secrated September 22, 1609. He was nominated one of his majesty's privy councellors of England; and afterwards of Scotland, when he attended the king in his journey to that kingdom. After he had sat nine years in that see, he was advanced to the bishopric of Winchester, and deanery of the king's chapel, February 18, 1618; which two last preferments he held till his death.

There is a pleasant story related of him, while he was bishop of Winchester, in the life of Mr Waller the poet. That gentleman going to see the king at dinner, overheard a very extraordinary conversation between his majesty and two prelates, our Bishop of Winchester, and Dr Neale, bishop of Durham, who were standing behind the king's chair. His majesty asked the bishops, 'My lords, • cannot I take my subjects money when I want it, without all this formality in parliament?' The bishop of Durham readily answered, God forbid, sir, but you should; you are the breath of our nostrils.' Whereupon the king turned, and said to the bishop of Winchester, Well, my lord, what say you?' "Sir, (replied "the Bishop) I have no skill to judge of parliamentary "cases." The king answered, No put-offs, my lord;

answer me presently.' "Then, sir, (said he) I think "it lawful for you to take my brother Neale's money, for

" he offers it."

This great prelate was in no less reputation and esteem with K. Charles I. than he had been with his predecessors. At length he departed this life, at Winchester-house in Southwark, September 25, 1626, in the seventy-first year of his age; and was buried in the parish-church of St Saviour's Southwark; where his executors erected to him a very fair monument of marble and alabaster, on which is an elegant Latin inscription, written by one of his chaplains. His bones, not many years since, were displaced, and upon taking them away (as it seems) to make room for other occupants, the hair of his beard, and his silken cap, were found undecayed in the remains of hist coffin.

His WORKS. Besides the Tortura Torti, bishop Andrews wrote A Manual of private Devotions and Meditations for every Day in the Week, and A Manual of Direc

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*This excellent Piece was written in Greek and Latin. generally taken from the fcriptures, or made as nearly as poffible to them in a precative form. They are, of course, full of pathos and fervent affection. A very proper book for ferious young perfons, who are acquiring the learned languages.

Directions for the visitation of the sick; besides Sermons, and several tracts in English and Latin published after his death. He had a share in the translation of the pentateuch, and the historical books from Joshua, to the first book of Chronicles exclusively.

The character of bishop Andrews, both public and pri vate, was in every respect great and singular. The author of his life, so often referred to, celebrates in particuJar his great zeal and piety, his charity and compassion, his fidelity and integrity, his gratitude and thankfulness, his munificence and bounty, his hospitality, his humanity and affability, his modesty, his diligent application to study, and his talents as a preacher and a writer. He generally hated all sorts of vices, but more especially three, which were, usury, simony, and sacrilege. K. James had so great an awe and veneration for him, that, in his presence he refrained from that mirth and levity, in which he indulged himself at other times. What opinion my lord Clarendon had of him, appears from hence, that, in mentioning the death of Dr Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury, he remarks, that if he had been succeeded by bishop Andrews, or any man who understood and loved the church, that infection would easily have been kept out, which could not afterwards be so easily expelled.' Our great poet Milton thought him worthy of his pen, and wrote a Latin Elegy on his death. His stile and manner of writing, however admired in that age, are very exceptionable in the opinion of the best critics of the pre

sent.

We will sum up the character of this truly reverend man, in the words of the bishop of Ely, which he delivered in his sermon upon the occasion of his death. His admirable knowledge in the learned tongues, Latin, Greek, Hebrew Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, besides • other modern tongues to the number of fifteen (as I am informed), was such and so rare, that he may well be ranked in the first place, to be one of the rarest linguists ⚫ in Christendom; in which he was so perfect and absolute, both for grammar and profound knowledge therein, that he was so perfect in the grammar and cri⚫ticisms of them, as if he had utterly neglected the matter itself; and yet was so exquisite and sound in the matter and learning of these tongues, as if he had never regarded the grammar.Of this Reverend prelate, I may say, his life was a life of prayer: A great part of • five hours every day, he spent in prayer and devotion to VOL. II. E e • God.

God. After the death of his brother Thomas Andrews, whom he loved dearly, he began to reckon of his own, which he said would be in the end of summer or the beginning of winter. And when his brother Nicholas • Andrews died, he took that as a certain warning of his own death; and from that time till the hour of his dissolution, he spent all his time in prayer. And in his last sickness continued, when awake, to pray audibly, 'till his strength failed, and then by lifting up his eyes and hands, shewed that he still prayed; and then when both voice, and eyes, and hands, failed in their office, his countenance shewed that he still prayed and praised God in his heart, till it pleased God to receive his blessed soul to himself, which was about four o'clock in the morning of Monday the twenty-fifth of September,

• 1626.'

