of man; and have had most of the particulars before-mentioned from his own mouth. When I was faying to him, among other things; "That I

was afraid his ftudies, muft "have broke in upon his other "business too much:" He faid, "That fometimes they had, a "little; but that his ufual way "had been to fit up very deep "into the nights, or elfe to rife "by two or three in the morn 'ing, on purpose to get time "for reading, without prejudicing himself in his trade."

This fhows his prudence and induftry; and indeed that he is almost indefatigable in any point that he strongly aims at, appears from his manner of acquiring each of the three learned languages, as above defcribed. I have heard him fay; "That it "is very hard work fometimes "to catch a Hebrew root, but "that he never yet hunted after < one, which he did not catch "in the end." I believe he may affirm the fame in every thing which he has attempted; for his application and attention seem

to

to be beyond any thing that one can well conceive of it; without having observed him in the procefs of his ftudies, as I have done.

He is a vaft admirer of St. Jerome; thinks him as fine a writer as Cicero; and that no body ever could excel him in eloquence. Yet he says, "That "he is not obliged to any one "writer, nor to all others put together, for fo many lights, "as he has had from Father

"Simon."

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As

As his ftudies have lain chiefly in languages, explaining texts of fcripture, and controverfial divinity; he himself is not unfond of difputing. In particular, he thinks the followers of Mr. Hutchinson wrong in almost every thing they advance; and faid, "He would go as far, " and almost with as much plea"fure, as he came to fee me, to difpute with a Hutchinfo"nian:" And his journey to me was near fixty miles; and that, poor man! on foot.

Though

Though the relation who firft inftructed him, and furnifhed him with the few books he had at Tring-grove, was an Anabaptift; he himself is, and always has been, a moft zealous fon of the church of England; and feems to think, that any thing's being inferted in our liturgy, or any points being held by our church, is a fufficient argument of itself, for it's being true.