Chap.X. TheHISTORY oftbePuRITANS~ 713 ditated dejign JitP.d'Po~ted dby theh king a'hnd t 1 ke. duker if Yh.or.k, to :[cenlder bthe Ch~:~:~ li king alfolute, an mtro uce t e popiJ re zgzo11; 10r t IS IS preci e y w at 16 8 • was meant by the plot: The defign of killing the king was only an append-~ age to it, and an effeCt of the zeal of fomc private perfons, who thought the plot would be crowned with the furer fuccefs, by fpeedily fetting the duke of York upon the throne. Bilhop Burnet adds, that though the p. 427, 4:i7; king and he agreed in private converfation, that the greatell: part of the evidence was a contrivance, yet he confe!fes it appeared by Coleman's letters, that the defign of converting the nation, and of rooting out the northern herefy, was very near being executed. To which I beg leave to add, that though the dflign of kif/in$ the king, did not take place at this time, his majell:y felt the effects of it, in his violent death, four or five years afterwards. This year died Mr. 'Thomas Vincent M. A. the ejected minill:er of Milk- Death of. Mr fireet, born at Hertford May 1634, and educated in Chrifl Church Ox- Tho. Vm– ford. He was chaplain to Robert earl of Leicefter, and afterwards mi- Ca~~·cont. nifl:er of Milkjtreet London, till the act of uniformity took place. He p. 30. was an humble and zealous preacher, of moderate principles, and an unfpotted life. He continued in the city throughout the whole plague, the awefulnefs of which, gave him a peculiar fervency and zeal in his minifterial work. On this occafion he publi{hed fome very awakening treatifes; as a fPiritual antidote for a d;ing foul; and God's terrible voice in the city. He not only preached in public, but vifited all the fick who fent for him in their infected houfes, being void of all fear of death. He continued in health during the whole of that dreadful calamity, and was afterwards ufeful, as the times would permit, to a numerous congregation, being generally refpected by men of all perfuafions _; but his exceffive labours put an end to his life OClober 15, 1678, in the forty-fifth year of his age. M~. 'Iheophilus Ga~e M. A. an,d fellow of Magdalen College Oxford, And of Mr. was ejeCted from Wmchefter, wnere he had been ll:ated preacher for Gale, fame time; after which be travelled abroad as tutor to the fans of Philip lord Wharton. Upon his return, he fettled with Mr. John Rowe as an affifl:ant, in which fl:ation ' he died. The O:iford hifl:orian allows, that he was a man of great reading, an exact philologill: and philofopher, a learned and indufl:rious divine, as appears by his c.ourt of the gentiles, and the vanity of pagan phi!ofophy. He kept a ltttle accademy for the inll:rutlion of youth, and was well verfed in the fathers, being at the fame time a good metaphyfician and fchool divin.e. He died of a confumption this year, in the forty-ninth year of IllS age. VoL, II. 4Y The
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