' God's saints are shining lights ; . . . . Tliey are indeed as pillar-fires.
Seen as we go ; They are that city's shining spires We travel to.' ||
A. B. a
* It has been found impossible to identify his grave; no stone, the simplest, marks it. Is there to be no memorial raised?
t James Montgomery, 'The Christian Soldier.' Poetical Works, p. 305, ed. I vol. 8vo. 1851.
X Appendix A, p. cxxxviii, req. See also B, pp. cxl-xli, in Appendix, for notices of Sibbes's family and name ; and C, p. cxli, for references concerning his suc- cessors at Gray's Inn and Catharine Hall
§ 'To the Reader,' Heav. Couf. between Christ and Mary, 12mo. 1664.
II Vaughan, as ante p. 39. VOL. I. *
APPENDIX TO MEMOIR.
A, page xxvi, et alibi.— ZACRABY CATLIN.
It has been deemed proper to give in full, in this appendix, the * Memoir ' of Sibbes, drawn up by Zachary Catlin (the manuscript of which, as has been stated, is in my possession). Accordingly it is sub- joined, verbatim et literatim from the original holograph with signature. Two copies of this ' Memoir ' are preserved at Cambridge ; one among the Baker MSS. (xxxviii. 441-446) ; the other, recently presented, in Univer- sity Library.* That by Baker has been edited with scrupulous fidelity by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor, M.A. ; and forms one of the ' Communications ' of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (read December 1. 1856, No. vii. pp. 252-264). It is to be regi-etted that it abounds with the most smgular misreadings ; for which Baker, not Mr Mayor, must be held responsible. Mr Mayor's notes, characteristically full of out-of-the-way reading, are appended. They are marked M. That in University Library, Mr Cooper informs me, ' is a trauscript written about 1750, and contains some slight 'verbal variations from the Baker MS.,' but he adds, ' these variations can be of little value, because the scribe read the olden hand so imperfectly, that he throughout calls the subject of the memoir " Gibbs." '
Of Catlin very little is known beyond the incidental notices of himself and father, in his memoir of Sibbes. The ' Diary of John Bous, incum- bent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642, edited by Mary A. E. Green, (Camden Society, 4to, 1856,)' introduces him thus : —
' Upon Shrovemoonday, February 13. [a.d. 1632], IVIi- Catlin xhirston — preaching at Bury, gave out before his sermon that it was good Mi; CutUn's the ministers of the combination wold meete to consulte of the making of the combination, that those ministers that wold doe good might be put in seasonably for it. I learned since, that a newe-come minister was put in tii'st in the combination, to beginne on Plough Moon- day, but as it seemed would not goe before the graver preachers, and, therefore, lefte the day unprovided ; but Mr Catlin by entreaty, preached at that time, ex improritio, and after wold have beene freed of this his owne time, but could not (thus he said before the sermon), and in his seimon said thus much obiter, which I heard. We are blamed for om- chm-ches, but it is certaine, that these coui'tes extracte more from us than will re- payer our churches, adome them, and keepe them so.' Pp. 68, 69, * A third is in Harl. MSS., 6037, fol. 17.
CXXXIV APPENDIX TO MEMOIE.
Mr Mayor has overlooked the marginal-note, ' Thirston,' when he asks if our Zachary Catlin were ' the Mr Catlin mentioned by John Rous.' ' Thirston,' i.e., Thurston, gives the answer in the affirmative.
Mr Cooper has favoured me with a note of various Catlins of the several colleges, Cambridge. There is a Zachaiy Catlin of Christ's, B.A. 1598, M.A. 1602. This was probably our Zachary. There is a Jonathan Cathn of Catharine-Hall, B.A. 1631, M.A. 1635, who was most likely the son mentioned as cared for by Sibbes.
The name, spelled ' Catling' and ' Catlyn,' occurs in Mr Bright's volume {ante page cxxi), as an 'overseer' in the will of one of the Nether-hall Brights, and elsewhere as a ' witness ' (see pp. 108, 128). I have been unable to trace to any library the two sermons published by him {ante page cxxiii). Considerable 'Notes' on the family and name of Catelyne or Catlin (unpublished), will be found in ' Davy's Suflblk Collections,' vol. xlvi. (pp. 312-24). . . . Pedigrees C, Caa — Cha ; Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis, 19, 122. Plut. clxxvi. E. With these slight memoranda, I beg now to submit, ' Dr Sibbs, his Life, by Zachary Catlin.'
At the Request of a Noble Friend, S[ir] W. Spring,* I haue here will- ingly contributed to the happy memory of that worthy man of God Doctour Sibs a few such Flowers, as I could collect, eyther from the certain Rela- tion of those yt knew his first Education, or from mine own observation of him, at that distance, whereat we lived. And if any thing here recorded, Mr Clark of ^^^J Seem convenient for His purpose, who is (as I am in- London.t formed) about to publish the Lives J of some Worthyes lately
deceased, I shall think my labour well bestow'd. For I am not of that Philosopher's mind, who lighting upon a Book newly put forth, entitled, The encomium of Hercules, cast it away, saying, Et quis Lacedcemoniorum eum vituperaAdt ? accounting it a needles § work to prayse him, whom noe man did, or could find fault withal. I rather iudge it a commendable thing, to perpetuate and keep Fresh the Memory of such worthy men, whose ex- amples may be of use, for Imitation, ia this declining, and degenerate Age. But I come to the matter.