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applied blmfelf to this work, and formed a plan for a 
corrgrefs of deputies from the proteftant princes and 
churches, with propofals relative to the fubjedls to be 
taken info their confideration, and the manner of carry¬ 
ing them into execution, which, it was thought, offered 
a practicable expedient for aceomplifliing that falutary 
purpofe. This plan was communicated to the churches 
of France and the Low Countries ; but no meafures were 
adopted for carrying it on with fpirit. Du Moulin’s fcheme 
maybe feen at length in the fecond volume of Brandt’s 
Hiltory of the Reformation in and about the Low Coun¬ 
tries; and, though we cannot approve of l'ome of its fun¬ 
damental points, and have little faith in its efficacy, had 
it been brought to a fair trial, we think, that it offers 
much matter that deferves the ferious attention of all 
well-wifhers to peace and union among proteftants, par¬ 
ticularly fome truly catholic and liberal pofitions, which 
the author feems to have forgotten afterwards, when he 
joined in the condemnation of the Remonftrants. 
In the year 1619, the curators of the univerfity of Ley¬ 
den fent Erpenius into France, to invite du Moulin and 
Rivet to become profeffors of divinity in that city. With 
this invitation Rivet clofed; but du Moulin could not 
be prevailed upon to relinquifh his connexions in France. 
In 1620, he prefided in the fynod of the proteftants at 
Alais; and foon afterwards he received information that 
the king had determined to iffue orders for laying him 
under an arreft, in confequence of his having written 
privately to king James, imploring his affiftance on be¬ 
half of the Eledfor Palatine, his majefty’s fon-in-law, and 
alfo entreating him to efpoufe the caufe of the reformed 
in France. Upon this he withdrew to Sedan, where the 
duke de Bouillon appointed him profeffor of divinity, and 
minifter. He was afterwards frequently invited by the 
fynods of the French churches to refume his labours 
amongft them; but he preferred fpending the remainder 
of his life under the proteftion of the duke de Bouillon. 
In this afylum he acquired great celebrity as a preacher 
and profeflor; by the numerous productions of his pen, 
critical, practical, and controverfial; and by his counfels, 
as well as perfonal fervices, in managing the moil im¬ 
portant civil and ecclefiaftical concerns of the French 
proteftants. A vein of keen fatire pervades feveral of his 
controverfial pieces. He died at Sedan in 1658, at the 
great age of ninety. The following is a lift of his prin¬ 
cipal works: 1. Verfio et Notas in Epift. Greg. Epifcopi 
Nyffae,de euntibus Hierofolym. cum ejufdemTraCtatibus 
de Peregrinationibus, et altaribus Chriftianorum, 1607, 
8vo. 2. De Monarchia Temporali Pontificis Romani, 
1614, 8vo. 3. Vates, feu de Praecognitione futurcrum, et 
bonis et malis Prophetis, 1640, 8vo. 4. Elementa Logicae, 
Phyficorum, et Ethicorum, 1645, 8vo. 5. Waters of Siloe 
to quench the Fire of Purgatory, 1612, 8vo. 6. The 
Buckler of the Faith, or a Defence of the Confeffion of 
Faith of the reformed Churches in the Kingdom of France, 
againft the Objections of the Sieur Arnoux, a Jefuit, 1619, 
8vo. 7. Catalogue of the Romilh Traditions, 1632, 8vo. 
8. The Novelty of Popery, 1633, 4to. 9. The Anatomy 
of the Mafs, 1636, 8vo. 10. Concerning the Judge of 
Controverfies and Traditions, 1636, 8vo. 11. The Ca¬ 
puchin, or the Hiftory of thofe Monks, 1641, 12010. 12. 
Anfwer to the Book of Cardinal du Perron, intitled, A 
Reply to the Anfwer of James I. King of Great Britain, 
1641, 4to. 13. Sermons, Letters in Latin and French, 
Relations of Conferences, &c. Brandt's Hiji. Reforma¬ 
tion, vol. ii. 
