I , I I , I 2..1 ThePreface. That was the land of his .na.tiuitie, where him(elfe had .been bo·rne,and brought vp, there dwelt his Country-men; ·acquaintance,friends,_and yet he would not foffer hi£ Soone to bee there planred,from whence hee himfelfe had been ··ttanfplantcd : not bccaufe there was no likelyhoode of wealthor liuing,but becaufe therevc;as peril offinfulnes anQ · infeetionjas he well knew by former experience in ·himfelfe ~nd his aunceAors. And therefore the very motion ofre– ducing lfock._backe thither moued him to giue fo earnell a · charge to his feruanr,to be very wary to auoid it. Asif hce lhould hauc f:~id,fo farre as thou doll refpea thy dutie to– wards me_, fo farre as t'hou 1neandl to d_ifcharge the trull committed to thee,fo far as thou bcarell any loue or tender affecHon to my Sonne,fo heedfully leoke to this~to make no condufion for lfaac to returne intG> thofeCountti~s. Out ofthehoufoofhenda'<:e• "'~ voCJr. IN that God deliuered them from thisbondagelnotwithGo~will. flanding the extreamitie ofit, this doCtrine is gathered, delmer hts Tl h {' . r. • G d h'ld b . h '11 d children . 1at w at oeuer m11er1e . o s c 1 ren em,yet e wt e.. ot~t ofaU liuer them: for this is not written for them,but for vs. mifenes. Th d 1 ..J n affi' n · c ey were ·vn er a ong an~ nrong llltlon 1ormany yeeres fpace, vnder tyrants, that whipt their bodies 1 and ., 1 fcourged them, and put them to laboraboue their llrength, • · and(which was amoflintollerable vexation) made the pa– rents drowne their owne children. None eucr intreated any fo fpightfully as they were vfed, yet wee fee: Goddeliuered Pfal. 34,19 . them. So in the Pfalrne he faith, c../Ucwy are t/;;e trou6!eJ o.f . · · the r~?;hteous,but Goddtliuereth them out o.fa!l. It is not their wealth~ nqr money, for of that ,they are oft times bare e– nough,nor friends/or fometime they haue none,neither yet their Hrength, for they are often weakned and brought full low :but Godwill dehuer them. let men get righteoufnes 1 and faith,& the fpirit ofprayer, though theywere in an iron foroace vndcrPharaohhis tyratinie,in anhoufeofbondage: let them butcrie_,and from thc;nce God will deliucr them~ . . So inE/fers time,a wonderfull affliction it was, that;t.he dayofexecution was appGinted, when all the godly fl1:oufd · .beput to the fword,not one to be left aliue. But now;_wneu· Jhc:y
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