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A26728	Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ...	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1008; ESTC R16054	101,636	192

warning every man and teaching every man he laboured striving according to the working that wrought in him mightily he laboured more abundantly then all the rest of the Apostles 2. As a private Christian he fought Actively and that against principalities and powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places nay rather then want an enemy he would fight with himself he kept under his body and brought it into subjection lest when he had preached to others himself should be a cast-away And then again he laboured and fought no less in what he suffered then in what he did he had his fears within as well as his fightings without and that again both in respect of his person and office When he was called to be both a Christian and an Apostle they were both comprised under this general notion of suffering I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my names sake sayes our blessed Saviour from Heaven and we finde it verified in him through the whole course of his life He suffered shipwrack thrice he suffered persecution he suffered the loss of all things He suffered much more then I can tell you so much as would almost pose himself to express And yet as though it had been only a sport to him like the crecket he sung in the fire he rejoyced in his sufferings and thereby filled up that which was behinde of the afflictions of Christ in his flesh He knew and made us to know that the Captain of our salvation was made perfect through sufferings and he knew withal that the Disciple is not above his master nor the souldier better then his Captain and therefore he was ready to suffer all things knowing most assuredly that if he suffered with him he should also be glorified together with him and that those light afflictions which were but for a moment would work for him a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory To summe up all in a word he both laboured and suffered and that both as a Christian and as an Apostle he laboured night and day with his hands as a private person that he might labour in the discharge of his Apostolical office without being chargeable to any man 2. All this while I have spoken of this fight as it is taken in it self meerly in relation to the substance of it but however by what I have said you will see in part it was also a good fight for the quality of it 1. It was good in respect of the justice of the cause in which he both laboured and suffered both as a Christian and as an Apostle It must needs be a good fight saith St. Chrysostome when we fight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Christ whatsoever hardship we endure by it whether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prisons or bolts or death it self It must needs be a good fight when we fight for the Gospel against the fiery darts of the Devil the pomps and vanities of the world and the sinful lusts of the flesh but especially when it is managed by such a person as this great Apostle who was set for the defence of the Gospel and that against all opposites whatsoever Jews and Gentiles Hereticks and Schismaticks And such was this fight in my Text he fought the good fight of faith and he suffered persecution for the Cross of Christ he did earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the Saints both by his doings and sufferings He fought with beasts at Ephesus while he planted the Gospel there and he suffered persecution at Lystra while he planted it there Whatsoever he either did or suffered in any place was undertaken and undergone chiefly and principally for the planting and propagating of the Gospel of Christ as he was an Apostle but yet so as still to have a care of his own soul as a Christian that while he preached to others himself should not become a Reprobate This for the justness of his cause 2. His fight was likewise good for the justifiableness of the way and means by which he managed it He gives it as a general rule to all others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strive lawfully to manage their fight according to the rules of war without which no man ought to be crowned as a conquerour and therefore seeing he speaks of the crown of righteousness as a thing undoubtedly laid up for him we may be sure he would not forfeit his title to it for want of performing this condition Whatsoever good he did he did it well and whatsoever persecution he suffered it was not only in a good cause but with such an excellent mixture of courage and meekness of patience and comfort as might very well become a Christian sufferer and the cause of God wherein he suffered Whatsoever he did in these conflicts was by the power of the spirit of God that strengthened him and by that power he was able to do all things and whatsoever he suffered it was according to the will of God for whom he suffered it and then come life come death all is one to him he was ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus Thus much for the first action I have fought a good fight 2. The second now follows 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have finished my course or rather I have performed the race for there is not a possessive in the sentence and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may as well fignifie to perform as to finish And here I take it for granted though I cannot deny but some are of the contrary opinion that the Apostle in these words alludeth to another kinde of game then he did in the last In the former words he spake of fighting or combating in these of racing or running To this he expresly alludeth when he tells us he had not run in vain to this he earnestly exhorts when he calleth upon us to run with patience the race that is set before us They are clearly distinguished in a parallel text which I formerly alledged and so they ought to be in this place without all question I know very well that by finishing his course some interpreters understand no more then his constancie in the fight till he got the victory but this is doubtless a mistake in the phrase For it is clear enough from several texts that he was not a conquerour in one thing only but in several that he performed the part cursoris agilis as well as boni pugilis not only of a stout fighter but also of a nimble runner and herein he outstript most of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 very few in the whole list of the Olympick conquerours got the victorie at more prizes then

in this Diocess and the small revenue of the Bishoprick and the great necessity there was of advancing Charity and maintaining Hospitality especially in that place where good House-keeping is so much valued and practised moved King James to bestow upon him the Rectory of Stopford by way of Commendam for the better support of his charge and dignity which he held during the time he was Bishop of this See and where his name and memory is still precious among such of the parishoners as are of years sufficient to remember his being among them 54. In the year 1617. the See of Leichfield and Coventry became void by the translation of his old friend that learned prelate Dr. Overall above mentioned to the Bishoprick of Norwich To supply which vacancy the King was pleased to have this reverend Bishop translated thither the year after at the motion of that great pattern of Episcopall perfection Dr. Andrewes above mentioned then Bishop of Elie who was never known to do the like for any other and yet did this without his seeking or knowledge that he might have him his nearer Neighbour as he said and of the same province with himself His Tarnslation beareth date Mar. 6 1618. 55. And here his trouble was not so great as at Chester though his Diocess was larger because the common sort of people for the most part were better principled by the care and vigilancy of his predecessour But yet he abated nothing of his former paines and industry both in Writing Preaching and Conferring with those that were not wilfully obstinat beside his ordinary vigilancie in Visiting his Diocess and care in Confirming such children as could give an account of their Faith It would be too large a task for me to relate the particulars 56. About the time he was translated to this See there came over into England that very learned though unfortunate man Marcus Antonius de Dominis Arch-Bishop of Spalato primat of Dalmatia c. Which as he was wont to glory was S● Hieroms Native Country as well as his This great Scholar after he had so profoundly asserted the truth of Christian religion as it is professed and practised in the Church of England in so many particulars against the errours and corruptions of the See of Rome in his learned and laborious Books De Republica Ecclesiastica and had also from the Kings bounty received so great incouragements for his honourable support as the Deanary of Windsour and Mastership of the Savoy besides many rich and yearly presents not only from the Bishops and Clergy but also from the Nobility and Gentery was so far wrought upon by that great Politition count Gondamar the Spanish Embassador then in England and other instruments of the See of Rome that sought his ruin under some specious pretences as to take up a resolution of returning to Rome and could not be disswaded from it by his true friends that really endeavoured his security Among whom this Reverend Bishop was neither the least nor last who very earnestly advised him both by word and writing not to venture himself upon such a hopeless and hassardous journey 57. The Arch-Bishops pretence was very plausible and commendable and how reall he was in it must be left to God namely to Negotiat an unity in Religion between the Church of Rome and the Church of England upon those moderate grounds which he had laid down and so well defended in his learned and laborious works printed here at London He applauded himself in the excellency of the work in removing the Schisme and of the honour in becoming a Repairer of the breach and of the reward which is promised to the Peacemakers And he thought himself the more likely to go through with his work by reason of the seasonable opportunity he had at that time when Gregory the fiftenth was newly chosen Pope who had been of his old and intimate acquaintance brought up in the same Schole and College with him And however he was resolved to make an attempt because if he failled in it he hoped he should lose nothing but his labour For as for his Indemnity count Gondamar had promised him the security of the