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A47565	The life and death of that old disciple of Jesus Christ and eminent minister of the Gospel Mr. Hanserd Knollys who dyed in the ninety third year of his age written with his own hand to the year 1672 ; and continued in general in an epistle by Mr. William Kiffin.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing K715; ESTC R25128	24,815	65

Bodies of several persons who were suddainly restored to health immediately in time of Prayer with them or by and through Faith in Jesus Christ especially in this City of London and of the Sickness called the Plague both in former years and in the year 1665. Not to me but to God be given Glory and praise for in his Name through Faith in his Name they were healed 3. By inabling me standing by me and strengthning me by his Holy Spirit and sanctifying Grace to preach the Gospel in season and out of season with all boldness neither being ashamed nor afraid to bear my Testimony for Christ his Gospel Churches Ministry Worship and Ordinances against the Antichristian Powers Ministers Worshippers and Traditions of the Beast the great mystical Whore and the false Prophet Nor have I been terrified by the Adversary By virtue of the Acts of Parliament touching private Meetings and Conventicles Commencing May the 10th 1670. I was taken at a Meeting in George-yard and the then Lord Mayor committed me to the Compter in Bishops gate for preaching there but having Favour in the Eyes of the Keepers I had liberty to preach to the Prisoners there twice every day of the Week in the common Hall where most of the Prisoners came and heard me and some of them blessed God that ever I came to that Prison Soon after I was set at Liberty at the Sessions in Old-Baily God made me his Prisoner by a sharp and painful Distemper in my Bowels called the griping of the Guts and he brought me near to the Grave But in time of my greatest Extremity God remembred Mercy forgave mine Iniquity healed my Disease and restored my Life from Death No Tongue can express my pains yet God gave me much patience wherein I possessed my Soul I had 1. A very clear Discovery from the Lord of the Cause why he so contended with me one was the meritorious Cause of some former Visitations and especially of this sore Disease 2. I saw the Sin of my sinful Nature which was not so Crucified as that it was destroyed but I found some motions of it of late stirring in my sinful heart The Sence of this was a very sore burden and trouble to my Soul in this day of my Calamity for which I mourned in secret before the Lord and lay at the Throne of Grace loathing my self and begging that God would kill that Sin and destroy it and all the rest of my Sins And received this answer his Grace was sufficient for me he had pardoned and he would subdue and destroy that and all other mine Iniquities according to his everlasting Covenant of free Grace Satan was sometimes very busy during this time of Sickness and tempted me sorely in the Night season sometimes suggesting to me that I was but an Hypocrite at other times that my Evidences for Heaven were not good whom God helped me to resist steadfastly in the Faith and he fled away Another cause why the Lord now contended with me was for the Tryal and Exercise of my Graces which he had given me It was the Tryal of my Faith and the exercise of my Patience and that I might be to his praise and an example unto weak Believers whose Eyes were upon me and were observing and hearkning how I did behave my self under all the great Rebukes and Chastisements of the Lord upon me For they had heard that God had taken one Grand-Child away by Death and Visited another who was above 16 years old with the Small-pox and she was likely to die and one Son died and was Buried during my Sickness and mine Eldest Son was dead and Buried in the Country whereof I was told before I was Recovered my other Sons Wife had sore Labour a Dead-Man-Child and she likely to die And my dear loving Wife then began to be sorely afflicted with a pain and swelling in her Face of which she since Died. But God did give a proportionable measure of Faith and Patience to me his poor unworthy Servant under all this his fatherly Chastisements He did strengthen me with strength in my Soul and upheld me with the right hand of his Righteousness so that I fainted not nor was I weary His Rod and his Staff did comfort me He brought out my Will unto a free Submission Subjection and Resignation to his own most wise and holy Will Yea my Facher's Visitations did so preserve my Soul that I did sing and rejoyce under the sights and smiles of Christ even whilst I was sighing and sorrowing for my transgressions Two learned well practised and judicious Doctors of Physick had daily visited me and consulted my Cure sereral days together and I was fully perswaded that they did what possibly they could to effect a Cure And knew also that God did not succeed their honest and faithful Endeavours with his Blessing Although God had given a signal and singular Testimony of his special Blessing by each of them unto others of their Patients at least sixteen at the same time I resolved to take no more Physick but would apply to that holy Ordinance of God appointed by Jesus Christ the great Physician of value Jam. 5.14 15. And I got Mr. Kiffin Mr. Vavasor Powel who prayed over me and anointed me with Oyl in the Name of the Lord And the Lord did hear Prayer and heal me For there were very many godly Ministers and gracious Saints that prayed day and night for me with submission to the Will of God that the Lord would spare my life and heal me and make me more useful and serviceable to the Lord to the Church and to the Saints whose Prayers God heard and as an Answer of their Prayers I was perfectly healed but remained weak long after My dear Wife remained weak and full of pain and was very greatly afflicted with pain day and night but the Lord gave her a great measure of Faith and Patience even to the end She enjoyed the Light of Gods Countenance had full Assurance of Gods Love the Pardon of her Sins and of eternal Life And having patiently endured six months sore pains upon the thirtieth of the second month called April 1671. being the Lords Day about four or five a clock slept in Jesus I was doing my Masters Work at that time in the Congregation and toward the end of my Sermon had a strong impulse upon my Spirit That my dear Wife was departing and in my Prayer after Sermon was drawn forth by Faith to commend her to God that gave her me and blessed him for receiving her Soul into Abrahams bosom and placing her among the Spirits of just men made perfect in the Paradise of God Since the death of my dear Wife it hath pleased God to stretch forth his Hand upon my only Son then living and to afflict him with a deep Consumption occasioned as I judge by Grief for his dearly loving and beloved Mother for he drooped ever since she first was taken ill of

