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The life of the Reverend Anthony Horneck, D.D., late preacher at the Savoy by Richard Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.
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Kidder, Richard, 1633-1703.
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day he would sup with an Apple or two with a little Bread and small Ale or Milk-Water This he would receive with great thankfulness to God and great chearfulness among his Domesticks He was very thankfull to God for a Morsel of Bread and received the meanest Provision with the greatest expressions of Gratitude And yet when he entertained his Friends he did it liberally He was always least concerned for himself in these things He very much deny'd himself but to others he was liberal and open-handed and rather than the Poor should want Bread he would fast himself He led an Ascetick Life kept under his Body and with great industry advanced in Holiness and a Life that was spiritual and heavenly For his Contempt of this lower World he hath given sufficient proof He despised both the sides or appearances of it I mean the Smiles and Frowns of it It is well known that when he lived with the Duke of Albemarle he might very easily have made his Fortunes as we usually express it Had he made his Court he could not have sailed But instead of that he minded his charge and the duty of his place He minded the heavenly Kingdom and the doing good to Souls He would often speak very contemptibly of Riches and declare that the whole design of the Christian Doctrine tended to bring contempt upon Wealth and great Plenty He was of opinion that Riches were as a great man hath it impedimenta virtutis i. e. the impediments of virtue and that a man could never arrive to any great pitch of virtue but he must be aut pauper aut pauperi smilis i. e. either poor or like him that is poor as Seneca hath it He likewise despised the Frowns of the World He met with sore afflictions The loss of a considerable part of his worldly estate at once I reckon the least of them I do not remember that ever I heard him once complain but have often heard him give solemn thanks to God for his goodness Some of his Friends would sometimes speak their Resentment before him because he was not better preferred But he would never side with them he diverted the discourse or stopt it by saying I shall never want He was a most humble and heavenly Christian of great patience and resignation to the will of God a most mortified man to the World and to all the Glory and Pageantry of it He led an innocent and inoffensive and a most usefull Life He spent his hours well and lived many years in a preparation for Death and Judgment One thing must not be forgotten and that was his great Meekness under Obloquies and Reproaches his great exemplariness in forgiving Enemies It may perhaps be supposed that he had no Enemies and it will easily be granted that he could deserve none But they do not know this world that think innocence and usefulness will protect any man against Malice Envy and Ill-will Nulla unquam magna gloria sine magna fuit invidia Worthy actions will always be followed with Envy 'T is by Julius Celsus Jul. Celsus de vit J. Caesaris reported that when Alcibiades asked counsel of Socrates what course he should take to avoid Envy Socrates replied vive ut Thersites i. e. live like Thersites Had he lived a soft and trifling life he might have avoided it easily But he did his duty with great exactness and that was the occasion of Envy The old Monk that was asked by a young one how he might pass easily and quietly through the world told him as one rule that he should fungi officio taliter qualiter i. e. That he should not be exact in doing his duty but do it as we say so so The Doctor could not live like Thersites he could not do his Masters work negligently and as this drew many followers and admirers after him so it did Envy also The truth of the case is this His exemplary Life was a standing reproach upon those who were negligent and always trudging after Preferment and Wealth That some of the worst should endeavour to blacken him hath nothing strange in it at all This I am very certain of that the Clergy of the greatest name and the most conspicuous for Vertue and good Learning had a very great opinion of him He forgave his Enemies and I could never find him in the least disturbed on that account He wrote several Books which he published a Catalogue of them will follow the close of these Papers He left also many excellent Sermons in MSS. upon the most weighty Subjects particularly upon our Blessed Saviour's Sermon on the Mount one Volume of which is herewith Printed the rest will be set forth with all convenient speed and likewise several others as these find encouragement viz. upon the Parable of the Ten Virgins the Parable of Dives and Lazarus several Sacramental Discourses c. For those which are already published they are well known There is a great vein of Piety