quested them to sing the seventy-first Psalm; in which he joined with them, so far as his extreme weakness would permit. Among his dying ejaculations were these:-Lord, now let thy servant depart in peace.-Break off all delays.-Lord, receive my spirit. One of the company burst out into prayer, with tears; beseeching God to restore the bishop's health, and to continue him longer upon earth. The expiring saint overheard the supplications of his friend, and answered; "I have not lived so, as to be ashamed of living longer; neither am I afraid to die, because we have a merciful Lord. A crown of righteousness is laid up for me. Christ is my righteousness. Father, thy will be done. Thy will, I say; not mine, which is imperfect and depraved. This day, quickly, let me see the Lord Jesus."

Dr. Fuller's summary character of the bishop, deserves to be transcribed.

A jewel, sometimes taken for a single precious stone, is properly, a collective of many, orderly set together for their best advantage. So, several eminencies met in this worthy man: naturals ;artificials (among which I recount his studied memory, deserving, as well as Theodectes, the surname of Mnemonicus);-morals;-but, principally, spirituals.

"So devout in the pew, where he prayed; diligent in the pulpit, where he preached; grave on the bench [of judicature], where he assisted; mild in the consistory, where he judged; pleasant at the table, where he fed; patient in the bed, where he died; that well it were, if in relation to him, secundùm usum Sarum were made precedential to all posterity.

"He gave at his death, to Peter Martyr, a golden rose: more fragant for the worth of the giver, than the value of the gift. To the city of Zurich, a present; which they converted into a

piece of plate, with Jewel's arms thereon. To several scholars large legacies. To the church of Salisbury, a fair library; and another to the church of England; I mean, his learned Apology.

"It is hard to say, whether his soul, or his ejaculations, arrived first in heaven; seeing he prayed dying, and died praying.

"He was buried in the choir, by bishop Wyvil: two champions of the church lying together. One, who, with his sword, proffered to maintain the lands; the other, with his pen, defended the doctrine thereof.

"In the absence of Dr. Humphrey, designed for that service, Mr. Giles Laurence preached his funerals [i. e. funeral sermon]: who, formerly (being tutor to the children of sir Arthur Darcie, by Aldgate, in London), in queen Mary's days, preserved Jewel's life, and provided accommodations for his flight beyond the seas."

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SOME ACCOUNT OF

DR. CARLETON, BISHOP OF CHICHESTER.

GEORGE Carleton, one of the ablest and devoutest prelates on record in English history, was born, A. D. 1559, at Norham in Northumberland; of which castle, his father was at that time governor.

He received his grammatic learning, under the care of the celebrated Mr. Bernard Gilpin; whose faithful, judicious, and affectionate attention to his young pupil, was so remarkably owned of God, that the excellent tutor had the satisfaction of seeing him rise at once into a scholar and a saint. When Mr. Carleton became sufficiently qualified for the university, he was transplanted to Edmund Hall, in Oxford; where he was liberally supported by the munificence of his old master Mr. Gilpin, who loved him as his son, and who seems to have foreseen the eminence and usefulness for which God had designed him.

While at Oxford, our future bishop was a pattern to the rest of his fellow-students, in piety, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Persons who are devout in very early life, are sometimes prone to neglect, if not to despise, that literary cultivation of the understanding, which, at a more advanced age, they know the value of, too late. Mr. Carleton was blest with a measure of wisdom, to discern and avoid this mistake. Next to the care of his soul, and the maintenance of communion with God, his grand business was, to furnish his mind with as much important knowledge as he could grasp. Hence the solid and swift advances which providence enabled him to make,

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in the various walks of useful and ornamental science. In February, 1580, he took his Batchelor's degree, with a pre-eminence of applause, which did him honour as long as he lived, and laid the first visible foundation of his subsequent promotions.

He was elected Probationer Fellow of Merton College, in the course of the last mentioned year, 1580; and proceeded Doctor in Divinity, A. D. 1613. From his long and constant residence at Oxford, he appears to have been extremely fond of an academic life: nor, probably, would any thing but the royal command, have drawn him out of a sphere so suited to his regular and philosophical turn of mind.

On the 12th of July, 1618, he was consecrated to the see of Landaff: to which elevation, he was raised, and entitled, not only by his amazing genius, learning, and virtues; but, chiefly, on account of his masterly and resolute opposition to Arminianism, which had, by that time, found its way hither from the Dutch provinces, and with which several of the English clergy were then beginning to be infected. Dr. Carleton, in his sermons and university disputations, had shown himself so watchful against the encroachments of this newly imported poison, and was so accomplished a master of the whole controversy, that king James I. (who hated the Arminians with a perfect hatred, until he thought fit, some years afterwards, to make use of them for political purposes) first appointed him to the above bishopric, and then sent him, as his religious plenipotentiary, and as one of the four representatives of the church of England, to the famous synod of Dort where his lordship assisted that most venerable assembly, in their candid trial and just condemnation of the Arminian heresies.

So faithfully, as a minister of God, and so ably, as a man of talents, did our excellent bishop acquit himself at Dort, that, on his return to England,

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the states of Holland wrote king James a letter of thanks, for sending to them a person, whom they not extravagantly styled, imago atque expressa virtutis effigies;" i. e. a living image and counterpart of all virtue. His majesty, likewise, was so thoroughly satisfied with the whole of his conduct*, that he translated him to the see of Chichester, in September 1619.

What must endear his name to posterity, while sound religion breathes in England, are the invaluable works, which his pious and learned pen has bequeathed to the church of God. Among these,

-velut inter ignes

Luna minores,

shines his famous "Examination" of Mr. Richard Mountagu's" Appeal." This Mountagu, in or der to curry favour with Charles I. and with archbishop Laud, wrote a very shallow, but very insolent tract, entitled, "An Appeal to Cæsar:" in which the author was so lost to all sense of veracity and shame, as to aim at squeezing the articles and homilies of the church of England into the newfangled mould of Arminianism. Many were the refutations which the paltry and daring pamphlet received, from some of the best and greatest clergymen then living. Bishop Carleton was among the foremost to assert the scriptural and established doctrines, in opposition to the innovations of error; and to that worse than Stygian flood of varnished atheism, which has since overwhelmed so great a part of the protestant vineyard, and which still continues (though in a much narrower channel than formerly)

* "Res à synodo gestas non nostrum est attingere satis erit adnotâsse, Landavensem hunc nostrum tantâ cum eruditionis et pietatis laude controversias agitatas administrâsse, ut, in patriam reversus, Jacobo regi carior factus, ad episcopatum Cicestrensem, vicesimo Septembris, 1619, promoveretur." Godwin. de Præsulib. Angl.-Edit. Richardson, fol. p. 515.