and it is remarkable, that he was the only clergyman in Scotland, that made use of the prayers in the liturgy of the church of England. In 1669, he was made professor of divinity at Glasgow, in which office he continued four years; and was chosen in 1673 one of his majesty's chaplains in ordinary. Two years after, he was appointed preacher at the Rolls-chapel, by sir Harbottle Grimstone, master of the rolls; and not long after, lecturer of St. Clements. In 1683, he visited Paris a second time; and again on the accession of James the Second, when he made a tour through the southern parts of France, through Italy, Switzerland, and various parts of Germany, of which countries he has given an account in his "Travels." Returning to Utrecht, he was invited to the Hague by the prince and princess of Holland; and after. wards accompanied the prince in his expedition to England, as his chaplain. His subsequent share in the conduct of the revolution is well known. On the establishment of William on the throne, Burnet was advanced to the see of Salisbury. In 1698 he was appointed preceptor to the duke of Glocester. He died in 1714-15.

The writings of this celebrated prelate are

very numerous.

1. A modest and free Conference between a Conformist and a Non-conformist, 1669; in seven dialogues.

2. A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution, and Laws of the Church and State of Scotland, 1672.-This treatise is a defence of the royal prerogatives of the crown of Scotland, and the establishment of episcopacy in that kingdom, against the principles of Buchanan and his followers.

3. Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton, 1676.

4. An Account of a Conference between Himself, Dr. Stillingfleet, and Coleman, 1676.

5. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England.-The first volume of this important work was published in 1679, when the aflair of the popish plot was in agitation, and obtained for the author the thanks of bothhouses of parliament, with a request that he would prosecute the undertaking till he had finished the work. About two years after, the second volume was completed. He composed with such rapidity, that, after he had collected and arranged his materials, he composed it in

the short space of six weeks. The third volume, which is a supplement to the two former, was not published till 1714.-Of this work bishop Nicholson speaks in the following manner: "The defects of Peter Heylyn's History of the Reformation are abundantly supplied in our author's more complete history. He gives a punctual account of all the affairs of the reformation, from its beginning in the reign of Henry VIII. to its final establishment under queen Elizabeth, A. D. 1559. And the whole is penned in a masculine stile, such as becomes an historian, and is the property of this author in all his writings. The collection of records which he gives at the end of each volume, are good vouchers of the truth of what he delivers in the body of the history, and are much more perfect than could reasonably be expected, after the pains taken in queen Mary's days, to suppress every thing that carried the marks of the reformation upon it." This work was translated into most of the European languages. The author, in 1682, published an abridgment of his History; in which he informs us, that he had wholly waved every thing that belonged to the records, to the proofs of what he relates, and to the confu

tation of the falsehoods which pervade the popish historians. In the abridgment therefore, he says, every thing is to be taken upon trust; and those who require more complete satisfaction are referred to the larger work.

6. The year after finishing the printing of the first volume of the above work, or in 1680, he published, "An Account of the Life and Death of the Earl of Rochester."-Of this work Dr Johnson passes the following high encomium. "It is a book, which the critie ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgment*.

7. The Life of Sir Matthew Hale, 1682.

8. The same year he also published, The History of the Rights of Princes, in disposing of Ecclesiastical Benefices and Church Lands; which being attacked by an Anonymous Writer, the same year he published, An Answer to the Animadversions on the History of the Rights of Princes.

9. In 1683, was edited his Translation and Examination of a Letter, writ by the last Ge

* Johnson's Prefaces to the works of the English Poets, vol.iv. article Rochester, p. 6, 7.

neral Assembly of the Clergy of France to the Protestants, inviting them to return to their communion, &c.

10. The same year was also published his Translation of Sir Thomas More's Eutopia, with a Preface concerning the Nature of Translations.

11. The Life of Dr. William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, 1685.

12. Travels through the Southern Parts of France, through Italy, Switzerland, and Parts of Germany, &c. 1687.

13. The same year was published his "Translation of Lactantius, concerning the Death of the Persecutors."

14. The bishop also wrote several pamphlets in support of the designs of the prince of Orange; and on the landing of that prince at Exeter, drew up the association for pursuing the objects of his Declaration.

15. The Pastoral Care, 1692.

16. On the death of queen Mary, in 1695, he published an "Essay on the Character of that Princess."

17. "Exposition of the Thirty-nine Artieles of the Church of England,” 1699.