To t qleader. where he did much good, and the people there, though now it is long fnCe, and many are gone,yet they have a very precious and dyep remembrance ofhim, oftke nighty power of God by him to this day. But W. Lawd then Bijhop of London foonflops his mouth, and drove him away, as be did many other godly Minifters fromE(1cx at thefame time. After this be lived pr Butter chrome in York4Hire, at Sir Richard 1 rleys boule,till the Iniat ity ofthole ties hunted him thence all. Then he went to Nor- thumberland tillfilenced there alto ; andbeing thus anolefted and chafedup anddown at home, hefled to New, Enp,1,,nd, and afterArne difficulties andde- layes, by great flornis and difaiters at Sea upon the Sand c and Coafls of Yarmouth, which retardedhis voyage till another year, he arrived there at laft ; where 1 e was Pajior to a precious flock- at Gm- (bridge about fourteen yeers. He was but 46. or 47. years old when be dyed. His ficknefje began with a fore throat; and then a (quinacy, and then a fever, whereof be dyed August 25. 1649, This was one t? ing hefaid upon his deathbed, Lord, I am vile, but thou art righteous ; and to thole that were ,about him, he bade them love yelus Chrift dearly, that littlepart that Ihave in him, is no (mall com- fort to me now. His manner ofpreaching was clofe andfearching, and with abundance of aff~eú it n and covnpaffion to his hearers. He tookgreat pains in his preparati- ons for his publick lahOurs, accounting it a turfed thing to do the work of the Lord negligently ; anti therefore pend;rrgufiraly twoor three whole dayes in preparing for the work of-the Sabbath, had bis Ser- mons f nift.ed ujualy onSaturday by two ofthe clock F bath f meti»te expreft himfelf thus in ,pubfick; g 00
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