Biographia Evangelica Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: his age, he yielded up his spirit to God; and, according to his own expression, " celebrated the ensuing Sabbath " in the kingdom of heaven." Readkk, pray that thou mayest thus follow them who, through faith and patience, inherit the Promises! ARTHUR HILDERSHAM. Arthur Hildersham was bom at stechworth, near Newmarket, in Cambridgeshire, October the sixth 1563. He was the son of Thomas Hildersham of the said town, (a gentleman of an ancient family) and Ann Poole, his second wife, daughter to Sir Jeffery Poole, fourth son to Sir Richard Poole (who was cousin-german to King Henry VII ) and Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, who was daughter to George, Duke of Clarence, (the second brother to King Edward IV.) and Isabel, the eldest daughter and co-heir of Richard, the great Earl of Warwick and Salisbury. Thus .much for his birth. His education was as follows: In his childhood he was brought up in the popish religion, taught to say his prayers in Latin; both his parents and their kindred, especially his mother, being zealous papists. When he was to be sent abroad to school, his father's aim was only to send him to a good school, where many gentlemen's sons were taught; but God so ordered it, (by his good providence) that his father placed him at Saffron-Walden school in Essex, with one Mr. Desborough, a godly man and a religious protestant, who, taking great affection to him for his wit and disposition, was very careful of him, and taught him not only such human learning as was fitting for his years, but the grounds of the protestant religion. This school-master was the first blessed instrument God was pleased to make use of, to work in him a liking and relish of the reformed religion. He continued with him till he was fit for the university, which was not long. When he was a...