were condemned by the fourth Lateran council.

His followers, the Joachimites, were particularly fond of certain ternaries. The Father, they said, operated from the beginning until the coming of the Son; the Son from that time to their's, viz. the year 1260; and the Holy Spirit then took it up, and was to operate in his turn They likewise divided every thing relating to men, doctrine, and manner of living into three classes, according to the three persons of the Trinity. The first ternary was that of men; of whom, the first class was that of married men, which had lasted during the whole period of the Father; the second was that of clerks, which lasted during the time of the Son; and the last was that of Monks, wherein was to be an uncommon effusion of grace by the Holy Spirit. The second ternary was that of doctrine, viz. the Old Testament, the New, and the everlasting Gospel; the first they ascribed to the Father, the second to the Son, and the third to the Holy Spirit. A third ternary consisted in the manner of living, viz. under the Father, men lived according to the flesh; under the Son, they lived according to the flesh and the spirit; and under the Holy Ghost, they were to live according to the spirit only." p. 402.

the opportunity now afforded of bring ing forward a considerable number of articles which were received too late to be inserted in the former; together with many important additions and corrections since made, in consequence of further researches, and the friendly communications of various correspondents. The chief additions which I have made are from scarce funeral sermons and lives, which have fallen into my hands since the work was first published, and from the farewel sermons of the most distinguished of the London ministers, the extracts from which, in some instances, will supply the defects in the biographical narratives, and throw considerable light on the characters of the men. Some new lives have also been inserted, principally from Mr. Cotton Mather's History of New England, the most considerable of which is that of Mr. John Bailey, whose name had not been before mentioned.

"Many other additions and corrections have been received since the circulation of the proposals for this new edition, from different persons, to whom particular acknowledgments will be made in the close; as likewise to others who may hereafter contribute towards the perfection of this work. But in this place must be mentioned the special obligations which the public are under to Mr. Isaac James, of Bristol, who has bestowed great pains in examining various records which had not before been consulted.

"Besides the above improvements, the reader must be informed, that greater liberties have now been taken than had been before, with the original composition, which has been amended throughout; so that this may be considered as being, in a manner, a new work; which is men. tioned to satisfy such persons as have intimated that the improvements in this edition should have been separately printed for the accommodation of those who were possessed of the former.

quantity of new matter which has

"In consequence of the great

been introduced, it was found necessary to make an additional volume. It is to be regretted that this edition is so much more expensive than the former was: but if the additional price of paper, which is now doubled,

and the increased expence of printing, be duly considered, this will be allowed to have been unavoidable." As specimens of this work, which may be unknown to many of our readers, we subjoin the two following articles; and would only here add, that the portraits we have hitherto seen are in general well executed, and some of them beautiful.

"Matthew Pool, M. A. of Eman. Col. Camb. son of Francis Pool, Esq. born in the city of York. Richard, the grandfather, was descended of the ancient family of the Poles, of Spinkhill, in Derbyshire. Being driven thence upon occasion of his inclination to the Reformation, he lived at Sike-house, and afterwards at Drax Abbey, in Yorkshire, near which place Mr. Matthew Pool had 1001. per ann. left him by his father, who married Alderman Toppin's daughter, of York. He was very facetious in his conversation, very true to his friend, very strict in his piety, and universal in his charity. He set on foot a good and great project for maintaining young men of ability, studiousness, and piety at the universities, in the study of divinity. He had the approbation of the heads of houses in both of them, and nominated such excellent persons for trustees, and solicited so earnestly, that in a little time, about 9001. per ann. was procured for that purpose. Dr. Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's, was one of those that were educated on this foundation. But this design was quashed by the Restoration.

"Mr. Pool succeeded Dr. Tuckney, at St. Michael's, where he continued about fourteen years, till the Bartholomew act passed, and was a very diligent preacher and a hard student. With ten years indefatigable study he finished his Synopsis Criticorum, in five large volumes, folio, which Mr. Wood owns to be an admirable and useful work; adding, that the author left behind him the character of a celebrated critic and 'casuist.' While he was drawing up this work, and his English annotations, it was his usual custom to rise at three or four o'clock, and take a raw egg about eight or nine, and another about twelve; then to con

tinue his studies till the afternoon was pretty far advanced; when he went abroad, and spent the evening at the house of some friend; at none more frequently than Alderman Ashhurst's. At such times he would be exceedingly but innocently merry, very much diverting both himself and his company. After supper, when it was near time to go home, he would say, Now let us call for a reckoning;' and then would begin some very serious discourse; and when he found the company was composed and serious, he would take his leave of them. This course was very serviceable to his health, and enabled him to go through the great fatigue of his studies, and it seems a noble example of the utile dulci. Were the mirth of our conversation always so closed, it would leave no uneasy reflections behind.

