[1] This interesting phrase occurs in _A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude-Men_, by S. P. (probably Simon Patrick), 1662. [2] S. P. in his _Sect of Latitude-Men_ says: "A Latitude-Man is an image of Clouts [a man of straw] that men set up to encounter with, for want of a real enemy; it is a convenient name to reproach a man that you owe a spite to." [3] Letters of Tuckney and Whichcote in the Appendix to Whichcote's _Aphorisms_ (London, 1753), p. 2. [4] _Aphorisms_, Appendix, p. 53. [5] Culverwel, _Elegant Discourses_ (1654), p. 6. [6] Burnet, _History of His Own Times_ (London, 1850), p. 127. [7] We are dependent, for the few facts which we possess concerning Whichcote's life, on the Sketch of him written by Dr. Samuel Salter, as a Preface to his edition of Whichcote's _Aphorisms_, published in 1753. [8] _Select Sermons_ (1698), p. 30. [9] Salter's Preface, pp. xxii-xxiii. [10] _Ibid._ p. xx. [11] Appendix to _Aphorisms_ (1753), p. 2. [12] Ibid. p. 4. [13] Ibid. p. 7. [14] Ibid. pp. 8 and 13. [15] Ibid. pp. 13 and 14. [16] Appendix to _Aphorisms_, pp. 37-38. [17] _Ibid._ p. 27. [18] Appendix to _Aphorisms_, pp. 53-54. [19] _Ibid._ p. 57. [20] _Ibid._ p. 60. [21] Appendix to _Aphorisms_, p. 125. [22] _Ibid._ p. 127. [23] _Ibid._ pp. 133-134. [24] _Select Sermons_ (1698), p. 149. [25] _Ibid._ pp. 131-133. [26] _Ibid._ p. 88. [27] _Ibid._ p. 109. [28] _Ibid._ p. 74. [29] Proverbs xx. 27. [30] _Aphorism_ 861. [31] _Aphorism_ 934. [32] _Aphorism_ 847. [33] _Aphorism_ 457. [34] _Aphorism_ 444. [35] _Aphorism_ 87. [36] _Aphorism_ 248. [37] _Aphorism_ 220. [38] _Several Discourses_ (1707), iv. p. 259. [39] _Aphorism_ 709. [40] _Several Discourses_, iv. p. 192. [41] _Select Sermons_, pp. 55 and 62 [42] _Select Sermons_, p. 7. [43] _Discourses_, iv. p. 191. [44] _Ibid._ p. 171. [45] _Ibid._ p. 259. [46] _Select Sermons_, p. in [47] _Aphorism_ 302. [48] Quoted almost literally from _Select Sermons_, p. 72. [49] _Ibid._ pp. 32-33. [50] _Select Sermons_, p. 6. He also says in Aphorism No. 109, "God hath set up two Lights to enlighten us in our Way: the Light of Reason, which is the Light of His Creation; and the Light of Scripture which is After-Revelation from Him." [51] _Aphorism_ 587. [52] See _Several Discourses_, iv. p. 173. [53] _Ibid._ ii. p. 275. [54] _Aphorisms_ 1127, 853, and 1028. [55] _Select Sermons_, p. 79; and _Aphorism_ 285. [56] _Select Sermons_, p. 350. [57] _Aphorism_ 367. [58] _Select Sermons_, p. 71. [59] _Aphorisms_ 243 and 625. [60] _Aphorism_ 290. [61] _Aphorisms_ 525, 612. [62] _Aphorism_ 464. [63] _Select Sermons_, p. 86. This will be recognized as in perfect parallelism with Jacob Boehme's teaching, and the parallel is even more striking in the passage where Whichcote says that "Religion must inform the Judgment with Truth and reform the Heart and Life by the _Tincture_ of it." (_Select Sermons_, p. 157). [64] _Aphorism_ 51. [65] _Select Sermons_, p. 42.