ADDENDA. 521 MR. BRODET was a zealous puritan minister, but shame- fully persecuted by the intolerant prelates. For preaching against profane sports on the Lord's day, and some other in- stances of nonconformity, he, together with many others, was, about the year 1634, prosecuted in the ecclesiastical courts, subjected to heavy fines, and suspended or degraded from his ministry.. RICHARD DENTON, a pious and learned man, was born in Yorkshire, and afterwards preacher at Halifax in that county. Having laboured at this place for some time, and with good success, the storm of persecution which drove multitudes out of the kingdom, forced hini to New England ; where first at Wethersfield, then at Stamford, " his doctrine dropt as the rain, his speech distilled as the dew, as the small rain on thetender herb, and as the showers upon the grass." He was a little man, but he had a great soul, and a well- accomplished mind; and, though he had but one eye, he had a deep insight into those things which eye bath not seen.+ JOHN VINCENT was born in the west of England, and died in the rich living of Sedgfield, in the county of Durham. It is observed of this excellent man, that he was so harassed and tossed about for his nonconformity, that, though he had many children, no two of themwere born in the same county. He was living in the year 16344 Mr. Thomas and Mr. Nathaniel Vincent, both ejected nonconformists, were his sons.§ JOHN TRASK was born in Somersetshire, and afterwards removed to London, where he discovered his zeal for non- conformity. He opposed the observanceof the first dayof the week, maintaining the obligation of the fourth command- ment, and the necessity of keeping the seventh day as the sabbath of the Lord. For these opinions, he was, about the year 1655, convened before the tribunal of the star-chamber, and sentenced to be set in the pillory at Westminster, and to be whipt from thence to the Fleet, where he was ordered to Huntley's Prelates' Usurpations, p. 175. + Mather's Hist. of New Log. b. iii. p. 95. Calamy's Conlin. vol. i. p. 50. Palmer's Noncon. Mem. vol. i. p. 155, SO4.
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