way the other bends to Sedition Blood-shed and Confusion if it be left to the Multitude Which caused the good Father to complain of the Donatists Basilicas invasistis multi ex numero vestro per loca plurima cruentas operati sunt caedes And what outragious acts were done by the Donatists against Churches Altars consecrated Vessels and necessary utensils for the Sacrament Haec omnia furor vester aut rasit aut fregit aut removit saith Oplatus All these things your fury hath raz'd down or defaced or taken them away And hath not this been the practice of some Reformers God be thanked not in the Church of England and let other Churches of the reformed Religion look to themselves I am sure it is a detestible Principle which the Primitive Christians from their hearts did abhor that if the Magistrate will not reform the Church and State then the people must Their Piety and Patience is most exemplary to us that we should rather suffer for true Religion than make resistance or Reformation by rebellion It was a seditious saying of Donatus Quid est Imperatori cum Ecclesia What hath the Emperor to do with the Church But be he either Heathen or Christian and if Christian either Orthodox or Heterodox in the Faith the good Catholicks did not then seek to establish their Religion vi armis much less without his Authority or at least connivance of their Emperors publickly exercise their Religion Secondly that which so imbitters Mr. Baxter against Dr. Heylyn is saith he That Heylyn would make men believe that it was Presbyteriaas in England that began the late Strife and War And who believes otherwise but they who have a bloody mind to War again Have we not seen it with our Eyes and others who were unborn then have heard with their Ears the same by many Witnesses and Writers besides Dr Heylyn What must men deny their senses It is not in the power of the Doctor nor any other to possess people with a belief and perswasion of things whether they will or no but as they appear evident to sense reason or understanding they give credit to them accordingly Mr. Baxter imitates the Papists He thinks of the War as they do of the Gun-powder Plot that it is so long ago it must be either forgotten or cannot be proved He and those of his Tribe would be blowing their Trumpets again for a second War and cry out to your Tents O Israel but God in his mercy I hope will preserve the Land that is grown more wise by sad experience of the late troubles than to be twice deceived The pretence of Reformation and Reformers whose Credit Mr. Baxter would still hold up he cannot endure they should be touched was the Pulchra Laverna of Rebelion both in England and Scotland Who were the first Reformers but the Presbyterians Who was it An Episcopal man or a Presbyterian that said Strike the Basilick vein for nothing else will cure the plurisy of our State and after followed the fatal stroke given upon the Lords anointed to the terror and consternation of the whole Kingdom but much more to the shame and confusion of it And how many years after was this Nation ridden with the Reformers That it might have been called instead of France Regnum Asinorum for the unmerciful loads of Oppression it groaned under till at last wearied and tired out with them it kickt off her Riders and I am confident will never take to them again For what were the fruits of the godly Reformation Sacriledge and a continued Rebellion Church and Crown Robberies the King deprived of all his Right and Revenues and the Church of her ancient Demeans and Dignities from both which as no good consequence any one might conceive did follow a horrible Anarchy and confusion not only Dr. Heylyn but the World it self is judge of these things whether the Presbyterians were not the Principal and I may say the only causes of the late Wars and those evils attending them I think the Doctor set the Sadle upon the right Horse But I am sure Mr. Baxter doth not when he puts Lads and Dr. Heylyn together who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and very irreverently conjoyned together yet perhaps those Boys think themselves as good Men as Mr. Baxter and possibly to have as much Learning however more discretion in them than appears in him who shamefully complains of his feebleness to his Wife For modesty sake I dare not set down the words written at the end of his Letter to her which he hath printed in his Narrative of her Life But who are these Lads that knew not the War and yet will be talking of it I very well apprehend his meaning and confess I was then but a Youth but now am old and gray-headed that what I have written I hope to make good and fear not to meet Mr. Baxter upon a fair Challenge any where in the half-way except between Lynsel and Longford In the mean while he who Styles himself so proudly in the Title page of his Church History Richard Baxter a Hater of false Histories Let him not falsisie Dr. Heylyn nor others who approve themselves truer Historians than himself whom I now attach for falshood in saying this scandalous story of the Doctor That he himself had laid much of the War on the Arch-Bishops and Bishops and on the Parliaments complaints of Popery Arminianism and arbitrary illegalities In his Hist. of Presb. pag. 465. pag. 470. In all which pages ne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quidem there is not a word or syllable can be found of these things nor to such purpose that I wonder he hath the face to charge Dr. Heylyn with them when he pro fesseth himself to be a Hater of false Histories no sooner the word is out of his mouth but within a page or two he makes this abominable falsity I do suspect him now more than ever about Major Iennings business and conclude him to be guilty Could any one rationally think that the Doctor who in all his Time and Books appeared a most zealous Champion for the Bishops and in that cause I may say was Dr. Irrefr agabilis would lay to their charge much or little that they were procatarcical causes of the War especially when he vindicates them in all his Writings from this malicious aspersion which the Puritan Faction would have thrown upon them He was not a man of contradictions like Richard Baxter in most of his Writings for which every Lad is apt to lug his Beard as the Poet said of the Stoick vellent tibi barbam lascivi pueri No no he had a wiser Head-piece and better Memory than any Baxter That he never exposed himself to shame or censure for any contradiction that could be fouud in all his Writings Qualis ab inâ—…epto processerit sibi constet Instead of Mr Baxters Allegation the Doctor tells us in the same page 464
with the Name of its Author Therefore I must crave leave of the Reader 's Patience to shew how I come concern'd and have been uncivilly dealt with by George Vernon as he writes himself Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire a Man utterly unknown to me before this affair Nec beneâ—…icio nec injuria mihi notus About four years agoe hearing that Mr Hen. Heylyn my Brother in law did intend to print his Fathers life before some miscellaneous pieces of his Writings I made a tender of my service to that work for which I could propose no other advantage to my self than my labour for my pains and only to testifie my real reverence and hearty affection to his Father and mine whom I ever honoured for his learning and good life And because I thought such a duty might be more reasonably expected from me his Son-in-Law than any other who was a stranger to him especially when he was pleased to put several papers into my hands to transcribe and had often discoursed various passages of his Life to me which I know none in the world can give an account of but my self Yet since his Sons fancy led him to make choice of another before me I was satisfied and did patiently expect the coming forth of the work not only Term after Term but year after year a very considerable time for so small a Tract But at last instead of the Life came a Letter to me from a Book-Seller in London viz. Mr. Chr. Wilkinson at the sign of the black Boy in Fleetstreet to desire my assistance for the thing as he writ was at a stand The printing of which Mr. Harper his Friend would not have undertaken had not Mr. Heylin assured him that I was engaged in it because it must needs be as he said lame and imperfect if it was done without my knowledge who was â—…quainted with all the transactions of the Doctors Life But to those Letters I returned several flat denyals thinking it below me to medle in that which another had before undertaken much less to be his journey man to patch up what I should have made new Besides I had no confidence in the Man so bold and forward in the work because he was a mere stranger to my Father Heylyn as he now publickly confesses and I beleive never saw the Doctors face in his Life Yet still I was importun'd and his writings were sent down to me withal to let me know the Writer was willing I should make what alterations in them and additions to them I pleased for which I have Mr. Wilkinsons letter by me in his verbis a person so honest as will not deny his own words Reverend Sir I Received your Letter and am again troublesome to you Mr. Harper assures me that he thought you had been first concern'd in writing your Fathers Life by Mr. Heylyn's recommendation But afterwards he found that one Mr. Vernon of Gloucester has collected the papers which compose the Life whom Mr. Heylyn desired to perfect the said Vernon has desired Mr. Harper to communicate the papers to whom he pleases and cross out or add what is thought convenient to which purpose he designes to send the said Life down to you and do with it as you think good and if you think â—…itting put your own Name to it for Mr Vernon will not have his name made use of I thought good to acquaint you hereof and desire you will be pleased to give me a line or too Sir I am Your obliged and humble Servant Christopher Wilkinson London February 18. 