326 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. first! What a calendar of traitors has he given to the gallows, for our preservation since !"-Whether these expressions afford sufficient evidence of the doctor's charge, or whether he designed it only to reproach the memory of this celebrated divine, every intelligent reader will easily judge. The cha- racter of Mr. Herle is too well established to be at all impaired by any such calumny. He was a moderate presby- terian, exceedingly beloved by his brethren in the ministry, and the author of several practical and controversial writings. Fuller justly denominates him " a good scholar and a deep divine;" and says, " he was so much the christian, the scholar, and the gentleman, that he could agree in affection with those who differed from him in judgment". He died at Winwick, towards the end of September, 1659, aged sixty-one years ' and his remains were interred in his own church.t Mr. Herle, with the assistance of several other ministers, ordained the famous Mr. John Howe, in his own church at Winwick ; on which account Mr. Howe would sometimes say, " that he thought few in modern times had so primitive an ordination; for he considered Mr. Herle as a primitive bishop."# His WORKS.-1. Mierocosniography, in Essays and Characters, 1628.-2. Contemplations and Devotions on all the Passages of our Saviour's Passion, 1631.-3. An Answer to misled Dr. Hen. Fearne, accordingto his own method of his Book, 1642 -4. Several Sermons before the Lords and Commons, 1642, &c.; among which were the following:--" A Payre of Compasses for Church and State, before the Honourable Houseof Commons, at their monthlyFast, Nov. last, 1642."-" David's Song three Parts, a Sermon before the Honour- able House of Lords, June 15, 1643."-, David's Reserveand Rescue, a Sermon before the Honourable House of Commons,Nov. 5, 1644. " - 6. The IndependencyonSeriptures ofthe Independency of Churches; wherein the Question of the Independency of Church Government is temperately stated and argued, 1643.-6. Worldly Policy and moral Prudence, the vanity and folly of the one, and the solidity and usefulness of the other, in a moral discourse, 1654. JOHN RooEns.-This zealous man was first employed in teaching school, then presented to-the rectory of Purleigh in Essex, worth about two hundred pounds a year. But it is said he became a nonresident ; and, hiring another to supply his place, he removed to London, and became lecturer at Worthies, part i. p. 25.-Church Hist. b. xi. p. 213, + Wood's Athenw Oxon. vol. ii. p. 151, 152. t Palmer's Noncom Mem. vol. p. 81,
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