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T. W. (Thomas Wilcox)
1622–1687
Little is known about this 17th-century English Baptist writer, but his small devotional books traveled widely and stayed in print for generations. He is best remembered for A Choice Drop of Honey from the Rock Christ, a compact work of pastoral encouragement with a long afterlife.
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About the author
Thomas Wilcox was an English Baptist pastor and devotional writer, usually dated 1622–1687. Sources agree that very little is firmly documented about his life, though he is associated with a small Baptist congregation in London and is remembered as a Nonconformist minister who suffered imprisonment for his beliefs.
His best-known work is A Choice Drop of Honey from the Rock Christ, a brief religious treatise that was published before the Great Fire of London in 1666 and reprinted many times afterward. He is also credited with A Guide to Eternal Glory, and library and public-domain records show that his writings continued to circulate in later British and American editions.
What has kept Wilcox in view is not a large body of work, but the staying power of his plain, direct religious counsel. Even now, he is mostly known through this small cluster of devotional texts rather than through a fully documented biography.