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A26728	Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ...	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1008; ESTC R16054	101,636	192

adoration this day and from henceforth for ever more Amen Amen Amen A SUMMARIE ACCOUNT OF THE HOLY LIFE AND HAPPY DEATH Of the Right Reverend Father in God THOMAS LATE LORD BISHOP of DURESEME Added as a supplement to the Sermon preached at his Funerall By the same Author Eccles 7 1. A good name is better then precious Ointment and the day of Death then the day of ones Birth Claudian Antiquos Evolve duces assursce futurae Militiae LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane 1660. The LIFE and DEATH OF THOMAS Lord BISHOP OF DURESME The Preface 1. AS the death of Gods Saints is precious in the sight of the Lord So will the memoriall of their lives also be in the hearing of all that are really his people And of all his Saints none can be more precious to him nor should be to us Then those that are most peculiarly honored with that title by the spirit of God in holy Scripture Those that are by him called unto and imployed in some holy office as well as qualified with Sanctifying grace like Aron who was Gods high Priest and for that reason is emphatically stiled the Saint of the Lord. 2. If there had not been something that is sacred in the office of a Bishop even as it is distinct from the order of Priest-hood the generall councell of Chalcedon could not as we know it did have adjudged it Sacrilege to take down a Bishop to the degree of a Priest And whatsoever that was it was in this person over and above his sanctity of life and sacredness of his other inferiour orders of Ministery in the Church And therefore I may represent this reverend Bishop to the world as a Saint or holy person for his Calling as well as for his life without any prejudice to the truth and thereby oppose that current of Sacrilege which some of late yeares hath much improved who will not allow him the title of a Saint nor none else that is not of their own sect or faction I have already upon another occasion made some short essay of it and this is only to supply what the largeness of the subject and shortness of the time would not then permit me to speak 3. And in this I must disclaim all thoughts of by ends or any other designe then only by asserting the truth to be just to him and charitable to others That neither his enemies may wrong his good name nor his friends want some small preservation of his memory Nor both of them the benefit of his good example 4. I know his charity while he lived had a speciall eye upon his enemies and so shall mine have now he is dead in convincing them also as far as I am able of their great injustice as well as uncharitableness against him and the rest of his Reverend Brethren in vilifying their persons and contemning their sacred function to the high displeasure of Almighty God the great scandal of Christian Religion and the extream hazard of the Church of England by opening so wide a gap to Schisme and Heresy and even Athesme it self 5. How those that so zealously affect the exterpation of Episcopacy can arrogate to themselves the title either of Christians or Protestants is a thing that may justly be questioned seeing Bishops were planted in the Church together with Christianity even by the Apostles themselves as is evident from the concurrent suffrages of all antiquity And that the first Protestants from whom all the rest derive that title did clearly profess in their confession of Auspurgh their willingness to submit to their Bishops even of the Romish Church provided they would not impose upon them such new and unjust burthens as had not been received by the custome of the Catholick Church Which none of our present English Bishops ever did but the quite contrary was objected against them for their greatest crime 6. I know that many of the seduced people have repented of these errours already and I hope the rest may be brought to repentance when they see what persons they were both for life and learning who sustained the office of Bishops at that time when the cunning and malice of the Divell did so unjustly incense the rude multitude against them I shall confine my self to this one instance leaving the rest for others as occasion shall require who was in as great an hazard of his life in one of those tumults as any and yet there was as little objected against him by those that raised them as against any of the rest 7. And in what I say of him I shall keep my self to the exact rule of truth both for his sake and my own and the Readers and the end I cheifly aime at without either flattering his memory or omitting those passages of his life which may cheifly qualify his example for our imitation Only I must beg my Readers pardon if the length of his life and multitude of his imployments and greatness of his learning and christian concealement of much of his piety necessitate me to omit many things I could not