For an account of Stillingfleet’s earlier writings, see Church of the Restoration, vol. ii.
[368] A Discourse about Tradition. Works, vol. vi.; i. 30–34; vii. 294.
[369] Burnet, Evelyn and Dunton bear witness to Patrick’s preaching power.
[370] Patrick’s Works, vi. 156.
[371] Preface to sixth edition.
[372] Lansdowne MSS., Kennet Coll., 987, 294.
[373] This gave origin to the well-known epigram (attributed by some to Dr. Trapp; by others to Mr. Warton, his successor in the poetry professorship), added to the circumstance of the ministry’s sending at the same time a troop of horse to Oxford, to suppress some disturbances that had happened there.
The King observing, with judicious eyes,
The state of both his Universities,
To one he sends a regiment; For why?