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A64857 The life of the learned and reverend Dr. Peter Heylyn chaplain to Charles I, and Charles II, monarchs of Great Britain / written by George Vernon. Vernon, George, 1637-1720. 1682 (1682) Wing V248; ESTC R24653 102,135 320

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make disquieting impressions on them And there is no better way for us to prevent that dishonour than by looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith and by taking those who have spoken in his Name for an example of suffering Affliction and of Patience Iam. 5. 10. But although Dr. Heylyn spoke in Name of the Lord yet few will be prevailed with to take him for a pattern in suffering persecution who believe those black Characters that have been of late given him by some of the Writers of this pre●ent Age. And amongst the rest 't is matter of just wonder that Mr. Baxter who writes so frequently of Death and Iudgment and the account that must be given of all the hard speeches that are either spoke or writ against his Fellow-Christians should not be desirous to leave the troublesome stage of this world in a peaceable and calm temper and let those sleep quietly in their Graves whom he wish'd he had let alone when alive and unto whose learned labors he has not vouchsafed to return one word of Answer for above these two and twenty years And yet so it is that in his Preface to the Abridgment of Church-History he represents Dr. Heylyn to be a man of a malicious and bloody strain and one who spake of blood with pleasure thirsting after more c. I shall say little of that Book of Mr. Baxters understanding that it is taken into consideration by another hand But this I will not be afraid to affirm that if an impartial Pagan were to pass his judgment upon Christianity from those matters of Fact that are recorded in the Abridgment he would look upon it with a more uncharitable eye than Mr. Baxter does upon Dr. Heylyn and conclude it the most horrid Imposture in the world For what kind of Religion and Church was that which had little or nothing but Covetousness Ambition Oppression Simony Anarchy Tyranny Cruelty c. prevailing in it for so many centuries of years and no persons or conventions of men that had Wisdom and Power all that while to manage its affairs and concerns and to put it into any Apostolical or tolerable Order till an Army-Black-Coat who first almost dreined his Veins of their Blood against his Prince and then courted and caress'd a Tyrant and Vsurper and since that time has been employing his Spleen against the Church I say till such an one arose in the world and in affront to all the laws of Modesty and good Manners first prescribed a Platform of Civil Polity or Holy-Commonwealth to the State and then Rules of Government or Polity to the Church which should bind all Christians and be a Standard to all Superiors Let but any one seriously peruse the Abridgment and then judg whether Herod endeavoured with more malice to suppress the Genealogies of the Jewish Nation and especially those of the Royal Family that he himself might reign with more security than Mr. Baxter has done in throwing dirt upon Antiquity whereas a Divine of all men in the World ought to be very tender how he exposed the Nakedness of the Ancient Fathers lest he thereby exposed Christianity it self to scorn and contempt And we do not live in such an Age of piety and modesty but that some men would be very glad from the Abridgment if they had patience to read it to fix the like Infamy upon the Christian Faith as Cham did when he proclaimed the Nakedness of his Aged Father For my own part I never had the Hon●ur either to know Dr. Heylyn or to be known by him But those who were his Familiars represent him to be one of a tender compassionate Spirit and that few men put a more candid construction upon Persons and Actions than he did 'T is true he writ of a bloody Sect but with a purpose to prevent the shedding of more Blood He vindicated the Monarchy and Hierarchy from the Calumnies of that Faction that was and is the implacable and sworn enemy of both And for this the Ashes of his Grave must be disturbed by one who as Tullie speaks does not consider but cast Lots in writing Books and whose voluminous Treatises are no more to be compared with the Learned Writers of this Church than the stuff of Kiderminster is to be valued at the same rate with the best Arras Dr. Heylyn was no more a Man of Blood than St. Paul was a Mover of Sedition And if he had 't is to be hoped he might have been as well Canonized for fighting for his Prince as some others are celebrated for Saints in the Everlasting Rest who died in the very Act of Rebellion against him But 't is no new thing for those who cut a purse to cry stop the Thief Mr. Baxter may be pleased to call to mind what was done to one Major Jenning the last War in that Fight that was between Lynsel and Longford in the County of Salop where the Kings Party having unfortunately the worst of the day the poor Major was stript almost naked and left for dead in the Field But Mr. Baxter and one Lieutenant Hurdman taking their walk among the wounded and dead Bodies perceived some Life left in the Major and Hurdman run him through the Body in cold blood Mr. Baxter all the while looking on and taking off with his own hand the Kings Picture from about his Neck telling him as he was swimming in his gore That he was a Popish Rogue and that was his Crucifix Which Picture was kept by Mr. Baxter for many years till it was got from him but not without much difficulty by one Mr. Summerfield who then lived with Sir Thomas Rouse and generously restored it to the poor man now alive at Wick near Parshore in Worcestershire although at the Fight supposed to be dead being after the wounds given him dragg'd up and down the Field by the merciless Soldiers Mr. Baxter approving of the Inhumanity by feeding his eyes with so bloody and barbarous a spectacle I Thomas Iennings subscribe to the truth of this Narrative above mentioned and have hereunto put my Hand and Seal this second day of March 1681 2. Tho. Iennings Signed and Sealed March 2. 1681 2. in the Presence of John Clarke Minister of Wick Thomas Darke And now let it be left to the Readers Iudgment who is of a more malicious and bloody strain Dr. Heylyn or Mr. Baxter Whatever ill opinion the Doctor gained in the World was for the service which he did for his King his Country and the Church And it need not be told who says Nemo pluris ●estimat virtutem qu●m qui boni viri famam perdidit ne conscientiam perderet● i. e. He puts the best value upon virtue who to preserve the Integrity and Peace of his Conscience sacrifices the endearments of his Reputation ERRATA in the Preface PAge 3. line penult dele the P. 7. l. an●ep for tender r. tenderness In the Life Page 41. l. 23. r.
