Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quam mihi When will they find another such his Fall Was most by me lamented much by All God Almighty had blessed him with eleven Children four of which are still living His Monument is erected on the North side of the Abbey in Westminster over aganst the Sub-Deans Seaâ—… with this following Epitaph which the Reverend Dean of the Church then Dr. Earl did himself compose in honour of his Memory DEPOSITUM MORTALE PETRI Heylyn S. â—… P. Hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarii Subdecaniâ—…s Viri plane memorabilis Egregiis dotibus instructissimi Ingenio acri faecundo Judicio subacto Memoria ad prodigium tenaci Cui adjunxit incredibilem in studiis patientiam Quae cessantihus oculis non cessarunt Scripsit varia Plurima Quae jam manibus hominum teruntur Et argumentis non vulgaribus Stylo non vulgari suffecit Constans ubique Ecclesiae Et. Majestatis Regiae assertor Nec florentis magis utriusque Quam afflictâ—… Idemque perduellium Schismâ—…ticae factionis Impugnator acerrimus Contemptor invidiae Et animo infracto Plura ejusmodi meditanti Mors indixit silentium Ut sileatur Efficere non potest Obiit Anno Etat 63. In English A Monument of Mortality Of Peter Heylyn Doctor of Divinity Prebendary and Sub-Dean of this Church A man truly worthy of remembrance Endowed with excellent parts Of sharp and pregnant Wit A solid and clear Judgement A memory tenacious to a Miracle Whereunto he added an incredible Patience in Study And therein still persisted when his Eye sight ceased He Writ many Books upon various Subjects that are now in mens hands containing in them nothing that 's Vulgar either for Style or Argument On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches Right and the Kings Prerogative as well in their afflicted as prosperous estate Also he was a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks A despiser of Envy and a man of undaunted Spirit While he was seriously intent on these and many more like Studies Death commanded him to be silent but could not silence his Fame He died in the Sixty third year of his Age. A Catalogue of such Books as were written by the Learned Doctor SPurius a Tragedy M. S. 1616. Theomachia a Comedy M. S. 1619. Geography printed at Oxon twice A. D. 1621. and 1624. in Quarto and afterwards in A. D. 1652. inlarged into Folio under the Title of Cosmography An Essay called Augustus 1631. since inserted into his Cosmography The History of St. George Lond. 1631. reprinted 1633. The History of the Sabbath 1631. reprinted 1636. An Answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's Letter to the Vicar of Grantham 1636. twice reprinted An Answer to Mr. Burton's two Seditious Sermons A. D. 1637. A short Treatise concerning A Form of Prayer to be used according to what is enjoyned in the Fifty fifth Canon written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester 1637. Antidotum Lincolniense or an Answer to the Bishop of Lincolns 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 Jure paritatis Episcoporum or concerning the Peerage of Bishops 1640. M. S. A Reply to Dr. Hackwel concerning the Sacrifice of the Eucharist M. S. 1641. The History of Episcopacy first under the Name of Theoph. Churchman afterwards in his own Name reprinted 1657. The History of Liturgies written 1642. A Relation of the Lord Hoptons Victory at Bodmin A View of the Proceedings in thâ—… â—…est for a Pacification A Letter to a Gentleman in Lincolnshire about the Treaty A Relation of the Proceedings of Sir John Gell. A Relation of the Queens Return from Holland and the Siege of Newark The Black Cross shewing that the Londoners were the Cause of the Rebellion The Rebels Chatechism All these printed at Oxon. 1644. An Answer to the Papists groundless Clamor who nick-name the Religion of the Church of England by the Name of a Parliamentary Religion 1644. A Relation of the Death and Sufferings of Will. Laâ—…d Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1644. The stumbling Block of Disobedience removed written 1644. printed 1658. The Promised Seed in English Verse Theologia Veterum or an Exposition of the Creed Fol. 1654. Survey of France with an account of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey 1656. Quarto Exâ—…men Historicum or a Discovery and Examination of the Mistakes Falsities and Defects in some Modern Histories Lond. 1659 Certamen Epistolare or the Letter-Combat managed with Mr. Baxter Dr. Bernard Mr. Hickman Oct. Lond. 1659. Historia Quinque-Articularis Quarto Lond. 1660. Respondet Petrus or the Answer of Peter Heylyn D. D. to Dr. Bernard's Book entituled the Judgment of the late Primate c. Quarto Lond. 1658. Observations on Mr. Hamond L' Estrange's History of the Life of King Charles the First 1648. Extraneus Vapulans or a Defence of those Observations Lond. 1658. A short History of King Cbarles the First from his Cradle to his Grave 1658. Thirteen Sermons some of which are are an Exposition of the Parable of the Tares printed at London 1659. and again 1661. A Help to English History containing a Succession of all the Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls Bishops c. of England and Wales first written in the year 1641. under the 〈◊〉 of Robert Hall but now enlarged and in Dr. Heylyn's Name Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified c. Quarto 1657. