XII. "Some likewise turned lawyers, and found greater advantage by it." And running my writings over, he produces thence four instances, and then adds, "that some got a notable living by drawing bonds, bills, leases, making wills, covenant articles, and other acts and deeds of an attorney-at-law."

What occasion he had from hence to boast, of "the great moderation and tenderness of civil and ecclesiastical governors towards the ejected," I cannot imagine.

XIII. "Several who refused, or rather declined conformity, applied themselves to other secular business and employments, and found the way of thriving in them."+

He mentions some instances of this kind out of my writings. These are a better proof of the commendable diligence and industry of the parties concerned, than of "the moderation and tenderness of civil or ecclesiastical governors" towards them.

XIV. "Some of less abilities and meaner spirits, were reduced to the necessity of taking up very mean employments."

I am referred to for instances, without the least hint or touch by way of compassion, which I should have thought might have been very becoming upon the occasion. What proof can from hence be fetched of "the great moderation and tenderness of civil and ecclesiastical governors?" I believe most persons will find themselves much to seek.

XV. "Some of the silenced preachers possibly returned to their original trades and occupations."§

To which it is sufficient to answer, that possibly they did not. But had this been the chief effect of the Act of Uniformity, neither our fathers, nor we after them, should have so much complained.||

Hist. Reg. pp. 906, 907.-C. +Ibid.-C.

Ibid. p. 907.-C. § Ibid. p. 908.-C.

Here a learned Presbyterian divine may be thought not very "kindly affectioned" towards some who had left "their original trades and occupations," or had availed themselves of what leisure these would allow to become Christian teachers. They were, probably, as Robert Robinson (Adv.

XVI. "Many of the Nonconforming Ministers had good estates of their own, which might induce them the rather to refrain from Conformity while they had sufficient temporals to live upon.'

Instances are produced out of my writings. No thanks were, in such cases, due to "the moderation and tenderness of civil or ecclesiastical governors towards the ejected," which our collector professed to be here displaying.

to Claude) describes some of his contemporaries, “illiterate,” though not C6 ignorant," especially "of religion, that only science," they were expected "to teach." Dr. Calamy had, indeed, been subjected, in very early life, to an influence little assistant towards the formation of a just and candid judgment, in such cases.

The Rev. Thomas Doolittle, his instructor, "at eleven years of age," (see vol. i. pp. 105–109,) appears, though professedly a "plain presbyter," to have been truly a "priest writ large." In "an humble address" to his "reverend brethren," prefixed to his "Plain method of Catechising," now before me, this soi-disant least among the brethren," thus illustrates his humility, by ridiculing and reviling, with an intermixture of learned phrase, (too indecorous for modern quotation,) Christians who had discovered a zeal to teach what they knew, without waiting for the sanction of a learned ministry.

"Consider the bold invasion of the ministerial office by barbers, drapers, farmers, tailors, shoemakers, &c." Then Paul (1 Cor. vii. 20,) is made to supply "a caution that the barber should not go beyond his razor, nor the draper beyond his ell, nor the tailor beyond his shears and thimble."

These Christian traders and artizans had, it seems, discovered their "presumption” by "confuting catechisms composed by assemblies of learned divines." Still worse," the people" were "prepared to flock after them." Hinc illæ lachrymæ. It was indispensable to counteract this "bold invasion of the ministerial office," even by running down the invaders, so far as reproach and ridicule could effect the purpose.

There was a successor of Thomas Doolittle, in Monkwell Street, as remote in disposition, on such a subject, as in the order of time. This was Dr. Lindsay, with whom, amidst other long regretted associates, I have enjoyed the advantage of some acquaintance. He was always prepared, and ardent, to encourage, among all conditions, the cultivation of the human intellect, and had too wisely improved his own acquisitions, ever to despise the valuable, though humbler attainments of the unlearned.-ED.

* Hist. Reg. pp. 908-910-C.

XVII. "Many of those teachers who suffered by ejection or silence, did afterwards improve their circumstances by marrying women of condition and good fortunes in the world, for better help and support to them."

Instances are produced from me. But this could never be ascribed to "the moderation or tenderness of civil or ecclesiastical governors."

XVIII. "Some of them, without visible income, lived well, upon occasional contributions, gifts, and collections, made for them and their families."+

Which was owing to the singular goodness of God, which they readily owned upon all occasions: but no thanks were due upon this account either "to civil or ecclesiastical governors."

XIX. "Many put into the number of ejected or silenced ministers were not Puritans or Presbyterians, or properly, Independents, but were truly fanatics, of such strange principles and notions, as rendered them incapable of conforming to any Established Church.”‡

But the Uniformity Act makes no distinction between such, and the most worthy persons, which is so far from being a proof of" the great moderation and tenderness of civil and ecclesiastical governors towards the ejected," that it was manifestly a great hardship upon them.

XX. "Some of the ministers who refused obedience to the Act of Uniformity, were then, or soon after, crazy and disordered in their heads and minds,§ and so became great objects of compassion."||

But the Act made no difference between them and others, nor made any provision for them, which is no great argument of "the moderation and tenderness of civil and ecclesiastical governors."

*Hist. Reg. p. 911.-C.

+Ibid.-C.

Ibid.-C.

§ Perhaps recollecting Dr. Cheynell. See Account, p. 676; Cont. p. 817; "Diary of Burton," i. p. xxxvii.-ED.

