ARCHER. 455 has many remarkable veins of wit. Many of the boldest figures ofspeech are to be found in him beyond any English writer ; especially apostrophes, prosopopeeias, dialogisms, and allegories. There is, indeed, a mixture of fancy in his writings ; but pardonable, considering his youth, and that many of his sermons were not prepared by himself for the press, but copied from his mouth while preaching. He died before he was twenty-eight years old.. Had he lived, he would probably have been the phoenix of British preachers."+ HENRY ARCHER was minister of Alhallows, Lombard- street, London ; but, on account of his nonconformity, was suspended, and driven out of the kingdom by the cruel persecution of Archbishop Laud.t He retired to Arnheim in Holland, and there became pastor of the English church, havingMr. (afterwards Dr.) Thomas Goodwin for his col- league in the pastoral office. He had, in his own country, been exercised with very much bodily affliction ; but his removal proved the means of his complete restoration to health.§ In this situation he appears to have colitinued the rest of his days, and died most probably soon after the year 1640. He was an independent in his views of Chris- tian discipline and church government. He was also a millenarian in sentiment. He expected Christ's appearance in those days, and wrote of his personal reign upon the earth in a work, entitled, " The Personall Reign of Christ upon Earth. In a Treatise wherein is fully and largely laid open and proved, that Jesus Christ, together with his Saints, shall visibly possess a monarchicall State and King- dom in the World," 1642. In this work he said, " Christ will govern universally over the world in these days, known and esteemed ; and in a worldly, visible, earthly glory, not by tyranny, oppression, and sensuality, but with honour, peace, riches, and whatsoever is not sinful, all nations and kingdoms doing homage to him, as the great monarch of the world."H He is charged with having held several In this the doctor iscertainly very much mistaken ; for Mr. Ward was lecturer at Haverhil in the year 1607 ; and therefore must have been a preacher at _least, thirty years previous to his departure for Holland.- Clark's Lives, part i. p. 153, 154. -t Doddridge's Works, vol. v. p.429, 430. Edit. 1804, Prynne's Cant. Doome, p. 373. Edwards's Antapologia, p. 160. Bailie's Dissuasive, p. 87. ,,sonliftkt 11$0.411, J.7 NANOCAP-6111A
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