300 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. 'TORN HARRIS, D. D.-This learned person was the son of Mr. Richard Harris, rector of Hardwick in Buckingham- shire ; born at that place in the year 1588, educated in gram- mar learning at, Wickham school, near Winchester, and admitted perpetual fellow of New College, Oxford. In the, year 1617 he was unanimously elected one of the proc- tors of the university; and two years after was chosen Greek _ professor, both of which offices he filled with great honour. Afterwards, he was prebendary of Winchester, rector of Meanstock in Hampshire, and, in the year 1630, he became warden of Wickham college. In the beginning of the civil wars, he took part with the parliament, and was appointed one of the assembly of divines ; when he took the covenant and other oaths, and kept his wardenship to the day of his death. He died August 11, 1658, aged seventy years, and his remains were interred in the chapel belonging to Wickham college. Dr. Harris was so admirable a Grecian, and so eloquent a preacher, that Sir Henry Savile used to call him the second Chrysostom.. He published " A short View of the Life of Dr. Arthur Lake, bishop of Bath and Wells," 1629. Several of his letters to the celebrated Dr. Twisse were also published by Mr. Henry Jeanes, in 1653. One of these letters was " Of God's finite and infinite Decrees ;" another, " Of the Object of Predestination." It does not appear, however, that he was any relation to Dr. Robert Harris, another puritan divine who lived at the same time. THOMAS GoonwIN.-This excellent servant of Christ was some years minister at South Weald in Essex, where he was much beloved, and eminently useful. He was a divine of puritan principles, and deeply concerned for thepurity and spirituality of christian worship. Though he died young, he was a person ofgreat learning, exemplary piety, and univer- sal reputation. Mr. Bownd, who preached his funeral ser- mon, gives the following account of him : ' He was an eminent light and pillar in the church where he lived. He gave evident proof that he was one in Christ, and is now blessed. 'He was a good and precious man, and well known to be a minister of great worth, every way qualified for the work to which lie was called. Itwas his desire from a youth to be a minister of the gospel ; and,,according to that desire, the Lord in due time called him to his service. To his quali- . Wirod's Athena Oxon, vol. ii. p. 144.-Echard's Hist. of Elm; vol. ii. p. 227.
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