The HI 8T 0 R y of the PuRITANS. VoL. n. Oliver middle of Feb. the archbi ihop wen t down to R)gate, and on the 2oth of Protellor. M. h ii · d · I I ·~ f h' h h · d h 1654 • arc was eize Wit 1 a p eul'lly, o w JC e die t e next day, in the ~ feventy~fixth year of his age, having been fifty-five years a preacher, four years bJihop of Meath, and thirty -one years archbiihop of Armagb. The arc~biQ~op was one of th~ melt learned men of his age ; he had a pene– tratmg judgment, a tena~1~us mem_ory ; above all, he was a moll: pious, humble, exemplary chnfhan. H1s body was of the fmaller fize his complexion fanguine, but his prefence always commanded reverence. 'The proteCtor did him the honour of a public funeral, and buried him at his own cxpence, in king Henry the V1I's chapel. Of Mr. Stepben Marjbaii B. D. was born at Godmanchefler in HuntingMarlhall. donjhire, and was educated in Cambridge, and afterwards beneficed at Fincbingfield in E/Jex; where he acquired fuch reputation by his preaching, that he was often called to preach before the long parliament, who confulted him in all affairs relating to religion. He was one of the affembly of di– vines, and employed in moll:, if not all the treaties between the king and parliament. Mr. Eachard, according to his ufual candor, calls him " a famou s incendiary, and affiftant to the parliamentarians, their trum. " pet in their faits, their confefior in thr.ir ficknefs, their counfellor in " their affemblies, th:oir chaplain in their treaties, and their champion in « their difputations ; " and then adds, " This great Sbimei being taken " with a defperate ficknefs departed the world mad and raving." An unjuft afperfion! for he was a perfon of fober and moderate principles, infomuch that Mr. Baxter ufed to fay, that if all the biihops had been of the fpirit and temper of archbiihop Ujber, the preibyterians of the temper of Mr. Marjhall, and the independents like Mr. Jer. Burroughs, the di– vifions of the church would have been eafily compromifed. 'When he was taken .ill, and obliged to retire into the country for the air, the Oxford Mercury faid he was diftraeted, and in his rage conftantly cried out, that he was damned for adhering to the parliament in their war againfl: the king. But he lived to confute the calumny, and publiihed a treatife, to prove the lawfulnefs of defenfive arms in cafes of neceffity. He was an admired preacher, and far from running il'lto the extremes of the times. In the decline of his life he retired from the city, and fp~nt the two lafl: years of his life in Ipjwich. The reverend Mr. G: Firmin, in a preface to one of Mr. Mmjhal/'s pofl:humous fermons, writes, that he had left few fuch labourers as himfelf behind him; that he was a chriftian by practice as well as profdlion; that h.e lived by faith, and died by faith, and was an example to the believers in word, in converfation, in charity, in faith, and purity. That when he and others were talking with Mr. Marjball about his death, he replied, I cannot jay, as he, I have not jo Jived that I jhould now be afraid to die; _but this I cmz Jay, I have fo learmd
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