In 1656, or thereabouts, he obtained of Dr. Brownrigg, the silenced bishop of Exeter, the chantorship of that church, then void; and, in the year following, gaining an interest among the fellows of Jesus College, he was elected by them to be their principal, upon the resignation of Dr. Michael Roberts. But Francis Howell, of Exeter College, an independent, got it from him by his interest used to Oliver the Protector. In 1659 he was elected president of Trinity College by a majority of fellows, made by the interest of Dr. Ralph Bathurst; but being soon after forced to leave that place, to make room for the right owner, Dr. Han. Potter, who had in a most wonderful manner endured great hardship, from the time of his ejection in 1648, the politician retired to the great city, where he became minister of St. Laurence in the Jewry, upon the promotion of Reynolds to Norwich; and in the same year (1660), he was installed in the place of chantor of Exeter. At that time it was his endeavours to make his loyalty known, by being imprisoned at Cambridge, by his ejection, his writing against the covenant, and I know not what. About that time he became a member of the Royal Society, and soon after Dean of Exeter; where being settled, he wound himself, in a short time, by his smooth language and behaviour, into the favour of the gentry of the neighbourhood. In 1662 Dr. Gauden, Bishop of Exeter, being translated to Worcester, he was, by the endeavours of a considerable party of the gentry of Devonshire, who were of the House of Commons,* advanced to that see; and being consecrated thereunto 20th July, 1662, sate there but few years; for, on the death of Dr. Hyde, he was translated to Salisbury 12th September, 1667.”† [1662.] Nov. 30 following . . . John Earle, D.D. (was consecrated] Bishop of Worcester."‡

to"He was a person very notable for his elegance in the Greek and Latin tongues, being fellow of Merton College, in Oxford, and having been proctor of the University; and, some very witty and sharp discourses being published in print without his consent, though known to be his, he grew suddenly into a very general esteem with all men; being a man of great piety and devotion, a most eloquent and powerful preacher, and of a conversation so pleasant and delightful, so very innocent and so very facetious, that no man's company was more desired and more loved. No man was more negligent in his dress, and habit, and mien; no man more wary and cultivated in his behaviour and discourse; insomuch as he had the greater advantage when he was known, by promising so little before he was known... He was amongst the few excellent men who never had, nor ever could have an enemy, but such an one who was an enemy to all learning and virtue, and therefore would never make himself known."§

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"After the king's return, he was made dean of Westminster . . . was consecrated bishop of Worcester, after the death of Dr. Gauden, on the last of Nov., (St. Andrew's day) 1662; and at length was translated to the see of Salisbury, 28th Sept., 1663, void by the translation thence to London of Dr. Humphrey Henchman. This Dr. Earle was a very genteel man, a contemner of the world, religious, and most worthy of the office of a bishop. He was a person also of the sweetest and most obliging nature (as one that knew him well, though of another persuasion, saith) that lived in our age;' and since Mr.Richard Hooker died, none hath lived, whom God hath blest with more innocent wis

Compare Dr. Pope's Life of Bishop Ward, p. 54. "Upon the translation of Bishop Gauden to Worcester, Dr. Ward, without knowing anything of it, by the interest of the Duke of Albermarle and Sir Hugh Pollard, their comptroller, and some other of his western friends, whom he had obliged during his residence at Exeter, was nominated the bishop thereof, An. Dom. 1662.”—pp. 52–54.

† Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, vol. ii. pp. 827, 828. (fol. ed.)

Le Neve, sup. cit.

Lord Clarendon's Life, p. 27. (fol. ed.)

See Cressy, in his Epist. Apologetical, pp. 46, 47.

dom, more sanctified learning, or a more pious, peaceable, primitive temper," than he so that this excellent person seemed to be only like himself and venerable Mr. Hooker, and only the fit man to make the learned of all nations happy in knowing what hath been too long confined to the language of our little island, I mean, by his translation of the said Mr. Hooker's book called, Ecclesiastical Polity." "+

[1663.] "May 10, Joseph Henshaw, D.D., was consecrated bishop of Peterborough."

