\ 
 
 A

 
 NI NETEE N> 
 
 LETTERS 
 
 Of the truly Reverend and Learned 
 
 Henry Hammond, D. D. 
 
 (Author of the ANNOTATIONS on the 
 New Tejlament, dec.) 
 
 WRITTEN TO 
 
 Mr. PETER STANINOUGH 
 
 AND 
 
 Dr. NATHANAEL INGELO: 
 
 Many of them on very curious Subjects. 
 
 Now firft puUiJbed from the Originals communicated by the 
 very Reverend Mr. Robert Marfden, B. D. Archdeacon 
 of Nottingham, and the late pious Mr. John Worthing- 
 ton, M.A. a nd iUuftra ted with Notes 
 
 By FRANCIS PECK, M.A. 
 
 T* 
 
 . Joann. vi. 2. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for T. COOPER at the Globe in Pater- 
 nofter-Row. 1739. 
 
 [Price One Shilling.]
 
 [3] 
 
 Part of a LETTER written to the \ 
 Publifter by Mr, Archdeacon Marfden. 
 
 Good SIR, 
 
 i Dec. 1736. 
 
 l.TTSEND you Dr. Hammond's letters, 
 which came into my father's hands by 
 his marrying the relicT: of Mr. Stani- 
 nough, to whom they Were Written. My fa- 
 ther was Vicar of Walton in Lanca/hirt, and 
 one of the King's four preachers there. Seve- 
 ral of the letters are wrote on very ufeful fub- 
 jefts, and in few words with great perfpicuiry 
 untie fome knotty cafes in Divinity ; and I 
 doubt not but the publifliing them will be 
 of life to the publick. ***** Return a line, 
 I pray, to 
 
 Your friend, 
 
 i 
 
 R. Marfden. 
 
 A -4
 
 [4-] 
 
 Part of a Letter written to the Publijher by 
 the late Mr. John Worthington, M. A. 
 fometime Fellow of St. Peter' j College* Cam- 
 bridge. 
 
 Reverend Sir, S. James's day, 
 
 T A S T Saturday I propofed to write to 
 *' you, but I could not find Dr. Hammond's 
 letter, though I arofe at four of the clock, 
 and fearched for it till the dufk of the even- 
 ing. Then I defifted. The next day I reft- 
 ed according to the commandment. This 
 morning I got up again at four of the clock, 
 and, renewing my fearch, have met with it, 
 where, upon recollecting my thoughts, I had 
 fome better hopes of finding it. 
 
 If you and the good Archdeacon (who I de- 
 fire may have a fight of it) mall judge that 
 letter worthy of being printed with the reft, 
 it will pleafe me well to fee fo much honour 
 done to the memory of my good friend Dr. 
 Inge/o, to whom I was very much obliged. 
 He, being Vice-Provoft of Efa/z-College, elect- 
 
 4 ed
 
 [53 
 
 ed me a fcholar of that foundation, and, a 
 few years after, to Kings-College in Cambridge; 
 But my place in the latter election did not 
 fall ; nor, if it had, {hould I have accepted 
 of it, for more reafons than one. 
 
 "3Jp T|? 7J? "7F *fv 
 
 I am, worthy Sir, 
 
 Your very affectionate 
 
 and humble fervant, 
 
 J.W. 
 
 To the Reverend Mr. Francis Peck, 
 at Godeby near Melton in Lei- 
 cefterfhire. 
 
 Memorandum, il Apr. 1738. This is the laft letter I ever 
 received from this learned, pious, humble, good Gen- 
 tleman. Mr. Worthlngton died in Febr. or March laft. 
 The firft news I had of it was in a letter from Mr. Ed' 
 ward Ferrar of Huntingdon^ dated Lady-day^ 1738. 
 
 F.P. 
 
 NINE-
 
 [6] 
 
 
 NINETEEN 
 
 LETTERS 
 
 OF 
 
 HENRY HAMMOND, D. D. 
 
 LETTER I. 
 
 Mr. Palmer propofes to fend hh fon to 
 Mr. Staninough at Mr. FarnabieV, or 
 Mr. Staninough to come to his houfe, and 
 teach him there. 2. Compliments to Mrs. Far- 
 nabie and her Son. 
 
 i. 
 
 I 
 
 S I R, July 17. 
 
 HAVE nothing to returne in anfwer 
 to your letter, till I heare more from 
 you ; only I yefterday had a letter 
 from Mr. Palmer, to afke, whither he fliould 
 returne his fonne, or expedt you there ? ex- 
 
 preffing
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'^ Letters. j 
 
 preffing his deiire, that he {hquld get fome 
 more Latine and univerfity learning. He far- 
 ther deiires, that thofe things, which I gave 
 you to be delivered to him, mould be put up 
 and fent to Mr. Philip Warwick's* j which I 
 accordingly defire you to do. I think Mr. 
 Royfton at the Angel in Ivy-Lane can helpe 
 you to do it. If not, Mr. Gregory near the 
 King's Gate in Holburm can, by directing you 
 tp Mr. Craft's, Mr. Warwick's man. 
 
 2. Heer is yet never another note of fuc- 
 ceflbrs for you. The bleffing of God be on 
 you. Remember me very kindly to Mrs. Far- 
 naby and Frank b . I am 
 
 Your true friend, 
 
 July 17. H. H. 
 
 For Mr. Peter Stanynough. 
 
 a Afterwards knighted by King Charles II. Fajti Ox. 
 Vol. I. col. 278. 
 
 b ' Mr. Thomas Farnabie, the moft noted Schoolmafter 
 
 * of his time, had for his fecond wife Anne^ daughter of 
 1 Dr. John Htnufon Lord Bifliop of Durham, by whom he 
 ' had feveral children, one of which was named Francis, 
 
 * to whom he left his eftate at Kippinton in rhe parifh ot 
 
 * Sennok^ alias Seuenoak. Thomas, the father, died 1 2 Jun. 
 
 c 164,..' Ath. Ox. Vol. II. p. 105. It appears then, 
 
 that Mrs. Farnabie^ after her husband's death, kept a 
 boarding-fchool at Sennock in Kent for young Gentlemen, 
 and provided matters to teach them.
 
 8 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 
 
 LETTER II. 
 
 I, Mr. Palmer 's fon to go to Mrs. Farnabie'j 
 with Mr. Staninough ; and Mr. Staninough 
 advifed to accept of the place to be one of the 
 teachers at her Houfe. 2. Compliment l s, &c. 
 
 SIR, July 24. 
 
 i. T AM forry that Mr. Palmer's uncertain 
 * anfwer puts you upon this trouble, and 
 the charge of flaying in London thus longe. 
 When you heare from Frank Fdrnabie what 
 you may write to Mr. Palmer, about an ac- 
 commodation or no accommodation for his 
 fonne, I thinke your refolution of going down 
 with Mrs. Farnabie will bee the wifeft way. 
 And, if his fonne come not to you, I hope 
 there you will have a comfortable fubfiftence 
 for a while. 
 
 2. I befeech God [to] bee with you, and 
 protect you. My fervice to Mrs. Farnabie 
 and her fonne. When I may be in any thing 
 ufefull to you, aford a word to 
 
 Your true friend 
 
 H. Hammond. 
 
 I hear from Mr. Warwick, that he hath re- 
 ceived what you, had for him. 
 For Mr. Stanynough tbefe. LET*
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 9 
 
 LETTER III. 
 
 I. Dr. Hammond under a fort of a libera 
 cuftodia at Mr. Warwick'*. 2. Mr. Sta- 
 ninough advifed to train up his two pupils 
 in piety as 'well as learning. 
 
 Good SIR, 
 i. T Received your letter and the great fa- 
 
 * vours of the two Gentlemen, but farr 
 from the place to which they were directed. 
 I am long fince remooved from Oxford* to 
 a kind of libera cuftodia at Mr. Warwickes 
 houfe b near Bedford ; where Luc hath been, 
 and whofe father called heer, and took away 
 Mr. W\arwi$\ with him to the Hand, lince 
 my coming away. 
 
 2. I am not fo confident that this of mine 
 will find the way to you, as to adde to it any 
 returnes to Luc and Franke ; but mall leave 
 
 * * In 1 647. Dr. Hammond, Subdean of Chri/Ps-Church, 
 ' was thruft out by the Parliament Vifitors, and then im- 
 
 * prifoned for divers weeks in a private houfe at Oxon.'\ 
 Ath. Oxon. Vol. II. Col. 246. 
 
 b f Afterwards he was confined to the houfe of Mr. 
 Philip Warwick at Clapham in Bedford/hire ; where con- 
 
 * tinuing feveral months, was at length releafed," Id. ib. 
 
 B it
 
 i o jDr. H A M M o N D' s Letters. 
 
 it to you [if it come to you] to prefent my 
 true love to them j which makes mee to be 
 very much concerned, that your paines proove 
 very fuccefsful to them, and that their profi- 
 ciency in learning, and the conftant practice 
 of all Chriftian duties go hand in hand toge- 
 ther. I befeech God to beftow his bleffing 
 upon you, and remain 
 
 Your true friend, 
 
 Oftob. 2. H. Hammond. 
 
 My humble fervice to Mrs. Farnaby. 
 For Mr. Stanynough at Mrs. Far- 
 
 naby's houfe in Kent. 
 
 LETTER IV. 
 
