moved; the sure result of a steadfast adherence to the appointed aids. He commends the discreet use of confession of sin to some godly minister, who, by absolution, may pronounce and apply pardon to the afflicted spirit. But whilst the sincerity of our faith may be surely proved and known by its effects, as the life of a tree by its fruits, in despair, or rather, when we are strongly tempted to it, (and no, or but few sincere Christians are there but will be so tempted,) it is our only resource to "look upwards unto a gracious God;" then "it is not thy faith but God's faithfulness thou must rely upon: casting thine eyes downward on thyself, to behold the great distance betwixt what thou deservest and what thou desirest, is enough to make thee giddy, stagger, and reel into despair." This true brokenheartedness is that which all need, and which a thorough selfknowledge would impart to all, to all who know the mystery of redemption, and whose hearts are at all touched by it. And how can those esteem the physician who know not their own wounds? He himself said, "to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little." It is not for sinners proudly to refuse the comfort of this truth. I cannot withhold from my reader the conclusion of this excellent manual; "Music is sweetest near or over rivers, where the echo thereof is best rebounded by the water. Praise for pensiveness, thanks for tears, and blessing God over the floods of affliction, makes the most melodious music in the ear of heaven." M CHAPTER X. Fuller preferred to Waltham Abbey.-His ETURNING from Boughton to London, Fuller preached for a little while at St. Clement's, East Cheap, between the end of March and the month of May, 1647. In the church warden's accounts, this entry occurs early in the list of payments for that year: "Paid for 4 Sermons preached by Mr. ffuller, 00 1. 06. 08." In the vestry minute-book, there is an entry dated July 22, 1647, to the effect that the tithes should be kept by the churchwardens, and paid to such ministers as should be appointed.* In the account for 1648, is the following entry: *In 1636, was paid at All Hallows, Bread Street, £13. 86. d 8. for one sermon every Sunday; at St. Swithin's, London Stone, 14 £.; by the Mercer's Company at St. Michael Royal, 13 £.; at St. Mary, Aldermary, for weekly sermons in winter, by gift for ever, 20£.; at St. Mary-leBow, for a weekly sermon in winter, £26. s 13. d4.; at St. "Paid diverse ministers for preachinge 22 Sabbath daies, beginige the 12th of Nov. 1648-0 22. 00.00." The names are not specified. Fuller is said to have preached a lecture at St. Clement's, East Cheap, on the Wednesday afternoon, and at St. Bride's, Fleet Street, on the Thursday afternoon, but the books of the latter parish were destroyed, or lost, in the great fire of 1666. Probably Fuller was permitted to preach again in these churches, about, or after 1652, as also at the Mercer's chapel, for he commemorates that company amongst his benefactors in his Church History. In 1648, in his dedication of his Sermon on Assurance, already noticed under the period at which it was first preached, Fuller, informs us, that he was silenced at St. Clement's, East Cheap, by the prevailing faction: "It hath been the pleasure of the present authority, (to whose commands I humbly submit) to make me mute, forbidding me, till further order, the exercise of my public preaching; wherefore I am fain to employ my fingers in writing, to make the best signs I can, thereby to express, as my desire to the general good, so my particular gratitude to your honour;" (Sir John Danvers, who, in 1649, signed his hand to the death-warrant of his sovereign.) Dunstan's in the West, for 12 sermons, £5. s6. d 8.; at St. Michael's, Cornhill, for 9 sermons yearly, £ 4. s 10.; at St. Andrew, Hubbard's, for 3 sermons, 3 £.; at St. Bride's, Fleet Street, 3 sermons, each ten shillings; at St. Peter's, Cornhill, for 2 sermons, one pound. Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. To the old church of St. Clement's, East Cheap, Fuller's very dear and faithful friend, Baldwin Hamey, M.D. was a great benefactor. He was the son of Baldwin Hamey, alias De Hame, M. D. of Bruges, in Flanders, and of Sarah, his wife, daughter and heir of Peter Oeyles, of Antwerp, merchant. He studied at the University of Leyden, and on February 4, 1629, was incorporated of the University of Oxford. In 1630, he was admitted candidate of the college of Physicians, London; and was afterward fellow, censor, anatomy reader, elector, registrar, and consiliarius, but never president of the same college. He was in great estimation as a physician, and surviving Dr. Fuller, died May 14, 1676, aged 76 years, and was buried in the nave of the old church, Chelsea.* At Chelsea * Newcourt records, that St. Clement's, East Cheap, was repaired and beautified in 1632, at the cost and charge of the parishioners, " and," he adds "if my memory fails not, it was again repaired about the year 1657, or 1658, and the roof of the church (formerly of tile) covered with lead, at the cost of Dr. Aimy [Hamey] an eminent physician." Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 326, ed. London, 1708. The rector of St. Clement's, Benjamin Stone, A. M. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was Rector of St. Mary Abchurch, 1613, and in 1638, Prebendary of Reculverland, in the church of St. Paul's, having been preferred also by Laud to St. Clement's, East Cheap, in 1637. He was deprived of all, but restored in 1660. He died before March, 1665. In 1662, succeeded at St. Clement's, Samuel Bolton, a pious son of a pious father, Robert Bolton, whose life is excellently given in the Abel Redivivus. He was himself a native of Broughton, in Northamptonshire. He died in 1668. was also the residence of Sir John Danvers, our author's benefactor, of whom saith John Bates in his Lives of the Regicides, "though he lived some years in his disloyalty without repentance, yet drawing near the time of his death,' I have cause to believe that he repented of the wickedness of his life; for that, then Mr., now Dr. Thomas Fuller, was conversant in his family, and preached several times at Sir John Danvers, his desire, in Chelsea Church; where, I am sure, all that frequented that congregation, will say, he was instructed to repent of his misguided and wicked consultations, in having to do with the murder of that just man, the King." Thus, in 1649, Fuller preached a funeral sermon in Chelsea church, entitled The Just Man's Funeral, of which there can be little doubt that it was designed in honour of the King himself. The object of it was previously understood amongst his friends; so it was delivered " before several persons of Honour and Worship." This sermon is " a vindication of the Divine Providence in the misfor tunes and deaths of the righteous." "'* Very characteristic of him is the beginning: "The world is a volume of God's works, which all good people ought studiously to peruse.. Three sorts of men are to blame herein: first, such as observe nothing at all; seeing, but neither marking nor minding the daily accidents that happen; with Gallio, the secure deputy of Achaia, They care for none of From Eccles. vii. 14. |