SIS LIVES OF THE PURITANS. solemn Past, Jan. 25, 1643-1643.-1 England's Eben-ezer ; or, Stone of Help set up in thankful acknowledgment of the Lord's having helped ua hitherto, in a Sermon preached to both Bouses of Parliament at Christ's Church, London, March 12, 1645-1645.- 3. A Chain of Principles ; or, an Ordinary Concatenation of theolo- gical Aphorisms and :':xercitations, 1659.-4. God-Man, 1660.- 0. A Great Wonder in Heaven. -6. Tracta Sacra. PETER BULKLY, B. D.-This excellent personwas born at Odell in Bedfordshire, January 31, 1582, and educated in St. John's college, Cambridge, where he was chosen fellow. Hehad a considerable estate left him by his father, Dr. Ed- ward Bulkly, whom he succeeded in the ministry at the place of his birth. By favour of the excellent Bishop Wil- liams, vilo connived at his nonconformity, as he had done at the nonconformity of his venerable father, he continued unmolested upwards of twenty years. Towards the close of this period, his ministry was attended with wonderful success in the conversion of souls. But information was no sooner given to Archbishop Laud than he was immediately silenced for nonconformity.t His mouth being stopped, and having no further prospect of ministerial usefulness in his own coun- try, he sold his estate, and, in 1635, went to New England. He took with him a considerable number of planters, who, upon their arrival, settled at it place which they called Concord. There he gathered a church, became its worthy pastor, and expended a large estate, while most of his ser- vants got estates under him. It was his custom, when any one had lived with him a certain number, of years, to dismiss him from his service, and fix him in a comfortable situation, and so take another in his room. Mr. Bulkly was author of " The Gospel Covenant opened," of which the pious Mr. Shepard has given the following account "Thechurch ofGod,"says he," is bound to blessGod for the holy,judicious, and learned laboursof this aged, expe- rienced, and precious servant ofJesus Christ; who hath taken much pains to discover, in demonstration and evidence of the Spirit, the great mystery of godliness wrapt up in the cove- nant; and hath now fully opened many knotty questions con- cerning the same, which have not been brought so fully to light until now."1. The work passed through several editions, Dr. Bulkly was a faithful minister of the gospel, and a person of dis. tinguished eminence. He made additions to Fox's Acts and Monuments of the Martyrs."-See Fox's Martyrs, vol. iii. p. 861-863. t Mather's Hist. ofNew Eng. b. iii. p. 96. Ibid. p. 97.
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