the Assembly of Divines at Westminster. He is marked, in Mr Neal's list of those Divines, as giving constant attendance during the session.

He preached a sermon from 1 Kings xviii. 21, to the Honourable House of Commons, on the day of the monthly fast, 25th Oct. 1643, at Margaret's, Westminster. This sermon is entitled, "Halting Stigmatized." 4to. pp. 21. London, 1644. He has an Epistle Dedicatory to the Honourable House of Commons, which is prefixed to the sermon. In the application of that sermon, he says: "Honourable Senators, Hath there not been halting with in: your walls? Have not many of your members unworthily forsaken you, and miserably deserted the glori ous cause of God? The Lord open their eyes and heal their backslidings."

He warmly exhorts to take up the profession of godli. ness upon good grounds, and for right ends. He adds, "Act in the strength of Jesus Christ. I can do all things, says the apostle, through Christ who strengthens me. Phil. iv. 13. Get your hearts warmed with the love of Jesus Christ, which the apostle calls a constraining love, 2 Cor. v. 14.-For love has a compulsive faculty. Reward draws, punishment drives; but love is most effica cious in persuading us unto the discharge of our duty. Lastly, fix faith upon your the promises, study Moses's opticks, eye Him who is invisible. Heb. xi. 27. And eye the threats also. Look upon that good which God promiseth, as the greatest good, and upon the evil which he threateneth, as the greatest evil. And Honourable Patriots, I beseech you suffer the word of exhortation. Let it be your chiefest care to follow God, in your personal holi ness, and in promoting a National reformation. Follow him personally. It will be your greatest honour to be his servants. You have an admirable pattern, the zealous prophet Elijah, a man of such transcendant zeal, that to heighten the expression thereof, some have said of him, that when he drew his mother's breasts, he was seen to suck in fire. I wish from my very soul, that a double portion of his spirit may be given unto you, that you may act in his power and spirit. Elijah opposed

idolatry and oppression, so do ye. Down with Baal's altars, down with Baal's priests: do not, I beseech you, consent unto a toleration of Baal's worship in this kingdom upon any political consideration whatsoever. I have heard that you have already voted that you will never give your consent to the toleration of the Romish mass in this kingdom. I will take up the words of David's pray. er, Chron. xxix. 18. "O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of your hearts." He faithfully reminds them of their solemn covenants, and of making the word of God their rule in the reformation of religion. Near the conclusion of the sermon, he says, "Shortly, I hope, a plat-form of worship, discipline, and government, will be presented unto you, by those whom you have employed for that purpose. I beseech you, bring all unto the touch-stone of the word. Believe it, Worthies, that form of government will be best for the state, which is most agreeable unto the word. It hath been often said by the bishops of the government of the Reformed churches, and they did commonly instance in Presbytery, that it was no friend to monarchy. But I am sure that Prelacy is no enemy unto tyranny. The Lord guide you in the managing hereof, that what you shall do herein, may tend unto the glory of God, and the good and peace of his church." The sermon is well composed for the time. I have seen this sermon in different parts of Scotland; but have not seen any more of the author's writings, which I lament.

HENRY SCUDDER, B. D.

PASTOR OF COLLINGBORN, AND A MEMBER OF THE ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES AT WESTMINSTER.

HENRY SCUDDER received his education in Christ's

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minister at Drayton in Oxfordshire. In that station; he was very highly esteemed on account of his singular and exemplary piety, his remarkable prudence, and his excellent ministerial labours. Mr William Whately, a man of distinguished eminence, being then at Banbury, Mr Robert Harris being placed at Hanwell, and Mr Scudder at Drayton, there were three eminently pious and learned neighbours, who were closely united, not only in judgment and affection, but also in affinity, Mr Harris married Mr Whately's sister, and Mr Scudder, his wife's sister. Those three eminent men met weekly for some time, and by turns translated and analyzed, each person his chapter of the Bible. Afterward, -Mr Scudder became pastor of Collingburn-dukes, in Wiltshire, a county of England. And, in the year 1643, hẹ was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and is said to have constantly attended. He was one of those divines who subscribed the proposition, " That Je sus Christ, as King of the church, has himself appointed a church-government distinct from the civil magistrate,

He was eminently distinguished as the author of a very excellent work, which is entitled, "The Christian's Dai. ly Walk in Holy Security and Peace." This book contains familiar directions, clearly shewing how we should walk with God, in the whole course of our lives. It has passed through numerous editions, and is very highly esteemed, in the present day, among serious Christians. Dr Owen and Mr Richard Baxter have prefixed to it their recommendatory epistles.

