public worship; there employing the Primitive Liturgy, first printed among the Three Essays in 1713, and afterwards annexed, under the date of 1750, and with some corrections, (here duly noted,) to the posthumous edition of the Memoirs. His Primitive Eucharist Revived, 1736, 8vo. investigates the history of the Lord's Supper, but supplies no Formulary for its administration.

As a literary curiosity, evincing the taste of Whiston for antiquity even in the minutest affairs, the Editor submits a copy of a printed circular in his own possession, bearing the autograph signature underneath.

PROPOSALS for Erecting a Primitive Library, in Cross-street, Hatton-Garden.

I. THAT this Library is to consist of the best editions, and of as many other editions as may be, of all the Sacred and Primitive books of Christianity, and that in Greek, Latin, and English, during the four first Centuries, and ending with St. Austin; together with such later books, as are immediately necessary for the right understanding and judging about the same; and of no other.

II. That wherever there are several copies or editions of

the same book, they may be lent out freely for a month to any contributor: but so that the best edition may be always kept therein; to prevent the disappointment of any enquirer.

III. That every stranger that would borrow, shall lay down the value of every book he borrows, till it is returned; which shall be in a month's time: and that 1 per cent. of its real value shall be paid for every day it is detain'd above that month.

IV. That the Contributors shall pay to the Owner of this Library ten shillings at first, and five shillings every Midsummer afterward, for the use and advantage he receives from the same and that a proper book or books, of any greater value, shall at any time be received instead of such contributions.

V. That this Library shall be open at all hours of the day, and all days of the week, excepting the Lord's-day.

VI. That every Contributor shall have a ticket delivered to him, upon his paying the 10s. as his title to the free use of this Library; on which the annual receipts may also be written: and that this ticket shall be the same that is to be affix'd to every standing book in the Library, thus:

The PRIMITIVE LIBRARY,

Cross-Street, Hatton- Garden.

Note, This Library is in so good forwardness, that 'tis intended to be open'd next Michaelmas.

'Tis hop'd, that some well-wishers to Primitive Learning and Primitive Christianity, who may be too remote to make use of this Library, may yet be willing to give at least one Primitive book to it, for the use and benefit of the Owner, and of the Public, and the encouragement of the design.

TICKETS are deliver'd out at the Library itself, in CrossStreet, Hatton-Garden; and at the Booksellers following:— Mr. Tooke, near Temple-Bar, Fleet-Street.

Mr. Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
Mr. Darby, in Bartholomew-Close.

Mr. Philips, at the Bull in Cornhill.

Moetjens and Le Cene, at the Horace, near the New
Exchange, in the Strand.

July 29, 1712.

WILLIAM WHISTON.

VIII. HENLEY'S LITURGY OF THE ORATORY.

Strikingly contrasted with Whiston in the general character of his mind, yet no less pointedly resembling Whiston in some parts of his conduct and career, John Henley (better known as Orator Henley) next demands attention. This singular man was born in 1692. From St. John's College, Cambridge, he proceeded through his degrees to Ordination. After serv

ing a Curacy and conducting a School at Melton-Mowbray, the town of his nativity, (where his father and grandfather had successively held the vicarage,) he removed to London; and became at once a popular, if not a fashionable preacher. And this was probably his ruin. Henley's was not the mind to stand against the suggestions of flattery. Convinced of his own abilities and pretensions, he must needs be somebody; and somebody more than the ordinary course of things could make him. Accordingly, though presented by Lord Macclesfield to the Rectory of Chelmondiston, in Suffolk, he preferred establishing what he called an Oratory in Newport Market: where, under cover of the Toleration Act, he lectured on Sundays in Theology, and on Wednesdays in every faculty and science under heaven. But the violence of his language, especially in political declamation, led to his being presented at Sessions by the Grand Jury of Westminster as a disturber of the public peace. In defence of the King's Ministry, and in opposition to

Amhurst, the Editor of the Craftsman, he had formerly published a weekly Journal, called the Hyp-Doctor. But times were now changed: and in 1746 his place of meeting was invaded by agents of the Court, the sermon interrupted, and the congregation dispersed. The assailants proceeded to search his lodgings, and seize his papers and it was not till after some delays and dangers he was allowed to resume his work. In his Victorious Note for Old England, 1748, 8vo. he vindicates the rights of a British subject to discuss the politics of the day, and appeals to British Jurymen to take Rational Preachers under their protection.

As early as 1729 Henley had removed the Oratory from Newport Market to Clare Market. His last Sermon at the former place was repeated as his first at the latter, and published under the title of the Butcher's Lecture, on Ps. viii. 6. "Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet: all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field." But his health and strength now declined; and with these (the novelty