ROTHWELL. 349 (Able Reasons,' 8te.,1605.-2. ADefence ofMr. Perkins's Booke,called, ' A Reformed Catholicke,' against the cavils of a popish writer, one D. B. P. or, W. B. in his ' Deformed Reformation,' 1606.-3. The Tryal of the Roman Clergy's title to the Church, 1608.-4. Sermons onpart of Chap. i. of St. John's Gospel, 1609.-5. Runne fromRome ; or, the Necessity of separating from that Church, 1624.-6. De Re- conciliationi Peccatoris, 1624.-7. An Answer to a Book, entitled Appello Ccesarena, written by Mr. Richard Montague, 1626.-8. The Art of Logic, 1626. This last is a translation of Ramus's Logic. RICHARD ROTHWELL.-This learned and zealous pu- ritan was born at Bolton in Lancashire, in the year 1563, and educated in the university of Cambridge. Having spent many years in academical pursuits, he entered upon the work of the ministry, and was ordained presbyter by Achbishop Whitgift. The archbishop, on this occasion, forbade him attempting any interpretation of the types of Moses, the book of Canticles, Daniel, and Revelation ; and, at that time, he exactly agreed with his lordship. Though he possessed an amiable natural temper, great intellectual endowments, and other ornamental accomplishments, they were only as so many weapons in the hands of a mad- man. He continued several years a stranger to religion, when he preached learnedly, but lived in profaneness, addicting himself to hunting, bowling, shooting, and filthy and profane conversation. We are told, that in Lancashire there were two knights at variance with each other; one having a good park, with an excellent store of deer; the other good fish-ponds, with an excellent store of fish ; and that he used to gratify himself by robbing the parkof the one, and presenting his booty to the other, and the fish-ponds of the other, and presenting the fish to his adversary. On one of these occasions, it is added, the keeper caught him in the very act of killing a buck, when they fell from words to blows ; but Mr. Rothwell, being tall and lusty, got the keeper down, and bound him by both his thumbs to a tree, with his toes only touching the ground, in which situation he was found next morning.. Such were the base follies by which hewas gratified in the days of his vanity. While in the midst of his career in sin, it pleased God, who separated him from his mother's womb, and called him by his grace, to reveal his Son in him. This change was produced in the following manner : As Mr. Rothwell was 11 Clark's Lives annexed to his Martyrologie, p. 67, 68.
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