the Convocation still continued sitting notwithstanding the dissolution of Parliament And when this was scrupled at by some of the house the Doctor resolved their doubts and rid them of their fears by shewing them the distinction betwixt the Kings Writ for calling a Parliament and that for assembling a Convocation Their different forms and independence of one upon another Finally it was determined by the King himself and his learned counsel in the Law That the Convocation called by his Majesties Writ was to be continued till it was dissolved by his Writ notwithstanding the dissolution of Parliament This benefit the King got by their fitting six subsidies under the name of Benevolences which the Clergy payd to him On Friday May 29 the Canons of that Convocation were unanimously subscribed unto by all the Bishops and Clergy No one of them dissenting but the Bishop of Glocester for which he was deservedly suspended who afterward turned Papist and was the only renegado Prelat of this Land Of this Convocation Sir Edward Deering to shew his wit which he dearly payd for after in one of his speeches to the house of Commons was pleased to say that every one that had a hand in making their Ganons should come unto the Bar of the House of Commons with a Candle in one hand and a book in the other and there give fire to his own Canons which good fortune afterward fell upon his own book of speeches NecLex est justior ulla which by order of the House of Commons was burnt in the Fire by the hand of the common Hang-man A publick disgrace that he worthily deserv'd for his proud Eloquence in often pratling against the King and Church In another of his speeches he tells them That if they câ—…uld bring the Lords to sit in the House of Commons and the King to be but as one of the Lords then the work was done And finally in a nother he so abuseth all the Cathedrals in the Kingdom with so foul a mouâ—… as if he had licked up the filth of all the former Libells to vomit it at once upon them And yet this Gentleman afterward as Doctor Heylyn saith made it his earnest suit to be Dean of Canterbury which being denied him by the King in a great discontent he returned to the Parliament c. But lastly to consider the sad condition of that Convocation before they were dissolved the Doctor as one of their fellow members speaks most feelingly during all the time of their sitting they were under those horrid fears by reason of the discontents falling upon the Parliaments dissolution that the King was fain to set a Guard about Westminster-Abby for the whole time of their fitting Poor men to what a distress were they brought in danger of the Kings displeasure if they rose of the peoples fury if they sate in danger of being beaten down by the following Parliament when the work was done and after all obnoxious to the Lash of censorious tongues for their good intendments for notwithstanding their great care that all things might be done with decency and to edification every one must have his blow at them For Pryn published the unbishoping of Timothy and Titus and his other Libel of news from Ipswich wherein he called the Arch-Bishop of Cant. Arch-Agent of the Devil that Belzebub himself had been Arch-Bishop and all the Bishops were Luciferian Lords The like reproaches were thundered out of the Pulpit by Burton in his Sermon on Pro. 24. v. 22. where he abused the Text and Bishops sufficiently calling them instead of Fathers Step-Fathers for Pillars Cater-Pillars limbs of the Beast Factors for Antihcrist and antichristian Mushromes Bastwick laid about him before in his Flagellum Episcoporum Latialium when he had worn out that Rod took another in his Litany Finally the Rabble had a cursed Song among them to affront the poor Clergy with as they met them saying Your Bishops are bite-Sheep Your Deans are Dunces Your Preists are the Preists of Baal The Devil fetch them all by bunches And now the Fire smothering in the Embers at last broke forth into an open flame at the Session of the next Parliament which was fatall both to Chureh and State and finally to themselves that with scorn they were turn'd out of doors by their own Servants who became their Masters The first fitting of them was on a dismal day notable and infamous Novemb. 3d. when Henry 8 began the dissolution of Abbyes and Papists with Protestants were laid both on one hurdle and burnt together at the same Stake the King then promised his people should for ever be acquitted of Taxes ut facilius illi monasteia concederentur saith Sanders that Monasteries and Religious houses might be more easily granted to him The Parliment opening on that critical day Arch-Bishop Laud was advertised in a letter to move the King that for good luck sake their Session might be put off to another day but this being looked upon by his Lordship as a superstitious conceit he waved the motion of it to the King which proved afterward the fall of himself and the Hierarchie At the opening of this long Parliament a general Rumor was spread abroad that Doctor