drawing the picture of the advanced Chriftian only, we have not attempted to freak of his faith, further than as productive of its genuine fruits. However, with refpect to it, let us add, that he believes what is revealed in the oracles of God; that, in conformity to the faith of the univerfal church of Chrift, he believes that man has finned; Chrift has died for him; and that eternal redemption is procured for all who believe in, love and obey him.

SUFFERINGS OF MR. WAKE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S

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SIR,

MAGAZINE.

your number for December laft, is a memoir of archbifhop Wake, to which fhould have been prefixed, I think, fome account of the fufferings of his grandfather, the deprived and perfecuted minifter of Wareham, in Dorsetfhire. The following flatement was drawn up by captain Wake of Shapwick, in that county, and communicated by him to Dr. Walker, who inferted it entire in his work, from whence I have extracted it for your ufe, if you think proper to continue the plan of giving occafional accounts of the cruelties practifed upon the loyal and orthodox clergy, in the great rebellion.

EUSEBIUS.

THE villainous ufage of this reverend old gentleman was fuch, that I fhould fcarce have ventured to relate it, had I not received the account of it from the hands of his own fon, the late generous and hofpitable capt. Wake of Shapwicke, in Dorfetfhire, one of the most noted old royalifts in England, and father to the prefent right reverend bishop of Lincoln. Nor fhould I, without fome fcruple, have told it even after him, though a person of known integrity, had he not been an eye-witnefs of his father's most accurfed treatment, and in fome measure a partaker and fellow fufferer

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with him in his afflictions. And left I fhould be thought to have given an invidious turn to the story in relating it, the reader shall have it in the very words of that loyal and worthy old gentleman.

"The parliament, who began the rebellion, having given a commiffion to one Mr. Robert Morton of Wareham, in Dorset, to fortify that town, having an old rampart about it; and to garrifon it for the parliament; upon a Sunday in the afternoon, at the cross, there being a great number of the inhabitants got together, he made a declaration of the power given him, and his refolutions to proceed on the fortifications; and encouraged the inhabitants to affift him. My father being by on foot, and Morton on horseback, with his pistols before him; my father spake to the people not to give credit, and be misled by a pretended authority of Mr. Morton's: upon which, Morton drew out one of his pistols, and taking the barrel in his hand, ftruck my father with the lock, over the head, fomewhat to his detriment; which was all that paffed at that time. The next day, Morton, with his factious affiftants, proceeded on the fortifications; and my father and one Mr. Harding having been out at the end of the town, taking the air, at his return without the works, met Morton on horfeback, who questioned my father for what he had faid the Sunday; and drew out a piftol, charged with great fhot, and fired in his face, and prefently drew out his other piftol, charged with bullets, and fhot him in the head, and one of the bullets lodged in his forehead at the breaking of the hair; with which he fell to the ground; when Morton called to his boy, a poor child, that he had taken of the town, and bid him make an end of him as he lay on the ground; which the boy refused to do, having had many times relief at my father's door: upon which, Morton drew his fword, and gave him two cuts over the head, very large, which he thought had dispatched him; but life was remaining, notwithstanding he had by the hail shot, bullets, and cuts, eleven wounds in his head, many of which probed one to the other. Then the ftanders-by got a chair, and carried him home: mean time, one Sufan Bolke, a fervant of my father's, being in a field hard by fetching of peafe, came, and with her corn-pike, made at Morton; who rode from her, and was purfued by her into his own doors. There was no furgeon nearer than Corfe-Caftle, one Mr. Palfry, who was fent for to take care of my father; but was by the guard placed by Morton on the fouth bridge, denied entrance; upon which, a boat was got for him to get over the river, as

he

he did, and came to my father, and by God's bleffing upon his endeavours, recovered him; who was hardly got well before major Sidenham, by order of the committee, feized him, and committed him, with feveral others, clofe prisoners in the Black Rod at Dorchefter; and in a fhort time after, they were in all likelihood poifoned; feveral dying, and my father, one Mr. Ware, Mr. Gardner, and Mr. Moone, taking a quantity of plague waters, threw out a flimy scab all over their bodies, which was fuppofed, faved their lives; but notwithstanding purging, and what elfe they were advifed to, my father had for above a year after, several botches and boils that rofe and brake upon him; and I attended him daily, and plaistered him, to draw off the corruption, which remained several years upon him. In the mean time they plundered and fequeftered my father, continued him in prison, and turned my mother and three children out of doors, feizing what goods they had remaining. So foon as my father got his liberty, my father went into the king's army, and was in Sherbourn-Caftle when it was taken, and after a prisoner in cuftody, was ftripped naked, and led with feveral others, men and women, in triumph through all the town, which was near half a mile from the caftle to the upper part of it; and from thence fent a prifoner to Pool, where the plague then was, and there continued until exchanged to Corfe-Caftle; in which caftle, when that was betrayed, he was again taken, and barbarously dealt with. During all this time, his eftate was under fequeftration, and my dear mother and fifter enforced to work for bread for themfelves, and children, and for my dear father, who was for the most part a prifoner. And after the king's army were all fuppreffed, and garrifons taken, and furrendered, my father came to live in Blandford; and with Mr. Hooke, a fequeftered divine, and others, kept up the difcipline of the Church of England at Brinfton-Chapel; and when prevented there, conftantly in his own houfe; out of which, major Pellham, Dowy, Lee, Chaffie, and others, pulled him out of his bed, and kept him, a very infirm man, in guard, and daily moved him with them, as they were commanded from place to place. They afterwards brought a troop of dragoons to feize him, and fuch as frequented the prayers of the church, and barbaroufly murthered one Walter Elkins, a cutler, who made good his house and refused to be their prifoner; and then again they seized my father, and mounted him behind a dragoon, to carry him to Dorchefter-prifon; when, being on a market-day, the town

