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The life and death of that old disciple of Jesus Christ and eminent minister…
The life and death of that old disciple of Jesus Christ and eminent minister of the Gospel Mr. Hanserd Knollys who dyed in the ninety third year of his age written with his own hand to the year 1672 ; and continued in general in an epistle by Mr. William Kiffin.
London: printed for John Harris, 1692
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God bruised Satan under my feet, and my Lord Jesus Christ made a conquest of him, and gave me the V• ctory, and helped me to give him the Glory of it.
God bruised Sathan under my feet, and my Lord Jesus Christ made a conquest of him, and gave me the V• ctory, and helped me to give him the Glory of it.
The next Year after this, I Married a Wife, with whom I lived 40 years, by whom I had Issue, 7 Sons, and 3 Daughters, who was a Holy, Discreet Woman, and a meet Help for me, in the ways of her Household, and also in the way of Holiness; who was my companion in all my Sufferings, ⟨p. 9⟩Travels, and Hardships that we endured for the Gospel: She departed this Life the 30th. of April, 1671. in full Assurance of Eternal Life and Salvation.
The next Year after this, I Married a Wife, with whom I lived 40 years, by whom I had Issue, 7 Sons, and 3 Daughters, who was a Holy, Discreet Woman, and a meet Help for me, in the ways of her Houshold, and also in the way of Holiness; who was my companion in all my Sufferings, ⟨p. 9⟩Travels, and Hardships that we endured for the Gospel: She departed this Life the 30th. of April, 1671. in full Assurance of Eternal Life and Salvation.
Presently after I was Married, I was convinced of some things about the Worship of God (which I had conformed unto,) to be sinful, to wit, the Surplice, the Cross in Baptism, and admitting wicked persons to the Lords Supper, whereupon I resigned my Living to the Bishop, who offered me a better Living: I told him I could not conform any longer, and would do nothing but preach, which he connived at for two or three Years. Shortly after I was convinced that my Ordination received from the Bishop was not right, and though I had preached some years by Virtue of that Ordination, I had not received any Seal from Christ of my Ministry; for though many had been reformed and moralized, yet I knew not that I had been Instrumental to convert any Souls to God: And thereupon I renounced that Ordination, and silenced my self, resolving not to preach any more, until I had a clear Call and Commission from Christ to preach the Gospel. And to that end I gave my self to Prayer day and night, for several