the issue and did accordingly perform it though he were sensible of the great danger of so doing The like resolution he manifested in the question about the Sabbath when opposition was made against the Perpetuity thereof and the Morality of the fourth Commandement a matter wherewith his heart was deeply affected as being an high affront to the Majesty and Authority of God the thoughts whereof seemed to be continually in his mind as was evident by his prayers discourses counsels and endeavours and particularly by that elaborate discourse which he in conjunction with that Judicious Learned and Pious Divine Master Daniel Cawdrey published to the world entituled Vindiciae Sabbathi the latter parts whereof were long ago fitted for the Presse and want but invitations of publishing which might encourage the Stationer to undertake the charge And therefore when reading the Book for Sports on the Lords day bowing to the Altar reading the Service-book there c. were urged he was most resolute against them resolving rather to lose all and suffer any thing then to comply therein and with that resolution went to the Arch-bishops visitation at Welling held by Sir John Lambe where yet he found beyond expectation rather a connivance at him then an enforcement thereof And the like he did concerning the Convocation-Oath in the new Book of Canons in the year 1640. which he vigorously opposed and took a great deal of pains in evincing the unlawfullnesse thereof It is well known also what freedom and faithfullnesse he hath used in reference to the publique affairs as well in his ordinary Sermons at the New Church the Abby and Margarets in Westminster to which places the greatest number of Parliament men did usually resort as in those by special order preached to one or both houses of Parliament some of which are to be seen in print where he spared not to declare fully and plainly what God expected from them and freely to reprove what was amisse For as he was wont to say he did not in that place preach BEFORE them ut coram Judice but TO them authoritativè as by Commission from God and how much soever they might be superiour to him in other regards yet he was in that place superiour to them as acting in Gods Name and therefore would not be afraid to speak whatever was the Will of God that he should tell them notwithstanding any displeasure or danger which might by this means befall him for so doing And upon this consideration we may look upon it as a wise Providence of God so seasonably to take him away a little before those great transactions about the change of Government which were so directly contrary to his deliberate and setled judgment that he would certainly have thought it his duty to Speak much more then others would endure to Hear For although his judgment was clear for the lawfullnesse of Defensive Arms which was the Parliaments case as it was first stated as doth fully appear in that Treatise entituled Scripture and Reason pleaded for Defensive Arms wherein himself of all others had the greatest hand yet was as peremptory against Offensive Arms or attempting the Kings life whose person he judged sacred and inviolable and hath oft expressed himself to that purpose that in case this should ever come to be the question which he hoped he should never see he thought himself bound in conscience by speaking preaching and otherwise to oppose it to the utmost of his power whatever danger he might incurre by so doing which zeal of his though at that time he were like to have prevailed very little with men otherwise resolved yet it might have proved an occasion of much hurt to himself and therefore God in wisdom and mercy thought good to excuse him that piece of service He was in his conversation a man of much temperance and sobriety In his diet he abstained from strong drink altogether Wine he drank very sparingly so far forth only as the necessities of nature did require and did usually content himself to eat but of one dish at a meal and that none of the daintiest even when he had more before him In his apparell he did neither affect to be gay nor costly but decent nor to spend time in needlesse curiosity in dressing As for Recreations he scarce used any but in stead thereof refreshed himself with the Christian converse of Friends accounting time so precious that he would redeem it not only from sports but from sleep also so far as the necessities of nature would permit He was neither wastfull nor covetous but very liberall doing many acts of charity beside what hath been mentioned before to such as stood in need bestowing plenteous relief according as he was able both by his own hands and the hands of others so that those who received it knew not oft-times whence it came And when that eminent work of charity was on foot in Cambridge while he was Fellow of Queens Colledge whereby divers young Scholars who were forced by reason of the wars to fly out of Germany especially of the Palatinate were sent for hither and educated partly in the University and partly under able and godly Divines in the Countrey whereby they might be fitted to do God and their Countrey service when God should give them opportunity to return having here been educated in the knowledge of our language and the way of practical Preaching which hath been no where more eminent then in England which work succeeded beyond expectation he was one of the great actors therein and did contribute liberally thereunto The like assistance also he afforded to divers Hungarians Transilvanians and other strangers who came over into England for the same reason The time of his sicknesse was not long for having spent much of his natural strength in his constant labours in the service of God there was the lesse work for sicknesse to do His deportment therein was holy and heavenly His humility faith