continued in that relation with Mr Cotton, until he removed to America. After Mr Cotton's removal to New England, in the year 1633, Mr Tuckney, who had for some time been Mr Cotton's assistant, became his successor in the pastoral office at Boston. He continued his ministry in that place during a sore visitation of Divine Providence by the pestilence; and he met with some disturbance from the Spiritual courts.

In the year 1643, he was called up to London by the Parliament, to sit in the Assembly of Divines at Westminster. He and Mr Coleman were chosen Members of that Assembly for the county of Lincoln. The times being very troublesome and dangerous, during the heat of the war, he took his whole family with him to London, and never returned to dwell in Boston. But, at the desire of the people, he retained his title to the place, until the year 1660, when King Charles the Second came in, and then he resigned it, and Dr Howe succeeded him. After he left the place, he received none of the profits. He was very highly esteemed in the Assembly, and is marked as constantly attending during the session. was appointed one of the Committee for the examination and approbation of those ministers who petitioned for sequestered places. In 1645, he was chosen one of the Committee of Accommodation. He had a considerable hand in the Assembly's Confession of Faith, and Catechism. It is said, that many of the Answers in the Larger Catechism, and particularly the exquisite exposition of the Commandments, were his, and were continued for the most part in the very words which he brought in.

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After he had been some time at London, he was settled minister of Michael. Quern, at the upper end of Cheapside, where he continued till 1648; with the exception, that after he became Master of Emanuel-College, which was in 1645, he spent some months in the year at Cambridge. In 1648, he removed to Cambridge with his family, and was that year Vice-Chancellor of the University. In the year 1653, when Dr Thomas Hill died, Dr Arrowsmith was chosen Master of Trinity-College, and Dr Tuckney was chosen Master of St. John's College.

And he succeeded Dr Arrowsmith as Royal Professor. He was eminently courageous in opposing orders sent by the higher powers. He was a man of great humility; and yet few, if any, ever maintained their authority better than he did in the University when Vice-Chancellor, and in the College of which he was Master. Many gentlemen and ministers sent their sons to that Seminary of learning merely on his account, that they might have the benefit of his instruction.

After the Restoration of King Charles the Second, he was one of the Commissioners at the Savoy, but had no hope of any accommodation upon seeing how affairs were conducted. Before the time for the conferences was expired, he received a letter from the King, desiring him to resign both his Mastership and Professorship, which if he did, his Majesty, in consideration of his great pains and diligence in discharging the duties of his office, would oblige his successor to give him sufficient legal security, to pay him one hundred pounds yearly during his natural life. The Doctor thought that it would answer no good end to contend with the Court in that juncture, and that it would not be long that he could keep his places as things were then managed; and accordingly, upon re ceiving the King's letter, with another accompanying it from the Earl of Manchester, he resigned both his places. The annuity which was promised to him was punctually paid him, for several years, by Dr Gunning, who succeeded him. Wood, speaking of this annual allowance to Dr Tuckney, which was given by Dr Gunning, says, "Which act of his, being excellent and singular, is here remembered to his everlasting fame."

Dr Tuckney is classed among the Ministers, Masters of Colleges, &c. who were ejected or silenced after the Restoration, by, or before, the Act of Uniformity, in Dr Calamy's Account. Dr Tuckney, upon leaving the University of Cambridge, retired with his family to Lon don, and lived in St. Mary-Axe, and continued there until the plague in 1665, preaching sometimes in his own house, and occasionally in the families of several friends. In the time of the sickness he lived at Colwick Hall

near Nottingham. There he was not long after troubled and confined; but it was in a gentleman's house, where he was treated very civilly, and within a few months discharged. After the Five-Mile-Act came out, he shifted about in several counties. He removed to Oundle in Northamptonshire, and from that place to Warmington, in the same county; and after the dreadful fire of London in 1666, in which his Library was burned, he removed to Stockerson, in Leicestershire; and thence to Tottenham, near London, and from that, in 1669, he removed to Spittle-yard, London, where he died in the month of Feb. 1670, in the seventy first year of his age. And he has left behind him the character of an eminently pious and learned man, a genuine friend, an indefatigable student, a candid disputant, and an earnest promoter of truth and godliness. It was his custom to have a sermon preached in the chapel of Emanuel, and of St. John's College, the morning after every public commencement, by one who had been of the College. This laudable custom was carefully observed many years.

