CHAUNCEY. 451 1667, when his fame was so great in all the Churches, that he was invited to Boston, even in the sixty-ninth year of his age, to succeed a Cotton, a Norton, and a Wilson. He remained in this new situation only till March 15, 1670, when, by a fit of apoplexy, he was called to his everlasting rest. He was seventy-two years old, and his remains were interred in the same tomb with those of Mr.- Cotton. He was a great scholar, an admirable preacher, and a man of exemplary piety. He was so remarkably diligent in his studies, that the Indians used to call him, The big study man.. And even Archbishop Laud denominates him " a most religious man, who fled to New England for the sake of a good conscience.+ He was a millenarian in sentiment, being fully.persuaded of Christ's personal reign upon the earth for a thousand years. He was, nevertheless, one of the greatest men that New England ever enjoyed.t Mr. Oxenbridge3 ejected in 102, succeeded him as pastor of the church at Boston.§ His WORKS.-1. A Letter to the Dutch Classis, containing a just Complaint against an unjust Doer, 1634.-2. Certain Instructions deliveredto the Elders of the English Church deputed, which are to be propounded to the Pastors of the Dutch Church in Amsterdam, 1634.-3. AReport of somePassages or Proceedings about his Calling to the English Church in Amsterdam, against John Paget, 1634.-- 4. Allegations of Scripture against the Baptizing of some kind of Infants, 1634.-5. Protestation about the Publishing of his Writings, 1634.-6.'An Apologetical Reply to the Answer of W. B., (William Bradshaw,) 1636.-7. The Profession of the Faith of the Reverend and Worthy Divine Mr. John Davenport, sometimes Preacher at Stephen's, Coleman-Street, London : made publicly before the Con. gregation at his Admission into one of the Churches of God in New England, 1642.-8. A Catechism containing the chief Heads of the Christian Religion, 1659.-9. The Saints Anchor-hold in all Storms and Tempests, 1661.-10. The Power of Congregational Churches asserted and vindicated, 1672.-11. An Essay for Investigation of the Truth.-12. Several Sermons and some other articles. CHARLES CHAUNCEY, B. D.---This learned divine was the fifth and youngest son of George Chauncey, esq. ; born at Yardley-Bury in Hertfordshire, in the year 15894 and Mather's Hist. p. 56. t Laud's Ans. to Lord Say's Speech, p.,47. t Neal's Hist. of New Eng. vol. ii. p. 370. Palmer's Noncon. Mem. vol. i. p. 299. II He is said to have been born in the year 1592. He was great uncle to Sir Henry Chauncey, author of " The Historical Antiquitiesof Hertford- shire ;" and descended froma family which came to England with William the Conqueror.-Biographia Britannica, vol. iii. p. 482-484. Edit. 1778. ,1111Mallnialt 1,WIWIL4FT,IREIMIR
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