Pieri, Stei \n<>. a Florentine painter, born in 1513, and a pupil of Battista Naldini. He passed much of Ids
life at R e, where he was patronized by cardinal Ales-
sandro Medici, bj h hom he was employed in the church of S. Prassede, where he painted the Annunciation and
some pictures of the apostles, lie executed other work S for the churches at Rome and Florence, in which latter city he assisted Vasari in the cupola of S. .Maria del Fi- ore. Lanzi says one of Ids host works is the Sacrifia of Isaac, in the Palazzo Pitti. Another fine picture is the Assumption of the Virgin, in the church of S. Maria in Via. at Rome. His works ;1re well designed, but Baglioni censures them as being dry and hard. He died at Rome in the year 1600. See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of th Fim An*, ii. 693.
Pieritz, Joseph Abraham, a noted Anglican di- vine, was horn of Jewish parentage in the year 1,815 al Kletzko, in Prussia. Al the age of twenty-three Pieritz became a < Ihristian by being baptized at London. Four year- later "the London .Society lor Propagating the Gospel among the Jews" appointed him a missionary among his brethren, and For aboul eight j ears he faith- fully discharged his duty in that relation, residing in different places in the west of England, [n the year 1851 he accepted an appointment to a pastoral charge in British Guiana. For about twenty years he labored a^ rector of the parish of St. Patrick, in the town of New Amsterdam, in the colony of British Guiana, where he died. Oct. 16, 1870. See Jewish Intelligencer (London). 1838, p. 292; 1870, p. 20; Report ofth L851,p.34; Kalkar, Israel und dt\ KtrcAe, p. 172. (B.P.)
Fierius, Burnamed th younger Origen, a disciple of ( Irigen, was distinguished in the church of the 3d cen- tury 86 a scholar and author of high repute. We know
nothing of his personal history, and Ids writings are no longer extant, or at least are inaccessible.
Pierpont, Hezekiah B., an American Presby- terian minister, was a native of Connecticut, and was born about 1791. In 1821 he came to New York state and settled at Rochester, and soon after was ordained a Presbyterian minister. He became the pastor of a Church in Hopewell. ( Intario ( !o., for several y< are. He was then called to the pastorate al Avon, and th. re he lived until al.out 1861, when he moved to Rochester, X. Y.. where he died in 1871, beloved by all his ac- quaintances for his many social and genial qualities. Indeed, none knew him but to honor him. both as a Christian and as a gentleman. "He lived a long life of usefulness as a pastor of the Presbyterian church. and died full of years, in the bit ssed consciousness of a blameless life as an honored servant of God's ministry."
Pierpont, James, a noted New England Congre- gational minister of colonial days, was born at Roxbury, Conn., in 1 <>♦. l . He w;i> educated at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1681 ; was ordained fourth min- ister in New Haven. Conn., in 1685, and retained that connection until his death in 1714. In the year 1698 .Mr. Pierpont was one of three ministers who concerted the plan of founding a college- a plan which took ef- fect in the establishment of Yale College in 1700. As one of the original trustees of the institution he was untiringly active: and it was through his influence, in no small degree, that the distinguished individual from whom it received its name was induced to make it the object of his liberal benefactions. Dwight, inhis life "i Edwards, states that Mr. Tier] out read lectures to the students in Yale College as professor of moral philosophy. This, however, Dr. Bacon considers doubt- ful, a- the collcgt was no! removed from Saybrook till alter Mr. Pierpont's death. Of the famous sj nod hi Id at Saybrook in 17ns. for the purpose of forming a sys- tem that should better secure the ends of Church dis- cipline and t lie benefits of communion among the churches, Mr. Pierpont was a prominent mi mber. The "Articles" which were adopted as the result of the synod, and which constitute the well-know n " Saybrook Platform," are said to have be< n drawn up by him. The only publication oi Mr. Pi< rponl was a s< rmon preached at Post. .n. in Cotton Mather's pulpit, in 1712, entitled Sundry falsi Hopes of Heaven discovered and decryed. Mather introduces the sermon with a short preface, in , which lie says of the author. " lie has been a rich bl( SS- ing to the Church of God." New Haven values him. all Connecticut honors him- they have cause to do so. Dr. Bacon writes thus concerning him :
••That we are not able to form so lively an idea of him as of Davenport is partly because bis life was shorter, .Hid w as less involved in scenes of conflict, and partly, no donbti becanse his nature and the early discipline nf Di- vine Providence had less fitted him to make himself con- spicuous by the originality and energy nf his character, and to leave his inniL'c stamped with ineffai eable i istini t- uess oti the records of his times. In the pulpit Mr. l'ier- ponl was distinguished among bis contemporaries. His personal appearance was altogether prepossessing. He was eminent in the lt i ft of prayer. His doctrine was Bound and disci iminat iiiLT, and his style was clear, lively, and impressive, without anything of the affected quaint- ness which characterized some of the most eminent men