"He was chaplain to George Duke of Buckingham when he was murdered, who procured for him, while a junior master, a prebendship in the cathedral church of Peterborough..... In 1639 he proceeded doctor of divinity, being then prebendary of Chichester, and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching; but when the nation was turned topsy-turvy by the iniquity of the presbyterians, he was despoiled of all, suffered much for the royal cause, was a brand snatched out of the fire, and lived for some time at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet. At length, after his majesty's restoration, he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept., 1660, upon the promotion of Dr. Rogers to the deanery of Windsor; and, by virtue of the king's congé-d'élire, being elected to the see of Peterborough, 15 April, 1663, upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln, was soon after consecrated, and on the 28th of May (Ascension day) installed." §

[1663.] "Dr. William Juxon, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, died in his palace of Lambeth on June 4. His best character was that which his

royal master, King Charles I., gave him, 'that good man.' "|| "These were all the consecrations I meet with in his time."¶ "On Archbishop Juxon's death, Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Lord Bishop of London, who (by reason of the good archbishop's age and infirmities) had managed the affairs of the whole province ever since the king's happy return, was now translated to the see of Canterbury with great solemnity and general satisfaction." **

"Of Doctor Sheldon there needs no more be said in this place, than that his learning, and gravity, and prudence, had in that time raised him to such a reputation, when he was chaplain in the house to the Lord Keeper Coventry, (who exceedingly esteemed him, and used his service not only in all matters relating to the church, but in many other businesses of importance, and in which that great and good lord was nearly concerned,) and when he was afterwards warden of All Souls' college in Oxford, that he then was looked upon as very equal to any preferment the church could yield, or hath since yielded unto him; and Sir Francis Wenman would often say, when the doctor resorted to the conversation at the Lord Falkland's house, as he frequently did, that Dr. Sheldon was born and bred to be Archbishop of Canterbury.'"++

See in the Life of Mr. Richard Hooker, London, 1670, p. 95, written by Is. Walton.

+ Wood's Athenæ, vol. ii. pp. 365, 6. (ed. folio.)

Le Neve, sup. cit.

Le Neve, p. 158.

tt Lord Clarendon's Life, p. 25.

Wood's Athenæ, vol. ii. pp. 634, 5.
Kennett's Complete History, vol. iii. p. 248.

Ibid.

SACRED POETRY.

forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation."— See also Exodus, xiii. 17.

WHEN Israel came from Egypt forth,

And Canaan now in prospect lay,

Not by the borders of the north,

(Though slight the toil and brief the way,) Did God direct them; but, far round,

To the Red Sea his people led;

Then to the desert's utmost bound;

A toilsome march, and full of dread.

To cross that gulf no means were nigh,
Should they by Pharaoh be pursued;
No fruits that desert could supply,
To feed so vast a multitude.
Seem'd it unwise so wide to roam,

And thus that wav'ring race to train;
Nor lead them to their promis'd home,
With least of circuit, toil, or pain?

Theirs if the power to choose had been,
Nor God their guardian still in sight,
The shortest, easiest path, I ween,

Had to their blindness seem'd the right;
Man's passion still, if left to choose,

Seeketh but smoothness, haste, and ease;
E'en as the self-will'd child pursues

The toys that for the present please.

The Lord, who saw both way and end,
Their weakness and their powerful foes,
Still near to guide them and defend,

Their path in mercy for them chose.
He knew that they would backward turn,
(Should war arise,) and Canaan lose;
Faith's lesson they had yet to learn,

Her sword and shield untaught to use.

And well their wants He understood!
Shrank not those coward hearts dismay'd,
When the spies told, "The land is good,
But cities fenc'd, and hosts array'd"?
Not all the signs their eyes had seen,

God's mighty hand and stretch'd-out arm,
Their walk, those watery walls between,
All could not quell their base alarm.

