Nature ●…'expresse the symmetry of Parts, Made this fair bulk the Magazine of ●orts: Body and mind do answer well his Name ●…LER, Comparative to's Bliss and Fame.  
THE LIFE OF That Reverend Divine, AND Learned Historian, Dr. THOMAS FULLER.  
Si post Fatavenit Gloria, sic propero, Mart.  
LONDON, Printed for J. W. H. B. and H. M. 1661.   

To the Reader.  
THis reverend person deceased, who while he shined here gave a full Meridian light to all kind of History, sets with this Shadow in his own, the dark side of that Lantern to himself, whose lucidations had discovered all before it, and rescued so many brave memoirs from the violence of time. Pity it is that ●…be excellent persons (for it is their common Fate) should be so neglectful of Themselves, while they are so 〈◊〉 ●…le to the world, 〈◊〉 ●…ps all with a care 〈◊〉 ●ngratefull return to the Authors of their store and increase.  
And as the intrinsecall worth of Diamonds exerts not its lustre without a foil; so it fareth with the most costly and rich shrines of those resplendent and shining virtues, erected in the memory and fame of worthy men, which are always showed by Lamp, or some other faecacious and borrowed Light, that only directs to the solemnity and invites veneration, but cannot contribute nor add any real aestimate and honour to the Saint himself.  
The account of this Reverend Doctor deceased states itself in this Apology: it pretends not to be any of his least & inconsiderable Relic, and it doth alike justify itself from being his Legend; merely the worth of so deserving a person, (which no Pen hath yet undertaken or attempted) for civilities sake, hath obliged this Essay; which to your easiest censure is here submitted.  
Vale.   

The Life of the reverend and excellent Doctor THOMAS FULLER.  
THe ample subject of this incompetent relation is Doctor Thomas Fuller, to whose dust we do avowedly consecrate this Elegy the Doctor of FAMOUS MEMORY:  
He was born at All Wincle an obscure Town in Northamptonshire, some five miles from Oundle in the year of our Lord 16— a place now equalled to, and vying honour with any seed-plot (in that county) of virtue, learning, and Religion; and of which hereafter to its glory it shall be said, That this MAN was born There.  
He was the Son of Mr. Tho. Fuller, the Minister of the same Town, a man of a blameless and as private life, who spent himself in the discharge of his Pastoral office to which God had called him, without embarquing himself in the busy controversies of his time, that laboured under the fatigues of most importunate puritanism and pleading popery.  
Part of this privacy bestowed itself fruitfully upon the youth of the venerable Doctor, (who had lost some time under the ill menage of a raw and unskilful Schoolmaster) so that in a little space such a proficiency was visibly seen in him, that it was a question whether he owed more to his father for his birth or education; both which had so happily and so easily concurred, that he was admirably learned before it could be supposed he had been taught; and this will seem no paradox to those who knew his felicity of memory which he owed not to the lubricity of Art, but the certainty of Nature.  
Having under this tuition past the just time of Adolescency in those puerile studies, at twelve years of age, this hopeful slip was translated to Cambridge, where he first settled in Queens-Colledge, of which a near kinsman of his Dr.— was then Precedent. This was a sphere wherein his relucent virtues and conspicuous abilities had room to exert themselves, so that he filled the eyes of that University with a just expectation of his future lustre.  
Here he successively passed the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts, with such general commendation, and at such unusual age, that such a Commencement was not within memory.  
During his residence in this College a Fellowship was vacant, for which the Doctor became Candidate, prompted thereunto by a double plea of merit and interest, besides the desire of the whole house; but a Statute of the College prevailing against them all, which admitted not two Fellows of the said County of Northampton, the Doctor quitted his pretensions and designation to that preferment. And though he was well assured of a dispensation, from the strict limitation of that Statute, to be obtained for him, yet he totally declined it, as not willing to owe his rise and advancement to the courtesy of so ill a Precedent, that might usher in more immodest intrufions upon the privileges and laws of the College.  
But this gave him a fair occasion to transfer himself to Sidney College, whither by some of his choice and learned friends, he had often been invited. He had not long been here, but he was chosen Minister of St. Bennets parish in the Town of Cambridge, in whose Church he offered the primity of his Ministerial Fruits, which like Apples of Gold in pictures of Silver (sublime Divinity in the most ravishing Elegancies) attracted the audience of the University, by whose dilated commendations, he was generally known at that age at which most men do but peep into the world.  
These his great sufficiences (being now but about the age of twenty three years) tendered him a Prebendary of Salisbury, and at the same time a Fellowship in Sidney college. They were both eximious preferments as the times than were, the estimation of either being equally great mutatis mutaudis; but the Doctor's inclination byassed him to the more active and profitable incumbency, into which his inbred piety and devotion had from the first of his resolutions inducted him: Whereupon he retired from that University and betook himself to the Priestly Function, being thereunto ordained by the right reverend Father in God the Bishop of Salisbury.  
This being the King's Donation, was some further reason for abandoning his most pleasant studies and conversation in Cambridge, for that also by the Statutes of both Universities it is provided, that no person who shall have Ten pound per annum in the King's books shall be capable of a Fellowship in either of them. So providence was pleased to dispose of him in each of these accademical honorary intendments, that his fluent should not run silently in those streams, contribute only to their Emanations, but with Fame discharge itself into the Ocean, reciprocate Honour and Desert, with the World.  
Having thus launched and being so furnished he set forth in the course of the Ministry, exchanging those delightful privacies of his ColledgStudies (which laid the happy Foundations and beginnings of those Excellent Books, which successively teemed those productions and propagations of divine Learning and Knowledge, of which more hereafter,) for the troublesome Cure of a Parish and importunate Pulpit.  
That Prebend of Salisbury was a commodious step to another more profitable place, which for its vicinity to that Cathedral, and being in the same Diocese, did easily commend itself, without the aid and instance of the Patron, or other inducements, to the Doctor's acceptance; but yet he did not over-readily entertain the kindness of the proffer till after a serious scrutiny of himself and his Abilities to discharge the requisite duties the place called for; and after a very full and satisfactory enquiry of his Parishioners.  
It was the Rectory of Broad Windsor in Dorsetshire, a place far distanced from his native Country, & remoter from his University. A Prophet hath no Honour in his own; and therefore it was doubled to him in another. The Accommodation both in reference to his maintenance and respect from this people was very noble, and which afforded great expedience to the Doctors other labours, which were bountifully cherished under the tuition of his Ministry.  
After some while employed here in the pastoral Office, the Doctor was desired by some Friends to dignify his Desert, with the Degrees, which his Time and standing by the Rules of the University afforded him: whereunto the Doctor out of a reverence to his Honourable Cailing was well inclined, and accordingly prepared for his departure to Cambridge to take the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity.  
Having taken care therefore to supply his place for the time of his absence, at his setting forth he was acquainted that 4 of his chief Parishioners with his good leave, were ready to wait on him to Cambridge, to testify their exceeding engagements, it being the sense and request of his whole Parish; This kindness was so present and so resolutely pressed, that the Doctor with many thanks for that and other demonstrations of their Love towards him, gladly accepted of their Company, and with his customary innate pleasantness entertained their time to the Journeys end.  
At his coming to Cambridge he was most welcomly treated and saluted by his friends and acquaintance, and visited almost by all considerable persons of the University and Town; especially of his Parishioners of St. Bennet: Fame and Love vying which should render him most Addresses, to the great delight and satisfaction of his fellow-Travellers and Neighbours in having a Minister who was so highly and yet no less deservedly honoured, but to the Trouble of the modest Doctor, who was then forced to busy his invention with Compliments, to which he was most naturally averse.  
At this Commencement there proceeded with him in the same Degree of Bachelor of Divinity three other reverend persons, all with general applause and commendation; and therefore to do them no wrong must forbear to give the Deceased Doctor his particular due: Only thus much by the way may be added, that this Commencement cost the Doctor for his particular the sum of sevenscore pounds, an evidence of his liberality and largeness of mind proportionable to his other capacity's, and yet than which nothing was less studied.  
At his departure he was dismissed with as Honourable valedictions, and so he returned in the same company (who had out of their own purse contributed another addition of honour to that solemnity) to his said Rectory at Broad Windsor resolving there to spend himself and the time of his pilgrimage amongst his dear and loving charge.  
In the amaenity and retirements of this rural life some perfection was given to those pieces, which soon after blest this age (an account of all which is reserved to the conclufion of these Collections:) from this pleasant prospect he drew that excellent Piece of the Holy Land, Pisgah sight, and other Tracts relating thereto; so that what was said bitterly of some Tyrants, that they made whole Countries vast solitudes and deserts, may be inverted to the Eulogy of this Doctor, that he in these recesses made deserts, the solitudes of Israel, the frequented path and tract of all ingenuous and studious persons.  
