B 3 M75 152 lit .v • •< c c a c c <.«c- r C c S 6 his hat."* One of the Proctors was " Hierome Zanchy, a boifterous fellow at cudgelling, foot-ball playing, and indeed more fit in all refpects to be a rude foldier than a fcholar, or man of polite parts. In the beginning of the Rebellion he threw off his gown, and took up arms for the Parliament, and foon after became a Cap- tain, a Prefbyterian, an Independent, and I know not what."t It was no wonder, therefore, if republican Profef- fors, Matters, Principals, and Fellows were thruft upon the reluctant Univerfity, now fuddenly bereft of her moft perfect patterns of holinefs, and fureft guides in found learning, becaufe they demurred to the Covenant, and negative Oath, and the Engage- ment to the Commonwealth without King or Houfe of Lords. In their room fucceeded " an illiterate rabble of poor fcholars, Pedagogues from Belfries, Curates, and fometimes Vicars, as alfo Parliament foldiers, ef- pecially fuch as had lately been difbanded. They were commonly called feekers, were great frequenters of the fermons at St. Mary's, preached by the Seven Ministers appointed by Parliament, and other Prefbyterians that preached in other Churches in Oxford, and fometimes frequenters of the Conventicles of the Independents and Anabaptifts. The generality of them had morti- fied countenances, puling voices, and eyes commonly, when in difcourfe, lifted up, with hands laying on their breafts ; they moftly had fhort hair, which at this time was called the Committee cut, and went in * Ibid. p. 739. f Wood's Fafti Oxon. vol. ii. p. 69. 1656] Bifloop of Bath and Wells. 21 quirpOy in a fhabb'd condition, and looked rather like apprentices, or antiquated fchool boys, than academi- cians, or minifters." # Not only the heads of Houfes, ProfefTors, Lecturers, and other members of the Uni- verfity, down to the undergraduates, but even " the beadles, college fervants, bed- makers, and fcrapers of trenchers were thrown out, and banifhed from their places." f Such were the violence and tumult, which to the amazement of all good men, Cf fet the whole Church and nation in a combuftion, and went far to render the Reformed religion, and all Proteftants, odious to all the world." J New College, in the midft of this confufion, had efpecially maintained its loyal principles. The Warden was charitable Dr. Robert Pink. He needs no other praife than that he appointed Dr. Peter Gunning, Dr. Ifaac Barrow, and Dr. Richard Sherlock to be Chaplains of his College. The laft of thefe, when ejected by the Vifitors, was compelled to accept the curacy of Caflington, near Woodftock, and out of a ftipend of £16 a year beftowed the greater part in charity amongrr. the poor ; a man of fuch exemplary holinefs, that good Bifhop Wilfon honoured his me- mory by writing an account of his life. Dr. Pink had fome time before affembled all who were capable of bearing arms, and willing to ferve for the defence of the King. The privileged men and fcholars of New College anfwered freely to the fum- mons. They formed themfelves into a militia, bring- * Wood's Fafti Oxon. vol. ii. p. 61. f Ibid. p. 68. t Oxford Reafons againft the Covenant. 22 Life tf/' Thomas Ken, [1656 ing with them cc fuch apparel of war as they could rout out from the Colleges ; helmets, back and breaft pieces, pykes, mufkets, and other appurtenances." * The Cloifters and towers of Wykeham, defigned by their founder for the abode of peace, were converted into magazines of war.f But all in vain : — the battle of Nafeby was fought and loft. Oxford yielded with her garrifon ; then followed all the after-violence. New College was not fpared in the general tumult : the members were cited to appear before Cheynell, Prynne, and other Vifitors. Only one of the Fellows confented to the oaths ; the others fcorned to fubmit to their ufurped authority. George Marfhall, who had ferved as Chaplain to the rebel army, was obtruded into the Warden's chair. By the 22nd of April, 1650, eight Chaplains, and fifty-four Fellows, were thruft out to make room for needy adherents to the new order of things. This reign of terror in Oxford had in great meafure fubfided by the time Ken bent his footfteps to Hart Hall. There was a falfe calm, faddened by the prefence and rule of fchifmatics. Great was his forrow, when in the retired chamber of Francis Turner he firft heard of the tauntings and feoffs by which holy ordi- nances were difhonoured in the higheft feats of au- thority. It was a gloomy profpeel for one of his inoffenfive and peaceable temper, when the gover- nors of focieties, founded for the teaching of a pure faith, were banded together to opprefs its adherents. But not even thefe adverfe influences could root out * Life of Ant. a Wood, p. 13. f Ibid. p. 17. 