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Dr. Owen's published works were thirty in number, but as we have spoken concerning the principal of them, it may be unnecessary to enumerate them in this place.

The Doctor was buried at Bunhill Fields, with uncommon respect, where he has a tomb stone with a Latin inscription, drawn up by Mr. Thomas Gilbert, of Oxford, but very inaccurately engraved, and in Dr. Calamy's account as inaccurately printed. The following is a true copy:

"JOHANNES OWEN, S. T. P.
Agro Oxoniensi oriundus;

Patre insigni theologo theologus ipse insignior;
Et seculi hujus insignissimis annumerandus:
Communibus humaniorum literatum suppetiis,
Mensura parum communi, instructus:
Omnibus, quasi bene ordinata ancillarum serie,
Ab illo jussis suæ famulari theologiæ;

Theologiæ polemicæ, practicæ, et quam vocant, casuum
(Harim enim omnium quæ magis sua habenda erat,
ambigitur)

In illa, viribus plusquam Herculeis, serpentibus tribus,
Arminio, Socino, Cano, Venenosa strinxit guttura:"
In ista, suo prior, ad verbi amussim, expertus pectore,
Universam Sp. Scti. oeconomiam aliis tradidit;
Et missis, cæteris, coluit ipse, sensitque,
Beatam, quam scripsit, cum Deo Communionem :
In terris viator comprehensori in cœlis proximus:
In casuum theologia, singulis oraculi instar habitus;
Quibus opus erat, et copia, consulendi:
Scriba ad regnum cœlorum usquequoque institutus
Multis privatos infra parietes, à suggesto pluribus,
A prelo omnibus, ad eundem scopum collineantibus
Pura doctrinæ evangelicæ lampas præluxit;
Et sensim, non sine aliorum, suoque sensu,
Sic prælucendo periit,
Assiduis infirmitatibus obsiti,
Morbis creberrimis impetiti,

Durisque laboribus pottissimum attriti, corporis

from Saffron Walden told me a little before his death, that Mr. Payne,, who for several years kept an academy at Saffron Walden (at which several eminent Dissenting ministers were educated) being instructed by Dr. Owen to put his last performance to the press, came in to see the Doctor the morning of that day on which he died, and told him, Doctor, I have been just putting your book "On the Glory of Christ" to the press; to which the Doctor answered, "I am glad to hear that performance is put to the press; and then lifting up both his hands and his eyes, as in a kind of rapture, he said, "But, O brother Payne, the long looked for day is come at last, in which I shall see that Glory in another manner than I have ever done yet, or was capable of doing in this world.”

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(Fabrica, donec ita quassata, spectabilis) ruinas,
Deo ultrà fruendi cupida, deseruit;

Die, à terrenis potestatibus, plurimis facto fatali;
Illi, à cœlesti Numine, felici reddito;

Mensis scilicet Augusti XXIV. Anno à Partu Virgines
MDCLXXXIII. Etat. LIVII."

The following is a translation:

"JOHN OWEN, DJ. D, born in the county of Oxford: the son an eminent divine, but more eminent himself, and justly tobe ranked among the most illustrious of the age. Furnished with the aids of polite and solid learning, in a very common de gree, he led them all, in a well-ordered train, to the serviced his great study, Christian divinity, controversial, practical, and casuistical. In each of these, he excelled others, and was ever equal to himself. In the one branch of this sacred science, he, with powers more than Herculean, seized and vanquished the eavenomed monsters, of Arminian, Socinian, and Popish e rors. In the other, first experiencing in his own breast, accord ing to the unerring rule of Scripture, the Sacred energy of the Holy Spirit, he taught the whole economy of that divine influ ence. Rejecting lower objects, he constantly cherished and largely experienced, that blissful communion with God which he so admirably described. Though a pilgrim on earth, he wa next to a spirit in heaven. In Experimental Divinity, all who could have the blessings of his counsels found him as an oracle. He was a scribe every way accomplished for the kingdom of her ven. To many iu private dwellings, from the pulpit to more, and from the press to all, who were aiming at the heavenly prize, he shone a pure lamp of Gospel doctrine. Thus brightly shining he was gradually consumed, not unobserved by himself and his afflicted friends, till his holy soul, longing for the fuller fruition of its God, quitted the ruins of a body depressed by constant infirmities, emaciated by frequent diseases, but chiefly wor out by severe labours, and so no further suitable for the service of God; a fabric, till thus reduced, most comely and majestic. "He left the world on a day, rendered dreadful to the church by the powers of the world, but blissful to himself by the plaudit of his God, the 24th of August, 1683, aged sixty-seven."

OWEN, THANKFUL, M. A. president of St. John's College. He was born in London, and was remarkably preserved in his youth as he was swimming near Oxford, after he had sunk twice under water. He was a man of an excellent temper, and possessed a considerable share of po lite literature. He was admired for an uncommon fluency and easiness in his composures, and for the peculiar purity of his Latin style. He was ejected by the commissioners in 1660, after which he went to London and lived privately, much respected, and never repented of his nonconformity,

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Upon Dr. Goodwin's decease he was chosen to succeed him, but died suddenly about a fortnight after, April 1, 1681, at his house in Hatton Garden, just after finishing an epis tle for a volume of Dr. Goodwin's works. He was preparing for the press, and had almost finished, a book, entitled "Imago Imaginis," designed to shew that Rome Papal was an image of Rome Pagan! When Dr. Owen notice of his funeral, he said, "That he had not left his fellow behind him for learning, religion, and good humour.” He was buried in the same vault with Dr. Goodwin, at Bunhill Fields, and a Latin inscription is subjoined to that on the Doctor expressive of the above singular circumstance attending his death. Both are copied in Maitland's Hist.. of London, p. 774.