patience and submission to Gods Will eminently appearing from time to time and his discourse full of heavenly expressions till the time of his death Not long before his death when one had read to him the 38 Chapter of Isaiah having then some little hopes of his recovery and ready to go to prayer he desired him to stay a while that he might pray first which he did briefly as his weaknesse would permit but very fully both for himself the Kingdom the Church of God and all to whom he stood in any relation The heads whereof were soon after written as near as might be in his own words so far as the memory of those that were then present could call them to mind First blessing God for his goodnesse the night past Blessed be God that hath been so good to us this night Then praying in behalf of himself Great God heal the sinfulness of my nature Pardon all my transgressions Take from me a heart
this time though his Bushell was bigger then other mens yet he would often charge his man not to strike off all the Corn. He used not to trouble himself with reckonings and accounts but would sometimes ask his man when he came from the Market how he sold Corn and if it was dear he would say I pray God bring down the price of it and if it was cheap he would heartily blesse God for it Yea his Charity was not onely extended to the poor of his own Parish but to others also for if at any time he had seen a poor body at a distance from him as he rode abroad he would send his man with money to him and when at any time he rode by the Castle at Cambridge the Prisoners would never ask him for any thing nor any one that was with him for if he had any money in his purse they were sure to have part of it By reason of his great liberality though his living was worth a hundred pound per annum yet he usually wanted Money to get in his Harvest so that his Wife formerly Doctor Bounds widow was forced to borrow money to supply that want Yet was he so well content with his present condition that though he had proffers of livings worth three of that which he had yet would he by no meanes be perswaded to accept of them He was a great friend to and promoter of peace and concord amongst his Neighbours and acquaintance insomuch that if any had come to him who were at variance he would either have made them friends himself or if he could not prevail he would have made use of other friends to reconcile them together thereby to prevent their going to Law When Martin Mar-Prelate came first out Master Greenham being to preach at Saint Maries in Cambridge spake freely against that Book manifesting his dislike of the same For said he the tendency of this Book is to make sinne ridiculous whereas it ought to be made odious On a time the Bishop of Ely sent for him to appear about his Non-conformity at which time the Bishop told him that there was a great Schisme in the Church asking him where the blame was to be 〈◊〉 whether upon the Conformists or Non-conformists To which â—e readily answered that it might lie on either side or on neither side For said he if they loved one another as they ought and would do all goâ—â— Offices each for other thereby maintaining love and concord it lay 〈◊〉 neither side otherwise which party soever makes the rent the Schisme lies upon their score The Bishop was so pleased with this answer that he dismissed him in peace He was much troubled with a bad concoction whereby he had frequent sick nights which kept him much waking but then his manner was as much as possibly he could to spend the time in meditation and prayer We have before heard of his great Charity to mens bodies His Charity to souls was not lesse exemplary For having great experience and an excellent faculty to relieve and comfort distressed consciences he was sought to far and neer by such as groaned under spiritual afflictions and temptations all whom he entertained friendly and familiarly without respecting the person of the rich more then of the poor Yea the fame of this spiritual Physician so spread abroad that he was sent for to very many and the Lord was pleased so farre to blesse his labours that by his knowledge and experience many were restored to joy and comfort out of unspeakable and insupportable terrours and torments of conscience If the Lord had not so soon translated him out of this sinfull and miserable world there was none more fit nor willing to have prescribed Rules and a Method to be observed in this so little a known Art Of his good will herein let his own words testifie the forward desires of his heart For upon a special occasion he thus speaketh of himself I have had saith he for a long time a settled resolution which I hope is from God to study the cases of conscience that thereby I may be the better able to succour the tempted and perplexed in spirit He was filled with bowels of compassion towards the afflicted sympathizing as if he had been afflicted with them Many godly and learned friends of his perceiving his abilities and inclination thereto did labour much to excite and incourage him in those studies upon these and the like grounds First that he might hereby the better train up some young men in the like studies communicating his knowledg and experiences to them therein Secondly that he might leave to posterity a Commentary of such particular Maladies as God had made him instrumental in the cure of together with the meanes by him used for effecting of the same And because Precepts are wanting Rules of direction might be framed partly by his own observation partly by conference with other learned and experienced persons whereby in that and the age following that Art might be brought into some form and method to the publick good and benefit of many not only foâ— the fruitfull curing but also for the healthfull preventing of manifold mischiefs To such as complained