1656] Bijhop of Bath and Wells. 23 the deep principles of religion which had for fo many- centuries ennobled Oxford. And where, if not within her precincts, could peace be found, when the defpo- tifm of a fanatical military had carried confufion into every corner of the land ? The violence of man may feem for a while to withstand God's providential government. They who love Him have their trial, — perhaps their chaftifement, — in wrongs to be en- dured. But all things work out His irreverfible law ; the ends of His wifdom are ferved even by the hands of the wicked. He had permitted the fuccefs of ty- rants ; but had not left Himfelf without witnefTes in Oxford, even under their mifrule. Of thefe we muft content ourfelves with one exam- ple in the great and good Robert Boyle, whofe rare wifdom and varied acquirements have perhaps remained unequalled by any fince his time. In his own day thefe gained for him fo great a fame, even in foreign countries, that no learned ftranger came to England but fought his acquaintance.* He had at- tained a knowledge of the Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and other languages. He was familiar with all the mathematical fciences ; yet fo lowly in fpirit, fo innocent, candid, and obliging, that he demeaned himfelf humbly to all men who approached him. This is not to be wondered at, fince his genius was fanctified by a Chriftian fpirit. " He had fo great a reverence for the Deity, that the very Name of GOD was never mentioned by him without a paufe, and a vifible ftop in his difcourfe, in which Sir Peter Pett, * Birch's Life of the Hon. Robert Boyle, p. 144. 24 Life 0/* Thomas Ken, [i 6 $6 who knew him for almoft 40 years, affirms that he was fo exact, that he did not remember to have ob- ferved him once fail in it." * Such were his humble thoughts of himfelf, and his refpect for God's fervice, that fC when he was folicited by the Earl of Clarendon to enter into Holy Orders, he did not think himfelf worthy ; for he had fo high a fenfe of the obligations, importance, and difficulty of the paftoral care, that he durft not undertake it : fo folemnly and ferioufly did he judge of facred matters. "f He flood alone, however, in this modeft opinion of his unfitnefs for the Priefthood. Many of his writings prove that he would have been an excellent divine, had he been fo confecrated. One in particular raifes the author far above the praife of that exalted philo- fophy, by which he unfolded the myfteries of the natural world. In his treatife of cc Seraphic Love, or Some motives to the love of God" he fhows how God is the fitteft Object of our love, and how He hath prepared for them that love Him " an ocean of feli- city, fo ftiorelefs and fo bottomlefs, that all the faints and angels cannot exhauft it." Nor did he fatisfy himfelf with thefe written tefti- monies of having dedicated his heart to God. His whole life was a practical example how a layman of noble birth may cultivate the graces of a faint in the midft of a profane and reftlefs world ; how the higheft reach of intellect can bow itfelf down in fimple faith before the unfearchable myfteries of Revelation. He fhowed alfo his great zeal for religion by printing at * Ibid. p. 138. f Ibid. p. 60. 1656] Bijljop of Bath a? / id Wells . 2 5 his own expenfe the Holy Scriptures in the Malayan, Irifh, and Welfh tongues ; by founding the Incorpo- rated Society for propagating the Gofpel in New England, and other parts of America ; and by his endowment of eight fermons annually for ever, to eftablifh the truth of the Chriftian Religion. It would be too long to enumerate his unbounded charities : we may leave the praife of his beneficence to Biihop Sanderfon, who dedicated to him his Cafes of Confcience, and fpeaks of him as his patron, illuftrious not only for his rank, but ftill more for all chriftian virtues. This was the well merited tribute of a grateful heart : for when Robert Sanderfon, himfelf fo meek and merciful, and fo great a lover of his King, (after being opprefTed, plundered, wounded, and imprifoned by the Parliament troops) was re- duced, with his wife and children, to great need and fuffering, Mr. Boyle came to his relief, and without any folicitation beftowed upon him an annuity of £ 50 ; a generous and chriftian act, honourable alike to both. It is no wonder, if Mr. Boyle mould form the centre of a little circle of wife and good men, where- ever he might be ; and it was a great happinefs for the Univerfity that he took up his abode in Oxford. His eminent qualities gained