POMEROY
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POMFRET
(Juliani disputatio) aliquanto liberior visa est, quam ut Juliani modestiam erga Romanum pontiticera sum- ma! Ecclesise rectorem, deceret." Without going any further into details concerning this theological dispute, we shall only speak of Pomerius's writings concerning Jews and Judaism. At the instigation of king Er- vigius, he wrote a work, which he dedicated to the king, entitled De Sexta ^Etaiis comprobatione adrersus Juckeos, reprinted in the Bibl. Maxim. Patrum, vol. xii. His aim was to demonstrate that the Messiah must have alreadv come, although the Jews claimed that the Mes- siah was to come 6000 years after the creation of the world; on the other hand, he wished to strengthen the Christians in their faith, for said he in his modesty, "Ut si non corrigatur Judaeus, saltern proficiat Christi- anus." Besides this work, he left as the fruit of his la- bors, Responsionum liber in Defensionem < 'anonum et Le- gum, quibus prohibentur Christiana, mancipia infidelibus deservire: — Prognosticorum futuri sceculi (Leips. 1535) lib. Hi: — [listeria Wamba Heyis Toletani de expeditione d ricturia, qua rebtllanten contra se Gallia Provinciam celebri triumpho perdomuit : — De A nima. (which reminds us of a work by Nemesius):— De Contemptu mundi ac re- rum transiturarum : — De Vitus <t Virtutibus: — De Vir- ginibus instituenda, etc. See Sacrorum Conciliorum nova <t amplissima collectio, ed. Mansi (Yen. et Flor. 1759), xii, 9; Andr. Duchesne, Rerum Gallicarum et Franci- carum Scriptores (Par. 1739), ii, 707 sq. ; Antonii Bibl. Hisj). Vetus, ii, 303; Ferrara, Hist, of Spain (Germ, trausl.), ii, 453, etc.; Griitz, Gesch. d. Juden.v, 140-146; the same, Die westgothische Gesetzgebung in Eetreff d. Juden (Bresl. 1858), p. 14 sq. ; Herzog, Real-Enct/klop. xii, 51; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Eex. s. v. ; Da Costa, Israel and the Gentiles, p. 309 sq. ; Basnage, Hist. des J it if s (Engl, transl. by Taylor), p. 582; Kalkar, Israel u?id die Kirche, p. 19 sq. ; Fiirst, Bibl. Jud. iii, 111; Pick, in the Evangelical Review, July, 1876, p. 359; Gennadius, De Yiris illustribus, c. 98; Fabricius, Bibl. med. et injim. Latinit. v. Julianus Pomerius ; Tille- mont, Memoires, xvi, 29 sq. (B. P.)
Pomeroy, Benjamin, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born at Suffield, Conn., in 1704. He graduated at Yale College in 1733, and was ordained in December, 1735, pastor in Hebron, Conn., where he la- bored during his life. During Whitefield's revival he preached with great zeal and power. In 1742 he was brought before the General Assembly to answer under the new law for "having committed great disorders," but was acquitted. Some time after he was punished for lecturing to the people in a grove at Colchester, the parish minister having refused his permission; and in 1744 he was convicted of denouncing the recent eccle- siastical laws as cruel, and bound for fifty pounds to continue in -good behavior'" during the year. He was a chaplain in the French and Revolutionary wars, and was an excellent scholar, a man of real genius, and one of the best preachers of his day. He died Dec. 22, 1784. See Sprague, .4 nn. of the .1 mt r. Pulpit, i, 394. (J. H.W.)
Pomeroy, Medad, an eminent Presbyterian min- ister, was born in Southampton, Mass., April 6, 1792. He was early left an orphan, but was blessed with pru- dent and kind relatives, by whom he was taught the way of life. He was educated at Williams College (Mass.), where he graduated in 1817. Soon after this he taught the academy at Aurora, N. Y., for two years, during which time and for some months after he studied theology under the direction of Dirck C. Lansing, D.D., pastor of the First Church of Auburn. N. Y. In 1820 he began preaching at Sherwood's Corner, where he labored ten months, and was then settled at Cayuga Bridge. For six years he preached at that place and at the "Stone Church," between Cayuga and Spring- port ; for six additional years at Cayuga only ; in Feb- ruary, 1833, he accepted a call to Elbridge, N. Y.. where he remained for nearly eight years; in November, 1840, he returned to Cayuga, and ministered to that people
for another twelve years, resigning on account of im- paired health ; in 1854 he removed to Wellsburg, Che- mung County, N. Y.. and served a church there; in 1856 he was called to Otisco, Onondaga County, N. Y., where he was pastor for five years, and 1861 he re- moved to Auburn, to spend the remainder of his days in rest. He died June 20, 1867. Mr. Pomeroy was a man of acute mind, penetrating discernment, and tena- cious thought. His style was compact and lucid, and . his preaching earnest and searching. His ministrations were greatly blessed. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1868, p. 223; Appleton's Annual Cyclopceelia (1867), vii, 566. (J. L. S.)
Pomeroy, Swan L., D.D., a Congregational min- ister, and a man of more than ordinary scholarship, was born in 1799. He was a graduate of Brown University, and of Andover Theological Seminary, where he com- pleted his course in 1824. He was settled for some years as a pastor in Bangor, Me., and was called thence to a secretaryship of the American Board of Commis- sioners of Foreign Missions. He displayed great abil- ity and energy in this position for a number of years, but terminated his connection with it about 1860. He did not after that, we believe, have any pastoral charge. He died at Sunderland, Mass., March 24, 1869. See Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia, ix, 503.