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THE
NONCONFORMIST'S MEMORIAL ;
BEING
AN ACCOUNT OF TIIE LIVES, SUFFERINGS,
AND
PRINTED WORKS,
OF THE
TWO THOUSAND MINISTERS
Ejected from the Church of England, chiefly by the Act of Uniformity,
Aug. 24, 1666. 1 ttt

ORIGINALLY -WRITTEN BV
EDMUND CALAMY, D. D.

Abridged, Corrected, and Methodised, with many additional Anecdotes
AND
SEVERAL NEW LIVES,

BY SAMUEL PALMER.

"^^t ©econo Coition,

IN THREE VOLUMES.
Embellished with Heads of the principal Divines, chiefly from original Pictures.
VOL. I.

All these (of whom the world was not worthy) have obtained a good report
through J'aith. heb.
BARTHOLO.MEW-DAY was fatal to our Church and Religion, in throwing out a very
great number of worthy, learned, pious, and orthodox Divines. LOCKE.

LONDON:
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Sold also by
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1802.

THE
EDITOR'S PREFACE.

"V/TEMOIRS of the lives and characters of wise
-*•'-*- and good men, especially such as have suffered
for conscience sake, have been generally esteemed
some of the most entertaining and useful publica
tions. Perhaps there never was a body of men
whose history better deserved to be handed down to
posterity, than the ministers ejected from the church
of England, soon after the Restoration of Charles
II. particularly by the Act of Uniform iti/ ; the whole
number of whom was upwards of two thousand*.
" I do not believe (says Mr. Peirce) that any where
" in history an equal number of clergymen, volun-
" tarily leaving their all for a good conscience, can
" be produced. If they did not act from a princi-
* Their enemies have affected greatly to reduce the number. An
anonymous writer, having counted the Names in Dr. Calamy's Index to
hh first edition, (in which he had inserted those only of whom he had
given some account) reports with triumph that the 2000 sufferers, so
much cried up, cannot be raade more than 696, of whom a fourth part
afterwards conformed. See the Dr.'s Answer, in his Pref. to vol. II.
ad edit. p. 19. — From the accurate MSS. catalogue, mentioned page 15
of this Preface, it appears that the writer found the numbers to be no
fewer than 2257. — § Mr. Cotton Mather, in his Hist. Newo Eng. B. Hi.
p. 4, says, " the number was well known to be near five-and-twenty
hundred." Probably there might be several, in obscure places, whose
names Dr. Calamy could not recover. A few such have now been added
to his list. So that, admitting what some have urged, that there are a
- few here introduced without strict propriety, not having been ejected
from the church, those who really were so, are much above 2000.
As they were all voluntai-y in resigning their livings, perhaps they are
not properly said to be " ejected." It is, however, very evident that
tlie new terras of conformity were [fiirposely framed to get rid of them.
Araong other proofs of it, the following anecdote is worth recording.
Mr. George Firmin relates, that a certain lady assured him that, on her
expressing to a member cf parliament, her dislike of the Act pf Uni
formity when it was about to pass, saying to him, " I see you are lay-
" ing a snare in the gate," he replied, " Aye, if we can find any way
" to catch the rogues vve will have thera."
a 2 " pie

iv PREFACE.
" pie of conscience, they were the weakest people
" in the world, for they videre active in their own
" ruin:" whereas, had they but declared their <zi--
sent and consent to the new terms of conformity,
they might have continued in their livings, as others
did,/ and avoided the poverty, disgrace, and perse
cution, which most of them suffered. Their inte
grity, their fortitude, and their faith, ought to be had
in everlasting remembrance. " To let the memory
" of such men die, (says Mr. Peirce) is injurious to
" posterity." Especially as they not only in tliis
instance shewed themselves to be men of principle,
but appeared frora their general deportment men of
singular piety ; peculiarly qualified for their office as
ministers, and uncommonly successful in it.
The Protestant Dissenters, of all denominations,
have ever revpred their memories as the founders of
their churches. Those who have differed the widest
from them in docfrinal sentiment, have highly
extolled their piety and zeal. The encomium "ofthe
late Dr. John Taylor is rernarkable in this view, and
deserves to accompany their memoirs. In remon
strating against the design of some Dissenters in Lan
cashire to introduce a Liturgy, he refers them to the
example of their forefathers ; of whom he gives the
following character : " The principles and worship
of Dissenters are not formed upon such slight foun
dation as the unlearned and thoughtless may ima
gine : they were thoroughly considered, and judi
ciously reduced to the standard of Scripture, and the
writings of antiquity, by a great number of men of
learning and integrity : I mean the Bartholomeiv-di-
yines, or the ministers ejected in the year 1662 : men
prepared to, lose all,and to suffer martyrdom itself, and
Vvho actually resigned their livings, (which with most
of them were, under God, all that they and their fami
lies had to subsist upon) rather than sin against God,
and desert the cause of civil and religious liberty ;
which, together with serious religion, would Iam per-
suade4

PREFACE; r
sUaded have sunk to a yery low ebb in the nation, had
it not been for the bold and noble stand these wor
thies made against imposition upon, conscience, pro
faneness and arbitrary power. They had the best
education England could afford ; most of them were
excellent scholars, judicious divines, pious, faith
ful, and laborious ministers; of great zeal for God
and religion; undaunted and courageous in their
master's work ; keeping close to their people in the
worst of times ; diligent in their studies ; solid, af
fectionate, powerful, lively, awakening preachers ;
aiming at the advancement of real vital religion in
the hearts and lives of men, which, it cannot be de-^
nied, flourished greatly wherever they could in-^
fluence. Particularly, they were men of great devo
tion and eminent abilities in prayer, uttered, as God
enabled them, from the abundance of their hearts
and affections ; men of divine eloquence in pleading
at the throne of grace ; raising and melting the af-^
fections of their hearers, and being happily instru
mental in transfusing into their souls the same spirit
and heavenly gift. And this was the ground of all
their other qualifications ; they were excellent men,
because excellent, instant and fervent in prayer §.
Such were the fathers, the first formers of the Dis
senting interest. And you here in Lancashire had a
large share of these burning and shining lights.
Those who knew them not might despise them, but
your forefathers, wiser and less prejudiced, esteemed
them highly in love for their work's sake. You were
once happy in your Newco7nbs, your Jollies, your
Heywoods, &c. who left all to follow Christ ; but
Providence cared for them, and they had great com
fort in their ministerial services. The presence and
§ This is doubtless a just account j but it ought tp be recollected (as ,
not at all inconsistent with it) that the generality of them had no con-''
scientious objection to a LiTURG-if : that most of them would have used
that of the Church of JJngland, if certain alteratipns, which they pro
posed,, had. been admitted ; and that Mr. Baxter, himself drew up a
Reformed Liturgy for their use, with the approbation of many of his bre-
*l)ren, of which Dr. Calamy has pieserved a copy.
a 3 blessing

vi PREFACE.
blessing of God appeared in their assemblies, and
attended their labours. But now, alas ! we are
pursuing measures which have a manifest tendency
to extinguish the light which they kindled, to damp
the spirit which they enlivened, and to dissipate
and dissolve the societies which they raised and form
ed ! — Let my soul for ever be with the souls of these
men.''— (Scripture Account of Prayer, p. 30.)
Their abilities and learning, as well as their inte
grity and piety, have been acknowledged by many
eminent Conformists themselves. , Not here to men
tion the honourable testimonies of several dignitaries
in the church of England to individuals among them,
(which will appear in the ensuing work) Bp. Bur
net says, " Many of them were distinguished by
*' their abilities and their zeal*." And the great
Mr. Locke, who was well acquainted with several
of them, has left his testimohy, not only to the cha
racters and abilities of the men, but likewise to the
^odness of their cause, and the injustice of the
treatment they met with. The whole passage (of
which a part is selected for our motto) deserves to be
made more generally known, and is therefore here
inserted f.— " After this followeth The Act of Uni
formity, by which all the clergy of England are
obliged tb subscribe and declare what the corpora
tions, nobility and gentry had before sworn ; but with
this additional clause ofthe militia-a.ct omitted. This
the clergy readily complied with ; for you know that
sort of men are taught ra'ther to obey than under
stand, and to use the learning they have to justify,
not to examine, what their superiors command.
And yet, that Bartholomew-day zvas fatal to
our church and religion, by throxning out a very great
number of worthy, learned, ^ious, and or-
¦ THODox divines, who could not come up to this, and
* History of his own Tirae, vol. I. p. 315, iimo edit.
•h Locked PSS. Works, Des Maizeaux, Col. p. 62. Fol, zd edit.
H, 10. Lelter from a per seu ofqualitj. Other

PREFACE. vU
©ther things iri that Act. Arid it is wortti yout know
ledge, that so great was the zeal in carrying oti this
church-affair, and so blind was the obedience re-
(Juired, that if you compare the time of passing the
Act with tlie time allowed for the clergy to subscribe
the book of Common-prayer thereby established, you
shall plainly find, it could not be printed and distri
buted so as one man in forty could have seen and
read the book they did so perfectly assent and con
sent to. — But this matter was not compleat until the
Five-mile-act passed at Oxford.  ^Thus our church.
became triumphant, and continued so for divers
years ; the Protestant Dissenters being the only ene
mies, and therefore only persecuted ; while the Pa
pists remained undisturbed, being by the court
thought loyal, and by our great bishops not danger
ous, they differing only in doctrines and fundame7tt-
als ; but as to the Government of the church, that
was, in their religion, in its highest exaltation."
A late writer, however, has represented the
ejected ministers as destitute both of learning and
sense *. Having censured the method of instruc
tion from the pulpit from the time of Henry VIII. to
that of Chafles I. he proceeds as follows : " Upon
the doWilfall of episcopacy in the latter end bf this
teigh, caiiie in an Unlettered tribe, who did not
mend the raatter at all. They did not indeed (for a
very obvious reason) weary the audience with Latin
arid Greek quotations from the Fathers, but what
they could they did ; they ransacked the Bible from
one end to the other for proofs and illustrations, which
was an inexhaustible fund for ekeing out an extem
porary effusion fo any given length ; and an hour
glass was placed by them, whereby to estimate the
quantity of their labour. Their discourses were di
vided and subdivided, &c, and this indeed was the
ease, in a great measure, of their more learned pre-
* Pi-eface to Miscellany Sermons of several divines of the church of
. Bnglanti in the last century, in 4 vcls. Svo.
3 4 decessers.

viii preface;.
decessors.—Those twelve years of usurpation, so far
as one can judge.from the printed discourses of those
times, did not produce one rational preacher." —
These illiberal and unjust reflections, being thrown
out by a dignitary of the church of England*, and
one distinguished as a writer in another capacity,
ought not to pass unnoticed.
It is true, some illiterate men came into the church
on the downfall of episcopacy, but it is unjust to style
the body of them an unlettered tribe, or the seques
tered clergy their more learned predecessors. It is
certain that many who went out of the church, at
the time referred to, were as illiterate as any that
came in ; and with respect to divinity, (the grand
branch pf pulpit-learning) abundantly more so ; for
many of them could not make a sermon. It is also
certain that many who came in were, in respect to
every branch of literature, upon a full equahty with
any who went out, as were the generality of the
Noncojf 01 mists who had always been in the church. §
And why should it bethoughtotherwi.se? They had
the same advantages, being educated in the same
universities, and their capacities and application to
study were no way inferior. So that if they " did
not weary their audience with Latin and Greek quo
tations," it was not for that reason which Dr. Burn
* So the Editor was stiled in the advertisements ofthe work ; which is
commonly ascribed to Dr. Burn, author of .the Justice of Peace, &c.—
See Monthly Re'vieiv for Dec. 1773, where the above passage is com
mended. A circumstance soraewhat singular, as those writers have been
generally disposed to chastize such high-church prejudice.
§ It ought to be remembered, (but by many is unknown or for
gotten) That the ministers ejected after the Restoration, were not all of
them such as came in during ihe usurpation : far from it. Considerable
numbeis of them had been in the church long before; had been edu
cated in the universities, and several had received episcopal ordination.
Many of them also were averse to the usurpation, and had warmly espoused
the royal cause. Some had even suffered for it, and were among the
most zealous for the Restoration. This may serve as a sufficient answer
to a letter, severely reflecting on the ejected mini.stci-s as having no right
to be in the church and therefore justly expelled ; signed J. Ifatkini,
which first appeared in The Churchtnan's Magazine, No. 4., and was re
printed in The Gentleman's Mag. for August 1801.
1 thinks

PREFACE. ix
thinks vefy obvious, but because they were more so
licitous to answer the great ends of preaching, than
to display their learning. That they could have done
this in the manner it is said their predecessors did,
sufficiently appears from their writings, which as
much abound with Latiii and Greek quotations as
those of any in their times ; and many of them give
sufiicient evidence of their general acquaintance with
the Oriental languages.
That " they ransacked the Bible for proofs and il
lustrations" of what they advanced, does not seem
greatly to their dishonour ; therein they acted, at
least, as much in character as those preachers who
ransack heathen moralists, or more commonly Eng
lish poets and stage-plays, and who scorn to quote a
scripture-passage after they have read their text. If '
some of these ministers preaeied extempore, they did
what many of their successors could not do; and
they were full as pardonable as those that never
preached at all, but were obliged only to read a Ho
mily. The assertion however is not generally true.
Many of them carefully composed their sermons,
of which numbers were printed from their notes ;
though they preached memoriter, as most foreign
divines do. And others had their minds so weil
jstored with ideas on divine subjects, and took such
previous pains to digest them, that they could pro
duce discourses equally worthy the pulpit, with those
ofthe majority ot their later successors, whether they
deliver their own compositions, or adopt the kind
provision made for them by a Trusler, an Enfield, \
or
§ No reflection was here intended on Dr. Enfield, whose superior abi-
iities as a sermonizer are well known. But that gentleman, who was
then a Re-vieiuer, was so much offended with having his name introdu
ced In this connection (though he had lately printed sermofls with the
same design as the other two) that he thought proper to chastize the
,^itor by giving a very disparaging account of 7 he Nonconformisft Me
morial, in the Monthly Review. This information was received from the
late candid Dr. Kippis, himself then a writer in that journal, who men-
^ipn^d th? fact in the strongest terms of disapprobation, It ought how-

X PREFACE.
or a Burn, It should also be remembered that
Whichcote, and other episcopal clergymen, preach
ed without notes, though not without study; which
certainly is no disparagement of any one, but mpre
worthy a christian minister than the mere reading a
sermon like a school-boy: a custom which in many
foreign churches, both popish and protestant, would
not be tolerated. Many discourses taken in short
hand, after both Presbyterians and Episcopalians of
that period, have long since been printed ; and those
ofthe forraer * will bear a comparison with those of
the latter. — As to the length of their sermons, and
the number of divisions in them, the Dr. himself ac
knowledges this was a fault common to both parties.
If the use of an Hour-glass was a crime, it was not
peculiar to the puritanical clergy ; and it was used
in many country churches long afterwards.
This learned writer's closing reflection deserves
peculiar animadversion. — " Those twelve years
" of usurpation, says he, so far as one can judge
" from the printed discourses of those times, did not
" produce one rational preacher." If he uses the
term rational in that irrational sense in which some
have used it, the truth of the assertion will be ad
mitted ; but this can hardly be supposed, from the
complexion ofthe discourses which he has republish
ed. If by a rational preacher he means a solid, ju
dicious preacher, his impartial readers will think,
either that party-zeal has perverted his judgment, or
that he has never seeri the principal of the printed
serraons of these authors. — The censure indeed ex
tends farther than the writer meant it should. Does
not Dr. Burn know^, that many of the preachers,
and sorae who were even proraoted, in the time of
ever to be added here, that the variance which this affair occasioned be
tween Dr. Enfield and the Editor, had subsided long before that respect
able gentleman's lamented death ; and the circumstance would not now
have beeri mentioned, had it not been to shew what caution should be
exercised in relyuig upon the decisions of Reviewers.
* See particularly Howe's Sermons published by Et/am and Fletcher. the

PREFACE. xi
the usurpation, wete siich as afterwards made a dis
tinguished figure in the church of England, and
were among those who (as he expresses it) " laid a
foundation for a glorious superstructure in the suc
ceeding period ?" viz. such men as Reynolds, Wilkiiis,
Lightfoot, Ctidworth, WaUis, Tillotson, &c. Will
he not allow these to have been rational preachers ?
The discourses of some of these very men appear in
his own Miscellany — or will he say they became ra
tional after the usurpation ceased ? But the blow was
aimed at the Presbyterians and Independents. And
win this writer seriously maintain, that there was
not ONE rational preacher amorig these? Did he
never hear of a Bates or a Howe ? Their works have
been esteemed by " dignitaries ofthe church oi Eng-
land," as both rational and learned. And it is well
known that they, with several others of their bre
thren, Ya/ifer " the twelve years of usurpation,") had
the offer of high preferment in the established church.
Their being so conscientious as to refuse it, is surely
no proof that they were unlearned or irrational. Dr.
Bum differs very widely in opinion from some of
.those very clergymen whose works he has reprinted,
who expressed a high idea of the abilities, as well as
the piety of these men, and whose own strain of
preaching much resembled theirs. Had the Dr.
fairly read, as he professes to have done, "' the
printed discourses of those times," he had spared his
illiberal reflections. It would be no difficult matter
to select four w/MWi^i- of discourses from the writings
of the Nonconformists, which should discover as
many marks of learning and rationality, as those con
tained in his miscellaneous collection,^
Dr.
§ It is readily confessed, that there were many preachers and writers
greatly inferior to those referred to above ; and doubtless some misera
ble trash may be found among the publications of those times, which
Dr. Burn may probably have met with. But is it equitable to form an
estimate of all riie reSt from these speciraens ? May not some equally con
temptible peiformancss be picked up among the writers on his own side ?
let

xii PREFACE,
Dr. Calamy's Account of the ejected mi-tiisters has
ever been justly held in very high esteem by Pro
testant Dissenters; and Dissenting Ministers are
particularly interested in it. As it has been many
years out of print, and few comparatively are pos-*
sessed of this rich treasure, a new edition of it was
much wanted. As the work is large, consisting of
four thick octavo volumes, it has been thought ex
pedient to bring it into a smaller compass, by omit
ting some things which are the least interesting, to
render the circulation of it the raore extensive ; as
well as to insert in their proper places the most im
portant of the Author's subsequent additions to al
most every article in the Continuation, which makes
two of the volumes. — It may be proper to give the
reader some account of the manner in which this de
sign is executed, according to the advice of the judi-
dicious Mr. Job Orton, who first recommended the
undertaking. The principal things omitted (besides
many redundancies in the language) are. Copies of
testimonials respecting the ordination of these minis
ters, and their induction into livings; the time and
circumstances of their taking their several degrees ;
sorae of the less curious inscriptions upon their tombs;
and some small compositions of theirs, which might
properly be printed by themselves ; together with
the ill-natured reflections and scandalous stories of
Wood* and Walke}-\ ; and consequently Dr. Cala my's
Let any one look at the examples produced by Roiinson in his Notes up
on Claude, from sermons preached by dignitaries and bishops, before
Lords and Kings both before and after the usurpation, and he will
soon be satisfied that Episcopalians themselves have not all been rational
preachers. ,
* Mr. Anthony Wood, the author oi Athena Oxonienses. The follow
ing character of him by Bp. Burnet (in his letter to the Bp. of Litchfield
and Coventry, p. 9,) will be thought a sufficient answer to all that he
hath written against these good men or any other. " That poor writer
" has thrown together such a tumultuary mixture of stuff and tattle,
" and has been so visibly a tool of some ofthe church of Rome, to re-
" proach all the greatest men of our church, that no man who takes
" care of his own reputation, will take anything upon trust that is said
" by one who has no reputation to lose,"
t y^x.JohttlValker (afterwards Dr.) wrote An Attempt to recover an
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PREFACE. xiii
mys refutation of them ; unless the things in ques
tion appeared to be of importance; in which case a
general account of the matter is retained, with a re»
ference to the original work. Such historical facts
also are left out ofthe meraoirs, as are related in the
Introductory history of the Times ; as likewise sorae
anecdotes respecting particular persons which ap
peared uninteresting or invidious, together with va
rious rainute and trifling circumstances* in some of
the narratives ; as well as those low expressions and
uncandid reflections in which the author too fre
quently indulged. — The lists of Books published by
these worthies are retained, and several additions
made to them. But the Titles of them are generally
abridged. — In a word, the editor has aimed to make
the work as concise as possible, while he has been
careful to retain every thing of importance, particu
larly what appeared most useful in a practical view.
The Introduction to this work is a concise ab
stract ofthe 4th, 5th, Sth, 9th, 12th, 13th, and 14th
chapters of Dr. Calamy's first volume, which is an
Abridgment of Mr. Baxter's Life, relating to the
Times in which the ejected ministers lived, from the
rise ofthe Civil War to the Revolution, intended to
give such readers as are unacquainted with history,
account of the number and sufferings of the clergy, byway of answer to
Dr. Calamy. The Dr. in his Continuation, detects him in Such a num
ber of scandalous falsehoods as plainly shew that, where the characters
of Nonconformists are concerned, he is not to be depended upon. A
genera] Reply to his furious, but weak attempt, may be seen at the end
of Calamy's. 4th vol. intitled. The Church and the Dissenters compared as
to Per secution. See also Neafs History of the Puritans, vol. ii, p. 17, &c.
4to edit. — § A proposal has lately been made to republish Dr. Walker's
Attempt, as an antidote against the effects of the Noncon. Mem. The
editor has no objection to a fair account ofthe lives of good men, of any
description, who have suffered for con.science sake ; nor is he unwilling
to see persecution in any party exposed ; but apprehends that such a vo
luminous ill-written book as this oi Walker will meet with no greater en
couragement now, than it did from sensible churchmen on its first publi
cation. The author proposed a second part, which was never called for,
and this folio volume commonly sells for 5s. — If, however, it should be
reprinted, Dr. Calamy's and Mr. Neal's reujarks upon it ought tobe
republished also.
* Such, for example as those which are found vol. ii. p. 24.2, 273.
ypl. iii, p. 423. a just

yJv PREFACE.
a just idea of their true situation. f It also contains
the substance of the 10th chapter, on the Grounds of
their Nonconformity ; without any part of the Dr.'s
defence of these in his Notes to the 2d edit, in an
swer to the exceptions oi Hoadley and Olyffe. What
relates to Mr. Baxter himself will be found under
his name in Worcestershire. The Historical addi
tions after the Revolution are here entirely omitted.
They would afford good materials for any one who
may undertake to bring down the history of the Dis
senters to the present time; a work much to be desired.
But the present publication is not merely an
abridgment ; some liberties are taken with respect
to the composition, which may well be supposed
needful, when it is considered, that the accounts of
the ministers were drawn up by many different hands,
and evidently inserted much as the author received
them. His additions in the two last volumes could
not with propriety be often subjoined to the first ac
count, but it was found necessary to transpose sen
tences, and incorporate them with the forraer narra
tive. A great number of mistakes also are corrected
with regard to the names and situation of places,
and other minute circumstances, together with some
of importance to the characters of persons. — Addi
tions are likewise made to many original articles,
frora lives, funeral serraons, and other publications.
Several accounts are entirely new written, with
much enlargement. Dr. Calamy having but briefly
mentioned some considerable persons whose lives
had been published, particularly Independents, e. g.
such as Dr. Owen and Dr. Goodivin, &c. referring
the reader to these livesj the editor has procured
such as he could, and extracted the substance of
t Those who are desirous of a more thorough acquaintance with this
part of English history, are referred to Mr. Neai.e's History ofthe Pu
ritans, of which a new edition in octavo was lately published by Dr.
Toulmin, who has added some valuable Notes.— A more concise History
of Nonconformity, in one vol. i2mo, has been printed by Mr. Cornish,
whicli is recommended to young persons, and others wbo have not time
to read the former. — Printed for Conder,
them.

P.REFACE. «v
them. — Various anecdotes of other persons have
been communicated by different correspondents, to
whom the editor makes his grateful acknowledge
ments*. He. was particulary indebted, in various
respects, to Mr, Job Orton, who. bestowed much.
attention on the work : to Dr. Samuel Wilton, who
with great labour exarained the maps of all the coun
ties to ascertain the proper spelling of the names of
places: and to Mr. Robinson of Cambridge, who
carefully examined the Registers of inductions to
livings in Cambridgeshire, and communicated va
rious corrections and additions. Many thanks are
due to Edmund Calamy, Esq. grandson to the au
thor, who kindly favoured the Editor with a curious
and valuable manuscript, drawn up with great la
bour, and presented to Dr. Calamy, with a hand
some Latin dedication, by the Rev. Mr, Williani
Rastrick of Lynne-Regis in Norfolk, the author of
the Letter, at the end ofthe Dr.'s Defence of mode
rate Nonconformity, on his quitting the Church of
England. This MS. is entitled. Index eorwm Theo-
iogorum Aliorumque, No. 2257, Qui propter Legem
Uniformitatis Aiig. 24. Anno 1662^, ab Ecclesia
Anglicana secesserunt. Alphabetico ordine, ac se
cundum Gradus suos dispositus. In this Index not
only are their degrees accurately specified, but like
wise their rank in the church, whether Rectors, Vi
cars, Curates, or Lecturers f ; and the computed
* Valuable communications were received from the following Dissent
ing ministers ; Dr. Philip Furneaux — Dr. S. M, Savage — Dr. Tho.
Gibbons — Dr. Samuel Stennet — Mr. Josiah Thompson — Mr. John Old-
ing — Mr. Jos. Barbet — Mr. Hugh Farmer — Mr. Harmer of Wattesfield:
Mr. B. Fawcett of Kidderminster : Mr. Reynell of Totness : Dr. Toul
min of 7fl«H^oa : Mr. Michaijah Towgood of £jr£^^r : Mr. Isaac Toms of
Hadleigh : Mr. Tho. Howe of TarnKuth : Mr. Moses Gregson of Ronuell.
To this list the editor with peculiar pleasure subjoins the names of the
following clergymen of the establishment^ Mr. John Duncombe, of
Canterbury Cathedral : Dr. Disney of Sivinderby : Mr. Tho. Stedman
of Cheverel: Mr. J. Brqmehead, Hoxton : Mr. John Rhudd of Pottes-
dam, — It is hoped this general acknowledgement will be deeraed suffi.-
cient. To niention the source of information under every article, would
be tedious, and occupy too much space.
t These are expressed by the letters R, V, C, L. D. signifies a Do
native. Perp. C. a perpetual curacy. S. a sequestered living.
2 value

xri PREFACE.
value of a great number oftheir livings. At the end
of it are numerous Addeiida et Emendenda, but
mostly very minute, of which the Editor has availed
himself; as likewise of the MS. notes of a clergy
man, with which he was favoured in the course of
the publication.
With all these helps many articles are yet very
short and imperfect, and the bare Names of a great
number still appear in the list, whose characters and
history are irrecoverably lost for want of a mote
timely care to preserve them. — On the whole, how
ever, it is hoped that the work will be found to have
received no inconsiderable improvements, among
which none of the smallest is, that the Places from
which the ministers were ejected, (before set down
without any kind of method) are disposed in the or
der of the alphabet, for the sake of being the more
readily found. It is presumed also that it will be an
additional recommendation to this work, that it con
tains so many fine portraits of these worthies, almost
all of them taken from original paintings, and exe
cuted by the ablest artists.
The encouragement given to this undertaking by
a very numerous list of subscribers, of various deno
minations, is highly gratifying to the Editor, who re
lies on the candour of the public with respect to such
imperfections as may still be expected in a work of
tliis nature, and requests his pious readers to unite
with him in imploring a divine blessing on this pu
blication, that it raay prove the happy means of re
viving the spirit of primitive Christianity ; of Non-
conformity to a corrupt World; of Zeal forthe rights
of conscience, forthe honour ofChrist, for the cre
dit and success of his institutions, and for the salva
tion of souls, which so eminently distinguished the
original nonconforraits, but which, alas! hath of
late so visibly declined amongst their successors.
Hackney, ^o.. i , | ^^^^^^ PALMER.

POSTSCRIPT
TO THE SECOND EDITION.

T5EING encouraged by the increasing demand for this work,
^^ to undertake a new edition'; I gladly embrace the op
portunity now afforded of bringing forward a considerable
number of articles -which -were leceived too late to be inserted
in the former; together -with many important additions and
corrections since made, in consequence of further researches,
and the friendly communications of -various corresponderits.
Thc'chief additions which I have made are from scarce Fu
neral Sermons and Lives, -which have fallen into my hands
since the -work -Was first published, and from the Farewell
Sermons of the most distinguished of the London ministers'*,
the extracts from -which, in some instances, -will supply the
defects in the biographical narratives, and throw considerable
light on the characters of the men. — 'Sdme new lives have
also been inserted, principally from Mr. Cotton Mather's
History of New England, the most considerable of -which is
that of Mr. John Bailey, whose name had not been before
mentioned. Many other additions and corrections have been received
since the circulation of the proposals for this new edition,
from different persons, to whom particular acknow'ledge-
ments will be made in the close ; as likewise to others who
may hereafter contribute towairds the perfection of this work.
But in this place must be mentioned the special obligations
which the public are under to Mr. Isaac James of Bristol,
who has bestowed great pains in examining various records
which had not before ibeen consulted.
Besides the above improvements, the reader must be in
formed, that greater liberties have now been taken than had
* The Country-collection, intitled England's Remembrancer, I was not
able to procure till the first volume of this edition was nearly printed off. I
intended to have enriched the work with extracts from these discourses,
-which arc generally more appropriate, and more perfect, than most in the -
London-coWeclwa. But to do justice to them, I feared would swell these vo
lumes too much. If however there should be found room at the end of the
work, probably some of the most striking passages may be subjoined by way
of Appendix. The volume contains eighteen discourses, making near 600
pages, Svo. The names of the preachers are not mentioned, but Dr. Calamy
has supplied that defect, b been

POSTSCRIPT.
been before, with the original composition, which has been
amended throughout ; sothat this may be considered as be
ing, in a manner, a new work : which is mentioned to satis
fy such persons as haye intimated, that the improvements in
this edition should have been separately printed for the ac
commodation of those who were possessed ofthe former.
In consequence ofthe great quantity of new matter which
has been introduced, it was found necessary to make an addi
tional volume. It is to be regretted that this edition is so
much more expensive than the former was : but if the addi
tional price of paper, which is now doubled, and the increased
expence of printing, be duly considered, this will be allowed
to have been unavoidable.
It is proper here to inform the reader, that this mark*,^*
signifies, that the article to which it is prefixed, was, in the
former edition, entirely or for the most part new.
These Brackets [ } were used chieJLy to distinguish the
Editor's former additions, from the original work ; but some
times now occur to denote supplementary words in the new
articles. This * prefixed to the name of a place, signifies that it is
doubtful whether that be the place intended, or whether it
be the true spelling.
§ Denotes that the Life, paragraph or note, to which it is
prefixed, is entirely new, and peculiar to this edition.
If any articles of moment should be dico-vered hy the edi
tor, or received from correspondents, too late to he inserted
in their proper places, they will be printed as Addenda, at
the close of the volumes, as in the Biographia Britannica ,-
together with such mistakes, o.r typographical errors as may
be discovered, which it is almost impossible wholly to avoid,
S.P.
Hackney, Oct. 1, 180J.

THE
MEMORIAL.
INTRODUCTION.

containing a brief history of the times in which the ejected
ministers lived, from the rise of the civil war to the
revolution: with the reasons of their
nonconformity.

Extracted from Dr. Calamy's Abridgment ofthe Life of Mr. Baxter.

MR. RICHARD BAXTER, in the history of his life,
published by Sylvester, has made some remarks on
the occurrences of the Times in which he lived, from the-
rise of the civil war, which began soon after his settlement
2A. Kidderminster [viz. in the reign of Charlesi. 1641.)
not unworthy the notice of posterity ; the substance of which .
may properly serve as an Introduction to this account of the
ejected ministers ; in which his own life (being the original
ground- work of Dr. Calamy's work) will make a distin
guished figure among the Nonconformists in Worcestershire.

SECT. I.

A brief Account of the Civil War, to the Death of
Charles I.
THE nation had for some .time been under great discon
tent, on account of the .shameful attacks which had
been made, by those in power, both on its civil and reh
gious liberties. The general cry was for justice in the
punishment of delinquents ; which greatly alarmed the king
and his favourites, -who none of them knew how soon his
own turn might come. The guilty judges were deeply ac
cused in parliament, and some of them imprisoned, on account
VOL. I. B of

S INTRODUCTION.
oi Ship-money *. But the most obnoxious persons were Lord
Deputy Wentworth V.^xloi Strafford, and Abp. Laud. They
were sent to the Tower, condemned and beheaded, for sub-
-verting the fundamental laws and liberties of their country.
Soi-ne were for giatifying the king by spaiing Strafford, but
others were vehein^nt against it ; the Londoners petitioned
the house for justice, and followed their pelitions with cries
and clamours. He was at length condemned, and the king
signed the bill, by the advice of several bishops.
There was great heat among the members of parliament m
the debates which this matter occasioned. Some were much
against displeasing and provoking the king, and thought
themselves; not obliged to attempt any acts of justice or refor
mation, but what they could bring him to consent to. Eut
others were for exerting themselves to the utmost, at all ad
ventures, to reform abuses, and recover and defend their li
berties. " If, say they, the fears of foreseen, opposition shall
make us betiay our country and posterity, we are perfidious
to them, enemies to ourselves, and worse than infidels," &c.
Thus were mens minds divided : but some unhappy means
fell out to unite them, and lead them into a war.
, . The king had a considerable party that adhered to him, made
up both of state politicians, and friends of the ecclesiastical
hierarchy ; who jointly set themselves against the parliament,
not only because of their apprehended encroachments on tbe
civil: power, but, also because of the church reformation in
tended. But the country party carried all things with a high
hand, depending upon the assistance of true-hearted English
men if matters came to extremity. Many things heightened.
these discontents. The London apprentices (encouragjed by
some members of parliament) in a tumultuous manner brought
up their petitions to Westminster, insulting the bishops as
they were going to the house. On account of these tumults,
the king did not think himself safe, either in the city or
near it.
Great were the jealousies between him and his parliament,'
which were many ways increased. The two armies of Scots
and; English remained undisbanded, in the north, till the
parliament should provide for their pay. The English array,
wanting pay, were discontented, and, entertained a design to
march suddeiily to London, and master the parliament. The

* A t.-ix laid upon the several port-lowns, with the assistance of the
counties adjoining, for providing a ship of war for the king's service. pailiament.

INTRODUCTION. 3
parliament, to prevent insults, provided a guard, which they
considered as their privilege. The king discharging this
guard, set another upon them of his own choosing. This
made them look like prisoners ; and they feared that the
guard appointed by the king, would, if commanded, become
the executioners of his wrath upon them. Upon which they
dismissed them, and called for a guard of the city regiments.
At length the king, being advised no, longer to stand by and
see himself affronted, took an unprecederited step in going
suddenly to the House of Commons, with a company of cava
liers, with swords and pistols, to charge five of their mem
bers with high treason, viz. Mr. Pym, Mr. Hampden, Mr.
Hollis, Mr. Strowd, Sir Arthur Hasilrigg, and Lord Kim-
bolton, afterwards Earl of Manchester, and Lord Chamber
lain. But, having had notice, they absented themselves.
The house, being hereupon alarmed, voted this action a
breach of their privileges, and an effect of the king's evil
counsellors ; and published their votes, to awaken thepeople
to an apprehension of danger. The king being disappointed,
published a paper, in which he charged the aforesaid persons
with treason, as stirring up the apprentices to tumultuous
petitioning, ifc. but he confessed his error in thus violating
their privileges.
But there was nothing that wrought so much with the peo
ple as the Ii'ish massacre and rebellion ; in which thelrish pa
pists were said to have murdered two hundred thousand pro
testants. The Irish declared, they had the king's commis
sion for what they did : and many even at that time, weigh
ing all circumstances, believed it to be fact ; while others re
presented it as an unjust and scandalous aspefsion upon his
Majesty*. All England was now filled with fear; forthe-
7mA threatened, that when they had done -With the handful
that was left in Ireland, they would come into England,
and do the same with the parliament and protestants here,.
It was therefore thought necessary for the parliament to put
the country into an armed posture, for their own defence.
At length the king left Lo?idon, and marched to Hull,
where entrance was denied him by Sir John Hotham. The
parliament published their votes to the people, " That the
king, misled by evil counsel^ was raising a war against his par-

*= N. B. This matter has never yet been thoroughljr cleared. Dr.
Calamy considers the story of the Marquis of Antrim as decisive against the
king, — See Bennett's Mem. Ref. and fVel-wood's Memoirs.
B 3 liament,"

4 INTRODUCTION.
liament." They named lord lieutenants for the militia of
the several counties ; the king named others by a commis
sion of array, and each commanded the said lord lieutenants
to settle the militia. Both king and parliament published
their declarations, justifying their cause. — The king went to
Nottingham, where he set up his standard. There were but
about 2000 that came in to him there ; whereas the London
ers quickly filled up a gallant army for the earl of Esse.v, the
parliament's general ; and the citizens brought in their money
and plate, and the women their ringj, to Guildhall, to sup
port it. The king offered a treaty, and sent some general
proposals. The parliament sent him nineteen proposals of
their own: offering, " That if he would disband his army,
come to his parliament, give up delinquents to a legal course
of justice, &c. he should find them dutiful."
In this contest the generality of the nobility were on the
king's side. Most of their tenants followed them, and most
of the poorer sort of people through the nation. On the
parliament's side, were the smaller part of the gentry in most
counties, the greatest part of the tradesmen and freeholders,
and the middle sort of men, especially in those corporations
and counties which depend on cloathing, and such manufac
tures. To them also adhered the far greater part of those
through the nation, who were friends to a religious strictness,
and enemies to formality and profaneness, superstition and im
morality. It was not indeed properly bcllum episcopate, the
bishops war, though by many so stiled. For thousands who
wished for good bishops, were on the parliament side ; and the
generality of those who were called Puritans and Precisians,
and were for serious godliness, both ministers and people, ad
hered to the parliament. On the other side, they who were
for a loose kind'^of life, both ministers and people; against
the strict observation of the Lord' s-day , and fond of recreati
ons at those sacred seasons ; who placed all their rehgion in
going to church, and hearing Common-prayer ; who were
against serious preaching, and for running down all who were
stricter than themselves ; these adhered all along to the king.
This circumstance alone determined multitude.s. of sober
and honest persons which side to take. The nation was long
before divided into two parties, with respect to religious mat-
tcrs ; the brief consideration of the rise and progress of which
division, throws not a little light on the animosities which
at that time prevailed. It

INTRODUCTION. 5
It unhappily fell out in the days of Queen Mary, that our
/fif/bFOTtfribeingfugitivesati'^awA/ori, fell into a division: one
part of them were for Diocesans, and the English liturgy and
ceremonies, that they might notdepart more than was necessary
from the Papists, nor seem inconstant by departing from what
King ^rfwa re? had begun. Theother were for Ca/u/w'^ disci
pline and way of worship ; for the setting up of parochial disci
pline, and for a plain and simple way of worship, suited as
neaf as possible to the word of God. When these two parties
returned to England, the Z^z'ocejan party got QueenElizaheth's
countenance, and their way established. The, other party
were discountenanced, and suppressed by law. The latter
nevertheless were fervent preachers, and of holy lives : and
so indeed were many of the bishops also in those days. But
when Je'wel, Pilkinton, Grindal, &c. were dead, many suc
ceeded them of another stamp. The silenced Disciplinarians
(as they were stiled) did by their writings, secret conference,
preaching, and godly lives, work much upon such as were
religiously disposed. So that this opinion spread very much,
" That a just parochial discipline would very m-uch reform
the church, and that Diocesans by excluding it cherished
vice." The prelatical party finding their places and power,
lands and lordships, assaulted by this opinion, thought it ne
cessary more and more to suppress the promoters of it. Here
upon, putting episcopacy, liturgy and ceremonies, into the
subscriptions which they imposed on all that would be minis
teis or school-masters, they kept out or ejected many worthy
and able men. Whereas, many bishops preached but seldom,
and abundance of places had ignorant readers who could not
preach, or weak preachers whose performances were very
mean, and many of them were also scandalous in their lives ;
so that many thousands of the people were perishing in ig
norance and sin for want of help.
Hereupon, the Disciplinarians cried out ofthe severity and
impositions of the prelates : and they on the other side, vehe
mently inveighed against the Nonconformists. They called
them P'U.ritans, which was the name whereby they were com
monly known. And in process of time, the vicious multitude
called all Puritans who were strict and serious, and of holy
livfes, though ever so conformable. So that the same name in
a bishop's mouth, signified a Nonconformist ; and in ari igno-
t^nlAt\ifiV3,xA'5qvsvie'irer''smo\ith,'a. godly obedient christian.
Now the ignorant rabble, hearing that the bishops were against
the Puritans, were the more enraged against all those to
B 3 whom

£ INTRODUCTION.
whom they gave that name. They cried up the bishops,
partly because they wei'e against the Puritans, and partly
because they were earnest for that way of worship which
they found most suitable to their ignorance, carelessness and
fotmality ; and thus the interest ofthe Diocesans, and of the
prophane and ignorant, was unhappily united.
Many also were prejudiced against the bishops, by observ
ing that fasting, praying, and other religious exercises, were
punished in the High-Co imnission and the Bishops Courts^ as
if they were worse than common-swearing and drunkenness :
And it added to their disturbance, to have a book published
for recreations on the Lord's-Day, with the bishops' appro
bation, as if they concurred with the prophane : That after
noon sermons and lectures, tho' carried on by Conformists,
were put down in divers counties : That so many pious mi
nisters were suspended or punished for not reading the Book
of sports, and for neglecting th-e ceremonies, &c. and so ¦
many thousand families, and so many worthy ministers were
driven out of the land : That bowing towards altars, and
otber innovations, were daily biought in by the Hyper-
conformists, none knowing where they would end: And
finally, that the bishops proceeded so far, as to swear men to
their whole government by the et ccetera oath, and that
they approved of ship-money and other such encroachments
on their civil interests. These were the causes why so many
of those who were counted most religious fell in with the
parliament. It hath indeed been asserted, " That seditious preacha-s
stirred up the people, and were the cause of all the commo
tions ;" which is a notorious falsity. Many indeed disco
vered their dislike of the Book of S,ports, bowing to altars,
putting down afternoon sermons, silencing rainisters, Kc.
and were glad that the parliament attempted a reformation ;
but very few, even of these, had any concern in promoting
the war, of which they dreaded the consequences. And it
is certain, that of those who were more or less active in the
business, almost all were Conforming ministers ; the laws
and bishops having cast out the Nonconformists before.
They who made up the assembly at Westminster, and who
thro' the country were the honour of the parliament's party,
were almost all such as had till then conformed, esteeming
some things to be lawful in case of necessity, though they
longed, to h^ve th^it necessity removed.
The

INTRODUCTION. -;
The mention ofthe Westminster Synod, sieems to require
some account of it. This was not a convocation accord
ing to the Diocesan way of government, nor was it called
by the votes of the ministers according to the Presbyterian
way ; but the parhament chose all the members themselves,
merely with a view to have their opinion and advice for set
tling the government, liturgy, and doctrine of the church of
England. And they were confined in their debates to such
things as the parliament proposed. Some counties had two
members, and some but one. And because they would seem
impartial, and give eachpartv the liberty to speak, they chose
many of the most learned episcopal divines ; as Abp. Usher,
Dr. Holdsworth, Dr. Hammond, Dr. Wiyicop, Bp. Westford,
Bp. Prideaux, Bp. Bromnrigg, Dr. Sanderson, Dr. Hacket,
and others to join with them ; but few of themcame, because it
was not a legal convocation, the king having declared against
it. Dr. Featly, who was one of them, being charged with
sending intelligence to the king at Oxford pf what passed in
synod and parliament, was imprisoned. The divines, (of
whora a list is given below*) were men of eminent learning and

jtor.igess, D D. )
^' c
ite, Dorchester, )

* William Twiss, D. D. Newbery,
Prolocutor.
Corn. Buigess,
Watford, J- Assessors,
John White,
William Gouge, D. D. Blackfryars.
Robert Harris, B. D. Hanwell.
Tho. Gataker, B. D. Rotherhitke.
Oliver Bowles, B. D. Sutton.
Edward Reynolds, D. D. BramHon,
Jeremiah VVhitaker, M. A. Stretton.
Antony Tuckney, B. D. Boston.
John Arrowsmith, Lynn.
Simeon Ashe, St. Bride's.
Philip Nye, Kimlolton.
Jeremiah Burroughs, M. A, Stepney.
John Lightfoot, D, D, Ashly.
Stanley Gower, Bramjiton.Bryan.
Richard Heyricke, M, A. Manchester.
Thomas Case, London. ^
Thomas Temple, D. D, Baitcrsea.
George Gipps, Aylestone.
Thomas Carter, Oxford.
Hum. Chambers, B. D. Clavcrton.
Tho. Micklethwaite, Cherryburton.,
John Gibbon, Walthm.
Christ. Tisdale, Uphurstborne,
John Pliilips, iVremham, B

George Walker, B. D.
Edm. Calamy, B. D. AtdirrtLanhmy.
Joseph Caryl, M. A. Lmcolm-lyin.
Lazarus Seaman,' D.D. London,
Henry Wilkinson, B, D'. PFaddesdon.
Richard Vines, M. A, Calcot.
Nicholas ProfFet, Marlborough.
Steph, Marshal, B, D. Fiiii:hingfelJ.
Josinia Hoyle, D. D. Dublin,
Thomas Wilson, Otham.
Thomas Hodges, B. D. Kensington.
Thomas B.iyly, B. D. Munmgford-
Bruce,
Francis Taylorj M. A. Yalding,
Thomas Young, St'>^u-markel.
Thomas -Valentine, B. D. Chalfont St.
Gi/es.
Williatn Greenhili, 5/f/wy,
' Edward Pezlc, Compton.
John Green, Fencombc.
Andrew Pern, /fi/i)/,
Samuel dc la Place, French church,
John dc la IVJarch.
John Dru)y.
Philip Delmc.
Sydrach Symiison, London.
John Langley, West fuderlf.
Richard Cleyton, Showet,
4 ' Arthur

8 INTRODUCTION.
and godliness, ministerial abilities and fidelity. Many lords
and commons were joined with them, to see that they did not
go beyond their commission*. Six or seven Independents
were added to them, that all sides might be heard. Five of.
these, viz. Mr. Philip Nye, Mr. Thomas Goodwin, Mr.
Jeremiah Burroughs, Mr. Sydrach Sympson, and Mr. Wil
liam Bridge, were called the Dissenting Brethren. They
joined with the rest, till they had drawn up the Confession if

Arthur Salwey, Severn Stoke.
John Ley, M, A, Budnvorth.
Charles Herle, M, A. Winiuick, (Pro
locutor after Dr. Twiss.)
Herbert Palmer, B. D. Ashiuell, (As
sessor after Mr. White.)
Daniel Cawdrey, M, A,
Henry Painter, B. D. Mxeter.
Henry Scudder, Collingbourne.
Thomas Hill, D, D, Tichmarsh.
William Reynor, B, D. Egham.
Thomas Goodwin, D, D, London.
Wilham Spurstow, D.D. Hampden.
Matthew Newcomen, Dedham.
John Conant, D. D. Lymington.
Edmund Staunton, D. D. Kingston.
Anthony Burgesse, Sutton-Coldfield.
William Rathband, Highgate,
Francis Cheynel, D.D. Pettvorth.
Henry Wilkinson, Junior, B. D,
Obadiah Sedgwick, B, D. Coggeshall.
Theodore Backhurst, Overton-Wa-
iewile.
Edw. Corbet, Merton-Collcge, Oxon.
Samuel Gibson, Burley.

Thomas Coleman, M. A. Bliton.
William Carter, London.
Peter Smith, D. D. Barkway,
John Maynard, M. A.
William Price, Covent-Garden,
John WinCop, D. D. St. Martin's.
William Bridge, M. A. Yarmouth.
Peter Sterry, London.
William Mew, B. D. Msington.
Benjamin Pickering, East Hoathly.
John Strickland, B. D. Nevj-Sarum_.
Humphrey Hardwicke.
Jasper Hickes, M. A. Laturick.
John Bond.
Henry Hall, B. D. Noriuich.
Thomas Ford, M. A.
Thomas Thorowgood, Massingham.
Peter Clark, M. A. Carnaby.
WilUam Goad.
John Foxcroft, Gotham,
[ohn Ward.
Richard Byfield,M. A.
Francis Woodcock, Cambridge. ¦
J. Jackson, Cambridge.

Tie Commissioners for Scotland ivere

The Lord Maitland,
Alexander Henderson.
George GiUespie,

Samuel Rutherford.
Robert Baylie.

The Scribes ivere

Henry Robrough. John WaUis. Adoniram Byfield.

* Algernon Earl of Northumber
land,
WiUiam Earl of Bedford.
Philip Earl of Pembroke.
WiUiam Earl of Salisbury.
Henry Earl of Holland,
Edward Earl of Manchester.

Lord Viscount Say and

V/iUiam Seal.
Edward Lord Viscount Conway
Phihp Lord Wharton,
Edward Lord Howard.
John Selden, Esq ;
Francis Rous, Esq ; Edmund

INTRODUCTION. 0
if Faith, and larger and smaller Catechism : but when they-
came to church-government, they engaged them in long
debates, and kept the matter as long as they could undeter
mined : And after that, they kept it so long unexecuted in
almost all parts of the land, except London and Lancashire,
that their party had lime to strengthen themselves in the
army and parliament, to hinder the execution, and keep the
government determined upon, a secret to most people in the
nation, who knew it but by hearsay. This assembly first
met July 1, 1643,-* in Henry VII's, chapel.
Among other parts of their trust, one was to approve of
all that should be admitted into any Church-Livings. They
had no power to put any out, but only were to judge of the
fitness of such as were taken in. The power of casting
out was in a committee of members of parliament at Lon
don, and partly also in the committees of the several coun
ties. Those that were sequestred were generally, by the
oaths of several witnesses, proved insufficient or scandalous,
or both ; especially guilty of drunkenness and swearing.
The able and pious preachers, who were cast out for the
war alone, or for opinion's sake, were comparatively few.
It is pity indeed there were any And tho' now and then aa
unworthy person, by sinister means, crept into their places,
yet commonly those who were put in, were such as set

Edmund Prideaux, Esq ; Sir Benjamin Rudyard, Knt.
Sir Henry Vane, Senior, Knt. John Pym, Esq :
John Glyn, Esq; Recorder of Lon- Sir John Clotwotthy, Knt.
don. John Maynard, Esq ;
John White, Esq ; Sir Henty Vane, Junior, Knt.
Bulstrode Whitelocke, Esq; William Pierpoint, Esq ;
Humphry Sallw.iy, Esq ; William Wheeler, Esq ;
Mr. Serjeant Wild. Sir Thomas Barrington, Knt.
Oliver St. John, Esq; his Majesty's AValter Young, Esq;
Solicitor. Sir Johu Evelin, Knt.
* The most remarkable hints concerning tlieir debates, that are published
to the world, arc tobe met with in the life of Dr. Lightfoot, before his works
in folio, and in the preface to his remains in oc;avo ; lor whicli we are in
debted to the ingenious Mr. Stripe,
After petitioning for a fast, they drew tip a letter to the if'/orwsic&rfto
abroad, with an accountof their design, and then presented to the parliament
? Confession of Faith, a Larger ztidShortfr Catechism,, (the List of vvhiclT.has been
in such general use amongst Dissenters) a Directory for public Worship, zni
Iheir Humble Advice concerning Church Government.
There is a work which is commonly, but unjustly, ascribed to the assem
bly, viz. The Annotatims on the Bible. The truth is, the same pnrliament
that called the assembly, employed the authors of tliat work, and several of
j[hem were members of the assembly. themselves

30 ¦ INTRODUCTION.
themselves laboriously to seek the saving of souls. But to
return. As the parliament was afterwards on the rising side, it
had undoubtedly been both their wisd.^m and the nation's
interest, to Jiave kept some bounds without running things
to extremity. Had they endeavoured only the ejection of
Lay-chancellors, the reducing the dioceses to a narrower
compass, or the setting up a subordinate discipline, and the
correcting and reforming the liturgv, so as to leave nothing
justly exceptionable, in all probability it had been patiently
borne, and the confusions the nation afterwards run into had
been prevented. For Bj). Usher, Williams, and Morion,
and raany other episcopal divines, agreed with thern in cer
tain points of reformation ; and, if these would have suf
ficed, were likely to have fallen in heartily with the parlia
ment's interest. But finding an universal change insisted
upon, and that nothing short ofthe utmost extremity would
satisfy, they turned against the parliament and their interest,
and were as much displeased as any.
The king marching from Nottingham to Shrewsbury,
filled up his army out o( Shropshire, Worcestershire, Here
fordshire, and Wales. And the Earl of Essex marched
with a gallant army to Worcester, A. D. 1642. Many ex
cellent divines were chaplains to the several regiments. Mr.
Stephen Marshal and Dr. Burgess, to the general's own
regiments. Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick, to Col. Hollis's re
giraent. Dr. Calibute Downing, to Lord Roberts's regi
ments. Mr. John Sedgwick, to the Earl of Stamford's re
giment. Dr, Spurstow, to Mr. Hampden's. Mr. Perkins,
to Col. Goodwin's. Mr. Jfoor, to Lord Wharton's. Mr.
Adoniram Byfield, to Sir Henry Cholmley's. Mr. Nalton,
to Col. Grantham's, Mr. Simeon Ashe, either to Lord
Brook's or the Earl of Manchester's. Mr. Morton of
Ke-dKastle, with ^ir Arthur Hasilrigg's troop ; with many
more.— On October the 23d, 1 642, was the battle at Edge-
Hill, between the two armies ; in which the advantage was
on the parliament's side. The king's army drew off towards
Oaf ord, and Essex's, towards Coventry, for refreshment.
There were many other battles, described by the historians
of those times, who may be consulted by such as desire further
information. The great cause of the parliament's strength, and the
king's ruin, was, that the debauched rabble thro' the land,
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INTRODUCTION. 1 1
soldiers of his army, took all that were called Puritans
.for their enemies. And though -some ofthe king's gentry
and superior officers behaved with civility, that was no secu-
jity to the country, while the multitude did what they ligted.
So that if any one was noted for a strict and famous preacher,
or for a man of piety, he was either plundered or abused, and
in danger of his life. And if a man did but pray in his fa
mily, or repeat a sermon, or sing a psalm, they presently
cried out Rebels, roundheads, Kc. and all their money and
portable goods were proved guilty, how innocent soever they
were themselves. This filled the armies and garrisons of the
parliaraent with sober, pious men.- Thousands had no mind
to meddle with the wars, but greatly desired to live peaceably
at-home, but the rage of soldiers and drunkards would not
suffer them. Sorae stayed till they liad been imprisoned ;
some till they had been twice or thrice plundered, and had
•nothing left th€m. Some were quite tired out with the
abuse of all that were quartered on them ; and some by the
insolence oftheir neighbours. But raost were afraid of their
lives ; and so sought refuge in the parliament's garrisons.
After the war bad been carried on for some tirae, with
great uncertainty in what it would issue ; there was at length
a great change made on the parliament's side, which had
considerable consequences. The Earl of Essex, being
weakened by a great loss in Cornwall, was laid by, and ano
ther general chosen. One reason given for this change was,
:the dissoluteness of many of his soldiers, who were grown
too much like the king's in profaneness and lewdness : and
besides, it was urged, that the revolt of Sir F. Fortescue,
Sir R. Greenville, Colpnel Urry, and others, was a suffi
cient evidence that they who had not a sense of religion,
were not much, to be trusted, but might easily be hired by
money to betray them. It was discovered, that tbe earl's
Judgment was against ending the war by the sword, and, that
he and the wisest men about him, were for aiming only to
force a pacificatory treaty. But the main spring oi the alter
ation was, the pirevalence of the Sectarian interest in the
house, joined 'w'vih Cromwell's in the array, which now
began to carry all before it. Many honest and inteUigent
people i(ideed were for new modelling the army, putting put
the looser men, and taking in those whp were mpre strict
and sober,; but Fane and CromweU p'mmg together,. carried
on their own particular interest st^cccssfullyy ; The method
they took iox compassing this design v('ithout disturbance,
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12 INTRODUCTION.
by stirring up against themselves the forces they disbanded,
was by a self-denying votfe in the house : " That because
commanders in the army had much pay, and merabers of
parliament should keep to the service of the house, therefore
none of the latter should be merabers of the army." This
put out at once the Earls of Essex and Manchester, the two
generals, and Sir William Waller, a valiant major-general,
with many colonels ; and to avoid suspicion, Cromwell
himself was put out at the first. They then chose Sir Thomas
Fairfax General, as being neither too great to be coramand
ed by the parliament, nor too subtil for Cromwell to make a
tool of. He being chosen, Cromwell's men could not be
without Az'm; and therefore the self-denying vote must be
thus far dispensed with, that Cromxi'ell may be in the army,
though no other member of the house were allowed it ; and
so he was raade lieutenant-general.
The array being thus new modelled, was really in the
hands oi Cromwell, though seemingly under i'7aV/a«'5 com
mand. Not long after the change, was the battle at Naseby,
A. D. 1645, where the king's army was totally routed and
put to flight, and about 5000 taken prisoners, with all the
king's ordnance and carriage, and abundance of his letters to
the queen and others in his cabinet. These letters the par
liaraent printed, thinking they contained such things as
greatly clouded the reputation of his word and cause. Crom-
well'in the army did all, and chose alraost all the bfficers.
He first made Ireton comraissary-general ; and by degrees
headed the greatest part of the army with Separatists of
seveial denominations, and united all together by the point
of liberty of conscience. Sir Henry Vane procured the
house to disband alraost all the honest county forces and
garrisons, which raight have opposed them in their designs,
and so the army went on with little fear of opposition. The
next design of Fafie and Cromwell was, to use the array to
model the parliament. With this aim they stirred up the
house to pass some votes, which they knew would be most
displeasing to the army, and then stirred up the army to the
deepest resentment. The parliament voted. That part of
the army should go to Ireland. At Triploe-Heath they
entered into an engagement to hold together, and were draw
ing up a declaration of their grievances. Colonel Hurley
accjuainted the house with it. Cromwell denied it, althouo-h
deep in the secret, as he afterwards acknowledged. The
parliament ordered all that were faithful to forsake them ;
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INTRODUCTION. 13
which several ofHcers, and many comraon soldiers, did ; but
these not being able to make a body to resist those that re
mained, ,it proved a great addition to their strength : For now,
all that were against them being gone, they filled up their
places with men of their own raind, and so were ever after
the more unaniraous. — Upon this, Cromwell and his adhe
rents advanced in their design, carae nearer the city, and
drew up an impeachment against eleven of the most active
members of the house ; and forced the house to exclude
thera, as under accusation, but let fall their suit, and never
proved them guilty. The city now took courage, and were
for defending the parliament ; but the array speedily advanc
ing, their hearts failed thera, and they let the army enter the
city in triumph. Whereupon, several of the accused mem
bers fled into France. A. D. 1.647.
As for the king, when Oxford was besieged by the parlia
ment's forces, having no array left, he escaped to th6 north,
and cast himself upon the Scots, who lay therewith an army.
The Scots were puzzled how to act in this critical juncture :
After long consultations, the terror of the conquering army
made them deliver him to the parliament's coraraissioners,
upon condition that his person, should be preserved in safety,
and honour, and that their array should have half the pay
due to them advanced immediately. The parliament here
upon appointed Col. Greaves, and Major-General Brown,
to attend the king at Holmby-House in Northamptonsliire.
Col. Joice by concert with the leading part of the army,
fetched hira thence, and kept hira amongst them, till they
came to Hampton-Court, where he was guarded by Col.
Whalley. The army fawned upon the king at first ; blamed
the austeritv of the parliament, who had denied film the at
tendance of" his chaplains, and of his friends; gave them
liberty to come to him, and pretended that they would pro
tect him from the incivilities of the parliament and the pres
byterians. But all on a sudden they began to cry for justice
upon him. A council of agitators -was chosen, who drew
up a paper called, The agreempit of the people, as the
model of a new comraoriwealtll. Cromwell seemed to be
against them ; and while they were contending, a letter
came to Col. W.halle'y, frora an unknown hand, intimating
a design of these agitators to surprise and murder the king ;
which most people thought was contrived by Cromwell, to
frighten him out of the land. On the sight of this letter, the
king secietly escaped to the Isle of Wight, committing him- ' self

t4 ¦ INTiiODUCTlON,
self to Col. Hammond, Governor of the castle. Here
Cromwell had him in a pinfold, and was more secure of him
than before. While he was confined, several armies were
raised in his favour, but .were all defeated. At length the
parliament sent him some propositions, -with a view to his
restoration. Some of thera he granted, and others he re
fused. The chief thing he objected to was. The utter abo
lishing of episcopacy, and the alienating of bishops, and'
deans and chapter-lands. Upon which Mr. Marshal, Mr.
Vines, and Dr. Seaman, were sent down as commissioners
to discourse with him about it : they debated the matter
with Abp. Usher, Dr. Hdmmo;nd, Dr. Sheldon, and others
of the king's, divines. The debates were printed, and each
party thought they had the better. Abp. Usher then offered
the king his Reduction of Episcopacy to the f(jrra of Pres
bytery ; which he would have accepted, and the parliament
proposed sending for him up, in order to a personal treaty.
But Cromwell and his confidants, seeing all their designs
likely to be disappointed, sent Col. Pride to the house with
a party of soldiers, who guarded the door. Such members
as were to their purpose they let in, others they turned away,
and some they imprisoned. The remainder of the house
was henceforward called the Rump. The secluded and im
prisoned merabers published their vindication ; and some of
thera would afterwards have pushed into the house, but the
guard of soldiers kept them out ; and the Rump were cried
up forthe only honest men. They passed a vote to establish
a government without a king and house of lords ; and so the
lords dissolved, and these commons sat and did all alone.
They erected a high-court of Justice, brought the king to
his trial, condemned him, erected a scaffold at Wliitehall-
Gate, and there before a large concourse of people beheaded
him, Jan, 30, 1649. The Lord General Fairfax stood by
all the while, full of regret, but tricked and overpowered by
his lieutenant Cromwell, who (it was said) kept him pray
ing and consulting, till the stroke was given. But soon
afterwards, when war was determined against Scotland, he
laid down his commission, and CromweU became general in
his stead.
The ministers all this tirae generally preached and prayed
gainst disloyalty. They had drawn up a writing to the
lord general, which was printed, declaring their abhorrence
of all violence against the person of the king, and urging
him and his army to have no concern in it. This petition they

a

INTRODUCTION.

15

they presented to him, when the king was in danger, sub
scribed by near sixty of the presbyterian ministers of Zow-
don, (whose names are below *) together with raany coun
try ministers. So unjustly were the presbyterians accused'
as regicides.
Thus these intestine commotions came to an issue, little
thought of at first by any that began them, which cannot but
surprise all future generations.'

SECT. IL

Reflections on Public Transactions, from the Death of
Charles I. to the Restoration of Charles II. '
THE king being taken out of the way, Cromwell pro
poses a Commonwealth, till he had laid a saflScient
foundation for his own advancement. The Rump parlia
ment drew up a form of an engagement, to be subscribed by
all of eighteen years of age and Upwards, viz. " I do pro
mise to be true and faithful to the commonwealth as it is
now established, without a king or house of lords." With
out taking this engagement no man could have the benefit
of suing another at law, nor hold any mastership in the uni
versities, nor travel above a certain distance frora his house,
&c. Mr. Vines, and Dr. Rainbow were hereupon put out

* Corn. Surges, D, i).
Will. Gouge, D. D.
Ed. Staunton, D. D.
Tho. Jemple, D. D.
George Walker,
Edm. Calamy,
Jer, Whitaker,
Iban, Cawdrey,
WiU, Spurstow, D. D.
La. Seaman, D. D.
Simeon Ashe,
Tho. Case,
Nic. ProfEet,
Tho. Thorowgood,
Edw. Corbet,
ilen. Roboroub,
John Djivnham,
Arthur Jackson,
James Nalton,
Tliomas Cawton,

Charles OfF-spring, ,
Samuel Clark,
Jo. WaU,
Francis Roberts,
Samuel Bo/ton,
Mat. Haviland, •
John Sheffield,
William Harrison, .
WilUam Jenkins,
John Viner,
Elidad BlackweU,
John Crosse,
John Fuller,
WiUiam Taylor,
Peter Witham.
Francis Peck,
Christ. Love,
J. WaUis, D. D.
Thomas Watson,
WiUiam Wickins,

N. B. The two naraes printed in italic arc not
paper printed at the time, in which the number i:

Tho, Manton, D, D.
Thomas Gouge,
tVilliam Blackmore,
Robert Mercer,
Ra, Robinson.
John Glascock,
Tho. Whately,
Jonathan Lloyd,
John Wells,
Benj. Needier,
Nath. Staniforih,
Steven Watkins,
Jacob Tice,
John Stileman,
Josias Bull,
John Devereux,
Paul Russel,
Joshua Kirby,
Arthur Barham.
in the copy of the original
s 57, of

IS INTRODUCTION.
of their headships in the university, and Mr. Sympson and
Mr, Sadler put in their places. Dr. Reynolds also was cast
out of the deanry oi Christ-Church Oxon, and Dr. Owen
succeeded hira. TheCovenant* was now laid aside, as an
almanack out of date. Many episcopal divines wrote for
the e?igageme?ii, and pleaded for taking it, upon the same
distinction of De Facto i^ De Jure, as hath since been so.
celebrated among us. But the moderate church party and
the presbyterians refused it.
- Charles II. was now in Holland, and had been proclaim
ed king by the Scots, who resolved to support his cause.
He had also raany warra friends in England. A little before
the hattle at Worcester, several persons were seized in Lon
don for holding correspondence with him : many of them
were Presbyterian ministers, who for meeting together to
contrive how to raise a small sum of money for Masscy's
relief in Scotland, were charged with plotting against the
government. Eight of them were sent to the Tower. Mr.
Arthur Jackson, Dr. Drake, Mr. Watson, Mr. Love, Mr.
Jenkins, Mr. Thomas Case, Mr. Ralph Robinson, and Mr.
Rich. Heyrick. Mr. Nalton and Mr. Caughton fled into
Holland. Mr, Love was tried in a court of justice, con
demned and beheaded, and with him Mr. Gibbons, a worthy
gentleman, for the same cause. This blow struck deep at
the root of the new commonwealth. The rest of the mi
nisters were released, upon Mr. Jenkin's recantation and
subraission to the government.
Cromwell, being flushed by his success against the royal
ists in Scotland, thought he might now do what he pleased.
Having thus far seemed to be a servant to the parliament, he
was at length for setting up for himself. In order to this,
he first endeavoured to make them odious to his array, and
then treated privately with many of them to dissolve them
selves, that another free parliament might 1 e chosen. But
they perceived the danger, and were for filling up their num
ber by new elections. Impatient of further delay, he took
Harrison and some soldiers with him, and in a sort of rap
ture went to the house, and reproved the merabers for their
faults. Pointing to Vane, he called him a juggler ; and to

* y\iG solemn league and covenant was a renunciation of papery and pre
lacy, and a mutual bond, by which the subscribers engaged upon oath,
to oppose all religious innovations, and to assist each other iii defending
Uieir liberties, Henry

INTRODUCTION. \ I7
Henry Mar-tin, called him a whore-master. Having two
such to instance in, he took it for granted that they were all
unfit to continue in the government, and so discarded them,
A.D. 1653. The young commonwealth was thus left
headless. Nothing might now seem to stand between
Cromwell and the crown. A parliament must be called,
but the soldiers, as most religious, must be the electors ; ac»
cordingly two out of a county were chosen by the officers,
upon the advice of their sectarian friends in all parts. This
was in contempt called The Little Parliament. They mad*
an act, that magistrates should marry people instead of the
clergy. They then came to the business of tythes and
ministers. Before this, Harrison being authorized thereto,
had at once put down all the parish ministers of Wales, be
cause most of them were ignorant and scandalous, and had
set up a few itinerant preachers in their stead, who were for
number incompetent to so great a charge, -there being but
one to many of those wide parishes. At length it was put
to the vote in this parliament. Whether all the parish mi
nisters in England should at once be put down or not?
Which was carried in the negative but by two voices. In the
issue, a motion was made, That the house, as incapable of
serving the coramonwealth, should go and deliver up their
power to Cromwell, from whom they had received jt.
This was carried in the affirmative, and they directly went,
and solemnly resigned their power to him ; -who then
carried all before him. A junto of officers drew up a writing,
called " The instrument of the government of the common
wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland." This in
strument made Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of the
commonwealth. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen, the
Judges and Officers of the army, were suddenly drawn to
gether to Westminster-Hall, and upon the reading this
instrument, ii^stalled Cromwell in the office of Protector,
and swore him accordingly : thus the commonwealth seemed
once more to have a head, A. D. 16,^6.
One of bis chief works was tbe purging of the ministry.
The synod of Westminster was dissolved with the parlia
ment ; and a society pf ministers, with some others, chosen
by Cromwell to sjt at Whitehall, under the narae of Triers,
who were mostly Independents, but had some Presbyterians
joined with them, and had power to try all who came for
institution or induction ; without whose approbation none
were admitted. They themselves examined all who were
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18 INTRODUCTION.
able to come up to London ; but if any were unable, oi
of doubtful quahfications, they referred them to some mi
nisters in the county where they lived. With all their faults,
thus much must be'said of these Triers, that they did a great
deal of good to the church ; thev saved many a congrega
tion from' ignorant ungodly drunken teachers ; such as either
preached against an holy life, or preached as men who
never were acquainted with it, and used the ministry but as
a common trade to live by : such as these they usually reject-
edj and in their stead adraitted of any able serious preachers,
who lived godly lives, tho' of different opinions.
1 CroynweUhdid the policy not to exasperate the ministers
and others, vvhp did not consent to his government, but let
thera live quietly, without putting any oaths of fidelity upon
any, except his parliaments, who were not suffered to enter
the house till they had sworn fidelity to him. The sectarian
party in his army and elsewhere he chiefly trusted to and
pleased, till he thought himself well settled ; and then he be
gan to undermine them, and by degrees to work them out.
Though he had so often defended the Baptists, he now blames
their unruliness and their zeal for their ovra way, and endea
vours to settle himself in the people's favour by suppressing
them. He had enemies among all parties, and many sought
to dispatch him ; but he escaped their attempts, and at
length died of a fever, Sept. 3, 1638, aged 59. Never
man was more highly extolled, or more basely vilified than
he, according as mens interests led their judgments. — Mr.
Baxter hath left this as his judgment concerning him :
" That he began low, and rose higher in his resolutions as
" his condition rose ; and the promises which he made in his
•' lower condition, he used as the interest of his higher fol- •
•' lowing condition did require ; and kept as much honesty
" and godliness, in the raain, as his cause and interest -would
" allow him, and there they left hira. And that his name
" standeth as a monitory pillar to posterity, to tell them the
" instability of man in strong temptations, if God leave him
«' to himself," &c. &c.
His son Richard, according to his will, succeeded him.
The several counties, cities, and corporations of England,
sent up their congratulations to him as Protector. But the
army, it seems, set him up only upon trial, resolving to use
him as he behaved himself. When they saw that he began
to favour the sober people ofthe land, to honour parliaments,
and to respect the iiiihisters calbd Presbyterians, they pre^
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INTRODUCTION: ISK
sently resolved to make him know his masters. ' The Fifth-
Monarchy-Men, under Sir Henry Vane, raised a violent
clamorous party against hira among the city sectaries, A. D;
1659. But the assembly at Wallingford House did the
main business ; it was there determined, that Richard's par
liament must be dissolved : and it was almost as soon done
as determined. . As he sought not the government, so he was
resolved it shoukl cost no blood to keep hira in it ; and there
fore he resigned it by a writing under his hand, and retired.
The nation being tired with changes, soon discovered their
uneasiness. Sir G. .Boo^A and Sir J". Middleton Y^\seAiorces
in Cheshire and North Wales for K. Charles, but being
disappointed in the cavaliers who should have joined thera,
Lambert soon routed them : and at the same tirae Sir Arthur
Haslerigg seizes Portsmouth for the Rurap. Monk purges
his army in Scotland of Baptists, and marches into England.
The Rump party with Haslerigg divided the army at home,
and so disabled them to oppose Monk, who marched on, to
the great surprize of all. At first, he joined with the Rurap
against the citizens, and pulled down the city gates to terrify
thera ; but at length, being invited into the city by Sir Thomas
Allen, then Lord Mayor, he joined with them against the
Rump, which -was the very thing th*t turned the scales, and
brought in the King. Monk calls together the old secluded
members, agreeing with them that they should sit but a few
days, and then dissolve themselves and call another parlia
ment. They consented, appointed a council of state, and dis
solved themselves. In this council it was put to the question,
•' Whether they should call in the King upon treaty and
covenant, or entirely confide in hira ?" After some debates,
it was resolved to trust him absolutely. The new parlia
ment meeting, presently appointed a day of fasting and
jprayer for theraselves. The House of Comraons chose Dr.
Gduden, Mr. Calamy, and Mr. Baxter, to carry on the
work of the day. The very next raorning, May 1 , I 660,
they unanimously voted home the King, who being sent for
from Holland, Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Bowles, and
others were deputed by the parliament and city to attend him'.
His Majesty gave them such encouraging promises, as raised
in some of them very high expectations. When he made
his entrance, May 29, 1660, as he parsed thro' the city to- '
•wards Westminster, the London ministers, in their places,
attended him with acclamations, and by the hands of old Mr.
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20 INTRODUCTION.
Arthur Jackson, presented him with a rlohly-adorned
Bible ; which he received, telling them " It should be the
•• rule of his government and of his life."

SECT. III.

Attempts for a Coalition. The Savoy Conference, and
its fruitless issue.
""HEN the King was redeived with the general accla
mations of his people, the expectations of men were
various, according to their several interests. Some plain
and moderate Episcopalians thought of ' an union with the
Presbyterians. The more politic part of them knew that all
their ancient .power, honour, and revenues would be restored,
and none suffered to share with thera. But many of the
Presbyterians were in great hopes of favour. Besides pro
mises from men in power, they had an assurance from K.
Charles hiraself, in his declaration from Breda, April 4,
1660, in these words, " We do declare a liberty to tender
" consciences, and that no man shall be disquieted, or called
" in question, for differences of opinion, which do not dis-
" turb the peace of the 4cingdom." To cherish their hopes,
ten of them were made the King's chaplains in ordinary, tho'
none of them ever preached, except Mr. Calamy, Dr. Rey
nolds, Mr. Baxter, Dr. Spurstow, and Mr. Woodbridge,
once each. By this means, having easy access to his raajesty,
they waited upon him with Lord Manchester, recommending
to his serious consideration the union of his subjects in religi
ous matters, begging that only necessary things might be the
terms of it. The king declared himself highly pleased with
their inclinations to agreement, and resolved to do his part to
promote it; but told thera, "It could not be expected but
*' by abating something on both sides, and meeting in the
?' midway. He therefore desired them to offer him some
" proposals, in order to an agreeraent about church-govern-
" ment, this' being the main difference, and to set down the
«' most that they could yield to." They also begged that
their brethren on the other side might do the same. The
king proraised they should.
After this, the ministers raet from day to day at Sion"
College, to consult openly with any of their brethren that
would join with thera, that none might say they were ex
cluded. Many of the city ministers assembled, and many
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INTRODUCTION. 21
country ministers, then in town, joined them, of whom Mr.
Newcomen. was the most constant. In about three weeks
they agreed to a paper of proposals, in which (after an hum
ble address to his majesty, and four preliminary requests, viz.
That serious godliness might he countenanced, and a learned
and pious rainister in each parish encouraged ; that a per
sonal public owning the baptismal covenant might precede
an admission to the Lord's Table ; andi that the Lord's Day
might be strictly sanctified) they offered to allow of the true
piimitive presidency -in the church, with a due mixture of
presbyters, in order to the avoiding the evils which are inci
dent to the administration of a single person ; and for reform
ing which they proposed, that Bp. Usher's " Reduction of
episcopacy into the form of synodic a^l government reeeitmd
in ihe ancient church," should be the ground-wark of an
accommodation ; that suffragans should be chosen by tYte re
spective synods ; the associations be of a moderate extent ;
the ministers be under no oaths, or promises of obedience to
their bishops ; and that the bishops should not govern by
their own will only, but according to canons and constitu
tions to he established by act of parliament. They owned
the lawfulness of a prescribed form of public worship ; but
desired, that some learned, pious, and moderate divines, of
both parties, i-night be eraployed either to compile a ne-w
liturgy, or to reform the old ; adding some other forms in
scripture phrase, to be used at the minister's choice. — ^As to
the ceremonies, they humbly represented, that the worship
of God was perfect without them ; that they had ever since
the reformation been matter of contention ; that they were
at best but indifferent, and in their own nature mutable ; and
therefore they begged, that kneeling at the sacram«nt might
not be imposed ; that the surplice, the cross in baptism, and
bowing at the narae oi Jesus, migbt be abolished; and that
care might be taken to prevent future innovations contrary
to law.
Quickly after the king's return, many hundreds of worthy
ministeis were displaced, because they were in sequestrations
where others had been cast out by the parliament, The mi
nisters, waiting upon his majesty with their proposals, signi
fied their full satisfaction that all such should be cast out
as were in any benefice belorjging formerly to one that was
not grossly insufficient ar debauched ; but humbly begged,
that all who had succeeded scandalous persons might hold
their places : as also where the old incumbents were dead ;
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22 INTRODUCTION.
and that his majesty would be pleased to publish his pleasure
that no oath or subscription, or renunciation of orders, might
be required of any, till it was seen what was the issue of the
desired agreement. The king treated them very respect
fully, and renewed his professions of desiring an accommoda
tion ; told them he was well pleased that they were for a
liturgy, and yielded to the essence of episcopacy ; and pro
mised them that the places in which the old incumbents were
dead, shouldbe confirmed to the possessors. But they were
much disappointed to find none of the divines on the other
side appear. After waiting some time, they received a severe
answer from the episcopal party, who reflected on the pro
posals they hail made to his majesty : saying that they did
n^t perceive any necessity for their preliminary requests.
As to» church-government, they declared for the former
hierarchy without any alteration. Bp. Usher's Reduction,
they rejected, as being at best but a heap of private concep
tions. The liturgy they applauded as unexceptionable, and
thought it could not be too rigorously imposed, when mini
sters were not denied the exercise of their gifts in praying be
fore and after sermon ; which sort of praying, they declared
however, to be but the continuance of a custom of no great
authority, and grown into common use by sufferance only.
As for the Ceremonies, they could not part with one ; and
¦they concluded with saying, *' Were any abatements mide,
*' we are satisfied that unquiet spiiits would but be thereby
*' encouraged to make farther demands,"
Shortly after, instead of the diocesans' concessions, the ml-.
nisters were told, that the king would put all that he thought
meet to grant them into the form of a declaratior(, and they
should see it before it was published, and have liberty to sig
nify -what they disliked. A copy of the said declaration was
accordingly sent them by the Lord Chancellor. Having
made some reraarks upon it, they drew up a petition to the
king, and delivered it to the Lord Chancellor ; but he never
called thera to present it, only desired the particulars of what
alterations they would insist on. They delivered him a
breviate of these, which he took "time to consider of. A day
was appointed for his majesty to peruse the declaration as the
Lord Chancellor had drawn it up, and determine on the par
ticulars, upon the hearing of both sides. The king accord
ingly came to the Lord Chancellor's, with the dukes of
•Albem.arle and Ormond, the earl of Manchester, Sec, Dr.
Sheldon, bishop of London, and several other bishops and
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INTRODUCTION. 23
clergymen, on one side : on the other, Dr. Reynolds, Mr.
Calamy, Dr. Manton, Dr. Spurstow, Mr. Baxter, and
others. As the Lord chancellor read over the declaration,
each party was to speak to what they disliked, and the king
to determine how it should be. There were various alterca
tions about prelacy, re-ordination, and other particulars.
When the whole was perused, the Lord chancellor drew out
another paper, intimating that the king had also been peti
tioned by the Independents and Baptists for liberty, and there
fore he read an additional part of the declaration, to this pur
pose, " That others also be permitted to meet for religious
" -worship, so be it, they do it not to the disturbance of the
" peace ; and that no justice of peace or officer disturb
" them." This being designed to procure liberty to the
Papists, there was a general silence upon the reading iti
At length, Mr. Baxter, fearing their silence might be mis
interpreted, spake to this purpose : " That they desired not
" favour to themselves alone, and regorous severity against
" none ; but as they humbly thanked his majesty for his de*
" clared indulgence to themselves, so they distinguished the
" tolerable party from the intolerable : for the forraer, they
" hurably craved just lenity and favour ; but for the latter,
'* (such as Dr. Gz<n?iz«^ had before raentioned) Papists and
•' Socinians, they could not make a toleration their request."
To which his majesty said, " That there were laws sufficient
" against the Papists." Mr. Baxter replied, " They under-
*' stood the question to be, Whether those laws should be
*' executed or not V Upon which the matter was dropped.
But before the breaking up of the meeting, the king, having
determined,what he would have stand in the declaration, as.
to the sense of it, named four divines to determine on any
words in the alterations, if there were any difference, viz.
Bishop Morley, Bishop Hinchman, Dr. Reynolds, and Mr.
Calamy ; and if they disagreed, the Earl of Anglesea and
the Lord Hollis were to decide. At length it came out so
amended, that it was fitted to be an instruraent of concord
and peace, if settled by law, and the liturgy altered as the de
claration promised. Several of the ministers were offered
preferments: v. g. Mr. Calamy the h\sho^nc oi Coventry
and Litchfield ; Dr. Reynolds, that of Norwich ; and Mr.
Baxter, that of Hereford; Dr. Manton, the deanry of
Rochester ; Dr. Bates, the deanry of Coventry and Litch-
field ; and Mr. Edward Bowles, the deanry of York : but
they all refused, on account of the unceitain continuance
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24. INTRODUCTION.
of the terms in the declaration, except Dr. Reynolds,
who declared when he accepted the bishopric of Norwich^
that he did it upon the terras laid down in the declaration,
and not as episcopacy stood before in England > and that he
would no longer hold or exercise it than he could do it on
those terms.
In the declaration, dated October 25, 1660, the king ex
presses the highest opinion of the Presbyterian ministers, at
persons full of affection to him, of zeal for the peace of
church and state, and neither enemies of episcopacy nor
liturgy ; but modestly desiring such alterations in both, as
-without shaking foundations, might best allay the present
distempers, -which the indisposition oftimes, and the tender
ness of some men's consciences had contracted. At the
same time assuring them of his resolution to grant them all
the indulgence they required, promising that they should ex
ercise their functions, and enjov the profits of their livings,
¦without being obliged to those oaths and subscriptions to
-which they objected. Upon this an address of thanks was
drawn up, signed by many of the ministers in and about
London ; which was graciously received,
But after all, this declaration had no effect, save only i,
year's suspension of the law that afterwards took place. At
a distance in the country, some men were so violent, that*
they indicted ministers at the assizes and sessions, notwith
standing the declaration, taking it for no suspension of the
law ; though upon application- to ihe king and lord chan
cellor, they were generally released. But as to the matter
of church -government, none of the concessions in the de
claration were put in execution. However, a comraissioa
was at length granted to certain persons nominated, to meet
for the purpose of reviewing the liturgy. The commis
sioners on one side were, the Archbishop of York, the
Bishops of London, Durham, Rochester, Chichester, Sa-
nim, Worcester, Lincoln, Peterborough, Chester, Carlisle,
and Exeter. Those on the other side, Dr. Reynolds, Dr,
Tuckney, Dr. Conant, Dr. Spurstow, Dr. WaUis, Dr. Man-
ton, Mr. Calamy, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Case, Mr.
Clark, Mr. Newcomen. The assistants on one side were.
Dr. Earle, Dr. lieylin. Dr. Hacket, Dr. Barwick, Dr.
Gunning, Dr. Pearson, Dr. Pierce, Dr. Sparrow, and Mr.
Thorndike ; and on theother side, Dr. Hor ton. Dr. Jacomb^
Dr, Bates, Mr. Rawlinson, Mr. Cooper, Dr. Lightfoot, Dr.
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INTRODUCTION. 23
The Savoy was appointed as the place of meeting. "V^hen
they were met, the bishop of London told the ministers,
•' That they, and not the bishops, had sought the confer-
*' ence, being desirous of alterations in the liturgy ; and
" that therefore there was nothing to be done, till they had
*' brought in all they had to say against il in writing, and
" all the additions which they desired." The ministers
moved for an araicable Conference, according to the com
mission, as more hkely to answer the great end ; but the
bishop of London insisted upon it, " That nothing should
" be done till all exceptions, alterations, and additions
•' were brought in at once." After some debate, it was
agreed, " That they should bring all their exceptions at
¦*• one tirne, and all their additions at another time." They
accordingly drew up their exceptions, and offered thera to
the bishops. They proposed, that the liturgy might have
nothing left in it doubtful, or questioned amongst pious,
learned, and orthodox persons ; and particularly mentioned
a variety of alterations, which the reader will easily judge
of, frora the reasons they afterwards gave for their non
conformity. (See Sect. V.) Mr. Baxter drew up the
additions, or new forms, (for those who raight scruple to
use the old) stiled, The Reformed Liturgy * ; which the
ministers generally approved, as indeed it was undertaken,
3t their request.
During the interval, the convocation was chosen, which
was politicly deferred till now ; for had it been called when
the king came in, the inferior clergy would have been against
the diocesans. But now the diocesan party wholly carried
it in the choice. The election was in London, May 2,
1661. Mr. Calamy and Mr. Baxter were chosen by a
majority of three voices. , But the bishop of London, having
the power of chusing two out of four, or four out of six,
who are chosen by the ministers in a ceitain circuit, was so
kind as to excuse them by pitching on others ; and so the
pity of London had no clerk in the convocation. May the
4tn, the paper of exceptions was given in at a meeting
with the bishops. May the 7th, there was a meeting at
Sion College, oi the ministers of London, for the choice
of a president and assistants for the next year. Some of
the Presbyterians, upon a pettish scruple absenting them-

* That the wprld *iight judge of this performance, Dr, Calamy has pre-
lervcd a copy of it ai the epd of Mr, Baxttr't tife. selves

26 INTRODUCTION.
selves, the diocesan party carried it, and got the possession
and rule of the college. May the 8th, the new parliament
and convocation sat, constituted of men devoted to the
diocesan interest. May the 22d, by order of parliaraent,
the national vow and covenant was burnt by the common
hangman. A petition was, by the consent of the ministers, drawn
up and presefited to the bishops, at the same time with the
reforraed liturgy ; in which they, with great hura.ility and
earnestness, desired them to abate their impositions, m
order to the peace of the church ; pathetically urged many
arguments to induce them to a compliance ; and begged
only that they would " grant them the freedom which
" Christ and his apostles left unto the churches."
The bishops, after some delay, sent them a paper of rea
sonings against their exceptions, without any abatements
or alterations at all, worth naming ; an answer to which
was also draWn up. At last, the coraraission being within
ten days of e!!£piring, the ministers sent to the bishops to
desire some personal conference upon the subject of the
papers, which was yielded to ; and at the raeeting the
answer to their last paper was delivered them. The mi
nisters earnestly pressed them to spend the little tirae re
maining in such pacifying conference as tended to the ends
mentioned in the king's declaration and commission. There
is, reason to think, that the generality of the bishops and
doctors who were present at these meetings, did not read
the Reformed -Liturgy, or the leply of the ministers to
their reasons against the exceptions they had given in.
So that it seems, before they knew what was in them,
they resolved to reject the papers of the ministers, right
or wrong*. When they came to debates, the ministers
desired the bishops to animadvert on the alterations of the
liturgy, and declare what they allowed or disallowed in
them. But they would not be prevailed upon to debate
that matter, or give their opinions about those papers. It

* Dr. Allen, of Huntingdcinshire, clerk in this convocation, earnestly la
boured vifiih the bishop of London, that they might so reform the liturgy,
that no sober man might make exception j but was desiied to forbear, as
'whal should be, was concluded on. — Confoimist's Plea for Nonconf, p..S\, So
very nice and exact were the high party, that they would not yield so much
as to forbear the lessons of the Apocrypha: insomuch, that after a long tug
at the convocation-house about that matter, a good .voctor. came out at last
"with great joy, " that thejr had carried it for Bell and the Dragon."
was

INTRODUCTION. 27
was then moved, That they would go over the particulars
excepted against, and declare what alterations they could
yield to.- But they told them, " They had nothing to say
" upon that head, till the necessity of an alteration in ge-
" neral was proved, which it had not as yet been ; they
*' would yield to all that was proved necessary, but looked
" upon none as necessary." The ministers urged them
again and again with the words of the king's declaration
and commission; and observed, "'It was strange, that -when
" the king had so "long and publicly determined upon the
*' end, and called them to consult about the means, they
*' should at least presume to contradict him, and deter-
" mine the end itself unnecessary, and consequently no
*' means necessary: and that therefore all their meetings
" had been but trifiing." They replied, " they must prove
" alterations necessary :" The ministers answered, " they
*' were necessary to peace and unity, which without them
" would not be attained :" To which they would by no
means yield. This was to draw on a dispute^ before the
end of which, the time of the comraission was likely to
expire. To this therefore the ministers objected. But no
thing else would be yielded to, and so a dispute was agreed
upon, to argue the necessity of altering the liturgy.
After two days debate about the order of the disputa
tion. Dr. Pearson alone undertook to dispute on the side
of the bishops, when the ministers had discharged the op
ponent's province ; which was accepted. Three of a party
were chosen on each side to manage the dispute. The bi-
shops'chose Dr. Pearson, Dr. Gunning, and Dr. Sparrow :
the ministers chose Dr. Bates, Dr. Jacomb, and Mr. Bax
ter : and they met to dispute accordingly. But there were
so many speakers, and so rnany interruptions, and so many
personal reflections, that it was to very "little purpose. At
length, bishop Cosins produced a paper, as from a consider
able person, containing a method to end the controversy;
which was, " to put the complainers upon distinguishing
"• between the things they charged as sinful, and those
" which they opposed as inexpedient only." The three
disputants on the ministers side, were desired to draw up ar^
answer to it against the next morning; which they did,
and charged eight things as flatly sinful, and contrary to
the word of God, viz. " That no minister be admitted to
^' iaptize without using the sign of the cross : — or officiate
f' without the surplice. — That none be admitted to the
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28 INTRODUCTION.
" Lord's Supper, without receiving it kneeling," &c. &c.
After a great deal of loose discourse, they came at length
to the dispute, which was managed in writing : the sole ar
gument was, " the sinfulness of enjoining ministers to deny
" the cemmunion to all that dare not kneel." The mi
nisters proved their assertion thus . That it was denying the
sacrament to those whom the Holy Ghost commands us
to receive; urging Rom. xiv. 1 — 3. " Him that is weak
" in the faith receive you, but not to doubtful disputation,
'< &c." The episcopal divines answered, «' That that text
" was not to the purpose, because it speaks of thing*
" lawful and not commanded; whereas the debate was
•' about things lawful, and also commanded; and, withal,
" because the receiving there mentioned, is not to be
" understpod of immediately receiving persons to the
*' holy communion." The Presbyterian disputants re
plied: "The text forbids any such commands of things
" lawful, as are not consistent with receiving and for-
*' bearing ; and that it must necessarily take in receiving
*' persons to the Lord's Supper, because it requires the
" receiving men to that church-communion in the ge^.
*' neral, of which the sacrament is a most eminent part,
" &:c." But when Dr. Gunning had read certain citations
and authorities for the other side. Bishop Cosins, the mo
derator, put the question, " All you that think Dr. Gunning
" has proved that Rom. xiv. speaketh not of receiving
" the sacrament, say Aye." Upon which theie was a
general cry Aye, aye, among the hearers of the episcopal
party, of whom there were many in the hall, whereas the
Presbyterians had but two or three.
At length the episcopal divines became opponents upon
the same question, and argued thus: "That command,
*' which enjoins only an act in itself lawful, is not sinful."
This Mr. Baxter denied. They then added; " That com-
" mand, which enjoins an act in itself lawful, and no
?' other act or circumstance unlawful, is not sinful." This
also Mr. Baxter denied : as he did some other propositions
ef theirs. At length, finding themselves embga-rassed, the
dispute broke off with noise and confusion, and high re
flections upon Mr. Baxter's cloudy imagination, and his
perplexed, scholastic, and metaphysical manner of distin
guishing; and Bishop Saunderson being in the chair, pro
nounced that Gunning had the better of the argiiment.
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INTROfiUCTION. 29
tion was not only false, but destructive of all authority,
human and divine. Upon this the whole nation almost was
filled with tragical exclcunations against the aborainable
assertion of one of the disputants at the Savoy, " that
" things not evil of themselves, may have accidents so evil
" as may make it a sin to him that shall command them."
And thus ended the dispute at the Savoy, and all endeavours
for reconciliation upon the warrant of the king's commis
sion. It may not be amiss to add some remarks upon the temper
and carriage of the commissioners on both sides ; several
of whom seldom or never appeared : as Dr. Eing bishop
of Chester, Drs. Heylin, Barwick and Earle. Sheldon
bishop oi London seldom. attended, though he, with Hench
man and Morley, had the chief management of affairs.
Others who were present, did not much concern themselves
jn the debate, as Dr. Frewen archbishop of Yor^, Bi
shops Lucy, Warner, Saunderson, Lamey, Walton, Sterne,
Dr. Hacket, and Dr. Sparrow. Dr. Morley was the chief
speaker. His manner was vehement, and he was against
all abatements. He frequently interrupted Mr. Ba.vter.
Bishop Cosins was constant, and though inclined to mode
ration, said some very severe things. He appeared well
versed in the canons, councils, and fathers. Bishop GaU'
den was never absent. He often took part with the Presby
terian divines, and was the only moderator among, the bi
shops, excepting 'jSej/Moi/;?S, who spoke much the first day
for moderation, hut afterwards only now and then a qua
lifying word, though he was heartily grieved for the fruit
less issue of the conference.
Ofthe disputants. Dr. Pearson (afterwards bishop of Ches
ter) disputed accurately, soberly and calmly, and procured
foi himself great respect from the Presbyterian ministers^
who thought, if all had been in his power, it would have
gone well for them. Dr. Gunning was the most forward
speaker, and stuck at nothing. Bishop jSwrwe^ says, "that
" he used all the arts of sophistry in as confident a manner
" as if they had been sound reasoning: that he was un-
" weariedly active to very little purpose, and being very
" fpnd of Popish ritiiak and ceremonies, he was much set
" upon reconciling the church of England to Rom^."
Accordingly when T>r, Bates urged it upon him, t^t on
the same reasons as they imposed the cross and surplice,
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30 INTRODUCTION.
of such ceremonies of Rome, which we have Cast out; ht
answered, " Yes ; and I think we ought to have more,
" and not fewer."
On the side of the Presbyterians, Dr. Horfon never ap
peared, nor Dr. Drake, because of a 7nisnomer in the
commission. Dr. Lightfoot, T>r. Tuckney, and Mr. Wood-
bridge were present only once or twice. Dr. Bates and
Dr. Manton behaved with great modesty. The chief dis
putant was Mr. Baxter, who, (says Mr. Neal) " had a
very metaphysical head and fertile invention, and was
one of the most ready men of his tirae for an argument,
but too eager, and tenacious of his own opinions." Next
to him was Mr. Calamy, who had a great interest among
the ministers in town and country.
Among the auditors, there was, with the bishops, a
crowd of young divines, who behaved indecently. Among
the few that came in with the Presbyterians, were Mr. Miles
and Mr. Tillotson, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury.
At the close of the last day it was agreed that nothing
should be given in on either side to the king, as charged on
the other, but in writing ; and that they should on each
side give tbis account, That they were all agreed upon the
ends, the welfare, unity and peace of the church, and his
majesty's happiness : but after all their debates, they dis
agreed about the means.
The dispute being ended, the Presbyterian commissioners
met by theraselves, and resolved -to draw- up an account of
their endeavours, and present it to his majesty, with a peti
tion for his promised help for those alterations and abate
ments, which they could not procure of the bishops. But
all availed nothing ; and they were generally entertained
with reproach, and branded as rigid Presbyterians, though
they pleaded for primitive episcopacy. They were repre
sented in the coramon conversation of those who were
gaping for preferrnent, as the most seditious people in the
world, unworthy to be, used like men, or to enjoy any li
berty. It was the constant cry, that they were plotting, or
setting the people against the government.
In the latter part of this year many worthy ministers,
and respectable gentlemen and others, were imprisoned in
different cpTunties, under a pretence of being concerned in
such iiots. In November, Mr. Ambrose Sparry (a sober
learned minister,, who had never espoused the Parliament's
cause, and was , for moderate episcopacy) had a wicked-
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INTRODUCTION. SI
neighbour, who bearing him a grudge for having reprovi^l
him for adultery, thought he had now an opportunity to
be revenged. He or his confederates, framed a letter, as
from a nameless person, directed to Mr. Sparry, — " that
" he and Captain Yarringion should be ready with money
«' and arms at the time appointed, and that they would ac-
," quaint Mr, Osland and Mr. Baxter with it." He pre
tended that he found this letter under a hedge, where a
man had been sitting, who pulled out a great many letters,
ali of which he put up again, except this, and went away.
This vile informer carried the letter to Sir John Packing-
ton, (a zealous man in such business,) who sent Mr. Sparry,
Mr. Osland, and Captain Yarrington* to prison.
Many upon this occasion, especially Mr. Sparry, lay
long in prison ; and even when the forgery was detected,
they had much difficulty in obtaining a release. Though
Mr'. Baxter was named in the above letter, he was then,
and had been for some time in London, so that he escaped ;
and yet where ever men were taken up and imprisoned, in
distant counties, it was said to be for Baxter's plot.

SECT. IV.
The Act of Uniformity': and Reflections upon<it.
NOTWITHSTANDING all their discouragements, Mr.
Calamy, and some other ministers still used their in
terest with men in power, to get the parliament to pass the
king's declaration into a law ; and sometii-nes the Lord
Chancellor and others gave them some hope of success.

* Dr. Calamy says, that Captain Yarrington was a man of an established
reputation; who in the year 1681, published a full discovery of the first
•Presbyterian sham plot: in which he declares he related nothing bat what
he could prove by letters, and many living witnesses ; and his account was
never publicly contradicted. He says, that many, both of the clergy and
laity, disliking the king's declaration concerning ecclesiastical affairs, re-
«olved to run things to the utmost height: and that some of the leading
Church-men were heard to say, <' they would have an act so framed as
" would rcich every Puritan in the kingdom : and that if they thought
" any of them would so stretch their consciences as to be comprehended
" by it, they would insert yet other conditions and subscriptions, so (hat
'• they should have no benefit by it." To render them odious to govern
ment, they contrived what they called a Presbyterian plot, which was laid in
about thirty-six different counties. That the general cry occasioned hy
these sham plots much promoted the Vmformity-Bill, vvhich passed that ses
sion, will easily be judged by any one that will peruse Yarringhn's narra
tive ^ '-
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32 INTRODUCTION.
Btitwhen it came to the trial, they were disappointed ; and
all attempts for union and peace were at an end. Nay, a
rigorous act was brought in for uniformity, clogged on
design to make the weight of conformity heavier than ever.
Uniformity seemed, to be acctiunted the one thing neces
sary by those who had got the reins in their hands ; so ne
cessary, that no reason raust be heard against it, and those
called Presbyterians raust be forced to do that which they
accounted public perjury, or be cast out of trust and office,
Jsoth in chuich and commonwealth.
While this act was depending, the ministers, still inter
posing as they had opportunity, had peremptory promises
given them by some persons in office, that care should be
taken before the act passed, that the king should have power
reserved to him to dispense with it, in favour of such as de
served well of him at his restoration, or whom he pleased.
But at kngth the act passed the house, and all their great
friends left them in the lurch. And when afterwards, upon
the Utraost encouragement from men in power, they had
drawn up a petition* to his majesty for indulgence; they

* The petition was this: — " May it please your most excellent majesty,
" Upon former experience of your majesty's tenderness and indulgence
« to yonr obedient and loyal subjects (in which number we can with all
".clearness reckon ourselves) wc, some of the ministers within your city
« of London, who are likely, by the late Act of uniformity, to be cast out
" of all public service in the rainistry, because wc cannot in conscience
« conform to all things required in the said act, have taken the boldness
" humbly to cast ourselves and concernments at your majesty's feel, de-
" siring that of your princely wisdom and corapassion you would take
•' some effectual course whereby we may be continued in tbe exercise of
" our ministry, to teach your people obedience to God and your majesty.
" And we doubt not, but by our dutiful and peaceable carriage therein,
" we shall render ourselves not altogether unworthy of so^reat a favour."
This was presented August 27, three days after the act took place, by
Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Dr. Bates, &c. Mr. Calamy made * speech upon
tbe .oce3sio.n, intimating that " tliose of his pcrsuasjou were ready to
" enter the lists with any for their fidelity to his majesty : — that they did
" not expect to be treated as they had been : — that this w:as the last appli-
" cation they should make, &c." The king promised to consider of their
business. The next day the matter was fully debated in council, when
bis majesty declared he intended an indulgence. The friends of the mi
nisters spoke freely on their behalf. But Dr. Slteldon Bishop oi London, in a
warm speech, declared, " It was now too late to think of suspending that
" law, for he had ejected such of liis clergy as would not coraply with it,
" the Sunday before ; — that, in this case, he should not be able to m.iintain
" his authority among the clergy, — and the legislature would be rendered
" contemplibie; — and, if the importunity of such disaffected people were a
" sufficient reason to humour ihem, neither the church nor the state would
" ever be free from distractions," Upon this, it \yas carried that no indul
gence should be granted,
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were threatened with incurring a przmunire by so bold an
attempt. This rigorous act when it passed, gave the ministers, who
could not conform, no longer time than till Bartholomew-
day, August 24th, 1662, when they were all cast out.
When the day came, it caused much gladness to some, and
sorrow to others, and occasioned many and very different
reflections*. The following remark, made by a man of
note, deserves to be recorded. " Had all the ministers
" (said he) conformed, people would have thought there
" was nothing in religion; and that it was only a thing to
" be talked of in, the pulpit, and serve a state design ;
" while the ministers turned and changed any way with
" the state : but these men giving up their livings, and ex-
" posing themselves and families to outward evils, rather
"than they would conform to things imposed, not agree-
" able (as they apprehended) to the gospel they preached,
?' have convinced men there is a reality in religion, and
" given a check to atheism." This act of uniformity
which made such an alteration in all parts of the kingdom,
by ejecting so many valuable and useful persons, (of whom
a particular account is to be given) was passed in a heatf,
but its efiects have been dreadfuU and lasting: So that wc
may well, it is hoped without offence, drop a teai-, upon
the remerabrance of so many worthies in our Israel, who
were buried at once in a common grave.
This was an action without a precedent : The like to this
the Reformed church, nay the Christian world, never saw
before. Historians relate, with tragical exclaraations, that
between three and four score bishops were driven at once
into the island of Sardinia by the African Vandals: that
200 ministers were banished by Ferdinand, king of Bohe
mia ; and that great havock was, a few years after, made

* It is -generally said. It was carried but by very few votes : and that
some who were against it were kept from the house by stratagem. X)r.
Bates, in his sermon at Mr. Baxter's funeral, speaking of this act says, " that
" the old clergy from wrath and revenge, and the young gentry from their
" servile CompUance with the court, were very active to carry on and com-
" pleat it."
f A dignitary of the church of England, when a worthy gentleman
•hewed some regret that the door was so strait, that many sober ministers
could not have admission, replied, " It is ilo pity at all; if we had thought
" so many of them woulc have conformed, we would have made it
" straiter."
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34. INTRODUCTION,
among the ministers of Germany by the Imperial Interim.
But these all. toge.ther fall short of the number ejected by
the act of uniformity, which was not less than 2000. The
succeeding hardships of the latter were also by far the
greatest. They were not only silenced, but had no room
left for any sort of usefulness, and were in a manner buried
alive. Far greater tenderness was used towards the Popish
clergy ejected at the Reformation. They were suffered to
live quietly; but these were oppressed to the utmost, and
and that even by their brethren who professed the same
faith themselves : not only excluded preferments, but turned
out into the wide world without any visible way of subsist
ence. Not so much as a poor vicarage, not an obscure
chapel, not a school was left them. Nay, though they
offered as some of them' did, to preach gratis, it must not
be allowed them; [but many ci-uel laws were enacted
against them which exposed them to dreadful fines and im
prisonment for discharging any part of their ministerial
function, or coming near the place where they formerly
discharged It:] and this at a time when their help was
greatly wanted, there being but few to supply their places,
many large congregations destitute of preaching, and many
places over-run with ignorance and profaneness.
And for what reason were they cast out ? Only because
they would not consent to what they could not believe, nor
vow against what appeared to be their duty. Had they been
enemies to all order and regularity, it had been much more
tolerable ': but there was no just ground for such an insinua
tion ; a regular discipline was what they pleaded for, and mo
derate episcopacy was what most of them would have freely
submitted to. Whosoever have accused them as fond of
anarchy and confusion, knew not the men or their commu
nication. Some, it must be owned, were against the royal
family, yet there were others who suffered for adhering to
it. The Lancashire ministers were many of them ejected
for refusing and writing against the Engagement, even
-when many of the episcopal party took it; and several
hazarded their lives in order to bring back the king. Had
they been, loose in their morals, their treatment might
have been justified ; but they vvere as exemplary in their
lives as any in the land. Had they been meanly qualified
for the ministerial work, the church might much better,
have spared them : but instead of that, we may safely defy
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INTRODUCTION. 35
two thousand men better qualified for public ministerial
work, or more diligent and laborious in it. And though
it may be supposed, that in so greaf a nuraber, some were
of but mean endowments, there were others of consider
able abilities and learning : yet they were cast off with dis
dain. And for what was all this, but to promote unifor
mity ? A charming word 1 for the thing itself is yet to be
sought for, even among themselves, who cast them out.
But certainly, it is an odd sort of uniformity which divides
the church into parties. The grand aim of all, was to
settle impositions, which in all ages have been greedily
swallowed by men of looser principles, while they have
proved snares to the most conscientious ; who will care-
fylly examine matters, and not wriggle themselves either
in or out by distinctions and evasions, which yet they were
as able to have framed as their rieighbours ; but would in
all things act with siraplicity and godly sincerity, without
equivocations or reserves ; thereby endeavouring to main
tain and promote a principle of honesty in the world.
It has been pleaded " That the, Puritanical party set the
" pattern, by bearing so hard on the sequestered ministers
" in the parliament-times." But whatever that pattern '
was, we must go farther backward for the original. Yet
I would not thence pretend to justify any rigorous me
thods, which Christianity does neither require nor allow.
But certainly they who so much exclairaed against them,
should better have known the heart of a stranger, than to
have imitated, much less out-done thera, in ejecting a num
ber so very far superior, without any allowance towards
their support from the livings whence they were ejected;
whereas the parliaraent allotted a fifth part to those who
were sequestered, whatever were the cause ; tho\igh it were
insufficiency or scandal. Many thlngs"^^re "done in the
parliament-times, which tl;ie agents in them lived to see
reason to wish undone. But yet when matters were at the
utmost heighth, many episcopal persons kept their places ;
things confessedly in their own nature indifferent, were not
made grounds of silencing and driving men into corners ;
nor were the stiffest of the High Church party, (Gunning
and others of his stamp) denied their liberty, provided they
gave the public security for their good behaviour.
" It is but like for like," was a plea in the mouth of all
forward persons. But was not the score paid before-hand
by the rigor of King Charles I's reign .' to look no further
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36 INTRODUCTION.
back. It cannot be denied, but that all parties among us,
when they have had the ascendant, have borne too hard
upon those who lay at their mercy; and it is much to be
lamented. But, is such hereditary revenge as Hannibal's,
who \Vas sworn at the altar never to be reconciled, a thing
agreeable to christian principles, or becoming ambassadors
of the Prince of Peace .? It hath been said by some, that
" they were intolerably humoursome." But why should
it be imagined, that for humour-sake they should, sacrifice
their all, and expose themselves and their families to want
and beggary ? Was not a comfortable life as desirable to
them as others } Can it be supposed, they were so blind as
not to see where their own interest lay, which is a charm
few are able to resist ? Were they not as capable of pre
ferment as their nighbours? Why then should they refuse
it, and embrace poverty and disgrace, imprisonment and
other hardships, which could not in themselves appear eli
gible to any man? Can any account be given of this,
if conscience did not sway thera ? Surely then they ought
to have found different treatment ! — How much good might
they have done, if they had been kept in the establishment ?
[or tolerated out of it?] And to whom must the country
ascribe the loss of their valuable labours, but to the eager
espousers of rites and ceremonies .' And in What did the
heat of these zealots issue ? Did they gain their point and
fix uniformity ? Did they not rather run things to such
a length, that profaneness at length Qver-run us, and all
that was dear to us was in danger, when bare-faced popery
ascended the throne, trampling at once on our religion and
liberties ? Who can boast of their gain in the strife for
uniformity ? Were the husy informers beloved and ad
vanced ? Were they not generally infamous i" And. did
not many of them come to a tragical end? Will it be
found that they who were fiercest, when in commission of
the peace, in prosecuting the poor Dissenters, have pros
pered most in their families and estates ? Or is the raeraory
of those statesman who were most active in this service,
most grateful to true-hearted Englishmen ?
Did God disown these worthies, when they were thus'
cast off? Let any who are able observe and judge. They
and their families were supplied by an invisible hand. A
noted person * among them, who himself had a good estate,
* This, it appears, was Mr. Talknts of Shrtwsbury. Why Dr. Calamy
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reckoned up as many who were ejected within a few miles
round him, as with their families made up above a hundred,
who were all turned out to the wide world, and lived upon
Providence; concerning whom he observed, that though
they were often in straits, yet they were not forsaken.
The same person (when he was old) observed, that though
many of the ejected ministers were brought very low, had
many children, were greatly harrassed by persecution, and
their friends generally poor, and unable to support them,
he never knew nor heard of any Nonconformist minister in
prison for debt. Providence was instead of livings to those
who left their livings for the sake of their consciences.
They were driven first out of their freeholds, and afterwards
from all coi-porations, on purpose that they might be se
parated from their kind neighbours. Cautions were entered
against them, in all ways of livelihood they were capable
of; and yet they lived comfortably, and maintained their
families creditably; many of them bred up their sons to
the ministry, in which they were useful ; and they at last
died in peace, and were laid in their graves with honour.
Did nonconformity die with them ? Would it to God
it had, provided the causes of it had been removed !
Would to God it had, if there were nothing in it but hu
mour and fancy, and prejudice, as some will have it. But
as long as it is founded upon such stable principles, (as
the following Section will represent) it raust be expected
that nonconformity will continue. And though we, who
come after those who were ejected in the ministry, have
our authority called into question by some ; if we can ap
prove ourselves to God, we need not be uneasy. If we,
who rise up in the room of those who in so noble a raanner
adhered to the old Puritanical principle .(which was indeed
that ¦ of the first Reformers) as to venture all that was
dear to them rather than do violence to their conscientres;
do but imitate their faith and patience, piety and purity;
'if we do but partake of the same divine spirit whereby
they were actuated ; and have but the same presence of God
with lis, to guide and assist us, to prosper and succeed us,
to comfort and support us, which they had, we need
not envy any their prefermerits, nor be afraid of the issue.
We may rest satisfied with the gogdness of our cause,
and need not fear being able to approve ourselves to our
governors, to the christian world, to all impartial judges, to
our own consciences, and to our' God,
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SECT. V.

