About the same time died Mr. John Rowe, M.A., born in the year 1626, and educated for some time at Cambridge, but translated to Oxford about the time of the visitation in the year 1648. Here he was admitted M.A. and fellow the bishops waited on the king this summer for at several times after his death, and are in his commands to put the penal laws into exe-great esteem among the Dissenters to this cution, which they did with so much diligence, | day.* that Mr. Baxter says he was so weary of keeping his doors shut against persons who came to distrain his goods for preaching, that he was forced to leave his house, to sell his goods, and part with his very books.* About twelve years, says he, I have been driven one hun-of Corpus Christi College. He was first lecdred miles from them, and when I had paid dear for the carriage, after two or three years I was forced to sell them. This was the case of many others, who, being separated from their families and friends, and having no way of subsistence, were forced to sell their books and household furniture, to keep them from starving. as the times would permit, till his death, which happened October 12, 1677, in the fifty-second year of his age. He lies buried in Bunhill Fields, under an altar monument of a brick foundation ‡ The words with which he con turer at Witney, in Oxfordshire; afterward preacher at Tiverton, in Devonshire, and one of the commissioners for ejecting ignorant and insufficient ministers in that county. Upon the death of Mr. William Strong, in the year 1654, he was called to succeed him in the Abbey Church of Westminster; at which place, as in all others, his sermons were very much This year [1677] died the Rev. Dr. Tho. attended to by persons of all persuasions.† On Manton, ejected from Covent Garden: he was the 14th of March, 1659, he was appointed one born in Somersetshire, 1620, educated at Tiv- of the approvers of ministers by act of Parliaerton School, and from thence placed at Wad- ment; but on the king's restoration he gave ham College, Oxon. He was ordained by Dr. way to the change of the times, and was siHall, bishop of Exeter,+ when he was not more lenced with his brethren by the Act of Uniformthan twenty years of age: his first settlement ity. He was a divine of great gravity and piwas at Stoke Newington, near London, where ety; his sermons were judicious and well studhe continued seven years, being generally es- ied, fit for the audience of men of the best qualteemed an excellent preacher, and a learned ity in those times. After the Bartholomew expositor of Scripture. Upon the death or res- Act, he continued with his people, and preachignation of Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick, he was pre-to them in Bartholomew Close, and elsewhere, sented to the living of Covent Garden by the Duke of Bedford, and preached to a numerous congregation. The doctor was appointed one of the protector's chaplains, and one of the triers of persons' qualifications for the ministry; which service he constantly attended. In the year 1660, he was very forward, in concert * Dr. Manton was also in great estimation for his with the Presbyterian ministers, to accomplish activity and address in the management of public afthe king's restoration, and was one of the com- fairs, and was generally in the chair in meetings of missioners at the Savoy Conference; he was the dissenting ministers in the city. Dr. Grey questhen created doctor of divinity, and offered the tions the truth of Mr. Neal's assertion that he was ordained at the age of twenty years, especially as he deanery of Rochester, but declined it. After gives no authority for it. Bishop Hall," he says, he was turned out of his living in 1662, he held was too canonical a man to admit any person into a private meeting in his own house, but was deacon's orders at that age." If the fact be misstaimprisoned, and met with several disturbances ted, he must be destitute of all candour who can in his ministerial work. He was consulted in impute this to a wilful falsification. Archbishop all the treaties for a comprehension with the Usher used to call Dr. Manton a voluminous preachEstablished Church, and was high in the eser, meaning that he had the art of reducing the subteem of the Duke of Bedford, Earl of Manches-But it was true, in the literal sense, he was volumistance of volumes of divinity into a narrow compass. ter, and other noble persons. At length, finding his constitution breaking, he resigned himself to God's wise disposal, and being seized with a kind of lethargy, he died October 18, 1677, in the fifty-seventh year of his age, and was buried in the chancel of the church of Stoke Newington. Dr. Bates, in his funeral sermon, says he was a divine of a rich fancy, a strong memory, and happy elocution, improved by diligent study. He was an excellent Christian, a fervent preacher, and every way a blessing to the Church of God. His practical works were published in five volumes in folio, written by the author of the "Whole Duty of Man." -Granger, vol. iii., p. 233. Bishop Compton's character will appear in the succeeding part of this history.