, a well known Psalmodist, was born in Dublin in 1652. His father,
, a well known Psalmodist, was born
in Dublin in 1652. His father, Dr. Faithful Tate, was also
son to a Dr. Tate, a clergyman, and was born in the county
of Cavan, and educated in the college of Dublin, where
he took the degree of D. D. In 1641, being then minister
of Ballyhays, in that county, he was a great sufferer by the
rebels, against whom he had given some information, and
in his way to Dublin was robbed by a gang, while about
the same time his house at Ballyhays was plundered, and
all his stock, goods, and books, burnt or otherwise destroyed. His wife and children were also so cruelly treated,
that three of the latter died of the severities inflicted upon
them. After this he lived for some time in the college of
Dublin, in the provost’s lodgings. He became then preacher
of East Greenwich, in Kent, and lastly minister of St.
Werburgh’s church, in Dublin. He was esteemed a man
of great piety but, as Harris says, was thought to be
puritanically inclined, as perhaps may be surmised from
his own and his son’s Christian names, names taken from
the Scriptures heing very common with a certain class of the
puritans. He was living in 1672, but the time of his death
we have not been able to fix. Besides two occasional sermons, he published, 1. “The doctrine of the three sacred
persons of the Trinity,
” Lond. Meditations,
” Dublin,