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A48790	Memoires of the lives, actions, sufferings & deaths of those noble, reverend and excellent personages that suffered by death, sequestration, decimation, or otherwise, for the Protestant religion and the great principle thereof, allegiance to their soveraigne, in our late intestine wars, from the year 1637 to the year 1660, and from thence continued to 1666 with the life and martyrdom of King Charles I / by Da. Lloyd ...	Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.	1668 (1668)	Wing L2642; ESTC R3832	768,929	730

bettered by him as that he should be bettered by others observing little but what he would imitate and doing nothing but what might be imitated In the Morning he thought what he had to do for which he might ask Gods blessing and at Night what he had done for which he must needs ask pardon being ready always to part with and give account for his life not being afraid to look upon his score but fearful to increase it To despair because a man is sinful is to be worse because he hath been bad To be discontented he reckoned a folly because it makes that which was a punishment only before a sin now and by finding fault with God to make another fault in our selves He neither made another mans fault his own by aggravating it nor doubled his own by excusing it These virtues of his Person the great reputation of his Parts and Skill the eminency of his Practise and his known Integrity preferred him to a relation to many Noble Persons and at last to the Service of the Crown for having been some years Barrister of Grayes Inne and called with fifteen more to be Serjeant Term. Mich. Anno 21. Iacobi Regis being Puisne to them all insomuch that it was remarkable at that time that he read in Grayes Inne after he had received his Writ to be Serjeant which was done by the advice of the Lord Chancellor and the Judges he was made the Queens Serjeant the next Term I. Car. and upon the death of Sir Francis Harvey one of the Justices of the Commons Bench. Wherein with what impartiality he administred Justice to the people and with what faithfulnesse he gave advice to the King especially in the matter of Ship-money may be guessed by his sufferings from the Faction and his love from the whole Kingdom Which since we could not be so happy as to have an account of this excellent Father from his excellent Son who is as well his Character as his Child his History as well as his Issue we must be contented to take from a friend of his who would have Posterity know him to whom they are so much obliged In honorem Iuris Anglici justitiaeque Catholicae hoc magnum utriusque ornamentum praesentibus posteris colendum Proposuit Johannes Extone qui seris nepotibus hand alio Innotescere gestit nomine quam quod fuerit Francisci Crawley amicus comes ut erat ille virtutum Ille qui in paenitentiam se natum putavit diu vixisse noluit nisi ut bene vivererit simul moreretur nec perfunctorie nec morose aut superbe pius non quid faceret Curavit sed quo animo ne vel ipso pecearet officio Et cautus et castus Spectabile probitatis exemplar non ut spectetur Nil mali minimum aestimavit nil boni nimium Haud quo Ib atur at quo eundum properavit ●d rationem potius quam exempla se exigens saltem voto perfectus Nec vitia rebellium pati potuit nec rebelles ejus virtutes Infaelix saeculum pronunciavit quod doctissime nequam erat Contemplativum potius quam Practicum THE Life and Death OF Mr. JOSIAS SHUTE HIS very name is as a Silver Trumpet to his Reputation sounding out a Quicquid doctiorum est assurgite huic tam colendo nomini With whom it was as with Iob appearing Chap. 29. The young men hid themselves and the aged rose and stood up when the Ear heard him then it blessed him and when the Eye saw him it gave witness to him His name I say is an Aromatick Oyntment diffusing a more rich Perfume then the choicest of our broken Boxes 2. He descended of a Learned Race the Son of an eminent Divine in York-shire and one of five famous Brother-Preachers A man of that latitude of Learning that length of Apprehension that depth of Judgment and height of Speculation so compleat in all Dimensions that I may justly renew that admiration of Naz. concerning Basil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where was there such a mixture of rare Parts and Graces What kind of Learning was he unacquainted with what kind was he not Excellent in as if he had studied that alone 3. And though he were a man of but a single heart yet was he one of divers Tongues able to read the Scriptures without the spectacles of Translators he both drank and derived those Holy Waters out of their sweeter Fountains the Originals And even Bellarmine acknowledges the Original is in several cases to be used Luther and Melancthon valued their Skill in the Originals above Kingdoms faith Amam in Paraen L. H. Our grave Author like a wise Merchant was well skill'd in the Tongue of the place he traded to being Master of those three Grand Mother-Languages inscribed on the Cross of Christ besides some others of their Progeny 4. Filius Ecclesiae in patribus versatissimus This Son of the Church