"When Dr. Oates's Depositions, &c. were printed, Mr. Pool found his own name in the list of persons who were to be cut off, as was supposed, for what he had written against the Roman Catholics. This gave him not the least concern, till one night having been at the Alderman's, he took one Mr. Chorley to bear him company home; when they came to the narrow passage from Clerkenwell to St. John's Court, two men stood at the entrance, one of whom cried out, Here he is.' Upon which the other said, Let him alone, for there is somebody with him.' Mr. Pool asked his friend whether he heard what those men said; adding, I had been murdered to-night, had not you been with me.' This raised in him such an apprehension of his danger, as occasioned him soon afterwards to retire to Holland, where he ended his days. But whether or no by a natural death has been doubted. It was generally suspected he was poisoned. He died at Amsterdam, October 1679, aged 56.-His great work on the Bible, is deservedly held in high estimation. It includes not only an abridgment of the Critici Sacri, but extracts from a great number of treatises and pamphlets that might have been otherwise lost. It was undertaken by the advice of Bishop Lloyd, and patronized by Archbishop Tillotson, and he obtained a royal patent for the sole printing of it. Mr. Granger says of it, The plan was judicious,

most effectual ways of doing good, and in disposing of his charity to the greatest extent, and the best purposes; always, if possible, making it serve some end of piety or religion: e. g. instructing poor children in the principles of religion, and furnishing grown persons, who were ignorant, with the Bible, and other good books; strictly obliging those to whom he gave them, to a diligent reading of them, and enquiring afterwards how they had profited. In his occasional alms to the poor, the relief he gave them was always mingled with good counsel, and as great a compassion for their souls as their bodies; which, in this way, often had the best effects. For the nine or ten last years of his life, he almost wholly applied his charity to Wales, where he thought there was the most occasion for it; and he took great pains to engage the assistance of other persons in his own designs,] and to stir up the rich, in whom he had any interest, to works of charity in general; urging them to devote at least the tenth of their estates to this use.

"When he was between sixty and seventy years of age, he used to travel into Wales, and disperse considerable sums of money, both his own and what he collected from other persons, among the poor labouring persecuted ministers. [But the chief designs of his charity there, were to have poor children taught to read and write, and carefully instructed in the principles of religion; and to furnish persons grown up with the necessary means of religious knowJedge.] With a view to the former, he settled three or four hundred schools in the chief towns; in many of which women were employed to teach children to read, and he undertook to pay for some hundreds of children himself. With a view to the latter, he procured them Bibles, and other books of piety and devotion, in their own language; great numbers of which he got translated, and sent to the chief towns, to be sold at easy rates to those that were able to buy them, and given to such as were not. In 1675 he procured a new and fair impression of the Welch Bible and liturgy, to the number of 8000; one thousand of these were given away, and the rest sold much below the common price. He used often to say with pleasure that he had two liv

ings, which he would not exchange for the greatest in England; viz. Christ's Hospital, where he used frequently to catechise the poor children; and Wales, where he used to travel every year (and sometimes twice in the year) to spread knowledge, piety, and charity.

"A certain author insinuates, that his charities in Wales were only to serve a party, and that the visible effect of them is, the increase of the dissenters. This reflection on his memory is as false as it is invidious. For he was so far from that narrowness of spirit, or bigotry to the interest of the dissenters, that he procured the Church Catechism, with a practical exposition of it, and the Common Prayer, to be printed in Welch, and freely given to the poor; as well as The Whole Duty of Man, The Practice of Piety, and other practical books, containing such things only as good Christians are generally agreed in, and not one to persuade people to nonconformity. If the growth of dissenters, in Wales, be an effect of the increase of knowledge there, we cannot help that. They, whose consciences are enlightened and moved by the word of God, will be always disposed to pay a greater veneration to divine truths and ordinances than to such usages as are merely human; and will be naturally apt to scruple those things that want the sacred impress of divine authority. And if this gentleman thinks the best expedient to prevent this, is to keep the people in the same state of ignorance they were in during the period of which his history treats, he has the papists on his side, but it is hoped none that understand Protestant principles.

"While Mr. Gouge was doing all this good, he was persecuted even in Wales, and excommunicated, for preaching occasionally, though he had a licence, and though he went constantly to the parish churches and communicated there. But, for the love of God and men, he endured these and all the difficulties he met with, doing good with patience and with pleasure. So that, all things considered, there have not, since the primitive times of Christianity, been many among the sons of men to whom

Mr. Wynnes, in his edition of Powel's Hist. of Wales: