Evangelical biography : or, an historical account of the lives & deaths of the most eminent and evangelical authors or preachers, both British and foreign, in the several denominations of Protestants, from the beginning of the Reformation to the present time ... . s it iscalled) i^efore his time, and this premature birth had wellnigh cost both mother and son their lives. In conse-quence of this, he was, when born, so uncommonly smalland weakly, that the midwife, and other women present,concluded he must die in a few hours. But, herein, Goddisapj)ointed their fears, and (for what can make void
Evangelical biography : or, an historical account of the lives & deaths of the most eminent and evangelical authors or preachers, both British and foreign, in the several denominations of Protestants, from the beginning of the Reformation to the present time ... . s it iscalled) i^efore his time, and this premature birth had wellnigh cost both mother and son their lives. In conse-quence of this, he was, when born, so uncommonly smalland weakly, that the midwife, and other women present,concluded he must die in a few hours. But, herein, Goddisapj)ointed their fears, and (for what can make void hisj)urposes ?) raised this puny infant, afterwards, into a very^reat man, (not in body, tor he was always spare andthin): A man of vast intellectual abilities, brightened andimproved by deep study, and whose fame diffused itselfliironghout the whole Christian world, by his useful, nu-merous, and learned labours. His parents, after this danger, took particular care ofiiis education, and were obliged to be extremely tender ofIlls health. Above all, they endeavoured (and their en-deavours were crowned with success equal to their largestwishes) to bring him up /// ihe nurture av > (hnonilron of[he Lord: Teaching him, ere he could speak distinctly, to W I T S I U S. 157 lisp out tho praises of God, and unfold Ids wants inprayer before the tlirone of grace. In the sixth year ofhis age, he was entered at tlie public school of his nativetown, to learn the rudiments of Latin. There he con-tinued three years; at the end of which space, his mo-thers brother, the learned Peter Gerhard, look him toliis own house, and under ids own inuneuiate tuition. Under the care of his good uncle, Witsius so rapida proj^ress in learning, that, before he was fiiteen vearsold, he could not only speak and write the Latin languagecorrectly, and with some degree of fluency, but couldalso readily interpret the books of the Greek Testament,and ti»e orations of Isocrates, and render the Hebrew
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