Timothy Cruso

Life

Timothy Cruso was born on 27 July 1657, although some sources say he was probably born about the middle of 1656. He was probably the son of Timothy Cruso by his wife, Sarah Hatt.

Works

He published:

The Christian Lover, 1690, 8vo. The Blessedness of a Tender Conscience, 1691, 8vo. God the Guide to Youth, 1695, 8vo. Plea for Attendance at the Lord's Table, 1696, 8vo. Sermons at Pinners' Hall, 1697 8vo, 1698 8vo, 1699 8vo (edited by Matthew Mead).

Also funeral sermons for Mary Smith, 1688, 4to (anonymous), and Henry Brownsword, 1688, 4to; five separate 4to sermons in 1689, all dealing more or less with the revolution of that year; and a sermon on An Early Victory over Satan, 1693, 4to. Some of his publications, bearing only the initial of his Christian name, have often been catalogued under "Thomas" Cruso. Samuel Palmer, of the Nonconformist's Memorial, had the manuscripts of some of Cruso's Pinners' Hall lectures. His sermons on the rich man and Lazarus, "preached at Pinners' Hall in 1690" (sic; but the true date is 1696), were reprinted at Edinburgh in 1798, 12mo, with preface by Robert Culbertson of Leith.