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them as so many political devils; and Neal, in his History of the Puritans, blanches them into a sweet and almond whiteness" {Miscell. of Lit. ed. 1840, p. 298 ; comp. p. 307, 308). Neal's other publications are a num- ber of separate Ser7nons, 1722, 1723, 1726, 1727, 1735 (nine are in a collection of Lectures by several divines, 1735, 2 vols. 8vo) :— .4 Solemn Prayer against the Plague, 1721 :— three Tracts in vindication of his History of the Puritans, 1720, 1734, 1739 ; and the following works : 1. History of New England: containing an account of the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the country to the year 1700; to which is added an Appendix, containing their charter, their ecclesiastical discipline, and their municipal laws (Lond. 1720, 2 vols. 8vo; again, 1747, 2 vols. 8vo; see Dr. Watts's Letter to Dr. Cotton Mather, 1720, in Mass. Hist. Coll. vol. iv) :— 2. Narratice of the Method and Success of Inoculating the Small-Pox in Neio England, hij Mr. Benjamin Colman, etc. 1722, 8vo. See Life by Dr. Toulmin, in Neal's History of the Puritans ; Wilson's Hist, of Dissenting Churches ; Bogue and Bennett's Hist, of Dissenters, ii, 374; Funeral Sermon on Neal, by Jennings; Skeats, Hist. Free Churches of England, p. 257, 258, 280, 306; Prot. Dissent. Mag. vol. i; Smyth's Lects. on Mod. Hist. Lects. xi, xviii; Mosheim's Eccles. Hist.; Thomas Moore's Memoirs (1853), iv, 159; Lowndes, Bibl. Man. 1823 ; Watts's Bibl. Brit. s. v. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. ii, 2160 ; Lond. Quar. Rev. x, 90 (by Robert Southey) ; North Amer. Rev. Ix, 215 (by E. P.Whipple; see his Essays and Reviews, i, 208) ; Meth. Quar. Rev. v, 54 (by D. Belcher) ; Princeton Rev. xvii, 1 ; Christ. Rev. viii, 481; Christ. Exam.^Ti.-^\n\,\2^ (by A. Lamson) ; Church Rev. vol. ix ; .1 mer. Presb. Theol. Rev. Jan. 1867. (J. H.W.) Neale, John Mason, a noted English divine, celebrated as a hymnologist and writer of ecclesiasti- cal history, and as a successful educator, was born in London Jan. 24, 1818, and was educated at Cambridge University, Trinity College, class of 1840, where he took the members' prize in 1838, and the Seatonian prize for a sacred poem nine times between 1845-61. Neale en- tered into holy orders in 1842, and became incumbent of Crawley, in Sussex, which position he held until 1846, when he was appointed warden of the Sackville College, East Grinstead. He died at East Grinstead, Aug. 6, 1866. Of High-Church proclivities, he identified himself with the various movements of the Ritualists, and in 1855 caused a sisterhood to be founded, named St, Margaret. Neale was a voluminous writer, his publications being some seventy in number. His most important work is his History of the Holy Eastern Church, vols, i and ii form- ing a general introduction (London, 1850, 8vo) ; vols, iii and iv covering the Patriarchate of Alexandria (ibid. 1847, 8vo) ; vol. v treating of the Patriarchate of An- tioch (ibid. 1874, 8vo). This work is highly esteem- ed by all students of Oriental Church history. It is a learned and laborious work, and in the parts of which it treats forms a valuable compend. Based as it is on the original sources, it is an invaluable contribution to ecclesiastical history, and it is to be regretted tliat IMr. Neale did not live to complete it. See Edinb. Revieic, cvii, 322 sq. Other valuable works by Mr. Neale are, Sequentice ex missalibus Germanicis (1852) :— J/e- di(vval Preachers and Medicevcd Preaching (1857): — Jlistory of the so-called .Jan^enht Church of Holland (1858) -.—Commentary on the Psalms (1860) -.—Essays on Liturgiology and Church History (1863) -.-The Liturgies (in Greek) of St. Mark, St. James, St. Clement, St. Chry- sostom, and St. Basil (1868). Dr. Neale figures as a hymnologist substantially, as in so many other depart- ments of Christian labor, not so much because of his original contributions as for his antiquarian research- es, especially his translations of ancient and medi.-Eval hymns. His most valued translation is that of the celebrated poem of Bernard of Clugny, entitled De Con- temptu Mundi, portions of which are found in many of our best hymn-books in the three hymns, " Brief life is here our "portion,""" For thee, 0 dear, dear country,"
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and " Jerusalem the golJen." Among his contributions to hyranologj', besides those already mentioned, are, Medlaval Hymns, Sequences, etc. (1851; also a second edition) :—//^mm Ecclesia (I8bl) -.—J/ymns for Chil- dren (sixth edition, IHbi) -.—J/ymiis for the Sicl:: — JJymns of the Eastern Church (18G3; new edition, with introduction, 1871) i—Cdrolsfor Christmas-Tide (1853). Several of Ids liymns have become the common prop- erty of English-speaking people. Dr. Schaff has in- j corporatcd two of them iu his Christ in Sony, p. lib, 28G. (J.II.W.)
Neale, Leonard, D.D., an American Roman Cath- olic i)rclatc, was born in the state of Maryland in 174C, and was educated at the Roman Catholic college in Baltimore. He entered holy orders after he had en- joyed further superior educational advantages at home and abroad, and rapidly rose to distinction. In 1800 he was consecrated coadjutor to archbishop Carroll of Baltimore, and in 1815 became his successor in the archiepiscopate. Archbishop Neale died at (George- town, D. C, June 18, 1817. He was highly respected by the Protestants of this country for his Christian zeal and bis broad views on religious toleration.