Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

It was not long before his Friends in England pressed his return thither. A Church in Sandwich sent him an Invitation with all their Names unto it; requesting him to Accept the Pastoral Charge of them. This he Declined for some Reasons; whereof one was, That the Congregational Church in the City of Gloucester, where that Excellent Man Mr. James Forbes was now shining, procured for him a Legal Title to a place called, St. Maries. Thither He that holds the ⟨p. 20⟩Stars in his Right Hand, brought him in December, 1659. And there he Preached in the Forenoon at St. Maries; in the Afternoon at the Cathedral.

It was not long before his Friends in England pressed his return thither. A Church in Sandwyche sent him an Invitation with all their Names unto it; requesting him to Accept the Pastoral Charge of them. This he Declined for some Reasons; whereof one was, That the Congregational Church in the City of Glocester, where that Excellent Man Mr. James Forbes was now shining, procured for him a Legal Title to a place called, St. Maries. Thither He that holds the ⟨p. 20⟩Stars in his Right Hand, brought him in Decemcember, 1659. And there he Preached in the Forenoon at St. Maries; in the Afternoon at the Cathedral.

He was willing to have settled there. But he saw a Change of Times at the Door. Yea, as Young as he was, he then very Publicly Declared, [from Rev. XI. 2.] that further Sufferings for the Faithful Witnesses of CHRIST were to be looked for. In this View he returned unto Guernsey; where he had not been many Weeks before King Charles II. came in; And, what came in with him, every Body knows. When the King was Proclaimed, he openly Refused and Rebuked the Paganizing Rite of Health-drinking, which threatened on that occasion to drown all Sobriety: And anon, the King himself being by those whom he had Ensnared, Prevailed withal to Publish a Proclamation against that Practice, it Proved an Advantage unto this Young Reprover, and put some stop to Insults upon him. At this time the matchless General Monk, sent a Demand upon all Commission Officers in those parts, to Subscribe a Paper, wherein they were to Declare, That they Believed the Times NOW were and would be Happy. But while some Old Men Dreamed Dreams, this Young Man saw a true Vision of the Times. He Declined a Subscription to the Vain Paper; and thereupon the Deputy-Governor, who greatly Valued him and Admired him, did so too. The Chaplain of Jersey, (one Ashton) who had the Character of a Naughty Person, Informed the Duke of Albemarle, that the Reason why there did not