80 and the god ly interest in the country, found greate opposition by some proiectors and others of corrupt interest that were in commission of the peace, whereupon making complaint at the parliament, he procur'd some of them t o be put out of the commission, and others, better aflectccl , to be put into their roorncs, of which Mr. Hutchinson was one; but he then forbore to lake his oath , as not willing to lancb ou t rash ly mto p<1blick emp loymen ls, wh ile such a_ stonne hung threat'ning over head; yet his good affections to godlinesse and the interest of his country, being a g lory that could not be conceal'rl, many of his honest neighbours made appli cations to him, and endeavou red to gaine his conduct, wh ich he at first in modes ty a nd prucleuce would not too hastily rush into. ' 'I'he parliament had made orders to deface the images in all churches: within two mi.les of his house there was a chu rch, where Christ upon the crosse, the virgin, and John, had bene f}lirly se tt up in a windore over the alLar, and sundry other superstiti ous paintings, of the priest's owne ordering, were drawne upon the walls. \Vhen the order for razing out those reliques of supers titi on came, the priest only tooke downe the heads of the images, and laid them carefully up in his dosett, and would have had the church officers to have certified that the thing was done according to order; whereupon they came to :Mr. IIutchinson, and desit>d him that he would take the pnynes to come and view their church, which he did, and upo11 a the lord-deputy Ireton, the news of whid1 be ing brougl1t over was so unaeceptable "'to him, that he said, they had many just debts, which be desil'ed they would pay " befOre th~y made any such presents; tha t he had no need of their laud , and would H not have h; and that he should be more contented to see them doing the service of "the nati o n, than so liberal in disposing of the pubJic treasure." u Mr. Hutchiuson be ing born in the latter end of the yem 1616, was on ly about -three-and-twenty years old at thi s period; when some m:ty think thi s mode;,ty became him. It was not the fashion of those times to arrive at the perfection of wisdom and judgment so early as in our days !
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