Chap. IX. The HISTORY of: the PURITANS. 73S ter of an hour ; bleng Godfor bis fatherly carreliion, forafmuch as his K. Charles L whole life having beenfull of mercy, be had been ready to doubt, whether be was a true child of God till this lallfsckref, Dr. Richard Montague bifhop of Norwich, was a divine of a different and of hilhop charaEter ; he was born in Weliminjler, educated in Eaton-College, and Montague. afterwards fellow of King's- College. Mr. Fuller fays he was a celebrated grecian, and church antiquary, well read in the fathers, but a fuperfti- tious admirer of church ceremonies. He was a thorough arminian, a crea- ture of arcbbifhop Laud's, and an ill inftrument between the king and parliament in the late times, and therefore voted unfit fox any church preferment ; but when the king refolved to govern without parliaments, his majefly preferred him firft to the bifhopric of Chichßer, and then to Norwich, where he (hewed his zeal for the church, by a vigorous and il- legal profecution of the puritans. He was accufed by the prefent par- liament, for fuperftitious innovations; and would no doubt, have felt their refentments, if he had not gone (as Mr. Fuller expreffes h) a more B. XE compendious way, to- anfwer for all his proceedings in the high court of P. r94 heaven. He died April 12. r64Ì. The reverend Mr. yobn Eaton M.,A, and vicar of Wickham-Market, and of Mr. was born in Kent 1575. and of a peculiar mould (fays Mr. Eachard) ve- Eaton. ry paradoxical in his opinions; and reckoned a great antinomian, and one IL t, Ox, Vol. ofthe founders of that felt, for which he moae than once fuffered im- p, ra, prifonment. His chief performance was a book entitled, The honey- comb of free jun cation by Cbrifl alone; for which he was imprifoned in the Gate-houfe at Wefamrnjîer. Mr. Eachard admits, that by means. of his zeal, his exemplary patience and piety, he was exceedingly ad- mired in the neighbourhood where he lived, and ftrangely valued for ma- nyyears after his death. In truth, though he committed forne miftakes in his affertions abaut the do trines of grace, he was neverthelefs (fays Mr. Archdeacon) a pattern of faith, holinefs, and chearfulnefs in his fufferings, to fucceeding generations,. He died in the 67th year of his age. .0 H A a.'
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