Two years had fail'd their hearts to train;
Full forty must those wastes be trod

Ere they on Canaan stand again,

By trials nerv'd to follow God.

And if that way be right alone

Which brings us to the wish'd-for end,
Then let us God's high wisdom own,
Our safest guide, our wisest friend.
Seems it to us a weary road

By which he leads to joys above?
Seems his light yoke a heavy load,
Without which we could freely move?
Seems it that heav'n we could attain,
Granted this wish, that trial spar'd?
Know we, O foolish hearts and vain,

How soon we then might be ensnar'd?

Know we our hearts as God doth know?
See we our path as God doth see?
He knows where lurks the ambush'd foe,
Before what perils we should flee.
That chastisement, at which we fret,
Screens us from strife too great to bear;
That joy, on which our heart is set,
If ours, might prove a fatal snare.

In mercy he withholds that joy,

In mercy doth that pain prolong,
Still doth his gentle force employ,

Nor lets us, at our will, go wrong.
By toils proportioned to our strength
(Knowing and furthering our weal),
He trains and nerves us, till at length

Our arm may break a bow of steel.

When Israel reached their home at last,

And 'neath their vines and fig-trees lay, How sweetly, all their perils past,

Must they have mus'd upon God's way! What at the time seemed hard to bear, Then could they clearly understand; And how a Father's love and care

Each portion of their wanderings plann'd.

Thus, if we reach that heavenly place,

No snares to fear, no wars to wage; Thus shall we see how heav'nly grace Led us throughout our pilgrimage. How needful was each care and cross; How wisely our own way denied ; How mercy shielded us from loss;

How right the way; how true the Guide!

How sweet to understand his ways;

What now we know not, then to know;
And yield the tribute of our praise
For what mysterious seem'd below.
Lord, lead us to that place of rest,

And from our own fond will defend;
Thou knowest what for us is best,
Who knowest both the way and end.

T. I. W.

RAILWAY SONNETS.

"SHE Scorns his pleasures, for she knows them not.
He seeks not hers, for he has proved them vain."
Did wanton life bid him her goblet drain?
'Mid courtly halls and banquets was his lot
Appointed, that he weighed the world so well,
And found it wanting? No-the man whose days
Were crowned with bliss, and with the poet's praise,
Was such an one as he with whom I dwell.
From earliest life him Wisdom for her own,
With calm tranquillity, designed, Beneath
A holy parent's roof, by court or town
Inviolate, and in deep seclusion laid,

He twined of amaranthine flowers a wreath,
And here he wears it in life's stillest shade.

Spirits of Stephenson and Watt away!
Your mighty triumphs of the grassy mound,
Along whose even surface, iron-bound,
The thundering car, with all its vast array,
Rolls on resistless, through a cloudy spray
Of mingled vapours, rapid as the steed

In swiftest course; or more like monster breed
Of ocean depths, where huge behemoth play—
Your triumphs please him not. The peaceful nook,
The quiet vale's seclusion, are but ill
Exchanged for restless scenes of busy life.
Unhappy they whose minds are never still,
Save in perpetual din and worldly strife!
On these shall Wisdom ever deign to look?

IC.

"LET THERE BE LIGHT.”

"How shall they hear without a preacher?"

"LET there be light!"-'twas the Word's first command; Forth from the source eternal flash'd the beam

In floods, pervading air, and sea, and land-
The heav'n-born figure of a brighter stream.

"Go teach all nations!"-('twas the parting word
Of Him-the Source, the Preacher, and the Way);
Go tell the heathen, ye have found the Lord;
And teach the famished wanderers to pray.

Tell them of sin,-of judgment, and of Him
Who knew no sin. Loud in their ears proclaim
The God that sits between the cherubim,
Upon the seat of Mercy, robed in flame.

The tidings that have gladdened you repeat,
In charity to those who walk in night!

Oh, send the message! Give ye them to eat!

Oh, love your brethren! and there shall be light!

W.