excellent Company He died 1662. leaving this character of his modesty behind him That as the Lion out of state will not run so he out of humility would not perform any action while many looked on With him suffered in London Learned Dr. William Wats of Cajus-Colledge in Cambridge and St. Albans Woodstreet London well skilled in the Lyturgies and Rituals of the Primitive Times to which he desired to reduce his own time setting forth Matthew Paris and other ancient M. SS of former times and keeping a Swedish Intelligencer or an Exact Collection of his own times One that imitated the piety as well as the postures of the First Christians not only conforming his Hands and Knees but chiefly his Heart to their pattern not making the Ceremonial part of their Lives only Canonical and the moral part Apocryphal imitating their Devotion not in the Fineness of the Stuff but only in the Fashion of the Making He knew the time place and occasion of the backsliding of several parts of the Primitive Church into Superstition and of ours into Confusion what was Dogmatigal in the Fathers and what Figurative Opinionative or Conjectural He owned others the Founders of most of his Notions and himself only one sent into the world to clear and improve what others had invented He Preached an excellent Sermon of the Ancient way of Mortification and lived it His conjecture at the consequence of things was as good as his aim at a Mark being as judicious a Man as he was an exact Archer that opening Recreation of a Scholar as he called it This excellent Scholar and good man who would think it was Sequestred from his Living and Plundered of his Estate his Wife and Children turned out of their House and forced to fly out of the City Next him Mr. Wâ—ston of Allhallowes Lombardstreet who knowing that the Conceit of the Physician was half the Cure and his Practice would scarce be happy where his Person is hated indeavoured to get into the affections of his People that he might get into their Judgements but yet because he humored them not in his Doctrine to get their affection for he would say with reference to the reproachful terms used in those days It was as had being a Fwaning Spaniel as a dumb Dog because he walked uprightly and would not creep or crouch using no Arts to gain them but pious Living and painful Labouring and because his smart Preaching made some galled back winch they persecuted and imprisoned him when he prayed for and pittied them saying Hadwe Ministers not desired to claw the People that we might get above one another the People had not had power now to trample on us Oh its fit the People should make it their business to conform themselves to our Doctrines and not we to their Humors Often meetings and a good understanding among our selves had prevented these calamities Honest Dr. Halsey of St. Alphage whose great fault was that he had been the Lord Treasurer Westons Chaplain heart-broken with his own and the publick calamities Among other indignities he suffered he had his Cap pulled off to see whether he was a Shaven Priest in a grand Committee A grave and courteous man neither affectedly retired or austere nor carelessly and openly familiar a man that was loath to ask a courtesie and never denied any He was an excellent Preacher because an excellent Liver and an excellent Scholar because he knew himself One of whom it was observed he never met a poor man but he had an almes to offer him nor a weak man but he had a comfort to relieve him any man but he had an advise to give him And that he seldome dreamed and if he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the good Oneirocritick found the day following that event whereof he had warning the night before and he would say he was confirmed that he was immortal because he dreamed being sure that the soul which was awake when the body slept would live when the body was dead He read Prayers always himself to shew his respect of them and likewise to prepare him for Preaching saying That if he Tolled the Bell on one side it made it afterwards Ring out the better in his Sermons Grave and learned Mr. Mason of St. Andrews Vndershaft that wise Master Builder in Gods House as King Iames called his near Relation Mr. Henry Mason the worthy Author of the excellent book De Ministerio Anglicano that digested all the errors of his times in judgment and practice into a common place instructing his people in the truths opposite to them and so convincing them of their errors never directly mentioned a beloved error till he had fully possessed them of the contrary truth finding much fault with them that jerked and girded at the popular errors of the times because they might provoke but could not reclaim the people exasperate but not reform them A good man and a good mans friend Dr. Iackson Mr. Mede c. And Dr. Clewet who said he went never from his Company but much the better for him profiting more by an hours discourse with him than a weeks study by himself learning if nothing else yet silence and reservedness from him who dispensed rather than spake his words pausing with a reflexion upon what he had said before he said any more a way of three advantages to him 1. Because so he might correct the error of a former word 2. He might take occasion and matter for a following word And 3. Likewise observing by the looks and carriage of him he spoke with frame his speech accordingly Dr. Clewet Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father Bishop King to whom he administred his last holy Viatieum in which respect he was a good witness