Memoires of the lives, actions, sufferings & deaths of those noble, reverend and excellent personages that suffered by death, sequestration, decimation, or otherwise, for the Protestant religion and the great principle thereof, allegiance to their soveraigne, in our late intestine wars, from the year 1637 to the year 1660, and from thence continued to 1666 with the life and martyrdom of King Charles I / by Da. Lloyd ...

THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOSEPH HALL, Bishop of Norwich.

THIS Reverend Person (who hath written most pas∣sages of this his life) beinga 1.1 born at Ashby-de-la∣zouch in Leicester-shire, of honest and well-allowed Parents (his Father being chief Officer of that place under Henry Earl of Huntington, the Lord of it) was so inured to seriousnesse and devotion by his religi∣ous Mother, so improved in learning by his careful School-masters, and so promising in parts to the more nice observers of him, that in the fifteenth year of his age, his Master and one Mr.b 1.2 Pelset, eminent in those parts, agreed together, to perswade his Father charged with eleven Children besides, to a nearer and an easier way of his education than Cambridge, whereto he was destined, (being devoted from his infancy to that sacred Calling) under the last of these Gentlemen, who upon an essay of his fitnesse for the use of his Studies, undertook he should in seven years be as com∣pleat an Artist, Linguist, and Divine, as any University man, his Indentures being Prepared, his Time being Set, and his Suits Ad∣dressed, for the pleasing, but fatal project, as it fell out to him that succeeded, when it pleased God (to whose providence the pious youth solemnly resigned himself in this affair) that Mr. Nath.c 1.3 Silby, Fellow of Emanuel Colledge, conceiving a good opinion of his aptnesse and learning, and hearing the late projected diversion, set before his elder Brothers eyes, then accidentally at Cambridge, the excellency of an Academical life, with so much advantage, that falling on his Knees to his Father, he rise not till promising the Sale of some of his own Inheritance, towards the charge, he brought the good man to a passionate resolution, for the Univer∣sity.

Where with Mr. Henry Cholmely (for many years Partners of one Lesson, and for as many of one Bed,) he spent two years at his Fathers sole charge, and four years with his Uncle Sleigh of Darbies assistance (who would by no means suffer him, so much against his own will at two years end, to be Master of that School, whereof he had been so lately Scholar) when being Master of Arts, and mentioned by his friend Cholmleys Father to the good Earl of H.

who well esteemed the Fathers service, and heard as well of the Sons hopefulnesse; wherefore he demanded, not without some concern, why he was not preferred in that Colledge, where he was so much applauded; and being told his Tutor, a person well known to his Lordship, filled up the place of that County, he per∣swaded him to a resignation of his Fellowship, for an honorable Relation to his Family, and the assurance of his favour, to whose place (notwithstand Mr. Halls deprecation of the choice to Dr. Chadderton, upon the suddain news of the Earls death, arrived the second day of their strict Election (saying ingeniously that his youth was exposed to lesse needs, and more opportunities of pro∣vision, than his Tutors more reduced years) he was admitted (the twenty third year of his age) into a society, newly its self admit∣ted to the University (writes) he which if it hath any equals, I dare say hath no superiors for good Order, studious Carriage, strict Go∣vernment, austere Piety, where he spent six or seven years more, with such contentment, as the rest of his life hath in vain striven to yield; his exercises being plausible, especially his Position (for which he was first noted in the University) that Mundus Senescit, a Position, saith my Author, that was its own confutation, the inge∣nuity thereof, arguing rather an increase than a decay of parts in this latter age. His Rhetorique Lecture thronged, till sensible of his too long diversion from his destined Calling, he entred not without fear the Sacred Orders; wherein solemn his Performances in the University-Churches, and useful his Instructions in the Neighbor-Villages, when Judge Popham intrusted with the well endowed School ofa 1.4 Tiverton in Devon, upon Dr. Chaddertons motion, whom he consulted, offered him not so much the pains, as the government of it; for the acceptance whereof, he with the Doctor attended the Judge at London, when a Messenger in the Street, delivered him the good Lady Druryes Letter, with a tender of the Rectory of her Halsted in Suffolk, which (telling Dr. Chad∣derton, that God pulled him by the Sleeve to the East directly, to that Calling whereto he was destined, and must go indirectly to by the West; and satisfying the Judge with the recommendation of Mr. Cholmeley to that employment) he accepted chearfully, and (an Atheist, one Lilly, that estranged him from his Patron and Neighbors, being removed by the Pestilence at London, whither he went to do ill offices between Mr. Hall and his Patron, in answer, as he observes, to his Prayers to God to stop his proceedings) en∣joyed comfortably for two years, when having repaired his House; and being by his affairs inclined to a Married state, as he walked from Church, with a reverend Neighborb 1.5 Minister, he saw a comely and modestc 1.6 Gentlewoman, at the Door of that House where they were invited to a Wedding-dinner; and asking his worthy Friend, whether he knew her? was told by him, he had bespoke her for his Wife, as upon due prosecution of the unex∣pected providence she was for forty nine years after; the first two years whereof, upon his noble friend Sir Edmund Bacons importu∣nity, he attended him to the Spaw in Ardenna, out of his Couriosity

