190 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. Quakers, with whom his wife united,* and from whom he expected great things, but did not unite with them. He had formerly laboured under a sore affliction, which had deeply affected his head ; previous to which he was a man of good parts and an excellent scholar, zealous and suc- cessful in his ministry, and particularly grave and religious in his life.t Mr. Christopher Love thus observes : " As for Mr. Erbery, though he is fallen into dangerous opinioni; yet, he being my spiritual father, I do naturally care for him ; and my heart cleaves more to him than to any man in the world. I speak to the praise of God, hewas the instru- ment of my conversion nearly twenty years ago, and the means of my education at the university , for which kind- ness, the half of what I have in the world I could readily part with for his relief. It is true, about eight or nine year's since, he was plundered in Wales, and came to see me at Windsor castle ; but a son could not make more of a father than I did of him, according to my ability. When I had not twelve pounds in the world, I let him have six ofit; and I procured him to bechaplain to Major Skippon's regiment, where he had eight shillings per day."# He is characterized by those of his own persuasion, as a holy and harmless person, for which the world hated him.¢ He died in the month of April, 1654, aged fifty years. His WORKS.-1. The great Mysterie of Godliness: Jesus Christ our Lord God and Man, and Man with God, one in Jesus Christ our Lord, 1640.-2. Ministers for Tythes, proving they are no Mnisters of the Gospel, 1653.-3. Sermons on several Occasions, one of which is entitled, " The Lord of Hosts," 1653.-4. An Olive Leaf: or, some peaceable Considerations to the Christian Meeting at Christ's Church in London, 1654.-5. The Reign of Christ, and the. Saints with him on Earth a Thousand Years, one Day, and the Day at hand, 1654.-6. The Testimony of William Erbery, left upon Record for the Saints of succeeding Ages, 1658.-This contains several of the foregoing pieces. JEREMIAH WHITAKER, A. M.-This excellent person was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire, in the year 1599, and educated in Sidney college, Cambridge, where he was held in high estimation. Hewas religiously thoughtful from a child ; and when a boy at school he used to travel, in com- panywith others, eight or ten miles to hear the gospel,and unite with them in prayer and other religious exercises. Biog. Briton. vol. v. p. 3199. Edit. 1747. + MS. Account. t Love's Vindication, p. 36. Edit. 1651. § Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. ii. p. 104.
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