make of our rewarding him thus for that Service; or what this example will avail to the alluring of others to conformity. What should your Lordfoip have gained if he had dyed (as it was almost a miracle he did not) under Arrest, and had been at once deprived of Living, Liberty and Life. God hath reprieved him, and given your Lordfbip means upon right Information, to remedy with one Word all inconveniences. For conclufion (good my Lord) give me leave a little to apply the Parable of Nathan to King David to this purpofe: If the wayfaring man, that is come to us (for fuch he is, having never yet been fettled in one place) have So foarp a Stomach that he must be provided for with Pluralities, fith there are Herds and Flocks plenty; fuffer him not, I beseech you under the colour of the King's name to take the coffet Ewe of a poor Man, to fatisfe his ravenous appetite. So I beseech the Heavenly Phyfician to give your Lordfbip health of Soul and Body. I rest,

By thefe practices was the printing of the Bible in Irish stopt at that time, but if the Rebellion had not prevented our Bifhop, he was refolved to have had it done in his own House, and at his own charge; and as preparatory to that, he made fome of Chryfoftome's Homilies, the three firft upon the parable of the rich Man and Lazarus, together with fome of Leo's; all which tended chiefly to commend the Scriptures in the higheft ftrains of Eloquence that were poffible, to be tranflated both into Englife and Irish; and re-printing his Catechifm, he added thefe to it in both Languages: and thefe were very well received, even by the Priefts and Fryers themfelves.

He lived not to finish this great design; yet notwithstanding the Rebellion and Confufion that followed in Ireland, the Manufcript of the Tranflation of the Bible efcaped the ftorm, and falling into good Hands, it is at this time under the Prefs, and is carried on chiefly by the zeal, and at the charge of that noble Chriftian Philofopher Mr. Boyle, who as he reprinted upon his own charge the new Teftament, fo he very cheerfully went into a Propofition for reprinting the old. But this is only one of many inftances, by which he has expressed, as well his great and active zeal for carrying on the true intereft of Religion, as by his other publick labours he has advanced and improved Philofophy.

But to go on with the concerns of our Bifhop, as he had great zeal for the purity of the Chriftian Religion in oppofition to the

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corruptions of the Church of Rome; so he was very moderate in all other matters, that, were not of fuch importance, He was a great fupporter of Mr. Dury's defign of reconciling the Lutherans and the Calvinists; and as he directed him by many learned and prudent Letters, that he wrote to him on that Subject, fo he allowed him 20 l. a year in order to the discharging the Expence of that negotiation; which he payed punctually to his Correfpondent at London. And it appeared by his managing of a bufinefs that fell out in Ireland, That if all that were concerned in that matter, had been bleft with fuch an underftanding, and fuch a temper as he had, there had been no reafon to have defpaired of it. There came a company of Lutherans to Dublin, who were afraid of joining in Communion with, the Church of Ireland, and when they were, cited to anfwer for it to the Archbishop's Confiftory, they defired fome time might be grant-, ed them for confulting their Divines in Germany: And at laft Letters were brought from thence concerning their Exceptions to Communion with that Church; because the Prefence of Chrift in the Sacrament was not explained in such a manner, as agreed with their DocThe Archbishop of Dublin fent these to our Bishop, that he might answer them; and upon that he writ fo learned and fo full an Answer to all their Objections, and explained the matter fo clearly, that when this was seen by the German Divines, it gave them such entire fatisfaction, that upon it they advised their

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Countrymen to join in Communion with the Church. For fuch is the moderation of our Church in that matter, that no positive defini tion of the manner of the Prefence being made, Men of different fentiments may agree in the fame acts of Worship, without being obliged to delare their Opinion, or being understood to do any thing contrary to their feveral Perfwafions.

His moderation in this matter was a thing of no danger to him, but he expreffed it on o❤ ther Inftances, in which it appeared that he was not afraid to own it upon more tender occafions. The troubles that broke out in Scot land upon the account of the Book of Common Prayer, which encreased to the height of the fwearing the Covenant and putting down of Epifcopacy, and the turning out of all Clergy Men that did not concur with them, are fo well known that I need not inlarge upon them. It is not to be denied but provocati ons were given by the heats and indifcretions of fome Men; but these were carried so far beyond all the bounds either of order in the Church, or peace in the State, that, to give things their proper names, it was a Schifmatical rage against the Church, back'd with a rebellious fury against the ftate. When the Bishop heard of all these things, he said, that which Nazianzene faid at Conftantinople, when the ftir was raised in the fecond General Council npon his account, If this great tempeft is risen for our fakes, take us up, and caft us into the Sea, that fo there may be a Calm. And if all

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others had governed their Dioceses, as he did his, one may adventure to affirm after Dr. Ber nard, That Epifcopacy might have been kept Bill upon its Wheels. Some of thofe that were driven out of Scotland, by the fury of that time, came over to Ireland: among these there was one Corbet, that came to Dublin, who being a Man of quick Parts, writ a very fmart Book, fhewing the parallel between the Jefuites and the Scotch Covenanters, which he printed under the Title of Lyfimachus Nicanor. The Spirit that was in this Book, and the sharpness of the ftile procured the Author fuch favour, that a confiderable Living falling in the Bishop of Killala's Gift, he was recommended to it, and fo he went to that Bifhop; but was ill received by him. The Bifhop had a great affection to his Country (for he was a Scotchman born) and though he condemned the courfes they had taken, yet he did not love to see them exposed in a ftrange Nation, and did not like the Man that had done it. The Bishop was a little fharp upon him; he played on his Name: Corby in Scotch being a Raven, and faid it was an ill Bird that defiled its own Neft. And whereas he had faid in his Book, That he had hardly escaped with his own life, but had left his Wife be hind him to try the humanity of the Scots; he told him, He had left his Wife to a very bafe office. Several other things he faid, which in themselves amounted to nothing, but only expreffed an Inclination to leffen the faults of the Scots, and to aggravate fome

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