Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

§. 3. It is Required of a Bishop, That he be, A Man of Good Behaviour. Our Dr. Goodwin thinks, part of the meaning may be, that a Minister must not be Slovenly, not of such an Unmannerly Carriage as may bring his calling into Contempt. He must avoid all the Rudeness, that uses to flow from Ill Nature, or Ill […]; but be of such a Modest, Comely, Pleasing Behaviour, as to render him fit for the Company of any Gentlemen. Indeed, he should not be too Complemental, or affect the Gesticulations of the Dancing-School; or any Airs, that shall trespass upon Gravity: But yet his Behaviour should have no Incivilities committed in it.—Our Dr. Mather was one so Distinguished, for his Answering ⟨p. 186⟩this Character; and it was a Remark which I have heard so often made upon him; that I could not well avoid just a Touch upon it; That he was one of a very Gentlemanly Behaviour; full of Gravity, with all the Handsome Carriage, as well as Neatness, of a Gentleman; and though his Conversation lay sometimes with Persons of the First Quality, he was never Charged with an Indecency. He was at the same time a great Enemy to, and Censurer of, Loquacity. His Words were Few, as Wise Mens use to be; and much on the Guard, (Bis prius ad Limam quam semel ad Linguam;) Pertinent, and Ponderous, and Forcible. It may be, I am upon too small a matter, and so my Words also shall be but Few upon it.

§. 3. It is Required of a Bishop, That he be, A Man of Good Behaviour. Our Dr. Goodwin thinks, part of the meaning may be, that a Minister must not be Slovenly, not of such an Unmannerly Carriage as may bring his calling into Contempt. He must avoid all the Rudeness, that uses to flow from Ill Nature, or Ill 〈…〉; but be of such a Modest, Comely, Pleasing Behaviour, as to render him fit for the Company of any Gentlemen. Indeed, he should not be too Complemental, or affect the Gesticulations of the Dancing-School; or any Airs, that shall trespass upon Gravity: But yet his Behaviour should have no Incivilities committed in it.—Our Dr. Mather was one so Distinguished, for his Answering ⟨p. 186⟩this Character; and it was a Remark which I have heard so often made upon him; that I could not well avoid just a Touch upon it; That he was one of a very Gentlemanly Behaviour; full of Gravity, with all the Handsom Carriage, as well as Neatness, of a Gentleman; and though his Conversation lay sometimes with Persons of the First Quality, he was never Charged with an Indecency. He was at the same time a great Enemy to, and Censurer of, Loquacity. His Words were Few, as Wise Mens use to be; and much on the Guard, (Bis prius ad Limam quam semel ad Linguam;) Pertinent, and Ponderous, and Forcible. It may be, I am upon too small a matter, and so my Words also shall be but Few upon it.