 1. Mr. Staninough's^/z^ excujed. 2. And hit 
 entertainment at Sir Robert Pye'j approved. 
 3. D. N. there. 4. Mr. Staninough invited 
 to Dr. Hammond 's. 5. Compliments to Sir 
 R. Pye and Mr. Hammond. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 i. IfDID make that interpretation of your 
 
 * late filence, as was perfectly reconcilea- 
 
 ble with my confidence of your all-kindnefs 
 
 to
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters, n 
 
 to mee, and therefore do believe that account 
 you now give me of it. 
 
 2. I am very glad your entertainment in 
 that place continues fo fuitable to your ex- 
 pectation, and, that beeing fuppofed, (hall the 
 more willingly excufe the fome inconvenien- 
 cyes which are annext to it j becaus I am 
 farr more confident that your divinity may in 
 time infufe itfelf into them, then that theirs 
 will have fkill to infedl you. 
 
 3. If I could have imagined this returne 
 would have found D. N. with you, I mould 
 have repayd his civility in the kind j but, 
 defpairing of that, I thought it would be more 
 eafy for you to convey that account to him. 
 
 4. When a journey into thefe parts prooves 
 feafonable and no way inconvenient to you, 
 you mall be very welcome heere. But the 
 ceremony part of it I defire may not incom- 
 modate you in any other refpecls. Let mee 
 heare of your health fometimes, and I (hall 
 prefume all els very well. God's bleffing con- 
 tinue upon you. I am 
 
 Youres, 
 
 H. H. 
 B 2 5. lam
 
 1 2 Dr. H A M M o N ns Letters. 
 
 5. I am beholden to Sir R. for his kindnefs 
 to me, but am not fo well known to him as 
 to owne the returning any fervices to him. 
 If my nephew Hammond mould ftill be with 
 you, prefent my refpects to him, with my 
 wimes of all happinefs to him and his Lady. 
 
 For Mr. Staninough at Faringdon thefe. 
 
 LETTER V. 
 
 I. Mr. Staninough congratulated on his entring 
 into holy orders. 2. And his prefent employ- 
 ment approved. 
 
 S X R, July 2. 
 
 I. T A M not forry that you have engaged 
 
 * yourfelfe in facred orders, and am not 
 temted by the evil dayes to feare that you 
 will ever wifh the engagement off from you. 
 I befeech God to fitt you for fo weighty a 
 calling, and give you a cheerfull lot in his 
 
 2. I have not the lea ft objection to the 
 employment which you have accepted of, 
 much lefs to your not afking my advife before 
 you accepted of it. For I fuppofe you per- 
 
 fwaded,
 
 Dr. H A M M o N DS Letters. 1 3 
 
 fwaded, that J have no other intereft in your 
 bufinefs, nor delign upon you, than that I 
 might help you to be as happy as I can ; and 
 whatfoever can feem to you moft to contri- 
 bute to that end, is certainly it that I mofl 
 wi(h for you. Mr. Palmer was heer fince the 
 receiving your letter, and hee is very much 
 pleafed for you. And that I and Mr. W[ar- 
 wick] are fo too, I hope you will not believe 
 to proceed from the advantage that is ac- 
 quired to us by it. I mail only advife you to 
 be as watchfull as you can, that the condi- 
 tions of your entertainment by you mention- 
 ed bee not altered after your entring into the 
 family, by putting fome yong child upon 
 you, which will fupplant all your defigne of 
 improoveing yourfelf. Farewell. I am fin- 
 cerely 
 
 Your faithful friend, 
 
 H.H. 
 
 For Mr. Stanynough, 
 
 LETTER
 
 1 4 Dr. H A M M o N DS Letters. 
 
 LETTER VI. 
 
 I. Mr. Staninough congratulated on his retire- 
 ment and employment. 2. Directions of 'what 
 books to read to his pupil, and how to train 
 him up. 
 
 SIR, Aug. 20. 
 
 j.T SHALL not need again to congratulate 
 
 JL your happy retirement and grateful em- 
 ployment to you 5 I fhall hope and pray con- 
 ftantly for the continuance of it to you. 
 
 2. Your courfe entred upon I do fully ap- 
 proove, and, when you have occafion to add 
 any more, it may ether bee the Moraliftsj 
 Greek (if the difciple be capable of them) or 
 elsLatine: 7i//;Vs Offices and the reft of that 
 volume, Seneca t fome parts of Peftrarcb, and 
 then, if you pleafe, Aquinas Secunda Secundd. 
 And, from thence afcending to Divinity, be- 
 ginning with Grotius de Veritate, or Morney, 
 or falling on the Gofpels with Grotius 's Anno- 
 tations. And, befide the courfe of Hiftory, 
 thorough which you know your guefles, I 
 know no other Politickes (I am fure none 
 more fit for a Chriftian) then ftricl Rules of 
 living from the Sermon on the Mount, &c. I 
 write this now in full fpeed, When you de- 
 liberately
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'J Letters. 15 
 
 liberately call for any more particular direc- 
 tion, I fhall hope to be at more leafure to 
 anfwer you diflinctly. Meane while I am 
 Youres moft truly, 
 
 H. H. 
 
 For Mr. Peter Stanynough at Sir 
 Robert Pye'j houfe at Faringdon. 
 
 LETTER VII. 
 
 r. Of Books on Pradeftination. 2. Voffius bis 
 hi/lory of Pelagius, compiled out of Biftop 
 Overall Collections. 3. Mr. Thomas Pierced 
 books on God's Decrees and Divine Tbilan- 
 thropy. 
 
 SIR, March 3 r, i~6^. 
 
 *""!"" 1 !! AT piece called HcerejisPr<2deJiin\_a- 
 JL tionis} was publimt alone by Sirmun- 
 j about the time you went out bachalaur 
 of arts, when Ri. Davis gave me a fight of 
 it ; and thence I then took fome notes. It is 
 a fmall piece, and perhaps not frequently mete 
 with in (hops. Yet I fuppofe James Allejlree 
 in St.. Paule's church-yard can help you to it. 
 This was long before Hincmarus, about the 
 time of S. Augujline j and is by fome thought 
 the condemning the very doctrines which St. 
 Augufline taught ; but I think this is a miftake, 
 
 2. Thar
 
 1 6 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 
 
 2. That Vojfiuf Pel. Hift. was compiled out 
 of Bimop Overall's Collections, was frequently 
 and confidently affirmed by the late Bifhop 
 [Richard] Mount ague of Norwich, a great ad- 
 mirer of that Bifhop. 
 
 3. Thefe controverfyes have of late been 
 cafually refumed by Mr. Pcirs (whom you 
 may remember at Magdalen College) in two 
 books already printed ; the firft called, Notes 
 of God's Decrees*; the fecond, God's Philan- 
 thropy b ; Wherein you may poffibly take fome 
 pleafure to fee a chafe of a fad Presb[yterian.j 
 He is ingaged in a third with Mr. Reynolds c 5 
 but [I] heare not that that is yet publiflit. Fare- 
 well. You are daily mention'd in the prayers of 
 
 Your moft aflured affectionate friend, H. H. 
 For Mr. Staninough at Aughton. 
 nearOrmkirk in Lancafhire. 
 
 8 c A correct copy of fome Nates concerning God's dc- 
 4 crtes t efpecially of Reprobation ; by Thomas Pierce^ Lond. 
 c 1655. Atb. Ox. Vol. II. col. 589. 
 
 b * The Divine Philanthropy defended againji the decfa- 
 ' matory attempts of certain late printed papers, entlikd, 
 . A correptory Corredion, ^Will. Barlee, ReftcrofBrock- 
 c hole in Northamptonlhire. By Thomas Pierce. Lond. 
 * 16:7-58. 4to. Id. ib. 
 
 c Dr. Edward Reynolds wrote An Ep't/falary Preface to 
 the Correptory Corredlion, &c. Lond. 7566. 4to. Id. 
 01.576. Piers, Hammond, and Heylin were [all of 
 Magd. Coll. and] * the chiefeft champions of the old, re- 
 c gular conforming Clergy.' Id. ib. Reynolds a Difienter, 
 but aftet wards Bifliop of Norwich. 
 
 4 LET-
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 17 
 
 LETTER VIII. 
 
 . 'That Arc hbijhop Ufher did, for many years 
 before his death, acknowledge the doctrine of 
 Umverfal Redemption, but with a rejlriftion. 
 2. An account of a Sermon of his on thatfub- 
 jeft, wherein he maintained it at large. 3. 
 The difcourfe of a certain Divine with him 
 on that Sermon. 4. And the Archbijhop's con- 
 fiffion of his dijlike of the Geneva doctrine on. 
 that bead to another. 5, 6, 7, &c. Of the 
 true meaning of the *JEA<pijy ywjduKA of Saint 
 Paul. 
 
 SIR, June 12. 
 
 your queries all that I have to return 
 [is,] jirft, that that Bimop did for 
 many yeares acknowledge univerfal Redemp- 
 tion, but that with a diftindlion of non ex squo 
 pro omnibus. Which put me in mind of the 
 words of holy Maximum in his Kg<p. && % 
 that X^/TO? vz^e^ 7s-oiv]cav t 'i<rx. Which laft 
 words (when I read them long fince) I could 
 not guefs why they were added, till I faw 
 there was fomebody that granted the jariQttm 
 \jz3-e/> arctflw, but denied the g| JW. 
 
