Part Ill. l everend Mr. Richard Baxter. 189 Book alfo, and my Prognostication, and, ( which I molt valued) my True and only way,of VntverfalConcord, worn Railed a, but never Answered ( that I know of ) no more than thofe fore-mentioned. §. 64. One Mr. Morrice, Chaplain to Arch-hifhopSandcroft, Wrote a Learned and Virulent Book again1E my Abffrail ofthe Hijory of BJhops and Councils; and against afmall Book of Mr. DavidC3erkfon, against the Antiquiy of Diocefanes:, Tothis Mr. Clerkfon and I conjoyned our Anfwers ; In mine, s Epitomized Yob Ludolphus Hiftory of Habaffa in the Preface ; and, I think, fufficiently Vindicated my History ofCouncils fo think they thatwere greatly taken with Mr. Mor- rice's book tillthey fw the Anfwer. And Mr. Cterkfon hach !hewn himfelf fo ninth better acquainted with Church Hillery than they , that whether they will attempt to anfwer his Teftimonies ( and mine in my Treatife of Epifcopacy ) which difprove the Antiquity of Diocefanes or will trait only to poJefon, pow- or and nafe, I know not. L. 65. Mr. H. Dodroell, and Dr. Sherlock, by publick accufation , called me out to publilh a Book called Ast Anfwer to Mr. Dodroell and Dr. Sherlock confuting an Vniverfai Humane Church-Sovereignty, Aristocratical and Monarchical, as Church- Tyranny and Popery and defending Dr. Ifaae Barrow's Excellent Treatife against it. ( For Dr. Tilkifon had newly Published this Excellent Polthumous- Treatife, and Sherlock quarrel'd with it.) In this' I confuted Mr. Dodwell's Treatife of Sehifnr, and many ofhis Letters and Conferences withme which I think he will pafs by, left his own Reply should make thofe know him who read not mine. §: 66. In a short time I was called with a grieved heart to Preach and Publifh many Funeral Sermons, on the Death of many Excellent Saints. Mr. Stabbes went firft, that Humble , Holy, Serious Preacher ; long a blefhng to. Gloucejierfhsre and Somerfetffiire and other parts , and lastly to London I had great reason to lament myparticular Lofs of fo holy a friend, who oft toldme , That for very many years henever went to God by folemn Prayer without a particular remembrance of me : but of him before. Next died Mrs. Coxe, Wife to Dr. Thomas Coxe (now President of the Lol- ledgge of Phyfcians) a Woman of fuch admirable compofure of Humble, Serious Godliness , meekness patience exaftnefs of Speech and all behaviour and great Charity, that all thatI have fail inher Funeral Sermon is much fhort of her worth. Next died my molt intire Friend Alderman Henry Afhburjt, commonly taken for the meltexemplary Saint thatwas of publick notice in this City; fo found in Judgment, of fuck admirable Meeknefs, Patience, Univerfal Charity, Studious of GoodWorks, and large therein, that we know not where to find his Equal. Yet though furls a HolyMan, of a flrongBody,God tryedhis patience by the terrible Difeafe of the Stone in theBladder ; And, in extremityof torment he endured to beCut, and two broken Stones taken out by Thirty pieces and more, with ad-. mirable patience: And when theWound was almost healed, he was fain to be Cut again of a third Stone that was left behind y and after much fuffering and pa- tience, died, with great peace and quíetnefsof Mind ; and bath left behind him.. the perfume of a most honoured Name, and theMemorials of a moft ,exemplary Life, to be imitated by all his Defcendents. Next my dear Friend Mr. Bohn Carle, of juft the like temper ofBody and Soul, having endured atChirbefter many years Torment of the fame Difeafe coming up to be Cut, died 'before theycould Cut him, and had ;uft three filch Stones in his Bladder as Mr. AfhurJPs were: hisworth isknown in Gloucefter, Chichefter, Lon- don, and by his Writings tothe Land.,.to be beyond what I have publilhed of him; in his Funeral Sermon. He having lived in my House before, and greatly honou- red bymy Wife ; She got not long after his excellent ExemplaryWife (Daugh- ter to Dr. Troifs) to bè her Companion, but enjoyed that comfort but a little While, which I have longer enjoyed. §. 67..Near the fame time died myFather's feeond Wife, Mary, the Daughter Of Sir Thomas Hunks; and Sifter to Sir Palle Flunks, the King's Governour of` Shrewsbury in the Wars : Her Mother, theold Lady Hanks, died at my Father's Houfe, between Eighty and One hundred years old. And my Mother-in-Law died at Ninety, fix (of a.CaSiei ) in perfe£t Understanding, having lived from her youth in the greateft Mortification, Austerity to her Body, and cnnftancy of Fray er and all Devotion, of any one that ever I knew r Iii thehatred of all fines ftriltnul 9
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