eousness, except men be so
afraid to establish their own righteousness, that they will have no
holiness at all, but abandon it quite, for fear of trusting in it, which
is a remedy worse than the disease, because I make it not a ground of my
acceptation before God, but only a naked evidence of my believing in
Christ, and being accepted of God, it being known that these have a
necessary connexion together in the scriptures, and it being also known
that the one is more obvious and easy to be discerned than the other."(60)

It will be thought that the Latin quotations, which the author has
introduced into his sermons, might have been spared. These show a mind
richly stored with classical learning. They are not forced or unnatural.
All of them are appropriate, and many of them singularly felicitous. Still
it will be conceived that they would have appeared with more propriety and
better effect, in an academical disquisition, or a _concio ad clerum_,
than in sermons preached in a country church. But in justice to Binning,
it is proper to observe, he did nothing more than follow the example of
the most celebrated preachers who had preceded him. Bishop Burnet remarks
with considerable severity of the English divines, who appeared before
Tillotson, Lloyd, and Stillingfleet, that their sermons were "both long
and heavy, when all was pye balled, full of many sayings of different
languages."(61) The sermons of the learned Joseph Mede, who died in 1638,
are filled not only with Greek and Latin quotations, but with Hebrew, and
Chaldee, and Syriac. But his biographer very ingenuously admits, that when
he had occasion to quote from a work written in any of the Eastern
languages, if the testimonies were long, Mede usually gave a Latin version
of them, "as judging it perhaps more fit and useful to quote them in a
language which might be understood by all that heard him, even by the
younger students, than to make an astonishing clatter, with many words of
a strange sound, and of an unknown sense to some in the auditory."(62) In
the discourses of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, who outlived Binning we
likewise meet with innumerable quotations, both in Greek and Latin, from
the classics and from the fathers. And though we might be disposed to
infer the contrary, those discourses were not composed for the benefit of
the learned members of a university. As the author himself has informed us
they were all preached at Golden Grove, to the family an