-ED. Baxter, part iii., p. 171, 172. He never took any other than deacon's orders, and never would submit to any other ordination, for it was his judgment that he was properly ordained to the ministerial office, and that no earthly power had any right to divide and parcel that out at their pleasure.-Palmer, vol. i., p. 176.-C. Calamy, vol. ii., p. 42; and Palmer's Noncon. Mem., vol. i., p. 138. nous as an author: for his sermons run into several folios, one of which contains one hundred and ninety sermons on the one hundred and nineteenth Psalm. The task of reading these, when he was a youth, to his aunt, had an unhappy effect on the mind of Lord Bolingbroke. In a letter to Dr. Swift, he writes, "My next shall be as long as one of Dr. Manton's sermons, who taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-churchman, that I might never hear him read, nor read him more."-Granger's History, vol. iii., p. 304, note.-En. The works of Dr. Manton are at present in very high repute. His five folios are only to be purchased in London at fourteen or fifteen pounds; and several of. his minor works have lately been republished. His theology is sound, and the preacher who possesses his works has access to immense treasures.-C. † Mr. Rowe was a good scholar, and 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 burned most of it in his last illness.-Palmer. His works are very excellent, especially the "Love of Christ in his Incarnation," in thirty sermons, and Saint's Triumph."-C. the Calamy, vol. ii., p. 39. Palmer's Noncon. Men vol. i., p. 142. cluded his last sermon were these: "We a zealous and active Protestant justice of peace, should not desire to continue longer in this world than to glorify God, to finish our work, and to be ready to say, Farewell, time; welcome, blessed eternity; even so; come, Lord Jesus!" CHAPTER X. increased men's suspicions of a plot, and the depositions upon oath of the above-mentioned witnesses seemed to put it beyond all doubt; for upon their impeachment, Sir G. Wakeman, the queen's physician, Mr. Ed. Coleman, the Duke of York's secretary, Mr. Richard Lang. horne, and eight other Romish priests and Jesuits, were apprehended and secured. When the Parliament met, they voted that there was FROM THE POPISH PLOT TO THE DEATH OF KING a damnable and hellish plot contrived and car CHARLES II., IN THE YEAR 1684-5. 1678. THE king having concluded a peace with the Dutch, became mediator between the French and the confederates, at the treaty of Nimeguen; where the former managed the English court so dexterously, that the emperor and Spaniards were obliged to buy their peace, at the expense of the best part of Flanders. From this time to the end of the king's reign, we meet with little else but domestic quarrels between the king and his Parliament; sham plots, and furious sallies of rage and revenge, between the court and country parties. The Nonconformists were very great sufferers by these contests; the penal laws being in full force, and the execution of them in the hands of their avowed enemies. ried on by popish recusants against the life of the king and the Protestant religion. Five poStafford, Powis, Arundel, Petre, and Bellasys. pish lords were ordered into custody, viz., Lord A proclamation was issued against papists, and the king was addressed to remove the Duke of York from his person and councils. 66 Though the king gave himself no credit to the plot, yet finding it impracticable to stem the execution of the law upon several of the the tide of the people's zeal, he consented to condemned criminals; Mr. Coleman, and five of the Jesuits, were executed at Tyburn, who protested their innocence to the last; and a ed on Tower Hill. But the court party turned year or two forward, Lord Stafford was beheadthe plot into ridicule; the king told Lord Halifax that it was not probable that the papists No sooner was the nation at peace abroad kind enough to them?" says his majesty. should conspire to kill him, for have I not been but a formidable plot broke out at home, to Yes," says his lordship, "you have been too take away the king's life, to subvert the Con- kind, indeed, to them; but they know you will stitution, to introduce popery, and to extirpate only trot, and they want a prince that will galthe Protestant religion root and branch. It was called the Popish Plot, from the nature of lop." The court employed their tool, Sir Roger the design, and the quality of the conspirators, most of whom were of eminence and rank.