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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74632	Herbert's remains, or, sundry pieces of that sweet singer of the temple, Mr George Herbert, sometime orator of the University of Cambridg. Now exposed to publick light.	Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.	1652 (1652)	Thomason E1279_1	88,323	339

world are come The first of these was Thomas Jackson D. D. late President of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford and sometimes Vicar of St. Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tyne two places that must give account to God for the good they had or might have had by that Man as all Scholers must for his neglected Works The second was Mr. Nicholas Ferrer of little Gidding in Huntington Shire sometimes fellow-Commoner and Fellow of Clare-hall in Cambridg The third was the Author of this book Master GEORGE HERBERT Fellow of Trinity Colledge Orator of the University of Cambridge and Rector of Bemmorton in Wiltshire All three Holy in their lives eminent in their gifts signall Protestants for their Religion painfull in their severall stations pretious in their deaths and sweet in their memories First I will give thee a briefe of some confrontments common to them all and then some of their at least this Authors proper excellencies apart 1. They all had that inseparable Lot and signe of Christ and Christians Isa 8.18 Heb. 2.13 Luke 2.34 To be signes of Contradiction or spoken Against men wondred at and rated at by the world Doctor Jackson in two particulars suffered much 1. He had like to have been sore shent by the Parliament in the year 1628. for Tenets in Divinity I cannot say so far driven by him as by some men now they are with great Applause His approach to Unity was very neer Grant me saith he but these two things That God has a true freedom in doing good and man a true freedome in doing evill there needs be no other controversie betwixt the Opposites in point of Providence and Predestination Attrib Ep. Ded. 2. He had an Adversary in England who writ a book against him with a Title not so kindly as might have been devised It was this A Discovery of Dr. Jacksons follies which he bound as an ornament upon him as Job says that is never answered but in the language of the Lamb dumb before the shearer silence and sufferance And he had one in Scotland who also girded at him without cause or answer And for M. Ferrar he was so exercised with contradictions as no man that lived so private as he desired to doe could possibly bee more I have heard him say valuing not resenting his owne sufferings in this kind That to fry a Faggot was not more martyrdome then continuall obloquy He was torn asunder as with mad horses or crushed betwixt the upper and under milstone of contrary reports that he was a Papist and that he was a Puritan What is if this be not to be sawn asunder as Esay stoned as Jeremy made a Drum or Tympanised as other Saints of God were and after his death when by Injunction which he laid upon his friends when he lay on his death-bed A great company of Comedies Tragedies Love Hymnes Heroicall poems c. were burnt upon his grave as utter Enemies to Christian Principles and practices that was his brand some poor people said He was a Conjurer And for our Authour The sweet singer of the Temple though he was one of the most prudent and accomplish'd men of his time I have heard sober men censure him as a man that did not manage his brave parts to his best advantage and preferment but lost himself in an humble way That was the phrase I well remember it The second thing wherin all Three agreed was a singular sincerity in Imbracing and transcendent Dexterity in Defending the Protestant Religion established in the Church of England I speak it in the presence of God I have not read so hearty vigorous a Champion against Rome amongst our Writers of his Rank so convincing and demonstrative as D Jackson is I blesse God for the confirmation which he hath given me in the Christian Religion against the Atheist Jew and Socinian and in the Protestant against Rome As also by what I have seen in Manuscript of Mr. Ferrar's and heard by relation of his Travels over the Westerne parts of Christendome in which his exquisite carriage his rare parts and abilities of understanding and Languages his Moralls more perfect then the best did tempt the Adversaries to tempt him and marke him for a prize if they could compasse him And opportunity they had to do this in a sicknesse that seized on him at Padua where mighty care was had by Physicians and others to recover his bodily health with designe to infect his soul But neither did their physick nor poyson work any change in his Religion but rather inflamed him with an holy zeale to revenge their charity by transplanting their waste and misplaced zeal as they were all three admirable in separating from the vile what was precious in every sect or person under heaven to adorn our Protestant Religion by a right renouncing the world with all it's profits and honours in a true crucifying the flesh with all it's pleasures by continued Temperance Fasting and Watching unto Prayers In all which exercises as he farre out-went the choicest of their retired men so did he far under value these deeds rating them much below such prices as they set upon them Upon this designe hee help'd to put out Lessius and to stir up us Ministers to be painfull in that excellent labour of the Lord Catechising feeding the Lambs of Christ Hee translated a piece of Lud. Carbo wherein Carbo confesseth that the Hereticks i. e. Protestants had got much advantage by Catechizing But the Authority at Cambridge suffered not that Egyptian Jewell to be publish'd And he that reads Mr HERBERT'S Poems attendingly shall finde not onely the excellencies of Scripture Divinitie and choice passages of the Fathers bound up in Meetre but the Doctrine of Rome also finely and strongly confuted as in the Poems To Saints and Angels pag. 69. The British Church pag. 102. Church Militant c. Thus stood they in aspect to Rome and her children on the left hand As for our Brethren that erred on the right hand Doctor Jackson speaks for himself and Mr. F. though he ever honoured their persons that were pious and learned and alwayes spoke of them with much Christian respect yet would hee bewaile their mistakes which like mists led them in some points back again to those errors of Rome which they had forsaken To instance in one He that sayes preaching in the pulpit is absolutely necessary to salvation fals into two Romish errours 1. That the Scripture is too dark 2. That it is unsufficient to save a man And perhaps a third advancing the man of Rome more then they intend him I am sure But the chiefe aime of Master F. and this Authour was to win those that disliked our Liturgy Catechisme c by the constant reverent and holy use of them Which surely had we all imitated having first imprinted the vertue of these prayers in our own hearts and then studied with passionate and affectionate celebration for voyce gesture c as in God's