Cliap. lii~ 7be HIS T 0 R Y of the I_>uRITANs. 477 '' againfl: the name of brotherly communion .. which may confift with Oliver · · j · -' d'J:r ' · r; bi1 · 1 G d Prottllor cc our feveral pnnctp es retameu, not wenng 111 >U Hantia s; o 6 • " take down that fiomach, and make us fee how much we are concern- ~'' ed to keep the unity of the fpirit in the bond of peace - Why " fhould fome in the height of their zeal for a liturgy, fuppofe there can · " be no fervice of God but where that is ufed? Why fllould others, again, cc think their piety concerned and trefpaifed upon, if I prefer, and think " fit to ufe a fet form ? There mull: be abatements and allowances of each . " other; a coming down from our puntl:ilioes, or we fhall never give up " a good account to God--" From this time fermons have been } preached annually, and large contributions made for the fervice of this charity. In the reign of king Charles II, they became a body corpo– rate; and their prefent grandeur is fufficiently known to the whole na– tion. On the z dl: of March this )'ear, died the moll: reverend and learned arch- Death of – bifhop Ujher, born in Dublin I s8o, and educated in Trinity College. He abp. Ulhcr. proceeded M. A. in the year I 6oo, and next year was ordained deacon and ~ priefl: by his uncle Henry Ujher, then archbifhop of Armagh; In the year 1.6zo be was made bifhop of M eath, and four years after archbifhop of Armagh; in which ll:ation he remained till the diifolution of the hierarchy during the civ il wars. In his younger ye1rs he was a calvinifl, but in his advanced age he embraced the m iddle way between Calvin and Armiaim. He was one of the mofl: moderate prelates of his time, and allowed of the ordinations of foreign protell:ants; which none but he and biiliop Davenant, and one or two more among the biiliops of thofe times, _ would admit. The archbifhop having loft all his revenues by the irijh rebellior\, the king conferred upon him the biiliopric of Carlrjle in commendam. Tn 1643 he was nominated one of the affembly of divines at Wdfmin!fer, but did not appear among them. As long as the king was at Oxford he continued with him, but when the war was ended, he returned to London and lived privately, witi-Jout any molefl:ation. He affified at the treaty of the 1)1e of W ight, but could do no fervice, t:-Je contending parties being then at too great a difiance to be reconciled. A, little before the king's death, the archbifhop was chofen preacher to the honourable fociety of Linco!n's-lnn, preaching confl:antly all term time, till his eyes failing, he quitted that pofl:, about a year and a half before his death, and retired with the countefs of Peterboroztgb to her houfe at } Rygate. -r:he proteCtor had a high efteem for this excellent prelate, and confulted htm about proper meafures, for advancing the protefiant interell: at home and abroad: He allowed him a pen!ion, and promifed him a leafe of part of the lands of his archbifhopric in Ireland for twenty-one years ; but his death prevented the accomplifhment of his defign. About the middle
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