173 / 186
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 from
Writing
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
w
horn
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 ind
uJ.lriot1fi)1 and
chearfuJly to
labour ia bis
Vineyard.
I
Thus