362 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. comfort, but cried, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me Y" Thisadministered consolation to Mr. Throg- mortores troubled mind, and hedeparted soon after, rejoicing in the Lord.. He is denominated " as holy and as choice a preacher as any in England ;" and is said to have lived thirty-seven years without a comfortable assurance, and then died, having assurance only an hour before his depar- ture.+ He died in the year 16284 Sir Clement Throg- morton, a man of great learning and eloquence, and a member of parliament for the county of Warwick, was his son.§ THEOPMLUS BRADBOURN was minister at some place in Norfolk, and a zealous old puritan. i He was of strict sabbatarian principles, and zealously maintained the neces- sity of observing the seventh day as the christian sabbath. In the year 1628, he published a book entitled, "ADefence of the most ancient and sacred ordinance of God, the Sabbath-day," which he dedicated to the king. In this work he maintained, " That the fourth commandment, Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy, was entirely moral, and of indispensable obligation to the end of the , world :-that the seventh day in the week ought to be observed as an holy day in the christian church, as it was among the Jews before the coming of Christ:-.,-and that it was superstition and evil-worship to observe the Lord's day as the sabbath, seeing there was no command for it."1 For these opinions, says Fuller, " He fell into the ambush of the high commission, whose well-tempered severity so pre- vailed with him, that, submitting to a private conference, and perceiving the unsoundness of his own principles, he became a convert, and quietly conformed to the church of England," so far as concerned the sabbatarian contro- versy... The publication of Mr. Bradbourn's book roused the jealousy and indignation of the court ; therefore, by the command of the king, and under the direction of Arch- bishop Laud, Dr. White, bishop of Ely, undertook a * Clark's Lives annexed to his Martyrologie, p. 172. + Brooks on Assurance, p. 39. Edit. 1810. MS. Remarks, p. 494. § Dugdale's Antiq. of Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 654. Edit. 1730. II Wood's Athenm Oxon. vol. i. p. 333. 1 Paget's Heresiography, p. 161. Edit. 1662. .. Fuller's Church Hist. b. si. p. 144.
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