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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

The true Effigies of the late Reverend Divine Mr. HANSERD KNOLLIS Aetatis suae 93. F. H. van Hove sculp 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. VVilliam Kiffin To which is added His last Legacy to the Church LONDON Printed for John Harris at the Harrow in the Poultrey 1692. 〈…〉 FUIMUS The Right honble Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill Son Heir Apparent of Thomas Earl of Ailesbury Baron Bruce of Whorleton THE EPISTLE TO THE READER IT was the special Charge God gave to his people of old that the many signal Provioences and Mercies that they had received from him should by them be recorded and left to their Childrens Children to that end that the memorial of his goodness might cause them to love and fear his Name and therefore they are required to bless the Lord from the Fountain of Israel from the very beginning of all his Favours towards them and it is no small favour the Servants of God are made partakers of that his people of old have left so many testimonies of the gracious goodness and Providences of God towards them they being a means to strengthen the Faith of his People in a dependency upon him in all those variety of dispensations that do attend them in this World that whatever troubles they meet withall in this Life they may know that God deals no otherwise with them than be hath done to those that formerly have feared his Name and may be comforted with the same comforts and supports which his Servants formerly have received from God The Author of these ensuing Experiences was that ancient and faithful Servant of God Mr. Hanserd Knollys who departed this Life in the 93d year of his Age having bin employed in the Works and Service of Christ as a faithful Minister for above 60 Years in which time he laboured without fainting under all the discouragements that attended him being contented in all conditions tho' never so poor in this World under all persecutions and sufferings so he might therein serve his blessed Lord and Saviour I have my self known him for above 54 years and can witness to the Truth of many things left by him under his own hand st is great pity that the last 20 years of his Life cannot be found amongst his Writings which to the knowledge of many were attended with the same fufferings as formerly and with the same holy Behaviours under them he in that time was a Prisoner in the New-Prison for the Truths sake many months where with great chearfulness he remained comforting and encouraging all that came to visit him with many blessed Exhortations to cleave to the Lord none were sent empty away without some spiritual Instructions and many of his Fellow-prisoners were greatly strengthened and comforted by that heavenly Counsel that dropped from his lsps spending much of his time there in Prayer and Study of the Word of God daily preaching to them the things that concern the Kingdom of God He was chosen an Elder to a Congregation in London with whom he laboured for near 50 years under many difficulties that dsd attend him but neither the poverty of the Church nor the Persecutions that attended him were any temptation to him to neglect his Duty towards them but was willing to be poor with them in their poverty and to suffer with them in their sufferings being willing to labour for his own and his Families Bread by keeping a School when they were not able to supply his wants altho he wanted not opportunity to have advanced himself in the World if he would have accepted of them but like a faithful Pastor he chose rather to be poor and suffer affliction than to leave the Duty and Work he was called unto in which he was employed untill he arrived to the age of above Ninety years and when he found weaknesses attend him his love and affection to that poor Church was such that he was daily exercising his thoughts to have an able Minister for them in his room declaring to several of his Friends what great satisfaction it would be to him to see one settled amongst them and that he would be willing to part with something of that little which he had if there was need for his Maintenance of the Church towards the supply of him And it pleased God to provide one for them to his great satisfaction and rejoycing And so great was his natural affection and tender care for his Daughter and Grand-children who he knew were like to come to some distress that he did accordingly at that great Age again undertake the Teaching of a School that he might do to the uttermost of his ability to provide for them And having finished his Work he fell asleep in the Lord the 19th of September 1691. That these Experiences may be of use to all those that read the same is the Desire and Prayer of Thine in the Lord William Kiffin THE LIFE and DEATH OF Mr. Hanserd Knollys I Hanserd Knollys was Born at Calkwell near Loweth in Lincoln-shire and was removed thence with my Parents to Schartho near Market Grymsby in the same County About the sixth Year of my Age I fell into a great Pond and was preserved from being drowned by the water bearing up my Coats till my Father came leaped in and pulled me out About the tenth Year of my Age I having construed the 35th chap. of Jeremiah in my Latin Bible to my Father he took occasion to disswade me from the love and use of strong Drink and said he would give me 20 l. if I would drink water but withall told me he would not have me do it to the prejudice of my Health and charged me to make no Vow to God so to do for I did not understand how Sacred a thing a Vow is and how it did bind the Soul and it would be Sin not to perform my Vow whereupon I drunk water eleven years and never in all that time drank any Wine nor strong Drink About that time my Father kept a Tutor in his House to teach me and my Brother who was a godly and conscientious Young Man He gave us good Instructions for our Souls and convinced us of the Sin of Sabbath-breaking and of Disobedience to our Parents After my Father had preferred our Tutor to a place of greater Profit we went a little while to Grymsby Free-School till my Father got another Tutor for us into his House and one day going to the Free-School we fell out and fought upon which I was much convinced that we had sinned against God and against our Father who had often told us we were Brethren and ought not to Fall out by the way And I said Brother we have sinned come let us be Friends

