he said, "will look on them as his enemies that disown his cause and people at such times, as he saith, He that is not with me is against me. Are the people and ways of God under reproach? Christ is reproached in them and with them. Ah! but they are called fools and fanatics! I answer, When was it otherwise?"

Having shown how godliness had been hated and scoffed at in other ages, he went on to say, "The present temptation of this time, in the other afflictions of the Churches, is the reproachful titles put upon the people of God, whom profane men call fanatics. But if he is a fool that will be laughed out of his right, much more is he a fool and a mad man that will suffer himself to be laughed out of heaven, that will hazard the loss of his soul, and salvation, to free himself from the mocks and scoffs of a profane and sinful world. If Christ had not for our sakes endured the cross, despising the shame, we could never have been redeemed and saved; 'let us go forth therefore to him, without the camp, bearing his reproach.' The Christian Hebrews are exhorted to call to remembrance the former days in which, after they were illuminated, they endured a great fight of afflictions, partly whilst they were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly whilst they became companions of them that were so used. (Heb. x, 32, 33.) Let us do likewise, and own the reproached and persecuted people and cause of Christ in suffering times."

Kindling as he proceeded, he left his hearers no room to misunderstand him. He came out boldly with what might have passed in England for treason. "Withhold not countenance, entertainment, and protection, from such, if they come to us from other countries, as from France or England or any other place. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them, and them who suffer adversity as being yourselves also in the body. (Heb. xiii, 2, 3.) The Lord required this of Moab, saying, 'Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the

noon-day;'-that is, provide safe and comfortable shelter and refreshment for my people in the heat of persecution and opposition raised against them;-'hide the outcasts, bewray not him that wandereth: let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler.' (Isaiah xvi, 3, 4.) Is it objected, But so I may expose myself to be spoiled or troubled? He, therefore, to remove this objection, addeth, 'For the danger is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth; the treaders down are consumed out of the land.' While we are attending to our duty in owning and harboring Christ's witnesses, God will be providing for their and our safety, by destroying those that would destroy his people." This was certainly intelligible. But he went on to arm their minds still more for the expected crisis. "Two helps I shall propound to arm you against those fears of reproach, or dangers, whereby men are apt to be drawn to flinch from the cause and witnesses of Christ in suffering times. First, strengthen your faith. A sight of the invisible God, and an eye to the recompense of reward, so quickened and strengthened the faith of Moses, that he chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.' (Heb. xi, 25, 26.)" Secondly, "Exalt God as the highest object of your fear. Fear God as he ought to be feared-fear him above all. The greater fear will expel the lesser. Therefore the Lord prescribes this fearing him aright, as the best remedy against all carnal fears, whereby men are wont to be hindered from obeying God in those duties that will expose men to hurt from the creature. (Isa. viii, 12, 13. li, 7, 8, 12, 13. So doth Christ in Mat. x, 28.) The balking of any duty which God commandeth, is the ready way to bring upon you, by the wrath of God, that very evil which you fear that the doing of your duty will expose you to by the wrath of men.”*

* Saints' Anchor-Hold, 178-201. There can be no doubt that this is the original and the truth of the tradition recorded by Stiles, (History of Judges,

By such appeals and arguments were the people of New Haven prepare to receive the regicides with kindness, and to protect them in the face of the king's displeasure. The regicides themselves had special reasons to expect the most friendly treatment here. The sister of Gen. Whalley, Mrs. Hooke, had long resided here, her husband being for twelve years Mr. Davenport's colleague here in the work of the ministry. Mr. William Jones, whose father within a few weeks after their departure from England, had suffered death. for the same act for which they were thus hunted through the wilderness, and who having married in London the youngest daughter of the late Gov. Eaton, had recently come to this country, was here, and ready to show them all kindness for his father's sake.*

At first "the Colonels," as they were commonly called, showed themselves here openly as they had done at Boston; so that their persons, their danger, and the part they had acted, were well known to the whole community. It was reported, that on a training day they said expressly, in the presence of the whole military company, that if they could have but two hundred men to follow them, they would not fear to stand against all their enemies in Old England, and in New. But after some twenty days, the news of the king's proclamation against them having arrived, they were

