T. WILSON. 283 provide for them an able and a sufficient pastor. This the doctor promised to do ; but added, " that not one of a thousand could be found, like this worthy servant of Christ". Mr. Swift, who preached Mr. Wilson's funeral sermon, gives the following account of him : " He was a most painful and careful pastor ; a man called forth into the vineyard of the Lord, and well qualified for so great awork. He was a judicious divine, sound in the truth, and an excellent interpreter of scripture ; a professed enemy to idolatry, superstition, and all false worship ; for which he incurred the displeasure of those who were otherwise disposed. He was richly furnished with excellent gifts, which he fully employed in the Lord's work, being in- cessantly laborious and faithful in his public ministry. Having received ten talents, he employed them all to the use of his Master. He preached at Canterbury thirty-six years, during the whole of which period he was always abounding in the work of the Lord. Being requested, upon his death-bed, to spare himself in future, if the Lord should be pleased to raise him up, he immediately replied, Were I in health of body, I should always say with the apostle, Woe be unto me, if I preach not the gospel.' He was particularly mindful of his flock to the last; and with his dying breath prayed that Godwould provide for them a faithful shepherd, to feed them with knowledge and under- standing."+ He died in January, 1621. His Womis.-1. A Commentary on Romans, 16144-2. Christ's farewell to Jerusalem, 1614.--3. Theological Rules, 1615,-4. Holy Riddles, 1615.-5. A Complete ChristianDictionary, with the Con- tinuatiOn by Bagwell and Symson, sixth edition, 1655.§-6. A Dialogue about Justification.-7. AReceipt against Heresie. Christian Dictionary, Pref. Edit. 1655. + Funeral Sermon for Mr. Wilson. t This work, which is in the form of a dialogue,abounds with judicious distinctions, and practical uses.--Williants's Christian Preacher, p. 436. § This work is said to have been the first that was ever composed in. English, by way of concordance.-Granger'sBiog. Dist. vol. i. p. 369.
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