GoQ G O £ 
4to. Becoming weary of tl.e fatigue pf Lis fcLoo^ he 
-refigned it, upon obtaining a^refentation to the rectory 
of Brightwcl!, near WaTlingford, in BerklLire. In >625, 
■he publinied Iiis molt celebrated work, entitled Mofes 
and Aaron ; civil and ecclefialtical Rites ufcd by the 
ancient Hebrews, obferved, and at large opened, lor 
the cleariing many obfciire Texts throughout the whole 
Scripture, 4to. This work ntet with fo favourable a 
reception, that it palled rapidly through repeated edi¬ 
tions, and has fince been ufed as a text-book by theolo¬ 
gical tutors both at home and abroad. Annotations 
atnd comments have been written upon it by different 
authois, and among others by Dr. David Jennings in 
our own country, and the learned Hottinger in Holland. 
In tdtfi, our author w'as admitted to the degree of doc¬ 
tor of divinity. Befides tlie articles already noticed, 
Dr. Godwin was the author of FloriUgivin Phrnjicon ; or, 
A Survey of the Latin 'l ongue, 8vo. and, 'I’hree Argu-^ 
■ments to prOve Election upon Forelight of Faith. He' 
died at his parfonage-houfe in 1642-3, when about filty- 
-five years of age. 
GOD'WIN SANDS, Lands of the coaff of Kent, which 
iWere formerly the lands of eail Godwin, a powerful 
baron in the time of Edward the Confelibr, who died 
'.iniferab’ly ; and in the reign ot William Rtilus his lands 
iwere fwaltowed up by the fea. 
GOD'WIT,/i [50b, good, and pita. Sax. an ani- 
■jiial.] A bird of peculiar delicacy.—Nor ortolans nor 
■codwits crown his board. Cowley. —See the article Sco- 
loPAX. 
GOD'YELD, or Godyield, adv. [corrupted from 
GodJhicld, or protect.] A term of thanks. Not now nfed 1 
Herein I teach you. 
How you fliouid bid godycld us for your pains. 
And tl’.ank ns for your trouble. Shakefpeare. 
GO'El,, adj. [ijolejt, Sax. ] Yellow, An old word: 
In March, at the furtheft, dry feafon or wet. 
Hop-roots lb well chofen let Ikilful go fet j 
'J he goeler and younger, the better I love ; 
Well gutted and pared, the better tlicy prove. Tujfcr. 
GO'EL.AN’s POINT, a promontory on the north fide 
of Lake Ontario, in North America, about thirty-three 
miles Ibuthwefferly of Fort Frontinac. 
GO'ELL, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Hol- 
ffein : one mile north-call of Oldeburg. 
‘GOELWA'RA, a circar, or dillrict, of Hindooftan, 
1 n the diltricl of Guxerat, fituated on the weft coaff of 
the Gulf of Cambaye. 
GO'ER, /. One that goes ; a runner : 
I would they were in Afric both together, 
Myfelf by with a needle, that I might prick 
"I he goer back. Shakefpeare. 
A walker; one that has a gait or manner of walking 
good or bad.—-Tiie earl w'as lb far from being a good 
dancer, that he w'as no graceful goer, Wotton, —'i'hefoot. 
Objokte: 
A double mantle, call 
Athwart his llioulders, his faire goen grac’d 
With fitted Ihoes. Chapman. 
GOERE'E (William), a learned Dutch bookfellcr, 
and v'arious w'riter, born at Middleburg in Zealand, in 
1635. Notwithftanciing the time wliich he was neceffa- 
rily obliged to devote to his bufinefs, he fo well em¬ 
ployed bis vacant moments, that he made a confiderable 
proficiency in different branches of literature, and Aic- 
cefsfully cultivated an acquaintance with the fine arts, 
as well as botany and medicine. His works, written in 
the Dutch language, are lionourable monuments of his 
indullry and learning. He died at Amfterdam in 1711, 
The principal of his productions are : 1. Jewilh Anti- 
q.uities, in 2 v.ols. folio. 2. The Hillory of the Jewilh 
Ohurch, founded on the Mofaic Records, 1700, in 4 
A 
G O E 
vois, folio. 3, Hillory, Sacred and Profane, 410, 4. 
