for, say they, to be accountable to man is bondage; and for man to judge is vain, since those actions he may censure may be done in the motion of the Holy Seed and Spirit of Christ; under which pretence they would cover many lewd and vile practices, by reason whereof we had sometimes been upbraided and reproached in Connecticut colony, where some of them in times past had appeared, in their extravagant ravings, under the name of Quakers."

225. Roger Gill, his companion, prayed at the yearly meeting at Philadelphia, “with great zeal and earnestness, that the Lord would be pleased to accept of his life as a sacrifice for his people, that a stop might be put to the contagion.' I thought he would be taken at his word, though no such sacrifices in such cases are required; only therein appeared his great love and concern for friends whom he had come so far to see." A.D. 1699. He took the disease and died.

229. “Held the meeting at Tuccaho, which was pretty large and well, the whip of small cords being well employed to scourge the buyers and sellers out of the Temple; and there was likewise clean water, to wash the tables, and cleanse the steps."

245. Penn prevails upon him to remain in Pennsylvania.

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254. At Fairfield (New York ?). "And so, having set holy fire and sword from the Lord in the bowels of the town, we left it in flames, but not to destruction, every man against his neighbour and brother; which, may it never cease, till the Prince of Peace is known to reconcile them unto himself and the Father, and to govern in them."

256. A. D. 1702. Fever at New York. 258-9. G. Keith. They were evidently afraid to hold a disputation with him.

Story says, "returning by way of Virginia for England, he became a parish priest, and died very poor and miserable."

264. A. D. 1704. New England. A law for love of the Quakers-" that such of the inhabitants of that colony as, being qualified, or able to bear arms, and regularly sum

moned, should refuse, they should be fined and refusing to pay the fine, should be imprisoned, and sold, or bound to some of the Queen's subjects within that colony, for so long a time as by their work they might pay their fines and charges."

268. A Judge in New England said to him, "It might be well if they (the Quakers) were all settled in a place by themselves, where they could not be troublesome to others by their contradictious ways." Story replied, "that if they should send us out of all countries where we at present reside, into one by ourselves, if such a one could be found, that would not ease them, for more would spring up unavoidably in our places. For what would the world do, if it should lose its salt and leaven? It would be in great danger of total corruption."

This same Judge, when in the court he ordered "that their hats should be taken off in a civil manner by an officer, said, 'that if he thought there was any religion in a hat, he would have the largest he could purchase for money.'

268-70. 310-1. Proceedings upon the law for compulsory service.

273. "We had a small, hard, drowsy meeting."

274. A minister whose name was Rollon-God Cotton. See 347.

308. A Presbyterian or Independent told them that " many millions of infants, not a span long, were hanging in hell, because they had sinned in Adam!"

335. His doctrine is, that "God who is omnipresent, is in all mankind, and Christ, the Light of the Father, as inseparable from him in that respect, is in all men."

337. A fast and prayer appointed in one congregation against three great evils, "the cold and backward spring season, which threatened famine; the Indians, who were very troublesome; and for the Quakers, whose spirit of proselytism was the worse plague of the three."

I was informed of it, though I could not but remember his fast and prayers."

347. “That is such an odd name, said I, as I never heard of before, giving occasion to profane the name of God, and take it in vain as often as thou art named."

466. A meeting at Kendal, “which was very large, but not so thoroughly seasoned as might have been, by reason of the forwardness of some; which is too often the case of such meetings, where those of least weight and service are often in the way, obstructing the service of such as have the real concern, and are better qualified for the work; a distemper the Church labours too much under in many places at this day, and hath been of great hurt. But in the main we had a good meeting, the Lord being near the faithful; and I, having a little time therein one day, was pretty easy."

474. Oxford. "Went to most of the colleges, and viewed the buildings and gardens, which in their kinds are pleasant and commodious; but that very great load and power of darkness which I felt (not the like in all South Britain) was so much an overbalance to any satisfaction I had therein, that I think I shall never see them any more."

This was in 1715; and while he was there, the mob, with gownsmen enough among them, gutted the Presbyterian and Quaker meeting-houses.

476. "This wicked place!" he calls it. "This is one of the blind eyes of this poor nation! This is one of the filthy fountains of their religion and learning, from whence the whole land is poisoned and undone. What learning can they have who are destitute of all principles of civil behaviour."

489. Amsterdam. A. D. 1715. He "expects little but exercise in all these parts, seeing at how low an ebb things are every where. Some of the ancients who were as pillars, are gone into whims, and the young ones to the world and the ways of it without reproof; nay, by encouragement from their parents, whilst they themselves continue to profess the holy truth."

675. Oxford. "Soon after I arrived, my mind became loaden with that power of gross darkness, that may be felt constantly attending and prevailing in that seat of wisdom and subtlety, but not of God.”

—“ Of all places wherever I have been, these scholars of Oxford were the rudest, most giddy, and unruly rabble, and most mischievous."

742. Manchester. "I was at the meetings both forenoon and after; but some unskilful travellers being there at the same time, and but novices in the work, they took up all the time in both meetings, (for some can preach, such as it is, when they will, and what they will,) so that I was exceedingly loaden, and sensible friends grieved, and others were disappointed."

