with the same decency and moderation could maintain his character under the temptations of prosperity.

When the King advanced him to this dignity, he was pleased to say, he had given it to the beft fcholar in England: his Majefty had several times done him the honour to discourse him, and this preferment was not at all obtained by faction or flattery; it was the King's own act, though his defert made those of the greatest power forward to contribute to it, particularly Gilbert, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Duke of Buckingham, then Chancellor of Cambridge, and formerly a member of Trinity College.

It were a disrespect to his College to doubt that where he had spent so much time, and obliged fo many perfons, he should not be most welcome: they knew, as his power increased, the effects of his goodness would do fo too; and the fenior Fellows fo well understood and esteemed him, that with good-will and joy they received a Master much younger than any of themselves.

Befides the particular affiftance he gave to many in their study, he concerned himself in every thing that was for the intereft of his College. Upon the fingle affair of building their Library, he writ out quires of paper, chiefly to those who had been of the College, first to engage them, and then to give them thanks, which he never omitted. These letters he esteemed not enough to keep copies of; but by the generous returns they brought in, they appeared to be of no fmall value: and thofe gentlemen that please to fend back their letters will deferve to be accounted farther benefactors to the Library. He had always been a conftant and early man at the chapel, and now continued to do the fame; and was therein encouraged, not only by his own devotion, but by the efficacy his example had upon many others of his College.

In this place, feated to his ease and fatisfaction, a station

wherein of all others in the world he could have been most useful, and which he meant not to make use of as a step to afcend higher, he abated nothing of his studies; he yielded the day to his public business, and took from his morning fleep many hours, to increase his stock of Sermons, and write his Treatife of the Pope's Supremacy. He understood Popery both at home and abroad; he had narrowly observed it, militant in England, triumphant in Italy, disguised in France; and had earlier apprehenfions than most others of the approaching danger, and would have appeared with the forwardest in a needful time: for his engagement in that cause, and his place in your friendship, I would (with the leave of the moft worthy Dean of St. Paul's, his highly respected friend) call him another Dr. Stillingfleet.

But so it pleased God, that being invited to preach the Paffion-Sermon, April 13, 1677, at Guildhall Chapel, (and it was the fecond Sermon for which he received a pecuniary recompenfe,) he never preached but once more, falling fick of a fever: fuch a diftemper he had once or twice before, otherwise of a conftant health: this fatally prevailed against the skill and diligence of many phyficians his good friends.

I think not myself competent to give an account of his life, much less of his fickness and death: if great grief had not forced filence, you, Sir, his dearest and most worthy friend, had perpetuated the remarkables of that fad scene, in a funeral fermon.

Our paffions, which have hitherto been kept within the banks, fhould now be permitted to overflow, and they even expect to be moved by a breath of eloquence; but that is not my talent. In fhort, his death was fuitable to his life; not this imperfect, flight life, as I relate it, but that admirable, heroic, divine life which he lived.

He died the 4th of May, 1677; and had it not been too

inconvenient to carry him to Cambridge, then wit and eloquence had paid their tribute for the honour he has done them.

Now he is laid in Westminster Abbey, with a monument erected by the contribution of his friends, a piece of gratitude not ufual in this age, and a respect peculiar to him among all the glories of that Church. I wish they would (as I have adventured) bring in their fymbols toward the history of his life: there are many which long before me had the advantage of his converfation, and could offer more judicious obfervations, and in a style fit to speak of Dr. Barrow.

In the Epitaph, Dr. Mapletoft, his much esteemed friend, doth truly defcribe him; his picture was never made from the life, and the effigies on his tomb doth little resemble him. He was in person of the leffer fize, and lean; of extraordinary ftrength, of a fair and calm complexion, a thin skin, very sensible of the cold; his eyes grey, clear, and fomewhat short-fighted; his hair of a light auburn, very fine and curling. He is well represented by the figure of Marcus Brutus on his denarii; and I will transfer hither what is faid of that great man.

Virtue was thy life's centre, and from thence

Did filently and conftantly difpenfe

The gentle vigorous influence

To all the wide and fair circumference.

COWLEY.

The estate he left was books; those he bought, fo well chofen as to be fold for more than they coft; and those he made, whereof a catalogue is annexed; and it were not improper to give a farther account of his Works than to name them; befide their number, variety, method, style, fulness, and usefulness, I might thence draw many proofs to confirm what I have before endeavoured to say to his advantage, and many more important reflections will be obvious to you, than to such a reader as I am. I will only take leave to say, that for his little piece of The Unity

of the Church, he has better deferved of the Church and religion, than many who make a greater figure in ecclefiaftic history and politics. But fuch remarks will be more fitly placed in what we expect from his learned friends of the University. And to them I must also refer for the obfervables at the taking his feveral degrees, and difcharging the office of Vice-Chancellor.

There are befide other particulars, which are grateful to talk over among friends, not so proper perhaps to appear in a public writing. For inftance, one morning going out of a friend's house before a huge and fierce mastiff was chained up, (as he used to be all day,) the dog flew at him; and he had that present courage to take the dog by the throat, and after much struggling bore him to the ground, and held him there, till the people could rise and part them, without any other hurt than the straining of his hands, which he felt some days after.

Some would excufe me for noting that he feemed intemperate in the love of fruit; but it was to him phyfic, as well as food; and he thought, that if fruit kill hundreds in autumn, it preferves thousands: and he was very free too in the use of tobacco, believing it did help to regulate his thinking.

I did at first mention the uniformity and conftant tenor of his life, and proceeding on have noted several particulars of very different nature. I therefore explain myself thus; that he was always one by his exact conformity to the rule in a virtuous and prudent conversation; he steered by the fame compass to the fame port, when the storms forced him to fhift his fails. His fortune did in fome occafions partake of the unsettledness of the times wherein he lived; and to fit himself for the feveral works he was to do, he entered upon ftudies of feveral kinds, whereby he could not totally devote himself to one; which would have been more for the public benefit, according to his own opinion, which was, that general scholars did more

please themselves, but they who profecuted particular fubjects did more service to others.

Being thus engaged with variety of men and studies, his mind became stored with a wonderful plenty of words wherewith to exprefs himself; and it happened that fometime he let flip a word not commonly used, which upon reflection he would doubtlefs have altered, for it was not out of affectation.

But his life were a fubject requiring other kind of difcourses; and as he that acts another man, doth also act himself; so he that would give an account of the excellent qualities in Dr. Barrow, would have a fair field wherein to difplay his own. Another Camerarius or Gaffendus would make another Life of Melancthon, or Piereskius. What I am doing will not prevent them; I fhall be well fatisfied with my unfkilfulness, if I provoke them to take the argument into better hands.

All I have faid, or can fay, is far fhort of the idea which Dr. Barrow's friends have formed of him, and that character under which he ought to appear to them who knew him not. Befide all the defects on my part, he had in himself this disadvantage of wanting foils to augment his luftre, and low places to give eminence to his heights; fuch virtues as his, contentment in all conditions, candour in doubtful cafes, moderation among differing parties, knowledge without oftentation, are subjects fitter for praise than narrative.

If I could hear of an accufation, that I might vindicate our friend's fame, it would take off from the flatness of my expreffion; or a well-managed faction, under the name of zeal, for or against the Church, would fhew well in ftory; but I have no fhadows to fet off my piece. I have laid together a few sticks for the funeral-fire, dry bones which can make but a skeleton, till fome other hand lay on the flesh and finews, and cause them to live and move. You will encourage others by pardoning me,