2It LIVES OF THE PURITANS. Lord Jesus, thou bright Morning Star ! Come, Lord Jesus I desire to be dissolved, and be with thee." Herein his request was granted. Jesus crowned him with glory, immortality,,and eternal life, March 17, 1612, aged seventy three years. His remains 'were interred in the chancel of St. Mary's church, Oxford, with great funeral solemnity and universal lamentation. He was succeeded in the pro fessor's chair by Dr. Robert Abbot, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury. Dr. Kilby, who preached his funeral sermon, gives the following account of him : He had a wonderful knowledge of all the learned languages, and of all arts and sciences, both Inman and divine. He was mighty in the scriptures ; and so familiarly acquainted with the fathers, as if he himself had been one of them ; and so versed in the schoolmen, as if he were the seraphic doctor. He was, therefore, most worthy of the divinity chair, which he filled about twenty years, with distinguished approbation and applause. Hewas socelebrated for his preaching, reading, disputing, moderating, and all other excellent qualifications, that all who knew him commended him, and all who heard, of him admired him. "His life was so answerable to his learning, that it was difficult to say whichwas most to be admired. He was not like those, who when they become learned cease to do well nor like those, who by their learning, aspire after riches, honours, or preferments ; but his learning was so sanctified by the Holy Ghost, that lieever aspired towards the kingdom of heaven. His life and conversation were so holy, upright' and sanctified, that in him the fruits of the. Spirit greatly abounded : as, love, joy, peace, gentleness, meekness, temperance, and brotherly kindness. He was so zealous an advocate for the purity of the gospel, both in faith and worship, and had so great an aversion to all innovation, superstition and idolatry, that previous to his going a journey, he constantly called together the fellows of the college, and delivered to them this charge : I commend * This most pious and Jearned prelate, brother to Archbishop Abbot, distinguished himself by writing in defence of Mr. William Perkins's " Reformed Catholic," against Dr. William Bishop, then a secular priest, but afterwards, in the pope's style, 'a titular bishop of Chalcedon. When Abbot was offered the bishopric of Salisbury, it was with great difficulty he could be pressed to a`ficept it; insomuch, that when he attended at court, to do his hoinage after his consecration, King James pleasantly said to him, " Abbot,'I have had verymuch to do to make thee a bishop; but I know no reason for it, unless it were because thou bast written against one."-Biog. Britan. vol. i. p. 22, 23. Edit. 1778.
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