Dr Tuckney has several Writings, which praise him in the gate. He published some small Pieces himself: The Balm of Gilead for the Wounds of England; a sermon preached from Jer. viii. 22, at Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at the Solemn Fast, Aug. 30th, 1643. 4to. pp. 43. Lond. 1643. This sermon was again printed in a small size, Lond. 1654. Death Disarmed; and the Grave Swallowed up in Victory; a sermon preached from 1 Cor. xv. 55, at Mary's in Cambridge, Dec. 22d, 1653, at the funeral of Dr Thomas Hill, with an Account of his Life and Death, and two sermons more from the same text, preached afterward in the same place; small size, pp. 135. Lond. 1654-None but Christ; a sermon from Acts iv. 12, preached at Mary's in Cambridge, on the Commencement Sabbath, July 4th, 1652; to which is annexed, An Inquiry after what hope may be had of the Salvation of Heathen, Jews, Infants, Idiots, &c. now under the Gospel. Small size, pp. 143. London, 1654, A Good VOL. II.

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Day Well Improved, in five sermons, from Acts ix. S1, and a sermon from 2 Tim. i. 13. 1656. And after his death, were published forty sermons of his upon several occasions, 4to. pp. 698. Lond. 1676. And his Prælectiones Theologica; Theological Lectures and Exercises, in the University, 4to. Amsterdam, 1679. In Latin. These Lectures, in which there is a very fine Dissertation against propogating religion by the sword, were refused a Licence in England, and therefore were printed in Holland.a

THOMAS VALENTINE, B. D.

MINISTER OF CHALFONT GILES, AND A MEMBER OF THE ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES AT WESTMINSTER.

THOMAS

HOMAS VALENTINE was a great sufferer for truth, in the cause of Nonconformity. He felt the shock. ing oppression and cruelty of the ruling prelates in England, in his time. In the year 1633, when the King, by the recommendation of Laud, republished the Book of Sports, for the encouragement of recreations and pastimes on the Lord's day, he and his brethren felt the iron rod of their tyrannical oppressors. This profane book open. ed a flood-gate to every manner of licentiousness, and was the unhappy instrument of very great oppression to many eminently pious and learned divines, and to great numbers of his Majesty's best subjects. The ruling prelates, though not authorized by law, required the clergy to read that book publicly before the congregation. The Puritans refused to read it, and were suspended, and subjected to great sufferings, for their refusal. Dr Calamy informs us, that Mr Valentine was suspended by Sir John Lamb, Dean of the Arches, for not reading the Book of

a Calamy's Account, vol. ii. Cont. vol. i. Neal's Puritans, vols. iii. and iv.

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Sports. And we are also told, that Mr Wroth and Mr Erbery from Wales, Mr James from Gloucestershire, and Mr Thomas Valentine, minister of Chalfont St. Giles, with many others, were brought from various parts of the country, and prosecuted in the High Commission." Mr Valentine was afterward appointed one of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and is represented as constantly attending during the session. He has some sermons extant; which he preached before the Long Parliament. Dr Calamy says, that he was " a very popular and tak. ing preacher." He was ejected from Chalfont St. Giles, in the county of Bucks, by the Act of Uniformity."

His Writings. A sermon from Zeph. iii. 8, before the House of Commons, at their Fast, Dec. 28th, 1642. 4to. Lond. 1643.-2, "A Charge against the Jews, and the Christian World, for not coming to Christ, who would have freely given them Eternal Life;" a sermon before the Peers, from John v. 40, at Westminster Fast, 26th May, 1667. Lond. 1647.-3. "Christ's Counsel to Poor and Naked Souls;" a sermon from Rev. iii. 18, be fore the Commons, Fast, 29th Sept. 1647. Lond.

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From what Mr Valentine has published to the world, he appears to have been a very sweet evangelical preacher, and a divine of considerable talents and learning. I have seen his sermons in different parts of Scotland.

RICHARD VINES, A. M.

MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT WEDDINGTON, AND MASTER OF PEMBROKE-HALL, CAMBRIDGE.

RICHARD VINES was born at Blason, in the county

of Leicester, in England, about the year 1600. He was

a Brook's Puritans, vol. i. Introduction, pp. 77, and 78. b Calamy's Account, vol. ii,