when he thought it would digest The Scruple troubled all the rest Notwithstanding this scrupulosity in them the World knows their hypocritical Practices under all those zealous Pretences how light they are in the Ballance and how extraordinary a thing it is to find from their hands downright honesty and plain dealing they are too much like the Scribes and Pharisees who by godly shews of long Prayers sad Countenances Justification of themselves that they were the only Righteous and all others Sinners played the Hypocrites most abominably to deceive the vulgar sort they made Religion a meer mock and empty show 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith our Saviour to be seen like Stage-players in a Theater Nam tota actio est histrionica as Erasmus well observeth their whole carriage was dramatick to make a feigned Pageantry and Ostentation of Piety Yet John Lord Bishop of Lincoln in compliance with this Sect out of discontent and revenge because deprived of the great Seal and commanded by the King to retire from Westminster transformed himself into one of these Angels of new Light and made himself the Archangel and Head of their Party First of all by writing his pretended Letter to one Titly Vicar of Grantham against the holy Communion Table standing Altar-wise to which Dr. Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply in his Book entituled A Coal from the Altar to which the Bishop within a Twelve-month after he took time enough for the Work did return an Answer under the Title of The Holy Table Name and Thing pretending withal that this was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire against Dr. Cole a Divine in Queeu Marys Reign No sooner the King heard of this new Book but he sent a Command to Dr. Heylyn to write a speedy Answer to it and not in the least to spare the Bishop Neither did the Doctor baulk the grand Sophos but detected all his false Allegations and answered them that were true which the Bishop had wrested to a contrary sense if we will look into the Doctors Book called by him Antidotum Lincolniense All this while the Bishop as it must be confest being a man of Learning writ against his own Science and Conscience so dear is the passion of revenge to gratifie which some men wilfully sin against the Light of their own Souls therefore the Bishop according to the Apostles word was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 condemned of himself For look upon him in the point of practice and we shall find the Communion Table was placed Altar-wise in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln whereof he was Bishop and in the Collegiate Church of Westminster of which he was Dean and lastly in the private Chappel of his own house as Dr. Heylyn saith in whieh it was not only placed Altar-wise but garnished with rich Plate and other costly Utensils in more than ordinary manner By all which the Bishop needed no further refutation of his Book than his own Example that in those places where he had Authority the Holy Table did not stand in Gremio and Nave of the Quire as he would have it fixed but above the Steps upon the Altar close to the East end of the Quire ex vi catholicae consuetudinis according to the ancient manner and custom in the Primitive Catholick Church But hinc illae lachrymae ever since this mischief followed his Book that in most Country Churches to this day the Table is set at the hither end of the Chancel whithout any Traverse or Rails to fence it Boys fling their Hats upon it and that which is worse Dogs piss against it Country Juries write their Parish accounts Amerciaments By-Laws c. all which is a most horrible profanation and not to be suffered But now John Lord Bishop of Lincoln who would have removed the holy Communion Table from its proper place and had displaced his Prebends of their ancient Seat was himself at this time Anno Dom. 1637. thrown out of his Episcopal Chair by sentence of the Star-Chamber for endeavouring to corrupt the Kings Evidence in a Cause of Bastardy brought before his Majesties Justices of Peace at Spittle Sessions in the County of Lincoln which business afterward came to a hearing before the Lords in Star-Chamber by whose definitive sentence the Bishop was suspended ab Officio Beneficio deprived of all his Ecclesiastical Preferments deeply fined and his Complices with him and afterward committed to the Tower of London where he continued Prisoner for three years and in all that space of time his Lordship did never hear Sermon or publick Prayers to both which he was allowed liberty but instead thereof he studied Schism and Faction by his own Example and his Pen disguisedly During the time of his Lorships Imprisonment Dr. Heylyn was chosen Treasurer for the Church of Westminster in which Office he discharged himself with such diligence and fidelity that he was continued in it from year to year till the Bishops release out of tâ—…e Tower and his removal back again to Westminster While he was Treasurer he took care for the repairs of the Church that had been neglected for many years First of the great West-Isle that was ready to fall down was made firm and strong and of the South-side of the lower West-Isle much decayed he caused to be new timbred boarded and leaded but chiefly the curious Arch over the preaching place that looketh now most magnificently he ordered to be new vaulted and the Roof thereof to be raised up to the same height with the rest of the Church the charge of which came to 434 l. 18 s. 10 d. He regulated also some disorders of the Quire perticularly the exacting of Sconses or perdition mony which he divided among them that best deserved it who diligently kept Prayers and attended upon other Church Duties Whilest he was Treasurer his Brethren the Prebendaries to testifie their good affections to him presented him to the Parsonage of Islip near Oxford a very good Living worth about 200l per Annum then by the death of Dr. King made void but by reason of the distance from Alresford though standing most conveniently to taste the sweet pleasures of the University he thought fit to exhange it for another nearer hand the Rectory of South-warnborough in the County of Hampshire that was in the gift of St. Johns Colledge in Oxon to which exchange he was furthered by the Arch-Bishop who carried a great stroke in that Colledge of which he had been President It pleased God soon after to visit him and his Family at Alresford with a terrible fit of Sickness of which none escaped the Disease was so contagious but the Cook 's boy in the Kitchen who was then Master Cook for the whole Family and he performed his part so well in making their broths and other necessaries that he was the best Physitian among the Doctors for by his Kitchen Physick the Sick was cured No sooner Dr. Heylyn recovered of the
had the gift of prophecy though their eye sight failen them as did with Jacob yet they were called Seers because they foresaw future things they were so old that for their Age and gravity they were sometimes upbraided so Elisha by the Children was mocked who undoubtedly were so taught by their ungodly Fathers to say of him go up thou baldhead Neither doth a melancholy constitution as some have imagined make men prophetical either in sleeping or waking but on the contrary renders them uncapable as is evident by the examples of Jacob and Elisha the first of whom being in deep sadness which is the inseparable Companion of melancholy for the loss of his Son Joseph was at the same disabled from prophecy or otherwise he could have told what Fortune had befallen his Son who was not dead but sold by his Brethren Hence Mercer tells us it was an ordinary saying among the Rabbines Maeror prophetiam impedit In like manner the Prophet Elisha for the sorrow of Elijah his Master taken away from him and the anger he had conceived against Jehoram that wicked Prince whilst these two passions were predominant over him he could not prophesie till the Minstrel played with her Musical Instrument to drive away his melancholy sadness and then the hand of the Lord its said came upon him and he prophesied saying Thus saith the Lord c. By all which I hope it is evident that hypocondriacal persons who are grievously afflicted with melancholy are not thereby disposed to prophesie and then by necessary consequence it followeth that Dreams arising from the same natural cause cannot be said prophetical no more then that of Albertus magnus who dream'd that hot Scalding Pitch was poured upon his Brest aâ—…d so soon as he awakned from his sleep he vomited up abundance of adust Chollar Such Dreams certainly arise from the ill habitude of the Body through fullness of bad humors But there is another sort of Dreams which may be called divine or supernatural which are imprinted on the mind of man either by God himself or his holy Angels from which necessarily follows prophecy because such extraordinary impressions are usual for those ends And this I take to be the Reverend Doctors Dream who was a man of so great Piety as well as Study that I cannot think otherwise but that he was able to discern the different motions of his Soul whether they were natural or supernatural of which last he was so firmly assured by his own reason and great Learning that no arguments could disswade him to the contrary St. Austiine saith Animam habere quandam vim divinationis in seipsa That the Soul of man hath a certain power of Divination in it self when it is abstracted from bodily actions I confess then it must needs be drawn up to higher Communion with God than ordinary but more immediately I rather think with Tertullian a little before death about the time of its separation from the Body because many dying persons have wonderfully foretold things which afterward came to pass the reason of which that good Father giveth and therein I judge he was no Montanist when he saith Quia Anima in ipso divertio penitus agitari enunciet quae vidit quae audit quae incipit nosseâ—… Because the Soul then acts most vigorously at the last Broath declares what things it seeth it heareth and what it begins to know now entring into Eternity So the heavenly and pious Doctor according to the prenotions of his Death forseeing his time was short gave his Wife strict charge again that very night as he was going to Bed and in appearance well that she should bury him according to his Dream she affrighted with this dreadful charge sate by him while he fell into a Sleep out of which he soon awaked in a Feverish distemper and violent Hick-up which she taking notice of said I fear Mr. Heylyn you have got cold with going abroad to day but he answered very readily no it was Deathâ—… Hick-up and so it proved for he grew worse and worse till he dyed Now some I hear impute the cause of his sickness to the eating of a Tansey but this is false for I heard the contrary relation from her own mouth his Dream was on the Saturday night his Surplice happened to be burnt on Sunday morning all which day he pass'd in private mediatation in his Study and on the Monday what time he had to spare he spent in providing a Settlement for his Wife as aforesaid But to return again to his good mans sickness of which the true cause as his Physician said was the reliques of his long quartane Ague not purged out by Physick to which he was alwaies averse threw him into a malignant Feverâ—… in which â—…he remained insensible till some few hours before he dyed but when it pleased God to restore unto him his Senses again he most zealously glorified his Name with praises and thanksgivings for his mercies towards himself and Family earnestly praying for them and often commending them to Gods Heaveuly care and protection at the same time he left â—… little Book of Prayers with his dear Wife for her devotion which she shewed afterward to me being a Collection of many Collects out of the Common Prayer to every one of which he had added a most fervent Prayer of his own composure that little Book she said should be the Prayer-Book of her Devotion while she lived Finally as his time grew shorter and shorter he prayed with more vehemency of Spirit sometimes to God sometimes to his Saviour and to the blessed Comforter of his Soul rejoycing exceedingly that he should live to Ascension day uttering forth most heavenly expressions to the sweet Comfoâ—…t of others aud principally of his own Soul with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or full assurance of his Salvation through Christ Jesus which last unspeakable joy and consolation above all other God is pleased to be bestow upon the faithful and seal it to them with the earnest of his Spirit at the hour of Death At which time his Soul now ready to depart and be with Christ his Saviour one Mr. Merrol a Verger of the Church coming into his Chamber to see him he presently called him to his Bed side saying to him I know it is Church time with you and I know this is Ascenfion day I am ascending to the Church Triumphant I go to my God and Saviour unto joyes Caeleftial and to Halleluja's eternal with which and other like expressions he dyed upon Holy Thursday An. Dom. 1663. in the Climacterial year of his Life threescore and three in 〈◊〉 number the Sevenths and ninths do often fatally concurre He was afterward buried under his Sub-Deans Seat according to his Dream and desire His Death lamented by all good men because there was a Pillar though not a Bishop falln in the Church of whom I may say in the Poets words Quando ullum invenient parem
