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Show ( 162 ) At chis the Pridl chafed and fretted, an~ afiked his People, Why they came a~ongft tb~m. To which they anfwered, Sir, 'It 11$ fo, We ave been amorwft them; and if you come not (or~? ~ktP us 'lVe ar~ on Ground. And faid che Pne s 1 e, fVhicb do you like befi, my Hr4sband, . or the ~akers ? Said one of them, We ]hall tell you that after your Ht-ub.-md hath been with them. . . Wh upon in came Rayner m a fretrmg and ~?r~u~~~y frowar~emann~r, faying, U'hat came r here for, • feeing the La'1VS of the Countrr ar~. agamft fucb r;r 2 But "'"hat haft tho~l agam(t m? reply d you are. • .v (f:'d h Mary Tomkins. You deny l~agiflrfltes al , t. e Prieft ) and Minifiers, and the Churches of Chrift. Thou j"ayeft Jo (reply'd. ~ary.J . .And yo~ deny the Three p erfons in the Trmzty (faid t~e Pnefi.) T~ which Mary anfwered, 1 ake 1(0tzce,. People, tbu /ldan falfly accu[etb m ; for godly Magiftrates, ana . the Minifters of Cbrift, we own; and the Churches of Chrift, '1Ve o'1vn ; and tha~ there are Three that bear Record in Heaven, wbtch Three . are, _the Father, Word, and Spirit, tha,t we own: But for the Three Perfons in the Trinity, that's for thee to pr~ve. . I will prove Three ~erfons i~ the Trm1tr ( fa1d the Prieft.) Thou fay 'ft jo, fatd George, Prefton ; b:tt prove it by the · Sc~ipture. Y_es,_ reJ?.lY d Rayner, by thi6 I wilt prove It, w_here tt t~ jmd~ And he is the exprefs Image of hts ~ather s Pe1f~n.. But {aid one, That i4 faljly Tranjlated. Yc:a, ~t ~, re- ) ply' d a learned Man, for in the Greek zt .u, not Perfon, but Subftance. But, faid the Pne~, .Jt i.s Perf on, and fo there i4 one Perfon. Tho~ Jay ft . . fo ( faid George) but prcrue tb1 other two, if. thou 'Pneft, cantf Said the Priefi There are Three Somethzngs; R._,tyner s /' · ' 11· h. P Three and fo in a Rage flung away, ca mg to IS eo .. Some- ple at rhe Window, w go from amongft the~; thing~ ?f bu; M~ry foon got after him, and fpake to htm theTrtniV' tO I to tome back, and nor co leave his People a- . mougfi them he called Wolves ; but away packc lhe~u:e-.. the Priefi ; whereupon the faid tinco the People, mg ces. Is not thM the Hireling that flees and leaves the Flock ? So Truth .came over rhem all, and there was grear Service for the Lprd, and inany were ~:ed:;_Y Convinced of the Truth that Day : And not- vin~'d.· withftanding the Terror of your wicked Laws, many waxed Bold, and invited them ro their. Houfes, and they had at that time a greac and good Meedng amongft them i atJd · the Truth, by George Ptefton, . Mary Tomkins anq Alice .Am-brofe, was preached ainongfi them, and the Power of the Lord reached many of them rhat Day. Having had this good ServiCe, ar . chi5 rime, Provine·~ at Dover, for lh~ Lord, they paffed away into of M.-ryn, the Prov~nce of Mayn, being invired to Major Maj8 r Slapleigb's, who was rhe Magifirare f~r char part SJapleigh; of the Coumry, who kept t a Prieft in his tr. MzUei,: Houfe, and allowed him and the People a Room Prieit·. in his Houfe w do do their Wortbip; and he being an enquiring Man afrer Truch, defired rhe Pr.ieft, that he and the ~akers might have fom~ Dtfpute together, unto which the Prielt feem'd , willing ; but foon afrer that he got away, by He and 'Wh!ch his Deceir was manifefi ; and rhe faid his Wife MaJor Stapleigh and his Wife were convinced of~~e ,cqnh the Truth, and in a good meafure of Obt dience ~~~~;t e gave up co it, and turned the Prieft and his T. MtOet, . Worfhip away ; and whereas his Houfe had wrned formerly fer'Ved the Priefi, now both he and out of d ht.s H ou fce fce rve d 1c or t h e Lord to be W·. orfh1.p - dhioso Wrs oarn-· ped in ; and great Dominion goc the Truth fhi11· 1n this Day, in rhe Heans 'of People there~ aways, whith rornienred many of rhe Priefis and Ru·lers ; fo, after rhey had fiaid in rhofe Z ~ Parts |