surest landmark whence foreigners may take aim of the ancient English customs; the gentry more floating after foreign fashions. In his house he is bountiful both to strangers and poor people. Some hold, when hospitality died in England, she gave her last groan amongst the yeomen of Kent. And still at our yeoman's table you shall have as many joints as dishes; no meat disguised with strange sauces; no straggling joint of a sheep in the midst of a pasture of grass, beset with salads on every side, but solid, substantial food. No servitors (more nimble with their hands than the guests with their teeth) take away meat before stomachs are taken away. Here you have that which in itself is good, made better by the store of it, and best by the welcome to it. He improveth his land to a double value by his good husbandry. Some grounds that wept with water, or frowned with thorns, by draining the one and clearing the other, he makes both to laugh and sing with corn. By marl and limestones burned he bettereth his ground, and his industry worketh miracles, by turning stones into bread.

Recreations.

Recreations is a second creation, when weariness hath almost annihilated one's spirits. It is the breathing of the soul, which otherwise would be stifled with continual business. We may trespass in them, if using such as are forbidden by the lawyer, as against the statutes; physician, as against health; divine, as against conscience.

1. Be well satisfied in thy conscience of the lawfulness of the recreation thou usest. Some fight against cockfighting, and baitbull and bearbaiting, because man is not to be a common barretour [raiser of strife] to set the creatures at discord; and seeing antipathy betwixt creatures was kindled by man's sin, what pleasure can he take to see it burn? Others are of the contrary opinion, and that Christianity gives us a placard to use these sports; and that man's charter of dominion over the creatures enables him to employ them as well for pleasure as necessity. In these as in all other doubtful recreations, be well assured first of the legality of them. He that sins against his conscience sins with a witness.

2. Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day) in recreations. For sleep itself is a recreation; add not therefore sauce to sauce; and he cannot properly have any title to be refreshed who was not first faint. Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work. Chiefly entrench not on the Lord's day to use unlawful sports; this were to spare thine own flock, and to shear God's lamb.

3. Let thy recreations be ingenious [ingenuous], and bear proportion with thine age. If thou sayest with Paul, When I was a child, I did as a child; say also with him, but when I was a man, I put away childish things. Wear also the child's coat, if thou usest his sports.

4. Take heed of boisterous and over-violent exercises. Ringing ofttimes hath made good music on the bells, and put men's bodies out of tune, so that by overheating themselves they have rung their own passing-bell.

5. Yet the ruder sort of people scarce count any thing a sport which is not loud and violent. The Muscovite women esteem none loving husbands except they beat their wives. It is no pastime with country clowns that cracks not pates, breaks not shins, bruises not limbs,

tumbles and tosses not all the body. They think themselves not warm in their geerst [gearings] till they are all on fire, and count it but dry sport till they swim in their own sweat. Yet I conceive the physician's rule in exercises, Ad ruborem, but non ad sudorem, is too scant

measure.

6. Refresh that part of thyself which is most wearied. If thy life be sedentary, exercise thy body; if stirring and active, recreate thy mind. But take heed of cozening thy mind, in setting it to do a double task under pretence of giving it a playday, as in the labyrinth of chess, and other tedious and studious games.

Books.

It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning by getting a great library. As soon shall I believe every one is valiant that hath a well-furnished armoury. I guess good housekeeping by the smoking, not the number of the tunnels [chimney-cans], as knowing that many of them, built merely for uniformity, are without chimneys, and more without fires. . . .

Some books are only cursorily to be tasted of: namely, first, voluminous books, the task of a man's life to read them over; secondly, auxiliary books, only to be repaired to on occasions; thirdly, such as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them you look through them, and he that peeps through the casement of the index sees as much as if he were in the house. But the laziness of those cannot be excused who perfunctorily pass over authors of consequence, and only trade in their tables and contents. These, like city cheaters, having gotten the names of all country gentlemen, make silly people believe they have long lived in those places where they never were, and flourish with skill in those authors they never seriously studied.

Education confined too much to Language.

Our common education is not intended to render us good and wise, but learned: it hath not taught us to follow and embrace virtue and prudence, but hath imprinted in us their derivation and etymology; it hath chosen out for us not such books as contain the soundest and truest opinions, but those that speak the best Greek and Latin; and, by these rules, has instilled into our fancy the vainest humours of antiquity. But a good education alters the judgment and manners. 'Tis a silly conceit that men without languages are also without understanding. It's apparent in all ages, that some such have been even prodigies for ability; for it's not to be believed that Wisdom speaks to her disciples only in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.

