Coles, EHahn, a native of Northamptonshire, was made steward of Magdalen College, Oxford, dur- ing the Commonwealth, when the funous Independent, Dr. Goodwin, was head of that college. After the Bestoration he obtuned a clerkship in the East India House, which he is supposed to have held until his death in 1688. Hkb name is preserved by his well- known treatise entitled A practical Treatise on God's Sovereignty, originally published in 1678, 4to, and many times reprinted. It is thoroughly Calvinistic.
Coles, George, a minister of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, and fbr many years a journalist. He was bom in England, June 2, 1792 ; converted at twelve ; became a local preacher in 1814 ; emigrated to Amer- ica m 1818, and immediately entered the itinerant ministry in the New York Conference. He was an " effective preacher" for thirty-three years, and on the Ist of May, 1868, he died in New York. He was an invalid more than half of his life, yet eminentiy cheer- M and useful. Though his advantages of education whOe young were limited, he was nevertheless a very ^ll-read man, and for twelve years was eminently BQccessfnl as assistant editor of tiie Christian Advocate <*i^ Journal, and three years sole editor of the Sunday- fdiool A dvoixOe and Sunday-school books. Among Ids published works are The Antidote (18mo), Lectures to Children (18mo), Scripture Concordance (18mo), My tfoitthfvl Days (18mo), My first seven Years m America (ISmo), and Heroines of Methodism (12mo). Mr. Coles ^^as a dncere and simple-hearted Christian gentleman, lovug all, by all beloved. As a preacher, although not powecfol, he was clear, instructive, persuasive,
and eminently oonsolatoiy. *', His journal, wMch was careftilly kept for nearly fifty years, shows how he longed to live and labor for God." His death was peaoeM and beantii^— if Miutef of Coitferences^ 1868, p. 148.
Colet, Dr. John, was bom in London in 1466 ; was educated at Oxford, and travelled on the Continent for seven years, where he made the acquaintance of many eminent scholars, especially of Erasmus, Bu- dsBUs, and Linacer, and where he also learned Greek. He obtained Church preferment when very young. In 1497 he commenced lecturing at Oxford on St. Paul's Epistles, and drew crowds of students. In 1506 he was made dean of St. Paul's, in which capacity his endeavors to restore discipline brou^^t on him, though happily without ofRBct, a charge of heresy. He intro- duced divinity lectures at St. Paul's, delivered by him- self and othen. * * These lectures raised in the nation a spirit of inquiry after the Holy Scriptures, which had then long been laid aside for the school divinity, and so might be said to prepare a way for the reformation which soon after ensued. We cannot but think tliat Colet was in some measure instrumental towards it, though he did not live to see it effected, for he express- ed a great contempt ibr religious houses, exposed the abuses that i^evailed in them, and the mischiefs at- tending the imposing celibacy on the clergy. This wa^ of thinking, together with his ftee and public manner of communicating his thoughts, which were then regarded as impious and heretical, rendered him very obnoxious to the clergy, and exposed him to a persecution ttom. the bishop of London. Latimer tells us in his sermons, not only was Colet brought into trouble, but he would certainly have gone to de stake had not God turned the kmg's heart." In 1612 he founded and endowed the noble institution of St. Paul's School for 168 scholars. He died in 1619. He wrote a Latin Grammar for St. Paul's School, which was long in use. Among his religious writings were, Dcdly />e- votions, or the Christianas morning and evening Sacrifice (Lond. 1698, 12mo) ; Monition to a godly Life (Lond. 1684) ; EfMlcB ad Erasmum, etc. See Knight's Life of Dean Colet (Lond. 1724, 8vo) ; Jones, Christ. Biog. ; Seebohm, Oxford Reformers (Lond. 1867).
Col-ho^Beh (Heb. KoUhozch\ nth"is, every seer ; Sept XoXc^l, XaKaZd), a descendant of Judah, being the son 'of Hazaiah, and father of one Baruch (Neh. xi, 6), B.C. ante 686. He had also a son named Shallun, who repaired part of the walls of Jerusalem after the Captivity (Neh. iii, 16).
Colignl, Gaspard db, admiral of France, was bom February 16, 1617, at his ancestral castle, Chatil- lon-sur-Loing. His £>ither, Gaspard de Coligni, mar- shal o^France, died early (1622), and bequeathed to his widow the task of educating three sons. In this she was assisted by two mastere, one of whom instructed the boys in languages and philosophy, and the other in bodily exercises. Gaspard early distingnisbed himself for a firmness of character and purity of private life very rare in those days. His only friend was the young duke Francis of Guise, afterwards among his bitterest enemies. He entered upon the career of arms, and early won high celebrity in the wan against Italy and Spain. In 1647, at thirty, Coligni was made commander of the French hofantiy. The very severe discipline introduced by him changed the wild bands of lawless soldiery into an organist army. In 1647, the year in which liis mother died, he was married to Charlotte de Laval. But the troubles of. his times called him soon again and again to the front of battle ; the happy issue of the campaign of 1662-66 is to be as- cribed to him. He became governor of Champagne, later of Picardy and Isle de France. In 1662 he was made admiral of France. When King Henry II vio- lated the truce, and the war with Spain broke out anew, Coligni was oommissionQd to defond St. Quentin