Hall.

HE Hall was the Place where the great Lord used to eat, (wherefore else were the Halls made so big?) Where he saw all his Servants and Tenants about him. He eat not in private, except in time of sickness: when once he became a thing cooped up, all his greatness was spoiled. Nay the King himself used to eat in the Hall, and his Lords sat with him, and then he understood Men.

métique s'en soient servi de ces devises pour les accommoder à leur art; en voici une explication plus simple.

Raymond Lulle après son opération trouva moyen de s'evader de la Tour de Londres, ou il étoit detenu; et avec un barque, ou un vaisseau, il sçut franchir le passage de la mer et sortir de l'Angleterre, sans qu'on s'en appercut. C'est à quoi se rapportent ces paroles de l'Evangile, ou Edouard paroit insinuer, que l'auteur de la matiere de ces pieces d'or avoit passé au travers de ses vaisseaux, comme Jesus Christ fait au milieu de ses Disciples, sans qu'on le vît, ou sans qu'on le connut.

Il est vrai cependant, que ce ne fut que sous Edouard III. ou V. que l'on commença en Angleterre à frapper des monnoyes d'or; mais ce pourroit être de celui que Raymond avoit fait sous le regne précedent, ou de celui que Cremer, instruit par Raymond Lulle, pouvoit avoir produit à ce prince, sous lequel il a vécu.

Hell.

HERE are two Texts for Christ's descending into Hell:* the one Psal. xvi. the other

Acts ii. where the Bible that was in use when the Thirty Nine Articles were made has it Hell. But the Bible that was in Queen Elizabeth's time, when the Articles were confirmed, reads it Grave; and so it continued till the new Translation in King James's time, and then 'tis Hell again. But by this we may gather the Church of England declined as much as they could, the descent, otherwise they never would have altered the Bible.

2. He descended into Hell. This may be the Interpretation of it. He may be dead and buried, then his Soul ascended into Heaven. Afterwards he descended again into Hell, that is, into the Grave, to fetch his Body, and to rise again. The Ground of this Interpretation is taken from the Platonic Learning, who held a Metempsychosis, and when the Soul did descend from Heaven to take another Body, they called it Karàßáoiv eis ädny taking aons, for the lower World, the State of Mortality. Now the first Christians many of them were Platonic Philosophers, and no question spake such Language as was then understood amongst them. To understand by Hell the Grave

• The descent into Hell.-For much upon this controverted point see the Appendix to Parr's Life of Usher, p. 23, et seq. Archbishop Usher's opinion was very much that expressed by Selden.

In Edward the Sixth's Articles it was "went down to hell to preach to the spirits there."— Fuller.

is no Tautology; because the Creed first tells what Christ suffered, He was Crucified, Dead, and Buried; then it tells us what he did, He descended into Hell, the third day he rose again, he ascended, &c.

Holy Days.

HEY say the Church imposes Holy-Days.
There's no such thing, though the Number of

Holy-Days is set down in some of our Common-Prayer Books. Yet that has relation to an Act of Parliament, which forbids the keeping of any Holy-Days in time of Popery; but those that are kept, are kept by the Custom of the Country; and I hope you will not say the Church imposes that.

Humility.

UMILITY is a Virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The Master thinks it good Doctrine for his Servant, the Laity for the Clergy, and the Clergy for the Laity.

2. There is Humilitas quædam in Vitio. If a Man does not take notice of that excellency and perfection that is in himself, how can he be thankful to God, who is the Author of all excellency and perfection? Nay, if a Man hath too mean an Opinion of himself, 'twill render him unserviceable both to God and Man.

"They," i. e. the Laudites.

3. Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a Man cannot keep up his Dignity. In Gluttony there must be Eating, in Drunkenness there must be drinking: 'tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the Excess. So in Pride.

Idolatry.

DOLATRY is in a Man's own thought, not in the Opinion of another. Put case I bow to the Altar, why am I guilty of Idolatry? be

cause a stander by thinks so? I am sure I do not believe the Altar to be God; and the God I worship may be bow'd to in all Places, and at all times.

Jews.

SOD at the first gave Laws to all Mankind, but afterwards he gave peculiar Laws to the Jews,

which they were only to observe. Just as we have the Common Law for all England, and yet you have some Corporations that besides that have peculiar Laws and Privileges to themselves.

2. Talk what you will of the Jews, that they are cursed, they thrive where e'er they come, they are able to oblige the Prince of their Country, by lending him Money; none of them beg, they keep together, and for their being hated, my life for yours, Christians hate one another as

much.

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Invincible Ignorance.

IS all one to me if I am told of Christ, or some
Mystery of Christianity, if I am not capable

of understanding, as if I am not told at all; my Ignorance is as invincible; and therefore 'tis vain to call their Ignorance only invincible, who never were told of Christ. The trick of it is to advance the Priest, whilst the Church of Rome says a Man must be told of Christ by one thus and thus ordained.

Images.

HE Papists' taking away the second Commandment, is not haply so horrid a thing, nor so

unreasonable amongst Christians as we make it; for the Jews could make no figure of God, but they must commit Idolatry, because he had taken no shape; but since the Assumption of our flesh, we know what shape to picture God in. Nor do I know why we may not make his Image, provided we be sure what it is: as we say St. Luke took the picture of the Virgin Mary, and St. Veronica of our Saviour. Otherwise it would be no honour to the King, to make a Picture, and call it the King's Picture, when 'tis nothing like him.

2. Though the learned Papists pray not to Images, yet 'tis to be feared the ignorant do; as appears by that Story of St. Nicholas in Spain. A Countryman used to offer daily to St. Nicholas's Image, at length by mis