he was gradually consumed, not unobserved by himself and his afflicted friends, till his holy soul, longing for the fuller fruition of its God, quitted the ruins of a body depressed by constant infirmities, emaciated by frequent diseases, but chiefly worn out by severe labours, and so no further suitable for the service of God: a fabric, till thus reduced, most comely and majestic.

He left the world on a day, rendered dreadful to the church by the powers of the world, but blissful to himself by the plaudit of his God, the xxiv. of August 1683, aged 67.

WORKS. Folio. Of the Saints Perseverance.-Expos. on Heb. 4 vols. Compleat Collect. of his Sermons, with many never before printed, and several Tracts, &c. with the Memoirs of his Life prefixed (of which the above account is an abstract) 1721.Discourses of the Work of the Spirit.-Quarto. A Display of Ar-minianism.-Duty of Pastors and People.-Salus electorum sanguis Jesu; or The death of death, &c-Of the Death of Christ.-Vindicia evangelica, or The mystery of the gospel, ag. Biddle.-Of Communion with God, Father, Son and Spirit.-oλoysuɛva' sive de natura, ortu, progressu, et studio veræ Theologiæ. 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-offering, or Plea for Indulgence.-Church of Rome no safe gaide.Consid. about union among Protestants.-Vind. of Nonconf. from charge of Schism.-Account of Nature of Prot. Relig.-Octavo. Two Catechisms.-Eschol. or Rules for Church-fellowship.-Diatriba 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 of Cotton ag. Cawdry.-Exercitationes 4 pro sac. Script.-Divine origin and author. of Script.-Primmer for Children.-Animadv. on Fiat. 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.—Of the Sabbath, &c. Of evangelical love, church-peace, and unity.—Vind. of his book on Communion with God ag. Dr. Sherlock's exceptions.-Na

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This appears in the fine portrait from which the engraving in the present edition is copied : an undoubted original, in the possession of a gentleman descended from a collateral branch of his family, and who bears his 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 the difference be tween this picture and that which appears before his works, taken in his old age.

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[It ought not to be here omitted, That Dr. Owen united with Mr. Baxter in a recommendation of Mr. SAM. CLARK's Annotations on the Bible: a striking instance of his candour, and a proof likewise that the difference between these great and good men, was not so material as some of their respective adherents have imagined.]

**STEPHEN CHARNOCK, B. D. of 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 Southwark; where seven or eight persons owned him as the instrument of their conversion. From thence he removed to New Col. Oxf. of which he became Fellow. Being noticed for his singular gifts, by the most learned and pious there, he was the more frequently 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 employment in Ireland; where he resided, with great respect, in the family of Sir Harry Cromwell, and exercised his ministry on the Lord's-day afternoons, to the admiration of the most judicious Christians, having persons of the greatest distinction in the city of Dublin for his auditors, and being applauded by such as were of very different sentiments from himself. Many commended his learning and abilities, who had no regard for his piety. About the year 1660, being discharged from 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 more 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 time when his memory failed him. In his younger days he used no notes in the pulpit. He was a very considerable scholar, there being scarcely any part of learning

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that he was unacquainted with. He had a peculiar skill in the original languages of the Old and New Testament. His natural abilities were excellent, and he had, what you rarely meet, a strong judgment and a lively imagination. He was indeed a very eminent divine. He had formerly studied physic, in which he had acquired considerable skill; but preaching was his peculiar gift; to this therefore he more especially applied himself: and when providence denied him opportunity of exercising his talent this way, he was laying in further materials against the time that he might be called to use them. His preaching was mostly practical, yet rational and argumentative; addressed to the understandings of his hearers, as well as their affections. When controversies came in his way, he shewed great judgment and address in discussing them, and no less skill in applying them to practice. His printed sermons are no other than his ordinary performances, transcribed from his notes. He was eminent for redeeming his time; rescuing, not only his restless hours in the night, but his very walking time in the streets, by close meditation, from those impertinencies and fruitless vanities which so commonly fill the mind, and steal away the heart from those objects which challenge the greatest regard. He constantly wrote down his thoughts which occurred at such seasons, which often furnished him with materials 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 company 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.

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character in a number of striking passages selected from the Greek Fathers; expressing his firm conviction that they were not more justly applicable to the persons for whom they were intended than to Mr. Charnoch As his life appears to have been peculiarly holy, his death was exceedingly comfortable. He had entered upon a set of discourses on the Attributes of God, which he did not live to finish; and all the while he was treating on those subjects he appeared to be so peculiarly interested in them, as seemed to indicate his near and rapid approach to his center, his everlasting rest. It was, for some time before his death, the matter of his longing desire to be in heaven, where there is the perfection of grace and holiness, and he expressed his lively hope that he should quickly enjoy that 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 of the Author, and afterwards two volumes in folio of his Discourses, containing-Discourses on the Existence and Perfections of God.-On Regeneration.-On Man's Enmity to God.-On Reconciliation.-And on various other Subjects.

Mr. EDWARD VEAL, of Christ's Ch. Oxford, afterwards of Trin. Col. Dublin. He was ordained at Winwick in Lancashire, Aug. 14, 1657. When he left Ireland he brought with him a testimonial of his being "a learned, orthodox minister, of a sober, pious, and peaceable conversation; 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 Nonconformity to the ceremonies imposed in the church, and for joining with other ministers in their endeavours for a reformation;" signed by Ste. Charnock and six other respectable ministers. He became chaplain to Sir William Waller, in Middlesex, and afterwards settled as a Nonconformist in Wapping, where he lived to a good old age. He had several pupils to whom he read university learning, who were afterwards useful persons; one of whom was Mr. Nath. Taylor. He died June 6, 1708, aged 76. His fun. serm. was preached by Mr. T. Symonds, who succeeded him. He has four sermons in the Morning Exercises.

Mr. GRIMES. He came from Ireland, and sometimes went by the name of Chambers: [for it was not an uncom

mon thing for nonconformist ministers, in those troublesome times, to bear two names, for their greater safety.] He was well 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 lived privately after the Restoration, preaching only occasionally. He adopted Origen'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 of the sufferings of the Dissenters by the penal laws after the Restoration, which contained an account of the ruin of many thousand families 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. Some agents of the king were with him, and made him very considerable offers, if he would comply: but as circumstances then stood, he was not to be prevailed with, for fear of serving and strengthening 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 Vindication of the Goodness and Grace of God, to be manifested at last, in the Recovery of his whole Creation out of their Fall.—Also, A Persuasive to Moderation and Forbearance in Love among the divided Forms of Christians. [Mr. Orton pronounces this a most excellent Book.]-More of his works are there promised.

RICHARD WAVEL, B. A. of Magd. Col. Oxf. He may be as properly mentioned here at London as any where, because, 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 him. 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. After having taken his degree of B. A. he was sent to live with Mr. Wm. Reyner of Egham in Surrey, where he studied divinity under his direction. When he was duly qualified for the pulpit, Mr. Reyner employed him to preach for him one part of the Lord's-day; and marrying his wife's daughter, he went on to assist him constantly, as long as he continued in his church at Egham.

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