Abel redevivus: or, the dead yet speaking. The lives and deaths of the moderne divines / Written by severall able and learned men (whose names ye shall finde in the epistle to the reader.) And now digested into one volumne [by Thomas Fuller, who wrote some of the lives. With verses by F. and J. Quarles] For the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the paths of pieti and virtue.

  • Thomas Fuller
Date:
1651
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Credit: Abel redevivus: or, the dead yet speaking. The lives and deaths of the moderne divines / Written by severall able and learned men (whose names ye shall finde in the epistle to the reader.) And now digested into one volumne [by Thomas Fuller, who wrote some of the lives. With verses by F. and J. Quarles] For the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the paths of pieti and virtue. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | pious man was born of worthy and religious Parents, by Wy | e Fr. cy) whom he enjoyed thats choyce blefling and happineffe ) ee of ingenuc us & godly education and example. His Father MreTbomas Willet was in his-yonger time Subalmoner unto King Edward the fixt, while Doétor Caxe was chiefe Almo- ner,and Schoolmafterto that royall Prince, who was pre- ry res(co ufe Tertullian’s words) a faire-flourifhing and {weet- {melling flower foon withered‘and taken away. _ The fad times of perfecution under Queene Mary then fucceeding , King Edwards. Almoner and Subalmoner, with many more were not onely forced from Court, but th’one from his Country, the’other from his comfort of his wife and family, for the fafety of their lives and con{ci- Her till chat ‘cloud was blowne over and Queene Mary ead. : ben Bey het pik and miracle of, the World, Queen Elizabeth : Exiles re- turned home; amongft them DottorCoxey who was ad- vanced to the Bifhoprick of’ Ely; and foow after preferred he his old Chaplaine Mafter Willet, this Dogtors Father to a i) Prebend in that Church, and to the Parfonage of Barley in | Hertfordjbire, both which ‘in his old age he refigned unto bh Ambrofi. | this his Son, who'lived and dyed in them, !'nevet‘having 1. de Ave | ambitioufly hunted after higher prometions, + which i ad.Rranf he rather ftudied to deferve then to obtaine, obferve eae ing how in ordinary courfes fome * enjoy preferments : others merit them: yet hewenton fo cheerfully in his praife- worthy labours, as ifhis'pains had been his pay- ment ; according to that reafon given by fome, why they that bore the heat and burthen of the day had but equal] | pay with him chat came atthe laft hour into the Vinyard, Fipcant.mof |. Matth. 20. 12.1 Becaule (fay they their workeis reckoned m3: Hs | into their wagesyit being no little honourto be fo imp! dy- ed. of God. : This Di Gor was both borm and bred inthe Towne or City of Ely, lying: within the Fens of Cambridgefbites a,