to make an ocular inspection into the State of the Romish Church, with the allowance of his nearest friends, under the protection of the Earl of Hertford, then Ambassador to Arch-Duke Albert at Bruxels, having provided for his charge.

Landing at Calais, after some crosse winds at Sea, and passing, not without horror, Graveling, Dunkirk, (those late dreadful pri∣sons of the English) Winoxberge, Ypre, Gaunt and Courtray, to Bru∣xels; the first observable he met with, was an English Inns of Court Gentleman, run out of his Estate, Religion, and Country, and turned Bigot and Physician; Immediately, at first meeting, ravish∣ing the learned Knight with Lipsius Apricollis his Relations of the Lady ofa 1.7 Zichems Miracles, till Mr. Hall appeared in a habit more suitable to his danger than his Calling, and asked what diffe∣rence there was between that Ladies Miracles, and Vespasians Vestals Charms? especially, since in both, it it seems the Patients observed the like Magical timesb 1.8 and washings. Whereupon, the Gentleman surprized, and disavowing that learning, referred him to their Di∣vines, the most eminent whereof was Costerus, who having invited him to the Colledge, at the Gate whereof the party saluted him with a Deo gratias, lost time in a designed discourse of the unity of the Church, out of which no Salvation; till he satisfied him, he came not thither, with any doubt of his own Profession, but for the same of his Learning, and a particular account of the afore∣said Miracles; in order to which, a weak discourse of Divine and Diabolical Miracles, a cholerick invective against our Church for want of Miracles, with many other incident particulars; which Mr. Hall modestly, yet effectually refuted that Father Baldwyn, who sate at the end of the Table, as sorry a Gentleman of his Country (for all the while he was accosted agreeably to his Habit with a Domi∣natio Vestra) should depart without further satisfaction, offered him another Conference next morning, which upon Sir Edmund Bacons intimation of the danger of it, he excused as bootlesse, both sides being so throughly settled.

Thence, not without a great deliverance from Free-booters, a sus∣picious Convoy and Night, they passed by the way of Naumaurs and Leige to the Spaw, where finishing a second part of Meditations, to the first he had published, just upon his travels, in his return up the Mosa, reconciling our reverent posture at the Eucharist, to our de∣nial of Transubstantiation, and answering some furious Invectives against our Church, with an intimation of the Laws•• disabling him to return upon theirs. He incensed a Sorbonistc 1.9 Prior so far, that Sir Edmund Bacon winked upon him to withdraw; and in his way to Brussels, describing our Churches and Baptism to some Italians, who thought we had neither in elegant Latine bewrayed him so well, that he was charged as a Spy, until he told them he was only an at∣tendant of Sir Edmund Bacon, Grand-child to the famous Lord Cha¦cellor of that name in England, travelling under the Protection of our late Embassador, whom he waited on (not without danger at Antwerp upon a Procession-day, had not a tall Brabanter shadowed him) along the fair River Schield by Vlushing, where the curiosity of

visiting an ancient Colleague at Middleburgh, parted him from his Company, whom the Tide would not stay for, and stayed him in a long expectation of an inconvenient and tempestuous pas∣sage.

