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A33332	The lives of two and twenty English divines eminent in their generations for learning, piety, and painfulnesse in the work of the ministry, and for their sufferings in the cause of Christ : whereunto are annexed the lives of Gaspar Coligni, that famous admirall of France, slain in the Parisian massacre, and of Joane Queen of Navarr, who died a little before / by Samuel Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4540; ESTC R36026	335,009	323

though the wound might seem quite cured and he never so much engage forbearance yet frequent apparitions would redintegrate Et nihil facilius quam amor recrudescit Sir Arthur was a very wise man and had experience of the world thanks Master Preston for his faithfulnesse pretends Sir Capel wanted something and desires his Tutor to give him leave to stay a little while untill he could be furnished and then he should be sent to which the Tutor easily consented and so the rest went home and after a while the old man tels Sir Capel he grew in bignesse and it would be fit for him to travell before he setled and he prevails with him to be content But what saies Mistresse Newcomb who is robb'd by this means of her vowed and resolved servant and her crafty Father that beholds so good a morsell snatched from between his teeth do ye think he had forgotten this when Master Preston came to preach within his Jurisdiction Pulvere qui laedunt sed laesi marmore scribunt other injuries perhaps may be forgotten but losse of money is not ploratur lachrym●s amissa pecunia veris. Master Preston was not altogether a stranger at the Court however now there was no remedy when he came to New-market he found that Bishop Andrews then Bishop of Ely was chief and that his Jurisdiction in the Commissary was it that was pretended to be affronted and therefore applied himself to him and told him that he did not purpose to offend but being ingaged for to preach at that time could not with honour disappoint the Auditory if he suspected him for any thing desired he would examine him and satisfie himself The Bishop told him the King was told he was an enemy to Formes of Prayer and held no Prayer lawful but conceived and therefore being popular his judgment and opinion might do hurt Master Preston answered that it was a slander for he thought Set Formes lawfull and refused not on all occasions to be present at the colledge-Colledge-Prayers and when it was his turn to read them The Bishop answered that he was glad and would inform the King and do him all the good he could and bad him wait a while and then repair again to him for satisfaction in it and so time passed on and there was nothing done There were some at Court that wished well to Master Preston Sed lapsuro assistere formidant were loth to undertake a drooping cause only there was one Doctor Young an honest Scotchman that was Dean of Winchester and he told Master Preston plainly that Bishop Andrews was his greatest adversary and though he gave him good words yet had assured the King that if Master Preston were not for this expeld the University Lord Bishops would not long continue but because Master Preston was accounted and not without cause a learned man he was not willing to appear against him but desired the punishment might be inflicted where the fact was done and that was in the University Master Preston saw now that the Bishop was a Courtier and could give words where deeds were not intended and therefore goes again unto the Bishop and tels him plainly that he or none must put a period to his attendance and that either he would speak unto the King in his behalf or tell him plainly that he would not that he might know whence all this trouble flowed The Bishop paused a while on this bold carriage and at the last bad him come to him such a time again and he would deal with the King in his behalf So he goes unto the King and tels him that however Master Preston was very dangerous and it would be a very great security if he were handsomely expelled yet he doubted it would not hear well if it should be done for this offence for he would be absolved in the opinions and minds of men and be owned and applauded as their Martyr and might perhaps recover and live to be revenged and therefore thought it would be better for to enjoyn him to declare his judgment about Forms of Prayer for that would be accounted a recantation and however would weaken his reputation with the Puritans which would be enough for if they could divide him from his Party they should not fear him for he said his carriage argued confidence in some assistance which when they had removed they should be strong enough at single hand All that the Bishop spake was as if ex tripode and order presently was drawn and sent to the Vice-Chancellor that Master Preston should in Buttolphs Church declare his judgment concerning Formes of Prayer on such a Sunday or else they should immediately proceed against him according to their first instructions Master Preston was glad there was a way out but sensible of the hard hand that had been carried towards him but now there was no remedy and it was vain to strive against the stream but before he could come home the news was all about the Town