O^i C OB Usl)SSEIUUS, 
 
 iyrrvhtep tsc opus \Arinachaniis totius . 
 hJ-CihermcE *iPrimas .^o 
 
 llllllilltiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 
 
TH E 
 
 LIFE & DEATH 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Moft Renter end and Learned 
 Father of our Church 
 
 D r . fJMES USHE^, 
 
 Late Arch-Bifhop of Armagh, 
 
 and Primate of all Ireland. 
 
 Publifhed in a Sermon at his F u s e k a l 
 at the Abby of IVcftminfter, 
 &A frill 17. 1656. 
 
 1 And aow re-vie wed wuh fomc other 
 Enlargements; 
 
 sTlern 
 
 By Nicholas!} emard Do&or of Divinity, 
 
 and Preacher to the Hoi joi^ablc Society 
 
 of Grayes-Inne^ London \ 
 
 H£B. 11. $8. Of whom the world was not worthy. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed by E. 7)/*r, and are to be fold by 
 
 J. Crooli, at rhi fign of the Ship in St. Pay Is 
 Church-yard , id%6S 
 
 \ \ 
 
To the Reader, 
 exemplum , condimen- 
 turn, as a Glaffe to trimme 
 our liyes by , a Copy to 
 improve our hands > a 
 Sau ce to Jharpen our tafles 
 of the heavenly Gift in 
 them : by which,as after a 
 manner , the Perfons 
 themfelves live with us 
 after their deaths • fo* 
 many living, and yet are 
 dead, are incited or re- 
 duced to a good life. 
 And feme fuch fruit may in 
 time be reaped from this 
 following £\£ar ration of 
 the Life and Death of 
 this Holy and Em went 
 
 Tri^ 
 
To the Reader. 
 Primate, by the exemplary 
 application of each Pajfage 
 in bis younger years, as el- 
 der \ like that of Elifha 
 to the Shunamites Chi/de, 
 putting mouth to mouth, 2 Klng 4< 
 eyes to eyes, hands ton. 
 hands, the%eader may be 
 recovered unto life Eternal. 
 It bath been haflened out of 
 my hands farrefooner then 
 amitter of that conference 
 could be expected • partly 
 that feme mislays by the 
 Eare might not remaine 
 long without a rectifying by 
 the Eye, and in lieu of a 
 /^Abbreviations, it is 
 A 4- here 
 
••I 
 
 lotheKeader. 
 here pre fented with the 2^ 
 com fence of fome further 
 Enlargements. 
 
 "There were two of his 
 i Predecejfors in that See 
 of Armagh very famous 
 in their Generations : 
 The one for his San&ity, 
 the other for his Lear- 
 ning- both which ^ emu 
 gently have met in him. 
 
 The former was Mala- 
 chiasm living about 500. 
 years, agone, whofe life St f 
 Bernard wrote at large :He 
 dyed in his Monaftery 
 of Clarsevalle, an. 1148. 
 \n the ?4- year of his Jge. 
 
 The 
 
To the Reader. 
 The extraordinary joy ex<* 
 prejjedat his firit. (b) Re -(b) j ,*. 
 ception, and the HigJa^^ftC 
 
 and Reveren d E fteeme. e&ks ) f >™- 
 ^/j rat/ier continually t*™ ms o- 
 
 , l • • / s~ f - riens ex alto, 
 
 mentions mm with, are juj-o q »*ntm» 
 
 ficient Te/limonies of his^^t 
 
 lf^orth.C"c)lrthnd where d j**fi l ¥ e * 
 
 he was borne and eauc'a<^*w**l* 
 
 dj i j | - j- miffam casli- 
 
 ana had his Lear- t m mihi \ am - 
 
 ning, was then accounted^^ 
 
 vidcre vene- 
 
 ratk finibus terra non audi -urns Solomoncm^ fedexh.b.'- 
 turus. in v'tt m Malach. concluf* 
 
 (c) Malachias nofter onus /Hfbern:a y de foputo 
 barbarpy ibi educatus^ ibi liter as edottus ejK Cdterant 
 de naturali barbarle traxlt nihil ^ non maris' quam de 
 fale mar in o pieces maris ; Jguam verb fuayc , q*'bi 
 intuit a nob'is barb arks tarn urbanum protulh crvcm % 
 fanUorum ac domzftlcum Dei m Qui producit met de 
 petra, ohnmque de faxo dur'^Jimo, ipfi hoc fcc-t ib.'c 1 ^ 
 in in't. 
 
 * bar- 
 
To the Reader. 
 (*)Infor-£x'^ barbarous ? - but 
 tunes, v&.Qyaitb he ) he favoured 
 
 an. 700. §£ - _ f ..1 
 
 Sock hath no more or that native 
 been mad? barbarity, then the Sea- 
 
 apparen: by _ ^ / •» 
 
 this our ' fifh doth of the Salt 
 
 learned Prt- , T r , 
 
 mate, that W atcr- and as a wonder, 
 ihtnthT Satt nbMes it to that Divine 
 
 :re°dN L at^ Hand > whoproduceth 
 iuthetewe-Hony out of the Rock. 
 
 item Parts. iA 1 r 1 t-i* 
 
 m. Epifi. ana Oyl out or the r lint; 
 ? l e "xki-W>bich hath been as much 
 Ancicnt t i- e a dmired by Strangers in 
 nth. Vid. this our Learned Primate, 
 iEccU(,Ami-that out 0/ flbdj (jralilee 
 Zl]l'oe 9 xt{houldv'\kfuch a Prophet. 
 /n^/r ? ^«i *fhelatter ^ Richar- 
 
 #*■ ^«. dus Armacfaanus , /;# 
 
 J>£W. 850. 
 
 f£ rel gioriis & bonaYum lit &mm latide pr* atiis Europe 
 
 rcgnis fioruiffe confideraverit. 
 
 Snr* 
 
io the Keaaer. 
 
 Surname was Fits-Ralph^ ^A^ 
 livinv about 200 vearesa* Abbat. «* 
 
 t>. /I • 1 • lb.defcr.pt. 
 
 gone- borne, and buried in Ecciefafe 
 Dundalk intheVwcefe of^f^ 
 Armagh /'» Ireland, An/^'P^ 
 125 9. Tfrher e,oflatej 'ears, theg*™ «**»s 
 inhabttants (ejteemwg mm schoup- 
 a great Honour to the place) 22*3* 
 jWrf» anniverfary remem- 1UMl 'f ttsad 
 
 J pop mum ex- 
 
 brance of him ,He 33wChan- ^nth-md*- 
 cellour ofthetlnherjity o/Wisopinion. 
 Oxford, accounted the ^o/oyouJmoft 
 a learned man of his <ww,^gj^ 
 d>^ frofejjed enemy to ibe£t> D ™- 
 Mendicant Friers? %?ror learned K- 
 
 / ' a ^.1 /(hop oi'.y*~ 
 
 w«c# againjt them* andr^lrj.m 
 
 Q**/?.4». 
 determ. intends him t Armachan'i opinio efl.quod fiomnei 
 Epifcopi ejfent deftfn&tyfacerdotes m'mores potent ordinate . » 
 
 »4Lf 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 f JX'°fi- ms f° ( d > P erfecut ^ b 
 
 queba»tttr them, that at length for 
 
 fanHum Do- ■, . / / T» f 
 
 aortm Ar- Wat he preached at l J auls 
 RCnimp.' Crojfle , he was by their 
 wIS' mear *s convented before the 
 jafcicdozi- Pope and his Cardinalis, 
 * fid. Rkh. ^n the L onjijtory of A v 1 n 1- 
 Aimach on Anno 1257. where he 
 curMerum Jloutly maintained in ? ^Pro* 
 
 contr. Fra- J _ . . 111/1 
 
 tresdeord-- pojittons what he hadjpokg 
 tntii^t andverotagainjl them, talking 
 
 Wailing f 0r &* ^ eXt J ' 111 tf'.M? 
 
 ham>^#./ud2e not according to 
 3 i./^«i appearance, but yudge 
 S| £lf " iighteons;u igment; £tf 4 
 
 mrlititnen* 
 
 ifrm^0*c.cjpio tempore magna controverfta coram f ammo 
 Pontifice fa&a eft inter Rich. Armachannm Vr'imMem 
 \lybz\:niXy& ^ordims AUndicant'mm^ &c 9 fed tandem 
 
 great 
 
1 o the Reader. 
 Mat tfummofmonvrai- ^ roh dolor ^ 
 
 T J L 1 i- • / « it exuberan- 
 
 ied by their ners,weighed tci»**ru 
 
 the jcale down on their Jide. %%%£ 
 
 CO Bellarmine^^S;;^: 
 ipeciali caveat to all that <W'«- 
 
 ii • . . tresfuAfri- 
 
 react nim^j- /f /# #/j y£#y£ viiegufcut 
 he farmed of Hertfit from &Z& 
 whom (he faith) John ""*"''""• 
 Wickliff received fome ch <l Ri - 
 or his errors , and in his Rad " 1 P h « s 
 "Boo{e de Monachis , p^/5»* 
 
 dtfrutingagainjlhim, under ^^e 
 the name of Armachanus. / ^ ww/w 
 
 lo weje two eminent M-iwir. 
 men (not excluding others hrmrn 
 fuccefstyely in that Trimacy) 1*™£ 
 
 I/W4) 1 
 
lo the Reader. 
 
 I may well joy n thisourVu 
 ousandLe*niedPrimate, 
 deferring at lea/lfli^e that of 
 Davids Worthies') to attain 
 unto thz fiv ft three ,if not as 
 aSam.zj.8. Adino the Ezrite to fit in 
 the chiefe feat among the 
 Captaines. According to 
 which , being jujl the hun- 
 d red Si/hop of that See, he 
 hath, as the Centurion of 
 that band, marched the lait 
 out of the field , and I believe 
 in this fenfe, the laft island 
 fhall be firnS though he 
 thought him/elf 'the leaft. 
 
 And hot» great an efteem 
 his \ Tighnefs had of him 
 
 bath 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 bath been manifeflednot only 
 in giving him an Honoura- 
 ble buriall at the public^ 
 charge inHcn.j :hs £happel 
 rfAVeftminfter^ (whereby 
 the honour of the Station 
 willbe perpetuated in his me~ 
 mory') but in extending 
 now to his , what was be- 
 fore intended to himfelf, 
 in the grant of fome of the 
 lands of the ^Primacy ofAv- 
 magh inlr eland, for ziy ears. 
 In this following Narra- 
 tion expe&no guildedy?//?, 
 unfitting aAtournerftzint* 
 t&glafs may be more coflly, 
 but plainer// more perfp'u 
 
 cuous 
 
T 1 
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 *Noiulo 
 
 { ._ cuous; and tis * truth and 
 lis fed »ar- deerneffe I only pretend 
 bo tpemm ut unto T*be Juddennejfe of 
 tncHienta, this recolleUion and produ- 
 trmLT'fa^on may pofsihly occa/ion 
 
 fiidiofosnon r ome errata as to method 
 
 oncrans : J 
 
 Pr«fatjn and other circumftances, 
 but none in the matter, 
 which is accompanied mth 
 that moderation,^/** it en- 
 deavours tofhun the rock of 
 offence, to either extremity: 
 Let Cjodhave the glory, the 
 ' Reader^* inftrudtion and 
 benefit, and be hath his dejire> 
 
 who is 
 
 Yours in him by whom 
 
 all have their being, 
 

 iSam. 25V 1. 
 
 And Samuel died 5 and all the 
 l/raelitcs were gathered toge- 
 ther $ and lamented hint , and 
 buried him. 
 
 Hat this is a day of mour- 
 ning, and that a gre*i 
 man is fallen inlfraeljtfho 
 but a ftrangcr in Ifrael 
 need to be told hi The 
 Text is accordingly hung through- 
 out in mournirtg 5 like that Rowlc in 
 Ezekiel wrote within and without, LA- 
 mentation , mourning and wo $ each 
 paitjikc Jobs meflfengers^ringing fad- 
 da* newes then the former 5 or as the 
 Ethiopians fiviving for prcheminericy 
 by their blacknefTe* , 
 
 B At 
 
Jbe Life and Death of the 
 
 At the Portall of the Text ye have 
 the difmall frgnall of de^th hung our. 
 When ye are entred,ye firxi 'thSamuel, 
 a Prophet that is dead, lying in his Cof- 
 fin. In the next roomc, all the Is- 
 raelites ftand in mourning , their 
 eyes diftilling of teares , their hearts 
 breaking withfighs, Goe a little far- 
 ther, his grave is digged, and ready 
 to be interred, <~slbyj?us abyjfum in~ 
 vocat. 
 
 Ye have four things in this Text, 
 which he that rum may read- a- fit ap- 
 plication to this {ad Solemnity. 
 
 i. The death of a great extraordi- 
 nary Prophet : And Samuel died. 
 
 2. The univerfallmourning made 
 for him 3 even by the whole Church jhzt 
 then was : and all the l/raelites lamented 
 him. 
 
 3. The Solemnity of that mour- 
 ning-, not as that in Zach. 12. Every 
 family apart, but they all gathered toge- 
 ther. 
 
 4. The time of it, at his buriaS. 
 
 1. "Tis the death of Samuel 9 a Pro- 
 phet of the firft magnitude > coupled 
 with Mofes, far. 15. 1. Though Mofes 
 And Samuel flood before me, &c # Four 
 
 hundred 
 
Arcb-~Bijho]> of Armagh, &V. 5 
 
 hundred years between them, yet here 
 they are met, and in Gods own orde- 
 ring,puc together in the firft rank. In 
 the<??. Pfid- he dothattaine to the ho- 
 nour of the firft three •, Mofes and Aaron 
 among the Prophets, and Samuel among 
 thofe that cdl upon his Name. If the two 
 former head tne Preachers, he is in the 
 head of that Troope, who are mighty 
 in prayer. Saint Peter makes him the 
 Primate of the Prophets •, And all the 
 Prophets from Samuel \ Alls ?. Sant Paid 
 brings him in with an Imprimis £Heb. 
 11.) And tvhatfhallf more fay of Samuel, 
 » and of tfte Prophets i both of them place 
 him as the Tachmonite among the 
 Worthies of David, the prime Leader 
 in the front of them • this, in the ge- 
 neral, is eafily appliable to this moft 
 Reverend and Learned Prlmxte, whofe 
 Funeralk we now folemnize. 
 
 But there are fome Specialties as ap- 
 pliable alio •, 
 
 1 • Samuel began to be a Preacher 
 when the word of God wo* precious, or Cap " *' * 
 rare • and fo was it when this Reverend 
 perfon firft cntred the Miniftry in his 
 native Country. 
 
 2. Samuel began betimes, mmijlering Cap; ». 3t 
 B 2 to 
 
4 i ne Life ami veaw of the 
 
 to the Lord in the T cm fie in his youth, 
 and fo did he. 
 
 Cap. 2. z6. 3- Tisfaid, Samuel grew in favour 
 both with the Lord and alfo with m /#(the 
 fame which was laid of our Saviour, 
 Luke 2.) and lb did this our Samuel 
 alfo. 
 
 Cap. 4- i. 4. The word of Samuel came to &ll\i~ 
 racl,not onely to cne Tribe, but to the 
 whole Church,and Ifrael of God -,and 
 fo was it With this eminent Bilhop, 
 known far and neer, to the whole Re- 
 formed Church. 
 
 5 . Samuel once wms fo popi'tlar,that 
 al the people came to him as their Ora- 
 cle for Jcfirin^s theirRcfuge indiftref- 1 
 fes,by /<*#/>£ and pray try a afterwards 
 was reje#ed,& flighted by this people, 
 and in his latter dayes retired himfelfe 
 from the publick, to the day of his 
 death-,fomwhat of the like this holy man 
 of God found alfo among the vulgar, 
 
 1 Sam. 4.10. 6 - SamuelYmd to fee great changes 
 in theGovernment 3 an Enemy overrun- 
 ning his native Country,^//-/? thousand 
 (lain in one day 5 the Arke of God ta- 
 ken&c* whereby he could not but be 
 brought to great ftraights • fo did this 
 Eminent Primat live to fee and hear the 
 
 like 
 
Arcb^Bifbop of Armagh, &c, 5 
 
 like by that horrid rebellion in his na- 
 tive counciy o{ Ireland, where ( accor- 
 ding to t a depofition of one then in t Robert m*x- 
 theirhan^, and who heard it from ™iDo&»vo£ 
 
 . r , ' x , , Divinity, then 
 
 them(elves) were put to death 154* Arch-Deacon 
 thoufand. And \i$ofefhus may be hee- of d^, Aug. 
 ded 5 who faith Samuel died in the 1 8. " t h> ,6 £; JJ 
 year of Sauls Reign, 01 a Peter Martyrs count was gi- 
 account may be taken, there was little J^« h •* 
 difference in their Age, allowing aUbfuiL'fo, *L 
 fome competency of years to him at^/st^aion of 
 the death of Lite. tl^T 
 
 T /it • mender jn 
 
 Lamy,as the devil took upon him to chief, and adaV; 
 frofhefie in the nime of Samuel after* 1 ' he r ,ll * n J 
 his dear h/o we doexped rhe like from on j y ^^ 
 his inftruments-nay,fome have already <he rw ncc 
 attempted to fet forth Sermons^ andj f w 2^ as 
 Books of errors in this our Samuels under ihejo- 
 Name, and like to proceed, if not jjjj'5 i ? n of * 
 prevented by the Government • which * YjepSnih^ 
 all prudent men, that beare any re- sameiem obi- 
 fpe<5* to his memory, are defired to be fj** J|™ 
 wary of* Thus theflrft part of the ita vi'xerat in 
 Text, for the perfon dead, fits this*" 10 " tri z' nta 
 Solemnity. veratfohudm 
 
 2. Yc havehetc a general l4?»entati-odecim,pojlea 
 9* made for him : i\r^/dying,t hough {^S.^ 
 3 very rich man, yet being zfon ofBdi- p. Martyr in 
 */. we do not read of any mourning for 5 s ; m - *« e *h u 
 B 3 h\m, xidincaluxi ' 
 
6 1 he Life and Death of the 
 
 * 
 
 him, but for Samuel>aflthe Tfraelites la- 
 mented him , i. e. at leaft all good men 
 throughout all the Tribes • a* his word 
 came to all Ifrael in his life, fo upon the 
 word coming of his death 5 iorrow 
 comes to all Ifrael alfo. 
 Now that there is ai Univer fal mour- 
 ning for this molt reverend Primate ; 
 throughout the reformed Churches e- 
 vident by the praife which in theGoffelis 
 of him throughout all the Churches. What 
 
 Cap. i. a. § /W faith of the Romanes . J our faith 
 is fpoken of throughout the whole wor id ,or 
 
 tl Ep. i. 8. what he faith ot \\\zlheffa\onians y From 
 you founded the word of the Lord j not only 
 in Macedon!a,WAchaia but pur faith 
 to God ward is (pre ad abroad in every' 
 place: fo hath been the fame of him 
 accordingly, by his voyce or pen, not 
 onely in/ri/W,and England, but in all 
 parts of die Chriftian World, Let 
 me give you a few inftances of what 
 eminent Chara&ers have been given 
 him by the moft learned Perfonsof 
 other Nations, as well as our own* 
 
 Spanhemius ProfefTor of Geneva, an> 
 1 6$v.m his Epiftle Dedicatory to him^ 
 of the third patt,Dubiortim Evarigelico- 
 rM*,hath above two leaves in the extol- 
 ling 
 
Areh^Bifhop of At n.agh y eic 7 
 
 lingofhira.Someofhiswordsarethefe, 
 
 Ub YCHir Very great parts, b Ingentei tu& vhtxtes.fkt*- 
 
 <c moft excellent Ufher are m },V$™2 ™»™ftr<> ™*>* 
 
 Ze , s • i_- Orbt note [ant, fedet tioftro,et 
 
 knOWD-, not Only With in ubicanqae terrarum pietati fa- 
 
 ''yourfcWnCountry.butin urp (kcus et erudithni fuwn 
 
 <<***>& whertfocver e!fe * mmmcm flat ' ^ 
 
 ;; there is an honour given to piety or a 
 
 c price fet upon learning, &c. Speaks 
 
 nuchofhis charity to ftrangers (w hen 
 
 he enjoyed his Arch-Bifhoprick) his 
 
 Humility .Piety, hisfeverall works, his 
 
 very Library, obtained by him with a 
 
 ^rent famfingexti <ere 7 ) & of which he 
 
 made fuchufeof/or the publickgood, '!%»*%*!* 
 
 t: that hefaith/'Tis not fo much yours, JJJJ or B ^ 
 
 1 as the Library of the learned world, thecaefl. 
 
 Inawordfaithhe^With t 'L . _ . . ,. 
 * us tneN ame of W/flfr is a vWfc » m #. j^*nrj g?o 
 :c Name ofPiety & Vertue. rev * m fi r£ wtAnn unfit ci*. 
 
 ltis or great renown at m:r „ 0l{ybei . nis t *i? P reiiojSm $ 
 
 ' Our Geneva , the true I- Sritannh vcnerabilem \ exre- 
 
 ;c mage of a Bifliop 5 defer- ™ omnibkS '^mrMm tacit 
 ;C vedly makes you to be 
 :c of pretious efteem in Ireland^ vene- 
 c rable in Britanny, and with all forrain 
 x parts to be admire J . 
 
 « Gerardrpfitts is frequently admiring * Ve vit fem. 
 of him • as a man of vaft learning V; 
 worthy of an everlafhng moHuuient. " 
 B4 The 
 
«f Jl:e Life and Death of the 
 
 S*m*fumm-, vh\ * ft. " The high Merits of this 
 
 decunque doHifJimi meriia de ttioft excellent , and 
 ExleJ.a & ma Republic* "throughout moft learned 
 l:teraria,&c. Quo di wore ,t j? u r i_ r->u i 
 
 ift ***>«*»> bumuanan- man.botboftheChurch, 
 
 que pem iffimo, nihil poffum di- " & the whole Common- 
 
 Zll'fpeleT 6 P&* "wealth of learning, de- 
 
 '* ferves an everlafting 
 1 grateful memory: a man fo excelling 
 "in the knowlcdg both of Humane & 
 
 f p. i.Geogra. 'Divine thingSjthat I cannot fpeak any 
 
 iter* f**.sy- Ct thing fo high of him but his worth 
 
 -*££/«* "dothiurpaiTeit. 
 