to him that they were troubled with â—â—â—sphemous thoughts his counsell was that they should not fear them but abhorre them And when some poor Christians were miserably afflicted with feares that they had commited that unpardonable sinne against the holy Ghost he used to tell them that if they would not have committed it it was certain that they had not faln into it The graces of Gods Spirit did all abundantly shine forth in this man of God all tempered as with unfeigned love to Christ so with bowels of love and compassion towards men and he again was greatly beloved of all men In the whole course of his Ministry he was very carefull ever to avoid as much as was possible all occasions of offence desiring in all things to approve himself as a Minister of Christ and Workman that needed not to be ashamed He much rejoyced in and praised God for the happy government of Queen Elizabeth and for the blessed calm and peace which the Church and people of God enjoyed under the same speaking often of it both publickly and privately as he had occasion endeavouring to stirre up the hearts of all men as much as in him lay to praise God with him for it and to pray also for the continuance thereof Yea this matter so affected him that the day before his departure out of this world his thoughts were much troubled for that most men were so unthankfull for those wonderfull and happy deliverances which the Lord of his mercy vouchsafed to that glorious Queen from the conspiracies and dangerous practices of her Popish Adversaries He was a special Instrument and meanes under God to incourage and train up many godly and learned young men in the holy service of
and perish when their time is come as well errore medici as vi morbi Doctor Ashworth was perswaded that the Scorbute was his disease and that the London-Doctors had all mistook their mark and therefore pitcheth upon applications suitable A great errour for so experienced and grave a Doctor Desire of restitution into a state of health made shift to flatter him into belief it was so The old man upon this perswasion comes over unto Preston with him strains and steeps Scurvy-grass and gives him Drenches able to have weakned a stronger man then he was now and having stayed and tampered with him about three weeks and finding nothing answer his expectation he takes his last leave of him giving such order and direction as he thought good and so leaves him and returns to Oxford July 9. 1628. When this dream and fancy of the Scorbute failed and Dr. Ashworth was gone he resigned up himself to God alone and let all care of Physick and the Doctors go He had a Servant who had been laborious with him and whom he often used as a Friend he would say Servi sunt humiles amici was very true of him To him he therefore now unbosomed himself not only touching the vanity and emptinesse of all things here below but his own belief and expectation of a suddain change not of my company said he for I shall still converse with God and Saints but of my place and way of doing it His Will was made as we have said some years before but he was doubtfull if it come to proving it might be baffled and affronted and therefore purposed to wave it and make a Deed of Gift to him that was in that Will his Executor with such restrictions and limitations as he thought good all which he set down with his own hand wherein he carefully provided for his Mother during life and both his Brothers His Books and all the furniture and goods belonging to and in his lodgings at Emanuel-Colledge he gave one of his Pupils that was Fellow there whom he alwaies greatly favoured Some exhibitions he gave Scholars there to be disposed of from time to time by him that was Executor And as he truly valued so he liberally rewarded his Servants faithfulnesse who liveth yet in very good condition and reputation of whom is verified what is said Prov. 27.18 Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof so he that waiteth on his Master shall surely come to honour And having thus discumbred himself of worldly cares he took care for the places he now possessed prayed for the Colledge that it might continue a flourishing Nursery of Religon and Learning told those about him as David before his death 1 Chron. 29.2 3 c. what he had done towards that goodly building since erected and what care he had taken to get those Rectories in the Kings Letter mentioned whereof we spake before prayed God to furnish Lincolns-Inne from time to time with able preaching Ministers and so the Lecture at Cambride that had cost so much trouble in the procuring Then for his Sermons that they might not come into the world like Vagabonds but seeing the Father lived not to see them setled and provided for those would be carefull whom then he named and is long since intimated upon occasion In all which great things God hath so answered him as I think no man was since Elisha 2 King 2.9 10. The night before he died being Saturday he went to bed and lay about three hours desirous to sleep but slept not then said My dissolution is at hand let me go to my home and Jesus Christ who hath bought me with his precious blood And so lay still as in a slumber till about two of the clock in the morning then drinking and resting on his servants armes he fell into a cold and clammy sweat which he told them was the Messenger of death and so continued for about two hours very silent About four of the clock he said I feel death coming to my heart my pain shall now be quickly turned into joy And so his Friends were called that were present in the house who spake unto him but had no answer from him as they were used to have They kneeled all down and a Reverend Divine there present prayed When Prayer was ended he looked on them and turning away his head gave up the ghost It was about five a clock on the Lords day but to him an everlasting Sabbath He never by his good will rested that day since God was truly known unto him untill now God gave him therefore now an everlasting rest No man deserved better Funeral solemnities But Master Dod was much against it and his Friends at Cambridge who did highly honour him and desired nothing more then to have waited on his dust unto its long home were now obliged to attend the Election of another Master that they durst not so much as make it known or do any thing from which it might be gathered So he was buried decently but without state in Fawsley Church in the County of Northampton Old Master Dod the Minister of that place preached and a world of godly people came together July 20. 