1680 At the receipt of this Letter I was unwillingly perswaded by some Friends to send to Lincoln for the Gentlemans Manuscript which had laid at the Carriers house above three weeks And when it came into my hands I found it indeed according to the Booksellers description in another Letter lame and imperfect And I must say ill begun and worse carried on and abruptly concluded Nay some things false and scandalous tending to the disreputation and not the honour of my Father Besides half the Life for want of other matter when those few old Notes failed him which Mr. Heylin had lent him was stuffed out with a long story of Westminster and a farrago of needless transcription out of Dr. Heylins Books for no other purpose then to prove the Doctor was no Papist Quorsum haec perditio For did ever any lay this to his charge but the Puritan Sectaries who were his profest Enemies I will call Doctor Burnet his very good Friend who I am sure will stand his second in this challenge for he saith I doubt not but he was a sincere Protestant But this only was his mishap first to write the History of Reformaaion and his second hath so far outgone him that ever since the poor Doctor has suffered in his Reputation and the Church of England nick-named with Popery which odious name first took its epoch and God be thanked is of no elder date from the beginning of the late History of Reformation and the thankful Parliament to the Historian Since then our Religion and Hierarchy has been hunch'd at by every Clown and Fanatick Others more unnaturally like Nero to Agrippina have searched into the secret Entrals of their Mother ript up her Bowels to see if they could find a Pope in her Belly Therefore the good old Doctor lyes no more under the malicious slander and suspicion of Popery than our dear Mother the Church of England for her excellent Wisdom in keeping up a medium beâ—…wixt the two extreams of Popery and Fanaticism Bâ—…t to return to my Gentleman again out of respect to my Brother because he was his Acquaintance I dealt most ingenuously with the Life made several Additions to it corrected many mistakes abated only the Harangue of Transcriptions and such passages as I thought were disgraceful reflections on my Reverend Father I put it into a method which was before very confused Cui lecta potenter â—…rit res Neo facundia deseret hunc nec lucidus ordo as the Poet said I also disposed both his and my own Discourses into distinct Paragraphs that the one might be known from the other And finally I writ this civil Letter of Thanks to him which I sent up to the Book-seller and ordered to be printed before the Life and it is as followeth Sir THough I have not the good Fortune to be aequainted with you nor in all probability eveâ—… shall at so far a distance as we live asuâ—… yet I cannot but express a most hearty thanks for your reverence and high esteem of Dr. Heylyn and for the pains you have bestowed about his Life In the carrying on of which notwithstanding I have taken the greater Task upon my self and should have undertook it wholly if I had been first engaged in it because I am related to the Family and know more material circumstances for this purpose than any man now living
in this Case that most Writers are in love with their Paper-works but the World should first judge whether there is any excellency or real worth in them otherwise it is a fond fancy Narcissus like for any one to be inamoured with his own Shaddow But that which is worse than all this I perceive the Writer is not consistent with himself but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Poets words difficilis facilis juâ—…undus acerbus es idem Because one while he plays the Satyrist against the Fanaticks and afterward turns Factor for the Papists whose cause he could not plead better to please the holy Fathers of the Ignatian Society founded since Luther's time than to render the Name of Protestant odious ` A Name ` saith he that imports little in it of `the positive part of Christianity God forbid and let us then put this into our Litany Lord have mercy upon our Souls who profess our selves to be Protestants and not Papists if the positive part of Christianity be wanting among us For by Name what doth he or can he mean but our Religion and Christian Profession For the Name of Protestant it self is but Thema simplex I may say vox praeterea nihil no more is Catholick Christian Orthodox or any other Name Nomina imponuntur rebus Names are given to things to diversify and distinguish them one from another or else how are they significative of themselves While he goes about to unchristian the Name Protestant or at least makes it Terminus diminuâ—…ns a very slighty Name indeed he endeavours to overthrow the true Protestant Religion For ever since the first Reformation and change of Religion wrought among us by our just and necessary separation from communion with the Church of Rome we and our Fore-fathers have constantly gone under the Name of Protestants though originally I acknowledge this Name was taken up by those Princes of Germany who adhering to Luther's Doctrine made their Protestation at Spires the imperial Chamber and afterward set forth the Augustane Confession since which time the Church of England having cast off the Papacy this Name hath been the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or remark of distinction betwixt us and Papists Our Kings and Princes not only acknowledging the same but have defended the Protestant Religion his most sacred Majesty whose Life God long preserve among us in most or all his Speeches unto his High Court of Parliament hath graciously declared to secure and defenâ—… the Protestant Interest and Religion His Royal Father the most glorious Martyr of our Church but two days before his Death told the Princess Elizabeth That he should die for the maintaining the true Protestant Religion and charged her to read Arch-Bishop Laud's Book against Fisher to ground her against Popery And why were the Jesuiâ—…s so active about his Death that some of them became Agitators in the Independant Army but because it was agreed before by the Pope and his Council saith Dr. du Moulin that there was no way for advancing the Catholick Cause in England but by making away the King of whom there was no hope to turn from hiâ—… Heresie because he was a Protestant I cannot omit Arch-Bishop Laud's words at the time of his Tryal before the Lords Anno Dom. 1643. Saith he Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business of Religion so far from all practice or so much as thought of practice for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing of the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my Mother first â—…are me into the World In his Speech upon the Scaffold before his Death he saith thus of the King I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign He hath â—…een mâ—…d traduced for bringing in of Popery â—…ut on my Conscience of which I shall give God a very present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any Man living and I hold him to bâ—… as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any Man in this Kingdom And now hath not this Name Protestant which imports our Religion been owned by all our Judges and Lawyers the Lord chief Justice speaking of Papists If they cannot saith he at this time live in a Protestant Kingdom with security to their Neighbours but cause such fears and dangers and that for Conscience sake then let them keep their Conscience and leave the Kingdom Mr. Justice Wild in like manner Had such a thing as this been acted by us Protestants in any Popish Country in the World I doubt there would not have been scarce one of us left a live I might bring in here Sir William Jones Mr. Finch Mr. Recorder of London And truly if we are ashamed of our Name we may be of our Religion and cannot blame Popish Plots to subvert it if we hold not funâ—…lamentals which are the positive parts of Christianiâ—…y The Jesuit hawketh not for â—…parrows his zeal to destroy our Religion carries him through Fire and Water Sea and Land over Rocks and Mountains to gain a Proselyte according to those Verses I find in Pareus alluding to the Pharisee and Hor the Poet. Impiger extremos Jesuita excurrit ad Indos Per mare discipulum quaerens per saxa per ignes Juventumque facit se duplo deteriorem Sea Land Fire craggy Rocks and Indian Shore A Jesuit's frantick zeal transports him o're One Romish Proselyte to make once made Child of the Devil twice then before he 's said Nay he hath the patience to stay at home and there no dull Stoick can excel him in this Vertue if he be once commanded by his Superior he will obey though his work be no other saith Mapheus than to water a dry log of Wood for a year together he will not presume to ask the reason why but does it Then how much more ready is he to propagate the Gatholick Cause and in order thereto adventure upon any action if it be to the hazard of his Life while he is commanded by his Father General at Rome and the Congregatio de Propaganda fide What will not he undertake to extirpate the Name of Protestant and think he does God Service for if positive Christianity be not imported in it then we are Negatives we are Jews Infidels Pagans and cannot be denominated Christians for Positive and Negative are contradicentia there can be no reconciling or tacking them together and accoâ—…ding to my Logick a Contradiction is omnium oppositorum fortissima the strongest and most forcible of all oppositions But I would know what are the Principles of Protestantisâ—… that are so contradictory to Christianity they must be either credenda or facienda matters relating to Faith or Christian practice Do we hold any points of Faith contrary to the Primitive Catholick Church Or deny Obedience to the Commands of God either in his Law or Gospel