 (Bocbartusznd SimpliciussaW him fre- 
 quently Magnum UJfent/m ( H/for ^ 
 great,) Afor«r 5 in his Oration at Geneva, 
 
 ZExcellentifmmDeifervHm, '.'dedicated to him, ftHeS 
 
 Keverendifimum vb um Dei, <c him,sThemoft excellent 
 Sst^£2ir y tum fcrvant ofGod, molt reve- 
 
 Britannici'iuedAtiguftmHsHip- J"end mail Ot OOC, the if* 
 
 ^niivdemmmmBriunnis thanafius of our Age* thy 
 
 ^ " j ^ breaft a breathing Library * 
 
 Ci thou art to$ritanyjsAHguftinc tofftp- 
 
 cc pot,Vaxevje\)Britaws greareft honour. 
 
 h De Nat. fy h LudovtCHs de Dieu in his Animad ven. 
 
 %nJiP™ <f ^ 0nsu P 0l,r ^ c A#s, dedicated to him, 
 
 &\Tniwlw\k " intitles him, To the excellentPrelate, 
 
 digno i>rsfuii - c vvorthy of an eternall memory, James 
 
 SE£* " *%> Arch-Bifhop of W, &c. 
 
 Aiuut&iao. /*#///« Tcdarans Blejiwfis ftiks him, 
 
 ftculi 
 
Jvch-Bijbop of Armagh fire. 9 
 
 feculi & Eeclcft* deem eximium ., (the 
 grcatcft honour of the Church & age.) 
 
 g Arnold US Bootius/i/f />, g Buorius, de Armach. Om- 
 
 \btdid exctll with amk fin- J^**^'*"**"* 
 
 . . . r J ! laude, Dnguarum Orient alum 
 
 gUUY]udgmm W tbtOriM- p eflt H pUne fngulari inclytui 
 
 : td Languages, and in alio- &c.iikdvaie,>abiie rorz Euro- 
 
 thrhikn or d, t f Usrmnp ^SStJlSSX 
 venerabletoallEurope-jvho/e ttuxtmk,&c.Ef tontr.Cayei. 
 Authority frevailes much 6*fa*.si toM 
 wthdllmen, &c. Thefe, and many 
 more might be added , which arc of 
 forreign Nations. 
 For our own , h Mr. Set- h Mirm< Arotl£ j c i. h edit. 
 
 den faith this Of him ," The causk Revvendifimns Antiftes 
 
 " moR Reverend Prelate ^S^SSSSSX 
 
 "lames Ufher^nXChtBllhop ufq <e ad miraculum dottits , fy 
 "of lArmwh^ a man of Uteris feverioribus promovendu 
 
 "great piety ^lingular judg- 
 ement , learned to a miracle , and 
 Cc born to thepromoiing of the more 
 <c fevere ftudics, &c. 
 > Dr. Prtdeanx (..ate Bl- Lu , ¥< ^ mi erildlimis &. 
 
 mopOlWorceJter)ca\\Suim, totius antiquitaiis G. -i.il i>vi- 
 
 "The moft rich Magazine own. 
 
 "of folid learning, & of all Antiquity. 
 
 kDr.D41WM»/,lateBifhop k AdPacem.exbon.Vjifni^ 
 Of £4//j£«riffpe3ksthllSOf larisfieutis,<fy<mm\gen£e,u. 
 
 "him, A man of lingular ^!**?mto* 
 "piety, abounding in all manner of 
 " learning. ' Sit 
 
io im ufeanaveamojtbe 
 
 ! HiJior.Anglican.fcript.exep, l Sir Roger Twifden ZC- 
 
 usori. %uod et dignijfmo Ar- knowledeiriff the afliftancc 
 
 chiepijcopo. .>macj.-n< debemtis, . u j r •_• • i • 
 
 in quo. cumincredibilidotlrina h ^ had tromhim, in his 
 v ram Purioris antiquitatis Hiftory , faith thUS* ThlS 
 
 Tr^TLTT, /™ "wcowctothetnoftwor- 
 
 et Antipodes) Mown >. eximi- CC thy Arcb-Bilhopof Ar* 
 us candor, et in inftruendo €c ma „L } n w hom. with in- 
 
 ?mperitMesmnafuav7tas,[erte , f °j. , , 
 
 quZdam et Epifcopait mixta u credible learning,^ rare 
 
 gravitate, certare dignofcuntur, " knowlcdg of Antiquity 5 
 
 aquononparum meinbocopere cc f w hirh h^th Tavm and 
 
 p.ovthende adjutum profiteer, VWnicn DOltkiagUS ana 
 
 urpote qui Into h&rentem faphs U GdffgtS, and pCrhapS tUC 
 
 extraxit, et deviantem in viam c <^/tf/W^knaw)hiS moft 
 
 " courteous converfanon, 
 t€ &wonderfu!l fweetnes,ininftrudting 
 cc of the unskilful,mixed with a certain 
 tC ferious Epifcopal gravity , were feen 
 Cf to drive onewith the other^by whom, 
 <c in the carrying on of this work, I 
 <f profefle my feif to have been much 
 rC helped; when I have been ftuck f3ft, 
 "he haih lift me out • and having 
 cc gone aftray, hath reduced me. 
 
 And to fay no more 5 the eminent 
 Chara&er given - hi n in 1^44, by the 
 whole Univcrfity ofoxfor^by a folema 
 Order in the Convocation , given in 
 charge to (ixteen eminent Perfons(of 
 which,fevenwerethenDo6lors)chofen 
 with the VicqrChancellor &Pro&cr$, 
 
 to 
 
to ice his Effigies cut, and anElogium 
 worthy of him, to be prefixed to his 
 Annotations upon /£#4//w hisEpiftles, 
 ( there then in the PrefTe ) and at the 
 charge of the Univerflty, and in the 
 publick name of it>is an honourto that 
 famous Univerfity that did it; it 
 was omitted to that book, but was af- 
 fixed afterwards to his booVde Symbo* 
 lis^ & fomc others (ince:the Elogtnm is 
 cc this.»'#iiw« UfherArch- T : n(r . M .. „ 
 
 rcn*/i J r * ■ / t» • m Jacobus UflTenus, 4rc6/e- 
 
 "Bifhop of Armagh, Pn-pi/^ Amachmus , wm 
 "mate of all Ireltodi The H y hchi *^' w **^%**'« 
 "moft skilful of Pr minve d , x£rdi / onis J ndexa:fttrTih 
 
 "Ant/quity, the Unanfwer- 'fTnr^erromm malleus,^ cm- 
 
 "able Defender of the Or- «***»*»%«!»** fami»w*- 
 
 ,, , , »v .. . , Mens, vita inculvata exemplar 
 
 "thodox Religion , the fpeSabiie. 
 
 cc maul of errors, in preach- r ob . pi NK vicc-cancell. 
 
 "frig frequent, eloquent, 
 
 u very powerful, a rate example of an 
 
 i: unblameablelife. 
 
 Rob- Pink 
 Vicc-chancelor« 
 
 An Authenrick Copy cf which I 
 have thought fit toadde, as fplloweth? 
 
 In 
 
1 l Tbe Life and death of the 
 
 ^NRegiffro ConvocAtionumUniverfita. 
 
 tis Oxon. cujus Characlenftiea eft S 
 
 P 3 g-73. fie babetur., Guilhelmus Heri- 
 
 firdi*C*mes CanceUius. Robertas Pinck 
 
 Vice Cancellous Procures 
 
 M A *i(kri X Cned > 
 
 D " lm *> *>**» Vecimo die mentis 
 Mfrtu, Anno Domini 160.4.. 
 Caufk Convocations erat, ut liter* I 
 Seremffma Regis Majeflate ad banc ve- 
 
 »"*M™d<>w<mmif*publicarentur&c. 
 Mmmerjeais fequitur.p.g.^. Jnd . 
 
 dem Convocation Precursor es mmina- 
 bantbos Egregiosviros>mEffigiemReve- 
 rendt$im t Domini Primat is Armacbani, 
 vm cum Elogio iUms quam fieri poteft me- 
 
 '""£*"> mcmn hu \ Ui Academudivm, 
 SantltlinatiiEfiftol^ r * annotatfoni- 
 busab eo tlluHrat* propediem. divulgand* 
 r^gendAmcurent, publico Univer fit at is 
 
 ftommeejrfumptu.viz,. 
 f 
 
 Vc\\<s£disCbrifti. 
 
 Bayly Divi Johannis, 
 
 Doffores< Clayton c*/. ft*rf. 
 
 Sheldon Om. Animarum. 
 
 Zouch Aid. tsflban. 
 
 ! Turner Col. Merton, 
 
 Ma- 
 
Jrch-^Bi/hop ofAtmzgh, <?c. 
 
 r 
 
 Langbanc 7 _ , _ . 
 Maine *>£<//* Cbrifii* 
 
 Magiftros^ drifts J ColL mdham - 
 Goad Divitfohannis. 
 Newman Om. Animari. 
 Tillcfly Divi fohannis. 
 Lee Cell. Mvton. 
 
 Urn cum Vice CanceUario & Procura* 
 tortious^ velmajorem fart em horum, cum 
 relatione ad Domum. Supra-fcripta b&c 
 omnia & fingula ex Regiflro per mefideli- 
 ter de/cripta } dr mox diltgenter collata, 
 cum Oripnali convenire tejtor 
 
 Gerard uj Langbanius, Cufios Ar* 
 chiv&rum Umverfitatis Qxon. 
 PridieNon. Decembris. Anno 
 v£r£ vulgaris ChriHi 
 MDCLK 
 
 Nay, for his learning, even his Ad- 
 versaries being fudges, thofc of the 
 Church of Rome have not been back- 
 ward to acknowledge:There is a Jefuit 
 in a book ca\kdHjberni<e vindictijNtlt- 
 ten againft DempfleraScetcbman>undet- 
 valuwg the Irijh for learning, after he 
 
 hath 
 
 15 
 

 . 
 
 i'4 The Lift and Death of the 
 
 bath reckoned up many learned men o 
 his own and other Orders of that Na- 
 tion, at length headdesthis of him ; 
 
 homines infe we voluiffem,vere menot a different Kellgl- 
 affimarep*ffem,quod Uih .urn « n,I might tttsly iay,SC6t- 
 
 niumatquehttmHMJJimis mores ''(her, whofe fublime wit, 
 
 ip^mPf^ 1?" " and raoft courteous bcha- 
 - 'viour ,1 wifh that unlucky 
 c< education among the Se&aries had 
 " not been his Step-mother. 
 
 Ask Moranez, in his Anti^anfemus % 
 
 whofe works, the reading of \ wrought 
 
 4b much upon tfanfenius ( the Father of 
 
 that gregt party inFrance) he tels you,it 
 
 was a book of this mod Reverend Pri- 
 
 <uit fed a cat- he proves that thofe,fo onetimes called 
 vwfis accept, p re deflwatia#Hcxctkks, were the fol- 
 \lt2omJo lowers, of St. Augufiwes doctrine, 
 inCign* cdvi- which is now defended by them - that 
 J? a^S: whicl ^ he there blots ]anfemus with,is, 
 Librum edidit that he lad his arguments almoft word for 
 inflrp^n word, tranferibtd out of James Ufher, 
 fcTneque (en- an eminent Cahinifi of Ireland, but 
 fum duntaxat (which had been ]ufi) he hath not fo much 
 
 r e d verba fere 
 
 ipfa tranfcriffit hr\lcnm$,neque tamen ( qnod &quum ertt) ullam e)u,t 
 
 mentwemfaerc dignams eft j <fi/jp«r. u.ScS. 2. 
 
Arch-Bijhop of Armagh, &c. 15 
 
 as mentioned, him. And it was for fome 
 caufc Pet wins calls the lanfenhns^ Ar- 
 macbam. 
 
 Thus,from what you have heard of 
 the high ejleem had of him in all the 
 Churches 5 ye may prefume accordingly 
 there is muni ver fall mourning for h m 
 throughout the whole Church : And 
 fo the fecond part of the Text firs this , 
 occafion, and alllfrael lamented him. 
 
 The third is , the Solemnity of this 
 mourning •, not powred out fingly, ot 
 in a corner, but publicity 5 by way of 
 accumulation , they all gathered their 
 griefs into one heap , put all their £/*— 
 gies into one Volume , uttered them all 
 with one lip. As once they all gathe- 
 red together at p Mizpehto weep with p l SlVQ <l* 6i 
 him > fo now chey all meet to weep for 
 him; and all Israel gathered together. 
 Such Preachers, who are (as Solomon 
 calls them ) the Mafters of K^Afcm- 
 blies ^/pending thtmfelves^ and are [pent 
 in the weekly and. daily teaching then* 
 all their lives , 'tis but reafon that the 
 whole AflcmbFy , as their Schol ;r% 
 ifhould meet once ro lament thdr death*- 
 nd fo,as a due,we do xhr like atthe in- 
 :crring of this laborious Preacher here. 
 
 And 
 
i 6 The Life and death qftht 
 
 And furely for this of Samuels jt was 
 not a dumb (hew., but they had fame 
 commemorative Speeches , declaring 
 his goodnefs,and worthinefs of it. And 
 fo in this Great meeting, thus to lament 
 this Great perfon, I fhall prefume accor- 
 dingly j and I eafily believe, you who 
 have heard fo much from him^ will aot 
 think your ti?ne loft to hear fometvhat 
 of him- And fo the third part fits affo # 
 
 The fourth is, and they buried him. 
 To be buried, with the PJalmifl, h to be 
 out of remembrance , the grave, the place 
 where allthtngs are forgotten ; but ir was 
 not fo with Samuel, for though dtad 
 and buried, yet fpeaketh by this Book of 
 holy Writ : which for the moft part he 
 was the Pen-man of , and fo will it be 
 with this mod: eminent Ptimate, whd 
 hath bui't himfelf an everlafting Monu- 
 ment in t he hearts of luch as heard him, 
 and in the eyes of fuch as readhim^to 
 future generations. 
 
 In a word , if Samuel in the Texf 5 
 were (according to the (ignification of 
 bis name) as ked tfGod* I 3 : m hire this 
 a Cor.9.if # our Samuelwas the gift ofGod^ even do- 
 rsum inenarrabile , as the Apoftle in 
 another ienfc 5 The Lord that gave 
 
 him, 
 
ArchSBlJhop ofArmagh, <<rc. 17 
 
 him, hath now taken him^ he that by his 
 n Seraphicall endowments, was but little *'Ayy*H*f* 
 lowe/thenan^nge/lhcrc, (aS ^8:^f^ 
 IXft//*/ faith of the making of man at jww*, : a^ 
 firft) is now »* cT»ex©-, iW^ia©-* tran- enccm 'wm Na- 
 flatcd by Angels, into an f^mndrdtU^%^^ 
 company ofv4ngels y and we muft fay, 
 Mejfcd he the name of the Lord. 
 
 And thus I have only fitted the Text 
 to the Sermon , I mean the exemplary 
 Sermon following of the Life and 
 Death of this holy man of God, which 
 I fuppofe is the principall thing expeft- 
 cd by this Auditory, which I haften 
 unto , becaufe elfe , but to epitomize, 
 requires more time then can be allow- 
 ed me, I have never been much for Fu- 
 nerall commendations , as, ufually dp- 
 ing more hurt then good $ but meeting 
 with fuch a rare excellent pattern of pi- 
 ety, there cannot be taken too great a 
 latitude- It was rtothisdefiretohave 
 been here fo much as mentioned , or 
 removed from the place ^ but where 
 this fruitfull tree fell, there itJhoulAhave 
 Uyn\ And it was my endeavour , that 
 aperfon of eminency and honour in 
 the Church , might have done this 
 office for him, but by his prcfentindif- 
 C pofition. 
 
1 8 The Life and Death of the 
 
 pofition, it being laid upon me , I fhall 
 caft in my mite , even all I have , to ir, 
 And as in this Book, the Life of Samuel 
 is written from his CradletobisHerfe, 
 fo give mc leave to do the like of this 
 our Samuel-^ this moft eminent and lear- 
 ned iV/w^asIhave either received it 
 from himf elf, or undoubted witnefles, 
 or comes within the compafTe ofmy 
 own knowledge, who have had the 
 happinefs to be known .unto him above 
 thde thirty yeers ; unto which I ftiAl 
 defire your patient Attention. 
 
 HE 
 
Arcb-Biflop ^Armagh; i$c. 19 
 
 . — _ v 
 
 E was born in the City c f 
 Dublin in Ireland jn Saint 
 NicbolasVznfa.An.z 5 8 c. 
 Ian* the fourth Stylo ^An- 
 glicano\ an eminent New- 
 years -gift to the benefit of the whole 
 Church of God , and the honour of 
 that his native Countrey ; as Bertms 
 An. i6i<5.inhis Geographical Tables 
 ipe king of ' Lmfter , and (o of Dub~ 
 lyn, and the Univerftty there , faiih this 
 only of it. (°) Which, while we werewri- ( ) %am, 
 ting this , one James Uflier did adorn, qwmijia, 
 a Divine Eminent for learning andpety, Jjj 
 and frincif ally for i is writings ^ borne at UifnusT" 
 Dublin. Jjy *N 
 
 His Father Mr. ArnaldUjber was <&\cripnim- 
 brought up in the fzudv of the Lv^,P ,jmiscIari{ ^^ 
 one of the Cfcrkes of die Chancery, a £" 
 perlon of excellent pans and endow- 
 ments. 
 
 , His Mother M l{s Margaret St am hnrp, 
 I knew, 2nd was at her burial: Indeed 
 (he was ieduced by fo:ne of the Popidi 
 Priefls to the Roman Religion, who 
 took their time while he was once here 
 C 2 in 
 
 nam* 
 
zo The Life and Death of the 
 
 in England^ whom they had in fome 
 vows io engaged, that when he came 
 back (he could no: be reclaimed , to 
 their great boafting , which they have 
 often Printed $ his hope was upon her 
 death-bell, but {he dying fuddenly at 
 JDrogheda while-he was at Duhlyn y he 
 was iruftrated of it , to hisnofmall 
 grief, whichlwasawitneffeof, being 
 prefent at the bringing of the firft news 
 of it to him: And iowas it alfo with 
 • Vid Mich. * Doflor JYhitaker. being not able to pre- 
 Mmmn^nvi-vd'de in nutter of Religion^ either with 
 /vS^ Mother: It fhewes that 
 
 tate fuh in p convcrfion is not mans a& 5 but Gods. 
 rentes lingular!, • hj s Grand-Father by his Mothers I 
 urReijghS fi^ e v^s fames Sumhurfl (whofename 
 eb fir mato plane he bare) chofen three times Speaker 
 avmo&per- f, t h C Houfe of Commons in Parlia- 
 
 tinaces prtfra- . . . _ . _ 
 
 flofjuemim'tac ment in Ireland • the firft in Queen Ma- 
 fimiter adhx- r j e$ (j' 3 y es,t he other two in Queen £//'- - 
 "SIS' -^'^in the latter of which, he made 
 the firft (motion for the founding of a 
 Colledge , and a Univrefity in Dubljn^ 
 he w as Recorder of that City, one of the 
 Matters of the Chancery ^ and a man of 
 great wifdom and integrity. 
 
 His Uncle was Richard Stamharft, 
 his Books of divers fubjects (hew him 
 
 t9 
 
Arcb/Bi/bop of Armagh, &c. 21 
 to be a very learned man. famous in c „ , . 
 
 , J , vt • 1 See Cambden 
 
 France and other Nations , between and campion 
 whom and this Reverend Perfo.i ma- ofJiim ' hc 
 ny learned Letters paired. ?$?£• 
 
 His Uncle by his Fathers fide wastry ac **• 
 Henry Ufier, one of his PredeceiTors,^^ :^^^ 
 Arch-Bifhop of Armagh^ educateed at bernki** n£ 
 Cambridge^ a wife and learned man, r ^ VvgiUnto 
 he while he was Arch- Deacon of z>**. " C ^CS 
 /jw was /ry? {cnt over into England ro the mofl tmi- 
 petition Queen Elizabeth > and the n ™ r ph jj°fc- 
 Council for the preferving the Cathe- 1^. ° 
 dralofSt. Patricks Dublyn from being 
 diflolved ( fo defigned by Sir $ohn 
 Perrot then Lord Deputy of Ireland^ 
 begged for his own private purfe ) and 
 he prevailed in it ; fome good fruit of 
 which 5 his Nephew this Reverend 
 Perfon, and the Church by him, rea- 
 ped in after times , being the Chan- 
 cellor of it . and fo for many yeares 
 receiving his fubfiftance fom it. 
 The fecend time he was fent over by 
 the Council there to Qncen Elizabeth, 
 for the founding of a Colledge and U< 
 niverfity in Dnblyn , which he ob- 
 tained alfo •, fo that the Colledge (of 
 which this perfon was the I acred fir ft - 
 fruits ) had its being by his Grand Fa- 
 "C 3 thers 
 
2i The Life arid-Death of the 
 
 thcrsmotion^ and his Uncles effect- 
 ing. 
 
 Hehad a Brother, ^4mbrofe Ujher, 
 who died in his younger years, a man 
 of great parrs alio, excelling much in 
 the 0nVtff4/Langu3ges.Hedid tranflatc 
 the old Teftatuent our of the Hebrew in- 
 to Englifli) from Genefis to the Bock of 
 $ob, and is ftill preserved under his 
 own hand -, but defifted from procee- 
 ding upon the New Tranjlation coming 
 forth in King fames his time. 
 
 Two of his Aunts, who by reafon 
 of their blindneflefrom their Cradles, 
 newer faw letters, taught him firft to 
 read. Their readinejfte in the Scrip- 
 ture was marvellous, being ablefud- 
 da'nly to have repeated any parr pf the 
 Bible, making good that ufual fpeech, 
 Ctcorum mens ocuUtiffim.4. This for 
 his Stock and Alliance, wherein I have 
 imitated the holy Writer of the life of 
 Samuelherc, who in the firft Chapter 
 begins with the like of him. 
 