1628. being within a little of one and fourty years of age Dr. Preston just before his death asked what day it was and being answered that it was the Sabbath day A fit day said he to be sacrificed on I have accompanied Saints on earth and now I shall accompany Angels in Heaven Also Mrs. Chaterdon telling him of his preaching so profoundly on Gods Attributes he answered If it shall please God to prolong my life I will make all so plain that every one shall be able to understand it This Life was written by my Reverend Friend Master Thomas Ball of Northampton The Life of Master Arthur Hildersam who died Anno Christi 1631. ARthur Hildersam was born at Stetchworth near New-Market in Cambridgeshire Octob. 6. 1563 He was Sonne of Thomas Hildersam of the said Town a Gentleman of an antient Family and Anne Poole his second Wife daughter to Sir Jeffery Poole fourth Sonne to Sir Richard Poole who was Cousen Germane to King Henry the seventh and Margaret Countesse of Salisbury that was Daughter to George Duke of Clarence the second Brother to King Edward the fourth and Isabel the eldest daughter and Co-heir of Richard the great Earl of Warwick and Salisbury Thus much for his Birth For his Education In his childhood he was brought up in the Popish manner taught to say his Prayers in Latine both his Parents and their Kindred specially his Mother being zealous Papists When he was to be sent abroad to School his Fathers aim was only to send him to a good School where many Gentlemens Sons were taught but God so ordered it by his good Providence that his Father unawares placed him at Saffron-Walden School in Essex with one Master Desborough a godly man and a Religious Protestant who
very strong able and healthfull body so that for the greatest part of his life there which was about fourty four years he rod four times a day winter and summer between the two Churches read the Word and preached four times a day administred the Sacraments and performed all other ministerial dutyes in them both He preached uppon several texts in each of the Churches so that divers godly persons old and young went betwixt the two Churches hearing several Sermons to their great profit and comfort Besides this every Holiday he supplied both the Churches sometimes preached but constantly expounded in each of them and for the most part twice a day also and God so blessed his labours that he begat many Sons and Daughters unto God He was very carefull in the education of his children first to train them up in the knowledge and fear of God for which end he would take all opportunities to whet the Word of God upon them when he lay down and when he rose up and as he walked by the way c. and God so blest his labours that he lived to see to his great comfort the work of grace wrought in the hearts of all his seven children And next to this his care was to train up his children in learning and to honest callings often saying that if he could leave them no other portion yet he would give them that education that they should be able to get their own livings in any part of the world where God should cast their lott Towards the latter-end of his life came forth the Book for Recreations on the Sabbath day and some young persons in the Town where he lived being encouraged thereby and by a Popish Landlord which they had would needs have a Whitson-ale and Morris-dance an heathenish sport long before through Gods goodnesse banished out of that town Master Clark laboured by his Ministry to beat down the first rising of this motion but these persons were so backed and encouraged by some that set them on that they would needs prosecute their design notwithstanding all the warnings given them by their faithfull Pastor But God that hath said He that despiseth you despiseth me c. made their sin quickly to find them out in a terrible judgment that suddainly ensued for in that very Barn standing near a Smiths Shop where their revels were most kept there was a violent fire kindled which notwithstanding all help quickly burnt it down and in a strange manner flying against the wind it went from house to house burning down all the houses of the chief of those which had an hand in these prophane sports Master Clark was a man like Apollos mighty in the Scriptures and so studied in the Body of Divinity that upon short warning he could preach very pertinently and profitably He had an excellent pair of lungs and was exceeding powerfull in his Ministry striking shame and terrour into the hearts of the wicked to whom he was a Boanerges and yet withall he was a Barnabas to humbled broken bleeding souls His old age was accompanied with a lingring and painfull disease which yet he bore with great patience and as he came nearer to Heaven so his motion thitherward was more quick and lively Many godly persons came to visit him in his disease and none of them went away without some spiritual and comfortable instructions from him At last having long glorified God on earth and finished his work he went to receive his wages quietly resigning up his spirit unto God November 6. 