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and after the preaching “ such a sweet closing up of all.” He 
was thus always “full of power in God’s House,” and also 
“ profitable” in his own as well as other men’s. 
In manner he was grave without austerity, pleasant without 
levity, courteous without hypocrisy, and charitable almost without 
an equal.* 
From the parish registers it is found that at this time a rent 
was paid for the pews or seats in Wrington Church, a judicious 
proceeding, when so many strangers flocked to hear the great 
preacher, the renowned “ magazine of piety, and most accom- 
plished and triumphant servant of Jesus Christ.” But besides 
this the people of Wrington, “ did him right” in the matter of 
maintenance, and paid him their tithe, when it was withheld from 
all his neighbours, at a time when even the sound of the word 
was hateful, so that being a “ lover of hospitality,” being “ willing 
of himself,” and made “ able” by his parishioners, he saw much 
company. Having excellent and “ acute parts” and much wit, 
he was merry at table, yet free from “ unworthy or empty” 
discourse. Few men could draw after them so much affection 
and admiration. 
On the 4th of Dec., 1648, he was nominated to the less valuable 
Vicarage of Bouby (Boothby), in Lincolnshire, void by death,t 
and apparently refused it, as another was appointed a few days 
afterwards. He had at other times been offered promotion, with 
“accessories” of maintenance and honour, but had always declined 
to leave his beloved Wrington. 
His monument or tablet in the chancel of his Churcht records 
the death of his mourning widow, in 1658, and tells also that 
there are deposited the remains of this faithful unwearied pastor, 
this priceless and venerable man. 
* Brook’s Lives. 
+ Lords Journals, vol, 10. 
+ Collinson, 
