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A celebrated English theological writer; born August 1613, at Cambridge; died at Lisburn, Ireland, Aug. 13, 1667. During the civil wars he was chaplain to Charles I., who had the degree of D. D. conferred on him for his treatise "Episcopacy Asserted against the Acephali and Arians New and Old". In 1658 he became bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland, and labored earnestly for the establishment of the Protestant Church there. Besides his sermons, his principal works are: "Discourse on the Liberty of Prophesying" (1647); "The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life" (1649); "The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living" (1650); "The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying" (1651); "Ductor Dubitantium", a work on casuistry.