. The Grounds of the Nonconformity of the ejected
Ministers,
IT is not to be supposed that two thousand men should be
all of one mind. Among the excluded ministers there
was a diversity of sentiments, so that the grounds of their
nonconformity were different. The following abstract con-,
tains the reasons of those who were niost moderate, and
least fond of separation, and which., for the most part, were
common to them all.
I. They were required by the act of uniformity to be
re-ordained, if not episcopally ordained before. This was
what they cpuld not submit to, because . it would, in their
apprehension, be a nullifying their past ordination *, which
seemed not to them a light matter, as the credit of the Re
formed Churches abroad, and the peace of their people,
were nearly concerned in it : nor would their consciences
allow them to triflle with holy things, in pretending to be
moved by the Holy Ghost, to take upon thei-n the office of a
Deacon, Avhen they knew themselves already fixed suffi-y-.
ciently in the higher office of Presbyters, and solemnly to
-pray for what they were assured they had already.
II. They were required to declare their unfeigned assent
and consent to all, and every thing contained and prescribed
in and by the book, intitled, The Book of Common Prayer,
ahd administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ce
remonies of the church ; together with the psalter or psalms
of David, Etnd the form or manner of making or ordaining
and consecrating of bishops, priests and deacons. And they
must also, ex animo, subscribe these words : " That the
book of common prayer, and of ordaining bishops, priests
and deacons, containeth nothing in it contrary to the word of
God ; and that it may be lawfully used : and that they them
selves would use the form in the said books prescribed in pub
lic prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and no
other." But they could iipt dp this fpr the following rea
sons :

* In some cases, an express rehunciation of their former ordination was
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1. Very few of them could seethe book, to which they
-were to declare their assent and consent, before the time li
mited bythe act was expired: For the Common Prayer-Book
with the alterations made hy the convocation, did not come
out of the press till a few days before the 24th of August,
when the act took place. So that of the seven thousand
ministers in England who kept their livirigs, fewtut those in
or near Zow(/ow, could have sight of it till after they had de
clared their assent and consent to it. On which account it is
rather to be wondered at, that so many could, act in so
weighty a matter, upon an implicit faith,, than that such a
number should in such circumstances stand out. But,
2. When they had opportuiiity to peruse the book, they
met with several things there, . -which, after the strictest
search they could make, appeared to them not agreeable to
the word of God. They observed that there must be not
only consent, but assent too ; and that to every thing in par
ticular contained in this book. Words could scarcely be de
vised raore full and significant to testify theirhighest com
mendation of every rite and ceremony, every point and
syllable, in every page and line. So that one might imagine
the framers of this declaration and subscription were of the
mind of the famous Dr. Swadlin, who very roundly asserts,-
" that there was not a tittle of it, but was by the dictate of
the Holy Ghost." Such a declaration as was required was,
in their apprehension, as much as could be desired concei-n
ing the Bible itself; and more than ought to be made con
cerning any copy of it now extant. But as for the Book of
. Common Prayer, &c. they found several exceptions to it,
which appeared to them of great consequence, viz.
(I.) That it teaches the doctrine of real baptismal regene
ration, and certain salvation consequfent thereupon : " We
yield theehearty thanks, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate
tjiis infant with thy holy spirit." " It is certain by God's
&ord, that children which are baptized, Sec. are saved :"
whereas the word of God says npthing about it. The sense
ofthe charch, as to the efficacy of baptism, is clear from the
office for Confirmation, " Almighty God, who hast vouch
safed to regenerate these thy servants by water,, and the
Holy Ghost, and -hast given unto them forgiveness of all
their sins," &c. This was a thing that appeared to our rai
nisters of such dangerous consequence, that they durst not
concur in it, or any way approve it, for fear of contributing
to the hardening of a multitude of vain, loose, careless, se-
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40 INTRODUCTION.
cure crea.tures, in a fatal mistake about the safety of their
state ; neither could they see how they could answer for it to
God" another day.
(2.) That it prescribdk the use of godfathers and godmo-
, thers, in baptisra, to the exclusion of parents. This they
esteemed sinful, not only because it denied the parents' right
to devote their children to God in baptism, but also opened a
wide door to the profaning one of the solei-nnities of our holy
region ; inasmuch as sponsors are not required to be chosen
with due, care and caution ; and in many cases it is really im
possible to procure serious persons to undertake the office.
And they found that many made themselves obnoxious to
lying and perjury in the face of God and the church ; as it is
very comraon for the sponsors never to see the child more,
' after christening-day, nor ever enquire more after it ; hold
ing themselves really bound to nothing, but looking upon all
as mere ceremony and compliment. Besides, these sponsors
personate the child as believing in Christ, renouncing sin,
&c. which has no authority from positive law or natural
right, or common sense. This assent and consent more
over obliges ministers to deny baptism to all sotrh as have not
sponsors, however good their characters, or however con
scientious their scruples. They durst not concur in setting the
will of man against Christ, who " invited little children to
come to him, and was angry with those who forbad them."
And it seemed to them very odd that the same persons should
be so forward to deny baptism to poor infants for want of a
formality, when yet they apprehended it would give them a
certain title to salvation.
(3.) This assent, consent, and subscription, obliges mi
nisters to use the sign ofthe cross in baptism. The silenced
ministers Vegalded this as a sacrament superadded to that
which pur Lord had instituted ; and they thought that as
Christians fiist used it to distinguish themselves from Hea
thens, we should disuse il to distinguish ourselves from the
idolatrous Papists, who superstitiously adore the cross, fool
ishly signing themselves upon every occasion, confiding in it
to protect them from all evil. They thought the use of it
tended to encourage superstition, and that making it neces
sary is a manifest encroachment on the kingly power of our
Saviour, as it is making new terms of communion, in which
they durst not concur.
(4.) This assent, consent, and subscription, obliged them
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INTRODUCTION. 41
it kneeling. The canon forbids ministers, upon pain of sus
pension, to give it tp any that do not kneel. This also they
considered as making a new term of church communion,
contrary to Christ's appointment, which requires all Chris
tians to receive each other in love and concord, and not to
doubtful disputations, as depriving Christ's members of their
right ; an usurpation upon mens consciences, and a means of
dividing the church. Even those of them who could not
think kneeling sinful, and who could themselves have com
plied with it, were yet afraid of excluding others upon such
an account, as it was far from being a necessary matter, and
as persons might have good reason to be backward to alter the
posture used by our Saviour in the administration ; and to be
shy of seeming to symbolize with idolaters, in using that
which is well known to be used by the Papists with an inten
tion of adoring the elements.
(5.) This assent, consent, and subscription, includes an
approbation of that assertion, that bishops, priests, arid dea
cons, are three distinct orders in the church by divine ap
pointment. It said, indeed, " That this is evident to all men
diligently reading the Holy Scriptures and ancient authors."
But though they had diligently read both, they could not see
this in either. Nay, they found that even the church of
England was forraerly of another mind. Bishop Stilling-
fieet proved, as they thought by sufficient evidence, that
Archbishop Cranmer, and other reformers of the church of
England, held that there was no drfference in order "between
a bishop and a presbyter, but only in degree.
(6.) They could not consent to pronounce all saved that
are buried, except the unbaptized, excommunicate, and self-
murderers. For though they owned themselves bound to
judge with the utmost degree of charity concerning all, yet
positively and without any limitation, to avouch concerning
every one whom they buried, " That God in great mercy
has taken his soul, and taken it to himself," though cut off
in the midst of his sins, without any signs of repentance ;
this was beyond their faith, and they found nothing like it
in the gospel, which speaks in another language of impeni
tent sinners ; and they could not see how charity would ex
cuse- dangerous errors and falsehood. By this raeans they
saw they should be necessitated to pronounce many saved at
the grave, whom in their pulpits and writings they thought
themselves obliged to condemn ; and should thus be in danger
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42 iiJtroduction.
coming off safe at last, ialthough they persisted in their disso
lute and licentious course. Besides, it seemed to them to be
but a wild and fanciful sort of charity in those raen, who had
such hopes of. persons dying in gross sins, while many oftheir
consciences were too tender to allow the office to Dissenters,
because they were hopeless schismatics.
(T.) They could not express their consent to a rule for
finding out Easter-day, which they know to be false. The
rule is this : " Easier-day is always the first Sunday after the
first full moon, which happens next after the 21st oi March;
and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, .Easter-day is
the Sunday -aiter." The frequent falsity of this rule may be
seen by consulting the common almanacks, and by compar
ing it with tlje table that follows it in the Common Prayer
Book, to find out Easter-day for ever. Though this in it
self was but a trifle, yet for persons to be obliged to consent
to that as true, which in many cases they know to be false,
was no sraall hardship*.
(8.) They could not consent to read apocryphal lessons,
which they found appointed to be read wholly and entirely,
morning and evening for two months together, under the title
of Holy Scripture; while in the sarae order (as appears by the
•calendar) some books of the sacred canon are wholly left out,
-some of them read but in part, and many of them mutilated and
'curtailed. Though they could freely own, there were many
valuable things in the apocryphal bo&ks, they could not have
such a degree of respect for them as to think thera fit to be
read in churches in the room of the Holy Scriptures. They
especially objected to the stories of Tobit and his dog. Bell
and the dragon, Judith and Baruch, &c. which they found
the most celebrated bishops and doctorsof the church owning
to be false and fictitious. And they were afraid of contri
buting to mislead weak and ignorant people, to fancy them
of equal authority with the Holy Scriptures ; of which there
is the more danger, because in the order of reading the lessons,
the title of Holy Scripture and Old Testament is given to the
Apocrypha. (9.) They could not express an entire approbation of the.
old version of the Psalms, because they found several mis
translations in it, which was indeed raore accommodated to
the Septuagint, than to the original Hebrew, e. g. In Ps.
cv. 28. our Psalter reads the words thus: " and they were
* Dr, Calamy very largely proves the justice of this objection. See
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INTRODUCTION. 43
not obedient to his word ;"'0ur Bible reads them, " and they •
rebelled not against his word." Thus therefore they argued.
If the translation be true in the P.salter, it is false in the Bible;
and if it be true in the Bible, it is false in the Psalter. How
could they give their assent, that they rebelled, and rebelled
not ? And so in sorae other cases.
(lO.) They could not assent and consent to St. Aihana-
*zWsxcreed, in which there is this expression, " which faith
except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without
doubt he shall perish everlastingly." This to our fathers
seemed very harsh. Though they iapproved of the creed in
general as heartily as their brethren, yet could they not look
npon themselves to be so far called to judge other men, as to
conclude all certainly damned for ever, who are not so well
skilled in that mystery, as not to bdieve every word here
¦written. Moreover, some of the ejected ininisters, (as well
as many who conformed) had so rauch charity, as to appre
hend that whosoever walked sincerely up to his light, with a
general repentance for his unseen errors, was in a state of ac
ceptance with God.
(11.) They could not assent and consent to this rubrick,
thai: " none shall be admitted unto the holy coraraunion,
until such time as he be confirmed, or be ieaiiy and desirous
to be confirraed." Though many of thera were desirous to
have confirmation restored, and thought it would be useful,
if managed with a becoming gravity, yet to deny persons the
communion, who were willing to own their baptismal cove
nant, for refusing to be confirmed in the episcopal way, was'
what they knew not how to justify.
III. They were also required, by the act of uniformity, to
take the oath of canonical obedience, and swear subjection to
their ordinaiy, according to the canons of the church.
Herein they could not comply,
1 . Because they found several things highly exceptionable
in those canons, according to which this obedience was to be
performed. Particularly that persons are ipso facto excorr-
municated, and that they themselves raight be obliged to
pronounce them so, for a variety of things which they could
hot think deserving so dreadful a punishment. For instance.
By Can- 4- for charging the Book of Common-Prayer
with " containing any thing repugnant to the Scriptures."
Though this should be allowed to be an error, they could not
see it to be of that magnitude as to deserve excommunication.
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Besides, they esteemed it a gi-eat abuse of excommunication,
to have it thundered out against any persons before they were
heard to speak for themselves, or told of their sin and called
to repentance. ,
By Can. 5. for " affirming any of the 39 articles to be
erroneous." They could not bind themselves to conform to
this canon, for the reasons before-mentioned. Besides, they
found the words of several of the articles liable to exception ;
and some of them of small moment and dubious. They could
not see the warrant of that authority ascribed to the church in
the 20th article. " The church hath power to decree rites
and ceremonies, and hath authority in controversies of faith."
They knew of no charter Christ had given to the church to
bind men up to more than himself hath done. Neither could
they esteem every thing that is true so necessary to church-
communion, that all who dissent must be presently cast out.
They found Bishop Jeremy Taylor overtlirowing the Sth
a. -tide about original s\n; and Dr. Hammond refining upon
the 15th, and denying the nth; in which they had many
followers, who were all by this canon ipso facto excommu
nicated: a thing in which they durst not concur, as easily
foreseeing that this would make the articles an engine of
endless strife and division.
By Can. 6. for affirming, that " the rites and ceremonies
of the church of England are superstitious," &c. In this ca
eon the church seemed to thera to assurae a raost exorbitant
power, by laying so great a stress upon every one of its cere
monies. Besides, these ministers theraselves esteeraed those
ceremonies unwarrantable, and they could not agree to ex
communicate themselves.
By Can. 1. for affirming, that " the government of the
church of England, by archbishops, bishops, deans, &c. is
repugnant to the word of God." Though some of the silenced
ministers could have gone farther than others in submitting to
diocesan episcopacy, yet that bishops should govern the church
in a secular manner, by laymen, who do that in their name
which they know nothing of; could not in their judgment be
reconciled with the word ofGod.
By Can. 8. for affirming, that " the form and manner of
making and consecrating bishops, priests, or deacons, con
taineth any thing in it repugnaat to the word of God."
Thougli it should be allowed there was nothing amiss in this
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INTRODUCTION. 45
in their estimation, be justly deemed a matter of such moment
as to be necessary to salvation, or that persons should be cast
out of the church for the want of it.
By the Sth, 10th, and llth Canons, "such as separate
themselves from the communion of the church of England,
and such as own those separate societies to be true churches,
are all to be excommunicated, and only restored by the arch
bishop." Canons of this kind they durst not swear subjec
tion to, because they thought them very uncharitable. Sup
posing it gianted that these persons really were in an eiTor,
they could not see their errors to be comparable to those ofthe
Papists, who are, by many ofthe prelatical party, owned to
be a -true church. Societies being^gathered and maintained
without the consent of the ruler, cannot incapacitate them
from being true churches; for to condemn them on that ac
count is to disown all the churches ofChrist, which were in
the world for some hundreds of years, who were all in com
mon in that condition. These ministers thought it very fit
to leave those to themselves, who are so confined in their
charity ; apprehending it their duty to embrace all those as
their brethren who feared God, and wrought righteousness,
how different soever their particular sentiments or modes
might be.
By Can. 38. " A minister repenting pf his subscription, or
afterwards omitting any ofthe prescribed forms or ceremonies,
is first to be suspended, then excoraraunicated, and then de
posed from the ministry." This they apprehended might, in
many cases, be to consent lo cast a. man out of the church
fbr being conscientious.
By Can. 57. " All that go for baptism for their children,
or the communion for themselves from their own parish, be
cause the minister is no preacher, to another parish that hath
a preaching minister, are suspended, and after a month to be
excommunicated." To this they could not submit, because
they apprehended there was much more need of driving the
people to preaching ministers than from them; and they
thought it sinful either to countenance ignorant and scanda
lous persons, who had intrudeid into the ministry, or to en
courage people in being contented with such.
By Can. 58. " Every minister, when officiating^ is re
quired to wear a surplice, under pain of suspension^" This
symbolical vestment, was what they found many learned
and excellent miliisters had in former times been against.
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46 INTRODUCTION.
those who should rather have submitted to it, than have
been deprived of their ministry, durst not concur in the sus
pension of others, who were more scrupulous of it than
themselves. By Can. 68. " Ministers are required to baptize all chil
dren without exception, who ar6 offered to them for that
purpose." Though some 'of the silenced ministers were much straiter
in their notions about the qualified subjects of baptism than
others, they were generally against submission to this canon,
because not convinced that the children of all comers {e. g.
infidels and profane, &c.) have right to this ordinance.
And they. apprehended swearing obedience herein, to be a
consenting in effect, to the profaning this sacred institution.
By Can, 12. "Ministers are debarred the liberty of keep
ing private fasts upon any occasion, or so much as being
present at them, without exposing themselves to suspension
the. first time, excommunication the second, and deposition
the thirdi" These ministers esteemed those unworthy of that
sacred fimption, who were not to be trusted to fast and pray
with their people, as occasions might require. And, taking
this to be a part of their office, they could no more renounce
it than the liberty of preaching the gospel.
By Can. 112. " The minister, jointly with the parish of-
ficers, is required every year, within forty days after Easter,
to exhibit to the bishop or his chancellor, the names of all
his parishioners, of the age of sixteen, who did not receive
the communion at Easter before.'-' With this canon agrees'
the rubrick in the coraraunion office, which requires every
parishioner to communicate at the least three times in the
year, of which Easter is to be one. And if they refuse after
presentation, they are to be excommunicated, and are liable to
be confined in gaol till they die, by virtue of the writ de ex
communicato capiendo. In this the silenced ministers durst
not concur, being convinced this would fill the church with
such as ought rather to be kept away ; prevent all possibility of
discipline, andhe a bar to tlfet purity, which is a great design
of Christianity, as well as greatly terrify many timorous
Christians. Omitting some others, the three last canons relate to the
authority of synods, and require all to be excommunicated
who affirm, that " a convocation, summoned by the king's
authority, is not the true church of England by representa
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INTRODUCTION. 47
ject to the decrees of such an assembly: or that their canons
and constitutions are despicable, &c." These canons they
could not oblige themselves to submit to, because of the dis
putable nature of the matters contained in them. " That a
convocation is the true church of England by representa
tion," seemed to them justly questionable, not only because
the laity (whom they thought a part of the church) were al
together excluded, but also because the clergy were far from
being therein fairly represented. But though they should be
mistaken in points of this namre, it seemed to them strangely
and needlessly severe, that an excommunication must presently
be thundered out, for what might be a mere raistake without
any malignity. They thought this highly unsuitable to the
Christian spirit, and contrary to the will of our Saviour, who
has so often recommended mildness and gentleness to his
church; and therefore they could not swear submission.
It hath been pleaded by many, That the oath of canonical
obedience doth not require approbation of all that is in the
canons. To which they answered. That, in their judgraent,
the case of a minister was much the same as that of a justice
of peace, who though not bound by his oath to approve of
every law of the land, yet is bound by his office, when he is
called to it, to execute them all.
2. Another , capital reason why these, ministers' scrupled
taking the oath of canonical obedience was, that they found
the epis^copal government managed by chancellor's courts,
(which were kept in the bishop's name indeed, while they
¦were not suffered to act in them) where laymen exercise
authority, by decretive excommunications and absolutions.
They found the word ordinary, mentioned in the oath,
would admit of divers senses. That it not only meant the
bishop of the diocese, but the judges in their courts. And
as for the "other chief ministers" added in the oath, to
whom subjection was to be sworn, they saw not how less
could be meant, than all the archdeacons, officials, com
missaries, and surrogates, with the rest of the attendants
upon those courts. Now they dnrst not bind themselves by
oath to a submission of this nature, for fear of concurring
to overthrow the pastoral office. They thought the keys
of the church as much belonged to the pastor as the admi
nistration of the sacraments; and that in case of abuse,
an appeal might more properly be lodged with a synod, or
with a meeting consisting partly of ministers, and partly of
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4,? INTRODUCTION.
of wrangling lawyers, whose concern in such matters they
looked upon as irrational as well as unscriptural ; and whose
management of them was more likely to be calculated for
their own pi;ofit, than the credit of religion, and the purity
of the church.
As for the provision made by the rubrick before the com
munion office, " That when a minister keeps any persons
*' from the sacrament, he should within forty days give
" an account to the ordinary, that he may proceed against
" them according to the canons," they could not acquiesce
in it, being dissatisfied as to the grounds upon which these
ordinaries (whether mere laymen, simple presbyters, or
diocesans) appropriated the cognizance of matters of this
nature to themselves, which in the judgment of common
sense was more proper for those that had the opportunity
of personal inspection, than for strangers. They were also
confirraed in their dislike of this method of procedure, be
cause of the tediousness, difficulty, and expensiveness of it ;
because of the number that must l^e accused if the canons
were followed; because of the great hindrance it would
be to them in their ministerial work ; anil in a word, be
cause of the impossibility of keeping up any real discipline
in such a way; to which they were rendered averse by
observation and experience.
Excommunications and absolutions they looked upon as
very weighty matters, and durst not agree to triflle in
them. If the bishops could trust their consciences with their
chancellors, they desired to be excused till they were better
satisfied in the point*. They could not yield to receive
and publish their excommunications blindly, lest they
should be chargeable with their irregularities and abuses,
and be the instruments of molesting, worrying and ruining
as religious persons perhaps as any in their parishes. Nor
durst they consent to publish these absolutions of notorious
debauchees, who have given, it may be, no other proof
of repentance of their crimes than paying the fees of the
court. These things, they well knew, exposed the cen
sures of the church to scandal and contempt, and therefore
they were unwilling to give their countenance to them. IV. They
* The church-party themselves have not been insensible of corruptionj
in this respect. Among oUiers, Bishop Burnet, at the close of his History of
the Reformation, observes, " There is one thing (we could heariily wish there
" were no more) yet wanting to CQinpletc the reformation of this church ;
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IV. They -were also required by the Act of uniformity,
to abjure the Solemn League and Covenant, in these
words : "I A. B. do declare, that I do hold there lies no
" obligation upon me, or any other person, from the oath
*' commonly called, The Solemn League and Covenant,
" to endeavour any change or alteration of government,
" either in church or state ; and that the same was in itself
" an unlawful oath, and iraposed upon the subjects of this
" realm against the known laws and liberties of this king-
«' dom."
Though many of the ministers who were ejected had
not taken this Covenant, and more of them were all along
against the imposing it, their consciences would not allow
them to yield to such a renunciation as this, for which a
parallel can hardly be found in any age. Every man's en
deavouring in his proper sphere to alter church-government,
as far as he is convinced of its being faulty, appeared to
them a matter of duty ; and a thing to which that Cove
nant so far obliged all who took it, that all the princes and
prelates in Christendom could not give them a dispensation.
But for every one in holy orders to determine for all in the
three kingdoms, who had taken tl-ie Covenant, that, they
were no way bound by it, they esteemed an unprecedented
assumption. They remembered that kifig Charles himself
had taken it into Scotland, with all possible appearance
of serioTjsness and solemnity. This indeed he had done no
less than three times ; and they durst not run the hazard
of tempting the king himself, and thousands of his subjects,
to incur the guilt of perjury, or of hardening them under
that guilt.
V. Besides the oath of allegiance and supremacv, all in
holy orders were, by the Act of uniformity, obliged to sub-
scribe this political declaration : "I A.B. do declare, that
" it is not lawful, upon any pretende whatsoever, to take.
" arms against the king ; and that I do abhor that trait-
" erous position of taking arms by his authority against his
¦"-person, or against those that are commissionated by him.''
Though the silenced ministers were as free as any for
the Oath of allegiance, and ready to give the governraent
" which is, the restoring a primitive discipline against scandalous persons,
*' the establishing the government of the church in ecclesiastical hands,
•' and taking out of lay-hands, who have so long profaned it, and have
" exposed the authority of- the church, and the censures of it, chiefly ex-
« communication, to the contempt of the nation ; by which the reverence
« due to holy things is in so great a measure lost, and the dreadfuUesl of all
f censures is now become tlie most scorned and despised."
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60 INTRODUCTION.
any reasonable assurance of a peaceable subjection, yet
they were not for subscribing this declaration, for fear of
contributing to betray the liberties of their country. For,
being sensible that it is possible for the law and the king's
commission to be contrary to each other, they thought it
the duty of Englishraen as free people, to adhere rather to
the forraer than to the latter. They esteemed self-defence
a part of the law of nature, and thought that the body
of a nation have, by that law, a self-defending power
against their enemies ; and it was their corafort under the
severe censures cast upon them, to have the Greeks and Ro-
fnans, philosophers, orators and historians, the ancient bi
shops of the church, the most celebrated modern histo
rians, civilians, and canonists, together with such erainent ,
persons even in the church of England, as Bishop Bilson,
•Bishop Jeremy Taylor, and Mr. Hooker, concurring in
the sarae opinion -with themselves. And notwithstanding
all the clamours of their insulting brethren, they were
satisfied that those who were raost forward for this decla
ration, and most fierce in condemning such as scrupled it,
would not adhere to it, if at any time they found things
were come to extremity, as the event verified : for upon the
landing of the prince of Orange, when to secure religion,
liberty, and property, all ranks and qualities, both of clergy
and laity, finding room for a particular exception, where
they would before allow of no case whatsoever, .ventured
to join with a foreign prince, whom they had called in to
their assistance, against the person of their sovereign King
James, and those who were coraraissioned by hira. As for
the poor ejected rainisters, who endured such hardships for
refusing this declaration, They came off with this honour
able testimony from irapartial spectators, that by their re
fusal they helped, as rauch as in thera lay, to pave the way
for that glorious Revolution, to which we owe all our pre
sent happiness, and all our future hopes ; while the pro
moters of this declaration, and all that adhered to it, could
contribute nothing in the case, without bidding defiance
to their raost darling principle : the principle which for
twenty years together had made the pulpits ring and the
press groan.
These two last points, " of renouncing the covenant
" and subscribing against taking arms in any case whatso-
" ever," have not for some time been insisted on, with
such as enter the ministry in the established church. The
former was fixed by the act, only till 1682, and then it
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INTRODUCTION. isi
i^ropped of course. The latter continued till the Revolu
tion, and then (as it was high tirae), was superseded.
For such reasons as these, the ministers who were ejected,
durst not comply with the Act of uniformity, and fall in
with the national establishment. Hereupon they have been
generally aspersed and blackened with all imaginary free
dom. But this must be acknowledged, after all, that if they
erred in this matter, it -was for fear of erring; ,and there
fore they deserved respect rather than reproach, because
they acted like men of integrity, according to the light
they had. If but one thing had been made necessary to
their continuing in their places, which, -upon due enquiry
they thought sinful,- they had been bound to have refused.
But here were many things which they knew not how they
could yield to, without sin ; and because their consciences
-would not suffer them to do it, henceforward the church-
doors were shut against them with conterapt, and others
filled their pulpits. Hereupon they were much persuaded
to lay down their ministry; but the generality of them
could not be satisfied to do it on many accounts. — They
feared the guilt of perfidiously breaking their ordination-
yo-w, by which they obliged themselves to the diligent
performance of their ministry. Many of their people,
having given up themselves to their conduct in divine things,
claimed the continuance of their relation and ministry, and
begged they would not desert them ; professing that they could
•not trust their souls to the care of many of those who were
placed in their stead. They therefore feared incurring the
charge of unfaithfulness and cruelty, and the guilt of ruining
souls by being silent. — The magistrate's authority was in
deed against them; but they found theraselves under a so
lemn obligation to a higher authority to fulfill their mi
nistry, as they were able, for neglecting which they knew
the command of the magistrate could furnish them with
no just excuse. The curse and doom of the unprofitable
servant that hid his talent {Matt, xxv.) much affected
them. Besides, they found the necessities of the people in most
parts of the nation great, notwithstanding the legal provision
for them- Without being censorious, it was too evident
to thera, tliat raany of the new ministers were unqualified.
And on the most favourable view of things, they found
that populous cities, and the ignorant parts of the country,
needed more help than the parish ministers did or could
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53 INTRODUCTION.
afford thettt. In short, maturely weighing the whole mat-*
ter, they apprehended it their indispensable duty, as men
and ministers, to do their best in the exercise of all their
talents, huraan, christian, and rainisterial, to seek to save
men's souls; and they endeavomed, as well they could, to
arm themselves with patience to bear all the sufferings they
might expect to meet -with. Nor did they want hearers
and adherents. Many arguments and insinuations indeed
were used to divert the people from at all regarding themj
but their esteem fbr them was too deeply rivetted, the
grounds of their dissatisfaction too palpable, and the care
taken to remove the grounds of their objections too su
perficial, for them to be much moved with these assaults.
Many of the people had found benefit by their foriirer la
bours, and thereupon thought themselves obliged to adhere to
them. Finding them cast off without having any crime justly
alledged against them, they thought it inhuman and bar
barous to &sert them. And being convinced of the justice
of the cause in which they were engaged, viz. in pressing
a farther reformation in matters of religion, they thought
it their duty to espouse the same cause, and adhere lo the
Same principle. They could not see how the presentation
of a patron and the institution of a bish'op, could make it
the duty of all in a parish, presently to acquiesce in those
ministers who were put in their places : nor could they
reconcile the supposition with the inviolable rights of hu^^
man nature ; which leave a man as much at his liberty to
choose a pastor for his soul, as a physician for his body, or
a lawyer for his estate.
The people also had many of the same objections against
conformity which the ministers themselves had, arising par
ticularly from the want of discipline in the church; the
imposition of the cross and of sponsors in baptism ; kneeling
sit the Lord's supper, and other human inventions, and un
scriptural terms of coraraunion. Things being in this pos
ture, what must they do ? Must they sit still, without any
ordinances at all ? Or act against their consciences to en
joy them ? Must they live like Pagans till they got rid of
their scruples ? It appeared to be their duty to take sucli
Opportunities as they had of worshipping God according
to their consciences, being careful to maintain love aiw
tharity towards those from whom they differed. This
course they accordingly took ; having sometimes the smiles,
and sometimes the frowns of government. — Among other
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INTRODUCTION; 63
charges brought against both ministers and people, on ac
count of their separate assemblies, they were cried out
against, both from the press and the pulpit, as dangeroiis
Schismatics, and under that name subjected to popular
odium. For, as a member of the church of England (the
ingenious Mr. Hales of Eaton) said long ago, " Heresy
" and Schism are two theological scare-crows, insed by
" those that seek to uphold a party in religion, to terrify
" their opponents." However the Nonconfprraists weighed
the raatter, considered the grounds of their charge, found
themselves innocent, and made their appeal to the unpreju
diced, in a variety of publications.
They pleaded that their practice was not what the scrip
ture calls schism. As itis there represented, schism con
sists not so much in variety of opinions, or different prac
tices, modes or forras, as in a want of love and charity.
For as heresy is opposed to faith, schism is opposed to love.
He that is conversant with scripture may easily observe,
that there may be schism, or a schismatical spirit worJcing
in a church, where there is no local separation ; and that
there may be a separation and yet no schism on the part of
them that separate : nay, that there can be no schism in the
scripture sense, where there is not an uncharitable alienation
of the hearts of christians from each other. — They farthev
pleaded, that their separation was not voluntary, but forced.
They were cast out of the church by her impositions^ and
excommunicated by her canons: on which account many
of the Laudensian faction, even to this day, deny them
christian burial. They were free to hold constant commu
nion with the established church, upon those terms which
Christ had made necessary ; but were rejected with s-corn,
because pf their non-compliance in things which, after the
strictest enquiry, they could not find the word of God war
ranted. So that they did not throw themselves out, but
were rejected. — They farther pleaded, that if there were a
a schism, it lay at their door who laid the foundation of
it by their irapositions, and vvho might remove it, and pre
vent the dismal consequences they so much complain of,
by leaving the things that are so strictly enjoined, in their
natural indifference. They were the more confirmed in
their adherence to these principles, by finding the most emi
nent episcopal divines forced to adopt the very same, in
their noble defence of the Reformation, against the Ro-
naanists. And indeed it seemed to them remarkable that
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5* INpi^DUCTION.
those which were reckoned, by the Clergy, the most suc
cessful weapons against the Dissenters, should be the same
that are used by the Papists against the Protestant Reforma
tion. Upon the whole ; as forthe above reasons they thought'
their separation from the church of England was not sinful,
they.. endeavoured to manage it so peaceably and charitably,
that it might not become schismatical. A raain expedient,'
pitched upon by the raost moderate for this purpose, was,
communicating occasionally with the established church.
Hereby they thought they should she,w their love and cha
rity to those frora whom they ordinarily separated ; and
at thesame' tirae manifest their firm adherence to their fun
damental' principles, of keeping the ordinances of Christ,
as he had appointed thera, without additional terras of com
munion ; and of pursuing a farther reforraation. But they
had the common lot of those who in any case have been
for keeping within a due mediocritv ; they have been ea--
gerly assaulted by those addicted to extremes on both hands,
and condemned as utterly inexcusable because of their mo
deration*.

SECT. VI.

The Treatment of the Nonconformist Ministers after their
Ejection, till the Death of Charles II.
THE ejected ministers continued for ten years in a state
of silence and obscurity. It was their aim and endea
vour to be found in the way of their duty to God and the
king ; but they could not be suffered to live in peace. More
plots were hatched, to keep up the spirit which Yarring-
ion's plot first stirred up against them. Such was the policy
of the court, that they must either be crushed by their
fellow Protestants, or if favoured with any connivance,
they must have the Papists partners with thera, that so the
Protestant interest might be weakened. The Act of uni
formity took place, August the 24th, 1662. On the 26th
of December following, the king published a Declaration,
expressing his purpose to grant sorae indulgence or liberty
* Whether their conduct herein was right or not, their motive was doubtless
a most commendable one. Those who would see a defence of their occa
sional conformity, are referred to Dr. Calamy's original Work, vol, 1.
p,285, &c. -' o > >
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INTRODUCTION. 55
in religion. Some of the Nonconformists were hereupon
much encouraged, and waiting privately on the king, had
their hopes confirmed, and would have persuaded their bre
thren to have thanked him for his declaration ; but they re
fused, lest they should raake way for the toleration of the
Papists, whom they understood the king intended to include
in it, as he said, they had deserved well of hira. This
royal declaration pleased neither the parliament nor the peo
ple ; and the Nonconformists, instead of being favoured,
were exposed to greater severities. They who on the king's
return were so much caressed, were now treated with the
utmost contempt. The silenced ministers were not only
forbidden to preach in public, but were so carefully -watched
in private, that they could not meet to pray together, but
it was deeraed a seditious conventicle. Mr. Baxter and
Dr. Bates were desired to raeet at one • Mr. Scale's in
Hatton Garden, to pray for his wife, who was danger
ously ill. Happily for them, some occurrence prevented
their attendance, for if they had been there, they would
have been apprehended; as two justices of peace came
with a Serjeant at arras to seize thera, and searched the
house, and even the sick chamber. Soon after this, many
excellent ministers were laid in gaols in several counties for
the heavy crime of preaching and praying.
In June 1663, the old peaceable Archbishop oi Canter
bury, Dr. Juxon, died, and Dr. Sheldon, Bishop of Lon
don suceeded'him. About that time there was a fresh re
port of liberty for the silenced ministers. They were blaraed
by raany, for not petitioning the parliament; though they
had reason enough against it. Many merabers encouraged
the expectation of either an indulgence, or a coraprehen
sion ; and it was warraly debated, which of the two would
be most desirable. Some were for petitioning for a general
indulgence ; but others declared they Would suffer any thing
rather than promote Popery.
Mr. Baxter, when consulted by a person of distinction,
declared for a comprehension. But instead of indulgence
or comprehension, on the 30th of June, an act against pri
vate meetings, called the Conventicle Act, passed the House
of Commons, and soon after was made a law, viz. " That
" every person above sixteen years of age, present at ^fly -
" meeting, under pretence of any exercise of rehgion, in
"other manner than is the practice bf the church of
f* England, where there are five persons mQre than the
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56 INTRODUCTION.
" houshold, shall for the first offence, by a justice of peace
" be recorded, and sent tp gapl three months, till he pay
" 51. and for the second offence, six months, till he pay
" lOl. and the thitd time being convicted by a jury, sha,Il
" be banished to sorae of the American plantations, ex-
" cepting New England or Virginia." It was a great
hardship attending this act, that it gave power to the Jus
tices to record a man an offender without a jury : and if
they did it without a cause, there wa^ no remedy, seeing
every justice was made a judge. Before, the danger and
sufferings lay on the ministers only, but now the people
also were included.
In the year 1 665, the plague broke out, which carried off
about an hundred thousand persons in the city of London.
The ejected ministers had, till this time, preached very
privately, and only to a few: but now, when the clergy
in the city -churches fled, and left their flocks in tha time
of their extreraity, several of the Nonconformists pitying
the dying and distressed people, who had none to help
them to prepare for another world, nor to comfort them
in their terrors, when about 10,000 died in a week ; were
convinced that no obedience to the laws of man could
justify their nisglecting men's souls and bodies in such es^-
tremities. They therefore resolved to stay with them, to
enter the deserted pulpits, and give them what assistance
they were able, under such an awakening providence ; to
visit the sick, and procure what relief they could for the
poor, especially such as wei'e shut up. The persons that
determined upon this good work were Mr. T. Vincent, Mr.
Chester, Mr. Janeway, Mr. Turner, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Jack-
Son, Mr. Franklyn, and some others. The face of death so
awakened preachers and hearers, that the former exceeded
themselves in lively fervent preaching ; and the latter heard
with a peculiar ardour and attention. Through the blessing
of God, many were converted, and religion took such hold
on their hearts, that it could never afterwards be effaced.
While God was consuming the people by this judgm^ntj
and the Nonconformists were labouring to save their souls,
the parliament, which sat at Oxford, was busy in making
an act to render their case incoraparably harder than it was
before, by putting upon them a certain oath*, which if
they
, * The oath was this. "I, A. B. do swear, that it is not lawful, upon
" any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king : and Uiat I do
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INTRODUCTION. ,57
they refused, they must not come (unless uppn the road)
-within five miles of any city or corporation, any place
that sent burgesses to parliament, any place where they
had been ministers, or had preached after the act of ob
livion. The main promoters of this act among the clergy
•were, Archbishop Sheldon and Bishop Ward. Though
some vehemently opposed it, the Lord Chancellor Hyde
and his party carried it. When this act came out, those
ministers who had any maintenance of their own, found out
some places of residence in obscure villages, or market-towns,
that were not corporations. Some who had nothing, left
their wives and children, and hid themselves, sometimes
coming to them privately by night. But the majority, re
solved to preach the more freely in cities and corporations,
till they should be sent to prison. Their difficulties were
truly great ; for the country was so impoverished, that those
-who were willing to relieve them, had generally but little
ability. And yet God mercifully provided for them ; so
that scarcely any of them perished for want, or were ex
posed to sordid beggary : but some few were tempted against
their former judgments to conforra.
The Nonconforraists being charged in this new act, witb
seditious doctrines and heinous crimes, raany were so rauch
hurt by it, as to endeavour to find out a sense in which the
oath might be safely taken, to prevent their passing under
that brand to posterity. Dr. Bates consulted the lord keeper
Bridgeman about it; who proraised to be at the next
sessions, and on the bench to declare openly, that hyen-
deavouring to change the church government, was meant
oply unlawful endeavour. Upon which declaration, he
and about twenty other Nonconforraists took the oath. — -
This year orders were sent frora the Archbishop of Canter
bury to the several bishops of his province, that they should
make a return of the names of all ejected Nonconforraist
ministers, with their place of abode, and manner of life.
In consequence of this, the number of rainisters who were
imprisoned, fined, or otherwise suffered for preaching ths
gospel, was very great.
The dreadful fire in London, which happened the next
" abhor the traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his
" person, or against those that are comiiiissionated by him, in pursuance of
" such commission : and that I will not at any time tndmvour any alteration of
^ ihe government, either in church ir Hate." year,

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year, made the way of the Nonconformists plainer to
them : for the churches being burnt, and the parish rainis
ters gone, for want of churches and raaintenance, the peo
ple's necessity becarae unquestionable. Having now no
places in which to worship God, except a few churches
that were left standing, which would hold but an inconsider
able part of them, the Nonconformists opened public Meet
ing houses, which were very full ; but still they agreed some
times to comraunicate with the established church.
In the year 1667, the Lord Chancellor Hyde was irn-
peached and discarded : and it seemed a reraarkable provi^
dence of God, that he who had been the gi-and instrument
of state in the foregoing transactions, and had dealt so
severely with the Nonconforraists, should at length be cast
out by his own friends and banished. The Duke of Buck
ingham succeeded him as cliief favourite ; under whom
the Nonconforrnists in London were connived at, and peo
ple went openly to their meetings without fear. This en
couraged the country ministers to use the same liberty in
most parts of England, and crowds of the most religious
people were their auditors.
In January 1668, the lord-keeper Bridgeman sent ior
Mr. Baxter and Dr. Manton, to treat with thera about a
comprehension and toleration. A few days afler, he sent
them his proposals in writing, and they met Dr. Wilkins
and Mr. Burton to confer about thet-n.
Mr. Baxter and his brethren moved for other things to
be added. Dr. Wilhns professed his ready consent, but
said that more would not pass with the parliament. After a
long debate, a bill was drawn up by Judge Hale, to be pre
sented to the parliament. But- they no sooner sat, than the
High-church party made such interest against it, that, upon
putting it to the vote, it was carried, that no man should
bring an act of this nature into the house.
In September, 1669, Sir John Baber informed Dr.
Manton, that the king was inclined to favour the Noncon
formists, and that an address now would be accepted. An
address was accordingly agreed On, and presented by Drs,
Manton, Bates, Jacomb, and Mr. Ennis. The King met
them in Lord Arlington's lodgings, . received thera graci
ously, and proraised to do his utraost to get them compre
hended within the public establishment. But after all, the
talk of liberty did but occasion the writing many bitter pam
phlets against toleration. This year Sir Wm. Turner
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INTRODUCTION. 59
was Lord mayor of Zo«rfo?2, wh6 never disturbed the Non
conforming ministers, or troubled men for religion : and the
liberty they enjoyed in London encouraged many preachers
thro-ugh the country.
But the year following, they experienced a very unhappy
change. The act against Conventicles was renewed, and
made more severe than ever. Several new clauses were in
serted : viz. "That the fault of the mittimus should not
'"disable it; that all doubtful clauses in the act should be
" interpreted as would most favour the suppression of con-
" venticles ; that they that fled, or removed their dwelling
". into another county, should be pursued by execution, See."
Hereupon Mr. Ba.vter was apprehended at Acton, and com
mitted to Clerkenwell prison for six months ; and having
obtained a Habeas corpus, the same justices, as soon as they
heard of his release, raade a new raittimus to send him to
Newgate : but he kept out of their reach. Dr. Manton,
though he had great friends, and mighty promises of fa
vour, was imprisoned in the Gatehouse for six months, for
preaching in his own house, in the parish where he had been
minister, and for coraing within five railes of a corporation,
not having taken the Oxford oath. All that tirae the meet
ings in London were frequehtl.y disturbed by bands of sol
diers, to the death of some, and the terror of raany. This
, year a most virulent book was published, called Ecclesiastical
Policy, -written by Samuel Parker, who was afterwards a
bishop, and at length became Archbishop of Canterbury. A
man of great abilities, who was brought up among the zea
lous eneraies of prelacy; but seeing some weaknesses among
them, and being, of an eager spirit, was turned with the
times into the contrary extreme. He wrote the most scorn
fully and rashly, the raost profanely and cruelly, against
the Nonconformists, of any man that ever assaulted them.
He was first answered by Dr. Owen, and afterwards so
handled by the witty and sarcastic Andrew Marvel, that he
grew rauch tamer. See Burnett's History of his own
Times, vol. i. p. 364.
. In 1672 the Dutch war began, which made the court think
it necessarv to grant an Indulgence to the Dissenters, that
there raight be peace at horae, while there was war abroad.
The Declaration bore date March 15. It was now publicly
owned " That there was very little fruit of all those forcible
" methods which had been been used, for reducing erring
'? and dissenting persons, H^c. His majesty therefore, by
" virtue

eo INTRODUCTION.
" virtue of his supreme power in matters ecclesiastical, took
'• uppn him to suspend all penal laws about them, declaring
" that he would grant a convenient number of public meet-
•' ing-places to men of all sorts that did not conform, pro-
" vided they took out licences, Kc." This was applauded by
some among the Nonconformists, while others feared the
consequences : for they well knew, that the toleration was
not chiefly for their sakes, but for the Papists ; and that they
should hold it no longer than their interest would allow it
them. However they concluded on a cautious and moderate
address of thanks.
The ministers of London were now generally settled in
their meeting-houses. The merchants at this time set up a
weekly lecture on Tuesday morning at Pinners-hall. Mr.
.Sfl-x^er was chosen one of the preachers. But so ill a spirit
was now got among them, that they were rauch offended at
his preaching, particularly for laying so much stress upon
union among christians ; so that he set up a lecture by him
self, which he preached gratis, on Fridays, in Fetter-lane,
with great convenience, and a considerable blessing on his
labours. He refused any settled place on the Lord's day, and
preached only occasionally.
In February, 1673, the parliament met, and voted the
king's Declaration illegal ; upon which he promised that it
should not be brought into precedent. At length the Com-
mons brought in a bill ne'm. con. for the ease of Protestant
Dissenteis ; but it went no farther than a second reading,
because (as Mr. Coke says) the dead weight of bishops joined
with the king and the caballing party against it : so that the
Dissenters, having the protection of the king's Declaration
taken off, were left to the storm of the severe laws in force
against them, which by some country justices, though not
by the majority, were rigourously executed. The pjirlia-
ment now entertained great jealousies respecting the preva
lence of Popery, anti passed an act for preventing danger
; . om Popish recusants, (commonly called the Test-act, and
not yet repealed,) by which it was enacted, " That all who
" should be adraitted into any office, civil or railitary,
" after the first ^?iy oi Easter-Term in 1673, should (be-
" sides taking the oaths of supremacy and allegiance) pub-
" licly receive the sacrament, according to the usage of
" the cliurch of England, within three months . after ad-
" mittance." — The parliament raet again, October 26, &nA
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INTRODUCTION. q
Papist, akin to the Pope ; and likewise against granting any
more money, till they were secured against the danger o^
Popery and Popish counsellors, and their grievances were re
dressed. In this session, the earl of Orrery desired Mr. Baxter to
draw up ^ternis of union between the Conformists and the
Nonconformists, in order to their joint and vigorous oppo
sition to Popery ; telling him that Sir T. Osborn the new
Lord-treasurer, Bishop Morley, and several other great men
-tvere mightily for it. Mr. Baxter accordingly drew up such
proposals as he thought might take in all the Independents,
as well as Presbyterians,, and gave them to the earl of Or
rery, who after some time returned them, jwith Bishop
Morley's strictures, which fully shewed that all his profes
sions for concord were deceitful ; for he would not make the
least abatement, in any thing of moment.
Soon after this, some leading men in the House of Com
mons, drew up a bill for accommodatiori, to take off oaths,
subscriptions, aud declarations, except the oaths of alle
giance and supremacy, and subscriptions to the doctrine pf
the church of England, according to the 13th oi Eliz. but
shewing it to the sarae bishop he defeated the design. How
ever, that he raight seem to be in earnest in so often professing
a peaceable disposition, he furthered an act to remit the assent
and consent, and the renunciation of the Covenant. But
when other bishops weie against even this shew of abate
ment, he told them openly in the house, " That had it been
" only to abate a cereraony, he would not have spoken for
" it : but he knew that they were bound to the same
" things still, by other clauses or obligations, if these were
" repealed."
His majesty soon afterwards called the bishops together to
fconsider what was to be done for securing religion, He
After various consultations with the ministers of state, they
advised him to recal his licences, and put the laws against
the Nonconforraists in execution. This was done by a pro-
cbraation (A.D. 1674,) declaring the licences long since
void, and requiring the execution of the laws against Pa
pists and Conventicles. No sooner was the proclamation
published, but special informers were set at work to promote
the executioii.
Another session of parliament approaching. Bishop Alor-
ley and Bishop Ward appearing apprehensive of the dangef
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62 INTRODUCTION. -
might 'take in the Npncpnformists, and mentioned their' de
sign, tp many. :At'lefjgth Dr. Tilloison and Dr. Stilling-
fieet (\esh-ed a meeting with Dr. Mdnton,~Dr. Bates, Mr.
Pool, and Mr. 3axter, in order to consider of an accom
modation, aiid said they had the encouragement of several
Lords both spiritual and temporal. Mr. Baxter at first met
the two doctors alone; and having considered various
plans, they at length fixed on one in which they agreed.
This being conimtinicated to the Nonconformists, was satis
factory to them: but -vyhen they laid, it .before the bishops
there was an end ofthe treaty.
The inforraers in the city went on, but met with many
discouragements. The akleiiiien were not fond of them,
and often got- out of the way, when they knew of their
coraing ; ' and some denied thera their warrants. Stro^tod and
Marshal became general informers ; but were soon fallen
upon bytheir creditors, and generally hated. The latter died
in the compter. One that had sworn against Mr. Baxter,
hearing three ministers pray and preach soon after at Rother-
hithe, his heart was so melted that he professed repentance,
and left his forraer corapanions. Another, raeeting Mr. Bax
ter in the street, promised hira that he would meddle no
more. Keting the informer, being in prison for debt, wrote to
Mr. Baxter to interpose for his deliverance, telling him, he
verily believed that God had sent this affliction, as a punish
ment for giving him so much trouble ; and earnestly desired
hira to pray to God to forgive hii-n. About this tirae (A. D.
1676,) twelve or thirteen of the bishops dining with Sir
Nath. Hern, sheriff of Loncbn, discoursed with hira about
putting the laws against the Dissenters in execution ; when
he told thera, " That they could not trade with their neigh-
" bours one day, and send thera to gaol the next." — The
following session of parliament, the duke of Buckingham
made a notable speech against persecution, and desifed the
consent of the Lords to bring in a bill for the ease of his
majesty's Protestant subjects in matters of religion; but
while he was preparing it, the parliaraent was prorogued.
In 1678, the Popish plot broke out, which exceedingly
alarmed the whole nation. The House of Commons, after
many warm debates, carae to this resolution; "That there
" hath been, and is, an execrable and hellLsh design, con-
" trived and carried on by Popish recusants, for assassinating
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INTRODUCTION. 63
" and for destroying, the Protestant religion by law esta-
" blished." Most of their time was Spent about this plot,
for which many suffered.
At length, January 14, 1679, this parliaraent (which so
long complied with the court in all their desires) being
awakened by a sense of the comraon danger, was suddenly
dissolved. This occasioned a ferraent in all parts of the
country. It was generally esteeraed the coraraon concern in
the next election, to choose firm Protestants, who should
heartily apply themselves to make provision for the cornmon
security. The new parliaraent first sat on the 6th oi March
following, and began where the last left off, but were soda
prorogued to August 14; and before that tirae, were dis
solved by proclamation, and another called to sit at Wesi-
•minster in October following. When they asserabled, they
were adjourned till January 26, by which time a ne-w plot
was discovered by Dangerjield, which the Papists had con
trived to lay upon the Dissenters. Thev were afterwards
adjourned several times till October 30, when they pro
ceeded to business. Finding no other way to keep Popery
out ofthe nation, than by excluding the duke oiYork from
the succession to the crown, they .brought in abill for this
purpose. On November 11, it passed the House of Com
mons ; on the 1 5th it was carried up to the House of Lords
by the brave lord Russel, and on the second reading, it was
thrown out, by a majority of thirty, of whom fourteen were
bishops. This House of Comraons had before them a bill*
for a Comprehension, and another for an Indulgence : both
of them were read twice, and were before the committee.
But finding this would not go down, a bill was prepared
purely for exempting his raajesty's protestant subjects, dis
senting frora the church oi England, from the penalties im
posed upon the Papists by the act of 35 Eliz. It passed the
Commons, and was agreed to by the Lords ; but when tlie
king came to the house to pass the bills, this was taken from
the table, and never heard of any raore. Many leading raen
in the House of Coraraons spoke in favour of the Dissenters,
but they had not tirae to bring things to maturity. The kirig
was dissatisfied -yvith their proceedings ; his great want was
money, and they were resolved to give none, unless he

» The heads of the bill for uniting his majesty's Protestant subjects may be
Seenin Calamy's Hie oS Baxter, p. 350 — 352. would

U INTRODUCTION.
would pass a bill to exclude the duke of York. Whereupon,
they were prorogued, January 14. but before they rose
they came to these two resolutions : " Resolved, nem. con.
" That it is the opinion of this house, that the acts of par-
*' liament made in the reign of queen Elizabeth and king
*' James against popish recusants, ought not to be extended
*' against Protestant Dissenters; and that the prosecution of
" Protestant Dissenters upon" the penal laws, is at this time
•' grievous to the subject, a weakening the protestant in-
** terest, an encouragement to Popery, and dangerous to the
" peace of the kingdom." After which they were first pro
rogued afld then dissolved. Another parliament met at Ca:-
ford in March following, but had not time to do any busi-,
ness. There was a complaint then made ofthe unprecedented
loss ofthe forementioned bill for the repealing the act of 35
Eliz. but without aiiy satisfaction or redress.
Notwithstanding that the fears of Popery were then so
general and so well grounded, Dr. StiUingfleet, dean of St.
Paul's, (prevailed upon, as was supposed, by sorae great
personages) thought fit to represent all the Nonconformists
as schismatics, in a sermon before the Lord mayor, May
the 2d, 1680, intitled, " The Mischief of Separation." An
swers to it were written by Dr. Owen, Mr. Baxter, Mr.
Alspp, Mr. Howe, and Mr. Barret of Nottingham.
While the Doctor and his opponents were eagerly debating
matters, the common enemy took advantage to promote their
intended ruin. The Dissenters were prosecuted afresh, in
defiance of the votes of parliament, and several zealous pro
testants were tried by mercenary judges, with packed juries,
upon Irish evidence. Orders were sent frora the king and
Council-board to suppress all conventicles ; which were fol
lowed carefully enough by t\\e]nsticesoi Hicks' s-Hall, the
borough of Southwark, and some in the city also. This
year (1682) the meetings of the Dissenters were often
broken up, and the laws against thera vigourously executed.
Mariy ministers were imprisoned, and they and their hearers
finetl. Mr. Baxter was surprised in his own house ; but Dr.
Cox making oath, before five justices, that he was too ill to
go to prison, the officers executed their warrants on the
goods and books in the house, though he made it appear
They were not his ; andthey sold even the bed which he then
lay upon. Yir. Annesly, and several more, had their goods
distrained for latent convictions; others were imprisoned
Upon the corporation-act, while many were worried in the
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Spirittial courts. Warrants were signed for distresses in
Hackney to the value of 1400/. and one of them for 500/.
On January 9, 1683, Mr. Fmcew^ was tried at the Surry
sessions upon the 3,^th of Eliz. and cast. The same course
-was persisted in, the succeeding year, vifhen two hundred
warrants were issued out for distresses upon persons in Ux-
bridge and the neighbourhood, for going to conventicles.
Dr. Bates and several others were distrained upon ; and the
gentlemen of Doctor's Comraons got raoney apace.
This year a new plot was trumped up, which cost the
bravt Russel and Sydney their lives. July the 24th a de
cree passed in the university of O.vford against " certain
pernicious books and damnable doctrines," v. g. " That the
" sovereignty of England is in the three estates, king,
" lords, and comraons, &'(.-. that self-preservation is the
" fundaraental law of irature," &"f. Several persons, ap
prehended at meetings, were convicted as rioters, and fined
iq/. each ; and some youpg people qf both sexes were
sent to Bridewell. About this time (A. D. 1684.) one Mr.
Robert Mayot, of O^fyrd, a pious conformist, gave by his
last will 600/. to be distributed by Mr. Baxter to sixty poor
ejected ministers. But the kipg's attorney, Sir R. Saifiyer,
sued for it in the chancery, and the Lord^ke^per North gave
it all to the king ! It was paid into the chancery by order ;
but as Providence ordered it, it was there kept safe till JCirig
WiUiam ascei^ded the throne ; when the commissioners of
the great seal restored it to the use for which it was intended,
and Mr. Ra^pter disposed of it accordingly.
This year a most cruel order was made by the justices pf
peace at the quarter sessions ^t Exeter against all Noncpn-
forming ministers, offering a reward of forty shillings to ^jiy
person who apprehended oneof them; arid, the bishop re
quired the order to be read by all the clergy, the next Smi-.
day^itcT it should be tende.red to them. Mr. Baxter was
this year again apprehended, and Mr- B^J^well imprisoned
in the Gatehouse, by a warrant from Sir George Jefferys,
for high treason. Mr. Jenkyn died in Newgate, as di4 '
also Mr. Rampfield, Mr. Ralphson, and several others,^ in
other prisons*. Aijd quickly after died King Charles.
himself,, P2,?. Fcbrug,ry 1^85. Though he conthmed the pro
secution of the Dissenters, yet they held oi> their meetings,
heartily praying for his peace and prosp^pty ; and they were
as much concerned at his death as any people in the kingdom.

* Of their suiferings see more in the account of their respective lives, ^
¦^'OL. I, NO. 2. ' F SECT.

6& INTRODUCTION.

SECT. VII.

The Case ofthe Dissenters in the Reign of James IL
io the Revolution.

THAT the rigorous usage of the Dissenters in the fore
going reign w^s owing to Popish counsels, they them
selves never doubted; and though some were a long time-
before they would see, or at least own it, yet it was a great
comfort to them after all their sufferings, to find such men as
Bishop Stillingfieet at last openly acknowledging it. [See
his charge to his clergy, in his primary visitation, p. 49.]
They little expected better treatment in this reign, -when
bare-faced Popery lifted up its head among us. But wise is
that Providence which governs the world, and which serves
its own ends, even by those very things from which poor
mortals have the least expectation. It is indeed enough to
amaze any one, to observe the measures pursued in this
reign,' -with the consequences of them, whereby all mankind
were disappointed. The Church-party not only expected
to have the Dissenters wholly under their feet, but depended
so much upon their own merit in adhering to the Duke in
his distress, and on his positive assurances that they were
become very secure, and thought the day their own. But
on a sudden they found themselves in such danger, that with
out adoping some new methods their religion and liberty
were gone.
The Dissenters not only expected greater rigours and se
verities than before, but concluded that they should, if
possible, be wholly extirpated. Whereas, to their great
astonishment,- they found themselves eased of their former
hardships, and even courted and caressed by those who,
they -well knew, would rejoice in their ruin, having left no-
rriethod unattempted to accomplish it. The Papists thought,
by raising" those who had been so long depressed, to haye
inflamed them with revenge against their conforming bre
thren, and so to have widened the animosities among pro
testants, that they migh,t thereby have rendered all parties the

INTRODUCTION. 6?'
the more sure and speedy sacrifices to their own malice and
cruelly. But instead of this they only drove the contending
parties the nearer together, and raade them the raore vi
gorous in their united efforts to avert the common impend
ing ruin.
In the reign of King James II. which began February 6,
1685, the same raethods were continued at first, as had been
used in his brother's tirae. On Fehruary 28, Mr. Baxter
was coraraitted to the King's-Bench prison, by Lord chief.
justice Jefl^eries's warrant, for some exceptionable passages in
his Paraphrase on the New Testwment, as reflecting on the,
order of diocesan bishops, and asserting, in some possible
cases, the lawfulness of resistance. He was brought to his trial
May 30. But the chief justice would not suffer his counsel
to plead for their client; and when he offered to speak for
himself, interrupted him, and treated him with the basest
scurrility. The jury, being directed by the chief justice,
immediately laid their heads together at the bar, and found
hira guilty. On the 29th of June following, he had judg-
n-ient given against him, and was fined 500 marks, to lie in
prison till it was paid, and be bound to his good behaviour.
for seven years ¦*. The next year the Dissenters were prose
cuted ih the wonted manner ; their meetings were frequently
disturbed both in city and country, and heavy fines were
levied upon them. The inforraers broke in upon Mr. Fleet
wood, Sir John Hartop, and sorae others, at Stoke-New-
ingion, to levy distresses for conventicles, to the amount of
6 or 7000/. Many were excoraraunicated, and had capiasses
issued out against them ; but particular persons, on raaking
application to those in power, were more favoured than had
been usual.
Manv controversial writings were at thistime published by
the divines of the church of England, against the errors of
the church of Rome ; and it must be owned that they sig
nalized themselves, and gained imraortal honour by their
perforraances. If the Dissenters did not appear so generally
nor so publicly upon this, occasion, (for which their enemies
have reproached thera) it may without much difficulty be ac
counted for. It should be considered, that they had written
against Popery very freely before, so that they had the less
reason to do it' now; that they did not find their own people
* See a more particular account o£ this trial in (he Narrative of Mrf
Baxter's life, f^id, Kidderminster. ¦ , - r 2 SO

6* INTRODUCTION.
so much in danger,* as many who were educated in the
church of England; that both in city and country they at
this very time pieached with great freedora against Popery ;
which shewed that if they wrote less against it than others,
it did not arise from fear. Many of them, also thought it not
proper to attempt to take this work out of the hands of the
Episcopal divines; who not only did it well, but who were'
in duty bound to do the more in opposition to the common
danger, because they had done so rauch to occasion it ; and
who had so visibly improved in light, and in the largeness
of their notions, by being necessitated to support some prin
ciples in these debates, which they had slighted before, and
seemed willing to discard. Finally, it must be observed,
that several of the Dissenters did at this time attempt to pub
lish some tracts against Popery, but that they met with dis
couragement when they sent them to the press, because they
were not of the church of England, whose clergy seemed
desirous to ingross the management of this controversy
wholly to themselves. When it was known that this was
actually the case, as to some treatises then written by Non
conformists, it need not seem strange that this circumstance
should hinder others from making like attempts'*.
The king's dispensing power was at length the subject of
much conversation and debate; but at last eleveti of the
judges deterrained in favour of it. — Injunctions went out
fi'om several of the bishops, to all ministers in their dioceses.
Strictly enjoining all churchwardens to present those that did
not comis to church, or that received not the sacrament at
Easter. And it seemed to be a pi-evailing opinion, that the,
Pi-oteistant Dissenters must be prosecuted, or Popery could
not be suppressed. But the unseasonableness of such rigours,
and the scandalous villainies and perjuries of many of the
most noted informers, both in dty and counti-y, made sen
sible men soon weary. James, m order to carry on his
designs the more successfully, granted an ecclesiastical
eoBunission, directed to the Arclibishop of Canterbury, the
Lord chaticdlor, the Bishops of Durham and Rochester,
the earl of Rochester^ &c. devolving the whole care of ec-
iplesiastical affairs upon them, in the largest extent that ever
had been known in England. They opened their coramis-
»ion August 3, and soon convinced all the clergy in the

» A full answer to the abovcobjection against the Dissenters may be seen
in Mr. 7o»g'*-D8feBce of Mi. Htary't Notion of Schism, p, 154. 155.
kingdom*.

INTRODUCTION. 69
kingdom, that the Papists were coming to take possession.
The clergy hereupon made such exclamations, as plainly
shewed that they were unable to bear a small share of those
severities themselves, which they had been for along time
so liberally inflicting upon others.
March the 18th, the king acquainted the council, that he
had determined to issue out a Declaration for a general li
berty of conscience, to all persons of all persuasions; and
thereupon he ordered the attorney and solicitor-general net
to perrait any process to issue in his majesty's name, against
any Dissenters whatsoever. The Declaration, published for
this purpose, bore date April the i ith, 1687. The Dis
senters, thankful as they were for their ease and liberty,
were yet fearful of the issue; and but few, of any conse
quence, could be charged with hazarding the public safety
by falling in with die raeasures of the court, of which they
had as great a dread as their neighbours. And though
they had now a fair opportunity for revenge, they could
not think it desirable, either as men or as christians to em
brace it. If some of them over-did it in their addresses,
the high-church party, who had been so much used to high
flights of compliment, had little reason to reflect upon
them. But there were not many who could be censured
on this head. Mr. Baxter and others, had no concern in
addressing, but waited to see the effects of the marquis of
Halifax's declaration on behalf of the Church-party, in a
letter to the Dissenters, " That all their former haughti-
" ness towards the Dissenters was for ever extinguished;
" and that the spirit of persecution was turned into a spi-
" rit of peace, charity, and condescension; that the church
" of England was convinced of its error in being severe
" on them : and that all thinking men were come to a general
" agreement, no more to cut ourselves off from the Pro-
" testants abroad, hut rather enlarge tl>e foundations, uppn
" which we are to i(uild our defences against the common
" enemy."
-A.mong other methods now taken to promote Popery,
Mr. Ob. Walker, master of University College, Oxford,
kept a i»^ess at work in the college, upon several Popish
books that were to be spread all through the nation. Some
gentlemen of that university got the sheets from the press
as fast as they were printed, and had answers ready to these
books as soon as they came out, and thus in some degree
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70 INTRODUCTION.
The king, finding that all his measures would be inevita
bly frustrated if the penal laws and tests were riot taken off,
by means of which his- friends stood continually exposed, re
solved to lea-ve no method unattempted that raight contribute
to this design. The gaining the concurrence of the next
heirs would have been a very plausible plea with those who
were most averse to it ; and therefore he resolved to try the
Prince and Princess of Orange, to be fully certified of their
sense and inclination. Their answer was so strongly against
any thing that would be dangerous to the Protestant religion,
that the court, was rauch disappointed ; many staggering per
sons were confirmed, tbe Church party were revived, and
the Di,<isenters comforted, in hopes the liberty they had ob
tained was likely to prove lasting.
Upon the failure of this first project, his majesty adopted
another, which, if it had succeeded, must have defeated the
Protestant succession ; and that was, providing the nation
with an heir of his own body by the present queen, who had
for some years been reckoned past child-bearing. Her preg
nancy was accordingly proclaimed in the Gazette, Jan. 2.
1688, and a form of prayer appointed, drawn up by the bi
shops of Durham, Rochester, and Peterborough ; in which
God was praised for fresh hopes of royal issue.
The form was as follows : " Blessed be that good Provi-
" dence which has vouchsafed us fresh hopes of royal issue
" by our gracious queen Mary. Strengthen her we beseech
" thee, and perfect what thou hast begun : command thy
" holy angels to watch over her continually, and defend her
" from all dangers and evil accidents, that what she has con-
" ceived may be happily brought forth, to the joy of our so-
'" vereign lord the king, the further establishment of his
" crown, the happiness and welfare of his whole kingdom,
" and the glory of thy name, &c." Had the Dissenters
been obliged to use such a form, upon such an occasion
they would have thought it a great hardship.
About this time, commissioners were appointed bv the
king, and sent into several counties of England, to enquire
what money or goods had .been levied upcn Dissenters upon
prosecutions for recusancy, and not paid into the exchequer.
Many were afraid of being called to an account ; and it was
commonly apprehended that a strict inquiry would have caused
great confusion. Here the Dissenters had a fair opportunity
of being revenged on many of their bitterest enemies : but
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INTRODUCTION. 7j
ances that were given them by leading persons, both of the
clergy and laity, that no such rigorous m'ethods should ever
be used toward them for the time to come, but that they
might depend upon great temper and moderation for the
future. The king, emboldened with the prospect of a Popish sue
cesser, on April 27, renewed his Declaration for liberty of
conscience, with sorae additions, and a promise to get it es
tablished by act of parliament. On May 4, an order was
passed in council, that it should be read in all the churches ;
and that all the bishops should take care to have the order
obeyed. Those that should refuse to read it, were tp be pro
secuted by the ecclesiastical commissioners. The whole
body of the clergy, with very few exceptions, refused, and
seven of the bishops waited upon the king to give him their
reasons ; urging particularly, that the Declaration was found
ed upon such a dispensing power, as had often been declared
in parliament illegal. Upon this they were imprisoned in
the tower, indicted of a high misdemeanor, and tried at the
king's belich, but they were acquitted with universal accla-
rnations. While the bishops were under this prosecution, Abp. San-
croft sent certain articles to his clergy through his whole pro-
¦vince ; the eleventh of which was in these words : " That
" tbey also walk in wisdom toward them who are not of our
" communion : more especially, that they have a yery tender
" regard to our brethren, the Protestant Dissenters ; — that they
" take all opportunities of assuring them, that the bishops of
" this church are really and sincerely irreconcileable enemies
" to the errors, superstitions, idolatries, and tyrannies of the
" church of Rome :-— and that they most affectionately ex-
" hort them to join with us in Saily fervent prayer to the God
" of peace, for a universal blessed union of all reformed
" churches, both at home and abroad, agpinst our common
" enemies, &c.
The ecclesiastical commissioners, Aug. 16, sent forth their
mandates to the chancellors, archdeacons, &c. of every dio
cese in England, to make inquiry, by whom the king's order
for reading the Declaration, had or had not been obeyed ;
that so all who had neglected it might be severely puni.shed.
This would have made most woeful havock all over the king
dom, had not the approaching Revolution put an effectual
stop to this business. But it was not long before a rumour
began to spread, that the Prince of Orange was coming with
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7^ INTRODUCTION.
a potent ai-my and fleet from Hdlland, to r*scue the nStiaii
fi'om Popery aftd slavery. The king gave public notice of it
by a Declaration datisd the 4th of October. Upori which thfe
measures of the court were entirely broken.
On the 4th of Nov. the Prince of Orange landed at T6r-
hay, in the county of Devo'h. In his declaration dated at the
Hague, Oct. 10, he gave an account of the reasons of his
expedition into England. The body of the nation heartily
fell in with the prince, and a mighty revolution was brought
about without bloodshed. Interest wrought a sudden change
in men's opinions. They who had always condemned the
principle of takitig up arms in defence of liber£y and pro
perty, now thonght it lawful, laudable, and necessaty. But
they were at this time under one difficulty, which produced a
sensible conviction in many, of the great inconvenience of
being confined to particular forras in divine worship : While
they privately prayed for the Prince of Orange's prosperity,
ihey were forced in public to pray according to the liturgy,
" That God would be the defender and keeper of Wt^gjfames,
" and give him victory over all his enemies." But God, to
the unspeakable comfort of the nation, preferred their private
prayers to their public ones.
The Prince came to St. James's on the 18th of December,
and on the 21st a few of the Dissenting ministers waited upon
him, with the bishop of London, congratulating him upon
his glorious expedition, and its happy success. On the sd of
Jan. the Dissenting ministers in a body, to the number of
ninety or moie, attended at St. James's, with suitable ad
dresses to the king and queen, presented by Dr. Bates,^ and
were very graciously received.
There were some who ha^ concurred with the prince in
%is expedition for their own security, who afterwards, when
their fears were over, were for compromising matters with
%.„ James, and trusting his promises afresh. But.the Con
vention that was then summoned by the Prince's letters, after
warm debates, declared tbe throne to be vacant, K. James
having abdicated the governmefit, and broken the original
contract with his people ; to the n6 small mortification of such
as had all along stifly denied that there was any contract be,-
tween them. Hereupon, drawing up a Declaration for vin-

*• These may be seen in Calamy, vol, i, p, 42, 43,— Also in NeaDs Hiitory
ff liePurifam, vol. v, p, 76, t\cv/ edit. Svo,
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INTRODUCTION, 73
diCating the ancient rights and liberties of the people, they
offered the crown to the Prince and Princess of Orange, who
accepting it, were proclaimed king and queen of England,
Feb. 13, 1689, zvA April 11 were crowned, with universal
acclamation ; and none had a greater share in the common
joy than the Dissenters, who considered this glorious revolu
tion as the aera of their liberty, which was secured by law in
the beginning of K. William's reign, by the passing of the
Act OJ Toleration-, which has, through a kind providence,
remained inviolate to this day ; and the benefits of it have
since been enlarged ; a subscription to the thirty-nine articles
being abolished. The act for this purpose was passed in
1779, *f'ci' several fruitless applications of the dissenting
ministers to parliament. The conditions which this act re
quires, of ministers and schoolmasters, are their taking ttie
oaths of allegiance and supremacy, making the declaration
against Popery, and assenting to their belief of the holy
scripture as containing a divine revelation.

MINISTERS
EJECTED OR SILENCED
IN -THE
CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER,
AND IN
THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.

ST. ALBAN'S, JV^OOD-STREET, [RS.]
MR. Haslefoot Bridges; of St. John's College,
Cambridge. He was a gentleman and a scholar;
much admired, though of a reserved disposition. About
the year 1680, he lived at Enfield, in Middlesex i but
whether he preached there or not, doth not appear. He
was possessed of an estate, and was disposed to do good
with it. His only daughter being unhappily married, he gave
the whole of it (on condition of her dying childless, as she
did in 1695) to charitable uses: principally to the college
where he was educated, and to the parish of which he was
minister. [Dr. Wm. Waits was sequestered from this rec
tory. He had been chaplain to Charles 1. and, from Dr.
Walker's account, appears to have been a respectable and
learned man. If it be true, as that writer relates, that he
and his family were treated with severity pn the change
of the times, Mr. Bridges was in no sort accessary to it ;
nor did he immediately succeed him, but a person of the
name of G/endon, so that probably he might not enjoy the
living till after Dr. Watts's death, as he died some time
before the Restoration,]
Mr. Fisher, was assistant to Mr. Bridges, and was
ejected with him.
ALDER-

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ALDERMANBURY, [Perp. C. ISOl.']...
Edmund Calamy, B. D. of Pembroke Hall, Cam-
bridge. He was the son of a citizen ai London; born
February 1600, and admitted to the university at the age
of fifteen. His inclination to the Anti- Arminian party,
hindering his preferraent tbere at that time, Bishop Felion,
of Ely, took notice of him, and made him his chaplain.
It is not likely therefore that he should then be of the Lau
densian faction, as Dr. Walker insinuates, and there is
good evidence of the contrary. He was ever after a thank
ful imitator of the piety, charity, and diligence of that
good bishop, whom he used often to raention with honour.
And well he might ; for the bishop directed him in his early
studies, and was very careful that he might not be inter
rupted in them. Here he studied at the rate of sixteen
hours a day. He read all the controversies of Bellar-
viine intirely, with all his answers : also many of the school
men ; especially Thomas Aqidnas, in -whom he was most
exactly versed. He read over Ail^ustine' s^worVis five times ;
besides many other eminent authors ancient and modern.
The holy scriptures, and coimneitfators upon them, were
his daily study.
He first had the vicarage of St. Mary's, in S'waffham,
Cambridgeshire, where God owned him' for doing much
good ; though he did not reside there, but in the house of
Bishop Felton, who gave him this living, which lie resigned
after the bishop's death, and went to St. Edmund's Bury,
in Suffolk, where Mr. Burroughs was his fiel low -labourer.
He there continued above ten years, till Bishop Wren's
articles, and the Book of Sports, drove him and thirty more
worthy ministers out of the -diocese. After y[r. Fenner' s
death, he was presented by the Eari of Warwick to the •
rectory of Rochford, in Essex^ which he accepxted, in the,
hope, that under the wings of such a patron, smd ©f a quiet
bishop, he should have more repose : which accordingly he
had ; but he felt the inconvenience of removdr^ from oue
of the pleasantest, to one of the most unhealthy aire in
England; being seized with, a quartan ague, which brought
upon him a dizziness in his head, of which he complained
all his life afterwards ; and on this account be avoided the
pulpit, and preached in the desk. Upon

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Upon the death of Dr. Stoughton, he was chosen at Al-
dermanbury, in the year 1639, and his patron followed
him to London. — He was one of those divines who, in 1 64 1 ,
met by order of parliament in the Jerusalem chamber, in
order to accommodate ecclesiastical matters. He was for
the- Presbyterian discipline; but of known moderation to
wards those of other sentiments. No rainister in the city
was more followed; nor was there ever a week-day lecture
so much frequented as his ; which was constantly attended
by many peisons of the greatest quality, for twenty yeais
together ; seldom without above sixty coaches. — In Oliver's
time he kept hiraself as private as he could. In 1659 he
joined with the Earl of Manchester, and other great men,
in encouraging General Monk to restore the King, in order
to put an end to the public confusions. He preached before
the parliament the day before they voted the King home,
and was one of those divines who were sent over to hira into
Holland. In 1 660, after the King was restored, he was raade
one of his chaplains in ordinary, though neither he nor any
of the other Presbytei-ians preached more than once in that
capacity. About this time he was often with his majesty,
and was always graciously received. He was very active in
order to an accommodation, and had a main hand in drawing
up the proposals about Church-government, which laid
the foundation of the Savoy conference. And, being one
of tlie commissioners appointed, he was employed yvith
others, in drawing up Exceptions against the Liturgy, and
the Reply to the Reasons of the episcopal divines.
He was reckoned to have a greater interest at court,
in the city, and the country, than any of the ministers; and
therefore was, extremely caressed at first; but he soon saw
whither things were tending: of which, among other evi
dences, was the following : Gen, Monk, being his auditor,
a little after the Restoration, he had occasion to speak of
filthy lMcr£ ; " Aiid why," said he, " is it called filthy,
" but because it makes men do base and filthy things ? Some
" men (waving his handkerchief towards the general's
" pew) will b<;tray three kingdoms for filthy lucre's
" sake " He commonly h^ the chair among the city
ministers at their meetings, arm was rj^uch esteemed for his
prudence and propriety of conduct. He was one of the
Cornhill-lecturers, and a member of the Westmiiister As
sembly. He refused a bishoprick, because he could not
have ii upon the terms of the King.'s Declaration ; but kept his

78 MINISTERS EJECTED
his teraper and. raoderation after he was ejected. Bishop
Wilkins had such an opinion of his judgraent about church--
government, as to wish he could have conformed, that he
might have confronted the bold assertors of the Jus Divi-.
num oi episcopacy in the convocation; in which he was
not allowed to sit, though he was chosen by the city minis--
ters, 1661, to represent them. A certain writer had af
firmed, that he declared before the king and several lords of
the council, " That there was nothing in the church to
" which he could not conforra, were it not for scandaliz-
" ing others," To which Mr. Baxter answered, in hi*
Apol. for Nonconf. " We must testify, who were in
•' his company frora first to last, we heard hira over and.
" over' protest, that he took several things in conformity
" to be intolerable sins,"
Mr. Calamy preached his Farewell-sermon a week be
fore the Act of uniforraity took place, on 2 Sain. xxiv.
14. And David said uiito God, I amin agreat strait:
let u^fall now into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies
are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.
.§ As a speciraen of his spirit and manner, it may not be
amiss here to introduce a brief abstract of this discourse.
The drift of it is to illustrate and iraprove this point, " That
" sin brings persons and nations into great perplexities."
Besides many outward troubles, he observes, 'this brings a
spiritual famine upon a land: a faraine of the word —
Use I . This reproves those who coramit sin to avoid perplexi
ty — who to escape suffering will do anything — who will be
sure to be of the religion that is uppermost, be it what it
will. Consider — It is sin only that makes trouble to deserve
the name. There is more evil in the least sin, than in the
greatest calaraity. Whosoever goes out of God's way to
avoid danger, shall raeet with greater danger. 2. This
should teach us above all things, to abhor sin. Cautions
against twelve sins, among which, slighting the gospel. 3.
What cause to fear that God should bring this nation into
great distress .? And what reason, you of this congregation
and parish, have to expect to be brought into great straits,
because of your unfruitfulness under the means of grace?
You have long enjoyed the gospel. Dr. Taylor served an
apprenticeship in this place. Dr. Stoughton another; and I
through divine raercy, almost three and a half. Are there
not some of you who begin to loathe the manna, and to
look back to Egypt.' Have not some of you itching ears, who

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who would fain have a preacher that would feed you with
dainty phrases ; and who begin not to care for a minister
that unrips your consciences, and speaks to your hearts:
some who by often hearing sermons are becorae serraon-
proof ? There is hardly any way to raise the price of the
gospel ministry, but the want of it. — I may not flatter you
who have not profited by it. You may justly expect God
may bring you into straits, and take away tlie gospel from
you : may take away your ministers by death or other ways.
What God will do with you I know not: a few weeks
will determine. He can make a great change in a little
time. We leave all to him. But let me comraend one
text of scripture to you. Jer. xiii. 16, 17, Give glory to ihe
Lord before he cause darkness, and your feet stumble,
S(c. But if you will not hear, my soul sliall weep in
secret places for you, because the Lord's Jiock is carried
captive. Give glory to God by confessing and repenting
of your sins, before dai'kness come ; and who knoweth but
that may prevent that darkness.
Upon Mr. Calamy^ s advising with his friends at court,
a petition* for indulgence was drawn up, and presented to
his majesty. Very soon after this he was imprisoned, in
terrorem, for preaching an occasional sermon, December
29, at the church where he had been minister. Lord Cla
rendon represents his preaching at that tirae as seditions;
but without any just reason. The case was this : Mr. Ca
lamy going to the church of Aldermanbury , with an in
tention to be a hearer only, the person expected to preach '
happened to fail. To prevent a disappointraent, and througk
the importunity of the people present, he went up, and
preached from 1 Sam. iii. 13, on the concern of old Eli
for the ark of God. Upon this, by a warrant of the lord
mayor, he was committed to Newgate, as a breaker of the
Act of uniformity. But in a few days, when it was seen
•what a resort there was to him, by persons of all qualities,
and how generally the severity was resented, he was dis
charged by his majesty's express order. Mr. Calamy lived
to see London in ashes ; which so aflected hira, that he took
to his chamber, from which he never came out again, but
i^ied in a month, • See thi? petition in the Introduction, p. 32.
WORKS.

go MINISTERS EJECTED
WORKS. Several sermons before the two Houses, and the
city magistrates'. — Sermons at Jlle funerals of Dr. S. Boltau; the
Earl of Warwick; Mr, Sim. AHu, &c.— [The Serm. for which he
was imprisoned soon after his ejectment : which, together with the
above Farewell Sermon, njay be seen in the London collection].—
A vindication of himself against Mr. Bur/ait.— The godly man's ark.
Since his death — A treatise of meditation, printed in a clandestine
way, frorri some imperfect notes taken by a hearer. He had a
hand in drawing up the Vindic. of th Preshyt. gov. and ministty,
' 650 : and the Jus. div. minist. Evang. et Anglicani, 1 654. He was
also oneof the authors of Smectymnuus-*.
Mr. Lee was ejected from the Lectureship, in this place.
ALHALLOWS, Bread-Street, [R, 1401.}
Lazarus Seaman, D. D. of Eman. CoL Cambridge.
He was born at Leicester, in but mean circumstances.
On this account he was forced soon to leave the coUege,
and to teach school for a livelihood : so that his learning
was acquired by himself. And yet, even. IFoorf owns him
to have been a learned man. He became master ofi^.^efcr-
house, Cambridge, and acquitted himself, with a^twlant
honour. [From a printed list of Vice-chancellors* prootors,
&c. it also appears that he was Vice-chancellor there in the
year 1653.] — An occasional sermon preached at Martin's
Ludgate, procured him that lectureship ; and his reputation
there brought him into Alhallow's Bread-street, and into
the Westminster Asserably, where he appeared very active,
and very skilful in managing controversies in divinity.
In 1642, he was presented by Bp. Laud to Bread-streei
parish, by order of parliament. But Laud told the earl of
Northumberland, to whom Mr. Seaman was chaplain,
that out of respect to his lordship, he had, before the re
ceipt of that order, designed him for that benefice. — He was
a great divine, thoroughly skilled in the original languages ;
* a celebrated book before the civil war, written in ans-vver to Bn,
Jfall's Right of Episcopacy, This title was a fictitious word, composed of
the initial letters of the names of its authors, -who were, S, Marshal, E,
Calamy, ' T. Yoii^g. M, Nctviomen, }y. Sjtursttnu. always

IN LONDON, &c. 3i
always carrying about with him a small Plantin Bible,
-tvithout points, for his ordinary us6. He wa"s -well studied
in the controversy about church-government ; which was
the occasion of his being sent by the parliaraent, with their
coraraissioners, when they treated with K. Charles I. in thft
Isle of Wight; where his raajesty took particular notice
of the doctor's singular ability in the debates on this sub
ject, which were afterwards printed in the collection of
his majesty's works. In his latter days he much studied
the prophetic part of scripture. He died in Sept. 1675,
and left a very valuable library, which fetched 7001. This
was the first that was sold in England by way of auction'*'.
Mr. Jenkyn preached his funeral sermon, from 2 Pet. i. 15,
Where his character may be seen at large. The follovKing
is an extract frora it.
¦["He was a person of a most deep and piercing judgment
in kll point's of controversial divinity : nor was he less ablfc
to defend than to discover the truth. Among many in
stances of it, the following i& remarkable: Upon the invi
tation of an honourable lady, who was at the heid of a
•inoble family, and was often solicited by Romish priests to
change her religion, he engaged in a dispute with two of
the most able priests they could find, in the presence o£
the lc>rd and lady, for their satisfaction; and by silencing
them upon the head of Transubstantiation, was instrumental
to preser-ve that -whole family stedfast in the Protestant reli
gion. He was a most excellent and profound casuist.
Scarcely any divine in London was so much sought to for
resolving Cases of conscience. He was most able and
i-eady in expounding scripture, both in the pulpit and in
private discourse, and gave the sense of difficult passages;
with the greatest perspicuity ;, so that he might truly be
called, An interpreter, one of a thousand. Doctrinal
light was the great beauty of his sermons ; but he took
care to giVe the warmth of application also. He was a
divine richly furnished with ' all' the materials of didactical
and practical divinity; and could, upon all occasions, dis
course rationally upon any point without labour or hesi
tation. He was a person of great stability in the truth;
not a reed shaken with the wmd. He would not debauch
his conscience for preferment, but valued one truth of Christ
above all the wealth of both Indies.
* The catalogue of this libr.-iry is preserved in the Museum, belongins to
the Baptist Academy, at Bristol, •
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As a christian, he discovered the greatest contentment
tvith his worldly circumstances, as the allotments of pro
vidence. He was better pleased in being a real pastor to
one congregation, than if he had been a nominal pastor
to a thousand. He was eminent for observing public pro
vidences, and in acquiescing in them. He deeply and ten
derly felt whatever, affected the state of Christ's church,
gind was very inquisitive how it fared with the people of
God, in foreign I parts; not out oi Athenian curiosity, but
a public spirit. ,He was eminentiy open-hearted, and open-
handed also to the poor, especially the pious poor. He
used consulere tam modesties quam inopia. He ever re-
tegarded the , modesty of a poor raan who could not be
ifclamorous; and in regard both to poor rainisters and pri
vate christians, was ready to eve^-y good work. He was
io industrious and indefatigabfe in his calling, as rarely to
allow himself any diverting recreation. The precious jewel
of time, he so highly valued, that he would not lose the
very filings thereof. Admirable was his prudence in his
Speech and behaviour. He knew to whom he spoke, when
to speak, and how much to speak. He knew how to be
nefit others by speaking, withput insnaring hiraself. In
him practical prudence was joined with intellectual. Not
only did his wisdom raake his own face to shine, but by
exa,mple and counsel he reflected rauch of the lustre of it
upon others. Few persons were more frequently desired
to give advice in affairs of difficulty than he. His pru
dential reservedness was by sorae accounted excessive se-
trerity ; but he could sometimes be chearful, though in a
grave and christian way. His patience in his siekness,
considering his natural temper, was great even to admira
tion. In all his torments, he seldom groaned under them,
Init never grumbled against him that sent them. He often
coraplained to God, but never complained of hira. In
the midst of bis tortures he admired free grace, and glori
fied that God who so much depressed hira. In the lesson
of patience he grew perfect in the school of afBiction.]
WORKS. a ffew sermons before the long parliament, — Ser
mon before the lord mayor, A^rilf, 1650,' against divisions.-^
Vind. of the Reformed churclies concerning ordination, in answer
to Mr. Simpson's Diatriie... Notes on the Revelations; which he
jpfesiented to Lord Wharton; but they were never printed, — § A
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TareweD-sermon on Heb. xiii. 20, 21. which, though not unsuit
able to the occasion, contains nothing peculiar to it, nor any refer
ence to his ejectment. Only at the close he observes, that the
care ofthe church is in the hands of Clirist— that all providences
towards it, designed to eKercise and to try it, must be borne with
patience ; approving what he orders, and doing whatever he com
mands ; with a chearful dependence upon the faithfulness of the
'great shepherd of the sheep, -who being brought agdin from the deitd lives
for ever ; and a firm, reliance on God's covenant, as declared,
/m. xvi. 21.
ALHALLOWS THE GREAT, [R. 206I.]
Mr. Robert Bragg, of Wadham College, Oxford. His
father was a captain in the parliament's army. When Ox
ford was surrendered he went thither; and, as soon as he
was capable, was chosen fellow. Coming afterwards to
London, he setded in this parish, and gathered a church, of
¦Vvhich he continued pastor to the day of his death. He was
a man of great humility and sincerity, and of a very peacea-
'ble temper. He died April i4, 1704, aged jy, as appears
from his tombstone in Bunhili-fields. He had a son in the
ministry, among the Dissenters, who bore both his names,
^md who succeeded Mr. Nath. Mather.
§ When prince Rupert took Bristol, tiie merabers of M^
Wrottis's church, at Llanfaches, Monmouthshire, -who
had fled thither, and those afterwards of Broadntead, were
turned out and went to London, where the Pcedobaptists com
municated with this church at Alhallows the Great, and the
Baptists with Mr. Kiffin's.
WORKS. Fun. Serm. for Mr. Ualjih Venning. — Another for
Mr. Tho. Wadsnuorth. — He and Mr. War ham wrote an epistie before
a tract of Mr. Faldo's aga.imt Quakerism.
ALHALLOWS, Honey-Lane, [ R. ]
Mr. John After. He had been rector of Beckington,
a sequestered living in Somersetshire. After his ejectraent,
by the special favour of the court of aldermen, he lived and
died ordinary of Wood-street compter.
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ALHALLOWS Lombard-Street, [R. 182I.]
"Thomas Lye, M.A. oi Wadham Cot. Oxford. Tor some
time minister of CAarfiJ in Somersetshire and one ofthe Triers
of ministers in those parts. He was chosen by the parish
ioners of Alhallows to succeed Mr. Cardell, who was ejected
by the commissioners in 1657. He was eminently useful by
his excellent art of catechizing youth, whom by many arti
fices he enticed to delight in getting knowledge in the best
things. Many in and about London recounted with plea
sure, as long as they lived, his unusual method of insruct-
ing them in the first principles of religion; and several owed
their first serious irapressions to his catechetical exercises ;
in which he was not satisfied with conveying a littie notional
knowledge, but did his utmost to set things horae upon the
heart, suiting hiraself to the capacity of his young auditory,
to whom he always discovered a most tender affection. He
died June 7, 1684.
§ A clergyman, some time deceased, in a letter to the
editor, gave his opinion of Mr. Lye, as follows : " He was
.a-considerable man, regarded as well in a literary as in a the
ological light ; as is evident from what he has published in
illustration of the English grammar : from whence it ap
pears, that he would have introduced a new and raore sci
entific alphabet, and consequentiy a more accurate ortho
graphy." •Mr. Zye preached two farewell sermons, Aug. ij, 1662,
in which he expresses a tender affection for his people,
and a humble consciousness of his integrity in quitting his
connection with them. The text of both is, Phil. iv. 1.
Therefore my brethren, dearly beloved, and longed for,
7ny joy and crown, so standfast in ihe Lord, my dearly
beloved. The first discourse he begins thus : " My be
loved, I well remember that upon the 24th of this month,
in 1651, I was under the sentence of banishment, and that
very day did I preach my farewell-sermon to my people,
from whora I was banished, because I would not swear
against my king: — and now behold a second trial. Then
I could not forswear rayself; the God of heaven keep me
that I never raay. I am apt to think I could do any thing
for this loving congregation, only I cannot sin. But sine*
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not subscribe mmt. not subsist ; and as this is the last day
that ,s fixed to us to preach ; I shall now speak to voi
(God assisting me) if my [feelings] will give me leave.
just as I would speak if I were immediately to die. There'
tore hearken, my brethren, dearly belonted, &c,"— Hav
mg properly descanted on the apostie's words, and in a
striking manner represented the affection that ought ever
to subsist between pastors and people, however separated
h-om each other by huraan power, he thus expresses him-
^u-Y respect to the occasion of that painful event
¦which was about to take place. " I come not here to
throw firebrands : I bless God I have a most tender affec
tion for all ray brethren in the ministry ; and though I am
not satisfied, yet I condemn no man. I believe many of
them as conscientiously subscribe as [others refuse to do
It.] I protest in the face of God, I cannot subscribe ; per
haps because I have not that light others have. He that
doubts, says the apostle, is damned \i. e. condemned.] I
hope you would not have us sin against God and our own
consciences. It is not any living I desire, but my ojice,
to serve mylord and master. But if we should, to keep
communion with you, lose our communion with God,
that is the way to have all our labour lost. O that I could
speak with as good hope as David did I 2 Sam. xv. 25.
Brethren, I could do very much for the love I bear to you,
but I dare not sin. I know some will tell you, this is pride
and peevishness in us, and that we would fain all be bi
shops, &c. But the Lord be witness between them and
us. — I am sensible what it is to be reduced to a morsel o£
bread. Let thp God of heaven and earth do vvhat he will
with me. If I could have subscribed with a good con
science, I would : 1 would do any thing to keep myself
in the work of God ; but to sin against my God, I dare
not do it." He then proceeds, in the second discourse, to
explain and inforce the duty of standing fast in the Lord:
viz. in judgment — in resolution — in faith — in conscience — <
in conversation and general course of life. This stedfast
ness he urges by various cogent motives, and concludes
with some admirable directions for attaining it. He par.p
ticularly recoraraends a greater attention to faraily religion
when deprived of public ordinances. '< When you cannot
hear a sermon well preached, read one well penned." — And
}ie gives some excellent advice respecting their future minis-
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tera. " Beg pf God to give pastors after his own heart.—
"Whatever yoii find amiss in pastor or people, do not go and
rail, calumniate, and backbite; this is wicked and ungodly :
but do as God prescribes, and thou hast freed thine own
soul. — Thus have I spoken something from this scripture :
X cannot speak all that I desire. The God of heaven be.
pleased to rhake you raind these plain things. I can truly say-
I; have not spolcen one word, which, I would not have said
to you, if I had ^^^^ to go to God, as soon as I had gone.
out of the pulpit. The God of 'peace be with you."
WORKS. The. Child's delight ; with an Englisli. grammar and
spelling-book, &'f. intermixed with moral precepk. — Explan. of
Assemb. Gatech.— Five sermons in the Morn; ;Ex,— Fun. Serm.
for Mrs. E. Nicole^ — and one for TV. Hiet. — Two Farewell sermons,
on PML iv. 1.— Also, A summary Rehearsal of the Morn. 'Ex. in
the Lottdi Col.^ of Farewell-sermons,
ALHALLOWS ON THE WALL, [R. 92I.]
Samuel Dyer, M. A. oi Peterhouse, Camb. Dr. Lewis
laying claira to this living, Mr. Dyer, not willing to dis
pute it .with hira, quitted It beiore.Bfirtholomcw-day.. He,
-was ejected from his lectureship at Loihbury . He after
wards kept a school at Mile-End, for twenty-five years or
inore, and was chaplain to ' — ¦  Avery, Esq. He was
congregational in his judgment; andsoihetimes preached for
Mr. Mead at Stepney. He died A. D, 1700. aged 67. His
eider brother, Mr. Richard Dyer, was ejected from Magd.
Hall, Oxford.
ST. ALPHAGE, London-Wall, ' [R.S. ia2l. 4s.]
*«* Thomx\s. DooLiTTLE, M.A. oi Pembroke-Hall,. Cam
bridge. He was born at Kidderminster, of religious pa
rents, 1630. He early discovered an inclination to learn
ing. Soine of his friends would have had him brought up
to the law, and he was actually put upon trial to an attor
ney ; but being set to copy some writings on the Lord's-day,
he resolved against that profession, and determined uppn the
ministry; In which he had Mr. Baxter's encourageraent,
whose discourses on the Saints-rest were blessed for his sav
ing conversion ; which was the ground of that peculiar estetni
and affection he used often to express for that holy raan.
He was an experienced christian before he was a rainister:
and as he Improved in learning, he grew also in grace.
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97

When he left the university he carae to London, vs'bere hQ
was soon taken notice of for his warra and affectionate
preaching; and the parish of5f..^/pAfl^e being vacant, called
hira to be their pastor. He accepted the office with great
diffidence, and applied hiraself to his work with all hi$
might; and the hapd of the Lord was eminently with him ;
so that to old age he was wont to recollect, with thankful
ness, the divine power that attended his first ministrations.
He continued in this place nine years, viz. till the Bartho
lomew-act passed ; when, having carefully studied the terms
required, and prayed for the divine direction, he thought it
his duty to be a Nonconformist, chearfully casting hiraself
and his family upon providence. And he soon experienced
its concern for him ; for the day after he preached his fare
well-sermon, one of his parishioners presented him with.
twenty pounds, saying, " there was soraething to buy bread
for his children, as an encouragement to his future trust." He
then set up a boarding-school in Moorfields; and so many
were desirous to have their children with him, that he sooii
had occasion for a larger house.
Upon the breaking out of the plague, he called his friends
together, to seek the divine dire/'tion ; and, according to
their advice, (on account of the youth under his care) he re
moved to Woodford-bridge near Chigwell, leaving Mr. T.
Vincent in his house. In this village his faraily continued
healthful, and raany resorted to his hpuse for the worship of
God. After the sickness, he returned to London ; and hav^
ing counted the cost, he opened a ineeting-house, though
against the law, near his own, at Bunhili-fields : and that
provino- too strait, he erected a large and coramodious, one in
Monkwell-street, where he preached to a numerous audi
tory, and had many seals to his ministry. Here Mr, T.
Vincent assisted hira. The lord may or sent for them both, and
endeavoured to dissuade them from preaching, on account of
-the danger they were in. They told his lordship. That they
were satisfied oftheir call to preach the gospel, and there
fore could not promise to desist. The Saturday following,
a king's messenger, with a company of the train-bands, came
at midnight to seize Mr. Doolittle in his house, but he made
his escape. He purposed to have preached the next morn
ing, but -was prevailed upon to forbear. Another person,
however, readily undertook to preach for hins. While he
was in his sermon, a company of soldiers came into the
place, and the officer called aloud to him, " I command you
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in the king's name, to come down." He answered, "I
command you, in the, name of the King of kings, not tq
disturb his worship, but let me go on." Upon which, the
officer bid his men fire. The minister, undaunted, clapped
hisi hand upon his breast, and said, " Shoot, if you pleaSe,
you can only kill the body," The people, upon this, being
all in an uproar, he got away in the crowd unhurt. Mr.
Doolittle, aiter this affair, was absent frpra hoine for sorae
weeks, and on Lord's days, guards were set before the' raeet
ing-house. At length the justices came, and had the pulpit
pulled down, and the doors fastened, with the king's broad
arroyv set upon them. The place being convenient, was
soon after used as a chapel for the lord mayor, without any
allowance to the owner.
Upon a licence * granted by K. Charles in 1672, Mr.
Doolittle resumed his place, and set up an academy at Is
lington, where he , educated several young men for the mi
nistry, and among the rest his own son, who was many
years pastor of a church at Reading in Berkshire. When
the Oxford-act passed, Mr. Doolittle removed to Wimbleton,
and several of his pupils taking lodgings in the neighbour
hood, attended his lectures privately. While he resided
here, he, met with a remarkable providence. As he was one
day riding out with a friend, he was raet by a military of
ficer who took hold of his horse. Mr. Doolittle asking him
-what he meant bv stopping him on the king's highway, he
looked earnestly at him, but not behig certain who he was,
let him go, and went away threatening " that he would
know who that black devil was before he was three days
older." Some of Mr. Doolittle's friends were much con
cerned for hira ; but on the third day a person brought him
word that the captain was choaked at his table with a bit of
bread. After this he reraoved to Eattersea, where his goods
were seized and sold. In several other places his house was
rifled, and his person often in danger, but providence fa
voured his escape, so that he was never imprisoned. At
length the Tpleratipn gave hira an opportunity of returning
to his place and people in Monkwell-street, where he con
tinued as long as he lived, preaching twice every Lord's-
d^y. He had also a lecture thej-e oh Wednesdays, at which
* This is still pj-espfved in the vestry in Monkwell-street ; the place where
the celejirat^d Dr, fo/'i/vire preached many years, alter the de.^m pf Dr. Law-
tenee, to -whom Mr. Tho, Toller was assistant. " '
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he delivered his Exposition of the Assembly's catechism
He had a great delight in Catechising, and urged ministers
to It, as having a special tendency to propagate knowledge,
to establish young persons in the truth, and to prepare them
to read and hear sermons with advantage.
Mr. Doolittle was a raan who made religion his business,
and was best pleased when taken up in the exercises of it.
Scarcely any one spent more time in his study, the advan
tage of which appeared in his own improvement, and the
preparations he made for the pulpit ; not satisfying himself ta
offer to God or his people thai which cost him nothing. — In
his latter years he was greatiy afflicted with the stone, and by
that and other disorders, more than once brought near the
grave ; but on his people's fervent prayers, he was wonder
fully restored. And he was careful to answer the purposes
of divine grace in prolonging his life, under the quickening
apprehension of its approaching end. A life prolonged be
yond his usefulness was the greatest trial he feared, and God
graciously prevented it ; for the Lord's day before his death
he preached and catechized with great vigour, and was con
fined but two days to his bed. In thevalley of the shadow of
death he had such a sense of the divine presence as proved a
powerful cordial for his support. He died May, 24, 1707,
aged jy, and was the last of the ejected rainisters in Lo7idon.
He was buried at Bunhill, and Dr. Williams preached his
funeral serraon from 2 Cor. i. 12. After his death was found
a solemn and very particular form of covenanting with God,
which may be seen in the Memoirs of his life prefixed to his
Body of Divinity, from whence the above account is ex
tracted. WORKS. A spiritual antidote against sinfiil contagion in dying
times — Treatise of the Lord's supper. — Directions how to live
after a wasting plague. — Rebiike/or sin after God's burning an
ger. — ^Young man's instructor ahd old man's remembrancer. — Cap
tives bound in chains made free by Christ their surety. — The
Lord's last sufferings, — Call to delaying sinners. — Scheme of the
principles of christ. relig. — Swearer silenced. — Love to Christ ne
cessary to escape the curse at his coming. — Earthquakes explained
^nd iraproved. — Mourner's directory, [occasioned by tke death of Ms
wj^. 1---Plain method of catechizing. — Saints convoy to heaven.—
Eour sermons in Morn. Ex. — Since his death : A compleat body of
divinity, on the Assemb. catech. fol,
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ST. ANDREW HUBBARD, Little Eastcheap, §[R. S.]
Mr. William Wickins, of Eman. Col. Camb. Born at
London in Sept. 1614. Upon leaving the university, he
lived sorae time as chaplain with Sir Edward Scott, of Scot's-
Hall, in Kent. When he came to St. Andrew Hubbard,
Mr. Ranew, the sequestered rainister, desiring to continue
for some time in the house belonging to that living, he yield,-
edto it, though, as it fell out, much to his own detriment.
For a fire broke out one Saturday night near thehouse where
he lived, and burnt with such fury, that he and his faraily es
caped only with tiielr lives. This calaraity he bore with
great patience; and with such composure of mind, that it
did not hinder hira frora his pulpit-work the next day. But
having borrowed sorae clotiies, he went through all the ser
vice of the day (which happened to be sacraraent-day} the
same as other times. He continued in this living fourteen or
fifteen years : but meeting with raany discourageraents, and
his family increasing, some friends, without his seeking, pro
cured his removal to St. George's in Southwark. This was
another sequestered living, but he was insensible of it ; and
upon the Restoration, he readily resigned it, on the claira of
another person, and became preacher at the Poultry Compter,
where he continued till Aug. 24, 1662. It may be mention
ed, as an instance of bis self-denial and generosity, though
he had .no great abundance, that when, after his eject
raent, a gentleman offered him five pounds, he replied,
" I believe my friend Mr, E. Lawrence stands more in need
of ft, and requested that it raight be given to him ; which was
accordingly done. Mr. Wickins was one of those ministers
who used to luftet at Sion College, and was often concerned
in ordaining young ministers. . One of the last on whom he
laid hands, was the excellent Mr. Matthew Llenry, on May
Cj, 1687. — He was for some time in the faraily of alderman
This church w.is burnt in the fire of London, and the parish united to that
»f %\.JMary Hill. The king's Weigh-lmise was erected on the spot, and a niect-
ing-house over it, in which Mr. Reyjiolds first preached; after him Mr, Wood,
and then Dr, Langford, (whom the editor of this work, assisted) who w.as suc
ceeded by Dr, ^(//o«, and^ he by Mr, C/fiy/on, Wlicn this place was lately'
rebuilt, many human bones were dug up. An annual sermon, in comme
moration of the fire, -which began near this place, was preached here for a
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Forth, at Hackney, but finished the course of his ministry
at NewingtoTi-Green, where he was first In conjunction with
Mr. Starkey, and afterwards with Mr. Bennet, whopreached
his funeral Sermon on ASls xiii. 36. He was very happy in
possessing constant health, which enabled him to continue
a hard student even to old age. Next to the holy scriptures,
there was no study more delightful to him than that of Ori
ental learning, and especially of the Jewish laws and cus
toms, in the knowledge of which, he was reckoned, by good
judges, to have had but few equals. The originals ofthe Old
and New Testament were very farailiar to hira, so that he
read them chiefly in his closet, without much concerning
himself with any translation. He was very chearful in con
versation ; but commonly took care before he left any com
pany, to drop something serious and savoury, which made
his company profitable as well as pleasant. He was very de
sirous of doing good to souls ; which was his inducement to
continue preaching longer than some who had a tl-ue value
for him thought to be necessary But when he found by a
sudden seizure that he was disabled, he readily acquiesced
in the will of God. Removing to London, to be under the
immediate care of his near relations, after gradually decay
ing for about two years, he had an easy and comfortable end.
tieing asked by a friend, a little before his departure, how he
' was ? he in a very serious and affecting manner cried out,
" Help me in praising God for his great mercy to me, that I
" have perfect ease of body ; and blessed be his name, I
" have that too which is much better ; even peace of con-
" science, and gopd hope towards God, through Jesus
" Christ." He was buried in Bunhili-fields, Sept. 22,
1,699, aged 85.
WORKS. A Plea for the Ministry, — Warrant for boyiring at
the Name of Jesus exarained, — Something concerning the Dates
of St. Taul's Epistles. — And, it is supposed, some other pieces
long since out qf print.
ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT, [R. S. 17,21.]..
Mr, Thomas Woodco,ck, of Kath. Hall. CfH>n. ^e
was born of a genteel family in Rutlandshire. H^e be
came Fellow of Jesus Co\. and Proctor of the University ;
which office he raanaged with great applause, bpth ^s tp ?x-
ei-«ises and prudent governmeiU. In this College, he gave
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education to more Fellow-coraraoners than all the otherFellows
besides, and rendered it a great and flourishing Society. He
was a sraart disputant, and had the universal character of a
learned man. He set up a lecture at Alhallows church in
Cambridge, where he constantly preached gratis at four
o'clock on the Lord's-day afternoon, and was well attended
both by scholars and town's-people. After his ejectment,
he and Dr. Tuckney lived together in the country ; but, for
the sake of his sons, he afterwards went to Leyden. When
he returned to England he settled at Haciney, where he
first preached in his own house, and afterwards with Dr.
Bates, in his meeting-house, but always gratis, having a
good estate. He died in i6gg. He had a Son who was ma
ny years a dissenting rainister at Hampstead. He has three
sermons in the raorn. Exercises.
Mr. Thomas Underwood was ejected from the sameplace.
ST. ANNE'S, ALDERSGATE, [R. S. 140I.]
Daniel Batchelor, M. A. of St. John's Col. Cam.
ST. ANTHOLIN'S, [R. 120I.]
Elias Pledger, M. A. He succeeded Mr. C. Offspring,
in this parish. His farewell sermon, [which was well suited
to the occasion, but not accurately taken] was on Rev.ii.
9, 10. I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty,
C but thou art rich) and 1 know ihe blasphemy of them
which say they are Jews and are not, but arc the synagogue
of Satan. Fear^ none of those things which thou shalt
suffer. Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into pri
son, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation
ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give
thee a crown of life. From whence he makes these observa
tions. 1. Jesus Christ takes notice (with approbation) of all
the -works [we perform] and the troubles and losses we en
dure for hiin.^-^. Believers in theirpoorest condition, when
they have lost all, are rich, " The wise man, saith the phi
losopher, is the only rich man;" but the wisdom of God
saith, The believer is the rich man. He is rich, for he hath
God for his portion. He is rich in his relations — in his pos
sessions — in his expectations — in the things of this life ; for
he can live above themj and be content without them. He
that is in Christ cannot be poor. — 3. Christ takes notice of
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all the reproaches and blasphemies- of his adversaries. He
counts himself reproached when his servants and ways are
reproached. — 4. Whatever the children of God suffer, they
must expect further sufferings before they corae to the grave.
The vyaters of tribulation raay rise higher and higher.-^^.
He usually gives notice to his people of their sufferings be
fore hand : — that they may not he offended when they come
— that he raay convince thera that nothing befalls them with
out his being privy to it — and that they may be provided
against them. — 6. Whatever troubles come upon them they
have no cause to fear : — for all are ordered by a father. —
Christ stands by them in all. — Strength shall be given to bear
all. — None of their sufferings shall hurt them — but great good
shall come out of them. 1'hou wilt either live or die, and
shalt gain both ways. If thou livest, thy gVaces shall be
strengthened ; the spirit of God.shall rest upon thee. If thou
die, thy glory shall be double. The weightier the cross the
-weightier the crown.- — Objections answered ; and .directions
given to prevent fearunder sufferings — Get more faith — raore
self-denial — more love to God — more insight into the causes
and ends of troubles — and the vanity of the creature — get
more of the fear of God — keep a clear conscience^artd seek
a better assurance of eternal life. — 7. Christ limits Satan and
all his instruments. He determines some to be cast into pri
son, and for how long : ten days. Our afflictions shall
have an end, a speedy and a comfortable end. God will re
store comfort to his mourners.-^8. They who are faithful
unto death shall receive a crown of life. Be faithful to your
promises; your purposes ; your covenants : — 'in your obedi
ence, in the doctrine of the gospel ; the worship of the gos
pel ; the ministry of the gospel ; and in your zealous desires
[and endeavours to serve and honour] the Lord. — Be faithful
io the death. And remember, God in mercy and faithfulness
will accept thy unfeigned purposes, at present,, [*and will at
last bestow the proraised crown.
Mr, Pledger aiter his ejectment, had a meeting-house in
Loihbury. He died suddenly, after preaching there, in the
year 1676. It does not appear that he published any thing
but a sermon in the Morning Exercise, on the cause of in
ward troubles.
* As thistermon, which is methodical, breaks off abruptly at the hottoni
of the page, it is evident that something on this last clause of the text i.';
amittsd, which most probably was enlarged upon,
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Mr. Tobias Conyers, of Peter-house, Ciimi, was h]^cte([
from the Lectureship at the same place. A very learnisd and
extra'prdihary person. He was formerly minister of St. Ethel-
burg's, inBishopsgate-street.
WORKS. Serm. bef. Lord Mayor and Gen. Monk, 1660.—
And several littie Pieces. — He translated Arminius's Judgment on
the principal Points of Religion, mto EngUsh.
ST. AUSTIN'S, [R. S. 172I.]
Mr. Simeon Ashe, of Ewan. Col. Oxf. He went sea
sonably to heaven at the very time he was cast out of th'e
church ; being buried the eve oi Bartholomew-day. Scf that
he was not actually ejected, but it was death only that
prevented it; for he and some others in his situation were
well known to have been ready to quit their livings, and had
done it intentloilally. One of thera expressed a desire only fo
live till Bartholomew-day, if it were the will of God, that
he might publicly bear his testimony to the necessity of afar-
ther reformation.* Mr. A.^he Megan his ministry in Stafford
shire near those eminent persons, Mr, John Ball, Mr. Rob.
Nicholls, and Mr. Langley, with whom he had a particu
lar acquaintance. But for his nonconformity to the ceremo
nies, and refusing to read the Book of Sports, he was soon
displaced frora his living. He gained however, a little liberty
in an exempt church at Wroxhal, under the covert of Sir
John Burgoyne, and elsewhere under Lord Brook in War
wickshire. He was a christian of the primitive simplicity;
and a Nonconformist of the old stamp. He was eminent
for a holy life, a cheerful mind, and a fluent elegancy in
prayer. He had a good estate, and weis liberal with it.
His house was much frequented, and he was universally be
loved. He was chaplain to the Earl of Manchester in the
wars, and fell under the obloquy of the Cromwelliayis for
crossing their designs, and particularly for his vehemently
topppsing the Engageraent. He had a considerable hand in
bringing back King Charles II. Dr. Walker among other
charges against hirat, severely' censuies hira for a sermon
before the House of Coraraons as containing large Invec
tives against the government and governors of the church.
-* Cal. Pref. to Contin, p. 21,
f See these refuted at large in Cal. Contin. p. -i, 5.
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Among many sad grievances init, he mentions " SuesCRIp-
•• TION urged upon all Graduates in both universities, and
" upon all raen entering into the viinistry, as a heavy op-
" pression, driving sorae promising persons from the oflace,
" and ensnaring the consciences of others ; — conniving at a
" scartdaloils ministry ; — the shameful abuse of oaths, par-
" ticularly the oath of matriculation ; — the abuse of church-
" censures, &c. &c." These were heavy charged, but
there was evidently too much truth in them.
Mr. ylshe was one of the Cornhill lecturers, and a mem
ber of the Westminster assembly. Mr. Calamy preached
his funeral sermon, which raay be seen in the volume of
farewell serraons. [He speaks of hira as a man of great sin
cerity, huraility, benevolence, prudence and patience; di
ligent in preaching the gospel, in season and out of season,
so as not to please the ear but wound the heart ; seeking not
the applajise of thepeople, but the salvation of souls ; emi
nent above most in prayer : and. one who maintained great
acquaintance and communion with God. He died as he
lived, in great consolation and chearful exercise of faith, mo
lested with no fears nor doubts, and conversing much to the
edification of those about him. '' When I was with him
" (says Mr. Calamy) he took occasion to complain much,
" and not without just cause, that ministers, when they met
" together, discoursed no more of Christ and heaven, &c.
" professing that if God should restore him, he would be
" more careful in his discourse. He exhorted me and other
" miiHSters to preach rauch of Jesus Christ, and to speak of
•ji Christ to him ; saying. When I consider my best duties,
" I sink, I die, I despair; but when I think of Christ, I
" have enough; he is all and in all. I desire to know no-
" thing but Jesus Christ and him crucified.,.. &c." The
morning before he died, he said, " It is one thing to speak
" of Christ and of heaven, and another thing to feel the
" consolation of Christ and of heaven, as I do;" (clapping
his hand upon his breast) : and at another time, " The com-
" forts of a holy life are real, and soul-supporting. I fe^
" the reality of them, and you raay know by rae, that it is
" not in vain lo serve God."]
WORKS. Sermons before the Parliament. — Several before the
Magistrates, on pub, occas,— Fun. Serm. for Dr. Sfiurstotv's only
child ;— Mr. Jer. tVhitaker ;— Mr. Raljih Robinson ; Mr, Rob. Strange ;
—Mr. Tho. Gataker i— Mr. Rich, Fines;— and the Countess of Man-
chester.

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thester. — Also several Prefaces to the works of others. He pub
lished. The Power of Godliness, and — A Treatise on the Cove
nant of Grace, by the famous old Nonconformist, Mr. John Ball,
who conliflitted td hirti all his MSS. To the former e/f these Mr'.
Ashe wrote an liitrbductioh.
BARTHOLOMEW, ExcflANGEi [R. S. lool.*]
I'hilip Nye, M.A. oi Magd. Hall, 0.vford, whprfc
he -was a. very hard student. He had been entered a com
moner at Braz. Nose, in 1615. He was born of a genteel
family, 15^6. In 1630, he was curatd at St. Michael'^,
Cornhill. In 1633, he went into Holland, to be free froiii
laud's p'drsecutions. He returned at the beginning of the
long parliament, and by fhe Earl of Manchester'^ favour,
became ttiinister of KimboltoH irt Huntingdonshire. Iri
1643, he, with Mr. Stephen Marshal, -was ^ent to the com
missioners from the parliament into Scotland, to raove for
assistance from thence. He had agreat concern in choosing
.the merabers of the Asserably of divines,, in which he was
Diie of the dissenting brethren. He succeeded Dr. Reeve
in the rectory of Acton. He was one of the chaplaiils who
attended the coraraissioners to Charles I. in the Isle of
Wight, 1647, and was raade one of the Triers oi ministers
in i65'2. He was also a principal person in managing the
meeting of the Congregational churches at the Savoy, by
the Protector's order ; -where the Declaration of the faiths
Order, ahd practice of the Congregational churches in Ens-
land was agreed upoil by their elders and messengers, Ocio-
bcr 12, 1658. Thi^ was printed in i659, and the year
following translated into Latin by Professor Hornbeck, anti
published at the end of his Epist. (Z^JDuRjEM. de Independ.
Mr. Nye had a great knowledge in the Disciplinarian cori-
troversy, and there was scarcely a book written upon that
subject which he had not read. Soon after the Restoration,"
there was an order of parliament for lodging his papers with
the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Latnbeth, where they
yet remain. He interested hiraself so rauch in political af
fairs that it was debated in council for several hours, whether
he [with John Goodwin and Hugh Peters) should be ex-
, c^pted for life j and it was concluded, " That if he shpuld

* This must be too Uttle, as the present value of this living is 4021.
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I' hereafter accept or exercise any office, ecclesiastical, mi*
" litary or civil, he should, to all intents and purposes*-
' ' stand as if he had been totally excepted." See tiie Act of
Indemnity, i2 Car.W.) After his ejectment he preached
privately, as opportunity offered, to a congregation of Dis
senters, till the year 1672, when he died, aged 76, and was
huned in St, Michael's church, Cornhill. He left behind
him the character of a man of uncommon depth, who was
seldom or never outreached ; but was of too warm a spirit.
He had drawn up a compleat history of the old Puritan Dis
senters ; but the MS. was unfortunately blirnt at Aldermaa
Ctarkson's, in the fife of Lpndpn.
WORKS. Letter to his brethren ih ScotlanJoa success of affartit
there, 1 643. — EKhorl. to take the sol. league and cov.— Excellene*
and lawfulness of Do. in a speech to H. of Com.— Epist. Disc.
about Toleration. — Keys of Kingdom of Heaven, and the power
thereof. — Mr. Ant. Sadler examined about liis dealing with the
Tri£rs.--The Principles of Faith presented to the Committee of Pari.
for Reliff.— Beams of former Light, shewing the Evil of imposing
doubtfiil Forms upon Ministers, &:c. — Case of great and present
Use. — ^The lawfulness of the Oath of Supr. and Power ofthe King
in eccl. affairs. (The 2d edit, dedicated by his son to James H-j—
'Vind. of Dissenters, proving their Congregations not inconSiSt.
with King''s Suprem. — Some Account of the Nature of Eccles.
Courts. — Lawfiilness of hearing Ministers of Ch. of England,^-^
Serm. bef, citizens oiljmdon, 1 6i9. ,
Mr, John Loder, was ejected from this lectureship. A
valuable and worthy man. He is interred at Bunhili-fields^
where the inscription on his tomb shews that he died'iOe-
cemberSO, 1673.
BENNET-FINK, [D. or Perp. C. 115I]
%* Samuel Clark, A. B. oi Eman. Col. Camb. After
bis death, a narrative of his life was found irt his study,
drawn up by himself, without any design of having it ex
posed to public view. It is prefixed to the last volurae of his
lives, and the following account of him is extracted from it.
He was bom of pious parents at Woolsion in Warwickshire,
where his father was a godly, able, faithful, and useful
minister above 40 years. He was put to school at Coventry,
where, fallings among dissolute lads, he degenerated from
the principles of his first education, though not without fre
quent checks of conscience. At the university he was under
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the care of Mr. Thomas Hooker, where he did not answCf
Jiis father's wishes, nor the means he enjoyed, being, as he
afterwards thought, a stranger to a work of grace in his
heart, though in the sight of the wtirld he was blameless;
When he commenced B. A. his father, having but a small
income, took him horae ; where he caught the small-pox, and
was restored beyond expectation. Soon after he was applied
to by a gentleman to instruct his children, and to assist Mr.
Slader, the rainister of Knowle, in Warwickshire. The
family in which he lived was profane, and he was too
easily reconciled to it; but he did not continue here long,
being invited to assist Mr. Byrom, oi Thorntofi in Cheshire.
In this new situation, however, he was exposed to spme
great temptations : but it pleased the Lprd in mercy tP hedge .
Up his way with thprns ; and by striking him with extraor
dinary terror, to bring him to reflection and deep humilia
tion ; aild by degrees to give hira some corafort in believing
and applying the promises of free grace in Christ Jesus. He
here met with some trouble from a raalicious person, who
prosecuted him for the oraission of sorae, cereraonies ; on
which account he resolved to leave this place and come to
London : ' but meeting with some godly persons of Wirral,
who had heard him preach, they importiined hira to come
aiUpng thera at ShotwicA. There being scarcely a constant
preacher besides himself in tbat payt of t^e country, people
carae six or seven miles round to hear him. ¦
At this place he found the first seals of his ministry, being
an instrument in converting many souls to God. Here he-
set up meetings for prayer and conference, which were held
at the houses of the richer people in rotation, where ques
tions were discussed which he had previously proposed.
The benefits arising from these friendly associations he found
to be raany and great. Hereby knowledge was increased,
so that, says he, " I never was acquainted with more un
derstanding christians in all my life, though the best of
them went in russet coats and follpwed husbandry.
Hereby holy affections were kindled and kept alive. Mu
tual love was .promoted ; so that all the professors of the
gospeMiving withing ten or twelve miles asunder, were
as intimate as if they had been of one household. The
necessities of the pool- being known, -were provided for.
The weak were strengthened, the raourning comforted, the
erring reclaimed, the dejected raised, and all niutually edi
fied m their holy faitii. Moreover they hereby enjoyed
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iDpportunities for private fasts and days of thanksgiving,
is there was occasion." Mr. Clark here raarried a pious,
humble, prudent, and sweet-tempered person, the daughter
of a minister of Bedworth. But having been here about
five years, he was afresh prosecuted for the omission of ce
remonies ; and his enemies were so inveterate that they
would not suffer him to preach a fare-well-sermon.
Just at this tirae he received a letter from the mayor, alder
men, old Mr, Fenn, and other godly people in Coventry,
importuning him to preach a lecture there on Lord's-day
afternoons, and Tuesday mornings. He complied, and was
at first treated with respect, but could not be quiet long ;
for Dr. Buggs, who had engrossed both the livings, seeing
his hearers leave him, soon discovered his enmity against
Mr. Clark, andhaving the po.wer of both the pulpits, de-.
nied him enrrance into either. The corporation having
another church, at the end of the town, in their disposal,
appointed him lecturer there. But the Doctor having his
spies about hira, thought he had got sorae advantage against
hira for some expressions he had used in the pulpit, and
commenced a prosecution against him before Bishop More-
ion, who forbade his preaching in his diocese ; but Mr.
Clark having a licence from the Archbishop (Abbot) he re
fused obedience. The affair, however, caused him trouble ;
and the new mayor being a friend of the Doctor's, he was
obliged to quit this lectureship ; upon which he assisted his
father, who hved near the city. Robert Lord Brook invited
him tobe his domestic chaplaiti ; but being married, he de
clined it. However, he found his lordship a fast friend to
him ever after. About this tirae he was applied to by the
magistrates of Warwick to preach a lecture there, but was
opposed by the vicar. The earl of Warwick however made
him, his chaplain, and, by a letter to the vicar, engaged him
to adrait him as his assistant. In this capacity, for about
five years, God was pleased greatly to bless and succeed his
labours, and particularly in Lord B7'oak's faraily, who re
sided mostly in the castle. But these things excited the
envy of Mr. Hall the vicar, who sought a quarrel with him,
and caused him often to be presented for the omission of ce
remonies; but the bishop shewed him favour. At length
Mr. Hall being impatient of his continuance, carae with a
'view to pull him out of the pulpit, and, by his clamours,
actually obliged him to give over preaching. He then com
plained of him lo Archbishop Laud, and threatened to pro-
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seeute him in the Hjgh-commission court ; but providence so
ordered it, tliat he heard no more of the matter. About
¦this time the minister oi A lees fer died, ^nd Lord Brook gave
Mr. Cli^rk the living, to which he was also unanimously
chosen by the people. This place was very profane, buK
¦ Mr. Clark's [mbVic and ¦ private labours were the means of
working a great reformation.
'Soon after he. was settled here, the Book of Sports came
out, and he was often threatened for refusing tp read it;
but it pleased God to preserve him from any suffering on
that account. Upon this occasion he preached largely pn
the doctrine ofthe Sabbath, and witnessed a remarkable
judgment upon two of his neighbours ; who, encouraged
by that book, and in co-nterapt of his ministry, dared to
profane that holy day. (S.eehis Example.'!, p. »^3,) These
events, seconding the word, struck a great awe into the
hearts' of manv, and restrained them from the like disorders.
He continued here about nine years, in which time many
were converted, and others edified In the faith ; and the
town, which' before was called drunken Alcester, was now
exemplary. The Et ceetera oath threatehed new dangersi
Many ministers in that diocese met and drew Up a petitipn
tothe king, which Mr. Clark and Mr. Salway. 'prtsenttA
to his raajesty, then at Tork; to which he answered. That
they should not be molested for refusing the oath till the
; paHiament raet. Another petition was then drawn up, and
sent by the sarae persons. Mr. Clark being in London,
after the diff'erences between the king and parliament grew
sft high, was unexpectedly recommended to preach at Bennet-
Fink chvirch, then- vacant, and as unexpectedly chosen. He
accepted the call, upon condition of his returning to Alces
ter when the storm was over. He accordingly did so.
But finding many of his people led away by sectaries, and
several young men set up for preachers, so that he was
not likely to be corafortable or useful there any raore, and
-having provided a godly minister for them, he resolved to re
turn to Bennet-Fink.
In 1660 he presented the address of the London minis
ters to the king, on occasion of his publishing his Decla
ration Concerning ecclesiastical affairs. In 1661, he was
made a commissioner for reforming the Book of Common-
Prayer. In 1666, he removed irom London to Hammer
smith. He was seven or eight years a governor, and two
jears president of Sion College.
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Having given a list of his writings,' he; closes his account
of hiraself thus: "I mention these things, not seeking my,
own praise and glory, (for I am less than tiie least of all
God's mercies) but to give glory to God, who enabled rae-
to do so rauch work, wherein I hope 1 was serviceable to
him and his church, without the neglect of ray work in
the ministry." In that work he continued forty years, till
the Act of Uniformity took place : upon which he laid
aside his ministry, and 'attended the church of England,
both as a hearer and a communicant:, for, as he hiraself says,
he durst not separate from it, nor was he satisfied about
gathering a private church out of a true church, which
he judged the church of England to be. He continued
twenty years in this retirement; but his time was not lost.
He eraployed great part of it in revising the books he had
published, and in writing others, which have been, very
useful, especially to persons of the middle rank, who, there
by got much profitable knowledge. In the latter end of
December 1682, the decays of nature carae violently upon,
him. At length he was unable to help himself, and began,
to faulter in his speech; yet his understanding remained
clear to the last. As upon other occasions, so now mpre
xspecially, he was often speaking of his change, and, his,
conversation was spiritual, as became a dying person. He
discovered a lively sense of eternity upon his spirit, and'a
comfortable assurance of his own title tp a blessed eternity.
Oil Dec. 25, 1682, having blessed those -about him, he re
signed his soul into the haiids of his Eather, being aged upr
wards of 83 years. This family, gave up for conscience
sake, not less than 600I. per annum. He had. two, sons
ejected. [One of them was Mr. Samuel Clark, oi Gren-
don, in Buck ing Iiamshire, (the author of the Annotations
on the Bible) ; the other, Mr. John Clark qi Hungerfor,d..
A great grandson of his (Dr. Samuel Clark) was a pastor,
of a congregation of Protestant Dissenters at St. Alban's.
He was father to the late Mr. Samuel Clark of Birming
ham-, who was assistant to Dr. Doddridge, in his academy;
and afterwards to his successor. Dr. Caleb Ashworth qi
Duventry. He was killed, by a fall frora his horse, 1769,
• aged 42. See his character in Dr. Ashworth' s funeralser-
mon for hira,]
WORKS. A Martyrology with the Lives of 32 Divines. —
The Lives of sundry eminent Persons. — The M4rrow of EccIcr.
History, with Ciit^.— The Marrow of Divinity, with sundry Gases
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of Conscience. — His Examples: (all these in folio,) — The Life of
©iir blessed Saviour, — Disc, ag, Toleration. — A Sheet in Defence
of Tythes. — Sermons on partie, Occasions. — Description oi Gerr
many. — Hist of Hungary. — Dcscript. of the 17 Provinces of the
Netherlands.— r-Uwei oi English Vfaxrioii. — Duty of every one that
intends to be saved. — English Dictionary. — Pre.sident for Princes,
r-rA Book of Apothegms, — A Looking-glass for Persecutors.— r
Account ofthe Sfanish Invasion and Powder-plot. >
ST. BENNETT'S Sheerhog, [R. S.]
Nehemiah Benton, M. A. of St. John's Col. Camb.
From this place also was ejected.
Mr. Nicholas Lockyer, of New Inn Hall, Oxford,
He preached also at St. Pancras, Soper Lane. He was
born in Somersetshire. He succeeded Mr. F. Rouse in the
provostship oi^Eton Cpllege, in 1658, of which he was
deprived soon after the Restoration. He was succeeded by
Dr. Nicholas Monk, brother to the well-known General,
in 1660. He had been the Protector's chaplain. His
-writings shew hira to have been very zealous and affec
tionate ; earnestly bent upon the conversion of souls. He
continued preaching, though it doth not appear where, till
his death, which was in 1683. ••
¦^^ORKS., Several Serm. bef. the Lords and Com. and oti
other pub. occas.,: — Some Sermons on Sincerity. — Balm for bleed
ing England and Ireland, in 20 Serm. — Christ's Communion with
his Church.' — Spiritual Inspection, or Review of the Jleart. —
Meinorial of God's Judgments.
ST. BENNETT'S Paul's Wharf, [R, lool.J '
Mr, John Jackson, the son of Mr. Arthur Jackson,
and who wrote the meraoirs of his life. See the account of
him under the article Moulsey, in Surrey.
BLACKFRIARS.
John Gibbon, B. D. son of Mr, John Gibbon,
©f Walthani. In Mr. Rastirick's MS. Mr. Gibbon is^
pientioned as haying been ejected froni St. Anne's near Al-
^ersgate, [R. 1401.] He was a raember ofthe Westminster
Assembly, a very learned and judicious man, and of great
mpdesty. He died pf a consumption, not long afterhis be,
p'g sjlenced. He printed two sermons in' the Morn. Exer-, cisesf.

