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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