1634. having lived seventy one years two moneths and nineteen dayes and having been Pastor of Woolstone fourty four years This Master Hugh Clark was my Father The Life of Doctor Sibs who died Anno Christi 1635. RIchard Sibs was born upon the edges of Suffolk near Sudbury and being trained up at School when he was grown ripe and ready for the University he was sent to Cambridge Anno Christi 1595. and was admitted into St. Johns Colledge where he by his sedulity and industry so profited in Learning and approved himself by his godly and blamelesse conversation that he was promoted from one degree to another in the Colledge being chosen first Scholar and then Fellow of that House He also took all the Degrees of the University with general approbation and applause It pleased God to convert him by the Ministry of Mr. Paul Baines whilest he was Lecturer at St. Andrews in Cambridge And when Mr. Sibs had been Master of Arts some while he entred into the Ministry and shortly after was chosen Lecturer himself at Trinity Church in Cambridge To whose Ministry besides the Townsmen many Scholars resorted so that he became a worthy Instrument of begetting many Sons and Daughters unto God besides the edifying and building up of of others He sometimes had a little stammering in the time of his preaching but then his judicious hearers alwaies expected some rare and excellent notion from him About the year 1625. or 26. he was chosen Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge the Government whereof he continued till his dying day and indeed like a faithfull Governour he was alwaies very solicitous and carefull to procure and advance the good of that little House For he procured good means and maintenance by his interest in many worthy Persons for the enlargement of the Colledge and was a means and Instrument to establish learned and Religious Fellows there insomuch as in his time it proved a very famous Society for Piety and Learning both in Fellows and Scholars Dr. SIBBS His Learning was mixed with much humility whereby he alwaies esteemed lowly of himself and was ready to undervalue his own labours though others judged them to breathe spirit and life to be strong of Heaven speaking with authority and power to mens consciences His care in the course of his Ministry was to lay a good foundation in the heads and hearts of his hearers And though he were a wise Master-builder and that in one of the eminentest Auditories for Learning and Piety that was in the Land as was said before yet according to the grace which was given to him which was indeed like that of Elisha in regard of the other Prophets 2 King 1.9 the elder Brothers priviledge a double portion he was still taking all occasions to preach of the Fundamentals to them and amongst the rest of the Incarnation of the Son of God one of the chief Fundamentals of our Faith one of the chief of those wonders in the Mercy-seat which the Cherubims gaze at which the Angels desire to pry into 1 Pet. 1.12 And preaching at severall times and by occasion of so many severall texts of Scripture concerning this Subject there is scarce any one of those incomparable benefits which accrew to us thereby nor any of those holy impressions which the meditation hereof ought to work in our hearts which was not by
that part of the City was filled with his armed enemies against whom whilest he opposed himself he was invironed by his adversaries and taken Prisoner who presently carried him away to Antwerp Whilst he was Prisoner there he fell dangerously sick and lay fourty daies tormented with a Fever and as soon as he began to recover he called for a Bible by reading whereof he much eased and refreshed his mind and body and by the diligent study thereof he began to embrace the reformed Religion and to have a tast of true Piety and the right manner of calling upon God Not long after he payed his Ransome which was fifty thousand Crowns and so returned home and being weary of the Factions and Affairs at Court and seriously thinking of his change of Religion he gat leave of the King to turn over his Regiment of Foot to his Brother Andelot and his Government of the Isle of France to his Brother-in law Marshall Monmorancy and shortly after he sent one of his intimate Friends to the King humbly to signifie to him that he intended also to lay down his Government of Picardy and therefore desired him to think of one to succeed him therein The King answered that he wondred at his resolution and scarce thought him wise to divest himself so suddainly of so many places of honour and profit and from that time he began generally to be suspected of his change in Religion shewing a minde so free from ambition and desire of rule Monsieur Andelot also discovering his resolution in Religion the Cardinall of Lorraine who hated the Family of Coligni with a deadly hatred as the greatest enemies to the greatnesse of his Family watched his opportunity and suggested to the King that all men took notice that many great men of France were infected with the poison of Calvinisme which they scattered amongst the inferiour sort of people and in particular that Monsieur Andelot had blabbed out many things to the dishonour of the solemn sacrifice of the Masse c. The King being incensed hereby commanded the Cardinall of Chattillion his Brother and Monmorancy his Cosen to send for Andelot and to admonish him to answer modestly to the questions which should be proposed to him When he came before the King he professed his great good will towarde him and spake many things of his great merits and then told him that he was sorry to hear that which was reported viz. that he thought ill of Religion and therefore he required him to tell him what he thought of the Mass which the Calvinists spake so much against Andelot being a man of great courage answered confidently according to the