AMBROSE, IsAnc, a presbyterian clergyman of great learning and piety. He was born in 1591 ; but his parentage is unknown. He appears, however, to have been liberally educated ; and is said, by his biographers, to have studied the classics and Belles Lett•es with much attention. He was thoroughly skilled in every branch of theology ; and was particularly ac quainted with Jewish antiquities, and the writings of the fathers. During the long parliament of Cromwell, he was settled at Preston in Lancashire ; thence removed to Garstang ; and at length ejected by the act of uni formity in 1662. He employed the remainder of his life in revising his former publications, and in composing new tracts. He was one of those divines who resisted the Antinomian errors, which were so prevalent in tune ; who taught the ma essity of an inward, as well a% an imputed righteousness ; and who illustrated the faith of the gospel as a practical and purifying principle. Ile
is described by Calamy, as"a man of substantial Nvorth. eminent piety., and exemplary life ;" and the same au• thor relates of him, that " it was his usual custom, once a year, for the space of a month, to retire into a little hut, in a wood ; and, avoiding all human intercourse, to devote himself to contemplation." lie died in 166•, at the age of 72. his works are, 1. The first, middle, and last things ; viz. Regeneration, Sanctification, and Me ditations on Life, Death, Judgment, &c. 2. Looking unto Jesus. 3. War with Devils, and ministration ot Angels. 4. Sermon on redeeming the Time.—See Calamy's Lives, vol. ii. (v) Ai\l BROSIA, a genus of plants of the class Moncecia. and order Pentandria. See BorANV. (w)