Feb. 4. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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With regard to the second simile, see — 



" The Trojan Horse, or the Presbyterian Govern- 

 ment Unbowelled. London. 1646. 4to. By Henry 

 Parker of Lincoln's Inn." 



" Comprehension and Toleration Considered, in a 

 Sermon on Gal. ii. 5. By Dr. South." 



" ltemarks on a Bill of Comprehension. London. 

 1684. By Dr. Ilickes." 



" The New Distemper, or The Dissenters' Usual 

 Pleas for Comprehension, Toleration, and the lte- 

 nouncing the Covenant, Considered and Discussed. 

 Non Quis sed Quid. London. 16SO. 12mo. Second 

 Edition. Pp. 184. (With a figurative frontispiece, 

 representing the ' Ecclesia Anglicar.a.') " 



The first edition was published in 1675. Thomas 

 Tomkins, Fellow of All Souls' College, was the 

 author; but the two editions are anonymous. 



As to the Service Book, see the curious work 

 of George Lightbodie : 



" Against the Apple of the Left Eye of Antichrist; 

 or The Masse-Booke of Lurking Darknesse ( The 

 Liturgy), making Way for the Apple of the Right 

 Eye of Antichrist, the Compleate Masse-Booke of 

 Palpable Darknesse. London. 1638. 8vo." 



Baylie's Parallel (before referred to) was a 

 popular work ; it was first printed London, 1641, 

 in 4to. ; and reprinted 1641, 1042, 1646, 1661. 



As to "High Church" and " Low Church," see 

 an article in the JSdinbwgh Review for last Oc- 

 tober, on " Church Parties," and the following 

 works : 



" Tiie True Character of a Churchman, showing the 

 False Pretences to that Name. By Dr. West." (No 

 date. 1702?) Answered by Sacheverell in "The 

 Character of a Low Churchman. 4to. 1702." "Low 

 Churchmen vindicated from the Charge of being no 



The symbolism of the brute creation is copiously 

 employed in Holy Scripture and in ancient writings, and 

 furnishes a magazine of arms in all disputes and party 

 controversies. Thus, the strange sculptures on mise- 

 reres, &c. are ascribed to contests between the secular 

 and regular clergy : and thus Dryden, in his polemical 

 poem of The Hind and the Panther, made these two 

 animals symbolise respectively the Church of Rome 

 and the Church of England, while the Independents, 

 Calvinists, Quakers, Anabaptists, and other sects are 

 characterised as wolves, bears, boars, foxes — all that is 

 odious and horrible in the brute creation. 



" A Jesuit has collected An Alphabetical Catalogue of 

 the Names of Beasts by which the Fathers characterised 

 the Heretics. It may be found in Erotemata de malis 

 ac bonis Libris, p. 93., 4to., 1653, of Father Raynaud. 

 This list of brutes and insects, among which are a 

 variety of serpents, is accompanied by the names of the 

 heretics designated." (See the chapter in DTsraeli's 

 Curios. Lit. on " Literary Controversy," where many 

 other instances of this kind of complimentary epithets 

 are given, especially from the writings of Luther, 

 Calvin, and Beza.) 



Churchmen. London. 170G. 8vo. By John Iland- 

 cock, D.D., Rector of St. Margaret's, Lothlmry." 



" Inquiry into the Duty of a Low Churchman. 

 London. 1711. 8vo." (By James Peirce, a Noncon- 

 formist divine, largely quoted in The Scourge; where 

 he is spoken of as " A gentleman of figure, of the most 

 apostolical moderation, of the most Christian temper, 

 and is esteemed as the Evangelical Doctor of the Pres- 

 byterians in this kingdom," &c. — P. 342.) 



He also wrote : 



"The Loyalty, Integrity, and Ingenuity of High 

 Churchmen and Dissenters, and their respective 

 Writers, Compared. London. 1719. 8vo." 



See also the following periodical, which Lowndes 

 thus describes : 



" The Independent Whig. From Jan. 20, 1719-20, 

 to Jan. 4, 1721. 53 Numbers. London. Written by- 

 Gordon and Trenchard in order to oppose the High 

 Church Party; 1732-5, 12mo., 2 vols. ; 1753, 12mo., 

 4 vols." 



Will some correspondent kindly furnish me 

 with the date, author's name, &c., of the pam- 

 phlet entitled Merciful Judgments of High Church 

 Triumphant on Offending Clergymen and others in 

 the Reign of Charles I. ? * 



I omitted Wordsworth's lines in my first note : 



" High and Lou; 

 Watchwords of party, on all tongues are rife ; 



As if a Church, tliough sprung from heaven, must 

 owe 

 To opposites and fierce extremes her life ; — • 



Not to the golden mean and quiet flow 

 Of truths, that soften hatred, temper strife." 



Wordsworth, and most Anglican writers down 

 to Dr. Hook, are ever extolling the Golden Mean 

 and the moderation of the Church of England. A 

 fine old writer of the same Church (Dr. Joseph 

 Beaumont) seems to think that this love of the 

 Mean can be carried too far : 



" And witty too in self-delusion, we 

 Against highstreined piety can plead, 

 Gravely pretending that extremity 

 Is Vice's clime ; that by the Catholick creed 

 Of all the world it is acknowledged that 

 The temperate mean is always Virtue's seat. ' 

 Hence comes the race of mongrel goodness; hence 

 Faint tepidness usurpeth fervour's name ; 

 Hence will the earth-born meteor needs commence, 

 In his gay glaring robes, sydereal flame ; 

 Hence foolish man, if moderately evil, 

 Dreams he's a saint because he's not a devil." 

 Psyche, cant. xxi. 4, 5. 



T* We are enabled to give the remainder of the title 

 and the date: — «• Together with the Lord Falkland's 

 Speech in Parliament, 1640, relating to that subject : 

 London, printed for Ben. Bragg, at the Black Raven 

 in Paternoster Row. 1710." — Ed.] 



