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 them for Justice, whom the world thought (through the force of impressed prejudices) would have hang'd mee without hearing. As for that other Imprisonment which I might suffer, not only as a punishment for my well-doings, but which might also maliciously, tyranically, and insultingly be executed upon mee, with more rigour then any pretence of Law, or even of my sentence it self could justifie: I conceive I might follow the Law of Nature in that case, in order to attain my liberty, which is as well understood where it is not exprest, as [if it please God] is, when wee say, I will go, I will do; or any other way expresse our future intendments.

I cannot imagine what you blame in this Expression, besides the mentioning of a Scripture word upon a lesse important occasion; I do rather acknowledge it for a fault, then trouble you with the abundance I can say to justifie so much as I have done. I have indeed transgrest a rule in Rhetorick, by comparing