learn and pass over somethings I know and fall much below his merit in what I relate for brevities sake 8. Having premised thus much I presume the Reader will expect no Panegyrick but only a bare and that also a short narrative of his life for the information of posterity and conviction of his enemies rather then for any solace to his friends who could not but know him well enough seeing he was a burning and shining light for so great a number of yeares here amongst us And what I say shall for methods sake be reduced to these three heads 1. A plain Narrative of the principall passages in his Life 2. A breif Catalogue of his works 3. A short Character of his person and Qualities CHAP. I. A plain Narrative of the principall passages of his Life 1. HIs Coat armour and pedigree will shew him to be of the same Originall and Stock with that eminent prelate and wise states man John Morton Bishop of Elie and Lord Chancellor of England afterward Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Cardinall by whose contrivance and management the too Houses of York and Lancaster were united Whereby that issue of blood was stopped which had so long and plentifully flowed within the bowells of this our Native Country And from hence the judicious Reader will conclude his Ancesters could not be obscure at lest since this Cardinals time for such persons as he was seldom left their kindred without some considerable preferments If I were so good an Herald as to trace up his pedigree to those times it is possible it would reach to Thomas or John Morton whom the Cardinall made his Heires as being Sones to two of his Brothers Sure I am that Sir Thomas Morton of Dorsetshire who reckoned his descent from one of them sought him out and acknowledged his kindred and desired his

in this Diocess and the small revenue of the Bishoprick and the great necessity there was of advancing Charity and maintaining Hospitality especially in that place where good House-keeping is so much valued and practised moved King James to bestow upon him the Rectory of Stopford by way of Commendam for the better support of his charge and dignity which he held during the time he was Bishop of this See and where his name and memory is still precious among such of the parishoners as are of years sufficient to remember his being among them 54. In the year 1617. the See of Leichfield and Coventry became void by the translation of his old friend that learned prelate Dr. Overall above mentioned to the Bishoprick of Norwich To supply which vacancy the King was pleased to have this reverend Bishop translated thither the year after at the motion of that great pattern of Episcopall perfection Dr. Andrewes above mentioned then Bishop of Elie who was never known to do the like for any other and yet did this without his seeking or knowledge that he might have him his nearer Neighbour as he said and of the same province with himself His Tarnslation beareth date Mar. 6 1618. 55. And here his trouble was not so great as at Chester though his Diocess was larger because the common sort of people for the most part were better principled by the care and vigilancy of his predecessour But yet he abated nothing of his former paines and industry both in Writing Preaching and Conferring with those that were not wilfully obstinat beside his ordinary vigilancie in Visiting his Diocess and care in Confirming such children as could give an account of their Faith It would be too large a task for me to relate the particulars 56. About the time he was translated to this See there came over into England that very learned though unfortunate man Marcus Antonius de Dominis Arch-Bishop of Spalato primat of Dalmatia c. Which as he was wont to glory was S● Hieroms Native Country as well as his This great Scholar after he had so profoundly asserted the truth of Christian religion as it is professed and practised in the Church of England in so many particulars against the errours and corruptions of the See of Rome in his learned and laborious Books De Republica Ecclesiastica and had also from the Kings bounty received so great incouragements for his honourable support as the Deanary of Windsour and Mastership of the Savoy besides many rich and yearly presents not only from the Bishops and Clergy but also from the Nobility and Gentery was so far wrought upon by that great Politition count Gondamar the Spanish Embassador then in England and other instruments of the See of Rome that sought his ruin under some specious pretences as to take up a resolution of returning to Rome and could not be disswaded from it by his true friends that really endeavoured his security Among whom this Reverend Bishop was neither the least nor last who very earnestly advised him both by word and writing not to venture himself upon such a hopeless and hassardous journey 57. The Arch-Bishops pretence was very plausible and commendable and how reall he was in it must be left to God namely to Negotiat an unity in Religion between the Church of