and Devotion which runs through them They savour of the primitive Simplicity and Zeal and are well fitted to make men better They are weak men that are much taken with Flourishes and tall Metaphors with quaint and picquant strokes of wit His Discourses are all medicinal and healing and fitted to make the Reader serious and devout That Food is best which is nourishing and that Physick which cures and restores This good man had no greater aim than to do good I will say of him as Pliny did of Virginius Rufus Tanti viri mortalitas magis finita est quam vita i. e. His Mortality is ended rather than his Life He lives and will live for ever and now that he is withdrawn out of our sight he will more than ever continue in the Remembrance and Discourses of Men. His Friends have erected a Monument to his Memory in the Abbey-Church of Westminster The Reverend Mr. Philip Falle a Friend of the Doctor hath added the Inscriptions following He might have enlarged this excellent Man's Character further had he not been confined by the Figure and Dimensions of the Table The Inscription on the Tomb-Stone is as follows Sub hoc Marmore venerandi Sepulchri indice novissimum Domini Adventum praestolantur Mortales Exuviae ANTONII HORNECK S. Th. P. Caetera Viator disce ex vicinâ Tabellâ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Inscription on the Monument is this Aeternae Memoriae ANTONII HORNECK S. Theologiae Professoris * He commenc'd Doctor at Cambridge in the Year 1681. This is mention'd here it having thro' Inadvertency been omitted in its proper place Regiae Majestati à Sacris Hujus Ecclesiae Canonici Viri inter primos docti eruditi Sed qui potissimùm Flagrantissimo in Deum zelo religione Vitae Sanctimoniâ Morum gravitate Humanitatis officiis in singulos egenos praesertim aegrotantes sedulò impensis Sacris Concionibus apud S. MARIAM LE SAVOY per XXVI plus minùs annorum curriculum indesineuter indefessè ad populum habitis Scriptis priscorum saeclorum pietatem Asceticam severitatem mirè redolentibus atque per ora hominum passìm volitantibus Longè latèque inclaruit ac ingentem sibi apud bonos omnes famam comparavit Maximis quis in exequendo munere exantlaverat fractus laboribus in Nephritidem incidit lethalique calculo visceribus pertinaciter adhaerescente candidissimam animam coelo reddidit Prid. Calend. Feb. Anno Salutis MDCXCVI Aetatis suae LVI Viro optimo majora merito hoc qualecunque amoris observantiae Monimentum Amici M M. P P. α ☧ ω A Catalogue of Books writ by the Reverend Dr. Anthony Hornâ—â—… I. THE Great Law of Consideration in 8o. II. The Best Exercise in 8o. III. The Exercises of Prayer in 12o. IV. Delight and Judgment or a Prospect of the great Day of Judgment in 12o. V. The Fire of the Altar Upon the Sacrament in 12o. VI. The Crucified Jesus in 8o. VII The first Fruits of Reason VIII A Letter to a Lady Revolted to the Church of Rome in 12o. IX Questions and Answers conâ—â—â—…ing the two Religions viz. That of the Church of England and that of the Church of Rome X. A Postscript to Dr. Glanvil beâ—â—… an Account of Witches in Germany XI An Answer to the Soldiers Question What shall we do XII Some single Sermons upon several Occasions XIII Fifteen Sermons upon the fifth Chapter of St. Matthew Vol. 1. in 8o. ERRATA Pag. 16. lin ult for contenâ—ed to leave r. contented so to leave l. 19. l. 18. for 〈◊〉 r. never P. 14. l. penult for imitare r. imitari
holy Constitutions of the Church He lamented the Profaneness and Disorders which had broken in among us and threatned our Ruin He endeavoured to keep up the Life and Spirit of Religion and perhaps considering his private Capacity he did as much this way as any man that lived in his time He never needed any Dispensation himself and could not without great grief of heart see the best Laws trampled upon by worldly and ungodly Men or defeated and eluded by the craft and artifices of others I need make no apology for him that he was against Non residence and Pluralities that he was for frequent Communions and for a strict care in Catechizing the Youth All this is agreeable to the Sense of our Church And his great Zeal against all profaneness and immorality cannot be blamed because he was zealously affected in a good matter For his Justice to all mankind he was a great pattern He gave all men their due in the greatest latitude of that word He did not only pay his debts and discharge his trust but paid all due honour and respect to worth and vertue where-ever he sound it Nothing could render him partial No friendship no power no interest whatever could turn him aside or so much as set a false biass upon him His Charity was Divine and a mighty imitation of the love of God and of Christ He sought not his own but with great industry pursued the good of others There are multitudes alive that have received great relâ—â—t and comfort from him He did not spend his time in court and caress in visiting great Persons and hunting after Preferment or Applause He went about doing good And in this he was