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A44804	The popish inquisition newly erected in New-England whereby their church is manifested to be a daughter of mysterie Babylon which did drink the blood of the saints, who bears the express image of her mother, demonstrated by her fruit : also their rulers to be in the beasts power upon whom the whore rideth, manifested by their wicked compulsary laws against the lamb and his followers, and their cruel and bloody practises against the dear servants of the Lord, who have deeply suffered by this hypocritical generation : some of their miserable sufferings for the testimony of Jesus, declared as follows and some of their unjust and vvicked laws set down ... / published by a lover of mercy and truth, and an enemy to envy and cruelty, Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Copeland, J. R. (John R.); Hodgson, Robert.; Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3177; ESTC R14218	58,023	78

Scriptures which you ignorantly call the written Word as though all the Scriptures were but one word the Word is Christ which was revealed in the Saints which spake the words forth and he is the Way and the Rule of life to them that believe and his spirit is the leader and guider into all truth and the Rule of obedience and you are they that denies the Scriptures and the Rule of holy walking you own it in words and in works deny him witness all your forementioned deeds of darkness and hypocrites and dissemblers cryes Scripture is the Rule of Faith and Life when their life that they live stands in sin wickedness and deceit 5 Or shall openly revile either Church or State or Church-Worship Church-Officer or Ordinances Divine or the publike Assembly of the people of God to worship him according to the prescription of the Gospel A. Your Church and State Church-Officers and Ordinances and Assembly and your Worship is manifest to be a place where Dragons are who stings devours kills and destroys Gods Workmanship and he that speaks for you God will condemn him for he that justifies you justifies the wicked and that is an abomination to the Lord And let the Nation see your prescription in that which you call your Gospel where Christ commanded the Churches or gave his Disciples such prescripts as these If the rest of the Jews or Gentiles will not come to your Assemblies fine them 5 s. a day and 10. s. a day or 40. s. a Month and if any speaks anywhere in my Name but where you meet let him that speaks be fined 5. l. and if they will not pay fetch away their Goods Beasts Horses break open their Houses and take Hatchets and beat down their doors and take the names of them that meet and hale them to the Court and there fine them 5. l. a man and send them to prison and load their backs with stripes and whip them severely and if any refuse to doff his hat and will not say Reverend Mr. Peter and reverend Mr. Paul and reverend Mr. John or If it please you Mr. Mark or Mr. Andrew and Philip then go you to the Judgement-seat and tell the Magistrates and let them indict them and put in a great deal of aggravating words as Mutiny Sedition Insurrection Rebellion and the like and let them say unto them You are against the laudable custom of our Countrey and last of all banish them and if they return again put them to death and let them say as Richard Bellingham the Deputy-Governor of Boston said to John Copeland and John Rous and Christopher Holder We commanded these men not to come again but they are returned again in contempt of the Magistracy and Ministry and so whatsoever comes upon you loss of ears or loss of life your blood be upon your own heads I say Let the Regions know your Prescript in your Gospel and your Rule of life for these practises and then you will convince the Quakers and satisfie all people 6. Or shall entertain any such in a way of conventicle or private meeting or shall resort unto the conventicle of any such who are known refusers to come to the publike Worship of God in the publike Assembly A. These men would have banished Paul he was a man publikely known to refuse to go into the Temple and Synagogues except to lead people out of them and yet they have got his words in their mouths and these men would have imprisoned the Church of Corinth and Galatia and Thessalonica and the Church of Antioch for they met in houses and denyed the rest of the Synagogues of the Jews and the Temples of the Gentiles and they had private meetings and often by the sea-side Mountains and other places although Bishop Land be dead his spirit speaks and acts in New-England he made such Articles as these against Conventicles and told of the laudable Customs and Worship of the Nation but these men hath far exceeded him in cruelty they have done more wickednesse in one year then he in seven 7. Or shall openly contemn revile or disobey or disswade others from yeilding subjection to the Christian Magistrate as at present established in this Jurisdiction A. Shame and contempt is already come upon the Magistrates of that Jurisdiction and shall more and more encrease who rules not for God but for the Murderer and they who have established wickedness by a Law none can be subject to them nor their Laws for conscience-sake for they that do wrongs their own souls but rather bear their testimony against and suffer under it till God arise and plead their cause It may be they will call this Sedition and Rebellion 8. Or being questioned by lawful Aut●ority shall refuse to give direct Answers or plain to the aforementioned particulars