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We must, however, before we conclude, | to invest a dry and barren subject with foreign still more strongly enforce upon our readers, hues of picturesque beauty: here it moves that these slight, however elegant and finished in its own element; its masculine majesty pieces, must not be considered, any more and its suggestive richness have full scope. than the selection from the Arundines,' as Nor can the young scholar be put to a severer representing the highest excellence attained test than in this kind of composition. It even in very modern times by our Latin tries at once the acuteness of his intellect, poetry. We should not otherwise be doing which must clearly comprehend the philojustice either to the illustrious men,' who sophic thoughts, whether physical or moral, might contribute things written in a far which he would array in words; his intimate loftier vein to our proposed collection, or to acquaintance not merely with the whole texthe intrinsic value of the poetry itself. We ture of Lucretian language, or language are admonished to repeat this caution by a which Lucretius would have used if necessmall volume, printed two years ago, con- sary, but with all its finer, evanescent shades taining some most remarkable specimens of of meaning; and his fertility of illustration, Lucretian verse, which would not have been which must be at once clear and precise, lest disowned, the editor boldly asserts, by Lu- his meaning should evaporate into the vague cretius himself.* The editor holds them and unintelligible; imaginative, lest he should forth very judiciously as an encouragement be dry and barren; and still, while his fancy and example to young Eton scholars, as they lets itself loose in this kind of illustrative all belong to that school. The volume in- comparison, it must be regulated and kept cludes Gray's fragment 'de Principiis Cogi- within the bounds of propriety and of natural tandi;' two Eton or Cambridge exercises by association by the purest taste. The Latin the late master of Eton, Dr. Keate, and Mr. poet (and a poet he must be, to succeed in William Frere, the late master of Downing this kind of composition) will have constantly College; with the three triposes of Mr. Ro-to summon to his service unusual words, bert Smith-the friend of Canning, and bro- which must be genuine Latin, and of which ther of Sydney-on the Cartesian, Platonic, he must know the very nicest and most intiand Newtonian systems. Though we should mate signification; and all this requires a doubtless have rather wished that Gray should complete mastery over a foreign and dead have finished his Agrippina, or his English language, rarely attained, but, if attained, too Didactic Poem-yet we would willingly have intrinsically valuable to be allowed to wear prolonged his life for the completion likewise out for want of exercise. We know not of this noble Latin fragment. There is whether Mr. Robert Smith has continued to something in this kind of poetry singularly cultivate this remarkable talent: if he has, congenial with Latin verse: the three great- we could look to no quarter for such valuable est productions of Roman poetry partake contributions to a collection of Anglo-Latin more or less of this character-the poem of poetry. Nor can we refrain from enriching Lucretius, the Georgics of Virgil, the Epistles our pages with one passage (we take it from of Horace. The somewhat elaborate and the Cartesii Principia '), as a specimen of artificial diction of Roman verse, even in the poems which, however their fame may have best poets, contrasts with the easy simplicity been great among their contemporaries, and of Greek it wants freedom (we are warned may have descended in the direct line of Etoby the name of Catullus not to speak too nian celebrity to their revival in the small strongly) for the expression of fervent pas- volume from which we quote, may be unsion: it had not, it might seem that it was known to many scholars, both able and willincapable of, tragedy. But Latin verse is ing to appreciate their extraordinary excelthe noblest vehicle for subjects which admit lence:of study, and skill, and elaborate finishwhere the expression should be condensed or xpanded, either to enforce moral truth by ɔme pregnant and apophthegmatic line, or

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Corpora. Tum assiduis inter se motibus acta,
Liquida ramenta, et teneri cœpere vapores
Diffluere, et vastum sese labyrinthus in æquor

Explicuit, fecitque viam, quâ præcipitantes Confluerent atomi, et solidus coalesceret orbis.

Major abhinc rerum facies, et sanctior usus Exoritur; voluitque animatam fœdere fixo Ire Deus naturam, et justis volvere sese Imperiis: ipse in medio, certissimus auctor, Intus agit, pascitque effuso numine mundum.

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Arduus ante omnes agitur Cyllenius Hermes;

Credibile est illum tenebris et nocte carentem
Eterno radiare die, tam fervida torret
Temperies, rapidique urget vicinia Solis.
Gratas quippe vices aliis, requiemque calorum
Alternam natura dedit, jussitque vagari
(Floridus unde foret vigor et sincera facultas)
Nubila per cœlum et gelidos erumpere fontes,
Diffuditque cavis liquidum in convallibus æquor.

Proxima deinde tenet magni spatia ampla

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Dia Venus, tibi, Terra, soror, tibi, prima diei
Nuncia, cum teneram jaculatur roscida lucem
Mane novo, noctisque hyemalia claustra resolvit.
Estivis eadem illa comes surgentia ducit
Sidera temporibus.

Nec tu, Terra, tui mediâ in testudine mundi
Figeris, astrorumque sedes regina, sed unâ
Rapta volas, usque assiduâ vortigine tranans
Etherios apices, liquidique volumina cœli:
Sicut odoratam cum Pinaron aut Calycadni
Prætervecta sinus, aut ostia divitis Indi
Labitur indulgens zephyro ratis; omne cubanti
Sternitur æquor aquâ læves illa usque per undas
It tacita, et specie labentia littora linquit.

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Martis, et ignito crudescunt concava vultu.
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Astra satellitio: gelidos Saturnus oberrat
Extremus fines, et tardo lumine lustrat.
Quos ultra innumeri Soles, et candida currunt
Sidera, sive ea sunt magni flammantia mundi
Mænia, seu vastum diffusa per infinitum
Ultra animorum aciem, et nostræ confinia mentis.

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Pura quies coelo, liquidisque innantia mundi
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Dirarum facies, prohibetque attingere ripam;
Anxietas, vacuoque ferox Insania risu,
Et quæcumque fatigato comes addita cordi
Hæret inexpletum, atque animo febricitat ægro.

Quid tibi tantopere est, mortalis, multa que

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Ducere, sollicitamque gravi formidine vitam? Quid cæcum studio vivendi deterere ævom? Necquicquam; quoniam brevia atque incerta labescunt

Tempora, et infectâ jamjam ad caput adstitit horâ

Mors operumque quies, et respiratio curæ.
Nos autem lucis non intellecta cupido
Alligat, atque animum dulcedine pascit inani.'

ART. VII.—THE LIBRARY OF ANGLO-CATHOLIC THEOLOGY. Oxford, 1841.-Vols. I. II. III. Ninety-six Sermons. By the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes, sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester.

Ir is not with any intention of entering into the personal controversy which is now prevailing in the Church, that we have taken up the present publication, however closely connected with it. Controversy, indeed, must arise, whenever truth is to be defended in the world; especially under any sound system, which, like the Church of England, holds its course steadily beneath the guidance of a higher power, swerving neither to the right nor to the left, presenting two fronts to two different antagonists, and embracing in its wise and tolerant moderation two different classes of

minds, the two great recognised divisions of

human nature.

The very function and condition of the Church is to battle for the truth. And when the battle is earnest, however mixed with human errors, then we may be sure that men's minds are at least interested in the subject of religion; and that the Church is not paralysed, nor sleeping. cloud of dust may be raised, but the dust a proof of life and motion underneath.

The real evil to be feared and avoided religious, even more than in any other troversy, is personality. It is the gath a contest round living individuals; the ing their works a standard of opini their names a watchword. It is the sion of private and party jealousies and ne ests into discussions, which above al

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should be approached in charity, though they decision of the Church; it is wise to ask it of must be decided in truth. By this intrusion, those whom the Church herself has so long not only half instructed and unchastend held up to our respect, and not to permit minds, but the worldly and unholy, are drawn ourselves, or others equally incompetent, to into the conflict; subjects of which angels sit in judgment upon the controversy. fear to speak' are profaned irreverently in Among the many signal proofs of a Divine common mouths and places; religion be- favour shown to the English Church, and of comes part of the scandal of the day; until its own internal strength, is the creation all men are ashamed to seem ignorant of it, within it, since the Reformation, of this body and therefore speak of it with the boldness of standard Theology, formed principally in of ignorance. They take up the nickname, the seventeenth century. It is peculiarly her or the jest, or the calumnious tale forged own. And the value and authority of it are probably by those who have an interest in to be estimated, scarcely more by its doctrinal distracting the Church, and thus drive the soundness in particular points, than by certimid into violent opposition, the strong into ain à priori marks of truth, which give obstinacy, leaders into exasperation, follow-weight and character to a witness previous ers into a blind servility, and all into party: to any examination of his testimony. while those who have the strength or the coolness to keep themselves aloof, look on ; a few, as Christians, with sorrow; but the many, as worldly spectators gaze on a contest of gladiators.