against the Popish slander of that Reverend Prelate that had lived so renowned a Protestant dying a Papist by the same token that when he had read the Confession used at that holy Ordinance the Bishop desired him to read it over again Arch-deacon of Middlesex Minister of Fulham in Middlesex and St. Anne Aldersgate London and a Justice of Peace of more business in ending Controversies that any ten within London and Westminster both these were outed the one vexed the other Sequestred out of his livings it was Dr. Clwets saying when he heard the reproaches cast upon him that reviling was no Hurt to a good Conscience as flattery was no Cure to a bad one Doctor Chambers of St. Andrews Hubbard Dr. Isaacson of St. Andrews Wardrobe Dr. Graunt of St. Bartholomews Dr. Graunts Son who was the eminent School-master of Westminster and Dr. Graunts Father who is Minister of Isleworth Mr. Warfield of Bennet Finke Mr. Basly of St. Fosters Mr. Freeman of Garlick-hithe Dr. Hill of Katherine Coleman and Mr. Kibbuts Mr. Leech of Mary-le-bow Dr. Iermin Judge Ienkens Brother of St. Martins Ludgate Mr. Iones of Milke-street Dr. Gifford of St. Michael Bassishaw Mr. Bennet of St. Nicholas Acons Dr. Cheshire of
touched my eyes have never been blinded with any Reward I never byassed for friendship nor diverted for hatred for all that know me know I was not of a vindicative nature I do not know for what particulars or by what means you are drawn into an ill opinion of me since I had the honour to sit in that place you sit in Master Speaker in which I served you with all fidelity and candor Many witnesses there are of the good Offices I did you and resumed expressions of Thankfulness from this House for it for the last day I had share in it no man expressed more symbols of sorrow than I did After three days Adjournment the King desired me it might be Adjourned for a few days more whether was it then in his Majesty much less in me to Dissolve the House But the King sent for me to Whitehall and gave me a Message to the House and commanded me when I had delivered the Message forthwith to come to him and if a question was offered to be put he charged me upon my Allegiance I should put none I do not speak this as a thing I do now merit by but it is known to divers men and to some Gentlemen of this House All that I say is but to beseech you to consider what you would have done in this strait betwixt the King my Master and this Honourable House The Shipping business lieth heavy upon me I am far from justifying that my opinion if it be contrary to the Judgment of this House I submit I never knew of it at the first or ever advised any other I was made Chief Justice four days before the Writ went out for the Port I was sworn sixteen days after and the Writs Issued forth without my privity The King Commanded the then Chief Justice the now Chief Baron and my self to look on the Presidents and to certifie him our Opinions what we thought of it That if the whole Kingdom were in danger it was reasonable and fit to lay the Charge for the Defence of it upon the whole Kingdom and not upon the Port only And Commanded the then Chief Justice my self and the now Chief Baron to return him our Opinions Our Opinions were and we thought it agreeable to Law and Reason That if the whole were in danger the whole should contribute This was about Iune In Michaelmas following the King but by no Advice of mine Commanded me to go to all the Judges for their Opinions upon the Case and to Charge them upon their Allegiance to deliver their Opinions but this not as a binding opinion to themselves but that upon better consideration or reason they might alter but only for his Majesties satisfaction and that he must keep it to his own private use as I conceive the Judges are bound by their Oaths to do I protest I never used any promise or threats to any but did only leave it to the Law and so did his Majesty desire That no speech that way might move us to deliver any thing contrary to our Consciences There was no Judge that Subscribed needed sollicitations to it there were that Refused Hutton and Crook Crook made no doubt of this thing but of the introduction I am of opinion that when the whole Kingdom is in danger whereof the King is Iudge the danger is to born by the whole Kingdom When the King would have sent to Hutton for his Opinion the then Lord Keeper desired to let him alone and to leave him to himself That was all the ill office he did in that business February 26. upon command from his Majesty by the then Secretary of State the Judges did assemble in Sergeants-Inn where then that opinion was delivered and afterwards was inrolled in the Star-chamber and other Courts at which time I used the best arguments as I could where at that time Crook and Hutton differed in Opinion not of the thing but whether the King was sole Judge Fifteen months from the first they all Subscribed and it was Registred in the Star-chamber and other Courts The reason why Crook and Hutton Subscribed was because they were over-ruled by the greater number This was all I did till I came to my Argument in the Exchequer where I argued the Case I need not tell you what my Arguments were they are publick about the Town I delivered my self then as free as any that the King ought to Govern by the positive Laws of the kingdom and not alter but by consent of the Parliament and that if he made use of it as a Revenue or otherwise that this judgement could not hold him but never declared that money should be raised I heard you had some hard opinion of me about this secret business it was far from my business and occasions but in Mr. 