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

adde unto it eternal apprehensions and make them feel the fiercenesse of his anger Psal. 88.6 7. without any hope of being eased and after this can restrain and withhold them as he did Abimelech Gen. 20.6 For if one cease to be a Sonne because he commits a sinne that doth deserve eternal death then every sinne a child of Gods commits rends his relation or sonship off for every sinne deserves eternal death Rom. 6.23 and because in many things we offend all Jam. 3.2 we should be alwaies out of sonship and have neither certainty nor comfort in our estate unlesse he could give some ground out of Scripture to assure what sinnes put us out and what did not The Duke had sent to Doctor Preston to decline this clashing conference and assured him he was as much his Friend as ever and would have stopt it if he could but the Bishops had over-ruled it which the Doctor at the first believed and so was backward But when he saw the confidence of Doctor White and his Companion he doubted the sincerity of that assurance and was afterward informed that there had been a meeting at the Countesse of Denbies and the Duke had promised to leave him this gave him resolution and encouragement against the second conference which was managed in a manner by him alone against Master Mountague and Doctor White For when the Doctor saw the Duke begun to double with him he was less fearfull to offend him though the Duke still carried it with all the fairnesse that he could and appeared not in person When the time came for the second Conference the Doctor readily appeared and the first thing he charged Master Mountague withall was about his doctrine of Traditions which he affirmed he had delievered as grosly and erroneously as any Papist Gag pag. 38 39 40. For he justfied that place in Bazil where he saies The doctrine retained in the Church was delievered partly by written instructions partly by unwritten traditions having both a like force unto Piety which was so unlike to Bazil and the opinions of those times that it was generally believed to be put in by the Papists of later times Master Mountague confessed it was suspected by some of the preciser cut but Doctor Preston told him Bishop Bilson was none of them yet he did judge it supposititious and it must be so or Bazil acknowledged to be erroneous For he instanceth in praying towards the East and use of Chrisme or Oyl in Baptisme both which being rejected by the Church of England argues they held that place of Bazil not Canonical Master Mountague answered that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there used by Saint Bazil might signifie a thing that seemed so and so the sense might be that some things that seemed true of lesse esteem and consequence might be delivered by tradition as long as matters more substantial were taken from the Scriptures But Doctor Preston shewed that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signified oftentimes doctrine and was used here by Bazil for those Heads of doctrine that were more principal and lesse exposed comparing them unto those places in the Temple whereunto the people had not accesse Master Mountague answered farther that his assertion was hypothetical that if a doctrine came from the same author it was no great matter whether it were by writing or word of mouth for either had the same authority But Doctor Preston told him Bazil was positive and spake directly and him he justified and therefore could not be hypothetical as he pretended It is a great step unto victory for to divide Paul sets the Pharisees against the Sadduces Act. 23.6 7 8. that he might save himself The Jesuites are so good at it that though they have but one to be their adversary they will endeavour to divide him from himself by moving passion or compassion or some affection of his own against him Doctor White had openly in the Commencement house maintained that Election is not ex praevisis operibus and therefore Doctor Preston resolved to pinch Master Mountague in that particular that he might bereave him of his animating Champion Doctor White There were four several places that Doctor Preston had observed to make good this charge the first which he produced was Gag pag. 179. Some Protestants hold that Peter was saved because God would have it so without respect unto his faith and obedience and Judas damned because God would have it so without respect unto his sin And added this is not the doctrine of the Protestants this is not the doctrine of the Church the Church of England hath not taught it doth not believe it hath opposed it Now Doctor White was very fierce and eager to engage told him it was no doctrine of the Church of England but a private fancy of some that Judas was condemned without respect unto his sin for the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 The soul that sinneth shall die Ezek. 18.4 But Doctor Preston answered he did not charge that upon Master Mountague but the former part of the assertion that Peter was not saved without respect unto his believing and obedience and so Election should not be absolute but grounded upon faith and works foreseen Then saith Dr. White I have nothing against that but leave Master Mountague to answer for himself Dr. Preston was glad that he was eased of Dr. White and yet resolved to make advantage of it and therefore told Dr. White if he thought Election was not ex fide Praevisâ he desired to know whether saving grace were an effect and fruit of Election or no Dr. White acknowledged readily it was then said Dr. Preston Whosoever hath saving grace is Elected Now you know than an Elect person can never finally miscarry or fall away therefore whoever hath true grace can never fall away The old man saw the snare and would have avoided it by denying the consequence But the Dr. urged that wheresoever the Effect is there must be the Cause but Saving Grace is an Effect of Election This Dr. White would have denyed but the hearers murmured that the Effect could not be without the Cause as the day is not without the presence of the Sun Then Dr. White answered that Saving Grace was an Effect indeed but a common Effect But Dr. Preston urged that it was not more common then Election for all the Elect had Saving Grace and none but they and therefore they could never fall away But this said he is by the way I will now apply my self to Mr. Mountague But when Mr. Mountague perceived that his great Goliah Dr. White forsook him he was greatly troubled and cavilled at the words a while but the book adjudging it for Dr. Preston he said The Church of England had not declared any thing against it Dr. Preston alledged the seventeenth Article but told Master Mountague that he affirmed the Church of England did oppose it and he desired to know where But after one of the Lords had

