scipline, they have continued to carry on their
trenches, and had almost brought the _Great Comprehension-Horse_ within
our walls; whilst the _complying_, or the _moderate_ clergy (as they
are called), like the infatuated _Trojans_, helped forward the
_unwieldy machine_; nor were they aware of the danger and destruction
that might have issued out of him."--_The Entertainer_, London, 1718,
p. 153.[5]

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I shall but add a postscript to my former Note. In "N. & Q." (Vol. viii.,
p. 156.), a number of pamphlets on High Church and Low Church are referred
to. A masterly sketch of the two theories is given at pp. 87, 88. of Mr.
Kingsley's _Yeast_, London, 1851.

JARLTZBERG.

[Footnote 1: Dr. Eachard, in his work on _The Grounds and Occasions of the
Contempt of the Clergy and Religion inquired into_, London, 1712, after
ably showing up the pedantry of some preachers, next attacks the
"indiscreet and horrid Metaphor Mongers." "Another thing that brings great
disrespect and mischief upon the clergy ... is their packing their sermons
so full of similitudes" (p. 41.). Eachard has a museum of curiosities in
this line. _The Puritan Pulpit_, however, far outstrips even the incredible
nonsense and irreverence which he adduces. Let any one curious in such
matters dip into a collection of Scotch Sermons of the seventeenth century.
Sir W. Scott, in some of his works, has endeavoured to give a faint idea of
the extraordinary way in which passages of Holy Scripture were applied in
the same century. I have a very curious _book of soliloquies_, which
unfortunately wants the title-page. From internal evidence, however, it
appeals to have been written in Ireland in the seventeenth century: the
writer signs himself "P. P." The editor of this little 12mo., in "An
Epistle to the Reader," after reprehending "the wits of our times" for
"quibbling and drolling upon the Bible," says immediately after:--"This
author's _innocent abuse of Scripture_ is so far from countenancing, that
it rather shames and condemns that licentious and abominable practice. Nor
can we admit of the most useful allusions without that harmless (nay
helpful and advantageous) [Greek: katachresis], or abuse here practised:
wherein the words are indeed used to another, but yet to a Holy end and
purpose, besides that for which they were at first instituted and
intended." The most reverend of our readers must need smile, were I to give
a specimen of th