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Memorials of worthy persons (lights and ornaments of the Church of England.), the fourth decad. / by Cl. Barksdale.; Memorials of worthy persons. Decade 4
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Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.
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in Gods presence to imprint them in the minds of the people our prayers had been generally as well beloved as they were scorned 7. There is one thing yet which I admire above all the rest The right managing of the fraternal Duty of Reproof is methinks one of the most difficult â—ffices of Christian Prudence He had not only got the courage to do this but the art of doing this aright There was not a man in his way be he of what rank he would that spoke awry in order to God but he wip'd his mouth with a modest grave and Christian reproof His singular dexterity in sweetning this art thou maist see in the guaâ—b and phrase of his writings Like a wise Master-builder he has fet about a form of speech transferred it in a figure as if he was alwaies learning from another mans mouth or pen and not racking any And whereas we all of us deserved the shâ—rpnesse of reproof he saith He does this and He does that whereas poor men we did no such thing This dart of his thus dipped pierces the Soul 8. His Art of Divine Poetry and other polite learning so commenâ—ed him to Persons most eminent in their time that Dr Dorne inscribed to him a paper of Latin Verses in print and the Lord Bacon having translated some Psalms into English Meeter sent them with a Dedication prefixed To his very good Friend Mr George Herbert thinking he had kept a true decorum in chusing one so fit for the Argument in respect of Divinity and Poetry the one as the matter the other as the stile that a better choice he could not make 9. I shall omit several excellencies of this Person His conscientious expence of Time which he ever measured by the Pulse that native watch God has set in every of us his eminent Temperance and Frugality the two best Purveyors for his Liberalitie and Beneficence his private fastings his mortification of the body his extemporary Exercises thereof at the sight or visit of a Charnel-house where every bone before the day rises up in judgment against fleshly lust and pride at the stroke of a passing-bell when antient Charity used said he to run to Church and assist the dying Christian with prayers and tears for sure that was the ground of that custome and at all occasions he could lay hold of possibly which he sought with the diligence that others shun and shift them besides his carefull not scrupulous Observation of appointed Fasts Lents and Embers The neglect and defect of this last he said had such influx on the Children which the Fathers of the Church did beget at such time as malignant stars are said to have over natural productions 10. With Fasting he impt his prayers both private and publick His private must be left to God who saw them in secret his publick were the morning and evening Sacrifice of the Church Liturgie Which he used with conscientious Devotion not of Custom but serious judgment knowing 1. That the Sophism used to make people hate them was a solid reason to make men of understanding love them namely Because taken out of the Masse-book taken out but as gold from drosse the precious from the vile The wise Reformers knew Rome would cry Schism Schism and therefore they kept all they could lawfully keep being loth to give offence as our blessed Saviour being loth to offend the Jews at the great Reformation kept divers old Elements and made them new Sacrament and Services as their frequent Washings he turned into one baptism some service of the Passover into the Lord's Supper 2. That the homelinesse and ccursenesse which also was objected was a a great commendation The poor Lambs of the flock are forty for one grounded Christian proportionable must be the care of the Church to provide milk i. e. plain and easie nourishment for them and so had our Church done hoping that stronger Christians as they abounded in gifts so they had such a store of the grace of charity as for their weak Brethrens sakes to be content therewith 11. He thought also that a set Liturgie was of great use in respect of those without whether erring Christians or unbelieving men that when we had used our best Arguments against their errors or unbelief we might shew them a Form wherein we did and desired they would serve Almighty God with us that we might be able to say This is our Church Here would we land you Thus we belive See the Creed Thus we pray baptize Catechise Celebrate the Eucharist Marry Bury Intreat the Sick c. These beside Unitie and other accessary benefits he thought ground sufficient to bear him out in his practice wherein he ended his life calling for the Church-prayers a while before his death saying None to them None to them at once both commending them and his Soul to God in them immediately before his dissolution as some Martyrs did Mr Hulliar by name Vicar of Babram burnt to death in Cambridge Who having the Common-prayer book in his hand instead of a Censer and using the prayers as Incense offerd up himself as a whole burnt Sacrifice to God With whom the very Book it self suffered Martyrdome when fallen out of his consumed hands it was by the Executioners thrown into the fire and burnt as an heretical book 12. He was moreover so great a lover of Church-Musick that he usually called it Heaven upon earth and attended it a few daies before his death But above all his chief delight was in the Holy Scripture One leaf whereof he professed he would not part with though he might have the whole world in exchange This high esteem of the Word of Life as it wrought in himself a wondrous expression of high Reverence when ever he either read it himself or heard others read it so it made him equally wonder that those who pretended such extraordinary love to Christ Jesus as many did could possibly give such leave and liberty to themselves as to hear that Word that shall judge us at the last day without any the least expression of that holy fear and trembling which they ought to charge upon their Souls in private and in publick to imprint upon others 13. I have not so much as with one dash of a pencil offered to describe that person of his which afforded so unusual a Contesseration of Elegancies and Set of rarities to the beholder nor said I any thing of his personal Relation as a Husband to a loving and virtuous Lady as a Kinsman Master c. Yet will I not silence his spiritual love and cate of Servants teaching Masters this duty To allow their servants dayly time wherein to pray privately and to enjoyn them to do it holding this for true generally That publick prayer alone to such persons is no prayer at all 14. I have given thee only these lineaments of his mind and thou mayest fully serve thy self of his book The Country-Parson in what vertue of