 2. Secondly ', That a little before his leaving 
 London (I was cold it by fome that heard him 
 
 C about
 
 1 8 Dr. H A M M o N D' s Letters. 
 about this time two yeare) at St. Peter's Pau/e- 
 Wharfe, as alfo in feveral other places, he 
 preached a Sermon, which himfelf called a 
 foule-fav'mg Sermon, on Rom. viii. 30. part of 
 the vcrfe [whom he called, them he juftified] in 
 which he earneftly preft the fincerity of God's 
 univerfal call to every one of all iinners to 
 whom the Gofpel was preached ; pr effing 
 throughout his Sermon the univerfal free in- 
 vitations of all by God, jtfpocaL xxii. 17. \Who- 
 feever will, let him take the water of life freely.} 
 Ifaiab Iv. i, 7. [Ho ! every one that tbirftetb, 
 come ye to the waters. Let the wicked for fake 
 bis way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts : 
 and let him return unto the Lord, and he will 
 have mercy upon him ; and to our God, for he 
 will abundantly pardon^ Adding, that without 
 this made good, all preaching to convert iin- 
 ners as yet in their finnes from the evil of 
 their wayes would want a firm foundation, 
 
 3. 'Thirdly , That a learned Divine going 
 after this to him, and taking rife from thefe 
 words of his [< tbat God intended truly that all 
 c whom he called by the word to repent and be- 
 e Ueve, might certainly if they would, and God 
 ' truly would they Jhould, come and repent y &c.] 
 to afke, Can they all will ? Doth God, with 
 his word, give internal grace to all that are 
 i called
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'J Letters. 19 
 
 called by it, that they may repent, &c. if they 
 will, and that they certainly can will ? He an- 
 fwer'd, Yes, they all can will. And, that fo 
 many will not, 'tis becaufe (as I then taught) 
 they refift God's grace; alledging^^ vii. 51. 
 [Te ftif necked and uncircumcifed in heart and 
 (an, ye do always refift the Holy Ghoft : as your 
 fathers did, fo do ye.] This, and much more, 
 he then declared, and in fine concluded in 
 thefe words, ' Bimop Overal was in the right, 
 ' and I am of his mind. 
 
 4. Fourthly, a learned Doctor, that was fre- 
 quently with the Bimop, wrote Mr.P[iers] word 
 (as he wrote to me, on my alking him the 
 fame queftion which you do me) * that that 
 4 Eimop told him lately before his death, that 
 { he wholly difliked the Genevan form of doc- 
 4 trine in this matter 3 .' This is all that hath 
 come within my reach of your firfi queftion. 
 
 5. To your fecond queftion, about t'JgA<p)fi/ 
 Ka, I anfwer : That having read Calixtus 
 
 1 See c the Judgment of James Lord Primate of Armagh^ 
 * irrefragably attefted by the certificates of Dr. Brian Wai" 
 ' ton, Mr. Herbert Thorndyke^ and Mr. Peter Gunning^ 
 fent in a letter to Dr. Nicholas Bernard? printed in an 
 Appendage to ' The Self-Revenger exemplified in Mr. Wil- 
 ( liam Barlee, by way of 'Rejoinder, &c. By Thomas Pierce. 
 ' Lond. 1658. 4to.' And note, Arcbbifliop Ujher died 
 21 March 1655. Life by Dr. Bernard. Lond. 1656; 8vo. 
 p. ;i^ 
 
 C 2 oa
 
 2o >n HAMMOND'* Letters. 
 
 on that matter, I am far from being per- 
 fwaded to his fenfe. My chief reafon is that 
 touched by Tertullian, becaufe this is men- 
 tioned by St. Paul, in order only to providing 
 victuals for him ; and fo belongs properly to 
 thofe women that miniftred to the Apoftles 
 tx, TUV \5Br&qxp$\G39. And, whereas Calixtus 
 anfwers this by quafi vero ojlendere junftim non 
 foflet, &c. p. 123. 'tis evident, that that whole 
 chapter is only on that one fubject of his 
 making no gain by his preaching, and fo de- 
 nying himfelf that one liberty which he might 
 have ufed, without the left refpecl: to this 
 other of carry inge about their wives and fami- 
 lies, and requiring provifion for them alfo. 
 Nay, verf. 4. and 6. put together, feem to me 
 to conclude, that Paul and Barnabas were 
 forced to work for their bread or neceffary 
 food, unlefs they would z&a^av, as others did. 
 Which to me concludes that ^6<yy was the 
 expedient to provide for them without labour 
 (which it would not be but in my fenfe) and 
 not a meanes of encreafing the charge of their 
 journey (which it muft be in Calixtus $ fenfe.) 
 6. Now for the reafons which you men- 
 tion to the contrary, they are of no force. 
 The place of Ignatius adPhilad. i. is by many, 
 even of the corrupted copyes, found to leave 
 
 out
 
 Dr. H A M M o N D' j Letters. 2 1 
 
 out n#uA* (which alone is to the prefent pur- 
 pofe.) But then, 2. that whole epiftle is none 
 of the feven genuine collected by Polycarpe* 
 3 The pureft copyes, though they place that 
 epiftle amongft the fuppofititious, yet leave 
 out that whole paflage for many lines toge- 
 ther. And fo that teftimony is not of the left 
 authority. 
 
 7. Then for Vafquez, that yeilds to the au- 
 thority of this epiftle, yet he exprefsly excepts 
 St. Paul [aliquos apoftolos prater c Paulum.'] 
 
 8. The place from Tertullian (Exhort, ad 
 Caft. c. 8.) can be no more than an affirma- 
 tion of the lawfulnefle of the Apoftles mar- 
 rying (which I am farr from denying) no way 
 an interpretation of that place. Nay, 2. there 
 is great reafon for Pametius's conjecture, that 
 he gives not his own, but recites others fenfe. 
 For, as in the book de Monogam. he is cleere 
 for my interpretation j and Caltxtus eludes that, 
 by faying he was turned Montanift when he 
 wrote that -, fo this book of Exhort, ad Caft. is 
 alfo affirnYd to be written after he was turned 
 Montanift ; and is accordingly fett down, by 
 Pameliuss edition, as the firft of that clam's 
 written in barefi-, as the following de Mono- 
 gam. &c. contra ecclefiam. This makes it very 
 improbable, that at the writing of this he 
 
 (hould
 
 2 2 Dr. H A M M o N DS Letters. 
 Should affirm chat which fo foon after he re- 
 futes, and renders this teflimony (if otherwife 
 it had force in it) as invalid as Calixtm could 
 think he rendred the teftimony from de Mo- 
 mgam. 
 
 9. The words of Clemens AL Str. j. belong 
 to Peter only, not to Paul, and fo are aliene 
 from this bufinefs. And, 
 
 10. The obfervation, that uxor nufquam In 
 novo 'Teftamento alk quam yuu<*,M.* vocabulo 
 denotatur, may fafely be granced. For, altho* 
 every uxor be yuvr ly yet every yuu^ is not uxor. 
 
 11. To the queftion, Si jbrorem Jhltem f<z- 
 
 non uxorem, intelligi cupit> cur addit 
 ? I anfwer, that although dfohtyw be 
 firft placed, as ordinarily epithets are j yet, 
 as they, fo this is added to yiw^ not y\wv\ to 
 this ; and fignifies, in the Scripture notion, a 
 believing (as that is an addition to) woman : 
 perfectly parallel to the phrafe fo oft ufed of 
 cwfog ^eA<poi for Chriftian men. Whereas, on 
 the other fide, if ywjcuKct, fignified theApoftle's 
 wife, there could be little reafon given why 
 ^A(p^v mould be praefixt to it. 
 
 12. I fuppofe the yuucuna, to be one that 
 ininiftred to the Apoftles g>c TUV \xff<* t pxf,v\to\. 
 And to that well agrees the title #^A<pi 5 this 
 being an ad of brotherly or fifterly kind- 
 
 nefs.
 
 Dr. HAMMOND^ Letters. 2$ 
 
 nefs. But Calixtus fuppofes Paul to fpeake of 
 liberty to require maintenance, not only for 
 hiinfelf, but his wife to[o.] What place, I 
 pray, can dhx^v have, that (hall have any 
 propriety to this interpretation? Or why, hav- 
 ing called her wife, fhould he zddjifter? 
 
 13. Then, when he fpeaks of the ufe of 
 ywuMKA in novo Teftamento., he pretends but to 
 plerifque. 
 
 14. His argument alfo from prifece inter- 
 pretationis hath little force. 
 
 15. For 'Tertullian, Jerome, and Augujline, 
 lee him p. 120, 121. and you will difcern no 
 apparence of truth in it, fave to that place of 
 'Tertullian. in Exhort, ad Cajl. which cannot 
 outweigh the contrary in de Monogam. 
 
 1 6. As for the antient interpretations lim- 
 ply taken, the impreffion of them now by 
 Dr. [Brian] Walton almoft finifhed (the New 
 Tejlament I have by me to confult b ) fuffici- 
 ently difproves it; where, (as the vulgar La- 
 tine hath exprefsly mulierem fororem) fo none 
 
 b The Bibtia Pelyglatta } not only in the vulgar Latin, 
 but alfo in the Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee^ Samaritan, Ara~ 
 bic, tbiopic, Perfic^ and Greek, each having its peculiar 
 jLrffr'wTranflation joyned therewith (the moft abfolute and 
 famous edition of the Bible that the Chriftian world ever 
 had, or is like to enjoy ) was published in fix volumes in 
 Fol. Anno 1657. See Fajii Oxon. Vol.11, col. 47, 48. 
 
 Of
 
 24 Dr. HAMMOND^ Letters. 
 of the other, Syriack or Arabick, fave only 
 the Aethiopick, arc obfervable to look that 
 way. 
 
