeal an unblameable life a noble and a charitable heart exact performances that trembled at the Supra-lapsarians Opinions defined Presbytery a vast Schism in the Church bequeathed his Estate to pious uses and his Books to the Colledge by the hands of his three honorable Executors Sir Rober Abdy Sir Thomas Rich and Bishop Brownrig who ordered his Funeral with great solemnity Dr. Iefferies of Pembroke Preaching at it on Psal. 102. 11. and erected him this Monument with great respect P. M. S. Richardus Holdsworth S. Th. Doctor verbi divini praeco omnium attestatione eximius S. Scripturae in Collegio Greshamensi Per multos annos Interpres celeberrimus Collegii Emanuelis in Academia Cantabrigiensi Praefectus Integerrimus Ejusdem Academiae per tres annos continuos Procancellarius exoptatissimus Ad Cathedram Theologicam Per D. N. Margaretam Richmondiae Comitissam institutam per mortem summi Theologi Doctoris Wardi Nuper destitutam unanimi Theologorum suffragio Evocatus Archidiaconus Huntingdoniensis Ecclesiae Wigorniensis Decanus mentissimus Sanctae doctrinae in Ecclesia Anglicana stabilitae Cordatus assertor Divitiarum pius contemptor Eleemosynarum quotidianus Largitor Toto vilae institutâ— sanctus severus ex morbo tandem quem assiduis studendi concionandi Laboribus contraxit Aeger decubuit in hac Ecclesia Quam per 27 annos Religiosissime administravis Mortalitatis exuvâ—aâ— In spe beatae resurrectionis Pie deposuit Mâ—nsis sextilis die 22. Anno Domini M. DC XLIX Aetatis suae LVIII Mementote praepositorum vestrorum qui vobis locuti sunt verbum Dei quorum imitamini fidem contemplantes quis fuerit exitus ipsorum Heb. 13. 7. THE Life and Death OF Dr. EDWARD MARTIN Dean of Ely DOctor Edw. Martin who had six Ancestors in a direct line learned before him six Libraries bequeathed to him though inclined to any thing more than learning Yet as he would say was he Hatched a Scholar as Chickens are at Gran-Cairo by the very heat of the Family he was related to his parts as his nature inclining to Solidity rather than Politeness he was for the exact Sciences Logick and Mathematicks in his Study as he was for strict Rules in his Conversation His exact obedience to publick establishments in his own person raised him to a power and trust to see them obeyed by others being incomparably well skilled in the Canon Civil and Common Law especially as far as concerned the Church in general and in the Statutes of the University of Cambridge in particular to be bred under a good Governor is the best step to be one he was therefore first admitted 1627 8. Chaplain to Bishop Laud and thence preferred Master of Queens Colledge and Rector of Government is an Art above the attainment of every ordinary Genius and requires a wider a larger and a more comprehensive soul than God hath put into every body he would never endure men to mince and mangle that in their practice which they swallowed whole in their Subscriptions owning a well-regulated and resolved zeal in himself and incouraging it in others for to use an excellent Persons expression in a Sermon whereof our Doctor was a Copy not to support men in the ways of an active Conformity to the Churches rules he knew would crack the sinews of Government by weakning the hands and damping the spirits of the obedient And if only scorn and
rebuke shall attend men for asserting the Churches dignity many will choose rather to neglect their duty safely and creditably than to get a broken pate in the Churches service only to be rewarded with that which will break their hearts too Although he was so resolvedly honest and upon such clear Principles conscientious that he tired the persecutions of his enemies and out-lived the neglect of his friends finding the satisfaction flowing from his duty out-ballancing the sufferings for it 1. When Chaplain much troubled by Arch-bishop Abbot Sir H. Lynde and Mr. P. 1. For Licensing a Book called An Historical Narration of the Iudgment of some most Learned and Godly English Bishops holy Martyrs Confessors in Queen Maries dayes concerning Gods Election and the Merits of Christs death Novemb. 27. 1630. 2. For maintaining universal Grace and Redemption in a Passion Sermon at St. Pauls Cross about the same time 2. When Master of Queens Colledge as much persecuted by the Faction for six or seven years from Cambridge to Elyâ— house thence to Ship-board and thence to the Fleet with the same disgrace and torment I mentioned before in Dr. Beals life for being active in sending the University-Plate to the King and in undeceiving people about the proceedings of the pretended Parliament i. e. in sending to the King that which should have been plundred by his enemies and preaching as much for him as others did against him his sufferings were both the smarter and the longer because he would not own the Usurpation so much as to Petition it for favor being unwilling to own any power they had to Imprison him by any address to them to Release him And when in a throng of other Prisoners he had his Liberty