441 " much more of the mystery of truth in that Epistle, and when my " wife returns I will make her sett it downe; for," ·sayd he, " I will " no more observe their crosse humors, but when her children are " neere, I will have her in my chamber \vith me, and they shall not " pluck her out of my armes; and then, in the winter nights, she " shall coHect severall observations I have made of this Epistle since " I came into prison." The continual! study of the scriptures did infinitely ravish and refine his soule, and take it of from all lower exercise, and he continued it in his sicknesse even to the last, desiring his brother, when he was in bed and could not read himselfe, to reade it to him. He found himselfe every day grow weaker, yet was not exceeding sick, only he could not sleepe at all, day nor night. There was a country phisitian at Deale, who had formerly belong'd to the armie, and had some guifts, and used to exercise them among godly people in their meetings; but having been taken there once by the persecutors, and being married to a wicked unqt'liet woman, she and tQ.e love of the world had perverted him to forsake all religious meetings, yet the man continued civil! and faire :condition'd, and was much employ'd thereabouts. He being sent for to Mr. Hutchinson, found that on Friday his mouth grew very sore; whereupon he told Mr. George Hutchinson that he distrusted ·his owne skill in looking to it, and apprehended some danger, and advis'd him to send for a very famous phisitian that was at Canterbury, which they did, and he came on Saturday. As he came allong ·he enquired of the messenger that fetcht him what kind of person the collonell was, and how he had liv'd and been accustom\], and which chamber of the castle he was now lodg'd in? Which when the man had told him, he sayd his iourney would be to no purpose, for that chamber had kill'd him. Accordingly, when he came, he told the collonell's brother, on Saturday night, that he apprehended danger, and appoynted some remedies, and some 'applications to his temples, and a cordiale to procure rest, but it had no effect. There
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