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already made, which be not contrariant or repugnant to the Laws, Statutes and Cuf toms of this Realm, nor to the Damage or "Hurt of the King's Prerogative Royal, fhall now ftill be used and executed, as they were afore the making this Act."

Page XLII. he gives us his fourth Reason, faying, "The last End I proposed to my"felf in this Work is, that the discreet "Reader, by looking into the ancient Usages "of our Forefathers, may difcern which of "them deferve to be restored-Till of late

Deference has been paid to what is An"cient, and a great deal of this Sort is to "be found in this Collection, at least in the " former Part of it: And Papifts do in no Points, with fo much fhew of Reason,

triumph over Proteftants, as in those few "Particulars, in which they have Antiquity "with them. And I think it concerns all "that have a real Concern for the Refor"mation, to filence their boafting, by fol

lowing the Pattern of the Primitive Church "in all Particulars; and to be ashamed to "fee that our Forefathers with all their Ignorance a thousand Years ago, trode more clofely in the Steps of the Primitive, and " even Apoftolical Fathers, in fome Points, "than we with all our Pretences to greater Knowledge and Purity."

In the Year 1724, the firft Volume of his Unbloody Sacrifice received a fecond Edition, to which he added a fhort Preface, where he fays, "It is fome Comfort to ic me that I live to fee a fecond Edition of a "Book, of which it is hard to fay, whether "it cost me more Pains in compofing, or

more Patience in bearing the fevere Cen"fures have been paffed against me for it. It is now more than ten Years fince the "firft Publication. During all this Time, nothing that deferves the Name of an An"fwer has appeared against it; but only (c two or three impotent Pamphlets; a Fardel or two of Calumny and Buffoonery, " and now and then a Gird in a Sermon or printed Difcourfe. The Generality of my Adverfaries have contented themselves "with faying fome wild rude Things against "the Doctrine or myself, and charging me "in general with Abfurdities and Contra"dictions, which yet they have not been "able to point out, however not to prove. "The moft modifh and compendious Way "of confuting my Books on this Subject is "by faying, that the Practice of fome "Churches is no neceffary Rule for all: "Yet no one has been able to fhew us one

fingle Church of two hundred Years stand

ing, which did not own the Eucharift to "be a Sacrifice, and practise it as fuch."The Silence of our moft able Divines.

against the Doctrine of the Sacrifice, or "the little Notice they have taken of it, may seem a tacit Approbation of it. However, if any of them are really Ad"verfaries to it, I fhould be glad if they "would give the World a Specimen of the strongest and most fpecious Arguments, "that can be found against this Doctrine. "And I am perfuaded this had been done, "if fuch as are the best Judges had any Thing to offer on this Head, which they' "thought would bear the Teft." He was in Hopes he had his Wish, and that the Rev. Mr. now Dr. Rymer, had produced a' material Argument against the Sacrifice of the Eucharift, in his Book entitled, A general Reprefentation of Revealed Religion, printed for Waltboe 1723, having been informed that this learned Gentleman ftrongly oppofed his Doctrine. But when he came to examine the Doctor's Arguments, he found no Strength in them. They were plainly founded on a falfe Hypothefis. Having therefore returned" a full Answer to this Doctor, he adds, "I "think it neceffary to renew my former Request to my Reader, viz. that he would!

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"take my Sentiments, not from the Repre"fentation of others, but from my own "Books only: And I must add, that even "the Citations made from thofe Books are "not always to be depended on. I have "fresh Occafion for this in a ftitched Book, "entitled, The Doctrine of the Eucharift

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ftated, printed for Bickerton 1720." From this Book he quotes two or three notorious Mifrepresentations of his Words, and then fubjoins: " When this fecond Edition was "almost out of the Prefs, I was informed "that the famous Dr. Clarke of St. James's, "in the 12th of his 17 Sermons lately pub"lifhed, had undertaken to confute that "Senfe of the Context of St. John VI. "which I have afferted." And having effectually refuted Dr. Clarke's Interpretation of that Context, he concludes with these Words: "In Truth this Sermon "feems the most hafty Performance that "ever came from Dr. Clarke's Pen. I would fhave no Man take a Measure of his Acu

men, or his Clearnefs of Thought or "Diction from this little Piece, which feems "fcarce worthy of his great Name." All the Additions made to this fecond Edition contain no more than one Sheet, viz. eight Pages of Preface, chiefly in Anfwer to Dr."

Rymer

Rymer and Dr. Clarke, and about eight more at the End of his Book in Anfwer to a learned anonymous Friend, who had made fome Objections to the Explication of the Context in John VI. But as there is nothing material in these Objections, those who have the first Edition only may be very easy.

Some little Things he also published without a Name, as Paftoral Advice to a young Person that intends to be confirmed by the Bishop. And Paftoral Advice to a young Perfon lately confirmed by the Bishop. And fome other little ftitched Books, which he printed at his own Charge for the Ufe of his Parishioners, and distributed amongst them. But the Books which I have here given an Account of are his most confiderable Works, which have made him known to the prefent Age, and will transmit his Memory to future Generations. And these were all published by himself in his own Life-time. Some other Treatifes he had prepared for the Prefs, which have been published since his Death by his Daughter, and only furviving Child, Mary, who was also his Executrix.

The first of the Treatifes he defigned for the Prefs is ftiled the Primitive Communicant, confifting of three Sermons or Difcourfes with Devotions for the Altar. The first

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