It pleased God that in England two distinct developments of two seemingly distinct principles should be brought close together, and exhibited to the eyes of the Churchthe excesses of Popery which brought on the Reformation; and the excesses of Puritanism which produced the Rebellion; and that from the oscillation thus caused both the Church and the State should right themselves at the Restoration.

Yet we must not try to escape from the evil of such controversies by affecting indifference to them, or treating them as questions of 'words and names.' They are words, and names, but only as symbols of deep truths within them; and Christians must be inter- Not only this spectacle, but the lengthenested in all that interests the Church. The ed struggles of our Church against the Jesuits alternative is, to clear them in our own on the one side, and the Nonconformists on minds, as much as possible, from all consid- the other, placed full before her view both erations of the day and of persons; and to the extremes which endanger truth and goodexamine them, where it can be done, in some ness, whether in religion or any other duty. past time, where, as we study, we may pos- They placed her also in the position most sess our souls in quietness and humility; con- favourable for the formation of a sober, watchversing rather with the dead than with the ful, and discriminating temper; where, inliving; and sobered at the sight of even occa- stead of leading on a charge and attack in sional harshness by the remembrance, that one direction, at the risk of intemperance the hands which gave vent to it are now and incaution, she was compelled to defend mouldering in the dust.

a post; maintaining her ground against oppoWith these feelings it may be satisfactory site adversaries, and so brought to scrutinize and interesting, without speaking of modern every weak point, and to weigh every movetheories and writers, to look back to the old ment, lest success in one part should hazard standard Theology of the English Church, loss in another. Her great theologians of that and to ascertain the sentiments of our ac- day were also matched directly with the knowledged great Divines on some of the most learned and acute defenders of popery.(1) debated questions of the present day. If we They came to the contest, not, as too many are afraid of party in the Church-that at of the present day must come, from a life of least cannot be called a party which collects thoughtlessness, armed only with weapons itself round those whom the Church has so snatched up in haste for the emergency, with long regarded as her own especial teachers. fragments of Fathers picked up in pamphlets If we desire in any matters to resort to sound- and reviews, but from years of deep and paer principles than prevailed in the last centu- tient study. There is no appearance of shiftry; no reform can be safe which does not ing their ground, as if they began the controproceed in a track already marked out-and versy in twilight views of truth, and changed On the we shall find one here. If peace and unity as it dawned upon them farther. are to be sought; it must be by rallying round authorities whom all sides may be (1) See a particular account of the Controversy willing to acknowledge, or at least none can and its chief managers in Lindsay's Preface to Marepudiate. And if assistance is wanted in son's Vindication of the Church of England, p. determining questions, apart from a formal xxxvii. et. seq. Fol. 1728.

contrary, the uniform definiteness and con- and need not seek for any outward change to sistency of their teaching throughout is most assure us of the favour of God.-'What!' remarkable. Again, there is no symptom of exclaims Bishop Hall-referring to the lives combination, as if they derived their opinions and actions of those eminent scholars, learnfrom some one modern teacher, instead of by ed preachers, grave, holy, and accomplished independent study from the great fountain- divines,' such, and so many, as no one clergy head of Scripture and antiquity. They were, in the whole Christian world did yieldalmost without exception, placed in high official stations in the Church; where every What! could you see no colleges, no hospitals word was open to attack, and required to be built? no churches re-edified? no learned volweighed; and every act was to be deter-umes written? no heresies confuted? no seducmined under a most solemn responsibility; and in which their prayers and holiness may well entitle us to believe that they were blessed with no common guidance from their Lord and Master. All were, to a singular degree, practical men, (1) not pledged to any theory; and, by the circumstances of the times and of their lives, brought into contact with the realities of life; and saved from the infection of that disease,' which Lord Bacon has so well described as naturally seated in Univer-cope of Heaven.'(1) sities; by which one kind of persons are led to delight in an inward authority, which they seek over men's minds, in drawing them to depend upon their opinions, and to seek knowledge at their lips;' and another sort, 'for the most part men of young years and superficial understanding,' are carried away with partial respects of persons, or with the enticing appearance of godly names and pretences.'(2)

ed persons reclaimed? no hospitality kept? no ed? no good offices done for the public? no care great offenders punished? no disorders correctof the peace of the Church? no diligence in preaching? no holiness in living?' It is a great word that I shall speak,' he says elsewhere, and yet I must and will say it, without either arrogance or flattery; stupor mundi clerus Briof Britain. So many learned divines, so many tannicus: the wonder of the world is the Clergy eloquent preachers, shall in vain be sought elsewhere this day, in whatever region under the

