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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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which I gave so good and satisfactory an Account of to them, that upon their Report thereof to the House of Common•, they Ordered That I might preach in any part of Suffolk when the Minister of that place did no• preach: which was all I got for 60 l. which that trouble cost me to clear my Innocence, and the Honour of the Gospel, which Expense I put upon Christ's score, for whose Gospel, and preaching Jesus Christ upon that Text, Col. 3.11. But Christ is all and i• all; I was stoned out of the Pulpit, an• persecuted at a privy Sessions, and fetched out of the Country 60 Miles up to London and was constrained to bring up four o• five Witnesses of good Repute and Credit, to prove and vindicate my self from false Accusations. Some time after that I was summoned before a Committee in the Chamber (called the Queens Court) at Westminster, whereof Mr. Leigh was Chairman, for preaching without holy Orders. To which I answered, that I was in holy Orders: Some of the Committee told rhe Chairman I had Renounced my Ordination by the Bishop, in the Committee for plundered Ministers; I confessed that I did so, but I was Ordained since in a Church ⟨p. 23⟩of God according to the Order of the Gospel of Christ, the Manner whereof I then declared to the Committee before Mr. Nigh and other Ministers there present. But at last the Committee, by their Chairman, commanded me to preach no more; I told them I would preach the Gospel both publicly and from house to house; for it was more equal to obey Christ, who had commanded me, than them who forbid me; and so I went away, and ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ and him crucified. I was then Pastor to a Church which I had gathered two or three years before, in the year 1645. with whom I have walked ever since, except that I was absent from the Church sometimes upon just Occasions, and with their leave, or forced from them by violent Persecution; my chiefest means of Livelihood hath been by Teaching School, wherein God was pleased to make me serviceable in my Generation to communicate liberally to the Poor of the Church, and to Strangers that stood in need, and plentifully to provide all things necessary and convenient for my Wife and Children, through God's Blessing upon my honest Labours: