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ANDREWES, LANCELOT (1555-1626)

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ANDREWES, See also:LANCELOT (1555-1626) , See also:English divine, was See also:born in 1555 in See also:London. His See also:family was an See also:ancient See also:Suffolk one; his See also:father, See also:Thomas, became See also:master of Trinity See also:House. Lancelot was sent to the See also:Cooper's See also:free school, Ratcliff, in the See also:parish of See also:Stepney, and then to the See also:Merchant Taylors' school under See also:Richard Mulcaster. In 1571 he was entered as a See also:Watts See also:scholar at See also:Pembroke See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, where in 1574–1575 he graduated B.A., proceeding M.A. in 1578. In 1576 he had been elected See also:fellow of Pembroke. In 158o he took orders; in 1581 he was incorporated M.A. at See also:Oxford. As catechist at his See also:college he read lectures on the See also:Decalogue, which, both on their delivery and on their publication (in 163o), created much See also:interest. He also gained much reputation as a casuist. After a See also:residence in the See also:north as See also:chaplain to See also:Henry See also:Hastings, See also:earl of See also:Huntingdon, See also:President of the North, he was made See also:vicar of St See also:Giles's, Cripple-See also:gate, in 1588, and there delivered his striking sermons on the temptation in the See also:wilderness and the See also:Lord's See also:prayer. In a See also:great See also:sermon on the loth of See also:April (See also:Easter See also:week) 1588, he stoutly vindicated the Protestantism of the See also:Church of See also:England against the Romanists, and, oddly enough, adduced " Mr See also:Calvin " as a new writer, with lavish praise and See also:affection. Andrewes was preferred to the prebendal See also:stall of St Pancras in St See also:Paul's, London, in 1589, and on the 6th of See also:September of the same See also:year became master of his own college of Pembroke, being at the See also:time one of the chaplains of See also:Archbishop See also:Whitgift. From 1589 to 1609 he was also See also:prebendary of See also:Southwell.

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March 1590, as one of the chaplains of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, he preached before her a singularly outspoken sermon, and in See also:October gave his See also:introductory lecture at St Paul's, undertaking to comment on the first four chapters of See also:Genesis. These seem to have been worked up later into a compilation called The See also:Orphan Lectures (1657). Andrewes was an incessant worker as well as preacher, and often laboured beyond his strength. He delighted to move among the See also:people, and yet found time to meet with a society of antiquaries, of which See also:Raleigh, See also:Sidney, Burleigh, See also:Arundel, the Herberts, Saville, See also:Stow and See also:Camden were members. In 1598 he declined the two bishoprics of See also:Ely and See also:Salisbury, as the offers were coupled with a proposal to alienate See also:part of the revenues of those See also:sees. On the 23rd of See also:November 1600 he preached at See also:Whitehall a remarkable sermon on See also:justification, which gave rise to a memorable controversy. On the 4th of See also:July 16o1 he was appointed See also:dean of See also:Westminster and gave much See also:attention to the school there. He assisted at the See also:coronation of See also:James I. and in 1604 took part in the See also:Hampton See also:Court See also:conference. His name is the first on the See also:list of divines appointed to make the authorized version of the See also:Bible. In 16o5 he was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Chichester and made lord See also:almoner. In 1609 he published See also:Torture Torti, a learned See also:work which See also:grew out of the See also:Gunpowder See also:Plot controversy and was written in See also:answer to See also:Bellarmine's Matthaeus Tortus, which attacked James I.'s See also:book on the See also:oath of See also:allegiance. After his See also:translation to Ely (1609), he again controverted Bellarmine in the Responsio ad Apologiam, a See also:treatise never answered.

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Scotland with a view to persuading the Scots that See also:Episcopacy was preferable to See also:Presbyterianism. In 1618 he attended the See also:synod of See also:Dort, and was soon after made dean of the See also:Chapel Royal and translated to See also:Winchester, a See also:diocese which he ad-ministered with loving prudence and the highest success. He died on the 26th of September 1626, mourned alike by leaders in church and See also:state. Two generations later, Richard See also:Crashaw caught up the universal sentiment, when, in his lines " Upon Bishop Andrewes' Picture before his Sermons," he exclaims: " This See also:reverend See also:shadow See also:cast that setting See also:sun, Whose glorious course through our See also:horizon run, See also:Left the dim See also:face of this dull hemisphere, All one great See also:eye, all drown'd in one great teare." Andrewes was distinguished in many See also:fields. At court, though no trifler or flatterer, he was a favourite counsellor in three successive reigns, but he never meddled much in See also:civil or temporal affairs. His learning made him the equal and the friend of See also:Grotius, and of the foremost contemporary scholars. His See also:preaching was a unique See also:combination of rhetorical splendour and scholarly richness; his piety that of an ancient See also:saint, semi-ascetic and unearthly in its self-denial. As a churchman he is typically See also:Anglican, equally removed from the Puritan and the See also:Roman positions. He stands in true See also:succession to Richard See also:Hooker in working out the principles of the English See also:Reformation, though while Hooker argued mainly against See also:Puritanism, Andrewes chiefly combated Romanism. A See also:good See also:summary of his position is found in his First Answer to See also:Cardinal See also:Perron, who had challenged James I.'s use of the See also:title " See also:Catholic." His position in regard to the See also:Eucharist is naturally more mature than that of the first reformers. " As to the Real Presence we are agreed ; our controversy is as to the See also:node of it. As to the mode we define nothing rashly, nor anxiously investigate, any more than in the Incarnation of See also:Christ we ask how the human is See also:united to the divine nature in One See also:Person.

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change in the elements—we allow ut panis iam consecratus non sit penis See also:quern nature formavit; sed, quern benedictio consecravit, et consecrando etiam immutavit " (Responsio, p. 263). See also:Adoration is permitted, and the use of the terms " See also:sacrifice " and " See also:altar " maintained as being consonant with scripture and antiquity. Christ is " a sacrifice—so, to be slain; a propitiatory sacrifice—so, to be eaten " (Sermons, vol. ii. p. 296). ' By the same rules that the See also:Passover was, by the same may ours be termed a sacrifice. In rigour of speech, neither of them; for to speak after the exact manner of divinity, there is but one only sacrifice, veri nominis, that is Christ's See also:death. And that sacrifice but once actually performed at His death, but ever before represented in figure, from the beginning; and ever since repeated in memory to the See also:world's end. That only See also:absolute, all else relative to it, representative of it, operative by it. . Hence it is that what names theirs carried, ours do the like, and the Fathers make no See also:scruple at it—no more need we " (Sermons, vol. ii. p. 300). As to See also:reservation, " it needeth not : the See also:intent is had without it," since an invalid may always have his private communion.

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saints, the apparent examples in patristic literature are " rhetorical outbursts, not theological See also:definitions." His services to his church have been summed up thus:—(1) he has a keen sense of the proportion of the faith and maintains a clear distinction between what is fundamental, needing ecclesiastical commands, and subsidiary, needing only ecclesiastical guidance and See also:suggestion; (2) as distinguished from the earlier protesting standpoint, e.g. of the See also:Thirty-nine Articles, he emphasized a See also:positive and constructive statement of the Anglican position.

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