Calamy_1727_Volume_2_Text.qxp:Calamy 1713 Volume 2 15 12 2008 11:45 Page 1 EDMUND CALAMY AN CONTINUATION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE Ministers, Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges and Schoolmasters, who were Ejected or Silenced after the Restoration in 1660. By, or before, the ACT for UNIFORMITY. Volume 2 1727 Calamy_1727_Volume_2_Text.qxp:Calamy 1713 Volume 2 15 12 2008 11:45 Page 2 Calamy_1727_Volume_2_Text.qxp:Calamy 1713 Volume 2 15 12 2008 11:45 Page 1 A CONTINUATION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE Ministers, Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, and Schoolmasters, who were Ejected and Silenced after the Restoration in 1660, by or before the Act of Uniformity Calamy_1727_Volume_2_Text.qxp:Calamy 1713 Volume 2 15 12 2008 11:45 Page 2 Quinta Press, Meadow View, Weston Rhyn, Oswestry, Shropshire, England, SY10 7RN The format of this book is copyright © 2008 Quinta Press This is a proof-reading draft of this volume. When all five volumes have an accurate text we will import the biographical material of the jected ministers into a database for collation and sorting and will then output the information in a variety of ways, some for electronic publication and some for print publication. Calamy_1727_Volume_2_Text.qxp:Calamy 1713 Volume 2 15 12 2008 11:45 Page 3 1727 edition volume 2 3 A CONTINUATION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE Ministers, Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, and Schoolmasters, who were Ejected and Silenced after the Restoration in 1660, by or before the Act for Uniformity. To which is added, The Church and Dissenters compar’d as to Persecution, in some Remarks on Dr. Walker’s Attempt to recover the Names and Suf- ferings of the Clergy that were sequestred, &c. between 1640 and 1660. And also Some Free Remarks on the Twenty-eighth Chapter of Dr. Bennet’s Essay on the 39 Articles of Religion. VOL. II. By EDMUND CALAMY, D.D. LONDON: Printed for R. FORD at the Angel, R. HETT at the Bible and Crown, and J. CHANDLER at the Cross-Keys, all in the Poultry. MDCCXXVII. 576 Calamy_1727_Volume_2_Text.qxp:Calamy 1713 Volume 2 15 12 2008 11:45 Page 4 4 edmund calamy 577 A CONTINUATION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE MINISTERS, &C. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE EJECTED, &C. IN THE County of LEICESTER. age 419. FROM Fenny Drayton: Mr. NA- PTHANAEL STEPHENS, M.A. Add; In his younger Days, he was a very hard and close Student; often spend- ing sixteen Hours a Day in his Study: And his Thoughts would be sometimes so close and intent, that he would strangely forget himself. In his old-Age, he was pleasant and chearful. One that was then well acquainted with him, has gi- ven me this Instance of it among others; that when he came with his Friend, and knock’d at his Vol. II. A 2 Door, 578 Door, at Stoke near Hinkley, he call’d to them to come in and ask’d them, whether of the two, the Blind or the lame, he would have had open the Door for them? He being at that Time lame, and not able to rise out of his Chair without Help; and his Wife blind; and none of the Family near at hand. Calamy_1727_Volume_2_Text.qxp:Calamy 1713 Volume 2 15 12 2008 11:45 Page 5 1727 edition volume 2 5 Though he was a Man of a generous Catholick Spirit, yet he had a great Aversion to that Ceremoniousness, which was carried so high by some, in the Reign of King Charles I. He would often tell a Story of what happen’d in the West, where he was born, when he was young. A Clergyman coming into the Church, went up to the Chancel to bow to the Altar. It so happen’d, that there was no Altar there, but the Communion-Table stood against the East-Wall, and a Boy sate up on it. The Boy seeing the Priest coming towards him, slipt down, and stood before the Table, upon his Feet. At length the Priest made a low Bow, and the poor Boy thinking it was to him that the Respect was paid, bow’d as low to him again; and the Bows were repeated three times on each Side; the Boy being a little surpriz’d at the Priest’s wonderful Civility. In this Case (he said) the Boy knew well enough who it was he bow’d to: But whether or no it was so as to the Priest, is questionable. For the GOD whom Christians worship, is no more in the East, than in the West; no more in the Chancel than in the Church; nor no more there, than in the