〈…〉 absence I went to the Justice-seat when I came there I did both King and Commonwealth good service which I did with extream danger to my self and fortunes left it a thing as advantageous to the Commonwealth as any thing else I never went about to overthrow the Charter of the Forrest but held it a sacred thing and ought to be maintained both for the King and People Two Judges then were that held the King by the Common-law might make a Forrest where he would when I came to be Judge I declared my Opinion to the contrary that the King was restrained and had no power to make a Forrest but in his own Demesn lands I know that there is something laid upon me touching the Declaration that came out the last Parliament it is the King's affair and I am bound without his Licence not to disclose it but I hope I shall obtain leave of his Majesty and then I shall make it appear that in this thing I have not deserved your disfavours and will give good satisfaction in any thing I know that you are wise and that you will not strain things to the uttermost sence to hurt me God did not call David a man after his own heart because he had no failings but because his heart was right with God I conclude all this That if I must not live to serve you I desire I may dye in your good opinion and favour A Speech so franck and clear that it might have removed all suspition so pathetick that it might have melted cruelty into compassion so humbly and submissively managed that they could not but pity him who were resolved to destroy him weeping at the pronouncing of it and when it was over Hyena and Crocodile-like shedding tears and bloud in an instant that day Voting the Author a Traitor and without any regard to the honour of his place and trust the reverence of his years the strictness of his profession and life the many services he did that party of whom he was reckoned one and the many favours he received from them the extent of his charity and the exemplariness of his devotion employ their common Messengers to take
Bruerton by Will bequeathed to Sidney Colledge well nigh three thousand pounds but for haste or some other accident it was so imperfectly done that as Doctor Samuel VVard informed me it was invalid in the rigour of the Law Now Judge Bramston who married the Serjeant's Widdow gave himself much trouble gave himself indeed doing all things gratis for the speedy payment of the money to a farthing and the legal settling thereof on the Colledge according to the true intention of the dead He deserved to live in better times The delivering his judgement on the King's side in the case of Ship-money cost him much trouble and brought him much honour as who understood the consequence of that Maxime Salus populi suprema lex and that Ship-money was thought legal by the best Lawyers Voted down Arbitrarily by the worst Parliament they hearing no Council for it though the King heard all men willingly against it Yea that Parliament thought themselves not secure from it unless the King renounced his right to it by a new Act of his own Men have a touch-stone to try gold and gold is the touch-stone to try men Sir Noy's gratuity shewed that this Judges inclination was as much above corruption as his fortune and that he would not as well he needed not be base Equally intent was he upon the Interest of State and Maxims of Law as which mutually supported each other He would never have a witness interrupted or helped but have the patience to hear a naked though a tedious truth the best Gold lieth in the most Ore and the clearest truth in the most simple discourse When he put on his Robes he put off respects his private affections being swallowed up in the publick service This was the Judge whom Popularity could never flatter to any thing unsafe nor Favour oblige to any thing unjust Therefore he died in peace 1645 when all others were engaged in a War and shall have the reward of his integrity of the Judge of Judges at the great Assize of the World Having lived as well as read Iustinian 's Maxim to the Praetor of Laconia All things which appertain to the well-government of a State are ordered by the Constitution of Kings that give life and vigour to the Law Whereupon who so would walk wisely shall never fail if he propose them both for the rule of his actions For a King is the living Law of his Countrey Nothing troubled him so much as shall I call it the shame or the fear of the consequence of the unhappy Contest between His Excellent Majesty and his meaner Subjects in the foresaid case of Ship-money No enemy being contemptible enough to be despised since the most despicable command greater strength wisdom and interest than their own to the designs of malice or mischief A great man managed a quarrel with Archee the King's Fool but by endeavouring to explode him the Court rendred him at last so considerable by calling the enemies of that person who were not a few to his rescue as the fellow was not onely able to continue the dispute for divers years but received such encouragement from standers by the instrument of whose malice he was as he oft broke out into such reproaches as neither the Dignity of that excellent person's Calling nor the greatness of his Parts could in reason or manners admit But that the wise man discerned that all the Fool did was but a symptome of the strong and inveterate distemper raised long since in the hearts of his Countreymen against the great man's Person and Function This Reverend Judge who when Reader