376 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. thirdpart of a work entitled 46 Some Treasure fetched out of Rubbish ; or, three short but seasonable Treatises, found in an heap of scattered Papers, which Providence hath reserved for their Service who desire to be instructed from the Word of God, concerning the Imposition and Use of Significant Ceremonies in the Worship of God," 1660. His part is entitled, 44 Three Arguments Sylogisticaliy propounded and prosecuted against the Surplice, the Cross in Baptism, and Kneeling in theact of receiving the Lord's Supper." JoHN WARHAM was a pious and celebrated preacher at Exeter ; but, on account of the tyrannical proceedings of the prelates, was forced to flee to New England for refuge from the storm. Previous to his departure, a congregational church being gathered at Plymouth, be was, after solemn fasting and prayer, chosen one of, its pastors ; and in the year 1630, many pious families out of Devonshire, Dorset- shire, and Somersetshire, accompanied them to New England.. Upon their arrival, they began the settlement of Windsor, where, as pastor of the church, he spent the rest of his days. The whole colony of Connecticut looked up to him as the principal pillar, and the father of the colony. Though he was -a most pious man, he often laboured under melancholy apprehensions, even despairing of his own salvation. Such were the painful temptations under which his holy soul groaned, that he sometimes administered the Lord's supper to the people of his charge, not daring to starve their souls, when he forbore to partake with them, concluding that be was not one of God's children. This darkness continuedmore or less to the day of his death. He was the first minister in New England that ever preached by the use of notes ; yet he delivered his sermons with remarkable energy and success.t ARTHUR HILDERSHAM, A. M.-This celebrated divine was descended from the royal family, and the famous Cardinal Poole was his great uncle. He was the son of Mr. Thomas Hildersham, a gentleman of an ancientfamily, and Ann Poole his second wife. Mrs. Hildersham was daughter to Sir Jeffery Poole, the fourth son ofSir Richard Prince's Chron. Hist. vol. i. p. 200, 204. Mather's Hst. of New. Eng. b. iii. p. 121..
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