 17. Laftly t for the fcope of the Apoftle be- 
 ing againft it, Quid non opus ecclefiarum impen- 
 fo t Ji necejjaria fubminijlrabant foemin<z y &c. ? 
 'Tis obvious to reply, that St. Paul might have 
 been maintained by the part of the church in 
 common, or els by fome perfon of fubftance 
 in it ; and if he had done ether, he had been 
 chargable to them. But, as he tells them 
 verfe 15, be ufed none ofthefe things. And that 
 he ufed neither, *twas fure to his prefent fcope 
 to fliew. 
 
 Thus much for the objections, which you 
 fee have no force to remoove me from my 
 interpretation. It is now time to conclude, 
 with this affurance, that I am 
 
 Your very affectionate 
 
 friend and fervant, 
 
 H.H. 
 
 For Mr. Peter Staninough at Aughton 
 neer Ormekirke in Lancafliire. 
 
 LETTER
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'J Letters. 25 
 
 LETTER IX. 
 
 I. Mr. Peirce bis book againft Reynold'^. Will. 
 Bariee again bujy in printing againft Mr. 
 Peirce. z. Of Purgatory and Prayers for the 
 Dead. 3. Of Books thereon. 
 
 SIR, Sept. 8. 5 y. 
 
 i . IT C A N now aflbre you that Mr. P{ierce} 
 
 1. his book againft Reynolds'] is come out 
 about a month fince a . Since which I heare 
 his firft adverfary is again in the prefs againft 
 him b . 
 
 2. To the queftion of purgatory and prayer 
 for the dead, it is needful, you know, that 
 thofe queftions mult be feparated. Many a- 
 coums may be given for the latter, which are 
 not founded in the formef. As for that one 
 fort of prayer for the dead againft which we 
 contend, viz. Prayer for their delivery from 
 temporary torments immediatly following the 
 
 a The Divine Purity defended^ or a Vindication of fame 
 c notes concerning God's Decrees, efpecially of Reprobation^ 
 4 from the fenfe of Dr. Reynolds in bis Epiftolary Preface 
 
 * to Mr. BarleeV Correptory Correption. By Tho. Peirce. 
 c Land. 7657. 4to.' Ath. Ox. Vol. II. col. 859. 
 
 b ' A neceffary Vindication of the Doftrine of Predeftina- 
 ' tion formerly offer ted j together with a full Abfterjion of 
 ' all Calumnies caft upon the late Correptory Correption by 
 
 * Mr. Tho, Peirce. By Will. Bariee. 1658. Id. ib. 
 
 D death
 
 2 6 Dr. HAMMOND'^ Letters. 
 
 death of fome pious men ; there is no antient 
 teftimony for it, certainly no {hew of fcrip- 
 ture, apocryphal or canonical. 
 
 3. Of this fubjecT; you may confult Vojfii 
 Thefes, p. 115. &c. Bp. UJher's Anfwer to the 
 Jefuite c (a very good book) for a view of 
 Antiquity. Of thefe two fubjecls I have writ- 
 ten pretty largely, but my papers are out of 
 my hands. Some fhort hints collected out of 
 bookes I heare fend you, if you can read them. 
 Which, when you have looked on, you muft 
 returne to 
 
 Your very affectionate 
 
 friend and fervant, 
 
 H. H. 
 
 For Mr. Stanynough at Aughton 
 neer Orme Kirke in Lancafhire. 
 
 f Anfwer to Malon thejefuit. 410. Tbji, 
 
 LETTER
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'^ Letters. 2 7 
 
 LETTER X. 
 
 I. OfS. Bafil and S. Chryfoftom. 2. Cbri/s 
 kingdom not of this world^ but be left the civil 
 government as he found it. 3. Anonymous of 
 opinion that Grotius and the pralatical party 
 are dejigners for Popery. 4. Card. Richlieu 
 had an hand in deftroying the Englifh Prelacy. 
 5. Anonymous his opinion of the uninterrupt- 
 ed fuccejfion of Bifiops. 6. Mr. Herbert 
 Thorndyke'j book againft the prefent diffe- 
 rences in church-writers. 7. Bp. Bramhall'j 
 books againft the Papifts ready to come forth. 
 
 SIR, Dec. 21. [1657.] 
 
 i. 'THROUGH the application of your pa- 
 
 A fage out of St. Bajil and St. Jerom had 
 one defect very confiderable, yet I am very 
 glad to find your vacant houres fpent in fuch 
 company, where I believe they will be much 
 more profitably employed, then in thofe other 
 which gave you the fcruple which you men- 
 tion. 
 
 2. I cannot but agree with you, that Chrifis 
 kingdome was not of this world 5 that when 
 he was on earth, he refufed to be a jutg/?^ or 
 xg/7>jV > that the power which was given him 
 was in order to, and fo exercifed in the Church 
 
 D a only,
 
 28 Dr. HAMMOND'J Letters. 
 
 only, and the civil power remaines untouched, 
 nether improved nor impaired, by any inter- 
 pofition of his. And, if the repeting of the 
 fifth commandment in the New Tejlament be 
 argumentative to the contrary, it muft indeed 
 follow, that the law of nature holds from 
 Chrift as mediator. But it is certain, all the 
 power which this way he hath made uie of, 
 is only to improove, not retrench, thofe old 
 precepts; which yer, in point of obedience to 
 magiftrates, he hath not done j but, by his 
 direction of rendring to Cafar the things that 
 are C#fars, exprefles that they are by former 
 law Cafar's already, and fo ftill ftand by him : 
 which indeed is his confirmation of that com- 
 mandment, not giving it. 
 
 3. His other undertakings are as neer the 
 truth (but no neerer,) that Grotius and the 
 practical party are defigners for Popery ([he 
 French, though not $fanifi y mode of it) con- 
 feffing mean while, 
 
 4. That Cardinal Ricblieu had a finger in 
 the py for deftroying our Bifhops. Yet fure 
 it was not the Spanifo Popery that Cardinal 
 was fo much for, the French would have 
 ferved his turne. 
 
 5. For the third particular, I fuppofe you 
 will grant their fucceffion to be as good as 
 
 fome
 
 Dr. H A M M o N D' j Letters. 2 9 
 
 fbme others that affume to be magiftrates, 
 and that will ferve his turne againft thofe 
 which he thinkes will not difpute contra eum 
 qui gubernat triginta legiones. 
 
 6. Mr. T^horndyke a hath newly fet out a 
 learned book againft the prafent differences 
 in Church Writers -, a great volume, neer 2os. 
 price. 
 
 7. The Bifhop of Derry hath one or two 
 ready to come forth againft the Papifts b . God 
 continue to you all happynefs. I am 
 
 Your moft affured friend and fervant, 
 
 H. H. 
 
 For Mr. Staninough at Aughton 
 neer Ormkirk in Lancafhire. 
 
 c Mr. Herbert Thsrndyke, fometime fellow of Trinity 
 e Coll. Camb. and Prebendary of Weftminfter^ died in 'July 
 * 1072.' Atb. Oxon. Vol. I. col. 461. 
 
 b One of thefe books was, Schifme garded and beaten 
 back upon the right owners. Shewing , that our great con- 
 trover fy about papall power is not a qu&Jlion of faith, but of 
 inter e/i and profit ', not with the Church c^Rome, but the 
 Court of Rome, wherein the true controversy doth con/iffy 
 who were the fir Jl innovators, when and where thefe papall 
 innovations firjl began in England, with the oppofition that 
 was made againft them. .By John Bramhall, D. D. Bijhop 
 of Derry. Gravenhagh, imprinted by John Ramzey, Anna 
 
 M.Dc jLVlll. In my copy is written by the Bilhcp's 
 
 own hand, For his highnefs Roiall the Duke of Glocefter. 
 Invia virtuti nulla eft via. Jo. Derenjis. Whence I con- 
 clude this letter was written Dec. 21. 1657. F. P. 
 
 LETTER
 
 30 Dr. HAMMOND'^ Letters. 
 
 LETTER XI. 
 
 I. Of Mr. Nowel. 2. Mr. Piers'* new book. 
 3. Tilenus examined by the Triers, com- 
 mended. 4, 5, 6, &c. The doftrine of uni- 
 uerfal Redemption defended. 
 
 SIR, [Apr. 6. f6j8.J 
 
 i.TTHANKE you for that mention of 
 Mr. Nowel y and that bufinefs intrufted to 
 him, I rely wholly on his care in it, and 
 therein I am fecure ; which, with my fervice, 
 you may mention to him, if you again chance 
 to fee him. 
 
 2. As your letter came, I had before [me] 
 a new piece of Mr. P. in reply to his old ad- 
 verfary a . But 'tis all of perfonal calumnies, 
 and things cxtrinfecal to the main queftion ; 
 on which he promifeth a diftincl: peice fud- 
 denly. 
 
 3. Have you feen a little piece printed by 
 Roifton, called, Tilenus examined by the Triers? 
 I know not whofe it is, but it is well written. 
 
 a c The f elf-avenger exemplified in Mr. William Bailee, 
 
 < by way of rejoinder to the firjl part of bis reply, viz. The 
 
 < unparallel'd variety of difcourfe in the two firft chapters 
 
 < of his pretended vindication. J?yTho. Peirce. Lond. 
 ! 1658. 4to.' Atb.Ox. Vol.11, col. 859. 
 
 4. To
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 31 
 
 . 4. To your objection I give anfwer by thefc 
 degrees. 
 
 5. Fir/}, that the doctrine of univerfal Re- 
 demption we aflent de Jide, i. e. as a doctrine 
 of fcripture. And therefore as thereby we 
 acknowledge the certain truth of the propo- 
 fition ; fo, for any confectaryes of it, we re- 
 ceive no more de Jide, than are taught us by 
 the fame fcripture. 
 