But ten pounds of his small maintenance being detained, a year and a half after his useful extravagancies, he arose suddenly out of Bed and went to London (upon the Overture of a Preachers place at St. Edmunds-bury) to perswade his Patron to reason, who com∣plemented him out of so ungainful a change, and commending his Sermon at London to my Lord Denny (who had a great kindness for him for those little Books sake he writ, as he said, to buy Books) wished him to wait upon him as he did (when upon Mr. Gurney the Earl of Essex his Tutors motion, he had preached so successefully the Sunday at the Princesb 1.10 Court (where his meditations were veryacceptable) and on the Tuesday following by the Princes or∣der, that he gave him his hand, and commanded him his service; and when his Patron, who knowing he would be taken up, wished him now at home, gave him an harsh answer about Ministers rate of Competencies) with welcome, and terms as noble as the mover for the acceptance of Waltham, wherein, and the Princes service; he setled himself with much comfort and no less respect: his Highness by his Governor Sir Thomas Challoner, offering him honorable Pre∣ferment for constant residence at Court, and his Lord no less ad∣vantagious for his stay at Waltham, where his littlec 1.11 Catechism did much good, his three exactly Penned Sermons a week more: and his select prayer, (without which he never performed any ex∣ercise from the thirteenth year of his age to his daying day) most of all.

During the two and twenty years he continued at Waltham, four eminent Services he went through.

1. The recovery of Wolverhampton Church (to which belonged a Dean and eight Prebendaries) swallowed up by a wilful Recu∣sant in a pretended Fee-farm for ever, where being collated Pre∣bend by the Dean of Windsor upon his Masters Letters, he discove∣red counterfeited Seals, Rasures, Interpolations, and Misdates of unjustifiable evidence, whereupon the Lord Elmrere awarded the Estate to the Church, until revicted by Common-Law; the Ad∣versary Sir Walter Leveson offered him 40l. per annum; A special Verdict at Kings-Bench being declared for them: upon the renewal of the Suit (his Colleague, in whose name it ran being dead) the Fore-man of the Jury who vowed to carry it for Sir Walter, the ve∣ry day before the tryal, fell mad: His Majesty having upon his Petition prevented the Projectors of concealment, which a word that fell from Sir Walter intimated) Sir Walter offered, first to cast up his Fee-farm for a Lease. Secondly, to make each Prebends place d 1.12 30l. per annum, which Composition being furthered bye 1.13 Spalato, and only deferred by two scrupulous Prebends till Sir Walters death, the Lord Treasurer confirmed only with some a∣batement in consideration of the Orphans condition, and the Prebend resigned by the publick-spirited Doctor resigned to one

Mr. Lee, who should reside there and instruct that great and long neglected people.

2. The attendance in my Lord Viscount Doncaster, afterward the Earl of Carlisles most splendid Embassie in France, whence retur∣ning with much ado after a hard journey by Land, in Company with his dear Du Moulin, and an harder by Sea, he was collated to the Long-promised Deanery of Worcester, which yet the excellent Dr. Field Dean of Glocester, was so sure of in the Doctors absence, that he had brought Furniture for that spacious house.

3. His Majesties service in Scotland, which he performed with that applause for his Demeanor and Doctrine from Priests and people, that at his return with the Earl of Carlisle before the King (upon supposition that the Country Divines would supply the Stage-courses) some envious persons suggested to his Majesty his compliance with that prejudicate people, whereupon he was af∣ter a gracious acknowledgement of his service, called to a mild account; his Royal Master not more freely professing what infor∣mations had been given against him, than his own full satisfaction with his sincere and just answer, as whose excellent wisdom well saw that such winning carriage of his could be no hindrance to his great designs, and required him to declare his judgment in the five points inf 1.14 answer to a Letter of Mr. W. Strouther of Scotland, that the King understood was privately sent to him, which was read in the Universities of that Nation with effects there, and ap∣probation from his Majesty beyond his hopes.