But Contemplation and the immurement of his vast spirit, within the precincts of his Parish, (although both delightful and profitable, those foreign Travels of his brain above mentioned affording the One, and his pious labours at, home yielding the other) grew tedious and wearisome to his active and free Genius, which was framed by nature for converse, and general Intelligence, not to be smothered in such an obscurity.  
To this inclination also the unquietness and trepidations of those times (then scared with the news of a war about Religion and reformation which the Scots pretended) did oversway him. He was very Tensible whither those first commotions did tend, and that some heavy disaster did in those angry clouds which impended over the Nation, more particularly threaten the Clergy. He was then also married unto a virtuous young Gentlewoman, and by her had born there his eldest son now a hopeful plant in the same College and University where his Father had his education. These motives concurring with that general fame and esteem of him, drew him to the consultation of a City life, where both security, honour, and the advantages of learning did demonstratively promise the completion of his desires & intended tranquillity, destined already to some public works which were then in designment.  
Removing therefore to London having obtained his fair dismission from that charge in the Country he continued his pious endeavour of preaching in most of the voiced Pulpits of London, (being cried up for one of the most excellent preachers of his age) but most usually in the Inns of Court.  
He was from thence by the Master and Brotherhood of the Savoy (as well as earnestly desired and entreated by that small parish) complemented to accept of the Lecturers place; which having undertaken after some instance, he● did most piously and effectually discharge, witness the great confluence of affected Hearers from distant congregations, insomuch that his own Cure were (in a sense) excommunicated from the Church, unless their timous diligence kept pace with their devotion; the Doctor affording them no more time for their extraordinaries on the Lord's day, than what he allowed his habituated abstinence on all the rest. He had in his narrow Chapel two Audiences, one without the pale, the other within; the windows of that little Church, and the Sextonry so crowded, as if Bees had swarmed to his mellifluous discourse.  
He continued here to the great satisfaction of his people, and the neighbouring Nobility & Gentry, till our unhappy unnatural wars had made a dismal progress through the whole Nation: labouring all that while in private and in public to beget a right understanding among all men of the Kings most righteous cause, which through seduction and popular fury was generally maligned. His exhortations to peace and obedience were his constant subjects in the Church, (all his Sermons were such Liturgies) while his secular days were spent in vigorously promoting the King's affairs either by a sudden reconciliation or potent assistance.  
To this end on the Anniversary day of his late Majesty's inauguration, which was the— day of March 1642. he preached at St. Peter's Westminster on this Text, 2 Sam. 19 30. Yea let him take all, so that my Lord the King return in peace. A Theme so distasteful to the ringleaders of the Rebellion (who had on purpose so scandalously driven him from his Court & Parliament, that he might never with any pleasure think of returning to them till he had vindicated his Honour upon the abettors of those Tumults) and so well and loyally enforced by him, that drew not only a suspicion from the moderate misled party of Parliament, but an absolute odium on him from the Grandees and Principals in the Rebellion.  
There were few or none of the Orthodox Clergy then remaining within their Lines of Communication (new invented Limits for the City's old Liberties) some being dead in restraint or through more harsh and cruel dealing, the rest outed and silenced; so that their inspection & espial was confined almost to the Doctor's Pulpit as to public Assemblies; where nevertheless he desisted not nor altered from his main course, the Doctrine of Allegiance, till such time as the Covenant was obtruded upon his Conscience, and must through his persuasions be likewise pressed upon his people.  
Several false rumours and cavils there are about his carriage and opinion touching that sacrilegious thing by persons, who were distanced as far from the knowledge of those passages, as fortunately from being concerned and engaged within the reach of that snare. 'Twas not only easy but most prudential, for other Ecclesiastical persons to quit their Livings, who were out of the gripes and clutches of those ravenous Reformists, in order to keep their conscience inviolable; but it was difficulty enough of itself for the Doctor to escape and get out of that place, where the next preferment would have been a Dungeon.  
Some velitations, transient discourses he made about that frequent and thumbed subject of the reformation, the rather to suspend the busy censures of the Parliament and their party; wherein, though he seemed to comply, (but as far as the Rule and Example would allow) and indulge the misapprehension of those men, yet these his charitable disguises could not obscure him from the severe animadversions of several Ministers Eminent in those Reforming Times, particularly Mr. Saltmarsh. The Contest betwixt them is so known in print, that it will be needless to trouble the Reader with it here. Only thus much by digression in honour of this venerable Doctor: Mr. Saltmarsh being long since dead, He hath in his Book of the Worthies General of England (of which hereafter) given him a most Honourable mention, and assigned him the place of his Birth, Education and Burial, registering him for an Ornament of them all: so Resplendent and Durable was the Doctor's Charity. I may not omit one thing, that the Doctor in recording and relating of the Death of the said Mr. Saltmarsh, doth passionately reflect on the shortness of his life and the acuteness of that fever which so violently ended him, reducing and applying it to the uncertainty of his own state, & we now unhappily see those curious presages of his Pen verified and accomplished in his most immature and sudden decease.  
To return to our Subject, in the beginning of the year 1643. the said Covenant was generally pressed, and a very great persecution soon after followed it. The Doctor was settled in the love and affections of his own Parish, besides other obligations to his numerous Followers; so that the Covenant then tendered might seem like the bright side of that cloud (promising serenity and prosperity to him, as was insinuated to the Doctor by many great Parliamentarians) which showered down after a little remoteness, such a black horrible tempest upon the Clergy, nay the Church and three Kingdoms. But the good Doctor could not bow down his knee to that Baal-Berith, nor for any worldly considerations (enough whereof invited him even to fall down and worship, men of his great parts being infinitely acceptable to them) lend so much as an Ear to their serpentine charms of Religion and Reformation.  
Since therefore he could not continue with his Cure without his Conscience, and every day threatened the imposition of that illegal Oath, he resolved to betake himself to God's providence, and to put himself directly under it, waving all indirect means and Advantages whatsoever towards his security. In order thereunto, in April 1643. he deserted the City of London, and privately conveyed himself to Oxford, to the no less sudden amazement of the Faction here, who yet upon recollection quickly found their mistake, then to the unexpected content and joy of the Loyal party there, who had every day Jobs Messengers of the plundering, ruins and imprisonments of Orthodox Divines.  
Oxford was then the common refuge and shelter of such persecuted persons, so that it never was nor is like to be a more Learned University, (one Breast being dried up by Cromwel's visitation, the Milk resorted to the other) nor did ever Letters and Arms so well consist together, it being an accomplished Academy of Both▪  
Among the multitude of those new comers like the clean beasts to the Ark, when the waters increased, the KING (the most excellent intelligent Prince of the abilities of his Clergy) vouchsafed the Doctor the Honour of preaching before him in St: mary's, where with the like moderation he laid open the blessings of an accommodation, as being too too sensible and that so recently of the virulency and impotent rage, though potent arms, of the disloyal Londoners, which as the Doctor then Christianly thought, could not better be allayed then by a fair condescension in matters of Church Reformation.  
It seems some particulars in that Sermon gave offence to some at Court, as if the good Doctor were a Lukewarm Royalist, and did not throughly own his Majesty's Cause; which ill grounded conceit, though he were well satisfied in that his plea for Composure) did not a little trouble him: to explain and free himself, an opportunity was wanting both of Press and Pulpit, and the hurry of the War gave not his prejudiced Hearers leisure for his particular vindication. He resolved therefore strenuously to evince his faithful Loyalty to the King by another kind of Argument, by appearing in the King's Armies, to be a Preacher Militant to his Soldiers:  
This Resolution Providence was pleased to favour by an Honourable Friends recommendation of the Doctor to my Lord Hopton, who was then to choose a Chaplain. This noble Lord, though as courageous and expert a Captain, and successful withal, as the King had any, was never averse to an amicable closure of the War upon fair and honourable terms, and did therefore well approve of the Doctor, and his desires and pursuit after peace. The good Doctor was likewise infinitely contented in his Attendance on such an Excellent Personage, whose conspicuous and noted Loyalty could not but derive the same reputation to his retainers, especially one so near his conscience as his Chaplain, and so wipe off that stain, which the mistakes of those Men had cast on him. In this entendment God was pleased to succeed the Doctor and give him victory (proper to the Camp he followed) against this first attempt on his Honour.  
During the Campania and while the Army continued in the Field, he performed the duty of his holy Function, with as much solemn Piety and Devotion, as he used before in places consecrated to God's Worship; and according to the form used and appointed by the Church of ENGLAND: In all Emergencies and present Erterprises, using no other prayers, than what the care of the Fathers of the Church, had in those miserable exigences newly directed. To this he added constant preaching on the Lord's day, animating in his Sermons the Soldiers to fight courageously and to demean themselves worthy of that glorious Cause with which God had honoured them.  