Dr Owen says, "It is now above thirty years ago since I first perused the ensuing treatise. And although until upon this present occasion I never read it, nor to my knowledge saw it since; yet the impression it left upon me in the days of my youth has, to say no more, contin

a grateful remembrance of it upon my mind. Being desired, upon this new edition, to give some testimony unto its worth and usefulness, I esteem myself obliged so to do, by the benefit which I had myself received from it." And upon informing us that he had then given it another perusal, he adds, "I shall only ac

quaint the reader, that I am so far from subducting my account, or making an abatement in an esteem thereof, that my respect unto it, and valuation of it, is greatly increased; wherein also I do rejoice, for reasons not here to be mentioned.There is generally that soundness and gravity in the whole doctrine of the book, that weight of wisdom in the directions given for practice, that judg ment in the resolution of doubts and objections, that breathing of a spirit of holiness, zeal, humility, and the fear of the Lord, in the whole; that I judge, and am satisfied therein, that it will be found of singular use, unto all such as in sincerity desire a compliance with the author's design."

Mr Baxter says, "I remember not any book which is written to be the daily companion of Christians, to guide them in the practice of a holy life, which I prefer before this I am sure none of my own. For so sound is the doctrine of this book, and so prudent and spiritual, apt and savoury, and all so suited to our ordinary cases and conditions, that I heartily wish no family may be without it. And many a volume, good and useful, are now in religious people's hands, which I had rather were all unknown than this. And I think it more service to the souls of men, to call them to the notice and use of such a treas sure, and to bring such old and excellent writings out of oblivion and the dust, than to encourage very many who overvalue their own, and to promote the multiplication of things common and undigested, to the burying of more excellent treatises in the heap."

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This work was so very highly esteemed, that it was translated into High Dutch, by the eminently learned Mr Theodore Haak, who has translated the Dutch An notations upon the Bible into English, and is said to have projected the first plan of the Royal Society in London.

Mr Scudder alsó wrote the Life of the celebrated Mr William Whately, which is prefixed to his Prototypes, or Examples out of the Book of Genesis, applied to our Instruction and Reformation, folio, London, 1640.*

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And our author was one of the preachers before the Parliament. One of his sermons, which was printed, is entitled, "God's Warning to England by the Voice of his Rod, delivered in a Sermon, preached at Margaret's, Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their Solemn Fast, Oct. 30, 1644." The text is Micah vi. 9. 4to. pp. 35. London, 1644. With a large epistle Dedicatory to the House of Commons prefixed. I have seen this sermon in different parts of Scotland, and also The Christian's Daily Walk, the 11th edition, 1674, recommended to all Professors by Dr Owen, and Mr Baxter. And I have seen the 12th edition of the Christian's Daily Walk, both in Scotland and England, London, 1761.

LAZARUS SEAMAN, D. D.

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MINISTER OF ALLHALLOWS, BREAD-STREET, LONDON, MASTER OF PETER-HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE, AND ONE OF THE ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES AT WESTMINSTER.

LAZARUS SEAMAN was born in Leicester, the

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County-town and capital of Leicestershire, almost in the centre of England. He received his education in Eman. ucl-College, Cambridge; but as he came to the College, in mean circumstances, he was obliged soon to leave it and to teach School some time for his external support. Dr Calamy says, "that his learning sprang from him self." He seems to have been partly self-taught. He was some time Chaplain to the Earl of Northumberland. He applied himself closely to his studies, and made very great proficiency in different branches of learning. He is generally allowed to have been an eminently learned man. A sermon, which he preached at Martin's, Lud gate, was the mean, under Divine Providence, of pro curing him that lecture. By his remarkable talents and industry, he soon gained a shining reputation, in the re