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grandson, promising to take care of his education. He lived with him much beloved till nine years old, when his mother, fearing his want of a religious education there, took him home, to the great displeasure of the old gentleman. She and her second husband were very careful to train him up in serious piety. He made quick advances in school learning, and was sent to Cainbridge at the age of fourteen, and placed under Mr. Anthony Burgess. He pursued his studies with great success, and his progress in piety was as eminent as in learning. His company was earnestly courted by some young wits of the university, for his sprightly genius; but perceiving their looseness, he waved an intimacy with them. He did not begin to preach for a considerable time after he had commenced M. A. Soon after he appeared in public he was chosen lecturer of St. Nicholas Acons, London: and from thence was called to Hithe, near Colchester in Essex, where he first married. The agueishness of that place, and the solicitation of his London friends, brought him back to the city, about 1641, when he was chosen minister of Christ Church, and some months after, lecturer of St. Anne's, Blackfriers. continued to fill up this double station with great diligence and acceptance, till, upon the destruction of monarchy, he refused to observe the public thanksgivings appointed by the parliament. For this he was suspended from his ministry, and had his benefice of Christ Church sequestered. This induced him to retire to Billericay in Essex. Upon his return to London, after six months, he was sent to the Tower for what was called Love's plot. Upon a petition, (for which some have censured him) the parliament voted him a pardon, and an immediate discharge from prison and sequestration. Mr. Feak, the noted fifth monarchy man, having been put into Christ Church by the government, upon his sequestration, he forbore to eject him. But his parishioners, being earnest to enjoy his labours, set up a lecture for him on Lord's day mornings at seven o'clock, and raised a considerable subscription for him. In this, and his lecture at Blackfriers (out of which he had not been ejected) he continued till Dr. Gouge's death, when he was. chosen pastor of that church. Mr. Feak afterwards becoming noxious to government, was removed, and the governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital presented Mr. Jenkyn to this living afresh. Here he exercised the ministry

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morning and afternoon to a crowded congregation, with eminent success, and particularly upon occasional hearers. He was very cautious of touching upon any thing that might give umbrage to the government, when he knew so many eyes were upon him; but wholly applied himself to preach Christ, and him crucified. In this course, he was some years upon the names given to Christ in Scripture, and preached over the epistle of Jude, which he afterwards printed. He was not satisfied to desist from the ministry upon the Act of Uniformity, though he could not comply with the terms of it, but still preached in private as he had opportunity. Upon the Oxford Act, (not being able to take the oath) he retired to his own house at Langley in Hertfordshire, and preached there every Lord's day, where, through the good providence of God, he met but with little disturbance. Upon the Indulgence, in 1671, he returned to London, where he had a new meeting place erected in Jewin Street; and there he soon raised a numerous auditory. He was also chosen lecturer at Pinners Hall. After the Indulgence was revoked, there was so far a connivance, that his services on Lord's days continued undisturbed, till that terrible storm broke out against the Nonconformists in 1682. Then he continued to preach from place to place, where he could do it most secretly, and out of the reach of informers. But at length, Sept. 2, 1684, being with Mr. Reynolds, Mr. John Flavel, and Mr. Keeling, spending the day in prayer with many of his friends, in a place where they thought themselves out of danger; the soldiers broke in upon them in the midst of the worship. All the ministers made their escape, except Mr. Jenkyn. Mr. Fla vel was so near, that he heard the insolence of the officers and soldiers to Mr. Jenkyn when they had taken him; and observes, in his diary, that he might have escaped as well as himself, had it not been for a piece of vanity in a lady, whose long train hindered his going down stairs, having out of his too great civility, let her pass before him. Being carried before two aldermen, sir James Edwards and sir James Smith, they treated him very rudely, knowing that it would be acceptable at court. Upon his refusing the Oxford Oath, they committed him to Newgate, rejecting his offer of forty pounds fine, which the law impowered them to take, though it was urged, that the air of Newgate would infallibly suffocate him. He presented a petition to

the king for a release, which was backed by an assurance from his physicians, that his life was in danger from his close imprisonment. But no other answer could be obtained than this, "Jenkyn shall be a prisoner as long as he lives." This was most rigorously adhered to, for he was not suffered even to go to baptize his daughter's child, though a considerable sum was offered for that liberty, with security for his return. The keepers were ordered not to let him pray with any visitants. Even when his daughter came to ask his blessing, he was not allowed to pray with her. Soon after his confinement, his health began to decline; but he continued all along in the utmost joy and comfort of soul. He said to one of his friends, "What a vast difference is there between this and my first imprisonment! Then I was full of doubts and fears, of grief and anguish; and well I might, for going out of God's way, and my own calling, to meddle with things that did not belong to me. But now, being found in the way of my duty, in my Master's business, though I suffer even to bonds, yet I am comforted beyond measure. The Lord sheds abroad his love sensibly in my heart. I feel it, I have the assurance of it." Then turning to some who were weeping by him, he said, "Why weep ye for me? Christ lives: he is my friend; a friend born for adversity; a friend that never dies. Weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children." He died in Newgate, Jan. 19, 1685, aged seventy-two, having been a prisoner three or four months; where, as he said a little before his death, a man might be as effectually murdered as at Tyburn. A nobleman having heard of his happy release, said to the king, "May it please your majesty, Jenkyn has got his liberty." Upon which he asked with eagerness, "Aye, who gave it him?" The nobleman replied, "A greater than your majesty, the King of kings;" with which the king seemed greatly struck, and remained silent. Mr. Jenkyn was buried by his friends with great honour at Bunhill Fields, where he has a tombstone (erected in 1715) with a Latin inscription, which expresses his having been. imprisoned in Newgate, and died a martyr, in the fifty-second year of his ministry.

