above all lords, would have his servants to be known by their liveries and badge, which badge is love alone. Whosoever now is indued with love and charity, is his servant; him we may call Christ's servant: for love is the token whereby you know that such a servant pertaineth to Christ; so that charity may be called the very livery of Christ. He that hath charity is Christ's servant: he that hath not charity, is the servant of the devil. For like as Christ's livery is love and charity, so the devil's livery is hatred, malice, and discord.

RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION.

ST. LUKE hath OBSERVANTS, observants; that is, watchers, tooters, spies, much like the observant friars, the barefoot friars that were here;

coach to stay behind till she had walked about it, giving orders for the instruction of children, and leaving liberally for that end. With two such persons I spent several of my years very happily."-" Virtue," says Lord Bacon," is like a rich stone, best plain set. Cleanliness, and the civil beauty of the body was ever esteemed to proceed from a modesty of behaviour, and a due reverence in the first place towards God, whose creatures we are: then towards society, wherein we live: then towards ourselves, whom we ought no less, nay much more to revere. But adulterate decoration by painting and ceruse, is well worthy the imperfections which attend it; being neither fine enough to deceive, nor handsome enough to please, nor wholesome to use. We read of Jesabel that she painted her face: but there is no such report of Esther or Judith."-Lord Bacon.

which indeed were the bishop of Rome's spies, watching, in every country, what was said or done against him. He had it quickly by one or other of his spies, they were his men altogether; his posts, to work against the regalita. In the court, in the noblemen's houses, in every merchant's house, those observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and praying, what they might hear and see, against the see of Rome. Take heed of these observants.*

I was once in examination before five or six bishops, where I had much turmoiling every week thrice I came to examination, and many snares and traps were laid to get something. Now God knoweth I was ignorant of the law; but that God gave me answer and wisdom what I should speak. It was God, indeed, for else I had never escaped them. At the last I was brought forth to be examined, in a chamber hanged with arras, where I was wont to be examined, but now at this time the chamber was somewhat altered. For whereas before there was wont ever to be a fire in the chimney, now the fire was taken away, and an arras hanging hanged over the chimney, and the table stood near the chimney's end; so that I stood between the table and the chimney's end. There was among these bishops that examined me, one with whom I have been very familiar, and took him for my great friend, an aged man, and he sat next the table's end.

*Serm. xii. vol. 2, p. 236, ed. 1758.

Then

among all other questions, he put forth one, a very subtle and crafty one, and such a one indeed as I could not think so great danger in. And when I should make answer, I pray you, Master Latimer, saith he, speak out; I am very thick of hearing, and here be many that sit far off. I marvelled at this, that I was bidden to speak out, and began to misdeem, and gave an ear to the chimney. And, sir, there I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. They had appointed one there to write all my answers, for they made sure work that I should not start from them, there was no starting from them. God was my good Lord, and gave me answer, I could never else have escaped it.*.

At the trial of Bishop Latimer in the 76th year of his age, the charge was read by the Bishop of Lincoln. "We object to thee, Hugh Latimer, first, that thou in this University of Oxford, in the year 1554, in April, May, June, July, or in some one or more of them, hast affirmed, and openly defended and maintained, and in many other times and places besides, That the true and natural body of Christ, after the consecration of the priest, is not really present in the sacrament of the altar." Whereupon Lincoln, with the other Bishops, exhorted Master Latimer again to recant and revoke his errors. But on his refusal the Bishop of Lincoln called aloud to Master Latimer, and bid him hearken to him; and then he

Serm. xii. vol. 1, p. 247, ed. 1758.

pronounced on him the sentence, and delivered him over to the secular

power.

About eight of the clock Ridley and Latimer were conducted from the mayor's house to the place of execution, which was a spot of ground on the north side of the town over-against Baliol College. In their way thither Ridley outwent Latimer some way before; but he looking back espied Latimer coming after, and said to him, "O, be ye there?" "Yea," said Master Latimer, "have after as fast as I can follow." Bishop Ridley first entered the lists, dressed in his episcopal habit; and soon after, Bishop Latimer, as usual, in his prison garb. Master Latimer now suffered the keeper to pull off his prison-garb, and then he appeared in a shroud. Being ready, he fervently recommended his soul to God, and then delivered himself to the executioner, saying to the Bishop of London these prophetical words: "We shall this day, my lord, light such a candle in England, as shall never be extinguished."

SECTION III.

DR. SOUTH.

WHO can tell all the windings and turnings, all the depths, all the hollownesses and dark corners of the mind of man? He who enters upon this scrutiny, enters into a labyrinth or a wilderness, where he has no guide but chance or industry to direct his enquiries or to put an end to his search. It is a wilderness, in which a man may wander more than forty years ; ́ a wilderness through which few have passed to the promised land. Sermon on Prov. xxviii. 26.

1. In general.

2. In particular.

PLEASURE.

1. Sensual compared with intellectual pleasure.

2. Pleasure of great place.

3. Pleasure of amusement compared with

the pleasure of industry.

4. Pleasure of meditation.
5. Pleasure of religion.

PLEASURE IN GENERAL.

PLEASURE in general, is the apprehension of a suitable object, suitably applied to a rightly disposed faculty; and so must be conversant both