Walter Newbery a zealous Puritan in those days undertook the Charge of him who little thought his Pupil would afterward prove so sharp an Enemy to the Puritan-faction But by the help of his two Tutors who faithfully discharged their Office in reading Logical Lectures to him and other kind of Learning his own Industry also and earnest desire to attain unto Academical Sciences setting him forward beyond his years and standing he was encouraged by his Tutor and good Friends who saw his Parts were prodigious to stand for a Demy's Place in Magdalen Colledge at the time of their Election But he being very young and the Fellows already preingaged for another he missed the first time as is usual in this Case with which disappointment he was not at all discouraged but cheerfully followed the course of his Studies and among other Exercises for recreation sake and to shew his Wit and Fancy he framed a Copy of Verses in Latin on occasion of a pleasant Journy he took with his two Tutors to Woodstock which Verses he presented to the President and Fellows of Magdalen Colledge who at the next Election in the year 1615. unanimously chose him Demy of the House where soon after he was made Impositor of the Hall which Office no small honour to him being then but fifteen years of Age he executed with that trust and diligence that the Dean of the Colledge continued him longer in it than any of his Predecessors for which he was so envyed by his Fellow Demies as that malignant passion is always the Concomitant of honour that they called him by the Name of perpetual Dictator About the same time being very eager upon his juvenile Studies he composed an English Tragedy called by him Spurius that was so generally well liked by the Society that Dr. Langton the President commanded it to be acted in his Lodgings After those and many other Specimina Ingenii fair Testimonies of his Wit and Schollarship he easily obtained his grace for the Degree of Batchelor of Arts in the year 1617. Then according to the Colledge Statutes and Custom that requires some Exercise to be performed by a junior Batchelor in the long Vacation he read several Lectures of Geography to which his Genius naturally led him and carried them on so pleasantly in a new Method not observed by others by joyning History with Cosmography that made the Work very delightful For scarce any memorable Action done in any Nation Country or famous City in the World but he hath recorded it which was a wonderful Task for a Youth of his years that all his Auditors grave Fellows as well as others was struck into deep admiration of his profound Learning and Wisdom that forthwith the whole Society nemine contradicente admitted him Probationer Fellow in the Place of Mr. Love and that before such time he had fully finished the reading of his Lectures And for a further encouragement of him in his Studies being also a good Philosopher as well as Geographer the Colledge chose him Moderator of the Senior Form in the Hall that brought both credit to his Name and profit to his Purse for which in Gratitude to them as he ever shewed a grateful mind to his Patrons and Benefactors he presently writ a Latin Comedy called by him Theomachia which he finished and transcribed in a Fortnights time and dedicated the same to the Fellows who were so highly pleased with his Ingenuity and Pains that on July the 19th 1619. he waâ—… admitted Fellow in that honourable Society according to the usual Form In verum perpetuum Socium After which followed a new honour upon him as all Degrees in the University are honourable and but the just reward of Learned Men that in the year 1620. the University conferred on him the Degree of Master of Arts and surely a young Master he was that not one of twenty is capable of this Degree at his years but more remarkable it was at that time because he was one of those Masters that first sate with their Caps on in the Convocation-house by Order of the Earl of Pembroke then Chancellor of the University who signified his Lordships Pleasure by his especial Letters That from that time forward the Masters of Arts who before sate bare should wear their Caps in all Congregations and Convocations which has been ever since observed He now a Master of Arts in the University and Fellow of a Noble Colledge than which no greater encouragements can be imagined for young Men to follow their Studies and put audacity into them to shew their Parts especially when they have gained by their Learning and Merits both Preferment and Honour He was perswaded by several Friends to publish those Geographical Lectures which he read in the long Vacation that others might taste the sweetnes and pleasure of those Studies besides his own Fellow Collegians Accordingly having got his Fathers consent for the printing of them and the perusal and approbation of his Book by some Learned Men at the Age of twenty and one years the young Writer comes forth November the 7th Anno Dom. 1621. Whose ingenious Writings found such general Acceptance manibus omnium teruntur that scarce any Scholars Study was without them and to this day since their enlargement by several Editions are as commonly cited upon occasion as any Authentick Author that 's extant The First Copy was presented to his Royal Highness King Charles the First then Prince of Wales unto whom the young Author dedicated his Work and by the young Prince was as graciously received being brought into his Highness presence by Sir Robert Carr afterward Earl of Ancram but then one of the Gentlemen of the Princes Bed-Chamber Having so fortunate a Beginning to gain the Prince his Patron he desisted in Geography and proceeded to higher Studies that might capacitate him for greater Services hereafter both in Church and State In order thereto first piously he took along with him the Episcopal Blessing of Confirmation by the Hands of Bishop Lake in the Parish Church of Wells September the 15th Anno Dom. 1623. the fruits of whose Fatherly Benediction devout Prayers with imposition of Hands did manifestly appear in this true Son of the Church Whom the Almighty did bless and daily increase in him the manifold gift of Grace bestowed on him the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding c. And certainly such singular benefits does accompany this Apostolical Institution mentioned in Scripture constantly used in the Primitive Church that the neglect or contempt thereof from the hands of Gods Bishops no doubt deprives us of many good Blessings which we should otherwise receive from the hands of God Being thus confirmed by the Bishop according to the Order of the Church of England he afterward applyed himself to the Study of Divinity which St. Basil calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Theory or Contemplation of the Great God or his Being so far as he hath revealed himself to us in the
Book of Nature and Scripture This Knowledge excelleth all other and without it who knoweth not the saying Omnem Scientiam magis obesse quam prodesse si desit scientia optimi that all other Knowledge does us more hurt than good if this be wanting Notwithstanding he met with some discouragements to take upon himself the Profession of a Divine for what reasons it is hard for me to conjecture but its certain at first he fonnd some reluctancy within himself whether for the difficulties that usually attend this deep mysterious Science to natural reason incomprehensible because containing many matters of Faith which we ought to belâ—…eve and not to question though now Divinity is the common mystery of Mechanicks to whom it seems more easie than their manual Trades and Occupations or whether because it drew him off from his former delightful Studies more probably I believe his fears and distrusts of himself were very great to engage in so high a Calling and Profession and run the hazards of it because the like Examples are very frequent both in Antiquity and modern History however so timerous he was upon this account lest he should rush too suddenly into the Ministry although his abilities at that time transcended many of elder years that he exhibited a Certificate of his Age to the President of the Colledge and thereby procured a Dispensation notwithstanding any local Statutes to the contrary that he might not be compelled to enter into holy Orders till he was twenty four years old at which time still his fears did continue or at least his modesty and self-denyal wrought some unwillingness in him till at last he was overcome by the Arguments and powerful Perswasions of his Learned Friend Mr. Buckner after whose excellent Discourses with him he followed his Studies in Divinity more closely than ever having once tasted the sweetness of them nothing can ravish the Soul more with pleasure unto an Extasie than Divine Contemplation of God and the Mysteries in his holy Word which the Angels themselves prye into and for which reason they love to be present in Christian Assemblies when the Gospel is preached as the Apostle intimates to us That by continual study and meditation and giving himself wholly to read Theological Books he found in himself an earnest desire to enter into the holy Orders of Deacon and Priest which he had conferred upon him at distinct times in St. Aldates Church at Oxon by the Reverend Father in God Bishop Howson At the time when he was ordained Priest he preached the Ordination Sermon upon the words of our Saviour to St. Peter Luke 22. 32. And when thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren An apposite Text upon so solemne Occasion Being thus ordained to his great satisfaction and contentment the method which he resolved to follow in the Course of his Studies was quite contrary to the common Rode of young Students for he did not spend his time in poring upon Compendiums and little Systems of Divinity whereby many young Priests â—…hink they are made absolute Divines when perhaps a Gentleman of the â—…ish doth oftentimes gravel them in an ordinary Argument But he fell upon the main Body of Divinity by studying Fathers Councils Ecclesiastical Histories and School-men the way which King James commended to all younger Students for confirming them in the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England that is most agreeable to the Doctrine of the Primitive Church By this time his Book of Geography in the first Edition bought up by Scholars Gentlemen and almost every Housholder for the pleasantness of its reading was reprinted and enlarged in a second Edition and presented again to his Highness the Prince of Wales who not only graciously accepted the Book but was pleased to pass a singular Commendation upon the Author But afterward the Book being perused by his Royal Father King James the second Solomon for Wisdom and most Learned Monarch in Christendom the Book put into his Majesties hand by Dr. Young then Dean of Winton and Mr. Heylyn's dear Friend the Kings peircing Judgement quickly spyed out a fault which was taken no notice of by others as God always endows Kings his Vice-gerents with that extraordinary gift the Spirit of discerning above other Mortals Sicut Angelus Dei est Dominus meus Rex saith the holy Scripture as an Angel of God so is my Lord the King who lighting upon a Line that proved an unlucky Passage in the Author who gave Precedency to the French King and called France the more famous Kingdom with which King James was so highly displeased that he