of Conscience.-His Examples: (all these in folio.)—The Life of our blessed Saviour.-Disc. ag. Toleration.-A Sheet in Defence of Tythes.-Sermons on partic. Occasions.-Description of Germany.-Hist. of Hungary.-Descript. of the 17 Provinces of the Netherlands. Lives of English Warriors.-Duty of every one that intends to be saved.-English Dictionary.-President for Princes. -A Book of Apothegms.-A Looking-glass for Persecutors.— Account of the Spanish 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 of Eton College, 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 him 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.

WORKS. Several Serm. bef. the Lords and Com. and on other pub. occas.-Some Sermons on Sincerity.-Balm for bleeding England and Ireland, in 20 Serm.-Christ's Communion with his Church.-Spiritual Inspection, or Review of the Heart.Memorial of God's Judgments.

ST. BENNETT's PAUL'S WHARF, [R. 100l.]

Mr. JOHN JACKSON, the son of Mr. Arthur Jackson, and who wrote the memoirs of his life. See the account of him under the article Moulsey, in Surrey.

BLACKFRIARS.

JOHN GIBBON, B. D. son of Mr. John Gibbon, of Waltham. In Mr. Rastrick's MS. Mr. Gibbon is mentioned as having been ejected from St. ANNE's near Aldersgate, [R. 1401.] He was a member of the Westminster Assembly, a very learned and judicious man, and of great modesty. He died of a consumption, not long after his being silenced. He printed two scrmons in the Morn. Exer

cises. They that peruse these, will regret that no more of his works should have been published.

ST. BOTOLPH's AL DGATE, [C. and D. 5201.]

Mr. ZACHARY CROFTON. An upright man, but of a warm and hasty temper: an acute, learned and solid divine, and an excellent christian. He was born, and for the most 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 met with much trouble, of which there is an account in his preface to his Bethshemesh clouded. 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 some time minister at St. James's, Garlickhithe. Not long after the restoration he had a hot contest with Bp. Gauden about the obligation of the solemn league and covenant. 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 reforma tion; to be against schism, popery, prelacy and profaneness, and to defend the king. Many writings passed on both sides; but at length they who had the upper-hand, (as hath been usual in the like cases) backed their arguments with force, to make them unanswerable. Mr. Crofton was sent prisoner to the Tower; where after a long continuance, at a vast expence, at a time when he had a wife and seven small children, he sought to get a Habeas corpus; but his life being threatened, he was glad to let the motion fall, and at last to petition for his liberty, which with some difficulty he obtained. But going into Cheshire, he was there imprisoned again. When he again procured his liberty, he set up a grocer's shop to maintain his family. While he was in the Tower, he attended the chapel-service; being against separation from the parish churches, though he himself (as a minister) could not use the Common-prayer or the ceremonies. Some who thought his conduct unlawful, wrote against it. He replied with sharpness; and various writings were published on both sides, about such conformity. He afterwards took a farm at Little Barford in Bedfordshire.

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ther, and about Christmas the ship was carried as a prize into St. Maloe's in France, where he, his wife, daughter, and two servants were detained for some time. But at length they, unknown to him, 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 country 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 enemies whom he all his days had the most dreaded.

WORKS. Account of Solomon's Temple, fol.-Triumph of Mercy in Chariot of Praise-Joy of Faith.-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 Judgment,-Three Serm. in Morn. Ex.-Ecclesia Gemens; two Disc. on the Mournful State of the Church, &c.-Israel Redux; including a Piece by Dr. Gi. Fletcher, to shew that the Tartars are the Posterity of the ten Tribes of Israel.The Life of Mr. John Rowe, prefixed to Mr. R's Immanuel.-He left a MS. on Rev. xi,

ST. BRIDE's [V. 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 sincerity. and an excellent practical useful preacher. There is a preface to the 2d edit. of his Art of Divine Meditation, by one R. A. (probably Mr. Rd. Allein,) who says, "All that knew him honoured and loved him. He was a burning and shining light: he was too bright a star to shine longer in the terrestrial world. God 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 settled pastor, but a lecturer only, in the places where he preached. He was a general scholar, and was the noted Mr. Chillingworth's Amanuensis. He was much esteemed and often very kindly treated by Archbishop Sheldon, who protected him at the chapel at Ludgate.

WORKS. A Method, &c. for the Art of Divine Meditation, (one of the best books we have upon that subject.)-Observations on the 5th, 6th, and 7th Chapters of Matthew.-A Treat. of the Power of Godliness.-A Manual for Parents, containing Directions

in reference to Baptizing, Correcting, &c.-A Directory to Christian Perfection.-A Treatise of blasphemous and wandering Thoughts, &c.-Directions for our Thoughts and Words, &c. with Comforts to weak (not careless) Christians.--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 house in Islington.

CHARTER-HOUSE.

GEORGE GRIFFITH, M. A. Who was also a week-day lecturer at St. Bartholomew, near the Exchange. He was very conversible, and much the gentleman. He was reckoned a man of great invention and devotion in prayer. In his younger years he was nuch followed, but when he grew old his congregation declined. His meeting-house, in the latter part of his life, was at Girdler's-hall.

Mr. Griffith was an Independent in principle, but appears to have been in good repute among the Presbyterian ministers, as well as those of his own denomination. Mr. Baxter, having drawn up a plan of accommodation between both parties, says in his Life (Part ii. p. 193.) "Since Pre

lacy was restored, there hath been no opportunity to "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.) "The Independents also set up their

meetings more openly than before, especially Mr. Grif fith, Mr. Brook, Mr. Caryl, &c."-As a proof of his respectability, 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 compressed) taken from the church-book.

"Brethren, beloved in the Lord,

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"all, understanding that the word of the kingdom is come unto "you, 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. Holcroft "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 sufficient ground for their "proceeding, our advice therefore was, that they would again receive them into fellowship. Nor do we know any rule of the Gospel that will be infringed by your continuing to honour Mr. Waite for his work sake, or your encouraging him in his labour in the Lord. We rejoice "in that blessed success that the Lord hath crowned his mi"nistry withal among you-and we heartily pray that he may yet be more and more of use unto you for your building up. 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 prejudice to his ministry, by giving an unjust account of our judgment in Mr. B.'s, and in his case.

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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 meet "for them to do, for the repairing of the honour of Christ, "and for the obtaining a blessing to themselves, as also for "the healing of that scandal that hath come upon the way "of the gospel, by the precipitant and undue casting of per"sons out of the visible kingdom of our Lord Jesus 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 patiently "wait, if peradventure God will give them repentance to "the acknowledgment of the truth. We account that they 46 are overtaken with a fault in this present continued sepa"ration of theirs; but we also desire you would (and we

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