Rome and the Church of England upon those moderate grounds which he had laid down and so well defended in his learned and laborious works printed here at London He applauded himself in the excellency of the work in removing the Schisme and of the honour in becoming a Repairer of the breach and of the reward which is promised to the Peacemakers And he thought himself the more likely to go through with his work by reason of the seasonable opportunity he had at that time when Gregory the fiftenth was newly chosen Pope who had been of his old and intimate acquaintance brought up in the same Schole and College with him And however he was resolved to make an attempt because if he failled in it he hoped he should lose nothing but his labour For as for his Indemnity count Gondamar had promised him the security of the King of Spain his Master But how well that promise was performed will appear by the sequel 58. While he was swelled up full with this promise and these hopes the Bishop of Leichfeild and Coventry coming to visit him had this insuing discourse with him among many others which I have often heard him repeat with pleasure and shall therefore insert it and the rather because it shewes us of how little authority the Councell of Trent would be if it were not for the terrour of the Inquisition Leichf Domine quid tibi in animo est Anne convertere Papam Atque etiam conclave papale Spal Quid ni domine Anne existimas eos diabolos esse ut non possint converti Leichf Minime domine nec puto dominum Spalatensem deum esse ut hoc possit prestare Nostin enim concilium Tridientinum Spal Novi domine ausus sum tibi dicere Millies mille sunt etiam in Italia qui huic concillo fidem nullam adhibent 59. This discourse and many other too extrinsecall here to mention having passed between them they parted friendly And not long after did this Bishop reinforce his arguments with an addition of many more in a long and learned Epistle to him Wherein among other motives to dissvade him from his journey he used one wherein he shewed himself a true prophet concerning the entertainment he was like to find at Rome Which proved to be that before he got to Rome Pope Gregorie the fiftenth his old friend was dead and a successour chosen in his place by whom this Arch-Bishop was imprisoned in Castro St. Angelo Where he died not without strong suspicion of Murder or Poyson And his body was afterward burnt as of an Heretick in Campo Flori. 60. I could here start a problematicall question concerning this learned Arch-Bishop Whether or no did he ever retract his works which he published in Print If he did why did they at Rome burn his body for Heresie If not then they abused him in his life time as well as after his death in the Manifesto which they put forth in his name which was so learnedly answered by Dr. Crakanthorp There is but one way of avoiding this Dilemma and that will bring them into a greater strait then either of the other namely that they burnt him after his death for what he retracted in his life time and if they own this they must withall proclaime their injustice and cruelty to the world Let them take it in which sence they will his reasons and arguments laid down and urged in his learned works will more condemne their cause then the altering of his opinion supposing but not granting that he ever altered it can tend to their advantage His many clear and convincing Authorityes from the Holy Scriptures

Vicarage is not sufficiently endowed as any Bishop might formerly have done while Abbies Priories and other Religious houses were in being 72. Having thus fully informed himself of his just power in a matter of so high concerment for the advancement of Christian religion and the good of souls he resolved to put it in practise as far as God should enable him and trust him with the event though he knew it would be a matter of no small difficulty to revive a matter of that nature that had laid buried in the rubbish of religious houses ever since their dissolution And because he was willing to shew his own good example as well as his power he began as charity directed him at home with the parish of Bishop-Aukland so called from one of his houses the Castle there wherein there then was and great pity it is not still a Chappel inferiour to none of any Prince in Christendome here he augmented the stipend of the Mother Church from 16. pound per annum to fourscore and the Chappels belonging to it from about six pounds per annum to thirty intending to extend the like Episcopal care in some proportion over all the rest of his Diocess But this being such a fatal blow to the Prince of darkness was not like to take the wished effect in the middest of this crooked and perverse generation And therefore it is no wonder so pious a work should become abortive by the Scotch invasion which then immediately followed and after that the rest of those troubles and desolations which have given such a mortal wound to a glorious Kingdom and a flourishing Church as makes our