468 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. better !" and so I hope also, replied Mr. Cruso. " Only remember," continued Mr. Bowles " to keep a good con- science, and walk closely with God." These last words he twice repeated with considerable emphasis, that it might make a deeper impression upon his mind.. Jong FISN, A. M.-This worthy minister was born in St. James's parish, Suffolk, in the year 1601, and educated in Emanuel college, Cambridge. His ancestors were eminent for zeal in the cause of Christ, several of whom were sorely persecuted in the sanguinary days of Queen Mary.+ He was the eldest of for children, all of whom afterwards went to NewEngland. He was blessed with pious parents, who devoted him to the Lord from a child ; and after finishing his academical pursuits at Cambridge, he entered into the ministry. But the persecution of all who could not conform, being at that time extremely hot, he was presently silenced for nonconformity. He afterwards prac- tised physic ; but at length removed to New England, where he had an opportunity of preaching without the impositions and oppressions of men. He took shipping hi disguise, with the excellent Mr. John Allin, to avoid the fury of their persecutors. Having passed the land's end, theymade themselves known, and entertained thepassengers with two sermons every day, besides other devotional exer- cises. Indeed, the whole voyage was so much devoted to the exercises of religion, that when one of the passengers Theolog. and Bib. Mag. vol. iv. p. 135, l39 + Among these ancestors there were six brothers, three of whom were papists, and three were protestants ; but the papists disowned their brethren. Two of the protestant brothers were sorely persecuted, of whom the following anecdotes are related ;-One of them being in the utmost danger, and the pursuivant having great respect for him, sent him private information of his coming to apprehend him ; upon which the good man immediately called his family together for prayer, and then hastened to hide himself in a ditch, together with his pious wife with a sucking child at the breast. Here they were upon the point of being discovered. For the pursuivant was near at band, and, by leaping into the ditch, a thorn in the hedge so deeply marked the child's face, that it never wore out; at which the child began to cry aloud, when the mother pre- sently clapt it to the breast, whereby it immediately became quiet, and so they remained undiscovered.-Another of these brethren, at the same time, to avoid burning, hid himself many months in a pile of wood ; then, for half a year, in a cellar, where he was diligently employed in his wonted manufactory, by candle light, so as to remain in like manner undiscovered. But his numerous hardships shortened his days, put an end to his life,and added to the number of those whose blood cried aloud for veuvance,- /Ifather's Hist. of New Eng. b. iii. p. 141.
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