Benjamin Needler

son of Tho. Needl. of ((c))((c)) Reg. Matric. Un. Ox. PP. fol. 113. a. Lanum in Middlesex, was born in that County, elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. from Merch. Taylors School, an. 1642. aged 18 years, afterwards fellow and a cringer to the Presbyterian Visitors of the University, in 1648, by submitting to their power and accepting of, by way of Creation, the degree of Bach. of the Civ. Law. Whether he afterwards took orders from a Bishop, I know not: sure I am, that he being a well gifted brother for praying and preaching, he was some years after made Minister of Margaret Moses in Friday street within the City of London, where continuing till after his Majesties restauration, was ejected for Nonconformity, an. 1662. He hath written,

Expository notes, with practical observations, towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Genesis; delivered by way of Exposition in several Lords dayes Exercises. Lond. 1655 in a large oct.

Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. on Math. 5.29.30.—’Tis the third Serm. in the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate, preached in Sept. 1661.—Lond. 1661. qu. (2) Serm. on Math. 4.10.—’Tis the thirteenth Serm. in the Morning Exercise against Popery, preached in Southwark, &c.—Lond. 1675. qu. (3) The Trinity proved by Scripture, Serm. on 1. Joh. 5.7, in the Morning Exercise Methodized, &c. preached in S. Giles in the fields, in May 1659.—Lond. 1676. qu. What other things goe under his name, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying at Northwarnborough in Hampshire, (where for some years he had exercis’d his function in privat) in the month of May or June, in sixteen hundred eighty and two,1682. was according to his will, as I presume, buried frugally in some Church yard, I think in that of Northwarnborough before mention’d: At which time he left behind him a son called Culverwell Needler, another named Benjamin, and a Brother in Law called Rich. Culverwell Minister of Grundesburgh.