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A67467	The life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln written by Izaak Walton ; to which is added, some short tracts or cases of conscience written by the said Bishop.	Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Judgment concerning submission to usurpers.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Pax ecclesiae.; Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600. Sermon of Richard Hooker, author of those learned books of Ecclesiastical politie.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Judgment in one view for the settlement of the church.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Judicium Universitatis Oxoniensis. English.	1678 (1678)	Wing W667; ESTC R8226	137,878	542

University since that day And having well perform'd his other Exercises for that degree he took it the nine and twentieth of May following having been ordain'd Deacon and Priest in the year 1611. by Iohn King then Bishop of London who had not long before been Dean of Christ-Church and then knew him so well that he became his most affectionate Friend And in this year being then about the 29th of his Age he took from the University a Licence to preach In the year 1618. he was by Sir Nicholas Sanderson Lord Viscount Castleton presented to the Rectory of Wibberton not far from Boston in the County of Lincoln a Living of very good value but it lay in so low and wet a part of that Countrey as was inconsistent with his health And health being next to a good Conscience the greatest of God's blessings in this life and requiring therefore of every man a care and diligence to preserve it he apprehending a danger of losing it if he continued at Wibberton a second Winter did therefore resign it back into the hands of his worthy Kinsman and Patron about one year after his donation of it to him And about this time of his resignation he was presented to the Rectory of Boothby Pannel in the same County of Lincoln a Town which has been made famous and must continue to be famous because Dr. Sanderson the humble and learned Dr. Sanderson was more than 40 years Parson of Boothby Pannel and from thence dated all or most of his matchless Writings To this Living which was of less value but a purer Air than Wibberton he was presented by Thomas Harrington of the same County and Parish Esq who was a Gentleman of a very ancient Family and of great use and esteem in his Countrey during his whole life And in this Boothby Pannel the meek and charitable Dr. Sanderson and his Patron liv'd with an endearing mutual and comfortable friendship till the death of the last put a period to it About the time that he was made Parson of Boothby Pannel he resign'd his Fellowship of Lincoln Colledge unto the then Rector and Fellows And his resignation is recorded in these words Ego Robertus Sanderson per c. I Robert Sanderson Fellow of the Colledge of St. Maries and All-Saints commonly call'd Lincoln Colledge in the University of Oxford do freely and willingly resign into the hands of the Rector and fellows all the Right and Title that I have in the said Colledge wishing to them and their Successors all peace and piety and happiness in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen May 6. 1619 Robert Sanderson And not long after this resignation he was by the then Bishop of York or the King Sede vacante made Prebend of the Collegiate Church of Southwell in that Diocese and shortly after of Lincoln by the Bishop of that See And being now resolv'd to set down his rest in a quiet privacy at Boothby Pannel and looking back with some sadness upon his removal from his general Acquaintance left in Oxford and the peculiar pleasures of a University life he could not but think the want of Society would render this of a Countrey Parson the more uncomfortable by reason of that want of conversation and therefore he did put on some saint purposes to marry For he had considered that though marriage be cumbred with more worldly care than a single life yet a complying and prudent Wife changes those very cares into so mutual a content as makes them become like the Sufferings of St. Paul which he would not have wanted because they occasioned his rejoycing in them And he having well considered this and observ'd the secret unutterable joys that Children beget in Parents and the mutual pleasures and contented trouble of their daily care and constant endeavours to bring up those little Images of themselves so as to make them as happy as all those cares and endeavours can make them He having considered all this the hopes of such happiness turn'd his faint purpose into a positive resolution to marry And he was so happy as to obtain Anne the daughter of Henry Nelson Batchelor in Divinity then Rector of Haugham in the County of Lincoln a man of noted worth and learning And the Giver of all good things was so good to him as to give him such a Wife as was sutable to his own desires a Wife that made his life happy by being always content when he was chearful that divided her joys with him and abated of his sorrow by bearing a part of that burthen a Wife that demonstrated her affection by a chearful obedience to all his desires during the whole course of his life and at his death too for she out-liv'd him And in this Boothby Pannel he either found or made his Parishioners peaceable and complying with him in the decent and regular service of God And thus his Parish his Patron and he liv'd together in a religious love and a contented quietness He not troubling their thoughts by preaching high and useless notions but such plain truths as were necessary to be known believed and practised in order to their salvation And their assent to what he taught was testified by such a conformity to his Doctrine as declared they believ'd and lov'd him For he would often say That without the last the most evident truths heard as from an enemy or an evil liver either are not or are at least the less effectual and do usually rather harden than convince the hearer And this excellent man did not think his duty discharged by only reading the Church Prayers Catechizing Preaching and administring the Sacraments seasonably but thought if the Law or the Canons may seem to injoyn no more yet that God would require more than the defective Laws of man's making can or does injoyn the performance of that inward Law which Almighty God hath imprinted in the Conscience of all good Christians and inclines those whom he loves to perform He considering this did therefore become a law to himself practicing what his Conscience told him was his duty in reconciling differences and preventing Law-suits both in his Parish and in the Neighbourhood To which may be added his often visiting sick and disconsolate Families perswading them to patience and raising them from dejection and his advice and chearful discourse and by adding his own Alms if there were any so poor as to need it considering how acceptable it is to Almighty God when we do as we are advis'd by St. Paul help to bear one anothers burthen either of sorrow or want and what a comfort it will be when the Searcher of all hearts shall call us to a strict account for that evil we have done and the good we have omitted to remember we have comforted and been helpful to a dejected or distressed Family And that his practice was to do good one Example may be That he met with a

