losopher, whose industry was not to be wearied, and whose love of truth was too strong to suffer him to acquiesce in the reports of others. This was observed by a stranger who was in the boat with them; he inquired of his neighbour the name of the young man, whose question had put an end to the discourse, and having learned it, set it down in his pocket-book, as it appears, with a malicious design, for in a few days it was the common conversation at Leyden, that Boerhaave had revolted to Spinosa. Yet did he not suffer one branch of science to withdraw his attention from others: anatomy did not withhold him from chemistry, nor chemistry, enchanting as it is, from the study of botany, in which he was no less skilled than in other parts of physic. He was not only a careful examiner It was in vain that his advocates and friends of all the plants in the garden of the university, pleaded his learned and unanswerable confutabut made excursions for his farther improvement tion of all atheistical opinions, and particularly into the woods and fields, and left no place un-of the system of Spinosa, in his discourse of the visited where any increase of botanical knowledge distinction between soul and body. Such calumcould be reasonably hoped for. nies are not easily suppressed, when they are once become general. They are kept alive and supported by the malice of bad, and sometimes by the zeal of good men, who, though they do not absolutely believe them, think it yet the securest method to keep not only guilty, but suspected men out of public employments, upon this principle, that the safety of many is to be preferred before the advantage of few. In conjunction with all these inquiries he still pursued his theological studies, and still, as we are informed by himself, "proposed, when he had made himself master of the whole art of physic, and obtained the honour of a degree in that science, to petition regularly for a license to preach, and to engage in the cure of souls," and intended in his theological exercise to discuss this question, "why so many were formerly converted to Christianity by illiterate persons, and so few at present by men of learning." Boerhaave, finding this formidable opposition raised against his pretensions to ecclesiastical honours or preferments, and even against his deIn pursuance of this plan he went to Harde- sign of assuming the character of a divine, thought wich, in order to take the degree of doctor in it neither necessary nor prudent to struggle with physic, which he obtained in July, 1693, having the torrent of popular prejudice, as he was equally performed a public disputation, "de utilitate ex-qualified for a profession, not indeed of equal digplorandorum excrementorum in ægris, ut sig-nity or importance, but which must undoubtedly claim the second place among those which are of the greatest benefit to mankind. norum." He therefore applied himself to his medical studies with new ardour and alacrity, reviewed all his former observations and inquiries, and was continually employed in making new acquisitions. Then returning to Leyden full of his pious designs of undertaking the ministry, he found to his surprise unexpected obstacles thrown in his way, and an insinuation dispersed through the university that made him suspected, not of any slight deviation from received opinions, not of any Having now qualified himself for the practice pertinacious adherence to his own notions in of physic, he began to visit patients, but without doubtful and disputable matters, but of no less than that encouragement which others, not equally deSpinosism, or, in plainer terms, of Atheism itself. serving, have sometimes met with. His business How so injurious a report came to be raised, was, at first, not great, and his circumstances by circulated, and credited, will be doubtless very no means easy; but still, superior to any diseagerly inquired; we shall therefore give the rela-couragement, he continued his search after knowtion, not only to satisfy the curiosity of mankind, but to show that no merit, however exalted, is exempt from being not only attacked, but wounded, by the most contemptible whispers. Those who cannot strike with force, can however poison their weapon, and, weak as they are, give mortal wounds, and bring a hero to the grave: so true is that observation, that many are able to do hurt, but few to do good. ledge, and determined that prosperity, if ever he was to enjoy it, should be the consequence not of mean art, or disingenuous solicitations, but of real merit, and solid learning. His steady adherence to his resolutions appears yet more plainly from this circumstance: he was while he yet remained in this unpleasing situation, invited by one of the first favourites of King William III. to settle at the Hague, upon This detestable calumny owed its rise to an very advantageous conditions; but declined the incident from which no consequence of impor- offer. For having no ambition but after knowtance could be possibly apprehended. As Boer-ledge, he was desirous of living at liberty, without haave was sitting in a common boat, there arose a conversation among the passengers upon the impious and pernicious doctrine of Spinosa, which, as they all agreed, tends to the utter overthrow of all religion. Boerhaave sat, and attended silently to this discourse for some time, till one of the company, willing to distinguish himself by his zeal, instead of confuting the positions of Spinosa by argument, began to give a loose to contumehous language, and virulent invectives, which Boerhaave was so little pleased with, that at last he could not forbear asking him whether he had ever read the author he declaimed against. any restraint upon his looks, his thoughts, or his tongue, and at the utmost distance from all contentions, and state parties. His time was wholly taken up in visiting the sick, studying, making chemical experiments, searching into every part of medicine with the utmost diligence, teaching the mathematics, and reading the scriptures, and those authors who profess to teach a certain method of loving God.