6o The LI F E of the Part Ill to make it, they could not have delivered him, nor can do it for him on any that fhall fo tranfgrefs the Law. This wasfiippofed tobe that which was rsfolved on;at White-Hall by theway. But he had never heard what I had to fay in the main Caufe, to provemy felf noTranf- greffor ofthe Law : Nor did heat all tell them how toknow, what a Conventicle is whichthe Common Law is fo much againit. § t z9. Being difcharged of my Imprifonment, my Sufferings began ; for I had there better Health, than I had of a long time before or after ; I had nowmore exafperated the Authors ofmy Imprifonment ; I was not at all acquit as to themain Cute ; theymight amend their Mitticcss, and layme in again: I knew no wayhow tobring my main Caufe (whether they had power to pout theOxford-Oath onme) to a legal Tryal : Andmy Counfellors advifed me not to doit, much lefsto queftion the Junices for falfeImprifonment, left I were born down bypower. I had now a great Houfe of greatRenton my Hands, which I muffnot come to : I had no Houfe to dwell in ; I knew not what todo with allmy Gonds and Family ; L mitt go out of Middlefex ; I mullnot come within five Miles of City, Corporation, &e. where to find filch a place, and therein a Houfe, and how to remove my Goodsthither ; and what to dowithmy Houfe the while, till my time expired, were more trouble thanmy quiet Prifon by far ; and the Confequentsyet worfe. § r 3o. Gratitude commandeth me to tell theWorld who were my Benefa&ore in my Imprifonment, and Calumny as much obligethme, becaufe it is faid among tome, that I was enrichedby it; Serjeant Fountain'sgeneral Counfel ruled me ; Mr. Wallop, and Mr. Ofey fent me their Counfel, and would take nothing. Offour Serjeants that pleaded my Caufe, two of them, Serjeant Windham (afterwards Ba- ron of the Exchequer) and Serjeant Sire, would take nothing. Sir johnBernard (a Perron that I never faw but once) fent me no lefs thanTwenty Pieces; and the Counters of ExeterTen Pound ; And AldermanBard Five ; and I received no more ; but I confers more was 'offered me, which I refuted ; and more would have been, but that they knew I needed it not. And this much defrayed my Law, and Prifon Charge;. § i 3i. When the fame Juftices faw that I was thus difcharged, they were not fatisfied to have driven me from Allan, but they make anew Mittimus, byCount-el as for the fame (fuppofed) Fault, naming the Fourth of vane as the Day on which I preached, and yet not naming any Witnefs (when the Ahi againft Conventicle% was expired long before.) And this Mittimus they put into an Officer's hands in London, en bring me' not to Clerkenwell, but among the Thieves and Murderers, to the cammon Jail at Newgate, which was fine theFire (which burnt down all the bettcr Rooms) the molt noifom place that I have heard of (except the Toner Dun- geon) of anyPrifon in the Land, § 132. The next Habitation which God'sProvidence chofe for me, was at Tot- teri4ge, near Barnet, where for a Year, I was fain, withpart of my Family fepara- ted fromthe refs, to take a few meanRooms, which were fo extreamly fmoaky,and the place withal fo cold, that I fpent the Winter in great pain; one quarter of a Year bya fore Sciatica, and feldomfree from filchAnguilh. § 133. It would trouble theReader for me to reckon up themanyDifeafes; and Dangers for thefe ten Years pan, in, or from which, God hath delivered me ; though it be my Duty not to forget to be thankful. Seven Months together I was lame, with a mange Pain in one Foot; Twice delivered from a Bloody Flux ; a fpurious Catara t in my Eye (with inceliant Webs and Net-works before it) bath continued thefe eight Years, without difabling me one Hour fromReadingor Wri- ting : I have bad conftant Pains and Languors, with incredibleFlatulency in Sto- mach, Bowels, Sides, Back, Legs, Feet, Heart, Brean, but worft of all, either ' painful Dinentions, or' ufually vertiginous or, ftupifyingConquefts of my Brain, fo that I have rarely one Hour's, or quarterof an Hour's eafe. Yet, through God's Mercy, I was never oneHour Melancholy, and notmany Hours in aWeek dtfabled utterly frommy Work, fave thatI loft time in the Morning, for want ofbeing able to rifeearly : And lately, an Ulcer in my Throat, with a Tumour, of near half a Year's continuance, is healed without any means. In all which I have found fuck merciful Difpofals of God, fach thimble Chanifements for my Sin, filch plain An- fwers ofPrayer, as leave me unexcufable if they do me not ood. Betidesmany fud- den and acuter Sicknettes, which God hath deliveredme from, not hereto beawn- bred ;
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