2 Quotes & Sayings By Thomas Becon

Thomas Becon was born in 1602 in England. He served as a Royalist soldier in the English Civil War and in 1646 he published a book of poems, The Tears of a Sinner in a Strange Land. At the age of 91 he wrote another book, A Character of the Church of England, which was heavily critical of the Church of England and called for a return to church practices like baptism by sprinkling. Thomas Becon died in 1682 at the age of 96.