supervening sanctity upon Rulers, as well as others: not to give every man a right to rule (for who should then be ruled ?) but to enable and incline them that shall duly have a right, to rule better. And so the kingdom will be the Saints', when it is administered by some, and for others, who are so."-JOHN HOWE. Little Things of the Church. to ourselves soberly and temperately. All other pretences being infinitely vain in 'themselves, and fatal in the irconsequences."- Vol. 1, p. 376. Arbitrary Power under Cromwell. "WHAT a noise was there of arbitrary power in the reign of the two last kings," says SOUTH, "and scarce any at all during the usurpation of Cromwell! Of which I know no reason in the world that can be given but this-that under those two princes there was no such thing, and under Cromwell there was nothing else. For when arbitrary power is really and indeed used, men feel it, but dare not complain of it."-Vol. "For my own part," says SOUTH, "I can account nothing little in any Church, which has the stamp of undoubted authority, and the practice of primitive antiquity, as well as the reason and decency of the thing itself, to warrant and support it. Though if the supposed littleness of these matters should be a sufficient 4, p. 246. reason for the laying of them aside, I fear our Church will be found to have more little men to spare, than little things."-Dedication to the Second Volume of his Sermons: Conscience often to be set right by the Physician. "IT is not to be questioned," says SOUTH, "but many repair to the divine, whose best casuist were an apothecary; and endeavour to Owen's Primer-ordered by the Parliament. cure and carry off their despair with a promise, "I HAD almost forgot J. O(wen)'s Primer, or perhaps a prophecy, which might better be that would never suffer the letters to be ranged done with a purge. Poor self-deluding souls! under the conduct of a Cris-cross. For having often misapplying the blood of Christ, under of his own head disbanded the Lord's Prayer, those circumstances in which a little effusion of he was commissioned by authority of Parliament their own would more effectually work the to cashier, or at least new-model the Cris-cross-cure; and Luke as a physician give them a row; and what reformation he wrought in the much specdier relief, than Luke as an evanseveral squadrons of vowels, mutes, semivow-gelist."-Vol. 3, p. 455. els, &c., I shall not here relate. But as for the poor Cross, that was without any mercy turned out of all service; not because it kept always so close to the Loyal or Malignant party; but because it was a mere symbolical ceremony, set there on purpose to transform a plain English alphabet into a Popish Cris-cross-row. A great and pious work! worthy the pains of so great a divine, and the wisdom of so long a Parliament." -BISHOP PARKER's Reproof to The Rehearsal Transformed, p. 190. Assurance. "ASSURANCE," says SOUTH, "is properly that persuasion, or confidence, which a man takes up of the pardon of his sins, and his interest in God's favour, upon such grounds and terms as the scripture lays down. But now, since the scripture promises eternal happiness and pardon of sin, upon the sole condition of faith and sincere obedience, it is evident, that he only can plead a title to such a pardon, whose conscience impartially tells him that he has performed the required condition. And this is the only rational assurance, which a man can with any safety rely or rest himself upon. Hypocrisy of the Puritan Fasts. "THEY talk of reforming," says SOUTH, "and of coming out of Egypt (as they call it); but still, though they leave Egypt, they will be sure to hold fast to their flesh-pots. And the truth is, their very fasts and humiliations have been observed to be nothing else but a religious epicurism, and a neat contrivance of luxury; while they forbear dinner, only that they may treble their supper; and fast in the day, like the evening wolves, to whet their stomachs against night."-Vol. 6, p. 219. "He who in this case would believe surely, must first walk surely; and to do so is to walk uprightly. And what that is, we have sufficiently marked out to us in those plain and legible" ICH praye thou for zoure profit, quath Pears lines of duty, requiring us to demean ourselves to God humbly and devoutly, to our Governors obediently; and to our neighbours justly; and D Employments of Women. to the Ladyes, That somme sewe the sak, for shedynge of the wete; 50 PEARS PLOUHMAN-BALDWYN-MEDE'S LIFE. And ze worthly women wit zoure longe education, she would herself consign such perfyngres, That ze on selk and sendel to sewen, wenne Chesybles for Chapelayns, churches to honure: Whitaker's Pears Plouhman, p. 128. The Catholic Heaven open to the Rich. For all besides you may discount to Heaven, Quick and Slow Writers. "THE diversity of brains in devising," saith WILLIAM BALDWYN to the Reader, "is like the sundryness of beasts in engendering: for some wits