together with their obstinate persisting in any of the premised D●linquencies A. So here is an end of the Inquisition if they will not give plain Answers then to prison but in plainness that is if they will not accuse themselves then to prison so whether answer or not answer directly or indirectly all 's one if they answer contrary to these Articles then Hereticks to prison and whip them and fine them 5. l. and if they will not accuse themselves but answer as the Lord shall give them to answer when asked by such tempters as these then they conclude their Answer is not plain but indirect and if they say nothing at all then conclude them guilty send them to prison cut off their ears whip them with Ropes whip them with Whips take their goods banish them from their Estates and Families and if they return put to death and then say Whether loss of ears or loss of life come to you your blood be upon your own heads Pilate was not clear though he said the like as Richard Bellingham O Lord arise and plead the cause of the poor of the flock for ungodly men is risen up in the pride of their hearts and blasphemes thy Name and thy Tabernacle and them that thou hast redeemed they seek to destroy Here follows a Narration of the sufferings of many godly people of Salem The particulars was sent from one Friend to another DEar Friend I sent thee in the last Information the Fines of the Court to be levied upon Friends which was 40. l. 15. s. but I was likely to have sent thee a larger sum the Marshal promised me a Copy but was not so good as his word for that which I saw in his hand which he hath Order to take I do believe will amount to above one hundred pounds He did secretly attach half of my house while I was in prison I never heard of it till now so when I heard of it I went to him to see whether it were so he told me he had done it and attached my ground about it and told me if I would pay about ten pounds I might have it

bottomles● pit by which Weapons he hath prevailed since the Lamb hath been slain and hath brought all the Creation into bondage which have been subject to his Authority which is out of the truth and he doth not onely make War against the Seed by whom salvation is revealed to the ends of the earth in them that believe in him but also he labours to destroy Gods Workmanship and to deface the creatures which God made and formed by the Word of his Power And thus all the sons of Adam in the transgression having shak't hands vvith the Prince of darkness doth fulfil his unrighteous Decrees being gone from the povver of God although man sees that the Way of the Serpent is unequal yet he hath not power to resist in that nature and so all are in captivity and bondage and slavery unto the noysome lusts which the Devil instigateth and suggesteth into the hearts of all the children of disobedience and so fruits of the flesh and of darkness is brought forth to the dishonor of the Lord of heaven and earth and herein the Devil rejoyceth and the seed of the evil-doer taketh delight and thereby his strength encreases by drinking in iniquity as Water he is nourish'd up in the reign of the shadovv of Death and strives to bring all thither to take up their habitation and to be servants to the Prince of the Ayre vvho vvas a Murderer from the beginning And so Adam when he had lost the Image of God and vvhen the heritage of God vvas laid waste in himself he begat a son in his own Image vvho vvas Cain a murderer who was of that wicked one that went out of Truth he rose up in envy slew Abel the just who was of the Seed And here 's the off-spring the fruit of the Seed of the Serpent for as God is love and all that are begotten by him live in love and all the creatures that he did make was to serve one another in love in the covenant of life and love in which they were made so the Devil lives in envy and all his children and leads into discord and perverteth all the creatures from that end which God made them to serve his end vvhose life stands in discord envy wrath and unrighteousness and whatsoever is evil and herein is the children of God made manifest and their Works and the children of the Devil and their Works they that love God loves the Workmanship of God and cannot hate his Brother but hath eternal life abiding in him but he that 's of the Devil destroys Gods Workmanship kills his Brother a man-flayer and hath not the love of God dwelling in him And this Seed of the Serpent hath spread it self forth over all the earth since the transgression both amongst Jews and Gentiles professors and prophane them that had the Law and them that were vvithout the Law them that have had the Scripture and them that had no Scripture and in that which is called Christendome as well as they which are called Heathens as well amongst the highest professors as amongst the grossest prophane in all times since the foundation of the World that the Lamb hath been slain and the seat of Iniquity raised up and this seed hath been made manifest by its fruits throughout all ages and times throughout all Nations Kindreds Tongues Regions Countreys and Kingdoms and by the fruit which is brought forth in New-England they themselves may read their stock and off-spring and fruits a little of which which is brought to light and evident hereafter I shall declare which when they come to view over their Work again shame may cover their faces and astonishment fill their hearts that such fruits should be brought forth by them who are so high professors of God in words and of the Scriptures to be the Rule