In a word are Protestants Christians or no Or only nominal and not real I think they are the best and purest sort of Christians ever since the Apostolick times that they come nearest the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the example of them at Antioch who were first called Christians We do not know how to distinguish men of the Church of England from the Church of Rome but by this characteristial Name or Appellation because in the times of Popery as appears not only by Linwood but by the constitutions of Otho and Othobon The Ecclesiastical Body of this Nation was anciently called the Church of England Ecclesia Anglicana and so it continueth to this day but with this discrimination only that we are Protestants in the Church of England and not Papists I know it will be objected this Name is abused by Fanaticks who impudently dare arrogate it to themselves and are ordinarily now called Protestants What then Abusus non tollit usum they are Protestants Catachrestice as Papists call themselves Catholicks And if they will boldly usurp the Name which no way belongs to them their Tongues are their own and they will speak Who is Lord over us say they And who can hinder them The Hereticks of old time who were ex parte Donati of Donatus side did the like and yet the Orthodox deemed themselves never the worse for their Pride and Usurpation The Name of Christian was common both to them and the Orthodox as Optatus the good Father tells them Pro utrisque illud est quod nobis commane est vobis Such Scandals are unavoidable therefore with patience must be born And it was the like complaint of Lactantius but what Remedy The Novatians Valentinians Marcionites and Arrians saith he Quilibet alij nominantur Christiani Christiâ—…i esse desâ—…runt any other Hereticks were called Christians though they were none So that 't is no wonder the Sectaries of our Age will confidently take upon themselves the Name of Protestants they do but as other Schismaticks who were their ancient Predecessors Mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur Yet some of the baser sort of them as Quakers and Independents despise the Name of Protestant and hold it in as great derision as the Papists do and no doubt have learned from the soul Mouth of Father Doleman alias Parsons and from Watson in his Quodlibets to call us of the Church of England Queen Besses Protestants However it does not become any Son of the Church much less the Rector of Bourton to bite and snarl at the Name of Protestant which distinguishes him from a Mass-priest especially in such times as ours when Papist and Fanatick joyn hand in hand mouth and tongue together against us because our Church is of Queen Elizabeths Religion and Reformation A Queen notwithstanding the malicious slanders of her Enemies the Popes Bull of Damnation against her and the Non-Conformists now Condemnation of her She was the most admired Princess of Europe in her time the glory and wonder of her Sex etiam supera Sexum saith Thuanus though himself a Papist and Beza the Successor of Calvin at Geneva gives her this Character of high praise which methinks our Dissenters should assent unto that she was a Queen God sent from Heaven to be a Nursing Mother at home unto the Church of England and to Protestant Churches abroad Let us hear his words more fully In Anglia opus Domini qui serenissimam illam ecclesiarum non tantum Anglicanarum fortissimam instauraticem verum etiam peregrinarum religiosissimam nutricem Flizabetham instaurandae suae Domui quasi sua ipsius manu coelitus demisit God be thanked also the Reformation of Religion and the Church of England became Protestant before her time Our Religion being established by Law in the Reign of her young Brother the most excellent Prince Edward the 6th whose Laws were written in Milk and not in Blood like those of Queen Mary his Sister who succeeded him Our Religion and Ecclesiastical Government by Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. is still the same as was in the Reigns of Edward the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth of blessed Memory in whose time this Kingdom was accounted Regnum Evangelii the Kingdom of the Gospel Now why our Dissenters should dissent why they should be so averse to the Protestant Religion then established by Law and is now the very same in all Articles of Faith Form of Worship and Ecclesiastical Discipline and yet they are not satisfied I must profess that I see no reason for their dissatisfaction but Will and Humor that they are as they have been and still resolve to be of a perverse and democratical Spirit in all matters relating to Church and State much less cause have they to reproach the Name of the most Renowned Queen Elizabeth which has been held in exceeding great veneration among all Protestants in forreign Kingdoms whose incomparable Vertues of Learning Piety Prudence Modesty Meekness Stoutness and other rare Perfections are described by a Poet living in her days and are as followeth O 〈◊〉 solum sapias 〈◊〉 Anglia parte hac Ut grate agnoscas Jovis benefacta 〈◊〉 En dedit affectam divina mente 〈◊〉 Imperij quae â—…um docta ingeniosa severa Et 〈◊〉 veneranda pudica animosa venenda 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tenera 〈◊〉 commoda 〈◊〉 Tot tibi contulerit quot 〈◊〉 nemo priorum Et quae vera Dei sit religione fruare Papa fugit solio Patris Regina locatur May be Englished thus O England native Soil of mine pay thanks to Jove The great and powerful God of Heaven above No one with larger gifts he could inspire Than such a noble Princess for Empire Learn'd ingenious modest meek and bold England's great Scepter in her hand to hold Queen of all Blessings to this Nation more Hath brought than all her Ancestors before Gods true Religion flourish'd Pope he 's gone When she ascended to her Fatherâ—… Throne Let us then not be ashamed of our Religion nor judge the worse of it much less deny our Christian Name since our departure from the Church of Romé because Papists and Fanaticks nick-name us Queen Besses Protestants Such dirt flung upon Majesty rebounds back with shame on their own Faces and will hereafter to their eternal confusion who dare reproach the Lords anointed The Pope himself first played 〈◊〉 part to throw Dirt and Stones at her by calling her misera Faemina a wretched Woman afterward followed many Rabsâ—…eka's especially Sanders and Rishton who termed her Lupam Anglicanam the Wolf-Bitch of England though she had more of the Lamb than the Wolf for she thirsted not after Blood as her Sister Queen Mary did Finally Parsons alias Cow 〈◊〉 a Priest's Bastard writ a Cart-load of Libels against her These were the Popes Birds and many other of the same Feather employed by his Holiness as the Alexandrians kept their Ibides to devour the
familiar with you as if they had known you from the Cradle and are so full of Chat and Tattle even with those they know not as if they were resolved sooner to want Breath than Words and never to be silent till in the Grave Dancing such a sport to which both Men and Women are so generally affected that neither Age nor Sickness no nor Poverty it self can make them keep their Heels still when they hear the Musick such as can hardly walk abroad without Crutches or go as if they were troubled all day with a Sciatica and perchance have their Raggs hang so loose about them that one would think a swift Galliard might shake them into their Nakedness will to the dancing Green howsoever and be there as eager at the sport as if they had left their several infirmities and wants behind them Their Language is very much expressed by their Action for the Head and Shoulders must move as significantly when they speak as their Lips and Tongue and he that hopeth to speak with a grace must have in him somewhat of the Mimick They are naturally disposed for Courtship as makes all the People complemental that the poorest Cobler in the Parish hath his Court cringes and his Eau beniste de Cour his Court-holy water as they call it as perfectly as the best Gentleman-Huisher of Paris They wear their Hair long goes thin and open to the very Shirt as if there were continual Summer in their Gate walk fast as if pursued on an Arrest Their humour is much of scoffing yea even in matters of Religion as appeareth in the story of a Gentleman that lay sick on his Bed who seeing the Host brought unto him by a Lubberly Priest said that Christ came to him as he entred into Jerusalem Riding upon an Ass. I cannot forget another of the like kind a Gentleman lying sick upon his Death Bed who when the Priest had perswaded him that the Sacrament of the Altar was the very Body and Blood of Christ refused to eat thereof because it was Friday And so far the good Geographer who hath pleasantly and truly described them But now we must come to him as a Divine wherein he acted his part as well as of a Cosmographer when he was called unto the Divinity School to dispute in his turn according to the Statutes of the University on April 18th A. D. 1627. He comes up as opponent and on Tuesday the 24th following he answered pro forma upon these two Questions An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis An Ecclesia possit errare Both which he determined in the Negative Upon occasional discourse with him at Abington he was pleased once to shew me his supposition which I read over in his House at Lacyes Court but I had not then either the leisure or good luck to Transcribe a Copy of it which would have been worth my pains and more worthy of the Press to the great satisfaction of others for my part I can truly say that I never read any thing with more pleasure and heart delight for good Latin Reason and History which that exercise was full of but since both it and many other choice Papers in his Study through the carelesness of those to whose Custody they were committed I suppose are utterly lost and gone ad blattarum tinearum epulas In stating of the first Question that caused the heats of that day he tells us himself I fell upon a different way from that of Doctor Prideaux the Professor in his Lecture De Visibilitate and other â—…ractates of and about that time in which the Visibility of the Protestant Church and consequently of the Renowned Church of England was no otherwise proved than by looking for it in the scattered Conventicles of the Bereâ—…garians in Italy the Waldenses in France the Wickliffs in England and the Hussites in Bohemia which manner of proceeding not being liked by the Respondent as that which utterly discontinued that Succession of the Hiearchy which the Church of England claims from the very Apostles and their immediate Successors He rather chose to find out a continual visible Church in Asia Ethiopia Greece Italy yea Rome it self as also in all the Western Provinces than subject to the power of the Roman Bishop when he was the Chief Patriarch Which Mr. Heylyn from his great knowledge and more than ordinary abilities in History strenuously asserted and proved to which the Professor could make but weak replies as I have heard from some knowing persons who were present at that Disputation because he was drawn out of his ordinay byass from Scholastical disputation to Forreign Histories in which encounter Mr. Heylyn was the invincible Ajax Nec quisquam Ajacem superare possit nisi Ajax But chiefly the quarrel did arise for two words in Mr. Heylyns Hipothesis after he had proved the Church of England received no Succession of Doctrine or Government from the Berengarians Wickliffs c. Who held many Hetordoxes in Religion as different from the established Doctrine of our Church as any points that was maintained at that time in the Church of Rome that the writers of that Church Bellarmine himself hath stood up as cordially in maintainance of some fundamental points of the Christian Faith against Anti-Trinitarians Anabaptists and other Hereticks of these last ages as any one Divine and other learned Men of the Protestant Churches which point Mr. Heylyn closed up with these words Vtinam quod ipse de Calvino sic semper errasset nobilissimus Cardinalis At which words the Reverend Doctor was so impatient in his Chair that he fell upon the Respondent in most vile terms calling him Papicola Bellarminianus Pontificius c. To draw the hatred of the University upon him according to the saying Fortiter calumniare aliquid adhaerebit grievously complaining to the younger sort of his Auditors unto whom he made his chiefest addresses of the unprofitable pains he took among them if Bellarmine whom he had laboured to confute for so many years should be honoured with the Title of Nobilissimus Notwithstanding the Respondent acquitted himself most bravely before all the Company ascribing no more honour to Bellarmine then for his deserts in learning and integrity in that particular point before spoken of which any generous Man would give to his Learned Antogonist For many Lutherans and Calvinists I may say paâ—…e tanti viri so angry at a word have not grudged much less judged it any Crime to praise the Cardinals Learning Doctrinam nos in ipso Commendamus saith a rigid Lutheran and St. Paul himself would not stick to call him who was an inveterate Enemy of the Christians most noble Festus And though Cardinals we know were originally but Parish Priests by Pride and Usurpation have made themâ—…lves Compeers to Kings that which is unjustly once obtained by time groweth common and familiar that none will refuse to give such their ordinary Titles of Honour although they
