Puritans, he having been one himself ab origine, and therefore sometime brought into trouble for not observing the customs and cannons of the church. Expressing himself then a rank Covenanter, was made one of the Assembly of Divines by the Long Parliament, An. 1643, and much about the same time an Afternoon-Lecturer at Stepney. But leaving the Presbyterians, soon after he became, for interest sake and not conscience, a notorious Independent, had two Lectures more at least conferred on him in London, (I think at St. Michael's in Cornhill, and at St. Giles's Cripplegate) which he kept with his Lecture at Stepney, where, when Hugh Peters the pulpit buffoon, did sometimes preach, he was by him called The Evening Star of Stepney. About that time, when a petition was drawn up by many Citizens of London, to be presented to the Parliament for the speedy settling of Church-government, shewing the great mischief of the broaching all abominable errors, &c. he was much against it; and when 'twas brought to Stepney to be read in the Church and subscrib'd, he, with Jerem. Burroughs, another Independent, and the morning Lecturer, was against the reading it, (tho' the Vicar, Dr. Josh. Hoyle, did order it to be read) shewing thereby their great willingness that the Church should be supplied with all sorts of Sectaries. Afterwards he continued very active and forward in his notorious schisms, promoting the interest of the army then on foot, took part with them in their diabolical proceedings, in purging the H. of Commons, their making no more addresses to the King, applauded their proceedings against him in his Lectures, afterwards vindicated the murder of him, and in an high manner flattered Oliver the tyrant. In the latter end of 1653, he was by the said Oliver appointed one of the 38 Commissioners or Tryers for the approbation of public preachers, in which office, behaving himself very forward, obtained one or more benifices, which had belonged to honest men and carrying on the cause and heaping up riches 'till the Restoration of his Majesty, was then laid aside, espe cially when the act of conformity appeared: what became of him afterwards let others seek, while I tell you what he hath published.

An Exposition on the 28 first Chapters of Ezekiel, with many useful observations thereupon, delivered in several Lectures in Lond. printed in several volumes 4to. which came out at several times----Several Sermons: as (1.) The Axe at the root, Fast Sermon before the H. of Com. 26 Apr. 1643, on

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Matt. iii. 10.-(2.) Sermons of Christ, his last discovery of himself, &c. all from Rev. xxii. 16, 17.1656..---(3.) Sermon before the Parl. on Ezek. xliii. 2.----(4) Sermon on Ezek. xviii. 32. This is in the Morning exercise at Cripplegate, 1661.--(5.) The sound Christian : or, a treatise of the soundness of the heart, with several other Sermons, 1670. This book was exposed to sale by way of auction 18 Feb. 1677, so I believe he died that year.---Something of his is animadverted upon by George Fox, in his Great Mystery of the Whore unfolded, &c. p. 297.

SUNBURY. Mr. JOHN TURNER. A man of great sincerity, extraordinary humility, and profitable labours; beloved by all that knew him. He settled in London after he was silenced; and had a considerable meeting, first in Fetterlane, and afterwards in Hatton-Garden. He was succeeded by Mr. Bures.

§ TOTTENHAM. Mr. THOMAS SYMPSON. There appears to be good authority for adding his name to the list of ejected ministers from the following memorandum—“ In 1650 WILLIAM BATES (supposed to have been the celebrated Presbyterian divine of that name) was minister of Tottenham, upon his relinquishing the cure. Thomas Sympson was put in by the Lord Protector, in 1655. In 1662 (calling himself late preacher at Tottenham High-Cross) he published a sermon, entitled, " A Protestant Picture of Jesus Christ."

TWICKENHAM [V. S.] THOMAS WILLIS, M. A. A good scholar, like his father the famous school-master of Twickenham; a grave divine, a solid preacher, of a very good presence; and a man zealous for truth and order in the churches of Christ; of great holiness of life, of a public spirit, of much fervour in his work, and great usefulness in the county of Middlesex. § He was appointed to this vicarage by the parliament in 1646. In the returns of the Commissioners he is commended as being diligent in observing all the commands of the parliament. He was deprived in 1661.

WOKKS. A Warning to England; or a Prophecy of perilous times, on 2 Tim. iii. 1.

