62 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. intolerable and abominable; yet he could have been satisfied with moderate episcopacy. ,He held a profession of faith and repentance,and a subjection to the ordinances of Christ, to be the rule, of admission to church fellowship ; but ad- mitted to baptism the children of those who had been baptized, without requiring the parents to own any covenant or heIng in church fellowship. He, as well as his colleague, considered the sabbath as beginning on the Saturday evening. 'Mr. Noyes, at the close of life, endured a long and tedious affliction, winch he bon with christian patience and holy cheerfulness. Ile died triumphing in the Lord, October 22, 1656, aged forty-eight years. He possessed a quick invention, a sound judgment, a strong memory, and was a good linguist, an able disputant, an excellent counsellor, and one of the greatest menof the age.. He was much beloved by his people, and his, memory is there respected at the present day. He published a piece entitled, 44 Moses and Aaron, or the Rights of Church and State;" and 44 A Cate- chism," for the use of his flock, which, to the honour Obis memory, has lately been reprinted.f EDWARD BRIGHT, A. M.-This worthy minister of Christ was born at Greenwich, near London, and educated in the university of Cambridge, where he was chosen fellow of his college.$ Afterwards he became vicar of Gondburst in Kent, where he fell under the displeasure of Archbishop Laud. In the year 1640 he was cited, with other puritan ministers in Kent, to appear before his lordship's, visitorsat Veversham, to answer for not reading the prayer against the Scots. According to summons, they appeared before Sir Nathaniel Brent, the archbishop's vicar-general, and other officers ; when Mr. Bright was first called, and being asked whether hehad read the prayer, he answered in the negative. Upon which the archdeacon immediately suspended him from his office and benefice, without the least admonition, or even giving him a moment of time for consideration. This rash act was deemed, even by the favourites of Laud, to be neither prudential nor canonical.5 It does not appear how long the good man continued under this cruel sentence; w Mather's Hist. of New Eng. h. iii. p. 145-148. ,Morse and Parish's. Hist. p. 43, 46, 47. baker's MS. Collec. vol. vi. p. 81. Life of Mr. Wilson, p. 15. Edit. 1612.
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