 Nowforthis Reverend Perfon him- 
 felfe. At eight years old he wasfent 
 to the Grammar-Schoole; Sir }ames 
 Tidlerton ( who was afterwards Lc 
 Embaffador in France ^ and died irr a 
 
 great 
 
Arch-'Bi[hop of Ar m agh, &c m z 5 
 
 great Office at Court ) was bis School- 
 maftcr (near to whom in Henry rhe 
 feventhVChappel Weftminfttr, by Or- 
 der from his Highnedc the Lord Pre- 
 te#or 3 he was buried ) 
 
 He with Sir James Hamilton ( after- 
 wards Lord Vi [count Clandeboife ) who 
 wasllfher of the Schoole, were fent 
 then out of Scot land by King James up- 
 on another defign 5 only difguifed in that 
 employment : they came very oppor- 
 tunely for his founding in learning 5 
 where there was then a barren neffe of 
 iuch able men for that end, which he 
 often acknowledged the providence of 
 God in. 
 
 At ten years old was the firft time he 
 could remember he found in him the 
 true fenfe of Religion in his ferious 
 converlion unto God;it was inftrumen- 
 tally by a Sermon he heard preached 
 upon Rom. 1 2. i. Ibefeech you brethren^ 
 by the mercies of God, &c. His reading 
 then of fome notes taken in writing 
 from M After Perkins (before his workes 
 were printed ) concerning the ian&ify- 
 ing of the Lords day 5 took fo with him, 
 that he was ever after careful to keep ir* 
 He then read in Latine St. Augnfiines 
 C 4 Me- 
 
24 TJE* Life and Death of the 
 
 Meditations ( or thofe which go under 
 his name) which fo moved him, 
 that he wept often Jn the reading of 
 them. 
 
 Upon theaccuftoming himfclfe thus 
 to good duties in his tender years, the 
 Devil endeavoured to nip him in the 
 bud, by divers forts of terrors and af- 
 frigtments^ fleeping as waking, ten- 
 ding to the difcouragment of him in 
 the way of godlinefle, which till then, 
 he had never been difturbed with. He 
 conftantly applyed himfelfe to prayer, 
 and at length was heard in that he feared, 
 in his being delivered from them, by 
 fome unufual way of fupport and com- 
 fort j which took that impreflion in 
 him, that it was frefh in his memory in 
 his Elder years. 
 
 When he could not be frighted out 
 of that courfe, the Devil laid a bake of 
 pleafure to withdraw him, by fome of his 
 friends teaching him to play at Cards, 
 which he found himfelfe fo delighted 
 with,that it not onely took place of the 
 love to his Book, but began to be a , 
 rival with that fpiritual part in him 5 
 upon the apprehenfion of which, he 
 gave it over, and never play 'd after. 
 
 At 
 
Arcb~Bi/bop o/Armagh, <?c. 
 
 At twelve years old, he wasfoaffe- 
 ptcd with Chronology y and Antiquity, 
 phat reading oisleidan of the four Em- 
 Vires and other Author?, he drew out 
 an exa<3 Series of times when each E mi- 
 Dent Per fon lived. Inthefpaceoffive 
 years he was perfe&ly inftru&ed in 
 firammaticis , Rhetoricis^ Pontic is •, ex*- 
 felled in Poetry, which he then found 
 himfelfe fo delighted with, that he took 
 himfelfe off, ieaft it fbould have 
 taken him off from more ferious ftu- 
 dies. 
 
 At thirteen years of age he was ad- 
 mitted into the CoUedge of Dubljn, be- 
 ing the firft Schollar that was entred in- 
 to it: and I have heard, it was fo or- 
 dered upon deflgne by the Covernours 
 o- it, obferving the pregnancy and for- 
 wardneflfe of him •, That it might be a 
 future honour to it, to have it upon Re- 
 cord in the Frontifpiece of their Admif- 
 fion Book, and fo accordingly the firft 
 Graduate, Fellow, Proftor, and all other 
 Degrees originally from thence. 
 
 And now Sir J>ames Hamilton, hi- 
 therto Uflier of the Schoole, was cho- 
 feni^iWoftbeColIedge, and fo be- 
 came his Tutor 5 whom 1 have often 
 
 heard 
 
16 The Life and Death of the 
 
 "card admiring his quieknefle and pro- 
 ficiency, that he foone equalized his ] 
 Teachers* 
 
 The Jrtshe made himfelfe the Ma* 
 fter of indeed, mod of them he model- 
 led into a Method, and in fpecial made 
 then an Art ofMnfuk. He had no Greek 
 till he came to the Colledge, Where he j 
 was taught that and the Hebrew 5 in! 
 both which he is known to have ex- 1 
 celled. 
 
 The Education which that Colledge 
 then gave, was very eminent. At the 
 firft Foundation there were but four 
 Fellowes, and yet the Tongues and 
 Arts were very exa&Iy taught to all the | 
 Students, being divided into feverall 1 
 Gaffes-, i^frifiotlts Text was read in 
 Creek by each Tutor to his Pupils .• i 
 Three tenures a day every Fellow 
 read*, at each of which, there was a 
 Diffntamn upon what had been then 
 read,or the Le6ture bcfore,and among 
 other wayes,they were fomeiimes or- 
 dered to difpute, More Socratico m 
 
 On Satterday in the afternoon, each 
 Tutor read in Latint a Ledure in 'Divi- 
 nity to his Pnpils,and dilated it fo deli- ; 
 berately, that they eafily took it id wri- 
 ting, 
 
Jrck^i/hop of Armagh, iste. 27 
 
 ing, and To was thejg&Fner Le&ures 
 afo. 
 
 Ar fourteen years o!d he was called 
 o the receiving of the Communion. 
 
 The afcernoonc before, his ufual 
 ruftomewasto (equeftcr himfelfein- 
 o feme privacy , and to fpend it in 
 bme ftrtff examination, and peniten- 
 :ial humiliation of himfelfe for his fins, 
 which was fo operative,that ftreams of 
 tears ran from him, which he often re- 
 flected upon, as an exemplary provo- 
 cation, and cenfure of himfelfe, when 
 tie was of Elder years . 
 
 I have often heard him fpeakof a 
 certain place by a water-fide, whither 
 he frequently reforted , forrowfuily to 
 recount his fins,and with floods of tears 
 topowrethem out intheconfeflionof 
 them-the fruit of which he Found to be 
 fo [met to his foult^ that he thirfted 
 Foralloccafions for fuch a fequeftra- 
 tion, and ib ufually on Satterdajes 
 in the after-noones it was his cu- 
 ftom.One fin he lamenred was, his too 
 much love of his Book and humane 
 learning, that he (hou ! d be as glad of 
 Mucday to go to that , as of the Lords 
 day for his fervice 5 it coft him many 
 
*8 *the Lift and death of the 
 
 a tear, that he could not be more hea- 
 venly-minded at that age. 
 
 At fifteen years old, he had made 
 fuch a proficiency in Chronology, that 
 in Latine he drew up an exaft Chroni- 
 rle of the Bible, as farre as the Book of 
 the Kings, not much differing from that 
 of his late Annates 7 excepting the en- 
 largements in fome exquifite obferva- 
 tions , and the Sjncromfmes of Heathen 
 Story: About that time he had a ftrong 
 temptation fell uponhim,that God did 
 not love him,becau fe he had no eutmrd 
 affliftionS) or troubles of confidence, 
 occafioned by fome inconfiderateex- 
 preflions he had read in forne Writers, 
 and was long under fome trouble a- 
 bout it. 
 
 Before he was Batchclour of Arts,he 
 had read Stapktons Fcrtrefiofthe Faith , 
 and finding his confidence in averting 
 Antiquity for the tenents of Popery, 
 and blotting our Church with Novel- 
 ty,in what we diflented from them -, he 
 was put to a plunge within himfelf, not 
 knowing but that his quotations might 
 be true, this he then took for a truth, 
 that the Ancientefi muft needs be the 
 beft, as the nearer the Jrouataine, the 
 
 purer 
 
Arcb-^Bi/bop gf Armagh,£?f # 19 
 
 purer the ftreams, and that errors were 
 received in fuccceding ages, according 
 to that known fpeech of Tertullian> Ve- 
 rnm quodcunque frimum, adult erum quod- 
 cunqueftfterms. His fufpicion was, that 
 Stafkton might mifquote the Fathers, 
 or wreft them to his own fenfe •, Hence 
 he then took up a firm refolution , that 
 in due time, if God gave him life and 
 health 5 he would himfelf read the 
 Fathers aBover, and truft his own eyes 
 in the iearch of them, and fo, as I take 
 it , he began that work afterwards at 
 /nwtf}fyce<esof Age, and finiflied it at 
 thirty eight : ftri&ly obferving his pro- 
 portion each day , what occasions foe- 
 ver diverted him-, the fruit of which la- 
 bour 5 as the world hath already ta- 
 iled ^ andundcrftoodhisfenfe of that 
 pretence ofStapletom for matter of an- 
 tiquity 5 fo a more large account was in- 
 tended by him of it in his BibUctheca 
 Theologica, which as it was expedied, fo 
 we hope with other fubjedte , may be 
 in due time produced by the affiftance 
 of learned men; though as Orphanes y 
 after their Parents death , falling fhort 
 of that Paternal e Are 5 which elie would 
 have been had of them. 
 
 While 
 
3° The Life and Death of the 
 
 while he was BatchelonrofArts, he had 
 read here and there divers books of the 
 Fathers, and moft Authors writing of 
 the body of Divinity, not only Fofttive- 
 ly> but Polemically . in confuting of the 
 errors of the Church of Rome, and had 
 read many of their Authors alio •, by 
 which he had fo well acquainted him< 
 felf with the ftate of each controver fie, 
 *ha?hewasab!etodifpute with any of 
 - the Popjh Priefts, as he did often with 
 the Prime of them, 
 
 The Earl of-E{fex f anno 1 5 9 8. being 
 newly come over L. Lieutenant ot 
 Irelavd^and Chancellor ofthellniver- 
 fity of Dublin 3 there was a folemn Act 
 for his entertainment, he being then 
 Batchelourof Arts,anfwered the Phi- 
 lofophy A3, with great approbation. 
 
 But now his Fathers intention to 
 fend him over hither to thelnnesof 
 Court for the ftudy of the Common 
 Law, (as Calvin was fo defigned by his 
 to the Civil!) much difturbed him, yet 
 in obedience to his Fathers pleafure, 
 aflented and reiolved it. But it fofell 
 out, that not long after his Father dyed 
 {Aug. 12.1598.) & being then at liberty 
 to make choice of his ftudies, devoted 
 
 himfelf 
 
Arcb-Ri/bop of Armagh y etc. 51 
 
 himfelf totheftudy of Divinity, and 
 was chofen Fellow of the College-, be- 
 fore which^he was incapable of caking 
 the Oath then given at the Admitfion of 
 them. viz. That the prefect intent of their 
 fiudiesjhouldbe for theprofefton $f,Divi- 
 nitfyunleffe Cod [hould afterwards other- 
 wife dtfpofe their winds. 
 
 Here was given another occafion of 
 difturbance^ His Father left him a very 
 good eftate inZW.but finding he rouffc 
 have involved bimictf in many fuitsin 
 Law before it could have been fetied, 
 to the withdrawing him from his ftu- 
 dies, gave it up to the benefit of his 
 mothers and fitters, and luffered his 
 Llncle to take Letters of ddmiritfiration 
 or that end, being in thofe yeers refol- 
 ded to pur himfelf upon the providence 
 )f God 5 towhofe fervice mihcM/ni- 
 1ry, he had devoced himfelf 5 and did 
 lot doubt but he would provide for 
 lim-only that it might not be judged 
 o be weakly and roinly done, he drew 
 ipanote under his hand of the ftate 
 )f all things that concerned it, and di- 
 e&ions what to do in it. 
 
 When he wis nineteen yeers old, he 
 
 futed with Henry F\tz> Symonds the 
 : (mi, 
 
3i The Life and death of the - 
 
 tfeftriiCyin the Caftle of Dublin, as hirn- 
 felf acknowledged! in the Preface ro 
 his book called Britanno mochiaMirii* 
 Jtrorum,(thc fruit of which by him ex- 
 pected , and prayed for with a Faxii 
 DeuSjVtz. their deftru&ion • or ending 
 in Popery, I wifh may not be reaped). 
 Theoccafion of that difpute, was this- 
 The Jefuit by way of Challenge , (as 
 was interpreted)ufed thefe words-, That 
 he being a pri fewer was like a Bear tyed to 
 a flake , and wanted fome U baite him $ ". 
 (as in his Epiftletothe Reader, he 
 boafteth of the challenges he had!| 
 made) upon which , this eminent per- 
 fon in thofe his yonger yeares , was , 
 thought fit to encounrer him s though 
 at meetingjlike Goliah David^ he defpi- 
 fed his youth. He offered to difpure 
 _ with him through the controverfies of] 
 Bellarmine> for which once a week a 
 meeting was agreed on , and jt fell out, 
 the firft fubje<9t propofed was dt Ami- 
 chrifto, twice or thrice they had folcmn 
 difputations , though the Jefuit ac- 
 knowledgeth but one 5 He was ready 
 to have proceeded , but the Jefuit was 
 weary of it, yet gives him a tolerable 
 commendation, and much admires jl 
 
 the 
 
ArchSifh&p p/Armagh, &c. 3 3 
 
 the forvvardnetfeof him, at fuch young 
 years. Some of; his words are thefe; 
 * There came once to me a, youth of about * Pro j tJt ^ 
 ^eighteen jeares of age, one of a toofoon ripe Jemfemclozt - 
 U', -fine, as youvould think, gmtZJgJZ 
 throufh his cottrfe of Philofoph^ or got Events, deab- 
 mofhischildeshoed^etreadi to difpute$ ru fij m \ s !' e r 
 of the mofi Abjtrufe points in Divinity. cum aJb \ e 
 And afterwards the fame Jefuite li- Pb-kfohica 
 ving to underftand more of «*,££■*• 
 faith , he was , %AcathoUcorum do- Ephebis egref- 
 m$m*s, asanunuful, foa tender ta-jjjipjEjf 8 ' 
 predion, loth to call him a heretique j avi * 
 but of fuch as are not Catholicks, the 
 moft learned. 
 
 About twenty years of age, An. 
 one thoufand fixe hundred , hee 
 commenced CMafter of Arts , an- 
 weredthe Philofophy Acl : it then 
 fell ( out of the ordinary courfe ) 
 :o be on an A(b-wednefday , the 
 Tame day on which the Earle of 
 Ejfex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 
 was beheaded . He was that yeare 
 chofen Catechift of the Colledge, 
 when hee went through a great 
 jart of the Body of Divinity in 
 :he Chappell , by way of common 
 place, 
 
 D And 
 
34 Tfe Life and Death of the 
 
 And now by reafon of the fcarcity 
 of Preachers, ( it being there then as in 
 Samuels time here, The word of God was 
 precious ) three young men of the Col- 
 ledge were picked out and appointed 
 to preach in Chri$i*Chnrch before the 
 State, The one was Mr Kichardfon 
 (afterwards D oft or of Divinity ^ and 
 Bifhop of Ardagh in Ireland^ who died 
 lately in London, and was of the fame 
 year with this Lord Primate • a perfon 
 ofgreatabilitieand induftry for ope- 
 ning the fenfeof the Scripture- He was 
 appointed for the expofition of the 
 Prophefieof//^M^ and his day was 
 upon the Friday Le&ure-, tvhere,in fuc- 
 ceeding years he went through halfe of 
 it.) The fecond was one itf^ ^//Af- 
 terwards DoBor of Divinity ; he was 
 appointed to handle the Body of Di- 
 vinity on Sundayes in the forenoone* 
 And the third was this moft learned 
 Frimate 5 and his part was to handle the 
 controverfies for the fatisfa&ion of the 
 Papifts, on the Lords dayes in the after- 
 noones ; which he did fo perfpicu- 
 oufly, ever concluding with matter of 
 Exhortation ^ that it was much for the 
 confirmation and edification of the 
 
 Proteftgnts; 
 
Arth^Bifhop of Armagh } &c. ^ 
 
 Proteftants- which the Elder fore of 
 perfons living in my time, I have heard 
 often acknowledging. 
 
 After a little fpace (which he 
 took to be but in the nature of a Pro- 
 bationer ) he refufed to continue ir, 
 becaufe he had not yet received Ordi- 
 nation • and that he alfo made a fcruple 
 of taking yet, by hisdefeft of yeares 3 
 the Conftitutions of England requiring 
 twenty foiu\and he not yet being twen- 
 ty one- but by fome of the moft grave 
 and learned men he was told the Lord 
 had net d of him : and>as Nullum iempus 
 occurrit Regi , So neither Deo y andfo 
 like Stfnuel he rauft continue this mini- 
 firing to the Lord in his yenth. Upon 
 their perfwafions and urging of him, 
 and his age being difpenfed with ? ac- 
 cording to former Prefidents , he was 
 at the ufual time of Ordination , the 
 Sunday before Chriftmas day (an. 
 1601.) ordainedCmth the affiftanceof 
 other Minifters ) by his Uncle Henry 
 U\her Arch-Bifhop of Armagh , ancl 
 Primate of Ireland. 
 
 The firft Text he preached of pub- 
 lickly before the State after his Ordi- 
 nation, was Zfcw/. 3* i- Thou haft a name 
 D * that 
 
3 £ The Life and Ve«tb of the 
 
 that thou liveft, and art dead- y k fell out 
 tobethe fame day withtheBattellof 
 Kinfale^ the Friday before Chriftmas 
 day , and it being a day fpecially fet a- 
 part for prayer, for a good fucceffc up- 
 on that engagement ; and being his 
 * firft fruits in that office , might pof- 
 fibly be the more efficacious. He 
 began that Epiftle to the Church of 
 Sardis then, and finiflied it after- 
 wards. 
 
 Thedefign was then known, that 
 if the Spaniards had got the better, 
 moftofthe Proteftants had beenflaine 
 by the Irtfh Papifts, both in Dublin and 
 elfcwhere, but cfpecially the Mini- 
 Jiers , without any diftin&ion •, hence 
 rife a temptation in him (as he termed 
 it) to have deferred his Ordination till 
 the Event of ; that Battell were known, 
 whereby he fliould not have been in 
 fuch imminent danger 5 but he repelled 
 that motion, and refolved the rather 
 upon it , conceiving he fliould in that 
 Office of the Miniftery , and for that 
 Caufe , die the next door to dtiartyr* 
 dome. 
 
 Aftdr the Spaniards overthrow at 
 Kinfak) the hopes of the Irijh as to that 
 
 defigne 
 
Arch-Bi/hop ofArmagh y etc- 37 
 
 dcfigne (which was difcovered) be.^ 
 ingloft, they began to fubjeft them- 
 f elves to the Stiturc , now put in exe- 
 cution^ their coming to Church 5 and 
 for their further information in point 
 of Religion , the Lord Lieutenant and 
 Coiwcilly defied the Minifters fo to 
 divide themfelves, that at each Church 
 ontheLords-dayes in the afternoons, 
 (in imitation of what he had alreaoy 
 begun at Chrift- Church before the 
 kute) there might be a Sermon for 
 that end: A convenient Church (St. 
 Katberins ) was affigned for this Reve- 
 rend Perf on, who removed accordingly, 
 Hid duely obferved it. His cuftome 
 was to draw up the fumme of what he 
 lad delivered into gueftions and ^y(n- 
 r wers^ and the next Sunday perfons of 
 ^ood efteem, voluntarily offered them- 
 elves to repeat the Anfwers before 
 he whole Congregation , which oc« 
 :a(ioned them to he the more taken 
 lotice of by the Papifts. 
 
 By this his labour, and others of his 
 Jrethren the Minifters , not onely in 
 Jublyn, but in divers other parts of the 
 [ingdome 5 the Pdpifls came to Church 
 j diligently , that if they had occafion 
 D 3 to 
 
 -..- 
 
3 S The Life and Death of the 
 
 toabienttbemfclves, thejr would fend 
 their excufc to the Church-Wardem. 
 But it fo fell out 5 that notwithftanding 
 thefe good beginnings of hope in re- 
 ducing the whole Nation to be of em 
 heart and one minde , fuddaioly the 
 Statute was aga ne -lufpeuded 5 the 
 power of the High Commifion (there 
 then onely fet up in relation to the 
 Papifts) was withdrawne : At which, 
 the Papifts prefencly withdrew them- 
 felves again ; the Minifters difcouraged, 
 all good mens hearts grieved > and 
 Popery from that time returned to a 
 higher Tide then before , and overflow- 
 fiits former Banks in a generall Deluge 
 pver the whole Nation. 
 
 Upon this, the Spirit of this holy 
 and Eminent Perfon,( like Saint Pauls 
 aid them) was ftirred within him , and 
 preaching, before the State at Chrift* 
 Church Dubljn^ upon a fpeciall So- 
 lemnity , did with as much prudence 
 and fortitude as might become fhofe 
 younger yeares, give them his fenfe oi 
 that their Toleration of Idolatry $ And 
 made a full and bold application ol 
 that paflage in the Vifion of Ezekiel 
 $ap. 4.$. where the Prophet hj lyin^ 
 
 er 
 
ArclSBifrop of Armagh, &c. 35 
 
 §n bis fide, was to beare the iniquity of 
 Zfudah forty dajes^ I have appointed thee 
 a day for a year, even a day for a year ( as 
 the old Tranflation of that Bible he 
 then ufed, reads it, which I have, prin- 
 ted 160 1 . and hath a note by him in the 
 margent ) This by confent of Inter- 
 preters, fignifies the time of forty years 
 to the deftru&ion of ferufalem, and 
 that Nation for their Idolatry • He 
 made then this direft application in re- 
 lation to that connivence of Popery, 
 viz. From this year will I reckon the fin 
 of Ireland, thatthofe whom you now im- 
 brace Jhall be your ruine^ and you Jh all 
 beare this iniquity. 
 
