. A Rationale, or practical exposition of the Book of common-prayer. he foon after fell fick, and died at Ankerviick. He had a Soul inflamed with a ftrong and fer-vent Zeal for the Purity of Religion s which heftudied, above all Things, to promote. He was aconftant and ufeful Preacher -y and his Labourswere blefTed with extraordinary Succefs. He wasremarkable for his ftri£t and unfpotted Chaftity,and his wonderful Humility and was Matter of both profane and facred Learn-ing, but excelled chiefly in the latter: He was noStranger to the original Languages of the Old andNew Tefta
. A Rationale, or practical exposition of the Book of common-prayer. he foon after fell fick, and died at Ankerviick. He had a Soul inflamed with a ftrong and fer-vent Zeal for the Purity of Religion s which heftudied, above all Things, to promote. He was aconftant and ufeful Preacher -y and his Labourswere blefTed with extraordinary Succefs. He wasremarkable for his ftri£t and unfpotted Chaftity,and his wonderful Humility and was Matter of both profane and facred Learn-ing, but excelled chiefly in the latter: He was noStranger to the original Languages of the Old andNew Teftament > and was very happy in his Ex-pofitions of the molt difficult Paffages of HolyScripture. He was an eminent Pillar of our Re-formed Church 5 and though he was deprived, byhis untimely Death, of the Glory of actual Mar-tyrdom, yet he had the Honour to be a Confeflbrfor the Reformation 5 and, if a Will to feal theDoctrine of CbriJFs Truth with his Blood, can de-nominate a Man a Martyr, may glory in that il-Juftrious Title alfo. i 3 THE cxviii The L I F E of. THE LIFE O F Dr. RICHARD COX,Bifliop of E L T. HIS great and learned Prelate wa?born at Whaddon^xn Bucklnghamjhire^in the Year i4pp> and inftrudted inthe firft Rudiments of Learning, atEaton School -y from whence he waselected to a Scholarfhip, at Kings-College in Cambridge^ in the Year if ip. Soon af-ter he had taken his firft Degree in Arts, he was,pn Account of his great Learning and Piety, re-moved to Oxford •, and preferd to be one of thejunior Canons of Cardinal Wolfefs new Foundationin that Univerfity. In December if if, he Wasadmitted ad eundem j and in the February follow-ing!
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