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The life and death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, minister of Maidstone, in the county…
The life and death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, minister of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, M.A.
London? : s.n., 1672
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CHAP. XXIII. His Wives, and Children.
When he was about twenty six years of Age, he married a Daughter of Sir — Zinzans, who being in a consumption before she married him, (and as I have heard for love of him, her Parents judging him much below her) died within seven or eight months after her marriage.
WHen he was about twenty six years of Age, he married a Daughter of Sir — Zinzans, who being in a consumption before she married him, (and as I have heard for love of him, her Parents judging him much below her) died within seven or eight months after her marriage.
About a year after her death he married Mistress Damaris Cable, (Daughter of Mr. James Cable of London Merchant,) who was a meet help to him in his Civil and Spiritual concerns; by her he had eleven children, one whereof, viz. his eldest son Samuel who feared the Lord in his youth, died young, the other ten he left at his death with his disconsolate Widow. He had little of this world to leave his many Children, (about one hundred pounds a piece, as I have heard, after their Mothers death) but he hath left them much, if we consider the many fervent prayers, which night and day he poured out before the Lord on their behalves. I have read of one that when she came to die told her Children: I ⟨p. 57⟩have little to leave you, but this I must tell you, there is not one Room in the House, which is not perfumed with prayer for you. Often did good Mr. Wilson cry out to God, O that my children might live in thy sight: Lord come down by thy Spirit into their hearts, least my children, die, least they die eternally. The God of all grace, who hath promised to be a God to his and their Seed, in his own day give a gracious answer to all the Requests that are on the side in Heaven for them. He had the happiness promised, the good man,