King of Spain his Master But how well that promise was performed will appear by the sequel 58. While he was swelled up full with this promise and these hopes the Bishop of Leichfeild and Coventry coming to visit him had this insuing discourse with him among many others which I have often heard him repeat with pleasure and shall therefore insert it and the rather because it shewes us of how little authority the Councell of Trent would be if it were not for the terrour of the Inquisition Leichf Domine quid tibi in animo est Anne convertere Papam Atque etiam conclave papale Spal Quid ni domine Anne existimas eos diabolos esse ut non possint converti Leichf Minime domine nec puto dominum Spalatensem deum esse ut hoc possit prestare Nostin enim concilium Tridientinum Spal Novi domine ausus sum tibi dicere Millies mille sunt etiam in Italia qui huic concillo fidem nullam adhibent 59. This discourse and many other too extrinsecall here to mention having passed between them they parted friendly And not long after did this Bishop reinforce his arguments with an addition of many more in a long and learned Epistle to him Wherein among other motives to dissvade him from his journey he used one wherein he shewed himself a true prophet concerning the entertainment he was like to find at Rome Which proved to be that before he got to Rome Pope Gregorie the fiftenth his old friend was dead and a successour chosen in his place by whom this Arch-Bishop was imprisoned in Castro St. Angelo Where he died not without strong suspicion of Murder or Poyson And his body was afterward burnt as of an Heretick in Campo Flori. 60. I could here start a problematicall question concerning this learned Arch-Bishop Whether or no did he ever retract his works which he published in Print If he did why did they at Rome burn his body for Heresie If not then they abused him in his life time as well as after his death in the Manifesto which they put forth in his name which was so learnedly answered by Dr. Crakanthorp There is but one way of avoiding this Dilemma and that will bring them into a greater strait then either of the other namely that they burnt him after his death for what he retracted in his life time and if they own this they must withall proclaime their injustice and cruelty to the world Let them take it in which sence they will his reasons and arguments laid down and urged in his learned works will more condemne their cause then the altering of his opinion supposing but not granting that he ever altered it can tend to their advantage His many clear and convincing Authorityes from the Holy Scriptures

Councells Fathers Historians and their own Authours will be far more argumentative to any indifferent person that is not wilfully prepossessed then his own dubious perhaps imposed authority can countervaile His Manifesto if it was his consisteth only in affirming or denying in bare words In his works whatsoever is affirmed or denied is backt with such convincing and irrefragable arguments as no man hath taken the boldness in all these forty years since they were written to undertake the answering of them 61. I must acknowledge this to be a Digression and therefore must hasten the faster from it And so I shall also from the rest of the occurrences which concerned this Bishop while he governed the Church of Leichfeild and Coventry Which were not many of any memorable note for as much as I could learn though the time he sate there was above fourteen years I shall only instance in two whereof the one concerned a person that seemed to be more then a man the other a Boy that seemed to be little less then a Divell 62. The former was one George Canner who like another Didimus of Alexandria or Fisher of Westminster was born blind and yet was not inferiour to either of them the proportion of his age being considered either in strength of parts or industry in getting of learning or memory in retaining what he had once heard Among the rest of the works of Charity performed by this Bishop while he was of that See one was to bring up this youth in good learning his parents being poor and not well able to do it themselves which he did first at Schole and afterward when he was fitted to receive University learning he sent him to Cambridge where he maintained him at his own charge in St. Johns College and his Vakle with him to look to him And after he was well grounded in all manner of secular learning and had taken the Degree of Bachellour of Arts he sent for him into his own family and there instructed him in the whole Body of Divinity And afterward admitted him into sacred Orders and placed him in the parish Church of Clifton Canvile in Stafford-shire where he undertook the cure of their soules and diligently and laudably discharged the duty of his place being a very good preacher and which is more able also to perform the whole office of the Church as it is prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer only by the strength of his admirable memory 63. The other instance I intimated was the Son of one Edward Perry of Bilson near Woolver Hampton in Stafford-shire from whence he is best known by the title of the Boy of Bilson both in those parts and elsewhere This Boy being by nature very dull and uncapable of learning and thereupon very unwilling to go to Schole was wrought upon by