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cises. They that peruse these, will regret that no more
of his works should have been published,
ST. BOTOLPH's Aldgate, [C. and D. 5201.J
Mr. Zachary Crofton. An upright man, , but of a
warra and hasty temper; an acute, learned and solid diviiie,
and an excellent christian. He was born, and for the raost
part educated, in Dublin, being related to Sir Ed, Crofton,
Bart. In the Irish troubles, he fled into England; and
when he came on shore, he had but a groat, which he spent
the first night at his (quarters. He was pastor of a church at
Wrenbury in Cheshire, where he raet with much trouble, of"
which there is an account in his preface to his Beihshemesh
cloiided. He was turned out from Wrenbury for refusing
the Engagement, and appearing very zealous to dissuade
others from taking it. Before his settling at Aldgate, he was
sorae time minister at St. James's, Garlickhithe. Not
long after the restoration he had a hot contest with Bp.
Gauden about the obligation ofthe solemti league and co-
venant. The bishop was for cancelling it entirely. Mr.
Crofton did not plead for it as binding any man to rebellion,
or to any thing unlawful ; but as obliging every one that
took it, in his place and calling, to endeavour after reforraa
tion; to be against schisra, popery, prelacy and profane
ness, and to defend the king. Many writings passed on
both sides ; but at length they vvho had the upper-hand, (as
hath been usual in the like cases) backed their arguraents with
force, to make thera unanswerable. Mr. Crofton -yvas sent
prisoner to the Tower/ where after a long continuance, at
a vast expence, at a tirae when he had a wife and seven
sraall children, he sought to get a Habeas corpus; but his
life being threatened, he was glad to letfthe raotion fall, and
at last to petition for his liberty, which with sorae difficulty
he obtained. But going into Cheshire, he was there ira
prisoned again. When he again procured bis liberty, he set
up a grocer's shop to maintain his fanjily, While he was in
the Tower, he attended the chapel-service; being against
separation from the .parish churches, though he hhnself (as
a minister) could not use the Common-prayer or the ceremo
nies. Some who thought hjs conduct unlawful, wrote
againsjt it. He replied with sharpness; and" various
writings were published on both sides, about such confor
mity. He afterwards took a farm at Little Bctrford in Bed-
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fordshire. In the time of the plague, his spn and daugh
ter, (whom he had set up in business in London), went
down to him, but could not be adraitted into the village,
and were kept in little huts at a distance, he hiring a man to
Ipok after them. They all died, and Mr, Crofton took good
care of the man's children. He then reraoved to London
(bringing one of this man's daughters to be his servant) , and
set up a school in the parish of Aldgate, which he conti
nued tb his death ; having sometimes above a hundred scho
lars, ¦WORKS. Bethshei-nesh clouded, or Animadversions on the Rab
binical Talmud; of Rabbi J<>lm Rogers. — Catechizipg God's Ordi
nance.-— The people's Need of a living Pastor, a Fim. Serm. for
Mr. John Frost, withvan Ace, of his Life and Death, — -The Virtue
and VaJue of Baptism, a Serm. on Heb. x. 22, — Right re-entered,
&.c,. an Account of his Return to his Ministry, — Malice against the
Rlirristry manifested. — Felix Seeks, &c. in sundry Sermons.— The
Pursuit of Peace, a Serm. March 29, ) 666: — Altar 'Wdrsh jp, or
bowing to the Communion Table cons dered. — Fratema Correplio,
the Saint's Zeal against sinful Altars. — A serious View of Presby
ters Re-ordination by Bps. — Anahpsis; in ans. to Dr. Qauden\ en-
deavour-s to invalidate the Sol. league and cov. — Analefisis AnaUpthe,
m aiis. to apiece ag.the ioT!aer,-^'Berith Ami Bapd, or Zachary Crtflon'i,
appearance before thejprelat-ical Justice of Peace, Srfc. a Rejoindra ta
Dr. G«««fen's Vind. — Reformation not Separation; a Plea fbr Com-
ipunion withthe Church, ^c. ina Letter frornlihe Tower to R. S.
J^lyQ.Q, 1661.. — The Hard way to Heaven, a Serm. at Kath. Qee.
C^hiir.ch, afterhis Release, on Math. vii. 14., — The Saint's Care for
ChurchCommunion, On sundrySermons at Duke's Plaee.-^A Defence
against the Fears of Death; Meditations; &c. in the Tower. —
Grammaticus Analyiicus. — Repentance not to be raperited'of; a
Serm. in Morn-. Ex. — Also several Prefaces b^re the Writuigs of
others. — In 1^61 was published Mr, Giftcii's Case io&trly ctmsiderrd,.
&fc. It was written with judgment, and dedicated to Lord Cla
rendon.. ST. BOTOLPH, BisHopsGATE, [R. S, 3551.]
Samuel Lee, M. A. of Wadham Col. Oxf. He was
j^e only son of an eminent citizen of London, who died in
much esteem, and at a good old age. He possessed a con-
sideF,<(hleestate, w^bich this his son enjoyed some years after
Wsageid mother's decease. He had his first^ eduration un
der Dr.. Gale at St. Paul's school, and at the university un
der Dr. WUkins, afterwards Bp. of Chester. There he in-
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he was chosen fdlow of thfe college, and afterwards proctor
ofthe university, in the year when Dr. Owen was vice-
chancellor, 1656. About this tirae he compiled his Tem-^
pie of Solomon in folio, and printed it at the request and ex-
pence of the university. He afterwards removed to London,
and was fixed in this living of Bishopsgute, where he la
boured with good acceptance for three or four years, till the
Bartholomew-act passed, by which he was ejected and si
lenced. He was often advised by his learned and pious tu
tor Bp. Wilkins, who conformed at the Restoration, to come
into the established church ; but he thought it his duty to see
wilh his own eyes, and chose to act in a narrower sphere. He
was congregational in judgment, but eminent for a catholic
spirit and extensive charity. He was many years minister of
an Independent congregation at Newington-green. He was
a considerable scholar ; understood the learned languages
well ; spoke Latin fluently and elegantly ; was a great master
in physic and chymistry, and no stranger to any part of polite
and useful learning.. He was also eminent for charity to the
poor, and bountifully contributed to the Hungarian minis
ters -when they took refuge in England.
The times proving dangerous, and he being of a timor
ous teraper, left a good estate, for the sake of peace and a
quiet mind, about the year 1686, and went to New-Eng
land ; where he was received with respect, and chosen pas
tor of a congregation at Bristol. But he continued there only
ahoutthree years; forbearing ofthe glorious revolution inhis
native country, in 1688, and wishing to taste the fruits
of it, he was sp eager to return, that he took ship with
his wife and family, in the midst of winter §. In his
passage he met with such opposition from the winds,
that the ship was driven upon the coast of Ireland,
where it was attacked by a French privateer, and fought for
some hours, till being on fire several times, and in dan
ger of sinking, they were forced to surrender themselves pri
soners. It was remarkable that, before he went on board,
he mentioned to his wife a strong impression upon his mind
of being taken captive. — They were continued cruising for
some weeks, exposed to all the extremities of wind and wea-
§ He sailed for England frora Boston, October 2, IfiPl, onboard Ihc Dol
phin, Capt, JoA« Foy,.. His |50ok entitled. The Joy of Faith, is dated from y?i-
hot's Langley, Herts, where probably he then lived, Jun,\6, 1685, which
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ther, and about Christmas the ship was carried as a prize'
into St. Maloe's in France; wheie he, his wife, daughter,
and two servants were detained for sorae rime. But at length
they, unknown to hira, were shipped off" for England,
while he, by the king's order was kept behind. Hereupon,
through grief, at having his wife and child taken from him,
and being left alone in a coumiy where he was a perfect
stranger, he was soon seized with a fever, of which he died
in a few days, aged 64, in the possession of those very ene
mies whom he all his days had the raost dreaded.
¦yVORKS, Account of Salomon'^ Terhple,/o/.— ;  Triumph of
Mercy in Cliariotof Praise — Joy ofFaith.^-Disc.on the ten Tribes.
¦ — A Latin Tract, on the Rev. De Excidio Antichristi. — Contemplat.
on Morality ; dedicated to his aged Father.-^-A Sermon on Judg
ment, — ^Three Serm." in Morn. Ex. — Ecclesia Gemens; two Disc, orr
the Mournful State of the Church, &c. — Israel Redux ; including a
Piece by Dr. Gi. Fletcher, to shew that the Tartars are the Po.sterity
ofthe ten Tribes oi Israel.— ^The lAie of Mr. John Rowfi, prefixed
to Mr. R's Immanuel. — He left a MS. on Rev. xi.
ST. BRIDE'S fV, 2361.] John Herring.
Mr. Thomas White. He had been mentioned as ejected
from this place, but it seems this was a mistake; the place
of his ejectment is uncertain. He was a man af great humi
lity and.siiicerity. and an excellent practical useful preacher.
There is a preface to the 2d edit, of his Art of Divine Medi
tation, by one R. A- {probably Mr. Rd. Allein,) who.says,
" All that knew hrm honoured and loved hira. He was
a burning and shining light,: he was too bright a star to
shine longer in the terrestrial world- Gpd made use of him
to turn many unto righteousness ; and now he' shines in the
kingdom of his father." He died about 1672. He was
some time a preacher at St. Andrew's, Holborn, and at St.
Anne's, Aldersgate. He seems not to have been a settle'd
pastor, but a lecturer only, in the place? where he preached.
He was a general scholar, and was the noted Mr. Chilling-
"Worth's Amanuensis. He was much esteemed and often very
"kindly treated by Archbishop Sheldon, w'ho protected him^t
the chapel at Zw%a/e.
WORKS, A Method, &c, forthe Art of Divine Meditation,
(lOiie pf the best books we have upon that .subject.)' — Observations
on the 5 th, 6th, and 7 th Chapters pf Matthew  A Treat, of the
Po>ver of Godliness, — A Manual for Parents, cpntainipg Directions hi

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"n reference to Baptizing, Correcting, &c.t-A Directory to
Chnstjan Perfection, — A Treatise of blasphemous and wandering
Thoughts, &c. — Directions for opr Thoughts and Words, &c.
with Comforts to weak (not careless) phnslians. — Brief Directions
for the right managing a Christian Family; on Gen. xviii. 19. — A
little Book for little Children. — Two Serm, in Morn, Ex,
BRIDEWELL. [S,]
George Fowler, M. A. A good man, who was much
esteemed and beloved in the city. He died at his hpuse in
Islington.
CHARTER-HOUSE.
, George Griffith, M. A. Who was alsp a week-day ,
lecturer at St. Bartholome'W, near the Exchange. He was .
very conversible, and much the gentieraan. He was reck
oned a raan pf great invention and devotion in prayer. In
his younger years he was much followed, but when he grew .
old his congregation declined. His meeting-house, in the
latter part of his life, ¦was at Grrdler's-hall.
§ Mr. Griffith was an Independent in principle, but ap- ,
pears to have been in good repute among tiie Presbyterian
ininisters, as well as those of his own denomination. Mr.
Baxter, having drawn up a plan of accoramodatipn between
both parties, says in his Life (Part ii. p. 193,) " Since Pre-
" lacy was restored, there hath been no opportunity to
f debate these matters ; only I put these papers into Mr.
" Griffith's hands, who speaketh much for reconciliation.",.
And afterwards, mentioning the liberty which the ejected \
ministers took in preaching, after the fire of London, he
says, (Part iii. p. 19.) " Tlie Independents also set up their
(' meetings raore openly than before; especially Mr, Grif
fs fith, Mr. Brook, Mr. Caryl, &c." — As a proof of his re
spectability, it may be mentioned, that he concurred with
Dr. Owen in a letter of advice to the church in Tyler's -street,
Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, upon an affair in which they had,
applied for direction. As the letter discovers much of a
christian spirit, we shall insert a copy of it (somewhat com
pressed) taken from the church-book,
" Brethren, beloved in the Lord,
" Grace and peace be untp you from God our Father and
f? Pur Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks iJRto God fo"" yo*^
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*' all, understanding that the word of the kingdom is comcunto
" youj not in word only but in power and the Holy Ghost,
*' and that ye are become followers of the Lord in this day
" of affliction, and of the patience , of Jesus Christ ; and we
" trust your faith shall grow, and the love of every one of
"you towards each other shall' abound yet more and more.
*' As for the persons (Mr. Beare and Mr. Waite) whom
" you write about, we are willing, upon your desire, to let
" you know. That upon hearing of what the brethren,
¦ «' (sent up to us from that church whereof Mr. Holcrojt
" is pastor) had to produce of their proceedings, to cast out
" Mr. B. first, and Mr. W. afterwards, we did unanimously
" judge. That the church had not sufiicient ground for their
" proceeding, our advice therefore was, that they would
" again receive thera into fellowship. Nor do we know
" any rule ofthe Gospel that will be infringed by your con-
" tinning to honour Mr. Waite for his work sake, or yo-ur
'" encouraging him in his labour in the Lord. We rejoice
" in tiiat blessed success that the Lord hath crowned his mi-
" nistry withal among you — and we heartily pray that he
" mav yet be more and more of use untd you for your build-
"¦ ingup. We are sorry to hear that any brother or brethren
" of that church in Cambridgeshire, before spoken of,
" should go about to weaken his hands, or to work a pre- '
"' judice to his ministry, by giving an unjust account of
" our judgm'ent in Mr. B.'s, and in his case. That letter
" of ours, they have in their hands, does plainly shew what
"• our sentiments were, and what we judge (and we humbly
" believe we have the mind of Christ) was regular and raeet
" for them to do, for the repairing of the honour of Christ,
*' and for the obtaining a blessing to theraselves, as also for
" the healing of that scandal that hath corae upon the way
"" of the gospel, by the precipitant and undue casting of per-
*'¦ sons outof the visible kingdom of our LordJ esus Christ. As
'* touching those five of your own number that dissent and
•' separate themselves from your body, our present advice
" is, that you would be much in prayer for them ; carry it
•' in all love with tenderness towards them, and patientiy
" wait, if peradventure God will give them repentance to
" the acknowledgment of the truth. We account that they
" are overtaken with a fault in this present continued, sepa-
" ration of theirs ; but we also desire you -would (and we
"hope vou will) shew yourselves so spiritual, as to see)cthe
" restoring of them by. no other way than a spirit of raeek-
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" ness, considering yourselves, lest ye also be tempted, and
" remembering that ye must -bear the burdens one. of ano-
" ther, that so ye raay fulfil the law of Christ. Finally,
" brethren, be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one
" mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace be
" with ye all, according to the prayer of your brethren and
" companions in tribulation, and in the kingdom and pa-
" tienceof our Lord Jesus Christ,"
Signed in the name, and by the appointment of several
elders of churches in and about London.
Lsndon, the 8lh of the third JOHN OWEN
'"°""'' ^"^- GEORGE GRIFFITH.
CHRIST-CHURCH, NE^VGATE-STREET. [.v.]
William Jenkyn, M. A. Of St. John's Col. Camb.
His grandfather was a gentleman of a considerable estate at
Folksione in Kent. He sent his eldest son (the father of
this Mr. Jenkyn) to Cambridge, designing him for some emi
nent church-preferment. In consequence of being there cast
under Mr. Perkins's^ministry, he was brought to great se
riousness, and embarked with the Puritans. His father dis
covering this upod his retui'n, and disliking that sort of peo-
. pie, was pleased to disinherit him of the main body of his
estate. Finding his company -disagreeable to his father, he
removed to Mr. Richard Rogers's of Wethersfield, an old
Puritan minister, and there diljgentiy prosecuted his studies.
Being ordained, he was fixed as minister of Sudbury in Suf
folk, where he was signally useful to many, by preaching and
catechizing, and he adorned all by a holy conversation.
Here he married the grand -daughter of Mr. John Rogers
the Proto-martyr in the Marian days, by whora he ha<i this .
Mr. W. Jenkyn, who was born at Sudbury, j6i2. His
father died when he was very young. The grand-father
,before.imentioned, then livltig at Folksione, seeraed ex
tremely softened upon his son's death, and sent for his grand
son, promising to take care of his education. He lived with
hira rauch beloved till nine years old, when his mother,
fearing his want of a religious education there, took him
home, to thegreat displeasure of the old gentbman. She
and her. second husband were very careful to train him up in
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to CdmMidge-at the age of fourteen, and placed under Mf,
Anthony Burgess. He pursued his studies with great suc
cess, and his progress in piety was as erainent as in learning.
His corapany was earnestly courted by sorae young wits Of
the university, for his sprightly genius ; but perceiving their
looseness, he waved an intimacy with them. He did not
begin to preach for a considerable time after he had com-i
menced M. A. Soon after he appeared in public he was
chosen lecturer of St. Nicholas Aeons, London ,- and from
thence was called to Hithe, near Colchester in Essex, whera
he first married. The aguishness of that place, and tiie so
licitation of his Xo72^ciw. friends, brought hira back to the
city, about the year 1641, when he was chosen rainister of
Christ-Church, and sorae raonths after, lecturer of St,
Anne's,' Blackfriars. He continued to fill up this double;
station with great diligence and acceptance, till, upon the
destruction of iiionarchy, he refused to observe the public
thanksjgivings appointed by the parliament. For this he was
suspended from his ministry, and had his benefice of Christ-
Church sequestered. This induced him to retire to Bille-
Ttcay in Essex.
Upon his return to London, after six raonths, he was sent
to the Tower for what was called Love's-plot. Upon a pe
tition, (for which sorae have censured him) the parliament
Voted him a pardon, and an immediate discharge frora prison
and sequestration. Mr. Feak, the noted fifth-monarchy
man, having been put into Christ-Church hy the govern
ment, upon his sequestration, he forbore to eject him. But
his parishioners, being earnest to enjoy his labours, setups
lecture for him on Lord's-day raornings at seven o'clock,
and raised a considerable subscription for him. In this, and
his lecture at Black-friars (out of which he had rtot been
ejected) he Continued till Dr. GoM^e's death, vvhen he was
.chosen pastor of that church. Mr. Feak afterwards becom
ing obnoxious to government, was removed, and the gover- .
nbrs of^St. Bartholomew's hospital presented Mr. Jenkyn to
this living afresh. Here he; exercised the ministry mornirig
and afternoon to a crouded congregation, with eminent suc
cess, and particularly upon occasional hearers. He was very
cautious of touching upon any thing that might give um
brage to the governraent, wh6n he knew so raany eyes were
upon hira ; but wholly applied himself to preach Christ,
and him crucified. In this course, he was sorae years upon
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the epistle of _7"rfe, which he afterwards pa-inted. He was'
tiot satisfied to desist from the ministry upon the Act of Uni
formity, though he could not Comply withthe terms of it,
but still preached in private as he had opportunity. Upon
the 0.iford-act, (not being able to' take the oath) he retired
to his own house at Langley in Hertfordshire; and preached
there every Lord's day, where, through the good provi
dence of God, he met but with littie disturbance.
Upon the Indulgence, in 1671, he returned to London,
•where .he had a new meeting-place erected in Jewin-slreet :
and there he soon raised a nuraerous auditory. Ke was als6
chosen lecturer at Pinners-hall. After the Indulgence was
revoked, there was so far a connivance, that his services on
Eord's days continued undisturbed, till that terrible storm
broke out against the Nonconformists in 1682. Then he
continued to preach from place to place, where he could do
it most secretly, and out of the reach of the vile informers.
But at length, on September 2, 1684, being with Mr,
Reynolds, Mr. John Flhvel, and Mr. Keeling, spending
the day in prayer with many of his friends, in a place where
they thought themselves out of danger ; thd soldiers broke
in upon them in the midst of the worship. All, the ministers
made their escape, except Mt. Jenkyn. [Mr. Flavel wa$
so near, that he heard the insolence of the ofEcers and sol
diers to yir. Jenkyn when they had taken him ; and ob
serves, in his diary, that he might have escaped as well as
himself, had it not been for a piece of vanity in a lady, whos?
long train hindered his going down stairs, having out of his
too greatei vilityi let her pa^s before him.] Being carried
before two aldermen. Sir James Ediaards and Sit James
Smith, they treated him very rudely, knowing that it would
be acceptable at court. Upon his refusing the O.vford-oath,
they committed him to Newgate, rejecting his offer of 40/,
fine, which the law irapowered them to take, though it
was urged, that the air of Newgate would infallibly suffo
cate him. He presented a petition to the king for a release,
which was backed by an assurance from his physicians,- that
his life was in danger frora his close imprisonment. But no
other answer could be obtained than this, " Jenkyn shall be
" a prisoner as long as he lives." [This was most rigour
ously adhered to, for he was not suffered even to go to bap
tize his daughter's child, though a considerable sum was of
fered for that liberty, with security for his return.] The
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Even when his daughtfer came to ask his blessing, he
was not allowed to pray with her. Soon afterhis confine
raent, his health began to decline; but he continued all
along in the utraost joy aud corafort of soul. He said to one
of his friends, " What a vast difference is there between
-" this and ray first imprisonraent ! Then.I was full of doubts
"• and fears, of grief and anguish ; and well, I raight, for
" go'"g °"' o^ God's way, and ray own calling, to meddle
" with things that did not belong to rae. But now, being
" found in the way of my duty, in my master's business,
" though I suff'er even to bonds, yet I am comforted be-
" yond measure. The Lord sheds abroad his love sensibly
" in my heart. I feel it, I have the assurance of it." Then
turning to some who were weeping by him, he said,
" Why 'weep ye for me? Christ lives: he is my friend;
*' a friend born for adversity; a friend that never dies.
" Weep not for rae, but weep for yourselves and for your
'« children."
He died in Newgate, January 19, 1685, ^g^^ 7^,
having been a prisoner there four months ; where, as he
said a little before his death, a man raight be as eff"ectually
murdered as at Tyburn. [A noble raan having heard of
his happy release, said to the king, " Mjiy it please yourma-
" jesty, Jenkyn has got his liberty." Upon which heasked
with eagerness, ," Aye, who gave it him?" The nobleraan
replied, " A greater than your majesty, the King of kings ;"
with- which the king seemed greatly struck, and remained
silent.] Mr. Jenkyn was buried by his fiiends with great
honour at Bunhili-fields, where he has a tombstone (erected >
in 1715) with a Latin inscription, which expresses his liav
ing heen iraprisoned in Newgate, and died a martyr, in the
,52d year of his rainistry.
§ Mr. Baxter in his own Life (Part iii. p. 94,) speaking of
"Wi-r. Jenkyn, among other ministers in London whora he
|>riefly characterises, stiles him, " that sententious, elegant,
" preacher." — ^The following littie anecdote may not be
thought unworthy of being here recorded. '
Mr. ^ewAjyn's daughter*, who was a high-spirited, tho'
a very worthy apd pious woraan, gave mourning-rings at
her fathei's funeral, on which she ordered this motto tobe
• Tfrncr, in his hist, of Prov, relates this of Mr, Jenkyn's Son, who suf
fer?!} in the West, on Monmouth's account, Ch, 1-13. p. 117. whete a full
aocouat is given of his triumphant death. inscribed

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inscribed : " Mr. William Jenkyn, murdered in Newga,te/*
This was communicated by one who was acquaiijited witii a
person to whose father one of these rings was presented.
Mr. Jenkyn preached two farewell-sermons, pn the sabr.
bath preceding Bartholomew-day, of which, though he takes
ne particular notice of the occasion, a brief sketch may not
be unacceptable. The morning sermon is on Heb. xi, 38.
Qfwhojn the world was not worthy. " The apostle in this
" chapter, deservedly called by some a littie book of mar-
" tyrs, discovers the truraph of faith, which— assents to
" truths, however improbable — excites to duties hoyirever ar^
" duous — enables for sufferings however severe. All kinds
*' of persecutions were l^id upon these worthies, but they
" would never be brought to forsake God and his truth for
" any of them. They went through all by that faith which
" is the victory over the world. — ^We have here the excelf
" lency of these suff"ei-er3 in the apostle's estiraation. Wheii
" they were under all these distresses, they were such of
" whom the world was not worthy, Obs, A godly mart
*' sees a very great worth and excellence in the people of
" (^d in the midst of all the trouble arid persecution that
" can befall them." This is illustrated by shewing — how
this esteem is expressed — and what is the ground of it ; par
ticularly, their relation to God, and their having his image
imprinted upon thera. — The discourse concludes with several
just and useful inferences ; araong which are these three,
** We see here the excellence of holiness above all worldly ,
" glory. There isa silent dignity in reproached piety, and
" there. is asilent ignorainy in advanced iniquity. As it was
" with Christ, on whora was a secret glory under all his
" ignominy, so it is with the servants of Christ. When
" they are in trouble and disgrace, the spirit of God and of
" glory rests upon thern. — Note again, the happiness of
?' those who see this excellence in holiness, tliough dis-
" graced and undervalued. If there be any thing in the
" world that is a sign of sincerity it is tiiis; to love holiness
" when disgraced, abused, and spit upon. Here is comfort
•' in infirraities and afflictions. If you regard his [people] in
•' their sufferings, the Lord will regard you in yours. This
*' will be corafort in the last day. If thou hast owned Christ
•• when he was in rags, do not fear but he will own thee
** when he coraes in his robes. — Lastly, the people of God
?' should not be discouraged under any affliction that can
•' befall them in this world. God himself highly esteems -
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" you [as also do his people] and the love of one saint makes
" amends for all the hatred of sinners. But even thevvicked
" themselves have a good opinion of you when you do not
*' basely coraply: their consciences cannot but [applaud]
" you, when their tongues speak against you. But your
" own consciences are more than a thousand witnesses for
" you. No man is miserable for any thing in the world
•' that is done to him, or said of him. No, it is a good
*' conscience that will give the best acquittance. But
*' that man who hath the godly stand at a distance from him,
** hath much need to be afraid of himself,"
The afternoon sermon is on Exod. iii. 2 — ^5. concerning
the bush which burned but was not consumed ; which he
considers as an emblem of the church in a tirae of affliction,
¦which instead of destroying, purifies it. But the greater
part of the discourse is on the last clause of the text, — the
place whereon thou standest is holy ground; from whence
he investigates the supposed holiness of places under the gos
pel, and shews that no huraan ceremony can. give any de
gree of sanctity to one place above another, but that it is
the peculiar presence of a holy God that makes any place
holy, which cannot be justly considered as any longer so,
when his spiritual presence is withdrawn. Having exposed
the folly of giving any degree of sanctity to wood and stone,
he concludes with strongly recomraending the cultivation of
personal holiness, and a due concern to sanctify God's holy
day and ordinances, and commandments. " It is not enough
" foryou," says he, " to have a choice sentence of God's
" word written upon the walls of your churches ; but let
*' God's law be written in your hearts and consciences, and
" practised in your lives, that all the world may see you
" live as raen dedicated to the true God." — Having cautioned
them against disobeying the truth they had heard, or putting
a wrong construction upon any thing now delivered, he
closes with these words : " But I have better hopes of you
*' my beloved hearers ; and I trust that the Lord will be better
" unto your souls than his ministers, than his word, or any
*' thing else can be. God bless you and his ordinances, and
«« discover his raind at this tirae toyou." q. d. May he guide
you in the path of duty, in the present season of trial, when
-your ministers are driven from you. — ^This discourse was
evidently calculated to remove their prejudices in fayour of
consecrated places, and prepare thera to hear the gospel in
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any place where they coidd enjoy, that liberty, though he
dpcs not directiy apply the subject to that purpose.
WORKS. An Exposition on the epistle of Jude, delivered in
forty lectures; 2 vols, small 4to. — The Busy Bishop, in Answ. to
/. Goodiuin's Sion Col. visited. — Vindicat. of this ag. his Reply. —
[A Fun. Serm. for Dr. Gouge, with his Character at large.] — Ano
ther for Dr. Seaman, (some Reflections in which occasioned great
Heats. [N. B. He had particularly charged some of the conform
ing clergy with preachingthe Sermons ofthe Puritans, atthe same
time that they treated, them with contempt.] — In defence of what
.he had said, he wrote Celeuma, seu clamor dd Tlieol. Hierarchic Angl.
m ans. to a Vind. of the Conforming Clergy.-^This being an
swered in Latin, by Dr. Grave, he wrote a Reply in the same lan
guage, — He has three Sermons in the Morn. Exercise^,
¦ ST. DUNSTAN'S in the west. [V. 4481. 11s. 5|d.]
Wix-EiAM Bates, D. D. He was born in November,
A. D.-1625. § His father was an erainent physician, who
wrote Elenchus motuwn nuperrime. He was educated
in the university of Cambridge,"vrhere it is said he took
the degree of B. A. 1647, ^"^ ^''^ adraitted Doctor ia
Divinity in the year 1660 §. It is greatiy to be lamented
that Mr. Howe, who was, intimate. with him, should have
given the world so few anecdotes concerning so distinguished
a'character, in the sermon preached on occasion of his death,
of which the following is the substance.] In giving some
account of him, one cannot omit taking notice ofthe grace
ful mien and comeliness of his person, which was adapted to
command respect in that public station for which providence
designed him. His concern lay not only with mean men,
(though he knew how to condescend to the meanest) he was
to stand before kings. It is well known in what relation he
stood to ONE t, as long as was convenient for certain pur
poses ; and how frequent occasion he had of appearing (ne
ver unacceptably) before another %, His aspect was decently
, § See British Biography, by the late Dr, Towers, vol, vi, p, 125, No men
tion is made of Dr. Bates's college, nor does he himself notice it, as is usually
done, in the title-page of any of his works. — ^The author of the Pharmacopeia,
was his brother^bf whom Dr. Bates, of Holmer's Grten, Missenden, is a de
scendant, •j- Chairles II, to whom he was chaplain.
% Ring WiUiam III. § To whom, at his accession to the throne, he pre
sented the congratulatory address of the Dissenting ministers. He also pre
sented their address of condolence on the death of the Queen ; which may
be seen at the end of his sermon on that occasion, on Psalm cii, 26, 27, dedi
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grave and amiable, such as might command both reverence
and love. To use his own words, concering alderman Ash-
urst, A constant serenity reigned in his countenance; the
visible sign of the divine calm in his breast. His natural
Andoiwinents were much beyond the comraon rate. His ap
prehension was quick and clear ; his reasoning faculty acute
and ready, so as to manage an arguraent to great advantage.
His judgraent was penetrating and solid : his wit never light
or vain, though facetious and pleasant, by the help of a
vigorous and lively iraagination ; always obedient to reason.
His meraory was admirable, and was never observed to fail ;
nor was it impaired to the last. He could repeat, txerbatim,
speeches which he had raade on particular occasions, though
he had not penned a word of thera ; and he constantly deli
vered his serraons from his meraory, which, he soraetimes
said, with an amiable freedora, he continued to do when he
grew in years, partly to teach some who were younger, to
preach without notes. He was generally reputed one ofthe
best orators of the age. His voice was charming : his lan
guage always elegant ; but unaffected, free a,nd plain. His
method in all his discourses raight be exposed to the severest
critics. His style was inimitably polite, yet easy, and to
himself the raost natural. His frequent and apt similitudes
and allusions (the produce of a vivid fancy, regulated by
judgment and sanctified by grace) greatly served his pious
purpose, to illustrate the truth he designed to recommend,
and give it the greatest advantage for entering the mind with
light and pleasure, so as "at once to instruct and delight the
hearer. His elegant manner of expressing himself, which
sorae were diposed to censure, was become habitual to him,
and it pleased others much raore than himself; for he com
mended Mr. Baxter " for the noble negligence of hisstyle,"
and says that " his great raind could not stoop to the affected"
" eloquence of words."
His learning was a vast treasure, and his knowledge of
books was so extensive, that one who was as great a pillar
and as bright an ornament of the church of England as ever
it had, was known to say, " That were he to collect a li-
" brary, he would assoon consult Dr. Bates a!s any one he
" knew." He was well versed in the politer parts of learn
ing ; which rendered his conversation highly entertaining
to the more intelligent part of mankiiidj and his company
was rauch coveted by persons of quality, even when others
of his character were prosecuted with the utmost rigour.
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He was honoured with the friendship of the Lord-keeper
Bridgman. The Lord chancellor Finch, and his son the
earl of Nottinghath, had a particular respect for him.
Archbishop Tillotson held him in very high esteem, and
even after his highest advancement in tiie church, raain
tained an intimacy with him, which continued to the end of
that amiable prelate's life. The late Queen {Mary) often
entertained herself in her closet with his writings. If in
terest would have induced him to conformity, he could not
have wanted a temptation. He might have been a dean at
King Charles II's, return, and afterwards might have had
anv bishopric in the kingdom, 'if he would have deserted his
cause and his principles, § His integrity, and at the same
time his modesty and peaceable temper, sufficiently appear
in the close of his farewell sermon, August 17, 1662, " I
" know you expect I should say something as to my Non-
" conformity. I shall only say thus much: It is neither
*' i^ncy, faction, nor humour that makes me not comply;^
*' but merely the fear of offending God. And if, after the
** best means used for my illuraination ; as prayer to God,^
*'• discourse, and study, I ara not able to be satisfied con-
*'^ cerning the lawfulness of what is required, it be my un-
" happiness to be in error, surely raen will have, no reason
*•' to be angry with me in this world, and I hope God will
*' pardon me in the next." This serraon is on that text,
Heb. xiii. 20, 2t. The God of peace, &cc. A very good
discourse, but it has nothing more than the passage now
quoted, peculiar to the occasion.
Though he refused to conform, he was npt engaged]in the
interest of any party as such : for he had a catholic spirit,^
and wished the union of all parties of christians, upon mo
derate principles and practices. He was for having the
church free as Christ hath left it ; and yet for peace and
union's sake he would have yielded to any thing but sin.,
He vigorously pursued the design of a comprehension, as
long as there was any hope : but he at last saw there was
none, tiH God should give a more suitable spirit to all con
cerned. His moderation however was great to the last ;
being exceedingly cherished by a firm apprehension that the
things wherein only it was possible for good men to differ,
must be trifles, in comparison with the much greater things,
wherein it was impossible for them not to agree. '
His piety was very conspicuous, and his private conversa
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and godliness, that no man of ordinary capacity could hear
his usual and most familiar discourses, without great adr
vaqtagp, or great negligeiice. Soine persons of ,high rani;
who visited him, wherj going abroad upon h^zfirdous em
ployments, acknowledged that they received frorri him such
>vlse and pious counsels as stuck closely by <-hem, and that they
were rauch the better for tiiera. — He was indeed far from ex
cluding common affairs frora his conversation ; nor did he
banish frora it that pleasantry which well becomes it ; for
>which his acquaintance with a most delightful variety of
Story, both ancient and raodern, gave him an advantage be
yond most. To place religion in a morose sourness, was
fai- frora his practice, his judgment, and his temper. But he
shewed a mind most intent upon divine things : and his dis
course on other subjects was interwoven with religion, and
centered in it ; especially what is most vital and essential to
it; of which he used to speak with that savour and relish
which plainly shewed he was not acting a part, but spoke
from the settled temper and habit of his soul, " I never
" knew any one (says Mr, Howe) more frequent or affec-
*' tionate in the admiration of divine grace, upon a\\ occa-
*' sions, than he was, as none had a deeper sense of the im-
^' potence and depravity of human nature. Into -what trans-
*' ports of- admiration of the love of God have I seen him
•' break forth, when some things not immediately relating to
^' practical godliness had taken up great part pf our time !
** How easy a step did he make it frora earth to heaven !
*' With what high flights of thought and affection was he
" wont to speak of the heavenly state I Even like a man
*' much more akin to the other world than this. Let those
•' who often visited him say, whether he did not usually
•' send them away with somewhat that tended to better their
*' spirits, and quicken them in their way heavenwards."
He did not look with a careless eye upon public affairs,,
but considered and spoke of them as a man of large prospect,
and deep reflection ; with great prudence and teraper, both
as lying under the conduct of divine providence, and as re
lating to the Interest of religion. — He was for inany years
one of the Tuesday lecturers at Salters-hall, where he
fireachedto a thronged assembly. In the latter part of his
Ife his residence was at Hackney, where he exercised his
ministry with great success, [in a society of Protestant Dis
senters, who used to assemble in a large and ancient, but
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ing till the year 1773, where he was succeeded by Mr. Ro
bert Billio, another ejected minister. The Doctor died
July 14, 1699, aged 74. Mr. ZTowe's funeral sermon for
him (founded on John xi. 16. Let us also go and die
•with him) contains a most passionate lamentation over
hira, in a strength of language characteristic of that great
writer. It is often to be met with alone in 121110. with the
poctor's portrait,]
§ It appears from Dr. Bates's own account of himself,
that he had for some years been reraarkably infirra. In the
- beginning of his funeral serraon for Dr. Jacomb, preached
April 3, 1687, when he was about 62 years bf age, he
says, " O frail and faithless life of raan 1 Who would have
*' thought that Dr. Jacomb, whose natural vigour and
*' firm complexion proraised a longer continuance here,
•' should have a period put to his days, and that I should sur-
'* vive, whose life has been preserved for manv years, like
" the weak light of a lamp in the open air.*"
WORKS. Discourses pn the existence of God, the immortality
ofthe soul, and the divinity ofthe christian religion. — The harmony
of the divine attributes in man's redemption. — The great duty
of resignation.-^The danger of prosperity. — Sermons on the
forgiveness of sin. — The sure trial of uprightness. — ^The fpur last
things; including his Final happiness of man, — On Spirjtiral Per-
fection; — Eleven Sermons on various subjects (very short.) —
Serm. on the death of Q. Mary. — Fun. sermon for Dr. Manton ;
Dr. Jacomb ; Mr. Baxter ; Mr. Clarkson ; Mr. Benj, Ashurst.
— On divine meditation. — On the fear of God. — These after
his death were collected in one vol. fol. and dedicated to K.
William by his widow. To the 2d edition is added. The
everlasting Rest of the saints in heaven.— Dr. Bates also, in con
junction with Mr. Howe, wrote a pref. to Chagji on the Sabbath,
and to Ld. Stairs' s Vindic. ofthe divine Attrib.-— § He was likewise
the Editor cf a biqgr^phical work in Latin, of which the exact title
is, " "Vitas seleclorum aliquot virorum qui doctrina, ' dignitate aut
«« pielate inclaraere." The number of lives is 32, written by va
rious authors, most of whose names are prefixed. Six of thera are
anonymous. The life oi B. Gil/tin by Carleton, written in English,
was translated into Latin by Dr. Bates; and another written in,
* The whole of this sermon, containing twenty folio pages, upon John
xii, 26, is an admirable performance; particularly that part of it which re
lates to the ministerial character and duty, tt contains a number ofthe most
striking passages, and the most beautiful illustrations that are any where to
be met with. The editor takes the libeity of recoinmending the attentive
perusal of it to every christian miriister, who has Dr. S«/«'s works in his
possession, or can procure the use of them.
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French, translated by another person, at his request. The Dt.\
hariie is not in the title-page, but it is at the end of the dedication
to Lord Russel; whence it appears, from the expression " Nonullis
de novo additis," that the' he was not the a-uthor * of this work, he
made some additions to it.
St. FAITH'S UNDER St. Paul's, [R. S.]
§ Arthur Jackson, A. M. of Trin. Col. Camb, Born
at little Wdldingfield in Suffolk. His father, who was a
Spanish merchant in London, died when he was young,
and his mother who afterwards raarried Sir T, Crooke, Bart,
dying in Ireland, he was placed by his guardian, Mr, Jos.
Jac^'on oi Edmonton, under a Jutor at Cambridge, who
¦ivas so inattentive to his pupils, that any of them, as he said,
might have been for raonths absent without his knowing it.
But being, through the grace of God, of a very studious
ttirn, he was careful to improve his time to the utmost. At
that eairly period he tomraenced a habit, which he conti
nued till the time of his death, of rising at three or four o'clock
both suraraer and winter, seldora studying less than fourteen
or sixteen hours in the day. His sight was so good, even to
th6 last, that he could read the smallest Greek print without
spectacles, by moon-light. But he was so short-sighted that
he could not distinguish his friends when ha raet them in the
street; which occasioned some who did not thoroughly know
him, to accuse; him of pride, for not returning their civilities.
He continued in the college till the year 1619, when he raar
ried the eldest daughter of Mr. T. Bownert oi Stonebeiry,
Hefts, with whom he lived forty-seven years in the greatest
endearment, and by whom he had three sons and five daugh
ter's. Soon after his marriage he was chosen by the inhabitants
of St. Michael's, Wood-street, to be their lecturer, and after
the death of Mr. Brogden, called to be their pastor. When
the plague broke out ih 1624, he sent his wife and children
to her father in Hertfordshire, being determinfed to conti
nue in the city, where he discharged all the duties of a faith
ful pastor ; hazarding his own life to save the souls of his
flock, often visiting persons infected with that dreadful dis-
¦ * Pr. Calamy had mentioned this work as intitled Batesii Vitx ielecia,
(probably from the lettering on the back) which has led some to suppose
that he was the author. For this reason I have given the above circumstan-
tial-account, communicated in substance by Dr, Furneaux : and the rather as
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ease: and the Lord wonderfully preserved him frpm the in-
fectipn, when thousands fell around hira. He preached con
stantly twice on the Lord's day, and catechized the children
before sermon. He also repeated a sermon in the- evening in
his own faraily, to which raany of his hearers resorted.
During Lent he always spent sorae hours in the church two
days in the week, examining and instructiilg men and maid
servants and others, in order to prepare thera for the Lord's
Supper : and many long afterwards thankfully acknowledged
the benefit they received from his labours. He had such a
peculiar talent fpr catechizing, that he pleased as well as pro
fited ; so that many who were at first backward to attend this
service, were so rauch delighted with his serious affectionate
and familiar method of instruction, that they were eager to
enjoy the benefit of it. He likewise improved the leisure
afforded on holidays in preaching to servants and other per
sons, who were not at liberty on other days ; and his labouis
On these occasions were crowned with success in the conver
sion of many souls to God.
Not long after his coming to- London, the Cloth -workers'
Company, of which his father and uncl6 were members and
governors, chose him to be their chaplain, to whom he
t)reached once every quarter at Lamb's chapel, where also
he sometimes dispensed the coramunion, on a turn-up-table,
which was used at other tiraes for different pnrposes. Laud,
then Bishop 6f London, hearing of this, sent for Mr. Jack
son, and expressed his dislike of it; saying, ^' I know not
" what you young divines think, but for my part, I know "
*' no other place of residence that God hath on earth, but the
*' high altar :" forgetting the doctrine of scripture and of the
homily concerning the bodies and souls of true Christians, as
the special temples of God. Mr. Jackson never read, and
resolved not to read, the Book of Sports ; but through God's
providence he was preserved from being ever disturbed on
that account. Some persons complained of him to the then
Archbishop, Laud; for this omission, who answered, "Mr.
*' Jackson is a quiet peaceable raan, and therefore I will not
'' have him meddled with." Abp. Sheldon likewise passed
the like encoraiuras upon him, notwithstanding his known
difference in judgraent concerning church-government and
ceremonies. He continued many years in the rectory of St. Michael's,
though the incprae was so small that he spent 20001. of his
jOWfi during the time he was tiiere. And though he was
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cjiosen at Wapping, with the offer of 1 20l. a year, he yielded
to the request of his forraer hearers to continue with thera,
on their proraising him 100 1. per annum. But in two years
the sum fell so far short, that some of his best friends per
suaded him to accept any better situation that might be of
fered. Such a one there soon was frora the inhabitants of
iSt. Faith's, whose parish church was under St. Paul's, and
he accepted it. Here he continued preaching twice every
Lord's day, till Aug. 24. 1662, excepting about seventeen
weeks, when he was confined to the Fleet for refusing to
give evidence against Mr. Love, before what was called A
high court of Justice, who also fined hira 5001. — He paid
a special attention to young persons in private as well as iri
public, several of whom he engaged to meet every week for
player and religious conversation. He advised them to pro
pose a question at one meeting, to be discussed at the next ;
and he not only prayed with them, but directed thera how
to raanage these meetings to the best advantage, and cau
tioned them against those evils of which they raight other
wise have been productive. The benefit of them many
long remembered with pleasure and thankfulness.
"When Cliarles II. upon his restoration, made his entrance
into the city, Mr. Jackson was appointed by the rainisters to
present to hira a Bible as he passed through St. Paul's church
yard, -which was in his parish ; when he addressed his Ma,
jesty in a short congratulatory speech, which was graciously"
received'*. He was also one of the commissioners ofthe
Swvoy. After Mr. Jackson, with his brethren, was discharged from
public service, he retired first to Hadley near Bdrnet, and
afterwards to his eldest son's at Edmonton. When the
plague again broke out, sorae of his friends in the city made
hira a visit, lamenting that he had left them ; upon which he
offered to go and preach to thera again if they could procure
hira liberty ; which they promised to atterapt, but in vain.
"When the five-mile-act passed, he was rauch concerned to be
banished so far from his flock, araong whora he had laboured
forty years ; but upon prayer and serious consideration, he
could not be satisfied to coraply with the terms required, and
resolved patientiy to bear whatever might befall hira ; saying
* It ii worthy of being recorded, Tbat his Majesty, in his answer to the
address of these ministers, on this occasion, told them, " That he must at-
•• tribute his Restoration, under God, to their prayers and endeavours-'' tf
se, as Dr. C^Aimji remarks, he made them a sad return afterwards. ,
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with Luther, " I shall have a place either utlder heaven or
*' in heaven."
In the country he employed most of his tirae in compleating
his Annotations on the Bible. He had gone as far as the
3d chap, oi Jeremiah when he was called frora his labour.
His disorder was the stone in the kidneys, of which he had
before had raany sharp fits. The last suddenly seized hira as
he "Was reaching down a book frora the shelf. The stone
being by this exertion dislodged from the kidneys fixed in the
urinary passage, from whence it could never be reraoved.
For several hours it gave him exquisite pain, which after-
-waids ceased; when he compared his situation to that of a
woraan in labour, whose pains were gone off; and pointing
to the place, said to his son Haret lateris lethalis arundo.
After using the means of relief for a week, he went to his
friend Mr. Major in London, to whom his first salutation
was, " I ani come now not to preach to you, but to die
f with you." Here he received any of his friends who
wished to see him, and entertained them with such undi
sturbed discourse, that they could scarcely believe him to be
so ill as he was ; but he declared himself to be a dying man.
When he. perceived any of them weeping for hira, he told
them with a sraile, " that they were fools to weep to see an
*^ old man die." He earnestly exhorted them to practise
the things which be had taught thera, assuring them they
werethe truths of God. To some of them he expressed
much satisfaction in regard to his nonconformity ; declaring
that he had many times asked God forgiveness for his former
errors in complying too much with unwarrantable iraposi
tions. During the whole of his illness he raanifested great
serenity and composure of spirit. When his wife asked him
whether he were willing to leave her, he answered, " that
" he would not leave her for all the world ; but she could
•' not expect that after striving so long for a crovyn he should
*' be unwilling to receive it:' Having continued in London
about a week, without obtaining any relief, he returned
home; where he lived but a littie while. The night in which
he died, he called for those of his children who were then in
the house, and told them he w^s dying. He desired them to
call their mother if she were awake ; but if not, wished her
not to be disturbed. However she quickly carae, when he
spoke chearfully to her, thanked her for all her kindness,
and shewing the syraptoras of his approaching dissolution,
said, " It is hard work to die," though he made no bitter
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complaint. His death was long and lingering. He told
those who attended him, " Now this leg is dead^aIld then the
other." Having a cordial offered him, he refused to take it,
saying with a sraile, " No revivals now." Presently feeling
great violence of pain, he exclaimed, " Lord deliver me, de-
" liver rae ! for I cannot bear this," and he was graciously
heard, for he immediately expired, Aug. 5. 1666, aged 73^
just a month before the fire of London ; a calamity which,
if he had lived to see it, wou^d have too deeply affected his
spirits ; for he was a man of a very tender and compassion
ate temper ; and so fearful of giving offence, that he would
rather suffer a great injury than seem to do one. This, with
the general excellence of his character, procured the esteem
of all parties, so that a stranger once hinted to him his dan
ger of our Saviour's " woe," because " all men spake well of
" him." WORKS.— Annotations on several parts of the, Bible in 4 vrf,
4to. The last of these, on the prophecy of Isaiah, was published
by his son, who prefixed to it some memoirs of the authpr, of which
the above account is the substance. /'
St. GILES'S, Cripplegate, [V. S. 520 1.}
Samuel Annesley, L. L. D. of Sueen''s Col. Oxf. A
most sincere, godly and hurable raan. An Israelite indeed.
One that raay be said to have been sanctified from the womh,
for he was so early under serious impressions of religion, that
he declared he knew not the time when, he was unconverted.
He was descended of a good family, and his paternal estate
was considerable. His father died when he was four^ears
old, and his religious mother took great care of his education.
He was strongly inclined to the ministry from his infancy ;
,and not discouraged by an affecting dream he had while he
was a child, which was, that he was a minister, and yvas
sent for by the Bp. of Londoji to he burnt as a martyr. At
the age of fifteen he went to Oxford, and there took his de
grees at the usual times. He was ordained in 1644, as chap
lain in the ship called the Globe, under the earl of Warwick,
then lord high adrairal, who procured him his diploma, and
had an honourable certificate of his ordination, signed by
Mr. Gouge and six other respectable naraes.* The Dr.
spent some time in the fleet, and while at sea he kept a diary
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of the voyage, and is very particular as to what passed when
the earl ot Warwick went to Holland in pursuit of the ships
¦which had gone over to the prince. But, having no great '
liking to a seafaring life, he soon settled on shore, where he
exercised his ministry with raore satisfaction, and with con
siderable success.
He was first fixed at Cliff, in Kent, in the roora of a se
questered minister, whose life and conversation, as Dr. Wil
liatns affirms, was notoriously scandalous ; of whom, there
fore, the rude and ignorant people were extremely fond, and
prejudiced against his successor, whom they assaulted on his
first coming among them, with spits, forks, and stones,
threatening hira with death. But God steeled hira with such
courage, that he told thera, " Let them use him how they
would, he was resolved to continue with thera, till God had
.fitted them by his ministry to entertain a better^ who should
succeed him ; but solemnly declared, that when they became
so prepared, he would leave the place." In a few years his
labours had surprising success, so that the people were greatly
.reformed ; however, he kept his word and left thera, lest any
^seeming inconsistency of his might prove a scandal to his
;young converts. He had 400 1. per annum there, but this
was no temptation to him. When he came to the city, in
• 1657, he had two of the largest auditories to preach to, which
'were St. Paul's, where he was a lecturer, and soon after
Cripplegate, -where he was vicar. For both which places
¦he had a certificate of his qualifications from the Commis
sioners for the approbation of preachers ; f as also a con-
,firraation of his title to the latter, when, after the setting
.aside Richard C'romwell, things ran in another channel.
A few days after the date of this, K. Charles II. was voted
horae, and though upon the Restoration things put on a quite
¦different aspect, he had a presentation to the same living of
•S^ Giles's, Cripplegate, granted him by the king, bearing
date Aug. 23, 1660. But even that would not protect him
against the act for uniformity. — Dr. Walker owns, that " he
*' was a man of an unblameable life," but represents him^
on Wood's testimony, as " a person of very little learning,
" and grossly ignorant of any thing pertaining to the faculty
" in which he was raade doctor." But whatever he was as
a Civilian, his works witness for hira that he was a good di
vine, and a considerable casuist. And if Solomon's maxim
may be allowed, that " he that winneth souls is wise," Dr.
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Annesley itivistht owned to have been one of more thancotn-
nion wisdom. [Nor is there arty prPof of his deficiency ift
general literature. His works abound -with leamed quo
tations and references. See particulariy his sermons in the
Morning Exercises. ]
He had a large soul and a flaming zeal, and his use*
fulness was very extensive. He had the care of all the
churches upon him, and waS the chief, often the sole instru
ment in the education and subsistence of several rainisters, of
¦whose useful labours the church had otherwise been deprived.
Of all gifts, salary and incomes, he always laid aside the
tenths for charity, even before any part was spent. Bythis
means he had a fund always at hand for chatitable uses, be
sides what others furnished him with, for the same purposes,
' to whom he was a faithful alraonei'. He was the main sup
port of the Morning Lecture * for which so raany have cause
to be riiankful to God ; and after the death of old Mr. Case^
he took the care of it upon himself.
* As this Lecture is so often referred to in this work, some account of it
may be acceptable. Its origin, according to Mr, Neal was this. Most of the
citizens in London having some relation or friend in the army of the earl of
Essex, so many bills were sent up to the pulpit every Lord's day for their pre
servation, that the ministers had not time to notice them in prayer, or even to
read tbem. It was therefore agreed to set apart an hour at seven o'clock every
morning, half of it to be spent in prayer for the welfare of the public, as well
as particular cases, and the other in exhortations to the people. Mr, Case
began it in his church in Milk-street, from whence it was removed to other
distant churches in rotation, a month at each, A number of the most emi
nent ministers conducted this service, in turn, and it was attended by great
crowds of people, Aftertheheatof the war was over, itbecame, what was cal
led a Casuistical Lecture, and continued till the Restoration, The sermons
were published in six volumes in quarto. Neal's Hist. Turit. vol, 1, 797 4to.
These Lectures treat on a variety of useful subjects, practical as well as
doctrinal, in answ er to questions pioposed, and some of them on cases of
conscience ; but they are all founded on texts of scripture, in the form of
sermons. They arc now little known, but are more valuable than is gene
rally supposed. The auiliors vvere the most eminent preachers in their day.
It is worthy of notice, that in one of the volumes, (vvhich are not numbered,
nor uniform,) there is a discourse by Mr. 7-(//o/o»n, afterwards Abp. of Canter
bury, vvho then ranked with the Nonconformists, It is iu answer to the
question, " Wherein lies that exact righteousness which is required between
" man and man?" Mat. vii, 12, See No, X, in the volume of which the
preface is dated Nov. 14, 16fil, 4th edit. Most of these Lectures are much
longer than could have been delivered in half an hour. It appears that they
Were held every morning for one month only, and from the preface to the
vol, dated 1689, the time was afterwards contractert to a fortnight,- Most of
these were delivered at Cri/ililegate church, some at St, Giles's, and a volume
against Pppery in Smtlitvark. Mr. Neal observes that this Lecture was after
wards revived in a different foim, and continued in his day. It was kept
up long afterwards, at several places in the summer, a week, at each place,
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Hi's nonconformity created him troubles, hut no inward
uneasiness. God often remarkably appeared for him. One
person died as he was signing a warrant to apprehend him.
He never feared the utmost malice of any of his eneraies, and
nodiing tiiat he met with frora men abated his chearfulness,
[Under every affliction, before he would speak of it, or use
any means to redress it, he spread It before God in prayer ;
which enabled hira, though a most affectionate husband, to
bear the news of his wife's death with such composure, as
calmly to say, " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken
" away, blessed be the name ofthe Lord."] He had unin
terrupted peace in his spirit, and assurance of God's' covenant
l-ove, for the last thirty years of his life, though for several
years before he walked in darkness. In his last illness he was
full of comfort. " Blessed be God, said he, I have been
" faithful in the work of the ministry above fifty-five years."
During seventeen weeks pain, though he had before enjoyed
an uniitterrupted course of health, he never discovered the
least degree of impatience. He chearfully resigned his soul
to God Dec. 31. 1696. aged 77. His funeral' sermon was
preached by Dr. Dan. Williams.^
§ The celebrated Mr. John Wesley was his grandson, who
discovered great veneration for him, and has introduced some
of his writings into his Cliristian Library.' See. vol, 44.
Two sermons ascribed to him, vol. 36. and 38. were not his,
but Mr. Kitchen's and Mr, Pool's. The meeting-house in '
which Dr. Annesley preached was in Little St, Helen's,
Bishopsgate-street, where Mr. Woodward succeeded him,
and where the worthy Mr. Godwin was afterwards raany
years minister. It was in this place that the firslt public or
dination-service araong the protestant dissenters was per
forraed. Dr. Calamy was one of the ministers then or
dained t. Mr. Annesley was the author of the following
WORKS. A Fun. Serm. for Mr. Whitaler.—i:Ve Life of Mr.
T. Brand, with his Fun. Serm, — Pref, to Mr. Aikin's Instructions
* As Dr, Calamy refers to Turner's Hist, of Prov. for a copy of his will
cne mighthave expected something in it eitlier interesting or curious; but
there is neither. Excepting the preamble, it contains bnt two lines. It it
^ated March 29, 1693, Nonon Falgate.
^- This place lieing conveniently situated, a number of Lectures were for
many years carried on here j and among the rest, Mr, Coward's Friday-Lec
ture. This ancient building was lately pulled down, the congregation being
extinct. The last sermon ever preached in it was by the writer of this notp,
on Friday, May 15, 1795, who could not but feel some painful sensations up-
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about Heart-work. — Another (witii Dr. Owen) to E. Cole's Disc, oil
God's Sov.— A Serm. before the House of Com. 1648. One at.
St. Paul's, on Communion with God,— A Serm. at Laivrence Jury
to the Gentiemen of Wilts.— Fi-ve Sermons in the Morning Exer
cises. He was the Editor of four of those volumes, and wrote a
preface to each of them, which discover a warm zeal for the best
interests of mankind.
Mr. Samuel Statham, of Christ-Church, Oxford, was
assistant to Dr. Annesley, and was ejected with him. Upon
the tuin of the times, he was offered a good 'living in the
church, by the Huntingdon family, (in which his father had
been steward) if he would have conformed ; but he preferred
sufferings and reproach with a good conscience ; and he was
indeed a considerable sufferer for nonconformity. He was
two years and nine months in the jail at Leicester, where it
pleased God to make him of great use to several of the prii-
soners, for he ordinarily preached to them every Lord's day.
There was one in particular who was sentenced to death for
murder, with wljom. he took much pajns, and who, when
he was going tp^ execution, erabraced Mr. Statham with
tears, returned him his hearty thanks, and with great com
posure of mind signified to him, that though raan would not
grant a reprieve, he humbly hoped that God had granted a
pardon. There -was another who (as afterwards appeared)
died innocenriy, who by his faithful endeavours was so con
vinced of the evil of sin, that he could not be prevailed upon
to confess himself guilty, though he had a fair prospect of
thereby saving, his life.
Mr. Statham soon after his enlargement, was invited to
Banbury in Oxfordshire, where he for sorae years preached
privately, with great success, and where his name was long
revered and loved. His health was rauch impaired inconse
quence of his imprisonment. Upon a journey towards
Loughborough to see his mother and his son, he took cold^
and could get no further than Preston in Northamptortf,
sftire, where he was confined to his bed at Mr. Butler's,'
and died in a few days, 1685. [A grandson of his, educated
under Mr. Jennings at Kibworth, was a dissenting minister
at Loughborough, and was living at Nottingham till 1780.
A remarkably conscientious man.]
Mr. Henry Arnould was ejected from the Lectureship •
in this parish, of St. Giles's. He was also Rectoi- of Brom-
ley in Kent.
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ST. GEORGE'S, Southwark. [R. caol.]
Henry Jessey, M. A. Oi St. John's Col. Camb. Aa
account of his life and death was published in 1671, from
whence it appears that he was born Sept. 3, 1601 , at West
Rowton, in Yorkshire, near Cleveland, where his father
was minister. He was carefully educated by his parents till
he was seventeen years of age, when he went to the univer
sity ; where after four years diligent study, it pleased God to
work a renewing change upon his heart, by the ministry of
the word, whereby he was fitted for the employment for
which God designed him, and to which he himself was
greatly inclined. Upon the death of his father, who had
supplied him according to his ability, he was so straitened as
not to have above threepence a ilay ; and yet so did he raa
nage that sraall pittance, as to spare part of it for hiring
books. He continued six years in the university, and often
used to recollect the benefit of his well-spent tirae there, with
great thankfulness to God. He became well versed in the
Hebrew tongue, and the writings of the Rabbles. He also
understood Syriac and Chaldee.
He removed irom Cambridge in 1624, (though he oftea
went at term-time till he took his degree of A- M,) and was
first entertained by old Mr. Brampton Gu,rdon, oi Assing-
ton in Suffolk. In his faraily he continued about nine years,
improving his time well ; and araong ibther studies, applied
hiraself to physic. In 1627 he took orders frora the bishop,
but was afterwards much concerned for the engageraents
which he thereby came under. He preached about the
neighbourhood as he was invited, and distributed a number
of good practical books among the poor. He had several
offers of a settlement, liut listened to none of them, till in
the year 1633 he was called to Aughton, nine miles from
York, to succeed Mr. Alder, who was removed from thence
for nonconformity. Mr. Jessey was not likely to continue
there long, since he durst not conform even so far as Mr.
Alder had done. Accordingly the next year he was ejected
for not using the ceremonies, and for taking down a crucifixi
But he was not useless in God's vineyard, for Sir M. Boyn-
ton, of Barneston, in Yorkshire, entertained him to preach
there and at Rowsby, a place not far distant.
In 1635 he removed with Sir Matthew to London, and
the next year fo Hedgeley-house, near Uxhridge, where he
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had not been long before he was earnestly importuned to take
the charge of the congregation of whicli Mr. Henry Jacob
and Mr. John Lathorp had been pastors, which was gathered
by Mr. Jacob, in 1616.* After much consideration and
prayer, though he had formed a design of going to New
England, he accepted their call about Midsummer, 1637,
and continued araong them till his death.
[Candour, and indeed justice, oblige the editor to insert
the following extract from this good man's life, respecting
his sentiments about Baptism, of which the author had taken
no notice. — Some of his chmch becoming Baptists, left it
the year after his settiing araong them ; and soon after, a
greater nuraber of persons, of considerable note, embraced
¦ the same opinion. This put Mr. Jessey upon studying the
controversy. The result was, that he hiraself also altered
his sentiraents ; but not without great deliberation, raany
prayers, and frequent conferences with pious and learned raen
of diflFerent persuasions. His first conviction was about the
•mode of baptism. Though he continued two or three years
to baptise children, he did it by immersion. About 1644
the controversy about the subjects of baptism was revived in
his 'church, when several of them gave up infant-hai^tism,
as did Mr. Jessey himself. However, before he would abso-
iutely determine on the point, and practise accordingly, he
resolved to consult with several learned and judicious raini
sters, V. g. Dr. Goodwin, Mr. Nye, Mr. Burroughs, Mr.
Craddock, &c. but these giving him no satisfaction, in June
1645, he subfiiitted to iraraersion, which was perforraed by
Mr. Hanserd KnoUys. And it proved no sraall honour and
advantage to the Baptists to have such a raan araong them, f
But notwithstanding his differing from his brethren in this,
or any other point, he raaintained the sarae christian love and
charity to all saints as before, not only as to friendly conver
sation, but also in regard to church-coraraunion, and took
great pains to promote the same catholic spirit among others.
He diviiled his labours in the ministry according to the
eatholocisra of his principles. Every Lord's day afternoon
he was araong his own people. In the morning he usually
preached at St. Giiorge's church, Southwark, and once in
* SeeNeafs History. Vol, 1, p, 100 and 800,
•f- Mr, Neale,ia h\s account of the matter, (which differs from the above)
remarks, " Thus a foundation was laid for the first Baptist congregation I
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the week day at Ely-house, artd in the /5'a»oy to the woUnded
Soldiers.} Besides his constant labours in the rainistry, he took great
pains for many years in raaking a new translation of the Bible,
in which he called in the assistance of raany learned raen at
horae and broad. This he made the master-study of his life,
and would often cry out, " Oh that I might see this done
" before I die !" It was almost corapleated, but the great
turn to public affairs at the restoration caused this noble de
sign to prove abortive.] To shew the necessity of araendlng-
the common translation, he observed that, (as Dr. Hill de
clared In a great assembly,) Abp. Bancroft, who was a su
pervisor of this work, altered it in fourteen places to raake it
speak the prelatical language.*
Mr. Jessey chose a single life, that he might be the more
entirely devoted to his sacred work, and the better enabled
to do good. Besides his own alms, he was a constant soli
citor and agent for the poor with others, who, he- knew,
were able to supply their wants. For this end he always
carried about with hira a list of the naraes of the greatest
objects of charity known to him, with their afflictions, ne
cessities, and characters affixed. Above thirty families had
all their subsistence from him. [Nor did he limit his charity
to those of his own congregation or opinion ; he did good to
all. And where he thought it no charity to give, he would
lend, without interest or security. One of the most re
markable instances of his charity, which was perhaps with
out precedent, was that which he shewed to the poor Jews
at Jerusalem, who, by reason of a war between the Swedes
and Poles, (A. D. 1657) vvere reduced to great extremity ;
their chief means of subsistence, frora their rich brethren in
Other countries being hereby cut off^ Mr. Jessey collected
for thera 300 \. and with it sent letters with a view to their
conversion to Christianity ; the copies of which raay be seen
in his life.
It is easy to suppose that a raan of his character must be
crowded with visitors of various kinds. He resolved how
ever to have tirae for his devotions and studies ; and as he
hated idle talk and fruitless visits, he took all possible raeans
* Dr. Smith also, who was one of the Translators of the Bible, and wrote
the preface, who was afterwards bishop of Gloucester, complained to a mini
ster pf that county, of the Archbishop's unwarrantable alterations. " But
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to avoid them. One was this : he put over his study-door,
where he usually received his visitors, this writing :
Amice, auisauis huc ades;
Aut Agito pauCis; aut abi;
Aut me laborantEm adjuva.
•Whatever friend comes hither.
Dispatch in brief, or go.
Or help me busied too. H. J.
During the time that episcopacy was laid aside in England
Mr. Jessey was in high esteem, and free from the persecu
tions which the Baptists too generally suffered. But before
and after that period, he shared the sufferings of the noncon
formists.] On Feb. 21, 1637, he and a number of others
being met together to wrorship God, the greatest part of theni
tvere seized and carried away from Slueenhiihe by the bi
shop's pursuivants ; and they met with the like disturbance.
May following, in another place. In Nov. 1639, he was
sent by the congregation into Wales to assist old Mr. Wroth,
Mr. Cradock arid others, in gathering a church in Llanfaches
\gL. Monmouthshire. On April 21, 1640, he with agreat
liUraber of the raerabers of several congregations, being raet
together upbn Tower-hill, to seek God by fasting and prayer,
were interrupted by the pursuivants, and imprisoned in the
Tower by Sir W. Balfore; who soon released them; they
being bound over by Abp. Laud to answer at the next ses-
iSions. They appeared there, but were never called, the pro-
isecutors not thinking it advlseable to proceed. On Aug.
ez, 1641, he, with five of his congregation, were seized by
otder of the lord mayor, and comraitted prisoners to Wood-
"street compter, when they appealed to parliament, and were
soon released.
Upon the restoration he was ejected from his living at St,
George's, and silenced from his ministry. On Nov, 27,
1661, he was seized, and kept in the messenger's hands, but
released by the privy council, after a month's wrongful re-
straintl Aug. 30, 1662, he was again apprehended, upon
misinformation, and secured six months in the messenger's
house, till by an order of council he was again released, on
Feb. 20. following*. About five or six months after his re
lease, he fell Into his last sickness ; but neither he nor they
that were about him apprehended his death to be so near as
* Crosiy says, (vol, 1, p, 230,) thathe died in prison: but thisis incon
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it really was. However, the good 'man fell presently to the
triraraing of his larap, as diligently as if God had expressly
told him of his approaching end. He spent his last days and
nights in searching his heart, humbling his soul, extolling-
free grace, and exhorting all about him to keep close to
God, to persevere in the faith, and prepare for trials: adding
for their encouragement, the long experience he had had of
the goodness ofthe Lord in all times and conditions. The last
evening but one before his departure, haying a raind to walk,
he was led about the roora, and often repeated this expres
sion, " God is good: he doth not lead rae whither , I would
not, as he did Peter : good is the Lord to rae." Being soon
tired, he sat down on his bed, and one who sat by him said,
" They araong whom you have laboured can witness, that
you have been a faithful servant of Christ, making his glory
your utmost end, for the good of their souls." But he re
plied, " Say no more of that ; exalt God, exalt God." He
spent the first part of his last night in blessing God, and sing,.
ing praises to his name, and fell asleep about eleven o'clock.
Waking again between two and three, he fell into a wonder
ful strain of abasing himself, and admiring the love of God,
*' that he should chuse the vilest, the unworthiest, and the
basest," which last word he repeated raany times, and then
cried out, " Oh the unspeakable love of God, that he should
reach me when I could not reach him!" And when the cordial
ordered for that night was brought, he said, "Trouble me
not; upon your peril, trouble rae not." He was then as if
the had seen some glorious vision, or had been in a rapture.
In this his last night he -was not unmindful of those who
¦were his daily care, viz. the widows and fatherless, whom he
spake of with pity, in a low lamenting voice, and the by
standers judged he was praying for them. Then he desired
one present to pray with him ; during which time he was
still, and seemed afterwards much refreshed. He repeated
Joel ii. 28. and bid them turn to several other texts that he
mentioned ; and as he lay, he often called out, " more julep,"
meaning more passages of scripture ; for he drank in iriuch
consolation frora the exceeding great and precious proraises
therein contained, and continued to his last gasp praising
God. The last words he was heard to speak were these :
" He counted rae worthy." And when the sound of his
words ceased, his lips were observed still to raove, and he
seeraed to be inwardly arloring that God whom in his health
he served, feared and praised, and made his boast of conti-
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nually ; whose law he preached, and whose goodness he
proclaimed. Such was his habitual sense of the goodness of
God, that when he raet an acquaintance it was a coraraon
thing for him, (after the usual salutations) to say, " Verily
God is good, blessed be his name : stick to hira," He died
Sept. 4, i'663, aged 63, laraented by persons of diff'erent
persuasions, several thousands of whom attended his funeral,
from Woodraonger's Hall, Duke' s-place.
His Epitaph.
Post varios casus, et per dispendia vita?
Pluriraa, devictus hostibus, ille jacet.
Sub tumulo, invlctus victor, sub pace triumphans
Praemia virtutis possidet ille su2e
Cymba fides, remlque preces, suspiria venti
Cum quibus Elysiis per Styga fertur agris.
Thus translated :
Frora storras of danger, and frora seas of grief
Safe landed, Jessey finds a blest relief.
The grave's soft bed his sacred dust contains,
And with its God the soul in bliss reraains.
Faith was his bark, incessant Prayers his oars,
And Hope his gale ; that frora these raortal shores
Thro' death's rough wave to heav'n his spirit bore,
T'enjoy his triuraph, and to sigh no more.
Mr. Obadiah, Wills, who wrote with great warmth against
his particular opinions, speaks of him in the following terms :
— " That raan of God, Mr. Jessey, an an'ti-peedobaptist of
long standing ; as holy I conceive as any ; of good learning,
and a very tender conscience ; of a healing and uniting spi
rit : I wish there were raore such anti-padobapiisis as he."
— He was so great a scripturist, that if one began to rehearse
any passage, he could go on with it, and narae the book,
chapter, and verse where it ir.ight be found. The original
languages of the Old and New Testaraent were as farailiar
to him as his raother tongue.
WORKS. A Store-house of Provision ; in sundry Cases of Con
science. — A Scripture Calendar, from 1645 to 1660, designed to
restore the knowledge of the Scripture Hours, Days, &c. — The
Glory and Salvation of Judah and Israel, to reconcile Jews and
Christians in the faith ofthe Mes.siah ; and a De.scrjption oi Jerusa
lem.— An Easy Catechism for Children ; in which the Answers are
.wholly in the 11)07 Js of Scrijiture. — The exceeding riches of Grace in
Mrs. Sarah Wright. -r-The Lord's loud Call to England. — Miscellanea
Sacra, or divers pecessary Truths. — A Looking-Glass for Children,
 He

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 He was chiefly concerned in the English-Greei-Lexicon, 1661 ;
containing the derivations and significations of all the words iji the
N. Test. An epistle of his is prefixed to it.
St. GEORGE'S (or St. THOMAS's,) Southwark.*
John Biscoe, B. A. Of New Inn Hall, Oxf. born at
High Wycomb, Bucks. He was assistant to the Commis
sioners of Surrey for ejecting scandalous and insufficient mi
nisters. Mr. Wood says, " those called scandalous," &c.
But it falls out unhappily for him and those of his starap, that
they were not only called but proved such before their ejec
tion. A certain writer of their own, (a raighty royalist too.
and a considerable sufferer in that cause) in a book cora-
mended by Dr. Hammond, has these rera'&rkable words: "I
fear if the martyrology even of these suffering times were
scanned, Venus and Bacchus would be found to have many
more martyrs than God and loyalty." — Mr. Biscoe died in
1679, and was buried at his native place Jujie 9.
WORKS. The glorious Mystery of God's Mercy, &c. — Grand
Trial of true Conversion; or Grace acting chiefly in the Thoughtsi
Sermons on 2 Cor. x, 5. — Mystery of free Grace in the Gospel.—.
And soijie other small tracts,
ST. HELEN'S, [V. S..90I.]
Mr. ArthuS. Barham. Born at Buckstead in Sus
sex, Nov. 28, 1.618. He was first designed for the la-w ;
but upon his father's death, not being satisfied with that
profession, he sold his law-books, and went to Cam
bridge, where he studied divinity with great diligence
and delight. When he left the university, he was first
chosen lecturer of St, Olave's in Southrifiark ; from
whence he reraoved to this living, to which he was pre
sented by Sir John Langham, who was his relation, by
marriage. There he continued about ten years, preaching
with good success, till his ejectment in 1662. He then re
moved with his family to H<^<^kney, where he continued
till the five-mile-act passed, when he left his family, and re
tired into Sussex. Upon the Indulgence, in 1672, he took out
a licence, and preached in his own house twice every Lord's-
day, catechized in the afternoon, and expounded sorae por
tion of scripture in the evening. Besides which, he preached
a lecture every Friday, catechized two days in a week, and
, * Some of his publications mentirfn him as minister of St. Thomas's ia
5655-. But it is probable he Was ejected from St. George's,
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performed family duty every morning and evening in two,
and sometimes iri three, farailies besides his own. But this
was not suffered long ; for no sooner was the king's Declara
tion recalled than he was inforraed against, and his goods
were seized till he had paid a considerable fine. About six
weeks after, a second warrant was issued out against hini,
though he had not preached since the first. But being be
loved by his neighbours, they apprized him of it, so that he
removed his goods to London, and took lodgings. Not
long after, he was, seized with apoplectic fits, which took
away his raeraory, and quite disabled hira for farther service.
For the two last years of his life, he lived with his son-in-
law. Mr. John Clark, bookseller in the city, and exchanged
this life for a better, March 6, 1692, aged 74. He was a
sincere, godly, humble man ; of a mild and peaceable dis
position ; and was generally beloved by those that knew
him.
ST. JOHN BAPTIST. [R.]
Mr. Peter Witham.
ST. JOHN the Evangelist. [C.*]
Robert Tatnal, M. A. Of Trin. Col. Camb. ot
which he became fellow. He had his grammar-learn
ing at Westminster school. He made an excursion out
-of the college, for a yeaf, to Coventry, where he was
employed in expounding the scripture in Dr. Grew'&
church, and in teaching the free-school under Mr. Frank-
land; in both which undertakings he acquitted hiraself
adrairably well, and would not have reraoved, had they
afforded hira suitable encourageraent. He was not loi^ig
after chosen to this parish, as a successor to Mr. Walker.
Being ejected thence, he engaged in a school, and took great
and successful pains in instructing youth, when he could no
longer teach men. For the grace of his profession, his friends
obtained for him his majesty's mandate, for the degree of
D. D. to the university of Cambridge, hoping that hereby
he might be excused from the usual Subscriptions, which
his conscience could not adrait of. But sOrae litigious peo
ple had their eyes upon him ; and after the grace was past,
called for the book of subscriptions, when not finding his
name there, they stopt his admission ; upon which he was
fprced to return re infecta ; not the worse man, but, upon a
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new triarl, the more firm to his principles. He lived some
time after this, though sine titulo aut phaleris, to be useful
in his school. He had great skill in vocal and instrumental
music, which reiidered him acceptable to many of the gentry
in and about the city. — He published nothing but a discourse
on the fear of death.
ST. JOHN, Wapping, [R. 1301.]
Mr. Johnson. An excellent useful preacher, and a man
of good learning.
ST. JOHN ZACHARY, [R. S.]
Mr. Ralph Strethill.
Mr. Charles Humphreys was ejected from this lectureship.
Probably he was the person mentioned as Rector of North
Cleobury, Salop.
ST. KATHERINE'S, Coleman-street, [R, S. iiol. 35.]
Mr. Joseph Church. A worthy man, and of good sub
stance till the fire of London consuraed it. Afterwards he had
but little to subsist upon ; and having raany children, was in
great straits. He had considerable offers if he would have
conforraed ; but he chose to remain a poor Nonconforraist,
lather than hazard the peace of his conscience. Mr. Papil-
lon and his lady were great friends to hira after his ejectment.
WORKS. -The Christian's Daily Monitor to personal and re
lative Duties ; with a resolution of some Cases of Conscience : for
the benefit of young Persons.
ST. KATHERINE'S in the tower. [Collegiate Chapel.)
Mr. Samuel Slater, senior. § No other account is
prociired of him than what may be learned of his disposition
and strain of preaching frora his farewell serraon, of which
the text is i John v. 1. and at. Whosoever beiieveth that
Jesus is the Chri.it is born of God, and he that loveth him
that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him. Little
children keep yourselves from idols. The discourse is plain
and practical, addressed to the conscience. But the raost re
markable part of it is the conclusion.—" And now yet one
word more. I would not occasion any discomposure of
spirit that is not becoming you ; but this I must say — For
ought I know you have the words of a dying man ; and we
use to say, that the words of dying men are apt to make a
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be so, I hope there would be cause of rejoicing on my part :
but I speak the words of a dying man in respect ofthe mi
nisterial ofiice. I suppose you all know, the Act come forth
by supreme authority ; and it is not for us to quarrel at -all
with it, but to submit, so far as we can with a good con
science ; and there being many injunctions that many besides
myself cannot coraply with, therefore we are willing to sub
mit to the penalty inflicted. — You have for many years had
the benefit of my poor labours. I have fulfilled near forty
years (with you) ,and have performed my service to God,
Christ and his people : I bless his name, not without ac
ceptance and success. My work, so far as I know, in this
weekly course, is now at an end. My desire is that you
whose hearts have been inclined to wait upon God In the
way of my ministry, may be kept faithful to God, and that
you may have the blessing of the everlasting covenant upon
your souls : that you raay [experience] the power of this
doctrine held forth in this serraon, upon your hearts : that as
you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, you
may carry it suitably to your profession : that you m&y walk
in love to God, love to Christ, and love to one another :
that you may labour to manifest a noble generous spirit, in
overcoming the world, in [regard to] errors, corruptions,
false doctrines, and unwarrantable worship: that you. raay in
all things labour to approve yourselves. And little children
keep yourselves from idols. Amen!"
Mr. Hodges was ejected from the same place. A very
grave and useful man.
Mr. Kentish likewise was ejected froin hence, of w|iom
no account is to be obtained.
ST. LAWRENCE, Poultney, [Perp. C]
Thomas Wadsworth, M. A. Fel. oi Christ's Col. Camb.
Born in St. Saviours, Southwark. He was so weak in the
first month of his life, that he was given over for dead ; but
by a wonderful providence was on a sudden recovered. At
Cambridge he was under the tuition of Dr. Outram, who
had a great esteem for him to his dying day. He gained
great respect by his collegiate exercises, and raade good pro
ficiency in that learning and spiritual knowledge, which
tended to proraote his future usefulness in the service ofGod
and his church. And he was useful even while at the col
lege. [He encouraged associations among the students, with
a view to promote real godliness, lie observed in his col-
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lege a young sdholar of good abilities and good temper, but
destitute of religion, witli whom he took great pains to bring
him to attend to the concerns of his soul. Soon after, this
youth fell sick, andsent for Mr. Wadsworth, lamented his
former conduct, thanked him for his kindness, and begged
the continuance of it. It pleased God that he died, and died
comfortably ; giving good evidence of a work of grace
wrought upon him.] Mr. Wadsworth being called away from
college on occasion of his father's illness and deatii, he em
ployed his talents near home, as opportunities offered, and
gave evident proof of his excellent gifts.
On the death of Mr. Moreton, he was fixed in tbe rectory
oi Newington Butts, Feb. 16, 1652; though about that time
he was chosen fellow of Christ's College. In his settlement
here, it was very remarkable, that the parishioners were di
vided into two parlies, and both of them upon the vacaiicy
went with their petitions to Westminster, neither knowing
the other's mind, and he was the person pitched upon by
both. Here he not only preached constaritly, but zealou,sly
taught all his people from house to house. He gave Bibles
to the poor, and expended his estate, as well as his time, in
works of charity among them. And it pleased God to give
him abundant success. But in Aug. 1660, he resigned this
living to Mr. J. Meggs, who pretended to be the legal
rector ; though before he died he acknowledged his claim
unjust, Mr. Wadsworth however did not live useless ; for
besides his lecture on Saturday raornings at St. Antholine's,
and for sorae tirae on Lord's day evenings, and on Monday
¦nights, at St. Margaret's, Fish-street, (where he had a
great concourse of hearers) he was chosen by, the parish of
ijt. Lawrence Poultney. He was also a lecturer of St. Jphn
Baptist. His parishioners desired hira to give thera a serraon
on the Saturday night, before the day on which the Uni
formity-act was to take place, and he complied, though they
did not raake the raotion till he was that day at dinner. They
named a text, which was Mal, ill. 16. and taking a little tirae
for meditation in private, he preached a farewell serraon up
on it.* This was no very difficult thing to hira, who, if he
¦had but tirae for a little premeditation, was never at a loss for
words in his master's work. — He was indeed an extraordinary
person ; of singular ability, judgment, and piety ; wholly de
voted to God, and to do good; and did not care for convei-
* That afterwards mentioned, appears to have been delivered at Newing
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sing with the rich, unless they could be prevailed upon tobe
free in acts of charity. He would reprove sin in any person
of whatever rank, but with much prudence, and also with
great candour ; which he took pains to promote in others :
for which end he used often to give this rule: " If a good
sense can be put upon what another says or does, never take
it in a bad one." — He was always serious, though frequently
chearful, and was reraarkable for sanctifying the Sabbath.
It was his usual practice, for raany years, as soon as he was
out of his bed on the Lord's day, with a chearful heart and
voice, to sing part of a psalra or hymn, or repeat the accla
mation of the heavenly host, " Glory to God in the highest,
on earth peace, good-will towards men," in order to put
himself into a spiritual frame for the wor.k of the day. And
in his family his heart was greatly raised in singing psalms.
He used often to say to his wife and other relatives, " Don't
you find a sweetness in this day ? Certainly it is the sweetest
day in all the week !" He was a raighty man in prayer, and
often admonished his friends to watch for opportunities to
seek God in private. In all his relations he was greatly be
loved, and singularly useful.
When he was ejected, the lamentations of thepeople would
have raelted any corapassionate heart. At their desire, he
preached privately to one congregation at Newington, and
another at Theobalds, by turns, without taking any salary
frora either. He had afterwards a fixed congregation in
Southwark, where, as his health required hira to be much
in the country, Mr. Parsons was his assistant, and he dit.
vided his labours between the two congregations. — His cha
rity to his distressed brethren in the ministry was great. He
made collections for thera both at Southwark. and Theobalds;
and he had a singular faculty to dispose his hearers to give
liberally. When in perfect health he was thoughtful of
changes, and often prayed that God would prepare hlin and
his for sickness and death. About half a year before his last
illness he had an exceeding sharp pain ; but said, when it
was over, that " he would not have been without it, to have
been without those joys he felt under It." For many years
he performed his hard but pleasing work, under a sore dis
order from the stone in his reins, whiclv at last brought him
to his end. After preaching his last sermon, he endured a
week of extreme pain both night and day, in which he pos
sessed his soul In morethan ordinary patience. His pains re
turning after some interval of ease, he said, " Ah, vile sin
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ner; God Is carrying rae back again Into the wilderness to
afflict rae." When his pains were sharpest, he said, " I am
in an agony, but not a bloody one ; what are all my pains
to what Christ underwent for me!" The evening before he
died, Mr. Bragg~^e asked hira how he did? He answered, " I
have been under a very sharp rod, but It was what my hea
venly father laid upon rae ; for he has said, " As many as I
love, I rebuke and chasten. That (said he) is a paradox to
the world j but everlasting arms are underneath me ; and I
bless God he hath taken all the terror of death quite away
from rne.'' He said to Mr. Parsons, his fellow-labourer,
*' All ray self-righteousness I disown; and I trust only in
Christ, and hope I have a gospel-righteousness." When one
asked hira if he had not the testimony of a good conscience ?
he replied, " 1 have served God in sincerity, and can truly
say, I have believed, and therefore have I spoken," When
those about him pitied hira in his agonies, he repeated that
text, ' The heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger
intermeddleth not with his joy.' — " You know (says he)
what ray pains are, but you know not what ray consolations
are. O how sweet will my glory and triuraph be after these
sharp pains!" When his relations -vvept about hira, he was
displeased, saying, " What! are you troubled that God is
calling horae his children ? If you think I ara afraid of death,
you are mistaken ; for I have no fear of death upon rae."
And under his sharpest pains, no other language carae from
his hps but this : " Father, pity thy child." He died on the
Lord's day, Oct. ag, 1676, aged only 46, about three week?
after his reraoval frora Theobalds, Mr. Bragge preached
his funeral sermon, on Ps, xxxvii. 37.
§ Mr. Wadsworth's farewell sermon, printed In the Col
lection, is on Rev, ii. 5. A pathetic, and apparently ex-
teraporary discourse, inaccurately taken. Having shewn
the danger and the dreadful consequence of being deprived
of the gospel, he represents the necessity of speedy repent
ance in order to prevent it, and in a very earnest affectionate
manner urges it upon his hearers of all classes ; solemnly re
minding thera that this would probably be the last time that
he should ever address them, or enter that pulpit. "God
*' grant," says he, " chat they who come after me, may ex-
" ceed me in this work," Having urged various motives
for repentance, he mentions the aweful woe denounced
against them that neglect the divine raessage. " It was one
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" from Jerusalem, because the people would not hearken
•' to the messages they delivered. Read Matt, xxiii, 37 —
" 39. 0 Jerusalem, &c." Having descanted on this pas
sage, especially the lait verse, ye shall not see me hence
forth till ye shall say, blessed is he that cometh in the
name of the Lord, he closes with the following advices.
" Take heed of a blind, idle, drunken minister. Keep
" such an one if you can, out of your parish. If yoa
" cannot, take heed how you hear him, though I would
" not have you to be quarrelsome. Those that live under
" such a rainistry generally grow more wicked, and their
" hearts raore hardened. Rather hazard yaur purses than
*' your souls. — Take heed of -wicked, and profane corapany :
" they will terapt you to be like thera. Be sure you ply
" the corapany of those that are of a tender heart. Birds of
" a feather will flock together. — Lastiy, Let the Bible be
" rauch in your hands, and let God see you much in your
" closets.,"
WORKS. Discourse of the Immortality ofthe Soul.— Faith's
Triumph* over the Fears of Death, a pract. Improv. of the for
mer. — Short Catechism of 12 Questions. — Serious Exhortation to
a holy Life; or the, necessity of inherent Righteousness. — Separa
tion yet no Schism, in answ. to a Serm. bef. the Ld. Mayor bj
J.S 1675. — His Last Warning to secure Sinners, being his two
last Sermons ; with a large Fief&ce by Mr. Baxter. — 2 Serm. in
Morn, Ex, — Collect, of Meditat, on Lord's Supper,— Pious Letters
when a Student at Cambridge. — Practical Sermons. — Hymns and
Poems. — Serious Exhort, to Self. Exam. — After his death, his Re
mains. — His Life also was published, containing his Diary.
ST. LEONARD'S, Foster-lane. [R.J
James-Nalton, M. a. § Dr. ThomasHorion, in his fune
ral sermon for him say's, " That his first work in the ministry
" was in the place to which he hiraself stood related*, where
" he was assistant to his predecessor, then past labour, Mr.
" Richard Conder, and that he discharged his work so well,
" that he was exceedingly beloved by Mr. Conder, and by
*' the parish, as well as in other places : that he left such
" good irapressions, and laid so good a foundation, that he
" himself thought it a great advantage to succeed him :
" That he was called into the country, where he did much
" good, viz. at Rugby, in Warwickshire ; but that for
" sorae occasion he returned into the city, and came to this
" place, (m Foster-lane) where he continued about eigh- '
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5' teen or nineteen yeare, discharging the woi k of the Lord
*' carefully, and maintaining such a carriage as to have a
" testiraony in the consciences of his hearers, to whora the
" words of Paul might be addressed, i Thess. ii. lo — 12."
Dr. Hort07i says, " He could give large accounts of Mr.
" Nalton, and ample testimonies to him, from his own
" knowledge, having been acquainted with him many years,
*' but apprehended it needless in that place." What he
further says of his character, coincides with Dr. Calamy's
account, who mentions some further anecdotes concerning
him, §
He was concerned in what was called Love's plot, on ac
count of which he fled over to HollaTid with Mr. T. Cawton.
The English church at Rotterdam being then destitute of a
minister, they were both desired to take the charge of it,
wliich they accepted. Mr. Cawton continued in it to the
day of his death. But Mr. Nalton in about six raonths,
had leave to corae back again, and so returned horae. ^ — He
was a good linguist : a raan of priraitive sincerity, and an
excellent and zealous preacher, coraraonly called " The
?' Weeping Prophet," because his seriousness often ex
pressed itself by tears. He was a raan of a raost, holy,
blaraeless life : though learned, yet greatly averse to disputes.
In alraost all things like Mr. As/ie, except his natural tem
per. Both of thera were so composed of humility, piety,,
and innocence, that scarcely any enemy of godliness, who
knew them, durst say any thing against thera. But one was
chearful, and the other, from his youth, surprised once in a
few years,, with violent fits of melancholy, which, though it
did not distract hira, yet kept him forthe time in a state next
to despair. Less than a year before he died he fell into a
grievous fit, in which he often cried out, " O not one spark
" of grace ! not one good desire or thought ! I can no raore
" pray than a post ! [Though at that very time, says Mr.
*' Baxter, he did pray very well,] If an angel from hea-
" venwould tell rae I have true grace, I would not believe
" him," &c. And though other rainisters could demonstrate
his sincerity, so as to silence him, he would soon again harp
on the same string, and was not to be persuaded that he was
melancholy. ^ It is proper however to add here, what Mr.
Baxter subjoins to the foregoing account of Mr. Nation's
afflicted state, " It pleased God to recover him from this fit ;
" and shortiy after he told me,' That now he confessed that
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" of melancholy ; and he rejoiced much in God's deliver-
"ance.'' After mentioningihis final relapse, he judiciously
remarks, — " How littie judgment is to be raade of a man's
" condition, by his melancholy apprehensions, or the sad-
" ness of his mltid at death ; dnd in what a different raanner
" (referring to the joyful death pf Mr. Ashe) raen of the
" sarae erainence in holiness and sincerity raay go to God*."
Mr. Nalton had been but a littie while recovered, when the
Bartholomew -act passed ; and his heart being troubled with
the sad estate of the church, the raultitude of silenced rai
nisters and his own unserviceableness, [together with the
fear lest he and his family should want,] his melancholy re
turned, and he consume to death, at the end of the year
.1662. The above sermon, preached at his funeral, was on
Jan, 1, 1663, frora 2 Cor, ii. 7.
WORKS. A few occasional Discourses were printed in his
life-time ; and some practical Sermons of his have been published
since his death. ST. LEONARD'S, Eastcheap. [R. S.]
Mr. Seth Wood. He had been mirnster oi Leving ton in
Lincolnshire ; where he was in great esteera for his minis
terial abilities, and the holiness of his life. He had been cast
out of Westminsier-ahhey, whither he was called from
CArz^^-church in London^ to assist Mr. Rowe. He was an
ingenious scholar, and an eloquent, awakening preacher.
He printed only a funeral sermon for Sir Wm. Armyne, on
the saints entrance into rest by death.
Matthew Barker, M. A. Of Trin. Col. Camb. Was
ejected from the same place. A man of considerable learn
ing, gj^eat piety, and universal candour and moderation.
No lover of controversies, but an hearty promoter of practi
cal godliness, without laying stress on littie things ; in
-which he was 'sensible others were as rauch at liberty to
differ frora as he was from them. This apprehension evi
dently governed his practice. He discovered a peculiar plea
sure in conversing with young ministers ; with whom he
used great freedora, without regard to any difference of
sentiraent in sraaller matters ; chearfully encouraging them
in the work they had undertaken, and rejoicing in the pros
pect of their serviceableness when, through age, his own
abilities visibly declined. When he was upwards of 63
• In another plaee Mr. Baxter says, Mr. Nalton had been a chaplain it» the
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years of age, he drew up an account of himself, and the dis
posing hand of provideqce towards him, from whence the
following hints are extracted.
He was born at Cransley in Northamptonshire, a small
village near Broughton, where the famous Bolton preached.
From his youth he was designed for the ministry. When he
had taken his degrees, he went to Banbury, in Oxford
shire, where he taught school ; but was forced to remove to
London, on the breaking out of the civil war in 1641.
There he was chosen rainister of St. James's, Garlick-hill,
where he continued about five years. From thence he re
moved to be lecturer at Mortlake in Surrey, being invited
thither by the citizens who resided there in the suraraer. On
the death of Mr. Robrough, of St. Leonard's, Eastcheap,
in 1650, the parish called him to be their minister, which he
continued to be till 1662, when he left them, because he
was not able to satisfy hiinself in sorae things required re
specting conformity. However, he continued in the ministry,
tiiough with many hazards and difficulties : having been de
voted to it, and not otherwise so well able to serve God and
the end of his being, he durst not forsake that employment.
There follows in his MS. an account of the dealings of God
with his soul, and the inward workings of his heart. Araong
other evidences there given of great sincerity and remarkable
humility, are the following declarations. " I have denied
myself in my profit, much rather than I would hinder the
the success of my ministry. It is matter of sorrow to my
heart, to see the little good I do thereby, and how little
many people regard the gospel. I pray continually for
the success of my labours in my private retirements. I
oftentimes am ready to charge it upon sorae defect and
failing in myself, when I see true gpdliness thrive no
more under my ministry. I am commonly more humbled
and troubled in my mind on a Lord's-day than any other
day of the week, through the fear of my failings in the
work of the rainistry. Iam concerned to get a frame of
heart suitable to my work, more love to Christ, compas
sion to souls, and courage against dangers aiid difficulties
which may lie before me in my work.'' He died March
25, 1698.
WORKS. Natm-^l Theology. — Disc, op Family Prayer. — Re
formed Religion. — Flores Intellectuales, or select notions, Ss'f. out
oi several ajithors, for young scholars entering on the ministry. —
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A few Sermons on public occasions. — Three in Mmn. £,¥.— Ahndt.
on both the Ep. to Thess-. in Foot's Contin.
ST. MAGNUS. LR- 170IO
Joseph Caryl, A. M. of Exeter Col. Oxf. Where
Wood speaks of hira as a noted disputant. [He was born of
genteel parents in London, 1602.] He was preacher to the
. honourable society of Lincoln's-Inn, where he continued
several years with applause, and a meraber ofthe Westmin
ster assembly. In 1653, ^^ ^^^ appointed one of the Triers
for the approbation of ministers. [He was sent- by the par
liament to attend the king at Holmby-house, and was one of
the coraraissioners in the treaty of the Isle of Wight. Soon
after his ejectraent in 1662, he gathered a congregation in
the neighbourhood of ,5"^. Magnus, near London-hndge, to
AVhich he preached as the tiraes would perrait. His church
so much increased, that at his death he left 136 comrauni-
cants. He was a moderate Independent, a man of great
piety, learning, and modesty. He died, at his house in
B,ury -street, Feb. 7, 1673, aged yi. In the summer of
that year, his church chose Dr. John Owen for their pastor,
and all united with that which was before under his care,
-which consisted of several persons of rank in the army.
This respectable society had afterwards the learned Mr. Da
vid Clarkson for their pastor, who was succeeded by Dr.
Chauncey, as he was by the late erainent Dr. Isaac Waits,
for whom, in 17.08, they built a new mcering-house in
Berry -street, near St. Mary-Axe; where the Rev.. ^awjweZ
Morton Savage, D. D. -was afterwards pastor^ and likewise
divinity tutor of the academy at Hoxton*; in which office
he succeeded the late learned and v^'orthy Dr. David Jen
nings.} ' § Mr. Caryl's farewell sermon is founded upon Rev. iii. 4.
And they shall walk. with me in white, for they are wor
thy,. The drift of this discourse, badly taken, is, to repre
sent the honour and happiness of those, whom he had des
cribed in a former one,, who like thosefew names in Sardis,
have not defiled their garments, by a sinful conformity to a
deg.enerate world. — ¦'tliey shall walk with Christ, They
shall enjoy peace, and intlraacy with hira, as his friends, .and
be indulged with peculiar favour from him. — They shall
walk in wliite garraents : which is expressive of their state
• This academy was afterwards miited to that at Daventry, and has since
bccH removed to Wyiliondly, neai Stevenage in Hertfordshire, ¦ 0(

in LONDON, &c. ' 14?
bf justification ; but particularly of their character, whith
is truly honourable in the sight both of God and of raen :
and likewise of their inward peace and joy : arising from—
the testiraony of their own consciences — the witness of the
Spirit — and a well grounded hope of future glory ; in conse*
quence of which they may now glory in tribulation. Thus
it was with Job, ch. xvi. 19. and with Paul, 2 Cor. i. 12.
— " What Christ says of the lily, may be said of those who
keep themselves purej in matters of faithj practice andl
worship ; Solomon in ail his glory was not arrayed like
one of these. To such persons may the words of the
preacher be addressed, Eccl. ix-. 7, Go thy way, eat thy
bread with joy— for God now accepteth thy works: let
thy garments always be white. Though the world gives
thee nothing but the bread of adversity, and the water of
affliction ; and clothes thee in mourning, and causes thee
to prophecy in sackcloth, yet be of good corafort j thou
hast the fruit of thy labour : whether present or absent
thou art accepted of God, therefore rejoice in it. Here Is
the happiness of those who keep theraselves from a de
filed and a defiling world." — Hence he takes occasion to
caution christians against ^very thing that would wound their
consciences and defile their garments. They that neglect
this shall walk in black, in garments of mourning. He ex
horts thera to adopt the resolution of Job, xxvii, 6. " To
maintain purity of heart and life, that angelic robe which
the -world can neither strip off, nor sully with its re
proaches. The blessed martyrs, though cast into blaclc
dungeons, have preserved -their white garments, and
though dressed so as to make them look like devils, have
been filled with peace and joy. — Finally, this walking
Vrith Christ in white has respect to the heavenly glory, o£
which his transfiguration was a type, -when it is said, his '
Raiment was white, so as no fuller on earth could whiten
it." — Having told his hearers that it had been the great
object of his labours among them to bring them into this
holy and happy state, he concludes thus : " It shall be the
desire and -prayer of my heart that, if I should have no
taiore opportunities araong you, as you have been stir
red up to get this [white robe] of grace, you and I may
meet in glory, where we shall never part: that is the best
of all. That is the answer of all our prayere, and that is
the issue of all our working. Then shall. we have as
much [joy] as we can hold forever."
L 2 The

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The following account of Mr. Caryl's death, given jn a
letter of Mr. Henry Dorney to his brother, is wowhy of
beittg here inserted. " That famous and laborious minister
Mr. JoKp'h Caryl, your ancient friend and companion, is de
parted this life, aged 71 years. His death is greatly lamented
fey the people of God throughout this city. About the be
ginning of his sickness I was with him, and he inquired con*
cerning you, as he was wont to do ; and percelvirtg him to be
somewhat weak, though he did not then keep his chamber^
I desfred him, while he liv'as yet alive, to pray for you, which
motion he chearfully and readily embraced. And coming to
him again, about three days before his death, found him very
weak and past hope of life. He told me, as weil as I could
pndei-stahd him (for his speech was low) that he remembered
his proraise to me concerning you. I think good to mention
this particular [circumstance} to provoke you to all serious
ness in regard to your own soul, whose eternal welfare lay so
much up6n the heart of this servant of Christ. — His labours
Were gieat ; his Studies incessant ; his conversation unspotted;
his chaHty, feith, zeal and wisdom gave a fragrant smell
imbng the churches and servants of Christ. His sickness,
th-ough painful [was] borne with patience and joy in be
lieving ; and so he parted from time to eternity under the
fiill sail of desire and joy in the Holy Spirit. He lived his
Sermons. He did at last desire his friends to forbear speaking
to him, that so he might retire in himself; which time they
perceived he spent in prayer ; oftentimes lifting up his hands
a littie ; aind at last, his friends finding his haads not to move,
drew near and perceived be was silently departed from them,
leavii^ 'many mourning hearts behind." — Dorney's Divirte
Contempliiiwns, Letter 113, p. 343.
WORKS. An Exposition on the Book of Joi in twelve vols.
'^t6. C^ihce printed in 2 vols, fol.) — SfcveralFast and Thanksgiving
Sermons before the Parhament. — ^He Was concerned in an English
Greek-Lexicon.— After his death were published some of his last
•Sermons on the Love of God as the End of the Commandment.
St. MARGARET MOSES, Friday-street. [R."]
Mr, Benjamin Needier. Of St. John's Coi. Oxf. A
¦worthy man. [Mr. Baxter pronounces him, A very hum
ble, grave and peaceable divine.] After he was ejected, he-
'Mved and preached privately at North-Warnborougk in
Hampshife, where he died in 1682.
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tfce first five chapters oiQeaesis. — ^Three Sermpns in the 'Mem. .JSk.
(one of which is very excellent, on the mortification of beloved
lusts.) — A Poem on the Death of Mr. Jer. Whitaker.
ST. MARGARET'S, Westminster. [C. 337I. 8s. iis.^
Mr. Edward Pearse. He was a most affecripnate and
i^seful preacher; but died at about 40 years of age, ip 1673,
He lay for sorae tirae declining in a consumption ; aiid find
ing hiraself going off the stage, when he had done littie com
paratively of that service which his heart was warmly in-
dined to, he made it the matter of his hearty prayer to God,
" That something of his might be useful after his deceasie :''
-which prayer was remarkably answered in the signal success
of his little book, which he stiled The Great Concern,
which has gone through twenty-one editions.
WORKS. The Best Match ; or the Soul's Espousak to Christ;
A Beam of Divine Glory; or God's Unohangeableness.T-^The
Soul's Rest in God.— The Great Concern; or Preparatbn for
Death.
ST. MARY ABCHURCH. [R.]
Mr. John Kitchin.
ST. MARY LE BOW. [R. 200I.3
Mr. Rutten. a man of excellent abilities and lea,rnijig ;
of which he gave a sufficient specimen in his Serraon on
eternal judgraent, before the loud-mayor and aldermen ; the
only piece of his which appears to have been punished.
ST. MARY STAINING. [R.]
Nathaniel Holmes, D.D. A man well skilled in the
languages, particularly the Hebrew. He was a Millenarian^
but did not contend for a carnal, sensual, and worldly li
berty to be enjoyed by the saints before the general resur
rection ; but for a spiritual, purified, and refined freedom
from sin and corruption.
WORKS. They are many ; the most noted of thepa are, — The
Jlesurrection Revealed; fol. 1654, (in which the above doctrin^
is maintained). Ten Exercitations, in another folio, in vindica
tion of the former. — A third folio, containing 16 Treatises .7— Se
veral Tracts.
ST. MARY, Whitechapel. [R. aool.]
Mr. Thomas Whalley. After his ejectment he went
to New-Englnmd, [and settied at Barnstaple, where he
was instrumental in uniting a church iwhich had been miser-
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ably broken by divisions. He lived there much desire^^
and died greatiy lamented,] MarcA 24, 1679, aged 61. He
was a pious, peaceable man ; eminent for his humility ; 4
great friend to toleration, and a well accomplished scholar,
— He published nothing but a sermon, entitied, Balm in Gi-r.
lead to hep.1 Sion's wounds; preached before the general
court qf the colony of New-Plymouth on the day of elec
tion, June 1, 1669, [in which he expressed his apprehen
sion that New-England would ere long lose her holiness,
her peace, and her liberty.] Mather's Hist. N- Eng. B. iii,
p. 222, ST. MARY, Fish-Street§, [R.-S. 120I.]
Mr. Thomas Brooks. He was a very affecting preacher,
and useful to raany. Though he used raany horaely phrases,
and soraetiraes too farailiar resemblances, which to nice cri-?
tics raight appear ridiculous, he did raore good to souls than
many who deliver the most exact composures. And let the
wits of-the age pass what censures they please, ' He that win
neth souls is wise.' Mr. Brooks had been for some time a
preacher at St, Thomas Apostles; and about the year 1651
was chosen by the majority of the parishioners of St, Mary
^agdalen. Gathering a church there in the congregatio.naI
way, the rest of the parish preferred a petition against him
to the committee of ministers, and he published a defence
against their charges. He died Sept, 27, 1680. His friend
Mr. Reeve preached his funeral serraon, and succeeded him.
§ Mr. Baxter makes respectful mention of Mr. Brooks,
S-mong those Independent ministers who opened their meet
ings moj-e publicly thafi before, after the fire of London. His
Farewell Address to his people (which has no text) appears
to have been published by hiraself. It is peculiarly adapted
for usefulness ; we shall therefore here introduce a full ana
lysis of it ; and the rather as the account of Mr. Brooks is so
brief. It will give the reader a raore just idea of the raan,
than any tlijng that could be said of hira. — He first answers
three Suerics, viz. 1. Why men make such opposition to the
plain, powerful, conscientious preaching of the gospel ? —
2. What goes from a people when the gospel goes ? Atis,
Peace, prosperity, safety, civil liberty, true glory and soul
happiness, the presence of God. (2 Chron. xiii. 9. xv. 3, 5, 6.
i.Sam.iv. 22. Jer. ii. 11— 13.)— 3. Whether God will re-
§ In some of his works he writes himself " Late preacher of the word at
p St, Margaret's, New Fish-sirect," Sec his Mute Christian.
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move the gospel from England ? Many i^easons to hope the
Qontrary. There may be a darkness upon it; but when it is
the darkest, it is nearest day.
He then proceeds to give his people some hints of advice,
which he calls Legacies, hoping they might be of use to them
in the perusal when he had not the advantage of speaking to
them in public, i. Secure your interest in Christ. This
is not a tirae for a raan to be between hopes and fears. Take
not up with an outward form, crying The temple of the
Lord. 2. Make Christ and Scripture the only foundation
for your souls and for faith to build upon. 3. In all places
and companies, be sure to carry your soul-preservatives with
you : (a holy care and wisdora ;) as raen carry outward pre
servatives with thera in infectious times. 3. See that all [your
'graces] your faith, love, courage, zeal, resolution, magna
nimity, rise higher by opposition, threatenings and suffer
ings. Say as David, If this be vile, L will be more vile.
3. Take more pains to keep yourselves from' sin than from
suffering. Ads ii. 40. Rev. ill. 4. 6. Be always doing
or receiving good; This will make your lives comfortable,
your deaths happy, and your account glorious in the great
day ofthe Lord. 7. Set the highest examples of grace and
godliness before you for imitation. Next to that of Christ,
the pattern of the choicest saints. For faith Abraham ; for
courage Joshua ; for uprightness Job ; for meekness Moses;
&c. 8. Hold fast your integrity. Let all go rather than let
that go, Job xxvii. 5, 6. 9. Let not a day pass without
calling the whole raan to an exact account, Hands } what
have you done for God to-day ? Tongue ? what .have you
spoke. Sec. to. Labour for a healing spirit. Away with
all discriminating names, that may hinder the applying of
balra to heal our wounds. Discord and division becoraes no
christian. For wolves to worry the larabs is no wonder, but
for one larab to worry another is unnatural and raonstrous.
1 1 . Be most in the spiritual exercises of religion ; medita
tion, self-exaralnatioij, &:c. Bodily exercises without these
will profit nothing. 12. Take no truths upon trust, but all
upon trial. Bring all to the balance of the sanctuary,
1 Thes. V. 21, Acts xvii. 11. It was the glory of that church
that they would not trust Paul himself. 13. The fewer op
portunities and the lesser advantages you have in public, the
more abundantly address yourselves to God in private, Afal,
}ii, 16, 17. 14. Walk in those ways that are directiy con
trary to the vain, sinful, superstitious ways that men of a
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formal, carnal^ lukfeWarm spirit walk in. 15. Ldok npdft
all the things of this world as you will when you come to
die. Men may now put a mask upon them, but then they
-will aj^ear in their Own colours. 16. Never put off con
science with any plea that you dare nOt stand by in the ^6at
day of your account. 17. Eye more the interttal working*
of God in yoih- SOuls, than the extemal providences of G6d.
If God should carry on ever so glorious a work in the Wtirld,
as the conquest of nations to Christ, what would it advan
tage thee, if sin, Satan, and the world triumph in thy soul ?
18. Look as well on the bright, as on the dark «ide of
the cloud ; On the bright side, as on the dark side of provi
dence. 19. Keep up precious thoughts of God, under his
sharpest and severest diSpeusatioris to you. 20. Hold on and
hold out in the ways of well-doing in the want of aH out
ward encouragements, and in the face of all outward dis
couragements. Rev. ii. 10. Follow ye the Lamb, thoegh
others follow the beast and the false prophet, ai. In all
your natural, civil, and religious actions, let divine glory rest
Upon your souls : kt the glory of Christ lie nearest your
hearts. 22. Record all special favours, metcies, prdvidefl*
ces and experiences. Little do you knb-\^ the advantage that
will redound to your souls upon this. 23. Never enter Upoft
the trial of your [spiritual] estate, but when your htiarts are
in the fittest temper. 64. Always make the Scripture, and
not your camal reason or your bare opinion [or that of other*
the rule by which] to judge of your spiritual condition. Isa,
viii, 20. John xii. 48. 25. Make conscience of makihg
good the terfihs on which y6u closed 'with Christ : vi%. that
you would deny yourselves, take np the cross, &c. 26. Walk
by no rule butsiich aS you dare die by, and stafid by in the
day of JesUs Christ. Walk not with the multitude. Make
not the example of great Jnen your rule. Make not any au
thority your rule, that stands in opposiribh to the authority
of Jesus Chi'ist. Who dare stand by [either of these] before
him at the great day ? 27. Lastly, Sit down and rejoice
with fear. Rejoice in what God hath donfe for your souls by
the everiaisting gospel. Weep that you have done n6 more
to Improve It, aild that you have«o neglected thfe opportuni
ties of eiiriching your jiouls. Here ate your legacies. The
Lord make thein of singular use to you, that you may give
up your accourit to the great and glorious God with joy.
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you shall be brought to the fruition of God, where you shall
ineei ordinances, preaching and praying no more.
WORKS. A Fast, and a Thanksg. Serm. before die U. of
Com. — Fun. Sermons for Col. Rainshorough ; Mrs. Martha Randall;
and Mrs. Mary Blake. — A Farewell Serm. in 27 Legacies. — Heaven
upon Earth. — The unsearchable -Riches of Christ. — Apples of
Gold in Pictures of Silver, Es'c. — The mute Christian under the
smarting Rod. — An Ark for God's Noahs.— The Crown and Glory
of Christianity. — The Privy Key of Heaven. — An heavenly Cor
dial for such as have had or escaped the Plague. — A Cabinet of
choice Jewels, Qfc.^-London's Lamentation; or a Discourse on the
late Fire. — A Golden Key to open hidden Treasures, £rfir. — His
book on Holiness is the most considerable.
ST. MARY MAGDALEN, Milk-Street, [R. S. i2o1.J
Thomas Case, M. A. Of Christ-Ch. Oxf. son of Mr.
George Case^ manviter oi Boxley in Kent. His first pasto
ral charge was at Erping ham ia Norfolk, out of which
place he was fm-ced by Bp. Wren's severity. He was sum
moned to the high commission-couit, and bailed ; but before
answer could be given to the ai-ticles preferred against him,
the court was dissolved by act of parliament. He afterwards
settled in Jjmdon, in the sequestered living of Milk-street
where he was very laborious and faithful in his ministerial
work. He it was that first set up the Morning Exercise*,
which, to thfe benefit of multitudes, was kept up in the city
many years afterwards. He was turned out of this living for
refasihg the Engagement, and was afterwards lecturer at
Aldermanbury, and St. Giles's Cripplegate. He was im
prisoned six months in the Tower, for his concern with Mr.
Love ; frora whence he was released with the rest, on tlieir
making subraission, when most of them were reinstated m
their livings. Mr. Case made the best use he could of his
time during his imprisonment, employing himself in the Me
ditations which he afterwards preached and printed, under the
title of Correction, Instruction. He was afterwards Rector
of St. Giles's in the Fields. In i66o, he was one of the
ministeris deputed to wait on the king at the i/aj'ite ,• and itt
1661, one of the coraraissioners at tht Savoy . When bis
public ministry was ar an end, he ceased not in private to do
all the good he could. He died May 30, 1682, aged 84.
His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Jacomb, who gives
a full account of his character; the substance of which is,
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That he was of a quick and warm spirit; but an open
plain-hearted raan ; a hearty lover of God and goodness, and
bf all good raen. He was a scriptural preacher ; a great man
in prayer, and one who brought horae many souls to God.
He was the longest survivor of any who composed the As
sembly of divinesat Westminster, who continued among the
Dissenters. § Dr. Walker severely reflects upon hira frora a
sermon preached in 1644. But the persecution which he
and his brethren endured from Bp. Wren and his court, ought
to plead soraething Inhis excuse, adraitting that he there ex
pressed himself with too much warmth.* He was one who
subscribed the two papers declaring against the proceedings
of tlie parliament in 1648, and the bringing King Charles to
a trial. Hence It should seem that he was afterwards mo
derated, Mr. Case's Farewell-sermon is on Rev. ii. 51 Remember
therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do
thy first works, or else I 'will come unto ihee quickly, and
remove tliy candlestick out of its place. " Christ here (says
lie) prescribes precious physic for the healing of this languish
ing church of Ephesus, compounded of three ingredients, —
self-refleefion — holy contrition — thorough reformation."—
Each of tiiese he urges upon his hearers, to prevent the
threatened removal of their religious privileges. The parti
culars under each head are too numerous to be here introdu
ced, and there is nothing in them peculiar to the occasion.
The principal thing worthy of notice is, the close of the last
head, corjcernlng the necessary reformation, " We should
" do something bv way of extraordinary bounty and charity
" to the relief .of .God's indigent servants." He here de
scants upon that pertinent passage, Dan. iv. 27. and closes
thus : " That which I would exhort you to is, for every one
" to set apart scr.ie considerable part of your estate, and ac-
" count it as a hallowed thing, dedicated to God ; as a thing
" which to touch were sacrilege ; that you maybe ready on
" all occasions, in all due and regular ways, to bring out for
" the relief of the poor. You know objects abounding in
«' every place, and you may expect warrantable means for
• Tlie followring passage in the sermon referred to before the Court-martial,
is justly mentioned by Mr, Granger, as sanguinary and reprehensible. " No-
(' ble sirs, imitate God, and be merciful 10 none that have sinned of malici,.
" ous vvicliedness ;" meaning the royalists. It is painful to reflect" that sq
¦ffcnerable and amiable a man should have been so transported by the fury of
?betimes, as to liave uttered, and especially to have printed, so unchristian
il sentence. See ZV'«'«'s Edit, of JVcu/'s Hist, vol. iv, p, 599, note,
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'' dispensing of what God shall put ihto your hands, in this
** manner." That this good man should have closed his pu
blic ministry, with such an advice as this, furnishes us with
onedistingulshing and pleasing trait in his character.
WORKS. Several Sermons before the Lords and Commons,—
Sermons at Milk-street on God's waiting to be gracious.^-Ser-
mons on the£!ovenant.— And others on particular Ocoasions.-—
Imitation of *he Saints, opened in practical Meditations.— Qu.
1666. Mount Pisgah; or a Prospect of Heaven.-^Correction, Ins-
struction ; or a Treatise of Afflictions. — The first and last Sermon
in the Morn. Ex. at St. Giles's. — Sermon on tbe Sanctification of
tlie Sabbath, in the Supp. lo the Mom. Bx. at Cri/i/ilegate. — Fuiie^
rai Sermons fbr Gualter Rosetvell, at Chatham ; for Mrs. Anne Browne,
on the imitation of the saints. To which is prefixed, a Letter to
Mr. Case from Mr. Wm. Woodward, dated 1 666^ — For Kinsmel
jMcy, Esq; — }Ax&. Eliz. Scott ;-T^I)arcy Wiiiil, Esq; — And a Serm. to
the Citizens born in Kent,
Thomas Vincent, M.A. Of Christ-Ch. Oxf, ejected
jfrom tiie same place. He was born at Hertford in May
1634. He and Mr. Nath. Vincent were sons ofthe worthy
Mr. John Vincent, a rainister born in the west of England,
who died in the rich living of Sedgfield in the bishoprick of
Durham. Jt was observed of hira, that he was so harrassed
for his Nonconforraity, that though he had raany children,
not two of them were born in the same coiinty. This Mr.
T. Vincent was the elder son ; who succeeded Mr. Case in
this living. He was a worthy, humble, eminently pious
man, of sober principles, and great zeal and diligence. He
had the whole New Testament and Psalms; by heart. He
took this pains, (as he often said) " not knowing but they
who took from him his pulpit, might in time demand his Bi
bl^ also." Wood says " He was always held in great esteem
for his piety, by those of his persuasion.-"' But his eminence
and usefulness were not acknowledged by a particulary party-
only, but by all sober persons who were acquainted with
him. He was one of the few ministers who had the zeal
and coiirage to continue in the city amidst all the fury of the
.pestilence in 1665, and pursued his ministerial work in that
needful, but dangerous season, -vyltli all diligence and intire-
pidity, both in public and,private. H^ had been for sorae
tirae employed in assisting Mr. Doolittle at Islington in giv
ing young persons an academical education ; for which ser-t
yice he was thought \yell qualified. Upon the progress of tiie
distemper in the city, he ^.cquainted his good friend and col
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himself chiefly to the visitation of the sick, and the instriicf-
ing ofthe healthy, in that time of pressing necessity. Mr,
Doolittle endeavoured to dissuade him, by representing the
danger he must run ; told him, he thought he had no call to
it, being then otherwise employed ; and that it was rather
advi«eable he should reserve himSelf for farther service to the
rising age, in that station wherein he then was so usefully
fixed. Mr. Vincent not being satisfied to desis* they agreed
to request the advice of their brethren in and about the city,
upon the case.— When Mr. Doolittle had represented his
reasons at large, Mr. Vincent acquainted his brethren, that
he had very seriously considered the matter before he had
come to a resolution. He had carefully examined the state
of his own soul, and could look death in the face with com
fort. He thought It was absolutely necessary that such vast
numbers of dying people should have some spiritual assist
ance. He could have no prospect of usefulness in the exer
cise of his ministry, through his whole life, like that which
now offered itself. He had often coramitted the case and
himself to God in prayer ; and upon the whole had solef»nly
devoted himself to the service of God and souls upon this oc
casion; and therefore hoped none of tbem would endeavour
to weaken his hands in this work. When the ministers pre
sent had heard him out, they unanimously declared then- sa
tisfaction and joy, that they apprehended the matter was of
God, and concurred in their prayers for his protection and
success. Hereupon he went out to his work with the great
est firmness and assiduity. He constantly preached every
Lord's day through the whole visitation in some parish
church. His subjects were the most moving and important,
and his management of thera the most pathetic and searching.
The awfulness of the judgment, then every where obvious,
gave a peculiar edge to the preacher and his auditors. It was
a general inquiry through the preceding week, where Mr.
Vincent was to preach on the Sabbath. Multitudes followed
him wherever he went ; and several were awakened by every
sermon. He visited all that sent for him, without fear, and
did the best he could for thera in their extreraity ; especially
to save their souls frora death. And it pleased God to take
particular care of hira ; for though the whole number rec
koned to die of the plague in London this year was 68,596,
and seven persons died of it in the family where he lived, he
coBtinued in perfect health all the time. He was afterwards
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tion, till the year 1678, when be died at Hoxton, — His fu
neral sermon was preached by Mr. Slater.
WORKS. A Spintual Antidote for a Dying Soul.— God's
Terrible Voice in the City by Plague and Fire. [Some editions
contain an account ofthe author by Mr. John Evans.'] — Christ's cer
tain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. — An Answer to the
Sandy Foundation oiWm. Penn, the Quaker. — A Defence of the
Trinity, Satisf. by Christ, and the Justificat. of Sinners. — Wells
of Salvation opened: with Advice to young men. — An Explan. of
the Assemb, Catech. — The true Christian-s Love of the unseen
Christ. — Sermons in Svo.— Several in the Morn. Ex.
ST. MARY MAGDALEN, Bermondsey, Southwark,
[R. 150I.]
Mr. William Whitaker ; son ofthe famous Mr. Jer.
Whitaker. A man of great calraness, moderation, and
peaceableness ; sound in doctrine, and exeraplary in life.
While he was at the University, his piety, learning, sweet
ness of disposition, candour, and ingenuity were so eminent,
that he was loved and honoured by all who knew him. He
was noted for his great skill in the oriental languages. When
he came out into the world, he not only preached peace, but
was a peace-maker wherever he carae. At Horn Churchy
where he was some tirae minister, he ended a difficult con
troversy of many years standing, which had cost the parties
above loool. He-died in 167a. Dr. Annesly, his particular
friend, preached his funeral sermon. Dr. Jacomb wrote
sorae account of his life, which is prefixed iri an epistle, to
a volume of sermons of his, published after his death, taken
after him in short-hand. He printed only two sermons in
the Morn, Ex,
Mr. Robert Torey was ejected from this leetiireshlp.
After he was silenced he went to Holland, and became pa.-j-
tor ofthe English church at Middleburgh in Zealand, Nov.
21, 1683, where he lived in great lespect. He died tiiere
in i6gi. ST. MARTIN'S in the Fields, [V. S. 700I.]
Gabriel Sangar, M. A. oi Maud-Hall, Oxf. Turned
out also from Steeple- Ashton in Wiltshire, He was the son
of Mr. Tho. Sangar, minister of Sutton-Mandevil, Wilts,
where he was born in May, 1608, and succeeded his father,
who bought the advowson. He was ordained by Bishop
Davenant. Refusiijg to read the Book of Sports, he was
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imprisoned at Salisbury. After a short confinement, nf rii
turned to his faraily and people, and continued tiiere rill 1645^
when-hc was necessitated to reraove^ having been frequently
plundered by the king's soldiers, and once carried to Salis
bury and imprisoned. Having recovered his liberty, he went
to Havant in Hampshire t bUt the air of that place not
agreeing with the health of his family, he returned to Wilt
shire, about 1647, and settied at Chilmark, a few miles from
Sutton. Here he met with a gteat deal of trouble from somd
of his parishioners who refused to pay their tithes. Wheri
he had in vairt tried all other methods, he had recourse to the
law, which occasioned his coming to London. He had not
been r&turned inany weeks before he was surprized with an
invitation frora the people of St. Martin's in the Fields, to be
their minister, having preached once amongst thera while in
town, without the least thought of being chosen. The
quarrelsome temper of the people of Chilmark was one
weighty consideration to determine him to accept of that
place ; whete he continued twelve years.
Soon after the Restoration, the lord chancellor, who had
beeri his school-fellow at Gillingham in Wilts, sent to Mr.
Sangar, and professing a peculiar kindness to him on that
account, endeavoured to reconcile him to conformity. He
Sent for him several times, and discoursed on the matter with
liira, sometimes with great calmness, and at other times with.
heat ; but all In vain. At length he told him plainly. If he
•would not conform, he must leave St. Martin's, and reraove
fiirther from the court. When this was known, he had seve'-'
rai places ofFeled him, but his love to his native country, indu
ced hira to accept of Steeple-Ashton, whither he removed
with his faraily in 1661, and whence he was ejected by the
Act of Uniformity in the year following. Afterwards, atthe
intreaty of his friends in St. Martin's, who desired to have
hira nearer thera, he reraoved to Brompton. Here he very
liarrowly escaped being seized and iraprisoned; for in the lat
ter end of 1665, there came sorae troopers to the house tO .
apprehend him. But as they were running eagerly up stairs
to search for hira, the servant of a gentieman wlio was sick
in the house met them, and desired they would not make
such a disturbance, because one ofthe family was visited with
sickness. Upon hearing that, they imraediately got out of
tiie house, ailtl rode away with all speed, apprehending that
the sick gentleman had the plague. Soon after this the Ox-
ford^act drove hira to Eling, and he went from thence to
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Brentford, where he continued till the. king's Declaration
for liberty ; and then at the intreaty of his old hearers at St.
Martin's, he returned into that parish, and preached to ihem
as he had opportunity. He thought it his duty, after he was
silenced, to reraain in the parish with his ancient flock, and
to visit thera that desired hira, especially in the pestilence,
when many thought the help of the poor Nonconformists
needful enough, who were not very fond of their preaching
while they were well. This, sorae of their eneraies said,
was enouglt for them to do, -who yet "persecuted them fol* do
ing ir. § Mr. Baxter relates that Mr. Sangar once went to
visit a good woraan, who was an old friend of his, and a wi-i
dow, in the tirae of her illness, when Dr. Lamplugh, who.
succeeded him in the parish, and was afterwards Bp. of E3!:e-
ter, came into the house while liewas at prayer. As soon
as he had done, the Dr. came up fiercely to him and said,
" Sir, what business have you here .'''' Mr. Sangar answered,
" To visit and pray with my sick friend, who sent for me."
The Dr. then took hold of his breast and violently thrust him
towards the door, saying, " Get you out of the room, Sir,"
to the great trouble of this good woman, who had but lately
buried her husband.
Mr. Sangar was taken ill the very day on which he had
completed his 70th year, and died within a few days in May
1678. He was a grave and peaceable divine, of great mo-
¦ deration and calmness of teraper; and though he had a nu
merous family, (seven sons and three daughters) he was gi
ven to hospitality. § Mr. Baxter in his Life, takes particu
lar notice of his decease, with great raarks of respect.
WORKS. The Work of Faith ; containing a serm. of his own,
ancLthe heads of all the serm. preached in the month that the Morn,
Ex. was at St. Martin's. — A shorty Catechism with respect to the
Lord's Supper,
ST. MARTIN'S, iRONMONtjER-LANE, [R. S,]
Mr. John Fuller. A most pious man, and a practical
preacher. He had three sons who were scholars and mini
sters of note. Tvvo of them conformed; hut his son Mr.
Francis Fuller died a Nonconformist in London. Mr. Jer.
White, in his funeral sermon for him, says, " He thought it
belonged to the family of the Fullers to be learned."
WORKS. A large Pref. Epist. to Mr. Beadle's Journal of a
thankful Christian.— A Laiin Epitaph and Ei/gliih Poem on the

