But that I considered it a duty to that portion of the Church over which God called upon me to preside and watch, I would not have avoided those inhuman traffickers in the blood of God's people.

Yet I am bound to say that, from the clergymen of the Established Church, and from many Protestant magistrates, we have received kindness, sympathy, and shelter.

Their doors, their hearths, and their hearts have been open to us, and that, too, in a truly Christian spirit.

Let us, then, render them good for good; let us pray for their conversion, and that they may return to the right path." "They have acted generously and nobly," added Reilly, "and in a truly Christian spirit.

Were it not for the shelter and protection which I myself received from one of them, my mangled body would probably be huddled down into some obscure grave, as a felon, and my property--which is mine only by a necessary fiction and evasion of the law--have passed into the hands of Sir Robert Whitecraft.