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tions of Man ' s Misery , in his Life , Death , Judgment and Execution : as . also of God ' s Mercy in our Redemption and Salvation /' The Prima and Ultima were printed 1640 . The Media is chiefly taken out of the most eminently pious and learned writings of our native practical divines , with additions of Ambrose ' s
composition . It was first printed m 1650 . The authors , whom he doth abridge in the said Media , are mostly Separatists , and it is licensed by Mr . Charles Herle , * and recommended to the world by John Angier , f Thomas
made him appear at that time meaner than ordinary , ) his Lordship was pleased to single out , no question , to triumph over his ignorance , and thereby expose all the rest . ' Can you read , Sirrah ? ' says he . ' Yes , my Lord / answers Mr . Verner . < Reach him the book , ' says the Judge .
The Clerk reaches him his Latin Testament . The young man begins to read Matt . vii . 1 , 2 , ( it being the first place he cast his eye upon , without any design \ n him , as he affirmed afterwards , ) Ne judicatef ne judicemini , &c . * Construe it ,
Sirr ' &h ^ says the Judge ; which he did : ' Judge not , lest ye be judged ; for with what judgment ye judge , ye shall be judged / Upon which , it is said , his Lordship was a little struck , and sat in a pause for some while .
" The issue of the matter was this : That the young men , though never tried , were sent to jail , where they lay above a year , ( i . e . from the assizes in 1684 till February , 1685 , ) when they were admitted to bail . And at the next assizes after
( viz . 1686 ) were called upon and set at liberty . "—Memorial of the Reformation , ed . 2 , ( 1721 , ) pp . 3 f > 2 , 363 . * " Rector , " says Wood , " of one of the richest churches in Englaud , which is at Winwick , in Lancashire—elected one of the Assembly of Divines in 1643 , being
then a frequent preacher before the Long Parliament , " by whom , " in 1646 , he was voted Prolocutor , after the death of Twisse . In 1647 , he , with Stephen Marshal ) , went with certain Commissioners
appointed by the Parliament into Scotland , to give them a right understanding of the affairs of England . —After the King was beheaded , he returned to his rectory of Winwick , " where ' he died and was buried in 1659 . "—Athen . Oxon . II . 151 ,
152 . J * " Born at Dedham , in Essex , " and < c educated in Cambridge / ' He was ejected from Denton m 1662 , but by the
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Johnson , * and John Waite , B . D ., in their respective epistles before it . " Redeeming the Time ; Sermon on Ephes . v . 16 , " 1658 . " Looking unto Jesus : A View of the everlasting Gospel - ' E y or the Souls yeing of Jesus as carrying on the great Work of Man ' s Salvation , " 1658 . In the penning of which he took most delight , as bein g a subject , as he complains , almost wholly neglected by all others .
" Warre with JJevils ; Ministration of , and Communion with , Angells . At the end of this treatise are subjoined two letters ; the first written by Richard Baxter , dated at London , 2 § th November , 1661 , and the other by William Cole , dated at Preston
8 th October , 1661 . f He hath also a sermon extant , preached at the funeral of Lady Houghton . He died suddenly of an apoplexy , + as I have heard , but when , 1 know not . ( Athen * Occon . )
VIII . No . 230 . Richard Byfteld , halfconnivance of the bishop and the justices " continued preaching in his private chapel" till his death , in 1677 , aged 72 . See Calamy ' s Account , 395 . ? " Master Herl " «« Master Antrc . r"
" Master Thomas Johnson , " are named "with " Master Ambrose , " and six others , as assistants to the Commissioners for the county of Lancaster . " See the Ordinance , 1654 . +- Calamy says " he was turned out o ( Preston , but afterwards conformed , and
was lecturer of Dedham , in Essex . "Account , p . 410 . J " In 1664 , aged 72 . He lived in tin * latter part of his life at Preston , and when his end drew near , was very sen
sible of it . Having taken his leave o many of his friends abroad , witli unusual solemnity , as if he foresaw that he should see them no more , he came home to Pventon from Bolton , and set all things in order . In a little time some of his
hearers came from Garstang to visit bun-He discoursed freely with them , gave them good counsel , told them he was now ready whenever his Lord should call , and that he had finished all he designed
to write ; having the night before seat away his discourse concerning Angels to the press . He accompanied his friends to their horses , and when he came back , shut himself in his parlour , the p lace oi his soliloquy , meditation and prayer ;
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226 Sylva Btograp hiea .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/34/
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