;,a8 OF EMINENT MEN, 



but of a great foul ; endowed with all the graces and accom- 

 plifhments that adorn the priefthood, fuch as recommended him 

 to be one of the compilers of our moft excellent liturgy. God 

 had bleil him with a graceful elocution, an excellent judgment, 

 a happy memory, and a wonderful courage, which he employed 

 zealouily in his fervice. In, his private college, the facred writ- 

 ings were fo much his ftudy, that he had a great part of them 

 by heart. In his pulpit, with a becoming zeal, and juft indig- 

 nation, he rebuked vice in all its forms, and oppofed it with the 

 magnanimity of a truly chriftian biihop, neither overawed by 

 the found of titles, nor the pomp of great names, preferring 

 the confcientious difcharge of his duty before either the fmiles 

 or frowns of men. Ill cufloms he would break through with a 

 refolution rarely to be met with, difdaining to accept his bifliop- 

 rick of Rochefter, but on terms that do him honour. His clergy 

 he regarded, in reality, as his own family, and cherimed the 

 lowed with a tendernefs becoming his order. When he found 

 humble and modeft merit under the prefigures of the world, he 

 himfelf would look upon it with the affection of a. gardener on a 

 neglected vine, and offer his hand for its weak and feeble tendrils 

 to climb by, and flourifh under the influence of his kinder fun. 

 The moft preffing follicitations from men in power, could not 

 prevail with him to with-hold his patronage from fuffering vir- 

 tue. He had a noble feeling for diftrefs. He would join in no 

 meafures with the court to the prejudice of learning and learned 

 men. Our countrymen of Clare-Hall, of whom it was then full, 

 had reafon to love him, for abhorring and defeating a fcheme, 

 calculated by facrilegious men, for their ruin ; who, not con- 

 tent with the depredations they had already made in the church, 

 with a mamelefs brow attempted to lay both religion and learn- 

 ing under the greatefl difcouragements, to aggrandize themfelves. 



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