of the Temple carried away the title of the best Lawyer of his time in England and when made Serjeant with fifteen more of whom the Lord Keeper Williams said That he reckoned it one of the Honours of his time that he had passed Writs for the advancement of so many excellent persons Anno 29. Iac. Termino Michaelii had the character of The fairest pleader in England Westminster-Hall was much envied by the Faction upon the same ground that Scaevola was quarrelled with by Fimbria even because totum telum in se recipere he did not give malice a free scope and advantage against him who when the Writ for Ship-money grounded upon unquestionable Presidents and Records for levying Naval Aids by the King 's sole Authority were put in execution and Hambden and Say went to Law with the King the one for four pound two shillings the other for three pound five shilling The inconsiderable summes they were assessed at to the Aid aforesaid went no further than upon this Case put by the King Charles Rex WHen the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger whether may not the King by Writ under the Great Seal of England Command all his Subjects in the kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuals and Ammunition and for such time as he shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such danger and peril and by Law compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness and whether in such cases is not the King the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided To declare his opinion thus MAy it please your most Excellent Majesty we have according to your Majesties Command severally and every man by himself and all of us together taken into our serious consideration the Case and Questions Signed by your Majesty and inclosed in your Letter And we are of opinion That when the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger your Majesty may by Writ under your Great Seal of England Command all the Subjects of this your kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victual Munition and for such time as your Majesty shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such peril and danger and that by Law your Majesty may compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided Iohn Bramston Richard Hutton George Vernon Iohn Finch Willam Iones Robert Barkley Humphrey Davenport George Crook Francis Crauly Iohn Denham Thomas Trever Richard Weston And afterwards in the Lord Says Case Ter. Hil. Anno 14. Car. Regis in Banco regis with Iones and Berkley to declare That the foresaid Writ being allowed legal the judgment of the Judges upon it consisting of four branches First That the Writ was legal by the King's Prerogative or at leastwise by his Regal power Secondly That the Sheriff by himself without any Jury may make the Assessement Thirdly That the Inland Counties ought to do it at their own Charge and
Sun it could not reach him but the Bishop of Derry turned it also and made it fall upon the Shooters head for he made so Ingenious so Learned and so Acute Reply to that Book he so discovered the Errors of the Roman Church retorted the Arguments stated the Questions demonstrated the Truth and shamed their Procedures that nothing could be a greater Argument of the Bishops Learning great Parts deep Judgment quickness of Apprehension and sincerity in the Catholick and Apostolick Faith or of the Follies and prevarications of the Church of Rome He wrote no Apologies for himself though it were much to be wished that as Iunius wrote his own Life or Moses his own Story so we might have understood from himself how great things God had done for him and by him but all that he permitted to God and was silent in his own defences Gloriosus enim est injuriam tacendo fugere quam respondendo superare ut when the Honor and Conscience of his King and the Interest of True Religion was at Stake the Fire burned within him and at last he spake with his Tongue he cryed out like the Son of Craesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Take heed and meddle not with the King his Person is too sacred and Religion too dear to him to be assaulted by vulgar hâ—â—ds In short he acquitted himself in this affair with so much Truth and Piety Learning and Judgment that in these Papers his memory will last unto very late succeeding Generations But this Reverend Prelate found a Nobler Adversary and a Braver Scene for his Contention he found that the Roman Priests being wearied and baffled by the wise Discourses and pungent Arguments of the English Divines had studiously declined to Dispute any more the particular Questions against us but fell at last upon a General Charge imputing to the Church of England the great Crime of Schism and by this they thought they might with most probability deceive unwary and unskillful Readers for they saw the Schism and they saw that we had left them and because they considered not the Causes they resolved to out-face us in the Charge But now it was that dignum nactus Argumentum having an Argument fit to imploy his great abilities Consecrat hic praeful calamum calamique labores Ante aras Domino laeta trophaea suo The Bishop now dedicates his labours to the service of God and and of his Church undertook the Question and in a full Discourse proves the Church of Rome not only to be guilty of the Schism by making it necessary to depart from them but they did actuate the Schisms and themselves made the first separation in the great point of the Popes Supremacy which was the Palladium for which they principally contended He