where he used to preach after his ejectment. To avoid being informed against, he had the following contrivance : There being in the common sitting room a staircase, with a door at the bottom, he stood to preach on the second step, and had this door cut in two, the lower part of which was shut, and the upper, joined by hinges, fell back on brackets, so as to form a desk. To this was fixed a string, by which he could easily draw it up, on the approach of any informer, of which proper persons were appointed to give notice. He then immediately went up stairs; so that when the informers entered they could not prove that he was preaching or had been present, though they found the room filled with people. The door renains in the same state to this day. Mr. Jollie afterwards built a small place of worship adjoining to his house, where there is still a small interest. Over the door is the date 1688. He left a good library for the use of the congregation, but it has been almost entirely taken away. A descendant of the same name (a very respectable man) died in the dwelling house a few years ago,

JOLLIE, TIMOTHY, was born about 1660. His fa ther, the rev. Thomas Jollie, we have spoken of in the preceding article. We regret the want of any particulars of the early life of this minister. In the sermon preached on his death, by his friend and assistant Mr. John de la Rose, we are informed, that "his sense of religion and love of holiness were early and deep. God sanctified all his powers in his tender years, and so made him shine with a double lustre: and this solemn regard to piety and the good ways of God, lived with him, and grew all along, and was not a little apparent in the whole tenor of his conversation." It is not known where Mr. Jollie received his academical education, except that it was in one of those private seminaries which were established among the Nonconformists, after they were excluded from the English Universities. Undoubtedly, he had signal advantages for improvement, both in holy graces and in literary acquire..ments, from his valuable father; and as, before his settlement at Sheffield, he was a member of a church in London, under Mr. Griffyth (ejected from the Charter House) it seems probable that he was a student under some one of the celebrated Nonconformist divines. A church of the congregational

congregational order had been gathered at Sheffield, by the exemplary and useful Mr. James Fisher, who was ejected from the vicarage of that town in 1662. He was succeeded by Mr. Robert Durant, ejected from Crowle, in Lincolnshire, who died in 1678: and Mr. Jollie was his sucsessor in the great work of Christ: he was a follower of their faith, and a close imitator of their conversation. He was solemnly set apart to the pastoral office over the church at Sheffield, April 28, 1681 *. In the following year Mr. Jollie

As it may be interesting to observe the mode adopted in those memorable days for the ordination of ministers, we insert the following account of Mr. Jollies ordination:

The ministers assembled in the bouse of Mr. Abel Yates, early on Wednesday morning, the 27th of April. Though a convenient place of worship had been erected for Mr. Durant, yet such was the danger and distress of the times, that this important service was obliged to be held in a private house. Mr. Oliver Heywood, the ejected minister of Coley, whose memory and whose praise are still precious in the churches, was chosen Moderator. The people assembled, and the public service began at ten o'clock. The Moderator spent an hour in prayer. Mr. Jollie then preached his trial sermon, from Isaiah lix. 1, 2. after which the congregation was dismissed. The ministers then examined the candidate in languages, logic, philosophy, and divinity; in which they spent three hours. Through an oversight, no subject for a Latin Thesis had been assigned to Mr. Jollie; but, instead thereof, he maintained an ex tempore disputation: "An Infantes omnes Baptizatorum, etsi scandalizantiam, sint Baptizandi ?" i. e. Whether Baptism is to be administered to all the Infants of baptized Persons, even though the Parents be scandalous Characters" At six o'clock the examination and disputation were ended; and the meeting adjourned to the next morning, at seven. On Thursday morning the ministers, church, and spectators being again assembled, Mr. Hancock, ejected from Bradfield; and Mr. Bloom, ejected from Sheffield, both engaged in prayer. The Moderator proposed suitable and important questions to Mr. Jollie; which he answered so as to give great satisfaction. His excellent father then gave him up to the Lord, in a most pathetic prayer, for the work and service of the sanctuary, as he had before given him up in holy baptism. The ordination prayer followed; which was very solemnly and affectionately offered up by the Moderator, with imposition of hands by the ministers present. The Moderator then gave the charge, from 1 Tim. iv. 15; and concluded with prayer. The spectators were desired to withdraw; and one of the ruling elders read Mr. Jollie's dismission from Mr. Griffyth's church to that at Sheffield, and expressed, in the name of the people, their call of Mr. Jollie to the pas toral office; to which they signified assent by lifting up their hands. Mr. Jollie declared his acceptance of this charge over them in the Lord. His venerable father then preached a discourse on the mutual

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Jollie became the victim of persecution. Under the inhu man acts of the legislature of Charles II. he had his goods distrained for a penalty; and was thrown into rigorous confinement in the castle of York. "He took a prison joyfully," says Mr. de la Rose," for the cause of Christ, though the manner of his abode there endangered and impaired his constitution, and threatened his death. Even the bloom of his youth and prime of his days, in which he was capable of the highest gust for the whole circle of inoffensive enjoyments that this world could afford him, he readily, be joyfully, submitted to spend in a gloomy and noisome confinement. Though thereby both his righteous soul was greatly afflicted, bearing so much of the language of hell there, the dreadful oaths and curses of the criminals round about him; and the life of his body, by more circumstances than one, rendered very disagreeable: yet, for Christ his Lord, his soul dilated with joy, and triumphed in a prison!" The happy Revolution, and the legal toleracon of Protestant Dissenters, were a welcome relief to Mr. Jollie and his people, as to many thousands besides. The work of the Lord greatly prospered in the success of his abundant and zealous labours. The meeting house in which his people assembled, proving insufficient for them, they built, in 1700, a very large and noble place, now called the Upper Chapel, from its local situation. Here Mr. Jollie statedly laboured, with much acceptance and usefulness, during the remaining years of his life. He had also a commodious chapel at Attercliffe, where he resided.

