6. A Sermon to the House of Commons. 8. Divine Right of Church Government, and Excommunication. 9. Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself. 10. A Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist. 11. A Free Disputation against Liberty of Conscience. 12. Disputatio Scholastica, De Divina Providentia. 13. The Covenant of Grace opened. 14. A Survey of the Survey of the Sum of Christian Discipline. 15. Influences of the Life of Grace. 16. Religious Letters; of which there have been many editions. 17. Examen Arminianismi. 18. A Practical Discourse on Matthew ix. 27-31. 19. Sermons on various subjects. SALWAY, ARTHUR, was pastor of a church at Severnstoke, county of Worcester, England. In the time. of the civil wars, he espoused the part of the Parliament, and was a zealous reformer. He was esteemed a zealous friend of the Redeemer's kingdom. In In the year 1643, he was appointed a member of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster; and gave constant attendance during the sessions. He preached a serinon from 1 Kings xviii. 21, before the House of Commons, October 25, 1643, at their monthly fast. The sermon is entitled, "Halting Stigmatized." the application of the sermon, the preacher says, "Honourable Senators, hath there not been halting within your walls? Have not many of your members unworthily forsaken you, and miserably deserted the glorious cause of God? The Lord open their eyes, and heal their backslidings." He adds, "Act in the strength of Jesus Christ. Get your hearts warmed with the love of Jesus Christ, which the apostle calls a constraining love. Reward draws, punishment drives, but love is most efficacious in persuading us to the discharge of our duty."-" Fix your faith on the pronrises. Study Moses's Optics. Eye him who is invisible; and eye the threats also. Look upon that good which God promises, as the greatest good; and upon the evil which he threatens, as the greatest evil." His zeal against popery may be understood from the following exhortations, in the same sermon. "Down Do with Baal's altars, down with Baal's priests. not, I beseech you, consent to a toleration of Baal's worship in this kingdom, on any political consideration whatever." In the close, he says, "Shortly, I hope, a platform of worship will be presented unto you, by those whom you have employed for that purpose. I beseech you, bring all to the touch-stone of the word. Believe it, worthies, that form of government will be best for the state, which is most agreeable to the word." Whether other specimens of this author's writings are extant, is not known. He seems to have been a bold and spirited preacher. SCUDDER, HENRY, B. D., a member of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, received his education in Christ's Church, Cambridge. He was afterwards minister of Drayton, Oxfordshire; where he was held in high esteem for his singular prudence and piety, and his excellent ministerial labours. In his vicinity, Mr. Robert Harris, and Mr. William Whately were settled; and between these three clergymen, of like spirit, a close intimacy, and much ministerial intercourse took place. They met every week to exhibit a translation and analysis of a chapter in the Bible, which each had made. They were also united in affinity, as Mr. Harris married Mr. Whately's sister, and Mr. Scudder his wife's sister. His attendance on the business of the Assembly was assiduous from the commencement of its labours. Mr. Scudder was the author of a work, entitled, "The Christian's Daily Walk, in Holy Security and Peace," which has received the highest commenda tions from men of the greatest name. Dr. Owen has, in the strongest terms, expressed his approbation of the work, in a preface to a new edition. And Mr. Baxter says, "I remember not any book which is written to be the daily companion of Christians, which I prefer before this: I am sure none of my own. For so sound is the doctrine of this book, so prudent and spiritual, apt and savoury, and so suited to our ordinary cases and conditions, that I heartily wish no family may be without it." This work was translated into the German, by the learned Theodore Haak. Mr. Scudder also wrote the life of the Rev. Mr. Whately. He was also called upon to preach before the Parliament; and his sermon, founded on Micah vi. 9, and entitled, "God's Warning to England, by the voice of his rod," was delivered at St. Margaret's, Westminster, and published, with a long epistle dedicatory to the House of Commons. His "Daily Walk" went through many editions in a short time, but, unhappily, is now fallen into oblivion. SEAMAN, LAZARUS, D. D., was born in Leicester, England, and was educated in