At the age of eighteen, Matthew’s father sent him to study in Islington, London under the non-conformist minister Thomas Doolittle. In 1685 he transferred to Gray’s Inn to study law. He also studied French and literature, but soon gave this all up to study theology.
I still recall as a small boy learning in Sunday school about Rehoboam’s great folly. Perhaps you remember the history. Solomon had died and his…
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