vately, after leaving the university; and when the times allowed, he set up a meeting at Rotherhithe near London, where he had a very numerous auditory, and a great reformation was wrought amongst many. But this so enraged the high party, that several of them threatened to shoot Mr. Janeway, which accordingly was attempted; for as he was once walking upon Rotherhithe wall, a fellow shot at him, and the bullet went thro' his hat; but as Providence ordered it, did him no hurt. The soldiers pulled down the place in which he preached, which obliged his people to build another, which was required to be larger, to receive the hearers. Soon after it was built, a number of troopers came in, when Mr. Janeway was preaching, and Mr. Kentish § sat behind him in the pulpit; they got upon a bench, and cried out aloud, "Down with him! down with him!" and at that instant the bench broke, and they all fell down. In the confusion which this occasioned, Mr. Janeway came out of the pulpit, and some of the people having thrown a coloured coat over him, and put a white hat on his head, he got out uncbserved. But they seized Mr. Kentish, and took him to the Marshalsea, where he was sometime kept a prisoner. At another time, when Mr. Janeway was preaching at a gardener's house, several troopers came to seize him there; but he threw himself on the ground, and his friends covered him with cabbage leaves, by which he escaped again. He died March 16, 1674, and was succeeded by Mr. Rosewell. He was a man of eminent piety, an affectionate preacher, and very useful in his station. In his last illness his mind was under a sort of a cloud, by reflecting on his aptness to hurry over private duties. However, Mr. N. Vincent in his funeral sermon, says, "It pleased God to dissipate the cloud, and help him to discern the uprightness of his heart with satisfaction;" and that not long before he died, he said, "he could now as easily die as shut his eyes:" adding, "Here am I, longing to be silent in the dust, and to enjoy "Christ in glory.'

WORKS. Heaven upon Earth: or the Best Friend in the worst Times.-The Life of his Brorher Mr. John Janeway-The Saint's Encouragement to Diligence,-A Token for Children: [a Book well known]-The Murderer punished and pardoned; with the Life and Death of T. Savage; and a Fun. Serm. for Mr. T.

§ This, it is presumed, was Mr. RICHARD KENTISH, who had been ejected from St. KATHARINE'S, in the Tower. See Vol. I. p. 138.

Mousley,

James Joneway

Bristol

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Published by Button & Son Paternoster Row,

Mousley, with a Narrative of his Life, &c.-Sermon in the Supp. to Morn. Ex. on the Duties of Masters and Servants.-His Legacy to his Friends. § Also a recommendatory Epistle to Mr. Ryther's Seaman's-preacher.

Mr. ABRAHAM JANEWAY, younger brother to the former. He was a preacher in London before the plague, but being consumptive, retired with his wife to his mother at Buntingford in Hertfordshire, where he was seized by Justice Crouch, under a pretence of great friendship. But he made his escape to London, and there died (but not of the plague) in 1665. His funeral sermon was preached by Mr. T. Vincent, Sept. 18, who among other things, says of him, that "He was a merciful man, and shewed great compassion to souls. He spent himself, and hastened his own death, to keep others from perishing everlastingly."-There were five brothers, who were sons of Mr. W. Janeway, ejected in Hertfordshire, who were all pious men ; but they were all consumptive, and died under forty years of age.

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Mr. JOHN FALDO. He had been a chaplain in the army, and had no benefice when the Act of uniformity took place, but was silenced by it. He was some time after pastor of a congregation in London [at Plaisterer's-hall], and died Feb. 1690, aged 57. He was of the congregational judgment in the latter part of his life, and noted for his moderation. He was buried at Bunhill-fields, where there is a Latin inscription upon his tomb: Which is superseded by the following character of him by Mr. Quick, in his funeral sermon, on Zech. i. 5. now before the editor. "He was a man of singular moderation, and of a peaceable spirit. If the peacemakers are blessed, and shall be called the children of God, then blessed is Mr. Faldo, who had an especial hand in the healing of our breaches, which (glory be unto God's holy name) are, to the mutual joy of all the saints, now composed, and those two divided parties in this nation, that had been so for above forty years, are now once again united and become one, and we shall no more hear of those unhappy terms of distinction and separation, Presbyterian and Independent, but we shall be called, as the primitive church of Antioch, by his name who hath redeemed us, and anointed us with his holy spirit, even Christians. He was a stout asserter of ancient primitive truths in doctrine and worship. His learned labours, polemical, practical and devotional, do praise him in the gate. He was a constant labourer, and

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very painful in his Lord's vineyard; and the very first that entered publicly upon it before the last Indulgence by King James II. and his great master found him in his work. There the gripes and stone assaulted him, which at last killed him.” After some advice to the people about chusing a successor, he tells them, "Such a pastor as Mr. Faldo, is forty years a making."

WORKS. Quakerism no Christianity.-A Dialogue with a Minister about the Lord's Supper, (bound with Dyke on the Sacrament.)-The Gospel of Peace.

Mr. THOMAS BRAND. Of Merton Col. Oxf. Born at Leaden Rooding in Essex, 1635. His father was a dignitary of the church of England. He went from the university to the Temple, being designed for the law; but afterwards applied himself to divinity, and became one of the brightest mirrors of piety and charity, and one of the most fervent useful preachers the age hath afforded. His zeal was neither for nor against any party, but for the vigorous promoting of the sound knowledge of those doctrines wherein we are all agreed, and of that holiness which we all commend, but too few practice. As he himself was apt to teach, so he urged others to be swift to hear. He was a man of great moderation, [and uncommon benevolence]. He never was without some project for doing good, and could as soon cease to live, as cease to attempt to be useful to souls. [Dr. Annesley, who preached his funeral sermon, and wrote his Life, says, "Besides his own weekly catechizing at home, and in all the schools which he erected, he hired some persons in distant places to catechize children, and others who were willing to learn; and once a month, or oftener, he rode from place to place to catechize them himself. And to encourage those who did well, he gave some reward either in books or money. He would often say, that he never experienced more of the goodness of God in any duty than this." His charities were computed to amount to more than 300l. per ann.] He died Dec. 1, 1691, and was buried in Bunhill-fields.

It was intended here to have inserted an abstract of his life, but it is found that our limits will not admit; which is the less to be regretted, as it does not abound with a variety of anecdotes.

Mr. BRECKNOCK, chaplain to the Duke of Bedford at Thorney.

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