 6. Secondly, that the fcripture being written 
 to Chriftians, or thofe to whom the faith of 
 Chriji mould be reveled, is juftly fuppofable 
 to have reveled to thofe how they themfelves 
 (hall be judged and dealt with, but not to 
 have given rules to judge of others, i Cor. v. 
 13. [Them that are without, God judgeth.] 
 This therefore wholly frees us from anfwer- 
 ing this queflion, and confines our enquiryes 
 to that wherein we are concern'd, the falva- 
 bility of all to whom the faith is reveled. 
 Which yet is as contrary to their doctrine of 
 only the eled, as it would be if we mould 
 undertake to extend it to heathens alfo. For 
 fure all Chriftians are not with them the 
 elect, nor are all the elect Chriftians. But 
 then, 
 
 7. Thirdly, Though this keep us from un- 
 dertaking to judge farther then the fcripture 
 
 (our
 
 3 2 Dr. HAMMOND'J Letters. 
 
 (our rule) directs us, yet from fcripture we 
 may obferve thofe things which will help us 
 a iittle in judging (but not with fo much 
 confidence) in this matter. As frft, that the 
 damningnefs of unbelief is annext to the 
 preaching of the gofpel. Markxvl. 15, 16. 
 [Go ye into all the world, and preach the go/pel 
 to every creature ; he that believeth and is bap- 
 tized ft all be faved-, but he that believeth not 
 ft all be damned.~\ And then ftill there may be 
 a falvability of them who believe not whilit 
 it is not reveled to them. And to this, ana- 
 logy perfwades our affent. For we doubt not 
 of the falvability of Chriftian infants and idi- 
 ots, who yet beleive not for want of the fa- 
 culty. Why then may we not hope the fame 
 of them that beleive not, for want of the ob- 
 ject? Is it not as impoflible to fee without 
 light, as without eyes ? Secondly^ that Chrijl 
 dyed for them that deny him, why not then 
 for them which are lefs guilty, as having ne- 
 ver heard of him ? And indeed an impenitent 
 Chriftian, qui vivzt contra fidem^ is, for all 
 Chrijl, in a worfe condition then a wicked 
 heathen. 'Tis not then the revelation of Chrijl 
 to which the redemption is to be affixt, but 
 the death ; and nothing hinders but that they 
 may be faved by his death (that only name 
 
 under
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'^ Letters. 33 
 
 under heaven) who never heard of him, if 
 they perform the condition required by God 
 in the fecond covenant, flricken in Chrift, fo 
 farr as they are by God enabled to perform 
 it 5 that covenant requiring no more then 
 in Chrijl men are enabled to performe. 
 Thirdly, that God rewards thofe that have 
 made ufe of the fingle Talent, that loweft 
 proportion of grace which God gives, and 
 gives them more ; which, as it is appliable to 
 heathens, who have certainly the talent of 
 natural knowledge 5 fo, if they ufe not that, 
 that makes their condition but the fame with 
 ours, who are loft alfo if we make not ufe of 
 our talent. Mean while, when 'tis afkt, how 
 comes it to pafs that fo many nations fit in 
 darknefs, &c. ? The anfwer is obvious : That 
 this can be no reftraint to the univerfability 
 of Cbriji's death. For he certeinly dyed for 
 thofe as wel as others ; and fo is acknowledg- 
 ed to have done, by thofe that affirm him to 
 have dyed pro generibits fingukrwn. And 'tis 
 certain, that Cbrtft's command of preaching 
 was as extenfive as his death, to the whole 
 world and creation. And that fo the Apo- 
 ftles performed we have no reafon to doubt. 
 And, if (having done fo, and being not receiv- 
 ed, or the faith not bringing forth meet fruits) 
 
 E this
 
 34 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 
 this talent of the word was withdrawn from 
 them again, the "only conclufion we can duly 
 make of it is, the acknowledgment of God's 
 juft judgments on them, and feare that he 
 deale not in like manner with us, if we imi- 
 tate them in our demerits. Now, if God 
 ihould mofl juftly punifh this nation with re- 
 moving our candleftick, could it be reafonable 
 from thence to conclude > that Chrift dyed not 
 for this nation, or for that age of it on which 
 the effects of that remoovall fhould fall, in 
 cafe there were no other argument againft 
 that doctrine ( founded on thofe fcriptures 
 which affirm, that he dyed for every man, for 
 the whole world, &c.)t Certainly it could not, 
 In like manner then it cannot now be reafon- 
 able to argue thus from the like fate and ef- 
 fects on other nations. 
 
 7. Laftly, Chrift being, we know, in God's 
 decree and promife the lamb flayn from the 
 beginning of the world, I fhould demand 
 whither by this argument it could, . before the 
 times of Chrijl's birth, be inferr'd that that 
 facrifice of Chrift was intended to be availe to 
 none but the Jewes ? What anfwer foever 
 would reafonably be offer'd to that queftion, 
 would alfo cleare this which is now before us. 
 
 And
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'.? Letters. 35 
 
 And this I fuppofe may fuffice, in fome haft, 
 from Your very affectionate 
 
 friend and fervanr, H. H* 
 For Mr. Staninough at Aughcon neer 
 Ormkirke in Lancafhire, theje. 
 
 LETTER XII. 
 
 I. Mr. Stanynough'j lajl letter very acceptable. 
 2. Dr. Hammond fends this by a kinfman of 
 his. 3. And does not like Mr. Stanynough, 
 Mr. Littleton, or any of his friends^ the worfe 
 for marrying. 
 
 Dear SIR, July 6. 
 
 i.T Received your very kind and wellcome 
 
 J. letter with the very fame pleafure and 
 delight which I beleive pofleft you at the 
 writing of it. And though it came to me 
 alone, without any of Mr. Sberlccke's* to con- 
 
 a * Mr. Richard Sherlock about 1652. went into Lanca- 
 
 * Jhire y and became chaplain to Sir Robert Bindloffe of 
 ' Borwick-Hali in the parifh of Walton^ Baronet ; where 
 
 * he wrote, The Quaker's wild queftions objected againfl the*' 
 
 * Minijlers of the Gofptl. Lond. 1654. 8vo. 1656. 4-to. 
 
 * Which was anfwered by Richard Hubberthorne in a book 
 c -entitled, A reply to a book fet forth by the Priejl o/"Borwick- 
 c Hall in Lancafriire, called Richard Sherlocke, &V. Lond. 
 
 * 1654. 4to. This Mr. Sherlock was afterwards D. D. 
 ' and Rector of Winwick^ where he lies buried with this 
 
 * epitaph written by himfelf, Exuvits Ricardi Sherlock, 
 e S. T. P. indignifflmi hujus ecclefies refloris j oblit 20. die 
 c Junii (anno eetath j6.) A. D. 1689. Sal infatuum con- 
 f culcate.' Atb. Oxon. Vol.11, col. 834, 835. 
 
 E 2 duel:
 
 3 6 Dr. H A M M o N vs Letters. 
 duct it, or to direct me which way to give 
 you an anfwer to it , yet it falls out, that, at 
 the time of the arrival, 
 
 2. There is with me in the houfe a kinf- 
 man of mine (whom I never before faw) of 
 your country ; of whom (though I had en- 
 quired after you, and found that he had not 
 heard of your name) yet I mail not defpaire, 
 but he may find fome way of conveying this 
 unto you. Though it hath nothing to tell 
 you ; but that I am as conftant in my perfect 
 kindnefs, as I was confident before this afu- 
 rahce now given me of it, of your continued 
 affedion to mee. I heartily blefs God that 
 he hath fo long continued his protection over 
 you, and hope that he will ftill fecure your 
 tenure in that Kala^eurig you mention, by thofe 
 meanes, whereby you may receive moft com- 
 fort to be preferved, /. e. the conftant dif- 
 charge of ail dutyes of a good Chriftian in 
 
 fuch 'Brovtjgyii ypigpi. 
 
 3. I was told by fomebody, that I was ap- 
 prehended by you to have had fome unkind 
 reflections on your marriage. But it is not 
 amifs now to afure you, though thus late, 
 that I never had, in the left degree, beeing 
 alwayes confident that you did, with fober 
 judgment, make that election. And, upon 
 
 that
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'^ Letters. 37 
 
 that preemption, I afure you, I liked it bet- 
 ter, then if, upon any worldly confiderations, 
 you had done otherwife. Your honeft cham- 
 ber-fellow Ad\ain\ Lit\tkton\ b hath lately 
 done the like, and many others of your fel- 
 low-fufferers ; to none of whom I have lefs 
 kindnefs for it. And it pleafeth God that I 
 have not yet difcerned it to tend to any of 
 their faecular difadvantages. Well, I have lit- 
 tle more to fay, then to defire the continuance 
 of your kindnefs to and prayers for me, and 
 to give you all confidence that I am and {hall 
 abide 
 
 Your moft affectionate 
 
 friend and fervant, 
 
 H.H. 
 
 For Mr. Peter Stanynough at Aughton 
 neer Ormes-Kirk in Lancamire, thefe. 
 
 , ftudent of ChrJJPs-Churcb^ ufher,and 
 * in 16^8. fecond matter of Weftminfter fchool, author of 
 c the Dictionary which goes by his name/ Ath. Oxon. 
 Vol. II. col. 915. 
 
 LETTER
 
 38 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 
 
 LETTER xni. 
 
 I. Farther thoughts on Mr. Stany nought Mar- 
 riage. Calixtus de Conjugio Clericorum 
 commended, z. His good wi/hesfor Mr. Sta- 
 nynough. 
 
