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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48431	The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.; Works. 1684	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.; G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696.; Strype, John, 1643-1737.	1684 (1684)	Wing L2051; ESTC R16617	4,059,437	2,607

years of age and he did not only understand but readily speak the Language This worthy Knight our Author often mentioned as his great Friend and a person of a most exemplary life as well as of great Learning and Judgment I have seen a Sermon of our Authors prepared to be Preached at his Funerals in which he bewails his death and complains at the close of it that he was hindred by the express Command of this worthy and modest Knight upon his death bed from saying any thing of him This may seem to be a digression but it is a very pardonable one it being designed only to take an occasion of speaking well of one who deserved well of the World and particularly of our learned Author whose incomparable learning and skill in the Hebrew affairs are under God in great measure owing to the Learned and Religious Gentleman Sir Rowland Cotton did whiles our Author preached at the place above named out of respect to his hopeful parts take him into his own family as his Chaplain There he laid the foundation of his Rabbinical Learning for which he is justly renowned not only here in England but beyond the Seas And that which put him upon it as our Author himself would frequently relate it was this Sir Rowland would often question him in that Language in which our Author was then but a Novice and this after some time wrought upon him so effectually that out of shame and indignation that he wanted that Learning which his Patron had he set himself close to the Study of the Tongues and the Hebrew especially He was ashamed to be baffled as he confessed he often was by a Country Gentleman and that also in a piece of Learning which he by his Profession and his Character was much more obliged to attain to than his Patron could be supposed to be And this was the occasion of his applying himself to those very useful Studies to which otherwise probably he would have continued a stranger In his Studies in this Family he made a great progress and was greatly cherished in them by his Patron to whom he was always very dear With him he continued at Bellaport till Sir Rowland left the Country and went to reside at London with his Family at the request of Sir Allen Cotton his Fathers younger Brother who was Lord Mayor of the City Within a little while our Author followed his Patron to the City He continued not long there before he returned into the Country again and visited his Father and Mother at Uttoxetar above named of whom he took a solemn leave with a resolution to travel beyond the Seas to their no little sorrow But having left his Father and Mother and travailing as far as Stone in the County of Stafford which place was then destitute of a Minister he was by the importunity of those who were concerned perswaded to accept of that place And so he did and forthwith set his Parents at ease by letting them know that his Travels were now at an End At this place he continued two years or thereabouts During this time May 21. 1628. he married Joice the Daughter of William Crompton of Stone Park Esq and Widow of George Copwood of Dilverne in the County of Stafford Gentleman From Stone our Author removed to Hornsey near the City of London for the sake of the Library of Sion College to which he often resorted and from thence in the Spring Anno Domini 1630. he and his Family came to Uttoxetar aforesaid where he continued till the September following when Sir Rowland Cotton preferred him to the Rectory of Ashley in the County of Stafford Here our Author continued in great esteem for the space of twelve years and here he very much pursued his Rabbinical Studies And to that end he bought a small piece of Land lying near unto his Parsonage-house where he built a small House in the midst of a Garden containing a Study and withdrawing room below and a lodging Chamber above Here he closely followed his said Studies with great delight and unwearied diligence and did choose to lodge here very often though it were so near to his Family and Parsonage House He continued in this place till June Anno Domini 1642. when upon what occasion soever it was most probably being called up to the Assembly of Divines unwillingly he seems to leave his abode and Country and became a kind of Exile in London as we may collect from his Epistle before his Handful of Gleanings upon Exodus Where he thus bespeaks the Parishoners of S. Bartholomews behind the Exchange That when exiled from his own they made him theirs But in this his destitute state it seems he continued not long His parts and worth like a great light could not be hid but soon were taken notice of in the City So that he became Minister to the Inhabitants of the Parish aforesaid Where as we learn from that Epistle their first meeting was with extraordinary kindness and the same mutual affection abated not between them About this time it was also that another employment was laid upon him namely to be a Member of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster Whether I shall now follow him and give some account of his carriage and demeanour there In the year 1643. The Ministers of the City of London met together to consult whether they should preach on the Christmas day following as they had been wont to do or take no notice at all of the day One of them whom I shall not name of great Autority among them was against their Preaching and was very near prevailing with the rest of his Brethren to forbear Our Author was at that meeting being at that time Minister at St. Bartholomews aforesaid who was so far from consenting to the advice of that person who gave it that he took him aside and argued the Point with him and did not only maintain the lawfulness of the thing in question but the expedience of it also and shewed that the omitting it would be of dangerous consequence and would reflect very much upon those Men who made profession of no other design but reforming what was culpable and faulty In a word he so far prevailed with the Company that when it was put to the question it was carried in the Affirmative and there were not above four or five of the whole who dissented I forbear to mention the particular arguments which our Author made use of which I could easily have done because I do not mention it as an instance of his Learning that he was able to maintain this cause than which no thing can be thought more defensible but only to let the Reader know that though our Author lived in the late unhappy times and conversed with Men who were extravagantly bent upon extreams yet he did not want courage and integrity in standing against the stream In the debates of that Assembly at Westminster our Author used the