KNOLLYS. 491 pray do not sit so much at the table as to forget the shelf. Let not earth by any means thrust heaven out of your mind." Mr. Elliot was an avowed enemy to all contention, and a great composer of differences. His advice was, often sought in difficult cases ; and when any minister complained of such cases among his people, he used to say, " Brother, compass them. Brother, learn the meaning of those three little words bear ; forbear; forgive.". He was a man of great piety, uncommon zeal in the cause of Christ, and almost unbounded charity. When he was quite sunk with age and hard labour, being asked how he did, he replied, " Alas ! I have lost almost every thing; my under- standing leaves me, my memory fails me, my utterance fails me ; but, I thank God, my charity holds out still : I find that rather grows than fails." He lived till he was quite worn out, and used pleasantly to say, " My old acquaintance are gone to heaven so long before me, that I am afraid they will think I am gone the wrong way, because I stay so long behind."t In addi-. tion to the articles already mentioned, he was author of " The Harmony of the Gospels, in the Holy History of Jesus Christ;" and " The Divine Management of Gospel Churches." HANSERD KNOLLYS.-This pious and venerable divine was born at Cawkwell in Lincolnshire, in the year 1598, and educated in the universityof Cambridge. He had the privi- lege of pious parents, who were careful to have him instructed betimes in the principles of religion and good literature. His behaviour at the university, where he became a graduate, was particularly exemplary. He divided his time between study, conversation, and religious duties ; and though he had been long noticed for his pious disposition, he attributed his con- version to the sermons which he there heard. It was at Cambridge, most probably, that he receivedhis first tincture of puritanism ; as he conversed chiefly with persons of that persuasion. Having finished his studies at the university, he AN as chosen master of the free-school at Gainsborough in his native county. June 29, 1629, Mr. Knollys was ordained deacon, and the day following presbyter, bythe Bishop of Peterborough; soon Mather's Hist. of New England, b. iii. p. 190-206. f Neal's Hist. ofNew England, vol. it p. 471.
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