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e two milch kine that were to carry the ark of God into another country, and to leave their calves behind them. But that which helped me in this temptation was divers considerations: the first was, the consideration of those two Scriptures, Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me; and again, The Lord said, verily it shall go well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat them well in the time of evil. He was arrested in 1660, charged with devilishly and perniciously abstaining from church, and of being a common upholder of conventicles. At the Quarter Sessions, where his trial seems to have been conducted somewhat like that of Faithful at Vanity Fair, he was sentenced to perpetual banishment. This sentence, however, was never executed, but he was remanded to Bedford jail, where he lay a prisoner for twelve years. Here, shut out from the world, with no other books than the Bible and Fox's Martyrs, he penned