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SUPPLEMENT to the UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. XLVI. 337

Our Readers here have the LIFE, with the HEAD finely engraved, of HENRY COMPTON, Bishop of London in the End of the Seventeenth and Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, a Nobleman of diftinguished Merit, and one of the most eminent Prelates that ever fat in that See.

HENRY Compton was thr Compton, the advice of Dr. John Fell, then Dean of

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the fecond Earl of Northampton. He was born at Compton in the year 1632. His father being unhappily flain in 1642-3, when this his youngest fun was but ten years old, he was thereby deprived of that paternal care which is fo neceffary in that tender age. However, notwithtanding that misfortune, he received an education fuitable to his quality. When he had gone through the grammar-schools, he was entered as a Nobleman of Queen's-college in Oxford, in the year 1649; and, having continued there till about 1652, went and lived with his mother at Gryndon in Northamptonshire. Afterwards he travelled beyond fea, where he remained a confiderable time; and examined the civil and ecclefiaftical polities abroad, but, the more he obferved them, the more he liked the English Conftitution: He faw their manners, and was too wife to imitate them. However, what he thought valuable amongst them he brought home, and in particular retained their languages perfectly.

After the Reftoration of Charles II, he returned to England; and, a regiment of horse being raised about that time for the King's guard, of which the command was given to Aubrey Earl of Oxford, Mr. Compton accepted of a Cornet's commiffion therein, either by his own choice, or the perfuafion of friends. But, foon after, difcovering a greater inclination to his ftudies than to a military life, he quitted that poft, and dedicated himself to the fervice of the Church. Accordingly he went to Cambridge, where he was created Mafter of Arts, and afterwards entered into orders. When he did fo, he was not a novice in age or knowledge; being above a Bishop's neceffary years, that is, thirty, when he was ordained a Deacon; but, he did not aspire to, or defire the Epifcopal office, before he was qualified for the good work; and, though he might have made high demands upon the Court, and raised himself at once to. the greateft dignities, yet he chofe to make gradual and regular advances.

Having obtained a grant of the next va cant canonry of Chrift-church in Oxford, he was admitted Canon-commoner of that ColNUMB. CCCXXIII, VOL. XLVI.

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the fame. The 7th of April, next enfuing, he was incorporated Master of Arts at Oxford, as he flood at Cambridge; ahout which time, he was poffeffed of the rectory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire, worth above 500l. a year. Before that he had a leffer benefice. In both he fhewed his great concern for the fouls of men. He was conftituted, in 1667, Master of St. Croffe's Hofpital near Winchester, upon the death of Dr. William Lewis: A fit preferment, as Dr. Gooch rightly cbferves, for him, whofe houfe was always a conftant hofpital! By this his income was confiderably increafed, and he had greater opportunities of doing good; the only motive to him to with for its increafe. This was his greatest pleafure; and here he lived and enjoyed it: Here he would gladly have rested; but Providence had defigned him for greater things.

On the 24th of May, 1669, he was inftalled Canon of Chrift-church, in the room of Dr. Richard Heylin deceafed; and, when he was Sub-dean in that church he moderated in the divinity-disputations, with fuch gravity and wisdom, as made those exercises both reputable and inftructive. Two days after his being inftalled Canon, he took the degree of Bachelor in Divinity; and that of Doctor, the 28th of June following.. Advancing daily in the King's favour and ef teem, and in the opinion of all good men, he was, upon the tranilation of Dr. Na thaniel Crew from the bishopric of Oxford to that of Durham, nominated to fucceed him in the fee of Oxford; to which he was elected November 10, confirmed December 2, and confecrated at Lambeth December 6, 1674. About July 1675, he was made Dean of the Royal Chapel, on the death of Dr. Blandford Bishop of Worcester; and being the fame year tranflated to the fee of London, in the room of Dr Henchman deceased, was confirmed therein the 18th of December. Anthony Wood tells us, that this tranflation was much promoted by fome of the politic clergy, because they knew him to be a bold man, an enemy to the Papifts, and one that would act and fpeak what they would put him upon; which