had seven pounds that was given us by some Christian Friends I had spoken to some of those Friends to get me some Scholars and I would get me a convenient place to teach School for I had rather work for my Bread than be maintained by the Charity of good Christians One morning came a Friend and told me a School-master on great Tower-hill dyed last night and if I would come presently I might probably get some of his Scholars so I went and got three or four Scholars that day and there I had a great School and continued till I was chosen Master of Mary-Axe Free-School whither I carried sixty Scholars from great Tower-hill and within one year I had above seven-score Scholars and sixteen Boarders which Free-School and all the Benefits thereof I left to go into the Parliaments Army and preached freely to the common Souldiers till I did perceive the Commanders sought their own things more than the Cause of God and his People breaking their Vows and solemn Engagements Whereupon I left the Army and came to London again shortly after the Committee for plundred Ministers sent their Warrant to the then Keeper in Ely-House to apprehend me and bring me in safe Custody before them who took me out of my House carried me to Ely-House and there kept me Prisoner several days without any Bail and at last carried me before the Committee who asked me several Questions to which I gave them sober and direct Answers Among others the Chairman Mr. White asked me who gave me Authority to preach I told him the Lord Jesus Christ then he asked me if I were a Minister I answered I was made a Priest by the Pre●ate of Peterborow but I had Renounced ●hat Ordination and I did here again Re●ounce the same They asked me by what Authority I preached in Bow-Church I told them after I had refused the desire of the then Churchwardens three times one day after another their want of Supply and Earnestness prevailed with me and I went ●hither They opened the Pulpit-door and I went up and preached upon Isa 58. and gave them such an account of that Sermon thirty Ministers of the Assembly of Divines then so called being present that they could not gainsay but bad me withdraw and said nothing unto me nor would my Jaylor take any charge of me for the Committee had called for him and did chide him and threaten to turn him out of his Place for keeping me Prisoner so many days So I went away without any blame or paying of any Fees Not long ●fter I was brought before the Committee of Examinations being accused to them that I occasioned great disturbance to Ministers and People in Suffolk which I gave so good and satisfactory an Account of to them that upon their Report thereof to the House of Common● they Ordered That I might preach in any part of Suffolk when the Minister of that place did no● preach which was all I got for 60 l. which that trouble cost me to clear my Innocence and the Honour of the Gospel which Expence I put upon Christ's score for whose Gospel and preaching Jesus Christ upo● that Text Col. 3.11 But Christ is all and i● all I was stoned out of the Pulpit an● persecuted at a privy Sessions and fetched out of the Country 60 Miles up to London and was constrained to bring up four o● five Witnesses of good Repute and Credit to prove and vindicate my self from false Accusations Some time after that I was summoned before a Committee in the Chamber called the Queens Court at Westminster whereof Mr. Leigh was Chair-man for preaching without holy Orders To which I answered that I was in holy Orders Some of the Committee told rhe Chairman I had Renounced my Ordination by the Bishop in the Committee for plundred Ministers I confessed that I did so but I was Ordained since in a Church of God according to the Order of the Gospel of Christ the Manner whereof I then declared to the Committee before Mr. Nye and other Ministers there present But at last the Committee by their Chairman commanded me to preach no more I told them I would preach the Gospel both publickly and from house to house for it was more equal to obey Christ who had commanded me than them who forbid me and so I went away and ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ and him crucified I was then Pastor to a Church which I had gathered two or three years before in the year 1645. with whom I have walked ever since except that I was absent from the Church sometimes upon just Occasions and with their leave or forced from them by violent Persecution my chiefest means of Livelihood hath been by Teaching School wherein God was pleased to make me serviceable in my Generation to communicate liberally to the Poor of the Church and to Strangers that stood in need and plentifully to provide all things necessary and convenient for my Wife and Children through God's Blessing upon my honest Labours I received from the Church always according to their Ability most of the Members of the Church being poor but I coveted no mans Gold nor Silver but chose rather to labour knowing it is more blessed to give than to receive And I did not wholly neglect my Duty as a Pastor but preached two or three times a week and visited the Members of the Church from house to house especially when they were sick And during twenty five years now past the Church hath continued in the Apostles Doctrine Fellowship and in breaking of Bread and in Prayer without Division and Separation of any part thereof or Party therein Though some few particular Members being led away by some Errour in their Judgment have forsaken the Assembling of themselves with the Church as the manner of some is and was in the Apostles time In the year 1660. upon Venners Rising and others that with him made an Insurrection in the City of London my self and many other godly and peaceable persons were taken out of their own dwelling houses and brought to Woodstreet-Counter and many to Newgate and other Prisons though we were innocent and knew not of their Design at which time I suffered Imprisonment 18 weeks till we were delivered by an Act of Pardon upon the Kings Coronation unto all Offenders except Murderers We were above four hundred Prisoners kept all this time in Newgate because we refused to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy After I was set at Liberty out of Prison I went to Holland and thence up into Germany with my Wife and two of my Children where we sojourned about two or three years and in my Absence one Col. Legge a Bed-chamber Man and Lieutenant of the Ordnance charged me in the Court of Exchequer for keeping a House and Ground from the King against whom I stood Suit by my Attorney But when Col. Legge could not get my House from me by Law he and