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ticiilar occafions, were printed feparatcly ; and a fct of five 

 Itrnions, enllllcd " Tlie godly Man's Ark, or a City of re- 

 fuge in the Day of Dillrcfs," was pnblilhcd in 1683, izmo, 

 and became a very popular book in tliofe times. Biog. Brit. 



Cal.imy, Benjamin, a divine of tlie church of England, 

 of the 17th century, was the fon of the preceding by a fe- 

 cond wife, and having received the rudiments of education 

 at St. Paul's fchool, he completed his courfe at Catharine 

 Hall, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow, and an 

 eminent tutor. In 1677, he was chofen niiniller of St. 

 Mar^^ Aldermanbury, and foon after appointed one of his 

 majelly's chaplains in ordinary ; and in 16S0, he took, his 

 degree of doctor in divinity. The attention of the public 

 was very much engaged by " A Dilcourfe about a fcrupu- 

 lous Confcicnce," which lie publiihcd ni 1683. It was de- 

 dicated to fir George JefTeries, afterwards the chancellor of 

 notorious memory, whom he compliments as his friend and 

 patron. This difcourle, which was deligned to fliew the 

 crime and danger of feparatiiig from the ellablifhed church 

 on the pretext of a tender confeience, and which inculcates 

 the notion, that " fuch wayward, (Ivittifli confciences, as 

 doubt of and fufpeft the rights of the crown, ought to be 

 well bridled and rellrained," was much decried by one party, 

 and extolled by the other. Mr. Thomas de Laune, a Non- 

 conformill fchool-mafter, publilhed a warm reply to this 

 difcourfe, for which, and fome other intemperate publica- 

 tions, he was committed to Newgate, and fentenced to pay a 

 fine, which he was unable to difcharge ; fo that the event 

 proved fatal to himfelf, his wife, and children. It is al- 

 ledged, however, in vindication of Dr. Calamy, that he ex- 

 ■ erted himfelf in favour of this antagoniil ; and that though 

 he avowed himfelf a ftrenuous advocate for the principle of 

 religious intolerance, and was unfortunate in the feleClion 

 of his patron, he was far from poffening the fpirit of a pcr- 

 fecutor : and it is further faid, that his opinions on this 

 topic underwent fome change before his death. In confe- 

 quence of the high ellimation in which he was held by the 

 bed men of all parties in the city of London, he obtained 

 in 16S3 the vicaiage of St. Lawrence, Jewry, and in 16S5, 

 a prebend in the cathedral church of St. Paul. Towards 

 the clofe of the year 1685, his health declined in confe- 

 quence, as it is faid, of the calamitous ftate of pubhc af- 

 fairs, by which he was deeply impreffed, and he died of a 

 pleuritic complaint in January, 1686. He was diftinguiilied 

 by his zealous attachment to the government and church oT 

 England ; and at the fame time refpcfted and elleemed for 

 his piety and charity, by pcrfons of diflerent denominatior.s. 

 As a preacher, he was much npplauded : and lome of his 

 pofthumous fermons, publifhed by his brother, have been 

 frequently reprinted, and are at this day read and admired. 

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Calamy, Edmund, an eminent diffenting divine, was 

 grand-fon of the firil Edmund Calamy, by a father of the 

 fame name, and born in London, in 1671. After a previ- 

 ous courfe of education in fome private and public ichools, 

 he was placed under the tuition of Mr. Samuel Cradock, by 

 whom he was inftrufted in logic, metaphyfics, and natural 

 philofophy. In i6S3, he removed to the Univerfity of 

 Utrecht, where he diftinguifiied himfelf by his proficiency 

 in philofophy and law, under De Vries, Vandcr Muydeii, 

 aiid Grsevius, fome of the moft learned profeffors in their 

 refpettive departments at that period. In thefe feveral 

 ftages of education, Mr. Calamy recommended himfelf to 

 his tutors by the diligence of his application, and to all his 

 aiFociates by the fweetnefs of his temper, and the urbanity 

 of his manners. Having declined the offer of a profeffor- 

 fhip in the college of Edinburgh, he returned from PIol- 



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land to England, and fpent fome time at Oxford, without 

 becoming a member of the univerfity, availing himfelf of the 

 patronage and counfel of Dr. Pocoek, and Dr. Kdwari 

 Bernard, and alfo of the inllruttive convcifation of Mr. 

