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A30956	A remembrancer of excellent men ...; Remembrancer of excellent men	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1670 (1670)	Wing B806; ESTC R17123	46,147	158

Manners and Learning of other Nations that they might thereby become the more serviceable unto their own made to put off their Gowns and leave Mr. Hooker to his Colledge and private Studies 10. Thus he continued his Studies in all quietness for the space of three or more years about which time he entred into Sacred Orders and was made Deacon and Priest and not long after in obedience to the Colledge Statutes being to Preach at St. Pauls Cross London to London he came to the Shunamites house a house so called for that beside the Stipend paid the Preacher there is provision made for his Lodging and Diet two days before and one day after his Sermon but to this house Mr. Hooker came so wet so weary and weather-beaten that hardly with much diligent attendance was he enabled to perform the office of the day which was in or about the year 1581. 11. An. 1584. Decemb. 9. he was presented by John Cheney Esquire to a Country Parsonage which was Draiton-Beauchamp in Buckinghamshire not far from Alesbury and in the Diocess of Lincoln where he continued about a year in which time his two Pupils Edwin Sandys and George Cranmer were returned from Travel and took a Journey to see their Tutor where they found him with a Book in his hand it was the Odes of Horace being then tending his small allotment of Sheep in a common field which he told his Pupils he was forced to do for that his Servant was gone home to dine and assist his Wife to do some necessary houshold business When his Servant returned and released him his two Pupils attended him to his house where their best entertainment was his Company and having stayed till next morning which was time enough to discover and pity their Tutors condition and having given him as much present comfort as they were able they return to London Then Edwin Sandys acquaints his Father of his Tutors sad case and solicits for his removal to some Benefice that might give him a more comfortable subsistence 12. Not long after Mr. Alvie Master of the Temple died a man of strict Life of great Learning and of so venerable behaviour as to gain such a degree of Love and Reverence from all men that he was generally known by the name of Father Alvie into whose place Bishop Sandys commended Hooker with such effectual earnestness and so many testimonies of his worth that he was sent for to London and there the place was proposed to him by the Bishop as a greater freedom from cares and the advantage of a better Society a more liberal Pension than his Country Parsonage did afford him and at last notwithstanding his averseness he was perswaded to accept of the Bishops proposal being by Patent for life made Master of the Temple March An. 1585. 13. Mr. Walter Travers was Lecturer at the Temple for the Evening Sermons a man of competent Learning of a winning Behaviour and a blameless Life but ordained by the Presbytery in Antwerp He had hope to set up the Geneva Government in the Temple and to that end used his endeavours to be Master of it and his being disappointed by Mr. Hookers admittance proved some occasion of opposition betwixt them in their Sermons Many of which were concerning the Doctrine Discipline and Ceremonies of this Church insomuch that as one hath pleasantly express'd it The Forenoon Sermon spake Canterbury and the Afternoon Geneva 14. The oppositions became so visible and the Consequences so dangerous especially in that place that the prudent Archbishop put a stop to Mr. Travers his Preaching by a positive Prohibition Mr. Travers appeals and Petitions her Majesty and the Privy Council to have it recalled but in vain For the Queen had entrusted the Archbishop with all Church Power Hereupon the party intending the Archbishop's and Mr. Hooker's disgrace privately printed the Petition and scattered it abroad Now is Mr. Hooker forced to appear publickly and print an Answer to it which he did and it proved a full Answer writ with such clear Reason and so much Meekness and Majesty of Style that the Bishop began to wonder at the man to rejoyce that he had appeared in his cause and disdained not earnestly to beg his friendship even a familiar friendship with a man of so much quiet Learning and Humility 15. The Foundation of his eight Books of Ecclesiastical Politie was laid in the Temple but he found it no fit place to finish what he had there designed and therefore solicited the Archbishop for a remove saying When I lost the freedom of my Cell which was my Colledge yet I found some degree of it in my quiet Country Parsonage But I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place And indeed God and Nature did not intend me for Contentions but for Study and Quietness I have begun a work in which I intend the Justification of our Laws of Church Government and I shall never be able to finish it but where I may study and pray for Gods Blessings upon my Endeavours and keep my self in peace and privacy and behold Gods Blessing spring out of my Mother Earth and eat my own Bread without oppositions and therefore if your Grace can judge me worthy such a favour let me beg it that I may perfect what I have begun 16. About this time the Rectory of Boscum in the Diocess of Sarum and six miles from that City became void to which Mr. Hooker was presented in the vacancy of that Bishoprick by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 1591. And in the same year July 17. was he made a minor Prebend of Salisbury the Corps to it being Neather Havin about ten miles from that City which Prebend being of no great value was intended chiefly to make him capable of a better preserment in that Church In this Boscum he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed Books and these were publish'd with that large and affectionate Preface An. 1594. 17. The Parsonage of Bishops-Borne in Kent three miles from Canterbury is that Archbishops Gift In the latter end of the year 1594. Dr. William Redman the Rector of it was made Bishop of Norwich by which means the power of presenting to it was pro ea vice in the Queen And she presented Hooker whom she loved well to this good living of Borne July 7.1595 In which Living he continued till his death without any addition of dignity or profit His fifth Book of Eccl. Politie was Printed first by it self being larger than his first four and dedicated to his Patron Archbishop Whitgift An. 1597. 18. These Books were read with an admiration of their excellency in this and their just same spread it self into Forein Nations Dr. Stapleton having read the first four boasted to Pope Clement VIII That a poor obscure English Priest had writ four such Books of Laws and Church Politie and in a style that express'd so grave and such humble Majesty with

