Nehemiah Coxe

Nehemiah Coxe was the son of the early Particular Baptist leader Benjamin Coxe.  He died in 1688, one year before the adoption of the 1689 Confession.  Coxe was a co-pastor with William Collins and it is said that he and Collins wrote the draft of the 1689 Confession.  Coxe was a qualified physician, skilled in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and a discerning theologian.

Coxe wrote:

"It is sad to consider, how many there are among professors, that live in the world, as if there were no truth in the report of that which is to come, and have the meanest esteem of the most necessary means of salvation, viz., the Word, and ordinances of Christ, and a Gospel ministry; can expend perhaps an hundred pounds per annum, more or less, for the convenience, ornament, or delight of a frail carcase, but will not bestow half so much for the poor, or the support of Gospel worship."  (From a funeral sermon preached by Coxe in 1681 -  see here)