X136 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. the distressed servant of Christ was received into thehouse of one Mr. Kyrie of WAIlford, but without any cure or employment. The bishop of the diocese being determined, in the year 1638, to prosecute him for nonconformity, he is said to have suddenly fled out of the diocese;* yes, he fled to that place where neither bishop nor archbishop could. hurt him ; where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest. Por the poor distressed man sunk under the heavy pressure of his poverty and accu- mulated afflictions, which, about the above period, sent him to his grave, and delivered him from all his sorrows.+ Mr. Workman was an excellent and useful preacher, and the honoured instrument of greatly advancing the knowledge of Christ, and the power of godliness,in the city of Gloucester4 Mr. Giles Workman, another worthy puritan, of whom a memoir will be found in its propex place, was his brother. WILLIAM WHATELY, A. M.-This worthy minister was born at Banbury in Oxfordshire, in the month of May, 1583, and educated in Christ's college, Cambridge. His father, Mr. Thomas Whately; was several times mayor of the borough, and many yearsa justice of the peace. Young Whately was from a child trained up in the knowledge of the scriptures, and found them able to make him wise unto salvation, through faith in Jesus Christ. During his abode at the university, he was a constant hearer of the celebrated Dr. Chadderton and Mr. Perkins, by whose ministry his early piety was further promoted. He was put under the care and tuition of Mr. Potman, a man of eminent piety, learning and diligence. " Our tutor," says Mr. Henry Scudder, " called all his pupils into his chamber every evening for prayer, when he required us to give an account of the sermons we had heard on the Lord's day ; and when any of us were at a stand, he used to say, 'Whately, what say you ?' And he would repeat it as readily as if he had preached the sermon himself: but while this excited our tutor's hive and our wonder, it awakened our envy and ill-will."§ were apparent on the present occasion, his uprightness and his piety were certainly very deficient.--Prynne's Cant. Doome, p. 107, Whitiockis Mena. p. I2.-Le Neve's Lives, vol. i. part i. p. 144. Wharton's Troubles of Laud, vol. i. F. 554. Prynne's Cant. Dome, p. 108. t Clark's Lives annexed to Martyrologie, p. "308. S Scudder's Life of Mr. Whately, prefixed to his" Prototypes."
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