LIFE OF WHARTON. 123 



13th of December, he visited the Bishop of 

 Ely, who, having read his Treatise of the Celi- 

 bacy, expressed great esteem for him, as did 

 many other persons of distinction, whom he 

 met with that month. 



The same day, the French history of the In- j 

 quisition of Goa* was put into his hands by \ 

 several persons of learning, who desired him : 

 to translate it into English, which he did in a J 

 few days at his leisure hours, and, having wrote 

 a preface to it, on the 24th of December, gave 

 the translation to Dr. Tenison. 



Having brought from Cambridge a Treatise j 

 of Reginald Peacock, Bishop of Chichester, 

 proving the Scripture to be the rule of faith, 

 some learned friends thinking it proper to be 

 published, in the beginning of the year 1688 

 he prepared it for the press, and wrote a pre- 

 face to it ; and having finished the work on the 



semper visa sunt. — It is added that, '^ wliat their weaker ar^- 

 ments failed in, his own more solid performed ; reducing one of 

 excellent parts to our communion, which he had in his younger 

 days been unhappily prevailed upon to desert : who, in testi- 

 mony of the reality of his conversion, received from his hands 

 the blessed sacrament at St. Martin's church, leaving a schedule 

 of his abjuration of Popery, in the hands of Rev, Dr. Tenison, 

 then vicar there.'' — See Life of H. Wharton, prefixed to his 

 Sermons. 



* Written by M. Dillon.— X^/e of /f. Wharton. 



