holy Angels and Saints should rejoyce and sing Halelujahs to him that sits upon the Throne And this I told them should most certainly come to passe and that shortly so as they should live to see it And so being to goe to London that morning I took my leave thereupon saying Well what ever come on it I must to my work And this work proved to be that aforesaid Nov. 5. When having preached those Sermons I was not long after summoned by a Pursuivant into the English Inquisition Court the High Commission from which I presently appealed to the King And because I foresaw that this would prove a publick cause and putting no confidence either in my Appeale or in the equity and innocency of my cause or in the just lawes of the Kingdome being fallen into such times wherein nor law nor conscience nor innocency nor justice nor clemency nor humanity could take place but that some unjust odious censure must stigmatize both the cause and the person therefore I shut my selfe up in my house as in my prison and there did compile my two said Sermons with my Appeale in one Book to the end it might be published in print as it was sheet by sheet as I writ it the while the Prelates Pursuivants those barking Beagles ceased not night nor day to watch and rap and ring at my doores to have surprised me in that my Castle nor yet to search and hunt all the Printing houses about London to have prevented the comming forth of my Book which they heard to be at the Presse But God by his good providence so prevented them as neither they could touch my person before I had finished my Book nor yet prevent the publishing thereof for all their unwearied search And here I may not omit to magnifie the great Name of God especially for two things First for his admirable strengthning and supporting presence in so carrying up my spirit all the while of my writing that Book entituled For God and the King together with the Appeale c. that not all the incessant roarings and ballings of those beagles could either interrupt my work or distract my thoughts or discourage my resolution by any the least apprehension or feare of danger but that with all cheerfulnesse and invinciblenesse of spirit the work was finished Secondly the Lords wonderfull Providence is here to be admired in that the Pursuivants had no power either to apprehend my person or to prevent the publishing of my Book but just that night when I had received some dozens of Copies bound up and the Books for the King and Councell were a binding up and nor sooner nor later having also newly concluded the Family-duties for that night came the Serjeant at Armes with his Mace in the Bishop of Londons name accompanied with divers Pursuivants and other Officers yea with the Sheriffe of London with swords and halberds and with pick-axes fell a breaking up my doores which being strong and I making no resistance held them work till eleven of the Clock They break in surprise my person ransack my study carry away what Books they pleased and carry me away prisoner to a Constables house for that night and the next day at night being Febr. 2. they had got a new warrant from the Councell Board to carry me to prison in the Fleet where I was kept close prisoner from wife or friend and so remained for halfe a yeare till I was removed to another prison as you shall heare anon During my abode in the Fleet I was served with a Writ into the Starre Chamber to answer an information there against me drawn up by the Kings Atturney in the Name of the King notwithstanding my said Appeale not yet repealed But all is one for that With much difficulty being all along close prisoner I get my Answer drawne up by Counsell and the same by speciall Order of Starre-Chamber admitted in Court upon my Oath to be a true Answer Above a week after I heare that the two Chiefe Justices by appointment of the Court have quite expunged my Answer and defence contained in 80 sheets leaving only the negative part and that also of their owne patching together contained in some halfe a dozen lines Thus my Answer in Court is left no Answer of mine After this comes the Examiner for my Answer to his interrogatories which was to be reckoned part of my Answer in Court But I answered him that my Answer in Court being wholly expunged and so made no Answer of mine I was not bound to answer the interrogatories Hereupon I was brought into the Starre-Chamber to be censured by all those terrible ones pro confesso as having refused to put in my Answer when indeed themselves had put it our What I then spake for my selfe by leave of the Court which had already the day before set downe my Censure in black and white and what the Censure was and by whom I referre to the Relation of all the passages of our three sufferings set forth at large in Print 1641. Only thus much when I saw that they would proceed to censure notwithstanding they did not nor could object the least crime in all my Book For God and the King but that they said I was too sharp against the Prelates having obtained