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open ear; And, though sometimes Thou seem'st Thy face to hide, As one that had withdrawn his love from me, Tis that my faith may to the full be tried, And that I thereby may the better see How weak I am when not upheld by Thee! The next year, 1670, an act of Parliament, in relation to Conventicles, provided that any person who should be present at any meeting, under color or pretence of any exercise of religion, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of EngQuakers, Independents, or Baptists, as occasion required, thrusting themselves into the meetings of the proscribed sects, ascertaining the number who attended, their rank and condition, and then informing against them. Ellwood, in his Journal for 1670, describes several of these emissaries of evil. One of them came to a Friend's house, in Bucks, professing to be a brother in the faith, but, overdoing his counterfeit Quakerism, was detected and dismissed by his host. Betaking himself to the in