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library Octavo Ecclesia Restaurata or the History of the Reformation Folio Lond. 1661. Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the Life and Death of William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Folio Aerius Redivivus or the History of the Presbyterians Folio FINIS S. Jer. Com. in cap. 2. Esdr. Instit. lib. 1. cap. 9. Pref. to Hist. of Ref. Hor. de Ar. po Berâ—… Epis 135. Mart. Piaut His Preface Preface Pag. 59 60 61 62 63. Pag. 101. 102. 103. 104. Cic. de orat ftom p. 67 to 89. from p. 212 to p. 227. from p. 228 to 236. p. 61 to 174. pag. 241. Plat. in Parmen p. 38. p. 35. p. 123. p. 31. p. 120. pag. 13. Arist. Eth. lib. cap. 10. A. Gell. lib. 12. cap. 11. pag. 32. pag. 14. Pag 43. Pag. Epist. deep Jact lib. 7. c. 14. pag. 1. pag. 7. pag. 2. Chr. Astrol. lib. 1. cap. 11 pag. 2. Diog. Laer in vit Tacit. Annal lib. 6. Trith de Scrip. Eccl. pag. 86. Suid. Hist. Luth. colliq Vindicat. of the sincerity of the Prot. Rel. p. 11 12. Arch Bish. Life p. 5 6. At the Tryal of Pickering Groâ—… and Ireland 1678. David Par. Comment in Evang. S. Mat. Cap. 23. Maph in vita Ign. Oplat l. 5. c. 29. Lact. Instit. lib. 4. cap. 30. Thu. Hist. l. 22. Theod. Bez. de Minist Evang. Grad Pag. 91. Thu. Hist. â—… 13. Chr. Ocland 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Elizab. Diodor. Sicul l. 3. Tacit. l.
Walter Newbery a zealous Puritan in those days undertook the Charge of him who little thought his Pupil would afterward prove so sharp an Enemy to the Puritan-faction But by the help of his two Tutors who faithfully discharged their Office in reading Logical Lectures to him and other kind of Learning his own Industry also and earnest desire to attain unto Academical Sciences setting him forward beyond his years and standing he was encouraged by his Tutor and good Friends who saw his Parts were prodigious to stand for a Demy's Place in Magdalen Colledge at the time of their Election But he being very young and the Fellows already preingaged for another he missed the first time as is usual in this Case with which disappointment he was not at all discouraged but cheerfully followed the course of his Studies and among other Exercises for recreation sake and to shew his Wit and Fancy he framed a Copy of Verses in Latin on occasion of a pleasant Journy he took with his two Tutors to Woodstock which Verses he presented to the President and Fellows of Magdalen Colledge who at the next Election in the year 1615. unanimously chose him Demy of the House where soon after he was made Impositor of the Hall which Office no small honour to him being then but fifteen years of Age he executed with that trust and diligence that the Dean of the Colledge continued him longer in it than any of his Predecessors for which he was so envyed by his Fellow Demies as that malignant passion is always the Concomitant of honour that they called him by the Name of perpetual Dictator About the same time being very eager upon his juvenile Studies he composed an English Tragedy called by him Spurius that was so generally well liked by the Society that Dr. Langton the President commanded it to be acted in his Lodgings After those and many other Specimina Ingenii fair Testimonies of his Wit and Schollarship he easily obtained his grace for the Degree of Batchelor of Arts in the year 1617. Then according to the Colledge Statutes and Custom that requires some Exercise to be performed by a junior Batchelor in the long Vacation he read several Lectures of Geography to which his Genius naturally led him and carried them on so pleasantly in a new Method not observed by others by joyning History with Cosmography that made the Work very delightful For scarce any memorable Action done in any Nation Country or famous City in the World but he hath recorded it which was a wonderful Task for a Youth of his years that all his Auditors grave Fellows as well as others was struck into deep admiration of his profound Learning and Wisdom that forthwith the whole Society nemine contradicente admitted him Probationer Fellow in the Place of Mr. Love and that before such time he had fully finished the reading of his Lectures And for a further encouragement of him in his Studies being also a good Philosopher as well as Geographer the Colledge chose him Moderator of the Senior Form in the Hall that brought both credit to his Name and profit to his Purse for which in Gratitude to them as he ever shewed a grateful mind to his Patrons and Benefactors he presently writ a Latin Comedy called by him Theomachia which he finished and transcribed in a Fortnights time and dedicated the same to the Fellows who were so highly pleased with his Ingenuity and Pains that on July the 19th 1619. he waâ—… admitted Fellow in that honourable Society according to the usual Form In verum perpetuum Socium After which followed a new honour upon him as all Degrees in the University are honourable and but the just reward of Learned Men that in the year 1620. the University conferred on him the Degree of Master of Arts and surely a young Master he was that not one of twenty is capable of this Degree at his years but more remarkable it was at that time because he was one of those Masters that first sate with their Caps on in the Convocation-house by Order of the Earl of Pembroke then Chancellor of the University who signified his Lordships Pleasure by his especial Letters That from that time