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And we may well bless God, who gave us such models to imitate. Think of Laud's patience under martyrdom, a martyrdom not of one stroke but of many years, passed under barbarous libellings, and other bitter and grievous scorns' (2)-of Hammond's fastings and prayers, fastings for six-and-thirty hours, and prayers more than seven times a day(3)— of Hooker, the profound and philosophical And if they defended the system of the Hooker's childlike meekness-of Whitgift's Church of England with their understandings, solace' and 'repose' amidst the grandeur they realized it in their lives. There is a which he maintained for his office, in often longing in this day for the rise of some light dining at his hospital at Croydon among his of surpassing holiness within the Church of poor brethren ' (4)--of Sanderson's abstinence England, such as we are wont to dream of and temperance, so that during the whole of in the monasteries of former times: and this his life he spent not five shillings upon himself would be willingly accepted as a proof that, in wine(5)—of Bramhall's noble exertions for amidst all the dangers which seem to threaten our Church as a system, and the defects which may disgrace some of its individual members, yet we still have life within us,

the Church of Ireland (6) —of Morton's daily alms, his single meal, his straw bed at eighty years of age, his maintenance of scholars and hospitality to all, his intense studies, like those of so many others of the same writers, begun daily, to the end of his life, at four o' (1) Thorndike seems to have partaken least of this clock in the morning(7)—of Jackson's charity practical character, and to have been most wed- and generosity,(8)-of Patrick's devotional ded to a theory. And although his learning is always spoken of with respect by his fellow Divines, spirit-of Cosin's princely magnificence' it is not without doubt as to his soundness. I have to his 'first-born, the Church '(9)—of Usher's not seen his book,' says Bishop Taylor,-(Life by Heber, p. lxxxviii.) You make me desirous of it, (1) Vol. x. p. 284, 354, vol. xi. p. 17. Compare because you call it elaborate; but I like not the Clarendon's account of the visitation of Oxford, title nor the subject; and the man is indeed a very 1647, b. x.; and Bishop Nicholson's Apology, p. 172. good and learned man, but I have not seen much (2) History of Troubles, p. 225. prosperity in his writings: but if he have so well chosen the questions, there is no peradventure but he hath tumbled into his heap many choice materials.' Stillingfleet (vol. vi. p. 61) seems to accord in the same view; and Barrow wrote his Treatise on the the Supremacy expressly to meet Thorndike's theory.

(2) On Church Controversies, vol. vii. p. 41. 8vo.

(3) Fell's Life of Hammond, Works, vol. 1. pp. 25, 27.

(4) Wordsworth's Eccl. Biog., vol. iv. p. 392.
(5) Walton's Lives, by Zouch, pp. 289, 295,
(6) See Life prefixed to his Works.
(7) Biograph. Britann.

(8) Life prefixed to his Works, p. 6.
(9) Life by Basire.