that Master Preston was to preach a Recantation Sermon at Buttolphs Church on such a day This was good sport to the brave blades who now came crowding as fast as any for to hear and it was no sin now for any body to be from Prayers and indeed there was a very great Assembly though he did all he could to have concealed it So he went on upon his former text and preached a very profitable Sermon concerning growing in grace and directed Prayer as a speciall meanes to make men grow in grace Now that he said was of two sorts either that which was suddain extemporary and conceived or set enjoyned and prescribed before not only for the sense and scope but also words and phrases And whereas some thought this was to stint the spirit he said there was a liberty to use conceived Prayer at other times wherein the spirit might expatiate and inlarge it self and also the intention of the mind though not in extension and variety of language The Blades that came to laugh had no great cause to do it for this passage was at the very close and the Sermon all along before was sharp and searching both sides were silent and went home not without some prints of good upon their spirits Optimus Orator censendus non qui meruit auditorum judicium sed qui abstulit He makes the best speech that binds his Hearers rather to think what was said then who said it The good fellows were nothing so merry at the end as at the beginning of the Sermon Indifferent Hearers praised all and were confirmed in a good opinion of the Preacher Good men were glad he came so well off and was at liberty to preach again where they might hear him himself was troubled lest any thing he said should be mistaken or mis-interpreted as he was apt to be But there were many eyes upon this action and all men waited to see the issue The Courtiers did not like it that after all

together with an additament if it seemed good of somewhat of his own It hath been reported by some of those Ministers who frequented these exercises that when they could get this our Brother into that number or into the chair which latter he could hardly be drawn into he was observed to have a reach still beyond the rest and in regard of his depth of judgment and dexterity in due ballancing of points controverted and differences in opinion concerning the same he was commonly stiled among them The weighing Divine as hath been attested by that worthy Servant of Christ now at rest with him Master Oliver Bowles from the mouths of some of them who in his hearing related it For his ordinary manner of teaching it was in some kinde somewhat different from the usuall Method of the most Teachers in those times For he seldome made any excursion into the handling of common places or drew his subject matter out at length by any prolixly continued discourse But the main frame both of his publick Sermons and private Exercises for the most part if not wholly consisted after some brief and genuine resolution of the context and explication of the termes where need required of notes and observations with much variety and great dexterity drawn immediately from the text and naturally without constraint issuing and flowing either from the main body or from the several limbs of it with some usefull application annexed thereunto which though neither of them long insisted upon yet were wont with that vivacity to be propounded and pressed by him as well might and oft did pierce deep into the hearts of his hearers and not only rectifie and clear their judgments but have a powerfull work also upon their affections Nor was it his manner to quote many Scriptures finding it troublesome to his memory and supposing it would be so to his Auditours also that which was the practice and opinion also of Doctor Chaderton as they well know that heard him on Matth. 21.13 besides deeming it the lesse needfull in regard that his Observations being grounded immediately on the Scripture he handled and by necessary consequence thence deduced seemed to receive proof sufficient from it A constant form of prayer he used as in the Family so in his publick Ministry only varying or adding upon speciall accasions as occurences intervening required the reason he gave thereof was this because hesitation which he said he was much subject unto was in prayer more offensive then in other discourse unto prophane ones especially whereof in mixt multitudes and meetings some lightly too many usually were that which he affirmed also to have been Master Cartwrights practice with whom sometime he conversed In such manner of teaching he went over divers portions of Scripture Among others the fifty first and the hundred and nineteenth Psalms the story of Hanna 1 Sam. 1. and of Naaman the Syrian 2 Kings 5. Part of Christs Sermon on the Mount Matth. 5. the Parable of the Sower Matth. 