Chap. IX. 7/;e HIS T 0 R Y of the Puar'i'ANS. learning. Archbiihop <J'illotflm and bia1op Burnet, who were his inti– mates, give him the bigheft encomium; as, that he was a pious chri– fiian, an admirable preacher, a rare mathematician, and mechanical phi– lofopher; a man of as great a mind, as true judgment, as eminent vir– tues, and of as great a foul, as any they ever knew. ~e was a perfon of univerfal charity, candour, and moderation of fpirit; and was concerned in all attempts fer a comprehenfion with the diifenters. He died of the fl:one in Dr. 'Iillotfon's boufe in Chancery-lane, Nov. 19. 1672, in ()8g King Charles II. 1672. ~ the fifty ninth year of his age. Mr. J ofeph Caryl M. A. the ejeCted minifl:er of St. Magnus, Lo11don- Of Mr. ]of. bridge, was born of genteel parents in London, 1602, educated in Exe- Caryl. ter College, and afterwards preacher of Lincolns-inn; he was a member of the alfembly of divines, and afterwards one of the tryers for approbation of minifl:ers, in all which fl:ations he appeared a man of great learning, piety and modefly. He was fent by the parliament to attend the king at Holmby-houfe, and was one of their commiffioners in the treaty of the Ijle of Wight. After his ejeCl:ment in 1662, he lived privately in London, and preached to his congregation as the times would permit; he was a moderate independent, and difl:inguiihed bimfelf by his learned expofition upon the book of Job. He died univerfally lamented by all his acquaintance February 7 1672-3, and in the ' feventy firfl: year of his age. Pbilip Nye M. A. was a divine of a warmer fpirit: He was born of Of. Mr. , a genteel family 1596, and was educated in Magdalen College Oxford, Phtl. Nye~ where he took the degrees. In the year 1630 he was curate of St. Michael's Cornhill, and three years after fled from bilhop Laud's perfecution into Holland, but returned about the beginning of the long parliament, and became minifter of Kimbolton in Huntingdonjhire. He was one of the dilfenting brethren in the alfembly; one of the fryers in the proteCtor's time, and a principal manager of the meeting of the congregational mef- [engers at the Savoy. He was a great politician, infomuch that it was debated in council after the refl:oration, whether he ihould not be excepted for life; and it was conc1uded, that if he ihould accept or exercife any office ecclefiall:ical or civil, he fhould to all intents and purpofes in law, Hand as if he had been totally excepted. He was ejeCted from St. Bartholomew behind the Exchange, and preached privately as opportunity offered to a congregation of diifenters till the prefent year, when be died in the month of September, about [eventy fix years old, and lies buried in the church of St. Michael's Cornhill, leaving behind him the charaCter of a man of uncommon depth, and of one who was feldom if ever out- reached. VoL. 11 fT When
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