With the progress of the War he marched ftom place to place, and where ever there happened for the better accommodation of the Army any reasonable stay, he allotted it with great satisfaction to his beloved studies. Those cessations and intermissions, begot in him the most intentness and solicitous industry of mind, which as he never used to much recreation or diversion in times of peace, which might lose and relasch a well disciplined spirit; so neither did the horror and rigidness of the war stiffen him in such a stupidity (which generally possessed all Learned Men) or else distract him, but that in such lucid intervals, he would seriously and fixedly come to himself and his designed business.  
Indeed his business and study then, was a kind of Errantry, having proposed to himself a more exact Collection of the Worthies General of England, in which others had waded before, but he resolved to go through. In what place soevet therefore he came, of remark especially, he spent frequently most of his time in views and researches of their Antiquities and Church-Monuments, insinuating himself into the acquaintance (which frequently ended in a lasting friendship) of the learnedst and gravest persons residing within the place, thereby to inform himself fully of those things he thought worthy the commendation of his labours. It is an incredible thing to think what a numerous correspondence the Doctor maintained and enjoyed by this means.  
Nor did the good Doctor ever refuse to light his Candle in investigating Truth from the meanest persons discovery. He would endure contentedly an hours or more impertinence from any aged Church-officer, or other superannuated people for the gleaning of two lines to his purpose. And though his spirit was quick and nimble, and all the faculties of his mind ready and answerable to that activity of dispatch, yet in these inquests he would stay and attend those circular rambles till they came to a point; so resolute was he bend to the sifting out of abstruse Antiquity▪ Nor did he ever dismiss any such feeble Adjutators or Helpers (as he pleased to style them) without giving them money and cheerful thanks besides.  
After the Fight at Cheriton Down my Lord Hopton drew down with his Army and Artillery to Basin, and so marched that way to Oxford, intending to take up Winter Quarters as soon as he had consulted with the King, and left the Doctor in that as courageously manned, as well fortified House, where he had scarce begun to reduce his marching Observations into Form and Method, but Sir William Waller having taken in Winchester, came to besiege the Doctor's Sanctuary. This no way amated or terrified him, but only the noise of the Canon playing from the Enemy's Leaguer interrupted the prosecution of digesting his Notes, which trouble he recompensed to them by an importunate spiriting of the Defendants in their Sallies; which they followed so close and so bravely▪ suffering the Besiegers scarce to eat or sleep, that Sir William was compelled to raise his Siege and march away, leaving above a thousand men slain behind him; and the DOCTOR the pleasure of seeing that strong Effort of Rebellion in some way by his means repulsed and defeated, and in being free to proceed in his wont intendments.  
What time the Doctor continued here is very uncertain; sure we may be he was not an unemployed or an unacceptable Guest to that Loyal Garrison, and that as Noble and Honourable marquis the Proprietary of the Place; the Demolishing of which princely Edifice then standing in spite of their potent Arms, yet afterwards through the Fortune of War being fallen into their hands and razed by their more impotent revenge, he doth heartily lament in his Worthies General, preferring it while it flourished, for the chiefest Fabric in Hantshire. This his kindness to the place of his Refuge though no doubt true and deserved enough, yet no questionless was endeared in him, by some more peculiar obliging regards and respects he found during his abode there; though indeed his worth could want and miss them no where.  
The next removal of the Doctor, was to his charge in the Army, and his particular duty of Chaplain to his said Lord. The War was then at its Zenith, hotter and more dilated, raging every where both in this and the two neighbouring Kingdoms, so that there was no shelter or retirement, which it had not invaded and intruded into by unruly Garrisons, while the Country became a devasted Solitude, so that the Doctor's Design could proceed no where.  
But that fatal War hasting to a sad and miserable end, success not answering the merit of the Cause, the King's Field-forces being every where engaged, and part of the Loyal Army driven into Cornwall, under the Command of that skilful Captain, the good Doctor took refuge betimes in Exeter, having taken his Congee and Dismission of his beloved Lord.  
Here again he resumed his Task of the aforesaid Worthies, not minding the cloud impending on that place, nor no way intermitting the Duty of his Calling, preaching constantly to those truly Loyal Citizens: It is a supernumerary labour to acquaint the Reader with how great satisfaction and content, that always and every where being annexed to his meanest endeavours.  
During his stay in Exeter, the Queen having been delivered of her last Burden, (saving her sorrows and distresses) by the Birth of the Princess Henrietta, the Learned Doctor was preferred to be the Infant-Ladies Chaplain; Her Royal Father's intendment being, as he had educated the rest of his Princely, Issue to have her brought up in the Protestant Religion: To that end, the good Doctor in regard of his soundness and sincerity in that profession, and eminent famous Assertion of it, was designed to attend on her, to instill unto her tender mind (if God had pleased to continue her with safety within the limits of this Kingdom) the and Belief of the English [Catholic] Church. This for the present was altogether Honorary and pointed only at his merit, which indeed was as much as the iniquity of those times would afford to any the most deserving Personages. But yet the King to signify his approbation of the Doctor's excellent worth by a farther Testimony of it, soon afterwards gave him a Patent for his Presentation to the Town of Dorchester in Dorsetshire, a Living valued to be worth 400 l. per Annum.  
This Royal and bounteous Favour, the Doctor modestly declined, continuing his attendance on the Princess till the Rendition of the City of Exeter to the Parliament; Notwithstanding the Doctor accepted not of that other Preferment of Dorchester; for that London was in his eye, as the most necessary and expedient place for finishing his aforesaid Book, to which place the Expiration of the War promised some kind of Access, which since it could not otherwise be, the Doctor did gladly submit to.  
For General Fairfax, having by Treaty reduced and disbanded my Lord Hoptons' Army in Cornwall, came directly back to besiege Exeter, which Garrison upon consideration that no relief could be expected, and that Resistance would but defer the resetling of the King and Kingdom, (pressed also by the Enemy as a cogent argument for their Rendition,) having very Honourable and comprehensive Articles, both for their Conscience and Estates, delivered up the City to the Parliament Forces.  
In these Articles the Doctor was included, and by the benefit of them, was without molestation or hindrance permitted to come to the City of London, where he presently recommenced his laborious Enterprise, and by the additional helps of Books, the confluence and resort of Learned men his acquaintance to their sleecing Tyrannical Courts and Committees newly Erected, made such a progress, that from thence he could take a fair prospect of his whole work.  
Upon his first Arrival he came to his own (the Parish of Savoy) but they received him not, the face of things was so altered; many of his parishioners dead, others removed, all of them generally so overawed by an Imperious Rabbi of both Factions, Presbytery and Independency, one Mr. Bond formerly a Preacher at Exeter, then made by the pretended Powers Master of the Savoy. (The Doctor and he having countermarched, and changed ground, wherein different seed was sown of loyal Obedience and treasonable Sedition) that the Doctor might have said of his parish what a Learned Historian said in another greater Case, Parochia in parochia quaerenda erat.  
But a Living was not the Design of the good Doctor, who knew how incompatible the Times and his Doctrine must needs be. However as oft as he had private opportunities he ceased not to assert the purity of the Church of England, bewailing the sad condition, into which the grievous abominable sins of the Nation had so far plunged it as to make it more miserable by bearing so many reproaches and calumnies grounded only upon its calamity. But some glimmering Hopes of a settlement and understanding betwixt the King and the pretended Houses appearing; the pious Doctor betook himself to earnest prayers and petitions to God, that he would please to succeed that blessed work, doing that privately as a Christian, which he might not publicly do as a Subject, most fervently imploring, in those Families where his person and devotions were alike acceptable, the blessing of Restauration on this afflicted Church, and its defenceless defender the King.  
That desired Affair went on slowly and uncertainly, but so did not the Doctor's Book, for having recommended the first to the Almighty wisdom, he stood not still expecting the issue, but addressed himself to his study, affording no time but the leisure of his Meals, which was short, to the hearing of News, with which the minds and mouths of men were then full employed by the changeableness of the Army, who played fast and loose with the King and Parliament, till in conclusion they destroyed both.  
Then indeed such an amazement struck the Loyal pious Doctor, when he first heard of that execrable Design intended against the King's person, and saw the villainy proceed so uncontrollably, that he not only surceased but resolved to abandon that luckless work (as he was then pleased to call it.) For what shall I write said he of the Worthies of England, when this Horrid Act, will bring such an infamy upon the whole Nation as will ever cloud and darken all its former, and suppress its future rising glories?  
But when through the seared impiety of those men, that parricide was perpetrated, the good Doctor deserted not his study alone but forsook himself too, not caring for or regarding his concerns (though the Doctor was none of the most providential Husband, by having store beforehand:) until such time as his prayers, tears and fasting having better acquainted him with that sad dispensation, he began to revive from that dead pensiveness to which he had so long addicted himself.  