are ready and dispatch many matters speedily, like the coney which littereth every month; some other are slow like the olyfaunt, scarce delivering any matter in ten years. I dispraise neither of these births, for both be natural; but I commend most the mean, which is neither too slow nor too swift, for that is lion-like and therefore most noble. For the right poet doth neither through haste bring forth swift feeble rabbits, neither doth he weary men in looking for his strong jointless olyphants: but in reasonable time he bringeth forth a perfect and lively lion, not a bear-whelp that must be longer in licking than in breeding. And yet I know many that do highly like that lumpish delivery. But every man hath his gift."Mirror for Magistrates, vol. 2, p. 247. Sir sons as she judged to be pares negotiis. William had gotten the very individual papers wherein these names were listed and marked with the Queen's own hand, which he carefully laid up among his Keμhia.”—Appendix to the Life of Joseph Mede, p. 76. Subscription. "To that old complaint (now newly dressed up and followed with such noises and hubbubs), Is it not great pity that men should be silenced and laid aside only for their not subscribing ?— the answer of that moderate, learned and wise man Joseph Mede was, So it is great pity that some goodly fair houses in the midst of a populous city should take fire, and therefore must of necessity be pulled down, unless you will suffer the whole town to be on a flame and consume to ashes."-Appendix to the Life of Joseph Mede, p. 74. Discouragement of Learning during our Anarchy. "WHO is there that in this interstitium will dispose a son to a college life, in whom he sees any nobility of wit and after hopes, whenas but bare commons, and perhaps a country cure, or a petty mastership of a House, is the top of that ladder which he may climb to?"-WATERHOUS's Apology for Learning, 1653, p. 91. Dominion of the Saints. "THERE was one in Cambridge to whom Mr. Mede had shewn favour, in lending him money at a time of need; but he being put in mind of his engagement, instead of making due payment, repaid Mr. Mede only with undue words to this effect, that upon a strict and exact account he had no right to what he claimed. No right? answered he. No; no right, it was told him, because he was none of God's children; for that they only have right, who are gracious in God's sight. The story was related by Mr. Mede upon the occasion of some intelligence received from London, that there was at that time a more strict examination there of those who came to take orders, concerning that strange position, Dominium temporale fundatur in gratia; at which one then in company being astonished, as supposing none would be so impudent as to assert it, Mr. Mede replied that he had particular experience Elizabeth's Eye upon the Universities. "I CAN never forget with what a gusto that brave Sir William Boswell was wont to relate this among the infinite more observable passages in the happy reign of Queen Elizabeth; that she gave a strict charge and command to both the Chancellors of both her Universities, to bring her a just, true and impartial list of all the eminent and hopeful students (that were graduates) in each University; to set down punctually their names, their colleges, their, standings, their faculties wherein they did emi- of the evil effect and consequence of such docnere, or were likely so to do. Therein her Majesty was exactly obeyed, the Chancellor durst not do otherwise; and the use she made of it was, that if she had an Ambassador to send abroad, then she of herself would nominate such a man of such an House to be his Chap- "EL principal de los exercicios que perlain, and another of another House to be his tenecen á un señor, es la razon de mandar un Secretary, &c. When she had any places to cavallo; porque en la paz es gallardia y deleite, dispose of, fit for persons of an academical y en la guerra provecho y necesidad. trine, as in the fore-mentioned story.”—Life of Joseph Mede prefixed to his Works, p. 40. Horsemanship. El po nerse bien en qualquiera de las dos sillas, causa gusto y respeto; el ponerse mal desprecio y risa. A los que nacen con sangre muy ilustre, y mucha riqueza, antes (si pudiera ser) los avian de enseñar á andar á cavallo, que á andar; pues se han de servir mas de los pies del bruto, que de los suyos. Pero, pues no es posibile, en pudiendolo aprender, se les deve enseñar; porque lo que se ha de hazer siempre, seria grande mengua estarlo errando siempre. Y en esta materia qualquiera imperfeccion es muy de enmendar, porque como es accion que se pone en alto, ningun defecto se le encubra."