A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend…

There was one very Remarkable Effect of it. His Father, was a man of a very Licentious Conversation; a Gamester, a Dancer, a very Lewd Company-keeper. The Mother of this Elect Vessel, one day took him, while he was yet a Child, and calling the Family together, made him to Pray with them. His Father coming to understand, at what a rate, the Child had prayed with his Family, it smote the Soul of him, with a great Conviction, and proved the Beginning of his Conversion unto God. God lest not off working on his Heart, until ⟨p. 35⟩he proved one of the most Eminent Christians in all that Neighbourhood. So he Lived; so he Dyed; A man of more than ordinary Piety. And it was his manner sometimes to Retire unto those very places, of his former Lewdnesses, where, having this his Little Son in his Company, he would pour out Floods of Tears, in Repenting Prayers before the Lord.

There was one very Remarkable Effect of it. His Father, was a man of a very Licentious Conversation; a Gamester, a Dancer, a very Lewd Company-keeper. The Mother of this Elect Vessel, one day took him, while he was yet a Child, and calling the Family together, made him to Pray with them. His Father coming to unde•stand, at what a rate, the Child had pray'd with his Family, it smote the Soul of him, with a great Conviction, and prov'd the Beginning of his Conversion unto God. God lest not off working on his Heart, until ⟨p. 35⟩he proved one of the most Eminent Christians in all that Neighbourhood. So he Lived; so he Dyed; A man of more than ordinary Piety. And it was his manner sometimes to Retire unto those very places, of his former Lewdnesses, where, having this his Little Son in his Company, he would pour out Floods of Tears, in Repenting Prayers before the Lord.

This Hopeful Youth, having been Educated in Grammar-Learning, under a worthy Schoolmaster, one Mr. Sage• ▪ and in further Learning, under the Famous D. Harrison, at Length, about the Age of Twenty Two, he Entered on the Public Employment of Preaching the Gospel. In so doing, he was not one of those, of whom even the Great Papist Bellarmine complains, Qui non valde Solliciti esse solent, an ea qua par est preparatione accedant, cum Finis eorum magis sit cibus Corporis, quam Animae. He began, at Chester; but afterwards went over to Ireland, where his Labours were so frequent, and fervent, that they gave those wounds unto his Health, which could never be Recovered. About Fourteen years of his Time, in Ireland, he spent at Limerick, and saw so many Seals of his Ministry, in that Country, that he seemed rather to Fish with a Net, than with an Hook, for the Kingdom of God. I am not willing to Relate, How Grievously, and yet, how Patiently he Suffered Long and Hard Imprisonments, from those men,