s66 T!Je HIs T 0 R y of the PuRITANS~ VoL. 11.' Ch Ki 1 "t 11 fiderable !hare in the annotations which go under their name From Yalar es • d M er 1 • I66o. m r: 1 ay.or : emoved to Canterbury, and became preacher of Chrij} ~· Church m that city, where I prefume he died, leaving behind him th e character of an able critic in the oriental languages, and one of the mofl: con~derable divines of the •afiembly. He publilhed feveral valuable worK.s, and among others a tranflation of the Jerufa!em targum on the pentatcuch out of the Chaldee into Iatin, dedicated to the learned Mr. Gataker of Rotherhithe, with a prefatory epit1le of Se/den's, and feve– ral others, relating to jewifh antiquities. Among the letters to archbilhop Ujher there is on~ from IY!-r. 'Iaylor, dated from Clapham 1635· He cor– refponded alfo with Boetzus, and moll: of the learned men of his time. He left behind him a fon j who was blind, but ejected for non-conformi– ty in t~e year 1662, from St. A.phage church in Canterbury, where he hes buned. C H A P. V. From tb~ re.floration of king CHA RLEs II. to the confe– rence at tbe Savoy. Fie-wr of the BE F 0 R E we relate the cunference between the epifcopal and pref– court. and of byteria n divines in order to a comprehenjion, it will be proper to re– the bijhops. prefent the views of the court, and of the bif11ops, who had promifed to act with temper, and to bury all pall: oH'ences under the foundation of the rel1oration. The point in debate was, 1ohetber conc1fions jhould be made, and pains taken to gain the prejbyteriam? The k ing feemed to be for it ; but the court bif11ops, with lord C!arendon at their head, were abfo lutely againfl: it: Clarendon was a man of high and arbitrary principl ts, rtnd gave b im– felf up to the bilh ops, for the fervice they bad done hi m in reconciling the king to his daughter's clandefii ne marriage with the duke of York . Jf his lord!b ip had been a fr iend to moderate meafures, the greatefi: part of the prefbyterians m ight have been gaine-d ; but he would not di.foblige the bilhops; the rea fons of whofe angry behavio~ r, were I. 'Thezr hzgh notiom of the epifcopalf orm ofgovernment as nece!fary to the rJery efJence of a chrijlian church. 2. 'Ihe rifentments tbat remained in their breaf!s agaii:Jl all who had engaged with the long parliament, and had been. tbe caufe qf their jitjjeri11gs. 3· 'Ihe pmb)•teriam 6eing legally poffi./Jed qf moji qf the benefices
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