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A30388	The life of William Bedell D.D., Lord Bishop of Killmore in Ireland written by Gilbert Burnet. To which are subjoyned certain letters which passed betwixt Spain and England in matter of religion, concerning the general motives to the Roman obedience, between Mr. James Waddesworth ... and the said William Bedell ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642. Copies of certain letters which have passed between Spain & England in matter of religion.; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1692 (1692)	Wing B5831; ESTC R27239	225,602	545

I the worse if I were still a lover of those studies If he could have had leisure to tend upon any thing besides that Fathers Pacquets he might have seen most of the renowned and holy Fathers of the Church eminent in that Profession for which I am scorned amongst many others Tertullian Lactantius Nazianzen Prudentius Fulgentius Apollinarius Nonnus Hilarius Prosper and now in the upshot devout Bernard and why should their honour be my disgrace But the truth is these were the recreations of my Minority nunc oblita mihi And if Poetry were of the deadly sins of their Casuists I could smart for it in my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is this a fit scandal to rake up from so far What my proficiency hath been in serious studies if the University and Church hath pleased to testifie What need I stand at the mercy of a fugitive But if any of his Masters should undertake me in the cause of God he should find I had studied Prose As for these vain flourishes of mine if he had not taken a veny in them and found it smart he had not strook again so churlishly Was it my Letter that is accused of Poetry there is neither Number nor Rhyme nor fiction in it Would the great Schoolman have had me to have packt up a Letter of Syllogisms which of the Fathers whose high steps I have desired to tread in have given that example what were to be expected of a Monitory Epistle which intended only the occasion if he had pleased of a future Discourse We Islanders list not learn to write Letters from beyond the Pyrenees Howsoever I am not sorry that his scorn hath cast him upon an Adversary more able to convince him I am allowed only a looker on therefore I will neither ward nor strike his hands are too full of you my only wish is That you could beat him sound again whereof I fear there is little hope There was never Adversary that gave more advantage He might have served in these Coleworts nearer home I profess I do heartily pity him and so if it please you let him know from me What Apostasie which is the only hard word I can be charged with I impute to the Roman Church I have professed to the World in the first Chapter of my Roma irreconciliabilis if I offend not in too much charity there is no fear say what you will for me I have done and will only pray for him that answers me with contempt farewell and commend me to Mr. Sotheby and your other loving and Reverend Society and know me ever Your truly loving Friend and fellow Labourer Jos. Hall Waltam Ian. 10. 1615. Good Mr. Bedell this Letter hath lain thus long by me for want of carriage I now hear you are setled at Horningsherth whereof I wish you much joy I am appointed to attend the Ambassadour into France whither I pray you follow me with your Prayers May 15. To my Reverend and worthy Friend Mr. Dr. Hall at Waltam deliver this Salutem in Christo. Good Mr. Dr. THis Letter of yours since my receipt of it hath been a Traveller further than you or I which being some Months since returned into England I return to you that it may relate what entertainment it hath found in Foreign parts It is now a Year and more that I received a Letter from Mr. Waddesworth challenging an old debt of me an answer to his Letters which occasioned this of yours I wrote back and among other things enclosed this your Letter which he hath censured as you see His answer by reason of the sickness of the Gentleman that brought it first at Paris and after at Brussels came not to me till the latter end of May and now lately another I received from him wherein he desires a Copy both of your Text and his Gloss as he calls it as having reserved none for hast I have not yet sent him my Answer to his Motives which hath long lain by me for lack of leisure to copy it out and means safely to convey it being well towards a quire of Paper My ancient fault tediousness But the Gentleman that brought me his former Letter hath undertaken ere long to consign it into his Hands Therein I endeavour to use him with the best respect I can devise only oppugning the Papacy and Court of Rome Now Sir that which I would entreat of you is this You know the Precept of the Apostle touching them that are fallen lend me your Hand to set him in joynt again And be pleased not only not to reflect upon the weakness of his Gloss but not so much as upon the strength of his Stomach Though that be also weakness as S. Augustine well calls it infirmitas animositatis Write a Letter to him in the Character 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which shall either go with mine or be sent shortly after Who can tell what God may work Surely at least we shall heap Coals of Fire upon his Head Although if all be true that I hear it is not to be despaired but he may be delivered out of the snare of errour the rather because he hath not that reward or contentment which he expected He lives now at Madrid with the Persian Ambassadour Sir Robert Sherley and hath good maintenance from him being as his Steward or Agent The kind usage of his ancient Friends may perhaps bring him in love with his Country again c. This for that business Now c. October 2. 