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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30956	A remembrancer of excellent men ...; Remembrancer of excellent men	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1670 (1670)	Wing B806; ESTC R17123	46,147	158

committed to this trusty Messenger intercepted the Doctor charged for holding intelligence and presently Voted both out of the Assembly and out of his Estate and Liberty 10. On September 30. a Warrant mentioning no Crime was brought from the Committee to commit the poor Doctor whom they so plundred that he had no more mony left him than one poor five shillings piece of Gold which he bestowed on the Officer that conducted him to Prison There skipped hastily into his Livings those who had long gaped for them While into Lambeth and Nye into Acton Many sad months did our Doctor spend in Prison wanting his sweet Air and the comfortable society of his Books and Friends and indeed all things except a good Conscience which might qualifie the bitterness of a tedious life 11. In the height of these his sufferings it happened that a Papist sent a bold Challenge abroad throwing dirt in the face of the Protestant Church The Parliament recommended the answering of it to our Doctor whom they knew to be well versed in the matters in question Had they first restored him to his Liberty and Estate this had been a just and noble encouragement But he was a poor Israelite under the Egyptian Yoke and must be content to abate the straw yet make the brick only they voted him the use of his Books three of them at one time and by this Vote his Library was a while preserved and himself diverted the irksomness of his sad Imprisonment To work he went and at length he finished and published his Answer to the Challenge Aug. 1. 1644. in a Book intituled Roma Ruens 12. Nor may I forget another Book which he had perfected and published the same year against the Anabaptists and other Sectaries called The Dipper Dipt Whereat the Sectaries being enraged and some others threw upon him a foul and odious aspersion That Dr. Featley was turn'd Papist To vindicate himself he publish'd his Manifesto and therein saith I have thought fit to make known to you all whom it may concern that being chosen Provost of Chelsey-Colledge I have under the Broad Seal of England a Warrant to buy have and keep all manner of Popish Books and that I never bought and kept any of them but to the end and purpose the betttr to inform my self to refute them c. 13. To which Vindication in the same Manifesto he adds this Challenge whereas I am certainly informed that aivers Lecturers and Preachers in London and the Suburbs who have entred upon the Labours of many worthy Divines and reaped their Harvests do in their Pulpits after a most insolent manner insult upon them demanding Where are they now that dare stand up in defence of Church-Hierarchy or Book of Common-Prayer or any way oppose or impugn the new intended Reformation both in Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England I do here protest that I do and will maintain by Disputation or Writing against any of them these three Conclusions viz. 1. That the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the year of our Lord 1562. by both Houses of Convocation and ratified by Queen Elizabeth need no alteration at all but only an Orthodox explication in some ambiguous phrases and a Vindication against false aspersions 2. That the Discipline of the Church of England established by many Laws and Acts of Parliament that is the Government by Bishops removing all Innovations and Abuses in the execution thereof is agreeable to Gods Word and a truly antient and Apostolical Institution 3. That there ought to be a set Form of Publick Prayer and that the Book of Common-Prayer the Ralendar being reformed in point of Apocryphal Saints and Chapters some Rubricks explained and some expressions revised and the whole correctedly Printed with all the Psalms Chapters and Allegations out of the Old and new Testament according to the last Translation is the most complete perfect and exact Liturgy now extant in the Christian World 14. Notwithstanding the great Service which the Doctor had done for the Church of England at the request of the Parliament by his Answer to that Popish Challenge in his Roma Ruens yet they suffered him to continue in Limbo in his old Prison But when through bad Air and bad Diet and ill Lodging and other inconveniences he fell into a Dropsie and other Diseases upon his humble Petition and his Physicians Certificate after sixteen weeks attendance of his Friends the House granted him an Order to remove to the fresh Air of Chelsey-Colledge for six weeks Thither he came about the beginning of March 1644. but neither Physick nor Air nor Diet nor better Lodging nor Company nor Cordials nor any thing else could remove his Diseases or give him hope of Recovery 15. There he spun out a short time in much Piety and Holy Exercises although wearied with pains and worn out with afflictions whereof none were so grievous to him as the presenr Distractions in the Church and State April 14. 1645. he set his House in order and made his Will beginning thus First for my soul I commend it to him whose due it is by a three-fold right My Creator who infused it into me my Redeemer who freely ransomed it with his dearest Blood my Sanctifier who assisteth me now in my greatest and latest assaults of temptations c. The next day he made a Confession of his Faith to Dr. Loe and others April 17. which was the last day of those six weeks his Enemies had allotted him his spirit waxed faint and drawing near to death he prayed thus Lord strike through the reins of them that rise against the Church and King and let them be as chaff before the wind c. But upon our gracious Sovereign and his posterity let the Crown flourish This said he is the hearty and earnest prayer of a poor sick Creature 16. With which words and many heavenly Ejaculations commending his Soul into the hands of his faithful Creator he fell asleep But his Nephew coming in caused a small dose of Cordial Spirits to be administred to him which made him once more to open his eyes and seeing the tears of his mourning Kinsman said Ah Cousin the poor Church of God is torn in pieces More he said not but sweetly and gently groaned out his wearied and fainting Spirit and resigned his Soul into the extended Arms of his merciful Redeemer 17. In Lambeth-Chappel according to his desire he was solemnly buried Dr. Loe preached the Sermon afterward Printed To add a short Character of his Person and Graces He was low of stature yet of a lovely graceful Countenance and of a convenient strength and health of Body of a most sweet disposition being affable and courteous to all without the least commixture of that sullen morosity which some men mistake for gravity He was generally free from all shews both of pride and anger only when he disputed with Hereticks and Schismaticks in defence of the Sacred Truth his Zeal and