him a great refpect from thofe in authority ; and he was able in fome degree to aftuage the confufion and tyranny of the Cove- nanters, and " rebellious rout" who held fway in every college. But the heat of perfecution had now fomewhat abated. The republicans, having poflefTed themfelves of all the good things they could lay hands upon, left the 26 Life 0/* Thomas Ken, [^57 fcholars very much to their own ways,, To long as they were peaceable and quiet. This fuited Ken's difpofition -, and he purfued his ftudies amid the con- fuflon that furrounded him, not thinking it any part of his duty to enter into conflicts. He could be filent in his own thoughts, and enjoy the ferenity of a well- ordered fpirit. In 1657, within one year of his ar- rival in Oxford, he was admitted at New College. Befides Francis Turner and others, there were two youths at Oxford, of temper and habits congenial to his own, ftudents of Chrift Church, with whom he now formed a lafting friendship. One was Mr. Thomas Thynne, afterwards " in consideration of his great me- rits created Vifcount Weymouth ; a perfon of ftric"b piety, honour, and integrity,"* — virtues which con- ferred upon him a higher claim to refpect than his ancient defcent. The other was George Hooper, of whom the celebrated Dr. Bufby declared he was " the beft fcholar, the fineft gentleman, and would make the beft bifhop, that ever was educated at Weft- minfter fchool."f It does not appear what degree of intimacy fub- fifted between Lord Weymouth and Ken for fome years after they left college ; the frequency of their intercourfe was probably interrupted by the different fpheres of life they were called to fill : but iC in the reverfes of Ken's lot, and the evening of his days, when he had no home upon earth," Weymouth teftified * Collin's Peerage, vol. vi. p. 266. f Athens Oxonienfes, vol. ii. p. 989. 1657] BiJIjop of Bath and Weils, 27 the untiring fidelity of his attachment by affording him for twenty years an afylum at his noble manfion of Long Leat, where he clofed his eyes. # Hooper and Ken were thrown together in every ftage of their lives ; one a learned Grecian and oriental fcholar, the other as diftinguifhed for his fafcinating eloquence; fervent devoted Priefts, alternately fucceeding each other in their preferments, and both more folicitous for the other's advancement than their own. We can hardly doubt that all three formed part of the refolute band in Oxford, who aflembled together for prayer in the Houfe of Thomas Willis, clofe by Merton College, when the Liturgy had been prohi- bited in the Churches and Chapels. Like the difciples of old, in their upper room, thefe truftful Christians cf performed their devotions according to the Book of Common Prayer, none being admitted but their confi- dents. There they maintained the orders and rubric of the Church of England on all Lord's days, Holy days, and their Vigils, and administered the Holy Commu- nion."! This was begun by that " great undervaluer of money," Dr. John Fell, alfo the eloquent John Dolben, afterwards Archbifhop of York, and other divines ; and was continued until the Reftoration, to the great comfort and fupportof the articled Royalifts. To believe, to truft, and to fufTer, are privileges that can never be taken from Chrift's faithful followers; to feek their happinefs in a fimple dedicating of them- * Bowles's Life of Ken, vol. i. p. 42. f Wood's Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 795. 28 Life of Thomas Ken, [1657 felves to His will, to abide His time for eventual peace, and to repofe on His fure word, is to triumph in the midft of flander and oppremon. Ken was a fkilful player on the lute ; and did not betake himfelf fo clofely to his ftudies, but that he allowed himfelf an indulgence in his innocent recreation of mufic, for which " he had an excellent genius.*" The organs, and choral fervices had been filenced by the ufurpers : but there were many in Oxford who could not fubmit to change their countenances and manners at the word of command. Some of thefe formed themfelves into mufical parties under the fa- cetious, and no lefs learned and loyal, Anthony a Wood, who enumerates the feveral performers, their inftruments, and degrees of (kill. He fays 3 r d of May, 1661, and that of Mafter the 2 1 ft of January, 1664.