establishment of the church." Lord Clarendon says that "he understood the church excellently, and had almost rescued it out of the hands of the Calvinian party, and very much subdued the unruly spirit of the nonconformists by and after the conference at Hampton-court; countenanced men of the greatest parts in learning, and disposed the clergy to a more solid course of study than they had been accustomed to; and, if he had lived, would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled at Geneva." The noble historian's confidence in the archbishop's powers will probably create a smile on the part of our readers; but we have the concurrent testimony of Whitgift, Camden, Clarendon, and Fuller, to the fact, that the archbishop was a man of high moral courage, and sound and extensive learning. He has been accused of covetousness, but Fuller himself acquits him of this charge: "True it is," says that historian, “he maintained not the state of officers, like his predecessor or successor, in house-keeping; yet he was never observed, in his person, to aim at the enriching his kindred, but had the intention to make pious uses his public heir. His estate at his death exceeded not £6,000, no sum to speak a single man covetous, who had sat six years in the see of Canterbury, and somewhat longer in London."3

Bishop Andrews.

BORN A. D. 1555.-died A. D. 1626.

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LANCELOT ANDREWS, bishop of Winchester in the reigns of James I. and Charles I., was born in the city of London in 1555. His father was master of the Trinity-house. The proficiency which young Lancelot made at Merchant-tailor's school, recommended him to the notice of Dr Walls, residentiary of St Pauls, who bestowed upon him one of his own scholarships in Pembroke hall, Cambridge. After taking his degree of B. A., he obtained a fellowship, and was after presented with an honorary fellowship in Jesus college, Oxford. He was at this time an accomplished Greek and Hebrew scholar, but had gained his highest reputation as a theologian, having devoted himself with unwearied application to divinity for several years. He was chosen catechist of Pembroke-hall, and was much consulted in cases of conscience; and having undertaken to read lectures on the ten commandments every Saturday and Sunday, great numbers resorted to chapel to hear him. At last, Henry, earl of Huntingdon, prevailed on him to attend him, in the quality of chaplain, into the north, of which he was president. In this situation he displayed the most unwearied diligence as a preacher, and was eminently successful in converting catholics to the reformed faith. His merits recommended him to the notice of Sir Francis Walsingham, secretary of state to Queen Elizabeth, who presented him with the vicarage of Cripplegate, and a prebendship in St Pauls. He now read divinity lectures three times a week in St Pauls.

His next step was that of chaplain in ordinary to Queen Elizabeth, who 3 Church Hist. c. x. p. 57.

Hist. of the Rebellion, vol. i. p. 88.

made him prebendary of Westminster in the room of Dr Bancroft, promoted to the see of London, and afterwards dean, in the place of Dr Goodman, deceased. The latter situation imposed upon him the superintendence of Westminster school, to which he paid very great attention. Hacket says, "he was strict to charge our masters that they should give us lessons out of none but the most classical authors; that he did often supply the place both of head-schoolmaster and usher for the space of a whole week together, and gave us not an hour of loitering time from morning to night; that he caused their exercises in prose and verse to be brought to him to examine their style and proficiency; that he never walked to Chiswick for his recreation without a brace of the young fry; and in that way-faring leisure, had a singular dexterity to fill these narrow vessels with a funnel. And, which was the greatest burden of his toil, sometimes thrice in a week, sometimes oftener, he sent for the uppermost scholars to his lodgings at night, and kept them with him from eight to eleven, unfolding to them the best rudiments of the Greek tongue, and the elements of the Hebrew gramAnd all this he did to boys without any compulsion of correction ; nay, I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us. Alas!" continues Hacket, "this is but an ivy leaf crept into the laurel of his immortal garland! This is that Andrews, the ointment of whose name is sweeter than spices. This is that celebrated bishop of Winton, whose learning King James admired above all his chaplains !"

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James had such a high opinion of his abilities, that he employed him to answer Bellarmine's treatise against his own Defence of the right of kings.' This he did with great spirit and judgment, in a treatise entitled Tortura Torti,' which was printed at London in 1609. In 1605, the dean was promoted to the bishopric of Chichester, and in 1609, on the vacancy of Ely, he was advanced to that see. He was also nominated a privy-councillor. His promotion to the bishopric of Winchester and deanery of the king's chapel, took place in 1618. He continued in favour with Charles I., and died on the 25th of September, 1626.