himself commemorating their Benefactors at the times their Statutes appointed and reading that Chapt. out of Ecclesiasticus which is on such occasions used In a Letter also of his to Archbishop Bancroft then in Dr. Crackanthorp's hands he professes himself conformable to the Church of England willingly and from his heart his Conscience admonishing him so to be And thus he remained perswaded to his last breath desiring to receive Absolution according to the manner prescribed in our Liturgy when he lay on his Death-bed Which he did from Dr. Holland the Kings Professor in Oxford kissing his hand in token of his love and joy and within a few hours after resigned up his Soul to God II. Mr. Richard Hooker From Mr. Isaac Walton 1. HIS Schoolmaster perswaded his Parents who intended him for a Prentice to continue him at School till he could find out some means by perswading his rich Uncle or some other charitable person to ease them of a part of their care and charge assuring them that their Son was so enriched with the Blessings of Nature and Grace that God seemed to single him out as a special Instrument of his Glory And the Good man whose name I am sorry I am not able to recover told them also that he would double his diligence in instructing him and would neither expect nor receive any other reward than the content of so happy an employment 2. His Parents and his Master laid a Foundation for his future happiness by instilling into his Soul the Seeds of Piety those conscientious Principles of loving and fearing God a Belief that he knows the very secrets of our Souls that he punisheth our Vices and rewards our Innocence that we should be free from Hypocrisie and appear to man what we are to God because first or last the crafty man is catch'd in his own snare These seeds of Piety were so seasonably planted and so continually watered with the dew of Gods blessed Spirit as hath made Richard Hooker honour'd in this and will continue him to be so to succeeding Generations An. 3. Eliz. John Hooker gave Bishop Jewell a Visit at Salisbury and besought him for Charity sake to look favourably upon a poor Nephew of his whom Nature had fitted for a Scholar but the estate of his Parents was so narrow that they were unable to give him the advantage of Learning and that the Bishop would therefore become his Patron and prevent him from being a Tradesman for he was a Boy of remarkable hopes The Bishop appointed the Boy and his Schoolmaster should attend him about Easter next following and then after some questions and observations of the Boy 's Gravity and Behaviour gave his Schoolmaster a reward and an annual Pension to his Parents promising also to take him into his Care 4. An. 1567. About the 14th year of his Age the Bishop commended Hooker to Dr. Cole President of C. C. Colledge who provided for him both a Tutor which was said to be John Reynolds and a Clerks place which though not a full maintenance yet with the Contribution of his Uncle and the continued Pension of his Patron the good Bishop it gave him a comfortable subsistence And in this condition he continued unto the 18th year of his Age still increasing in Learning and Prudence in Humility and Piety 5. About this time of his Age he fell into a dangerous Sickness which lasted two months all which time his Mother having notice of it did in her hourly Prayers as earnestly beg his life of God as the Mother of St. Augustin did that he might become a true Christian and their Prayers were both so heard as to be granted Which Mr. Hooker would often mention with much joy and as often pray That he might never live to occasion any sorrow to his good Mother whom he loved so dearly that he would endeavour to be good even as much for hers as for his own sake 6. As soon as he was perfectly recovered from this Sickness he took a Journey from Oxford to Exeter to satisfie and see his good Mother and by the way visited the good Bishop After his return to his Colledge came sad news of the death of his Learned and Charitable Patron But Dr. Cole raised his Spirits and bad him go chearfully to his Studies and assured him he should not want 7. A little before his death Bishop Jewell meeting with Bishop Sandys who had been his companion in exile began a story of his Hooker and in it gave such a Character of his Learning and manners that though Bishop Sandys was educated in Cambridge where he had obliged and had many Friends yet his Resolution was that his Son Edwin should be sent to Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford and by all means be Pupil to Mr. Hooker though his Son Edwin was then almost of the same Age. For said the Bishop I will have a Tutor for my Son that shall teach him Learning by Instruction and Virtue by example And doubtless as to these two a better choice could not be made For by great industry added to his great Reason He did not only know more but what he knew he knew better than other men And such was his pious behaviour that in four years he was but twice absent from the Chappel-Prayers and there he shewed an awful Reverence of that God which he worshipped He was never known to be angry or passionate or extreme in any of his desires never heard to repine or dispute with Providence but by a quiet gentle submission bore the burthen of the day with patience And when he took any liberty to be pleasant his wit was never blemish'd with Scoffing or the utterance of any conceit that bordered upon or might beget a thought of looseness in his hearers 8. In the 19th year of his Age Decemb 24. 1573. he was chosen to be one of the 20 Scholars of the Foundation And Feb. 23. 1576. his Grace was given him for Inceptor of Arts Dr. Herbert Westphaling a man of note for Learning being then Vice-chancellor The Act following he was compleated Master his Patron Doctor Cole being Vicechancellor that year and his dear Friend Mr. Henry Savil of Merton Colledge being then one of the Proctors That Savil which afterward founded two famous Lectures in the Mathematicks and enriched the world with that laborious and chargeable Edition of St. Chrysostomes Works in Greek 9. And in this year 1577. Mr. Hooker was chosen Fellow of the Colledge happy also in being the Contemporary and Friend of Dr. John Reynolds and of Dr. Spencer both which were after successively made Presidents of that Colledge men of great Learning and Merit and famous in their Generations Happy he was also in the Pupillage and Friendship of his Edwin Sandys after Sir Edwin Sandys known by his Speculum Europae and of George Cranmer the Great Archbishop and Martyr's grand Nephew a Gentleman of Singular hopes both whom a desire to know the Affairs and