 Henry Dodwell. Determining to devote himfelf to the pra- 

 Rdion of divinity, he direfted his courfe of lludies to this 

 objeft ; and having deliberately invelUgated the grounds of 

 the controverfy iietween the ellabliflied church and the Se- 

 parates, lie refolved to conneA himfelf with the latter ; 

 and in i^^ijz, he commenceil the regular txercife ofhisminif- 

 try at a uieeting-houfe in Blackfryars, Loudon. In 1694, 

 he was ordained ; and this was the full inllanee of the kind 

 that was performed among the didenters, after thepalTnig of 

 the ae\ ot uniformity : and in 1 70J, he was chofen pillor of 

 a large and refpcctable congregation in Weftminller. To the . 

 diffenters he performed an acceptable fervice, by puhliOiing 

 " Baxter's Hillory of his Life and Times," wliicli he after- 

 wards abridged, annexing an account of many of the ejected 

 miuillers, and an apology for their non-conformity. Bax- 

 ter's hillory terminated with the year 1684; but Calumy's 

 continuation extended to the year 1691 ; and was publilhed 

 in 1702, 8vo. A new edition of this work was publifhed 

 in 171 5, in 2 volumes Svo.; in which the hillory oftheNon- 

 conformiils is continued through the reign of king William 

 and queen Anne, to the time of pafTing the oceaiional bill. 

 The lirll edition of this work was, as we may reafonably 

 imagine, very differently received by perfons of different 

 parties and opinions ; and it occafioned a controverfy of 

 lome extent and continuance, which, however, was carried 

 on with a greater degree of candour and moderation thaa 

 moft controverfies of a liniilar kind. In Scotland, which Mr. 

 Calamy vilited iniyop, lie was received with llnguhr rcfpeft; 

 and each of the three Univerfities of Aberdeen, Glafgow, 

 and Edinburgh, prefented him with the degree of doftor in 

 divinity. In 17 18, he wrote a vindication of his grand- 

 father, and feveral other worthy perfons againll the reflec- 

 tions of Archdeacon Eachard, in his Hillory of England. 

 About this time the queftion of fubfcription to the firtl ar- 

 ticle ot the Church of England, relating to the Trinity, began 

 to be agitated among the diffenters ; Dr. Calamy, however, 

 remained neutral, and he has incurred reproach among the 

 prefent race of diffenting clergy, for not having joined thofe 73 

 miuillers who carried it againft 69 for the Bible, in oppofi- 

 tion to human formularies. As to'the belief of the doftrine 

 he was decidedly orthodox, which was alfo the cafe with 

 feveral others ; and he publiflied a fet of fermons in defence 

 of it, which was dedicated and prefented to the king, and 

 for which he received from his majelly a gratuity of 50I. 

 and likewife the thanks of feveral dignitaries of the church. 

 In 1727, he completed his great dtfign of prtferving the 

 hillory of minifters, &c. ejected and iilenced, after the re- 

 (loration, in a work intitled, " A Continuation of the Ac- 

 count of the Miuillers, Ledturers, Mailers, and Fellows of 

 Colleges, and Schoolmailers, who were ejeeled and filenced 

 after the Reilora'.ien in 1660, by, or before the A&. of 

 Uniformity, Lc." 2 vols. Lond. 1727. This is a work of 

 laudable indullry and labour, and contains a valuable col- 

 le£lion of memoirs, which would have been otherwife loft. 

 In 1775, the rev. Mr. Samuel Palmer of Hackney pub- 

 lifhed in two large volumes 8vo. under the title of '• Non- 

 conformills' Memorial, "an abridgement, with corrections, ad- 

 ditions, and new anecdutt.':, of Dr. Calamy's 4 volumes, con- 

 cerning the ejected and filenced minifters; and a new edi- 

 tion of this work, with improvements, has been lately reprint- 

 ed. Dr. Calamy diftinguiftied himfelf by otiier learned and . 

 ufeful writings, confilling chiefly of fermons and controverfial 

 pamphlets. Of his publications, bcfides thofe already notic- 

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