comfort, what the fame St. Paul faid after to the fame Philippians, when he advifed them "to walk as they had him for an example." And this goodness of which I have fpoken, feemed to increase as his years did; and with his goodness his learning, the foundation of which was laid in the grammar-fchool of Rotherham (that being one of thofe three that were founded and liberally endowed by the faid great and good Bishop of that name.) And in this time of his being a scholar there, he was observed to ufe an unwearied diligence to attain learning, and to have a feriousness beyond his age, and with it a more than common modefty; and to be of fo calm and obliging behaviour, that the malter and whole number of scholars loved him as one man*. And in this love and amity he continued at that school, till about the thirteenth year of his age; at which time his father defigned to improve his grammar learning, by removing him from Rotherham to one of the more noted fchools of Eton or Westminster; and after a year's stay there, then to remove him thence to Oxford. But as he went with him, he called on an old friend, a minister of noted learning, and told him his intentions; and he, after many questions with his fon, received fuch anfwers from him, that he assured his father, his fon was fo perfect a grammarian, that he had laid a good foundation to build any or all the arts upon, and therefore advised him to fhorten his journey, and leave him at Oxford. And his father did so. His father left him there to the fole cave and manage of Dr. Kilbie', who was then Rector of Lincoln College; and he, after fome time and trial of his manners and learning, thought fit to enter him of that College, and not long after to matriculate him in the University, which he did the firit of July, 1603; but he was not chofen Fellow till the third of May, 1606, at which time he had taken his degree of Bachelor of Arts: at the taking of which Degree, his tutor told the Rector, that his "pupil "Sanderson had a metaphyfical brain, and a matchlefs memory; He was educated in a fevere and exact grammar-fchool, where by "unwearied diligence, a filent fedentary and altonished way of following "his book, a seriousnets beyond his years—(oh, how would he steal away "from his companions' follies to his leverer talks and privacies!)-be "made his way thorow all things on which he could fix, to an exactness "in Greek and Latin, which he retained to his dying day. And he "would obferve, that an exactnefs in fchool-learning was a great advan"tage to our higher ftudies, as the mifcarriages of ichool are not easily re"covered in the Univerfity." (Reason and Judgment, or Special Remarks of the Life of the renowned Dr. Sanderson, p. 5.) 1 Dr. RICHARD KILBIE is commemorated as a benefactor to his College. He restored the Library which had long been neglected, made eight new repofitories for books, and gave divers good books thereunto. Upon the promotion of Dr. John Underhill to the See of Oxford, he was elect ed Rector of Lincoln College, Dec. 10, 1590; and in 1610 he was appointed the King's Hebrew Profefsor. He died in 1620. "and that he thought he had improved, or made the last fo by an art of his own invention"." And all the future employments of his life proved that his tutor was not mistaken. I must here stop my reader, and tell him, that this Dr. Kilbie was a man of fo great learning and wifdom, and fo excellent a critic in the Hebrew tongue, that he was made Professor of it in this University; and was also so perfect a Grecian, that he was by King James appointed to be one of the tranflators of the Bible; and that this Doctor and Mr. Sanderfon_had frequent discourses, and loved as father and fon. The Doctor was to ride a journey into Derbyshire, and took Mr. Sanderson to bear him company; and they refting on a Sunday with the Doctor's friend, and going together to that Parish Church where they then were, found the young preacher to have no more diferetion, than to waste a great part of the hour allotted for his fermon in exceptions against the late tranflation of feveral words (not expecting fuch a hearer as Dr. Kilbie) and fhewed three reasons why a particular word fhould have been otherwise tranflated. When Evening Prayer was ended, the preacher was invited to the Doctor's friend's houfe, where after fome other conference the Doctor told him, he might have preach"ed more useful doctrine, and not have filled his auditors' ears " with needlefs exceptions against the late tranflation; and for "that word for which he offered to that poor congregation "three reasons why it ought to have been tranflated as he faid, " he and others had confidered all them, and found thirteen more confiderable reasons why it was tranflated as now print"ed" and told him "if his friend" (then attending him) 66 : m While he was in the Univerfity, he generally fpent eleven hours a day in study which industry of his difpatched the whole courfe of philofophy, and picked out in a manner all that was useful in classic authors that are extant; drawing indexes for his private ufe, either in his own paper-book, or at the beginning and end of each book. This afsiduity continued to his dying day. He difpofed of himself and time to perpetual industry and diligence, not only avoiding but perfectly hating idleness, and hardly recom mending any thing