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Scrinia reserata a memorial offer'd to the great deservings of John Williams, D. D., who some time held the places of Ld Keeper of the Great Seal of England, Ld Bishop of Lincoln, and Ld Archbishop of York : containing a series of the most remarkable occurences and transactions of his life, in relation both to church and state / written by John Hacket ...
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Hacket, John, 1592-1670.
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most Friends And that 's a Friend that will incur Anger rather than leave his Friend to sooth himself in a Mischief It had been well for the Duke if his bold Friend had perswaded him to take that Counsel which Christopher Thuanus gave to the Cardinal of Lorain being in great Favour with Henry the 2d of France Si potentiam suam diuturnam cuperet moderatè eâ uteretur in politicá administratione leges regni conservaret alioqui fore ut publicae invidiae impar Procerum regni Nobilitatis contra se concitato odio aliquando succumberet Aug. Thua An. 1568. Secondly Some of the Lords of the Council were willing to spare the Keeper for that having a mighty standing Wardrobe of Reason likely he bore down that side which he oppos'd Why would not Plato endure Homer in his Utopia because he was too great a Citizen for his City And Aristotle lib. 3. Polit. c. 4. Says the Argonautes were weary of Hercules and dismist him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his main strength at the Oar was above his Fellows his parts were unequal in supere minence Nor did his Majesty like it well that he would never give over till he was Conqueror in the Argument that he held and he ever held him to be too nimble and versatile in his Discourses For the Taste of that good King's Mind was much like to his Palate he never loved Sauce with his Meat nor Sharpness in his Counsels He desired to see all his way before him and not to be led through Windings and Allies Another King was of that Conceit says Thua lib. 11. Franciscus magna ingenia suspect a habere coepit Thirdly The blaff that help'd to blow down this Cedar was the Breath of Obtreclators and Tale bearers Who are too much about great Men as it may be said by Allusion from the 66 Psal v. 3. After the vulgar Latin For the Greatness of thy Power shall the People be found Lyars unto thee These were too thick about the Duke and cherish'd with his Countenance and Liberality For Reward not Minstrils and you shall be sure to be rid of them If any are loth to put Bishop Laud in this Number I must either reform their Knowledge or write against mine own They are yet living that have heard it confest by the Lord Buckingham's Mother And these words are in the Manuscript remembred before Penn'd by Arch-Bishop Abbot That the Countess of Buckingham told the Bishop of Lincoln that St. Davids was the Man that did undermine him with her Son and would underwork any Man in the World that himself might rise St. Davids saw no Man in the prospect of likelihood but this one to carry the highest Miter from him Interna crevit Roma Albae ruinis as Livy says Fourthly my Lord-Duke was soon satiated with their Greatness whom he had advanc'd It was the inglorious Mark of those Thirteen Years of his Power to remove Officers Which was like a sweeping Floud that at every Spring-tide takes from one Land and casts it upon another In two Years of King Charles's Reign Williams Lee Conway Suckling Crow Walter had their Top-sails pull'd down by him and if Sir Henry Yelverton had liv'd not only Sir A. Welden writes it but common Rumour nois'd it that he had been promoted to the Place of the Lord Coventry Which was very prejudicious to the true Discharge of those Dignities As Theophrastus complains in Tully Men were so short liv'd that by the time they began to know the World Death snatch'd them out of it So a Magistrate can yield no great Fruit that 's pluck'd up before he be well rooted Antonnius call'd the Philosopher provided better for that as Capitolinus hath it as he was wise in all his Government 21. Still the Plot was busie against the Lord-Keeper to displace him with some colour of Charge And the King being come to Salisbury in September with a full Court it came to a Catastrophe He that was hunted after was at harbour at a House of the Lord Sand's in Barkshire five Miles from Windsor call'd Foxly Where he was surely inform'd that after much sifting spent after all that ever he did since his high Promotion the old Matter was renewed how