or may hereafter concern us namely That in his last sad Sermon on the Scaffold at his death he having freely pardoned all his Enemies and humbly begg'd of God to Pardon them and besought those present to pardon and pray for him yet he seem'd to accuse the Magistrates of the City for suffering a sort of wretched people that could not known why he was condemned to go visibly up and down to gather hands to a Petition That the Parliament would hasten his Execution And having declar'd how unjustly he thought himself to be condemned and accus'd for endeavouring to bring in Popery for that was one of the Accusations for which he died he declar'd with sadness That the several Sects and Divisions then in England which he had laboured to prevent were like to bring the Pope a far greater harvest than he could ever have expected without them And said these Sects and Divisions introduce prophaneness under the cloak of an imaginary Religion and that we have lost the substance of Religion by changing it into Opinion and that by these means this Church which all the Iesuits machinations could not ruine was fall'n into apparent danger by those which were his Accusers To this purpose he spoke at his death for this more of which the Reader may view his last sad Sermon on the Scaffold And 't is here mentioned because his dear Friend Dr. Sanderson seems to demonstrate the same in his two large and remarkable Prefaces before his two Volumes of Sermons and seems also with much sorrow to say the same again in his last Will made when he apprehended himself to be very near his death And these Covenanters ought to take notice of it and to remember that by the late wicked War began by them Dr. Sanderson was ejected out of the Professors Chair in Oxford and that if he had continued in it for he lived 14 years after both the Learned of this and other Nations had been made happy by many remarkable Cases of Conscience so rationally stated and so briefly so clearly and so convincingly determin'd that Posterity might have joyed and boasted that Dr. Sanderson was born in this Nation for the ease and benefit of all the Learned that shall be born after him But this benefit is so like time past that they are both irrecoverably lost I should now return to Boothby Pannel where we left Dr. Hammond and Dr. Sanderson together but neither can be found there For the first was in his Journey to London and the second seiz'd upon the day after his Friends departure and carried Prisoner to Lincoln then a Garison of the Parliaments For the pretended reason of which Commitment I shall give this following account There was one Mr. Clarke the Minister of Alington a Town not many miles from Boothby Pannel who was an active man for the Parliament and Covenant one that when Belvoire Castle then a Garison for the Parliament was taken by a party of the King's Soldiers was taken in it made a Prisoner of War in Newark then a Garison of the Kings a man so active and useful for his party that they became so much concern'd for his inlargement that the Committee of Lincoln sent a Troop of Horse to seize and bring Dr. Sanderson a Prisoner to that Garison and they did so And there he had the happiness to meet with many that knew him so well as to treat him kindly but told him He must continue their Prisoner till he should purchase his own inlargement by procuring an Exchange for Mr. Clarke then Prisoner in the King's Garison of Newark There were many Reasons given by the Doctor of the Injustice of his Imprisonment and the Inequality of the Exchange but all were uneffectual For done it must be or he continue a Prisoner And in time done it was upon the following Conditions First that Dr. Sanderson and Mr. Clarke being Exchanged should live undisturb'd at their own Parishes and of either were injur'd by the Soldiers of the contrary party the other having notice of it should procure him a Redress by having satisfaction made for his loss or for any other injury or if not he to be us'd in the same kind by the other party Nevertheless Dr. Sanderson could neither live safe nor quietly being several times plundered and once wounded in three places but he apprehending the remedy might turn to a more intolerable burthen by impatience or complying forbore both and possess'd his Soul in a contented quietness without the least repining But though he could not enjoy the safety he expected by this Exchange yet by his Providence that can bring good out of evil it turn'd so much to his advantage that whereas his Living had been sequestred from the year 1644. and continued to be so till this time of his Imprisonment he by the Articles of War in this Exchange for Mr. Clarke procur'd his Sequestration to be recall'd and by that means injoy'd a poor but contented subsistence for himself wife and children till the happy Restoration of our King and Church In this time of his poor but contented privacy of life his Casuistical learning peaceful moderation and sincerity became so remarkable that there were many that apply'd themselves to him for Resolution in Cases of Conscience some known to him many not some requiring satisfaction by Conference others by Letters so many that his life became almost as restless as their minds yet he denied no man And if it be a truth which holy Mr. Herbert says That all worldly joys seem less when compared with shewing mercy or doing kindnesses then doubtless Dr. Sanderson might have boasted for relieving so many restless and wounded Consciences which as Solomon says are a burthen that none can bear though their fortitude may sustain their other Infirmities and if words cannot express the joy of a Conscience relieved from such restless Agonies then Dr. Sanderson might rejoyce that so many were by him so clearly and conscientiously satisfied for he denied none and would often praise God for that ability and as often for the occasion and that God had inclin'd his heart to do it to the meanest of any of those poor but precious Souls for which his Saviour vouchsafed to be crucified Some of those very many Cases that were resolved by Letters have been preserv'd and printed for the benefit of Posterity as namely 1. Of the Sabbath 2. Marrying with a Recusant 3. Of unlawful Love 4. Of a Military life 5. Of Scandal 6. Of a Bond taken in the King's Name 7. Of the Ingagement 8. Of a rash Vow But many more remain in private hands of which one is of Symony and I wish the World might see it that it might undeceive some Patrons who think they have discharg'd that great and dangerous trust both to God and man if they take no money for a Living though it may be parted with for other ends less justifiable And in this time of his retirement when the