. slistaffirrlif STYLES. 35 shall be gathered to their fathers. I fear grace and blessings will die with them. All is hurry for the world : every one is for himself, and not for the public good. It hath been God's way not to send sweeping judgments, when the chief magistrates are godly. I beseech all the Bay ministers to call earnestly upon the magistrates, and tell them their' godliness is our protection. I am hastening home. Oh ! that I might see some signs of good in.the generation follow- ing, to send me away rejoicing. I thank God I am near home ; and you, too, are not far off. Oh ! the weight of oiory that is ready waiting for us, God's poor exiles. Ve shall sit next to the martyrs and confessors. Cheer up your spirits with these thoughts ; and let us be zealous for God and for Christ, and make a good conclusion.". M. Rogers closed his labours and his life, .January 23, 1660, aged seventyyears. He gave his new library to Harvard college, and his house and lands to the town of Rowley for the support of the gospel. A part of the land is said to have beenbequeathed on consideration of the people's sup- porting a pastor and teacher, according to the principles of the original settlers in the country ; but this having been long since neglected, the corporation of Harvard college, to whom the land was forfeited, made their rightful claim and obtained it ; so that Mr. Rogers is numbered among the distinguished benefactors of that university. But still, in the first parish of Rowley, the rent of the lands left them by Mr. Rogers amounts to more than the salary of their minister.+ WILLIAM STYLES, A. M.-This divine was born at Doncaster in Yorkshire, and educated in Trinity college, Cambridge. On his entrance upon the work of the ministry, he was ordained both deacon and priest in the year 1620, when he was presented by Richard Harebread, esq. to the vicarage of Ledsham or Ledston, to the par- sonage-house of which he was a considerable benefactor; and, March 3, 1624, he was presented by the king to the vicarage of Pontefract. He was a divine of puritan prin- ciples, was, disaffected to ecclesiastical ceremonies, and was prosecuted by the high commission of York for the enormous crime of baptizing a child without the sign of the cross ; but Alexander Cooke, by his powerful mediation Mather's New England, b. iii. p. 103, 104. Morse and Parish's Dist, of New Eng. p. 108.
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