13. and of the rich man and Lazarus Luk. 16. the relation of Christs Temptations recorded by two of the Evangelists the whole History of Christs apprehension araignment and execution together with Judas his end the four first Chapters of the Epistle to the Romanes the three last Chapters of the Epistle to the Hebrews beside many other more particular parcels of Scripture Of this sort was by himself published in his life-time A Preparation to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at first written out at the request of that right religious Lady Darcy for her private use and by importunity afterwards made more publick for the farther benefit of others Therewith many have been much taken by means whereof it hath oft been reprinted and among others one Thomas Foster a Mercer by trade living at Shefford in Bedfordshire a very honest humble-minded and sincere-hearted Christian hath been heard to professe that that Book and that part of it more specially wherein are laid down certain marks and signs of Faith and Repentance was as farre as he was able to deem the only outward Instrumentall means of his Conversion through the gracious co-operation of Gods Spirit working powerfully and efficaciously upon his heart in the reading thereof And since his death have been published A Nuptial Sermon entituled A Marriage Feast on Joh. 2.1 12. A Meditation of Mans mortality on Psal. 90. His Sermons on the second Epistle to the Thessalonians A Treatise of Christian Reproof on Matth. 18.15 17. And another of the Sin against the Holy Ghost on Matth. 12.22 32. which in his life-time he had been by that worthy Knight Sir Robert Darcy who died not long before him much pressed to publish but could not prevail with him being very backward in that kind much undervaluing his own works and very rarely if ever satisfying himself in ought that he undertook For the use of the Family wherein he lived he drew up a twofold Catechism as they term it the one somewhat large the other more brief for young beginners extracted out of the former which latter to save labour of transcribing he permitted to be printed What spare time he had from his constant imployments either private or publick when not taken off by occasionall Occurrences he spent most of it principally three waies First In labouring to clear some Points about the Do●trine of Faith and Justification Concerning the latter whereof after many debates first occasioned by some Lectures of Doctor Grey sometime Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge then reading on that Subject at Gresham Colledge in London that passed to and fro by reciprocall Letters between him and a special friend of his he began to set upon an exact Treatise of that Argument Which being upon the first draught of it communicated to that friend of his upon some advertisements from him he in divers particulars farther cleared and being afterward imparted to divers of prime note in either University he was by them not much encouraged only but earnestly incited to divulge it that which though by much difficulty drawn unto yet at length he did And howsoever that accurate piece was but coursely entertained by one of his Brethren in the Ministry then living in the City traducing it publickly in a Lecture at Pauls quarrelling with him who had licensed it for the Presse and framing a bitter Invective against it which upon perusall was found so virulent that he could not get it permitted to passe to the Presse yet was the work so well approved by many learned and judicious in both our Universities that divers of them have professed to have received more light thence in that Point then they had ever before from the writings of any that had dealt in that Argument Hence it was that having occasion to be sometime on the Act-day at Oxford one of those that had seen it and deeming not underservedly of the workwan by the work seeing him passe along in a plain

His marriage Conformity strictly pressed Gods good providence over him The trouble of his Wife Gods mercy His return to Newhall The Lady Ferrers respect to him though a Papist His prudence in his Ministry Bishop Neals malice Gods Providence over him His Letter about Master Rediches death Note He is inhibited from preaching But soon restored His last sicknesse His Death An. Christi 1618. His behaviour in his sickness His counsell to his friends His Burial His excellent parts His method in teaching The efficacy of his Ministry He used a form of prayer and why The Scriptures which he preached over His works that were published His zeal against Sectaries and Separatists A Disputation His Charity Doctor Halls character of him His birth and breeding His remove from Cambridge His coming to London His marriage His painfulnesse 1 Cor. 9.2 The effectualnesse of his Ministry Isa. 53.1 and 49.4 Isa. 8.18 1 Cor. 4.15 Jam. 5.20 Dan. 12.3 Luk. 1.16 Rom. 10.1 The danger of unprofitabe hearers 1 Cor. 9.27 Mat. 23.3 His exemplary life What makes a compleat man What makes a compleat Minister His manner of preaching His zeal for the Sabbath His prudence His care of his Family His Apology for quoting the Fathers His faithfulnesse in reproving sin His last sicknesse His death 1 Tim. 4.12 His birth and education His natural and acquired parts His entring into the Ministry His course of life before his Conversion The means and manner his Conversion Power of Prayer His Faith and comfort Confess l. 5. c. 13 14. His going into Ireland The efficacy of his Ministry The places of his first employment The study of the Prophesies His contests with the Bishops Mat. 26.13 The Lady Bowes her great charity His self-denial His patience and courage His carriage amongst his people Special