Welsh Journals

The writer is a man of learning. He has the tongues,' to use a then common phrase an accomplishment with which John Bunyan twits the learned, affirming that Pontius Pilate was the only person in the Bible who could write Hebrew, Greek, and Latin-an opinion which seems to limit the Pentecostal gift to power of speech. On f. 13, taking Exod. 20/15 as text, he writes the Hebrew for Thou shalt not kill,' and transliterates it in English characters. He gives the Greek on ff. 16, 63, 114, 128, 130, 133, 135, 136, 137, 141, 142 the Greek and Latin on ff. 115, 116 (in this last case, without the English). In the English he occasionally varies a little from the A.V., apparently by way of intended improvement, rather than from lapse of memory. Beginning at f. 30 he frequently closes up a sermon with ®eof 86ga from f. 67 he very frequently prefixes to a sermon 5vv ®€<jf. He cites the following authors f. 131 see Bucer on the text at f. 133 verse he gives a brief quotation in Latin from Theoph at f. 113, vid Trap on Acts 20, 24 (this is John Trapp, afterwards ejected) at f. 48 vid Wats. cont. 67 (this is AvrdpKaa, or the Art of Divine Contentment,' 1653, by Thomas Watson, afterwards ejected) at f. 128 verso, vid Byf., p. 98 (this is Nicholas Byfield, it can hardly be his half-brother Richard). Several sermons are noted as for special occasions. There are five Fifth of November sermons, f. 31 (1657, repeated 1696) f. 33 (1658, repeated 1663 and 1701) f. 34 (1659) f. 65 (1660) f. 38 (1664). His interest in this subject is further shown by his transcribing in long hand on f. 30 verso, the anonymous letter (by Francis Tresham), delivered on the evening of 26 Oct., 1605, to Lord Monteagle (Tresham's brother-in- law). See Hist. Eng., 1603-60, by F. C. Montague, 1907.