Defence of Mr. Bradshaw against J. Canne, 4to. XXVIII. GOD's Eye on his Israel, 4to. XXIX. A Mistake removed, and Free Grace, &c. in Answer to J. Saltmarsh, 4to. 1646. XXX. Shadows without Substance, a Rejoinder adversus eundem, 4to. 1646. XXXI. Mysterious Clouds and Mists, &c. an Answer to J. Simpson, 4to. 1648. XXXII. Mr. Anthony Wotton's Defence, 8vo. 1641. XXXIII. A true Relation of Passages between Mr. Wotton and Mr. Walker, 4to. 1642. XXXIV. An Answer to Mr. G. Walker's Vindication, 4to. 1642. XXXV. A Vindication of the Annotations on Jer. x. 2. 4to. 1653. XXXVI. A Discourse Apologetical, 4to. 1654. XXXVII. Marcus Antoninus Imp. cum Commentario, 4to. 1652. XXXVIII. De Novi Instrumenti Stylo Dissertatio adversus Pfochenii diatribam, 4to. 1648. XXXIX. Cinnus, sive Adversaria Miscellanea, Lib. vi. 4to. 1651. XL. De Baptismatis Infantilis vi et efficacia disceptatio inter D. S. Wardum et Th. Gatakerum, 8vo. 1652. XLI. T. G. Stricture in Davenantii Epistolam, 8vo. 1654. XLII. De Tetragrammato, 8vo. XLIII. Ejusdem Vindicatio adversus Capellum, 8vo. XLIV. De Bivocalibus dissertatio Philologica, Svo. XLV. Animadversiones in J. Piscatoris et L. Lucij scripta adversaria de causa meritoria Justificationis, cum responsione ad L. Lucij vindicias, 12mo. 1641. XLVI. Francisci Gomari disputationis Elenetica, de Justificationis materia et formá, Elenchus, 8vo. 1640. XLVII. Stricture in Barth. Wegelini Sangallensis de Obedientia Christi disputationem Theologicam, 8vo. 1653. XLVIII. The Prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, with the Lamentations, which were the portion assigned him in the great work of notes upon the Bible."

We will subjoin an epigrammatic composition, suppos ed to be Mr. Gataker's, found among among his papers:

"I THIRST for thirstiness, I weep for tears;
"Well pleas'd am I to be displeased thus:
"The only thing I fear is want of fears;
"Suspecting I am not suspicious.

"I cannot choose but live, because I die;
"And, when I am not dead, how glad am I!

"Yet, when I am thus glad for sense of pain, "And careful am, lest I should careless be, "Then do I grieve for being glad again, "And fear lest carelessness take care from me. "Amidst these restless thoughts this rest I find, "For those that rest not here, there's rest behind.”

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ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH.

VERY few men have been more the subject of universal admiration, and perhaps as few have deserved it more, than the excellent Man of whom we are now writing. His immense erudition, acknowledged by all the world, and his large measure of divine grace which employed that erudition to the most wise and beneficial purposes, rendered him, as a public man, the brightest example of his time. His character, as a private Christian, though not so conspicuous, was no less extraordinary, and made him at once the edification and delight of all who enjoyed his acquaintance.

His father, Arnold Usher, was one of the six clerks of the chancery in Ireland, and a man of parts and learning. His uncle, Henry Usher, was highly celebrated for wisdom and knowledge, and was raised to the archepiscopal see of Armagh. His mother's father, James Stanihurst, was three times Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland, recorder of Dublin, and a master in chancery. He was much esteemed for his wisdom, abilities, and integrity, and had the honour to make the first motion for founding the University of Dublin, in which he was seconded by all the credit and influence of Dr. Henry Usher above mentioned. Queen Elizabeth acceded to the proposal, and our Author, James Usher, was the first student in that foundation. His mother's brother, Richard Stanihurst, was a philosopher, historian, and poet, and became a considerable correspondent with his nephew upon various subjects of learning. His own brother, Ambrose Usher, who died in the prime of life, was a very extraordinary man, and had made great proficiency in the oriental tongues. Dr. Parr says, that He left behind him, under his own hand, an elaborate translation of the Old Testament out of Hebrew into English, from the beginning to the book of Job, which might have been finished, had not the appearance of the new translation in King James's time withdrawn his hand.'

The subject of our present article, JAMES USHER, who was born at Dublin, January the fourth, 1580, discovered great parts, and an uncommon attachment to books

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from his very childhood. It is a most remarkable circumstance, that his two aunts, who were born blind, taught him to read. They were persons of great piety, and Of such incomparable readiness in the divine oracles, that they were either of them able on a sudden to repeat any part of the Bible.' They seem to have possessed the answer to Milton's celebrated prayer:

So much the rather THOU, celestial LIGHT,

Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers
Irradiate; their plant eyes; all mist from thence
Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell

Of things invisible to mortal sight.'

PAR. LOST, BOOK III.

Usher seems to have been under the tuition of these excellent women till he was eight years old, when he was sent to a school opened by Mr. James Fullerton and Mr. James Hamilton, two learned young gentlemen of Scotland, who were placed at Dublin by King James the First, then only King of Scotland, in order to maintain a correspondence with the protestant nobility and gentry there, for the security of his interest in that kingdom, when Queen Elizabeth should die. That great Queen, like most other great politicians, being very suspicious, and not at all attached to King James, it was thought expedient for them to assume some disguise: And, for this reason, they took up the profession of schoolmasters, who were then very much wanted in Ireland. Fullerton was afterwards knighted, then sent upon an embassy to France, and finally, (as is usual for those who have served well abroad) was appointed to a considerable office at home. Hamilton was also knighted, and afterwards created Viscount Clandebois. Under these extraordinary masters he continued five years, and was thoroughly grounded in the elements of learning, to which he applied himself with all that zeal and spirit which are usually the characteristics of genius, and which are commonly crowned with success, even where there is no genius. He ever after mentioned these preceptors with honour, and used, to the end of his life, to mention this occurrence, as a signal and gràcious providence of God for his education, which, as Ireland then stood, must otherwise have been very defective.

At the expiration of these five years, viz. in 1593, and in the thirteenth year of his age, he was admitted into the college of Dublin, which was then finished. He

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