REVEREND WILLIAM DYER was born in England in 1632.
During his earlier ministry he was a pastor with the Church of
England at Chesham and Cholesbury. He and many other pastors were
known as ¿Puritans¿ because of their desire to purify and reform
the state church. However, in 1662, Dyer and over two thousand
other Puritans pastors were ejected from their parishes because of
a lack of compliance to the new policies of the church. In the year
following his dismissal from the church he wrote two of his most
enduring books, A Cabinet of Jewels and Christ¿s Famous
Titles. In his later life he worked alongside the Quakers
because of their zeal for Christ and passion for souls. He was
buried among them in Southwark, England in April of 1696. From his
writings he is seen to have been a man of great character, earnest
to win men to the Lord, and eager to build up the saints in the
love and confidence of Christ.