Chap. IX. The HIS T 0 RY of the PuRITANS~ - fame author, he was very courteous in fpeech and carriage, communica- K. Charles I· · tive of his knowledge, generous, charitable to the poor, and fa public16 47· , fpirited, that he alway~ regarded the common good more tha~ his own ~ private concerns. He pubhfbed feveral learned works. and d1ed I 690. .!Et. 74· Dr. Robert Harn's, prefident of Trinity College in the room of D r. Dr. Harris. Potter, was educated in Magdalen-Hall, and had been a famous preacher Clark's lim,. in O~fordfbire for about forty years; upon the breaking out of the warP· 31 +· he came to Lo11don, where he continued till appointed one of the vifitors of the univedity, and headof this college, over which he prelided ten years, though he was now feventy. He was a perfon of great piety and gravity, an exact mafler of the Hebrew Lnguage, and well verfed in chronology, church hiflory, the councils and fathers. He governed his college with great prudence, and gained the affeCtions of all the fiudents, who reverenced him as a father, though he has been fligmatized by the royal ills as a notorious pluralift. To which the writer of his life replies, that whatever benefices he might have been nominated to, he declared he did not receive the profits of them. The infCription upon his tombftone (ays, that he was prceji:s ceternum celebrandus ; perfpicacijjimus indolumJi:rutator, potej!atis arbiter mitijjimus, mermtium fautor intrgerrimus, &c. He died 165~. Dr. Hmry Langley, mafier of Pembroke college in the room of Mr. Dr. LanO"- Wight-wick, was original fellow of his college, and made mafier of it in ley. o I 647· he kept h is place till the refioration, afttr which he fet up a private W~~d's fJiti, - academy among the diift:nters; having the charaCter of a folid and judicious p. ' 9 !. divine, ;:•.d being a frcqutnr preacher. He died 1 679· Dr. Francis Chcyml, pref]dent of St. John's College in the room of Dr. Dr.Chevne!, . Bay&·, W<•s prcb;H!<Jnc r-feliow of Merton College in the year I 629. and A then. Ox. after\Amds t eC1or of Pet'WOt'th, a member of the aifembly of divine~, and P· 358. this yt ar marte prefiden t of that college, and Margaret profdfor in the room of D r. Lmvrena , both which he quitted after fome time for refuti ng the eng agemeit!, and re ti red to his living at Petworth, from whence he was tjeC'teL; at the re.!loration. He was a perfon of a great deal of indifcreet zeai, as apptars by his behaviour at the funeral of the "reat Mr. C!Jr!!ing~forth, al1eaJy mentioned. Bi!hop Hoadly fays, he w:s exaCl:ly ort hodox, anrl as pious, honeft, and charitable, as his bigotry would permit ; and l'v1r. Eachard adds, that he was a man of conGderable learning and great abilities. D r. Michael RJberts, principal of Jifus College in the room of Dr. Dr. Robcrts:•. Mmlje!, was a good fc holar, and would, no donbt, h ave conformed at Fafb, P· 71 • · the refl:ora tion, had he been enclined to have accepted any prefermen t. but he had refigned his principality into the.hanus of the protector I 657· 'and;
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