He therefore now again renewed his former study, setting about it with unwearied diligence. About this time also it happened that the Rectory of Waltham Abby being vacant, and in the disposal of the Right Honourable Earl of Carlisle, since deceased, he voluntarily and desirously conferred it on the Doctor, and together made him his Chaplain, both which he very piously and profitably performed, being highly beloved by that Noble LORD, and other Gentlemen and Inhabitants of the Parish.  
About this time also many of the Orthodox Clergy began to appear again in the Pulpits of London through the zeal of some right worthy Citizens, who hungered after the true and sincere Word, from which they had so long been restrained; among the Chief of whom was our good Doctor, being settled Lecturer for a time at St. Clement's lane near Lumbard-street, where he preached every Wednesday in the afternoon, to a very numerous and Christian Audience; and shortly after from thence he was removed to St. Brides in Fleetstreet in the same quality of Lecturer, the day being changed to Thursday, where he preached with the same efficacy and success.  
The Doctor having continued some 12 years a Widower, the War finding him so, had the better relished the loss of his first Wife, by how much the freer it rendered him of care and trouble for her in those tumultuous times; so as by degrees it had almost settled in him a persuasion of keeping himself in that state. But now an honourable and advantageous Match presenting itself, and being recommended to him by the desires of his noble Friends, he consented to the Motion, taking to wife one of the Sisters of the right Honourable the Viscount Baltingtasse; by whom he hath issue one only Son now six years old, a very hopeful Youth; having had by his former wife another Son of the age of 21 years or thereabouts, now a hopeful Student in Cambridge.  
In the year 1655 when the usurping Protector had published an Interdict against Ecclesiastical persons, Schoolmasters and others, who had adhered to his late sacred Majesty or assisted the present; whereby they were prohibited to perform any Ministerial Office, teach School, etc. upon several pains and forfeitures, the good Doctor forbore not to preach as he did before. The convincing power either of his Doctrine or his worth defending and keeping him out of the hands of that unreasonable Man.  
This unchristian barbarous cruelty of that Trial sorely afflicted the good Doctor in his first apprehensions of it, though after a little consulration and the encouragement of Friends, and the strong persuasions of his own conscience he came to a resolution to do his duty as a Minister of Christ, and leave the issue to God. But he did not only look upon this prohibition, in general as a severe punishment inflicted upon the Nation, by removing their Teachers into Gorners, nay remote corners of the world if they disobeyed that Edict; but in particular (at first view of it) as some punishment or infliction on himself, as if God had refused him and laid him aside as not fit to serve him; and this he referred to his former remissness in the discharge of that high Function whereunto he was separated and called.  
And now did he superabundantly exercise that grace of charity to all persons distressed and ruined by this sad occasion; what his own small Estate could not do, he helped out by exhorting and persuading all men of his acquaintance or Congregation, (for so was the Church of England reduced, even in that to the form of that Schism that ruined it) or select Auditory; so that what by his powerful Example and as strong persuasions, he did minister effectually to their RELIEF.  
Not to omit one particular charitable office of this Doctor to the same kind of Sufferers: from the expiration of the War, he constantly retained one that had been a Captain in the Royal Army, and whose fortunes and condition could neither keep him according to that degree, nor sustain or relieve him in any other. This the good Doctor did out of a Loyal and Honourable sense of such persons sufferings and contempts far unworthy their Cause or their Desert: and did therefore allow him 10 l. yearly besides diet and lodging till the Captain died.  
About this time the Doctor became Chaplain to the right Honourable the Lord Berkley, having quitted Waltham, in lieu whereof this Lord presented him with the Living of Cranford— in Middlesex (where his Body is now deposited:) how infinitely, well beloved he was there needs not be added to those accumulations of respect he found every where, for fear especially of resuscitating the recent grief of those Parishioners for his late lamented loss.  
He was a little before wooed also to accept of a Living at— in Essex, which for some respects he owed the Patron and to employ that rich Talon with which God had so bountifully trusted him, he undertook, and piously there continued his Labours till his Settlement at London.  
In the Interim came out a Book of Dr. heylin's, called Animadversions upon Mr. Fuller' s Ecclesiastical History, wherein somewhat tartly (though with that judicious learning for which that Doctor is most deservedly honoured) he tax●… that Book of some Errors, etc. To this the Doctor replied by a Book styled The Appeal of injured Innocence to the learned and ingenious Reader, being a very modest but a most rational and polite defence to the aforesaid exceptions against that elaborate Piece. The Dispute and Controversy was soon ended, the Oil the Doctor bestowed on this labour, being poured into the fresh Wound of this Quarrel did so assuage the heat of the Contest, that it was. soon healed into a perfect amicable closure and mutual endearment.  
Indeed the grace that was supereminent in the good Doctor was Charity, both in giving and forgiving; as he had laboured during our civil broils after peace, so when that could not through our sins be attained, did he with the same earnestness press the Duty of Love, especially among Brethren of the same afflicted and too much already divided Church; and therefore was most exemplary in keeping the band of it himself, though in a matter that most nearly concerned his credit and fame, the chiefest worldly Thing he studied and intended.  
This constrained retrospection of the Doctors to secure and assist the far advanced strength of his foremost works, did a little retard and impede the arriere of his labours, which consisted of the flower and choice of all his Abilities and wherein his WORTHIES were placed; howbeit this proved but a Halt, to those encumbrances and difficulties, which he had all along before met, and soon set that Book on foot again.  
This was the last Remora to it▪ the Doctor going on a smooth swift pace while all things else were retrograde in the Kingdom through the tyrannical plots and stratagems of the Usurper Cromwell so as toward the beginning of that mirabilis Annus 1660. he had it ready for the Press, to which assoon as the wonders of his Majesty's Restitution was over, (in the thankful contemplation whereof the good Doctor was so piously fixed as nothing else might presume to intrude upon his raised gladded spirits) he brought it, taking the auspicia of that happy and famous juncture of time for the Commencement of this Everlasting Monument of himself as well, as all other English Noble deceased Persons.  
A while before to complete the Doctor's contentment as to his Ministry also, he was invited to his former Lecturers place at the Savoy, who even from his departure had suffered under an insufficient or disloyal and malicious Clergy; and therefore stood in need of an able and dutiful Son of the Church to reduce and lead them in the right way and the old paths; For this People (his ancient flock) the Doctor had always a more especial respect and kindness, which was the rather heightened in him out of a compassion to their state and condition. Nor did he more tenderly affect them then they universally respect him, receiving him (as indeed he was) as an Angel of God, sent to minister unto them heavenly things, in exchange whereof they freely gave him their hearts and hands.  
The Doctor through the injury and iniquity of the times had for near 20 years been barred of all Profits of his Prebendariship of Salisbury (of which before,) but upon the return of the King, those Revenues and Possessions so sacrilegiously alienated from the Church, reverted also to their rightful Proprietors. This accession and additional Help did very much encourage the Doctor in the carrying on of his Book, which being large would require an able Purse to go through with, and he was very solicitous, (often presaging he should not live to see it finished though satisfied of his present healthy constitution) to have it done out of hand; to which purpose part of the Money accrueing to him from his Salisbury Prebendariship was designed.  
He therefore hastened his Book with all Expedition, and whereas he had intended to continue it but till 1659. and had therefore writ it in such language as those times of Usurpation (during the most part of which it was compiled) would suffer such a subject & concerning Matter to be dressed in; he now reviewed it over, giving Truth, and his own most excellent Fancy their proper becoming Ornaments, Scope and Clearness. But neither the elevation of the Usurpers, nor the depression of the Royalists, and the Viceversa of it did ever incline or sway him to additions, intercalations or expunctions of persons, whom he hath recommended to the world for Worthies; no such thing as a Pym or Protector whom the mad world cried up for Brave: Drops of compassionate tears they did force from him, but his resolute Ink was not to be stained by their black actions. A Pen full of such, would serve to blot out the whole Roll of Fame.  
This constancy of the Doctors to his first model and main of his design doth most evidently argue his firm persuasion and belief of the reviving of the Royal Cause, since he wrote the most part during those improbable times of any Restitutions and he had very ill consulted his own advantage if he had not well consulted the Oracles of God.  
