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Gentleman's Magazine 1851 part 1 p.15
works, in my judgment the most valuable of all our English divines."
Mr. Southey has in another place mentioned Jackson "among the very best of our divines." See Life of Blanco White, vol.i. p.452. See also Atterbury's Works, vol.i. p.27; and Bichol's Illustrations of Literature, vol. ult. p.244, in a letter from Sir John Hawkins to Dr. Percy, stating Mr. Merrick's high approbation of these works, and that in consequence he had raised the price a third! "They are a treasure of curious and valuable learning and sound theology, and, for strength of argument and the style of writing, which is nervous and eloquent in a high degree, are, in my judgment, admirable." In Jones's Life of Bishop Horne he speaks of Jackson's Works as a magazine of theological knowledge, everywhere penned with great eloquence and dignity, and that his style is a pattern of perfection. Bishop Horne was much attached tio this admirable writer. Above all, George Herbert in his "Remains" this alludes to him:- "I speak it in the presence of God, I have not read so hearty, vigorous a champion against Rome, as convincing and demonstrative, as Dr. Jacksonis. I bless God for the confirmation he has given me in the Christian religion against the Atheist, Jew, and Socinian, and in the Protestant against Rome." We add that he who reads the works of this writer will willingly agree in the praise thus bestowed upon him.
P.332. "You may get the whole of Sir T. Brown's works more easily perhaps than the Hydrotaphia in a single form. The folio is neither scarce nor dear, and you will find it throughout a book to your heart's content. If I were confined to a score of English books, this I think would be one of them - very probably, indeed, be one of them if the selection were cut down to twelve. My library, if reduced to these bounds, would consist of Shakspere, Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton, Lord Clarendon, Jackson, Jeremy Taylor, Smith, Isaak Walton, Sidney's Arcadia, Fuller's Church History, and Sir Thomas Browne; and what a wealthy and well-stored mind would that man have, what an inexhaustible reservoir, what a Bank of England to draw upon for profitable thoughts and delightful associations, who should have fed upon them!"
Among this delectus we lament to find absent the names of Bacon, and Hooker, and Donne, and Ben Jonson; and perhaps, with this addition, the select circle is complete. - "Exactis completur mensibus orbis."
P.342. Mr. Southey here recommends the sermons of South, a divine whose name never comes from his pen without the high praise justly due to him. See his Colloquies, vol.i. p.250. "South, who had the strongest arm that ever wielded a sledge-hammer in this kind of warfare," &c. We could fill our pages with similar commendations of this writer from men whose praise was worth receiving; but space is wanting, and his writings are the best monument of his fame. We will therefore make only two remarks on the subject: one is, that South, in his sermon on Worldly Wisdom, adduces Cromwell as an instance of habitual dissimulation and imposture, and South was an acute observer of mankind; the other is, that Mr. Todd, in his most judicious and able Essay on the Apocalypse, p.4, observes that, "No writer has expressed himself more objectionably on the Apocalypse than South; his language is scarcley reconcilable with a belief in its inspiration. See South's Sermons, Oxf. 1823, ii. p.184. If we recollect rightly, the opinion of Dr. S. Parr on this the Omega of scripture was not very different; but we do not mean to shackle the doctor's orthodoxy with the fetters of our fallible memory.
P.351. "With regard to others whom his Lordship accuses me of calumniating, I suppose he alludes to a party of his friends whose names I found written in the Album de Montanvert, with an avowal of atheism annexed in Greek, and an indignant comment in the same language underneath it. These names, with that avowal and the comment, I transcribed in my note-book, and spoke of the circumstance at my return. If I had published it, the gentleman in question would not have thought himself slandered by having that recorded of him which he has so often recorded of himself."
This extract from the Album at Montanvert, or Chamouny (we do not exactly know which), is, we believe, now in England. The following is an exact copy of it as it stands in the book:-

"1806. 23 Juillet. Percy B. Shelley,
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