clear demonstration of reason that in all his reading he had not met with any that exceeded him And the Pope having heard the Doctor interpret to him a part in Latin said There is no Learning this man hath not search'd into nothing too hard for his understanding this man indeed deserves the name of an Author Books will get reverence by Age for there is in them such seeds of eternity that if the rest be like this they shall last till the last fire shall consume all Books 19. King James also at his first coming into this Kingdom enquiring of the Archbishop Whitgift for his friend Mr. Hooker and being answered that he died a year before Queen Elizabeth who received the sad news of his death with very much sorrow replyed And I receive it with no less that I shall want the desired happiness of seeing and discoursing with that man from whose Books I have had so much satisfaction Adding Though many other write well yet in the next Age they will be forgotten but doubtless there is in every page of Hooker's Book the Picture of a Divine Soul such Pictures of Truth and Reason and drawn in so sacred colours that they shall never Fade but give an immortal memory to the Author Nor did that learned King use to mention him without the title of Learned or Judicious Hooker nor his Son our late King Charles the First without the same reverence enjoyning his Son our present Sovereign to be studious in Mr. Hookers Books What the Learned Cambden where he noteth the death of Hooker and Commends his Modesty and other Virtues wished That for the honour of this and benefit of other Nations those Books were turned into the Universal Language is now accomplish'd by the happy Pen of Dr. John Earl Lord Bishop of Salisbury a man like unto Hooker for his innocent Wisdom sanctified Learning and Pious Peaceable Primitive Temper 20. Mr. Hooker's Parsonage of Borne being near the common Road that leads from Canterbury to Dover many mov'd by the Fame of his Learning and Holiness turn'd out of their way and others Scholars especially came purposely to see the man A man in poor Cloaths his Loyns usually girt in a course Gown or Canonical Coat of a mean Stature and Stooping and yet more lowly in the thoughts of his Soul so mild and humble that his poor Parish-Clerk and he did never talk but with both their Hats on or both off at the same time short-sighted his Body worn out not with Age but Study and Mortification his Face full of Heat-Pimples begot by his unactive and Sedentary Life Here he gave a Holy Valediction to all the pleasures and allurements of Earth possessing his Soul in a Virtuous Quietness in Constant Study Devout Prayers and heavenly Meditations 21. His use was to Preach once every Sunday and hear his Curate to Catechise after the second Lesson in the Evening Prayer his Sermons were neither long nor earnest but uttered with a Grave Zeal and an Humble Voice his eyes always fix'd on one place to prevent his imagination from wandring insomuch that he seem'd to study as he spake The design of his Sermons as indeed of all his Discourses was to shew reasons of what he spake and with these Reasons such a kind of Rhetorick as did rather convince and perswade than frighten men into Piety studying not so much for matter which he never wanted as for apt illustrations to inform and teach his unlearned hearers by familiar Examples and then make them better by convincing Applications 22. He never failed the Sunday before every Ember-week to give notice of it to his Parishioners perswading them both to Fast and then to double their Devotions for a Learned and Pious Clergy but especially the last saying often That the Life of a Pious Clergy-man was Visible Rhetorick and so convincing the most Godless men though they would not deny themselves the enjoyment of their present Lusts did yet secretly with themselves like those of the strictest Lives He did usually every Ember-week take from the Parish-Clerk the Key of the Church-Door and lock himself up there many hours and the like most Fridays and other days of Fasting 23. He would by no means omit the customary time of Procession perswading all both Rich and Poor if they desired the preservation of Love and their Parish-Rights and Liberties to accompany him in his perambulation and most did so In which he would usually express more pleasant discourse than at other times and drop some good Sentences and Observations to be remembred by the Young people still enclining all his Parishioners to mutual Love and Kindness 24. He would often Visit the Sick unsent for supposing that the fittest time to discover those errors to which health and prosperity had blinded them and having by pious Reasons and Prayers moulded them into holy Resolutions for the time to come he would incline them to Confession and bewailing of their Sins with purpose to forsake them and then to receive the Communion both as a strengthening of those Holy Resolutions and as a Seal betwixt God and them of his Mercies to their Souls in case that present Sickness did put a period to their lives 25. He was diligent to prevent Law-Suits still urging his Neighbours to bear with each others infirmities and live in love Because he that lives in Love lives in God for God is Love And to maintain this holy fire of Love constantly burning on the Altar of a pure heart his advice was to watch and pray and always keep themselves fit to receive the Communion and then to receive it often for it was both a confirming and increasing of their Graces This was his advice And at his entrance or departure out of any house he would usually speak to the whole Family and bless them And though in this declining Age such examples are almost incredible yet let his memory be blest with this true Recordation Because he that praises Mr. Hooker praises God who hath given such gifts unto men And let this invite posterity to imitate his Virtues 26. In the year 1600. and of his age 46. he fell into a sickness occasion'd by a cold taken in his passage betwixt London and Gravesend But a submission to his will that makes the Sick mans bed easie by giving rest to his soul made his very Languishment comfortable And yet all this time he was solicitous in his Study and said often to Dr. Saravia Prebend of Canterbury with whom he entred into a sacred Friendship at his coming to Borne who saw him daily and was the chief comfort of his life That he did not beg a long life of God for any other reason but to live to finish his three remaining Books of Politie and then Lord let thy Servant depart in Peace said he And God heard his Prayers although he denied the Church the benefit of them as Completed by himself and 't is thought he hastned his own death