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Reliquiæ Raleighanæ being discourses and sermons on several subjects / by the Reverend Dr. Walter Raleigh.
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Raleigh, Walter, 1586-1646.
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1679
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they pleased Which in stead of mollifying the Committee towards him only sharpned their anger towards the Gaoler whom they chid for his remissness and threatned to turn out of his place if he took upon him any more to grant this licence to any Prisoner This rebuke stuck in the fellows stomach and the next morning entering into the Doctors Chamber when he was writing to his Wife to let her understand he could not procure leave to come and see her he clapt his hand upon the Paper and demanded a sight of it To which the Doctor fairly replyed that he should with all his heart if he had any authority from the Committee to require it otherwise he might be satisfied with his protestation that it was nothing else but a Letter to his Wife to acquaint her with the denial the Committee had given him as he knew well enough already Whereupon the Keeper began to endeavour to take it from him by force but the Doctor being too strong for him wrested it out of his hands Which being done the fellow stept back drew his Sword ran it immediately into the good Mans Belly and gave him an incurable Wound of which though after a few days he dyed his Murderer notwithstanding was suffered to live And as the Author of a Book called Ruina Angliae informes us the Committee were so little affected with the business that afterwards they turned the Doctors Wife and Children out of doors and forced his Son to fly the Country for that he would have prosecuted the Law against his Fathers Murderer Whether that be exactly true or no I am not able to say but this may be relied on coming from an undoubted hand that though his Wife Prosecuted him two Assizes together she could not get him brought to a Tryal But she falling sick before the third came and not able to attend it then the fellow appeared and was acquitted there being no body ready to make good the charge against him Thus fell this Excellent person in whose writings I beseech all the Authors and Abetters of the late Confusions who still survive to see what kind of men they persecuted in their blind rage that it may be a warning to them for ever and they may give their Posterity a charge to beware how they let loose the like furious passion in time to come By which as an unknown Writer speaks concerning another of those Sufferers Dr. Stuart they either robbed themselves of those holy men and means which God in his mercy had given them or else exchanged 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gold for Counters the Cherubins of the Temple for the Calves of Bethel There was a monument I have been told designed if not promised for the preservation of his Memory But I think now this Book is all he is like to have and it is the best perhaps that can be made for him because made by himself Who was a Master-workman even in his Youth when several of these pieces it is evident were composed And had been a far greater if he had not faln as I said into a way wherein his Masterly wit was so much confined that at last he broke out of it As appears by his Discourse of Oaths which is strong and nervous clear and judicious as well as full of spirit and life and may be sufficient to show what he could have done if he had set himself to it in other Arguments and handled them in the same manner that the rest of his Friends before named did those wherein they were engaged To which Friends of his I should have added two other Eminent persons one of which is dead also the late Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellour of England the other yet living the Right Reverend Father in God the present Lord Bishop of Winchester Who was a great lover of this Doctor and still preserves I am confident so kind a remembrance of him that if he had not wholly sequestered himself to the thoughts of another world he might be easily perswaded to bestow such a Character of him as no man now alive but himself who in a great old Age retains a marvellous vivacity of spirit and sharpness of wit is able to give Instead of which I have thought good to conclude this Preface with the following Epitaph which an Admirer of his in the other University was pleased to make for him ELOGIUM Viri Desideratissimi RALEIGHEI Doctoris S. S. T. Decani Wellensis pro Causa Regis Ecclesiae à Custode suo miserè trucidati SI commune Regni bustum unam reliquit lachrymam Unius quaeso rore lachrymulae spargito hos Cineres Viator Tum memor Hospitis sui hoc Marmor extillabit alteram Non hic vilis harpago sectae neotericae Ritus inducens novos veteres ut liguriret reditus Sed Raleigheus jacet O nimis verecundus lapis Hîc jacet spreta Majestas Nobilitas Lex Humanitas Qui dum oppugnat dedecus hoc ultimum Mundi Et delirantis Naturae informem sobolem Sociavit suos cum patriae Cineribus Verùm quot Carceres honestavit priús Magnum Luminare Quoties sub modio conclusum est Tandem Nefas Extinctum à potestate tenebrarum Vastatâ Ecclesiâ nequiit stare diutiùs Hoc Templum Spiritûs Sancti Quin infremuit Carcerarius suspicatus Carcerem Tali Hospite nunc iri consecratum Ergò evaginavit gladium ferri clave Sacrilegâ Apperuit aut effregit fores Emisitque Captivum jam emeritum Pervagari per campos beatae lucis aeterna prata Uno ictu duplici liberavit custodiâ Esuo è corporis sui Ergastulo Sic nempe Noster hic A carceribus transiens ad optatam metam Cupiit dissolvi esse cum Christo. TITLES of the SERMONS with their ORDER NUMBER and TEXTS SERMON I. A Discourse of Oaths Folio 1. Jerem. iv 2. And thou shalt Swear The Lord liveth in Truth in Judgment and in Righteousness SERMON II. Of the Duty of Man fol. 47. Eccles xii 13. Let us hear the Conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandments For this is the whole Duty of Man For God c. SERMON III. Of Christ's coming to Judgment fol. 83. Matt. xvi 27. For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels And then he shall reward every Man according to his works SERMON IV. Of the Original of Wars fol. 120. James iv 1. From whence come Wars and Fightings among you Come they not hence even of the Lusts that war in your Members SERMON V VI. A Discourse of Election and Reprobation fol. 151 174. Hosea xiii 9. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self but in me is thine help SERMON VII The way to Happiness fol. 206. Matt. vi 33. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you SERMON VIII A Preparation for the Holy Communion fol. 236.