Chap. VI. 'lbe HISTORY of the PuRITANs. 217 of his age. His prayer had thefe words in, it--" Lord, ihike through K. Charles I. " the reins of them that rife againfi the church and king, and let them ~· " be as chaff before the wind, and as fiubble before the fire; let them be Featly's life, · '' fcatterred as patridges on the mountains, and let the breath of the Lord P· 78. " confume them, but upon our gracious fovereign and his pofierity let " the crown fl 0 uriib --" A prayer not formed after the model of St. Stephen's, or that of our bleifed Saviour on the crofs. · The writer of the life of archbilhop Ujher fays, the doel:or was both orthodox and loyal ; but lord Clarendon and Dr. Heylin can't forgive his fitting in the afTembly, and being a witnefs againfi archbiibop Laud at his tlial. " Whether he fat in the aifembly (fays Hey/in) to thew his Hilt. Pref. " parts, or to head a party, or out of his old love to calvin:fm, may befi P· 46~. '' be gathered from fome fpeeches which he made and printed ; but he . •~ was there in heart before, and therefore might afford them his body " now, though .poffibly he might be excufed from taking the covenant as " others did." " Soon after died famous old Mr. John Dod, whofe pious and and re- Deathof markable fayings are remembered to this day; he was born at Shotlidge ti[r·f,od, in Chejhire in the year I sso; and educated in Jrfz.ts college Cambridge, of M:;ty:ol: which he was fellow. At thirty years of age he removed to Hanwell in Oxfordjhire, where he continued preaching twice on the Lord's day, and once on the weeks days, for above twenty years; at the end of which he was fufpended for non-conformity by Dr. Bridges biibop of the diocefe. Being driven from Hanwell he removed to Canons .Ajhby in Northamptonjhire, and lived quietly feveral years, till upon complaint made by biibop Ne1Zl to king James, he commanded archbiibop Abbot to filence him. After the death of king James Mr. Dod was allowed to preach publicly again, and fettled at Fm!/lly in the fame county, where he remained till his death. He ·was a mofi humble, pious, and devout man, and univerfally beloved; an excellent hebrician, a plain, praCtical, fervent preacher, a noted cafuift, and charitable almofi to a fault; his converfation was heavenly; but being a noted puritan, though he never meddled with fiateaffairs, he was feverely ufed by the king's cavaliers, who plundered his Fuller's Cb, houfe, and would have taken avyay his very fheets, if the good old man, Hilt. P· :z 20 ! hardly able to rife out of his chair, had not put them under him for a cuibion ; all which he endured patiently, calling to mind one of his own maxims, fanOlified a.ffiiC!ions are ./Pi ritual promotiom. He died of the firangury in the ninety-fixth .year of his age, and lies buried in his pari!h church at Faujlly. VoL. II, Ff ~HA P.-
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