CORNWELL. 25 Mr. Burroughs preached upon, which he also published, was his " Irenicum," or an attempt to heal the divisions among christians. His incessant labours, and his grief for the distractions of the times, are said to have hastened his end. He died of a consumption, November 14, 1646, in the forty- seventh year of his age. Granger says, " he was a man of learning, candour, and modesty, and of an exemplary and irreproachable life.". Fuller has classed him among the learned writers of Emanuel college, Cambridge.t Dr. Williams says, that his " Exposition oiHosea" is a pleasing specimen, to shew how the popular preachers of his time- apOied the scriptures, in their expository discourses, to the various cases of their hearers4 He published several ofhis writings while he lived, and his friends sent forth many others after his death, most of which were highly esteemed by all pious christians. His WORKS.-1. Moses's Choice, 1641.-2. Sion's Joy, a Sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, at their public Thanksgiving, Sept. 7, 1641-1641.-3. An Exposition of the Prophesy of Hosea, 1643.-4. The Lord's Heart opened, 1643.- 5. A Vindication of Mr. Burroughs, against Mr. Edwards his foul aspersions, in his spreading Gangrmna, and his angry Antapologia: concluding with a brief Declaration what the Independents would have, 1646.-6. Irenicum, to the Lovers ofTruth and Peace, 1646.- 7. Two Treatises: The first, of Earthlymindedness ; the second, of Conversing in Heaven and Walkingwith God, 1649.-8. An Exposi- tion upon4, 5, 6, and 7th Chapters of Hosea, 1650.-9. An Exposi- tion upon 8 and 9th Chapters of Hosea, 1650.-10. The rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, 1650.-11. Gospel Worship, 1650.- 12. Gospel Conversation, 1650.-13. The Evil of Evils: or, the exceeding Sinfulness of Sin, 1654.-14. TheSaints Treasury, 1654.- 15. Three Treatises, of Hope, of Faith, andof the Saints Walk by Faith, 1655.-16. Reconciliation,or Christ's Trumpet of Peace, 165.. 17. The Saints Happiness, 1660.-18. A Treatise of Holy Courage in Evil Times, 1661.-19. True Blessedness consists in Pardon of Sin, 1668.-20. Four useful Discourses, 1675. FRANCIS CORNWELL, A. M.-This personwas educated at Emanuel college, Cambridge, and afterwards beneficed at Orpington in Kent. During theintolerance of Archbishop Laud, having refused to wear the surplice, to kneel at the sacrament, and use the sign of the cross in baptism, he was cast into prison. His companion in Maidstone gaol was Mr. Wilson of Otharn, near that place. About this time, he it Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. ii. p. 193. + Fuller's Hist. of Camb. p. 147. t Williams's Christian Preacher, p. 433.
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