256 Lawrence Mason, 



the Errors of Opinions of Many in their Days, concerning some of the 

 highest and cliiefest Duties of Rehgion, viz. Adoration, Almes, Fasting 

 and Prayer," 1647 (repubhshed 1661— 2). That this work was anti- 

 Puritan in tone is avouched by Monson's whole Hfe (for though some 

 of his pubhcations savor more of toleration than of sectarian partisan- 

 ship, still Laud spoke very well of him; cf. Laud's "Works," 1857, 

 VI, 82, and VII, 225 ; furthermore, he was severely handled by the 

 Puritans) and especially by the fact that it was published anony- 

 mously and dedicated by means of a private monogram, only. (Cf. 

 p. 242, footnote I, sup., and p. 270, inf.). (2) King's favorite 

 patristic authority was "Nazianzen," or Gregory of Nazianzus, one 

 of the four great Fathers of the Eastern Church. Now this Gregory's 

 chief claim to greatness lies in his defence of Athanasianism and the 

 Nicene Creed against Arianism,i at Constantinople about the year 

 380,2 and in his famous five discourses on the Trinity directed espe- 

 cially against the Eunomians and Macedonians.^ Surely this par- 

 ticular Father would be one of the first to commend himself to an 

 enthusiastic Church of England man, and one of the last to appeal 

 to a Puritan. (3) The friendship and repeated commendations of 

 Izaak Walton would hardly have been accorded to one weak in the 

 faith. (4)' First through his intimacy with Bishop Duppa and then 

 by the exiled Charles II's own appointment, he played an important 

 part in some efforts made to prevent the threatened extinction of 

 episcopacy or rupture of the apostolic succession, as the following 

 quotations from pp. 41—43 of his funeral sermon over Brian Duppa, 

 in 1662, show ; and though he testifies in his own behalf here, the 

 public nature of the occasion made it absolutely impossible for him 

 to attempt any mis-statement or deception: "He [Duppa] was 

 alwaies so faithfull to God in the service of His Church wherein He 

 liv'd, that He never receded from His first Principles in any slackness 

 either towards Hir Doctrine or Hir Discipline. Insomuch that His 

 Sacred Majesty desirous to preserve the Succession of His English 

 Church, & sensible of His Bishops Decay, Most whereof were Dead, 

 & Those Few who remaind not likely to last long, was pleas'd to 

 commit this Trust principally to His Solicitation. In discharge 

 whereof how industrious He was, some who yet live know, and none 

 better than My self, who was His only associate in several travels 

 undertaken to bring it to effect. 



^ Cf. pp. 229—30, sup. 



2 "Cycle. Bibl. Lit.," 1870, III, 994. 



3 "Encyclo. Brit.," Xlth Ed., XII, 563. 



