·710 The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRtTANS. Vot. JI. King About ·the fame time died Mr. 'John Rowe M. A. born in tl)e year . Ch~lesTI. I 626, and educated for fome time at Cambridge, but tranflated to Oiford ~-' about the time of the vifitation in the year 1,648. Here he was admitted And of Mr. M. A. and fellow of Corpus Cbrijli College. He was firO: leCturer at John Rowe. Witney in Oifor4fhire; afterwards preacher at Tiverton in Devonjhire, .and one of the commiffioners for ejecting ignorant and infufficient mi– niO:ers in that county. Upon the death of Mr. William Strong in the year 1654, he was called to fucceed him in the abbey church of T.Vejl– minjler; at which place, as in all others, his fermons were very much attended to by perfons of all perfuafions. On the I 4th of March 1659; he was appointed one of the approvers of miniO:ers by aC1: of parlia– ment; but on the king's refi:oration he gave way to the change..of the times, and was filenced with his brethren by the aC1: of uniformity. He was a divine of great gravity and piety; his fermons were judicious and well fi:udied, fit for the audience of men of the befi: quality in thofe times. After the Bartholomew aCl, he continued with his people, and preached to them in Bartbolomew-Clofo, and elfewhere, as the times would permit, till his death, which happened OClober I 2, 1677, in the fifty-fecond year of his age. He lies buried in Bunbii-Fields, under an altar monument of a brick foundation. The words with which he concluded his lafi: fermon were thefe, we jhould not dijire to continue longer in this world than to glorify God, to jinijh our work, and to be ready to Jay, farewel time, welcome 6/ejfed eternity: Even fo come Lord Jefus! 1678. Pea'~ of Nimeguen. C H A P. X. From tbe popiih plot to the death of hing CHARLEs H. in the year r684-5· T H E king having concluded a peace with the dutch, became me– diator between the french and the confed~rates, at the treaty of Nimeguen; where the former managed the englijh court fo dextroufly, that the emperor andjpaniards were obliged to buy their. peace,, at the ex– pence of. the b.eft part of Flanders. From
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