5/11 _Burnet._ The first volume of the Earl of Clarendon's "History" gives a faithful representation of the beginnings of the troubles, though writ in favour of the court .-- _Swift._ Writ with the spirit of an historian, not of [a raker] into scandal. _Burnet._ Dickson, Blair, Rutherford, Baily, Cant, and the two Gillispys ... affected great sublimities in devotion: They poured themselves out in their prayers with a loud voice, and often with many tears. They had but an ordinary proportion of learning among them; something of Hebrew, and very little Greek: Books of controversy with Papists, but above all with the Arminians, was the height of their study .-- _Swift._ Great nonsense. Rutherford was half fool, half mad. |