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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67467	The life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln written by Izaak Walton ; to which is added, some short tracts or cases of conscience written by the said Bishop.	Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Judgment concerning submission to usurpers.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Pax ecclesiae.; Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600. Sermon of Richard Hooker, author of those learned books of Ecclesiastical politie.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Judgment in one view for the settlement of the church.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Judicium Universitatis Oxoniensis. English.	1678 (1678)	Wing W667; ESTC R8226	137,878	542

a devout contrition and at least resolutions to amend their lives and having done that he would take them though never so poor to dinner with him and use them friendly and dismiss them with his blessing and perswasions to a vertuous life and beg them to believe him And his Humility and Charity and other Christian Excellencies were all like this Of all which the Reader may inform himself in his Life truly writ and printed before his Sermons And in this year also the very prudent and very wise Lord Elsmere who was so very long Lord Chancellor of England and then of Oxford resigning up the last the right Honourable and as magnificent William Herbert Earl of Pembroke was chose to succeed him And in this year our late King Charles the First then Prince of Wales came honourably attended to Oxford and having deliberately visited the University the Schools Colledges and Libraries He and his Attendants were entertained with Ceremonies and Feasting sutable to their Dignity and Merirs And this year King Iames sent Letters to the University for the regulating their Studies especially of the young Divines Advising they should not rely on modern Sums and Systemes but study the Fathers and Councils and the more Primitive Learning And this advice was occasioned by the indiscreet inferences made by very many Preachers out of Mr. Calvin's Doctrine concerning Predestination Vniversal Redemption the Irresistibility of God's Grace and of some other knotty Points depending upon these Points which many think were not but by Interpreters forc'd to be Mr. Calvin's meaning of the truth or falshood of which I pretend not to have an ability to judge my meaning in this Relation being only to acquaint the Reader with the occasion of the King's Letter It may be observed that the various accidents of this year did afford our Proctor large and laudable matter to relate and discourse upon And that though his Office seem'd according to Statute and Custome to require him to do so at his leaving it yet he chose rather to pass them over with some very short Observations and present the Governours and his other Hearers with rules to keep up Discipline and Order in the University which at that time was either by defective Statutes or want of the due execution of those that were good grown to be extreamly irregular And in this year also the Magisterial part of the Proctor requir'd more diligence and was more difficult to be managed than formerly by reason of a multiplicity of new Statutes which begot much confusion some of which Statutes were then and others suddenly after put into a useful execution And though these Statutes were not then made so perfectly useful as they were design'd till Archbishop Laud's time who assisted in the forming and promoting them yet our present Proctor made them as effectual as discretion and diligence could do Of which one Example may seem worthy the noting namely That if in his Night-walk he met with irregular Scholars absent from their Colledges at University hours or disordered by drink or in scandalous company he did not use his power of punishing to an extremity but did usually take their names and a promise to appear before him unsent for next morning And when they did convinced them with such obligingness and reason added to it that they parted from him with such resolutions as the man after God's own heart was possess'd with when he said There is mercy with thee and therefore thou shalt be feared And by this and a like behaviour to all men he was so happy as to lay down this dangerous imployment as but very few if any have done even without an Enemy After his Speech was ended and he retir'd with a Friend into a convenient privacy he look'd upon his Friend with a more than common chearfulness and spake to him to this purpose I look back upon my late imployment with some content to my self and a great thankfulness to Almighty God that he hath made me of a temper not apt to provoke the meanest of mankind but rather to pass by infirmities if noted and in this Imployment I have had God knows many occasions to do both And when I consider how many of a contrary temper are by sudden and small occasions transported and hurried by Anger to commit such Errors as they in that passion could not foresee and will in their more calm and deliberate thoughts upbraid and require repentance And Consider that though Repentance secures us from the punishment of any sin yet how much more comfortable it is to be innocent than need pardon And consider that Errors against men though pardon'd both by God and them do yet leave such anxious and upbraiding impressions in the memory as abates of the Offender's content When I consider all this and that God hath of his goodness given me a temper that hath prevented me from running into such enormities I remember my temper with joy and thankfulness And though I cannot say with David I wish I could that therefore his praise shall always be in my mouth yet I hope that by his grace and that grace seconded by my endeavours it shall never be blotted out of my memory and I now beseech Almighty God that it never may And here I must look back and mention one passage more in his Proctorship which is That Gilbert Sheldon the late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury was this year sent to Trinity Colledge in that University and not long after his entrance there a Letter was sent after him from his Godfather the Father of our Proctor to let his Son know it and commend his God-son to his acquaintance and to more than a common care of his behaviour which prov'd a pleasing injunction to our Proctor who was so gladly obedient to his Fathers desire that he some few days after sent his Servitor to intreat Mr. Sheldon to his Chamber next morning But it seems Mr. Sheldon having like a young man as he was run into some such irregularity as made him cautious he had transgress'd his Statutes did therefore apprehend the Proctor's invitation as an introduction to punishment the fear of which made his Bed restless that night but at their meeting the next morning that fear vanished immediately by the Proctor's chearful countenance and the freedom of their discourse of Friends And let me tell my Reader that this first meeting prov'd the beginning of as spirituala friendship as human nature is capable of of a friendship free from all self ends and it continued to be so till death forc'd a separation of it on earth but 't is now reunited in heaven And now having given this account of his behaviour and the considerable accidents in his Proctorship I proceed to tell my Reader that this busie imployment being ended he preach'd his Sermon for his degree of Batchelor in Divinity in as eligant Latin and as remarkable for the matter as hath been preach'd in that