Ingenium solers, et acumen amabile, fastus Nunc annis meritisque gravis, maturus Olympo (Væ mihi, quòd lacrymis non revocandus) obit. * The following inscription to his memory has been recently drawn up by the Rev. James Tate, Master of Richmond School; a name too brightly distinguished by the success of his pupils, as Academics or Teachers, to need commendation of mine. M. S. Thomæ. Zouch. S. T. P. Collegii. S. Trinitatis. apud. Cantabrigienses. olim. Socii hospitalitate.liberali.eruditis.concionibus. morum. sanctitate per.decennium.ornaverat Sandalia.in.com. Ebor.natali.in. domo. vitam.posuit. mortalem XVII.die.Decembr. Anno. Christi. M.DCCC.XV. ætatis.suæ. LXXIX. Inerat.in.hoc.viro.literarum. humaniorum.dum.vivebat ingenuus.amor.cultura. diligens. accurata.cognitio Idem.linguæ. Hebraica.æque.ac. Græcæ.cum.primis.peritus ad.sacros.codices. volvendos.accedebat. quotidie.rediturus tam.modestia.quam. pietate.Christiana.indies. instructior Neque.cum. Anglica.ecclesiæ.esset. fidelissimus. custos ullum.titulum.expetivit. ampliorem. Having traced the subject of my Memoir through his unostentatious and industrious career, and exhibited him to the reader not less modest† than learned as a Scholar, * Paterson, Epigr. II. 33. + Non Hebreæ, non Chaldææ Arabicæque linguæ, ultra Latinam et Græcam, tumidum reddiderant, is said of John Pico Mirandula by his nephew, who also adds: as a Churchman equally zealous and liberal, in his general deportment actively benevolent, constant and affectionate in his friendships, and in his devotions humble, ardent, and sincere-I have little more to add, than my 'Hail and Farewell.' I have purposely avoided noticing his various professional publications under the years in which they respectively appeared, in order to present the dates of them collectively in this place. 1. 'A Sermon preached at the Primary Visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God William, Lord Bishop of Chester, held at Richmond in 1789.' (4to, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1789.) 2. An Inquiry into the Prophetic Character of the Romans, as described in Daniel viii. 23-25.' (8vo, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1792.) 3. An Address delivered to the Clergy of the Deaneries of Richmond, Catterick, and Boroughbridge in 1792. (4to, Newcastle upon Tyne, n. d.) 4. An Address delivered to the Clergy of the Deaneries of Richmond, Catterick, and Boroughbridge in 1793.' (4to, York, 1793.) 6 5. An Attempt to illustrate some of the Prophecies of the Old and New Testament.' (12mo, Wakefield, 1800.) 6. A Letter to the Lord Bishop of Rochester (Dr. Horsley) on his opinion concerning Antichrist.' (8vo, York, 1801.) adds; dum Ecclesiæ dignitates, à plerisque nostri temporis (proh dolor!) licitatas actionatasque, non paucos videret expetere, flagitare, suspirare, enixissimè mercariipse repudiavit. (See Bates' Select Biographies.) What a picture of the Court and Church of that age and country! 7. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Durham, at the Summer-Assizes, 1806. (4to, York, 1806.) Beside these, he also published (as already mentioned) his Seaton-Prize Poem on the Crucifixion,' in 1765; his Good Schoolmaster,' in 1798; and his Memoir of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney in 1808, all in quarto in the same year printed, at Wakefield, his Memoir of the Life of John Sudbury, D. D. Dean of Durham,' in folio, and assisted in drawing up the Life and Character of John Lord Viscount Lonsdale,' in quarto, both for private distribution. His editions of Isaac Walton's Love and Truth,' and of the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and Sanderson,' have been already mentioned. He, farther, left in a state of considerable advancement works, biographical and theological, to nearly an equal extent: and his Annotations upon the Scriptures would, alone, afford competent pledges of his learning and orthodoxy. From the scattered Anecdotes of Dr. Hickes (the deprived Dean of Worcester) which abound among his MSS., I am disposed to conclude that he had meditated a life of that learned and honest, but mistaken and uncandid divine. And the ensuing pages, πίδακος εξ ἱερης ολιγη λίβας, will attest his industry in the minor literature of the day. Οἱ σπεδαιοι και λογιμοι των ανδρων, πολλων μεν αποπειραν λαμβανειν ειωθασιν, εξ αυτων δε τα χρησιμα και καλλίω συλλεγειν. (Dialog. Steph. Nigri præf. Suid. ed. Mediol. 