* "Circa hoc tempus, lautis conditionibus, lautioribus promissis, invitatus, plus vice simplici, a viro primarie dignationis, qui gratia flagrantissima florebat regis Gulielmi III. ut Hagam comitum sedem caperet fortunarum, declinavit constans. Contentus videlicet vita libera, remota a turbis, studiisque porro percolendis unice impensa, obi non cogeretur alia dicere et simulare, The orator, not being able to make much answer, was checked in the midst of his invectives, but not without feeling a secret resentment against the person who had at once interrupted his ha-Sic tum vita erat, ægros visere, mox domi in museo se rangue, and exposed his ignorance. alia sentire et dissimulare: affectuum studiis rapi, regi. condere, officinam Vulcaniam exercere; omnes medi This was his method of living to the year 1701, | highest dignities of the university, and in the when he was recommended by Van Berg to the same year made physician of St. Augustine's university as a proper person to succeed Drelin- hospital, in Leyden, into which the students are curtius in the professorship of physic, and elected admitted twice a week, to learn the practice of without any solicitations on his part, and almost physic. without his consent, on the 18th of May. On this occasion, having observed, with grief, that Hippocrates, whom he regarded not only as the father but as the prince of physicians, was not sufficiently read or esteemed by young stu dents, he pronounced an oration, "De commendando Studio Hippocratico;" by which he restored that great author to his just and ancient reputation. He now began to read public lectures with great applause, and was prevailed upon by his audience to enlarge his original design, and instruct them in chemistry. This he undertook, not only to the great advantage of his pupils but to the great improvement of the art itself, which had hitherto been treated only in a confused and irregular manner, and was little more than a history of particular experiments, not reduced to certain principles, nor connected one with another: this vast chaos he reduced to order, and made that clear and easy, which was before to the last degree difficult and obscure. This was of equal advantage to the sick and to the students, for the success of his practice was the best demonstration of the soundness of his principles. When he laid down his office of governor of the university, in 1715, he made an oration upon the subject of "attaining to certainty in natural philosophy;" in which he declares, in the strongest terms, in favour of experimental knowledge, and reflects, with just severity, upon those arrogant philosophers, who are too easily disgusted with the slow methods of obtaining true notions by frequent experiments, and who, possessed with too high an opinion of their own abilities, rather choose to consult their own imagina tions than inquire into nature, and are better pleased with the charming amusement of forming hypotheses, than the toilsome drudgery of making observations. The emptiness and uncertainty of all those systems, whether venerable for their antiquity, or agreeable for their novelty, he has evidently shown; and not only declared, but proved, that His reputation now began to bear some pro-we are entirely ignorant of the principles of portion to his merit, and extended itself to distant universities; so that, in 1703, the professorship of physic being vacant at Groningen, he was invited thither; but he refused to leave Leyden, and chose to continue his present course of life. This invitation and refusal being related to the governors of the university of Leyden, they had so grateful a sense of his regard for them, that they immediately voted an honorary increase of his salary, and promised him the first professorthat should be vacan ship this occasion he pronounced an oration upon the use of mechanics in the science of physic, in which he endeavoured to recommend a rational and mathematical inquiry into the causes of diseases, and the structure of bodies; and to show the follies and weaknesses of the jargon introduced by Paracelsus, Helmont, and other chemical enthusiasts, who have obtruded upon the world the most airy dreams, and instead of enlightening their readers with explications of nature, have darkened the plainest appearances, and bewildered mankind in error and obscurity. Boerhaave had now for nine years read physical lectures, but without the title or dignity of a professor, when by the death of professor Hotten, the professorship of physic and botany fell to him of course. On this occasion he asserted the simplicity and facility of the science of physic, in opposition to those that think obscurity contributes to the dignity of learning, and that to be admired it is necessary not to be understood. His profession of botany made it part of his duty to superintend the physical garden, which improved so much by the immense number of new plants which he procured, that it was enlarged to twice its original extent. In 1714, he was deservedly advanced to the cina partes acerrime persequi; mathematica etiam aliis tradere; sacra legere, et auctores qui profitentur docere Iationem certam amandi Deum.