Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

Professing, that having spent some Time in Meditation every Day in his Beginning-Times, and written down his Thoughts, he saw Cause now to bless God for it. He was assigned to the Work of the Ministry at a solemn Meeting and Conference of sundry godly Ministers about it: There were to the Number of Twelve at the Meeting, whose solemn Advice was, that he should serve the Lord in the Gospel of his Son; wherein they have been the Salvation of many a Soul: For upon this he adderest himself to the Work with that Reality and Seriousness in wooing and winning Souls, that his Word made deep Impressions, and seldom or never fell to the Ground. He was Lecturer a while at Earls-cone in Essex, which we take it was the first Place of his Ministry: where he did much Good: And the People there, though now it is long since and many are gone, yet have a very precious and deep Remembrance of him, of the mighty Power of God by him to this Day. [i. e. 1657] But [Dr.] W. Laud then Bishop of London soon stopped his Mouth and drove him away, as he did many other godly Ministers from Essex at the same Time. After this he lived at Butterchrome in Yorkshire, at Sir Richard Darley's House, till the Iniquity of those Times hunted him thence also. Then he went to Northumberland, 'till silenced there also. And being thus molested and chased up and down ⟨p. 4⟩at Home, he fled to New-England; and after some Difficulties and Delays by great Storms and Disasters at Sea upon the Sands and Coasts of Yarmouth, which retarded his Voyage till another Year, he arrived there at last; where he was Pastor to a precious Flock at Cambridge about Fourteen Years. His Manner of Preaching was close and searching, and with Abundance of Affection and Compassion to his Hearers. He took great Pains in his Preparations for his Public Labours; accounting it a cursed Thing to do the Work of the Lord negligently: And therefore spending usually Two or Three whole Days in preparing for the Work of the Sabbath, had his Sermons finished usually on Saturday by Two of the Clock. He hath sometime expressed himself thus in public;— God will curse that Man's Labours that lumbers up and down in the World all the Week, and then upon Saturday in the Afternoon goes to his Study; when as God knows that Time were little enough to pray and weep in, and to get his Heart in Frame, &c.

Professing, that having spent some Time in Meditation every Day in his Beginning-Times, and written down his Thoughts, he saw Cause now to bless God for it. He was assigned to the Work of the Ministry at a solemn Meeting and Conference of sundry godly Ministers about it: There were to the Number of Twelve at the Meeting, whose solemn Advice was, that he should serve the Lord in the Gospel of his Son; wherein they have been the Salvation of many a Soul: For upon this he addrest himself to the Work with that Reality and Seriousness in wooing and winning Souls, that his Word made deep Impressions, and seldom or never fell to the Ground. He was Lecturer a while at Earles-cone in Essex, which we take it was the first Place of his Ministry: where he did much Good: And the People there, though now it is long since and many are gone, yet have a very precious and deep Remembrance of him, of the mighty Power of God by him to this Day. [i. e. 1657] But [Dr.] W. Laud then Bishop of London soon stopt his Mouth and drove him away, as he did many other godly Ministers from Essex at the same Time. After this he lived at Butterchrome in Yorkshire, at Sir Richard Darley's House, till the Iniquity of those Times hunted him thence also. Then he went to Northumberland, 'till silenced there also. And being thus molested and chased up and down