224 LIVES OF TFIE PURITANS. dox in his judgment, philanthropic in his spirit, and a cele- brated interpreter of scripture. He studied, not only to preach the word, but to live as he preached. His life was an excellent comment on his doctrine. He was the voice of God crying aloud to those around him, by his exemplary life as well as his holy doctrine. He was a man of much prayer, reading, meditation, and temptation, the four things which, in the opinion of Luther, make a preacher. Hewas assaulted with manifold temptations, and very probably with more than many hundreds of his brethren. He laboured under the buffetin.6s of Satan, that, being himself tempted, he might be better able to comfort those who were tempted. The words from which Mr. Calamy preached his funeral sermon had often been a source of great joy to his soul : " Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself.". His WORKS.-l. A Vindication of the Rights of Law and the Liberties, of Grace, 1645.-2. The Arraignment of Error, 1646.- 3; The Sinfulness of Sin, held' forth in a Sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, upon the late Solemn Day of Humiliation, March 25, 1646-1646.-4. A Guard of the Tree of Life, 1647.-5. The Dead Saint speaking to Saints and Sinners, 1657. -6. A Word in Season to a Sinking Kingdom.-7. The Wedding Garment. JOHN MURCOT, A. B.-This very pious man was born at Warwick, in the year 1625, and educated in Merton college, Oxford, under the tuition of Mr. Ralph Button. Oxford being garrisoned by the king's forces, he, to avoid bearing arms, fled from the place in disguise, andwent to live with Mr. John Ley, vicar of Great Budworth in Cheshire, where he continued several years in close application to his studies. Upon his entrance on the work of the ministry, he was ordained according to the presbyterian form at Manchester, and settled first at Astbury in Cheshire ; afterwards, he removed to Eastham, and, upon the death of Mr. Ralph Marsden, to West Kirby, both in the same county. In each of these situations he was much beloved, and his labours were rendered particularly useful. About the timeof his last removal, he married Mr. Marsden's daughter. The Oxford historian says, that he at last removed to Chester; where, by Calamy's Funeral Sermon for Dr. Dolton.-Clark's Lives, part i. p. 43-47.
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