possibly be formed the Greek "I?, and the modern Hit (where the t is merely the feminine ending), if we might suppose any connection between the Greek and the Tal- mud. Isidore of Charax seems to intend the same place by his 'Ad-TToXig (iVans. Parth. p. 5). Some have thought that it occurs as 1st in the Egyptian inscrip- tions of the time of Thothmes III, about B.C. 1450 (Birch, in Otia yEffjuriiaca, p. 80). But these conject- ures are destitute of any great probability, as the form of tlie Heb. name does not well correspond. See Ava. Ives, Levi Silliman, D.D., LL.D., a theologian of some note, more especially on account of his defection from the Protestant Episcopal Church to Komanism, •was born in Meriden, Conn., Sept. 16, 1797. His parents removed to New York State while he was quite young, and he was prepared for college at Lewisville Academy. At tho. outbreak of the war in 1812, he served his coun- try for one year, and in 1816 finally entered upon his collegiate course at Hamilton College, pursuing, at the same time, studies preparatory for the work of the min- istry. He had been reared in the Presbyterian Church, but in 1819, when impaired health obliged him to quit the college, he joined the Protestant Episcopal Church, and continued his theological education at N. Y. City under bishop Hobart, at whose hands he received dea- con's orders in 1822, and whose son-in-law he became in 1825. His first parish was Batavia, N. Y. ; but he re- mained there only a few months, as he received a call in 1823 from Trinitj' Church, Philadelphia, which he at once accepted, bishop White ordaining him to the priest- hood. In 1827 he was called to Christ Church, Lancas- ter, Pa., and the year following became assistant rector of Christ Church, N. Y. City. This connection he sev- ered six months later, to assume the rectorship of St. Luke's Church, N. Y. In 1831 he was honored with the bishopric of North Carolina, where he became very pop- ular, and for a time wielded great influence ; but in 1848 he began to advocate doctrines inadmissible by any Protestant believer of the Christian doctrines, and dis- trust and alienation on the part of his diocese led him to renounce publicly his mistaken course. But so in- clined had he become to the Roman Catholic view of the apostolical succession, and the need of an " infallible" interpreter of the Scriptures, that he soon avowed his firiiiiT iiiiiiiions, and in 1852, while in Europe, publicly siilmiittcil t(j tlie authority of Rome. Of course, this caiiscil Ills deposition from the bishopric of N. Carolina. In deleusc of his course, he published The Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism (Boston, 1854, 8vo), in wliich he sets forth the Roman Catholic view of the divine right of episcopacy. Finding that the Protestant Epis. Church does not possess a regular apostolical suc- cession (p. 146-157), he felt obliged to accept the Church of Home as the true Church. This course was verj' naturally pursued by bishop Ives, who, while yet in the Episcopal Church, had always inclined to High-Church- ism. " Sitting upon the pinnacle of High-Churchism, the head easily turns, or becomes so dizzy as to fall down into the abyss of Popery," Ives fell, liKe Doane, and Wheaton, and Markoe, by carrying out the High- Church principles to their legitimate results. After his change he was employed as professor of rhetoric in St. .loscph's Theological Seminar}-, and as lecturer on rhetoric and English literatiu-e in the convents of the Sacred Heart and the Sisters of Charity. Ex-bishop Ives evidently was a man of good parts and noble in- tentions, for during the last years of his life we find him incessantly at work in the establlshrnont of an institu- tion at Manhattanville for tbo iirotcction of destitute children: here nearly 20()(l children are now ])rovi(led for. He died Oct. 13, 1867. Ives published also a vol- ume of sermons On the Apostles' Doctrine and Fellow- ship, and another On Obedience of Faith (1849, 18mo). See .Vew Emjlander, Aug. 1855, art", iv ; Princeton Eerieu; xvii, 491 (on his sermons); Appleton, American Cyclop. aimiial of 1867, 411 sq. ; AUibone, Dictionary of Authors, i,915. U.H.W.)
IVORY
Ivimey, Joseph, the historian of the English Bap- tists, was born in 1773, pursued his studies at the Bristol Academy, and for twenty-nine years was pastor of a Baptist church in London. His principal publications are, (1) an edition of The Pilgrim's Progress, with Notes : — (2) The Life of John Bunt/an .-—(3) Treatise on Bap- tism and Communion: — (4) The Life, Times, and Opin- ions of John Milton: — (5) History of the English Bap- tists (4 vols. 8vo). The last, his most important work, is highly commended by Robert Hall for the value of its historical substance and for the quality of the au- thor's style. His Life of Bunyan continued to be the chief authority on the subject, until the growing public appreciation of the " ingenious dreamer" enlisted in the illustration of his life the classic pen of Southey and the minute diligence of Mr. Offbr. Mr. Ivimey's death oc- ciured in 1834. See G. Pritchard, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Joseph Ivimey (London, 1835, 8vo),