after his Copy and Example And renewing the charge to her he went to Bed in as good bodily health as he had done before for many years but after his first sleep he found himself taken with a violent Fever occasioned as was conceived by his Physician by eating of a little Tansey at Supper It seized him May 1. 1662. and deprived him of his understanding for seven days the eighth day he died but for some hours before had the use of his Faculties restored to him telling one of the Vergers of the Church who came to him I know it is Church-time with you and this is As●ension-day I am ascending to the Church triumphant I go to my God and Saviour into Ioys Celestial and to Hallelujahs Eternal He died in his great Climacterical upon Ascension-day 1662. when our Blessed Saviour entred into his Glory and as a Harbinger went to prepare his place for all his faithful Followers and Disciples The Synagogus annexed to Mr. Herbert's Poems Mount mount my Soul and climb or rather fly With all thy force on high Thy Saviour rose not only but ascended And he must be attended Both in his Conquest and his Triumph too His Glories strongly woo His Graces to them and will not appear In their full lustre until both be there Where he now sits not for himself alone But that upon his Throne All his Redeemed may Attendants be Rob'd and Crown'd as he Kings without Courtiers are lone men they say And do'st thou think to stay Behind one earth whilst thy King Reigns in Heaven Yet not be of thy happiness bereaven Nothing that thou canst think worth having's here Nothing is wanting there That thou canst wish to make thee truly blest And above all the rest Thy Life is hid with God in Iesus Christ Higher than what is high'st O grovel then no longer here on earth Where misery every moment drowns thy mirth But towre my Soul and soar above the Skies Where thy true Treasure lies Tho with corruption and mortality Thou clogg'd and pinion'd be Yet thy fleet thoughts and sprightly wishes may Speedily glide away To what thou canst not reach at least aspire Ascend if not indeed yet in desire As for the Off-spring of his Loins God gave him the blessing of the Religious man in Psalm 128. his Wife being like a fruitful Vine and his Children being in all eleven as Olive-plants encompassed his Table nay he saw his Childrens Children and which to him was more than all he saw peace upon Israel i. e. the Church and State restored quieted and established after many concussions and confusions and a total Abolition of their Government But the issue of his Brain was far more numerous than that of his Body as will appear by the following Catalogue of Books written by him viz. Spurius a Tragedy MSS. Written An. Dom. 1616. Theomachia a Comedy MSS. 1619. Geography twice Printed at Oxon in Quarto 1621. 1624. and four times in London but afterward in 1652. enlarged into a Folio under the Title of Cosmography An Essay call'd Augustus 1631. inserted since into his Cosmography The History of St. George London 1631. Reprinted 1633. The History of the Sabbath 1635. Reprinted 1636. An Answer to the Bishop of Lincolns Letter to the Vicar of Grantham 1636. Afterward twice Reprinted An Answer to Mr. Burtons two Seditious Sermons 1637. A short Treatise concerning a Form of Prayer to be used according to what is enjoyned in the 55. Canon MSS. Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester Antidotum Lincolniense or an Answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's Book entituled Holy-Table Name and Thing 1637. Reprinted 1638. An uniform Book of Articles fitted for Bishops and Arch-Deacons in their Visitations 1640. De Iure partialis Episcoporum or containing the Peerage of the Bishops Printed in the last Collection of his Works 1681. A Reply to Dr. Hackwel concerning the Sacrifice of the Eucharist MSS. 1641. A Help to English History containing a Succession of all the Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls Bishops c. of England and Wales Written An. Dom. 1641. under the name of Robert Hall but now enlarged under the name of Dr. Heylyn The History of Episcopacy London 1641. And now Reprinted 1681. The History of Liturgies Written 1642. and now Reprinted 1681. A Relation of the Lord Hopton's Victory at Bodmin A View of the Proceedings in the West for a Pacification A Letter to a Gentleman in Leicestershire about the Treaty A Relation of the Proceedings of Sir Iohn Gell. A Relation of the Queens return from Holland and the Siege of Newark The + or Black Cross shewing that the Londoners were the cause of the Rebellion The Rebels Catechism All these seven Printed at Oxon 1644. An Answer to the Papists Groundless Clamor who nick-name the