We are willing to pay for those potions that are given us for the
health of our body, how sick soever they make us; and if God will
have us pay too for that which is to better our souls, why should we
grudge thereat? Those that bring us these medicines have little
enough for their pains; for my part, I profess I would not for a
great deal be bound, for their wages, to do their work. True,
physicians are for the most part chargeable, and niggards are too
loath to part with their money to them; but when necessity says they
must either take physic or die, of two evils they desire to choose
the least. Why, affliction is better than sin; and if God sends the
one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also
content to pay the messenger.
BUNYAN'S TRIAL AND IMPRISONMENT. FROM BUNYAN'S EXAMINATION BEFORE
JUSTICES KEELING, CHESTER, [Footnote: On the restoration of the
house of Stuart, Charles II. entered London, in May, 1600. In
November of that year, Bunyan was indicted for an upholder of
unlawful assemblies and conventicles, and for not conforming to the
church of England. "He was sentenced,"] ETC.
KEELING. Justice Keeling said that I ought not to preach, and asked
me where I had my authority; with many other such like words.
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