Heylyn was run away for fear of an approaching storm that was like to fall on his own head as well as on his Lordships Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury but he who was ever of an undaunted Spirit would not pusillanimously desert the Cause of the King and Church then in question but speedily hastned up to London from Alrèsford to coufute the common Calumny and false report raised on him by the Puritan faction that he appeared the next day in his Gown and Tippet in Westminster Hall and in the Church with his accustomed formalities of Cap Hood and Surplice employed also his Pen boldly in defence of the Bishops right when the temporal Lords began to shake the Hierarchy in passing a vote that no Bishop should be of the Committee for examination of the Earl of Strafford being causa sanguinis upon which the Doctor drew up a breif and excellent discourse full of Law and History entituled de jure paritatis Episcoporum The Bishops right of Peerage so consequently that they ought to sit in that Committee their priviledge and right are maintained by him which by Law or ancient custom doth belong unto theâ—… It is worth our while to see what he hath written upon this point in the cause of Bloud many years after the first discourse of the Bishops Peerage when there was little hopes of ever their returning again into the House of Peers That the Bishops were disabled by some ancient Canons saith he from sentencing any man to death and it may be from being present when any such sentences was pronounced I shall easily grant but that they were disabled from being assistants in such case from taking the examinations or hearing the depositions of Witnesses or
few days after Mr. Heylyn was presented by the King to the Rectory of Hemingford in the County of Huntington Soon after he applyed himself to the Bishop of Lincoln for Institution which was not only denyed him but the Bishop more boldly than did befit his Lordship disputed his own Title against his Soveraign and fell upon Mr. Heylyn with most foul opprobrious Language because he presumed to defend the Kings right against his Lordship which he proved by the Instruments of Conveyance made from the other Party at which the Bishop was the more highly offended with him that such a young Divine should have so great knowledge of the Law and especially to argue the Case with his Lordship But this was not the main business Latet Anguis in herba there was a Snake in the Garden for his Lordship had a subtile design under disguise or otherwise he would have easily waved his right of presentation pro hac vice to pleasure the King in the preferment of his Chaplain or at least preserving his own right bestowed the Living upon Mr. Heylyn But then here lyeth the matter his Lordship had been crossed in his wonted method that is to give with one hand and take away with the other which he could not for shame do with a Kings Chaplain For when he bestowed a Living upon any Person as he had many in his Gift being both Lord Bishop and Lord Keeper he would tye the Incumbent to pay an annual pension out of it to be disposed to such charitable and pious uses as he thought fit so that the stream of his Charity flowed out of other mens Purses and not his own at the best he robbed Peter to pay Paul which the Incumbents felt by dear Experience whom he kept at a low pittance that for the most part they lived but poorly for the heavy Taxations laid upon them By this means he had more Penâ—…ers than all the Noble men and Bishops in the Land together And though he made no particular benefit to himself out of those Livings then his Name cryed up for a noble Benefactor in all other things to fill his own Coffer he was so covetous and extremely tenacious that he would never let go what once he had laid hold on for at the same time he was both Bishop Dean Lord Keeper Parson of Walgrove and held the poor Prebendary of Asgarby in which last I have the honour to succeed his Lordship The King hearing the News of Mr. Heylyn's rough Entertainment at Bugden how his Royal Presentation was slighted and his Chaplain with ill words abused was not a little offended with the Bishop on whom he had heaped so many Dignities one upon another both in Church and State I will not say undeservedly if his Lordships Loyalty and Integrity had been answerable to his other great Abilities But his Majesty was pleased for the comfort of his poor Chaplain so disapointed and badly treated by the Bishop to send him this gracious Message by the Attorny general Mr. Noy not usual with Kings to private Persons That he was sorry he had put him to so much charge and trouble at Bugden but it should not be long before he would be out of his Debt Nor long it was for within a Week after a Prebendship in the collegiate Church of Westminster where the Bishop of Lincoln was Dean fell void by the Death of Mr. Darrel which the King bestowed upon Mr. Heylyn and with it sent a most gracious message by Mr. Noy again That he bestowed that Prebendary on him to bear the charges