VIROGMORTO-N. 361 liation, 1635.-7. Spiritual Life and Death, 1636.-8. Judas's Re.. pentance, 1637.-9. The Saints'Spiritual Strength, 1637.-10. Tho Saints' Qualification and Remains, 1637.-11. Sermons, 1637. - 12. The Golden Sceptre, with the Church's Marriage and the Church's Carriage, 1639.-13. Divine Love of Christ, 1640. JOB THROGMORTONwas a zealous and active puritan, descended from the family of Throgmortons of Coughton in Warwickshire. He was a man of good, learning, and master of a very facetious and satirical style; and is said to have been one of the authors of those writings which went under the name of Martin Mar-Prelate ;u but, as the real authors were never discovered, the charge is without foundation. Dr. Sutcliff, a scurrilous and an abusive writer, published many reproaches against Mr. Throgmorton, charging him with being concerned in the wicked plots of Hacket, Coppinger, and Arthington. In reply to the misrepresentations of this opponent, he, about the year 1594, published a work, entitled, " A Defence of Job Throgmorton against the Slanders of Matthew Sutcliff." Notwithstanding this, he was indicted and tried at Warwick, on a supposition of being concerned with the above con- spirators; but was acquitted. He was innocent, and there- fore he deserved tobe acquitted. " A reverend judge in this land," observes Mr. Peirce, " told my lord chancellor, that the matter of the indictment passed against Throgmorton at Warwick, was, in truth, but a frivolous matter, and a thing that he would easily avoid. And the lord chancellor said, not only in his own house, but even to her majesty, and openly in the parliament, that he knew the said Job Throg- morton to be an honest man."t Mr. Throgmorton was a man of high reputation, and a pious and zealous preacher of the word ; but labouring, in the decline of life, under a consumption, and being oppressed with melancholy apprehensions about the safety of his state, he removed to Ashby, near Fausley, in Northamptonshire, to enjoy the counsel and advice of the venerable Mr. John Dod. A little before lie died, he asked Mr. Dod, saying, " What will you say of him who is going out of the world, and can find no comfort ?" "What will you say of our Saviour Christ," replied Mr. Dod, " who, when he was going out of the world, found no Kennet's Hist. of Eng. vol. ii. p. Hist. of Pres. p. 279. t Peirce's Vindication, part i. p. 142.
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