Ib.
s. 92.
A well-spirited clause, and agreeable to holy assurance, that truth is more like to win than love. Could the light of such a Gospel as we profess be eclipsed with the interposition of a single marriage?
And yet Hacket must have lived to see the practical confutation of this shallow Gnathonism in the result of the marriage with the Papist Henrietta of France!
Ib.
s. 96.
"Floud," says the Lord Keeper, "since I am no Bishop in your opinion, I will be no Bishop to you."
I see the wit of this speech; but the wisdom, the Christianity, the beseemingness of it in a Judge and a Bishop, — what am I to say of that?
Ib.
And after the period of his presidency (of the Star Chamber), it is too well known how far the enhancements were stretched. But the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood. Prov. 30-33.