 SIR, Aug. 23. 
 
 i.T Received your laft, and acknowledge my- 
 
 JL felf convinced in the lawfulnefs of that 
 eftate (and reconcileablenefs with facred or- 
 ders) wherein God hath placed you. And, 
 becaufe you mention fome grounds of that 
 your perfwafion, I (hall add thereto one book 
 which I lately perufed on that fubject, as 
 worth reading I believe as any : Calixtus de 
 Conjugio Clericorum. 
 
 2. I (hall heartily wifh and dayly pray for 
 to you a continuance of all comforts of this 
 life, or which 'is one eminent one (which 
 may well fupply the place of all others) a 
 confcientious difcharge of all duty, and a pre- 
 parednefs for all tryalls that that may bring 
 upon you. And if heerin you can be emi- 
 nently inftrumental to fortify and confirme 
 many others, thefe will be great advantages 
 of living heer, and pledges of all happynefs 
 
 heerafter.
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'^ Letters. 3 9 
 heerafter. Which is heartily implored for 
 and on you, by 
 
 Your allured affectionate friend, 
 
 H.H. 
 
 For Mr. Peter Staninough at Oughton 
 neer Ormekirke in Lancafhire ; leave 
 thefe with the Lancamire poft. 
 
 LETTER XIV. 
 
 i. Of Mr. Pierced new books. 2. Of the Sa- 
 turday-Sabath men. 3. Of Mr. Braborne'i 
 book. 4. Ofthefirft in/lit ut ion oftheSabath. 
 5. Penitents how far reftored to grace on 
 their Jincere repentance. 
 
 SIR, Sept. 10. [1658.] 
 
 I. T Received yours of Aug. 24. not long 
 
 X after at London, but found not leafure to 
 anfwer [it] till this day, on which I arrived 
 at Weftwood*, the place of my country retire- 
 ment j whence I haften (the firft thing I do) 
 to difcharge my debt ; and to tell you, that 
 
 * Weftwood in Wore eft erjblre^ the feat of the loyal Sir 
 John Packington (to which place the Dodtor had received 
 a civil Invitation) where he remained, doing much good, 
 to the day ot his death. Atb. Oxon, Vol. II, col. 246. 
 
 Mr.
 
 40 Dr. H A M M o N DS Letters. 
 
 Mr. Tliercel his 'AvjojctQcfogjns b , &c. is now 
 come forth, and is now likely to be the laft 
 he will have occafion to write on that fubjecl. 
 Mr. Baxter I believe diverts him to another . 
 X. I am forry to heare of the addition of 
 that Jewijh, to al the former giddyneffes of 
 the age. 
 
 3. I had heard of Mr. Brabournes late 
 booke, which he unwillingly, it feemes, was 
 brought to; having refolved to be filent, tho* 
 he had refumed his opinion. 
 
 4. As to the Prolepjis, Gen. ii. 3. [And God 
 blejfed thefeventh day, andjanttified it ; becaufe 
 that in it he had rejledfrom all bis work, which 
 God created and made :] I never faw reafon to 
 doubt of it, or confequently to affign any other 
 date to the Sabbatick Law, then that of Exod. 
 xvi. And it is confiderable (which, as I re- 
 member, Mr. Mead noted) that the feven 
 dayes, immediately preceding the firft manna- 
 weeke, were fpent, ether in travailing, which 
 
 b Self -Condemnation exemplified^ in Mr. [Thomas] Whit- 
 field \_Keftor o/"Bugbrook near Northampton] Mr. Barlee, 
 and Mr. Hickman ; with occafional reflexions on Calvin, 
 Be2d, Zuinglius, PKcator, Rivet, and Rollock, but more 
 ffpecially on Dr. Twifle and Mr. T.Hobbes. Lond. 1658. 
 4to. Id. ib. col. 859. 
 
 c An additional advertifement of Mr. Baxter'j Icok^ en- 
 titled, The Grotian religion difcover'd, feff . Printed with 
 Self-Condemnation^ &c. Id. ib, col. 8 do. 
 
 4 was
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 41 
 
 was contrary inough to their fabbatizing the 
 laft day of them. This is evident in cafe the 
 fixth day, ver. 22. \Andlt came to pafs that on 
 the jlxtb day they gathered twice as much bread, 
 two omersfor one man ; and all the rulers of the 
 congregation came and told Mofes.] fignify the 
 fixth day of gathering manna. For then the 
 day prxceding thofe fix mufl have been the 
 fabbath, if there were any. But that is pre- 
 judged by ver. i, &c. Now whither it be 
 poffible and probable, that the phrafe [the 
 fixt day] ver. 22. mould only fignify the fixt 
 day of the week, and not the fixe of gathering 
 manna, I leave you to confider; and confult 
 Mr. Meade (if you have him) for I cannot 
 find that book of his. 
 
 5. Your other quaere, Utrum mifericors Deus 
 reflitnat pasnitenti crania bona^ qute per pecca- 
 tum perdiderat ? in general fpeaking is eafily 
 anfwered. For grace (both the gift of God 
 and the favour of God) adoption, juftifica- 
 tion, and right to falvation (which are the 
 general comprehenlive heads which contain 
 omnia bona quae per peccatum perdiderat) are 
 certainly reftored to the poenitent. But, whi- 
 ther fo great a degree of each of thefe be 
 reftored to the poenitent, as is fecurcd to the 
 juft man that needs no repentance j I have 
 
 F no
 
 42 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 
 
 no ground from fcripture to determine. For 
 as, on one fide, 'tis faid there, that there is 
 more joy in heaven for the poenitent; and that 
 the returning prodigal was feafted^ &c. when 
 the fonn, that was always with the father, 
 was not ; which inclines to the affirmative : 
 fo 'tis fayd, by way of anfwer to that, as to 
 an objection, that all that the father had was 
 his, and that that was more valuable to him, 
 then one feaft. And befide, the joy and the 
 feftival prooves not the bona omnia in the fame 
 degree. The fafeft way then of refolution, I 
 think, is, that he, that hath finn'd, when he 
 returnes, mould by double diligence qualify 
 himfelf, as St. Paul did $ and then, no doubt, 
 to him will belong that of the laft Jhall bs 
 
 6. This is all that your quaere's exact 
 from 
 
 Your affured friend and fervant, 
 
 H. 
 
 LETTER
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 43 
 
 LETTER XV. 
 
 I. Of Purgatory. 2. St. Auftin'j being not al- 
 ways peremptory again/I Purgatory, no proof 
 offucb a place. 
 
 SIR, Oftob. 20. 
 
 i.THAVE received back the notes fafe* 
 
 J- And, to the letter which inclofed them 
 have no more to fay, but that the teftimonies 
 which, you fay, fpeake de fanftorum aut jujio- 
 rum animiS) do fure fpeake of thofe foules 
 which the Romanift affignes to Purgatory, and 
 praye for deliverance out of them* For in- 
 deed, who is more then imperfette fantfus, 
 that goes out of this life ? And, though mar- 
 tyrdome do fupply the place of Purgatory to 
 fome (according to their doctrine) and others 
 within fome yeares are canonized for faints ; 
 yet, I fuppofe, that to all others a longer or 
 fhorter purgatory belongs ; and to fuch, and 
 not only to martyrs, Gfc. thofe teftimonyes be- 
 long, viz. to pious foules indefinitely : which 
 fure go out of the world with venial ilnnes 
 upon them. 
 
 2. That*%fr was in fome degree doubt- 
 full in this doctrine, and not always per- 
 emptory againft all purgatory, is not denyed. 
 
 F 2 (But
 
 44- Or. H A M M o N D'J Letters. 
 (But that will not ferve the Romamjls turn, 
 who muft have it a doctrine certain, and of 
 faith, and deduced from the Apoftles ; which 
 certainly they will never evince.) But his di- 
 
 mitte is farr from coming home to it. 
 
 3. Sir, in fome haft, lam 
 
 Your moft afured freind, 
 
 H. H. 
 
 For Mr. Staninough at Aughton 
 Tz^rOrmekirke in Lancamire. 
 
 LETTER XVI. 
 
 j. Whether a Proteftant may marry 'with a 
 Papift? 2. The marriage of the Clergy never 
 inter difted by the univerfal Church. 
 
 S I R, Dec. 30. 
 
 I. 1 r | "O your qusere, about a Proteftant joyn- 
 
 JL ing in marriage 'with a Papift, and 
 the lawfulnefs of the minifter's joyning their 
 hands ? my fenfe is cleare, Firft, that it is not 
 unlawful or forbidden by any law of God or 
 Man, for thofe that are of more different per- 
 fuafions to joyn in marriage. The only text 
 that I have heard cited againft it, 2 Corinth. 
 vi. 14. [Be ye not unequally yoked together 'with 
 unbelievers : for what fellow/hip hath righteouf- 
 neft with unrighteoufnefs ? and what communion 
 
 hatb
 
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'^ Letters. 45 
 
 hath light with darknefs?} becing certainly im- 
 pertinent ; fatpfyyt* fignifying another matter 
 far diftant from marriage j and the title of 
 a,7ri<r& being, with no reafon or charity, ap- 
 plicable to a Romanifty who beleeves all the 
 articles of the Chriftian faith, and erres only 
 in fuperftrudting other things which are not 
 fuch. Confequcntly, Jecondly, I cannot deem 
 it unlawful to a minifter to knit the bands 
 betwixt two of thus different perfwafions. 
 And the objection from the Rubrick is of no 
 force againft this j becaufe the command, bee- 
 ing geven by the Church that the married 
 couple ftail communicate, can only bee obliga- 
 tory to them (and fo 'tis their fault, not the 
 minifter's, if they communicate not) or to the 
 minifter only fo farr, that he fhould mind 
 them of their duty, and be ready to minifter 
 it to them, if they be willing to receive ir. 
 Thus much then for the lawfulnefs being rea- 
 dily granted, I cannot yet but add, that al 
 things that are lawful are not expedient; and 
 that this, of the marriage of thofe which are 
 of fo contrary perfwafions and communions, 
 is queftionlefs of that number. What hin- 
 drances this may probably caufe to the ob- 
 ftruding the grand ends of marriage, the 
 comforts of peaceable living, of uniry, amity, 
 2 minding
 
 46 Dr. HAMMOND^ Letters. 
 
 minding the fame things ferving God together^ 
 bringing up children in the nurture of true 
 religion, and the like, is obvious to forefee ; 
 and it cannot be prudent to adventure thofe 
 hazards, unlefs there bee very great hopes of 
 fecuring thefe and the like fpirituai advanta- 
 ges, or fomewhat (which I cannot forefee) fie 
 to be accepted in commutation for thefe. 
 This is all that feemes necefTary to returne to 
 that quaere. 
 
