LIFE OF WHARTON. 155 



" For these his performances in the cause 

 of religion and learning, as he was admirably 

 fitted by the excellency of his natural endow- 

 ments, a quick apprehension, solid judgment, 

 and most faithful memory ; so were these raised 

 to a great perfection by his industry : an in- 

 dustry never sufficiently to be commended, 

 though in this (alas !) to be lamented, that it 

 too much hastened his death and our loss. 



^* Nor were his moral accomplishments in- 

 ferior to his natural and acquired perfections. 

 He was modest, sober, and pious; in all things 

 showing himself to be acted by a truly Christian 

 and religious spirit. Of which those two in- 

 stances, to name no more, may not unfitly be 

 given. The one, that he never undertook any 

 matter of moment, without first imploring the 

 divine assistance and blessing thereupon. The 

 other, that in all those journeys which his 

 learned designs engaged him in, he was ever 

 wont so to order his affairs, as not once to 

 omit being present at the monthly Sacrament 

 wherever he came. And then, of his zeal for 

 religion, and the honour of God, those excellent 

 discourses which he has published in defence 

 of the best and purest part of the Christian 

 church now extant upon the face of the earth, 

 in opposition to the corruptions of Popery, 

 (those scandals to Christian religion, so highly 

 dishonourable to God, and so injurious to the 



