LIVES.

CHARACTERS,

AND

AN ADDRESS TO POSTERITY,

BY

GILBERT BURNET, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF SARUM.

WITH

THE TWO PREFACES TO THE DUBLIN EDITIONS.

One of the late poets feigneth, that, at the end of the thread, or web, of every man's
life, there was a little medal, containing the person's name; and that Time waited
upon the shears, and, as soon as the thread was cut, caught the medals, and carried them
to the river of Lethe; and about the bank, there were many birds flying up and down,
that would get the medals, and carry them in their beak a little way, and then, let them
fall into the river: only, there were a few swans, which, if they got a name, would
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carry it to a temple, where it was consecrated.

EDITED,

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, AND NOTES,

BY JOHN JEBB, D.D. F.R.S.

BISHOP OF LIMERICK, ARDFERT AND
AGHADOE.

LONDON:

JAMES DUNCAN, 37. PATERNOSTER-ROW;
AND JOHN COCHRAN, 108. STRAND.

BIBLIOTHECA
REGIA
MONACENSIS.

Equidem, ex omnibus rebus, quas mihi aut fortuna, aut natura tribuit, nihil habeo, quod cum amicitià Scipionis possim comparare. In hâc mihi de republicâ consensus, in hâc rerum privatarum consilium: in eâdem requies plena oblectationis: nunquam illum, ne minimâ quidem re, offendi, quod quidem senserim; nihil audivi ex eo ipse, quod nollem: una domus est, idem victus, isque communis: etiam peregrinationes, rusticationesque communes. Nam quid ego de studiis dicam, cognoscendi semper aliquid, atque discendi ? in quibus, remoti ab oculis populi, omne otiosum tempus contrivimus.

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MY DAILY COMPANION,

MINE OWN FAMILIAR FRIEND,

CHARLES FORSTER, B.D.,

THESE EXAMPLES OF LIFE,

ARE, FROM THE HEART,

INSCRIBED:

J. L.

DEC. XII. MDCCCXXXII.

The eyes of JEHOVAH are upon them who love him;

He is their mighty protection, and strong stay:

A defence from the burning wind, and a covert from the mid-day sun;

A preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling:

He raiseth up the soul, and enlighteneth the eyes;

He giveth health, and life, and blessing.

THE SON OF SIRACH.

CONTENTS.

1. Introduction

2. Preface to the first Dublin Edition

3. Preface to the second Dublin Edition

4. Bishop Burnet's Preface to the Life of Hale

5. Life of Sir Matthew Hale

6. Baxter's Appendix to Ditto

7. Bishop Burnet's Preface to the Life of Rochester

8. Life of John, Earl of Rochester

9. Appendix I., from Robert Parsons, M. A.

10. Appendix II., Letters by Anne, Countess Dowager

of Rochester

11. Character of Archbishop Leighton

12. Characters of Messrs. Nairn and Charteris

13. Characters of eminent Clergymen

14. Character of Queen Mary II.

15. Character of the Hon. Robert Boyle

16. Address to Posterity, by Gilbert Burnet, D. D.

These letters have been added to the few remaining copies of this first
edition; and possessors of those copies which have been sent forth, may be
supplied with the addition gratis, on application to the publisher.

CORRIGENDA.

Pref. lxviii. 1. 15. Is it not.

P.

Pref. p. lxix. note. A great luminary of our Church, in his discourse
Against rash censuring and judging,' properly, &c.

Lives, p. 3. note. Peiresc. The paragraph, 'Gassendi.. light,' should
be marked as a quotation.

P. 17. note*, Horatio, Lord Vere, died 1635.; grandson of John Vere, Earl
of Oxford, who was born 1554.; died, 1608. Of that great man, Queen
Elizabeth was used to say, that, &c.

P. 122. note, 1. last. Fellow of S. John's College, Cambridge.