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Thy reftoration, royal Charles, I fee ; 
By none more wifh’d, by none lefs felt than 
me, 
Barrow was a zealous Arminian, as his 
Sermon on the Univerfal Redemption of 
Mankind, and on Juftifying Faith, prove: 
but the great length of his fermons was 
more in the manner of the Calyinitts and 
Puritans, for he has been known to preach 
three hours and a half at a time; and 
there are fome droll anecdotes on record 
in reference to hisimmoderately long dil- 
courles. He was a man of extraordinary 
powers and attainments; and has been 
weil charaéterifed by Dr. Mapletoft, who 
wrote his epitaph in the following man- 
ner: 
**Tsaacus BARROW, 
S. T: P. Regi Carolo II. a facris: 
Vir prope Divinus, et vere magnus, fi quid 
magni habent 
Pietas, Probitas, Fides, fumma Eruditio, par 
Modettia, 
Mores fanétifimi undequaque et fuaviflimi. 
Geometriz Profeflur Londini Grefhamenfis, 
Grecz Linguz et Mathafews apud Cantabri- 
gienfes fuos. 
Cathedras omnes, Ecclefiam, Gentem, orna- 
vit. 
Collegium §.S. Trinitatis Prefes Wluftravit, 
Ja&tis Bibliotheca vere Regie fundamentis 
auxIt. 
Opes, Honores, & univerfum vite ambitum, 
Ad majora natus, non contempfit, fed reli- 
quit feculo.”” 
It was faid of Dr. Barrow, that he 
might be efteemed as having fhewn a com- 
pais of invention equal, if not {uperior, 
to any of the moderns, Sir {aac Newton 
only excepted. There is a2 full length 
portrait of him in Trinity College-hall, 
probably an original. 
No. CXCIII.—ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON. 
This prelate was brought up amon 
the Calvinifts; and while of Clare-Hall, - 
of which fociety he was entered in 1647, 
was chum, or chamber-fellow, of one who 
became a moft zealous and dittineutfhed 
Non-conformilt. He afterwards went 
thoroughly into the Arminian fyftem, and 
Dr. Barrow left him all his manu(fcripts. 
Of Dr. Barrow it has been already re- 
marked, that he wrote longer fermons 
than any man of his time; and of Arch- 
bifhop Tillotfon it may be faid, that he 
wrote a greater number. He became the 
oracle ot the Arminian party, but fome 
of the Calvinifts proclaim him a mere 
court-politician, and maintain that he was 
not found on the dottrine of the Trinity. 
Cantabrigiana. 
501 
Be this as it may, it is certain he expreff- 
ed a wifh that the church was fairly rid 
of the Athanafian Creed, as may be feen 
in the Writings of Mr. Theophilus Lind- 
fey, who has fo dilisnguifhed himfelf by 
his writings in the controverfy between 
the Unitarians and Trinitarians. 
Tt does not appear that Tillotfon be- 
came fellow of his college, but here it 
was he began his new plan of fy {tematic 
divinity, following in that matter fome 
of the moft diftinguifhed Arminians of 
his time, then refiding in the Univerfity— 
Dr. Cudwo;th, author:cf the Intelle&tual 
Syftem, Dr. More, Dr. Worthington, 
and others ; but above all, Dr. Wilkins, 
who afterwards became Bifhop of Chef. 
fer. 
In 158¢ he was appointed Clerk of the 
Clofet to King William, and afterwards 
Dean of St. Paul’s. 
There is a curious letter of Tillotfon’s 
to Lady Ruffel, in which he fays—** Af. 
ter I had kifled the King’s hands for the 
Deanery cf St. Paul’s, I gave his Majefty 
my moft humble thanks, and told hina. 
that now he had fet me at eafe for the 
remainder of my life. He replied, ‘ No 
fuch matter, I affure you,’ and fpoke 
plainly about a great place, which I dread 
to think of, and faid, it was neceflary for 
his fervice, and he muft charge it on my 
conicience. Juft as he faid this, he was 
called to fupper, and I had only time to 
fay, that when his Majefty was at leifure, 
I did believe I could fatisfy him that ir 
would be moft for his fervice that I fhould 
continue in the ftation in which he had 
now placed me. This hath brought me 
into a real difficulty. For cn the one 
hand, it is hard to decline his Majefty’s 
commands, and much harder yet to ftand 
out againtt fo much goodnefs as his Ma. 
jelly is pleafed to hold towards me. This 
I owe to the Bithop of Salifbury, one of 
the beft and wortt friends I know; bett, 
for his fingular good opinion of me; and 
the worft, for direCting the King to this 
method, which I knew he did; as if I and 
his lordfhip had concerted the matter, how 
to finifh this foclifh piece of difflimulation, 
in running away from a bifhopric to catch ~ 
an archbifhopric ;”” and more to the fame 
purpote, in the New and General Biogra- 
phy, extratted from Dr. Birch’s Life of 
Archbifhop Tillotfon. Some have rallied 
Tillotfon on this occafion, as if he had 
played off the zolo epifcopart, or rather 
archiepifcopari, with more dexterity than 
fincerity. Be this as it may, he was 
nominated to the Archbifhopric of Can- 
terbury, April 15, 1691. 
NO. 
