pains to conceal his disdain: he might, by a compromise, have retained his Canonry-but his best friends were driven away-Hammond, Saunderson, Fell, who were his brother Canons, and as only Dr. Wall was left, he chose to take his lot with the dispersed and suffering.

Wood says: “Oh! that but a single portion of that spirit might always rest upon the Established Clergy!" and in that prayer who does not join? His fidelity, and tenderness of heart, are manifested by his friendship for Walton.

It is related that when Ormond (Butler) was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, a clergyman, to whom he had promised preferment, preaching before him, to put him in mind of his promise, chose the text, "Nevertheless, the chief BUTLER did not remember Joseph, but forgot him!" This could not be said of Morley; in his prosperity he did not FORGET old Isaak, "but remembered him!

He always wore his own hair, and, till death, the much-abused square cap! So little did he indulge in that luxury which the general cry attributed to all Bishops, that he, like Ken, eat but once in twenty-four hours! Though intrepid and inflexible, his heart was generous as day. Of his generosity in other respects it will be sufficient to say, that his various benefactions amounted to 40,000l. he having left only a small estate to his family from his large income.

Respecting his religious creed I have already spoken my sentiments, but, I think it right to add some observations on that peculiar inquisition to which all the Clergy were subject, when examined by "Oliver's tryers." When the Covenant was ordered to be taken, they knew what they had to submit to; but it was very different when their lives and feelings, and conduct, were submitted to arbitrary "tryers," appointed to question them. These questions did not concern their conduct as fathers, or relate to the duties of life, but, whether they believed the "election of grace”—whether they had ever in their lives been present at a play!

or whether they scandalously eat "custard?"* But the chief questions were, concerning the EXPERIENCES OF grace!

Laud was condemned to he HANGED, DRAWN, and QUARTERED in his old age, among other things, not much better proved, for introducing Popery-for he bowed at the name of Jesus, as my congregation do because he placed the communion at the East end of the church, where all communion tables are placed! - when, by those very men who condemned him to be "hanged, drawn, and quartered," for intro

* One clergyman was ejected from his living because he had 'scandalously "eat "custard." Warton. It is difficult to say what sin there was in eating " custard," but some abomination was attached to it; and hence Hudibras,

"And blaspheme custard through the nose."

ducing Popery, the very essentials of Popish doctrines, in their worst sense, were PROFESSED and TAUGHT!!-I say this deliberately, for the Calvinists taught the PREDESTINARIANISM, not of St. Paul, but of the angel of the Popish schools, TнOMAS AQUINAS! - they professed the very "EXPERIENCES," in letter and spirit, which are described in his Summa Theologiæ as "the sense of sweetness" by which they "experience that they are of the number of the elect who have received grace!"

Thomas exactly describes those "experiences" on which the melancholy ludicrous accounts of "GOD'S wonderful dealings" with shoemakers' souls, are so copious! What says the Popish Doctor of the fourteenth century? "EXPERIENTIA est sensus dulcedinis, quam experitur ille, qui ACCEPIT GRATIAM." Not an atom of difference is there between these "EXPERIENCES" of the angel of the Papal schools and the " experiences" of Cromwell, Harrison, or Whitfield, and the host of modern revived Puritans of the school of Cheynell, &c. Let those who revile the Church of England on account of Popery look at their own Popish rags!

Even the terrible reprobation, concerning which our Articles are silent, is as explicitly declared by Aquinas as by Calvin, in letter and spirit; except that the learned Doctor of Geneva has added a little

from his own humane feelings, making the God of Mercy create millions and millions of human creatures, for no other purpose than to pass them over to eternal torments; and yet, by this Christian code, such a being is not the DÆMON of the Manicheans, but the Father of Mercies!

The "Reprobatio" of Aquinas, derived from Augustine, once a Manichean, or worshipper of the EVIL PRINCIPLE, is the father of this monstrosity.

Let the reader ponder over the following extract, which, his mind having been saturated with the dews of Calvin's grace, he will scarce believe were the doctrines of the 13th century: REPROBATIO addit supra PRÆSCIENTIAM, voluntatem PERMITTENDI peccati, et inferendi poenam ETERNÆ DAMNATIONIS! *

Deus REPROBAT aliquos homines!

That Morley's Calvinism ever partook of this character who can believe? If he was inclined, speculatively, to opinions that approach Calvinism, it never affected his Christian and benevolent feelings; and he was too discerning not to distinguish between genuine piety and these unscriptural dogmas.

What pious and well-informed clergymen, indeed, knows not the lines and limits of those Scriptural views of Providence, of those devotional feelings

* Aquinas (Summa Theologia, folio), 1 Qu. 23. 3—6. † Ibid. 1. 9. 23. 3. 3.

which spring from Scriptural faith, and of that PREDESTINARIANISM, with those fanatic feelings which are derived from the scholastic theology, or from the great Protestant Doctor of the Leman Lake,* the tendency of whose doctrines was to harden his own heart, and to shew him stained with that blood which all the waters of the Leman Lake can never wash out.

If there is nothing of this Predestinarianism to be traced in the Christian conduct and character of Morley, there is no appearance or trace of it in his open, intellectual countenance.

Having sketched this interesting groupe in the Palace of Winchester, in 1669, let us look again on the countenance of old Isaak Walton, who may be considered the brother, as the rest were the children and grand-children, of Morley. In Dr. Hawes's sitting-room the whole groupe appears: the mild Ken, with a few grey hairs seen beneath his cap; Father Isaak, from which picture the common portraits are engraved for the "Complete Angler;" his son-in-law and daughter; and the patriarch Morley, in his square cap, his own hair, with manly but most benignant countenance. May we not think we see the whole family in the restored Cathedral? Morley, in his episcopal chair Walton, listening, with a tear in his eyes, to the devotional chant, and thinking, perhaps, of his

*Lake of Geneva.