THE AGES DIGITAL LIBRARY REFERENCE CYCLOPEDIA of BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL and ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE Coales, Thomas Thompson - Constantia by James Strong & John McClintock To the Students of the Words, Works and Ways of God: Welcome to the AGES Digital Library. We trust your experience with this and other volumes in the Library fulfills our motto and vision which is our commitment to you: MAKING THE WORDS OF THE WISE AVAILABLE TO ALL — INEXPENSIVELY. AGES Software Rio, WI USA Version 1.0 © 2000 2 Coales, Thomas Thompson an English Congregational minister, was born at Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, in 1784 or 1785. He studied at Cheshunt College, and labored successively at Ashbourne, Birmingham, Thrapston, Ebley, Gower, Hereford, Sleaford, St. Ives, Middleton, Kidderminster, Alfriston, Farringdon, and East Gripstead. In 1850 he returned to Ashbourne, where he remained till his death, October 26, 1853. See (Lond.) Cong. Year- book, 1855, page 209. Coan, George Whitefield, D.D. a Presbyterian minister, was born at Bergen, Genesee Co., N.Y., December 30, 1817. He graduated from Williams College in 1846, and from the Union Theological Seminary in 1849; was licensed to preach, and ordained June 6 of the same year. He selected Persia as the field of his labors, and in October he sailed for Ooroomiah, where he continued the labors of Perkins, Grant, Stoddard, Fisk, and Rice. After thirteen years of labor there his health failed, and he was compelled to return to America, but, two years later, having recruited his strength, he again sought his mission field, in 1864. Ten years of faithful toil again broke his health, and once more he sought its restoration in his native clime. Dr. Coan's heart was still-with his brethren, and he availed himself of every opportunity to present the claims of Persia to the various Presbyterian churches in this country. He died at Wooster, O., Dec. 21, 1879. See N.Y. Observer, January 1, 1880. (W.P.S.) Coan, Leander Samuel a Congregational minister, was born in Exeter, Maine, November 17, 1837. He attended the Exeter and Garland high-schools, and graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1862. He was acting pastor in Amherst and Aurora, from May 1862, to June 1863, when he was ordained as pastor of that parish. In May, 1864 he was dismissed to enter the army. From August 1865, to September 1867, he was acting pastor in Boothbay; from November 1867, to November 1870, preached in Brownville, and. the following year in Somerset, Massachusetts. From 1872 to 1874 he was city missionary in Fall River; from December 1875, to June 1879, he preached in Alton, N.H. When the Constitutional Convention of New Hampshire convened in 1877, he was elected its chaplain. He died September 24, 1879. See Cong. Year-book, 1880, page 16. 3 Coanes, John an English Congregational minister, was born at Mile End, London, in 1777. He became a member of the Church in early life, entered: Homerton College before he was twenty, and settled as a minister at Walworith, where he labored ten years. He afterwards labored successively at Morley, near Leeds, Reeth, in Yorkshire, Aylesbury, Folkestone, in Kent, Wycliffe Chapel, London, and Watford, Herts, where he remained five years, then resigned the active ministry, and retired to Hunton Bridge, near Watford. Here he taught a day-school, and preached occasionally for two years. His last days were spent at Bexley Heath, where he died November 6, 1862. Mr. Coanes was noted for his blameless life and faithful exhibition of evangelical truth. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1863, page 216. Coarb (Cowarb, or Comharba in Latin, corba; meaning conterraneus, or, of the same region) is the title in the Celtic-Irish and Scottish churches of the abbatial successor of the original founder of a monastery. So an abbot of Hy would be called the, coarb of Columba; of Armagh, the coarb of Patrick, etc. The common use of the word dates from late in the 8th century, when such abbacies had become hereditaryin many cases, and not only so, but had passed into the hands, in some instances, of laymen, while a prior discharged the spiritual office. Later the coarb became to a monastery what the herenach or airchinneach (i.e., lay advocate) was to any church, monastic or not. A female. coarb occurs once or twice (Reeves, ad Adamn. Vita St. Columbce, add. notes, page 404). Coarbs that were still clergy became styled in Ireland, later, plebani-rural deans, or archpresbyters, or chorepiscopoi (in the later sense of the word), i.e., the head of a "plebs ecclesiastica," viz. of clergy who served chapels under him as rector. See Reeves, Coltorio Visitation, page 4 n., 145, 209; Robertson, Early-Scot. 1:330. Coat, The Holy Its miracles are commemorated on October 1 in the Georgian Calendar. SEE HOLY COAT OF TREVES. 