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they themselves would not be feen in, as many prime Papists ufed to fay. We are alfo informed that this tranflation was effected through the Earl of Danby's intereft; to whom the Bishop was a property, and was turned by him as he pleafed. The Duke of York hated him; but Lord Danby perfuaded both the King and him, that, as his heat did no great hurt to any perfon, fo the -giving way to it helped to lay the jealousies of the Church-party. About a year after that, Sheldon dying, Bishop Compton was perfuaded that Lord Danby had tried with all his ftrength to promote hiin to Canterbury, though that was never once intended. He was a great patron of the converts from Popery, and of thofe Proteftants whom the bad ulage they were beginning to meet with in France drove over to us: And by thefe means he came to have a great reputation. He was making many complaints to the King, and often in Council, of the infolence of the Papifts, and of Coleman's in particular; fo that the King ordered the Duke to difinifs Coleman out of his fervice; yet he continued ftill in his confidence.

On the 22d of January, 1675-6, King Charles, who entertained a juft opinion of his capacity and fidelity, caused him to be fworn one of his Privy-council; which ftation his Majesty thought fit to continue him in, upon his conftituting a new Privy-council in April 1679. The educating and well grounding of the King's two nieces, the Princefles Mary and Anne, in the doctrine and communion of the Church of England, was committed to his care; and that important truft he difcharged to the nation's univerfal fatisfaction. How well he executed it, as Dr. Gooch obferves, let thofe confefs, who value the memory of the most renowned Queen Mary, or have not laid afide all affection for our late moft gracious, Sovereign Queen Anne. They never forgot their obligations to him, but he was always in the esteem of the former, and received marks of favour from the latter. He had the particular honour, which no one Bifhop ever had, of marrying two Regent Queens to Proteftant Princes. They were both confirmed by him January 23, 1675-6. On the 4th of November, 1677, he perform ed the ceremony of the marriage of the eldeft with William Prince of Orange; and, on the 28th of July, 1683, that of the youngest with George, Prince of Denmark. The firmness of these two Princeffes in the Proteftant religion was owing in a great meature to their learned tutor, which after wards, when Popery came to prevail at the Court of England, was imputed to him as an unpardonable crime.

During the mutual heats and animofities in the latter part of King Charles II's reign, fome of the most learned and exemplary clergy endeavoured, both in private and public, to bring the Diffenters to a fenfe of the neceffity of union among Proteftants. To promote that good defign, our worthy Bishop held, in 1679, three conferences with his clergy upon the two Sacraments, and upon catechifing youth in the true principles of religion. In 1680, he pursued the fame defign in three other conferences; namely, on the half communion; prayers in an unknown tongue; and prayers to faints: The fubftance of which he published in a letter to the Clergy of his diocefe, dated July 6, 1680. He further hoped, that it might tend to pacify and reconcile the Diffenters, by bringing in the judgment of foreign divines against their needlefs feparation. For that purpofe, he wrote to Monfieur Le Moyne, Profeffor in Divinity at Leyden; to Mr. de l'Angle, one of the preachers of the Protef tant Church at Charenton near Paris; and to Mr. Claude, another eminent French divine; who in their feveral anfwers, agreed in vindicating the Church of England from any errors in its doctrine or any unlawful impolitions in its fervice and difcipline; and therefore did condemn a feparation from it, as needlefs and uncharitable. But Popery was what the Bishop moft ftrenuously oppofed; for, when it was gaining ground in thefe kingdoms, under the favour and influence of the heir apparent to the Crown, James Duke of York, our worthy Prelate, at the herd of his clergy, made a noble ftand; and, by his encouragement, their pulpits and their pens more ftrenuously defended the Reformed religion than it had ever been; to the fhame and filence of their Romifh adverfaries. This we learn from a Gentleman, William Whitfeld, who had been his Lordthip's chaplain. From whatever quarter, fays he, or at what time foever any affault was made upon our doc trine or difcipline, his vigilance and Chriftian courage were upon the guard to defend them of which I fhall give only fome few inftances within the narrow compass of my own knowledge. 1. From hence proceeded that volume of useful tracts against the Dif fenters, to convince them by reason, fcripture, and antiquity, of the unreasonableness of their feparation and ill-grounded fcruples: Never yet replied to, or to be answered. 1. From hence likewife (before and even under his fufpenfion) came forth the distinct reply to all the pretences of the Church of Rome, in their day of exaltation and trial; molt of them written by the best-learned di

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