LIFE OF WALTON. XXVII 



Whose passions not his masters are ; 



Whose son I is still prepar'd for death ; 

 Unty'd unto the world, with care 



Of public fatne , or private brvath; 



Who envies none that chance doth raise, 



Nor vice : who never understood 

 How deepest wounds are given by praise ; 



Nor, rules of state, but rules of good ; 



Who hath his life from rumours freed ; 



Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; 

 Whose state can neither flatterers feed, 



Nor, ruin make oppressors great; 



Who God doth, late and early, pray 



More of his grace than gifts to lend ; 

 And entertains the harmless day, 



With a religious book or friend. 



This man is freed from servile bands 



Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; 

 Lord of himself, though not of lands; 



And having nothing, yet hath all. 



This worthy and accomplished gentleman died in the year 1639 ; 

 and is celebrated by Mr. Co wiry, in an elegiac poem, beginning 

 with these lines : 



What shall we say since silent now is He, 

 Who when he spoke, all things would silent be ; 

 Who had so many languages in store, 

 That only Fame shall speak of him in more. 



HOOKER, one of the greatest of English divines, is sufficiently 

 known and celebrated ; as a learned, able, and judicious writer, and 

 defender of our church, in his Treatise of the Laws of Ecclesiastical 

 Polity ; the occasion of writing which is at this day but little known; 

 and, to say the truth, has never been related with the clearness and 

 perspicuity necessary to render the controversy intelligible. In or 

 about the year 1 570 were published two small tracts severally en- 

 titled, a first and second Admonition to the Parliament, containing, 

 under the form of a remonstrance, a most virulent invective againt 

 the establishment and discipline of the church of England which 

 were answered by Dr. Whitgift, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, 

 and defended by one Thomas Cartwright, the author of the second 

 Admonition. But the order and progress of the controversy will best 

 appear by the following state of it : 



Admonition , first and second. 

 Answer thereto, by Whitgift. 



1. Replie to the Answer, by T. C. [Thomas Cartwright.] 

 Defence of the Answer (against the Reply) by Whitgift. 



2. A Second Replie of Cartwright against Whitgift's Second [De- 

 fence of the} Answer. 



3. The rest of the Second Reply. 



Whitgift being, it seems, weary of the dispute, remitted [committed] 

 the future conduct of it to Hooker; who took it up with an examin- 

 ation of the two Admonitions, and continued it through the subsequent 

 books of Cartwright, referring to the latter (a particular worthy to be 