Emanuel College, Cambridge. But being in straitened circumstances, he was unable to support himself at College, and went to teach a school, so that he was in a good measure self taught. He was presented by bishop Laud, to All-Hallows, Bread street, London, in 1642. In 1643, he was chosen to be a member of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and is said to have given constant attendance, and was very active in the transaction of business. " Dr. Calamy says, "He was a great Divine, thoroughly studied in the original languages of the Holy Scriptures. He was also well studied in Church government, and was therefore sent to the Isle of Wight, to confer with Charles I. on ecclesiastical matters, where his knowledge and sagacity were particularly marked by the king." Mr. Jenkyn, who preached his funeral sermon, describes him, "as a person of deep, piercing, eagleeyed judgment, in all matters of controversial divinity. He could state a theological question with admirable clearness and acuteness; nor was he less able to defend, than to find out the truth. He was, I had almost said, an invincible disputant." On a certain occasion, he was invited by a noble lady, who was in doubt about the claims of the Romanists, to meet two priests of that persuasion; and he did not hesitate to appear alone, in defence of the truth. The controversy was respecting transubstantiation, and was conducted by him with such consummate ability, that the priests were silenced, and this noble family were preserved from going over to the popish religion. In 1654, Mr. Seaman was made master of Peter House, in the University of Cambridge, by the earl of Manchester, after undergoing an examination by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster. The earl came in person, and publicly declared him master of Peter House, in the room of Dr. Cosins, was who ejected. In this high station, he acquitted himself in a very honourable manner; and when he took his degree of Doctor of Divinity, he acquired high reputation; for he did not obtain this honour by the favour of a patron, but by performing the exercises appointed by the statutes of the University, in which he displayed his abilities in polemic theology, in a very peculiar manner. He was generally acknowledged to be a man of superior abilities, a skilful casuist, a sound expositor of Scripture, and a judicious and impressive preacher. In his latter days he devoted much attention to the prophecies, and wrote some notes on the book of Revelation. Dr. Seaman lost all his places at the restoration, and was among the ejected ministers, under the operation of the act of uniformity, in 1662. He resided afterwards in London, and was greatly afflicted with a very painful disease, the tortures of which he bore with admirable patience. His friend, Mr. Jenkyn, observes: "I never admired his scholarship so much as I did his patience; the lesson in which he grew so perfect in the school of affliction." He died in peace, September 9, 1675. Mr. Jenkyn, in his funeral sermon, calls him "a burning and shining light; an interpreter, one of a thousand; a scribe instructed to the kingdom of heaven." I may justly say of him, he was an ocean of theology; a living body of Divinity; and his “tongue as the pen of a ready writer." He was a person of great steadiness in the truth-deeply and sensibly interested for the state of the church, and inquisitive about its condition in foreign parts. He was ready for every good work; industrious and indefatigable in his calling; and an example of patience in suffering affliction. His library, which was very valuable, is said to have been the first sold at auction, in England. It brought seven hundred pounds sterling. Dr. Seaman's writings: 1. Solomon's Choice; a Precedent for Kings, Princes, &c; before the House of Commons. 1 Kings iii. 9. 2. The Head of the Church, the Judge of the World; or the Doctrine of the Day of Judgment; before the Peers. Acts xvii. `30. 3. A Vindication of the Reformed Churches and Protestant Divines, concerning. Ordination, &c. 4. A Farewell sermon, at his ejectment; from Heb. xiii. 20, in which he expresses a strong confidence in God's covenant, and on Christ the Head. SEDGWICK, OBADIAH, B. D., a member of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, was born at Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, in the year 1600, and received his elementary instruction in the place of his nativity. In the year 1616, he was sent to Queen's College, Oxford; but soon transferred his connexion to Magdalen Hall, where he took his degrees in the arts. After finishing his academical course, he entered the holy ministry, and became chaplain to Lord |