4 Coate, Michael a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Burlington, N.J., in 1767. He was converted in 1794; served the Church as an exhorter and local preacher, and in 1795 became a member of the New York Conference. He died a member of the Philadelphia Conference, August 1, 1814. Mr. Coate was remarkably meek and devout, lively and zealous, practical and exemplary; See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1815, page 255; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 7:253. Coate, Samuel a Methodist Episcopal minister, entered the New York Conference in 1794, and after traveling Flanders Circuit, N.J., and Albany Circuit, N.Y., went in 1806 to Canada as a co-laborer with Dunham, Coleman, and Wooster. In 1806 he was stationed at Montreal. His later history is unrecorded. See Stevens, Hist. of the M.E. Church, 3:195, 476; 4:274; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit; 7:255, 256. Coates, Alexander an English Wesleyan preacher, a native of North Britain, was converted young; began his ministry in 1741, and died at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, October 6, 1765. He was the oldest preacher in the connection. His abilities were extraordinary; he was very popular, and his conversation wonderfully pleasant and instructive. See Atmore, Meth. Memorial, s.v.; Myles, Chinol. Hist. of the Methodists (4th ed.), page 168: Stevens, Hist. of Methodism, 1:420; Wesley, Journals, October 7, 1765. Coates, John an English Wesleyan minister was born at Iron-Acton, Gloucestershire, in 1783. He was received into the sacred office in 1806, toiled with unwearied assiduity for forty-five years, and died, Februrary 8, 1860. “His success may be traced in the circuits he travelled." See Minutes of the British Conference, 1860, page 404. Coates, Richard an English Methodist preacher, began to. travel in connection with the Wesleyan Conference in 1764, being appointed to the Staffordshire Circuit. The severity of the winter and his excessive labors brought on a disorder of 5 which he died, at Wednesbury, Staffordshire, in 1765, aged twenty-eight. He was a lively, pious, zealous, and useful young man. See Atmore, Meth. Memorial, s.v. Coatlantanna in Mexican mythology, was the Flora of the Mexicans, in whose honor great floral festivals were held. Coats, Calvin S. a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Orangeville, Wyoming County, N.Y., May 15, 1809. He experienced conversion at the age of sixteen; spent some time as an exhorter and local preacher, and in 1831 entered the Genesee Conference, wherein he labored with marked zeal and fidelity until failing health, in 1868, caused him to become a superannuate, which relation he held to the close of his life, February 11, 1875. Mr. Coats was remarkable for the activity of his intellect, the strength of his convictions, and his restless zeal in Christian work. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1875, page 119. Coatts, William (1) a Scotch clergyman, held a bursary of theology at the Glasgow University in 1702; was licensed to preach in 1714; called to the living at Dalmellipgton in 1717, and ordained; resigned in August, 1755, and died February 6, 1757. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:109,110. Coatts, William (2) a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at Glasgow University in 1725; was licensed to preach in 1726; became tutor in the family of Dunlop; was presented to the living at Kilmaurs in 1735, but was opposed and hindered by heritors and parishioners for a long time; was ordained in May 1739, and died May 2, 1777. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:180. Coaxtitli Picture for Coaxtitli in Mexican mythology, was a rude deity apparently the God of the fruit- bearing earth. He is represented as, a sitting, long-haired man, with closed. eyes, grasping something in his clumsy hands, perhaps a loaf of bread. The 6 strange decoration of his head seems to chararacterize him as a priest; at least, the latter, carried something similar, as we know from designs and busts. Cob, Thomas an English martyr, suffered death by burning, in Suffolk, August 12, 1555, for his confession of Christ. See Fox, Acts and Monuments, 7:382. Cobain, Edward an Irish Wesleyan minister, was converted in youth, commenced preaching on the Newry mission in 1810, and died August 16, 1856. His long labors were blessed with many gracious revivals. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1857. Cobali (Ko>baloi, rogues), in Greek mythology (similar to the German Koboldeny i.e., "goblins"), were small, tantalizing spirits, which played all manner of possible tricks. They were worshipped by the ancient Sarmatians, viz. the Borussi, Samogitse, Lithuanians, Livonians, etc. These spirits, they believed, dwelt in the most secret parts of their houses. The people presented to them the daintiest meats. Cobard, Jacques a French martyr, was a schoolmaster in the city of Saint-Mihiel, in Lorraine, who maintained against three priests that the sacrament of baptism and of the Lord's Supper did not avail unless received with faith.