 Now of late years, having occafion 
 further to consider of it, we found to 
 be from thence, being 4/z. 1601 . forty 
 pears to the late Rebellion and defini- 
 tion of Ireland^ {an. 1^41.) done by 
 thofe Papifts, and Popijb PrieUs then 
 :onnived at. He had i eierved the notes 
 rfthat Sermon, with the year and day 
 le preached it ; and, 'tis the moreob- 
 irvable,it was one of the laft he wrote 
 hroughout word for word , but after- 
 wards ( without writing any thing but 
 lie heads) put his meditations wholly 
 D 4 upon 
 
40 the Life and Death of the 
 
 upon the ftrength of his memory, and 
 Gods affiftanceof him ; And whether 
 preached in 1641. or in the beginning 
 of 1 642. the account is the lame* for 
 thoogh that MaiTacre began in Ottob. 
 23. 1 641. yet they were continuing 
 their murders, and proceeding in their 
 deftroyingus,tilh 642. Now, what 
 may be thought of this, I leave to the 
 , judgement of others • onely give mc 
 leave to fay, 'tis a very obfervablc paf- 
 fage, and if it may be conceived to be 
 a Profheticke impulfe in thofe years, he 
 was the liker this our Samuel^ who in 
 his youth was fent with the like mcf- 
 fage to £//, relating the ruine of his 
 iSstt.s.H. native Country, That the Lord would 
 -dofuchathingin Ifrael, that whofoever 
 heares it^ both his eares jhould tingle. 
 And what a continued expedation he 
 bad of a judgement upon that his 
 native Country , I can witneffe , 
 from the year 1624. when I had the 
 happineffe firft to be known to him, 
 and the nearer the time every year, 
 the more confident, to my often won- 
 der and admiration • there being no- 
 thing vifibly tending to the feare of 
 
 The 
 
Arch-Hii/bop of Armagh, &c- 4 1 
 
 The abovefaid information of the 
 Papifts was the firft occafion of 
 drawing the whole fubftance of the 
 Body of Divinity into that Catcchifm 
 lately printed, but the ififue hath 
 been the inftru&ion of the Proteftants. 
 'Tis highly commended by Mr. $ohn 
 Downame who fet it out , and fo it is by 
 a ft ranger, Ludovicus Crocins , in his 
 book it ration* ftudii Theologici^ de- 
 firing fome Englijh mm would tranf* 
 late it into Latint 3 deftderamtts & foli- 
 cite txfc&amuS) &c m But it was not 
 by him intended for the Prefie ♦, It was 
 begun in the publick, but finifhed fome 
 yeares after in his private family, con- 
 ftantly twice a week inftru&ing them 
 (of which it might be then truly faid, 
 Z$o{Nymphas, Col. 4. 15. the Church 
 which is in thy houfe) unto which 
 pcrfons of quality and learning refort- 
 ing, notes were taken, divers Copies 
 were gotten/fome imperfedi, & mifta- 
 ken,manypa(Iagesareinit 5 which are 
 not his, the whole is not poli(hedl\Ve 
 what elle hath come forth of his-, and 
 indeed, he wasdifplcafed at the pub- 
 lifhing of it , without his knowledge ? 
 but hearing of fome good fruit, which 
 
 hath 
 
42, The Life and Death of the 
 
 hath been reaped by it, he hath per. 
 mittcd it. 
 
 Not long after this defeat at Kin fate. 
 the Officers and Commanders of the Ar* 
 my gave at once i8oo 4 1. to buy books 
 for a Library to the Colledge of Dub- 
 Ijn ( then fouldiers were for the ad- 
 vancement of learning,) The ordering 
 of the mony for that ufe, was commit- 
 ted to 2>0#0rC^#w^^^ and this Lord 
 Primate, who came of parpofe hither 
 into England to buy them. He then 
 met Sir Thomas Bodiey here buying 
 books for his Library at Oxford, be- 
 tween whom there was a commerce in 
 helping each other with rarities. He 
 often took notice, that the famous Li- 
 brary of his there, and that of Dublyn r 
 began together. As he came, he vifi* 
 ted Mr. Chrittofher Goodman, who had 
 bccnProfeflbr of Divinity in Oxford^ 
 in Edward the fixtb's dayes, then ly- 
 ing on his death-bed at Chester , 
 he would be often repeating fome 
 grave wife Speeches he heard from 
 him. 
 
 - After this, hee conftantly came 
 over into England once in three ycares. 
 and thus he fpent the Summer , one 
 
 raonctl 
 
r ^rclzBi/bopofArma$i } &c. 4$ 
 
 noneth at Oxford , another at Cam- 
 researching the books,but efpecial- 
 y the Manufcripts of each Univerfity, 
 (among which, thofe ofCorpus-Chrifti 
 Colledge in Cambridge, he moft eftee- 
 med) the third Moneth at London , in- 
 tending chiefly Sir Thomas Cottons Li- 
 brary , and the converging with learn- 
 ed men, with whom in thofe younger 
 yeares he was in great efteem •, And in 
 after-years he was acquainted with the 
 rarities in other nations, fcarce a choice 
 book in any eminent p:rfons Library, 
 France, Italy, Germany, or Home , but he 
 had his way to have it , or what he de- 
 fired transcribed , better acquainted 
 with the Popes Vaticane , then fome that 
 daily vifit it. The Puteani Fratres in 
 Paris , two learned men helped him 
 with many tranferipts out of Thuanus 
 and others, between whom and him 
 many letters palTed. Now howfoevcr 
 the reading over all the Fathers end- 
 wife , was^ mighty labour, yet the 
 paines he took out of the common 
 road of learning , in iearching of Re- 
 cords,andallthe Manufcripts he could 
 get throughout Chriflendom ; with 
 that fevere ftudy of Chronology and An- 
 
 tiqmty k 
 
4 4 The Life and Death of the 
 
 .1 
 
 ttquity* was equal! with the former , 
 not exceeded. Many Volumes he read, 
 onely aiming .at the knowledge of the 
 ufe of words in feverall ages , as Galen 
 and Hippocrates : moft of the Records 
 of the Tower of London ^ fcarce a book, 
 be it of the le3ft efteem in that great 
 Library of his own, but he remembred 
 it-, and to my great wonder had in rea- 
 dinejfe in his head all he had read. 
 
 The firft Church-preferment he 
 
 had, (which was given him by LStrch* 
 
 Btjbop Loftm a little before his death, 
 
 a very wife m3n) was the Chancellorship 
 
 of Saint Patricks Dublyn , unto which 
 
 he took no other Benefice. In which, 
 
 Mr. Cambden found him 3 anno 1607, 
 
 while he was writing his Britannia , and 
 
 faith this of him, in his obfervations 
 
 *;«*c ^ Dub - concerning Dublin , *Mo(i of which I 
 
 ^whXli™ acknowledg to owe to the diligence & labor 
 
 genua <b &>- of James U fher Chancellor of the Church 
 
 am* )*o *i * St Patricks , who in variotu learning 
 
 Uiben Cancel- ' , . . * f ... °> 
 
 Urn Ecdef. and 'judgement Jarre exceeds his yeeres. 
 sanBt Patrioi, , j n t hj s Dignity 5 howfoever the Law 
 
 &£** mi § ht havc ™ M him ^om preach- 
 dido hngepf ing , but onely fomctimes in his courfe 
 peret,m<kbe- before the State 3 yet he mould not omit 
 £ 7$a! it to the place from when:e he received the 
 
 Profits, 
 
Arcb-Bi/hop o/Armagh, &c. 45 
 
 vfits,$t though he did endow it with 
 Vicaridge, yet he went thither in per- 
 in,w&,to FingLsji mile from Dwlyn, 
 \d preached there every Lords day, 
 ilefs upon extraordinary occaflons he 
 ere detained-, and to have been a con- 
 antPreacher,he took in his elderyears 
 lore comfort by the remembrance of, 
 len in all his other labours & writings. 
 His experiments in prayer were ma- 
 / , and very obfervable in the returne 
 thisdefires in kind, and thatimme- 
 lately, when he had been in fome di- 
 refles • and the providence of God 
 1 taking care of him in his younger 
 *ars, as he did often recount , fo more 
 >eci3lJy the laft time I faw him 3 in 
 )nfirmation of his dependance upon 
 im in thefc his Elder ^whatever extre- 
 irics he might be brought unto. 
 When he was twenty fevenyeares 
 A^anno 160 j. he commenced Batch- 
 ur of Divinity , and immediately af- 
 r was chofen Profeflor of Divinity in 
 lat Univcrfity of ; Dublyn. He read 
 net a week at firft , afterwards con- 
 antly once a week , without inter- 
 liffion throughout the jyeare , going 
 irough a great part of Bc/lar mines Con- 
 troverts , 
 
4* Ike Life and Death of the 
 
 trcverftes. About 1 3 or 14 years he wa 
 ProfefTor there , and a great ornameti 
 to it, I havefeen many yeares agonc 
 three Volumes of thofe his Le&ure 
 wrote with his own hand , and had thl 
 favour to read them: an honour i 
 would be for that Univerjitj wher 
 they were read , to have them pub 
 limed. 
 
 When he performed his A&s Pr 
 grad^ Lttine Sermon^ Leciures t Pofition 
 inanfwering the Divinity A6t,andthi 
 reft, he committed nothing to his per 
 but only the heads of the feverall fub 
 jc&s, and as with his English Ser 
 mons, put all upon the ftrength of hi 
 memory , and his prefcnt expreffions 
 His readinetfe in that Language , equa 
 lining any perfon that I have heard o 
 in thefe latter ages, which, (after feven 
 teen yeers difcontinuing that practice 
 as profeflbr, appeared fully) in a pub 
 lick Commencement , moderating th 
 Divinity A&, and creating the Do 
 &ors , fince he was :Primate at S. Pa 
 tricks Eublyn^ to all mensadmiratior 
 when I remember one Paflage in \\\ 
 Speech was, that the Hoods,and othe 
 diftinflive ornaments ufed by fevera 
 
 gradi 
 
Arcb^Bifbop ^Armagh , etc] 47 
 
 ;raduats in our Univerfitks , were by 
 leir defcription the fame which were 
 \ ufe in Baftls and Nazianzens time, fo 
 ot Pop'tjh, as feme have apprehended. 
 
 Anno 1609. there was a great dX- 
 fute about the Hertnagh^ Terman, or 
 lorban Lands,which anciently the Cho- 
 tpifcopi received, the rents of which 
 oncerned the Bifhops of England as 
 r eland. He wrote a learned Treatife of 
 c, fo approved > that it was fedt to 
 Irch-Bifliop Bancrofts and by him 
 refented to King fames 5 3nd the ra- 
 icr accepted , it being done by one 
 fho then had no thoughts of reap- 
 ig any fruit by it, as himfelf faid then 
 1 his Preface ro it, Mihi ifiic nee (eri~ 
 tr necmetitur, the fubftanceof it was 
 f ter wards tranflated by Sir Henry Spil- 
 tan into Latine, and publifhcd in his 
 'lojfarium, as himfelfe acknowledg- 
 th, giving him there this Gharadter, 
 iter arum infignis Thar us. 
 
 Not long after this, the Prwtfl~fhip 
 t the Colledge of Dnhlyn falling 
 oyd 3 he was unanimously eledted by 
 ic Fellowcs, being then about thirty 
 ears of age, but in regard he forefavv 
 pontile fettlernem of Lands belong- 
 ing 
 
4$ The Life and Death of the 
 
 ing to it, and the efhblifhing of oth< 
 matters,there would be fuch diftiad 
 ons that his ftudies muft have bee 
 difturbed, hetefufed it $ andfoano 
 ther was fent over out of England to h 
 And it having then an invitation of 
 good Annual allowance, ye fee by thi; 
 as fomc former paflages,how little th 
 things of this world feemcd in his eye 
 at thofe years. 
 
 Anno 1 6 '12.. he proceeded Dotfc 
 of Divinity, created by Primate Hamp 
 ton his PredecefTbr h one of his Le&ure 
 ftogradu , was of the 70 weeks to th 
 flaying of the Meffiah , Daniel 9 . 24 
 The other out of Revel. 20.4. concern 
 ing the fenfe of that, viz. the Saint 
 reigning with Chrtil a thousand yeeres 
 a Tractate in this age very feafonablc 
 but 'tis loft. 
 
 Anno 1 61 2 . he publi/hed that boo 1 
 De Ecclefiaru, Chrifliana.ru fucceffione & 
 y?4/«,magnif7ed by Cafaubon and Scultt 
 ttts t \Vi their Greek & Latin verfes befor 
 it 5 it was folemnly prefented by Arch 
 Bifliop^oftoK. fames, astheemi 
 nent firft-ftuifs of thatColledgeof Dub 
 lyn-, It is imperfect, for about 300 
 years, from Gregory 1 1 . to Leo 10 , /. e 
 
 fron 
 
Arcb'BiJbop of Armagh y <srel 49 
 
 fiom 137 1. to 1 5 1 3 # and from thence to 
 thislsft Century, which he wended 
 (after the finishing of this book he was 
 low about ) to have added. 
 
 Anno \6\ 5. there was a Parliament 
 n Dublyn^snd fo a Convocation of the 
 Clergy : then thofe learned Articles of 
 Ireland were compofed and publifhed* 
 le being a Member of the Synod was 
 appointed to draw them up \ highly 
 approved by the moft Orthodox Di- 
 /mes. I know no caufe of fome mens 
 peaking againft them, unlefle for that 
 hey do determine according to Saint 
 iuguftines do&rine ag3rnft ihzPdagi- 
 \ns y 7 ht man offm^ 1 Thef. z. to be the 
 3ifhop of Rome, and the Morality of the 
 Ubbaih\ of both which, this moft 
 earned Primate was very confident 
 ind wiftiedfome learned men of late 
 lad fpared their pens to the contrary % 
 n the defence of the laft of which 
 have feen a moft excellent learned 
 .etter, written to DoftorYtfi/}, who 
 iad defired his judgement of it ; Now 
 vhcrris fome have doubted whether 
 fhey were fully eftabliflied as the Arti- 
 , :les of Ireland ; I can teftifie that I have 
 icard himfey,that in theforenamed yea* 
 E 1*15* 
 
I 50 The Lift and Death of the 
 
 1 61 5 ■ . be favv them figned by K^irch- 
 Bifhop fanes then Lord Chancellor of 
 Ireland y and Speaker of the Houfe of 
 the Bifhcps in Convocation, figned by 
 $e Prolocutor of the Houfe of the Cler- 
 gje in their names • And alio figned by 
 the then Lord Deputy Qhkhefler , by< 
 order from King fames iir his name. 
 And whergas fome have rafhly affirm-: 
 ed they were repealed by Att otParlia- 
 went^ &nno 1634. or recalled by any. 
 Pecree of the .Synod then 5 needs no' 
 fqnher; confutation then the fight of 
 either-, -yet in regard there hath been* 
 fome \ iuch prelum ptuous affertioris 
 lately pAi-bUfhed to the fcandal of them; 
 ih^eis at the PreflTe a vindication by_ 
 the 'appointment of this moft Rcve- r 
 reed pprfoiij t and a relation .of the truth 
 of altj^ffages, and' fo there needs nd 
 mo^efeer^ 
 
 A^d^Wh^ wanted not enemies 
 in fcarfd^lizipg him to King fames , 
 ynder r theffkleof a Puritane (To odi- 
 ous with him in thofedayes) of pur- 
 pofe 10 prevent any further promotion 
 of hircvbiK it fo fell out;, ! that was the 
 occafiqn-Qf his advancement ; for King 
 fames being in fome feane of him upon 
 
 that 
 
ArcbfBi/bop ofArmagh r &c, j, 
 
 that {'core by the eminency of his /car- 
 ning, fell into fomemore lull difcourfe 
 with him, and received fuch abun- 
 dant fatisfadtfon of the foundnefle of 
 his judgement and piety, that notwith- 
 ftandingtheoppofition of great ones, 
 without his leeking, made him Bifhop 
 otMeath in Ireland^ juft then falling 
 void while he was in England, and, as 
 I have heard, did often boaft, that h 
 was a Bifhop of his own making : But the 
 mif- interpretations which lome of his 
 enemies had raifed and fpread of him, 
 moved him voluntarily at the requeft 
 of his friends to declare his judgement, 
 astoihedo&rineand difciplinc of the 
 Church of England, which was to all 
 good mens fatisfa&ions. 
 
 While he was Bifhop Eleft, he was 
 chofento preach before the Houfe of 
 Commons, {Feb. 18. 1620.) in St. 
 Marg.Wtftminfter , the Sermon by the 
 Order of the Houfe was printed, and 
 'tis a moft learned one • I have heard 
 him fay, ( as I take h) it was the firft 
 time the Houfe of Commons received 
 the Ccmmumonhy themlelves, diltin& 
 from the Houfe of the Lords. 
 
 E 2 Upon 
 
c 51 The Life and Death of the 
 
 Upon his returne into Ireland, he 
 
 was confecrarcd Bifliop of Meath at 
 
 Vregheda by Primate Hampton , with 
 
 the afliftanceof two Suffragan Bifhops 
 
 according to the cuftom, and the then 
 
 book of Confecration 5 there was then 
 
 given him an Anagram of his name, 
 
 as then he was to write him felfe 5 which 
 
 he made good ever after, viz,, fames 
 
 Meath, I am the Came * he did not now 
 
 flack in his conftancy of preaching, 
 
 */itqueEpifco. but as Poffidonius of St. * AnguBine.was 
 
 f VtotZt ftl " Wthc fame 5 and bound himfelfe the 
 
 tius°ac fer- rather to It, by the Motto of his Epif- 
 
 %>entiusma : copal Seal* V&mihi (inon Evangeliz>a- 
 
 tore authority w which he continued in the Seale 
 
 tt % mn in una r , * - . |/v 
 
 tantmrcgiene of his Primacy alio. 
 fedubicunque He had many Papifis in his DiocefTe, 
 'ffSZ^ Private dif- 
 
 alacriter, fy courfes to reclaime 3 at length they 
 fruiter, t*u»- W ere contented to hear him preach fo 
 trefcente Do- k were not in a Church, he condelcen- 
 winiEcciefidy ded to their exception, and preached 
 K££fc '* < hc Scfsm-Houfe , The Sermon 
 wu Auguft. wrought io much upon fome of them, 
 that the Priefts prohibited them the 
 hearing him in any place ever af- 
 ter. 
 
 Anno 
 
Arcb-^Biftop of Armagh^ &c. 53 
 
 *An. 1612. there was a cenfure ot 9 
 fomc Papifts in the Star -Chamber, for 
 rcfuGngtotaketh? Oath of Suprema- 
 cy , he was called thither to enforme 
 them of it before ientence, which oc- 
 cafioned that learned fpeech of his to 
 that purpofe. Printed with his Bnglijh 
 Works. 
 
 While he was Bifliop of Meath , he 
 anfwered that Challenge of the fofuit 
 Mdone^ his comraing over for the 
 Printing of it , occafioned another 
 learned Tra&ate of the Univerfality of 
 the Church ofchrift , and the Unity of 
 the Catholick Faith , in a Sermon 
 preached before King garnet upon 
 Ephef 4* 13. Till we all come in the 
 unity of the Faith, Sec. 
 
 While he was in England, Primate 
 Hampton dying * he was made (ann. 
 1624.) Primate of Ireland, the hun- 
 dred Bifhop of that See, from the firft, 
 fuppofed to be Patricks 5 who lived in 
 Saint Attgtifiines tioie , 400. yeares af- 
 ter Chrift, whom we jread much of in 
 divers Ancient Writers • And this Re- 
 verend Primate in his Book called the 
 Religion of the Ancient Info hath made 
 it appeare, at leaft to be very probable, 
 E 3 * * that 
 
$ 4 The Life and Death of the 
 
 that the Do&rine St, Patrick planted, 
 and preached among them at firft, 
 was in fubftance the fame which is 
 now taught and profefled by us. 
 
 When he was thus promoted to the 
 higheft .ftep his Profeflion was ca- 
 pable of 5 in his native Country , he 
 was the more humble, and laborious 
 in preaching : And it fo fell out , that 
 for fomc wcekes together , preaching 
 too often beyond his firength, to the 
 overmuch wafting of his fpirits, at the 
 requeft of fome Minifkrs in Ejfex to 
 have him preach upon the week d ayes 
 (becaufe they could not come to heare 
 him on the Sundayes ) he fell into a 
 Jguartane Ague, which held him three 
 quarters of a year. 
 
 After his recovery 5 the Lord Mor- 
 dant (afterwards Earle of Peterborough) 
 beingaPapift, and defirous to draw 
 his Lady ro the fame Religion 5 he was 
 willing there fhoufd be a meeting of 
 two prime men of each , to dilpute 
 what might be in controverfie be- 
 tween them. The Lady made choice 
 of this Lord Primate , and prevailed 
 •with him 5 though newly recovered; 
 and fcarce able to p ake fiat journey , 
 
 The 
 
ArchSBifiqp (/Armagh, <?c. 5 1 
 
 The Jefuit chofcn by the Earlc , went 
 under the name of Beaummd , but his 
 righc name was Rockwood, (brother 
 to x^Ambrofe Rookwood, one of the cop- 
 fpirators of the Gun-powder-Trea- 
 fon, and executed) The place of meet- 
 !ng was at Drayton in Northhampton- 
 %n where there was a great Library, 
 hat no Books of the Ancient Fathers 
 vere wanting for their view 3 as there 
 night be occafion. The Points pro- 
 ofed were concerning Tranfubftamia- 
 ion, Invocation of Saints, Images^ ^ifi- 
 ility of the Church. Three dayes were 
 pent in difputations 5 three houres 
 i the forenoone 3 and two houres in the 
 fternoone^ but the conclufion was 
 lis. After the third day of meeting, 
 lis Lord Primate hitherto being op- 
 onent, and now the Jefuit, according 
 ) his defire, taking thac part upon him, 
 md my Lord to bs reipondent ) that 
 lorning about the time he was ex- 
 e&ed 5 exoifed his coming to the 
 arle , faying , That all the arguments 
 t hah framed within his own head , and 
 bought he had them as fcrfeft as his Pa- 
 r nofter 5 he had forgotten , and could 
 >t recover them Again : That he believed 
 E 4 it 
 
$ 6 The Life and death of the 
 
 it was the juff judgement of God upe 
 him 5 thus to aefert him in the defence < 
 his Caufe , for the undertaking of bimfe 
 to dffptite with a man of that eminent 
 and learmng, without the licence of h 
 Superiour. Whereupon the Eailc uj 
 on feme further difcourfe with rh 
 Lord Primate was converted , andb< 
 came a Proteftant , and fo continued t 
 his laft. This I had from an eye an 
 care witneffe , which is confirmed b 
 a Secular Prieft Challontr^ who writin 
 a Book againft this Beaumond^ bid 
 him there beware of coming any mot 
 to Drayton, leaf} he met another UUhe 
 thereby the foile then given him y to th 
 dishonour of his Profefswn andhimfelf. 
 