more than this: "Be always furnished with some"what to do, as the best way to innocence and pleasure.' There was not "a minute of the day he left vacant from bufinefs of necefsity, civility, or "Atudy." (Reason and Judgment, &c.p. 11.) n. From this fhort narrative we learn with what accuracy the tranflation of James I. was conducted. Dr. Geddes, in his Profpectus," has very jufly observed, that every fentence, every word, every fyllable, every letter and point, feem to have been weighed with the niceft exactitude, and exprefsed either in the text or margin with the greatest precision. Yet the propriety not fo much of a new tranflation, as of a careful revifal or correction of our present tranflation, is incontrovertible. The very injudicious divifion of the text into chapters and verfes has been long a matter of complaint. But this fubject is fully difcufsed by the late Primate of Ireland in An Historical View of the English Biblical Tranflations: the Expediency of revifing by Authority our prefent Trandations; and the Means of executing fuch a Revifion." Dublin, 1792. "fhould prove guilty of fuch indifcretion, he fhould forfeit his "favour." To which Mr. Sanderson faid, "he hoped he should "not." And the preacher was fo ingenuous as to fay, "he would 66 not justify himself." And fo I return to Oxford. In the year 1608 (July the 11th) Mr. Sanderson was completed Mafter of Arts, I am not ignorant, that for the attaining thefe dignities, the time was shorter than was then or is now required; but either his birth or the well performance of fome extraordinary exercise, or some other merit, made him fo: and the reader is requested to believe that it was the last; and requefted to believe alfo, that if I be mistaken in the time, the College records have mif-informed me; but I hope they have not. In that year of 1603, he was (November the 7th) by his College chofen Reader of Logic in the houfe; which he performed fo well, that he was chofen again the 6th of November, 1609. In the year 1613, he was chofen Sub-rector of the College, and the like for the year 1614, and chofen again to the fame dignity and truft for the year 1616o. In all which time and employments, his abilities and behaviour were fuch, as procured him both love and reverence from the whole fociety: there being no exception against him for any faults, but a forrow for the infirmities of his being too timorous and bafhful; both which were, God knows, fo conatural, as they never left him: and I know not whether his lovers ought to wish they had; for they proved fo like the radical moisture in man's body, that they preferved the life of virtue in his foul, which, by God's afsifting grace, never left him, till this life put on immortality. Of which happy infirmities (if they may be so called) more hereafter. In the year 1614, he stood to be elected one of the Proctors for the University. And it was not to fatisfy any ambition of his own, but to comply with the defire of the Rector and whole Society, of which he was a Member, who had not had a Proctor chofen out of their College for the ipace of fixty years, namely, not from the year 1554P unto his ftanding: and they perfuaded • During his refidence in College he undertook the office of Tutor, which he executed with much credit to himfelt. He was wont to fay, "I learn much from my mafter, more from my equals, and most of all from my difciples." (Reason and Judgment, p, 10 ) P THOMAS COVENEY, of Magdalen College, Pr. In 1537 both the Proctors were of Lincoln College. (Le Neve.) At this time the Proctors were chosen out of the whole body of the Uni• verfity, and none ufually offered themselves candidates for the office, but perfons of great eminence for their learning. Dr. Peter Turner, Fellow of Merton College, Savilian Professor of Geometry, and alto Professor of Geometry in Gretham College, formed the Caroline Cycle, fo called from Charles the First's approbation of it, beginning in 1629, and ending in 1720. Since the introduction of this cycle, the appointment is limited to particular Colleges in a regular fuccefsion, and the office has, of course, been lefs an object of ambition, him, that if he would but ftand for Proctor, his merits were fo generally known, and he fo well beloved, that it was but appearing, and he would infallibly carry it against any oppofers; and told him, "That he would by that means recover a right or reputation that was feemingly dead to his College.". -By these and other like perfuafions, he yielded up his own reafon to theirs, and appeared to ftand for Proctor. But that election was carried on by fo fudden and fecret, and by fo powerful a faction that he miffed it. Which when he understood, he profefsed feriously to his friends, "that if he were troubled at the "disappointment, it was for theirs, and not for his own fake: "For he was far from any defire of fuch an employment, as "must be managed with charge and trouble, and was too "usually rewarded with hard cenfures or hatred, or both." In the year following he was earneftly perfuaded by Dr. Kilbie and others to renew the Logic Lectures which he had read fome years paft in his College; and, that done, to methodize and print them, for the eafe and public good of pofterity. And though he had an averfenefs to appear publicly in print, yet after many serious folicitations, and fome