he stirred up those that lifted at the Duke at Oxford which was urg'd with strange and punctual Confidence and was the weakest and least grounded Surmise that ever was hammer'd Therefore it was supplied with another Objection That at the same time and place he had abus'd the King with ill Counsel advising him to vail his absolute Sovereignty too much to a social Communication with his Subjects Which being divulg'd got him that was accus'd a strong Gale of popular Favour did his Majesty no right and cast the Duke upon such a Shelf as no High-tide could bring him off while he liv'd The Keeper hearing every day what Cavillations were fomented and heard to put him to blame and shame found it in vain to coast the Season any longer to have the Great-Seal tarry with him Only resolv'd on the 21st of September to prepare his way by his Pen before he went to Salisbury to salute the King's Ear with softness and to shew that he did not despond but that he was ready for a Justification if he were call'd to answer Which for all his Labour would hardly be believ'd For all Treasure hid in the Ground is the Kings But how will he find it So all truth that concerns his Justice and Prosperity is his But how will he know it This Man is not the first that made it true which Sidon Apoll. observes Lib. 3. Ep. 3. That it is dangerous serving of Kings in a near place who are compar'd by him to fire Qui sicut paululum à se remota illuminat ita satis sibi admota comburit It is a good Element or light and warmth to those that stand aloof but singeth that which comes too near it Yet nothing venture nothing have One Arrow must be shot after another though both be grast and never found again In aequo est amissio rei timor amittendi says Seneca Nay he loseth more quiet of Mind that looks every day to lose that which he loves than in the Minute when he is deprived of it One says When the Brunt is over the Heart will recover Time and long day will mitigate sad Accidents 't is a slow Medicine but a sure one 22. Now let the Letter to his Majesty be observ'd which was his Harbinger Most gracious Sovereign and my dear Master WHile I spare my self at home for a few days to be quite rid of an Ague which I brought from Southampton I do humbly crave your Majesty's Pardon to make my Address in these Lines which I will contract to so narrow a room as the Matter will possibly give me leave First as touching the Information of the Access I should give at Oxford to those dangerous Persons of the House of
excluded the Kingdom of Heaven for want of that Ordinance This shift is vulgarly approved among you in all places of the World Then let that content Catholick Parents in England which is so general a remedy among your own Devotees in case of necessity And this Bush will stop the first Gap Next If the Baptized die without Confirmation none ever made it a Salvation-hazard Especially that Ceremony being not stubbornly rejected but privatively intercepted because the proper Instrument is not in the way to act it For how many Biscainers have never heard of it In whose Craggy Mountains I am told a Bishop appears as seldom as a black Swan I presume your Lordship is a Mainteiner of the Canonical Privileges of Episcopacy and you know without a Bishop's shop 's Hand the Blessing of Confirmation hand no Validity by the Canons and perhaps no Entity in the Doctrine of the best Antiquity Now if this Sacrament which comes limping after Baptism must have a Bishop's Crosier to stay it up I know not whether our Romish Male contents demand that Then here 's a Tale of new Tidings comes to my Ears that to integrate Sacred Offices they would have the Presence of a Bishop as well as of a Priest and then these Adonijahs fly so high to ask for Abishag that they may ask the Kingdom also The Ministers of the King of Spain upon such an Occasion as your Lordship is employed in offered at such a thing in their Propositions to my Royal Master's Commissioners It pleaseth the Castilian Mouth to speak big and ask high but we checkt them with repulse and disdeign And good Cause for it A Bishop will think his Wings pinion'd if he have not a Consistory for Jurisdiction Vexations of Jurisdictive Power will provoke Appeals to the Court of Rome And then my Masters People should crouch for Justice to a Foreign Potentate But that Beast shall never get the Head to run a Wild-Goose-Chase where it lists while he holds the Bridle in his Hand My Lord Ambassador There is nothing discoverable though the wideness of the British Ocean flow still between us and your