to which he gave no answer; which made another queftion be afked, If he would have a Popish Prieft? To which he anfwered with great vehemence, "No, no!" repeating the words," He would have nothing to do with them.' Then the aforefaid gentleman, Mr. Gibfon, afked him again, If he would have the Minister fent for? And he calmly anfwered, "Yes, pray fend for him." This was the morning, and he died that night*. The Minister came, and did the office required by the church; the Duke devoutly attending it, and received the facrament, and an • hour after became fpeechlefs; but appearing fenfible, we had the prayers of the church repeated by his bed-fide, recommending him to the mercy of God, through the merits ⚫ of Jefus Christ.

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Thus he died quietly in his bed, the fate of few of his predeceffors in the title of Buckingham. His body was em balmed and brought to Westminster-abbey, and there laid in the vault with his father and brothers, in Hen. the VIIth's Chapel.

• Mary Dutchess of Buckingham was the only daughter of Thomas Lord Fairfax, and Ann, the daughter of Ho< race Lord Vere. A most virtuous and pious Lady, in a • vitious and court. If he had any of the vanities, fhe had certainly none of the vices of it. The Duke and the

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This agrees pretty nearly with Mr. Pope's defcription, in the following picturefque lines:

• In the worst inn's worft room, with mat half hung
The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung,
⚫ On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw,
• With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw,
The George and Garter dangling from that bed,
Where tawdry yellow, ftrove with dirty red,
'Great Villiers lies-alas! how chang'd from him
That life of pleasure, and that foul of whim!
'Gallant and gay, in Cliveden s proud alcove,
The bow'r of wanton Shrewsbury † and love;
'Or just as gay in council, in a ring

• Of mimic'd ftatesmen and their merry King.
No wit to flatter left of all his ftore!

No fool to laugh at, which he valued more;
There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends,
• And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.

The Countess of Shrewsbury, a woman abandoned to gallantries. The Earl her Husband was killed by the Duke of Buckingham; and it has been faid, that during the combat, the held the Duke's horfes, in the habit of a • Page.'

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• lived lovingly and decently together; fhe patiently bearing with thofe faults in him which fhe could not remedy. She furvived him many years, and died near St. James' at Weftminster, and was buried in the vault of the family of Villiers, in Hen. VIIth's Chapel, anno 1705. • ætat. 66.'

Samuel triplici Nomine Laudatus, Propheta, Populi Ifraelitici Judex, Scholarum Propheticarum Rector. Conciones dua Habita in Templo B. V. M. Oxon. Coram Baccalaureis Determinantibus. A. Johanne Burton, S. T. P. Coll. Eton. Haud ita pridem C. C. C. Oxon. Socio. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Rivington and Co.

HE firft of thefe difcourfes celebrates the praises of Samuel, confidered as a Prophet and Judge. The fecond celebrates him as founder of the Scholae Prophetica: and here the author does not amuse his readers, with the idle and fanciful conjectures of the rabbinical writers, but taking Scripture alone for his guide, lays before them what may be collected from thence in regard to the origin, difcipline, &c. of thefe Schools.

In the Appendix, he confiders a point of great importance to the interests of religion, and the credit and usefulness of our clergy, viz. the great want of proper inftruction, in the Univerfity of Oxford, for thofe who are defigned for the facred office. Hear part of what he says upon this fubject, which will ferve, at the fame time, for a fpecimen of his ftile and manner of writing.

Sentio in materiem me incidiffe ardui fane momenti, neque tacendam neque dicendam fine cura: ideoque, ut a dic• tis abfit invidia, orationem effe mihi hac in parte præmuniendam, fententiam diftinctius explicandam, cautiufque • defendendam. "Defideratur nempe fpecialis aliqua infti"tutio & præceptio quae Prophetarum filios ad officium Pafto"rale obeundum aliquanto inftructiores efficiat."" Qualis autem illa effe debet & unde fubminiftranda, quæras, rem omnem paulo altius repetitam fic mecum cognofce.

