194 LIVES OF THE PURITANS: Though our divine was a decided nonconformist, Ile was a person of great moderation. He acknowledged the church of England to be a true church, and her ministry to be a true ministry, but greatly encumbered with the superstitions and corruptions of popery. He also occa- sionally attended the public service of the church, and was a divine of great learning and piety; yet, for the single sin of nonconformity, he was often prosecuted in the ecclesiastical courts, and often suspended and deprived. In the year 1581, he was convened before his superiors and suspended from his ministry ; and, in 1591, he was cast into prison. He died in the year 1608, and the fifty-ninth of his age.. Wood, not knowing that he was a puritan, gives a very high character of him, styling him a frequent writer and translator, a laborious preacher, a noted casuist, a grave divine, and a person greatly esteemed in his day.+ His Woms.-1. An Exposition on the book of Canticles, or Solomon's Song, 1585.-2. An Exposition on part of Romans viii., 1587.-3. A short and sound Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, 1589.-4. An Exposition on the whole book of Psalms, wherein is contained the division and sense of every Psalm, &e., 1591. (These four articles were collected and published, in 1624, under thecare of Dr. John Burgess, who married the author's daughter. It was in one volume folio, entitled, " The Works of the Reverend Divine, Mr.Tho. Wilcocks.")T-5. A Summary of short Meditations, touching certain Points of the Christian Religion, 1579.-6. A Concordance or Table, containing the principalWords and Matters which are comprehended in the New Testament, 1579.-7. An Answerto Banister the Libertine, 1581.-8. A Glass for Gamesters, or such as delight in Cards and Dice, wherein they may see not only the Vanity, but also the Vileness of those Plays, plainly discovered and overthrownby the Word of God, 1581.-9. A Form of Prepara- tion for the Lord's Supper,1581.--10. The Substance of the Lord's Supper shortly and soundly set forth, 1581.-11. A comfortable Letter for afflicted Consciences, written to a godly Man greatly touched that way, 1584.-12. Three large Letters for the Instruction and Comfort of such as are distressed in Conscience, 1589.-13. The Narrationof a fearful Fire at Woburn in Bedfordshire, 1595.- He also published, the following translations into English :-1. A Catechism, 1578, by Fountein.-2. Three Propositions, 1580, by Calvin.-3. A Treatise of the Church, wherein the godly may discern the true Church from the Romish, 1582, by Bertrand de Loques.-4. ADiscourse of the true visible Marks of the Catholic Church, 1588, by Beza.-5. Two Sermons on the Sacrament of the of the church. In the year 1592, for making a motion in the house of commons for entailing the succession,' he was, by the queen's tyrannical order, committed to the Fleet, and three other members to the Tower, for the same offence.-MS. Chronology, vol. ii, p. 417. (20.) 617. (2.) 1. Ibid. p. 617. (4.) + Wood's Atheism Oxon. vol. i. p. 261. t Ibid.
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