Edmund Calamy

church, ark and ejected

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rums, be seized epos the op unity of the passing of the Act of llatfarnsity to resign his lie Being well received at court, his fries& recommended him to petition for an indulgence ; but his request was fruitless if. did not, like some of the other ejected SISULIISSIV. attempt to assemble a conirregation elsewhere, but still cootaeued to attend the church In which he had so long officiated. Os one of these oceasiona, when no clergyman attended, some of his friends requested him to preach. After some hesitation he ascended the dolt, from which It had always been his custom to deliver his dimourwes, and preached upon the concern of old Eli for the ark of God, tato which he introduced some matter that touched upon recent Semite ; which bring deemed seditious, be was committed to Newgate, wheels he lay, natal the outcry raised by his friends induced the king to coder his liberation. lie lived tome London in ashes ; which event hal Each an eila et ripen his nerves, that be survived the little more than a month. Ile died October 29, 1666.

was considered an able theologian. His publications asessim of Biagio renames preached upon particular occasions, and a eisobestios of blineelf an attack made upon him by Mr. Burton,

molded 'The Godly Man 'a Ark, or a City of Refuge In the Day of his Dostresa? Two of Mr. Calatoy's eons, who were educated at Cambridge for the c} rah, took appal I. sides on the disputed points of eccleeiastical affair.; the eldest, Edmuud, hieing, after his ejectment from his levtag, become a (landed nooconformist; while his other son, Dr. &semis Crianiy, not only adhered to the high church party, Lut wrote in its defence ' A Discourse against • Scrupulous Con masons ; the tamer of wluch is, to stigmatise as crime the act of separating from the church.

A grandson of Mr. Celamy was a celebrated nonconformist divine, and is the well-known biographer of the ejected ministers; sad also of Balter's • Life and Timer: This gentleman, also called Edmund, alto hi. father and grandfather, on a visit to Scotland in 1709, rereired the degree of Doctor in Divinity from each of the uuiveraities of Aberdma, Falinburah. and Glasgow. (Calamy, A'onoonfor&aivt's If reeseuel.)

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