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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69606	The life of Dr. Thomas Morton, late Bishop of Duresme begun by R.B. secretary to his Lordship ; and finished by J.N., D.D., his Lordship's chaplain.	R. B. (Richard Baddeley); Naylor, Joseph.; Nelson, Joseph.	1669 (1669)	Wing B382B; ESTC R37053	34,218	206

then re●ided Dr. Overall his reve●end friend being Deane there At which time he was sought out and acquainted with that truely noble and bountiful Knight Sir George Morton of Dorcetshire his faithfull friend and Couzin descended of the most venerable Family of Arch Bishop Morton who was in his time famous for the happy uniting of the two Royall Houses of York and Lancaster Neer unto this year 1609. 1609. Dr. Sntcliffe the Dean of Exceter begun the founding of a College neer Chelsey in Middlesex which was to consist of a certain number of Fellows to be imployed chiefly for the answering of such Books as the Popish Priests should disperse for the impugning of the Orthodox and true Religion established in the Church of England Of which Fellows the first named were Dr. John Overall Dean of St. Pauls London Dr. Thomas Morton Dean of Winton Dr. Richard Field Dean of Gloucester c. with other learned and religious Divines Which College was to be indowed by his Majesty with good Lands in Chelsey then in reversion after a few years and with four● Farmes in Devon which Dr. Sutcliffe gave to the value of 300 li. per Annum besides other indowments conferred thereupon by the said Dean Sutcliffe for that Religious use Yet for the advancement of that pious work it was further held necessary to obtain His Majesties gracious favour for the deriving and conducting of a Streame of Water forth of the River of Lee unto the Easterne Parts of the City of London for the behoof of the Inhabitants there dwelling and for the benefit and furtherance of that pious worke Whereupon those Fellows agreed on Dr. Morton to make a Latine Oration to His Majesty * Wherein among other things as I remember he alluded unto that ●lace Gen. 1. Quando Deus sundavit terram super aquas which he performed at Theobalds in the Privie Chamber there Which Speech being ended to Hi● Majesties great content he was graciously pleased to grant their most humble request rising up from his Chaire he openly declared That that College should go● forwards c. such then was the Judgement and resolution of that pious and judicious King Neer unto this season 1610 Anno 1610. was held the Convocation at St. Pauls London of the chief Divines in the Province of Canterbury when and where Deane Morton was chosen to Preach the Concio ad Clerum in St. Pauls Church whose Text was Mat. 15. 13. Vos estis salterrae by the Preaching whereof he obtained such favour and estimation that the Proloeutors place in the ensuing Synod was by common suffrage cast upon him But he modestly declined it on purpose that a reverend friend of his might be adorned with that dignity And about the same time there was a great fear fell upon the Inhabitants dwelling under the South side of the Cathedrall Church of St. Paul● London which was to be repaired à fundamentis and that therefore upon King James his command all their houses were to be pulled down from the East unto the West end of the said Church which motion did so amaze and terrifie the Trunk makers other Tradesmen whose mee● lively-hood consisted in their Trades and Houses that in that wofull case they repaired unto Dea● Morton then lodging in the Deanary of St. Pauls and earnestly besought him to take their lamentable condition into his Christian thoughts and to be a means unto His Majesty to revers that wofull doome Whereupon the Dean took the boldness on him to address a Letter to His sacred Majesty wherein he most humbly beseeched Him to take their miserable estates into His Majesties most pious and Princely consideration who were the living Temples of the holy Ghost What effect that Letter took I know not this I am assured of that those Houses stood unmoved yet the repairs of that Cathedrall advanced untill the late irreparable fire Anno Dom. 1665. which destroyed and consumed that ancient City of Londdon together with that venerable Pile the Cathedrall Church there A little before this time came out of France that lampe of learning both divine and humane Monsieur Isaac Causabon who at his first arrivall was lodged in the Deanary of St. Paule where Dean Morton then sojourned with whom was contracted that firm friendship and community of Studies betwixt him and Dean Morton which during life was never interrupted This Phoenix of learning being after