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popery, and he founded his prediftions of fuch an event on 

 his interpretation of fome palTages of Scripture ; and it lias 

 been faid, that at fome feafons he feemed to think himfelf 

 warranted to fpeak of future events in a higher tone of au- 

 thority than as a mere conjefturer. A popular opinion 

 prevailed, that Ufhcr was endowed with a prophetic fpirit ; 

 but there is no fufficient evidence that he himfelf pretended 

 to this extraordinary gift. It was his intention to have left 

 his library, confdlingof nearly 10,000 books and MSS. to 

 his " alma mater" at Dublin ; but being dripped, by the 

 difafters of the times, of all other property, he thought it 

 right to bequeath it to his daughter, to whom he had given 

 nothing, and who had a large family. The king of Den- 

 mark and cardinal Mazarin bid for it ; but the Protector con- 

 ceiving it difgraceful to his adminillration to allow fuch a 

 treafure to be fent out of the kingdom, prohibited the difpofal 

 of it without his confent. Probably through his private 

 fuggeiHon, the officers and foldiers of the viftorious army 

 in Ireland purchafed it for 2200/., with a view of appro- 

 priating it agreeably to the firft intention of the primate. 

 It lay at the caftle till the Reftoration, and after fufFering va- 

 rious depredations, it was bellowed by Charles II. upon 

 Dublin college. 



It has been a fubjcft of difpute, how far the opinions of 

 Ulher differed from thofe of the eftablilhed church. Dr. 

 Peter Heylin alleged againll him many charges of non-con- 

 formity. Thefe are fummcd up under diftinft heads, and 

 particularly examined by Dr. Parr. Our limits will merely 

 allow a recital of them. 1. The divine authority for keep- 

 ing the fabbath, or feventh day's reft, as transferred to the 

 Chriftian Sunday. 2. His opinion that bifhops and prelby- 

 ters differ in degree only, not in order ; and, as an infer- 

 ence, that prefbyterian ordination and facraments are valid. 

 3. His limitation to the eleft of that univerfal redemption 

 of mankind by the fufferings and death of Chrilt, which is 

 the doftrine of the church of England. It is, however, a 

 fubjeft of controverfy not yet decided, whether the articles 

 of the Englifli church, as to thefe points, are to be under- 

 ftood in a Calvinillic or an Arminian fenfe. In early life, the 

 theological fyftem of Ulher was Calviniftic ; but it has been 

 faid that he changed his fentiments concerning the dodlrines 

 of Calvinifm before his death. 4. The primate is accufcd 

 by Heylin of not holding the doftrine of the iride and real 

 prefence of Chrift's body and blood in the facramcnt of the 

 eucharift, conformably to the church of England. But it 

 is hardly conceivable that any modern divine of the church 

 of England would go farther than the primate, who diftin- 

 guifhed between the outward and inward aft of the com- 

 municant : " in the firft of which he really receives the vi- 

 fjble elements of bread and wine ; in the fecond, by faith, 

 really receives the body and blood of our Lord, that is, is 

 truly and indeed made partaker of Chrill crucified to the 

 fpiritual ftrengthening of the inward man." 5. The next 

 charge is, that he did not admit the power of the prieft to 

 forgive fins, in the fenfe of the church of England. Heylin 

 contends for an authoritative power in the prieft to remit 

 fms ; whereas the primate's opinion feems to have been, that 

 the prieft's abfolution is only declarative, or on condition of 

 repentance ; or optative, by the way of prayers and intcrcef- 

 fion. Dr. Parr contends, that the doftrine of the church 

 is that held by the primate. 6. His opinion concerning 

 Chrift's defcent into hell is alleged to have deviated from 

 that of the church, inafmuch as he did not admit of a local 

 defcent into the real hell, or place of puniniment for the 

 wicked, but a mere fcparation between the foul and body 

 daring the time that Chrift lay in the grave. 



As a man of learning, Uftier's name became celebrated 



throughout Europe, and he carried on a correfpondencc 

 with fcvcral learned perfons, both at home and abrofld. 

 Of his works we ftiall here fubjoin a c.italogue. 



