[364]. See Appendix H. for some account of his grave, and of his family.
[365]. Bloody Tenet, p. 18.
[366]. The copy now before me belongs to the library of Harvard College, having been borrowed in accordance with the very liberal regulations of that noble collection of books. This copy was presented by the second Thomas Hollis, and it contains, on the title page, in his hand writing, I presume, the words, “A curious tract.” It is pleasant to connect the names of Williams and Hollis.
[367]. It was prepared under great disadvantages. He says: “When these discussions were prepared for the public, in London, his time was eaten up in attendance upon the service of the Parliament and city, for the supply of the poor of the city with wood, (during the stop of the coal from Newcastle, and the mutinies of the poor for firing.) These meditations were fitted for public view in change of rooms and corners, yea, sometimes (upon occasions of travel in the country, concerning that business of fuel,) in variety of strange houses, sometimes in the fields, in the midst of travel, where he hath been forced to gather and scatter his loose thoughts and papers.” Bloody Tenet made More Bloody, p. 38.
[368]. 2 Cor. 5: 11, 20.
[369]. Mark, 16: 16.
[370]. Bishop Taylor’s Liberty of Prophesying, sec. 14.
[371]. “Humani juris et naturalis potestatis, unicuique quod putaverit colere. Sed nec religionis est cogeere religionem, quæ suscipitsponte debet, non vi.”
[372]. Bloody Tenet, p. 185.
[373]. Bloody Tenet, p. 214.