* Mr. Bowles fuggefts that he may have been Tutor of his College, which is not improbable. He might train the younger Wykehamifts in the rules of Chriftian obedience, and at the fame time mature his own theological ftudies. Of this laft duty of preparation for Holy Orders no one could have a deeper fenfe. And if at all times the Prieft's office demands a fpirit fully braced to his high calling, it was efpecially fo at this period, when the Englifh Church was brought into extreme peril. The return of kingly govern- ment had indeed huftied the ftorm in which fhe had well nigh been fwept away : but if to our day, after two centuries, fhe bears the fears of her chaftifement in the Rebellion, her wounds were then frefh and bleeding. Her difcipline was relaxed, her doctrines * Anthony a Wood's Fafti Oxon. vol. ii. pp. 140 and 158. 32 Life 0/* Thomas Ken, [1663 queftioned, her fervices but partially reftored, her revenues alienated, her unity broken into fragments. Above all, the people were tainted by a general diforder and profligacy, fifted through every grade of fociety by a civil war. In this ftate of difcord Ken had refolved to devote himfelf to the fervice of the Church, and was ever after found a courageous and watchful Paftor, remem- bering the Good Shepherd's injunction, " Feed My lambs, feed My fheep." Oxford, freed from the tur- moil of the Rebellion, was of all places beft fuited to his deflgn. Here without interruption he could give himfelf to the purfuit of theology. The Bodleian, and his College library, afforded ample {lores of re- ference beyond the reach of common ftudents, efpe- cially the works of the primitive Fathers, thofe vene- rable pillars of the Church and champions of Catholic truth, from whom earneft-minded Christians of all times have drawn abundantly for their need. In thefe retreats, cultivating his natural talents by a judicious courfe of ftudy, he matured himfelf for his future calling. The ferious happy time of receiving Holy Orders at length arrived. Having prepared himfelf by prayer, ftudy, and chaftifement of the will, to forfake the allurements and aims of the world, he attained to a humble cc truft that he was inwardly moved by the Holy Ghoft to take upon him this office and minif- tration, to ferve God for the promoting of His glory, and the edifying of His people."* It is doubtful at * Ordination Service. 1663] Bijhop of Bath and Wells, 33 what precife time he was ordained. A vain fearch has been made in the records of various Diocefes to difcover the date. Hawkins does not inform us ; Bowles fuppofes it to have been foon after he took his degree in 1 661 .* Wood intimates that it was after his Matter's degree in i664,f and that he was made Chap- lain to Lord Maynard, as his firft ftep to promotion. Bowles % and Wood§ fay his firft living was Brightftone in the Ifle of Wight ; Hawkins, Eaft Woodhay in Hampshire. || The whole account is inaccurate. He was inftituted on the prefentation of William, Lord Maynard, to the Rectory of Little Eafton, in the hundred of Dunmow in EfTex, in 1 663.^ Wood feems to have miftaken this for an appointment as Chaplain. Hawkins does not mention the Chaplaincy, and there is no record of it in the Faculty office ; on the contrary, we find an entry of the appointment of David Nichols, as Chaplain to Lord Maynard, in the preceding year, 28- April, 1662. The Parifti Church of Little Eafton is juft without the limits of the Park of Eafton Lodge, the feat of Lord Maynard. Ken had the happinefs to be fup- ported in his endeavours for the good of his people by the countenance and example of the noble family at the Lodge. In his funeral fermon on Lady Margaret Maynard, twenty years afterwards, we have this testi- mony to the friendship that fubfifted between them. * Bowles's Life of Ken, vol. i. p. 91. f Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 989. % Vol. i. p. 115. § Vol. ii. p. 989. || Life of Ken, p. 6. 11 " Easton Parva: P. Dunmow. Thomas Ken, 20 Aug. 1663. Wins. Doms. Maynard, B n . Eafton." Records in the Faculty office. D 34 Life of Thomas Ken, [1663 " Say, all you who have been eye-witneffes to her life, did you from her very cradle ever know her other than a gracious woman ? As to myjelf I have had the honour to know her near twenty years, and to be ad- mitted to her moft intimate thoughts ; and I cannot but think, upon the utmoft of my obfervation, that me always preferved her baptifmal innocence, and that me never committed any one mortal fin, which put her out of the ftate of grace."