 Upon this, the Counteffe of Peter 
 borough owed him a great refpe<9t, an< 
 upon his lofifes in Ireland, and othe 
 diftreffes here„ fhe took him to he 
 own houfc, with whom he lived abou 
 pine or rcn yeares, and died there, Fo 
 which, wherefoever this precious Box 
 of Ojntment is opened, in calling u 
 >hinde the memory of this holy man 
 let k be fpoken of in memorial! of her. 
 
 K^in. j62 6.\n %Auguft he returnee 
 pro Ireland, where be was receive 
 
 witl 
 
lArchzBifbop of Armagh, &c. 57 
 
 with all the expreflions of joy that 
 could be given $ where I had the hap- 
 pinefle to waite on him from hence 
 thkher,and now I am come within the 
 compafle of my owne knowledge. 
 From him , with the affiftance of o- 
 ther Minifters , the fame yeare I recei- 
 ved my Ordination , in St. Peters Qhnrcb 
 inDr^^jhimfelfe preaching in the 
 forenoone out of 1 Theft. 5. 12. Wc 
 befeech you brethren , to know them that 
 labour among you 1 And are over you in the 
 Lord y and admonifh yon t andto eft e em them 
 very highly in love for their work fake± 
 and be at peace among yourjelves. From 
 whence , as many things were prcflfed 
 to the office of the Miniftey , fit for 
 thofe times 5 fo fome Subjeds were as 
 fit for thefe : And in the afternoone his 
 in/un&ion was to me as the firft time, 
 by way of Office* 
 
 The difcourfes which daily fell 
 from him at his Table in the clearing 
 of difficulties in the Scripture , and 
 other Subje&s (efpecially when lear- 
 ned mtn came to vific him ) was of 
 great* advantage to fuch as were ca- 
 pable of them - It puc me often in 
 painde of that Speech of the Queene of 
 
j 8 The Life and Death of the 
 
 Sheba to Solomon. Happy are theft 
 fervants that continually ft and about 
 and heare thy wifdome. And fuch 
 his humility, as he would in pra&i 
 • Subje&s apply birafelfe to the infon 
 ticn and fatisfa&ion of the pooi 
 and weakeft perfon that fliouldde 
 it j nay > fometimes rather incline 
 wards fuch 5 then to others more k 
 ned y which Strangers have wond 
 at 7 as the Difciples marvelled at 
 John v 27. Saviours talking with the poore 1 
 man at Samm* y and anfwering 1 
 Queftions, rather then heeding 
 them. 
 
 The Orders obferved inhisFami 
 as to ptayer^was four times a day-,/# / 
 Morning at fix) at the Evening at eigl 
 and before dinner and fupper in tl 
 Chappel, at each of which he was 2 
 wayes prefent* 
 
 On Friday in the afrernoone cot 
 ftantly an hour in the Ghappel w; 
 fpent in going through the Principle 
 of Religion, in the Catechifme, for th 
 inflru<5iion of the Family. And ever 
 Sunday in the Evening , we had a rept 
 mien of his Sermon in the Chappell 
 which he had preached.inthe Churcl 
 
 it 
 
ircbSBi/bop of Armagh 3 fcV # 5 5 
 
 the forcnoone • two of us had this 
 
 harge upon us in his houfe. 
 
 In the Winter evenings he con- 
 intly fpent two houres in comparing 
 
 old MS. of the Bible, Greek and 
 atine, where about five or fixoi us 
 fitted him, and the varUleftiones cf 
 
 ch were taken by himfelfe with his 
 wn hand. 
 
 In Michaelmas Terme ann* 1626. 
 lere were iome Propofitions made, 
 id offered to be affented unto by the 
 apifts , for a more full Toleration of 
 leir Religion : viz,, the maintaining 
 f5oo.Horfcand 5000. Foot, wherein 
 leProteftants muft have borne fome 
 larcalloj for the confederation of 
 ;hich 3 a great Aflembly of the whole 
 Nation , Papifts and Proteftants, was 
 ailed in the Lord Deputy FalkUnds 
 me. The meeting was in the -Hall 
 f the Caftle of Ddlyn. The Bifbops 
 y this Lord Primat's irtviution mer 
 t hi* houfe, and he and they unani- 
 loufly fubfenbed a Pr deflation againft 
 he Toleration of Popery •, the On- 
 al of which I have 5 a Copy with 
 leir fevera! names fubferibed (which 
 &ve not been yet Printed) is as follow - 
 th. The 
 
62 The Life and Death of the 
 
 The Judgement of the Arch 
 Bifiiops y and Bifhops c 
 Ireland, concerning Tolcra 
 tion of Religion. 
 
 T He Religion oft he Papiftsis fu 
 perftitious and Idolatrous • thei 
 Faith and Doftrine , erroneou 
 and heretical, their Church l 
 rtfptSi of both , ApoftaticaH. To giv 
 them therefore a Toleration , or to con fen 
 that they may freely exercife their Religi 
 en, and profeffe their Faith and Doftrine 
 is a grievous finne 3 and that in two re 
 fpetfs. 
 
 For i • Tt is to make our felves acceffa: 
 ry not onely to their Super ftitions, Idola 
 tries \Herefies, and in a word, to all the abo 
 minations of Popery ; but atfo (which is 
 confequent oftheformer)to the perdition e 
 the feduced people, which perijh in the De 
 luge of the Catholick Apoflafie. 
 
 2. To grant them Toleration , in re 
 ffeSl of any Money to be given , or comn 
 bat ion to be made by them } isto fet Reh 
 
Arch^Bifhop ef Armagh,^ 6 1 
 
 mtofale^ Anhmthit^ the Souks of 'the 
 o fie whom Chri/l our Saviour hath Re - 
 '.med with his mojl precious blood. And 
 it uagreat(innc y fe alfo a matter of 
 ifl dangerous conference. The confix 
 r At ion whereof we commend to the Wife 
 h judicious. Befeeching the Zealous 
 >d of Truth y to m*kc them who Are in 
 M hority, zealous of Gods Glorf y And of 
 t advancement of true Religron^ Z ea- 
 ts y Refolute^ and Couragious againft 
 p0 P er J* Suferftition % and Idolatry^ 
 focn. 
 
 1. Armachanuc, Caferred and 
 
 al. Cafchdlen. *§l« d u t°* 
 
 nth.Medenfis. SiT* 
 
 ho. Hernef. & L3ghlin. 
 
 o.Dunenfis,&c. 
 
 corgDercnf. 
 
 ichard,Gorkc > Cloyne ) Roffcs. 
 
 ncjr. Alachadenf. 
 
 io. Kilmore & Ardagh. 
 
 ico. Dromorc. 
 
 ichacl Waccrford & Lyfmore. 
 
 an.Lymerick. 
 
 All thefe Bifliops arc dead, and this 
 rd trimm furviving them all, is 
 
 now 
 
6t the Life and Death of the 
 
 now dead alfo • but by this they (1 
 fpeak. 
 
 This judgement of the Bifbops,D< 
 dor George Downbttm, Biihop of Derr 
 at the next meeting of the Afiembl; 
 April 23. 1627. publiflied at Chrij 
 Church before the Lord Deputy ar 
 Council in the midft of his Sermon. 
 The Preamble he made to it(which 
 had from his own notes) was thus.w; 
 
 lC Are not many among us for ga: 
 c ^tTt!tm*ward refpeds, willing & re 
 "dy toconfentto a toleration of fa! 
 c; religion, and thereby making then: 
 C; felves guilty of a great offence, : 
 <c putting to fale not onely their owt 
 u fouies, but alfo the foules of other 
 cC But what is to be thought of Toler; 
 cc tionof Religion, I will notdeliv* 
 cc my own private opinion , but tF 
 "judgement of the Arch B/Jhops an 
 iQ Bifhopi of this Fvingdome , which 
 Cr think good to publifh unto you, th; 
 * c whatfoever (hall happen, theWorl 
 cc may know, that we were farre froi 
 <c confenting to thofe favours whic 
 u the Papifts expert. 
 
 After he had publifhed it, (aod'th 
 people had given their Votes alfo wit 
 
 a.genc 
 
Arch-Bi/hop o/Armagb , <rc. 6 3 
 
 ;cncrall acclamation crying, Amen) 
 added, as followeth. 
 But fomc may object, in fo faying 
 u hinder the Kings fervice, 
 x l anfwer, God forbid that what 
 is fpoken for the maintenance of Re- 
 ligion,and the fervice of God, mould 
 be thought to be a hinderance of the 
 Kings fervice$ but we are fo far from 
 thatjas with all our hearts we defire 
 not oncly that the (ole Army of five 
 choufand five hundred may be main- 
 tained, but alfo a far greater Army, 
 befides that of trained fouldiers, be 
 fctled for the defence of the Coun- 
 try : onely this we defire, that his 
 gracious Majefty will bepleafedto 
 rcferve to himfeife the moft of thofe 
 peculiar Graces which of late have 
 aeen offered , the greateft whereof 
 might much better be fpared, then 
 granted for thedimononrof God, 
 and the King; to the prejudice and 
 impeachment of true Religion, and 
 countenance of the contrary 5 And 
 what is wanring may be iupplyed 
 by the Country , and I mall exhort 
 , all good fubje&s , and found Chri- 
 stians, to mew their foywardnefle in 
 
 this 
 
64 The Life and Death of the 
 
 " this behalfe, &c. The Text the Bi 
 (bop took then was Luke u 2 j 5 24, 2 5 
 when he fpake much againft mens fut 
 ordinating religion, and the keepin 
 ofagoodconfcicnce for outward an 
 worldly refpe<3^ and to fct their fou 
 toialcforthegaine of earthy matter 
 &;c. This Lord Primate the nei 
 Lords day preached before the fan- 
 Auditory ; the Text was, 1 $ohn 5.15 
 Love not the world^ nor the things thi 
 are in the world • when he made the lil 
 Application with the Btfliop, rebukic 
 fuch, who for worldly ends like 5P1 
 dasfcM Ghrift for 30.pieces of filver 5 < 
 as Baalam following the wages ofur 
 righteoufncfFe,&c*forctelling,as he ha 
 often done,of judgements for thefeoi 
 inclinations to fuch permifllons & tolt 
 rations 5 that wherein men might thin 
 to be gairters, at the end they would b 
 lofers-,thatSpeech oiler emiah to Bartta 
 of Gods being abont to pluck up wk 
 he had planted , and to break dow 
 what he had built $ and his biddir 
 him not to feek great things for hin 
 ftlfe't he applyed to thefe prefent time 
 The judgement of the Bifhopspreva 
 led fo much with the Proteftants, th 
 
 tl 
 
Arcb/Bi/birp of Armagh &c'. 65 
 
 the propofals were drove on very hea- 
 vily ; and after much" agitation of 
 things, the Lord Deputy^ finding the 
 difcontents between both parties en- 
 creafing, defired this Lord Pri?mte , as 
 the fitteft perfon both in regard of his 
 •cfteem in the Affembly, 'and being one 
 of the Council, and fo concerned in 
 promoting the Kings bufineffe, to 
 fumme up the ftate of things , and to 
 xiiove them to an abfolttic GUnt of 
 fome Competency to the complying 
 with the Kings neccflities, without any 
 i uch conditions * with which, upon 
 their anfwer^ he would ceafe moving 
 any further : which ( upon very little 
 warning ) he did with much prudence* 
 according to that double capacity of a 
 Privy ConnctllMi and. iBifcop. The 
 Copy of which Speech I had then, artf 
 is as followed* : 
 
 f The 
 
 v — ! — ■ f. - ,. - 1 — r 
 
66 The Life and Death of the 
 
 
 The effeftofaSpsech delivered hy 
 the L. P r 1 m A t e before the 
 Lord Deputy and the great 
 Ajembfy, at his MajeUies Caflle\ 
 in Du|>lyn, April the lafl.i6ij^ 
 
 
 •-Y Lord, The Refohition 
 
 of thefe Gentlemen in <kny- 
 
 ing to contribute unto the 
 
 fupplying of the Army, ftnt hither for 
 
 their defence, doth put me in minde of 
 
 the Phitofophers Obfetvation, iha 
 
 Cuch as have refpecl to d fm things 
 
 areeafily miffed -, the prefent preflur< 
 
 which they fuftain by the knpofitior 
 
 of the fouidiers, and the dtfire the} 
 
 have to be eafed of that burden, dotl 
 
 fo wholly pofieffe their mindes, tha 
 
 they have onely an eye to the frceinj 
 
 ofthemfelvesfrom that incumbrance 
 
 without looking at all to thedefolati 
 
 ons, that are like to come upon ther 
 
 by a long^nd a heavy wane, wine 
 
Arch&ifkdp o/Armagli, &c. $ 7 
 
 ic hiving of an Army in readinefle* 
 flight be a means to have prevenred 5 
 rhe lamentable effedts of our Uft wars 
 n this Kingdom doth yet frt/hly tick 
 n our memories: neither can we fo 
 bon forget the depopulation of our 
 ..and, whenbcfilcs the combuftions 
 if warre, the extremity of famine 
 ;rcw fo great, that the very women in 
 ome places by the way -fide, have 
 brprifed the men that rod by, to feed 
 hemfelves with the Jlcfh of the Horfc 
 f the Rider : and that now again here 
 > a ftorm towards, wherefoever it will 
 ight, every wife man will eafilyfore- 
 ee, which if we be not carefull to 
 lect with ti time-out State may prove 
 recoverable, when it will be too 
 ite to think of, Hid I wisi. 
 
 The dangers that now threaten us, 
 re partly from abroad , and partly 
 rom home ; *£/W, we are now at 
 ddes with tw-> of the moft potent 
 y/wtf inChriftendome, and to both 
 /hich, in foimet times, the dii conven- 
 ed perfons in rhis Country have had 
 ecourfe, heretofore proffering the 
 [in^djme ic klfe unto them, if 
 tiey would undertake th£ conqueft' 
 F * of 
 
68 Ti:e Life and Death of the 
 
 of ic : for it is not unknown unto them 
 
 that look into the iearch of thofe 
 
 things, that in the dayes of King Henry 
 
 the eight, the Eatle of Defmond made 
 
 fuch an offer of this Kingdome to the 
 
 French King, ( the Inftrument whereof 
 
 yet rcmaines upon Record in the 
 
 Court at Paris) and the Bifhop otRomt 
 
 afterwards transferred the Title of all 
 
 our Ki.ngdomes unto Charles the fifth, 
 
 which by new Grants was confirmed 
 
 unto his Son Philip , in the time of 
 
 Queen Elizabeth, with a Reiolutionto 
 
 fettle this Crown upon the Spanijh In- 
 
 fanta : which Donations of the Popes ^ 
 
 howfoever in themfelves they are of 
 
 no value, yet will they ferve for a f aire 
 
 colour to a potent Pretender, who is 
 
 able to fupply by the power of the 
 
 fword, whatsoever therein may be 
 
 thought defc&ive. Hereunto may we 
 
 adde, thatof late in Spaing thevery 
 
 fame time when the Treaty of the 
 
 Match was in hand, there was a book 
 
 publiftied with great approbation 
 
 there, by one of this Country births 
 
 Philip Sullevan } wherein the Spanl 
 
 *rd is taught •, that the ready way tc 
 
 cftablifli his Monarchy ,( for that is the 
 
 onel] 
 
ArchfBiJJjop o/Armagh, <src. 6? 
 
 one!ythinghemainelyaimethat 5 andis 
 plainly there confeiTed) is , firft to kt 
 upon Ireland, which being quickly ob- 
 tained, theConqueft of Scotland firft, 
 of £^g/W next, then of the /-^ Coup- 
 tries, is foretold with great facility will 
 follow after : 
 
 Neither have wc more caufeinthis 
 regard to be afraid of a forrein Invafi- 
 3n, then to be jealous of a domeftick 
 Rebellion, Where, leaft I be miftaken, 
 is your Lord\\rivs have been lately , 1 
 nuft of neceflity put a difference be- 
 wix: the Inhabitants of this Nations 
 Jome of them arc defcended of the 
 lace of the ancient Englijb 3 or other- 
 vife hold their eflates from the 
 Irown, and have poflefTions of their 
 -wn to ftick unto , who eafily may be 
 rufted againft a forrein Invader , al~ 
 lough they differ from the State in 
 latter of Religion : for proof of which 
 delity in this kind J need go no farther 
 len the late wars in the time of theEarl 
 {Tyrone , wherein they were aff aulted 
 rith as powerfull temptations to move 
 lem from their Loyalty 5 as peffibly 
 ercafter can be prefented unto them* 
 or, at that time not onely the King of 
 F 3 Spain 
 
jo , The Life and Death of tie 
 
 Spain did confederate himfetf with the 
 Rebels , and landed his forces here for 
 their ?flift;ance, bur the B (hop of J?* nn 
 alf>,with bSsBreves,zv\d fl^,follicired 
 ourNohility andGertry to revolt from 
 their obedience to the Queen , decla- 
 ring that the Englifb did fight againft 
 the Catholick Religion , and ought to 
 be oppugned as much as the Turks, im- 
 parting the fame favours to fuch as 
 fhould fet upon therr 5 that he doth un- 
 to fuch as fight againft the lurks*, and 
 ftmWy , promifing unto rhem that the 
 God of peace would tread downe theit 
 enemies under thar feet fpeedtly. And 
 yet for all the Popes promifes, and 
 threatnings, which were alfo fecotK 
 ded by a Declararion of the Divines ol 
 Saltmanca and Valledolid^ not oncly 
 the Lords and Gentlemen did con- 
 ftantlyconnmie their AUegeance untc 
 the Queen, but alfo were encouragec 
 fo to do by ihe Priefts of the Pale 
 o Sniicvan that were of the Popi(b Profeffion 
 m[foUo!* who WCTe r berefore vehemently tax 
 & *ty ed by the Traytor O SuUevan , for ex 
 horting them to follow the Qlieene 
 fide : which hciis pleafed to term Itf* 
 mm & venenofam docirinam^ (jr tartan 
 
 Uf 
 
Arcb-Bifbop of Armagh, &c. 71 
 
 tm dogma j 3 mad and venemous do" 
 #rine, and a hellifti opinion. But be- 
 fidcb thcfe, there are a great numbtr of 
 Irifh^ who cither beare a fecret grudge 
 againft the Englrfh planted amo tg 
 them, or having nothing at all to lofe, 
 upon the fit ft occaffon, are apt to joy nc 
 with any Forraignc Invader 5 for we 
 have not ufed that policie in out Plan- 
 tations, that wife States have ufed in 
 former times. They , when they kt- 
 fed new Colonies in any place , did 
 commonly rranfh'c the Ancient In- 
 habitants to other dwellings, We 
 have brought new Planters into the 
 Land, and have left the old Inhabi- 
 tants to fhift for themfelvcs ; who 
 being tlrong in body, and daily incrca- 
 fing in number, and feeing themfclves 
 deprived of their meanes and mamte- 
 nanccj which they and their Ancefion 
 have formerly injoyed, will undoubt- 
 edly be ready when any occadon is 
 offered , to dtfturb our quiet-, whether 
 then we caft our eyes abroad , or look 
 at home, we fee our danger is very 
 great. 
 
 Neither may you , mj Lords , 
 
 and Gtmhmn that differ from us 
 
 F 4 in 
 
72- 77;^ Life and Death of the 
 
 in point of Religion , imagine that 
 
 the Community of profeflion will ex: 
 
 .empt you more then us from the 
 
 dinger of a Common enemy. Wha?- 
 
 foevcr you may exped from a For? 
 
 reiner, you may conje&ure by the 
 
 .anfwer which the Duke ofUMedina Su 
 
 dmia give in this cafe in 88. That 
 
 his Sword knew no difference between 
 
 a Catbolitk and a Herttick , but tha 
 
 he came to make way for hti Mafter 
 
 and what kindncfTe you may look foi 
 
 from the Countrey-men that joyn< 
 
 with them , you may judge,as well b) 
 
 the carriage which they ordinarily uf< 
 
 towards you and yours 5 both in ifo 
 
 Court and in the Colledga abroad 
 
 as by the advice not long fince pre 
 
 fentcd by them unto the Councill o 
 
 Spain, wherein they wouldnot have f 
 
 much as the Jrifh Priefts and Jefui^ 
 
 that are defcended of EngUfh iload t 
 
 be trufted.but would have you, and a 
 
 yours to be accounted Enemies to t\ 
 
 dc/ignes of Spaine. In the Dechrc 
 
 tion publifhed about the beginning! 
 
 the Infurredion of ifames FitzMorl 
 
 in the South ? the Rebels r profefled , 
 
 r was no part of their meaning to iu] 
 
 ve 
 
Arcb^BSop o/Armagh^&V. 73 
 
 vert honorabile ^stngkrttm folium ; 
 their quarrdl was oncly againft the 
 perfon of Queen Elizabeth and her 
 Government: But now the cafe is o- 
 tfaerwife,thc tranflating of the Throne 
 of the Enghjl) to the power of a For- 
 rainer, is the thing that mainely is in- 
 tended , and the re-eft abliihing of the 
 Jrifh in their Ancient Pofieflions, which 
 by the valour of our Anceftours were 
 gained from them. 
 
