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DURING the Time of his being Rector of St James's, befides the regular performance of all the other Offices of his Profeffion, He followed the Custom of of his Predeceffors, in reading Lectures, upon the Church-Catechifm, every Thurfday morning, for fome months in the Year. In the latter part of his Time, He revised Thefe with great Care; and left Them under the Title of An Expofition upon That Catechifm, completely prepared for the Prefs. This Expofition has been published, according to his own exprefs Defire, fince his Death, The Remarks of a Learned Man followed it, as foon as it could well be read in the World. An Anfwer has been made to thefe Remarks: And the World muft judge on which fide Truth and Light appear.

BUT though Divinity, and the Studies peculiar to his Profeffion, were his great Employment; yet this did not hinder his Genius from thewing itfelf in Other forts of Learning, worthy of a Man, and of a Clergyman. The firft Specimen He gave the World of his Knowledge in the Profane Authors, was his Edition of Cafar's Commentaries, 1712. in Folio. dedicated to

leffen'd his Interest Of this I fhall only few Books in the

his Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, at a Time, when his Unequal'd Victories and Succeffes had raised his Glory to the highest pitch abroad, and and Favor at Home. fay, That there are World, that excell It, either for Beauty or Correctness; and that the Notes added fhew the Accuracy of their Author.

THE laft Inftance of his Critical and Claffical Learning was the Laft Piece He published: The firft Twelve Books of Homer's Ilias, with an almoft New Tranflation, and Notes. Homer was his Admired Author, even to a degree of Something like Enthufiafm hardly natural to his Temper. In this He went a little beyond the Bounds of Horace's Judgment: and was fo unwilling to allow the Favourite-Poet ever to Nod, that He has taken remarkable pains to find out and give a Reafon for Every Paffage, Word, and Tittle, that could create any fufpicion. The Tranflation, with his Corrections, may now be styled Accurate and his Notes, as far as They go, are indeed a Treasury of Grammatical and Critical Knowledge. He was called to this Tafk, by Royal Command

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and He has performed it in fuch a Manner, as to be Worthy of the Young Prince, for whofe Ufe it was laboured. The Praifes given to this Excellent Work, by the Writers abroad in their Memoirs; as well as by the Learned Mafters of the Three principal Schools of England; Thofe of Westminster, Eaton, and St Paul's; and the Short Character, That the Performance was Supra omnem invidiam, bestowed by One whom Dr Clarke himself had long before ftyled, Criticos unus omnes longé longéque -antecellens, and whom Every one will know by that Title without my naming Him, make it unneceffary to add a Word upon this Subject.

In the midst of his Other Labours, He found time alfo to fhew His Regard to the Mathematical and Phyfical Studies; and his exact Knowledge and Skill in them. For thefe indeed, He had a fort of a Natural Affection, and Capacity; which were greatly improved by the particular Friendship of the Incomparable Sir Ifaac Newton, whofe Death only put an End to it; and by the Light communicated to Him from his Writings and Conversation. At Sir Ifaac's Requeft,

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He tranflated his Treatife of Optics, into that pure and intelligible Latin, which has fent it all over Europe in a plainer and lefs ambiguous Style, than the English Language will fometimes permitt. And after the death of that Great Man, He vindicated his Doctrine about the Proportion of Velocity and Force in Bodies in Motion, from the Objections of fome late Mathematicians, in a fhort, plain, and Masterly Letter, printed in the Tranfactions of the Royal Society, No 401. 1728. and in a manner fufficient to fhew the excellent Greatnefs of his Genius for thefe Subjects as well as Others.

IMUST not pafs by a very remarkable Controversy, which lafted long, in a private manner, between Him and the learned Mr. Leibnitz; and afterwards was publifhed, and infcribed to Her prefent MAJESTY, who was pleased to have it pass through Her hands: and was the Witnefs and Judge of every Step of it. It related chiefly to the Important and Difficult Subjects of Liberty and Necefity. This Liberty, or Moral Agency, was Darling Point to Him. He excelled always, and fhewed a Superiority to All, whenever

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whenever it came into Private Discourse, or Publick Debate. But He never more excelled, than when He was preffed with the Strength this Learned Adverfary was Mafter of: which made Him exert All his Talents to fet it once again in a Clear light; to guard it against the Evil of Metaphyfical Obfcurities; and to give the finishing Stroke to a Subject, which must ever be the Foundation of Morality in Man; and is the Sole Ground of the Accountableness of Intelligent Creatures for All their Actions. And as This was the laft of Dr Clarke's Works relating to a Subject which had been, by the Writings of Cloudy or Artfull Men, render'd fo intricate; I fhall take the Liberty to fay, with regard to All of the fame Tendency, from his First Discourse about the Being of GOD, to thefe Letters; That what He has written to clear and illuftrate this Caufe, does now ftand, and will for ever remain, before the World, a lasting Monument of a Genius, which could. throw in Light where Darkness used to reign; and force Good Senfe and Plain Words, into what was almoft the Privileged place of Obfcurity, and Unintelligible

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