s, Sonnets, &c. Lond. 1657.
Several Letters, among which are extant, one or more to the famous
archbishop Usher, Primate of Ireland, and another to Isaac Walton,
concerning the three imperfect books of Richard Hooker's
Ecclesiastical Polity, dated the 13th of November 1664, printed at
London 1665.
He has composed several Anthems, one of which is for the time of Lent.
Several Latin and Greek Poems, scattered in several Books.
He has likewise published several Sermons,
1. Sermon preached at Paul's Cross 25th of November 1621, upon
occasion of a report, touching the supposed apostasy of Dr. John
King--late bishop of London, on John xv. 20, Lond. 1621; to which is
also added the examination of Thomas Preston, taken before the
Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth 20th of December 1621, concerning
his being the author of the said Report.
2. David's Enlargement, Morning Sermon on Psalm xxxii. 5. Oxon. 1625.
4to.
3. Sermon of Deliverance, at the Spittal on Easter Monday, Psalm xc.
3. printed 1626, 4to.
4. Two Sermons at Whitehall on Lent, Eccles. xii. 1, and Psalm lv. 6.
printed 1627, in 4to.
5. Sermon at St. Paul's on his Majesty's Inauguration and Birth, on
Ezekiel xxi. 27. Lond. 1661. 4to.
6. Sermon on the Funeral of Bryan Bishop of Winchester, at the Abbey
Church of Westminster, April 24, 1662, on Psalm cxvi. 15. Lond. 1662.
4to.
7. Visitation Sermon at Lewis, October 1662. on Titus ii. 1. Lond.
1663. 4to.
8. Sermon preached the 30th of January, 1664, at Whitehall, being the
Day of the late King's Martyrdom, on 2. Chron. xxxv. 24, 25. Lond.
1665, 4to.
To these Sermons he has added an Exposition of the Lord's Prayer,
delivered in certain Sermons, on Matth. vi. 9. &c. Lond. 1628. 4to.
We shall take a quotation from his version of the 104th psalm.
My soul the Lord for ever bless:
O God! thy greatness all confess;
Whom majesty and honour vest,
In robes of light eternal drest.
He heaven made his canopy;
His chambers in the waters lye:
His chariot is the cloudy storm,
And on the wings of wind is born.
He spirits makes his angels quire,
His ministers a flaming fire.
He so did earth's foundations cast,
It might remain for ever fast:
Then cloath'd it with the spacious deep,
Whose wave out-swells the mountains steep.
At thy rebuke the waters fled,
And hid their thunder-frighted head.
They from the mountains streaming flow,
And down
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