Thomas Broad

, or Brodaeus as he writes himself, Son of Will. Broad of Rendcombe in Gloucestershire Clerk, made his first entry into S. Maries hall in Mich. Term 1594. aged 17. and soon after translating himself to that of S. Alban, took the degrees in Arts as a Member thereof. In 1611. in which year his Father died, he became Rector of Rendcomb, the place of his nativity, where, as before in Oxon, he was held in great esteem for his learning and Religion. He hath written,

Touch-stone for a Christian, wherein is shewed how a man may know whether he be the Temple of the Holy Ghost, &c. Lond. 1613. &c. in tw.

The Christians Warfare, &c. Serm. on Jam. 4. 7. Lond. 1613. in tw.

Three questions answer’d. The first question, What should our meaning be, when after the reading of the fourth Commandment, we pray, Lord incline our hearts to keep this Law. The second question, How the fourth Commandment, being delivered in such form of words, bind us to sanctifie any day, but only the seventh, &c. And the third question, How shall it appear to be the Law of Nature to sanctifie one day every week. Oxon. 1621. qu.

Tractatus de Sabbato, in quo doctrina Ecclesiae primitivae dèclaratur ac defenditur. Printed 1627. qu.

Two Treatises: one concerning the Sabbath or Seventh day. The other concerning the Lords day, or first of the week.—These two that were written in English and not printed, came in MS. into the hands of one George Abbot, not he that was Archbishop of Canterbury, but another, who making an answer to them, published it under the title of Vindiciae Sabbathi, or an answer to two treatises of Mr. Broad, &c. Lond. 1641. qu. He the said Tho. Broad departed this mortal life about the middle, or latter end of June, 1635 in sixteen hundred thirty and five, and was buried by the bodies of his Father, and of his Brother Samuel, in the Chancel of the Church at Rendcombe before-mentioned, leaving then behind him four Sons (besides Daughters) which he had by Margaret his Wife, viz. William, Thomas, Sam. and John. Thomas succeeded him (if I mistake not) in the Rectory of Rendcombe, and afterwards became Rector of Risington Magna in Glucestershire, where he died in the beginning of 1679.