truth which the King being offended at exhorted him to look to himself and to prevent the danger before it were too late Whereunto Andelot with greater courage answered that he had hitherto shewed himself obedient in all things to his Majesty whom he had found alwaies bountifull to himself and his Family but in the cause of Religion he could neither daub nor dissemble with God That his Body Wealth and Dignity were in the Kings power of which he might dispose as he pleased but his Soul was subject to God only that gave it to whom therefore in this cause he must needs be obedient as to his greater Lord. At this the King was so inraged that snatching up a dish he therewith hurt his Son the Dolphin that sat next him and then he commanded one of his privy-chamber to carry Andelot to the City of Meaux where he remained a Prisoner in the Bishops house till he was removed to the Castle of Melodune Not long after King Henry the second dying his Son Francis succeeded him who was married to Mary Queen of Scotland the Daughter of the Duke of Guises Sister by which means the Guises ruled all at Court and they also boasted often of the Kingdom of England to which this Mary was Heir apparent as they said The Admirall knowing their cruel barbarous and bloody dispositions who would never be free from turbulent Counsels and especially from pesecuting those of the Religion he was now without further delay resolved to lay down his Government of Picardy and for that end acquainted Lewis of Bourbon Prince of Conde concerning his intention wishing him to beg that place of the King which accordingly he obtained Our Admirall being thus eased of these publique Burthens and the troubles of them which withdrew his mind from Religion he kept at home in his own Castle and the rather because of his Wife Carola Lavollia born of an Illustrious and Ancient Family which was wonderfully given to the study of Religion exhorting her Husband also that casting off the remainders of Idolatry and Superstition he should wholly betake himself to the true service of Christ. The Admirall having often heard her presse this upon him dealt seriously with her telling her that he never knew any either in France or Germany which embraced in truth this reformed Religion but that they were overwhelmed with manifold afflictions under which they almost perished He told her also that by the Laws of France which were confirmed by all the Parliaments Whosoever made profession of this Religion was to be burnt alive and all his estate to be forfeited to the King Yet saith he if you be so prepared with Faith and courage that you can be content to undergo the same lott with others you shall see that I will not be wanting to do my duty To this she answered That the condition of the Church at this day was no other then what it had been in former ages even from the beginning and she perswaded her self that it would be the same to the end of the world And thus each of them incouraging other the Admirall began to instruct his Family in the true knowledge and worship of God and gave them Bibles and other good Books to read for their furthtr edification Withall he stoutly forbad them those oaths and blasphemies which were common in France especially in the Court He provided also godly Governours and Schoolmasters for his Children so that in a short time there was a wonderfull change in his Family yea by his example his two Brethren Odet the Cardinall and Andelot were exceedingly stirred up to the study of Religion The Admirall from his childhood had been bred in the Court which did in those daies exceedingly abound with luxury and other vices from which he was not altogether free but so soon as he imbraced the true Religion there was such a strange alteration in his life and deportment that the powerfull work of Gods Spirit did wonderfully appear therein Before he durst come to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper he conferred with divers Godly Ministers both about Transubstantiation and Consubstantiation for the setling of his judgment in the truth and once being present in the Town of Vatevill at a private
the way basely murthered the Nurse Infant and some other of the company with it Consider I pray you how great the wickednesse was and how Honourable yea how Glorious it will be to your name not to suffer such cruelty to escape with impunity Unto this Speech of the Admirall the King returned this answer That he had never called his loyalty into question That he reputed him a good Commonwealths man and a valiant and excellent Captain before whom he preferred no man in his Kingdom And said he if I had had any other opinion of you I had never done as I have heretofore About the Flemish businesse he answered never a word But for the third thing he answered that he liked nothing better then that his Edicts for Pacification should be holily and inviolably observed for which end he had sent his Deputies into all the Provinces of his Kingdom for the confirmation whereof he called the Queen-Mother to witnesse who turning to the Admirall said My Admirall there is nothing more true Commissaries and Deputies are sent into all parts Yea forsooth said the Admirall of those men who have imposed Fifty thousand Crowns as the price of my Head Then said the King My Admirall there is danger lest your earnestnesse may hinder your health it is better that you take your rest the harm hath befallen you but the dishonour reflects upon me but I swear by Gods death that I will so severely punish this wicked deed that the memory thereof shall continue to all posterities The Woman and Lacquy that were found in the house we have committed to safe custody Whom further do you require to be examined or whom would you have to exercise judgment To this the Admirall answered I leave this businesse to your Wisdom