Bishops and they will not have Catholic Bishops; thereout of the fore they must govern themselves as well as ment they may.

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10. What is that to the purpose, to what End were Bishops' Lands given to them at first? You must look to the Law and Custom of the Place. What is that to any Temporal Lord's Estate, how Lands were first divided, or how in William the Conqueror's Days? And if Men at first were juggled out of their Estates, yet they are rightly their Successors. If my Father cheat a Man, and he consent to it, the Inheritance is rightly mine.

II. If there be no Bishops, there must be something else which has the Power of Bishops, though it be in many; and then had you not as good keep them ? If you will have no HalfCrowns, but only single Pence, yet Thirty single Pence are half a Crown; and then had you not as good keep both? But the Bishops have done ill. 'Twas the Men, not the Function: As if you should say, you would have no more HalfCrowns, because they were stolen, when the Truth is, they were not stolen because they were Half Crowns, but because they were Money, and light in a Thief's hand.

12. They that would pull down the Bishops. and erect a new way of Government, do as he that pulls down an old House, and builds another in another Fashion. There's a great deal ado, and a great deal of trouble: the old rubbish must be carried away, and new materials must be brought Workmen must be provided, and

perhaps the old one would have serv'd as Bishops well.

13. If the Prelatical and Presbyterian Party should dispute, who should be Judge? Indeed in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth, there was such a difference between the Protestants and Papists, and Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Chancellor, was appointed to be Judge; but the Conclusion was, the stronger Party carried it: For so Religion was brought into these Kingdoms so it has been continued, and so it may be cast out, when the State pleases.

14. "Twill be great Discouragement to Scholars, that Bishops should be put down : for now the Father can say to his Son, and the Tutor to his Pupil, Study hard, and you shall have Vocem et Sedem in Parliamento; then it must be, Study hard, and you shall have a hundred a year, if you please your Parish. Objection. But they that enter into the Ministry for Preferment, are like Judas that look'd after the Bag. Answer. It may be So, if they turn Scholars at Judas's Age; but what Arguments will they use to persuade them to follow their Books while they are young?

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HE giving a Bookseller his Price for his Books has this Advantage; he that will do so, shall have the refusal of whatsoever comes to his hand, and so by that means get many

Books. things, which otherwise he never should have Authors seen. So 'tis in giving a Bawd her Price.

2. In buying Books or other Commodities, 'tis not always the best way to bid half so much as the seller asks: witness the Country fellow that went to buy two [shove-] groat Shillings; they ask'd him three Shillings, and he bade them Eighteen pence.

3. They counted the Price of the Books (Acts xix. 19), and found it Fifty Thousand Pieces of Silver; that is, so many Sestertii, or so many Three-half-pence of our Money; about Three Hundred pound Sterling.

4. Popish Books teach and inform; what we know we know much out of them. The Fathers, Church Story, School-men, all may pass for Popish Books; and if you take away them, what Learning will you leave? Besides who must be judge? The Customer or the Waiter? If he disallows a Book, it must not be brought into the Kingdom; then Lord have mercy upon all Scholars! These Puritan Preachers, if they have any thing good, they have it out of Popish Books, tho' they will not acknowledge it, for fear of displeasing the People. He is a poor Divine that cannot sever the good from the bad.

5. 'Tis good to have Translations, because they serve as a Comment, so far as the Judgement of one Man goes.

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6. In answering a Book, 'tis best to be short; otherwise he that I write against will suspect intend to weary him, not to satisfy him. Besides in

being long I shall give my Adversary a huge ad- Books. vantage; somewhere or other he will pick a hole. Authors 7. In quoting of Books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own Satisfaction, but not name them.

8. Quoting of Authors is most for matter of Fact, and then I cite them as I would produce a Witness; sometimes for a free Expression; and then I give the Author his due, and gain myself praise by reading him.

9. To quote a Modern Dutchman where I may use a Classic Author, is as if I were to justify my Reputation, and I neglect all Persons of Note and Quality that know me, and bring the Testimonial of the Scullion in the Kitchen.

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Canon Law

IF I would study the Canon Law as it is used in England, I must study the Heads here in use, then go to the Practisers in those Courts where that Law is practised, and know their Customs. So for all the Study in the World.

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Ceremony

EREMONY keeps up all things: 'Tis like a Penny-Glass to a rich Spirit, or some excellent Water; without it the Water were spilt, the Spirit lost.

2. Of all people Ladies have no reason to cry

Cere- down Ceremony, for they take themselves slighted mony without it. And were they not used with Ceremony, with Compliments and Addresses, with Legs and Kissing of Hands, they were the pitifullest Creatures in the World. But yet [methinks] to kiss their Hands after their Lips, as some do, is like little Boys, that after they have eat the Apple, fall to the Paring, out of a Love they have to the Apple.

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Chancellor

HE Bishop is not to sit with the Chancellor in his Court, (as being a thing either beneath him or beside him,) no more than the King is to sit in the King's-Bench when he has made a Lord-Chief-Justice.

2. The Chancellor govern'd in the Church, who was a Layman: and therefore 'tis false which they charge the Bishops with, that they challenge sole Jurisdiction; for the Bishop can no more put out the Chancellor, than the Chancellor the Bishop. They were many of them made Chancellors for their Lives; and he is the fittest Man to govern, because Divinity so overwhelms the rest.

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Changing Sides

IS the Trial of a Man to see if he will change his side; and if he be so weak as to change once, he will change again. Your