-ZAVALETA, Teatro del Hombre,-El Hombre, p. 9. Inspiration of Sermons. "Ex la celda del religioso que ha de predicar de allí á un mes, esta Dios preveniendo remedios contra los vicios de los que desde allí á un mes han de oirle. El predicador no sabe con quiie ha de hablar, quando piensa el sermon; pero Dios, que lo sabe, le govierna de suerte el pensamiento, que dispone doctrinas individuales para los que han de oirle. Para qualquiera de los que le oyen, se hizo el sermon y no piense nadie que es acaso lo que se le dizo." -ZAVALETA, El Dia de Fiesta, p. 266. Arbitration in Parishes. IN Norway "there is in every parish a Commission of Conciliation, before which every cause must be stated previous to its going into a court of justice; and it is the office of the Commissioners to mediate between the parties, and, if possible to compromise matters. The party refusing to abide by their opinion is condemned to all the costs, if it do not afterwards appear upon trial that he was in the right."DR. CLARKE's Travels, vol. 10, p. 393. Rents in Kind in Russia. "I NEVER put my hands into my purse for any thing,' said a Russian nobleman, but to purchase foreign wines, and articles for my wife's dress.' He was provided with every thing he wanted from his estate and his slaves." -DR. CLARKE's Travels, vol. 11, p. 394, note. What the Pope is. "El Papa, pues, es nuestro visible Monarcha, y Emperador en lo espiritual y temporal; el Dios vivo en la Tierra, o Vicario de Dios, con quien en la Tierra constituye un solo Tribunal; y como dijo agudamente un autor, Papa stupor mundi, qui maxima rerum Corruption of Justice. "WE laugh at the Indians," says DR. FEATLEY (Clavis Mystica, p. 46), "for casting in great store of gold yearly into the river Ganges, as if the stream would not run currently without it. Yet when the current of justice is stopt in many courts, the wisest solicitor of suits can find no better means than such as the Indians use, by dropping in early in the morning gold and silver into Ganges to make it run." Corruption of Manners. "DoтH any desire to know how it cometh to pass that our gold is not so pure, our silver so bright, our brass and iron so strong as heretofore? that is, the honour of our Nobility, the riches of our Gentry, the virtue and strength of our Commonalty is much empaired. If I and all Preachers should be silent, our loud sins would proclaim it; Blasphemy would speak it, Profaneness swear it, Pride and Vanity paint and print it, Usury and Bribery tell it, Luxury vent it, Gluttony and Drunkenness belch it out. St. Peter's argument were now of no force, these men are not drunk, seeing that it is but the third hour of the day; for all hours of day, yea and night too, are alike to many of our drunkards."-FEATLEY'S Clavis Mystica, p. 89. The Pope called God at Rome at this time. "WHEN I heard them one day call the Pope God, and heard this title defended by the most learned men of Rome, who told me that he merits such a title, because he has power not only upon the earth, but likewise over purgatory, and in heaven, and because whatever the Pope absolves in the earth is absolved in heaven, and that they call the Pope God upon earth, on account of his power to sanctify and to beatify,-when I heard such arguments as these I understood Paul's words, 'He as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God:' and I could no longer abstain from protesting against an idolatrous opinion, and exclaimed, The Pope is a man as I am; the Pope is dust of the earth as I am!"-Missionary Journal and Memoir of THE REV. JOSEPH WOLFF, p. 30. Church of Rome founded upon Traditions. "THE argument from a scriptural reason is this: that church that is built more on traditions and doctrines of men, than on the word of God, is no true church, nor religion. But the Church of Rome is built more upon traditions and doctrines of men, than on the word of God. Nec Deus est, nec homo, quasi neuter inter Ergo, the foundations of the true church of utrumque." P. FR. JUAN FRANCISCO DE SAN ANTONIO, Chronicas de Religiosos Descalzos de N. S. P. S. Francisco en las Islas Philipinas, &c. -Manilla, 1738, tom. 1, p. 259. God is Scripture; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets.' But if you look upon what the whole frame of Popery is built, you will find it upon a sand of human 1 Eph. ii. 20. tradition. That the pope is head of the church; | charged that trust, and performed your injuncthat he, pardons sin; rules over princes: where tions: and in your thoughts take up an account, find you this in Scripture? they are but points how they have behaved themselves in that matof the cursed inventions of men. That priests ter, and whether they have not been exceeding can sing souls out of purgatory; that the serv- faithful. ice of God should be in an unknown tongue; that the priests can change the bread into God; and generally the whole rabble of their Romish religion, hath not so much as any one underpinning of Scripture warrant, but all founded upon the rotten trash of human inventions, and self ends."-LIGHTFOOT, vol. 6, p. 45. Self-ignorance well illustrated. "Have not these trumpets and these poor pitchers had their share, and a good share too, in bringing down the walls of Jericho, and the camp of Midian? Have not they, like that story in Ezekiel xxxvii. 