-Orig. Edit. things, and that all the knowledge we have is of such qualities alone as are discoverable by expe rience, or such as may be deduced from them by mathematical demonstration. This discourse, filled as it was with piety, and a true sense of the greatness of the Supreme Being, and the incomprehensibility of his works, gave such offence to a professor of Franeker, who professed the utmost esteem for Des Cartes and considered his principles as the bulwark of orthodoxy, that he appeared in vindication of his with the utmost vehemence, declaring little less author, and spoke of him than that the Cartesian system and the Christian must inevitably stand and fall together, and that to say that we were ignorant of the principles of things, was not only to enlist among the Skep tics, but sink into Atheism itself. So far can prejudice darken the understanding, as to make it consider precarious systems as the chief support of sacred and invariable truth. This treatment of Boerhaave was so far re sented by the governors of his university, that they procured from Franeker a recantation of the invective that had been thrown out against him : this was not only complied with, but offers were made him of more ample satisfaction; to which he returned an answer not less to his honour than the victory he gained, "that he should think himself sufficiently compensated, if his adversary received no farther molestation on his account." So far was this weak and injudicious attack from shaking a reputation not casually raised by fashion or caprice, but founded upon solid merit, that the same year his correspondence was de sired upon Botany and Natural Philosophy by the Academy of Sciences at Paris, of which he was, upon the death of Count Marsigli, in the year 1728, elected a member. Nor were the French the only nation by which this great man was courted and distinguished; for, two years after, he was elected fellow of our Royal Society. It cannot be doubted but, thus caressed and was more lasting than theirs; it was that patien tia Christiana which Lipsius, the great master of the Stoical Philosophy, begged of God in his last hours; it was founded on religion, not vanity, not on vain reasonings, but on confidence in God. honoured with the highest and most public marks | patience of Boerhaave, as it was more rational, of esteem by other nations, he became more cele brated in the university; for Boerhaave was not one of those learned men, of whom the world has seen too many that disgrace their studies by their vices, and by their unaccountable weaknesses make themselves ridiculous at home, while their writings procure them the veneration of distant countries, where their learning is known, but not their follies. Not that his countrymen can be charged with being insensible of his excellences till other nations taught them to admire him; for in 1718, he was chosen to succeed Le Mort in the professorship of chemistry; on which occasion he pronounced an oration "De chemia errores suos expurgante," in which he treated that science with an elegance of style not often to be found in chemical writers, who seem generally to have affected not only a barbarous, but unintelligible phrase, and to have, like the Pythagoreans of old, wrapt up their secrets in symbols and enigmatical expressions, either because they believed that mankind would reverence most what they least understood, or because they wrote not from benevolence but vanity, and were desirous to be praised for their knowledge, though they could not prevail upon themselves to communicate it. In 1722, his course both of lectures and practice was interrupted by the gout, which, as he relates it in his speech after his recovery, he brought upon himself, by an imprudent confidence in the strength of his own constitution, and by transgressing those rules which he had a thousand times inculcated to his pupils and acquaintance. Rising in the morning before day, he went immediately, hot and sweating, from his bed into the open air, and exposed himself to the cold dews. The history of his illness can hardly be read without horror; he was for five months confined to his bed, where he lay upon his back without daring to attempt the least motion, because any effort renewed his torments, which were so exquisite, that he was at length not only deprived of motion but of sense. Here art was at a stand, nothing could be attempted, because nothing could be proposed with the least prospect of success. At length having in the sixth month of his illness, obtained some remission, be took simple medicines in large quantities, and at length wonderfully recovered." His recovery, so much desired, and so unexpected, was celebrated on Jan. 11, 1723, when he opened his school again, with general joy and public illuminations. It would be an injury to the memory of Boerhaave not to mention what was related by himself to one of his friends, that when he lay whole days and nights without sleep, he found no method of diverting his thoughts so effectual as meditation upon his studies, and that he often relieved and mitigated the sense of his torments by the recollection of what he had read, and by reviewing those stores of knowledge which he had reposited in his memory. This is perhaps an instance of fortitude and steady composure of mind, which would have been for ever the boast of the Stoic schools, and increased the reputation of Seneca or Cato. The "Succos pressos bibit Noster herbarum Cichorem, Endiviæ, Fumarie, Nasturtii aquatici, Veronica aquatica latifolia, copia ingenti; simul deglutiens abundanAssime gummi feculacea Asiatica.”