distemper but he betook himself from his Bed to his Book and fell upon a more than ordinary piece of study The History of the Church of England since the Reformation An easie matter for others to tread the Path when he had found out the Way Though he is dead he yet speaketh and the truth of things without respect of persons not to ingratiate himself with the Parliament and Presbyterian party to make our Religion it self Parliamentary which Papists and Presbyterians affirm he spared no pains nor cost to search into old Records Registers of Convocation Acts of Parliament Orders of Council Table and had the use of Sir Robert Cottons Library to take out what Books he pleased leaving a pawn of Mony behind for them In all his other Writings what a faithful Historian he hath appeared to the World is sufficiently known and will be shewed in this particular In the mean while let not men be too credulous of anothers Transcriptions that are under question an verbum de verbo expressum extulit Whether they are copyed out exactly from the originals wherein lyes the main controversie in matter of fact which I am not bound nor other men to believe till we are convinced by our own Eyes besides it is an inglorious encounter to fight with a mans Ghost after he has been dead near twenty years with whom the late Historian nor any other whilst he was living durst venture with him in the point The Heathens scorn'd to rake in the Ashes of the dead but as Tacitus says of Agricola ut in loco Piorum manibus destinato placide quiescat that he might rest without disturbance in the place appointed for Souls However the Doctors Learning and Fidelity in History is so publickly known that it is not in the power of any Scot or English Aristarchus to blast his good Name And let this suffice at present Magnus Aristarcho major Homerus erat Whilst he was so intent upon the History of Reformation he found little encouragement to go on in these studies for the discontents that boyled in this Nation and the Commotions then begun in Scotland upon pretence of the Common-prayer imposed upon them And a mere pretence indeed it was for herein was nothing done but with the consent and approbation of their own Scottish Bishops who made what Alterations in the Liturgy they pleased to which they had his Majesties Royal Assent but the blame was wholly laid upon the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who only commended the Book to them spe quidem laudabili sed eventu pessimo as the learned Dr. Bates said the success being improsperous though the enterprise commendable the Arch-Bishop unjustly censured for it he caused Dr. Heylyn to translate the Scotch Liturgy into Latin and his Lordship intended to set out his own Apology with the Book to vindicate himself from those aspersions thrown upon him that the World might be satisfied with his Majesties Piety and Goodness and his Lordships own care and readiness to serve that Nation but their hasty Rebellion to which they were ever precipitant put an end to the Bishops Apology and the Doctors Translation Hamilton whom Dr. Burnet doth so highly applaud had a party that not only opposed this Liturgy but betrayed the King on all occasions nay some of the Bed-Chamber who were Scots were grown so sawcy and impudent that they used to ransack the good Kings Pockets when he was in Bed to transcribe such Letters as they found and send the Copies to their Country-men in the way of Intelligence To speak the matter in a word he was grown of Scots in Fact a King though not in Title His Majesty being looked on by them as a Cypher in the Arithmatick of State The Scotch Covenanters after the unhappy War was begun called it Bellum Episcopale the Bishops War raised only to uphold their Hierarchy but the truth is as the Doctor proveth Though Liturgy and Episcopacy were made the occasions yet they were not the causes of the war Religion being but the Vizard to disguise the business which Covetousness Sacriledge and Rapine had the greatest hand in for the King resolving to revoke all grants of Abby Lands the Lands of Bishopricks and Chapters and other Religious Corporations which have been vested in the Crown by Act of Parliament were conferred on many of the Nobility and Gentry in his Fathers Minority when he was under Protectors whence the Nobility of Scotland made use of discontented and seditious Spirits under colour of the Canons and Common prayer to embroyl that Kingdom that so they might keep their Lands and hold up their Power and Tyranny over the people To appease the Tumults in Scotland and quench the sparks of Sedition that began to kindle in England the King called a Parliament and issued out his Writ for Clerks in Convocation at which time the Doctor was chosen by the Colledge of Westminster their Clerk to sit in Convocation where he proposed a most excellent expediency which would be of happy use if still continued for the satisfaction of some scrupolous Members in the House of Commons about the Ceremonies of our Church That there might be a mutual conference by select Commitees between the House of Commons and the lower House of the Convocation that the Clergy might give the Commons satisfaction in the point of Ceremonies and all other things relating to the Church which motion from him was well accepted and generally assented thereto And no doubt a most happy success would have followed upon it not only to take away all scruples but to beget a Reverence and Love from the Commons to the Clergy by such a mutual Conference and Conversation But this Parliament being then suddenly dissolved put a period to that and all other business at the news of which brought unexpectedly to the Doctor while he was bufie then at the election for the School of Westminster his pen fell from his hand himself struck dumb with admiration Obstupuit steteruntque comae vox fancibus haesit A sad and unfortunate day it was saith the Doctor and the news so unpleasing brought hiâ—… by a friend whilst he was writing some dispatches it so astonished him though he â—…ad heard some inkling of it the night before that suddenly the Pen fell out of his hand and long it was before he could recollect his Spirits to give an answer The Convocation usually endeth in course the next day after the dissolution of Parliament But the Doctor well knowing that one great end of calling Parliaments is to raise the King money for the publick concerns he therefore went to Lambeth and showed the Arch-Bishop a preced ent in the reign of Queen Elizabeth for granting subsidies or a benevolence by Convocation to be levyed upon the Clergy without the help of a Parliament whereby the Kings necessities for mony might be supplyed and so it successfully fell out the Arch-Bishop acquainting the King with this present expediency
Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quam mihi When will they find another such his Fall Was most by me lamented much by All God Almighty had blessed him with eleven Children four of which are still living His Monument is erected on the North side of the Abbey in Westminster over aganst the Sub-Deans Seaâ—… with this following Epitaph which the Reverend Dean of the Church then Dr. Earl did himself compose in honour of his Memory DEPOSITUM MORTALE PETRI Heylyn S. â—… P. Hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarii Subdecaniâ—…s Viri plane memorabilis Egregiis dotibus instructissimi Ingenio acri faecundo Judicio subacto Memoria ad prodigium tenaci Cui adjunxit incredibilem in studiis patientiam Quae cessantihus oculis non cessarunt Scripsit varia Plurima Quae jam manibus hominum teruntur Et argumentis non vulgaribus Stylo non vulgari suffecit Constans ubique Ecclesiae Et. Majestatis Regiae assertor Nec florentis magis utriusque Quam afflictâ—… Idemque perduellium Schismâ—…ticae factionis Impugnator acerrimus Contemptor invidiae Et animo infracto Plura ejusmodi meditanti Mors indixit silentium Ut sileatur Efficere non potest Obiit Anno Etat 63. In English A Monument of Mortality Of Peter Heylyn Doctor of Divinity Prebendary and Sub-Dean of this Church A man truly worthy of remembrance Endowed with excellent parts Of sharp and pregnant Wit A solid and clear Judgement A memory tenacious to a Miracle Whereunto he added an incredible Patience in Study And therein still persisted when his Eye sight ceased He Writ many Books upon various Subjects that are now in mens hands containing in them nothing that 's Vulgar either for Style or Argument On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches Right and the Kings Prerogative as well in their afflicted as prosperous estate Also he was a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks A despiser of Envy and a man of undaunted Spirit While he was seriously intent on these and many more like Studies Death commanded him to be silent but could not silence his Fame He died in the Sixty third year of his Age. A Catalogue of such Books as were written by the Learned Doctor SPurius a Tragedy M. S. 1616. Theomachia a Comedy M. S. 1619. Geography printed at Oxon twice A. D. 1621. and 1624. in Quarto and afterwards in A. D. 1652. inlarged into Folio under the Title of Cosmography An Essay called Augustus 1631. since inserted into his Cosmography The History of St. George Lond. 1631. reprinted 1633. The History of the Sabbath 1631. reprinted 1636. An Answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's Letter to the Vicar of Grantham 1636. twice reprinted An Answer to Mr. Burton's two