Marriage.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married state. Look not therein for contentment greater than God will give, or a creature in this world can receive, namely, to be free from all inconveniences. Marriage is not like the hill Olympus, ὅλος λαμπρός, 'wholly clear,' without clouds; yea, expect both wind and storms sometimes, which when blown over, the air is the clearer and wholesomer for it. Make account of certain cares and troubles which will attend thee. Remember the nightingales, which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Decline of Great Families.

It happened in the reign of King James, when Henry Earl of Huntingdon was lieutenant of Leicestershire, that a labourer's son in that country was pressed into the wars as I take it, to go over with Count Mansfield. The old man at Leicester requested his son might be discharged, as being the only staff of his age, who by his industry maintained him and his mother. The earl demanded his name, which the man for a long time was loath to tell, as suspecting it a fault for so poor a man to tell the truth. At last he told his name was Hastings. 'Cousin Hastings,' said the earl, we cannot all be top branches of the tree, though we all spring from the same root; your son, my kinsman, shall not be pressed.' So good was the meeting of modesty in a poor, with courtesy in an honourable person, and gentry I believe in both. And I have reason to believe, that some who justly own the surnames and blood of Bohuns, Mortimers, and Plantagenets, though ignorant of their own extraction, are hid in the heap of common people, where they find that under a thatched cottage which some of their ancestors could not enjoy in a leaded [leadcovered] castle, contentment, with quiet and security.

Henry de Essex. He was too well known in our English chronicles, being baron of Raleigh in Essex and standard bearer of England. It happened in the reign of this king [Henry II.] there was a fierce battle fought in Flintshire, at Coleshall, between the English and Welsh, wherein this Henry de Essex animum et signum simul abjecit (betwixt traitor and coward, cast away both his courage and banner together), occasioning a great overthrow of English. But he that had the baseness to do had the boldness to deny the doing of so foul a fact; until he was challenged in combat by Robert de Momford, a knight, eye-witness thereof, and by him overcome in a duel. Whereupon his large inheritance was confiscated to the king, and he himself, partly thrust, partly going, into a convent, hid his head in a cowl; under which, betwixt shame and sanctity, he blushed out the remainder of his life.

Richard Hackluit was born of an ancient extract in this county, whose family hath flourished at in good esteem. He was bred a student in Christ Church in Oxford, and after was prebendary of Westminster. His genius inclined him to the study of history, and especially to the marine part thereof, which made him keep constant intelligence with the most noted seamen of Wapping, until the day of his death.

He set forth a large collection of the English sea voyages, ancient, middle, modern; taken partly out of private letters which never were, or without his had not been, printed; partly out of small treatises, printed and since irrecoverably lost, had not his providence preserved them. For some pamphlets are produced which for their cheapness and smallness men for the present neglect to buy, presuming they may procure them at their pleasure; which small books, their first and last edition being past (like some spirits that appear but once), cannot afterwards with any price or pains be recovered. In a word, many

of such useful tracts of sea adventures, which before were scattered as several ships, Mr Hackluit hath embodied into a fleet, divided into three squadrons, so many several volumes: a work of great honour to England; it being possible that many ports and islands in America, which, being base and barren, bear only a bare name for

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the present, may prove rich places for the future. then these voyages will be produced, and pleaded, as good evidence of their belonging to England, as first discovered and denominated by Englishmen. Mr Hackluit died in the beginning of king James's reign, leaving a fair estate to an unthrift son, who embezzled it on this token, that he vaunted, that he cheated the covetous usurer, who had given him spick and span new money, for the old land of his great great grandfather.'

Sir Henry Sidney. . . . I will close his life with this encomium which I find in a worthy author [Naunton] : 'His disposition was rather to seek after the antiquities and the weal-publick of those countries which he governed, than to obtain lands and revenues within the same; for I know not one foot of land that he had either in Wales or Ireland.'

