living L1500 a year. This covetousness is like canker, that eats
the iron place where it lives. Your case being thus, let it not
grieve you if I speak a little out of zeal, and love to your
good. You have been taxed by the world, with the Defence of the
most heathenish and blasphemous Opinions, which I list not to
repeat, because Christian ears cannot endure to hear them, nor
the authors and maintainers of them be suffered to live in any
Christian Commonwealth. You know what men said of Harpool. You
shall do well, before you go out of the world, to give
satisfaction therein, and not die with these imputations on you.
Let not any devil persuade you to think there is no eternity in
Heaven: for if you think thus, you shall find eternity in
Hell-fire. In the first accusation of my lord Cobham, I observed
his manner of speaking; I protest before the living God, I am
persuaded he spoke nothing but the truth. You wrote, that he
should not in any case confess any thing to a Preacher, telling
him an example of my lord of Essex, that noble earl that is
gone; who, if he had not been carried away with others, had
lived in honour to this day among us: he confessed his
offences, and obtained mercy of the Lord; for I am verily
persuaded in my heart, he died a worthy servant of God. Your
conceit of not confessing anything is very inhuman and wicked.
In this world is the time for confessing, that we may be
absolved in the Day of Judgment. You have shewed a fearful sign
of denying God, in advising a man not to confess the truth. It
now comes to my mind, why you may not have your Accuser come
face to face: for such an one is easily brought to retract, when
he seeth there is no hope of his own life. It is dangerous that
any Traitors should have access to, or conference with one
another; when they see themselves must die, they will think it
best to have their fellow live, that he may commit the like
treason again, and so in some sort seek revenge.--Now it resteth
to pronounce the Judgment, which I wish you had not been this
day to have received of me: for if the fear of God in you had
been answerable to your other great parts, you might have lived
to have been a singular good subject.

I never saw the like Trial, and hope I shall never see the like
again.

_The Judgment._

But since