of England was most familiar with the Ancient Fathers both of the East and West Of the Greek Chrysostom lay in his bosom even till he did Patrizare become like unto him in his flowing strife and golden Eloquence Among the Latine St. Augustine that Maul of Hereticks was in chief esteem with him 5. He was an exact Historian for Ecclesiastical History especially those Records of the Church the ignorance whereof is the Mother of many of our growing Errors and Indevotions nor was he less acquainted with the Schools though more delighted with the waters of Siloah than of Meriba even a Master of the Master of the Sentences and a Secretioribus unto the Councils even of their Cabinet 6. And because the flock is not only to be fed but cured sometimes he was a singular Casuist and Chyrurgeon that knew well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to set in joynt again and to binde up the broken heart A Soul-Chyrurgeon right for all those properties of heart and hand eye no less sweet and soft in exhortations consolations He was indeed another Apollos an Eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures and as another Basil he did thunder in his Doctrine and lighten in his Life his light shined before men not only that of knowledge but that of example also in his Piety and Charity in his Gravity and sweet Affability He guilded not over Luke-warmness with the Varnish of Discretion nor allowed he violence in unconcerning and indifferent Affairs under the pretence of zeal He was at last dignified with the Arch-Deaconry of Colchester and having been above three and thirty years Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lumbard-street London an indefatigable most faithful and most beloved Preacher of the Gospel there lamenting the distractions fallen upon the Church he departed hence to rest with God Iune 22. 1643. He was born in Gislewick in York-shire and bred in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and afterwards became Minister of St. Mary Woolnoth in London and was Reader I do say and will

Empire it ●lourisheth in a too universally dilated Learning being not faithful to the settlements either of Policy or Religion it being no less ready to discover blemishers in the one than incongruities in the other Sophisters saith my smart Author like the Country of the Switz being as able upon the least advantage proposed to engage on the wrong side as on the right As to go no further this excellent Personage being among the Demagogues that had been for twelve years silenced and were now to play the prize in Parliament and shew their little twit-twat but tedious faculties of speaking makes the bitterest Invectives against the Governors and Government of the Church that ever was penned in English which though designed by him its thought to allay the fury of the Faction by some compliance with it carryed things beyond the moderation and decency of that Assembly which he made too hot for himself retiring in cooler thoughts as many more that like Brutus could not lay the storms he had raised to Oxford where his Pen was more honorably employed in detecting the fundamental of Rome their Infallibility and countermining the main props of Westminster their Hypocrisie this as Secretary the other as Student in both laying open the little pretensions whereby the poor people were insnared in their Civil and Religious liberties Much was the gall always in his Ink and very sharp his Pen but even flowing and full his style such as became him whose Learning was not an unsettled Mass of reading that whirled up and down in his head but fixed observations that tempered with solid prudence and experience were the steady Maxims of his soul fitted for all times and occasions he having sate as some Noble mens Sons use to do formerly in the House of Lords behind the Chair of State from his very Childhood and owning a large heart capable of making that universal inspection into things that much becomes a Gentleman being a Master of every thing he discoursed of Insomuch that his general knowledge husbanded by his wit and set off by his Meine and Carriage attracted many to come as far as to see him as he professed he would go to see Mr. Da●llee which rendred him no less necessary then admirable at Court until his Curiosity engaging him at Newbury he was strangely slain there dying as he lived till then between his Friends and his Enemies to the Kings great grief who valued him because he understood his Parts and Services in the Treaty at Oxford where he was eminent for two things the continuing of Propositions and the concealing of Inclinations though no man so passionate for his design as never enduring that hope that holds resolution so long in suspence but ever allaying it with that fear that most commonly adviseth the best by supposing the worst His usual saying was I pitty unlearned Gentlemen in a rainy day He was Father to Henry Lord Faulkland whose quick and extraordinary parts and notable spirit performed much and promised more having a great Command in the Countrey where he was Lord Lieutenant a general respect in the House where he was Member a great esteem at