Chap. I. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 437 lowers removed to Embden, where he loon after dying, his congregationKingjamesI. diffolved. Nor did Mr. Ainfworth and his followers live long in peace, rb<1vt upon which he left them and retired to Ireland, where he continued fome time, but when the fpirits of his people were quieted, he returned to Amfterdam, and continued with them to his death. This Mr. Ain% worth was author of an excellent little treatife, entitled an arrow again/! idolatry, and of a molt learned commentary on the five books of Mofes; by which heappears to have been a great matter of the oriental languages and of jewifh antiquities. His death was fudden, and not without fuf- picion of violence ; for it is reported, that having found a diamond of very great value in the ftreets of Amflerdam he advertifed it in print, and when the owner, who was a jew, came to demand it, he offered him any acknowledgment he would defire ; but Ainfworth though poor, would accept of nothing but a conference with fome of his rabbits upon the prophecies of the Old Teftament relating to the Mefiias, which the other promifed; but not having intereft enough to obtain it, and Ain/ worth being refolute, it is thought he was poifoned. His congregation remained without a pallor for fome years after his death, and then chofe Mr. Canne, author of the marginal references to the bible, and fundry other treatifes. Mr. Smith was a- learned man, of good abilities, but of an unfttledOf Mr. head, as appears by the preface to one of his books, in which he de- Sínith the fires that his laft writings may always be taken for his prefent judgment. Brov.'nift. He was for refining upon the Brownifis fcheme, and at lait declared for the principles of the baptifls ; upon this he left Amfierdam, and fettled with his difciples at Ley ; where being at a lofs for a proper adminiftra- tor of the ordinance of baptifm, he plunged himfelf, and then performed the ceremony upon others, which gained himthe name of a SE-BAPTIST. He afterwards embraced the tenets ofArminius, and publifhed certain con- clufions upon thofe points in the year 161r, which Mr. Robinfon anfwered but Smith died Coon after, and his congregation dilfolved. 7Cel;..4,tat Mr. John Raaadinf r was a Norfolk divine, beneficed about Yarmouth; of mr. Ro- where being often molefted by the bifhop's -officers, and his friends al- binfon, the molt ruined in the ecclefraftical courts, he removed to Leyden, andir,/t indepen- eretled a. congregation upon the model of the Brownifis. He let out u and °' p Bayle's dif the molt rigid principles, but by converfing with Dr. Ames, and otherfuafive, learned men, became more moderate; and though he always maintained P. 57 the lawfulnefs and neceffity of feparating from thofe reformed churches among whom he lived, yet he did not deny them to be true churches, and admitted their members to occafional communion, allowing his own to join with the Dutch churches in prayer and hearing the word, but not in the facraments and difcipline; which gained him the charaéter of a sa ria-
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