The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuirT ANs. VoL. II. Kint and literature, He was indefatigable in his labours, and left behind him Ch:~~e~.II. (fay~ the Oxford hifl:orian), the ch.ara~er of a m~it cele?rated critic and ~ cafUI!t, After ten years clofe applicatiOn, he pubhfhed hisjjmopjis critico– rum, in. five folio's. He afterwards entered on a commentary upon the whole b1ble, but proceeded no further than the fifty-third chapter of Ijaiah: However, the defign being valuable, was carried on, and cornpleated by Cal. cont· p. other hands. Mr. Pool publifhed feveral excellent trcatifes, as the nullity 1 5· if the romijh faith, &c. for which he was threatened to be alfaffin ated; his name being in Dr. Oates's lifl:; he therefore retired to Holland, but died (as it is thought), by poifon at Amfierdam, in the month of Oflc– Of Dr. 'fhomas Goodwin, ber, I 679, cetat. fifty-fix. Dr. 'Thomas Goodwin, born at Rolijby in Norfolk, and educated in Ka– therine Hall Cambridge. He was a great admirer of Dr. Prefion, and afterwards himfelf a famous preacher in Cambridge. In I 634 he left the univerfity, being dilfatisfied with the terms of conformity. In I 639 he went into Holland, and became paitor of an -independent congregation at-Arnheim. He returned to LQndon about the beginning of the long parliament, and was one of the dilfenting brethren in the alfembly of di– vines. After the king's death, he was made prefident of Magdalen College, and one of the tryers of minifl:ers. He was in high efieem with 0 /iver Cromwe/1, and attende:d him on his death. bed. In the common regifier of the univerfity he is faid to be, in fi:riptis theologicis quam plurimis orbi notis, i. e. well known to the world by many theological writings. After the reitoration he re!igned his prefidentfhip, and retired to London, where be continued the exercife of his minifiry till his death, which happened P'eb. 23, 1679-So, in the eightieth year of his age. He was a good fcholar, an eminent divine and textuary. His works are fince printed in five folio's. t 68o, The lafl: parliament being difiolved abrubtly, a new one was convened Of the peti- for OClober I7, in which the eleCtions went pretty much as in the lait, the !h~fl;~fn;· 0 cry of the people being, 110 popery, no pe~1jioners,. no arbitrary govem– the.parlia f ment. But the king prorogued them from ttme to ttme for above a twelve– men!, am( if month, without permitting them to finifh any bufinefs. His majefl:y the abh~rers. falling fick in the fummer, the duke of York returned immediately to :s~ha~s'7. p. court without the king's leave, which alarmed the people, and made them ' · eager for the fitting of the parliament to regulate the fucceffion. This gave 6(e to fundry petitions, figned by great numbers of hands both in city and country, which the king received with the utmoQ: difpleafure, telling the petitioners, that he 1vas foie judge if what was fit to be done:- Gaz~tte,. No.. 1.468, 1489,• lOu would not take it well (jays he), if I jhould meddle with your tiflairs, and I deftre you will not meddle with mine. A:fter this the king iffued out his proclamatio.n, de.claring them to be illegal, and forbidding his · fubjeets
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