 This you may affure your felfe, 
 Manet alt k menu repofium f and makes 
 you more to be hated of them then any 
 other of the Engh(h Nation whatfo- 
 cver. The danger therefore being 
 thus common to us all , it ftands us up- 
 on to joyne our beft helpes for the 
 avoydingofit* onely the manner how 
 this may be effected is in Queftion. 
 It was wont to be faid Iniquum petas^ 
 ut aqmmferas, an J fuch perhaps might 
 i be the intent of the Projed the other 
 day propounded unto you ^ but now 
 I obferve the diftafte you have concei- 
 ved againft that hath fo farre poflfeffed 
 you, that hardly canyon bedrawncto 
 iiften to any equall morion. The ex- 
 • ceptions taken againft the Projeft , arc 
 
 partly 
 
74 The Life and Death of the 
 
 parly general , made by all, partly ffe* 
 eid/l 5 that touchcth oncly fotne parti- 
 culars : of the former there are two 5 
 the quantity of the fumme demanded, 
 and the indtftniteneffe of the time % 
 which is unlimited. For the propor- 
 tion required for the maintenance of 
 5000. Foot and 500. Horfc, you al- 
 ledge to be fo great , and your meanes 
 fo fmaH , that in undertaking that 
 which you are no way cs able 10 per- 
 forme , you fhould but delude his Ma* 
 jefty, and difappoint the Army of theiri 
 expe£cd pay. And although thefurn 
 required were far lefTe, and for a time 
 able to be borne by you •, yet arc y(m 
 fcarefiill that the payment being con- 
 tinued for fome number of yeares, may 
 afterwards be continued as a conftant 
 Revenue to his Majepes Excheqmr, 
 with which perpetual I burden you arc 
 unwilling to charge your pofterity. 
 
 The exceptioQS of the ftcond 
 Hndc are taken againft the grants 
 annexed unro the former demands, 
 the granting whereof feemed ra- 
 ther to hinder then further the 
 Service , as aot fo agreeing with the 
 rules of equity. For jfrjf , fome have 
 
 the 
 
Arckhifbop of Armagh, *te. 75 
 
 tfyc full benefits of the grants, and have 
 leir charge little augmented , as the 
 Countries which pay compofition- 
 ents, which by thofc Grants, during 
 he time of the new payments are fuf- 
 >ended. Secondly^ others that have 
 he Charge of the payment impofed 
 jpon them to the full , viz not parta- 
 kers at all of the benefit of the Grants, 
 as the Britttfh planted in the fixe cf- 
 chcatcd Counties of Ulfier. Third- 
 ly, fuch as are moft forward to further 
 his Majefties Service , and to contri- 
 bute with the moft,are troubled in con- 
 fidence for yeilding thereto upon the 
 termes propofed , efpecially for that 
 condition , whereby the execution of 
 the Statute againft Recufants is offe* 
 red to be forborne. 
 
 Wherein if fomeof my Brethren the 
 Bifbops have been thought to have 
 fliewed themfelves more forward then 
 wife , in preaching publickly againft 
 this kindc of Toleration 5 I hope the 
 great Charge laid upon them by your 
 felvesinthe Parliament, wherein that StM Hjit 
 Statute was enacted , will plead their Elii 
 excuie. For there, the Lords Tempo- 
 ral, 
 
7& The Life and Death of the 
 
 rail, and all the Commons, do in God 
 Name earneflly require and charg 
 all t^frch-Bi(hops and Bifhops , anc 
 other Ordinaries , that they fliall en 
 dcavour themfelves to the utmoft o 
 their knowledge, that the due and true 
 execution of this Statute may be hac 
 throughout their Ditcejfes$ and char- 
 ged , as they will anlwer it before 
 God , for fuch evills and plagues as 
 Mmigkj God might juftiy punifh his 
 people , for negle&ing thefe good and 
 wholefome Laws.So that if in this cafe 
 they had holden their tongues , they 
 might have been cenfured little better 
 then Atheifts 5 and made themfelves ac- 
 ceflbry to the drawing down Gods of 
 heavy vengeance upon the people. 
 
 But if for thefe and fuch like Caufes, 
 the former Projeft will not be strut- 
 ted, we muft not therefore thinke 
 ourfelves difcharged from taking far- 
 ther care to provide for our fafeties. 
 Other confultations muft be had, and 
 other courfes thought upon which 
 need not be liable to the like excep- 
 tions. Where the burden is borne in 
 common, and the aide required to be 
 
 given 
 
Arcb-Bijhop o/Armagh, <?c. 77 
 
 iven to the Prince by his Subjeds 
 lat are of different judgements in 
 eligion; it itands not with the 
 round of common reafon , that fuch 
 condition (hould be annexed unto 
 le gift, asmuft of neceflity deterr 
 tie one Party from giving at all, upon 
 jch termes as are repugnant to their 
 onfeiences. As therefore on the 
 me fide, if we defire that the Recu* 
 ants (hould joyne with us in granting 
 )fa common aide 5 we {hould not put 
 n the condition of executing the Sta- 
 ute , which we are lure they would 
 lot yeild unto ; So on the other fide, 
 f they will have us to joyne with 
 hem in the like Contribution, they 
 hould not require the Condition of 
 r ufpending the Statute to be added, 
 which we in confeience cannot yeild 
 into. The way will be then freely 
 to grant unto his Majefty, what we 
 give , without all manner of condi- 
 tion that may feeme unequal! unto 
 any fide, and to referre unto his 
 own facred breaft , how fane he 
 will be pleafed to extend or a- 
 bridge his favours j of whofe fynity, 
 
 in 
 
78 The Life and Death of the 
 
 l n forbearing the executing of the Sta 
 tute, our Recufants have found fuel 
 experience, that they cannot expc£ 
 a greater liberty, by giving any th in< 
 that is demanded, then now alread) 
 they do freely enjoy. 
 As for the fear that this voluntary con- 
 tribution may in time be made a mat 
 ter of oeceffity , & impofed as a perpetu. 
 all charge upon pofterity, it may eafily 
 be hoi pen with fuch a claufe as we fine 
 patent. An u. added in the grant of an aid madebj 
 tttn.i*intur. the Popes Council^ Anno n. Hen. 3 
 i° nl out oftheEcclefiaftical profits of this 
 
 Land, quod non debet trahi in confmtu . 
 dinem^ of which kinds of grants, many 
 other examples of later memory 
 might be produced- and as for the pro- 
 portion of the liimme , which yot 
 thought to be fo great in the formei 
 Proposition, it is my Lords defire, thai 
 you (hould fignifie unto him , what you 
 think you are wtll able to bearc, and 
 what your felves will be content vo- 
 luntarily to proffer. ToalleJgeas you 
 have done, that you are nor able tc 
 bear fo great a charge as was demand- 
 ed D may ftand with fome reafon ; But 
 
 tc 
 
JrcisBiflnf of Armagh, &V- 75* 
 
 plead an unability to give any thing 
 all, is neither agreeable to reafonor 
 ity. 
 
 You fay, you arc ready to ferve the 
 ing as your Anceftors did hereto- 
 ►re with your bodies, and lives, as if 
 e fupply of the Kings wants with 
 onies , were a thing unknowne 
 your forefathers. But if you will 
 arch the Piperolles, you (hall finde 
 re names of thofe who contributed 
 >fCing Henry the third, for a matter 
 iqtdid leflfe concerne the fubje&s of 
 ris Kingdom?, then the help that is ^ An ' ^ 
 3W demanded , namely for the mar- bran. 
 >ing of his Sifter to the Bmperour. 
 \ the Records of the fame King kept 
 1 England jnz finde his Letters Patents 
 ire&ed hither into Ireland, for levy- 
 sgofmony to help to pay his debts, 
 tito Lewis the Sonne of the King of p ^ GtfcorT 
 r&nce. In the rolfes of Ga(come,we a n. if.&dv*. 
 nde the like Letter direded by K. Ed* ™>»* : V* 
 #rd the fecond unto the Gentlemen tn 9r * m 
 nd Merchants of Ireland, of whofe 
 ames there is a Lift there fet down 
 > give him aid in his expedition into 
 iquitdtM^nd for defence of his Land 
 
 C which 
 
8o -The Life and Death of the 
 
 P4t.^n. 44 . ( which is now the thing in quefl 
 
 Edw. i.inAr-ox\)\ We finde an Ordinance likew; 
 
 C Lm£ XU ma ^ e ,n t hc time of Edwardthti\\\\ 
 
 for the perfonall taking of therntfc 
 
 lived in England, and held Lands ai 
 
 Tenements in Ireland. 
 
 Nay, in this cafe you mi 
 give me leave as a Divine to t< 
 you plainely, that to fupply tl 
 King with meanes, for the necefl 
 ry defence of your Country, is n 
 a thing left to your owne difcrei 
 on, either to do, or not to d< 
 but a matter of duty, which inco 
 fcieme youftand bound to perform 
 The Apoftlc JRfl*. 13. having affirn 
 ed , that we mufl: be fubjeft to t 
 higher powers, not onely for wrath 
 but for confeience fake ; addes rh 
 as a reafon to confirm? it •, for, j 
 this caufe you fay tribute alfo • < 
 if the denying of fuch paymem 
 could not ftand with confeionab 
 fubje&ion : Thereupon hee infern 
 this conclufion, Render therefore 
 aS their due ; tribute to whom tnbut 
 cuftom to whom cuftom is due. Agre 
 able to that known leflfon which 1 
 
 hi 
 
ArchSifhop o/Armagh, &c. 81 
 
 fiad learned of our Siviour , Render un- 
 
 >o C(t(ar the things which are Cdfars y and 
 
 into God the things rvhieh are Gods. Mauki2.n# 
 
 Where you may obferve, that as to 
 
 tvkh-hold from God the things which 
 
 are Gods, man is faidco be a robber of ' Mi] ^ 
 
 Sod, whereof he hinjiclfc thuscom- 
 
 plaincth in cafe of fu berating of Tithes 
 
 md Oblations: So to deny a lupply to 
 
 Ctfaroi fuch meanes as are neceflary 
 
 Forchefupport of his Kingdome, can 
 
 be accounted oo leflfe then a robbing of 
 
 iim of th it which is his due, which I 
 
 wifh you ferioufly to ponder, and to 
 
 think better of, yeelding fomet h ing to 
 
 thisprefenr neceffity, that we may not 
 
 return? from you an undutiful anfwer, 
 
 which may jnftly be difplcafing to 
 
 his Majefty. 
 
 A Copy 
 
8 1 The Life and Death of the' 
 
 A Copy of which Speech defi- 
 led of htm, by the Lord Deputy, was 
 immediately -tranf mitred into Eng* 
 land. But not prevailing with the Af- 
 feiFibly.to yeifctany thing to the apply- 
 ing of the Kings wants,it was diflblved. 
 
 This Lord Deputy Falkland not 
 long; after beins; himfelfe called back 
 into England) at his taking boat at wa- 
 ter-fid e,referved this Lord Primate for 
 the laft perlbn to take leave of, and fell 
 upon his knees on the fands, and beg- 
 ged his bleffing^which reverend refpeft 
 to him, gained a greater Reputation to 
 himfelfbothin Ireland, and England^ 
 and indeed, a great efteeme was ever 
 had of him in his younger years, by the 
 ieveral Lord Deputies. 
 
 And now a Preferment , too early 
 for thofe years, for his fake conferred 
 upon me, was no temptation to me, in 
 that it took me too foon from him : but 
 rot many years after, it pleafed God I 
 was called to him again, in being the 
 Minifier of Drogheda, the place of my 
 Ordination, and where himfelf rtfided, 
 and fo had th3t happineffe renewed, till 
 the year before the Rebellion, when he 
 fame for England, 
 
 The 
 
\ArdcBlfhop of Armagh, &S. $j 
 
 The many Letters that came to 
 him from forrein parts, as home, upon 
 feverall occafions , foMc for refoluti n 
 of difficulties in Divinity, others in ca- 
 [t$o\$on$cieme)ZVi&ypKzdi\cd\ fubje&Sj 
 was a great labour to anfwer : the Co- 
 pies of many of which, I have feen un- 
 der his hand. 
 
 Twelve of the moft eminent Di- 
 vines in London , ( who were wont 
 when he was here, to apply them felves 
 to him as a Father, fuch as Voftar Sibbs^ 
 andDr. Pre(lon,&c, .between whom and 
 him there was a moft entire affe&ion) 
 wrote then unco him for his direction 
 of them in a body of PratficalDivinvy, 
 which he returned them accordingly. 
 
 He was much endeavoring in Ire- 
 land the augmentation of the meanes of 
 the Miniftery , for which end he had 
 obtained a Pacent for Impropriations 
 tobepaffed io his name for their ufe, 
 as they did fall , but it was too much 
 negle&ed by them felves. 
 
 And here let me give you fome 
 of his exemplary Injun&ions. Eve- 
 n Lords day hee preached in the 
 ferenoone , never failing but upon 
 fickneflfej in which he fpent himfelf 
 G 2 much 
 
84 T»e Life and Death of the 
 
 much, Imhe afiernoone , this was his 
 order to me , that ( befides the catechi- 
 zing of rhc youth before publick pray- 
 ers) 1 fhould after the fit ft and fecond 
 Leffcn , fpend about halfe an hour in 
 abrieleand plaine opening the Princi- 
 ples of Religion in the publick Gate- 
 chifrac : and after that I was to 
 preach alfo, Firfi , hee directed me 
 to goe through the Creed at once y 
 giving but the lumme of each Ar- 
 ticle 5 then next time at thrice ± and af- 
 terwards , each time an Article as they 
 might be more able to bear //-and fo pro- 
 portiorwbly the ten Commandements, 
 Lords Prayer, sud the Doctrine of the Sa- 
 craments The good fruit of which was 
 apparent in the vulgar people upon their 
 approach unto the Communion, when, as 
 by the then order the names of the recei- 
 vers were to be given in, io fome account 
 was conftantly taken of their fi:ne(Te 
 for it. An exemplary injunction for 
 this age , having been too much ncgle* 
 ded. Calvin was more careful then fo, 
 ever concluding his Prayer before or 
 after Sermon , with repeating of the 
 Creed and Lords Prayer, conceiving it to 
 bee of good ufe to have thefe often 
 
 found- 
 
Arcb-Bi/lop of Armagh, &c. 8j 
 
 founding in the earcs of the people , as 
 £eza telis us in writing his life before 
 his Commentary upon $ob. His order 
 throughout his Dioceffe to the Mini- 
 sters was , to go through the Body of 
 Divinity once a yeer, which he had 
 drawn out accordingly into fifty reads. 
 When zfublickfafl wasenjoyned , he 
 kept it very ftri&ly , preached a! waves 
 firft bimfelf , at leaft continuing two 
 houres , and more then ordinarily ex- 
 tending himfelf in prayer , which, in 
 imitation of him , was accordingly 
 (with the public k ftrvice) obftrved by 
 fuch of us as fucceeded in the duties of 
 of the day. 
 
 His ex fences were much in Books ^ while 
 he enjoyed the means of his Arch-Bi- 
 fhoprick: a certaine fumme every yeer 
 he laid afide for that end , but elpeci- 
 ally in the getting ofManufcripts and 
 Rarities, as well from remote parts of 
 theworld,as near at hand* He was the 
 firft that procured the Samaritan Btble^ 
 (which isonelythe Pentateuch) to the 
 view of thefe VVeftern parts (as "Mr. '£SSt 
 Selaen acknowledges ) It was fent 
 him from Syria by the way of Aleppo, 
 anno 1625. He had four fent him by a 
 G 3 Fa#or 
 
2$ The Life and death of the 
 
 Fa&or be employed for the fearch of 
 things of that nature, and were thought 
 to be albthat could be had there: He 
 gave one to the Library of Oxford t 
 afecond xoLeyden^ (for which Lude- 
 view de Dieu gives him publick thanks 
 in a Book dedicated to him) a third to 
 Sir Robert Cottons Library • and the 
 fourth (having as I take it, compared it 
 vvith the other) he kept himfelf . The 
 OldTeftament mSyriaekjL rarity alfo in 
 thefe pam,wa$ fern to him from thence 
 not long after. 
 
 It would feem incredible to relate 
 unto you how many yeares agone , he 
 did confidently foretell the changes 
 that have come topaffe in thefe Domi- 
 nions, both in Ireland^ and here in 
 Church and State; And of the Poverty he 
 expe&ed to be brought unto himfelfe^ 
 which he faid often, in the midft of his 
 Plenty. 
 
 Some have much obferved thai 
 Text he took at Sjint Maries in Cam- 
 % bridge , anno i6z$. on the late Kings 
 day 3 and the firft annuall folemnity 
 of it 5- i Sam. 12. 25. But if ye (ItU dt 
 wickedly , you fh all be consumed , both you 
 md your King. Other s^ the laft Text 
 
 he 
 
Arch^Bijhopof Armagh; &c. gj 
 
 he preached at Court immediately be- 
 fore his returne inro Ireland, i Cor. 1 4. 
 33. God is not the tuthour of confufwn^ 
 but of pace, as in all the Churches of the 
 Saints : his application to theconfufi- 
 ons and divifions, he was confident 
 were at the doors, was then obferved* 
 There is a paflfage in his Book cal- 
 led Ecclefiarttm Britannic arum Antiqui* 
 fates, pag. 556. where, afrer he hath at 
 large related the manner of the utter 
 deduction of thisXhurch and State, 
 done by the Saxons { about 550. years 
 afrer Chrift) a- he found it in&ldas, 
 he gives a double caufe * pidixms ifla quam injli- 
 of that his Prolixity: * Part tuti f orta ff e ratio P^labas. 
 
 7 w/ * ±r t\- - <t° a- * Partim ux juflitia indc no- 
 
 Ij that the Divine Jupce hU divini J udlcU e i UCefccret , 
 
 might the rather from omnium generum at que or dinum 
 
 thence appear unto us, the H™'** ^T^Jt^Z 
 
 r I >i f ' i J am P' f 'vduyns, Republic* & 
 
 Jwnes of all jortS ana de- Ecclsfa Britannic* jundamen- 
 
 vrees bein? novo come to their ta nen conC!i tientis modoftdex- 
 
 * a r • L* • *! 1 Wrbantis fy tenmspreiemedtl 
 
 utmoft heighten the notonely e^rtmisipjrtim mms & ™- 
 
 Jhaking the foundations of JhlLbicpertimeffercrtmsvicem. 
 
 the Brimfl) Church and ^/Tl^f^fT^Tl 
 
 . ( - . . rdud ApoflonVidehmtatemq^ 
 
 State , but the dejtroying frueritatem peijw eos qui ce~ 
 
 them,& dlmofl Utterly over- ciderunrjevtrHatem, in teau* 
 
 -j n t r . tembonitatemDeit fi perman- 
 
 turning them. Partly that {erts in bonitate . f ll0 [ :i;n & 
 even rve might the rather be uc exadetis* 
 in great feare that our mm is accor- 
 G 4 dhglj 
 
88 i The Life and Death of the f 
 
 dingh commxng^ and often call to 
 wtnde that of the Apostle, Behold the 
 goodnelTc and fevenry of God 5 on 
 Ron. 11. *2. fh em w hich v fell, feverity . but to- 
 wards thee goodncfle • if thou con- 
 tinue in his goodneffe; other wife, 
 thou (halt alfb be cut off. Which by 
 cur Reformation , / fray may be ft even- 
 ted. * 
 
 He hath offen acknowledged, that 
 fometihies that which he hath fully 
 refolved in his^ Sermon not to 
 u tet\ when he came to it, was like 
 \to*$\ Jeremiahs f. re, [hut up in his bones , that 
 he could not forbeare, unleffe he would 
 have flood mute, and have proceeded 
 no further ; whereof I might give you 
 many inftances ; as of his boldneffc 
 and freedome vn the Publick, re- 
 proving what he did not approve of in 
 the greate{fyw# before Kings he was not 
 afharned: and his preaching was xoith 
 Authority -, he often ftood in the gap, 
 ihoppoiition (fohisutmoft) of errours 
 an ^ falfe Dodtrines; he xvithfiood to 
 tbtftce any Toleration of Popery and 
 'Super ftitiori, by whom focver attemp- 
 ted ; like Shammah, one of the prime 
 Worthies of David, defending a field 
 
 0) 
 
 % Sam.*". It* 
 
ArcD-Di/bop of Armagh, etc. 39 
 
 "Lentils fron the breaking in of a 
 'hole Troop of Pbiljtines . At the hear- 
 ig of him I have thought of that 
 >eech in the Pfalme , The zeale of thy 
 oufe hath eaten me up. 
 
 I remember a Speech of his, 
 tnno 1 61$. uttered before many 
 vitaefles, which he hath often con- 
 irmed firioe^viz. That he was per- 
 wadedthe greateft Stroak to the Refor- 
 ned Church was to come jet • that the 
 tine of the utter mine of the See of Rome 
 huldhe^ when fie thought herfelfemofi 
 Mure; according to that 0/* Babylon at 
 herdesiruBion, (Revel' 18.7. which he 
 :houghttobemcant of the fame) jhe 
 fhaUfay, 1 fit as a gueen, andjhallfee no 
 more forrow. 
 
 His farewell Sermon, in or very 
 near the place where he had lived and 
 preached in England, was then much 
 obferved^ -fames I. 25. Sinne whentt 
 is finijhed, brings forth deaths his full ap- 
 plication of it to the julneffe of the fins 
 of this Nation, which certainly would 
 bring forth deftruftion, that the Har- RcfC ^ t4 .,t, 
 wft of the earth was ripe , and the An^el 
 putting w his fickle 5 applying tbatof 
 the Bphah in the vifion of Zach. 5. 
 
 when 
 
9 7 he Life and Death of the 
 
 when it was filled with mckedteffe • an 
 as that of the Amorites, when their inj 
 quities were full, then deftroyed, M 
 affe&ed much the auditory. And fq 
 -private difcourfes ,none acquainted wit 
 him but can be witneffes of the lik< 
 Hundreds alive at this day have lai 
 them up in their heatts, and by whs 
 hath fallen out already 5 do meaiur 
 their expe&ation for the future. 
 
