Officâ—is Cap. 28. Certè vita potiùs mortali redonandum censuit DEVS illum mortuum quem Elisaei sepulobro illatum necessitas excusare videbatur quaÌ„ permittendum ut super sancti prophetae reliquâ—as humatus jaceret To the Truelie Honourable and vvorthie of Reverence Dr IOHN FORBES OF CORSE Rector of the Universitie of Aberdene and Professor of Divinitie in the same THe Carian Ladie in a statelie Frame Of richest matter with Dedalean Hands Caus'd build a Tombe to vindicate the Fame Of her deceassed Lord from Lethes sands So shall this Treatise to the world declare Thy Father's Honour and thy Filiall Care In it Characters of His matchlesse Worth Are to the Lyfe exprest in measur'd lynes And this ensueing piece is heere set foorth To bee the Usher to these great ingyns Whose quills are deeplie dyv'd in Cyrrha's Streame And so the fitter for this statelie Theame A Dolorous Expression of a wofull Breach made in our Church and Policie By the death of that Honourable Discreit and admirably gifted Prelate PATRICKE FORBES OF CORSE Late Bishop of Aberdene Chanceller and Restorer of the Universitie of the same and worthilie-one of his Majesties Privie Counsell c. Who vnder the hope of a Glorious Resurrection most chearfully layd downe his Tabernacle at his Palace in Aberdene the xxviij of March 1635. COnsider Sacred Nyne the cause why I doe weepe And in this time of publicke Griefe a doleful coÌ„sort keepe Stricke sad vpon your Lyrs Threnodicallie sing And let the torrent of your teares match your Castal'an Spring Send out your sighs with myne as Heralds of our woe To tell the world wee are injur'd by man-kynds ruethles Foe Whose hand alace hath spoyld our Countreys rarest gemme And slayne Minerva's Minion sprung from a statelie stemme Who can abstaine from Teares to see his Shryne enterr'd On whom the Lord with lib'rall hand so many Gifts coÌ„ferr'd And these in mercie were so seasoned with Grace That every eye saw him a man proportion'd for his place And which adorn'd him much and did inlarge his fame Hee clearly taught the wayes of God and walked in the same His thoughts converst with God his lips were Trueth her keys Authoritie and Courtesie were pincell'd in his eyes And what I ever thought my pen shall now proclaime Hee was the splendor of our Church and glorie of his Name Our soveraign Lord our Church our Schools publick Stat Doe all concurre through sense of losse for to condoll this fate For while hee liv'd his gifts were vsefull for them all But GOD for to afflict the earth by death did him recall Leaving his darling Church the Orphane of his care The world the relict of his worth this Sea an emptie Chaire Yet everie place retaynes Characters of his worth VVhich ravisht myndes did oft admire but no hand could set foorth Then Muse bee not asham'd sincerelie to confesse That thou will but obscure his worth if thou preasse to expresse This pearlesse Prelats praise in whoÌ„ we saw coÌ„bynd Minervas wit Apollo's tongue and Phineas zealous mynde An vnrelenting hope firme fayth and daring cowrage A Soule devote a lyfe vnstayn'd a kyndlie-manlie visage A will propense to good a just-divyded eare A marble breast well fortified against th' assaults of Feare A heart enricht with loue a mynde with deepe conceptions A tongue and pen replenished with ravishing expressions His wit vntyed all knots his cowrage overcame All incident difficulties Hee ever was the same But since my slow-plum'd Muse with her vnsassel'd phraises Can not amount the high extent of his deserved praises I will resigne this taske to some Maron'an pen Which can more fitlie celebrate this Quintessence of Men. Yet no Virgilâ—an quill can honour him so much As hee will dignifie the same his worthienesse was such Wherein I dare avow hee hath exceeded all That ever did possesse this Chaire I feare or ever shall But if that Sions Lord who treads vpon the Sphears Shal blesse this Church with such a Guide then I 'll recant my Fears And with a heart enlarg'd praise HIM while I haue breath Who only can fil vp the breach made by our Prelats death Of His Sepulchre IF halow'd Ashes can renowne a place If Relicts of rare Saincts procure respect If sacred Vessels of great gifts and grace Can viants hearts with deepest groanes affect Then none can looke vpon this Prelates Urne But with a due respect must sigh and mourne And for his worth preferre this sleeping rowme To Mausolus his much admired Tombe MASTER DAVID LINDSAY Person of Belhelvie and Moderator of the Presbyterie of ABERDENE AN ECLOG On the Death of the same Incomparable Prelate Written by the foresayd Master DAVID LINDSAY Person of BELHELVIE and Moderator of the Presbyterie of ABERDENE Compraehensor Viator C. SPeake Pastors of this Church with whom I once converst And tell mee whence your teares proceeds Are all your flocks disperst V. Is this our Prelates voyce whom wee enjoyde of late Is 't thy imparadized Soule that doeth condole our state Then giue triumphing ghosts can stoupe to thinges belowe And Condiscend th' afflicted case of Militants to know Wee will vnfolde the cause of our luxurious teares It 's thy translation from this Seat to the coelestiall sphears C. What doe yee grudge my state who haue made gayne by death V. No but lament our losse of thee with sorrow-sounding breath How can wee cease from teares when wee remember now The loving aspects of thy face the terrors of thy brow The first inlyf'd our hearts the nixt did guarde our sheepe Thy zeale thy wit thy actiue care did all in safetie keepe When thou our Center wast wee thy Circumference The Rod of Aaron blossom'd faire by thy wyse influence But now wee languish all our Halcyon dayes are ended And that most justlie wee confesse for happie tyme mispendeâ— Our hands were steel'd by thee thou clear'd our clowdie sight When any thing was out of frame thou joynted all things right The errant wilfull weake thou carefullie observ'd Whom thou reclaym'd constaain'd releiv'd thou all in peace preserv'd Our losse alace is gayne to the Ignatian brood Whose machinations thou forsaw whose practise thou withstood Since thou removedst hence they dare accoast our Flocks The wholesome seede that wee haue sowne there nociue darnell chocks Now at thy emptie Chayre wee stand amaz'd to see So great a Tropicke of our state so suddenlie to bee C. Wmquhill Commilitons why should yee thinke it strange To see a Church that 's militant subjected to a change For neyther tyme nor place is priviledg'd below A Church that wants parallaxes is in the heavens yee know And giue the tymes bee evill preserue your owne soules pure That which yee cannot rectifie with griefe of heart endure Let not your zeale disbend prooue faithfull in your places Communicete with no mans sinne set GOD before your faces Who will your paines at last remunerate in loue And place you with the rest of Saincts
come to perfect age without some reall and intrinsecall alteration in them or without some praevious disposition whereby they are disposed and fitted for it according to that of holy Augustine He who made thee without thy consent and concurrence doeth not justifie thee without thy consent and concurrence Yet it is possible yea verie probable that these smaller sins are sometyms remitted by our Gracious LORD to those who are alreadie justified without anie praevious change or disposition on their part especially when by suddentie of death and indisposition of bodie and mynde they are impeded from considering and acknowledging of their offences This should not seeme strange to our Adversaries seeing manie of their moderne scholasticke wryters and those of greatest note do teach First that God according to the fulnesse of his absolute power might if he pleased remit sinnes both mortall and veniall without anie infusion of grace yea without anie intrinsecall change or praevious dispositiō by repentance in those to whom they are remitted Secondlie that mortall sinnes not onlie may bee but also sometymes are remitted without anie act of contrition or formall repentance as they call it especiallie in the case of oblivion that is when a man is altogether vnmyndfull of them Thirdlie that veniall sinnes may bee and often are remitted without anie act of repentance whether formall or virtuall by aspersion of holie Water Episcopall benediction giving of Alms c. and that ex opere operato Now if God out of the fullnesse of his absolute power can remit anie sinne without repentance vpon our part and if hee sometymes doeth show this fullnesse of his power together with the greatnesse of his mercie in pardoning the mortall sinnes of the Elect without anie praevious act of contrition when they cannot be remembered as also in pardoning veniall sinnes without the same even when they may be easilie remembered shall we not thinke that he will dispense with the defect of repentance in them for their veniall sinnes and supplie it by gracious condonation when through suddentie of their departure or through indisposition of body mind they are not able to haue it Manie things in such a case pleade for mercie and favour to the godlie man yea pleade more powerfullie and effectuallie with GOD than aspersion of holie water