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A30944
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Memorials examples of memorable men, to awaken this age to greater care of good learning and true religion.
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Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.
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Parson is exceeding exact in his life being holy just prudent temperate bold grave in all his waies And because the two highest points of life wherein a Christian is most seen are Patience and Mortification Patience in regard of Afflictions Mortification in regard of lusts and affections and the stupifying and deading of all the clamorous powers of the soul therefore he hath throughly studied these that he may be an absolute master and commander of himself for all the purposes which God hath ordained him Yet in these points he labours most in those things which are most apt to scandalize his Parish 2. He is full of all knowledge They say it is an ill Mason that refuseth any stone and there is no knowledge but in askilful hand serves either positively as it is or else to illustrate some other knowledge He condiscends even to the knowledge of tillage and pastorage and makes great use of them in teaching because people by what they understand are best led to what they understand not But the chief and top of his knowledge consists in the book of books the storehouse and magazene of life and comfort the holy Scriptures There he sucks and lives There he finds four things Precepts for life Doctrines for knowledg Examples for illustration and promises for comforts These he hath digested severally And for the understanding of these the means he useth are a holy life prayer c. 3. He hath read the Fathers also and the Schoolmen and the later Writers or a good proportion of all out of all which he hath composed a book and Body of Divinity which is the storehouse of his Sermons and which he preacheth all his lifc but diversly clothed illustrated and enlarged For though the world is full of such yet every mans own is fitrest readiest and most favoury to him Besides this being to be done in his yonger and preparatory times it is an honest joy ever after to look upon his well-spert hours This Body he made by way of expounding the Church-Catechism to which all Divinity mâ—y easily be reduced For it being indifferent in it self to choose any method that is best to be chosen of which there is likeliest to be most use 4. When he is to read Divine Services he composeth himself to all possible Reverence as being truly touched with the Majesty of God and that being first affected himself he may affect also his people knoâ—ing that no Sermon moves them so much to a reverence which they forget again when they come to pray as a devout behaviour in the very act of praying Accordingly his voice is humble his words treatable and slow yet not so sloâ— neither as to let the fervency of the supplicant hang and dye between speaking but with a more liveliness between fear and 〈◊〉 pauzing yet pressing he performs his duty Besides his example he having often instructed his people how to carry themselves in Divine Service exacts of them all possible reverence by no means enduring either talking or sleeping or gazing or leaning or half-kneeling or any undutiful behaviour in them but causing them when they sit or stand of kneel to do all in a strait and steady posture as attending to what is done in the Church and every one man and child answering aloud both Amen and all other answers on the peoples parts using their reason and applying their powers to the Service of God 5. He preacheth constantly the Pulpit is his joy and his Throne If he at any time intermit it is either for want of health or against some great Festival that he may the better celebrate it or for the variety of the hearers that he may be heard at his return more attentively When he intermits he is ever well supplyed by some able man who treads in his steps and will not throw down what he hath built whom also he intreats to presse some point that he himself hath often urged with no great successe that so in the mouth of two or three witnesses the truth may be the more established When he preacheth he procures attention with all possible art both by earnestness of speech it being natural for men to think that where is much earnestness there is something worth hearing and by a diligent and busie cast of his eye on his Auditors with letting them know that he observes who marks and who not and with particularizing of his speech now to the younger sort then to the elder now to the poor and now to the rich This is for you and This is for you for particulars ever touch and awake more than generals He exceeds not an hour in preaching because all ages have thought that a competency and he that profits not in that time will less afterwards the same affection which made him not profit before making him then weary and so he grows from not relishing to loathing 6. On Sundaies having read Divine Service twice fully and Preached in the morning and Catechized in the afternoon he thinks he hath in some measure according to poor and frail man discharged the publick duties of the Congregation The rest of the duty he spends either in reconciling neighbours that are at variance or in visiting the sick or in exhortaton to some of his flock by themselves whom his Sermons cannot or do not reach And every one is more awaked when we come and say Thou art the man At night he thinks it a very fit time both sutable to the joy of the day and without hinderance to publick duties either to entertain some of his neighbours or to be entertained of them where he takes occasion to discourse of such things as are both profitable and pleasant and to raise up their minds to apprehend God's blessing to our Church and State c. Here I had ended but since I see the Book is hard in come by prithee take some more 7. The Country Parson considering that Virginitie is a higher state than Matrimony and that the Ministrie requires the best and highest things is rather unmarried than married But yet as the temper of his bodie may be or as the temper of his Parish may be where he may have occasion to converse with women and that among suspicious men and other like circumstances considered he is rather married than unmarried Let him communicate the thing often by prayer to to God and as his grace shall direct him so let him proceed If he be unmarried and keep house he hath not a woman in his house but finds oppertunities of having his meat drest and other services done by men servants at home and his linnen washed abroad If he be unmarried and sojourn he never talks with any woman alone but in the audience of others and that seldom and then also in a serious manner never jestingly or sportfully He is very circumspect in all companies both of his behaviour speech and very looks knowing himself to be both suspected and envied If he be married
