his army. of parliament; and a war was cente, to be brought in, for the begun, to destroy the only protes- ease of protestant dissenters;* and tant power in Europe, from which a day appointed to consider of the the friends of civil and religious subject matter of it in a committee freedom could expect support.— of the whole house. The bill Words cannot express the terror passed the house of commons, but and consternation which pervaded the lords making some amendthe kingdom; and with trembling ments, a conference took place; expectation the meeting of the and while the commons were dehouse of commons was looked to, bating upon the report, a message as the last hope of expiring liberty. came from the king, requiring their Charles opened the session, by immediate attendance in the house declaring in high terms his resolu- of peers; and he ordered them to tion to maintain his declaration of adjourn till the 20th of October indulgence; and that, instead of following. This was on the 29th diminishing, he intended to increase of March, 1673, when he was "But the house of come to give the royal assent to commons, with a true English spi- the Test Act; and this interruprit, remonstrated in an address, tion seems to have been the effect that the dispensing power he had of contrivance, for the debate was asserted in his declaration, belong-so suddenly broken in upon by the ed not to his crown; and when black rod knocking at the door, Charles gave an ambiguous an- that the commons had not time swer, they insisted in a second even to put the question of adjournaddress for one more explicit. In ment.‡ another, they pressed him to dismiss the popish officers of his army; and in a fourth, to disband his army itself, so soon as the peace was concluded. *** Charles declined a conflict with his parliament, relinquished his pretensions to a dispensing power, breaking with his own hands the seal affixed to the declaration of indulgence, in which it had been asserted, declared his own inclinations to give satisfaction to his people, and exposed his new ministers to their vengeance.' Several members having, in the committee for forming the first address against the declaration of indulgence, expressed a strong desire that the protestant dissenters might have a legal, instead of an unconstitutional toleration; -a bill was, on the 14th of February, 1672-3, ordered nemine contradi * 1 Dalr. Mem. p. 37, 38. After this bill was committed, the court party moved, that it might be given as an instruction to the committee, that "such as do dissent from the church of England, shall be incapable to serve as members of this house;" but it passed in the negative, 163 to 107.§ The debate turned principally upon the impropriety of inserting such a clause, in a bill meant for the ease of protestant dissenters; but a separate bill for that purpose was immediately ordered, which was afterwards presented, and dropped. This circumstance alone is a decisive proof that the majority of the house of commons had not formed a design to exclude the dissenters from all public trust, and affords a strong argument that, * Com. Journ. vol. ix. p. 252. Grey's Deb. vol. ii. p. 180. "" and not allowed or continued in any in passing the Test Act, they were jesuits to depart the realm within governed by other views; more thirty days; that the oaths of alleespecially when it is remembered, giance and supremacy might be that the Test Act does not extend tendered "to all officers and solto members of parliament. Both diers" then in his majesty's service objects were before them at the and pay; and that those who resame time, and we must either fused, might be disbanded, suppose that the dissenters were deemed proper persons to be mem-pay or pension;" and that no offibers of parliament, but unfit to be cer might be permitted to be musin any office; or that the house of tered, "until he shall have taken commons considered them as com- the oaths of allegiance and suprepetent for both, and unintentionally macy, and received the sacrament affected some of them by a bill of the Lord's Supper, according to levelled against papists only. In the laws and usage of the church fact, the public danger swallowed of England; and that every solup every other consideration; and dier serving at land shall take the the terror of popery induced the said oaths before his first muster, church to court the protestant dis- and receive the sacrament in such senters, and the house of commons manner before his second muster." to take them into favour. The lords' concurrence was desired committee of the whole house re-to this address. The lords endeaported the heads of the bill for the voured to confine the address to ease of protestant dissenters, on land officers, and to strike out the the 27th of February, 1672;* and word