Episcopall benediction or anie other of these things which Papists call Sacramentalia to wit inherent grace which is a habituall repentance for by it wee habituallie detest and forsake all sinne the prayer of the faythfull who are then present with him the prayer of the Church in generall which at all tymes recommendeth to God most earnestlie those who are in distresse and danger eyther temporall or spirituall and aboue all the intercession of our Lord and Saviour for him in the Heavens To these wee may adde the prayers of the godlie man himselfe who dieth so by which long before death preparing himselfe for death hee most frequentlie and ferventlie besought the Lord to grant vnto him a happie departure and a full discharge of all his sinnes before his dissolution The godly put vp this request to God ordinarilie in their prayers and consequentlie it is granted vnto them For seeing the effectuall fervent prayer of the righteous avayleth much and seeing Christ hath tolde vs that if wee abyde in him and his wordes abyde in vs wee shall aske what wee will and it shall bee done vnto vs it were great follie to to imagine that the godlie in vayne put vp this request to GOD. In the second Assertion of our Adversaries there is no certaintie at all For although a godlie man die suddenlie or in a great rage and distemper yet who knoweth what operation the Spirit of God hath secretly vpon his departing soule immediatelie before it bee loosed from the bodie or what communication hee hath with God after the passages of his senses are so stopped that hee can haue no communication with men It may bee when hee seemeth to thee altogether senselesse that then hee is most sensible of his spirituall estate and is crying Petcavi Miserere I haue sinned greatlie in that I haue done and now I beseech thee O Lord take away the iniquitie of thy servant It may be when hee is speachlesse and past conference with men that hee is then entertaining an heavenlie conference or Dialogue with Christ his Saviour that hee heareth Christ saying Surelie I come quicklie and is replying Even so Come Lord Iesus that hee is saying Lord remember me for now thou art in thy Kingdome and that hee heareth CHRIST rounding in his eare that which Hee sayd to the penitent thiefe To day shalt thou be with mee in Paradise I will not take vpon mee to determine whether or not these of the godlie who die suddenlie or in a raging Fever haue anie such exercyse of prayer and repentance after they haue lost the vse of their senses But this one thing I wil say If God haue decreed to pardon no sin how small soever but vpon subsequent repentance as our Adversaries affirme in their first Assertion it is more than probable that GOD granteth that benefit to al the godly before their departure whatsoever be the manner of their death or their carriage in death The third Assertion of our Adversaries which is drawne out of the other two as a cōclusion from its praemisses hath but two faultes one is that these praemisses vpon which it is grounded are not sure The other is that although they were infallibly true yet the conclusion it selfe might bee denyed For although wee should grant that repentance by Gods appoyntment and decree is absolutely necessary for remission of everie sinne how small soever and that manie godlie men die without it yet it will not follow that they must bee tormented after this lyfe in Purgatorie For the common and receaved doctrine of the Papists themselues anent the remission of these veniall sinnes with which a man dieth doeth shewe vs a fayre and easie way to eschew that melancholious and fearfull consequent For they all some few being excepted affirme that those venial sinnes from which the Elect are not fred before death are remitted to them in the verie instant of death or which is all one in that instant in the which the soule is separated from the bodie This doctrine was not onlie maintained by Alensis Thomas Scotus Durandus Almainus and manie other auncient Schoole-men who indeede doe differ verie much amongst themselues anent the meane or disposition whereby remission of veniall sinnes is obtained in that first instant of separation but also by their most famous late wryters who haue handled this matter partlie in their Disputes agaynst vs and partlie in their Commentaries and Disputes vpon the third part of Thomas his Summe Quaest. 87. Now if these sinnes bee remitted in the moment of dissolution what can followe after that moment but eternitie of blessednesse For
motus vniversa vocalia sint veritatem mente concipiat toto â—am habitu ornatu resonat So was hee learned in this learned Citie where there is the Seat of Learning wyse in ordering and governing GOD'S House faythfull impartiall and solid in judging discret in admonishing compassionate in correcting full of power and authoritie in censuring and rebuking to reduce the inordinate and when neede was to cutt off evill examples from the Flocke In dispatch of businesse speedie and with great dexteritie alwayes provident and carefull to advance the Gospell and paynfull even in the tyme of his sicknesse Without all carnall and base feare of men not bowed with boastes to betray the Church or daunted and discowraged from executing his office with great cowrage spirit resolutenesse of mynd contending with them that contended with God and fighting a good fight both in defence of the truth expugnation of heresies schisms and seditions brought in by adversaries And which is a speciall mark descerning a faithful Pastor from an hyreling who seekes his own things Hee was not given to filthie lucre but hating covetousnes all simoniacal practises all cunning covetous dealing not corrupted by brybes non erat manâ— porrecta ad accipiendum collecta ad dandum But in word and work benevolent charitable and hospital Not as Tacitus lib. 1. spake of Otho Opes perdere iste sciet donare nescit An honourable patterne of pietie and humanitie to all a lover and favourer of good men a comfort to the best a terrour and a wound to enemies and the worst inclyned And as Augustine spake of Cyprian Multi erat meriti multi pectoris multi oris multae virtutis In outward carriage and actions graue modest and constant procuring reverence of all that beheld him And which is especially worthie of mention and imitation he was sincere vpright being within what he seemed without Not as Tertullian saith of certain Philosophers Mimicè affectaÌ„t veritatem affectando corrumpunt For as Seneca says of Clemens Nemo potest diu personam fictam ferre But this integritie and constancie appeared in him vnto the ende it was not onlie a naturall inclination in him but a spirituall and gracious disposition At last being over-taken with a longsome and grievous disease which he did beare with his accustomed cowrage and constancie not vsing any word of impatience complaint or motion showing any discontent with God but with a quyet invinceable vndaunted heart as an immoveable Rocke â—phelde himselfe by Fayth and Hope resting in GOD his Saviour only lamenting his infirmitie in this That it vnabled him from the discharge of his Office as hee had done when Health lasted And yet in tyme of his weaknesse his Memorie and Senses beeing perfect hee caused carrie him diverse tymes both to the publicke meeting of the Ministerie and ordinarilie to the Church to the publicke worship of GOD vvhere hee was an attentiue and comfortable hearer And at last extremitie of sicknesse and death drawing neare hee was compelled to keepe home in Divine conference with all that visited him in speach jocund and pleasant vttering diverse Christian Apophthegmes before death often saying That hee had passed the halfe of death alreadie Pulchâ—a res est consummare vitam ante mortem vt mors pauca inveniat quae abolere possit And laying aside all other care hee composed himselfe whollie vnto that heavenlie lyfe and with that store of Comforts which hee had taught others prepared himselfe to death to yeeld his dayes peaceablie and with good resolution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VVherein hee shewe great contentment and willingnesse to die and change this lyfe with a better For hee knewe by his singular wisedome and pietie Nihil esse stultius quam ad praemia coelestia non obsequio voluntatis accurrere sed necessitatis vinculo invitum trahi And for his farther comfort receaved the holie SACRAMENT of the Bodie and Blood of the LORD IESUS CHRIST vvith great devotion in the companie and together with diverse Reverend and Godlie Men the Ministers of both the Townes vnto whom hee verie heartilie in token of his agreement and comfort hee had of their fellowship in his lyfe gaue his Blessing and recommended them vnto the Grace of GOD. After which strength and speach fayling hee gaue diverse tokens to them who were present of a mynde setled and established by Fayth and Hope in assurance of the Mercie of GOD in the remission of his sinnes And then the extremitie of paynes chased that Soule of his out of the tabernacle of this flesh which the Angels haue carried vnto the Bosome of his Father ABRAHAM being delivered from the wearisomnesse and perils of this lyfe and now eateth