My deceased father, who recommended these words unto me for the present occasion, told me that this text was his motto: a motto very becoming a gospel minister." In the close of the discourse he runs a parallel between the apostle and Mr. Philips, in some particulars of which the text speaks; observing, " 1. That like Paul he was a great admirer of the grace of God. 2. That he was not diverted from preaching the Gospel by bonds and afflic tions. He had his trials of this kind almost ever since he entered upon the ministry, which is upwards of fifty years." Having mentioned his first ejectment at Oxford, because he could not submit to re-ordination, and his second by the Act of Uniformity, with his subsequent imprisonments, &c. he adds, "After this he was vexed in the bishop's court, and was excommunicated; and a writ being out De excommunicato de capiendo, this forced him, for a time, to leave his dwelling, and to wander up and down, having no certain abiding place. And whilst he was from honie, there was a warrant out against him for sixty pounds, having been convicted for preaching at two meetings; the first offence being twenty pounds and the second forty pounds. Having survived these troubles, another warrant for a fine of twenty pounds was out against him for being at a meeting; which warrant was executed and the money paid. In short, the whole time of his. ministry, excepting a little at the beginning, the year of the Indulgence, in 1672, and the present Toleration, was full of trouble and danger." We do not find that Mr. Philips published any thing except two funeral sermons.

PHILIPS, PEREGRINE, was born at Ambra in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, in 1623, where his father was a good old Puritan minister, who suffered for not reading the Book of Sports. He had his education first in the public school at Haverfordwest, next under sir Ed. Harley's chaplain, at Bampton Bryan in Herefordshire, and Jastly under Dr. Thomas, afterwards bishop of St. David's. From him, he went to Oxford, where he continued till he was forced away by the civil war. He first officiated at the church,' as curate to his uncle, Dr. Collins, minister of Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire, from whence he removed to the living, of Llangone and Fresthorp, a rectory in Pembrokeshire, which he enjoyed several years. Some gentlemen of the county taking notice of his abili

ties, were for advancing him to a place more equal to his merit. Accordingly, sir Hugh Owen, bart. sir Roger Lort, bart. and sir John Mayrick, preferred him to Mounton near Pembroke, and afterwards to St. Mary's and Cosheston, which were reckoned some of the best livings in that county. He preached three times every Lord's day, once in each of his churches, and did much good. He was generally reputed the best preacher in those parts. At the time Oliver Cromwell laid siege to Pembroke, Mr. Philips was much expos d, but continued labouring among his people; and though he sometimes had the balls flying about him, he was wonderfully preserved. Oliver, hearing of his fame, sent to him to preach at one his churches before the officers of his army, which he did with general approbation, and was afterwards much favoured by him. A number of men of war lying at Milford, designed for the reduction of Ireland, Cromwell got him on board to pray in each of the ships before they sailed. He afterwards, as occasion offered, preached in almost every church in the county both in Welsh and English; and also before the judges, at the assizes at Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Haverfordwest. Being at that time one of the committee, he was an instrument of keeping several worthy ministers in their places. But at the restoration he himself was ejected; when he retired to a farm called Dredgmanhill, and became tenant to sir Herbert Perrot, who was his great friend in most of the troubles he afterwards met with. Several other leading men of the county also discovered a great regard for him. There happened at Carmarthen, a dispute between him and Dr. Reynolds, about ceremonies and discipline in the church; and another between him and his old tutor bishop Thomas, which was afterwards printed by the bishop, contrary to Mr. Philips's design or knowledge. He was soon after prosecuted on the Five Mile Act, and a number of his cattle were taken away by the bailiff, by order of Mr. Howard the high sheriff, who on his death bed asked him forgiveness, which was readily granted; but his cattle were never restored. He was again taken up some time after, and made close prisoner in the middle of harvest, none being left to manage his farm but a wife, who had five small children, and a very few servants. When he had been two months confined, he fell sick, and was discharged by the com

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missioners; when sir H. Perrot sent his coach to carry him to his own house, where he lay a long time ill of a fever, and was given over by his physicians. But a day of fasting and prayer being set apart by many serious Christians in those parts, on his account, God was pleased wonderfully to restore him. He was imprisoned a second time for keeping a conventicle in his house. When the judges and bishop Thomas came to the assizes at Haverfordwest, they made him considerable offers if he would conform; but not prevailing, they set him at liberty, However, he was still troubled with fines and outlawries; his house was searched by the deputy-lieutenants, bailiffs, and constables; for he would not desist from preaching there, nor from labouring among his people by night; nay, he preached to a number of people who came to him, even when he was in prison. When liberty was granted to Dissenters by king James, he preached to two congregations every Lord's day; in the morning at Dredgmanhill, and in the afternoon at Haverfordwest; both places being thronged with people. A few years before his decease, he met with a very wonderful deliverance, which deserves to be recorded. As he was riding homeward, late at night, over a place near Fresthorp, (he was ejected from the rectory of Llangone and Fresthorp,) in which there were a great many coal pits, he and his horse fell into one of them, which was very deep and half full of water. The mouth of the pit being narrower about six yards deep than at the top, the horse there stuck fast, with his rider upon. him. An old woman who was deaf providentially travelling with her grand-child that way. the child heard a great noise, and with much difficulty persuaded the woman to go out of her road, to find the cause of it. At last, coming to the mouth of the pit, she found Mr. Philips's situation, and immediately went to captain Longman's, the proprietor, who had been his intimate friend for many years, and he presently brought proper assistsance, so that Mr. Philips was got up safe without any considerable hurt. He died Sept. 17, 1691, aged sixtyeight.

