ism in England. The tide of preferment now liegan to flow in upon him. Thurlow, who was then chancellor, presented him with a prebendal stall in the church of Gloucester, observing, as it is said, that " those who de- fended the Church ought to be supported by the Church ;" and in 1788 he was made bishop of St. David's. In Par- liament he distinguished himself by the hearty support which he gave to the measures of Pitt's administratidu. His political conduct gained him the favor of the court : in 1793 he was translated to Kochester, and in 1802 to St. Asaph. He died October 4, 1806. Dr. Horsley has been, not inaptly, described as the last of the race of episcopal giants of the Warburtonian school. He was a man of an original and powerful mind, of verj' extensive learning, and profoundly versed in the subject of ecclesi- astical history, of which he gave ample evidence in his controversy with Dr. Priestley, while archdeacon of St. Albans. Even Gibbon says, " His spear pierced the So- cinian's shield." His sermons and critical disquisitions frequently display a rich fund of theological acumen, and of successful illustration of the sacred writings. Be- sides the works named above, his theological writings include Critical Disquisitions ov Itiuiuli x\ iii (Lond. 1799, 4to):— r/(e Book of Psalms, tnix.-^/a/, ,1. //•//// .Xotcs (3d edit. London, 1833,'8to) -.—Hosea, traudutui, vith Notes (2d edit. Lond. 1804) -.—Biblical Criticisvi on the 0. Test. (2d edit. Lond. 1844, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Sermons on the Res- urrection (3d edit. Lond. 1822, 8vo) ; all which, with his tracts in the Priestley controversy, are to be found in his Collected Works (Lond. 1845, 6 vols. 8vo). See Enrj- lish Cyclopcedia ; Quarterly Reriev (Lond.), vols, iii and ix; Edinburgh Rerieir.\n\. x\n: AWihone. Diet, of Au- thors, i, 894; Darling, Cyelaji. J'.il.lingraphica, i, 1548; Chalmers, Biog. Dictionary ; Hook, Ecchs. Biog. vi, 171 sq. ; Skeats, I/ist. of the Free Churches of England, p. 513 sq. ; Donaldson, Hist, of Christ. Lit. and Doctrines, i, 72 ; Ch. Hist, of the 13th Century, p. 445 ; Hagcnbach, Hist, of Doctrines, ii, 418, 421 ; Shedd, History of Doctrines, i, 57, 386 ; General Repository, i, 22, 229 ; ii, 7, 257 ; iii, 13, 250; Quarterly Review, iii, 398; ix, oO; Edinburgh Re- view, xvii, 455 ; Monthly Review, Ixxxiv, 82 ; A nalytical Magazine, iv, 268.
Horstius, Jacob IMerlo, a Roman Catholic theo- logian, wa^ burn towards the close of the 16th century at llorst, Holland (whence his name). He was priest at the Lyskirchen in Cologne, where he died in 1644. Horstius "is the author of several ascetical works. He wrote Enchiridion officii divini; Paradisus animai Chris- tiance (transl. into French by Nicolaus Fontane, imder the title Heures Chreticnne?', tirecs de VEcriture et dcs saints Peres) :—Septem tubes orbis Christiani (a compila- tion from the wTitings of the fathers, and intended for young Roman Catholic priests). He also edited a com- mentary of I^stius on the Pauline Letters ; the works of St. Bernard (2 vols.), and of Thomas ii Kempis.— "Wetzer
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und Welte, KiirJcen^Lexikon, xii, 593 ; Theol. Univ. Lex. (Elberf. 1868), ii, 360.
Hort, JosiAH, an Anglican prelate, was born towards the close of the 17th century, and educated at a Dissent- ing school together with Dr. Isaac Watts. In 1G95 he became chaplain to John Hampden, Esq., M.P., and af- terwards settled as Dissenting minister at IMarshfield. About 1708 he conformed, and became a minister of the Church of England. He now rose quickly to distin- guished positions in the Church. In 1721 he was con- secrated bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland, trans- lated ill 1727 to Kilmore and Ardagh, and was advanced to the archbishopric of Tuam in 1742, with the united bishopric of Enaghdoen, and with permission ■ to hold also his former bishopric of Ardagh. He died Dec. 14, 1751. Bishop Hort published, besides, several collections ofSetinons (1708-9, 1738, 1757) •.^Instrutions to the Cler- fjij of Tuam (1742, 8vo ; 1768, 8vo ; also in Clergrpnaiis Instructor). See Hook,i7cc/. Biog. vi, 184 sq. ; Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 895.
Hortig, Karl Anton, a distinguished German Ro- man Catholic (also known by the name given him by his order, Johann Nepomuck), was born at Pleistein, Bavaria, in 1774, and was educated at the University of Ingolstadt. He entered the order of the Benedictines in 1794, and in 1799 became chaplain of a nunnery at Nonnberg. In 1802 he was appointed professor of logic and metaphysics at the school of the Andech Cloister, and promoted, after filling various minor positions, to a professorship of theology at Landshut in 1821. In 1826 he removed with the university to IMunich, where he received rmmy honors, and died Feb. 27, 1847. His theological works are, Predigtenf alle Festtage (Landsh. 1821; 3d edit. 1832) : — Predigten ii. d. sontiigigen Evan- gel, (ibid. 1827 ; 2d ed. 1832) :^H:indh. d. christl. Kirch- engesch. (2 vols. 1826-28, of which the second part of vol. ii was completed bj^ the celebrated Drillinger). — Eeal-Enr'/Jdop.f. d. kathol. Beutschl. Kii, 1031 sq.; Pierer, Univ. Lex. yiii, 550.
Horton, Thomas, D.D., an English divine, was born at London, and was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he became fellow. In 1637 he was university preacher, and in Jul}' of this year he was chosen master of Queen's College, Cambridge, and min- ister of St. Mary Colechurch, London. In 1641 he be- came professor of divinity at Gresham College, and in 1647 preacher of Gray's Inn, and vice-chancellor of Cam- bridge in 1650. He was ejected for nonconformity in 1662, but he afterwards conformed, and was appointed vicar of Great St. Helen's, London, in 1666. He died in 1673. He was a pious and learned man, especially skilled in the Oriental languages. Of his works, -which are very scarce, the principal are Sermon (Psa. Ixxxvii, 4-6), Zions Birth-register unfolded (Lond. 1656, 4to) : — Forty- six Sermons on the eighth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans (Lond. 1674, fol.) -.—Choice and practical Expo- sitions on four select Psalms (iv, xlii, lix, Ixiii) (London, 1075, fol.) : — One hundred select Sermons upon several Texts ; fifty upon the Old Testament and fifty on the Neiv : left perfected in the press under his own hands (Lond. 1679, fol.).— Stoughton (John), Eccles. Hist, of England (London, 1870, 2 vols. 8vo), i, 156, 288 ; Darling, Cyclop. Bihliographica, i, 1531 ; Hook, Eccles. Biog. vi, 185 sq. ; Wood, A then. Oxon. ii (see Index) ; Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 895.