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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79473	Chillingworthi novissima. Or, The sicknesse, heresy, death and buriall of William Chillingworth. (In his own phrase) Clerk of Oxford, and in the conceit of his fellow souldiers, the Queens arch-engineer, and grand-intelligencer. Set forth in a letter to his eminent and learned friends, a relation of his apprehension at Arundell, a discovery of his errours in a briefe catechism, and a shorr [sic] oration at the buriall of his hereticall book. By Francis Cheynell, late fellow of Merton Colledge. Published by authority.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1644 (1644)	Wing C3810; Thomason E36_7; ESTC R13256	46,148	66

was the earnest desire of that eminent Scholar whose body lyes here before you that his corps might be interred according to the Rites and customs approved in the English Liturgy and in most places of this Kingdom heretofore received but his second request in case that were denied him was that he might be buried in this City after such a manner as might be obtained in these times of unhappy difference and bloudy warres His first request is denied for many reasons of which you cannot be ignorant It is too well knowne that he was once a professed Papist and a grand seducer he perverted divers persons of consider●●●●●anke and quality and I have good cause to beleeve that his ●…e to England commonly called his Conversion was but a false and pretended Conversion And for my owne part I am fully convinced that he did not live or dye a genuine Sonne of the Church of England I retaine the usuall phrase that you may know what I meane I meane he was not of that Faith or Religion which is established by Law in England Hee hath left that phantasie which he called his Religion upon record in this subtile booke He was not ashamed to print and publish this destructive tenet That there is no necessity of Church or Scripture to make men faithfull men in the 100 page of this unhappy booke and therefore I refuse to bury him my selfe yet let his friends and followers who have attended his Herse to this Golgotha know that they are permitted out of meere humanity to bury their dead out of our sight If they please to undertake the buriall of his corps I shall undertake to bury his errours which are published in this so much admired yet unworthy booke and happy would it be for this Kingdome if this booke and all its fellowes could be so buried that they might never rise more unlesse it were for a confutation and happy would it have been for the Author if he had repented of those errours that they might never rise for his condemnation Happy thrice happy will he be if his workes doe not follow him if they doe never rise with him nor against him Get thee gone then thou cursed booke which hast seduced so many precious soules get thee gone thou corrupt rotten booke earth to earth and dust to dust get thee gone into the place of rottennesse that thou maist rot with thy Author and see corruption So much for the buriall of his errours Touching the buriall of his corps I need say no more then this It will be most proper for the men of his perswasion to commit the body of their deceased Friend Brother Master to the dust and it will be most proper for me to hearken to that counsell of my Saviour Luk. 9. 60. Let the dead bury their dead but go thou and preach the Kingdom of God And so I went from the grave to the Pulpit and preached on that Text to the Congregation Some conceive that I studied on purpose to picke out the most piercing Text in the Bible a Text which doth much reflect upon the party deceased but these men erre not knowing the Scriptures for had I used that Prayer at Master Chillingworths grave which was dictated by the Spirit upon the like occasion the fall of a great enemy of Israel Judges 5. 31. doubtlesse that Prayer would have reflected more upon the party deceased and all his surviving party So let all thine enemies perish O Lord but let them that love thee be as the Sunne when he goes forth in his strength They would have beene more displeased had I taken that Text which is applyed to no lesse a man then the sonne of Iosiah by the Prophet Ieremiah They shall not lament for him saying Ah my brother or ah sister ah Lord or ah his glory He shall be buried with the buriall of an asse drawne and cast forth beyond the gates of Ierusalem Ierem. 22. 18 19. Doubtlesse that man deserves the buriall of an Asse who beleeves his owne Reason more then the God of truth he that dares not condemne nay admires those for rationall men who would reason Christ and the holy Ghost out of their Godhead and even dispute them both out of the Trinity doth certainly deserve the buriall of an Asse Man is born like a wild asses colt as silly wild and coltish as the Colt of a wilde Asse and if he prove an old Colt and perish by his Coltish trickes wonder not at the sharpe censure of the holy Ghost You see then there are sharper Texts then this that I pitched upon for the ground of my discourse Secondly all that understand that Text Luke 9. 60. will acknowledge that the Text did reflect rather upon the living then the dead But why then was he buried at all I have told you already his followers were permitted to bury him out of meere Humanity I pleaded for his buriall from that great example recorded at length by the holy Ghost 2 Sam. 1. from the eleventh verse to the end of the chapter Saul you know was forsaken of God long before his death the spirit of the Lord the excellent gifts and common graces of the Spirit in particular the spirit of government departed from him Moreover he consulted a witch and by her the Devill at Endor and an evill spirit from the Lord took possession of him yet Saul was solemnly buried bewailed nay extolled by David for those things which were lovely in him as you may read in the place forecited 17 21 24. verses And I dare boldly say that I have beene more sorrowfull for Mr Chillingworth and mercifull to him then his friends at Oxford his sicknesse and obstinacy cost me many a prayer and many a teare I did heartily bewaile the losse of such strong parts and eminent gifts the losse of so much learning and diligence Never did I observe more acutenesse and eloquence so exactly tempered in the same person Diabolus ab illo ornari cupiebat for he had eloquence enough to set a faire varnish upon the foulest designe He was master of his learning he had all his arguments in procinctu and all his notions in numerato Howle ye firre trees for a Cedar is fallen lament ye Sophisters for the Master of sentences shall I say or fallacies is vanished wring your hands and beat your breasts yee Antichristian Engineers for your Arch-engineer is dead and all his Engines buried with him Ye daughters of Oxford weep over Chillingworth for he had a considerable and hopefull project how to clothe you and himselfe in scarlet and other delights I am distressed for thee my brother Chillingworth may his Executrix say very pleasant hast thou beene unto me thy love to me was wonderfull passing the love of father husband brother O how are the mighty fallen and the weapons nay engines of warre perished O tell it not in Gath that he who raised a battery against the Popes chaire that he might place