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A30388	The life of William Bedell D.D., Lord Bishop of Killmore in Ireland written by Gilbert Burnet. To which are subjoyned certain letters which passed betwixt Spain and England in matter of religion, concerning the general motives to the Roman obedience, between Mr. James Waddesworth ... and the said William Bedell ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642. Copies of certain letters which have passed between Spain & England in matter of religion.; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1692 (1692)	Wing B5831; ESTC R27239	225,602	545

the Communion should not be adminstred to them in both kinds That the Bread in the Lord's Supper is transubstantiated into his Body That he is there sacrificed for the quick and the dead That there is any Purgatory besides Christ's Blood That our good Words can merit Heaven That the Saints hear our Prayers and know our Hearts That Images are to be worshipped That the Pope is Infallible and can command Angels That we ought to pray to the Dead and for the Dead In all these notwithstanding you may profess your teachableness if by sound Reasons out of God's Word you shall be convinced of the truth of them And because we know not how far it will please God to call us to make resistance against sin whether unto Blood it self or no it shall be Wisdom for us to prepare our selves to the last care of a godly life which is to dye Godly This the Apostle Paul calleth Sleeping in Iesus implying thereby our Faith in him our being found in his Work and our committing our Souls into his Hands with peace such a sweet and Heavenly Sleep was that of S. Stephen whose last Words for himself were Lord Iesus receive my Spirit and for his Tormentors Lord lay not this sin to their charge wherewith I will end this Writing and wish to end my life when the will of God shall be to whose gracious protection dear Sister I do heartily commit you November 23. 1641. These Advices shew in what temper that holy Man was in this his extremity They had a very good effect on the Lady for as by reading them over very often she got to be able to say them all without Book so she did that which was much more she lodged them in her heart as well as in her memory While this good Man was now every day waiting f●r his Crown the Rebells sent to him desiring him to dismiss the company that was about him but he refused to obey their cruel order and he resolved to live and dye with them and would much more willingly have offered himself to have dyed for them than have accepted of any favour for himself from which they should be shut out And when they sent him word That though they loved and honoured him beyond all the English that ever came into Ireland because he had never done wrong to any but good to many yet they had received orders from the Council of State at Kilkenny that had assumed the government of the Rebells that if he would not put away the people that had gathered about him they should take him from them he said no more but in the Words of David and S. Paul Here I am the Lord do unto me as seems good to him the will of the Lord be done So on the eighteenth of December they came and seized on him and on all that belonged to him and carried him and his two Sons and Mr. Clogy prisoners to the Castle of Lochwater the only place of strength in the whole County It was a little Tower in the midst of a Lake about a Musquet shot from any Shoar And though there had b●●n a little Island about it anciently yet the Water had so gained on it that there was not a foot of Ground above Water but only the Tower it self They suffered the Prisoners to carry nothing with them for the Titular Bishop took possession of all that belonged to the Bishop and said Mass the next Lords day in the Church They set the Bishop on Horseback and made the other Prisoners go on foot by him And thus he was lodged in this Castle that was a most miserable dwelling The Castle had been in the hands of one Mr. Cullum who as he had the keeping of the Fort trusted to him so he had a good allowance for a Magazine to be laid up in it for the defence of the Country But he had not a pound of Powder nor one fixt Musquet in it and he fell under the just punishment of the neglect of his trust for he was taken the first day of the Rebellion and was himself made a prisoner here All but the Bishop were at first clapt into Irons for the Irish that were perpetually drunk were afraid lest they should seise both on them and on the Castle Yet it pleased God so far to abate their fury that they took off their Irons and gave them no disturbance in the Worship of God which was now all the comfort that was left them The House was extreamly open to the weather and ruinous and as the place was bare and exposed so that Winter was very severe which was a great addition to the misery of those that the Rebels had stript naked leaving to many not so much as a Garment to cover their nakedness But it pleased God to bring another Prisoner to the same Dungeon that was of great use to them one Richard Castledine who had come over a poor Carpenter to Ireland with nothing but his Tools on his back and was first imployed by one Sir Richard Waldron in the carpentry work of a Castle that he was building in the Parish of Cavan But Sir Richard wasting his Estate before he had finished his House and afterwards leaving Ireland God had so blest the industry of this Castledine during Thirty years labour that he bought this Estate and having only Daughters he married one of them out of gratitude to Sir Richard's youngest Son to whom he intended to have given the Estate that was his Fathers He was a Man of great vertue and abounded in good Works as well as in exemplary Piety he was so good a Husband that the Irish believed he was very rich so they preserved him hoping to draw a great deal of Money from him He being brought to this miserable Prison got some Tools and old Boards and fitted them up as well as was possible to keep out the Weather The Keepers of the Prison brought their Prisoners abundance of Provision but left them to dress it for themselves which they that knew little what belonged to Cookery were glad to do in such a manner as might preserve their lives and were all of them much supported in their Spirits They did not suffer as evil doers and they were not ashamed of the Cross of Christ but rejoyced in God in the midst of all their afflictions and the old Bishop took joyfully the spoiling of his Goods and the restraint of his person comforting himself in this That these light afflictions would quickly work for him a more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory The day after his imprisonment being the Lord's day he preached to his little flock on the Epistle for the day which set before them the pattern of the humility and sufferings of Christ and on Christmas day he preached on Gal. 4.4 5. and administred the Sacrament to the small Congregation about him their Keepers having been so charitable as to furnish them with Bread and Wine And

of Grace where he reduceth the whole practice of Christianity unto three Heads of living Soberly justly and Godly This last directing our carriage towards God the midle most towards our Neighbour and the foremost towards our Selves Now since this is a direction for our whole Life it seems to me that we have no more to do at any time but to conn this Lesson more perfectly with some particular application of such parts of it as are most suitable to the present occasions And as to Sobriety first under which the Vertues of Humility Modesty Temperance Chastity and Contentedness are contained since this is a time wherein as the Prophet saith The Lord of Hosts calleth to weeping and mourning and pulling off the Hair and girding with Sack-cloth you shall by my advice conform your self to those that by the Hand of God suffer such things Let your apparel and Dress be mournful as I doubt not but that your Mind is your Dyet sparing and course rather than full and liberal frame your self to the indifferency whereof the Apostle speaketh In whatsoever state you shall be therewith to be content to be full and to be hungry to abound and to want Remember now that which is the Lot of others you know not how soon it may be your own Learn to despise and defie the vain and falsly called wealth of this World whereof you now see we have so casual and uncertain a possession This for Sobriety the first part of the Lesson pertaining to your self Now for Iustice which respects others and containeth the Vertues of Honour to Superiors discreet and equal government of Inferiors peaceableness to all Meekness Mercy just dealing in matters of getting and spending Gratitude Liberality just Speech and desires God's Judgments being in the Earth the Inhabitants of the World should learn Righteousness as the Prophet speaketh Call to mind therefore and bethink you if in any of these you have failed and turn your Feet to God's Testimonies certainly these times are such wherein you may be afflicted and say with the Psalmist Horrour hath taken hold of me and Rivers of Tears run down mine Eyes because they keep not thy Laws Rebelling against Superiors Misleading not only by Example but by Compulsion Inferiors laying their Hand to them that were at peace with them unjustly spoiling and unthankfully requiting those that had shewed them kindness no Faith nor Truth in their Promises Judge by the way of the School that teacheth Christ thus are these his doings as for those that suffer I am well assured I shall not need to inform you or stir you up to mercy and compassion That which is done in this kind is done to Christ himself and shall be put upon account in your reckoning and rewarded accordingly at his glorious appearance The last and principal part of our Lesson remains which teacheth how to behave our selves Godly or religiously to this belong First the Duties of Gods inward Worship as Fear Love and Faith in God then outward as Invocation the holy use of his Word and Sacraments Name and Sabbaths The Apostle makes it the whole End and Work for which we