-Granwho were no less than Pope Innocent XI., Car- ger's History of England, vol. iii., p. 400, 8vo. dinal Howard, his legate, and the generals of This shows the interest which the public took in the Jesuits in Spain and at Rome.* When the this event. So great was the alarm this plot raised, king was taken off, the Duke of York was to that posts and chains were put up in all parts of the receive the crown as a gift from the pope, and city, and a considerable number of the trained bands hold it in fee. If there happened any disturb-drawn out night after night, well armed, and watchance, the city of London was to be fired, and ing with as much care as if a great insurrection were the infamy of the whole affair to be laid upon of conversation were designed massacres, to be perexpected before the morning. The general topics the Presbyterians and fanatics, in hopes that petrated by assassins ready for the purpose, and by the churchmen, in the heat of their fury, would recruits from abroad. A sudden darkness at eleven cut them in pieces, which would make way for o'clock, on the Sunday after the murder of Sir Edthe more easy subversion of the Protestant re-mundbury Godfrey, so that the ministers could not ligion. Thus an insurrection, and perhaps a read their notes in the pulpit without candles, was second massacre of the Protestants, was in- looked upon as awfully ominous. The minds of tended; for this purpose they had great num-people were kept in agitation and terror by dismal bers of popish officers in pay, and some thou-quaked with fear. Not a house was unprovided with stories and frequent executions. Young and old sands of men secretly listed to appear as occasion required, as was deposed by the oaths of Bedloe, Tongue, Dr. Oates, and others. The discovery of this plot spread a prodigious alarm over the nation, and awakened the fears of those who had been lulled into a fatal security. The king's life was the more valuable, as the popish successor was willing to run all risks for the introducing of his religion. The murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey+ at this juncture, arms. No one went to rest at night without the apprehension of some tragical event to happen before the morning. This state of alarm and terror lasted not for a few weeks only, but months. The pageantry of mock-processions employed on this occasion heightened the aversion to popery, and inflained reamid a vast crowd of spectators, who filled the air sentment against the conspirators. In one of these, with their acclamations, and expressed great satisfaction in the show, there were carried on men's shoulders, through the principal streets, the effigies of the pope and the representative of the devil behind him, whispering in his ear and caressing him (though + The death of this gentleman, an able magistrate he afterward deserted him, before he was committed and of a fair character, was deemed a much stronger to the flames), together with the likeness of the dead evidence of the reality of the plot than the oath of body of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, carried before him Oates. The foolish circumstance of his name being by a man on horseback, to remind the people of his anagramatized to "I find murdered by rogues," help-execrable murder. A great number of dignitaries L ed to confirm the opinion of his being murdered by papists. His funeral was celebrated with the most solemn pomp. Seventy-two clergymen preceded the corpse, which was followed by a thousand persons, * Echard, p. 934. their copes, with crosses of monks, friars, Jesuits, and popish bishops with their mitres, trinkets, and appurtenances, formed the rest of the procession.Dr. Calamy's Own Life, MSS., p. 67, 69.-E.D. l'Estrange, to write a weekly paper against the | tated design, supported by the king and the Duke plot; and the country party encouraged Mr. of York, to render the king absolute, and introCar to write a weekly packet of advice from duce the popish religion; for this is precisely Rome, discovering the frauds and superstitions what was meant by the plot; the design of killof that court; for which he was arraigned, ing the king was only an appendage to it, and convicted, and fined in the Court of King's an effect of the zeal of some private persons, Bench, and his papers forbid to be printed. An who thought the plot would be crowned with admirable order for a Protestant court of judi- the surer success by speedily setting the