the Fruits of his labours and his Conscience the comfort of his former fidelitie and with vnspeakeable joye awayteth for our comming thither A SERMON Preached at the Funerall of the R. R. Father in GOD PATRICKE FORBES Late Lord Bishop of ABERDENE In the speciall Church of the Citie of ABERDENE called Saynct Nicolas the xij of Aprill 1635. By WILLIAM GUILD Doctor of Divinitie Chaplane to his Majestie and Minister of GOD'S Word in the foresayd Citie LUKE II. VERS 29. LORD now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy Word THese words dearly beloved in our Lord and Saviour which I haue read in your present audience according to the opinion of some are the words of Prayse and of others are the words of Petition Of Prayse olde Simeon in them having now gotten the performance of that Promise made vnto him That hee should not see Death till hee saw the LORD' 's Anoynted and having the Babe CHRIST IESVS in his arms he prayseth GOD for this performance and acknowledgeth That now Hee was letting him depart iâ— peace for his eyes according to His word of promise made vnto him had seene his Salvation And those who so expound this Text haue for their warrand the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the present tyme. Some agayne both Ancient and Moderne make these wordes to bee the wordes of Petition and to contayne the holie desire of this happie olde Man wherein now having gotten in his lyfe-tyme a sight of his promised and longed-for Saviour whyle Hee was presented in the Temple he desireth now a peaceable and happie departure as having seene Him who is the death of Death and LORD of Lyfe after whom hee longed In which Text we haue to consider 1. That there is a Departure out of this lyfe 2. That this is commoÌ„ to the Servants of GOD aswel as to the wicked therefore sayth old SIMEON Now LORD let thy servant depart 3. Wee see how the death of GOD'S servants is called to wit a Dimission or freedome to depart 4. The difference betweene the death and departure of the Godlie and the wicked to wit the one is in Peace the other not 5. From
piouslie preached the Trueth powerfullie mayntayned the same couragiouslie ruled in this Church prudentlie died at last most comfortablie and nowe resteth wee hope vvith CHRIST IESUS in Glorie aeternallie To whom with the Father and the holie Spirit be ascribed all Honour Glorie Majestie Prayse Power and Dominion for ever and ever world without ende AMEN HOLINESSE TO THE LORD OR A SERMON Vpon the 36 Verse of the 28 Chapter of Exodus In Commemoration of the most worthie and Reverend Praelate of blessed memorie PATRICK Bishop of ABERDENE Preached by IAMES SIBBALD Doctor of Divinitie and Minister of Sainct NICOLA'S Church of Aberdene Apr. 16. 1635. EXODUS xxviij vers 36. And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold and graue vpon it lyke the engravings of a signet HOLINESSE TO THE LORD THE CONTENTS I. THe Introduction Our purpose n. 1. Intention of Gods Spirit here The dignitie of the high Priests garments n. 2. II. The first part Of the plate or holie crowne What it was n. 1. What signifieth a crowne n. 2. What signified this crowne of Priesthood n. 3. The crowne of Christians n. 4. The crowne of Christian Bishops n. 5. The Pope his crowne touched n. 6. III. The second principall part The Inscription HOLINESSE TO THE LORD The words explayned n. 1. GODS Great Name n. 2. IV. HOLINESSE belonging to the LORD divided into three branches The first branch HOLINESSE belonging to GOD considered in Himselfe What is HOLINESSE n. 1. HOLINESSE essentiallie belongeth to God n. 2. His Holinesse substantiall n. 3. Dependence of our holinesse from it n. 4. The infinitnesse of it n. 5. His goodnesse admired in beholding our impuritie n. 6. V. The second branch How Holinesse belongeth to God in respect of his wayes The first degree Hee neyther doeth nor willeth evill n. 1 The second degree Hee willeth not evill in anie condition nor for anie ende whatsoever n. 2. The third degree Impossible it is for Him eyther to will or doe evill n. 3. The fourth degree Hee hateth vnholinesse and that infinitelie n. 4. Praedetermination to evill contrarie to His Holinesse n. 5. Evasions of the praedeterminants rejected n. 6. The objection taken from Gods concurrence answered first n. 7. The second answere n. 8. The argument from giving power to sinne and from permission thereof answered n. 9. Our evill is from our selues n. 10. VI. The third branch HOLINESSE belongeth to God in respect of all that pertayne to Him The whole world His holie Temple n. 1. Man a more holie Temple n. 2. Man's holinesse at his creation n. 3. His holinesse in his restauration n. 4. Great necessitie of holinesse now in all men n. 5. Our defect herein lamented n. 6. The Holinesse of the Priest how great it should bee n. 7. VII Transition to the prayse of the Bishop of ABERDENE Reasons of his renewed prayse n. 1. His judgement n. 2. Learning n. 3. Prudence n. 4. His eloquence n. 5. His magnanimitie n. 6. His holinesse in advancing Gods glorie n. 7. His care to advance Learning n. 8. His care of planting Churches n. 9. His integritie n. 10. His holinesse in private lyfe and death n. 11. The Conclusion n. 12. I Haue made choyse this day of this Text both that I may aedifie you in Holinesse and that I may performe that duetie and pay that debt which I owe to the Vertues and Memorie of our Holie Reverend and Worthie Praelate of blessed memorie The holie Prophet Moses in praeceeding verses in this now read and in some following after setteth downe the direction of GOD concerning the Holie Vestments of Aaron and his sonnes who were to succeed him in the Office of the high Priest Glorious were those Vestments giving the high Priest more than a humane splendor Glorious 1. considered in themselues and with reference to the high Priests Dignitie and one of the most precious things in the world highlie esteemed and most carefullie kept by the Iewes as you may see at length in Iosephus Whence Iesus the sonne of Syrach speaking of this Eccles. 45.7 sayth that God beautified or blessed the high Priest with comely Ornaments and cloathed him with a Robe of glorie Hee put vpon him perfect glorie and strengthened him with rich Garmentes And vers 13. Before him there were none such neyther did anie stranger ever put them on but onelie his children and his childrens children perpetuallie 2. Much more precious yet were they in respect of their signification which was 1. of the incompable excellencies of Christ Iesus that great high Priest for ever who is the ende of the Lawe adorned with all perfections whereby hee is to GOD most acceptable and most venerable to vs. 2. Of the excellencie required in those of that place whether vnder the Law or vnder the Gospell which challengeth greater perfection That sayeth Beda which outwardlie did shyne in the Ornamentes of the Priestlie Vestmentes should inwardly be deeplie seated in the mynds of our Priestes being spirituallie vnderstood and should outwardlie shyne glorious in their actions aboue the ordinarie vertues of the faythfull It is not anough for them to be lyke vnto other men though good for the Priestlie Authoritie sayth Ambrose requireth a singular weyght of vertues and a most serious endevour therevnto So Greg. Nazianzen speaking of sainct Basil sayeth that hee accounted the vertue of a private man to stand in fleeing of evill and attayning to some degree of goodnesse But that it is blameable in a Praelate not to bee excellent since even by his excellencie scarce can hee drawe people to a mediocritie of vertue The Christian Church hath thought it good to enjoyne her Priestes even an outward habit and conversation differing from that of others But much more different and much more excellent should bee the inward disposition and vertues of their mynd which is before God of great pryce Let the Priests be cloathed with Salvation and the Sayncts shall shout for joye PSAL. cxxxij 16 In the wordes which I haue read a singular piece of this holie Vestment is commanded to be made to wit the plate of the holie Crowne having this inscription HOLINESSE TO THE LORD Let vs consider 1. The Crowne it selfe 2. The inscription of it The accomplishment of this commandement heere concerning it is set down EXOD. xxxix 30 And they made the plate of the holie Crowne of pure golde wrote thereon a wryting lyke to the ingraving of a signet HOLINESSE TO THE LORD SO LEVIT viij 9 And hee put the Mitre on his head also vpon the Mitre even vpon his fore-front did he put the golden plate the holie Crowne which the Lord commanded Moses ECCLESIAST xlv 12 He set a crowne of gold vpon the mitre wherein was ingraven HOLINESSE an ornament of honour a costlie worke the desire of the eyes goodlie and beautifull Here it is called a plate of golde EXOD. 29. a crowne of holinsse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