of his last Journy but he was still in his Debt for the Living So that he is now entred into one of the fairest Preferments that hath all the accommodations and pleasures which a Scholars heart can wish a learned Society a well furnished Library a magnificent Church that hath an excellent Quire in it for a Chorus of heavenly Voices the one enough to stir up the coldest heart to Devotion and the other to the veneration of Antiquity where so many ancient Monuments of Kings and Queens in Henry 7. Chappel have their Sepulture The most accurate pile of building in Europe by some called the wonder of the World near which the Courts of Judicature the High Court of Parliament and not far from thence his Majesty's Pallace-royal at White-hall that if one would converse with all sorts of famous Men Divines Lawyers States-men and other Persons of Quality he could not find out a Place more sutable to the hearts desire besides situated healthfully upon a firm gravelly Foundation and pleasantly on the River Thames about whose Banks may be seen along that River for many Miles most princely Buildings stately Palaces fair Towers and Fields as an old German Poet describeth whose Verses are thus translated by the Doctor himself in his Cosmography Tot campos silvas tot regia tecta tot hortos Artifici excultos dextra tot vidimus arces Ut nunc Ausonio Thamesis cum Tibride certet He saw so many Woods and princely Bowers Sweet Fields brave Palaces and stately Towers So many Gardens dress'd with curious Art That Thames with Tyber strives to bear a Part. Therefore Mr. Heylyn was happily disappointed of his former Expectations as Providence ordained to embrace a more noble Preferment that he might say now rejoycingly as Chaerea did Ecquis me vivit hodie fortunatior cui tam subito tot congruerint commoda Or rather in the Scripture words The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places yea I have a goodly Heritage for certainly he could not be seated in a better manner all those delightful conveniences considered and yet to add more pleasure to them he spared no cost to beautifie and enlarge his Prebends house in the mean time his Wife lived in the Country with his Brother Mr. Edward Heylyn at Minster Lovel in Oxfordshire and sometimes with his Uncle Raynton at Shilton in Barkshire a man of a good Estate who was afterward High Sheriff of the same County So soon as he was settled in his Prebends house several of his Friends about Town came to visit him and give him joy Amongst others of most noble Acquaintance that he had gained by his frequent attendances in White-hall the right Honourable Lord Falkland was pleased first to honour him with a Visit and brought along with him a Miles gloriosus one Mr. Nelson an old Sea-Captain with whom his Lordship seemed to be mightily delighted for his new way of Discovery to find out the Longitude of the Sea with which the Captain had troubled all the Mathematicians about Town who generally dissented from his Opinion that at last by his Majesties Order the decision of this Sea-question was referred to Mr. Heylyn as a Person thought fit to determin it but he could neither satisfie the Captain nor the Lord with any further answer at present than That his Majesty was mistaken in him for his skill and knowledge did lye more in
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
with the Name of its Author Therefore I must crave leave of the Reader 's Patience to shew how I come concern'd and have been uncivilly dealt with by George Vernon as he writes himself Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire a Man utterly unknown to me before this affair Nec beneâ—…icio nec injuria mihi notus About four years agoe hearing that Mr Hen. Heylyn my Brother in law did intend to print his Fathers life before some miscellaneous pieces of his Writings I made a tender of my service to that work for which I could propose no other advantage to my self than my labour for my pains and only to testifie my real reverence and hearty affection to his Father and mine whom I ever honoured for his learning and good life And because I thought such a duty might be more reasonably expected from me his Son-in-Law than any other who was a stranger to him especially when he was pleased to put several papers into my hands to transcribe and had often discoursed various passages of his Life to me which I know none in the world can give an account of but my self Yet since his Sons fancy led him to make choice of another before me I was satisfied and did patiently expect the coming forth of the work not only Term after Term but year after year a very considerable time for so small a Tract But at last instead of the Life came a Letter to me from a Book-Seller in London viz. Mr. Chr. Wilkinson at the sign of the black Boy in Fleetstreet to desire my assistance for the thing as he writ was at a stand The printing of which Mr. Harper his Friend would not have undertaken had not Mr. Heylin assured him that I was engaged in it because it must needs be as