10, if I may so express it, prophesied you up an army ?"-Lightfoot, vol. 6, p. 121. Confession that they have given occasion for innumerable Heresies. "WE vowed against error, heresy and schism, and swore to the God of truth and peace, to the utmost of our power to extirpate them, and to root them out. These stones, and walls, and pillars were witnesses of our solemn engage ment. And now, if the Lord should come to enquire what we have done according to this vow and covenant, I am amazed to think what the Lord would find amongst us: would he not find ten schisms now for one then; twenty heresies now for one at that time; and forty errors now for one when we swore against them? Was there ever more palpable walking contrary to God, or more desperate crossing of a covenant? If we had sworn, to the utmost of our power, to have promoted and advanced error, heresy, and schism, could these then have grown and come forward more than now they have done, though we swore against them?"LIGHTFOOT, vol. 6, p. 123. "I REMEMBER it was a wonder to me, before I knew this city, to hear of families living so near together all their lives, as but one chimney back between them, and yet their doors opening into several streets, and the persons of those families never knowing one another, or who they were. And methought that passage of Martial was a strange one, when I first met with it,-Nemo est tam prope tam proculque nobis and that observation of the Jews remarkable,—that sometimes two verses in Scripture be joined as close together for place as close can be, and yet as distant for sense and matter as distant may be: and that relation of Seneca wondrous, if I miss not my author, that a man through sickness did forget his own name and that of the naturalist, as wondrous, -that there is a beast, that as he was eating his meat if he did but once turn his head from it, he forgets it. But now a sad experience within mine own self hath lessened these wonders, and doth make a thousand of such strangenesses as these seem nothing; for I and my heart were born together grew up together, The Cloud which led the Israelites cleared the have lain together, have always been together,.and yet have had so little acquaintance together, as that we never talked together nor conversed together; nay, I know not my heart, I have forgotten my heart. Ah! my bowels, my bowels, that I could be grieved at the very heart, that my poor heart and I have been so unacquainted! And is not the same case yours too? I appeal to your own hearts, if they but speak; and I beseech you to put them to it."-LIGHTFOOT, vol. 6, p. 112. Way. "THE Jews fancy concerning the cloud that conducted Israel through the wilderness, that it did not only show them the way, but also plane it; that it did not only lead them in the way which they must go, but also fit them the way to go upon; that it cleared all the mountains, and smoothed all the rocks; that it cleared all the bushes, and removed all the rubs. No less preparatives were required for our Saviour's coming, to make way for him in the entertainment of men, or to make way for men to the entertaining of him."-LIGHTFOOT, vol. 6, p. Boast of what the Clergy have done in aid of 137. the Rebellion. "COMMUNE with your own hearts' what the ministry of England hath done for you. My The Law successively Abridged, till brought into one Precept. warrant for the moving of this unto you, besides your gratitude, I may show from divers of "The Jews, in the Talmud, have this saying: your own orders and expressions. For in how 'The whole law was given to Moses at Sinai, many of your addresses and desires to the City in six hundred and thirteen precepts. David, or Country for the raising of moneys, men, and in the fifteenth Psalm, brings them all within horses, have you still laid much upon the hands the compass of eleven. Isaiah brings them to and fidelity of the Ministers to promote the six, Isa. xxxiii. 15. Micah to three, Micah vi. work, and to stir up their several congregations 8. Isaiah, again, to two, Isa. lvi. Habakkuk to do it? And I beseech you now commune to this one, The just shall live by faith, Hab. ii. with your own hearts,' how they have dis- 4.'"