* From this eloquent fermon, in praife of his early friend, we gather valuable notices of his own miniftry. When he applauds Lady Margaret for " offering up to God, morning and evening, the public Jervices" he clearly indicates that he was himfelf in Church to lead them. He would furely not have reminded the people how " to prayers Jhe added fafting, till her weaknefs made it im- pojjible to her conjlitution" unlefs he had in his daily walk fet them the example of a ftricT: and auftere life. When he fpeaks of her " enlarged devotions on the Fafis and Feftivals of the Church" who but himfelf encouraged and affilted in them ? If cc Jhe never failed on all opportunities to approach the Holy Altar, came with a fpiritual hunger and thirft to that hea- venly feaft, and communicated with a lively and en- dearing remembrance of her crucified Saviour," it was himfelf who opened thofe frequent approaches. Would that the Clergy in this our day followed, as * A Sermon preached at the Funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Margaret Maynard, at Little Eafton in Eflex, on the 30th of June, 1682. On Prov. xi. 16. A gracious Woman retaineth honour. \\.o. i66j] Bifoop of Bath and Wells. 35 he did, the primitive rule, enjoined by the Rubric, of daily fervice, and the celebration of the Fafts and Festivals, throughout the year. If men are to have their affections raifed to fomething higher than this care-worn world, it muft be through the confident example of a devout, fteadfaft, abiding Clergy. How can the people be expected to obey the injunctions of the Church, if their Paftors maintain a contrary rule, after the varying ftandard of their own judgment and convenience ? It is vain to preach to them the privileges of public worfhip, fo long as the Priefts themfelves difobey, and keep their Church doors clofed againft the " little flock." There may on Sundays be a gathering of the refined and educated, brought up in a love of order, and willing to attend once a week, if only to fet an example to their houfehold and dependents. But the poor, the labourer, the rude uncultivated mafs, — ftill more the fabbath-breaker, the drunkard, the licentious and unbelieving, will never be converted from the power of evil under a languid inexpreflive fyftem, fuch as now prevails in the majority of our Parishes. The lower orders of the people have a keen fenfe of the nonconformity of thofe fet over them, and of their equal right to adopt their own meafure of obedi- ence. Many perhaps could not, or would not at firft, attend the daily fervices, or obferve the feftivals, even if offered to them ; yet they can appreciate the affec- tionate untiring zeal of their Clergy in giving them the opportunity. Of this we have a touching example in " fome of the meaner fort" of George Herbert's pariih, " who did fo love and reverence him, that they would let their plough reft when his Saints-bell 36 Life 0/^ Thomas Ken, [+663 rung to prayers, that they might alfo offer their de- votions to God with him ; and would then return back to their plough. And his moft holy life was fuch, that it begot fuch reverence to God and to him, that they thought themfelves the happier, when they carried Mr. Herbert's bleffing back with them to their labour. Thus powerful was his reafon and example to perfuade others to a practical piety and devotion."* And what, if there be fome within the parifh who fecretly figh after the abfent fervices, and are debarred from the fympathy of common prayer ? what, if the aged and infirm, or the fufFering, or the penitent, long to wend their way to the fanctuary — and may not ? Who mail bear the reproach ? or who render the account ? Ken fays, " Lady Margaret, when me came home from Church, recollected and wrote out of her memory abstracts of all the fermons fhe heard, which are in great numbers amongft her papers." Search has been made without fuccefs for thefe abftracts. If we may judge from Ken's few difcourfes that are extant, they would have deferved the praife bellowed on Lactantius, of a divine fluent excellence, favouring of a mind that was truly mortified, and intended to bring his audi- tors to a refolved courfe of fanctification and piety. f Certain it is they helped to animate Lady Margaret with cc fo divine a fpirit, with fuch ardours of devo- * Walton's Life of George Herbert. f The Glory of their Times ; or, Lives of the Primitive Fathers. 1640. 8vo. p. 152. 1663] Bijfjop of Bath and Wells. $7 tion and charity, as might have become a Proba or a Monica."