1620. To the Worshipful my very good Friend Mr. James Waddesworth at Madrid deliver this Salutem in Christo Jesu Sir I Received by Mr. Fiston your Letters of the eighth of June and as I hope ere this time you understand the former which I mention in them To which I wrote in answer and delivered the same to Mr. Aston the fifteenth of the same Month. Doctor Hall's Letter with your Marginal Notes which in your last you require I send you herein enclosed Though if I may perswade or intreat you both neither should the Text nor Gloss make you multiply any more words thereabout Vpon the receipt of your Letter I spake with Mr. Aston who told me That he held his resolution for Spain whereupon I resolved also to send by him mine answer to your first as thinking it better to do it more safely though a little later than sooner with less safety And here Sir at length you have it Wherein as to my moderation for the manner I hope you shall perceive that setting aside our difference in Opinion I am the same to you that I was when we were either Scholars together in Emmanuel Colledge or Ministers in Suffolk For the substance I do endeavour still to write to the purpose omitting nothing material in your Letters If sometimes I seem overlong and perhaps to digress somewhat from the principal Point more than was necessary I hope you will pardon it

writ to him inviting him to come and accept of that Mastership so an Address was made to the King praying that he would command him to go over And that this might be the more successful Sir Henry Wotton was moved to give his Majesty a true account of him which he did in the following Letter May it please your most gracious Majesty HAving been informed That certain persons have by the good Wishes of the Archbishop of Armagh been directed hither with a most humble Petition unto your Majesty That you will be pleased to make Mr. William Bedell now resident upon a small Benefice in Suffolk Governour of your Colledge at Dublin for the good of that Society and my self being required to render unto your Majesty some Testimony of the said William Bedell who was long my Chaplain at Venice in the time of my imployment there I am bound in all Conscience and Truth so far as your Majesty will accept of my poor Iudgment to affirm of him That I think hardly a ●itter Man could have been propounded to your Majesty in your whole Kingdom for singular Erudition and Piety Conformity to the Rites of the Church and Zeal to advance the Cause of God wherein his Travells abroad were not obscure in the time of the Excommunication of the Venetians For may it please your Majesty to know That this is the Man whom Padre Paulo took I may say into his very Soul with whom he did communicate the inwardest Thoughts of his Heart from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divinity both scholastical and positive than from any that he had practised in his Dayes of which all the passages were well known unto the King your Father of blessed memory And so with your Majesties good favour I will end this needless office for the general fame of his Learning his Life and Christian Temper and those religious Labours which himself hath dedicated to your Majesty do better describe him than I am able Your Majesties most humble and faithful Servant H. Wotton But when this matter was proposed to Mr. Bedell he expressed so much both of true Philosophy and real Christianity in the Answer that he made to so honourable an offer that I will not undertake to give it otherwise than in his own Words taken from a Letter which he writ to one that had been imployed to deal with him in this matter The Original of this and most of the other Letters that I set down were found among the Most Reverend Primate Vsher's Papers and were communicated to me by his Reverend and worthy Friend Dr. Parre SIR WIth my hearty commendations remembred I have this Day received both your Letters dated the 2. of this Month I thank you for your care and diligence in this matter For answer whereof although I could have desired so much respite as to have conferred with some of my Friends such as possibly do know the condition of that place better than I do and my insufficiencies better than my Lord Primate yet since that I perceive by both your Letters the matter requires a speedy and present answer thus I stand I am married and have three Children therefore if the place requires a single Man the business is at an end I have no want I thank my God of any thing necessary for this life I have a competent Living of above a hundred pound a Year in a good Air and Seat with a very convenient House near to my Friends a little Parish not exceeding the compass of my weak Voice I have often heard it That changing seldom brings the better especially to those that are well And I see well That my Wife though resolving as she ought to be contented with whatsoever God shall appoint had rather continue with her Friends in her native Countrey than put