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mind, especially of his mind from vertiginous 

 giddiness ; and would as often say ' his great and 

 most blessed change was from a temporal to a 

 spiritual employment,' in which he was so happy 

 that he accounted the former part of his life to be 

 lost ; and the beginning of it to be from his first 

 entering into Sacred Orders, and serving his most 

 merciful God at His altar." 



Again, as to Walton's account of Donne's 

 preaching being so unreal, no case is made out. 

 Has no preacher wept over his own composition 

 before or since Donne ? ^ 



Dr Gary, Master of Christ's College,, Cambridge, 

 and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in 1614, as Vice- 

 Chancellor preached a funeral sermon for Prince 

 Henry, son of King James I., who died young in 

 1612, "when weeping himself, he made all the 

 people weep again and again " (College Histories : 

 Christ's College, Cambridge). 



Canon Beeching observes : " A preacher with a 

 faith in God that is hardly removed from sight 

 cannot fail of conveying his belief to his audience ; 

 even though the matter in hand be dry and 

 metaphysical, an emphasis, a parenthesis, which in 

 print attract no attention, may in speaking have 

 had the effects of a revelation ; for a fire that is 

 always smouldering will sooner or later break out. 



^ I have been told, by one who said he had seen it, of a manuscript 

 sermon in which the words " Here weep " were written in the margin. 



