374 Mr. N EA L'S lid Vol.. of the Army of the Earl of Efl'ex ; fo many Bills were fent up to the Pulpit every Lord's-Day for their Prefer - vation, that the Minifter had neither time to read them, nor to recommend their Cafe to God in Prayer. Mr Foulis, mentions a fantified Sifter, one Mrs. Beale,who had a Bill purr up in Martin's Church Weft- minfter, where the zealous Mr. Care was Le6turer ; for her Son's Converfion, in the following Form +* Thefe are to dcfire you to take into your Chrif- ' din Confideration, the Grief and Sorrow of one 6 Mrs. Beale in Wfinin/t/r; whofe Son,Francis Beale, 4 is tallen away from Grace, and ferves the King ' in his Wars: wherefore the molt humbly defires the Prayers of this Congregation, that he may ' return and be converted.' Nay, to fuch a height of Enthuftaftic Madnefs were fome carried in thole Days, ' That one (as Dr. south t informs us) murdered his own Mother, for kneeling at the c Sa -r :ment, alledging it was It oìayry, and that z his Conic; nce told him, it was his Duty to de- f roy Id( aters.' Dr, Bafiwzck fays, II ' He a mur.ic r -;;o his Mother, and Brother.' Which Mr. Burt n confirms, and Pays, t That his Name was 4p-Fv 'ns ; bur in excufe, he pretends, he was a diftra(eo Man. Mr. B.xter gives us to under fland, h It Wonders were done by his Praying N lghbours, by extempore Prayer ; for fpeaking of bis Wife's l;nefs, he fays, ** c While we ' were all rejoiciivg in her Change, the fell into a 4 Cough, and teeming Confumption, in which we * Foulis's IIiftory of the Wicked Plots and Confpiracies of the pretended Saipts, p. i 8 i. The Noble Cava?,er Chata6teriz'd p° 6 a: s m #h's Ser ons, Uo . III. p. T p f° Balhoich's Litany, p. q.. Burton's wo Sermons, entitled, Godand the King, S Na- wen, '94- k cí36, p i6. Breviate o? the Life ofMrs. Margaret Baxter, by Rieh4rd Xaxser, 16$1, p. L 4 almoít
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