Providence His persecution by Bishop Neal. * Gnats His last sicknesse His last sicknesse He foretels his death His death His strange sicknesse and recovery Satans malice The power of prayer His dispossessing of the devil His Birth His education His going to Cambridge His remove to Queens Colledge His Character His studiousnesse He is chosen Fellow He studies Physick His study of Astrology His Conversion He is chosen to oppose before the King His many Pupils His zeal His diligence The Bishops Hypocrisie His courage His Prudence Master Preston preacheth before the King He is made the Prince his Chaplain His travel in the Low-Countries He is chosen to Lincolns-Inne The Duke of Buckinghams Letter He is chosen Master of Emanuel A special Providence His last sicknesse His Parentage His education His conversion A special Providence His going to Cambridge 2 Cor. 7.6 A special Providence His first Sermon He is chosen Fellow of Christs Colledge but opposed His remove to Ashby His marriage His first silencing His Sermon before the Judge Judge Aderson angry with him He manageth the Petition for Reformation His second silencing The successe of his Ministry He is restored to Ashby His Lectures on John 4. His third silencing Wightman burnt for Heresie Slander He is cited into the High-Commission Court Silenced His sicknesse His second summons into the High-Commission Court His imprisonment He is falsly accused His censure in the High-Commission Court A special Providence He is sent for Leyden His constancy His humility and charity He opposeth the Brownists and Independents Master Cottons testimony of him Dr. Prestons testimony of his Lectures on John 4. His studiousnesse His care to profit by the Word His sicknesse His recovery His Lectures at Ashby on Psal. 35.3 His Lectures on Psal. 51. He is again silenced His last sicknesse His death His burial His charity His Parentage and education His going to Cambridge His Sermon at Pauls Crosse. His painfulnesse in the Ministry The success of his Ministry His piety in private His sicknesse His prudence therein His death His birth and breeding His going to Cambridge His remove to Oxford His going into Northamptonshire Gods judgements on Sabbath-breakers Isa. 28.15 Levit. 26.27 28. A special Providence His remove to Woolstone He is opposed by the Bishop His courage He is suspended and excommunicated Absolved by the Archbishop He is accused of treason and imprisoned Sir T. Lucy He is acquitted The Bishop enjoyned to ask him forgivenesse P. Petiver Binley Wood. A special Providence His great pains The success of his Ministry His care in the education of his children Gods judgements on Sabbath-breakers His powerfull manner of preaching His last sicknesse His death His Country His going to Cambridge His promotion in the Colledge and University His conversion He is chosen Lecturer in Cambridge Master of Katherine Hall His prudence in the Ministry Mr Dods testimony of his Sermons on Cant. 5. His piety His charity His death His Parentage His remove to Cambridge His Father casts him off He is chosen Fellow Chosen the first Master of Emanuel He commenced Doctor His care of the Colledge His care for young Students His care of Servants He resigned his place His death His birth and education His going to Oxford His remove into Cheshire His improvement of his parts His frequent Fasts and Prayers His constancy His Non-conformity He is ordained Minister His call to Whitmore His marriage His diligent studies His skill in comforting afflicted consciences His indefatigablenesse His unwearied pains on the Sabbath His frequent Fasting and Prayer His readinesse to do good His temperance and meeknesse His frugality His charity His humility His esteem of the weight of the Ministry His humility The necessity of stadying controversies The danger of Separation His high esteem of God His gratitude for mercies His high esteem of Jesus Christ. His prudence His distaste of frowardnesse The means of cure His love to the Church and to his Children His contentednesse His care to keep the Sacraments from pollution His dislike of separation His judgment about Independency His judgement about revelations His humility and modesty His intended works His great abilities His last sicknesse His Faith His humility His death His birth and education His preferments at Oxford His humility His holinesse His Lectures at Abington and Totnes He is chosen Provost of Queens Colledge He is chosen Bishop of Carlisle His painfulnesse His Sermon at the beginning of the Parliament His death A favouerer of godly Ministers Mr. Thomas Richardson now Pastor of Newbold Pace in Warwickshire An enemy to the book of sports His birth and education His conversion He is rejected by his Uncle His going to Cambridge Humane infirmity A special Providence His recovery He is persecuted And entertained by Sir Edward Bois By Sir Edward Anslow His great pains His faithfulnesse His preaching at Battersey His self-deniel His marriage He is again persecuted His Courage He is chosen by the Merchants He erects discipline in the Church Conversion The efficacy of his Ministry Gods judgement on a persecutor His charity His self-denial His return into England His Lecture in Wales His call to Wapping His painfulnesse A