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I. CAPEL BERROw. I have before me a quarto

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THEOLOGICAL. DISSERTATIONS, by CAPEL BERROW, A.M., Rector of Rossington, Northamptonshire; Lecturer of St. Bennet's and St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf; and Chaplain to the Honourable Society of Judges and Serjeants in Serjeants' Inn. ExaσTos ev TO IAIN NOI Anpopopelow, Rom. xiv. 5. London, Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, M.DCC.LXXII."

The quarto contains Six Treatises separately paged, viz. :

1. "Remarks on the Rt. Rev. Dr. Sherlock's Discourses on the Use and Intent of Prophecy; In a Letter formerly sent to his Lordship. Pp. 22.

2. "On Predestination, Election, Reprobation, and Future Punishments. Pp. 65.

3. "A Few Extracts from a Discourse concerning Origen, and the Chiefest of his Opinions. First printed in the Year 1661. Pp. 36.

4. "Observations on the End and Design of Christ's Death. Pp. 81.

5. "Deism not consistent with the Religion of Reason and Nature. Pp. 85.

6. "A Lapse of Human Souls in a State of Pre-Existence, the Only Original Sin, and the Ground Work of the Gospel Dispensation." - Pp. 170.*

* Berrow is omitted by Lowndes,

Mr. Capel Berrow is "fully persuaded in his own mind" respecting, and stoutly maintains, a number of extravagant and wildly heterodox notions, which require no small amount of ingenuity (and disingenuity, too,) at once to defend on their own merits, and to reconcile with the writer's position and profession.* It must be added, that the ability and learning displayed in this volume are In "A List of Subworthy of a better cause." scribers" prefixed to the Dissertations, we have the names of three or four bishops, and a long Church and Universities, and also the revered array of beneficed clergy and dignitaries of the name of "Dr. Samuel Johnson."

As some notes on the Pre-existence of Souls have appeared in "N. & Q.," 2nd S. ii. 453. 517.; iii. 50.; iv. 157. 234.; v. 303.; vii. 319., and, as Berrow's treatise is noticed in it, at the first reference, I shall give a passage from Berrow on the subject:—

"The doctrine of a Pre-existence of Human Souls took root in the earliest ages of the world, and flourished among men most eminent for learning, speculation, and philosophic reasoning, and became a principal branch of Heathen Theology. It spread not only among the Gymnosophists and others most renowned for wisdom in that nursery of sciences, Egypt, but among the Bramins of India, and the Magi of Babylon and Persia. It made a part of the Cabala of the Jews, which is usually ascribed to Moses, and was a reigning hypothesis among the following illustrious Philosophers-Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Epicharmus, Empedocles, Cebes, Euripides, Plato, Euclid, Philo, Virgil, Marcus Cicero, Plotinus, Jamblicus, Proclus, Boethius, Psellus, and others.

Among the modern defenders of the doctrine, there is the great Dr. Henry More, his ingenious and learned disciple, Mr. Glanville t, the sagacious Dr. Cheyne, and that very learned and ingenious divine, Dr. Butler, the late Bishop of Durham.

"To the above may be added some letters in the Turkish Spy and some papers, if I mistake not, in the Rambler. But together with Dr. H. More, and Mr. Glanville, I would in a particular manner recommend to the reader's perusal the following Tracts-A Letter of Resolutions concerning Origen, and the Chiefest of his Opinions, printed 1661, a scarce but most valuable work. Dr. H. More's Philosophical Poems. The Chevalier Ramsay's Philoso phical Principles. A very curious little tract, intitled The New Practice of Piety, wrote in imitation of Dr. Brown's Religio Medici, an ingenious production by one of

* Cf. Ch. viii. of the last Treatise: "The Article of the Church of England concerning Original Sin and the Depravity of Human Nature considered and explained."

"Vide Mr. Glanville's Lux Orientalis, in which the subject is considered so copiously as to have left room for little or nothing now to be added, excepting what arises from its being considered the ground-work of the Gospel Dispensation."

Who was the Chevalier Ramsay? I subjoin the titles of some of his books:

"Philosophical Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion Unfolded in a Geometrical Order. Edinb.: Printed by Foulis, 1748." - 2 Vols. 4to.

"Travels of Cyrus; and Discourse on the Theology and Mythology of the Pagans. (Edinb.?), 1730." 2 Vols. 8vo.

the authors of the Athenian Oracles, printed 1704; and Mr. Chubb's Farewel to the Public. There is likewise a very elegant Poem, wrote professedly on the subject, not unworthy the learned reader's perusal, to be met with in Dodsley's Collection, and rendered into very elegant Latin by Dr. Ralph Schomberg of Bath.