accept of his good will and such poor fare as he had Master Lieutenant quoth Sir Thomas I believe you are my frind I thank you for your good will and I assure you I dâ— not mislike my cheer but whensoever I do then thrusâ— me out of your doors 20. In the â—ower he had begun a Divine Treatise of the Passion of Christ and when he came to these words of the Gospel And the laid hands on him and held him they â—ook from him all his Books Ink and Paper so that he could go on no further Afterwards he applyed himself holly to Meditation keeping his Chamber windows fast shut and very dark the occasion whereof the Lieutenant asking It is time said he when all the wares are gone to shut up shop 21. After he had received the sentence of death he said to the Judges My Lords as wâ— read that Paul consented to the death of Stephen and yet be they now both Saints in Heaven and shall continue there friends for ever so I verily trust and shall therefore right heartily pray that though your Lâ—â—dships have been now Judges on earth to my condemnation we may yet hereafter all meet together in Heaven merrily to our everlasting salvation And so I pray God preserve my Soveraign Lord the King and send him faithful Councellors * See the rest if you please in this English Writer or in Stapleton's Latin book Detribus Thomis Sr. Henry Wotton Kt. VII Sr HENRY WOTTON Out of his Life written by Mr Iz Walton D. Roberto Jones Rect. de Leckhampton 1. SIR Henry Wotton was born An. 1568. in Bocton-Hall in the Paâ—ish of Boctoâ— Malherb in the fruitful Country of Kent both House and Church seated within a fair Park of the Wottons on the brow of such a hill as gives the advantage of a large prospect and of equal pleasure to all beholâ—ers But they are not remâ—rkâ—ble for any thing so much as for that the memorable Familie of the Wottons hâ—ve so long inhâ—bited the one and now lie buâ—ied in the other as appears by their mâ—ny Monuments in that Church the Wottons being a Family thâ—t bâ—th broughâ— foâ—th divers Persons eminent for Wisdom and Valour whose Heroick Acts and Noble Employments both in England and in Forein parts have adorned themselves and this Nation 2. Thomas Wotton the Father of our Henrie was a Gent. excellently educated and studious in all the liberal Arts who although he had many invitations from Queen Elizabeth to change his Countrâ—e recreations and retirement for a Court life offering him a Knighthood she was then with him at his Bocton-hall and to be but as an earnest of some more honorable and more profitable imployment under her yet he humbly refuseth both being a man of great modestie of a most plain and single heart of an antient freedom and integritie of mind A commendation which Sir Henrie took occasion often to remember with great gladness and thankfully to boast himself the Son of such a Father from whom indeed he derived that noble Ingenuitie that was alwaies practised by himself and which he ever commended and cherished in others 3. Of this Family was Nicholas Wotton Doctor of Law and sometime Dean of Canterburie a man whom God did not only blesse with a long life but with great abilitiès of mind and an inclination to employ them in the service of his Country as is restified by his several imployments having been sent nine times Embassador unto forein Princes a Privy Councellor to â— Henrie 8 Edward 6. Q. Marie and Q. Elizabeth who imployed him three several times for setling of peace between England Scotland and France who also offered him the Archbishoprick of Cant. but he refused it and dyed not rich though he had lived in the time of dissolution of Abbies He dyed saith learned Camden full of commendation for Wisdom and Pietie 4. The Father of Sir Henrie after the death of his first wife resolved if he should marry again to avoid three sorts of persons namely those that had children or had law suits or were of his kinred And yet following his own Law-suits he met in Westminster-hall with one Mrs Morton widow daughter to Sir William Finch of Kent who was also ingaged in several suits in Law and observing her Comportment at the time of hearing one of her Causes before the Judges he could not but at the same time both compassionate her condition and so affect her person that although there was in her a concurrence of all those accidents against which he had resolved yet he sollicited her for a wife and obtained her By her he had our Henrie his youngest son 5. His Mother was Tutoresse to him during his childhood for hich care and pains he paid her every day with such visible signs of future perfection in learning as turned her imployment into a pleasing trouble After his Father took him into his particular care and disposed of him to a Tutor in his own house and when time and diligent instruction had fitted him which was very early he was sent to Winchâ—ster School a place of stâ—ict Disâ—ipline and Order that so he might in his youth be moâ—ded into a method of living by rule And that he might be confirmed in this Regularitie he was at a fit age removed from that School to New Coll in Oxford 6. There he continued till about the 18th year of his age and was then transplanted into Queens Coll. where within that year he wrote a Play for their private use the Tragedie of Tancredo so ell that the gravest of that Society declared he had in a slight exercise given an early and a solid teâ—imony of future abilities About the 19th year of his age he proceeded Master of Arts and at that time read in Latin three Lectures De oculo wherein having described the form motion curious composure of the eye c. in the conclusion he took a fair occasion to beautifie his discourse with a commendation of the blessing and benefit of seeing so exactly and Rhetorically as among other admirers caused that learned Italian Albericus Gentilis then professor of the Civil Law in Oxford to call him Henrice mi ocelle which dear expression of his was used by many other persons of note during his stay in the Vniversitie 7. After his Optick Lecture he was taken into such a bosom friendship with Gentilis that if it had been possible he would have breathed all his excellent knowledge both of the Mathematicks and Law into the breast of his dear Henrie for so he used to call him and though he was not able to do that yet there was in Sir Harrie such a propensity and connaturalnesse to the Italian language and those studies whereof Gentilis was a great Master that this friendship between them did dayly increase and proved dayly advantageous to Sir Henrie for the improvement of him in several Sciences Among his other friends in Oxford I must not omit the