 And the laft time he was in Lendor 
 he did much lament with great though 
 of hearty the disjoyntingsofafFediom 
 and the deadly hatred he faw kindlin 
 in the hearts of men one againft anc 
 ther, by the feveral opinions in ads' 
 ter of Religion : fome of them in oppc 
 fition to a CMinifter% both to the offic 
 and maintenance, contemning the Sa 
 craments $ others raifing and fpreadin 
 damnable Doffrinesfarejies^ and blaffh 
 mies 1 he was confident , that the enen 
 which hrthfcwen thofe up and down tb 
 Nation, were Priefts, Friers, and *fefi 
 its^and fuch like PopifhAgents^fent 01 
 of their Seminaries from beyond Sea 
 in other difguiies 5 who by their nun 
 bers multiplying among us in Londoi 
 as elfewhere, do expe<ffc accordingly 
 
 ere, 
 
Jrch^i/bop of Armagh ; &c. 91 
 
 eat harveft of thofe /ttdk fhortly ; and 
 
 was peri waded, if not timlcy weed- 
 
 i out by a fevere fupprefling them 5 
 
 ould either tend to Popery, or Maf/a- 
 
 cs, 01 both : adding therewith, how 
 
 lllinghewas, if God fo pleafed , to 
 
 * taken away before that evili to come, 
 
 hich he was confident of, unlefs there 
 
 ere fome fpeedy Reformation, 
 
 Now 5 howloever I am as farre from 
 
 eding olProphefies this way as any ^ 
 
 t with me 'cis not improbable , that 
 
 great a Prophet, fo fan&ificd from his 
 
 jouth , fo knowing , and eminent 
 
 riroughout the Univerfall Church, 
 
 flight have at fome fpeciall times more 
 
 hen ordinary motions and impulses in 
 
 loing the Watch-mam part , of giving 
 
 yarning of Judgements approach* 
 
 *g- 
 A little before the Parliament in Ire* 
 
 and^ 1 63 4. there was a Letter fent over 
 
 rom the late King to the Lord Depu- 
 
 y and Councill for determining of 
 
 he Precedent of the Primate and Areh- 
 
 tifhop ofDublyn there , of which of la- 
 
 er times there had been fome quefti- 
 
 >n, nothing as to their per;ons,butin 
 
 elation to their Socs ; this good man, 
 
 ouc 
 
9 % 7ke Life and Death of the 
 
 out of his great humility , was hai 
 drawne to that Argument $ but 
 ing commanded , (hewed a great d< 
 of learning and rare obfervations 
 matter of t^ntiqnity , and the th 
 was determined on his fide, who af 
 wards by another Letter , (proct 
 without his feeking) had theprecec 
 tie given him of the Lord Chancell 
 which how little thofe things t< 
 with h ; m j but rather were burden 
 him , not in the leaft elating of him , 
 men knew. 
 
 At that Parliament 1634. he p: 
 ched the firft day of it before the L 
 Deputy , the Lords and Commons 
 Saint Patricks Duhlyn ; His Text v 
 Genef 4$. 1 o. The Scepter (hall not de 1 
 from Judah , nor a, Law-giver from 
 tween his feet fill Shiloh come^ and to t 
 fhaMtke gathering of the people he. 
 
 At the beginning of the Parliam 
 163 9 . he preached before the fa 
 Auditory , Deut. 3 3. 4, 5 . and M 
 commanded us a Law , even the ink 
 tance ef the Congregation of Jacob , 
 hexvas Kingin\ciux\M\^ when the hi 
 of the people and the Tribes of 'llrael «? 
 gathered together : which, as they w 
 
 ffl 
 
drchySi/hp of Armagh, OV- y $ 
 
 ft fie Texts for a Parliament, fo 
 ti full of rare and eminent Learning, 
 tnno 1640. He came out of Ire- 
 i hither , being invited over by 
 ic eminent perfons , upon the occa- 
 1 of the then difference between the 
 King and Parliament •, onely this I 
 j notice of, it was Gods fpeciaS 
 jidence for his prefervation , it be- 
 thc year before the Rebellion of Ire- 
 I ; as it according to the AngeflsGcn.i 9 .u. 
 *ch to Lot* nothing could be done , till 
 we come hither } and efcaped to this 
 Zoar. At my taking leave of him, 
 innot forget the (erious prcjrara- 
 
 he gave me again ft the heavie 
 iwes and miferies I (hould fee be- 
 : I faw him againe ; and with that 
 fidence, as if it had been within 
 v j it put me inminde of that in 
 w. 3. 7. Surely the Lord will doko- 
 £, but he will reveale it unto his fer- 
 [s the Prophets •, ( at leaft fo great aa 
 , and of that Nation.) 
 lis Library (known to be a copious 
 ) the firft year of the Rebellion of 
 \nd y 1^41. was with os in Droghc* 
 
 when we were befieged tour 
 leths by thofc Jrijh jubtlls , and 
 
 when 
 
54 Ifc Lfo and Death of the 
 
 when they made no queftion of 
 vouring us •, the Library which I h 
 < thecuftodyof, the Pr lefts and Fr'u 
 without , talked much of the Pn 
 they (hould have of it, butthebart 
 rous multitude oibmning it, and of r 
 by the flame of the Books , in ftead 
 Faggots under me •, but it plea fed G 
 inanfwer of our Prayers , andFaftir 
 wonderfully to deliver us , and it c 
 oftheir hands -, and fo the whole, wi 
 all his Manufcripts , were fent hi 
 that fumme* to Chejler , and are ft 
 preferved here ; I do believe his pra 
 ers were very prevalent for us. 
 
 The fufferings he now lay und 
 were many. All his Perfonall Eftat 
 and what elfe belonged to his Primac 
 in Ireland \ was destroyed, onely at pt 
 fent he was Preacher at Covent-Gard 
 Church. 
 
 s^Anno j 641. The great bufinefle 
 the Earle of Strafford came in ag 
 tation , in which there is one thii 
 he gave me a charge as I had occafio 
 to deare him , viz. of a fcandall raif< 
 on him , by a raft) , I will not fay ma' 
 cious Pen,in his vocaOForreji , as if 1 
 had made ufe of a pretended diftintf 
 
Arch -ntifhop of Armagh /*c. 95 
 
 of a FerfonaUan<\foliticallconfcknce 7 
 fatisfie the late King, that he might 
 nfent to the beheading of the faid 
 rle-, that though thefirft refifted, he 
 ght do it by thefecond^ which , I won- 
 r men of prudence, or that had any 
 eemeofhim, could be fo credulous 
 : but there is a prefumptuous ob- 
 vator of late , hath more ridicu- 
 jfly and malicioufly abufcd him in 
 as if the root of it was in revenge, 
 'the Earlcs fupfrefsing the Articles of 
 } land •, both are of the like fal (hood, 
 hath been already made apparent, 
 ananfwer to him. 
 And I have lately feen itunderthe 
 nd of a perfon of quality, affirming, 
 t fome years agone, a rumour being 
 *ad of the death of this Reverend 
 mate ( who was much lamented at 
 ford) and this concerning the Earle 
 ng by one then objected againft 
 1 • He was an ear-witneffe , that the 
 ; jK/#£,anfwered that perfon in very 
 at Pailion, and with an oath pro- 
 ed his innocency therein. 
 »ut the relation of the whole bufinefs 
 id long agone from his own mouth, 
 have it now under his own hand. 
 
 A 
 
9& The Lift ani Death of the 
 
 A Copy of which,withoutany ad< 
 tion or diminution is as foJlowcch. 
 **Y*Hat Sunday morning wherein t 
 A King consulted wtth the four B 
 Jhopi ( of London, Durham, Ly ncoln 
 WCarlile) the Arch-Bijhop of Ai 
 magh was not prefeat, being then pre, 
 ch\ng % as he then accuftomed, even Sm 
 day to do, in the Church of Convent Ga 
 <Jcn ; where a meffage coming unto hi\ 
 from his Majefty, he descended from tl 
 Pulpit , and toll , him that he wastht 
 (ashefaw ) imploded in Gods bufineffe 
 which asfoone as he had done y he woui 
 attend upon the King, to underhand h, 
 pleafure * . But the King pending tl 
 whole, afternoone in the fertous debate < 
 the Lord ' Strafford s Cafe, with the Lore 
 of his Council, and the fudges of tl 
 Land j he could not before evening be a& 
 mined to his MajeBies pre fence. 
 
 1 here the gueftion was againe agiu 
 ted) Whether the King injufficemtg) 
 paffe the Bill of Attainder againfi tl 
 Earle of Strafford . For^ that he migi 
 Jhew mercy to him was no gneftion at all 
 wo man doubting but that the King witl 
 mtany fcruple of conscience, might ha% 
 granted him a Pardon, if othqr reafons < 
 
 Stai 
 
Arch^ifhop (/Armagh, etc. 57 
 
 State (in which the Bifhop? were made 
 neither ^fudges , nor Advifers ) did not 
 binder him^ The whole refult therefore 
 f the determination of the Bi[hops b was to 
 his effctt • That herein the matter of 
 7 aft D and matter of Law 3 were to bedi- 
 lingutfhed. That of the marerof FacT^ 
 v himfelfe might make a judgement^ 
 saving been prefent at all the proceedings 
 gainfi the fatd Lord • where ^ if upon the 
 wing of the Allegations on either fide , 
 e dtd not conceive him guilty of the 
 Irimcs wherewith hee was charged 9 he 
 wldnotinjuflice condemn him. But fir 
 ic matter in Law , what was Treafon, 
 nd what was not , he was to reft in thf 
 pinion of the fudges 5 whofe office it was 
 ) declare the Law > and who were fworne 
 herein to carry themfelve'* indifferently 
 etwtxt him j and his Subjects. Which 
 ave bis Majefly occasion to complaine of 
 he dealing of the ^fudges with him not 
 ng before : That having earnefllj pref- 
 *d them to declare in particular , what 
 oints of the Lord of Scrafifords Charge 
 * e y ) u ^g^ t0 betreafonable (forafmuch 
 supon the hearing of the proof es prodtt- 
 *d , he might in his conference perhaps 
 ide him guilt lejfe oft hat FdiJ) hecdalJ 
 H not 
 
9 8 The Life and Death of the 
 
 not by any means draw them to nomina\ 
 any particular $ but that upon the who! 
 matter , Ireafon might juflly be chat 
 ged upon him. And in this fecondmeei 
 ing , it wo* obfetvtd 5 that the Bifiop < 
 London [pake nothing at all; and tk 
 Bifhop ofLlncolnCy not only fpake^ bt 
 put a writing alfo into the Kings ham 
 wherin* rvhn was :ontatned > the reft t 
 my Brethren knew not. Much mor 
 might be added, of unanfvverable argi 
 ments for the confirmation of it 5 bi 
 this may fuffice for the fatisfa&ion c 
 all unbyaffed perfens. 
 
 Upon his Ioffes in Ireland, an 
 ftra ghts he was brougk unto here ,tw 
 offers were made him from Forrein 
 Nations : The one from Cardinal Rid 
 //V^only in relation to his eminent lean 
 ing , with a large maintenance, and 1 
 berty to have lived where he pleafed i 
 France with the Proteftants. The othe 
 from the Hollanders y offering him th 
 place of being Bonorarm Profejfor ; 
 Leiden , which had an ample ftipenc 
 but he refufed both. 
 
 And now he was by the difturbanc 
 of the times perpetually removing, h, 
 
 vin 
 
ArehSBifhop o/Armagh, <?c. 5,9 
 
 ving,withSf./W, no certain dwelling 
 fUce\ that the faying of David in Pfal. 
 5 6. 8« was often in his thoughts , Thott 
 telle/l my wandrings ; put thou my teares 
 into thy bottle. Some of thofe eviden- 
 ces Saint Paul produceth to approve 
 limfelfe to be the Minifter of Chrift 
 [2 Cor. 6. 3,) were appliable to him ; 
 Tn much patience, in afpffions, in neceffi- 
 ties, in diftre(fesjn tumults or toffmgs to 
 indfro*, in labours, in patchings and 
 fadings • By honour and dijhonour , by 
 mil report and good report, as deceivers^ 
 tnd jet true, as unknown 5 and yet well 
 known^ as dying and behold pre live, as 
 :hajlenedand not killed, as fonow full, yet 
 tlwayes rejoycing^ as poor , yet making 
 many rich , as having nothings and yet 
 toffeffing all things. In perills by ]our- 
 tyings,in perils by robbers, in perils by his 
 wn countrymen , in perils amwg falfc 
 brethren ; tn tvearinejfe and painfullnef % , 
 k:c. Be fides the care of the Churches com* 
 mg daily upon him, at leaft, in his care of 
 infwering their expeffation in fome 
 Sooks, which by learned men of or her 
 Ihurches he was often put in minde 
 ft 
 K^inno 1642. he obtained leave of 
 H 2 both 
 
200 7be Life and Death cftbe 
 
 both Houfcs of Parliament to °o 
 Oxford for his ftuJy at the Libr 
 there. ^1644. the late King co 
 ing thither , he preached before hi 
 Novemb. 5. on the Gunpowder *tr 
 fonday. The T^xtwasNehem. 4. 
 And our adversaries fald , they (hall 
 hnovo^ neither fee, till we come in the m 
 among them 3 and Jl.*y them , and ca 
 their works to ceafe. A moft apt T 
 for the day * but this paflage in 
 Sermon againll the Papifts • advij 
 not torepofeanytrufl in them, that u 
 the fir (I opportunity they wilferve m hi 
 as they did the poore P rot eft ants in I 
 land, offended fome perions there 
 tending. 
 
 In March following , he went fr< 
 thence into Walts \toCardiff\w Glann 
 ganjbire , and abode with his Dau^ 
 ter. In \6^*Septemb.i6. he renio^ 
 from thence to Saint Bonnets (the L 
 Stradlings) when by the way he \ 
 barbaroufly ufed by fome louldie 
 flufkt of his horfe ; they broke oj 
 two of his Trunkes full of Bool 
 took all away^ amongft which, hel 
 two '^Manuscripts of the Hiftory of 
 Waldenfes, which he never got agai 
 
 n 
 
Arch^Bifhop of Armagh. &JV. 101 
 
 oft of the other Bookes wererefto* 
 d,bythe Preachers exhorting of all 
 rts intheis Sermons to that end 5 hut 
 icf two Manufcripts though the inoft 
 eanely clad, he never could hear of. It 
 avc a fufpition, that a Priefi cr^fefuit 
 1 fome difguife light upn them. It did 
 wch grieve him, th:y being of ufe to 
 im for the finifbing that Book de Ec* 
 'efiarnm ChrifHanamm fucceffwne & 
 
 JtU. 
 
 Not long afrcr he fell into a painfull 
 ckneflfe, bled fourdayes together, fo 
 nt he fwounded, and all hope of life 
 /as part : his death was in moft places 
 imented ; fo believed at Court, that a 
 <etter came over for a Succejfor in his 
 rimxc) in Ireland ': but he recovered, 
 id an. 1 6^6S}une 1 k he came to Lon- 
 iter when the Counteffe of Peterborough 
 ladly received him. 
 
 Afrer fome fpacehewaschofento 
 e Preacher to that Honourable Society 
 f Lyxcolnes Inne y where he continued 
 liverfe yeares with great honour and 
 efpecfl from them 5 till by the loflfe of 
 is fight ^ that he could not read his 
 rexr, and cecay of ftnngth, he was 
 dvifed by his friends to forbear e, and 
 H 3 to 
 
102, The Life and Death of the 
 
 to referve himfelfe, and the remainde 
 
 of his fpirits, like Paul aged, to th 
 
 writing of his Books, yer expe&ec 
 
 Ko Spectacles could help him, onel; 
 
 when the S^fhined, he could fee at' 
 
 window, which he hourly followe< 
 
 from room to room, in thehoufe h 
 
 lived in, in winter , the window was oftt 
 
 opened for him to write at. This Sum 
 
 mer he conceived would be the laft h 
 
 could make ufe of his eyes ; and wit 
 
 me 'tis a wonder they were not worr 
 
 out long agon. The next Winter \ 
 
 intended to have an Amanue* fis t 
 
 wrire for him, and a competent (umn 
 
 for that end was intended to that pe 
 
 fon he (hould make choice of j b 
 
 God hath been pleafed to prevent i 
 
 by taking him to the fight of himfelj 
 
 After he left Ljncolnes Inne, he w 
 
 prevailed with to preach in (ever; 
 
 places : Graies Inne on Nov. 5 . 165 
 
 which he then thought mig 
 
 have been his laft, which was taken 
 
 an honour by that Honourable Sa 
 
 tt j, of which he had beenadmittec 
 
 Member at a Reading above 30. year 
 
 agone. At the Temple at Mr, Seldt 
 
 Funeral, and two other places in t 
 
 Ci! 
 
Arch-lti/hop o/Armagh J &r. i o j 
 
 City, both which latter were very 
 etfe&ual, in the converfion of divcrfc 
 
 hat came unto him ^ and indeed, fel- 
 
 lome did that Sword, drawn by him, iSzm.x.iu 
 
 -eturne empty • but the laft Sermon he 
 
 >reached 5 was about Michaelmas laft at 
 
 Hamrnerfmith* 
 
 He told me hew much he was 
 roubled, that he found himfelfeun- 
 ible to continue it 5 hisdreames were on 
 tj and though he had been about 55. 
 scares a Preacher , and fo like the Le- 
 vites might well be excufed from the 
 h vice of the Sanchary % onely employ- 
 ng himfeife (as he did) for the di- 
 ttting of others; yet he had reiolved 
 lis Summer in (ome (ball Church or 
 wappel, to have returned to it again. 
 
 He fought no great things for him- 
 elfe. In his diftreffes, by his JofTes 
 n Ireland^ the Parliament for forac 
 'ears had been bountiful towards him 
 nan annual Stipend- but the laft two 
 'ears of their fitting, it fell out to be 
 ufpended. After their diffolving, the 
 :are of him was renewed by his High- 
 tejfe the Lord Protetfor$ by whofe • 
 )rder, a conftant competent allow- 
 ince was given him , for his fubfi- 
 H 4 ftcne?, 
 
104 '•* w I */ e and death of the 
 
 ftence, which contented him , anc 
 which I leceived from him to his iaft 
 with other very considerable /motto 
 extraordinary. 
 
 All that knew him, found himverj 
 communicative \ not ondy of his ftudies 
 but of what he had out of his Stipend 
 to perfons in wants, wherein he necdec 
 rather a bridle then a/jw. 
 
 He was not wanting with St 4 Paul 
 to magntfie his own Office, which maj 
 befeen and read cf all men •, buth< 
 cid it without partiality, and in \vha 
 mod nearely concerned himfelfe, ra 
 titer in the mine then in the full. H< 
 was not To feverens to dif-own the 
 Miniftery of other Reformed Chur 
 ches, but declared he did love and ho 
 tiour them as true Members of the Churd 
 Univerfaty and was ready, Loth for the Mi 
 niftersof Holland, 4W France, totefi/fit 
 his communion with them . 
 . For his judgement in diverfe things, 
 now controverted, in regard it is ap< 
 prehended improper for this dtfcouriCSj 
 and inconvenient to fet itdownbarelj 
 \yithout the additional fuppprt of Ar- 
 guments for each, which of necciliry 
 inuft tjke up much time, and prove a 
 
 great 
 
ArckzBifbop ^/Armagh, <&c. 105 
 
 great digreffion from the intention of 
 fhis Narration -, I have deferred it to 
 1 more fitting occafion. Onely thus 
 nuch. 
 
 He was a man of a mod: exemplary 
 Moderation ^Meekeneffe, ffamilitj* Inge- 
 nuity ; according to which, if ethers 
 concerned in fornc late Tranfa&iom 
 lad been tempered i it had been the 
 better for the whole. He had in 1641 • 
 drawn up an Expedient bv \vay of ac- 
 commodation in fome Ecclefiaftical 
 affairs, which fome moderate perfons 
 of each party , were ready to fub 
 rcribe. 
 
 Indeed, in matters of Dotfrinc for 
 (ubftantials, it was ofcen his charge, not 
 ro preach any thing <* to the plea/ingof iT ^ *•*•' 
 men, hut Gcd who bath put us in tmfl : 
 That in fo feeking to pleafc men, ireGiUi. 10. 
 Should not be the Servants ofchrifi. (In 
 the defence of which truths of Do- 
 ftrine, no man was more refolute and GA u 
 con ft ant, nor giving place by way of fub- 
 }c£iionj70 not for an hour) but he thought 
 he cafe was altered in circumstantials, 
 :hat it was our duty with St. Paul 
 \o pleafc. a& men , and not our f elves in aS T c r. 10. *x, 
 r Hch things, to edification and concord . 
 
 In 
 
106 77;e Life and Death of the 
 
 In a word, he was without wave 
 ring, alwayes one and the fame, holding 
 faft the forme of found words , in Do 
 drine and pra&ice to his laft. He 
 was of an Apoftolical Saint- like fpirit, 
 and walked in the old Paths and goca 
 Jtt.6.16. way * y and there is none that hath drunk 
 Luke 5. 39. t ^ e oldwine,fraightway de fires new 5 fop 
 he faith, the old is better. 
 
 The night before he left London^ 
 Oh I the humble expreflions of his 
 own unworthineffe, and the demea- 
 ning of himfelfe, as if he had been 
 the leafi of Saints, which he uttered 
 With many teares : it wrought much 
 upon us who found our felves fo iarre: 
 beneath him -, and did then, as he had 
 often before , wifh us to prepare for 
 afflffions and trials, which he was 
 perfwadtd were not farre from m* 
 And the next morning (being Feb. 
 *3* 1 ^5 5 . ) I took my laft leaveof 
 him : and fo having ftayed here at 
 London ^i.dayes ( for fo we found it 
 pundually noted by himfelfe in a 
 Book; it being his cuftome with 
 David, fo to number out his dayes , 
 for the place and manner of fpending 
 them ) he returned to Ryegate to the 
 
 Counrefle 
 
Arcb-nii/bop of Armagh^. 107 
 
 Countefle of Peterborougbs . from 
 whence, though I had ortcn Letter s 
 Tom him, yet I favv him no more. 
 
 We!l •, for his ievenl Eminencies, I 
 may take up the fpeech of St . Paul, in 
 lis Catalogue of thofe Eminent Saints, 
 (Beb^ 1 1 . 3 2 .) And what [hall I more fay { 
 for the time would faile me to tell you. The 
 onely thing now remaining is to lament 
 this righteous qodly mans failing, or cea- 
 {ing from the children of men, in his be- 
 ing taken away from us. 
 