—Orig. Edit. In 1727, he was seized with a violent burning fever, which continued so long that he was once more given up by his friends. From this time he was frequently afflicted with returns of his distemper, which yet did not so far subdue him, as to make him lay aside his studies or his lectures, till, in 1729, he found himself so worn out that it was improper for him to continue any longer the professorships of botany and chemistry, which he therefore resigned, April 28, and upon his resignation spoke a "Sermo Academicus," or oration, in which he asserts the power and wisdom of the Creator from the wonderful fabric of the human body; and confutes all those idle reasoners, who pretend to explain the formation of parts, or the animal operations, to which he proves that art can produce nothing equal, nor any thing parallel. One instance I shall mention, which is produced by him, of the vanity of any attempt to rival the work of God. Nothing is more boasted by the admirers of chemistry, than that they can, by artificial heats and digestion, imitate the productions of Nature. "Let all these heroes of science meet together," says Boerhaave; let them take bread and wine, the food that forms the blood of man, and by assimilation contributes to the growth of the body: let them try all their arts, they shall not be able from these materials to produce a single drop of blood.-So much is the most common act of Nature beyond the utmost efforts of the most extended Science ! From this time Boerhaave lived with less public employment indeed, but not an idle or a useless life; for, besides his hours spent in instructing his scholars, a great part of his time was taken up by patients which came, when the distemper would admit it, from all parts of Europe to consult him, or by letters which, in more urgent cases, were continually sent, to inquire his opinion, or ask his advice. Of his sagacity, and the wonderful penetration with which he often discovered and described, at the first sight of a patient, such distempers as betray themselves by no symptoms to common eyes, such wonderful relations have been spread over the world, as, though attested beyond doubt, can scarcely be credited. I mention none of them, because I have no opportunity of collecting testimonies, or distinguishing between those accounts which are well proved, and those which owe their rise to fiction and credulity. Yet I cannot but implore, with the greatest earnestness, such as have been conversant with this great man, that they will not so far neglect the common interest of mankind, as to suffer any of these circumstances to be lost to posterity. Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. The skill to which Boerhaave attained, by a long and unwearied observation of nature, ought therefore to be transmitted in all its particulars to future ages, that his successors may be ashamed to fall below him, and that none may hereafter excuse his ignorance by pleading the impossibility of clearer knowledge. Yet so far was this great master from presumptuous confidence in his abilities, that, in his examinations of the sick, he was remarkably circumstantial and particular. He well knew that the originals of distempers are often at a distance from their visible effects; that to conjecture, where certainty may be obtained, is either vanity or negligence; and that life is not to be sacrificed, either to an affectation of quick discernment, or of crowded practice, but may be required, if trifled away, at the hand of the physician. the best men, even Job himself, were not able refrain from such starts of impatience. This he did not deny; but said, "He that loves God, ought to think nothing desirable but what is most pleasing to the Supreme Goodness." Such were his sentiments, and such his conduct, in this state of weakness and pain: as death ap proached nearer, he was so far from terror or confusion, that he seemed even less sensible of pain, and more cheerful under his torments, which continued till the 23d day of September, 1738, on which he died, between four and five in the morning, in the 70th year of his age. Thus died Boerhaave, a man formed by nature for great designs, and guided by religion in the exertion of his abilities. He was of a robust and athletic constitution of body, so hardened by early severities, and wholesome fatigue, that he was insensible of any sharpness of air, or inclemency of weather. He was tall, and remarkable for extraordinary strength. There was in his air and motion something rough and artless, but so majestic and great at the same time, that no man ever looked upon him without veneration, and a kind of tacit submission to the superiority of his genius. The vigour and activity of his mind sparkled visibly in his eyes; nor was it ever observed that any change of his fortune, or alteration in his affairs, whether happy or unfortunate, affected his countenance. About the middle of the year 1737, he felt the first approaches of that fatal illness that brought him to the grave, of which we have inserted an account, written by himself Sept. 8, 1738, to a friend at London; which deserves not only to be preserved as an historical relation of the disease which deprived us of so great a man, but as a proof of his piety and resignation to the divine will. In this last illness, which was to the last