he said lame and imperfect if it was done without my knowledge who was â—…quainted with all the transactions of the Doctors Life But to those Letters I returned several flat denyals thinking it below me to medle in that which another had before undertaken much less to be his journey man to patch up what I should have made new Besides I had no confidence in the Man so bold and forward in the work because he was a mere stranger to my Father Heylyn as he now publickly confesses and I beleive never saw the Doctors face in his Life Yet still I was importun'd and his writings were sent down to me withal to let me know the Writer was willing I should make what alterations in them and additions to them I pleased for which I have Mr. Wilkinsons letter by me in his verbis a person so honest as will not deny his own words Reverend Sir I Received your Letter and am again troublesome to you Mr. Harper assures me that he thought you had been first concern'd in writing your Fathers Life by Mr. Heylyn's recommendation But afterwards he found that one Mr. Vernon of Gloucester has collected the papers which compose the Life whom Mr. Heylyn desired to perfect the said Vernon has desired Mr. Harper to communicate the papers to whom he pleases and cross out or add what is thought convenient to which purpose he designes to send the said Life down to you and do with it as you think good and if you think â—…itting put your own Name to it for Mr Vernon will not have his name made use of I thought good to acquaint you hereof and desire you will be pleased to give me a line or too Sir I am Your obliged and humble Servant Christopher Wilkinson London February 18. 1680 At the receipt of this Letter I was unwillingly perswaded by some Friends to send to Lincoln for the Gentlemans Manuscript which had laid at the Carriers house above three weeks And when it came into my hands I found it indeed according to the Booksellers description in another Letter lame and imperfect And I must say ill begun and worse carried on and abruptly concluded Nay some things false and scandalous tending to the disreputation and not the honour of my Father Besides half the Life for want of other matter when those few old Notes failed him which Mr. Heylin had lent him was stuffed out with a long story of Westminster and a farrago of needless transcription out of Dr. Heylins Books for no other purpose then to prove the Doctor was no Papist Quorsum haec perditio For did ever any lay this to his charge but the Puritan Sectaries who were his profest Enemies I will call Doctor Burnet his very good Friend who I am sure will stand his second in this challenge for he saith I doubt not but he was a sincere Protestant But this only was his mishap first to write the History of Reformaaion and his second hath so far outgone him that ever since the poor Doctor has suffered in his Reputation and the Church of England nick-named with Popery which odious name first took its epoch and God be thanked is of no elder date from the beginning of the late History of Reformation and the thankful Parliament to the Historian Since then our Religion and Hierarchy has been hunch'd at by every Clown and Fanatick Others more unnaturally like Nero to Agrippina have searched into the secret Entrals of their Mother ript up her Bowels to see if they could find a Pope in her Belly Therefore the good old Doctor lyes no more under the malicious slander and suspicion of Popery than our dear Mother the Church of England for her excellent Wisdom in keeping up a medium beâ—…wixt the two extreams of Popery and Fanaticism Bâ—…t to return to my Gentleman again out of respect to my Brother because he was his Acquaintance I dealt most ingenuously with the Life made several Additions to it corrected many mistakes abated only the Harangue of Transcriptions and such passages as I thought were disgraceful reflections on my Reverend Father I put it into a method which was before very confused Cui lecta potenter â—…rit res Neo facundia deseret hunc nec lucidus ordo as the Poet said I also disposed both his and my own Discourses into distinct Paragraphs that the one might be known from the other And finally I writ this civil Letter of Thanks to him which I sent up to the Book-seller and ordered to be printed before the Life and it is as followeth Sir THough I have not the good Fortune to be aequainted with you nor in all probability eveâ—… shall at so far a distance as we live asuâ—… yet I cannot but express a most hearty thanks for your reverence and high esteem of Dr. Heylyn and for the pains you have bestowed about his Life In the carrying on of which notwithstanding I have taken the greater Task upon my self and should have undertook it wholly if I had been first engaged in it because I am related to the Family and know more material circumstances for this purpose than any man now living
