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Touching his other witness, to the death of Mr. Barrow, this I can say, from the testimony of holy and blessed Mr. Dod, who speaking of this Mr. Barrow, God is not wont (saith he) to make choice of men, infamous for gross vices before their calling, to make them any notable instruments of Reformation after their Calling. Mr. Barrow whilst he lived in Court, was wont to be a great Gamester, and Dicer, and often getting much by play, would boast, Vivo de die, in spem noctis, nothing ashamed to boast of his hopes of his nights lodgings in the bosoms of his Courtizens. As his spirit was high and rough before his reformation, so was it after, even to his death. When he stood under the Gibbet, he lift up his eyes, and Lord (saith he) if I be deceived, thou hast deceived ⟨p. 118⟩me: And so being stopped by the hand of God, he was not able to proceed to speak any thing to purpose more, either to the glory of God, or to the edification of the people.

Touching his other witnesse, to the death of Mr. Barrow, this I can say, from the testimony of holy and blessed Mr. Dod, who speaking of this Mr. Barrow, God is not wont (saith he) to make choice of men, infamous for grosse vices before their calling, to make them any notable instruments of Reformation after their Calling. Mr. Barrow whilest he lived in Court, was wont to be a great Gamster, and Dicer, and often getting much by play, would boast, Vivo de die, in spem noctis, nothing ashamed to boast of his hopes of his nights lodgings in the bosomes of his Courtizens. As his spirit was high and rough before his reformation, so was it after, even to his death. When he stood under the Gibbet, he lift up his eyes, and Lord (saith he) if I be deceived, thou hast deceived ⟨p. 118⟩me: And so being stopt by the hand of God, he was not able to proceed to speake any thing to purpose more, either to the glory of God, or to the edification of the people.

Mr. Greenwood (the Examiners last witness unto death) he indeed of all the rest was the more to be lamented, as being of a more tender, and conscientious spirit: but this have I heard reported of him by the same credible hands, That if he could have been sundered from Mr. Barrow, he was tractable to have been gained to the truth. But when the Examiner goeth on to make comparisons between the Sufferings of the Separatists, and of (those he styleth) Puritans, in his Margin, and in his Book. No comparison will hold from the Separatists to them, but a Minori. What compulsory banishments have been put upon those blessed and glorious lights, Mr. Cartwright, Parker, Ames? To say nothing of those in Scotland, or New-England: When have the Prisons been vacant of some or other godly Ministers, and Professors? When will the Examiner show forth alike company of his witnesses, to those 300. Ministers (whom Mr. Parker compareth to the 300. Soldiers of Gideon) who in one storm of persecution, were some suspended, some excommunicated, some imprisoned, all of them deprived of their Ministry, and of their maintenance? And provision made, that none might practise Physic, or teach School, unless they would accept a Licence with subscription? So that of necessity (had not the Lord been wiser, and stronger then men) they must in remediless misery, they and theirs, have either begged, or starved; But that with the Lord there be bowels of mercy, and fatherly compassions, and with him are plenteous redemptions, and provisions, and protections, when men fail.