leave to speak I said My Lords I perceive I am brought into a great strait that of necessity I must either desert my cause and my conscience or undergoe the Censure of this Honourable Court and therefore I doe without any further deliberation choose rather to abide the Censure of this Honourable Court then to desert my Cause my conscience Here at the Audience gave a great humme But when they came to the censure it was so terrible especially the perpetuall close imprisonment in a desolate goale that lest my spirits should faint within me I did there earnestly in my heart entreat the Lord that he would strengthen me and hold up my spirits that I might not any way dishonour the cause or give those terrible ones cause to triumph And at that very instant the Lord heard me he put such strength in me as neither my selfe nor my two Brethren did once change countenance before those terrible ones so as some of them afterwards said that they never saw three such men who instead of being daunted so stood before the Court as if they had sit in the Judges place And forasmuch as the night before a friend came to me in the Fleet and told me he saw my Censure set down in their Book as standing on the Pillory c. I did therefore that night * redouble my prayer to God that he would strengthen me at my Censure so as I might not dishonour him and his Cause the next day before that great Court And immediately upon my prayer I was filled with a mighty spirit of courage and resolution wherewith I was carried up farre above my selfe even as it were upon
my brother Bastwick being not yet returned from Sillie We presented our persons with our petitions to the House for the hearing of our cause It was granted a speciall Committe was appointed for the examination of our cause and in the same Order of the House to the same Committe a thing wherein the hand of divine Providence is not a little seene it was ordered that after the examination of our causes the Courts and proceedings both of the High Commission and starre chamber should be examined and the issue was our cause was declared and voted first by the Committee and after by the whole House to be innocent and all the proceedings of those Courts against us illegall against the lawes of the land and the liberties of the subject and on the other side both those Courts were alike voted to bee illegall and thereupon an Act was drawne up and passed and stands now in force for the utter abolishing of both those Courts So they are brought downe and fallen and we are risen and stand upright And blessed be the Lord that both those Courts fell under such a Cause as gives them no just cause to complaine But for our cause although the honourable House of Commons have voted it so farre for the clearing of us as it can yet goe yet the Transmission thereof to the House of Lords is not hitherto passed for a recompence of our wrongs sustained But herein we are patients with the whole land which lyes a bleeding while the cause of innocent blood cannot find redresse Yet blessed be God that by vertue of that vote I have liberty to preach although I have suffered not a little for that first Sermon I preached after my liberty obtained as my first-fruits paid to the Parliament at Westminster Clamors were raised by some malignant spirits and received too credulously by some of the better minded who had not heard the Sermon which the more grieved me But how justly fame did censure me the Sermon it selfe if once it may obtaine licence to be printed which it hath a long time waited for will clearly show Many other wrongs have I suffered both by false reports and by bookes published under the name of Mr. Burton in generall which the simple hearted people took to be mine being only counterfeited to get away their farthings But the righteous judge will one day cleare all When the next day after that Sermon I was taken with a fit of the stone the first sensible fruit of my long close imprisonment fame gave it out that it was for griefe and shame of my said Sermon Though after this I have had sundry fits of the stone I might mention many other reproaches cast upon me since my enlargement which I have learned the more easily to digest and contemne saving only that I take them as messengers of Satan sent to buffet me by my experience in my greater sufferings He that hath stood an innocent upon the pillary and theâ—e had his eares cut off which he endured with not only patience but alacrity and triumph cannot he trow you brook to be unjustly branded for an Infamous person and that by such as were the prime authors of such bloody and barbarous cruelty but he must needs be sick for sorrow of that which he accounts his glory and crowne Or shall such a one be ashamed to beare in his body such glorio is marks of the Lord Jesus Or he that chose rather to be deprived of all liberty livelyhood eares credit with the malignant world degrees in schooles yea his sweet native country wife children friends all outward comforts rather then betray