Garbage of the City and to cleanse their Streets but they left more noisom filth of their own behind them Gods holy Law strictly chargeth Principem populi tui non maledices Thou shalâ—… not speak evil of the Ruler of thy People So it was Tiberius care saith Tacitus ne memoria Augusti ne nomen Caesarum in ludibria contumelias verterat that the Memory of Augustus and the Name of Caesars might not be turned into contempt and reproach For if Princes once are set down in the Chair of the Scornful they will not sit long upon their Thrones their Authority and Government is quickly despised when their sacred persons are vilified and by every foul mouth that speaks evil of Dignities the holy and reverend Name of King who is a Vice-God upon Earth shall be commonly profaned and reviled with such Antimonarchical Men. King James Queen Elizabeths Successor the first Monarch of great Britain and second Solomon for Wisdom lived a most vexatious Life that never poor King was so harassed with a company of unreasonable persons both of the Popish and Puritan Faction the one working under Ground by secret Plots and Conspiracies against him for which reason he commanded the Dialogue between Theodidactus and Philalethes to be composed and printed the other was not ashamed to play above Board in audacious and open practices that he never could have an Inter-regnum of peace and quietness for them but they were continually Thorns in his Eyes and Pricks in his Side for no other reason as he sadly complains but because he was their King Crebrae adversus me saith he in tribunitiis concionibus calumniae spargebantur non quod crimen aliquod designassem sed quia Rex eram quod omni crimine pejus habebatur There were frequent calumnies scattered against me in their popular Sermons not that I had committed any crime or fault but that I was their King which was esteemed worse than all crimes Their Principles we have seen by woful experience tend to Anarchy and Confusion which as that wise King foresaw so he put a Hook into the Nose of the Leviathans or chief Leaders of that Faction and counselled his Son King Charles the First to hold the Reins strictly and not remissy over them for by tolleration their insolences will grow intollerable Therefore I cannot omit the solemn Protestation which at last he made and certainly will ever be remembred by the Râ—…yal Family Testor illum magnum Deum nec testamentum saith he 〈◊〉 fas est mentiri nunquam inter montanos aut limitaneos nostros latrones majorem ingratitudinem aut perfidiam reperiri posse quam inter hos phanaticos neâ—…lones nec patere si pacate vivere decreveris hi eadem tecum patria fruantur nisi forte pâ—…tientiae experiendae ergo ut Socrates vixit cum Zantippe I take the great God to witness as if I were making my last Will and Testament and it is not lawful for him that maketh a Testament to lye that there can never be more unthankfulness or perfidiousness found among our High-land bordering Robbers than among those Fanatick Knaves so the King speaks in plain terms neither do thou suffer them to enjoy the same Country with thee if thou purpose to live peaceably unless perhaps for the exercise of thy patience as Socrates lived with Zantippe And had not the good King reason for all this who knew well the Geneva Bibles and seditious Notes upon them some of them not only teaching disobedience to Kings and Princes but the execrable Murther of them if they were Idolaters and others did not only teach the lawfulness of breaking faith and promises when it might conduce to the hurting of the Gospel but ranked the Arch-bishops and Bishops and all men in holy Orders of Academical Degrees amongst those locusts in the Revelation which came out of the Pit And now I heartily thank the Author my Adversary for his Narrative of Mr. Baxter the Head of all the Tribes among our Non-conformists but I wonder he being so famous an Astrologer could not by Talismanical Figures of Gaffarel without the help of other Witnesses read Mr. Baxter's name in the Stars and see â—…ow he pulled off the Picture from the Majors Neck telling him then as he was swimming in his gore that he was a Popish Rogue and that was his Crucifix I admire this discovery was not made before by Art for the proof of which the Narrator hath taken a great deal of pains in getting the Majors Hand and Seal and Witnesses for all which I commend him that he has made sure work according to the saying Plus annulis creditur quam animis the Seals of men are more to be trusted than their Souls Indeed the Narrative at the first sight of it seemed to me most strange and incredible especially those words following the Story of the Picture viz. restored to the Poor-man now alive aâ—… Wick near Parshore in Worcestershire although at the Fight supposed to be dead being after the wounds given him dragged up and down the Field by the merciless Souldiers Mr. Baxter approving of the inhumanity by feeding his Eyes with so bloody and barbarous a Spectacle I was very much enclined to suspect the truth of the whole Narrative insomuch that I then said to a Friend that I gave the same credit to it as to the story of Father Garnet That his forhead received a blow as he