WHATELY. 439 God. He lived much beloved, and died much lamented, May 10, 1639, aged fifty-six years. His remains were interred in Banbury church-yard ; and over his grave was afterwards raised a large stone monument, with an inscription in Latin and English, part ofwhich was the following ve Whatso'ere thoul't say who passest by, Why? here's enshrin'd celestial dust, His bones, whose name and fame can't die, These stones as feoffees weep in trust. It's William Whately that here lies, Who swam to's tomb in's people's eyes. Mr. Whately was endowed with a lively spirit, a solid judgment, and a vast memory. He was a hard student, a constant preacher, an excellent orator, and a great scholar, especially in logic, philosophy, and mathematics.-F Mr. Leigh observes, " Of all the ministers I ever knew, he possessed the most worthy character. He was blameless, sober, just, holy, temperate, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, a. lover of good men, and a workman who needed not to be ashamed. 't Fuller denominates him " a good linguist, philosopher, mathematician and divine," and says, " he was free from faction."§ Wood says, "he possessed excellent parts, was a noted disputant, an excel- lent preacher, a good orator, and well versed in the original text, both Greek and Hebrew ; but being a zealous Calvinist, a noted puritan, and much frequented by the precise party, for his too frequent preaching, he laid such a foundation of faction in Banbury, as will not be easily removed.1 " His piety," says Granger, " was of a very extraordinary strain ; and his reputation as a preacher so great, that numbers of different persuasions went from Oxford, and other distant places, to hear him. As he ever appeared to speak from his heart, his sermons were felt as well as heard, and were attended with suitableeffects."I The following anepdote, related of Mr. Whately, at once chews the happy effect of his preaching, and the honour- able liberality of his spirit. Having in a sermon warmly recommended his hearersto put ina purseby itself a certain Wood's Athena: Oxon. vol. i. p. 529. + Life of Mr. Whately. t Epistle prefixed to Whately's " Prototypes." Fuller's Worthies, part ii. p. 339. II Wood's Athenze, vol. i. p. 528, 529. vol. ii. p.251. Biog. Hist. vol. ii. p. 191. ntea.v."-
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