Seditious Sermons A. D. 1637. A short Treatise concerning A Form of Prayer to be used according to what is enjoyned in the Fifty fifth Canon written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester 1637. Antidotum Lincolniense or an Answer to the Bishop of Lincolns Book entituled Holy Table Name and Thing 1637. reprinted 1638. An uniform Book of Articles fitted for Bishops and Arch-Deacons in their Visitations 1640. De Jure paritatis Episcoporum or concerning the Peerage of Bishops 1640. M. S. A Reply to Dr. Hackwel concerning the Sacrifice of the Eucharist M. S. 1641. The History of Episcopacy first under the Name of Theoph. Churchman afterwards in his own Name reprinted 1657. The History of Liturgies written 1642. A Relation of the Lord Hoptons Victory at Bodmin A View of the Proceedings in thâ—… â—…est for a Pacification A Letter to a Gentleman in Lincolnshire about the Treaty A Relation of the Proceedings of Sir John Gell. A Relation of the Queens Return from Holland and the Siege of Newark The Black Cross shewing that the Londoners were the Cause of the Rebellion The Rebels Chatechism All these printed at Oxon. 1644. An Answer to the Papists groundless Clamor who nick-name the Religion of the Church of England by the Name of a Parliamentary Religion 1644. A Relation of the Death and Sufferings of Will. Laâ—…d Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1644. The stumbling Block of Disobedience removed written 1644. printed 1658. The Promised Seed in English Verse Theologia Veterum or an Exposition of the Creed Fol. 1654. Survey of France with an account of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey 1656. Quarto Exâ—…men Historicum or a Discovery and Examination of the Mistakes Falsities and Defects in some Modern Histories Lond. 1659 Certamen Epistolare or the Letter-Combat managed with Mr. Baxter Dr. Bernard Mr. Hickman Oct. Lond. 1659. Historia Quinque-Articularis Quarto Lond. 1660. Respondet Petrus or the Answer of Peter Heylyn D. D. to Dr. Bernard's Book entituled the Judgment of the late Primate c. Quarto Lond. 1658. Observations on Mr. Hamond L' Estrange's History of the Life of King Charles the First 1648. Extraneus Vapulans or a Defence of those Observations Lond. 1658. A short History of King Cbarles the First from his Cradle to his Grave 1658. Thirteen Sermons some of which are are an Exposition of the Parable of the Tares printed at London 1659. and again 1661. A Help to English History containing a Succession of all the Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls Bishops c. of England and Wales first written in the year 1641. under the 〈◊〉 of Robert Hall but now enlarged and in Dr. Heylyn's Name Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified c. Quarto 1657. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library Octavo Ecclesia Restaurata or the History of the Reformation Folio Lond. 1661. Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the Life and Death of William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Folio Aerius Redivivus or the History of the Presbyterians Folio FINIS S. Jer. Com. in cap. 2. Esdr. Instit. lib. 1. cap. 9. Pref. to Hist. of Ref. Hor. de Ar. po Berâ—… Epis 135. Mart. Piaut His Preface Preface Pag. 59 60 61 62 63. Pag. 101. 102. 103. 104. Cic. de orat ftom p. 67 to 89. from p. 212 to p. 227. from p. 228 to 236. p. 61 to 174. pag. 241. Plat. in Parmen p. 38. p. 35. p. 123. p. 31. p. 120. pag. 13. Arist. Eth. lib. cap. 10. A. Gell. lib. 12. cap. 11. pag. 32. pag. 14. Pag 43. Pag. Epist. deep Jact lib. 7. c. 14. pag. 1. pag. 7. pag. 2. Chr. Astrol. lib. 1. cap. 11 pag. 2. Diog. Laer in vit Tacit. Annal lib. 6. Trith de Scrip. Eccl. pag. 86. Suid. Hist. Luth. colliq Vindicat. of the sincerity of the Prot. Rel. p. 11 12. Arch Bish. Life p. 5 6. At the Tryal of Pickering Groâ—… and Ireland 1678. David Par. Comment in Evang. S. Mat. Cap. 23. Maph in vita Ign. Oplat l. 5. c. 29. Lact. Instit. lib. 4. cap. 30. Thu. Hist. l. 22. Theod. Bez. de Minist Evang. Grad Pag. 91. Thu. Hist. â—… 13. Chr. Ocland 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Elizab. Diodor. Sicul l. 3. Tacit. l.
THEOLOGO-HISTORICVS Or the True LIFE OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Written by his Son in Law JOHN BARNARD D. D. Rec. of Waddington near Lincoln To correct the Errors supply the Defects and confute the Calumnies of a late Writer Also an Answer to Mr. BAXTERS false Accusations of Dr. HEYLYN Quisquis patitur peccare peccantem is vires subministrat Audaciae Arnob. L. 4. LONDON Printed for J. S. and are to be sold by Ed. Eckelston at the Sign of the Peacock in Little-Britain 1683. TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD NATHANIEL Lord Bishop of DURHAM My Honour'd Lord I Here present to your Lordship the true Effigies of Dr. Heylyn drawn to the Life so far as my Pen is able to preserve the memory of his person among the number of worthy men for his extraordinary merits I hope may be truly said to this Church and Nation wherein he labour'd while he liv'd to promote the publick Good of both that his Name will never be forgotten whil'st his Books are extant if we may believe the words of St. Jerome in this particular Vir sapiens saith he diebus noctibus laborat componit Libros ut memoriam suam posteris derelinquat so the Works which this painful Presbyter has publish'd to the World the Catalogue of them being not ordinary with the Writers of our Age and the matter in them upon several Subjects not vulgarly handled I doubt not will perpetuate his Memory to future Posterity especially among all good men who are sincere Lovers of Monarchy and Episcopacy I am sure for his Religion and Loyalty for the Cause of the King and Church of England no man could declare himself a more faithful and zealous example by constant writing and sufferings And for his conversation not only as a good Christian but as becomes a Clergy man it was so unblameable that his most inveterate enemies could never throw dirt in his Face for the least Immoralities Therefore for his sake whom your Lordship hath seen in his house at Abingdon where he made you heartily welcome in those dayes when I had the honour though so unworthy a person to dictate the first Principles of Academical Learning to you which God has since well blessed that you are one and I wish may long continue so of the Cheif Prelates in this Realm I doubt not I say for this Reverend and Learned Mans sake more than mine your Lordship will be pleased to take into your Patronage the Narrative of his Life which I have faithfully composed and retriv'd from the Ignorances and unpardonable deficiencies of a late Writer I am the more nearly concern'd for my Relation sake because Dr. Heylyn was not an ordinary common Clergy-man though he acted in a lower Sphere than the highest Dignitaries in our Church it s sufficiently known he was singularly well acquainted above many others with the principal motions and grand Importances in his time both of Church and State as any man may perceive who will take the pains to peruse his Writings And that he had not only a speculative Science in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Polity of this Nation but was oftentimes employed an Agent by the late King and Arch-Bishop the two blessed Martyrs of this Land in several matters committed to his particular Charge for which he incurr'd the odium of the Mobile and especially of those Factious People then call'd Puritans but now Fanaticks a Name though seems new and strange to them was of old first given by Calvin himself to those who deserting his and the Lutheran way of Reformation out of an aversion to Popery fell upon a contrary extreme Their hair-brain'd zeal without understanding and accompanied with invincible obstinacy in their Enthusiastical Dotages if Power was answerable to their Wills would bring a second desolation upon our Church and confusion in the Kingdom Both which God and his good Angels evermore protect that we may enjoy the inestimable comforts of Peace and Government our true Religion establish'd by Law and Scripture our sacred Ministry second to none for Learning and good Life generally and the ancient Order of Episcopacy deriv'd from the pure Fountain of Apostolical Times heartily prayeth Your Lordships most faithful Servant JOHN BARNARD Errata PAge 3. line 10. read acquainted p. 5. l. 16. r. transcriptions for transcription p. 10. l. 10. r. multavit for mulcavit p. 12. l. 15. r. volumes for volumnes p. 17. l. 2. r. 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Retractation for Retraction p. 139 l. 21 r. conference for conferrence p. 143 l. 29 r. where for when p. 144 l. 29 r. Turret for Tower p. 151 l. dele and p. 153 l. 20 r. sitting for sitting p. 186 l. 21 r. rights for right p. 157 l. 15 r. ut for p. p. 191 l. 18 add afterward p. 198 l. 3 r. commended for commanded p. 199 l. 8 r. he for be p. 209 l. 10 r. was for were p. 226 l. 9 r. himself for he p. 228 l. 15 r. there for their p. 255 l. 16. r. the Doctor lived p. 268 l. 23 r. faces for face p. 246 l. 28 dele Lux. r. 〈◊〉 There are more Errors than in the Errata which the good Reader is desired to pass by A Necessary Vindication OF Dr. HEYLYN AND THE AUTHOR of the following LIFE I Had never put my self to the trouble of writing and the Reader to his pains in reading the third Publication of Dr. Heylyn's Life but that I have been most grosly abused in the first and second upon the same Subject At the sight of both which I was not a little amazed but ashamed First to see an anonymous piece printed before the Doctors works which I had ordered otherwise And lately a little Book crept forth