her self into the hazzard of the Seas and a foreign Land with many casualties in Travel which she perhaps out of fear apprehends more than there is cause All these reasons I have if I consult with Flesh and Blood which move me rather to reject this offer yet with all humble and dutiful thanks to my Lord Primate for his Mind and good Opinion of me on the other side I consider the end wherefore I came into the World and the business of a Subject to our Lord Iesus Christ of a Minister of the Gospel of a good Patriot and of an honest Man If I may be of any better use to my Countrey to Gods Church or of any better service to our common Master I must close mine eyes against all private respects and if God call me I must answer Here I am For my part therefore I will not stir one Foot or lift up my Finger for or against this motion but if it proceed from the Lord that is If those whom it concerns there do procure those who may command me here to send me thither I shall obey if it were not only to go into Ireland but into Virginia yea though I were not only to meet with troubles dangers and difficulties but death it self in the performance Sir I have as plainly as I can shewed you my mind desiring you with my humble service to represent it to my reverend good Lord my Lord Primate And God Almighty direct this affair to the glory of his holy name and have you in his merciful protection so I rest From Bury March 6. 1626. Your loving Friend Will. Bedell The conclusion of this matter was That the King being well informed concerning him commanded him to undertake this charge which he did cheerfully obey and set about the duties incumbent on him in such a manner as shewed how well he had improved the long time of retirement that he had hitherto enjoyed and how ripely he had digested all his thoughts and observations He had hitherto lived as if he had been made for nothing but speculation and study and now when he entred upon a more publick Scene it appeared that he understood the practical things of Government and humane life so well that no man seemed to be more cut out for business than he was In the Government of the Colledge and at his first entry upon a new Scene he resolved to act nothing till he both knew the Statutes of the House perfectly well and understood well the tempers of the people therefore when he went over first he carried himself so abstractly from all affairs that he past for a soft and weak Man The zeal that appeared afterwards in him shewed That this coldness was only the effect of his Wisdom and not of his Temper but when he found that some grew to think meanly of him and that even Vsher himself began to change his opinion of him Upon that when he went over to England some Months after to bring his Family over to Ireland he was thinking to have resigned his new Preferment and to have returned to his Benefice in Suffolk but the Primate

Church and ancient Councils there is no succession of true Pastors But among Protestants the said due Form and right intention are not observed ergo no succession of true Pastors The said due Form and right intention are not observed among Protestants in France Holland nor Germany where they have no Bishops and where Laymen do intermeddle in the making of their Ministers And for England whereas the Councils require the Ordines minores of Subdeacon and the rest to go before Priesthood your Ministers are made per saltum without ever being Subdeacons And whereas the Councils require three Bishops to assist at the consecration of a Bishop it is certain that at the Nags-Head in Cheapside where consecration of your first Bishops was attempted but not effected whereabout I remember the controversie you had with one there was but one Bishop and I am sure there was such a matter And although I know and have seen the Records themselves that afterward there was a consecration of Dr. Parker at Lambeth and three Bishops named viz. Miles Coverdal of Exceter one Hodgeskin Suffragan of Bedford and another whose name I have forgotten yet it is very doubtful that Coverdal being made Bishop of Exceter in King Edward's time when all Councils and Church-Canons were little observed he was never himself Canonically consecrated and so if he were no Canonical Bishop he could not make another Canonical And the third unnamed as I remember but am not sure was only a Bishop elect and not consecrated and so was not sufficient But hereof I am sure that they did consecrate Parker by vertue of a Breve from the Queen as Head of the Church Who indeed being no true Head and a Woman I cannot see how they could make a true Consecration grounded on her Authority Furthermore making your Ministers you keep not the right intention for neither do the Orderer nor the Ordered give nor receive the Orders as a Sacrament nor with any intention of Sacrificing Also they want the Matter and Form with which according to the Councils and Canons of the Church holy Orders should be given namely for the Matter Priesthood is given by the delivery of the Patena with Bread and of the Chalice with Wine Deaconship by the delivery of the Book of the Gospels and Subdeaconship by the delivery of the Patena alone and of the Chalice empty And in the substantial form of Priesthood you do fail most of all which Form consists in these Words Accipe potestatem offerendi Sacrificium in