was dragg'd upon the Stones and where the wound was the sign of the Cross appeared and the Blood dropping down the Straw in the Hurdle his Face and full Feature was printed upon the Straw for which the Papists could produce Hands and Seals also for Judge Seth's Finger bleeding through his Glove while he pronounced Sentence against Campian the Jesuit But now I crave pardon of the Narrator for my unbelief and confess my self abundantly satisfied in the truth of all the premises concerning Mr. Baxter because they have been publickly attested and more fully confirmed than before Therefore let Mr. Baxter look to him self and his own Conscience and not accuse or condemn others much less Doctor Heylâ—… as one who speaks of blood with pleasure When the Sin of blood-guiltiness of a high and barbarous nature lyes crying at his own door and I am â—…ure a more than ordinary Repentance must expiate the guilt of so â—…oul a crime for it is peccatum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 crying sin of which there be four â—…or in Scripture as Aquinus telleth us in a distich 〈◊〉 in caelum vox sanguinis Sodoâ—… Vâ—…x oppressorum merces retenta laborum Oppression blood Hirelings unpaid Soâ—… From earth to Heaven sends a doleful cry Although the good Major through Gods mercy is yet alive the Savage and inhumane dealing he found at the Hands of Hurdman and Mr. Baxter his innocent blood most unjustly spilt upon the ground after so many years silence of it now to the shame of
Peutre Heylyn from whom the said Grono-ap Heylyn descended in a direct Line removed not their station for all the Ages past but continued their Seat until the year An. Dom. 1637. At which time Mr. Rowland Heylyn Alderman and Sheriff of London and Cousin German to Dr. Heylyn's Father dying without Issue-male the Seat was transferred into another Family Into which the Heiresses married This Mr. Rowland Heylyn was a man of singular Goodness and Piety that before his Death caused the Welch or Brittish Bible to be printed at his own charge in a portable Volume for the benefit of his Country men which was before in a large Church Folio also the Practice of Piety in Welch a Book though common not to be despised besides a Welch Dictionary for the better understanding of that Language All which certainly was a most pious work notwithstanding their opinion to the contrary who think that the Bible in a vulgar Tongue is not for Edification but Destruction Yet God hath been pleased in all Ages to stir up some devout men of publick Spirits as Sixtus Senensis the Monk confesseth that Christians may read the holy Bible 〈◊〉 their own Edification and Comfort and not be kept hood-wink'd in blindness and heathenish ignorance Not to mention what other Nations hath done King Alfred caused both the Old and New Testament to be published in the vulgar Tongue for the benefit of this Land and in the Reign of Richard the Second the whole Scripture was set forth in English as Polyder Virgil testifies that when the Parliament endeavoured to suppress the same John Duke of Lancaster stood up in defence thereof saying We will not be the refuse of all men for other Nations have Gods Laws in their own Language so ought we Therefore seeing such noble Precedents of godly Zeal for the general instruction of the People it was a most excellent work of the good Alderman Mr. Rowland Heylyn to print those Welch Bibles which were before rare and costly but now grown common in every mans hand and in his own Mothers Tongue As the Doctor was of honourable extraction by his Father's side so his Mothers Pedigree was not mean and contemptible but answered the Quality of her Husband being a Gentlewoman of an ancient Family whose Name was Eliz. Clampard Daughter of Francis Clampard of Wrotham in Kent and of Mary Dodge his Wife descended in a direct Line from Peter Dodge of Stopworth in Cheshire unto whom King Edward the First gave the Seigniory or Lordship of Paden hugh in the Barony of Coldingham in the Realm of Scotland as well for his special Services that he did in the Seige of Barwick and Dunbar as for his valour showed in several Battels Encontre son grand Enemy Rebelle Le Baillol Roy d' Escose Vassal d' Angle terre as the words are in the original Charter of Arms given to the said Peter Dodge by Guyen King of Arms at the Kings command dated April the 8th in the 34 〈◊〉 year of the said King Edward the First One of the Descendants from the said Peter Dodge was Uncle to Dr. Heylyn's Mother and gave the Mannor of Lechlade in the County of Glocester worth 1400 l. per An. to Robert Bathurst Esq Uncle to the Doctor and Father to the Loyal Knight and Baronet Sir Edward Bathurst lately deceased The Doctor in his green and tender years was put to School at Burford the Place of his Nativity and Education under the care of Mr. William North then School-master by whose good Instructions and his own wonderful Ingenuity he grew up to that proficiency in Learning that he was admired both by his Master and Scholars because his entrance into