0. SEDGWICK. 295 illiberally, to asperse and vilify his character and memory. His two friends, Mr. John Price and Mr. William Bownd, answered the Quaker, and sucoessfully vindicated their de- ceased brother ; and, from their own intimate knowledge of him, expressed the highest opinion of his integrity and piety, as well as the truest respect and veneration for his memory. The amiableness and respectability of his charac- ter may be safely inferred from the strong attachment of his pious and numerous friends. He died about the year 1657, and probably not more than forty years of age. But he lived lone, afterwards in the affectionate recollection of those who had attended on his faithful and edifying ministry.. Mr. Henry Gregory, who had been a member of Mr. Evans's church, was his successor in the pastoral office.t OBADIAH SEDGWICK, B. D.-This excellent person was brother to Mr. John Sedgwick, another puritan divine, born at Marlborough in Wiltshire, in the year 1600, and educated first at Queen's college, then in Magdalen-halt, Oxford. Having finished his academical studies, he entered upon the ministerial exercise, and became chaplain to Lord Horatio Vere, whom he accompanied to the Low Countries. After his return, he went again to Oxford, and, in the year 1629, was admitted to the reading of the sentences. He was tutor to Matthew Hale, afterwards the celebrated lord chief justice4 Leaving the university a second time, he became preacher at St. Mildred's, Bread-street, London ; but was driven from the place by the intolerance of the prelates. He became vicar of Coggeshall in Essex, in the year 1639;§ where he continued two or three years. Upon the com- mencement of the wars, he returned to the city and to his ministry at St. Mildred's, and was often called to preach before the parliament. In the year 1642, he became chap- lain to Colonel Hollis's regiment in the parliament's army. The year following, he was appointed one of the licensers of the press, and chosen one of the assembly of divines, and he constantly attended.11 Wood observes, but certainly with no good design, " that while he preached at Mildred's, which was only to exasperate the people to rebel and confound episcopacy, it was usual with him, especially in hot weather, Theolog. Bib. Mag. vol. v. p. 420-422. t Ibid. vol. vi. p. 6. t Clark's Lives, last vol. part ii. p. 125. Newcourt's Itepert. &el. vol. ii. p. 160. II Neal's Puritans, vol. ii. p. 556. iii. 46, 53.
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