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A67470	The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert written by Izaak Walton ; to which are added some letters written by Mr. George Herbert, at his being in Cambridge : with others to his mother, the Lady Magdalen Herbert ; written by John Donne, afterwards dean of St. Pauls.	Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.	1670 (1670)	Wing W671; ESTC R15317	178,870	410

worthy of noting That these Exceptions of Mr. Travers against Mr. Hooker were the cause of his Transcribing several of his Sermons which we now see printed with his Books of his Answer to Mr. Travers his Supplication and of his most learned and useful discourse of Justification of Faith and Works and by their Transcription they fell into the hands of others and have been thereby preserved from being lost as too many of his other matchless writings were and from these I have gathered many observations in this Discourse of his Life After the publication of his Answer to the Petiton of Mr. Travers Mr. Hooker grew dayly into greater repute with the most learned and wise of the Nation but it had a contrary effect in very many of the Temple that were zealous for Mr. Travers and for his Church Discipline insomuch that though Mr. Travers left the place yet the seeds of Discontent could not be rooted out of that Society by the great Reason and as great Meekness of this humble man for though the chief Benchers gave him much Reverence and Incouragement yet he there met with many neglects and oppositions by those of Master Travers Judgment in so much that it turned to his extreme grief and that he might unbeguile and win them he designed to write a deliberate sober Treatise of the Churches power to make Canons for the use of Ceremonies and by Law to impose an obedience to them as upon her Children and this he proposed to do in eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity intending therein to shew such Arguments as should force an assent from all men if Reason delivered in sweet Language and void of any provocation were able to do it And that he might prevent all prejudice he wrote before it a large Preface or Epistle to the Dissenting Brethren wherein there were such Bowels of Love and such a Commixture of that Love with Reason as was never exceeded but in Holy Writ and particularly by that of St. Paul to his dear Brother and fellow Labourer Philemon than which none ever was more like this Epistle of Mr. Hookers so that his dear friend and Companion in his Studies Doctor Spenser might after his death justly say What admirable height of Learning and depth of Judgment dwelt in the lowly mind of this truly humble man great in all wise mens eyes except his own with what gravity and Majesty of speech his Tongue and Pen uttered Heavenly Mysteries whose eyes in the Humility of his Heart were alwayes cast down to the ground how all things that proceeded from him were breathed as from the Spirit of Love as if he like the Bird of the Holy Ghost the Dove had wanted Gall let those that knew him not in his Person judge by these living Images of his soul his Writings The foundation of these Books was laid in the Temple but he found it no fit place to finish what he had there designed and therefore solicited the Arch-Bishop for a remove to whom he spake to this purpose My Lord When I lost the freedom of my Cell which was my Colledge yet I found some degree of it in my quiet Country Parsonage but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place and indeed God and Nature did not intend me for Contentions but for Study and quietness My Lord My particular contests with Mr. Travers here have proved the more unpleasant to me because I believe him a good man and that belief hath occasioned me to examine mine own Conscience concerning his opinions and to satisfie that I have consulted the Scripture and other laws both humane and divine whether the Conscience of him and others of his judgment ought to be so farr complyed with as to alter our frame of Church Government our manner of Gods worship our praising and praying to him and our established Ceremonies as often as their tender Consciences shall require us and in this examination I have not onely satisfyed my self but have begun a treatise in which I intend the Justification of our Laws of Church-Government and I shall never be able to finish it but where I may Study and pray for Gods blessing upon my indeavours and keep my self in Peace and Privacy and behold Gods blessing spring out of my Mother Earth and eat my own bread without oppositions and therefore if your Grace can Judge me worthy such a favonr let me beg it that I may perfect what I have begun About this time the Parsonage or Rectory of Boscum in the Diocess of Sarum and six miles from that City became void The Bishop of Sarum is Patron of it but in the vacancy of that See which was three years betwixt the Translation of Bishop Peirce to the See of York and Bishop Caldwells admission into it the disposal of that and all Benefices belonging to that See during this said vacancy came to be disposed of by the Archbishop of Canterbury and he presented Richard Hooker to it in the year 1591. And Richard Hooker was also in the said year Instituted July 17. to be a minor Prebend of Salisbury the Corps to it being Nether-Havin about ten miles from that City which Prebend was of no great value but intended chiefly to make him capable of a better preferment in that Church In this Boscum he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity and these were entered into the register Book in Stationers Hall the 9. of March 1592. but not published till the year 1594. and then with the before-mentioned large and affectionate Preface which he directs to them that seek as they term it the Reformation of the laws and orders Ecclesiastical in the Church of England of which Books I shall yet say nothing more but that he continued his laborious diligence to finish the remaining four during his life of all which more properly hereafter but at Boscum he finisht and publisht but onely the first four being then in the 39 th year of his Age. He left Boscum in the year 1595. by a surrender of it into the hands of Bishop Caldwell and he presented Benjamin Russel who was Instituted into it the 23. of June in the same year The Parsonage of Bishops Borne in Kent three miles from Canterbury is in that Arch-Bishops gift but in the latter end of the year 1594. Doctor William Redman the Rector of it was made Bishop of Norwich by which means the power of presenting to it was pro ea vice in the Queen and she presented Richard Hooker whom she loved well to this good living of Borne the 7. of July 1595. in which living he continued till his Death without any addition of Dignity or Profit And now having brought our Richard Hooker from his Birth place to this where he found a Grave I shall onely give some account of his Books and of his behaviour in this Parsonage of Borne and then give a