forward the Masters of Arts who before sate bare should wear their Caps in all Congregations and Convocations which has been ever since observed He now a Master of Arts in the University and Fellow of a Noble Colledge than which no greater encouragements can be imagined for young Men to follow their Studies and put audacity into them to shew their Parts especially when they have gained by their Learning and Merits both Preferment and Honour He was perswaded by several Friends to publish those Geographical Lectures which he read in the long Vacation that others might taste the sweetnes and pleasure of those Studies besides his own Fellow Collegians Accordingly having got his Fathers consent for the printing of them and the perusal and approbation of his Book by some Learned Men at the Age of twenty and one years the young Writer comes forth November the 7th Anno Dom. 1621. Whose ingenious Writings found such general Acceptance manibus omnium teruntur that scarce any Scholars Study was without them and to this day since their enlargement by several Editions are as commonly cited upon occasion as any Authentick Author that 's extant The First Copy was presented to his Royal Highness King Charles the First then Prince of Wales unto whom the young Author dedicated his Work and by the young Prince was as graciously received being brought into his Highness presence by Sir Robert Carr afterward Earl of Ancram but then one of the Gentlemen of the Princes Bed-Chamber Having so fortunate a Beginning to gain the Prince his Patron he desisted in Geography and proceeded to higher Studies that might capacitate him for greater Services hereafter both in Church and State In order thereto first piously he took along with him the Episcopal Blessing of Confirmation by the Hands of Bishop Lake in the Parish Church of Wells September the 15th Anno Dom. 1623. the fruits of whose Fatherly Benediction devout Prayers with imposition of Hands did manifestly appear in this true Son of the Church Whom the Almighty did bless and daily increase in him the manifold gift of Grace bestowed on him the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding c. And certainly such singular benefits does accompany this Apostolical Institution mentioned in Scripture constantly used in the Primitive Church that the neglect or contempt thereof from the hands of Gods Bishops no doubt deprives us of many good Blessings which we should otherwise receive from the hands of God Being thus confirmed by the Bishop according to the Order of the Church of England he afterward applyed himself to the Study of Divinity which St. Basil calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Theory or Contemplation of the Great God or his Being so far as he hath revealed himself to us in the
familiar with you as if they had known you from the Cradle and are so full of Chat and Tattle even with those they know not as if they were resolved sooner to want Breath than Words and never to be silent till in the Grave Dancing such a sport to which both Men and Women are so generally affected that neither Age nor Sickness no nor Poverty it self can make them keep their Heels still when they hear the Musick such as can hardly walk abroad without Crutches or go as if they were troubled all day with a Sciatica and perchance have their Raggs hang so loose about them that one would think a swift Galliard might shake them into their Nakedness will to the dancing Green howsoever and be there as eager at the sport as if they had left their several infirmities and wants behind them Their Language is very much expressed by their Action for the Head and Shoulders must move as significantly when they speak as their Lips and Tongue and he that hopeth to speak with a grace must have in him somewhat of the Mimick They are naturally disposed for Courtship as makes all the People complemental that the poorest Cobler in the Parish hath his Court cringes and his Eau beniste de Cour his Court-holy water as they call it as perfectly as the best Gentleman-Huisher of Paris They wear their Hair long goes thin and open to the very Shirt as if there were continual Summer in their Gate walk fast as if pursued on an Arrest Their humour is much of scoffing yea even in matters of Religion as appeareth in the story of a Gentleman that lay sick on his Bed who seeing the Host brought unto him by a Lubberly Priest said that Christ came to him as he entred into Jerusalem Riding upon an Ass. I cannot forget another of the like kind a Gentleman lying sick upon his Death Bed who when the Priest had perswaded him that the Sacrament of the Altar was the very Body and Blood of Christ refused to eat thereof because it was Friday And so far the good Geographer who hath pleasantly and truly described them But now we must come to him as a Divine wherein he acted his part as well as of a Cosmographer when he was called unto the Divinity School to dispute in his turn according to the Statutes of the University on April 18th A. D. 1627. He comes up as opponent and on Tuesday the 24th following he answered pro forma upon these two Questions An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis An Ecclesia possit errare Both which he determined in the Negative Upon occasional discourse with him at Abington he was pleased once to shew me his supposition which I read over in his House at Lacyes Court but I had not then either the