derstand it; and yet hearing it cried up by one, whose judgment they cast themselves upon, and of power with them, they swear, and will die in it, that 't is a very good play, which they would not have done if the priest himself had told them so. As in a great school 't is not the master that teaches all; the monitor does a great deal of work; it may be the boys are afraid to see the master; so in a parish 't is not the minister does all; the greater neighbour teaches the lesser, the master of the house teaches his servant, &c.

16. First in your sermons use your logic and then your rhetoric. Rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root. Yet I confess more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are catched with a free expression, when they understand not reason. Logic must be natural, or it is worth nothing at all. Your rhetoric figures may be learned. That rhetoric is best which is most seasonable and most catching an instance we have in that old blunt commander at Cadiz, who showed himself a good orator: being to say something to his soldiers, which he was not used to do, he made them a speech to this purpose: "What a shame will it be, you Englishmen, that feed upon good beef and brewess, to let those rascally Spaniards beat you, that eat

nothing but oranges and lemons"; and so put more courage into his men than he could have done with a more learned oration. Rhetoric is very good, or stark naught there's no medium in rhetoric; if I am not fully persuaded, I laugh at the orator.

17. T is good to preach the same thing again, for that 's the way to have it learned. You see a bird by often whistling to learn a tune, and a month after record it to herself.

18. 'T is a hard case a minister should be turned out of his living for something they inform he should say in his pulpit: we can no more know what a minister said in his sermon by two or three words picked out of it, than we can tell what tune a musician played last upon the lute, by two or three single notes.

PREDESTINATION.

1. THEY that talk nothing but predestination, and will not proceed in the way of heaven till they be satisfied in that point, do as a man that would not come to London, unless at his first step he might set his foot upon the top of St. Paul's.

2. For a young divine to begin in his pulpit with predestination, is as if a man were coming into London, and at his first step would think to set his foot, &c.

3. Predestination is a point inaccessible, out of our reach; we can make no notion of it, 't is so full of intricacy, so full of contradiction; 't is in good earnest, as we state it, half-a-dozen bulls one upon another.

4. Doctor Prideaux, in his lectures, several days used arguments to prove predestination: at last tells his auditory they are damned that do not believe it; doing herein just like schoolboys; when one of them has got an apple, or something the rest have a mind to, they use all the arguments they can to get some of it from him: "I gave you some t'other day; you shall have some with me another time." When they cannot prevail they tell him he is a jackanapes, a rogue, and a rascal.

PREFERMENT.

1. WHEN you would have a child go to such a place, and you find him unwilling, you tell him he shall ride a cock-horse, and then he will go presently so do those that govern

the state deal by men, to work them to their ends; they tell them they shall be advanced to such or such a place, and they will do any thing they would have them.

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2. A great place strangely qualifies. John Read, groom of the chamber to my lord of Kent, was in the right. Attorney Noy being dead, some were saying, "How will the king do for man?" Why, any man, says John may execute the place." "I warrant, says my lord, "thou thinkest thou unstandest enough to perform it." "Yes," quoth John; "let the king make me attorney, and I would fain see that man, that durst tell me, there is any thing I understand not."

3. When the pageants are a coming there's a great thrusting, and a riding upon one another's backs, to look out at the window; stay a little and they will come just to you, you may see them quietly. So 't is when a new statesman or officer is chosen; there's great expectation and listening who it should be; stay awhile, and you may know quietly.

4. Missing preferment makes the presbyters fall foul upon the bishops. Men that are in hopes and in the way of rising, keep in the channel; but they that have none, seek new ways. 'Tis so amongst the lawyers; he that hath the judge's ear, will be very observant of

the way of the court; but he that hath no regard, will be flying out.

5. My lord Digby having spoken something in the house of commons, for which they would have questioned him, was presently called to the upper house: he did by the parliament, as an ape when he hath done some waggery; his master spies him, and he looks for his whip; but before he can come at him, Whip," says

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he, "to the the top of the house."

6. Some of the parliament were discontented, that they wanted places at court, which others had got; but when they had them once, then they were quiet just as at a christening some that get no sugar-plums, when the rest have, mutter and grumble: presently the wench comes again with her basket of sugar-plums, and then they catch and scramble; and when they have got them, you hear no more of them.

PRÆMUNIRE.

THERE can be no præmunire a præmunire, so called from the word "præmunire* facias,"

*In the writ to which Selden alludes, the word" præmunire" is confounded with " præmonere. See Barrington's Observations on the Statutes, p. 251.