engraven in it HOLINESSE TO THE LORD This is the chiefe and the lyfe of all the rest and this in him was not wanting yea so distinctly engraven that thou mightest runne and reade All these Perfections hee made to serue both publicklie and privatelie to the glorie of GOD who gaue them Though it would haue seemed that he would haue passed his lyfe as a Lay-man yet GOD had sanctified him for Himselfe His WORD and SPIRIT within him was a FYRE which would needes burst out Therefore called to the holie Ministerie hee obeyed and followed and did holilie acquyte himselfe therein Beeing yet higher advanced to a more sublime Charge all his endevour was to halowe the Holie and Reverende NAME of GOD. So he did by his holie and devout Preaching whyle health served so did hee by his holie care of the estate of this CHVRCH for which both for the present tyme and for the tyme to come hee excellentlie provyded No sooner had hee vnder-taken this Charge but hee began with the Seminaries of Learning from which the weale of the CHVRCH in all ages moste dependeth This hee did seriouslie remembering it was layde vpon him particularlie As hee would answere to GOD in the GREAT DAY And so happie was his care in this that what hee found lateritia and almost ruinated hee left marmorea repared in the Aedifices restored in the Bibliotheke revived in the Professions of DIVINITIE PHYSICK CANON LAW wherevnto hee procured the adding of another Profession of DIVINITIE to the great benefit of the CHVRCH in all following tymes restoring also the decayed Honoures due to Learning To what purpose had the Worthie and Heroicke Founders of that UNIVERSITIE left it if it had fallen And fallen appearantlie it should haue if by him not vnder-propped This duelie considered that UNIVERSITIE may bee justlie called ANASTASIA as was that Temple of Nazianzen in Constantinople for hee hath raysed vp in it good Letters almost fallen to the ground Was not this HOLINESSE The lyke care had hee to plant good and worthie Pastors for the present tyme and such was the successe of his care that never anie of the Worthie Prelates that went before him had such a Learned Clergie Yea whyle this Diocesse enjoyed him and that other Worthie Prelate of blessed memorie for singular Pietie and excellent Learning Incomparable I meane the late Bishop of Edinburgh not long since your Worthie Pastor it needed not to haue envyed anie parte of this KINGDOME None had more sagacitie to discerne good spirites or care to promoue them They might haue sayde whyle hee lived with the Poet of him Sub teste benigno Vivitur egregios invitant praemia mores Hinc priscae redeunt artes felicibus inde Ingeniis aperitur iter despectaque Musae Colla levant In all this publicke Administration such was his integritie that to him belonged that as Plinie calleth it Nobilis suspiratio Ciceronis of Cato O te felicem à quo nemo rem improbam petere audet None durst attempt to corrupt him All which beeing duelie weyghed I am not afrayde to say Hee might haue beene a States-man in the best State of EVROPE and a Prelate in the best tymes of the CHVRCH That which Plinie saieth of Cato That hee was thought to haue conjoyned in himselfe the three greatest thinges Optimus Orator Optimus Senator Optimus Imperator might bee not vnfitlie applyed vnto him if yee will put a Prelate for a Commander In his private lyfe and conversation hee was Holie none more familiar with GOD. The sweete Fruites whereof as he felt al his lyfe in manie sharpe Conflictes and Crosses which hee encountered with so especiallie before his death For GOD continued with him contrarie to the nature of his disease his Iudgement and Prudence which was the Crowne of his Gray Hayres and his Tongue which was his Glorie and which was most of all his Holinesse So that his Disease though heavie was but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the proofe of his Vertue hee beeing more blessed in this than others were in health It abated nothing of his care of the Glorie of GOD and well-fare of His CHVRCH hee traveled no lesse paynfullie nowe than before by his Prayers sound Advyce frequent wyse and powerfull Letters Amongst others yee had a singular proofe of his Religious Care a little before his death when your sute was to haue for your Pastor his Worthie Devout and Learned Sonne ye knowe howe willinglie hee condescended to his Transplantation notwithstanding hee was the Manager of his estate at that tyme and vnder GOD the Stay of his olde age and the Solace of his solitarinesse and sicknesse vvhence he professed that for his stay hee would haue tripled what was to bee obtayned by his remouall if it had beene lawfull to looke in that matter to wordlie respectes A great argument this was that hee disesteemed both Estate Health and private Contentment in respect of GODS GLORIE your Weale vvhich knowing himselfe readie now to departe hee thought hee could no better promoue than by leaving you in stead of himselfe the best Expression hee had of himselfe that yee beholding his Vertues in him as in a cleare and bright glasse might in effect haue him even after his departure as Nazianzen speaketh of Nyssen in reference to his brother S. Basil-God also gaue him as an earnest desire to bee dissolved so an vndaunted cowrage agaynst the feare of Death Some few dayes before his departure having most devoutlie taken the holie SACRAMENT vvith vs his Presbyters and having most affectioÌ„atelie blessed vs he said most devoutly teares bursting out for joy with SIMEON LORD now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace c. And setling himselfe in his former calmnesse tranquillitie did expect joyfullie his LORD teaching men â—ow to die as he had taught them how to liue dying as one of the Patriarches as Moses Iosua or David in a good age having the Crowne of Gray Hayrs in the way of righteousnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Nazianzen sayeth of Athanasius Orat. 23. Therefore I make no doubt but that gracious GOD who gaue him the Crowne of so manie excellent Graces and the Crowne of Priesthood wherin His owne finger did engraue Holinesse hath nowe given him the Crowne of Glorie Let therefore his memorie bee blessed vpon earth as his Soule is blessed in Heaven and yee who were his people and whose Pastor hee was remember to followe him as hee did CHRIST This was and is his most earnest desire So shall yee your selues bee crowned with him and shall bee his Crowne in that Great Day 1. Thess. ij 19 For what is our hope or joye or crowne of rejoycing Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord IESVS CHRIST at His comming There shall Pastors and people meet there saynct Peter shall appeare and at his backe Iudea converted by him and saynct Paul leading almost the whole worlde by
him converted There Andrew shall present before the Iudge Achaia Iohn Asia Thomas India converted as Gregorie speaketh O that yee may bee with him in lyke manner with joye at the right Hand of the Iudge in that Day The LORD grant it for CHRIST'S sake To whome with the FATHER and Blessed SPIRIT bee all Prayse and Glorie for ever and ever AMEN A CONSOLATORIE SERMON Preached vpon the death of the R. R. Father in GOD PATRICKE FORBES Late BISHOP of ABERDENE By ALEXANDER ROSSE Doctor of DIVINITIE and MINISTER of the EVANGELL in ABERDENE in Saynct NICOLAS Church there Anno 1635. the xv of Aprill DAN xij 2 And manie of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake some to ever-lasting lyfe and some to shame and ever-lasting contempt IT may perhaps seeme strange that the noyse of my mourning for the death of our late Worthie Prelate was not these dayes by-past with the rest of my Reverend Colleagues heard in publicke This duetie had beene performed ere nowe were not Death fearing that my vnappeased griefe through sense of my great losse should haue made mee to burst out into bitter and Tâ—agicke Invectiues agaynst her and so haue brought you all in hatred with her as with that vvhich the Philosopher saieth is omnium terribilium terribilissimum Of all thinges that are terrible the most terrible did arrest mee by her mightie Herauld Sicknesse to the end that by neare communing with her I might knowe and impart the same vnto you also that shee is not so indeede as her grieslie lookes doe praetende not an enemie to the Godlie as nowe in our mourning shee is holden to be but a friende and herefore in your mourning you should bee comforted For by the death of CHRIST her nature is changed Through death Hee hath destroyed him that had the power of death that is the Devill and delivered them who through the feare of death were all their lyfe tyme subject vnto bondage Hebr. ij 14.15 Death is no more death I am sayeth our Saviour the Resurrection and the Lyfe hee that believeth in Me though hee were dead yee shall hee liue And whosoever liveth and believeth in Mee shall never die IOHN xj 25.26 By her the Godlie are bound in the bundle of Lyfe Shee is but the way that all flesh doeth goe to put an ende to their miseries Shee looseth them out of Prison gathereth them to their Fathers maketh them lay downe their tabernacle and putteth them into a sound sleepe from whence they shall bee awakened to ever-lasting Lyfe But because it were endlesse to showe you all the good we nowe obtayn by Death I haue bounded my selfe within the limites of this Text wherin we haue a sweete Cordiall for the reliefe of the heart of Man from two great evils to wit The ignorance of