presently ordered the Lord Keeper to call the Book in but this being said in his Anger and Passion no further notice was taken of it in the mean time Dr. Young took all care to send Mr. Heylyn word of his Majesties displeasure the News of which was no small sorrow to him that he was now in danger to lose the Kings Favour Nil nisi peccatum manitestaque culpa falenda est Paenitet ingenij judiciique mei that Mr. Heylyn could have wished them words had been left out Dr. Young advised him to repair to Court that by the young Prince's Patronage he might pacifie the Kings Anger but not knowing whethâ—… the Prince himself might not be also offended he resided still in Oxford and laid open his whole grief to the Lord Danvers desiring his Lordships Counsel and best advice what Remedy he should seek for Cure according to the good Lord's Counsel he sent up an Apology to Dr. Young which was an Explanation of his meaning upon the words in question and then under Condemnation The Error was not to be imputed to the Author but to the Errata of the Printer which is most ordinary in them to mistake one word for another and the grand mistake was by printing is for was which put the whole Sentence out of joynt and the Author into pain if it had been of a higher Crime than of a Monosylable it had not been pardonable for the intention of the Author was very innocent Quis me deceperit error Et culpam in facto non scelus essemeo The words of his Apology which he sent up to Dr. Young for his Majesties satisfaction are these that followeth That some Crimes are of a nature so injustifiable that they are improved by an Apology yet considering the purpose he had in those places which gave offence to his sacred Majesty he he was unwilling that his Innocence should be condemned for want of an Advocate The Burdens under which he suffered was a mistake rather than a Crime and that mistake not his own but the Printers For if in the first Line of Page 441. was be read instead of is the Sense runs as he desired it And this appears from the words immediately following for by them may be gathered the sense of this corrected reading When Edward the third quartered the Arms of France and England he gave
extollebantur Therefore the Parsonage of Houghton in the Bishoprick of Durham worth near 400 l. per Annum being made void by the Preferment of Dr. Lindsel to the Sea of Peterborough the King bestowed upon Mr. Heylyn which afterward he exchanged with Dr. Marshal Chanter of the Church of Lincoln for the Parsonage of Alresford in Hampshire that was about the same value to which exchange Mr. Heylyn was commanded by his Majesty that he might live nearer the Court for readiness to do his Majesty service Neither was he envyed for this or his other Preferments because every one knew his merits was the only cause of his promotion For men of eminent Worth and Vertue when they are advanced saith my Lord Bacon Their Fortune seemeth but due to them for no man envyeth the Payment of a Debt That as his Majesty was pleased most graciously to express upon his loss of the Living by the Bishop of Lincoln so according to his Royal Promise he doubly repayed that Debt by a Living of twice the value into which he was no sooner instituted and inducted but he took care for the Service of God to be constantly performed by reading the Common-prayers in the Church every morning which gave great satisfaction to the Parish being a populous Market Town and for the Communion Table where the blessed Sacrament is consecrated he ordered that it should be placed according to ancient Custom at the East end of the Chancel and Railed about decently to prevent base and profane usages and when the Chancel wanted any thing of Repairs or the Church it self both to be amended Having thus shewed his care first for the house of God to set it in good order the next work followed was to make his own dwelling-house a fit and convenient Habitation that to the old Building he added a new one which was far more graceful and made thereto a Chappel next to the Dining-room that was beautified and adorned with Silk hangings about the Altar in which Chappel himself or his Curate read Morning and Evening-prayeâ—… to the Family calling in his Labourers and Work-folks for he was seldom without them while he lived saying that he loved the noise of a Work-mans Hammer For he thought it a deed of Charity as well as to please his own fancy by often building and repairing to set poor people a work and encourage painful Artificers and Tradesmen in their honest Callings He built a Hall in the middle of the House from the very Foundation upon the top whereof was a high Tower of Glass on one side of the Hall a fair Garden with pleasant Walks Cypress Trees and Arbours on the other side upon the Front a spacious Court at the Gate of which next the Street a high wooden Bridge that went cross over the Street into the Church-yard on which himself and Family went to Church to avoid the dirty common way which was almost unpassable Besides he made many new Conveniences to the Out-houses and Yards belonging to them all which was no small charge to his Purse for I have heard him say it cost him several hundreds of Pounds in Alresfords-house where he in a manner buried his Wifes Portion yet after his Death his Eldest Son was unreasonably sued for dilapidations in the Court of Arches by Dr. Beamont his Fathers Successor but the Gentleman pleaded his Cause so notably before Sir Giles Swet then Judge of the Court that he was discharged there being no reason or justice he should be troubled for dilapidations occasioned by the long War when his Father was unjustly turned out of his House and Living After so much cost bestowed upon Alresford and his Prebend-house in Westminster he constanly resided in one of those places where he kept good Hospitality and took care to relieve the Poor following also his wonted studies not only in History but Fathers Councils and Polemical Divinity the better to prepare himself for a new encounter with the old Professor Dr. Prideaux for he resolved to go on in his Universitâ—… Degrees notwithstandiug his removal from Oxon and to perform those Exercises required in that Case in which he always came off with credit and applause Being now to take his Degree of Batchelor in Divinity in July An. Dom. 1630. Upon these words Mat. 4. 19. Faciam vos fieri Piscatores hominum Upon the Sunday after he preached the Act Sermon upon this Text Mat. 13. 14. But while men slept his Enemy came and sowed Tares among the Wheat and went his way Where he made a seasonable Application of this Subject as the Times then stood of the danger of Lay-Feofees in buying up Impropriations A godly project it appeared at the first sight but afterwards a Tare fit to be rooted up Pulchra Laverna Da mihi fallere da justum sanctumque videri The Pretension of those Feofees seemed to be very just and pious but their Intention and Practice was quite contrary by planting many pentionary Lectures in many places where the Preachers were Non-conformists from whom could be expected no better fruits than the overthrow of Episcopal Government The words of Mr. Heylyn's Sermon as to this particular are as followeth For what is that which is most aimed at in it but to cry down the standing Clergy of this Kingdom to undermine the publick Liturgy by Law established to foment factions in the State Schisms in the Church and to have ready Sticklers in every place for the advancement of some dangerous and deep design And now we are fallen upon this point we will proceed a little further in the proposal of some things to be considered The Corporation of Feofees for buying in Impropriations to to the Church doth it not seem in appearance to be an excellent piece of Wheat a noble and gracious part of Piety Is not this Templum Domini Templum Domini But blessed God that men should thus draw near to thee with their mouths and be so far from thee in their hearts For what are those entrusted in the management of this great business Are they not most of them the most active and best affected men in the whole Cause magna partium momenta and chief Patrons of this growing Faction And what are those that they prefer Are they not most of them such men as are and must be serviceable to their dangerous Innovations And will they not in time have more Preferments to bestow than all the Bishops of the Kingdom And so by consequence a greater number of Dependents to promote their Interest Yet all this while we sleep à nd slumper and fold our hands in sloth and see perhaps but dare not note it High time it is assuredly you should be awaked and rouse your selves upon the apprehension of so near a danger If we look further upon this new devise and holy project it being observed as Fuller saith that those who hold the Helm of the Pulpit always steer the peoples hearts as they please The Feofees
giving counsel in such matters as they saw occasion I beleive not Certain I am that it is and hath been otherwise in point of practice And that the Bishops sitting as Peers in an English Parliament were never excluded before this time from any such assistance as by their Gravity and Learning and other abilities they were enabled to give in any dark or difficult business though of blood and death which were brought before them As for the Councel of Toledo it saith nothing to their disadvantage the Canon is si quis sacerdotum discursor in alienis periculis extiterit apud Ecclesiam proprium perdat gradum that if any Priest shall intermedle in Cases endangering the Life of others let him be degraded Hereupon I conclude as to the present business in hand that the Bishops were to be admitted to all preparatory Examination because their counsel and assistance would have tended rather to the preservation than conduced to the endangering of the Parties Life I saw about that time saith he a little Manuscript Tract entituled De jure paritatis Episcoporum that is to say of the right of the Peerage of the Bishops in which their Priviledges were asserted as to that particular But they not willing to contend in a business which seemed so little to concern them or else not able to strive against the present stream which seemed to carry all before it suffered themselves to be excluded at that time without protesting to the contrary or interposing in defence of their ancient Rights And this I look on as the first degree of their Humiliation For when it was perceived that a business of sogreat consequence might be done in Parliament without their counsel and consent it opened a wide gap unto their Adversaries First to deprive them of their Votes and after to destroy even the Calling it self But this was not the main point which the Commons aimed at they were resolved to have a close Commitee to take Examination in the business of the Earl of Strafford and were not willing any Bishops should be of it for fear lest favouring the Earls cause or person they might discover any part of those secret practices which were had against him and thereby fortifie and prepare him for his just defence when the Cause should come unto a Tryal Thus far the Doctor writ of this Subject when he lived in Lacyes Court at Abingdon What he presented to the Bishops themselves at the time of Strafford's Tryal concerning the right of Peerage deserved a rare commendation especially at that conjuncture of time that he could command his Parts and Pen of a sudden to write on this Subject or any other if there was need that did conduce to the publick good either of Church or State and above all make a quick dispatch in accomplishing what he had once undertaken and begun a Vertue for which Q. Curtius praiseth Alexander among other excellent qualities Nullam virtutem regis istius magis quam celeritatem laudaverim I can commend no Vertue more in this King than speed So Lucan of Caesâ—…r Nam Caesar in omnia praeceps Nilactum credens si quid superesset agendum But for those quick dispatches the Doctor endured many tedious waitings at the backs of Commitee men in that Parliament especially in the business of Mr. Pryn about his Histrio-mastix for which he was kept four days under Examination because he had furnished the Lords of the Privy Council with matters out of that Book which Mr. Pryn alledged was the cause of all his sufferings having joyned him in a Petition with the Lord Arch-Bishop as the chief Agents and Contrivers of the troubles he had undergone Great hopes had the Committee by