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Deatii of Mr. Jer. WMtcdxr.—k Poem on the death of Mr, K.
. Rohinson.
ST. MARTIN'S, Ludgate, [R. aool.]
Thomas Jacomb, D. D. oi Magd.-Hall, Oxf. Bom
near Melton-Mowbray in Leicestershire. When B. A. he
removed to Eman. Col. Camb. He was soine tirae Fellow
of Trinity, and rauch esteemed there. He came to London
in 1647, and being received into the family of that excellent,
pious, and devout lady, the countess-dowager of Exeter,
(daughter to the earl of Bridgewaier) as her chaplain, he
had the opportunity of preaching in the city, and was soon
, fixed in Ludgate parish, where his ministry was both ac
ceptable and useful. [He had a happy art of conveying sa
ving truths into the minds of men. He did not entertain his
hearers with curiosities, but with spiritual food. He di
spensed the bread of life, whose vital sweetness and nourish
ing virtue is both productive and preservative of the life of
souls. He preached Christ crucified, our only wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification and redemption. This is to wa
ter the tree at the root. His serraoiis were clear, solid, and
affectionate. He dipped his words in hjs own soul, in warm
affections, and breathed a holy fire into the breasts of his
hearers.] His zeal for the glory of his master, and his love
to the souls of men, raade him constant and diligent in his
work, which he esteemed both his honour and pleasure. At
the first appearance of a cancer in his mouth, he seemed not
more concerned about it, than as it was likely to hinder his
preaching ; and when, after wasting sickness, he was re
stored to some degree of ease and strength, he joyfully re
turned to his duty; nay, when his pains yvere tolerable,
preachmg was his best anodyne ; and the reflection upon tlje
divine goodness, which enabled him for it, was a great re
lief of his pains.
His life was suitable to his holy profession. His sermons
were printed In a fair and lively character in his conversation.
He was of a staid mind, and temperate passions. In mana
ging affairs of moment he was not vehement and confident,
not iraposing and overbearing, but receptive of advice, and
yielding to reason. He was full of compassion, charify and
beneficence. He was a Nonconformist upon moderate priij-
ciples ; rauch rather desiring to have been comprehended in
the national church, than to have separated from it. He met
with trouble after Ws ejcctioti, bnt the divine providence se
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cured him, by disposing o£ him into the family of the hon.
lady above-mentioned ; who, to the utraost of her power,
comforted and supported pious Nonconformist ministers and
people, when the stream ran so strong against them. Her
Tespect for the Dr. was peculiar, and her favours conferred
lipdn him extraordinary ; for which he made the best returii
by his constant care to proraote religion in hir family. [Arid
as his life, so his death, adorned the gospel, being exemplaty
to others, and comfortable to himself. In his last sickness
his pains were very severe, the cancerous humour having
Spread through his joints and the tenderest membranes ', but
his patience was invincihle, and a hurable submission to the
divine pleasure was the habitual frame of his soul. When
an Intimate friend first visited him, he said, " 1 am using the
means, but I think my appointed time is corae. If my life
might be sen-iceable to convert or build up one soul, I should
be content to live : but if God hath no raore work for me to
do, here I am, let hira do with me as he pleaseth." At ano
ther time he told the same person, it was a determined case,
and therefore desired him to resign him to God, saying, " It
will not be long before we meet in heaven, never to part
more ; and there we shall be perfectly happy : there neither
your doubts and fears, nor my pains, shall follow us ; nor
our sins, which is best of all." After a long languishing,
without any visible alteration, being asked how he did, he
replied, " I lie here, but get no ground for heaven or earth,"
— ' except (says one) in your preparations for heaven :' — " 0
yes (said he) there I sensibly get ground, I bless God." He
had a substantial joy in the reflection upon his life spent in
the faithful service of Christ, and the prospect of a blessed
eternity. This made him long to be above ; so that he said
with some regret, " Death flies from me ; I make no haste
to ray father's house."] He diedat the countess of Exeter;'s,
March 27, 1687, leaving an incomparable library of the most
valuable book« in all kinds of learning, which were sold by
auction for 1300I. Dr. .Ba^ej preached his funeral sermon,
from which the above account is principally extracted. § No
mention is made of Mr. Jafo»34fr'5 age, but from the introduc
tion to this discourse it appears that he was much youngeir
than Dr. Bates, and that he had possessed a more vigorou*
constitution. (See the account of Dr. Bates, and of this ad
mirable serraon in the list of his works. P. 119.)
§ Dr. Jacomb's farewell sermon was on John viii. 29.
He that sent me is with me: thi Father hath net left me
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alone i far Ida always those things that please hirn. — ^Thc
whole is so excellent and sententious that it is not easy to do
justice to it by an analysis. Having treated on the words as
they refer to Christ himself, he applies them to his people ;
to whom he recommends it as their grand object — -not t<5
please themselves — nor to please men — but in all things to
please God, This he urges from — what God is In himself —
their relation to bim— rand their expectations from hira. He
that pleases God profits himself: — particularly in the enjoy
ment of his pres.eBee. Please God and he will please you.
He will nevei^leave you ; no npt in a lime of distress and
trouble, though all others forsake you. See that promise,
Isa. xliii, 2. The saints in all ages have found he hath made
it good. So Jacob under his sharp trials. Behold I am
with thee. So Joseph; his master threw him into prison,
but the Lord was with Joseph. So Jereraiah when cast into
the dungeon. So the three children in the fiery furnace :
there was a fourth with them, like the Son of God. So
Pauls when brought to his trial, all men forsook him, but
the Lord stood by him. So the first Christians : persecuted
but noi forsaken.
Directions : Make conscience of those duties which are
certainly pleasing to him. Be stedfast in his good ways in
an apostatizing age. Be not ashamed to own Christ before
all the world. Reckon reproaches for his name better than
the pleasures of sin. Assert the purity and spirituality of
gospel-worship. Keep up religion in your families. Be
gpod in bad times. Pray for and love those ministers that
have been instrumental for your spiritual good, whatever
dirt is now thrown in their faces, and though you never get
more good by them. Forget not to distribute to the necessi
ties, of God's people. 'Be patient and meek towards them
that wrong you. Do your duty to those in authority, and
conduct yourselves, as Daniel did, against whom they had
nothing, save in the 'matter of his God. In a word, walk
as becometh the gospel. Phil ii. 16.  Use of comfort
under sufferings. — Pleasing God does not secure against suf
fering from men; sometimes it rather exposes to it; but it
takes away the sting-and venom of suffering. The presence
of God in a time of affliction is exceedingly precious. Be
not troubled in your thoughts about what you may undergo.
If God be with ypu, all will be well. If God comes when
the cross comes, the weight of it will hever hurt you.
What is a prison when God is there ? We have more reason
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to be afraid of prosperity, with God's absence, than of ad-.
verSity, with God's presence, A good God will raake every
Condition to be good. It is not a prison but a palace where
God is ; and they that do the things, that please him, may
be assuretl whatever (Condition they may be in, the Father
will not leave thera alone. Ministers may leave you; or-,
dinances raay leave you ; creature enjoyraents raay leave
you; but God neverwlll. O bless his holy name.
Lastly ; Be tender of thera that differ from you becaUsq
they dare liot displease God. Pass a charitable interpretation
on our laying down the exercise of our rainistry. There is
a greater judge than you, wljo must judge us all at the last
day ; and to this judge we can appeal, before angels and
men, that it is nothing but conscience toward God and fear
of offending him that puts us upon this dissent. I censure
none that differ from me, as though they displease God. But
as to myself, should I do thus I should certainly violate the
peace of my own conscience and offend God ; which I must
not do, no npt to secure ray ministry, tiiough that is, or
ought to be, dearer to rae than my life. And how dear itis,
God knoweth, Do not add affliction to affliction: be not
uncharitable in judging of us, as if through pride, faction,
obstinacy, or devotedness to party, or (which is worse than •
all) opposition to authority, we dissent. The judge of all.
hearts knows that it is merely from these apprehensions which
(after prayer and the use of all means) yet continue, that
doing [otherwise] we should displease God. If we be
mistaken, I pray God to convince us. But however things
go, God will make good this truth to us, that our Father.
will not leave us alone: for it is the unfeigned desire of pur^
soul in all things to please God.
WORKS. A Commentary, or Sermons, on /?oOT. viii. I . — 4.—
Treatise on holy Dedication, personal, and domestic. — Fun. Serm.
for Mr. M, Martin. — Another for Mr. Vines, with an account of
his life, — Another for Mr, Case, with a narrative of hjs life and
death. The Life of Mr. Whitaker. — Two Sermons in Morn. Ex,
Serm. at St. Paul's, Oct. 26, 1656. — Serm. bef. Lord Mayor, £s'r.
at the S/iittle.  Wood is mistaken with respect to his Concern in
Pool's Contin.
ST. MATTHEW, Friday-Street, [R. 150I.]
Henry Hurst, M. A. Fellow of Merjon Col. Oxf.
He was there noted for a smart disputant ; and was generally
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he was for several years doraestic chaplain to the earl at
Anglesea. Even Wood gives hira the character of " a learned
and religious Nonconformist." He was diligent and unwearied
in his rainisterial labours to the last. He died of an apoplexy
on Monday morning {Apr„n, 1690,) having gone through
his work the Lord's day preceding as usual. He had a son
araong the Dissenters at Nayland in Suffolk. His funeral
serraon was preached by Mr. R. Adams,
§ The following is an extract from it. He was the son of
the Rev. and learned Mr. Henry Hurst, minister of the gos
pel at Mickleton in Gloucestershire, where he lived to a good
old age, labouring with great success. This hopeful and
obedient son, when ripened for the university in school-learn
ing, wherein he excelled the generality, was placed under
Dr. H. Wilkinson at Oxford, who finding hira to make a
rapid progress in Philogical and Philosophical studies, as well
as in the practice of real piety, was ready to assist in pro
curing hira a Fellowship in Merton College, where being
elected he was soondistinguishedby his public exercises, and
particularly by spme sermons before the university, against
the Pelagian doctrine, which he was prevailed upon, though
with great diffidence, to publish. His learned tutor prefixed
to them an epistle greatly to the credit of the author. His
character as a scholar, a preacher, and an exemplary chris
tian, occasioned him to be chosen by a majority of the pa
rishioners at St. Matthews, in preference to another candi
date, who was afterwards bishop of London-Derry. Here Mr.
Adams' renewed his acquaintance with him, and ever found
him to be a person of great humility, good temper and mo
deration : very ingenious and judicious ; ready to corarauni
cate his thoughts, on due deliberation, when desired, upon
difficult cases, in regard to which he often afforded satisfac
tion to his brethren in the ministry, as well as to private
christians. The soundness of his judgment was discovered In
his manner of handling several cases in the Morning Exer
cises. He was obliged to give up the exercise of his public mi
nistry, because, notwithstanding his moderation, he could
riot comply with the terms of the Uniformity act, after rauch
prayer arid-.fastfngy But he expressed his hopes of being re-
storcif ; and In the mean time he took all opportunities, be
cause necessity was laid upon hira to pieach the gospel, to do
what he could for the good of souls, both privately, and pu
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tions he dedicated to the learned Earl of Anglesea, in whose
family he exercised his rainistry. He had several invitations
frora those that knew his worth, to preach publicly in his na
tive county, as well as at Ashford in Kent, when he visited
his first wife's relations. He ventured to coraply, and none
informed against him. While he enjoyed liberty, he was
in laboufs more abundant. Besides his constant preaching
in his own parish, he had a weekly lecture at Highgate,
and he took great pains in instructing the rising generation,
which he did in a most clear and profitable method. Several
who were acquainted with his writings on some parts of
scripture, urged Itiiii to publish similar annotations on others
of, the sacred books. But his sudden death gave him rest
from all his labours, and his works follow hira. His age is
not raentioned.
WORKS. Sermons on the Inability ofthe Natural Man, -Cs'r.
Revival of Grace in its Vigour and Fragrancy. — Funeral Sermon
'for Mr, Cawton. — Aioctxtrtsis Eyx,»ps-i>")» or Sacred Meditations on
the Death of Christ — AnnoL on £zcl. and the Minor Proph. in
Pool's Contin. — Fbur Sermons in Morn. Ex,
ST, MICHAEL'S, Cornhill, [R, S, 151I, 16s, 8d,]
Peter Vinke, B, D, Feflow of Pemb. Hall, Camb.
Mr. Howe preached his funeral sermon, from whence the
¦following account of hira Is extracted. He was the son of a
noted citizen of Norwich ; whither his ancestors (who were
early Protestants in Flanders) were seasonably transported
by providence, when the Reformation was there struggling
for birth araidst the rage of persecution. He has often been
heard to say, " He reckoned it a greater honour to have de
scended from so pious ancestors, than if he could have de
rived his pedigree from the greatest princes." From his
youngest years he appeared to be formed and designed for
multiplying the offspring of the everlasting Father, from his
remarkable seriousness and habitual reverence of the Divine
Majesty, together with an uncommon fondness fpr books,
and desire of learning. He very early began his preparation
for that sacred employraent to which he afterwards betook
himself. In a littie time he made great improvement, and
discovered such quickness of apprehension, solidity of judg
ment, strength of meraory, and liveliness of iraagination,
without exorbitance, as seldom raeet together. And he was
so much more diligent than the usual raethod of education
^obliged, him to be, that his parents, while he was under their
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eye, have thought it requisite to hide his books, lest he should
injure his health. He went to the university in his 14th year,
and remained many years a Fellow of his college, and an or
nament to it. He might be fitiy stiled a universal scholar*
His accurate skill in the Latin tongue was much remarked in
the university. When he took his degree, the professor,
having held his dispute with him longer than ordinary, (he
continuing to answer in neat and elegant Latin) acknowled
ged that it was designed to give him an opportunity to enter
tain the auditory with the judgment and eloquence which ap
peared in his answers. He wrote a weekly account of the
more remarkable things which occurred to him, in Latin,
(which he continued till his growing infirmities put a sto|5 to
it) from whence it appeared, that to express himself with ele
gance in that language was become familiar to him.
When he had passed through his long course of academi
cal studies, he was called to Londoii, where he shone as a
bright light In two churches successively : viz. at St. Michael's,
Cornhill, which he quitted upon another person's claim',
more from an indisposition to contend, than from a defect
of title ; when he was iraraediately chosen to i neighbouring
church, (probably St. Katherine Creed-churck,whcre New-
court mentions him as curate,) and where he continued till
Aug. 24, 1662 ; when, not satisfied with some things in the
Act of uniformity, he calmly quitted his station, but not his
ministry ; which he exercised, when desired, in separate as
semblies, with only the favour of connivance, and ordinarily,
for many years, in his own house ; whither he drew a con
siderable audience, and where he sometimes administered the
Lord'srsupper, thpugh h? did not decline all communion wit;h
the established church ; whereupon, as he sometimes ob
served with regret, he incurred the, anger of some, that he
went so far, and of others, that he went no farther. — His
memoirs of himself discover such a rich vein of piety through
the whole, that no serjou? man cpuld read them without be
ing deeply affected, Whatsoever was remarkable relating to
himself, his family, or the church of God, is punctually set
down, and intermixed with the pious breatiiings of an holy
devout soul, and ejaculatory supplications for others are very
frequent. If any pne, even a s?rvarvt in his family were sick,
it is noted down with the greiatest tenderness and compassion.
There are expressions of a steady trust in God in reference to
all his concerns, both of this world and that which is to
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<ind much more the pity which wrought in his heart towards
those whom he could not relieve. His humility shone
through all his excellencies : he was great in every one's eyes
but his own. He was remarkably fond of retireraent, though
no man had more opportunity to multiply acquaintance ; yet
where he was acquainted, he was a most pleasant and delec
table friend. — His special gratitude for divine raercies was
very observable, — From his memorials it appears, that he
was much in admiring God for what he had done for him
and his, especially for assisting him in his ministerial work,
and particulariy at the Lord's supper. He continued preach
ing to the last, and died at Darlston in Hackney parish,
where he spent the latter part of his time, Sept. 6, 1702.
WORKS. Four Sermons in Morn. Ex. — A Serip. before the
Lord-Mayor at St.Paurs, on Heh. xi. 1 . — Annot. on Acts in'Pool's
Contin. — Latin Poem, Ad tumulum viri quam clarissitni, R.Viiies;
at the end oi Jacomb's fiin. serm. for hina.
ST. MICHAEL'S, Crooked-Lane, [R. lool.]
Mr. Carter.
Mr. Thomas MALt:?RY was ejected from this lectureship.
He was very exemplary in his conversation, and very faith
ful in his ministry.
WORKS. Sermons on Rom. viii. 38, 39. — A SerrnoU in the
Mom. Ex. on suitable conceptions ofGod in duty. He, with Mr.
Greenhill and Mr. Caryl, prefaced a Discourse of Mr. Malbods,
ST. MICHAEL'S, Wood-Street, [R.]
Mr. Thomas Parson, Fellow of Pemb. Hall, Camb,
He was much respected among the city rainisters. After be
ing silenced, he took a great deal of pains in fitting Gould-
vian's Dictionary for the press. The excellent epistie pre
fixed to it is his, as also is the Index of authors, which he
consulted and carefully searched, though his narae is not men
tioned. He hath a sermon in the Morn. Ex, at St, Giles's,
upon Saving faith.
ST. MICHAEL'S, Queenhithe, [R. S.]
Mr. Thomas Dawkes. A very melancholy divine.
ST. MICHAEL'S, Quern. [R, S.j
Matthew Pool. M.A. Oi Emafi. Col, Camb, Sonof
Erancis Pool, Esq. bornin the city of York. Richard,
the grandfatiier; was descended of the ancient family of the
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Poles* of SpinkhiU in Derbyshire. 'Being driven thence
upori occasion of his inclination to the Reformation, he lived
at Sike-house, and afterwards at Drax Abbey in Yorkshire,
near which place Mr, Matthew Poolhad lOOl. per ann. left
him by his father, who raarried alderman Toppin's daughter
of York, He was very facetious in his conversation, very
true to his friend, very strict in his piety, and universal in
his charity. ' He set on foot a good and great project for
maintaining young men of abflity, studiousness and piety, at
the universities, in the study of divinity. He had the appro
bation of the heads of houses in both of thera, and nominated
such excellent persons for trustees, and solicited so earnestly,
that in a littie time, about 900/. per ann. was procured for
that puipose. Dr. Sherlock, dean of St. Paul's, was one of
those that were educated on this foundation. But this de
sign was quashed by the Restoration.
Mr. Pool succeeded Dr. Tuckney at 5^ Michael's, where
he continued about fourteen years, till tiie Bartholomew-act
passed, and was a very diligent preacher and a hard student.
With ten years indefatigable study he finished his Synopsis
Criticorum, in .5 large volumes foho, which Mr. Woodo'wns
to be an adi-nirable and useful work ; adding, that " The au
thor left behind hira the character of a celebrated critic and
casuist," While he was drawing up this work, and his Eng
lish Annotations, it was his usual custora to rise at three or
four o'clock, and take a raw egg about eight or nine, and
another about twelve; then to continue his 'studies till the
afternoon was pretty far advanced ; when he went abroad,
and spent the evening at the house of sorae friend ; at none
more frequently than Alderman Ashhurst's. At such times
he would be exceedingly but innotently merry, very much
diverting both himself and his corapany. After supper, when
it was near tirae to go home, he would say, " Now let us
call for a reckoning ;" and then would begin some very se
rious discourse ; and when he found the company was com
posed and serious, he would' take his leave of them. This
course was very serviceable to bis health, and enabled him
to go through the great fatigUe of his studies, arid it seems a
noble example of the utile diilci. Were the mirth of our
conversation always so closed, it would leave no uneasy re--
flections behind.
When Dr. Oates's Depositions, He. were printed, Mr.
• So, it seems, the family name was originally spelt, ss a correspondent
informs the editpr. Pooi

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Poo^found hts Pwn name in the list of persons ytho were to
be cut off, as was supposed, for what he had written against
the Roman Catl?olIcs. This gave hira not the least concern,
till one night having been at the Alderraan's, he took one
^x. Charley to bear him company home ; yvhen they came
tothe narrow passage froiU Clerkenwell to St. John's court,
two men stood at the entrance, one of whom cried out,
•' Here he is." Upon which the other said, " Let him alone,
for there Is soraebody with lilm." Mr. F.bol asked his friend
whether he heard what those raen said ; .Adding, " I had been
murdered to-night, had not you been with rae." This raised
in hira such an apprehension of his danger, as occasioned him
soon afterwards to retire to Holland, where he ended his
days. But whether or no by a natural deatii has been doubted.
It was generally suspected he was poisoned. § He died at
Amsterdam., October 1679, aged ^6. — His gi"eat work on
the Bible, is deservedlv held In high estimation. It includes
not only an abridgement of the Critici Savri, but extracts
frora a. gieat nuraber of treatises and pamphlets that raight
have been otherwise lost. It was undertaken by the advice
of Bp. Lloyd, and patronized by Abp. Tillotson, and he ob
tained a royal patent for the sole printing of It. Mr. Granger
says of it, " The plan was judicious, arid the execution more
ff-ee from error than seems consistent w^ith so great a work
being finished by one^tlftan in so short "a time.'' See Toul~
Wm's Edit, of Ideal's Hist. vol. iv. p, 37')-. Note.
WORKS. Besides his Synopsis Criticorum— The Blasphemef
slain with the Sword of the Spirit; on the Dejty of the Holy
Ghost, ag. Biddle. — A Model for maintaining Students in the Uni
versity. — A Letter to the Lord C. Fleetwood. — Quo Warranto; or a
moderate Debate about the preaching of unordained Persons, ftfc,
written by Appointment of the Assembly. — Evangelical Worship ;
a Serm. bef. the Lord Mayor, Aug. 26, 1660, — Fox Clamantisw
Deserto; respecting the Ejection of the Ministers. — The Nullity of
the Romish Faith, — Dialogue between a Popish Priest and an Lng-
lish Protestant. — A seasonable Apology for Religion, on Mat. xi,
9. — Four Serm. iri Mom. Ex. — A Poem and two Epitaphs on Mr.
Jer. Whitaker.— Two on the Death of Mr. R. Vines. — Another on
that of his Friend Mr. Jacob Stock.— k Pref. to PSS. Sermons of Mr.
2<laltaifs, with some account of his Character. — One vol. foL of
Eng. Annot. on the Bible, death preventing his going farther than
the 58th ch. ot Isaiah.*'
ST.
* Several other persons vindertook to compleat the work, viz. The 59th
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ST. MILDRED'S, Bread-Street, [R. 130^.]
Richard Adams, M. A. Fel. of Braz. Nose Col. Oxf.
His grandfather, Mr. R. Adams, was rector oiWoodchurch
in Cheshire, He purchased the perpetual advowson. Six
of his line and name were devoted to the ministry, and had
preached occasionally at that place. At the university this
his grandson was a colleargue and intimate friend of^^ Mr.
Howe, who preached his funeral sermon, in which he speaks
thus of him: " About fifty years I remember his course.
Many a day have we prayed, conferred, and taken sweet
counsel together ; when he was at once an example and or
nament to his college, where he lived respected and beloved
by all, but of them most who raost knew him, on account of
that constant serenity and equality of raind, that seriousness,
that humility wherein he excelled ; and that industry he
used, bywhich he laid up that great stock of learning and
useful knowledge, which made" him a mell-instructed scribe,
able to bring out of his treasury things new and old ;
whereof there is ample proof in the part he bore in the Con
tinuation of Mr. Pool's Anyiotations. In the great city he
sfione a bright and burning light, till many such lights were
in one day put under a bushel. And then, though he was
constrained to desert his station, he did not desert his mas
ter's work, y but still he was with God, and God was -with
him. — As to his domestic relations, knowing so much of him,
I cannot but laraent their loss. Even those to whom he -was
not naturally related, desired that a public testimony of him
might remain, that he was to thera as tender a father as if he
had been their own." His humility and self-denial were
eminently conspicuous in his taking upon hira (afterhis eject
ment) the care of so poor and small a people, (in Southwark)
and continuing with them to the daraage of his own estate,
though he had considerable offers elsewhere. His meekness
was visible in all his coqversatipn, particularly in his bearing
affronts, even from those he had greatly obliged, saying,
"Iam an unworthy creature, I deserve no better." His
candor every one was sensible of who offered, in his hearing,
of Isaiah and on Jer, and Lam, Dr, CoUins. Ezekiel, Mr, Hurst. Daniel
Mr, Ceojier. Minor Prophets, Mr. Hunt. The four Evangelists, Dr. Collins.
Acts, Mr Vinke. Romans, Mr, Mayo 1 and 2 Cor, and Galat. Dr, Co/tins.
Ephes. Mr. Veal. Philip, and Coloss, Mr. Adams. 1 and 2 Thess, Mr, Bar
ter. Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, Dr, Collins. Hebrews, Mr. Oi. Hughes.
James, Peter, Jude, Mt. Veal. Three epist. of John, Mr. Hawe. Revela
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to reflect upon any persons behind their backs. When la
bour and age had worn out his strength, nothing so manifestly
troubled him as being necessitated to desist from constant
preaching. And notwithstanding all the temporal discourage
ments he. met with in the rainistry, his wish was, to the very
last, to have both his sons brought up to it. In his last ill
ness, it was observable, that when his head was disordered
about other things, he always shewed hiraself sensible in
hearing or discoursing about any thing religious. He was all
along apprehensive of approaching death, but his raind was
as calm and serene as usual, of which he hiraself gave this
account, / know in whom I have believed. Inhere is sorae
account of him in the last edit, of Wood's A then. Ox. vol. IL
p. 1023.
WORKS. Funeral Sermon for Mr. Hurst. — 4 Serm. in Mom-
Ex. — Annot. on Phil, and Cohs. in PooPs Contin. — He published
two books of his brother Mr. T. Adams, and with Mr. V£al pre*
faced several of Mr. Cliarnoci's works,
ST. CLAVE, Jewry, [V. S.j
Mr. John Wells, of St. John's Col. Oxf. Mr. Watson,
in his funeral sermon for him, says, " His preaching was
plain and profitable, suitable to the capacities of his auditory.
He was of an affable disposition ; of such candor and inge
nuity as to win the affections of many. In hini grace and
good-nature met. He was of a very forgiving spirit. Kind
nesses made a lasting irapression upori him, but injuries he
forgot. He was very charitable to the poor, many of whom
were both clothed and fed by his liberality. He died in June
l6j6, expressing a comfortable persuasion of his love to God
and interest in his favour.
, WORKS. The Practical Sabbatarian.— Prospect into Eter
nity. — Latin Poem on the death of Mr, Jer. Whita&r. — One in
Bfgliih on Mr. R. Robinson.— Two Serm. in Morn, Ex,
ST. OLAVE, Silver-Street, [R. S.J
Mr. Thomas Douglas. He fell under some scandals,
arid ftft^rwards travelled, and took the degree of M. D. at
.Padua ; returned to London, practised physic, and ran in
debt. Hp afterwards went into Ireland, and died in obscu
rity,^ — [A singular instance of misconduct among the ejected
ministers, ihe relation of -which is a proof of impartiality,]
WORKS. A Sober Testimony against sinful Compliances. —
•Zerubabbe), in defence of the former.
ST.

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ST. OLAVE, Southwark, [R/ S.j
William Cooper, M. A. He was first settied at Rijig.
mire in Sussex. His first wife's father, a considerable Dutch
limner, having got In favour with Abp, Laud, begged some
preferment for his son-in-law, upon which he gave hira this
living. But he disappointed the expectation both of his pa
tron and parish, (rauch to the satisfaction ofthe raore sober
and religious part of thera) by proving a Puritan.' He was
a Cl itical linguist, no mean philosopher, a quick disputant,
and well versed iri controversies ; a learned expositor, a cele
brated historian, and a fine poet, especially in Latin. He
was chaplain to the Queen of Bohemia, (mother to the prin
cess Sophia oi Hanover) and continued in her family at the
HagU£ frora 1644 to 1648. He was greatiy respected by
that virtuous princess, and by the sober part of her court.
He had free conversation, in Latin, with the foreign envoys,
who then resorted to her ; and became so well versed in the
affairs of Europe, as to be reckoned no small politician. He
understood raen as well as books, and was generally valued
and respected by such as knew hira ; and raost by those that
Itnew hira best,
\ His Farewell Sermon affords evident proof that he was a
man of superior talents. It is an excellent and useful dis
course, well suited tothe occasion, though it contains nothing
on the subject of Nonconformity, It is full of rich senti
ment, and abounds with pithy observations. The text is,
Phil, iv. 9, Those things which ye have both learned and
received, and have heard and seen in me do ; and the God
of peace shall be with you. Having considered, 1. The
precept respecting the duty of christians to practise what
they have heard, and to live up to the duties thev have
learned, a;id 2. The promise of the presence of the God of
peace, for their direction, assistance, support and comfort,
he proceeds to address his hearers by way of exhortation as
follows. " Let me now prevail with you all to do the things
which you have heard and received. Oh walk in obedience
to God, if you would ever enjoy his gracious presence.
Many precious trutiifs, have been preached among you : many
heavenly doctrines have been set before you: many whole
some lessons and faithful adraonitions have been given you.
Let rae now therefore (being for aught I know, as a Star
setting and rising no raore in this horizon ; like a lamp' go
ing out and shining no more, in this your sacred hoUse of
meeting; and as a dying man, whose last breath is, now ex
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piling) let me persuade you, for your own good, to remem
ber what you have heard, to hpld fast what you have re
ceived, and to practise what you have learned." Many
weighty considerations are then urged to inforce this ad
vice, especially such as are derived from the importance
of tiie divine presence and favour, which he observes has
this, above all, to recommend it, that it is a lasting good.
" Your riches, your coraforts, your fiiends, may be with
you to-day, and be gone to-morrow, but his love and favour
continue for ever. All things without God are full of vani^
ty and change ; but he is a faithful friend, loving at all tirties.
His favour is a sun that knows no setting, and his presence
a well of comfort springing to eternal life." Then follow
several excellent directions respecting the nature and raanner
of a chrlstian'sobedlence, v. g. " It raust be according to the
unerring rule of God's word. Be like those noble Bereans
who exarained the grounds of their faitli and obedience. Do
not offer to God a sacrifice without, eyes. Your religion
must be a scriptural religion, would you be accepted of God
in it. — It raust also be cordial without dlssenibllng. Obe
dience without the heart will bring neither glory to God, npr
comfort to us. Take heed lest through your hypocrisy yoU
go to hell in the way of Duty. — Whatever you have heard,
do it without reserve. True obedience is universal. One
leak in the ship of thy soul may sink it in endless perdition.
Lastly, what you have heard, do it constantly and to the end.
As God condemns no man before he sins, so neither will he
crown any man before he overcomes. We must conquer be
fore we can triumph : we must obtain the crown uf eternal
glory by a patient continuance in well doing. Take heed
therefore that you be not carried away with the error of the
wicked. Press on towards the mark, hold fast your integri
ty, and persevere according to what you have received from
the Lord, and break through all discouragements for commu
nion with him. In God you have a living spring, when all
your vessels are empty. In him you have a sure sanctuary
when all vour refuges in the world are laid level with the
ground. In him you have a glorious sun, when all the bla
zing stars of creature comforts are extinguished. In him
you shall find everlasting friendship, when all your friends ac
cording to the flesh, are put to perpetual silence in the
grave." WORKS. A Thanksgiving Serm. before the, Pari, on ZecL
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xiii. 2. — Three Serm. in Morn. Ex. — Fun. Serm. for Mr. Chrlsi.
Fowler, — Some 7.a//a Verses. — Annot. upon Daniel in Pool's Contin,
Ralph Venning, M. A. of Eman. Col. Camb. was
ejected from this lectureship. He was a popular preacher,
and rauch followed. He was a raost iraportunate and pre
valent pleader for the poor, who were very nuraerous in that
parish. He yearly got some hundreds of pounds for thera ;
having such a way of recoraraending charity as frequently
prevailed with people to ^ive who had gone to church with
resolutions to the contrary. He died March lo, 1673, [aged
53.] His funeral serraon was preached by Mr. Robert Bragg.
§ Mr. Venning's Farewell-sermon was on Heb. x. 23.
Let us hold fast the prof essiori <f our faith without waver-.
ing, for heis faithful thai promised. This discourse, which
was the second on the same text, appears to have been deli-
livered extempore and inaccurately taken. As there is but
little reference to the occasion, the following extracts may
sufGce.— " It Is not enough to hold fast our faith, but the
profession of it. Why } The profession of faith is as neces
sary as the faith itself. See ,flow. X. 9, 10. An unprofessed
faith hath no salvation annexed to it. Now if it is necessary
to profess, it is necessary to hold fast, faith; and consequently
as necessary to hold fast the profession thereof. To say, I
will keep faith, I will only part with a liitle profession, is
all one in scripture sense, as to part with faith itself. Faith
without profession, will do no more for you than profession
without faith. Observe what the apostle speaks, Heb iii.
14. We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the begin
ning of our confidence stedfast unto the end : not else —
It is a manly act to holdfast that which is good, but childish
to let it go — It is also a christian act ; that which dlstin-
, guishes a christian from a hypocrite. Heb. x. 37. — I pro
mised you some helps [or directions] with which 1 shall con-
dude this discourse : I pray God I may not say, preaching
too. Would you hold fast ? then 1. Take heed of every sort
of men that raake religion a trade to get money by (1 Tim.
vi. 35.) — Menof corrupt minds, supposing that gain isgodli-
ness : or as most read it, that godliness is gain, a mere trade.
2. Take heed of the error of the wicked (2 Pet, iii. 17.) who
say. It is vain to serve God. If ye lose/or him ye shall not
lose by him. 3, Lay up the word of faith in a good and ho
nest heart. Luke viii. 15, If it be only in your hands* or
head, it will be gone ; but if it be in your hearts you will ne
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tivc of the faith. 1 Tim. iii. 9. 4. Look much to, and often
consider, Jesus Christ the author and finisher of your faith.
Think how he humbled himself and became poor that we
might be rich. Think what a good confession he made be
fore Pontius Pilate, and how he was obedient unto death.
Think how he conquered death by dying, &c, and shall we
leave such a Christ as this ? Can you look upon Christ and
leave the profession of your faith ? It cannot be. Keep
Christ before your eyes, make him your pattern, and you
will not, you cannot do amiss. I shall shut up all in the
words oi Jude, verse 20, 21."
WORKS. Warning to Backsliders. — Way to Happiness. —
Mercy's Memorial. — Canaan's Flowings ; or Milk and Honey. —
Orthodox and miscell. Paradoxes. — ^The new Command renewed.
Mysteries and Revelations. — Things worth thinking on. — Sin the
Plague of Plagues. — His Remains, [with his Portrait.] _
Samuel Smith, M. A. Lecturer in the sarae place. He
had before been cast out of the sequestered living of Boden-
hdm, Herefordshire. He was afterwards pastor to a sraall
congregation of Dissenters at Windsor, where he died, 1714,
and was succeeded by Mr. Sheffield.
ST. PANCRAS, Soper Lane, 1R. S.]
Mr. George Cokayn. After his ejectraenFhe was pas
tor of a congregational church in the city, and many eminent
citizens adhered to him ; among whom were A,lderman
Titchboum, Ireton, Wilson, Sir John Moor, &c. After
many labours in the service of his master, and some suffer
ings for him, he quietly ended his days, and was carried to
his grave in peace, with a nuraerous attendance of devout
mourners. He was succeeded by Mr. John Nisbet.
WORKS. A Serm. before tiie Pari. Nov. 9,9, 1648.— Divine
Astrology ; a Fun. Serm. for Col. W. Underwood, on Is. Ivii. ) . —
A Pref. Epist. to Mr. O. Sedgivick's Fun. Serm. for Rowland IVilsos,
Esq.— -He had a hand, with Mr. CaryJ, in the Eng. Greek Lexicon.
ST. PAUL'S, Covent-Garden, [R. 350/.]
Thomas Manton, D. D. of Oxf. Univ. Born in 1620,
zt Lawrence-Lydiard, in Somersetshire. Both his father
and grandfather were ministers. He was at first ministei- at
Cedyton in Devonshire, anid afterwards at Stoke- Newington,
from whence he came to Covent-Garden, where he suc
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his taking orders in 1660, from Thomas Bp. of Galloway,
who, it seems, did at that time ordain such of the English
clergy as came to him, without oaths or subscriptions.* If
those writers supposed, as they seem to have done, that the
Dr. who had been a celebrated preacher for many years, re
mained till then unordained, they were mistaken, for he was,
ordained by Bp. Hall, before he was twenty years of age
And Mr. Jos. Hill of Rotterdam was positive that he neve;r
took any other than Deacon's orders, afid never would sub
mit to any other ordination ; for it was his judgment that he
was properly ordained tothe ministerial ofiice, and that nd
powers on eartl] had any right to divide and parcel that out at
their pleasure. He was in great reputation at the tirae of the
Restoration. § He vvas one of the Savoy commissioners, and
very earnest in his endeavours tp get the declaration passed
into a law; arid had it been accomplished he would have ac
cepted the Deanry that was offered him. He was a man of
great learning, judgment^ and integrity ; of great temper and
moderation, and respected by all that knew him. Abp.
Usher used to say, " He was a voluminous preacher;" not
that he was tedious for length, but h.e had the art of reducing
the substance of volumes of divinity into a narrow compass.
Mr. Charnock oft represented him as the best collector of
sense of any in the age. He was no fomenterof faction, but
studious of the public tranquillity. His generous constancy
of mind in resisting the current of popular humour, declared
his loyalty to his Divine Master.
He was imprisoned for his nonconformity, and many ways
a sufferer; yqt kept up a considerable interest at court, and
with men of note. The noble Earl (afterwards Duke) of
Bedford, who had been his parishioner at Covent-Garden,
was his cordial frierid to his death; so also was Lord
Whdrtoyi, and many other persons of considerable quality.
He generally had the chair in the meetings of the dissenting
ministers of the city, who found the want of his pi-udence^
activity and interest joined together, when he was taken from
thera. He died Oct. 18, 1677, leaving behind him the ge
neral reputation of as excellent a preacher as this city or na
tion hath produced. Dr. Bates, in his funeral serraon for
him, says, " A clear judgment, rich fancy, strong meraory,
• Burnet's Hist, of his own Times, vol. 1, p, 132,
§ A curious account of a long conversation which he once held with K.
Charles II, relating to the Jfonconformist ministers, may be seen in a letter
ai his to Mr, Baxter, who has given it at length in his Life, Part iii, p. 3%. '
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and happy elocution met in him, and were excellentiy im
proved by diligent study." [He was endowed with extra
ordinary knowledge in the scriptures, and in his preaching
gave a perspicuou? account of the order and dependence of
^divine ti-uths. — His discourses wereclear artd convincing, so
as to be effectual not only to raise a short commotion in the
affections, but to make a lasting change in the life. His doc
trine was the truth according io g'odliness: He did not en
tertain his hearers with impertinent subtilties, empty notions,
intricate disputes, Sfc. but preached as one who had always
before his eyes the glory of God and the salvation of men ;
both in respect to his matter and his expression, in which he
had a singular talent.
Dr. Wm. Harris, in the Memoirs of his life, mentions
the following anecdote of hira : " Being to preach before the
lord-mayor, the court of aldermen, Sfc. at St. Paul's, the'
Dr. chose a subject, in which he had an opportunity of dis
playing his judgraent and learning. He was heard with ad
miration and applause by the more inteUigent part of the au
dience. But as he was returning from dinner with the lord-
mayor in the evening, a poor man following him, pulled him
by the sleeve of his gown, and asked him if he were the
gentleman that preached before the lord-mayor. He replied,
he was. " Sir, says he, I came with hopes of getting some
good to my .soul, but I was greatly disappointed, for Icould
not understand a great deal of what you said ; you were
quite above me." The Dr. replied with tears, " Friend, if
I did not give you a sermon, you have given nie one, and by
the grace of God I will never play the fOol to preach before
my lord-mayor in such a raanner again."]
His style was not exquisitely studied, hut far from vulgsr
meanness. His delivery was natural and free, clear and elo
quent, quick and powerful, without any spice of folly, and al
ways suited to the simplicity and majesty of divine truths. His
earnestness was such as might soften the most obdurate spi
rits. " I am not speaking (says Di". Bates) of one whose
talent was only in 'voiee, who laboured in the pulpit as if the
end of preaching were^ for the exercise of the body : tills man
of God was inflamed with an holy zeal, and fmm thence
such ardent expressions broke forth as procured attention and
consent in the hearers. He spoke as one who had a living
faith withrei him of divine truths. The sound of words only
strikes the ear, but the mind reasons with the mind, and the
heart speaks. to the heait. — He abounded ia th« woi^ ai the
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Lord, preaching with unparalleled assiduity and frequency,
yet was always superior to others and equal to himself. In
the decline of his life he would not leave his beloved work,
the vigour of his mind supporting the weakness of his body.
As a Christim, his life was answerable to his doctrine. His
resolute contempt of the world secured him from being
wrought upon by those low motives which terapt sordid spi
rits from their duty. His charity was eminent in procuring
supplies for others when in raean circumstances himself. But
he had great experience of God's fatherly provision, to which
his filial confidence was correspondent. His conversation
in his family was holy and exeraplary, every day instructing
them in their duty frora the scriptures. His humility was
great. He was deeply affected with the sense of his frail
ties and unworthiness. He expressed his thoughts to Dr.
Bates pn this head a little before his death. " 'Tis infinitely
terrible (says he) to appear before God the judge of all, with
out the protection of ihe blood of sprinkling ihat speaks bet
ter things than the blood of Abel." This alone relieved
him, and supported his hopes ; which was the subject of his
last public discourse.
§ Dr. Calamy relates a singular anecdote of Dr. Manton
in respect to the affair of Wallingjord-house. He had a
summons to attend the meeting there, but no information as
to the object of it, though he feared the worst. He went ;
but in passing a dark entry, he heard a voice in the room
where the meeting was held, repeating with vehemence
these words, "He must down, and he shall down." He
clearly distinguished the voice to be Dr. Owen's, and was so
much alarmed that he vrent away. The next day he found
the matter explained by the dissolution of the parliament, in
order to the deposing of Richard Cromwell. This account
Mr. Stretton assured Dr. Calamy and others, he had frora Dr.
Manton himself. Mr. Matthew Barker aflSrmed that he
knew this account to be true ; [and it agrees with what Mr.
Ba.vter relates in his Life ; who says " that Dr. Oxcen and
his assistants did the main work." Part i. p. loi. The
fact however has been denied.]
Dr. Manton' s Farewell Sermon is on Heb. xii. i. Seeing
we arc compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,
&LC. It is a useful discourse, and suitable to the' occasion,
though not very appropriate. The following extract may
suiRce. " The worthies mentioned in the former chapter,
and all the saints of God, recorded as having experienced his
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goodness, and the fulfilling of his proraises, ate called tii)it-
nesses, because they depose a testiraony for God, and speak
to future generations, to be constant as they were, that they
may receive the like- reward. We are encompassed, or sur
rounded by a cloud, a vast number, of such witnesses, in
every circumstance of duty, temptation and trial. Let us not
be slothful, but followers of them. Let faith set patience to
work: hold out a little while, and you shall with them In
herit the promises. They shall be made good to a tittle, and
you shall find, as these holy men did, not one thing fail, of
ftll that the Lord hath spoken. They were exercised, and
tossed to and fro, but it succeeded well with them at last.
O then, let us hearken to the deposition of these worthy
wimesses recorded in scripture, and with such an invincible
resolution as theirs, let us hold on our course towards true
happiness. If we do not, they that are now proposed as
witnesses to us, will at the day of judgment be produced as
witnesses against us. And let us also reraeraber, that we
are to continue that testimony to succeeding generations.
For not only were the prophets and holy men of God [in
tiraes of old] but all God's people are his witnesses, also.
Isa. xliii. 10. By theirfaith, patience, diligence, constancy
and chearfulness under afflictions, they are to give it under
their hand and seal to the world, that God Is a true and faith
ful God."
WORKS. A Practical Exposition on Isaiah liii. — On the
Epistle of James. — On the Epistle i£Jude. — Smectymnuus Redi-oivus ;
an Answer to an humble Remonstrance. — The Saints Triumph
ever Death ; a Funeral Sermon for Mr. Chr. hrve. — Four Sermons
in Morning Ex. — Several before Parliament on pub. Occasions. — '
After his death. Twenty Sermons on the Psalms, Acts, Sic. — Eigh
teen on 2 J^ss. ii. on the Growth and Fall of Antichrist. — Practi
cal Expos, on Lord's Prayer, Svo. — Several Disc, tending to
promote Holiness, Svo. — 5 vols, of Serm. in fol. ¦via. 1st, oq the
whole cxixth Psalm ; — 2d, 27 Serm, on Matt. v. — 45 on John xvii.
— 24 on Rom. vi. 45 on Rom. viii. and 40 on 2 Cor. v. — 3d, 66
Serm. oa Heb. xi. — Treatise on the Life of Faith. — Treatise on
Self-denial. — Several Serm. on the Lord's Supper. — 4th and 5th
vols. Select Sermons on several texts. — A piece on Man's Enmity
against God.
Mr. Pinchbeck was assistant to Dr. Manton, and was
ejected with him. He was a man very zealous against the
ceremonies,
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ST. PETER'S, Cheap, [R. S.]
Roger Drake, D. D. Wood says he was a physician ,*•
but he was well known in London as a divine. He was con
cerned with Mr. Love, and submitted to the mercy of pariia-
ment. He was one of the commissioners at the Savoy. ^ Mr.
Baxter says, he was a wonder of sincerity and humility ;
and Dr. Annesley, " that his writings will be esteemed while
there are books in the world, for that stream of piety that
runs through thera." He always laid by a tenth part of his
incorae for the poor, before he used any of it hiraself. His
last words were " Jesus take rae, for I am ready,"
WORKS. Sacred Chronology.— Two Serm. in Morn. Ex.— -
A Boundary lo the Holy Mount 5- ag. Mr. Hum/threy's Free Admis
sion to the Lord's Supper, — ^The Bar Fixed; in Answer to Mr.
H.'s Rejoinder. — ^Poems on the Deaths of Mr. Jer. Whitaker. — Mr.
Raljih Robinson, — and Mr. Richard Vines.
ST. PETER'S, Westminster Asbey.
John Rowe, M. A. of New Inn Hall, Oxf . Bom at
Tiverton. He was son of the excellent Mr. John Rowe of
Crediton, whose life is pmblished,. and' affords reraarkable
Kiemoraudums of christian piety, industry, constancy and
fsourage. He continued at Oxford after the university be
came a garrison, and then was transplanted to Ccnnb-ridge,
but returned afterwards to Oxford, when things were set
tled, and was preferred to a fellowship xa. Corpus Christi
Col. His first public employment in the gospel was at Wit
ney in Oxfordshire, where he preached a lecture with good
acceptance and great advantage to the souls of his hearers.
There fell Out a remarkable pro-videnee here, which he
mightily improved for the conviction of many. Some disso
lute persons came to the town to act a play, and had an up
per room for the purpose in a private house ; where, as they
were actingon a market day, the room, being overloaded, fell
down, by which several people were killed, • and many much.
hurt. Mr. Rowe, upon this occasion preached and printed three
serraons, in order to the improvement of this awful provi
dence ; which was the raore remarkable, as sorae of the ac
tors had even dared and defied death, and therein the God of
Jife and death,
Mr. Rowe was for some time a preacher at Tiverton, where
he was not without honour, though in his own country.
From thence, on the deatii of Mr. Strong, 1654, ^^ becarae
preacher in the Abbey at Westminster, and pastor of the
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congregation which Mr. Strong had gathered there, of whom
many were merabers of parliament, and persons of quality,
residing in Westminster. He was a good scholar, well read
in the Fathers, and had such a knowledge of Greek, that
he began very young to keep a Diary in that language;
which he continued till his death ; but he burnt most of it in
his last illness. He was a man of great gi^vity in conversa
tion, of strict piety, of diligent researches into the mysteries
of religion, not contenting himself with superficial notions,
but chiefly commending such as tended to practice. After
the return of the ejected choristers to the abbey, and organs,
there was no farther place for him tiiere. Yet after that and
the Uniformity -act, he continued faithful to his church,
preaching to them often inBartholomew-Close, or wherever
else the rigour ofthe times would allow tbeni to meet with any
•safety. The expressions with which he closed the last ser
mon he ever preached are reraarkable. " We should not,
«aid he, desire to continue longer in this world than to glorify
God, and finish our wprk ; and should be ready to say. Fare
well lime; welcome blessed eternity. Even so come Lord
Jesus." He died Oct. 12, 1677. He had a son, Mr. Tho
mas Rowe, a rainister In London. Both are burled under
the sarae stone at Bunhill.
WORKS. Mairs Duty of magnifying God's Works. — Fast
Serm. bef. the Pari, — The Saint's Triumph. — The Saint's Tempta
tions and Fence. — Immanuel; or Christes Love explained and ap
plied, &c. — Heavenly-mindedness and Earthly-mindedness. — ^The
Life and Death of his Father. — The Love of Christ in his Inter
cession. — A Disc, bn the Office ofthe Holy Spirit. — A Disc, ofthe
Trinity. — Sermons on Part ofthe 1 st and 1 5th Chap, of St. John'i
Gospel. — After hi.s death, thirty Sermons on the Love ofChrist iil
his Incarnation, Eifc. published by his successor Mr. £ee, who pre
fixed to them some account of the author,
ST. PETER'S, Cornhill, [R. S. 282I. los.J
Mr. William Blackmore, M. A. of Lincoln Col. Oxf.
Ordained Deacon by Prideaux Bp. of Worcester ; but he
afterwards received classical ordination. He was iraprisoned
in the Tower with Mr. Love and others, but had his parole by
means of his elder brother Sir John Blackmore, who had
sided with Oliver, and was his bail ; by which means he was
very helpful to Mr. Love in his trial. At the desire and ap
pointment of the Provincial Asserably of London, (to which
fee was secretary) he drew up that part in the book intitled,
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Jus Dw. Regim. Eccl. which treats of " ordination by im
position of hands." After Bartholomew-day 1662, he lived
privately at Haresireet, near Rumford in Essex, to a good
old age ; preaching once a day gratis in his own hired house.
He was particularly useful in catechizing youth. He was a
considerable man ; a person of moderation and prudence ; and
distinguished as a peace-maker. A son of his was for many
years pastor of a congregation of Dissenters at Worcester.
ST. SAVIOUR'S, Southwark. [C. lool.]
Mr. John Crodacot and Mr. Stephen Watkins. They
were joint [chaplains*] here, and spread tiie gospel very ami
cably and successfully. Mr. Crodacoti was also lecturer at
St, Sepulchre's on Lord's-day afternoon, and on Tuesdays
many years, and was much honoured for his works sake. He
published nothing but a sermon before the Lord Mayor at
the Spittle, on the preferableness of heavenly treasures. — Mr.
Watkins has a serraon in the Moming Exercises.
§ Some just and favourable idea of Mr. Crodacott as a
preacher, may be forraed from his Farewell-sermon, df
which, as it is appropriate to the occasion, we shall give a
pretty full abstract. Phil. iv. 9. Those things which ye
have heard and seen in me, do ,- and the God qf peace shall
he with you. " From this verse we may, observe, I. That
the people's eyes must be taught by the minister's holiness of
life, as well as their ears by his soundness of doctrine. Paul
did not preach one thing, and practise another ; he practised
as he preached. II. That a minister's soundness in doctrine,
and holiness of life, lay a great obligation on a people to every
coraraanded duty. Vaiious appellations given to rainisters :
[among others here raentioned] they are called the lights of
* Dr, Calamy very improperly speaks of them as joint Pastors — ^The fact
is, this was anciently a priory of Nuns: afterwards of Canons Regular;
founded and refoundcd by a -Virgin, Norman Knights, and antichristian Pre
lates, The Chapel of the monastery was in course of time appointed for the
use of the neighbouring inhabitants, and at length became their parish church.
Afterwards, another parish being united, both the parishes purchased the
Conventual Church, and by act of parliament were incorporated nnder the pre
sent name. The church-wardens were constituted a body politic and corporate,
Jn process of lime K. James granted the Rectory, &c, in free soccage to the ^
church-wardens and parisliiohers for a valuable consideration, upon sundry
conditions, one of vvhich was that they should provide two able chaplains to
proach in the church, whose original stipend was setiled at 30 /, per annum to
each j but afterwards increased as it now stands to 100/. so that the officiating
ministers have ever since been stiled Chaplains, Snch doubtless were the tWQ
persons here mentioned : and this accounts for there being two in exactly the
s,-\me predicament. There is no instance of any such thing as two Rectors of
one parish, Dr, Calamy seems not to have attended to this, which led him
tu inak.e the mist.ike of calling them " Joint Pastors." th^

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ike world. Without a godly and faithful ministry, the world
lieth in darkness, error, sin and misery. We may hence in
fer, (i.) That to be offended at the light of such a ministry
argues a sinful and wretched frame of heart ; but to put out
the light is worse. It is now thought fit to deny liberty, and
thus take from the people the knowledge of salvation : and
can there be a more hellish plot than this ? Like the chuich
of Rome they have church-extinguishers to put out the light.
The reason is, they hate the light because iheir deeds are
evil, — (2.) If good ministers be the lights of the world, it
nearly concerns the people to believe in the light, to walk in
the light, and to walk while the light lasts. Use 1. Of Ex
amination. Are your hearts fully possessed with the power
of those divine and heavenly truths which you have heard
again and again inculcated upon yon ? Do you make con
science of family duty ? Are your houses Bethels ? houses
ofGod, houses of prayer, habitations of holiness? Do you
make conscience of relative as well as of personal duties ?
When the great God shall arraign thee at the great and fear-
^l day, will thou be able to say. Lord I lived under a soul-
betraying, non-resident minister ? one that made it hlis busi
ness to fleece, not to feed the flock ; or a blind leader of the
blind ; or one who by his conversation gave his doctrine the
lie ? We are able with hurable boldness to apjieal to the Lord,
^nd to yourselves. Blessed be the God of grace, we can
take you to record, that we are pure frpra your blood. Wc
have not ceased to declare all that the Father hath shewn to
us ; we have not been affrighted by any raan's frowns, nor
debauched to conceal any part of it by any raan's smiles. —
Use 2. Of Direction; to which I beseech you to hearken,
as .these may be my last words to you In this place. An in
terruption, a suspension of my weak labours among you
tiiere will be from this day. But observe, it is no resignation
from me or my rev. brother. Then hearken to my words as
the words of a dying man ; yet not dead, and perhaps I shall
not die, but live and declare the word of the Lord to you
many a time in this place. My first counsel is, that when the
Lord taketh away your ministers, you would be deeply sensible
( 1.) of the inflicting cause, i.e. the LiOrd himself. Thisjudgraent,
threatened .(iwzoi viii. 1 1 . he inflicts soraetimes by death — some
times by removal — sometimes by deprivation. A time there was
when the good priests and Levites were forced to flee their own
places and possessions. 2 Chron. xi. 13, 14. Sometiraes by sus-
pension> A time there was wheo the people would jiot en-
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dure faithful Jeremiah. A time there was that a Taw w^s
made, Speak no more in the name of Jesus. Paul, Timothy
,5Hid Sylvanus were forbid to preach to the Gentiles. (2.) The
meritorious cause : the inflexiblehess of the people under the
ministry of the word — the unfruitfulness, formality, luke-
warmness, and declining of God's people. Can England^
can London plead not guilty." After other pertinent advices
he adds, " Be earnest with the Lord for a godly faithful rai
nistry, whose labours he is used to bless. Jesus Christ is the
greatest patron of all livings : he can present whom he will to
this parish, and restore whom he will to a people, as he did
Peter outof prison bythe people's prayers. — III. In the practice
of duty God's people may expect the presence of the God of
peace in the worst of times. — rChrist hath promised to be with
his ministers ahvays: in prison, sealing the truth, as well as
in the pulpit preaching it. Put this promise in suit by prayer
ffor M,y] and we shall not cease to pray for you. Our se-
questring frora our preaching work will give us more time
for praying work." — He concludes with a solemn caution
against apostatizing — from truth of doctrine — purity of wor
ship — and holiness of life. " Beware of itching after novel
opinions, and new lights, as dropt down frora heaven, but
are indeed as the sraoke of the bottomless pit. Prize the
fospel, and live according to it. Study peace and pursue it,
>ecline all dividing principles and practices. That you raay
not either breed or feed circumstantial differences, or substan-'
tial divisions, consider, God is the God of peace. May we
so live in peace that he may dwell with us here, and we with
him hereafter."
The savoy.
Mr. William Hook. A very leiarned, holy, humble, and
useful man. He was sorae tirae colleague with Mr. Daven
port in the church .of New-Haveri in New- England. After
his return to England, he was minister at Ex'mouth in De-
•donshiri: and then master of the Savoy, and chaplain to
Oliner Cronlwell. He died March 21, 1677, about 77 years
of age,
WORKS. ' The Privileges ofthe Saints on Earth above those in
Heaven, — The Slaughter ofthe Witnesses. — A Serm. in Siippl. to
Morn. Ex. and some other things.
ST. SEPULCHRE'S, fV. 270I.]
Thomas Gouge, M.A. of Eaton. School, and Kingis,
Col. Oxf. Son Qri the eminent I)r. William Go.uge oi
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Blackfriars. He was born at Bow, near Stratford, Middle^
sex. [After he hdd taken his degrees, he left the university
and his fellowship, being presented to the living of Colsden
Iti Surrey, where he contmued two or three years, and then
removed to St. Sepulchre's in London, in 1638, a large and
populous parish, in which, with solicitude and pains, he dis
charged all the duties of a faithful minister twenty-four vears;
Besides his constant preaching, he was diligent arid charita
ble in visiting the sick ; not only ministering spiritual coun
sel and comfort to them, but liberally relieving the necessi
ties of the poor. Every raorning through the year, he ca
techized in the church, chiefly the poorer sort, who were
generally the most Ignorant, and especially the aged, who
had most leisure. To encourage them to corae for Instruc
tion, he once a week distributed money among them ; but
changed the day, to oblige them to a constant attendance. As
for the poor who were able to get their own living, he set
them to work, buying flax and hemp for thera to spin. He
i^aid them for their work, and sold it as he could among his
friends. By this means he rescued matty from idleness, po-'
-VSrty, and vice. This course of his gave the first hint to Mr.
ST. Eirmin of that plan of his for employing the poor, which
met with such general applause.
Mr. Gouge's piety towards God, the necessary foundation
of all other virtues, was great and exeraplary, 'yet still and
quiet ; rauch more in substance than In shew. It did not con
sist in finding, fault with others, but in the due government
of his own life and actions ; e.vercising himself continually
to have a conscience void of offence towards God and man;
in which he was such a proficient, that, after a long and fa
miliar acquaintance with hira, it was not easy to discern any
thing in him which deserved blarae. So great was his fiio-
desty, that he never appeared, either by word or action, to
put any value upon himself. In regard to the charities he
procured, he would rather impute them to any, who had the
least concern in obtaining them, than assume any thing to
himself. When he quitted his Hving of St. Sepulchre's, up
on some dissatisfaction* about the terms of conformity, he"
forbore preaching ; saying, " There was no need of hira in
London i and that he thought he might do as much or mbrt
good iu another way, which could give no offence. Though
afterwards, (being better satisfied of some things he had
* The words distinguished as above, it is to be remembered, are those of
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doubted of before,) he had licence from some of the bishops
to preach in Wales, when he took his annual journey thither,
where he saw great need of it, and thought he might do it
-with great advantage among the poor, on account of his cha
rities there. He was clothed with humility, and had in a
most erainent degree that ornaraent of a meek and quiet spi
rit. He was not only free frora anger and bitterness, but
from all affected gravity and raoroseness. His conversation
was affable and pleasant. A wonderful serenity of mind was
visible even in his countenance. He was hardly ever merry,
but never sad ; and upon all occasions appeared thesame:
always chearful, and always kind; ready to erabrace and
oblige all men ; and if they did but fear God and work righ
teousness, he heartily loved thera, how distant soever from
him in judgraent about things less necessary, and even in opi
nions that he held very dear.
But the virtue which shone the brightest in him, and wai
his raost proper and peculiar character, was his Charity to
the poor. God blessed him with a good estate, and he was
liberal beyond most raen in doing good with it ;] which in
deed he made the great business of his life, to which he
applied himself with as much constancy and diligence as other
men labour at their trades. He sustained great loss by the
Pire of London, so that (when his wife died, and be had set
tled his children) be had but igol. per ann. left; and even
then he constantly disposed of lOOZ. in works of charity.
[He had a most singular sagacity and prudence in devising
tbe most effectual ways of doing good, and in disposing of
his charity to the greatest extent, and the best purposes ; al
ways, if possible, making it serve some end of piety or reli
gion : e.g. instructing poor children iu the principles of reli
gion, and furnishing grown persons, who were ignorant,
with the Bible, and other good books ; strictly obliging those
to whom he gave them, to a diligent reading of them, and
enquiring afterwards how they had profited. In his occa
sional alms to the poor, the relief he gave them was always
mingled with good counsel, and as great a compassion for
their souls as their bodies ; which, in this way, often had the
best effects. For the nine or ten last years of his life, he al
most wholly applied his charity to Wales,- where he thought
there was the most occasion for it ; and he took great pains
to engage the assistance of other persons in his own designs,]
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«f charity in general ; urging tiiem to devote at least the
TENTH of their estates to this use.
When he was between sixty and seventy years of age, he
used to travel into IFaUs, and disperse consideiable sums of
money, both his own, and what he collected from other per
sons, among the poor labouring persecuted ministers. [But
the chief designs of his charity there, were to have poor chil
dren taught to read and write, and carefully instructed in the
principles of religion ; and to furnish persons grown up with
the necessary means of religious knowledge.] With a view
to the former, he settled three or four hundred schools in the
chief towns; in many of which women were, employed to
teach children to read, and he undertook to pay for some
hundreds of children himself. With a view to the latter, he
procured them Bibles, and other books of piety and devo
tion, in their own language ; great nurabers of >yhich, he got
translated, and sent to the chief towns, to be sold at easy
rates to those that were able to buy thera, and given to such
as were not. In 1675 he procured a new and fair impression
of the Welch Bible and liturgy, to the nuraber of 8000 ; one
thousand of these were given away, and the rest sold much
below the common-price. He used often to say with plea
sure, that he had two livings, which he would not exchange
for the greatest in England ; viz. Christ's Hospital, where
he used frequently to catechize the poor children; and Wales,
where he used to travel every year (and sometimes twice in
the year) to spread knowledge, piety and charity.
A certain author * insinuates, that his charities in Wales
-were only to serve a parti/, ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ visible effect of them
is, the increase of the Di^eniers. This reflection on his rae
mory is as false as it is invidious. For he was so far from that
narrowness of spirit, or bigotry to the interest of the Dissen
ters, that he procured the Church Catechism, with a prac
tical exposition of it, and the Common- Prayer, to be print
ed In Welch, and freely given to the poor ; as well as The
Whole Duty of Man, The Practice of Piety, and other
practical books, containing such things only as good Chris
tians are generally agreed in, and not one to persuade people
to Nonconformity. If the growth oi Dissenters in M'^alcs be
an effect of the increase of knowledge there, we can't help
that. They whose consciences are enlightened and moved
by the word of God, will be always disposed to pay a greater
veneration to divine truths and ordinances than' to sueh usa-
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ges as are merely human ; and will be naturally apt to scruple
those things that want the sacred impress of divine authority^
And if this gentleman thinks the best expedient to prevent this,
JS to keep the people in the same state of ignorance they were
in during the period of which his history treats, he has the
Papists on his side, but it is hoped none that understand Pro
testant principles.
While Mr. Gouge was doing all this good, he was perse,*
cuted even in Wales, and excommunicated, for preaching
occasionally, though he had a licence, and though he went
Constantly to the parish-churches and communicated there.
But, for the love of God and raen, he endured these and aill
the difficulties he raet with, doing good with patience and
with pleasure. So that, all things considered, there have
not, since the primitive times of Christianity, been many
among the sons of men to whom that glorious character of
the Son of God might be better applied, " that he went about
doing good." He diedsuddenly in his sleep, Oct. 29, 1681,
aged jj. His- funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Tillot
son, afterwards Abp. of Canterbury, [from which the above
account is principally extracted.] Mr. Baxter says, " He
never heard ariy one person speak one word to his dishonour,
no not the highest prelatists themselves,- save only that hq
conformed not to their impositions."
WORKS. The Principles of Religion explained in Q. and A.
(as valuable as raost books of the kind.) — A Word to Sinners.  •
A Sermon on Good Works.-^Chrlstian Directions to walk with
God, — The surest and safest way of Thrivingi -viz, by Charity
to the Poor. [An excellent piece, worthy the serious perusal of
all who are blessed with this World's Good.] — The young Man's
Guide through the Wilderness of this Worid.-^The Christian
Housholder. — Sermons exciting England to Gratitude, £sf'c.
¦ Mr. William AddeeIly was ejected from this Lecture^
ship. ST. STEPHEN'S, Walbrook, [R. S. lool.]
Thomas Watson, M, A,oi Eman, Col. CirwA. where
he vvas noted for being a hard student. He was so well
known in the city for his piety and usefulness, that though
he was singled out by the Friendly Debate, he yet carried a
general respect from all sober persons along with him to his
grave. [He was a man of considerable learning, a popular
but judicious preacher, (If ohe may judge from his writings)
and eminent in the gift of prayer. Of this the following a-
necdote

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necdote is a sufficient proof :] Once on a lecture-day, before
the Bartholomew-act took place, the learned Bp. Richard
son came to hear him, who was much pleased with his ser
mon, but especially with his prayer after it, so that he fol
lowed him home to give him thanks, and earnestly desired a
copy of it. " Alas 1 (said Mr. Watson) that Is what I can
not give, fpr I do not use to pen ray prayers ; it was no stu
died thing, but uttered, pro re naia, as God enabled me,
from the abundance of my heart and affections." Upon
which the good Bishop went away wondering that any man
could pray in that manner exterapore. After his ejectment
he continued the exercise of his rainistry in the city as Provi
dence gave opportunity, for many years ; but his strength
wearing away, he retired into Essex, and there died sud
denly in his closet at prayer.
^ In the collection of Farewell-sermons, there are three
by Mr. Watson: viz. two delivered Aug. 17. and the third
on the Tuesday following. The first is on John xiii. 34. A
new commandment give I unto you, ihat ye love one ano
ther, &c. It discovers much of the spirit of the gospel, par
ticularly in recommending love to enemies and persecutors-
The 2d is on 2 Cor vii. 1. Having these promises, dearly
beloved, let us cleanse ourselves. In the former part of it
he insists largely on " the ardent affections of a right gospel
minister towards his people." 'This head he closes thus.
*' I have now exercised my ministry among you for alraost
sixteen years ; and I rejoice and bless God, that I cannot say.
The more I love you ihe le-'ss I am loved : I have received
many signal demonstrations of love from you. Though
other parishes have exceeded you in number of houses, yet I
think none for strength of affection. I have with much com
fort observed your reverend attention to the word preached.
You rejoiced in this light, not for a season, but to this day.
I have observed your zeal against error in a critical time ;
your unity and arriity. This i« your honour. If there should
be any interruption in my ministry araong you, though I
should not be perraitted to preach to you again, yet I shall
not cease to love you, and to pray for you. But why should
there be any interruption made ? Where is the crime ? Sorae
indeed say that we are disloyal and seditious. Beloved, what
ray actions, and sufferings for his Majesty have been, is
known to-not a few of yow. However, we must go to Hea
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well if we can get to glory, tho' we press thro' the pikes.
I shall endeavour that I may still approve the sincerity of iiiV
love to you. I will not proraise that I shall still preach
among you ; nor will I say that I shall not. I desire to be
guided by the silver thread of God's word and providence.
My heart is towards you. There Is, you know, an expres
sion in the late act. That we shall now shortiy be as if we
were naturally dead. And If I raust die, let me leave some
legacy with you." Then follow twenty admirable direc
tions, well worthy the frequent perusal of every christian.
He closes thera thus : " I beseech you treasure thera up as
so many jewels in the cabinet of your breasts. Did you car
ry them about you, they would be an antidote to keep you
from sin, and a means to preserve the zeal of piety flaming
upon the altar of your hearts. I have many things yet to say
to you, but I know not whether God will give me another
opportunity. My strength is now almost gone. I beseech
you let these things make deep impressions on all your souls.
Consider what hath been said, and the Lord give you under
standing In all things."
The last discourse, Aug. 19. is on 7ja. Hi. 10, 11. Say ye
surely it shall be well with the just — woe to the wicked, &c.
Many excellent passages might be quoted frora this serraon,
as well as from the preceding ; but as so many of this author's
works are before the public, and are still so well known, the
editor must restrain his inclination.
WORKS. Three treatises. 1. The Christian's Charter. 2. The
Art of Divine Contentment. 3. A Disc, of Meditation; with seve
ral occasional sermons. — The Beatitudes; Christ's Serm. on the
Mount : to which are added — Christ's Fulness ; the preciousness
ofthe Soul; tlieBeauty of Grace; the Spiritual Watch ; the Hea-
veUly Race ; the Sacred Anchor ; the Trees of Righteousness ;
the Perfume of Love; the good Practitioner. — The godly Man's
Character. — A 'word of Comfort to the Church of God. — The
doct. of Repentance. — Religion our true interest, on Mal. iii.
16 — 18. — The mischief of Sin. — A Divine Cordial; or Privilege
of those that love God. — The holy Eucharist. — A Plea for the
Godly; or Excellence of tiie Righteous. — Heaven taken by storm.
— The Saints' Delight. — Fun. Serm. for Mr. Hodges ; for Mr.
Wells; for Mr. Henry Stubbs ; for Mr. Jacob Stock.— Fast Serm.
bef. H. of Cora. 164-9. — Sermons bef. Lord Mayor on pub. occ. —
4 Serm. in Morn. Ex. — P.H.S. A Body of Div. in 176 Serm. on
Assemb. Cat. with five others, and a head of the author. This, is
prefaced by Mr. Lorimer, and recoramended by Dr. Bates, Mr.
Howe, and i\ other ministers. — This catalogue of his tuorks is more
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eom^kat than that itt the former edition.— In the last, several others are
JtrojKsed to bepiinted. ST. SWITHIN'S, [R. S. 140!.]
Mr. John Sheffield, of Pe/cr-AoMie, Camb. He was
addicted to seriousness and piety from his youth . He spared
no pains in preaching or praying, while the times allowed
the public exeicise of his rainistry, or in discourse that tended
to edification. He made conscience of improving his time In
all his transactions with other persons. His life was an ex
ample of his book upon conscience. He forraed his serraons
not from monastic contemplations in his cell, but took for a
ground-work such things as occurred from ohsers'atlons on
mankind, as well as from self-reflection. How much he
picked up from his conversation with men, to warn and ad
vise them against vain excuses for sin, his facetious book on
that subject sufficiently testifies. He was well skilled in
books as well as in men, and had a genius both for witty and
divine poetry, and many of the curious branches of learning.
After his expulsion frora his church in London, he retired to
Etifield, where he continued his ministry as opportunity of
fered. He died in a good old age, and retained his faculties
to the last. An uncoramon liveliness appears in alllils virl-
tings, particularly in the book last raentioned, which was
drawn up in advanced life.
WORKS. A good Conscience the strongest Holdo — The Sun
of Righteousness, &c. — ^The Hypocrite's Ladder. — A Catechism.
— Poems on the Death of Mr. Jer. Whitaker, Mr. R. Robinson, and
Lady Armine. — Discourse of Excuses for living in Sin, — A Serm.
in Mora. Exercises.
ST. THOMAS'S, Southwark.
Mr. Cobb is mentioned as the person ejected from this
living, of whora no account is given. The Lecturer of this
parish, who was ejected at the sarae time, and whose Fare-
w^ll-serraon appears in the collection, was
Mr. Bereman. All that Dr. Calamy says of hini is, that
he was " A very pious and sober person, and a good preacher.
He lived raany years after his ejectment, in Hox ion-square,
preaching only occasionally."
§ It is much to be lamented, and indeed very surprising,
that a raore ample account of Mr. Bereman's character and
history should not have been procured, as he appears, from
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of his time ; and especially as he was a man of consideraMe
fortune, and of equal benevolence ; for he left his estate to
charitable uses. Alms-houses for eight poor women were
built in Hoxton, with a sraall endowment, by his liberality.
Of these, Maitland, in his History of London, says, " This
Alms-house, situate in Alms-house-yard, In Hoxton, was
built about the year 1701, by Mr. Baremere, a Presbyterian
minister, for eight poor women, who have only a yearly al
lowance of half a chaldron of coals each." This is not true : '
t^e quantity was larger, and there was a quarterly stipend,
both of which have been of late increased. These Alms
houses were built by Mr. Bereman before his death ; and it
appears that in one of the apartments, which was better fit
ted up than the rest, and which had an opening into his own
garden, he used at stated tiraes to attend and pray with the
poor woraen who inhabited these rooras, and give them a
word of exhortation. The door through which he used to
enter is still to be seen, though fastened np.
But a rauch more extensive charity ihan'tliis was devised
by his will, and left to the discretion of his trustees. From
the produce of his estate, the value of which has considera
bly increased, many necessitous persons in private life, as
well as many poor Dissenting ministers, have been essen
tially relieved, and several students for the rainistry have been
greatly assisted in the pursuit of their academical studies ; aS
also sorae in Grammar-learning* : a charity which the Dis
senters greatly need. To supply, in some measure, the de
ficiency in the biographical account of this excellent man, an
abstract will be given of his Farewell discourse ; which ap
pears to have been furnished by himself, as it is more accu
rate than most in the volume ; and the rather as this seems to
be his only publication, which is probably the reason of his
being so little known. He introduces it thus :
" Beloved, I know you are not ignorant, that I ara called
upon, by authority, to depart from you; which for con
science-sake we raust obey. And were it not for the breach
cf conscience, I think I could be content to undo myself to
S-tay with you. I shall now, in love and tenderness, take mv
leave of you all, with that large portion of Scripture, in thp
xx-th ofthe Acts, frora the 17th verse to the end. They
were Paul's parting words to the Ephesians, And from Mi-
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letus he sent to Ephesus, and called ihe elders of the church
 and they all wept sore, sorrowing most of ali
for the words he spake, that they should see his face no
more, — Beloved, I have read unto you the words of a departing
minister to his hearers. The case being ray own, I thought I
could not pitch upon a more fit passage to take my farewell
withal." In giving an analysis of the apostle's words, he in
troduces a modest vindication of himself, as having taught
publicly and from house to house — testifying repentkncB
towards God andfaith towards our Lord Jesus Christ; and
not spending his tirae about frivolous ceremonies. " Thcjugh,
says he, I cannot say that I have declared all the couniel of
God, through grace I can say, that I have not shunnet^ to
declare any of it. I bless the Lord, I can with a good cbti-
science safely say, / have coveted neither your silver nor
gold: neither ani I a penny the richer for what I have re
ceived of you. It was not a desire of any thing of yours that
made rae first accept of this place. Yet this I shall say fo^
your honour, that you have liberally bestowed your favours
upon me." — Having considered Paul's exhortation, as suit
able for such a parting occasion, he thus proceeds — " So no-vv
I am corae unto you this day as a dying raan (for yoU know,
when this day is gone I must no raore preach araong you)
and I know you are here come to see what I shall leave you
for your legacy. Take these twenty things as counsel and
advice from a dying man. And Oh that they may remain
with you when I am dead ! — First, I shall give you ten by
way of caution. As you tender the welfare of your souls,—
1. Take heed of breaking the Sabbath. — 2. Beware of ido
latry, and keep your garraents undefiled with the raark ofthe
beast. — g. Take heed of apostacy and a backsliding spirit. —
4. Beware of covetousness : through this a raan will lie, with
Ananias ; steal, with Achan ; raurder, with Aban ; betray,
with Judas. — 5. Avoid evil corapany ; for their steps tend to
perdition. — 6. Have a care how you offend the least of God's
people in thought, word, or act. — 7. Take heed of conform
ing yourselves to this world, — 8. Beware of a hasty spiritun-
der sad dispensations.- — 9. Take heed of an ungodly ministry.
I speak not to any raan's person in particula:r, neither can I,
because I know not who will succeed me ; but whoever he
be, if he be wicked, beware of hira. Like priest, like peo'
' p/^.— Lastly, take heed you be not found professors of the
gospel only. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, whieh
is hypoiirisy.
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" I shall now speak to you by way of counsel-^I fitst in
treat you that, above all things, you would raind the owe
thing necessary. — 2. That you would live as you would die '.
live to-day as If you raust die to-raorrow. — 3. Lay up for suf
fering times. Provide ag,4inst stormy weather. Let patience
be your winter-garment. — 4. Be serious in serious things.
The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and you must take
it by force. — 5. Take heed how ye hear. I take it for
granted you will hear : 1 hope you will. Brown bread is
better than none, and a little than none at all. Try the word
you hear by the truth, and try yourselves by the word. Do
not receive the word for the person's sake that brings it, but
receive the word for its own sake, and the person for the,
word's sake. — 6. Concerning the times we live in, I advise^
— Blame thyself most that the times are so bad : the times
would not be so bad if we were not so bad. — Pray not
so rauch for tetter times, as for better hearts. — 7. If you can
not do the good you would, do the good you can. Now
you cannot hear as formeily ; pray raore and read raore : you
are not forbidden that yet. — 8. Be careful and circuraspect in
your conversation, Eph. v. 15, 16. Oh what notice will be
taker! when a professor doth but step aside I A wicked raan
may better commit seven sins than a professor one. — 9. La
ment the sin you cannot hinder. Lot's righteous soul was
vexed with the filthy conversation ofthe wicked. — 10. Love
one another. Your minister must not continue ; O then
let brotherly love continue. Will you refuse coraraunion
with a man because he is not of your opinion .? or not a
free-man of your city } Finally, brethren, farewell, be
perfect, &c. And the Lord grant that both ye and I, when
we corae to the judgraent seat of God, may render up our
accounts with joy, and receive an immortal crown with Christ
in heaven. Until which day, I beseech Alraighty God to
keep you, and preserve you in his fear. Amen."- Each of
the above particulars are illustrated In a very judicious and
striking raanner.
TRINITY Parish (Little Trinity Lane,*) [R.]
Mr. Matthew Haviland. A man raighty in prayer,
and a savoury preacher. He was against the proceedings of
parliament in 1648.
* It is supposed this is the church which was called Trinity the less, which
was burnt down in 1666, and nst rebuilt, but the parish united to St. Mi-
eh»tl's, (iueinhitie,
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WESTMINSTER NEW CHAPEL.
Mr. Onesiphorus Rood. He was chaplain to the house
of lords, after the bishops were' expelled. When the Act of
uniforraity was upon tke anvil, he was far frora being so ve
hement and positive in discoursing against the terms of Con
formity as Dr. Meriton and some others who afterwards con
formed. After his ejection from the Next) Chapel, where he
succeeded Mr. Herbert Palmer In 1648, he lived some time
at Hackney, and assisted Dr. Bates. Afterwards, in the
time of King William, he preached frequently at Clapham ;
but left that place also. Some years before his death he lived
privately. He was a very strong healthy man, and lived to
be upwards of ninety years of age, Newcourt says, that in
1648 Mr. Rood 'was approved minister of this chapel by a
committee of the lords and coraraons, and was also appointed
by Sir Robert Pye, in his deed of settleraent.
THERE were several of the London ministers who at first
left their livings, but afterwards conformed, v. g, Mr. Tho
mas Wills, of St. Boiolph's, Bishopsgate — Mr. Samuel
Smith, of Gracechurch-street; who died ordinary of New
gate — Mr. Hutchinson, lecturer of -S"^. Michael Royal.
THE following were ministers in and about London, who
only preached occasionally, when the Act of Uniformity
passed, but were rendered incapable of any settlement
by ii.
Mr. Samuel May, of Wad. Col. Oxf. He went from
the university to live with Sir C. Woolsley, at Jsleworth.
He was afterwards chaplain to Sir W. Waller and to Sir
John Langham. He was led aside by temptations in his
younger years in the university, which he heartily lamented,
in an account of himself which he afterwards drew up, in
which there Is the following reraarkable passage : " O what
a desperate adventure do tender .parents run, by sending their
beloved darlings into such a pestilent air as', that raust needs
be, where so raany heady, proud, ungovefried young men,
in the time when youthful lusts are most hot and impetuous,
live and associate together! who like small sticks laid toge
ther, kindle one anothers lusts and corruptions, and enrage
thera into a dreadful blaze !" If there was cause for a com
plaint of this nature then, it is to be feared there has not been
less since. Mr. May preached his first sermon at High Wy.
comb,. Bucks ; but it doth not appear that he was in posses-
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Sion of any living before the Act of uniforraity. Howevei',
after that took place he continued to preach occasionally, in
and about the city of London, and was a valuable raan. The
notes of his serraons shewed hira to be a person of good abi-
iities. He at length turned Brewer for the support of his fa
mily. He died Dec. 13, 1694, aged 64, and was buried at
Bunhili-fields, Mr. Gosn'old, ofthe Charter-house School, and Pemb.
Hall, Camb. He was afterwards chaplain to lord Grey.
He was not only deprived ofthe liberty of preaching, but for
ced to conceal himself, though he was always peaceably-
minded, and never gave any disturbance to government. He
was against Infant-baptism, and had a great zeal against So-
cinianism, which led hira to take great pains lo preserve his(
people frora it. He was much respected by his flock. He
died Oct. 3, 1678, aged 53, and was burled at Bunhill.
Job Royse, B. A. of Pemb. Col. Oxf. He was after
wards a preacher about Loyidon, the place of his nativity ;
where he died, 1663, — He wrote The Spirit's Touchstone ;
shewing how a Man may knovsr whether he be taught by the
Spirit. John Goodwin, M. A. of Queen's Col. Camb. [He
•was a learned divine, and a sraart disputant, but of a peculiar
mould, being a Republican, an Independent, and a thorough
Arminian,] He came to the living of Coleman-street, Dec.
18,' 1633, and was turned out [In 1645 by the committee for
plundered ministers, because he refused to baptize the chil
dren of his parishioners promiscuously, and to administer the
sacrament to his whole paiish. Exception being taken at
some things in his writings, on these and other subjects, he'
challenged any of the London clergy to a disputation. Mr.
W. Jenkyn, at that time a zealous Presbyterian, though af-
tcrwaids softened, entered the lists with him. See some ac
count of this controversy in Neal's Hist. II. 266.] He had
a private raeeting in Coleman-steeef parish, at the Restora
tion, andnot being satisfied with the terras of the Uniformitv-
a,ct, lived and died a Nonconformist. [He was excepted out
of the act of Indemnity, 1 2 Car. II. for having written a de
fence of Charles 1,'s murder ; which book, along with one
oi Milton's political pieces, was burnt by the common harig-
raan. I He was indeed a man by hiiriself ; ' his hand was
'against every man, and almost every man's hand against
* hira.' He was very warm and eager in whatsoever he en-
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gaged. He had a clear head, a fluent tongue, a penetrating
Spirit, and a marvellous faculty in descanting on scripture; ¦
and, with all his. faults, must be owned to have been a con
siderable man.
§ In addition to the foregoing account of Mr. Goodwin,
Ivhich doth not convey the most favourable Idea of him, it
is but just to insert what the editor has since raet with in two
papers prefixed to his posthumous work, entitied, YlXspcofjux
TO nvEy;xa7iitov, delivered in several serraons on Eph. v. 18.
on being filled with the Spirit : published 1670, In 410, con
taining 555 pages. The anonymous publishers, in their ad
dress to the reader concerning this work, express themselves
thus : " The author himself, now at rest, having finished
the work which God had judged meet for him, and for which
}ie was sent into the world, was a man whose heart was set
within him to serve his generation, with all faithfulness in
the great work of the ministry of the gospel ; not much va
luing the approbation or displeasure of men, when the inte
rest of his great Lord and Master, and the present peace and
everlasting welfare of men were concerned, oeing indeed very
faithful and laborious In that great work. So that we may,
without vanity, say of him, as our blessed Saviour said of
John the Baptist, He was In his time, a burning and «
shining light ; and raany did much rejoice, at least ^br a
season, in his light ; although at some tiraes, in the faith
ful discharge of his duty, he met with the same measure that
^lis great Lord and Master had measured unto hira in the
days of his flesh." After some account of the book, they
thus address the reader " Our request is, that if at any time
thou has been prejudiced against the author, thou wilt lay alt
things of that nature aside, and engage with an honest hearf
and sincere mind in the reading hereof. For although pos
sibly there may have been sorae difference between hira and
thee and sorae others, in some doctrinal points, yet this be-;
ing mainly practical, he and all other good men raore gene
rally agree in matters of this nature," 6cc.
To this address is added an Epistie dedicatory hy Mr. Ralph
Venning, whose sentiments are well known to have beenCal-
vlnlstical, in which he speaks thus candidly ofthe work and
the author. " I cannot but acknowledge to have profited
by the perusal of it, and do heartily pray that the Lord will
teach all that read it to profit by it.  Though I confess my
self not to be of the sarae raind and opinion with the learned
^ythor, in some controversial points, yet I cannot but give
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my testimony concerning the piece, That I find an excellent
spirit moving on the face, and acting in the heart of it, to
promote the glory of God, the power of godliness, and con
sequently the good of men, especially of christian men. Pos
sibly an expression here and there may, as all human writings
do, require a grain of salt ; but as to the tenour of the whole
and the tendency thereof, I do judge it to be very InofiTsnsive,
and not a little but very useful." Such a testimony, from such
a man, it is hoped may give sorae readers a more favourable
idea of Mr. Goodwin than they had before entertained. — Mr.
Orton says of him, " I do not like many of his sentiments:
" But his great learning, good sense, and extraordinary stile,
" for that time of day, render his works worth reading."
WORKS. Redemption redeemed, fol.— The DIv. Authority
of the Script. 4to. — Imjtutatio Eidci ; or a Treatise of Justification,
4to. — An Expos, on Rom. ix  Of being filled wilh the Spirit, 4to.
— ThePagan'sDebtand Dowry. — A Catechism, or principal Heads
of the Christ. Relig. — Saint's Interest in God, opened in several
Serm. — Return of Mercies, or Saint's Advantage by Losses. —
©EOMAXI A ; or the grand Imprudence of fighting against God.
— Two Sermons on Actsv. 39, — Catabaptism, &c. — A Treatise for
Infant Baptism. — A Dience of the King's Murder. — [The Novice-
Presbyter instructed, in answ. to Jenkyn] — And a great number of
controversial pieces.
To the above the following List of names is to be added:
Mr. King — Mr. Spinage — Mr. Sterne — Mr. Sim
monds, who has a scrra. in Morn. Ex. — ^Mr. Thomas —
Mr. Watts — Mr. Y awe — Mr. Joseph Yates — Mr, Brum-
Hal [see Maiden Newton in Dorset.'\ — Mr. Bruce [see
Mar'oury in Cheshire'^ — Mr. Disney [see Trin. Col.
Camb.] THERE were other rainisters, who carae to the city from
several parts, who not being ejected out of any particular
place on Bartholomew-day , may properly be mentioned here.
The principal of these were the following.
*^-* John Owen, D. D. oi Queen's Col. Oxf. He derived
his pedigree from Lewis Owen, of Llwyn, near Dolgelle,
Esq. who was lineally descended from a younger son of
Llewlyn ap Gwrgan, prince of Glamorgan, lord of Car-
diffe ; this being the last faraily of the five regal tribes of
Wales, Henry Owen, the father of the Dr. was for some
time minister at Stadham in Oxfordshire, and reckoned a
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Strict puritan, John Owen was his second son, who was
born at Stadham, i6i6. Such was his proficiency In learn
ing, that he was admitted to the university at about twelve
years of age. He then pursued his studies with such dili
gence, that for several years he allowed himself but four hours
sleep in a night. His \yhole aim and ambition was, as he
himself afterwards confessed with shame and sorrow, to rise
to sorae eminence in church or state, to each of which he
was indlfiereiit. When Laud iraposed several superstitious
rites on the university, Mr. Owen had received so much light
that his conscience could not submit to them ; and God had
now made such gracious impressions on his heart as Inspired
him with warra zeal for the purity of his worship, and re
formation in the church. The change of his judgment soon
discovered itself on this occasion ; whereupon his friends for
sook him as one infected with Puritanism, and he became so
obnoxious to the Laudensian party that he was forced to
leave the college. About this time he was exercised with raany
perplexing thoughts about his spiritual state, which, with his
outward troubles, threw him into a deep melancholy, which
lasted three months, and it was near five years before he at
tained to a settled peace.
When the civil war coraraenced, he espoused the parlia
ment's cause; which his uncle, who had supported hira at
college, being a zealous royalist, so vehemently resented,
that he turned hira- at once out of his favour, and settled his
estate upon another person. He then lived as chaplain with
a person of honour, who, though a royalist, used him with
great civility ; but he going at length into the king's army,
Mr. Owen went to London, where he was a perfect stran
ger. One Lord's-day he went to Aldermanbury church,
-with a view to hear Mr. Calamy ; but after waiting a long
time, a country rainister (of whora he never could hear any
thing any more) came into the pulpit, and preached on Matt.
viii. 26. which discourse was blest for the removing of his
doubts, and laid the foundation of that solid peace and com
fort which he afterwards enjoyed as long as he lived. His
bodily health was now restored, and he wrote his book cal
led .li Z)«/)/fl/?/, o/'/ir'Wim/anMOT, which made way for his
advancement. The coraraittee for ejecting scandalous rai
nisters presented him, on account of it, with the living of
Fordham in Essex, where he contiiiued a year and a half,
to the great satisfaction ofthe parish and country round about.
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patron, who had no regard for Mr. Owen, presented the living
to another ; whereupon the people at Coggeshall, about five
miles distant, invited him to be their rainister, and the earl
of Warwick, the patron, readily gave hira the living ; where
he preached to a raore judicious and raore nuraerous congre-
tlon, (seldom fewer than 2000) with great success. Hitherto
he had been a Presbyterian ; but upon further Inquiry he
was convinced that the Congregational plan was most agree
able to the New Testament ; he accordingly forraed a church
upon it, which subsisted and flourished many years after his
death. So great a man could not be concealed. He was sent for
tp preach before the parliament, which he did, Ap. 29, iti46,
on Acts xvi. 2, and several tiraes afterwards on special occa
sions, particularly the very day after the death of Charles I.
His discourse was on Jer. xv. 19, 20. which deserves to be
recorded as a perpetual raonuraent of his integrity, wisdom,
and modesty. Soon after, calling upon General Fairfax,
(with whom he became acquainted at the siege of Colchester)
he met with Cromwell, who laying his hands upon his
shoulders, said to him, " Sir, you are the person I raust be
acquainted with ;" and frora this tirae contracted an intimate
friendship with hira, which continued to his death. He in
formed Mr. Owen of his intended expedition into Ireland,
and insisted upon his company there to preside In the college
at Dublin. With great reluctance, and after much delibera
tion, he complied, and continued there about a -year and a
half, preaching and overseeing the affairs of the college. He
then returned to Coggeshall, but was soon called to preach
at Whitehall.
In Sept. 16,50, Cromwell required him to go with him into
Scotland, and he being averse to go, procured an order of
parliament. He staid at Edinburgh ahont ha\i a year, arid
once more returned to his people at Coggeshall, with whom
he hoped to have spent the remainder of his days. But he
was soon afterwards called by the House of Coraraons to the
deanry oi ChristrClntrch, Oxf ord, which, with the consent
of his church, he accepted ; and in the following year (when
he was also diplomated D, D,) he was chosen Vice-chancel
lor of the university, In which ofiice he continued about five
years. This honourable trust he managed with singular pru
dence. He took care to restrain the vicious, to encourage
the pious, to prefer men of learning and industry, and under
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bly reduced to good order, and furnished with a number of
excellent scholars, and persons of distinguished piety. He
discovered great moderation both to^^iards Preshi/teriansand
Episcopalians, to the forraer of whom he gave several vacant
livings at his disposal, and tiie latter he was ever ready ta
oblige. A large congregation of them, statedly celebrated
divine service very near him, according to the liturgy of the
church of England, and he never gave them the least dis
turbance, though he was often urged to it. He was hospita
ble in his house, generous in his favours, and charitable to
the poor, especially to poor scholars, some of whora betook
into his own faraily and raaintained at his own charge, giving
thera academical education. He still redeemed time for his
studies, preaching every other Lord's day at St. Mary's, and
often at Stadham, and other adjacent places, and writing
some excellent books. In 1657 he gave place to Dr, Cbr
nant as vice-chancellor, and in 1659 he was cast out of his
deanry, not long after Richard's being made prptector. It
has been said, that he had a principal hand in deposing him*,
but this he hiraself and his friends solemnly denied.
After the Dr. had quitted his public station, he retired to
Stadham, where he possessed a good estate, and lived pri
vately, till the persecution grew so hot that he was obliged
to remove frora place to place, and at length came to Zom-
don, where he preached as he had opportunity, and conti
nued writing. His animadversions on a popish book, called
Fiat lux (for which Sir E. Nicliols procured him the Bp. of
London's licence) recomraended him to the' esteem of lord
chancellor Hyde, who assured him, that " He had deserved
Ae best of any English protestant of late years, and that the.
church was bound to own and advance him ;" at the same
time offering him preferraent, If he would accept it : but ex
pressed his surprize that so learned a man should embrace the
* Mr, Baxter says in his Life, " Dr. Owen ahd his assistants did the main
work," In the Memoirs of Dr, Onven tliis is contradicicd, with some degree
of asperity, Di. Calamy as warmly mainta-ins it, hy relating what Dr,A'/a/iT,
ton had declared to several then living, ihat at I'F allmg fonl-huusc, he heard
Dr. O'wc/j say with vehemence, " He muit come doiun, and ht shall cerne doiun.*'
(See the account of Dr. Manton, p, 178.) But this is no decisive evidence,
as the Dr. might not then be speaking of the protector; and it is confessed
that Dr Manion did not so nndersland him till after the event, Mr. Baxter
ho-wever stands exculpated from any intention to propagate falsehood ' con
cerning Dr, Otuen, by what Mr, Syhiester relates in his preface, viz, " That
he wrote to Mrs, Owen in a most affectionate and respectlul manner, to de
sire her to send him -what she could in favour of the Dr, that he might insert
it, or expuiige the above passage; but that his offer was rejected with con
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novel opinion of Independency, The Dr. offered to proves
that it was practised for several hundred years after Christ,
against any bishop his lordship should please to appoint.
They had further discourse about Liberty of conscience, 5fc.
But notwithstanding all the good service. the Dr. had done
the church of England, he was persecuted frpm place to
place, and once very narrowly escaped being seized by some
troopers at Oxford, who came in pursuit of him to the house
where he was, but rode off on being told by the mistress that
he was gone early that morning, which she really thought
had been the case. When laid aside here, he had thoughts
of going into New-England, where he was invited to the
government of their university, but he was stopped by parti
cular orders from the king. He was afterwards invited to be
professor of divinity in the United Provinces ; but he felt
such a love for his native country, that he could not quit it
so long as there was any opportunity of being serviceable
in It.During Charles's Indulgence he was assiduous in preach
ing, and set up a lecture, to which many persons of quality
and eminent citizens resorted. The writings which he still
continued to produce drew upon him the admiration and re
spect of several persons of honour, who were much delighted
in his conversation, particularly the earl of Orrery, the earl
oi Anglesea, lord Willoughby of Parham, lord Wharton,
loid Berkley, and Sir John Trevor, When he was at Tun
bridge the duke of York sent for him, and several times dis
coursed with hira concerning the Dissenters, Sff. and after
his return to LoTidon he was sent for by king CAa»"^e5 himself,
who discoursed with hira two hours, assuring him of his fa
vour and respect, telling him he raight have access to him
when he would. At the sarae time he assured the Dr. he
was for liberty of conscience, and was sensible ofthe wrong
that had been done to the Dissenters : as a testiraony of which
he gave him looo guineas to distribute among those who had
suffered the most. The Dr, had some friends also among the
Bishops, particularly Dr. Wilkins, Bp. of Chester, and Dr.
Barlow, Bp. of Lincoln, formerly his tutor, who (when he
applied to him in behalf of John Bunyan) promised to " de
ny him nothing that he could legally do;" though In this case
he hardly fulfilled his word. This Bp. once asked the Dr.
" What can you object to our liturgical worship which I
cannot answer ? The Dr.'s answer occasioned the Bp, to
make a pause ; on wliich the Dr. said, " Don't answer sud
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denly, but take time till our next meeting," which never hap
pened. 'His great worth procured him the esteem of many stran
gers who resorted to him from foreign parts ; and many fo
reign divines having read his Latin works, learned English
for the benefit of the rest. His correspondehce with the
learned abroad was great, and several travelled intOj England
to see and converse with him. His many labours brought
upon him frequent infirmities, whereby he was greatly taken
off from his public service, though not rendered useless, for
he was continually writing whenever he was able to sit up.
' Atlength he retired to Kensington. Ashe was once coming
frora thence to London, two inforraers seized upon his car
riage, but he was discharged by the Interposition of Sir Ed
mund Godfrey, a justice of the peace, who happened to
corae by at that instant. The Dr. afterwards removed to a
house of his own at Ealing, where he finished his course.
He there employed his thoughts on the other world as one
-who was drawing near it, which produced^ his Meditations
on ihe Glory of Christ, in which he breathed out slie devo
tion of a soul continually growing in the temper of the hea
venly state. Mr. Wood's ill-natured reflection, " that he did
very unwillingly lay down his head and die," needs no other
answer than the following extract from a letter which he dic
tated to a' particular friend but two days before his death.
" I ara going to hira whom my soul has loved, or rather
who has loved me with an everlasting love, which is the
whole ground of all my consolation. The passage is very irk
some and wearisome, through strong pains of various sorts,
¦which are' all issued in an intermitting fever. All things
were provided to carry rae to London to-day, according to
the advice of my physicians ; but we are all disappointed by
my utter disability to undertake the journey. I am leaving
the ship of the church in a storm ; but whilst the great Pi
lot is in it, the loss of a poor under- rower will be inconsider
able. Live, and pray, and hope, and wait patientiy, and do
not despond : the promise stands invincible, that he will ne
ver leave us nor forsake us," U,c,
He died on Bartholomew-day , 1683, aged &¦]. His cha
racter (which is drawn at length in his Memoirs) may be
briefly summed up as folloWs : As to his person, his stature
was tall ; his visage grave, majestic, and comely ; his aspect
and deportment, genteel ; his raental abilities, incoraparable ;
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moderately facetious. He was a great master of his passidns,
especially that of anger ; and possessed great serenity of mind,
neither elated with honour or estate, nor depressed with dii-.
ficulties. Of great moderation in his judgment, and of a
charitable spirit, willing to think the best of all men as far as
he Could, not confining Christianity to a party. A frierid of
peace, and a diligent promoter of it among Christians. In
point of learning, he was one of the brightest ornaments of
the university of Oxford. Mr. Wood, aiter some base re
flections, thinks fit to own, that " He was a person well skilled
in the tongues, Rabinical learning, and Jewish rites ; that ho
had a great ct.mraand of his English pen, and was one of thfe
fairest and genteelest writers that appeared against the clrorch
oi England." His Christian teraper in managing controversy
-was indeed admirable. He was well acquainted with men
and things, and would shrewdly guess a man's temper and
designs on the first acquaintance. His labours as a minister
of the gospel were incredible. He was an excellent preacher,
having a good elocution, graceful and affectionate. He
could, on all occasions, without any premeditation, express
himself pertinently on any subject ; yet his serraons were
mostly well studied and digested, though he generally used
no notes in the pulpit. His piety and devotion were eminent,
and his experimental knowledge of spiritual things very great.
In ali relations he behaved himself like a great Christian.
[It ought to he mentioned (as Dr. Savage, one of hli suc
cessors observes) to Dr. Owen's honour, " that he seems to
have been one ofthe first of our countrymen who entertained
just and liberal notions of the right of private judgment, and;
of loleration ; which he was honest and zealous enough to
maintain in his writings, when the tiraes were the least en
couraging, for he not only published two P/ea* for indul
gence and toleration in 1677, when the Dissenters were suf
fering persecution under Chailes II. but took the same side
much eariier, pleading very cogently against intoleiance, in
an Plssay for the practice of church-government, and a Dis
course on Toleration,-* both which are printed in the Collec
tion of his sermons and tracts ; aiid clearly appear to have
been written, and were probably 'first published, about the
beginning of 1647, when the parliament was arrived at full
power, and he was much In repute,]
* He went, says Mr Oitni, on as large and generous principles as Mr, Lackt
afterwards did. Sec 3 Kotc in Dr, Doddridge's Sermon on Persecution,
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^ The following littie anecdote *, whicli shews liis indif
ference about Titles, is worthy of being here recorded.
tJpon a certain high-church-man's refusing to stile him Re-
<eerend, he wrote thus ; " For the title of Reverend, I do
" give him notice, that I have very little valued It ever since
" I have considered the saying of Luther : Nunquam peri-
" clitatur Religio nisi iiUer Reverendissimos. (Rsligion
" never was indangered except among the most Reverends)
" So that he may, as to me, forbear it for the future, and
*' call me as the Quakers do, and it shall suffice. And, for
" that of Doctor, it -was -confei-red on me by the university
*' in my absence, and against my consent, as they have ex-
" pressed it under their public seal : nor doth any thing but
" gratitude and respect unto them, make me once own it ;
" and, freed frora that obligation, I should never use it more :
" nor did I use it, until some were ofl-ended with me, and
" blatfted me for my neglect." Defence of Review of
Schism, prefixed to Mr. Cotton's Def. against Mr. Cawd
rey, p. 97, g8, Oxford, 1658.
Dr. Owen was buried at Bunhill, with uncommon respect,
where he has a tomb-stone with a Latin inscription, [drawn
up by Mr. Thomas Gilbert, of O.vford, but very inaccu
rately engraved, and in Dr. Calamy's account as inaccurately
printed. The following is a true copy :]
Johannes Owen, S. T. P.-
Agro Oxoniensi Oriundus ; .
Patre insigni Theologo Theologus Ipse Insignior;
Et Seculi hujus Insignissimis annumerandus :
Coramunlbus Humaniorura Literarum Suppetiis,
Mensura parum Communi, Instructus ;
Omnibus, quasi bene Ordinata Ancillarum Serie, -
Ab illo jussis Sua Faraulari Theologia: ;
Theologiae Polemlcae, Practicae, et quara vocant, Casuum
(Harim enim Omniura quae magis Sua habenda erat,
ambigitur)
In Ilia, Viribus plusquam Herculels, Serpentlbus tribus,
Arrainio, Socino, Cano, Venenosa Stiinxit Guttura:
In ista, Suo prior, ad Verbi Amussim, Expertus Pectore,
Universam ,Sp, Scti, Oeconoraiain Aliis rradldit :
Et ralssis, Cffiteris, Coluit Ipse, Sensitque,
Beatam, quara Scripsit, cum Deo Coinmunioncra :
in Terris Viator corapiehensori in Ccelis proximus :
* Communicated by Mr. Abraham Booth, who disclaims Ihe title above
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In Casuum Thelogia, Singulis Oraculi instar habitus,'
Ouibos Opus erat, et Copia, Consulendi ;
Scrlba^ad regnum Ccelorum usquequoque Institutus;
Multis privatos infra Parietes, a Suggesto Pluribus,
A Prelo Omnibus, ad eundern Scopum coUineaptibus
Pura, Doctrinae Evangelicae Lainpas Praeluxit;
Et sensira, non sine aliorum, suoque sensu,
Sic prselucendo Periit,
Assiduis Infirmitatibus Obsiti,
Morbis Creberrlinis Impetiti,
Durlsque Laboribus pottlssimura Attriti, Corporis
(Fabrlcae, donee Ita Quassats, Spectabilis) Ruinas,
Deo ultra Serviendo inhabiles, Sancta Aniraa,
Deo ultra Fruendi Cupida, Deserult ;
Die, a Terrenis Potestatibus, Plurirais facto Fatali;
Illi, a Coslesti Numine, Felici reddito ;
Mensis Scilicet Augusti XXIV". Anno a Partu Virgineo.
MDCLXXXIII'. .^tat. LXVH.
Thus translated :
JOHN OWEN, D. D.
Born in the county of Oxford : the son of an eminent di-
vine, but more eminent hiraself, and justly lo be ranked
araong the most illustrious of the age. Furnished with the
aids of polite and solid learning, in a very uncommon degree,
he led them all, in a well-ordered train, to the service of his
great study, christian divinity, controversial, practical, and
casuistical. In each of these, he excelled others, and was
ever equal to himself. In the one branch of this sacred
science, he, with powers more than Herculean, seized and
vanquished the envenomed monsters, of Arminian, Socinian,
and Popish errors. In the other, first experiencing in his '
own breast, according to the unerring rule of Scripture, the
sacred energy of the Holy Spirit, he taught the whole ceco
nomy of that divine influence. Rejecting lower objects, he
constantly cherished and largely experienced that blissful
coraraunion with God which he so adrairably described,,.
Though a pilgrim on earth, he was next to a spirit in hea
ven. In Experimental Divinity, all who could have the bles
sings of his counsels found him as an oracle. He was a scribe
every way accomplished for the kingdom of heaven. To
many in private dwellings, frora the pulpit to more, and from
the press to all, who were aiming at the heavenly prize, he-
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he was gradually consumed,' not unobserved by himself and
his afflicted friends, till his holy soul, longing for the fuller
fruition of jts God, quitted the ruins of a body depressed by
constant infirmities, emaciated by frequent diseases, but
chiefly -^^orn out by severe labours, and so no further suitable
for the service of God : a fabric, till thus reduced, raost
coraely and majestic. §
He left the world on a day, rendered dreadful to the church
by the powers of the world, but blisstul to himself by the
plaudit of his God, the xxiv. of August 1683, aged 67.
WORKS. Folio, Ofthe Saints Perseverance, — Ktipos. on Hei.
4 vols. — Compleat Collect, of his Sermons, with many never be
fore printed, and several Tracts, &c. with the Memoirs of his
Life prefixed (of which the above account is an abstract) 1761. —
Discourses ofthe Work of the Spirit. — Quarto. A Display of Ar
minianism, — Duty of Pastors and People. — Salus electorum sanguis Je
su; orThe death of death, Gt'c. — Ofthe Death ofChrist. — Findicice
evangeliae, or The mystery of the gospel, ag, Biddle. — Of Com
munion with God, Father, Son and Spirit. — ©EoXoysfAsva' sive de
natura, ortu, progressu, et studio verae Theologia;. Reprinted at
Bremen. — Expos, on 130th Psalm. — Doct. of Justif. by faith through
imput. right. — Glorious mystery of person of Christ. — Grace and
duty of being spiritually minded. — Enquiry into original, nature,
&c, of evang. churches. — True nature of a gosp. church, and its
gov. — Review of Annot. of Grotius, — Disc, on Liturgies and their
imposition. — Indulgence and Toleration considered, — A Peace of
fering, or Plea for Indulgence, — Church of TJozwe no safe guide.—
Consid. about union among Protestants, — Vind. of Nonconf, from
charge of Schisiti. — Account of Nature of Prot. Relig, — Octavo.
Two Catechisms, — Eschol. or Rules for Church-fellowship, — Dia-.
triba de justitia divina. — Mortification of Sin in believers, — Disc, of
true nat. of Schism. — Review of ditto, with a Vind. of Congreg.
churches. — Nature and power of Temptation. — Defence oi Cotton
ag. Cawdry. — Exercitatiortes i^ {iro sac. Script. — Divine origin and au
thor, of Script. — Primmer for Children, — Animadv. on Ftat. Lux.
— Vind. of ditto. — Brief Instruction in Worship of God. — Nature
of indwelling Sin, — Truth and Innocence vind. in a Survey of a
disc, of eccl. polity. — Brief. Vind. of Trinity. — Ofthe Sabbath,
Esff. — Of evangelical love, church-peace, and unity. — Vind. ofhis
book on Communion with God ag. Dr, Sherlock's exceptions, — Na-
§ This appears in the fine portrait from which the engraving in the pre
sent edition is copied : an undoLibied original, in the possession of a gentle
man descended from a collateral branch of his family, and vvlio boars his
name. This picture was drawn, as appears from the inscription on the back
of it, in the year 1656, when the Dr, was vice-chancellor of Oxford, at
which time he was forty years of age. This accounts for ihe difference be
tween this picture and that which appears before his works, taken in his
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ture of Apostacy.— -Reason of Faith in Script. — Ways and means
of -understand ing the mind ofGod in script.--Testimony to good
ness and seventy of God in his dealing with sinful churches and na-*
tions,— Work ofSpint in prayer, — Medit. on glory ofChrist, ^c,
in two parts. — Dominion of sin and grace.-^Evidence of the faith of
God's elect. — And 3 Sermons in Morn. Ex,
[It ought not to be here omitted. That Dr, Oiuen united with Mr.
Baxter in a recommendation of Mr. Sam. Clark's Annotationson
the Bible: a striking instance of his candour, and a proof likewise
that the difference between these great and good raen, was not so
material as some oftheir re-spective adherents have imagined.]
%¦* Stephen Charnock, B. D. oi Eman. Col. Camb*
where he was under the tuition of Dr. Sancroft, afterwards
Abp. of Canterbury, it was there that he first experienced
the effectual operations of divine grace upon his heart, and
gave substantial evidences of the new birth. He afterwards
spent some time in a private family, and then in the exercise
of his ministry, in Southxeark : where seven or eight per
sons owned him as the Instrument of their conversion. From
thence he removed to Nexo Col. Oxf. oi which he became
Fellow. Being noticed for his singular gifts, by the most
learned and pious there, he was the more frequentiy put upon
public work ; and in 1652, he was senior proctor of the
university, which office he managed with great reputation.
The year following he was called to constant public employ
ment in ,/rt'/t/«^; where he resided, with great respect, in
the family of Ssir Harry Cromwell, and exercised his rainistry
on the Lord's-day afternoons, to the atlmiratlon of the most
judicious Christians, having- persons ofthe greatest distinction
in the city of Dublin for his auditors, and being applauded by
such as were of very different sentiments from himself. Ma
ny commended his learning and abilities, who had no regard
for his piety. About the year 1660, being discharged frora his
public ministry there, he returned to England, where he
spent fifteen years In and about London, following his stu
dies, without any stated preaching, now and then taking a
turn into France or Holland,
At length he became pastor of a congregation in the city,
and was much admired by the raore judicious, but was not
very popular, on account of his disadvantageous way of read
ing with a glass ; which however he only used In the latter
part of his tirae when his memory failed hira. In his young
er days he used i}o notes in the pulpit. He was a very con-
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that he -was. unacquainted with. He had a peculiar skill in
the original languages ofthe Old and New Testament. His
natural abilities were excellent, and he had, what you rarely
m«et, a strong judgment and a lively imagination. He was
indeed a very eminent divine. He had formerly studied phy-
siof in which he had acquired considerable skill ; but preach '-
ing was his peculiar gift ; to this therefore he more especially
applied himself : and when providence denied hira opportu
nity of exercising his talent this way, he was laying in fur
ther materials against the time that he raight be called to use
them. His preaching was raostly practical, yet rational and
argumentative; addressed to the understandings of his hear
ers, as well as their affections. When controversies carae
inhis way, he shewed great judgment and address in discus
sing them, and no less skill in applying thera to practice.
• His printed sermons are no other than his ordinary perform
ances, transcribed frora his notes. He was eminent for re
deeming his tirae ; rescuing, not only his restless hours in
the night, but his very walking time in the streets,' by close
meditation, from those impertiiiencies and fruitless vanities
which so coraraonly fill the raind, and steal away the heart
frora those objects which challenge the greatest regard. He
constantly wrote down his thoughts which occurred at such
seasons, which often furnished hira with raaterials for his
most elaborate discourses. He spent most of his time in his
study ; where he made it appear on the Lord's-day how well
it had been employed. He was somewhat reserved where he
was not well acquainted, but free and communicative where
he knew and liked his company. He affected not a large
acquaintance, well knowing that the ordinary sort of friends
are apt to take up too much time, which he could ill spare
from his beloved studies, and meeting with very few who
could give him better entertainment by their conversation
than he could find in his library, which was furnished with a
curious, though not large collection of books, which were
burnt in the Fire of London. He delighted most in the com
pany of those who excelled in the divine art of directing and
quickening him in the way to heaven, and in love to Christ
and the souls of men, to whom he discovered an extensive
benevolence, and a most tender compassion.
Mr. John Johnson, Vsrho preached his funeral sermon, [on
Mat. xiii. ,^3.]. and who had been an intimate friend of his
froni the time they were fellow students at Cambridge, has,
in the prefecj; to that sermon, given him a very uncoramon
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character in a number of striking passages selected from tho
Greek Fathers; expressing his firm conviction that they were
not raore justiy applicable to the persons for whora they were
intended than to Mr. Cliarnock. — As his life appears to have
been peculiarly holy, his death was exceedingly comfortable.
He had entered upon a set of discouises on the Attributes of
God, which he did not live to finish ; and all the while he
was treating on those subjects he appeared tobe so peculiarly
interested in thera, as seeraed to indicate his near and rapid
approach to his center, his everlasting rest. It was, for some
time before his death, the matter ofhis longmg desire jo be
in heaven, where there is the perfection of grace and holi
ness, and he expressed his lively hope that he should quickly
enjoy tiiat felicity. He died July 27, 1680, aged 52.
WORKS. He published nothing himself but a Sermon on the
sinfulness and cure of evil Thoughts, in the Morn. Ex. But after
his Death were published, by Mr. Veal and Mr. Adams, a Treatise
on Divine Providence, with brief Memoirs ofthe Author, and ai-
terwards two volumes in folio of his Discourses, containing — Dis
courses on the Existence and Perfections of God. — On Regenera
tion. — On Man's Enmity to God, — On Reconciliation. — ^And oii
various other Subjects.
Mr. Edward Veal, of Christes Ch, Oxford, afterwards
of Trin. Col, Dublin. He was ordained at Winwick in
Lancashire, Aug. 14, 1657. When he left Ireland ht
brought with him a testiraonial of his being " a learned, or
thodox minister, of a sober, pious, and peaceable conversa
tion ; who during his abode in the college, was eminently
useful for the instruction of youth, and whose ministry had
been often exercised in and about the city of Dublin, with
great satisfaction to the godly, until he was deprived of his
fellowship for Nonconforraity to the. cereraonies iraposed in
the church, and for joining with other ministers in their en
deavours for a reformation ;" signed by Sie. Charnock and
six other respectable ministers. He became chaplain to Sir
William, Waller, in Middlesex, and afterwards settled as a
Nonconforraist in Wapping, where he lived to a good old
age. He had several pupils to whora he read university learn
ing, who were afterwards useful persons ; one of whom was
Mr, Nath. Taylor. - He died ^Mwe 6, 1708, aged 76. His
fun. serin, was preached by Mr. T- Symonds, who succeeded
him. He has four serraons in the Morning Exercises.
Mr. Grimes. He came from Ireland, and sometimes
went by the name of Chambers: [for it v^as not an uncom,
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ttion thing for nonconfoniiist rainisters, in those troublesome
times, to bear two names, for their greater safety.] He vvas
\vell. known in the city. ' '
Jeremiah White, M. A. Fel. of Trin. Col, Camb.
Afterwards preacher to the council of state, and household
chaplain to Oliver Cromwell.' He Jived privately after the
Restoration, preaching only occasionally. He adopted Ori-
gen's docrine of a final Restitution. His conversation was very
facetious, and much valued by some persons of rank and figure.
He had, with great pains and expence, made a collection
ofthe sufferings ofthe Dissenters by the penal laws after the
Restoration, which contained an account of the ruin of rtiany
thousand farailies in the several parts of the kingdom. When
James II. came to the crown, and gave the Dissenters liberty,
he was much importuned to print it. Sorae agents of the
king were with hira, and raade hira very considerable offers,
if he would comply : hut as circumstances then stood, he was
not to be prevailed with, for fear of serving and. strengthen
ing the Popish interest. It doth not appear what became of
his manuscript. He died in 1707, aged 78.
WORKS. A Funeral Sermon for Mr. Francis Fuller, on 2 Thess.
IV. 14,^ — Since his death. The Restoration of all Things: or a Vin
dication ofthe Goodness and Grace of God, to be manifested at
last, in the Recovery ofhis whole Creation out oftheir Fall. — Al
so, A Persuasive to Moderation and Forbearance in Love among
the divided Forms of Christians. [Mr. Orton pronounces this a
most excellent Book.]  More ofhis works are there promised.
Richard Wavel, B. A. oi Magd. Col. Oxf. He may
be as properly mentioned here at London as any where, be
cause, though he was not properly any where ejected by the
Act of uniformity, it was here that he was best known, after
that act silenced hira. He was the youngest son of Major
Wavel of Lemeston in the Isle of Wight, born April 3,
1633. His father was a strong cavalier, but brought up his
son to learning, to which he himself was most inclined. Af
ter having taken his degree of B. A. he was sent to live with
Mr. Wm. Reyner of Eghatn in Surrey, where he studied
divinity under his direction. When he was duly qualified
for the pulpit, Mr. Reyner employed hira to preach for hiiii
one part of the Lord's-day ; and raarrying his wife's daugh
ter, he went on to assist hira constantly, as long as he conti
nued in his church at Egham.
When the Act of uniformity took place, he was wholly
to seek for a livelihood. He was offered sorae good livings
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Aorse) if he would have conformed. But not being able to
satisfy his conscience to do" that, he cast himself upon the
providence ofGod. Being asked by a friend about that time,
whether he could, live upon a good conscience; his answer
was, that " A littie with a gbid c;cmScience would well con
tent hiin." He therefort; fixed in a grammar-school, and for
3 while had good encouragement '; but he was so molested
with citations, that he was forced tb "throw it up. He con
tinued still preaching prlva^tely at Egham in his own house,
where, he had a small auditory who helped to support him ;
but herein he was narrowly watched, and intimation was
given to  Thynne, Esq. (who carried It very civilly to
Mr. Wavel) that his conduct was offensive to persons iri
^wer, in suffering a conventicle under his no-se ; upon which
a warrant was issued out against his body and goods, and he
\vas forced to desist from preaching. But sorae time after,
on the decease of Mr. Palmer, minister at Pi7mer's-hall,
he became pastor to that church. The laws beiing ' exe
cuted with great rigour against the Dissenters, he told his
people that,he would venture his person if they would ven
ture their parses ; vvhich they did, and they were put to
no sraall expence by it. For Mr. Wavel would preach three
times on a Lord's-day at diffei ent places, and was often taken.
Once he was forced to give bail for his appearance at the ses
sions, and when the tirae carae, h'e held up his hand at the
bar as a criminal, but came off by the favour of Sir Henry
Tulse, at that tirae lord-mayor. The titie of Gentleman
being given to Mr. Wavel in the indictraent, one that sat
upon the bench said, He knew not why he should be called
gentieman. Sir Harty said, that he was a gentieraan, and
his kinsman too ; and that he had coveted his acquaintance,
though he, never could obtain it, through his reservedness.
Sir Harry so contrived matters, tiiat the person who was
disposed to bear the hardest upon him was kept engaged iri
company till the trial was over.
Mr. Wavel was a pei son of great integrity, and rauch gi
ven to charity. He would often say, " If I cast my bread
upon the waters, Iam sure to find it after many days/'
When any sought to restrain him, by reminding him of the
number of his children, he would reply, " Mine' will never
want; their heavenly father will provide what Is necessary,
and more is hurtful." Accordingly, (though his incorae was
never very considerable) by the blessing of God upon his disr
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-wa? a man of great pleasantry, and the raany judicious ob
servations he had made upon persons and things, which he was
ready to communicate, rendered his conversation very in
structive. He was of congregational principles ; but of ex
tensive charity. It was his principal and constant practice to
receive all whora Christ had received, without any debate
about thipgs of a doJJ'ferful nature. His preaching was plain,
and tended very much to exalt Christ, and the grace of God
in him : and yet it was his dying advice to his church, that
they would chuse one to succeed him, of whom they should
have some ground to hope; that he would preach Christ cru
cified raore than he had done He excelled in prayer, more
specially upon particular occasions, to -which he would ap
ply scripture expressions with great propriety. It was a most
frequent petition in his prayer, which he would express with
a. warmth and relish that was very remarkable, Father, glo-
r\fy thy, name; Father, glorify thy yon.— -During the
time of his last illness, which was a fortnight before his
death, he enjoyed a continued serenity of mind, expressing
to those about him his desire to depart, and rejoicing that
his work was finished. A minister who visited him, telling
him that he had suffered much for his master, Christ ; his
answer was, " He owes me nothing." As he sat in his chair,
he lifted up his hands and blessed his children ; and as he was
going to bed, died in his chair, Dec. 19, 1705, in the 72d
year of his age.
§ Among the ministers in London who afterwards con
formed. Dr. Calaniy has omitted Dr. Thomas Horton, of
Eman. Col. Camb. who was Professor of Divinity in Gre-
sliam College, which place he continued to hold after his
inarriage, (together with his Headship of Queen's College,
Cambridge) by the order of Oliver Cromwell, and after-
vyards by a dispensation from Charles II. But in the year
1661, when he was nominated one of the assistants at the
Savoy conference, on the side of the Presbyterians, (though
he never attended) this dispensation was revoked. " The year
" ensuing, Dr. Horton was in the number of those Divines
" who were silenced by the Bartholomew-act ; but he con-
" formed afterwards. And on the 13. of June I666, he was
•« admitted to the vicarage of Great St. Helen's, and held it
•' till his death, March 1673.'* Ward's Lives of ihe Gre-
shani Professors, p. 70, where may be seen an account of
his works, among -which are a great number of sermons.
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EJECTED OR SILENCED MINISTERS, &c.
IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
ALL SOULS COLLEGE.
JOHN PANTON, M. A, [Student.] Soon after his
ejectraent, in 1660, he travelled into France, and after
wards practised physic in London, constantly adhering to the
Nonconformists. A person of this name is raentioned as a
probationer for the ministry in Sussex, when the Act of uni
formity passed ; most probably the sarae.
BRAZEN NOSE COLLEGE.
Daniel Greenwood, D. D. Principal. He had been
vice-chancellor of the university. He was turned out by the
king's commissioners in 1660.
Thomas Adams, M, A. Fellow. He performed all hl^
exercises with applause ; and being generally esteemed for
his learning, piety, good-humour, and diligence, he passed
through all offices which a person of his standing was capa
ble of.' He had a competent nuraber of pupils under his care.
Upon his ejection, he settied with Sir Samuel Jones, then
near Salop In Shropshire, afterwards near Northampton;
and was very useful in his family. He was afterwards chap
lain to the Right Hon. the Countess Dowager of Clare. He
had two brothers who lived in London, one of whora was Mr.
R. Adams before-mentioned. His labours in that honoura^
hie faraily, by his catechizing and weekly preaching, were
very acceptable. He died on ZJec. 11, 1670.
WORKS. Protestant Uhion ; or Principles of Religion, where
in the Dissenters agree with the Church of England ; in two sheets,
price 2d. — The Main Principles of Christian Religion in 107 short
Articles or Aphorisms ; confirmed by the Articles apd Homilies of
the Chnxch oi England ; under these four heads. 1. Things to be
believed, comprehended in the Creed. 2. Things to be done —
in the ten commandmeijts. 3. Things to be practised — in the
gospel. 4. Things to be prayed fbr— iu the Lord's prayer.
CHRIST-