made it appear that the Popes of Rome were Usurpers of the Rights of Kings and Bishops that they brought in new Doctrines in every Age that they imposed their own devices upon all Christendom as Articles of Faith that they prevaricated the Doctrine of the Apostles that the Church of England returned to her Primitive Purity that She joyned with Christ and his Apostles that She agreed in all the sentiments of the Primitive Church He stated the Questions so Wisely and conducted them so Prudently and handled them so Learnedly that I may truly say they were never more materially confuted by any man since the Questions so unhappily have disturbed Christendom Verum hoc eos male ussit And they finding themselves smitten under the fifth Rib set up an old Champion of their own a Goliah to fight against the Armies of Israel The old bishop of Chalcedon known to many of us replied to this excellent Book but was so answered by a Rejoynder made by the Lord Bishop of Derry in which he so pressed the former Arguments refuted the Cavils brought in so many impregnable Authorities and Probations and added so many moments and weights to his discourse the pleasure of the Reading of the Book would be greatest if the profit to the Church of God were not greater Flumina tum lactis tum flumina nectaris ibant Flavaque de viridi stillabant ilice mellâ— For so Sampsons Riddle was again expounded Out of the Strong came Meat and out of the Eater came Sweetness His Arguments were strong and the Eloquence was sweet and delectable and though there start up another Combatant against him yet he had only the honor to fall by the hands of Hector Still haeret lateri lethalis arundo the Headed Arrow went in so far that it could not be drawen out but the Barbed Steel stuck behind And when ever men will desire to be satisfied in those great Questions the Bishop of Derry's Book shall be his Oracle I will not insist upon his excellent Writings but it is known every where with what Piety and Acumen he wrote against the Manichean Doctrine of Fatal Necessity which a late witty Man had pretended to adorn with a new Vizor but this excellent person washed off the Cerusse and the Meretricious Paintings rarely well asserted the Aeconomy of the Divine Providence and having once more triumphed over his Adversary Plenus victoriarum trophaeorum betook himself to the more agreeable attendance upon the Sacred Offices and usually and wisely discoursed of the Sacred Rite of Confirmation Imposed Hands upon the most Illustrious the Dukes of York and Slocester and the Princess Royal and Ministred to them the promise of the Holy Spirit Ministerially established them in the Religion and Service of the Holy Jesus And one thing more I shall remark that at his leaving those parts upon the Kings Return some of the Remonstrant Ministers of the Low-Countries coming to take their leave of this great Man and desiring that by his means the Church of England would be kind to them he had reason to grant it because they were learned men and in many things of a most excellent belief yet he reproved them and gave them Caution against it that they approached too near and gave too much countenance to the great and dangerous errors of the Socinians He thus having served God and the King abroad God was pleased to return to the King and to us all as in the days of old we sung the song of David In convertendo captivitatem 〈◊〉 when King David and all his servants returned to Ierusalem This great person having trod in the Wine-press was called to drink and as an honorary Reward of his great services and abilities was chosen Primate of this National Church in which we are to look upon him as the King and the Kings great 〈◊〉 gerent did as a person concerning whose abilities the world had too great Testimony ever to make a doubt It is true he wâ—â— in the declension of his age and health but his very ruiâ—â—◠〈◊〉 goodly and they who saw the broken heaps of Pompey's Theâ—â—â— and the crushed Obelisks and the old face of beauteous Philaenium could not but
design the greatest relief among the cares and troubles of the world was great and by his skill in Law and business successful he being the great Referee and Casuist of that Country 2. His Sermons were rational and just discourses upon pertinent Scriptures the Occasion Coherence and other Circumstances whereof he weighed duly the various reading he considered industriously the explication he made out of the choicest Authorsâ— and the most proper Learning clearly pithy and pertinent Observations Learned Moral and Divine as he went on in explication he dropped judiciously pitching upon the great Observations couched in the several parts usefully and distinctly not liking the wresting of the Scripture for a truth lost custom in that taught us to wrest it to an error bottoming them upon their proper Grounds and Reasons orderly as they lay in the Body of Divinity and of Learning and improving them to the respective duties of Morality or Christianity rationally inferred skilfully drawing first the Schem of his Sermon and then filling it up with all sorts of Learning he having the principles at least of every Art and Science 3. His Exposition of the Church Catechism was constant and practical 4. His Preparations for Sacraments were solemn 5. His and his Families attendance on the Prayers of the Church was exemplary 6. His endeavors to keep Peace Charity and Hospitality by his precepts and example were successful 7. His Visits edifying 8. His directions not to relieve the wandring poor as charitable as his Alms