conformitie to the Rites of the Church and zeal to advance the Cause of God wherein his Travels abroad were not obscure in the time of the excommunication of the Venetians 7. Then he certifies the King This is the Man whom Padre Paulo took I may say into his very soul with whom he did communicate the inwardest thoughts of his heart from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divinitie both Scholastical and Positive than from any that he had ever practised in his daies Of which all the passages were well known to the King your Father of most blessed Memory 8. And so he concludes in these words With your Majesties good favour I end this needlesse office for the general fame of his learning his life and Christian temper and those religious labours which himself hath Dedicated to your Majestie do better describe him then I am able 9. Mr Bedel was to the great joy of Sir Henrie Wotton made Governor of the said Colledg and after a fair discharge of his duty and trust there he was thence removed to be Bishop of Kilmore In both which places his life was so holy as seemed to equal the primitive Christians for as they so he kept all the Ember-weeks observed besides his private devotions the Canonical hours of prayer very strictly and so he did all the Feasts and Fast-daies of his Mother the Church of England his patience and charitie were both such as shewed his affections were set upon things above 10 Indeed his whole life brought forth the fruits of the Spirit there being in him such a remarkablenesse that he had a good report of those that were without Those that in point of Religion were of the Roman perswasion of which there were many in his Diocese did yet ever look upon him with respect and reverence and testified it by a concealing and safe ptotecting him in the late horrid Rebellion in Ireland when the furie of the wild Irish knew no distinction of persons yet there and then was he protected and cherished by those of a contrarie perswasion and there and then he dyed though not by violence 11. With him were lost many of his learned Writings which were worthy of preservation and among the rest was lost the Bible which by many years labour and conference and study he had translated into the Irish Tongue with an intent to have printed it for publick use IX M. ANT. de DOMINIS Dean of Windsor Out of Dr Barwick D. Roberto Glyn Rect. de Risington p. ABout the year 1618. there came over into England that very learned though unfortunate man Marcus Antonius de Dominis Arch-bishop of Spalato Primate of Dalmatia c. Which as he was wont to glory was St Hieroms Native Country as well as his 2. This great Scholar after he had so profoundly asserted the truth of Christian Religion as it is professed and practised in the Church of England in so many particulars against the errors and Corruptions of the See of Rome in his Learned and laborious books De Republica Ecclesiastica and had also from the Kings bounty received so great incouragements for his honorable supports as the Deanry of Windsour and Mastership of the Savoy besides many rich and yearly presents not only from the Bishops and Clergy but also from the Nobilitie and Gentrie Was so far wrought upon by that Polititian Count Gondamar the Spanish Embassador then in England and other instruments of the See of Rome that sought his ruin under some specious pretences as to take up a resolution of returning to Rome and could not be disswaded from it by his true friends that really endeavoured his security Among whom Bishop Morton was neither the least nor last who very earnestly advised him both by word and writing noâ— to venture himself upon such a hopelesse and hâ—ssardous journy 3. The Arch-bishops pretence was very plausible and commendable and how real he was in it must be left to God namely to negotiate an unitie in Religion between the Church of Rome and the Church of England upon those moderate grounds which he had laid down and so well defended in his learned and laborious Works printed here at London He applauded himself in the excellency of the work in removing the Schism and of the honour in becoming a Repairer of the breach and of the reward which is promised to the peace makers And he thought himself the more likely to go through with his work by reason of the seasonable opportunitie he had at that time when Gregorie the fifteenth was newly chosen Pope who had been of his old and intimate acquaintance brought up in the same School and College with him And however he was resolved to make an attempt because if he failed in it he hoped he should lose nothing but his labour for as for his Indemnitie Count Gondamar had promised him the securitie of the King of Spain his Master But how well that promise was perform'd will appear by the Sequel 4. While he was swelled up full with this promise and these hopes Dr Morton the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventrie coming to visit him had this ensuing discourse with him among many others which I have often heard him repeat with pleasure and shall therefore insert it and the rather because it shews us of how little authority the Council of Trent would be if it were not for the terrour of the inquisition Leichf Domine quid tibi in animo est Anne convertere Papam Atque etiam conclave papale Spal Quid ni domine Anne existimas eos diaboloâ— esse ut non possint converti Leichf Minime Domine nec puto dominum Spalatensum deum esse ut hoc possit praestare Nostin enim concilium Tridientinum Spal Novi domine ausus sum tibi dicere Millies Mille sunt etiam in Italia qui huic concilio fidem nullam adhibeant 5. This discourse and many other having passed between them they parted friendly And not long after did this Bishop reinforce his arguments with an addition of mâ—ny more in a long and learned Epistle to him Wherein among other Motives to dissâ—ade him from his journy he used one wherein he shewed himself a true Prophet concerning the entertainment he was like to have at Rome Which proved to be that before he gâ—t to Rome Pope Gregorie the fifteenth his old friend was dead and a successor chosen in his plâ—ce by whom this Arch-bishop was impriloned in Castro St Angelo Where he died not without strong suspition of murder or poyson And his body was afterward burnt as of an Heretick in Campo Flâ—ri 6. I could here start a problematical question concerning this learned Arch bishop Whether or no did he ever retract his works which he pulished in print If he did why did they at Rome buâ—n his body for Heresie If not then they abused him in his life time as well as after his death in the manifesto which they put forth