he chose to be an exile beyond Sea at Paris rather than submit to the tumult at home at London or Cambridge If he was too severe against the Presbyteries of the Reformed Churches which they set up out of necessity it was out of just indignation against the Presbytery of England which set up it self out of Schism And when he thought it unlawful for a Gentleman of the Church of England to marry a French Presbyterian it was because he was transported by the oppression and out-rage of the English But being many years beyond Sea he neither joyned with the Calvinists nor kept any Communion with the Papists but confined himself to a Congregation of old English and Primitive Protestants where by his regular Life and good Doctrine he reduced some Recusants to and confirmed more doubters in the Protestant Religion so defeating the jealousies of his foes and exceeding the expectation of his friends Returning with his Majesty 1660. he was restored to his own Preferments and after Dr. Loves death the natural Wit and Orator Master of Bennet Colledge Margaret Professor after Dr. Holdsworth in which place he was sure to affront any man that put up Questions against the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of Engl. in the worst of times and Dean of Ely made Dean of Ely in which dignity he dyed 1662 3 having this Memorial That he had bred up his Colledge so well in the Principles of Religion and Loyalty that no one there from the highest to the lowest submitted to the Usurpers for there was a through Reformation neither Master Fellow not Scholar being left of the Foundation so that according to the Laws of the Admiralty it might seem a Wreck and forfeited in this Land-tempest for lack of a living thing therein to preserve the propriety thereof a severity contrary to the eternal moral of the Jewish Law provided against the Depopulation of Birds-nests that the old and young ones should be destroyed together The Doctors Predecessors Dr. Humphrey Tyndal Master of Queens and Dean of Ely was as is reported offered by a Protestant party in Bohemia to be chosen King in Queen Elizabeths Reign and he refused it alleadging That he had rather be a Subject under Queen Elizabeth than a forraign Prince And the Doctor himself was offered as I have heard honorable accommodations by some in the Church of Rome but he accepted them not because he said He had rather be a poor Son of the afflicted but Primitive Church of England than a Rich Member of the flourishing but corrupt Church of Rome Edvardus Martin S. Th. Dr. Cato sequioris saculi qui nihil ad famam omnia ad conscientiam fecit Rigide pius vir et severe Iustus sibi theatrum omnia ad normam exigens non amplius ambivit quam ut sibi placeret et Deo THE Life and Death OF THE LORD WILLMOT Earl of Rochester THe Lord Wilmot born on All-Souls day in Ireland and bred Fellow of All-Souls in Oxford received a Barony from his Ancestors and conveyed an Earldom to his Posterity of whom a great man said That he was so Great a Scholar that he could give the best advice and so good a Souldier that he could follow it the best of any man in England none more valiant to return a private affront with the hazard of his own Personâ— he gave a box on the ear to one of the most eminent men in this Nation none more patient in taking a disgrace the revenge of which might hazard the publick safety He suffered his Horse to be taken by the bridle and himself to be led out of Command by a Messenger from his Majesty in the Hoad of 700. Horse over whom he was Lieutenant-General in view of the Enemy to the great dissatisfaction of the Army which was ready to Mutiny for the Lord Willmot at that very time when they should fight the Earl of Essex He was Captain of Horse many years in the Low Countries with great respect for his generous Courage and good Discipline and coming thence over was made Commissary General of Horse in the Expedition into Scotland In Holland began that animosity between him and Goring which continued in England His sobriety indeared him to every Army he came to and therefore rendred him suspected and envied in most actions he performed An excellent Commander of Horse and of himself being therefore mistrusted because he would not swear as if Dam-me had been the Oath of Allegiance 1640. Aug. 28. When the Lord Conway let the Scots over â—weed Mr. Willmot was the first man that made head against them standing with a few prime Gentleman when the rest of the Army fled and threw down their Arms to the Enemies Horse and Cannon so effectual that though being over-powered he could not defeat them yet he stunned them so that instead of advancing with an Army next day they submit with a Petition exactly as Mr. Willmot guessed whose opinion was That one resolute action against the Scots should min them who are lost by favors and 〈◊〉 by severities He acted like a Statesman when Commissary in the Expedition against the Scots telling my Lord Conway That he saw his Majesty would be overcome by the English at home if he