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

But he generously refused them, from a Fear le•t the Way of Truth should be Evil spoken of. In the mean time, it was a wonder, that by having a Spirit broken with Unkind Usages, he was not perfectly killed; or at least, unhinged and unfitted for the Duties of his Ministry. It is a Reflection which I find fa•ling from his Pen under this Oppression; Little do People think, how much they Wrong themselves, when they have Ministers among them, whose Hearts are set upon nothing but their Studies, and Spiritual Employments, that nevertheless shall not be Suitably Provided for, as to their outward Subsistence, and that Food and Raiment which while on Earth, they need as well as other Men. But now, see what can be Done, and what Born, and how, by PIETY Assisted from Above! See after what manner Unkind Usages are to be Encountered with! It may be of some use unto many Holy witnesses of the Lord Prophesying in Sack-cloth, to Read the Conduct of this their Fellow Sufferer under these Grievous Temptations, as I find himself Relating it.

But he generously refused them, from a Fear le•t the Way of Truth should be Evil spoken of. In the mean time, it was a wonder, that by having a Spirit broken with Unkind Usages, he was not perfectly killed; or at least, unhinged and unfi•ted for the Duties of his Ministry. It is a Reflection which I find fa•ling from his Pen under this Oppression; Little do People think, how much they Wrong themselves, when they have Ministers among them, whose Hearts are set upon nothing but their Studies, and Spiritual Employments, that nevertheless shall not be Suitably Provided for, as to their outward Subsistence, and that Food and Raiment which while on Earth, they need as well as other Men. But now, see what can be Done, and what Born, and how, by PIETY Assisted from Above! See after what manner Unkind Usages are to be Encountred with! It may be of some use unto many Holy witnesses of the Lord Prophesying in Sack-cloth, to Read the Conduct of this their Fellow Sufferer under these Grievous Temptations, as I find himself Relating it.