to the Chief of Sinners~ 163 Magiftracy, &c. By turning out fome, and putting in others ; againft this, Mr. Buny~tn, expreffed his Zeal with fome woorinefs, as forefeing the· bad confequence that would . attend it, and laboured with his-Congregati– on, to prevent their being irnpofed on in this -kind, and when a great man in thofe .days coming to Bedford, upon fome fuch Errand, fent for hitn, as 'tis fuppofed to give him a place of publick Truft ; he would by no n1eans come at him, but fent his Excufe. When he was at leifure fromWriting and Teaching, he often carne up to London, and . there went a!llong ·the Congregations of the Non··conformifts, and ufed his Talent to the great good liking of the Hearers and even forr1e to whorn he had been mifieprefented, upon the account of . his Ed'ucation, were convinced of his Worth and Know ledge. in Sacred things,as perceiving him to be a t\1a~ of a found Judgment, delivering hirnfelf ' plainly and p,o\verfully; infornuch, that 1nany who catne meer Spectators for novelty fJke, rather then to edifie and be improved, ·· \Vent away well fatisfied with what they : beard, and \Vondred as the 'Jervs did at the Apofl:les (viz. ) whence thi"s Man fhould have thefe tbi~1g<~, perhaps not ,confidering that _God more · inmcdi~tely ailifts thofe that make it their buftnefs induJ.lriot1fi)1 and chearfuJly to labour ia bis Vineyard. I Thus
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