second thoughts of his own, he laid aside his modefty, and promised he would; and he did fo in that year of 1615. And the book proved as his friends feemed to prophefy, that is, of great and general use, whether we respect the art or the author. For logic may be faid to be an art of right reasoning: an art that undeceives men who take falfehood for truth; and enables men to pafs a true judgment, and detect thofe fallacies which in fome men's understandings ufurp the place of right reafon. And how great a master our author was in this art may easily appear from that clearness of method, argument, and demonftration, which is fo confpicuous in all his other writings. And he who attained to fo great a dexterity in the use of reafon himself, was best qualified to prescribe rules and directions for the inftruction of others. And I am the more fatisfied of the excellency and usefulness of this his first public undertaking, by hearing that most Tutors in both Universities teach Dr. Sanderfon's Logic to their pupils, as a foundation upon which they are to build their future ftudies in philofophy. And for a further confirmation of my belief, the reader may note, that fince this his Book of Logic was first printed, there has not been lefs than ten thousand sold: And that it is like to continue both to discover truth, and to clear and confirm the reason of the unborn world. It will eafily be believed that his former standing for a Proctor's place, and being disappointed, muft prove much displeasing to a man of his great wisdom and modefty, and create in him an averfeness to run a fecond hazard of his credit and content; and yet he was affured by Dr. Kilbie and the Fellows of his own College, and most of thofe that had oppofed him in the former election, that his Book of Logic had purchased for him fuch a belief of his learning and prudence, and his behaviour at the former elecA a tion had got for him so great and fo general a love, that all his former oppofers repented what they had done; and therefore perfuaded him to venture to ftand a fecond time. And, upon thefe and other like encouragements, he did again (but not without an inward unwillingness) yield up his own reafon to theirs, and promised to ftand. And he did fo; and was the 10th of April, 1616, chofen Senior Proctor for the year following; Mr. Charles Crooke of Chrift-Church being then chofen the Junior . In this year of his being Proctor there happened many memorable accidents, part of which I will relate; namely, Dr. Robert Abbot', Mafter of Baliol College, and Regius Professor of Divinity (who being elected or confecrated Bishop of Sarum fome months before) was folemnly conducted out of Oxford towards his Diocefe, by the Heads of all Houfes, and the other chiefs of all the University. And it may be noted that Dr. Prideaux* ¶ M. CHARLES CROOKE, a younger son of Sir John Crooke, of Chilton, in Bucks, one of the Juftices of the King's Bench. In 1625, he proceeded D. D. being then Rector of Amertham, and a Fellow of Eton College. He was the author of "A Sad Memorial of Henry Curwen, Efq. only child of Sir Patr. Curwen of Warkington, in Cumberland, Baronet, who died 21ft Aug. 1638, aged 14, and was buried in the Church of Amerfham in Bucks. Sermon on Job xiv, 2. Oxon. 1638." 4to.-at which time he was Chaplain to Charles I. (Wood's Ath, Ox.) Brother of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. He obtained his promotion to the See of Salisbury, as a reward for his Lectures in defence of the King's fupreme power, against Suarez and Bellarmine. They were printed after his death. In his way to Sarum he made a farewell oration to the University with great applause. His Brethren, the Heads of Houfes, and other Oxford friends, parted with him on the edge of his Diccefe with tears of grief, and the gentry of Sarum received him with tears of joy. Life of Robert Abbot, Bishop of Salisbury, Guildford, 1777, p. 152.) -James I. was fo much pleafed with Dr. Abbot's book "De Antichrifto," that he ordered his own "Commentary upon part of the Apocalyple" to be printed with it, when the fecond edition appeared in 1608. He was confecrated Bishop of Salisbury, Dec. 3, 1615; “herein," fays his biographer," equalizing the felicity of Seffridus fome time Bishop of Chichefter, who, being a Bishop himfelf, faw his brother at the fame time "Archbishop of Canterbury." s Dr. JOHN PRIDEAUX, Bishop of Worcester, died July 29, 1650, aged 72. years. He filled the high ftation of the King's Profefsor in Divinity, with great honour and reputation, for twenty-feven years. While he was Rector of Exeter College, he acquired to much fame in the government of it, that many foreigners, fome of whom were afterward per fons of the greatest distinction in the republic of letters, placed themselves under his care. It is remarked of him, that his anfwers in the Divinity chair were quick, while thofe of Dr. Sanderfon, his fuccefsor, were flow and certain. Such was the opinion entertained of his abilities, that he was ftyled " Columna Fidei or"thodoxe, Malleus Hærefeon, Patrum Pater, et ingens Scholæ et Academiæ "Oraculum.” When Mr. Jofeph Mede was upon a vifit at Oxford, it chanced at dinner one day that the theme of their difcourfe was difpleafing to that good man : for by the liberty which was taken fome were criticifing upon and speak ing, |