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CHRIST-CHURCH COLLEGE.
Ralph Button, B. D. Canon, and Orator to the Uni
versity ; from both which places he was turned out In 1660,
and was succeeded by Dr. South, He was educated at Mer
ton Col, He was an excellent scholar ; a most humble man;
of a plain sincere heart, and was a great sufferer for Noncon
formity. Besides a great loss in his estate, he was six months
in gaol for teaching privately the sons of two knights near
Brentford, who persuaded him to undertake this ofhce. He
died at Islington, where he was a tutor to young men inhis
own house, October 1680. He wrote a Hebrew and Latin
Poem on the Restoration, in Brit, Rediv.
Henry Cornish, B. D. He might have been created
D. D. but refused. There were raany scholars who were very
thankful to God and to him for his public serraons at Oxford,
both before the war, and after that city was surrendered to
the parliaraent. He was displaced by K. Charles's corarais
sioners. He afterwards lived with the pious Sir Philip Har
court, of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire ; preaching oc
casionally about the country and in Oxfor^. In 1690, he
settied at Bicester. Wood says, " Such was the poor spirit
of the person, that being about 80 years old, he preached
there in a barn for profit-sake, to silly women, and other ob
stinate people." But the author, who had the happiness of
Leing at that tirae well acquainted with him, can attest, that
he was a man of a very generous and public spirit; having
never met with more sincerity, raore erainent piety, raore
cordial love to God and man, than was discernable in him.
It was the good of souls, and the service of his master, he
airaed at. As for profit, he was above it : he had an estate
of his own. Neither was his income from his people great.
As for them, they were as inteUigent, good-terapered, judi
cious and affectionate a people as a rainister need desire. The
good old gentleman was as tender of thera as a father ; and
they carried it to hira with the respect and tenderness of chil
dren ; and vital religion exceedingly flourished araong them.
He left this life for a better, Dec. 18, i6g8, in the 89th ye^r
of his age.
His funeral sermon was preached by a worthy conforming
clergyman, Mr. John Olyffe, Rector of Dutton, Bucks :
in which he declares, " He had always observed in hira a
great kindness and benignity of disposition, joined with an
yndissembled integrity and uprightness, whereby he plainly
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discovered that he rejoiced in all mens welfare and happiness,
and was glad when he could any ways promote it. He pos
sessed great calraness of temper, hut was fervent in spirit in
the service of his God. And his long and continued labour
in that service, even to extreme old age, was a striking proof
c(f his delight in it, of his pious zeal for the promoting of re
ligion, and his earnest desire of the eternal welfare of men.
He was one of eminent piety, of exact walking, of an heal
ing spirit, and full of love to God and good men of different
denominations. He was not for a wrangling or disputative
divinity, which tends to gender strife, but for plain practical
godliness in its life and power, &c." — This worthy man's
candour occasioned the publication of a pamphlet, full of
angry reflections, though the truth of the character which he
gave of Mr, Cornish could not be denied. Mr. Olyffe made
a very handsome and ingenious reply, in a preface to his ser
mon, which, had it not been for those reflections, had not
seen the light.
Mr. John Pointer, 6i Braz, No. Col, Canon. A close
student, a grave preacher, and a man of considerable worth.
His mother devoted him to the ministry from the womb. She
dying when he was about eight years old, he was taken by
Mr. W. Hancock his brother-in-law, a mercer in Coventry,
to be educated in the great school there. A very ctinsidera-
ble estate was left to enable his guardian to give hira a liberal
education. At about eighteen years of age he was sent to
the university. When he left Oxford, he boarded with old
Mr. Dodd at Ashby, where he had his son Mr. Timothy
Dodd (a pious and learned man) for his companion. Here
he studied about three quarters of a year, after which Mr.
T. Dodd going to Leyden to live with Dr. Ames, Mr.
Pointer accompanied hira, and continued there alraost a
year, till an ague, seized hira, which caused him to return
home. Some tirae after, he undertook a lecture in London,
at St. Mildred's, Bread-street, where he preached twice
every Lord's-day. After two years labour there, he was for
ced, by the incumbent, to quit, and returned to Hanwell;
frora whence, after a year and a half, he was called to be'lec-
turer at Wooton- Waven in Warwickshire, but he was forced
to leave this situation through the opposition of the papists,
and went to Hornton n" ir Hanwell, which place he also left
in a year's time, because of a pestilential fever, and went
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. Having spent a year and a half there, he obtained frora
the corapany of Mercers in London, a lecturer's place in
Huntingdon, thoug'n he had eleven competitors. He preach
ed the lecture there on Saturday (which was the market day)
for the benefit of the country people, and gave the town a
sermon every Lord's day in the great church, gratis. Some
years afterwards, the lecture being supplied by neighbouring
ministers, he preached twice every Lord's day. In this place
he continued eleven, years, till the troubles ofthe war forced
him to London, from whence, after a year and a half, he
-was called to Buers in Essex, where he continued six years;
till a fever, (which afterwards returned every spring and fall.)
occasioned him. to remove with his fa^niily to Oxford. There
he continued three years without any stated employraent, be
ing unwilling to accept any sequestered living, though he
had the offer of about riyenty of that sort. At length he
preached for Dr. French in his turn at Whitehall. When
the doctor died, Cromwell, without any application, put him.
into the vacant canonry of Christ-Church, Oxford, raaking
hira proraise that he would take as much pains in the rainistry
here as he haddoneatHuntingdom which he did, by preaching
once In six weeks in the college, and every Lord's-day at »y^.
Thomas's church gratis. He kept his turn also at 5^. Mary's,
and in four towns in the country. After the Restoration, he
was cast out, and he never preached afterwards ; but he visited
the sick witii great assiduity. He died Jan. a, 1683, "^ '^^^
84th or 85th year. § Mr. Pointer left two sons who were
clergymen, settled near Oxford ; one of thera rector oi S lap-
ton, Northamptonshire : the other, the author of a treatise on
the weather. They were both good men. Mr. Orton.
George Porter, B. D. Canon ; and Proctor of the Uni
versity in the second year of Dr, Owen's vice-chancellorship.
In 1662, he was cast out from his fellowship in Magdalen-
College. He was a raan of good learning, great gravity,
integrity, self-denial and charity. In church-governraent he
was what might be caUed a sort of an Interpendent. He
could not allow that the ruling of church affairs should be by
popular suffrage ; or that the people should govern their offi
cers. And yet he held that the people ha,d just rights and
privileges which must not In the least be infringed ; and that
therefore the due satisfaction of the church would and ought
to be sought by every wise and just governor. In a word;
he held that it was the pastor's or elder's part to rule, and the
people's part to obey ; but both " in the Lord." He took
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notice that this was thrice commanded in one chapter, Heb,
xiii. 7, 17, 24.' He was greatly pleased with Mr. Giles Firmin' s
Weighty Questions Discussed. He was a great enemy to high-
flown expressions in serraons, and would ,say to those who used
riiera, to discover their learning, that " Learningdid not consist
in hard words, but in depth of matter." He was of a melan
choly constitution, which sometimes prevailed to such a de
gree, that for several years he had littie enjoyment of his
friends, himself, or his God : but at length he had comfort.
He resided some time at Lewes in Sussex, and afterwards
freely preached the gospel at East-Bourn in the same coun
ty, near the place of his nativity. He was at last pastor of
a church at Clare In Suffolk ; where he died, July 1697, in
the 74th year of his age. He was a very devout raan, and
had a due respect both to the substance and circumstances of
worship. He used to speak of common sleepers at sermons
with great severity, as equally crirainal with swearers or
drunkards. There are three letters ofhis in Mr. T. Rogers's,
Discourse of Ti-ouble of Mind.
Mr. John Singleton, Student. He was turned out ^after
he had been at this college eight years, by the coraraissioners,
in i66o. He then went into Holland and studied physic.
It is not certain whether he took his degree in that faculty or
not, but he was always afterwards called Dr. Singleton ;
though he did not practise any farther than giving his advice
to particular friends. He ll-fed with Lady Scot in Hertford
shire, and preached to sorae Dissenters at Hertford, before
Mr. Haworth fixed there. He was afterwards pastor to a
congregation in London : and when the meetings there
were generally suppressed, and there was a breach among his
people, he went Into Warwickshire, and lived with his wife's
brother, Dr. Timothy Gibbons, a physician, a pious raan,
who had been educated at Christ Church in Oxford. Upon
king James's giving liberty to the Dissenters, he preached at
Stretton §, a small haralet about eight railes from Coventry,
to a congregation that came frora different places in the neigh
bourhood. From thence he removed to Coventry to be pas
tor to the Independent congregation there, who had been un
der Mr. Basnet, and afterwards under Mr. Boon*. From
Coventry
§ " I have often heard some good people in Northamptonshire (from
" whence Stretton is not far distant) speak of him \vith great respect," Mr.
Orton. * Mr, Boon was a pious and learned gentleman of a good estate, who had
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Coventry he was again Called to London, to be pastor to a
congregation there in the room of Mr. Thomas Cole. He
has a sermon in the Morning Exercises.
John Thompson, M.A. Student, A native oi Dorches
ter. He had spent nine years in Oxford, and was well
esteemed for learning and virtue by his contemporaries. He
was as willing to have kept his place as others, if he could
with a safe conscience have conformed. He studied the
points in debate with great deliberation, conversed freely with
such as were raost likely to increase his light, and seriously
begged divine direction ; but upon the whole he could not-
comply with what was required through fear of offending
God. He thereupon quitted the university and all hope of
preferment, and returned to Dorchester, where he applied '
hiraself diligently to the study of divinity. He married the
daughter of worthy Mr, Benn the ejected minister of that
place, and often preached for him with great acceptaiii^e.
In 1670, upon the call of a congregation in Bristol, he re- 1
moved to that city, where he exerted himself in his ministerial
work, preaching statedly thrice a week, and raaintained an
unblameable conversation ; none being, able to lay any thing
to his charge but his Nonconformity. In 1675, he was ap-i
prehended upon the Corporation-act, and carried before the
mayor, at whose house he found the Bishop of the diocese
and several justices, who treated him roughly, which he
bore with great meekness. Refusing to take the Oxford-
oath, he was coraraitted to gaol, Feb. loth, and about the
Sjjth of that month began to be indisposed. A phvsiclan
-whom he consulted, seeing a fever coming on, adv'ised to at
tempt a reraoval ; the place where he was being annoyed by
a nasty privy, besides other inconveniencies. A person of
quality went to the sheriffs, , and offered a bond of 500I. for
security. Application was also raade to the Bishop, but no re
moval eould be obtained. He languished there till March
4, (though not without all the help the place wopld afford)
and then expired.
He was chearful in his sickness^ and well satisfied in his
sufferings and the cause of them. He declared "that from
pastor to that people, he gave himself wholly to the work of the ministry
was an excelletit practical preacher, and exposed himself to much danger o(
sufferings : but some who came wilh a design to inform against him, were
affected and awed with his preaching, so as not to offer him any harm. Ho
jivas descended from soine who were martyrs in queetl Mary's days. His
principles were congregational, but his zeal vvas for tlie great things of reli-
jjion, fait^i and hoUness,
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*' his heart be forgave his enemies ; and should rejoice t»
" meet those in heaven, who had treated him as if he were
*? not fit to live on earth." A littie befora he died, he thus
expressed himself: "As for my bonds, I bless God for them ;
" and if I had known, wheal carae in, that I should die
?' here, I would have done no otherwise tiian I have done.
" The time will come when I shall be freed from the asper-
" sions of faction." He breathed his last while Mr. Weeks
(a minister of another congregation in Bristol, and then his
fellow-prisoner) was by prayer commending his soul into the
hands of Jesus Christ.
. § The preceding account ofthe cruel treatment which Mr.
Thompson met with, corresponds with that contained in the
church-book belonging to the Baptist-church, in Broad-street,
Bristol. It is there added, " That being a corpulent man, the
corpse could not be kept, and that the next day, March 5, he
was honourably Interred at Philip's church-yard, being carried
from the prison to the grave, accompanied, it wasjudged, by
five thousand people, which made adversaries adraire."
Richard Dyer, M. A. bi Magd. Hall: afterwards Stu
dent of Christ- Church, whence he was ejected in 1660, for
his Nonconforraity. He was the son of Mr. Gower Dyer, o£
Aldermanbury, and elder brother to Mr. Samuel Dyer, of
Alhallo-ws, London-Wall. He had been chaplain to three
lord-mayors, Frederick, Viner, and Eendrick. He never
preached after he was silenced; but was some time chaplain
to  Co}iyers, Esq. of Walthamstow, and tutor to his son.
He afterwards lived in St. Katherine's by the Tower, and
kept a grammar school about seven years. He was a very
pious but raelancholy raan. He had transcribed for the press,
several serraons preached at the university, and at 5/. Paul's,
-vvith other theological discourses, which were burnt by a
fire that happened in St. Katherine's. This belaid raore to
heart than his loss in the great fire of London, though that
was very considerable. He died in 1695, aged 70.
Mr. Samuel Angier, Student. Bom at Dedham in Es
sex, Aug fZ8, 1639, and brought up in Westminster-school,
from whence he reraoved to this College, Dec. 8, 1659,
where he continued student till he was cast out by the Act of
uniformity. After his ejectment, he lived with Dr. Owen,
for whom he always entertained a most profound respect.
In 1667, he visted his uncle Mr. John Angier oi Denton,
and became his assistant, which he continued to be till his un
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jcle's death, Stpt. 1667. He was ordained Oct. 29, 1672.
His preaching afterwards exposed him to many troubles and
difficulties. Warrants were often taken out against him ; and
in 1680, he was excommunicated at Stockport church. , Be
ing requested to draw up an account of his ejectraent and suf
ferings, for the author's use, his answer was, " The ill treat
ment he then met with would blacken the characters of som^
¦who were dead, and be very offensive to sorae still living',
and therefore he was for declining it." He preached
for several years in an out-building near his lioase': but on
Aug. 19, 1708, he began to preach in a commodious place
which his congregation erected for him, where he continued
his labours till tbe Sabbath before his death, Nov. 8, 1713,
in the 75th year of his age. His funeral sermon was preached
by Mr. Aldred, on 2 Cor. i, 12.
He was an excellent scholar, and retained rauch of hi.Q
school-learning. He was a judicious and lively preacher, and
a zealous asserter of the doctrine of free- grace. He was aa
emi.nent christian, and zealous of good-works : rauch in
prayer, and very particular in praying for his friends and
neighbours, especially in affliction. When his sight failed
iiira, he frequently entertained himself with repeating the
greatest part of David's psalms and Paul's epistles from his
memory. He was all his days a close student, a great lover
of Bible-knowledge, an exact preacher, and one. who lived
as he spoke, and spoke as he lived. Notwithstanding all. his
Sufferings he was fully satisfied with his Nonconformity to
the last. He was buried in the chapel erected for him in
Dukenfield, where, upon a marble tomb stone, there is a La
tin inscription.
Mr. William Segary, Student. A good disputant.
When he left Oxford, he retired into the country, where he
taught school, and died very old.
Mr. William Woodward. Probably the person men-
iiioned at Whitchurch, Herefordshire.
Mr. Stafford. Of whom no other account Is to be pror
cured than that he had taken his degree of M. A.
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE;
%* Edmund Staunton, D. D. President. He was
born in 1600, of the ancient and worshipful family of the
Siaunions in Bedfordshire. His father. Sir Francis Staun^
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careful. Edmund, who was one of the youngest, , was sent
eariy to Oxford, where he applied so close to study, and got
such applause, that while he was an under-graduate he was
chosen a probationer fellow before eighteen of his seniors.
At about eighteen years of age he had a threatening illness,
frora which he was remarkably recovered, when through the
drunkenness of the surgeon wlio blooded him, his life was in
iraminent danger. He was anorher time as remarkably pre
served from being di owned. These merciful deliverances
were preparatory to that good work which, about this time,
Gpd began in his heart, as they led him to serious thoughts
concerning his spiritual and eternal state, to close self-exa
mination and fervent prayer. Having been about two months
under a spirit of bondage, so that many rimes, as he says,
he durst not close his eyes in the night lest he should
awake in hell, he at length, being very earnest with God in
prayer for tiie manifestations of his love, was imraediately
filled with a strong persuasion of it, and ' with joy unspeak
able and full of glory.'
Frora this time he appHed himself to the diligent reading of
the scripti^res, and the smdy of divinity, and deterrained up
on the work of the ministry ; telling his father, (who had gi
ven him his choice of the three learned professions) that " He
esteemed the turning of souls to righteousness the most desifa-
hle work in the world, and attended with the greatest reward
' hereafter, though the others raight bring in raore wealth and
honour here," He first pi-eached a lecture on ihe Lord's-day
afternoon at Witney in Oxfordsliire, about six months, and
had encouraging seals of his rainistry. His labours were so
acceptable that people flocked from all parts to hear him-.
This was not pleasing to the incumbent, who took the more
time in reading prayers, that this novel lecturer might have
the less time for preaching, and then left the church ; but he
was followed by none but his clerk, whom he would not suf
fer to give out the psalra. Mr. Staujiton had preached se
veral tiines on that text. Buy the truth, and sell it not; up'
on which the incumbent, when he met any coming into the
church as he went out, would say with a sneer, " What, arg
you going to buy the truth ?"
His friends having got a living for him at Bushy in Hert
fordshire, he removed thither, and had a welcorae reception,
especially frora those who had any savour of religion. Here
he preached and catechized on the Lord's-day, and at other
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from adjacent places, as well as his parishioners. But after
he had been here about two years, Dr. Seaton, oi Kingstonm
Surrey, having a raind to this living, and either finding, or
making a flaw in this title, soon dispossessed him of it. The
Dr.'s attorney, thinking highly of Mr. Staunton's ingenuity,
proposed an exchange, to which both parties agreed. But
the Dr. when he had got Bushy, would not part with King
ston. However Mr. Noy, his attorney, abhorring this base
ness, threatened to find a flaw In his titie to Bushy, and many
of the inhabitants of Kingston who prized Mr. Staunton's
ministry, so worked the Dr, that he soon resigned, and Mr.
Staunton took his place. He here contlnuecl about twenty
years, endeavouring to fulfil his ministry, not only preaching
twice on the Lord's day, but catechizing the younger and ig
norant sort of people, and teaching thera from house to
house. He also set up a weekly lecture, which was supplied
by several erainent ininisters in their turns. By these means,
together with the holiness of his life, he wrought a general
reformation in the town, both among the magistrates and the
people. He was beloved by all the godly, and feared by the
wicked. Nor did he only produce an external reformation ;
for when he left this place in 1648, there were thirty persons
who gave hira a paper in which tiiey owned hira as their spi
ritual father, and doubtless many more could have added their
names to the list.
In 1635, when the Book of Sports carae out, he was one
araong raany who were suspended for not reading it. During
his suspension he took his degree of D. D. at Oxford, which
he says he did to put the greater honour upon his sufferings.
His exercise was greatly applauded. But there were several
doctors in the university whose fingers itched to be dealing
with hira because he was a Puritan ; araong whora was one
who was so miserably nonplussed by Dr. Staunton in the dis
putation, that the auditors hissed hira, and one called for a
candle, that the Dr. raight see his arguraents.
Dr. Staunton was a raember of the Asserably of divines,
and was in such esteem, that he was appointed one of the six
morning preachers in Westminster-abbey. In 1648, when
the visitors discharged Dr. Newlin from the headship of this
college. Dr. Staunton succeeded him. Here he continued
about twelve years, in which time his whole deportment was
very exemplary. He at first put in execution all such statutes
as tended raost to the advanceraent of learning and religion^
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to encourage the stiidious ahd reprove the negligent. ' He s6t
up a divinity-lecture every Lord's-day, early in the morning,
in the college chapel, for exercising the senior students, and
initiating them into the work ofthe ministry. He constantly
catechized the juniors publicly every Saturday. He preached
once or twice every Lord's day, to the edification of many,
besides his constant course In the uiilversity-church and col
lege-chapel. He moreover often preached lectures In the
country, for which he rather sought opportunities than de
clined them. He h.ad a meeting every week at his own lod
gings for prayer and spiritual confeience, consisting of the
members of the college and others, wherein he bore a principal
part, bringing forth out of his store of experimental knowledge
things new and old. He took great care to introduce such-
only Into the college as discovered sorae signs of grace, at
least such as were docile and inclinable to what is good. / He
was constantly present at public worship in the chapel, raorn
ing and evening, observing and reproving such as were re
miss. And when he sat at meat in the college hall, his con
stant custom was, to discourse in such a raanner as might
tend to the instruction of those present. Spiritual dis
course was indeed his meat and his drink. By his prudent
governraent and pious exaraple, religion and learning re
markably flourished in this college*, and many vvho were
educated under his care, became learned, pious, and useful
men ; among whom was Mr. Joseph Allein.
In 16 60, being discharged from his office, he withdrew*
frora the city, in which he had sown rauch precious seed, and
well watered it with his tears. His departure was rauch like
that of Paul frora Ephesus, Acts xx. Having recoraraended
himself to Divine Providence to fix the bounds of his habita
tion, he first went to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire,
where he-was well received by persons of all ranks. His fii-st
and chief design was to settie an able minister there, but his
best endeavours were ineffectual. However he found the
way to ihat pulpit himself; but because the entrance was
narrower than in some other places, he sought out a wider
door and more effectual. He preached round about that
county, and in the neighbouring counties, at least at twenty
places, spending and being spent in the service of his great
master, till the Act of uniformity imposed a general silence
* A more particular account of the methods he took to promote religion
and learning in the college, while he was president, may be seen at Ihe end
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\.l|ion the Nonconformists. After this he was unwilling to be
idle ; alraost every week keeping a dav of fasting In his own
family, or that of sorae other godly rainister or christian
friend ; on which occasions he would take up some hours in
the word and prayer, and discovered such a brokenness of
spirit and dissolved soul, as those present could not forget.
His wife growing Infirra, he took apartments in a family at
sorae distance, where he was very useful. As long as he
lived there, there was a church in that house. Frora thence
he reraoved to another family near St. Albans, in which
town he was instrumental in correcting some extravagances.
His frequent removes seem to have been designed with a view
of doing the more extensive good. [His last removal was
to Bovmgden, a very sraall village, where a kind and pious
gentleworaan offered him all accommodations in her house
gratis. He accepted the offer, hut what he saved this way
he expended in charity ; particularly In distributing religious
books in the village and the neighbouring places. ' He here
attended daily to the duties of the family, and Instructed the
several members of it. If any of the poor in the neighbour
hood chanced to come in, he would say something that tended
to do thera good. In this place he enjoyed great privacy^
but he could not satisfy hiraself with it. The words of Paiil
were often in his lips, Woe be to me if I preach not the
gospel. He therefore often rode to St, Albans, or sorae
other adjacent place, and once or twice a year to Lo'ndon and
Kingston ,- and not being able to preach in a church to ma
ny, he would preach in a charaber to a few. — At length this
erainent servant of God, like a torch or candle, in hghting
others consumed himself. On July 8,1671, he was struck
with the palsy, which rauch affected his speech, but he was
capable of conversing to the edification of those who visited
hira, to whom he gave the raost serious advice, and the most
pressing exhortations to attend, in the tirae of their health, to
the great concerns of the soul. With regard to himself, he
discovered the raost happy frarae of raind, saying, among
other things, " I neither fear death nor desire life, but am
*' willing to be at God's disposal." In two days his speech
was-entirely taken from him, but his understanding and me
mory were continued ; and for four days he lay in a Comfort
able condition, lifting up his eyes and hands towards heaven
vvith a smiling countenance ; and when a minister, a littie
before his departure, prayed vvith him, he shewed great affec-
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tion and joy in God. On the 14th of the same month he died^
in the 71st year ofhis age. .
He was a mau of uncommon piety, who took miich pains
in personal religion. He ^vas remarkably careful in the work
of self-examination, which he often pressed upon pthers. He
left a piper, in which his evidences for heaven are distinctly
drawn out, with scripture-proofs. {Life,.p, 2g — 32.) He
kept a journal of God's mercies to him, in which are con
tained some reraarkable appearances of providence for hira. —
As a preacher, he was very laborious and eminent. He feared.
rhat rebuke from Christ another day, — Thou wicked ami
slothful servant I When he visited his friends, he usually
preached araong thera ; and though he soraetiraes offered his
services, thev were not ordinary ware. He always disliked.
iramethodlcal indigested preaching, but laid great stress upon
plainness. In his applications he was ever raost lively and
aft'ectionate, so as to impart not ihe gospel only, but his
very soul also. He was called the searching preacher. His
prayers also were very striking ; as a proof of which, when
he once went to preach at Warborough, near Oxford, a man
was so much affected with his first prayer, that he ran horae
anddesired his wife to make haste and come to church, for
tiiere was one in the pulpit who prayed lijce an angel.- The
woman hastened away, and God so ordered it, that the ser
mon proved the means of her conversion, and she afterwards
proved an eminent Christian.
He was so familiarly acquainted with the holy scriptures,
tiiat his head v^'as instead of a concordance. He greatly loved
tiie word, and therefore could not easily forget it. Where
ever he went he carried the New Testament or the Psalter
with him, and was often speaking in the day of what he had
read in the morning. And at night he fixed upon some pas
sage to employ his waking hours on his bed. He seldom
wrote a letter but he added some pertinent texts for a P. S.
and seldora parted with a friend but he would leave some
scripture passage with him. " Pray, (said he) let rae leave
one text with you, and think of it when I ara gone." 
He gave hiraself unio prayer. No day passed wherein he
restrained or slightly passed it over. He would often say to
his godly friends who came to visit him, " Come, must' we
not pray together before we part V He always chose the kneel-
ing posture, as being the most humble. — He was a strict ob
server of the Loiul's-day. It was rare to hear hlro speak one
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he went from one duty to another, as the bee does from
flower to flower, finding sweetness in them all. He used to
say, " We must be good husbands of time, especially of holy
time ; and must not spend that time which is not our own
about our own things." He often kept days of prayer and
festing, sometimes with his family, and sometimes alone,
as he found any corruption prevail in his heart. He con
fessed, that by this means In particular his spiritual pride was
subdued, to which when he was a young preacher he was
very subject — He was Indeed a very lowly-minded Christian,
who appeared not elated by his parentage, his abilities, or the
applause he met with, but ' esteemed others,' though really
much worse, to be ' better than himself.'
He was very liberal to all, especially to those ofthe houshold
of faith. He ' devised liberal things,' It was his custom, when
he rode abroad, to put what money he could spare Into his poc
ket, and if he met with any indigent persons he would enter
into discourse with them, and relieve them according as he
judged of their circurastances and characters. He often vi-
sited needy farailies, and left soraething for the good both of
soul and body.
He was one ofthe greatest patterns of patience under trials >
which the age produced. He had one trial peculiarly heavy,
yet none ever saw hira out of humour. Nor was he meiely
patient under troubles, but chearful ; ' in every thing giving
thanks.' And his general chearfulness was ornamental to
religion, and was the raeans of drawing some into a good
liking of the ways of God, as he himself intended it, for he
thought that a sour morose carriage In Christians did much to
disparage the gospel. — He much lamented the unnatural divi
sions among Christians, Though he was not sceptical or in
different, he was not rigid and severe, but always accommo
dated himself to those that differed'from him, as far as his love
of truth would permit, saying, " All raen raust have their
"grains of allowance; the most knowing Christians know
" but in part." He would freely converse, and communicate
also with those that held the head, though in other things
erroneous. — His zeal for God (to use the words of Davitl)
did eat him up. Though he seldom sinned In being angry,
he was very often angry with srn. He could hear to have
himself reproached, but not the name of his God. He was
constantly projecting and executing schemes to promote his
honour. Often would he say to his friends, " Come, what
shall we do forGod to-day .?" — He greatly excelled in his
dexterity and delight in Christian conference. His heart
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228 MINISTERS, &c. EJECTED
¦was always inditing a good matter, and his tongue was ds
the pen of a ready writer. His lips fed many. It was ad
mirable to see when he sat at raeat, how he would turn wa
ter into wine; how he would iraprove merry and idle, into
serious and useful discourse, so that the most ignorant and
carnal could not be offended. He was uncommonly ready in
instructing the ignorant, and he took delight in doing it, em
bracing all opportunities for it which offered, wherever he
went ; and his success with regard to persons he accidentally
met with, was very encouraging. — His raodesty was such,
that he never judged any thing of his worthy of the press,
yet he consented to print the following
WORKS. Sermons before the Lords and Commons. — Fun.
Serm. for Mrs. Eliz. Wilkinson. — A Poem in Brit. Rediviva, on the
Restoration. — A Treatise of Christian Conference (a very plain but
useful book.) — A Dialogue between a. Minister and a Stranger,
which he left in MS. [A small tract, ^dpted to the capacities of
the most ignorant. These are botK bound with his Life, writ
ten by Mr. Richard Mayo. The latter of them was reprinted by
the late Mrs. Ahney, of Newington, to be given to the poor, with a
short preface signed T. 7".]
John Milward, M. A. Fellow. He was also tumed
out of the pleasant living of Darfield, in the west-riding of
Yorkshire, reckoned worth 300 1, per ann. He died in 1683
or 1684, ^t Islington. There is a sermon of his in Mom.
Ex. on loving our neighbours as ourselves.
Mr. Sayer. He took his degree of M. A. and was af
terwards chaplain to Sir William Waller.
EXETER COLLEGE.
Richard Whiteway, M. A. Fellow. An accomplished
scholar, and a raan of uncommon piety. When the Bar
tholomew aet had ejected. him, he retired into Deijonshire
his native country, and was taken by Sir John Maynard for
his domestic chaplain, after which he died of the small-pox
in a few weeks.
Richard Inglet, M. A. Fellow. Born near Cliiiley
in Devonshire. When cast out of his fellowship, he applied
himself to the study of phytic, and practised it in Plymouth
with good success. He broke a blood vessel as he was riding
to visit a patient in the country, which occasioned his death.
In his sickness, he was at first under trouble of mind ; but
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by frequent conference with a pious minister, it ple;ased God to
recover him to a full composure, and he died with good hope
through grace of eternal life.
Mr. John Gay*. He had not preached when the Uni
formity-act took place. He left /the university because he
could not submit to the terras iraposed. He lived afterwards
at Barnstaple in Devonshire, and was useful there.
Mr. John Cudmore, He was an intimate friend of Mr.
Gay, and left the university at the sarae time, not being sa-
tisfied with the declarations and subscriptions required in or
der to take his degree. He was of a good faraily, and was
brother to Daniel Cudmore, Esq. of Loxbeare ; a singular
scholar, and an eminently holy man ; content with a small
estate, and a small congregation in Chumleigh, where he
settled in 1694, succeeding Mr. Thomas Hart, In the lat
ter part ofhis time he was crippled with the gout, and died
in Oct. 1706. In his last sickness he said to a minister who
-flvas with hira, " Nonconforraity is the right; continue in it."
A son ofhis was in the rainistry araong the Dissenters some
where in the West of England.
*** John Conant, D. D. He was Rector of Exeter
College at the tirae when the Uniforraity-act passed, and he
left his place on account of it. Of this learned and excellent
person sorae memoirs are contained in Prince's Worthies qf
Devon, he being a native of that county. We are there
informed that " He greatly distinguished himself while he
-was a student in the university, insomuch that the leamed
Rector, Dr. Prideaux, applauded him by the following wit
ticism upon his marae: Conanti nihil difficile'^'." It ap
pears from sorae original papers {, dated in the year 1640,
that he had been some years Rector of Liming ton, in the
diocese of Dr. Pierce, bishop of Bath and Wells ; from whora,
for want of strict conforraity, and on account of sorae zeal
ous exertions in his ministerial work, he met with much op
position. — He was puritanical in his principles, and after
wards became a member of the Westrainster Assembly, and
one- of the Commissioners at the Savoy; but when he took
• This name and the next are transposed from Devonshire,
¦}• " To him that endeavours nothing is difficult,"
J These papers, now in the Editor's possession, are in Dr, Conant's own
hand-writing. They were communicated by the Rev, Dr, Fdrneaux, As
they are curious and interesting, a copy of them shall be given at the end of
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the Engagevient to tbe Commonwealth, he did it with such
caution as shewed him to be not very warraly attached to
that government. The words of the Engagement were,
" You shall promise to be true and faithful to the Coramon-
" wealth, as it is now established, without King or House
" of Lords." When he appeared before the Coraraissioners
he made a Declaration in these words—" Being required to
subscribe, I humbly premise i. That I be not hereby under
stood to approve of what hath been done, in order unto or
under this present governraent, or the government itself; nor
will I be thought hereby to condemn it ; they being things
above mv reach, and I not knowing the grounds ofthe pro
ceedings, a. That I do not bind myself to do any thing con
trary to the word of God. 3. That I do not hereby bind my
self, but that if God shall remarkably call rae to submit to
any other power, I may be at liberty to obey that call, not
withstanding the present engagement. — In this sense, and in
this sense only, I do promise to be true and faithful to the
present government, as it is now established, without King
or House of Lords." John Conant.
After he had been a Nonconformist about seven years, ke
conformed, and became vicar of All Saints In Northampton,
This may be thought an objection to his being placed on ouj*
list. But as he had continued with the Nonconformists so
long, he may be fairly numbered araong the ejected rainisters,
especially as In his temper and strain of preaching he -was (as
Dr, Calamy observes,) so much like the rest of his brethren,
that both by those that were in the charch, and those that
were out or it, he vvas generally ranked with the Presbyterians
all his days.
Mr. Pnnce, m the memoirs of his Life, seeras to beat a
I'oss to account for his Nonconforraity. But all thrrrgs con
sidered, it is raore surprising that he should ever have been
induced to conform. Probably he might subscribe the arti
cles, &c. ofthe church on the same principles that he took:
theEngagement to theCommon-w-eaMS ; and'in the same man
ner, if admitted, any one might subscribe ailmost any thrrrg efee*
Something of his spirit andteraper, as well as of l-ris- Pristtory,
and the difEculties he met with inhismhiisterial labotiTS', may
. be gathered frora the tollowing papers.
No, 1, The testimony of John Conant, Rector afLimvn^an,
within the diocese of Bath and Jf'ells^ Jan. 1.640.
" Havmg continued in myne own panish churck aiLecture
for the space of lo or 11 years, viz from A. D. 1&22' oi«il
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IN OXFORD UNIVERSITY. <J3i
A. D. 1633, first once every fortnight, and afterwards week
ly without any considerable intermission, without any prohi
bition or the least discouragement from Bp Lakes and his
successors, until Bp Pieice his coming into this Diocesse, 8c
after his the sayd Bp Pierce his coraitig to Wells, I being
told that he was an adversary to Lectures that a storm was
coming, and having heard that sorae raore publick Lectures
were already suppressed, I thought it a meete and inoffensive
way to repayre unto the sayd Bl.shop and to crave his leave
and liking for the continuance of ray Lecture wch accordingly
I did, taking with rae a grave and orthodox Minister of myne
ancient acqvaintance, viz. Mr. John Vivian then Vicar of
Banwell that he might If neede required give testimony unto
such passages as should intercede betweene the Byshop &
my selfe. But the Bp taking me into an Inner roorae bec-
kened unto the said Mr. Vivian (as he hiraself told rae) sig
nifying that he should stay behind, notwithstanding wch 1
yet earnestly and hurably intreated the said Bp Pierce to af
ford rae his approbation and incourageraent in ray said Lec
ture, alledging to this purpose that I was Batchelor in Divi-
nity, & a preacher licenced by the university, also that the
Lecture was within myne own parish, & upon a day appoint
ed for Coramon Prayer by our church, and that I was wil
ling to imploy the tyrae and talent wch God had vouchsafed
hie for the benefitt and instruction of ray people, who much
needed the same. Yet the sayd JBp utterly denied me any
such leave or approbation, telling me that such as came tO
my Church on Wednesdays should heare the Litany and so
be gone, withal requiring me once Sc againe not to proceed
any once more in my said Lecture or Exposition, (wch he
called preaching) on Wednesdays, as I would answer the con
trary. And when I humbly desired to understand the reason
why he should so strictly prohibit rae beyond some others,
-who as then continued their wonted weekly preaching in their
Own churches, & within the same Diocesse without any such
restraiilt, alledging no reason for his so doing, he answerecf,
'That it was in his power to inhibit or to Ticence whom he
-would', tho' within their owne cures, to pieach any such
weekly Lecture within bis diocesse, & therewith promised
me as a pretended favour that if any else within his said
Diocesse did continue any such Lecture I should enjoy the
like liberty: but added withall, Thaf his purpose was not to
permit any. That this was the sumrae of my suite unto Bp
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232 MlNlSTERS,^&c. EJECTED
Pierce now Ld Bp of this. Diocesse, Sc oi his Lordship's an
swer returned me, or in words to this effect, I can 8c by these
presents doe truly testify, and shall be ready by oath, if called
upon to confirra the sarae." - John Conant.
No. 2. " Another Testimony of the said John Conant .. . .
May 4, 1640."
[ Written after his Lectvre was discontinue d.'\
" Being deraanded whence it carae that I discontinued my
Wednesday's Exposition, — my answer is this" — [/fe then
repeats the substance of the former narrative of his inter
view with the Bishop, and adds] " He told me that it was
not in my power to make holy days : that by preaching on
Wednesdays I drew men frora their callings &c." The fol
lowing Memorandum is subjoined. " March 16. 1640. I
meeting ^4r. Ford at Sherb. [probably Sherbornl he inti
mated that the Bishop had employed Dr. Duck to dissuade
me from my Lecture, and again confessed, what he had for
raerly told rae, that the Bishop asked him whether I surceased
my lecture. He answering that he thought yea ; But what,
said he, if I should go on with my Lecture ? The Bishop
answered, That he would suspend rae. Mr. Ford replied.
What If Mr. Conant do appeal ? He answered, That he knew
the archbishop's minde well enough already."
No. 3. (No title or date.) " Our said Bishop Pierce, Bp
of Bath and Wells having publickly given charge that in ca
techising our children and servants, no other question should
be asked or Answers given than such as in express words are
mentioned in the Catechisra contained in the Book of Com
mon Prayer (for transgressing of which charge he enjoined an
ancient and painful minister ofhis diocese open Penance in the
public congregation) I did, Octob. 10. 1633 (the time before
mentioned) intreat his Lordship that I might enjoy that liberty
which forraerly we had, for asking sorae other Questions be
receiving some other answers, tending to the plainer unfold
ing and understanding of those which are expressed in the Ca-
' techism in the Book of Common-prayer. This liberty he deny
ing, I replied, that I could not then know whether or not such
children and youth understood theraselves or me, be so whether
they any whit profited in knowledge or no. He telling me
that I might privately send for them to my house 8c there ex
amine thera, I deraanded what course I might take to bring
them thither, 8c what I should do If they refused so to come
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not help mC' — and thus we having no liberty to examine our
younger people publickly, nor authority to deal with thera
privately, multitudes will by this means live and die in Igno
rance, and we know not how to prevent or redress the same."
John Conant.
No. 4. [Another pap ^r, dated Decemb. '^t. 1640, con
tains the substance of the preceding, with ihis addition'] —
" Also he publicly enjoined that until the Coraraunion Ta
ble were turned North and South, the Sacrament ofthe Lord's
Supper should not be there administered."
[With respect to this prelate's zeal about the right position
ofthe Communion-table, there is another curious Testi
monial, written in a different hand, not easy to be read,
with the names of two persons subjoined, who most pro
bably were the Church-wardens. As it may be amusing
to some readers, we sliall give them an exact copy ofit.~\
No. 5. " Wee whose naraes are here under written doe
testifie that wee being orderexl hy Byshop Pierce Byshop of
Bath and Wells to sett our Coraraunion Table north and
south at the East end of the chancell, and being afterwards
called to Wells to give an account what wee had done, wee an
swering that wee had not done it, in regard wee were informed
thaf the minister was bound to stand at the north side of tiie
Table when he ministred the communion, wch he could not
do if the Table we're so turned : the Byp replyed that the
Table had fower sides, though two longer and two shorter,
so as the minister might stand at the north side though one of
the shortest sides. Wee further demanding how wee should
be discharged if we so turned the Table as his Lordship re
quired, he answered that his coramand was sufficient for us.
In testimony hereof that this was the Bishop's answer, or to
this purpose, we have hereunto subscribed our naraes."
JoJi. Andrewes,
Nicolas Parsons.
WORKS. It doth not appear that Dr. Conant published
any thing till he was laid aside from preaching and was blind,
when he wished some of his sermons to be printed, and em
ployed Dr. Williams, afterwards Bp. of Chichester, to be the
editor, who pubUshed five volumes Svo. He hiraself pre
fixed the following address — " To the inhabitants of North-.^
ampton, and more especially to those of ihe parish of All
Saints there : — Christian friends and neighbours. Though
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constrained mi to quit ray relation to you, yet I Still acdouiit
myself obliged to endeavour to proraote your spiritual wel
fare what I raay. In order whereunto, I lay before yo«.
some few of those plain and practical sermons which I for
merly preached unto you ; hoping that they may take better
effect than when you heard thera frora the pulpit ; which that
they may so do, is the unfeigned desire and earnest prayer of
your truly loving friend and servant, John Conant."
Dr. Williams inserted the following short account of these
discourses and oj the author.
" It may be expected by those who knew the reverend
author of these sermons, and the public station he was in for
several years in the university of Oxford, as Divinity Profes
sor there, thathe should have gratified the world with another
sort of work : I mean his Lectures which he there read, and
were composed with great learning, acctiracy and judgment.
But that it seeras, is not so agreeable to his native raodesty,
who chusps rather to live and die in a kind of obscurity, tiiaii
be set as a city upon a hill ; and values hiraself more upon the
relation he had. to a parochial cure, and the capacity he was
in of doing good to the souls of men, than of being in one of
the most public stations in the church, and in which, since
by the privation ofhis sight, and other infirmities of age, ht
has been no longer able to serve, he thought, by publishing
sorae practical drscourses, preached to that auditory, he might,
though he be in a sense dead, yet speak and be useful among
them. These discourses are such as he usually composed,
plain and practical, and suited to the meanest capacity. And
ifthere be any thing that is not of that nature (as there is very
little) and which the author, had he had the last perusal,
would have revised ; the error is to be iraputed to the pu
blisher, to whose care and choice they were coramitted.
John Williams."
(No daie; but the 2d edit, was printed 1699, A sixth
volume was added in 1722, at the desire rf his son.)
JESUS COLLEGE.
Francis Howel, M. A. Principal, He was also reader
of Moral Philpsophy to the university, but was turned out by
K, Charles's commissioners. He afterwards Hved in or near
London, and preached one part of the dav with Mr. Collins,
with great acceptance. He died at Bethn'al-Green, in Mar<:h
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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.
Thankful Owen, M. A, President. He was born In
London, ahd was remarkably preserved in his youth as he
was swimming near Oxford, after he had sunk twice under
water. He was a man of an excellent temper, and possessed
a considerable share of polite literature. He was aflrairedfor
an uncommon fluency and easiness in his composures, and
for the peculiar purity of his Latin style. He performed ex
ercises for the Doctor's degree, but did not take it. He was
ejected by the coraraissioners In 1660, after which he went
tb London and lived privately, rauch respected, and never
repented of his Nonconformity. Upon Dr. Goodwin's de
cease he was chosen to succeed him, but died suddenly about a
fortnight after, Ap. 1, 1681, at his house in Hatton-Garden,
just after finishing an epistle for a volume of Dr. Goodwin's
-works. Hewas preparingforthepress,and had alraost finished,
a book intitled Imago Imagiaiis , designed to she'va that Rome
Papal was an iraage of Rome Pagan !* When Dr. Owen
gave notice of his funeral, he said, " That he had not left his
fellow behind hira for learning, religion, and good humour."
§ He was buried in the sarae vault with Dr. Goodwin, at
Bunhili-fields, and a Latin inscription is subjoined lo that on
the Dr. expressive of the above singular circurastance attend
ing his death. Both are copied in Maitland's Hist, of Lon
don, pi. 774.
John Troughton, B. A. Fellow. After his ejection he
retired to Bicester in Oxfordshire, where he privately taught
acaderaical learning. After the Indulgence in 1672, he often
preached in Oxford. Wood says, " That though he had
bfcen blind by the small- pox from four years old, he was a
^od school-divine and metaphysician; was rauch comraended
while in the university for his disputations ; and was re
spected by, and maintained an amicable correspondence with,
sorae of the conforraable clergy, because of his great know
ledge and raoderation. He died at Oxford, Aug. 20, 1681,
aged 44.
WORKS. Lutherus Redivivus : or theProteiit. Doct. of Justif-
by Faith only, Ss'c. — A letter to a Friend touching God's Provi
dence about shiful Actions. — Popery the grand Apostacy, Sermons
on .2 Thess. i. 1:2. — An Apology for the Nonconformists,. &c. —
* See this argument" since discussed in Dr, Conyers Midaiaton's Letters
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An Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermon, and to his Defence of it,—
The Covenant Interest of Believers and their Infants.
Mr. John Whitwick, Fellow. He lived for some time
on the sniall stock he had left, and afterwards officiated as
chaplain in some private families ; but was often reduced to
great straits.
Thomas Brace, B. D. He was noted for a good preacher
in the university, and afterwards about Westminster, where
he preached privately among his friends.
Philip Stevens, M. D. A very serious good man. He
was reckoned a great herbalist ; and joined with Mr. Wil
liam Brown in publishing Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoni
ensis.
LINCOLN COLLEGE.
Mr. Robert Wood, Fellow. Afterhis ejectment he was
teacher ofthe mathematics and navigation, at the Blue-Coat
Hospital, Christ-Church, London.
 Hitchcock, M. A. Fellow. He after his ejectment
becarae a counsellor at law, residing at Hackney, and at
tended the rainistry of the Nonconformists.
Robert Speere,' M. A. After his ejectment he went
to Jamaica, and exeicised his ministry at Port-Ro^al, in
that island.
MAGDALEN COLLEGE.
*** Thomas Goodwin, D. D. first of Christ's Col. af
terwards oi Kath. Hall, Camb. . He was born at Rolseby
in Norfolk, Oct. 5, 1600. His parents early devoted him
tp the ministry, and brought him up in a siiitable manner.
He, was blest with good natural abilities, which he so ira
proved by diligent study, as to secure great esteera in the uni
versity, where he was received at the age of thirteen. Dur
ing tiie first six years which he spent in Christ's College, he
walked in the vanity of his raind ; ambitious designs entirely
possessed him, and all his aim was to get preferment and ap
plause. But God, who had destined bim to higher ends, was
pleased to change his heart, and turn the course of his life to
his own service and glory. He left a particular account of*
his conversion, and of his experience both before and after it ;
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-which may be seen in his life, prefixed by his son to tiie ist
vol. of his works. The substance of it Is as follows : ¦
He had strong impressions of religion upon his mind from
the time he was six years old, which led him to the perform
ance of common duties ; in which he was at tiraes so zealous,
and felt his affections so strongly excited, especially at the
Lord's supper, (which he attended when he first went to col
lege) as to think himself possessed of the grace of God in
trath, and even to rejoice in the assurance of his title to hea
ven. But his good motions were often abated, and followed
by relapses into sin ; so that he soraetimes suspected them to
be counterfeit, and afterwards found th^t they were nothing
more than the violent workings of nature ; by which how
ever (as he says) God the more advanced the power of his
grace in him. Having one time made uncoramon prepai-ation
for the sacrament at Whitsuntide, expecting to be thereby so
confirmed that he should never fall away any raore, his tutor
seeing him coraing to receive, sent to him to forbid him ; be
ing then very young, and very little of his age. This was
such a disappointment to hira, as to discourage him from at
tending the ministry of Dr. Sibbs and other Puritans; and
from that tirae he left off prayer, and gave hiraself to such
studies as might enable hira to preach after the raode which
was then highly applauded in the university, and adapted only
to display the preacher's wit and learning. His convictions
however were sometimes renewed, but they quickly wore off,
till at length he was given over to the strength of his lusts,
and was resolved to follow the world, and by any raeans in
his power to acquire the applause and preferraent of It.
But going one day {Oct. 16,1620.) to Kath. Hall to he mer-
ry with his forraer companions at Christ's College, hearing a
bell toll at St. Edmund's, ior a funeral, one ofhis companions
said there was to be a sermon, and pressed him to hear it. He
was extremely loth to go in, being then averse to preaching,
and especially that of the serious kind. Buf seeing many scho
lars enter the church, he followed thera, and finding that Dr.
Bambridge was to preach, who was a witty man, he staid
to hear him. The Dr. preached on Luke xix. 41, 42. ; a
sermon which Mr. Goodwin had heard before, but not in the
same manner. The introduction engaged his attention. The
observations the preacher raade were " That every raan has
his day ; or a time in which grace is offered him ; — that it he
neglects it, God is just in hiding it from his eyes ;— and that
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238 MINISTERS EJECTED
hardness of heart, SCc," The sermon was closed with a warm
exhortation to an immediate repentance and return to God.
Though these things were far from being uncommon, Mr.
Goodwin was so much affected that he told his companion,
he hoped he should be the better for that sermon as long as
he lived. Instead of going to spend the evening in rairth, as
he had intended, he went back to his own college and re- '
tired. He found hiraself struck with a most powerful sensa
of sin ; first of the grosser sins of his life, and then of the ini
quities of his heart, and of the depravity of the huraan nature,
as the source of all ; so that he was constrained to rise from
his bed- in the night to prostrate himself before God in the
hurablest confessions of his guilt. He now saw the vanity of
his former religion, and the deficiency tbere was in the root
of all his devotion, the flowers of which had withered because
they wanted moisture In the heart to nourish them.
His mind was now greatly oppressed under a sense of the
wrath ofGod, and in the view of a miserable eternity. But
it pleased Gpd, in a littie time, gently to speak peace to his
soul. He mentions several considerations which led him to
conclude that the change now wrought in him was effectual
and saving ; particularly that it was attended with the hap
piest effects. He now found the disposition of his soul en
tirely changed, and his spirit clothed with a new nature, in
clining him to what was good ; and experienced an habitual
principle of opposition to, and hatred of, indwelling sin in
general, and the piactice of all known iniquity. He had one
peculiar evidence of a true conversion ; which was, that he
was led to search out his raost beloved lusts, and was enabled
to gain the victory over them. These he found to be enter
taining corrupt ends in -what he did, especially vain-glory,
and the love of academic praise, " That (says he) which I
most of all affected in my foolish fancy, was to have preached
in that way in which Dr. (afterwards Bp.) Senhouse e^KceWed
all men ; whose serraons are a farrago of all sorts of flowers
of wit that are found in any ofthe fathers, poets, and histori
ans." He accordingly set hiraself to raake large collections
of these. This way the good Dr. Preston had opposed as
vain and unedifying ; " but (says he) his sermons moved me
not to alter my studies, nor would all the world have per
suaded me to have done it." But the grace of God did in
this respect eft'ect in him an happy ch'ange ; so that he pro
posed the glory of God as the end of all his actions. He then
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came to this resolution ; that he would preach wholly and
altogether sound wholesome words, without affectation of
wit, and vanity of eloquence. " And In the end, says he,
this project of wit and vain-glory was wholly sunk in my
heart, and I left all, and have continued in that purpose and
practise these threescore years ; and I never was so much as
tempted to put into a sermon my own withered flowers that
I had gathered, and valued more than diaraonds, but have
preached what 1 thought was truly edifying, either for con
version of souls, or bringing thera up to eternal life."
In 1628 he was chosen to the lectureship at Trinity-
church, Cambridge, though not without opposition from
Bp. Buckridge [It also appears that in 1632, he was pre
sented by his Majesty to this vicarage. Ex Regisi. Archi-
diac. Elien.'\ In 1634, being in his conscience dissatis
fied with the terms of conformity, he left the university and
his preferments. As herein he acted with sincerity, and con
trary to his worldly interest, he often expressed great joy and
thankfulness in the accomplishment of that promise, Luk^
xviii. 29, 30. There is no man tliat hath left house, U,c.
for the kingdom tf God's sake, who shall not receive mani
fold more in this present time, and ih the world to come
life everlasting ; and he had special encouragement in the
acceptableness and success of his ministry, which was the
means of conversion and comfort to many souls.
The persecution growing hot in England, he went into
Holland, in 1639, to enjoy liberty of conscience, and set
tled as pastor of the English church at Arnheim. He re
tumed at the beginning of the long parliament, and became
pastor of a church in London. Being chosen one of the As
sembly of divines, he procured the esteem of that venerable
body by his modesty and meekness, though he was one of
the Dissenting brethren. He took notes of their transactions,
-which he left in 14 or 15 volumes. He raarried first Mrs. E-
liz. daughter of alderman Prescot, 1638; and afterwards Mrs.
Mary Hammond, in 1649, who was then but in her 17th
year ; and he was happy in both. In the same year, being
in favour with Oliver Cromwell, he was made one of th?
Triers of ministers, and likewise president of Magd. Col,
where he made it his business to promote piety and learning;
He here formed a church upon the Independent plan, of which,
among others, Mr. T. Owen, Mr. F. Howel, Mr. Th. Gale-,
and Mr. Stephen Charnock were members.
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240 MINISTERS EJECTED
he had an established reputation there, but did not offer to
join with them. Dr. Goodwin took occasion to speak to hini
privately about It, expressing his concern and surprize at his
neglect. Mr. Howe told him very frankly " The only reason
was, He understood that they laid a great stress upon sorae pe
culiarities for which he had no fondness, though he could
give others their liberty, without any unkind thoughts of
thera ; but that if they would adrait him into their society
upon catholic terms, he would readily become one of thera."
The Dr. erabraced hira, and told him, he, would do it with all
his heart, and that he knew it would be rauch to the satisfac
tion and edification of the rest. He was accordingly admit
ted. A proof that Dr. Goodwin was not so narrow-minded
as sorae have represented hiin.]*
Soon after the Restoration, he was disraissed from his pre
sidentship, when he removed to Londoji, whither many ofhis
church followed hira ; and he continued in the faithful dis
charge of his ministry there till his death, which was in Feb.
1679, when he was in a few days carried off by a fever, in
the 8oth year of his age, in the fullest assurance of faith,
and with such expiessions of joy, thankfulness, and admi
ration of God's free grace, as extremely affected all that heard
hira." Dr. Goodwin vvas a very considerable scholar, and an erai
nent divine. In the coramon register ofthe university, he is
said to be in scriptis in re theologica quampluriviis orbi no
tus. It is evident from his writings, that he studied not
words, but things. His stile is plain and familiar; but verv
diffuse, homely, and tedious In sentiment he was a Calvi
nist oi the supra-lapsarian cast ; but he put nor doctrinal sen
timents into the place df piactical holiness, but inculcated
tbem upon his own and his people's minds, as the most pow
erful incitements to purity of heart and life. He had a remark
able talent at exposition ; in which he made good use of his
critical learning. He delighted to search into abstruse and
difficult texts, and was very successful in his attempts. Tlie
least particles of speech came under his notice, and in numer
ous instances he has made it appear, how rauch depends upon
little words in the scripture, which are too generally over
looked. In the Fire of London he lost above half his library
to the -value of 500I. upon which he said, God had struck
him in a very sensible part, and acknowledged it as a rebuke
of providence, as he had loved his llbraiy too much ; but was
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IN OXFORD UNIVERSITY. _ g'^.]
thankful that the loss fell upon the bobks of human learning
only, those on divlnhy being preserved, though they were ap>-
. parently exposed to the greatest danger. His character at
large may be seen in the preface to the 5th vol. of, his works
by Mr. Th. Owen. He was burled at Biinhill-fields, where,
upon a low altar tombstone, there is a long Latin inscription.
(See this in Cal. Contin, p. 90.) His son Mr. T.'Goodwui,
a person of good learning and an excellent teraper, was pas
tor of a Dissenting congregation at Pinner in Middlesex,
where he kept a private acaderay many years.
WORKS. Several occasional Sermons,— [One upon the death
ofthe Rev. and learned Mr, Stephen Lobb.] — The Child of Light
walking in Darkness. — Return of Prayers. — Trial of a Christian's
Growth. — Vanity of t^e Thoughts. — Aggravation of Sin. -^Christ
set forth. — The Heart of Chri.st in Heaven towards Sinners ou
Earth. — Patience and its perfect Work ; [written upon his Loss by
the Fire oi Ijondon.'\ — After his Death ; A Treatise on the Punish
ment of Sin in Hell, published by Mr. Th. Oiuea and Mr. Barron;
which was followed by 5 vols, in folio.
Joshua Cross, LL. D. Fellow, and Reader of Natural
Philosophy in the University. He was turned out by the cora
raissioners of Charles II. and afterwards lived privately at
O.rford, where he diied May 9, 1676. He was a gentieraan
much respected for the propriety of his deportment.
Henry Wilkinson, sen. D. D. He was a noted preacher
in Oxfordin the year 1638. In 1643, he was rector of 5^
Dunstan's in the East. Going afterwards to Oxford with
the parliamentary visitors, he was made Canon of Christ-
Church, Sen. Fellow of Magd. Col. and Margaret's Pro
fessor ofthe University. He was ejected by king Charles's
commissioners, and then returned to London, in Alhallows,
'Lombard-street. He spent the latter part ofhis life at Clap-
.ham, where he kept an open meeting after the Indulgence in
. 1671 ; and died there in June 1675. l^ood owns him to hive
been " a good scholar, a close student, and an excellent
preacher." He was a member of the Westminster Assembly.
WORKS. Several Sermons before the Long Parliament, and
upon other public Occasions  And three Sermons in the Morning
Exercise. ,
Henry Wilkinson, junior, D. D, A celebrated tutor
in Magd. HaU, of which he was afterwards Principal, till
he was cast out by the Bartholomew -act in 1662. Upon
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which, leaving Oxford, he preached in private, first at Buck
minster in Leicestershire, afterwards at Gosfield, then at
Sible-Hedingham, In Essex, and lastiy at Great Cornherth,
near Sudbury, in Suffolk : where he died, May 13, 1690.
He was ever esteemed a very plain-hearted raan ; hurable,
free, and communicative ; bold in his duty, -and free from dis
simulation. Wood ^ixes him this character: " He was ever
courteous in speech and carriage, comraunicative ofhis know
ledge, generous and charitable to the poor; and so public-
spirited, that he always rainded the coraraon good more than
his own concerns." But adds, " He was a zealous man in
the way he professed, but overswayed more by the principles "
of education than reason." He should have spared this cen
sure upon the Dr. when, in the same breatii he tells the
worid, " That he suffered for his Nonconformity by impri
sonments, mulcts, and the loss ofhis goods and books :" For
these are not such desirable things as that any man of sense
could be fond of thera, or run the hazard of them, if he doth
not think he has reason to justify his practice. He was an
early sufferer for his conscientious freedora. For, preaching
a sermon at St. Mary's, Oxford, Sept. 6, 1640, against
lukewarmness in religion, he was suspended by the vice-
chancellor, but afterwards restored by the House of Com
mons, who ordered the sermon to be printed. A remarka
ble speech upon this occasion was made by Sir Ed. Deer-
ing, chairman of the house coraraittee. [See Cal. Contin.
p,92.] The Dr. was also a great sufferer afterwards. When he
was at Sible-Hedingham, his library was distrained for his
preaching, and books of great value rauch damaged, being
carried away in carts. He was also rudely treated by some
of the magistrates, though he often pressed christians to loy
alty, meekness and patience, whatever they might suffer, and
practised accordingly. He was well acquainted with Arch
bishop Usher, and had that celebrated prediction of his from
himself.§ In his Treatise of God's All-sufficiency, he tells
from
§ The prediction here referred to wai what the Abp, i« said to have deli
vered when he was a young man, respecting the Irish Rebellion and Massa
cre, in a sermon on Exek. iv. C, And thou shall bear tht iniquity of the house of
Judah forty days : [ ha've tifijio'inted thee' each day for ayear. ** From this year,'*
raid he, (viz, the year 160i) " I reckon forty years, and then those whom
" you now embrace" (nieaning the Catholics who had been much favoured)
'' shall be your ruin^ and you shall bear their iniquities," « This then uttered
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from the same Archbishop, the following very remarkable.
story : " A commission de Heereticis comburendis was sent
to Ireland from Q. Mary, by a certain Doctor, who, at his
lodgings at Chester, raatle his boast of It. One ofthe ser
vants in the inn, being a well-wlller to Protestants, took no
tice ofthe words, and found out a raethod to get away the
commission, which he kept In his own hands. When the
commissioner came into Ireland, he was entertained vvith
great respect. After some time he appeared before the lords
of the council in Ireland, and then opened his box to shew
his commission; but there was nothing in it but a pack- of
cards. Whereupon he was committed to prison, and threat
ened exceedingly: but upon security given, he Was released,
returned into England, and obtained a new commission. But
as soon as he came to Chester, the report carae of Q. Mary's
death, which stopped his farther journey.
WORKS. Condones tres apud Acad. Oxonii nuper babita*.
— Brevis. Tract, de Jure Div. Diei Dom. — Condones Sex ad A-
cad. Oxon. — De Impotentia Liberi Arbitrii ad bonum Spirituale.
— Epistolarum Decas. — Oratio habita in Schola Moralis Philoso
phise. — Condones dua; apud Oxon. nuper habittE. — Concio d?
Brevitate Opportuni Teitiporis Oxon. habita ad Bac. die Cinerum,
7 Mar. 1659. — Several English Sermons, — One at the Funeral of
Mrs. Marg. Corbet. — ^Three Decads of Sermons preached at St.
Mary's, Oxon. — Several Sermons concerning God's All-sufficien
cy and Christ's Preciousness. — Catalogus Librorum in Bibl. Aul.'
Magd. Oxon. — The Doctrine of Contentraent, &c. a Treatiseioii
1 Tim. vi. 8. — Characters of a sincere Heart. — Counsels and Com
forts for troubled Consciences.
Theophilus Gale, M. A. Fellow of Magd. Col. Ox
ford. Born 1628. His father was Dr. Theoph. Gale, Pre
bendary of Exeter. In 1650, he- was unanimously chosen
Fellow of his college, in preference to several of his seniors.
He was a frequent preacher in the university ; where he was
also a considerable tutor. Bp. Hopkins was one of hig pu
pils ; who always paid him very great respect- In 1657, h^
was called to the cathedral at Winchester, where he was a
stated preacher till the Restoration, when he was ejected, as he
also was soon afterwards from his fellowship. In Sept. 1662,
sent thoughts of a young man, who was no friend to popery ; but afterwards
when it came to pass at the expiration of forty years, i, e, in 1641, when
the Irish Rebellion broiie out, and they bad murdered so many thousands o£
protestants, and harassed the whole nation by a bloody war, then those who
lived to see that da.y began to think he was a yeung prophet," fgrr's Lift ff
Ahp, Ushir, p. 9. 1686,
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244 MINISTERS, &c EJECTED , ,
he travelled Into France with the two sons of lord Wharton,
and settled thpm at Caen ,- 'whete he staid two years, and had
an intimate acquaintance with the great Bochart, then pastor
and professor there. Leaving his pupils, he returned to Eng
land, in 1665, when he saw the city in flames, and was greatly
alarmed on hearing that the house was burnt in which he had
left his manuscripts, which were the fruit of twenty years
hard labour, and among the rest, his Court ofthe Gentiles:
but he was agreeably disappointed to, find that they had been
remarkably preserved by a friend, who had removed the chief
ofhis goods, but was going to leave his desk behind, and at
last put it into the cart only to make up a load. — I^e after-
Wards kept a private academy at Newington. Upon Mr.
John Rome's death, he was chosen joint pastor with Mr. S.
Lee. Wood owns him to have been " a raan of great read
ing, an exact philologist and philosopher, a learned and in
dustrious person," He died in 1678, aged but 49, and was
buried at Bunhili-fields. He left all his real and personal
estate for the education and benefit of poor young scholars, to
be raanaged by his nonconforming brethren for their use. He
left his library to the college in New England, except the
philosophical part of it; which he reserved for the use of
young students at home.
WORKS. TheCourtoflheGentiles.— The Vanity of Pagan
Philosophy, ^c. (An elaborate -work. There' is a laudable account
of the two first parts of it in the Phil. Tran.sact. Numb. Ti; An.
t67I.) — The trueldea of Jansenism, with a large Preface of Dr.
Owen's, — Theophilie : or the Saiiit's Amity with God. — The Ana
tomy of Infidelity. — A Disc, ofthe Coming of Christ. — IdeaTheo-
logias tam Contemplatlvae quam Activae, Ctfc. — Philo.«;ophia Gene
ralis in duas Partes disterm. una de Ortu & Prog. Philos. Crff. Al
tera, 1. De Min. Gentium Philos. 2. De 9 Habitibus Intellect.
5, De Phil. Objecto. — A Summary'of the two Covenants: prefixed
to Mr. Strong's Disc, on the Subject, — The Life of Mr. Tross  A
Serm, in Morn. Ex. — He left several MSS. designed for the press ;
<he most considerable of which was a Lexicon of the G7'eek Testa
ment, which Would have been much compleater than any then ex
tant. He printed proposals for publishing it in fol, but a very httle
before his death.
Humphrey Gunter, M. A, Fellow. He was aman of
'considerable learning, particularly in the Oriental languages,
and had a peculiar talent in expounding scripture. He never
ceased to preach twice every Lord's-day, in times ofthe great
est danger. He was for some years very useful as a tutor to
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IN OXFORD UNIVERSITY. 245
Oxfordshire : particulariy to  Dunch, Esq. of Pusey.
He was a man of gj-eat wisdora; who ordered his family-affairs
with discretion, and was very successful in preventing or raak
ing up breaches In the neighbourhood ; and was rauch sought
to and valued upon that account. His preaching was solid
and judicious, with a just raixture of. the affectionate. He
was of moderate principles, and a healing spirit in ecclesias
tical matters. He died ^ug. 23, i6gi.
Henry Hickman, B. D. Fellow. He was a celebrated
preacher in O.vford ; a smart disputant, and a raan of excel
lent general learning. After he was ejected, he lived for sorae
time privately in Worcestershire, preaching only now and
then ; and was afterwards minister of the English congre
gation at Leyden, where he was generally much respected.
He lived to a good old age, and died at Utrecht, in i6gi or 2.
He left a son in the rainistry, araong the Dissenters, who
died suddenly on a journey to London.^
WORKS. A Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen, ag.
Mr. T. Pierce. — Laudensium Apostasia. — Ajiologia pro Ministris in
Anglia vulgo Nonconformists.— .SiOTfl/aj Fajiulans : ag. Mr: John Bu
ret. — Animadversions on Dr. Heylin'% Quinquarticular History. —
The Believer's Duty towards the Spirit. — The Nonconformists
vindicated, ag. Mr. Z)arf/and Mr. Scrivener; with remarks on the
Coni., at Hmmjitm-Court. — Sjieculum Sherlockianum. — The Danger of
the House of Feasting, &c. a Discourse on Ecf les. vii. 2. — Concio
de Hceresiam Origine, ad Acad. Oxon, — Adjicitjfr brevis re/utatio Tl-
leni.
Mr. George Cowper.
James Ashurst, M. A. Fellow. He was a gentieman of
a good family, had a learned education, and was a close stu
dent all his days. He was esteeraed a very judicious divine,
and a methodical profitable preacher. He was exceedingly
valued by his neighbour Mr. Charles Morton, who often
said, that he thought him as well versed in ecclesiastical hi
story as raost he knew. He had sorae estate ofhis own, and
lived handsoraely and reputably, being much beloved and re-
'^spected. He was a pastor to a sraall congreation at Newing-
i«n-Green, chiefly made up of such as had been of Dr. Man-
ton's church while he was minister of Stoke-Newington, and
§ This Mr, Hickman was a considerable man. He left some money to six
or eight dissenting congregations in Worcestershire, and founded a Lecture
¦once a fortnight, and a charity-school at Cradley, The Lecture is preached by
eiffht of the ministers in these parts. O,
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could not fall in with the public establlshme.it. He was a
considerable man ; though not so rauch known as some others,
by reason of his fondness for retirement.
. Thomas Critendon, M. A. Was also Fellow oi Mag
dalen's, He afterwards married Mr. 5aZwtora's daughter at
Hackney ; where he assisted her mother in her great board
ing school ; preaching as often as he had opportunity : and
there he died.
Mr. Kentish was chaplain at Magdalen's, It is doubt
ful whether he was not afterwards ejected in Hampshire,
John Gipps, M. A. The son oi Mr. George Gipps. Hp
was first of Sidney- Col. Catnb. but afterwards removed
to Oxford, and was one of the chaplains in Mag. Col. He
was a meraber of the Westminster Assembly. Upon the Re
storation, being obliged to leave Oxford, he came to London,
and resided for sorae time at Sion College. He afterwards
went to Montpelier in France for his health ; but returned
to Lo?idon, where he died of an ulcer in his lungs, 1669.
MAGDALEN HALL.
Mr. Conway. After his ejectment he lived in Wiltshire.
He is several tiraes raentioned in Mr. Birch's MSS. as join
ing with hira in keeping days of prayer and humiliation in
private, after the passing of the Uniformity-act.
Mr. Joseph Maisters, of Magd, Col, under the tuition
of Dr. Goodwin. He was born at Kingsdown, near Ilches
ter in Somerset, Nov, 13, 1640. He went to college, 1656,
and there continued till, upon the Restoration, the commis
sioners were sent to the university. The ceremonies of the
church of England being biought into that as well as other
colleges, he removed to Magd. Hall; and at that time stand
ing for his degree of B. A. it was denied him purely because
of his refusing conformity ; for there are extant some certifi
cates* ofhis diligence, piety and learning. In this respect he
was one of -the first sufferers. After such usage, he had littie
heart to stay any lopgcr in the university, and therefore quit
ted it, and followed his studies in private, preaching occa
sionally as he had opportunity. At length he settled with a
society of christians, at Theobalds in Hertfordshire, being
ordained <?(,-/. 30, 1667 ; and continued exercising his ministry
tbere, and in the city of London, sometimes more publicly, and
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sometimes more privately, as the times would allow. For
some years before his death, which was on April b, 1717, he
was pastor of the Baptist-church at Pinners-hall. Ho was
interred in Bunhili-fields, and his funeral sermon was preach
ed by Mr. (afterwards Tir.)Jer, Hunt, on Prov. xiv. 32.
§ The following is an extract from It. He was traln'd up at
Oxford, under the care of Dr. Goodwin, at a time when the
seeds of religious practice, with a concern equal to that which
was expressed to advance in letters, were thrown into voung
and tender rainds. How they were received by this great
man, the influence they had on his future conduct sufficiently
discovers. By the force of them he quitted the advantages
of which he might have formed a reasonable expectation, and
at an age too when they coraraonly appear the raost alluring;
and chose to run all risques, rather than act contrary to his
light, — a happy presage of future eminence. God by the na
tural abilities he endued hira with, seeraed to design hira for
considerable service. He was blessed with a native modesty
and mildness of temper, which were improved by care, and
heightened by religion. His fancy was clear and lively, and
continued with hira to an age, when usually it takes its flight;
and it was so well conducted by him, that it was not suffeied
to outrun correctness of thought, and exactness of judgraent .
His memory was so strong, that the abatement of It c^uld not
be well discerned by others, any considerable time before his
reraoval. His acquired talents, the long course ofhis preaching will
best discover. Since I have had tiie happiness of being ac
quainted with it, I have heard the good man treat from this
place, on converse with heaven, by the Divine Spirit, in
strains so high (though the draught of his own experience) as
in another would have put me in pain, fearing the manage
ment, aind doubting the event ; when with the greatest skill
he has guarded against the wild airs and extravagant flights of
enthusiasm. He has with clearness opened the beauteous
scenes of the grace of the gospel, but ever with a view to
make tiiera the happy means, by the agency of the Spirit, of
transforming men's rainds to the beauties of holiness. If
what the apostie asserts is true, 2 Tim. fii. 16. That all
scripture given by inspiration ofGod, is profitable for doc
trine, S(c, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly
furnished unto all good works; the large and wide view he
had of the sacred writings, must have rendered him greatly
accomplished for tliis part of the ministerial oiBce. The
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constant' intercourse which by prayer he maintained wit
heaven, joined to a large experience of human life,' gave him
an uncommon ability of offering up to God suitable addresses
for others, on particular and special occasions.
But let us leave the preacher, and tiace the Christian ; He
knew the justest sentiments of revealed religion, and the high
est flights of 'devotion, would not entitie him to the character
of a righteous man, and give him hope in his dying rainutes,
if he did not add to them all the virtues of the Christian life.
He therefore, by the aids ofthe Divine Spirit, carefully im
proved fliem to the height that may render him a fit example
for others. He was raild and gentie, ' humble and modest,
temperate and sober, to a degree not commonly attained.' His
love extended to such as did bear the Image of God, though
' they thought in a way different from him. All relative du
ties were so well perforraed by him, that It is with difficulty
I mention the father, the pastor, and the friend ; because
they raust excite grief in the breasts of many. In his deport-
nient he was modest and grave, yet pleasant and courteous,
virtues hardly practised by perspns of his advanced years.
His candour was reijiarkable ; whenthe miscarriages, of any
who ought to have been shining lights to others, reached his
ear, he took occasion from thence to praise the Divine good
ness to him, and though his concern for the honour ^i rell-
¦ gion, and the recovery of the person was conspicuous, yet he '
>vas far from expressing a delight to insult ^nd aggravate be
yond raeasure. He had no such stains of. his own to colour
over, as might induce him to make use of so artful a conduct.
In a word, he was so happy as to pass a life of almost seventy-
seven years without a blemish. Blessed saint ! Uncommon
instance! Worthy our imitation! So beautiful even is this
imperfect sketch of so arniable a life !
His death was equally remarkable: When he had faithfully
served his Lord above fifty years, a few nionths before his death
he fell under a decay ot nature, without any considerable sense
of pain, or uneasiness of sickness. When I paid him q visit,
three days before his decease, be appeared perfectly serene and
calra : The hope he expressed of future Happiness, was not
the rapturbus assurance of sorae Christians, of less extent of
thought ; the humblp and knowing saint owning his many
imperfectioris, had recourse to the merits and intercession of
his Lord, When 1 was going to take my leave of him, he
took me by the hand, and gave me a steady and a piercing
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fsays he) that I cannot now so well pray in my family : The
good man thtiught it strange that the intercourse he had
maintained with God in his family so many years, should be
interrupted, little thinking his kind Father would so soon turn
his prayer into praise. The manner of his dying was such as
literally agreed to the account scripture gives of the departure
of true Christians, viz, falling asleep in Jesus.
Mr. Sprint. § There were several of this narae. Sarauel
and two of the narae of Johrv. See the Index. Whether
this Mr. Sprint was a different person frora all these, seems
to be doubtful. «
ST. MARY'S HALL.
Thomas Cole, M. A. He was brought up at Westmin
ster-school, and thence elected student of Christ- Church,
Oxford,, In 16^6 he became Principal oi St, Mary's Hall,
where he was tutor to Mr. West, and raany raore divines of
the Church of England, as \yell as other eminent scholars,
particularly the great Mr. Locke, who being a layman, con
tinued In coramunion with the established church, but disco
vered a high regard for those conscientious men who left it
because they could not comply with the Act of Uniformity ;
and shewed an abhorrence of that act itself, and a conterapt
of thpse in general who so readily fell in with It ; as sufficiently
appeats from the passage quoted at length in the Preface to
this Work.
Mr. Cole, after his ejectment from Oxford by the king's
commissioners in 1660, kept an academy nea'c Nettlehed'vx
Oxfordshire. He was a raan of good learning, much of the
gentleraan, and erainent for virtue and piety. [His charac
ter had been shamefully traduced as an encourager of irarao
rality in his farailyt by Mr. Wesley f,, who had been one of
his pupils, but who afterwards conforraed, and wrote vehe
mently against his'former friends, (a method not uncommon)
to evince the truth ofhis conversion. Mr. Samuel Pahier,
in an excellent Defence of Dissenting Academie^,^ (p. 97)
f He was the father of the late celebrated "Mr, John Jfesley. He married
Dr, .t^nneslty's daugluer, and was himself the son of an ejected minister. See
Whitchurch.
§ The editor of the present work doth not claim the most distant relation
ship to the author of the above tract, but is of High-church extraction. This
scarce and curious piece, 'bound up with some pthers in a 4to vol, was put
jnto his hands, many years ago, by his excellent friend Mr, Jos Orton,
jvith a view to its being deposited in some public library, where it might be
of use. Accordingly it is now lodged in Dr. William's Library, Red-
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vindicates the character of Mr. Cole in particular, in thesft
words ; " He was a man of a most innocent aftd spotless life.
" And though the judgment of that excellent person was
*' somewhat differing from my own in his polemic writings,
" yet we are all witnesses, and so is every man with whom'
" he conversed, of the value he had for moral virtue, by hi»
" constant, sober, virtuous, and pious life."]
From Ncttlebed Mr. Cole removed to London, where he
took'the charge of a l.Trge congregation, and where he be*
came one of the lecturers at Pinners Hall, [At the time
that the controversy was so warmly agitated respecting what
is called the Neonomian doctrine, he was one of those who
vigorously opposed it ; and his opposition seems to have been
made in the integrity of his heart, and from a firm persuasion
ofthe truth and importance of the doctrine he espoused. Mr.
Trail, who visited him upon his death-bed, desired him then
to deliver his thoughts upon that subject. He answered,
" With all my heart ; I have enough to say of that. One
thing I am convinced of, That it is a foolish thing to seek
for the jostifleation of a sinner without satisfaction to the jus
tice of God, which nothing can make, but the righteousness
of Christ imputed to him," iSCf. Mr. TVazV then askedhim,
if he had no kind of repenting that he had given occasion
for thfe- contention there had been about this doctrine } He
replied, " Repenting ! No ; I repent I have been no more
vigorous in defending those truths, in the confidence whereof
I die. If I desire to live, it is that I may be raore service
able to Chnst in defending his narae in the pulpit. But he
can defend his truths when his poor creatures are laid in
the dust."' Mr. Trail further asked, " We desire. Sir, to
know the pe^ce and comfort you have of, these truths, as to
your eternal state.?" He answered, " They are my only
ground of comfort. Death would be terrible indeed, if it
were not for the comfortable assurance faith gives me of eter
nal life in Christ, ai-id for tiie abundant flowing in of that life
— -not what I hring to Christ, but derive from him ; having
received some beginning of it, which I see springing up to
eternal life, iff. — But (says be) we cannot look into these
things with a ti-ue belief, if we do not shew forth our faith
by our works ; neither can we look upon that faith to be sa
ving, which doth not dispose to all practical holiness. They
do not know the constraining love ofChrist that can be wicked
and licentious under such comfortable doctrine." — Speaking
to another person Nvho came to visit him, of the disputes in
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-which he had engaged, that person remarked, [what some
others have apprehended not far frora the truth] that
•' He thought they all preached ,the sarae doctrine, and
that the difference was only In words." — " If so, (said
Mr. Cole) it is very unhappy that we should fall out by
the way. If Satan has heen tiie cause, the Lord rebuke
hira. — I have stood up for the doctrine of the gospel ac
cording to ray light and understanding of it; if I were mis
taken in any fundaraental point, God would have shewn me
my error."
The frame of his mind, with regard to his approaching
end, was the most happy imaginable; which he expressed to
different persons, at different times, in sucli words as these : —
" I wait for a peaceable dismission. I long to see his sal-
•' vation. I would not live always. I long to be with Christ.
" It is a pleasant thing to die. But God's time Is my time ;
*' my work is done when his is." — To one who vrlsited him a
little before his death, he said, " You are come to hear my
'* last dying groans ; but know, when you hear them, it is
*' the sweetest breath I ever drew since I knew Christ. I
" have a promise I shall be for ever with the Lord. I long
*' to be released. But not my will but thine be done. I
•' long for death as a weary traveller t'oes for rest. Nothing
•• troubles me but life, and nothing will relieve me but death ;
*' but let God do what he will with rae, all he dtres is best."
When one reraarked that he was sleepy, he said, " I shall
" sleep quickly, and awake in everlasting day. Ere long my
•' days and nights will be all one. The apprehension that faith
•' gives of a better life is ray comfort. As for my going, God^
" can make it no loss to you. He can set on and take off
?' his workmen as he pleases."
There having been a public meeting for prayer on his ac
count, he said to one who liad been attending It, " I thank
" you for your prayers, but I ara a subject too low for such a
*' solemnity." However, he desired the prayers ofhis own
church ; but being asked. What the church should pray for?
he answered, " Nothing for me, but a strong faith in Christ
*' Jesus. Ihave done with all other satisfaction but what God
" in Christ can give." When one said, " But your life is for
" service," he replied, " God is the best judge ot that,. Pray
" that God would glorify himself in my life or death : I sub-
" mlt«." Having enquired what tirae It was, he said,, " Time
" passeth into eternitv. We live but dying lives in the body:,
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" till death is swallowed up of life. I long to be immortal.^*'
— He died in Sept, 1697.
WORKS. A Discourse of Regeneration, Faith, and Repent
ance. — Funeral Sermon for Mr. Edw, West — A Disc, ofthe Christ.
Relig. in sundry Points. — The Incorapreheni;iblene,ss of imputed
Righteousness for Justif. by human Reason, &c. — Three Sermons
in Morn. Ex. [very practical and useful.]
MERTON COLLEGE,
Mr. Thomas Cawton, son. of Mr. Tliomas Cawton, mi
nister of St. Bartiiolomew's behind the Royal Exchange, who
was forced to fly into Holland for his concern in what was
called Love's Plot, [This his son, who, it is presumed,^ ac
companied, orsoon after followed hira to Holland, entered up
on academical studies there,] He learned the Hebrew, Syriac,
and Arabic Tongues, at Rotterdam. He afterwards spent three
years in the university of Utrecht ; and then returned to
England, and was admitted into Merton Col, where he was
much esteeraed and respected for his adrairable knowledge in
the oriental languages. The raeasures taken in 1662, obliged
Jiira to leave the university ; though he had been ordained by
the Bp. oiOxfoi'd in 1660 or 61. He afterwards became
chaplain in Sir Anthony Irby's faraily at Westminster, where
he continued till 1665 ; whe'n, on account of the plague. Sir
Anthony removed to Boston In Lincolnshire. The air of
that place having before proved very unsalutary to Mr. Caw
ton, he was necessitated to leave that family, upon which he
.was iraraediately taken by Lady Armyn to be her chaplain.
. He gathered a congregation of Dissenters in Westminster,
to whora he qontinued preaching as long as his strength would
permit, though he met with rauch opposition. Upon his
§ Inquiry having been made of the Editor respecting the source of the above
interesting account, he thinks it proper to inform the reader, that it was ex
tracted from some papers put into his hands by his much esteemed and worthy
friend the late Mr. John Oldinc, minister at Deptford, who died in 178ti.
His funeral sermon, preached by Dr, Addington, contains a just view of his
character, 5 Dr, Calamy's account is not sufHcicntly clear. In Neal'% History of the
Puritans may be seen an account of Mr Cawton, senior, of Whoni Wood
makes very honourable mention, as " a learned and religious Puritan, driven
into exile for preaching .igainst tlie murder of Charles I, &c," There is also
the copy of a Letter written' to him liy Charles It, when he w.is minister of
the Presbyterian church in Rotterdam, to clear himself from the charge of be
ing a papist, and to engage Mr, Cawton to remove an unfavourable impres
sion concerning him from the minds of the Dutch ministers, -The good opi
nion of tho Presbyterians was THEN thought worth his courting. — Granger
says, Mr, Cawton " had few equals in learning,' and scarcely a superior in
< pi*y." See Toulmin's Neal. "Vol, iv. p, 233, 245. death-

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death-bed he recoramended Mr. Vincent Alsop as his suc
cessor, who was accordingly chosen. He died April the
loth, 1677, aged about 4-0. Two funeral seiraons were
preached for him : one by Mr. Hurst, and another by Mr.
N. Vfjicent.
WORKS. Dissert, de usa LingujE Heb. in Philosophia Theo-
retick, printed at Utrecht, — Disputatio de Versione Syriaca Vet. &
NoviTestamenti, — The Life and Death ofhis Father Mr, T. Caiv-
ton, — Balaam's Wish, &c. — He has a Hebrew Poem in Brit, Rediv,
Jonathan Goddard, M. D. Warden. Fel. of the Col.
of Physicians, Professor of Physic in Gresham Col. and
F. R. S. He was a physician of great knowledge and expe
rience. He died suddenly [being seized with an apoplexy in
the street.] He printed, among other. things, A Discourse
on the unhappy Condition ofthe Practice of Physic in Lon
don, § The editor has been, by raore than one correspondent,
referred, for a raore particular account of Dr. Goddard, to
Ward's Lives of the Professors of Gresham College, But
it doth not appear that he was tver engaged in the wotk of
the ministry, or that he was educated with a view to it; con
sequently his name is improperly introduced into our list. He
was doubtless a great and good man, and not only held in
high estimation by Cro-mwell, "and the principal noncon
formists, but by Episcopalians also. Mr. Seth Ward, af
terwards bishop of Salisbury, speaks highly of his learning
and abilities, as well as of his moral and religious character,
in the dedication of a book to hira, written in Latin. He
particularly raentions him as the first Englishman who raade
Telfescopes. He was elected Professor of Physic in Gresham
College- A^ot). 1655, and continued inhis Headship of Mer
ton Col. till the turn of affairs, at the Restoration, when he
was removed by a letter from his Majesty, dated July 3, 1660.
He died. March 24, 1674, and was buried in St, Helen's, on
the north side of the chtirch, near the rails, without any mo
nument or inscription. Those who wish for further inform
ation concerning him, and for an account of his works, are
referred'to Ward's Lives, p. 270—273.
NEW COLLEGE.
John Johnson, M. A. Fellow. .He was a very learned
and holy man. "' He had a poetical fancy, was a good philo
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was greatiy afflicted in his old age with a rupture, occasioned
by his' straining his voice to preach to a large congregation.
He died in or near L,ondon, where he lived in retirement.
WORKS. A Funeral Sermon (on Matt. xiii. 4.3,) for Mr. Ste.
Charnock, [which contains a great number of learned quotations
from the Fathers and other ancient writers, whicli it might be
proper for Dr. Burn to peruse.] — He left a learned and judicious
MS, upon this Question, Whether one ordained a Presbyter should
be ordained Priest or Deacon, &c.
 Allen, M.A. Some time after his . ejectment he
removed to his relations in New-England, where he lived in
gootl reputation. — § Mr. Cotton Mather, mentions a Mr.
Thomas Allenamong the first comers into that country, who
afterwards left it, and says of him, that " After he had for
some tirae approved hiraself a pious and painful minister of
the gospel, in Charlestown, he saw occasion to return to
England, where he lived to a good old age in the city of
Norwich : a man, like Daniel, greatly beloved, who applied
himself to inquire rauch into the times. This country lays
claim to two of his composures, which have been service
able in the world : An Invitation unto thirsty Sinners to come
unto their Saviour ; prefaced by Mr. Higglnson, — A Chain of
Scripture Chronology, printed in England, with an account
of the author, in an epistje-by the famous Greenhill." Hist.
Nexe Eng. B. iii. p. 215.
Mr. William Stoughton, Fellow. He also went to
New England after his ejectraent, and lived at Bostoii in
great esteera and reputation, being a principal raan in the go-.
vernment there. § Mather hashis narae in a list of eighty-
three persons, who were Magistrates of the Massachusef co
lony, whose exeraplary behaviour was sueh as to adorn the
doctrine of God our Saviour. Hist. New Eng. B. ii. p. 21.
NEW-INN HALL.
Christopher Rogers, D. D, Principal. He was turned
out in 1643, for flying to the parharaent, and was succeeded
hyT)r. Prior, who was forced to give way to hira at the
coming ofthe parliament's visitors. He was Canon of Clirist-
Ch. Nov. 7, 1648. After his ejectment he lived privately.
He was a plain man, and a lover of all good people. >
PEMBROKE COLLEGE.
Henry L,\ngley, D. D. He was Master of this College
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-ejected by the visitors at the Restoration, he retired and lived
privately. After the Act for uniformity, he had several in his
house whom he instructed in academical learning ; and often
preached in private meetings at Abingdonin Berkshire, living
at Tubney, a place not far frora that town. He died Sept.
no, 1679. Hewas a judicious solid divine; notvaluetliii
the usivcrsity according to his worth. — Mr. Jessey gives an
account of a scholar ol Pemb. Col. vvho said he went to Ox
ford on purpose to see Dr. Langley outed, and declared that
then he would give a plate to the college : he was invited ta
dinner by a scholar, and never went out of the room more,
but died there. (Call to England, p. 2.)
Thomas Risley, M, A. Fellow. He was horn August
27, 1630; aad descended frora a reputable and religious fa
mily ne^ Warrington. He was first under Mr. Askworth, mas
ter ofthe school at Warringtoii. .At four years standing in the
College he was elected Fellow, and obtained by hts conduct
general applause: but he was much of a recluse there, as he
also was in the country after his ejectment, aiming rather to
acquire solid learning than fame. When upon the Restora
tion royal visitors were sent; down to the University, he was
confirmed in his Fellowship, and they drew up the following
instrument in his favour. " We, having received sufficient tes
timony of the honest life and conversation of Tho. Risleff, M^
A. as also of his diligence in his studies, his progress and suffi
ciency in learning, and conformity to the doctrine a.nd disci
pline of the church of EiBgland, the government of this Uni--
versity, and the statutes of the College wherein he lives, do,
by these presents, ratify, allow, and confirra the said Mr-
Tho, Risley in his Fellowship, with all rights, dues, and all
perquisites thereunto belonging, notwithstanding any nul
lities, irregularities, or imperfections, which in a strict in
terpretation of the said college statutes, may be objected, Hic.
Paul Hood, Vice-Can.
Bated June 20, i66>. Nicholas Woodward, %. Th. D.
Thomas Barlow, D. D."
So that he held his Fellowship till Aug. 24, 1662, when
he was obliged to surrender, because he could not comply
with the Act for uniformity. However, their respect for him,
and their unwillingness to lose so valuable a meraber, prompt
ed them to allow him, a year to consider the c^se : in which
interval he examined the terms of conformity with great diU
gence and impartiality, that he might be able to satisfy otheis
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by the prejudices of education. .Upon Nov. 16, 1062, he
was ordained deacon and presbyter the same day, by tiie Bp,
of Norwich, who, in his certificate, gave him a very honour
able character. But, upon mature deliberation, he could
not, for any place, be satisfied to come up to the conditions
prescribed by the act. He retired therefore to his estate in
the country ; where, during the storm of persecution, he em
ployed himself in preaching privately to such as scrupled con
formity, and in visiting the sick, for whose sake he applied
himself to the study of physic ; by the practice of which, he
the more effectually engaged their attention when he admini
stered to them spiritual advice. After about four years, the
vice-chancellor of Oxford sent him a pressing invitation tb
return thither, proraising hira preferraent to encourage his
conformity: he had also good offers made hira by Dr. Hall
and Dr. Sherlock oi Winwick ; but a regard to conscience, hin
dered his acceptance. He made a tolerable shift in the latter
end of the reign of Charles, and that of James. When li
berty of conscience was granted, -after the Revolution, his
neighbours who had been his private auditors before, resolved
themselves Into a regular society, and committed themselves
to his pastoral conduct, and he was very useful among thera
by his rainisterial performances, and exeraplary life and con
versation. He expressed himself entirely satisfied in his Nonconfor
mity to the last. He had however a truly charitable and ca
tholic spirit ; was rauch respected by many of the established
church, and corresponded with some ofhis old fellow-colle
gians as long as he lived ; particularly with Dr. Hall, Bp-. of
Bristol, who concluded one of his letters to him (In 1709)
in these words : " I ara verv glad you have so muth strength
" to do so rauch work for God. I wish your labours raay
*' have great success, and that you may have great corafort in
" thera, and an abundant reward for thera. I take great plea-
" sure in conversing thus, with such an old acquaintance,
" whora I have not seen so many years ; and ara never like
" to see again in this world. It is sorae comfort to think of
" another world, whither if we can get, we shall live toge-
" ther for ever with the Lord : the Lord prepare us for our
'' removal thither."— -He died In his 86th year, and left a son
in the ministry, who succeeded hira. His funeral sermon was
preached by Mr. Charles Owen of Warrington. Some short
memoirs of his life are added to it. § A friend has comrau
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he could not travel to anyplace where the required oaths to
governmettt were administered, it was ^ItK dlfficalty he was
persuaded to desist from preaching (though his son supplied
for hira) till some of the justices, in corapassion to his age,
and zeal to King George, condescended to adjourn the court
to his house, where he took the oaths to the present govern
ment, sincerely and heartily, without equivocation pr mental
reservation. "
WORKS. The Cursed Family : a Treatise on the Evil of ne
glecting Family-Prayer. Mr. H<mje wrote a Preface to it, in which
he gave some account of the author.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.
Mr. Francis Jomnson, Master. He was one o^ Olivtr
Cromwell's chaplains. He was a man of learnirig ahd' ability,
bnt had not a good elocution. He took no charge Updn hirti
after his ejectment, brat lived many ye4rs in one of his own
houses in Gray's- Inn- Lane, Liondoti: and there ditd a
Nonconformist, Oct. 9. 1677. Mr. Zfo^d/ preached hi-^ fune
ral sermony in which he says of him, " That hewas a learned
man, and well read in the controversies, biit modest t6 a
fault. His life was made up of a variety of .trials. He for
merly enjoyed an affluene6 of this World's good, but was af
terwards greatly redticed. He was e'nconSpasSed with Jab's
afflictions ; and among the rest, with f h^ noise of a foolii!?!
woraan ; but he paitiently bore aU, with a iiiihd tirimoved SS
if in the greatest prosperity."

EJECTED

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EJECTED OR SILENCED MINISTERS, Hic.