the nature of Death it selfe and the ectate of men after death Feare not to taste therof for it is praescrybed by the Greatest DOCTOR in Heaven or in earth GOD Himselfe the Soveraygne and onlie Physician both of Soule and bodie The Apothecarie by whose hand it was delivered was an Angell who gaue it for a strong Consolation vnto Daniel and hee who hath left it vnto vs for that same vse was this same Daniel Vir desideriorum A man greatlie beloved of GOD A Pen-man of holie Scripture who spake and writ as hee was inspired by the holie Ghost And it is of an immortall and never-fading Vertue flowing from the immortall and all-sufficient Worth and Merit of the death and Resurrection of IESVS CHRIST That Death by the ignorance of the true nature thereof doe not dismay you learne to knowe That it is but a sleepe That the estate after death doe not dishearten you learne that it is but a wakening and such a one as is to Lyfe and such a lyfe as shall haue no death an ever-lasting Lyfe a sweete Cordiall indeede but the comfort contayned in it doeth not indifferentlie concerne all All indeede shall sleepe all shall awake but not all to ever-lasting Lyfe The awakening of some shall bee to shame and contempt for Qualis vita finis ita Lyke lyfe lyke ende lyke awakening Who liveth in the LORD shall die in the LORD rest from their laboures and awake to ever-lasting Lyfe And who liveth in sinne their ende is destruction and their awakening is to shame For this Text hath its own both Extent Restraynt Extent all indeede shall sleepe all shall awake Restraynt Some to ever-lasting Lyfe some to shame and contempt There bee some I knowe doe not allow to it this just Extent in regard it is sayde onlie manie that sleepe in the dust For they thinke that all men shall not suffer death which by sleepe is meant heere Grounding themselues vpon the wordes of the Apostle 1. COR. xv 51 Beholde I showe you a mysterie Wee shall not all sleepe but wee shall all bee changed Hee distinguisheth all men vnto those who shall bee alyue and remayne vnto the comming of the LORD and those that shal be asleepe Which distinction importeth That those who then shall bee alyue shall not die but shall immediatelie or without anie death intenveaning bee caught vp with the rest of the Elect to meete the LORD in the ayre Tyme will not serue mee to speake of this mysterie as Paull calleth it at such length as I would onlie yee shall know that the ancient Fathers of the Church haue bene much divided in their judgemeÌ„ts concerning those whom the LORD at His comming to Iudgement shall finde alyue Chrysostome wryting vpon that place and diverse Greek Fathers following him haue thought that they shall not die but that they shall bee changed from the estate of Mortalitie vnto the estate of Aeternitie Of this opinion also were some of the Latine Fathers in speciall Tertullian and Ierome and diverse moderne Wryters both Papistes as Cajetane and some others led by his authoritie as also Protestantes as Calvine and some others following him But manie haue beene and are yet of another opinion that is they haue believed or at least thought it more probable That even those who shall bee alyue at the LORD His second comming shall truelie and reallie die that they may vndergoe the common punishment of Man-kynde and shall immediatelie thereafter bee raysed vp or quickened that they may compeare with the rest vnto Iudgement Of this opinion were diverse both of the Greeke Fathers as Dydimus one of the Doctors of Alexandria and Acacius Bishop of Caesarea as we may perceaue by Ierome his Epistle to Minerius and Alexander EPIST. 152. vvhere the judgement of them both in this particular is related and Oecumenius in his Commentaries expounding this place and also of the Latine Fathers as the Author of the Commentaries vpon Paul's Epistles attributed to Ambrose in Thes. Cap. 4. Augustine in some places of his workes as Lib. 20. De Civitate DEI Cap. 20. although in other places hee seeme to encline to
Ioanne Walker Rectore de Kinkell Testibus ad Praemissa vocatis et requifitis Ita est Georgius Mercer Notarius Publicus in Praemiss rogatus requisitus ad haec manu propria Ita est Thomas Davidson Notarius Publicus ac Testis in Praemissis ad haec rogatus requisitus manu propria Letter of a most Reverende Father in GOD Iohn Spotswood Arch-bishop of Saynct-Andrewes To Patrick Forbes of Corse Bishop of Aberdene in the tyme of the sayd Patrick's sicknesse To my verie Reverend good Lord and Brother My Lord the Bishop of Aberdene My Reverend good Lord and Brother I Never thinke of your Lordship nor haue occasion to wryte but my griefe encreaseth for want of your L. assistance and counsell in these necessarie tymes for our Church But wee must submit our selues to the will of GOD which I pray may bee done by vs patientlie and willinglie The Chancellar came this morning to me in Leith c. I rest with my Prayer to GOD for your L. Leith 16 May 1633. Your L. most assured Brother SAYNCT-ANDREWES Letter of a most Reverend Father in GOD and most honourable Lord Iohn Spotswood Arch-bishop of Saynct-Andrewes Primate and Lord high Chancellar of Scotland To Doctor Iohn Forbes of Corse vpon the report of the Godlie death of his Father Patrick Forbes of Corse late Bishop of Aberdene To my Reverend and loving Brother Doctor Iohn Forbes of Corse MOST DEARE BROTHER IF it bee true which is commonlie sayd and I verilie belieue that great sorrowes are lessened when others partake of the same then may your griefe bee much eased considering the numbers that beare a part with you in this great losse In so necessarie a tyme to bee bereaved of such Counsell and Comfort as GOD had furnished him with I meane your worthie Father for the directing of some and strengthening of others I know not what it portendeth to our Church When Bishop Elphinstone the Founder of your Colledge was layde in Graue the tradition is that a voyce was heard cry Tecum Gulielme Mitra sepelienda and that the Pastorall Staffe brake in pieces Hee was certaynlie an excellent man and I may truely say since him vnto your Father there arose not the lyke in that Church What say I in that Church Everie man can speake of that hee hath knowne and seene and for my selfe I speake trueth So wyse judicious so graue and gracefull a Pastor I haue not known in all â—ny tyme in anie Church Not to speake of his learning in all sortes of Divinitie of his prudencie in Church-governement of his solid advysses in matters of State or of the manie gracious conferences I haue had with him in private I shall never forget the answere hee gaue to some Brethren who desired of vs a Letter to his Majestie for dispensing with their obedience to the order praescribed in the ministration of the holie Sacrament when all had consented to wryte as they desired And Will you sayd he justifie the doctrine of these men who haue called the reverend gesture which we vse Idolatrie raysed such a schisme in our Church Till they bee brought publicklie to confesse their Errour or Heresie rather I shall never bee yeelding for my part It was before indifferent nowe I esteeme it necessarie in regard of the false opinions they haue dispersed to retayne constantlie the forme wee haue receaved With such a zeale and courage did hee in that matter expresse himselfe as they that made the motion were strickeÌ„ dumbe Surelie I my selfe that never behelde him without reverence did heare him that day with wonder To remember these things it doubleth my sorrow But hee was come to yeares and this Age not worthie to enjoye him anie longer Let mee say this without flattrie Our losses are some way recompensed in your selfe GOD hath given you both Grace and Learning and the expectation is great which the Church hath of you Goe on therefore and bee comforted Nothing in lyfe I coÌ„fesse hath troubled my selfe so much as the death of them I loved the death of your worthy Father in particular But wee must yeeld to that Great Ruler and knowe that Hee disposeth most wyselie both of persons and of thinges Hee is gone from vs to a better Societie vnto which I wish wee may all bee gathered in GOD His good tyme. I rest Dairsie the 2. of Aprill 16â—5 Your faythfull and assured Brother SAYNCT-ANDREWES Letter of a right Reverende Father in GOD Iohn Guthrie Bishop of Murray to Iohn Forbes of Corse in recordation of his Father Patrick Forbes of Corse late Bishop of Aberdene To my Reverend and deare Brother Iohn Forbes of Corse Doctor in Divinitie REVEREND AND DEARE BROTHER THE tydinges of the departure of your most Reverend Father put a sore knell to my heart and doubtlesse that wound had gone deeper if with Iob the thing that I was afrayde of had not come vnto mee At my last loosing from him which yee remeÌ„ber was fewe days or rather houres before his dissolution I had no small wrastling in my Breast betwixt Ioye and Griefe Griefe I say and no wonder beeing to parte from One who was to mee in place of manie and see his face no more Yet had I beene vnthankfull to GOD and vnduetifull to him with whose soule my soule was so nearlie knit if I had not rejoiced in that grace of GOD which I saw so aboundantlie in him made manifest by the