which he sent to secretary Cecil; not in his own name as afore, but in the name of the clergy of the convocation, as their book: And, after it had lain in the secretary's hands above a year, he returned it to the Author with some learned man's notes, probably bishop Ponet's. At length, at the joint request of the two archbishops, it was first printed and published in 1570, under this title, IV. Christiane Pietatis prima Institutio; ad usum Scholarum Latinè scripta. Lond. 4to. reprinted very often since, and translated into English by Thomas Norton. Lond. 1571, 4to. and into Greek by William Whitaker. Lond. 1575. Mr Strype informs us, that this catechism seems to be nearly the same with one set forth a month or two before K. Edward the VIth's death, and licensed, and recommended by that king's letter prefixed to it. We may conclude, that this first catechism was also composed by Mr Nowell; for it is not to be imagined, that a man of his great reputation would have published it, as his own, after it had undergone some corrections and alterations, unless it had been originally of his own composition. Several years after, it was in so great esteem, that bishop Cooper, in his Admonition to the People of England, gives this high character of it. For a catechism, I refer them to that which was made by the learned and godly man, Mr Nowell, dean of Paul's, received and allowed by the church of England, and very fully grounded and established on the word of God. There may you see all the parts of true religion received, the difficulties expounded, the truth declared, the corruptions of the church of Rome rejected.' V. Dean Nowell published also a lesser catechism, which he entitled, Catechismus parvus, Pueris primùm, qui ediscatur, proponendus in Scholis; in Latin and Greek. Lond. 1574, 8vo. Translated into English, Lond. 1587, 8vo. and afterwards into Hebrew. VI. A Letter of his is published in the Appendix to archbishop Parker's life, by J. Strype. And he is said in the same life, to have composed a homily on account of the plague in 1564." FRANCIS FRANCIS JUNIUS. LEARNING to grace is a useful handmaid, and by no means to be contemned, particularly not by those, who because they do not know, affect to despise her: But learning, when indeed she assumes the room of grace, makes but a poor and proud mistress, and instead of leading the soul to GOD, and happiness, turns it into the world after low and sordid objects. The great utility of learning in proper subservience is fully exemplified by the life and conduct of Junius. Before he knew GOD in truth, his great knowledge only led him to consider himself: But, after the gracious change had passed upon him, he seemed to value all his attainments from the uses alone to which they might be applied in the cause of GOD and salvation. This extraordinary man was descended of a noble family in France, and was born at Bourges in the centre of that kingdom, on the first of May, in the year 1545. His mother had a most difficult labour; and her life, together with that of her most valuable son, was for some time quite despaired of. He was long afterwards so infirm and weakly, that his friends never expected his continuance to manhood; though, as it proved, he survived most of his family. His constitutional infirmity was increased by an excessive and over-weening care in nursing; and, at length, the morbid matter, either the cause of his incessant disorders, or the consequence of them, terminated in an ulcer of the leg, which, though healed, was always affected by any occurring ailments to the end of his days. Under a very kind and learned father, who gave him as much time as he could spare, he received the rudiments of his education. His parents did not choose to venture him at a public school, on account of his weakness and infirmity. Yet, with all this weight of disorder, in his most tender age he discovered great wit and parts, and a certain hilarity of disposition, which often created much amusement, as well as expectation to his friends. He discovered early a high sense of honour and love of fame, a great a git quickness of temper, and for his age a very solid judgment in matters which came before him, insomuch that his mother used jestingly to say of him, that he certainly would be another Socrates.' He had likewise such an invincible modesty, that, throughout his life, he appeared to common observers under a peculiar disadvantage, and could scarce speak upon the most common subjects with strangers without a suffusion in his countenance. In this respect he seems to have equalled our famous Mr Addison, who likewise was at once one of the greatest scholars, as well as the most abashed and modest man of his time. About the twelfth year of his age, Junius quitted the private education of a tender father for the public one of a school; as a preparation for the study of the civil law, for which he was designed. His friends, indeed, wished for him to prosecute his fortune at court; but his love of arning and the bashfulness of his temper soon diverted that design. He had the unhappiness of impetuous and tyrannical preceptors, who, if his love of letters had not been uncommonly ardent, were sufficient to have extinquished it as hath been too often the case in many others. The least fault or error, which Junius committed (and which the first geniuses in the world cannot but commit) in attaining Lowledge, was only to be atoned for by buripes; and with tach stupid and liberal severity was this cond topped, that one of the most hopeful boys by the age often fogged seven or eight times in a day, and often lage up the ground too in the harshest manper. Bach brats of teachers are fit only to preside over the galleys or to decipline miscreants in a prison, instead of trut nder mind to the love of science and d not abate the ardour of Junius's nor tempt him once to disclose his usage to his frict as. truth! Yet all. mind för kröp "ole, severe and pula.6 Alter some time was removed to Lyons for his farthen Laprovement in knowledge. Here he had great leisure, and to many books as he could desire, which he began to read with immense avidity; not selecting his minoto, but taking them indiscriminately as they fell in Lis way. The predent of the college, Bartholomew AnuJus, observing this wild pursuit, took an opportunity of Finting to him its inpropilety and waste of time, assuring him, that he would rather injure than inform his mind by that mode of reading; that, on the contrary, he ~Sould have some proposed end before his eyes in the course |