Colbert, Charlea-Joaohim, a relative of the great Colbert, was bom at Paris, June 11, 1667, be- came vicar of Rouen, and geneniKagent of the French clergy. In 1797 he was made bishop of Montpellier, and devoted himself a great deal to induce die Re- formed to apostatize. It was under his episcopate thst the noted catechism called Cat^chisme de MomtpeBUr was drawn up by fiither Poujet. Colbert, in eevenl pastorals and mandements, opposed the bull Um^emHas (q. v.). Some of his writings (8 vols. 4to, 1740) were condemned at Rome. He died April 8, 1738.— Hoefti^ Nouvelle Biog. GMnraJe, xi, 114.
Colbert, Jaoquea Nicolas, Roman Catholic archbishop of Rouen, of the same family, was bom at Paris in 1654, was made archbishop at an early age, and was noted in his administration fbr hb tdlennce of the Reformed. He was one of the first members of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. He died Dec. 10, 1707.— Hoefer, Noundk Bio^rcfkk Ohi- rale, id, 112,
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Colbert Mannsoript (Co- DKx CoLBBRTiNUs), the Utett crit- ical designatioii of a beandM cur- sive Greek MS. (^ the N. T., now deposited in the Royal or Imperial Library at Paris, of which it is No. 14 (Colbert. 2844); usnaUy desig- nated as 88 of the Gospels, 18 of the Acts and catholic Epistles, and 17 of the Pauline Epistles. It is very important in Biblical criti- cism, being styled by Eichhom "the queen among the MSS. in cursive letters" (EmUU,iniy, T. V, 217). It contains all the Greek Test, except the Apocalypse, and includes a portion of the Sept. ver- sion of the Prophets. The order of the books is now much confused, but trmn the writing they appear once to have been arranged as usual. The edges of nearly all the leaves are torn, or cut away, or have otherwise decayed. The MS. has been much ii^jured by exposure to dampness, and the ink has set off on the opposite page, especially in the Acts, so that it is very difficult to read (Tregelles, Account of the Printed Text qfthe Greek N. T,, p. 162). In this way, however, by reading backward the parts thus transferred, many passages have Q. CT '5 "^ ***" recovered of which the orig- ^>P 1 J. inal writing has become totally ef- ^td^\p ^^ fiiced, or even the material contain- 3^ ^ •;. ing it has perished. It is written C ^ E 1| on vellum, in folio form, with 42 C/ ^ \^ long lines in each page, in a fine
r^3 *|^ round hand (which undergoes a • "^ gradual change in the coarse of the ^ S work), the accents sometimes ne- ;> . £ "f ejected. Larroque first collated it, » d n i ^^^ ^^^ negligcmtly, and his read- ings, as communicated by Allix, were inserted in Mill's edition of the New Testament, whence they were transferred to Wetst^'s. Griesbach re-examined it in part ; then Begtrup to some extent ; and Scholz fUly, but it would seem cursorily ; Tregelles carefully col- lated it in 1850. '' Its text was published by Sabstier" (Davidson, Treati$e <m BibUeal Criticism, ii, 246). It evidently belongs to the eleventh century, and remarkably confirms the readings of the oldest codices, especially those known as B, D, and L, leaning chiefly to the Alexandrian recension. — Scriven- er, Introductum to the Criticism qf the N, Test,, p. 145; Tregelles, in Home's Introduction, new ed. iv, 209. See Manusobipts, Bibli- cal.
Colbert, 'WiUlam, a pioneer of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Western New York, was a native of Maryland. He was admitted on trial into the Philadelphia Annual Conference in 1790. In 1792 we find him at the General Conference in the city of Bal- timore ; he then became connected with the circuits <tf Tioga and the lake country (a perfect wilderness at the time), and here he labored fSUthftelly and uncom- plainingly, notwithstandhig the difficulties of all kinds which b« had to encounter, nntn 1811, when he located. In 1826 he was readmitted as a supemnmeraiy, which
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relation he retained until his death in 1888.~i/wiiite« of ConfereneeSf ii, 281; Peck, Earfy Methodism, p. 89, 121,272.
Cole, Henry, D.D., an English Romanist divine, and opponent of the Beformation, was bom at Gods- hill, Isle of Wight, and was educated at Winchester School and New College, Oxford, where he became fellow in 1528. In 1540 he became rector of Chelms- ford ; in 1542, warden of New College. On the acces- sion of Edward VI, Dr. Cole inclined to the Reforma- tion, but afterwards returned to his original views, and after Queen Ifary's accession he became a zealous Romanist. When (Sranmer was burnt. Cole preached a violent sermon at the execution. In 1557 he was made ** vicar-general of spiritotttles" under Cardinal Pole. He was prominent in '* all the proceedings a^dnJst Protestants in those dteadAil times.'' In the first year of Elizabeth he was fined 1000 marks ** for contempt of the queen's majesty," and in May, 1560, he was sent to the Tower, where he did not remain long. He died in London in 1579. Among his writ- ings are. Disputation with Crammer and Ridley, 1554 ; Funeral Sermon at the burning qf Cranmer (both in Fox's Arts and Momtments) ; Letters to Bishop Jewell, Lond. 1560, 8vo. — Strype, Annals f Burnet, History qf the Reformation; Hook, Ecdes, Biogrc^, iv, 126.