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and country rofe, and purfued them, and after two or three miles purfuit, I got up with them, and by the affiftance of major Uvedale, coming then from Dorchester-afsizes, rescued him, and brought him back but in a little time after he was again feized, and carried prifoner to Dorchefter; where he continued a prifoner until those villains were thrown out of commiffion. He was nineteen times a prifoner in the time of the rebellion, and all that time under fequeftration.

His blood was the firft fpilt in oppofition to the rebels in the Weft of England; receiving the wounds before mentioned, before the commiffion of array came down, or the action of the worthy fir John Stawell at Mattocks-tree, in Somersetshire; and was enforced to fue for his estate after his majesty's restoration, to throw out one Chaplin that poffeffed it by fequeftration. Morton above mentioned, had a great fickness before the rebellion, and was fuftained by my mother. He was taken prifoner by the king's party, and brought into Bridgwater, and there by a court-martial, for villainy, condemned to be hanged; my father got him off, and fent him home to Wareham; where my mother was then again living; but he in a little time after his return, put her and her children out of the town a second time, and caused her to be plundered. This I aver to be a true and juft account, to my knowledge, and perfect remembrance; who was in the time of the rebellion, eighteen times a prisoner, and twice condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered; got off from the first by a rebel uncle, and the second time by the articles I made with captain Crooke at Southmolton, in Devonshire.

ON THE MISSION OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES.

THE

(Continued from Vol. XII. page 457.)

HE firft inftance of any attention being paid by any of their party to Gentiles that we find recorded, is the interview that took place at Cefaræa between Peter and an officer in the Roman army, by name Cornelius, who happened to be then refiding in that city. That Centurion, we are told, had been directed by fome extraordinary meffenger of

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the invisible One to fend to Joppa for Peter (where that Apoftle then happened to be) for the purpofe of receiving certain inftructions from him, on which his own falvation depended. With : that injunction he immediately complied, and in expectation of hearing fomething very interefting from this unknown Ifraelite on his arrival, the Centurion had previously invited his kinsmen and near friends to partake of the benefit of it. St. Peter, who, it seems, had been infructed by fimilar means to comply with the Centurion's requeft, without delay proceeded to Cefarea, and on his arrival at the house of Cornelius, found this party of Aliens affembled together, and as foon as he had been introduced to them, he is faid to have begun his addrefs to them with the following preliminary remark:-" Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company with, or to come to one of another nation. (a) But God hath fhewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean." (b)

But what could he have meant by faying that it was an unlawful thing for a Jew to go to one of another nation ? Did he mean to say that every fort of intercourfe whatever between Jews and the reft of mankind was forbidden by the law of Mofes? In what part of the Pentateuch is fuch an entire prohibition to be met with? Whoever will give himfelf the trouble to examine that law throughout with due attention, will perceive that it is at least not quite clear that such a total feparation was enjoined by it. And whoever

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(α) Κολλάσθαι η προσερχεσθαι αλλοφύλω. By which words are not to be understood as if a Jew might have no dealings with a Gentile and traffic with them: for it was next to impossible to do otherwise, they living very many of them in heathen cities. And Gentiles came continually to Jerusalem in the way of trade. Neh. xiii. 16. What was unlawful was conversing with Gentiles in near and close society, as the word xxxaoba signifies, and that especially in these two things-not to eat with them-and-not to go into their houses. And this is that for which they of the circumcision excepted at Peter upon his return. xi. Ch. 3. LIGHTFOOT, Vol. i. p. 844. * See Acts v. 13.-Acts ix. 26.Eph. v. 31.-Rom. xii. 9.-Mark x. 7.

(b) Acts x. 28. That St. Peter was commanded in a vision to preach the gospel to Cornelius, does not appear to me to imply that, previous to that command, St. Peter had considered it as unlawful. MARSH'S MICH. V. iii.

VOL. XIV.

Chm. Mag. Feb. 1808.