and his mind more cheerful; and he faid often, "Lord, forfake me not now my ftrength faileth me, but continue thy mercy, "and let my mouth be ever filled with thy praise." He continued the remaining night and day very patient, and thankful for any of the little offices that were performed for his eafe and refreshment: and, during that time, did often say to himself the 103d Pfalm; a Pfalm that is compofed of praise and confolations, fitted for a dying foul, and fay alfo to himself very often thefe words,, " My heart is fixed O God!" my heart is "fixed where true joy is to be found." And now his thoughts feemed to be wholly of death, for which he was fo prepared that the king of terrors could not surprise him " as a thief in "the night;" for he had often faid, "he was prepared, and "longed for it." And as this defire feemed to come from heaven, fo it left him not, till his foul afcended to that region of blefsed fpirits, whofe employments are to join in concert with his, and fing praife and glory to that God, who hath brought him and them into that place, "into which fin and forrow "cannot enter z."

Thus this pattern of meeknefs and primitive innocence changed this for a better life :-It is now too late to wish that mine may be like his : for I am in the eighty-fifth year of my age; and God knows it hath not; but I moft humbly befeech Almighty God that my death may: and I do as earnestly beg,

▾ Thus Dr. Hammond, in his last sickness, did not by peevishness difquiet his attendants; but was pleafed with every thing that was done, and liked every thing that was brought.-(Life of Dr. Hammond, p. 227.) There are three of Archbishop Secker's fermons which I read repeatedly with ferious attention-because they apply to a condition in which the lot of humanity will one day afsuredly place me; unless it should please Almighty God to take me out of this world by a sudden death. They are "on the Duties of the Sick," from Isa. xxxviii. 1, 2 The following passage relates to our behaviour towards all who are about us in our fick. nefs:"We are strictly bound to fhow them, peculiarly at that time,

great humanity and goodness; not requiring from them more fatiguing "and constant attendance than is fit; nor more care, skill, and dexterity "than is to be expected: recollecting that our illness inclines us to ima "gine things amifs in a degree beyond reality, and that others ought not "to fuffer merely because we do: thinking often how disagreeable an "office they go through, and what benefit and comfort we receive from it begging them to forgive us thofe hafty fallies of fretfulness and im"patience, that fometimes will efcape us; and making them good amends, in every way that we can, for all the trouble which they take about us.' (Secker's Sermons, Vol. III. p. 281.)

z "Thus was he taken away with a happy euthanafia, compofedly, peaceably, and comfortably departing, giving himself to prayer, medita tions, and difcourfes, which his own ftrength could bear, full of the grace and peace of God, and confirmed by the abfolution of the Church." (Reason and Judgment, &c. p. 43.)

that if any reader fhall receive any fatisfaction from this very plain, and as true relation, he will be fo charitable as to say Amena.

I. W.

Blessed is that man in whose spirit there is no guile. Psal. xxxii. 2.

a However diverfified the conditions of men are, there is one common event to all. When the hour of death approaches, the diftinctions of worldly pomp are of no avail. At that awful period every confolation will vanifh, except that which flows from the consciousness of doing well, and the expectance of another life.The examples recorded in the preceding pages prefent to our view the nobleft of all fpectacles-the calm compofure, the pious refignation of good men, who, having finished their earthly course of virtuous conduct, anticipate the blessedness of the heavenly state, and, full of joyful hope and humble confidence in the merits of a Redeemer, clofe the laft fcene with dignity and honour,

"Sic mihi contingat vivere, ficque mori!”

Ees

[The Letter of Dr. Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, mentioned in Page 419, is inferted in the Life of Mr. Ifaac Walton, prefixed to this Work.]

APPENDIX.

THE WORKS OF DR. ROBERT SANDERSON.

I. "LOGICE ARTIS COMPENDIUM. Oxen. 1615,"

8vo.

II. "PHYSICE SCIENTIE COMPENDIUM, à ROBERTO SANDERSON, Coll. Lincoln. in almâ Oxonienfi olim focio, &c. ante multos annos Lucis ufuræ deftinatum, nunc verò ex authentico Manufcripto primò Imprefsum. Oxoniæ, 1671."

III. SERMONS. "Dr. Sanderfon's XII. Sermons, 1632." 4to.-"Dr. Sanderfon's Sermons, (including the twelve before printed) 1664." Folio." Ditto, with his Life by Ifaac Walton, 1689." Folio.