Duke catura! of York upon the throne. Bishop Burnet adds,* that though the king and he agreed in private conversation that the greatest part of the evidence was a contrivance, yet he confesses it appeared, by Coleman's letters, that the design of converting the nation, and of rooting out the northern heresy, was very near being executed. To which I beg leave to add, that though the design of killing the king did not take place at this time, his majesty felt the effects of it, in his violent death, four or five years afterward. But it was impossible to allay the fears of the Parliament, who had a quick sense of the dangers of popery, and therefore passed a bill to disable all persons of that religion from sitting in either house of Parliament, which is still in force, being excepted out of the Act of Toleration. The act requires all members of Parliament to renounce by oath the doctrine of transubstantiation, and to declare the worship of the Virgin Mary and of the saints, practised in the Church of Rc.ne, to be idolatrous. Bishop Gunning argued against charging the Church of Rome with idolatry; but the House paid him little regard; and when the bill was passed, he took the oath in common with the rest. This year died Mr. Thomas Vincent, M.A., the ejected minister of Milk-street, born at Hertford May, 1634, and educated in Christ Church, Oxford. He was chaplain to Robert, earl of Leicester, and afterward minister of Milk-street, London, till the Act of Uniformity took place. He was an humble and a zealous preacher, of moderate principles, and an unspotted life. He continued in the city throughout the whole plague, the awfulness of which gave him a peculiar fervency and zeal in his ministerial work. On this occasion he published some very awa The Duke of York got himself excepted out of the bill, but the fears of his accession to the crown were so great, that there was a loud talk of bringing a bill into the House to exclude him from the succession as a papist; upon which the king came to the House November 9, and assured them that he would consent to any bills for securing the Protestant religion, provided | kening treatises; as, "A Spiritual Antidote for they did not impeach the right of succession, nor the descent of the crown in the true line, nor the just rights of any Protestant successor. But this not giving satisfaction, his majesty, towards the end of December, first prorogued, and then dissolved the Parliament, after they had been chosen almost eighteen years. it. a dying Soul," and " God's terrible Voice in the City." He not only preached in public, but visited all the sick who sent for him in their infected houses, being void of all fear of death. He continued in health during the whole of that dreadful calamity, and was afterward useful, as the times would permit, to a numerous congregation, being generally respected by men of all persuasions; but his excessive labours put an end to his life October 15, 1678, in the forty-fifth year of his age. It may be proper to observe concerning the Popish Plot, that though the king's life might not be immediately struck at, yet there was such strong evidence to prove the reality of a plot to subvert the Constitution and introduce popery, that no disinterested person can doubt * This corresponds with his declarations to Sir Mr. Rapin, who had carefully considered John Reresby; whom at one time he told, in the the evidence, concludes that there was a medi-presence of the lord-treasurer, at the Duchess of Portsmouth's lodgings, "he took it to be some artifice, and that he did not believe one word of the whole story." At another time his majesty said to him, Bedloe was a rogue, and that he was satisfied he had given some false evidence concerning the death of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey."-Memoirs, p. 67, 72. * This person, of whom we have already spoken, formerly called "Oliver's Fiddler," was now the admired Buffoon of High Church." He called the shows, mentioned in our last note, "hobby-horsing processions."--Calamy's MSS., p. 67.-ED. + Burnet, vol. ii., p. 211. This point was carried in favour of the duke by no more than two votes. Had it been negatived, he would, in the next place, have been voted away from the king's presence.-Sir John Reresby's Memoirs, p. 72.-ED. Dr. Grey refers to Echard and Bishop Burnet, as fully discrediting Mr. Neal's account of this plot; and, with this view, gives a long passage from Carte's History of the Duke of Ormond, vol. ii., p. 517. The reader may see the evidence both for and against it fully and fairly stated by Dr. Harris, Life of Charles II., vol. ii., p. 137-157.