degree lingering, painful, and afflictive, his constancy and firmness did not forsake him. He neither intermitted the necessary cares of life, nor forgot the proper preparations for death. Though dejection and lowness of spirit was, as he himself tells us, part of his distemper, yet even this, in some measure, gave way to that vigour which the soul receives from a consciousness of innocence. About three weeks before his death he received a visit at his country-house from the Rev. Mr. Schultens, his intimate friend, who found him sitting without-door, with his wife, sister, and He was always cheerful, and desirous of pro daughter: after the compliments of form, the moting mirth by a facetious and humorous conladies withdrew, and left them to private conver-versation; he was never soured by calumny and sation; when Boerhaave took occasion to tell him what had been, during his illness, the chief subject of his thoughts. He had never doubted of the spiritual and immaterial nature of the soul; but declared that he had lately had a kind of experimental certainty of the distinction between corporeal and thinking substances, which mere reason and philosophy cannot afford, and opportunities of contemplating the wonderful and inexplicable union of soul and body, which nothing but long sickness can give. This he illustrated by a description of the effects which the infirmities of his body had upon his faculties, which yet they did not so oppress or vanquish, but his soul was always master of itself, and always resigned to the pleasure of its Maker. He related, with great concern, that once his patience so far gave way to extremity of pain, that, after having lain fifteen hours in exquisite tortures, he prayed to God that he might be set free by death. Mr. Schultens, by way of consolation, answered, that he thought such wishes, when forced by continued and successive torments, unavoidable in the present state of human nature; that detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them; "for they are sparks," said he, “which, if you do not blow them, will go out of them selves." Yet he took care never to provoke enemies by severity of censure, for he never dwelt on the faults or defects of others, and was so far from inflaming the envy of his rivals by dwelling on his own excellences, that he rarely mentioned himself or his writings. He was not to be overawed or depressed by the presence, frowns, or insolence of great men, but persisted on all occasions in the right with a resolution always present and always calm. He was modest, but not timorous, and firm without rudeness. He could, with uncommon readiness and certainty, make a conjecture of men's inclinations and capacity by their aspect. His method of life was to study in the n.orning and evening, and to allot the middle of the day to his public business. His usual exercise was riding, till, in his latter years, his distempers made it more proper for him to walk: when he was weary he amused himself with playing on the violin. His greatest pleasure was to retire to his house in the country, where he had a garden stored with all the herbs and trees which the climate would * "Etas, labor, corporisque opima pinguetudo, effe. cerant, ante annum, ut inertibus refertum, grave, hebes, plenitudine turgens corpus, anhelum ad motus minimos, cum sensu suffocationis, pulsu mirifice anomalo, ineptum evaderet ad ullum motum. Urgebat præcipue sub-bear; here he used to enjoy his hours unmolested, sistens prorsus et intercepta respiratio ad prima somni and prosecute his studies without interruption. initia unde somnus prorsus prohibebatur, cum formidabili strangulationis molestia. Hinc hydrops pedum, studies, is sufficiently evident from his success. The diligence with which he pursued his crurum, femorum, scroti, præputii, et abdominis. Qua Statesmen and generals may grow great by untamen omnia sublata. Sed dolor manet in abdomine, cum anxietate summa, anhelitu suffocante, et debilitate expected accidents, and a fortunate concurrence Incredibili: somno pauco, eoque vago, per somnia tur- of circumstances, neither procured nor foreseen batissimo: animus vero rebus agendis impar. Cum his Juctor fessus nec emergo; patienter expectans Dei jussa, by themselves; but reputation in the learned quibus resigno data, quæ sola amo, et honoro unice.- wor d must be the effect of industry and capacity. Boerhaave lost none of his hours, but Orig, Edu when he had attained one science, attempted an- | other; he added physic to divinity, chemistry to the mathematics, and anatomy to botany. He examined systems by experiments, and formed experiments into systems. He neither neglected the observations of others, nor blindly submitted to celebrated names. He neither thought so highly of himself as to imagine he could receive no light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he could discover nothing but what was to be learned from them. He examined the observations of other men, but trusted only to his own. Nor was he unacquainted with the art of recommending truth by elegance, and embellishing the philosopher with polite literature: he knew that but a small part of mankind will sacrifice their pleasure to their improvement, and those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct. He knew the importance of his own writings to mankind, and lest he might, by a roughness and barbarity of style, too frequent among men of great learning, disappoint his own intentions, and make his labours less useful, he did not neglect the politer arts of eloquence and poetry. Thus