Discouerer.

M. Dar.* was charged by her Matesties Commissioners to haue sought many wayes to haue withdrawn So. from his said conf•ssion, & haue sluck vnto it that he was possessed. And againe, when M. Dar. perceaued that So. by no pryuate meanes that he could vse would be drawne &c.

Darrell.

Here is a whole chapter consumed, and many words vsed about iust nothing. I once and only once vsed a few wordes to So. whyles he remayned at S. Iones, and that in the presence of the Maior & som others, reprouing him of the haynous sinne he had committed, and the great scandall he had giuen, in affirming that he counterfeited, his own conscience accusing •im thereof: neither is any more •eposed a¦gainst me. And what herein did I ill beeseeming me, or that I ought not, and in duty was bound to doe?

I confessed being examyned that So. in saying he had in the whole course of his former fits diss•mbled, lyed therein greuously against his owne c•nscience,* to the d•shonor of god, and lurt of his church Therevpon saith the Discouerer, Consider the gentle zeale of benefiting the church, by his fa¦culty and skill in casting out diuells.

My me•ning •as that the people of god beleeuing and medita∣ting of the worke of god wrought vpon Somers, woulde no doubt re∣ceaue thereby great profit, wherof many though not all, through this lye of his, and cursed confession of counterfevting are depriued an• not only so, but thereby drawne to receaue a false report and euil nāe against the worke of god, and by consequent against the Lorde him∣selfe, and to iustify the wicked, which is an abomynation before •he Page  124 lord. And this tendeth to the dishonour of god, and hurt of his church 〈◊〉 people