'^ Bragging out some of their private tenets, as if
** they were the received established doctrine of the
*' Church of England ; by forcing the words of
^* Articles, or Common Prayer Book, to a sense which
" appeareth not to have been intended therein." —
" Seeking to derive erivy on the opposite opinions ;
** by delivering them in terms odious, and of ill
"^ and suspicious sound." — If Dr. Saunderson had
been endued with a spirit of prophecy, and intended
to describe a work of one of his Anticalvinistic suc-
cessors, what language could he have used more
truly characteristic of the polemical lucubrations of
Dr. Tomline ?



Where could the doctriiKus of the English 13^
formed Church be reasonably expected to appear in
their most genuine form, during the lives ofk$ first
founders and their immediate successOr^^ if iuctf in
the two Universities ? But the doctrine^ novir d(?tH)i!int^
nated Calvbisdc were most distinctly and decidedly
maintained both at Oxford and at Cambridge. Of
the truth of this assertion there exists proof sufficient
to convince any person who is not obstinately deter-
mined to resist the strongeist evidence. I shall con-
tent myself with citing a few of the Theses main-^
tained at Oxford by those who took the degree of
Doctors in Divinity^ in the reign^s of Elizabeth and
James the First.
" Act-Theses and Questions are always (before
" they are either admitted, printed, published, or dis-
" puted on) propounded to a general Convocation
" of the whole.Univeraty, and by them particularly
'^ allowed, voted, and then recorded in the Uniirer^
" sity Register, for a testimony ^ to posterity, as
** orthodox, and consonant to the established doc-
" trine, faith, and articles, of the Church of England.
