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better life. 'Tis now too late to wish that mine 

 may be like his ; for I am in the eighty-fifth year 

 of my age, and God knows it hath not : but I 

 most humbly beseech Almighty God, that my 

 death may : and I do as earnestly beg, that if 

 any reader shall receive any satisfaction from 

 this very plain, and as true relation, he will be so 

 charitable as to say. Amen." He was very happily 

 married to a wife that made his life happy "by 

 being always content when he was cheerful ; that 

 was always cheerful when he was content ; that 

 divided her joys with him, and abated of his 

 sorrow, by bearing a part of that burden, a wife 

 that demonstrated her affection by a cheerful 

 obedience to all his desires, during the whole 

 com-se of his life." 



Sanderson died in January 1663, leaving his 

 wife and a family insufficiently provided for. 



His portrait is at Lincoln Palace. The curious 

 may care to be referred to a book entitled A 

 Dialogue between Isaac Walton and Homologistes, 

 in which the character of Bishop Sanderson is 

 defended against the Author of the Confessional. 