Ecclesia pro Vivis Mortuis which are neither said nor done by you and therefore well may you be called Ministers as also Laymen are but you are no Priests Wherefore I conclude wanting Subdeaconship wanting undoubted Canonical Bishops wanting right intention wanting Matter and due Form and deriving even that you seem to have from a Woman the Head of your Church therefore you have no true Pastors and consequently no true Church And so to conclude and not to weary my self and you too much being resolved in my understanding by these and many other Arguments That the Church of England was not the true Church but that the Church of Rome was and is the only true Church because it alone is Ancient Catholick and Apostolick having Succession Vnity and Visibility in all Ages and Places yet what Agonies I passed with my Will here I will over-pass Only I cannot pretermit to tell you That at last having also mastered and subdued my will to relent unto my understanding by means of Prayer and by God Almighty's Grace principally I came to break through many tentations and impediments and from a troubled unquiet Heart to a fixed and peaceable tranquillity of Mind for which I do most humbly thank our sweet Lord and Saviour Iesus before whom with all reverence I do avouch and swear unto you as I shall answer it in the dreadful Day of Judgment when all Hearts shall be discovered That I forsook Protestant Religion for very fear of Damnation and became a Catholick with good hope of Salvation and that in this hope I do continue and increase daily And that I would not for all the World become a Protestant again And for this which here I have written unto you in great hast I know there be many Replyes and Rejoynders wherewith I could never be satisfied nor do I desire any further Disputation about them but rather to spend the rest of my life in Devotion yet in part to give you my dear good Friend some account of my sel● having now so good an occasion and fit a Messenger and by you if you please to render a reason of my Faith to Mr. Hall who in his said printed Epistle in one place desires to know the Motives thereof I have thus plainly made relation of some Points among many Whereunto if Mr. Hall will make any Reply I do desire it may be directly and fully to the Points and in friendly Terms upon which condition I do pardon what is past and of you I know I need not require any such circumstances And so most seriously intreating and praying to our gracious Lord to direct and keep us all and ever in his holy Truth I commend you unto his heavenly Grace and my self unto your friendly love Your very affectionate and true loving Friend James Waddesworth Sevil in Spain April 1. 1615. ✚ To the Worshipful his respected Friend Mr. William Bedell at his House in S. Edmundsbury or at Horinger be there delivered in Suffolk Kind Mr. Bedel MIne old acquaintance and Friend having heard of your health and worldly well-fare by this Bearer Mr. Austen your Neighbour and by him having opportunity to salute you with these few Lines I could not omit though some few years since I wrote you by one who since told me certainly he delivered my Letters and that you promised answer and so you are in my debt which I do not claim nor urge so much as I do that in truth and before our Lord I speak it you do owe me love in all mutual amity for the hearty affectionate love which I have and ever did bear unto you with all sincerity For though I love not your Religion wherein I could never find solid Truth nor firm hope of Salvation as dow I do being a Catholick and our Lord is my Witness who shall be my Judge yet indeed I do love your person and your ingenuous honest good moral condition which ever I observed in you nor do I desire to have altercations with Mr. Ioseph Hall especially if he should proceed as Satyrically as he hath begun with me nor with any other Man and much less would I have any debate with your self whom I do esteem and affect as before I have written nor would I spend the rest of my life which I take to be short for my Lungs are decaying in any Questions but rather in Devotion wherein I do much more desire to be hot and

His Devotion in his Closet was only known to him who commanded him to pray in secret In his Family he prayed alwayes thrice a day in a set Form though he did not read it This he did in the Morning and before Dinner and after Supper And he never turned over this duty or the short Devotions before and after Meat on his Chaplain but was always his own Chaplain He lookt upon the Obligation of observing the Sabbath as moral and perpetual and considered it as so great an Engine for carrying on the true ends of Religion that as he would never go into the liberties that many practised on that day so he was exemplary in his own exact observation of it Preaching alwayes twice and Catechising once and besides that he used to go over the Sermons again in his Family and sing Psalms and concluded all with Prayer As for his Domestick concerns he married one of the Family of the L' Estranges that had been before married to the Recorder of S. Edmondsbury she proved to be in all respects a very fit Wife for him she was exemplary for her life humble and modest in her Habit and behaviour and was singular in many excellent qualities particularly in a very extraordinary reverence that she payed him She bore