The life and death of that old disciple of Jesus Christ and eminent minister…

in which three or four years space I preached in three several places, at Wood-enderby, at Fulleby on the Hill, and at Wainfleel, where I was silenced, and from thence removed to London, and thence to New-England, with my Wife and one Child.

About the Year 1636. I was persecuted, and prosecuted in the High Commission Court, by virtue of a Warrant wherewith I was apprehended in Boston, and kept a Prisoner in the Man's House who served the Warrant upon me: But God helped me to convince him, and he was so greatly terrified in his Conscience, that he set open his doors and let me go away; but before I went, I tarried so long in London, waiting for a passage, that when I went aboard I had but 6 brass farthings left, and ⟨p. 17⟩no Silver nor Gold, only my Wife had 5 l. that I knew not of, which she gave me when we came there: By the way my little Child dyed with Convulsion fits, our Beer and Water stank, our Biscuit was green, yellow and blew, moulded and rotten, and our Cheese also, so that we suffered much hardship, being 12 weeks in our passage; but God was gracious to us, and lead us safe thro' those great Deeps, and ere we went ashore, came one and enquired for me, and told me a Friend that was gone from Boston to Rode Island had left me his house to sojourn in; to which we went, and two Families more with us, who went suddenly to their Friends and other Relations in the Country, and I being poor was necessitated to work daily with my Howe, for the space of almost three weeks. The Magistrates were told by the Ministers that I was an Antinomian, and desired they would not suffer me to abide in their Patent: But within the time limited by their Law in that Case, two Strangers coming to Boston from Piscattuah, hearing of me by a mere Accident, got me to go with them to that Plantation, and to preach there, where I remained about four years, and then being sent for back to England by ⟨p. 18⟩my aged Father, I returned with my Wife and one Child about three years old, and she was great with another Child, and we came safe to London on the 24th. of December 1641. in which Year the Massacre in Ireland broke forth, and the next Year Wars brake forth in England between King and Parliament: I was still poor, and sojourned in a Lodging till I had but sixpence left, and knew not how to provide for my Wife and Child, but having prayed to God, and encouraged my Wife to trust in God, and to remember former Experiences, and especially that Word of promise, God had given us, and would perform to us,