of their obedience and Faith now shall you be tryed by the Scripture your Rulers your Teachers and your Church-members and the life of the Saints that gave forth the Scripture will stand a Witness against your Doctrines and cursed practises for evermore you may read your example Cain Herod Murderers Men of blood the persecuting Jews who were zealous for God as they thought who persecuted to death and said they had a Law and by that Law Christ ought to dye but you are worse then they for you had no Law which would take hold upon the righteous and faithful Witnesses of God till you had made one or invented one and digged down to Hell to ask counsel of the Prince of darkness your God And further you may read your example Nimrod who came of the stock of Ham who was cursed as well as the Serpent as well as Cain and your thoughts are vain like the thoughts of your fore-fathers the pharisees whom Christ prophesied of to his Disciples and said The time would come when they should hale them out of the Synagogues and persecute from City to City and sp●ak all manner of evil of them and should go about to kill them and yet think they did God service so void of understanding hath the seed of the Serpent alwayes been in all generations which Words of Christ is fulfilled among you professors of New-England who are thinking as they did that you do God service in killing his members and you are come to that time your fruits has made it manifest Oh! could you have believed in times past if it should have been told you that you above all people should be the greatest persecutors and exceeded in wickedness and cruelty and hard heartedness the Papists the Turks the Heathens who make little or no profession in comparison of you and yet that you should exceed them in rage cruelty and madness It is an abhorrency to all sober people you have stained the Earth and defiled your Land with blood and have caused the Name of the Lord of Heaven and Earth to be blasphemed among the Heathen by your wicked ungodly barbarous and brutish actions and you are in that nature and in their steps which kill'd the Prophets and mock't ●is Messengers and shamefull● entreated his servants upon whose heads all the blood shed from Abel to this day will be required But blessed be the Lord whose Arm hath been stretched forth and hath gathered thousands out of that nature which is cursed from God for ever and hath revealed his Salvation unto them and the everlasting Gospel which is to be preached again after the Apostacy and hath made us partakers of it to wit the Power of God and so we see unto whom the Arm of the Lord is revealed that all Nations since the Apostacy hath drunk of the Whores cup and are bewitch'd with her Sorceries and therefore according to the command of the Lord and the motion of his eternal spirit we have born our Testimony against the Apostates and Deceivers who retain the Words and has lost the life and power to the intent that all that

name and several other of the Magistrates names upon the outside and asked him whether he had received it or not Which thing he vvould neither acknowledge nor deny upon which I tendered him another Copy of the same and required that it should be read in the audience of the Court and that I might have liberty to declare the rest of my grounds the which he would neither receive nor suffer to be read afterwards I made way that I might read it my self and he caused me to be pulled down and haled forth and abused both me and Iohn Rous with his tongue and caused us to be haled to prison again About a day after I sent a little Note to them to require of them that we might not be shufled off in that manner as we were but that we might be called before their Court again wch was done in a wicked and corrupt manner labouring by what means they could to prevent the people from the hearing and sight of us which when we were called the Governor began with his rage and railing the strength of darkness being with him laboured if he could to stop me from speaking so that our ground and cause could not be heard according to our desires as he abused me with Words calling me a number of filthy names and that he looked upon me as the wickedest of all my Consorts or Words to that purpose but at last their Sentence passed upon us to be whipped or to pay five pounds according to their Law I told them if it were the Will of God I could freely lay down my life in witnessing against that Law Upon the day we were called forth to suffer their Law and being brought to the Stocks the people and Magistrates gathered together to see the execution it vvas received by us vvith great courage boldness to the astonishing of the heathen to the tendering of many after wch the Magistrate said we were cleared paying our fees Back again to prison were we returned and continued for our fees not being paid and there continued about five dayes and the Marshal perceiving that we were what we spake came upon the day following and laid before us the poor condition of his Wife and Children and told us the doors vvere open to us he would stand to what the Lord would move our hearts to communicate to his Wife and Children's necessities upon which account vve came forth Humphrey Norton Laws made at their March-Court holden at New-Plymouth where the Governor caused Deputies to be called on purpose to make these following Laws against Friends to prevent the spreading of Truth It is enacted by this Court and the Authority thereof That no Quaker or person commonly so called be entertained by any