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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64857	The life of the learned and reverend Dr. Peter Heylyn chaplain to Charles I, and Charles II, monarchs of Great Britain / written by George Vernon.	Vernon, George, 1637-1720.	1682 (1682)	Wing V248; ESTC R24653	102,135	320

most parts of Italy being grown so despicable that Fool and Christian are become Synonymous Since then says the Doctor they have no mind to be called Christians no reason to be called Catholicks let us call them as they are by the name of Papists considering their dependence on the Popes decisions for all points of Faith But then he tells of another Faction that make as ill an use of the Title Holy as the Papists do of the name Catholick that are holy in the sense of Corah and his Factious Complices who made all the Congregation holy and all holy alike He gives also an excellent account of the Presbyterian and Independent platforms and proves against both of them that the Churches Government is not Democratical and against the Papists that 't is not Monarchical but in the judgment of the purest Antiquity Aristocratical In a word he shews how both the Eastern and Western Churches opposed the Popes Supremacy forced Celibacy of Priests Transubstantiation Half-Communion Purgatory Worshiping of Images and Auricular Confession Of which last Doctrine he at large states the whole business about it from Bishop Morton shewing how it ought to be free in regard of Conscience and possible in regard of Performance But then withal he asserts the Efficacy and Power of the Sacerdotal Absolution proving it not only Declarative but Authoritative and Iudicial as also the Right that every National Church has to decree Rites and Ceremonies for the more orderly officiating in Gods Publick Worship and the procuring of a greater degree of Reverence to the Holy Sacraments In the belief of these Doctrines this great Scholar lived and died And with what confidence can any one rake in his Grave and asperse his Memory not only with things which he never opined but with those which his soul ever abhorr'd But if there can be any accession to the degrees of Bliss in the other world I doubt not but his Rewards are advanced and grow more massie with the persecutions which his name suffers upon earth Our Blessed Saviour himself was not out of the reach of malevolent tongues when his Body was laid in the Grave being then called a Deceiver by his Murtherers And thrice welcome are those aspersions and mis-constructions that make us conformable to so glorious a pattern Spiteful and inconsiderate men do ever judg rashly of things and persons taking a great pleasure to assault the Innocence and undermine the Reputations of those that are more upright and vertuous than themselves But against these things 't is commonly said and as commonly believed that some persons and those too of the most illustrious Quality have been perverted from the Protestant Faith to Popery by reading some of Dr. Heylyn's Books and particularly his Ecclesia Restaurata or History of the Reformation And Dr. Burnet in the first Volume of his History upon the same Subject has done all he can to confirm the world in the belief of that injurious imputation For after a short commendation of our Doctors stile and method it being usual with some men slightly to praise those at first whom they design to lash more severely afterward he presumes to tell his Reader That either Doctor Heylyn was very ill informed or very much led by his Passions and he being wrought on by most violent prejudices against some that were concerned in that time delivers many things in such a manner and so strangely that one would think that he had been secretly set on to it by those of the Church of Rome tho I doubt not he was a sincere Protestant but violently carried away by some particular conceits In one thing he is not to be excused That he never vouch'd any Authority for what he writ which is not to be forgiven any who write of Transactions beyond their own time and deliver new things not known before So that upon what ground he wrote a great deal of his Book we can only conjecture and many in their ghesses are not apt to be very favourable to him This Objection containing many particulars in it will require as many distinct Answers in the Vindication of the Doctors Honor and Writings and more especially of his History of the Reformation And first if it be true that any have embraced the Roman Faith by reading of that Book we may conclude them very incompetent Judges in matters of Religion who will be prevailed on to change it upon the perusal of one single History and especially in the Controversies between VS and the Papists which do not so very much depend upon matters of Fact or upon an Historical Narration of what occurrences happened in England in the Reigns of any of our preceding Princes but upon Doctrines of Faith viz. what we are to believe or dis-believe in order to our pleasing of God in this life and our being eternally blessed with him in the next Altho Iunius and others have by their reading of Holy Writ found the efficacy of it upon their hearts and from profligate Atheists have become Gods faithful Servants yet the blessed Doctrine of the Bible has through the depravation of mans Nature had a quite contrary efficacy upon other persons being just like wholsom meat which administers health and vigor unto Atheletick and sound Bodies but infeebles nature and feeds the diseases of those that are sickly and distempered Let the History of the Reformation be never so fatal to unwary and less intelligent Readers yet it was writ with an intent to justifie the Reformation and that upon such just and solid Reasons as might sufficiently endear it to all knowing men as its Author tells his Majesty Bonae res neminem scandalizant nisi malam mentem says one of the Antients Some men have such inveterate Diseases that no Physick can do them good and some Stomachs are so foul that Antidotes are turned by them into poison If any one was ever unsetled in Protestantism by reading of Ecclesia Restaurata it was only accidental his perversion being to be ascribed either to the ignorance or weakness of his Judgment or to the stubbornness of his Will or some other evil principle of his Mind It cannot proceed from any intrinsick evil quality in that or any other Book of Doctor Heylyns which abound with unanswerable Arguments to establish the Discipline and Doctrine of the Church of England against its professed Enemies of Rome and Geneva But our Doctors own words will be a sufficient defence of him unto all equal and unprejudic'd Judgments In the whole carriage of this work I have assumed unto my self the freedom of a just Historian concealing nothing out of Fear nor speaking any thing out of Favour delivering nothing for a Truth without good Authority but so delivering that Truth as to witness for me that I am neither biassed by Love or Hatred nor overswayed by partiality and corrupt affections I know 't is impossible in a work of this nature to please

