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When the tyrannical Justice found Mr . O . to be a man of peace , and that he could not be persuaded to follow the law against him , he very ungratefully and basely , after the sessions were over , fined Mr . O . together with the host arid hearers , whose houses were soon after rifled , and their goods seized upon and sold . Our pious sufferer bore these hardships and
indignities with exemplary firmness and patience . Writing from the prison to some of his relations , he observed , That if the gospel was not worth suffering for , it was not worth the preaching . It is indeed an honor / ' sAid he , after we have preached the truth , to be called forth to suffer for it . " Shortly after he wrote thus : * Religion , is not calculated for worldly
advantages ; it britigs everlasting gain , but very often ! temporal losses . How uncertain are worldly things f Job , in the morning , was the greatest of all the men of the east , and , before night , pooF to a proverb . We are , said he , another time , " travelling for eternity ; and travellers must not expect fair ways and weather always . Afflictions are appointed means of salvation ; and
salvation should reconcile us to every thing that has a tendency to promote it /' On the 17 th of November 1679 he was married at Osx ^ estree to Mrs . Sarah George , who appears to have been a person of eminent piety , and every Way worthy of such a husband .
By her he had seven children ^ only two of whotft survived him * She died in January 1691-2 . On that mournful occasion h £ preached on Rev . xiv \ 12 , 13 . and , sometime after , composed a Latin inscription , which * he put upon her tomb . About the time of his marriage , the meeting which used fa be at Swiney was removed to Oswestree , where he himself appears to have then taken up his abode , and where he continued
above 20 years labouring in the word and doctrine , with a very small congregation and but little encouragement . His settlement here brought him into an intimate acquaintance with the venerable Philip Henry , who greatly valued him , and was as greatly valued by him . Him ne consulted on all occasions as a father and friend , and he was many ways helpful to his
improvement , especially by confirming him in those principles of moderation for which Mr . H . was so eminently distinguished * At the time of the discovery of the Popish Plot , great fears were entertained for the safety of the Protestant religion , and lest popery should be again introduced and re-established . The whole nation was alarmed , and Mt . O * felt as much perhaps as roost of his countrymen . He took great pains to fortify his people against the growing danger . After he had carefully
instructed his flock in the grounds of the Protestant religion , he prepared them to suffer for it , assuring them'" that of all coi * - ¦ ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/10/
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