during the three first centuries, (Bower, ii. 526. iii. 357.); and therefore that Fletcher's assertion is incorrect. We also take the liberty to believe, that the "due honour and veneration" which is actually bestowed upon images and pictures, amounts to idolatry; and that such idolatry bears a strong affinity to that practised by heathen nations.-Ignotus, p. 30. 41.—Milner's C. H. iii. p. 146. 188.—Morning Exercises against Popery, p. 458.-Salter's Hall Sermons, vol. i. Dr. Hughes. The Latin word used by the Fathers of the Council of Trent, (Sess. 25.) is veneremur, and is usually translated by protestants as intending worship, but by modern papists, veneration. The Fathers also connect it with osculemur; and we believe, whenever these words are united by classical writers, divine worship is necessarily implied.— Canons and Decrees of Trent, 1564.—Cic. in Verr. ix. 43.-See also some excellent remarks upon this subject in the Christian Observer, for August, 1831, p. 497.

NOTE (DD.) p. 263.

HUGH WESTON was successively Dean of Westminster and of Windsor, and prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation, which met on the accession of Queen Mary; and was sent by them to Oxford, as moderator in the disputation with Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer.

“Cranmer had trusted to him confidentially a letter to the Lords of the Council, which he took charge of when he returned to London; but on his journey he was base enough to open it; and careless of shame, as he had been also in the disputation, returned it to the Archbishop."-Todd's Life of Cranmer, ii. 400. "He was deprived of his deanery on the 10th of December, 1557, by Cardinal Pole, on account of his

scandalous life in adultery, and other enormities," with which these pages may not be stained.-Strype Eccl. Mem. i. 174. ii. 22.

NOTE (EE.) p. 295.

"BUT the papists will then say, that if we condemn the papacy, we shall condemn our forefathers, as heretics. I will answer to that, as God answered Elijah, when he said to the Lord, that the children of Israel had forsaken his covenant, and were unjust and wicked, Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal. Neither must we imagine, but that there have been many christians in the world, some of whom have spoken openly against the papacy, and others who have kept their knowledge and sentiments to themselves; but the papists will not suffer us to know more than our fathers. But I know very well, that our religion consists not of old customs, or the usage of our fathers, but in the Holy Scriptures, and Divine Word. And THAT, if you think antiquity and custom makes a thing good, is older than the world; for God is the Word, who was without beginning, and shall continue without end; and if you think truth ought to be followed and obeyed, ALL TRUTH is contained in that book. Our religion ought not to be planned or governed by our forefathers; for Ezekiel saith, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, for they were polluted. Moreover, our God, and Saviour, and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, said, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; he did not say, I AM THE OLD CUSTOM!-K. Edward VI.'s own Arguments against the Pope's Supremacy, p. 65. London, 1682.

note (ff.) p. 310.

"AMONG the numerous throng of people who were spectators at his execution, there was that memorable woman, Mrs. Mary Honeywood, the wife of Robert Honeywood, Esq., of Charing, in Kent, and daughter of Robert Waters, Esq., of Lenham, in the same county. This lady, in the days of Queen Mary, was wont to visit the prisons, and relieve the confessors there confined. When Bradford was at the stake, she being desirous of getting near it, that she might distinctly hear him, and see the end of his sufferings; was so crowded and pressed by the multitude, that her shoes were trodden off, and she was forced to go barefoot from Smithfield to St. Martin's, before she could furnish herself with a new pair. She lived a most pious life; and in a christian manner died at Markeshall in Essex, May 11, 1620, in the 93d year of her age, leaving behind her at her decease, three hundred and sixty-seven persons, descended from her and her husband; viz. sixteen children, one hundred and fourteen grandchildren, two hundred and twentyeight great grandchildren, and nine great great grandchildren. See the inscription on her monument in Markeshall Church. Her mind being greatly perplexed with religious doubts, she consulted both with our martyr, who wrote her the letters, Nos. 40., 41., 42., and 43., and the venerable martyrologist, Fox, after Bradford's decease.”—Biog. Brit. ii. 555.

NOTE (GG.) p. 313.

"IT is a demonstration to me that he was of a sweet temper, because Persons, the jesuit, who will hardly afford a good word to a protestant, saith, That he seemed to be of a more soft and mild nature, than many of his fellows. Indeed, continues

Fuller, He was a most holy and mortified man; who secretly in his closet, would so weep for his sins, one would have thought he would never have smiled again; and then appearing in public, he would be so harmlessly pleasant, one would think he had never wept before."-Fuller's Worthies. "He was one of whose worth the papists themselves were so sensible, that they took more pains to bring him off from the profession of religion, than any other."-Strype, Eccl. Mem. vol. iii. pt. i. 364.

NOTE (HH.) p. 313.

"Whilst he was in prison he spent his time in preaching twice every Sunday; in writing many letters and discourses; praying, reading, conferring, disputing; sleeping but four hours in the night."-Strype, Eccl. Mem. vol. iii. pt. i. 364.

"He used to make unto himself an ephemeris, or journal, in which he used to write all such notable things, as either he did see, or hear, each day that passed. But whatsoever he did hear or see, he did so pen it, that a man might see in that, the signs of his smitten heart. For if he did see or hear any good in any man, by that sight he found and noted the want thereof in himself; and added a prayer craving mercy and grace to amend. If he did hear or see any misery he noted it, as a thing procured by his own sins; and still added, Domine, miserere mei: Lord have mercy upon me. He used in the same book, to note such evil thoughts as did rise in him: as of envying the good of other men; thoughts of unthankfulness; of not considering God in his works; of hardness and unsensibleness of heart when he did see others moved and afflicted. And thus he made to himself, and of himself, a book of daily practices of repentance."-Sampson's Preface to Life and Sermons, p. 11.

NOTE (I.I.) p. 343.

IN what estimation Bradford was held by his brethren, may be collected from the following letter of Careless to him, and which was written in reply to No. 99.

TO MY GOOD BROTHER, M. JOHN BRADFORD.*

The peace of God in Jesus Christ, the eternal comfort of his sweet Spirit, which hath surely sealed you unto eternal salvation, be with you and strengthen you in your joyful journey, towards the celestial Jerusalem, my dear friend and most faithful Brother, M. Bradford, to the setting forth of God's glory, and to your eternal joy in Christ. Amen.

Ever since that good M. Philpot shewed me your last letter, my dear heart in the Lord, I have continued in great heaviness and perplexity: not for any hurt or discommodity that I can perceive coming towards you, unto whom, doubtless, death is made life and great felicity; but for the great loss that God's Church here in England shall sustain, by the taking away of so godly, worthy, and necessary an instrument, as the Lord hath made you to be. Oh, that my life, and a thousand such wretched lives more, might go for yours. Oh, why doth God suffer me and such other caterpillars to live, that can do nothing but consume the alms of the Church, and take away you, so worthy a workman and labourer in the Lord's vineyard? But woe be to our sins and great unthankfulness, which is the greatest cause of the taking away of such worthy instruments of God, as should set forth his glory, and instruct his people. If we had been thankful unto God for the good ministers of his word, we had not been so soon deprived both of it and them. The Lord forgive our great ingratitude and sins, and give us

* Fox iii. 717. Cov. 629.