[656] Id. ii. 349.
[657] Paley's 'Charges,' vol. vii of his Works, in 7 vols.
[658] 'Charge of the Bishop of Rochester,' 1796, Bishop Horsley's Charges.
[659] Bishop of Oxford's Second Charge, 1741, Secker's Charges.
[660] Remarks on a Discourse of Freethinking, by Phileleutherus Lipsiensis, xl. (edition of 1743).
[661] Anecdotes of the Life of R. Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, i. 159.
[662] Quoted in Kilvert's Life of Bishop Hurd, p. 97. Dean Swift, in his Project for the Advancement of Religion, speaks of curates in the most contemptuous terms. 'In London, a clergyman, with one or two sorry curates, has sometimes the care of above 20,000 souls incumbent on him.'
[663] How nobly and successfully a domestic chaplain in a great family might do his duty in the eighteenth century; the conduct of Thomas Wilson, when he was domestic chaplain to the Earl of Derby, and tutor to his son, is an instance.
[664] Bishop of Oxford's Charge, 1738.
[665] Secker's Instructions given to Candidates for Orders.