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( 38 ) This Afternoon he ſupplicate the Council for Liberty to his Father to come and viſit him, which being granted, his Father the next Night came to him. The firſt Meeting was very ſad ; and notwithſtanding that, according both to the Teſtimony of his parents, and Knowledge of all his Relations, he was a moſt obedient Son, yet theſe inevitable Infirmities which are incident to the beſt of Men, and can- not but furniſh ſad Convictions, when conſidered in the Power and pure Light of the ſpiritual Law of God, did greatly trouble him in the Remembrance of the Fifth Com- mandment. The Paſſage was thus. After Prayer his Fa- ther ſaid unto him, “ Huge, I called thee a good Olive- " tree, of fair Fruits, and now a Storm hath deſtroyed the “ Tree, and his Fruits and Branches." He anſwered, " That his Father's too good Thoughts of him had afflict- " ed him." His Father ſaid, “ He was perſuaded, God " was viſiting not his own Sin, but his Parents Sin, upon " him : So that he might ſay, Our Fathers have ſinned " and we have borne their Iniquity.” He ſaid alſo, “I “ have ſinned; thou, poor Sheep, what haſt thou done?” Mr. Hew anvwered, with many Groans, " That, through " coming ſhort of keeping the Fifth Commandment, he “ had come ſhort of the Promiſe, that his Days ſhould be “ prolonged in the Land of the Living; and that God's " Controverſy with him was for overvaluing his Children, eſpecially himſelf." On Thurſday the 20th of December, more from the Im- portunity of Friends than his own Inclination, he gave in to the Privy Council a Petition, as follows: That whereas, upon Tueſday laſt I was indicted and condemned, for the treaſonable Deeds contained in the gen- ral and Special Indictment exhibited againſt me; in the which Special Indictment, containing my whole Acceſſion to the ſaid Crimes, there is only libelled Preſence in ſeveral Places, with an ordinary Sword, likeas my own Confeſion, which is the naked