"These are the principal advocates for the doctrine of a Pre-existence of Human Souls. That a Lapse likewise of Human Souls in that supposed state of Pre-existence, was the opinion of the learned in general, those antient Philosophers quoted above, abundantly evince. Authorities from Scripture likewise upon the point will arise as we go along, and the next chapter will prove it to have been the opinion, not only of the Greek and Latin Fathers, but of several eminent writers of a more modern date.” *

What are we to think of the mental condition of a writer who tells us that the Greek and Latin Fathers, as well as Bp. Butler, maintained his doctrine of the Lapse of Human Souls in a Preexistent State! Among the "writers of a more modern date" to which he refers, we find Luther, Grotius, Dr. Edes †, Laurentius Surius, and Dr. Isaac Barrow !

Our author, speaking of the degradation of Nebuchadnezzar, has a very curious passage on the Brute Creation:

"Now whether there was, or was not, an actual Transformation of the Monarch into the form of a Beast, it is not essential to the point in question to determine; it being sufficient to observe that his Heart, or the state of his Mind was changed from a Man's heart, and a Beast's heart was given him; and, without any apparent consciousness either of his Degradation, or the Guilt for which it was the destined punishment, a proper Remorse for his former Pride, Vanity, and Self-sufficiency, was the happy consequence. And I am in no kind of doubt but that a retrospective Scene of past transactions, will hereafter, in con. sequence of a consistent preconcerted plan, be laid open to all those who have travelled through this Vale of Misery, irreminiscent of the Country from which they came, which will be productive at last of every desirable advantage.

"This Transfiguration of Nebuchadnezzar for former crimes, seems intended to shadow out to us the nature and circumstances of the BRUTE CREATION.

"That Brutes are endowed with some degree of Reason and Reflection, and a sensibility of Pain, as well as Pleasure, there is no kind of doubt with men of reason and

reflection. Nor is it less evident that the latter, viz. Pleasure, is frequently overbalanced by the former. What exquisite, what affecting Tortures, 'do many of them, that most excellent and serviceable one the Horse, in particular, endure from some merciless callous-hearted monster, a master! How frequently to the pangs of hunger, and a distempered body, are added the most cutting stripes and scourges, most liberally and ofttimes most wantonly dealt out by an inhuman driver, or some human brute its rider!-and all this, perhaps, for not effecting impossibilities? But wherefore all this wretchedness? Wherefore all these agonizing pains and miseries heaped on an helpless offspring of Divine Providence? they not flesh and blood? Do they not, as well as we, know what sorrow means? And were they brought into a painful existence for nought but the service, or rather, for little else than to gratify the pride, the wantonness, the cruelty of Man? What! one being created under

A Lapse of Human Souls, &c., pp. 7-8, 17-18. + Dr. Edes is not mentioned in Lowndes.

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Should it be urged, that the assigning Souls to one part of the Brute Creation will reduce us to the necessity of supposing the like to actuate the most minute species of vital nature also; I would wish the speculative and philosophic part of mankind to consider, that there is discernible to the microscopic eye as just and due proportioned disposition of organs, fibres, &c. in the one as in the other. That again, the Soul has the power of selfcontraction to an infinitesimal degree, as well as that of self-dilation. That supposing, in the next place, every organized body, as well in the Brute Creation as in the Rational, to be an allotted temporary Prison for a predelinquent Soul, it is easy to conceive how, and why, some may be made prisoners here more at large, as we say, and entrusted with privileges and faculties more numerous, extensive, and exalted than others; and that, lastly, it is impossible to say into how many different kinds of vehicles a Soul may transmigrate, ere its Plastic Faculty be refined enough to inform one wherein to perform the functions of an intelligent and rational life. But St. Cyprian's observation upon the point is, methinks, no bad one: Should I deny,' says he, that Flies, Beetles, Wood-lice, Glow-worms, Mites, Moths, are the work of THE ALMIGHTY, it will not necessarily be required of me to say who made them, who appointed them. I may, without offence surely, say that I know not from whence they came.'-St. Cypr. Advers. Gent., 1. 1. p. 34. He does not, however, take upon him to say they are not A Lapse, &c., pp. 87-89. animated beings."

