Chap. IX. The HISTORY oftb_e PuRITANs. 327 mercy of God to eternal life, in the forty-fixth year of his age, and was K. Charles I. · buried in the new church at Weftminfler. ~· Mr. Henry Wifkin.fon B. D. was born in Yorkjhire, and educated in Death of . Merton Collerre Ox~'ord. In the year I s86. he was chofen probationer- Mr. Henry o ':Jd' d . f fi . h d B D 'W!lkuJfon. fellow, and procee c m arts; a ter ome t1me e was ma e . . ana in the year J 6o I. became pafior of lFaddrfdon in Bucks. He was a perfan of confiderable learning and piety, and being an old puritan (fays Mr. Wood) was eleCted one of the aflembly of divines in 1643. but he fpent the chief of his time and labours among his pariihioners at Waddifdon, by whom he w,as greatly belov.ed; h~re !1e ~ied in a very advanced age, March 19, 1647-8. and lies buned m IllS own church. Mr. John Saltmarjb, defcended of an antient family in Yorkfhire, was Death of educated in !V!agdalen College Cambridge, and graduated there ; he was Mr. Salt11 d r f fi n· t: 'bl d madh. Ath, enceme a perwn o a ne aurve 1ancy, no contemptr e poet, an a Ox P· 287 good preache r; he was firfi minifler at Northampt01z, afterward' at Brai- · · lied in Kent, and at length chaplain in Sir Thomas Fai1:[ax's army, where be always preached up love and unity: he meddled not with prdbytery or independency, but laboured to draw fouls fi·om fin to Chrill:. He publiihed fome treatifes, by which it appears he was of antinomian principles. The manner of his death was extraordina- Rufhw. p. ry; December the 4-th, 1 647· being at his houfe at l!ford in E.Jfex 944· he told his wife he had been in a trance, and received a meflage from God which he mufi immediately deliver to the army. He went that night to London, and next day to Windfor; being come to the council of officers he told them, tha t the Lord had left them; that he would not profper their con fultations, but del1roy them by divifions among themfelves, becaufe they had fought to del1roy the people of God, thofe who had flood by them in their greatefi difficulties. He then went to the general, and withopt moving his hat told him, that God was highly difpleafed with him for committing of faints to prifon. · The like mdL1ge be delivered to Cromwe/1, requiring him to take effectual meafures for the enlargement of the members of the army, who were committed for not complying with the general council. He then took his leave of the officers, telling them, he had now done his errand, and mufi never fee them any more. After which he went to London, and took leave of his friends there, telling them his work was done, and defiring fome of them ~o be careful of his wife. 'Ihurfday December 9· he returned to !!ford m perfeCt health; next day be told his wife that he ha~ now finiihed his work, and mull: go to his Father. Sa;urday mornmg Dece;nbet 11, he was taken fpeechlefs, and about four in the afternoon he dred. CHAP.
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