 Hitherto ye have heard what a gkv 
 rious Jhining light he was- wifld we 
 could^that like the Sun in fofhuas time, 
 he might have Hood fiiS in the frma r 
 ment of our Church ; or, itbyfome de- 
 grees he had gone hack' ( as the Sun in 
 Hezekias time ) by ficknefle, yet he 
 might have recovered his days again s 
 but now we muft heare of the fating 
 of it, and his being covered with dark- 
 netfe. The Eclipfe is ours, not his, by 
 this intcrpofitionof Death; or rather 
 his Birth day, as the dies nataJis of fuch 
 a Saint in the Martyrologies , is fo 
 meant, 
 
 That dayhefirft fickned March 20. 
 he had been ( as evc;ry day ) well bu- 
 
 fied 5 
 
I c 8 The Life and Death of the 
 
 fled • happy is that fervant, who when his 
 Mafter ccrnes is fiwdfo doing • Moft 
 part of it 5 as long as he had light, he was 
 athisftudy, proceeding in his throw- 
 login fact a, deering of al! doubts in nis 
 former book, viz. the o4 males of 'the 
 Bible, in which he had gone as hvrc as 
 the fudges, where the laft he wrot 
 was , hicprtterea notandum, but return- 
 ed not to give it. He went from thence 
 ro vide a Gentlewoman then flck in the 
 houfe n gavehera moft excellent pre- 
 parative for death,with other moft ho- 
 ly advices in pra&ical mattefs,for three 
 quarters of an hour, but in fuch an hea- 
 venly manner, as if> like Mofes upon 
 Mount Neho* his eyes had been then 
 ftrengthenedtothe fight of that cele- 
 ftiai Canaan^ or with St. Paul in his 
 rapture,had been within the gate of hca- 
 *uer<, to which, like facob, he was now 
 Dearer then he was aware. 
 
 That night about eight of the clock 
 he firft complained of his Irp, judging 
 it to be a touch of the Sciatica, which 
 about 3 5. years sgoe, he had by fitting 
 op late in the Colledge Library cf 
 Dubljn. Thar, by an oyntment, he was 
 at prefect eafed of, and took fome reft 
 
 that 
 
vArdzBi/bop of Armagh, &c. ioy 
 
 f hat night. In the morning he corn- 
 gained of a great paire in his fide; 
 ic puts me in minde of c he Angel of the Ads i i. 7. 
 T ^ord$ fmiting p ?ter on the fide , when he 
 delivered him out of frifon , and fo 
 iVas this the fore-runner to him of 
 har glorious liberty of the fonnes of 
 [J* 3 which by the miniftration of 
 Angels he did forthwith partake of.) 
 u4 Phyftcian was fent for, did that 
 which he conceived fit for him ^ but 
 it continuing , and his fpirits decay- 
 ing , he applyed himfclfe to Prayer, 
 and upon the abatement of the torture, 
 to advifing thofe about him to pro- 
 vide in their healc hs for death , that 
 then they might have nothing elfe to do 
 but to die , which ( afcer a fliort fet- 
 tlement of things of this world ) he 
 took a great content to finde the ap- 
 proach of. 
 
 In prayer he had theaffiftance of a 
 Mmiftcr then prefent, but afterwards 
 defired to be left to his wn private. 
 The I aft words h? was heard to ut- 
 ter, ( about one a clock in the after- 
 noone , not long after which he died ) 
 in praying for forgiveneffe of finnes, 
 
 were 
 
i oo The Life and Death of the 
 
 were thefe , viz,. But Lord in /peri* ! 
 forgave my finnes cfomifiion I n r he gdf 
 aerall^hchadhis wi(h, which I havi 
 often heard him make , that he migh 
 die like Mr, Perkins^who expired withj 
 crying for mercy and forgivenelTe. 
 
 But Omifiion was it , and yet a per 
 fon that never was known to omit an 
 houre, but ever employed in his Ma- 
 fiers bufinefle, either writing t readings 
 or (as of late) others reading to him 5 
 ever either revolving of doubts, or ex* 
 honing 5 infiruciing , giving good and 
 holy counfell to fuch as cametovifit * 
 him, yet with this humble expreflion, , 
 this holy man of God expired. This * 
 Darnel greatly beloved: A fpeech which , 
 may be aLeflbn to us all , and give us tor 
 our lafl: matter of folemn meditation an&}\ 
 
 Rl 
 
 nui 
 
 ind 
 no 
 air 
 
 i 
 
 imitation. 
 
 The life otS.duftifl after his conver- 
 fion 5 as it is written by Pofidonius^ teem- 
 ed tome (in the reading mutato nomine) 
 to be the very pi&ure of him in his fre- 
 quency and constancy of preaching,hbout 
 in writing , fortitude in the defence of 
 the truth againft the Pelagian^ others^ H 
 his meeknejfe, charity 3 humility, pati- F 
 
 ence 
 
ice , piety , rare memory , qttickneffc 
 [ apprehenfion , exquifite judgement 
 Dntinuing without any dec a) to his 
 ift , the communicativeneffe of his 
 udies, the excellent difcourfes at all 
 mes, and fpecially which fell from 
 
 \mztbis (fiTable^rvheret ( a ) semper de re quadam 
 I the mindes of his guefis f ru gtf*ra commentabatur.utnon 
 
 ere refrefhed as mil as TnZ^ZT ar 7 7 fice ~ 
 
 r . J J r rentHr quam corpora Eralru. m 
 
 HIT bodies $ as Erafmus Ep. ad Arch. Toled. ante Op. 
 
 who wrote his life alfoj Au ft* r „ , . . 
 
 •*l c i_- n. • W Quafi Dew vduerttin 
 
 Uth Ot him , efteemmg Aoguftino tanquam in una ta- 
 im of all the Fathers tO bula vividum qmddam exem* 
 
 e (b) the mofi abfolute ^^^'^^^ 
 
 -^ J r _, si t mbus vtnutum numerK abfo te- 
 nd perfect famplar of a turn. ibid. 
 
 \ifhop. 
 
 So there are fome rcmar- 
 ablc things confenting in their 
 eaths; St m K^tugtiflwe died after the 
 c) Goths and Vandal^ho (c) Um% - ^ immmltm 
 vere ^Arrians) had with hojtium Vandaiorum fo Goth r 
 nuch barbarous cruelty , ™*>exH-fp*ni* paribus,**. 
 
 * Li j n Ji- omn * feviens crudelitate , CJC. 
 
 nd ft/Mrf (bedding, Over- „ ix frw frvhates foerjlites u 
 
 UO the major part Of his CarthaginienfemMippQnenfemec 
 
 iarive rrmnrr™ nf r v*f Cirtenfem qu& Dei beneficioex- 
 
 latlVe COunt rey Ot U/« a f*nonfunt,J'tvir,ofo human* 
 
 rtck , excepting onely fulu prsfidio, foe. quam urbem 
 
 hree Cities of any note (Schipponenicm) feme qua* 
 
 / . / r \ r tuoriecem menfibus cnclufam 
 
 ihichmre pre ferved from obfiderunt , foc.Po&d. in vit. 
 hem y of which his Auguftin. 
 
 own 
 
1 1 1 The Life and Death of the 
 
 ownc of Hippo w3s one where 
 books were (t faugh' befieged by them 
 * Noventis me moneths) and he accord ;ng to * htspra 
 id Deum vogare, er ^ by God s mercy, delivered out of the 
 ™nh\d{eacci- bands , in taking him tohimfelfeintk 
 fiatfyecce^ third moneth ofthefiege of it; foraewha 
 
 x SmL it% of thc 1:kc is a PP !iable t0 this moft ^ 
 
 verend Bifhop, in relarion to that barb a 
 rous and bloody Rebellion in his Nativi 
 Countrey of Ireland > from which h< ; 
 waspreferved by his coming hither tht 
 yeare before it,as the Town of Vroghe* 
 da wherein he lived , with his Library.] 
 though many rnoneths befieged by 
 them, ^w 1641. 
 
 Saint y^ugnfline died 
 
 (d> SHU Merf PTalmos ■ h ^ )tearesm his MS in 
 
 Davidicos qui funtpauci[Jimi4e , JL. r 
 
 ^mxentafcrib^pfo^jaceustioe praUtU Of f€pintMCe y 
 
 in kilo contra parietem pofrtos 9 & yin£ for forgivCnefTe 
 [egebat y fc jugiter aeubertim f , ; f mne .c for whirfl 
 flebat, & ne intentio ejus a or nis linncs > ror WIUCH 
 quoquam impediretur , a nobis end he had Cailfed the pe^ 
 poftulavnprtfentibus.nequisri Pfalmes ofDwid 
 
 eumingrederetur , ntfi medici> / . -> 
 
 fo C9 6 to be wot in great letter s % 
 
 and hung upon the w*tt r 
 over against his bed^ in reading of 
 which , hee daily wept , and dt fired 
 to be left to himfelfe~ Thus was it y 
 as ye have heard, though in a fhor- 
 ter ipace with this holy man alfo. 
 
 And 
 
Arch-TSffhep of Armagh, cK i f £ 
 md irwasSaint fc) ,J* (c)D}cereno y ]Sinterfamh 
 
 Ufttnes ]Mdgtmem y Which Haritcoltoquiactnfueverat.eti- 
 'oflddmttS faith, Jfe &W am Imidatos Cbriflians & fa- 
 
 pen from him in his health, tenti fotnitent;tt cxire ie corpa . t 
 
 fiat It Was the fittejl difpefi- renon Mere, qtid etiam ipfe 
 
 on fox a dying Chriftian, f"»ubimiquadefuniiHs # 
 
 i r ' \x P r t t Ogmudtne. ibid, 
 
 nd fpccially for luch or 
 he Jrf*/»/?*rj,who have by their tmifsi- 
 n of reproofs, the fins of other men. 
 o anfwer far as well as their own 5 fo 
 vas it this good mans' too , judging 
 e the fafcr and furer way to Blef- 
 tdne(Je ( even more then that of 
 laptures) according to that of our 
 laviour to the palfcy man , Matth. 
 L 2. or Saint Peter to the Iewes, 
 Afts 3. i0. or Saint PmtioX\\cRo\ 
 un$ , cap. 4. 7. 
 
 But another obfervablc thing is, the 
 Igc when St. Augufiine (f) ^ illt ^^ 
 
 led. It Was in the (f) 76 {,<* prolix* pro militate teftli-. 
 
 ear of his age, and it was "**" fan* tociefi&fuk 
 ie <wr; 4g* of this moft LXXVL m . 
 .everend Primate , when 
 e died alib > fothat in relation to the. 
 .//* and Death of both of them, that 
 >eech 0$. Davids in his lamentation, 
 ver Saul and Jonathan , may be thus', 
 ir amiable j * Thej were lovely andtzSm.toitf' 
 I fletfant 
 
114 The Life and Death ofibe 
 
 ly 
 
 flea font in their lives 7 and in the 
 death they were not divided^ onel 1 
 j w , . ; .„ Saint Aum&ine had been 
 
 (g) In ckrtcatu vel Eprfco* r \ r +J* n / 
 
 paxl annis feme xl, ibid. (g) firf W™ a Preacher^ 
 
 (h) Tcftamentum nullum fecit, and he fifty fivc.Saiflt Att~ 
 
 i$SS£3S8S££i s^f^f^m, M 
 
 ut omnes codices pofteris cujlodi- be made M Will-, what he 
 endosjubebauetc. imperfecta eti- h ac [ £q J^aVC Was Only hlS 
 am qu&dam librorum fuorum r i J J- * r • 
 
 trevtommrtcfadiqukittd. Library, and diyerfet 
 
 feft Copies tf his intended \ A 
 
 works •, which his death prevented the t 
 
 fnijhing of h all which being fo well Y 
 
 known of this Reverend perfon, needs g 
 
 no -further application. 
 
 I fhall conclude this ParaMoi thefe . j ; 
 (Oinfmsquidemfcriptisiife two Saints, with that lafti^ 
 
 Veoacceptus & char us facer do s fpeech of Pofidoni US which I 
 
 mamjejtatur , fed eeo arbitnr i r i* ..l r 
 
 plus exeopreficerepotuiffe qui he applies tO the lame:/', 
 
 eum loquentem in Ecclefia au~ Fathered fits thlS Fathettf/ 
 
 &t£SS2S& of out Church alfo. ^„ 
 
 famnem non ignoraverant. Erat (i)I# his aWWC writings t€l m 
 enim non folum erudhtus fcriba ma y fa known by them that, | 
 in regno coelorum de thefauro j* / f' MaM i Agt 
 
 fuo proferens nova & vetera,fy read them .how dear andac- m 
 
 unus negotiatorum qui inven- ceptabU aMinifter ofGod he { Q ; 
 tampremfam^ hm j eme fo e t h fe , 
 
 habebat vendidit , comparavit * , r . , , 
 
 verumetiamex iis adquosfcripl mufi needs pr opt the better by y t 
 
 J* 
 "magnus vocabitur in regmcx- conversation awon^ nKff.-fa 
 
ArU-Biflop (/Armagh, &c. "5 
 
 For he was not only a learned Scribe for 
 he kingdom of heaven , bringing out of 
 his treafures, things new and old^ and one 
 f thofe merchants , who having found a 
 wciom pearly fold all he had to buy it, but 
 \lfp one of theft to whom it was faid , fo 
 peaky and fo do % and of whom cur Savi- 
 ur faith, wbofoever fiall do and teach 
 nenfo y he (hall be great in the kingdom of 
 eaven (k) Watlafthc } FeteautemiwTend}hve . 
 arnefilj defires thofe that p am ebaritatem, qui h*c (crip- 
 tad what he had written of tdtegitir r *t*itcMm ommpotenp 
 ^! * ^1 lj Deo tratias aiatis , qui tribal f 
 
 7W, that thej would give mib ti nte UeAuth^inmn- 
 ^cd thanks for g-Ving him tiam prefemis temporis eifutu- 
 7 much knowledge of him, rihomimm, & > vellem d&rre 
 
 hat he was both willing and me wtxkjh Mm quondam vm> - 
 
 bletOtran(mit the memory cum qm> annis ferme qaadragin- 
 fiL^f**^*** f*-*L* 1 «^~£* ta Vei dono abfq:-e am ax a ulla 
 
 F thofe things for the bene ft dl fr mkrc fa J Myhe , w*/- 
 c theprefent age & future , %Uer v ; xi y & in b c foul* emu- 
 vdpraj with him and for kut&mtatvtn$am^te]n 
 
 1 j J t . 7 , _ \ futuro omnipotenus Dei promij- 
 
 im y that he might befuch a f iS tum toiemferfnut\ Amen. 
 llcmr and imitator of 'that 
 mncnt man (with whom by the gocdneffe 
 God he had lived familiarly, and (weet- 
 \ without any bitter nef^ of variance for 
 wut 40 jeers) in this world, that he 
 ight with him enjoy the prowifes ofAl- 
 rghtyGodj in the world to' come (with 
 
 fora as applycd to this our moft Rc- 
 I 2 vcrtnd 
 
1 1 6 The Life and Death ofthe° 
 
 verend Father, I fay , ) Amis. 
 
 Well , for this our mo ft learned 
 Primate; March 22. anno 1624. waS 
 the date of his Patent (as lam inform- 
 ed) for his rranflatin^ to the See of 
 Arm*ib , and March 21. anno 1655* 
 was the day of his death, and bis tran- 
 slation unto heaven , having beenjull 
 31 yeares Primate of Ireland. If he 
 be the la ft , and that See do ex fire 
 with him ^ it hath made a goed end, 
 and h*th had an honourable clofeofthe 
 eyes of n in him. 
 
 He is entred into joy , but left the 
 Church a mourner , even the whole 
 Church j as Samuels here in the Old 
 Teftament, or Saint Stephens undeur 
 the New, to make great lamentations 
 for him ^ one of the bittereft mourn- 
 ings we read of in Scripture , is thjt ofjt 
 (l)Zkb-5M2«(l) HadadrimmonJn the Valley of Megid- 
 don , at the death of good ffojiah. 
 when Jerufalem and Iudah y the wholty 
 land } and every family put thcm< 
 (m)tCbron. felves in mourning, when (m) the 
 * 5#1> * finging men and (tnging women wer>\ 
 
 by an Ordinance in Jfrael called t<§ 
 weep out their forrowes^ anJ Ieav«p 
 them upon Record for posterity w 
 
 t 
 
Arch^i/hop of Armagh, &V. \\y 
 
 ; may well be our Copy for this 
 ayes mourning aHo- And if both 
 ie*y«ofour Ration, the Univers- 
 es iliould flied their teares ii their 
 ublick Elogtis , the honour done 
 rould be in an equal ball mce pro- 
 ortioned between themfelve^ ani 
 im , who was an honour to them 
 oth, in his often aboJe with 
 lem. 
 May we not fay without envy as 
 lies Daughter did at the taking of the 
 rke ofGod^ and the death of her F3- 
 er in Liw and her Husband , The 
 lor j is departed from Ifael, even the ■ Sa»,V*t« 
 incipal glory of our Nation for 
 earning and Piety < 
 May we not in relation to his works 
 tending for the PreflTe, but not fini- 
 rd, take up the lad words ofHcze- 
 th : This is a day of trouble qndrebuke^ Ifi 
 the children /ire come to the birth, and 
 re is noflrcngth to bring forth ? 
 May we not take up the lamenrati- 
 
 of David for Jonathan i The iStm. »•**• 
 Mi of I ft ad is fallen, hov are xhe 
 \htj fallen upon the high places ? Tell 
 y m in Gxxh^publijh it not in Askelon, 
 
 least 
 
 1.3 
 
.J 1 8 T/;e Li/* 4wi Ito/? 0/ * J;* 
 
 lean the Philistines rejoyce, and the u, 
 circumcifcd triumph. 
 
 May we not cry out with Eli flu 
 his Mafter Elijahs taking up to Heave 
 from him, or as King foajh wept ov< 
 Elijha himfelfe upon his death bed 
 My Father y my Father, 7 he Chariot 
 Jfraelandthe Borfrnen thereof i.e. tl 
 ftrength and fupport of Ifrael is d 
 parted. 
 
 Give me leave with a little invc 
 fion to conclude with the words < 
 Jeremiah in his Lamentations: 3 
 Elders of the Daughter ofSion ( let it 1 
 applyed if you pleafe in fpecill | 
 thofe of the Mimftry ) Sit ye upon t 
 ground and keep filence, caft dufl up 
 your heads > cover your felves with fac, 
 cloth ^hang dmn pur heads to thegroun 
 let your eyes trickle down teares, let tht 
 tun down like Rivers of waters -, For t 
 joy of cur heart is ceafed, the Crown is ft 
 len from our head, as to the highefl: fj 
 nom of this Nation in ForrainePa 
 by him. 
 
 He hath with St. Paul finifhed 
 ccurfe z and kept the Faith : Let US' 
 followers of him in the piety of 
 
 I 
 
ArcbSBt/bop ^Armagh^&V, u^ 
 
 fe h intheinduftry of his Pot* labour 
 n the Word and Doffrinejjy preaching, 
 lat our latter end may be like his, and 
 eccivc that Euge with him at our laft : 
 Veil done thou good andfaithfrl Servant , 
 "iter into the joy of thy M after. 
 
 FINIS. 
 

 
 
#1 
 
 A Catalogue of the Works of 
 Do&or JAMES ^VSHE\, 
 lare Arch-Bifliop of Armagh } 
 and P rimate of all Ireland* 
 
 JAcobus Uffctius \yirmachanas dt 
 Eccltfwrum Chrifiianarunt Succef- 
 fiont & Sutu. Quarro Londini 1 61 ? . 
 
 Epjlolarum Hihernicarum Sjlloge 
 
 4° Dublinii 1630. 
 
 : HifiorU Cote(ehalci. 40 Dublinii 
 
 1631. 
 
 Be Primordiis Ecclefiarttm Lri- 
 
 tanicarum. 40 Dublinii 1 67, 9. 
 
 1 IgMtiiEptfloU cum annotationibus, 
 
 4°Oxomx 1^45. 
 
 • Be lAnno Solari LMacedemm 8° 
 
 Londini 1648. 
 
 K^inndes Vetms Tefiamenti Fo!. 
 
 Londini 1650* 
 
 ! Kstnruhs Novi TeQamtmi &c. 
 
 Fol. Londini i6<4- 
 fyfrU ad Cqyffum de V*rim- 
 
tibui textus hebraici Uttiombm.^ Loll- 
 
 dini 1*552, 
 
 ■ Dt Grtca Sepuagint* Inter f return 
 
 verftone Syntagma 4 Londini 1^55. 
 
 His Englifl) Works. 
 
 ^— -A Sermon preached before the 
 Houfe of Commons^, 18th s 6i$. 
 
 • A Declaratioo of the visibility 
 
 of the Church, preached in a Sermon 
 before King $ames$tm. 20 th 1^24. 
 
 A Speech delivered in the 
 
 Caftle- Chamber in Dublin the 22th f 
 Novemb. 1622. 
 
 — — * His Anfwer to Malon the Jefuit 
 
 4° 163 1. 
 The Religion profefl; by the An- 
 cient Irifti and Brittans. 401631. 
 
 • Immanciel,or the Incarnation of 
 
 the Son of God. 4 Dublin 1639. 
 
 A Geographical Defcription of 
 
 theLefierAfia. 4° Oxford 164.4. 
 Confcflions and Proofes of Do- 
 ctor ityw/,i& and other Proteftant Di- 
 vines concerning the right of Epifco- 
 pacy; 4 Oxford 1 644. 
 
 ■ His Difcourfe oi the Original of 
 
 Bifliops 
 
B'.fliops and Arch.blfbops. 4 O <ferd 
 
 — Hisfmall Catechifmere-viewed. 
 12° London 1654. 
 
 e3=» The Sumroeand Sabfhnce 
 
 of ChriftianReljgion,being in part his; 
 but publifhcd without his confen\ 
 
 Fol. London. 
 
 A Method fot Meditation, or a 
 
 Diredion for the hearing of the Word. 
 
 S3* HisAnnales of the Odand 
 
 New Teftament •, with the Synchro- 
 nifmes of Heathen Story to the dtftru- 
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 A viro Reverendipmo & D$ftij?imo y 
 Jacobo UfTerio, At chit 'plfcopo *Arma- 
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 Ejufdem Annalium Pars fecund* qu& 
 ad annum Chrifti Oftegefimum product- 
 tur^ ma cum harmonik Evangeliorum ab 
 excrcitatifiimo facris Uteris Dgciore Jo- 
 hanne Richard fono Eftfcopo Arda- 
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