A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice

I Marvel not that both your self, and others do think my long Imprisonment strange (or rather strangely of me for the sake of that) for verily I should also have done it my self, had not the Holy Ghost long since forbidden me. 1 Pet. 4, 12. 1 Joh. 3.13. Nay verily that notwithstanding, ad the adversary but fastened the supposition of guilt upon me; my long trials might by this time have put it beyond dispute: for I have not hitherto been so sordid, as to stand to a Doctrine right or ⟨image 3⟩wrong; much less when so weighty an argument, as above eleven years imprisonment, is continually dogging of me to weigh and pause, and pause again, the grounds and foundation of those principles, for which I thus have suffered: but having not only at my trial asserted them, but also since, even all this tedious tract of time, in cool blood, a thousand times by the word of God examined them, and found them good; I cannot, I dare not now revolt or deny the same, on pain of eternal damnation.

I Marvail not that both your self, and others do think my long Imprisonment strange (or rather strangely of me for the sake of that) for verily I should also have done it my self, had not the Holy Ghost long since forbidden me. 1 Pet. 4, 12. 1 Joh. 3.13. Nay verily that notwithstanding, ad the adversary but fastened the supposition of guilt upon me; my long tryalls might by this time have put it beyond dispute: for I have not hitherto been so sordid, as to stand to a Doctrine right or ⟨image 3⟩wrong; much less when so weighty an argument, as above eleven years imprisonment, is continually dogging of me to weigh and pause, and pause again, the grounds and foundation of those principles, for which I thus have suffered: but having not only at my tryall asserted them, but also since, even all this tedious tract of time, in cool blood, a thousand times by the word of God examined them, and found them good; I cannot, I dare not now revolt or deny the same, on pain of eternal damnation.