32,) that "about the time the pursuers came to New Haven, and perhaps a little before, and to prepare the minds of the people for their reception, the Reverend Mr. Davenport preached publicly from this text,-Isa. xvi, 3, 4. Take counsel, execute judgment, make thy shadow as the night," &c. The Saints' Anchor-Hold is declared in the title page to have been "preached in sundry sermons." Dr. Stiles appears not to have seen the book; nor do I find any allusion to it by others who have touched upon the history of the regicide Judges. The book was printed at London, in 1661, with a preface by William Hooke and Joseph Caryl. It contains 231 pages, small duodecimo. The only copy which I have heard of belongs to one of the descendants of the author, Mrs. Whelpley, and is mutilated with the loss of here and there a leaf. If it were perfect, a new edition should be published.

*Kingsley, 76. The tradition that Mr. Jones came over in the same ship with the regicides, is, I suspect, unwarranted. Dr. Stiles says he "came over in the fall of 1660." (Stiles, 69.) His name first appears on the town records, Feb. 25, 1661.

under the necessity of concealing themselves. To do this more effectually, they went as far as Milford, and took pains to be seen there, as if they were proceeding towards the Dutch settlement at Manhadoes; but immediately returned to this place under cover of the night, and were received by Mr. Davenport, in whose house they were hid for more than a month, when they removed across the street to Gov. Eaton's house, then occupied by Mr. Jones.

Near the last of April, an express mandate from the king, was received by the Governor of Massachusetts, requiring him to cause the traitors Whalley and Goffe, to be seized. The whole country was alarmed; and Massachusetts, feeling that she had much to account for in the matter, and that her all was in jeopardy, seems now to have been in earnest to apprehend them, and to make peace by giving them up as victims. Accordingly, the Governor and council at Boston, gave a commission to two zealous young royalists just from England, to go through the colonies, as far as Manhadoes, in pursuit of them.

On the 11th of May, these pursuers, Thomas Kellond and Thomas Kirk, arrived at the house of Deputy Governor Leete in Guilford, who was then acting as chief magistrate of the jurisdiction, in consequence of the death of Gov. Newman a few months before. Gov. Leete read their letters, and the copy which they brought of the king's mandate, but showed no great alacrity in promoting their object. He assured them that he had not seen the men in several weeks, and that they were probably gone out of the jurisdiction. The next day was the Sabbath ;* and by one hindrance and another, the pursuers were detained at Guilford till the morning of the 13th, when, at the break of day, they started for New Haven, with a letter from Gov. Leete to Mr. Gilbert, the magistrate of this place, advising him to call the town court

*This is a circumstance not mentioned by any of the authorities, but ascertained by calculation. "The king's business required haste," yet the pursuers, while under Gov. Leete's jurisdiction, must rest on the Sabbath day, "according to the commandment."

together, and by their advice and concurrence to cause a search to be made. Early as they started, it appears that some one else left Guilford before them, in the night, and arrived here in time to give information that they were coming. They found the magistrate not at home; but on the arrival of the Governor himself some two hours after them, with the magistrate of Branford, whom he had brought with him, on the principle that in many counsellors there is safety, a long consultation was held in the court room. The pursuers insisted that the regicides were hid in some of the houses in this town, and that all their information pointed particularly to the houses of Mr. Davenport and Mr. Jones; and they demanded of the Governor a warrant to search for them. The Governor and magistrates, on the other hand, maintained that "the Colonels" had gone towards Manhadoes; and in truth, whatever suspicions and fears they might have, they knew nothing of their concealment. As for the warrant which was demanded, they had constitutional and legal scruples; for Gov. Leete was educated a lawyer. The Governor told the two pursuers, that he could not and would not make them magistrates of this jurisdiction, as he should do if he were to invest them with power to enter men's houses and search for criminals. Besides, the king's mandate which they brought with them, appeared to be addressed to the Governor of Massachusetts as if he were Governor of all New England, and to others only as subordinate to him; and the magistrates feared that by acting under such a mandate they might acknowledge a governor-general, and might thus be guilty of betraying the trust committed to them, under oath, by the people, from whom alone they derived their power. When the pursuers asked the magistrates whether they would honor and obey the king in this affair, the Governor replied, "We honor his Majesty, but we have tender consciences." When they urged again the same consideration, and demanded to know whether they would own his Majesty or not, the answer was given, that they would first know whether his Majesty would own them. So in the