330 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. It does not appear how long Mr. Travers survived the above period. He was a learned man, a polite preacher, an admirable orator, and one of the most celebrated divines of the age : but all these excellent endowments could not atone for the single sin of nonconformity. His name is enrolled among the eminent persons and learned divines of Trinity college, Cambridge.. He gave part of his library, and plate worth fifty pounds, to Zion college, London. Many persons of the greatest respectability were his constant friends. In addition to the lord treasurer, who was his advocate and his patron, we ought not to omit Sir James Alaimo, a member of parliament, and. a person eminent for religion and learning, who manifested the highest esteem for him; as did Sir Edward Cook, a zealous advocate for a further reformation of the church, and a constant patron of the puritans.+ His Wonics.-1. A Justification of the Religion now Professed in England.-2. An Answer to the Epistle of G. T. for the pretended Catholics.-3. De Disciplina Ecolesiastica ex Dei verbo descripta. HENRY JACOB, A. M.-This distinguished person was born in Kent, in the year 1563, and educated in St. Mary's- hall, Oxford, where he took his degrees in arts. Entering upon the ministerial work, he became precentor of Christ's Church, and was afterwards beneficed at Cheriton in his native county ; but he quitted his living previous to the year 1591. " He was a person," says Wood, t' most excellently well read in theological authors, and a most zealous puritan."t About this period, he embraced the principles of the Brownists; though he never carried them to that uncharitable extent whichwas the worst feature in the character of that people. Upon the general banishment of the Brownists, in 1593, Mr. Jacob retired to Holland,§ but probably returned to England before the year 1597. At this time, the controversy arose about the true interpretation of that article in the apostle's creed, which relates to Christ's descent into hell. Bishop Bilson, in his sermons at Paul's cross, maintained the literal sense of the passage ; and affirmed that he went thither not to suffer, but to wrest the keys of hell and death out of the hands of the devill The Fuller's Hist. of Cam. p. 123. + MS. Chronology, vol. iii. A. D. 1628,1641. t Altmann Oxon. vol. i. p. 394. t Neal's Puritans, vol. i. p. 495. Ibid. p. 502.
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