Sir Philip Sidney. Reader, I am resolved not to part him from his father; such the sympathy betwixt them, living and dying both within the compass of the same year. Otherwise this knight, in relation to my book, may be termed an ubiquitary, and appear amongst statesmen, soldiers, lawyers, writers, yea princes themselves, being (though not elected) in election to be king of Poland, which place he declined, preferring rather to be a subject to queen Elizabeth than a sovereign beyond the seas. He was born at Penshurst in this county [Kent], son to Sir Henry Sidney . . . . and sister's son to Robert earl of Leicester; bred in Christ - church in Oxford. Such his appetite to learning, that he could never be fed fast enough therewith; and so quick and strong his digestion, that he soon turned it into wholesome nourishment, and thrived healthfully thereon. His home-bred abilities travel perfected with foreign accomplishments, and a sweet nature set a gloss upon both. He was so essential to the English court, that it seemed maimed without his company, being a complete master of matter and language, as his 'Arcadia' doth evidence. I confess I have heard some of modern pretended wits cavil thereat, merely because they made it not themselves: such who say, that his book is the occasion that many precious hours are otherwise spent no better, must acknowledge it also the cause that many idle hours are otherwise spent no worse, than in reading thereof.

At last, leaving the court, he followed the camp, being made governor of Flushing, under his uncle earl of Leices ter. But the walls of that city (though high and strong) could not confine the activity of his mind, which must into the field, and before Zutphen was unfortunately slain with a shot, in a small skirmish, which we may sadly term a great battle, considering our heavy loss therein. His corpse, being brought over into England, was buried in the choir of St Paul's with general lamentation.

Nicholas Wood was born at Halingborne [Hollingbourn] in this county [Kent], being a landed man, and a true labourer. He was afflicted with a disease called Boulimia, or Caninus Apetitus; insomuch that he would devour at one meal what was provided for twenty men, eat a whole hog at a sitting, and at another time thirty dozen of pigeons, whilst others make mirth at his malady. Let us raise our gratitude to the goodness of God, specially when he giveth us appetite enough for our meat, and yet meat too much for our appetite; whereas this painful man spent all his estate to provide provant [provender] for his belly, and died very poor about the year 1630.

Edmond Doubleday, Esquire, was of a tall and proper person, and lived in this city [Westminster]. Nor had this large case a little jewel, this long body a lazy soul, whose activity and valour was adequate to his strength and greatness, whereof he gave this eminent testimony. When Sir Thomas Knevet was sent, November 4, 1605, by king James, to search the cellar beneath the Parliament-house, with very few, for the more privacy, to attend him, he took Master Doubleday with him. Here they found Guy Faux, with his dark-lanthorn, in the dead of the night, providing for the death of many the next morning. He was newly come out of the Devil's Closet (so I may fitly term the inward room where the powder lay and the train was to be laid) into the outward part of the cellar. Faux beginning to bustle, Master Doubleday instantly ordered him at his pleasure up with his heels, and there with the traitor lay the treason flat along the floor, by God's goodness detected, defeated. Faux

vowed (and though he was a false traitor, herein I do believe him) that had he been in the inner room, he would have blown up himself and all the company therein. Thus it is pleasant music to hear disarmed malice threaten, when it cannot strike. Master Doubleday lived many years after, deservedly loved and respected; and died about the year of our Lord 1618.

Among Fuller's pithy shorter sayings are these: It is dangerous to gather flowers that grow on the banks of the pit of hell, for fear of falling in; yea, they which play with the devil's rattles will be brought by degrees to wield his sword; and from making of sport, they come to doing of mischief.

Heat gotten by degrees, with motion and exercise, is more natural, and stays longer by one, than what is gotten all at once by coming to the fire. Goods acquired by industry prove commonly more lasting than lands by descent.

The true church antiquary doth not so adore the ancients as to despise the moderns. Grant them but dwarfs, yet stand they on giants' shoulders, and may see the farther.

Light, Heaven's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building, yet it shines not alike from all parts of heaven. An east window welcomes the beams of the sun before they are of a strength to do any harm, and is offensive to none but a sluggard. In a west window, in summer time towards night, the sun grows low and overfamiliar, with more light than delight.

A public office is a guest which receives the best usage from them who never invited it.

Scoff not at the natural defects of any, which are not in their power to amend. Oh! 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul: he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Generally, nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool, and there is enough in his countenance for a hue and cry to take him on suspicion; or else it is stamped in the figure of his body: their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.

They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it is a saint; that boasteth of it is a devil.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Is there no way to bring home a wandering sheep but by worrying him to death?

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

Let us be careful to provide rest for our souls, and our bodies will provide rest for themselves. And let us not be herein like unto gentlewomen, who care not to keep the inside of the orange, but candy and preserve only the outside.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.

See the Lives of Fuller by Russell (1844), John Eglington Bailey (1874), and Morris Fuller (1886); his Collected Sermons, edited by Bailey; and Selections by H. Rogers (1856) and Dr Jessopp (1892).