some Romish Priests in those parts to free himself from that troublesome task of going to Schole by counterfeiting himself to be possessed with a Divell and he had the promise of a very good reward into the bargain if he would suffer himself to be dispossessed by their Exorcismes But the Divell having steeled his heart as his own phrase was afterward in his confession he continued to act the Demoniack both longer and otherwise then they desired who first instructed him in the art And in pursuance of it he accused a neighboring woman for bewitching him notwithstanding she was of the Romish Communion only because she commonly went under the suspicion and title of a Witch And he acted his part so cunningly in prosecuting the charge against her at the Assizes at Stafford as the woman did very hardly escape with her life The particulars whereof both there in publick and elsewhere more privatly as also of his exceeding great art in Counterfeiting and patience in enduring any thing to keep himself from being discovered would be too large a task and too impertinent here to relate and hath been by others upon other occasions published to the world All that will concern my present undertaking is that this Bishop being fully perswaded in his own thoughts that the Boy did but personate and counterfeit in all this though so strangely as made it almost beyond discovery and again that if it should not be discovered the poor innocent Woman that was accused of Witchcraft was in danger to lose her life spake to the Judges that went the Circuit that he might have the Boy home with him to his own house at Eccleshall Castle assuring them he would use his best endeavours to find out the imposture before the next Assizes which he did though not without great paines difficulty wisdom and patience as the Reader may see in the above mentioned relations And afterward upon the Boy 's confession and Repentance he bound him out an Apprentice to a Shoemaker in Bristol The man is still living in or about London I think in the parish of St. Martins in the fields and I hope hath ingenuity enough as well as memory to testify the truth of all this to those that shall make any doubt of it 64. And now this Reverend Bishop having so well discharged himself of his duty in those places he had formerly sustained in the Church it was his Majesties pleasure to have him translated to the See of Duresme in the year 1632. then void by the death of Dr. John Howson the last Bishop there as to a place of greater trust and honour as well as of a greater emolument then either of the other Bishopricks he had formerly enjoyed 65. For beside the Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall affaires as before in his other Diocesses he had the care and mannagement of all the temporall affaires within the County Palatine of Duresme by virtue of the Palatinate which for many hundreds of years had been anexed to his Episcopall See In particular he had the power of placing and displaceing all the Judges Registers Clerks and other officers belonging to the Courts of Justice of constituting the Sheriffe and under Sheriffe Escheters Feudaries Coroners c. Of commissionating all Justices of the peace and likewise of all the Deputy Leivtenants Colonells Captaines and all other officers of the Trained Band within the said County palatine of Duresme In sum his power was so great in all temporall affaires there as it passed for a maxim or generall rule Quicquid potest Rex extra Episcopatum potest Episcopus intra And yet in the mannagement of all these great affaires he carried himself with so much justice and equity for ten years together before these late troubles put a disturbance in the exercise of his government that no complaint was ever made against him to the Parliament during all the time that Satan was let loose to sift him like wheat as well as the rest of his Brethren of that Holy Order which is an argument of his integrity beyond all exception 66. I except only the case of Mr. Smart which had no relation

was so great that the Emperour Severus who dyed at York where he was born may seem to have infused his Genius together with his Motto LABOREMVS into him And that not only before but also after he ascended to the height of Episcopal Dignity as if that other Motto of another Emperour had been his rule QVO MAJOR EO LABORIOSIOR S. Augustine was his pattern in many Episcopal virtues amongst others in this that the higher he ascended in the Church the more painful and industrious he was in his Office Wherein he was so indefatigable that what is said of his great kinsman the Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury was very true concerning him His labour was his recreation 34. When I can see a man learn without Rules I shall think he may be apt to teach that is not observant of Order That this Reverend Bishop was apt to teach in this respect also is clear from that great respect he carried towards the Governours of the Church who were his Superiours either in Learning or Ecclesiastical Dignity and such were those that were most eminent for piety wisdome and learning in that age viz. Archbishop Bancroft Archbishop Matthews Bishop Andrews Bishop King Bishop Bilson Bishop Overall and many others 35. To this head I may also referr that intimate acquaintance which he had with all the learned