The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-01-10
ANECDOTES OF cLERaYMRN.

"jotted down" few which we thought might be new
to many of our readers, and were possessed of int
rest
Archbishop Tennson, il is said, on the death o
Queen Mary, reproached King William for his pronl
gate life though he said nothing against him durn!
the life of the Queen He wrote a treatise agains
the celebrated Deist, Hobbies, which seemed 10 hay
had but little influence with the public for II fell dead
born, almost from the press, and was soon enlirel,
| forgotten lie wrote another treatise against the Ca
thoc religion, which met with similar fate. d.
Bishop Burnett, in his youth, came near being ex
communicated for some remarks against the Scotch
Prelacy and Church but affairs taking another turn
he escaped accommodation, and shortly afterwards
abandoned all his adverse opinions, and became Q
member Of the Church of Scotland after which he
abandoned The Church of Scotland, and became
member Of the Church of England, and was p,int-
ed Bishop He wrote canling foolish account Of
the death and repentance Of the Earl of Rochester In
politics he was ever changing his principles, but was
always lucky enough 10 shift and shuttle at the right
time.
Bishop Atterbury an intimate friend Of the H.
lustrious poet, Pope He was at one time accused
by Lord Stanhope, of being the author of anony-
nous pamphlet attacking the religion of Queen Anne.
After this, when Proocutor of the House of Conyo-
cation, he wrote book violent that il was deemed
improper to present il to the Queen. He en-
envy TO all civil and religious liberty and yet though
sworn member of the Church of England he was
friend to censins tbrnfer' VINO was, according to
Bishop Winston wrote an absurd theory OF the
EARTH hi which he eynced great ignorance of geolo-
gy, but which was, nevertheless, highly extoled by
that great and good philosopher Locke on account OF
its explaining $50 many wonderful and before mex
plicabe things in the great changes of this globe
He prosecuted for hesesy but after four years,
the prosecution was put an end to, by an act of
grace He wrote treatise on ''the Book OF Rev
elations, copy of which he presented TO the Duke
of Marlborough ally, Prince Eugene, telling him in
the dedication, that he the man foretold in the
Apocalypse as the destroyer of the Turkish empire
The Prince could not restrain his countenance, but
gave the divine fifteen guineas and added, it the
first time he informed that he had had the honor
of an acquaintance with St John.
Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury, who had been
Domestic Chaplain to Archbishop Tennson, entered
into what the Church calls the g Bangorian Contro-
yersy," and he assaed the Bishop Of Bangor for hav
ing, in his sermon, before the King advocated prn
cples of civil and religious liberty hostile to the
Church of England, He had dispute with Bishop
Atterbury to when, where, how, and by whom
the Four Gospels were written but in spite of this
dispute he was made Archbishop of Canterbury 1t
is related of him that when he had obtained his
bushng honors of Canterbury he was determined to
benefit his family and repairing to one OF his clerical
relations he caught him in the monstrous act play
ing at the unholy game OF skittles Cor they are
called here, ninepns) at ale house, and the par
son in his big wig, amongst vulgar people, in the
act of throwing the ball at the skttles, with the Joke
/" Here goes at the head of the Church, After this
the Primate of all England refused to elevate his sk
tle-playing relation to the Episcopacy
Winston amable and happy man, be-
loved by his family and admired and esteemed by all
who knew him, but he was prosecuted on account of
the freedom with which he promulgated his opinions.
Bishop Hare says, she has all his life been cultivat-
ing pety, virtue and learning He was once told
by the King, that whether his opinions were right or
wrong he ought to have kept them to himself on
WI ch he m pnt st -
Luther had kept his opinions TO himself, would your
majesty have been on the throne y When the Queen
questioned him upon her faults, he told her that
she would keep talking with the King during divine
service 3s5
Next comes DR., Clarke, the celebrated Rector Of
ST, James's. THIS great divine severely castiga-
ted for what was then called Unitarianism, but he
continued to keep his rich Iecory His treatise, The
Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity" set all England
in flame for at that time Trinitarianism was exclu
sivey acknowledged to be the only true Christianity
by Parliament. Both Houses Of Convocation attack
ed him for his Unaranism. Winston did not attack
him for this, but for accepting Church preferment
whilst he was in conscience, hostile to the creed Of
the Church He reproached him for taking his de-
grees in the Church. whilst he did not believe syla
bic Of the A,hanasian creed. Another charge against
this celebrated Divine was that he this belle
in the thirty nine articles he believing in very few of
them
Bishop Hoadley, Probate of Winchester, was
political velyet-thumper. In preaching before the
Lord Mayor he dashed the Tories most furiouslv -
The House of Commons, hen Wing House, ad-
dressed the Queen in his favor and her Majesty mad,
him promise of preferment which she perform
ed Her successor, however, made him Bishop q
Bangor but he never visited his See though he TOOK
its revenues, and he continued in London Illuminating
his wrath against the Clergy until although patron
ised by the Crown and Court he was proceeded
against in convocaton and saved by the prorog
OF that assembly. In despite of this he preached on
the text my Kingdom is not OF this world" and
maintained that the Clergy had no right to temporal
Jurisdictions, although he himself enjoying the
revenues and jurisdiction OF the Bishopric of Bangor
but he drew u hornets nest about him, and had &c
contend against the famous Sherlock and numerou.
others The fight being over he entered into another
for, like sort of Clerical Nelson he could not exis
but by the elements of battle. His body was never
in health, and his mind never at ease unless he wa
fighting Dr.. Hoadey successfully Bishop o
Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and finally of Winches
ter that the second richest Bishopric in Eng
land, although he dssened from almost all the doc
trines of the established Church. and always main
tanned that sincerity of opinions whatever they nigh
be, was sufficient for acceptance. This is Lor,
Broughams doctrine, that man is no more response
BILE for his religious opinions his Creator than he
for his stature or the color of his hair.
Bishop Sherlock, who made great noise in hi
day, published his Trial ofthe Witnesses of the re
surrection of Jesus, which could not nov be sold
for penny This famous man who had attacked
Dsnop Iloauy Tor MAINTAINING tnat the Bishops Lar
no temporal jurisdiction, in his latter days ackuow
lodged that he had been wrong in the controversy
and yet he content to live and die in the posse
sion of the very rich Bishopric ofLondon.
Daniel Waterland, Chaplain to the King, distn
guished himself by defending Christianity apaias
| Tindel's celebrated work, entitled "Chrsiianiy as
old as the Creation y but DR.. Conyers Middleton
maintained that the author had made bad worse, anc
that in defending Christianity he had completely up
set it.
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ycrs Middleton, the celebrated author oft &c life OF
Cicero George |, or. visiting Cambridge, nominated
g., Middleton for ID ctor's Degree in Divinity hui
gree to him witeout additional Tee To- nm ~ rdu
guineas, from his propensity to playing the violin an,
I This granting Of Church honofs or Withholding
them on account of the fiddle occasi oned long It'll
CATION, in which Tho moved into the Cour
of Kings Bench. This Conyers Middleton INQUIRE,
the fury OF his cloth for heerodoxy by ma ntaininl
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