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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

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