Sir Thomas Herbert (1606-82), of ancient Yorkshire family allied to the Pembroke house, is said to have studied both at Oxford and at Cambridge, in 1626 set out on a journey to the East, in the following of the English ambassador to Persia, and after his return published, in 1634, his Description of the Persian Monarchy now beinge: the Orientall Indyes, Iles, and other Parts of the Greater Asia and Africk. The ambassador's party travelled by the Cape, Madagascar, and Surat to Gombroon; visited Kasbin, Kashan, and various towns in Persia; and returned by Bagdad, India, Ceylon, Mauritius, and St Helena. He was an entertaining and lively writer, and his lengthy digressions contain disquisitions as irrelevant to the main subject as the discovery of America long before Columbus by Madoc Prince of Wales. In the Civil War of England he sided with the Parliament, and at Holmby House in 1674, when the king was required to dismiss his own servants, was chosen by His Majesty one of the grooms of the bedchamber. Herbert then became much attached to the king, served him with much zeal and assiduity, was in the last months his only attendant, and was on the scaffold when the ill-fated monarch was brought to the block. After the Restoration he was rewarded by Charles II. with a baronetcy, and subsequently devoted much time to literary pursuits. In 1678 he wrote Threnodia Carolina, containing an Historical Account of the Two Last Years of the Life of King Charles I.

St Helena in 1629.

But as it was, after threescore and ten dayes further sail we attained sight of Saint Helena where the ocean bellows on every side so fretfully as the place might fear an inundation, had not the extraordinary height, but chiefly that supreme Providence which hath set the sea its bounds, safe-guarded it. It has no neighbouring isles great or small, but seems equidistant from those two noted ports called Rio Grandi and Cape Negro, in Brazelia the one, the other in Congo; both in one elevation, and parallel with Saint Helena: from that in America distant 400 leagues; from the other in Afric not much less, if any, from that number.

It had its name given by John de Nova, in, or about, the year after the incarnation of our Saviour 1502. So

called for that in his return from India to Lisbon it was discovered the 3. of May; a day consecrated to the memory of Helena the Empress who first found the Cross, the most religious of Ladies in her time, mother to the first Christian Emprour, Constantine; both of them glorious in their age, Brittans both; both bright gems of this our nation.

This isle is removed south from the æquator sixteen degrees from the utmost promontory of South Afric hath two and twenty degrees of longitude, and where the needle varies five degrees and thirteen minutes, but from the lands end of England distant 4500 English miles; from the Cape of Good Hope 1740; Madagascar 3000; Surat 6600; and from Bantam 6900 or thereabouts. In that Bay, which takes name from the chappel, the isle has this resemblance.

But to what part of the inhabited world it appertains may be queried, seeing the vast Ethiopic Ocean so largely circles it. To Afer I may imagine (because it is nearest that continent) rather than Vesputius. It is but small, not exceeding thirty English miles circumference, yet excessive high; for it vails its head often in the clouds, where opening a wide mouth it gulps down sufficient moisture to cool its ardor, which by reason of the clime 'tis in, cannot but be sometimes intemperate; and but for that affinity it has with the middle region which invelops it as with a chil-cold tulipant [turban], and long nights it has, that extreme heat which the sun darts constantly twice every year perpendicular upon this isle, would doubtless make the entrails enflame (had it sulphur) like another Vesuvius. Nevertheless the land is not more eminent in its height than the ambient sea profound in the depth; so deep that it admits ill anchoring save at the N.W. from the chappel, where is 20 fathoms; so as that there are mountains in the sea as in the earth is not to be doubted; seeing that upon the casting of the lead, log, or plummet, upon the one side of the ship is sometimes found 30 fathom, and upon the other side 60. Nevertheless it is so very deep here that the sounding line or plummet will scarce find ground; which is the cause that marriners do sometimes carry their anchors ashore that they may moor or ride the more securely. By reason of the depth I could hardly discern either flux or reflux near the shore; seeming as if we were in the mid ocean where neither ebb nor flood is to be discerned. Howbeit, the salt water plashes and froaths to see it self so suddenly resisted: but the moist breath usually vaporing in or upon the seas makes it sometimes turbulent.

