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Athenae Oxonienses : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford. To which are added the fasti, or annals of the said University / By Anthony A. Wood.

Anthony Wood

Date:: 1813-20

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$some cases, and such like pernicious tenets^, and whom he usually joyns with Mr. Hooker in quotations of ^ this kind) that led him to what he did, and wrote in the book of Hoh/ Commonwealth, which he hath retracted. And that he may charge these destructive assertions home on our author, he^ saitli, ' If any do causlesly question whether the eighth imperfect book be in those dangerous passages above-mentioned his own, let them re- member that the summ of them is in his first book, which is old, and highly honoured by the prelatists : And after all tliis, to shew himself an €nemy to the above-named principles, he examines and confutes'^ the first and eighth books so far, as they make for popularity, (with some strictures intermixed on bishop Bilson's false notes of sub- jection,) whereby he makes but a scanty satisfac- tion for the malignant influence those many traiterous opinions, with which his Political Apho- risms are fraught, have had on the minds of many giddy people, towards the withdrawing them from yielding cheerful obedience to their lawful supe- riors ; and this notwithstanding he hath sometime since, called this piece in. The eighth book is commonly supposed to have been first pub- lished, together with the sixth and seventh, by bish. Gauden, yet Mr. Baxter' affirms that the {30-5] aid eighth book was in print long before that time; which is true, for the sixth and eighth were printed at Lond. 1648, in qu. nay all the eight books, with certain tractates and sermons, toge- ther with the author's life, were published in two vol. in fol. 1617, as the title to them tells us.' As for the other books and sermons, that our author Hooker hath written, they are these follow- Ajiszcer to a supplication preferred hy Mr. Walt. Travers to the H. H. Lords of the Privy Council. ^ Oxou. 1612, qu. [Bodl. 4to. J. 4. Th.] Causes of contention concerning Church-Govern- ment. Oxon. 1641, qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 12. Line] As for his sermons they are these, (1) Discourse ■of Justification, Works, and how the foundation of Faith is ovcrthroicn, on Abak. 1. 4. Oxon, 1612, <ju. [In St. John's college library.] (2) Of the Natureof Pride, on Abak. 2. 4. Oxon. I6l2, qu. (3) Remedy against Soriow and Fear: Fun. Ser- mon on Joh. 14. 27. Ox. 1612, qu. [Bodl. 4to. L. 10. Th. BS.] (4) Of the certaitdij and perpe- ' Nonconformist'spka for peace. Lond. 16?P, in oct. in the 4th pag. of the pref. and in 124 of the book. See Fascic. Liter, ut sup. p. 100, 101, 102, 3.nd in the Apol. for Non- conformisls Ministry, S, c. Lond. 1G81, qu. p. 140. ^ In his pref. to the 4 part of his book called Christian Jiirectory, or a sum (f practical Theology. Which 4 part is by him 'entit. Christian Politicks. Lond. 1<573, fol. ' In the fourth part of Christian Directory, chap. 3. ' In Nonconformist's pica for peace, p, Xl^. ^ [An edition with Walton's Life, folio, Lond. 1723. And at Oxford, in tliree volumes 8vo. 1793, and again in 1807-] 2 [A copy in MS. in the 13odleian, E musco 55.] tuity of Faith in the Elect, on Abak. 2. 4. (3) Tzvo Sermotis upon part of St. Jude's Epistle, viz. ver. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. Oxon I6l4, qu. All which sermons (with Wickclife's Wicket) were published by Henry Jackson fellow of C. C. coll. reprinted at London (the Wicket excepted) an. 1622, fol. at the end of the five books of Ecch- siastical Polity, &c. and again at the end of the eight books, Lond. 1682, fol. (6) Serm.on Matth. 7. 7. Found in the study of Dr. Andrews bishop of Winchester, and published by Isaac Walton, at the end of Dr. Sanderson's Life. Lond. 1678, oct. [Bodl. Mar. 231.] What other things our most renowned author Hooker hath extant, I know not, nor any thing else of hiin, only that paying his last debt to nature on the second of Nov. in sixteen hundred, (leaving then behind leoo. him the character of ' Schismaticorum Malleus,') was buried in the chancel of the church of Bishop's Bourne in Kent before-mentioned. Over his grave was, 35 years after, a monument erected by Will. Cowper, esq; with the statua or bust of the defunct to the middle part of his body. From which statua was taken the picture of him, set before his life, written by the said Isaac Walton, of whom by the way I desire the reader to know, that he was born in the ancient borough of Staf- ford, in Aug. 1593, that he was by trade a semp- ster in Chancery-lane in London, where con- tinuing till about 1643, (at which time he found it dangerous for honest men to be there,) he left that city, and lived sometimes at Stafford, and elsewhere, but mostly in the families of the emi- nent clergy-men of England, of whom he was much beloved. He hath written the lives of Dr. Joh. Donne, sir Hen. Wotton, Mr. Rich. Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and of Dr. Rob. Sanderson sometimes B. of Lincoln : All which are well done, considering the education of the author; as also The compleat Angler, or the contemplative Man's recreation, &c. He ended his days (in the great frost) at Winchester, in the house of Dr. Will. Hawkins, prebendary of the church there, (who had married his daughter,) on the 15 Dec. 1683, and was buried in the calh. ch. at that place.* [Izaak Walton, son of Jervis Walton (who died in 1596) was born on the 9th of August, and baptized on the 21st of Sept. 1593, at the parish church of St. Mary's in the town of Staftbrd, as appears by the register of that parish, which has been consulted by a friend tor this work. His mother was daughter of Edmund Cranmer archdeacon of Canterbury, and niece to the celebrated archbishop of that name. Sir John Hawkins ('Xj'/e of Walton) suggests that Walton vv-as one of those young men placed by sir Thomas Gresham, the founder of the Royal Exchange, in one of the small shops erected over the burss; but sir John, it saem^, had forgotten that Gresham died in 15?9, fourteen years before Walton was born; nor does there seem any conclusive evidence that he ever did possess a shop at the Exchange. Wood has informed us, in the text, of honest IzaaJv's residence and occupation: his house was situated in the parish of St. Dunstan's Fleet street, of which Dr. Donne was then vicar, v^ith whom Walton contracted a$