An Introduftion to the Art of Painting, Svo. 5. A 
Trcatife on Architeclure, according to the Principles of 
the Ancients and Moderns, &c.—His father, Hugh 
William Goer.ee, who died at Middleburg in 1643, 
is alfo entitled to be clalfed .among the learned men of 
liis time. He publillied a Dutch tranflation of Peter 
Cunaeus’s treatife De Repuhlka Hebraorum, 1682, 8vo, to 
which he added, A Continuation, in 2 vols. 'Pliis work 
was afterwards augmented by a fourth volume, written 
by William Outram, and publillied in 1701. A French 
edition of tlie whole was printed at Amllerdam in 1705. 
-—William Goeree liad a Ion named John, wlio role to 
high reput.ition as a painter, and who produced the 
beautiful pictures which adorn the bin glier’s-hall at th® 
town-honl'e in Amflerdain. He died at tliat city in 173J. 
GQ'ES, a town of Portugal, in the province of Bei- 
ra: three leagues call of Coimbra. 
GO'ES, or 'Per-Goes, a town of Zealand, fituated 
on the north coaff of the ill.uid of South Bevelandt, on 
an arm of the Scheld, with which it is connebled by 
means of a canal. It was befieged by the Flemings in 
1300, and the inhabitants defended themfelves with 
fuch bravery, that tlicir enemies were compelled to 
raife the fiege, after having loll 1800 men. It anciently 
belonged to the lords of Borffele ; but that illullrious 
family becoming extintl, the town defeended to Jacque¬ 
line comtelFe of Holland, who permitted the inhabi¬ 
tants to build ramparts round it in 1417. It was nearly 
deffroyed by an inundation of the lea, in 1548 ; fix 
years after, great part of it was confumed by fire ; but 
it foon recovered, by means of privileges granted it by 
Charles V. and its.great lale of fait. The Dutch be¬ 
came mailers of it in 1377, and prince Maurice caiifed 
it to be fortified. It has at prel'ent fix gates, that next 
the water fortified with two good ballions; on the 
other fide of the town are two more. The great church 
being burned down in 1618, was afterwards rebuilt, and 
is now a liandfome llrutture; the town is not large, but 
carries on confiderable trade, particularly in fait and 
grain : ten miles call of Flufliing. Lat, 31. 30. N. 
Ion. 21. 22. E. Ferro. 
GOE'TZE (George-Henry), a learned German lu- 
therandivine, born at Leiplic in 1668. After purfuing his 
lludies in the iiniverfities of Wittemberg, and Jena, where 
lie diltinguilhed himfelf by the learning and ingenuity 
of the thefes which he maintained in tlie public Ichools, 
he was admitted to the degree of mailer of arts iw 16S7. 
In 1690 he was appointed miniller of Burg, in the ducliy 
of Magdeburg, whence he removed in the fame year to 
Chemnitz, in Mifnla, to fill the poll of deacon in the 
church of that town. Four years afterwards we find 
him miniller of the church of St. Sophia at Dielden ; 
whence he removed to Annaberg, in 1697, to exercile 
tlie office of fuperintendant over the churches in that 
dillricl. In 1699 he was admitted to the degree of doc¬ 
tor of divinity at Leiplic ; and in 1702 was chofen fu¬ 
perintendant of the churches at Lubec. The rell of 
his days he fpent in that city, where he died in 1729, 
aged lixty-one. He was the author of a niiiltitude of 
learned 'I'hefes, DilTertations, i!irc. hillorical, critical, 
and theological j Controverfial Treatifes againll the 
Catholics, Arminians, &c.; Eulogies, <fcc. principally 
written in the Latin language, of which Moreri enume¬ 
rates no fewer than one hundred and fifty-two different 
articles. Several of thefe pieces were collefled toge¬ 
ther, and printed at Lubec under the titles of, Selebla ex 
Hijloria LiUraria, 1709, 410. and Mclethemata Annebergenfia, 
1706, in 3 vols. i2mo. 
GO'EZ (Damian a), a learned Portnguefe, born at 
Alenquer. He was brought tip in the court of Ema¬ 
nuel king of Portugal, to whom his brother Eruclo was 
gentleman of the cliamber. He had an early palfion tor 
travelliiuj, which w'as gratified by his being employed 
in various negociations from his court to France, Ger¬ 
many, 
