That the state should pretend loue to the truth and
yet suffer such things to be of force that all bloody
persecutors may haue their wills soe fare as ye
lord giues them power vpon those that liues in ye truth
they intend banishment to George or else to ye
takeing away of his life if it be in their power
now at their sessions for the Judges left him
to them to proceed against according to ye Acte &
Lawson was in hopes to haue gotten his life,
now taken away at ye sissezes & gaue it
out that he would come to be tried for his
though that they had nothing to ly agt him
at all but what they had gotten their false
witnesses to swear & there was nothing that
they swore that is within the Act yet they
thurst soe for his Blood, that their wills will
be their lawes if the Lord doe not prevent them
by some meanes or instrumts that he will
raise up, doe what ye lord moues thee and
what he makes way for thee for it is no mans
strength nor power yt we looke at but the
lord alone who is ye same to vs that he was
to daniell in ye midst of ye lions & the
three children in ye firy furnas, the same
power doe we dwell & stand in & ye same
power will deliuer vs out of the hands
of all bloody persecutors & it is but to make
vp their iniquity & to fatt them for distructi-
on for that is t{hei}r porcon that that he
spoke there be{fore} them A thousand will
wittnesse th{e sa}me thing with him &
subscribes their names & lay downe their
lifes & is not afraid of no men whatsoeuer
euerlasting praises be to our father for euer
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