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Show ( ~·8 ) forfoleen the God of hi1 Salvation; You _{aid to hioo the taft General-Court, He had Ltberty gzven. 'him to go for England, or go out of ysur ]urif die! ion, and promifing to do fo, •nd come there no more, be might [ave hit Life. _He anf~ered, I ftand not in my own WJO, hut m the ma of the Lord; if I may have my freedom, I {hall go; but, to make you a Promife, I cannot. Whe~eup~n thofe aforefaid who were at rhe Bar wtth htm, being grie;ed at rh_eir Hea~ts to fee your wicke~ Proceedings agamft an mnocent Man for hts Life, after all your aforefaid Cruelty towards, and exercifed upon him, only becaufe he came into your J urifdiaion, began to Tefiifie againft your exceeding Wickednefs ; and amongft the E- Whar .. refi, Edu1ard Wharton by N arne, which to flop, ton. and that your wrong Dealings with the Inno~ + 'fames ce?t might not be made manifefi, tone of ~ou Oliver fl.Ud cned out, to have Edward Wharton Gagg d ·i Peter ~li· and others cryed, Have them a')JJay to Jayl; ver, ckned.k Ja11lor, Take them awa11; fo all of them were out, noc J J dd h h . him on the had away, except W. Le ra, w om r ey le- I'ate. ferved for Senrence of Death ; who, as rhey And the were hurried away, cried for Libeny, w (lay, r~ft~ ~~- and hear, and fee the Trial of their friend, ~\:e~dra, • whom, they faid, they_perceived you had an IntEnt pad to to Murther ; but you denied them, and him you Jayl.. .. referved . for your * Will, and lock•d up the '*Whtch ~s h r · · · ·t your La~, ot ers 10rne ~ours xp Pr11on. as R,gwfo~z So, whar 1n you lay, you fought to quench faid. ro E. the Witnefs of God in his Servams, who were W~aro~z, Prifoners, that ic ·might not Teftify againfi you, ~~~t ~~e and give you Torment ; but the Lord was above the Court you : And, whereas your Law of Dearh foughr was a Law to afright thofe, in whom the Power of the Lord Jived, tho' you would nm own ir, an~ forced t}rem out of your J u.rifditlion ; for \.\'hich which caufe you made your bloody Law, as aforefaid, and had put Three tO Death, as ha[h been related: You were deceived in 1his alfo; for not only did W. LeJJra come upon your Law for Death, afrer you had munhere"d the other Three, as hath been faid, but Wenlock W.ChriftiChriflifon, being moved of the Lord, and brought Jon. by the Mighty Power of God, wich his Life in his Hand ; and l;>eing made willing by the fame Power and Life, to offer up his Life in Obe- Having dience to the Lord (in performance of which been ~en· he found Peace and Reft) if he faw it good to ~annctlli- to require it of him, was not afraid of your Laws mcnt. nor Gibbers, bur in the Name and Power of God, tho' he ftood in the Predicament of Death, having been already Banilhed by you, upon the pain of Death, came into your Court, not fearing co.mes the Wrath of the Devil, nor the Fury of the into the Dragon in you, which had Power to kill fome, Court .• and perfecute others of the Saints of the Mofi High God, even in rhe very time that you were Trying the faid W. Leddra, and there nobly lhewed himfeif over the Head of all your Blood and Cruelty, in the Srrengrh of the Lord. This ftruck a great damp upon you, to fee a Man fo unconcern'd in hisLife,to come upon your Law of Death, and trample it under, infomuch that for a little fpace of time there was Silence in fhe Court ; but you recovering your Swoon, or the Spirit of Iniquity rifing up over all in you again, you began to gather Strength,. ancl recover Heart in your Wickednefs, and one cries out, Hert is another: Fetch him up to the Bar, faid you, which your Marfhal performed, and bad him pluck of hi4 Hat ; who faid, No, I jha!J not. 'fhen faid you~ Se~rcrary, · Raw [ott, Is not your Y 4 nam(, |