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CHAP. &quot; countenance of every man in authority will leave his 

 &quot; tackle, and cry Peccavi. They must be of such a nature 



as the poet Terence said of Crito, In vultu gravitas, in 

 verbo Jides ; to have gravity in his countenance, and 

 faithfulness in his speech. That they should not be afraid 

 to rebuke the proudest, no, not kings and queens, so far 

 forth as the two tables reach : that they stoop not to 

 &quot; every man s beck, nor study to please men more than 

 4 &quot; God. If heresies arise, they must have their tools ready 

 &quot; to meet with the adversary, and to overthrow him; which,&quot; 

 as he added, &quot; he could never have, unless he had travailed 

 &quot; in many sciences, heard and read much, &c. : for it was 

 &quot; not enough,&quot; he said, &quot; for a man to tell a fair tale in the 

 &quot; pulpit, and when he came down was not able to defend 

 &quot; it.&quot; And again, &quot;in such as shall occupy the pulpit are re- 

 &quot; quired these things, that they be meet to teach, to reprove, 

 &quot; and convince. In teaching is required gravity, learning, 

 &quot; and eloquence ; in reproving, carriage and sound judg- 

 &quot; ment ; and in convincing, arts, memory, and much sci- 

 &quot; ence.&quot; 



Curious in All this I have said, that it might be seen what his great 

 abilities were in learning. And, according to the usual in 

 clination of such as are scholars, he was a lover of, and 

 searcher after books, and especially of such as were more 

 rare and curious. While he was in exile he saw a piece 

 of Wiclrf de Ecdesia, which treated of the Church and 

 Churchmen, and the abuses and corruptions superinduced 

 by them. He chanced to meet with it in the hands of 

 one who brought it out of Bohemia; and he wished it 

 were put into print: whence, as he said, the Popish Bi 

 shops might see their wrenches and cavillations concerning 

 their great estates, and their pretended hospitality to be 

 maintained thereby. And this I the rather mention, be 

 cause I think this tract of Wiclif is not mentioned among 

 the catalogue of his writings set down in Dr. Cave s Histo- 

 ria Liter aria. 



A good And as he was a truly learned man himself, so he was a 



good judge of learning and languages, being an exact critic. 