the cause of Christ and basely yeild to unreasonable and absurd men after the suffering of all these is it so easie a matter thinke you to overthrow such a one with the impotent breath of a man that shall dye or of the son of man that shall be made as grasse should I now at last so forget the Lord my maker as to feare continnually every day because of the fury of the oppressor as if he were ready to destroy of whom the Prophet saith And where is the fury of the Oppressor Behold my witnesse is in Heaven and my Record is on high And certainly if witnessing the Truth against Falshood and openly detecting the machinations of Apostats if ever they were other then dissembling Hypocrites before their vizards were pulld off deserve the brand of An infamous disturber of the peace of this Church and State I will weare it as a badge of the greatest honour of my service to Christ in this World And I blesse my Lord who accounted me faithfull and put me in this service and enabled me so therein as to deserve to be reproached no otherwise then the Prophet Eliah was by the grand disturber and troubler of Israel to whom the Prophet replyed I have not troubled Israel but thou and thy fathers house in that ye have forsaken the Commandements of the Lord and have followed Baalim And if by This Church be understood the Prelaticall or Hierarchicall and by State a Tyrannicall and lawlesse Government I heartily thank God that I have bin a disturber of these so as never since that time they could peacably go on as before they did in their rebuilding of Babel the end wherof wil be confusion or in reedifying of Jerico the curse wherof was the rooting out of the whole race and posterity of the Rebuilder What should I speake of the many reproaches and infamies which I have undergone since the cleering of my Cause in the honorable House of Commons ever to be honoured of all posterity But this was my comfort all along even the clearnesse of my Conscience being not guilty to my selfe of any just cause by me given why any unlesse Prelaticall and Iesuiticall spirits or such as are through ignorance seduced by them should fall so fowle upon me saving that the more any man endeavors to come neerest to Christ and so to shake off the shackles of sinne and yoake of Antichristian usurpation over the soules of men the more necessarily and unavoidably he must passe the pikes of all those whose conversation in the world cannot find elbow-room enough to walke in Christs narrow way which leadeth unto life Nor need this be made a wonder in our dayes which hath bin the perpetuall practise of the world in all ages since Christ had a Church upon earth since the Lord himselfe put that enmity between the Serpent and the Woman and between her seed and his yea in this Age of ours wherein Satans wrath is so great because he knoweth that he hath but a short time and wherein the ten horned Beast and his limmes are fighting their last battell in Harmageddon whither the Almighty himself brings them that he might shew himselfe to be the Almighty in giving the last and most terrible defeat to all their power and plots not to see such
causing it to be kept in his Library at S. James After his much lamented decease I was continued in the same place and office to Prince Charles when God stirred up my heart to enter into the Ministry being then above thirty yeares of age but yet too soone as having not yet sufficiently learned to weigh that Text of the Apostle And who is sufficient for these things or yet the right way of a Ministers externall call which the ignorance and sloth of those times had not learned to walk in In that time I writ a Treatise against Simony entituled A Censure of Simony Also another Book entituled Truths triumph over Tront wherein I unfolded that mystery of iniquity packed up in the sixth session of that Councell encountring therein those two Champions of the Councell Andreas Vega and Dominicus Soto These two Books were published Cum Previlegio though with much adoe obtained of the Archbishops Chaplains in those not then full growne ripe evill times Yet they ripened so fast Abbot of Canterbury yet living that I could not obtaine of his Chaplaine the licensing of an answer of mine to a Jesuits Book entituled The converted Jew which he boldly had dedicated to both our Universities And I understood he durst not doe it for two causes first because in that Answer I had upon occasion confuted the Arminian Heresies secondly because therein I proved the Pope to be the Antichrist Which two things began in those dayes to be Noli me tangere and fewell for the Hâ—gh Commission furnace proving afterwards pillary-offences inexpiable never to be forgiven neither in this world nor in the world to come Which after times being hastened on by the immature death of King Iames have beene the only causes that have made his life desireable as Titus Livius said of Hieronymus of Syracusa Qui solus Patrem desiderabilem fecit Well King Iames being dead whether so or so or otherwise