of his Ministery by the space of well neere thirty yeeres. I will endeuour therefore to contract (what I well may) that which I shall speake of him, and hasten to those things that more neerely concerne our selues.And to beginne with the times of my first notice of him. As in his first beginnings he was of eminent note in the Colledge he liued in, both for his vnwea∣riable industry, and his singular proficiency in those studies of humanitie, that are as Theologiae ancl∣lari.handmaids to Di∣uinity, and helpe to lay a good ground for any fu∣ture profession; So his care was so Pietatem huma∣itai intercalarem facere. to entertwine pletie and humanitie the one with the other, that Tanquam subte∣men & stamen. as web and woofe they ranne on euer along toge∣ther through the whole course of his studies. Nor was he carefull onely of this practise himselfe, but (according to that of the Apostle, Hebr. 10. 24.Obserue one another,. Quod ex Prou. 27. 17. tractum vi∣dtur.to whe on to godlinesse and well-doing;) hee was no lesse forward to incite others thereunto; and not to incite them onely thereunto, but to as∣sist them therein, and to afford what helps he could (which well also he could doe) unto any that were either desirous, yea, or willing, but to imbrace them. In which kinde I cannot without iust note of in∣gratitude but acknowledge my selfe much indeb∣ted vnto him; and haue cause (with many others, beside my selfe, much my betters) to blesse God that euer we came acquainted there with him. In a word, while he staied in the Colledge (which his desire was to haue done longer then he did, if op∣portunity had serued) . Greg. Naz. in B∣sil. he gaue before hand, ere he came to it, euident signes of one likely to proue 0