Honey Out of the Rock

Stapled booklet. Previous owner's name is stamped at top of first page, otherwise text is clean & unmarked. Moderate cover wear with shallow creases to upper corner of booklet. 16 pp.

Thomas Wilcox (1621-1687) was born in August, 1621 at Lyndon, Rutland. He was a Particular Baptist elder of a small congregation, which met at his house in London before the Plague. He was imprisoned in Newgate more than once, and suffered much for the sake of Nonconformity. After 1665, he pastored a Particular Baptist church, whose meeting-house was a small wooden building in Three Cranes Alley, Tooley Street in the Borough of Southwark. He labored lovingly, with pen as well as tongue, until his death on May 17, 1687 at the age of 65, leaving a widow and three children (bio from Chapel Library).