OF THE LIFE and WRITINGS O F Mr. WILLIAM WHISTON. CONTAINING, MEMOIRS of several of his FRIENDS also. Written by himself. Ne quid falfi dicere audeat : Whe art thou that thou shouldft be afraid of a Man that fhall die, and of the Son of Man which shall be made as Grafs? and forgetteft the Lord thy Maker, that bath fretched forth the Heavens, and laid the Foundations of the Earth. If. li. 13, 14. Thou shalt not accept Perfons when thou reproveft for Sins; but do as Elijah and Michaiah did to Ahab; and Ebedmelech the Ethiopian did to Zedekiah; and Nathan to David; and John to Herod. Conftitut. VII. 10. Them that fin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. 1 Tim. v. 20. Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thine Heart. Thou shalt in any wife rebuke thy Neighbour, and not fuffer Sin upon him. Levit. xix. 17. LONDON: Printed for the AUTHOR, and Sold by Mr. WHISTON, in FleetAreet; and Mr. BISHOP, in Little Turn-Stile, Holborn. (Price in Sheets Six Shillings.) 1749. Θεῖ Θέλοντος, πᾶν ἄπορον πόριμον· Baverische München MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE and WRITINGS! O F Mr. William Whifton. Written by himself in the 79th, 80th, 81ft and 82d Years of his Age. WILLIAM WHISTON* was born at Norton juxta Twycroffe, in the County of Leicester, upon December 9, 'A. D. 1667. O.S. My Father was Mr. Jofiah Whifton, Rector of the fame Place: Who married the Daughter of Mr. Gabriel Roffe, the former Incumbent; whofe Curate he had been, and was fo fortu nate *The Reader is to obferve, that the entire Hiftories of Mr. Whifton's Profecutions at the University of Cambridge; with his Banifoment thence; of his Deprivation of the Mathematick Profef forfhip there, and of the Profits thereof: With the Cenfure of bis Notions by the Convocation; and his Profecution before the Court of Delegates, |
