WIIITING---WIIEELIITRIG Ills. 473 the following pious reflection : 64 We have left our friends who were near and dear unto us; but if we can get nearer to God, he will be unto us more than all. In him there is a fulness of all the sweetest relations. We may find in God whatsoever we have forsaken, whether fathers, or mothers, or brethren, or sisters, or friends, who have been near and dear to our souls."* He had no sooner arrived in the new colony than he was chosen pastor of the church at Lynn, where he spent the remainder of his days. The following year Mr. Thomas Cobbet, another puritan minister, going to New England, became his colleague in the pastoral office. They lived together in mutual love and attachment twenty years, until Mr. Cobbet removed to Ipswich. Towards the close of life, Mr. Whiting's youngest son became his assistant; and during the last twenty years he was much afflicted with.the stone in the bladder, which he bore with exemplary pati- ence. Though he enjoyed scarcely one day of perfect ease through the whole of this period, he was never hindered one day from attending upon his public ministerial exer- cises. He died December 11, 1679, aged eighty-two years. He was a person of exemplary meekness, holiness, and peace; a bard student, and an excellent scholar, especially in Latin and Hebrew.t He was author of " A Discourse on the last Judgment," 1664; and " Sermons on the Prayer of Abraham." JOHN WHEELWRIGHT was minister at some place in Lincolnshire, where he was instrumental in the conversion of many souls, and highly esteemed among serious chris- tians, but was silenced for his nonconformity. After hewas silenced, he lived privately, for some time, near Lincoln, but, on account of the oppressions of the times, was obliged to remove from one place to another.: Finding no rest for the sole of his foot, he withdrew from the scenes of persecu- tion, and retired to New England. We do not, indeed, find in what particular year he crossed the Atlantic, but it is certain he was among some of the first settlers in the new colony. In the year 1629, part of the present state of New Hampshire in New England was purchased of the Indians, when a deed was obtained from them by Mr. Wheelwright ,and others from Massachusets. Before the year 1637, ti Mather's Hist. of New Eng. b. iii. p.157, 158. + Ibid. p. 158-160. Life of Mr. Hansard Knollys, p.11. Edit. 1692.
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