comâ—… by indirect means and not by merit to them Bellarmine also was of no poor and base extraction but better than his Fellows for which reason he was created Cardinal by Clement the Eight Hunc eligimus saith he quia est nepos optimi sanctissimi Poâ—…tificis because he was the Nephew of Marcellus the Second who said that he could not see how any could be saved who sate in the Pontifical Chair Non video quomodo qui locum hunc altissimum tenent salvari possunt After those heats of disputation were over Mr. Heylyn took a Journy to London where he waited on Bishop Lâ—…d then Bishop of Bath and Wells who had heard of all the passages that had hapned at Oxford of which Mr. Heylyn gave a more perfect account to his Lordship who was pleased to read over the Supposition at which Dr. Prideaux was so highly offended but the good Bishop on the other side commended it and encouraged Mr. Heylyn in his Studies saying that he himself had in his younger dayes maintained the same Positions in a disputation in St. Johns Colledge that Mr. Heylyns Hypothesis could not be overthrown in a fair way exhorting him to continue in that moderate course And that as God had given him more than ordinary gifts so he would pray to God that he and others might employ them in such a way and manner as might make up the breaches in the Walls of Christendom Mr. Heylyn to clear himself from the suspicion of Popery which Dr. Prideaux had most unjustly branded him with in November next following Preached before the King on those words Joh. 4. ver 20. Our Fathers Worshipped on this Mountain c. In which Sermon he declared himself with such smart zeal and with as quick Judgment against several errors and corruptions in the Church of Rome that his Sermon was otherwise resented by the King and Court then his supposition by the Kings Professor at Oxon. And when that clamour was revived again by his Enemies that he had some inclinations to the Romish Religion he gave such satisfaction in his third and fourth Sermon Preached at White-Hall in the year 1638. Upon the Parable of the Tares on these words Matth. 13. vers 26. Tunc apparuerunt Zizania Then appeared the Tares also that some of the Court did not stick to say that he had done more towards the Subversion of Popery in those two Sermons than Dr. Prideaux had done in all the Sermons which he had ever Preached in his Life For that Doctor was a better disputant than a Preacher and to give him his due a right Learned Man in his place of Regius Professor yet withal so Dogmatical in his own points that he would not abide to be touched much less contradicted by Mr. Heylyn Non aliam ob causam nisi quod Virtus in vtroque summa fuit More especially being a Great Man at that time very popular in the University profoundly admired by the Junior Masters and some of the Seniors inclined to Puritanism his own Colledge then observed to be Communis pestis Adolescentum the Common Nursery of West Country Men in Puritan principles so that Mr. Heylyn could expect no favour nor fair dealing in the way of his disputation when it ran contrary to the Professors humor After these Academical contests growing weary of Obs and Sols in Scholastical disputations which was ever opposite to his Genius and for this purpose being unwilling to be alwaies Cloystred up within the Walls of a Colledge where he must be tied to such Exercises besides a Man of an Aiery and active Spirit though studious and contemplative would not be perpetually devoted to a Melancholly recluse Life also emulation and envy the two inseperable evils that accompany Learned Men in the same Society hath frequently stirred up animosities and factions among them That I have known some ingenious persons for this reason have been wearied out of a Collegiat Life resolved therefore he was to Marry and alter the condition of his Life which he thought would prove more agreeable to the content and satisfactiof his mind Neque aliud probis quam ex Matrimonio solatium esse saith the good Author because Marriage is the only comfort of minds honestly given accordingly a fair Fortune was offered to him a Wife with a thousand pounds Portion and a Gentlewoman of a very Ancient Family and of as excellent Education Mrs. Letitia High-Gate third Daughter of Thomas High-Gate of Heyes Esq one of his Majesties Justices of Peace for the County of Middlesex who in his younger dayes whilst his Elder Brother was alive had been Provost Marshal General of the Army under the Earl of Essex at the action of Cales and of Margery Skipwith his Wife one of the Daughters of that Ancient Family of the Skipwiths in the County of Leicester of which Family still there is a Worthy person living Sir Thomas Skipwith Knight a Learned Serjeant in the Law Which said Thomas High-Gate the Father beforementioned was second Son of that Thomas High-Gate who was field Marshal General of the English Forces before St. Quintine under the Command of the Earl of Pembrook Anno Dom. 1557. And of Elizabeth Stoner his Wife a Daughter of the ancient Family of the Stoners in the County of Oxon. To this young Gentlewoman Mrs. Letitia High-gate aforesaid Mr. Heylyn was no stranger for his Elder Brother Mr. Edward Heylyn had married some years before her eldest Sister His Seat was at Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire where his Son to whom Dr. Heylyn was Uncle now liveth viz. Hen. Heylyn Esq an ancient Collonel and an excellent Commander in the Army of King Charles the First and a most accomplished Gentleman in all respects to the honour of his Family Another of the Sisters of Mrs. Letitia High-gate married Robert Tirwhit Esq one of the ancient Family of the Tirwhits in the County of Lincoln Master of the Buck-hounds in the Reign of King Charles the First a Place of honour and of great Revenue Finally to the honour of that Family Sir Henry Bard of Stanes Knight who afterward was created Viscount Lord Bellamount did marry the Daughter of Sir William Gardiner whose Lady and Mrs. Letitia High-gate were Sisters Children that unfortunate Lord who is mentioned in the Marquesse of Worcesters Apothegmes for a brave Commander and Governour of Camden House in the time of War did attend his sacred Majesty all the time of his Exile until the Treaty at Breda when he was sent as I have heard on some Ambassage into the Eastern Countries where travelling in Arabia deserta for want of a skilful Guide was swallowed up in the Gulf of Sands These were the Relations and many others of Quality which I forbear to mention of Mrs. Letitia High-gate And whereas the late Writer disparages the young Gentlewoman that her Portion was never paid I am sure he has done her that Wrong which he can never recompence for her Elder
therefore placed their Lecturers in Market Towns and Corporations that were most populous where they might carry the greater sway of electing Burgesses to serve in Patliament or for the most part these zealous Preachers were such as had been silenced and suspended in the Ecclesiastical Courts or those that were well Wishers to Non-conformists The Parties themselves trusted in this design of buying Impropriations were of such affections as promised no good unto the peace and happiness of the Church of England being twelve in number four Ministers four common Lawyers and four Citizens all of them known to be averse unto the Discipline of the Church that as Dr. Heylyn saith If such publick mischiefs be presaged by Astrologers from the Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn though the first of these be a Planet of a most sweet and gentle influence what dangers what calamities might might not be feared from the Conjunction of twelve such persons of which there was not one that wished well to the present Government And therefore I may say of them as Domitiâ—…s Aenobarbus said unto his friends when they came to congratulate with him for the Birth of Nero. Nihil ex se Agrippina nisi detestabile malo publico nasci potest But now we must come to the Divinity Schools again where Mr. Heylyn must undergo the publick exercise of disputation for his degree of Doctor and appear before his severe Judge and Moderator Dr. Prideaux whose animosities and angers since the former Disputation in all the tract of time from the year 1627. to 1633. were not abated or in the least cooled but more inflamed that the Professor took upon himself the Office of an Opponent rather than of a Moderator so that those to whom the Opponents part belonged could hardly put in an Argument for his passion In the former Disputation Mr. Heylyn asserted the visibility and infallibility of the Church but now he insisteth upon its Authority and his Questions were these following 1. An Ecclesia habeat authoritatem in determinandis fidei controversiis 2. Interpretandi S. scripturas 3. Discernendi ritus ceremonias All which he held in the affirmative as himself gives an account of the whole disputation according to the plain and positive Doctrine of the Church of England in the twentieth Article which runs thus in terminis viz Habet Ecclesia ritus sive ceremonias statuendi jus in fidei controversiis authoritatem c. But the Doctor was as little pleased with these Questions and the Respondents stating of them as he was with the former and therefore to create to the Respondent the greater odium he openly declared that 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 Ecclesia quicquam instituere quod verbo Dei scripto adversetur c. To which the Respondent readily answered that he perceived by the lines of the Book which lay on the Doctors Cushion that he had read that Article out of the Harmony of Consessions publisht at Geneva Anno 1612. which therein followed the Edition of the Articles in the time of King Edward the Sixth Anno 1652. in which that sentence was not found but that it was otherwise in the Articles agreed on in the Convocation Anno 1561. to which most of us had subscribed in our several places but the Doctor still persisting upon that point and the Respondent seeing some unsatisfiedness in the greatest part of the Auditory he called on one Mr. Westly who formerly had been his Chamber-fellow in Magdalen Colledge to step to the next Booksellers-shop for a Book of Articles which being observed by the Doctor he declared himself very willing to decline any further profecution of that particular and to go on directly to the Disputation But the Respondent was resolved to proceed no further usque dum liberaverit animam suam ab ista calumnia as his own words were till he had freed himself from that odious calumny but it was not long before the coming of the Book had put an end to the Controversie out of which the Respondent read the Article in the English tongue in his verbis viz. 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 standers by who desired it of him the Book passing from one hand to another till all men were satisfied And at this point of time it was that the Queens Almoner left the Schools professing afterwards that he could see no hope of a fair Disputation from so foul a beginning The Doctor went about to prove that it was not the Convocation but the High Court of Parliament which had the power of ordering matters in the Church in making Canons ordaining Ceremonies and and determining Controversies in Religion and could find out no other medium to make it good but the Authority of Sir Edward Cook a learned but meer common Lawyer in one of the Books of his Reports An Argument if by that name it may be called which the Respondent thought not fit to gratifie with a better answer than Non credendum esse cuique extra suam artem And certainly a better answer could not be given by Mr. Heylyn I may say Non Apollinis magis verum atque hoc responsum This last exercise completed him in all degrees that the University could conferre upon him being now a Doctor in Divinity he returned home with honour where shortly after news was sent him that the King had bestowed upon him a Prebendary at Windsor by the intercession of Dr. Neale then Arch-Bishop of York but it proved otherwise for that Prebendary was promised to Dr. Potter when he presented to the King his Book called Charity mistaken and he also went without it by reason of the Bishop of Glâ—…cester not being translated to the Church of Hereford as was then commonly reported who kept the same Prebend in his hands by which means both the Candidates were disapointed This Goodman Bishop of Glocester at that time affected a remove to the See of Hereford and had so far prevailed with some great Officers of State that for mony which he offered like Simon magus and it was taken his â—…onge d' eslir issued out and his Election passed But Arch-Bishop Laâ—…d coming opportunely to the knowledge of it and being ashamed of so much baseness in the man who could pretend no other merit than his mony the wretched Bishop was glad to make his Peace not only with the resignation of his Election but the loss of his Bribe While these things were agitated the the young Doctor new come from the University