MOULIN' (Peter du), fon of the preceding, and a di¬ 
vine of the church of England, was born, moft probably, 
at Paris, while his father was minifter of Charenton, 
about the year 1600. We are furnifiied with no parti¬ 
culars of his life before we find him at the univerfity of 
Leyden,. where he was admitted to the degree of doCtor 
pi divinity. .Afterwards he came into England, and was 
incorporated in the fame degree at the univerfity of Cam¬ 
bridge; but whether he received any preferment in this 
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country before the civil wars, is not known. After the 
reduction of Ireland by the parliament-forces, he went 
thither, and refided fucceffively at Lifmore, Youghall, 
and Dublin, under the patronage of Richard earl of 
Cork. By that nobleman he was appointed tutor or go¬ 
vernor to his ions vifcount Dungarvon and Mr. Richard 
Boyle, whom he accompanied in that capacity to the uni¬ 
verfity of Oxford. Here Dr. du Moulin remained two or 
more years, and for a confiderable time preached con- 
ftantly in the church of St. Peter in the Eaft, with great 
acceptability. In 1656, he was incorporated doCtor of 
divinity in this univerfity. After the reftoration of king- 
Charles II. he was appointed chaplain in ordinary to his 
majefty, and promoted to a prebendal ftall in the metro¬ 
politan church of Canterbury, where he fpent the re¬ 
mainder of his life. He died in 1684, when in the-eighty- 
fourth year of his age. Anthony Wood gives him the 
character of being an honeft and zealous Calvinift; and 
fays, that the laft words which he uttered on his death¬ 
bed were, “ Since Calvinifm is cried down, aftum eft de 
religione Chrifti apud Anglos,” &c. He was the author 
of, 1. Regii Sanguinis Clamor ad Ccchim, which was pub- 
lifhed at the Hague, in 1652, in 4to. by Alexander More, 
and drew down on its fofter-father the fevere literary caf- 
tigation of John Milton. 2. A Treatife of Peace and 
Contentment of Mind, 1657, 8vo. which palled through 
feveral editions, in an enlarged form. 4. A Week’s So¬ 
liloquies and Prayers, with a Preparation to the Holy 
Communion, 1657, nmo. 4. Vindication of the Sincerity 
of the Proteftant Religion in the Point of Obedience to 
Sovereigns, &c. in anfwer to a jefuitical libel, intitled 
Phi/unax Anglicus, 1667, 4to. 5. Ten Sermons, preached 
on feveral Occaiions, 1684, Svo. &c. Wood's Athen.Oxon, 
vol. ii. 
MOULIN' (Louis du), younger brother of the preced¬ 
ing, and the author of feveral learned pieces maintaining 
the principles of nonconformity td the church of Eng¬ 
land, was likewife, moft probably, born at Paris, about 
the year 1603. He purfued his ftudies at the univerfity 
of Leyden, where he was created doftor of phyfic; and 
afterwards he fettled in England, and was incorporated in 
the fame degree at the univerfity of Cambridge, in the year 
1634. In 1649, he was incorporated M. D. at Oxford. He 
became zealoufly attached to the puritan caufe, and parti¬ 
cularly to thefedc of Independents, through whole influ¬ 
ence he was appointed Camden-profelfor of hiftory at Ox¬ 
ford, by the committee of parliament for the reformationof 
the univerfity, about the year laft mentioned. This prefer¬ 
ment he retained till the reftoration of Charles II. when 
he was expelled from it by the king’s commiffioners for 
regulating the univerfity. Upon this event he retired to 
the city of Weftminfter, where he praftifed as a phyfician, 
and continued publiffiing various writings till his death, 
which took place in 1680, when he was about the age of 
feventy-feven. Wood calls him “ a fiery, violent, and 
hot-headed, Independent; a crofs and ill-natured man.” 
Among other works he publiffied, 1. Epiftola ad Rena- 
tum Veridaeum (or Andrew Rivet), in qua aperitur Myf. 
terium Iniquitatis noviffime in Anglia redivivum, et ex- 
cutitur Liber Jofephi Hall, quo afleritur Epifcopatum 
efle Juris divini, 1641, 4to. under the alfumed name of 
Irenaeus Philadelphus. 2. Apologia pro Epiftola ad Ren. 
Veridaeum, 1641, 4to. 3. The Power of the Chriftian 
Magiftrate in facred Things, delivered in fome Propofi- 
tions fent to a Friend, See. 1650, 8vo. 4. Oratio Aufpi- 
calis, cui fubjunfta eft Laudatio Clariffi Vir. Guil. Cam- 
deni, 1652, 4to. 5. Paraenefis ad AJdificatores Imperii in 
Imperio, in qua defenduntur Jura Magiftratus adverfus 
Moleum Amyraldum, et caeteros Vindices poteftatis Ec- 
cleliafticae Prelbyterianae, &c. 1656; dedicated to Oliver 
Cromwell. 6. Corollarium ad Paraenefim, kc. 1657, 8vo. 
7. Of the Right of Churches, and of the Magistrate's 
Power over them, &c. 1658, 8vo. 8. Propofals, and Rea- 
fons whereon fome of them are grounded, humbly pre- 
fented to the Parliament, towards the fettling of a reli¬ 
gious 