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This isle is hard to be ascended; not that the passage is craggy, but that it is so precipitous. The sailers have an ironick proverb, The way is such as a man may chuse whether he will break his heart going up, or his neck coming down but being once up, scarce any place can yield a more large or more delightful prospect. The land is very even and plain at the top, and swells no where to a deformed rising: some springs above be sweet which below are brackish: the reason may be for that in their drilling descent they may relish of the salt hills through which it cuts an usual passage, so as they become salt both by their own composition and the salt breath which the sea evaporates. Nevertheless, there are but two noted rivolets; one which bubbles down towards the chappel, the other into the Lemmon Valley, so called from a lemmon tree and chappel built at the bottom of the isle by the Spaniard Anno 1571. and by the Dutch of late pull'd down; a place once intended for God's worship, but now disposed of to common uses. There

are also some ruines of a little town lately demolisht by the Spaniard, in that it became a magazine of private trade in turning and returning out of both the Indies; no other monuments nor antiquities are there found. You see all if you look upon the ribs of a weather-beaten carrique [carack, large ship] and some broken pieces of great ordnance which albeit left there against the owners liking serve some instead of anchors. Human inhabitants there are none; nor were of late, save that in the year 1591. Captain Kendall weighing anchor sooner than was expected, one Segar a marriner was accidentally left ashore 18 months after, Captain Parker coming to an anchor found poor Segar alive, but so amazed, or rather overjoyed at his arrival, that he dyed suddenly; by which we see that sudden joy is not easily digested. Howbeit of hogs and goats here are plenty, who agree wellfavouredly and multiply even to admiration; happy in their ease and safety till ships arrive there for refreshment. The goats leap wildly from rock to rock, and to avoid the reach of our small guns keep their centinels. . . .

Here also with a little labour we got store of phesants, powts, quails, hens, partridge; and which was no less acceptable, divers sorts of grass and roots, as wood-sorrel, three-leav'd grass, scurvy-grass and like acid herbs soveraign against the scurvy; the usual disease from the sea, and most predominating amongst islanders: we had also basil, parsly, mint, spinage, fennel, annis, radish, mustard-seed, tabaco, and some others, which by a willing hand, directed by an ingenious eye, may soon be gathered; brought hither, and here sown, by Fernandus Lupius, a Portugal, in the year of our Lord 1509. for the good of his country-men; who nevertheless at this day dare hardly land to over-see their seminary, or own their labours; the English and Dutch in the churlish language of a cannon sometime disputing the propriety. Anno 1588. Candish [Thomas Cavendish], our countryman, landed here in his circum-navigating the globe; and found store of lemons, orenges, pomgranads, pomcitrons, figs and dates, but how the alteration comes who knows: for none of those grow there now that I could either see or hear of, one lemontree excepted. To conclude: In the old chappel here we buried our captain, Andrew Evans, whose deaths wound (as formerly told) was unhappily given him by a Mannatee at the Mauritius. He was an expert seaman, and no less vigilant than expert: so as doubtless the company had a great loss of him.

So as by the judgment of that indifferent and learned writer it appears the English have the first place for sea knowledge and navigation attributed them. And amongst the best sea commanders this late captain of ours very well deserved with the rest to be ranked. But to return. That this is a very delightful isle cannot be denied, and its admirable prospect and other pleasures were sufficient to induce our longer stay; but stay we might not: So as after a weeks refreshment we discharged our reckoning in a hearty farewel, and by the invitation of a prosperous gale upon a N.W. course swiftly cut our passage through the yielding ocean; insomuch as on the sixteenth of October we were once more nadyr to the sun, which at that time was in its Antarctic progress.

Helena, saint and mother of Constantine, was of obscure origit, and was said to have been born in Britain, though other accounts say at Treves in Germany or in Bithynia. Constantine was not born in Britain, though he was in Britain when his father died at York. Afer is given eponymously for Africa. Vesput us is the Latinised second name of Amerigo Vespucci, after whom America was named.

Benjamin Whichcote (1609-83), a liberal divine of the Cambridge Platonist group, was born at Whichcote Hall of good Shropshire family, was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, became tutor there, and in 1644 provost of King's. According to Tulloch, he, more than any other teacher at Cambridge, ‘impressed his own mode of thought both upon his colleagues in the university and the rising generation of students.' At the Restoration Whichcote was removed from the provostship, but he retained a college rectory; and in 1668 he was presented by Bishop Wilkins to the vicarage of St Lawrence Jewry, London, which he held till his death. The works of Whichcote comprise a number of Discourses, republished in four volumes in 1751, and a series of (1200) Moral and Religious Aphorisms, collected from his MSS. The leading principle of all his thought was the use of reason in religion; like John Hales, of Eton, he wished religion and learning alike to be cleared of froth and grounds.' He it was who mainly gave impulse to the movement represented by the Cambridge Platonists' and the Latitudinarians, amongst whom, besides himself, his pupil John Smith, Cudworth, and Henry More were conspicuous. And he had the unusual honour of having a selection of his sermons edited, with a preface, by the third Earl of Shaftesbury, author of the Characteristics, and called a Deist. These are amongst his aphorisms : It is a wise man's motto: 'I live to be wiser every day; I am not too wise to be taught of any.'

