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A30977	The genuine remains of that learned prelate Dr. Thomas Barlow, late Lord Bishop of Lincoln containing divers discourses theological, philosophical, historical, &c., in letters to several persons of honour and quality : to which is added the resolution of many abstruse points published from Dr. Barlow's original papers.	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.	1693 (1693)	Wing B832; ESTC R3532	293,515	707

for these last four score and ten Years have lived in that Kingdom under the Reign of Hen III. Hen. IV. Lewis XIII and Lewis XIV faithfully extracted from all the publick and secret Memoirs that could possibly be procured by that Learned and Eminent Divine Mounsieur Bennoit To compleat this Elaborate Work which has already born a second Impression in Holland the Reverend Author had not only great assistance from remote parts but had also the help of many curious persons in his Neighbourhood publick and private Liberaries the Cabinets and Studies of the more exacter sort where Fugitive Pieces secure themselves The several Manuscripts of the Learned and Ingenious Mouns●eur Tester Eau which he left at his death with many other helps which will best appear in the work it self This Book was printed first in French by the Authority of the States of Holland and West-Friesland and is now translated into English with Her Majestys Royal Priviledge Bishop Barlow's Remains Liturgia Tigurina Or the Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacrament and other Ecclesiastical Rites and Ceremonies usually practised and solemnly performed in the Churches and Chappels of the City and Canton of Zurick in Switzerland and in some other adjacent Countries as by their Canons and Ecclesiastical Laws they are appointed and as by the Supreme Power of the Right Honourable the Senate of Zurick they are authorized with the Orders of that Church Published with the approbation of several Bishops Memoirs of the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey Late Lord Privy-Seal intermix'd with Moral Political and Historical Obsevations to which is prefix'd a Letter written by his Lordship during his retirement from Court in the Year 1683. published by Sir Peter Pett Knight Advocate-General for the Kingdom of Ireland Casuistical Morning Exercises the Fourth Volume by several Ministers in and about London The Life of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand by Dr. Samuel Annesley Practical Discourses on Sickness and Recovery in several Sermons as they were lately preached in a Congregation in London by Timothy Rogers M. A. after his Recovery of a Sickness of near two years continuance The Life and Death of the Reverend Mr. Eliot the first Preacher of the Gospel to the Indians in America The Tragedies of Sin by Stephen Jay late Rector of Chinner in Oxfordshire A Treatise of Fornication To which is added a Penitentiary Sermon upon John 8.11 By William Barlow Rector of Chalgrave Infant Baptism stated in an Essay to evidence its Lawfulness from the Testimony of Holy Scripture by J. Rothwel M. A. a Presbyter of the Church of England The Mourners Companion or Funeral Discourses on several Texts by John Shower Mensalia Sacra Or Meditations on the Lord's Supper Wherein the nature of the Holy Sacrament is explain'd and the most weighty Cases of Conscience about it are resolved by the Reverend Mr. Francis Crow To which is prefix'd a Brief Account of the Author's Life and Death by Mr. Henry Cuts Books now in the Press and going to it Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultry THe 2d 3d. and 4th Volumns of the History of the Famous Edict of Nantes containing an account of all the Persecutions that have been in France during the Reigns of Lewis XIII and Lew. XIV faithfully extracted from all the Publick and Secret Memoirs that could possibly be produced by that Learned and Eminent Divine Monsieur Bennoit Printed first in French by the Authority of the States of Holland and West-Friezland and now to be translated into English with Her Majesty's Royal Priviledge The Lord Faulkland's Works Secretary of State to King Charles the I. collected all together into one Volume To which will be prefix'd Memoirs of his Lordship's Life and Death never printed before Written by a Person of Honour A Methodical and Comparative Discription of all the Religions in the World with their Subd●visions in two Parts The one in Parallel Columns containing their Theory and the other relating their Practices as distinguish'd unto the several Religions of Jew Christian Mahometan and Heathen By a Dignitary of the Church of England Mr. William Leybourn's New Mathematical Tractates in Fol. Intituled Pleasure with Profit lately proposed by way of Subscription having met with good Encouragement are now put to several Presses and will be ready to be delivered to Subscribers the next Term In this Work will be inserted above what was at first proposed a New Systerm of Algebra according to the last Improvements and Discoveries that have been made in that Art As also several great Curiosities in Cryptography Horometria c. which Additions will inhance each Book to 16. s. in Quires to those that do not subscribe and those that do are desired to send in their first Payment viz. 6. s. before the 26th instant after which no Subscriptions will be taken in

