them in learning. Lloyd was a great critick in the Greek and Latin authors, but chiefly in the Scriptures; of the words and phrases of which he carried the most perfect concordance in his memory, and had it the readiest about him, of all men that ever I knew.  He was an exact historian, and the most punctual in chronology of all our divines.  He had read the most books, and with the best judgment, and had made the most copious abstracts out of them, of any in this age:  So that Wilkins used to say, he had the most learning in ready cash of any he ever knew.  He was so exact in every thing he set about, that he never gave over any part of study, till he had quite mastered it.  But when that was done, he went to another subject, and did not lay out his learning with the diligence with which he laid it in.  He had many volumes of materials upon all subjects laid together in so distinct a method, that he could with very little labour write on any of them.  He had more life in his imagination, and a truer judgment, than may seem consistent with such a laborious course of study.  Yet, as much as he was set on learning, he had never neglected his pastoral care.  For several years he had the greatest cure in England, St. Martins, which he took care of with an application and diligence beyond any about him; to whom he was an example, or rather a reproach, so few following his example.  He was a holy, humble, and patient man, ever ready to do good when he saw a proper opportunity:  Even his love of study did not divert him from that.  He did upon his promotion find a very worthy successor in his cure, Tenison, who carried on and advanced all those good methods that he had begun in the management of that great cure.  He endowed schools, set up a publick library, and kept many Curates to assist him in his indefatigable labours among them.  He was a very learned man, and took much pains to state the notions and practices of heathenish idolatry, and so to fasten that charge on the Church of Rome.  And, Whitehall lying within that parish, he stood as in the front of the battel all King James’s reign; and maintained, as well as managed, that dangerous post with great courage and much judgment, and was held in very high esteem for his whole deportment, which was ever grave and moderate.  These have been the greatest divines we have had these forty years:  And may we ever have a succession of such men to fill the room of those who have already gone off the stage, and of those who, being now very old, cannot hold their posts long.  Of these I have writ the more fully, because I knew them well, and have lived long in great friendship with them; but most particularly with Tillotson and Lloyd.  And, as I am sensible I owe a great deal of the consideration that has been had for me to my being known to be their friend, so I have really learned the best part of what I know from them.  But I owed them much more