OXENBRIDGE, JOHN, A. M. was born at Daventry,i in Northamptonshire, Jan. 30, 1608. He took his degree: in 1631, and the following year began publicly to preach, the Gospel. After two voyages to Bermudas he returned to England, and settled as pastor to a church at Beverley, in Yorkshire, in 1664. After his ejectment from Eton College, Dr. Calamy says, that he went to Berwick-uponTweed, where he held on his ministry till he was silenced by the Bartholomew Act. He then went to Surinam, in South America, and from thence, in 1667, to Barbadoes. With what view he took these voyages we are not informed, but from one of his publications it appears most probable that it was to propagate the Gospel. In 1669 he went to New England, where he succeeded Mr. Davenport, as pastor of the first chutch in Boston; and there he died suddenly, Dec. 28, 1674, being seized with an apoplexy towards the close of a sermon which he was preaching at the Boston: Lecture. Mr. Mather, having mentioned his writings, says, "The piety which he breathed in these composures was but what he maintained in his daily walk." Having spoken of the large MS. cf his which he had perused, mentioned below, he says, that "he found in it a grateful variety of entertainment." He also gives some extracts from his diary, which discover a very pious, devout and humble spirit. From one of these, dated Nov. 1666, it appears that he was then involved in great affliction, by the death of an * See this argument since discussed in Dr. Conyers Middleton's Letters from Rome.

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excellent wife and two children; but that, though he had been subject to great depression of spirits, he then experienced wonderful support and comfort, on which occasion he writes thus: "What shall I say for the strange and strong consolation with which he filled my soul? No words can express what I felt in my heart. I was wholly taken up with the thoughts of the kindness of God. I said-Who is a God like unto thee? What remains for me but to love and praise thee for ever? Now death was no dark thing to This me, neither was any concern of this life considerable. hath been a great stay to me in my solitary condition. Though bereft of such relations, the Lord Jesus liveth for ever, to do all for me, and be all to me. I the more admire and adore the great God, in condescending so much to so vile a worm, that hath been so full of fears and doubts, and hath so much displeased his Holy Spirit. Oh that the Lord may confirm these comforts, so that I may enjoy them in death, and improve them for the good of others in life!"

Mr. Oxenbridge was a person of great modesty as well as exemplary piety; but the troubles to which the Dissenting interest was exposed in his own country, after the restoration of Charles II. made him desirous of endeavouring to be useful to the church of God, by contributing to advance the name of Christ in a clime far removed from his native land.

He was author of, 1, " A double Watch Word; or the Duty of watching, and watching in Duty: on Rev. xvi. 5. and Jer.i. 4, 5."-2." A Proposition of propagating the Gospel by Christian Colonies in the Continent of Guiana," being gleanings of a. larger Discourse, the MS. of which is yet preserved in New England.-3. "A Sermon at the Anniversary Election of Governor, &c. in New England."-And, 4. "A Sermon on seasonably seeking God."

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DAKEMAN, THOMAS, was born about 1614, and educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge; at which university he took the degree of M. A. He was first minister at Haddam in Essex, from whence he was ejected in 1660 with ten children, as he was afterwards from the vicarage of Harrow on the Hill in 1662. He was in great esteem with sir Gilbert Gerrard, and indeed with the whole parish, for his diligent preaching and great charity; for he sometimes gave money where he had a right to take it. Being eminent for his integrity, and for ruling well his own house he soon after his ejectment had the care of the instruction and boarding of several children of persons of quality, and preached as he had an opportunity. He afterwards removed to Old Brentford, and continued to keep boarders there, who were instructed by Mr. Button, who lived next door, There he preached constantly, and administered the sacra ment. Mr. Button was at length taken up, and imprisoned six months upon the Five Mile Act; but Mr. Pakeman escaped, and for a time kept private. He afterwards lived and preached constantly at Mrs. Methwold's in Brompton, near Knightsbridge; and thence removed into the family of Erasmus Sinith, esq. where he continued some years. In 1685, he lived with his children in the city, where he attended on Dr. Kidder's ministry, and sometimes received the sacrament from him, preaching occasionally at the houses of his children. At one time when he was preaching at his son's house, where not above three or four neighbours were present, the city marshal seized him and his son, and carried them before sir Henry Tulse, then lord mayor, and they were forced to pay a fine. In 1657, he removed to Stratford, where he had an opportunity of some service. He was an acceptable preacher to the neighbours there, and administered the sacraments. He procured a person to teach the poor people's children to read, and gave money to encourage it. He died in June, 1691, (after about a week's illness,) in the seventy-eighth year of his age. During his sickness he said, He thanked God it had been his design to glorify him. He was eminent for his great reverence of God, especially in the pulpit; his aptness to awaken and affect young people; and his readiness for edifying discourse. His funeral sermon was preached by bp. Kidder, from Rev. xiv. 13.

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