Court with his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of York where he was both Wit and Wisdom When there was the first opportunity offered to honest men to act he laid hold of it and got in spight of all opposition to a thing called a Parliament By the same token that when some urged he had not sowed his wilde Oats he is said to reply If I have not I may sow them in the House where there are Geese enough to pick them up And when Sir I. N. should tell him he was a little too wilde for so grave a service he is reported to reply Alas I am wilde and my Father was so before me and I am no Bastard as c. In which contention he out-did the most active Demagogues at their own weapon speaking when Major Huntington and his followers were for the Long-Parliament Sir I. N. L. S. were for the Secluded Members my Lord carryed all the County for an absolute Free Parliament which he lived to see and act in so successfully that he was Voted generally higher in Trust and Services had he not been cut off in the prime of his years as much missed when dead as beloved when living A great instance of what a strict Education for no man was harder bred a general Converse and a Noble Temper can arrive unto and what an Orator can do in a Democracy where the affections of many is to be wrought upon rather then the judgements of few to be convinced A Golden tongue falling under a subtile head under such a constitution hath great influence upon the whole Nation Vi sparsos heroum cineres tumulosque dividuos aeternitati vindicet Monumentum hoc aere perennius memoriae posteris sacrum Condidit L. M. Q. G. Walters tres ultimos Faulklandiae comites extremos jam an helantis naturae conatus lege attende mirare primum prudentiae Civilis normam secundum rectae rationis mensuram tertium ingenii exemplar Ideum Hactenus homines natura genuit nunc Heroas Provectiori mundo Ingenium Crevit Triumviratus animi vi magna Praegrandi spiritu eruditione omni faria Intra fidem supra opinionem ubi viataro et spera ad summa collimani ut mediocria assequaris tot nempe habes in Heroibus nostris documenta quot gesta THE Life and Death Of the most Illustrious JAMES Duke of RICHMOND A Noble person little understood and therefore not easily described modestly reserving himself from men when he sincerely approved himself unto God Great in his Ancestors honor greater in his own virtue and greatest of all in that like the Star he wore the higher he was the less he desired to seem affecting rather the worth than the pomp of nobleness Therefore his courtesie was his nature not his craft and his affableness not a base servile popularity or ambitious insinuation but the native gentleness of his disposition and his true valor of himself He was not a stranger to any thing worth knowing but best acquainted with himself and in himself rather with his weaknesses for Caution than his abilities for Action Hence he is not so forward in the Traverses of War as in Treaties of Peace where his honor enobled his Cause and his moderation advanced it He and my Lord of Southampton managing the several overtures of Peace at London Oxford and Vxbridge with such honourable freedom and prudence that they were not more deservedly regarded by their friends than importunally courted by their enemies who seeing they were such could not be patient till they were theirs though in vain their Honors being impregnable as well against the Factions kindness as against their power At Conferences his conjectures were as solid as others judgments his strict observation of what was past furnishing him for

Ille qui una cum sacratissimo rege cujus et Iuvenilium studiorum et animae deo Charae Curam a beatissimo patre demandatam Gessit nobile ac religiosum exilium est Passus Ille qui Hookeri Ingentis Politeiam ecclesiasticam Ille qui Caroli Martyris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 volumen quo post Apocalypsin divinius nullum legavit orbi sic latine reddita ut uterque unius fidei defensor patriam adhuc retine at Majestatem Nec dum tibi suboleat Lector nomen ejus ut unguenta pretiosa Johannes Earl Eboracensis sereniss Car. II. Oratoris Clericus Aliquando Westmonasteriensis Decanus Ecclesiae deinde Wigorniensis Angelus tandem Salisburiensis et nunc triumphantis Obiit Oxonii Nov. Septimo A.D. 1665. Aet 65. Voluitque in hoc ubi olim floruerat Collegio ex Aede Christi huc in socium ascitus ver Magnum ut Restorescat expectare Dr. William Bedle bred in Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge preferred with Sir Henry Wotton as Chaplain of his Embassie to Venice at the same time that Mr. Iames Wadsworth his intire friend bred in the same Colledge and Bene●iced in the same Diocesse with him was sent with another Ambassador into Spain Mr. Bedle as Sir Henry Wootton testified upon Bishop Vshers recommendation of him from a private Minister in Suffolk for many years to the Provostship of Dublin Colledge to King Charles the I. behaved himself so well that Padre Paulo took him into his own bosom with whom he did command the inwardest thought of his heart from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divivinity both Scholastical