The HISTORY of the PuRITANS. VoL. II. J King la11d was an inexhaufl:ible feminary, from whence Englandwas to be fu pa~87 ?· plied with a catholic army; an irijh roman catholic (fays We/wood), was ~ a moi.l: welcome gucfl: at Whitehall; and they came over in ihoals. Over and above compleat regiments of papifl:s, there was fcarce a troop or company .in the army, wherein feme of that religion were not inferted, by exprefs orders from court. Upon the whole, the affairs of the nation were drawing to a crifis; and it was believed, that what the king could not accomplilh, by the gentler method sof interefi: and perfuafion, ·he would efi:abli(h by his fovereign power. The army at Hounjlow was to awe the city and' parliament; and if they proved refractory, an irijh maf– facre, or fome other defperate attempt, might poffibly decide the fate of the nation. DeathofMr. About this time died the reverend Mr. David Clarkfon B. D. born at Clarkfon. Bracfford in Yorkjhire Feb. I 621-2, and fellow of ClareHall Cambridge, where he was tutor to Dr. 'Iillotjon, afterwards archbilhop of Canterbury. Dr. Bates in .his · funeral fermon, gives him the character of a man of fin cere godline(s and true holinefs: Humility and modefi:y were his difi:inc– tive characters ; and his learning was fuperior to mofi: of his time ; as ap– pears by his treatife if liturgies, his primitive epifcopacy, his praClical di– vinity if papijts deflruClive to men's fouls; and his volume qffermons, print– ed after his death. He was fometime minifi:er of Mortlack in Surrey, but after his ejectment, he gave himfelf up to reading and meditation, lhifting fmrn one place of obfcurity to another, till the times fuffered him to appear openly; he was then chofen fucceifor to the reverend Dr. 'John Owen, in the pafi:oral office to his congregation. Mr. Baxter fays, he was a divine of folid judgment, ·of healing, moderate principles, of great ac– quaintance with the fathers, of great minifierial abilitie>, and of a godly, upright life. ·Great was his folemnity and reverence in prayer; and the method of his fermons was clear, deep, and infi:ructive. His death was unexpet:l:ed, though (as he declared), -it was no furprize to him, for he was entirely refigned to the will of God, and defired not to out· live his ufefulnefs. This good man (fays Dr. Bates), like holy Simeon, bad Chrifl in his arms, and departed in peace, to fee the falvation of God above, in the fixty-fixth year of his age. Of Dr. JaDr. Thomas Jacomb was born in L eiceflerfhire, and educated firfi in comb. Magdalen Hall Oxon, and after in Emanml College Cambridge, from whence he removed to 'Ii·inity College, of which he was fellow. He came to Lo1zdon in 1647, and was foon after minifter of Ludgate parilh, where he continued till he was turned out in I 662. He met with fome trouble after his ejectment, but being received into the family of the countefs dowa– ger if Exeter, daughter of the earl ofBridgwater, he was covered from his .enemies, This honourable and virtuous lady, was a comfort and fupport to
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