...imprisoned, and some hanged. Brown himself declared on his death-bed that he had been in thirty-two different prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. They were so much persecuted that they resolved at last to quit the country. Accordingly many retired...

...persecutions to which he had been subjected ; boasting that he had been conlined, at various times, in thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. George Gaskin, DD was Lecturer for forty-six years, resigning in 1822, on being preferred to a prebendary's...

...persecutions to which he had been subjected ; boasting that he had been confined, at various times, in thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. George Gaskin, DD was Lecturer for forty-six years, resigning in 1822, on being preferred to a prebendary's...

...ecclesiastical courts, ceremonies, and episcopal ordination of ministers, and exulting, above all, in the boast that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons,...some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. His impetuous and illiberal spirit accelerated the publication of opinions which were not yet matured...

...ceremonies, ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c., for which, as he after ward boasted, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. At length he gathered a separate congregation of his own principles ; but the queen and her bishops...

...ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c^ far which, as he afterward boasted, he had been commit ted to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-dsv. At length he gathered a separate congregation of his own principles ; but the queen and her...

...passed in security and contempt. It was his boast, however, " that he had been committed to thirty prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon day." His religion is exceedingly doubtful. He was plainly one of that restless class of men who...

...that for preaching against bishops and their courts, the ordaining of priests, and the ceremonies, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon.e Extraordinary as this seems, his was no uncommon fate ; and the result was, that the conduct...

...divers persecutions from the bishops ; in so much that he boasted he had been committed to no less than thirtytwo prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday. At length, with his congregation, he left the kingdom, and settled at Middleburgh, in Zealand, where...

...bosom. He appears to have been a persecuted man, of violent passions. He died in Northampton jail, 1630, after boasting that he had been committed to...some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. Such persecutions are disgraceful to human nature. BAPTISTS, GENERAL AND PARTICULAR. THE Baptists are...