Bishops that their absence should cross their Party that is among us from entering into Eternal Life Which makes the Sacrament of Order not to belong to our Argument But Marriage doth it is Gods Ordinance who joyned Man and Woman together in Paradise and is fittest to be celebrated among Christians in the Paradise of the Church-Assembly And to be blessed by those Servants of God his Priests who are to bless his People in all things especially in so great a Mystery The Question is Whether a Man should scruple not to Wed a Woman unless she were joyned to him by the Priests of his own Communion My Lord Let me set the shape of it before you in another Glass If a Roman born and bred made choice of a Greekish Woman for his Wife among Greeks in Morea or Thessalonica would the Wedlock be esteemed ineffectual if a Priest of the Ordination of the Greek Church did tie the Knot The Ordination of our Clergy is nearer to you than the Greeks Indeed I never heard but a good Wife and a rich Portion would be welcom to a Recusant though a Minister made by Imposition of Hands in this Kingdom did joyn them And I never heard that such Married Ones as departed out of our Church to yours were question'd among you upon the Truth of their Matrimony which they brought with them from hence And 't is well done of you lest we should require Exceptions and make the Issue of the most of the Roman Catholiques in the Land Illegitimate It is in our Power to do so because they are not scrupulously Married by that Form which our Laws have provided and with an even Obedience to every tittle of our Prescriptions But many things are lawful which are not expedient 224. The Annoiting of the Sick may come in next or in what Order you will my Lord. I know it is called Extreme Unction in some Writers sense because it is the Extreme Sacrament when the Soul is about to take its leave of all Sacraments As soon as I have named it I am ready to shake Hands and part with it What if some in the infirmity of their Sickness desire it because the Tradition of the Church hath commended it Yet none is so superstitious to think that Comfort cannot be infused into them that are at the point of Death sufficiently without it St. Stephen departed without Extreme Unction and yet the Lord Jesus receiv'd his Spirit Men condemn'd by the Law and led to Execution but well prepar'd for a better Life by their Ghostly Fathers neither have it nor crave it But they that are most impotent most affected with Languor are subject to a most disorder'd Appetite Why suppose then one that is sick should have this Pica and long to be Annoiled Why might not a Lay-Friend Annoil as well as Baptize Eckius would have us believe that the blessed Virgin and your peculiar Saint St. Genouefa have Anointed many that were sick and they have recover'd Yet lest it should be evaded that these were Persons of miraculous Endowments hear the Words of Pope Innocent the First that are as large as can be and allowed to be his speaking of this sick Man's Salve Omnibus uti Christianis licet in suâ aut suorum necessitate inungendo Which Papal Sentence our Countryman Bede quotes and makes it full on this wise not only Presbyters but any Christians may Anoint the Infirm in case of necessity Will you have the Judgment of some that are latter than Innocent and Bede Hear one but a sound Card Bonaventure upon the Sentences Potest dispensari in casu necessitatis à non Sacerdotibus For the Sacrament of the Altar my Lord as you speak in your Dialect it is necessary Necessitate Praecepti non Medii say both your Divines and ours That is in a longer Paraphrase the Commandment to Take and Eat I and to Drink too must necessarily be obeyed by them that can keep it But it hath not such a strict tie with the Covenant of Salvation That all they shall fail of final Mercy who are impeded to partake without any fault of theirs Infants lack the taste of that Heavenly Food and are not prejudiced For our Saviour requir'd it of none but of such as could actually believe that he died for the Sins of the World Is not the same Indulgence intended towards them and far rather who believe in Christ's Death and would enjoy the Sacrament that Annuntiates his Death but cannot Your Gravest Authors do please themselves in the Words of Rupertus and they are grown to be the trivial Quotation upon this Case Non judicatur apud Deum non manducare nisi qui manducare noluit qui non curavit qui neglexit The desire of the Heart supplies the defect of actual Manducation Time was more than 1300 Years ago when those that