deceased his true friend Dr. Morton being then Bishop of Duresme did at his own charge in memory of one so dear learned and loving a friend erect that Marble Monument over his place of Sepulture in the South Isle of St. Peters Church in Westminster with Verses thereon affixed on the Tombe which were composed by Dr. Thomas Goad that most learned and famous Divine And here I must make mention of Dr. Abrahamus Scultetus who Anno Dom. 1612. came in to England Chaplaine to the most Illustrious Prince and Palsgrave Frederick Elector and also Monsieur Deodati the learned Professor of Divinity at Genevah and Mousieur Peter du Mouline that famous Preacher and Writer whom His Majesty made Canon of Canterbury with sundry others who much rejoyced in Dean● Morton's acquaintance betwixt whom was maintained a friendly correspondence during life respectively About this time by King James his appointment Dr. Morton answered a book which was Written by Cardinall Bellarmine dedicated to the Prince of Poland and Intituled De Officio Principis Christiani which Answer Dean Morton dedicated to our most noble Prince Charles Intituled Causa Regia and for the Princes use it was consigned into the hands of Mr. Murray his Highness Tutor who promised it should be the Princes Taske to reade over in then ensuing progress During the time of his continuance in this Deanary of Winton he was amongst many others most intimate with and beloved of Dr. Arthur Lake Master of St. Crosse neer Winchester a reverend and religious Divine afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells Dr. John Harmar the learned Warden of Winchester College Dr. Nicholas Love then Schoolmaster after Warden there and other worthy Divines At his comming from Winton he Preached a Sermon in the Preached a Sermon in the Cathedrall Church there when he took his leave of that Learned and Pious Assembly upon those words of Samuel 1 S● 12. 3. Whose Oxe have I taken or whose Asse have I taken or whom have I defrauded whom have I oppressed or o●● whose hand have I taken any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith And having now continued about nine year● Dean of Winton it pleased His sacred Majesty to make choice of him to Govern● the See and Bishoprick o● Chester Anno Dom. 1610. being at that time much infested by perverse Non-conformist● Ministers Bu● this designation and nomination of him came by a● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he called i● in a Letter which he wri● to one he then favoured in these very words I see it hath pleased

defiling of their Virgins the Plundering of their houses of whatsoever was either for profit or pleasure These he confessed were great Temptations neither did he know how to rest his perplexed soule but onely by admiring adoring and approving Gods Righteous Judgements condoling and condemning their own wickedness Sed supra haec omnia malè eum habuit c. Above and beyond all these was the sad reflection and cutting consideration that after he had by Forty years continuall Preaching and Writing happily quashed and sopited so many blasphemous and damnable Heresies as had long infested and infected Gods Church He feared a resurrection of them all again and that a Sluce and inlett would be opened for their re-entry and tolleration In that regard he desired much rather to be dissolved then to live and to behold the extermination of Gods true Religion and the introduction of a great many false ones And this even this in these unhappy times was the case and condition of this our learned laborious and Orthodox Prelate who of all those Iliads of evills and mountains of miseries which have fallen upon these fate-blasted and starstricken Kingdoms esteemed none equall nor any whit comparable to their spirituall infatuation their being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stricken by God with a vertibility and vertigo in Religion none of all Gods Judgements not Sword not Plague not Famine no nor all put together being of equall consideration with the extirpation or suppression of the true Religion together with an indulgence and tolleration of false where every man is left like another Micah and may Judge● 17. 