to the regular ones he being as severe in restraining the disorderly Vagabonds as compassionate in relief of the orderly poor 9. The great satisfaction he gave to his Neighbor-Gentry in his Learned converse being as he advised young Ministers to be in this knowing age well seen in History Geography Mathematicks Mechanism Physick Law Herauldry endeared him to the whole Country especially his happy way of reducing all sorts to that great rule What you would have others do unto you do you unto them And seldom failing in Correspondence and Visits those great advantages for a good understanding and love 10. The directions and comforts he collected for the use of the sick and the dying full and exact 11. The good Works and undertakings he set his publick-spirited acquaintance upon generous and profitable 12. How proper his discourses at Visitations from Reason Experience and Religion for Order Peace Unity and Obedience and the Authority of publick Laws and common good against private Pretences Reasons Interests and Designs as long as he assured them withall that the things injoyned were in their nature safe and in their use free to this good end he reduced most of his studies which he managed with plenty of accute and weighty matter with variety of reading with full and pertinent citations with clear and copious expressions powerful demonstrations made up of Scripture-strength of Counsels-weight of Fathers-consent and of Historick light Fundamental Laws Essential Religion with a prudent discovery of the proportions of Order and Policy of the boundaries of Government the great Principles of Peace the Quintessence of the Roman Graecian Imperial and Civil Canon and Ecclesiastical Laws streined into â—is great plat-form of Peace Unity and Settlement 13. How practical and necessary the Duties and Cases he handled both in the Court and â—rosâ— Sermons King Charles theâ— being used to say that he brought an Ear to hear others and a Conscience to hear Sanderson 14. How exact a view would he draw of all judgments in the Controversies likely to be debated of some of which there are Tables like Pedigrees still extant in all Disputations as those for his Bachelors and Doctor of Divinity Degree which he managed so well that the Professor Dr. Prideaux would say of him that none states a question more punctually resolveth it more satisfactorily answereth all Objections more fully than that clear and solid man Mr. Sanderson in all Convocations from 1644. to 1662. for he was named for Assembly 1644. though he did not appear in it in all those Controversies hitting upon such a mean as would satisfie all dis-interested and ingenious Persons as appears by the Letters of accord Printed 1660. passed between him and Dr. Hammond having a great Charity for plain-hearted Papists whose error or ignorance in things not Fundamental did not betray them either to Unbelief or Presumption or to final Impenitence or Immorality or Uncharitableness Bishop Vshers judgment in his Sermon before King Iames at Wansted This excellent man whom all wished to injoy that had read the choice Sermons he had made the solid Lectures he had read notwithstanding the satisfactory reasons he Penned for himself and the whole University which he concludes thus Quis damnaverit cum qui duabus potentissimis rebus defenditur Jure mente Quint. was turned out of his Divinity-Professors place and as he complains to the Honorable Mr. Boyle 1659. who by Dr. Barlow offered an honorable salary to incourage him to proceed in his Casuistical study which troubled him most rendred useless only he satisfied private friends by Letters in such emergent Cases as had reference either to those times or their own Affairs till his Majesties Restauration when being made Bishop of Lincoln he laboured much to keep every sober man within the Communion of the Church taking great pains with dissenters and exercising as great patience towards them as the Law did permit and sometimes more Church censures during the time he was Bishop he used with great Reverence and upon great occasions to reduce them to their Primitive Esteem and Veneration Good men he found in Orders he was careful to prefer and as careful not to admit any but good men into Orders strictly charging his Clergy to look to their Certificates that for the Churches sake they would give them not out of courtesie but conscience taking care how they became Sureties as Iudah for Benjamin for the young men to their Father This idea of a good Prelate among men the most sober among Christians the most religious among Preachers the most exact among Scholars the most useful among Ministers the most faithful among Governors the most moderate among Confessors-the most patient and constant having discharged his conscience honestly served his Prince successfully assisted the Church industriously gone through all Charges renownedly leaving nothing behinde him justly to be blamed or sinisterly to be suspected died 1662. bequeathing to posterity Principles of Government clearly stated and rationally expressed In stead of Monuments for him take these two Testimonies 1. Bishop Vshers And I proposed the case to the judicious Dr. Sanderson who grasped all the circumstances of it and returned that happy answer that met all my thoughts satisfied all my scruples and cleared all my doubts 2. Doctor Hammond That stayed and well-weighed man Dr. Sanderson conceiveth things deliberately dwells upon them discreetly discerns things that differ exactly passeth his judgement rationally and expresseth it aptly clearly and