J. TURNER-.-MA IISHALT, to his memory," says our author, " if I do not declare that he was one of the greatest men and one of the best ministers that ever Set his foot on the American shore.". JEROM TURNER, A. B.-This worthy person was born at Yeovil in Somersetshire, in the year 1615, and educated at Edmund's-hall, Oxford. Having finished his studies at the university, he became schoolmaster at Bear in Devonshire, where he also preached as assistant to his friend and kins- man, Me. Hugh Gundry, for the space of two years. At the expiration of this period, he removed to Exmouth in the same county, where, for about two years, he was assistant to Mr. William Hook, afterwards silenced at the restoration.i! He next removed to Compton, near the place of his nativity, and afterwards became chaplain to Sir Thomas Trenchard. But, upon the commencement of the civil war, he was forced to flee for safety, when he took refuge at Southampton. There he abode during the national confusions, and preached among the puritans with considerable approbation. Upon the conclusion of the wars, in 1646, he became pastor at Netherbury in Dorsetshire, where he continued a zealous and useful preacher to the time of his death. In the year 1654 he was appointed- one of the assistant' commis- sioners of Dorsetshire, for ejecting ignorant and scan- dalous ministers. Wood says, " his love to learning was very great, and his delight in the ministerial exereise was greater than his 'weak body could bear. He had a strong memory, was well skilled in Greek and Hebrew, and was a constant, zealous, fluent, and useful preacher; but," says he, " too much addicted to Calvinism.' 4: He died at Nether- bury, November e7, 1655, aged forty years. His Woaxs.-1. A Breast-plate for the Keeping of the Heart, 1660.,-2. A Rich Treasurie for the Promises, 1660.-3. An Exposi- tion on the first Chap. of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians. STEPHEN MARSHALL, B. D.-This celebrated person was born at Godmanchester in Huntingdonshire, and educated in Emanuel college, Cambridge. Hewas some time minister at Wethersfield in Essex, then presented to the benefice of Finchingfield in the samecounty; but his memory has greatly * Mather's Hist. of New Emig. b. iii. p. 106-108. $ Palmer's Noncom Mem. vol. i. p. 184. t Wood's Athente Oxon. vol. ii, p. 121, 122. VOL. III. R
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