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The life of the Reverend Anthony Horneck, D.D., late preacher at the Savoy by Richard Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.
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Kidder, Richard, 1633-1703.
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1698
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THE LIFE Of the Reverend Anthony Horneck D. D. Late Preacher at the SAVOY By RICHARD Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells LONDON Printed by J. H. for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill 1698. The LIFE of the Reverend Anthony Horneck D. D. THIS excellent Man was born * Anno 1641. at Baccharach †So call'd as some think from Bacchiara Pid Misson's Trav. Tom. 1. Lett. 6. in the Lower Palatinate a Town from whence we receive a Wine that from the place bears the same Name amongst us His Father was Recorder or Secretary of that place a very strict Protestant and a Person of great Reputation The Doctor was also bred up in the same Profession from the beginning He never was of the Church of Rome as hath been falsly reported of him His Father devoted him for the holy Ministry from the womb and was not wanting to give him such an Education as might fit him for that Sacred Office He was first sent to Heidelbergh where he applied himself with great diligence to the study of Divinity under the direction and care of the very learned Dr. Spanheim who is now the primary Professor of the University of Leyden He had it appears a great desire to come over into England I cannot tell what it was that moved him 't is certain his Father inclined not to it However to England he came not without his Father's consent He was about 19 years of age when he first came over He was then very eminent not onely for his Learning but for his great Piety also He who taught him the English Tongue does profess that he never saw a young man so exemplary for Piety as this young man was He was entred into Queen's College in Oxford Dec. 24. 1663. and was in very great esteem there with Dr. Barlow then Provost of that House and since Bishop of Lincoln who valued him highly for his great Learning and more particularly for his good skill in the Eastern Languages He was by his favour made Chaplain of the said College soon after his Entrance He was incorporated Master of Arts from the University of Wittembergh Dec. 21. 1663. It was not long after this that he was made Vicar of Allhallows in Oxford which is in the gift of Lincoln College There he continued a most constant and painfull Preacher about two years Thence he removed into the Family of the Duke of Albemarle * Au. 1665. and was received there as a Tutor to his Son the then Lord Torrington and since Duke of Albemarle He was now in a fair way to Preferment had he been forward in fecking it The Duke did indeed bestow upon him a Living in the Diocese of Exeter †The Rectory of Doulton in Devonshire and did also procure him a Prebend in that Church from Dr. Sparrow then Lord Bishop there I shall have occasion afterward to give on account of his parting with them I am now on that part of the Doctors Life which I know the least of I doubt not but he did well every where and agreeably to his holy Profession He did before he married go over into Germany | Au. 1669. to see his Friends where he preached with great acceptation and was entertained with great respect at the Court of one of the German Princes * Charles Lodowick Elector Palatine who shewed him a very particular kindness After his Return he was chosen Preacher at the Savoy †Au. 1671. where he continued about 26 years till he died That place deserves not the name of a Preferment The maintenance is small and upon the matter precarious And whatever it was to him at his first taking of it when there were persons of considerable quality inhabiting there who were very kind to him yet afterwards when his Family increased and his necessities were greater it could not be called a compotent maintenance But whatever it was first or last he could not be perswaded to keep his Living in Devonshire with it nor could he ever be prevailed with afterwards whatever offers were made to him to accept of any Living to hold in conjunction with it He was irreconcileable to Pluralities and to Non-residence and would upon occasion declare his abhorrence of them with some considerable warmth He was of the opinion in this matter of Bernard Gilpin the famous Preacher and Saint of the North of whom the Bishop of Chichester who wrote his Life gives the following account Mr. Gilpin was about to travel beyond the Seas and to study there He was at that time possessed of a Living a Cure of Souls Bishop Tunstall perswades him to keep his Living for his better support Mr. Gilpin refuseth so to doe and resigns it He tells the Bishop that he had left his Parsonage upon necessity because he could not keep it in his hands with any peace of Conscience And when the Bishop offered him a Dispensation to hold it Mr. Gilpin replied The Devil will not be restrained with any bonds of dispensation from labouring in mine absence the destruction of my people committed to my charge And I fear that when God shall call me to account of my Stewardship it will not serve my turn to make answer that I was dispensed withall whilst the Devil made havock of my Flock Mr. Gilpin was after this and whilst he continued beyond the Seas pressed to accept of a Living But he tells the Bishop in his Letter to him his mind in these words I am fully resolved so long as I live never to burden my Conscience in this case nor to keep a Living in my own charge with condition to live from it He adds afterwards Though any other should teach and preach for me as constantly and industriously as even St. Augustin did yet cannot I think my self discharged by another man's pains-taking But if yet I should be perswaded thus to offer violence to my Conscience upon condition to remain either here or in any other Vniversity my disquiet of Conscience would never permit me to profit in my study He was a very great blessing to the Inhabitants of the Savoy and indeed to the City He constantly resided among them tho' he had no House belonging to his Place He hired an House and was constant in the discharge of the Duties of his Place He preached with great vehemence and ardor with mighty force and conviction He spake the sense of his Soul and entred into the Hearts of his People He soon convinced his Auditors that he was in great earnest and that he had a mighty sense of the worth of Souls and of the vast importance of those Truths which he delivered to them His Auditors were convinced that he was a Man of God and sent by him for the good of Souls He used great freedom of Speech and instead of using enticing Words of human Wisdom he spake like his Master with great Conviction and Authority His Fame grew exceedingly and very