1 68 IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 



a Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, Arch- 

 deacon of Suffolk, and Rector of Great Snoring, 

 Norfolk, where he was born. He was educated at 

 Eton, and was admitted sizar on the 10th of June 

 1631, at Queen's College, but migrated the next year 

 as scholar to King's College, becoming a Fellow in 

 1634. In 1639 he was ordained, becoming, in 

 1640, Prebend of Salisbury and Rector of Thor- 

 ington, Suffolk. In 1654 he was lecturer at St 

 Clement's, Eastcheap, and it was there he began 

 a series of sermons, which were published in 1659, 

 as an exposition of the Creed. He dedicated 

 the book "To the Right Worshipful and Well- 

 Beloved, The Parishioners of St Clement's, East- 

 cheap. Mercy unto you, and peace and love be 

 multiplied." A good query was given by him to 

 his own question, "whether Creeds are to be 

 extempore : Shall we stand up and begin with 

 'I believe' at a venture?" He lives on this 

 standard book on the Creed, but he wrote 

 many other works. Bentley said the "very dust 

 of his writings was 'gold.'"^ In 1660 we find 

 him made Master of Jesus College, and in 1661 

 he was prominent at the Savoy Conference. In 

 1661, too, he became Lady Margaret's Professor of 

 Divinity at Cambridge, and in April 1662 he was 



1 Bishop Barry says he is especially a representative of a distinctly 

 Anglican Theology, at a time when, by necessity, the peculiarities of 

 the Anglican position had to be resolutely defined and maintained. 

 (Masters in English Theology. J. Murray, 1877.) 



