580 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. man, a bower at the name of Jesus, and a conformist to the abominable innovations introduced by Canterbury; that he opposed the remonstrance and the petition of the well- affected, pleading for a riddance of episcopacy, the cere- monies, and other corruptions ; and that he was a rigid arminian, an enemy to free grace, and an antinomian. Mr. Denne united with his brethren, the baptist ministers in London, in their protestation against Venner's insurrection, and in avowing their unshaken loyalty to the king.+ His death is supposed to have taken place towards the close of the year 1660. After his interment the following lines were put upon his grave-stone : To tell his wisdom, learning, goodness, unto men, I need to say nomore, but here lies HENRY DENNE. His WORKS.-1. The Doctrine and Conversion of John the Bap. tist : a Visitation Sermon, 1642.-2. Antichrist Unmasked, 1644.- 3. The Foundation of Children's Baptism Discovered, and Raised, 1645,-4. The Man of Sin discovered, whom the Lord will destroy with the Brightness of his coming, 1645.-5. The Drag-Net of the Kingdom of Heaven ; or, Christ drawing all Men, 1646.-6. The Levellers Designdiscovered, 1649.-7. A Contention for the Truth ; in two Public Disputations between Dr. Gunning and Henry Denne, concerning Infant-Baptism, 1658.-8. Grace, Mercy, and Peace. FRANCIS TAYLOR, A. M.-This excellent divine was for some time rector of Clapham in Surrey, and afterwardsrector of Yalding in Kent, to one of which places he was presented by Archbishop Laud.t In the year 1643 he was chosen one of the assembly of divines, and paid constant attendance. In the assembly he discovered great learning and modera- tion. His distinguished abilities and erudition were, how- ever, most richly displayed in his writings. He wrote the Annotations upon Proverbs, in the Assembly's Annotations, as they are commonly called. He was most famous in all kinds of Hebrew learning and Jewish antiquities. He held a correspondence with Boetius, Archbishop Usher, and the most celebrated scholars of his time. Among the letters to the archbishop, still preserved, there is one from Mr. Taylor, dated from Clapham, in 1635.1 Upon his removal from Yalding, he became preacher at Christ's church, in the city of Canterbury, where he appears to have died about the restoration. He left behind him the character of an abl* * Rutherford's Survey of Antichrist, part i. p. 193. Edit. 1641. + Kennet's Chronicle, p. 358. t Wharton's Troubles of Laud, vol. i. p. 369. S Parr's Life of Usher, p. 475. .11
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