Scias imprimis aliam in Academiis nunc effe, quam quæ fæculis fuperioribus olim fuit, ftudiorum atque difciplinæ rationem. Non jam undique ad Scholas publicas, non ad • Profefforum cathedras concurritur: non jam ex ipforum prælectionibus & difputationibus hauritur quicquid eft fcien

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* tiarum. Jamdiu exolevit illa olim laudabilis publice prælegendi confuetudo; &, cum audientium fpe ftudioque, • Prælectorum induftria fimul confenuiffe videtur. Omnis • ifta præceptio fyftematica, & quidem ut plurimum fcholastica, qua majores noftri guadebant, in defuetudinem prorfus abiit. Imo quidem & Difcipuli noftri ab operofa ifta & ⚫ fervili fyftematum difciplina ufque adeo abhorrent, ut extra ordinem fine duce vagari & errare malint, quam ex præfcripto fapere, & theologiæ fynopfin aliquam prælibare.

Quid porro autem? nullane intra parietes privatos in Collegiis, & quidem Theologorum, inftitutio Theologica celebratur? quidibi Prophetæ infigniores? nonne illi ultro • fibi filios afcifcunt fuos, & difcipulos, ad virtutum confimilium æmulationem tum præceptis tum etiam exemplis formandos ?-Eft illud fane in promptu:& foret profecto ⚫ illud optandum maxime, quod Ecclefiæ prodesset maxime. • Sed difciplinam talem fruftra quærimus. Antiquam vero illam, quæ in prælectionibus publicis five exercitationibus fcholafticis unice verfabatur, fructu fuo & gratia deftitutam ⚫ prorfus obfoleviffe video.

Quid interim a Præceptore domeftico reftat expectandum? profecto quid illius cura efficere potuerit in univerfum pro <certo ftatuere non aufim: at vero unum illum omnibus fuffi"cere non poffe facile intelligo; & proinde hac in parte fpe⚫cialem præceptionem atque difciplinam defiderari.

Ut ut vero ifthæc fuerint, id ipfum, de quo querimur, ⚫ malo fato noftro contigiffe fentio; nempe Theologiæ ftudia, • quibus nihil gravius fanctiufve, cum præceptionibus neque publicis neque privatis pro merito fuo dirigantur, fluctuare prorfus & in incerta ferri; & hac ardua in re præter fas • æquumque adolefcentium noftrorum ingenio atque libidini nimium permitti.-Tantamne vero rem tam negligenter agi?-& illam fcientiarum principem, cui cæteræ omnes • famulantur, την τεχνων τεχνην και επισήμων επισήμην, apparatu fuo & fatellitio deftitutam quorumlibet quafi impuris 'manibus invadendam objici? hoccine eft credibile aut me'morabile ?-Artes quidem cæteræ, tum liberales tum etiam Mechanicæ, dignitatem fuam quafi præmunitam tuentur, nec nifi diuturno labore & exercitatione fe expugnari patiuntur. Non Chirurgiam, non medicinam exercet, nifi qui ⚫ fub alicujus Magiftri aufpiciis artis præcepta didiceret, nifi qui in corporis humani anatomia, in materie medica exploranda & adhibenda aliquandiu fuerit verfatus. Non itidem in Foro caufas agit, nifi qui juris confultorum inftitutis atque doctrina imbutus, nifi qui & meditatione domeftica &

