While the penal laws were enforced, he had heard the words of life in secret and at his peril: but still he had heard them.

When the brethren were assembled in the inner chamber, when the sentinels had been posted, when the doors had been locked, when the preacher, in the garb of a butcher or a drayman, had come in over the tiles, then at least God was truly worshipped.

No portion of divine truth was suppressed or softened down for any worldly object.

All the distinctive doctrines of the Puritan theology were fully, and even coarsely, set forth.

To the Church of Rome no quarter was given.