-LIGHTFOOT, vol. 6, p. 201. Good of the Civil War—in Lightfoot's Sermon. "I MIGHT show you how the Church hath been increased, the gospel propagated, God glorified, atheists converted and the enemies confounded, even by the devil's persecution: but I need not go far for examples and experiences in this kind: look at home, in these times and distractions, where the devil is so busy; and as we may sadly see him raging, and let loose in these doleful wars so may we as visibly see Christ doing good to this poor kingdom out of this evil. For, the sight of men; the Jonathan and his armourChrist, whereby he visibly conquers the devil in bearer; the priests with trumpets, and the gathering host, that one after another destroy those Philistines, and that both together help to lay the walls of the city of hell flat. Upon this subject do I especially look in the exercise of these two offices; that they have not to fight against flesh and blood, but principalities and powers. And this consideration is some satisfaction to me, and helpeth to settle me about that matter which is now so much controverted, namely, about church power for to me it "First: How many rotten hearts, and how seemeth, the acting of these two offices to be many rotten members, hath the devil-or God thus: the ministry to cast the devil out where rather, out of the devil's activity-discovered in it may be done, and the magistrate to bind the this nation in these troubles, which, like a moth devil where he cannot be cast out; and 'ubi and corruption, were devouring a poor kingdom, desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus;' where and she knew not who hurt her. What juntas the power of the one ceaseth, the other taketh. of hell have been found out, what plots discov- at it, and finisheth the work. The ministry, by ered, what cabinets of letters detected, what ac- the preaching of the word and by prayer, tions described, what hearts anatomized! Pop- striveth to cast the devil out; and, if it do it, ery, prerogative protestations, plotters, prelates well;—but, if it cannot do it, it can go no far-all come to light, and found desperate and ther; and then the magistracy cometh in, and devilish, and all this done by the great business bindeth him, that he trouble not others, though of the devil; God overpowering him and making the ministry cannot cast him out from vexing him to prove a telltale of his own counsels, and, the party himself. It is needless to show how as it were, a false brother to his own hell and Christ overpowereth the devil by both these; fraternity. the matter is so apparent and conspicuous, I shall not need to go about to show it it is enough to say, that the ministry of the gospel overthrew the idolatry of the heathen, and that the magistracy can hang a witch."-LIGHTFOOT, vol. 6, p. 185. "Secondly: How have these troubles beaten men and the kingdom out of their fooleries and superstitions, their trumperies and ceremonies, customs and traditions! which how hard it would have been to have got off from them, if they had not been thus brayed in this mortar, the great tenaciousness of them with divers, even in this mortar, is evidence sufficient: this dross would never have been got away, if it had not passed such a furnace; and our Israel would never have shaken hands with Egyptian idolatry, if it had not been beaten out of it by Egyptian affliction. So that let me take up the manner of speech of our Saviour, with some inversion: 0 England! England! Satan hath desired to winnow thee as wheat, and he hath winnowed away a world of his own chaff. "Thirdly: How many profane and ungodly wretches hath this war cut off, Papists, atheists, epicures, devils incarnate, that would not only have lain in the way, as so much rubbish to hinder the work of the temple, but that would have proved Sanballats, Tobiahs, Geshems, and such Samaritans, utterly to oppose it with all their might! It is a sad thing to see so many of Israel perish in the matter of Baal-peor! yet there is this comfort in it-that the entering into the land of promise will be the speedier, when these untowardly and ungracious ones are taken away."-LIGHTFOOT, vol. 6, page 180-1. Misconduct of their own Party. "BUT it is not the enemy only that hath done us this displeasure that we feel, for then we could better have borne it, or hid ourselves from him; but it is some of our own party, some of our friends, of our familiars, with whom we have taken counsel together, and have gone with them to the house of God as friends, which do prove devils to us, or at least raise up devils among us, that ruin and undo us, that help onour sorrows, augment our miseries, bind on those plagues that the desert of our sins hath brought upon us. Our own quarters are become as the land of Gadarenes, where two possessed parties, as I may so say, or rather two possessing devils, are so exceeding fierce, that none may pass by them, none can be quiet near them. And these two are, injustice in oppression and erroneousness in opinion. "These are they that lose you friends, procure you enemies, and keep off neuters—that undo at home and exasperate abroad-that lose you more hearts than all your armies can subdue persons, and do more mischief to your holy and honourable cause, than all the other devils of hell can do, than all your enemies on earth have The Civil Power to effect what the Ministry done. Our sad case at this time, is like the case cannot. "CHRIST'S power which he hath committed to ministers and magistrates; the two hands of of the four lepers under the walls of Samaria in the Book of Kings; if they went into the city they went uvon famine: if they went from the |