Religion of the Church of England by th● name of a Parliamentary Religion 1644. and now Reprinted 1681. A Relation of the Death and Sufferings of William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1644. The Stumbling-Block of Disobedience removed Written 1644. Printed 1658. and Reprinted 1681. An Exposition of the Creed Folio London 1654. A Survey of France with an account of the Isles of Guernsey and Iersey London 1656. Quarto Examen Historicum or a Discovery and Examination of the Mistakes Fa●sities and Defects in some modern Histories in two Books London 1659. Octavo Certamen Epistolare or the Letter-Combat managed with Mr. Baxter Dr. Bernard Mr. Hickman and I. H. Esq London 1658 Octavo Historia Quinque-Articularies Quarto London 1660. Reprinted 1681. Respondet Petrus or An Answer of Peter Heylyn D. D. to Dr. Bernards Book entituled The Iudgment of the late Primate c. London 1658. Quarto Observations on Mr. Ham. L'Strange's History on the Life of King Charles I. London 1658. Octavo Extraneus Vapulans or a Defence of those Observations London 1658. Octavo A Short History of King Charles I. from his Cradle to his Grave 1658. Thirteen Sermons some of which are an Exposition of the Parable of the Tares London 1659. Reprinted 1661. The History of the Reformation London 1661. Fol. Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the Life and Death of Arch-Bishop Laud. Folio London 1668. Aërius Redivivus or the History of the Presbyterians from the year 1636 to the year 1647. Oxon. 1670. Fol. His Monument has since the erection of it had violence offered it by some rude and irreligious hand there being ever in the world those ill men who regard the Names of the Learned neither whilst they are living nor when they are dead It is erected on the North-side of the Abbey in Westminster over against the Sub-Deans Seat and the Right Reverend Dr. Earl then Dean of Westminster and afterward Bishop of Salisbury was pleased to honor the memory of his dear Friend with this following Inscription Depositum mor●ale Petri Heylyn S. Th. D. Hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarii Subdecani Viri planè memorabilis Egregiis dotibus instructissimi Ingenio acri foecundo Iudicio subacto Memoriâ ad prodigium tenaci Cui adjunxit incredibilem in Studiis patientiam Quae cessantibus oculis non cessarunt Scripsit varia plurima Quae jam manibus teruntur Et argumentis non vulgaribus Stylo non vulgari suffecit Constans ubique Ecclesiae Et Majestatis Regiae Assertor Nec florentis magis utriusque Quam afflictae Idemque perduellium Schismaticae Factionis Impugnator acerrimus Contemptor Invidiae Et animo infracto Plura ejusmodi meditanti Mors indixit Silentium Vt sileatur Efficere non potest Obiit Anno Aetat 63. Posuit hoc illi moestissima Conjux FINIS Sleid. Com. l. 6. * So he did in a Letter to Dr. Heylyn Theol. Vet. Pref. to the Reader K. Iames Instructions to the University Ian. 18. 1616. Appendix to the Adv. on Mr. Sanderson's Histories Wisdom 4. 8 9. Pryn Burto● Bastwick Page 426. Archbishops Life page 429. Page 430. * At these words the Bishop knock'd with his Staff on the Pulpit Tacit. in Vit. lul Agr. Observations on the History of the Reign of K. Charles 34. * Committee of Affectio●s * Exam. Hist. p. 111. Preface to the Cosmography Certam Epist. 369. As Euscapius said of Longinus * Certam Epist. 100. Tacit. An. lib. 4. Epist. Ded. before Cert Epist. Exam. Histor. 201. Cert Epist. 243. Tacit. Hist. l. 1. Tacit. Hist. l. 1. Page 6. General Preface to an Answer of several Treatises * Preface to Theo. Vet. p. 13. Theol. Vet. p. 27 28. Edit 1. b Ib. 72. c Ib. 152. d Ib. 187. e Ib. 418 419 420. f 130. g 138. h 152. i 277. k 195. ib 269 270 294. l 292. m 294. n 304. o 384. p 305. q 332. r 359. s 361 362. t 371 372. De not Eccles. l. 4. c. 4. u 386 387. w 397 398. x 457 458. y 403 404. Mat. 27. 63. Dr. Burnet's Preface to the History of the Reformation Vol. I. Epist. Ded. Hist. D. Ham. p. 29 30. Page 6. Exam. Hist. 162. Observat. on the History of the Reign of K. Charles 72. Cert Epist. 22. Cert Epist. 173. Ib. 153. Cert Epist. 57. Exam. Hist 126. Observat. on the History of the Reign of K. Charles 220. Exam. Hist. 97. Obs. 196. Exam. Hist. 237. Introduct unto Exam. Hist. Observ. on 151. Exam. Hist. ●46 Cert Epist. 44. Obser. 183. 1 Pet 2. 25. 1 Pet. 5. 1. Ib. 188. P. 224. Yitles of Hon. p. 2. cap. 5. Observ. on the Hist. page 2. Pref. to Theol. Vet. Acts 6. 10. Cert Epist. 31. Gen. 48. 10. * Stalius calls blindness so Tul. Tus. Quaest. lib. 5. Ibid. Quintilian in Declam Certam Epist. 310. * Sir W. S. Cert Epistola Epist. Ded. Tacit. Anal. l. 13. 2 Cor. 11. 27. Psal. 32. 4. Ecclus. c. 34. 2 7. Verse 6.