464The HISTORY of the PuRITANS~ VoL. H. Oliver by advice of lord C/arendon, was prevailed with not to declare himfelf ·Protelfor. 1 1653 • open y at prefent.· ~ On the !aft of 'November died the learned Mr. John Se/den, the glory Deatb of -'Of the englijh nation: He was born in Suffix Dec. 6, I 584, and educa– . ft~: t~.en: ted in Hart Hall Oxford, after .whi.ch he was tranfplanted to the Inner- . Temple, where he became a prodtgy m the moft uncommon parts of fci– ence. He was a great philologift, antiquary, herald, linguill:, ll:atefman, and lawyer,but feldom appeared at the bar. He was chofen burgefs for feve– ral parliaments, where he difplayed his profound erndition in fpeeches and 'debates in favour of the liberties of his country; for which he was im– :prifoned, and feverely fined with Mr. Pym in the parliament of I 6t8, ·and 16zS. He was chofen again in the long parliament, and appeared againft the prerogative as he had formerly done. He was one of the lay members of the affembly of divines, and by his vall: !kill in the oriental learning, and jewijh antiquities, frequently filenced the m::>ft able divines. He wrote on various fubjects, which gained him the title among foreigners, of the diCJator of learni11g jn the engli{h nation. Among other remarkable pieces, we may reckonhis Hiftory of 'Tithes, pu bliilied 16 I 8, in which he proves them not to bedue to the chriftian clergy by divine inll:itution: For this he was [urn– maned before the high commijjion court, and obliged to make a public re– cantation. But after fame time his reputation was fo great, that it was thought worth while to gain him over to the court; and upon the new civilities he received at Lambeth, he was prevailed with to publiili his Mare claufum againft Hugo Grotius, which was efteemed fuch an inva– luable treafure, that it was ordered to be laid up in the court of records. The archbifhop offered him preferments, but he would accept of nothing. ;Upon the firll: preffures againft the bilhops, he publi!hed his Eutychus in greek and Iatin, with notes, in which he proves, that bijhops and presby– -ters dijfer only in degree. He afterwards anfwered his majefty's declaration about the com miffion of array, and was made mafter of the rolls by the -long parliament. He had a large and curious library of books, in the frontifpiece of each he ufed to write this motto, IIeel 7rav76> et..weegfav, above all LIBERTY. At length being worn out with age, and hard fiu– dy, he died at his houfe in the White-Fryars aged feventy years, and was magnificently interred in the Temple church on the fouth fidt! of the round ·walk, according to the direelory, in the prefence of all the judges, fame parliament men, benchers, and great officers. His funeral fermon was preached by archbi!hop Ujher, who acknowledged he was not worthy to carry his books after him. His works are lately collected, and printed ·together in fix volumes folio. ·Mr. Thomas Gataker was born in London I 574, and was educated in ·St. John's college Cambridge, where he proceeded M. A, and was after– wards
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