321 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. office he held with great reputation and usefulness for the space of fourteen years. He is said to have been fitted by the Lord for this work, and to have been a most able profi- cient in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages, and an ,orthodox and powerful preacher. He is denominated " one of the greatest masters of oriental learning that New Eng- land had ever known.". But having espoused the peculiar sentiments of the baptists, the overseers of the college, in the year 1654, procured his removal from the office of pre- sident; when he was succeeded by the worthy Mr. Charles Chauncey.-F Upon Mr. Dunster's removal from the college, he retired to Scituate, where he died in the year 1659. He had a principal hand in publishing the Psalms in metre for the use of public worship, among the churches of New, England; and in his last will and testament he ordered his body to be buried at Cambridge ; and, to the honour of his memory, he bequeathed legacies to those very persons who had been the authors of his removal from the place.t CHARLES HERLE, A. M.-This excellent divine was born of honourable parents at Prideaux-Herle, near Lystwithyelin Cornwall, in the year 1598, and educated in Exeter college, Oxford. In the year 1618, he took his degrees in arts ; and, having finished his studies at the university, he entered upon the ministerialwork. He first settled at some place in Devon- shire, where, being always accounted a puritan, he suffered persecution on account of his nonconformity.g Afterwards, he became rector of WinwiCk -in Lancashire, being one of the richest livings in England. Upon the commencement of the civil war, he took part with the parliament, was elected one of the assembly of divines, and, upon the death of Dr. Twisse, in 1646, -*as chosen prolocutor to the assembly. He was appointed one of the Morning lecturers at the Abbey church, Westminster, one of the licensers of the press, one of the committee for the examination and ordination of ministers, one of the committee of accommodation,II and one to assist in preparing materials for the confession or faith. On the dissolution of the assembly, he spoke in the name of his brethren, and " thanked the honourable and reverend Scots commissioners for their ass stance ; excused - Baekus's Hist. of Baptists, vol. i. p. 282. + Mather's Hist, of New Eng. b. iv. p. 127, 128. t Ibid. is. iii. p.I00. Prynne's Breviate of Laud, p. 6. Papers of Accommodation, p. 2.
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