IV. "NINE CASES of CONSCIENCE DETERMINED, 1678, 1685." 8vo.-Several of these were printed separately. Two in 1658 (not in 1628, as Wood afserts). Three more in 1667. Another in 1674, and one in 1678.

The last of these Nine Cafes is "Of the Ufe of the Liturgy;" the very fame tract which was published by Ifaac Walton in his "Life of Dr. Sanderfon, 1678," under the title of "Bishop Sanderfon's Judgment concerning fubmifsion to Ufurpers." In this tract is given a full account of the manner in which Dr. Sanderson conducted himself, in performing the fervice of the Church, in the times of the Ufurpation.

V. "DE JURAMENTI PROMISSORII OBLIGATIONE PRÆLECTIONES SEPTEM HABITE in SCHOLA THEOLOGICA OXONII, Termino Michaëlis, anno Dom. MDCXLVI. à ROBERTO SANDERSON. Præmifsâ Oratione ab eodem habitâ cùm Publicam Profefsionem aufpicaretur, 26 Octobris, 1646. Lond. 1647."

Thefe Lectures were tranflated into the English language by Charles I. during his confinement in the Isle of Wight, and printed at London, in 1655.-8vo.

VI. DE OBLIGATIONE CONSCIENTIÆ PRÆLECTIONES DECEM OXONII in SCHOLA THEOLOGICA HABITÆ, anno Dom. MDCXLVII. An English translation of the "Prelections on the Nature and Obligation of Promissory Oaths and of Conscience" was published in 3 vol. 8vo. London,

1722.

VII. "CENSURE of Mr. ANTON. ASCHAM his BOOK of the CONFUSIONS and REVOLUTIONS of GOVERNMENT. London, 1649."-8vo. Of Anthony Afcham, who was appointed by the Rump Parliament their agent, or refident in the Court of Spain, in 1649, and who was killed in his apartments, at Madrid, by fome English Royalifts, fee "Wood's Ath. Ox." Vol. II. col. 385.

VIII. "EPISCOPACY (as established by Law in England) NOT PREJUDICIAL to REGAL POWER. Written in the Time of the Long Parliament, by the fpecial Command of the late King. London, 1673."

IX. "DISCOURSE CONCERNING the CHURCH, in THESE PARTICULARS: First, concerning the Visibility of the true. Church Secondly, concerning the Church of Rome. London, 1688." Publifhed by Dr. W. Afheton, of Brazen-nofe College, Oxford, from a MS. communicated to him by Mr. John Pullen, the Bishop's domeftic Chaplain.

X. 1. "BISHOP SANDERSON's JUDGMENT concerning SUBMISSION to USURPERS." 2. "PAX ECCLESIE." 3. "BISHOP SANDERSON's JUDGMENT in ONE VIEW for the SETTLEMENT of the CHURCH." This tract is written by way of question and anfwer. Anthony Wood tells us, that the questions were formed by the publisher, and that the answers were made up of scraps, without any alteration, taken out of the prefaces and fermons of the Bishop. 4. "REASONS of the prefent JUDGMENT of the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD, concerning the SOLEMN LEAGUE and COVENANT, the NEGATIVE OATH, the ORDINANCES concerning DISCIPLINE and WORSHIP. London, 1678." Thefe tracts are annexed to "Ifaac Walton's Life of Dr. Sanderfon." 1678.

XI. A large "PREFACE" to a book written at the command of Charles I, by Archbishop Ufher, and published by Dr. Sanderfon, entitled "The POWER communicated by GOD to the PRINCE, and the OBEDIENCE required of the SUBJECT. London, 1661."-4to. A fecond corrected edition of this work was published in 8vo, 1683. See "Kennet's Regifter," p. 347.

XII. "A PREFATORY DISCOURSE” prefixed to a collection of Treatifes, entitled 'CLAVI TRABALES, or NAILES faftened by fome great MASTERS of ASSEMBLYES, concerning the KING'S SUPREMACY and CHURCH GOVERNMENT under BISHOPS; the particulars of which are as followeth :

1. Two Speeches of the late Lord Primate Ufher's. The one of the King's Supremacy; the other of the Duty of Subjects to fupply the King's Necefsities.

2. His Judgment and Practice in point of Loyalty, Epifcopacy, Liturgy, and Conftitutions of the Church of England.