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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41036	The life of that reverend divine, and learned historian, Dr. Thomas Fuller	Fell, John, 1625-1686.	1661 (1661)	Wing F616; ESTC R4382	29,554	118

that they might prove such as he in his best thoughts had wished them He was most earnest in this duty of Prayer and his often Accesses to that Mercy Seate had made it a place of acquaintance and free reception As his Study importuned him at very unreasonable Hours so it opportuned his Devotion in the early and late Sacrifices which he indispensably and firstly offered to the God of Heaven a phrase for its comprehensiveness of the Divine Majesty in the Glory and perfection of it above all other his Creatures very Familiar and usuall with the Doctor by way of Emphasis or Reverend instance If it may passe here without any Rigid Adversion a very excellent passage of the Doctors in the beginning of the Anarchy under a Commonwealth would seek admittance having relation to this Duty in hand Soon after the Kings Death he Preached in a Church near London and a Person then in great power now Levelled with his Fellowes was present at the Sermon In his Prayer before which he said God in his due Time settle our Nation on the true Foundation thereof The then Great Man demanded of him what he meant by the true Foundation he Answered he was no Lawyer nor Statesmen and therefore skill in such matters could not be expected from him But being pressed further to explain himselfe whether thereby he did not intend the King Lords and Commons he answered that It was a part of his Prayer to GOD who had more knowledge then he ignornce in all things that he knew what was the True Foundation and so remitted the Factious Querist to Gods Wisedome and Goodness This was a kind of his experiments in Prayer which were many and very observable GOD often answering his desires in kind and that immediately when he was in some distresses and Gods providence in taking care and providing for him in his whole course of Life wrought in him a firme resolution to depend upon him in what Condition so ever he should be and he found that providence to continue in that Tenour to his last end Indeed he was wholy possest with a holy Fear of and relyance in GOD was conscionable in his private Duties and in sanctifying the Sabbath being much offended at its Prophanation by disorderly Men and that both in reference to the Glory of GOD and the scandal brought on the Church of England as if it allowed as some have impudently affirmed such wicked Licentiousnesse For his own particular very few Sundaies there were in the year in which he Preached not twice besides the duties performed in his own house or in his attendance on those Noble persons to whom successively he was Chaplain So that if he had not been helped by a more then Officious Memory which devoured all the Books he read and digested them to easie nutriment that supplyed all the parts and the whole body of his Learning for his service and furtherance of his Labours it had been impossible but that the Duties he performed as a Divine must have hindred and justled out those his happy productions as a most Compleat Historian which study being tyed to the Series and Catenation of Time and Truth could ill brook or breake through those Avocations though no doubt it thrived the better under the kindly influence of his Devotion It will make it also the lesse wonder why a Man of so Great merit and such conspicuous worth snould never arrive to any eminent Honour and Dignity or Church Revenue save that of Prebend in Salisbury being also of competent Age to become the Gravity of such preferments For he could not afford to seek great matters for himself who designed his All for the publique good and the concerns of his precious Soule Questionlesse he could not have wanted Friends to his advancement if he would have pursued such ends who would have been as great furtherers of himselfe out of a particular affection which is alwaies ambitious of laying such obligations upon Vertue to his person as they had assisted him in his works and Labours He was reward and recompence enough to himself and for his fame and Glory certainly he computed it the best way t is the Jewel that graces the Ring not so contrary High places are levelled in death and crumble into dust leaving no impression of those that possessed them and are onely retrievable to posterity by some excellent pourtraits of their nobler part wherein it will on all hands be confest the Doctor hath absolutely drawn himself beyond the excellentest counterfeit of Art and which shall outlive all addition of monument and outflourish the pomp of the lasting'st sepulchrall glory But had the worthy Doctor but some longer while survived to the fruition of that quiet and settlement of the Church of which by Gods goodnesse and favour we have so full a prospect and that the crowd of suiters for Ecclesiastical promotions had left thronging and importuning their great friends to the stifling and smothering of modest merit it may be presumed the Royal bounty would favourably have reflected on and respected that worth of the Doctor which was so little set by and regarded of himself in his contented obscurity by a convenient placing and raising of that light to some higher Orb from whence he should have dilated and