and Fidelity yet because you ask my judgment I humbly desire that Cavanneus and Masparrot may be employed therein for I think that the author of this deed is not farre off The King and Queen-Mother coming nearer to the Admirals pillow spake a while softly and at last the Queen-Mother said Although I am but a woman yet I perceive we must provide betimes The King at his departure advised the Admirall to be transported into the Kings Castle and the Earl Rhetius pressed the same divers times saying that he feared lest such a commotion should be raised amongst the common people of Paris as the King with all his authority should not be able to quell To this it was answered That the Physicians and Chyrurgeous would not allow of his removall lest the stirring of his body should inflame his wounds That if the King pleased to manifest his love and favour to the Admirall there was no more fear of the people of Paris then of a company of women That the authority of the Kings name was so great in France especially in Paris that were the common people never so mad and furious yet the mention of that alone would easily suppresse them Then did the King call for the brasen bullet wherewith the Admirall was wounded and asked him if he felt not very great pain when his finger and arm were cut To which receiving an answer he replied that there could not be a more constant and valiant man found this day in the world and so restoring the Bullet the Queen-Mother looking on it said I am glad that the Bullet is got out for I remember that when the Duke of Guise was shot in his Camp the Physicians often told me that though it were poysoned yet there was no danger when the Bullet was out But said a by-stander Madam we rested not upon that but we gave the Admirall Physick to prevent the danger if there were any poyson After the Kings departure came in John Ferrers Vidam of Chartres who comforted the Admirall with many words concluding that the enemies had betraied their great cowardlinesse in that they durst not encounter the Admirall but through a grated window but that the Admirall was an happy man who had lengthened out the praise of his vertue to so great an age Yea said the Admirall in this I account my self happy that the Lord hath been pleased to shew me mercy for they are truly blessed whose sins are forgiven and whose transgressions are covered The King of Navarr Prince of Conde and some other Christians of the Protestants being present they resolved to go down into a lower Chamber to consult what course to take for their present security At this debate Ferrers was very earnest that they should with all speed depart out of Paris assuring them that this was but the first act of a more dangerous Tragedy that would suddainly ensue Others on the contrary argued That it was enough for the present to require justice of the King desiring that judgment might be speedily executed In this opinion Teligni stood stiff affirming that he knew the Kings mind throughly and that they ought not to suspect his faith and good will Yet it was alleadged again that many seditious reports were scattered about That many Papists on the Wedding-day when the Protestants came out of the Church that they might not be present at Masse spake publiquely That within a few daies they should hear Masse Also some of the chief Citizens said that there should be more blood then wine shed at that Marriage Also the President of the Senate advised a Noble-man of the Protestants to go into the Countrey with his Family for a few daies Also John Monluc Bishop of Valentia when he was going Ambassadour into Poland advised the Earl of Rochfaucand not to suffer himself to be blinded with the smoak of the Court and its unsuall favours which are deservedly suspected by wise and wary men Therefore said he be not too secure cast not your self into dangers but withdraw your self and other Noble-men betimes out of the Court But these things could not be heard by reason of Monsieur Teligni's confidence In the mean time the Woman and Lacquy who were found in the house of Villemur were examined by the Presidents of the Parliament The Woman confessed that a few daies before Villerius Challius a retainer to the Guises brought a Souldier to that house commending him to her as if he had been the Master of the house but his name was concealed The Boy confessed that he had served this man a few daies who called himself one while Bolland and another while Bondol and that he was sent that morning to Challius to intreat him that the Horse might be ready as he had promised Hereupon Challius was sent for the more to delude the Protestants The King also wrote to the Governours of the Provinces wherein he detested the wrong done to the Admirall and required them to do their endeavour that all might understand how greatly it grieved him and that he would most severely punish it to the terrour of all others The day after some of the Admirals friends
183 185 187 191 200 210 219 222 223 231 232 Papists enemies to faithfull Ministers 5 8 9 29 Patience 89 207 283 307 Peacemakers blessed 15 210 Persecutors plagued by God 186 Persecution 251 Poverty of Gods Ministers 29 55 Prayer frequent and powerfull 25 86 91 191 196 The Benefits of it 205 Predictions and Prophesies 7 12 90 263 Providences speciall 5 10 11 12 33 36 37 42 54 59 62 89 91 144 145 150 161 164 184 187 206 213 215 216 217 239 261 263 265 270 298 Prudence 40 60 72 110 158 167 177 224 237 264 S. SAbbath-breakers plagued by God 160 165 Sabbath sanctified 227 Self-denial 40 89 185 186 221 230 Sin the greatest of evils 205 Slanders cast upon Christs Ministers 48 147 Sleep moderated 19 Studiousnesse of Ministers 9 24 34 79 153 172 191 Swearing how prevented 203 Sympathy with the Churches sufferings 25 177 T. THankfulnesse in Afflictions 211 Thanksgiving excellent 