men of his time whether Equals or Inferiors whereof I have already given some instances and might here alledge many more not only of Natives but forraigners as Spanhemius Rivetus Willius and others from whom I found several Letters at his death among his papers full of reverence respect to him 36. Nor can I here omit the great care he had to advance piety and learning not only by his own pains in Writing Preaching Catechizing c. but also by his Chaplains whom he chose with much care treated with great respect and promoted with all chearfulness His precedent herein might possibly be S. Hugh the Bishop of Lincoln commonly called Hugo Carthusianus whose chief care was after he came to be Bishop to have men of Wisdome learning and piety alwaies about him both to counsel and assist him in that great office I could here give the Reader a Catalogue of very many and worthy persons who were sometimes related to him in the capacity of Chaplains But all the rest will excuse me if I make one instance for all in so eminent and worthy a person as the Right Reverend Father in God the late Bishop of Exeter who was his Chaplain and by him made Archdeacon of Coventry and afterwards Prebendary of Duresme the later of which places was so considerable that he held it in Commendam with his Bishoprick until his Death which makes me wonder the more the learned Author of his life should take no notice of either of them 37. When I speak of his Chaplains I must not omit the great care he had in disposing those Dignities and other Ecclesiastical Benefices whereof he had the Right of Patronage which he seldome conferred upon any but those of whose worth he had a particular knowledge and most commonly his own Chaplains There are as few exceptions against this general rule in him as in any that had so many places to dispose of as he had and the persons were alwaies such as were of approved worth for piety and learning which is another Topick to shew that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 38. When a thing is done Vigorously and Effectually it will well deserve the name that it carries otherwise not and such was his aptness to teach For his diligence and vigour in Teaching I cannot better resemble him to any then Socrates of whom Plutarch tels us that he taught not only when he was in the Chair or at his set hours of reading but even when he played when he eat or drank in Campo in Foro in Carcere he made every place a school of learning and virtue And I make use of this resemblance the rather because this Reverend Bishop in his Writing did so much resemble the manner of Philosophizing of that excellent Philosopher which was not so much by using Arguments of perswasion as by chusing to work something out of what the Adversary had granted 39. But that which shewes he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indeed was the fruit and effect of his labour and learning in reducing severall persons of great learning and parts from the Errors of the Romish profession into the Communion of the Church of England For instance Mr. Theophilus Higgon a very learned man and a smart writer afterward Rector of Hunton in Kent Mr. Redman a Priest afterwards Curate of Congleton in Cheshire Dr. Crofts a learned man now Dean of Hereford Mr. Tobie Swinborne heretofore brought up in the English College at Rome afterwards Doctor of the Lawes and a very excellent Scholar Mr. Hulse Mr. Matthews the Lady Cholmeley Wife to Sir Henry Cholmeley with divers others whose names I may possibly have forgotten 40. But however I must hasten from this subject for having made it thus clearly appear how well this Reverend Bishop held measure with S. Pauls Standard I must remember my promise to cast a glance upon those gifts in him which God was pleased to cast in over and above both by his own immediate work of Grace and mediately by Natural endowments for in both these God had vouchsafed him good measure shaken together and running over insomuch as we may compare him with the best examples of the holy Bishops and others of all ages for some eminent gift or other 41. I shall begin with his Predecessor that most pious and famous Bishop of Duresme St. Cuthbert and compare them in their beginnings For what Venerable Bede whose ashes lye inshrined in a now-defaced Tomb in that Church sayes of the one is very true of the other even in his childehood he had not only an excellent sharpness of Wit but also a strange activity of Body wherein he excelled all his fellowes in sports and games especially in leaping running and wrestling This venerable Author sayes nothing in particular of St. Cuthberts Foot-ball playing and yet I hope the Reader will excuse it if I here passe not over in silence how active this Reverend Bishop was therein in his younger years seeing the fame of it continued till his old age and ascended so high as to come to the Kings Ear. For he was once asked by King James whether it was true that he struck up the heels of six men so speedily one after another that the last was down before the first could get up again which I have heard him say was true though the report which seldome faileth on that side had doubled the number 42. But letting this passe I proceed to his riper years wherein the Character which Trithemius gives of the above mentioned Venerable Bede doth paint him out to the