The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS~ Vo~t. II. K. Charles T. living, exhaufl:ing his frrength in continual preaching, and other fervices ~ of the church. He was an excellent fcholar, a good expofitor, a popu– lar preacher; he publi!hed feveral treatifes while he lived, and his friends have publifhed many others fince his death, which have met with a ge– neral acceptance. It was faid, the divifions of the times broke his heart, ·becaufe one of the lafl: fnbjeCl:s he preached upon, and printed, was his Irenicum, or an attempt to heal divifions among Chrifl:ians. Mr. Baxter ufed to fay, if all the preibyterians had been like Mr. Marjhall, and the independents like Mr. Burroughs, their differences might eafily have been -compromifed. He died of a confumptive iHnefs Nov 14. 1646. about the torty-feventh year of his age. C H A P. VIII. Proceedings of th~ alfembly upon their conjejfion of faith and catechifins. Provincial alfemb!ies of London. The king tak'en out of the parliament's cuflody and con– veyed to the army. ControverJY between the parlia– ment and army. His majejly's conduct. He ifcapes from Hampton-Court and is confined m the Ifle of Wight. Proceedings T H E reverend Mr. Charles Herle fucceeded to the prolocutor's ft the a!Jetchair by order of parliament July 2 z. I 6.t6. iH the room of the ~fnj?;,;:. ezr late Dr. 'I'wf/Je, when the difcipline of the church being pretty well fettled, it was moved to finifh their confd}i'on if faith. The englijh divines would have been content with revi(jng and explaining the thirty-nine articles of the church of England; but theJcots infifring on a fyfl:em of their own, a committee was appointed to prepare materials for this purpofe May 9· 1645; their names were Dr. Gcuge, Dr. HoJ•le, Mr. Herle, Gatak:r, 'Tuckney, Reynolds, and Yines, with the {cots divines, who having hril: fettled the titles of the feveral chapters, as they now fiand, in their con– feffion of faith, in number thirty-two, difiributed them for greater ex– pedition, among [everalfub-committees, which fat two days every wee~. and then reported what they had finilhed to the committee, and fo to the a!fembly~ where it was debated paragraph by paragraph. The difputes · ' · bout ,
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