person or persons within this Government under the penalty of 5. l. for every such default or be whipt and in case any one shall entertain any such person ignorantly if he shall testifie on his Oath that he knew them not to be such he shall be freed of the abovesaid penalty provided that he upon his first discerning them to be such do disc●ver them to the Constable or his Deputy It is enacted also by the Court and Authority thereof That if any Quaker or person commonly so called shall come into any Township within this Government and by any person or persons be known or suspected to be such a one the person so knowing or suspecting him shall forthwith acquaint the Constable or his Deputy of them on pain of presentment and so lyable to censure in Court who forthwith shall diligently endeavour to apprehend them and command them to depart out of the Township and this Government and in case any such person delay or refuse so to depart then the said Constable or Deputy shall apprehend them or him before a Magistrate in their Township if there be any and if there be none to the select men appointed by the Court for that purpose who shall cause them or him to be whipt by the Constable or his Deputy or pay five pounds and then conveyed out of their Township And the same course is to be taken with them as often as they transgress this Order It is enacted by this Court and the Authority thereof That henceforth no such Meetings be assembled or kept by any person in any place within this Government under the penalty of 40. s. for every Speaker and 10. s. for every hearer and 40. s a time for the owner of the place that permits them so to meet together and if they meet together at their silent so called then every person so meeting together shall pay 10. s. a time and the Owner of the place shall pay 40. s. It is enacted by the Court That henceforth no publike Meetings be set up within this Government but such as the Court shall approve off F.H. and E.B. MY dearly beloved Friends about the last of the sixth Month 1657. I came from Barbado's with another Friend with me an Inhabitant of the Island and according to the appointment of the Father landed on Road-Island in the beginning of the eighth moneth on an out-part of the Island but the Vessel went for Boston and being come thither I heard of the arrival of Friends from England which was no small refreshment to me and after I had been there a little while I passed out of the Island into Plymouth-Patten to Sandwich and several other Towns thereabouts and after some time I was in Conecticut-Patten with John Copeland where the Lord gave us no small Dominion for there we met with one of the Disputers of New-England who is a Priest of Hartford who was much confounded to the glory of Truth and his shame and after some staying there we returned to Road-Iland where H.N. was and after some stay there we went to Plymouth-Patten and they having a Court we went to the place where it was having sent before the grounds of our coming but we were straightway put into prison and after twice being before them where we were much railed upon they judged us to be vvhipt H. N received twenty three stripes and I fifteen with Rods which did prove much for the advantage of Truth and their disadvantage for Friends did with much boldness own us openly in it And after we were let from thence vve returned to Road-Island and from thence to Boston and bore vvitness in their Meeting-House against their Worship in a fevv Words till they haled us forth and had us to their house of Correction and that evening vve vvere examined and committed to the prison and on the seventh day in the evening they vvhipt us vvith ten stripes apiece vvith a three-fold Whip to conclude a vvicked Weeks Work which vvas this On the second day they vvhipped six Friends on the third day the Gaoler laid William Brand neck and heels as they call it in Irons as he confessed for sixteen hours and on the fourth day the Gaoler gave

W. Brand one hundred and seventeen strokes vvith a pitch Rope on the fifth day vve vvere put in prison and on the seventh day vve suff●●ed and after a vvhile a Warrant vvas given forth that if vve vvould not work we should be whipt once in every three dayes and the first day have fifteen stripes the second time eighteen and the third time twenty one So on the seventh day vvas a Week after our first whipping four of us received fifteen stripes a-piece and on the fourth day after we were released So we returned to Road-Island and continued there a while and after some time H.N. went into Plymouth-Patten to Friends there and I was moved to come to Boston so that day five Weeks as I was released that day five Weeks I was put in again where was Christopher Holder and John Copeland and we do lye according to their Law to have each of us an ear cut off But we are kept in the Dominion of the Lord over all our Enemies This is the proceedings of the great professors of New-England whose fruits declare to all sober people what stock they are of even of Cain that hated and slew the just John Rous. Here followeth the Tryals and Examinations and Sufferings of the three Servants of the Lord Christopher Holder John Rous John Copeland and the cruel and unmerciful proceedings of John Indicot who is called a Governor of Boston and their Court called The Court of Assistance but it is of their Father the Devil's work against the above said three servants of God and harmless and innocent Lambs of Christ It came to pass that we two Christ Holder and J. Copeland being moved