gracious speaches which at that tyme dropped froÌ„ his lips These two evills which haue bene accustomed in extremities to affect the strongest moved him not at all not acerbitas doloris Sleepe had departed from his eyes appetite to meat or drinke was gone thus nature had fayled Medicine could no more worke yet all so patientlie endured yea so kyndlie and graciouslie accepted as was wonderfull Neither did the feare of Death which is omnium terribilium terribilissimum vexe him Hee was not at that tyme to begin his acquaintance with It as he at that instant professed to our great comfort who heard him and therevpon called to mynde a memorable storie which he deduced at length to our great admiration Death was become familiar to him and esteemed to bee in lucro He was not as a tree hewen down by violence but as a sheafe of corne comming in due season into the barne Having served his Master aboue 70 years hee could say with Hilarion Egredere anima mea quâ—modo mortem formidabo quae me meo creatori sit redditâ—ra What the renowned Arch-bishop of Canterburie Lanfranck prayed often for That hee might die such a death as hindered not his speach was granted to your most Reverend Father more having his speach articulate and distinct as ever memorie and judgement aboue all that could haue bene expected His last trust to me which was his greatest care on earth coÌ„cerning the filling of that Sea with a man furnished as the necessitie both of tyme place requyreth
hath bene in part alreadie and shal yet more fullie when occasion shall offer by the grace of GOD be discharged by me A great Prelate is falleÌ„ in our Israell The hole wherein that Cedar stood argueth his greatnes will not be easilie filled The Lord in His mercy provide In calling these things to mynde I may be readilie thought a miserable comforter but having to do with a man of vnderstanding I am confident to obtayne leaue to fixe my tabernacle here a little and communicate with you what haue bene the thoughts of my heart concerning him who was your Father mine the man on earth I must acknowledge whose counsell availed me most in the manifold distresses which were commoÌ„ to vs both I had a reverend estimation of him while he was living know well how steadable he was both in Church and Common-wealth but now being dead I knowe howe it is that my affection is more bended than when he was living Dulciora videÌ„tur omnia careÌ„tibus said Nicolas de ClamaÌ„gis vpon the death of his deare friend They who haue bene in their lyfe profitable to others and by whose lyfe much more good may be expected no marvell if they be still lamented But he is gone Abiit noÌ„ obiit we haue somewhat of him that remaines after death the bodie gone to the earth there to rest vnder the hope of that blessed Resurrection Illo mane the spirit returned to Him who gaue it his good name better than a good oyntment remayneth with vs and what he was and hath done shall be spoken of throughout the worlde for a rememberance of him both for his commendation and incitation of others who shall heare of him His memorie is blessed Those who truely feare GOD speak of your most Reverend Father with all respect they speake of him to the great joy of my heart what hath bene observeable in him from his verie first beginning A Chyld of God One who earlie sought Him a Man of God who being planted in the House of God and flowrishing in His Courts hath continued to bring foorth fruit even in his old age Ye will excuse mee if falling on this subject I enlarge my selfe a little and make faythfull relation to you of that which I haue receaved froÌ„ the mouthes of those of best Note in the kingdome and whereto I my selfe in the most part haue bene privie That blessed Apostle S. Paul served God from his Elders from them he tooke his being from them his pietie Religion Timothie the first Bishop of Ephesus had the lyke from his grand-mother Lois and his mother Eunice And was not this a great mercie of God towardes your most Reverend Father that hee was the sonne of your Grand-father whose name is great in the Church for his zeale towards God his Religion his coÌ„versation being answerable thereto His care in the education of his children of whom God hath given good store was not the least or last part of his coÌ„mendation Herefrae it came that your Rev. Father who as his first-borne had right to the double portion spent not the most greatest part of his younger years in trivialibus juvenilibus which being the case of that great Basile was frequentlie deplored lamented by him But I remember when I was yet of verie tender yeares to haue seene him at Saint-Andrews folowing the studie of Divinitie with great approbation Then was he laying a good foundatioÌ„ for the time to come God Almighty had shapeÌ„ him for another course of life than he intended who loved alwayes to be exercised in reading writing informing instructing others by declining all publik charge That could not be The Church had need of him therfore he could not be hid HerefroÌ„ came his emploiments publick first at the Church of Keith to the which hee was in a manner forced by the earnest entreaties yea obtestations of those of the Ministry of most respect in the Diocesse of Murray where that Church lieth and Aberdene who had no smal eyther losse or gain by the plantation therof His labor there in the Lord was not in vain Res ipsa loquitur and the posterity shal retain the monumeÌ„ts But there might he not stay howbeit as vnwilling to leaue as hee was first to vndergo that charge He persued not Honour but Honour persued him as Nazianz. said of S. Basil or as Cyprian of Cornelius Bishop of Rome Episcopaâ—uÌ„ ipsum nec postulavit nec voluit nec vt caeteri quos arrogantiae superbiae suae tumor inflat invasit sed quietus et modestus quales esse consueverunt qui ad hunc locum divinitus eliguÌ„tur And a little after Ipse vim passus est vt Episcopatum coactus acciperet The lyke is recorded of S. Cyprian himselfe others who haue done most good in the Church of God I think in his translation to Aberdene I see the worthie Emp. Theodos. taking Nazianz. from the strayt and little Church wherein he taught and putting him in a more large and famous with these wordes Pater tibi sudoribus tuis DEVS per nos Ecclesiam tribuit What joye was to all honest minded men in his promotion who thought no lesse of him than the great Constantine was accustomed to speake of Eusebius Bishop of Caesarea Foelicem Eusebium qui non vnius vrbis sed orbis propè totius Episcopatu dignus esset In him was the viue vpset of the Ancient Renowned Bishops Ambrose Augustine c. No dumbe dogg but endewed with the tongue of the Learned He could speak a word in season And it was seene in him what S. August observed of S. Ambr. In populo verbuÌ„ veritatis rectè tractanteÌ„ omni die Dominico Wherin your most Rev. father was so instaÌ„t that notwithstaÌ„ding of his great age multitude of effairs for which scarcely any one man was sufficient yet could he not hearkeÌ„ to them who pittying him wisht him to forbear preaching piâ—ie himself Preaching was not all he preached viva voce that is vita et voce The course of his life all his coÌ„versatioÌ„ was such as the devil himself speaking aganst him shall be quickly detected With what wisdome care authority he governed that Sea there is none who knoweth not Bonis amabilis improbis formidabilis vtrisque admirabilis It must be truelie sayd of him as of that worthie Iehojada He hath done good in Israel towards God and His House As there was no vertue requisite in an accomplished Prelate which was not in an eminent degree to bee found in him So was there no state or person within his reach which did not partake of his good That Bishopricke which by injurie of tyme wickenesse of some and negligence of of his Praedecessours was almost brought to the last cast had him a Restorer Your worthie and famous Vniversitie founded by Bishop Elphinstone and Hospitall by Bishop Dumbar may vaunt of him as of a second
