Samuel Ward (minister)
Samuel Ward (1577–1640) was an English Puritan minister of Ipswich.
Life
Born in
On 1 November 1603 he was elected by the corporation of Ipswich to the office of
In 1621 he designed an engraving, the Double Deliverance, with an anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish message, showing the Spanish Armada and Gunpowder Plot. Count Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador in London, represented it as an insult to his royal master. On one side was to be seen the wreck of the armada, driven in wild confusion by the storm; on the other side was the detection of the plot; and in the centre the pope and the cardinals appeared in consultation with the king of Spain and the devil.
Ward, whose name was engraved upon the print as the designer, was sent to and examined by the Privy Council, and was committed to prison. After a brief detention he was permitted to return to Ipswich, and he subsequently confined his talents as a designer to the ornamentation of the title-pages of his published sermons.
In 1622 Bishop
Ward subsequently incurred the displeasure of Archbishop
Having at last obtained his release, Ward retired to Holland, where he first became a member of William Bridge's church at Rotterdam, and afterwards his colleague in pastoral work. Ward did not remain long in Holland, for in April 1638 he purchased the house which had been provided for him by the town of Ipswich in 1610. He died in March 1640, and was buried on the 8th of that month in the church of St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich.
A school is named in his honour in his home town of Haverhill.
Works
Samuel Ward's works are:
- A Coal from the Altar to kindle the Holy Fire of Zeal, edited by Ambrose Wood, London, 1615; 3rd edit. 1618; 4th edit. 1622.
- Balme from Gilead: to recover Conscience, edited by Thomas Gataker, London, 1617, 1618.
- Jethro's Justice of Peace, edited by Nathaniel Ward, London, 1618, 1621, 1623.
- The Happiness of Practice, London, 1621, 1622, 1627.
- The Life of Faith in Death: exemplified in the living speeches of dying Christians, 2nd edit., London, 1621, 1622, 1625.
- All in All (Christ is all in all), London, 1622.
- Woe to Drunkards: a Sermon, London, 1622, 1624, 1627.
- A Peace-offering to God for the blessings we enjoy under his Majesties reign, with a Thanksgiving for the Princes safe return, London, 1624.
- The wonders of the load-stone, or, The load-stone newly reduc't into a divine and morall use, London, 1640.
- A most elegant and Religious Rapture [in verse] composed by Mr. Ward during his episcopal imprisonment. . . . Englished by John Vicars, Latin and English, London, 1649.
A collection of his Sermons and Treatises, in nine parts, was published at London in 1627–8, and again in 1636. They were reprinted at Edinburgh in 1862, edited by
Notes
- ^ "Ward, Samuel (WRT594S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Ward, Samuel (1577–1640)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.