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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69606	The life of Dr. Thomas Morton, late Bishop of Duresme begun by R.B. secretary to his Lordship ; and finished by J.N., D.D., his Lordship's chaplain.	R. B. (Richard Baddeley); Naylor, Joseph.; Nelson, Joseph.	1669 (1669)	Wing B382B; ESTC R37053	34,218	206

such an excellent Subject howsoever I shall cloze it as that afore mentioned Gregory Nazianzon doth his Anniversary Oration for that famous Arch-Bishop and Martyr St. Cyprian Haec sunt quae dicenda habuimus at que haud scio an plura dicere necesse neque enim si Orationem in longum produxerimus quicquam tamen afferre queamus quod illius virtutibus existimationi quam de eo unusquisque concepit ulla ex parte respondeat This is part of that I had to say neither doe I know whether it will be needfull or expedient to say more for though I should extend this Tractate to the utmost and weary perhaps both the Reader and my Selfe yet should I not be able to produce any thing answerable to the worth of this Prelate and of those many excellent merits which all good men knew and willingly acknowledge to end as I began were lodged in his Person If I shall live to heare of his transmigration from this life to a better which indeed I am loath to stile a Death because I know whensoever that day and houre shall come he may comfortably say unto his Friends as Miconius writ to Luther Decumbere se quidem sed vitaliter non laetaliter aegrotare That sick he was indeed but it was a vitall not a mortall sickness or a sickness unto Life rather then unto Death I say whensoever I shall heare of that his o This blessed man died at Es●on-Manduit the house of that honourable Baronnet Sir Henry Yelver●on on St. Michaels day 1659. and of his age 95. and of his consecration 54. so neare he lived to the happy return of his sacred Majesty Charles the Second into England Translation from Earth to Heaven though I shall not perhaps use those words of the Prophet Elisha which Melancthon did use when News was first brought him of Luthers Death Occidit currus auriga Israel The Chariot and Chariettier of Israel are fallen Yet reflecting on him and those Religious Prelates p J. U. Arch-Bishop of Armagh and J. H. Bishop of Norwich the Primate of Ireland and the Bernard of England lately deceased and not to mention divers others Translated likewise from these calamitous and troublesome times I shall make bold to use the words of another Prophet even the Prophet Isaiah Justus perit nemo requirit c. The Righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart and mercifull men are taken away few I doubt considering that the Righteous are taken away from the evill to come Isay 57. 1. That is from the evill of Gods eminent Judgements which if they should be meeted to these sinfull Nations by the hand of Divine Justice in a commensuration unto our sins what can we expect but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a second desolation and destruction of our Jerusalem Which God of his infinite mercy avert if it may stand with his holy counsells and either translate these Judgements from us us from them and enable all those Persons upon whom they shall fall with unshaken Faith and invinciple patience to endur● and overcome them Ever● more Praying Praysing an● confessing with good N●hemiah unto Almight● God Thou O Lord ar● just in all that is brough● upon us for thou hast don● right but we have do●● wickedly Nehem. 9. 33. Unto that merciful● and glorious God Trini●● in Vnity and Vnity i● Trinity be ascribed of all Creatures both in Heaven ●nd Earth All Honour Glory Might Majesty and Dominion for Evermore Amen Amen J. N. D. D. FINIS

Ecclesiae futurus est Antistes sermone fingens at que informans c. Why should I either trouble you or my self to super-rogate unto you the dilineation or description of a man whom Saint Paul hath before-hand so compleatly deciphered partly in the person of that great High Priest who is entred into the highest of Heavens Heb. 4. for thus the Scriptures will warrant my presumption saith the holy Father to intitle them to Christ who lived and dyed unto Christ And partly in his first Epistle unto Timothy Chap. 3. where he doth most exactly and compleatly describe and Characterize a Bishop or man of God with all his properties and qualifications And now if we shall compare these Episcopall Characters set down by the Apostles with our present instance I trow we shall find little variation or none at all but in each particular such a plenary correspondence and conspiration A Bishop saith that blessed Apostle who surely knew perfectly what belonged to a Bishop if ever any and had himselfe the most right to that proud usurped Title of Oecumenicall Bishop for he had dayly care of all the Churches 2 Cor. 11. 8. A Bishop saith he must be blameless the Husband of one Wife if any at all vigilant sober of good behaviour given to hospitality apt to teach Not given to Wine no striker not given to filthy lucre but patient not a brawler not covetous One that ruleth his own house well having Children that is if he have any otherwise his servants in subjection with gravity Not a novice least being lifted up by pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devill Moreover he must have a good report of them that are without 1 Tim. 3. 