757. "I informed the Duke (Somerset) that many of the petitioners (against the Bill for the relief of the Quakers) were threepenny curates. The Duke asked, what are they? I replied, that I had been informed they were poor clergymen without benefices, and had but few friends, and perhaps some of them Nonjurors, who hang on about the town, looking for preferment, and being very indigent, say prayers for the richer sort for threepence a time, which is paid, twopence in farthings, and a dish of coffee."

HACKET'S Life of Archbishop Williams.
P. 4.

T is Casaubon who first said
"Est Historia nihil aliud, nisi
Philosophia quædam exemplis

utens."

7. His little sleep, only three hours in twenty-four; so that " he lived almost twice as much as any man that lived no longer." 8. The University discipline began to be more remiss in those days than in by-gone

ages.

11. He varied his studies once a month. 14. A good remark upon the Greek and Latin canons being imperfectly understood. Salmasius.

16. "O that such as are rigidly addicted to their own fancies would define less, and leave more charitable allowance to their weak, or at least dissenting brethren! O that there were less inclosure and more common pasturage in the church!"

"Até and the Furies of contention came among us out of Belgia with these names." (Remonstrants, &c.)

Calvinistic questions. 17. "By deep inspection it will appear that many such opinions are of as even choice as two shillings, though not of the same stamp, yet of the same weight; it is all one which you receive in pay."

18. Williams's oratory.

34. "He used to say the way to get the credit from the Nonconformists was to outpreach them; who in great part were covetous, cross-grained, half-witted, and distractious; and had nothing but much preaching to make them plausible and popular. No marvel if such had crept into

50. Williams's indignation against those who would have had the King raise money without concurrence of Parliament.

54. The King "preferred him to be great in place, because he knew he was great in courage. The supporters of the steps of Solomon's throne were not sheep, but lions. The way to be just is to be inflexible; the way to be inflexible is to be stout, casting all thoughts of fears and favours under feet."

56. "I never saw any of our ministry more abstracted from their studies, continually progging at the Parliament door and in Westminster Hall for many years together, having no calling but that of an evil spirit to raise sedition, than those that were most offended at a Bishop for bestowing some part of his time in a secular place."

64. James's opinion of Laud.
70. James.

71. Court of Honour.

74. His industry.

76. His answer to a lawyer who sought to puzzle him.

77. Peers wanted to establish it as a privilege that their honour should serve for an oath.

Attempt to get rid of the Bishops from the House of Lords. Essex forward in it 78. Hacket's remark upon this.

78. Contrast between old and new Parliaments.

Advantages of the Spanish match.

82. Coke's opinion of the Star Chamber. Williams's just sense of decency in his speeches.

83. His conduct in the Star Chamber.
88. His way of interceding with James.
95. Puritan, the name.
His treatment of them.

96. Bohemian refugees not admitted.
97. Court of High Commission.
Abbot and Bancroft.

112. His charge, and his opinion of rascally causes.

114. James's own courtship.

123. Proposed injunctions concerning religion.

127. Our Liturgy translated into Spanish while the match was pending.

Part 2.

P. 9. CHARLES's first Parliament.

"He wanted a way indeed to give a gift, and to make it thankworthy in the manner of bestowing. A small exception: when one grave sentence from his mouth did mean more reality than a great deal of volubility with sweetness and smiling."

10. The motto on his first money alluded to in this speech-" Amor civium regis munimentum."

15. Budæus coins the word ἐθελοκακία for the temper in which soldiers will not win a battle because they dislike their general.

16. Williams entreated him not to dissolve his first Parliament, and warned him that the next swarm would come out of the same hive.

19. Charles did not well like Williams, because "he would never give over till he was conqueror in the argument that he held. and he ever held him to be too nimble and versatile in his discourses. For the taste of that good King's mind was much like to his palate; he never loved sauce with his

134. Campian's avowal in an oration at Douay.

137. The Spanish match "not to the taste of the English, if you will number them and not weigh them."

163-4. Spanish match.

173. Duke of Richmond's death. Where must that man's feeling and intellect have been who called this book the worst written one in our language? It is full of thought, | good sense, and felicitous expressions.

175. G. Herbert's eulogium upon James's oratory.

200. James's last Parliament.

207. Scot made Dean of York that he might be enabled to pay a gambling debt! 208. He advised James to breed up some of his grandchildren to the church.

227. Reading at James's dinners.

30-1. Church music and chaunting. 39. Good effect of episcopal preaching. A remarkable passage.

40. Williams had collected and meant to have published Bishop Grosthead's Works.

47. He detects a female impostor who prophecied against the Church and State.

57. "Ecclesiæ reformatio debet inchoari a parvulis," said Gerson in one of his sermons.

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144. "Selfish," he says, is a word of the Presbyterians' new mint." 147. Committee of Divines.

Turn Reader! to the passage, and connect with it what old Latimer says of unpreaching prelates. Our bishops have but to come out of their place-do their duty-and they will be sure to be listened to."-J. W. W.