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government, and he was reckoned to be exceedingly (kilful 

 and courageous in attacking or repelling thofe who oppofcd 

 him. His tenets were not thofe generally embraced, and at 

 one period he is characterized as a man by himlcU ; as being 

 againll every man, and having almoU every man againll; him. 

 lie had a clear head, a fluent tongue, a penetrating fpirit, 

 and a marvellous faculty in defcanting on fcripturo. In 

 politics he was a decided and llrenuous republican, and, 

 being eager in whatever he engaged, diftinguidied himfelt 

 by his difcourfes and writings to promote, and afterwards 

 to juftify, the condemnation of the king. He lived, how- 

 £ver, long enough to feel the weight of government 

 directed againft himfelf and his writings. He was obliged 

 to abfcond for a feafon, and one of his pieces was burnt by 

 the common hangman, and in the fame fire vi-hich executed 

 its commifllon on the " Defcnlio pro populo Anglicano," 

 by John Milton of immortal memory. The friends which 

 his Arminian principles had procured him, found means to 

 pacify the people in power, and to affure themfelves that 

 Goodwin fliould not be profecuted for the part wliich he had 

 taken in the late reign. He returned from folitude, and be- 

 came miniller of a private congregation in the neiglibourhood 

 of Coleman ftreet, and, dilapproving of the art of uni- 

 formity afterwards pafTed, continued a difi'enter from the 

 etlablifhed church of the Independent denomination, till his 

 death in l66j, in the feventy-fecond year of his age. His 

 works, which are chiefly theological, are very numerous, 

 among which the following may be mentioned ; " Redemp- 

 tion Redeemed," in folio. " The divine Authority of the 

 Scriptures," 4to. " An Expofition of the ninth Chapter of 

 the Epiille of St. Paul to the Romans," 4to. Neal's Hill, 

 of the Puritans, &c. 



Goodwin, Thomas, who is ftyled by Anthony Wood 

 "One of the AtlafTes and patriarchs of independency," 

 was born in the year 1600 at Rolefby in Norfolk. Having 

 received the elements of a grammatical learning, he was fent, 

 when he was thirteen years old, to Chrill-church college, 

 Cambridge, where he applied himfelf with fo much diligence 

 to his fludies, as to fecure the efteem of his tutors, and to 

 attract much notice in the univerfity. In 1 619 he was 

 removed to Catherine Hall, of which he became a fellow. 

 He foon fhewed a decided inclination to the views and fenti- 

 ments of thofe who were denominated Puritans, and taking 

 thera as his models, he prepared himfelf for the office of a 

 Chrillian minifter. It is not known when he took orders, 

 but he was eletted lefturer of Trinity church, in Cambridge, 

 in the year 1628, and in 163Z he was prefented by the king 

 to the vicarage of the fame church. In thcfe employments 

 he was greatly admired and followed by the Puritans, who 

 began to look up to him as a leader, but becoming diffatisfied 

 with the terms of conformity, he relinquifhed his prefer- 

 ments, and quitted the univerfity in the year 1634. In 

 1639 he was felefted as an objeil of persecution by the 

 fpifcopal confiftories, and to enjoy liberty of confcience he 

 fled to Holland, where he was chofen pallor to an inde- 

 pendent congregation at Arnheim. During the fittings of 

 the Long Parliament he returned to London and became 

 pallor of a church there, and alfo a member of the aflembly 

 of divines. His conduA, in their various meetings, and 

 his zealous fupport of the Prefbyterians, contributed to render 

 him a favourite with Cromwell, through whofe influence he 

 was, in 1649, made one of the commiffioners for the appro- 

 bation of public preachers, and alfo appointed prefident of 

 Magdalen college, Oxford. Here he formed a church upon 

 the independent plan, and was exceedingly diligent in pro- 

 moting the interefts of learning and piety. His public 



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duties as a preacher did not prevent him from thofe lludies 

 which enabled him to become diftinguifhed as a writer. He 

 attended Cromwell upon lii^ death-bed, and was overheard 

 to exprefb himfelf boldly and eiithufiaftically confident of the 

 protestor's recovery ; and it is affirmed that when the event 

 proved him mitlaken, he exclaimed in a fubfequent addrels 

 to God "thou hall deceived us, and we are deceived." 

 After the relloration he was difmified from his prefident- 

 (hip, when he retired to London, where, however, he was 

 permitted to continue in the exerclfe of the minillry till liis 

 death in 1679. when he had attained to his eightieth year. 

 He was a coiifiderable fcholar, and a learned and eminent 

 divine. In the common regifter at Oxford he is defcribed 

 "in fcriptis in re theologica quam plurimis Orbi notus." 

 He was a high Calviiiill, but while he zealoufly enforced 

 what he conceived to be the doctrines of Chrifiianity, he did 

 not forget to enforce by every incitement in his power the 

 necelfity of pure moral conduC\. He was author of nume- 

 rous pious and controveriial pieces, fermons, e.Kpofitions, &c. 

 fome of which were printed during his life tim.e, and in- 

 ferted, after his death, in a collection of his works publifhed 

 in five volumes folio, which continue to be read and quoted 

 by Calvinills of the prefent day. Neal's Hill of Puritans, 

 by Toulmir. 



Goodwin Sands, in Geography. See Godwin Sands. 



GOOGINGS, in Sea Language, are clamps of iron bolted 

 on the ftern-poft of a (hip, whereon to hang the rudder 

 and keep it lleady ; for which purpofe there is a hole in 

 each of them, to receive a correfpondent fpindle bolted 

 oh the back of the rudder, which turns thereby as upon 

 hinges. 



GOOGOOS, \nGeography, inliabitants of the inland terri- 

 toryof theifiand of Sumatra, covered with long hair, and little 

 fuperior to the ourang outangs of Borneo. See Sumatra. 



GOOJINDERGUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Sanore ; 

 25 miles N. N.W. of Sanore. 



GOOL, a river of Hindooftan, which rifes near Bur« 

 rawny, and runs into the Tapty, 8 miles S. of Chuprah. 



GooL, fignifies a ditch or trench for water ; called alfo 

 a goit, gurt, leat, S:c. 



GOOLE, a breach in a fea-bank or wall ; or a paffage 

 worn by the flux and reflux of the fea. Vide 16 and I7 

 Car. II. cap. 1 1. 



The word comes from the French, goulet, the gullet or 

 neck. 



GOOLGUNGE, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in the circar of Chanderee ; 25 miles E. of Chanderee. 



GOOI..LAH, a fmall circar or province of Bengal, 

 fituatcd E. of Coos-Beyhar. 



GOOMAH, a town of Bengal, 45 miles N. of Ram- 

 gur. N. lat. 24 23'. E. long. 85' 54'. — Alfo, a town of 

 Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 40 miles N. E. of Chittra. 



GOOMBO, a town of Africa, in Bambarra. N. lat. 

 15^ 3'. W. long. 5- lo'. 



GbOMBOGANO, a town of Africa, in Kaftan. N, 

 lat. 14° 20'. W. long. 8 50'. 



GOOMGONG, a town of Hindooftan, in Berar; 12 

 miles S of Nagpour. 



GOOMERPUN, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 

 16 miles S.W, of Azimgiu". 



GOOiMPINA, a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda ; 

 20 miles N. E. of CuUoor. 



GOOMREPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Allaha- 

 bad; 20 miles E. N. E. of .lionpour. 



GOOMTV, a river of Afia, which rifes in the moun- 

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