his often dancing attendance after them to sift the Doctor if they could gather any thing by his speeches whether the Arch-Bishop had moved him to draw up those Exceptions against Pryn's Book which he denyed or at least was not bound to confess for as he was faithful to his Soveraign so he would never prove himself unfaithful to his chief Minister both in Church and State For they would have been glad of any matter to put into their charge against that worthy Prelate against whom Mr. Pryn and others of his Enemies never ceased prosecuting till the Parliament took of his head and the Ax having once tasted of Blood had a keen Appetite for more went on to the Supreme Head of all Whilst the Doctor was thus harassed before the Commitees his old Friend the Bishop of Lincoln in great favour with them and the whole Parliament was set at liberty from his Imprisonment and returned from the Tower to the Church after so long a time of his suspension and indevotion to say his Prayers and hear his Brother Peter Heylyn preach in his course at the Abby in Westminster Where notwithstanding the holiness of that place to which his Lordship had no regard or reverence but only to the Name and Thing of it he was resolved publickly to revenge himself for old done deeds that ought to have been forgotten by disturbing the Doctor in his Sermon before all the Congregation contrary to the Laws of this Realm and with Reverence to his Lordship against all good Manners and the common Rules of Civility Mala meus furorque Vecors In tantam impulerit culpam Cat. Strange That a Bishop could not rule his passions for one hour when no provocation was given by the Doctor whose Sermon from the beginning to the end of it throughout the whole Discourse was pacificatory exhorting Christians to Moderation Love and Charity among themselves for the preservation of the publick Peace although they differed in some Opinions For satisfaction of the Reader I will set down the Doctors own words viz. Is it not that we are so affected with our own Opinions that we condemn whosoever shall opine the contrary and so far wedded to our own Wills that when we have espoused a quarrel neither the Love of God nor the God of Love shall divorce us from it Instead of hearkning to the voice of the Church every man hearkens to himself and cares not if the whole miscarry so that himself may bravely carry out his own devices Upon which stubborn hight of Pride what Quarrels have been raised What Schisms in every corner of this our Church To enquire no further some rather putting all into open tumult than that they would conform to a lawful Government derived from Christ and his Apostles to these very Times At the speaking of which words the Bishop of Lincoln sitting in the great Pew which was before the Seat of Contention knocked aloud with his staff upon the Pulpit saying No more of that point No more of that point Peter To whom the Doctor readily answered without hesitation or the least sign of being dashed out of Countenance I have a little more to say my Lord and then I have done Which was as followeth viz. Others coming into
â—…o the utmost of his power he had exercised his Pen in the defâ—…nce both of the Crown Scepter and Miter his Soul then transported with joy that he should survive the usurped powers and see with his old bad eyes the King settled upon his Fathers Throne and peace upon Israel In the Evening after the Ceremonies of the Coronation were over while the Ordinance was playing from the Tower it happened to thunder violently at which some persons who were at supper with him seemed much affrighted I very well remember an expression of his upon the same according to the Poets word Intonuit laetus that the Ordinance of Heaven answered those of the Tower rejoycing at the solemnity with which the Company being exceedingly pleased there followed much Joy and Mirth Thus being settled in Westminster he fell upon the old work of building again and repairing which is the costly pleasure of Clergy men for the next Generation because building is like planting the chief benefit of which accrues to their Successors that live in another Age as Cicero said of them who took delight in planting Oake-Trees Serunt Arbores quae prosiâ—…t alteri saeculo He enlarged his Prebends House by making some convenient Additions to it perticularly he erected a new Dining Room and beautified the other Rooms all which he enjoyed but for a little time of which he made the best use while he lived to serve his God and seek after the Churches good in which work he was as industrious after his Majesties happy Restauration as he was before to testifie his Religious zeal and care that all things might run on in the old right Channel for which reason he writ a fervent Letter to a great States-man of that time earnestly pressing him to advise the King that a Convocation might be called with the present Parliament which was a thing then under question his Letter is as followeth Right Honourable and my very good Lord I Cannot tell how welcom or unwelcom this Address may prove in regard of the greatness of the Cause and the low Condition of the Party who negotiates in it But I am apt enough to perswade my self that the honest zeal which moves me to it not only will excuse but endear the boldness There is my Lord a general speech but a more general fear withal amongst some of the Clergy that there will be no Convocation called with the following Parliament which if it should be so resolved on cannot but raise sad thoughts in the hearts of those who wish the peace and happiness of this our English Sion But being Bishops are excluded from their Votes in Parliament there is no other way to keep up their honour and esteem in the Eyes of the People than the retaining of their places in Convocation Nor have the lower Clergy any other means to shew their duty to the King and keep that little freedom which is left unto them than by assembling in in such meetings where they may exercise the Power of a Convocation in granting Subsidies to his Majesty though in nothing else And should that Power be taken from them according to the constant but unprecedented practice of the late long Parliament and that they must be taxed and rated with the rest of the Subjects without their liking and consent I cannot see what will become of the first Article of Magna Charta so solemnly so frequently confirmed in Parliament or what can possibly be left unto them of either the Rights or Liberties belonging to an English Subject I know it is conceived by some that the distrust which his Majesty hath in some of the Clergy and the diffidence which the Clergy have one of another is looked on as the principle cause of the Innovation For I must needs behold it as an Innovation that any Parliament should be called without a meeting of the Clergy at the same time with it The first year of King Edward the Sixth Qeen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were times of greater diffidence and distraction than this present conjuncture And yet no Parliament was called in the beginning of their several Reigns without the company and attendance of a Convocation though the intendments of the State aimed then at greater Alterations in the face of the Church than are now pretended or desired And to say truth there was no danger to be feared from a Convocation thâ—…ugh the times were ticklish and unsetled and the Clergy was divided into sides and Factions as the Case then stood and so stands with us at the present time For since the Clergy in their Convocations are in no Authority to propound treat or conclude any thing more than the passing of a Bill of Subsidies for his Majesties use untill they are impowered by the Kings Commission The King may tye them up for what time he pleaseth and give them nothing but the opportunity of entertaining one another with the News of the Day But if it be objected That the Commission now on foot for altering and explaining certain passages in the publick Liturgy shall either pass instead of a Convocation or else is thought to be neither competable nor consistent with it I hope for better in the one and must profess that I can see no reason in the other For first I hope that the selecting of some few Bishops and other learned men of the lower Clergy to debate on certain points contained in the Common Prayer-Book is not intended for a Representation of the Church of England which is a Body more diffused and cannot legally stand by their Acts and Councils and if the Conference be for no other purpose but only to prepare matter for a Convocation as some say it is not why may not such a Conference and Convocation be held both at once For neither the selecting of some learned men out of both the Orders for the composing and reveiwing of the two Liturgies digested in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth proved any hindrence in the calling of their Convocation which were held both in the second and third and in the fifth and sixth years of the said Kings Reign Nor was it found that the holding of a Convocation together with the first Parliament under Queen Elizabeth proved any hinderance to that Conference in disputation which was designed between the Bishops and some learned men of the opposite Parties All which considered I do most humbly beg your Lordship to put his Majesty in mind of sending out his Mandates to the two Arch Bishops for summoning a Convocation according to the usual Form in their several Provinces that this poor Church may be held with some degree of veneration both at home and abroad And in the next place I do no less humbly-beseech your Lordship to excuse this freedom which nothing but my zeal to Gods Glory and my affection to this Church could have forced from me I know how ill this present Office doth become me and how much better it had been
THEOLOGO-HISTORICVS Or the True LIFE OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Written by his Son in Law JOHN BARNARD D. D. Rec. of Waddington near Lincoln To correct the Errors supply the Defects and confute the Calumnies of a late Writer Also an Answer to Mr. BAXTERS false Accusations of Dr. HEYLYN Quisquis patitur peccare peccantem is vires subministrat Audaciae Arnob. L. 4. LONDON Printed for J. S. and are to be sold by Ed. Eckelston at the Sign of the Peacock in Little-Britain 1683. TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD NATHANIEL Lord Bishop of DURHAM My Honour'd Lord I Here present to your Lordship the true Effigies of Dr. Heylyn drawn to the Life so far as my Pen is able to preserve the memory of his person among the number of worthy men for his extraordinary merits I hope may be truly said to this Church and Nation wherein he labour'd while he liv'd to promote the publick Good of both that his Name will never be forgotten whil'st his Books are extant if we may believe the words of St. Jerome in this particular Vir sapiens saith he diebus noctibus laborat componit Libros ut memoriam suam posteris derelinquat so the Works which this painful Presbyter has publish'd to the World the Catalogue of them being not ordinary with the Writers of our Age and the matter in them upon several Subjects not vulgarly handled I doubt not will perpetuate his Memory to future Posterity especially among all good men who are sincere Lovers of Monarchy and Episcopacy I am sure for his Religion and Loyalty for the Cause of the King and Church of England no man could declare himself a more faithful and zealous example by constant writing and sufferings And for his conversation not only as a good Christian but as becomes a Clergy man it was so unblameable that his most inveterate enemies could never throw dirt in his Face for the least Immoralities Therefore for his sake whom your Lordship hath seen in his house at Abingdon where he made you heartily welcome in those dayes when I had the honour though so unworthy a person to dictate the first Principles of Academical Learning to you which God has since well blessed that you are one and I wish may long continue so of the Cheif Prelates in this Realm I doubt not I say for this Reverend and Learned Mans sake more than mine your Lordship will be pleased to take into your Patronage the Narrative of his Life which I have faithfully composed and retriv'd from the Ignorances and unpardonable deficiencies of a late Writer I am the more nearly concern'd for my Relation sake because Dr. Heylyn was not an ordinary common Clergy-man though he acted in a lower Sphere than the highest Dignitaries in our Church it s sufficiently known he was singularly well acquainted above many others with the principal motions and grand Importances in his time both of Church and State as any man may perceive who will take the pains to peruse his Writings And that he had not only a speculative Science in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Polity of this Nation but was oftentimes employed an Agent by the late King and Arch-Bishop the two blessed Martyrs of this Land in several matters committed to his particular Charge for which he incurr'd the odium of the Mobile and especially of those Factious People then call'd Puritans but now Fanaticks a Name though seems new and strange to them was of old first given by Calvin himself to those who deserting his and the Lutheran way of Reformation out of an aversion to Popery fell upon a contrary extreme Their hair-brain'd zeal without understanding and accompanied with invincible obstinacy in their Enthusiastical Dotages if Power was answerable to their Wills would bring a second desolation upon our Church and confusion in the Kingdom Both which God and his good Angels evermore protect that we may enjoy the inestimable comforts of Peace and Government our true Religion establish'd by Law and Scripture our sacred Ministry second to none for Learning and good Life generally and the ancient Order of Episcopacy deriv'd from the pure Fountain of Apostolical Times heartily prayeth Your Lordships most faithful Servant JOHN BARNARD Errata PAge 3. line 10. read acquainted p. 5. l. 16. r. transcriptions for transcription p. 10. l. 10. r. multavit for mulcavit p. 12. l. 15. r. volumes for volumnes p. 17. l. 2. r. 