House or Field, unless when his People are there worshipping him, in Spirit and in Truth at which Times he is with them by his SPIRIT and Grace. Before the Coming of CHRIST, it was the Duty of the Jews in the Western Parts, to worship towards the East, because Jerusalem and the Temple stood that Way, 1 Kings viii. 48. Dan. vi. 10. And this might be the Reason why some Christians in the Primitive Times rook up the Fashion of Praying towards the East. They judaiz’d in that, as well as in some Other Things. Bur now Mount Sion is no more holy than Mount Gerizim, or the Mountains in Wales. Happy were it for the World 579 World if John iv. 20, to 24, were generally understood. His Treatises on the Revelation, I am inform’d were after his Death in the Hand of Sir Charles Woolsley. And Mr. Caldwell of Cambridgeshire, had his Leave to copy our one of them, which was on the Slaughter of the Witnesses, Rev. 11. Of this I shall give the Reader a short Account in Mr. Caldwel’s own Words. “It appears by his printed Book on Rev. xiii. 17, 18, that he reckon’d the Roman Kingdom, see forth by the Legs of Iron, and the Toes of Iron and Clay, Dan. ii. 33, 40, to 43, to begin sixty Years before the Birth of CHRIST, when Pompey took Jerusalem and brought the Jews the People of GOD under the Romans. From thence to A.D. 606 when Phocas the Emperor made the Bishop of Rome universal Bishop, are six hundred sixty-six Years, which is Calamy_1727_Volume_2_Text.qxp:Calamy 1713 Volume 2 15 12 2008 11:45 Page 6 6 edmund calamy the Number of the Name of the Beast, i.e. of his Authority and Power; his universal Headship or Supremacy, when he began to be the Image of the Cæsars, to reign over many Nations, and uphold Idolatry and Superstition as they had done. “But he did not make the one thousand two hundred and sixty Days or Years of the Witnesses, chap. xi. 3, and of the Woman in the Wilderness, Chap. xii. 6, which is the same Time with the forty-two Months of the first Beast, Chap. xiii. 5, to begin at the Year 606, but at the Year 460, when the Empire was divided into ten Kingdoms. “The two Witnesses, Chap. xi. 3. he thought to be the same with the Remnant of the Woman’s Seed, which keep the Commandments of GOD, and have the Testimony, marturÖanof JESUS CHRIST, Chap. xii. 17, whom the Dragon went to make War with, and set up the Beast as his Vicegerent to do it, chap xiii. 1, 2. “This Remnant of the Woman’s Seed is call’d so with Respect to a former Seed, the Primitive Martyrs, who overcame the Dragon and brought A 3 down 580 down Heathenism by their patient Sufferings for the Truth, by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the Word of their Testimony mzgueÖaj; and they loved nor their Lives unto the Death, Chap. xii. 11. “So that CHRIST’s two Witnesses are all the Martyrs put to Death by the Beast. CHRIST gives Power, or his Spirit to them, Chap. xi. 3. So that they being his Elect, do nor worship the Beast, as all that dwell on the Earth do, whose Names are not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, Chap. xiii. 8: But they prophesy, i.e. testify by their Profession and Practice, against Antichristian Idolatry and Superstition. This they do in a mournful manner, cloathed in Sackcloth, mourning for the Iniquities of the Times, for 1260 Years. “They are compar’d to Haggai and Zechariah, Chap. xi. 4. by whose Means the Temple was rebuilt after the Captivity of Babylon: And to Elijah and Elisha, and to Moses and Aaron, because of the Judgments which GOD from Time to Time would send upon their Enemies and Persecutors, ver. 5, 6. “But he did not think that the Slaughter of the Witnesses spoken of, ver. 7, was to be after the End of the 1260 Years of their Prophesying: For then the Beast shall be destroy’d; nor in the last three Years and half of them: But that it hath been, is, and will be, in all that Time, in one Place or Other. For CHRIST would still raise up such, as should bear Witness to his Truth; and the Beast would still persecute and at last kill them, when each of them in their several Times and Apes shall have finish’d his Testimony. Calamy_1727_Volume_2_Text.qxp:Calamy 1713 Volume 2 15 12 2008 11:45 Page 7 1727 edition volume 2 7 “And their dead Bodies should lie in the Street of the great City, which for its Cruelty to the People of GOD may be compar’d to Sodom and Egypt, and Jerusalem, in the worst Times of that City, ver.