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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36875	The glory of Chelsey Colledge revived by John Darley.	Darley, John, 1622?-1699.	1662 (1662)	Wing D259; ESTC R24871	34,540	59

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

Religious and yet yield no help to advance it Being a Project to maintain the honour of the State what good Subject will not contribute to set forward this Project But to touch only the point of Gods Honour let us remember the words of the Wise man Honour the Lord with thy substance let us also consider what the Lord himself saith Them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be despised Now who can say that he honoureth God that suffereth him by Idolatry Superstition Blasphemy to be dishonoured and will give nothing to suppress Baal's Priests but is content that the Pope be worshipped like the Idol Bel Can God's Honour stand with the Superstition Heresie Idolatry and Blasphemy of Papists and the Prophaneness of Atheists It is not sufficient for true Christians to profess true Religion but they must with zeal maintain it and with heart abhor and with hand suppress Idolatry and Superstition Who will rise up with me against the wicked saith the Prophet And Psal 139. 21. he saith he hated those that hated the Lord with a perfect hatred The Law Deut. 13. is direct against such as intice us to serve other Gods our eye may not pitty them nor may we shew mercy unto them no although they be our brothers our wives that lye in our bosoms An odious thing also it is either to suffer Truth to be suppressed or Lyes to be received St. Augustine in his Epistle ad Casulanum saith it is a foul Fault to hide Truth as well as to tell Lyes Vterque reus est qui veritatem occultat qui mendacium dicit Chrysostome Hom. 25. in Matth. doth charge him to be a traitor to Truth that dares not boldly utter it to defend it Non ille solum est proditor veritatis qui veritatem transgrediens pro veritate mendacium loquitur sed etiam qui non liberè veritatem pronuntiat quam pronuntiare tenetur aut non liberè veritatem defendit quam liberè defendere convenit Some suppose that Christianity and Popery may stand together and themselves as Newters stand between both or as Mediators would reconcile both But can Christ be reconciled to Antichrist There is no Concord between Christ and Belial saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 6. 15 16. Upon which place Dr. Featly's Paraphrase is here fitly to be inserted Mark the Apostles Gradation saith he What fellowship hath Righteousness with unrighteousness what Communion hath Light with da●kness and lastly what Concord hath Christ with Belial No more agreement may we have who are temples of the Living God with Idols There is great opposition between Righteousness and unrighteousness greater between Light and darkness greatest of all between Christ and Belial Righteousness and unrighteousness the one being a Vertue and the other a Vice are opposed contrarily but Light and darkness privatively which is a greater opposition but Christ and Belial contradictorily which is the greatest of all Righteousness and unrighteousness so opposite as that they cannot subsist in the same Soul Light and darkness so opposite as that they cannot subsist in the same room Christ and Belial so opposite as that they cannot subsist in the same heaven Righ●eousness fighteth with unrighteousness wheresoever it meeteth with it Gal. 5. 17. But Light doth more it presently banisheth darkness But Christ doth yet more he utterly confoundeth Belial So true Religion not only fighteth with all Heresie and Superstition wheresoever it meeteth with it but banisheth it and in the end confoundeth it Dr. Featly Vertum. Rom. p. 156. No Toleration then of false and true Religion together no more then truce of the Dogg and the Hyaena Ecclus. 13. 18. No halting no halfing between God and Baal no sodering of Religion no pulling of Rome to Protestancy no more then the Fisher's pulling the Rock to his Boate who the more he pulls the more he brings his Boate to the Rock The Bishop of the Church of Pergamus was reproved for suffering them that taught the doctrine of Balaam and the Bishop of Thyatira for permitting Jezabel to teach and to deceive the people And shall the Church of England any longer suffer the Romish Balaamites the false Priests of Baal maintained by the Romish Jezabel and her Consorts to seduce God's people The false Priests of Bel used all Arts and cunning practices to deceive and now will not suffer any Religion but that of their God Bel the Pope And shall not true Christians use equal diligence to maintain holy Truth most pure Protestant holy and saving Truth and suppress Popery and all other Idolatrous and false Religions Ingemui fateor saith Hierome minus nobis inesse voluntatis ad propugnandum veritatem quàm inest illis cupiditas ad inculcandum mendacium I sighed saith he seeing less desire in us to defend Truth then in our Adversaries to maintain Lies Are not here motives of moment enough to be mighty with any that have any true tender Conscience more then to perswade them even to make them zealous after the Work Yet there is added more yet moving ones as followeth The College being erected then for the maintenance of Truth and God's true Service and for a resolute opposition against Errors and false worship of God it cannot but please God and content godly men if it be help'd onward The same also will be a means to increase Learning and prevent the dangers of places haunted with the spirits of Antichrist the Jesuits and Mass-Priests and therefore cannot chuse but be well accepted of all that either desire a learned Ministry or love Learning Finally seeing the Church hath received no greater dishonour by any then by insufficient and unlearned Church-men I hope this may be a means to recover some part of their lost Honour Wherefore whether we regard the Service of God or the Honour we owe unto the King or the love we bear unto our Country and State and above all that which omnes omnium complectitur charitates the Piety to our Church let us not shew our selves sparing and backward in yielding our aid to set forward a Work so religious and profitable for the Church so honourable for the State so necessary in regard of our Adversaries Malice and the defects and discouragement of our own Forces Other Collections have been either for private persons or Strangers or places remote or matters concerning some particular occasions This concerns a general good and toucheth every man both in Honour and Conscience Heretofore we have endeavoured to maintain Religion and favour others abroad let us not therefore now neglect our selves and our own honour and profit and necessary service at home Neither let any man think it strange that a work of such greatness should be advanced by this weak means or that a Project so necessary should proceed so slowly Almighty God albeit sufficient yet would have his own Tabernacle built by the voluntary Offerings of his own people Speak saith he to