Good Thoughts in Bad Times, Good Thoughts in Worse Times, Mixt Contemplations in Better Times,

' went to London; but, probably before the end of that year, had removed to Boughton, in Northamptonshire, to the seat of his constant patrons the noble family of Montague. There we find him in January 1647, dejected and weak in health; and under that most hospitable roof, he composed his Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience. It is dedicated to the Right Honourable and Virtuous Lady, Frances Manners, Countess of Rutland,' sister of Edward, the second Lord Montague of Boughton.

In this year also appeared our Author's Good Thoughts in Worse Times, which were, in May 1660, followed by Mixt Contemplations in Better Times.

His Good Thoughts in Bad Times are gratefully dedicated to the Right Honourable the Lady Dalkeith, governess to her Highness the infant Princess Henrietta. By the interest of this Lady, (shortly after Countess of Morton by the death of her husband's father) Fuller was appointed chaplain to the infant Princess.

His Good Thoughts in Worse Times he prefaces with an epistle to the Christian Reader. In it he refers to his Worthies, a volume of another subject and larger size.

He dedicates his Mixt Contemplations in Better Times to the Lady Monck, from Sion College. From his chamber in Sion

College, he inscribed his Prefatory Epistle in his 'Church History of Britain,' in 1655. Previously to the Great Fire of 1666 there were lodgings for students attached to that foundation.

His loyalty brought him into great sufferings, as he intimates in his' Appeal of Injured Innocence.' To this we find an allusion also in the 9th of the Mixt Contemplations; "The apostle tells me, that I must not think strange concerning the fiery trial which is to happen unto me.' And again in the 16th; 'Had I poised myself so politicly betwixt both parties that I had suffered from neither, yet could I have taken no contentment in my safe escaping.' But his cheerfulness, industry, and honest and consistent moderation, made the good of all parties his friends. And their names he has perpetuated in the dedications that are prefixed to the several chapters of his 'Church-History,' or inserted into the Maps of his 'Pisgah-Sight.'

His Contemplations will be found to be replete with excellent observations upon both prayer and preaching, and censures of the sins that marked the disturbed period in which they were penned.

Moderation was his motto, but this was not with him another term for Pusillanimity. Attached to the Church of England, he did not indiscriminately condemn all

those who disapproved of her discipline and form of worship. An admirer of monarchical government, he also respected the rights of the people, the sanctity of the laws. "A Commonwealth and a King are no more contrary than the trunk or body of a tree and the top branch thereof: there is a republic included in every monarchy."*

In his Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience, his piety is seen to be distinguished by that good sense, that regard to the actual condition of human nature, which is removed at once from asceticism and lukewarmness; for a heartless or a superstitious faith was never found to eradicate a single vice, or to implant in any man the love of his Creator and Redeemer.

To recommend this little tract it will be sufficient to give in this place, the conclusion of this valuable manual. "Music is sweetest near or over rivers, where the echo thereof is best rebounded by the water. Praise for pensiveness, thanks for tears, and blessing God over the floods of affliction, makes the most melodious music in the ear of heaven."

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