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The glory of Chelsey Colledge revived by John Darley.
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Darley, John, 1622?-1699.
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be sad who consider the disproportion betwixt what was performed and what was projected in and about this College as in the Synopsis of the Model in the Frontispice may be observed Save that I confess the destruction of beautifull buildings once really extant leaves greater impressions in mens mindes then the miscarriages of only intentional structures and the faint Ideas of such future things as are seriously propounded but fail to be effected But this College when once the Act was made for it in pursuance thereof His Majesty Incorporated the said Foundation by the name of King James his College in Chelsey and bestowed upon the same by Letters Patents the Reversion of good Land in Chelsey then in possession of Charles Earl of Nottingham the lease thereof not expiring till thirty years hence and also his Majesty was pleased further to grant his Letters Patents for a general Collection all over England and Wales of the free benevolence of the willing people and the Bishops were carefully to urge it so that to go on with much monies were gathered but saies Dr Fuller it was kept in some pockets and withall wisheth as well he might that those pockets which yielded not the monies to the right use might rot and be broken baggs Something I have said before of King James his Commendation and confessing Dr Sutcliffe his diligence in soliciting about the College work to put this fair project into a full and faithfull effect who that is Dr Sutcliffe also bequeathed a good part of his own revenues unto it And thus may I echo out the work unto the world in the Angelical trumpet of Dr Fuller whose expressions sweeter then hony or any musick thus proclaim and warble it forth Next King James let me place Dr Matthew Sutcliffe Deane of Exceter who though no Prince by birth seems little less by his bounty to this College But as a subject Araunah gave things as a King to God's service such was the Royal Liberality of Dr Sutcliffe bestowing on this College The Farms of Kingstone The Farms of Hazzard The Farms of Appleton The Farms of Kemerland in the parish of Staverton in the parish of Harberton in the parish of Churchston in the parish of Stoke-Rivers All in the County of Devon and put together richly worth 300 li per annum Besides these by his Will dated November 1. 1628. he bequeathed unto Dr John Prideaux and Dr Clifford the Feofsees in trust to settle the same on the College the benefit of an extent on a Statute of 4000 li acknowledged by Sr Lewis Steukley To all which as a precious Signet he gave his Library too and that no mean one as also Archbishop Bancroft promised his but neither Archbishop Abbott nor Archbishop Laud did part with it A bountifull benefaction and the greater because the Doctor had a daughter and she children of her own And although this endowment would scarce make the Pot of the sons of the Prophets to seeth yet what Feasts would it have made in his private family if continued therein Seeing therefore so publick a mind in so private a man the more the pitty that the good Doctor was deserted Vriah-like ingaged in the front to fight these battels alone against an Army of Difficulties which he incountred or rather took truce with in this design whilst such men as were to be the wings retreated from him not seasonably succouring and seconding him in this Action to face the Enemy which Dr Sutcliffe the first mover of the first fundamental stone of this business and as far as in him lay the Promoter of Chelsey College was in readiness to doe It may well therefore be said of him as Paul said of Timothy There was no man like-minded who did naturally care for the College or for the Cause of Christ and of his Church as Dr Sutcliffe did in that vigorousness of spirit and energy of zeale and that erogation of large and wise charity to his power For all men seek and hugge their own Ape-Cubbs their own things the Minervals and reaches of their own braines and not the Man-child of their labouring Mother the Church which mystically is Christ and his Cause Rev. 12. 3. the Child of God whom the dragon waites even in the birth to devour who yet is to rule all Nations with a rod of Iron and who is caught up to God ver 5. to his Throne Now this Chelsey College Project howsoever maligned and obstructed in the birth thus long and strongly as the beginning of the building of the second Temple was for 40 years from the first year of Cyrus to the second year of Darius Ezra 4. 24. yet though it hath by the negligence of our side and the Policy and malignancy of the other side been thus treacherously impeded and oppugned we may not think but in it self and in the approvement and purpose of God it is most honourable and to be advanced in the Lords season and by the men whom he has ordained and sanctified and why not at this shining instant by raising up the spirits of the Prophets in the Convocation to speak for it and by prophesying to promote it that the College Adornation may be as Michael and his Angels fighting with the Dragon and his Angels til the Dragon not prevailing his place may be no more found in the Heaven of our Church but he be utterly for ever cast out of it Which Impediments and Obstructions though they have tended almost unto destruction as the Enemies applaud and hugge themselves saying Have not our foxes going up with secret and subtile Policies and underminings broken down their stone wall Nehem. 4. 3. yet we must and do say as the Church in the Prophet Micah's time yea the College of this our Church may say Rejoyce not against me O mine Enemy though I am let and left to fall I shall arise though I sit in silence and in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me c. Micah 7. 8 9 10 11. And England might goe on and say in her late long suffering because of our late long sinning and our long not perfecting our General Repentance I will bear the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him untill he plead my Cause and execute Judgement for me He will bring me forth to his light and I shall behold his Righteousness But here is yet the great wonder unto many Godly mens hearts that such a gracious work in all likelyhood and great probability of God and also according to the most holy way of his Wisdom so wisely commenced by Dr Sutcliffe approved and promoted by King James and his Parliament so far proceeded in and to such a measure in building and endowing having by King James his Letters Patents so much and such Contributions so far and fairly advanced should yet at length after so long expectation be let fall and sinke and dye and lye in it's foundation What might be the cause of so