NOYES. 261 exemplary life and conversation, and for doing many good offices for his brethren in the ministry. Hewas esteemed an excellent preacher, and a true follower of Messrs. Dod, Claver, Hildersham, and Dr. Rainolds.". Mr. Daniel Capel, ejected at the restoration, was his son.t His. WORKS.-1. God's Valuation of Man's Soul, 1632.-2. A Trentise ofTemptations, 1550. -3. A brief Dispute touching Resti- tution in Cases of Usury, 1650.-:-4. Remains, 1658.-5. An Apology in Defence ofsome Exceptions in the Book of Temptations, 1659, JAMES NOYES.-This excellent minister was born at C'haldrington in 'Wiltshire, in the year 1608, and educated in Brazen-nose college, Oxford. His father was a learned minister and schoolmaster ; and his mother was sister to Mr. Robert Parker, the famous puritan. Mr. Noyes, after finishinghis studies at the university, became assistant to Mr. Thomas Parker, in his school atNewbury in Berkshire. Here he was converted under the united ministry of ,Mr. Parker and the celebrated Dr. Twisse, when he became Admired for hisgreat piety. He afterwards entered upon the ministerial work; but because he could not, with a safe conscience, observe the ecclesiastical impositions in the established church, he fled to New England. He sailed in the same ship with Mr. Parker, and safely arrived in the year 1634. These two worthy ministers preached, or ex- pounded, one in the morning, the other in the afternoon, every day during the whole voyage. The sweetestaffection subsisted betwixt them all their lives. They were true brethren, and never separated one from the other, till con- strained by death. Upon their arrival in the new colony, Mr. Noyes preached about a year at Medford; at the ex- piration of which period he removed, with Mr. Parker and other friends, to Newbury, where they gathered .a church, ofwhich Mr. Noyes was chosen teacher, and Mr. Parker pastor. In this office Mr, Noyes continued above twenty years. Though his views of church discipline were different from some of his brethren, both parties exercised an much forbearance, that peace and good order continued uninterrupted. And though he was very averse to the English ceremonies, accounting them needless, in many respects offensive and hurtful, and the imposition of theni 1. Wood's Athens Oxon. vol. ii. p. 129. Palme6 Noneon. Mena. vol. ii. p.
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