Chap. I.~ The HISTORY of the PuRITANS. 13 into Baliol College in the beginning of Feb. 1626. In the year 1627. K. Charbi. he became reCtor of Brinkworth in Wiltjhire, and a few years after pro.. ~ ceeded D. D. At Brinkworth he was much followed for his edifying ' manner of preaching, and for his great hofpitality. Upon the breaking out of the war, he was obliged to fly to London, to avoid the infolencies of the king's foldiers; where his peculiar fentiments about the doCtrines of grace being difcovered, be met with a vigorous oppofition from the city divines. The doCtor in his younger years had been a favourer of arminianifm, but changing his opinions, he ran into the contrary extream of antinominianifm. He was certainly a learned and religious perfon, modefl: and humble in his behaviour, fervent and laborious in his minifierial work. and exaCt in his morals. Mr. L ancafler the publi(her of his works, fays, '' that his life was fo innocent and harmlefs from all evil; {o zea- " lous and fervent in all good, that it feemed to be defigned as a praCtical " confutation of the fiander of thofe who would infinuate, that his doe- " trine tended to licentioufnefs." The doCtor was poifeifed of a very large eflate, with which he did a great deal of good; but being engaged in a grand difpute againfl: feveral opponents (if we may believe Mr. Wood) he over-heated himfelf, and fell fick of the fmall-pox, of which he died Feb. 27., 1642. and was b!Jried in the family vault in Bread-fireet, London. In his lafl: ficknefs he was in a mofl: comfortable and refigned frame of mind, and declared to them that flood by, his firm adherence to the doCtrines he had preached ; that as he had lived in the belief of the free grace of God through Chriil, fo he did now with confidence and great joy, even as much as his prefent condition was capable of, refign his life and foul into the hands of his heavenly father. He publiilied nothing in his life-time, but after his death his fermons were publiilied in three volumes from his own notes, which with fome additions, were reprinted by his fon, in one volume quarto, about the year 1689. and gave occalion to fome intemperate heats among the non-conformifl: minifl:ers of thofe times. Towards the end of this year died Robert lord Brooke, a virtuous and Lord religious gentleman, a good fcholar, and an eminent patriot, but a deter- Brooke's mined enemy of the hierarchy. In the beginning of the war he took death. part with the parliament, and being made lord lieutenant of the counties of Warwick and Stafford, put himfelf at the head of twelve hundred men, and marched againfl: the earl of Cheflerfie/d at Litcijie!d, whom he di!lodged from the town, March I. but next day as he was looking out of a window with his beaver up, and giving direction to his foldiers to aifault St. Chad's church, adjoining to the clofe where the earl of Chefterjield's forces lay, a mufket ball ftruck him near the left eye of which he infrantly died, The parliamentary chronicle calls him ~~ th~ mofr noble, p. 272 • " and
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