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whole world, there fhall alfo this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. There is no furer way for great men to obtain it, than by patronifing letters, arts, and fciences; for these are always grateful, and both willing and able to tranfmit the names of their friends to the latest generations. They who are not to be moved by thefe motives, may hope for reputation; but they will reap as they sow; and never be* praised, except by hangers-on of their own ftamp and capacity, or by dedicators, whofe works ufually die before them, and who certainly will have no intereft with posterity.

Excluded, on one account or other, from every obvious topic, and fcarce knowing which way to turn, and how to proceed,-I refolved to look back to times paft, and to recollect, what old annals and the voice of the public had formerly declared concerning worthy Prelates. This had a promifing afpect, and feemed to open the way to modest, inoffenfive, and inftructive defcription. Here allo was a plentiful variety of materials, — of every

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quality that conftitutes a great and a good man. Here were to be found diligence, patience, activity, candour, and integrity: here was religion without formality, liberality without oftentation, ferioufness without moroseness, and cheerfulness without levity: here was gentlenefs to others, and felffeverity: here was useful learning, and a love of those who loved and purfued it, and a care to confer favours upon thofe who deferved them: here was a contempt and diflike for detracting fycophants, and fawning parafites: here was affability to inferiors: here were other bright virtues, and endearing accomplishments, which fhall not be recounted; for there is already reafon to fear that justice has not been done to the dignity of the fubject.

May the great Author of every good gift enable us, each in our several stations, to act an honest and prudent part; till we arrive at the mansions, where all earthly diftinctions ceafe, and give place to those which are made by piety and virtue: where we shall meet with innumerable beings, better, and greater, and wifer than ourselves; where, as none will be unhappy and difcontented, there may be room for pious Emulation, but not for Jealousy and Envy; and where all, how different foever in glory, will be united by love, and charity, and friendship, and gratitude, and condescension, and efteem!

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From the APPENDIX to Dr. BIRCH's Life of TILLOTSON, Second Edition. Page 426. Number III.

FOLIO EDITION.

VOL. I. SERMON XXXV.

THIS Sermon hath been attacked by Cavillers at home and abroad, and defended by LE CLERC, in the Bibliotheque Choife.

IBID. SERMON XXXVI.

"The poet feigns of Achilles, that by fome charm, or gift of the Gods, he was invulnerable, except in the heel, &c. The wife poet inftructing us, &c."

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This is a fall flip in our excellent author; for the Poet, xal' ox, is Homer, who hath faid nothing concerning this Fable of Achilles.

IBID. SERMON XLIII, &c.

Tillotson printed thefe Sermons on the Divinity of Chrift, to vindicate himself from the charge of Socinianifm: that is, from an accufation entirely groundless. I have been told, that Crellius, a Socinian, - and a defcendant from the more celebrated Crellius, who used, when he came over hither, to vifit the Archbishop, and to converse with him, juftified him on this head; and declared that "Tillotson had often difputed with him, in a friendly way, upon the fubject of the Trinity; and that he was the best reafoner, and had the most to say for himself, of any adversary he had ever encountered."

But then, Tillotfon had made fome conceffions concerning the Socinians, which never were, and never will be forgiven him; and hath broken an ancient and fundamental rule of theological controverfy; "Allow not an adverfary to have either common fenfe, or common honefty."

Here is the obnoxious paffage:

"And yet, to do right to the writers on that "fide, I must own, that generally they are a pattern of the fair way of difputing, and of debat

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ing matters of religion without heat and unfeemly reflections upon their adverfaries. "They generally argue matters with that temper "and gravity, and with that freedom from paf"fion and transport, which becomes a ferious and "weighty argument; and, for the most part, "they reafon clofely, and clearly, with extraor"dinary guard and caution; with great dexterity "and decency, and yet with smartness and sub"tilty enough; with a very gentle heat, and few "hard words: virtues, to be praised, wherever "they are found; yea even in an enemy, and very worthy our imitation. In a word, they "are the strongest managers of a weak cause, and "which is ill founded at the bottom, that perhaps

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ever yet meddled with controverfy; infomuch, "that fome of the Proteftants, and the generality "of the Popish writers, and even of the Jesuits "themselves, who pretend to all the reafon and

fubtilty in the world, are in comparison of them "but mere fcolds and bunglers. Upon the whole matter, they have but this one great defect, "that they want a good cause, and truth on their

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fide; which if they had, they have reason, and "wit, and temper enough to defend it.”

The thought, which is contained in the last fentence, resembles that of Quintilian, who fays of Seneca: "Multa probanda in eo, multa etiam admiranda funt: eligere modo cure fit, quod

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