IN the

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

CAIUS COLLEGE.
WILLIAM DELL, M. A. He had the living of FeU
do?i in Bedfordshire. He was a very peculiar and un-
settied man ; challenged for three contradictions, i. For be
ing professedly against Infant-baptism, and yet having his
own children baptized. 2. For preaching against universi
ties, when he held the headship of a college. 3. For being
against tithes, and yet taking 200L per ann. at his living in
Yeldon. It was not however for these things that he was
ejected, but for his nonconformity. Such is the account of
Dr. Calamy. To this was subjoined, iti the first edition of
the Noncon. Mem. p. 225, the following Note. — A vindica
tion of him from the inconsistencies here charged upon hira
may be seen in Crosby's Hist. Bapt. Vol. I. p. 332. He
might be somewhat tinctured with the enthusiasm of the
times, but he was a man of substantial learning, of real piety,
and a noble defender of the rights of conscience. He was at
first satisfied with episcopacy and the ceremonies ; but when
the change of the state led to a reformation in the church, he
was one of the most zealous to promote it, and would have
carried it further than many others designed or would 3llo,w.
He exclaimed against making a whole kingdom a church j he
thought that no power belonged to the clergy but what is spi
ritual ; that blending the civil and ecclesiastical power toge
ther has been conStantiy the method of setting up a spiritual
tyranny ; that all persons ought to have liberty to worship
God in the manner they think most agreeable to his word ;
and that the imposition of uniformity, and all compulsion in
matters of religion, is antichristian. These principles led him
to oppose the Presbyterians, In their attempts lo get the civil
power entirely to theraselves, and establish their articles of
faith and Directory for worship and disciphne, to the suppres sion

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sion of all others. With this view in 1645 he became chap.
lain to the array, ind attended Sir T. Fairfax at the head
quarters. A sermon at Mar sion occasioned hira rauch trou
ble; and another on & Fast-day before the H. of Coraraons
led hira into a controversy with Mr. C. Love, (who opposed
him in the afternoon of the same day,) and both were the
means of greatiy propagating his notions of civil and religious^
liberty. His zeal and success herein occasioned him many
enemies, and account forthe conteraptuous manner in which
he was spoken of by the rigid Presbyterians *.
WORKS. Besides the abovS sermonsi he published some other
pieces on the same subject, and one on Baptisni ; § a small piece
entitled. The Doctrine of Baptisms; which has been in much re
pute among the Quakers. An Antipoedobaptist correspondent is of
opinion, that Mr. Dell should rather be ranked among the Qua
kers than the Baptists. He was however ejected for Nonconfor--
mity.
CLARE HALL.
EranCis Holcroft, M. a. Fellow; His father \Vas a
knight, and lived at West-Ham, near London. He was a
pupil to Mr. David Clarkson, and chamber-fellow with Dr.
Tillotson, afterwards Abp. of Canterbury . [He here era-
braced the puritanical principles, and becarae a coraraunlcant
with Mr. Jephcot, oi Swaff ham-prior, eleven railes frora
Carabridge. His charaber being over the college-gate, he
often observed a horse waiting a long time on a Lord's-day
morning, for one ofthe fellows to go to preach at Littling-
ton, a village thirteen miles distant, and often returning with
out the preacher, who was rauch given to intemperance and
debauchery. Touched with compassion for the spuls of the
¦* Mr, Orton, on reading the above, Writes thus : " I question the truth of
" Croshy'i account of Dell. Mr. Baxtfer, who was,no stiff Presbyteriati, gives
" a very different account of him in his own Life. But he mi^ht be preju-
" judiced one way, .is well as the Baptists another, I have seeh i great deal
" of this prejudice and partiality in persons of different parties, in favour of
" such as were of their own," — It itiay not be amiss liere to subjoin Mr. Bax
ter's words, Havitig said, that " abundance of nonsisnse had been uttered by
" the sectaries, which ihay partly be seen in Edward's Gangrena," he Adds,
" Saltmarsh atid Dell wefe the two great preaehers at the head quarters "
(B.,i p, 56.) And again, p. 64, " Mr, -Vines and many more were put out
"of their headships in the universities, and Mr. Sidrach Simpson, Mr, Jo.
" Sadler, and such others put in j yea such a man as Mr. Dell, the chaplain of
" the army, who 1 think, neither understood himself, nor was understood by
" others, any further than to be one who took Reasun, Sound Dovtrine, Order and
" Concord to be intolerable maladies of chUrch and state, because they were
" the greatest strangers to his mind," s 2 ncglecte4

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neglected country people, and ashamed of continuing idle.iw.
the college, when preaching was. so much wanted, he o.ffi?re^.
to supply that parish. The offer was accepted, and. his mi
nistry, was very much succeedetl there, to the conversion and
edlficat^ion of many souls. About the year 1655 he accepted!
l!he' living at Bassingboum, where he laboured ' in season and
out of season,'' on Lord's days, and holidays, great multitudes^^
following him, ] Having been acquainted with some who.
were ofi the congregational judgment, he fellin with it, and
he was much esteemed in that capacity, and becarae very
zealous for it, s.o tl^tl^eibrmed a church upon that plan, apd
-was very, much against hplding, commimlon with the parish-.
churches. Many of the members of bis church living in se-^
veral distg,nt villages, he and Mr. Oddy, his assistait, [after
their ejectraent] went and preached at many of these places,
and at one or other oi tbem adniinistered the sacrament everye
Lord's-day. The truth ofthe raatteK, fas Mr. Ro.binson writes,) was as:
follows : After the ejectraent, Mr. Holcroft considered him
self as being still pastior of his flock ; and, as they epuld not
all m^et.In orie place, he deterrained, to pi-each and adrainjster
the ordlnajnces to thera in;, separatp bodies, at tiie different
towns where they lived'. But as this, would have hijen too
miich for, ope. man, he, assembled his pepple at Eversden to
consider. the matter, and they chose Mr. Joseph Oddy, Mr.,
S. Corbyn, Mr« /. Waite, and Mr. Beare, elders*. These
all laboured in the same work, till the next year, 1663, when
Mir. Holcroft vyas iraprisoned in Carabridge castle, by Sir
Thomas Chickley, for preaching at Gr-eat Eversden. Mr.
Oddy,. for preaching at. Meldreth, Mr. Corbyn and Mr,
White, shared the sam.e fate, and Mr. Beare escaped only by
fiight. While the pastors and elders were thus separated from
their flock, the people continued to meet together, and spent'
tjieir tirae in prayer and reading the scriptures. Soraetimes
some ofthe ejected ministers. preached to them privately, and,
now and then the jailor allowed Mr. Holcroft to go out in.
the night to preach to them, and administer the Lord's Sup
per. They had aUp letters from him, one of which was! -
printed, i688i entitied, A Word to the Saints froyji the.
ffatch-Towp\ Mr. Holcroft was indicted at the assizes upon the 35 Eliz.
and was sentenced to abjure the realra in three months, or
* See mention made of these two last persons in the Letter to the churctd
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IN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. 261
Suffer death as a felon. The earl of Anglesea represented his
case to K. Charles, and obtained a reprieve for him. Biit
he continued in Cambridge Castie almost twelve years. Up
on the Indiilgence in 1672. he had his liberty, when he im
mediately returned to his preaching, and was soon seized on
and Imprisoned again. A Hke indictment with the forraer
being intended, a certiorari was procured for him on the ac
count of a debt, which brought him up to the Fleet ; from
whence, upon discharging it, he was soon released. In this
and his former troubles he experienced great kindness froni
his old friend Dr.. TiUotSon, [Both Mr. Holcroft aihd Mr.
Oddy, tipoQ their enlargement, prosecuted their plan with
.greater vigour than ever, preaching at Cambridge, in spite
•of a drum which the gownsmen beat in their meetingi and
all over the c6untry ; being followed by such miiltitudes, that
they were often forced to preach abroad.
Mr. Holcroft was considered as the pastor of all the churches
an the country, till soon after Mr. Oddy's death, viz. in 1689;
when these congregations becarae separate churches ,; for
which encouragernent was given by the Act of Toleration,
and whifch was rendered necessary by Mr. //oft-ro/if's illness,
fost bronght on by colds caught after excessive heat in preach
ing, particularly in the Fleet, where great crowds resorted
to hear him. This .ended in raelancholy, which waS pro*-
moted by grief for the headiness of sorae of his people Who
turned preachers, or encouraged such as did so. He conti
nued to decline fill 1692, when on Jan. 6, he died at Trip-
low ; his torab-stone says, in his 59th year; his fvrtieral ser
mon in his 6'^d. His courage and spirits returned before his
jdeath, and he departed with- great joy, uttering these words :
^ For I know that if my earthly house of this tabeniacle be
¦• dissolved, I have a building of God, an house not made with
•* haSnds, eternal in the heavens.' His funeral serraon was
f)reached by Mr. Milway, then of Bury, on Zech. i. 5, 6. in
:which, (among other things,) he says of hisprfeaching, — " It
" appeared to me truly apostolical, primitive and divine."
He seeras (continues Mr. Robinson) to havebeenone of those
-uncorambnmen in whom the excellencies of several centered.
His karning was enough to have gained him an ample repu
tation, but his knowledge of the gospel of Christ was astonish
ing. His preaching was less methodical than that of his co-
temporaries, but tben it was more useful.).
Dr. Calamy says. He preached often and fervently, and
was insti'umental in ' turning, raany from" darkness t6 light,
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? and from the power of Satan unto God ;' though he speaks
of him as using little raethod or preraeditation, and insinuates
that he did some hurt, by bringing persons to lay too much
stress on somp things in which they differed from their
brethren. He was indefatigable in his labours, preaching
perpetually about the country ; so that there Is scarcely a viL
lage in Cambridgeshire, but some old person can shew you
the barn where Holcroft preached. § His congregations ex
tended as far as Hitchin, Herts, where Mr. Waite and Mr.
Beare generally preached to the Independents, before i66g,
some of whora afterwards formed the Poedobaptist church in
this place ; and Mr. Holcroft sometiraes used to come and
preach to them. There is a p^rticul^r memorandum of his
being there May 24, 1678.*
He had a lion-like courage, tempered with the most win
ning affability, in his whole deportment. His doctrines were
moderate Calvinism, and he had a great zeal for Nonconfor
mity, though a greater still for true piety, which he revered
even in his enemies, During his long imprisonment in Carar
bridge castle, he was exceedingly chearful ; and though in
the latter part of his life his spirits failed, yet all hi? converr
sation was heavenly and divine. He left a~ sraall estate to
the poor of his church, and a piece of ground at Oakington,
to bury in. There he hiniself was buried, where his tomh
yet remains.
 WiLQBORE, M. A. Fellow. An unsettled raan.
¦  WnpELER, M. A. Fellow.
EMANUEL COLLEGE.
Mr. James Illingworth, B. D, Fellow. BorninZaMr
^ashire. A liftle raan, but an excellent scholar and eminent
divine. He was very useful in the college as a tutor. After
his ejectment he was chaplain to Phil. Foley, Esq. at Presr
wood-Hall, Staffordshire, several years. While he was here,
a most awful providence happened at King's Swinford, in
the neighbourhbpd, which engaged his attention. One John
Duncalf, [having stolen a bible, on being charged with the
theft, most solemnly denied it, and wished his hands and legs
might rot off if he was guilty. They accordingly rotted off,
and the popr wretch lay a long time in the raost deplorable
condition imaglna,hle.j Mr. Illingworth often visited him,
* Some further accountof Mr. Holcroft may be seen in Mr, James's Abstract,
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and took, great pains with him to bring him to a sense ofhis
sins, [and there was reason to hope his labour was not in
vain.*] Mr. Illingworth died domestic chaplain to Dame
Eliz.. Wilbraham, aad was buried at Weston under Lyziard,
^ug. 30, 1693.
WORKS. Narrative of the Case oi Duncalfe annexed to Dr.
S, Ford's Disc, of God's Judgments, [preached in the parish church
upon this occasion,].. An Elegy and Epitaph on Mr. Bright. — He
had made large collections of the memoirs of noted men, especially
m Lancasiiie, Mr. John Reyner, Fellow. Son to Mr. Reyner oiLin.
coin. A raan of considerable learning, singular modesty,
and erainent piety. After he was cast out of his fellowship
in 1662, he left the rainistrv and practised physic. He was
afterwards greatly pressed to educate young men in academi
cal learning, for which service he was well qualified, and
which he was prevailed upon to undertake. But, to the great
loss of the public, he was soon after taken off by the small
pox at Nottingham, Whosoever reads the littie he wrote
will have such a specimen of his sprightiiness and abilities, as
will lead him to apprehend that great things might have been
justiy expected frora hira, had his life been spared.
WORKS. A Pref, to his Father's Defence of human Learningj
and a Chapter in that Book on the Usefulness pf the A'ahfc Tongue»
for understanding Scripture. — A Disc, on the Nature and Counter-
felts of Grace, prefixed to a Tract of his Father's pn the Being and
Well-being of a Christian. — An Elegy fpr Mr, .g/-/j/rf.
Robert Brinslev, M. A. After being ejected, he took
his degrees in physic at Leyden, and practised at Yurmouth,
where his father had been raany years minister.
Edward Hulse, M. A. After his ejectment hejiecame
an erainent physician in London.
Mr. Day, Student. He afterwards settled as pastor to
part of Mr- Holcroft' s people, near Saffron Walden, in Es
sex, in his time and with his consent, where he continued till
his death, He was a worthy pious man,
JESUS COLLEGE.
Mr. Daniel Evans. Born at Monk-Moor, riear Shvews-
bury, and biought up in the free-school there, {^e was
* The editor is possessed of this remarkable and affecting narrative in print,
W}iicb has all the marks of auihenticity. s n^ obliged

254 MINISTERS, tec, EJECTED
©bilged to leave the uijiversity in 1662, because he could not
conforra. He was afterwards chaplain to chancellor Smith,at
Norwich, three years, and then to Mr. Honeywoodoi Hamp
stead. At the latter end of Charles's Indulgence he settled
with a small dissenting congregation at Woolwich, where he
lahwred sixteen years, and then removed to Bethnal-Green, ,
where he died, July, 1698, aged 58.
Mr. Edmund Pough, afterwards conformed, and died vi
car oi HaHfax in Yorkshire. He was a raan of great mo
deration and piety, and behaved in a very friendly manner to
the Dissenters. He was sadly persecuted by sorae violent
party-men, sp that he died heart-broken with grief, Ap. 1,
1689, aged ^9.
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.
Anthony Tucki^ey, D. D. Master, and Regius Profes
sor of Divinity, son of Mr. Tuckney, minist?r of Kirion,
near Boston in Lincolnshire. He was born in Sept. 1599,
and educated in Eman. Col. Camb. When he left the col
lege, he became houshold chaplain to the Earl oi .Lincoln.
But being afterwards choseii Fellow, he returned thither, and
was a most diligent and conscientious tutor ; having many
pupils, who proved eminently useful both in church and
state ; among others, Henry, Marquis of Dorchester, and
his brother Mr. Wm. Rierrepont, that great statesman, who
ferainedmuch respect for him to h's dying day. He left the
university upon the invitation of the people of Boston, and
feecarae assistant to the noted Mr. John Cotton ; after whose
XesoDval to New-England, he became vicar of Boston, and
held on his rainistry there all the time of a sore plague, with
which it pleased God to visit the ^own ; but met with some
disturbance from the spiritual courts.
In 1643, he was called to London by the parliament ; he
atjd Mr. Coleman being chosen members of the As;sombly at
Westminster for the county of /yZMCo/w ; and he was much
esteemed in that capacity. It being then a dangerous time in
the country, by reason of the heat of the war, he took his
whole family with him, aud never returped ; though, at the
desire of the people,' he kept the title to the vicarage till the
Restoration, but received none of the profits. Having been
some time at London, he was settied minister of Michael-
^u,ern, Cheapside. — It}, 1645 he was iiiade master of Eman.
Col. vvhich required him to spend some months in the year at
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IN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY', 265
Cambridge ; and in 1648 he reraoved with his family thither,
and was that year vice-chancellor. — In 1653 he was chosen,
in the room of Dr. Arrowsmith, master of 67. John's. Up-»
on the Dr.'s death, he was made Regius Professor in his
room. It was said that he shewed more courage in opposing
orders sent by the higher powers in those tiraes, than any of
the heads ofthe university. He was a man of very great hu
mility ; and yet few kept up more authority than he did in
the university when Vice-chancellor, or in the college he was
master of; to which many gentlemen and ministers sent their
sons, merely ujion his account. It was his custom to have
a sermon preached the morning after every public com-
menceraent, in the chapel of Emanuel and St. John's, by
one who had been of the college, which was kept up raany
years. After the Restoration, provision was raade by the Act for
confirraing and restoring rainisters, that Dr. Tuckney should
be restored to the rectory of Somersham In Huntingdonshire ;
but he did not enjoy it long. He was one of the eommis-
sioners at the Savoy, but was soon out of all hope of an ac
coraraodation. Before the time for the conferences were ex
pired, he received a royal letter*, professing great respect,
signed by secretary Nicolas, dated Jan. 1, which gave hiin
a supersedeas frora his pubhc employment, promising him a
a hundred pounds per ann. during life, to be paid hy his suc
cessor. The good Dr. thought it would be to no purpose to
contend with the court, and that he could not long keep his
places as things were then managed : he therefore resigned
them both ; and had the annnuity which was promised punc
tually paid for several years, by Dr. Gunni'hg, who.succeeded
him." — He retired to London, and there preached sometimes
in his own house, and occasionally in the families of sevei^al
friends. In the tirae of the plague he lived at Coltioick Hall
near Nottingham, in the house of Robert Pierrepoint,
Esq, where he was soon troubled and confined, but was treat
ed very civilly, and in a few months discharged. Upon
the Five-rail'e-act, he removed to Oundle, and thence to
Warmington, in Northamptonshire. After the fire of Lon
don (in which his library was burnt) he removed to Stocker-
ston in Leicestershire, and then to Tottenham near London ;
fronVwhenOe, in 1669, he removed to Spiitte-yari^ where
* This letter may be seen in C/tl. 4". p. fS; with another from the Earl of
Manchester, advising him to quit, and assuring-him that the king had no dis
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266 MINISTERS, &c, EJECTED
he continued till his death, February 1670, in the 71st year
of his age. He was buried in the church of St Andrew,
Undershaft. He had the character of an eminently pious
and learned man, a true friend, an indefatigable student, a
candid disputant,- and an earnest promoter of truth and godli
ness. [A remarkable proof of his candour, and at the same time
cf his zeal for what he thought to be the truth, may be seen
in his letters to Dr. PVhichcote, who had been one of his pu
pils, and vvhom he thought proper to adraonish for sorae
things exceptionable in his sentiments and strain of preaching.
And itis hard to say whether Dr. Whichcote's letters to him,
do Dr. Tuckney or himself the most honour,  See this cu-.
rious correspondence (which affords an excellent pattern for
religious controversy) at the end of Whichcote's Aphorisms,
published by Dr. Salter, Master of the Charter-house and a
strong Anti-Calvinist; who, inhis Preface, has given some
account of Dr. Tuckney, (evidently taken for the most part
frora Dr. Calamy) which he closes as follows : . " In his elec-
" tions at St. John's, when the President, according to the
" cant of the times, would call upon him to have regard to
*' the Godly, he answered, — No one should have greater re-
?' gard to the truly Godly than himself; but he was deter
mined to chuse none but Scholars : adding. They may de-
" ceive me in their Godliness ; they cannot in their Scholar-
?' ship. — Upon the whole, he seeras to have heen a veryho-
" nest and good raan, a very industrious and learned scholar ;
" Ijis imperfections and weaknesses flowed from his principles
" rather than hjs disposition, and he was worthy to have lived
?' in better times,"
WORKS. Death 'disarmed! a ,serm\ atthe funeral of Dr. Hill.
¦ — Balm of Gjlead for the Wounds of England. — A good Day well
improved; five sermons. After his death, 40 Sermons on several
occasions. — Prelectiones Theol. all his Theological Exercises while at
the University. He had a considerable hand in the Assembly's
Confession and Catechism, Many of the Answers in the larger
Catechism, particularly on the Commandnients, were h's. [And
yet, as be tells Dr, Whichcote, (who had given him a hint oi impas-,
ing) " in the Assembly he voted against subscriuing or swearing
(q the Confession, ^c. set out hy aiithority,"]
JoNA-tHAN Tuckney, M. A. Fellow, Soil to Dr. A.
Tuckney. When a school-boy, hewas accounted a prodigy
for the pregnancy of his natural talents, and his rapid profi
ciency in the seyeral parts of schooltlearniiig. Jiis memorv
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IN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 557
was such as excited ihe admiration of his acquaintance. He
attained to great eminence in literature, but It was rendered
almost useless by an habitual melancholy. He died in 1693.
WORKS. A Latin Poem on the death of Dr. E dmund Staunton.
He published a volume of his father's sermons, and wrote a short
Preface to his Prelectiones.
John "Wood, M. A. Fellow. Born at Chesterfield In
Derbyshire, He continued at Cambridge fourteen years,
and was ejected by the Act of Uniformity. ,He afterwards
preached up and down inhis native county in several churches,
reading rauch of the Coramon -Prayer : but he used to say he
did not like subscribing to conf^ormity. He was a pious
peaceable m^m, and of very moderate principles. He died at
Norton in Derbyshire, in 1690.
WORKS. An Exposition on the Assembly's Catechism.^-r-A
Sermon on reading the Scriptures, which is annexed to it.
From the sarae college were ejected — Mr. Windress,
B. A. — Mr. Mathum ; Fellows. — Mr. Alden, Scholar.
KATHERINE HALL.
William Green, M. A. Fellow. He spent fourteen
years in the university. After his ejectment he preached pri
vately in and about Cambridge. In the latter part of his time
he lived at Fenny -Stanton, near St, Ives in Huntingdon
shire ; about which place many were edified by his preaching
and pious conversation. He was a learned, grave, and holy
man. WORKS. Two Discourses on the Corruption of Nature and
Salvation by Grace; (very excellent.) — A needful Preparative for
the Lord's Supper, in Question and Answer.
KING'S COLLEGE.
George Duncome, M. A. Fellow. He wrote a piece,
on occasion of the plague, for the use of a family, entitled,
Forgetfulness of God the great Plague of Man's Heart. — Also
some verses in the Etuf/ia Cantab,
IMAGDALEN COLLEGE.
Joseph Hill, B. D- Proctor. B6rn in October, 1625, at
Bromley near Leeds. His fariicr, Mr, Joshua Hill, preacher
at one of the chapels of ease belonging to that large parish,
died when -he was about se.veti years old. Sorae persons had
f esolved to trouble him for not wearing his surplice, and for
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268 MINISTERS, &c. EJECTED
other acts of Nonconformity ; and had procured him to be
cited to appear in the court of the Abp. of JTor-^.- but he died
a few hours before the summons came. This his son gave
early proofs of his capacity by the progress he made in school-
learning ^ but the troubles whichbegan at that time pievent
ed his being sent to Cambridge till he was eighteen years
old, when he was admitted into St. John's Col. (viz. in 1644,)
where, by his diligence, he soon recovered the time that he
had lost. In 1649, he was chosen Fellow of Magd. CoL
The number of his pupils, during his stay here, was very
considerable. In 1659, ^^ "^^^ promoted to the office of
Proctor, in preference to a senior ; and his conduct in that of-
, fice, for the Suppressing all open imraoralities, shewed him to
be worthy of that honour. In 1660, he kept the B. D.'s act
at a public commencement ; and having declared his judgment
against conformity, the collegians cut his name out bf their
books In kindness to him, that he might avoid trouble. He
retired to London, and preached for a little while at Alhal
lows Barking. In 1663, he went abroad, and having seen
several countries, and wearied himself with travelling,
he rested at Leyden, in which university he spent tw£)
or three years. In 1667, he was called to be pastor of
the English church at Middleburgh in Zealand, where
he continued till 1673, vrhen his too late publishing his
Defence of the Zealander's Choice, occasioned the goi-
vernors of that province to oblige him to leave that place.
Whereupon he came to England, and waiting on K. Charles
IL he, as a reward for writing that book, gave him a sinecure
worth above 80^. per annum, and offered him a bishopric if he
would conform. But being altogether dissatisfied with the
terms of conformity, he. readily accepted of a call to the Eng
lish church in Rotterdam, 1678, in which post he continued
to theday ofhis death, which was Nov. 5, 1707, aged 83.
He was an acceptable and edifying preacher from his first
entering the mmistry. He had laid in a considerable stock, of
useful learning, and had an excellent way of employing it.
Few persons had a more plain and intelligible method of
preaching. He was peculiarly happy in a very short, but sa
tisfactory, opening of his text ; and was always very metho
dical in handling his subject. His serraons were well adapted
to profit his hearers ; and those who were most intimate with
him, could plainly see in him, when out ofthe pulpit, a no
less tender concern for soul's than when he was in It. The
unprofitableness of any of his people, under the means of
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were his most sensible grief. He was so addicted to study^
that the infirmities of age did not divert him from spending
many hours in a-day among his books, of which he . had a
large and valuable collection.
WORKS. Dissert, on the Antiquity of Temples. — Another on
artificial Churches. — A Sermon on sudden Death. — Serm. in Mom,
Ex. on Meditation. — He also publislied a.neat edition oiSchrevelius'i
Gireek-iiexicon. John Sadler,, M. A. Master of the College. Dr.
Walker speaks of him as " a very insignificant man." But
one who knew him in the -university, and who was a clergy
man of the. church of England, writes thus : " We accounted
him, not only a general scholar, and an accoraplished gen
tleman, but also a person of great piety ; though it must be
owned he was nor always right in his head." He was de
prived ofhis mastership at the Restoration, to make way for
Dr. Rainbow, afterwards Bp. of Carlisle, who had been cast
out frora it in 1650, for not taking the Engagement. He was
town-clerk of London, all the time of his being Master of
Magd, Col. and before; but not long after. He spent the
latter part of his time at Warmwell in Dorsetshire, as appears
from Mather's Hist. N. Eng. (B.vii. p. 102.) [where there
is a very extraordinary account of some predictions which
he uttered upon a sick-bed, in 1663, to the minister of the
parish and his servant, concerning the plague, the fire of
'London, and several other then future events, § which at his
desire were written down at the time. He had two sons, Mr,
Daniel and Mr. John Sadler, worthy men and serious chrisv
tians, living at Rotterdam, in 1697, one of them his Majes
ty's agent for transportation, from whom the narrative * was
sent to Mr. Inc. ^father at Boston.]
Thomas More, M. A; Fellow. He was an excellent
philosopher, and therefore, was chosen by the proctor to be
moderator in, the batchelor's-school. And being (like hiS'
uncle Mr. Andrew Marvel) a witty raan, was chosen to be
Tripos. His temper was sedate, his courage modest and sober-,
and his principles- were very moderate. The main thing
that he stuck at, in regard to conformity, was the damnatory
chuse in .the' Athanasian Creed: he said, "That he could
•-¦The- narrative- has all the appearance of authfcntrcity, and the thing*
which Mr. Sadler uttered are doubtless extraordinary, but from the circum
stances mentioned in Mather's History, it seems evident he was in a deli-
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not in conscience doom all those to hell< who were there?
daraned." John Woodj M. A. Fdlow. He was a Charter-house
scholar, and reckoned as great a critic in the Greek and Latin
languages as any in the university. He was of long standing,
and a close student, but excessively raodest, timorous, and dif
fident of his own abilities : one of the most helpless men iii
the world. After his ejectment he lived upon the charity of
his friends. Mr. P. Henry says of him ; ' • Hewas a learned
- man, but wanted the faculty of, communicating ; one that
feared God, and walked in his integrity to the last ; he hail no
certain dwelling-place on earth, but 1 trust hath one in hea
ven." He died Sept. 19, 1692, at Mitton in Shropshire,
aged about 76.
Mr, Robert Whitaker, Born in Lancashire. He
settled at Fordingbridge in Hampshire, where God blessed
his rainistry, to the good of raany souls. He left a son in
the ministry among the Dissenters.
From the same college was ejected Mr. BtlTLER, or Bat-
LOEj, who bad taken the degree of M. A.
PEMBROKE HALL.
William Moses, M. A. Master. He was a very quick
and ready man, on which account Mr. Baxter was very de
sirous to have him one of the coraraissioners at the Sjivoy,
but could not prevail.' When be was Master of Pembroke-
Hall, and a certain vacancy was to be filled up by the Master
and Fellows of that house, an order was sent thera from Crom
well, to elect a certain person whom he named, without any
delay. Mr. Moses had private intelligence of siich an order
before the messenger arrived. The order being contrary to
their statutes and privileges, he immediately shuts up the hall-
gates, summons the Fellows, and proceeds to an election.
On the messenger's arrival, he takes horse for London, waits
on the Protector, and inforras him that they had chosen ano
ther before his order arrived. — After his ejectment, he was a
Serjeant at law, and saved the hall some hundreds of pounds
jn a law affair, for which they acknowledged themselves
greatiy obliged to him. He had very good practice as a
counsellor, and died * a rich bachelor. There is a short La tin
* In the former edition, the editor had here inserted this parenthesis [not
greaUy \p hU lionoui] for which more than one correspondent called him to
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IN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. 271
tin poem of his in the Congratulatory Addresses of thtii Uhi-
versity of Cambridge to Charles II. on his return.
Alexander Green, M. A. Fellow.
Henry Sampson, M. A. Fellow. He was son and helf
tof a religious gentleiiian, Mr. Wm. Sampson, of South-Lc'
verton In Nottinghamshire, and nephew to those two erai
nent linguists Mr. John arid Mr. Samuel Vicars, the joint
authors of the Decapla on the Psalms ; and son-in-law of
Dr. Obad. Grew of Coventry, [His spirit was early and
deeply tinctured with the fear ofthe Lord, which became the
governing principle of his life ; and he chose that condition
in it wherein he thought he might raost glorify God, arid do
most good to raen. He was a pupil ofthe learned Mr. Wm.
Moses, under whora his proficiency was very great, in every
branch of rational learning, but especially in the knowledge
of those languages In which the sacred scriptures were writ
ten.] As soon as he was of sufficient standing he was chosen
Fellow of the same hall ; and soon after had one of the best
livings in the gift of his college bestowed upon him, viz. tiiat
oi Framlingham in Suffolk. Here he preached with great
acceptance, as he also did at Coventry, where he raade seve
ral visits, and often preached for Dr. Grew, andin both places
his memory was long honoured. Upon the Restoration, be
ing obliged to leave his people, and not being satisfied to con
forra, he applied hiraself to the study of physic ; the rather
because he had never been ordained. He travelled into
France, and visited several universities faraous for raedicine
abroad. He staid first at Padua, and then at Leyden, where
he becaine acquainted with the lord chief justice St. John,
who bore a singular respect to hira as long as he lived.
Having taken his degree, he returned horae, and settled in
London, where he entered himself of the college of physi
cians, as honorary fellow, and lived and difd in good re
pute.
account. He does not retract the sentiment, but takes this opportunity of
explaini'ng his meaning. Christians in general are forbidden laying up foi
themselves treasures on earth. For single persons to do it, whether men, or wo
men, appears to him peculiarly unbecoming a Christian character, If it had
been said of Mr. Moses that as he eocreased in riches he enereased in his be
nevolence, and that he employed his superfluous wealth in acts of piety and
charity, particularly in assisting his poor bretliren who had numerous fami
lies, it would have been more to his honour, than to have it said that he died a
rich baclfelir. 2 Mr.

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Mr. Howe, of whose church hewas a member, says of
hira, " He afforded one Instance, among others, to shew
that Religio Medici is not always opprobrious, and tiiat a
beloved physician, on the best account, was not dpproprkte
to the first age. In this calling he sincerely studied the good
of mankind; and his skill was not unequal to his sincerity,
nor his charity to his skill ; being as ready to attend the poof
as the rich : and when his art could not heal their bodies, he
did all he could to save their soUls. So that his mittisteristi
qualifications Were not lost: and they were eminentiy usefol
to his own family. In every relation in life he -was desirable
and exemplary to others, and enjoyed continual peace within.
As he lived he died ; his last hoiirs being very composed,
and concluding- with that st/fevaffia (that good and easy
death) for which he had often prayed." Mr. Howe closes
his account of him thus : " In all my conversation with him,
nothing was more observable or raore grateful to me, than hi^
pleasant and patient expectation of the blessed state which he
now possesses : the mention whereof would make jpy sparkle
in his eye, arid clothe his countenance with chearfulness, ac
companied with such tokens of serenity as shewed an unreluc-
tant willingness to wait for that time which the wisdom arid
goodness of God should judge seasonable for his removal.}
He died about the year 1705.
He had taken great pains in collecting materials' for a' His
tory of Nonconformity, and Memoirs of the ancient and
modern Nonconformists: but he did not live to accomplish
his design ; and his papers were afterwards scattered. Seve
ral of them however fell into Di". Calamy's hands, which h6
acknowledges were of use to him ; and in his Preface he has
given a plan of his design at large. "If this work (says the
Dr.) had' been finished and appeared in the world, it might
have been a means of convincing Sorae, that Nonconformity
hath all along had a closer connection with both our civil and
religious interest than they are willing to allow; afldchat the
present Nonconforraists act, in the main, upon the same priri^
ciples with those who have been raost eminent for serious
religion ever since the Reformation." — It doth not appear
that he published any thing but a correct edition of Mr. T.
Parker's Metfiodus Div. Gratia : to which he, prefixed art,
excellent epistle ; which was while he resided at Framling^
ham.. Abraham Clifford, B. D. Fellow. He had heen Proc-.
tor of the university. He was also ejected at 2uendon in Es
sex.

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sex. He studied physic at Leyden, and practised in London.
Wood says, He took his degree of M. D. at Oxford when
the Prince of Orange made a visit there, in 1670. He died
in the parish of St, Sepulchre in London, in tiie begmning
ofthe year 1675.
WORKS, Methodus Evang. or the Gospel Method of God's
saving Sinners; to which Dr. Manton and Mr. Baxter united in
writing a Preface.
TRINITY COLLEGE.
John Ray, M. A. Fellow, and F. R. S. He was born at
Black-Notley inEssex,in 1628. Hehadhls grammar-learning
in a school in Braintree-chnrch, and was first entered at Ka-
therine-hall, 1644, whence, in 1646, he removed to Tri
nity. In 1649 he was elected Fellow, and was tutor to many
gentlemen and clergymen. After the Restoration, viz. ia
Dec. 1660, he was ordained by Dr. Sanderson Bp. of Lin
coln ; after which he preached Dr. Hill's funeral sermon in
the college-chapel. He quitted his fellowship in 1662, because
he could not comply with the Act of uniformity, though the
college were peculiarly desirous to keep him in. He after
wards lived sometimes at Chester with Bishop Wilkins, and
sometiraes at other places. He travelled into Ltaly with his
friend Francis Willoughby, Esq. and on his return, lived
mostly with hira ; soon after whose decease he married, and
in 1679 reraoved to an estate which he had purchased in the
place of his nativity, where he continued till his death, Jam
17, 1705.
In the account given of hira in the Compleat Hist, ofEU'
rope for 1706, we are told that upon Aug. 24, 1662, he
quitted his fellovyship : but the reason of his doing it is very
darkly expressed. One who knew hira well, told the author,
the true reason of it was, that he could not satisfy hiraself to
declare, " That none were bound by the solemn league and
covenant who had taken it," though he hiraself never took
it. But it is observable, that though he lived many years af
ter the obligation to sign such a declaration ceased, he was
not to be prevailed with to returri to the ministry. After tiie
Revolution, when Dr. Tillotson (who was his intimate ac
quaintance) was advanced to the See of Canterbury, some of
his friends were earnest with him to move thatprelate for some
preferment in the church, but he always declined it ; giving
this reason : That though he used the Common-Prayer, and
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approved of it as a form, yet he could not declare his " un
feigned assent and consent to all and eVery thing contained
in tt." To another person he expressed his dislike of Spon
sors in baptism. He said that he thought the parents the fit-
test persons to be intrusted to proraise for their own children,
and condemned the practice of bringing scandalous and unfit
persons under such a solemn vow and promise, as that re
quired in the office for the baptizing of children. — ^These were
his declared sentiraents in his health : How far they agree
with the account of his dying words and behaviour, given by
Mr. Pyke in his funeral serraon (since published by Mr.
Derham, atthe end ofhis Philosophical Letters) must be left
to the reader's candour. [It is certain that he quitted his fel
lowship because he could not corae up to the terms of the
Uniformity-act. It is also certain that he preached.heiort
that act passed, but never afterwards, though he attended the
service ofthe church of England. So that the claims of Con
formists and Nonconforraists (who would both have him on
their own side) are to be thus adjusted. He was satified with
Zay-conforniity, but not with Ministerial. He is therefore
as justly considered as a sufferer by the Act of uniforraity,
and a silenced minister, as any one of the Nonconforraists,
and as properly placed in this llst,§] He was a good divine ;
and an extraordinary humanist, as appears by his works,
which are many, for (as he says in the preface to his Wisdom
of God, &c.) " As he could not serve God in the church by
" his voice, he thought hiraself the more bound to do it by
" Writing."
WORKS. He pubUshed Ornithlogia of Er. Willoughby, Esq. in
folio ; 1 676. of which he wrote the two first books, and dedicated
it to theRoyjJ Society, of whom he was a member. — Historia Plan-
tarum, 2 vol. fol. — Ejusdem Tomus Tertius, 1704."-CalalogU8
Plantarum circa Cantab, nascentium. — Appendix, &c. — Catalogus
Plantarum Aiiglias. — Fasciculus Sdrpium Britann. post. edit. Catal.
predict. — Catabgus Stirpiuto in ext. Reg. observat. — Methodus
Plantarum nova cum Tabulis. — Synopsis Methodica Stirp. Britan.
— Ead. Synops, multis Stirpibus & observat. curiosis passim inser-
tis ; cum Muscorum Methodo, £3"?.— -Epist. ad D. Rivinum de Me-
tliodo Plantarum. — Dissertatio de variis Plantarum Methodis. — Sy
nops. Method. Animal. Quadrupedem &: Serpentini generis. — Die- •
§ Strictly and properly speaking, he -was a Noncmfortnist, though not a Dis
senter ; and the cvndvict, qf such a man as Ray, (whom, the Episcopalians have
been so eager to claim) in refusing to comjjly with tlie terms of ministerial
conformity, affords something like an argument that these terms were not al
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tionariolum Ttilingue. — Francisci Willoughbeii Hist.. Pisclum cnia
Fig. Oxon. Fol. — Observations Topographical, Moral, and Phi
lological, made in a journey thro' several parts of Euiojie,— A Col
lection of unusual or local English*. Words ; with an Account of pre
paring English Metals. — A Collection of English and other Pro
verbs. Camb. — A Persuasive to an holy Lire. — The Wisdom of
God manifested in the Works of the Creation. In two parts. —
Three Physico-Theological Discourses with Practical Inferences. —
Miscell. Discourses concerning the Dissolution and Changes of
the World, 1692; which have been since reprinted with Addi
tions, and his Letters. — Stirpium Europearum extra Britannias
nascentium Sylloge.; — Methodus Insectorum. — Historia Insectorum:
Opus Posthumum. — Synopsis Method ica Avium & Piscium : Opus
Posthumum. — A long Congratulation to K. Charles II. upon his
return. Joseph Oddy, M. A. Fellow. He was bom at Leeds,
and sent from the school there to this college. Besides his
fellowship he had the living of Meldred in Cambridgeshire,
but lost both by his Nonconformity. He afterwards retired.
to Willing ham in the isle of Ely, [where Mr. Bradshaw,
after his ejectraent, had forraed a church in his own house,
and had preached unmolested five years. To escape the trou
bles vi^ich threatened him in i667 he went to London, when
Mr. Oddy succeeded him. and preached not only to this peo
ple but all over the Fens.] He was so much followed, (per
sons travelling twenty miles to hear him) that he was some
times constrained to preach in the open fields ; on which ac
count it is less to be wondered at that he was frequently im-
prisoiied. He was once confined five years together, and a
great while with Mr. Holcrtft, to whom he was assistant.
But at length he was connived at to preach privately to his
friends. Upon the Indulgence in 1672 [he removed to Cot-
tenham, and gave himself up entirely to itinerancy till his
death, which happened May 3, 1687. He was buried by
the side of his colleague Mr. Holcroft, in a piece of ground
which the latter purchased for a burying-ground, at Oaking^
ton, where a decent tomb was erected for them both. These
two men were the founders of almost all the nonconforraist
churches about Carabridgeshire, and exercised a general su-
perintendency over them, but were assisted by three other el
ders.^ (See the account of Mr. Holcroft, p. 260.) Their
pulpit is yet preserved at Cottenham.
It may not be amiss here to insert Mr. Oddy^s smart re
partee, on being msulted by one of the wits of Cambridge,
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276 MINISTERS, &c EJECTED'
after he was released from prison, in the following extempo
rary lines : " Good day, Mr. Oddy,
*' Pray how fares your body ?
" Methinks you look damnably thin ;
Mr. Oddy's extemporary reply.
" That, Sir's your mistake,
" 'Tis for righteousness sake ;
" Damnation's the fruit of your sin."]
§ A correspondent * relates the following anecdote of Mr.
Oddy, who lived with his great grandfather at Willingham,
which he heard from old people there when he was young.
" When preaching in the night in a wood, between Willing-
hgm arid. Cottenham, sitting upon his horse, that he raight
the more readily escape if molested by informers, he was
broke in upon so abruptly, that he was thrown from his horse
and quite stunned with the fall. In this state of insensibility
he was laid, by his inhuman persecutors, across the horse,
and in that situation carried to Cambridge castie."
Thomas Senior, B. D, Fellow, and lecturer of Trinity-
Church. He was a Westminster scholar, and a great critic
in the original languages, both Hebrew and Greeks He was
an admirable textuary, indefatigably industrious, and a use
ful preacher. He spent the latter part of his life at Hack.
ney, with alderman Bewley ; and preached a lecture many
years in thti house of alderraan Ashhurst, with great accep
tation. He has a serraon in the Morning Exercises [at Crip
plegate No. 7. on hearing the word with profit. James i. 21.
It is not only a useful practical discourse, but abounds with
learned criticisra.]
Samuel Corbyn, M. A. Conduct of the same college.
A man of untainted piety and integrity. [He was of the
congregational denomination, and was one of those who
were chosen elders to assist Mr. Holcroft. See p. 260.]
WORKS. A Call from the living God to unconverted Sinners-
—•Advice to Sinners under Convictions, to prevent their miscar
rying in Conversion.
Edmund Moore, M. A. Fellow. He was born at Dit
ton near Carabridge, and educated there from his childhood.
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IN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. 277
When twenty-five persons stood for ten fellowships in that
college, he was one of them who carried it, without the as
sistance of any friend, though he had several in the town, de
termining that he would not obtain it by interest. After his
ejection for Nonconformity (particularly for refusing to wear
the surplice) Serjeant Maynard received him as his chaplain,
in whose family he continued, much respected, till his mar
riage. During his residence with the Serjeant he got some
knowledge in the law, which was of use to hira afterwards,
when he lived at East Sheen, near Mortlake in Surrey, as
he did several years, and preached as he had opportunity,
among thoSe who had sat under the ministry of Mr. Clark
son,. Here he raet with trouble, and was excoraraunicated
though by a false narae. His goods were seized, and carried
off to be sold ; but he bid the people buy thera at their peril ;
for, being illegally seized, they were stolen goods. They
-were therefore soon restored to him. He was a raan of great
sincerity and exemplary piety, and was very serene in his last
hours. He died in May 1689. He had good skill in mu
sic, and played well on the bass viol.
John Hutchinson, B. A. Fellow. The first edition of
this Account of the ejected ministers falling into his hands,
seeing only his narae there mentioned, he drew up a paper in
the following words : " When K. Charles returned into
" England, there was a great revolution and change of af-
" fairs. I was then newly chosen Fellow of Trin. Col. in
" Camb. by Dr. Wilkins. But he being soon after turned
" out, and Dr. Fern put in, all that did not conforra to the
•' forras and ceremonies ofthe public worship, were cast out
•' of their preferments, in which nuraber of Nonconformists
" was I ; who lost for conscience sake my fellowship to the
" value of 100 ^. a year ; which was a great oppression to
" me." He also ordered his son (who transmitted this paper
to the author) to add a more particular inforraation concern
ing him, which is as follows : He was born in London,
April 15, 1638 ; had his grammar-learning partiy at Mer
chant-Taylor's school, and partiy at Eaton College. At
fifteen years of age he went to Cambridge, was choseii fel
low at about twenty, nem. con, though there were but four
fellowships vacant, and twenty-foUr candidates, of whom he
was the youngest but one. ¦ Upon his ejectment he went to
London, and visited Mr. Joseph Hill, and assisted him in cor
recting Schrevelius'% Lexicon. He afterwards travelled Intp
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France and Italy, with a view to the improvement of his
knowledge in physic and anatomy. On his return, he was
invited to become a fellow of the college of physicians in
London, but waved it, and was contented with submitting to
an examiuEition, upbn which he was approved, and had a li
cence to practise as a physician per totam Angliam. He
settled at Hitchin in Hertfordshire, where he practised near
thirty years. He was there particularly acquainted with Dr.
Eales, (the celebrated physician of those parts) who often
used to say of him, " He is a modest man, but knows more
than all of us."
§ Mr. James, a son of the late worthy Baptist minister at
Hitchin, says, " That Dr. Hutchinson appears to have be
longed to the Society in Tyler Street, [where his father
preached] which has always held with mixed coraraunion,
?nd that he was a subscriber to the building of that meeting
house. It appears frora the parish register that his children
were baptized at church, the naraes of four of them being
there entered*, viz. John, Claudia, Benjamin, and Ed-
vardus." He preached sometimes at Bendish, [a neighbouring vil
lage] and occasionally at Hertford, Ware, and Bedford, but
always gratis ; and would not take upon'Tiim the charge of
a congregation, though much urged to do it. He was con
gregational in his judgment, but very candid to those of dif
ferent sentiments. He had good skill in music, was an ex
cellent Grecian, spoke French very fluently, and was rec
koned no contemptible poet. He was of a humble, meek,
and peaceable temper ; a great enemy to rash anger ; very
patient and submissive under trouble ; and so generous as of
ten to refuse handsome fees when offered hira. After leaving
Hitchin, he lived two years at Clapham, where he practised
physic with great reputation and success. His last remove
was to Hackney, where he kept a boarding-school, and taught
Latin and Greek nine years. Being at length burthened with
ag|j he longed for his departure, which happened Feb. 9,
17^5, AStat. 'j'j. \ It does not ap)pear that he published any
thing but a recommendatory Poem to Atwell's Faithful Sur-.
veyor, dated Trin. Col. 1.662.
Robert Eikins, B. A. At the Restoration, when he was
* Query whether this is certain evidence ? It seems very unlik^ely tliat a.
map of his principles should submit to the use of SpOn^rs, the sign of the
cross, or the very exceptionable form of words j though it is known that
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IN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. 279
Senior Batchelor, Dr. Fern having taken possession of the
mastership, and jostled out Dr. Wilkins, strict conformity
was introduced into the college; and such as would not cora
ply were ordered to withdraw from it. Hereupon about four
teen fellows and scholars withdrew ; but Mr. Eikins not being
satisfied that they had a power as yet to eject, forebore going
to the chapel, but still went to commons in the hall. Here
upon he was cited three times before the raasters and seniors,
who argued the case with him again and again ; admonished
hira, and told him he should not stay if he would hot con
form. He answered them. That if they were satisfied that
by their statutes they could justify the expelling him, and
would proceed to do it, he would be gone. He continued
half a year afterwards, going to commoiis as before ; but
having no hope of peace, he at length withdrew. Thus was
he deprived of the prospect of a fellowship ; and by the Uni
formity-act, which took plat^ soon after, he was incapaci
tated for any living, and though he had three offered him,
could accept of none of them, becanse he durst not comply
-with impositions which he thought partiy needless and partly
sinful. Upon the same account also he lost the favour of his
own family and near relations, and so continued a poor Non
conformist. But God wonderfully provided for him, and he
had comfort in his ministerial service, among a handful of peo
ple at Oakham in Ruiland, his allowance from whom was
so small, that he could not have supported himself and his fa
mily, had not God taken care of him by other means, — A-
mong many pleasant and facetious letters to the author, he
says in one of them, " I have strange stories to tell of God's
" wonderful providing for me, and protecting of rae from the
" malice and violence of unreasonable men. I have had great
•' comforts in my ministerial work, and seen soraething of
«' the fruits of my ministry. And for ever blessed be God, I
" have good hope of faring as well hereafter to all eternity, as
" any prelate that ever wore a mitre."
John Davis, M. A. Fellow. He was a very learned
man: commonly called Rabbi Davis.
Mr. Samuel Ponder. A Northamptonshire raan- Erai
nent for piety and huraility. [An old MS. stiles hira Mr.
Ponder oi Whaddon ; where probably he might be curate ;
that he could not be rector appears frora the induction-bopk.
He was concerned in Mr. Holcroft' s ordination at Bassing
boum,']
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Mr. Thomas Lock, Scholar. A very sober. and pious
young man.
John Pratt, M. D. He has a copy of Latin verses in the
2«s-fa Cantabrigiensia.
WiLHAivi Disney, M, A. A very solid man, and studious,
but sickly. He also has a copy of Latin verses in the same
congratulatory poems. § Mr. Disney was senior fellow of
this college, and proctor in the year 1655. He was of the
jFamily of the same name then seated at Norton Disney in
Lincolnshire.
Willoughby West, M, A.
 Crossland, B.A. Fellow, [Theodore Crossland,
M. A. was inducted to Trumpington vicarage in 1636; and,
having resigned that, to Bottisham in 1640, when he was
B. D. Ill 1661, to C/is5/drion, where he died, 1665. Tbese
are all Trinity livings, and therefore it is most probable this
was the person intended.]
Mr. Alcock, Fellow. [John Alcock, M. A. Fellow of
Trinity, was inducted to Over in 1630, and died vicar of
that parish 1664 ; probably the same.]
Mr. Hayes, Fellow,
Mr. John Cattle, Fellow,
TRINITY HALL.
JtJHN Bond, LL.D. Meister,

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EJECTED OR SILENCED MINISTERS, &[c.
IN
BEDFORDSHIRE.

ARLESEY, [V. 261. 3s. 6d.] Mr. Ashhurst. His case
was particular. He had been episcopally ordained, but
he could not comply with the new impositions in the Act of
uniformity, and therefore would have quitted his living ; but
being rather advised by some respectable friends to continue
in it, he did so without molestation. He was old, and his
vicarage small, even below a competency. Judge Brown
was his parishioner, and was his great friend and patron.
The whole parish was well affected towards him for his wor
thy behaviour araongst thera, and was entirely under the in-
£uence of the judge, and of another gentleraan who was al
so his friend. And so, though he was legally silenced, he
continued in his church a Nonconformist. He read part of
the morning and evening service, viz. the Confession, scrip-
ture-hyrans, the creed, and sorae of the collects. He was a
considerable scholar, and a hard student to the last : greatly
esteemed and loved by all sober persons who knew hira, for
his extraordinary piety, huraility, raeekness, self-denial, and
integrity. His contempt of the world, and contentedness
with a very small income, were very remarkable. He took
for his small tithes just what his parishioners were pleased to
give hira. He lived to a very great age. Mr. Read of
H/enlow, his near neighbour and intimate friend, preached
his funeral serraon.
CARDINGTON. Mr. Millington. § However wor
thy and well esteemed in his day, his name only remains in
this record. In his parish it is long since forgotten. But
there is a name associated with that of Cardington, which
will never be forgotten. The Editor cannot pass this plea
sant village, in the vicinity of his native place, without re
questing the reader's indulgence while he stops for a moment
to pay his respects to the memory of bis much respected
fjieno, and the friend of the human kind. Here resided the
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late John Hoivard, Esq. to whose taste and munificence
what is most pleasing in the appearance of this village is to
be ascribed. Great and lasting as is the fame he acquired on
the public theatre, here in this huml?le retreat his true cha
racter was to be sought ; and the writer of this esteems it one
of the greatest felicities of his life that he had much opportu
nity of observing it*. This parish is also honoured as the
birth place of the late Samuel Whitbread, Esq. who waa
likewise. a great benefactor to itt.
CRANFIELD, [R.] Mr. Wheeler. His parsonage was
one of the best in the country, and yet he chearfully quitted
it for the peace ofhis conscience. His memory was precious
there long after his death.
DEAN, Mr. Robert Perrot. Born at St. Ives, Hunt
ingdonshire. He was a serious, lively, useful preacher. He
took great pains in visiting his flock ; and was remai kable for
starting, and prudently managing, spiritual .discourse in com
mon conversation. Indeed his whole carriage was exem
plary. He practised physic, and after his ejectraent he at
tempted to settle as a physician, first at Kettering, and then
at Nottingham : but the breaking out of the plagoe, by the
coming o( some Londoners in 1666, prevented the one, and
many inconvemences the other. About this time he had
an opportunity of preaching in Huntingdonshire, for one Mr.
Rede, in a public church near Bugden. Though this -was
just under Bp. Laney's eye, he raet with no molestation.
Here he continued three years, and then, on the death of Mr.
Rede, he came to London and Hackney, where he got some
occasional employment while it Was safe. At last he went to
Maidstone in Kent ; wheie, besides practising physic, he
preached twice on the Lord's-day, and held a weekly lecture ;
and there he died aged 87. In his last sickness he was very
composed and resigned; neither desirous of life, nor yet afraid
* See a Sermon preached on occasion of -Mr, Howard's death, intitled
The True Patriot, by the Editor; who has by him some Memoirs of this
excellent man, with many of his Letters, which may possibly sometime see
the light. Justice bas not yet been done to his character as a man of piety ;
and some things which have been reported of him are untrue. The account
given of his life in the British Plutarch contains several inaccuTacies,
+ Besides repairing and beautifying the parish -church (to wliich Mr, How
ard gave 3 handsome clock,) he settled an annuity on the meetjng-house at
Cotton-end, There are many Dissenters in this parish, and he himself was
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of death. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Dur
rani, who succeeded him.
WORKS. The sole and sovereign Way of EnglancPs being
blessed and saved. — Some Account of Mrs. Lucy Perrot his Wife.
HOUGHTON CONQUEST, [R. 240/.] Mr. Samuel
Fairclough, of Caius Col. Camb. Son of Mr. Sam.
Fairclough, oiKeiton in Suffolk, He was a good scholar, an
excellent preacher, and a man of an admirable temper. He died
Dec. 31, 1691. His funeral sermon was preached and printed
by a worthy conforming clergyman, Mr. Parkhurst, oi Yox-
ford in Suffolk ; who gave him this character: *• He was a
man of no common qualifications ; eminent in parts, in learn-^
ing, and in piety ; not of the Laodicean teraper, nor of the
Sardian complexion, but strictly holy, and having zeal for
God and religion. Great in wisdora, of rauch raoderation,
abounding in charity, a lover of God and raen, full of faith
and of the Holy Ghost. One that had a clear head and a
-warm heart; who understood and lived the gospel; a pattern
of goodness, a blessing to his acquaintance, and an ornaraent
to his faraily. In his sickness, he was exemplary in patience,
and filled with peace. He was a preacher of righteousness ;
a clear, judicious, fervent preacher. And in this province
he shined very openly, while laws permitted him ; and whea
that protection failed, this light was unhappily obscured from
public view : very unhappily, for it had been alone worth an act
of comprehension, to have included this one so valuable man."
§ MILTON, Mr. John Hind, of Syd, Col. Camb. Mr-,
Daniel Backing, who married a distant relation of Mrs.
Hind, has collected from sorae of Mr, Hind's manuscripts
still in the family, the following account of him, which is ¦
substituted in the room ofthe former. He was born at Pot..
ton in Bedfordshire, Oct. 16, 1631, and admitted into Syd
ney College Feb. 25, 1651, After he was ejected from MU
ton (it is not certain whether MUton Bryan or Milton Erm
nys) he became chaplain to John Gurdon, Esq. at Assing^
ton, Suffolk, with whom he continued till the year i68t,
and on June 1 7 of the same year he married Mrs. Damaris
Day, oi Monk's Eleigh, widow, a lady of handsome for
tune ; and bought the house which Mr. Miles Bwkitt had
occupied*, called Monk's Eleigh Hall. He kept up a good
* See the account of Mr, Miles Burkitt's purchase of this plape, and the
subsequent difficulties in which he was involved, under tlie article Netisheadm
Norfolii. corres-

281 MINISTERS, &c. EJECTED
correspondence with Mr. William Burkitt of Milden, Suf
folk, the conformist, who wrote the Exposition on the New
Testainent. He preached occasionally, when his health per
mitted, at one of the Colne's in Essex. It is believed that
he did not preach at Hadleigh, as related by Dr. Calamy,
and it is very certain that he was not " in mean circurastan
ces." He lived very comfortably at Monk's Eleigh, where
he died May i, 1702, aged 71 years, and was buried in that
church-yard, where on his grave-stone is inscribed John
Hind, Clarke &c. He was a very eminent christian.
PERTENHALL, [R,J Mr. John Donne, of King's
Col. Camb. This living was of good value; he therefore
would not trouble any of the parish for his tithes. He was
very charitable to the poor, and a hearty lover of all good
people. After his ejectraent he lived at Key soe, in the neigh
bourhood ; where he had a congregation, araong whom he
took great pains ; preaching constantly at his meeting every
Lord's-day, and sometimes also on week-days,* Being dis
turbed, he did not desist, but preached in the wood, and othei: -
obscure places. At length he was imprisoned at Bedford,
and continued there some years, which occasioned an ill ha
bit of body, and hastened his end. He left a widow and five
children, with but little to support them ; but the providence
ofGod kept thera from want. He was a raan of great faith
and courage, though such was his natural timidity, that he
would say, " Were it not for Christ the shaking of a leaf
would affright him."
ROXTON, [V. 28 1.'\ Mr. Mabison. He was a grave
and pious person, well fitted for thfe work of the ministry, and
successful in it.
TEMPSFORD, [R. S.] Mr. Rolt. Upon the Resto
ration, he resigned to Mr. Hughes the former incumbent.
He afterwards lived at Graffham. He had an estate of about
sixty pounds per annura. For some time he preached pub
licly in a church near Bugden, and was connived at by Bp.
Laney, having been episcopally ordained, and reading a lit*
tie ofthe liturgy. He was a man of a good presence, much
of a gentleraan, and of great prudence. He was very free
and communicative, and his company was very delightful.
He died about the year 1677.
* There has been a good congregation of Dissenters at this obscure plac^
eversince. Ed,
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TILLBROOK, Mr. W. Shepherd. He conformed at
first, and continued for some years in his living, a great bles
sing to that town and the neighbouring parishes. He had the
true spirit of his office. His preaching was very awful and
affecting, and his life very holy. He was much followed
from all places round ; for which the clergy greatly raaligned
him, used to reflect upon him at their visitations, and conti
nually had ail evil eye upon him. At length he quitted his
living, and became pastor to a dissenting congregation at
Oundle in Northamptonshire ; and afterwards succeeded Mr.
Maidwell at Kettering, where he died. — He had a son, Mr.
7". Shepherd, who followed his steps. He was first minister
at St. Neots in Huntingdonshire, 1703, where he met -\yith
much opposition from some, and encouragement from others.
He afterwards had a living in Buckinghamshire, and then re
linquished the established chtirchj and becarae pastor of a
nuraerous congregation of Dissenters at Braintree in Essex,
where he was very useful.
WOBURN, [C. or_D.] Mr. William Blagrave. He
was of great esteem with the faraily of the Earl of Bedford,
which, frora its first rising to nobility, naturally respected such
men as he was, protecting thera from ecclesiastical storms,
and favouring them in their ministry. He vvas a well-accom
plished scholar and divine, and mighty both in the word and
prayer. He was of so placid a temper that he was seldom
seen without a smiling countenance. He died at Hackney.
YIELDON, [R. 200/.] Mr. Dell. See Caius CoL
Camb.
The two following were ejected in this county, though the
places are not ascertained.
Mr. Willows. A man much esteemed for his piety, rai
nisterial abilities, and usefulness.
Mr. MiLBURN. Brother to another Nonconforraist in
Warwickshire, and uncle to Mr. Luke Milburn, that zeal
ous Presbyter of the church of England. He was a very ho
nest and laborious raan, but in great straits. He conformed
in part, and yet so litde, that he ought to be ranked with tlie-
Nonconformists.  To these may be added,
Mr. John Thornton ; who, though he lost no preferment
by the Act of uniformity, yet was kept out of preferment by
it, and hved and died a Nonconformist. He yvas chaplain to
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286 MINISTERS, &c. EJECTED
the Earl (afterwards Duke) of Bedford, some years before
the Restoration, and continued so during the old Duke's life,
and for some time after he lived with the Lady Rachel Rus
sel : .but having lost his sight, he retired and lived privately
with a friend. He was tutor to the young Duke of Bedford,
and read raatheraatics to the noble Lord bis father, who died
a martyr for the liberty of his country. He took great pains
in educating the young Duke and his two sisters^ in piety and
useful knowledge. In the Duke's cTiapel, morning and even
ing, he constantly began with a short prayer, concluding
with the Lord's-prayer, read a psalra or two, and a chapter,
and then prayed about half an hour. He was much respected
by the whole family. He was an excellent polite scholar,
and a great raatheraatician ; of an admirable temper ; chear
ful in company ; and his life was unblameable and exemplary.
Dr. Fowler, of Northill, was dissatisfied at first, but af
terwards confornied, and became Bishop of Gloucester.

MINISTERS

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MINISTERS EJECTED OR SILENCED
IN
BERKSHIRE.

BRADFIELD, [R. S.] Mr. John Smith. After his eject
ment he went into Ireland.
BRAY, [V. 120/.] Mr. Thomas Woodward. Dr.
Walker says, He was a violent Independent, and chaplain to
Oliver. Wood gives him a very bad character, but it doth
not appear that he deserved it. He preached in private after
the Restoration, at Ux.bridge, where he died, March 29,
^675.
BUCKLESBURY, [V. 100/.] Mr. Smallwood.
BURLEY. See Purley.
CIHOLSLEY. Richard Comyns, M.A. He was epis
copally ordained. After his ejectraeiit he pieached at Wai-
Ungford alternately with Mr. Edward Stennett*, and after
his death, almost constantly. But never adrainistered the
Lord's Supper there, but at Cholsley, to sorae of his Ante-
Bariholomean hearers ; a few of the Wallingford people
coraraunicating with thera. He had raany children, and was
reduced to poverty, and yet appeared a stranger to discontem
or uneasiness. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Je
remiah Smith.
EASTGARSTONrV. 37/.J Mr. Thomas Cheesman, M.
A. of Pemb. Col. Oxf. He was deprived of*his sight by the
small-pox before he was four years old. He was educated in
the school at Tunbridge. While he was at Oxford he had,
« He was great grandfather to the late Rev. S'amuel Stennet, D, D. It doth
rot appear that he ever had been a minister in the church of England, and
therefore he is not put upon our lisf. He was a physician, and appears to
have been a considerable man, from the account of him that was drawn up
by Dr, John Ward, in the preface to the works of his son, Mr, Joseph Stennett,
in 4 vols. 8yo. § Sme eorresportitnt objected tt this account, but the mistake luas
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288 MINISTERS, &c. EJECTED
^mong others, Mr. Timothy Hall (whom K. James made^
bishop) and Mr. Tross for his pupils. When he was ejected
by the Uniformity-act he carae to London, andpreacht;d fre
quently in the churches there, and was never apprehended.
He afterwards returned into tiie country, and preached in his
own house at Market-Llsley ; which he continued doing till
a writ de excom. capiendo came out against him ; by virtue
of which'he was a prisoner in Reading for fifteen weeks : but
he was released by an order of king and council, procured by
sorae friends in London. After K. Charles's Indulgence he
preached openly, and held his rainistry to a good old age.
He was a good scholar and useful preacher. ' He printed a fu
neral sermon for Mrs. M. Allein, entitled, Death compared
to a Sleep.
EAST HAMPSTEAD, [R.] Mr. John Brice.
HAMPSTEAD MARSHALL, [R.] Mr. Rawlins. He
was of a serious composed spirit, discreet ahd reserved in his
converse, and yet obliging. He was an Indefatigable stu
dent. It was hard to determine whether his gifts or graces
did raost excel.
HENDRED, [R. 160/.] James Baron, B. D. of ^.r.
Col. Oxf. A native of Plymouth. A raan of good learn
ing. _ He was divinity-reader of Afa^rf. Co?. After the Re
storation he retired to London, and lived a Nonconforraist at
Bunhill. He died In 1683. He was one of the publishers of
Dr. Goodwin's works, but published nothing of his own be-
tides Questiones Theologicte, in usum Col Magd. Oxon.
HUNGERFORD, [V.] Mr. John Clark. A grave,
serious, and zealous preacher ; of a solid understanding, a
peaceable spirit, and a blaraeless life. He was a sworn ene
my both to error and profaneness. Having been dearly be
loved among his people, his loss was bitterly lamented, and
£oods of tears were shed at his farewell serraon.
ILSLEY, [R, 350Z.] John James, M. A. oi Alban HaU,
Oxf. Born at Bicester in Oxfordshire, 1620. He was epis
copally ordained, and first exercised his rainistry at Bright
helmstone, Sussex, for about seven years, and then came to
this living, where he preached about six years. He was
much envied by a neighbouring conforming clergyman, who
did what he could to get his living from him ; but he kept it
through the influence of Dr. Manion. Coming latq one
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everting to the Dr. after he was in bed; and acquainting him
that, if something was not done that night, he should be dis
possessed, the Dr. rose and went with hira to the lord chan
cellor Hyde, at York-house ; who, upon hearing his errand,
called to the person who staraped the orders upon such occa
sions', and asked hira what he -was doing ?- He answered, that
he was just going to put the starap to an order for the passing
away Mr, James's living ; upon which his lordship ordered
him to stop ; and upon hearing farther of the matter, bid the
Dr. not trouble hiraself, promising that his friend should not
be molested. Accordingly he enjoyed the living till 1662^
He was afterwards offered several preferments, by Dr. James,
then warden of All Souls, Oxford, (panlculaply a canonry
of Windsor) if he would come into the church ; but he could
not be satisfied to conform. He had six children when he
quilted his living, and was harrassed by the Five-inile act in
three or four places, before he could settle to his ministry,
¦which he at length did at Staines in Middlesex; where he con
tinued nine years. He carae from thence to London, where
he died in July, 1694, leaving behind him a good reputation
both for piety and learning. He was a zealous practical
preacher. INKPIN, [R. 180/.] Mr. William Goij-gh, oi Queen's
Col. Camb. eldest son of Mr. Edw. Gough^ rector of CAj-
•verel Magna in Wilts, who, notwithstanding he was a roy
alist, being a sober and religious man, was continued in his
living, whieh was of considerable, value, both in the parlia
ment-times and under Oliver's protectorship. This son of
his would not accept of any of the sequestered livings, but
upon leaving the university, kept a school and preached some
time at Warminster, frora whence he came to this place,
where he continued till 1662. Though his father kept in the
established church, he chose rather to leave his place than agt
against his own light and conscience. He had something of
his own, which afforded him a tolerable subsistence. He
continued in the place where he had been rainister, and where
he was well beloved, rill the Corporation-act took place, up- '
on which he removed to a village called Earl-Stoke, between
Wariiilnster and Devizes. Here he lived till about two years
before his death. When he did not preach, he went to his
parish church ; but in the afternoon, when there were only
prayers, he preached in his own house. He exercised his
ministry also abroad, both in private houses and in the fields,
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290 MINISTERS EJECTED
and never refused when invited, which he was almost eyery
week ; and yet he was never appreheilded. Upon K. James's
liberty, he was chosen by the ministers in the country to pre
sent their Address of thanks to the king at Bath ; but he could
not approve ofthe design then on foot, to take off the penal
laws and Test, and preached with great freedom against
Popery, which not a little added to his general reputation. —
Besides his having a turn in the weekly lecture at Sarum,
and some other places, he was pastor to a church at Brook,
and to another at Devizes ; which was an allowable kind of
plurality, at that time, when ministers were not to be found
to supply all vacancies. He afterwards succeeded Mr. Pem-
berton at Marlborough, where he died, in the 67th year of
his age, in a frame remarkably calm and composed. — He was
a man of great integrity, and understood worldly affairs so
-well, that his advice was much sought in matters of difliculty.
He was naturally warm in his temper, and very courageous,
but prudent and moderate in his principles ; and so courteous
and genteel in his behaviour, that he was generally rpspected
in the neighbourhood both by the gentry and clergy. He was
a very acceptable and useful preacher ; and had a considerable
mixture of the judicious with the affectionate. He brought
up two ofhis sons scholars, and sent thera to Oxford ; one of
whom, Mr. Strickland Gough, died pastor of a dissenting
congregation in Bristol §.
WOR KS. After his death, four sermons of his were published'
preached on special occasions. The last at the ordination of Mr.
Turton, in preaching which he fell sick of the distemper of which he
died.
NEWBURY, [R.] Benjamin Woodbridge, M. A. Of
Magd. Hall, Oxford. A great man every way. His fa
ther was a very worthy minister. His grandfather, on his
mother's side, was the famous Mr. Robert Parker. From
Oxford he went into New England, and was the first gra
duate of the college thei-e ; the lasting glory, as well as the
first fruits, of that academy. On his return, he succeeded
Dr. Twiss at Newbury, where he acquired much reputation
as a scholar, a preacher, a casuist, and a Christian. By his
excellent instruction, and wise conduct, he reduced the whole
town to sobriety of sentiment in raatters of religion, and a hap.,
§ A son of his, who for some time appeared under the same character, af
terwards conformed; previous to which he published An Enquiry into the
cause of the decay of the Dissenting Interest; to which Dr. Doddridge wrote
an excellent Reply.
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IN BERKSHIRE. 291
py unity in worship ; whereas they had before been over-run
with strange opinions, and divided into many parties. He:
preached three tiines every week, and expounded an hour
every raorning for several years, and his success was very re
markable. Before he left this to\yn there was scarcely a fa
mily in it, where there was not praying, reading, and sing
ing of psahns. After K. Charles's return he was raade one
of his chaplains in ordinary, and preached once before hira.
He was also one of the coraraissioners at the Savoy. He
was offered a Canonry of Windsor, if he would have con
forraed, but refused It. He continued preaching privately at
Newbury after he was ejected, and upon the Indulgence, in
1672, more publicly. He suffered raany ways for his Non
conformity, but was generally respected by raen of teraper,
and judges of real worth. When, upon the Five-raile-act,
he reraoved fi-om Newbury, Mr. Sa'wyer, his successor,
thinking hira within the legal distance, got the ground raea
sured by night, in hope of giving hira trouble, but was dis
appointed on finding hira out of his reach. He died at IngU-
field in Berks, Nov. 1, 1684, after he had been minister there
in public and private near forty years, — He was a universally
accomplished person : of clear and strong reason, and of an
exact and profound judgraent. His learning was very consi
derable, and he was a charn;iing preacher, having a raost com
manding voice and manner. His teraper was grave, but
chearful ; and his behaviour very genteel and obliging He
was a man of great generosity, and pf an exeraplary mode
ration; addicted to no faction, but of a catholic spiiit : and
so eminent was his usefulness, as to cast no ^sraall rp.flection
-on those -who had any concern in silencing and confining
him. WORKS. A Serm. of Justification.— A large Defence of it
against Mr. Eyre; a book highly commended by Dr. Calamy. —
Church Members set in Joint ; against Lay-preachers. — He also
published a book, entitied, Moses and Aaron, by Mr. Jatnes Noys,
of New England, dedicated to Charles II.
Mr. Henry Backaller, assistant to Mr. Woodbridge,
was also ejected with him. He was at Woodland in Devon,
before he carae to Newbury, and after his ejectment re^
turned thither again ; where, as there was no settled minis
ter, and but little maintenance, he again preached by con
nivance. About the time of the, Revolution he took the pas
toral care of a sraall congregation at Shobrook, and continued
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292 MINISTERS EJECTED
there till his death, February 20, 1702.  Here may pro
perly be mentioned,
§ Mr. John Woodbridge, of Oxford university. He
was boni at Stanton near Highworth, in Wiltshire, about
the year 1613, where his father was an able and faithful rai
nister. His mother Was daughter to Mr. Robert Parker.
He continued at Oxford till the oath of conformity was re
quired, when he quitted, and pursued his studies in private.
"The inforcing of the ceremonies occasioned him, with the
consent ofhis parents, to seek a peaceable recess in the Ame
rican desert, and about 1634, he accompanied his uncle, Mr.
Tho. Parker, to New England. He had not been long
there before Newbury began to be planted, where he took
lands, and was comfortably settled. There he continued to
study with industry, till the news of his father's death obliged
him to return to England. Having settled his affairs, he wtnt
back to America, taking with him his two brothers, one of
whom died by the way. He married the daughter of the
Hon. Tho. Dudley, of the town oi Andover, then in its in
fancy, and was ordained teacher of the congregation there,
by Mr. Wilson and Mr. Worcester, Sept. 16, 1644. Here
he continued, with good reputation, discharging the duties
ofhis rainistry, till upon the invitation ofhis friends in Eng
land, he again returned thither In 1647, where he soon found
eraployraent, (besides being chaplain to the commissioners
treating with the King at the Isle of Wight) ^rst at Andover,
and afterwards at Bwrford St. Martin's in Wiltshire. At
the latter place he continued till the return of episcopacy se
questered him.
The Bartholomew-act afterwards ejected hira frora the
school at Newbury, where it appears he had nowanuraer6us
family. In 1663, he deterrained once more to return to
New England ; where it was not long before the church at
Newbuij solicited him to becorae assistant to his aged uncle
Mr. Parker; and there, for a considerable time, he bestowed
his constant, learned, and pious labours.^ — At length however
there arose some little differences between him and some of
the people, on certain points of church discipline, wherein (as
.Mr. Mather expresses It) his largeness and their straitness
might perhaps better have met in temper, and ended these
disputes, without putting an end to his ministry among them.
§ This account, Which is substituted in fhe room of the former,is extracted
from Math. 'Hist. JV, £ng. B. iii. p, 219, 320.
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IN BERKSHIRE. 293
But this proved the unhappy issue. The blessing of God,
however, upon his private estate, abundantly made up the
stipend which he had parted with . And the country, in to
ken of their value for him, chose him a magistrate of the co
lony, that he might in a more extensive capacity be a minis
ter of God io them for good. Upon a change in the govern
ment he was raade a Justice of Peace, in which office he con
tinued to the last. He had twelve children, of whom eleven
lived to the age of raen and woraen. He had the comfort to
see three sons and two sons in law in the minisjiry ; and four
grandsons preparing for it.
He was a person of a truly excellent spirit. The piety
which he imbibed In his childhood enereased with his grow
ing years. He spent rauch tirae in holy raedltation, and the
other devout exercises of experiraental Christianity, in which
he enjoyed the foretastes of heaven. He was by nature won
derfuUy coraposed, patient and pleasant, and much more so
by grace. He had a great command ofhis passions, and was
eminent beyond most in the forgiveness of injuries. It was
rarely observed that worldly disappointments made any deep,
impressions on his mind. When intelhgence was once
brought to hira that a terrible disaster had befallen many of
his cattle, the raessenger was surprised to hear this as the first
expression he uttered, " What a mercy it is that this is the
" first time I ever met with such a disaster !" He was raost
observably overwhelmed by the death ofhis pious, prudent,
and faithful consort, July i. 1691, with whora he had lived
fifty years. In this loss, his value for the whole world was
extinguished, and he soraetiraes declared hiraself desirous to
be gone, whenever the Lord of heaven should please to call
hira thither. At length about the beginning of March, 1695,
he was seized with the strangury, and bn the Lord's day, the
17th, after rauch pain, he went to his everlasting rest, aged
about 82. A few minutes before he died, being offered a
glass of wine, he refused it, saying, " I am going where
" I shall have better."
Mr. William Taylor may properly be mentioned at
Ne-wbury, as he d^ed here, after having been many years
domestic chaplain to Lord Wharton. Though it doth not ap
pear that he had been in the possession any living, he was si
lenced hy the Uniformity-act. — \ This article Is transposed
frora Df. Calamy's Continuation, p. 58, where he observes
that 'he had, in the account, p. 39, mentioned a person of
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294 . MINISTERS EJECTED
the same name as ejected from Coleman-street, London ;
wherejts that Mr. W. Taylo}^ (who has a serraon in the
Morn, Ex,) died in 1661, when Dr. Spurstow preached his
funeral sermon, vvhich is now therefore added to that au
thor's works. See Hackney, Middlesisx.
OAKINGHAM [Y-] Rowland Stedman, M. A. Born
in Shropshire, and educated at Oxford. He fisrt preached
at Hanwell in Middlesex, where he continued till 1660,
when he removed to Oakingham, where, two years after,
he was ejected for Nonconforraity, He was afterwards chap
lain to Lord Wharton, in which situation he died Sept. 14,
1673. [The present Rev. Thomas Stedman, a worthy con
forming clergyman, forraerly at Chiverel in Wilis, now at
Shrewsbury, is a descendant ofhis.]
WORKS. The Mystical Union of BeUevers with Christ. —
Sober Singularity; or an Antidote against Infection by the Exam
pleof a Multitude.
§ PURLEY. Mr. Daniel ReyMer ; son of Mr. Rey
ner of Eggham. After his ejectraent he lived wholly upbn
the charity ofhis friehds. [This circumstance is a presumptive
proof that he was a man of good character] — In the former
edition, Burley was mentioned as the place of his ejectment.
But as there is no such place in Berkshire, it was conjectui-ed
that Mr. Reyner might be the person mentioned as ejected at
Ovington in Sussex, especially as Mr. Rastrick's Index has
no one of this name but he. It appears however most pro
bable, as Mr. Orton suggests, that Instead oi Burley, it should
have been Purley, which is a village near Reading, and
therefore the Editor has ventured to insert it.
READING, [V.] Christopher Fowler, M. A. Bom
at Marlborough ahout 1610, and educated at d.r/orrf, where
he continued sometime as a preacher. He removed thence to
Woodhey in Berks. After that, to Si. Margaret's Lothbury
in London : from hence he went to Reading, where he was
vicar of St. Mary's, and at length Fellow of Eton College,
Upon K. Chat les's return he lost this fellbwshlp, and in 1662
was ejected frora Reading. He afterwards retired to Lon
don, where he exercised his ministry in pnvate. He died in
Southwark, in January 1676. His funeral serraon was
preached by Mr. Cooper, who gives hira the character of " an
able, holy, faithful, indefatlgab,le servant of Christ; who
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IN BERKSHIRE, 295
by continual prayer and preaching. He was quick In appre
hension, solid in his notions, clear in his conceptions, sound
in th^ faith, strong and demonstrative in arguing, mighty In
convincing, and zealous for the truth against all errors. He
had a singular gift in chronology, not for curious speculation
or ostentation, but as a key and measure to know the signs
of the times, and the fulfilling of prophecies relating to the
kingdom of Christ and antichrist ; the exaltation of the one,
and the ruin of the other ; wherein he was not rash or pe
remptory, but sober, walking by hne and rule. £fc."
WORKS. Daemonitim Meridianum; a Relati* of the Pro*
ceedings ofthe Commissioners of Berks against John Pordage, late
Rector oi Bradfield. — Vindication of the same, — A sober Answer
to an angry Epist. of T. Speed the Quaker. — Several Sermons. —
Two in the Morning Exercises.
Great SHEFFORD, [R. 160/.] Mr. Simon Barret. A
man of a candid and Ingenuous temper ; modest and judicious.
He was much of Mr. Baxter's judgraent In the point of jus
tification. No ecclesiastical injunction was raore offensive to
him than that ofthe use ofthe cross in baptism. He chear
fully parted with this valuable parsonage, to keep the peace
of his conscience.
* STAMFORD Ding^ey [O. Stanford.'] Mr. Samuel
Smith. See Hereford.
THATCHAM, [V.] Mr. Thomas Voisey. Botn at
Newton-Abbot in Devon, He was a very fervent, lively,
moving preacher, and had a surprising fulness and accuracy
in prayer. He had great boldness in reproving sin, which in
one instance cost him dear. A neighbouring gentleman,
thinking hiuiself affronted, made hira feel his resentment.
He was apprehended for the North-country plot, and comrait
ted to Reading jail for high treason. Being ordered to pre
pare for his trial at Reading assizes, four of his countryraen
appeared to testify, that Instead of plotting in the North, he
had been preaching the gospel of peace in the West, The
news of their coming, hindei-ed*his enemies from bringing
on their trial. The witnessef against him were overheard in
the court, discoursing of the several sums of raoney they had
received for the good service they were to have done. From
Reading he was moved to Windsor castie. After fifteen
months imprisonment, Sir Thomas (afterwards Lord) Clif
ford, whose fellow collegiate Mr. Voisey had been, acci-
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296 MINISTERS EJECTED.
dentally hearing of his hard case at the secretary's oSice, pro
cured his release. Being at liberty, he returned to his na
tive country, preaching as he had opportunity. His exces
sive labours at Plymouth, threw him into a fever, of which
he died, in 1668.
WALLINGFORD, [R. St, Mary.]^ Mr. Pinkney, of
Magd. Col, Oxford : Where he was in high repute for polite
learning and sweetness of temper,
Mr. Ireland was ejected from the same plaee. He af
terwards becffne a school-raaster at Reading.
Littie WITTENHAM, Edward West, M. A- of
Christ- Church, Oxford. He was the son of Mr. T. West
of Northampton. A raan of great natural abilities, wit, and
good learning; full of holy zeal and fervour, and an excellent
useful preacher. He built a raeeting-house in Rope-maker's
Alley in Moorfields, London, and preached there many
years. He died in the night, after having preached twice to
his congregation on the Lord's-day, Jan. 30, 1675, aged 41.
His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Thomas Cole.
WORKS, Two Sermons in Morn. Ex. — After his desath was
published his Legacy : a valuable Discourse on the Perfect Man,
Mr. Richard Avery \vas ejected somewhere in Berk
shire, but the place is not ascertained. He is said to have
been a very zealous rainister, who after his ejectment, rode
about from place to place, preaching in perilous tiraes where
ever he had opportunity, and who enjoyed much comfort in
hjs last moments^
The following persons ejected in this county, afterwards
conformed,— Mr. Samuel Reyner of Sunning.— Mr. Wil
liam Hughes of Hinton.— Mr. William Lee oi Wantage,
—Mr, John Francis of East llsley  Mr. John Bate
man oiShenfield.—Ur. HvTcmasoi Boxf ord or Benford.
Mr. ^oBTL-RT Twiss oi Bur scot.

MINISTERS

( 297 )
MINISTERS EJECTED OR SILENCED

IN

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

A STON-C LINTON, [R.] Mr. John Marriot. A
plain, laborious preacher. He was indicted with some
others at the sessions, for coraing within five miles of a cor
poration, and was fined twenty pounds. He died at Aston,
May 11, 1672.
Mr. Gerrard was ejected from the same place.
AYLESBURY, [V. S.j Mr. John Luff, He was
turned out iraraediately upon the Restoration, and the old in
cumbent, who lived there, had possession again ; but being
very old, he seldora preached, and Mr. Luff aiterwards sup
plied the place. He at length removed to Southwark. He
was a raan of coosldeiable abilities, a ready elocution, and a
very good scholar.
BEACONSFIELD, [R.J Mr. Hugh Butler. A very
grave person, and a solid divine.
BURNHAM. [V.] Mr. Benjamin Perkins. A very
practical and valuable preacher.
CHALFONT, 5^. Giles's, [R.] Thomas Valentine,
B. D. A very popular preacher, and a member of the West
minster Assembly. He was suspended by Sir John Lamb,
dean of the Archf s,- for not reading the Book of Sports. He
hath sorae sermons extant preached before the long parliaraent.
CHEYNEYS, [R,] Benjamin Agus, M. A. In a piece
of his on. Nonconformity, he has the following passage, " A
little before the black Bartholomew, a noble lord enquired
whether I would conforra or not ? I answered. Such things
¦were enjoined as I could not swallow, and therefore should
be necessitated to sound a retreat. His lordship seeraed rauch
(Concerned for me, and used raany arguraents to reconcile rae
to a compliance ; but perceiving me unmoved, at last said
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298 MINISTERS EJECTED
' with a sigh : I wish it had been otherwise; but they were re
solved either to reproach you or undo you." Another great
peer, when speaking to him about the hard terms of confor
mity, replied ; " I confess I should scarcely do so rauch for
the Bible t as they require for the Common-prayer;" which
shews how littie the nobility were pleased with the rigorous
proceedings of the clergy.
WORKS. A Vindication of Nonconformity. — Antidote ag.
Dr, Stilling fleet' s Unreasonableness of Separation ; being a Defence
ofthe former. A Gospel Gen-versation, wirh a short Directory.
CHOLSBURY, [C] Mr. William Dyer. [In the
fitie of one of his books, he stiles himself " late preacher of
the gospel at Chesham and Chouldsbury ."] He preached in
London In the time of the plague. Frora his writings he ap
pears to have been a man of great piety, and a serious fervent
preacher. In the latter part of his life he inclined to the
Quakers, and was buried araong them in Southwark, April
i6g6, aged 60.
WORKS. A Cabinet of Jewels, or a Glimpse of Sion's glory.
, — Christ's famous Titles, and a Believer's golden chain. — Christ's
Voice to London, and the Day of God's Wrath : Sermons in the
timeof tbe plague, aiSj. A tine's, Aldersgate-street.
COLNBROOK, [C. or D,] Mr. Robert Hall.
Drayton, [R-1 Mr. Fleetwood.
§ DUNTON, [R.] _ Mr, Samuel Rolls (or Rolle.)
Sometirae Fellow of Trin. Col. Camb. All that Dr. Calaray
says of him is that " He was well known about London."
In the dedication of a book intitled, The Burning of London
in 1666, improved in a hundred and ten Meditations, part of
which is addressed " to his friends who reside at Hackney,"
the author speaks of himself as a native of the metropolis.
He also mentions his having been minister of Thistleworth.
This was undoubtedly the person here intended, who also
wrote another similar piece. A correspondent observes, that
Mr. Daniel Burgess In his funeral sermon for Mrs. Dorothy
Hook, p. 24, refers to one preached by hiraself for Dr. Rolls
on Dan. xii. 13.
WORKS. An Answer to the Friendly Debate [a Book, often
referred to in this work, written in an unfriendly inanner against
the Nonconformists.] — London's Resurrection. — Justification jus
tified, against Mr. William Sherlock.
+ Meaning, doubtless, subscribing assent and concent to all and every thing,
ill any present translation, or copy of the original. What wise man would
jtJoit? Ed,
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IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 299-
DYNTON, [R.] Mr. Shirley.
ETON-COLLEGE, Mr. N. Lockyer, Provost; of
whom before in London.
John Batchiler, M. A. Vice-Provost : of Eman. Col
lege, Cambridge.
WORKS. Golden Sands, on E/ihes. ii. 7. ded, to Princess
Elizabeth in 164.7.— A Transl. of a Disc, of Mons. du Plessis Mor-
nay's witii this title. The Soul's own Evidence for ils own Immor
tality, — The Virgin's Pattern; in the exemplary Life and lamented
Death of Mrs. Sus. Perwich. — Christian Queries to Quaking
Christians. — Sick-Bed Thoughts, on Phil. i. 23. — London's New°
Year's Gift, to the God ofits late Deliverances, &c. 1 669. — Taste
of a catechetical and preaching Exercise, for the Instruction of Fa
milies, &c.
Fellows of the College ejected at the Restoration.
Mr. John Bunkley. — Mr. Richard Penwarden.
Tho. Goodwin, D. D. Of whora before, at Oxford.
§ John Oxenbridge, A. M. Of both universities. He
was born at Daventry in Northamptonshire, Jan. 30, 1608.
He took his degree in 1631, and the following year began
publicly to preach the gospel. After two voyages to Ber-
mudas he returned to England, and settled as pastor to a
church at Beverly, in Yorkshire, in 1664. After his eject
ment from Eton College, Dr. Calaray says, (though Mather
does not mention it) that he went to Berwick upon Tweed,
where he held on his ministry till he was silenced by the
Bartholoraew-act. He then went to Surinam in South A-
merica, and from thence, in 1667, to Barbadoes. With
what view he took these voyages we are not inforraed,, but
from one of his publications It appears most probable that it
was to propagate the gospel.. In 1669 he went to New Eng
land, where he succeeded Mr, Davenport, as pastor of the
first church in Boston : and there he died suddenly, Dec. 28,
1674, being seized with an apoplexy towards the close of a
serraon which he was preaching at the Boston Lecture. Ma
ther's Hist, of N. Eng. B. ill. p, 221. That author, having
mentioned his writings, says, " The piety which he breathed
in these composures was but what he maintained in his daily
walk." Having spoken of the large MS. of his which he had
perused, mentioned below, he says that " he found in it a
" grateful variety of entertainment." He also gives some ex
tracts from his Diary, which discover a very pious, devout and

300 Ministers ejected
and humble spirit. From one of these, dated Nov. 1666, it
appears that he was then involved in great aJBiction, by the
death of an excellent wife and two children ; but that, though
he had been subject to great depression of spirits, he then ex
perienced wonderful support and comfort, on which occasion
he writes thus. " What shalll say for the strange and strong
consolation with which he filled my soul? No words can ex
press what I felt in my heait. I was wholly taken up
with the thoughts ofthe kindness ofGod. I said — Who is a
God like unto thee f What remains for me but to love and
praise thee for ever ? Now deatii was no dark thing to me,
neither was any conc§.rn of this life considerable. This hath
been a great stay to me in my solitaiy condition. Tho' be
reft of such relations, the Lord Jesus liveth for ever, to do all
for me, and be all to me. I the more admire and adore the
great God, in condescending so much to so vile a -Worm, that
hath been so full of fears and doubts, and hath so much dis
pleased his holy Spirit. Oh that the Lord may confirra these
comforts, so that I raay enjoy thera In death, and improve
them for the good of others in life !"
WORKS. A double Watch-word ; or fhe duty of watching,
and Watching in duty : on Rev. xvi, 5. and Jer. i. *, 5. — A Pro
position of propagating the gospel by Christian Colonies in the
Continent of Guiana ; being gleanings of a larger Discourse, the
MS. of which is yet preserved in New England, — A Sermon at the
Annivers, Election of Governor, ^c. in New England. — And a
Sermon on seasonably seeking God.
Mr. Paul Hobson, Chaplain of the college.  § He ap
pears to have been of the Baptist denomination. He is said to
have had a place of command in the army. Dr. Calamy
thinks It not unlikely, but observes, that if he had conformed
afterwards it would have made some atonement, as was the
case in other instances, Mr. Robinson seems to allow the fact,
and relates some scandalous indecencies committed by his sol
diers in conterapt of Infant-baptism. (See Hist, of Baptism,
p. 41,) It is hoped these things were done without his appio
bation. See Crosby's Hist, ofthe Baptists I. 226. ill. 26.
FARNHAM-ROYAL, [R. S.j Mr. Thomas Garde
ner. He was a great grararaarian, and a master in critical
and school learning ; a very excellent preacher, and a man
of eminent piety. After the Act of uniformity, he removed
to Oakingham., Berkshire, where he boarded a few youths,
and taught them grammar-learnirig. At this place, three
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other Nonconformists resided, viz. Mr. E. Perkins, Mr.
B. Perkins, and Mr. Hook ; and they all kept up a good
correspondence with Mr^ T. Hodges, who conforraed, and
preached at, a chapel in that town. When the subject of
Nonconforraity was discoursed upon, Mr. Gardener used to
say, in support of it, " He was for what God had cora
manded, and that only; loyalty to Chi Ist as King of his church,
and obedience to the second commandment."
GRENDON, [R.J Samuel Clark, M. A. Son of Mr.
Samuel Clark of Bennet-Fink. He was educated In Cam
bridge, and Fellow of Pemb. Hall, but lost his Fellowship
in the time of the Rump, for refusing to take the Engage
ment. Afterwards, he and his whole family were considera
ble losers by their Nonconformity, (the livings which the fa
ther and his two sons quitted amounting to 600I. per ann.)
Some tirae after his ejection he settled at Wycombe In Bucks.
There he served God witii great patience, self-denial, pru
dence and peaceableness ; unweariedly seeking the further
ance of his kingdom, when it was made very perilous to do
it. He died /'e^. 24, 1701, aged 75. His funeral sermon
was preached by Mr. Sii'm. Cox of Eling.
He was a man of very considerable learning ; a good cri^
tic, especially in the scriptures ; a great textuary, ,an excel
lent preacher; a great enemy to superstition and bigotry; yet
zealous for unaflfected piety, and extensive charity. He -Cvas
a person of great moderation, both in his principles and tem
per. He lived usefully, andin much esteem, andhe died' in
greatpeace, serenity and comfort.
The following letter [In answer to one frora a friend on
some controversial pointsj afibrds a pleasing speciraen of this
good man's spirit in bis advanced years : — " I received the
token of your kindness, but have not leisure to peruse it tho
roughly, being engaged in reviewing and correcting Dr.
Manton's sermons for the press. And the truth is, I find
little savour or relish In diy crabbed notions, which have no
¦influence upon practice. Now I grow old, such discouises as
may prepare nie for eternity, help me to farther acquaintance
and coraraunion with pod, and stir up my sluggish desires
after him, are more suitable both to my necessities and incli
nations. The Annotations on ihe Bible, which he published, de
serve a particular account. § He first formed the design at
the
5 This work consists ofonly one voluine folio j the Notes being very short>
aod many of them but a word or two. Tbey are placed, undet Uie several vcfse^

so 2 MINISTERS EJECTED
the university ; and made it the work of his most retired lei
sure, and soleran thoughts. It ripened with years and expe
rience, was the result of great reading and consideration, both
of the best practical writers, and the most celebrated critics,
and was, in a manner, the labour of his life. 'Tis a work of
great exactness and judgment ; coraraonly fixes on the true
sense of the place ; diligently observes the connection of
things ; freely represents the principal matters that occur ;
and contains the fullest account of parallel places of any other
extant. He was so happy in this performance, as to obtain
the concurring testiraony of two great and excellent men,
who have been thought widely different in their sentiments,
•viz. Dr. Owen and Mr. Baxter. (See the 4to edition of the
New Testament,) The words ofthe former are remarkable :
*' But this I must say, that to the best of my understanding,
he has made his choice of the especial sense which he gives
ofthe word, in all places with great diligence and judgment:
and 'tis evident, that in the whole, he has so carefully and
constantly attended to the analogy of faith, that the reader
may safely trust to him, without fear of being led into the
snare of any error, or unsound opinion." The words of the
latter are these ; " And I especially commend it as orthodox,
in explaining those texts which meddle with justification, re
mission of sin, with faith and vvorks, and such great and
practical points of doctrine ; so that the reader need not. feat
the corrupting his understanding by any secret insinuation of
errors, or dangerous mixture of private and unsound opinions."
Since both of them herein freely expressed their proper senti
ments, 'tis scarcelv conceivable how there could be any very
important ditFerence reraaining between thera. This work
has also been valued by raany other good judges of different
sentiments and persuasions, as the best single book upon the
Bible in the world. A clergyman of the highest rank in the
church of England thought fit to recommend it to young di
vines at their ordination. — The following are the rest of his
WORKS. A Survey of the Bible, or analytical account of it
by chapter and ver.se, 'Uo. [This is printed v\ ith his Annct. in the
best editions of that book,] — ^A brief Concordance ofthe Holy Bi
ble, 12mp. — An Abridgment of the historical part of scripture
verses, with marks of reference, Freqixently a sentence or expression is c.x-
.plained mertly by referring to some other passtigc, Dr, Doddridge used this
us his Common-place book, in the margin of vvhich he inserted Notes and
Eefcrences in Short-hand, and used to recommend it to his pupils. — A new
edition of it «'as published, with a very sitoiag recommendation, by the late
^ey, George Whitefietd. 12nio,

IN BUCKINGHAMSHKRE. SQS
J-2U10.— The Divine authority of the Holy Scriptures asserted. 
A Treatise of Scandal : inquiring; Whether things indifferent be
come neco-ssary, when commanded by Authority ? Whether things
scandalous being enjoined, may lawfully be done? How far we
are bound in conscience tp obey human laws, '^c. — An Ordina
tion Sermon on Acts xiii. 2, 3, — Scripture Justification opened
Sale.— Ministers' dues and People's duties, a Serm. on 1 Th. v. 22*
HAMBLEDEN, [R. S.] Mr. Henry Goodeare. Dr.
Walker says he was an independent, and never administered
the sacrament while he was here. Be this as it raay, this
-was not the cause of his being ejected, but his Nonconfor
mity. ^ HAMPDEN, [R.J Mr. John Saunders, of Exel. CoL
Oxf. Born in Exeter, of which city his father had been
mayor. He was promoted to a Fellowship, solely for his
great merits, in 1652. He had a penetrating genius, was an
acute philosopher, a great admirer of Plato, a very subtle
disputant, a hard student, and withal a man of singular piety.
He was rauch beloved by the rector Dr. Conant. As soon
as he proceeded M. A., he was made Professor of grammar,
and the next year of rhetoric also, ro the university ; and ac
quired a great reputation by discharging both those offices, so
as to become a celebrated tutor in the college. In 1657, he
was presented to this rectory by Riphard Hampden, Esq.
and he continued in it till Bartholomew-day. After being
silenced, he lived privately, but died within the compass oia,
year. HUCKET, Mr. John- Wilson. Upon his ejectment, he
became chaplain to Sir Thomas Lee and to Sir Richard In-
,goldsby, but afterwards he betook himself to the practice of
physic. Great KYMBLE, [V.J 23/. George Swinnock, M. A.
Born at Maidstone in Kent. He was first at Cambridge,
and removed to Oxford, where he was chosen Fellow of Ba
Uol Col. After his ordination he was vicar of Rickmans
worth, Herts ; and tiien of Great Kymble, where he was
ejected for Nonconformity in 1662 ; upon which he becarae
chaplain to R. Hampd^en, Esq. of Great Hampden. Upon
the Indulgence in 1672, he removed to Maidstone, where he
became pastor of a considerable congregation. He . died
Nov. 10, 16'j^. He was a man of good abilities, and a se
rious, warm, and , practical useful preacher.
WORKS.

g04 MINISTERS EJECTED
WORKS, The Door of salvation opened by the key of Rege!*
iieration,-^The Chri.stian raan's Calling. — Heaven and Hell epi-'
tomized. — The Beauty of Magistrates. — Treatise on the Incom-".
parableness of God in his being, attributes, &c. — ^The Sinner's last
sentence. — The Life of Mr. J. Wilson, — Several occasional Ser
mons.
LANGLEY-MARSH [R.J Nathaniel Vincent, M. A.
[of Magd. Col. Oxf] Son of a pious rainister, Mr. John
Vincent, and brother to Mr. TIio. Vincent. He possessed
so strong a meraory, that he was used, when but seven years
old, for the ease of his father, to repeat his serraons in the
faraily on the Lord's day evenings. He was admitted to the
university at eleven years of age, and went out M.A. at eigh
teen. He preached publicly as a lecturer at Pulborow before
he was twenty, and at tveenty-one was ordained, and fixed as
rector of Langley -Marsh. After his ejectriient, having first
spent a few years In a private faraily, he came to London,
soon after the Fire in 1666, and preached to large multitudes :
sometimes to thousands in the ruins. This was censured by
sorae persons as rashness ; but God was pleased to own his
zeal, by the conversion of many souls. His popularity drew
upon him the anger of the higher powers, and he met with
much disturbance. Having a meeting-place in Southwark,
the soldiers would soraetimes corae in the raorning, and take
possession of it, and hinder him from preaching. One tirae,
after they had planted four muskets round his pulpit, with
which he seeraed not terrified, they pulled him out of it by
his hair, As they were carrying him through the narrow alley
adjoining, tiie raultitude crowded in between hira and the sol
diers, and rescued him: But upon a Lord's day quickly af
ter, they again got him Into their hands, and having kept him
under guard all day, at night Justice Reading and three others
fined him 20/. Soon after this, which was In 1670, he was
taken again, and committed to the Marshalsea, where tiie
great number of people who came to visit hira gave offence.
Hereupon, without the least warning, he was hurried away
-to the Iratehouse in Westminster ; which none ofhis friends
would have known, had not an acquaintance been accident
ally by the water-sitle when he was put into a boat ; who •
¦ took a pair of oars to follow it, and saw him lodged in that
prison, where he was comraitted close prisoner during the
king's pleasure, without pen, ink, or paper ; and was not so
much as suffered to write to his wife, to inforra her where he
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^he carried hira some necessaries, but could not he admitted
to see him without a large fee, and then only for a few ifii-
rtutes. This imprisonmerit was the harder upon hira, as he
had long had a severe quartan ague. One day the jailor,
going with the criminals to their trial, took the key of Mr.
Vincent's room with him, when he happened to have his
ague, and he was kept all day without any refreshraent, so
that his fit was very severe : but it pleased God lo order it that
it never returned.
While he was in prison, sonie persons were endeavouring
to draw up articles against hira to affect his life, but they
fcould not accomplish their design. Mrs. Vincent made all
the friends sh6 could to petition the king and council ; and in
seven weeks time got him oiit ofthe close imprisonraent, but
^till he was obliged to reraain a prisoner for half a year upon
the Five niile-act. After that, he was unraolested, and went
on preaching to a nuraerous congregation, with great success,
till the year 1682, when another Storra arose against him.
Justice Pierce carae into his meeting when he was in the pul
pit, and coramanded hira in the king's name to corae down :
but he told him, He was commanded by the King of kings
io stand there ; and so Went on In his work. Afterwards
the officers carae frequeritly to disturb hira ; but having pre
vious notice of it, he used to qiiit the pulpit, and the congre
gation sung a psalm. When the justices and constables were
gone, he came again into the pulpit, and proceeded. He was
afterwards fined 20/. but the officers not having it in their
comraission to break open doors, did not seize his goods, but:
indicted him upon the act raade in the 35 Eliz. according to
which he was to suffer three years iraprisonraent, and then
banishment. He had a summons to appear at the assizes at
Dorking in Surrey, under the penalty of 40/. The Lord's
day before his going thither, he preached a sort of a fareweU
sermon, to a very numerous assembly, on Rhil. i. 27. and
aftervfards administered the sacrament. On the Wednesday
following he was brought up a prisoner, and comraitted to
theMarshalsea, to continue there till the time of his banish
ment. He had at that tirae a sick wife, and six sraall chil
dren, the eldest of which was not eleven years old, and the
youngest not two raonths. Being loth to leave his native
country, and his beloved congregation, he took the advi^'e of
the ablest counsellors he could raeet with, who found a "flaw
in the indictraent ; and observed that he had been tried before
those vvho were not the proper legal judges in the case, and
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pthereupon advised him to be at the expence of a Haheas^
corpus, in order to his being brought to the bar of the King's
bench, there to have a hearing before the judges. He ap
peared six days successively, with four or five of the ablest
counsel, without being able to come to a hearing. His wife
petitioned the judges, that bail raight be taken for him, that
he mighthave his liberty, but she had littie encourageraent.
The lord chief justice Saunders dying at that time. Sir G.
Jeffries succeeded him ; and Mr. Vincent being in the hall,
when they were just going to enter upon a tedious cause,.
Judge Jones, casting his eyes upon him, took notice that he
had attended several days ; and asked the court, whether any
reason could he given, why bail raight not be taken for his
appearance ? Upon which he obtained his liberty.
This iraprisonment cost him 200/. He preached but seU
dom for a year after ; and when he did, it was to very few at
a time; and he went on undisturbed, till he had public liberty
in common -with his brpthren, in the reign of K. James,
But after some time, an unhappy and reproachful division
took place In his congregation, when sixty ofhis communi
cants broke off from him, and joined witii Mr. Fine he r ;
which made a deeper impression upon his spirit than any of
the troubles he had met with for Nonconformity. He died
[suddenly] June 21, 1697, aged 53, and was buried at Bun
hill, His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. N^at, Tay
lor, on Luke xii, 4. from whence the following account of
his character* and of his death is extracted. Even TVood owns
that he was a considerable scholar, but falsely charges him
with having been concerned in Monmouth's rebellion. Athe-
na Oxon, ii, 1031.
§ " As a Minister, he had a good share of learning and
other ministerial abilities, which he dally improved by diligent-
study. He had Luther's three qualifications to make a man
a gospel-minister: He gave hiraself much to meditation and,
prayer: and as to temptation, he had, in his younger days,
been sorely exercised by It, He had a natural fervency of
spirit, which made him somewhat vehement in every thing,
which time and experience corrected so far as to make hiin
more moderate towards his brethren who differed from hira.
* The very short character now oniitted, which Di". Calamy gives of him,
is taken frora that sermon ; but the words arc Mr. Baxter's concerning his
BROTHER, Mr, Thomas Fi^ccnt. A strange mistake ! But it is more strange,
that the Dr, should not have given a larger extract from this oxcellcnt dis
course,-
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He had a great zeal against bold intruders into th'e work of
the ministry, In which I hope you his people will iraitate
nim.* He had a raarvellous readiness in answering difficult
questions. But the gift of preaching was the peculiar talent
With which God had blessed hira. He opened and applied
the great truths of the gospel with such plainness and majesty,
hie and power, as manifested the deep sense he had of the
great ends of the ministry. His serraons coraraanded atten
tion, raised affection, and struck awe into the consciences of
his hearers; no wonder then he had such eminent success.
As a Christian ; he Was ready on all occasions to start some
serious discourse, and whatever corapany he carae into, like
an open box of precious ointment, would leave sorae sweet
perfume behind him. His compassion to the poor was great,
and he was liberal in doing good at once both to body and
soul. He was a close walker with God; and he found the
fruit of it, In a settled calm assurance of the divine love, for
many years together ; which several times passed the trial
and stood unshaken when he thought himself near his end ; so
that when his nearest relation expressed her sorrow, he re
plied, " Why weep you for me, who am going to the eternal
" inheritance.?" To a friend, he lately said, " I do not
*' expect to live long, but I bless God, I am ready." — His
patience and resignation under afflictions and severe pains
were reraarkable. When a relation once expressed much.
concern for hira, he answered, " Submission, submission
" best becomes creatures." And he used often to. say, " I
" ara in the hands of ray gracious God and Father, who best
" sees what Is best for rae." — His death- was very sudden.
He was taken ill in the morning, and had tirae only to say
to those who carae about hira, " I find I am dying ; Lord,
*' Lord, have mercy on ray faraily and congregafion." So
near did his people lie to his heart, even in his last raoments."
The serraon concludes with sorae excellent hints of advice,
worthy the attention of all destitute churches.
WORKS. The Conversion of a Sinner, and the Day of Grace,
—Heaven or Hell upon earth: a discourse on Conscience. — ^The
Conversion of the Soul. — ^The true Touchstone, shewing both
Grace and Nature. — A Covert from the Storm ; [written when in
* To inforce this advice, f,Ir. Taylor says, among other things—" If these
" illiterate Antinomian usurpers are not speedily and effectually discounte-
" nanced, by ministers and people too, they who are aheady the blemish
'' OF Nonconformity i-vill quick!y prove the tot.il ruin of it." — Whe
ther such a hint be unseasonable in our own times, may deserve considera
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prison, upon the Five-mile-act.] — Worthy Walking ; [written up
on his enlargement.] — Of Christian Love. — ^The Spirit of Prayer.
— Two Catechisms ; one for little children : in the other he redu
ces the principles of religion to 17 heads : to which he added a Ca
techism fiir Conscience. — The Good of Affliction. — The cure of
Distractions in attending upon God.r^The Love of the World
cured. — Fun. Sermons, for Mr. Cawton, Mr. J. Janeway, Mr.
E. Lawrence, Mr. G. Baker, and Mrs. Thompson — Three^Ser-
mons at Morn. Ex.
, ST. LEONARD'S. [C.J Mr. George Swinho. He
afterwards settled at Princes Risborough, where he had a
private congregation, and held on his work till age disabled
him. Great MARLOW. Mr. Paul Sutton, Lecturer.
Littie MARLOW. [V. 43/. tos. 8<f.] Mr. Hierom Gre
gory. TsIEWPORT-PAGNEL, [V. 38;. 14s. arf.] Mr. JoH^i
Gibbs. He was ejected some months before the Bartholo-
iiiew-act, for refusing to adrait the whole parish to the Lord's
table. He was many years afterwards pastor to a dissenting
congregation in this town, where he lived to be very okl,
and was much esteemed.
RISBOROUGH, [R.J Willi.\m Reeves, B. A Af
ter his ejection he preached only occasionally, and very fre
quently at Abington. He -was once greatly troubled by having
a charge sworn against him of uttering treasonable words in a
sermon on Psalm ii. 1. but upon a trial he was acquitted.
He died 16S3.
TAPI.OW, [R.] Mr. Edwards.
WADDESDEN, [R,] Robert Bev net, B, D, There
are at tiiis place three distinct Rectories belonging to one
church, to all which Mr. Bennet had the title. But one of
them had been bestowed by the patron, Lord Wharton, upon
Mr, Johi Ellis, wlio scrupled to take the title upon him, and
only preached every other Lord's day in his turn, Mr. Ben
net performed all the other duties of baptizing, visiting, He.
and yet freely let Mr. Ellis enjoy half the profits. But after
the king's restoration, Mr. Ellis confornied, and got his
Majesty's title to all the three benefices ; Mr. Bennet not at
all contending the matter with hira, not being inclined to
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conform. After some tirae he removed to Aylesbury, and
preached there privately for some years ; from whence he
went to Abington, where he died j!//>n7 5, 1687.
WORKS. A Theological Concordance of the synonymous
Terras in the holy Scriptures. Svo. 1657.
WINCHENDEN, Thomas Gilbert, B. D. of St, Ed
Viund's Hall, Oxford, He had been before turned out of
Edgmond in Shropshire. He was an excellent scholar, of
extraordinary acuteness and conciseness of style, and of a most
scholastical head. It Is related of hira, that being in com-'
pany at Oxford sorae time after the Restoration^ with some
persons of erainence in the university, and Dr. South being
there among the rest, the Dr. and Mr. Gilbert engaged in a
dispute about the Arminian points : and upon Mr. Gilbert's
?ssertingthat the Preilestinatlon ofthe Calvinist did necessa
rily follow upon the Prescience of the Arminians, the Dr.
declared, thai: if he could raake that out, he would neyer be
an Arminian so long as he lived. Mr. Gilbert immediately
undertook it. The corapany were highly pleased with his
management both ofhis argument and ofhis opponent in the
• dispute ; and {lie Dr. himself was so fully satisfied, as to con
tinue to the last a zealous assertor of predestination. Mr.
Gilbert had all the school-men at his fingers-end ; and (which
is rather unusual) took great delight in poetry, and was a
g(;od Latin poet himself. He spent the latter part of his time
in a private life in Oxford, where lo the last he met with
much respect frora Dr. Hall Bp. of Bristol, Dr. Bathurst,
Dr. Jane, and others, who were competent judges of his real
worth. He died July 15, 1694, aged 83.
WORKS, A small Latin tract on the possibility of pardon with
out Sati.sfaction ; in Ans to Dr. Owen's Diatr. de Div. Just, and a
brief English Discourse on the Guilt and Pardon of Sin,. £3'^.—
Some occasional Latin Poems : one of which gives an account of
the Revolution, — An Assise Serm. at Bridgnorth.
High WYCOMBE, [V. 45/. 12s. 8d] George Fownes,
M. A. He was born in Shropshire, and educated in school-
learning at Shrewsbury, [where his grandson, the ingenious
and learned Mr. Joseph Fownes was lately minister.]! Up
on his father's death, his mother sent him to Cambridge.
where he was reckoned a considerable scholar, and a youth
of a sharp wit. He was the public minlster'of Wycombe se
veral years ; but quitted the parish -church voluntarily, before
the Restoration. However, he continued preaching, tho*
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he vvas for a while unfixed. Sir Henry Wroth bore very
hai-d upon him. He afterwards assisted Mr. Ant, Palmer
in Pinners- Hall, and preached a lecture in Lothbury. In
1679, he became pastor to a society of Antl-poedo-baptistsin
Bristol, in which he succeeded Mr. Thomas Hardcasile.—-
About the time of what was called the Pre;sbyterian plot, Sir
Rob, Yeemans appreliended him in the pulpit, and coramitted
him to N'ewgatc. By virtue of a flaw in his ralttiraus; he
was In six weeks lemoved by a Habeas corpus to the King's
.Bench, and acquitted. Meetings being at that time often
held in the fields, he was taken on the highway in Kings-
wood, upon suspicion of coming from a raeeting, though it
could not be proved. He was then comraitted to Gloucester
jail, far refusing the corporation-oath, and riding within five
miles of a corporation. This was a great hardship upon him,
because the act had no force in his case, as he resigned his
living before K. Charles came in. When the ofiicers brought
him to Gloucester castle, they declared publicly he should
not come out alive. His mittlnius was for sixraontiis; in
which time they endeavoured to suborn wi.nesses to swear
a riot against hira, though no other rioter was naraed in the
bill. — Upon his trial, when the witness carae to swear, he
looked back op the justices of the sessions, and said, " Lord I
gentiemen, what would you have me do ? I cannot swear
¦any thing against this person." However they impannelled a
jury and proceeded. He pleaded his own cause very pleasantiy;
telling thera, that " He and his horse could not be guilty of a
riot without company." Hereupon the jury went out, and
soon returning, the foreman gave in the verdict, Not guilty.
The Bishop's chancellor being one of the justices on the
bench, said with an emphasis, " What not guilty ?" Th6
foreraan replied, " No, not guilty : for can George and his
horse he guilty of a riot without any other corapany ? I say
not." However he was remanded back to prison. After
six raonths, he demanded his liberty of the jailor, who told
him that he had orders not to let him go. A bond was Insist
ed on for good behaviour, with sureties ; but as he knew that
preaching would be a forfeiture of it, he refused to come un
der such bonds, and so was continued in prison. At the as
sizes, he made his appeal to the judge. Justice Player and
iu.stice Newton told the judge, ,that if he let tiiat man go, he
"would draw all the country after him. And so he was kept
in Gloucester prison for two years and a half, till God was
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pleased to release him by death, in December \ 1685. This
imprisonment was the raore grievous, as he was sadly afilicted
with the stone. A physician declared, that his confinement
was his death ; and that it was no less raurder than if they
had run him through the first day he came in, and raore
cruel." § In the parish Register, the entry of his interment is, Dec 31, 1685. In
the Church-book, of Broadntead meeting, he is said to have died Nov. 29. after
having been unjustly and maliciously kept a prisoner for the testimony of Je
sus two years and nine months. In the same record, after some account of
his trial and acquittal by the Jury, it is said — " Brother Fownes moved his
" case to Judge Levins, who (they say) would have cleared him, but the
" chancellor Parsons was heard to whisper him. That he and Young wete dan-
*' gerous persons, and it was not safe to the government to let them go.
" Then the judge ordered they should give good bail, 100/, each, and appear
" next assizes. After the court arose, they provided their bail, but Hyat said,
¦*' the order was, They should be bound also to appear at Bristol ; and though
" Diie the counsellor said it was not so, yet the judge hurrying out of town,
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IN
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

ABINGTON [near Shingay, R, S.j Mr. Isaac Kino.
[In the next induction of W. Walton, the register runs
• thus  propter non subscriptionem Isacci King ultimi in-
<;t«wiew?M (which last word Is scratched out, and over it is
written incubatoris) ibidem Jam ultime vacantem, &c.
The change of this word is doubtless intended as a piece of
wit, to ridicule the ejected minister, of which Mr. Robinson
says there are other instances.]
BURWELL. See Wethersfield in Essex.
CHEVELY, [R. S. lool. in Norwich diocese] Abraham
Wright, M. A. The following account of hira is extracted
from a narrative drawn up by himself, sent to the author by
a friend : "In July 1646, he was placed in the Rectory of
Chevely, by authority of parliament, being approved of by the
Assembly of Divines. In Dec. 1659, ^^' I^'^it the seques
tered rainister died. The year following (being the year of
the king's restoration) an act was passed by -which' all such
ministers as were in raort livings, where the sequestered in
cumbent was dead, were settled iii them during their lives.
Nevertheless one Mr, John Deker having procured a pre
sentation to the living of Chevely from lady Carlton, thepa-
troness, went to the bishop, and having got institution and
induction, came to take possession of the parsonage-house ;
but that being denied him, Mr. Deker, with Sii' John, thei
son of lady Carlton, persuaded rhe people to detain the har-
A'est-tlthes for hira. Sir John, moreover, in requital for
some service Mr. Deker had done him, procured five justices
to meet at Newmarket, who summoned Mr. Wright before
them, and Mr. Deker procured some of the looser sort of
people In Chevly to object against him ; one of whom
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read, refused to sign it, asking the justices whether tiiey
would have him set his hand to what was false. Their par
tiality was such that they would not suffer hira to have a
friend with hira, but one whora he brought was ordered o'ut
of the room. — The chief thing insisted on against hira was.
They were not satisfied that he was in orders. He assured
them he had been episcopally ordained ; told them by what
Bishop, aud at what time ; and offered to fetch his orders to
thera. But he could not satisfy thera, and they caused an
order to be drawn up that he should resign the living to Mr.
Deker, " because he was not in orders," and told hiin, that
if he did not, they would send the sheriff^ to turn hira out.
The same justices, meeting soon after at Cambridge, Mr.
Wright went, and carried his orders with hira, but they
refused to see thera ; and he notyielding to resign, they sent
another order to the sheriff to dispossess hira, which he exe
cuted Oct. 28, 1660. Coraing to the parsonage-house, he
tumed Mr. Wright with three sraall children, and the rest of
the family, into the street.
Upon the advice of Serjeant Rrown he biought his action
against three of the parishioners for recovering liis tithes, and
¦likewise against Mr. Deker for making good his titie to the^
living. The business came to a trial the next Lent assfees,
before the faces of these justices, and he recovered his tliflies
of those that were sued, and the rest agreed with him. As
to the living, the judge (lord chief baron Hale) declared
that he had a titie to it ; but the ju|tices so interested them
selves in the business, that he was prevailed upon not to refer
it to a country jury, but proposed that the counsel on both
sides should draw up the case, and meet at his chambers iri
the Easter term following, when he would determine It. But
Serjeaiit Keeling, who was counsel for Mr. Deker, would
not appear ; so that Mr. Wright waited in London, at a great
expence, all Easter-term, and then was forced to bring down
the trial again the next assizes, when Serjeant Keeling, not
being willing to refer it to a country jury, raoved judge Hale
that it raight be referred to a special verdict, which was
•granted; and so they went upon a special verdict, aud Mr.
Mr. Wright, with his attorney, was forced to attend at Lon
don, to further the business, several terras, till the Act of uni
forraity was ready to corae forth ; when he sjioke to his attor
ney to do what he could for the perfecting of the verdict with
the counsel, and then to lay it aside ; telling him that he could
not yield tl f^\\cl\ things as the act required. But Keeling
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hindered the perfecting-of It, having inserted what was false,
and which Mr. Wright's counsel would not yield to : where
upon Mr. Wright was constrained to move the court of com
mon pleas by counsel to alter thesame. Then Keeling stood
up and moved the court to defer ir till they should see whe
ther Mr, Wright would conform or not ; which he not do
ing, there was a stop put to all proceedings in the business.
Afterwards, when Mr. Deker understood that Mr. Wright
had not conformed, he arrested him for having taken some ,
tithes, after the sherlffhad dispossessed hira. — Abdut the sarae
time it pleased God to arrest Mr. Deker with sickness, so that
he could not prosecute this business. He died the latter end
of November following ; and on his death-bed acknowledged,
that ins:eadof gaining, he was 200/. worse than at his coming
thither. Mr. Wright continued at Chevely, afterhis ejectment, till
the passing of the Five-mile-act, and then he spent some time
at the house of Mr. Meadows, oi Ou.tden, in Suffolk, who
entertained hira very kindly. Afterwards, his children being
gone from hira, he removed to Wimbish, near Saffron Wal
den in Essex, where he boarded with some of his relations,
and preached occasionally at other places. — He always used
a Form of prayer in the family, and before his serraon, on
ly adding or varying some passages as there was occasion. It
was pretty long ; but he always uttered it with such life and
fervency, that it was very affecting. In his preaching he de
livered plain truths witl* much affection. --He was a man of
few words, but always seemed chearful. He died about i685,
aged 80 or upwards. He had a son who was a conforming
minister in Suffolk.
CHIPPENHAM, [V. 41 1, 9s, 4d,i] Richard Parr,
[M. A.] After his ejectment he lived in Lord Harry Crom
well's family.
CRAWDEN Icum Clopton}, Mr. King. [Mr. Robin
son says, He either was only curate or lecturer, unless he
was ejected before the Uniformity-act took place ; as Mr,
W. Hervey was inducted into this vicarage Jan..-], 1662,
?nd continued in it till his death, 1675,]
* DILLING [Q.Z>M//m^A«wj], Mr. Edward Negus.
City of ELY. Mr. William Sedgwick. A pious man,
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lie lived mostiy at Lcwisham in Kent. In 1668 he retired to
London, and died there soon afterwards. He was a zealous
Royalist. WORKS. Several Sermons and Discourses; particularly —
Justice upon the Army Remonstrants — Inquisition for the blood of
our late Sovereign.
Isle of ELY. Mr. Thomas Gyles.
EOULMIRE, [R ] Mr. Ezekiah King.
East HATLY, [R.J Richard Kennet, B. D. Of
Corp. Christi Col. Camb. Born in Kent.' He was Fellow
ofhis college mauy years, and had a good nuraber of pupils,
of whom he took great care. The learned Dr. Spencer (af
terwards master of that college, and dean of Ely) was one of
them, who shewed him great respect, frequently visited hira
as long as he lived, and for his sake was afterwards kind to
his widow. He was turned out of his college for refusing
the Engageraent. Soon after being silenced by the Act of
uniforraity, Mr, (afterwards Bp,) Stillingfieet assisted hira
in taking a capacious house atSutton In Bedfordshli e, where
he set up a private school, keeping a conformist to teach it.
Many gentlemen (and sorae who were no friends to the Non
conforraists) sent their sons to hira. He afterwards took the
care of tiie school upon himself, and was connived at, as the
neighbouring gentry had a great esteem for hira, and he was
excellentiy qualified for his office. — He went to church both
parts ofthe Lord's day, and was early there. He died of a
fever, and was buried in the chancel at Sutton,' Jan. 23,
1670. His funeral sermon was preached by the worthy Mr.
Stephens, minister of the parish, who gave him his due cha
racter. He was very moderate in his principles and practice,
generous in his temper, and communicative in conversation.
His life was upright, and his end was peace. During his last
sickness he was very patient and submissive tothe divine will,
confident that his heavenly Father, who had. taken care of
him all his life, would not forsake hira at the last. He died
in low circumstances, and his widow was reduced to gre'at
.straits.
LITLINGTON, [V,] Mr. Henry Townley. [His
name Mr. Robinson sa^s, is not in the Register of Induc-
jtions,]
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OVER. Robert Wilson, B. A. Oi Jesus Col. Coini.
He was only an occasional preacher, and probably was never
ordained- He lived at Carabridge, and being a good musi
cian, got a corafortable subsistence by instructing the scho
lars there, and young gentlemen all the country round, in
that noble art. But after conformity was required, he had
few scholars in the ccrtleges, being a zealous Dissenter,
though then no preacher. He was eminently pious and cha
ritable, and an ardent beggar for the Nonconforraists. A
•great deal of money passed to them through his hands. The
learned Dr. Henry More, and Dr. Spencer, dean of Ely,
araong others, made him their almoner. [Mr. Rastrick
vi-rltes to Dr, Calamy, That he fell Into company with Mr,
Raines, a clergyman of Norfolk, (a sober, learned, studious,
and good natured man, though high in his principles) who
speaking of the Doctor's book, remarked that his account of
Mr, Wilson was very short and defective, and sai(| that he
was able to enlarge and compleat it, being by his mother's
side his grandson. He proraised to write to the author, but
it does not appear that he did. ,In this conversation he gave
an extraordinary character of Mr. Wilson for piety, using this
expression : " He was as good and pious a raan as ever lived
upon God's-earth," He added, thathe was a constant hearer
of Mr. Hussey in Cambridge t;o the (lay of his death^ and a
great adrairer of him,]
SUTTON, [V.] William Hunt, [B. A.] of King'&
Col. Camb. He was a native of Hampshire, and was brought
up in Eton-school. [He was presented to tWs benefice by
tiie dean and chapter of Ely. His induction is dated July
1 643 ; the last but one granted by Bp. Wrer^ before his dis-.
grace.] He was very useful here till his ejectment > when,
being possessed of about 1 2ql. he bought a hoyse and a few
cows ; and by his diligence in teaching school, giid the in
dustry of his wife, who kept a dairy, with the kind assista,nce
of charitable christians, he brought up. five children well. —
He was a raan of a very catholic spirit, and a grea,t Ipver of
all who feared and loved God. He was intimate with seve
ral worthy persons ofthe established church, and among the
rest, with the learned Dr. Lightfoot, who expressed a high
idea of his learning, and shewed him^reat li;;mdn.ess. When^
he had not liberty to preach, he went with his faraily to the
public church, and Instead of striving for the upperraost placd,
he chose the lowest, tho' the chief pew belonged to his near re-
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latiohs. He was a raan of eminent piety, good ministerial
abilities, and great fidelity. He had a more than coramon
knowledge of Latin and Greek, and was a good poet in each
of those languages. His thoughts were rauch taken' up In
the study of Daniel and the Revelations, in hopes of finding
out the time of that more compleat reformation which he
longed for. He was remarkably strict In keeping the Lord's
day i and so careful to prepare for it, thaf there was seldom
any work done in his faraily after Saturday nooUi The
whole day was spent in his faraily in praying, singing, read
ing, &"t'. He was very severe in reproving sin, wherever it
came in his way ; and had the greatest raan in the nation, or
one on whom he depended for bread, been guilty in his com
pany, he would have thought It his duty to rebuke him, and
not have wanted courage to do it. — He was unwearied in vi
siting the sick ; and ready to rise at midnight to go and pray
with the poorest person in the parish. He was srictiy faitiiful
to his word, and would never proraise but when he knew he
could perforra. He was niuch given to hospitality, and ex
ceedingly charitable, seeming to take raore pleasure in giving
than in receiving. His house was coraraon to poor travellers :
such as were clean and decent, he took into his family, and
lodged in his beds; and such as were not,' he lodged in his
barn : and he would often converse with them there, and
carry them' food, and in cold weather take them to his fire.
In the latter part ofhis life, he was many years much af
flicted with the stone-chollc, but was always patient, and
ready to speak well of God. Of this disteraper he died at
about 70 years of age, uttering these as some of his last
words : " I know that I ara passed from death to life because
I love the brethren." — He brought up two sons to the minis
try among the Dissenters. His eldest son, Mr. Wm. Hunt,
had a congregation at Little Baddow ne^Malden in Essex.
His other son, Mr. John Hunt, was first at Royston, tiien at
Northampton, and last at Newport Pagnel, where a son of
his was afterwards settled. [This was the late Mr. Wm.
Hunt, who afterwards removed to Hackney, as assistant to
Mr. Barker, upon whose resignation he became sole pastor,
and continued so many years, till the Editor of this work was
ordained co-pastor with him, Nov. 21. 1764. He died there
May 20, 1770.]
SWAFFHAM, [St, Mary's,] V. S. 30/. Mr. Jonathan
Jephcot. Of Oxf. uiiiv. who succeeded Mr. Calamy in
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this living In 1633, ^^ ^^^^ ^°'"" ^^ Ansty near Coventry,
and was taught grararaar-leaniing in the free-school in that
city, whither he used to go every morning, when very young,
so early as to surprise the master. Through the instructions
of his pious raother, he discovered a deep sense of religion
when he was but five or six years of age. His parents were
desirous to educate hini for the ministry, but being in low cir
cumstances, could contribute littie to it. He however vi
gorously pursued his learning, and discovered extraordinary
sobriety and seriousness. At seventeen years of age he en
tered himself In the university of Oxford, and then taught a
school in the country for a year, with the recommendation of
his raaster ; after which he went to reside at Oxford ; where
he raaintained himself with the money his school had brought
in, together with what his father could allow him ; and
-when It was gone, he went and taught school again for more.
Thus he held on for some years. Notwithstanding these
difficulties, by his diligence he made considerable improve
ments, and was thought competently qualified for the rainis
try by all that knew him. His friends were very earnest for
his fixing at Shilton, (a sraall living in the next parish to
Ansty) to supply the place ofthe vicar, of whomthe people
were weary, and who consented to the proposal, though ,he
still kept the title. Hereupon Mr. Jephcot a])^lied to Bishop
Moreton for ordination, who examined him himself, and rea
dily ordained him, though he rejected several others, being
very severe in exaraining candidates. He then preached con
stantly at Shilton, on the Lord's day, and often on holidays,
besides occasional serraons ; and went every day two railes to
teach school ; all which labour brought hira In but 20 /. a
year. Upon the death of the minister in the neighbouring parish
pf Buckington, (which was a better living) the inhabitants
were very desirous of having Mr. Jephcot in his room. This
jiving being in the king's gift, he at the people's earnest de
sire, took a journey to London, with proper recommenda
tions, in order to obtain the presentation ; but failed of suc
cess. However, that he might not wholly lose his labour,
the lord-keeper gave him a presentation to St. Mary's in
Swaffham, The people there were at first dissatisfied, be
cause he was an "utter stranger to them ; but after a' short
trial, they were extremely pleased and thankful that they
were so well provided for. — He preached twice on the Lord's^
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and repeated at night. When the Book of Sports came out,
he read it according to order, and then preached for the sanc
tifying the day, — When the minister of the other parish [Mr.
Payne] died, leaving his widow In debt, Mr. Jephcot did
her rauch service. Not being able to live upon his income,
he removed to a free-school in Thurlow, intending to re
sign his vicarage In Swafiham, to any worthy raan who could
get the other united to it. But the people, being exceedingly
desirous ofhis continuance with thera, raade such interest,
that they got the other vicarage urtlted to his, with an aug
mentation. (They are since united by act of pariiaraent,)
Upon a unanimous call, he returned to them, and gave him
self wholly to the work of the ministry ; in which he took
extraordinary pains. In preaching, repeating, catechizing and
visiting.' Nor were his labours without success ; for he was
a means of converting many. He was an Instrument of much
good to several in the family oi Roger Rani, Esq. and useful
to all the serious people ot those parts. Yet he had much
uneasiness from the carn-ality and bitterness of some ofhis
parish, and the giddiness of several others. He was also
greatly troubled with some people who pretended to visioais
and revelations. While he lived in the vicarage, he was one
night robbed of his plate, money and watches, by four men,
three of whom broke into the house, while the other held
the horses. When he perceived them coming up the stairs,
he said, " The will of the Lord be done," But he after
wards took courage to expostulate with them, and reminded
them of the judgment-day, &c, when they answered, " We
are gentleraen, and raust live." He viewed this event, as
well as all others, with a pious regard to providence, and
having written an account of this singular robbery, and of the
persons proved to be concerned in it, he expresses his thankful
ness to God, who restrained them from offering any violence
to hiraself or his family, and closes thus : " All the pas-
" sages of God's providence in the thing were very re-
" raarkable ; but the sanctifying them to ray soul is never to
" be forgotten."
He was earnestly desirous of settling sorae christian disci
pline in the church, for proraoting knowlege and holiness.
With this view, he had stared meetings with the neighbour
ing ministers. They agreed upon raany things which they
should practise in their respective congregations, and pro
mised to help one another by mutual advice in any emergent
difficultiss. Finding that many would not be at the pains of
learning

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learning the Assembly's Catechism, they drew up one much
shorter, for the Use of the most ignorant in their parishes.
In i66i, the former irtcumbeilt, who had been put out as
Scandalous; carae again into one oi the lising^ in Swa fham;
iipon which Mri Jephcot knowing that the other would not be
sufficient to maintain his family, and fpreseeing that he should
be In danger of having his conscience sfraitenedby ecclesias
tical impositions ; finding also many in thesolace altered for
the worse, and turning with the tide, determined to reraove
the first opportunity. — Bishop Wren, who was restored with
the king, was rauch incensed against hira, because he had
concurred with othei" ministers in ordaining several persons
to the.niinistryj who were chiefly such as had been fellows
of colleges. The free school of Boston being offered him,
.on the recomraendation of Dr. Tuckney, he accepted it, and
removed thither. On his application to Bp. Sanderson for a
licence, he treated hira very respectfullv ; told hira, it was a
pity a raan of his worth should be confined to the drudgery of
a school ; and offered him his choice of two livings, of about
^ol. a year each. He thanked his lordship, but waved ac
ceptance, because, as things then went, he apprehended he
should quickly be turned out of a living ; but hoped he might
be suffered to continue in a school. He was however turned
out of that at Bartholomew-tide, when he was but just settled
in it, to the great loss of the town. Some of the alderraen
urged hira to conform, that he might continue In the school ;
but he said, If he could conforra, he would not do it raerely
to teach boys. Many other considerable persons were de
sirous ofhis staying in the- town after he quitted the school;
but he rather chose to be near his friends in Carabridgeshire^
and therefore settied at Ousden near Bury in Suffolk. Here
he constantiy went to church on Lord's-days, and also to the
sacrament. But he kept up a weekly lecture araong a sraall
company of honest well-meaning people. In the latter part
of his life he setup a boarding-school, and trained up youth in
learning and piety. Nine or ten persons of fortune .had en
gaged, upon his ejectment, to raise hira 200/. a year ; which
they did for a time ; but some who lived at a distance discon
tinued it, and others died before hira, so that he had but a
scanty subsistence in his old age, from his school, and a sraall
estate of about 12^, a year.
He used to spend rauch of his tirae In writing letters- to
persons on spiritual accounts. Indeed his whole heart seeraed
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He was distinguished for his unusual accuracy in the Hebrew,
Greek, and Latin languages, philosophy, and some part of
the mathematics. He also often practised dialling and sur
veying for his recreation. His abilities for the ministry were
great, and he was very laborious in it. When he was redu
ced to a more retired life, he reaped what he had been sow
ing ; having as much of the comfortable presence of God, and
settied assurance ofhis love, as can well be, supposed attain
able in this life. In a painful and tedious sickness, he wa,?
wonderfully supported by the comforts of God's spirit, even
to his death ; in the view of which he continued the most de
vout addresses to heaven, and serious discourse to those about
him, as long as his strength permitted hira to speak. He died
Nov. 1673, at the great age of 96. — Mr. Cawdwell afterwards
had a meeting in this place, and communicated the above ac
count. WORKS. It doth not appear thaf Mr. Jephcot published any
thing. But Dr. Calamy has preserved some small pieces of his, ,
which he left in MS. written in Latin ; viz. A curious account of
an unusual Meteor which appeared at Swaffham in May 1646. — i'
A Copy of Verses presented to several of his friends who contri
buted lo his Support when he was silenced. And — A Character of
of a true Son of the Church of England. Those who understancf
Latin may be amused by them ; but our limits do not admit oftheir
being here inserted.
Littie SWAFFHAM, Mr. Daniel Foot. He had this
living a few years, while he continued at Cambridge, and
preached there on the Lord's day. When he was ejected he
came to London.
WENTWORTH, [R.] Mr. William Burchil, of
Trin, Col, Ca?nb, After his ejectraent he lived privately at
Wilsford, a raile distant ; wher^ he had a sraall estate of
about 12 /. per ann, and did what good he could, by private
preaching and expounding the scriptures in his house, and la
conference with neighbours. When the toleration comraen
ced, he set up a raeeting at Sutton, where he preached twice
every Lord's-day, till he was disabled by his last sickness,
though he had but little maintenance frora his congregation.
He was very araiable for his great simplicity, integrity, arid
humility. He was a faithful friend, and his life was very in-
iFensive. He lived in mem circumstances, and yet was al
ways contented and chearful.
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WILLINGHAM, [R, 350/,] Nathaniel Bradshaw,
B, D. of Trin. Col. Camb. Son of Mr. T. Bradshaw of
Bradshaw in Lancashire, He was bom at Keddington-
Ilall in Suffolk, May 29, 1619; and was dedicated to the
rainistry by his parents from his birth, but was very averse to
it, till God visited him with the small-pox, and under that af
fliction inclined his heart to undertake it. He made good pro
ficiency In literatuie, and became one of the senior Fellows of
his college. As a minister, he was a Boanerges: well adapted
to the people of Willingham', whora he found very profane
and ignorant ; but in a littie time God -was pleased to give hirn
nuraerous seals to his ministiy araong them ; and he left raa
ny good people, and a very good living, for the ease of his
conscience, Aug, 24, r662. [He was succeeded by a pro
fane rainister, who, meeting him after his ejectment, scoffed
at him for his way^ of preaching. Mr. Bradshaw replied,
" Sir, I left fourscore and ten praying families in Willing-'
" ham at my ejectment, and I ara afraid yonr rainistry will
" never hiake them up an hundred."] Some years after, he
continued to preach in his own and other families. At length
providence gave hira the liberty of a pulpit in a small village,
which he used with so much prudence and moderation, that
he -was connived at for about five years. When that was de
nied him, he preached at Childerly, and after that in Lon
don. But as soon as the Act for toleration came forth, he re
turned to his old people of Willingham, and preached araongst
them to the last Sabbath of his life : desiring no more of them
than his diet from Saturday night till Monday morning, and
his horse-hire from St, Ives, in Hnntlngdonshlre, where he
lived with Mrs. Mason, his wile's daughter. He was a very
considerable man, of a generous temper and undaunted cou
rage. He was eminent in personal holiness ; a strict observer
of the Sabbath ; and a laborious catechist in his family ; to
whora he constantly expounded the scripture morning and
evening. In the latter part of his life, he did his Master's
work in great pain ; and, by a scorbutic dropsy, ended his
pilgriraage at St. Hes, Oct, 16, 1690, in the 7i:St year of his^
age. § He was burled In the chancel of Willingham church,
as was his successor, Mr. Nay lor, (the profane person above
mentioned.) When the sexton was digging the grave for
the latter, which was near Mr. Bradshaw's, a high church.
man who was looking on exclaimed, " Why do you bury
" him so near that fanatic V To which an aged woman who was

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-was present, and who knew their different characters,
shrewdly answered, " It can't affect them while they lie
" here, and they may be far enough off at the resurrec-
?' tion." M. M.
WISBEACH, [V.] Mr. John Sheldreck. Either he
or his brother Mr. Wm. Sheldreck (ejected at Repham in
Norfolk) published a piece, intitled, Popery a great Enemy
to Truth, and no Friend to Peace.
Mr. BiNSHUL. The place of his ejection is not

certainly known.
Mr. John Nye, of Settingham, afterwards conformed,
and had the living of Suendoii in Essex, where he lived and
died in good repute.