leisure or good luck to Transcribe a Copy of it which would have been worth my pains and more worthy of the Press to the great satisfaction of others for my part I can truly say that I never read any thing with more pleasure and heart delight for good Latin Reason and History which that exercise was full of but since both it and many other choice Papers in his Study through the carelesness of those to whose Custody they were committed I suppose are utterly lost and gone ad blattarum tinearum epulas In stating of the first Question that caused the heats of that day he tells us himself I fell upon a different way from that of Doctor Prideaux the Professor in his Lecture De Visibilitate and other â—…ractates of and about that time in which the Visibility of the Protestant Church and consequently of the Renowned Church of England was no otherwise proved than by looking for it in the scattered Conventicles of the Bereâ—…garians in Italy the Waldenses in France the Wickliffs in England and the Hussites in Bohemia which manner of proceeding not being liked by the Respondent as that which utterly discontinued that Succession of the Hiearchy which the Church of England claims from the very Apostles and their immediate Successors He rather chose to find out a continual visible Church in Asia Ethiopia Greece Italy yea Rome it self as also in all the Western Provinces than subject to the power of the Roman Bishop when he was the Chief Patriarch Which Mr. Heylyn from his great knowledge and more than ordinary abilities in History strenuously asserted and proved to which the Professor could make but weak replies as I have heard from some knowing persons who were present at that Disputation because he was drawn out of his ordinay byass from Scholastical disputation to Forreign Histories in which encounter Mr. Heylyn was the invincible Ajax Nec quisquam Ajacem superare possit nisi Ajax But chiefly the quarrel did arise for two words in Mr. Heylyns Hipothesis after he had proved the Church of England received no Succession of Doctrine or Government from the Berengarians Wickliffs c. Who held many Hetordoxes in Religion as different from the established Doctrine of our Church as any points that was maintained at that time in the Church of Rome that the writers of that Church Bellarmine himself hath stood up as cordially in maintainance of some fundamental points of the Christian Faith against Anti-Trinitarians Anabaptists and other Hereticks of these last ages as any one Divine and other learned Men of the Protestant Churches which point Mr. Heylyn closed up with these words Vtinam quod ipse de Calvino sic semper errasset nobilissimus Cardinalis At which words the Reverend Doctor was so impatient in his Chair that he fell upon the Respondent in most vile terms calling him Papicola Bellarminianus Pontificius c. To draw the hatred of the University upon him according to the saying Fortiter calumniare aliquid adhaerebit grievously complaining to the younger sort of his Auditors unto whom he made his chiefest addresses of the unprofitable pains he took among them if Bellarmine whom he had laboured to confute for so many years should be honoured with the Title of Nobilissimus Notwithstanding the Respondent acquitted himself most bravely before all the Company ascribing no more honour to Bellarmine then for his deserts in learning and integrity in that particular point before spoken of which any generous Man would give to his Learned Antogonist For many Lutherans and Calvinists I may say paâ—…e tanti viri so angry at a word have not grudged much less judged it any Crime to praise the Cardinals Learning Doctrinam nos in ipso Commendamus saith a rigid Lutheran and St. Paul himself would not stick to call him who was an inveterate Enemy of the Christians most noble Festus And though Cardinals we know were originally but Parish Priests by Pride and Usurpation have made themâ—…lves Compeers to Kings that which is unjustly once obtained by time groweth common and familiar that none will refuse to give such their ordinary Titles of Honour although they
â—…o the utmost of his power he had exercised his Pen in the defâ—…nce both of the Crown Scepter and Miter his Soul then transported with joy that he should survive the usurped powers and see with his old bad eyes the King settled upon his Fathers Throne and peace upon Israel In the Evening after the Ceremonies of the Coronation were over while the Ordinance was playing from the Tower it happened to thunder violently at which some persons who were at supper with him seemed much affrighted I very well remember an expression of his upon the same according to the Poets word Intonuit laetus that the Ordinance of Heaven answered those of the Tower rejoycing at the solemnity with which the Company being exceedingly pleased there followed much Joy and Mirth Thus being settled in Westminster he fell upon the old work of building again and repairing which is the costly pleasure of Clergy men for the next Generation because building is like planting the chief benefit of which accrues to their Successors that live in another Age as Cicero said of them who took delight in planting Oake-Trees Serunt Arbores quae prosiâ—…t alteri saeculo He enlarged his Prebends House by making some convenient Additions to it perticularly he erected a new Dining Room and beautified the other Rooms all which he enjoyed but for a little