, eldest son of the preceding, was born in Lancashire in 1626, and going with his father to New
, eldest son of the preceding, was
born in Lancashire in 1626, and going with his father to
New England in 1635, was educated at Harvard-college,
of which he became the first fellow who took a degree
there. In 1650 he returned to England, spent some time
at Oxford, where and at Cambridge he again took his degrees, was chaplain of Magdalen-college, and often a
preacher at St. Mary’s. He then went with the English
commissioners to Scotland, and preached at Leith for two
years. He returned to England in 1655, and having visited
Ireland with Henry Cromwell, and Drs. Harrison, Winter,
and Charnock, he was made senior fellow of Trinity-college, and became a favourite preacher. Wood says that
though he was reckoned a congregational man, and a high
nonconformist, yet he was moderate in his behaviour to
the episcopals, when it was in his power to hurt them.
When the lord deputy gave him and others a commission
for displacing the episcopal ministers in Munster, he declined it, as he did afterwards in Dublin, giving as a reason that “he was called into the country to preach the
gospel, and not to hinder others from doing it.
” Soon
after the restoration, he was suspended for preaching
against the revival of the liturgy, on which he returned to
England; but when the Bartholomew act took place, removed again to Dublin, where for some time he preached
to a small congregation in his own house, until the laws
against nonconformity obliged him to desist. He died
Oct. 26, 1671. He published various tracts relative to the
controversies of the times; and after his death appeared a
course of sermons that were very popular, entitled “The
Figures and Types of the Old, Testament explained and
improved,
” Dublin,