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Retractation for Retraction p. 139 l. 21 r. conference for conferrence p. 143 l. 29 r. where for when p. 144 l. 29 r. Turret for Tower p. 151 l. dele and p. 153 l. 20 r. sitting for sitting p. 186 l. 21 r. rights for right p. 157 l. 15 r. ut for p. p. 191 l. 18 add afterward p. 198 l. 3 r. commended for commanded p. 199 l. 8 r. he for be p. 209 l. 10 r. was for were p. 226 l. 9 r. himself for he p. 228 l. 15 r. there for their p. 255 l. 16. r. the Doctor lived p. 268 l. 23 r. faces for face p. 246 l. 28 dele Lux. r. 〈◊〉 There are more Errors than in the Errata which the good Reader is desired to pass by A Necessary Vindication OF Dr. HEYLYN AND THE AUTHOR of the following LIFE I Had never put my self to the trouble of writing and the Reader to his pains in reading the third Publication of Dr. Heylyn's Life but that I have been most grosly abused in the first and second upon the same Subject At the sight of both which I was not a little amazed but ashamed First to see an anonymous piece printed before the Doctors works which I had ordered otherwise And lately a little Book crept forth
In a word are Protestants Christians or no Or only nominal and not real I think they are the best and purest sort of Christians ever since the Apostolick times that they come nearest the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the example of them at Antioch who were first called Christians We do not know how to distinguish men of the Church of England from the Church of Rome but by this characteristial Name or Appellation because in the times of Popery as appears not only by Linwood but by the constitutions of Otho and Othobon The Ecclesiastical Body of this Nation was anciently called the Church of England Ecclesia Anglicana and so it continueth to this day but with this discrimination only that we are Protestants in the Church of England and not Papists I know it will be objected this Name is abused by Fanaticks who impudently dare arrogate it to themselves and are ordinarily now called Protestants What then Abusus non tollit usum they are Protestants Catachrestice as Papists call themselves Catholicks And if they will boldly usurp the Name which no way belongs to them their Tongues are their own and they will speak Who is Lord over us say they And who can hinder them The Hereticks of old time who were ex parte Donati of Donatus side did the like and yet the Orthodox deemed themselves never the worse for their Pride and Usurpation The Name of Christian was common both to them and the Orthodox as Optatus the good Father tells them Pro utrisque illud est quod nobis commane est vobis Such Scandals are unavoidable therefore with patience must be born And it was the like complaint of Lactantius but what Remedy The Novatians Valentinians Marcionites and Arrians saith he Quilibet alij nominantur Christiani Christiâ—…i esse desâ—…runt any other Hereticks were called Christians though they were none So that 't is no wonder the Sectaries of our Age will confidently take upon themselves the Name of Protestants they do but as other Schismaticks who were their ancient Predecessors Mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur Yet some of the baser sort of them as Quakers and Independents despise the Name of Protestant and hold it in as great derision as the Papists do and no doubt have learned from the soul Mouth of Father Doleman alias Parsons and from Watson in his Quodlibets to call us of the Church of England Queen Besses Protestants However it does not become any Son of the Church much less the Rector of Bourton to bite and snarl at the Name of Protestant which distinguishes him from a Mass-priest especially in such times as ours when Papist and Fanatick joyn hand in hand mouth and tongue together against us because our Church is of Queen Elizabeths Religion and Reformation A Queen notwithstanding the malicious slanders of her Enemies the Popes Bull of Damnation against her and the Non-Conformists now Condemnation of her She was the most admired Princess of Europe in her time the glory and wonder of her Sex etiam supera Sexum saith Thuanus though himself a Papist and Beza the Successor of Calvin at Geneva gives her this Character of high praise which methinks our Dissenters should assent unto that she was a Queen God sent from Heaven to be a Nursing Mother at home unto the Church of England and to Protestant Churches abroad Let us hear his words more fully In Anglia opus Domini qui serenissimam illam ecclesiarum non tantum Anglicanarum fortissimam instauraticem verum etiam peregrinarum religiosissimam nutricem Flizabetham instaurandae suae Domui quasi sua ipsius manu coelitus demisit God be thanked also the Reformation of Religion and the Church of England became Protestant before her time Our Religion being established by Law in the Reign of her young Brother the most excellent Prince Edward the 6th whose Laws were written in Milk and not in Blood like those of Queen Mary his Sister who succeeded him Our Religion and Ecclesiastical Government by Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. is still the same as was in the Reigns of Edward the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth of blessed Memory in whose time this Kingdom was accounted Regnum Evangelii the Kingdom of the Gospel Now why our Dissenters should dissent why they should be so averse to the Protestant Religion then established by Law and is now the very same in all Articles of Faith Form of Worship and Ecclesiastical Discipline and yet they are not satisfied I must profess that I see no reason for their dissatisfaction but Will and Humor that they are as they have been and still resolve to be of a perverse and democratical Spirit in all matters relating to Church and State much less cause have they to reproach the Name of the most Renowned Queen Elizabeth which has been held in exceeding great veneration among all Protestants in forreign Kingdoms whose incomparable Vertues of Learning Piety Prudence Modesty Meekness Stoutness and other rare Perfections are described by a Poet living in her days and are as followeth O 〈◊〉 solum sapias 〈◊〉 Anglia parte hac Ut grate agnoscas Jovis benefacta 〈◊〉 En dedit affectam divina mente 〈◊〉 Imperij quae â—…um docta ingeniosa severa Et 〈◊〉 veneranda pudica animosa venenda 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tenera 〈◊〉 commoda 〈◊〉 Tot tibi contulerit quot 〈◊〉 nemo priorum Et quae vera Dei sit religione fruare Papa fugit solio Patris Regina locatur May be Englished thus O England native Soil of mine pay thanks to Jove The great and powerful God of Heaven above No one with larger gifts he could inspire Than such a noble Princess for Empire Learn'd ingenious modest meek and bold England's great Scepter in her hand to hold Queen of all Blessings to this Nation more Hath brought than all her Ancestors before Gods true Religion flourish'd Pope he 's gone When she ascended to her Fatherâ—… Throne Let us then not be ashamed of our Religion nor judge the worse of it much less deny our Christian Name since our departure from the Church of Romé because Papists and Fanaticks nick-name us Queen Besses Protestants Such dirt flung upon Majesty rebounds back with shame on their own Faces and will hereafter to their eternal confusion who dare reproach the Lords anointed The Pope himself first played 〈◊〉 part to throw Dirt and Stones at her by calling her misera Faemina a wretched Woman afterward followed many Rabsâ—…eka's especially Sanders and Rishton who termed her Lupam Anglicanam the Wolf-Bitch of England though she had more of the Lamb than the Wolf for she thirsted not after Blood as her Sister Queen Mary did Finally Parsons alias Cow 〈◊〉 a Priest's Bastard writ a Cart-load of Libels against her These were the Popes Birds and many other of the same Feather employed by his Holiness as the Alexandrians kept their Ibides to devour the
465. that the Assembly of Divines so called in their Confession larger and lesser Catechism held forth such a Doctrine touching Gods Decrees that they gave occasion of receiving the old Blastian Heresie in making God to be the Author of Sin that the Bill against Bishops he observes took date from the fifth of November the day defigned on the blowing up of the Parliament by the Gun-powder Traytors that notwithstanding the House of Commons had taken the Scotch Covenant they never intended to set up Scotch Presbytery only held fair quarter with them for a time because in April 1646. They published this following Declaration That they were not able to consent to the granting of an arbitrary and unlimited Power and Iurisdiction to near ten thousand Iudicatories to be erected in the Kingdom which could not be confistent with the fundamental Laws and Government of it and which by necessary conse quence did exclude the Parliament from having any thing to do in that Iurisdiction Page 470. the Doctor tells us again That the English Puritans laid their heads and hands together to embroil the Realm out of a confidence that having alienated the greatest part of the Tribes from the House of David they might advance the golden Calves of Presbyterians in Dan and Bethel and all other places whatsoever in the Land and for the maintenance thereof had devoured in conceit all Chapter Lands and parcelled them amongst themselves into Augmentations But no sooner had they driven this bargain but a Vote passed for selling those Lands towards the payment of those debts of the Common-wealth Nor have they lived to see their dear Presbytery settled or their lay Elders entertained in any one Parish of the Kingdom Now I have recited all those passages out of the pages Mr. Baxter refers us to what hath he gained to his cause but a confutation of it As it wa said of Caesar's Conspirators iisdeâ—…â—…bus quibus Caesarem foderunt 〈◊〉 occiderunt With the same Daggers they stabbed Iulius Caesar they killed themselves So Mr. Baxter hath destroyed himself and the good old Cause with his own Weapons by reciting Dr. Heylyn against Dr. Heylyn The Dr. though dead he yet speaketh and hath vanquished his living Adversary For what man out of these premises could draw a conclusion except Mr. Baxter by his Kederminster Logick that Heylyn had laid much of the War upon the Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. when there is no mention of War or Bishops in the Case No quantum to be found of much or little in it no minimum quod sic Nay nothing at all to prove Mr. Baxter's position and scandalous defamation of the Doctor Therefore I must say to him the words of the old Comedian Dehine quieâ—… porro moneo desinat maledicere ne maâ—…cta noscat sua If the Dr. himself