Sins to provoke him to leave us to their Wills whose Mercies are so cruel but that he will give us Grace so thankfully to live under the sense of past favours as to make them sure pledges of future Mercies He concludes with an indication of the particular Motives which most probably induced that Bloody ●arty to such a desperate and unheard of attempt as this Gun-power-Treason which he thus lays open When that mischevious Party saw that all the black Designs they had hatch'd ever since the Reformation came to nothing that particularly all their wicked Contrivances against the Life of the late Queen Elizabeth in order to bring in the Queen of Scots tho' they had endeavour'd it by Poyson Stabbing Pistol open War Rebellion c. proved successless and when they saw King James in quiet possession of the Throne and consider'd his great Learning and Zeal to the Protestant Religion to be of invincible proof against all their deluding inticements to the contrary they lost all patience and by a new and unparallel'd Villany resolved to dispatch him and his Kingdom too in some sence with one single blast of Hell bred Gunpowder That since he would not favour their Religion he not never a Patriot in his Great Council might be left alive to oppose it But that which added fuel to their Rage and blew their fury to such a heighth that it could no longer forbear flashing out against that good Prince their lawful King was says our Prefacer a publick protestation he made before his Principal Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and declared to all the Judges the Lord Chancellour and all the Great Officers of State in the Star-Chamber 12 Feb. 2 Jacob. Ann. 1604. as appears by Judge Crook's Reports Printed 1689. Part 2. Ann. Jacob. 2. pag 17. and by Sir Francis Moor's Reports pag. 755. exprest in Law-French Both which attest as is abovesaid The chief substance of the said Protestation was to this purpose viz. That he never intended to give any Toleration to Popery and that he would spend the last drop of his blood in his body before he would do it c. The occasion of which was a scandalous Report which the Discontented Puritan Party had spread abroad of the King as if he meant to grant a Toleration to Popery which so highly incensed his Majesty that both to contradict it and confute it he made that pubiick and solemn Protestation above cited the substance of which our Prefacer tells us he faithfully Transcribed out of our Authentick Records as a thing worthy of perpetual Memory and the knowledge both of this present Age and of all posterity tho' it be now almost forgot And thus as that Wise and Learned King sought to escape the scandal arising from the Calumnies of the one he had like to have fallen a Sacrifice to the other Party viz. the Romanists whose fury and despair was raised to the highest extremity by that protestation by which they were plainly convinced that as the King never intended to approve their Religion in his own person so he never design'd to Tolerate it at all in others So ends the matter of the Preface of this Pious Learned and Zealous Champion of our Church against those old and dangerous Adversaries of Rome to which he adds nothing else but a Loyal and hearty Prayer that God would still preserve and bless his then Majesty and whole Royal-Family and continue to detect and by his powerful Providence to defeat all the impious Conspiracies of their Enemies It is dated at London on the first day of February 1678. and subscribed thus Courteous Reader thy faithful Friend and Servant T. L. The Substance of a Discourse writen by the Reverend and Learned Dr. Barlow Late Lord Bis●op of Lincoln consulting Mr. R. Baxter's Tenet in his Saints Everlasting Rest that Common and special or saving Grace differ only gradually A Gentleman for whom our R. Author had no small consideration having desired his Opinion in that Question viz. Whether the difference between ●ommon and Special or Saving Grace be Specifical or only Gradual as likewise his Sense of Mr. Baxter's Discourse concerning that Point he tells him That though it be of small consequence what his Opinion is and though he be loath to censure any man's Positions or Proofs of them especially Mr. Baxters whom he highly esteems for his Learning and Industry his Moderation and Ingenuity yet in obedience to his said Friend's commands without any further Apology taking the same liberty to judge of other Mens Discourses which he freely gives all men to judge of his he declares to him 1. That he believes the Difference to be more than Gradual 2. That Mr. Baxter's Discourse doth not concludingly prove the contrary Which that he may not seem to assert gratis and precariously he tells him he will use this Method viz. 1. He will fairly represent Mr. Baxter's Reasons Secondly He will give such an Answer as he thinks may pass for a just Solution of them Obj. Mr. Baxter to prove That Common and Special Graee differ only gr●dually thus argues in his Saints Everlasting Rest pag. 225 c. Is not common Knowledge special Knowledge common Belief Special Belief all Knowledge Belief Is not Belief the same thing in one and another though but one saving Our Understandings and Wills are Physically the same of the like substance and an Act and an Act are Accidents of the same kind and we suppose the Object the same Common Love to God special Love to God are both Acts of the same Will c. Sol. To give a just Answer to which and withall to state the Question and give the Reasons and Proofs of his former Positions with the more evidence and perspicuity he considers Consi I. That by Grace in this Question● is understood somewhat inherent in us by what Name soever we please to call it and not the Favour and Love of God to his people which is commonly call'd by the same Name of Grace in the Scripture 1. Because the Graces here meant are properly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Gratious and Gratuitous effects of that Original Grace that bestows them which is the Love and Favour of God and not that Original Grace it self and are such as are subjectively inherent in us whereas the Love and Favour of God is subjectively in God and terminatively only in us as it produces those gracious effects in us which are here meant by the word Graces 2. Because the Grace of God as it is taken only for his Love to us admits of no degrees either of increase or deminution being as all other Acts are in God like God himself absolutely simple without the least Composition either in Essence or Degree Consi II. We are to understand by Grace in this Controversy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 something superadded to a man already in being and which he has by Grace or Favour and not by Nature And therefore