All Bishop Andrews' contemporaries unite in giving him a high character for learning, benevolence, and suavity of manners. His correspondence embraced the principal scholars of Europe: Casaubon, Cluverius, Vossius, Grotius, Peter du Moulin, Barclay, the author of Argenis, and Erpenius. Clarendon regrets that he was not appointed to the primacy on the death of Bancroft. Milton thought him worthy of his pen, and wrote a Latin elegy on his death. His works are very numerous. The principal are: 1st, A volume of sermons, published in 1628-31, containing ninety-six in all. 2d, Lectures on the Ten Commandments, with nineteen sermons on prayer. And, 3d, A collection of posthumous and orphan lectures, delivered at St Pauls and St Giles's. London, 1657, folio. His 'Manual of Devotion,' in Greek and Latin, has often been reprinted, and was translated by Dean Stanhope. Several of his minor pieces appeared in a collected form, in 4to, in 1629, with a dedication to King Charles from the pen of Laud.

Bishop Carleton.

DIED A. D. 1628.

George CarlETON, one of the most learned divines of the church of England in the 17th century, was the grandson of Thomas Carleton of Carleton-hall, in Cumberland. The celebrated Bernard Gilpin took upon himself the charge of his education, and was rewarded by witnessing the eminent success of his eleve at Oxford.

He took the degree of D. D. in 1613. In 1618, he was appointed bishop of Llandaff, and in the same year was sent by James, as one of his deputies, to the synod of Dort. He acquitted himself in this embassy much to the satisfaction of his colleagues, and was rewarded with the see of Norwich, on the death of Dr Harsnet in 1619. He died in 1628. Echard, Fuller, and Camden, speak of him in terms of high respect.

As we shall have frequent occasion, in the course of these ecclesiastical memoirs, to allude to the proceedings of the Synod of Dort, we shall here introduce a brief history of the origin of that famous council, from the biographical sketch which Mr Allport has prefixed to his translation of Bishop Davenant's Exposition of Colossians:-"The States of Holland," says Mr Allport, "had no sooner established their freedom from the Spanish yoke, than they were embroiled in theological contentions, which soon became intermingled with political cabals. The awful doctrine of the Divine decrees had been placed by the Belgic Confession and Catechism, in common with most of the other Creeds of the Reformed Churches, in the sacred and undefined simplicity of the Scriptures. But, in the period immediately subsequent to the Reformation, the prying curiosity of men, anxious to be wise above what is written, proceeded to the attempt of accurate and precise explanation of what is evidently inexplicable. When, therefore, the supralapsarian scheme began to take place of the moderate system hitherto adopted, it was opposed, on the other side, by those who, in their eagerness to sustain the freedom of human will, dangerously entrenched upon the freedom of Divine grace.

"These disputes, however, led to no important consequences, until, in 1591, they centered, as it were, in James Arminius, professor of divinity in the university of Leyden, a man who joined to unquestionable piety and meekness of spirit, a clear and acute judgment; and who had obtained no slight eminence by the talent with which he had extricated the doctrines of Christianity from the dry and technical mode in which they had hitherto been stated and discussed. His celebrity placed him in a situation ill-suited to his habits and temper. As a pupil of Beza, he had embraced the extreme views to which that divine had carried the tenets advocated by the powerful pen of Calvin. It happened that one Coornhert had advanced some opinions, which, if not loose in themselves, were, at least, expressed in a very unguarded way. The ministers of Delft published a reply: in which the moderate and generally received sublapsarian hypothesis was sustained; which gave little less offence to the high Calvinists than did the heterodox

