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A63937	A compleat history of the most remarkable providences both of judgment and mercy, which have hapned in this present age extracted from the best writers, the author's own observations, and the numerous relations sent him from divers parts of the three kingdoms : to which is added, whatever is curious in the works of nature and art / the whole digested into one volume, under proper heads, being a work set on foot thirty years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, author of the Synopsis criticorum ; and since undertaken and finish'd, by William Turner...	Turner, William, 1653-1701.	1697 (1697)	Wing T3345; ESTC R38921	1,324,643	657

Clergy Senate and People of Rome to be their Bishop opposed it all that possibly he could crying out That he was altogether unworthy of such an Honour fearing least the Splendor of worldly Glory which he had formerly laid aside should in such an Office creep upon and infect him Ibid. p. 97. Yea he privately wrote to the Emperor Manritius earnestly requesting him that he would not consent to the Election Ibid. 10. Although I am sure said a Fellow of Sidney-Colledge in Cambridge concerning Mr. W. Bradshaw then a Fellow likewise he had a gird at me yet the Man is of so kind and loving a Disposition that I could not be angry with him though he had broken my Head See his Life by Mr. Clark p. 31. CHAP. XLIV Remarkable Moderation and Zeal for Reconciling Church-Differences THE Apostle tells us 'T is good to be zealously affected always in a good Matter but certainly in those things which are indifferent and have nothing of Moral Goodness in them such a Moderation ought to be used as may be most conducive to the great Ends of general Piety and Edification and Peace and Charity that we may be neither too peremptory and violent in imposing them upon others nor too severe and uncharitable in judging and censuring them that differ from us in things so remote from the Essentials and Substance of Religion Thus we find both our Blessed Saviour and his Holy Apostles so candid and ingeniously complaisant that they for Peace and Edification sake became all things to all Men that they might gain Souls For in truth he that will not stick to rent the whole Cloth for the Trimmings sake is neither good nor wise Yet I plead not here for any Vndecency or Slovenliness in Divine Worship but I think an Ascititious Gaiety will not commend us to God 1. Cassander was zealously concerned for reconciling the Differences between those of the Roman and Protestant-Communion and to that purpose had drawn out a Platform of Accommodation between them entertained a free Correspondency with both Parties was frequently sollicited by the Emperor to come in Person and assist at their Councils with large Promises of Reward and all Accommodation fit for his Journey but was hindred by his great Indisposition of Body 2. Philip Landgrave of Hesse endeavoured to reconcile the Differences between the Saxon and Helvetian Divines concerning the Eucharist for which purpose A. 1529. he called from Wittenburg Luther Justus Jonas and Melancthon from Helvetia Zuinglius and Oecolampadius from Nurimberg Osiander from Hall John Brextius from Strasburgh Bucer and Hedio at their coming all were courteously entertained by the Landgrave after Dinner Oecolampadius and Bucer went to salute Luther who spake friendly to Oecolampadius but being saluted by Bucer he answered You are naught and a Knave The disputation continued many days but in the beginning of it Luther told them That he would not depart a hairs breadth from his Opinion and accordingly it proved And all that was got by the Disputation was the Conversion of the Landgrave and an Agreement in thirteen other Articles together with a mutual Promise to love one another and pray for a further Discovery of the Truth Clark 's Eccl. Hist p. 151. 3. Sir William Fitz-James pleaded in Parliament for a Mean when the Bishops pleaded for the Catholick Religion and the People for the Reformation thus That since it was unreasonable to tie up Mankind in blind Obedience one toward another and impossible to run through all Difficulties and Controversies our own selves so much Time and Money must be spent in such an Undertaking so many Languages learned so many Authors read so many Ages looked into so many Faith 's examined so many Expositors conferred so many Contradictions reconciled so many Countries travelled for any considerable Satisfaction to believe all is inconsistent to neglect all is impious There remains no other way for the Laicks but to recollect and stick to the most Common Authentick and Universal Truths tending to Vertue and Godliness apart from what is doubtful and controverted and tending only to Strife and Perplexity and by these to live our selves and examine all other Pretensions whatever there being no part of Reigion but what hath Vertue and Grace as its Foundation and Design A Way that would keep Men from Atheism under a sense of Religion from endless Controversies in the solid Practice of Vertue from fatal Divisions in Peace and Concord Let us said he establish and fix these Catholick and Universal Notions and they will settle our Souls and not hinder us to believe whatsoever is faithfully taught by the Church or submit to what is authoritatively enjoyned by the State So that whether the Eastern Western Northern or Southern Teachers c. and particularly whether my Lord of Rochester or Luther c. be in the Right we Laicks may so build upon those Catholicks and infallible Guards of Religion as whatsoever Superstructures of Faith be raised these Foundations may support them This Discourse opened the door to the Reformation intended and shut out all those Prejudices it might lie under from the State and Religion of our Fore-Fathers c. Lloyd 's State Worthies p. 123 124. 4. Bishop Jewel in a Letter to Bullinger Feb. 8. 1566. wishes That the Vestments together with all the other Remnants of Popery might be thrown both out of their Churches and out of the Minds of the People and laments the Queen's Stifness to them so that she would suffer no Change to be made And in January the same year Sands Arch-bishop of York writes Contenditur de Vestibus Papisticis mendis vel non utendis dabit Deus hic quoque finem Dr. Burnet 's Letters 5. Horn Bishop of Winchester in a Letter July 16. 1565. he writes of the Act concerning the Habits with great Regret and expresses some hopes that it might be repealed next Sessions of Parliament if the Popish Party did not hinder it and he seems to stand in doubt whether he should conform himself to it or not upon which he desires Bullinger's Advice And in many Letters writ on that Subject it is asserted That both Cranmer and Ridley intended to procure an Act for abolishing the Habits and that they only defended their Lawfulness but not their Fitness and therefore they blamed private Persons that refused to obey the Laws Ibid. 6. Bishop Grindall in a Letter Aug. 27. 1556. writes That all the Bishops who had been beyond Sea had at their return dealt with the Queen to let the matter of the Habits fall but she continued inflexible He laments the ill effects of the Opposition that some had made to them which had extreamly irritated the Queen's Spirit Cox Bishop of Ely laments the Aversion that they found in the Parliament to all the Propositions that were made for the Reformation of Abuses Ibid. 7. Peter Martyr to Bishop Hooper At first I conceived no small Joy of your singular and earnest Study in that

undutiful and irregular in his Conversation and therefore his Father being grieved at it left with one Mrs. Wilson a Sails-man in London 40 l. per Annum upon this Condition That if his Son did forsake his evil Courses and become an honest Man he should then give him the Estate if not he should never let him have it After the Father's Decease Mr. Baines reformed mightily and became eminently pious and devout Mr. Wilson falling sick sends for him and desires him to pray with him which Mr. Baines did every savourily upon which the good Gentleman told him of the 40 l. per Annum which his Father had left with him and so faithfully delivered up those Writings of the Agreement which had passed betwixt his Father and him And being like to leave behind him a Wife and two Children he intreated Mr. Baines to be a Friend to them And accordingly after Mr. Wilson's Death to Discharge his Trust and approve himself grateful he married his Widow Mr. Clark in his Life Here was a Son that indeed was not dutiful to his Father in his first Years that would not go when his Father bid him go but afterwards repented and went and accordingly he fared for tho' the Estate came not to him presently yet afterwards it came CHAP. LXXVI Present Retribution to the Peaceable and Quiet BLessed saith our Saviour are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth and again Blessed are the Peace-makers for they shall be called the Children of God And 't is certain a Meekness and Quietness of Spirit doth mightily contribute to the Health of our Bodies the Comfort of our Minds and a peaceable and sweet Enjoyment of the good things of this Life The Christian Religion says a learned Man Dr. Stillingfleet now Bishop of Worcester in his Sermon upon Phil. 3. v. 16. doth lay the greatest Obligations on Mankind to Peace and Unity by the strictest Commands the highest Examples and the most prevailing Arguments yet so much have the Passions and Interests of Men