 2. As for your other quare, Of the time of 
 enterditfing priefts marriage, though I have in 
 my notes a collection of all the antient Ca- 
 nons about that matter, yet, befides the length 
 of tranfcribing them, I have another reafon 
 not to trouble you with it ; becaufe Calixtus 
 hath Jparjim fet down ( I think ) all that I 
 fhould think confiderable. ' As for that Wv?*- 
 c<pav'a which you take notice of, thus it is, 
 The marriage of the Clergy being never en- 
 terdifted by the Unrwrfal Church of both Eaft 
 and Weft) yet ftriclly forbidden nowe in the 
 Romane, which calls itfelf theUniver fat Church* 
 and hath indeed been lookt on alwayes with 
 great reverence, as the chiefe fee of the/^/? 5 
 Calixtus propofed to fet down the original of 
 this their pretended interdict, and can find it 
 no higher than Siricius. Now to this 'tis no 
 
 way
 
 Dr. H A M M o N D'J Letters. 47 
 
 way contrary, that it was thus interdicted and 
 punifht in the Canon of Neocafarea. For 
 that neither was an univerfal Councell, nor is 
 by the Romanlft pretended to be fuch. And 
 'tis agreed betwixt all parties, that Canons of 
 particular Churches are not of any force in 
 this or the like matter (where the queftion is 
 of univerfal obligation) to all other churches. 
 I fuppofe this is the account that your quef- 
 tion required. If it be nor, refume it at fome 
 other time, and I will give you more parti- 
 cular anfwere. My paper drawes lowe, and 
 I have roome but to wim you an happy new 
 yeare, and all contynuance and encreafe of 
 earthly and fpiritual comfort, and much fruit 
 to your account. To which end you mall 
 not faile to be particularly mentioned in the 
 daily oblations of 
 
 Your moft affectionate 
 
 friend and fervant, 
 
 H.H. 
 
 For Mr. Peter Staqinough at Aughton 
 neere Ormes-kirke in Lancafhire. 
 
 BETTER
 
 4 8 Dr. H A M M o N DS Letters. 
 
 LETTER XVII. 
 
 j. New Books ju/l publified. 2. That Prejb}'- 
 ters are made by, and confequently inferior 
 toBifoops. 3. The invalidity of Prejbyterian 
 Ordination. 
 
 SIR, May i. 
 
 i.QILENUS juniors defence of himfelf 
 from Mr. Baxter is this weeke come 
 ^ and at the fame tirr.^ Dr. Gawdens 'it^p. 
 in folio a j but Mr. P[ierce~]'s is ftill 
 in the prefs. I know not how long it will be 
 ere it get out of it. You know ere this that 
 there is no place for the petition you men- 
 tion. 
 
 2. The queftion, Whether epifcopi and pref- 
 byteri be diftinct orders of degrees, is of no 
 force to any efTeft. The plain truth is, that 
 the Bijhop having a plenitude of power for 
 all ecclefiaftical acls given him by the apoflles, 
 fo that %K tcv @a,7?lieti/ (or any thing els) d'vtv 
 cflnintiTrx, he imparts fome portions of his 
 power ad fpeciales aflus to Presbyters, and 
 
 * The book here meant, I prefume, is Ecclefia 
 cana fufpiria : fetting forth her former conftitution, cdm- 
 pared with her prefent condition, in four books : to Dr. 
 Gauden. Lond. 1059. fo!. See Atb. Oxon. Vol. II. col. 
 313. 
 
 iome 
 
 ( jrf ( A,-,- :**,<*& ~H ,
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letter*. 49 
 
 fome to Deacons alfo. Which being agreed, 
 as, then it matters not whether they be called 
 diftincl orders or degrees, fo it is unavoidably 
 confequent, that the Presbyter hath no' far- 
 ther power then the Biftops of the Church, 
 from the Apoftles times to thefe, have com- 
 municated them. And that ordaining of 
 others is one of thofe powers was never fo 
 much as prastended by thofe that have moft 
 paflionately aflerted their rights j by name, by 
 St. Jerom, who fometimes expreffes himfelf 
 to think the difference fmall, except a ordina- 
 tione. 
 
 This then is the only queftion that we can 
 in this nation now be concerned in, Whether 
 Prefbyterian Ordination be lawful!? And that 
 is foon determined, by their having no power 
 to do ir. Whatfoever mens chanty or can- 
 dor towards other churches be, who ftand or 
 fall to their oWn Mfiniftejrj^and of whom 
 the left that can be faid is that is a defect and 
 corruption in them j that can make no change 
 in the former ftating as it concernes us. Be- 
 caufe, as neceffity is pleaded to excufe them, 
 fo that cannot be pretended either for thofe 
 that have oppofed and caft out the Bifhops 
 heer, or affumed powers not belonging to 
 them, whither in ordeining Prelbyters, or in 
 
 G acting
 
 5 o Dr. H A M M o N D' s Letters. 
 
 acting by force of fuch ordination. This is 
 all that your queftion feemes to exact from 
 Your very affectionate 
 
 friend and fervant. 
 
 For Mr. Peter Stanynbugh at Aughton 
 neer Ormkirk in Lancafhire. 
 
 LETTE R XVIII. 
 
 I. His thoughts of the approaching Reftoration. 
 of the Church of England. 2. Doubt, whe- 
 ther the Long Parliament (though they have 
 voted their own dijjblution) will really diffolve 
 themfelves. 3, &c. Of divers new books. 
 
 SIR, March 16. [1659.] 
 
 J.TAM very glad that the troubles that were 
 
 J. fo neer as to menace, were not yet per- 
 mitted to take any hold on you. I hope thac 
 the feares of that fort are now prettily* well 
 difpell'd, if our unreformed finns do not call 
 them again upon us. It appeares not im- 
 probable, that the tabernacle of David, which 
 hath been in the duft fo long, may ere long 
 be reaedifiedj but, whither not with thofe 
 diminutions, which may extort teares from 
 
 * Ita. 
 i them
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'J Letters. 51 
 
 them that compare thefecond with \htformer 
 aedifice, I am not able to divine. 
 
 2. This indeed makes your confideration 
 concerning elections very feafonable and ne- 
 ceflary to be purfued, when occafion requires. 
 But that tbcfe, which have voted their own 
 d involution, will have been -f- fo cruell as to 
 execute it, I am not yet forward to be- 
 lieve. 
 
 3. Of bookes that are lately come abroad, 
 I praefume you will be glad to heare of Dr. 
 Sand[erfori] de Confcuntia, his ten laft lec- 
 tures 3 . 
 
 4. There will alfo, by the time this comes 
 to you, be publilht a little piece, wherein he 
 [Dr. Sanderfon] and your old friend Dr. Ha[m- 
 mond,] are joyntly concerned: A pacifick ac- 
 count of God's Grace and 'Decrees b , publimed 
 by the latter. 
 
 5. As alfo one tingle (heet, called, An ac- 
 
 t Sic, fed reftius will be. 
 
 a Several Cafisjf Conference difcujfed in ten Leflure: at 
 Oxon. Land. 1060. 8vo. Publifhed at the inftant defire 
 of Robert Boyle, Efq; an encourager of Dr. Sanderfon's 
 ftudies, in the dme of his affliction. Atb. Oxon. Vol. II. 
 col. 321. 
 
 b A pacifick dtfcourfe of God's Grace and Decrees, &c. 
 Lend. 1660. 4:0. Id. ib. 001.248. 
 
 G 2 count
 
 5 2 Dr. H A M M o N T>S Letters, 
 count of one fuggeftion of the Romanift aga'mfl 
 \tbi\ Difpfatcher] difpatchcd c . 
 
 6. I know not whether you have feen a 
 piece of Mr. [William] Creed\ called, The 
 Refuter Refuted: in defence of Dr. Ha[m- 
 mond j] 'fx/ut^cv, againjl Mr. Jeanes d . 
 
 7. Or Mr. Peirfon on the Creed e . 
 
 8. Or Mr. Thorndykes book in fol. ( to 
 which he hath lately printed a large index of 
 errata, a whole fheet clofe written, very ne- 
 ceffary for the underftanding the booke.) 
 
 9. Or Dr. Gawderis fermon on the Bp. of 
 ILxciter { . 
 
 10. At Cambridge they have of late printed 
 Origen againft Cel/its, and Philccalia, Gr. & Lat. 
 
 1 1 . Hierocks pieces, with prefaces, &c. of 
 Mr. Peirjon, are printed at London. 
 