4. The reason why thoseg 1.15 five points becoming troublesome and dangerous in the Low-Countries, his Majesty advising and furnishing a Synod there, sent him as one of the four Brittish Di∣vines to Dort, where his weak body agreeing not with the un∣quietness of those Garrisoned Towns, after some pathetick Spee∣ches and motions for accommodation: after the expedient (called Sintentia 4. Theol. Brit.) for reconciliation and the Elegant Latine Sermon (the night before he preached which he was wonderfully refreshed and enlivened beyond what he had been a moneth be∣fore) for Peace he retired first to my Lord Ambassador Carletons at the Hague, and with his Majesties leave Dr. Goad being substituted in his place to England, taking his farewell of the Synod in these words.

Non facile vero mecum in gratiam redierit Cadaverosa haec moles quam aegre us{que} circum gesto quae mihi hujus conventus celebritatem to∣ties inviderit, jam{que} prorsus invitissimum a vobis Importune avocat & divellit ne{que} enim ullus est sub coalo locus, ae{que} coalis aemulus, & in quo tentorium mihi figi malverim, cujus{que} adeo gestiet mihi animus memi∣nisse. Beatos vero vos quibus hoc frui datur, non dignus eram ego (ut fide∣lissimi Romani querimoniam imitari liceat) qui & Christi & ecclesiae suae nomine sanctam hanc provinciam diutius sustinerem, illud vero 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 nempe audito quod res erat, non alia me quam adversissima hic usum va∣letudine, serenissimus rex meus misertus miselli famuli sui revocat me domum quippe quod cineres meos, aut sandapylam nihil vobis prodesse no∣rit, succentariavit{que} mihi virum e suis selectissimum, quantum Theolo∣gum.

De me profecto (mero jam silicernio) quicquid fiat viderit ille De∣us meus, cujus ego totes sum, vobis quidem ita faeliciter prospectum est ut sit cur infirmitati meae haud Parum gratulemini cum hujus••odi instru∣ctissimo succedaneo caetum hunc vestrum beaverit. Ne{que} tamen com∣mittam 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Deus mihi vitam & vires indulserit ut & Corpore simul & animo abesse videar. Interea sane huic Synodo, ubicun{que} terrarum sim & vobis constliis conatibus{que} meis quibuscun{que} res v••stras me pro virili sedulo ac serio promoturum sancte voveo. Interim vobis omnibus ac singulis Honoratissimi Domini Legati, Reverendissime praeses, gravissimi assessores, scribae doctissimi, symmystae Colendissimi tibi{que} venerandissi∣ma Synodus universa aegro animo ac corpore aeternum valedico. Rogovos omnes obnixius ut precibus vestris imbecillem reducem facere, co∣mitari, prosequi velitis.

Though yet surviving all his Colleagues,* 1.16 and living to see them and the whole Synod charged with a pre-ingagement by Oath to Vote down the Remonstrants, and living likewise to vin∣dicate them (with the States and Princes that deputed them,) who had deserved well of him, the President and Assistants waiting upon him by publick Vote: the Deputies of the States by Daniel Hens••us, with acknowledgement of his service in a Golden Medal, containing the Pourtraict of the Synod.

These were his publick employments, neither were his private less eminent.

1. His Theses at Cambridge, when Batchelor and Doctor of Divinity, as seasonably chosen, as prudently as••erted against the Adversaries of our Doctrine, and of our Discipline.

2. His Meditations and Sermons plausible at the Princes Court that failed, and at the Earl of Carlisles that stood by him.