-Eo. Page 198-214. It was a happy effect of the discovery of this plot, that while it raised in the whole body of the English Protestants alarming apprehensions of the dangers to which their civil and religious liberties His father, a pious minister, who died in the viwere exposed, it united them against their common cinity of Durham, was so harassed for his nonconenemy. Mutual prejudices were softened: animos-formity, that though he had a large family, not two ities subsided. the Dissenters were regarded as the of his children were born in the same county!-C. true friends of their country, and their assemblies Calamy, vol. ii., p. 32. Palmer's Noncon. Mem., began to be more public and numerous. At this time vol. i., p. 125. an evening lecture was set up in a large room of a coffee-house in Exchange Alley; it was conducted by Mr. John Shower, Mr. Lambert, Mr. Dorrington, and Mr. Thomas Goodwin; and it was supported and attended by some of the principal merchants, and by several who afterward filled the most eminent posts in the city of London.-Tong's Life of Shower, p. 17, 18.-ED. VOL. II. O o Mr. Thomas Vincent 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 Bible also." Calamy. Besides his publications enumerated by this writer. Mr. Vincent, on occasion of an eruption of Mount Etna, published a book entitled "Fire and Brimstone: 1. From heaven in the burning of Sodom The Popish Plot having fixed a brand of infamy and ingratitude on the whole body of Roman Catholics, the courtiers attempted to Mr. Theophilus Gale, M.A., and fellow of | had sat three months. This threw the nation Magdalen College, Oxford, was ejected from into new convulsions, and produced a great Winchester, where he had been stated preacher number of pamphlets against the government, for some time; after which he travelled abroad the act for restraining the press being lately exas tutor to the son of Philip, lord Wharton. pired. Upon his return, he settled with Mr. John Rowe as an assistant, in which station he died. The Oxford historian allows that he was a man of great reading, an exact philologist and philoso-relieve them by setting on foot a shain Protestpher, a learned and industrious divine, as appears by his Court of the Gentiles, and the Vanity of Pagan Philosophy. He kept a little academy for the instruction of youth, and was well versed in the fathers, being, at the same time, a good metaphysician and school divine. He died of a consumption this year [1678], in the fortyninth year of his age.† The king having summoned a new Parliament to meet in March, all parties exerted themselves in the elections; the Nonconformists appeared generally for those who were for prosecuting the Popish Plot and securing a Protestant succession: these being esteemed patriots and friends of liberty, in opposition to those who made a loud cry for the Church, and favoured the arbitrary measures of the court, and the personal interest of the Duke of York. The elections in many places were the occasion of great heat, but were carried almost everywhere against the court. Mr. Rapin says that the Presbyterians, though long oppressed, were still numerous in corporations. The semi-conformists, as Mr. Echard calls the moderate churchmen, and the Dissenters were on one side, and the High-churchmen and papists on the other. Before the Parliament assembled, the Duke of York was sent out of the way to Flanders, but with this positive assurance, that his majesty would consent to nothing in prejudice of his right of succession. And farther to ingratiate himself with the people, and make a show of inoderation, a new privy council was chosen out of the Low Church party; but this not satisfying as long as the duke's succession was in view, the Commons, soon after the opening the sessions, ordered in a bill to disable the Duke of York from inheriting the imperial crown of England, and carried it through the House with a high hand. Upon which, his majesty came to the House and dissolved them, before they and Gomorrah formerly. 2. From earth, in the burning of Mount Etna lately. 3. From hell, in burning of the wicked eternally," 1670, 8vo.-Granger's History, vol. ii, p. 329, note.--ED. Mr. Vincent's most popular work, and that by which he is now best known, is his most excellent explanation of the Assembly's Catechism.-C. Mr. Gale was a frequent preacher in the University, and a considerable tutor; Bishop Hopkins was one of his pupils. He left all his real and personal estate for the education and benefit of poor students, and his library to the college in New-England, except the philosophical part, which he reserved for the use of students in England. The world had like to have lost his great and learned work, The Court of the Gentiles, in the fire of London. A friend, to whose care he left his desk while he was travelling, threw it into the cart merely to make the load, when he was removing his own goods.