in the 20th Article which thus runs in terminis viz. Habet Ecclesia Ritus sive Ceremonias statuendi Ius in Fidei Controversiis Authoritatem c. But the Regius Professor was as little pleased with these Questions and the Respondents stating of them as he was with the former And therefore that he might the more effectually expose him he openly declared how the Respondent had falsified the publick Doctrine of the Church and charged the Article with that Sentence viz. Habet Ecclesia Ritus sive Ceremonias c. which was not to be found in the whole Body of it and for the proof thereof he read the Article out of a Book which lay before him beginning thus Non licet Ecclesiae quicquam instituere quod verbo Dei scripto adversetur c. To which the Respondent rea●i●y answered That he perceived by the bigness of the Book which lay upon the Doctors Cushion that the Article he read was out of the Harmony of Confessions publish'd at Ceneva Anno Dom. 1612. which therein followed the Edition of the Articles in the time of King Edw. 6. Anno Dom. 1552. in which that Sentence was not found but that it was otherwise in the Articles agreed on in the Convocation Anno Dom. 1562. to which most of us had subscribed in our several places but the Professor still insisting upon that point and the Respondent perceiving the grea●est part of his Auditory dissatisfied he called to one Mr. Westly who had formerly been his Chamber-Fellow in Magdalen College and desired him to fetch the Book of Articles from some Adjacent Booksellers which being observed by the Professor he declared himself very willing to decline any farther Debate about that business and to go on directly in the Disputation But the Respondent was resolved to proceed no further Vsque dum liberaverit animam suam ab istâ calumniâ as his own words were till he had freed himself from that Imputation And it was not long before the coming of the Book put an end to the Controversie out of which he read the Article in English in his verbis The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith c. which done he delivered the Book to one of the Auditors who desired it of him the Book passing from one hand to another till all were satisfied And at this point of time it was that the Bishop of Angolesme Lord Almoner to the Queen left the Schools professing afterward That he could see no hope of a fair Disputation from so foul a beginning It has been laid to Doctor Heylyn's charge that at this time he was Hissed because he excluded King and Parliament from being parts of the Church But he never deny'd either to be parts of the Diffusive Body of the Church but only to be parts of the Church Representative which consists of the Bishops and Clergy in their several Councils For neither King nor Parliament are Members of the Convocation as he then proved and asserted The Articles ascribe to the Church of England Represented in a National Council power of decreeing Rites and Ceremonies and Authority of determining Controversies in Faith as well as other Assemblies of that nature And this neither deserved nor met with any Hiss Perhaps a Hiss was then given but it was when the Regius Professor went to prove that not the Convocation but the High Court of Parliament had power of ordering matters in the Church in making Canons ordaining Ceremonies and determining Controversies in Religion And he could find no other medium to make it good but the Authority of Sir Edw. Coke in one of the Books of his Reports An Argument unto which the Respondent returned no other Answer than Non credendum est cuique extra suam Artem upon which immediately he gave place to the next Opponent which put an end to the heats of that Disputation But it did not so to the Regius Professors passion against Dr. Heylyn For conceiving his Reputation somewhat lessened in the eye of the world he gave an account in a paper of the whole transaction that tended very much to the Doctors disgrace as well as his own Justification But Dr. Heylyn well knew upon what bottom he stood and therefore in his own Vindication caused the Professor to be brought before the Council-Table at Woodstock where he was publickly rebuked for the mis-representations that he had made of him And upon the coming out of the Kings Declaration concerning Lawful Sports Dr. Heylyn took the pains to translate the Regius Professors Lecture upon the Sabbath into English and putting a Preface before it caused it to be Printed A performance which did not only justifie his Majesties proceedings but abated much of that opinion which Dr. Prideaux had amongst the Puritanical Faction in those days Pass we now from the University the School of Learning and Study to the Court the Seat of Breeding and Business where Dr. Potter afterward Dean of Worcester presented to the King a very learned Treatise called Charity Mistaken and for a reward of his great Abilities had a Prebendship of Windsor design'd for him which was then likely to become vacant by the promotion of the Bishop of Glocester to the See of Hereford Many of Dr. Heylyn's Friends were very zealous with the King on his behalf especially Dr. Neile then Archbishop of York But his Lordship stuck faster to his Bishoprick than he did to his Principles and so the business ended But whilst it was in agitation it occasioned this merry Epigram from our young Doctor who was conceived by every one to have missed that Prebendship upon the supposed Vacancy When Windsor Prebend late disposed was One ask'd me sadly how it came to pass Potter was chose and Heylyn was forsaken I answered 't was Charity Mistaken But the Doctors Juvenile humor was presently converted iuto a far less pleasing passion For Mr. Attorney-General Noye left this world for a better very much to the sorrow but much more to the loss of Dr. Heylyn He kept his Whitsontide in 1634. with the Doctor at Brentford where he used all imaginable arguments and intreaties to dissuade him from going to Tunbridge-Waters the following Vacation importuning him to accompany him to Alresford where he would be certain to find a better Air and a more careful Attendance But we are very often wise to our own hurt and stand in that light which would guide us to safety and felicity But whatsoever damage our Doctor sustained by the loss of so invaluable a Friend some persons else have gained well by it having two large Manuscripts of Mr. Noys own hand-writing The one contains the Collections he made of the Kings maintaining his Naval power accroding to the practice of his Royal Predecessors The other about the Priviledges and Jurisdictions of Ecclesiastical Courts These two Books Doctor Heylyn had a sight of from Mr. Noye about two months before the death of that