'dove-like simplicity, his slowness to take reverence him with Hooker, as 'the worthiest offence, and readiness to forgive and forget' (1) divine that Christendom hath bred for the -of Beveridge's pastoral zeal (2)-of Nichol- space of some hundreds of years;'(1) with son's episcopal gravity' legenda scribens, Bilson as 'that learned father;'(2) with Laud, et faciens scribenda ' (3)—of Taylor's 'total as 'that painful, learned, and reverend preforgetfulness of self'(4)-of Bishop Wilson, late ;'(3) with Usher, as '& Managing Juellus, whose mere fame for piety procured from ille nunquam satis laudatus Episcopus ;'(4) the King of France, in time of war, an order with Bancroft, as a man to be accounted of that no French privateer should pillage the Isle as his name doth import, and so esteemed, of Man '(5)—of Ken's Sunday feasts with his not only in England, but with all the learned twelve poor parishioners '(6)—of Andrewes's men beyond the seas, that ever knew him or 'life of prayer,' and his book of private de- saw his writings;'(5) with Morton, as 'that votions, found worn in pieces by his fingers, admirable doctor in God's Church,' 'that and wet with his tears.'(7) And remember godly bishop,' 'whose name we acknowledge that these lights of holiness and goodness to be most worthily honourable in the were not kept burning, as in a monastic system, under an artificial shelter, and fed with extraordinary excitements, but exposed to the blasts of persecution, and to the chilling atmosphere of the world; that they are not as accidents and strange phenomena in the system of the English Church which make us wonder how they could be found in such a place under such principles of government; Carleton, as Master Jewel, the reverend but true and faithful portraitures of her character and doctrines-and then ask, whether personal holiness be wanting to that Church as a test of her truth-whether we need any other outward system to make us as holy as they were, than the system in which they

were bred.

One Father of our Church has been reserved, that he may be spoken of separately -spoken of, as these his brethren always spoke of him, turning aside whenever mention of him occurred, as if their pious humility would not allow them to pass without some token of gratitude and reverence, the recognised defender of the Church of England, Bishop Jewell. If one fault be enough to blot out a whole angelic life,' a life spent in the service of the Church, between his chapel and his study; if some hasty words are to condemn as unworthy of confidence the man who set an example to all, that in treating of holy things he did not 'set abroad in print twenty lines, till he had studied twenty years,'-then we may presume to speak lightly of Bishop Jewell.(8) But not so the true and grateful and humble-minded sons of the Church of England. They will

(1) Bramhall's Works, p. 937.

(2) Memoir prefixed to Works, vol. i. p. xxxvi. (3) Epitaph by Bishop Bull, Heber's Life of J. Taylor, p. cccxiv.

(4) Heber's Life, p. cxxvii. (5) Life by Stowell, p. 243.

(6) Life of Ken, p. 8. Prose Works, by Round, (7) Preface to Andrewes's Private Devotions, translated by the Rev. P. Hall, p. xv.

(8) Wordsworth's Eccles. Biog., pp. 62, 69, 70.

Church of Christ ;'(6) with Montagu, as 'that Jewel of England (7) with Cosin, as 'that worthy and reverend prelate' ('præstantissimus præsul');(8) with James, as one of the most precious and peerless Jewels of these later times, for learning, knowledge, judgment, honesty, and industry;'(9) with Bramhall, as that learned prelate'; (10) with

Bishop of Salisbury, for piety and learning the mirror of his time ;'(11) with Hall, as that precious Jewel of England,' 'whom moderate spirits may well hear;' who alone with all judicious men will outweigh ten thousand separatists;'(12) with Field, as 'that worthy Bishop;'(13) with the martyr Charles, as one whose memory he much reverenced, though he never thought him infallible ;'(14) with Heylin, as 'that most reverend and learned prelate, a man who very well understood the Church's meaning;' that reverend prelate, of whom I would not have you think but that I hold as feverend an opinion, as you or any other, be he who he will;'(15) with Godwin, as 'felicissimæ memoriæ ;(16) with Bishop Bull as clarissimus ;'(17) with Sancroft, as 'our reverend and learned Jewel ;'(18) with Stillingfleet, as 'that incomparable bishop'-' that great light and ornament of this Church, whose memory is

(1) Eccles. Pol. ii. s. 6.

(2) Survey of Christ's Sufferings, p. 82.
(3) Speech at the Censure of Bastwick.
(4) De Eccles. Success., Præf.

(5) Survey of Discipline, p. 336.
(6) Defence of Ceremon, pp. 241, 242.
(7) Appeal to Cæsar, p. 159.

(8) Hist. of Transub. p. 9.

(9) Treatise of the Corrupt. of Scripture, p. 78.
(10) Works, p. 472.

(11) Thankful Remembrance, p. 219.
(12) Works, vol. x. pp. 73, 74.

(13) Of the Church, p. 749.

(14) King Charles's Works, p. 176.

(15) Heylin on the Creed, p. 475; Antidot. Lincoln. p. 214.

(16) De Præsul. Angliæ, p. 22.
(17) Bull's Works, vol. iv. p. 130.
(18) D'Oyly's Life, vol. ii. p. 337.

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