beyond him. As his birth was noble, so was his behaviour and discourse; and as personable and handsome, so naturally sweet, pleasing, and affable. The truth is, there was nothing wanting but a forward spirit for his advancement; but the interruption of the times, which silenced his profession, would have given a stop to his rise, had he been of another disposition."

Having touched on the principal transactions of Dr. Zouche's life, chiefly by copious extracts from works of credit, I can imagine that the reflecting reader of this imperfect Memoir will historically call to memory, and dwell on the

equal honour to himself. During that time he arranged and digested all the books and papers, belonging to his office, in due order, and added divers excellent and useful notes and observations to many of them, which have been of admirable service to his successors; and he enlarged his apology to a much greater bulk, which he designed to have reprinted; but upon his death, the copy, in which those excellent additions were inserted, was, with several other papers of inestimable value, unfortunately lost; and therefore Mr. Wood, when he set himself in good earnest about compiling his great work of the History and Antiquities of the same University, was obliged to search and examine anew, all those papers and books that had been consulted long ago by Mr. Twyne, whose collections, had they been preserved, would in some degree, have eased him in that drudgery. He died in 1644." T. Hearne.

eventful times, during which Dr. Zouche lived, the latter end of the reign of the First James, Charles the First, the Usurpation, and the opening of Charles the Second's Reign.

If a contrast be drawn of those times, and a part of the subsequent period, with the times in which we are at present living, we have surely the strongest reasons to bless Providence, that we live in days, when Religious Toleration, and Political Freedom, have nearly reached their

acme.

May our present dissensions, almost inseparable from Religious Liberty, and Political Freedom, never be urged so far, as to burst out into sanguinary violence from the overbearing selfishness of any party :-may our Governors always regard the rights of property, and always bear in mind that great end of all good government, the happiness of a nation in all its gradations :-may every quixotic scheme of democratic government, which would finally terminate in the tyranny of the one, or of the few, be wisely rejected by the calm good-sense of the British people :-may the strictest economy be introduced into, and be continued, in every department of the State :

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and may sound political, in addition to religious, and other useful knowledge, become a part of our University instruction, for the Nobles and Gentry of the land may we always cheerfully allow to others what we claim for ourselves, the right of private judgment, both in Religion and Politics :-may that over-zealous spirit be discouraged amongst us, which would half close" the gates. of Mercy" on those Christians, who belong not to a Church, claiming Apostolical Succession, and exercising Episcopacy*.

May our Reformed Church of England never become so far assimilated to Romanism, as to facilitate the labours of wily Popish Emissaries +:and may undue respect never be paid to Christian antiquity, in depreciation of that weighty and invaluable Article of our Church: "Holy Scrip

* Unless you can convince the Dissenter, that these points, Apostolical Succession, and Episcopacy, are absolutely necessary to Salvation, from the words of Scripture; he will disregard any secondary arguments: and should you urge the authority of the Christian Fathers, he will tell you, they were uninspired and fallible men, whose individual opinions collectively summed up, are in very many cases by no means conclusive.

† Against these insinuating enemies, the activity of our Clergy must specially be directed, by the abundant dissemination of genuine Protestant Tracts, and by frequent ministerial visits.

ture containeth all things necessary to Salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation." Art. VI.; see also Art. XX. *

* Were this VIth Article always kept sternly in view by Divines, what an abundant harvest of discussion would be cut away in doctrinal matters, and about such usages as, Bowing to the Altar, Shew-bread Tables, Baptismal Chrism, and many other curious and antique matters, not without their historical, and sometimes high de facto value.

MAGD. COLL. OXFORD,

MAY 29th, 1839.