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A45581	A briefe view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Q. Elizabeths and King James his reigne, to the yeere 1608 being a character and history of the bishops of those times ... / written ... by Sir John Harington ..., Knight.	Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1653 (1653)	Wing H770; ESTC R21165	84,945	232

such a fault yet now that the fault had left him as well as he the fault had just cause to complain and the Knights practise was blame-worthy to seek to entrap him thereby to the spoile of the Church and disgrace of his calling And the Arch-bishop did much noblier to hazard this obloquie of some idle tongues then to have incurred the greater scandall of betraying his Church To conclude therefore I wish all Squires and all Knights to be fuller of reverence toward Bishops and Arch-bishops and not to oppose or contest with them The play at Chess a Game not devised for or by fooles may teach that the Bishops due place is nearest the King and though some Knight can leap better over the pawns heads yet ofttimes he leaps short where the Bishops power if you crosse it reacheth the length of the whole Province Doctor John Piers. Of this Doctor John Piers who lived and dyed a moft reverent Prelate I must to give him the greater commendation do like those that when they will enforce them to leap their farthest go back the contrary way some part of the ground and by little and little amending their pace at last over-leap the mark themselves had designed so shall I look back into some part of his life and showe first how unlikely he was to come to such high honour and place as he dyed in For although he was a Scholar towardly enough in his youth of good wit and not the meanest birth having a Gentleman of good sort to his Brother yet hasting to a competent ftay of life he accepted of a small Benefice in the Countrey as I take it near Oxford and there was in great hazard to have drowned all those excellent guifts that came after to be so well esteemed and rewarded in him there first he was enforced to keep mean and rusticall Company that Company enticed him to the German fashion even then grown too common in England to sit whole nights in a Tipling house at Ale and Cakes as Ennius Cato are noted of the former of whom Horace saith Ennius ipse pater nunquam nisi potus ad arma prosiluit dicenda and of the latter Martial saith Quod nintio gaudes noctem producere vino Ignosco vitium forte Catonis habes Howbeit this Gentleman never met with such a disgrace by such company as the Parson of Limmington had whom our Countreyman Sir Amias Pawlet about a drunken fray set in the Stocks and yet after he proved both Arch-bishop of York and one of the greatest Cardinals of Christendom Neither do I bring these examples to lessen this fault as if I were to leave some aspersion hereof upon him my purpose is nothing lesse for I am rather of that Gentlemans mind that having by Fatherly indulgence tolerated the humour of gaming and wenching in his Sonne disinherited him for drinking saying of the first if he had wit he would not lose much by it of the second that in time for his own ease he would leave it but of the third he said he would prove the elder the viler and hardly ever amend it Now therefore that I have show'd you how this Bishop was in danger by this fault let me also showe how he was freed from it Being once against preparing as well himself as others for receiving the holy Communion and making choice of a discreet Confessor before whom he might powre out his soul a custom as pittifully abused in those dayes as disused in these he declared to him by the way this disposition of his to company and drinking The Preacher like a true spirituall Father indeed no less learnedly then zealously laying before him the enormity of such a Custom did earnestly dehort him from it affirming to him that though every particular excess in that kind did not reach to a habit or height of mortall sin as one act of Adultery murder or false witness doth yet if it should grow to a habit it were not onely an ugly scandall in that profession but would draw also as bad sins as it self with it Behold a comfortable example how where nature is weak grace can strengthen it upon this grave admonition he left first the vice and after the Company and following his study more industriously then before at the University he ascended worthily the degrees of Doctor and Deane and Bishop and Arch-bishop and lived all his life not onely continent but abstinent of his continence my Authour hath said sufficient of his abstinency this may be one proofe that being sickly toward his end he was so fearfull to drinke Wine though his stomacke required it that his Physician being a pleasant man and loving a cup of Wine himselfe very well was wont to fay to him sometimes now if your Grace will call for a cup of Wine and drinke to me I warrant it will never hurt you Doctor Matthew Hutton I no sooner remember this famous and worthy Prelate but me thinks I see him in the Chappel at White-Hall Queen Elizabeth at the window in the Closset all the Lords of the Parliament spirituall and temporall about them and then after his three courtsies that I heare him out of the Pulpit thundring this Text The Kingdomes of the Earth are mine and I doe give them to whom I will and I have given them to Nebuchodonozor and his son and his sons son which Text when he had thus produced taking the sense rather then words of the Prophet there followed first so generall a murmur of one friend whispering to another then such an erected countenance in those that had none to speake to lastly so quiet a silence and attention in expectance of some strange Doctrine where Text it selfe gave away Kingdomes and Scepters as I have never observed either before or since But he as if he had been a Jeremiah himselfe and not an expounder of him shewed how there were two speciall causes of translating of Kingdomes the fulnesse of time and the ripenesse of sinne that by either of these and sometime by both God in secret and just judgments transferred Scepters from kindred to kindred from Nation to Nation at his good will and pleasure running over historically the great Monarchies of the world as the Kingdome of Egypt and after of Israel swallowed up by the Assirians and the golden head of Nabuchodonozor the same head cut off by the silver brest and armes of the Medes and Perfians Cyrus and Darius this silver consumed by the brazen belly and this of the Graecians and Alexander and that brasse stamped to powder by the Iron legges of the Romans and Caesar Then coming neerer home he shewed how oft our Nation had been a prey to forreiners as first when we were all Brittans subdued by these Romans then when the fulnesse of time and ripenesse of our finne required it subdued by the Saxons after this a long time prosecuted and spoyled by the Danes finally conquered and reduced to perfect subjection by the