 12. So is Alexander Aphrodifeeus de Fato, 
 Gr. and Lat. by a friend of you res. 
 
 c Dr. Hammond wrote, i . The Difpatcher difpatched : 
 cr, An Examination of the RomaniftV Rfjoynder to Dr. 
 Hammond'* Replies, wherein is inferted a view of their 
 profeffion and oral tradition^ in the way of Mr. White. 
 
 Land. 16^9. Ato. Then, A brief account ofafuggejHon 
 
 againft the Diipatcher difpatched. Lond.i66c. 410. Id. ib. 
 
 4 The Refuter Refuted : or Dr. Henry Hammond'j 'EK- 
 Ti/s- S f defended againji the impertinent cavils of Mr. Hen- 
 ry Jeanes. Lond. 1659. 410. 
 
 e John Pearfon, afterv/ards D.D. and Ld.Bp. of Cbefter. 
 A Sermon preached at the funeral of Dr. Ralph Brown- 
 rig, Bijbop ^Exeter, <m 2 Kings ii. 12. Lond. 7568. 8vo. 
 
 13. Two
 
 Dr. HAMMOND'* Letters. 53 
 
 13. Two excellent pieces there are from an 
 unknown hand, The whole Duty of Man* , and 
 *The Gentleman's Calling*. Tim. Garthwait, 
 ftationer, at the little north door of St. Paufs 
 church, will help you to any or all thefe. 
 God in heaven be with you. You have the 
 dayly prayers of 
 
 Your aflured friend and fervant. 
 
 I hear Dr. Heylin hath newly published An 
 
 hi/lory of the Jive points. 
 
 For Mr. Peter Staninough at Aughton 
 neer Ormekirk in Lancaftiire. 
 
 * Dr. Hammond wrote an epiftle before the firft edition 
 of Th* whole Duty of Man. -I once thought The whole 
 Duty of Man had been written by Dr. William Chapel* 
 Lord 8p. of Cork and Rofs. Then by the famous Obadiab 
 Walker. But the right reverend and learned Dr. Robert 
 Clavering, now LI 7 38.] Lord Biftiop of Burg St. Peter's* 
 was fome time ago pleafed to acquaint me, that it was 
 written by one Mr. Batket y a Clergyman of Worcefterjhire. 
 
 F. P. 
 
 b Dr. Humphrey Henchman wrote an Epiftle prefixed to 
 the firft Edition of Tht Gtntleman's Calling. Ath. Oxoa. 
 Vol.11, col. 798. 
 
 LETTER
 
 54 -O^ HAMMOND'/ Letters. 
 
 LETTER XIX. 
 
 I, 2. Compliments to Dr. Ingelo for his Book 
 of Sermons and letter to Dr. Hammond- 
 3. Of the two Hierocles. 4. Thanks to 
 1)r. Worthington for pubtijbing The felecl 
 Difcourfes of Mr. John Smith, fometime 
 Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge. 
 
 S I R, March 27. 
 
 I. TT is very long fmce I had the leaft con- 
 
 A verfation with my very much loved 
 old friend Eton College. And there is no 
 means whereby I am better pleafed to renew 
 it, then this which you have ofFer'd me. A- 
 bout a year and three quarters fince, I was 
 as near it as the way betwixt Hitcham and 
 Old Wmdfor lead me. And the fpecial ad- 
 vantage of that journey was, that in each of 
 thofe ftages, I heard cf your name, both by 
 my Lord of Cbichefter [Dr. Henry King] and 
 Mr. Farington, with the addkion of io much 
 good character as gave me a defire to be ac- 
 quainted with you, and made me very much 
 pleafed to receive this great favour from you 
 both in your book and letter, which I prefent- 
 ly took in with great greedinefs and fatif- 
 faclion. 
 
 a . if
 
 Dr. H A M M o N D'J Letters. 5 5 
 
 2. If in your book I afk you why you ren- 
 der nA*W <srwwcs, (p. 87.) he tormented hell, 
 and not rather he rifled or defpoikd, or beg- 
 gar* d p% lo ? it will aflbre^ou, that, if I had 
 met with^any but '' ..... pet, there, I fhould 
 have had confidence to have mentioned it to 
 you. 
 
 3. By two paffages in the firft Sermon, 
 p. 103. . 21. I guefs you fo kind to titerocks 
 on the Pythagorean} verfes, that you are 
 lorry that he mould be the afTertor of Apollo- 
 nins againft Chrijl. Perhaps it may not be 
 ungratefull that I tell you of a pafTage in 
 t_SEneas Gazaus, in his dialogue called 7&ffa 
 phraftus, which gave me forne occafion to con- 
 jecture, that, as there were many of that 
 name, fo the advocate of dpollonius was ano- 
 ther from our author. For this <^/ntsas 
 brings in ........... fpeaking to Tbecphraftus, 
 
 and thus concluding of Apollonms^ 
 
 adding immediately, 
 
 rtt, 
 
 TXTO 'srptawipuv. To me of 
 a fudden this fuggefted, that he whom they 
 call o hfida-xah.* of thofe two philoibphers, 
 
 A -A - * 
 
 as our author, and he that joins with Apollo- 
 nius> as adding fabulous relations to that of 
 
 his
 
 5 6 Dr. H A M M o N DS Letters. 
 his of Achilles' s ghoft, againft whom Eufebius 
 wrote, was another* You may have the lei- 
 fure and curiofity perhaps to examine this in 
 Bibliotheca Graec. Patrum, Tom. II. p. 383. 
 and therefore I have had the confidence to 
 mention it to you. 
 
 4. Sir, for this I beg your pardon, and alfo 
 your favour to prefent my very humble fer- 
 vice and thankes to Dr. Worthingion for his 
 own part firft, and then for the learned and 
 pious difcourfes which his care hath commu- 
 nicated to the world. The book I had read 
 over before his favour came to me 5 having 
 no other invitation to it from any man, but 
 what the work it felf, cafually met with, 
 yeilded me $ finding it ftored with much 
 more variety of learning, moderation, and de- 
 fign of piety, then I frequently meet with 
 now adays. I (hall now no longer divert 
 you then by affuring you, you have much 
 obliged 
 
 Your arTe&ionate humble fervant, 
 
 H. Hammond. 
 
 For JDr.ptfathanael] Ingelo 
 at Eton College, tbefe. 
 
 April
 
 MEMORANDUM. 51 
 
 April 1$. T66o. (faith MX. Wood*) 27 (faith 
 Mr. Richard Smith*) died Dr. Henry Ham- 
 mond. " He was the glory of the Englijh na- 
 " tion, not only for Theology, but for many 
 " other learned acquifitions c ." 
 
 a Jtb. Oxon. Vol. II. col. 2491 
 
 b Obituary, in Deftderata Curiofa, Vol. II. Lib. XIV; 
 
 P-33- 
 
 c Echard, p. 784: b. 
 
 The E tf D.
 
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 JL an Hymn to the Creator of the World : Written in the 
 
 exprefs words of the facred text, as an attempt to mew the 
 
 " beauty and fublimity of Holy Scripture. Ihere are bid yet greater 
 
 tbingt than thefe, and we ba<ve feen but a feiu of bit ivorkf; 
 
 Ecclus. xliii.. 32, London, 1716. 8vp. 
 
 'II. Academia tertia Anglicana: or, The Antiquarian Annals 
 of the Town of Stamford. Containing the Hiltory of theUni- 
 verfity, Monafteries, Gilds, Churches, Chapels, Hofpitals and 
 Schools there. Gathered from the belt accounts Print and MS. 
 particularly the regilters of Durham, Lincoln, and Peterborough^, 
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 and ihe MS. Collections of divers eminent Antiquaries ; beauti- 
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 Town, Monafteries, Churches, Tombs, Hofpitals, Gates, Arms, 
 Seals, and other Antique, in a variety of fculpture. Exfum* 
 dare lucem. Hor. Fol. Land. 1727. 
 
 III. Defiderata Curio/a, Vol. I. Containing, I. the complete 
 Statefman, exemplified in the life of Sir Will. Cecil, Lord 
 Burgbley. ^. Two and twenty Letters of the Lord Burgbley to 
 his Son Robert. 3. Lord Burghleys ten Precepts to his Son 
 Robert. 4. A moil remarkable Letter of the Lords of the 
 Council, in Vindication of Robert Earl of Leicejler, from the 
 Afperfions caft upon him in a book called Lticefler\ Common- 
 wealth. 5. Memoirs of Will. Cbaderton, Biftiop of Ckejler, and 
 then of Lincoln. 6. A large account of the Sicknefs and Death 
 of Sir Robert Cecil, Earl ofSaltibury. 7. A large account of the 
 Sicknefs and Death of Prince Henry, 8. A Letter of Mr. Tko.- 
 mai Hobbs, refolving the queftion, Why a man remembers bit 
 mum face (which he fees often in a glafs) left than that of a 
 friend twbich be hath not feen of a great time? 9. Account of 
 the Saxon Lord Longueville, who was killed by the Danes, and 
 of his Monument at- Overton Longuevillc. 10. A remarkable 
 account of the Body of fome great perfon dug up at SoutbvutU. 
 
 II. Sir Ibo. PoiviSs Epitaph : by Matt. Prior, Efq; 12. A 
 Difcourfe on the antient Divifions of the Night and the Day ; 
 as alfo on the antient Hours of Prayer, sV. 1 3. A Defcription 
 of Burgk/ey-houfe by Stanford, and of the principal Paintings 
 and other Rarities now to be feen there. With many other 
 curious Particulars. Referam toto notijfima regni faQa. Ovid. 
 Adorn'd with Cuts. FoJ. Lo^ T^. 
 
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