and Authority to amend it Which also discovereth their Intent and Purpose to be rather Destructive than Corrective 3. Thirdly those very exceptions which they take are frivolous and impertinent Some things indeed they accuse as impious which if they may appear to be such God forbid they should be maintained Against the rest it is only alledged that they are Idle Ceremonies without use and that better and more profitable might be devised Wherein they are doubly deceived for neither is it a sufficient Plea to say This must give place because a Better may be devised because in our Judgments of Better and Worse we oftentimes conceive amiss when we compare those things which are in Devise with those which are in Practice for the Imperfections of the one are hid till by Time and Trial they be discovered The others are already manifest and open to all But last of all which is a Point in my Opinion of great regard and which I am desirous to have enlarg'd they do not see that for the most part when they strike at the State Ecclesiastical they secretly wound the Civil State for Personal faults What can be said against the Church which may not also agree to the Commonwealth In both States Men have alwayes been and will be alwayes Men sometimes blinded with Errour most commonly perverted by Passions many Unworthy have been and are advanced in both many Worthy not regarded And as for Abuses which they pretend to be in the Laws themselves when they inveigh against Non-residence do they take it a matter lawful or expedient in the Civil State for a man to have a great and gainful Office in the North himself continually remaining in the South He that hath an Office let him attend his office When they condemn Plurality of Livings Spirtual to the pit of Hell what think they of the Infinite of Temporal Promotions By the great Philosopher Pol. lib. 2. c. 9. it is forbidden as a thing most dangerous to Commonwealths that by the same man many great Offices should be exercised When they deride our Ceremonies as vain and frivolous were it hard to apply their Exceptions even to those Civil Ceremonies which at the Coronation in Parliament and all Courts of Justice are used Were it hard to argue even against Circumcision the Ordinance of God as being a cruel Ceremony against the Passeover as being ridiculous should be girt a Staff in their hand to eat a Lamb. To conclude you may exhort the Clergy or what if you direct your Conclusion not to the Clergy in general but only to the Learned in or of both Universities you may exhort them to a due Consideration of all things and to a right Esteem and Valuing of each thing in that degree wherein it ought to stand For it oftentimes falleth out that what Men have either devised themselves or greatly delighted in the Price and the Excellency thereof they do admire above desert The chiefest Labour of a Christian should be to know of a Minister to preach Christ crucified in regard whereof not onely Worldly things but things otherwise precious even the Discipline it self is vile and base Whereas now by the heat of Contention and violence of Affection the Zeal of men towards the one hath greatly decayed their Love to the other Hereunto therefore they are to be exhorted to Preach Christ crucified the Mortification of the Flesh the Renewing of the Spirit not those things which in time of Strife seem precious but Passions being allayed are vain and childish FINIS The Effigies of M r George Herbert Author of those Sacred Poems called The Temple The LIFE OF Mr. GEORGE HERBERT Wisdom of Salom. 4.10 He pleased God and was beloved of him so that whereas he lived among sinners he translated him LONDON Printed by Tho Newcomb for Richard Marriott sold by most Booksellers M. DC LXX IMPRIMATUR Sam Parker Reverendissim● in Christo Patri ac Domino Domino Gilberto Archi-ep Cantuan à Sac Domest April 21. 1670. To his very Worthy and much Honoured FRIEND Mr. Izaack Walton upon his Excellent Life of Mr. George Herbert I. HEav'ns youngest Son its Benjamin Divinity 's next Brother Sacred Poesie No longer shall a Virgin reckoned be What ere with others 'tis by me A Female Muse as were the Nine But full of Vigor Masculine An Essence Male with Angels his Companions shine With Angels first the heavenly youth was bred And when a Child instructed them to sing The praises of th' Immortal King Who Lucifer in Triumph led For as in Chains the Monster sank to Hell And tumbling headlong down the precipice fell By him first taught How art thou fallen thou morning star they said Too fondly then we have fancy'd him a Maid We the vain Brethren of the rhyming trade A femal Angel less would Urbins skill upbraid II. Thus 't was in Heav'n This Poesy's Sex and Age And when he thence t' our lower World came down He chose a Form more like his own And Iesse's youngest Son inspir'd with holy rage The sprightly Shepherd felt unusual Fire And up he took his tuneful Lyre He took it up and struck't and his own soft touches did admire Thou Poesie on him didst bestow Thy choicest gift a honor shew'd before to none And to prepare his way to th'Hebrew Throne Gav'st him thy Empire and Dominion The happy Land of Verse where flow Rivers of milk and Woods of Laurel grow Wherewith thou didst adorn his brow And mad'st his first more flourishing and triumphant Crown Assist me thy great Prophets praise to sing David the Poets and bless'd Israels King And with the dancing Echo let the mountains ring Then on the wings of some auspicious wind Let his great name from earth be rais'd on high And in the starry volume of the Sky A lasting Record find Be with his mighty Psaltery joyn'd Which taken long since up in to the Aire And call'd the Harp makes a bright Constellation there III. Worthy it was to be translated hence And there in view of all exalted hang To which so oft the Princely Prophet sang And mystick Oracles did dispence Though had it still remain'd below More wonders of it we had seen How great the mighty Herberts skill had been Herbert who could so much without it do Herbert who did its Chords distinctly know More perfectly than any Child of Verse below O! Had we known him half so well But then my friend there had been left for you Nothing so fair and worthy praise to do Who so exactly all his Story tell That though he did not want his Bayes Nor all the Monuments vertue can raise Your hand he did to Eternize his Praise Herbert and Donne again are joyn'd Now here below as they 're above These friends are in their old embraces twin'd And since by you the Enterview's design'd Too weak to part them death does prove For in this book they meet again as in one Heav'n they love Bensted Apr. 3.