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This lady proved to be a prudent, loving and tender wife, 
zealous and active for his comfort in all things, a “ meet helper, 
indeed, all the days of their conjugal lives.”* 
The first years of his residence passed tranquilly enough, 
Occupying much time in his study he from time to time published 
an occasional work. The first was “ A Guide unto True Blessed- 
nesse,” &¢. Svo., 1613. This is dedicated to Sir Arthur Capel, 
Knight, his “singular good patrone,” and addressed to all 
Christian readers, especially those of “ my charge, inhabitants of 
Wrington, in Somersetshire.” After this, in the same year, there 
was an epitome of this Guide, entitled, “‘ A Briefe Direction to 
True Happinesse, for the more Convenient Use of Private Families 
and Instruction of the Yonger Sort.” And then the three 
following Sermons, all 8vo., 1615 :—‘“ The Waking Sleeper,” from 
Cant. v., 2; “The Ministerial Husbandry and Building,” from 
1 Cor. iii., 9, preached at the Triennall Visitation at Bath, July 
30th, 1612; and “ The Discovery of the Heart,” from Matt. vi, 
21, “in a sermon preached unto an honourable assembly at Bath,” 
19th September, 1613; also in 1619, 8vo., “ Death Subdued, or 
the Death of Death,” from Hosea xiii., 14, preached on Ascension 
Day, 1619+. At his death he left unpublished on account of the 
troubled times, another work which was afterwards printed in 
two parts, folio, 1658, entitled “ Divine Characters,” distinguish- 
ing the more secret differences between——1. The hypocrite in his 
best dresse of seeming virtues and the true Christian in his real 
graces, 2. Between the Blackest weeds of dayly infirmities of 
the truly Godly and the reigning sinnes of the unregenerate that 
pretend unto godlinesse. 
Always active and energetic in his ministerial work, he was the 
first to introduce catechising as a means of instruction. It was 
for this purpose that he published his second book, “ The Guide 
* Anthologia., + Bodleian. 
+ Bibliotheca Britan, 