1499.) 6 I throw together, miscellaneously, a few selections. from Dr. Zouch's Adversaria' (with some occasional notes of my own) from which may be inferred the habitual liberality and piety of the compiler. If I had deemed it proper to enlarge the number of extracts, I could have offered several upon Insects, Botany, Meteorology, &c. which might have appeared not unworthy of the Naturalist's attention: and the lover of pure and tolerant Theology would have found acceptable notices of several learned and good men. Of Archbishop Usher, in particular, he observes (quoting from Parr's Life of that Prelate) that, from his love of real piety, he thought no other accomplishments worth speaking of; and that he heartily loved and respected all humble and devout Christians, remarking that they were God's friends highly to be valued.'" I am going out of the world (said he, a little before his death) and I now desire to seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God, and to be with him in heaven; of which we ought not to doubt, if we can evidence to ourselves conversion, true faith, and charity, and live in the exercise of these Christian graces and virtues with perseverance; mortifying daily our inbred corruptions, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts: and he, that is arrived at this habitual frame and holy course of life, is the blessed and happy man, and may rejoice in hope of a glorious eternity in the kingdom of heaven, to receive that inheritance given by God to all them which are sanctified." 66 Lay aside the gall of that bitterness wherein your minds have hitherto over-abounded, and with meekness search the truth. Think ye are men; deem it not impossible for you to err; sift impartially your own hearts, whether it be force of reason, or vehemency of affection, which hath bred and still doth feed these opinions in you. If truth do any where manifest itself, seek not to smother it with glozing delusion: acknowledge the greatness thereof, and think it your best victory, when the same doth prevail over you.”—(Hooker's Eccl. Pol. Pref.) 'Dr. Burnet, when resident at Amsterdam, became acquainted with the leading men of the different persuasions tolerated in that city, as the Armenians, the Lutherans, the Unitarians, the Brownists, the Anabaptists, and the Papists; amongst each of whom, he used frequently to declare, he had "met with such real piety,* that there * This able and active Prelate, however, appears to have estimated his Brother-Clergy, unless they differed widely indeed from those of the present day, with far less liberality. In the Conclusion attached to the History of his Own Times,' passages occur, which had they been printed in his life-time, must have been keenly felt, and would probably have been bitterly resented. But with a prudential feeling hardly reconcileable to his general conduct, he left it to be published after his death, when he could not foresee that his censures would continue to be applicable. It may be confidently affirmed, they are no longer so. This is not an age, it is true, of folio divinity. We do not write like the Andreweses or the Barrows, the Beveridges or the Jeremy Taylors, of our fathers' days. But surely our lives in general, as men and as pastors, cannot be said to justify the historian's animadversions. And yet those animadversions have been applied to the existing Clergy, by one uncandid "bigot to laxness" with increased severity. I allude to a Letter, still extant, addressed by Dr. Priestley to Dr. Zouch; in which he refers to Burnet's harshest paragraphs-wholly disregarding at the same time the Bishop's authority, where he professes his belief of all the Articles of the English Church,' and his conviction that her Worship is the perfectest form of devotion that we find in any Church ancient or modern; his repeated protests against Separation, which he could never think to be lawful, unless her terms of communion were unlawful, and obliged a man to sin' his animated declarations, that he had pursued her true interests with unfeigned affection,' and earnestly prayed she might continue to be long the joy of the whole earth;' and even his qualification of what he has said relative 6 to |