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vice attractive. Again, the existing churches would not hold more than a certain number of persons, and they are filled as it is. [f more were invited to come, it would be only driving out the rich to make waj for the poor, and then we should want another national associa- tion for preaching the Gospel to the rich, or, rather, we should see the rich building proprietary chapels for themselves, in which the scats would be appropriated as before. Bui does any one suppose thai the poor would thus force their way into the churches, and dis- possess their present occupants? Whether the seats are
in r not, the result would be much the same. When
the question of the appropriation of scats is decided, thai of pew rents is comparatively simple. It' the rich are to have a certain number of seats appropriated to them, what can be more natural and convenient than thai they should pay a certain sum in respect of them ?
In the Roman I latholic churches on the Continent pews are seldom to be seen.
The reading pue, first mentioned in the rubric of L662, was the reader'.-- stall in the chancel. It had two desks — one on the wesl for the Holy Bible, and the ni her for the Prayer-book facing eastwards, as in Hook- er's Church at Drayton Beauchamp. In 157] Grindel called ii "the pulpit, where prayers are said." Calamy applie-, the word te designate an open-air pulpit. George Herbert made his pulpit and reading pue of equal height, so as to be of equal honor and estimation, and agree Like brethren. See Walcott, Sacred Archceol. s. v.; Chambers, Cyclop, s. v. ; Parker, Glossary of Ar-
r/n/t r/n n . 9. V.
Peyrere, Lsaac, a French Protestant writer, was born at Bordeaux in 1592. He fitted himself for mili- tary and diplomatic service, and at one time served the prince of Conde, whom he pleased by the singularity of his humor. Peyrere finally turned pious. He was at the ti a Protestant He claimed that it had been re- vealed to him by St. Paul that Adam was not the first man created, and he undertook to prove his theory by publishing in Holland, in L655, a hook entitled Prcead- amita . sia exi rcitaiio supi r vi rsibus 12, 13, 1 1, capitis xv Epistola Pauli ad Romanos, which work was consigned to the names, and he himself imprisoned at Brussels. CTpon recantation and the interference of the prince of Conde he was released, and went to Rome in 1655, wlcre In published the reasons for his recantation, and abjured Calvinism and Prseadamitism before pop. Alex- ander VII. He was not believed sincere by the people, and doubtless public opinion was just. The pontiff en- deavored to detain him at Rome, but he finally returned to Paris, and again entered the service of the prince of Conde, acting as his librarian, lie was not though! to be attaehci to any particular church, notwithstanding that he had joined the Romanists, lie. however, sub- mitted to receive the sacrament Some time after bis return to Paris he retired to the " Seminaire des Vertus," where he died in L676. He wrote, besides the above- mentioned articles, works upon Greenland and Iceland; also one upon the Restoration oftfo .A ws, etc
Peyton, Vi t.\ i.um.n T., a minister of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, was born in Stafford County, Va.. 1797; was converted in 1815; entered the Baltimore Conference in L818; and after filling some of the most important stations in the Conference, died in Baltimore
Jan. 15, 1831. lie was a devoted pastor, a faithful min- ister, and a very useful preacher. See Minutes of Ann.
i '■■ni', rences, ii, 1 18.
Pez, Bernard, a learned German Benedictine, was horn in Ids:; at Ips. Me earh entered the monastery ofMolk. For Beveral years be, with his brother Jerome, collected chronicles, charters, and other documents of the Middle Ages, in Austria, Bavaria, and othei pari of Germany. After having spent some time in France, where he w a- associated with count Zinzendorf, in- re- turned to his convent, u hose library was confided to his care He died March 27, 1735. We have of his works
.'-./ WiBmrgis virginis cum notis (Augsb. 1715, 4to) : — Bibliotheca Benediclino-Mauriana, seu <l< vitis ■ i scripiis Patrum < congregation) S. Mauri (ibid. 1716, 8vo) : — Thesaurus anecdotiinun it<iri.<.<iiitns. .« u Veterum monumeniorumpracipui ecclesiasticorum collectio 1 1721 - 1723, ."> vols. t'ol. i : - - liihliu il,,r,i ascetica antiquo-nova (Ratisb. 17i':: -1740, 12 vols.8vo):- Acta S. Trupeiii martyris{ Vienna, 1731, Ito) :— some Notesa V I Mi I Tin nsis ili scriptoribus ecdesiasticis, published bj Fa- briciu8; several articles in different collections. etc. See Jocher, AUgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon ; Kropf, Biblioth. Mi lliri nsl<. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, xxxix, 789.
Pez, HieronymuB, a learned German Benedictine, brother of the preceding, was bom at Ips in 1685. Alter having taken the Benedictine habit in the monastery of Molk, he began, with his brother, the search for un- published historical documents concealed in the archives and libraries of Austria and Bavaria. Placed later at the head of the library of his convent, he passed the last fifteen years of his 1 i IV- in the most profound retreat. He died Oct 1 I. 1762. We have of his works. Acta S. Colomani, Scotice regis (Krems, 1713, 4to) : — Scriptores rerum Austriacarum veteres,cum notis et observaiionibus (Leips. 1720 1725, 2 vols, fol.), followed by a third vol- ume, published in I745at Ratisbon; a very precious col- Lection: Historia 8. Leopoldi, Austria marchionis, id in mi iui* ir. ex diplomaiibus adornata i Vienna, 1717. fol. I. See Meusel, Lexikon; Schrockh, Leben r. Pez (in the Leipziger GelehrU Zeitung for 1762, p. 737). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, xxxix, 789,