Empire when in its greatest extent and whereupon Mr. Marvel hath a judicious remark on the danger of giving immoderate Praise I am not so vain as to apply the Tu regere imperio Populos c to that Lords great Character But yet reflecting on his incomparable abilities as a Minister of State and his drawing the long Declaration of the 12th of August 1642. will say that he had Talents adequate to the employment of Principal Secretary to the greatest Roman Emperor that ever gave Law to the World And the Bp. of Lincoln's Letter in return to mine sufficiently shews the great Figure that Lord made in the Intellectual World insomuch that it giveth us the Figure of his Lordship as of such a Gamaliel at whose Feet Mr. Chillingworth and his glorious Book were in some sort bred up I doubt not but when that the L. Secretary's Works that have been long out of Print and many of which were Printed at first in the way of Pamphlets shall be in one volume reprinted and give the World in one Prospect the view of the productions of the Authors great fancy judgment and wit and of such perfections as Huart tells us in his Trial of Wits that the excelling therein requires different temperaments of the Brain our English World will receive them with a great and just veneration perhaps some ingenious Forraigners who have here been Refugees understanding both English and French may for the honour of our Nation translate them into French and let our proud neighbours who value themselves on the sharpness of their Wits as well as of their Swords see that our Climate hath bred a Writer in Prose with so much depth of Judgment and heighth of Wit as hath at least equall'd if not transcended any one among them And for the honour of our Country I may here further occasionally say that as when long ago School-divinity was the Learning in vogue in the World some of our English Wits appear'd as First-rate Writers of the subtleties in it so I think there was never any performance in that Learning more ingenious than that of our Bishop in his first Exercitation which is here made English But there is another sort of Learning of which the World abroad hath produced many voluminous Writers I mean of Casuistical Divinity wherein the Writings of our Bishops Sanderson and Barlow are Superiour to them in weight however not in number And I believe a discussion of any one Case of Conscience with such variety of Learning as is contain'd in Bp. Barlow's Treatise of Mr. Cottingtons Marriage-Case formerly Printed is not to be found in the Works of any Forraign Casuists There is in the following Collection one Letter of the Bp. relating to that Subject which was not before Printed and it is in p. 216. and where the Printer should have Printed the name of Cottington instead of Collington and writ on the occasion of his Lordships having been inform'd that the Dean of the Arches founded the Merits of his Sentence in the case on his belief that our Ecclesiastical Judges here could not question the validity of the Sentences of Ecclesiastical Judges in Forraign parts and which may be proper for any one to have who hath what of the Bishops was formerly Printed of that Subject I remember the Bp. once asking me what I thought moved the Dean of the Arches so to think and judge in the Case I told him I thought it was a Notion he had of a Communion of Rights between the several Churches here and abroad and of the Law and Practice of Nations obliging Judges of several Countries implicitely to allow one anothers Sentences as good without questioning their merits as to internal Justice and whereupon his Lordship knowing that the course of my life had led me to consider the Law and Practice of Nations more particularly than that of his had done he was pleased to lay his commands on me to send him my thoughts of the same in the Case and which I did at large and he was pleas'd to tell me he thought the publication of them useful But tho' I thought not so then and therefore omitted it yet I since finding that the Judgment of the Dean of the Arches in the Case hath to this day obtain'd the Vogue of a Ruled Case and as such to be often cited in our Courts of Law I shall on that account perhaps shortly publish the same to prevent the growth of a popular error and am encouraged so to do by so many of the Writings of the Bp. and other Casuists and the argumentative opinions given by several Civilians in the Case having passed off in Print and do suppose that new matter of the same subject may not be unwelcome to the World I had lately just occasion given me to mention the Bp. and others as having adorn'd our Country in the view of the World and I must now take occasion as I look over the Contents of the Letters of the Bishop here the which were obtained from several persons to whom they were writ and cast my Eye on his Lordships Letter to Sir J. B. wherein he p●sseth his Censure on the definitions in a Lecture before the Royal Society to say that the Author of that Lecture was one of the greatest Philosophers our Age hath bred and one whom I have elsewhere called a Mathematical States-man and one who I believe hath in various kinds of the eruditio recondita exceeded any one of the Virtuosi in Italy or beaus esprits in France however yet his haste made him not to take the Scales of Genus and differentia into his hands as he should have done when he gave his definitions and by which omission the definitions are justly liable to the Bishops Censure And there was another definition in the Lecture as liable to Censure as any and in which that great man aliquid humani passus est that is to say did err and it is where he defines Right to be the Image of possession and which none need refute And therefore the consideration of this may represent to us the profound Wisdom that is in that Rule of Law in the digests Omnis definitio in jure Civili periculosa est parum est enim ut non subverti possit There is a Letter of the Bp. to Mr. R. S. p. 181. wherein his Lordship Censures the Oxford Antiquities and another to the same person on the same subject pag. 183 and 184. and where his Lordship mentions the Compiler of them as too favourable to Papists I have not observ'd him so to be in others of his Learned and Loyal Writings and as for that Work of the Oxford Antiquities I was inform'd that there was at Christ-Church without the privity of that Compiler such a low poor diminishing Character of the Talents of Bishop Wilkins there inserted as made me averse from reading the Book That Bishop was an Ornament both of that University and the English Nation and