Pen would never have given it what may we think of him now that for preaching may say with St. Paul I have laboured more then ye all for reading lets no Book passe which for Authour matter or wit hath any fame who hath so happy a memory that no occasion slips him whether premeditate or sudden either in publick or private to make use of that he hath read But it is worth the hearing which he answers to this calumniation as well as commendation which answer being in a long and learned latine Sermon Ad Clerum I will not wrong so much to abbreviate in this place but only for that same point Qui in concionibus domininatur his sharp and modest return I could not let passe being but a line Neque enim nostrū ministeriū est dominatio neque dominatio vest ministeriū For neither is our Ministery any Lordly Authority nor your Lordly command a true Ministery But his Reading Learning preaching is so well known to his Highness as I do but lose labour in recounting either generall or particular prayses thereof I will descend now to some personall matters which though commonly they are more captious for the writer yet are they withall more pleasing and acceptable to the Reader He was born of honest rather then honourable parents in the City of Bristol which City standing in two Counties Somerset and Gloucester might move both Counties hereafter to challenge him for their Countreyman as divers Cities of Greece did Homer if himself would not somtime clear it by saying that he is a Somersetshire man or to write it as he spake sportingly a Zomersetshire man showing a towardliness in his very infancy to learning he was set very young to school at Wells but over-running his School-masters Doctrine with his docility he went quickly to Oxford yet ere he went he had a marvellous misfortune for even as if Sathan had foreseen that he should one day prove some excellent instrument of his service that must bruise the Serpents head he forgot not to attempt his part Insidiari calcaneo procuring him in a plain easie way so terrible a fall as brake his foot and small of his legg and ankle almost to pieces But if the strong man procured this harm a stronger granted the remedy for he was soon after so soundly cured as there remained after no sign or scar no effect or defect either for fight or use of this rupture After his coming to Oxford he took all his degrees so ripe in learning and so young in age as was half a miracle There it seems also the Colledges strove for him he removed so oft till he rested in that for which he was ordained a principall Vessel Christs Church during his abode there being Dean of ChristsChurch it was hard to say whether he was more respected for his great Learning Eloquence Authority countenance given by the Queen and the great Ones or beloved for his sweet conversation friendly disposition bounty that even then showd it self and above all a chearfull sharpness of wit that so sawced all his words and behaviour that well was he in the University that could be in the Company of Thoby Matthew and this name grew so popular and plausible that they thought it a derogation to their love to add any title of Doctor or Deane to it but if they spake of one of his men as he was ever very well attended they would say Mr. Matthew or Mr. Thoby Matthews man yea even since he was Bishop and Archbishop some cannot leave that custom yet Among some speciall men that enjoyed and joyed most in his friendship and company in Oxford and in remembrance of it since they were sundred was Doctor Eedes late Dean of Worcester one whose company I loved as well as he loved his Thoby Matthew He for their farewell upon his remove to Durham intending first to go with him from Oxford but one dayes Journey was so betrayed by the sweetness of his Company and their old friendship that he not onely brought him to Durham but for a pleasant penance wrote their whole Journey in Latine verse which Poem himself gave to me and told me so many pretty Apophthegmes of theirs in their younger years as might make a Book almost by it self And because I wrote onely for your Highness pleasure I will hazard my Lords displeasure to repeat one or two of his of one two hundred that Doctor Eedes when he lived could remember being Vice-chancellor in Oxford some slight matters men coming before him one was very importunate to have them stay for his Councel who is of your Councel saith the Vice-Chancellor saith he Mr. Leasteed alas said the Vice-Chancellor no man can stand you in less stead no remedy saith the other necessity hath no Law Indeed quoth he no more I think hath your Councellor In a like matter another was to be bound in a bond very like to be forfeited and came in hast to offer it saying he would be bound if he might be taken yes saith he I think you will be taken what 's your name Cox saith the party and so prest as the manner is to come into the Court make him more room there said he let Coxcome in Such facetious passages as these that are as delightfull to the hearer as a fair course at tilt is to the beholders where the staffe breaks both at the point and counterbuffe even to the hand such I say a man might collect a volum of not at the second hand but at the first that had been so much in his company and so oft at his board as I have been but that I must keep good manners remembring the Greek Proverb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Odi memorem compotorem And if your Highness had a fancy to hear more of them Mr. Doctor Dromond can as well relate them as my self both of us having met in his graces dish sometimes and tasted of this sawce Yet this kind of pleasantness that I repeat as one of his prayses himself will most seriously check in himself sometime as his fault and infirmity which he confesses he is inforced to use sometime as a recreation of his wearied spirits after more painfull and serious studies and though in these conceits the wit might seem to labour as much as in these gravest and had need to carry as it were a good bent to send them so smartly as they come from him ordinarily yet methinks it may be fitly compared to a bow that will endure bending the contrary way and thereby come to cast the better in his right bent or by a more homly comparison to a true and tough Laborer in our Countrey that having sweat at hard labour all the week asketh no better refreshing then to sweat as fast with dancing about the May-pole or running at Base or wrestling upon the Holiday Wherefore let himself call it his fault as I have heard him oft and say he knows