NORTON. 419 diately committed to prison, where he remained for some time ; till Mr. Pinson made application to Mr. Baxter, by whom his release was procured. This was, indeed, com- plained of as very hard and illegal usage, not without some reflections upon Mr. Baxter himself, as having procured his imprisonment. This, however, Mr. Baxter denied.. Mr. Cox, after his departure from Coventry, went to London, and was one of the principal managers, on the part of the baptistS, of a public dispute concerning infant baptism, at Aldermanbury church, to which a stop was afterwards put by the government. In the year 1644, when, the seven churches in London, called anabaptists, published a con- fession of their faith, and presented it to the parliament, his name was subscribed to it, in behalf of one of those con- Fegations.t ° Though, when the act of uniformity came out, in 1662,he at first conformed, yet his conscience soon after smote him for what he had done, when he threw up his living, and died a nonconformist and a baptist, at a very advanced age. He was a divine of great abilities, learning, and piety, and is said to have been the son of a bishop.# It seems more probable, however,that he was the grandson of one ; as Dr, Richard Cox, upwards of twenty years bishop of Ely, died in theyear 15814 His WORKS.-1. A Declaration concerning the public Dispute which should have been in the public Meetinghouse ofAlderman- bury, December 3,1645, concerning Infant Baptism.-2. God's Ordi- nance the Saints Privilege, proved in twoTreatises: viz. The Saints Interest by Christ in all the Privileges of Grace cleared, and the Objections against the Same answered. And the peculiar Interest of the Elect in Christ, and his savingGraces: wherein is proved, that Christ bath not satisfiedfor the Sins of all Men, but onlyfor the Sins of those that do or shall believe in Him; and the Objections against the Same answered. JOHN NORTON, A. M.-This excellent divine-was born at Storford in Hertfordshire, May 6, 1606, and educated in Peter-house Cambridge, where he became a celebrated scholar. Having finished his studies at the university, he became curate at Storford, the place of his nativity ; when he formed an acquaintance with the excellent Mr. Jeremiah Dyke of Epping, by whose ministry he was first awakened to Crosby's Baptists, vol. i. p. 220, 221. t Featley's Dippers Dipt, p. 177. t Crosby's Baptists, vol. i. p. 853, 354. Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. i. p.162. WY, ,1111141,
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