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language of Coornhert. Arminius, therefore, as the most talented divine of the day, was applied to, in order to take up the pen on both sides. On the one hand, his friend Martin Lydius, solicited him to vindicate the supralapsarian views of his former tutor, Beza, against the reply of the ministers; and, on the other, he was invited by the synod of Amsterdam, to defend this same reply against Coornhert. Placed in this remarkable situation, Arminius felt compelled to enter into an examination of the whole question, and was induced to change his sentiments, and to adopt that view of the Divine dispensations which now bears his name. His change, however, was very gradual; but appears to have been hastened by the publication, in Holland, of the Aurea Armilla, of Perkins, a very powerful supralapsarian divine of the Church of England. This alteration of opinion would not have led to any serious consequences, had Arminius, and the moderate part of the church, been left to themselves. The fundamental point of justification by faith, with the doctrine of assurance, and even of final perseverance, were held by him to his death; and his exemplary piety and humility secured for him the attachment even of those who, when the dispute subsequently extended, became his most zealous opponents. The heat, however, of the less discreet part of the church, and the dangerous opinions of some who leaned to the Socinian and Pelagian heresies, (among whom may be designated Episcopius, Grotius, Limborch, &c.) being, as is no uncommon case at present, confounded with the tenets of Arminius, led to angry and uncharitable controversies, by which the peace of the church was grievously broken in upon. Still, the questions might have been amicably settled, but that, at the annual meetings of the synods in 1605, the class of Dort unwisely fanned the embers into a flame by transmitting the following grievance to the university of Leyden :- Inasmuch as rumours are heard that certain controversies have arisen in the church and university of Leyden, concerning the doctrine of the reformed churches, this class has judged it necessary that the synod should deliberate respecting the safest and most speedy method of settling those controversies; that all the schisms and causes of offence which spring out of them may seasonably be removed, and the union of the reformed churches preserved inviolate against the calumnies of adversaries.'

"When this officious document reached Leyden, it gave offence to the moderate men of both sides; and met with the following reply from the professors there: that they wished the Dort class had, in this affair, acted with greater discretion, and in a more orderly manner; that, in their own opinion, there were more disputes among the students than was agreeable to them as professors; but, that among themselves, the professors of theology, no difference existed that could be considered as affecting, in the least, the fundamentals of doctrine; and that they would endeavour to diminish the disputes among the students.' This was signed by Arminius, then rector of the university, by Gomarus, and others.

"From the signature of Gomarus to this reply, it is evident, that his subsequent bitterness against the remonstrants at the synod of Dort, was the result of that acrimony which controversy so often engenders; and that, at the period before us, he neither considered the views of his colleague as affecting the vitality of the faith, nor even interrupting their

private friendship; although, unhappily, afterwards, he denounced the former, as upsetting the basis of the gospel; spoke of the latter, when deceased, in terms the most harsh and uncharitable, and fomented those persecuting measures against his followers, which have rendered the name of the synod of Dort so odious.

"This meddling interference of the class of Dort, having brought the whole question before the public, kindled a flame through the United Provinces. In the heat of this, in the year 1609, Arminius died, with a spirit completely broken by the calumny and rancour with which he was assailed. His followers abandoned many of the views which he held in common with Calvin, particularly on the vital point of justification. They became universally lax both in their opinions and in their society; and, as has too often been the case, aversion from Calvinism became a general bond of union. Having presented a strong remonstrance to the states-general in 1610, they obtained the name of Remonstrants, and their opponents having presented a counterremonstrance, were termed Contra-Remonstrants.

"To settle these disputes, the Remonstrants demanded a general council of the Protestant churches. This the states refused; but it was at length determined by four out of seven of the United Provinces, that a national synod should be held at Dort-a town eminent for its hostility to the Arminians; and letters were sent to the French Huguenots, and to the different Protestant states of Germany and Switzerland, requesting them to send deputies to assist at the deliberations. Among others, the king of England, James I., was solicited in the same manner. And he, partly from political motives, and partly from his love of theological controversy, complied with the request, and selected for this purpose five of the most eminent theologians in his realm, viz. Dr George Carleton, bishop of Landaff, Dr Joseph Hall, dean of Worcester, Dr Davenant, Dr Samuel Ward, master of Sydney Sussex college, and Walter Balcanqual, a presbyter of the church of Scotland; and when Hall, on account of ill health, returned home, his place was filled by Dr Goad, precentor of St Paul's, and chaplain to the primate, Abbot." Among Carleton's works are: 'Heroici Characteres,' published at Oxford in 1603; Titles examined,' Lond. 1606; ‘Jurisdiction regal, episcopal, and papal,' Lond. 1610, 4to.; Astrologimania,' Lond. 1624; 'Vita B. Gilpini,' Lond. 1626; and several sermons and letters. He had also a hand in the Dutch Annotations.

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Henry Ainsworth.

DIED CIRC. A. D. 1629.

HENRY AINSWORTH, an eminent biblical commentator, and nonconforming divine, flourished at the latter end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. The time and place of his birth are unknown. Adopting the views of the Brownists, he shared in the persecutions to which they were subjected in Elizabeth's reign; and to avoid the troubles which harassed his party, retired to Holland, where, in conjunction with one of his brethren, he became pastor of an inde pendent congregation at Amsterdam. On account of some differences