As the last felicity of this Doctor's life, he was made Chaplain in Extraordinary to his Majesty, being also in a well grounded expectation of some present further advancement; but here Death stepped in and drew the Curtain betwixt him, and his succeeding Ecclesiastical Dignities:  
And would a Curtain were drawn here too, that the sad remainder of this Task were enjoined to the last Trump, when we shall know likewise wherefore God was pleased to take him from us, and be satisfied with his providence: Pity the envious should find such an imperfection in him as Death; pity the grateful should mourn so long and so much for the loss of him, and his most incomparable Gifts and Endowments, without any redress— but infandos Fullere jubes renovare Dolores— we must continue our discourse though upon a discontinued subject, and write the much deplored Death of Doctor Fuller▪  
Having in August returned from Salisbury, whither he went to settle and Let his Revenue as Prebend of that Deanery, he returned to his Charge at London. It was a very sickly time in the Country, the distempers most rife were Feavorish Agues, the disease of which our Doctor died; and therefore it was judged, that he had brought the infection of his disease thence, which broke out violently upon him soon after his return, (Doctor Nicholas the reverend Dean of Paul's dying near the same time upon his coming from the same place.) For being desired to preach a Marriage Sermon on Sunday the twelfth of August for a Kinsman of his, who was to be wedded the day after; the good Doctor lovingly undertook it; but on that Sunday dinner felt himself very much indisposed, complaining of a dizziness in his Head: whereupon his Son entreated him that he would go and lie down on bed, and forbear preaching that Afternoon, informing him how dangerous those symptoms were; but the Doctor would not be persuaded, but to Church he would go and perform his promise to his Friend; saying, he had gone up often into the Pulpit sick but always came well down again, and he hoped he should do as well now through Gods strengthening grace.  
Being in the Pulpit, he found himself very ill, so that he was apprehensive of the danger; and therefore before his Prayer addressed himself thus to his Congregation. I find myself very ill, but I am resolved by the grace of God to preach this Sermon to you here though it be my last. A sad presage and more sadly verified.  
He proceeded in his Prayer and Sermon very perfectly till in the middle, (never using himself to Notes, other than the beginning word of each Head or Division) he began to falter, but not so much out but that he quickly recollected himself, and very pertinently concluded. After he had a while sat down, he was not able to rise again, but was fain to be led down the Pulpit stairs by two men into the Reading place, He had promised also to christian a Child (of a very good friend of his) then in the Church, and the Parent did earnestly importune him to do it, and the good Doctor was as willing as he desiring; but the Doctor's son showing him the extreme danger there was of his Father, he desisted from his request.  
Much ado there was to persuade the Doctor to go home in a Sedan, he saying still he should be well by and by, and would go along with them; but at last finding himself worse and worse he yielded to go but not to his old Lodgings (which were convenient for him in the Savoy) but to his new One in Covent-garden. Being come thither they had him to bed, and presently sent for Doctor Scarborough, but he being in the Country Doctor Charlton came, who with the exactest skill and care possible, addressed himself to the recovery of the Good Doctor. The Disease was judged by him to be a violent malignant fever, such as then raged every where, and was better known by the name of the new Disease, which like a Plague had swept away a multitude of people throughout the Kingdom. Therefore Phlebotomy was directed, and some Twenty Ounces of blood taken from him, and yet nevertheless the Paroxysmes continued, having totally bereft the Doctor of all sense, so much as to give any the least account of his Condition; the Physicians Art being at a loss, and not able to advise any further, against the unsuperable violence and force of the distemper.  
Yet in this Sad and Oppressed Condition, some comfortable signs and assurances were given by the Good Doctor, by his frequent lifting up his Hands and his Eyes; which Devotion ended in the folding of his Arms, and Sighs, fetched questionless from a perfect Contrition for this Life▪ and from an earnest desire after, and hope of that to come.  
Tuesday Aust. 14. the good Doctor gave sad symptoms of a prevailing disease, and Dr. Charlton despaired of his recovery, his Fever being so fierce and pertinacious and which resisted all Remedies. As was said almost from the very first decumbency, which was near as soon as he was ill, his senses were seized and surprised, with little or no remission of the distemper, which caused him to talk sometimes, but of nothing more frequently than his Books, calling for Pen and Ink, and telling his sorrowful Attendants that by and by, he should be well, and would write it out— etc. But on Wednesday noon the presages of a dislodging soul were apparent in him; for Nature being overpowered, the Vitals burnt up by such a continual Heat; his lamp of life began to decay, his Fever and strength abating together, so that it pleased God to restore to him the use of the faculties of his soul, which he very devoutly and thankfully employed, in a Christian preparation for Death, earnestly imploring the prayers of some of his reverend Brethren with him, who then were sorrowful Visitors of him in these his last Agonies, which accordingly was performed, the good Doctor withal the intentness of piety joining with them, and recommending himself with all humble thankfulness and submission to God's welcome Providence. Nay so highly was he affected with God's pleasure concerning him, that he could not endure any person to weep or cry, but would earnestly desire them to refrain, highly extolling and preferring his Condition, as a translation to a blessed eternity.  
Nor would he therefore endure to hear any thing of the world or worldly matters, for the settling and disposition whereof he had before made no provision, and was desired by some to give some present direction, for the better accommodating the several concerns of his Family: but the Doctor totally rejected any thoughts of those matters, having his mind engaged and prepossessed with things of ravishing and transcendent Excellencies. Even his beloved Bock aforesaid the darling of his soul, was totally neglected, not a syllable dropping from him in reference to the perfecting and finishing thereof, which he had now brought so near to the Birth. Nothing but Heaven and the perfections thereof, the consummations of Grace in Glory, must fill up the room of his capacious soul, which now was flitting and ready to take wing to those mansions of bliss.  
For on Thursday morning Aug. 16 1661.: this reverend and painful Minister of Christ Jesus, having finished his Course, and run the Race that was set before him and fought a good Fight, breathed out his wearied spirit into the hands of his Redeemer to his own everlasting Fruition and Consolation, but to the irreparable loss and very exceeding sorrow of all men, to whom Religion, Piety, Virtue, and supereminent Learning were ever acceptable. And what ever the present envious world may think, unprejudiced Posterity will undoubtedly erect him a shrine, and pay him those justa of Honour and Fame, which to his Memory most duly and rightly do belong.  
After he had laid a while dead, an eruption of blood burst from his Temples, which was conjectured to have been long settled there, through too much study, in the methodizing and completing those various Pieces in his WORTHIES GENERAL, of which he was prophetically afraid he should never live to see the finishing.  
He was buried at the desire and at the Costs of the right Honourable his Noble Patron the Lord Berkley at his Parish of Cranford in Middlesex, in the Chancel of the said Church, and attended thither by at least Two hundred of his Brethren of the Ministry, such a solemn Assembly being searce to be paralleled, where the reverend Dean of Rochester Dr. Hardy preached his Funeral Sermon; being a very elegant, and extraordinary pathetical deploration of so great a loss, which hath not yet (though it is hoped and much desired may) pass the Press; to which Learned Piece with all humble submission be referred the Praises and Commendations of this Deceased DOCTOR, being thereby so excellently well transmitted to his Everlasting Rest.  
Though we have now brought this Venerable Doctor to his repository, and laid him in his silent Grave: yet there remain some further offices due to his yet speaking Virtues and Graces. The smooth and fair Track whereof could not be so well insisted on in the foregoing considerations of him, as in Via, and that so salebrose and difficult by the unevenness and Asperity of the times he lived in: but do now orderly lead us without any diversion, as he is in Glory, to the pursuit of his Fame and Memory.  
In tendency whereunto it is requisite, to Enliven that Pourtraite of him prefixed to this Manual, with some of those natural Graces which were unexpressible in him by the Pencil; withal to show what a convenient Habitation learning and virtue had chosen, in which nothing could be complained of and faulted, but that they took it for so short a Term.  
He was of Stature somewhat Tall, exceeding the mean, with a proportionable bigness to become it, but no way inclining to Corpulency: of an exact Straightness of the whole Body, and a perfect Symmetry in every part thereof, He was of a Sanguine constitution, which beautified his Face with a pleasant Ruddiness, but of so Grave and serious an aspect, that it Awed and Discountenanced the smiling Attracts of that complexion. His Head Adorned with a comely Light.- Coloured Hair, which was so, by Nature exactly Curled (an Ornament enough of itself in this Age to Denominate a handsome person, and wherefore all Skill and Art is used) but not suffered to overgrow to any length unseeming his modesty and Profession.  
His Gate and Walking was very upright and graceful, becoming his well shapen Bulk: approaching something near to that we term Majestical; but that the Doctor was so well known to be void of any affectation or pride. Nay so Regardlesfe was he of himself in his Garb and Raiment, in which no doubt his Vanity would have appeared, as well as in his stately pace: that it was with some trouble to himself, to be either Neat or Decent; it mattered not for the outside, while he thought himself never too Curious and Nice in the Dresses of his mind.  
Very Careless also he was to seeming inurbanity in the modes of Courtship and demeanour, deporting himself much according to the old English Guise, which for its ease and simplicity suited very well with the Doctor, whose time was designed for more Elaborate business: and whose MOTTO might have been sincerity.  
As inobservant he was of persons, unless business with them; or his concerns pointed them out and adverted him; seeing and discerning were two things: often in several places, hath he met with Gentlemen of his nearest and greatest Acquaintance, at a full rencontre and stop, whom he hath endeavoured to pass by, not knowing, that is to say, not minding of them, till rectified and recalled by their familiar compellations.  
