His authority and example had induced some of his brethren, who had at first wavered, to resign their benefices.

The day of suspension came; the day of deprivation came; and still he was firm.

He seemed to have found, in the consciousness of rectitude, and in meditation on the invisible world, ample compensation for all his losses.

While excluded from the pulpit where his eloquence had once delighted the learned and polite inmates of the Temple, he wrote that celebrated Treatise on Death which, during many years, stood next to the Whole Duty of Man in the bookcases of serious Arminians.

Soon, however, it began to be suspected that his resolution was giving way.