for the best sermons, which were most owned of GOD, not those, which were most admired by men. If souls were edified, he rejoiced: And he knew that edification was not effected by laboured discourses or curious questions, which suit those hearers best, who enjoy the least experience of the gospel.

As he possessed a very amiable and engaging countenance, so his mind was of a pleasant and gentle turn, rather drawing by persuasion, than driving by fear, and rendering religion a delightful business instead of a sour or gloomy kind of drudgery. His excellence lay in binding up the broken-hearted, and administering those rich consolations of the gospel, which he had so abundantly tasted himself.

His conduct at home, was such as became his preaching and his profession abroad. He lived, as well as preached, the gospel. His house was a little model of a church and house of God. Here morning and evening sacrifices were offered unto God daily. His children after supper read some part of the holy scripture; and he • required of every one present, that they should remem⚫ber some one sentence or other; and afterwards he him

self, as he judged convenient, would rehearse the same again, adding an exposition, or an application of the

matter.'

He was not only benevolent himself, but excited others to the performance of charitable exercises. His success in this respect was very remarkable. Mr Sutton made his most munificent foundation principally by Dr Willet's motion And he himself stated, that the pious donations of the Protestants, from the Reformation under K. Edward VI. to his time, amounted, in one shape or other, to the sum of a million sterling. From whence, he made a challenge, in his excellent Synopsis Papismi, for the Papists to shew any thing like such charitable works, for the same space of time, at any period under the papal authority; and concluded by confuting that common calumny of the Romish persuasion, that the doctrine of justification by faith only, is an enemy to good works.-Well would it have been, if none but Papists had maintained this outcry, which, if the doctrine of faith had been truly understood, could not have been made.

In his Epistle dedicatory, prefixed to his Hexapla upon Exodus, he uses this remarkable expression; "It is most "honourable for a soldier to die fighting, and for a bishop "or pastor praying; and if my merciful God shall vouch

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"safe to grant me my request, my earnest desire is, that "in writing and commenting upon some part of the scrip❝ture, I may finish my days." This request was granted him; for he was called hence as he was composing a commentary upon Leviticus. He did not ask (like good archbishop Leighton) to die in an inn, but it was the appointment of Providence that he should. The apparent occasion of his death was a fall from his horse, as he was riding home from London, by which he broke his right leg, and was detained at Hodsdon, in Hertfordshire, of course incapable of being moved. While he was in this situa tion, he dictated most heavenly contemplations to his son, upon the song of Hezekiah, Isaiah xxxviii. And he frequently called together the people of the house to give them his exhortations, which he did with such a spirit, as though he felt no pain, which (says Dr Smith, his < son-in-law, who wrote his life) puts me in mind of that saying of Tertullian; The leg feels nothing in the • nerves, when the mind is (as it were) rapt into heaven.' Upon the tenth day after his hurt, having supped chearfully in the preceding evening, and reposed himself to rest, early in the morning, being wakened by the tolling of a bell, he discoursed with his wife, who lay in the same chamber with him, about the joys of heaven, and the knowledge which departed saints would have of each other there. After this conversation, they sang an hymn, of his own composition, with which they usually praised GOD for their preservation and rest during the past night, and prayed for his blessing upon the ensuing day. After this, being in a happy frame of soul, they continued their melody, and sang the hundred and forty-sixth Psalm, upon which he commented, and made applications from it to his own condition. Soon afterwards, upon turning himself, he suddenly gave a deep groan, and fell into a swoon. His wife, alarmed, presently called in assistance, and upon means being used, he seemed to raise himself a little; but immediately said, "Let me alone: I shall be "well. Lord Jesus". and with this last word rendered up his spirit to GOD. This was on the fourth of December, 1621, and in the fifty-ninth year of his age. His body was buried in the chancel of his church at Barley, and is covered with a marble. But his more excellent and durable monument are,

His WORKS; whose titles are as follow: Printed in Latin: 1. De Animæ naturâ & viribus. 2. Sacra Emblemata. 3. De universali vocatione Judæorum. 4. De Conciliis,

Conciliis. 5. De universali gratiâ. 6. De Antichristo. 7. Epithalamium. 8. Funebres Conciones. 9. Apologia serenissimi regis JACOBI defensio.

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18. On

In English: 10. SYNOPSIS PAPISMI, in five books. 11. Hexapla on Genesis, in two books. 12. Hexapla on Exodus, in two books. 13. An Harmony on the first and second books of Samuel. 14. Hexapla on Daniel. Hexapla on the Epistle to the Romans. 16. On the twentysecond Psalm. 17. On the seventeenth of John. the Epistle of Jude. 19. Tetrastylon Papismi. 20. A Catalogue of good Works. 21. Limbomastix. 22. Lædoremastix. 23. Epithalamium in English. 24. Funeral Sermons. 25. A Catechism. 26. A Retection. 27. An Antilogy. 28. Hexapla on Leviticus.

