GALE, Theophilus, an eminent nonconformist minister, born in 1628. He was invited to Winchester in 1657; and continued a stated preacher there until the re-establishment of the church by Charles II. when he rather chose to suffer the penalties of the act of conformity, than to submit to it contrary to his conscience. He was afterwards engaged by Philip Lord Wharton as tutor to his sons, whom he attended to an academy at Caen in Normandy; and when this duty
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was fulfilled, he became pastor over a congregation of private conventicles in Holborn. He died in 1678; and is principally known by an elaborate work, intitled, the Court of the Gentiles, calculated to show, that the Pagan philosophers derived their most sublime sentiments from the Scriptures.