The life and funeral sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand Dr. Samuel Annesley

¹He was sent to School to Bishop Starford, where, how soon, I can't say, he attained to such an accuracy of Grammar-Learning, that he made good use of it to the great Benefit of others, whom he would critically examine upon all occasions, throughout the Course of his Life; scarce any young Scholar whom he occasionally met with, but hath felt it: He well apprehending as other learned Men complain, that the defect of Grammar-Learning is ⟨p. 6⟩very hardly, if ever repaired by after Studies.

¹He was sent to School to Bishop Starford, where, how soon, I can't say, he attain'd to such an accuracy of Grammar-Learning, that he made good use of it to the great Benefit of others, whom he would critically examin upon all occasions, throughout the Course of his Life; scarce any young Scholar whom he occasionally met with, but hath felt it: He well apprehending as other learn'd Men complain, that the defect of Grammar-Learning is ⟨p. 6⟩very hardly, if ever repaired by after Studies.

1. 1His School.

¹He was sent thence to Merton College in Oxford (that he soon ran through' his juvenile Academical Studies may be by this evident) He entered upon, and throughly studied the Arminian and Socinian Controversies, with that of Scientia media; these Studies pleased him wonderfully in the doing, but not upon a later review, he said since, nothing yields me comfort, but my Preaching, Catechising, and what I did for the Conversion of Souls: If he had his time again, he would spend it in reading the Holy Scriptures, with two or three good Commentaries, in Prayer, and Meditation, and labouring in public. Only I must acknowledge, that I am not certain, whether it was there, or after, that he launched into those depths, I must confess, I rather think, his study there, looked another way.