erat Perdidit â—reptam fatis Ecclesia prolem Urna tenet cineres ABREDONVMque Patris Cum vero omne sacrum mors importuna prophanet Cur vitio vertis diripuisse bonos Hi dedignantur terrena palatia regum Queis terra indigna est duxit ad astra DEUS ABREDONVM decus atque Pater successit Olympo Illic vt nova sit gloria coelitibus MVSARVM LACHRYMAE TAntalidi moesto vivos adhibere colores Dum sumo ingenio pictor arte nequit Sollicitos ducto texit velamine vultus Effingi quoniam non potis ipse dolor Castalidum valeas qui delineare dolores Si gemitus velles pingere pinge sonum Sub pedibus lauri dejecit Apollo coronam Et planctus resonant consona fila lyrae Condidit obductos qualis cum deficit orbi Vultus nec radiis lumina laeta jacet Tristia cupressi circundant tempora serta Non taciti hoc signum funeris instar erit Largis implentur lachrymis Heleconia Tempe Terra nec vlla polo subdita moesta magis ABREDONVM eripuit Musis quia parca patronum Quo vivente melos quo moriente dolor IOANNES TAYLOR ANGLVS Philosophia Studiosus IN REVERENDI ET SANCTISSIMI PATRIS PATRICII FORBESII EPISCOPI ABREDONENSIS Et in summo Scotorum Senatu Consiliarii Obirum EPITAPHIVM OCcidit Abredonum Praesul FORBESIVS ecce Parva tenet magni nominis vrna virum In quem non habet aut livor quod dicere possit Quanquam caelicolas misit in arma deas Namuefides pietas spes quicquid denique tantum Aut talem potuit condecorare virum Illius in niveo sibi sedem pectore legit Pectore Caucasea candidiore nive Labe carens vt vita fuit nulliue potestas Noxia sic visa est mors properata nimis Hunc gemet extinctum cuicunue ecclesia curae est Atque in solliciti parte doloris erit MUSARUM IN DEFUNCTVM LACHRYMAE VEre novo Phoebus turba comitante sororum Visere Pierias vult Heliconis aquas Solicitansque lyram sic solabatur euntes Visa sit vt longae non mora longa viae Propter aquas tandem viridi consedit in herba Et circumfusa est turba canora ducem Tunc Phoebus cantate deae queis carmina curae Et jam vernantes fallite voce dies Incipiunt jussae Câ—nit haec qua Iupiter olim Laedam fluminea lusit adulter ave Illa canit Veneris Martisque nefaria furta Et Niobes lachrymas Phaetontis equos Dumque deae sic facta canunt sic aera mulcent Melpomene querulis fletibus ora rigaâ— Et jam non potis hunc tantum superare dolorem Ingemit lachrymans talia voce refert Occidit ABREDONVM Praesul FORBESIVS hisque Vocibus in mediis victa dolore silet Ingeminant musae lachrymas pectora plangunt Tuta nec à digitis ora fuere suis. Quid vixisse juvat clamant quid libera fatis Vita quid aeternas proderit esse deas Non honor est sed onus vita haec laesura ferentes Solamen miseris est potuisse mori Phoebus item querulis lachrymis testatur amorem Et penitus fletu vincitur ipse sâ—o Solatur miseras tamen Permissidis vnda Amotis lachrymis talia dicta dedit Scilicet infausto nobis processit Olympo Quae tantum terris abstulit hora virum Spes superest animosa tamen nam splendida claris Ingeniis non est orba relicta domus Vivit Natus adhuc magni spes altera patris Solamenque mali vivat opto diu Ponebat moerens ALEXANDER DOWNY Philosophiae Studiosus IN OBITVM Reverendissimi Charissimi Patris sui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 PATRICII FORBESII EPISCOPI ABREDONIENSIS c. CARMEN FUNEBRE IOANNIS FORBESII FILII DUlce decus genitor vitali suavior aura Luminis usura cui mage charus eram Dum tua condecorant certatim funera quisquis Numen amat virtus cui clara placet Aegra tui desiderio dum pectora tundunt Pontifices proceres plebs studiosa cohors FORBESIAE florem gentis cecidisse queruntur Quo se jactabat sospite nostra domus Regum consilium magni occubuisse Senatus Ingenium Patriae deliciasque suae Orbatum Pastore gregem moderamine mystas Fulmineum verbi conticuisse melos Instauratori lachrymas Academia pendit Singultim tragicis vociferata modis Iam Musis Phoebum studiis jam deesse patronum Praesidum templis pauperibusque patrem Pulpita saepe tuis facundo ex ore sonora Vocibus atra gemunt compita lessus obit Flammiferis auras vrbana tonitrua bombis Accendunt populi sidera pulsat amor Haec autem lamenta inter tot publica nemo est Qui tibi sed Patriae quisque sibiue dolet Te superis etenim concentibus aurea Coeli Regia susceptum lucis in arce beat Talia cernenti quae mens mihi quis potis esse Sensus dum robur pectoris ora manus Doctrinae morum nectar pia vota recordor Mortemque heroam ceu Patriarcha fores Exanimesque oculos digitis componere nostris Ut mihi exequiis solvere justa datum Quid moestae superest proli charisque propinquis Quid faciant luctu pectora pressa gravi Nempe PATRIS summi praeconia praepete cantu Vt celebrent à quo tanta fuere bona Qui majora dabit cum clangor ab aetheris axe Eruet ex imis ossa sepulta locis Restituetque animae Corpus totusque micabis Aeternum aeterni Solis ab orbe jubar Et pariles tentent gressus quibus itur ad astra Haec nos sanctorum fata suprema docent Te DEVS ante dedit terris nunc intulit astris Dicant terra Polus laus sine fine DEO Instabiles sub sole vices fugitivaque rerum Gaudia mansuras PATRIA donat opes PATRIA Coelestis fundamine fulta superno Urbs sancta aetherii nobilis aula PATRIS Foelix cui cursum dat gratia gloria metam Sic mihi contingat vivere sic moriar SONNET REaders of sacred Histories attent Doe find great Names in Monuments inrolde Of faythfull Pastors and their Vertues tolde For Prayse to GOD to make men diligent Sage Cyrils Austin in Disputes potent Graue Gregories meeke Melet Ambrose bolde Sweete Cyprian Iohn with his Mouth of Golde Starre of his age Athanase permanent Theodoret in Learning eminent Well versde in Scriptures Ierome New and Olde True Flavian kynde Paulin manifolde Perfections of others excellent These graces PATRICK FORBES richly had Whereby GOD honourd was the Church made glad Vpon the death of that Right Honourable Right Reverend and most worthie Prelate PATRICKE FORBES Baron of Corse and Oneil Late Bishop of ABERDENE COuld Man's excursiue thoughts get stayd to muse Some vnseene good there 's found in baddest newse Feare can beget of wit in selfe-born fools Prodigious Warnings traine the Wyse at Schools What 's this of Death wee see so much affecting Of young of
olde proprietie thus projecting Man's totall ruine Nature being deaths pryse The Victorie ours wee conquering enemies Belyke the shout of SION seems to roare Rackt with such griefe not once heard of before Her Northern-Church imbellisht to our sight Was lately plac'd on top of SIONS hight Her Structure which the first Contract had made whill tread-tramd Crafts-men scarce were to bee had The Master-builder wanting to command Awlesse confusion winning th'vpperhand Those rude impolisht stones which kept not lyne Shee lately chang'd in jewels gems divyne Olde rowmes made voyde replenisht to content Conscience the levell of strict Government Shee howls to misse what verie now shee had And to our hearing sadlie hath shee saide My Mount doeth smoake it 's shak'd by IOVAH'S Hand Moses and Aron fled how can it stand Moses did watch true Sentinell without it Aron Circundat tarrasses about it Those being gone who did so well surround mee The burning wrath of GOD's neare to confound me Is 't so with SION is shee so dejected Who twyse a-yeare our drouping heads erected Gainst purest feares in gleaning Autumns Flowrs Gainst all distrustfull hopes of Aesta's showres Dare not those greene Trees at the axe repyne Then rotten stocke how neare's that fall of thyne Since clearest heads are drumled then bee sure The mudled way-floods can haue no thing pure Though in few Acts Man could abridge his playes In manie schens divyded are his dayes Since then wee see the Tapers doe decay Whent's dark the candlesticke may be a prey SIR ALEXANDER CVMMIN of Coutter Knight IN MEMORIE OF THE RIGHT REVREND PATRICK FORBES Late Lord Bishop of Aberdene Who deceassed March xxviij 1635. A Perfect Patterne of a pearlesse Guyde Was late inclosed in this Caske of clay Wh'in Countrey Church and Policie besyde Of Government with praise practis'd the way A loving Landlord Statist calmlie bent Preacher and Praelate holie eloquent Mortem justi lugent cuncti PATRICKE MAITLAN Of Karnfeichell and Achincriue AARON'S OBSEQVIE WHen Titan ryseth from his bed Hee guildes our day and lends vs lyfe But when abortiue Night doeth spred Her sable mantle wee 're at stryfe Even with our selues for sleepe Deaths freind Whiffs in our face and blowes vs blind When Spring enambles Vesta's lap Our Rose is sweete our Damask's cleane But if a frost or thunder clap Persue their buddes straight what was greene Is blasted and their rotten Core Infoldes a canker-worme no more When Rivers from their private sourse Repay their Tribute to the Maine The ratling murmures of their course Proclaimes their debt and yet in vaine For there how soone they hyde their heads Their luster 's gone their Douceur fades When Brydegroomes from their chambers come To wed the Virgine Nymphes of May The Violet and Prymrose bloome Len wreaths and Lawrels to that play But if or hee or shee shall fall Their mirth 's exchanged to a Madrigall So whilst our Aaron's burning Light In Vrim and in Thummim shynd Our Levits saw their Day no Night For Atho's Shaddows still declynde But now in Ramah Aaron sleepes And Rachel for her Husband weepes So whilst our Aarons Priestlie Rod Did bud did blossome and yeelde fruit Ieshuruns other stemmes abroad Proov'd withred stickes and wanted root But now hee sleepes and gainst his Vyne And Oliue Brambles now repyne So when our Aaron's boundlesse Ocean Lent secret lyfe to Sacred Springes Rephidims Rocke by that commotion Did drench Vrania's scorched winges But whilst his deepes exhawled lye Cherith's exhaust and Kedron's dry So whilst our pompous Aaron stood To wed the Bryde to her Brydegroome The Friends rejoyc'd the Virgines bowde And both vnto the Wedding come But now the PARANYMPH is gone And all the marriage Children moane What then haue not Aire Earth and Seas Spent teares at ARON'S funerall They haue But teares so dround their eyes That now their deepest griefes recall Their sluces and to tymes to come Say Light cares speake when deepe grief 's dumbe Mr WILLIAM WISHART Person of Restarick DEDICATED To the Never-dying Memorie of The late Right Revend Learned and Religious Prelate my best Friend And most worthie Macenas PATRICKE BY THE MERCIE OF GOD BISHOP OF ABERDENE c. WAlking alone vnder a