 Thomas Doolittle was born at Kidderminster in 1630. Richard Baxter's
work The Saints' Everlasting Rest was instrumental in his conversion. In
fact, Baxter himself encouraged Doolittle to the ministry, part of
which was served as an assistant to Baxter. His education was at Pembroke
Hall, Cambridge. He took his first pastorate in London in 1653. A
non-conformist, Dootlittle left the Church of England in 1662 and began a
boarding school, which soon had so many students that larger facilities
were needed.
After the plague of London, Doolittle opened a meeting house near
Bunhill Fields (the non-conformists' burial ground). He preached twice every
Lord's Day, and on Wednesdays delivered his exposition of the
Westminster Assembly's Catechism. He was assisted in this ministry by Thomas
Vincent, another ejected minister. He died in 1707, and was the last of
the ejected ministers to be buried at Bunhill Fields.
Thomas Doolittle's work, A Treatise on the Lord's Supper, has been
republished by Soli Deo Gloria, as has his Love to Christ Necessary to
Escape the Curse at His Coming (the former completely retypeset, the latter
a lithograph of a 19th century edition). |
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