230 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. respected; and died greatly lamented.7. During hislast sick- ness, when afflictedwith extreme pain, he discovered becom- ing submission to the will of God. He said, " I could be contented, if the Lord see it good, to abide a while in this condition, amongst these poor people. It may be, I shall do more good amongst them, in my sickness, than they have received from all my labours during the time of any health."+ He died in the year 1654, and the fortieth of his age. His remains were interred in '1'idworth church, when Dr. Cham- bers preached his funeral sermon to a very numerous .con- gregation. This sermon was afterwards published, from which part of the above account is" collected. RICHARD VINES, A. M.-This learned and excellent divine was born at Blason in Leicestershire, about the year 1600, and educated in Magdalen college, Cambridge. From the university he was chosen schoolmasterat Hinckley in his native county ; and afterwards, on the death-of Mr. James Cranford, he obtained a presentation to the rectory of Wed-. dington in Warwickshire. Hew he was a zealous and faithful labourer in the vineyard ofChrist. His ministry was very much followed ; and his endeavours were made a great blessing to the, people. He also preached at Caldecot, a place near Weddington, and, at the death of the incumbent, was presented to the living. With great care and diligence he served both parishes, the profits of which amounted only to eighty, pounds a year. He also delivered a lecture at Nuneaton in the same county, to which multitudes resorted. Mr. Evans, afterwards ejected in 1662, succeeded him in his two livings, who, it is said, found that side of the country well stocked with religious knowledge and solid christians, pro- ducedby the preaching of many excellent men, but especially his worthy predecessor.t On the breaking out of the civil war, Mr. Vines was driven from his flock, and forced to take shelter in Coventry. Indeed, there were about thirty worthy ministers in that city, who, driven from their flocks, fled thither for safety from the plunder of soldiers and popular fury, though they never meddled in the wars.§ The heavy judgments of God being-now inflicted upon the nation, these divines set up a morning lecture in Chambers's Funeral Sermon for Mr. Graile. Doct. of Conditions, Pref. Calamy's Account, vol. ii. p. 744,745. Sylvester's Lifeof Baxter, part i. p. 44.
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