He weighed not well his Master’s condition; for he saw him circled in by too many powerfull Scots, who mis-affected the Church, and had joyned with them too many English Counsellors and Courtiers, who were of the same leaven.  If he had perceived an universall concurrence in his own Clergy, who were esteemed Canonicall men, his attempts might have seem’d more probable, than otherwise it could:  but for him to think by a purgative Physick to evacuate all those cold slimy humors, which thus overflowed the body, was ill judged; for the good affections of the Prince, back’d only by a naked or paper-authority, sooner begets contumacy, than complyance in dissaffected Subjects....

And this shall suffice to be said of that well intentioned, but not truly considerative, great man, unles wee add this single thing further, that he who looks upon him thro’ those Canons, which in Synod passed in his time, will find him a true Assertor of Religion, Royalty, and Property; and that his grand designe was no other, than that of our first Reformation; which was, that our Church might stand upon such a foot of Primitive and Ecclesiastick authority, as suited with God’s word, and the best Interpreters of it, sound reason and Primitive practice.  And untill this Nation is blest with such a spirit, it will lye in that darknes and confusion the Sects at this time have flung it into.

27.

WILLIAM JUXON.

Born 1582.  President of St. John’s College Oxford, 1621.  Bishop of London 1633-49.  Lord Treasurer 1635-41.  Archbishop of Canterbury 1660.  Died 1663.

By SIR PHILIP WARWICK.

Having thus described one great Church-man, wee may the more fitly make mention of another, because they were so intimate and bosome Friends, and because this first is supposed to have introduced the last into that eminent employment of Lord Treasurer.  Had nature mingled their tempers, and allayed the one by the prudence and foresight of the other, or inspirited the other by the zeal and activity of his Friend, nature had framed a better paist, than usually she doth, when she is most exact in her work about mankind:  sincerity and integrity being eminent in them both.  This reverend Prelate, Dr. Juxon, then Bishop of London, was of a meek spirit, and of a solid and steddy judgment; and having addicted his first studies to the Civil Law, (from which he took his title of Doctor, tho’ he afterwards took on him the Ministry) this fitted him the more for Secular and State affairs.  His temper and prudence wrought so upon all men, that tho’ he had the two most invidious characters both in the Ecclesiasticall and Civil State; one of a Bishop, the other of a Lord Treasurer:  yet neither drew envy on him; tho’ the humor of the times tended to brand all great men in employment.  About the year 1634 the Lord Portland dyed, and the Treasury was put into Commission; by which means the true state thereof became distinctly to be known:  and in