ADDENDA. 535 for the ministry.. He united with his brethren, the London Ministers, in their declaration against the king's death.+ He was living in 1660, was then minister at Dorchester, and is denominated a zealous and eminent presbyterian.t Hewrote the life of Mr. Richard Rothwell, published in Clark's " Lives annexed to his Martyrologie." One of his sermons has this singular title, " Things Now-a-doing : or, the Churches Travaile of the Child of Reformation Now-a-bearing, in a Sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemn Fast, July 3.1, 1644." HENRY FLINT was a most holy and worthy minister, driven from his native country by the tyrannical oppressions of Archbishop Laud. In the year 1635 he fled to New England, where he was chosen teacher to the church at Braintree, of which Mr. William Thompson was pastor. Therehe closed his life and his labours, April 27, 1668.§ He was a man of great piety, gravity, and integrity, and eminently qualified for the ministerial wprk.II JAMES SICKLEMORE was minister of the church at Single- ton, near ihe city of Chichester, and a person famous for his great learning and piety. About the year 1640, he espoused the peculiar sentiments of the baptists, and became a zealous asserter, of his opinions. Previous to this, being concerned for the instruction of the rising generation, he usually catechized the young people of his parish, and explained to them the questions and answers contained in the church catechism. On one of these occasions, as he was discoursing on thepromises of godfathers and godmothers in the nanie of the infants at theirbaptism, one ofhis catechu- mens asked him, " what warrant there was from the holy scriptures for what he had been speaking ?" Feeling himself at a loss to give a direct answer, he warmly insisted on the general voice of the christian church. Upon further examin- ation, he renounced infant-baptism altogether, and refused to baptize the children of his parishioners. He was also opposed to the maintenance of ministers by tithes ; and Neal's Puritans, vol. iii. p. 89, 140. t Kennet's Chronicle, p. 188. S Mather's Hist. of New Eng. b. iii. p. 192. 11 Morton's Memorial, p. 190. 1- Ibid. p.491.
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