to be sold at his shop at the west door of St. Paul's, 1592. This edition was called in as soon as printed, as appears from a notice of it in p. 1324 in Herbert's Ames. They were reprinted in 4to. in 1627 for J. Jaggard and Michael Sparke; the latter reprinted them, with Robert Milbourne, Richard Cotes and Andrew Crooke, in his edition of Andrewes' Lectures on the Decalogue.

The other parochial discourse is from Jer. iv. 2, on the third commandment, and was preached at St. Giles', Cripplegate, on June 11th. He interprets our Lord as designing to free the divine law in his Sermon on the Mount from the false glosses of the Pharisees, not as giving a new law.

He observes that an oath may be lawfully made without including an express mention of the name of God. "Howbeit yet the Fathers (well weighing that speech of St. Paul's, 1 Cor. xv. 31, where he speaketh on this wise, By our rejoicing which we have in Christ Jesus our Lord, &c., wherein his oath is not immediately by the Name of God, but by a secondary thing issuing from it,) have thought it not absolutely necessary that in every oath the Name of God should be mentioned, but sufficient if reductive. It is ruled in divinity, that such things as presently are reduced to God, will bear an oath." This he instances in swearing by the Holy Gospel.

The first edition of Andrewes' Sermons on the Temptation has an epistle dedicatory to Sir John Puckering, Knt., LordKeeper of the Great Seal of England.

This volume contains the bidding prayers used by Andrewes before his parochial sermons.

"Two most excellent Prayers which the preacher commonly used before his exercises.

"That the name of God may be glorified by this our assembly, and his holy Word blessed to the end he hath ordained it let us in all humbleness present ourselves before the mercy-seat of God the Father, in the name and mediation of Christ Jesus his dear Son, through the sanctifying of his Holy Spirit, with our unfeigned humble acknowledg1 p. 42.

ment both of our own unworthiness to receive any of his graces, and unableness when we have received them to make right use of them. And both these by reason of our manifold sundry sins and offences, amongst the rest, of this one (as a chief one) that we divers times have been hearers of his divine and precious Word, without care or conscience to become the better thereby: let us beseech him, in the obedience of the life and sacrifice of the death of Christ Jesus his dear Son, to receive both us and this our humble confession; to pardon both this and the rest of our sins, and to turn from us the punishments deservedly due unto them all; especially that punishment which most usually he doth exercise at such meetings as this, which is, the receiving of his Word into a dead and dull heart, and so departing with no more delight to hear nor desire to practise than we came with; that so, through the gracious assistance of his good Spirit, inward, adjoined to the outward ministry of his Word at this present, the things which shall be spoken and heard may redound to some glory of his everlasting blessed name, and to some Christian instruction and comfort of our own souls, through Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour."

This prayer ended he proceedeth again in this manner :

"And as the Church of Christ, wheresoever it is at this present assembled and met together, is mindful of us that be here, so it is our parts and duties in our prayers to remember it, recommending unto the majesty of Almighty God the prosperous and flourishing estate thereof: beseeching God the Father, for Christ Jesus his Son's sake, to be merciful to all his servants, even his whole militant church, scattered far and wide over the face of the whole earth: both preserving it in those truths that it hath recovered from the sundry gross and superstitious errors of the form erage, and restoring it also unto that unity (in his good time) which it hath almost lost and daily loseth through the unchristian and unhappy contentions of these days of ours.

"And in this Church let us be mindful of that part thereof which most especially needeth our remembrance, that is,

the poor afflicted members of Christ Jesus, in what place, for what cause, or with what cross soever: that it would please God to minister into our hearts the same spirit of compassion and fervency, now in the time of their need, that we would wish should be ministered into theirs in the time of our need, for them to become suitors for us. And let us wish them all from the Lord (in his good time) the same joyful deliverance, and till his good time be, the same measure of patience that we would wish unto our own souls, or would have them entreat and pray for at his hands for us, if ever our case shall be as theirs is at this present. "And forasmuch as those churches or members of churches which enjoy the outward benefits of the Lord, as of health, plenty, peace and quietness, do many times as much and (for the most part) much more need the prayers of Christ his faithful congregation, than those that are under his hand in the house of affliction, let us beseech him for them also, that he will give unto each and every of them a thankful receiving of those his benefits, a sober using of them, and a Christian employing of them, to his glory that hath sent them.