time hath not yet examined and King Charles succeeding I shall now acquaint you with a notable passage of divine Providence in parting the Court and me asunder For I understanding that the Bishop the old Clerk should still continue in that Office and that the King had designed me for some other inferiour Office and observing also that with Neale Lawd also should be continually about the King I saw there would be no abiding for me in Court any longer Yet before I went I thought I was bound in conscience by vertue of my place to informe the King of these men how popishly affected they were simply imagining that the King either did not so well know their qualities or that perhaps he might be put upon second thoughts by considering the dangerous consequences of entertaining such persons so neere about him as I presented to his Majesty in a large letter to that purpose Which letter he read a good part of I standing before him but perceiving the scope of it he gave it me againe and bade me forbeare any more attendance in my Office untill he should send for me Whereupon though for the present my spirits were somewhat appalled and dejected yet going home to my house in London and there entring into a serious meditation of Gods Providence herein how fairely he had now brought me off from the Court when I saw such Lords were like to domineere and how I might doe God and his Church better service in a more retired life as wherein I was in no danger of Court-Preferments thereby to bee cowardized from encountering such Giants as began already to threaten the Hoste of Israel and against whose power I thought Sauls armour would give me small defence but much hinder me rather I hereupon began to recollect my scattered spirits resolving now after almost twice seven yeares service quite to forsake the Court which I did signifie by another letter to a friend of mine of great place neere unto the King so as the King hath said that I put away him and not hee me However it pleased him to say so yet I had abundant cause to blesse God and daily to rejoyce with exceeding joy that I was now freed from the Court which joy hath now continually increased ever since to this very day without intermission Thus having bid the Court farewell I kept me close to the Ministery of the Word and besides my weekly preaching every Lords day twice I answered sundry erroneous and heterodox Bookes set forth by the Prelats and those of the Prelaticall party As 1. Montagues Book styled An Appeale to Caesar the first part whereof defended all the Arminian Heresies and the second was to maintain many grosse points of Popery And Dr. Francis White prefixed his Approbation to both My answer to the first part was published in print but that to the second was by the Aegyptian Task-masters strangled in the birth being upon the breaking up of the Parliament taken tardie in the Presse as it was a printing A second Book to which I made and published an Answer in time of Parliament was Cosens Private Devotions or Houres of Prayer to which his Popish Canonicall Houres I framed a fit Diall A third was a Book of Dr. Hall B. of Exceter wherein he affirmed the Church of Rome to be a true Church Which in a Treatise of mine upon the 7. Vials I occasionally confuting and Mr. Cholmley his Chaplen and Mr. Butterfield another Minister making each of them a severall reply I thereupon made one full answer to them both so as both sate down and replyed no more and Dr. Hall himselfe would salve or rather dawbe up the matter by begging the suffrages of two Bishops and two Doctors who so shuffled together each his own Cards that they easily made one pack And wel might they both shuffle pack cut and deale when no answer was permitted to be published But for all that my Babel no Bethel remains intire and unshaken by any of their breaths saving that some of their black mouths laboured to besmeare me with their proud scorne And for so writing against the Church of Rome as no true Church of Christ and because such kind of Bookes were printed without licence when none could be obtained I was brought the first and second time into the High Commission whence I had not escaped without cindging at least to make me smell of it ever after if not stigmatising either in my name or purse had I not come in time to procure a Prohibition in the Court of Justice before the doore was shut which was not long after the Bishop having a little before my Prohibition threatned in open Court that whosoever after that of Mr. Pryns then tendered should be the next which fell to my lot to dare to bring a Prohibition there he would set him fast by the heeles But instead of setting me by the heeles he hung me up by the head for the next morning after that my Prohibition was tendered in Court whereat the whole
