AVERY-J. ROGERS. 421 promise of the preservation of my life ; but thou hast pro raised to deliver us from sinand condemnation, and to bring us safe, to heaven, through the all-sufficient satis!action of Jesus Christ. This, therefore, I do challenge of thee." He had no sooner uttered these words, than he was swept into the mighty deep, and no more seen. Mr. Thacker and his wife were also washed off the rock ; but after being tossed in the waves for some time, the former was cast on shore, where he found his wife a sharer in the deliverance. The island was from that time called Thacker's Woe, and the rock, Avery's Fall. 'This disaster occurred August 14, 1635.. JOHN RoGEtts, A. M.-This excellent divine was edu- cated in the university of Cambridge, and was many years the famous minister of Dedham in Essex. He was a near relation of Mr. Richard Rogers of Wethersfield, who encouraged him in his studies, and supported him at the university. He was at first so addicted to vice, that while he was at Cambridge, he sold his books and spent the money. Notwithstanding this base ingratitude, his kinsman procured him a fresh stock of books, and sent him again to Cambridge ; but still continuing a profligate,he sold his books, and spent the money as before. Havingwasted his substance a second time, Mr. Rogers determined to cast hint off totally ; but, by the persuasions of his wife, he was at length induced to make another trial. He therefore pro- cured him books, and sent him to the university a third time; and, the grace of God changing his heart, he became an' illustrious ornament to his college, and a man of most exemplary piety. Afterwards, Mr. Richard Rogers, seeing what the Lord had done for his kinsman, used to say, " I will never despair of any man, for John Rogers's sake."+ Mr. Rogers became vicar of Hemingham in Norfolk, in the year 15924 Having continued some time in this situation, he became minister of Haverhil in Suffolk, where he succeeded Mr. Lawrence Fairclough,§ in 1603. After- Mather's Hist. of New Eng. b. iii. p. 77. 1- Firmin's Real Christian, p. 76. Edit. 1670. Blomefield's Hist. of Norfolk, vol. i. p. 686. § This was the father ofthe excellent Mr. Samuel Fairclough, the ejected nonconformist. He was a learned and able divine, and a solid,eloquent, and useful preacher. He died in the year 1603. By preachinga thanksgiving
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