yet true. He was a man of great business "and great resort: Semper aliquis in Cydonis "domo, as the Corinthians said, there was al

ways somebody in Cydon's house'. He σε was μερίζων τον βίον ἔργῳ και βίβλω, he di "vided his life into labour and his book; " he took care of his churches when he was "alive, and even after his death, having "left five hundred pounds for the repair of "his cathedral of Armagh, and St. Peter's "church in Drogheda: he was an excellent "scholar, and rarely well accomplished; first "instructed to great excellency by natural "parts, and then consummated by study and "experience. Melancthon was used to say, "that himself was a logician, Pomeranus a

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grammarian, Justus Jonas an orator, but "that Luther was all these. It was greatly "true of him, that the single perfections " which make many men eminent, were united “in this primate, and made him illustrious. "It will be hard to find his equal in all

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things for in him was visible the great "lines of Hooker's judiciousness, of Jewel's

1 See Suidas under the Article 'A

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m Synesius says of himself, Ep. 57 ευχῇ και βίβλω και θήρα μερίζων τὸν βίον. Taylor has it μερίζων τὸν βίον ἔργω και βίβλω, quoting most probably from memory.

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But independent of the character here drawn of this great prelate, the sermon contains other passages of admirable beauty and commanding force. Speaking of Christ's resurrection, he says, "this article was so clearly proved, that presently it came to pass that men were no longer ashamed of "the cross, but it was worn upon breasts, printed in the air, drawn upon foreheads, "carried upon banners, put upon crowns imperial; presently it came to pass that "the religion of the despised Jesus did infinitely prevail: a religion that taught men "to be meek and humble, apt to receive injuries, but unapt to do any: a religion that gave countenance to the poor and pitiful, "in a time when riches were adored, and "ambition and pleasure had possessed the "hearts of all mankind; a religion that would

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change the face of things, and the hearts “of men, and break vile habits into gentle"ness and counsel; that such a religion, in "such a time, by the sermons and conduct

* Δεκτές Εμβολιμαίος, p. 113. a Supplement to Ενιαυτος.

"of fishermen, men of mean breeding and "illiberal arts, should so speedily triumph "over the philosophy of the world, and the

arguments of the subtle, and the sermons "of the eloquent; the power of princes, and "the interests of states, the inclinations of "nature, and the blindness of zeal, the force "of custom, and the solicitation of passions, "the pleasures of sin and the busy arts of the "devil; that is, against wit and power, superstition and wilfulness, fame and money, "nature and empire, which are all the causes "in this world that can make a thing impossible; this is to be ascribed to the power "of God, and is the great demonstration of "the resurrection of Jesus." "

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"As for the recalling the wicked from their graves, it is no otherwise in the sense of "the spirit to be called a resurrection, than

taking a criminal from the prison to the "bar, is a giving of liberty. When poor "Attilius Aviola had been seized on by "an apoplexy, his friends supposing him "dead carried him to his funeral pile: but, "when the fire began to approach, and the

Sermon at the Funeral of the Lord Primate. Supplement to the Enauтos, p. 100.

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seeing himself incircled with funeral flames, "called out aloud to his friends to rescue, "not the dead, but the living Aviola from "that horrid burning: but it could not be,

he only was restored from his sickness to "fall into death, and from his dull disease "to a sharp and intolerable torment. Just "so shall the wicked live again; they shall "receive their souls, that they may be a

portion for devils; they shall receive their "bodies that they may feel the everlasting

burnings they shall see Christ, that they "may look on him whom they have pierced : "and they shall hear the voice of God pass

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ing upon them the intolerable sentence;

they shall come from their graves that they "may go into hell; and live again, that they

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may die for ever. So have we seen a poor "condemned criminal, the weight of whose "sorrows sitting heavily upon his soul, hath "benumbed him into a deep sleep, till he "hath forgotten his groans, and laid aside "his deep sighings; but on a sudden comes "the messenger of death, and unbinds the

poppy garland, scatters the heavy cloud "that incircled his miserable head, and makes "him return to acts of life, that he may

quickly descend into death and be no more. "So is every sinner that lies down in shame, "and makes his grave with the wicked; he "shall indeed rise again, and be called upon

by the voice of the archangel; but then he "shall descend into sorrows greater than the "reason and the patience of a man, weeping "and shrieking louder than the groans of the "miserable children in the valley of Hinnom. "These indeed are sad stories, but true as "the voice of God." "

P Supplement to Enauтos, p. 102.