ter of a Low Churchman. 4to. 1702."
"Low Churchmen vindicated from the Charge of being no Churchmen.
London. 1706. 8vo. By John Handcock, D.D., Rector of St.
Margaret's, Lothbury."

"Inquiry into the Duty of a Low Churchman. London. 1711. 8vo."
(By James Peirce, a Nonconformist divine, largely quoted in _The
Scourge_: where he is spoken of as "A gentleman of figure, of
the most apostolical moderation, of the most Christian temper,
and is esteemed as the Evangelical Doctor of the Presbyterians
in this kingdom," &c.--P. 342.)

He also wrote:

"The Loyalty, Integrity, and Ingenuity of High Churchmen and
Dissenters, and their respective Writers, Compared. London.
1719. 8vo."

See also the following periodical, which Lowndes thus describes:

"_The Independent Whig._ From Jan. 20, 1719-20, to Jan. 4, 1721.
53 Numbers. London. Written by Gordon and Trenchard in order to
oppose the High Church Party; 1732-5, 12mo., 2 vols.; 1753,
12mo., 4 vols."

Will some correspondent kindly furnish me with the date, author's name,
&c., of the pamphlet entitled _Merciful Judgments of High Church
Triumphant on Offending Clergymen and others in the Reign of Charles
I._?[2]

I omitted Wordsworth's lines in my first note:

"_High_ and _Low_,
Watchwords of party, on all tongues are rife;
As if a Church, though sprung from heaven, must owe
To opposites and fierce extremes her life;--
Not to the golden mean and quiet flow
Of truths, that soften hatred, temper strife."

Wordsworth, and most Anglican writers down to Dr. Hook, are ever
extolling the Golden Mean and the moderation of the Church of England. A
fine old writer of the same Church (Dr. Joseph Beaumont) seems to think
that this love of the Mean can be carried too far:

"And witty too in self-delusion, we
Against highstreined piety can plead,
Gravely pretending that extremity
Is Vice's clime; that by the Catholick creed
Of all the world it is acknowledged that
The temperate _mean_ is always Virtue's seat.
Hence comes the race of mongrel goodness: hence
Faint tepidness usurpeth fervour's name;
Hence will the earth-born meteor needs commence,
In his gay glaring robes, sydereal flame;
Hence foolish man, if moderately evil,
Dreams he's a saint because he's not a devil."

_Psyche_, cant. xxi. 4, 5.

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Cf. Bishop Taylor's _Life of Chris