of the Lord to go to Boston set forth thitherwards on the third day of the sixth month ●nd the same day came to a Town in that Jurisdiction called Dedham and it being near Evening we turned into the Ordinary where we lodged that night and early in the morning came two Constables with some others and demanded of us whither we were going our answer vvas We intend to pass towards Boston Then they said they had a VVarrant to bring us to Boston before the Magistrates Then we required to see it but they would not shew us it so after some hours one Constable and two men with him had us to Boston and brought us to the Governor's house who when he saw us being much perplexed in spirit said in a rage You shall be sure to have your ears cut off then he asked our Names so we told him then he said You have been twice here before and said he looked upon it to be a great judgement of God to them that we were suffered so often to come amongst them to trouble them and asked us why we came seeing you know we would not receive you We answered The Lord hath commanded us we could not but come Then he maliciously said The Lord commanded you to come it was the Devil Then he urged us to prove our call by the Scriptures Our ansvver vvas Our Names are not vvritten in the Scriptures The Governor whose name is John Indicot said he did believe we spoke true for he did think our Names vvere not vvritten in the Scriptures and farther said It vvere something if you could make it appear to me that you are sent of God We answered That vvhile he stood in unbelief though vve speak never so plain to him yet he would not believe it Then one Nathaniel Williams standing by said to this effect Seeing that you knew we would not receive you it must needs be out of malice that you came Our answer was That the Lord God who searcheth the hearts of all knows that we came not in malice but in obedience to him Then J. Indicot asked us Whether vve did believe that Christ's body vvas in heaven Ans. We knovv that his body is in heaven So he sent for the Gaoler and bid him take us avvay and said we should hear from them to morrovv So he had us away and put us in the House of Correction as they call it So on the morrow being the fifth day of the sixth month they had a Court at Boston before vvhich we were brought When we came before them they caused our hats to be taken off and throvvn on the ground Then J. Indicot said You were before me yesterday and I asked you to prove your call but you did not because you said I would not believe it therefore I ask you to prove it before the people it may be they wil believe you Then we asked them if they vvould believe us when we spoke the truth I I if you prove it by Scripture we must as before To prove our call hither by express Words of Scripture we cannot because our Names neither this place is not mentioned in Scripture but that vve have examples in Scripture from the Prophets and Apostles who in obedience to the Lord travelled from place to place as we do that we can prove Then I. I. laughed and said Are you Prophets and Apostles Then he asked us whether we did believe that Christ had a body in heaven distinct from the body of his Members VVe answered That Christ's body is divided from his members we do not believe I.I. turned to the people and said They mea● his mystical body Then we said VVe know no such word in Scripture as Mystical and put them to prove by Scripture that Christ had two bodies Then one stood up like a Priest and asked us whether we did not believe that Christ had a body in heaven made of Sinews Flesh and Bone distinct from the body of his Members Then we asked what the body of his Members was To which they gave no ansvver Then the Secretary made a speech to this effect saying That these men have been here twice before and have received the Law and was sent out of this Jurisdiction and now are come the third time And so vvrote an Order and delivered it to the Governor who delivered it to the Gaoler and bid him take us away and keep us according to his Order but they read not the Order to us then So he had us away to the house of Correction again and the next morning the Gaoler came to us and asked us to work Then we required to see his Order so he shewed us it The Order was to this effect To the Ke●per of the House of Correction You are by vertue hereof to take into your custody the body of Christopher Holder and John Copeland and them safely to keep close to work with Prisoners Diet onely until their ears be cut off and not suffer any to converse with them whilst they are in your custody Then he asked us again to work and said As you are rational men I would wish you not to put your bodyes to so much sufferings saying he had an Order to have us whipt twice a Week if vve vvould not work and shewed

