instruction. So zealous was he also in appointing industrious and careful tutors, that in a short time many were fitted to do service in the church and state.

In his professorship he behaved himself very plausible to the generality, especially for this reason, that in his lectures, disputes, and moderatings, (which were always frequented by many auditors) he shewed himself a stout champion against Socinus and Arminius. Which being disrelished by some, who were then rising, and in authority at court, a faction thereupon grew up in the university between those called Puritans or Calvinists on the one side, and the Remonstrants, commonly called Arminians, on the other: Which with other matters of the like nature, being not only fomented in the university, but throughout the nation, all things thereupon were brought into confusion.'

After he had been twenty-six years professor, he was one of those persons of an unblemished reputation, that his majesty, though late, made a bishop, by the means of the marquis of Hamilton, once his pupil.

He was elected bishop of Worcester the twenty-second of November, and was consecrated at Westminster the nineteenth of December following, 1641, but received little or no profit from it. So that upon that account, and for his adhering to his Majesty in the time of the grand rebellion, (wherein he pronounced all those of his diocese that took up arms against him, excommunicated) he became at length so impoverished, as to be obliged to sell his excellent library for the subsistence of himself and family. He died of a fever at Bredan in Worcestershire, at the house of his son-in-law, Dr. Henry. Sutton, on the thirtieth of July 1650; leaving to his children no legacy, but Pious poverty, GoD's blessing, and a "fa"ther's prayers," as the words of his will expressed it.

Cleveland, the poet, wrote an elegy upon his death.

He was an humble man, of plain and downright behaviour, careless of money, and imprudent in worldly matters. He often used to say, after his advancement, "If I could have been clerk of Ugborow, I had never "been Bishop of Worcester." All that knew him esteemed him as an excellent linguist, a person of a prodigious memory, and so profound a divine, that some had been pleased to entitle him, Columna fidei orthodoxa, et Malleus Hereticorum, Patrum Pater, and ingens Schola et Academia

et Academia oraculum. In him (to use the words of Mr. Nath. Carpenter, in his Geography Delineated) the heroical wits of Jewel, Rainolds, and Hooker, as united into one, seemed to triumph anew, and to have threatened a fatal blow to the Babylonish hierarchy: Insomuch that he might have justly challenged to himself that glory, which sometimes Ovid did, speaking of his own country,

Mantua Virgilium laudet, Verona Catullum:

Romanæ gentis gloria dicar ego.'

As his learning was admired by foreigners, Sext. Amama, Rivet, and others, so were his Books, especially those written in Latin; a catalogue of which, and of the English, follow.

I. Tabula ad Grammaticam Græcam introductoria, &c. Oxon. 1608, 1629-39, &c. qu. II. Tyrocinium ad Syllogismum legitimum contexendum. III. Heptades Logica: Sive monita ad ampliores tractatus introductoria. These two last are printed, and go with the Tabula, &c. IV Castigatio cujusdem circulatoris, qui R. P. Andream Eudamon.- Johannem Cydonium E. Soc. Jesu seipsum nuncupat. Opposita ipsius calumniis in Epistolam Isaaci Casauboni ad Frontonem Eucæum. Oxon. 1626, qu. V. Allogium sereniss. Reg. Jacobo, Woodstochiæ habitum, 24 Aug. 1624, printed in one sheet, in quarto. VI. Orationes novem inaugurales, de totidem Theologia apicibus, prout in promotione Doctorum, Oxoniæ publicè proponebantur in Comitiis. Oxon. 1626, qu. VII. Lectiones decem de totidem religionis capitibus, præcipuè hoc tempore controversis, prout publicè habebantur Oxoniæ in vesperis. Oxon. 1625, qu. VIII. Several Sermons: as, 1. Sermon at the consecration of Exeter College chapel, on Luke xix. 46. Oxon. 1665, qu. 2. Perez Uzzah, Sermon before the King at Woodstock, on 2 Sam. vi. 6, 7. Oxon. 1625, qu. 3. Čoncio ad art. Baccalureos pro more habitá in ecclesiá B. Mariæ Oxon. in die cinerum, in Acts ii. 22. ann. 1616. Oxon. 1626. IX. Twenty-seven Sermons. Oxon. 1636, qu. The two first of which are entitled "Christ's Counsel "for ending Law Cases." Among them are the Consecration Sermon, and Perez Uzzah before mentioned. X. Nine Sermons on several Occasions. Oxon. 1641, qu. XI. Lectiones xxii, Orationes xiii. Consciones vi. et Oratio ad Jacobum Regem. Oxon. 1648, fol. Among which are contained the former Lections, Orations, and Speech to King James at Woodstock. XII. Fasciculus controver,