This will not (it may be presumed) and justly cannot be imputed unto any indisposedness and unaptness of his Nature, which was so far from Rude and untractable, that it may be confidently averred, he was the most complacent person in the Nation, as his Converse and Writings, with such a freedom of Discourse and quick Jocundity of style, do sufficiently evince.  
He was a perfect walking Library, and those that would find delight in him must turn him; he was to be diverted from his present purpose with some urgency: and when once Unfixed and Unbent, his mind freed from the incumbency of his Study; no Man could be more agreeable to Civil and Serious mirth, which limits his most heightened Fancy never transgressed.  
He had the happiness of a very Honourable, and that very numerous acquaintance, so that he was no way undisciplined in the Arts of Civility; yet he continued semper idem, which constancy made him always acceptable to them.  
At his Diet he was very sparing and temperate, but yet he allowed himself the repasts and refresh of two Meals a day: but no lover of Dainties, or the Inventions of Cookery: solid meats better fitting his strength of Constitution; but from drink very much abstemious, which questionless was the cause of that uninterrupted Health he enjoyed till this his First and Last sickness: of which Felicity as he himself was partly the cause of by his exactness in eating and drinking, so did he the more dread the sudden infliction of any Disease, or other violence of Nature, fearing this his care might amount to a presumption, in the Eyes of the greas Disposer of all things, and so it pleased GOD it should happen.  
But his great abstinence of all was from Sleep, and strange it was that one of such a Fleshly and sanguine composition, could overwatch so many heavy propense inclinations to Rest. For this in some sort he was beholden to his care in Diet aforesaid, (the full Vapours of a repletion in the Stomach ascending to the Brain, causing that usual Drowsiness we see in many) but most especially to his continual custom, use, and practise, which had so subdued his Nature, that it was wholly Governed by his Active and Industrious mind.  
And yet this is a further wonder: he did scarcely allow himself, from his First Degree in the University any Recreation or Easy Exercise, no not so much as walking, but very Rare and Seldom; and that not upon his own choice, but as being compelled by friendly, yet, Forcible Invitations; till such time as the War posted him from place to place, and after that his constant attendance on the Press in the Edition of his Books: when was a question, which went the fastest, his Head or his Feet: so that in effect he was a very stranger, if not an Enemy to all pleasure.  
Riding was the most pleasant, because his necessary convenience; the Doctor's occasions, especially his last work, requiring Travel, to which he had so accustomed himself: so that this Diversion, (like Prince's Banquets only to be looked upon by them, not tasted of) was rather made such then enjoyed by him.  
So that if there were any Felicity or Delight, which he can be truly said to have had: it was either in his Relations or in his Works. As to his Relations, certainly, no man was more a tender, more indulgent a Husband and a Father: his Conjugal Love in both matches being equally blest with the same Issue, kept a constant Tenor in both Marriages, which he so improved, that the Harmony of his Affections stilled all Discord, and Charmed the noise of passion.  
Towards the Education of his Children, he was exceeding careful, allowing them any thing conducing to that end, beyond the present measure of his estate; which its well hoped will be returned to the Memory of so good a Father, in their early imitation of him in all those good Qualities and Literature, to which they have now such an Hereditary claim.  
As to his Books, which we usually call the Issue of the Brain, he was more than Fond, totally abandoning and forsaking all things to follow them. And yet if Correction and Severity (so this may be allowed the gravity of the Subject) be also the signs of Love: a stricter and more careful hand was never used. True it is they did not grow up without some errors, like the Tares: nor can the most refined pieces of any of his Antagonists boast of perfection. He that goes an unknown and beaten Track in a Dubious way, though he may have good directions, yet if in the journey he chance to stray, cannot well be blamed; they have perchance ploughed with his Heifer, and been beholden to those Authorities (for their Exceptions) which he first gave light to.  
To his Neighbours and Friends he behaved himself with that cheerfulness and plainness of Affection and respect, as deservedly gained him their Highest esteeme● from the meanest to the highest he omitted nothing what to him belonged in his station, either in a familiar correspondency, or necessary Visits: never suffering entreaties of that which either was his Duty, or in his power to perform. The quickness of his apprehension helped by a Good Nature, presently sugested unto him (without putting them to the trouble of an innuendo) what their several Affairs required, in which he would spare no pains: insomuch that it was a piece of Absolute Prudence to rely upon his Advice and Assistance. In a word, to his Superiors he was Dutifully respectful without Ceremony or Officiousness; to his equals he was Discreetly respectful; without neglect or unsociableness, and to his Inferiors, (whom indeed he judged Christianly none to be) civilly respectful without Pride or Disdain.  
But all these so eminent virtues, and so sublimed in him were but as foils to those excellent gifts wherewith God had endued his intellectuals. He had a memory of that vast comprehensiveness, than he is deservedly known for the first inventor of that Noble Art, whereof having left behind him no Rules, or directions▪ save, only what fell from him in discourse, no further account can be given, but a relation of some very rare experiments of it made by him.  
He undertook once in passing to and fro from Temple-bar to the furthest Conduit in Cheapside, at his return again to tell every Sign as they stood in order on both sides of the way, repeating them either backward or forward, as they should chufe, which he exactly did, not missing or misplacing one, to the admiration of those that heard him.  
The like also would he do in words of different Languages, and of hard and difficult prolation, to any number whatsoever: but that which was most strange, and very rare in him, was his way of writing, which something like the ●hineses, was from the top of the page to the bottom: the manner thus. He would write near the Margin the first words of every Line down to the Foot of the Paper, then would be beginning at the head again, fill up every one of these Lines, which without any interlineations or spaces but with the full and equal length, would so adjust the sense and matter, and so aptly Connex and Conjoin the ends and beginnings of the said Lines, that he could not do it better, as he hath said, if he had writ all out in a Continuation.  
The Treasury of this Happy Memory was a very great Advantage to his Preaching. but being assisted with as Rich invention, and extraordinary reading, did absolutely complete him for the Pulpit. His great stores both of School and case Divinity, both of History and Philosophy, of Arts and Tongues, his Converse in the Scriptures, the Fathers and Humane Writings had so abundantly furnished him, that without the other additaments he had been very eminent among his function. Now all so happily met together; such a Constellation could portend no less than some wonder of men, who should be Famous in his Generation.  
Not to omit to this purpose (however to the first intuition it may seem to the Reverend and Graver Divines a precipitancy, and a Venturous Rashness in any Man with such unprovidedness to step into the Pulpit) that this Venerable Doctor, upon some sudden Emergent occasions, upon two hours' warning, and upon a subject of his friend's Choice, which was Knotty and very Difficult, hath performed the Task enjoined him with much Accurateness; such his Art of Method, besides that his understanding was strangely opened, for the unlocking and opening of Scriptures, which he would do very Genuinely and Evidently, and then Embellish his explication with curious variety of expression.  
For his ordinary manner of teaching, it was in some kind different from the usual Preachers method of most Ministers in those times; for he seldom made any excursions into the handling of common places, or drew his subject matter out at length, by any prolixely continued discourse: But the main frame of his public SERMONS, if not wholly, consisted (after some brief and genuine resolution of the Context and Explication of the Terms, where need required, of Notes and Observations with much variety and great dexterity drawn immediately from the Text, and naturally without constraint, issuing or flowing either from the main body, or from the several parts of it, with some useful Applications annexed thereunto; which though either of them iong insisted upon, yet were wont with that vivacity to be propounded and pressed by him, as well might, and oft did pierce deep into the Hearts of his Hearers, and not only rectify and clear their Judgements, but have a powerful work also upon their Affections.  
Nor was it his manner to quote many Scriptures, finding it troublesome to himself, and supposing it would be so to his Auditors also; besides deeming it the less needful, in regard that his observations being grounded immediately on the Scripture he handled, & by necessary consequence thence deduced, seemed to receive proof sufficient from it.  
A Constant form of prayer he used, as in his Family, so in his public Ministry; only varying or adding, upon special occasions, as occurrences intervening required, because not only hesitation (which the Good Doctor for all his strength of Memory, and invention, was afraid of before so awful a presence as the Majesty of Heaven) was in prayer more offensive than other discourse; but because such excursions in that Duty, in the Extempore way, were become the Idol of the Multitude.  
In his mixed Contemplations, read these words; Let such new Practices as are to be brought into our Church, be for a time Candidates and Probationers on their good behaviour, to see how the temper of people will fit them, and they fadge with it, before they be publicly enjoined.  
Let them be like Saint Paul's Deacons, 1 Tim. 3. first be proved, then be used, if found blameless. I cannot therefore but commend the Discretion of such Statesmen, who knowing the directory to be but a stranger, and considering the great inclination the Generality of our Nation had to the Common-Prayer, made their Temporary Act to stand in force but for three years.  