had been still living as some of his Elders are neither Mr. Baxier Mr. Hickman nor M. Burnet no one of them durst have adventured a single Duel with him in any point of Learning but he would have said to every such Gladiator as Cicero did to Mark Antony Catilinae gladios contempsi non pertimescam tuos But now he hath neither hand nor sword but is disarmed by Death miserandum flebile corpus it is no sign of true Vertue or noble Valour in them much less of a good Cause on their side to insult ignobly over a dead Lion As for Mr. Baxter who will not let him rest quietly in his Grave if my fraternal correption cannot amend him I wish he may remember his good Wifes rebuke and deserved correction she gave him by his own confession That he should make fewer Books and write them better And I think this good counsel had not been unseasonable to the late Writer of Dr. Heylyn's Life to have transmitted that Task to any other person who had been an ancient Friend and Acquaintance of the Doctors rather than ambitiously assumed it upon himself who was a professed Stranger to him by reason of which no better account could be expected from him than what he has given and that is unsatisfactory a Life to the half an imperfect Creature that is not only lame as the honest Book-seller said but wantteth Legs and all other integral parts of a Man nay the very Soul that should animate a Body like Dr. Heylyn I am sure no man except himself who was totally ignorant of the Dr. and all the circumstances of his Life would have engaged in such a work which was never primarily laid out or designed for him but by reason of some unhappy differences as usually fall out in Families and he who loves to put his Ore in troubled matters instead of closing them up hath made them wider Otherwise it is not material who had writ the Doctors Life so it had been done by an able hand of a more knowing person therefore I must say of him as Plutarch doth of Tib. Gracâ—…us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is a bold Undertaker and rash Talker of those matters he does not understand And so I have done with him unless he creates to himself and me a future trouble Now I hope any ingenious Reader will plainly see I am forced to a just and necessary Vindication of my self Si quis me atro dente petiverit inultus ut flebo puer and chiefly of my Father in Law to whom as I am bound in gratitude for the favours I received from him in his Life time so I could do no less than perform this little Task of writing his Life and that without passion and partiality being free from motives of both as the Historian said Quorum Causas procul habeo However for holding the Reader in so long suspence I have endeavoured to make a mends in the following Life which in a manner I have composed new retaining only what I had before written and still remains in the printed Folio entitled Keimelia Ecclesiastica but now with that which was so shamefully abused I am sure the Work is complete and perfect and I hope will afford this general benefit First to encourage all young Scholars in the Love of Learning by the Example of so Reverend a Divine and excellent Historian as Dr. Heylyn And secondly to remind others of some principal transactions both in Church and State during his time And so I conclude in the words of Salust Age nunc illa videamus Judices quae consecuta sunt THE LIFE OF THE Most Reverend and Learned DIVINE Dr. PETER HEYLYN TO write the Lives of worthy Personages was ever accounted a most laudable Custom among the Heathens For to perpetuate the Memory of the Dead who were eminent in Vertue did manifestly conduce to the publick benefit of the Living much more the Ancient Christians in their time both solemnly retained this Practice and adjudged it an Act of Piety and Justice to the Deceased If they were Men of Fame for Learning or other Vertues
familiar with you as if they had known you from the Cradle and are so full of Chat and Tattle even with those they know not as if they were resolved sooner to want Breath than Words and never to be silent till in the Grave Dancing such a sport to which both Men and Women are so generally affected that neither Age nor Sickness no nor Poverty it self can make them keep their Heels still when they hear the Musick such as can hardly walk abroad without Crutches or go as if they were troubled all day with a Sciatica and perchance have their Raggs hang so loose about them that one would think a swift Galliard might shake them into their Nakedness will to the dancing Green howsoever and be there as eager at the sport as if they had left their several infirmities and wants behind them Their Language is very much expressed by their Action for the Head and Shoulders must move as significantly when they speak as their Lips and Tongue and he that hopeth to speak with a grace must have in him somewhat of the Mimick They are naturally disposed for Courtship as makes all the People complemental that the poorest Cobler in the Parish hath his Court cringes and his Eau beniste de Cour his Court-holy water as they call it as perfectly as the best Gentleman-Huisher of Paris They wear their Hair long goes thin and open to the very Shirt as if there were continual Summer in their Gate walk fast as if pursued on an Arrest Their humour is much of scoffing yea even in matters of Religion as appeareth in the story of a Gentleman that lay sick on his Bed who seeing the Host brought unto him by a Lubberly Priest said that Christ came to him as he entred into Jerusalem Riding upon an Ass. I cannot forget another of the like kind a Gentleman lying sick upon his Death Bed who when the Priest had perswaded him that the Sacrament of the Altar was the very Body and Blood of Christ refused to eat thereof because it was Friday And so far the good Geographer who hath pleasantly and truly described them But now we must come to him as a Divine wherein he acted his part as well as of a Cosmographer when he was called unto the Divinity School to dispute in his turn according to the Statutes of the University on April 18th A. D. 1627. He comes up as opponent and on Tuesday the 24th following he answered pro forma upon these two Questions An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis An Ecclesia possit errare Both which he determined in the Negative Upon occasional discourse with him at Abington he was pleased once to shew me his supposition which I read over in his House at Lacyes Court but I had not then either the leisure or good luck to Transcribe a Copy of it which would have been worth my pains and more worthy of the Press to the great satisfaction of others for my part I can truly say that I never read any thing with more pleasure and heart delight for good Latin Reason and History which that exercise was full of but since both it and many other choice Papers in his Study through the carelesness of those to whose Custody they were committed I suppose are utterly lost and gone ad blattarum tinearum epulas In stating of the first Question that caused the heats of that day he tells us himself I fell upon a different way from that of Doctor Prideaux the Professor in his Lecture De Visibilitate and other â—…ractates of and about that time in which the Visibility of the Protestant Church and consequently of the Renowned Church of England was no otherwise proved than by looking for it in the scattered Conventicles of the Bereâ—…garians in Italy the Waldenses in France the Wickliffs in England and the Hussites in Bohemia which manner of proceeding not being liked by the Respondent as that which utterly discontinued that Succession of the Hiearchy which the Church of England claims from the very Apostles and their immediate Successors He rather chose to find out a continual visible Church in Asia Ethiopia Greece Italy yea Rome it self as also in all the Western Provinces than subject to the power of the Roman Bishop when he was the Chief Patriarch Which Mr. Heylyn from his great knowledge and more than ordinary abilities in History strenuously asserted and proved to which the Professor could make but weak replies as I have heard from some knowing persons who were present at that Disputation because he was drawn out of his ordinay byass from Scholastical disputation to Forreign Histories in which encounter Mr. Heylyn was the invincible Ajax Nec quisquam Ajacem superare possit nisi Ajax But chiefly the quarrel did arise for two words in Mr. Heylyns Hipothesis after he had proved the Church of England received no Succession of Doctrine or Government from the Berengarians Wickliffs c. Who held many Hetordoxes in Religion as different from the established Doctrine of our Church as any points that was maintained at that time in the Church of Rome that the writers of that Church Bellarmine himself hath stood up as cordially in maintainance of some fundamental points of the Christian Faith against Anti-Trinitarians Anabaptists and other Hereticks of these last ages as any one Divine and other learned Men of the Protestant Churches which point Mr. Heylyn closed up with these words Vtinam quod ipse de Calvino sic semper errasset nobilissimus Cardinalis At which words the Reverend Doctor was so impatient in his Chair that he fell upon the Respondent in most vile terms calling him Papicola Bellarminianus Pontificius c. To draw the hatred of the University upon him according to the saying Fortiter calumniare aliquid adhaerebit grievously complaining to the younger sort of his Auditors unto whom he made his chiefest addresses of the unprofitable pains he took among them if Bellarmine whom he had laboured to confute for so many years should be honoured with the Title of Nobilissimus Notwithstanding the Respondent acquitted himself most bravely before all the Company ascribing no more honour to Bellarmine then for his deserts in learning and integrity in that particular point before spoken of which any generous Man would give to his Learned Antogonist For many Lutherans and Calvinists I may say paâ—…e tanti viri so angry at a word have not grudged much less judged it any Crime to praise the Cardinals Learning Doctrinam nos in ipso Commendamus saith a rigid Lutheran and St. Paul himself would not stick to call him who was an inveterate Enemy of the Christians most noble Festus And though Cardinals we know were originally but Parish Priests by Pride and Usurpation have made themâ—…lves Compeers to Kings that which is unjustly once obtained by time groweth common and familiar that none will refuse to give such their ordinary Titles of Honour although they
therefore placed their Lecturers in Market Towns and Corporations that were most populous where they might carry the greater sway of electing Burgesses to serve in Patliament or for the most part these zealous Preachers were such as had been silenced and suspended in the Ecclesiastical Courts or those that were well Wishers to Non-conformists The Parties themselves trusted in this design of buying Impropriations were of such affections as promised no good unto the peace and happiness of the Church of England being twelve in number four Ministers four common Lawyers and four Citizens all of them known to be averse unto the Discipline of the Church that as Dr. Heylyn saith If such publick mischiefs be presaged by Astrologers from the Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn though the first of these be a Planet of a most sweet and gentle influence what dangers what calamities might might not be feared from the Conjunction of twelve such persons of which there was not one that wished well to the present Government And therefore I may say of them as Domitiâ—…s Aenobarbus said unto his friends when they came to congratulate with him for the Birth of Nero. Nihil ex se Agrippina nisi detestabile malo publico nasci potest But now we must come to the Divinity Schools again where Mr. Heylyn must undergo the publick exercise of disputation for his degree of Doctor and appear before his severe Judge and Moderator Dr. Prideaux whose animosities and angers since the former Disputation in all the tract of time from the year 1627. to 1633. were not abated or in the least cooled but more inflamed that the Professor took upon himself the Office of an Opponent rather than of a Moderator so that those to whom the Opponents part belonged could hardly put in an Argument for his passion In the former Disputation Mr. Heylyn asserted the visibility and infallibility