"And in these our prayers let us be mindful also of the Church and country wherein we live, yielding first and foremost evermore, our unfeigned and hearty thanksgivings for all his mercies and gracious favours vouchsafed this land of ours and namely, for our last no less gracious than marvellous deliverance from our enemies, and for all those good signs and tokens of his loving favor which ever since and daily he sheweth towards us.

"And together withal let us beseech him, that whilst these days of our peace do last, he will open our eyes to see and incline our hearts to seek after those things which may make for the continuance and establishing of this peace long amongst us.

"And (as by especial duty we all stand bound) let us commend unto his Majesty his chosen servant Elizabeth our Sovereign by his grace, of England, France, and Ireland Queen, Defendress of the Faith, and over all estates and persons within these her dominions (next and immediately under

God) supreme Governess: let us beseech God (daily more and more) to persuade her Highness' heart that the advancement and flourishing of this kingdom of hers consisteth in the advancement and flourishing of the kingdom of his Son Christ within it; that it may be therefore her Majesty's special care and study, that both her Highness in that great place wherein God hath set her, and every one of us in the several degrees wherein we stand, may be as careful to testify unto the whole world a special care and endeavour that we have for the propagation of the gospel of his Son, as Christ Jesus hath shewn himself by many arguments both of old and of late (and that of weight) that he hath carried and still carrieth a special care of the preservation and welfare of us all.

"Let us commend also unto God the several estates of the land, for the right honourable of the Nobility and of her Highness' Privy Council, that they may be careful (from the Spirit of the Lord) to derive all their counsels; that so God which sendeth the counsel may send it good and happy success also, and may confound and cast out the counsels of the enemy.

"For the estate of the clergy, the right reverend Fathers in God, in whose hand the government of the Church is, and all other inferior ministers, that he will give unto each and every of them sufficient graces for the discharge of their functions, and together (with the graces) both a faithful and a fruitful employing of them.

"For the estate of magistracy, and namely for the governors of this honourable city, that they together with the rest, according to the trust that is reposed in them, may be no less careful speedily without delay, than incorruptly without partiality, to administer justice to the people of God.

"For the estate of the commons, that they all, in a Christian obedience towards each and every of their superiors, and in a godly love, with the fruits and duties thereof one towards another, may walk worthy of that glorious calling whereunto they are called and that the blessings of the Lord may not only be with us for our times, but successively also be delivered to our posterity, let us beseech God that he

will visit with the Spirit of his grace the two Universities, Cambridge and Oxford, all schools of learning and places of education of youth; that they being watered with the dew of his blessing, may yield forth such plants as may both serve for a present supply of the Church's need, and also in such sort furnish the generations that are to come that our posterity also may be counted unto the Lord for a holy seed and a Christian generation as we ourselves are.

"And thus recommending ourselves unto the prayers of Christ his Church, as we have commended Christ his whole Church by our prayers unto the majesty of Almighty God, reposing our trust and confidence neither in our own prayers nor in the Church's prayers, but in the alone mediation of Christ Jesus our advocate, let us unto him as unto our sole intercessor offer up these our supplications, that he may present them to God his Father for the effectual obtaining of these and whatsoever graces else he knoweth needful for his whole Church and for us, calling upon him as himself in his Gospel hath taught us, Our Father, &c.”

Isaacson informs us that Andrewes read the lecture at St. Paul's three times a-week in term time. "And indeed," he adds, "what by his often preaching at St. Giles', and his no less often reading in St. Paul's, he became so infirm that his friends despaired of his life."

Of his charities in his parish of S. Giles', Cripplegate, Buckeridge says, in his funeral sermon, "The first place he lived on was S. Giles', there I speak my knowledge; I do not say he began sure I am he continued his charity: his certain alms there was ten pound per annum, which was paid quarterly by equal portions, and twelve pence every Sunday he came to church, and five shillings at every Communion."1 As prebendary of St. Pancras he built the prebendal house in Creed-lane, and recovered it to the church."

On February 20, 1593, Dr. Andrewes preached the Convocation sermon at St. Paul's, from Acts xx. 28. He refers to the notice of this passage in the 14th chapter of the 2 p. 19.

1 p. 20.