Pretorium. See I'im-hokum.
Prevent (some form of -"■ 03ava>, both meaning to precedi or anticipate) is understood, in our translation of the Scriptures, only in the old Latin sense, as d< not- ing— 1. To com* befon one is expected or sought (Job xxx, 27) ; 'J. To go before, or he sooner | Psa. cxix, 1 17). One is happily disappointed when favors come unasked (Job iii. 12; l'sa. xviii. 18), or unhappily, as Inn snares and afflictions conic unexpectedly ('_' Sam. xxii, (5).
Prevention i- an ecclesiastical term denoting the right of a superior dignitary of the Church to interfere in the business of his subordinate; but it is more special- ly the right of the pope, in the nomination to ecclesias- tical offices, to pass over the proper collators and give away the benefices himself. The Gallican Church has nr\ er recognised this papal prerogative. See Proa ismux
Prevost, Claude, a French monk, was horn at Auxerre .Ian. 22, 1698. He taught philosophy and the- ology in the abbey of Sainte-t lenei ieve, ami the care of the library -was afterwards intrusted to him. In this employment, which he retained to the end of his life, he made use of the knowledge which he had acquired in the Creek. Italian, and English Languages, and col- lected abundant materials, which he did not. however. publish. They were prepared for the instruction of Louis, duke of t irleans, son of the regent, who livid at the abbey of Sainte-Genevieve. The principal Mss.
which this monk has left concerning the history ot the regular canons, of which he had made a special study, arc. Library of Regular Canons:- Lives of Holy Can- ons, "nil/ Secular and Regular: and History of all the Houses of Regular Canons. Hi- last work was l His- tory of tin Abbey of Sainte-Genevieve. It i~ from this last work that the lienediot hies have extracted nearly all that thej have said of this house in vol. vii of the new Gallia Christiana. Prevost furnished the material
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to the abbot Lebeuf, his countryman, for the catalogue of the writers of Auxerre inserted in The History of Auxerre. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, s. v.
Prevost, Pierre Robert le, a French pulpit orator of some note, was born at Rouen in 1G75. From his youth he displayed a marked propensity for preach- ing, and proceeded to Paris to improve himself after the model of celebrated orators. Sought after with eager- ness in the city, he was no less a favorite at court, where he preached statedly during Advent from 1714 to 1727, and in 1718 during Lent. At this last date he was provided with a canonship at Chartres. The rec- ord of his funeral sermons, published by Lottin (Paris, 1765), contains those of the cardinal of Fiirstenberg (of which Flechier speaks with eulogy); of Godet of Ma- rais, bishop of Chartres; of Louis XIV and of the duke of Berri ; sermons, and a panegyric of St. Louis. He died in 1736 at Chartres. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, s. v. See Vinet, French Lit. p. 116 sq.
Price, Henry, a minister of the Wesleyan Meth- odist Church in Ireland, was born in Dromore, Antrim County, Ireland, Jan. 30, 1802 ; was converted at seven- teen, was made a local preacher about the year 1821, and entered the itinerant ministry at the Conference of 1823. He soon became an able and judicious preacher; "lie was mighty in the Scriptures," reasoning out of them, and having a remarkable talent for apposite and con- vincing quotations from Holy Writ. He was a zealous and effective advocate for Christian missions, a section of evangelical work to which Hritish and Irish Methodists pay more attention and devote more labor than does any other Christian Church. While Mr. Price adorned the Gospel of God our Saviour in all things, there were especially noticeable in him a childlike simplicity, a transparent sincerity, an uprightness which scorned to countenance anything low or mean, a charity "which thinketh no evil," and an unselfishness "which seeketh not its own." Sweeping revivals occurred on many of the circuits on which he was stationed. He was spe- cially attentive to the sick and afflicted, and his visits to them were frequent, sympathizing, and consolatory. He was truly " a brother beloved," and his brethren in the ministry manifested their high appreciation of his character and talents by electing him repeatedly to fill the highest offices in their gift, and on all occasions he proved himself worthy of their esteem and confidence. He was cautious and practical, always ready to carry out every arrangement intrusted to his care with punc- tilious exactness. Never had Irish Methodism a more faithful son, or a minister of more perfect singleness of aim, purity of intention, or exemplary fidelity. Mr. Price died in the sixty-eighth year of his age. (G. C. J.)
Price, John (1), an English scholar of much re- nown, was born about the year 1600, and was educated at Christ Churcb, Oxford. He was of Protestant parent- age, but after leaving college he joined the Romanists and went to Italy during the civil wars, as he found himself the object of much hatred and persecution. He settled in Florence, after having resided for a while in Paris ; but when a professorship was offered him at Pisa, he removed thither, and there lived for some time. He subsequently retired to the St. Augustine Convent at Pome, where he died in 1676. He was the author of the following works: Notm et Observations in Apo- logiam L. Apuleii Madaurensis Philosophi Platonici (Paris, 1635, 4to; very rare, but republished in the Gouda ed. oi'Apukius, 1650, 8vo) -.—Matthaus ex Sacra Pagina, Sanctis Patribus, etc., illustratus (Paris, 1646, Hvo):—Adnotationes in Epist. Jacobi (1646, 8vo) :— Acta Apostolorum, ex Sacra Pagina, Sanctis Patribus, etc., illustrata (1647, 8vo): — Co7nmentarii in Varios Novi Testamenti Libros ; his accesserunt A dnotationes in Psalmorum Librum (Lond. 1660, fol. The notes on the New Testament, or some of them, had been published before separately [supra], and Orme says that those on the Psalms had also appeared before).* Price brought