party, and write in their defence, and live among them; but the Doctor would by no means live among courtiers. He had not been quite two months in this honorable employment at the court of the elector palatine, before he was recalled, to the great grief of the queen, and alfo to the prince, who fhewed his great concern at the Doctor's departure, in a Latin fpeech which he made to him. Upon his return to England, he did not betake himself to a court life; but wholly applied himself for the good of the church; and, in a country village, by clofe ftudy, faid the foundation of thofe works which all the reformed have admired. Afterwards, he was made vicar of Newbury, where he gained a vaft reputation by his useful preaching and exemplary living. His moft able adverfaries have confeffed, that there was nothing then extant more accurate and full, touching the arminian controverfy, than what he published: And there have been fcarce any, who have written upon this argument fince the publishing Dr. Twife's works, but who have made an honorable mention of him. He did not feek after riches, nor ecclefiaftical dignities and preferments, but modeftly refufed them, when they were offered him. He often congratulated himself on 'his low retired condition, as being liable to fewer temptations and dangers than in the epifcopal dignity he might have been expofed to. He declined being warden of the college at Winchester, after being chofen and earneftly requested to accept it: As he did afterwards a prebend at Winchester; returning thanks to Dr. Moore his father-inlaw and other friends, but intreating them to give him. leave to abide at Newbury to attend that flock over which GOD had placed him; faying, "He thought himself un"fit for a cathedral employment, efpecially among fuch eminent men as were the prebendaries of Winchester." The ftates of Friefeland invited him to the profefforfhip of divinity in their univerfity of Franeker, but he refufed it. Robert earl of Warwick alfo offered him a rectory; which, because it was a smaller parish than Newbury, and old age was creeping upon him, and his ftrength began to fail, he thankfully accepted, provided the earl would take care to fend a pious faithful paftor to Newbury. The Doctor waited on the archbishop of Canterbury, with whom he had been familiarly acquainted while ftudents together at Oxford, and begged his grace's favor in the bufinefs. The archbishop entertained him courteously, and pro mifed to grant all that he requested; adding, that he would reprefent him to the king for a pious and learned man, and no puritan. But the Doctor perceiving the archbishop's defign, and being determined to accept of no other preferment than the earl of Warwick's fmall rectory, he returned to Newbury, and entertained no more thoughts of leaving it, but spent his time there in reading, meditating, preaching, and writing, with much pleasure and fatisfaction to himself, and to the great comfort and edification of his people. Dr. Twife refufed to read the proclamation (commonly called the Book of Sports) wherein the people were allowed to use certain fports on the Lord's-day, and which was commanded to be read in all chuches on pain of fufpenfion both from office and benefice; yea, he modeftly declared against it. K. James, being informed of it, fecretly commanded the bishops not to meddle with him. The truth is (fays Clark) the king knew very well, that though Dr. Twiffe had but a mall eftate, and lived meanly at home, yet his fame was great abroad in all the reformed churches, and that nothing could be done hardly against him, but it would redound greatly to the difgrace of those who did it. However, Neale fays, that, in the beginning of the civil war, he was forced from his living at Newbury by the cavaliers, and died in very neceffitous circumftances, having loft all his fubftance by the king's foldiers; infomuch that when fome of the affembly were deputed to visit him in his fickness, they reported, that, he was very fick, and in great ftraights.' In the beginning of the year 1643, the parliament, defigning to reform ecclefiaftical affairs, called an affembly of learned divines to advise and affift them therein; who, when convened, unanimoufly chofe Dr. Twiffe to be the prolocutor, and placed him in the chair, though much against his will. In his fermon, at the meeting of the affembly, after exhorting them faithfully to difcharge their high calling to the glory of GOD and the honor of his church, he lamented very much that "one thing was wanting," namely, the royal affent to give comfort and encouragement to them. Yet he hoped that, by the efficacy of their fervent prayers, it might be obtained, and that a happy union might be procured between the king and the parliament. He had long feen, with great grief, the difcord and divifions between the king and parliament, concluding they would prove fatal to both parties; and Y 2 often often wifhed heartily, that the fire might be quenched, though it were with his own blood. As prolocutor, in which ftation he continued to his death, he was a witnefs to the grievous contentions that prevailed among many good men; fome infifting that nothing fhould be reformed, while others would have every thing to be altered. In fhort; the troubles of the times both in church and ftate fo afflicted this good man, who abated nothing of his private ftudies or public employment, that his health was much impaired; and, at length, while (fays Clark) he spake unto GOD in the name of the people, and to the people in the name of • GOD, and raised up