PEMBLE-SPRINT. 305 thurth-yard at that place, and over his grave was the following plain monumental inscription : Here lieth the Body of 4 WILLIAM PEMBLE,' Master of Arts and Preacher, who died April 14, 1623. He left the world in the comfortable and full persuasion ofjustification by faith in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.. Bishop Wilkins, in his list of themost excellent sermons in his time, includes those of Mr. Pemble.+ His WORKS.-1. A Treatise of Justification by Faith, 1625.,- t A Treatise of Providence.-3. The Book of Ecclesiastes Ex- plained, 1628.-4. A Plea for Grace, more especially the Grace of Faith, 1629.-5. An Exposition of the first Nine Chapters of Zecha- riah, 1629.-6. Five godly and profitableSermons, 1629.-7. Fruitful Sermons on 1 Cor. xv. 18, 19.0629.-8. An Introduction to the Worthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper, 1629.-9. De formarum origine, 1629.-10. De Seta. internis, 1629.-11. A Sum of Moral Philosophy, 1630.-12. 'The Period of the Persian Monarchy, 1631.- 13. Enchiridion Oratorium,1633.-14. An Introduction to Geography, 1685.-The above, articles in English were collected and published in one volume folio, 1635, beingmuch esteemed and often reprinted, Jour,' SPRINT, A. M.,-This learned person was the son of Dr. John Sprint, dean of Bristol, a frequent Calvinistic preacher; was born in or near that city, and educated in Christ's Church, Oxford. After taking his degrees in arts, he became vicar of Thornbury in Gloucestershire ; but afterwards removed to London, where he became a very popular preacher. Wood says, " he was a grave and pious divine, but for the most part disaffected to the ceremo- nies of the church of England, at least, while he continued at Thornbury. He was, indeed, called in question for uttering certain things against the ceremonies and discipline of the established church." This writer also adds, that he not only conformed himself, but was the great instrument in persuading others to do the same, by his book, called " Cassander Anglicanus." Fullers says, he put in the one scale the woe pronounced against those who preach not the gospel, or desert theft' flocks upon pretended scrupulosity ; and in the other, the nature of those ceremonies that were enjoined by lawful authority ; and finding the former to preponderate, he concluded it to be unlawful, on any such Wood's Atheim, vol.l. p. 405. + Wilkins on Preaching, p. 82, 83. VOL. II. X
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