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on the building of Tottenham Court Chapel: but from that period till 1794, when he appeared as a preacher, nothing is known concerning him, though it is probable he worked at his trade. By what mean he was introduced to the pulpit we are not informed. It is however certain that his pulpit exercises were very few before that period, when he was engaged by the late rev. Mr. Wills, as his assistant curate at Silver Street and Islington Chapels. In his service he read prayers, preached occasionally, and assisted at the dispensation of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, in both those places of worship: these duties he performed till after the removal of Mr. Wills to Cornwall in 1800, where he died. Mr. Phillips afterwards went to Faversham, in Kent, where he exercised his ministerial talents for a short time, and then returned to an alms house near Islington, being old and jufirm; from which time, his infirmities increasing upon him, he remained in that friendly asylum till his death, which happened at the close of July 180s. He was buried in the ground of Islington Chapel,

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PHILPOT, JOHN, son of Peter Philpot, was born near Winchester; and was, in his youth, put to Wyckham, or New College, Oxford; where he studied the civil law for six or seven years, besides the other liberal sciences, especially the languages *.. From Oxford be set out upon his travels through Italy; where he was in some danger on account of his religion; a Franciscan frier at Padua, endeavouring to trouble him for heresy. But returning to England in the time of Edward VI. he was collated to the archdeaconry of Winchester by the pious and excellent Dr. Ponet, the first Protestant bishop of that see. Stephen Gardiner, Ponet's predecessor) bishop of Winchester, ever bore ill-will against Mr. Philpot, and forbade him preaching, oftentimes in king Henry's reign. But Philpot could not in conscience hide his talent, under

• Mr. Strype records an amusing incident, relative to Mr. Philpot, after he went to Oxford;-- Where (says he he profited in learning so well, that he laid a wager of twenty pence with John Harpsfield, that he would make two hundred verses in one night, and not make above two faults in them. Mr. Thomas Tuchymer, schoolmaster, was judge. and adjudged the twenty pence to Mr. Philpot." Strype's Eccl. Mem. III. p. 263.

this prince, and in so Popish a diocese. At last, the bishop sent for certain justices, who came to his house; and there calling Mr. Philpot, ROGUE; Philpot said to. the bishop, "My lord, do you keep a privy sessions in your own house for me, and call me ROGUE, whose father is a knight, and may spend a thousand pounds within one mile of your nose? And he that can spend ten pounds by the year, as I can, I thank God, is no vagabond.

Mr. Philpot, when archdeacon of Winchester, laboured abundantly in word and doctrine, with great success, in Hampshire, during the time of Edward VI. He was very well furnished both by grace and natural acquire ments for his calling, to which he zealously devoted them all. Bishop Ridley and Mr. Philpot were esteemed the two most learned of all the English Reformers. Philpot appears to have possessed great fervency of spirit, which appeared in all his controversies and troubles, with the Papists, whom he boldly attacked, leaving all consequences in the hand of God. He had the glowing ardour of a martyr, and desired the martyr's crown. He was valiant for the truth, and feared not the faces of men; for, at the beginning of Mary's reign, in a convocation of bishops and dignitaries, appointed for the purpose of changing religion from Protestant to Popish, he, with a few others, bore a noble testimony against the design; and, for his vigorous opposition, notwithstanding the promised liberty of free debate, he was called before the chancellor, the said bishop of Winchester, his ordinary; and by him committed close prisoner for a year and a half. He was then sent to Bonner, bishop of London, and other commissioners, who confined him in the bishop's coal-house; to which adjoined a little dark house with a great pair of stocks, both for hand and foot. There he met with two fellow sufferers in the same good cause; one of whom was a clergyman of Essex, a godly minister, and a married man; who, upon hearing that archdeacon Philpot was brought to the coal-house, desired much to see him; to whom he grievously lamented, that in the hour of temptation, through the frailty of the flesh, and the extremity of imprisonment, he had sinfully complied, by writing,

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