the hearts of his hearers into heaven, he fell down in the pulpit.' He was carried home and lingered about a year; during which he was vifited by people of all ranks, who loved either religion or learning, to whom he gave comfortable evidences of his faith, and was himfelf a remarkable example of patience, till it had its perfect work, and faith was changed into the beatific vision of GOD: And fo fenfible was he of the approach of this change, that he faid, with almost his last words, in great peace and comfort, "Now at "length I fhall have leifure to follow ftudies to all "eternity." This happened about the twentieth of July, 1646, in the feventy-first year of his age. He was buried, at the request of the affembly, in the collegiate church of St. Peter's Westminster, near the upper end of the poor folks table, next the veftry, July twenty-fourth, and was attended by the whole affembly of divines; before whom Dr. Harris preached his funeral fermon from Joh. i. 2. Mofes my fervant is dead. There his body refted till the restoration of K. Charles II. when his bones were dug up by order of council September 14, 1661, and thrown with feveral others, into a hole in the church-yard of St. Margaret's, before the back-door of the lodgings of one of the prebendaries. The day after his burial, the parliament voted a thoufand pounds to be given to his children out of the public treasury; but they were cheated out of that, and whatever their father left them: Nevertheless it pleafed God, in his kind providence, fo to provide for them, that they obtained a decent fupport. The Doctor was allowed to be a perfon of extenfive knowledge in fchool-divinity; a fubtle difputant, and withall, a modest, humble, and religious man. He lived under under an abiding fenfe of the depravity of his nature, and in a frequent confeffion of fins; offering up unfeigned thanks to GOD, who, of his mere grace and love, had kept him from fuch honors as might have expofed him to temptations and fnares. He reverenced and efteemed all good men, and only thought meanly of himfelf; he admired the gifts and graces of GOD in others, and highly prized and commended them, though they were far inferior to his own. He conftantly kept a monthly faft in his own family, whereby he endeavored to quicken his prayers, by which, with great importunity, he pleaded with GOD in the behalf of the afflicted church of Chrift, that GOD would be gracious unto it, and restore it to peace in his own due time. Every day he applied himself with great zeal and fervency of fpirit to the throne of grace by prayer; and always before dinner and fupper he read a portion of the facred fcriptures, expounding the more obfcure and difficult paffages for the edification of his family. And out of the fcriptures he gathered arguments, by which he might the more abafe himself and his, and with the greater importunity wrestle with GOD, for the obtaining fuch mercies as he craved of him. The elder Spanheim ftyles him fubtiliffimus Theologus fimul et Philofophus, a moft acute Philofopher as well as Divine.' He was particularly celebrated for his able defence of the writings of the excellent Mr. Perkins against the arminians. His WORKS. I. Vindicia Gratia, Poteftatis ac Providentiæ Dei. II. Differtatio de Scientia media contra Suarez, &c. III. Animadverfio ad Arminii collationem cum Junio, Sc. IV. Arminiana contra Tilenum. He wrote, befides the above in Latin, many Englif Tracts upon these fubjects. DANIEL FEATLY. CUTENESS in difputation with the papifts, added A to a complete knowledge of the controverfy, in troduced this learned divine to eminence. His name was properly Fairclough, and he was ordained under it; but, by corrupt pronunciation, it was founded Faircley, Fateley, and finally Featley, which at length our Author adopted. He was defcended from a Lancashire family, feated at Fair-cliff (whence the name; Clough and Cliff being alike), though he himself was born, at Charlton upon Otmore in the county of Oxford, in March, 1582. He was educated in the grammar-school joining to Magdalen-college, admitted fcholar of Corpus Chrifti in 1594, and probationer-fellow in 1602, being then bachelor of arts. He became now a fevere ftudent in divinity He read fathers, councils, and fchoolmen, and was deeply learned in every thing relating to them. His admirable way of preaching, his fkill in difputation, and his other rare accomplishments, distinguished him fo much, that Sir Thomas Edmunds, being difpatched by K. James to be lieger-embaffador in France, made choice of Featly for his chaplain. He lived three years there, and did great honor to the English nation, and the proteftant religion, by difputing fuccefsfully against the most learned papifts; infomuch, that his antagonists could not forbear giving him the titles of acutiffimus, and acerrimus. Upon his return to England, he repaired to his college, took a bachelor of divinity's degree in 1613, and foon after became rector of Northill, in Cornwall. But before he was fettled there, he was called to be chaplain to Abbot archbishop of Canterbury; and by him was preferred foon after to the rectory of Lambeth, in Surry. In 1617, he proceeded doctor in divinity, and puzzled Prideaux the king's profeffor fo much with his arguments, that a quarrel commenced thereupon, which the archbishop himfelf was forced to compofe. The famous archbishop of Spalato, Anthony de Dominis, being alfo prefent at the difputation, was fo mightily taken with our Author's manner, that he immediately gave him a brother's place in the Savoy hofpital, |