mind, the times in which his lordship wrote them, and the distaste of that court against the proceedings of Barnevelt, whose state-faction blemished his creed.

Of this tract there are various MSS. (a) in the

That is to say, the unity of the three Persons in Godhead, the unity of God and man in Christ, and the unity of Christ and the church; the Holy Ghost being the worker of both these latter unities; for by the Holy Ghost was Christ incarnate, and quickened in flesh; and by the Holy Ghost is man regenerate, and quickened in spirit.'

"Here two of the unities are ascribed to the Holy Ghost. The first seems excluded; yet divines say, that Spiritus Sanctus & amor, & vinculum Patris & Filii, (the Holy Ghost is the love and the bond of the Father and the Son).

"In page 416, 1. 12, are these words:

"Christ accomplished the whole work of the redemption. and restitution of man to a state superior to the angels.

"This (superior) seems to hit upon that place, loáyyeλos Luke xx. 36, which argues but equality. Suarez (De Angelis, lib. 1. cap. 1.) saith, that angels are superior to men, quoad gradum intellectualem, & quoad immediatam habitationem ad Deum, (both in respect of the degree of their intellectual nature, and of the nearness of their habitation to God). Yet St. Austin affirmeth, naturam humanam in Christo perfectiorem esse angelica, (that the human nature in Christ is more perfect than the angelical). Consider of this. And thus far, not as a critic, or corrector, but as a learner. For,

Corrigere, res est tanto magis ardua, quanto

Magnus, Aristarcho major, Homerus erat.

In haste.

Your servant,

ROGER MAYNWARING."

(a) Sloanes, 2 copies, 23 Cat. Harleian, vol. 2, 314—vol. 3, 61. Hargrave's p. 62.

British Museum, and one apparently in Lord Bacon's hand writing. (b) It is stated in one of the MSS. to have been written before or when Sir Francis Bacon was Solicitor General, (c) and in the Remains it is entitled, "Confession of Faith, written by Sir Francis Bacon, knight, Viscount St. Albans, about the time he was Solicitor General to our late Sovereign Lord King James." (d)

(b) MS. Burch, No. 4263.

(c) Sloane's, 23, and see in Rawley's observations, ante xiv. where he says, "though he composed the same many years before his death," and the same expression is in the passage from the Opuscula.

(d) This tract was republished in 1757. A Confession of Faith, written by the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, republished with a Preface on the Subject of Authority in Religious Matters, and adapted to the Exigency of the present Times. London, printed for W. Owen, at Temple-Bar, 1757, 8vo. pp. 26. and in the second volume of Butler's Reminiscences, recently published, in page 232, there is a letter from Dr. Parr containing the following, "You know there is no doubt as to the authenticity of the Confession of Faith, ascribed to Lord Bacon. I am perplexed with it. Was he serious? mean serious all through? Does he mean it for a tentamen? What inference would Hume have drawn from it?" And in a manuscript kindly communicated to me by Mr. Barker, the doctor says. "that Bacon admitted the received doctrine of the Trinity, is obvious, from the prayer made by him when Chancellor of England, and from various passages of the most unequivocal and emphatical kind in his Confession of Faith."

AN ADVERTISEMENT TOUCHING THE CONTROVERSIES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (a).

This was first published in the year 1641, without the author's name (b). The following is the title:

A Wise and Moderate Discourse,

concerning

Church Affaires,

As it was written, long since, by the fa-
mous Authour of those Consi-
derations, which seem to
have some reference

to this,

Now published for the common good.

Imprinted in the yeere 1641.

It was next published with the present title, in the Resuscitatio.

(a) Page 28 of this volume.

(b) There is a copy in the British museum, and MSS.

Ays. 4263.

In Blackburne's edition, vol. I. 192, he thus notices this tract: "Next follows an Advertisement touching the controversies of the Church of England, p. 418. This treatise was originally printed in the year 1641, without the author's name and under a different title: called, “A wise and moderate discourse concerning Church affairs; as it was written long since, by the famous author of those considerations, which seem to have some reference to this." It is plain from p. 428, that it was wrote in the reign of Q. Elizabeth. Dr. Sancroft had collated and corrected this piece in more than an hundred places and I am to ask the reader's pardon for mislaying the copy containing these his farther emendations.

In this tract upon Church Controversies, an arrangement, although not formally declared, may, as in the Sylva Sylvarum, (c) easily be perceived. (d) The method, with a few extracts well worthy the consideration of ecclesiastical controversialists, is as follows:

p. 419, 1. 23, parts.
p. 420, 1. 6,

zeal.

1. 38, resemble.

p. 423, 1. 33.

p. 424, 1. 39.

p. 428, 1. 3, exercise.

p. 429, 1. 18.

r. some things, his.

r. hate.

So that I conceive abundant justice is done to this part of our noble author's works.

(c) Dr. Rawley, in his address to the Reader, in the Sylva Sylvarum, says "I have heard his lordship say also, that one great reason why he would not put these particulars into any exact method, (though he that looketh attentively into them shall find that they have a secret order,) was, because he conceived that other men would now think that they could do the like."

2. Christian Demeanor.
3. Christian Language.

4. Vices in Controversies.

r. agree.

r. pretend zeal.

r. seduce the people.

r. waste.

r. grope for.

(d) The following is an analysis of this subject, at all times of importance but particularly to a Christian in Christian Controversy.

1. Religious controversies will exist, and particularly in times of peace.

2. Nature of Religious Controversies.

3. Virtues of Religious Controversies.

1. Christian Forbearance.

§ I.

1. RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES WILL EXIST, AND PARTICULARLY IN TIMES OF PEACE.

When the fiery trial of persecution ceaseth, there succeedeth another trial, which, as it were, by contrary blasts of doctrine doth sift and winnow men's faith.

2. Minor nature, ceremonies, and things indifferent, or those parts of religion which pertain to time,

III. VIRTUES IN CHRISTIAN CONTROVERSIES.

"Qui pacem tractat non repetitis conditionibus dissidii, is magis animos hominum dulcedine pacis fallit, quam aequitate componit."

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1. CHRISTIAN FORBEARANCE.

Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath

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