time of which he made the best use while he lived to serve his God and seek after the Churches good in which work he was as industrious after his Majesties happy Restauration as he was before to testifie his Religious zeal and care that all things might run on in the old right Channel for which reason he writ a fervent Letter to a great States-man of that time earnestly pressing him to advise the King that a Convocation might be called with the present Parliament which was a thing then under question his Letter is as followeth Right Honourable and my very good Lord I Cannot tell how welcom or unwelcom this Address may prove in regard of the greatness of the Cause and the low Condition of the Party who negotiates in it But I am apt enough to perswade my self that the honest zeal which moves me to it not only will excuse but endear the boldness There is my Lord a general speech but a more general fear withal amongst some of the Clergy that there will be no Convocation called with the following Parliament which if it should be so resolved on cannot but raise sad thoughts in the hearts of those who wish the peace and happiness of this our English Sion But being Bishops are excluded from their Votes in Parliament there is no other way to keep up their honour and esteem in the Eyes of the People than the retaining of their places in Convocation Nor have the lower Clergy any other means to shew their duty to the King and keep that little freedom which is left unto them than by assembling in in such meetings where they may exercise the Power of a Convocation in granting Subsidies to his Majesty though in nothing else And should that Power be taken from them according to the constant but unprecedented practice of the late long Parliament and that they must be taxed and rated with the rest of the Subjects without their liking and consent I cannot see what will become of the first Article of Magna Charta so solemnly so frequently confirmed in Parliament or what can possibly be left unto them of either the Rights or Liberties belonging to an English Subject I know it is conceived by some that the distrust which his Majesty hath in some of the Clergy and the diffidence which the Clergy have one of another is looked on as the principle cause of the Innovation For I must needs behold it as an Innovation that any Parliament should be called without a meeting of the Clergy at the same time with it The first year of King Edward the Sixth Qeen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were times of greater diffidence and distraction than this present conjuncture And yet no Parliament was called in the beginning of their several Reigns without the company and attendance of a Convocation though the intendments of the State aimed then at greater Alterations in the face of the Church than are now pretended or desired And to say truth there was no danger to be feared from a Convocation thâ—…ugh the times were ticklish and unsetled and the Clergy was divided into sides and Factions as the Case then stood and so stands with us at the present time For since the Clergy in their Convocations are in no Authority to propound treat or conclude any thing more than the passing of a Bill of Subsidies for his Majesties use untill they are impowered by the Kings Commission The King may tye them up for what time he pleaseth and give them nothing but the opportunity of entertaining one another with the News of the Day But if it be objected That the Commission now on foot for altering and explaining certain passages in the publick Liturgy shall either pass instead of a Convocation or else is thought to be neither competable nor consistent with it I hope for better in the one and must profess that I can see no reason in the other For first I hope that the selecting of some few Bishops and other learned men of the lower Clergy to debate on certain points contained in the Common Prayer-Book is not intended for a Representation of the Church of England which is a Body more diffused and cannot legally stand by their Acts and Councils and if the Conference be for no other purpose but only to prepare matter for a Convocation as some say it is not why may not such a Conference and Convocation be held both at once For neither the selecting of some learned men out of both the Orders for the composing and reveiwing of the two Liturgies digested in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth proved any hindrence in the calling of their Convocation which were held both in the second and third and in the fifth and sixth years of the said Kings Reign Nor was it found that the holding of a Convocation together with the first Parliament under Queen Elizabeth proved any hinderance to that Conference in disputation which was designed between the Bishops and some learned men of the opposite Parties All which considered I do most humbly beg your Lordship to put his Majesty in mind of sending out his Mandates to the two Arch Bishops for summoning a Convocation according to the usual Form in their several Provinces that this poor Church may be held with some degree of veneration both at home and abroad And in the next place I do no less humbly-beseech your Lordship to excuse this freedom which nothing but my zeal to Gods Glory and my affection to this Church could have forced from me I know how ill this present Office doth become me and how much better it had been