have some portion of Scripture read amongst them or some other religious Treatise concerning the fundamentals of Religion if not both But especially he was carefull that all his Family should sanctifie the Sabbath-day And therefore would not suffer them to be imployed late the night before about their ordinary employments but caused them to conclude sooner then on other daies that they might not be indisposed for the duties of the day following And on the Sabbath-day it self he was carefull that they should not spend any part of it idly or vainly no not in any unnecessary preparations of diet or the like but only of such and so much as was necessary for their comfortable refreshment that day but would have them spend the whole day as much as might be in the exercises of some of Gods Ordinances publique or private insomuch that if he had known of any dish that had kept any of his Servants from attending on any of Gods Ordinances he would not at all eat of it And for better sanctifying of that day he was carefull not only to perform private duties in his Family as Prayer Reading Singing of Psalms c. but also when he went to the publique Ordinances he would call all his Family together to go along with him that so they might be present at the whole service of God And in the evening of the day he required of all his Servants and the young Gentlemen that sojourned with him an account of such portions of Scripture as had been read in publique and as they recited particular passages thereof he gave brief expositions of them and observations from them pressing them to meditate in private of what they read in publique Beside this great care of his Family joyntly he was also frequent in giving them personall counsell and direction in the waies of God exhorting them also to a daily constancy in the performance of secret duties between God and their own soul so that scarce any Family enjoyed the like measure of helps and encouragements in the waies of holinesse His exact walking in his own secret devotion was also exceedingly remarkable He was a man much in Communion with God Twice every day he was in secret a Suiter at the Throne of grace and oftener as any particular occasion was offered He would very seldome enter upon any businesse either by himself or with others without first seeking of God He did often set daies apart to humble himself in secret by Fasting and Prayer according as either publique or particular occasions did seem to call for it as also in solemn Thanksgivings for mercies received whether publique or private He was a great admirer of the holy Scriptures and much conversant in them Beside what he had read and heard read in his Family he did every day by himself read some part both of the Old and New Testament and constantly write short meditations and observations of what he so read whereof he hath left behind him many hundred sheets written in Characters He was so throughly acquainted with it that it was not easie to name a Chapter or Verse but he would presently tell the Contents of it nor to name any sentence of Scripture but he could presently tell in what Chapter or Verse it was to be found yea scarce any particular case could fall out in practice but that he would be able to shew what particular directions the Word of God afforded for it He was also a great observer of Providence and took special notice how the Providences of God and the Word of God did constantly agree together And from hence was able to give very near conjectures if not evident Predictions in many cases what God was about to do and what good or evil events were likely to come to passe by comparing present actions with such Precedents as he had before observed in the Providences and Word of God in like cases And as he was very carefull to order all his actions according to his constant rule of being subservient to the glory of God and the good of souls so that even his journeys visits discourses and familiar converses with any were not undertaken without a special eye hereunto so did he also keep an exact account of what had passed every night before his going to rest setting down in writing in his usuall Character the passages of that day what actions or discourses he had been employed in what successes or disappointments what mercies or crosses he met withall and what failings he observed in himself all which he surveyed again at the end of every week writing down the chief passages of that week and so from moneth to moneth and year to year By means whereof he was throughly acquainted with his own spiritual condition and did maintain a constant exactnesse and even walking with God which being so uniform might perhaps by some be the lesse observed Like as the Sunnes constant brightnesse produceth lesse admiration then some blazing Starre that appeareth but for a while men usually more admiring things rare then excellent In the year 1632. he was by the University of Cambridge made one of the University-Preachers having proceeded Batchelor of Divinity about two years before A matter of honour and repute rather then of profit or employment Yet also a matter of some advantage in some cases as times then went being in the nature of a general License whereby he was authorized to preach as he should have occasion in any part of England At the beginning of the Parliament he with Doctor Tuckny were chosen Clarks of the Convocation for the Diocesse of Lincoln wherein he might have been of good use in case it had been thought fit to have kept up that kind of Assembly to have acted in concurrence with the Parliament as in former times In the year 1643. he was by authority of Parliament called to be a Member of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster And after some time he was chosen one of the Assessors appointed to assist the Prolocutor in case of absence or in infirmity He was in that Assembly an eminent and very usefull Member exceeding diligent and industrious being very rarely absent and that not but upon urget unavoidable occasions For as he accounted it an honour to be employed by God in so publique a service for the good of his Church so he did conscientiously attend upon that service prefering it before all other more particular employments which though in themselves excellent yet ought in his judgment to give way to this And he was exceeding well fitted for this employment having a clear and ready apprehension and firm and vast memory a solid and steady judgement and a good ability freely to expresse himself In matters of deliberation he manifested much Integrity and Christian wisdome In matters of debate whether about Doctrine or Discipline he discovered a great sagacity in searching out the true sense