the Lords Commissioners met again on February the 8th following before whom the Bishop put in his Plea about the Seat or Great Pew under Rich. 2. from which he had disgracefully turned out the Prebends and possest it wholly to himself or the use of those Strangers to whom he had a special favour thinking scorn that honoured Society should sit with him a Bishop But the Prebends Advocate proved their Right of sitting there by these particulars First their original Right Secondly their derivative Right Thirdly their possessory Right How excellently he managed their Cause and what a mean defence the Bishop made for himself would be too tedious and impertinent to insert here concerning none but the Church of Westminster Finally upon hearing the matters on both sides it was ordered by general consent of the Lords Commissioners That the Prebends should be restored to their old Seat and that none should sit there with them but Lords of the Parliament and Earls eldest Sons according to the ancient custom But what were those differences about a Seat to the Disputes risen at that time about the Sabbath In the History of which Dr. Heylyn was then engaged and in a short time he perfected it to satisfie the scrupulous minds of some misguided Zelots who turned the observation of the Lords-day into a Jewish Sabbath not allowing themselves or others the ordinary Liberties nor works of absolute necessity which the Jews themselves never scrupled at Against which sort of Sabbatarians the Doctor published his History of the Sabbath The Argumentative part of that Subject was referred to Dr. White Bishop of Ely the Historical part of it to Dr. Heylyn Huic nostro tradita est provincia Both of their Books never answered to this day but pickird at by Mr. Palmer and Mr. Cawdrey two Divines of the Smectymnian Assembly and by some other sorry Writers of less account But the foundation and superstructure both in the logical and historical Discourses of those two Pillars of our Church stand still unmovable the latter though an Historian upon the Subject does fully answer all the material Arguments of the Adversaries side brought out of Scripture as well as History Neither doth the Bishop nor the Doctor in the least encourage or countenance in all their Writings any Profaneness of the Day when Christian Liberty is abused to Licentiousness Nor on the other side would they have the Religious Observation of the Day brought into superstition For Sunday amongst some I have known hath been kept as a Fast Day contrary to the ancient Opinion and Practice of the primitive Church who judged it a Heresie and not an Act of Piety Nefas est die Dâ—…minica jejunare that the day should be spent from Morning to Evening so strictly in preaching and praying in repetition upon repetitions in doing works of superogation which God never required at their hands nor any Christian Church commanded to make the Sabbath a burden that ought to be a Christians delight is new Divinity among the reformed Churches in Geneva it self before and after Divine Service the People are at liberty for manly Recreations and Exercises Upon complaint made before Lord chief Justice Richardson of some disorders by Feasts Wakes Revels and ordinary pastimes on Sundays perticularly in the County of Somerset His Majesty ordered that the Bishop of Bath and Wells should send a speedy account of the same The Bishop called before him seventy two of the Orthodox and ablest Clergy men among them who certified under their several hands that on the Feasts dayes which commonly fell upon Sundayes the service of God was more solemnly performed and the Church was better frequented both in the forenoon and afternoon then upon any Sunday in the year To decry the clamours of the Sabbatarians a Lecture read by Doctor Prideaux at the Act in Oxon Anno 1622. was translated into english in which he solidly discoursed both of the Sabbath and Sunday according to the judgment of the ancient Fathers and the most approved Writers of the Protestant and Reformed Churches This Lecture was also ushered with a preface In which there was proofe offered of these three propositions First that the keepiug holy one day of seven is not the moral part of the fourth Commandement Secondly that the alteration of the day is only an humane and ecclesiastical constitution Thirdly that still the Church hath power to change the day and transfer it to some other The name of Prideaux was then so sacred that the Book was greedily bought up by those of the Puritan faction but when they found themselves deceived of their expectation The Book did cool their colors and abate their clamour Since our Saviours reproof of the Jews for their superstitious fear of transgressing the traditions and Commanddements of their Fathers by which they kept the Sabbath with more rigour than God had commanded they are now bent upon the other extreme as Buxtorf tells us so hard a thing it is to keep a medium between two extreams Quanto voluptatis isti percipiunt saith he tanto se devotius Sabbatum colere statuunt The more pleasures they take on the Sabbath day the more devoutly they thought that they keep the Sabbath So that the rigid Sabbatarian hath no example of Jew or Christian and I am sure no Command of God in Scripture nor President in Antiquity or Ecclesiastical History but will find there the Lords-day is from Ecclesiastical Institution I speak not this I abhor it to animate or the least encourage people in looseness and debauchery to neglect the Duties of Religion or the Worship and Service of God upon this holy day which they ought as they tender their Souls with singular Care and Conscience to observe but hereby I think my Father in Law is justified though his own Book is best able to vindicate himself that his Opinion is orthodox both according to the Doctrine of the Church of England and the judgement and practice of Protestant Churches that the Lords-day should be Religiously observed and yet withal the lawful liberties and urgent necessities of the People preserved and not to be so tied up and superstitiously fearful that they dare not kindle a Fire dress Meat visit their Neighbours sit at their own Door or walk abroad no nor so much as talk with one another except it be in the Poets words Of God Grace and Ordinances As if they were in heavenly Trances To which I may add a more smart and witty Epigram upon the scruple and needless disatisfaction in them not onlâ—… about the Sabath but our Church and Religion in those Verses of Dr. Heylyn to Mr. Hammond L' Estrange as followeth A learned Prelate of this Land Thinking to make Religion stand With equal poise on either side A mixture of them thus he tryed An Ounce of Protestant he singleth And then a Dram of Papist mingleth With a Scruple of a Puritan And boyled them in his Brain pan But
Faults by his good service done both to Church and State The next Book which the Doctor published An. Dom. 1657. Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified he deâ—…ted it as a gratefuâ—… Testimony of his mind to his Master then living Mr. Edward Davis formerly School-Master of Burford and now Vicar of Shelton in the County of Berks to whom he ever shewed a Love and Reverence and had the Doctors Power been answerable to his will and intention he had design'd more considerable Preferments for him but the sudden and unexpected alteration in his own affairs prevented so soon almost as he was preferred that he could shew no other Specimen of his gratitude What saith the Heathen Diis parentibus Precaeptoribus non redditur aequivalens An amends can never be made to God our Parents and Tutors and certainly he hath but little of a Christian in him that can forget this Lesson About the same time he was harassed before Olivers Major General for the Decimation of his Estate hoc novum est aucupium For he thought there had been an end of all further payments and punishment for his Loyalty by compounding for his Estate in Goldsmiths-Hall that he argued the Case notably with them but all in vain for Arguments though never so acutely handled are obtuse Weapons against the Edge of the Sword He tells us that his temporal Estate was first brought under Sequestration and under a Decimation since only for his adhaesion to those sacred Verities to which he hath béen principled by Education and confirmed by Study While he was arguing his cause before the Major General and his Captains one Captain Allen formerly a Tinker and his Wife a poor Tripe-Wife took upon him to reprove the Doctor for maintaining his Wife so highly like a Lady to whom the Doctor roundly replyed That he had married a Gentlewoman and did maintain her according to her quality and so might he his Tripe-wife Adding withal that this Rule he always observed For his Wife to go above his Estate his Children according to his Estate and himself below his Estate so that at the years end he could make all even Soon after these things came out the Order of Decimation against him a Heathenish Cruelty in this Case if Mens Estates are as dear to them as their Lives because the one without the other renders them miserable may be compared to that of Maximian the Tyrant and cruel Persecutor of the Church that put the Christians to such a bloody Decimation that every tenth man of them was to be killed And this other was barbarous enough in its kind that all the Gentry of the Nation not only the tenth part of