3. His Letters and Resolutions (that setled so many eminent Persons, and obliged more) solid and witty.

4. His accordeda 1.17 truths (upon the Dutch quarrel which we composed there, raised here after Mr. Mountagues Books, which ex∣pressed Overall, rather than Arminius, and the sidings in Press, Pulpits, and Parliaments thereupon) out of Bishop Overall and our Divines at Dorts propositions, shewing that these parties mistaked rather than mis-believed; so reasonable that being presented to his Majesty Charles I. by Dr. Young, (the worthy Dean of Winchester) with a Petition to confine the Debates thereof in their Universi∣ty, and silence them in the Church; Mr. Mountague offered to subscribe them on the one hand, and most Anti-monstrants English, Scottish, and French, on the other.

5. His prudent assertion, That (when as the Papists urge us where our Church was before Luther? and we produce witnesses of it•• in every age with some disadvantage, since our Church is not another from theirs, but the same more Reformed••) the Church of Rome is an ancient and true Church, only it hath new Errors; an assertion, which with his former expedient, exposed him so far to the zeal of narrow-sighted men, that an Apologeti∣cal advertisement, a rational reconciler backed by Bishop Mortor, Bishop Davenant, Dr. Prideaux, and Dr. Primroses unquestionable

testimony, and his own moderation in silencing all the Writers of both sides (as there were indeed to lay hold of any Controversie in order to the publick disturbance) were little enough to allay the jealousie of his Lukewarmness and abatement of former zeal (when alas! he was only grown older, and so wiser!) especially since it was but a little before that he was made Bishop of Exeter (having refused Glocester) where Providence setled him. 1. By the delay of the Duke of Buckinghams Letter, which coming two hours sooner had defeated him. 2. By the unthought of Additi∣on of the R. of St. Breock to a poor Bishoprick. 3. By a prudent resolution put into his heart notwithstanding the spies laid upon him, the jealousie entertained of him: The expostulating Letters and wary Cautions sent to him, his contests with Lords: his three purgations of himself from some envious suggestions upon his knees before his Majesty, in so much that he declared that be would be a Bishop no longer, while so liable to mis informations, to follow those courses which might most conduce to the peace and happiness of his new and divided charge, winning the misgu∣ded, a 1.18 encouraging the painful, and corresponding so fairly withall his numerous Clergy, who submitted to all anciently re∣ceived Orders, but two that fled from censure.

6. His successful Letter to the House of Commons about their delayb 1.19 of supply and misapprehensions.

7. His happy unanimity within his charge, till the last year he was there when some factious Neighbor unkindly undermined him in the choice of Convocation-men, for the Convocation 1639. on∣ly desiring to recommend grave persons to their Election, leaving them to their freedom of choice, and they polling to his face for persons he heard not of, though he carryed it; and at his return home was nobly welcomed by hundreds of the Diocesse, which that year by his Majesties special favor he exchanged for that of Norwich, which his prudent management of the former of Exceter (wherein he miscarried only in some inadverted expressi∣ons, which yet he submitted to the Churches censure: and in an over-credulous Charity, whereby yet he designed the Kingdoms peace:) First, his motion to the Archbishop for a General Coun∣sel of his Majesties three Kingdoms to shame the Scottish insolence, and the English pretences against Episcopacy: and when that was not judged expedient, his second for the Archbishop of Armagh, Bishops of Kilmore, Down and Conner in Ireland: the Bishops of Dur∣ham, Salisbury, and his own in England, with three more of Scot∣land, and the Professors of Divinity of the respective Universities judgment in that point; and when that was not convenient, con∣sidering the variety of mens apprehensions, his chearful underta∣king of the Treatise called Episcopacy by Divine Right, upon my Lord of Canterburies noble motion, and one G. Grahum a Bishop in Scotland, most ignoblec 1.20 Recantation, referring the fifteen heads of his discourse to my Lords examination, who altered some of them to more expressiveness and advantage;d 1.21 and perused each head when finished and compleated, with the irrefragable propo∣sitions deserved.

