Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1789 edition. Excerpt: ... the whole Bible through in daily lectures, and in the chiesest books ordinarily a verse each day, which work held him almost fifteen years. Some time before he ended that work, he began the second expofition of the whole Bible in the Church of Trinity College, and within ten years ended all the New Testament (excepting one book and a piece) all the Prophets, all Solomon, and Job. He preached also and expounded thrice every Sabbath for the sar greater part of the year, once every holy-day, and sometimes twice. To these may be added, his weekly lectures (as Prosessor) in the controverfies, and his answers to all Bellarmine's writings. On the bn aking out of the Irish Rebellion, in 1641, he came into England, and was made Vicar of Stepney, near London, but being too scholastical, he did not please the parishioners. He was constituted about this time, one of the Assembly of Divines, and furnished evidence against Archbishop Laud, on his trial, as to matter relating to the University of Dublin, whilst he was Chancellor thereof. At length, by the savour of the Committee of Parliament for the reformation of the University of Oxford, he became Master of University College, and the King's Prosessor of Divinity. He was respected by Dr. Usher, the learned. Primate of Ireland, in whofe vindication he wrote, A Rejoinder to William Malone, Jesuit, his reply concerning the real presence." Dublin, 1641, in a thick quarto. Dr. Hoyle died December 6, 1654, and was buried in that little old Chapel of University College, which was pulled down in 1668, and which, flood in that place whieh i? now the middle part of the present quadrangle, in that College. hulme, nathaniel, M. D. Lived for some time in Halisax with his uncle, .... Hulme, M. D. He wrote, ..".