was his learning at once various and exact, profound and agreeable. But his knowledge, however uncommon, holds in his character but the second place; his virtue was yet much more uncommon than his learning. He was an admirable example of temperance, fortitude, humility, and devotion. His piety, and a religious sense of his dependence on God, was the basis of all his virtues, and the principle of his whole conduct. He was too sensible of his weakness to ascribe any thing to himself, or to conceive that he could subdue passion, or withstand temptation, by his own natural power; he attributed every good thought, and every laudable action, to the Father of goodness. Being once asked by a friend, who had often admired his patience under great provocations, whether he knew what it was to be angry, and by what means he had so entirely suppressed that impetuous and ungovernable passion? he answered with the utmost frankness and sincerity, that he was naturally quick of resentment, but that he had, by daily prayer and meditation, at length attained to this mastery over himself. God as he is in himself, without attempting to inquire into his nature. He desired only to think of God, what God knows of himself. There he stopped, lest, by indulging his own ideas, he should form a Deity from his own imagination, and sin by falling down before him. To the will of God he paid an absolute submission, without endeavouring to discover the reason of his determinations; and this he accounted the first and most inviolable duty of a Christian. When he heard of a criminal condemned to die, he used to think, who can tell whether this man is not better than I? or, if I am better, it is not to be ascribed to myself, but to the goodness of God. Such were the sentiments of Boerhaave, whose words we have added in the note.* So far was this man from being made impious by philosophy, or vain by knowledge or by virtue, that he ascribed all his abilitics to the bounty, and all his goodness to the grace of God. May his example extend its influence to his admirers and followers! May those who study his writings imitate his life! and those who endeavour after his knowledge as pire likewise to his piety! He married, September 17, 1710, Mary Drolenveaux, the only daughter of a burgomaster of Leyden, by whom he had Joanna Maria, who survives her father, and three other children who died in their infancy. The works of this great writer are so generally known and so highly esteemed, that though it may not be improper to enumerate them in the order of time in which they were published, it is wholly unnecessary to give any other account of them. He published in 1707, “Institutiones Medica," to which he added in 1709, "Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis." 1710, "Index stirpium in horto academico." 1719, "De materia medica, et remediorum formulis liber;" and in 1727, a second edition. 1720,"Alter index stirpium," &c. adorned with plates, and containing twice the number of plants as the former. 1722, "Epistola ad el. Ruischium, qua senten tiam Malpighianam de glandulis defendit." 1724, Atrocis nec prius descripti morbi histo ria illustrissimi baronis Wassenaria." 1725, "Opera anatomica et chirurgica Andreæ Vesalii," with the life of Vesalius. 1728, "Altera atrocis rarissimique morbi mar "Auctores de lue Aphrodisiaca, cum tractatu præfixo." 1731, "Areti Cappadocis, nova editio" As soon as he rose in the morning, it was, throughout his whole life, his daily practice to re-chionis de Sancto Albano historia." tire for an hour to private prayer and meditation; this, he often told his friends, gave him spirit and vigour in the business of the day, and this he therefore commended as the best rule of life; for nothing, he knew, could support the soul in all distresses but a confidence in the Supreme Being, nor can a steady and rational magnanimity flow from any other source than a consciousness of the divine favour. * "Doctrinam sacris literis Hebraice et Graece tradi tam, solam animæ salutarem et agnovit et sensit. Omni Christus ore et vita expressit, unice tranquillitatem dare opportunitate profitebatur disciplinam, quam Jesus menti. Semperque dixit amicis, pacem animi haud reHe asserted on all occasions the divine autho-periundam nisi in magno Mosis præcepto de sincero rity and sacred efficacy of the holy Scriptures; and amore Dei et hominis bene observato. Neque extra sacra maintained that they alone taught the way of sal- Deum pins adoravit, qui est. Intelligere de Deo, unice monumenta uspiam inveniri, quod mentem serenet. vation, and that they only could give peace of volebat id, quod Deus de se intelligit. Eo contentus ultra mind. The excellency of the Christian religion nihil requisivit, ne idololatria erraret. In voluntate Dei was the frequent subject of his conversation. A sic requiescebat, ut illius nullam omnino rationem indastrict obedience to the doctrine, and a diligent imi- ganda putaret. Hanc unice supremam omnium legem ease contendebat; deliberata constantia perfectissime tation of the example of our blessed Saviour, he colendam. De aliis et seipso sentiebat: ut quoties crimi often declared to be the foundation of true tran- nis reos ad poenas letales damnatos audiret, semper cogiquillity. He recommended to his friends a care- taret, sæpe diceret; 'quis dixerat an non me sint meliores? ful observation of the precept of Moses concern- Utique, si ipse melior, id non mihi auctori tribuendum esse palam aio, confiteor; sed ita largienti Deo.'"-Orig. ing the love of God and man. He worshipped Edit. |