dispenced his salutiferous rayes and influences Some little time after his death his course would have come to have preached before his Majesty for which the Doctor made preparations and that most probably would have proved a fit opportunity of notifying himself to the King whose most judicious and exact observation the remarques of the Doctors learned preaching would have happily suted This honour was designed him before by a Right Noble Lord in whose retinue as Chaplain he went over to the Hague at the reduction of his Majesty into these his Kingdoms But the hast and dispatch which that great Affair required in the necessity of the Kings presence here afforded him not the effect of that Honourable intendment But what he was disappointed of here is fully attained by his happy appearance before the King of Kings to praise and magnifie him and to sing Halelujahs for ever So ADIEV to that Glory of the Doctor which is incommunicable with the World and Ave and all Prosperity be to those his remains which he hath to the General advantage of Learning and Piety most Liberally imparted Too Customary were it to recite the several kinds and sorts of Honourable Epithets which his equal Readers have fixt on him but this under Favour may be assigned peculiarly to him that no man performed any thing of such difficulty as his undertakings with that Delight and Profit which were as the Gemelli and Twins of his hard Labour and superfaetations of wit not distinguishable but by the thred of his own Art which clued men into their several and distinct appartiments And so impertinent it will be to engage further in a particular account of his Books whose sure and perpetual Duration needs not the Minutes of this Biography especially that his ultimate piece and partly Posthumous his often mentioned Book the Worthies Generall of England whose designe was drawn by Eternity commencing from their before unknown Originalls and leading into an Ocean of New Discoveries And may some happy as hardy Pen attempt the Continuation The Names of his other Books having had their due Reception need no other mention to Posterity then what you have in this ensuing Catalogue Books of Dr. Fuller Poems HAinousnesse of sinne Heavy punishment and Hearty Repentance 8. Holy War 2 Folio Josephs Party Coloured Coate and Sermons on the Corinths 4. Holy state and prophane state Folio Sermon of Reformation 4. Truth maintain'd or an answer to Mr. Saltmarsh that writ against his Reformation Sermon 4. Inauguration Sermon Preached at St. Westminster Abbey 4. A Sermon of Assurance 4. Good thoughts in bad times in 12. Thoughts in worse times 12. Life of Andronicus 8. Cause and cure of a wounded Conscience 8. Infants Advocate 8. Pisgah sight of Palestine or a description of the holy land Folio with Cuts Fullers Triple Reconciler stating the Controversies 8. Whether 1. Ministers have an Exclusive power of barring Cōmunicants from the Sacrament 2. Any person Unordained may Lawfully preach 3. The Lords prayer ought not to be used by all Christians A fast Sermon● preacht upon Innocents Day 4. Sermons on Matthew upon the Temptations 8. A Sermon of Life out of Death 8. Sermons on Ruth 8. Best name on Earth 8. Another 8. of Sermons Speeches of the Beast and Flowers 8. Church History of Brittaine Folio Mixt Contemplations in these times Folio Lives of several Modern Divines in the 4to book by Fuller 4. The Appeale of Injured Innocence to the Learned and Impartial Reader In Answer to some Animadversions of Dr. Heylins on his Church History Fullers History of the Worthies General of England now finisht Folio An excellent Piece A Tract in Latine concerning the Church not perfected by him These Elegant pieces are the best Epitaph can be inscribed on his Tomb where though he Rest himselfe yet shall the World never see an end of his Labours FINIS

ringleaders of the Rebellion who had on purpose so scandalously driven him from his Court Parliament that he might never with any pleasure thinke of returning to them till he had vindicated his Honour upon the abettors of those Tumults and so well and loyally enforc'd by him that drew not only a suspicion from the moderate mislead party of Parliament but an absolute odium on him from the Grandees and Principals in the Rebellion There were few or none of the Orthodox Clergy then remaining within their Lines of Communication new invented Limits for the Cities old Liberties some being dead in restraint or through more harsh and cruel dealing the rest outed and silenced so that their inspection spyall was confined almost to the Doctors Pulpit as to publique Assemblies where neverthelesse he desisted not nor altered from his main course the Doctrine of Allegiance till such time as the Covenant was obtruded upon his Conscience and must through his perswasions be likewise prest upon his people Several false rumours and cavils there are about his carriage and opinion touching that sacrilegious thing by persons who were distanced as far from the knowledge of those passages as fortunately from being concerned and engaged within the reach of that snare 'T was not onely easy but most prudential for other Ecclesiastical persons to quit their Livings who were out of the gripes and clutches of those ravenous Reformists in order to keep their conscience inviolable but it was difficulty enough of it self for the Doctor to escape and get out