He could as well declare his mind and errand, and of all others likewise, with as much plainness, clearness, and (which is more) reverence, as any of those, who cried up the Spirit, and their own way in opposition to the Laws and the Judgement of Antiquity; so to take the people with their new Fangled words and licentious easiness of discoursing with GOD Almighty, whose Attributes they squared to their Petitions, that it be not said, Wills.  
As he was an Enemy to the inventions of men, obtruded upon the Blessed Spirit in that irreverend and profane manner of praying and revelation; so was he likewise on the other side a professed and avowed adversary to the Mass and Traditions, which caused him no little Slander and Obloquy. But the Spirit of this pious Doctor was exceedingly stirred in him against all Popish Insinuators; because he was too sensible that through the mad zeal of the Vulgar, whom they had by Jesuitical practices inflamed, the House of God in these Kingdoms was set in combustion.  
Therefore with much Prudence, Courage and Boldness, did he every where in his Books, as occasion offered, Unmasque the deceits and designs, resist and curb the pride; convince and lay open the errors of the Church of Rome; though he never wrote any thing particularly by way of Controversy against it, because as he said there was no end of it; and more than sufficient had already been wrote; if any ingenuity had been in the adherents of that Sea, to have submitted to Truth.  
Nor was there ever any of that Religion, who were so hardy, as to Challenge or Tax the Doctor but Obliquely, for any thing wherewith he had charged them, either of Apostasy, Heresy, or manifest Idolatry; their abuse of Antiquity in their Rasures and Additions, which did very often occur to him in most of his books: from which they were sure to hear of them to the purpose. It much rejoiced the Roman Party, when that misunderstanding happened betwixt Doctor Heylin and himself, about his Ecclesiastical History, though they caught no fish in those Troubled Waters; while they tossed of their proud billows forward and backward, the Protestant Cause was safely Anchored and Moared between them.  
And as he never had occasion to engage in any Polemical discourse with any of that Party; so in these miserable bandyings of our late unhappy times, did he always refrain from stickling in any side, though it was sufficiently known how firmly grounded and addict to the true Protestant Religion; in opposition to the innovations of Presbytery, and the Schism of Independency, against whom also he had a zeal, but allayed with a greater compassion, then to the Papist, distinguishing betwixt the Seducers and the Seduced: whom not withstanding he did very severely deal withal in his writings; one instance whereof take in his mixed Contemp. I am sad that I may add with too much truth, that one man will at last be divided in himself, distracted often betwixt many Opinions; that what is reported of Tostatus lying on his Death Bed. In multitudine controversiarum non habuit quod crederet, amongst the Multitude of persuasions, through which he had passed, he knew not where to cast Anchor, and fix himself at Last. So that he may be said to have been a Right-Handed Enemy to the stubborn Romanist, and a Left Handed one to the cunning Sectary.  
He was wont to call those controversies concerning Episcopacy, and the new invented Arguments against the Church of England, with the Answers and Refutation thereof, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things of a day's Life and of no permanency; the Church being built upon a Rock, as no storms could shake or move it, so needed it not any Defences of Art or Learning: Being of the same mind with Sir Henry Wootton, Disputandi pruritus, Scabies Ecclesiae.  
He was wholly conversant dunring the Broils and Dissensions of the Clergy, in the thoughts and considerations of that Text: Let your Moderation be known to all men, on which place he once Preached a while before his Majesty's Restitution to a very great Auditory; little imagining the subsequent words, for the Lord is at hand, were so near the fulfilling in the merciful Visitations of GOD towards these Miserable Nations.  
In this he was the same still, but more solicitous in the Glimmering of that happy Revolution: when he plainly saw how indispensably necessary, the mutual condiscentions of all parties, were to the establishment & consolidating of Peace. (Mixed Contemplation, to this purpose again) Peace in our Land, like St. Paul at Athens, betwixt two Sects of Philosophers, is now like to be Encountered with two such opposite Parties: such as are for the Liberties of a Common wealth, and such as are for an absolute Monarchy in the full length thereof. But I hope neither of them both are so considerable in their number, Parts and Influences on the People; but that the Moderate Party Advocates for Peace, will prevail for the settling thereof. Ibidem. The Episcopal Party doth desire and expect that the Presbyterian should remit of his Rigidness, in order to an expedient between them; the Presbyterians require, that the Episcopal side abate of their Authority to advance an Accommodation. But some on both sides are so wedded to their wilfulness, stand so stiff on their Judgements, are so hot and high in their Passions, they will not part with the least Punctilio in their Opinions and Practices: such men's judgements cannot pretend to the exactness of the Gibeonites, Judg. 20. 16. that they hit the Mark of an hairs breadth, and fail not: yet will they not abate an Hairs breadth in order to Unity; they will take all, but tender nothing: make motions with their Mouths, but none with their Feet for Peace, not stirring a step towards it— Oh that we could see some Proffers and Performances of Condescension on either side, and then let others who remain obstinate, be branded with PEREZ, Gen. 38. 19 the Breach be upon them.  
Thus the Good Doctors bend and resolutions, were for a fair and mutual compliance, out of a tender Jealousy of this Divided Church: seeing other Men resolved, indeed, into an obstinate persistance and adherence to their Opinions, who would rather rashly cut the Gordian knot of Union and Concord, to fulfil the doubtful Oracles of their own Judgement, then leasurly and with patience endeavour the Untying of it, which would set the Church of God at perfect Liberty, and release it from the Violence of prejudiced and captived Beason.  
How much this lay upon his Spirit, being the Benjamin of his Love above all other Duties and Necessities in a Christian Conversation, or Government, may seem further tedious to relate; but because it is so Genuine a Traict of his Elegant Pen, and so like him: it is hoped that this Excellent feature Copied here, in this Rude Transcript of him, may be of delight (amidst the Mass and Undigestednesse of these Collections) to the curious Reader— In my Father's time there was a Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge, a Native of Carleton in Leicestershire: where the people through some occult cause, are troubled with a Wharling in their Throats, so that they cannot plainly pronounce the Letter R. This Scholar being conscious of his infirmity, made a Latin Oration of the usual expected length, without an R. therein: and yet did he not only select words fit for his easy pronunciation, but also as pure and expressive for signification: to show that men might speak without being beholden to the Dog's Letter— Our English Pulpits for these last Eighteen years have had in them too much caninal anger vented by snapping and snarling Spirits on both sides. But if you By't and Devour one another, saith the Apostle, Gal. 5. 15. take heed ye be not Devoured one of another— Think not that our Sermons must be silent if not satirical, as if Divinity did not afford smooth subjects enough to be seasonably insisted on in this Juncture of Time; let us try our skill, whither we cannot Preach without any Dog Letter, or Biting Word; the Art is half Learned by intending, and wholly by serious endeavouring of it— I am sure that such soft Sermons will be more easy for the tongue of the Preacher in pronouncing them; less grating to the Ears of Pious People that hear them: and most edifying to the Heart of both Speaker and Hearer— Again and for all— Oh may the State be pleased so far to reflect on this Isaac, as to settle the inheritance on him. Let Protestant Religion be only countenanced by Law: be owned and acknowledged for the received Religion of the Nation.— As for other Sects the Sons of Keturah, we grudge not that Gifts be bestowed on them: Let them have a Toleration (and that I assure you is a great gift indeed) and be permitted peaceably, but privately to enjoy their Consciences, both in Opinions and Practices: such Favour may safely, not to say aught justly be afforded unto them so long as they continue peaceably in our Israel, and not disturb the State.  
This is the rather inserted, both for the cau●elousnesse of the Expression he used, and which those times required: & by which discreet and amicable way, our Differences and Breaches were likeliest to be made up; the Disguises of words to the undeceiving of a misled people into the right way of their Felicity▪ who had all along been driven with Speeches and such like Parliament Oratory, being the facilest Method of introducing that Peace which by the same Arts was Violated. Storms begin from, and end in Calmes; the gentle breathe of soft and temperate Spirits commencing the outrages of other men's violent passions, and terminating and stopping their Fury.  
This was a Charitable, and also a Reasonable and political Design of the Doctor, very well applied in the Crisis of that Distemper: whose acute pains, in the stripping of those people of their Illegal possessions and purchases, (though in time they might and would Naturally and Centrally return to their just Owners) were to be Alleviated and Eased by some healing Balsam: not to be Lanced and Exasperated by the sharp and keen incisions of invectives and Exprobrations; those Tumours and Swellings of Usurped Estates being better to be laid by Lenitives and Suppling Oils, then to be eaten away by Corrosives, or Cut off by cruel instruments.  
