361 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. Therefore, laying aside all' Isis former confidence, he sub- mitted himself to a private conference ; which by God's blessing so far prevailed, that hebecame a convert,and freely submitted himself to the orthodox doctrine of the church of England, concerning both the sabbath and the Lord's day." This reverend prelate, in writing against one of the puritans, could not help following his passions or his ignorance, by ungenerously, and with great falsehood, reproaching them as a body. Within the compass of a few pages he stigmatizes the puritans " a new presbyterian sect-these zealots-these senators-these ecclesiastical senators-these novel senators-these presbyterian senators -these presbyterian rulers-these presbyterian dictators these presbyterian backbiters.". WILLIAM HINDS, A. M.-This pious divine was born at Kendal inWestmoreland, in the year 1569, and educated in Queen's college, Oxford, where he was chosen perpetual fellow. He was highly respected and beloved by Dr. John Rainolds, whose doctrine made so deep an impression upon his mind, that he became the doctor's great and constant admirer. About the year 1603, he left the.university, and became minister of Bunbury in Cheshire, where be con- tinued to the end of his days. He was a minister highly esteemed, and, on account of his great piety and frequent preaching, was much followed by persons of serious god- liness. The Oxford historian denominates him " a close and severe student, an eminent preacher, and an excellent theological disputant;" and observes, that he had several contests with Dr. Morton, bishop of Chester, about con- formity, being esteemed the ringleader of the nonconformists in that county.+ Having endured many troubles in the cause of puritanism, he died at Bunbury, in the month of June, 1629, aged sixty years ; and his remainswere laid in the chancel of his own church. His WORKS.--1. The office and use of the Moral Law of God in the days of the Gospel, justified and explained at large by Scriptures, Fathers, and other Orthodox Divines, 162a-2. A faithful Remon- strance of the Holy Life and Happy Death of John Bruen of Bruen- Stapleford, in the county of Chester, Esquire, 1641.-3. Path to Piety, a Catechism.-He also revised, corrected, and published Dr. Rainolds's " Discovery of the Man of Sin," 1614. And Mr. Robert Cleaver's " Exposition on the last Chapter of Proverbs," 1614. White's Treatise, Dedica. + Wood's Athena Oxon, vol. 1. p. 456, 457.-Bing. Britan. vol. v. p.3121. Edit. 1747.
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