shade neare by a River syde Beholding how swift silent streams into the Sea did slyde The budding Groue our youth streames tymes velocitie Floods falling in the Sea declar'd all living flesh must die Whiles thus as in a trance I viewed the welkin cleare Vnto my eyes and eares at once od objects did appeare I heard great tolling Bels drums toucke dead trumpets sounded Canons loude roaring made such noyse Earth Sea and Aire resoūded But that which mov'd me most I saw me neare hand by Great multitudes of mourning men full sadlie seem'd to cry Some said Now IACOB'S gone our PATRIARCH who bred vs. Som lik Aegiptiās mourning cryd Our Ioseph's faild who fed vs Some for myld Moses moand evē those who most did grieue him Praying if possibe it were their vowes might now revive him Some for their DAVID dool'd most for the Temple grat Some for IOSIAS shouted in the Valley of Iosaphat Their doole redoubled so their cryes became confusde That Natures workes all round about was stupified and musde The tallest trembling Trees whose statelie tops vpryse And seem'd through watrie voults of aire to cut the crystal Skyes Did lowre and lout them lowe as witnesse of those wronges Elf-Echoe out of hollow Caues resounds their sorrowing songs The Clowds did cease to drop the wavering windes to blow The boughs on banks left off to bloome the Seas to fall or flow The sweetest stirring streames that run in d ee and DONE Shout to their equals Stay your pace help vs two to mone The birds with chirming cheare that cut the azure Skyes They cease to sing the beasts to low the fish to swimme in Seas The Sunne and Moone amaz'd and Starres all still they stand And all IOVES hudge and curious worke the sea the aire the land Left off their kindlie course and car'd with me to ken About a Tombe what moved to mourne so manie modest men Thus whilst agast wee gaz'd three out amongst the laue In doricke nūbers sadlie sounds these Songs about his Graue 1. SONG SWeete Sheepherds Swanes awake and weepe Since hee is gone who made you sleepe Wee want our gracious Governour Who watch'd vs both in Field and Towre Now may wee stray without a Guyde In earth there is none such besyde Great paines Hee tooke to make vs keepe To feede to fence our wandring Sheepe All our defects Hee cur'd and cover'd Which Doggs and Wolfes would haue discover'd And now no doubt wee 'll goe astray Since wee Him want who led our way The crasde and creeple oft Hee heal'd them The comfortlesse Hee never failde them Our EAGLE who vs taught to flie Our PELICAN our PHOENIX hie Great IOVA Grant since Hee is gone His ashes breede vs such a One. 2. SONG OVr Church hath lost a
de locis cap. 4. ad 8. Scotus lib. 1. de nat gr cap. 18. Vega lib. 2. cap. 15. Raynaud in Theol. natur dist 1. q. 3. art 1. 8. 2. Answere Some deny this immediate concourse to evill Dur. 2. sent dist 1. q. 3. Aureol 2. sent dist 3â— q. 1. art 1. Vasq. in primam secundae disp 12â— cap. 2. Scot. â— Sent. Dist. 37. Less de grat cap. 18. num 8. 11. Vide TheodoruÌ„ Abâ— opâ—sâ— 35. Vide Vasq. ibidem Aug. de perfect Justitia ratione quarta Aug. lib. 12. consess c. 11. Item dixisti mihi Domine voce forti in auroâ—â— interiorem quod omnes â—aturas atque substantias que noÌ„ sunt quod tu es et tamen sunt tu feciâ—ti et hoc sâ—â—lum à te non est quod non est motusque voluntatis à 〈◊〉 qui es ad id quod minus est quia talis motuâ— delictuÌ„ atque pecâ—atum est Aug. lib. 12. confess c. 11. Hoc in conspectis tuo claret mihi magis magisque clareseat oro te atque in ea manifestatione persistâ— sâ—brius sub alis tuis 9. The argument from giving power to sin the permission thereof answered Vasq. in 1.2 disp 129. cap. 10. Aug. de gratia Christ. cap. 17. Lomb. in 2. dist 44. Scotus there others Arist. 3. Ethic cap. 7. August de Spiritu litera c. 31. Tertull. 2. in Marcio cap. 6. Basil. in homil Quod DEVS non sit author malorum Thom. q. 24. de lib. arb art 3. in 2. dist 44. art â— ad primum Basil. Aug. Psal. 54. August in Eâ—chyrid cap. 11. August l. 12 confess c. 11. Nullâ—â— peccatum aut tibi nocat aut pertiâ—ebat ordinâ—â—â— imperii tui vel in primo vel in imo 10. Our evill is from our selues Aust. l. 50 〈◊〉 4â— 8 Nazian◠〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aug. Tract 12. in Ioan. Hieron Matth. 4. Ambr. Hex 1.8 The third â—ranch HOLINESSE â—elongeth â—o GOD â—n respect â—f all that â—ertayne to â—im 1. The whole worlde an holy Temple Prosp. 2. de voc Gent. cap. 4. 2. Man a more holie Temple Nyssen dâ— opific. hom cap. 3. Chrysost. hom 8. in Genes 3. Man's Holinesse in the creation Nyss. de hom opific. cap. 5. cap. â— 4. His Holinesse in Hiâ— restauration Nazian Orat. 36. Pâ—â—6 â—6 5. Necessitie 〈◊〉 Holines 〈◊〉 in all 〈◊〉 â—azianz Dionys. Areopag Hieâ— Eccl. cap. 12. Ambr. de iis qui mysteriâ— initiantur cap. 3. Aug. serm 157 163. de tempore Chris. Hom. in Psal. 119. 6. Our defect herein lamented 7. Holinesâ— of Pastor Nazians Urat 1. p. 31. Naz. ibidem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. lib. 1. Ep. c. 24. Qui ad aâ—eâ— nitatis Templum vasâ— viventia in finis conversationis propriae portatâ— Hier. ep 61. ad Pammachium Malmesburiensis Ambros. de dignit Sacerdotali c. 2 See Sidonius Apollinaris l. 7. ep 11. et l. 8. ep 11. Transition to the praise of the Bishop of Aberdene 1. Reasons of his renewed praise Ciâ— â— 3. Tus. ul 〈…〉 bene judicantium de excellenti virtute Aug. l. 83 quast 31. frequens de aliquo sama cum laude Aug. in Psal. 103. Conc. 2. Plin. in praef 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. orat 10. in laudem Basil. 2 His judgement 3 Learning 4 Prudence Ambros. ep 24. Aug. ep 147. possidonius in vitae Aug. c. 19. Sidonius Apoll l. 6 ep 2. 5 Eloquence 6 His magnanimitie Arist. l. 4. de moriluâ— c. 7. 7. His Holinesse in advaÌ„ceing Gods glorie 8. In advâ—â—â—ment of learning 9. In his care of planting Churches Claud 10. His integritie Plin. in praesat 11. His Holinesse inprivate life death Naz. ep 41. Nazianz. Epist. 37. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 12. The conclusion Ibi Petrus cum Iudâ—a coÌ„versa quaÌ„ post se traxit apparebis ibi Paulus conversum vt â—ta dixerim munduÌ„ ducens ibi Andâ—eâ— post se Achaiam ibi IoaÌ„nes AsiaÌ„ Thomas Indiam in conspectum sui Judicis conversa ducet Greg. hom 17. in Evangel R. D. â—imhi on this place Dyverse â—f the Anâ—ients and in special Tertullian in his boo de Resurrectione eaâ—â—is cap. 13. doe bring the Phoenix as an argument of the Resurrection eyther because they thought the storie of the generation of this Fowle to be vndoubtedliâ— true or else because they knewe that it was vniversallie believed which waâ— sufficient for their purpose Exordium Defuncti Praesulis oratoriâ— vera descriptio Patricius in Patrum albo merito adseribindâ—â— â—uâ—erioriâ— corporis aliqualis 〈◊〉 Evagriâ—â— hist. lib. 5 cap. 6. Interioris mentis descriptio Ejusaâ—â—â— prosapiae nobilitas â—orrissimorum fratrum menâ—iâ— Prâ—suliâ—â—ruditio â—soerat orat â—d Demoniâ—um Educationâ—â— locus Exquisitissimus philologus Subtilissimus philosophus Peritissimus theologus Ejusdem in concuonando mir adexteritas Functionem pastoralem privatim primo domesticis exercuit suis. Pastor Kethensis ecclesiae pòst designatuâ— Episcopus merito designatus a Iac. Sexto Patricius consiliarius regius designatus Patricii miâ—a in pelliciâ—ndo peroraÌ„do dexteritas incoÌ„ventu Senatorum Bernardus ad Cantie Cap. â—6 EjuseÌ„ cum fidelitas tum diligentiâ— in pastorali muneâ—e obâ—undâ— Sozom. lib. 8 hist. cap. 19. Ejusdem illustratio adissimili ex hist. Ecclesiast Eâ—â—sidem veâ— illustratio 〈◊〉 hist. Eccleâ—â—ast à simili Miraculum à Sylvano 〈◊〉 â—ib 7. â—ap 36. Applicatiâ— Quid in senectu 〈…〉 Praesulis in praedicando et praesidendo mira in senectute dexteritas et vigilantia Praesul tandem morbo correptus Patricius praesentia pietate filii sui D. Ioannis Forbesii plurimùm consolatus Emorbidi Prasulis familiariâ— colloquiae de morbo suo Praesul gratias DEO suo prâ— visitaâ—tone â—aâ—plaesdae In vita Ambrosii à Paulin. presbyâ— ad August scripta pag 44. col 2. Mortis crebra mediâ—â—â—ie Mors Praeulis Mentio D. â—oct Baroâ—ii qui Proâ—inciam haÌ„c 〈◊〉 pleâ—â—ssimè exseâ—â—tus â—taâ— Exepâ—ata oratoria EPILOâ—â— Valedictio Allequitur Diocoesâ—n Aberdon Exâ—ptatio pro talâ— successore Alloquitur AcademiaÌ„ Reg. Aberd Academica Prasulis gesta qui volet legat allegoricum illud Poema quod deâ—ceps ab Authore habetur Parauesis â—d Collegaâ— Inâ—oâ—at Nobilissimos quosque Praesulis amicos Pro solatio restat filius expressissima Patris imago Aeternum valâ—dicit Act. 7.55.56 Esai 33.16.17 Psal. 11â— 7 Epigraphe Rejiciuntur Iudâ—orum infidelium delâ—riâ— Genes 1. Daviâ—rites Saâ— dictanâ—â— Psalmu vates 〈◊〉 Argumenâ—um summa hujus Psalmi Analysis vers 1 Dixit IEHOVAH Domino meo * Vide Aug. Tract 47. etâ—4 â—4 in EvaÌ„g Ioann Vbi audivit â—oc David Consecâ—â—rium Christus homo est lâ—â—minus Dâ—â—vidis det ad deâ—tram DEâ— Objectioâ—◠〈…〉 sio ista 〈…〉 tatem proâ—â—sedentis 〈◊〉 homini 〈◊〉 competoâ— Solutio neâ—pe Deitatem â—llius personae nam simplici homini sessio ista non competit Non propieâ— solum Davidâ—m 〈◊〉 scripâ—a suâ—â— Ioann 20 2â— Effati Dominici duâ— partet Frioris partis