of the Church but now he insisteth upon its Authority and his Questions were these following 1. An Ecclesia habeat authoritatem in determinandis fidei controversiis 2. Interpretandi S. scripturas 3. Discernendi ritus ceremonias All which he held in the affirmative as himself gives an account of the whole disputation according to the plain and positive Doctrine of the Church of England in the twentieth Article which runs thus in terminis viz Habet Ecclesia ritus sive ceremonias statuendi jus in fidei controversiis authoritatem c. But the Doctor was as little pleased with these Questions and the Respondents stating of them as he was with the former and therefore to create to the Respondent the greater odium he openly declared that the Respondent had falsified the publick Doctrine of the Church and charged the Article with that Sentence viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus sive ceremonias c. Which was not to be found in the whole Body of it And for the proof thereof he read the Article out of a Book which lay before him beginning thus Non licet Ecclesia quicquam instituere quod verbo Dei scripto adversetur c. To which the Respondent readily answered that he perceived by the lines of the Book which lay on the Doctors Cushion that he had read that Article out of the Harmony of Consessions publisht at Geneva Anno 1612. which therein followed the Edition of the Articles in the time of King Edward the Sixth Anno 1652. in which that sentence was not found but that it was otherwise in the Articles agreed on in the Convocation Anno 1561. to which most of us had subscribed in our several places but the Doctor still persisting upon that point and the Respondent seeing some unsatisfiedness in the greatest part of the Auditory he called on one Mr. Westly who formerly had been his Chamber-fellow in Magdalen Colledge to step to the next Booksellers-shop for a Book of Articles which being observed by the Doctor he declared himself very willing to decline any further profecution of that particular and to go on directly to the Disputation But the Respondent was resolved to proceed no further usque dum liberaverit animam suam ab ista calumnia as his own words were till he had freed himself from that odious calumny but it was not long before the coming of the Book had put an end to the Controversie out of which the Respondent read the Article in the English tongue in his verbis viz. The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in controversies of Faith c. which done he delivered the Book to one of the standers by who desired it of him the Book passing from one hand to another till all men were satisfied And at this point of time it was that the Queens Almoner left the Schools professing afterwards that he could see no hope of a fair Disputation from so foul a beginning The Doctor went about to prove that it was not the Convocation but the High Court of Parliament which had the power of ordering matters in the Church in making Canons ordaining Ceremonies and and determining Controversies in Religion and could find out no other medium to make it good but the Authority of Sir Edward Cook a learned but meer common Lawyer in one of the Books of his Reports An Argument if by that name it may be called which the Respondent thought not fit to gratifie with a better answer than Non credendum esse cuique extra suam artem And certainly a better answer could not be given by Mr. Heylyn I may say Non Apollinis magis verum atque hoc responsum This last exercise completed him in all degrees that the University could conferre upon him being now a Doctor in Divinity he returned home with honour where shortly after news was sent him that the King had bestowed upon him a Prebendary at Windsor by the intercession of Dr. Neale then Arch-Bishop of York but it proved otherwise for that Prebendary was promised to Dr. Potter when he presented to the King his Book called Charity mistaken and he also went without it by reason of the Bishop of Glâ—…cester not being translated to the Church of Hereford as was then commonly reported who kept the same Prebend in his hands by which means both the Candidates were disapointed This Goodman Bishop of Glocester at that time affected a remove to the See of Hereford and had so far prevailed with some great Officers of State that for mony which he offered like Simon magus and it was taken his â—…onge d' eslir issued out and his Election passed But Arch-Bishop Laâ—…d coming opportunely to the knowledge of it and being ashamed of so much baseness in the man who could pretend no other merit than his mony the wretched Bishop was glad to make his Peace not only with the resignation of his Election but the loss of his Bribe While these things were agitated the the young Doctor new come from the University
the Lords Commissioners met again on February the 8th following before whom the Bishop put in his Plea about the Seat or Great Pew under Rich. 2. from which he had disgracefully turned out the Prebends and possest it wholly to himself or the use of those Strangers to whom he had a special favour thinking scorn that honoured Society should sit with him a Bishop But the Prebends Advocate proved their Right of sitting there by these particulars First their original Right Secondly their derivative Right Thirdly their possessory Right How excellently he managed their Cause and what a mean defence the Bishop made for himself would be too tedious and impertinent to insert here concerning none but the Church of Westminster Finally upon hearing the matters on both sides it was ordered by general consent of the Lords Commissioners That the Prebends should be restored to their old Seat and that none should sit there with them but Lords of the Parliament and Earls eldest Sons according to the ancient custom But what were those differences about a Seat to the Disputes risen at that time about the Sabbath In the History of which Dr. Heylyn was then engaged and in a short time he perfected it to satisfie the scrupulous minds of some misguided Zelots who turned the observation of the Lords-day into a Jewish Sabbath not allowing themselves or others the ordinary Liberties nor works of absolute necessity which the Jews themselves never scrupled at Against which sort of Sabbatarians the Doctor published his History of the Sabbath The Argumentative part of that Subject was referred to Dr. White Bishop of Ely the Historical part of it to Dr. Heylyn Huic nostro tradita est provincia Both of their Books never answered to this day but pickird at by Mr. Palmer and Mr. Cawdrey two Divines of the Smectymnian Assembly and by some other sorry Writers of less account But the foundation and superstructure both in the logical and historical Discourses of those two Pillars of our Church stand still unmovable the latter though an Historian upon the Subject does fully answer all the material Arguments of the Adversaries side brought out of Scripture as well as History Neither doth the Bishop nor the Doctor in the least encourage or countenance in all their Writings any Profaneness of the Day when Christian Liberty is abused to Licentiousness Nor on the other side would they have the Religious Observation of the Day brought into superstition For Sunday amongst some I have known hath been kept as a Fast Day contrary to the ancient Opinion and Practice of the primitive Church who judged it a Heresie and not an Act of Piety Nefas est die Dâ—…minica jejunare that the day should be spent from Morning to Evening so strictly in preaching and praying in repetition upon repetitions in doing works of superogation which God never required at their hands nor any Christian Church commanded to make the Sabbath a burden that ought to be a Christians delight is new Divinity among the reformed Churches in Geneva it self before and after Divine Service the People are at liberty for manly Recreations and Exercises Upon complaint made before Lord chief Justice Richardson of some disorders by Feasts Wakes Revels and ordinary pastimes on Sundays perticularly in the County of Somerset His Majesty ordered that the Bishop of Bath and Wells should send a speedy account of the same The Bishop called before him seventy two of the Orthodox and ablest Clergy men among them who certified under their several hands that on the Feasts dayes which commonly fell upon Sundayes the service of God was more solemnly performed and the Church was better frequented both in the forenoon and afternoon then upon any Sunday in the year To decry the clamours of the Sabbatarians a Lecture read by Doctor Prideaux at the Act in Oxon Anno 1622. was translated into english in which he solidly discoursed both of the Sabbath and Sunday according to the judgment of the ancient Fathers and the most approved Writers of the Protestant and Reformed Churches This Lecture was also ushered with a preface In which there was proofe offered of these three propositions First that the keepiug holy one day of seven is not the moral part of the fourth Commandement Secondly that the alteration of the day is only an humane and ecclesiastical constitution Thirdly that still the Church hath power to change the day and transfer it to some other The name of Prideaux was then so sacred that the Book was greedily bought up by those of the Puritan faction but when they found themselves deceived of their expectation The Book did cool their colors and abate their clamour Since our Saviours reproof of the Jews for their superstitious fear of transgressing the traditions and Commanddements of their Fathers by which they kept the Sabbath with more rigour than God had commanded they are now bent upon the other extreme as Buxtorf tells us so hard a thing it is to keep a medium between two extreams Quanto voluptatis isti percipiunt saith he tanto se devotius Sabbatum colere statuunt The more pleasures they take on the Sabbath day the more devoutly they thought that they keep the Sabbath So that the rigid Sabbatarian hath no example of Jew or Christian and I am sure no Command of God in Scripture nor President in Antiquity or Ecclesiastical History but will find there the Lords-day is from Ecclesiastical Institution I speak not this I abhor it to animate or the least encourage people in looseness and debauchery to neglect the Duties of Religion or the Worship and Service of God upon this holy day which they ought as they tender their Souls with singular Care and Conscience to observe but hereby I think my Father in Law is justified though his own Book is best able to vindicate himself that his Opinion is orthodox both according to the Doctrine of the Church of England and the judgement and practice of Protestant Churches that the Lords-day should be Religiously observed and yet withal the lawful liberties and urgent necessities of the People preserved and not to be so tied up and superstitiously fearful that they dare not kindle a Fire dress Meat visit their Neighbours sit at their own Door or walk abroad no nor so much as talk with one another except it be in the Poets words Of God Grace and Ordinances As if they were in heavenly Trances To which I may add a more smart and witty Epigram upon the scruple and needless disatisfaction in them not onlâ—… about the Sabath but our Church and Religion in those Verses of Dr. Heylyn to Mr. Hammond L' Estrange as followeth A learned Prelate of this Land Thinking to make Religion stand With equal poise on either side A mixture of them thus he tryed An Ounce of Protestant he singleth And then a Dram of Papist mingleth With a Scruple of a Puritan And boyled them in his Brain pan But