Publications of archbiihop Uftier : — De Ecclefiarum 

 Chriftianarum Succeffione et Statu, 161 3 ; The Religion 

 of the ancient Irifti and Britons, 1622 ; Gottefchalci ct 

 Praedeftinarice Controverfioe ab co Motse Hiftoria, 16^1 ; 

 Veterum Epiftolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge, 1632 ; Im- 

 manuel, or the Myftery of the Incarnation of the Son of 

 God, 1638 ; De Ecclefiarum Britannicarum Primordiis, 

 1639 ; A Difcourfe on the Origin of Biftiops and Metro- 

 politans, 1 641 ; A Geographical and Hiftorical Difquifi- 

 tion on the Lydian or Proconfular Afia, 1641 ; Polycarpi 

 et Ignatii Epiftola;, &c. 1644 ; Appendix Ignatiana, 1647 ; 

 Diatriba de Romanx Ecclefix Symbolo Apoftohco aliifque 

 Fidei Formulis, 1647 ; De Macedonum et Afianorum 

 Anno Solari, 1648; Annalium Pars prior, 1650; Epif- 

 tola ad Ludov. Capellum de Textus Hebraici variantibus 

 Leftionibus, 1652; Annalium Pars pofterior, 1654; De 

 Grxca Septuaginta Interprctum Verfione Syntagma, 1655. 

 — Pofthumous : Various Trafts, edited by Dr. Bernard, 

 1657; Chronologia Sacra, edited by Dr. Barlow, 1660; 

 The Power of the Prince, and Obedience of the Subjeft, 

 written 1641, printed afterthe Reftoration ; Hiftoria Dog- 

 matica Controverfise inter Orthodoxos et Pontificios de 

 Scripturis et Sacris Vernaculis : Accelfere Differtationes 

 duas, 1690. 



See the life of Ufher by Dr. Aikin, who appeals for the 

 fafts which he has recited to the Life of Ufher by Dr. Parr, 

 who was the primate's chaplain at the time of his death ; 

 and who has annexed to his account a large coUeftion of 

 letters, that paffed between Uftier and his correfpondents ; 

 and alfo to the Life of Uftier by Dr. Smith, which is tlie 

 firft and principal article of his work, entitled " Vita quo- 

 rundam eruditiffimorum et illuRrium Virorum," 1707, 4to. 



USIA, in Geography, a river of Ruffia, which runs into 

 the Vaga ; 8 miles S. of Viclflv, in the government of 

 Vologda. 



USIATIN, a town of Poland; 28 miles N. of Ka- 

 miniec. 



USIDICANI, in Ancient Geography, a people of Italy, 

 in Umbria. 



USIDITANA, a town of Mcefia, in the vicinity of 

 Thamyris. 



USIJES, in Geography, a town of Arabia, in the pro- 

 vince of Yemen ; 12 miles N.N.W. of Chamir. 



USILLA, Ins-kills, in /Indent Geography, a place of 

 Africa, upon the coaft of the Mediterranean fea, S. of 

 Rufpa. 



USIMADO, in Geography, a town of Japan, in the 

 ifland of Niphon ; 86 miles S.W. of Meaco. 



USINGEN, a town of Naffau Ufingcn, which gives 

 title to a branch of the houfe of Naffau, with a family feat. 

 In 1793, '^ '^^^ taken by the French ; 12 miles S.S.E. of 

 Weilburg. 



USIPII, or Usii'iANs, in /Indent Geography, a people 

 of Germany, who at occafional intervals of time, inhabited 

 the fame places with the Tcuchteri. The Ufipii anciently 

 dwelt between the Cherufci and the Sicambri ; but the Catti 

 expelled them ; and after having wandered for about three 

 years in different countries of Germany, tliey eftabliftied 

 themfelvcs upon the Rhine, in the vicinity of the Sicambri. 

 The Menapii occupied the two banks of this river ; and 

 therefore it muft have been with their confent that the Uft- 

 pians and Teuchteri took polli-nion of the country of the 

 Menapians, fituatcd to llir 1",. of the Rhine. In the year 

 698 of Rome, the lilijiiaiui and Tcuchteri vfcrc .ilmoft 

 4 1) 2 entirely 