the Free-School was at the time of Child-hood when he was but six years old betwixt which time and the space of four years after he plyed his Book so well that he appeard more than an ordinary Latinist being Composer of several Exercises both in Prose and Verse particularly a Tragy-Comedy upon the Wars and Destruction of Troy with other exercises Historical which foreshewed what an excellency he would after attain unto in all kind of generous Learning Such early Blossoms are for the most part blasted or seldom bring forth fruit to ripeness and perfection that few Examples can be named of precocious Wits as have been long Liv'd or come near to the years of Old Age as the Doctor did excepting one famously known above others Hermogenes the Rhetorician of whom it was said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was an old Man when he was a Child and a Child when he was an old Man In his Child-hood he was often brought before Marcus Ant. the Roman Emperor who delighted to hear his Talk for the natural Eloquence that flowed from him But though he lived long his Wit and admired Parts soon decayed and for his long Life saith Rhodiginus of him ut unus ex multis he was one as it were of a thousand Yet a Reverend Father of the Christian Church the glory of his time St. Augustine did far excel Hermogenes the Orator for he tells us in his Confessions that in secunda pueritia that is about the Age of twelve Legisse intellexisse Logicos Rhetoricos Aristotelis Libros he read and understood the Books of Aristotles Logick and Rhetorick by which Learning and Study of Divinity well managed together St. Augustin appeared the only Champion in the Field for the Orthodox Faith confounded the Manichees Donatists and other Hereticks and finally he lived to a great old Age a Blessing which ordinarily accompanied the Primitive Bishops and holy Fathers and still is continued as may be observed to the worthy Prelates of our Church But to find many of prodigious Wits and Memories from Child-hood and for such Persons to live unto extraordinary years and keep up their wonted Parts most Vigorously after they are turned Sixty which is the deep Autumne of Mans Life I believe Dr. Heylyn had the happy Fortune in Youth and Age above many others that his Vertues and excellent Abilities kept equal ballance together for all his Life primus ad extremum similis sibi that as he began happily so he went on like Isocrates his Master who being always the same could say Nihil habeo quod senectutem meam accusem He had nothing to accuse his old Age with After he was first diciplin'd under his Master North whom Death took from the School to another World he was committed to his Successor Mr. Davis a right worthy Man and painful Schoolmaster who train'd him up in all points of Learning befitting a young Scholar for the University where he was admitted at the fourteenth year of his Age Commoner in Hart-hall and put under the Tuition of Mr. Joseph Hill an ancient Batchelor of Divinity and formerly one of the Fellows of Corpus Christi Colledge but then a Tutor in Hart-hall After whom Mr.
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
where he had run through so hard a Task with the Regius Professor though he missed Windsor took this occasion to make himself merry as the Poet did musa jocosa mea est Ov. And so fell into this vein of Poetry When Windsor Prebend late disposed was One ask'd me sadly how it came to pass Potter was chose and Heylyn was forsaken I answer'd 't was by Charity mistaken But this Fancy was soon turned into a mournful Elegy by the death of his noble Friend the Attorny General Mr. Noy whose memory he could never forget for the honour of delivering to him the gracious message from his Majesty and for the intimacy he was pleased to bear to him as a bosom friend that he imparted to the Doctor all the affairs of State and transactions of things done in his time which made him so perfect an Historian in this particular and shewed him his papers manuscripts and laborious Collections that he had gathered out of Statutes and ancient Records for the proof of the Kings Prerogative particularly before his death at his house in Brainford where the Doctor kept Whitsontide with him in the year 1634. he shewed to him a great wooden Box that was full of old Precedents for levying a Naval aid upon the Subjects by the sole Authority of the King whensoever the preservation and safety of the Kingdom required it of them Mr. Hammond L' Strange acknowledges that Mr. Noy was a most indefatigable plodder and searcher of old Records The learned Antiquary Mr. Selden though no friend to the King nor Church confesses in his excellent book entituled Mare Clausum That the Kings of England â—…sed to levy mony upon the Subjects without the help of Parliament for the providing of Ships and other necessaries to maintain that Soveraignity which anciently belonged to the Crown Yet the honest Attorny General for the same good service to the King and Country is called by Hammond Le Strange The most