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one degree in Arts , holy orders , had some little cure in his own country conferred on him , and afterwards relief from William Earl of Bedford , * who caused him also , if I mistake not , to be put into the list of his Majesty ' s preachers appointed for the county of Lancaster . Afterwards , upon the change of times , lie sided with the Presbyterians , then ' dominant , took the covenant , f became a preacher of the gospel at
* << Created Marquis of Tavistock and Duke of Bedford in 1694 . " He was the father of William LordRussel , whom that royal profligate Charles II . sacrificed in 1683 to his brother ' s malignity . To the
Earl of Bedford is attributed the following severe but well-merited reproof when James II . applied to him in 1688 for his assistance , the Earl excused himself , now an old man , but added , that he had once a son who might have served
the King in his extremity . f " The Solemn League and Covenant * in 1643 . See Oldinixon ' s Stuarts ( 1740 ) 238 , 239 ; Par ! . Hist . XII . 402 , 403 . Whitelocke gives the following account : " Sept . 25 , 1643 . Both Houses , with the Assembly of Divines arid Scots Commissioners , met in St . Margaret's Church , Westminster , where Mr . White , one of
the Assembly , prayed an hour to prepare them for taking the Covenant , then Mr . Nye , in the pulpit , made some observations touching the Covenant , shewing the warrant of it from Scripture , the examples of it since the creation , and the benefit to the Church .
" Mr . Henderson , one of the Scots Commissioners , concluded in a declaration of what the Scots had done , and the good they had received by such c 6 venants , and then he shewed the prevaleucy of ill counsels about the King , the resolutions of the states of Scotland to assist the Parliament of England .
" Then Mr . Nye , in the pulpit , read the Covenant , and all present held up their hands , in testimony of their assent to Jt ; and afterwards , in-the several houses , Hubscribod their names in a parchment roll , where the Covenant was written : the Divines of the Assembly and the Scots Co in mlssioners likewise subscribed uie
tllC ( , O \ 'i > iiai > f r > . ^ . , l * . l ~ . rv -. > r ^» . /" " * ^ . .. ~~ I ~ - » Covenant , and then Dr . Gouge , in th ^ pul pit , prayed for a blessing upon it . " The House ordered the Covenant to » c taken the next Lord ' s-day , by all persons in their respective parishes , and the n ( "" ^ to exhort them to it /'— Mem 1682 ) p . 70 .
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Garstang , * and afterwards at Preston in Amounderness , in his own country ^ a zealous man for carrying on the beloved cause , and active against the orthodox clergy , when he was appointed an assistant to the commissioners for the ejecting of such whom they then ( 1654 , 2 Oliver Protector ) called scandalous and ignorant ministers and schoolmasters . He hath written :
" Prima , media et ultima ; or the first , middle and last Things ; wherein is set forth , 1 . The Doctrine of Regeneration , or the New Birth . 2 . The Practice of Sanctification , in the Means , Duties , Ordinances , both private and public , for continuance and increase of a godly Life , f 3 . Certain
Medita-Whence he was ejected iu 1662 , though it appears he had no insurmountable objection to the Liturgy . " A little after the King's restoration , " says Calamy , " there was a meeting of above twenty ministers at Bolton , to consult what course to take . Mr . Ambrose and Mr .
Cole , of Preston , declared before them all , that they could read the Common Prayer , and should do it , the state of their places requiring it , in which otherwise their service was necessarily at present at an end . " —Account , ( 1713 , ) p . 409 .
f- This is probably the book mentioned in the following interesting narrative by Mr . Benjamin Bennet : " A number of young men in the town of Newcastle ( about thirty ) met together once a week for mutual assistance and
improvement in religion ; for which purpose they spent some time in prayer and conference , having subscribed a paper containing rules for the better ordering such a society , and the work to be done in it : taken out of a book of Mr . Isaac
Ambrose ' s . One of the society , upon what inducement he best knows , turns informer ; and having a copy of this dangerous paper , with the names of the subscribers , makes a discovery , and the whole matter was laid before Judge Jeflferies at
the assizes . " The offenders ( some of whom are found in Court , and others of them brought in by the sheriff ) are presented before his Lordship ' s tribunal r such as know his Lordship ' s character will easily
imagine ( and some well remember it ) with how much indignation and contempt he would look down upon these young men . One of them , Mr . Thomas Verner , who had but a mean aspect at best , ( and the work he was taken from
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Sylva Btographtc& . r 225
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VOL . XVII . c > <;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/33/
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