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ufu forenfi aliquam & juris peritiam & dicendi facultatem fuerit affecutus. Neque vero agmen ducit Centurio, nifi qui fub imperatore aliquo ftipendia meruerit, confiliis militaribus aptoque armorum ufu exercitatus, & ad difcrimen omne præparatus.-At vero Artifex Theologicus- at Juris Divini confultus at Miles Chriftianus fine inftitutione debita, fine difciplina, fine exercitatione prævia, uno quafi impetu facto, ad officia momenti longe graviffimi administranda fidenter accingitur.-Atqui profecto, fiqua omnino in re, in hac præfertim cautius erat agendum: illius certe fpecialis dignitas tum etiam difficultas fpecialem quandam & majorem folito eomaparxsuny poftulabat. Imo fane, inquis at vero illam haud femper recipit adolefcentis Academici, qualis fere folet effe, conditio. Quid enim Ille? cum jam in philofophiæ curriculo quadriennium rite confecerit, illico votorum compos exit Artium Baccalaureus: quid deinde? per unum fere atque alterum annum rufticatur: ibi ftudiis vacat omnibus, forfan & nullis : interea pro • Prophetarum filio vix agnofceres. Jamque tandem, quando ætas patitur, fubigitque fortaffe res angufta domi, inter Theologiæ ftudiofos nomen profitetur fuum: teftimonio facile parabili commendatus Ordinum facrorum candidatus accedit; initiatur: Curam Paftoralem fufcipit; in Roftra, in celebritatem prodit rudis ille & autodidantos, jam populi præceptor reverendus, non is, qualis effe debuit, non certe • Evangelicus ille aixodermors, e locuplete penu inftrumenta theologica vetera fimul & nova depromens ufibus variis ac• commodata, προς διδασκαλίαν, προς έλεγχον, προς επανόρ • θωσιν, προς παιδείαν την εν δικαιοσυνη.

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Quæ cum ita fint, define mirari, fi in tanta hominum < Clericorum frequentia tam pauci re vera Theologi reperianQuin potius mecum difpice quænam media ad illum quem appetimus finem aptiffime conducant: ut nempe inftitutione quadam theologica imbutus, & ingenii morumque conformatione exercitatus, nofter hic Prophetarum filius ex Academia in Ecclefiam prodeat tanto nomine non indignus.'

In Collegiis fingulis quifquis Theologiæ nomen dederit per annum integrum, antequam ab Academia difcefferit, aut Ordinum facrorum Candidatus prodierit, Prælectore aliquo publico ftudiorum duce morumque informatore uti teneatur, & fub illius aufpiciis Theologiæ curfum qualemcunque fyftematicum & vos conficere: ita ut hiftoriam univerfam Biblicam, Evangelica dogmata fidei, præcepta moralia five Ethicam Chriftianam, &, quæcunque demum

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En, qualem effe volumus, Prophetarum filium! illum ita inftitutum & formatum, atque infuper Præceptoris fui de ipfo quid fentiat publice profitentis teftimonio fingulari commendatum Epifcopo ordinandum libenter tradimus. Et profecto præclarum quiddam rei publicæ polliceri videtur hæc inftitutio: adolefcentibus noftris in hanc palæftram evo'catis excitabitur quicquid eft ingenii & induftriæ, five æmulationis ambitiofæe: præcidetur illa Epifcoporum querela • rudes & apuvn8s aliquando fibi obtrudi: agua fuum Aca• demia tuebitur inviolatum, non vano nomine thcologorum nutrix jure demum triumphabit Ecclefia, Paftores magis idoneos fortita, qui fibi & præfidio fuerint & ornamento.'

Remarks upon fomne Paffages in a Dedication to the Jews, by W. Warburton, D. D. Dean of Bristol. By the Writer a Piece published in 1754, intitled, AIAZПOPA. Or Jome Reflections upon the Queftion relating to the Naturalization of fews, confidered as a Point of Religion, &c. With fome Obfervations and Suggestions relative to the future Converfion and Re-establishment of the Jewish Nation in the Land of Promife, and to the Reign of Chrift upon Earth. Sva. Is. Johnston.

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AVING, by fome inadvertency, neglected to give our readers an account of the author's former piece, intitled, AIAZПOРА, and as the writer has given us fome farther thoughts upon the fame fubject, we gladly embrace the opportunity of taking a fhort view of what he has ad

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