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

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, ⟨p. 36⟩concerning whom a Conformable Divine of the Church of England, very truly says, That they were Atheists, with the Inventions of Ceremonies hab••ed like Christians, for the Service of the Devil, to Corrupt and Destroy True Christianity: I should Relate but little of this, because that Spirit of Persecution, has been Repented by an Happy Act of Parliament.

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 Entred on the Publick 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 Limrick, and saw so many Seals of his Ministry, in that Countrey, that he seem'd 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,