siarum ad Juniorum aut occupatorum captum collegatus, &c. Oxon. 1649, 51, 52, qu. XIII. Theologia Scholastica Syntagme Mnemonicum. Oxon. 1651. XIV. Conciliorum Synopsis. Printed with the Syntagma before-mentioned. Published in English at the end of " An easy and com"pendious Introduction for reading all sorts of Histo"ries." XV. History of Successions in States, Countries, or Families, &c. Oxon. 1653, &c. XVI. Epistola de Episcopatu, fol. A fragment of which I have seen in one folio sheet. XVII. Euchologia: Or, the Doctrine of practical Praying, being a legacy left to his daughters in private, and dedicated to them. Lond. 1655-6, oct. XVIII. The Doctrine of Conscience, framed according to the Form in the Common-Prayer, left as a legacy to his wife-printed in tw. XIX. Manuductio ad Theologiam polemicam. Oxon. 1657, oct. Published by Mr. Thomas Barlow, with an Epistle before it, in the name of the printer. XX. Hypomnemata Logica, Rhetorica Phys. Metaphys. &c. Oxon. in oct. XXI. Sacred Eloquence: Or, the Art of Rhetoric, as it is laid down in Scripture. Lond. 1659, oct. A Comment on the Church Catechism is also said to be printed in his name, 1656, in oct.

He was accompanied to his grave, in the chancel of Braddon church, by many persons of quality in the neighbourhood of that place. Over his grave was a plain stone soon after laid, with an epitaph composed by himself, (the day and year of his death excepted) engraven on a brass plate, fixed thereto, the copy of which is already printed: (In Hist. et Antiq. Univers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 99.) Wherein it is recorded, that he was some time chaplain to Prince Henry, and afterwards to King James and King Charles I.

A great number of foreigners, who have been eminent in their respective countries, as well as several of our own country, men of the first rank, resorted to Exeter college for his sake, and have had chambers and diet there, purposely to improve themselves by his company, his instruction, and direction for their course of studies. Some of them have been divines of note, and others lay-men of great eminence.

ANDREW RIVET, D. D.

WE cannot present our readers a more edifying and

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satisfactory account of this wonderful man, than what hath been formerly published by Mr. Nehemiah Coxe, under the title of "A Believer's Triumph over Death, exemplified in a Relation of the LAST HOURS of Dr. "Andrew Rivet." Mr. Coxe appears to have translated the narrative from the Latin one, which was annexed to an edition of Dr. Rivet's works, and which itself is a translation, of the French original. We will only premise, that Dr. Rivet was a Frenchman, and left his country upon the score of religion, retiring to and spending the remainder of his days in Holland.

The multitude and variety of memorable things which occur in this narrative (says the pious Author of it) doth so much amaze us, that through fear of our own insufficiency either to remember, or express them in a due manner, and according to their dignity and worth, we cannot but wish this task had been undertaken by abler hands. But seeing it is matter of fact, and words heard, which we are to give an account of, we had rather (so we may but serve the profit of our friends) expose our prudence unto censure, than be defective in our care and good endeavours in this matter; wherein, that we might be sure to write nothing but most certain truth, we have chosen to bury many things in oblivion, by a silent passing over what we have but an imperfect remembrance of; and shall content ourselves to make a rehearsal, with simplicity and truth, of those grave and almost divine speeches; which, as they were poured forth by this holy man, were faithfully preserved, partly in the memory, and partly in the written notes of those who constantly attended on him. And yet though we employ our utmost dili

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gence herein, we shall never be able to give them their just weight and emphasis; for who can imitate that flowing stream of words which with equal wisdom and piety proceeded from him, in an (almost) continued discourse, for the space of twelve days and as many nights? Or who can represent to the life the motions of a mind boiling with meditations, when the Spirit of GOD administered such an extemporary effort of savings, proceeding from his fruitful breast, and gravely uttered when his senses were no ways impaired, as he was diversely acted either by grief and fear, or hope and joy?

It will be but necessary, before we enter upon the relation of other things, briefly to mention something concerning the temper and disposition of this holy person, and his circumstances before his last sickness, that the grace of GoD towards his servant may appear the more illustrious; when we see with what care and providence he disposed his affairs in the whole course of his life, but especially in this last act thereof.

Besides those excellent gifts, wherewith he was adorned (which cannot here be reckoned up particularly), through the goodness of GOD he had been favoured with the enjoyment of a sound mind in a sound and healthy body; he was of a cheerful and sedate spirit, holding on in an even course of life, neither lifted up with prosperity, nor cast down by adversity. So that by the habit of a comely and moderate deliberation, he was ever blessed with an inward joy, and possessed all things with delight and gratitude; being no less ready to part with them without regret and trouble, pursuing his own profit and advantage in a serious contemplation of the vanity of all worldly things; often repeating that of the apostle, The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal, 2 Cor. iv. 18. He was never moved with sorrowful events that fell out suddenly, whether in public, or in his private concerns, as a man surprized by an unexpected evil; neither was the tranquillity of his mind shaken by them: He was wont to say, Nothing is impossible; I wonder at nothing." Neither, on the contrary, did he at any time break forth into a loose and immoderate joy; as being one set in an higher place, and looking down upon all things here be

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