Court was sitting We vvere brought before them in the night where one Simon Broadstreat sate as Judge Daniel Denison William Hathorn with another Assistant Simon Broadstreat asked us if we knew before vvhom vve vvere Then after they had pulled off our hats they asked our Names We told them They asked us if vve vvere Quaker We answered We were of those vvhom the World in derision calls so Simon Broadstreat s●id he never saw any of us before and he began to tell us we held dangerous Errors We bad him declare what they were Then like the rest of Cain's race he began to accuse us We denyed that Christ that suffered at Jerusalem and that we denyed the Scriptures But vve declared the contrary and that we owned no other Jesus but he that suffered at Jerusalem and the Scriptures of truth vve owned And then they said We were much wronged and further said What we had declared concerning Christ and the Scriptures they owned Then they would know our call to come into those parts We answered We came to visit the Seed in captivity Then they began to threaten us with their Law and before confessed they owned what vve said We asked wha● they had to lay to our charge but they had nothing but said they had a Law against such a people as we owned our selves to be of and according to that Law sent us to the house of Correction and bid the Constable take us away and kept us prisoners Some of Salem people which were summoned to answer for being at the Meeting before-mentioned six of them were sent to prison with us to Boston The second day of the fifth Month being the sixth day of the Week and the presence of the Lord was vvith us and we stayed at Laurence Southwick's house where we had a meeting of friends vvhich passed some part of the way vvith us after we had given up our selves to the Lord by prayer ●nd supplication And vvhen we came to Boston vve were seperated into several rooms in the Prison and we into a room that the bloody Gaoler had provided to put us in he hearing we were taken resolved in his wicked heart to torment our bodies or to make us bow to their wicked and cursed Law as he said to us He took us up into a high room in the inner Prison had stopped it so close that he left not a hole for any air to come in nor suffered any to come at us and stopped all necessaries from us as Food and whatsoever might be serviceable to us neither let us have any Victuals for our money but after some time he brought a few Pottage and a piece of Bread We would have given him money for it but he said he would have nothing but Work for it and further said If we did eat he would make us work for it so he kept us without any five dayes On the second day of the Week he called us down to be whipped which was executed upon us in twenty blows with a three-stringed Whip with knots at the ends with as much fury and violence as ever he could lay it on So after I spoke a few words against their bloody Law which lay upon me to witness against by which we suffered he locked us up again as before-mentioned and about an hour after he came to signifie to us That we were clear according to the Law and might pass away if we would pay the Marshal to go with us out of the Collony Oh inhumane We to pay a man for banishing of us the Answer was If he would set open the doors for us we would pass away And after he demanded Whether we would work his work We refused Then he began to threaten us what he would do to us and said he would put me in Irons that night so the next day he came with his Irons and put one Iron on each thigh and another about my neck and he locked them together with a Horse-Lock that there was no more liberty between the Irons then the Lock allowed so that my body was crumbled together my head close to my thighs those Irons was upon me from about the fifth hour in the morning till after the ninth hour at night which was sixteen hours And when I lay in the Irons I was strengthened in the power of the Lord The next day in the morning he came as he did before to know vvhether I had occasion to go dovvn I vvent dovvn and vvhen I came into the lovver room vvhere his Mill stands he haled me tovvards the Mill and bid me go to vvork he took a Rope about an inch thick and laid upon me as hard as he could lay upon my back and arms until his Rope untvvisted and then he left off and as it vvas said by the Prisoners he gave me about twenty blows at the least so that with those blows my back and arms were swelled Then I went up into the room where we were locked in then he brought another Rope bigger and stronger then the former and haled me down again into the lower room and said as he often did that he would make me bow to the Law of the Countrey he bid me work wch I could not do for all the worlds frowns or favours It being in the heat of Summer I had nothing but a Searge Cassock upon my shirt then he began to lay on again vvith his Rope upon my back that had been vvhipped but tvvo days before and the day before lay in Irons and had laid so many blovvs upon me before that morning but he like an unreasonable man had no compassion but vvith violence laid four-score and seventeen blovvs more on me as hard as he could lay them on and if his strength and his Rope had not failed him he vvould have laid more on but he threatned to give me as many more the next morning if I vvould not bovv to the Lavv and also that friend that vvas vvith me if he vvould not yeild but the Lord prevented this cruel man of his purpose So he locked us up in the room as at the first and yet the Lord did bear me up that I fell not under the strokes of this vvicked man being kept from dyet five dayes and my body vveakned both for vvant of ayre and dyet and having lain in Irons so many hours and receiving so many blovvs that soon after I vvas laid dovvn upon the boards I felt the parts of nature decaying and natural strength to fail me that my body vvas turned as cold as the earth and a striving there vvas in nature for life vvhich vvas near departed from me so that at last all my sences vvere stopped that I had neither seeing feeling nor hearing for some time but the Povver of the Lord broke through me and life broke through death and the breath of the Lord breathed into my nostrils and a noise went forth into the Town among the people so the vvickedness