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Show I 16 c.Mafter, John Cottons 4:1.Jrif'/lller ing auoth~r Volume of clle Booke of M•~tY.rs (a' I he~re) extan~ in che Countre)l, (though not in print). of the fufferipgs of th~ god! y Mini!len and people , beginning where M'. Fox left. When he faith, 'Ibeir witneUii agdinjf BiJbopi and Ceremoni<I, ( wb•m he calletb P~trita!lf) h:rve jitdmne met in fiparate A§embliu from the common: It feemeth he never read che ftory of the Claffes in Northampton-. foire, Sujfvlk, Effix , London, Cambridge, difcovered by a f,,Ife brathe( to Dol.l:or BJncroft (Chaplain then co Lord Chancellor Hatto,., aiterwards BHhop of London, and 11fter tha.t Archbifhop of c . nm bury; ) nor chat he ever cocke notice of Dotl:or B•ncr•fis Bookc ag•infr them, ~mlmled, V angerom Pojitioni and pra8ifei a;;• injf Religion and State ; neither doth it feeme, that he doth acknowledge their frequent and continual! meetings to duties ofhumiliacion, as any feparate meetings from the common. Rut I doubt noc, the Lord tooke notice of botlJ., and hath now rewarded their fig,hes and groanes, prayers and te~r~s in private with an open re-compence and delivera11ce in; the view of all men· · Befides, though he !?leafed to confine the witneffe of thefe he c~llcth Puritans,unro Te!limony again !I: Bi!bop~ an.~ Ceremonies : yet I did not thinke, be had been fuch a frranger in J{rael,(ifbl his fcav~ I may call iclfrael) as to be ignorant, how farre both the At!nH;micions to the Parliament have reached to beare witneffe beyond Bi!bops and Ceremonies. To fay nothing of M'. Deering~' S•rmon before the Q.!!.eene, or M'; Cbadertons at Pauls Croffe, or M':P<~t~rs Eccliftajfica Politica, or M': Baines his Diocefans Tryall. Though he fay,None oftbem f"ffered 11_nto deatb, onely M'; Vdall· was neere it : Yet the truth is, he dyed by the annoyance of the Prifon, which he might as well have acknowledged as he.doth of fame of the Separatifis in this very Paragraph, that they were cho•ked in Prifon. This ] have underfrood by faithfull witncffes, chat when the € oronersJury ( according to the Law of England) came (as the manner is in fuch caf<s) to furvey the dead body of M'. V d.Uin P~ i fo n, he bled freil1ly (though cold before) asa te· flimony again !I: the murderow illegall proceedings of the State again !I: him : fur fo the godly did apprehend it; judicious Perkins acknowledgeth fuch a kinde of bleed in!! to be a part of the accompli! bment of that Scripture in He b. 11. 'That the bloud of Abel Jfill J£eak!.tb.. In to .Majler Roger Williams. lo like fort, for the fame-cauk( choaked in the prifqn)fuif, recr M'o Randall Bam ( an heavenly Saint) nor could he bt: rele•Ced, though Dc,tl:or Hering (a lea~ned and beloved Phyhcian) ea.meflly fulicited Bi!bop N,./e for hts enlargement as he tend red his hfe, but the fuite of the Phy!ician WJS repulfed with reproaches: And the life ofhispatient (pile by chat rigor. He is therefore ~uch n~ilcaken when he faith, Nane of them jiiffered tmto death. And tt is • like miflake when he mJketh M'. Penry one of his wicnel1s \Into the death f~r S.paratian. I have recei~ed it from M'.Hilder(om (a man of a thoufand) that M'. Pwry did mgenuou{Jy acknowledge b,fore his death That thou{i'.h he had not deferved death for any dirhcnour put ~1pon the Q!<ene, by that Booke (which was found in: his frudy, and in~ended by. ~imCelfe to b~ prefented to her own hand:) nor by the comp1hng at MJrtm MJrprelate, ( of both: which he was fatny charged; )yet he confdfed, he deferved death at ~b.e fk~en<I band ,for t!JJt he,had [educed m~ny if ~er /'!fall Subje[f! to a {epP4.tionfrom hwing tb~ Wor4 ~f life m. the .P•r,•fb Clwchu •. Which tho,.gh bimfolfi had le~rned to difierue. the ev1llthereof, yet be cotJ.dn.ever prev4ikt• recover dn1er1 ofh<r Sub]tf1I, w~om b~h·~ jedll• eed : and ther,tforet~~ bloud if their [oui<I, rva~ now JHftly req111red at hi.t hands. ' Let the Examiner con6der1 whether he will awn this M', Pe~ry for one of his faich(ull witneffes hercafter;If he doe,let him endeavour to doe as he did, (eeke to reduce thofe foules whom he hatlt fedu ced from hearing the word of life: orclfe, let him confdfe(as M•. Penry did) che blond of thole Coules ~1ay ju~ly ~e required air his hands if M'. Penrits wicnelfe be of watght W\th h1m. Touchi~g his other witneffe, to the death of M'. B.rrorv, ~hi• f tan fay from thetellimony of holy and b!effid M'.Vod,who fpeaking of ;his M•. BJrrow, God u 1101 wont (!aith he) to mJk.f. cboice of men, inj.Jmom Jot ~roffi vier~ _brfore tb~ir ~.JI!inf!..' tu m ;~ tbem .my ~~ ... tabie injlrmnmlf of Reformmon afie~ tbm CaUmg. M .i:lavow wm• · left he lived in Court, w" wont to be a p;rM GJmfl":,and D1m , and often getting much by pl'Y, would boaj!,VI~O de d ~r,.tn f~em ncCt~t, no• tbini( •Jb•med to boajf ofbu hopes ofhn nzgbtJ lodJ!,tngi m the hofomn ~~ his Courtizens. AI hu JPirit Waf high and roug,b befo re bu reformal•on,[ o waJ it after, evm to hit de at b. When he jl.ad under the Gtbhet,k~ lift up bit !1"• and Lord (faith he) if J.he dewved, thou b~fl dec~~: |