the present and afterwards in the time of healing much more painfull then the chopping off of the head with one stroke Thirtenthly As God indued Paul with an excellent spirit to undergoe and overcome all his affliction with a singular alacrity and constancy so as he sung Psalmes in the prison and accounted his life and all outward things but as dung in comparison of Christ so the same God poured into my soule abundantly the like spirit of fortitude and magnanimity not only cheerfully and constantly but even triumphantly to be more then conqueror in all my sufferings as also the Apostle said of himselfe 2. Cor. 2. 14. and Rom. 4. 37. Besides all this First Paul was never haunted hunted and vexed by Pursuivants as I have been Secondly Paul was never bound in bonds of two or three hundred pounds to answer the High Priests in their synedrion as I have been in the high Commission Court Thirdly Paul when he was a prisoner and that under Nero yet had liberty to visit his friends and acquaintance and they to come and visit him but I was shut up in a close prison where neither my selfe could visit others nor they me Fourthly Paul had his fellow prisoners with him to be mutuall comforters but I was shut up all alone without a fellow or compainon Fifthly Paul was never fined in more then he was worth but I was Sixthly Paul was never deemed to more punishments then one at once but I to many and those most griveous punishments and that contrary to the law of the Medes and Persians Ezra 7. 26. Seventhly Paul was not condemned before the hearing of his cause nor himselfe condemned for refusing to assent to the condemning of his own cause before hearing but both I and my cause were thus condemned contrary to the law of the land and of all nations Eightly It was lawfullfor Paul to have carried about with him a sister a wife if he had had one but I having an honest godly most loving and tender hearted woman to my wife was not suffered to have her with me according to Gods Ordinance for our mutuall comfort and support in our great affliction but wee were violently separated one from the other without any the least colour of cause Ninthly Paul was suffered to write to his friends and to those his children whom he had begotten by the Gospel and to those Churches which he had planted but I was not permitted the use of pen inke and paper so much as to write to my friends or to my disconsolate wife or my poore orphan-children whom God had given to me in lawfull wedlock Tenthly Paul never was banished from his native country but I was and that extrajudicially sent into perpetuall banishment Eleventhly Paul though a prisoner yet was not forbid to preach but exercised his ministry in the prison to all that came unto him but my mouth was by Decree for ever stopped which one affliction was to me as in it selfe so heavy as is sufficient to counter-ballance all Pauls afflictions Twelfthly Nor did Paul live to know experimentally those sufferings which Antichrist foretold of by him should both craftily invent and cruelly inflict upon Gods servants in these last times which my selfe have now lived both to see and suffer Antichrist was then but a cockatrice in the egge but now he is broke out and growne to be a great red dragon Thirteenthly Paul once by pleading the priviledge of a Roman escaped the whip but I though once by pleading the benefit of a subject I obtained which yet cost me ten pounds a Prohibition whereby I was delivered from a double lash of the High Commission yet the next day after as aforesaid I fell under the Prelates lash who suspended me from my ministry for preaching the truth for the which truths sake I have also suffered all these things Finally Fourteenthly Pauls Judges would not condemne him for the bare accusation of his adversaries saying It was not the manner of the Romans to condemne any man before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face and have licence to answer for himselfe concerning the crime layed against him but I though I had permission by the Court to make my defence in writing and at the censure to speake for my selfe yet all was as nothing but without either accusers or witnesses saving only a counterfet information in Court charging many things but proving nothing but serving only for a snare which innocency it selfe could not escape I underwent the most terrible Censure that ever was inflicted in the world But though I underwent it yet through the power of Christ I overcame it To him alone be all the glory and praise of a suffering which only his power and grace made so great so glorious After aâ—l this let me a little recreate my Reader with a smale story of a passage falling out while I was in Guernsey Castle On a time a pigeon sitting neere my chamber window where my daily feeding of them made them so familiar as they would follow me up and downe the Castle a wild hauke suddenly plunged upon her and beats her downe to the ground above four stories and falls a preying on her I beheld it a while from my window and presently thereupon ran downe to rescue the dove though I was to run above a flight shot off I ran and sound the hauke still upon the pigeon and when I was ready to cease on the hauke she flew off and then the poore Pigeon took her faint flight also the bold hauke pursuing her about the Castle but the dove escaped for any thing I could heare This use I made of it I compared the Dove to the Church and the Hauke to the enemies of it hoping that though for a time the Hauke get the Dove under to pâ—ey upon her yet deliverance shall come in the nick in the Mount will the Lord be seene and the Church shall escape but hardly but whether by flight as Revel. 