Examine all principles of education; for since we are all fallible, we should suppose we may be mistaken. Quotidie depono aliquem errorem [Daily I renounce some error or another']. Γηράσκω αἰεὶ πολλὰ διδασκόμενος ['I grow old constantly learning many a thing').

To speak of natural light, of the use of reason in religion, is to do no disservice at all to grace; for God is acknowledged in both-in the former as laying the groundwork of His creation, in the latter as reviving and restoring it.

If a man be once out of the use of reason, there are no bounds to unreasonableness.

Both heaven and hell have their foundation within us. Heaven primarily lies in a refined temper, in an internal reconciliation to the nature of God, and to the rule of righteousness. The guilt of conscience and enmity to righteousness is the inward state of hell. The guilt of conscience is the fewel of hell.

It had been better for the Christian church if that which calls itself Catholic had been less employed in creating pretended faith and more employed in maintaining universal charity.

Carefully avoid the odium of comparisons: either of persons, that you do not offend; or of things that you be not deceived. He that hath the advantage in a comparison thinks he hath but his right; he that has the disadvantage thinks he hath not his right.

Religion, which is a bond of union, ought not to be a ground of division; but it is in an unnatural use when it doth disunite. Men cannot differ by true religion, because it is true religion to agree. The spirit of religion is a reconciling spirit.

It is better for us that there shou'd be difference of

judgement, if we keep charity; but it is most unmanly to quarrel because we differ.

They do not advance religion who draw it down to bodily acts or who carry it up highest into what is mystical, symbolical, emblematical, etc. Christian religion is not mystical, symbolical, ænigmatical, emblematical ; but uncloathed, unbodied, intellectual, rational, spiritual.

Religion is not a system of doctrines, an observance of modes, a heat of affections, a form of words, a spirit of censoriousness.

Religion is not a hear-say, a presumption, a supposition; is not a customary pretension and profession; is not an affectation of any mode; is not a piety of particular fancy, consisting in some pathetic devotions, vehement expressions, bodily severities, affected anomalies and aversions from the innocent usages of others: but consisteth in a profound humility and an universal charity.

Enthusiastic principles-good things strained out of their wits. Among Christians, those that pretend to be inspired seem to be mad; among the Turks, those that are mad seem to be inspired.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesom.

Rule by right is the weak man's strength, and the strong man's curb; it makes mine my own, and arraigns the intruder's violence.

It is not good to live in jest, since we must die in

earnest.

Jeremy Taylor,

one of the greatest preachers of the English Church, was born in the town of Cambridge, and baptised on 15th August 1613. He came of good Gloucestershire stock, and was related to Dr Rowland Taylor, who suffered martyrdom at Hadleigh in the reign of Queen Mary. But the Taylors had fallen into the portion of weeds and outworn faces,' to use an expression of their most illustrious member, and Jeremy's father followed the humble occupation of a barber or barbersurgeon. He had his son entered as a sizar at Caius College in his thirteenth year, having himself previously taught him the rudiments of grammar and mathematics. In 1630 Jeremy Taylor took his degree of Bachelor of Arts, was chosen a fellow, and in 1634 was ordained and proceeded M.A. He then removed to London, to deliver some lectures for a college friend in St Paul's Cathedral. His eloquent discourses, aided by what a contemporary calls 'his florid and youthful beauty, and pleasant air,' entranced all hearers, and procured him the patronage of Archbishop Laud. By Laud's assistance Taylor obtained a fellowship in All Souls College, Oxford, which he enjoyed for two years, till by favour of Juxon he became rector of Uppingham in Rutlandshire. He was also chaplain-in-ordinary to the king. About this time he was suspected of a Romeward tendency, and of too great familiarity with a learned Franciscan friar. In 1639 he married Phoebe Langsdale, who bore four sons and two daughters, and died in 1651. The sons of Taylor all died before their father, clouding with melancholy and