435 the actions of my life. Another time, when she was telling him, slte fear'd they had plac'd him on the seashore, but in order to transport him to Tangier, he told her, if they should, God was the same God at Tangier as at Owthorpe; prithee, sayd he, trust God with me, if he carrie me away, he will bring me back againe. Sometimes when he would not be perswaded to doe things wherein he had a liberty, for feare of putting a snare and stumblingblock before others that had not soe, and she would expostulate with him, why he should make himserte a martyr for people that had bene so censorious of him, and so unthankfull and unsensible of all his meritts; he would say, be did it not for them, but for the came they own'd. When many ill usages of himselfe by godly people have bene urg'd to him, he would say, that if they were truly the people of God,. ali their failings were to be borne; that if God had a people in the land, as he was confident he had, it was among them, and not among the cavaliers, and therefore although he should ever be severe against their miscarriages in any person in whomsoever he found them, yett he would adhere to them that own'd God, how unkindly soever they dealt with him. Sometimes he would say, that if ever he should li1·e to see the parliament power up againe, he would never meddle any more either in councells or armies: and then sometimes againe, when he saw or heard of any of the debosheries of the times, he would say, he would act only as a iustice of the peace in the country, and be severe against drunkards, and suffer none in his neighbourhood. Oftentimes he would say, if ever he were at liberty in the world, ~e would flee the conversation of the cavaliers, and would write upon his doores, Procul hinc, procul este, p1·ojani! and that, though he had in his former conversation with them, nercr had any communication with their manners nor vices, yet hence~
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