overlay'd the Sense of their Duty that as nothing ought to be more in our Wishes so nothing seems more remote from our Hopes then the universal Peace of the Christian World Not that there is any impossibility in the thing or any considerable difficulty if all Men were such Christians as they ought to be but as long as Men pursue their several Factions and Designs under the colour and pretence of Zeal for Religion if they did not find Names and Parties ready framed that were suitable to their Ends the difference of their Designs would make them So that 'till mens Corruptions are mortified and their Passions subdued to a greater degree then the World hath yet found them it is vain to expect a state of Peace and Tranquility in the Church We need not go far from home for a sufficient Evidence of this for although our differences are such as the wiser Protestants abroad not only condemn but wonder at them yet it hath hitherto puzzled the wisest Persons among us to find out ways to compose them not so much from the distance of mens Opinions and Practices as the strength of their Prejudices and Inclinations Thus far Dr. Stillingfleet I now proceed to Instances of Present Retribution to the Peaceable and Quiet 1. Bazil the Great after a difference had happened between him and Eusebius Bishop of Caesaria upon danger of a Persecution from Valens the Arrian Emperour went to him and was reconciled and afterwards upon Eusebius's Death was chosen Bishop in his room Clark's Marr. of Eccl. Hist 2. Ambrose Lieutenant and Consul of Millain upon the Death of Auxentius Bishop of that See going to appease an Uproar that was then risen about the Election of another Bishop with his excellent Arguments so appeased the Rage of the heady Multitude they with one Voice cried up Ambrose for their Bishop upon which without any further deliberation he was by the Bishops there present installed into the Office tho' at that time he was but a Catechumenist and unbaptized Ibid. Another time Justina the Empress going about to banish Ambrose the People bore such a singular love to him that they withstood her Act and hindred it and besides just at the same time a Rebellion was raised in Britain by Maximus which cooled her Spleen and broke her Purpose concerning it Ibid. 3. There is among the Advertisements of the late News-Letters a Book mentioned with this Title The happiness of a quiet Mind both in Youth and Old Age with the way to attain it In a Discourse occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Martha Hasselborn who died March 13. 1695 in the Ninety fifth Year of her Age. By Tim. Rogers M. A. c. I suppose by the Title for I have not yet seen the Book that the Author doth ascribe the healthful Crasis of the Gentlewoman's Body and the Longevity of her Life in great measure to the quietness of her Mind but for further satisfaction I leave my Reader to consult the Book it self 4. John of Times who lived a Nestors Age and more till he was three Hundred Sixty one Years old was a Man of a contented Spirit in all Conditions of Life Wanley's Wonders l. 1. c. 31. 5. Mr. Phil. Henry of whom I have made mention before was a Man of a very sedate even Temper a calm Spirit a great Peace-maker in his Neighbourhood and accordingly he lived loved and died with the universal Lamentation of People of all sorts And which perhaps ought not to be omited in the consideration after the enjoyment of a kind and loving Wife who brought him a good and plentiful Estate and seeing his Children all disposed of with his consent and to content of all Persons concerned and they walking in the Truth and mutual Love one with another and his Chhildrens Children to his great Joy and Comfort I say after all these Blessings poured plentifully upon his Head with great assurance and satisfaction about his spiritual and eternal Estate he quietly with a short Sickness of about twelve Hours continuance or not much more resign'd up his Spirit into the Hands of the God of Peace 6. Mrs. Katherine Stubs obeyed the Commandment of the Apostle who biddeth Women to be silent and learn of their Husbands at home she would never suffer any Disorder or Abuse in her House to be unreproved or unreformed and so gentle was she and courteous of Nature that she was never heard to give the Lie to any in all her Life nor so much as Thou to any in Anger She was never heard to fall out with any of her Neighbours nor with the least Child that lived much less to scold or brawl And for true Love and Loyalty to her Husband and his Friends was she the rearest Paragon in the World she lived very contentedly there was never any Man or Woman that ever opened their Mouths against her And accordingly as she lived so she died peaceably and comfortable out-braving