-Brit. Biog., vol. v., p. 182-186.-ED. No theological library of any pretensions can be without this incomparable work of Gale's. He left his valuable theological library to Harvard University.-Palmer, vol. i., p. 245.-C. + Calamy, vol. i., p. 64. Palmer, vol. i., p 189. ant plot, and fathering it upon the Presbyterians ;* for this purpose, spies and other mercenaries were employed to bring news from all parts of the town, which was then full of cabals. At length a plot was formed by one Dangerfield, a subtle and dangerous papist, but a very villain, who had been lately got out of jail by the assistance of one Mrs. Cellier, a midwife, a lewd woman, who carried him to the Countess of Powis, whose husband was in the Tower for the Popish Plot; with her he formed his scheme, and having got a list of the names of the chief Protestant nobility and gentry, he wrote treasonable letters to them, to be left at the houses of the Nonconformists and other active Protestants in several parts of England, that search being made upon some other pretences, when the letters were found, they might be apprehended for treason. At the same time, he intruded into the company of some of the most zealous enemies of popery about town, and informed the king and the Duke of York that he had been invited to accept of a commission; that a new form of government was to be set up; and that the king and royal family were to be banished. The story was received with pleasure, and Dangerfield had a present, and a pension of £3 a week, to carry on his correspondence. Having got some little acquaintance with Colonel Mansel in Westminster, be made up a bundle of seditious letters, with the assistance of Mrs. Cellier, and having laid them in a dark corner of Mansel's room behind the bed, he sent for officers from the custom-house to search for prohibited goods while he was out of town; but none were found except the bundle of letters, which, upon examination of the parties concerned before the king and council, were proved to be counterfeit; upon which the court disowned the plot, and having taken away Dangerfield's pension, sent him to Newgate. Search being made into Mrs. Cellier's house, there was found a little book in a meal-tub, written very fair, and tied up with ribands, which contained the whole scheme of the fiction. It was dictated by Lady Powis, and proved by her maid to be laid there by her order, from whence it obtained the name of the Meal-tub Plot. Dangerfield, who was a notorious liar, finding himself undone if he persisted in what he could not support, made an ample confession, and published a narrative, wherein he declared that he was employed by the popish party; and chiefly by the popish lords in the Tower, with the Countess of Powis, to invent the Meal-tub Plot, which was to have thrown the Popish Plot wholly upon the Presbyterians. It was printed by order of the House of Commons in the year 1680. Dangerfield being pardoned, went out of the way into Flanders; but returning to England in King James's reign, he was tried for it, and sentenced to be whipped * Burnet, vol. ii., p. 272. Rapin, vol. ii., p. 741, lios. He afterward entered on a commentary upon the whole Bible, but proceeded no farther than the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah: however, the design, being valuable, was carried on, and completed by other hands. Mr. Pool published several excellent treatises, as "The Nullity of the Romish Faith," &c., for which he was threatened to be assassinated,* his name being in Dr. Oates's list: he therefore retired to Holland, but died, as it is thought, by poison at Amsterdam, in the month of October, 1679, ætat. fifty-six. at the cart's tail from Newgate to Tyburn; in Dr. Thomas Goodwin, born at Rolisby in Norfolk, and educated in Catherine Hall, Cam He was a great admirer of Dr. Preston, and afterward himself a famous preacher in Cambridge. In 1634 he left the university, being dissatisfied with the terms of conformity. In 1639 he went into Holland, and became pastor of an Independent congregation at Arnheim. He returned to London about the beginning of the Long Parliament, and was one of the dis This year [1679] died the reverend and learn-senting brethren in the Assembly of Divines. ed Mr. Matt. Pool, M.A., the ejected minister of St. Michael's Querne; he was born in the city of York, and educated in Emanuel College, Cambridge, a divine of great piety, charity, and literature. He was indefatigable in his labours, and left behind him (says the Oxford historian) the character