were set in this World to seek the Lord yet in publick affliction we are specially invited thereto as it is written of Iehoshaphat when a great multitude came to invade him He set his Face to seek the Lord and called the people to a solemn fast So the Church professeth in the Prophet Isaiah In the way of thy Iudgments Lord we have waited for thee the desire of our Soul is to thy Name and to the remembrance of thee With my Soul have I desired thee in the Night yea with my Spirit within me will I seek thee early In this publick Calamity therefore it is our duty to turn to him that smiteth us and to humble our selves under his mighty Hand to conceive a reverend and Religious fear towards him that only by turning away his countenance can thus trouble us against that of Man which can do no more but kill the Body Again to renew our love to our heavenly Father that now offereth himself to us as to Children and to give a proof of that Love that we bear to our Saviour in the keeping of his Sayings hating in comparison of him and competition with him Father Mother Children Goods and Life it self which is the condition and proof of his Disciples and above all to receive and to re-inforce our Faith and Affiance which is now brought unto the tryal of the fiery Furnace and of the Lions Den O that it might be found to our honour praise and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. In the mean space even now let us be partakers of Christ's Sufferings and hear him from Heaven encouraging us Be thou faithful unto Death and I will give thee a Crown of Life Touching Prayer we have this gracious invitation Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will hear thee the example of all Gods Saints and of our Saviour in his agony to this belong the humble confession of our Sins with earnest request of Pardon the complaint of our Misery and danger with request of succour and protection we have besides the intercession of our Advocate with the Father the cry of the innocent Blood that hath been cruelly shed and the Lords own interesting himself in the cause so as we may say with the Psalmist Arise O God plead thine own cause remember how the foolish Man yea the Man of Sin reproacheth thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the tumult of those that rise against thee encreaseth continually That Psalm and many others as the 6 13 35 43 71 74 79 80 88 92 94 102 115 123 130 140 142. do give Precedents of Prayers in such times as these and the Prayer of Daniel and Ezra 9. of Asa and Iehoshaphat 2 Chron. 14. and 26.12 The Stories of David's flight before Absolom and Iehoshaphat's behaviour when the Enemies came against him of Hezekiah's in Sennacherib's Invasion Isa. 37. and the whole book of Esther are fit Scriptures now to be read that through the patience and comfort of them we might have hope Now because we know not how soon we may be called to sanctifie God's name by making profession thereof you may perhaps desire to know what to say in that day You may openly profess your not doubting of any Article of the Catholick Faith shortly laid down in the Creed or more largely laid down in the Holy Scriptures but that you consent not to certain Opinions which are no points of Faith which have been brought into common belief without warrant of Scriptures or pure Antiquity as Namely That it is of necessity to Salvation to be under the Pope That the Scriptures ought not to be read of the common people That the Doctrine of Holy Scripture is not sufficient to Salvation That the Service of God ought to be in a Language not understood of the people That

East in Asia now of the South in Africk And he was in as ill conceit with Cyprian for his breaking good order and communicating with Basilides and Martialis justly deprived in Spain as Saint Cyprian was with him when he stiled him a false Christ and a false Apostle But that holy Martyr was of a more patient and calm spirit than to be moved with such reproaches nay he took occasion as it should seem thereby to write of patience From this mildness it was that he so closely taxed the presumption of him that made himself Bishop of Bishops and by terror which what it was Firmilianus's Epistle shews threatning Excommunication would compel his Colleagues to his own opinion None of us saith he doth thus As the Apostle we preach not our selves we commend not our selves We are not as many that adulterate the Word of God c. Bellarmine takes the first kindly No marvel saith he for this is the Bishop of Rome's due But they go together he must be content to take both or leave both Such another place there is in Saint Augustine Epist. 