friends pity our miserie and our enemies rejoyce at our folly 73. I cannot acknowledge any digression in all this seeing it is one of the principal passages of his life and such an Heroical action as I could not possibly omit it But if any shall accuse me of a voluntary digression in what now followes I shall freely confess the fact and submit to the Readers pardon I know I am here engaged in a Paradox as that word is taken in the proper sense for a truth not commonly taken notice of but that might pass well enough if it were not that I have stretched so far beyond my own last and intrenched upon the noble profession of the Law in a point which self-interest and prepossession hath rendered very ticklish Only this I have to plead for my self that what I say here is no more then a bare report of a matter of fact and I am the more imboldened to report it because I find it so consonant to what that learned and judicious Antiquary Sir Henry Spelman hath delivered as the Law of England in this very case I am as unwilling to put a fallacy upon the Reader as to conceal the truth and therefore though I take the liberty to digress a little I shall set down his own words so far as they concern the point in hand and that also with his own Apologie and Submission to the learned Masters of the Law that I do it not asserendo docere sed disserendo quaerere 74. The appropriation of a Parsonage saith this excellent Author was no more at first but a grant made by the Pope to an Abbat Prior Prebendary or some other spiritual person being a body politick and successive that he and his successours might for ever be Parsons of that Church that is that as one of them dyed another might enter into the Rectory and take the fruits and profits thereof without further trouble of Admission Institution or Induction 75. But shortly after Deans and Chapters obtained like Licenses to them and their successours who being a body Corporate consisting of a multitude could not joyntly perform this function and in particular none of them was tyed unto it Then was devised that by their common Seal which is the tongue of their Corporation they might appoint a Deputy or Vicar to do it for them which invention gave the wound unto the Church whereof it bleedeth at this day c. 76. By this window crept the Vicars into the Church who for the most part were some of the Monastery whereunto the Appropriation belonged till the Statute of 4. H. 4. cap. 12. provided that in every Church so appropriate a secular person viz. a Priest that was not a Monck be ordained Vicar perpetual Canonically institute and induct in the same and COVENABLY INDOWED BY THE DISCRETION OF THE ORDINARY to do divine service and to inform the people and to keep Hospitality there and that no religious that is none that was a Monck professed of any religious Order be in any wise made Vicars in any Church so appropriate c. 77. Thus came Vicars to get a lock out of the Parsons fleece But yet notwithstanding they were thus indued before this Statute for in a Synod holden at _____ for the Province of Canterbury Anno 1222. cap. 18. it was ordained that less should not be assigned to a perpetual Vicar then five marks a year in Rent which in the proportion that the rents of that time hold to this cannot be less then thirty or forty pounds a year c. 78. It appeareth by that which is afore shewed and the circumstances thereof as this learned Author goes on that the appropriating of a Parsonage or the endowing of a Vicarage out of it do not cut the Parsonage from the Church or make it Temporal but leaveth it still spiritual as well in the eye of the Common Law as of the Canon Law For if it became Temporal by the Appropriation then were it within the Statute of Mortmain and forfeited by that very Act. But it is agreed by the 21. Ed. 3. fol. 5. and in Plowd Com. fo 499. that it is not Mortmain and therefore doth continue spiritual For which cause also the Ordinary and Ecclesiastical officers must have still the same authority over such appropriate Churches as they had before those Churches were Appropriate Therefore in the year 1252. Robert Bishop of Lincoln by Commission from Innocent 4. not only enlarged the endowments that before were made to divers Vicarages as he thought good but endowed others out of those Appropriations which had no Vicarages endowed to the great discontentment of all the Approprietaries of that time as appeareth by Matthew Paris And therefore also the Statute of 15. R. 2. cap. 6. and that of 4. H. 4. cap. 12. that ordained that in Licences of Appropriation in the Chancery it should be contained that the Bishop of the Diocess in EVERY CHURCH so Appropriated should PROVIDE BY HIS DISCRETION that the VICAR were COVENABLY ENDOWED divine service performed and a CONVENIENT PROPORTION of the fruits thereof yearly DISTRIBUTED to the POOR of the Parish did but agnise and affirm the spiritual end whereunto these Parsonages were appropriated and the authority the Church had still over them notwithstanding