[483] Kitto’s Cycl., Art. Patrick.—It is many years ago since I consulted Patrick, but my impressions are of the kind stated above. Of Lightfoot’s learning I am not a competent judge, but I follow the current of opinion as I find it in the best critics.
[484] Whewell’s Inductive Sciences, ii. 112.
[485] See Letters by Stubbe, in Birch’s Life of Boyle, 189–200.
[486] See his Lex Orientalis, Sadducismus Triumphans, and Vanity of Dogmatizing, Ed. 1661.
[487] Plus Ultra, 88.—Glanvill answered Stubbe’s attack. No love was lost between them; most bitterly did they abuse one another.
[488] In the Plus Ultra, p. 141, is a passage which might have been written by a modern controversialist.
[489] Philosophia Pia, particularly pp. 81 and 119. This treatise and others, published under new titles, may be found in his volume of Essays, published in 1676. He was addicted to the habit of reprinting old treatises under new titles. There is, in Dr. Williams’ Library, a good collection of Glanvill’s works, including the first and second editions of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, now very scarce.
[490] Joshua de la Place (Placæus) died 1655; Claude Pagon, 1685. They were leaders in this direction.
[491] Spener commenced his ministry in 1662, and died in 1705.
[492] See Andrew Rivet, Isagoge, &c., 1627, xx. “Nullum esse hominum cœtum, nullum hominem quantacunque dignitate polleat, qui sensus Scripturæ aut controversiarum fidei, sit judex supremus et judici infallibalis.”