But the Plot against Episcopacy being too strong for any reme¦dy, this good man was one of th••se Charged in the House of Lords, and a strong Demurrer stopping that proceeding, one of those endangered by the Rabble hardly escaping, who one night vowed their ruin from the House, under the Earl of Manchesters protection, having in vain moved both Houses for assistance: One of them that protested against all Acts done in the House, during that violence, in pursuance of their own right, and the trust re∣posed in them by his Majesty; and that being not, as was intend∣ed, proposed either to his Majesties Secretary, to himself, or the Lord Keeper to be weighed; but hastily read in the House, appre∣hensive enough of misconstruction. He (being able to do no good in the Subcommittee for Reformation in the Ierusalem Chambers) with 11 of his Brethren, Ian. 30. late in a bitter frosty night was Vo¦ted to the Tower, after a Charge of High-treason (for owning his Par∣liamentary right) received upon his Knees, where Preaching in his course with his Brethren, and Meditating, he heard chearfully of the Bonfires, Ringing in the City, upon their Imprisonment; he looked unconcernedly on the aspersions cast on them here, and in Forreign parts in Pamphlets, and other methods; he suffered patiently the Dooms prepared for them, he Pleaded resolutely se∣veral times at the Bar. The pretended Allegations brought against them, being admitted to Bail bya 1.22 the Lords, he went patiently again to the Tower upon the Motion of the Commons, and being Released upon 50000l. Bond, retired to Norwich (his and his Bre∣threns Votes being Nulled in Parliament) where being Sequestred to his very Cloaths, he laying down mony for his Goods, and for his Books, his Arrearages being stopped, his Pallace rifled in Norwich, his Temporal Estate in Norfolk; Suffolk, Essex was Confiscated, the 400l. per annum, Ordered by the Houses as each Bishops com∣petency, wasb 1.23 stopped, the Synodals were kept back, Ordina∣tion was restrained: (The very Mayor of Norwich, and his Bre∣thren, summoning the grave Bishop before them, an unheard of peremptorinesse, for ordaining in his Chappel, contrary to the Covenant.) And when they allowed him but a fifth part, Assesse∣ments were demanded for all; extremities none could bear, but he who exercised moderation and patience, as exemplarily as he recommended them to others pathetically and eloquently, who often passionately complained of the sacrilegious outrages upon the Church, but was silent in those unjust ones on himself; who in the midst of his miseries provided for the Churches Comfort, by his Treatises of Consolation; for its Peace, by the Peace-maker, Pax Terris, and Modest offer; for its Instruction, by his frequent Ser∣mons, as often as he was allowed; for its Poor, by a Weekly Con∣tribution to distressed Widows to his death, and a good sum in the Place where he was born, and the City where he died after it; for its Professors, by holy admonitions, counsels, and resolutions; for its Enemies, by dealing with some of them so effectually, that they repented, and one among the rest, a great Commissioner, and Justice of Peace, I mean Esquire Lucas, who, though a man of a

great Estate, received Orders at his hands, and recompenced in injuries to the Church as Committee-man, by being a faithful Mi∣nister of it to this day; and when he could not prevail with men, especially, about the horrid Murder of his Gracious Soveraign, he wrestled with God (according to his Intimation in his Mourners of Sion, to all other Members of our Church) in a Weekly Fast with his Family to his death, the approaches to which, was as his whole life, solemn, staid, composed, and active, both in Presse and Pul∣pit (his intellectuals and sensuals, the effect of his temperance, being fresh to the last) till the Stone and Stangury wasted his natural strength, and hisa 1.24 Physicians Arts; and he aser his fatherly recep∣tion of many persons of honor, learning, and piety, who came to crave his dying Prayers and Benedictions; one whereof (a Noble Votary) he saluted with the words of an ancient Votary (Vide ho∣minem mox pulverem futurum.) After many holy prayers, exhorta∣tions, and discourses, he rouzed up his dying spirits, to a heavenly Confession of his Faith, wherein his Speech failed him; and with some Struglings of Nature, with the Agonies of Death, he quiet∣ly, gradually, and even insensibly gave up the Ghost. (Havingb 1.25 Preached to two Synods, reconciled ••ix Controversies (for which he had Letters of Thanks from Forreigners of all sides) Served two Princes, and as many Kings, Sate in three Parliaments, kept the Pulpit for fifty three years, managed one Deanery and two Bishopricks, written forty six Excellent Treaties, seen his and the Churches enemies, made as odious at last as they were popular at first; directed the most hopeful Members of the Church in courses that might uphold it) 1656. And of his Age eighty two years, leaving behind him three Monuments of himself.