His WORKS, besides those above mentioned. " 1.Rem sponsio ad Apologiam Cardinalis Bellarmini, quam nuper edidit contra Prefationem Monitoriam serenissimi ac potentissimi principis Jacobi, &c. omnibus Christianis Monarchis, Principibus, atque Ordinibus inscriptam, i. e. An Answer to the Apology of Cardinal Bellarmin, which he lately published against the Monitory Preface of the most serene and potent Prince King James, &c. addressed to all Christian Monarchs, Princes, and States. 2. Tortura Torti. 3. Concio ad Clerum pro Gradu Doctoris. i. e. A Sermon to the Clergy for the Degree of Doctor in Divinity. 4. Concie ad Clerum in Synodo Provinciali Cantuariensis Provinciæ ad Divi Pauli. i. e. A Sermon to the Clergy in the Provincial Synod of the Province of Canterbury, at St Paul's. 5. Concio Latine habita coram regia Majestate quinto Augusti M DC VI, in Aula Grenvici, quo tempore venerat in Angliam, Regem nostrum invisurus, serenissimus potentissimusque princeps Christianus Quartus Dania & Norvegia Rex. i. e. A Latin Sermon, preached before the King in the Hall at Greenwich, August 5, 1606, at the time when the most serene and powerful Prince Christiern IV. King of Denmark and Norway, was come into England to visit our King. 6. Concio Latine habita coram regia Majestate decims tertio Aprilis M DC XIII, in Aula Grenvici, quo tempore, cum lectissima sua conjuge, discessurus erat Gener Regis, serenissimus potentissimusque princeps Fridericus Comes Palatinus ad Rhenum. i. e. A Latin Sermon, preached before the King in the Hall at Greenwich, April 13, 1613, when the King's Son-in-law, the most serene and potent prince Frederic Count palatine of the Rhine, was about to depart

with his dearest Consort. 7. Questionis nunquid per jus divinum magistratui liceat à reo jusjurandum exigere? & id quatenus & quousque liceat? Theologica Determinatio, habita in publica Schola Theologica Cantabrigia mense Julii, Anno 1591. i. e. A Theological Determination of the question, Whether the Civil magistrate has a right by the Law of GOD, to require an oath of an accused person, and how far it may be lawful; held in the public Divinity School of Cambridge, in the month of July, 1591. 8. De Usuris Theologica Determinatio, habita in publica Schola Theologica Cantabrigia. i. e. A Theological Determination concern. ing Usury, held in the public Divinity School of Cambridge. 9. De Decimis Theologica Determinatio, habita in publica Schola Theologica Cantabrigia. i. e. A Theological Determination concerning Tythes, held in the public Divinity School of Cambridge 10. Responsiones ad Petri Molinai Epistolas. i. e. Answers to three of Du Moulin's Letters, with Du Moulin's Letters. 11. Strictura: Or, A Brief Answer to the Eighteenth Chapter of the first Book of Cardinal Perron's Reply, written in French, to K. James his answer written by Mr Casaubon in Latin. 12. An Answer to the twentieth Chapter of Cardinal Perron's Reply, &'c. 13. A Speech delivered. in the Star Chamber, concerning Vows, in the Countess of Shrewsbury's Case. These pieces were printed at London, after the Author's death, by Felix Kyngston, in 4to, 1629, and dedicated to K. Charles I. by the Bishops of London and Ely. There are extant, besides, 15. The Moral Law expounded: Or, Lectures on the Ten Commandments; whereunto is annexed nineteen Sermons upon Prayer in general, and upon the Lord's Prayer in particular; published by John Jackson, and dedicated to the Parliament, London, 1642, fol. 16. AжTasμatia Sacra : Or, A Collection of Posthumous and Orphan Lectures, delivered at St Paul's and St Giles's Cripplegate church, London. 1657, fol.

PHILIP DE MORNAY,

LORD OF PLESSIS MARLY.

PHILIP DE MORNAY, lord of Plessis Marly, an illustrious French Protestant, privy counsellor of Henry IV. and governor of Saumur, was born at Buhi in Vexin, upon the 5th of November, 1549. He was descended from a very ancient and noble family, which had in course of time divided itself into several branches, and produced many great and eminent men. His father, James de Mornay, had done great services to the royal family in the wars; but in the time of peace led a very retired life, and was greatly attached to the religion of his country. He designed Philip for the church, as he was a younger son, with a view of succeeding his uncle Bertin de Mornay, who was dean of Beauvais, and abbé of Saumur, and who had promised to resign those preferments to him; but these views were broken by the death of the uncle. In the mean time, his mother, who was the daughter of Charles du Bec Crespin, vice-admiral of France, and chamberlain to Francis II. was secretly an Hugonot; and had taken care to inspire her son insensibly with her own principles. His father died about two years after his uncle, when Philip was not more than ten years of age; and two years after, viz. in 1561, in reading the New Testament, it pleased the Lord so to enlighten him by that means, as to enable him to discover and abandon the errors and superstitions of the church of Rome : And, in the same year, his mother, making open profession of the Protestant religion, set up a lecture in her own house, which perfectly confirmed Philip in it. His literary education was all the while carrying on, with the utmost care and circumspection: He had masters provided in all languages and sciences; and the progress he made in all, was what might be expected from his very uncommon parts and applica

tion.