ABSTRACT
IT gave Dr. Homily a singular pleasure, that his grandson was born on the day of King Charles’s Restoration, 51 whence he augured he would be a friend to monarchy, and our happy establishment in church and state. A storm, also, the preceding night, blew down the old steeple of a meetinghouse in the neighbourhood, which had long been a great eye-sore to the Doctor; and destroyed a bell, which sounded like a perpetual insult and triumph over episcopacy, in his ears. The ruling elders (knowing his charity) applied to him on the occasion for assistance; but he could not, he said, in conscience, give any thing to such idle mimicry, and presumptuous erections; but he offered them fifty pounds towards an organ, which they refused – and actually gave them twenty, / towards the improvement of the body of their church, or for the relief of their poor.