credit groweth greater An ordinary Scandal hath been thrown upon learned men who have been zealous Defenders of the Church of England to brand them with the ignominious name of Papists or being Popishly affected because they have abhorred the other extreme of Puritanism in which kind of Slanders the Doctor hath sufficiently received his share that Hammond L' Estrange called him An Agent for the Sea of Rome A heavy charge this is if it carried the least semblance of Truth but what honest man may not be so belyed Si accusare suffecerit quis innocens erit When the Doctor in all his Writings and no man I may say more hath declared his judgement against the Church of Rome and upon every occasion as he meets with her whets his Pen most sharply to lance her old sores and and let the World see what filthy corruptions and errors abound in her more particularly in his Book of Books Theologia Veterum upon the Apostles Creed the Sum of Christian Theology positive polemical and philological and in all his Court Sermons upon the Tares especially the fourth Sermon also in his great Cosmography where he sets out the Popes of Rome in their pontifical Colours Therefore for the Vindication of him from this foul aspersion with which some have maliciously bespattered many of our excellent Divines I particularly thank the Reverend and Learned Dr. Stillingsleet for his Answer to T. G. who would have made use of the Puritans accusation for the Papists purpose but the worthy Doctor quickly refuted him and ever after put him to silence in citing Dr. Heylyns fourth Sermon upon the Tares where he lays at the Door of Papists the most gross Idolatry greater than which was never known among the Gentiles This being brought into discourse at such time as the Arch-Bishops Book against Fisher the Jesuit was newly published it was affirmed by some that the Doctor in his Sermon had pulled up Popery by the Roots yet one of the Company most maliciously replyed thereunto That the Arch-Bishop might print and the Doctor might preach what they pleased against Popery but that he should never think them or either of them to be the less Papists for all that A Censure of so strange a nature saith the Doctor himself that he believed it is not easie to be parallel'd in the worst of times But what need is there of producing Sermons or other Testimonies in his behalf when his general Conversation more severe than ordinary fully attested that as he was a strict Observer of all the Rites and Orders of the Church of England so a perfect Abhorrer of Popery and Roman Superstitions that he would not so much as hold correspondency with a Papist or with one so reputed as I can instance an Example of one Mr. Hood whose Family and the Doctors were very kind when he lived at Minster being near Neighbours but the Gentleman afterward changing his Religion and turning Papist came to Abington to give him a Visit in his new House the Doctor sent his Man Mr. Gervis who was his Amanueâ—… to bid the Gentleman be gone and â—…t the Doors of him saying that he heard he was turn'd Papist for which he hated the sight of him and so my Gentleman went away never daring to give him another Visit. In which he followed the Example of his Lords Grace of Canterbury that when Con was sent hither by the Pope to be assistant to the Queen in her Religion the wise Bishop kept himself at such a distance with him that neither Con nor Panzani before him who acted for a time in the same capacity could fasten any acquaintance on him nay he neglected all intercessions in that Case and did shun as it were the Plague the company and familiarity of Con. THEOLOGO-HISTORICVS Or the True Life Death OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Written by his Son in Law John Barnard D. D. Part. II. BEATI MORTUI qui in Domino Moriuntur Apoc. Cap. 14. v. 13. LONDON Printed 1683. THE TRUE LIFE and DEATH OF THE Most Reverend and Learned DIVINE Dr. PETER HEYLYN Part. II. LIKE a true Christian and obedient Son of the Church the good Doctor did patiently undergo all the persecutions reproaches and clamorous speeches both of Papists and Puritans not regarding what the height of their malice could speak or their virulent Pens could write against him because he was able to defend himself But that which drew all the odium and inveterate malice upon him from the several Factions then prevalent was his Loyalty Learning and Conscieuce that he constantly asserted the Kings Prerogative the Churches Rights not infringing the Peoples priviledges in the defence of which he was continually employed untill his Majesties most happy Restauration which was the longed hope and earnest desire of this poor distracted Nation Quia non aliud patriae discordantis remedium fuisse quam ut ab uno regeretur As the Historian said which cannot be Englished better than in the words of his Majesties late gracious declaration That Religion Liberty and property were all lost and gone when the Monarchy was shaken of and could never be reviv'd till that was restored Therefore the Peoples Representative in Parliament induced by necessity as well as duty did unanimously vote like the Elders of Judah to bring home their Lord the King to his native Kingdom of whose wish'd return we did then all sing as the Poet of Augustus Custos Gentis abes iam nimium Diu Maturum reditum pollicitus Patrum Sancto Concilio Luâ—…m redde lux Dux bone Patriae Instar veris enim vultus ubi tuus Affulsit populo gratior it dies Et Soles melius nitent That is to say Most Soveraign Guardian of this Nation Thy absence all lament Return to joy the expectation Of thy whole Parliament Good Prince the Glory of our Land Shine with thy Beams of Majesty Thy countenance like the Spring at hand Cheers up thy People merrily Our days now more delightfully are spent The Sun looks brighter in the Firmament And now the Sun shone more gloriously in our Hemisphere then ever the Tyrannical powers being dissolved as the historian said Non Cynnae non Syllae dominatio Pompei Crassique potentia in Caesarem The Kingdom ruled by its own natural Prince and only lawful Soveraign the Church restored to her ancient Rights and true Religion established among us every man sitting under his own Vine with joy who had been a good Subject and a Sufferer the Doctor was restored to all his former preferments of which he had been deprived for Seventeen years After his re-entrance into his Preâ—…dary of Westminster he had the Hoâ—…r to attend his Sacred Majesty at the â—…e of his Coronation in the Soâ—…y of which according to his office and place as Subdean of the Church he presented upon his knees the Royal Scepter unto his Majesty in whose exile
in this Case that most Writers are in love with their Paper-works but the World should first judge whether there is any excellency or real worth in them otherwise it is a fond fancy Narcissus like for any one to be inamoured with his own Shaddow But that which is worse than all this I perceive the Writer is not consistent with himself but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Poets words difficilis facilis juâ—…undus acerbus es idem Because one while he plays the Satyrist against the Fanaticks and afterward turns Factor for the Papists whose cause he could not plead better to please the holy Fathers of the Ignatian Society founded since Luther's time than to render the Name of Protestant odious ` A Name ` saith he that imports little in it of `the positive part of Christianity God forbid and let us then put this into our Litany Lord have mercy upon our Souls who profess our selves to be Protestants and not Papists if the positive part of Christianity be wanting among us For by Name what doth he or can he mean but our Religion and Christian Profession For the Name of Protestant it self is but Thema simplex I may say vox praeterea nihil no more is Catholick Christian Orthodox or any other Name Nomina imponuntur rebus Names are given to things to diversify and distinguish them one from another or else how are they significative of themselves While he goes about to unchristian the Name Protestant or at least makes it Terminus diminuâ—…ns a very slighty Name indeed he endeavours to overthrow the true Protestant Religion For ever since the first Reformation and change of Religion wrought among us by our just and necessary separation from communion with the Church of Rome we and our Fore-fathers have constantly gone under the Name of Protestants though originally I acknowledge this Name was taken up by those Princes of Germany who adhering to Luther's Doctrine made their Protestation at Spires the imperial Chamber and afterward set forth the Augustane Confession since which time the Church of England having cast off the Papacy this Name hath been the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or remark of distinction betwixt us and Papists Our Kings and Princes not only acknowledging the same but have defended the Protestant Religion his most sacred Majesty whose Life God long preserve among us in most or all his Speeches unto his High Court of Parliament hath graciously declared to secure and defenâ—… the Protestant Interest and Religion His Royal Father the most glorious Martyr of our Church but two days before his Death told the Princess Elizabeth That he should die for the maintaining the true Protestant Religion and charged her to read Arch-Bishop Laud's Book against Fisher to ground her against Popery And why were the Jesuiâ—…s so active about his Death that some of them became Agitators in the Independant Army but because it was agreed before by the Pope and his Council saith Dr. du Moulin that there was no way for advancing the Catholick Cause in England but by making away the King of whom there was no hope to turn from hiâ—… Heresie because he was a Protestant I cannot omit Arch-Bishop Laud's words at the time of his Tryal before the Lords Anno Dom. 1643. Saith he Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business of Religion so far from all practice or so much as thought of practice for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing of the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my Mother first â—…are me into the World In his Speech upon the Scaffold before his Death he saith thus of the King I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign He hath â—…een mâ—…d traduced for bringing in of Popery â—…ut on my Conscience of which I shall give God a very present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any Man living and I hold him to bâ—… as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any Man in this Kingdom And now hath not this Name Protestant which imports our Religion been owned by all our Judges and Lawyers the Lord chief Justice speaking of Papists If they cannot saith he at this time live in a Protestant Kingdom with security to their Neighbours but cause such fears and dangers and that for Conscience sake then let them keep their Conscience and leave the Kingdom Mr. Justice Wild in like manner Had such a thing as this been acted by us Protestants in any Popish Country in the World I doubt there would not have been scarce one of us left a live I might bring in here Sir William Jones Mr. Finch Mr. Recorder of London And truly if we are ashamed of our Name we may be of our Religion and cannot blame Popish Plots to subvert it if we hold not funâ—…lamentals which are the positive parts of Christianiâ—…y The Jesuit hawketh not for â—…parrows his zeal to destroy our Religion carries him through Fire and Water Sea and Land over Rocks and Mountains to gain a Proselyte according to those Verses I find in Pareus alluding to the Pharisee and Hor the Poet. Impiger extremos Jesuita excurrit ad Indos Per mare discipulum quaerens per saxa per ignes Juventumque facit se duplo deteriorem Sea Land Fire craggy Rocks and Indian Shore A Jesuit's frantick zeal transports him o're One Romish Proselyte to make once made Child of the Devil twice then before he 's said Nay he hath the patience to stay at home and there no dull Stoick can excel him in this Vertue if he be once commanded by his Superior he will obey though his work be no other saith Mapheus than to water a dry log of Wood for a year together he will not presume to ask the reason why but does it Then how much more ready is he to propagate the Gatholick Cause and in order thereto adventure upon any action if it be to the hazard of his Life while he is commanded by his Father General at Rome and the Congregatio de Propaganda fide What will not he undertake to extirpate the Name of Protestant and think he does God Service for if positive Christianity be not imported in it then we are Negatives we are Jews Infidels Pagans and cannot be denominated Christians for Positive and Negative are contradicentia there can be no reconciling or tacking them together and accoâ—…ding to my Logick a Contradiction is omnium oppositorum fortissima the strongest and most forcible of all oppositions But I would know what are the Principles of Protestantisâ—… that are so contradictory to Christianity they must be either credenda or facienda matters relating to Faith or Christian practice Do we hold any points of Faith contrary to the Primitive Catholick Church Or deny Obedience to the Commands of God either in his Law or Gospel