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cepted 1 and on Sundry, May 31, 1 69l, no opposition among ourselves. The having Spent the preceding day in fast- greatest danger was to he apprehended ^g pray err, he was conSecrated at Srom the points in difference between Maryle Bow. Four days aster his the Caiviziste and Remonsinanfs, in which consecration he was Sworn of the Privy you have shewn not only great skill and Council, and on the 1 1th of July had moderation, but great prudence in cona restitution oSall the temporalities of tenting yourself to repreSent both sides ê bee. The queen also granted him impartially, without any positive declaall the profits ofit from the Michaeimas ration of your own judgment. The preeeding, winch amounted to more account given of Aihanastus's cteed than He continued to live at feems to me no-wife satisfactory. I wish the deanery oS St. Paul's till i 69s. and we were well rid ofit^. I pray God in the mean time built a large apart- long to preferve ynur lordship to do ment at Lambeth house for his wise, al- more such Services to the church. tered the windows and lights of the I am, My Lord, archbishop's lodgings, wainseotted many Yours mcst affectionately, roomy, and made other improvements, Jo. CANt ^'hich being finished he removed thither the 26th of November i 69i. His life was indeed not oly free from In the few moments of the leisure blemishes, but exemplary in all the which the duties ofhis station lest him, parts oS it. In his domestic relations, he revised his Sermons, and published friendships, and the whole commerce sour of them in i69^, concerning the of business, he was easiy and humble, incarnation and divinity of our blessed frank and open, render-hearted and Saviour, to vindicate hinifels against the bountiful to Such an extent, that while charge oSSocinianism. he was in a private station, he laid The last work which he appears to aside two tenths of his income sot have been engaged in, was the revising charitable ufes. He deSpiSed wealth, and correcting Bp. Burnet's Exposition but as it Surnished him Sor charity, of the 39 Articles, which he returned, in which be was judicious as well as with his'judgmentofit, in a letter dat- liberal. Andtho' be had enjoy 'd coli- Cd Oct. 23, i6o4, which is inserted as siderable preferments many years, a Specimen of his epistolary writing, So before he was railed to the archbilhopostcn mentioned in this account. ric, and sill'd that post above three years and a half, yet be did not improve Lambeth-House, Oct, 23, l694. his fortune from his two Successive deanries, or from that See, out es My Lord, which his predecessor Saucrost had raised an estate. An instance of his modera- | Have with great pleafure and satis- tion in this respect, while be was dean I faction read over the great volume of St, Faul's has been communiyou sent me, and am astonished to see eared to me by his worthy Successor in to vast a work begun and finished in so that dignity, Thomas Lord Bishop of short a time. In the article of the Tri- O.nsord The only leafe which he erenity you have Said all that l think can cured separately, as dean as that csbo Said upon So obScure and difficult an thedral, was one of a Small tenement argument. The Socinians have just in Creed lane, on the 9th of Frhrrraty, now published an anfwer to us all ; but 169o. And tho' two otbers, each of I have not had a sight of it. The ne- ^ few acres of ground near Loneê, gative articles against the church as xvere effect:. ally drawn and enter'd m Rome you have very sully explained, the and with great learning and judgment. o See Carter's Sermon and p. 41^ ^ Concerning these yon will meet with âs an. p. so^. tv^. ^4. în* ^ P. Val, it, ^7, înl, is. noi.
J^f Its C ^ M Bl^R) 1 7 ^ . 4 ^ the register-book, yet he left them unexecuted, hecaule he vras Soon to be prefer 'd to the archbishopric. A decent but grave chearfulnefs made his conversation as lively and aoreeable, as itwasufeful and instructing. He was ever in good humour, always the Same, both accessible arid affable. He heard every thing patiently and was not apt either to mistake or to Suspect ; his own great candour disposing him to put the heft construction, and to judge the molt favourably of all persons and things. He was .never imperious nor assuming ; and tho* he had a superior judgment to most men, yet he never dictated to others, And as no man had observed haman nature more carefully, or could judge better, So none made larger allowances for the frailties of mankind, than he did. The vivacity of his wit is evident under the restraints which his discourses from the pulpit exacted Srom him, and thoSe, which he impos'd upan himSelf in his few controversal writings : and Sir Richard Steele, an indisputable judge in that kind, used to Say, that he had a much greater Share of it, than most es thoSe, whose character was denominated from it. But his temper and principles would not suffer him to erercise it in satire, or even in felfdefence ; So that Sew repartees of his are deliver'^ down. Among these was one in return to Sir John Trevor, who was made master of the rolls by King ârnes, with whom he was in high favour, and expellld for bribery by the house of commons, while he was -praker of it. This gentleman, who, with a very obnoxins character, effected very high principles in church and âse, passing by the archbishop in the batife oSLords Soon aSter his promotion, Said in a tone loud enough to be heard hy his Grace, " l hale a fanatic in lawn ^leeyes,'' To which the archbishop an- Swer'd, in a lower voice,"and I hate a âve in any sleeves.'' This story is related likewise, with the difference of ^ e citcurnstancess thatîr JohnTre- vor's words were carried to his Grace by Dr. Manningham, then chaplain at the Ro/h, upon Sir John's bidding him deliver them to the archbishop, whuin the dcoctor was going to visit, though without any imagination that the doctor would be the bearer of Such a message; to which he was too faithful, and even brought back his Grace's reply to the master of the rolls Another instance of this talent sâs upon occasion of Dr. South's Anamadveyfions on Dr. Sherlock's Vindication of the Triniey, in 1 693 • Dr. South being desirous to know the archbishop's opinion of bis performance, wherein he had occasionally reflected upon him for hisfigna/ and peculiar encomium, as he Catls it, of the reeisening abilities of the SoCinrans, procured a a friend of his to draw it from his Grace, who gave it to this effect, that the doctor wrote /ike a man, but bit like a dog. This being reported to the doctor, he anSwer'd, that he had rather bite like a dog, than Sawn like one. To which the archbishop replied, that Sor his own part, he should chufe to be a spanie/ rather than a cur. He lived in a due neglect oS his per- Son and contempt of pleaSure, but never affected pompous severities. In his Sunction, he was not only a constant preacher, but likewise diligent in all the other parts as his duty ; for though he had no cure of fouls, yet sew who had laboured So painfully as he did, in visiting the sick, in comforting tire afflicted, and in Settling Such, as were either wavering in their opinions, or troubled in mind. His love for the real philofophy of nature, and his conviction that the study of it is the solid Support oS religion, induced him, not many yeare after the establishment of the Roya/ Society, to desire to be admitted into that assembly of the greatest men of the age , into which he was accordingly elected on the 25 thus January, 1671. having been proposed on the iSth as a candidate by Dr. Sella Ward, bishop of Salisbury ; and he was admitted a memon the i 4th of ALa'ck.
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