Part JII. Reverend Mr. fichárd Baxter. 175- and Two Weak Honed Perlons intrufted to have direEted him, left the Houle wherehe was fafe, and thinking to pats away, carne to the julices and Soldiers ::t the Door, and there floodby them, till Tome one laid, This in thé Preacher. And fo they took him, and blotted my Name out of theWarrant, and put in iris; Though almori every Word fitted to my Cafe , was falle of him, To the Gatehoufe he was carried, where he continued almo& Three Months of the Six ; and being eeerneftly defirous of Deliverance, I was put to Charges to accom- plifh it, and atalt (having Righteous Judges, and the Warrant being found faulty) he had an Habeas Corpus, and was freed upon Bonds to appearagain the next Term. 316. By this means my Cafe was made much worfe : for s. The Juü- ces, and other Profecutors, were the more exafperated againft me. 2. And they 'were now taught to lop every Hole in the next Warrant ( to which I was dill as liable as ever) So that I had now no Proi eet that way of Efcape. And yet though my Charge, Care and Trouble had been great for his Deliverance, and Good People had dealt very kindly with him, my uláal Back-biters (the Pre- yátifts and Separatiris) talk commonly of me, as one that had unworthily faved my felf from Danger, and.drawn a Stranger into the Snare ; and therefore defer - ved to bear all the Charges : Though, as is Did, t. I was Twenty Miles ofF, Preaching publickly. 2. They that askt himto Preach, told him theWord. 3. He went intoDangerfromSafety,by theGonda& of force Perlons of that cenforions hu- mour. 4. MyDanger was Increafed by it, as well as my Charges. But Man's Ap- probation is a Poor Reward, § 317. Juft when I came home, and was beginning to Peek Mr. Seddon's De- liverance Mr. Roffe Died , the Fierce&, of the Juftices who had lent me to Goal before. The other Two are one Mr. Grey, and Sir Philip Mat- thews. S318. The Parliament being fate again, a Letter was fecretly printed, con= coining the Hiltory of the Debate in the Lord's Houle the former Sellions a- bout the Tell, and it was Voted to beburnt by the Hangman, but the more de- fired, and read it. In which itappeareth, That whenit cameto be theirown cafe, morewas failby the Lordsfor theCauleof the Nonconformifts, than ever they were permitted to fay for themfelves. § 319. A molt ExcellentBookwas written forthe Nonconfortni&s (forAbatements, andForbearance, and Concord)by Dr. Herbert Crofts, Bp. of Hereford, without his Name ; of which, more afterward. § 320. The Lords and Commons Revived their Contefts about their Powers andPriviledges, and the Lords appointed Four Lawyers to plead their Caine; and the Commons fee up Orders, or Votes, to forbid them. And the Dukeof Buckingham made a Notable Speech againd Perfecution, andclehired the Content of the Lords, that he might bring ina Bill for the Eafeof His Majefty's Prote }ant Subjects inmatters of Religion ; but while it was preparing, the King, on Mon- day November 21 f. Prorogued the Parliament till February come Twelve- month. § 321. TheSpeeches of the Earl of Shaftsbury, andothers, about the Ted, were fecretly Printed, anda Paper of Reafons for Diffolvin this Parliament, and Call- ing a New One, which were given in the Houfe of Lords : And the Debates of this Ted (opening a little of the Noncouformifts Caule as to the Ox- ford Oath) together with what the Earl of Shaftsbury bath done ; with Wit and Refolution, hath alienated many, even of the Conformifts, kern the prefent prevailing Bithops. § 322. The other of the fierce Nikes, that Subfcribed a Warrant for my im- prifonment, died Ihortly after ; vrz. Colonel Grey. The Death of Mr. Bar- well, Sir Bohn Medlicot, Mr. Rofi and Mr. Grey, betides the Death of force inform- ers, and the Repentanceof others, and theDeathof force late OppofersoftheCler- gy, mode me, and forceothers, the more to companionate Perfecutors, and dread God's Judgments. 323 TheTownof Northampton lamentablyburnt. § 324. An Earthquake indivers Counties. § 325. My Dear Friend, Sir Matthew 'Hale, Lord Chief Mice of the King's .tench, falling into a Languilhing Difeafe, from which he is not like to Reco- ver, refolvedly petitioned for a Difmitfon, and gave up Isis Place, having gone through'
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