Chap. VI. The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRlt' ANS; 637 '• rewarded. It is impoilible (fays the coiformijt plea fir the non-con- C~(i';t n "form!Jl) to relate the number of futferings both of minifiers and peo- :~~~- · ""pie; the great trials, with hardihips upon their perfons, efiates, and ~..J. " families, by uncomfortable feparations, difperfions, unfettlements, and " removes; difgraces, reproaches, imprifonments, chargeable journies, '' expences in law, · tedious fickneifes, and incurable difeafes e_n_ding in " death; great difquietments and frights to the wives and fam1hes, and " their doleful effects upon them-Their congregations had enough to do, " befides a fmall maintenance, to help them out of prifons, or maintain '' them there. Though they were as frugal as poflible, they could hardly " live; fome lived on little more than brown bread and water; many " had but eight or ten pounds a year to maintain a family, fo that a " piece of flelh has not come to one of their tables in fix weeks time ; " their allowance could fcarce afford them bread and cheefe. One went " to plow fix days and preached on the Lord's day ; another was forced " to cut tobacco for a livelihood --· The zealous jufiices of peace knew Ill. part IV. " the calamities of the minifters, when they iifued out warrants upon fome p. 43· " of the hearers, becaufe of the poverty of the preachers. Out of re- " fpeCl: to the worth and modefiy of fome of them (fays my author), " I forbear their names." Upon thefe foundations, and with thefe triumphs, was the prefent confiitution of the church of England refiored. I ihall make no further remarks uoon it, but leave it to the cenfure of the reader. ' Among the preiliyterian divines who died this year, was Mr. John D1athoj Mr Ley M. A. born at Warwick Feb, 4 1583, and educated in Chr!Jl Church Ley, Ath. O>:ford, where he took the degrees in arts, and was prefented to the living Ox. ~ol. H. of Great Bud~11orth in Chejhire. He was afterwards prebendary of Cbif- p. 19 • ter, and fub ·dean and clerk of the convocation once or twice. In the year I 64 r he took part with the parliament, was one of the aifembly of divines, chairman of the committee for examination of minifi:ers, and preGdent of Sion College. In the year 1645 he fucceeded Dr. Hyde in the rich parfonage of Brightwe/1, Berks. In 1653 he was one of the fryers, and at length obtained the -rectory of So6•hull in Com. War~v. but having broken a vein by over-ll:raining himfelf in fpeaking, he reiio-ned his living, and retired to Sutton Coljield, where he died May ~6, I 66z, in the feventy-ninth year of his age. He was a very learned pcrfon, well read in the fathers and councils, a popular preacher, a· pious and devo~t chrifiian, and one of the main pillars (fays Mr. Wood), of the preiliytenan caufe. Mr. Hmry Jeanes M. A. was born in Sometjetjhire about the year Of Mt·. r6II, and educated in New Inn, and afterwards in Hart Hall Oxon,Jeanes, where he took the degr,ees in arts, and entered into holy orders. He was au
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