of that place where the next preferment would have been a Dungeon Some velitations transient discourses he made about that frequent and thumb'd subject of the reformation the rather to suspend the busie censures of the Parliament and their party wherein though he seemed to comply but as far as the Rule and Example would allow and indulge the misapprehension of those men yet these his charitable disguises could not obscure him from the severe animadversions of several Ministers Eminent in those Reforming Times particularly Mr. Saltmarsh The Contest betwixt them is so known in print that it will be needlesse to trouble the Reader with it here Onely thus much by digression in honour of this venerable Doctor Mr. Saltmarsh being long since dead He hath in his Book of the Worthies General of England of which hereafter given him a most Honourable mention and assigned him the place of his Birth Education and Burial registring him for an Ornament of them all so Resplendent and Durable was the Doctors Charity I may not omit one thing that the Doctor in recording and relating of the Death of the said Mr. Saltmarsh doth passionately reflect on the shortnesse of his life and the acutenesse of that feaver which so violently ended him reducing and applying it to the uncertainty of his own state we now unhappily see those curious presages of his Pen verified and accomplished in his most immature and sudden decease To return to our Subject in the beginning of the year 1643. the said Covenant was generally pressed and a very great persecution soon after followed it The Doctor was settled in the love and affections of his own Parish besides other obligations to his numerous Followers so that the Covenant then tendred might seem like the bright side of that cloud promising serenity and prosperity to him as was infinuated to the Doctor by many great Parliamentarians which showred down after a little remotenesse such a black horrible tempest upon the Clergy nay the Church and three Kingdomes But the good Doctor could not bow down his knee to that Baal-Berith nor for any worldly considerations enough whereof invited him even to fall down and worship men of his great parts being infinitly acceptable to them lend so much as an Ear to their serpentine charms of Religion and Reformation Since therefore he could not continue with his Cure without his Conscience and every day threatned the imposition of that illegal Oath he resolved to betake himself to Gods providence and to put himselfe directly under it waving all indirect means and Advantages whatsoever towards his security In order thereunto in April 1643. he deserted the City of London and privately conveyed himselfe to Oxford to the no lesse sudden amazement of the Faction here who yet upon recollection quickly found their mistake then to the unexpected content and joy of the Loyal party there who had every day Jobs Messengers of the plundering ruines and imprisonments of Orthodox Divines Oxford was then the common refuge and shelter of such persecuted persons so that it never was nor is like to be a more Learned University one Breast being dryed up by Cromwels visitation the Milk resorted to the other nor did ever Letters and Arms so well consist together it being an accomplisht Academy of Both Among the multitude of those new comers like the clean beasts to the Ark when the waters encreased the KING the most excellent intelligent Prince of the abilities of his Clergy vouchsafed the Doctor the Honour of preaching before him in St Maries where with the like moderation he laid open the blessings of an accommodation as being too too sensible and that so recently of the virulency and impotent rage though potent arms of the disloyal Londoners which as the Doctor then Christianly thought could not better be allayed then by a fair condiscention in matters of Church Reformation It seems some particulars in that Sermon gave offence to some at Court as if the good Doctor were a Luke-warm Royalist and did not throughly own his Majesties Cause which ill grounded conceit though he were well satisfied in that his plea for Composure did not a little trouble him to explain and free himself an opportunity was wanting both of Press and Pulpit and the hurry of the War gave not his prejudiced Hearers leisure for his particular vindication He resolved therefore strenuously to evince his faithful Loyalty to the King by another kind of Argument by appearing in the Kings Armies to be a Preacher Militant to his Souldiers This Resolution Providence was pleased to favour by an Honourable Friends recommendation of the Doctor to my Lord Hopton who was then to chuse a Chaplain This noble Lord though as couragious and expert a Captain and successful withal as the King had any was never averse to an amicable closure of the War upon fair and honourable terms and did therefore well approve of the Doctor and his desires and pursuit after peace The good Doctor was likewise infinitely contented in his Attendance on such an Excellent Personage whose conspicuous and noted Loyalty could not but derive the same reputation to his retainers especially one so near his conscience as his Chaplain and so wipe off that stain which the mistakes of those Men had cast on him In this entendment God was pleased to succeed the Doctor and give him victory proper to the Camp he followed against this first attempt on his