Chap. IX. The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS. the biiliops waited on the king this fummer, for his commands to put King . . h' h h d'd . h r. h d'l' h Charles fi. the penal laws m execution, w tc t ey 1 wit 10 muc ttgence, t at 16 Mr. Baxter fays, he was fo weary of keeping his doors iliut, againll: per- ~ fans who came to dill:rain his goods for preaching, that he was forced to Baxter's life,. leave his h rm fe to fell his goods, and part with his very books. About part l!I. 2 P· ' . d 'I f 171, 17 • twelve years (fays he), I have been dnven one bun red mt es rom them, and wlien 1 had paid de~1r for the carriage, after two or three years I was forced to fell them. This was the cafe of many others, who being feparated from their families and friends, and having no way of fubtill:ance, were forced to fell their books, and houtbold furniture, to keep ~hem from fiarvir.g. This year died the reverend Dr. <J'homas Manton, ejected fromCovent- Death of Dtt– Gardm; he was born in Somerjetjhire I 620, educated at <fiverton fchool, Manton. and from thence placed in Wodham College Oxon. He was o rdained by Dr. Hall bilhop of Exeter, when he was not more than twenty years of age: His firll: fettlement was at Stoke-Newington near London, where he continued feven years, being generally efl:eemed an excellent preacher, and a learned expolitor of fcripture. Upon the death or relignation of Mr. Obadiah Setlg~vick, he was prefented to the living of Covent-Garden by the duke of Bedford, and preached to a numerous congregation. The doctor was appointed one of the protector's chaplains, and one of the triers of perfons qualifications for the minifl:ry; which fervice he confiantly attended. In the year 1 66o, he was very forward in concert with the prefbyterian miniil:ers, to accompliili the king's rell:oration, and was one of the commiflioners at the Savoy conference ; He was then created doctor of divinity, and offered the deanry of Rochdfer, but declined it. After he was turned out of his living in I 66z, he held a private meeting in his own houfe, but was imprifoned, and met with feveral dill:urbances in ·his minillerial work. He was confulted in all the treaties for a comprehenfion with the efiablilhed church, and was high in the efieem of ·the duke of Bedford, earl of Manchdfer, an~ other noble perfons. At length finding his conflitution breaking, he religned himfelf to· God's wife difpofal, and being feized with a kind of lethargy, he died OClober I R, 1677, in the fifty-feventh year of his age, and was buried in the chancel of the church of Stoke-Newingt011. Dr. Bat~s in his funeral fermon f~ys, ~e was a divin~ _of a rich fancy, a firong memory, and hapPY elocution, Improved by d1ltgent fiudy. He was an excellent chrill:ian, a fervent preacher, and every way a blefling to the church of God. His practical works were plibliilied in five volumes. in folio, at feveral times after his death, and are· in ell:eem among the diffenters to. this day. Aboul>
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