- to t-he Chief ofSiHHers; I S'9 years ln1pr:fonment and upwards, fQr Non– conformity : wherein he had time to furnifh the World •;,; it h fu ndry p. ood Books, &c.and by his patience to move Dr. Barl( w the then Bifhop of Linct)ln, and other Cburch-men, to pity his hard ·a!'Id unre~fonable futferings, fo far as to ftand veLy n1uch his -Friends, in ,procuring his enlargement; or t~ere perh:lps , he had died, by the Noyfon1nefs and ill,llfage of the place. Being now I fay, again at I .i– berty, and having through mercy fhaken off his bodily Fetters ; for thofe upon his Soul were broken before, by the Abounding Grace ~ that filled his he2rt , he went to vifit thofe I that had been a comfort to hitn in his Tri.. 1 bulation,. with a Chriftan·-like acknowledg– lment of their kindnefs, and enlargement of ·Charity; giving encouragement by his Ex~ •1 a·mple, it it happened to be their hard haps, to fall ,int<> a-ffiiction or trouble,then to fuffer patie.ntly for the fake of~ good Con~citnae, and fO£ the Love of God 1n jefus Chn"ft, towards their Souls; and by 1nany cordial per– ~ f~afions, fi1pported forne wbofe Spirit began to fink low, through the fear of d:t nger that threatned their worldly concernment, io that the people found a wonderful Confola– tion in his Difconrfe and Admonitions. As often.as opportunity would, .admit he gather'd them toget)ler (though the Law was then in force againft Meetings) in convenient 1 Places, and fed them . with the fincere ........_ ·Of the ~ord, that they might grow
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