The usefulness of this valuable character was not confined to his labours in the pulpit and the pastoral care. An institution for the instruction of youth, in such studies as were immediately proper for the Christian ministry, and other liberal professions, had been maintained for some years amongst the Nonconformists of the north. Mr. Richard Frankland, ejected from Bishop's Auckland, in the county of Durham, a man of very superior learning and abilities, set up and presided over this academy. It was founded at Rathmill, in Yorkshire; but from the severity

duties of pastors and people; and the newly ordained minister himself concluded the whole sofemn work by a judicious and moving prayer. The service closed at eight o'clock at night, having continued the whole day with no other intermission to the church and ministers than about half an hour.

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of persecution, it was obliged to be repeatedly removed to s various stations, and Attercliffe among the rest. It was, s however, brought again to Rathmill before Mr. Frankland's death, in 1698. On the removal of that good man, who had sent out in his time about three hundred pupils, Mr. Jollie was invited to the charge of the institution; and, on his acceptance, it was again established at Attercliffe: a pleasant village, one mile from Sheffield *.

Mr. Jollie served the cause of Christ upon a truly extensive scale of usefulness, in his capacities of a minister and a tutor. In conjunction with his assistant Mr. De la Rose, and by the occasional aid of his pupils, he not only exercised the ministry in his numerous flock at Sheffield, but supplied the smaller, though very respectable, congregation at Attercliffe. It is to be regretted, that no list of his pupils, or minute account of his academical course of tuition, can be obtained t.

Mr. Jollie died in 1713. On the frame of his mind, when in dying circumstances, Mr. De la Rose remarks, "Thus died in the Lord this man of God, your dear and worthy pastor. His soul was bottomed," he said, " upon Christ, the Rock of Ages: his views of Christ, as thus considered, were clear and distinct; he seemed to have no clouds upon his mind, no darkness about it; nor did he labour under doubts and fears of his being interested in him thus, but what was all calm and serene in the firm and inwrought persuasion of it. As Christ was dear to him, and exceedingly precious in his life time, so now, in his dying season, he found Christ near to him: his left hand was underneath him to support him; and with his right hand The he embraced him. Ile dealt familiarly with him; for, in He

• Mr. Oliver Heywood in his diary records, that Mr. Timothy Jollie hath at this time (May 17, 1700,) twenty-six scholars, and forty more completely qualified, and now employed in the sacred office."

It is, however, certain, from the high literary reputation afterwards possessed by many of his pupils, that their advantages, under his care, must have been very considerable. Among them were the following eminent characters: Mr. Thomas Bradbury, minister at Fetter Lane, and afterwards at New Court; Dr. Samuel Wright, for hom the meeting house in Carter Lane was erected; Dr. Thomas Secker, who, after preaching on probation to a Dissenting congregation at Balsover, in Derbyshire, conformed to the Establishment, and became bisbop of Oxford, and, lastly, archbishop of Canterbury; Dr. Nicholas Saunderson, the celebrated Lucasian Professor of Mathematica at Cambridge, and blind from his infancy.

his frame and talk both, there appeared a great (shall I say an unusual) steadiness and composure of spirit as to the state and world before him, and his saving relation to Christ he dwelt upon the theme with pleasure; and in his last illness, and even in the dark valley of Death itself, he rather triumphed in it than anywise questioned it. As his heart was fixed, trusting in the Lord,' whilst living, so here his heart was fixed, when dying too, 'He died in the Lord he slept in Jesus; and thus dying in the Lord, you may write him blessed !"

Mr. De la Rose observes, that "his genius was masterly and grand, elevated and curious; and as to his natural temper, it was serene, chearful, active, open, and generous : his composedness of spirit, his mirth, his majesty, were all unaffected and natural to him; and continued with him in à very conspicuous degree, even to the very last. As to his capacity and powers, they were unquestionably great and extensive; and as nature had moulded them, and given them some advantageous casts and touches, he appeared very much of an original. I cannot omit what I have often thought and spoken; and that is, that his quick apprehension, his amazing invention, his diction, his elocution, and the vast but even flow of his affections, together with his uncommon presence of mind, and the agreeableness of his person, all conspired to make him one of the most consunimate orators of the age.

"His works and labours of love to Christ and to souls, that were many and eminent in his own house and in God's house, are ripened already into a great harvest here upon earth, and are all upon the file in heaven; for God is not unrighteous to forget his work and labour of love which he shewed (upon all occasions) towards his name, in that he ministered to the saints' (and that in a diffusive manner, for instrumentally he ministered to many communions of them up and down in this nation) as well as ministered personally to you here, and that with great assiduity and readiness, till his natural strength abated, and pains and indispositions grew upon him, and checked him.

"As God had rendered him capable of very great usefulness, he accordingly pursued it: he was frequent in his offices of kindness, both more publicly and privately, and always instilling into all about him something for the benefit of their souls.

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