Well, welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

On this episode, we are visiting with the Puritan William Googge.

Now, his last name is spelled G-O-U-G-E, but it's pronounced Googge.

He was educated at Eton School, that famous school along the Thames over by Windsor Castle.

And then he went on to study at King's College Cambridge taking a BA and his master's degree.

He was, for a while, a fellow and a lecturer at King's.

He lectured on one of the Puritan's favorite things, Rammest Logic.

He also lectured on Hebrew.

Then he moved to London and there in London he married Elizabeth Colton.

They had 13 children together.

His wife Elizabeth died after the birth of their 13th child.

One of Googge's books was entitled Domestical Doodies.

It was a rather popular Puritan text on family life.

And with such a big family, William Googge had plenty of experience to draw upon to write that book.

So what else did William Googge do?

Well, he pastored and he was a prominent member of the Westminster Assembly, first as pastor.

Googge first went to the Black Fires Church, also known as St. Anne's Church, in 1608.

He served initially as an associate minister from 1608 to 1621.

And then in that year he became the pastor of Black Fires Church, a post he held until his death in 1653.

If you add it all up, he was at Black Fires for a total of 45 years.

He had a reputation for being a compassionate minister, especially to the downtrodden and to the dejected.

He was known as quite a man of charity.

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