pestilent vexation to the Subjects that this latter Age produced So true is the old Proverb some may better steal a Horse than others look on For it is usual with many not to judge according to the merits of the cause but by the respect or disrepect they bear to the Person as the Comedian once said Duo cum idem faciunt saepe possis dicere Hoc licet impune facere huic illi non licet Non quod dissimilis res sit sed quod qui facit When two does both alike the self same Act One suffers pain the other for the Fact Not the lest shame or punishment and why Respect of persons makes Crimes differently The death of Mr. Noy the more sadly afflicted the Doctor to lose so dear a Friend and an entire Lover of learned men during whose time no unhappy differences brake out betwixt the Dean of Westminster and the Prebends of that Church but all things were carried on smoothly by his Lordship because he knew well that Dr. Heylyn had a sure Advocate in Court both in behalf of himself and his Brethren if they stood in need of help that no sooner this worthy person departed the World but the Bishop so extremely tyrannized over the Prebendaries infringing their Priviledges violating their Customes and destroying their ancient Rights that for the common preservation of themselves and their Successors they were forced to draw up a Charge against his Lordship consisting of no less than thirty six Articles which were presented by way of complaint and petition of redress to his sacred Majesty who forthwith gave order for a Commission to be issued out unto the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and York the Earl of Manchester Lord Privy Seal Earl of Portland the Lord Cottington the two Secretaries of State Sir John Cook and Sir Francis Windebank Authorizing them to hold a Visitation of the Church of Westminster to examine the particular charges made against John Lord Bishop of Lincoln and to redress such grievances and pressures as the Prebends of the said Church suffered by his misgovernment The Articles were ordered by the Council Table to be translated into Latin by Dr. Heylyn which accordingly he performed to avoid the common talk and scandal that might arise if exposed to the publick veiw of the vulgar on April 20. A. D. 1634. the Commission bore date which was not executed but lay dormant till December 1635 the Bishop expecting the business would never come to a hearing he raged more vehemently dispossessed the Prebends of their Seats refused to call a Chapter and to passe their Accounts conferred holy Orders in the said Church without their consent contrary to an ancient Priviledge which had been inviolably retained from the first foundation of the Church he permitted also Benefices in their gift to be lapsed unto himself that so he might have absolute power to dispose them to whom he pleased Quo teneam nodo With many other grievances which caused the Prebends to present a second Petition to his Majesty humbly beseeching him to take the ruinous and desperate estate of the said Church into his Princely consideration Upon which the former Commission was revived a day of hearing appointed and a Citation fixed upon the Church door of Westminster for the Bishops and Prebends to appear on Jan. 27. Upon the 25th instant The Prebends were warned by the Subdean to meet the Bishop in Jerusalem Chamber where his Lordship foreseeing the Storm that was like to fall upon his head carried himself very calmly towards them desiring to know what those things were that were amiss and he would presently redress them though his Lordship knew them very well without an Informer to which Dr. Heylyn replyed that seeing they had put this business into his Majesties hands it would ill become them to take the matters out oâ—… his into their own Therefore on Jan. 27th both Parties met together before the Lords in the Inner-star Chamber where by their Lordships Order the whole business was put into a methodical course each Mâ—…day following being appointed for a day of hearing till a Conclusion was made of the whole affair On February the 1st The Lords Commissioners with the Bishop and Prebends met in the Council-Chamber at White-hall where it was first ordered that the Plaintifs should be called by the name of Prebends supplicant Secondly they should be admitted upon Oath as Witnesses Thirdly they should have a sight of all Registers Records Books of account c. which the Bishop had kept from them Fourthly that the first business they should begin with should be about their Seat because it made the difference or breach more visible and offensive to the World than those matters which were private and domestick And lastly it was ordered that the Prebends should have an Advocate to plead their Cause defend their Rights and represent their Grievances Accordingly the Prebends unanimously made choice of Dr. Peter Heylyn for their Advocate The business now brought on so fairly
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
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