indefatigable His heart was set upon it and this made him despise the difficulty which lay in his way Where-ever he went this was his business and design His Charity was large and diffusive It extended to the Bodies the Estates and Souls of Men. He sâ—d and taught He instructed and comforted and relieved those who wanted help I cannot but apply to him what Libanius Sophista †Socrat. Apolog. said of Socrates in his Apology for him Thus he pleads for him to the Athenians his Citizens Ye men of Athens says he in his Declamation save and preserve 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. a sincere Friend a kind Man a good Counsellor a righteous Citizen He could not lead an Army but he knew how to reprove c. Your laws and suffrages are of great value and Socrates is of no small price who watcheth those who transgress reproves the injurious that dischargeth this publick Office for the City How many think ye that once neglected to educate their Children by his means took that care upon them How many that quarrelled with their brethren did he reclaim How many that abused their parents did he bring to do them reverence They feared the reproofs of Socrates more than the Courts of Justice They knew they could buy off an Accuser there but they that did amiss could not escape his reproofs nor bribe him to be silent So it was this holy Man was a great Blessing to the Publick and more especially to the City where he reproved the transgressors encouraged the vertuous directed the scrupulous and relieved the indigent Libanius goes on and represents what Strangers and Foreigners would say when Socrates was dead and what Discourses they should be entertained with who should come to Athens to see the man and coming too late for that shou'd visit his Tomb. One says he shall say to another pointing at the place Here he discoursed of Fortitude and there of Sobriety and in yonder place of Justice Here is the place where he run down Prodicus and there where he was too hard for Protagoras In another he overcame Eleius and Leontinus I am very sure it may be said of this holy Man The places may be shewn where he was doing good where he taught and where he relieved where he entred the lists with Papists and where with the other Enemies of the Church where he instructed the Youth and where he encouraged and directed the younger Christians and where he exhorted the elder There are those who can point to the places and truly say Here is the Family whom he relieved and here live the poor Widows whom he provided for Here is the place where he preached and where he perswaded his Auditors to frequent Communion and brought vast Multitudes of Men and Women to constant Attendance on that holy Ordinance The truth is if the particulars were enumerated I say the particulars of his Charity they alone would make a Volume One piece of Charity deserves to be remembred to his honour and that was his telling Men of their faults not only publickly but privately too His reproofs may well be reckoned among his Charities I may truly say of him as Libanius does of Socrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. He made those better whom he did bite He bit and healed at once There was no gall no venom in him It all proceeded from unfeigned Charity to the Souls of Men. He could not suffer sin upon his Brother He had the zeal of John Baptist and durst and did admonish and reprove the greatest Of which matter I could say more than I think is convenient for me to be particular in In truth he had the Spirit of the Ancient Prophets and of the Holy Consessours of the Primitive Church A Man that conversed with him much wou'd be sure to hear of it if he did amiss He was far from slander and detraction from that lingua tertia as it is called among the Hebrews which does three mischiefs at once viz. to the speaker to the hearer and to the slanderer There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword but the tongue of the wise is health Prov. XII 18. He had the perfect mastery of this member and used it to the benefit of his Brother I never knew any Man living that was more stout than this good man in reproving Vice and in appearing for the Truth never any Man that was farther removed from flattery and dawbing He was a Friend of a thousand He made little shew and was sparing in his profession of kindness But when he had occasion to serve his friend he was very industrious to do it and did not think much of pains and labour therein There are multitudes now alive that can attest this He was temperate to the greatest degree I had almost said to a fault I have often scared that considering his great and constant labours he hardly gave himself that refreshment which was fit He drank very little Wine at any time and in the latter part of his Life he did upon the matter wholly forbear it He had benè moratum ventrem as Seneca phraseth it a Stomach that was well nurtured not nice or curious it received the meanest Provision contentedly After the fatigue and labour of the