ADDENDA. 533 the Great Day a God Almighty," 1642.-"A Comment on the twentieth chapter of Revelation," 1652.-" Israel's Redemption Redeemed ; or, the Jews general and mira- culous Conversion to the Faith of the Gospel, and Return to their own Land, and our Saviour's Personal Reign on Earth, proved from the Old and New Testament," 1646.-This he republished with additions, entitled, " A Treatise of the Fifth Monarchy ; or, Christ's Personal Reign on Earth a Thousand Years with his Saints," 1655.* PETER PRUDDEN was born in the year 1600, and after- wards preached in Herefordshire and on the borders of Wales, where God marvellously blessed his pious labours. But he was driven from his station by persecution, when he fled to New England, andwas accompanied by many worthy persons. Upon their arrival, they settled for a short time at New-Haven, then removed to Milford, where he was chosen pastor of the church, and lived manyyears an example of piety, gravity, and christian zeal. He died about the year 1656, aged fifty-six years. He had a remarkable talent for softening and composing exasperated spirits, and for healing contentions.t ROBERT BOOTH was a minister of puritan principles, and ornamented with a most excellent character. He was first curate at Sowerby in Yorkshire, then vicar of Halifax, where his remains were interred, July 28, 1657. " He was a man of that worth and excellency in learning and divinity, that he deserved the title of an Apollos, and seemed, like Jeremiah and the baptist, to be separated from the womb to the ministerial office ; so temperate and healthful, so industrious and indefatigable in the labours of his study, and so divinely contemplative in the exercises of his mind, that he approved himself to be made up of virtue, being a stranger to all things but the service of heaven. When he spoke to his congrega- tion from the pulpit, it was with that power of truth, and elegance of style, that he charmed his hearers into love and admiration."$ Mr. Ely Bentley, his assistant and successor at Halifax, was ejected in 16624 . Wood's Athenm Oxon. vol. ii. p. 123. + Mather's Hist. of New Eng. b. iii. p. 93,94. t Watson's Hist. of Halifax, p. 461. Edit.1715. ') Palmer's Noneon. Mem.vol. iii. p. 436.
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