pensions; but the commons on the day after,† it was resolved, not consenting, it was agreed to, nemine contradicente, that an ad- and presented to the king on the dress should be presented to his 7th of March* in its original form, majesty for suppressing the growth as the address of both houses. In of popery; and it was also re- the mean time, the bill for incapasolved, that it should be drawn up eitating papists was not forgotten. from the subject matter of a for- The Test Act was read the first mer address of the 26th of Octo- time on the 5th of March;+ and The ber, 18 Car. II. It was further such was the expedition used, that resolved, that a bill be brought in it was read a second time the next "for the incapacitating of all per-day, and passed and sent up to sons who shall refuse to take the the lords on the 12th of that oaths of allegiance and supremacy, month.§. In order to secure this and the sacrament according to the bill, the supply was delayed: and rites of the church of England, of the event shewed that this precauholding any public employments, tion was not unnecessary; for the military or civil;" and it was re- bill for ease of the dissenters, ferred to the committee appointed which was brought in before the to draw up the address for sup-Test Act was thought of, being pressing of popery to prepare it. postponed till the king had got a On the 3d of March, 1672, the supply, was thereby lost. address was reported, praying, that his majesty would issue his proclamation for all priests and Com. Jouru. vol. ix. p. 265. + Ibid. p. 263. § Ibid. p. 267. Ibid. The royal assent was obtained to the Test Act on the 29th of March, 1673, by presenting it along with the bill for a supply. POETRY. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth | Where, Eden-like, Jehovah's walking hours up their wounds. Ps. cxlvii. 3. Oh, Thou, who dry'st the mourner's tear, How dark this world would be, The friends who in our sunshine live, But thou wilt heal that broken heart, When joy no longer soothes or cheers, Oh, who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not the wing of love Come brightly wafting through the gloom Our peace-branch from above? Are waited for, as in the cool of day: Then sorrow, touch'd by thee, grows bright, Remember me- Sabbath Days. Types of eternal rest-fair buds of bliss; In heavenly flower unfolding week by week; The next world's gladness imag'd forth in this; Days of whose worth the Christian's heart can speak. Eternity in time! the steps by which -your Lord's behest Obedience claims with zeal : A dying friend's farewell request What heart can cease to feel? Remember me-I go to prove Remember me-retrace my life, We climb to future ages:-lamps that Remember me-Oh, keep in mind light My last expiring groan! Man through his darker days, and thought Thoughts on my death are well design'd Wakeners of prayer in man-his resting Do not we love thee?-Lord, we do, bowers As on he journeys in the narrow way; And long to love thee more. M G. T. 162 REVIEW. Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Cha- | spiritual.” His enlightened historian, racter, Literary, Professional, and Re-in tracing the series of events which ligious, of the late John Mason Good, included much the larger proportion of M.D. F.R.S. F.R.S.L. Mem. Am. his continuance in this world, is enabled Phil. Soc. and F.L.S. of Philadelphia, &c. &c. &c. By OLINTHUS GREGORY, to supply the most satisfactory and LL.D. Professor of Mathematics in the abundant evidence of varied acquireRoyal Military Academy, &c. &c. pp. ment, learned research, and eminently 472. Fisher. 16s. important exertions pervading the whole; but in pursuing the natural order of WHEN We were informed that Dr. Gre-occurrences, it is not till late that our gory was occupied in preparing this work for the press, we must confess that our anticipations became considerably raised, and that not without some impatience we waited for its appearance. The acknowledged eminence of the subject of these memoirs, and the well'known ability of the biographer, seemed fully to justify the confidence of expectation which we felt equally disposed and authorized to encourage. And it is now with great pleasure that we announce the result as entirely corre- | nymously.” sponding with the estimate we had previously formed. spiritual sensibilities are regaled by the welcome introduction of the flowers of paradise; then, however, as though to compensate for their tardy appearance, they assume their loveliest tints, and diffuse their sweetest fragrance. Dr. Gregory has divided this able performance into three sections; of which the first is, "Memoirs of the life of Dr. John Mason Good, illustrated by various extracts from his unpublished writings, or from those that were published ano His family, it is stated, was