Mr. Baxter in his own Life (Part iii. p. 94.) speaking of Mr. Jenkyn, among other ministers in London whom he briefly characterises, stiles him, "that sententious, elegant, preacher."

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The following little anecdote may not be thought unworthy of being here recorded. Mr. Jenkyn's daughter *. who was a high spirited, though a very worthy and pious woman, gave mourning-rings at her father's funeral, on which she ordered this motto to be inscribed: "Mr. William Jenkyn, murdered in Newgate." This was communicated by one who was acquainted with a person to whose father one of these rings was presented.

Mr. Jenkyn preached two farewell sermons, on the Sabbath preceding Bartholomew day.

His works are, 1. "An Exposition on the Epistle of Jude, delivered in forty Lectures;" 2 vols. small 4to.-2. "The Busy Bishop, in Answer to J. Goodwin's Sion College visited."-3. "Vindication of The Busy Bishop against J. Goodwin's Reply." -4. “ A Funeral Sermon for Dr. Gouge, with his Character at large."-5. Funeral Sermon for Dr. Seaman ;" (some Reflections in which occasioned great Heats.) He had particularly charged some of the conforming clergy with preaching the Sermons of Puritans, at the same time that they treated them with contempt. In defence of what he had said, he wrote "Celeuma, seu clamor ad Theologiæ Hierarchie Angliæ, in Answer to a Vindication of the Conforming Clergy." This being answered iu Latin, by Dr. Grove, he wrote a Reply in the same language. He has three Sermons in the Morning Exercise.

JENNINGS, RICHARD, was born at Ipswich, and was educated at Catharine Hall, Cambridge. When he was very young, his pious mother took him with her, to to the house of a sick neighbour, who had been a bad man, and was in great terror of conscience, crying out, with ve hemence, for an interest in Christ. This much affected him. He thought "If this man should recover, he would certainly become very religious." But though he did recover, he observed that he grew more notoriously wicked than ever; which made a great impression upon his own mind. But it proved to be no more lasting than the sick man's goodness; for in a catalogue of some of the remarkable methods of God's providence towards him, he acknowledges, That in the two last years, of his abode in the university, he let the reins loose to his youthful affections

Turner, in his History of Proverbs, relates this of Mr. Jenkyn's aon, who suffered in the West, on Monmouth's account, Ch. 143. p. 117. where a full account is given of his triumphant death.

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and wasted his time and money profusely in riotous courses But divine grace remarkably appeared to reclaim him; of which he gives the following account: " "Walking in my father's garden at Ipswich in April, 1636, I had this sudden injection darted into my mind, "Wherefore didst thou come into the world?" Conscience secretly whispering, It was for the glory of God, I could not but be amazed and confounded at the thoughts of my wicked life. Meditating with myself what course I should take to cast off all wicked company, (without which I should never turn to God,) I had a strong impulse to go with Mr. N. Rogers to New England. The motion was certainly of God, in mercy to my soul; for before, I abhorred New England above any place in the world. I communicated my thoughts to my mother, who rejoiced much, but was not without some fears I was not in earnest ; whereas my desire to go was so ardent, that nothing could take me off from the undertakng. My voyage began June 1, 1636. While I was in the ship I was sometimes affected to tears at Mr. Rogers's sermons; but my love to sensual pleasures was so great, that God called once and again, and yet my heart could hardly be persuaded to part with all for Christ. A half conversion I could easily assent to, but to be divorced from ail sin I could not be free to, of a long time. In the voyage we went through many storms and difficulties, and cast not anchor in Massachusetts Bay till Nov. 16. During my abode with Mr. Rogers in his family till December, 1638, many sweet influences fell upon my soul. And in the spring, in 1637 (some previous work of conviction having been before in the ship), God, in infinite mercy, brought it, I hope, to a thorough conversion, and to the best of my remembrance, in this manner: Upon some private discourse with Mr. Rogers, as we were walking to hear a lecture, when I came home and was retired, resolving to enter upon a narrow search of my heart and ways, I had on a sudden such a flash of joy darted in, as took me off from the duty of self-searching, and possessed me with a confidence there was a thorough work of grace already. But when the flash was over, returning with more seriousness to the work intended, I began to think that joy might be an illusion of Satan. And when I a second tune entered upon serious reflections, there was a second flash of joy after the former manner. But when it was over, I

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