him four Children three Sons and a Daughter but one of the Sons and the Daughter dyed young so none survived but William and Ambrose The just reputation his Wife was in for her Piety and Vertue made him choose that for the Text of her Funeral Sermon A good name is better than Oyntment She dyed of a Lethargy three years before the Rebellion broke out and he himself preached her Funeral Sermon with such a mixture both of tenderness and moderation that it touched the whole Congregation so much that there were very few dry Eyes in the Church all the while He did not like the burying in the Church For as he observed there was much both of Superstition and Pride in it so he believed it was a great annoyance to the Living when there was so much of the steam of dead Bodies rising about them he was likewise much offended at the rudeness which the crowding the dead Bodies in a small parcel of Ground occasioned for the Bodies already laid there and not yet quite rotten were often raised and mangled so that he made a Canon in his Synod against burying in Churches and as he often wisht that Burying-Places were removed out of all Towns so he did chuse the most remote and least frequented place of the Church-Yard of Kilmore for his Wife and by his Will he ordered that He should be laid next her with this bare Inscription Depositum Gulielmi quondam Episcopi Kilmorensis Depositum cannot bear an English Translation it signifying somewhat given to another in Trust so he considered his Burial as a trust left in the Earth till the time that it shall be called on to give up its dead The modesty of that Inscription adds to his Merit which those who knew him well believe exceeds even all that this his zealous and worthy Friend does through my hands convey to the World for his memory which will outlive the Marble or the Brass and will make him ever to be reckoned one of the speaking and lasting Glories not only of the Episcopal Order but of the Age in which he lived and of the two Nations England and Ireland between whom he was so equally divided that it is hard to tell which of them has the greatest share in him Nor must his Honour stop here he was a living Apology both for the Reformed Religion and the Christian Doctrine And both he that collected these Memorials of him and he that copies them out and publishes them will think their Labours very happily imployed if the reading them produces any of those good effects that are intended by them As for his two Sons he was satisfied to provide for them in so modest a way as shewed that he neither aspired to high things on their behalf nor did he consider the Revenue of the Church as a property of his own out of which he might raise a great Estate for them He provided his eldest Son with a Benefice of Eighty Pound a Year in which he laboured with that fidelity that became the Son of such a Father and his second Son not being a Man of Letters had a little Estate of 60 l. a year given him by the Bishop which was the only Purchace that I hear he made and I am informed that he gave nothing to his eldest Son but that Benefice which he so well deserved So little advantage did he give to the enemies of the Church either to those of the Church of Rome against the marriage of the Clergy or to the dividers among our selves against the Revenues of the Church The one sort objecting that a married state made the Clergy covetous in order to the raising their Families and the others pretending that the Revenues of the Church being converted by Clergymen into Temporal Estates for their Children it was no Sacriledge to invade that which was generally no less abused by Churchmen than it could be by Laymen since these Revenues are trusted to the Clergy as Depositaries and not given to them as Proprietors May the great Shepherd and Bishop of Souls so inspire all that are the Overseers of that Flock which he purchased with his own Blood that in imitation of all those glorious patterns that are in Church-History and of this in the last Age that is inferior to very few that any former Age produced they may watch over the Flock of Christ and so feed and govern them that the Mouths of all Adversaries may be stopt that this Apostolical Order recovering its Primitive spirit and vigour it may be received and obeyed with that same submission and esteem that was payed to it in former times and that all differences about lesser matters being laid down Peace and Truth may again flourish and the true ends of Religion and Church-Government may be advanced and that instead of biting devouring and consuming one another as we do we may all build up one another in our most holy Faith Some Papers related to in the former History Guilielmus Providentiâ Divinâ Kilmorensis Episcopus dilecto in Christo A. B. Fratri Synpresbytero salutem AD Vicariam perpetuam Ecclesiae Parochialis de C. nostrae Kilmorensis Dioecesios jam legitimè vacantem ad nostram collationem pleno jure spectantem praestito per te prius juramento de agnoscenda defendenda Regiae Majestatis suprema potestate in omnibus causis tam Ecclesiasticis quam Civilibus intra ditiones suas deque Anglicano ordine habitu Lingua pro Viribus in dictam Parochiam introducendis juxt a formam Statutorum hujus Regni necnon de perpetua personali Residentia tua in Vicaria praedicta quodque nullum aliud Beneficium Ecclesiasticum una