1. His excellent Children, in some of whom we yet see and en∣joy him.

2. His incomparable Writings, of which it was said, by one that called him The English Seneca, That he was not unhappy at Contro∣sies, more happy at Comments, very good in Characters, better in his Sermons, best of all in his Meditations; now Collected in three Volumes with his Remains.

And 3. In his inimitable Virtues so humble, that he would readily hear the youngest at Norwich; so meek, that he was never transported, but at three things. 1. Grehams horrid Apostacy. 2. The infamous Sacriledge at Norwich. And 3. The Kings un∣paralled Murder: So religious, that every thing he saw, did, or suffered, exercised his habitual devotion; so innocent, thatc 1.26 Musick, Mathematick, and Fishing, were all his Recreations; so tem∣perate, that one plain meal in thirty hours was his diet; so generally accomplished that he was an excellent Poet, Orator, Historian, Linguist, Antiquary, Phisolopher, School Divine, Casuist, and what not: no part of Learning but adorns some or other of his Works, in a most eminent manner; I cannot express him more properly than his worthy Sons, Heirs to his worth, and to his modesty, inti∣mate him with Pericles.* 1.27

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To Socrates.* 1.28 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

To Pythagoras. Ejus singula sententiarum frustra gemmas habent.

To Homer. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

To Demosthenes. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

To Seneca. Plus aliquid semper dicit, quam dicit.

To Ignatius. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, So called for his Piety.

To Athanasius, who for his Strenuousnesse in Disputation was called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

To Chrysostome, who was said to be, Theatrum quoddam Divinae elo∣quentiae, in quo Deus abunde videri voluit, quid posset vitae sanctitas. cumvi dicendi conjuncta.

To Clemens Alex. Inter eloquentes summe doctos, inter doctus summe eloquens. To Saint Basil the Great, upon whom Nazianzen bestowed this Epitaph.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Sermo tuus tonitru, vitaque fulgar erat.

To Saint Ierom. Blandum facundiae nomen, & summus in omnibus ar∣tifex.* 1.29

To Hilary.* 1.30 Lucifer Ecclesiarum, pretiosus lapis, pulchro sermone uni∣versa loquitur, & si semina aliqua secus viam cecidisse potuissent, ta∣men abeo messis exorta est magna.

To St. Cyprian (who had the name of Cicero Christianus.) Discernere nequeas utrumne gratior in eloquendo, an facilior in explicando, an potentior in persuadendo fuerit.

To Saint Bernard.* 1.31 Cujus ego meditationes vinum Paradisi ambrosiam animarum, pabulum Angelicum, medullam pietatis vocare soleo.

He was one that taught this Church the Art of Divine Medita∣tion, one that always made it his businesse to see and search into the things of God, with a zealous diligence, rather than a bold curiosity.

Antiqua probitate, & simplicitate virum, & eruditis pietate, & piis eruditionis laude Antecellentem, ita secundas doctrinae ferentem, ut pie∣tatis primas obtineret. Those that were most eminent for learning, he excelled in piety; and those that were most famous for piety, he excelled in learning; this High-priests Breast was so richly a∣dorned with the glorious Vrim, and with the more precious Jewel of the Thummim.