that Distemper of Rhume which fell from her Head into her Face of which she dyed And he hath been worse and worse ever since she dyed And I having had great Expences and a great Charge of dear Relations and owing some considerable debts I was necessitated to teach School again in my old Age That I might pay my Debts succour my dear Relations and not be too great a burden to the Church of God And this I have willingly and chearfully undertaken that if Persecution do come upon me again which I expect and prepare for and I shall be haled to prison or forced to flye It may be my Mercy and Comfort as at all other times of my many removals in the days of my Pilgrlmage and Persecutions That no person shall have any occasion to come to me and say Pay me what you owe me before you go for I desire to owe no man any thing but Love and honestly to pay every man his own And if Death seize on my body that I may leave enough of my own behind me to pay all my Debts and a little for the Relief of Gods Poor and some of my poorest natural Relations I had a Summoning in June last to prepare my self for the Grave by a sudden and sore Fit of the Wind-Cholick and Vomiting And on the 3d of October last 1671. I had another Summons to be ready to depart this life by another sudden more violent tormenting Fit of the Wind-Cholick and Vomiting And I am alarmed by these awakening Visitations of the Lord to prepare and be ready That when my Lord and Master comes or calls for me to come to him I may be found so doing that he may say Well done thou good and faithful Servant enter thou also into the Joys of thy Master The next Tryal my heavenly Father saw needful for me to be exercised under was the Sickness and Death of my then only living Son my Isaac my most loving and beloved Son who was translated the 15th day of November 1671. which great Tryal and Loss God made gain to him and easie to me by a manifest and powerful Work of Conversion Repentance and Faith upon his Soul in the time of his Sickness which administred much Comfort to me so that I sorrowed not for him as one without hope who exercised very great patience under his very great pain soreness and burning Feaver whilst his flesh marrow and moisture consumed and acted Faith and Hope very lively and constantly upon Christ in that Word John 6.37 And him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast off Very often expressing his former bondage and slavery to Sin and Sathan which he bewailed and acknowledged often Gods free and rich Grace in giving him Christ and Pardon and Salvation now at last which he had neglected the Offers and Tenders of so often Some Combats he had but after a manifestation of Christ to his Soul he dyed in Faith and Peace And albeit my natural Affections caused me to weep often and the sense of Gods Hand Rod upon me caused me to mourn very much in secret yet the Almighty by his Rod and Staff did so comfort me that I walked through this Valley also of the shadow of Death without fear of Evil and was assisted and enabled to perform the Work of my Ministry in the Congregation without any omission or interruption And that very Night my only Son dyed the Lord brought to my mind that Scripture Mic. 7.14 Feed thy people with thy Rod which was made a seasonable suitable and powerful Word by the Teachings of the holy Spirit unto my Soul in my solitary Condition Who thus administred Food yea and a Feast also to my Soul For by this Rod of God I had served into my Soul a Dish of sour or bitter Herbs I mean sorrow for my sins but I fed also on the Paschal Lamb in whole blood I saw all my sins washed away And the Spirit of God witnessed with my Spirit that I was the Child of God and one of those Children with whom God will keep Covenant and not take away his Love from me though he visited my Transgressions with the Rod and mine iniquities with stripes Psal 89.28 34. which Scripture was then brought again with power upon my Heart The next Dish of spiritual Food under this Rod which God brought me or sent me by his Spirit in his Word to feed upon was full of Love Then that holy Scripture came to me not in word only Rev. 3.19 20. but in Power and in the Spirit and in much Assurance wherein in he shewed me his Face and I saw my Fathers Face in that Glass of the Gospel Heb. 12.6 7. which the holy Spirit held forth to me by this Rod and shed abroad in my heart the Love of the Father in his Son Jesus Christ After this the next day God gave me a Dish of spiritual Fruits by this Rod to feed upon served up in that holy Scripture No affliction at the present is joyous but grievous but the fruit thereof shall be peace and righteousness to them that have been exercised therein And after God had thus fed me feasted me several days and nights together with this his Rod he very graciously pronounced his Blessing upon me by his Rod in these words Blessed is the man whom thou correctest and teachest out of thy Law or Word unto which I was helped heartily to say Amen It 's good for me to be and that I have been afflicted c. And after God had communed with me from his Mercy-seat and had instructed me I experienced such Divine Loves shinings and spiritual sweetness as Jonathan did when he tasted a little Honey-dew on the End of the Rod in his hand and was enlightned and refreshed So that I was enlivened or revived fed and feasted by the Rod and Word even the Bond of Gods everlasting Covenant of free Grace and Love About 4 or 5 months after the Death of my Son his Wife married a Gentleman of 300 l. per annum and left me engaged to receive and pay all my Sons Debts and to preserve his Credit and his Wife 's I borrowed 200 l. to help to pay his Debts and suffered the loss thereof which necessitated me still to keep School to pay my Debts And I having a Grand-daughter with me three years before she being nineteen years old did take the Charge of my Houshold-affairs and of my Boarders who managed all things with so much discretion that my life was very comfortable and I had great Content In Septemb. 1672. my only Daughters Husband went by her consent into the Country and left her Thus far was written with his own hand and there we must be forced to break off tho' abruptly the remaining part of his Life written by himself as this was being as Mr. Kiffin mentions in his Preface unhappily lost which because 't is ●mpossible to be supplied by any Hand so particularly