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( 52* )
MINISTERS EJECTED OR SILENCED
IN
CHESHIRE.

ACTON, [V.J Mr. Edward Burgal, Before the ci
vil war he was a schoolraaster at Ranbury, and after
wards was vicar of Acton sixteen years, where he was erai-
Mentiy useful. In the tirae of the war and afterwards, he
kept an exact accoynt of all the reraarkable occurrences of
Providence in that part of the country, with devont reflec
tions upon thera. He was much molested by the Quakers.
The very day he preached his farewell sermon on 2 Cor, xiii.
11. some of them came into the church and gave hira disturb
ance. He was a devout man, a laborious faithful preacher,
and generally well spoken of. He not only bore the mean
condition to which he was reduced after his ejectraent, with
great patience, but justified his Nonconforraity in a very so
leran manner on his death-bed, when many devout expres
sions dropped from his lips. He had the eighth chapter of
Remans read to hira ; andwhen he heard those words, There
is no condemnation io thein that are in Christ Jesus, he
cried out, " Then there Is none for me." — When his end
drew near, he made a large and comfortable confession ofhis
faith in Christ, telling the slanders by, " That be had raade
his peace with God, had abundance of inward comfort, and
¦was glad to think his time here was but short ; adding, " I
doubt not but it will go well with me ; the Lord hath dealt
very favourably with me, and suffered me to live to a great
age ; and now I can chearfully leave the world and die."
When one present repeated those words, ' I have fought a
* good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept thefaith ;
* henceforth is laid up for rae a crown of righteousness,' he
said, " I do verily believe it is laid up for rae ; and I bless ray
gracious God, I verily believe I shall behold his face inhis
glorious kingdom quickly." He expired praying for others,
Dec, 8, 1665.
WORKS. The perfect Way to die in Peace; a Sermon at the
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Dedication of the Free-School at Acton.— He left a MS. called,
Providence improved; being Remarks taken from his Diary.
ASHTON upon Mersey. Mr. Ford.
ASTBURY, [R. S.] Mr. George Moxon. Of Camb.
iiuiv. A native of Yorkshire, near Wakefield. He was a
good Lyric poet, and could imitate Horace so exactly as not
easily to he distinguished. He was soraetirae chaplain to Sir
Wm. Brereton in this county, and afterwards preached at St.
Helen's chapel, near Warrington in Lancashire ; where he
met with much trouble from Dr. Bridgman, Bp. of Chester,
for his Nonconformity to the ceremonies. He staid there till
about the year 1637, when a citation for him being hung up
on the chapel door, he rode away in disguise for Bristol,
where he took shipping for New England; and, upon his
arrival there, became pastor to the church at Springfield.
He returned to Old England in the year 1-653, ^'^^ became
pastor to a congregational church at Asfhury. Both he and
Mr. John Machin lived in the parsonage-house with their fa
milies, and preached on the Lord's day alternately. When
it was Mr. Macliin's tum to preach at home, Mr. Moxon
preached at Rushton, on the edge of the moorland parts of
Staffordshire. He continued at Astbury till 1660, whenthe
old incurabent returned to the possession of the hving. Mr.
Machin then removed to Whitley, and y\x, Moxon preached
at Rushton, till August, 1662. After two or three removes,
he went to live at Congleton in 1667, and continued his pas- ,
toral relation to his people, preaching privately in Ws own
house' or elsewhere, as he had opportunity, till iG'^z ; and
then he got his house In Congleton licensed, and preached
openly as long as the licences were in force, and indeed some
time after, till he was disabled by age and the palsy. He was
a man of a blameless conversation, and a peaceable spirit.
He was very useful to persons under spiritual trouble. He
died Sepl. 15, 1.687, aged 85. His funeral serraon was
preached by Mr. Eliezer Birch, in the new meeting-house
in Congleton, which was the first sermon that was preached
there i
BACKFORD, [V.] Mr. ]ohi^ WiLtsoti,oi Braz. Nose
Col. Oxf. His living was made pretty considerable by an
laugmentatlon, which was in those times allowed to various
persons who, upon testimonials and trial, were judged raen
icsf ability and piety. He subraitted to the test, and was ap-
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326 MINISTERS EJECTED.
proved. Sometime after his ejectment, he took a house in
Chester, and settled there ; where he had as large meeting*
as prudence and the severity ofthe times would permit. When
liberty was granted, he preached in a gentieworaan's house,
and had a crowded congregation. He was a judicious and
useful preacher. The matter of his discourses was solid and
searching ; the dress neither negligent nor affected, neither
slovenly nor gaudy, but grave and decent ; such as well be
came the subject. He was a zealous contender for the purity
of God's worship, as his printed works, and his last will, suf
ficiently testify. — Being confined to a warm room all day, and
forced frequently for his security to go out at unseasonable
hours ofthe night in cold weather, brought a tenderness up
on him, which issued in a settled cold and cough, that carried
hira oft' in the raidst of his days. He died at Chester about
1672. He was a raan of great worth, and a good scholar;
as must be owned by such as peruse his writings, though they
may not relish the strictness ofhis principles. The autiior of
Tlie Friendly Debate answered his piece intitled Nehushian,
by causing its author to be pursuivanted up tothe council, ra
ther than by any thing of moraent which he printed against
it. — His son died pastor of a congregation of Dissenters at
Warwick. See Mr. M. Henry's Life, p. 49.
WORKS. The Vanity of human Inventions; in an Exercifa-
tion on the Ceremonies, — Cultus Evangehcus; or a Discourse of
the Spirituality of New Testament Worship, — An Apology for the
people's judgment of private di.scretion. — Nehushtan ; or a sober
and peaceable discourse concerning the abolishing of things abused
to Superstition and Idolatry. [See 2 Kings xviii. 4.]
BARTHOMLEY, [R.] Mr. Smith.
BUDWORTH, [V.] Mr. Leveley.
BURTON, [C] Hugh Bethel, M.A. oi Magd. Col.
and afterwards Fellow of Christ's Col. Camb. He was of a
good faraily, and very much of a gentleraan in his behaviour.
He was also a very pious man, and a profitable preacher.
CHELFORD. Mr. Hugh Henshaw.
CHESTER. St. Michael's Church. Mr. William
Cook. He was brought up under the famous Mr. John Rail.
Inhis family there was a remarkable succession of piety from
parents to children, for several generations. He had great
natural powers, a quick apprehension, and a strong meraory.
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ever he applied his mind to, was astonishing. His skill in
the Oriental languages procured him respect flora the learned
BishopWalion. Sir J. Burgoyne was his great friend and
patron, and first assisted hira in undertaking the work of the
ministry, which he began at Wroxalin Warwickshire; frora
whence, by the advice of the London rainisters, he was re
moved to Ashby. de la Zouche In Leicestershire. He was
there ejected for refusing the Engagement, and aftiCrwards set
tled in this city ; where he was a useful rainister, till he was
outed by the Act of uniformity. He was a zealous Royalist,
and thought it his duty to join with Sir G. Booth (afterwards
Lord Delamere) when he raade an atterapt to restore the king,
in 1659, and persuaded the citizens of Chester to deliver up
their city to him. For this he was brought up a prisoner to
London, and long confined In Lambeth-house; and had not
the times turned, he would have been tried for his life. But
all this would not afterwards procure his liberty to preach the
gospel of Christ, without strict conformity. Nay, quickly
after his being silenced, he was committed by the Mayor to
the common jail of Chester for preaching in his own house,
at the Instigation of Bp. Hall. But he strictly adhered to his
principles in all the changes of the tiraes ; suffering with great
patience and meekness, and continued to his death In a pasto-
1 rai relation to a society of many eminent christians in that
city ; though, during the heat of the Five-mile act, he was
forced to withdraw to Puddington in Wirral, where (as in
Chester, till K. Charles's Indulgence) he constantly attended
the public ministry of the parish, and preached in tiie inter
vals. He would soraetiraes say to his friends in that retire
ment, " He thought what littie peace and quietness there
" was in this world, God's people enjoyed it in their cor-
" ners."
He was a christian ofthe priraitive starap ; a raan of a raost
godly, mortified life, and unwearied labour ; who could go in
mean cloathing, live on little, and travel on foot, trampling
on this world as dirt. He was very indefatigable in his mi
nisterial labours, in which he never sought any one's assist
ance, but would preach and pray almost all the week, as he
had opportunity, In season and out of season. While he
had liberty, he constantly kept a public fast in his congrega
tion every month ; as also a private one In his own closet and
family every week. He usually set apart one afternoon every
week to visit the families of his congregation, to catechize
their children and servants, and discourse with them person-
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328 MINISTERS EJECTED,
ally about their spiritual affairs. His visits were short, but
edifying. He managed them like one who was a good hus
band of his time, and seldora parted without prayer. — He
governed his faraily with great strictness and prudence. Every
morning, in his family worship, after he had briefly implored
the divine assistance, a psalm was sung, then a chapter in
the Old Testament in the morning, and one In the New in
the evening, was read, which he expounded ; pointing out
the several parts of which it consisted ; then giving an ac-
count of the substance of it in as few words as possible ; then
explaining the chief difficulties that occurred ; concluding with
-useful instructions. He then spent a quarter of an hour in
prayer and praise, usually improving much of the chapter
that was read, as matter for both. He was eminent in all
the parts of prayer ; but commonly abounded most in the
confession of sin, in adrairing all the divine excellencies, and
in praising God for all his benefits. On all occasions he was
importunate for the church of God, and for the enlargeraent
ofthe kingdora of Christ. — His regard to justice was uncora
monly exact ; and his charity, considering his circumstances,
(which were not affluent) was stupendous. Having no child
of his own, he freely took Into his family three or four poor
children, whom he boarded and cloathed at his own expence,
and instructed in human literature and religion. These and
his seivants he catechized twice a week, explaining every
thing to them in the most easv manner.
When he could no longer exeicise his ministry In the church,
he performed most parts of it in his family, with the same
care and diligence he was accustoraed to use in public, tho'
no other person was present. He was a strict conscientious
observer of the Lord's-day. His faraily constantiy had tiieir
work done by four or five o'clock on Saturday afternoon.
He then spent an hour and an half in explaining scripture,
arid in prayers. After this all retired to their apartments, to-
learn their catechisra, and for devotion. At eight they sup
ped, and then he dismissed his faraily as usual every other
day. He was always up early on the Lord's day. Every
one In his house read a chapter in the raorning, and he spent
an hour and half In expounding and prayer. Then he and
his family went to public worship, and upon their return (af
ter his being silenced) he prayed and repeated the sermon, and
then preached and prayed as he was wont to do in public.
After dinner he went to church, and at his return performed
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gave an account of what they could remember of the sermon,
and he concluded the day with singing a psalm, and with so
lemn prayer and praise. He went through all this labour with
surprising vigour, chearfulness and fervour of spirit*. He
was a great follower of peace ; civil, courteous and obliglng,-
but a stranger to that ceremonlousness which has since be
come so fashionable. He was very free in reproving his re
lations and all his acquaintance, as occasion required ; and
was mightily concei-ned, when he heard ofthe prosperity of
any of them, that they might be provided against the tempta
tions of their condition ; and he was an earnest intercessor for
the afflicted. His abstinence and self-denial, his strict watch
over hiraself, and regard to divine providence in all instances,
were very uncoraraon : as also was his huraility. He forti
fied himself to an uncommon degree, against every thing he
could suspect of having a tendency to tempt him even to a
moderate conceit of himself.
Though he was not free to join in the Common-prayer,
and bore his testimony against prelacy and the cereraonies
with zeal, he raanaged his dissent frora the established church
-with great candour and christian raoderation. He sometimes
keenly reproved such as reflected on a conformist, though
in a matter which he himself could not approve. And his
great piety, integrity and charity, recoramended him to the
respect of many that differed from hira. He was a great
scholar, and continued a hard student to the last. So far was
he from entangling himself in the affairs of this life, that he
knew not what he had, save the bread which he eat : nor
was he very conversible about worldly matters; but in discourse
on the things ofGod, none were more free and affable. Hfe
lived and died a great example of close walking with God,
and a heavenly conversation, Mr. Samuel Bold,\ who was
brought up under hira frora his childhood, says of him In a
tract dedicated to his widow, " He was the greatest instance
of an indefatigable, faithful minister, and practical believer,
that he was ever acquainted with." When he lay on his
death-bed, an aged friend ofhis asking him, IFhehadnot
comfort in reflection upon his labours in the work of God, he
* This might be the case with regard to himself; but it is scarcely credible
that it was so with his whole family ; such rigour would incline many young
persons to say of the Sabbath, tVhat a weariness is it I L u.
§ Mr. Bold was a clergyman at Steple in Dorsetshire : an intimate friend and
an able advocate of Mr, 0,cke. He pubUshed several practical pieces in the
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replied, " I have nothing to boast of." — He finished his
course with joy, July 4, 1684, aged 72. Though for some
time before he died, such was the heat of the persecution,
that he durst not shew his face in the city, many persons of
consequence were very forward to do bim honour at his
death. WORKS. An Answer to a book entitled. The vanity of child
ish Baptism. — The Font uncovered for Baptism ; an Answer to the
Ciiallenges of the Baptists at Stafford.
St. Warbury's. The Cathedral. Thomas Harrison
D. D. ']^ornatKii[igston upon Hull, and brought up in New
England. He was a celebrated preacher In London, where he
succeeded Dr. Goodwin at St. Dunstan's in the East. After he
left the city, (the reason of which doth not appear) he lived
for some tirae at Brorabrough Hall in Wirrall , where he preach
ed constantiy ; and afterwards went to Dublin, with Harry
Cromxeell, when he was sent to Ireland as lord lieutenant. He
lived in his family with great respect, and was for several years
a preacher at Christ Church with universal applause. He
continued there till the turn of the times, and then came back
into England, and fixed in Chester, where he had a large and
attentive auditory. Here he was silenced by the Act of uni
formity ; upon which he returned to Dublin, where he exer
cised his rainistry as a Dissenter, having a flourishing con
gregation, and raany persons of quality for his constant au
ditors. He was extremely popular, and this stirred up much
envy. He was a raost agreeable preacher, and had a peculiar
way' of insinuating hiraself into the affections of his hearers ;
and yet he used to write all that he delivered : but he after
wards took a great deal of pains to impress upon his mind
what he had written, that he might deliver it without using
his notes. He had also an extraordinary gift in prayer ; such
a fluency, and such flights of spiritual rhetoric^, suited to all
occasions and circumstances, as excited the adrairation of all
that knew him. — He was a complete gentleman, much court
ed for his conversation : free with the meanest, and yet fit
company for the greatest persons. Lord Thonwnd (who had
no great respect for ecclesiastics of any sort) expressed a sin
gular value for him, and a high opinion of his abilities. He
often used to say, that " he had rather hear Dr. Harrison say
grace over an egg, than hear the bishops pray and preach." —
§ Some of them, however, it is to be feared, were rather extravagant, if
we may judge from his Topca Sacra, not long since reprinted, tu.
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He was congregational in his judgraent ; and though his peo
ple were universally of another stamp, yet he raanaged all
matters with such discretion, teraper and moderation, that
there never yvas the least clashing or danger of a faction.
When he died, tiie whole city of Dublin seemed to lament
the loss of hira, and there was a general raourning. His fu
neral -was attended by persons of all ranks. The sermon was
preached by Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Daniel Williams, then
pastor of another congregation in that city.
WORKS. Topics Sacra ; or Spintual Pleadingsi— Old Ja
cob's Account cast up: a Fun. Serm, for Lady Sus. Reynolds, on
Gen. xlvii. 9. He lefi behind him many MSS. and among the rest,
a System of Divinity, in a large fol. vol.
St. John's. Mr. Peter Lee. Afterhis ejectment he
lived a Nonconformist at Knutsford, but through bodily in
disposition, was not capable of constant work. Mr. Tong,
in his life of Mr. M. Henry, speaks of him as living among
the Dissenters in that town about the year 1686, and says,
" He was a gentleman by birth, a humble upright person, and
a good scholar."
St, Peter's. Mr. John Glendal.
§ Mr. John Bailey. He was born near Blackburn in
Lancashire, Feb, 24, i643, of a very pious raother, who early
dedicated him to the service of God. From a child he knew
the holy Scriptures, and was wise unto salvation. He very
early discovered his delight in religious e.KercIses, and was
much given to prayer One effect of this was remarkably
happy. His mother, -while he was but a child, one day put
him upon praying in the family. His father, who was a man
cf a very Hcentious character, hearing in what a manner he
performed the service, was struck to the heart with such a
conviction as issued in his conversion to God, and he
proved oneof the most eminent christians In the neighbour
hood. This hopeful youth was Instructed in grammar-learn
ing by Mr. Sager, an eminent schoolmaster, and was after-
§ Though Mr. Bailey was not ejected from any living by the Act of uni-
formity, he was thereby prevented enjoying one, as he might have done if
the could have conformed, and therefore is as properly entcredon this list is
many others. This interesting account of him is. extracted from a sermon
preached at his funeral by Mr, Cotton Mather, at his own desire, on Psalm
xxxi, 5, It contains copious extracts from his Diary, and may be seen in
Irlist. N. England, B. iii. p, 22-1., Mr, Mather docs not mention the church
to which ho ministered in America, His name is introduced in this place be
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wards educated in other branches of learning under the emi-
rent Dr. Harrison, of whom an account is given above.
About the age of twenty-two he entered on the work of the
ministry, at Chester.— 11^ that work his fidelity was soon put
to the trial, by a hard iraprisonment, which he suffered be
cause he could not conscientiously conform to human inven-
dons in tiie service of heaven. While he was quite a young
man he often travelled a great way by night, even in winter,
thathe might enjoy divine ordinances purely administered;
for which he was soraetimes laid up in Lancashire jail.
He afterwards went over to Ireland; where his labours
were so frequent and fervent as greatiy to injure his health,
which he never thoroughly recovered. He spent about
fourteen years at Limerick, where he reaped the fruit of
his labours in a very plentiful harvest. While he was here,
a person of great quality, and his lady, nearly related to the
Duke of Ormond, then Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, attended
upon his ministry. This gave umbrage to the bishop, who
made complaint of it to tiie Lord-lieutenant. This gentieman
then offered Mr. Bailey, if he would conform, to procure hira
the office of chdplain to the duke, together with a Deanery,
and a Bishopric upon the first vacancy But he refused the
offer, which another eminent nonconformist minister near
Limerick accepted, who aftierwards obtained several places of
preferment ; pretending that he did, itybr the sake cf oppor
tunities to preach the gospel. It was remarkable that he
was shortiy after afflicted with such disorders that hewas sel
dom able to preach at all. Mr. Bailey went on in the exer
cise of his ministry, without any factious designs, merely
aiming at the conversion of men to Christ, and promoting
faith and holiness. But though he was so unblameable in his
whole conversation, that he was beloved wherever he came,
he suffered another long iraprisonment, while the Papists en
joyed liberty, and were greatly countenanced. When he was
before the judges, he thus addressed them: " If I had been
" drinking, gaming, and carousing at a tavern with company,
" my Lords, I presume that would not have procured my
" being thus treated as an offender. Must praying to God
" and preaching Christ, with a company of christians, who
*' are as peaceable, inoffensive, and serviceable to his Majesty
" and the government as any of his subjects— must this be
" considered as a greater crime?" The recorder answered,
" We will have you to know, it is a greater crime,"
While he was imprisoned, his church being divided into
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them, and preached to them ; by which means he once in a
week served them all. But this proceeding gave such of
fence, that In a short time a violent obstruction was given to
it; when his flock, and particularly his dear young men (as
he called thera) prayed without ceasing, and not without fast
ing, for his release ; and hurable applications were made to
the judges at the assizes on his behalf. But no release could
be obtained, without his giving security for leaving the coun
try within a short and liraited tirae. — It was not long before
wrath came to the uttermost upon the city which had thus
persecuted this faithful minister of God. And that very per
son who had been thechiefinstruraent of his persecution was
shortiy after, on Other accounts, thrown into prison, where
he cried out with horror of the wrongs he had done to this
good raan, and died distracted.
But New England, a country originally the retreat for
persecuted nonconformists, aflForded Mr. Bailey an opportu
nity for labouring near fourteen years more, in the work which
he loved above all things in the world. A younger brother,
Mr, Thomas Bailey, a pious sweet-tempered person, accom
panied him to tha,t country, and was his assistant as well as
his comfortable corapanion ; of whora however he was soon
deprived by death, Jan, 21, i689, and (as his brother noted
in his diary) " He died well,; which is agreat word: so sweetly
" (says he) that I never saw the like before." This elder
brother survived hira about eight years, in which he continued
to exert hiraself with encreasing diligence and delight for the
good of souls. At length dismal pains of the goiit, with a
'complication of maladies, confined hira for three raonths.
During this time he took peculiar pleasure in reading the 53d
chapter of Isaiah, concerning the sorrows of our Lord,
whereby all our sorrows are sanctified. When the remainder
of his flock, who accompanied him to N. England visited him,
his usual address to them was, " I charge you, that I find
*' you all safe at last." — For sorae tirae inhis last sickness,
his heavenly soul was harrassed with terrible discouragements ;
under which it was yet a coraraon express-on with hira,
" The raaster hath done all things well." But at last he at
tained a blessed satisfaction that he was going Into eternal
peace. When his aft'ectionate friends were weeping about
hira, he rebuked them, saying, " Away with your idols :
?'away with your idols." A little before his last illness, he
wrote in his diary — •' I was affected with what I read of Mr.
" Shewel of Coventry, who died in the pulpit. Lord let rae
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" not die meanly ; but in dying bring much glory to Thee !'
And so It was. Just as he'was going to expire, he seeraed
as if he had some extraordinary apprehensions of the glory m
which our Lord Jesus Is enthroned above. He strove to speak
to his virtuous consort, and at length exclaimed, " Oh
" what shall I say }-'he is altogetiier lovely." And to ano
ther relative, " Oh ! all our praises of hira here are poor low
" things !" He then added, " His glorious angels are come
" for me." Upon which he closed his eyes, about three o'
clock on the Lord's day afternoon, and never opened them any
more. — It appears that he had a presage of his approaching
end, while he-was yet in health, and that he had begun to
study a serraon on the text upon which Mr. Mather preached
at his funeral : Into thy hand I commit my spirit. But he
never had opportunity to deliver or to finish it.
Mr; Bailey was a man of eminent holiness, whose life had
been a practical comment upon his doctrine. He was re
markable for watchfulness over his words as well as his ac
tions, and discovered great uneasiness if at any time he had
spoken unadvisedly. He had so tender a conscience, that he
often expressed great concern In his diary, if he had given into
any littie indulgence which raost others would have thought
perfectiy innocent, lest he should have grieved the Holy Spi
rit, — It was his desire (as he expresised it) " to get three
" things : patience under the calamities of life : impatience
" under the [moral] infiimities of life : and earnest longings
" for the next life." — At another time he writes : " O that I
" raay not be ofthe number of them that live without love-;
" speak without feeling ; and act without life !" — When some
kind presents were made hira, he wrote, " I have my wages
" quickly : O that God may not put me off with a reward
'.' here !" — When he parted with rhe greatest enjoyment he
had in the world, he thus wrote upon the occasion : " If I
" can but exchange outward comforts for inward graces, 'tis
" well enough. O for a heart to glorify God in the fire !"
— He took much notice of what he heard in the sermons of
pther ministers, and his papers abound with remarks upon
them, which shewed that he was as desirous to get good by
their labours as to do good by his own. But our limits do not
adrait of half the useful extracts that might be raade on this
and other subjects. Let It suffice to give the reader a few pas
sages respecting his ministerial chai acter.
As from a child he had been full of solicitous care about his
own soul, when he becarae a preacher of the gospel he In-
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sisted on nothing so much as the care that all raen should
have about the conversion of their souls to God, and the sin
cerity of their hearts before hlin. There were many great
points of our christian faith which he tieated with shorter
touches, because his thoughts were continually swallowed up
with the vast concern of not being deceived about the marks
of a regenerate and sanctified soul, and the hope of being
found in Christ at a dying hour. Those two words, a Soul
and Eternity, were great words with him, and his very
soul was habitually under the awe of them. Hence the spi
rit of his preaching lay in the points of turning from sin to
God in Christ ; the trial of our doing it ; the peril of our not
doingit; andtlie danger of procrastination in this grand concern.
The raethod he prescribed to, hiraself respecting his preaching,
may be judged of by the following memorandum. " Old
" Mr. Shepherd, when on his death-bed, said to the young
" ministers about him, That their work was great, and called
*' for great seriousness, and he would tell thera three things —
" That for his own part, i. The studying of every sermon
" cost him tears. 2. Before he preached any sermon he got
" good by it himself. 3. He always went into the pulpit as
" if he were to give up his accounts to his Master. — Oh rhat
" my soul, says Mr. Bailey, may remember and practise ac-
" cordingly." — His ministry was very acceptable to the peo
ple whose good he most aimed at, wherever he carae, and
great apditories usually flocked after him. But that he might
not be lifted up, It seemed meet to the wisdom of heaven to
humble him with sore temptations, and rauch dejection of
spirit, lest after preaching to others he should he himself a
cast-away. He often entreated those who saw his depres
sion, that they would not take up a prejudice against the good
ways of religion on this account. — When he found that God
gave any success to his preaching, he took as thankful notice
of it as if great riches had been heaped upon him ; but would
add such passages as the following: " Let ray soul rejoice ;
" but Lord keep rae from pride. I desire to be humbled for
" it. Do I not know that God makes use of whom he
" pleases, and usually of the weakest ,-' No flesh shall glory."
— It doth not appear that 'ne published more than one piece,
concerning The chief end of man, in which he has fully de
scribed that savour of spirit which was maintained In his daily
walk.
CHURCH-HOLM, or HOLM-CHAPEL, Mr. Johm
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useful preacher, and an excellent Christian. He had a turn
for poetry, but greater skill in preaching. Besides a good
judgment, he was remarkable for his diligence and piety. He •
gave himself to ' reading, meditation, and prayer.' He died
in London of the Miserere, or Iliac passion, which he en
dured to the last with admirable patience. .
CHURCH MINSHAL. Mr. Higginson.
CONGLETON. Mr. Thomas Brook. It is said that
he read the Comraon Prayer till he read all the people out of
tiie church ; and then he thought it was high time to desist.
His eneraies used to call hira Bawling Brook ; but he was
really a humble good raan, a great adversary to pride, and no
mean scholar, of which sorae manuscripts of his give full
proof. It was as true of hira as of Knox, that he never
feared the face of man. His reproofs, though soraetimes
blunt, were always levelled against sin ; and often were in
genious, keen, and convictlve. He took great pains to serve
his raaster. He expounded in the public chapel in Congle
ton on the Lord's-day raorning by six o'clock. He ex
pounded, prayed, and preached, both morning and afternoon,
and repeated in public in the evening. He preached also on
Tuesdays and Fridays. In i66o he was turned out of Congle
ton, and preached for some time at Morton Chapel. By
the favour of the old incurabent, Mr. Hutchinson, he preach
ed his last public serraon In Astbury church, on Aug, 24,
1662. He was very infirm in his latter days, and preached
in much pain. He was buried Aug, 31, 1664, aged 72.
DARESBURY. Mr. Robert Eaton, who lived after
his ejectment in Manchester, and preached tO a people within
a few miles of it.
DODDLESTON [R.J Mr. Baker.
GOSWORTH [R.] Mr. Thomas Edge. He was first
minister of Goostree, and frora thence was translated to this
place, upon the removal of Mr. Newcome to Manchester.
After his ejection he Hved at Chelford. In 1672 he preach
ed at a meeting-house which was fitted up for him at Wi-
thington. He had a very numerous auditory; no meeting
in the country was more crowded. Even such as shewed lit
tle love to seriousness esteemed him an excellent preacher.
He afterwards preached more privately, in the neighbourhood
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The tiraes and places ofhis raeeting were ordered \vith great
prudence, for which indeed he was erainent. He coraraonly
gathered his people together before their neighbours were out
oftheir beds, and broke up a littie before the public worship
began. In the afternoon he usually heard the parish rainister
at Chelford, This course he continued till 1678, in which
vear he died. He preached to the very last Lord's day of his
life, and rose on the day of his decease as usual ; but finding
himself ill, he lay down on his bed, and called for his will,
-which was ready drawn : he sealed it, and died soon after.
He had for a good while been preaching his own funeral ser
mon, from 2 Cor. v. 1, — 3. He was an excellent preacher ;
a kind and faithful friend; well qualified to give advice, either
for soul or body, and very affable to younger ministers. His
sermons were close and methodical, full of sound argument
and apt sirailitudes, and delivered with rauch zeal. He was
a great textuary, and a very good expositor. His prayers
were fervent, and his expressions pleasing, copious, and
fluent. He was useful to many, and his loss was much lar-
mented.
GOOSTRY. Mr. John Buckly.
* HARGRAVE. Mr. Samuel Slater. He had been
turned out before from Cristleton ; where, in the year 16^5,
he succeeded Mr. Marston,
West KIRKBY in Wirral [R.J Mr. JpHN Cart
wright. He was presented to this living in 16 54. After
his ejection he was chaplain to the pious lady Wilbraham at
Woodhey, He died Feb, 17, 1688. He was a man of an
excellent, sedate, serious spirit, and a very solid judicious
preacher. MACCLESFIELD. Mr. James Badshaw. Born in
Darcy Leaver, oi a considerable faraily. His father had
.three sons, whora he trained up at Oxford to the three learned
professions, of law, divinity, and physic. James was for
some tirae rainister at Wigan in Lancashire, and lived in the
parsonage ; but Mr. Hotham obtaining it, he was called to
Macclesfield, where the Act of uniforraity silenced hira.
He then lived In his own house at Darcy Leaver, and ob
tained leave for a while to preach at Houghton chapel
in Dean parish ; and afterwards at Bradshaw chapel,
by the connivance of Mr. Bradshaw of Bradshaw-Hall,
reading some of the prayers, witiiout ever subscribing. He
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was a man of incomparable abilities, ready elocution, solid
learning, a very good preacher, a ready disputant, and every
way well accoraplished for the ministry. He died in i683,
aged 73.
MALPAS [R.J Mr. George Manwaring. He vvaa
born at Wrenbury, and supported by Mr. Cotton of Cum-
bermere, at the university, where he had the reputation of a
good scholar. He was first chaplain to Sir Henry Delves,
afterwards rector of Baddely, and chaplain to Sir T, Man-
waring, After the wars he was removed to Malpas, whence
he was ejected at the Restoration. He was eminent for ex
pounding scripture. The tenor of his life and conversa
tion was exemplary, especially for plainness, integrity, and
charity. He constantiy gave all the milk which his dairy
yielded, on the Lord's day, to the poor. Mr. P, Henry says
of him, " The restraint he lay under in his latter days was
" his great grief ;
" His tears, when he might sow no more,
" Watering what he had sown before."
He died In a good old age, March 14, 1670.
MARBURY. Mr. Bruce. He was a lively affectionate
preacher, and of an unblameable conversation. He took
abundance of pains in catechizing publicly, and in repeating
sermons at his own house every Lord's-day In the evening.
He was much laraented when he was ejected. His parishion
ers were kind to hira upon his removal, and there was suffi
cient occasion for it ; for he had a wife and several sraall
children, with but little to subsist upon. On his leaving
Mar bury, he retired to London, and preached to -a pretty
numerous auditory at hfs own house in George-yard near
Sraithfield : and afterwards he preached frequentiy at Isling
ton, He was for sorae time chaplain to Sir Anthony Irby,
but at length went into Scotland, which was his native coun
try. What becaine of hira afterwards is uncertain.
MARPLE, Mr. John Jones. He was bora in Wales.
He officiated for some time in his younger years at Tarperly
church, after the manner of the church of England; but;
being afterwards dissatisfied with it, he was invited by two
pious gentlewomen, Mrs. Jane and Mrs. Mary Done, to re
side with thera at Utkinton-Hall, as their chaplain. Uport
their removal to Harden, he went with them. Being ear
nestly importuned by tbe inhabitants of the township of
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Marple to labour statedly araong them in their ckapel, he
accepted the invitation. He lived in the neighbourhood, and
preached there every Lord's day, catechized young persons
in public, and adrainistered the sacraments. He had a vast
auditory, and his' ministry was attended with great success.
He brought several persons who had been guilty of scandal
ous enorraities, publicly to acknowledge their faults, and pro
fess their repentance. After sorae years thus spent, he was
forced to desist frora preaching here, even before the Resto
ration. He afterwards made several removes to chapels in
this neighbourhood. He was always content with a sraall
allowance from his people, given to hospitality, and bounti
ful to the needy, yet his estate manifestly increased. The
last chapel he laboured at was Melior, on the borders of
Derbyshire, out of which, in 1660, he was excluded by some
leading gentiemen, upon a groundless pretence of his being^
not well affected to kingly governraent. In sorae following
years he preached privately in his own house, which he en
larged for the better accoraraodation of those that attended
his ministry. But he raet with much opposition, and received
no littie damage from his enemies, on account of his Non
conformity. He was seized and imprisoned for some time in
Chester ; his house was rifled under pretence of seeking for
arms, and some goods were actually taken away, though he
had not been guilty of any kind of disloyalty. Being called
to preach at Manchester, he was suddenly taken ill on the
Lord's-day, and was not without difficulty brought to his
own house. He gave serious advice to his friends and visi
tors, as his acute pains would allow him, and finished his
course in Aug, 1671, in the 72d'year of his age.
He had a considerable share of learning and ministerial abi
lities. In his will he devised eight pounds per annum, out
of the profits of his lands in Marple, for the raaintenance of
two poor boys in Tarperly town, three years in school, to
be chosen by the overseers of the poor for the time being, or
dering that the sarae sum should in the fourth year be em
ployed towards procuring them some suitable trades ; and
that, if his son died without lawful issue, this sum should be
appropriated to these uses for ever. — He was an affectionate
preacher, and a zealous promoter of family worship. His
prayers upon special occasions were admirable. He was a
great opposer of the Quakers, and undertook, w^ith sora^
other rainisters, to dispute with thera publicly, which he dij
before vast numbers of people. The dispute was manage^
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closely and calmly, and had good effects. He was aboM
reprover of sin, though in'tbe case of some offenders he could
easily foresee, what he experienced afterwards, that it would
turn to his outward prejudice. — He was of the congrega
tional persuasion, of a catholic spirit, and for holding com
munion with all that agreed in the raain points of Christiani
ty, though they entertained different sentiraents about lesser
matters. He told sorae of his friends, who were for sepa
rating from their brethren, because they were not altogether
of their own principles, " That for his part he would be one
" with every body that was one with Christ." He had a son
brought up to the ministry, and fixed in Chadkirk near Mar
ple, where he exercised his ministry with good encourage
ment,
MOBBERLEY. Mr. Robert Barton.
MOTTSHAM [CJ Mr. Francis Shelmodine.
NESTON [V.J Mr. Samuel Marsdkn. He was the
eldest son of Mr. Ralph Marsden, who died June 30, 1648.
He went into Ireland after his ejectment, and died there in
i6j'j. The other three sons are mentioned elsewhere.
NORBURY. Mr. John Jollie. Of Trin, Col, Dublin.
He was brother to Mr. T. Jollie, of Aliham in Lancashire,
-who for a short time was assistant to Mri Angier oi Denton.
Going to preach one Lord's day in the chapel at Norbury,
after the Act of uniforraity had taken place, he found the
doors locked. The people being unwilling to lose the op-
portunitv, opened thera, and he preached as usual. This
made a very great noise, and sorae neighbouring gentieraen
were so officious as to acq-uaint the king and council with the
matter, aggravating the business, as if the chapel doors had
been broken. Whereupon a pursuivant was sent down, whp
brought up Mt. Jollie. Being before the king and council,
the question was, " Whether Norbury chapel, which was
an inconsiderable building, ' in a field near Norbury-hall,
was a consecrated place }" A4r. Jolle denied that it was,,
and Sir Peter Leicester's Hist, Antiq, was brought to
decide the question. The earl of Shaftesbury, upon lord
Delaraere's letter, procured him his discharge. He was
averse to the Common Prayer and Ceremonies, but much
approved tiie Scotch presbytery. He used to say, " A Chris-
?' tian's greatest danger lay in lawful things." He was much
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would often with thankfulness take notice of the goodness of
God in providing for him who had so little. He was a man
of a fertile genius, of a resolute spirit, reraarkable for spiri
tual mindedness, and hearty in forming designs for God, He
died June 16, 1682, little raore than 40 years of a^e; leaving
behind him several children, one of whom succeeded him in
the ministry.
NORTHERDEN, Mr. Dunstan. His being mention
ed as having conforraed, was a mistake. {Cal, Con, p. 174-)
Mr. Melbury was reraarkably kind to hira after his eject
ment. Upper PEO VER. Mr. Robert Norbury. He was a
serious humble man, blameless In conversation, and accept
able in his ministry. He was educated in the college of
Dublin, of which he was made Fellow. He was ordained
by sorae Dublin ministers, and while he was in the college,
preached in a place near that city, to the great satisfaction of
his auditors. But alterations being made in the kingdora and
college, he was obliged te lea.ve his place and fellowship,
and return to his friends In Cheshire ; where he preached in
divers places, and particularly at Upper Peover, before Bar-
tholoraew-day, 1662. He went afterwards to /re/aMc?, with
a design speedily to return, but breaking a vein and voraiting
blood, he fell into a consuraption, which quickly carried him
off. He died with great peace and comfort, and a satisfying
hope of a better life.
PULFORD. Mr. Randal Guest,
ROTHERSTON [V.J Mr. Adam Martendale. Af
ter his ejectment he was chaplain to old Lord Delamere. He
was a great mathematician, and appears to have been a judi
cious divine. He instructed youth in matheraatical learning
at Warrington, and afterwards boarded young gentleraen at
Dunham in Cheshire, and taught them arithraetic, geometry,
astronomy, Si.c.
WORKS. Country SurveyTBook.— Twelve Problems about
Interest, printed in the Philosophical Collections, — Two Alma
nacks, (much esteemed by several members ofthe Royal Society.)
— Truth and Peace promoted : relating to the Arminian Contro
versy. — Divinity Knots unloosed.
SANDBACH [V.'lj Mr. Joseph Cope. Ejected here
lipon the old sequestered minister's coming in, though he al-
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him 70/. per ann. before. He preached afterwards at Eccle-
shal and Rartomley, for the old incumbent tiiat was to corae
in there, Mr, Zach. Cawdrey, a worthy moderate conforra-
ist: and afterw?rds3t Biddulph in Staffordshire, through the
favour of the old Sir John Bowyer, till the church-doors
were shut upon him. He did rauch good as an intlnerant
preacher in Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire, for many
years. Soon after the Revolution, he fixed in the public
chapel at Haslington, in Bartomley parish, by the consent
of the gentieman to whom it belonge'd, and kept up a verv
considerable coiigregatioii in it as long as he lived, which
was to his 83d year; and through God's goodness, he en
joyed a wonderful vigour of body, and vivacity of spirit ro
the last, so that he could travel and preach with his usual
ease. He pieached twice, and it was thought with more
than ordinary liveliness, the Lord's day before he died, which
was in August, 1694. The first Lord's day after his death,
the minister of Bartomley, Dr. Egerton, who had kindly
connived at Mr. Cope's having the chapel while he lived,
took possession of it himself ; but was so obliging as to per
mit Mr, Matthew Henry to preach his funeral sermon there
the week after, according to the old gentleman's desire.
SHOCKLOCK. Mr. John Griffith, -\fterwards a
nonconforming minister In Shropshire.
TARVIN [V,J Mr. Sabbath Clark. He had been
minister of this parish for near sixty years. He carried Pu
ritanism in his very name, by which his good father intended
he should bear the raeraorial of God's holy day. This was
what some In those times affected. For this they have suffi
ciently suffered from profane wits, and this worthy person
did so in particular. Yet his name was not a greater offence
to such men than his holy life. He was a very grave person,
exceedingly beloved by that phcEnix of his age, Mr. John
Bruen of Staplefoid *, whp brought hira to this place, where
he was the- spiritual father of raany ; and the natural father
of two excellent preachers. He died within a year or two
after his being silenced, blessing God that he had lived to bear
his testimony to Nonconformity. He preached and printed
Mr. Bruen's iuneral sermon at Tar vin, 1625.
THORNTON in the Moor [R.] Samuel Fisher, M. A,
Some time of Withington and aftefwards of Shrewsbury.
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He was turned out with Mr. Blake, for not taking the En
gagement against the king and house of lords ; and was after
wards rector of Thornton, whence he was cast out and si
lenced. He was an old man, an able preacher, and of a godly
life. He lived raany years at Birrainghara, and died there.
WORKS. Spiritual Submission, in two funeral sermons ; one
for Mrs. Holgate, the other for Mrs. Baker. — A Fast Sermon on
Januaiy 30.
THURSTANTON [R. 35/. 130'. 6d,'] Mr. Watts.
TILSTON [R.J Mr. Bonniman.
WALLOSEE [ofWallazee, R.J John Harvie, M.A.
who was afterwards pastor of a dissenting congregation in
Chester. He was ordained by Bp. Worth in London,, 1660,
and died Nov. 28, 1699. [It appears from the life of Mr.
Matthew Henry, that they lived upon good terras as fellow
labourers in the same city. Mr. Harvie died of a very short
illness, and the night before, expressed to Mr. Henry, after
he had prayed with him, his Inward peace and comfort in the
views of eternity,] He brought up a son to the rainistry
araong the Dissenters, in whose ordination at Warrington
Mr. Henry assisted.
WAVERTON, [R.J Mr. John Marigold.
WHITLEY. Mr. John Machin, oi Jesus Col. Camb.
He was born at Seabridge in Staffordshire, Oct, 2, 1624.
[He spent his youth in vanity and sin. At ahout twenty-one
years of age he went to the university, without any view to
_the ministry, or to a continuance there. But it pleased God,
on his first going thither, to effect a gracious change In.hiin,
chiefly by the preaching of Dr. Hill; and that of Dr. Ar-
rowstnith was much to his corafort and edification. No
sooner did he find this blessed change in his heart than his.
friends perceived it by his letters ; which, together with his
exemplary conversation afterwards, were the means of con
verting his three sisters, and there was room to hope, both
his parents also. While at Cambridge, he was seized with
a dangerous illness, which was the raeans of exciting good
. resolutions for the diligent serving of God, in case of his re
covery, which, by divine grace, he faithfully perforraed.
He set up a raeeting of sorae scholars for religious purposes,
which continued in the college several years after his de
parture, to the spiritual advantage of many. He was not
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disposed to settie at first, but went to his friends, aud preached
occasionally at various places, and his success was great.
He was very useful in calling off people's attention from con
troversies in church and state, and engaging it about the main
things of religion.] In 1649 he was ordained at Whitchurch
in Shropshire. In 1650 he setttied at Ashburn in Derbyshire ;
where for two years he was a laborious preacher, and ex
ceedingly useful ; not confining his concern to that particu
lar town, but raaking frequent excursions into the Moor
lands, and other dark corners in Staffordshire, where his oc
casional labours were useful to many souls. From thence he
was called to Athersion in Warwickshire, where he spent a
year in a lecturer's place, and had many convei ts. [When the
time carae that he should have comraenced M. A, he waved
it, thinking he could expend his money in a better way than
in purchasing an honorary degree.] In 1654 he reraoved to
Astbury in this county, where he continued several years.
Among many instances ofhis fervent desire after the good
of souls, one was this. He set up a monthly lecture, to be
preached by the raost eminent ministers, in several large
neighbouring towns, v, g, Newcastie, Leek, Uttoxeter,
Litchfield, Tamworth, Walsal, Wolverhampton, Pentridge,
Stafford, Eccleshall, Stone and MIckleston. This lecture
he supported at his own expence ; and for the perpetuity of
it he had settled a yearly income in his will : but living" to see
such times as would not bear it, belaid aside the design. By
the coming of another incumbent to Astbury, he was at li
berty every other Lord's day, ^nd used to preach abroad in
the county, where he thought his help raost needful. In
1661 he removed to Whitley, where he wassilenced in 1662.
Though few discovered more grief for so sad a dispensation,
scarcely any one bore his ejectment with less reflection upon
superiors. He continued in the place of his residence, la
bouring for the advantage of the people's souls with all his
strength, and God made him a great blessing to all the coun
try round. [It was a common custom with him when he
had been preaching, to get as many as he could to the house
where he lodged, and there repeat tiie substance of his dis
course, and in conversation further press the truths he had
been delivering.] Providence so ordered it, that the neigh
bouring gentry, being convinced of his integrity and inno
cence, and the peaceableness ofhis spirit, gave him no rao
lestation. Several of his old neighbours going to see him,
^e dropped these words, '< Ah my friends, I never lived
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since I died." His death happening soon after, viz. Sept.
€, 1664, made them conclude that his being silenced broke
ins heart. He was not above forty years of age.
He was eminent for holiness and a heavenly mind : a hard
student, and an indefatigable preacher; of great humility,
and very strict In his watch. His heart and head were wholly
taken uJ3 with the great and necessary points of religion, in
which all true Christians agree. Making the substance of
religion his business, he never had leisure to trouble himself
with the controverted points, nor would he put his soul out
of tune with such things as had caused jarrings and discord
araong Christians. Few were more successful in their mi
nisterial labours. [He had a singular faculty in introducing
pious conversation, particularly with strangers, whora he oc-
pasionally liiet with ; to raany of whom he was by this means
eminently useful. The following is one remarkable instance
araong raany. As he was going one morning to a lecture,
he met with some young men who were going to a cockfight-
ing; when he said to one of thera, " Friend, our Lord and
Master Jesus Christ did not come into the world to encou
rage such sports as these." This and some further discourse
Stuck like an" arrow in his side, and he could have no rest till
he learned who this rainister was ; upon which he sought his
further acquaintance, which was the raeans of his thorough
conversion.] — A pious divine, (afterwards a dignitary in the
church of England) speaking about Mr. Machin after his
death, said, " I ara so well satisfied as to his extraordinary
piety in general, that I wish ray everlasting portion may be
with hira. I never knew one more public-spirited, more
sensible of men's spiritual necessities, and raore ready according
to his ability, to supply them : more zealous for God's glory ;
more delighted, incessant, iraportunate, and successful in
prayer, and more ihankfullv sensible of the returns thereof,
than this holy person was ; of whom this degenerate world
was not worthy ; and therefore, having been abundant in the
work of the Lord, God hath satisfied him with never-ending
experiences, that his labour, frora which he now rests, shall
not be in vain in the Lord." [See a further account of this
excellent raan in the last vol. of Clark's Lives,]
WIMSLOW, (probably near Knutsford.) Mr. John
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Mr. John Gartside, was preaching somewhere in Der^
byshire when the Uniformity-act took place ; but was best
known in this county, where he lived most of his days after
wards. He was a humble, plain, methodical, warm, and lively
preacher, and a great sufferer for Nonconformity. He was
once pulled out ofthe pulpit irrBorsley chapel, by Sir Jeof-
fry Shakerly, in 1669 ; and the next day was carried to
Chester, where he suflered imprisonment according to law.
Another time he was taken up in Derbyshire, for the same
crime of preaching, and carried to Derby. He was bold iri
hazarding himself to preach the gospel, and feared no dan
gers. This good old rainister lived and died near Maccles
field, and was greatly esteemed by all that knew him, espe
cially by the good people of Chester, to whom he used to
preach very privately in the times of persecution. He was a
person of uncommon learning and judgment, of eminent gifts
in preaching and prayer, and of great humility, simplicity,
and godly sincericy. He was accustoraed to great plainness
in his dress and manner of living, beneath what his friends
thought was due to his station as a minister ; but he was best
pleased with It. When he' found his end drew near, he ex
pressed hl,s hope that he had done soraething for God, which
fhro' Christ wopld find acceptance ; and he blessed God he
was not afraid to die. A son of his was ordained to the rai-
pistry at Knutsford, May 7, 1707.
The following ministers afterwards conforraed.
Mr. Wright of ,ffo5;o7j— Mr. Sam. Edgly of Thornton
^Mr. Robert Hunter oi Jxnotie.ford, who died at Liver
pool— Mr. Edwards of Christleton, who afterwards fixed
m Oswestry— Mr. Hassel of Harslynton— Mr. Matthew
Jenkyns, ejected from Shotwick in this county in 1662, as
he had been before from Gi-es.f ord in Denbighshire in 1660,
and died at Wirral— Mr. Burroughs oi Harthill, who con
formed at Baddely— Mr. Colly at Cliur ion- heath Chapel.
Several of these were brought in by Bp. Wilkins's soft in,
terpretation of the terms of conforraity.

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ST. ANTHONY, [V. 40I.J Mr. John Cowbridge.
He was chaplain some years to Mr. Boscawen. He
was once maliciously accused of treason, because, upon a
certain occasion^ he happened to merition the Subject before
the Sovereign.
BLISLAND, [R.J Charles Morton, M. A. of Wad-
ham Col. Oxf. He was grandson, by his mother's side, to
Mr. Kestle, of Pendavy, in this county, and born in his house,
about the year 1626. His father was Mr. Nicholas Morton,
who was forced to quit the very same rectory foi' nonconfor
mity in the reign of K. Charies I. after which he came to be
minister oi St. Mai'y Overy's, in Southwark, where he died.
He descended frora an ancient faihlly at Morton, in Notting-
harashire, tiie seat of T. Morton, secretary to K. Edward
III. Mr. Charles Morton was his eldest son ; and he had
two more, who were also rainisters. When he was about
fourteen years of age, his grandfather sent hira to O.vford,
where he was very studious, and at the sarae time zea
lous for the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England,'
like his grandfather, who was a great Royalist. When the
civil wars came on, he was much surprised to find that they
who were most debauched generally sided with the king,
against the more virtuous part of the nation, who for the
most part favoured the cause of the parliaraent. Hereupon
he began to apply hiraself seriously to the controversy be
tween the Prelatist and the Puritan. After mature delibera
tion, he determined to fall in with the latter. While he was
Eellow ofthe college, he was highly esteemed by Dr. Wil
kins, the Warden, on account ofhis mathematicaj genius. —
He began his ministry at BUsland, where he lived as a Con
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uniformity, he retired to a Small tenement of his own,, in
the parish of Si. Ives, and preached privately to a few peo
ple in a neighbouring village, till the fire of London, by
which he sustained great loss. Upon this he removed to the
f Ity, to take care of his affairs ; when several of his friends
prevailed on him to undertake the teaching of academical
learning, for which he was extraordinarily well qualified, —
With tills view, he fixed at Newington Green, where he had .
many pupils, who were very useful both in church and state.
Some scores of young rainisters were educated by hira, as-
well as many other good scholars. He had, indeed, a peculiar
talent of winning youth to the love of virtue and learning, both
hy his pleasant conversation, and by a farailiar way of making
difficult subjects easily intelligible. After about twenty
years continuance irt this employraent, he was so infested
with processes frora the Bishop's court, that he -was obliged
to desist. At the sarae time, being under great fears as to
the public, in i685 he went over to New-England, and was
chosen pastor of a church at Charles- Town, where he died,
liear eighty years of age.* He was of a healthy constitu
tion, of a sweet natural teraper, and of a generous public
spirit ; an indefatigable friend, a pious, learned, ingenious,
useful man ; beloved and valued by all who knew hini. —
Being reflected npon for teaching university learning, and
thereby breaking the oath he took In the university, he drew
Vp a Vindication of himself and his brethren from this accu
sation, [which Dr. Caljimy has preserved at length. See
Contin. p. 177 — 197. Where there is also a copy of his
Advice to thos-e; of his pupils who were designed for the
ministry; which is welf worthy the perusal of all persons of
that character. J
WORKS. The Little Peace.Maker, on Pr»v. xtii. 10.— Fool
ish Pride, the Make-bate.-^Etehts discharged, on Rom. xiii. &. —
The Qaming humour considered and improved  The Way of
good men, for wise men to walk in. — Sea.son Birds :-ran Enquiry
ipto the Sense of Jer. viii. 7.— Meditations on the Hist, of the
first 14 chapters of Exodus, Sfc— The Spirit of JVIan ; medita
tions on 1 Thess. V. '23.- Of Common Plages, or Memorial
Books, — 'Evlac^ix, a Discourse on improving the county of Co; aroa/,
(the 7th chap, of which, on sea-.<iand ibr manure, is printed in Phil.
Transact. A/ir. 1675,) — Considerations on the New River — Let-
* He is not mentioned in Mather's H'storyof New England, the prohaWp
rcison for v\ liicli vvas, that lie mijlu be living at the time when that wort
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ter to a Friend, to prove Money not so necessary as imagined. —
And several- other Treatises, all compendious ; for he was an
enemy to Itirge volumes, and often quoted that adage, Msya Bi/3X,iO»
ptsyas xaxoii, " A great book is a great evil."
BOTUS FLEMING. Mr. William Vincent.
ST. BREACK [R. S. 1,50!.] Mr. James Innes. He
was a Scotish gentleraan, of a good family ; and had great
interest with the Duke of Lauderdale, and with K. Charles
himself, who sometimes admitted him to uncommon free
doms : so that had he not disrelished the terms of conformity,
he mighthave had a fair prospect of considerable promotion.
The king once seeing him walking on a Lord's-day raorning,
said to him, "You Innes, I believe you are going to some
conventicle." He replied, " If I ara, I hurably hope your
majesty will not mm inforraer." At which the king ap--
peared not at all displeased.
ST. BURYAN [R.j Mr. Joseph Hull.
ST. CLEMENT'S [V.] Mr. William Upcot.
ST. COLUMB Major [R. S. 400I,] Mr Thomas
Travers, Fellow of Magd. Coll. Camb. A holy active per
son, and a lively preacher ; rauch celebrated in this county,
and the neighbouring parts. He was for sorae time lecturer
of St. Andrew's, in Plymouth, and assistant to Mr. George
Hughes. He was thence called to this place, where he was-
very useful, till the Bartholoraew-act silenced him. After
that he was greatly favoured by the noble lord Roberts, who
was uncle -to his wife. His son, Mr. Elijah Travers, was
afterwards pastor of a congregation in Dublin.
CREED [R.J Mr. Tobias Bouchier. A very learned
man, but inclined to melancholy.
FOWEY [V. 461.] John Tutchin, M. A. Son of
Mr. Robert Tutchin, of the Isle of Wight, who was a man
of priraitive simplicity, integrity, purity, and piety. He
had three- sons, John, Robert, and Samuel, and he brought
thera all up to the rainistry, which they all adorned, and
they were all ejected in 1662, John was educated in the;
free-school of Dorchester, where he raade great proficiency
in learning. He went to Cambridge at the age of fourteen,
and was made M. A. ac five years standing by special favour.
The Earl of Kent chose hira for tutor to his son. He was
afterwards engaged in the wars. Upon his ejectment he con
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tinned In the place where "he had been ptfWic minister, and
-was much valued by the sober part of the gentry. He was a
general scholar, a profound critic, and a good orator. At
the beginning of K.James's reign, he was tried at the assizes
at Launceston, upon the 35th of Eliz. and resolved to abjure
the realm ; but upon a farther hearing at the King's Bench
bar, he was acquitted. He left some valuable MSS.
ST. GERMAIN'S. Mr. Solomon Carswill. After
his ejectment he preached at his own house gratis, till with
in a fortnight of his decease, when he was about 89 years of
age.
GUENNAP [V.J Mr, John Langsforo.
ST. HILARY [V.J Mr. Joseph Sherwood. After
his ejectment by the Bartholomew-act, he resided at St. Ives
to the day of his death, which was about the year 1705. He
was a constant faithful preacher at that place, and at Pen-
nance, seven miles distant, alternately every Lord's-day, be
sides lectures on the week days. He was of a sweet engaging
teraper ; and though for a long time he laboured under very
great indisposition of body, and constant pains, yet he was
unwearied in his work, both in his study and in the pulpit.
Soon after his ejection he was cited to the spiritual court for
not going to church. He appeared, and gave for a reason.
That there was no preaching, and that he could not, with any
satisfaction, attend there only to hear the clerk read the
prayers; but promised to go the next Lord's-day, if there
was a serraon. Finding, upon enquiry, that there was no
minister then, he did not go, and so was cited again, and gave
thesame answer. The Lord's-day following, being inform
ed by the churchwarden, who was his friend, that there
would be no sermon, he determined to go to church, when
great numbers out of curiosity followed him. He seated
himself in tiie clerk's desk all the time of prayers, and then
went up into the pulpit, and prayed, and preached from these
words, / will avenge the quarrel of my covenant. The
rumour of this action was soon spread abroad ; but such was
the people's affection to Mr, Sheiwood, that though there
was a crowded congregation in a great church, his eneraies
could not get any one to give inforraation against hira, till,
by artifice, they got an acknowledgment from his friend the
churchwarden, and by threats frightened him Into a formal
information. He was then carried to a petty session of jus
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ic\\\ed Mr. Sherteood, and called hira rebel, Sff. which he
bore patiently, only raaking this reply, " That as he was a
minister of the gospel, and at the church where there was
so great an asserably, he could not but have compas
sion on the raultitude, and give thera a word of exhorta
tion." Mr. Robinson said, " But did ever man preach froni
such a rebellious text?" " Sir," replied Mr, Sherwood,
" I know raan is a rebel against his Creator, but I ne-/er
knew that the Creator could be a rebel against his creature."
—On which Robinson cried out, " Write his mittimus for
Launceston jail." And then turning to Mr, Sherwood,^
said, " I say, Sir, it was a rebellious text," Mr. Sherwood
lookpd him full in the face, and addressed him in these words;
" Sir, if you die the comraon death of all m.en, God never
•' spake, by rae." — He was then sent to prison, where he
found favour with the keeper, and had liberty to walk about
the castle and town. Robinson returned horae ; and a f&w
days after, walking in the fields, a bull that had been very i
tame, came up to a gate where he stood, and his raaid ser
vant before him, who had been milking, when the creature
turning her aside with his horns, ran directly upon Robinson,
and tore out his bowels 1 This strange Providence brought
to raind what had passed at the sessions. In a littie time
Mr. Sherwood getting leave to return home, was sent for to
Penzance, where some justices met. He Immediately went,
though he expected no other than to be sent back to jail.— ^
But when he carae there, Mr. Godolphin carae out, and
taking hira into another room, said, " Sir, I sent for you to
know how you came to express yourself in such a manner,
when we comraitted you .'' You know, Sir, what has since
befallen Mr. Robinson, ^c," Mr. Slierwood replied, "Sir,
I was far frora bearing any malice against Mr. Robinson,
and can give no other answer than that, when we are called
before rulers, for his name's sake, whora we serve, ii shall
be given us in ihat very hour what we shall speak." To
which Mr. Godolphin replied, " Well, Sir, for your sake, I
will never more have a hand in prosecuting Dissenters." —
And he was as good as his word, — [N. B. This extraordi
nary story is well attested. See Calamy, vol,, ill. p. 215. J —
§The same story, as to the substance of it, is related, with the
§ Among the magistrates in this county, one of the most noted for his fiery
2e,il against the Quakers, was Major kobinson, a justice of the peace, and
member of parliament. He had been active in sending many of them to
prison 5

552 MINISTERS EJECTED
the addition of some circumstances, In Besse's Sufferings^
the Quakers, where there is also a further account of the
infamous persecutor Robinson, the whole of which shall be
given below.
ST. ISSY [V.J SrEpHEN Revel, M. A. of Exeter
Col. Oxf, The son of Mr. Thomas Revel, of Hunsdon, in
Erraington parish, Devonshire, where he had a good estate.
He many years survived this his son, who died of a con
sumption, July, 1671, at about forty years of age. He was
an excellent Greek scholar, and a man of a very pleasant
temper. He married the daughter of Mr John Vincent,
who was sister 10 Mr. Thomas and Mr. Nathaniel Vincent,
so well known as eminent ministers. On account of his
early decease, his father left his estate lo his grandson, a very
worthy gentleraan.
ST, JUST [V,J Mr, Edv^^ard Sheffield.
LANDRAKE [V.J Gasper Hickes, M. A. of Trin.
Col, Oxf, He was the son of a minister, and born in Berk
shire. He was a good scholar, a celebrated preacher, and a
member of the Westminster Assembly. Being ejected in
1662, hepreachedas he had opportunity, but metwiih much
trouble. Continuing (after May 30, 1670) to preach in
his family, to the number that the Conventicle-act allowed,
with others under sixteen years of age, Mr. Winnel, the
young parson of Landrake, was so enraged, that he inforraed
against him, as keeping conventicles, and had his house search-
prison ; and hearing that the jailor had given some of them leave at times
to go home and visit their famihes, he complained Sgainst him at the assizes,
and had him fined 100 marks for his good nature. It was this man's diversion
to harrass the Quakers, and the disturbing their meetings he sportively called
Fanatic hunting. The dismal exit of this violent persecutor was remarkable.
Not long after [the above} assize, he sent one day to a neighboui ing justice
to go with him a fanatic hunting. On the day appointed for that sport, he
orderqd his man to meet him widi his horse some distance from the house.
He then went into a field, where he was used to play with a bull, and fenced
at him With his staff, as he was wont to do ; but the bull ran fiercely at him,
struck his horn imo his thigh, and so lifting him up, threw him over his back,
and tore up his thigh to his belly; and wlien he came to the ground he
broke his leg. The bull then gored him again, and roared, and licked up
his blood. Several workmen came up, but could not beat off the bull, till
they fetched dogs to bait him. The majors sister, hearing of this disaster,
came and said, " Alas, brother, what a heavy judgment is this!" He re
plied, " It is a heavy judgment indeed!" He was carried home,' an-! soon
(lied. This tragical end was much remarked, and many were of opinion,
4liai tlie divine justice -v^as eminently conspicuous (herein. Base. vol. i
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ed by the ofiicers of the parish, who found but four persons
there above the age of sixteen, besides his own family. He
rode frora justice to justice to convict hira, but the gentlemen
in the neighbourhood would give hira no countenance, being
sensible that the law was not violated. Hereupon he went
into Devonshire, where he found some justices for his pur
pose, who convicted hira ; and taking It for granted that he
preached, though there was no proof of It, they levied 40/.
upon him. Hereupon Mr. Hickes appealed to the next ge
neral sessions, where, contrary to law, he was denied a jury,
and the justices passed judgment upon hira by vote ; and his
appeal being hereby raade unjust, they besides the 40/. gave
treble cost against him, and at the same time loaded him with
foul reproaches.
WORKS , Several Serrnons before the Long Patiiament. —
The Life and Death of David: a Funeral Sermon for Wm. Strode,
Esq, — The Advantage of Afflictions : a Fast Sermon before the
House of Peers, Ja». 28, 1645.
LANIVET [R.J Mr. Henry Flamank. He was a
branch of an ancient and reputable faraily in this county. He
had been chaplain to Sir Hardress Waller, when he was
governor of Pendennis. He was a very genteel man, .of consi
derable learning, great natural abilities, a clear head, a strong
memory, and lively affections. - His method of preaching had
something in it so peculiarly convincing, that it seldom failed
of some success. Instances of his usefulness were obvious in
most places where he occasionally exercised his ministry.
He had a majestic mien, and yet a most obliging affability in
coramon conversation. Such a happy raixture of seriousness
and good nature, is rarely to be raet with, especially so re
coraraended by those stated evidences of sincerity, which ren
dered him unsuspected of affectation or ill design. He was
very much esteeraed by the more serious gentry of the West
ern counties, and beloved as well as reverenced by meaner
persons, who were far from being friends to the generality
cif his character. He was a very strenuous opposer of ad-'
,dresses to 'K. James \\. upon his Declaration for liberty;
not only refusing to sign any hiraself, but earnestiy dissuading
other persons from it. He was also very much against the
taking off the penal laws and tests, then pressed with so much
eagerness, and had, the courage, as well as honesty, freely
to declare it to the perambulators sent about the country to
promote that design. Some time after K. James's Declara-
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tion, he was called to the exercise ofhis ministry in a consi
derable congregation at Tavistock in Devon ; where he faith
fully laboured with good success, till seized with a violent
fever, of which he died, in a comfortable and assured ex
pectation of a blessed change, May 8, 1692.
LANSALLOS [R.J Mr. Nathaniel TincoMb.
LANTEGLOSS [R.J Mr. Jonathan Wills, oi. Exeter
Col. Oxford. .Son of Mr. John Wills, rector of Mo.rvall
near Loo ; an old Puritan, who was an eminent instance of
piety and devotion, and of the success of his prayers and en
deavours forthe conversion ofhis pefople and children ; which
led hira to break out in a transport of joy upon his death-bed:
" The blessing of my Father, hath prevailed above the bles
sings of my progenitors. Of my ten children, nine have a
»vork of grace, I hope : and for my youngest son, I die in
the faith of a plentiful harVes't. He shall be converted also
after ray decease." There was great reason to hope this
proved true. That youngest son was a worthy conforraist
rainister. This Mr. Jonathan WiHs was his eldest son,
whose conversion in his father's lifetirae was very remarkable.
He had been wild and extravagant, and had committed sorae
offence, for which he was forced to fly frora the king's army.
His father had prevailed with several ministers then at Ply
mouth, and other good people, to spend a day in prayer in
behalf of this prodigal son. While they were engaged in this
exercise, the prodigal arrives, and finds thera together actu
ally praying for him. As soon as they had done, he dissolved
into tears, and falling on his knees, begged his father's par
don ; and from that day he proved eminently serious. — After
the war, he went to Oxford, where, in a littie time, he ob
tained a fellowship ; and was at length presented to this
living, where he was a diligent and successful preacher till
the Bartholomew-act passed ; and he held on his ministry af
terwards in private many years, serving the Lord faithfully in
his generation, amidst raany teraptations and sore trials, till
he fell asleep, 1695.
LAUNCESTON. John Oliver, M. A. Oi Exeter
Col. Oxf. His father, who was a gentieman of this county,
gave him a^llberal etjucatlon. He was a critic in the Latin
and Greek languages, for which and his other excellencies,
he obtalneil a Fellowship in hiscollege, from whence he re
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Here he kept a school, and made many good scholars. He was
an excellent preacher ; for which, as well as for his learning, .
he was rauch valued by the gentry of Cornwal and Devon
shire. Mr. Secretary Morice had a great esteem for hira,
and gave hira a yearly pension for the support of his family,
after he was silenced ; yvhen he gave up his rainistry, and
¦ died a lay-conforinist, about the year 1675.
WORXS. A Book for the Help of Teeming Women.
ST. MABYN [R.J Mr. William Treis. He was rec
koned a profound scholar, and his composures extraordinarily
good ; but he was unhappy in his delivery.
MAWGAN MENEAGE [R. S. 200/.J Mr. Sampson
Bond. After his ejectment he went to the island of Bermu
das, where he died.
MAWNAM [R.J Mr. Walter Quarum.
ST. MELLION [V. j John Lydston, M. A. Born at
Combe near Dartmouth, July 18, 1613, Educated at Ox
ford, where he continued nine years. In the wars he was a
chaiplain in the array. After the defeat of the Earl of Esse.v
at Lestithiel, 1^44, a party of the cavaliers seized hira,, as
he was raarching towards Tiverton, stripped hira, and carried
him prisoner to Exeter. The hardships he endured in his con
fineraent there, threw hira into a violent fever, which endan
gered his life. About the year 1653, he married a daughter
of Mr. F. Whiddon, oi Morton-Hampstead in Devon ; and
about the same time, Sir J. Coriton presented hira to this vi
carage. Here he discharged the duties of his office with all
fidelity and diligence, and met with great respect. He was
intrusted with the education of the sons of some gentlemen of
note, and, araong the rest, oi Sir Wm. Coriton. Whenthe
Act of uniforraity passed, sorae thought he raight have con-
-, forraed, being a man-of great moderation, and having never
taken the Covenant : but he could not come .up to the terms
¦ required, and so quitted his living, to preserve the peace of
. his conscience. His successor, Mr. Granger, let the glebe
to him for some years, permitted him to live In the vicarage-
house, and boarded with hira. Frora hence he reraoved to
. Saltash, -yvhere he preached to a sraall number,' as the tirnes
perraitted. He had sorae bitter enemies in the town, who
. gave him rauch trquble, particularly Mr. Real the minister,
and two of the magistrates. Once" he was convicted on the
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3-56 ININISTERS EJECTED
Conventicle-act, when there yvas but one present above thff
number the act perraitted. A fine of 40/. was laid upon hiriv
and warrants for levying it were granted ; and the watchful
malice of those that\vere set against him, obliged hiin for a
Jong time to keep his doors sliut, to secure his howse from
being rifled, and his goods from being sold- At other tiraes
he was searched for, anfl insulted, and threatened', to thegreat
terror of his faraily. And sometimes he left his habitation,
wife and children, to escape a jail. — In the latter part of his
time he was grievously afifllcted with the cholic ; and at last
a pleurisy put an end to his labours and hissufferings. When
he saw the time of his departure near at- hand, he enjoyed
inwa^rd' peace, and a good hope as to- his' future state. When
the violence of his distemper made il difficult for him- to-
speak, a good woman asking him how he did, he chearfully
replied, " Nothing but this rotten carcase keeps me from be
ing completely happy." After six or seven days sickness he
died, Sept. 3, 1671, aged 58. He was a man of good learn
ing, exemplary gravity, and eminent piety. His reverence
in the worship of God was very remarkable.^ His behaviour
-Svas inoffensive, and his spirit truly catholic. These good
qualities procured him great respect from seva-al gentlemen.
of the church of England. It was observable that Mr. Ste
phens, one of bis persecutors, died so poor,, that his widow
and children received relief and support fiom Mr. Lydston'»
-widow and her son. — He appears to have printed nothing but
a preface to the farewcll-SGrraons of his brother-in-law Mr.
Francis Whiddon.
MENHENIOT [V.j Mr. Samuel Austin. Afterhis
ejectment be lived at Plymouth.
ST. MERRAN by Padsime, [V.. S.} Mr. Samuel
Tapper, of Exeter Col. Oxf. The second son of Mr. Oli-
ver Tapper of Exeter ; a person of very strict and exemplary
piety, by which he was the means of awakening and convert
ing this his son, whom he designed early for the ministry,
and sent to Oxford at the age of fifteen, being examined and
approved by the Exeter rainisters. Dr. Conant the rector,
after a particular examination, admitted him to the Lord's
table. Proving consuraptive about the year 1666, his physi
cian advised him to hasten into his native air, which he did,
and quickly recovered. Being persuaded to lay aside all
thoughts of returning to Oxford, he preached in the place of
His nativity with good acceptance. After a while, provi
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tience opened hini a way of settiing as an assistant to Mr.
Humphrey Saunders of Hollesworthy, in Devonshire. He
•was ordained in that church, Aug. q, 1657, by several of
the rainisters of the 4th division of Devon. When he had
¦continiied berea while he was presented by Cromwell to this
vicarage of St. Merran, from which Mr. H. .Bdnhrigg was
sequestered. At first he scrupled to accept it, but at length
¦took possession, and continued in it till the Restoration, He
was well respected not only by his parishioners, but also by
his predecessor, to whora he allowed half the income, 'and a
house upon the glebe to live in. Whenever they met, they
conversed together in a very friendly raanner, as they conti
nued to do when Mr. Banbrlgg was restored. After this Mr.
Tapper resided some years with a very worthy gentleman of
this county, R. Erisey, Esq. of Erisey. ' From thence he
removed to Exeter, where he lived with his frlMids, till the
liberty granted, by King Jaraes.
He withdrew from the establishment with a very' charita-
i)le and peaceable disposition ; being prepared to conforra, if
he could have been satisfied about the terms. , He was no ene
my to episcopacy or a liturgy ; but said, he was not pre
pared to assent to a book which he could notpossibly see be-
¦fore his assent was required. His great learning, with his
•moderation, raodesty and candour, procured him the inti
mate friendship of the raost valuable and learned clergy arid
others of the city of Exeter. Dr. Wilkins, afterwai-ds Bp. of
Chester, Mr. Hopkins, afterwards Bp, of Londonderry, and
others, often visited him, and invited him to a Latin theolo
gical disputation, which the clergy held once a week. Bp.
Ward had so great a value for him, that he offered him his
interest to get him preferraent if he would conform, which
he raodestly declined. He often dined at the palace, even
when the times ran high against .the Nonconforraists ; and
the Bishop told him, the oftener he came the raore welcorae.
That learned prelate raoie than once laid his hands on Mr-
Tapper'^ head, and 'Messed hira ; «aying. with a sraile, " Mr.
Tapper, where is the harra of a bishop's laying on of hands?"
Mr. Baldwin Ackland, treasurer of the cathedral at Exeter,
had such a respect for him, that he importuned the Bishop
to grant him a licence to preach in his fchapel. This he could
not do ; b-ut he promised to connive at hira as long as he
could, provided the liturgy was always read by another. Ths
itreasurer promised this, .and took care to have it performed,
»ai the bishop- took no notice of it till the repeated clamour
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358 MINISTERS EJECTED
of sorae.of the furious gentry obHged him privately to advise
him to desist ; which he iramediately did.
About the year 1687, he had an invitation to Limpston,
nine miles from Exeter. The peoplewho chose him for their
pastor built hira a raeeting-house there ; and his warm prac
tical preaching, and holy exeraplary conversation, gained
him universal love araong them. His congregation increased,
and he was blessed with success in the conversion of many
souls. He was also generally respected by the neighbouring
gentry who had any raoderation, and knew how to value
learning, an obfiging temper and genteel carriage. But all
his excellent qualifications could not secure hira from the fury
of high -church bigots. For his meeting-house was broke
into about the year 1692, late on a Saturday night, and the
glass of the windows very much shattered. On the Lord's-
day the good man prayed earnestly for his enemies, that God
would forgive their sin and turn their hearts. — A vileaiid
malicious person once put on a cloak and a band, and in that
habit went to a woman of ill fame at Dawlish, telling her
that he was Mr. Tapper of Limpston, and offering her mo
ney to have criminal converse wilh her. The woraan re
ported this of Mr. Tapper, to the injury of his character.
But when he appeared before two justices of peace, she on
seeirlghim, declared upon oath, that he was not the man
¦who was at her house, and that she had never seen his face
before. She then publicly asked his pardon, which was rea
dily granted. — None o'f these things moved him ; but he per
severed in the faithful discharge of his duty. He was never
so chearful as on the Lord's-day, and when employed in his
master's work. In the latter part of his life, bodily infirmi
ties lay heavy upon him, and he grew somewhat raelancholy.
The last year his intellect was much impaired, and yet he
could not without difficulty he with-held from his beloved
work of praying and preaching. The last tirae he mentioned
his Nonconformity, he declared his satisfaction in having
acted according to his conscience. A third fit of an apo
plexy put an end to his life and labours, March 3, 1709, in
the 73d year ofhis age. His funeral sermon was preached
by Mr. Joseph Mansion (to whom he had resigned his charge
the stiraraer before) on Acis'XK. 24.
His natural powers were quick and lively ; he was a very
hard student, and acquired a considerable stock of learning.
He .perfectly understood the French and Welch languages.
and acquired a great exactness in the Latin. He had tbe his
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IN CORNvyAL. . 353
tory of most words, ad unguem, whether they were pure
and used by the writers of Augustus's time, or introduced
when the language was declining. Latin poetry was his
arauseraent during his silence. But his beloved language;
was the Greek, In which he was so ready, that he could read
the poets and philosophers as familiarly as if he had been
readin'g English. He had the Greek Testament by heart,'
and would, upon any occasion that offered, instantly repeat
the text, and criticize upon It, as if the book lay open before
him. He was weH acquainted with the classics, moralists'
and historians, both Greek and 'Latin, and made all his know
ledge subservient' to divinity — He was a very good practical
preacher, an excellent textuary ;, a humble zealous, devottf ,
christian, ind an example of godly siraplicity and purity.
There was observable a blessed harraony between his excel-
cellent practical serraons, and his serious, holy,' prudent con
versation. A scandalous rainister was the most odious sight
to him in the world. He was a steady example of walking
closely with God. in secret duties, and would never venture
into the world, without seeking to engage the presence of
God with him, knowiiig that a man raay as easily live with
out food, as that the spiritual life can be raaintained without
coraraunion with God ; and it was his observation, drawn
from long experience, that "Where devotion is drqpped in
" the closet, it seldora keeps possession long in the family,
" heart or life." — He discovered a truly generous ahd chari
table spirit to friends and einemies. He continued single, and
had a good estate, so that he raight easily have lived in splen
dour ; but he hardly allowed himself what was convenient;
"To religious poor, poor ministers, poor scholars, neighbour^
ing faimlles, arid common objects, it is thought he gave away
nine tenths' of his' income.^ Indeed he coulid hardly keep any
money by hira, when he raet with propefr ohjects on whom
to bestow it. His charity -was very esttenslYe, and not con
fined to any particular, opinions or persuasions in religion.
Whoever was in distress, he accounted hira his' brother, -and
fit to be relieved. It was a fixed rule with him, rather to
relieve nine by mistake, than to send away 6nt empty, who
was really In want. He often said, " Charity may be mis
taken, but will not go unrewarded." But though he vvas
ready to do'good.to all, he had' a particular regard to such
5 Whether this account of him be not more io his honour, than to have had
its^ia of him " tliat he died' a ktcrtB.itHEL<3fR," let 'Sny wise anB good mao
|udgc. Compare page ?10, Notfe, ^ .1.
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as were of the houshold of faith.— 'Nothing could be ex
pected from his dying words, because his distemper seized
his head.
WORKS. He pnnted nothing; but he wrote several things*
e.g. A Latin Inscription on the Monument of the Lord Chancel
lor Fortescue. ' [See Prince's Worthies of Devon, p. 307.] — He
translated seven books of Milton's Paradise Lost, into Latin Hexa
meters.— He left sorne hundreds of Latin verses on the Absurditiea
of Popery, and the Rogueries of the Romish Priests compared with
the Pagan.
ST. MICHAEL PENKEVEL [R.J Joseph Halsev,
M. A. of Ti-iji. Col. Camb. under the tuition of Mr. N.
Bradshaw. He was brought into this county by Hugh Bos
cawen, Esq. and lived as chaplain in his faraily, while he
preached in the parish church in this place. He was ejected
in 1662 ; and, upon the Five-mile act, removed to Filly
with his faraily. But that place being farther from Tregath-
nan than was agreeable to Mr. Boscawen and his lady, he,
at their request, reraoved to Merther, the next parish to theirs;
where he continued preaching on Lord's-days in his own
house; and on Saturday evenings and Lord's-day mornings,
in Mri Boscqwen's house, as long as he lived. He had very
valuable ministerial abilities. His sermons were rational,
and very methodical. He was much of a gentieman, and
was greatly honoured and beloved by those that knew hira.
The want of a convenient school put him upon teaching hi?
own children gramraar-learning : and this was no sooner
known, than his house was thronged with gentlemen's sons
of the best rank ; who, though raany of them were averse to
Nonconforraity, thought theraselves happy in having their
children- under his roof. How well he discharged that trust,
many gentlemen and ministers, conformists, as well as others,
-will readily testify. — His judgment as to Nonconformity was
moderate ; having a great aversion to bigotry wherever he
found it. His sentiments and practice were very sirailar to
Mr, Baxter's. He kept up a very friendly correspondence
with many of the conforraing clergy. He was a great ene
my to controversies, especially when the contest seeraed raore
for the sake of victoiy than truth ; aud would often lament the
divisions among Protestants. The whole course ofhis life was
an exact and regular measuring out his tirae, which he srictiy
redeemed by one even steady method, which made all his af
fairs go on with ease and pleasure. His work was his de
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IN CORNWAL. 3gl
in his study eariy In the morning. His life, tiiough labo-.
rious, was very comfortable and happy. His countenance
was always serene and chearful. He often expressed his de
sire that he might not outlive his work. But though he was
unable to preach six weeks before his death, he freely re
signed hiraself to the will of God. When his body was dis
ordered, his raind was clear ; and with a steady countenance
did he look the king of terrors in the face. He resigned his
spirit, Oct, 1, 1711, aged 85, with such ease and chearful
ness, such greatness and presence of mind, as has been rarely
seen. MILOR and MABE. § Mr. Thomas Tregoss, of
Exeter Col, O.rf, vsfas born at St. Ives, near the Land's end,
in Cornwall, bf an ancient and noble family. Williara the
Conqueror created John Tregoss a baron, who died without
issue, and Henry Tregoss sat as a baron in parliament in the
35th year of Henry , I. Robert Tregoss was one of those
lords that sided with the earl of Leicester against Henry III.
But this faraily, with all its dignities, came to ruin ; which
vvas considered as the righteous judgraent of God, for a hor
rible instance of fraud, injustice, and cruelty, towards the
widow and' fatherless. Mr. Thomas Tregoss, who viewed
the raatter in this light, offered raany fervent prayers for the
reraoval of this curse. Both his parents, however, were
pious persons, of the puritanical starap, and they were care
ful to train hira up in learning and religion. He was very
early inclined to the work ofthe ministry, and though he at
first appeared to be of a dull capacity, his faculties afterwards
brightened, and he made good progress in literature, under
the tuition of Mr. Francis Howel; and he gave such hope
ful signs of piety, that Dr. Conant admitted him to corarau
nion in his church. A sermon of his on Hos, vi, 4. had
struck great terror into his conscience, though the effects of
it, after a time, vanished away, so that he was not (as he
was afterwards persuaded] then brought to a thorough con
version. He was afterwards recovered to such a seriousness
of spirit, and possessed such ministerial gifts, tiiat when he
left the University, and returned to St; Ives, the people there,
upon hearing hira preach, invited hira to settle araong them
as- their minister. Though he at first raodestly refused, he
at length yielded to their iraportunity, and after spending sorae
tirae aniong thera, he was set apart to the .pastoral office,
§ This more ample account is substituted in the.room' of the former brief
one, and is an abstract of that in Clark's Lives, piinted 1683,
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-dug. XJ, 1657. He continued there two years, and -ap-
pr6ved himself a close student, and a 'constant falthfiil
preacher. The first summer that he was here, he witnessed a re
markable event of providence. This town depended much
on the Pilchard fishery. The fishing season was nearly ex
pired, and no pilchards appeared, which greatly distressed the"
inhabitants. Mr. Tregoss hereupon advised them to keep a
day of humiliation and prayer. They accordingly did so,'
and the very next day there appeared great shoals of fish,
of which they caught a large quantity. But the next sum
mer, the fishermen having taken a great number of pilchards
on the Saturday, were busy In drying their nets, &c. on the
l^abbath ; when he reproved them for it, telling them tha^
they justly provoked the Lord to withdraw his blessing ; and
it fell out accordingly ; for, from that time to the end of the
season, they utterly failed of success. — In rhe year 1659,
Mr. Tregoss reraoved.to the vicarage of Milor and Mabe,
from whence he was ejected by the Act of uniformity ; upon
which he preached twice every Lord's day in his own fa
mily, where several others who had experienced the com
fort of his ministry, attended. This being reported to the
lord lieutenant, he committed him to the custody oif the
mareschal, for his refusing to take the oath appointed for the
militia. After three months coufinement, during which
tirae he preached to the prisoners, and others who carae to
hear hiin, he was released by an order frora the deputy lieu
tenant. In Sept, 1663, he removed to the house of the
haron oi Kigilliack, in the parish of B.adock, near Penrin,
where he kept up his meetings on the Lord's day, to whic^^
many flocked^ " as doves to their windows." The iiext
year, he and his wife, as they were one night In bed, felt
a terrible earthquake, the shock of which none perceived but
themselves. This was but an emblem of that trembling
which he afterwards felt in his conscience. ~ ¦
On Jan. 1, 1665, he was led to preach on Luke xii, 47,
when he shewed what a dangerous thing it is to sin against
knowledge. When the duties of the day were over, the
Lord brought his own sins to his reraembrance, and one
above the rest, In such a manner as led hira to conclude that
he had never been thoroughly converted; and that textj
Heb, xii. 17, occa,sion,ed him inexpressible terror. He ap
plied himself qarnestiy to prayer, but for five weeks he was
kcjit under the spirit of bondfige, till he met^ with a, pas-
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sage in a good book, relating to the love of Gpd In Christ,
which was the means of affording him consolation ; and on
the following Sabbath he experienced the delightful exercise
of repentance and evangelical laith. In contemplating the
proraises of the gospel, and the sufferings of Christ ; after
which he was carried on In the discharge of duties with raore
enlargement and affection than ever. From this period he
dated his conversion : for though, for a considerable time,
his conversation was irreproachable, his labours in the mi
nistry indefatigable, and his zeal for nonconformity ardent,
he now looked upon all his former good deeds as splendid
sins, and as a continued series of formality and hypocrisy,
notwithstanding all that his friends urged to the contrary.
He lamented the condition of the church, that so raany were
made ministers In it, before they were real • Christians, and
expressed his fears, that not a few who, in the es^teeni of men,
pass fbr good and able ministers, will at last, when they corae
to be " weighed in the balance, be found -wanting." He
was the more corifirmed in his apprehensions concerning
himself by this circumstance, That notwithstanding all his
labours In the ministry for some years, he could not say that
God had made hira the instruraent of conversion to one
soul ; whereas afterwards he had raany seals to his ministry.
Soon after this great change, he was brought low, both in
body and mind, so as to apprehend that his death drew hear ;
but he was soon encouraged to hope, •" that he should not
" die, but live and declare the works of the Lord ;" and he
experienced a remarkable answer to his prayers, in being al
most instantaneously restored, so as to be able to -walk with
ease, on rising up from prayer, though before he could
scarcely stand, and even to go through the services of the
next Lord's day with vigour. He now found raore than
ordinary assistance in his studies and in his rainistry. He
also felt encreasing desires to extend his usefulness. On
reading that text. Matt, ix, 36. his compassipn to tiie mul
titude around him, "who were as sheep having no shep
herd," was powerfully excited. His thoughts were direct
ed to the parish of Mabe, and finding, on enquiry, that there
would be no minister there the Lord's day following, after
deliberating on the matjer, he resolved to go, and offer his
services. He found the people willing to liear, and he
preached without any disturbance. But the i-eport of what
he had done was soon spread abroad, and readied the ears of
justice Robinson, who carae to Mr. TregQss's house the next
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Lord's day, where he found him preaching, and took the
names of all present, requiring him to give security for his
good behaviour, or surrender hiraself to the constable upon
his order. He promised the latter, but the former, which he
understood oi preaching, he refused, and in the afternoon
he preached again. The following Sabbath he again went
,to Mabe, and preached without any interruption ; but was'
immediately served- with a warrant to appear before Mr. Ro
binson the next Tuesday. He went, and boldly justified his
conduct, but was- comraitted to Launceston jail for three
months ; where he enjoyed rauch spiritual comfort, and was
useful in preaching to his fellow-prisoners, and to such as
came to visit hira. When he was set at liberty, he kept a
day of thanksgiving. But he had not been above four days
at home, when Robinson gave it out, tliat he would soon
send him back to the place from whence he came. He had
accordingly appointed another justice of peace to meet hira
on the next raarket-dny, to join in a warrant for a second
conviction of Mr. Tregoss, and to prosecute 'sorae others
for holding conventicles. .But in the raean tirae he was
gored by his own bull, which was never known to do any
hurt before, and he soon died ofhis wounds *.
Aug. 20, Mr. Tregoss went and preached again at Mabe
church, as alsoon that day fortnight, spending the intervals
-with much activity in his master's service at other places.
His friends would have dissuaded him from preaching pub
licly, but he could not in conscience desist, and therefore
on the i8th ofthe next month, he was again committed to
the sarae prison. He went chearfully, under a persuasion
that God would appear for him and his family, which he did
in a remarkable manner. In this second imprisonment he
was useful to many souls, ami enjoyed delightful tokens of
the divine presence, a-s also some intimations of future pro
vidences. — Dec. 14, he' was released, upon which he again
kept a day of thanksgiving. On Jan, 8, he preached twice
at Mabe, without interruption, though while he was there,
a constable went to his own house with another officer, in
qrder to seize him. The following week his house was twice
learched for hira ; but he again escaped, having set out on a
journey Into the east part of Cornwal, frora whence he went
into Devonshire, raaking a circuit in his way home, preach
ing wherever he went ; and he had great encouragement in.
the fruit of his labours. — On his return, Feb. 4, he w,ent
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again to preach at Mabe, when a constable with a warrant
apprehended him, ks a dangerous and seditious person, tho'
he never meddled with state affairs, or with the church, and
always prayed fervently for the king. Being now under the
custody of the mareschal of Bodmin, he-Was brought to aiv
acquaintance with several persons who received much good
from his ministry. He continued In this prison till Sept,
i66j, and was released by a special order from the King,
according to a secret persuasion in his own mind ,while he
Was at prayer. — In the February following, coming to
preach his Monday's lecture at Penrin, he was taken with
a fever. On the Lord's day morning he felt much concern
for his people, as he had no one to supply his place, and
therefore he resolved, weak as he was, and against the in-
treaties ofhis friends, to rise and preach. He tot)k that text,
Isa, xl. gi . and to the great astonishraent of all, as well as of
himself, he found his strength increase, so that he preached
three times that day, and at night he found himself, well, nor
did his disorder return.
In the beginning ofthe year i66g, the number ofhis hear-i
ers being rauch incieased, the meeting was removed into a
large barn, till being sumraoned by the proprietor to quit his
house, he feraoved to Penrin. But previous to this, a mit
timus came frora the quarter sessions, grounded on an inform
ation given by the bishop, to send hira again to Launceston
jail. When the constables came to serve the warrant, one
of them, more violent than the rest, dropped ,down, with
the mittimus in his hand, as if he were dead. He was after
a time recovered, but went away without executing the war
rant. In a few days, they came again for this purpose, but
had not power to take Mr. Tregoss to prison..— At the sum
mer assizes, having some business at Launceston, he was in
vited to raake a visit to the N. West part of Devonshire,
when he preached in a private house at Torrington, ior
which he was coraraitted, with several others, to Exeter
jail ; but they were all bailed. In this journey his rainlstiy
proved useful to raany souls. This encouraged him to lay
himself out to the utmost of his strength, for improving all
opportunities of doing good. The bill preferred against him
at Exeter obliged hiin to attend the two next assizes, and he
was at length freed by proclamation. In these journies he
had further advantage for propagating the gospel. It was re
markable, that some of the persons who disco-vered the
greatest malice against him for preaching at Torrington, were
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soon after cut off by unnatural deaths ; of which he himself
gave an account in a letter to i friend, dated Penrin, Sc'pt.
16,, 1670., Among other instances was that of one Deniiis,
who had expressed great joy at the surprlsal pf this conven
ticle, and whose- wife had bitterly exclaimed, when Mr.
Tregoss was taken, " Hang the rogue ; hang hira on the
sign post, or the next tree." This unhappy man soon after
hung himself In his own study, and his estate was forfeited.
About this time Mr. Tregoss's mind was much taken up
in conversing with the-state of the saints departed, who were
martyred for the testiraony of Jesus, -ivhich he expressed in
a letter to a friend: a prophetic intiraation of his own ap
proaching dissolution. He still proceeded however in his
unwearied labours. He hired a place for a meeting In the
parish of Ma Ae, where he went on without interruption till
May, 1670, when two debauched persons turned informers.
This frightened away most of his hearers, especially those of
property', and fines were laid to the amount of 220/. ye,t none
of his effects were seized. He then resolved to preach the
oftener, to only the statute-number ; which he did five times
every Lord's-day, and repeated a part of what he had deli
vered in the evening, besides two or three week-day servi
ces. His friends advised hira to favour hiraself, but his zeal
¦was such that he persisted till he had compleatiy worn himself
out.'* On the 18th of Jan, 1671, perceiving the tirae of
his departure to be at hand, he took his farewell ofhis friends,
his wife and children,, in a long and most affecting speech,
though soraewhat broken, and perhaps not accurately writ
ten. — After having spoken sorae tirae concerning his past life
and rainisterial course, &cc', he added, " I hope you will not
think it tedious, if I drop a few words, upon i-ny grave ;"
when his physician desired hira to desist, lest he should spend
'his spirits too much. Upon which he said, " Give me leave
to .speak, for I am upon the borders of eternity, and I think
you all look upon me as a dying man : you may therefore
suffer me to speak as much as I can. I am going to my dear
^father, my best friend : his face I hope to see this day." —
Having related the sweet experience which he had lately en-
* Though the principle by which Mr. Tregoss ivas actuated, was highly
commendable, his want of discretion is to be lamented; since by his extra
ordinary exertions, beyond his strength, he defeated his own end, in cutting
shtirt a valuable life, which humanly speaking might, by prudence, have
been protracted to far greater advantage 10 the world,' as nell as to Jiis own
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joyed of the divine manifestations to him, he addressed sorae
faithful exhortations to those present, and corainended thera
and his family to God. — " And now friends, (said he,) flesh
and blood will say, 'tis hard to part with dear friends, with
a dear wife, and with dear children ; but as the Lord hath
given them to rae, so I now leave them with hira. I call
you to witness that I leave this dear wife, and these dear
children of raine, with the Lord, to be protected and main
tained by him, and to be kept blameless to the day of
his appearance. Though men may prove unkind to them,
(as I suppose they will,) yet the Lord I know will not. — I
must ihto eternity. I. have been but a young branch, and
you see the Loid is cutting rae down this raorning. ' O bles
sed Godi "shall there not be a meeting in paradise ? shall not
thy servant see thee, and love thee, and embrace thee, and
be embraced by thee ? Hast thou not given him tokens of thy
free grace and eternal love in Christ ? And now. Lord God,
thy servant must away, and be about other work. Thy ser
vant must away to holy angels, and to the spirits of the just
made perfect.  And now, O friends, one thing I tell you:
I shall come again with ray Lord in raost excellent glory,
and you inust then corae before him. But I fear, I fear,
some of you will then be in a poor miserable condition.
Well, I commend you to the love and grace of God, the
eternal Father in Jesus Christ. I pray you get your hearts
full ofthe love of God, and ofthe Holy Ghost. Think bn
these ihirigS^ that I have delivered unto vou in the name of the
Lord. I must go and deliver up ray accounts to God. — And
now I corarait' myself, my wife and children to the Lord. I
I corarait ray spirit to thee, O Father of spirits. I com
mit my soul to thee, O dearest Lord : Keep these that do
believe on thee."  These last words he spoke with a more
audible voice than he commonly used in preaching ; and in
about an hour and a half after he had ended this speech
(which is here abridged] his voice became silent in death, at
a premature, period ; for, though his. age is not raentioned,
it appears that he had not been engaged in the ministry more
than fourteen years. — To Mr, Clark's account of this excel
lent man, are subjoined his character at length, and a nuraber
ofhis Letters, But our liraits do not admit the ihsertion of
either. His life was printed in a separate volume, but this
as well as Clark's Lives, is become very scarce, and' diffi
cult even to be borrowed.
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' Lit tis PETHERICK [S,J Mr. Otho Whitehorn,
This was a sequestered living, 'to which Dr. Walker says
Mr. Betty returned at the Restoration. Mr. Whitehornwas
probably the person intended by 0, W, In the Conformist's
^ih Plea for the Nonconf. p. 43, aj being forced to cut
tobacco for his livelihood. § A correspondent rather thinks
il: was Obadiah Walker. His name is not in our list.
PENRYN. Mr. Joseph A llenJ. He was esteemed a
good man, but very poor. He had a wife and several chil
dren, and received his subsistence from charitable friends ;
principally from the Hon. Hugh Boscawen, Esq.
PROBUS [V.] Mr. Richard Batten.
REDNOCK [C] Mr. William Trigg. He was an
excellent scholar, which is all thatis known of hira.
SALTASH. Mr.' John Hickes. OiTrin, Col. Dublin.
Born, 1633, at Mobrhouse, Kirklywick, near Thirsk in
Yorkshire.. He descended from the flickes oi Niinnington
near York, formerly a considerable family, and was elder
brother of Dr. George Hiclies, the nonjuror, who. was turn
ed out of Alhallows Barking in London, and the deanry of
Worcester, for not , taking the oaths to K. William and Q.
Mary. He wss at first minister of Stoke Damarel, Devon-
shhe, which living being in the gift of the crown, he was
obliged to quit it at the Restoration ; yvhen he reraoved to
Saltash in Cornwall," where he was ejected in 1662, by the
Bartholomew-act. A person asking hira, about that tirae.
What he would do if he did not conform, having a faraily
likely to be growing } His answer was, " Should I have as
many children as that hen has chickens, (pointing to one that
had a good nuraber of thera) I should not question but God
would provide for them all." — He removed to Kingsbridge
in this county, where he had a meetmg, and took all oppor
tunities that offered for preaching; but for many years to
gether he met with a great deal of trouble, and was harrassed
by the bishop's court, so as to be forced to hide hiraself; but
his great spirit carrleil hira through all with chearfulness.
An apparitor, being once sent to hira with a citation, was
advised before-hand by sorae that knew. hira, to lake heed
how he meddled with Mr. Hickes, for he was a stout man.
He came however to his house, and asked for him. Mr.
Hickes coming down with his cane in his hand, looked
briskly upon him. The man told him he came to enquire for