Berrow makes no mention of a writer immediately preceding him, who takes the same view of the Brute Creation, but who (unlike Berrow) deals with the subject in a tone of disagreeable levity, flippancy, and irreverence: viz. the Jesuit, G. H. Bougeant, author of the Amusement Philosophique sur le Langage des Bestes. A translation of this curious tract appeared in 1739, and a "Second Edition corrected" in 1740. I give the title of the latter:

"This Mr. Brocklesby was a man of a most prodigious reading, and of an uncommon share of penetration in matters relative to the Christian Theology. Singular indeed he is in his opinions, and often singular, and seemingly uncouth, at first sight, in his phraseology, owing to a reach of sentiment not to be expressed by common language. He is emphatical, and greatly so, but not elegant; I mean, deals not in that kind of elegance (the only captivating sort of composition now) which carries the admiring reader so glibly, so smoothly, so enchantingly on the glassy surface of a gently flowing -Nothing. It is not to be wondered, therefore, that a work of this great man, the fruit, as he expresses himself, of much time and thought, of anxious contemplation, and great labour,' though abounding with speculations of the utmost importance (if matters relative to the Gos pel Dispensation may be deemed such), is scarce to be met with but under a load of useless lumber. The work to which I allude, is An Explication of the Gospel Theism, and the Divinity of the Christian Religion, containing the True Account of the System of the Universe, and of the Christian Trinity, printed 1706, Large Folio. A Work to which I am greatly indebted for references to authors who have wrote on the Doctrine of Pre-existence; from whom, together with those extracts which I have myself made, I have given the reader many as they lie in Mr. Brocklesby's page."—A Lapse, &c., p. 14.

By the way, how aptly Berrow's words apply to our own times, and how graphically does he hit off the popular literature and periodicals of the present day (courtesy, of course, excludes all reference to "N. & Q" and its correspondents), when he says, that the age "deals in that kind of elegance (the only captivating sort of composition now) which carries the admiring reader so glibly, so smoothly, so enchantingly on the glassy surface of a gently-flowing-NOTHING"!

Any information about Richard Brocklesby and his Works will be very acceptable.

III. DR. RUST; BP. OF DROMORE. The third Dissertation in Berrow's book, and also the Appendix to his Lapse, contain extracts from a remarkable work by Bp. Rust, viz. a defence of Origen and his opinions. It was reprinted in the well-known collection of Tracts called The Phenix, and is entitled: "A Letter of Resolution concerning ORIGEN and the Chief of his Opinions. Written to the learned and most ingenious C. L., Esq., and by him published." Another of Bp. Rust's treatises, viz. A Discourse of Truth, was published (with Annotations by Dr. H. More) along with the second edition of Joseph Glanvill's Lux Orientalis, in 1682. Glanvill prefixed "A Letter concerning the Subject and the Author," in which he says:

"The Author was a person with whom I had the honour and happiness of a very particular acquaintance;

xvi. 9." 4to. 1746. Another Sermon on 2 Chron. xxxii. 8., preached on account of the Rebellion in Scotland. 4to. 1746. Mr. Berrow died on the 5th of October, 1782.]

a man he was of a clear Mind, a deep Judgment, and searching Wit: greatly learned in all the best sorts of Knowledge, old and new, a thoughtful and diligent Enquirer, of a free Understanding and vast Capacity, joyned with singular Modesty, and unusual Sweetness of Temper, which made him the darling of all that knew him. He was a person of great Piety and Generosity; a hearty Lover of God and Men. An excellent Preacher, a wise Governour, a profound Philosopher, a quick, forcible, and close Reasoner, and above all, a true and exemplary Christian. He was bred in Cambridge, and Fellow of Christ's College, where he lived in great esteem and reputation for his eminent Learning and Vertues," &c.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENGLISH ROMAN CATHOLICS ON THE CONTINENT.

I send you the following description of a very curious MS. recently discovered in the University library (Cambridge), which is interesting as showing the manner in which contributions were made in this country in the reign of Charles I. towards the support of the English Roman Catholic colleges and convents established on the Continent after the suppression of religious houses in England, and the precautions taken to maintain secresy.

The MS. is a small quarto of 14 leaves, measuring 8×6 inches, without title, and is a notebook of gifts and bequests made to the English convent of Franciscans at Douay, and to some other English Roman Catholic establishments on the Continent, from 1630 to 1649.

Each entry contains the date of the benefaction, the name of the donor (in cipher), the establishment to which it was given (also in cipher), the amount and the interest to be received from it

[George Rust was a Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge. He was invited into Ireland by Bishop Jeremy Taylor, ordained Deacon and Priest on the same day, 7th May, 1661, and instituted to the deanery of Connor on Aug. 31 of the same year. In 1662 the Crown presented him to the rectory of Island Magee. In 1664 he was rector of Lisburn; and in 1667 raised to the bishopric of Dromore, where he died in December, 1670, and was interred in the choir of the cathedral of Dromore, in the same vault containing the remains of his friend Bishop Jeremy Taylor. His works are enumerated in Ware's Writers of Ireland. Consult also Cotton's Fasti Eccles. Hibernica, iv. 253. 281.; Worthington's Diary, i. 135. (Chetham Soc.); and European Mag., xlix. 418.]