This Policy, more eminent in Illustrious persons (though not the Charity of the Good Doctor) GOD succeeded in that juncture of Time, by amusing the most considerable persons, as well as the generality of the engaged Rebellious Faction and party, into a supineness, or (which was the greater work of providence, that doth commonly go by a Method) confident reliance on the King's Grace and Kindness. Those who would not trust his Blessed Father, though under confirmation of his Royal Seal, and Word, to be further strengthened by their own Authority in Parliament, were quiet and contented in the only bare expectation, what his Royal Son would promise them.  
But the Doctor's Charity as before, though so extensive, was far overreached by that Liberty of Conscience, which, interest and self-will, and the Pride of Schism, stretched beyond all convenient or reasonable Limits: his condescensions, to such as went by the name of Tender Christians, signifying no more than some Acts of Grace and Pardon lately passed: So that all the good the Doctor did in that respect, was to himself the benefit of that Love and Charity being returned and multiplied on him to his Everlasting comfort.  
But what the measure of his Charity could not fulfil, was made up in his Piety and constant Intercession: that they might prove such, as he in his best thoughts had wished them; He was most earnest in this duty of Prayer, and his often Accesses to that Mercy Seat, had made it a place of acquaintance and free reception. As his Study importuned him at very unreasonable Hours, so it opportuned his Devotion, in the early and late Sacrifices, which he indispensably and firstly offered to the God of Heaven: a phrase for its comprehensiveness of the Divine Majesty, in the Glory and perfection of it above all other his Creatures, very Familiar and usual with the Doctor, by way of Emphasis, or Reverend instance.  
If it may pass here without any Rigid Adversion; a very excellent passage of the Doctors (in the beginning of the Anarchy, under a Commonwealth) would seek admittance, having relation to this Duty in hand. Soon after the King's Death he Preached in a Church near London, and a Person then in great power, now Leveled with his Fellows, was present at the Sermon; In his Prayer before which▪ he said— God in his due Time settle our Nation on the true Foundation thereof. The then Great Man demanded of him, what he meant by the true Foundation? he Answered, he was no Lawyer, nor Statesmen, and therefore skill in such matters could not be expected from him. But being pressed further to explain himself, whether thereby he did not intend the King, Lords and Commons, he answered, that— It was a part of his Prayer to GOD who had more knowledge than he ignornce in all things; that he knew what was the True Foundation; and so remitted the Factious Querist to God's Wisdom and Goodness▪  
This was a kind of his experiments in Prayer, which were many and very observable; GOD often answering his desires in kind, and that immediately when he was in some distresses; and God's providence in taking care and providing for him in his whole course of Life, wrought in him a firm resolution to depend upon him, in what Condition so ever he should be; and he found that providence to continue in that Tenor, to his last end. Indeed he was wholly possessed with a holy Fear of, and reliance in GOD, was conscionable in his private Duties, and in sanctifying the Sabbath▪ being much offended at its Profanation by disorderly Men, and that both in reference to the Glory of GOD, and the scandal brought on the Church of England, as if it allowed, (as some have impudently affirmed) such wicked Licentiousness. For his own particular, very few Sundays there were in the year in which he Preached not twice; besides the duties performed in his own house, or in his attendance on those Noble persons, to whom successively he was Chaplain.  
So that if he had not been helped by a more than Officious Memory, which devoured all the Books he read, and digested them to easy nutriment, that supplied all the parts and the whole body of his Learning, for his service and furtherance of his Labours; it had been impossible, but that the Duties he performed as a Divine, must have hindered and justled out those his happy productions as a most Complete Historian; which study, being tied to the Series and Catenation of Time and Truth, could ill brook, or break through those Avocations, though no doubt it thrived the better under the kindly influence of his Devotion.  
It will make it also the less wonder, why a Man of so Great merit, and such▪ conspicuous worth, snould never arrive to any eminent Honour, and Dignity, or Church Revenue, save that of Prebend in Salisbury, being also of competent Age, to become the Gravity of such preferments: For he could not afford to seek great matters for himself, who designed his All, for the public good and the concerns of his precious Soul: Questionless he could not have wanted Friends to his advancement, if he would have pursued such ends, who would have been as great furtherers of himself out of a particular affection, (which is always ambitious of laying such obligations upon Virtue) to his person, as they had assisted him in his works and Labours.  
He was reward and recompense enough to himself, and for his fame and Glory certainly he computed it the best way, 'tis the Jewel that graces' the Ring, not so contrary. High places are leveled in death, and crumble into dust, leaving no impression of those that possessed them, and are only retrievable to posterity by some excellent pourtraits of their nobler part; wherein it will on all hands be confessed, the Doctor hath absolutely drawn himself beyond the excellentest counterfeit of Art, and which shall outlive all addition of monument, and outflourish the pomp of the lasting'st sepulchral glory.  
But had the worthy Doctor but some longer while survived, to the fruition of that quiet and settlement of the Church, of which by God's goodness and favour, we have so full a prospect, and that the crowd of suitors for Ecclesiastical promotions, had left thronging and importuning their great friends to the stifling and smothering of modest merit, it may be presumed the Royal bounty would favourably have reflected on and respected that worth of the Doctor (which was so little set by and regarded of himself in his contented obscurity) by a convenient placing and raising of that light to some higher Orb from whence he should have dilated and dispensed his salutiferous rays and influences:  
Some little time after his death his course would have come to have preached before his Majesty, for which the Doctor made preparations, and that most probably would have proved a fit opportunity of notifying himself to the King; whose most judicious and exact observation the remarks of the Doctors learned preaching would have happily suited. This honour was designed him before by a Right Noble Lord, in whose retinue as Chaplain he went over to the Hague, at the reduction of his Majesty, into these his Kingdoms. But the haste and dispatch which that great Affair required in the necessity of the King's presence here, afforded him not the effect of that Honourable intendment. But what he was disappointed of here, is fully attained by his happy appearance before the King of Kings, to praise and magnify him, and to sing hallelujahs for ever.  
So ADIEV to that Glory of the Doctor, which is incommunicable with the World; and Ave and all Prosperity be to those his remains, which he hath to the General advantage of Learning and Piety most Liberally imparted.  
Too Customary were it, to recite the several kinds and sorts of Honourable Epithets, which his equal Readers have fixed on him; but this under Favour, may be assigned peculiarly to him, that no man performed any thing of such difficulty as his undertake, with that Delight and Profit, which were as the Gemelli and Twins of his hard Labour, and superfetations of wit, not distinguishable but by the thread of his own Art, which clued men into their several and distinct▪ appartiments.  
And so impertinent it will be to engage further in a particular account of his Books, whose sure and perpetual Duration needs not the Minutes of this Biography, especially that his ultimate piece, and partly Posthumous, (his often mentioned Book, the Worthies General of England) whose design was drawn by Eternity; commencing from their (before) unknown Originals, and leading into an Ocean of New Discoveries. And may some happy, as hardy Pen attempt the Continuation.   

The Names of his other Books having had their due Reception, need no other mention to Posterity, than what you have in this ensuing Catalogue. Books of Dr. Fuller. Poems.  
Heinousness of sin. Heavy punishment, and Hearty Repentance. 8.  
Holy War 2 Folio.  
joseph's Party Coloured Coat, and Sermons on the Corinth's, 4.  
Holy state and profane state, Folio.  
Sermon of Reformation, 4.  
Truth maintained, or an answer to Mr. Saltmarsh that writ against his Reformation Sermon, 4.  
Inauguration Sermon Preached at St. Westminster Abbey, 4.  
A Sermon of Assurance, 4.  
Good thoughts in bad times, in 12.  
Thoughts in worse times, 12.  
Life of Andronicus, 8.  
Cause and cure of a wounded Conscience, 8.  
Infant's Advocate, 8.  
Pisgah sight of Palestine, or a description of the holy land, Folio with Cuts.  
Fuller's Triple Reconciler stating the Controversies, 8.  

Whether  
1. Ministers have an Exclusive power of barring Communicants from the Sacrament.  
2. Any person Unordained may Lawfully preach.  
3. The Lord's prayer ought not to be used by all Christians.   
A fast Sermon● preached upon Innocents' Day, 4.  
Sermons on Matthew upon the Temptations, 8.  
A Sermon of Life out of Death 8.  
Sermons on Ruth, 8.  
Best name on Earth, 8.  
Another 8. of Sermons.  
Speeches of the Beast and Flowers, 8.  
Church History of Britain, Folio.  
Mixed Contemplations in these times, Folio.  
Lives of several Modern Divines in the 4to book, by Fuller, 4.  
The Appeal of Injured Innocence, to the Learned and Impartial Reader,  
In Answer to some Animadversions of Dr. heylin's on his Church History.  
Fuller's History of the Worthies General of England, now finished, Folio. An excellent Piece.  
A Tract in Latin concerning the Church, not perfected by him.  
These Elegant pieces are the best Epitaph can be inscribed on his Tomb, where though he Rest himself, yet shall the World never see an end of his Labours.  
FINIS.