'2"^S. VII. April 2. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



273 



(to which sort of men ouely I design these discourses) 

 may be reduced to three heads : — 



" As the First of which, I will set the fancy of those men 

 who seem to make Preaching, in a manner, the whole 

 business of the Ministry, and Hearing all the Religion of 

 the People : As if to be a sincere and zealous Christian 

 were onelj' to be H^ver leamilig, and never to come to the 

 Knowledge of the Truth ; to have itching ears, and a con- 

 fused head, and an unstable heart. With these men, to 

 have heard a Sermon is much the same, as with the Pa- 

 pists to have heard a Mass : and however they are usually 

 great pretenders to, and admirers of Gifts and the Spirit, 

 yet the most of them have but a very mean share of 

 sober sense and reason." — P. 578. 



As a specimen of the author's clear and forcible 

 style, I shall quote one other passage, which, in 

 vigour and antithesis, reminds one of Dr. South : — 



" I must acknowledge there is one sort of Preaching, 

 called commonly, but cantingly. Gospel-preaching, the 

 difference of which from the Scripture notion o( preaching 

 the Gospel, I have not yet stated. Gospel-preaching some 

 men call that, which is opposite to the teaching men 

 their duty. If a man cry up Antinomian Free grace, if he 

 proclaim the favour of God, a pardon of sin, and promise 

 men Heaven thro' Christ's blood, without any regard to 

 that part of the Covenant of Grace which concerns us on 

 our side, without any engaging them to an holy and 

 Christian life; if he extol a resolute Faith, and no need 

 of anything but casting ourselves (even blind-fold) into 

 the arms of Christ, — this is Gospel-preaching : Whereas 

 he, who tells men, it is nonsense to talk of a Covenant, 

 wherein there is not some part on both sides, and that 

 the blood of Christ operates not to the pardon or salva- 

 tion of those men, who, by ungodly and impenitent lives, 

 put themselves out of the Covenant of Grace, — this man 

 is ouely a Legal preacher. Now trulj- such Gospel preach- 

 ing as this differs from preaching the Gospel, just as Christ 

 does 'from Antichrist ; 'Tis the preaching another and 

 contrary Gospel, and if any of those men, who thus preach 

 or thus lelieve, come to Heaven, it must be by leading 

 better lives than their principles induce them to." — Pp. 

 603—604. 



Besides the learned historical account of Preach- 

 ing, I may refer to some other prominent points 

 in this valuable treatise : — 



" As to the Authority of our Office, or our Commission." 

 — Pp. 592-3. 612—628. 741—5. 800—804. 



Apostolical Succession, pp. 621—625. 696 — 720. 

 734-6. 795-6. 



" The Multitude made up of three sorts of men." — Pp. 

 749—753. 



Defence of written Sermons, pp. 680 — 683. 



With regard to English Preaching in the seven- 

 teenth century, he observes : — 



" I am apt to think, that what we call Preaching has 

 attained, in the better part of the conformable English 

 Clergy, such an height, bej'ond which it will not easily 

 be improved, and to which, since the cessation of mira- 

 culous gifts, it never arrived elsewhere. These things I 

 have thus freely spoken, not out of any slighty opinion of 

 the Antients .... it is sure in the main they outdid us : 

 There was more sanctimony, true zeal, and singleness of 

 heart to be found in one of them, than in an hundred of 

 us; they lived more Sermons than we Preach." — Pp. 

 678-9. 



The Philological Society would find some ma- 



terials in these treatises for their forthcoming 

 English Dictionary ; for instance, here is a defini- 

 tion of the phrase Mother- Wit : — 



" As the Philosopher hath observed that there is a 

 Natural kind of Logick, which even unlearned men have, 

 by which they reason and draw notable shrewd conse- 

 quences, which our Neighbours very fitly call Mother- 

 wit : So there is a natural kind of Rhetorick. Some men 

 naturally are more quick both in thought and speech 

 than others." — P. 42, 



Query, from which of "our Neighbours" have 

 we borrowed the word ? 



A definition of the term Edification may be 

 found at p. 52. 



Bp. Wetenhall uses the word Diverb, which Dr. 

 Richardson declares is " only found in Burton : " 



" Popery is indeed a very fashionable, I mean, out- 

 wardly a very splendic], specious, and formal Keligion : 

 but how has it hindred the growth of Atheism in Italy 

 the very centre of Poper\- ? What do we mean by the 

 usual diverb, the Italian Religion ? " — P. 793. 



The word earlily I have never met but in the 

 following passage : — 



" It is very certain, from Antiquity, that Preaching, in 

 the present sense, was long reserved as a peculiar of the 

 Bishops, and some tell us it is still in the Eastern Church. 

 But yet that it was earlily required of the Presbyters, we 

 have already seen out of tlie pretended Apostolical Con- 

 stitutions ; and Ferrarius has many more authorities, to 

 which I refer the reader." — P. 742. 



See also such words as conducency (pp. 50. 248.), 

 incogitancy (pp. 66. 75.), plerophory (p. 80.), dig- 

 nation (pp. 86. 360.), prescinding (p. 161.), licit 

 (p. 746.), ominate (p. 766.). 



In concluding this Note, I venture to express a 

 hope that these valuable treatises may be re- 

 printed, especially the last. Eikionnach. 



" BABRT-MOBE AND THE DU BARBIS. 



In a magazine notice of Capefigue's Madame 

 Du Barri just published, I observe a singular 

 confusion or rather mistake into which the French 

 author has fallen respecting the family to which 

 the subject of his Memoir has given an historic 

 notoriety, if not fame. 



He speaks of the French Du JBarris as de- 

 scended from an old Scotch family, " the Barri- 

 mores, the younger branch of the Stuarts." He 

 then records a battle-cry as given to tTie family by 

 Charles VII. (a.d. 1429-56), "Boutez-en avant," 

 and concludes by an anecdote to the effect that 

 "a Barry" is supposed to be the page holding 

 the horse of Charles I. in Vandyke's well-known 

 portrait of that monarch on horseback. 



Except as matter of genealogical curiosity there 

 is little credit to be found in affiliating the Du 

 Barris of the seventeenth century on any family, 

 whether Scotch or other ; but I must observe 

 that there seems in this French account a strange 



