[558] Works, xviii. 301.
[559] Baxter’s Works, v. 346. Compare Origen, cont. Celsum; Hooker, Eccl. Polity, ii. 310; and Thorndike’s Works, iv. 39.
[560] Baxter’s Works, v. 287, et seq., 400.
[561] Compare this with what has been said at p. 117.
[562] Orme’s Life of Baxter, 659.
[563] Sermons, 12.
[564] Orme’s Life of Baxter, 589. These passages I have before referred to.
[565] Orme’s Life of Owen, 234.
[566] Works, xx. 74, 113.
[567] Works, xvi. 256.
[568] I confine myself here to books published before the Revolution, and of course must omit numbers worthy of mention.
[569] Orme’s Baxter, 552.
[570] Brook gives an account of the book in his Lives of the Puritans, iii. 213.
[571] It is a significant fact that John Goodwin’s work on The Spirit is included in Nicholl’s series of Puritan Divines.
[572] I cannot but refer, and that with sincere pleasure, to a Sunday evening spent at Pontresina, in the Engadine, the summer before last, when, together with a Nonconformist friend, I united in such a service, with representatives of different sections of the Establishment.
[573] The Christian Poet.
[574] Himself and his brothers.
[575] Diary, i. 15.
[576] Memoir prefixed to Diary, p. xviii.
[577] Memoir prefixed to Silva, i. 15.
[578] My rule has been to select characters who died before the Revolution, but it is necessary to notice Evelyn’s life in connection with Margaret Godolphin; and although he survived the Revolution so many years, he may fairly be taken as a type of religious life before that period. A MS. by him was published in the year 1850, in two volumes, entitled, A Rational Account of the True Religion. The first volume treats of natural theology. In the second, besides a description of Judaism, primitive Christianity, and the decadence and corruption of religion, Evelyn “professes to explain the true doctrines of Holy Scripture and of the Church of England.” The chief interest attaching to the work will be found to consist in its value “as an impartial interpretation of her Articles and her Liturgy; conveyed too in a manner which shows he was not propounding new views, but merely stating them as understood by her members in his time.”—p. xi. In other words, Evelyn explains the doctrines of the Church of England from an Anglo-Catholic point of view. The book indicates the intelligence and devoutness of the author.
[579] One of the Blagge family was Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII., and a great favourite with the King, who, for some reason, called him his pig. “He was a Sacramentarian; and when Wriothesley and Gardiner, in 1546, commenced their persecution on the Statute of the Six Articles, Blagge was clapped up in Newgate, and, after a hurried trial, condemned to be burnt. But the moment the King heard of it, he rated the Chancellor for coming so near him, even to his privy chamber, and commanded him instantly to draw out a pardon. On his release, Blagge flew to thank his master, who, seeing him, cried out, ‘Ah, my pig, are you here safe again?’ ‘Yes, Sire,’ said he, ‘and if your Majesty had not been better than your Bishops, your pig had been roasted ere this time.’”—Tytler’s England under Edward VI. and Mary, i. 146.
[580] The Life of Mrs. Godolphin, by Evelyn, edited by the Bishop of Oxford. p. 104. The year of the marriage is not given.
[581] Ibid., 106.
[582] The Life of Mrs. Godolphin, 176.
[583] Paley.
[584] These quotations from Hale’s writings are found in his Life by Sir J. B. Williams. See also Life by Burnet.
[585] These passages are taken from a work entitled Mastix.
[586] Campbell’s Essay on Poetry, 245.
[587] More’s Dialogues.
[588] Ward’s Life of More gives a full account of this excellent man. See also Willmot’s Lives of the Poets.
[589] See the thought expanded in More’s Letters on Several Subjects.
[590] Sir T. Browne’s Works, i. liv.
[591] Ibid., iv. 420.
[592] Ibid., ii. 6.
[593] Sir T. Browne’s Works, ii. 12.
[594] Ibid., ii. 27, 81, 82; i. xlvii.
[595] Sir T. Browne’s Works, ii. 117.
[596] Lives, ii. 172.
[597] Aubrey’s Letters, ii. 255.
[598] Birch’s Tillotson, 75.
[599] Morice MSS., Ent. Book.
[600] Clarendon, Hist., 493.
[601] Tomkins’ Piety Promoted, quoted in Pattison’s Rise and Progress of Religious Life in England, 248.
[602] See Stanford’s Life of Alleine.
[603] Broadmead Records, 97.
[604] Stockton MSS., Diary, Dr. Williams’ Library.
[605] Life, 43.
[606] Life, 24, 26, 59, 147. Stockton bequeathed £500 and his valuable library to Gonville and Caius College.
[607] Calamy.
[608] Burnet’s Hist. of his Own Time, i. 381.
[609] Such illustrations occur in Dr. Swainson’s valuable Hulsean Lectures on The Creeds of the Church, 58.
[610] There is, in Glamorganshire, an extra-parochial district called Llan-vethin.
[611] At was first struck out, and on written over it, then on was altered into at.
[612] Appears as if midst had been altered into body.
[613] On altered into at.
[614] I examined the books once with Dr. Swainson, and once with the Dean of Westminster.
[615] Documents, 177.
[616] I find this stated by Dr. Vaughan, and I have no doubt of its correctness; but in looking over the Rejoinder, I cannot lay my finger on the passage.
[617] Father Huddlestone.
[618] The Queen’s Priests.
[619] Petre, Bath, and Feversham.
[620] In the Somers’ copy it is “‘the Duke and Lords’ withdrew into the closet for the space of an hour and a half.”