86. the words are Petrus etiam inquit Apostolorum Caput coeli janitor Ecclesiae fundamentum Where in the Margent the Divines of Lovaine the overseers of Plantines edition set this note Petrus Ecclesiae fundamentum Why might they not The words ye will say of the Text. But these words of the text be not Saint Augustines whose opinion is well enough known That it is Christ confessed by Peter that is the foundation of the Church but they are the words of an undiscreet railer of the City of Rome against whom Saint Augustine in all that Epistle most vehemently inveighs This arrogant Author endeavours so to defend the Roman custome of fasting on the Saturday as he reproaches all other Churches that used otherwise And that we may see with what Spirit he was led he brings the same text that is brought in Pope Siricius and Innocentius's Epistles against the marriage of Clergy-men Qui in carne sunt Deo placere non possunt and many other Scriptures wrested and far from the purpose at last comes the authority of Peter and his tradition very Pope-like alledged Peter he saith the head of the Apostles porter of heaven and foundation of the Church having overcome Simon the Sorcerer who was a figure of the Devil not to be overcome but by fasting thus taught the Romans whose faith is famous in the whole world I remit you to Saint Augustine's answer to this tradition This I note that where your Censors do rase out of the Margents of former editions such notes as do express the very opinions of the Ancients and in their own words here they can allow and authorize such marginal notes as are directly contrary to their meaning Yea which are earnestly oppugned by them when they seem to make for the authority of the Pope Good sir examine well this dealing and judge if this be not wresting the Fathers and applying them clean from their purpose In fine you found your self you say evidently convinced Perswaded I believe rather than convinced Else if the force and evidence of the Arguments and not the pliableness of your mind were the cause of your yielding methinks they should work like effect in others no less seriously seeking for truth and setting all worldly respects aside earnestly minding their own salvation than your self Which I well know they do not neither those which hitherto have been examined nor those which yet remain to be considered in the rereward CHAP. VIII Of the Invisibility of the Church said to be an evasion of Protestants THE first whereof is the dislike of the Protestants evasion as you call it by the invisibility of their Church Give me leave here to tell you plainly ye seem to me not to understand the Protestants doctrine in this point Else ye would have spared all that The Catholick Church must ever be visible as a City set on a hill otherwise how should she teach her children convert Pagans dispense Sacraments All this is yielded with both hands The Congregations of which the Catholick Church doth consist are visible But the promise made to this Church of victory against the gates of Hell the titles of the house of God the base and pillar of Truth an allusion as I take it to the bases and pillars that held up the veil or curtains in the Tabernacle the body of Christ his Dove his undefiled are not verified of this Church in the whole visible bulk of it but in those that are called according to Gods purpose given to Christ and kept by him to be raised up to life at the last day This doctrine is Saint Augustine's in many places which it would be too tedious to set down at large In his third book De doctrina Christiana among the rules of Tychonius there is one which he corrects a little for the terms De Domini corpore bipartito which he saith ought not to have been called so for in truth that is not the Lords body which shall not be with him for ever but he should have said of the Lords true body and mixt or true and feigned or some such thing Because not only for ever but even now hypocrites are not to be said to be with him though they seem to be in his Church Consider those resemblances taken out of the holy Scripture wherein that godly Father is frequent of chaff and wheat in the Lords floor of good and bad fishes in the net of spots and light in the Moon Of the Church carnal and spiritual of the wicked multitudes of the Church yet not to be accounted in the Church Of the Lilly and the Thorns those that are marked which mourn for the sins of Gods people and the rest which perish which yet bear his Sacraments Consider the last Chapter of the book De Vnitate Ecclesiae and that large Treatise which he hath of that matter Epist. 48. The place is long which deserves to be read for the objection of the Universality of Arianisme like to that of Papisme in these last ages which Saint Augustine answers in the fifth book De Baptismo contra Donatistas cap. 27. That number of the just who are called according to Gods purpose of whom it is said The Lord knoweth who are his is the inclosed garden the sealed fountain the well of living waters the orchard with Apples c. The like he hath l. 5. c. 3. 23. he concludes that because such are built upon the Rock as hear the Word of God and do it and the rest upon the sand now the Church is built upon the Rock all therefore that hear the Word of God and do it not are out of question without the Church In the seventh book cap. 51. Quibus omnibus consideratis Read and mark the whole Chapter Out of these and many more like places which I forbear to mention it appears that albeit