of a most celebrated critic and casuist. After ten years' close application, he published his Synopsis Criticorum,t in five fo* State Tracts, vol. ii., p. 217. After the king's death he was made president of Magdalen College, and one of the triers of ministers. He was in high esteem with Oliver Cromwell, and attended him on his deathbed.t In the common register of the university he is said to be "in scriptis theologicis quam plurimis orbi notus," i. e., well known to the world by many theological writings. After the Restoration he resigned his presidentship, and retired to London, where he continued the exercise of his ministry till his death, which happened February 23, 1679-80, in the eightieth year of his age. He was a good scholar, an eminent divine and textuary. His works are since printed in five folios.‡ * Calamy, vol. ii., p. 14. Palmer's Noncon. Mem., vol. i., p. 133. On which occasion he was overheard by Dr. Tillotson to express himself, boldly and enthusiastically, confident of the protector's recovery; and when he found himself mistaken, to exclaim, in a subsequent address to God, "Thou hast deceived us, and we were deceived." He was a man much addicted to retirement and deep contemplation, which dispose the mind to enthusiastical confidence. He and Dr. Owen are called by Wood "the two Atlasses and Patriarchs of Independency." In the fire of London he lost half of his library, to the value of £500, but he was thankful that the loss fell on the books of human learning only, those on divinity being preserved. He is supposed to be the Independent minister and head of a college described by the "Spectator," No. 494.-Birch's Life of Tillotson, p. 16. Grey, vol. i., p. 185. Granger, vol. iii., p. 303.-ED. The plan of this work," says Mr. Granger, "was judicious, and the execution more free from errors than seems consistent with so great a work, finished in so short a time, by one man." It includes not only an abridgement of the "Critici Sacri," and other expositors, but extracts from a great number of treatises and pamphlets that would have been oth-ger's History, vol. iii., p. 311; and Birch's Life of Tilerwise lost. It was undertaken by the advice of the lotson, p. 36.-ED. learned Bishop Lloyd; it was encouraged and patronised by Tillotson, and the king granted a patent for the privilege of printing it. Mr. Pool formed and completed a scheme for maintaining young men of eminent parts at the University of Cambridge for the study of divinity; and, by his solicitations, in a short time raised £900 a year for that purpose. The scheme sunk at the Restoration; but to it the world is said, in some measure, to owe Dr. Sherlock, afterward Dean of St. Paul's. While he was drawing up his Synopsis, it was his custom 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 far advanced. He spent the evening at some friend's house, particularly Alderman Ashurst's, and would be exceedingly, but innocently, merry when it was nearly time to go home, he would give the conversation a serious turn, saying, "Let us now call for a reckoning." His "Annotations" were completed by other hands; the fiftyninth and sixtieth chapters of Isaiah by Mr. Jackson, of Moulsey. Dr. Collinges wrote the notes on the remainder of that prophet, on Jeremiah, Lamentations, the four Evangelists, the Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians, to Timothy, Titus, and I cannot omit to notice that, in the second volume Philemon, and on the Book of Revelations. The of Dr. Goodwin's works, in his exposition on the annotations on Ezekiel and the minor prophets Revelations, written in 1639 and printed in 1683, were drawn up by Mr. Hurst, and on Daniel, by Mr. there is a prophetic description of the Oxford Tract William Cooper. Mr. Vinke commented on the Acts, Heresy (see 66th and 67th pages). It conveys a reMr. Mayo on the Romans. The notes on the Ephe-markable anticipation of the rise, progress, object, sians, and the Epistles of James, Peter, and Jude, were composed by Mr. Viel; on Philippians and Colossians, by Mr. Thomas Adams; on the Thes salonians, by Mr. Barker; on the Hebrews, by Mr Obad. Hughes. Mr. Howe undertook the three Epistles of John.-Calamy and Palmer, ut supra. Gran : + Calamy's Account, vol. ii., p. 61. Palmer's Non. Mem., vol. i., p. 236-241. Goodwin's works are exceedingly rare. He was a Calvinist of the Supralapsarian cast, but did not put doctrinal sentiment in place of practical holiness. and ultimate fall of this popish device, which we now see spreading in the Episcopal Church both in England and America. As very few of the readers of this History can obtain access to Goodwin, I subjoin it. "Now take the times of popery before the Refor |