12. or otherwise that rests only in our Great Deliverers hand This by the way But now it is high time to close it up For November 15. 1640. being the Lords day a Bark comes to Guernsey from England with friends and an Order from the Honourable House of Commons for my enlargement and returne for England Blessed tidings indeed and the more because it came from a Parliament and yet more in that it was the Parliaments handsaile presenting much good but promising much more The Newes filled the Castle with joy and so the Iland The first observation I made of it was of the day on which this tydings came First I noted it was the Lords day which day I had mightily propugned and defended both by preaching and writing against the malignant and profane adversaries of the sanctification thereof and of its morality And when the book for dispensation and allowance of sports on that day came with an injunction to be publikely
I forbeare Now if ever I waited in my hose and doublet it was to that Noble Prince Henry But be it knowne to Dr. Dow that for all such offices as of perfuming and the like I kept a servant to doe them as the Kings Clerke did I ever carried my selfe sutably to my degree as a Scholler though living in Court where I studied no lesse then if I had been in the University Yet I remember that one time my man being out of the way and the Prince comming suddenly to Chappell before we were aware I not having my Cloake or Gowne on snatcht up the perfuming Pan to sweeten the roome where the Prince was to passe as the manner was And this is all that sometime that I did so it being also a solemne time when a great Prince as I remember the Palatine came along with him But saith he upon the Prince Charles his going into Spaine H. B. whether his indiscretion did minister cause of suspition or what ever the cause were certain it is he was put out of the list for that voyage and that when his goods were a Ship-board Here the Dr. againe is wide for my goods were not a Ship-board hereof he cannot say Certain it is but certaine it is I confesse that I was put out of the List and that also when my goods were truncked But inter pontem fontem misericordia Domini Between the City and the Ship was Gods mercy seene which yet he imputes to some suspition of my indiscretion Indeed if my plaine dealing against Popery be indiscretion I can hardly to this day as old as I am and as bitten as I have been so avoid the suspition as not to make manifestation thereof yea although it had been in Spaine it selfe as Paul did in Athens when he disputed with the Philosophers in Areopagus And therefore I have cause to blesse God to this day that I was unlisted for that Spanish Voyage where perhaps some such indiscretion might have left me in the lurch of the Inquisition where our Country-man Mr. Bedle had been for so many yeeres immured whence no more redemption then from the Infernall Prison And why should I have escaped in Spaine that Babylonish prison when I could not escape the like in England But what ever other cause it was on mans part Certaine it is that Gods good providence prevented that that so this should not be prevented But this he calls a little after His hoped Voyage into Spaine Indeed if Dr. Dow had been the man well might he have called it His hoped Voyage into Spaine and so of his desired preferment thereby a Bishoprick at least and I blesse God that both I escaped the Voyage and the Preferment too But His Majesty upon his misbehaviour dismissed him the Court whence being cashiered and all his hopes of preferment dasht c. These malicious misconceits of the Doctor are detected of wicked falshood before And so I will follow him in his Wild-goose Chase no further And now that he hath spit all his spite what is all this heap of disgraces being summed up together All doth not amount to this that Mr. H. B. is either a drunkard or a whore-master or any such vitious person or an idle droane in his Ministry or one that was ever or would be a double beneficed man or one that favours Arminianisme or Popery or one that suffers his wife had he such a one to be his master or his Curate hers And now should I as diligently trace the steps of this Doctor as he hath hunted mine O Doctor I will say no more but draw a vaile over the rest Nolo in hoc ulcere esse unguis And so I leave both the Doctors to the righteous Judge of quick and dead And what shall I say to the grand master of these two Doctors who for their so good service hath so richly rewarded them But God reward both him and them according to their deeds And now it is time for me to shut up my discourse of the course of my life it now drawing on apace to its finall period As for the reproaches I have undergone by false brethren about my suffering as that it was just I will bundle them all up either to burne them as Constantine did or to leave them in the hands of the righteous Judge of all the world who will doe right And here let me close with a story concerning my suffering wherein it will appeare that the righteous Judge from heaven hath set to his hand to the House of Commons in the vindication of my Cause Since my returne from exile a certaine Atturney at Law being then in the house of one Mrs Monday then dwelling a little within Aldersgate in Little Brittaine Febr. 17. 