GROSS-GRAILE. 229 stition. He was a judicious, faithful, laborious, and constant preacher, and deeply versed in a knowledge of the scriptures, and furnished with an excellent gift in prayer. His public ministry was accompanied with the rich blessing of God, and made abundantly useful in the conversion of souls. His holy life was an excellent practical comment upon his holy doctrine. While he urged the necessity of holiness Upon 'others, he practised holiness himself. He was a burning and shining light. in a word, he spent his strength, his life, his all, for the honour of God and the good of souls.. He died in a good old age, in the year 1654. His WORKS.-1. Sweet and Soul-persuading. Inducements leading unto Christ, 1632.-2. The Happiness of enjoying and making a true and speedy use of Christ, 1640.-3. Several Sermons, 1640.- 4. The Mvstery of Self-denial; or, the Cessation of Mao's living to Himself. 1'642.-5. Al an's Misery without Christ, 1642.-6. The Way to a Blessed Life, I643.-This is sometimes entitled, " The Fiery Buddings and Blossomings of Old Truths, 1656.-8. The Anatomy of the Heart,-9, Of Sacred Things. Joint GRAILE, A. M.-This worthy minister was born in Gloucestershire, in the' year 1614, and educated in Magdalen college, Oxford. Upon his leaving the university, he became a famous puritanical preacher ; and, about the year 1645, Succeeded Mr. George Holmes as master of the free-school at Guildford in Surrey. Towards the close of this year, he married the daughter of Mr. Henry Scudder; and, the year following, he lived at Collingborn-Dukes in Wiltshire, where he Was most probably exercised in the ministerial function. Afterwards he became rector of 'Fidworth in Hampshire, where he was much followed by the precise and godly party, as they are, contemptuously called. Wood says " he Was a presbyterian, but tinged with arminianism."t Whether he was or was not tinged with arminianism, we shall not under- take to determine ; but in his work entitled " A modest Vindication of the Doctrine of Conditions in the Covenant of Grace, and the Defenders thereof, from the Aspersions of Arminianism and Popery," 1655, he certainly labours much to repel the charge. He was a man of great learning, 'humility, integrity, and christian circumspection ; and apious, faithful, and laboriousminister of Christ, being ever opposed to the use of superstitious ceremonies. He lived much Gross's Blossotnings of Old Truths, Pref. + Wood's Athena Oxon, vol. u. p. 105.
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