Soon vmonoMIll 456 the HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. I. K1ngjjamesI. forne canons for the dean's direEtion in the exercife of his government; which being done, and confirmed by the king, their former privileges were extinguifhed. Whereupon many left the iflands and retired into France and Holland; however others made a fhift to fupport their difc- plise after a manner, in the ifland of Guernfey, where the epifcopal re- gulations could not take place. Mr. Par- Mr. Robert Parker a puritan minifter already mentioned, publifhed ker's finger- Trigs. this year a very learned treatife of the crofs in baptifm. But the bifhops Pierce, .inftead of anfwering it, perfuaded the king to ifl'ue a proclamation, with P. 171. an offerof a reward for apprehending him, which obliged him toabfcond. A treacherous fervant of the family having informed the officers where he had retired, they came and fearched the houfe, but by the fpecial providence of God he was preferved, the only room they negleéted to fearch being that in which he was concealed, from whence he heard them quarelling and fwearing at one another ; one Paying, they had not fearched that room, and another confidently afferting the contrary, and refufing to fuffer it to be fearched over again. Had he been taken he had been call into prifon, where without doubt (lays my author) he muff have died. When he got into Holland he would have been chofen mi- nifter of the Englrfh church at 4m/lerdam, but the magiftratesbeing afraid of difobliging king fames, he went to Doefburgh, and became minifter of that garrifon, where he departed this life 163o. .Dr. Ray- This year died the famous Dr. john Raynolds, king's profeffor in Ox- mids's death ford' at firft a zealous papift, while his brother William was a proteftant, tndçharac but by conference and dipotation the brothers converted each other, Wil- liam dying an inveterate papift, and john an eminent proteftant. He was born in Devonfhire 1549. and educated in Corpus Cbrji College Oxford, of which he was afterwards prefident. He was a prodigy for reading, his memory being a living library. Dr. Hall ufed to fay, that his memory and reading were near a miracle. He had turned over all writers pro- -Wood's phane and ecclefiaftical, as councils, fathers, biflories, &c. He was a cri- Ath. p. 340. tick in the languages ; of a (harp wit and indefatigable induftry; his piety and fanÉtity of life were fo confpicuous, that the learned Cracan- thorp ufed to fay, that to name Raynolds was to commend virtue itfelf. Yet he was a man of diflinguithed modefty and humility. In fhort Pays the Oxford hiftorian, nothing can be fpoken againfl him, but that he was the pillar of puritanifm, and the grand favourer of non -conformity. At length after a fevere and mortified life, he died in his college May 21, 1607. eztatis 68. and was buried with great funeral folemnity in St. Mary's church.
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