A New and General Biographical Dictionary (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " in Mr. Whifton's miftakes about both are plainly proved This piece was printed at Oxford, 1711, 8vo. In the dedication, he obferves, that it was the firft piece which he published, in the Englifti tongue, for the fervice of the church, and it proved in the event to be the laft, being prevented in the defign he had of publishing many others, by his death, which happened on the I3th of November the next year, in the vigour of his age. He was interred in Weftminfter abbey, where a marble monument, with his effigy at full length, in a fitting pofture, and a fuitable in- fcription underneath, was creeled at the expence of that patron of the Oxford mufes, the lord treafurer, Harley, Earl of Oxford !r). He was attended in hi:, laft illnefs by Dr. G. Smallridge, who gave him an ample tefHmony of his ftncere piety and religion (s). He uefired, upon his death-bed, that Something might be made public, to declare his dying in the faith and communion of the church of England, which he thought a pure and found part of the Catholic church, not- with(tanding fome defects, as he apprehended, in the reformation; and his moft hearty wifties for the union of all Chriftians, according to the primitive and perfedt model. In this opinion he was a little fcrupulous about communicating publicly in the Englifti church, at leaft without he could have an entire confidence in the prieft that was to officiate (as in his own country he had) or except in the cafe of neceffity. (, ) Our author was affifted in he claims this MS. for a principal this piece by the reverend Mr. Gag- fupport of his own opinions. He nier, who about ten years before, declares, therefore, the doftor could had come over to the church of Eng- not have ftrved better than he had land from that of France, and then done i...