17 W. WOrd of God highly prized 19 26 153 189 203 219 World contemned 22 24 204 Z. Zeal 103 238 301 Zeal for the Sabbath 72 Zeal against Sectaries and Separatists 72 151 176 178 191 197 FINIS Errata in this Part of the Lives PAge 35. line 14. dele long l. 27. read demeanour p. 45. l. 4. dele therefore l. 32. r. he for they p. 47. l. 6. r. a for as p. 62. l. 35. r. bought for brought p. 70. l. 35. dele be p. 71. l. 13. put in of p. 83. l. 43. r. decease for disease p. 85. l. 12. r. skilfull for skill p. 94. l. 22. r. he took for then an took p. 105. l. 1. r. had l. 2. r. flower p. 134. l. 41. dele and. p. 151. l. 45. r. heal for zeal p. 168. l. 17. r. 1635 for 1631. p. 179. l. 18. r. yet for yea p. 189. l. 2. r. three penny for third p. 217. l. 31. r. them for him p. 246. l. 26. r. preferred for preserved p. 250. l. 5. r. your for our p. 262. l. 2. r. now for new p. 288. l. 20. r. Chieftains for Christians p. 293. l. 29. r. erected for elected p. 298. l. 27. r. lawfull for unlawfull Some other literall faults there are which are easily amended His birth and education His travels His going to Oxford He is famous for preaching His character His judgment of T. Aquinas The Bishops hate him And article against him The Archbishop frees him The Bishops implacable malice They accuse him to the King The King favoures him His Charity His death His Birth and Breeding The Bible translated His flight his Bibles printed He removes into Germany His return into England He is made Bishop of Exester His diligence in his place His character His care of his Family His liberallity He is hated by the Papists A special providence His imprisonment His deliverance He goes into Denmark To the Palatinate His return into England His death A Prediction Dr Mouses inconstancy and ingratitude Dr Sands his Oration His courage Meeknesse He is imprisoned in the Tower Flight refused· A Jailor converted His Name was Thomas Wyat. Sr Tho. Wyat profers him his liberty His prudent answer His release from prison He is again sought for A special providence A Prophecy He flies beyond sea A special providence His sicknesse His Wife died Charity His return to England He is a Bishop His death He was Fellow in Pembrook-Hall His remove to Dry Drayton His extraordinary pains His hard Studies His Charity A great Peace-maker 〈◊〉 â—isliked Martin Mar-Prelate He is convented before the Bishop His Prudence He is dismissed His Piety His skill in curing spiritual diseases His remove to London His death His Birth His studiousnesse He is a Lawyers Clarke His return to Cambridge His Disputation before the Queen He is chosen Professor His multitude of hearers He is questioned before the Vice-Chancellor He is expelled the University The Articles for which he was expelled His travels beyond-sea Beza's testimony of him He is Preacher to the English Merchants He is chosen to answer Dr. Whitgift His imprisonment His contempt of the world His favour with the Earl of Leicester King James sends for him into Scotland He is sent to for counsell He is made Master of the Hospital at Warwick His esteem in the Countrey His diligence in the Ministry He is importuned to answer the Rhemist Testament Encouraged by Sir Francis Walsingham He is sollicited thereto by the Doctors of Cambridge * Church-Discipline And by the Ministers of London and Suffolke His discouragements in the work The work left imperfect His going into Gernsey His contempt of the world His charity His Prudence His studiousnesse His meekness His humility His sympathy with the Church His frequency in Prayer The successe of his Ministry A remarkable judgment upon a loose Professer His last Sermon Joy unspeakable His death His Birth and Education His Fathers Prudence His conversion Mr. Wilsons fidelity Mr. Baines his Gratitude He is chosen Fellow He is chosen Lecturer Prelatical malice He is silenced His painfulness and piety And poverty The Bishops malice Gods Providence His faithfulnesse and prudence His Character by Dr Sibbs The manner of his death His Parentage His Education at Worcester His return to Bosworth Gods Providence in providing for him His going to Cambridge Admitted into to Emanuel Colledge His diligence in his studies Dr Chadertons care for him Sidney Colledg built His journey into Guernsey Mr Cartwrights love to him His carriage in his place His return to Cambridge Mr Cartwrights commendation of him His gracious deliverance in his return Gods special Providence over him A Miracle of mercy He is admitte-Fellow in Sidney Colledge His Gratitude His humility His inviolable friendship His prudent and winning carriage His Prudence His self-denial He enters into the Ministry His imployment at Abington And at Steeple-Morden The occasion of his first trouble The Bishops subtlle practices A special Providence His courage He withdraws from the Colledge His Letter to a Friend about it His return to the Colledge He is sent for to Chatham He goes to Chatham His faithfulness in his place A motion of marriage made to him Satans malice against the progresse of the Gospel He is accused to the Bishop Sir Francis Hastings his Letter to the Archbishop in his behalf Bishop Bancrofts malice Master Bear-blocks malice against him He is charged with Heresie His Letter to Master Bearblock about that charge The Antinomians practice A Spie sent to entrap him He is falsly accused He is summoned before the Bishop He is summoned before the Bishops Subscription made a snare He is suspended from Chatham Another Spie sent to entrap him The Inhabitants of Chatham Petition for him to the Bishop Gods Providence for him He departs from Chatham He is setled at Newhall His small means of Maintenance His contentation His Letter to a Friend about it His humility His great pains Monstrous ingratitude He is chosen Lecturer at Christ Church London Bishop Bancrofts malice