The Church fared the better for his wrestling Prayers, and the State for his Holy Vows. One he was of a serene, mild, and calm aspect, as smooth as his wit and tongue; though living long, but once a Child in understanding, though always so in humility and innocence, whereby he suppled those adversaries into a moderati∣on, that could not be perswaded to a conversion; they observing his industry neither ceasing nor abating with his preferments, va∣luing his time as much, and giving account of it as well as any man, not to his dying day waving any pains agreeable to his Calling, till forbidden by men, or disenabled by God; when it was observed, that he was as diligent a Hearer, as he had been a Preacher.

He would not be Buried in the Church, but he Lives in it by his great Charity, allowing a weekly Contribution to the poor among whom he lived, out of his little remainder, which he observed, like the Widows Barrel of Meal, and Cruse of Oyl, to increase by being dispersed, leaving 30l. a peice to the Widows of the Town where he was born, and the City where he died.

2. His Moderation, which is known unto all men.

3. His Children, of whom I may say, as St. Ambrose doth of Theodosius: Non totus recessit, reliquit nobis Liberos, in quibus cum debe∣mus agnoscere, et in quibus cum cernimus, et tenemus.

4. His Works which praise him, as much as all men praise them, and to which we may affix Nazianzens Character of Basils Works. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

Obiit Sept. 8.	1656.
Sepultus 29.

Tunc Ecclesiae militantis Angelus adjunxit latus triumphantis chor••, & caelestem adauxit constellationem, gloriae Album pro Episcopali pulla. Induens victricem palmam Pro extorto pastorali pedo Istam Coronam sideream, pro tenui decussa Cydari. Coelo quod meditabatur, & Deo fruens qui omnia quibus degebat loca piis cogitatibus coelum fecit. Cujus scripti quae venusta Lumina! qualesque nervi! Cujusque vitae quam concinna pietas!

Notes

• a 1.1

  Iuly 1, 1574.
• b 1.2

  Newly come f••om Cambridge, to be Lecturer of that place.
• c 1.3

  Who was born at the same time with him.
• a 1.4

  Founded by Master Blundel.
• b 1.5

  Master Grandidge.
• c 1.6

  Daughter to Master George W••nniffe of Brettenham.
• a 1.7

  Or Sher∣n•••• heav ill, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Sh••••p∣hili.
• b 1.8

  As Fri∣days Washing in such a Ial••ll.
• c 1.9

  Of the Carmelites.
• b 1.10

  At Rich∣mond.
• c 1.11

  Delivered without book with the same exactness they were Penned.
• d 1.12

  Ten pound more being al∣lowed Doctor Hall for his pains.
• e 1.13

  Then Dean of Windsor, and so Patron of the Church.
• f 1.14

  Which was Printed since in his remains. p 306.
• g 1.15

  Of Prede∣stination and Reprobation of the Latitude of Christs death, of the power of mans free-will, b••∣fore and after his conversion, and of the E••lects perseve∣rance in grace.
• * 1.16

  See his Letter at large in the Author of the Church Histo∣ry, protesting against the as∣persion.
• a 1.17

  See his Re∣mains.
• a 1.18

  By his own power and his interest a∣broad, apparent in his Letters to ••. is•• in the behalf of wor∣thy persons.
• b 1.19

  See Parlia∣ment procce∣dings, three 〈◊〉〈◊〉 years of K C. I. by T••••. Fuller.
• c 1.20

  Who re∣pented solemn∣ly for being made a Bishop.
• d 1.21

  Especially i•• the point of Anti-christ, the Sabbata•• ri••nism, the jus positionum mediatum. Whether ••pis∣capocy an order or degree with other observa∣tions, the result of great pru∣dent••.
• a 1.22

  Vpon the Earl of ••ssex his motion.
• b 1.23

  By Wild and Cotbet.
• a 1.24

  The excel∣lent Doctor Brown of Norwich.
• b 1.25

  Vid•• C••∣lumb No••.
• c 1.26

  Which he called his other soul.
• * 1.27

  Thucide••.
• * 1.28

  E••napius. Lipsius. Halycarnas∣seus.
• * 1.29

  Caussinu••.
• * 1.30

  St. ••erom.
• * 1.31

  Heinsius.