A treatise on comforting afflicted consciences - The Digital Puritan

MEMOIROFTHE REV. ROBERT BOLTON.It may be interesting to the reader to be furnishedwith a few particulars respecting a man so truly eminentfor learning, talent, and godliness. This was thewish of the writer upon perusing the <strong>treatise</strong>, and hewould now endeavour to gratify a similar feeling in themind of others.It seems that the Rev. Robert Bolton was born atBlackbourne in Lancashire, on Whitsunday, in the year1572. His parents were far from affluent, but yet uponperceiving in him the signs of great natural abilitiesin early life resolved to afford him a learned education.Tills design was materially aided by the residenceat that period of an eminent schoolmaster inthe grammar school. The progress made by himappears to have been so great, that in the course ofcomparatively a short time he rose to be the first boy.The memoir of him written by a contemporary statesthat he had the prerequisites for a scholar demandedby Isocrates. He had excellent natural abilities ; asound constitution of bodyj a quick apprehension;c 3