[1. The first quotation will be found in a letter of Archbishop
Tillotson's to Bishop Burnet, dated Oct. 23, 1694. The archbishop
says, "The account given of Athanasius' Creed (_i.e._ in Burnet's
_Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles_) seems to me no-wise
satisfactory. I wish we were well rid of it." Dr. Birch adds, "The
archbishop did not long survive the writing of this letter."--See
Birch's _Life of Tillotson_, edit. 1752, p. 343.; ed. 1753, p.
315. Consult also _Remarks upon Dr. Birch's Life of Tillotson_,
8vo., 1753, p. 53., anonymous, but attributed to George Smith, a
Nonjuror.
2. The second quotation is probably the following, which occurs in
Dr. South's Sermon on the Nature and Measures of Conscience (Serm.
XXIII.): "Because the light of natural conscience is in many
things defective and dim, and the internal voice of God's Spirit
not always distinguishable, above all, let a man attend to the
mind of God, uttered in His _revealed Word_: I say, His revealed
Word; by which I do not mean that mysterious, extraordinary (and
of late so much studied) book called 'The Revelation,' and which,
perhaps, the more it is studied, the less it is understood, as
generally either finding a man cracked, or making him so; but I
mean those other writings of the prophets and apostles, which
exhibit to us a plain, sure, perfect, and intelligible rule; a
rule that will neither fail nor distract such as make use of it."]
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem._--What are these, extending to seven
volumes, regularly paged, and coming down to 1656, referred to in
Oldfield's _History of Wainfleet_? Are they printed works? It is quite a
different publication to the _Calendarium_, &c. in four volumes.
When did the Post Mortem Inquisitions cease?