'Chap. V. The }-I I S TOR Y of the PuRrt 34.g tiled to fay, That he did more good with his wild notes, than we [the bi- K. Charles I. -flops] with our fet mufack. Yet his great ufefulnefs could not íkreen him 16 from thofe fufpenfions and deprivations which were the portion of the pu- titans in thefe times. His refolutions about fubfcribing I will relate in his own words : " If I come into trouble for non-conformity, I refolve by God's arifíance, to come away with a clear confcience ; for though the " liberty of my miniftry be dear to me, I dare not buy it at loch a rata. " I am troubled at my former fubfcription, but I lawmen ofgood gifts, " and of good hearts (as I thought) go before me ; and I could not prove that there was any thing contrary to the word of Cod, though I difliked " the ceremonies, and knew them to be unprofitable burdens to the church of God ; but if I am urged again I will never yield; it was my weak- " nets before, as I now conceive, which I befeech God to pardon---- 0° Written in the year 1627." But after this the good man was overtaken again and yielded, which almoft broke his heart ; for he adds, "For " this I fmarted, 1631. If I had read over this [my former refolution] it maybe I had not done what I did." How fevere are fuch trials to a poor man with a numerous family of children! And how fore the diftref- fes of a wounded confcience ! Others continued to leave their country, according to our bleffed favi- Of Mr. our's advice, Matth. x. 23. When theyperfcute you in this city, flee ye into Nath. Rom another. Among thefe were Mr. Nathaniel Rogers, fon of Mr. yohn Ro- gers° gers of Dedham, educated in Emanuel College Cambridge, and fettled at Ajìngten in Suñolk, where he continued five years; but feeing the florin that had driven his neighbours from their anchor, and being fearful of his own fiedfattnefs in the hour of temptation, he refigned his living into the hands of his patron, and forfaking the neighbourhood of his father, and all profpeds of worldly advantage, call himfelf and his young family upon the providence of God, and embarked for New England, where he arrived about the middle of November 1636. and fettled with Mr. Norton at Ipf- wich, with whom he continued to his death, which happened in the year 1655. About the fame time -went over Mr. Lambert Whiteing M. A. a Lin- of m,, aolnfhire divine, who continuedat Shirbeck near Boflon, unmoleuìed till Whiteing. bithop Williams's difgrace,- after 'which he was filenced by the fpiritual courts, and forced into NewEngland, where he arrived with his family 1637. this fummer, and continued an ufeful preacher to a little flock at Lynne till Second,Jùf_ the year 1679. when he -died in the eighty-third year of his age. fe.;ng of 'The liar- chamber and high commiflìon exceeded all the bounds not Barton j and only of law andequity, but even of humanity itfelf. We have related the Baftwick. fufferings of Mr. Prynne; Burton, and Bajiwickr, in the year 1633. There Ruíhw. gentlemen, being'fhut up in prifon, were fuppofed to e nploy their time in Pa ago' 4 G z writing
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