33.

In Latin, not printed: 29. Defensio Aristotelis contra Tempellum. 30. Catechismus Latinus. 31. Gemitus CoJumba, ceu Comment. in Jonam. 32. Sacri Paralleli. Heptaphonon. 34. Scala Cœli. 35. Antithesis Pontificia Evangelica Doctrina.

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36. Varia lectiones in Penta

In English; 37. An Exposition on Genesis. 38. Marginal Annotations on the Pentateuch.

of the Christian Sabbath."

39. The Doctrine

His Synopsis Papismi is his most celebrated work, and hath passed through many editions.

MELCHIOR ADAM.

So faithful and eminent a Biographer of divines has a just title to be placed, in a work of biography, among them. With gratitude we speak of Melchior Adam, to whom we are exceedingly obliged for many informations and collections, which, but for him, had undoubtedly been lost.

This pious and learned man was born in the territory of Grotkaw in Silesia, and educated in the college of Brieg, where the dukes of that name, to the utmost of their power, encouraged learning and the Reformed Religion as professed by Calvin. Here he became a firm Protestant, and was enabled to pursue his studies by the liberality of a person

a person of quality, who had left several exhibitions for young students.

He was appointed rector of a college at Heidelberg, where he published his first volume of illustrious men in the year 1615. This volume, which consisted of philosophers, poets, writers on polite literature, and historians, &c. was followed by three others; that which treated of divines. was printed in 1619; that of the lawyers came next; and, finally, that of physicians: The two last were published in 1620. All the learned men, whose lives are contained in these four volumes, lived in the sixteenth, or beginning of the seventeenth century, and are either Germans or Flemings; but he published in 1618 the lives of twenty divines of other countries in a separate volume; which volume is now generally bound up with his lives of German divines, and serves by way of appendix to it. All his divines are Protestants.

He has given but a few lives, yet the work cost him a great deal of time, having been obliged to abridge the pieces from whence he had materials, whether they were lives, funeral sermons, eulogiums, prefaces, or memoirs of families.

He omitted several persons who deserved a place in his work as well as those he has taken notice of. "Reader, "6 says he, (Prafat. Theolog. Germanorum,) I must acquaint you with, or request some things of you. First, that you would not think the many persons, who are not " mentioned in this work, as unworthy a place in it. "The fault, Reader, is not mine, but is owing to the "scarcity of materials, which I could by no means pro❝ cure. I chose therefore to be wholly silent about many "excellent persons, rather than to say but a very little (after the manner of the man speaking of Carthage) or "to use these trite expressions; He was born; he died. "Yet this deficiency may be supplied, if good men and "lovers of their country will contribute their assistance "to the second volume of this work. The same I desire "may be understood concerning the lives of the lawyers, "statesmen, physicians, and philosophers."We may be permitted to use the same apology in this our work. It would be impossible, in the compass of it, to give even a concise account of all the worthies, who deserve to be remembered. We have endeavoured to select such, as ought never to be forgotten.

The Lutherans were not pleased with our Author, for they thought him partial; nor will they allow his work

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to be a proper standard, whereby to judge of the learning of Germany. The reason is, they are partial themselves; and he was not of their party. He wrote also other works besides his Lives, and died in the year 1622.

His WORKS. "1. Apographum monumentorum Heidelbergensium. 2. Nota in Orationem Julii Cæsaris Scaligeri pro M. T. Cicerone contra Ciceroniarum Erasmi. 3. Parodia Metaphrases Horatiana Diarium Biograph. Henningi Witte."

In the catalogue of the Bodleian library, he is said to have been the author of Historia Ecclesiastica Hamburgensis Bremensis: But this work, according to Mr Bayle, was written by one Adam, a canon of Bremen, who lived in the eleventh century.

DAVID PARAUS, D. D.

DAVID

AVID PARÆUS, or Paré, without the Latin termination, a celebrated divine of the Reformed religion, was born on the thirtieth of December, 1548, at Francolstein in Silesia, and put to the grammar school there, apparently with a design to breed him to learning; but his father marrying a second wife, this step-mother prevailed with him to put his son apprentice to an apothecary at Breslau; and not content with that, he was taken thence, and, at her instigation, bound to a shoemaker. However, he was not long abandoned to the shameful ill usage of a step-mother; Providence had ordained better things for him, and many years had not passed when the good old man his father resumed his first design; and David was not above sixteen years of age when he was sent to the college school of Hermsberg, in the neighbourhood of Francolstein, to prosecute his studies under Christopher Schilling, a man of considerable learning, who was rector of the college.

It was customary in those times for young students, who devoted themselves to literature, to assume some Greek or Latin name, itstead of that of their family. Schilling was a great admirer of this custom, and easily persuaded his scholar to change his German name of Wongler for the Greek one of Paré, both denoting the same thing in the VOL. II.

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