Selected quad for the lemma: land_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
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
|
perswaded to cast my Mite into their treasury that they might be thankfully remembred by me and diligently followed by others Again that which did set a little sharper Edge on my willingness herein was that I might take an occasion to clear the innocency of Dr Feately the late Provost of Chelsey College and one that is honoured in his dust for his known Vertues eminent Piety abundant Learning and Labours somewhat blotted by Dr Fuller's pen proceeding rather in my Judgment of Charity from an Error in his Judgment then Will. But that which principally moved me was a clear perswasion of heart how much the perfecting and compleating of this College would contribute Glory to God Honour to the true Religion encouragement to Learning and Learned men in every Age what invincible help and assistance it might afford our Gracious King and his Royal Successors against the many subtil and unwearied Adversaries of Christ's Kingdom Gospel Faith Doctrine and holy Discipline lastly what chearfull and beautifull light of divine and heavenly knowledge what soul-reviving and refreshing satisfaction the Lords People in these three Nations yea in all the world continually in every Age and Condition might receive from the Studies Disputations and Writings of such eminentlyqualified Persons as ought to have been chosen into the Orthodox Society and Learned Fellowship of this College so richly provided for and happily accommodated with encouragements of every kind Prolixity must be avoided I therefore reine in imploring the choicest Blessings of Heaven upon my Dear Sovereign his Royal Relations and Great Councel that the work of Righteousness may be Peace and the effect of Righteousness Quietness and Assurance in our Land Now the Great Counsellor give thee Good Reader peace and understanding in all things and that by all Means Which is the Prayer of the unworthiest of those that serve thee in the Faith JOHN DARLEY Erratum Pag. 7. lin 3. for read but. THE GLORY OF CHELSEY COLLEGE REVIVED I Shall not by any needless flourish of my own words begin this Treatise of CHELSEY College but First deliver the disert words of the Act of Parliament made in the seventh year of King James of Blessed Memory in the behalf of the same College as also a Declaration published by Authority in the year 1616. concerning the Reasons that moved his Majesty and the State to erect the same God assisting me as I find it diligently Collected and extracted to my hand by the Author of the most Remarkable Monuments of London and the Precincts thereof Then Secondly give you Bishop Hall's Judgement and Recommendation with Dr. Fuller his more special report of it as also Mr. Baxter's Instigation for it and Grounds of the Necessity of prudent provision of Able and adequate Men for the work And so I shall in the Conclusion adde something concerning Dr. Sutcliffe his being the first Mover under God to advance the design in this beginning of the Embryo that it now appears in Thirdly I shall intimate the Obstructions and Impediments of it Fourthly adjoin some prevalent Motives for the Renewing or rather the reviving of the Design to it 's original intended perfection Fifthly stop the mouth of the chiefer Objections against it Sixthly propose the means though in these hard and Exhausted times to compleat it Lastly conclude with prayer for Grace Grace unto it First The Abstract of the Act runs thus Whereas his Majesty of his Royal and zealous Care for the defence of true Religion now established within this Realm of England and for the Refuting of Errors and Heresies repugnant to the same hath been graciously pleased by his Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England to found a College in Chelsey near London and therein to place certain Learned Divines and to incorporate the same by the Name of the Provost and Fellows of the College of King James in Chelsey of the foundation of the same James King of England and hath of his most gracious Goodness and Bounty not only endowed the same with certain Lands Privileges and Immunities but hath also for their further Maintenance and sustentation given unto them a Capacity and Ability to receive and take from his Majesty or any of his Loving Subjects any Lands Tenements Hereditaments Gifts Benefits and Profits whatsoever not exceeding in the whole the yearly value of three thousand pounds as in and by the said Letters Patents doth more at large appear And whereas also it is manifest and evident that the bringing in of such streams of Running water to the City of London is very convenient necessary and profitable as well for the private use of such as shall rent the same for the help of cleansing the said City in the time of sickness and preserving the same against all suddain Adventures of fire c. whereby they had the free Grant of and for draining the field and Marishes between the Bridge called Lock-bridge in or near the parish of Hackney in the County of Middlesex and the Bridge called Bow-bridge at Straford-Bow in the parish of Stepney in the said County c. Which by reason of the Ample Grant may seem to be a Royal Privilege indeed yet by reason of the vast Labour and Cost not only of digging and trenching but of buying leave of the owners of the grounds fields and limitations may seem with Reverence be it spoken and regard had to Clergy-men not versed in such Affairs not only like that in Holland but somewhat resembling that of Hercules his Labour of cleansing Augeas his stable wherein 3000 Oxen so long were tyed up by drawing the River Alpheus to run through it When I consider the many Provisions in that Grant it appears somewhat like the Arduousness of their task and undertaking Notwithstanding Christian duty ought especially when back'd with so many advantageous incouragements to swallow up greater difficulty It is the most holy exhortation Jude 3. Earnestly to contend for the Faith once delivered to the Saints And it is the delight of the Holy One to behold his enabled Servants studying and labouring to ridd the Land of the immense Dunghill of Errors and Heresies which is not for every hand that can make of Scripture fine Posies in Preaching but are too tender to pluck up or thrust away thorns this can be done only by men fenced with Iron and the staffe of a speare 2 Sam. 23. 6 7. And this above all is now if ever especially to be looked unto that the Cause of Christ be not betrayed and lost in this Age abounding with so many Anti-Christian deceipts A brief declaration of the Reasons that moved his Majesty and the State to erect a College of Divines and other Learned men at Chelsey together with a Copie of his Majesties Letters in favour of the same and an Addition of some Motives very forceable to excite the zeal of good Christians to a voluntary and liberal Contribution Vnderstanding by experience that want of Information hath much hindred mens Devotion
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