them who had engaged in his Majesties Service should first be compelled to compound for their own Estates and afterward without mercy Decimated that brought an utter ruin upon many of their Families Notwithstanding all this the Doctor like the Palm-Tree crescit sub pondere virtus the more he was pressed with their heavy loads did flourish and grow up in his Estate that through the blessing of God being neither the Subject of any mans Envy nor the Object of their Pity he lived in good Credit â—…nd kept a noble House for I my self being often there can say I have seldom seen him sit down at his Table without company for being nigh the University some out of a desire to be acquainted with him and others to visit their old Friend whom they knew rarely could be seen but at Meals made choice of that time to converse with him And likewise his good Neighbours at Abingdon whom he always made welcom if they were honest men that had been of the Royal party and was ready to assist them upon all occasions particularly in upholding the Church of St. Nicholas which otherwise had been pulled down on pretence of uniting it to St. Ellens but in truth to disable the sober party of the Town who were loyal people from enjoying their wonted Service and Worship of God in their own Parish Church of which they â—…ad a Reverend and Orthodox man one Mr. Huish their Minister and in his absence the Doctor took care to get them supplied with able men from Oxford Great endeavours were on both sides the one party to preserve the Church and the other to pull it down because it was thronged with Malignants who seduced others from their godly way Religion always hath been the pretence of factious minds to draw on others to their party as one saith well Sua quisque arma sancta praedicat suam causam Religiosam Deus Pietas cultus divinus praetexuntur Every one proclaimeth their own Quarrels to be a holy War the cause Religion God Godliness and Divine Worship must be pretended Several Journies the good Doctor took to London sparing neither his pains nor purse in so pious a cause for the managing of which he employed diverse Solicitors sometimes before Committees at other times before Oliver's Council where it was carried dubiously and rather inclining to the other side at which the Presbyterian party caused the Bells to be rung and made Bonefires in the Town to express their Joy triumphing in the Ruin of a poor Church but the day was not so clearly their own as they imagined Dum res quamvis afflictae nondum tamen perditae forent as the Orator said for the Church yet stood against all its Enemies God protecting his own House and his zealous Servants for it in a time when they could look for little favours from the Powers that then ruled who had not so much respect for Gods House as the Heathens had for their Idol Temples and for those that vindicated them as Justin saith on this occasion Diis proximus habetur per quem Deâ—…rum majestas vindicata sit For which he praiseth Philip of Macedon calling him Vindicem Sacrilegii ultorem Religionum c. During those troubles about the Church Mr. Huish the Minister thereof durst not go on in his ministerial Duties which no sooner the Doctor heard of but to animate and encourage him he writ a pious Letter a Copy of which I then transcribed which is as followeth and worth the inserting here Sir WE are much beholden to you for your chearful condiscending unto our desires so far as the Lords-days Service wich though it be Opus diei in die suo yet we cannot think our selves to be fully Masters of our Requests till you have yeilded to bestow your pains on the other days also We hope in reasonable time to alter the condition of Mr. Blackwels pious gift that without hazarding the loss of his donation which would be an irrecoverable blow to this poor Parish you may sue out your Qietus est from that daily Attendance unless you find some further motives and inducements to perswade you to it yet so to alter it that there shall be no greater wrong done to his Intentions than to most part
credit groweth greater An ordinary Scandal hath been thrown upon learned men who have been zealous Defenders of the Church of England to brand them with the ignominious name of Papists or being Popishly affected because they have abhorred the other extreme of Puritanism in which kind of Slanders the Doctor hath sufficiently received his share that Hammond L' Estrange called him An Agent for the Sea of Rome A heavy charge this is if it carried the least semblance of Truth but what honest man may not be so belyed Si accusare suffecerit quis innocens erit When the Doctor in all his Writings and no man I may say more hath declared his judgement against the Church of Rome and upon every occasion as he meets with her whets his Pen most sharply to lance her old sores and and let the World see what filthy corruptions and errors abound in her more particularly in his Book of Books Theologia Veterum upon the Apostles Creed the Sum of Christian Theology positive polemical and philological and in all his Court Sermons upon the Tares especially the fourth Sermon also in his great Cosmography where he sets out the Popes of Rome in their pontifical Colours Therefore for the Vindication of him from this foul aspersion with which some have maliciously bespattered many of our excellent Divines I particularly thank the Reverend and Learned Dr. Stillingsleet for his Answer to T. G. who would have made use of the Puritans accusation for the Papists purpose but the worthy Doctor quickly refuted him and ever after put him to silence in citing Dr. Heylyns fourth Sermon upon the Tares where he lays at the Door of Papists the most gross Idolatry greater than which was never known among the Gentiles This being brought into discourse at such time as the Arch-Bishops Book against Fisher the Jesuit was newly published it was affirmed by some that the Doctor in his Sermon had pulled up Popery by the Roots yet one of the Company most maliciously replyed thereunto That the Arch-Bishop might print and the Doctor might preach what they pleased against Popery but that he should never think them or either of them to be the less Papists for all that A Censure of so strange a nature saith the Doctor himself that he believed it is not easie to be parallel'd in the worst of times But what need is there of producing Sermons or other Testimonies in his behalf when his general Conversation more severe than ordinary fully attested that as he was a strict Observer of all the Rites and Orders of the Church of England so a perfect Abhorrer of Popery and Roman Superstitions that he would not so much as hold correspondency with a Papist or with one so reputed as I can instance an Example of one Mr. Hood whose Family and the Doctors were very kind when he lived at Minster being near Neighbours but the Gentleman afterward changing his Religion and turning Papist came to Abington to give him a Visit in his new House the Doctor sent his Man Mr. Gervis who was his Amanueâ—… to bid the Gentleman be gone and â—…t the Doors of him saying that he heard he was turn'd Papist for which he hated the sight of him and so my Gentleman went away never daring to give him another Visit. In which he followed the Example of his Lords Grace of Canterbury that when Con was sent hither by the Pope to be assistant to the Queen in her Religion the wise Bishop kept himself at such a distance with him that neither Con nor Panzani before him who acted for a time in the same capacity could fasten any acquaintance on him nay he neglected all intercessions in that Case and did shun as it were the Plague the company and familiarity of Con. THEOLOGO-HISTORICVS Or the True Life Death OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Written by his Son in Law John Barnard D. D. Part. II. BEATI MORTUI qui in Domino Moriuntur Apoc. Cap. 14. v. 13. LONDON Printed 1683. THE TRUE LIFE and DEATH OF THE Most Reverend and Learned DIVINE Dr. PETER HEYLYN Part. II. LIKE a true Christian and obedient Son of the Church the good Doctor did patiently undergo all the persecutions reproaches and clamorous speeches both of Papists and Puritans not regarding what the height of their malice could speak or their virulent Pens could write against him because he was able to defend himself But that which drew all the odium and inveterate malice upon him from the several Factions then prevalent was his Loyalty Learning and Conscieuce that he constantly asserted the Kings Prerogative the Churches Rights not infringing the Peoples priviledges in the defence of which he was continually employed untill his Majesties most happy Restauration which was the longed hope and earnest desire of this poor distracted Nation Quia non aliud patriae discordantis remedium fuisse quam ut ab uno regeretur As the Historian said which cannot be Englished better than in the words of his Majesties late gracious declaration That Religion Liberty and property were all lost and gone when the Monarchy was shaken of and could never be reviv'd till that was restored Therefore the Peoples Representative in Parliament induced by necessity as well as duty did unanimously vote like the Elders of Judah to bring home their Lord the King to his native Kingdom of whose wish'd return we did then all sing as the Poet of Augustus Custos Gentis abes iam nimium Diu Maturum reditum pollicitus Patrum Sancto Concilio Luâ—…m redde lux Dux bone Patriae Instar veris enim vultus ubi tuus Affulsit populo gratior it dies Et Soles melius nitent That is to say Most Soveraign Guardian of this Nation Thy absence all lament Return to joy the expectation Of thy whole Parliament Good Prince the Glory of our Land Shine with thy Beams of Majesty Thy countenance like the Spring at hand Cheers up thy People merrily Our days now more delightfully are spent The Sun looks brighter in the Firmament And now the Sun shone more gloriously in our Hemisphere then ever the Tyrannical powers being dissolved as the historian said Non Cynnae non Syllae dominatio Pompei Crassique potentia in Caesarem The Kingdom ruled by its own natural Prince and only lawful Soveraign the Church restored to her ancient Rights and true Religion established among us every man sitting under his own Vine with joy who had been a good Subject and a Sufferer the Doctor was restored to all his former preferments of which he had been deprived for Seventeen years After his re-entrance into his Preâ—…dary of Westminster he had the Hoâ—…r to attend his Sacred Majesty at the â—…e of his Coronation in the Soâ—…y of which according to his office and place as Subdean of the Church he presented upon his knees the Royal Scepter unto his Majesty in whose exile