LIVES OF THE PURITANS. transcended most of this age in the explanation of evangelical truth, sip, in his intelligence and explication of the Two Cove- nants, he seems to excel himself: this being the study of his life, and that whereon his mind was mostly intent. The notices I received from his other works gave me a great impression of his divine wisdom; but what mine eyes have seen, and my thoughts imbided of his incomparable intel- ligence, from his elaborate Discourse of the Two Covenants, assures me, that not the ha .lfwas told me by his works for- merly published: He was, indeed, a person intimately and familiarly acquainted with the deepest points 'in theology ; but especially those which relate to the covenant of grace.". The learned Dr. Thomas Manton styles him " an eminent and a faithful servant of God, a man eloquent and mighty in the scriptures, and a burning and shining light in the church of Christ."t His WORKS.-1. Thirty-one SelectSermons, preached on special Occasions, 1656.-2. The HeavenlyTreasure. 1656.-3. Communion with God, the Saint's Privilege and Duty, 1656.-4. A Treatise on the Subordination of Man's Will to the Will of God, 1657.-5. Hell Torments, 1672.-6. A Discourse of the Two Covenants, 1678.$- 7. The Parable of the Prodigal. THOMAS GATASeER, B. D.-This celebrated divine was the son of Mr. Thomas Gataker, another puritan divine, the pastor of St. Edmund's Lombard-street, London. He was born in the metropolis, September 4, 1.574, and, educated in St. John's college, Cambridge, where he had Mr. Henry Alvey for his tutor. He greatly distinguished himself by his assiduous application ; and he is mentioned among those ardent students who attended the private Greek lectures given by the learned Mr. John Boys, in his chamber, at four o'clock in the morning.§ He was afterwards chosen fellow of Sidney college, in the same university. He entered with great .reluctance on the ministerial work while he was at the university, when he engaged with Mr. William Bedell, after- wards Bishop of Kilmore, and, some others, in the pious and laudable work of preaching every Lord's day in the adjacent Gale's Summary, prefixed to Mr. Strong's " Discourse of the Cove- Rants." + Manton's Preface to Mr. Strong's Heavenly Treasure. This is very evangelical, and uncommonly judicious.-Williams's Christian Preacher, p. 448, Aikiu's Lives of &Men and Usher, p. 408.
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