Chap.I 8. according to St J oH N. ?23 Verfe 31. It is not lawfnll for tu. ] That is , upon,,this or any filch like day, upon an holy-day , or holy-day-Eeve. For other- wife they hadpower, or at leaft took it at their pleafure ; as when they ftoned Stephen, .fills 7. and wouldhave killed Paul, Ads 24. But nate, that theywould feem todo all according toLaw byany means; fo would their fucceffours, the Catholikes. Which, ifit be fo (faithMr. Fox) how did they then to Anne Askew,whom A&&Mona they firft condemned to death , and then fet her on the rack ? By f01.1392. what Lawdid they callup Mailer Hooper,and imprifon him for the ueens debt ( when the Queen in very deed did owehim four- fcore pound) and kept him a year andhalf inprifon, andgave him never a peny ? By what Law did Bifhop Bonner condemne and burnRichardMekins, a lad of fifteen years , when the firfl Juryhad quit him , and at the flake he revoked all herdic , and praifed the faid Bonner to be a good man : and alfo having him in prifon, would not fuffer his father andmother tocome to him , to comfort their own child ? What Lawhad they to put Mr. Rogers our Protomartyr in prifon , when he did neither preach nor read leé ure , after the time ofthe Queens inhibition ? And when they hadkept him in his own houle halfa year, being not deprivedof any living , yet would not let him haveone half -peny of' his own means to relieve him , his wife and eleven children ? By what Law was ThomasTompkins hand burned , and after his body con- fumed .to afhes ? What good Law or honefly was there toburn . . the three poor womenat Garne/le, with the infant-child falling out ofthe mothers womb, when as they all before recanted their words and opinions, and were never abjured before. So, what right or order ofLaw did Stephen gardener follow, in troubling and imprifoning Judge Hales, when he had done nothing nei- ther againft Gods Law ormans, proceeding in order ofLaw a- gainft certain prefumptuous perfons , which, both before the Law, and againft the Law then in force, took upon them to fay their.. Malle ? Verfe 32- Signifying what death he ,/hestld die.] This films . that the Jewes hadpower to put to death, but by a providence. hewasbxought to `Pilate ,. that, according to the manner of the Romans he might be crucified : that kindofdeath beingnot,other- wife, in ufeamong the Jews. Hence our Lordis faidto have been . crucified at Rò e,Rev.a i.8. Verfe 33, ntred into the judgement-hall again. ] For with- out
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