"putt upp ageynst the abbott by his tenaunts "and others, for wrouges and injuryes that he "hadd donne theym. And I commyt yo' good "lordeshipp to the keapyng of the blessed "Trynyte. From Welles the xvjth. daye of No❝vembre.

"Your owen to commande

"J. RUSSELL."

BISHOP AYLMER.

This worthy prelate could not suffer flattery in a preacher, and esteemed learning, integrity, zeal, and wisdom to be necessary in his character. He said, "that those that were preachers must be no "milksops, no white-livered gentlemen; that, for "the frowning and cloudy countenance of every

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man in authority, will leave his tackle and cry "peccavi. They must be of such a nature as the "poet Terence said of Crito: In vultu gravitas, "in verbis fides-to have gravity in his countenance and faithfulness on his speech. That they should not be afraid to rebuke the proud"est, no! not kyngs and queens, so far forth as "the two tables reach: that they stoop not to

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any man's back, nor study to please men more "than God." Honest Aylmer's idea is correct, but, alas! his advice is not, nor could be at all followed in this day.

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ANTI-CHRIST.

Joseph Mede, a learned English divine, of the seventeenth century, published his Clavis Apocalyptica. Mr. Mede proceeds to show that idolatry is the main character of the churches' apostacy; and that pagan idolatry is not inferred; nor can the Saracen or Turk be the antichrist meant in Scripture; that anti-christ is a counter-christ, and his coming a counter-resemblance of the coming of Christ. In fine, antichrist is popery, on account of its saint-worship. Thomas Barlowe, bishop of Lincoln, in the reign of Charles II. wrote a pamphlet upon the question, whether the Turk or the pope be the greater anti-christ. He makes it out that the pope is certainly to be preferred, because he has some properties and characteristic marks of that beast which the Turk neither has nor can pretend to. On the other hand, Bishop Montague in his book, "Appello Cæsarem," in the fifth chapter, remarks that the pope and prelacy of Rome are anti-christians; but that the pope is magnus ille * anti-christus, is neither determined by the publie doctrine of the church, nor proved by any good argument of private men; but that the marks of the great anti-christ fit the Turkish tyranny every way as well as the papacy. Who shall decide when doctors disagree

LEO THE TENTH.

When Pope Leo the tenth consecrated the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, he was attended by a whole army of bishops, no less than three hundred and sixty-five! No doubt the Emperor Charlemagne, then present, was highly delighted especially at the presents of relics very freely bestowed on that occasion.

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By the way, Pope Leo the tenth met with early preferment. vanni Medici, afterwards Leo the tenth, was advanced to an ecclesiastical benefice at seven years! in the year following, to an archbishopric, by the king of France, and to the college of cardinals, at the age of thirteen.

TRANSUBSTANTIATION.

When the French, in their revolutionary madness, exhibited a real woman to be worshipped as the goddess of liberty, was it not less ideal than when in their popish days they represented. the Deity under a corporeal form, and as Stell, in his Beehive of the Romish Church,' observes, which God is a very patient one, always pleased alike, and at one stay, provided always that he be safely kept and well guarded from mice, moths, and worms, which are his deadly foes.

WILLIAM PENN.

The shape of,and the doffing of hats, have occupied much of the world's attention, and perhaps ever will, since it was George Fox who first discovered that "The Lord forbad him to put off his "hat to any man, high or low." But further as to hat worship. William Penn, son of Viceadmiral Sir W. Penn, soon became tinctured with quakerism, which caused frequent family feuds; he was also greatly persecuted in the time of Charles II. At length, after being imprisoned, he went back to his father's house, where a long disputation took place on the subject of the son's creed. It broke up with this moderate and very loyal proposition on the part of the vice-admiral,-that the young quaker should consent to sit with his hat off in presence of the king, the duke of York, and the admiral himself! In return for which slight compliance it was stipulated, that he should no longer be molested for any of his opinions or practices. The heroic convert, however would listen to no terms of composition; and after taking some days to consider of it, reported that his conscience would not comport with any species of hat-worship. Penn was therefore again turned out of his father's house for his pains.

ARCHBISHOP LAUD.

Land, Archbishop of Canterbury, in a sermon preached before the parliament, about the beginning of the reign of Charles I., affirms the power of prayer to be so great, that though there be a conjunction or opposition of Saturn or Mars, (as there was at that time of one of them,) it would overcome the malignity of it.

L'ABBE DE CHOISY.

The Abbé de Choisy not only dedicated his translation of Thomas à Kempis to a courtezan, Madame de Maintenon, but added as a motto, from the Psalms," hear, my daughter, and see, and incline thine ear, and the king shall desire thy beauty."

ITALIAN EPITAPHS.

Anthony Panormita, secretary to Alphonso, king of Naples, wrote an epitaph for himself, which is, at one and the same time, a proof of his presumption and orthodoxy. It runs thus:

“Quærite, Pierides, alium qui ploret amores, Quærite, qui regum fortia facta canat;

MePater ille ingens, hominum sator atque redemptor, Evocat, et sedes donat adire pias."

That is, "O Muses, seek for another poet to "write amorous verses, and sing the mighty acts