* It was no flight testimony to Ken's worth to have gained, at that early age, the friendfhip of fuch a man as Lord Maynard, whofe unbending loyalty and firm adherence to the fortunes of the King had ex- pofed him to the violence of Cromwell. Though his zeal in the royal caufe had brought upon him an im- peachment by the Parliament in 1647,^ ne was one of the fmall but fearlefs number of Peers who met in their Houfe, and unanimoufly refufed to concur with the Commons in their refolution to bring Charles to a public trial. Lord Maynard's great authority at Court after the Restoration may k have had fome influ- ence on Ken's later advancement : but his merits were too well known both at Oxford and Winchefter to permit his remaining long in the retirement of Little Eafton. Befides, it was natural that Izaak Walton, the friend of Morton, Sanderfon, Duppa and other Prelates, above all of the munificent and virtuous Morley, mould fee his brother Ken called to a more extended poft of duty. Notwithftanding their different fpheres of life, a warm and lading attachment fubfifted between Morley and Walton. They were united not only by a perfect harmony of tempers, but by an agreement of opinion on fubjects of deepeft intereft to them, as Chriftian men, — by the fame enduring loyalty, the fame ftudi- * Ken's Sermon, preached at the Funeral of Lady Margaret May- nard, 1682. f Collin's Peerage, vol. vi. p. 491. 38 Life (jf Thomas Ken, [1665 ous devout courfe of life. Walton was at this time, and had been for feveral years, either at Worcefter or Winchefter, the conftant and familiar inmate of the Bifhop's Palace.* Under his roof he wrote the Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Bifhop San- derfon, revifed his former Lives of Dr. Donne and Sir Henry Wootton, and alfo enlarged his Compleat Angler in the fifth and laft edition. Here, we may believe, Ken had often found a welcome in the intervals of his later ftudies at Ox- ford. His humble religious difpofition, fimple man- ners, and lively converfation, could not but attract the Bifhop's efteem, as they had won the confidence of others. Wherever he had been he had behaved him- felf wifely, for he loved his Matter's fervice : this was the fecret fpring of his gradual rifing to greater emi- nence in the Church than even thofe who aided in his advancement. Having retained the Rectory of Little Eafton for two years, he refigned it into the hands of his friend Lord Maynard, on the 19th of April, 1665. It was now, perhaps, that Bifhop Morley called him to Win- chefter, and made him his own Chaplain. Woodf and Hawkins J fay 1667 ; but their dates are in other refpects fo faulty, they cannot be trufted. And pro- bably this was the period when he firft undertook the gratuitous cure of St. John's, a forfaken Parifh in the Soke at Winchefter, which alfo fome years * Bifhop Morley was confecrated to Worcefter, 1 8th Odtober, 1660, and tranflated to Winchefter in 1662. ■f- Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 989. X Hawkins's Life of Ken, p. 6. 1667] Bifhop of Bath and Wells. 39 afterwards appears to have formed part of his labo- rious duties. Anthony Wood fays of Ken's Oxford life, that " his towardlinefs towards good letters and virtue were obferved by the Seniors :" fo at Winchefter he gained golden opinions from all; and on the 8 th of December, 1666, he was unanimoufly elected a Fellow of that College, resigning, of courfe his Oxford Fellowfhip.* " There his moft exemplary goodnefs and piety did eminently exert itfelf ; for that College being chiefly defigned by its Founder for a retired and ftudious life, what could a great and generous fpirit propofe but the good of fouls, and the glory of that God, to whom he constantly afcribed it, even in his moft familiar letters. For c Glory to God' was his conftant Prefcript to all his letters and papers." j" But a reclufe life was foreign to the bent of his defires. Some refponfible work in the cure of fouls was better adapted to one fo loving and zealous, and fo highly gifted. The Bifhop, there- fore, on the 6th of July, 1667, % collated him to the Rectory of Brightftone in the Ifle of Wight, a cheerful little village, about four miles from Carifbrook Caftle, with a goodly Church, and a near profpect of the fea, fheltered from cold winds by over-hanging hills. There, removed from the obfervation of all but his fmall confiding flock, he again exercifed himfelf in the duties of the Chriftian miniftry, perfuading men to the fear of God, and converting them from the power of * Records of Winchefter College. f Hawkins's Life of Ken, p. 4. % Books of the Public Record Office. 40 Life of Thomas Ken, [1667 fin to the free love of their Heavenly Father. If there be joy in the prefence of the Angels over one finner that repenteth, what fhall it be to a faithful, enduring prieft to meet that foul in Heaven, faved by his holy counfels, his example, and his prayers ! No voice, per- haps, may proclaim his praife on earth, — not even gratitude repay his fervice : yet when the Lamb fhall open the Seals, and that one be found written " in the book of remembrance," as having feared the Lord, and thought upon His Name, — then he that was turned to righteoufnefs, and he that was the happy inflrument,