ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S MAGAZINE AND REVIEW, OR A TREASURY OF DIVINE AND USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Beloved, believe not every Spirit, but try the Spirits, whether they be ST. JOHN. Contra rationem, nemo sobrius, et contra Scripturam, nemo Christianus. Printed by Barnard and Sultzer, Water-lane, Fleet-Street, FOR THE ROPRIETORS, AND SOLD BY F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S MAGAZINE AND REVIEW, FOR JANUARY 1805. Superstition on the one hand, and Irreligion on the other, have left True Christians a narrow Path to walk in. If the following account of the life of the celebrated Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, the materials of which have been furnished by the dedication of his sermons, and by the sermon preached at his funeral by the Bishop of Ely, shall be thought worthy of following the interesting biographical notices which have already appeared in your Miscellany, it is altogether at your disposal. L ANCELOTANDREW ES was born in the city of London, in the year 1555, of honest and godly parents. Having given him a good education, they left him also a sufficient patrimony and inheritance, which descended to his heir, at Rawreth in Essex: He had the happiness to be of a well ordered life and conversation, even from his childhood; and from his early years was brought up, andcontinued in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord." In his tender age, he shewed such readiness and quickness of wit and capacity, that his teachers foresaw he would prove eminent in the literary world. And therefore the two first masters who had the care of his early education, Mr. Ward of Rateliffe, and Mr. Mulcaster Vol. VIII. Churchm. Mag. Jan. 1805. B of of Merchant Taylor's School, contended who should have the honour of the instruction of him, who afterwards became the ornament of their schools, and of learning in general. Mr. Ward first prevailed upon his parents not to put him apprentice; and at length Mr. Mulcaster had him under his care; and from hence he accounted all the time lost which was not spent in study. In learning he surpassed his equals; but his indefatigable industry had almost proved fatal to himself: he studied so closely while others played, that if his parents and masters had not forced him to join with them in play, his excessive application would have destroyed his health. His late hours, and early rising by four o'clock in the morning, raised the envy of his equals, and proved not very acceptable to the ushers, whose rest was disturbed too soon. The pains and care of those who were concerned in his education, he so gratefully remembered all' his life long, that he studied always how to do good to them and their families. Hence he promoted Dr. Ward to the parsonage of Waltham; and ever loved and honoured his master Mulcaster during life, and was a constant friend to him, and his son Peter Mulcaster, to whom he bequeathed by will a legacy of twenty pounds. And as if he had wished to have Mulcaster in perpetual remembrance, he placed his picture over the door of his study, whereas in all the rest of his house there was scarcely a picture to be seen. From Mulcaster he went to Cambridge; and was admitted at Pembroke Hall, a scholar of Dr. Watts, a celebrated Grammarian, well versed in the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, and likewise in geometry and the mathematics. Here he was chosen fellow; and took his degrees, and filled all the stations to which he was appointed, with so much credit, as ever to seem worthy of higher dignity, and to give fair promises, that in the and he would attain the highest: for his abilities and virtues were mature, and ripe for greater employments. In the improvements which he made, he owed little to his tutors, but most to his own labour and study. But this implies no disparagement to them; for he often lamented that he could never find a fit opportunity of shewing his respect and gratitude to Dr. Watts, his patron, nor to any of his posterity. He did not however, altogether forget him in his will; having ordered that the : |