1640. and mention being made of my name and sufferings and Mrs Monday saying that England had never thriven since he suffered and that though she had never seene him yet she had shed many a teare for him the said Atturney replied Could so many wise men and Judges be deceived for he suffered no more then he deserved nor so much neither and therefore what a pox such was his language should you be sorry for such a man as he No sooner had these words passed from him but his right eare suddenly and strangely fell a bleeding at the lower tip of it and so long it bled as it wet a whole handkercher so as it might have beene wrung out whereat his heart so fainted that he sent for halfe a pint of Sack and drunk it up himselfe alone Whereat his brother then present with sundry more said unto him You may see brother what it is to speak against Mr Burton Yet such was this mans spirit that in stead of taking notice of the hand of God herein he continued cursing saying what a pox had I not spoken a word against Burton my eare would have bled though he could not at that time shew any reason or naturall cause why his eare should then bleed it being whole and sound so as upon the ceasing of the blood Mrs Mondays maid wiping the blood off his eare and looking wistfully upon it could not discerne whence the blood should issue but only a small pore or hole no more then a pins point could goe into there being neither scratch nor scab nor scarre upon his eare The persons then present that saw this were these the Atturneys brother and his wife Mrs Adcock Mrs Anne Roe Mrs Ioan Monday and Ellin Hutton her servant All this Mrs Monday and her maid testified before sundry Christians of good credit my selfe and wife being present Yet after this within some few dayes the said Atturney had found out a flamme to make Mrs Monday and others beleeve that the cause of that bleeding of his eare was by a razor which he had borrowed two or three dayes before wherewith he having cut his eare and at that time rubbing it it fell a bleeding But neither was this put off ready at hand when his eare so fell a bleeding nor did the maid discerne any such thing save only one little hole no larger then a pins point which could not possibly be made with a round razor But after this for all this shavers device he forbore any more to come to Mrs Mondays house who asking him at her doore why he was grown such a stranger and praying him to come in he refused saying No I will come no more to your house to work miracles But I pray God he may sinne no more lest a worse thing happen unto him And now to stoppe the mouthes of this and all other reproachers of my sufferings as just I will only referre the Reader to those votes of the Honourable House of Commons whereby he shall finde in the Book entituled A New Discovery of the Prelates Tyranny pag. 139. c. my innocency is cleared to all the world by that representative Body of this Kingdome FINIS Gen. 47. 9. Psa. 107 30 1 Cor. 13. â— * To wit Death 2 Cor. 5. Ioh. 14 2. Exodus Psalmes Act 2. 2 Cor. 11. c. 2 Cor. 1. 3 â— Psal. 66. 16 2 Cor. 9. 10. * Mrs Bâ—w at Aske neer Richmond in the North 2 Cor. 2. 16 M. Montague after B of Chichester then of Norwich London Lawd * Dr. Lawd then Bishop of London Ier. 11. 21. 〈…〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Exod. 19 4 Mr. Price in Coleman Preâ—t Lâ—ndon 1 Pet. 4. 14. 2 Cor. 12. Iul. Caesa Comment. * Act. 19. 35 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Siccis oculis ad Christi vexillum volâ— Hier. A strange and miraculous Rainbow Gen. 9. 12 13. Exod. 15. 1â— Exod. 15. 9. Isa. 26. 11. Revel. 11. bee my book entitâ—led The sounding of the sixt Trumpet Rev. 16. 16. Revel. 2 7 8. Rev. 17. 14. Rev. 20. 9. As 2 Sam. 11. 11. Esa. 8. 18. Greck {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. Thou hast set riders upon our heads {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. Phil. 1. 29. Acts 20. 20 26 27. Psal. 41. 12. Rev. 14. 4. 2 Cor. 12. 9 Mat. 21. 16 A paralell betweene Pauls sufferings and the Authors Psal. 55. 12. 13. 14. Acts 24. 23 28. 30. 31 2 Thess 2â— Act. 25 16. Psal. 2â— â— 1 Cor. 12. 9 Esa. 51. 12 13. Iob. 16 19. 1 Kings 18 17 18. Iosh. 6. 26. Rev. 18. 13. Lâ—â— 13. 24. Gen. 3. 15. Revel. 16. 14 16. Aâ—… 2â— Acts 17.