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for one Mr. Hickes, gentieman. He replied, " I am John
Hickes, minister of the gospfel." The apparitor trembled,
and seemed glad to get frora hira ; and Mr. Hickes never
heard any^ thing more of him.
In the year 1671, he published a pamphlet, entitied, A
sad Narrative of the Oppression of many honest People in
Devon, &c. in which he named the inforraers, justices, and
others, who were guilty of Illegal proceedings, and particu
larly judge Rainsford. Though his narae was not to the
book, he was soon discovered to be the author ; and two
messengers were sent down to apprehend hira, and bring him
up to court. It happened that upon the road Mr. Hickes
fell into the corapany of these very raessengers, not having
at first the least suspicion of them. He travelled the greater
part of a morning, and at last dined with them, when they
talked with great freedom against one Mr. Hickes as a bad
man, and a great eneray to the government. He bore witii
all their scurrilous language till dinner was over, and then
going to the stable to his horse, (of which he was alwavs
very careful) he there gave them to understand, that he was
the person whora they had so rauch vilified. And, to teach
them better how to govern their tongues, he took his cane
and corrected them till they begged his pardon ; upon which
he iraraediately took his horse and rode to London. By
means of an acquaintance, (who was then at court) he got
to be introduced to the king's presence. The king told him.
He had abused his ministers, and the justices of the peace.
He replied, " Oppression (raay it please your majesty) makes
a wise man mad. The justices, beyond all law, have very
much wronged your raajesty's loyal subjects, the Noncon
formists in the West." He instanced in several particulars,
and spoke with such presence of mind and ingenuity, that the
king heard hira with patience, seeraed to be affected, and pro-
rnlsed that they should have no such cause of cpmplaint for
the future. Soon after this, the Dissenters had some favour
shewn them ; and Mr. Hickes thereupon came up with an
address, from a considerable nuraber of gentlemen and others
in the West, which he presented. The king received it very
graciously, and asked him, If he had not been as good as his
word. An Indulgence was granted, with liberty to build
meeting-houses ; a'nd by his majesty's favour Mr. Hickes got
back a third part of what the Dissenters in those parts had
paid, on the Conventicle-act. He had also offers of prefer
ment if he would have conformed ; but said, No temptation
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should bring him to that. He had a congregation afterwards
at Portsmouth, and continued there till he was driven away
by a fresh persecution. The king and duke of York came
thither while he was there. The governor, the principal of
ficers, arid many of the inhabitants of the town, went to
Portsdown to raeet him, and Mr. Hickes was one of the
company. As soon as the king saw him he took particular
notice of him. '¦
i He was a very good scholar, and a noted preacher. He
appears also to have been a man of true piety, but of strong
passions, and wanting in discretion. This accounts for his
being unhappily drawn in to join the Duke of Monmouth's.
array, in 1685, which brought him to a tragical end. He
drew up a narrative of his whole conduct respecting this af
fair, which proved so fatal, with a defence of himself against
several unjust charges ; which was published after his death,
with an account of his dying sentiraents and behaviour. At
the time of his execution he delivered a speech, which was
in all respects suitable to his awful situation. Though he
most solemnly denied raany things, which had been alleged
against hira, he expressed the most entire resignation to the
will of God, in suffering the death to which he was con
demned, and a triuraphant hope of a better life. Tbis may
be seen at length in Turner's Hist, of Prov. Ch. 143.
p. 136. It is well drawn up, and gives a favourable idea
both of his character and abilities. But it is too long to be
here inserted, consisting of four large folio pages.
WORKS. Besides the above narrative and speech — A Discourse
ofthe excellency of the heavenly Substance, 12mo, 1673. [This was
published without his name, and dedicated, " To all both in Eng
land and Wales, that have been spoiled oftheir goods before or since
March 25 last ; or that may thus suffer for that religion which hath
its foundations only laid in divine institutions." The Editor, who
is possessed of it, can pronounce it an excellent book.]
SITHNEY, [V. 48I.] Mr. Roger Flamank. Elder
brother to Mr. Henry Flamank mentioned before, p. 353.
He continued a considerable time at the university, and was
a good scholar, and a methodical, judicious, useful preacher.
He lived many years after his ejectment, with a wife and
children, in strait circumstances, but was always contented,
and for the raost part very chearful. He continued his rai
nisterial work with good acceptance to the very last. 'When
he was above eighty years of age, he could mariage a dispute
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IN CORNWAL. 371
readiness, on the controversies which had been raost debated
in his younger days. He died pastor of a sraall congregation
at Gunrounson in St. Enodor, in this county, aged 87.
ST. STEPHEN'S [V. S.] Mr. William Tomrs. Dr.
Walker raentions the sequestred minister as being restored,
and as a very learned man ; but says nothing against Mr.
Tombs, from whence it raay be presumed his character was
unexceptionable. STOKE CLIMSLAND [R. 200I.] John Fathers,
M. A. He appeals to have been a person of great worth.
He takes notice In the preface to one of his books, that had
not the unhappy plunder of those tiraes snatched from him
the fruit -of twenty years labour, he -might have left some
thing to posterity. '- ' '
WORKS. Two Serrnons: viz. The 'strife of Brethren ; or
Abram and Lot parting : A Treaty for peace, or Abram's parly
-with Lot. — ^Two Sermons on Jer, ix, 2, viz. The content of a Way
faring man ; or Jeremy's' Cottage in the Wilderness : The account
«f a minister's remove ;i--or Jeremy's departing from Jerusalem,
TINTAGELl' [v.] Mr. Thomas Hearne.
TRURO. Mr; John TiNCOMB.
ST. TUDY." Nicholas Leverton, B.A. oi Exeter
Col. Oxf. ^Born at St. WaU, about the year 1600, of pa
rents in the middle rank, who gave him a liberal education.
While he was;at Oxford he was raore addicted to youthful
<lIversions than to his studies, though he perforraed the usual
exercise for his degree. His relations, no longer able to bear
the expence^. recalling hira frora Oxford, he first kept a lit
tle school, near Padstow for his subsistence, Biit being or
dained, ,h'e went to Barbadoes, and there met with good ac
ceptance. Though he had yet littie seriousness, he soon grew
wearyjpf the profligate morals of the people, and went as
chaplain to a ship's crew, who designed to begin a plantation
in th^ island of Tobago. By this raeans he raet with a variety
of reiinarkable providences which God blessed to awaken him
to a;s'erious sense of religion. The corapany safely reached
the Island, parted land, and raade a booth for their accorarao
dation, of poles, boughs, and palraeto leaves. Finding the
place agreeable, and discovering no Indians, they resolved to
settle there. The captain for this- end, with half his land-
company, determined to walk round the island by the sea-
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shore to discover the raost convenient place for begtflnnfg
their settiement, and Mr. Leverton was with them. The
captain and two more went one way, and directed the rest tci
march another ; but meeting with difficulties, the latter re
turned to their booth, hoping their captain would meet witb
them there : but he and his corapanions never returned. In
the interim a double calamity befel those on shore. The
long-boat by carelessness was lost upon a rock, and thereby
their communication with the ship was cut off; and a great
rain falling, spoiled all the powder they had landed. Very
early the next morning, after their return, some Indians at
tacked their booth, killed most of thera with their arrows,
and wounded others'; among the rest Mr. Leverton was_
wounded in the head. But he, with some others, made a
shift to escape into the woods. Having, in his flight, lost
one of his shoes, he was left behind his corapanions. In this
condition, wearying himself witiiout success, for many hours,
in endeavouring to recover sight of the ship, his strength
failed hira ; and being without food or clothes, (for he had
stripped himself to swim over a bay) he laid himself down on
the grass, expecting to die there. He spent the night with-
¦ out sleep, in reviewing with sorrow his past life, and particu
larly his ends in undertaking this voyage ; and that scripture
often occurred to his mind, ' What doest thou here, Elijah ?'
The coldness of the night benumbed his body, and the next
day the heat was more intolerable, so that he began to faint
away. In these circumstances he unexpectedly discerned a
man making towards him, who, to his great joy, proved to
te one of his companions, separated frora the company, and
in quest of the ship. Revived with his frierid's arrival, and
furnished with some of his clothes, Mr. Leverton and he
marched back. A third straggler soon joined them, and they
marched together all day. Towards evefting, perceiving a
smoke, they proceeded towards it, and found the remains of
a fire w'hich the Indians had made, before tiiey fell upon
their booth. This fire, by which they staid all night, was-
thought to save their lives. Marching next morning towards
the sea, they found a fourth petson oftheir company ; tut
tie being wounded in the knee, and unable to go with them,
they vvere forced to leave him behind. At length, through
divine goodness, they spied the ship, which revived their spi
rits ; and their fear of the Indians increasing with their hope
of delivei^nce, qulckentjd their pace, so that though they had
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and therefore had matched very faintly, they now all ran
swiftly toward the sea. Mr. Leverton and one more swam
to the ship. The other, unable to swim, ran as far as he
could into the sea, keeping only his head above water for
fear of the Indians, till those in the ship sent and took him
up in a pitiful boat which they had m£»de. The wound and
fatigue cost Mr. Leverton a dangerous fit of sickness, wherein
his life was despaired of for many days. The ship fired sig
nals to any alive on the shore to raake to them, by which si3^
or eight more of the company were recovered. This adven
ture ended with the loss of near half their corapany.
Not being able to return to Barbadoes or any of our- Eng
lish plantations on that side, because of contrary winds, they
resolved to raake to the island of Providence, which was 500
leagues off, near the line. Notwithstanding many fears and
difficulties, they had a prosperous voyage, and a welcome
reception from their countrymen there. Most of the inhabi
tants were such as had left their native country, upon 3 dis
satisfaction with the English hierarchy, and settied there as
others did in A^ew England. They had but one minister
araong them, viz. Mr. Sherwood, who was also dissatisfied
witii conforraity. Yet some of the inhabitants were for th?
English cereraonies, and upon Mr, Leverton's arrival, would
have had him rainister to them in their own way. Hitherto
he had never considered the controversy ; but his impressions
of religion were such as the general custom of his ciountry
and education had raade. But now, being m^fle very serious
]}y the remarkable providences he had met with, and finding
Mr. Sherwood a pious person, he was disposed to hear his rea-i-
pons for Nonconforraity ; which induced hira heartily to fall in
with him in the sarae way. During his stay at Providence, the
Spaniards made an assault upon the island, but were repulsed
with considerable loss ; Mr. Leverton with great courage
continuing all the while on the shore to animate the people.
At length the governor, leaving the island, ? difference arose
jn the colony. He naraed his successor, but the people
pleading a right by charter to chuse their own governor, fixed
fl person of their own nomination in that station, one captain
Lane. < But the other privately arming some of the ruder
sort, seized Latie find bpth the ministers, and sent them pri
soners to England, with an information against them to Abp,
Laud, that they were disaffected to the liturgy and ceremo
nies of England. When they arrived here^ the state of things;
vyas changed, and Laud was in custody of the black-rod.
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They were kindly received by the lords-patentees or proprie
tors of the island, and encouraged to return. Mr. Sherwood
being of a timorous temper, chose to -stay here. But captain
Lane and Mr. Leverton returned, plentifully furnished for
their voyage, and authorized with a new coraraission.
At their approach to the island, they found the Spaniards
had seized It in their absence. However, at Mr. Leverton's,
desire, they ventured an engagement with thera, killed a great
many of their raen, and forced their armed long-boats ashore.
After this they continued In those seas for two years, and saw
many of God's -wonders in the deep ; too raany to be here
particularly related. They experienced several preservations,
almost miraculous, from faraine, from ihe Spaniards, and in
yiolent storms. Twice they lost their ship, and were provi
dentially taken up, once by a Frenchman, and another time
by a Dutchman, and both times set afloat again In a Spanish
pink made prize. For these two years Mr. Leverton declared
he raet not with one bit of bread. At length they resolved to
return horae, and by the assistance of a French vessel arrived
safe at Si. Christophers. Captain Lane and sorae of the men
proceeded directly to England, but Mr. Leverton and sorae
others inclined to settle there ; till observing the dissolute
ness of the place, and seeing littie hope of doing good among
them, after four or five months trial, he took the opportunity
of a French frigate to return for Europe. But in this voyage
he met with one of his greatest dangers. A dead calm con
tinuing long at sea, alraost all their provisions were spent.
For many days they had but eight spoonsful of pease and a
pint of water per man. The captain and Mr. Leverton con
tented themselves with the same allowance. At length they
were all black with famine, and ^ere reduced alraost to ske
letons. Mr. Leverton ^'v ery day, morning and evening, called
the English together, prayed with thera, and instructed them ;
which he did with more success, on account of their melan
choly circurastances. The French were most of them Protest
ants, and joined with them as well as they could. At length
upon keeping a day of solemn prayer, no sooner was it ended,
than they discovered a ship ; and upon making towards it,
foundit an English merchant-man, bound, for Bermudas,
which took all the English on board, and plentifully supplied
the French for their voyage home. On board this ship was
the Governor of Bermudas, who observed, that this ship's
coming there at that time was by a very uncommon provi
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dence : " But I perceive, says he, Mr. Leverton, it was all
in God's great favour to you."
. They soon arrived safe at Bermudas ; where the governor
and he went Into a long-boat, and were raet on their land
ing, by the governor's lady and a young gentiewoman of the
country, whora he soon after married. Here he preached
with great acceptance for about a year : but having a fit of
sickness, and not perfectiy recovering his health, it was
thought advlseable that he should return to England, and try
his native air. Arriving at the Downs he landed at Sand-
wich ; where, as he was taking horse for London, the ostler
says to him, " Mr. — , you are somewhat like our rainister,
I believe you have lived in the hot countries as well as he."
Upon inquiry, he found this minister to be his old colleague,
Mr. Sherwood, who was settled there : which brought them
to an interview again to their mutual joy. — Coming to Lon
don, he was received with great honour and respect by the
lords proprietors of the island of Providence, and soon after
settied as rainister of High-Hedingham in Suffolk; where
be sent for his wife, and had his first child, which he called
Gershom, for the sarae reason that Moses called his son by
that narae, for said he, ' I have been a stranger in a sti-ange
land.' After sorae years abode in Suffolk, Mr. Anthony
Nicols, one of the eleven excluded merabers, who hads for
merly known him in the university, took hira into Cornwat,
and settied hira at St. Tudy, the parish Vvherein his own
house stood. Here he lived nine or ten years, signally use
ful in settling some who were inclined to novel opinions, and
awakening many out of their carnal security. He kept up
a weekly lecture there on Thursdays, with the assistance of
his neighbouring brethren, which was well attended by the
gentlemen thereabouts.
Mr. Leverton was subject to warm passions, but they were
speedily over. He was molested by the Quakers; but would
not be obstructed in his work by thera. — Upon the Restora
tion, he; was not only ejected, but met with farther troubles.
The forraer incumbent of St. Tudy had been sequestered a
year or two before he settled there, butdled before the change.
Lord Mohun, the patron, was solicited to continue Mr. Le
verton, but In vain; for he presented his chaplain tothe
living, who treated him harshly, and, on pretence of dilapi
dations, woiild have seized his goods ; but that was pre
vented by the kindness of the people, who bought them and
carried them off. After this, Lord Mohun prosecuted him
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for the main profits, ever since he was in possession, and
¦would not accept of any composition within the compass of
his ability. This necessitated him to secure himself by ab
sconding. Lord Willoughby oi Parham, being appointed go
vernor of Swinam, Mr. Oxenbridge, a minister at London,
who had been acquainted with Mr, Leverton at Bermudas,
sent him an offer of going as minister there ; which, with the
advice of his friends, he accepted. But after he had been
there a few weeks, and seemingly fixed to his satisfaction, he
suddenly died.
ST. WINNOW [V.] Mr. Thomas Hancock; who
continued preaching in these parts, as he had opportunity, till
extrerae old age. Upon the liberty granted by K. James,he
held a public raeeting at East-Loo. Dr. Walker says. He
was a tanner ; but if he had been so, it was not for that rea
son he was silenced.
Mr. Theophilus Tingcombe, was but a candidate in
1662, preaching only occasionally: but was afterwards mi
nister of a dissenting congregation at Callingion in tiiis
county. The following afterwards conforraed : —
Mr. Leonard Welstead of Penzance. — Mr. Nich.
Teage orTvACK. — Mr. Tho. Nicols of Liskeard.— Mr.
Tho. Warner. — Mr. William White oi Ladock. — Mr.
Mr. Robert Jago sen, — Mr. Philip Harris oi Si. Eue. —
Mr. John Stephens oi Roch. — Mr. Robert J ago jun. He
had been a zealous Nonconformist, and was in jail three
months for defaming the liturgy ; but as soon as he came
out, he accepted a benefice which was offered him, and af
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ADDINGHAM [V.j Mr. Daniel Broadley. §Itis
queried whether this place be not in the West Riding
in Yorkshire.
BOULNESS [R.] Mr. John Saxton. § It appears fiom
Mather's History of New England, that a minister of this
name went into that country. The author gives the follow
ing account of hira. " He was a Yorkshire raan ; a studious
and learned person : a great Hebrician. The unsettled con
dition of the colony, and some unhappy contentions in the
plantation where he lived, put him upon removing frora Sci
tuate, first to Boston, and so to England, inhis reduced age.
I find in Mr. Ry ther's devout book, intitied A Plot for Ma
riners, this passage related concerning him. An okl Puritan
minister, Mr. Saxon oi Leeds in Yorkshire, in a storm, as
he was coming from New England, when they were all ex
pecting the vessel to sink, said — O who is now for Heaven ?
— who is bound for Heaven ?" Math. Hist. B. iii. p. 214.
BRAMPTON [V.] Mr. Burnand. Of Camb. Univ.
Son of old Mr. Nath. Burnand, the chief minister in Dur-
hatn in the time of the civil wars. He first lived as chaplain
three years in the faraily of Mr. Harrison oi Allerthorp, and
was afterwards a noted preacher in this county, till the Bar
tholoraew-act silenced him. When he was ejected, he re
tired to the desert places in Austin-moor, and there took a
farra, which he managed carefully, for the subsistence ofhis
family ; on the Lord's-day preaching In his own house, and
afterwards at Burneston in public, where he was connived
at. At length, Providence favouring Sir W, Blackei in his
lead mines, he fixed him there to preach to his miners, with
an allowance of 30/. per annum. He had great suc
cess among, those ignorant creatures, and did much good.
But the mines failing, he was again at a loss, and came up to
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London, and from thence went for some time to a congrc-
ticm at Harwich, But age coming upon him, he at length
returned to London, and subsisted upon the charity of well
disposed Christians, till death give hira his release,
BRIDEKIRK [V.J Mr. George Benson. After his
ejectment he retired into Lancashire, where he lived at Kel-
let, and preached in his house. He died In 1691, aged j6,
§ He was grandfather to the late Dr. George Benson of Lon
don, in the meraoirs of whose life, prefixed to his History of
the L'ife of Christ, is the following account ofhis ancestors.
" He was born at Great Salkeld In Cumberland, Sept. 1,
1699, of very pious parents, who had a numerous family,
and were blessed in seeing several of them becoming remark
ably good christians. The family was originally from Lon
don. John Benson, the Dr.'s great grandfather, left Lon
don towards the end of Q. Elizabeth's leign, and settled at
Salkeld, where the family raade a considerable figure. He
had thirteen sons, from the eldest of whora the late Lord
Bingley descended. In the civil wars, occasioned by the
mal-adrainlstratlon of Charles I. George Benson, the young
est son of the Dr.'s grandfather, engaged on the side of li
berty and the parliaraent, and suffered considerably in his
fortune ; particularly frora the Scots, when they entered
England, in order to raise Charles II. to the throne, and were
defeated at the battle of Worcester. The love of liberty, ci
vil and religious, the Dr. derived from ancestors of this spirit,
who after the Restoration were Protestant Dissenters."
CARLISLE. Comfort Star, M. A. Born at Ash-
ford'm Kent, where his father was a physician. He was
educated in New England, and was some time Fellow of
Harvard College. § In a list, whicl:| Mr. Cotton Mather
has given, of above three hundred and fifty students educated,
in that college, from the year 1642, to 1698, we find his
name thus mentioned, — 1647. Consolantius Star, Socius.
B. iv. p. 1 36. — After he was ejected frora Carlisle, he per
formed laborious service in several places in the county of
Kent, and at last became pastor of a church at Lewes in
Sussex, where he died Oct. 30, 1711, in the 87th year of his
age.
COCKERMOUTH. George Larkham, M. A. - Of
Trin. Col. Camb. Son of Mr. T. Larkham, who was
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was forced to escape Into Yorkshire, with his numerous fa
mily. While he was there, ,he suffered much, being ille
gally imprisoned In York for several weeks. In 1668, after
many troubles, he returned to his people in Cumberland,
and God was pleased to crown his labours among them with
abundant success. He died Dec. 26, 1700, aged 71, after
he had exercised his rainistry In that place 48 years. He was
a raan of bright parts, and a courageous teraper, till the latter
part of his life, when he grew somewhat pensive.
CROGLIN [R,] John Rogers, M. A- Of Wadham
Col. Oxf. The eldest son of Mr, John Rogers, rainister of
Chacomb in Northamptonshire. Born Ap. 25, 1610. He
was for some time preacher at Middleton Cticyney in that
county, and afterwards at Leigh in Kent. Thence he was
sent, by order of parliament, to Bernard Castle, In the bi
shopric of Durhara, where he settled In 1644, and continued
till March 2, 1660, when he removed to Crogtin, where the
Act of M?i5/brH;/(!/ found and ejected hira. He often spoke
with pleasure of Mr. Wheatly of Banbury as his spiritual fa
ther. When he carae to Bernard Castle he made out a list
of the number of souls In his parish, which were about 2OD0.
He took an exact account who of them were persons of know
ledge, and who were Ignorant ; who were fit or unfit for the.
Lord's table, Kc. Those who were Ignorant he conversed
much with, gave them good books, catechized and instructed
them, till he thought them qualified for that sacred soleranity.
He took great care of poor children, that they raight not be
trained up in ignorance and idleness. He was much respect-
by Sir Henry Vane and his son, whose seat at Raby Castle
in that neighbourhood gave opportunity for frequent conver
sation. As an old acquaintance, he afterwards waited upon
young Sir Henry when imprisoned in the Tower, for his
concern in the death of Charles I. and found him resolute,
and not sensible of any crime. — In those times of confusion,
when soldiers often becarae preachers, an officer of npte then
quartering in the town, sent to Mr. Rogers to demand the
use of his pulpit, bidding him refuse at his peril. But Mr.
Rogers, instead of coraplying, desired to know who gave
hira authority to preach ,? saying, " That the rainisterial of
fice was very distinct frora the military ; and that therefore,
though the soldiers kept the town, he resolved to guard the
pulpit." — He was a zealous observer of the Lord's-day, and
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tiiat day. He had sorae difficulty with the Quakers, who
much increased thereabouts ; but his carriage was so engaging,
that even many of them could not forbear giving him a good
word. He was given to hospitality, and was indeed the
Gaius of those parts, entertaining all ministers and Christians,
who passed that way, with great openness and fieedom. His
removal to Croglin, after he was ejected at Bernard Castle,
was by the procurement of lord Wharton. And though he
was ejected there also, yet he kept his teraper and modera
tion. He was of a catholic spirit, and a great eneray to nar
row and uncharitable principles or practices. He had always
a good correspondence with the neighbouring clergy, and ,
was treated very respectfully by those of the greatest erai
nence, viz. Dr. Stern, Abp. of York ; Dr. Rainbow, Bp.
of Carlisle; and the Bp. of Durhara ; on the latter of whom
he often waited, and by reason of his acquaintance in his
younger days with the old lord Crew, was always received iu
a manner peculiarly obliging.
He continued the exercise ofhis ministry, after hts being
ejected, without fear. He licensed a place or two in 1672,
at Darlington and Stockton in Durhara. When the Indul
gence expired, he preached in his own house at Siartford,
one Lord's day; and another, either in Teesdale, or In Ware-
dale, araong those who wrought in the lead-mines- Many
a troublesome journey did he take to those poor people, thro*
very deep snows, and over high raountains, when the road
was extremely bad, and the cold very severe. But he made
nothing of the fatigue, through his love to souls ; especially
as he was encouraged by the mighty eagerness of those ho
nest people to hear the word. He used to preach frequentiy
on the week-days also. And yet for all his pains he did not
receive abovte 10/. per annum, but lived upon what he had of
his own, with which he was both generous and charitable.
He used to embrace all occasions for good discoyrse. Il be
ing customary in the North, after a funeral, to have an Ar-
val, (as they call it) or dinner,, he would speak so suitably of
divine things, even in the mid^t of the entertainment, that
some bitter raalignant people would refuse to be present there,
when they knew he would be one of the company ; because,
said they, we shall find Rogers preaching there, — He diec^'
with great calmness and resignation, at Startford, In York
shire, Nov. 28, 1680. His funeral sermon was preached by
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Ttm. Hogets, of Wantage, Berkshire, was his son, who was
afterwards colleague with Mr. Shower at the Old Jewry.
WORKS. A Little Catechism.— And two Letters to Mr. R.
Wilson, upon the death ofhis daughter, whose Life was published
under the title of The Virgin Saint,
§ The following remarkable anecdote of Mr. Rogers is -well
worthy of being here recorded. Sir Richard Cradock, a
justice of peace, who was a violent hater and persecutor ofthe
dissenters, and who exerted himself to enforce all the severe
laws then in being against them, happened to live near Mr.
Rogers, to whom he. bore a particular enmity, and whora he
Wanted above all things to have in his power. Hearing that
he was one day to preach some miles distant, he thought that
a fair opportunity offered for accomplishing his base design ;
and in order to it hired two mento go as spies, and take down
the names of all the hearers whom they knew, that they raight
appear as witnesses against both them and Mr. Rogers. The
plan seemed to succeed to his wishes. These men brought
him the names of several persons who were present at the
nieeting, and he warned such of thera as he had a particular
Spite against, together with Mr. Rogers, to appear before
hira. Knowing the violence of the man, they carae with
trembling hearts, expecting to be treated with the utraost se
verity. While they were waiting in the great hall, expect
ing to be called upon, a little girl, about six or seven years
of age, who was Sir Richard's grand daughter, happened to
come into the hall. She looked at Mr. Rogers, and was
much taken with his venerable appearance. He being natu
rally fond of children, took her upon his knee and caressed
her, which occasioned her to conceive a great fondness for
him. At length Sir Richard sent a servant to inform him
and the rest, that one of the witnesses being taken ill, was
unable to attend, and that therefore they must come again
another day. They accordingly came at the time appointed.
and being convicted, the justice ordered their mittimus to ha
written to send them all to prison. Mr. Rogers, expecting
to see the littie girl again, brought some sweat meats with him
to give her. As soon as she saw liiin, she came running to
him, and appeared fonder of him tban before. This child,
being a particular favourite of her grand-father, had got .such
au ascendancy over him, that he could deny her nothing,
and she possessed such a violent spirit that she could bear no
contradiction, so that she was indulged in every thing she
•wanted. At one time when she had been contradicted, she
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run a pen-knife into her arra to tlie great~ danger ofher Hit,
This bad spirit in the present instance was over-ruled for
good.; — 'While she was sitting on Mr. Rogers's knee eating
the sweet-meats, she looked earnestly at hira, and asked,
*' What are you here for, Sir,'" He answered, " I believe
" your grandfather is going to sendrae and ray friends to jail,"
— " To jail," says she, " why what have you done ?" " Why
" I did nothing but preach at such a place, and they did no-
" thing but hear me." — But, says she, my grand-papa sha'n't
" send you to jail." "Aye bur, my dear, said he, 1 believe
" he is now raaking out our nilttiraus to send us all there."
Upon this, she ran up to the chamber where Sir Richard
was, and knocked with her head and heels till she got in, and
said to him, " What are you going to do with my good old
gentleman In the hall ,''" That's nothing to you, said he, get
you about your business, " But I wo'nt, says she: he tells
me that you are going to send hira and his friends to jail, and
if you send them, I'll drown rayself in the pond as soon as
they are gone : I will indeed," When he saw the child thus
peremptory, it shook his resolution, and induced him to aban
don his malicious design. Taking the mittiraus in his hand,
he went down into the hall and thus addressed these good
men. " I had here mad'e out your mittimus to send you all
to jail, as you deserve ; but at my grand-child's request, I
drop the prosecution, and set you all at liberty." They all
bowed, and thanked his worship. But Mr. Rogers, going
to the child, laid his hand upon her head, and lifting up his
eyes to heaven, said, " God bless you, my dear child ! May
" the blessing of that God whose cause you did now plead,
" though as yet you knpw him not, be upon you in life, at
" death, and to all eternity !" He and his friends then went
away. The above remarkable story was told by Mr. Timothy
Rogers, the son of the ejected minister, who had frequently
heard his father relate it wi til great pleasure ; and the cele
brated Mr. Thomas Bradbury once heard it from him, when
he was dining at the house of Mrs. Tooly, an erainent chris
tian lady In London, who was distinguished for her religion,
and for her love to Christ and his people ; whose house and
table, like Lydia's, were always open to thera. — What fol
lows Is yet raore remarkable, as containing a striking proof
of the answer which was returned to good Mr. Rogers's
prayers for this child, and the blessing which descended upon
her who had been the instrument of such a deliverance for
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¦these persecuted servants of God. Mrs. Tooly had listened
with uncommon attention to Mr, .ffo^er^'s story, and when
he had ended It, she asked him, " And are you that Mr. Ro
gers's son?" He told her he was: upon which she said,
" Well, as long as I have been acquainted with you, I never
" knew that before. And now I will tell you somethinp-
*' which you do not know: I am the very girl your dear
" father blessed in the manner you have related ; and it made
" an impression upon rae which I could never forget," —
Upon this double discovery Mr. Rogers and Mrs. Tooly
found an additional tie of mutual love and affection and then
he and Mr. Rradbuty expressed a desire to know how she,
who had been brought up in an aversion to the Dissenters,
and to serious religion, now discovered such an attachment
to both. Upon which she chearfully gave them the follow
ing narrative.
After her grand-father's death she became sole heiress to
his estate, which was considerable. Being in the bloom of
youth, and having none to eontroul her, she run into all the
fashionable diversions of the age, without any restraint. But
she confessed that when the pleasurable scenes were over, she
found a dissatisfaction both with them and herself that always
struck a damp to her heart, -which she did not know how to
get rid of any other way than by running the same round over
and over again ; but all vvas in vain. Having contracted some
slight illness, she thought she would go to Rath, hearing that
it was a place for pleasure as well as health. When she came
thither she was providentially led to cousult an apothecary
who was a very worthy and religious man. When he in
quired what ailed her, she ans-vyered, " Why, doctor, I don't
" ail rauch as to my body, but I have an uneasy raind, that I
" cannot get rid of." — Truly Miss, said he, I was so too till
I met with a certain book ; "and that cured rae. " Books !
said she : I get all the books I can lay ray hands on : all the
plays, novels and roraances I hear of : but after I have read
thera ray uneasiness is the sarae." l^hat may be, Miss, said
he, and I don't woftder at it. But as to this book I speak of,
Ican say of it what I can say of no other I ever read, That
I never tire in reading it, but can begin tp read it again as if
I had never read it before ; and I always see something new
in it. " Pray Doctor, says she, what book Is that ?"— -Nay,
Miss, answered he, that is a secret I don't tell every one.
" But could not I get a sight of that book .?" says she, " Yes,
replied he, if yoii speak me fair, I can help vou to a sight of it.
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" Pray then get it me Doctor, and I'll give you any thing
" you please." " Yes, said he, if you will promise me one
thing, I'll bring It you : and that is, that you will read it
over carefully ; and if you should not see rauch in it at first.
that you will give it a second reading." She promised faith
fully that she would. After coraing two or three rimes with
out it, to raise her curiosity, he at last took it out ofhis poc
ket and gave it her.
This book was the New Testaraent. When she look
ed at it she said, with a flirt, " Poh I I could get tbat at
*' any tirae." Why Miss, said he, so you raight: hut re
meraber I have your solemn promise that yon will read it
carefully. " Well, says she, though I never read it before,
" I'll give it a reading.'' Accordingly she began to read ir,
and it soon attracted her attention. She saw something in
it, wherein she had a deep concern ; but her mind now be
came ten times raore uneasy than ever. Not knowing what
to do, she soon returned to London, resolved to try again
what the diversions there would do to dissipate her gloom.
But nothing of this kind answered her purpose. — She lodged
at the court end of the town, where she had with her a fe
male companion. One Saturday evening she had a remark
able dreara, which was, That she was in a place of worship
where she heard a sermon, but when she awoke she could
reraeraber nothing but the text. This dreara, however, made
a deep irapression upon her raind ; and the idea she had of
the place and of the rainister's person, was as strong as if
she had been long acquainted with both. On the Lord's-
day morning, she told her dream to her companion, and said,
that after breakfast she was resolved to go in quest of the
place, though she should go from one end of London to the
otliter. They accordingly set out, and went into several
churches as they passed along, but none of them answered to
what she saw in her dream. About one o'clock they found
theraselves in the heart of the city, where they dined, and
then set out again in search of this place of worship.
Being in the Poultry about half an hour after two o'clock,
they saw a great number of people going down the Old
Jewry, and she determined to see where they went. She
mingled with the company, and they conducted her to the
meeting-house in the Old Jewry, where Mr. Shower was
then minister. As soon as she entered the door, and surveyed
the place, she turned to her companion and said, with some
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had not been long before she saw Mr, Shower go up into the
pnlpit, and looking at him with greater surprise, she said,
" This is the very man I saw in ray dream, and If every
part of it hold true, he will take for his text Psalm cxvi. 7.
Return unto thy rest, O my soul, fm^ the Lord hath dealt
bountifully with thee., When he rose up to pray, shfe was
ajl attention, and every sentence went to her heart. Having
finished his prayer, he took that very passage which she had
mentioned for his text, and God was pleased to raake the
discourse founded upon it, the raeans of her saving conver
sion ; and thus she at last found what she had so long sought
elsewhere in vain. Rest io her soul. ' And now she obtained
that blessing from God the fountain of felicity, which pious
Mr. Rogers, so many years before, had so solemnly and fer
vently implored on her behalf.
The above extraordinary narrative was communicated by
the late Rev. Mr. Davidson of Braintree, to Mr. Arch.
Wallace, merchant at Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1767. And was
authenticated by the well-known and respectable Dr. Wood
oi Norwich. The present venerable Dr. Erskine has print
ed it in a little volurae of Letters, chiefly addressed to the af
flicted. It was also published some years ago,, in a sraall
paraphlet by the Rev. Mr. Decourcy.
CROSBY [V.] Mr. John Collyer.
CROSTHWAITE. Mr. James Cave. Born at Ban
bury in Oxfordshire. His father was a brazier, but that he
was brought up to that business was a false report. He had
been in the wars in Scotland, where he was a captain, and
became for sorae time a preacher in Carlisle, from whence
he went to Keswick, where he resided, and exercised his
ministry at sorae ofthe chapelries in Crosthwaite parish.
He was ordained by the associated rainisters of Curaberland,
who gave him a testiraonial " as a person of an unblaraeable
life, and who appeared upon their exaraination to be duly
qualified and gifted for the ministry, and properly called to
it in that place." [This may be seen in Cal. Con. p- 229,
signed by Richard Gilpin, and six others.] He remained
sorae years at this place, where he studied hard, and was la
borious in preaching and repeating sermons, instructing and
catechizing youth. It appears that he had several orders of
the Commissioners for propagating the gospel in the four
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northern counties, for settiing him, and for augmenting hi'tf.
salary. They appointed him preacher at Crosby, Sealeby,
and Stannix, with 80^. per annum. They afterwards sent
him to itinerate at Thornewait, Newland, and St. John's,,
with an appointment of 104/. per annum. These, it seeras,
are all of them in Crosthwaite parish, where it is most likely
the Act of uniformity found him. Before his officiating jn
these last chapelries, he had an invitation to Inverness, vt^ith
the offer of 160/. per annum ; but did not accept it. After
his ejectment he often removed, till marrying at Daventry
in Northamptonshire, he settied, and continued theie till he
came to London, wherrf he was well known. He there took
the opportunity of K. Charles's Declaration in 1672, publicly
to exercise his ministry, for which purpose he took out a li
cence. He died in i694.
EDENHALL [C] Mr. Thomas Tailor. A native of
Scotiand. He lived about ten years after his ejectment,
preaching at Alston-moor, and other places as he liad oppor
tunity. EGREMONT [R.] Mr. Halsell. An Antinomian.
GREYSTOCK [R. S. 300Z.] Richard Gilpin. M. D,
He was designed by God for great work in his church, and
was singularly quahfied for it. He had a lajge share of na
tural abilities, which he had wonderfully improved by an un
wearied industry; so that there was scarcely any thing that
accomplished a man, a scholar, a physician, or divine, but he
possessed it in great perfection. There was a pleasing mix
ture pf raajesty and sweetness, affableness and gravity in his
countenance, which he conld alter with ease, as the business
or persons he had to do with required, so as to keep up the
dignity of his profession, and raake religion both raore aw
ful and raore alluring. He had a fine and delicate fancy,
expressing itself in a copiousness of words, which gave clear
and lively iraages of things, and kept up tlie life, strength,
and elegance pf the English tongue. His memory was strong^
and faitiiful ; his judgment, most quick and penetrating ; but
he always exercised it on the sentiments of others with great
candour. He had so well digested all necessary parts of
learning, that he had them in readiness whenever he wanted
them, and used thera iu his discourses with great advantage.
He had all the necessary qualifications for a preacher, in th«
Uig,hest degree. His voice was strong, but sweet and we)X-
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fhodelled ; and he had the trae skill of fixing his accent.
There was a proper force in his raanner of speaking, without
^ny undue transport. His expressions were conceived, and
his sermons delivered, without the use of notes ; and he was
well q,ualified for that way of preaching. His strong me
mory, his ready invention, his great presence of mind, and
his natural fluency, raade hira able to speak well and grace
fully, with ease and a becoming boldness. He could clothe
any matter in apt words, with all the ornaments of a regular
^locution, and his discourses had all the graces of natural
pratory. But what compleated all -was, they carae from a
serious raind, which was visible both in his countenance and
expressions. He spake frora his very heart, as appeared in
tlie forceableness of his words, sometiraes In his tears, and of-
en in both. He spoke with solemnity and raajesty, and yet
with so much meekness, as declared hira to be a raan of
God and an ambassador of Christ. His gestures were ad
mirably graceful, and expressive of what he delivered, iri
which he was a great example, both as to design and method.
His design in the ordinary course of his preaching was vast
gnd noble. He usually pursued some subject on various
texts. Every head, with its enlargements was closely stu
died ; and his particulars under each were admirably chosen.
In his Applications hewas most plalp, familiar, and striking.
" They were like so many set discourses of persuasion ; and
were delivered with the most address, and with the greatest
warmth and vigour. He entered upon them usually with
some rouzing lively preface to gain attention, and then offered
his motives, which were urged with the most pungent ex
pressions. Here his earnestness increased together with the
vehemence of his voice. He had a feeling apprehension of
the importance of what he was urging upon his hearers, and
every word was big with concern of mind. In easy but
moving expressions, and with a distinguishing pathos, he
would plead with sinners, some times for a whole serraon
together, without flagging in his affections, or suffering his
hearers to do it.
In prayer he was most solemn and fervent, and usually ex
pressed himself much in scripture-language, and with a flood
<)f affection ; the very fountains of it seemed, in the per
formance of that duty, to be broken up, and the great deep
Qf it opened so as often to force him to silence, till he had
vented it by tears. He was a raan of a distinguishing know
ledge an4 experience in the mysteries of Christianity ; and
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of a discerning spirit, in understanding a work of grace
upon the hearts of others. With a clear head and searching
skill in divine things, he had a sincere and warm heart. The
fire of zeal, and the light of knowledge, accorapanied each
other. He kept up a serious temper at all times, and in all
places and company, without much discernible alteiafion or
abatement ; but this did not in the least sour his temper,
which was habitually chearful, — His skill in government
shewed itself in the managing a numerous congregation, of
very different opinions and terapers : His integrity, modesty,
and contempt of the world appeared in refiisiug the bishop
ric of Carlisle, as another of the family (Mr. Rernard Gil
pin) had done before him, consonant to their motto, Dictis
factisq; simplex. — The care of the churches lay'upon him.
His unblameable character procured him esteera araongst all
but those whose ill-nature would suffer thera to speak well
of none who differed frora thera. He was rauch respected by
many for the good he had done thera as a physician. Among
persons of rank and quality, all necessary raeans were scarcely
thought to have been used, if Dr. Gilpin had not been con
sulted. This world was not in his eye ; none could charge
him with any thing like covetousness. He went about do
ing good both to the souls and bodies of men. — He had been
a preacher in Lambeth, and at the Savoy, where he was as
sistant to Dr. Wilkins. Also at Durham, and at Grey stock ;
but he lived longest in Newcastle. He went into the pulpit
the last time he was in it, under a feverish indisposition, and
preached frora 2 Cor. v. 2. ' For in this we groan earnestly,'
Kc. and, to the surprize of all, he rather groaned than spake
this sermon. His lungs being at that time too tender for his
work, his disease seized that part, and he was brought home
in a peripneumonia, which in ten days time put a period to
his life.
WORKS. The Temple rebuilt; Sermons before the united
ministersof Cumberland and Westmoreland. — The Heads of agree
ment between the ministers of these two counties. — A Treatise of
Satan's Temptations. — An Assize sermon in 1660. — Thecomfort%
of divine love; ori the death of Mr. Timothy Manlove. — Among
several MSS. he left a valuable treatise concerning the pleasant
ness ofthe ways of religion.
HUTTON. Mr. John Jackson.
ST. JOHN'S CHAPEL. Mr. James Carr.
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KIRKLEVINGTON [V.] Mr. Hooper.
LASENBY [V.] Mr. Simon Atkinson. A very acute
man, and of good judgment; especially exact in his school
learning. He died in Sept. 1694, in consequence of a cold,
caught in travelling from Penrith, where he preached at the
opening of a lecture, encouraged by Dr. Thomas Gibson, of
Hatton Garden, in London.
MELMERBY [R.] Mr. William Hopkins.
PENRITH [v.] Mr. Roger Baldwin. After his ejec
tion he reraoved into Lancashire, where he took a farm, for
which he paid a considei-able fine. Having three children,
he took it for their lives, not putting in his own ; but it
pleased God that he outlived them all : upon which he quit
ted the farm, and at length fixed at Eccles near Manchester,
where he preached at Monks^Hall, for many years, accept
ably and usefully. He was a solid, scriptural, judicious
preacher ; a man of good abilities, and of an agreeable tera
per. He was one of the Monday lecturers at Bolton. He
died June g, 1695, aged 70.
PLUMLAND [R.j Mr. Gawen Egglesfield.
SOWERBY [V.] Mr. Peter Jackson.
THURSBY. See Yorkshire.
TORPENHOW [V.] Mr. Thomas Turner.
WETHERHALL [C] Mr. Wilcox.
Mr. George Nicohlson. He was educated at Oxford,
under Mr. Theophilus Gale. He went down into Cum
berland a little before the Bartholoraew-act took place. Mr.
Hopkins, whohad gathered a church at Melraerby, resigned it
into his hands ; and by the connivance of Mr. West, (who
succeeded Mr. Broadley at Glassenby, he preached for
about a year, both at Glassenby) and Kirkoswold : For
Mr West, who was a prebendary, hoped to have drawn him
into conformity by mildness, and fair promises of doing
¦ great things for him. While he was here, a certain curate,
being instigated by other persons, as he was praying before
his sermon, began to read the Common-prayer, but upon per
ceiving a general disgust, desisted. After the Act took place,
which kept him out of the public churches, he preached in
private houses as opportunity offered. Sir Philip Mus-
grave once surprized a meeting where he was the preacher ;
and thereupon the goods of the master of the house were i-^
seized, and some also of his ; and they were forced to pay
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down the money which the law required. After this hehaS
a dispute with a certain curate, in Sir Philip's presencev
which occasioned that gentleman to be more moderate in hiS
carriage to hira afterwards. When K. Charles II. granted
, his Indulgence, he took a licence under the denomination of
a congregational minister. Upon K. James's liberty, he had
a meeting-place built for him at Huddteskew, at which he
preached till his death, which was serene and peaceable,
Aug. 20, 1697, aged about 60. He adrainistered the Lord's
Supper the Lord's-day before, when he quoted that text)
Luke xxii. 18. which was fulfilled in hiraself. He appeared
more than ordinarily affected in the administration, and a flood
of tears alraost stopped his voice. — He had good skill in the
Hebrexo language, was a popular preacher, and was instru-.
mental in doing good to many. There is a Sermon of his
extant in a hook called The Virgin Saint, containing thi
life of Mr. Wilson's daughter.
Anthony Sleigh, M. A. He was a candidate for the
ministry when the Bartholomew-act took place. He was
educated in a private academy at Durham, and took his de
grees at Edinburgh, 1660. He preached occasionally in the
public churches of Cumberland and Westmoreland till i662,
when he was silenced for his Nonconforraity. Being after
some time ordained, he fixed among Dr. Gi7/)zn's old hear
ers, with whom he continued all the time of K. Charles'i
reign ; performing the various duties ofhis ministerial func
tion with great faithfulness, notwithstanding all the discou
ragements he laboured under, both from the governraent and
from the people. He was twice imprisoned for preaching,
and once thrown into the dungeon for praying with the pri
soners. As soon as he was set at liberty he returned to his-
people, and preached to tliem in the night, when he could
have no other opportunity for it. For twenty years together,
he had not above twenty shillings a year from his people.
He continued with them after the Toleration, though he had
invitations to more profitable stations. Such was his love to-
hls poor flock, that nothing could separate him from them
but death. — Towards the latter end of his time, he was vio
lently tortured by the stone, which he endured with christian
patience, till God called him to his rest, in 1702. In the
whole of his life he was regular and blaraeless to such a de
gree, that the worst of his enemies could not in the least sully
his reputation. He was a man mighty in prayer, and of a
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ijiedt peaceable disposition. He loved not to be embroiled
in the controversies of the times, though he was able and
ready to give a rational account, both of his faith and prac
tice, to all christian inquirers.
Mr. Daniel King, Born at Brig of Allen, near Stir
ling in North Britain. He was brought up in the college of
Glasgow, and ordained at Edinburgh. By tfie interest of the
Earl of Queensberry, he obtained a living in this county, from,
which he was ejected for his Nonconformity. He afterwards
retumed to Scotiand, and was the Earl of Queensberry's
chaplain for above thirteen years, till the said Earl's death.
He used then and afterwards to preach occasionally, as hq
had opportunity. 'He died a,t Stirling, not long before th^
Revolution, about 60 years of age. He was well beloved,
and much followed wherever he preached.
WORKS. After his being in Scotland, he published a book
entitied. Advice to all those who love their souls. He also printedi
several other pieces.
The following afterwards conformed ;
Mr. James Cragg of Newkirk. — Mr. John Forward
of Bolton. — Mr. John Michael or Myriel of Lampley,
the seat of Mr. lamplug^.^rMr. George Yates of Ari»
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IN
DERBYSHIRE.

ALLESTRY [C.] Mr. Timothy Staniforth. He and
Mr. Jonathan Staniforth of Hognarston, were brothers,
the sons of an ancient godly minister, and both of thera good
m^n. For several ye^^rs they Ijved together, and gave thera
selves much to reading, as they had a good library. After
their ejectment, and the passing of the Oxford-act, they
•were driven ' from place to place ; but in all places they la
boured for the good of souls, as they had opportunity, and
not without success. They often preached in the night,
for the greater secvirity,, particularly about Heage, and
many had cause .to blpss God for their services there.. They
at length rem<5ved to a very obscure, though honest faraily,
where they died, within a little tirae of each other, with
much satisfaECtipn; and with lively hopes of that heavenly in
heritance which they had chosen and long laboured for.
ASTON upon Trent [R. S.J Mr. Thomas Palmer.
He had been minister of St. Lawrence-Poultney church in
London, from whence he removed to this place. He was
ejected frora hence soon after the Restoration, to make room
for Mr. Clark, the sequestered clergyraan. About July
1663, he was imprisoned at Nottingham, [whei-e he was
pastor of a church] for preaching in conventicles.
§ WORKS. Before the Re.storation, he printed a .small piece,
entitled, A little map ofthe old world ; with a map of Monarchy,
and epitome of Papacy. He seems, from this piece, to have been
a violent enemy to Charles 1.
BARROW upon Trent [V. 20l. augmented to 40/.]
Daniel Shelmerdine, M. A, of Christ Col. Camb. Son
of Mr. Shelmerdine of Matlock. He was born at Crich,
Jan, 1636, or 1637 ; educated at Repton-school, and
ordained by the classical presbytery of Wirksworth. 
He first preached in the faraily of colonel Gre'vis, of
Mosely in Worcestershire, where he was for sorae tirae
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and Twyford, two small places adjacent, where he was si
lenced by the Act of Uniforraity. He afterwards rented a
farm at Twyford for seventeen years. He was several tiraes
iraprisoned, and suffered rauch on the account of Noncon-
forraitv. When liberty was settled by law, he preached oc
casionally at Derby and several other places ; not daring to
hide his Lord's talent in a napkin. He died at Findren in
this county, In October 1699. He was a valuable man, and
a useful preacher.
BLACKWELL [V.] Mr. Isaac Bacon.
BREDSALL [R.] John Hieron, M.A. Oi Christ's
Col, Camb. His father was minister at Stapenhill, near
Burton upon Trent, where he was born in August, 1608.
He had many providential deliverances in his childhood,
which, when he grew up, he thankfully recorded. He laid
a good foundation in school-learning, under Mr. Whitehead
at Repton. At Cambridge (where he was admitted May 2,
i6';/g,) he was under the tuition of Mr. Wm. Chappel,
afterwards Bp. of Cork, and Ross, in Ireland. In 1628, he
-went into Yorkshire, to Mr. Thurscrosse, an acquaintance
of his tutor's, and prebendary of York, with whom he lived
fbr some tirae at Kirby-Moor-side, reading prayers for him,
and teaching school in the town. Being bent upon the mi
nistry, he made application to the learned Dr. Morton, Bp.
of Coventry and -Litchfield, who having exarained and ap
proved hira, ordained hira both deacon and presbyter, i630.
In a year and a half he removed to Eggington, where he
-v^as houshold chaplain to Sir II, Leigh, and preached at
Newton-sulney. While he continued in this family, he
preached a week-day lecture at Bratby, at the request of a
a religious lady, Catherine, countess of Chesterfield. Iii
1633, he removed to Ashborne, where he succeeded Mr.
Taylor as lecturer. Here he was put Into the High -com
mission-court, and summoned by a pursuivant to appe.ir at
Lambeth ; which occasioned hira much trouble and expence.
He was forced to remove. to Derby, in the time of the civil
war, and was no sooner gone from' home than his house was
plundered. Frora Derby he reraoved with his family, in
1644, ^° Brodsall, where he continued till his ejectment in
1662. He was a very studious and learned man, well read in history.
He possessed a sound judgraent, and was a great master
of method, having thoroughly digested his tutor's man
ner of preaching. He was very ready in scripture chro
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'jiology, and admirably well acquainted with his Bible, of
which he was an excellent expositor. He was very zealous
for Gpd, earnest in every part of his work, and very com,
passionate in dealing with troubled souls. Besides preaching
twice every Lord's day, he expounded the scripture, and ca
techized. He taught publicly, and from house to house. He
assisted In most lectures in those parts, and he hiraself set
Tip a raonthly one at. DalcrAbby. He enforced his doctiine
•with an exeraplary life, and was a pattern to all round about
him, — When he was silenced, he requested Bp. Hacket to
allow him to preach gratis at Dale-Abby. The Bishop re
ftised, unless he would conform ; and yet there was no care
taken to supply the place with any other minister. He then
removed to Little-Eaton, [a very small villa.ge] not far
from Bredsall, thathe raight be near his beloved people-;,
but being driven thence by the Oxford-act, he move4
about from place to place, till at last he fixed in Losco ;.
where he continued exercising his ministry, partly in his^
own house, and partly in several others in the neighbpur-
hood, as long as he lived.
His sufferings did not exasperate him, but he kept his mo
deration, and frequented the public churches ; and yet waSj
fully satisfied in his Nonconforraity. A person once asking
him, Whether he did not repent leaving his place ? he an-,
iwered, " No ; I arn far from that : ftir I ha,vedon.e nothing
but what I have taught you to be your duty. Rather lose all
than sin against God. If Bredsall parsonage was the best
bishopric in England, I must do again what I have done. "—-
When the conventicle-act came out, he preached twice a.,
day in the largest families, with only four persons besides ;
and as raany under sixteen years of age, ^s wonld (jome. He
used also to repeat at night in his own hpuse. During the
Indulgence in 1672, he had full meetings ; bvt when th^
Declaration was recalled, he was more cautious. In his re
tirement he was useful to raany, who with great thankful-.
ness adored that providence which brought him- into thosfc
quarters, where he died, July 6, t682, aged 73. — In thfe
tirae of his health and strength, he studied hard, and made
jpany collections out of the books he read,. Among othei;
things, he abridged Poole's Synopsis, and added his own
collections. Mr.' Eobert Porter wrote an account of hia
life, in which are sorae of his private notes, which afford
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WORKS. Sermons, entitied The way to salvation.— A Dis
course of spiritual joy, for the relief of melancholy christians. —
Two Sermons on Ejthes, vi. 24, in tlie Country Collection of Fare
well Sermons, — Some of his Letters are added at the end of hi*
Life. — He left 2 vols, of Remarks upon scripture in MS.'
BRAMPTON [C] Mr. Robert More, of Clare-Hall',
Camb, He was born at Nottingham, His first preaching
was at Belper in this county, where he staid about a year,
and then reraoved to Brarapton, and was ordained by the
classis at Chesterfield. After his ejectraent, he suffered
many ways for his Nonconformity. Particularly, he was
once Indicted for not reading the book of Coramon-Prayer
tho' if was not yet corae down. In the time of Monmouth,
he (with raany peaceable ministers and others) was sent pri
soner to Chester castle. He was afterwards one of the pas
tors of the congregation in Derby, where he died in June
1704 ; the last of the ejected rainisters in this county.
BUCKNAL. Mr. Samuel Nowel.
BUXTON. Mr. John Jackson.
CALDWELL Mr. Nathaniel Barton.
CARSINGTON, [R. 70/.] Mr. John Oldfield.
Born near Chesterfield, and brought up at Bromfield
school, •\vhlch was at that time much celebrated. He was a
general scholar ; and a great master in the languages and
raatheraatics. He had a raechanical head and hand, capa
ble of any thing into which he had an opportunity to get an
insight. What some might reckon a reflection upon him
-was, in the judgraent of wise raen, his great honour, viz.
That he acquired his learning without being beholden to any
university. He had the offer of Tamworth living, and was
pressed to reraove thither, where he would have had a
much better incorae, but was prevented by the iraportunity
of his people. All -who knew hira acknowledged him to
have been a judicious divine, a good casuist, an excellent
preacher; pertinent and methodical; clear in opening his
text, and very close to the conscience in applying it. He
was a man of prayer, and well acquainted with the internals
df religion. He was a person of few words ; but if any
one gave him occasion, by starting any useful discourse,
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to want neither words nor sense. He was of a very peacea
ble spirit, and though his people were very capricious, and
hard to be pleased in ministers, yet they all centered in him.
He made many removes after he was ejected, but God ' told
• his wanderings, and he had songs in the house ofhis pilgri-
* mage.' He was a raan of great moderation ; which he
thought himself obliged to testify by going sometimes to
church ; and he would often discourse freely and araicably
upon the subject of conformity, with such of his acquaint
ance as were otherwise minded ; and yet he was many ways
a sufferer for his Nonconforraity. — He for some time preach
ed once a fortnight at Rodenuke, where a raeeting being dis
covered by two inforraers, they swore against him, upon
presuraption that he was the preacher, tho', as it fell out, it
was not his day : however he was prosecuted with rauch
eagerness. Whereupon he and John Spademan, Esq. (a
worthy gentleraan who was owner of the house where the
meeting was held) made their appeal, and gave such plain
evidence of his being ten miles distant at the time, that he
was cleared ; and the informers, being afterwards prosecuted
for perjury were found guilty. Upon which one of them
ran away, and the other stood in the pillory at Derby.
After the Act of uniformity passed, before it took place,
he studied his duty with all possible care, as to the compliance
required. He drew up, on this occasion, a soliloquy, with
that text prefixed, Eccl, vii. 14. In the day of adversity
consider. The following extracts from it will manifest the
seriousness of his spirit, his great impartiality, and his fear
of doing any thing in that critical juncture, which he could
not justify, as well as his desire of superior guidance.
" Consideration Is the way to resolution ; and well-grounded
resolution will fortify the soul against the impetuous violence
of man, and make it as the rock to repel the dashing waves.
To this, O my soul, I now invite thee. Rash engageraents
often end in sharaeful retreats, and base tergiversation. O
Thou Fountain of Wisdora, who ' givest it liberally and up-
• braidest not, to hira that asketh,' shine in upon ray dark un
derstanding; 'let thy spirit of truth lead rae into all truth,*
and so direct me in my consideration, that it raay end in pious
resolution ; and what thro' grace I purpose, let rae by grace
be enabled to perforra ! — It is not, O my soul, a light mat
ter thou art now eraployed in : it is not thy raaintenance, fa
mily, wife and children, that are the main things considera
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solution in the main business.  It is, O my soul, the glory
of God, the credit and advantage of religion ; the good of
that poor flock coramitted to thy keeping by the Holy Ghost ;
thy ministry, thy conscience, thy salvation and the salvation
of others, that must cast the scale, and deterraine thy resolu
tions. And where all cannot be at once proraoted (or at
least seera to cross one another) it Is fit the less should give
place to the greater. Thy ministry, thy people, must be
singularly dear and precious to thee ; incoraparably above
body, food, raiment, wife, children, and life itself: — But
when *hou canst no longer continue in thy work without
dishonour to God, discredit to religion, foregoing thy inte
grity, wounding conscience, spoiling thy peace, and hazard
ing the loss of thy salvation ; in a word, when the conditions
upon which thou must continue (if thou wilt continue) in
thy employment are sinful, and unwarranted by the word of
God ; thou mayest, yea, thou must believe, that God will
turn thy very silence, suspension, deprivation, and laying
aside, to his glory and the advancement qf the gospel's in
terest. When God will not use thee one way, he will in
another. A soul that desires to serve and honour God, shall
never want opportunity to do it : nor must thou so Hmit the
Holy One of Israel, as to think he hath but one way in which
he can glorify hiraself by thee. He can do it by thy silence,
as well as by thy preaching. Oh put on that holy indiffer
ence as to the raeans, so the end be but attained, which the
blessed apostie expresses, Phil, i. 20. « that Christ raight be
* raagnified in his body, whether by life or by death.' — Let
God have the disposal of thee, and doubt not but he will use
thee for his own glory, and his churches good, his respect
to which is infinitely greater than thine can be.
" But there is, O my soul, a Scylla and Charybdis in thia
voyage thou art raaking ,- a rock, both on one side and the
other : and therefore beware, lest thou raake it a light raatter
to be laid aside from thy work. Examine : hast thou so faith
fully discharged thy duty, that thou mayest take comfort in
the review of it, when suspended frora It ? Do not abundance
of failings, follifes, neglects, sinister-ends, tec, present them
selves to thee, when thou beginnest to review the course thou
hast run ? Think how littie service thou hast done for God
or his house. How heavy will thy account be, if to thy re
moval from thy work be added, the stinging reraerabrance,
of unfaithfulness in it ? Hast thou not by thy raiscarrlages
justiy provoked God to lay thee aside as a broken vessel ? Is
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not this dispensation as much the fruit of thy own sin as o^
others' raalice ,? Leam, O ray soul, to put every cause in it*
right order. The righteousness of the cause wherein thou
sufferest will not excuse thy unrighteousness, which is the
procuring cause of thy sufferings. Leam then, O my soul,
to justify God, to be silent towards men, and to condemn thy
self.— But there's another rock, against which thou art in
¦danger of splitting. Take heed, lest that be charged on God's
providence or mens injustice, which is caused by thy own wil
fulness and obstiiiacy. If tiiat which thou callest conscience
and duty, be found refractoriness and sin, thou not only losest
thy reward, but incurrest the guilt of thy own suffering, and
while thou chargest others, wilt be found accessary thyself to
thy own raurder as a minister. Here then lies the stress of
the consideration thou art upon ; whether the grounds upon
which thou art to suffer will bear thee out .' Whether thou
shalt 'suffer as a christian for righteousness sake?' Whether
the cause of suffering be as weighty as the suffering itself is
like to be ? That-if thou findest it otherwise, thou mayest
(Dum res in integro est) raake a timely retreat. I charge
thee, O my soul, to lay aside all prejudices, prepossessions,
and respects to, or sinister conceptions of. Men, of the one
or the other party. Away with camal wisdora, leaning
wppn thy own understanding. Let the word of God be um
pire. ' And because (O blessed Father) the way of man (to
* know as well as do it) is not in hiraself ; nor is it in raan
' that walks to direct his steps, I again and again implore
' directing grace : Lead me, O Lord, by thy counsel ; raake
' thy way plain before rae ; lead rae in a plain path, and into..
* the land of uprightness. Let not forraer errors be punish-
< ed, in thy leaving rae to err in this thing. Lord shew me
< thy way, and thro' grace I will say it shall be my way,
^ What can a poor weak creature say more ! Thou knowest,
' Lord, the heart of thy servant; O dispel clouds of igno-
• ranee, prejudice and passion ; take off all preponderating
* weights and propensions ; cast the scales which way may
*^ be most for thy glory, thy churches and my people's good,
' the peace of ray own conscience, and the salvation both of
' my pwn soul and the soiils of others.'
And canst thou, O my soul, think of laying down thy mi
nistry upon a light occasion ? Must matters of indifferency
give thee a supersedeas^ Oh take, heed, lest if like Jonah
thou overunnest thy embassy thro' discontent, thou be fetched
back with % storm...-.Whai ,if ms,n be Pharaoh's ta«k-mas- ters.

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ters, impose Such burdens as thou raayest even groati under ;
if they be only burdens and not sins, they must be, borne and
not shaken off. Nothing but i necessity of sinning in the
act, can absolve thee from that necessity which is laid upon
thee of preaching the gospel, and shelter tiiee from the influ-,
ence of that wo, which is denounced against thee for not
preaching it. The plain question then, which lies before
thee, O my soul, (and in the right resolution whereof conslstt;
the comfort of suffering, or the duty of continuing at thy
•¦work) is, Whether the conditions that are imposed, be sinfiil
or no ? Sinful, I say, not only in the iraposition of them,
but in subraission to them? whether thou canst, without
sinning against God, his church, thy people, thy conscience,
snd soul ; (all or ariy of these) subrait to the present condi
tions of continuing in thy place and employment ? Here's no
room for comparing sin with sin ; viz. whether it be a greater
jin to leave thy ministry, or perform such a sinful condition f
t hou art not necessitated to sin, nor must thou do the least
<vil, tho' the greatest good might come of it. Thou wilt
nave little thanks if, when thou art charged with corrupting
God's worship, falsifying thy vows, Kc. thou pretendest a
necessity of it in order to thv contmuance in the ministry,
He afterwards proceeds particularly to mention the condi
tions of the continued exercise of his ministry, (except that,
as to the book of Coraraon-Prayer with its amendments, not
being then extant, he was forced to suspend his thoughts con-
ijerning it,) and upon the whole he concludes, that to hold
on in the public exercise of the ministry, to hira would be
jin. — There were raany others who evidently acted in this
affair with equal caution, seriousness and impartiality : biii
this is the most solemn and express debate of that nature,
,4rawn up in writing, which hath as yet appealed. And
purely he who ob|erves that openness to conviction; thatcoi>-
(fern for special direction ; that readiness to yield to it with.
out reserve; and that unbiassed teraper which breathes in these
considerations ; will hardly be able to suppose that such a one
could be so far forsaken of God, in a matter so momentous,
;is to take a course in which he could not approve liimself
to him.
Mr. Oldfield spent the latter part of his life at Alfreton,
from whence he took many weary steps to serve his master,
^nd was very useful in that neighbourhood, till his infirmities
forced him to eease ft-om his labours. He departed to his
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everlasting rest June 5, 1682, aged 5,5. — He had four sons
in the ministry. John, the eldest, was in the church of Eng
land ; fhe rest were Dissenters. Nathaniel was pastor to a
congregation in Southwark ; and his brother, Joshua Old-
field, D. D. succeeded hira there. Samuel had a small Society
at Ramsbury in Wilts.
WORKS. The first last, and the last first ; against Hypocrisy.
— The Substance of some Lectures at Wirksworth. — A Piece on
Prayer (generally esteemed as valuable as any thing On the sub
ject.) — Serm. on Psalm Ixix. 6, in the Country FareWell-sermons.
CHESTERFIELD [V.] John Billingsley, M. A.
Of St, John's, Camb, and Corp. Chr. Oxf. Born at Chat
ham in Kent, Sept. 14, 1625, and ordained Sept. z6, 1649,
in the church of St. Andrew Undershaft in London. While
he was at Oxford, he frequentiy preached in the adjacent
places ; and at length had a call into one of the reraote and
dark coiners of the kingdora, to preach the gospel ; which
he did very assiduously, viz. at Addingham in Cumberland.
He found the people very ignorant, and therefore set up
catechizing, and joined the association for reviving the scrip
tural discipline of particular churches, of which an account
was printed. From thence he reraoved to Cliesterfield ;
where he was highly valued by many ; the peevishness of
some, and the malignity and apostacy of others, added great
ly to the burden of his ministerial labours. He was a con
stant preacher, and did not serve God with that which cost
him nought.' His style was plain, his expression clear, his
method natural and easy, his voice sweet and audible, tho'
not strong. ' Out of the abundance of his heart his raouth
' spake,' both in prayer and preaching ; and God was pleas
ed very rhuch to bless bis labours. He had a large acquain
tance, and was acceptable wherever he carae. He had great
temptations, frora secular advantages and the importunity of
friends, to have quitted Chesteifield ; but he would not
yield to a thought of leaving that people, who were dear to
hira as his own soul ; and it was in his heart to live and die
with them. At the Restoration, he was a very zealous Roy
alist ; and had it not been for the king's coming in, he would
probably have been a great sufferer. Yet this could not pre
vent his ejection. Bp. Hacket was very earnest with him
to conform , when he told his lordship, " If he did, he would
do it cordially." Upon which, the bishop (when other ar
guments failed) used both flatteries and threats ; but all in
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iraln. He knew not how to mollify oaths by forced interpre
tations, or stretch his conscience to comply with human will,
in cases wherein, if he should happen to be in the wrong,
(as he strongly suspected he should be in this) he knew hu
man power could not defend him. And therefore, (though he
would not censure others,) he quietly receded from his pub
lic station, in 1662, when he thought he could no longer
hold it without sin. He continued afterwards to labour
araong his people In private, as he had opportunity, and as
they were willing to hear him, till the Oxford-act forced
him frora thera. And then Man.'field was to him and several
pthers a liitle Zoar, a place of refuge. He went once a
formight to Chesterfield, preached twice, and often ex
pounded and catechized also on the Lord's-day, and visited
the sick. Travelling late, to corae in unseen, and preaching
also ih the night, was very fatiguing to him, as his constitu
tion was weak, and at last it became insupportable. It was
wonderful he went through it so long.
He ruled his house well ; was careful of the souls com
mitted to his charge ; was grieved when sin broke out In any
of the members of his family, and was faithful to rebuke
and punish for it. He was a hard student, and a great ad
mirer of the Greek language. He was a raan of peace, and
very desirous to accommodate lesser differences In religion.
He lived in hearty love and concord with his nonconforming
brethren at Mansfield, as he and all of them did with the
worthy minister of the parish, with whom he formerly had
a particular acquaintance, who counted it no schisra for
thera to endeavour to help his people in their way to heaven.
And they by their friendly converse with hira, and frequent
hearing of hira, manifested that they had no design to lessen
him in the esteem and affections of his parishioners. Few
men had more of heaven in them than he ; but he was very
industrious in conceahng his own excellencies. His freedom
in reproving sinners of whatever rank, where he had a call
to do it, was one eminent branch of his character : another
was, his skill and tenderness in comforting afflicted con
sciences, ¦ for which he had great occasion, and in which he
was remarkably successful. He also discovered great faith
fulness in dealing with sick-bed penitents ; three difficult parts
of^a minister's work. He died A/ay 30, 1684, Out of his
great modesty, he left an express order in his will, that there
should be no sermon preached at his funeral : but a suitable
ctinsolatory discourse was addressed to his family on fhe
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Lord's-day following, by Mr. Sylvester, on Rom. xii. 12,
He wrote something against the Quakers, and printed a ser
mon with it. — He had a son in the ministry at Hull ; after
wards at London, as assistant to Dr. Wm. Harris ; and a
grandson of his was at Dover. \
Mr. Ford, of the same place. He was of a melancholy
temper, and of few words, which however, were usiially of
great weight. He needed much entreaty to be induced to
preachf ; but when he was engaged, he raade amends to
those who had taken the pains to persuade him. He was
congregational in his judgment; but always behaved him
self with meekness, and the highest respect to Mr. Rilling-
sley, who was of a different judgment He saw the Bar-
§ In the former edition, it was added — " and after that at 'Peckham." This
mistake occasioned the following friendly letter to the Editor, from the gen
tleman referred to, then retired to Bath,  " Rev, Sir : I take this libei'ty
to rectify a small mistake in your late publication ; in which you represent
one of my name, a dissenting minister at Dover, as removing thence to
Teckham. The truth of the case is as follows :  Mr. Billingsley of Dcrver
was, indeed, the son of a dissenting minister, (Mr, John Billingsley) who
in the latter part of his life, was assistant to Dr, W. Harris. He died about
the year 1721, pretty far advanced in life. His son at Dover, after he had
served several years among the dissenters there, marrying a near relation [a
sister] of Sir Vhiliji York, afterwards Lord Chancellor i was induced to eon-
form, and accept a good living in the church, and a prebend in Bristol ca
thedral, Xn which station he continued to the day of his death, a few years
ago, tho' still a moderate conformist, keeping up a friendly intercourse with
the dissenters, A son ofhis was, in the last reign, made clerk of the patents.
And (I think) he left another who was bred a clergyman, — The family of
which I am yet a surviving branch, were only distant relations of that now-
referred to. My grandfather, Mr, Nicholas Billingsley, was ejected in 1662
at Wehley in Herefordshire, and took his lot entirely with the Dissenters.
[See Webley,] He had two sons, Richard and Nicholas : the former
was my father. He designed me tor the ministry from my infancy : and I
was educated with the same view. The first place in which I was settled
was Marlbro', where I was ordained in the year 1725. After a few years, I
was invited to succeed my uncle at Ashiuick, where 1 continued 18 years.
' This, I apprehend, was the most useful, though the most fatiguing part of
my life. Thence I removed to Bradford in Wiltshire; where I continued
about ten years. And from thence I had a call to succeed Dr, MUner at
'Peckham. I continued there in constant service twelve years. But finding
the infirmities of age coming on, and not willing to incur the blame which
some of my brethren met with, that of keeping their post too long, I resign
ed, and retired hither, in order to finish life in a private manner, Tho' by-
divine mercy, I am yet, on occasion, enabled to give a little assistance to a
brother when in want of it. You will please to excuse this detail of circum
stances, fi-om your unvyorthy brother, ISamuel Billingsley .
Bath, March 18, 1775.
f It is supposed that this is said with reference to extra services, on spe
cial occasions, othcryrise it W9Hld be inconsistent with the last clause in tlii*
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tholomew storm arising, and therefore gave'his people some
-warm and affecting sermons on Isaiah v. 6. I ivill comiJiandi
the clouds thai they rain no rain upon it. These serraons
were taken from him in short hand, fairly transcribed, and
kept in the hands of those who highly valued thera. Several
passages in them seemed almost prophetic. He committed
all his sermons to memory ; never using any notes. He died
of a consuraption, before he had reached his 30th year, hav-
ingworn himself out by severe study and excessive labour.
DERBY. All Saints [V. 37 /.] Mr. Joseph Swet-
nam. He was not formally put out by the Act of unifor
mity, and yet really he was. For, foreseeing the com-
menceraent of that act, he chose to make a voluntary seces -
sion sorae time before it took place. He was well qualified
to fill so considerablea place as this, being a very able preacher,
and a great master of language.
ST. PETER'S. Luke Cranwell, M. A. Of Christ's
Col. Camb. Born at Loughborough in Leicestdrshire. A
wise, couragious, zealous, and upright raan. He was not
very ready in elocution ; but very scriptural, solid and sub
stantial in all his discourses. Having acquired a competent
skill in physic, when he could no longer exercise his rainis
try publicly he resolved to eraploy hiraself in the raedical
line ; and he proved so skilful and successful, that he raain
tained himself and family comfortably. He was very hos
pitable and benevolent ; as readily attending his brethren and
poor neighbours, frora whom he expected no recompence,
as he did the rich and-great. He had a good invention ; and
discovered some happy and effectual raedicines. He was a
chearful raan, and to all appearance strong, but he at last
declined very rapidly. To be out of the reach of the Ox
ford-act, he went to Kegworth in Leicestershire, where he
died, Nov. 11, 1683, on the Lord's-day.
WORKS. A small Tract on the Equality of Bishops and
Presbyters. — A Sermon in the Collection of Fareyvell-Sermons in
the Country.
ST. WERBURGHS. Samuel Beresford, M. A. He
was a native of Shrewsbury , and was brought up in the
school there, frora whence he went to Cambridge. He did
not begin to preach till he was upwards of twenty-three years
of age. When he made his first atterapt, he h^d above 1500
hearers. He was a good scholar, an excellent preacher, a
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fine orator, and a yery holy man. He was very warm against
the Sectaries, and not at a great distance frora the church of
England ; for after his ejectment, he frequently attended the
service of it, during his continuance/in /)er6j/, (which was
till the five-mile-afl: took place,) andhe persuaded his friends
to do the same. He was equally against both superstition
and separation. He afterwards spent the greater part of his
time at Shrewsbury , and yi'as reckoned one of the most ac-.
curate, and at the sarae time, raost heavenly preachers in all
those parts. He kept a private academy in his house for a
while; but laid it down, because he could not keep his pu
pils under strict government. Having a competent estate he-
preached for soine years gratis. As he had no children of his
own, he was earnest with some of his brethren to bring up
theirs to the ministry; and offered to assist towards their
maintenance, and to use his interest with otheis for that pur
pose. He was not only a great divine, but a skilful physi
cian : tho' in giving his advice he confined himself to parti
cular friends. He never could be prevailed with to print any
thing, tho' often pressed to do it. He spent the latter part
of his life at Sheffnal in Shropshire, and died in OBober
i.6gj, at Weston, the seat ofthe religious Lady Wilbraham,
who was a sincere and generous friend to all good ministers,
whether Conformists or Nonconforraists, without any dif
ference. He left his library to be sold for the benefit of the
poor of St. Alkman's parish in which he was born.
DRANFIELD [V.] Mr. Richard Maudsley.
DUFFIELD [V. 27 Z.] Roger Morrice, M. A. He
was sorae time chaplain to Lord Hollis, and afterwards to
Sir _ John Maynard, He diedat Hoxton, Jan, 17, 1701,
aged 73, and was buried at Runhill. He left a valuable col
lection of MSS.. which cost him much labour and expence.
Mr. Strype, inhis Survey of London, (vol. ii. p. 57) says,
" This gentieraan was a very diligent collector of ecclesias-
V tical MSS. relating to the later history of the English
^' church, whereof he left vast heaps behind hira, and he
*' favoured me 'with his correspondence." It is to be la
mented that these papers, and those of several others men
tioned In this work, should not have been preserved.
EYAM in the Peak [R.J Thomas Stanley, M, A,
Born at Duckmonton near Chesterfield. His first public
employment was lender Mr. Cart at Hansworth. He was
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preacher three years at Dore chapel, In Dronfield parish ;
and eight years after, at the parochial chapel of Ashford,
in the parish of Bakewell ; whence, by those then In power,
he was translated in i644, to the rectory of Eyam, where
he continued his labours till Bartholomew-day 1662. He
was an eminent preacher ; and by his example, a confuter of
of those who decry Free-prayer, When he could not serve
his people publicly, he was helpful to them in private ; espe
cially when the pestilence prevailed In that town, officiating
amongst them with great tenderness and affection, during
that sore visitation, which in that little place cut off above
3oo persons. And yet, at that very time, certain people
made a raotion to the lord-lieutenant of the county, the no
hle Earl of Devonshire, to reraove hira out of town ; who,
like hiraself, replied to this effect : " It is more reasonable^
" that the whole country should testify their thankfulness to
" him, who, together with his care of the town, had taken
" such care as none else did, to prevent the infection of the
" towns adjacent," Hedied in 1670, satisfied to the last in
the cause of Nonconformity, and rejoicing in his sufferings
oil that account. , 1
FAIRFIELD. Mr. William Naden.
GLOSSOP [V.] Mr. William Bagshaw. ' Of Corp.
Christi Col, Camb, Born at Litton in the parish of Tides-
well, Jan. 17, 1628. At several country schools he made
a greater proficiency In learning than most of his equals ; and
under the rainistry of Mr. Rowlandson of Bakewell, and
Mr. Bourn of Ashover, he received a deep tincture of re
ligion betiraes. He had an early Inclination to the ministry,
which he at length pursued, after several attempts to fix him
in some other employment. He preached his first sermon
in the chapel of Warmhill In Tideswell parish ; and there
he contruued pbout three months. Tho' he often coraplain.
ed, that he entered too rashly on that awful work, his labolirs
were very acceptable to sober intelligent people, and he gave
no just occasion to any to ' despise his youth,' From thence
he removed to Attercliffe in Yorkshire, where he preached
as one of the assistants to Mr. James Fisher oi Sheffield,
and resided in the faraily of Colonel (afterwards Sir John)
Bright. He was ordained at Chesterfield, Jan, 1, 1650,
and some time after was invited to Glossdp- That people
enjoyed his labours about eleven years. Among them, he
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* went about doing good,' and God was with him. ' He
' kept back nothing that was profitable for them, but taught
' them publicly, and from house to house.' He erabraced all
opportunities to awaken, instruct, and comfort them. Ob
serving raost people to be raore than ordinarily affected with
funeral sermons, he very willingly preached on such occa
sions, when he had no prospect of gain. His administra
tion of the sacraments, especially that of the Lord's-supper,
was very solemn. As he would not adrait the grosly igno
rant and profane to that sacred feast, so he durst not exclude
those in whora he saw any thing of the image of Christ,
tho' they were of different sentiments from hiraself in lesser
matters of religion. He was very diligent in fulfilling his
ministry ; and he conducted himself towards his people with
such huraility, raeekness, inoffensiveness, and undissembled
affection, as gained him universal esteera. He had indeed a
natural regard to their state, and no offers of greater prefer
ment could terapt hira to quit his relation to them. He pro
ceeded vigorously in his work, and not without considerable
success. But the fatal Bartholoraew-act put a stop to his
public labours.
He thereupon retired to Ford, in the adjacent parish, and
lived upon his own estate. He continued a conscientious
Nonconforraist ; but his ' moderation was known unto all
raen.' He prayed for, and rejoiced in, the success of their
labours, who possessed the strongest piejudices against him.
He several years attended, with his faraily, in his parish-
church, both parts of the Lord's-day. But being persuaded
that no power on earth could cancel his authority, and dis
annul his obligation, to preach the gospel, he preached pri
vately in his own house, and elsewhere, on the Lord's-day-
nlghts; and to some few every Thursday-, He also frequentiy
assisted at conferences, aud private days of devotion. Upon
the coming out of the Indulgence in 1672, he thought it his
duty to labour more publicly, preaching three Lord's-days in
themonth in the parish where he resided, and the fourth in
that from which he had been expelled. He had lectures also
at other places, particularly once a fortnight at Ashford, the
other day being supplied by other ministers. He preached
often every week, and sometimes every day in the week.
He was the chief instrument In gathering the congregations
at Ashford, Malcoffe, Middleton, Bradwall, Chalmarton,
and Hucklow ; besides setting up lectures In several places,
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he usually repeated to his people the substance of the sermons
he had preached all the Lord's-days in the year ; and in the
beginning of the new year, he went jto the houses of his
hearers, and preached a suitable sermon in each. When K.
Charles recalled his declaration, he kept his meetings private
ly and with great caution, changing almost every day, till the
breaking out of the Popish plot. His liberty was then en
larged; but upon the trumping up a Protestant plot, he was
driven into comers again. In those dark and cloudy times
he demeaned himself with such prudence and circumspection,
and God made such a hedge about him, that tho' he had
some enemies, their designs against him were signally dis
appointed. Two informers who once disturbed him, ingenuously
acknowledged, that his very countenance struck a terror
into 'them ; and one of them, before he died, often sent
to beg his pardon and his prayers. When another, who
had frequently sat under his ministry, gave information
against hira before a magistrate, who was very zealous
in suppressing conventicles, he was so confounded, that
his information was false, both as to naraes of persons, and
as to time and place, tho' he knew them all very well at
other times. However, upon information, a warrant was
issued out against hira ; but he had tiraely notice of it, and
an opportunity to escape. At the next quarter-sessions, a
woithy raagistrate so fully convinced the bench of the fals
hood of what was sworn against him, that they recalled the
warrant, — Tho' he was far from owning the dispensing power
on which K. James's Declaration for liberty of conscience
was founded, and discerned his design in it, yet he took that
opportunity toshew his zeal in his Master's work, and preach
ed publicly on both parts of the Lord's-day. Besides this,
he began a custom, which he continued the greatest part of
his time,of raaking a short discourse Immediately after the read
ing of the scripture, to confirra his hearers in the Protestant
religion, and to arm thera against Popery. When the liberty
of the Dissenters in the beginning of, K, William's reign,
was established by law, he laboured more abundantly than
ever. He allowed himself but little time for sleep ; and was
very seldora out of his study, unless at meals, and at family-
worship, or when abroad in the service of his great Master;
ip which he was eraployed two or three days in every week,
and frequentiy at two or three places in the same day. And
yet such was his industry, tho' he preached so often, and
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seldom on the same text in two auditories, that he had laid
in a stock pf several hundreds of sermons, which he did not
live to use, — Though.he was of a, firm constitution, his health
began at last to be impaired, and his growing hifirraities com
pelled him to shorten his journies, and lessen his labours ;
yet lie desisted not wholly from his delightful work more
than one Lord's-day before his decease.
His last sermon was on March 22, 1702, from. Rom.
viii. 31 , He had but a little before received the news of K.
William's death, and would ha.ve studied a discourse upon
that occasion, but wanted strength for It, and therefore was
satisfied with adding soraething in the close, towards the im
proving so great a loss : but when he came to deliver his ser
mon, he did it with such life and spirit, that a stranger, who
had only heard and not seen him, would have thought him
to have been in perfect health. However, he had no sooner
finished, than be was sensible that his preach Ing- work was
over ; and thereupon said. He thought it would be tempting
God to make another effort. His weakness daily increased,
and on the next Lord's day he was confined to his bed. He
told those about him, that his silence was a sermon. The
two folio-wing days, being visited by several of his mournful
hearers, he could not speak much, but reminded them how
he ha.d spoken to thera forraerly. He delared his satisfaction
in his Nonconformity, and blessed God who had kept him
from acting agali;ist his conscience in respect to it. While a
young minister was praying with him, he heartily joined in
every petition, and when he had done, gave hira thanks,
blessing God that he had helped hira to such apt expressions,
and added, " I wonder that any should be so rauch against
" Free prayer : There is not a prayer in all their book
" that would have suited my present cucurastances so well
" as this has done." — On Wednesday, Aprill, he lay for
the most part in a kind of slumber. Towards night he called
to hitve a hyran sung ; and after a short prayer, to which he
added his Amen, he fell into a doze, and seeraed to breathe
witho'ut difficulty ; till on a sudden he gave a gasp or two,
and quietly slept in Jesus. Having lived an eminentiy holy
and useful life, he had the favour of a reraarkable easy death;
He was buried in Chapel-le-Frith, in the high Peak.
His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. J. Ashe, on Heb.
xiii. 7. Which serraon, wiih Mr. Bagshaw's life and cha
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He possessed a sound constitution of body, a happy tem
per of mind, and good. natural abilities. He had many seri
ous thoughts about his own everlasting concerns, before he
undertook the charge of otheis. He passed much of his time
in his closet, sitting up late, and yet rising early, and he
usually spent an hour in secret devotion, while the rest of
the family were In bed. He discovered an ardent thirst after
knowledge, and was so diligent a reader that there were few
books in his library (which was not small) but what he had
read through, and raarked with his pencil. He excelled in
the gift of prayer ; and in preaching he did not entertain his
hearers with nice curiosities, or dry speculations,, but gave
thera solid and substantial food. He had a peculiar readiness
in adapting his dicourses to the dispensations of divine pro
vidence, aod a singular faculty of saying much In a little.
He spake like one who felt what he said. He was ' raighty
in the scriptures,' and a diligent and skilful catechist. He
shewed great skill and corapassion in dealing with wounded
consciences. His love to God was a bright and constant
flame, andhis zeal for the cause ofChrist, against prevailing
error and wickedness, was -very ardent. He was of a very
pacific and condescending temper ; as a proof of which, he
once parted with his right to his brother, though bf consider
able value, rather than contend with hira for it.: He posses
sed great moderation and candour, and was eminent for his
chafity, botii in forgiving enemies, and relieving such as
were in want ; and all his other excellencies were adorned by
a profound huraility. He had a good estate, and a he^art to
honour God with it. He had many signal returns of prayer,
and many seals of his rainistry. God was his defence in the
most cloudy and dangerous tiraes, in which he enjoyed a
blessed serenity and coraposure of mind ; which coninued till
he went to his everlasting rest.
WORKS. Living Water; several Sermons on Rev. xxi. 6.— .
A Serm. on Christ's purchase ; to which is prefixed, his Confes
sion of faith, — Rules for our behaviour every day, and for sanctify
ing the Sabbath; with hints for communicants. — The ready way
to prevent Sin; on Prov, xxx. 32. with a bridle for the tongue;
on Mat, li. '36.. — The Miner's monitor, — The Sinner in sorrow;
and the humble sinner's modest request, — Brief directions for the
improvement of Infant Baptism,— The Riches of grace; in th/ee
parts. — Trading spiritualized; in three parts. — De Spiritualibus
Pecci : Notes concerning the work of God, and some that have
been workers together with God in the High Peak. — Since his
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he spent much time in writing books for particular persons of hi?
congregation, suitable to their circumstances, which he gave them
in hopes that they would be of use lo them when he was dead. He
also left behind him 50 volumes on several subjects, some in folio,
and some in quarto, fairly written with his own hand.
GRESLEY * [L.] Mr. Thomas Ford : Of Trin. CoL
Camb. He was born at Willington, and brought up at Rep
ton school. He was earlier than ordinary in piety, in learn
ing, and in preaching, upon which work he entered at the
age of twenty-one, with the full approbation of several ju
dicious christians and rainisters. He was first an assistant to
Mr. G, Cross of Clifton in Staffordshire, whgse sister he
married. He was never settled in any parsonage or vicarage,
but assisted several other rainisters seven or eight years. At
the Restoration he was at Seale in Leicestershire, but when
the Bartholomew- act passed, he was at Gresley. Continuing
after this, to preach in a way forbidden by human laws (tho',
as he conceived, approved of God) he and Mr. T, Bakewell^
were sent to Stafford jail, -where they remained prisoners
for the tirae appointed. After which, he ceased not by day
or by night to preach the gospel ; for which he was again
apprehended, and coraraitted prisoner to Derby jail, with
Mr. Tim, Stafiifprih, Having fulfilled his tirae of suffering
there also, he still went on in his Master's work as long as
he was able. But as he began, so he ended his work betiraes :
for by his extraordinary labours, on a day of fasting and
prayer, he broke a blood-vessel, which brought hira into a
consumption, of which he died in a little village near Bur
ton upon Trent, about the year 1677, but was not allowed
to be burled in consecrated ground. Mr. Swinfen pieached
his fimeral sermon from John v. g^. — He was a hard student
and a celebrated preacher, being very lively, but grave and
methodical. His meraory was long precious to the inhabi
tants of Burton and the neighbouring villages.
HEYNOR [V. 16Z. ]2j. 6d,] Mr. Samuel Wright.
A good man, and a veiy able preacher. He lived in much
weakness many years after his ejectment. He could not
preach so often as most of his brethren, but when he did, he
preached to very good purpose, among his old parishioners
from house to house.
* In the Intiex -Villaris there is no such place in this county, but there
is Greyslev in Nottinghamshire.
HOG-

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HOGNASTON [C] Mr. Jonathan Staniforth. Seu
Alles try.
LANGLEY [R.J Robert Seddon, M. A. Of Christ's
Col, Camb, Born at Outwood In Prestwich parish, Lanca
shire, and brought up in i?mgZ«/ school under Mr. Cole, He
continued at College several years, and tiien returned horae for
sorae tirae. After which he lived in Mr. Angler's faraily, and
had the benefit of his grave exaraple, pious instructions, and
useful converse. From hence he was called to the ministry in
Goiton chapel. He afterwards reraoved to Langley, where
he was silenced in 1662. He took such a part in behalf of
King ChJrles II. on a day known in this county by White
Friday, (because one White was the leading man who ap
peared for him at Derby) that he was forced to escape into
Lancashire, to Sir George Booth who rose at that time, and
-was threatened to be carried to London, to be tried for his
life ; but the king's restoration prevented it. Afterhis eject
ment, he was many years in the faraily of Samuel Hallows,
Esq. and after the Revolution, he preached in his course,
with sorae other ministers at Derby, being on other days
employed in places adjacent. On coming up to London, he
¦was apprehended as he was preaching in Mr. Baxter's pul
pit ; and though he had before suffered Imprisonraent from
the CromweUians for his zeal in the royal cause, he was com
mitted to jail. But judge Hale declared the mittiraus void,
and released him by the sentence of the whole court. While
he was a prisoner in the Gatehouse, raoney was several tiraes
sent to hira, but he did not know his benefactors. It was
said to be from Whitehall. He had acquaintance and good
interest -with raany persons of rank, and was generally ac
ceptable wherever he carae. At last he fixed at Bolton in
his native county ; where, with great zeal and affection, he
laid out hiraself in his master's work. He there bought a
house, and gave the people liberty to build a chapel behind
it ; but soon after died of a paralytic stroke, at his brother's,
captain Peter Seddon, (In the house where he was born) in
March 1695, aged jj. — He was a man of great piety, pa
tience and raeekness ; a solid, zealous and useful preacher ;
being instrumental in the conversion of many souls to God.
He was wonderfully furnished for religious discourse, in
which he took great delight. He was mighty in the scrip
tures, having known thera frora a child. His raeraoiy was
to hira instead of a concordance, which he never once used
ill composing his sermons for thirty years together. — The
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Tenth sermon in tiie Collection of Country Farewell -ser
mons, is his. [The text Is Luke xxiv. go, 51. very appro
priate and excellent.] He had a nephew, Mr. Samuel
Bourne, who pioved very valuable in the ministry. [Hfe
was father to Mr. Samuel Bourne of Birmingham.]
MACKWORTH [V. 21I.] Mr. Samhel Ogden. Of
Christ's Col. Camb. A native of Oldham in Lancashire.
When he had finished his studies, he married the daugh
ter of Mr. Burnet, minister of Oldham, a pioiis Noncon
formist. He soon after settled at Buxton in Derbyshire,
in 1652, and had an augmentation allowedhim b^an order
from the committee for plundered miniiiters, dated Sept. 17,
in 1652. Fle applied hiraself to the classis of Wirksworth
for ordination, which he accordingly received, Sept. 17,
165-3. -'¦''' '^'i^ y'-''^'' following, he was presented to the pa
rochial chapel of Fairfield, by the earl of Rutiand, the pa
tron. But he was oHiged to get ,the approbation of the
Triers in London ; from whom he obtained a certificate,
dated at Whitehall, Oct. 23; 1654; a copy of which, and
of other papers and instruraents, see in Calamy, vol. II.
p. 190. III. 234 ¦*. — He continued his ministry here till 1657,
when he was called to Mfckworth, where he finished his
public ministry in 1662. He kept a boarding school many
years, and brought up many eminent scholars. He had a
genius that led hira to all the parts of refined literature, in
which he excelled. He valued no notions that were raean
or trivial, but was taken up with the raore curious and raanly
parts of learning. An erainent Conformist, in a letter to
hira, expressed hiraself thus : " I dare commit any thing to
your free and generous understanding." He possessed great
natural talents ; he was a good linguist ; wrote pure Latin,
and could read any Greek author currentiy Into English at
first sight. When the pretended Abp. of Samos travelled
through England, he visited Mr. Ogden, who conversed
with him in the Greek language. He was also well versed
in the Hebrew, of which some MSS. which he left afford
sufficient proof. His last Work at night was reading a chap
ter in the Hebrew Bible. — He was also a good mathemati
cian, and was acquainted with some of the greatest raen of
the age in that science, which he taught such of his scholars
as were studious and ingenious, to charra them into a love of
* The originals, vvhich were in the possession of the late Rev. Dr, ,j<jva^<r,
were presented hy him lo theEditoj-, a few days before his death, — The late
Mr, Ogden, a celebrated preacher in the university of Cambridge, was a de
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those manly studies, that they might be preserved from tiie
snares of sensual pleasures. He was a great lover of rausic, both
vocal and instrumental, and was also well versed in natural
philosophy. He took great delight in poetry, especially in
Latin poetry, even to his old age. He had a conside
rable knowledge in anatomy, physic, and botany. With
regard to divinity he was particularly erainent. He had care
fully studied the most difficult .points ; and would discourse
on the most abstruse controversies with a readiness and clear
ness which she-w^ed how thoroughly he had investigated
them. He left a manuscript on the separate existence of the
soul between death and the resurrection, drawn up at the re
quest of a young gentleman in the university, who had been
his scholar, and was tainted with infidelity. Also a treatise.
on predestination, occasioned by his own raelancholy, which,
induced him to a deep search into that point, in order to
clear up to hiraself the goodness and raercy of God.
He said, however, that he would not advise others to em
broil themselves, as he had done, in such controversies.
His judgraent upon these matters was much the sarae with
Mr. Corbet's. — He was very far frora extremes, and not
violent for or against any party. By his own trials and stu
dies he became very skilful in administering corafort to trou
bled minds ; and often wrote to persons in affliction. With
great wisdora and corapassion, to. direct and corafort thera.
His behaviour was obliging, and his conversation affable^
.graceful, and pleasant.
His Nonconforraity was fhe fruit of close and deliberate
consideration. Some persons thought he had too high no
tions of the power of the magistrate in matters of religion.
He was for coraraunicating with the established church oc
casionally, but never could corae corae. into it as a stated
member. His thoughts on that subject will sufficlentiy ap
pear from the following letter of his to an ingenious
and leamed clergyman : — ^-" Sir, Our mutual acquain
tance and endearraent shall excuse all prefatory words as su
perfluous between you and me. As I set my face towards
the church of England, I am confronted with'objectiotis'of
various kinds, which you perhaps may be better able to dis
sipate than I, standing upon higher gfotind, and seelfig
your strength in a more advantageous light. (1). To conr
form is to leave the society of the best and most religious
people in the land ; to desert the peculiar work and suffer
ings of. the most painful and successful ministers. For is
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'n our select assemblies, than In the public parochial Con*
gregatlons? By whom have the most part of the godly and
sincere Christians been raised, and built up, but by the
prayers, pains, doctrine, and conduct of the Nonconfor
mist's ? Shall I leave the snow of Lebanon for Kedar and
Meshech ? Can I be secure of God's grace and blessing, if
I depart frora the confines of Hermon, where God has
made his blessings to fall } Dod, Ilildersham, Ball, An
gier, &c: in a word, the best raen are with us : Ergo,
(2.) — To conforra, what Is it else but to join myself to the
dissolute raultitude ; to a clergy, more ambitious of prefer-.
ment than to be the examples of meekness and sobriety to
their flocks ? To act in, or to be an abettor to, the bribe
ries and corruptions of spiritual courts ? May I be secure of
my former innocence, and not be raade worse by such so-
plety ? Pardon the odium of these expressions, and set
these two parties together, then tell rae, whether you may
not say as Tully in another case, " Ex hac enim parte pu-
der pugnat, illmc petulantia : — hinc fides, ilbnc fraudatio :
hinc pietas, illinc scelus, Kc.^ — (3.) To conform is not
only to assert by practice, but to assent to, in express terms,
all the dubious articles of faith, all the imperfect forras of
prayer, all the erroneous translations of scripture, all the
unaccountable rubrics and prescriptions of the Coraraon-
Prayer Book, together with the questionable ceremonies
used ; all which have been the scruples,, scandals, and
stumbling-stone -of raost good men in England for many
scores of years. Do I approve of all these ? May I not,
by ray compliance, hinder as much as in rae lies their fu
ture reforraation ? Tell rae, good friend, raay I innocentiy,
after a reforraation upon the wheel, thus by assent and con
sent sufflaminate the work thereof? These things I have
transferred to myself by a figure, but notwithstaiuiing am
still yours, &c."
Mr. Ogden thought the over-much doting upon the
Common-Prayer was one great occasion of the debauchery
and wickedness of the age: " raany people contenting thera-
*' selves with being loud and zealous at the prayers, and
§ The passage aUuded to by Mr, Ogden (Vid, Cic, in Catal, II, § it,)
more accurately quoted above, however applicable in some particulars, he
certainly did not mean to apply in all, as it is hoped no Dissenters will;
much less to the persons of every individual; there being doubtless many
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'• making that all their religion, as if they intended,
" fAvy^npi^i^ai (as the expression is Gal. vi. 7.) that is, to
" mock God, and go to heaven in their sins, whether he
?' will or no."
He was a person of unwearied diligence ; and tho' his
time was greatly taken up with his school above forty years,
he wrote his serraons verbatim. He was a raan of great
wisdom, tenderness of conscience, and real piety, who
took frequent occasions to instill good thoughts into them
that were about him. He walked with God ; and was fre
quent, tho' always short, in prayer. He was also a peace
able, humble, and charitable man. — After his ejectment in
1662 he continued his school at Mackworth, till the five-
mile-act took effect, when he fled into Yorkshire ; but after
some time he returned to his eraployraent at Derby, where
his school flourished, and he had many gentleraen's sons
under his care. In the year i685, ^the public schoolmaster
of the town, (a man of no great reputation) commenced a
suit against him for teaching school there, to the prejudice
of the free-school, and contrary to the Canon, &c. Nfr.
Ogden tried the cause in the court of Arches, which cost
him a hundred pounds, and he was cast after all. Where
upon Sir JohnGell gave hira the free-school of Wirksworth.,.
in 1686, where he continued to his dying day, diligently in-
structtng his scholars daily ; and, after liberty was granted,
preaching to the inhabitants thereabouts on the Lord's days.
Hewas seized withthe palsy in the pulpit, which greatly
impaired his faculties. He continued several weeks in pa
tient expectation of his change, which happened May 2g,
i6gy, when he was aged above 70, and was buried in the
church at Wirksworth.
WORKS. Besides the MSS. beforementioned, which were
never published, he wrote and printed only one piece, which was
on a political subject, &c. in 1683, or 168i, and was very suitable
to the complexion of those tiines.
MARSTON upon DOVE [V. 70I:'] Mr. John Bing
ham. Of St. John's Col. Camb. He was born at De^by,
and educated at Repton school. Having staid at college till
he was about twenty-four years of age, he removed to Lon
don, for the cure of a foot, which was hurt when he was a
phild. He was two years under the surgeon's hands, and at
last was forced to have' his leg taken off. The anguish at
tending this sore had turned him as white at twenty-six years
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old as he was at eighty. Hewas sometime chaplain ina
family, and about the year 1646 was chosen middle master
of the free school at Derby, and afterwards the chief mas
ter. He yvould not for a great while undertake a pastoral
charge; but was at last prevailed updn, and was presented
by the earl of Devonshire, to the vicarage of Marston, in
which he continued till the fatal year i662. Upon the
coraing out of the Five-mile-a:ct, he removed to Bradly-
Hall for three years, and taught several gentleraen's sons,
who boarded with him. He afterwards- lived seven years at
Brailsford, where he raet with much trouble, and was ex
coraraunicated by raeans of the incumbent, notwithstanding
that he was a raan of great moderation, and used to attend
with his family at church every Lord's-day morning ; tho'
in the afternoon he preached in his own house, only to the
number allowed by the act. Upon K; Charles's Indulgence
he preached at Hollington, where his friends, Mr. Seddon,-
Mr. Cha'rles, Mr. Ogden, and Mr. S. Hieron, took their
turns. Mr. Bingham's excommunication made a grea;t dis
turbance in Brailsfoi'd, parish, and therefore, to avoid giving
offence, he removed to Upper Thumesion in Sutton parish,
where he and his faraily were interred.
He was a good scholar, and well acquainted with the lan
guages. He subscribed to the Polyglot bible, and stirred up
others to encourage so noble a work. He was remarkably
teraperate, . of a charitable disposition, and of true unaffected
piety; loving ;real goodness wheresover it appeared, how
much soever persons raight differ from him in their senti
ments. He -w-as always chearful under the greatest difficul
ties, contented and thankful In all circurastances, and a
great conteraner of the world when it interferred with his
conscience. One instance of it deserves reraark: Dr. Shel
don, Abp. of Canterbury, with whom he had an intimacy
of a long standing, wrote to persuade him to conforra ; tell
ing him that he lay so near his heart, that he would help
him to any preferment he desired. He acknowledged the
favour, but told him that they two had not been such stran
gers, but that he raight very well know his sentiments on
the subject ; and added, that he would not offer violence to
his conscience for the best preferraent in the world. He was
a person of great faith, in the darkest tiraes ; and bore up
his spirit in confidence that ' all things would work together
• for good' to the church of God.  When he was about
seventy years of age, he broke an arm by a fall ft-om his
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IN DERBYSHIRE. 4 17
horse. The next year he was taken with a quartan ague,
which held him seven years, and brought him so low, that
his life was despaired of. And yet, when the fits, were
gone off, he would often say, he was fully persuaded he
should live to see a very great change, tho' he knew not
which way it would be effbcted. Accordingly he lived,
tho' in great weakness, to see K. William and Q, Ma-ry
settled on the throne of England, which much rejoiced his
heart. He at length expired through age, as a lamp goes out
for want of oil, on the Lord's-day, Feb. 3, i689, aged 82,
His funeral serraon was preached by Mr. Crompton, on
Ps. xii. 1.
MATLOCK [R.] Mr. Thomas Shelmerdine. Of
Christ's Col. Camb. A native of Lancashire. He was a
diligent preacher several years at Criche, where he was sur
rounded with good old Puritans, in that parish and the
neighbourhood, wlio greatly strengthened his hands In his
work. He was very chearful in conversation, but had the
affliction to have a very melancholy, tho' pious wife, to
whom he made a tender husband. Frora Criche he removed
to Matlock, where -he faithfully discharged his duty, and
lived peaceably with his neighbours ; in which he found
more benefit than his successor did frora his contentious be
haviour. When he was silenced he reraoved to Wirks
worth, where he did not long survive. — In his last siekness
he expressed good hope with respect to futurity, and much
satisfaction in the review of his conduct. He told his
friends " he was going to his preferraent," and said to one
of thera, " Next to my hope of heaven, I rejoice that I
*' was turned out of Matlock."
MICKLEOVER [V.] Samuel Charles, M. A. Of
Corp. Chr. Col. Camb. Born at Chesterfield, Sept. 6. 1633.
Ordained in 1655. He first settled at Kniveion, and then
resided in Sir John Gell's family at Hopton. He was after
wards presented by Sir John Curzon to this parish oiMickle-
over. His early ministrations were affectionate, judicious,
and successful. He exercised a particular and constant
watch over his own soul, especially in solemn duties, public
and private. He laboured for some time under strong temp
tations, which increased his spiritual experience. He ob
served the day of his ejection out of his living as a fast all his
life after. He viewed conformity in such a light, that he
could not yield to it without doing such violence to his con-
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science as to express Jiis persuasion, that if he had conformed
he could not have been saved §. When he left his parsonage-
house, he wrote thus in his diary : " For thy sake, O Lord,
I left my house. So far as I Can look into mine own heart,
for thee only have I left bouses and lands ; may I have my
hundred fold in the world to come. It was said of -Abraham
thathe went out, not knowing whither he went : I am sure
I went out, not knowing whither to go." Tho' he met
with many difficulties as a Nonconformist, they were sancti
fied to his spiritual advantage.
After his ejectment he preached about occasionally while
he was in Derbyshire : his longest settiements were at Bel
per and Hull. At the latter place he laboured several years
with faithfulness, diligence, and acceptance. He was there,
however, at length imprisoned, on which occasion he writes
thus : — " A prisoner for Christ ! , Good Lord 1 what is this
" for a poor worm I Such honour have "not all his saints.
f Both the degrees I took in the university have not set rae
" so high as when I commenced prisoner for Christ." — God
singularly blessed his labours at Hull, and his behaviour in
that place procured him much respect from the magistrates
of the town. But the earl of Plymouth coming thither, after
he was made governor of it, sent for the mayor and alder
men, and with great vehemence urged them to suppress the
meetings of the Dissenters ; threatening them with the loss
of their charter if they did not. One of the alderraen (Mr.
Duncalf) told the earl " that, by many years observation, he
found the Disseftiters who lived among them were pious,
peaceable men, and loyal subjects to the king; and therefore,
he being an old man, and going into another world, would
have no hand in persecuting them." But this did not hinder
his lordship frora pressing the raatter so far, as that the mayor
and aldermen sent iramediately to apprehend Mr. Charles
and Mr. Ashley, the ministers of the two dissetiting congre
gations. Mr. Ashley had so much warning given hira, that
he escaped out of town before the officers came to his house ;.
but Mr. Charles was apprehended and brought before the
mayor And aldermen, who committed him to prison. Tli^
§ Tosonip persons this may have the appearance of insufferable bigotry.
But it should be obseived, that he was not censuring those whose con-
isdences '(allowed ihem to conform : He Spdke only of Hi-mself, who could
not do it without acting against his conscience. And we are told Rom. xiv,
S3, Whatsoever is not cf faith (that is with a full conviction of its lawfulnessj'
is sin.' AnH certainly all wilful deliberate sin, if persisted in, is inconsistent
-with the hopeof'salvation.
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IN DERBYSHIRE. 419
freedom of speech which he used while he was before the
magistrates made some men very angry ; which coming to
his ears, he the next day wrote an account of all that he said, -
and sent copies to several ofhis friends to prevent tuisrepre-
sentations. It was as follows; On Feb. 2.. 1682, being
brought before the magistrates of the town of fiull, lie be
gun thus :
I am here, my masters, in obedience to your warrant ;
what's your pleasure with me ? But I pray you consider be
fore you do any thing, that imprisoning the ministers ofthe
gospel is the devil's work ; and I do not apprehend you can
do his work, and escape his wages§-  Aldermen: Mr.
Charles, we expected another manner of salutation from
you.  Mr. C 'What manner of salutation, - gentiemen,
did you expect from me ?  Aid. A salutation of peace ;
you are to preach the gospel of peace.  -Mr. C. 1 am so,
and also the terror of the Lord, to all wicked ?ind impenitent
sinners, and hard-hearted hypocrites.  Aid. You are
so.  Mr. C. But, my masters, are there no raalefactors in
Hull, but two ministers of the gospel, Mr. Ashley and 1 ?
Are there no drunkards, no swearers, no Sabbath -breakers ?
Nay, if you look into your cellars, is there nothing of the
growth and product, and manufactory of the French king's
dominions ? — Mayor. You may inform. (Thereupon he
was ordered to withdraw. Being called in a little after,
the discourse was continued thus:) '
Aid. Mr. Charles, haue you taken die oaths of allegiance
and supremacy ?  Mr. C. I am ready to tajce them, 
Aid. Are you in holy orders, according to the ch|iirch of
England?  Mr. C. I came not here to accuse myself. 
Aid. Do you preach ?  Mr. C. You know what I do.
 Aid. Do you not inhabit the town ? and have you not
an house in Mytton-Gate?-r--— i/r. C. You can tell as well
as I. But, gentiemen, before you pass any ugly sentence,
consider the dying votes of the last Westminster parliament,
of iramortal honour. " Resolved, That the execution of the
*' penal laws upon Dissenting Protestants, is at this time
•' grievous to the subjects, and a furtherance to Popery, and
-" a weakening to the Protestant Religion, and dangerous to
" the kingdom,"  Aid. It was not their dying votes.
-^  -Mr. C. They were their dying votes.-  Aid. It was
the Papists that they intended.  -Mr. C. It was on the be-
§ Such a mode of address is not to be vindicated. It is no.^yonder that
the magistrales should have been exasperated by it. Ed,'
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half of the Dissenting Protestants that the votes passed  -»
Aid. Do you call the execution of the king's laws ugly
,^;vork ?  Mr. C. But before you execute the king's laws,
(God bless him, and prolong his life, and send hira to out
live rae) I pray you bear me this one thing. There have
been some persons in England, who have made as great a
figure in the world as any in Hull, (no disparagement to the
worthiest of you) who were hanged for executing the king's
laws.  Aid. That is sedition.  Mr. C. Sedition I se
dition ! And all our chronicles and histories, and several of
our law-books and acts of parliaraent ring of it. But if you
-will execute the law, pray do not out-do the law ; for it is
severe enough upon us.  Aid. If we do, you may look
for your rempdy.  Mr. C. Reraedy I I had rather never
be sick than be put to look for ray reraedy,  Aid, When
was there ever any hanged for executing the king's laws ?
There never was any such thing.  Mr. C. Yes ; Empson
and Dudley, for executing the king's laws In Harry the
Seventh's tirae, were hanged in the first year of Harry VIII.
And this very law which you are about to execute upon rae,
was obtained of a parliament of such constitution, that it
was carried but by two votes, of an 105 yea's, against 103
no's.  Aid. What constitution was that parliament oi?
Was it not of king, lords, and comraons ,?  Mr. C. Yes,
yes.  Aid. We did not send for you to preach to os, 
Mr. C, I doubt you want one to tell you the truth.  Aid.
We have a protestant church, and a protestant ministry. 
Mr. C. Long, long, long raay you so have ! Yet I pray, let
me acquaint you with this : The Jews had a ehurch esta
blished by God's own law, and a ministry established by law,
and yet ttieir silencing, imprisoning, and murdering a few
poor fishermen that were coraraissioned, by the Redeeraer of
the world, to preach the everlasting gospel, cost, thera so
dear, that God has not done reckoning with thera unto tills
day ; and it is now above i6eo years ago.  Aid. It was
not for silencing the aposties ; it was for crucifying Christ.
—  Mr. C. It was so indeed ; but that did not fill up the
measure of their sin, nor bring the wrath of God upon them
and their* posterity, to the uttermost, till they forbad the
apostles id preach to the Gentiles, that they might be saved.
1 Thess. ii. 15, 16,  Aid. We have as learned men in
the church of England as you.  Mr. C. Yes, yes ; sorae
whose books I am not worthy to wipe the dust from.
Town-Clerhf He does not speak as he thinks.  Mr. C-
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How can you tell that, unless you were God Almighty, the
searcher of hearts, whose prerogative only that is ? Are not
you the town-clerk?-  Town-Clerk. Yes.  Mr. C. I
wish you had as rauch wisdom and honesty as the town
clerk of Ephesus had ; he took the part of the blessed apostie
St. Paul ; but you are very brisk against me. I pray you,
gentlemen, do not judge my case, and deprive me of my li-
hcrty, by a piece ofthe law, but let the whole Act be read.
 Aid. 'Tis a long act, and we must go to dinner. One
of them said, It is a short act, a short act ; let it be read.
For which he had little thanks given him by some. How
ever, the act was read ; and then they went on.-  Mr. C,
Where are the two witnesses ? Let me see them face to face,
(according to the manner of England) that will swear I was
the parson, vicar or curate, and did refuse to give my assent
and consent to take the oath, and lo make the declaration,
according to the Act of uniformity. — — Aid. It is no matter.
 Mr. C. There must needs be proof, that I ara such a
person as the act describes ; for there are more preachers in
Hull than Mr. Ashley and I; and you may as well, if you
have not proof that I am the parson, vicar, or curate, send
for the raan that goes next by in the streets, and execute the
Five-mile-act upon him.  Aid. Do you think we sjt here
like a company of fools? Will you take and subscribe the
oath, according to the act ?  Mr. C. Let me see it proved
acccwding to the act, that I am concci-ned in it, and then I
will tell you more of my mind.  Aid. You do preach,
ypu do baptize, you do administer the sacrament.  Mr. C.
Did you see me?  Aid. No; but we did hear so. 
Mr. C. And will you deprive a man of his liberty by hear
say? You may then find yourselves work enough, as the
world goes.  Upon this they ordered him to withdraw;
and he was carried to the jail, where he was imprisoned six
months. After Jie was set at liberty, he coiitinue4 labouring
among his people to the day of his death.
He was an excellent scholar, well skilled in the oriental
languages, and a great historian ; an accurate, lively, and
successful preacher ; indefatigably studious ; very retired and
devout ; a prudent ceconoraist ; of a warra and courageous
teraper, and a zealous reprover of reigning vices. He en
joyed firm health till overtaken by the student's diseases, the
stone and strangury, which he bore with invincible patience,
and of which he died December 23, 1603, with greatpeace
^d comfort, vea with assurance and triumph.
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422 MnirrgTEi^ajftectED
MONEY-ASH.' Mr. RobERT Cook. '
NPRTON* [V. 46/.'3i:. 6d.] Mr. Jeremy ScoaijEs^
He was born at Walford near Manchester. When he Waas
ejected, he renloved to his native place, and there lived on
his estate. He was very industrious in hi? Master's work,
and preached as he had opportunity. He used to take much
delight in days of prayer and humiliation, in which he was
pften charged by his brethren with holding out too long ;
tho' he was usually'pertinent and acceptable. He was an up
right-hearted man. He died /^/jriY 27, 1685, aged 56, and
left a son in the ministry among the Nonconformists whose
name was Nathaniel. See Mr. Mathew Henry's Life,
pi 279.
PENTRIDGE [V. 12/. 155.] Mr. Robert Porter.
Of Camb. Univ. He was a native of Nottinghamshire.
Hife •dbillties were great, his ' fancy rich and fertile, and his
¦wit rendered hira the desire and pleasure of gentleraen in con
versation. After God had'effectually touched his heart, which
^is nttt till after his coming from Cambridge, he betook hi.m-
self -to close sttfdy arid'a strict conversation. His proficiency
\*as considerable. Few men better understood their Bible than
he. His judgm'ent Ws solid, his eloquence natural, and his
liiiguage scriptural. His people were poor, but his laboiifs
^iriorig tiierh Were great and very prosperous. His stated in
come was not above fifteen pounds per ann. but beiiig
gi-featiy belo^d by the neighbouring gentry and others, they
lalsed it to near fifty. He was invited to places where he
ratght haVe had fnuch raore, but hfe refused, because he found
his rhinistry -successful, and thought it would be difficult for
the people to' get a suitable supply. — He was abundant in
prayei-,' preaching, catechizing, and visiting from house fo
iiouse. If the meanest persons in his parish were sick or in
any difteculfy; he was aHvays ready to pray with thera, or
give them a s.errao.n, suited to their exigencies, in^)oth which
he had a?h iiiiboirimbii faculty,
¦ Whbn I'le-'was ejeetred in 1662, he continued as long as he
Could Within 'the parish, to assist his people in private.
S'Ofnetiraes he preached in his own house; soraetiraes he
>Svi;rit by nigh't to an obsiure house about a raile off,' till the
coraing oiit of fhe Oxford-aft, when he retired to Mansfield j
whferelie eildfed his days. From thence he used often to visit
his former flock, keeping days of prayer with them, Kc.
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And many a dark night hath he travelled In dirty and dan
gerous roads, from his regard to the good of their souls.
Whea one of his hearers came to visit him, a little before his
death, he said to him, " Never did any one go with more joy
*' to his most pleasing recreation, than. I have gone to Long^
-• crtft-^elds to preach to you." — At Mansfield he attendetl
on the public worship, in the establishment, and held hi^
meetings before or after it, that he might not interfere ; for
his principles were moderate. Such love did he conciliate
there, by his blameless and pleasant coqver^atiion, and his
discreet management of hiraself, that when others were clap-
pejl into prison, upon what was called Lord Russel's plot, a
considerable person who constantly kept to the parish church,
went to the lord-lieutenant, and offered to be bound for his
good behaviour. The offer was accepted ; and Mr. Porter
continued in his own house without disturbance or suspicion.
— He was looked upon as a great blessing in those parts,
and highly valued by his brethren, who used to consult him
upon difficult cases,, and paid a great deference tp^is judg
ment. He died at Mansfield, Jan. 22, d 690.
WORKS. An Account of the Life and Character of Mfr,
John Hieron, and other Derbyshire ministers. — A Farewell Sermon,
in England, Remembraneer, on Zefii. iii. 18. [§ This is the xvith.
in the Country-colleGtions, and contains ample.proof of his great
moderation, and his aversion to an unnecessary i^paration from
the church of England.] •. '. ,
SANDY-ACRE. Mr. Jqspph Moore. He was born
^^ Nottingham, and educated in '5/. John's Col. Camb. when
*"e pious Dr. Tuckney was master. He was sobef-minded
fi'om his youth, and entered young into the ministry ; but
his youth was not despicable, as he was grave, serious and
savoury. After his ejectment he spent the rest ofhis time ia
different private families, in praying, preaching, and cate
chizing. He was a hard student, an inquisitive man, and a
pertinent useful preacher. He lived well, and he died hap
pily, Nov. 25, 1684. — In the Collection of Country fare
well sermons, the xvth is his. [The text is 2 Peter i. 15, a
very suitable and useful discourse.]
SHELDON [C] Mr. John Beeby. A man eminent
for his close walking with God. He was at fidsweU.till
ihe Restoration, when he reraoved to Sheldon^ and tbere w^s
ejected byth e Unifrmity-act, in 1662.
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SHIRLY [V. 35^.] Mr. Samuel Hierom, who was
brother to Mr. John Hieron, of Bradsall. He made no
gfeat figure in the world, but was an honest man, and a-use-
ftil preacher ; much beloved by those amongst whom he la
boured. Few men's outward circumstances, more ''strongly
urgi^d their conforraity than his ; yet he followed the
dictates of his conscience, and left a pretty good living, at
Bartholomew-day, 1662, when he threw himself, and all his
affairs into the hands of God's providence. Tho' he removed
from place to place, and everywhere met with great difficul
ties, he experienced the divine tenderness and compassion,
and had enough to carry him to his journey's end, at which
he arrived March 24, 1687.
TURNDITCH [C] Mr. Thomas Swetnam. OiSt.
John's Col. Camb. He was the son of Mr. 'Joseph Swet
nam, who was preacher at Alhallows in Derby. He had
' tiie Bishop's licence to preach, which was never recalled.
WORKS; A small Piece in Svo. consisting of three Sermons,
<iii%. The Grand Question; on Psal.'x.v. r. The Holy Man*j
Honour ; on Mal, iii. 17. The Heavenly Conversation ; on Phil.
ill. 2b.
Mr. Jeremiah Wheat preached as a candidate in this
county in 1662, when the uniformity-act silenced, tho' it
did not eject hira. He was afterwards chaplain to Sir John
Bright, Bart, of Badsworth in Yorkshire. He was a good
scholar, a hard student, and an erainently pious man. He
died most comfortably in the Lord, about the year 1667.
' Mr. Charles Sager. Of Si. John's Col. Oxf. He
was born near Burnley in Lancashire, in 1635. While he
was at the university, the most religious students were his
companions. At the age of twenty, he was chosen master
' of the public school at Blackbourn, in which station he was
highly useful, and met with general respect, as appears from
his being connived at by the governors of the school and the
gentry thereabout, till the year 1668 or 1669, tho' he could
not conform to the established church. He began to preach
in the year 1660, and tho' he set about the work with trem
bling, God owned him in it. After he was turned out of
the public school, he betook himself to the teaching of a pri
vate one in the town, and had many gentieraen 's sons and
others under his care. In this employment, at the same time
frequentiy preaching, he continued till 1683, when Major
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Nowel, his great enemy, sent hira to Lancaster prison by a
capias, and there he reraained near six months. During his
confinement, he was useful among the prisoners, and several
persons also of the town, by setting up a conference on the
Lord's-days. His prison coraforts and iraproveraents were
very great. In the year 16.87, '^^ ^"^^^ chosen pastor to a
people at Darwen, in Lancashire where he laboured in the
work of the Lord, with great acceptance and success, till
God reraoved him by a paralytic stroke, on Feb, 13, 1697.
He was agood scholar, very affable, blameless in conversa
tion, and generally beloved. He had a peculiar way of re
proving sinners in private, and was so successful in it, that
the guilty either heard him with patience, or carae under
some restraints. Much of his discourse in the farailies
where he visited, was about spiritual concerns, and particu
lary directed 'to young persons ; the good fruit of which he
lived to see, in that not a few of thera soleranly gave 4ip
themselves ' unto the Lord,- in which he much rejoiced.
Mr. Buxton.— Mr. Finch.— And Mr. Forth. — The
.places of their ejectment are uncertaiti.
The following persons afterwards conformed :
Mr. Matthews of Edlaston, — Mr. Pool s?{,Muggitig.
ion. — Mr. James Laughton of Dower chapel. — Mr. James
Sutton, of Crich. — Mr. Edward Hollingshead, of
.Ashford chapel — -Mr. Edward Buxton, oi.Sweienham.

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HAVING met with the life of Dr. Manton,* by Dr.
WiUiam Harris, since the greater part of tljis volume
was printed, ,r the following abridgment of it is with pleasure
presented to the reader, in addition to the short account
given of that great man, page 175, &c.
Dr. THOMAS MANTON had his grammar-learning at
the Free-school in Tiverton, and was placed in Wadham
college, Oxford, in 1635 ; where he made such proficiency,
that he was ordained at the age of twenty, by the excellent
Bp. Hall, fhen at Exeter ; who took particular notice ; of
him, as likely to prove an extraordinary person. He him
self, however, ten years afterwards, lamented his entrance
on the ministry so early, as a rash intrusion. (See his Expos,
on James V. ig.)- — ^The times were then perilous, and- he
was confined in Exeter when it was besieged by the king's
forces. After its surrender he went to Lime. He preached
his first sermon at Sowton, tieat Exeter, on Matt. vii. i,
aiter being sometime unsettied, he was chosen at Colyton,
to preach a weekly lecture ; and was ranch respected. On
his coming to London he was soon noticed, and frequently
employed. He soon after married Mrs. Morgan, of a gen
teel family at Sidbury, Devon. His first settiement was at
Stoke-Newington, about the year 1643 ; to which living he
was presented by the Hon. Col. Popham, in whora he had
a kind patron, whose pious lady also highly esteeraed him.
Here he continued seven years, and was often not only en
gaged in preaching, but on other affairs in the city. The
second of the serraons before the Sons of the Clergy was by
hira. He delivered several before the parliaraent, in which
he discovered great prudence, particularly in that preached
after he had borne his testiraony against the death of the
king, on Deut. xxxiii. 4. 5, This however gave great
offence, and some in the house, talked of sending him to the
¦* It is prefixed to the second edition of his Sermons on the 119th Psalm,
Dr, Calamy was highly censurable in making so little use of this exceUent
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ADDENDA. 427
tower, when- his friends advised him to withdraw ; but he
never flinched^ and the heat abated.
Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick, of Covent Garden, being disa
bled for his work, several persons were proposed to succeed
him, but he would not resiign till Dr. Manton was mention
ed, and then he readily yielded. He was presented to this
iivitig by the Earl, afterwards Duke of Bedford, who es
teemed him highly to his dying day, and sent hira a key of
of the garden which belonged to Bedford-hOuse. In this
situation he had a nuriierous and grand audience, among
whom frequently was the excellent Abp. Usher, — Dr.
Manton had a- great respect for Mr. Christopher Lome, who
was beheaded in 1651 for assisting the royal family, and at
tended him on rhe scaffold ; when, as a token of respect,
he gave him his cloak. The government finding that the
Dr. intended to j/weach his ftmeral sermon, expressed dis
pleasure, and the soldiers threatened to shoot him. But he
-was undaunted and'pfdached at Mr. Love's church, in St.
Lawrence Jury, to a numerous congregation, tho' without
pulpit cloth or cushion. The sermon was sometirae after-
Wards printed — -Tho' he was far from courting the favour
of that government, they professed' at least to esteem him,
aiid Cromwell sent for him to Whitehall on the morning of
his iiiStallftient, ' tellitig him, not till he came, -that it was to
pray on the oc<iaslon ; and when he begged to be excused j
urging the shortness of the notice, he said, that such a man
as he could not be at a loss to perform the service, and put
him into his study for half an hour to pretnedltate,* The
Protector made him one bf his chapilains. He was also ap
pointed one of the committee lor trying' ministers ; and he
seldom absented himself from that trotiblesorae service, as
he hiraself was heard to say, in order that he raight doal-1 in
his power to keep matters frora running into extremes'.
One reraarkable instance of his kindness is worth recording.
A clergyraan of respectable appearance, somewhat in years,
appeared before the coraraissioners, when Dr. Manton called
for a chair, dt ivhich sorae of them were displeased. This
minister, after the Restoration, was preferred to a bishopric
in Ireland ; and he retained so affectionate a remerabrance
of Dr. Manton, that he charged Bp. Worth when he came
* Whitlock, who was present, mentions Dr Manton's prayer on this
occasion (Mem, p- 601.) and says, " He recommended his Highness, the
" parliament, tlie council, the forces, and the whole government and peo-
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to London, to visit the Dr. and tell him>.that,if he was mo-
lested In his preaching in England, he should have liberty to
preach in any part of his diocese in Ireland undisturbed. —
What interest he had with thp Protector (which was, Very
great) he never applied to any sordid ends of his own, but
for the benefit of others. Royalists not excepted. Accor
dingly he applied, at the request of some of the principal of
them, for the life of Dr. Hewit, who was condemned for,a
plot against the government ; and had it not been for the pe-.
culiar aggravations of guj^t in the case, the Protector de
clared he would have yielded to the Dr's intercession.
In the year 1660 he was very instruraental, with many
other Presbyterian divines, in the Restoration of K. Cliarles
II. He ,wa,s one wlio waited on the king at Breda, and
was afterwards sworn one, of his chaplains. It was, this
year that he, with Dr. Bates and other Royalists, was
created D. D. at Oxford, by virtue of his Majesty's letters.
He was also appointed one of the commissioners at the Sa
voy conference, being the first to receive the commission
frora the Bp. of London, who, wrote him a most respectful
letter on the occasion, of vvhich Dr. Harris has preserved a
copy. At this time he. was offered the deanery of RochesT
ter, which they who had purchased bishops and deans
lands pressed him to acc^t, ofiering him their money fot
new leases, which he might have taken, with the deanery,
and quitted it again in 1662, as there was then no assent and
consent imposed ; but he scorned thus to enrich himself with
the spoils of others. — In the interval between the restora-
lion and the &tal Bartholomew day, he met with no moles
tation, being well respected in his parish ; only a little before
his ejectraent, one ofhis hearers complained to Dr. Sheldon,
Bp. of London, that Dr. Manton deprived hira of the
means of his salvation, by not using the common-priyer ;
when the bishop answered, " Well, all in good tirae ;j but
"you raay go to heaven without the common- prayer." —
He was also greatiy esteemed by pei-sons of the first quality
at court. Sir John Baber used to tell hira, that the king
had a singular respect for hira. Lord chancellor Hyde was
always highly obliging to him, and gave hira free access to
hira ori all occasions ; which he iraproved, not for himself,
but for the service of others. One instance of it was be
fore related. — But after the Dr. refused to conform in i662,
so fickle is the favour of the great, that he fell under his
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some treasonable expressions in a sermon. On which his
majesty sent for him, with an order to bring his sermon
with him. On reading the passage referred to, tiie king
asked whether, upon his word, that was all he said ; and
upon a solemn assurance that it was, he replied, " Doctor,
*' I am satisfied, and you may be assured of my favour ;
*' but look to yourself, or else Hyde will be too hard for
" you." After his ejectment, he usually resorted to his own
church, where he heard his successor Dr, Patrick, till lie-
was obliged to desist, in consequence Of that great man's
unjustly and imprudently charging him with being the au
thor of an anonymous and scurrilous letter*. — After this he
preached on the Lord's-day evenings in his own house, and
on Wednesday mornings ; for which one justice Ball often
threatened him, and at last proceeded against him. The
churchwardens also gave him some trouble ; but the Duke
of Bedford, having the choice of one of the three, took
care to have a friend of the Dr. among them, and in other
respects gave him countenance. Lord Wharton allowed
hira the convenience of his house, which adjoined his
meeting in St. Giles, and the Eari of Berkshire, though
a Jansenist papist, who lived next door to him, gave
hira liberty, when in any trouble, to pass over a low wall
into his premises. — When the Indulgence given in 1670 ex
pired, and the Dr. was apprehended, after his sermon on
the Lord'd day, many persons of distinction attended him,
araong whom was the Duke of Richmond ; so that he raet
with civil treatraent ; and when a prisoner in the Gate
house, Lady Broughton who was the keeper, tho' usually
severe in her office, granted l\im every convenience ; and
when she went in the country, ordered the keys of the
comraon jail to be brought to him every night, and no one
but his own servant opened and shut his own apartraent ; so
that he might at any time have escaped, but he only ventur
ed once to go with his keeper to visit his friend Mr. Gunston.
After his release, when the Indulgence was renewed, he
* Vr.' Patrick, afterwards Bp, of Ely, in the heat of his youth, wrote the
first volumes of the Friendly Debate, designed to expose the Nonconformists ;
a work afterwards carried on by Parker with a more virulent spirit. But in
his more advanced age, the good bishop grew more moderate, and in a
public debate in the House of Lords, on the Occasional conformity Bill, declar
ed that he had lived long enough to alter his opinion of the Dissenters, and
to disapprove the maoaer in which he bad, in his younger years, written
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preached in a large room in White-hart-yard ; but there he
was at length disturbed. A band of rabble came on the
Lord's day morning to seize him, but having timely notice he
escaped their fury; Mr. Bedford who had preached for him,
they dismissed, but took the names of several present.
Lord Wharton was there, whom they pretended not to know,
and on his refusing to tell his name threatened to send him
to prison, but they thought better of it. The place was fined
40^. and the rainister zol, which his Lordship paid. ' Sir
John Baber, who owed all his court preferraent to the Dr.'s
interest, continued his hearty friend. — When the Indulgence
was confirmed in 1672, the merchants set up a Lecture at
Pinners Hall, which was opened by Dr. Manton, who
espoused the cause of Mr. Baxter, when a great clamour was
raised against him, for a discourse which he had delivered
there, on John v. 40. and at his next turn sharply rebuked
those who had joined in it. He thought Mr. Baxter one of
the raost extraordinary persons the church had produced since
the apostles days, and was "known to have said, that he did
not look upon himself as worthy to carry his books after
him. When his health began to decline, he could not be per
suaded long to desist from his delightful work of preaching ;
but he at length consented to spend some time with Lord
Wharton at Wooburn. Finding, however, but little benefit,
he soon returned, and gave notice of his intention to admi
nister the Lord's supper, but did not live to perform that ser
vice. The day before he took to his bed, he was in his
study, of which he took a solemn leave, blessing God for
the many pleasant and useful hours he had spent there, and
expressing his joyful hope of a state of clearer knowledge
and higher enjoyraents. At night he prayed with his family,
under great Indisposition, and recoraraended himself to God's
wise disposal ; desiring, " that if he had no further work for
him to do, he would take him to himself." When he went
to bed he was seized with a lethargy, to the great grief and
loss of his friends who came to visit him, as it deprived him
of all capacity for conversing with thein- Hedied Oct. 18,
1677, in the 57th year ofhis age, arid was buried in the chan
cel at Stoke Newington.
Dr. Manion was a raan of consideiable learning, and had
a fine collection of books. His great delight was In his study.
He had carefully read the Fathers ,and Schoolmen, and had
¦well digested the best commentators on Scriptuie. He was
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also well read In ancient and modern history, which rendered
his conversation entertaining and instructive. He would
discourse with young gentlemen who had travelled, so
as to surprise them with his superior knowledge of
things abroad, which he talked of as if he had been on
the spot. In this view, Waller the poet used to say, that
he never met with his equal. — He took great pains with his
sermons, so as soraetimes to transcribe them more than once ;
and if one that he had composed did not please hira, he would
sit up all Saturday night to raake another. If a good thought
carae into his raind in the night, he would light his candle,
and soraetiraes write for an hour. Dr. Bates used to say,
that though he soraetiraes heard the greatest men deliver a
mean discourse,' he never heard such a one from Dr. Alan-
ton. — Dr. Harris has given k particular account of his wri
tings, with the time and occjasion of them ; also the enco
miums of different persons.' We shall only observe here»
that the bookseller offered h^im 60 1. for his Serraons on die
119th Psalm, or The Paris edition of the Councils, in 30
vols.yb/. and that the Dr. paid him the money for them, be
cause he found it too great an interruption to his other work
to transcribe these discourses ; so that after his death they
were published from his notes, as many others of his sermons
were ; which occasioned them to appear under a great disad
vantage. Several Funeral Sermons having very lately fallen into my
hands, I have extracted from thera some additional accoum;;
of the following ministers,
Mr. William Whitaker. Page 157.
Dr, Annesley, in the sermon preached at his funeral, on
Zech, i, 5, 6. besides what Dr. Calamy has quoted ftom it,
mentions the following particulars. — ?' In the fifteenth year
of his age he was admitted in Emanuel College, whose first
tutor gave him this direction, which he constantly observed j
viz. To note down every day what and how much he studied,
that in after times he might repent of what time he had lost.
While he was. a pupil, he was, as it were, a tutor to many
tutors in the college ; divers of the fellows desiring, and re
ceiving, directions from him in the oriental tongues. Dr.
Holdsivorth, then master of tbe college, took such notice of
him, while a fresh man, that he gave hira the keys of
the college library, and appointed him tasks in translating
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Eustathius upon Homer, wherein he did so much as is
scarcely to be imitated. ...... For his time he was one ofthe
greatest ornaments and tutors of the university. I may say
of him something like what was said of Moses, Acts vii. 22.
He was skilled in all necessary learning, and in all he under
took he was a workman that needed not to be ashamed. His
deserved fame is not confined within the narrow seas : you
cannot shew me throughout England such a Schola illustris
ior foreign divines ; his house was for many years full of
candidates in divinity, -who returned accomplished for their
work. — In the 24th year of his age be entered into xhe mi
nistry, and how he hath fulfilled it you all know. He took
the counsel ol the apostle to Timothy, Give thy.self wholly
to them. When he preached his farewell sermon to his peo
ple in the country, from whom he was torn -away, by the de
termination of the ministers in the city, there was not only a
flood of tears, but, the lamentations of many were so loud,
that his own voice could scarcely be heard. — His presence
was so refreshing to us (his brethren) that whenever he came
among us we were all ready to rise up and call him blessed."
Roger Drake, D. D. Page 180.
Dr. Annesley, inhis preface to his funeral sermon for Mr.
William Whitaker (which it is evident Dr. Calamy had
seen) mentions his having delivered the substance of that
sermon some years before, on the occasion of the death of
his intimate and most valuable friend. Dr. Drake, of whom
he there gives the following account. " Consider him every
¦way, and his worth was inexpressible. For his personal
graces, during forty years standing in Christ, he was emi
nently blameless  For his relative piety, his way of in
structing, reproving, convincing and counselling every per
son in his family, severally and privately in his study, as oc
casion required, praying with them ere he dismissed them ;
I never heard of the like. For his worldly incomes, he ever
laid by the tenth part for the poor, before he used any for him
self. — For his ministerial excellencies, .... these are well
known to those that knew him, but will be scarcely credible
to those that knew him not ; and therefore I say so little of
them. Those that heard him pray upon any extraordinary
occasion, must be forced to acknowledge, his pi-ayingby the
spirit was not fanatical. His writings will be esteemed while
there are books in the world, for the stream of piety and learn
ing that runs through his sacred chronology. But the eleva-
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vation ofhis grdces in his death-bed sickness was most re
markable : he went out like one of the lamps ofthe sanctu
ary, with a sweet perfume. I cannot tell you his triumphs
of faith; his foretastes of heaven; his earnest and holy dis
course ; his admlrings of God ; his unwillingness to retreat
into the wilderness; his charge to his children, that they
should not dare to meet him at judgment In an unregeneratc
state ; and his sealing of his rainistry to his parishioners that
visited him. The last time I saw hira, his discourse of the
love of God was such, that I expect not to hear of such ano
ther till I corae to heaven. "
Mr. Fran'Cis Johnson. Page 257.
In the serraon preached by Mr, Lloyd at his funeral, he is
said to have been sometime Fellow of All-souls, and after
wards Master of University College, Oxford, The text is
Joshua i, 2. Moses my servant is dead.— As a j-eason for
the choice of this text, the preacher says, in his Introduc
tion, " When you remeraber how great and public a person
he hath been in former days, though of late years buried in
obscurity ; and of what magnitude this star that is fallen was,
who in his last winter stormy nights of trouble and persecu
tion was inveloped in the clouds, as if quite set, yet In fairer
tiraes gave as great a light in his lesser sphere, and shone as
much in his confined orb, as did Moses inhis greater 
you will readily think the text well enough adapted to the
providence." — In the course of the sermon, he pomts out the
reserablance between Mr. Johnson and Moses In the follow
ing particulars. 1. As a man of prayer. 2. As a man of
learning. 3. As a raodest raan, who could by no means be
persuaded to think himself fit for so worthy an eraployraent
as God had designed hira. 4. As a raan eminent for his
meekness and patience. " Fancy a man, the best of mere
men, who formerly was followed with continual afiluence of
the things of this world, through the whirl of providence
brought to a condition next to poor and indigent : who was
the desired company of the greater and raore refined sort,
forced to converse with the poorer and more ordinary : and
who [once] governed the highest rank of njen in their ad
vances In the superior liberal arts and sciences, and chiefest pos
sessions, compelled (to divert a greaternolse) to sit among the
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cries and clamours of children, and instruct them in the rudi
ments of reading ; rn aword, fancy one encompassed with all
the afflictions of /<3^ . . . perfectly endued with Job's patience
too, and then you but begin to think equally ofhis." 
The account given of Dr Bates's Father, page 115, (tho'
coramunicated by two medical gentiemen) as the author of
Elenchus motuum nuperorura in Anglia, &c. is found, to be
a raistake, as any reader will perceive it raust be, who turns
to the Biog, Britan.. or the General Biograph. Did. —
The ancestry and birth-place of this great raan yet reraain
undiscovered. The note respecting his brother, will, of
course, be corrected.
Undeir the article Glgssop, in Derbyshire, mention is
made of Colonel Bright, as a friend of Mr. Bagshaw. A
correspondent has sent the following account of that gentie -
inan. " He was a zealous Nonconformist, and his house, at
Carbrook, near Sheffield, ever afforded an asylura to the per
secuted rainisters; several of whom he entertained as domes
tic chaplains, or procured them employment in that capacity
in the army of the parliament. He was a very dlslnguished
character during the civil war, and under the Commonwealth
and Protectorship. He was Col. of Foot, Governor of York,
one of the Coinmissionei-s for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
and a meraber of raost of the Parliaraents which sat from the
breaking out of the war, till the Revolution.
Sorae readers having expressed a wish for an explanation
of the Oath ex officio, and of the Etcatera Oath, often men
tioned in this work, the following is here given :
By the Oath ex officio the persons that took it swore, that
they would answer all interrogatories put to thera, though it
were to accuse themselves.
That which was called the Et ceetera oath ran thus : I do
swear that I approve the doctrine, discipline, or governraent
established in the church of England  and that I will
not ever give ray consent to alter the governraent of this
church by archbishops, bishops, deans and archdeacons, et
Ceetera, as it now stands  and this I do heartily, wil
lingly and truly upon the faith of a christian.
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