highly respectable, and had for several generations possessed property The gradual development of charac- at Romsey, in Hampshire, and in the ter, even in ordinary instances, is a neighbouring parish of Lockerly. His subject of interesting contemplation ; | father, the Rev. Peter Good, in the year but when we are conducted through | 1760, was ordained pastor over an Inthe diversified operations of superior dependent church and congregation at intellectual capacity, adorned with | Epping, in Essex ; who, about one year genius and elegance, enlarged and after, married Miss Sarah Peyto, the strengthened by unwearied application, daughter of the Rev. Henry Peyto, of especially too should unfeigned piety, Great Coggeshall, Essex, and the fathat gem of purest lustre and inesti- vourite niece of the Rev. John Mason, mable value, impart its supreme radi- the author of the universally known ance and complete the effect, a strong Treatise on Self Knowledge. Of this mental and moral excitement is pro- union, the subject of these Memoirs duced, whose influence is alike favour- was born May 25, 1764, and was eduable to the improvement of the under-cated under the paternal roof, in constanding and the renovation of the nexion with several other pupils whom his father had received into his family, heart. A thoughtful reader of the life and with a view principally to the instrucliterary achievements of Dr. Good, will | have frequent occasion to recollect the edifying statement of an inspired in structor: Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterwards that which is tion of his own children. When about fifteen years of age he was apprenticed to Mr. Johnson, a surgeon-apothecary, at Gosport. An extract here from some lines he penned a few years after he left the endearments of home, will, we On the death of Mr. Johnson, Mr. Good was received into the family of a "Ah! scenes beloved! to purer days de-surgeon of great skill and extensive creed, Erase the soft delights, 'twas yours to prize, Or make my soul those soft delights despise. No-while that heart with circling life shall beat, While swells that soul, or memory keeps her seat: Tho' heaven should doom me to some desert shore, Where human exile never trod before; Still fancy's pen should sketch your prospects true, Give all your charms, and every joy renew; Still paint your plains and academic shade, Where Hoyle at times, at times where Horace swayed." p. 10. At Gosport, his application both to the duties of his profession and the acquisition of general literature, appears to have been exemplary, and his success respectable; especially considering many local disadvantages. Here, too, owing to the indisposition of his master, Mr. (now Dr.) Babington, he was engaged to conduct his business; whose gratifying testimony to the amiable qualities of Mr. Good, when he was not quite seventeen years of age, is, "that he was of excellent character, both for moral and intellectual qualities; that he was a lively, quick youth, of very ready apprehension, and with a mind even then fully imbued with more than the elements of classical literature; that his professional ardour was considerable, and his capacity and taste for scientific acquirements rapidly developing themselves." practice, residing at Havant; to which place his father had removed, and where, of course, he again enjoyed the benefit of his affectionate superintendence and judicious counsel. But here his continuance was short. A partnership with a Mr. Deeks, of Sudbury, in Suffolk, was contracted; and in the autumn of the year 1783, we find Mr. Good in Lonturers in medical science of their day, don, listening to the most eminent lecand diligently studying his profession. In prospect of these removes, he wrote as follows: "The Farewell. Ye sweet, dewy dales, where but late O yet let me once more retrace Your green mazes, so oft trod before; O yet let me share your embrace: Shall I never, alas! share it more? For peaceful no longer, and still, Is the path that is destin'd to me, Just launch'd without practice or skill On the bosom of life's changeful sea! All frail is the bark, and though now Only smiles dimple over the deep, Each wave may wear a rough brow And the hurricane wake from his sleep. O'er quicksands in doubtful career, Shoals and whirlpools the stoutest that shake, 'Mid rocks, wrecks, and pirates I steer, And more than my life-blood's at stake. Yet save me ye powers that dispense Your motions unseen through the heart; From such ills, O save me, or hence Let me never, no never depart. And when to these shades I return, After his settlement at Sudbury, and when but just twenty-one years of age, The writer who first digested the laws he married a Miss Godfrey, the daughter of the game of cricket. of a respectable medical practitioner at |