2 3 4 5 c. Lo here the Effiges or Picture of a Bishop drawn by an Apelles that could not erre And lo here a Transcript or Copy of that Picture in the Person of this Prelate so lively resembling and representing the Originall that I dare boldly challenge the most envenomed and foule-mouthed Adversary that ever Writ against him even Parsons himselfe were he now in vivis to instance in all the aforenamed Episcopall qualifications positive or privative wherein this Reverend Prelate Bishop Morton humane frailties excepted was justly culpable or defective so laudably and approvedly did he run his race so happily and so blessedly finish his course Et in vilde multa nec minùs bonâ senectute cursum consummans Closing his Pilgrimage in a very great and no less good old age like another Isaac He gave up the Ghost being old and full of dayes and was gathered to his Fathers Gen. 35. 29. That is as Nazianzen saith of Athanasins Patriarchis Prophetis Apostolis Martyribus Confessoribus feliciter adjungitur qui pro veritate tàm patiendo quàm faciendo fortitèr dimicavit That is He is associated and inrolled with those glorious Saints the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Martyrs Confessors c who have done and suffered so much for Gods truth Quin porrò Angelorum consortio fruitur in Coelis quorum vitam diù vixt in terris as Baronius his expression is of Saint Ambrose yea and moreover He enjoyes the blessed society of the Angels in Heaven whose imitator and companion be was whiles he lived on Earth having onely changed by this his translation for Death I will not call it his place not his Dr. Priideaux late Bishop of Wigor● company as a late Divine of this Kingdome is recorded to have said upon his death bed Et ut semel dicam beatus quod scripserit legenda scribenda secerit leatior quod ad veram pietatem regnum caelorum multos erudierit beatissimus quod in Domino mortuns à laboribus requiescit aeter●ùm cum Christo gloriosè vivit Happy in Writing things worthy to be Read and likewise acting things worthy to be Written happier in Teaching and Instructing many both by Books and Sermons in the right way to Heaven and most happy in Living and Dying in the Lord and now resting from his Labours and enjoying the Lord Jesus in everlasting glory What Monument his Friends will be able to erect to his Memory I cannot say but for his own Coffers I feare they are too much a Kin unto Arch Bishop Warham's wherein was found onely twenty Marks when he lay upon his death bed as k Eras praef ante opera Hierom. Erasmus witnesseth which yet the good old man piously said Was satis viatici enough to bring him to his journies end and for more he took not late care with which profession this our Religious Prelate may bid his friends and the world Adien for he dyed much what as poor as Saint Augustine who as Possidius reporteth left onely his Library and divers imperfect Copies of his intended works which his death prevented the Publishing of And for his Chaplaines and Allies which were neither few nor meanly provided yet all of them lying under the same burthen of the Times which pressed their Lord Master not one of them al proving a Vertumnus or Ecebolian time-server it may well be feared they will be as unable as himself to perpetuate his memory by any earthly Monument as he hath done to that Mirror of Learning l In Westminster Abbey Church Mr. Isaac Casaubon but however it less matters for those earthly Circumstantialls because I well know they were much both Praeter and Infrà besides and below his heavenly speculations And withall considering that what Gregory Nyssene reports of his Sister Macrina may be truely affirmed of this pious Prelate viz. Purè integrè vivendo paravit sibi Monumentum quod vitans ipsius decoraret sepulturam m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. That by a pure and holy life she had prepared for her selfe a lasting Ornament and a living Monument after Death And that is a good Name n For Bp. Morton his Ditto alwayes was Mors vitam aufert affert which is a better preservative of the just mans memory then all the Pyramides and Polinctures of Aegypt or the stateliest Mausoleums of Asia So as none of his Friends or neerest Alliances shall need to bewaile the want of Children or his not-superviving in his not-superviving in his Posterity For to any such Objection he may justly reply as did that Thebane Hercules Epaminondas to some that lamented his Orbity he told them That he had left two Daughters His Victories at Leuctra and Mantinaea which should eternize his Name to all Posterity So much more am I assured this our Christian Hercules may say That he hath left twelve Daughters yea more then twelve Daughters the Laborious Issues of his Braine which will continue his Name and Memory till they and the world take end together And now to draw to an end of this unpolished Peice which in that regard may seem to some too tedious and prolix perhaps to others too short and scant as I confess it is for