and positive than from any he had conversed with in his days Mr. Wadsworth though the most zealous Protestant of the two miscarryed so far that he turned Papist Mr. Hall afterwards Bishop Hall accosted him with a loving Letter but Mr. Bedle upon Mr. Wadsworths opening to him the Motives of his Conversion which he would not to Mr. Hall with solid Arguments to be seen in their mutual Letters extant which are Controversies of love and Meekness as well as Religion much was the expectation it seems by a Letter of Mr. Hall to him his Parts and Conferences had raised and great the satisfaction he gave when Bishop of Kilmore to that expectation by his Christian temper his great repute for Learning and Zeal his strict Life observing exactly the Ember-weeks the Canonical hours the Feasts and Fast-days of the Church besides his private Devotion his Patience and Charity so exemplary that the very Romanists whereof not a few in his Diocesse did ever look upon him with respect and Reverence testifying it by concealing and safe protecting his Person in the Horrid Rebellion in Ireland when they could not secure his excellent Books and Writings among whom the Bible in Irish Translated by him with many years Labour Conference and Study He dyed 1642 3. Mr. Iohn Hales born as I take it in Kent bred Fellow of Merton Colledge Oxford where he was Greek Professor preferred first Chaplain to Sir Dudley Carleton when he was at the Hague about the business of the Synod at Dort whereof being sent thither to that purpose he writ a daily and exact account compleated as appears in his Remains by Dr. Balcanquell and where upon Episcopius his well-pressing of 3 Iohn 16. he would say There I bid John Calvin good night and then Fellow of Eaton and Prebendary of Windsor in the first of which places he was Treasurer which is strange such his Integrity and Charity to his loss in point of Estate and Fellow such his prudence in avoiding the Oaths of the times without any snare to his Conscience A Person of so large a capacity so sharp quick piercing and subtile a Wit of so serene and profound a judgement beyond the ordinary reach built upon unordinary notions raised out of strange observations and comprehensive thoughts within himself and so astonishing an industry that he became the most absolute Master of Polite Various and Universal Learning besides a deep insight into Religion in the search after which he was Curious and of the knowledge of it studious as in the practise of it The best way to understand Christian Religion is to observe it we learn by doing those things we learn to do sincere being as strictly just in his dealings so extraordinarily kind sweet affable communicative humble and meek in his converse so inimitably as well as unusually charitable giving away all he had but his choice Books and forced to sell them at last That he was as good a man as he was a great Scholar and to use the Reverend Dr. Pearsons words of him It was near as easie a task for any one to become so knowing as so obliging He had so long and with such advantage and impartiality judged of all Books Things and Men that he was the Oracle consulted by all the Learned men in the Nation Dr. Hammond Mr. Chillingworth c. in Cases that concerned either whereupon he used to say of Learned mens Letters That they set up tops and he must whip them for them It s pity he was so averse notwithstanding so general an importunity from communicating his great thoughts by writing partly from an humor he had as his intimate friend Mr. Faringdon observes to draw the Model of things in his head and never write till he needs must and partly from his growing and unlimited thoughts but chiefly from the exactness he required in others taking a great liberty it s seems by Dr. P. of judging not of others but for himself and exacted of himself being seldom pleased with his own performances that there are no Monuments of his Learning save the great Scholars made by his directions and assistance extant but Sir H. Savile Chrysostom which he corrected with great pains in his younger days and illustrated with admirable Notes for which he is often honorably mentioned by Mr. Andrew Downs Greet Professor of Cambridge and a Collection of some choice Sermons and Letters made by Master Garthwait Dr. William Chappel a native of Lexington in Nottinghamshire Fellow of Christ-colledge in Cambridge upon Bishop Vshers importunity Provost of Trinity-colledge in Dublin and the Lord Deputies observation of him Lord Bishop of Corke and Rosse a man of a very strict method being an incomparable Logician and of a very strict life being an excellent man famous for his many and eminent Pupils more for the eminent Preachers made so by his admirable method for the Theory and Praxis upon 2 Tim. 3. 16. for the practise of Preaching so good a disputant as to be able to maintain any thing but so honest a man that he was willing to maintain only as he would call them sober truths Harassed between the Rebellion in Ireland and England where it was imputed to Bishop Laud as a crime that he preferred Bishop Chappel and to him that he was preferred by him being thought a Puritan before