Hist. Reg. p. 912.-C.

No. 7. (supra, p. 535.)

DR. CALAMY'S PUBLICATIONS.

I. Exercitationes Philosophica de Fictis Innatarum idearum mysteriis, Pars secunda, quam, favente Deo Opt. Max. sub præsidio M. Gerardi de Vries,* Philosophiæ Doctoris, ejusdem facultatis in illustri Academia Ultrajectina Professoris Ordinarii publicè ventilandam proponit Edmundus Calamy, Londino-Anglus, ad diem 8 Decemb. horis locoque solitis.

Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht] officina Francisci Halma, Academiæ typographi, 1688.†

II. A Funeral Sermon, preached at the interment of Mr. Samuel

See vol. i. pp. 154, 158-162.-ED.

+ This college-exercise is not mentioned by the author, in the account of his academical life at Utrecht. For the knowledge of it, I am entirely indebted to the Library of the British Museum; where it appears in a 4to volume, entitled, "Dissert. Acad. Metaphysic. Variæ."

There were thirteen parts, by as many students. The last is dated November 1692; the fourth, dated April 1689, was by the author's early associate, Joseph Kentish. (See vol. i. pp. 127, 139, 311, 312, 316, 318.)

On the back of the title-page to this Pars secunda, is the following complimentary dedication to the author's grandfather, (see vol. i. p. 65.) and other friends and patrons of his youth.

"Amplissimis, Dignissimis, Nobilissimisque viris, D. D. Josuæ Gearing, Sen. D.D. Jacobo Leaver, Sen. ; Illi quidem Avo, Venerando, Generoso, Virtute et Gravitate, Pietate et Humanitate, admodum insigniter adornato : Huic Patruo Magno plurimum Honorando, Generoso, non minus ob varii generis Eruditionem, et omnium Virtutum in se quasi constellationem, quam ob Munia quam plurima publica summâ laude gesta ab omnibus celebrato : "Utrisque ob innumera in me collata beneficia, ad extremum usque vitæ, summo honore et cultu prosequendis :

"Juxta Quos

"D. D. Johanni Delmee, D.D. Thomæ Carpenter; Mercatoribus in celeberrimâ Civitate Londinensi æquissimis, ejusdemque Civibus undiquaque dignissimis, prudentiâ et ingenii perspicacià, æquè ac negotiationibus claris, Reverendi Patris mei (dum in vivis) Amicis fidelissimis, et ob quam plurimos favores in me prorsùs non merentem collatos in æternum etiam colendis :

"Hoc munusculum, una cum gratiis quam maximis,

"humillimè offero

"omni modo devinctus

"Edmundus Calamy, Resp."-ED.

Stevens, for some time employed in the work of the ministry in this city. 4to. London, 1694. (Vol. i. pp. 352, 353.)

III. A practical Discourse concerning vows, with a special reference to Baptism and the Lord's Supper, 8vo. 1694. Ed. 2, 12mo. 1704. (Vol. i. pp. 362, 363.)

IV. A Funeral Sermon, preached upon occasion of the decease of the eminently pious Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, late wife of the Reverend Mr. Daniel Williams; with some account of her exemplary character, 8vo. 1698. (Vol. i. pp. 405, 406.)

V. A Sermon to the Societies for Reformation of manners in London and Middlesex. 12mo. 1699. (Vol. i. pp. 410, 411.)

VI. A Discourse concerning the Rise and Antiquity of Cathedral Worship. Anon. 1699. (Vol. i. p. 418.)

VII. An Abridgment of Mr. Baxter's History of his Life and Times. With an account of many others of those worthy Ministers, who were ejected after the Restauration of King Charles the Second; their apology for themselves, and their adherents, containing the grounds of their Nonconformity, and practice, as to stated and occasional communion with the Church of England; and a continuation of their history till the year 1691. By Edmund Calamy, Edm. Fil. et Nepos. 8vo. 1702. Ed. 2, 1713, " in 2 volumes."* (Vol. i. p. 442, 455—459,† 474, 475; supra, pp. 245, note, 273, 274.)

VIII. Divine Mercy Exalted; or Free Grace in all its glory. Being a Sermon on Rom. ix. 16. Preached at the Merchants' Lecture at Salters' Hall, on Tuesday, October 20, 1702, by E. Calamy. E. F. et N. Published at the request of many encouragers of the Lecture. 8vo. 1703. (Vol. i. pp. 477–479.)

IX. A Defence of Moderate Nonconformity, in answer to the Reflections of Mr. Ollyffe and Mr. Hoadley, on the 10th chapter of the Abridgment of the Life of the Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter.

* Vol. I. is entitled, "An Abridgment of Mr. Baxter's History of his Life and Times, with an account of the Ministers, &c. who were ejected after the Restauration of King Charles II., their apology for themselves and their adherents, containing the grounds of their Nonconformity; their treatment in the reign of King Charles and King James, and after the Revolution; and the continuation of their history, to the passing of the Bill against Occasional Conformity, in 1711.”

Vol. II. is "An Account of the Ministers, Lecturers, Masters, and Fellows of Colleges, and Schoolmasters, who were ejected or silenced after the Restoration in 1660, by, or before the Act for Uniformity. Designed for the preserving to posterity, the memory of their names, characters, writings, and sufferings."-ED.

+ See Gen. Dict. (1736) note E. ad fin.-ED.