UXBRIDGE [Chap. to Hillingdon.] Mr. GODBOlt. An aged divine, of great sobriety and moderation.

WILSDON [V.] Mr. EDWARD PERKINS. A truly great man. A very ready and well-studied divine, especially in school-divinity, He was noted as an eminent tutor in Mag

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The excellent and learned Mr. EZEKIEL HOPKINS, lecturer at Hackney, afterwards Bishop of Londonderry in Ireland.→ Mr. TIMOTHY HALL, of Norwood and Southam, [or Southgate,] who was preferred to the Bishopric of Oxford by K. James II. for reading his Declaration of indulgence to Dissenters. Mr. ROLLS, of Isleworth, who was driven into conformity by his sufferings after his ejectment.

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undoubtedly that which Mr. Baxter had excepted against in his Life (part 1. p. 41.) and is found in Eccles. Pol. Book I. Sect. 10. about the middle. It is as follows: "By the na"tural law whereunto He (i. e. God) hath made all subject, "the lawful power of making laws to command whole po"litic societies of men, belongeth so properly unto the same "entire societies, that for any prince or potentate, of what "kind soever upon earth, to exercise the same of himself, "and not either by express commission immediately and per"sonally received from God, or else by authority derived at "first from their consent, upon whose persons they impose "laws, it is no better than mere TYRANNY. Laws they are. not, therefore, which public approbation hath not made so."-This passage (after a fruitless search for it in the book itself) the editor has since met with in a well-written pamphlet, entitled, A brief confutation of the Rev. Mr. Daubeny's strictures on Richard Baxter, in the Appendix to his Guide to the Church: and of his Animadversions on Mrs. Hannah More: In a Letter to the Editor of Sir James Stonehouse's Letters: by a Layman of the Established church. Edit. second, printed at Shrewsbury 1801. Mr. Daubeny presumes Nothing can be said in favour of Mr. Baxter's "political principles." "Yes, (says this writer) much more than in favour of those of Hooker. Hooker was a favourer of democracy, without knowing it: and Baxter was perhaps the first person who detected and confuted this error. Hooker maintains the same doctrine that Locke insisted on afterwards."-He then, in the Note quotes the above passage, with Mr. Baxter's animadversions upon it, by which he clearly proves that Mr. Daubeny was as ignorant of Mr. Baxter's political principles, as he was of other matters for which he had censured him. But tho' this is a decisive an

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Page 254. TEWKSBURY. In a manuscript account of Mr. JOHN SPRINT, of Milbournport, communicated by Dr. Toulmin, to Mr. Thompson, it is said that "his Father was " ejected from Tewksbury, in Gloucestershire, and was after"wards settled at Andover, in Hampshire, where he was pastor to a dissenting congregation till his death." Whether or not he was a different person from all the four ejected ministers of this name, mentioned in this work (See the Index) seems to be doubtful. The account of his son, given in the above MS is interesting, but is too long to be here inserted, nor does it properly fall within the design of the present work.

Page 350. Mr. TIMOTHY JOLLIE. It is much to be regretted that the contemporaries of this excellent man did not preserve some authentic memorials of him. We cannot here insert all the particulars we have received*, but are unwilling to omit the following, respecting his Academy. Many very eminent characters were here educated; both ministers and others, who venerated his memory; among whom were the celebrated THOMAS BRADBURY, the pious and amiable Mr. SAMUEL SANDERSON, minister of a large congregation at Bedford; Mr. JOHN NEEDHAM minister of the Baptist congregation at Hitchin; Dr. NICHOLAS SAUNDERSON, the celebrated blind professor of Mathematics at Cambridge; and Dr. THOMAS SECKER +, afterwards Abp. of Canterbury; who also had a part of his education under the learned Mr. Samuel Jones of Tewksbury; and preached a

* From the Rev. J. P. Smith, tutor at the Homerton academy, who, it is hoped, will bring forward the whole of this article in some other publication.

+ The worthy bishop of London, in his well-written Life of Secker, was under a mistake in asserting that he never communicated in any Dissenting church; for in a List of the members of Mr. JoLLIE'S church, the name "Thomas Secker" appears along with the names of other students. This List is now in the possession of Mr. John Smith, of Sheffield, who has favoured the editor with this and other anecdotes,

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