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gregation , Amen > and so continued to speak ; and spake graciously to his dying day . "—pp » 459—481 1 have copied this extract , verbatim from the " Life of Master Richard Roth well , drawn up" by his
and Mn Clark's " reveread friend , Blaster Stanley ( rower , of Dor * Chester , " and inserted by Mr . C . ifrithout a single " historic doubt . " Blaster G # determines that his
hero " this famous champion of Christ may be called , with Austin , kereticorvtn malleus , the hammer of heretics , and , with
Ambrose , orbts terrarum ( Anghcanun ) oaths , the eye , as bright as mtiy other in the English orb *" I wonder that the biographer ' s recollections of ecclesiastical his *
tory had not supplied him with another name , that of Gregory Thaumaturgus * or the wonder-Workfcr ^ _ & father of the second Century * If his history , by a later Gregory * ( Lerdner iii , 30 ) may be credited , he not only practised dispossessions * but believed himself divinely assisted to expel demons from any place , and re * admit them as toe saw fit . '
Having been " obliged to take shelter in % heathen temple , " the demon of the plate , not liking his guest , thought proper to abscond . Tbt priest , seeing the hope cf his gain w 4 * gont 9 pursued Gregory *
As a demonstration of his power , fend tor tile priest ' s conversion , " he took a slip of paper , aad wrote ttptta it ,-Gregory to Satan , Enter \ This paper being laid upon the
alter , and the accustomed rites performed , the demon appeared &s ti&iaL" It would , I think , be ivrqast to the Irnemory of " Bold fttrtliwtelt , ' * to suppose that he Would have shrunk from such an fittetnpl , whfcii , for any thing that appears , might have been as sue *
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cessful in the seventeenth , as it the second century . The name of u Mr . Stanley Grower , " as of < 4 Bnimpton Bryan , " occurs la Calamy , ( i « 83 ) among ^ V the ministers that met" in theAssem .
bly at Westminster in 1643 . Such then , in his story of Master Roth * well , is some of the spiritual food , which one of those u grand cater , ers" of the English presbyterian church could provide for the
nourishment of Christians in an age to which we are stxWfondty invited to look back , as possessing advantages peculiarly evangelical . It appears , also , from this life , ( p , 455 ) that one of the fathers of the
American CalviniStic churches , the learned and godly Master Cotton , " of whom Neal , { N . E . 2 d edit . i . 305 ) gives an interest ing account , was very anxious to possess some posthumous papers of Master Rothwell , especially his before-mentioned < c
Commentary upori MosesTypes , " " told him , " says Master O . 4 i there was little found but what was in characters . He prayed me to send him what I could gather to Boston , where men were that were expert in characters . I did
so , but I believe they could make nothing of them . l * hat [ commentary ] and some other of his learned and judicious labours , he hath lent out ^ I suppose , ' and I fear they will not be recovered . Learned men that have seen them * judg »
them a rare treasure /' I remember reading , several years ago , a pamphlet , by the learned and pious Dr . John Taylor ; in which , arguing against the adoption of a liturgy , he regrets the loss of that gift of extemporaneous prayerj enjoyed by former divines of Lttncashiite / The passage is quoted by Mr * Palmar , i *
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14 * Account of < € Master RathwelL" the Exorcist .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/14/
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