5. without impunity make unto himselfe both Gods and Priests nay Religions and Worships as many or as meane or cheape as himself pleaseth We know that an English-man in former times was wont to be drawn beyond Seas by way of a jeare to shew his inconstancy and sickleness in his apparrell with a bundle of Cloth upon the one Shoulder and a payre of Taylors Sheares hanging on the other to cut out a new fashion for himselfe every moneth or week as his fancy should leade him for the clothing and apparrelling of his body But now alas he may be Pictured more scornfully and yet God knows more properly and truely in respect to his Religion which is or ought to be the apparell of the soule with a sheet of blanck Paper in the one hand and a Pen full of Inke in the other to Write every day what Religion he most fantieth Papist or Protestant Presbyterian or Independent Quaker or Dipper Arrian or ●theist Anabaptist or Adamite or what is most in fashion or sway with the times These wretched times having dealt with that quondam darling of Heaven the truely so called Protestant Religion as many hot-spuris and importunate Suitors dealt Plutarch with a faire but unfortunate Lady because she was so faire for because no one of them could engross or enjoy her wholly to himself they most barbarously resolved to cut her in pieces and to enjoy her peice meale amongst them And thus even thus have the Schismaticks and Sectaries of these broken times handled the Orthodox Protestant Religion and her chiefest nourcing Mother the Church of England not long since the glory or envy now the scorne of all her neighbour Sisters they having sliced and slit her into so many Sects Heresies and Schismes as there are Points in the Compass or Moons in the Year that so they may have as Saint Hilary said the Arians had their Menstruam fidem their Monethly R●ligion and in conclusion none at all For as among the Heathens the plurality of Deities and making of many Gods did marr the true one so among Christians the multiplication of many Religions will be found in the end the ready way to destroy all Religion and e●e men are well aware to huisher in Atheisme and pro●anation And this was indeed that great and cheife sit-fast that did peirce and perplex our Orthodox Prelates righteous soule to see the regularly yea and why not compleatly reformed English Church whose Doctrine and Discipline he had vindicated and defended both by Preaching Conference and Writing against the Papist and Pu●itan and other Sectaries by the space of sixty odd years together to see her expire and breath out her last and that not without as much infamy and disgrace as some of her unnaturall brats could possibly lay upon her And for a close of all her miseries to behold her dead Corps tantum-non buried as Jehoakin's was with the buriall of an Asse Sepulturd insepulta as Tully termes it this this was in truth the very Cordolium which did sting him to the quick For as the externall and adventitious accruments wherewith some former pious Princes have nobly and royally endowed and enriched the Church others less pious or rather impious had ignobly dispoiled her of their Predecessors bounty And others again most pious and provident endeavoured the securing of what was left with the hazard of no less then their own ruine All which are demonstrations that the Churches Temporalties are no less then Anathema's things highly prized with all good men yet these compared with her Spiritualties that is the purity of Religion and Orthodox worship for the loss of the one is in no wise comparable to the loss of the other the dilacerations and distractions of the Church by Heresies and Schismes in her Spiritualls much more discomposed and divided the meek spirit of this holy man then did the devastation of all his own Temporalls though they not mean ones by Plunder and Sequestration And of the truth of this I can give a signall testification upon my own knowledge For when he was advertized at Durham house in the Strand London by a Member of Parliament old Sir H. V. that the saile of Bishops Lands as well as Deans and Chapters was that day resolved and concluded by both Houses and was therefore advised by that Gent ' to Petition in due time for his livelihood to be granted unto him some other way then by that 800. per Annum formerly Voted unto him which yet all he never enjoyed how did he behave himselfe upon this no welcome information did he be wray any discomposure or passionate perturbation did he like good old Eli upon the sudden news of the Arks Captivity and the sudden departure of the Glory from Israel did he sink or fall down and suffer a totall deliquium of Spirit No I my self can witness he did not but like that invincible man of Vz who had not his paralell on the face of the earth like that hëroick and heavenly Soule he gathered up his spirit in dispite of that cutting and affl●ctive message and with heart and hand and eyes lift up to Heaven he three times repeated that Seraphicall ejaculation of holy Job The Lord hath given and the hath taken away The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away