BOUND. 171 Though it does not appear how long he continued under the above suspension, he was afterwards restored to his ministry, and was preacher at Rochester. In the year 1581, he was one of the learned divines who were deemed most proper to dispute with the papists, andwas nominated for that purpose.. However, the peaceable exercise of his ministrywas not of long continuance. The extended arms of the high commissioners soon again laid hold of him. He was again suspended, and continued under suspension at least five years.+ Towards the close of life, he preached statedly at Battersea, near London, where, by a fall, he broke his leg, and was for some time disabled from attending to thepublic duties of his ministry; but had the assistance of Mr. Richard Sedgwick, another puritan divine.i- He was a learned and pious divine, a zealous enemy to popery, a constant advocate for a further reformation, and a firm and peaceable nonconformist. He died about the year 1606, at an adianced age.§ He seldom or never wore the hood and surplice for the space of forty years.l NICHOLAS BOUND, D. D.-This learned and religious divine was educated at Cambridge, where he took his degrees, and was afterwards beneficed at Norton in the county of Suffolk. A divine of the same name was rector of Wickford in Essex; but whether the same person, we cannot fully ascertain.1 In the year 1583, when subscription to Whitgift's three articles was rigorously imposed upon the clergy, -about sixty worthyministers in Suffolk refused to subscribe, and were, therefore, suspended from the exercise of their ministry. Dr. Bound was one ofthose who received this ecclesiastical censure... That which rendered him most famous, was the publi- cation of his book, entitled " Sabathum veteris et novi Testamenti ; or, the true Doctrine of the Sabbath," about the year 1595. In this book, he maintained that the seventh part of our time ought to be devoted to the service of God ; that christians are bound to rest on the Lord's day, as much as the Jews were on the Mosaical Sabbath, The commandment about rest being moral and. Strype's Parker, Appen, p. 116. + MS. Register, p.585. + Clark's Lives annexed to Martyrologie, p. 158. § MS. Chronology, vol. is p. 129. (2. 1.) II Wood's Athenae Oxon. vol. i. p. 834. II Nevvcourt's Repert. Eccl. vol. ii. p. 656. MS. Register, p. 436, 437.
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