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fence was committed in the county of Norfolk . The Quarter Sessions having passed over without his being noticed , he intended to move for his discharge at the approaching assizes . The plot , however , was now ripe for execution ,
and he was not to slip them in that way . The persecuting parsons had procured two justices , David Rowland and Francis Fern , to assist them in the conspiracy , and it was contrived that the latter should assign him over to an officer of Impress to enlist him as a soldier . On the arrival of the conspirators , Mr . Gill wa&sent for out of the
prison to attend them at the sign of the Bell in Wisbeach . Here the plot was unravelled ; and notwithstanding the interference of another justice , who recommended his being tried , as the judges were in the town , he was given in care to * Capt . Marshall , of CoL LutterePs regiment of Marines , with a
warrant for his impressment . Mr . Gill in vain protested against this usage , pleading his exemption not only as a minister , but as a freeholder of England , and a freeman of a corporation . After being kept for six or , seven days in a crowded room with pressed men , and without taking off his clothes , he was marched about 40 miles on foot to
Cambridge . The fatigue of the journey reduced him to a miserable condition , his feet and legs having swelled , and blood heated to a surfeit . On his arrival at Cambridge he was arrested for debt , and thus by one misfortune delivered from another . This coming to the ears of his enemies , they raised a hue and cry that he was a deserter
from the Queen ' s service . It was now high time for Mr . Gill to take sanctuary in the law . His first step was to move the Court of Queen ' s Bench for a habeas corpus to discharge him from the enlistment , and for a rule of court against the
conspirators to * maHe them shew cause , &c- Mr . Gill having compounded with . Us creditors , had returned to his people at Wilney ; but his enemies not choosing that he should remain there long u * quiet , laid a fresh trap for him . fwrinc obtained a rule of court that
he should appear in person to accuse them , they caused him to be arrested again for debt on his way to London ,, so that before h <* could procure bail ,, be mcurred contempt of court fqr ^ a ^
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appearance , and they by that rnean ^ escaped . On his arrival in London , Mr . Gill gaive full satisfaction to the Court , obtained a discharge of the contempt , and at length triumphed over ail his enemies .
The narrative is not pursued any further , but De Foe puts the following pointed query upon it ; " He proposes it to the consideration of the clergy of the Church of England , whether such unjust and cruel treatment is the way to confirm the people in their attachment to the Church , or rather ,
whether they do not wound the Church , drive people from her , fill them with prejudices , and increase the number of Dissenters in the nation ?"
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Siji , BOTH the genealogies of Christ ,, in Matt . i . and Luke iii ., were written before the destruction of Jerusalem ; it was , therefore , barely pos » sible , that the original writers could *¦* *¦ ¦¦ * * . ^ - »^ WAAV «\| VA . J . VJ V ^ A . l > i » JLLAVI » 4 k Tf X A VVX Q \^ VJ \ , % l \ , f
commit gross mistakes . The pedigrees were matter of public record . Each family preserved its own , or was at least accurately acquainted with it , as their property in land depended singly upon such records , written or traditional .
The difference between the two Evangelists is accountable from hence , that the genealogy in Matthew was that of Joseph , the father of Christ , who was descended from David through
Solomon - y and St . Luke states that of Mary his mother , who descended from David , through Nathan , another son of Ins .
Whence comes it then , that Luke represents Joseph as the son of Heli , who was the father of Mary ? The answer is , that there is a case in which the pedigrees described the , son-in-law , as a son ; when he married the daughter of a father who left no son , in oraer to preserve the name of the father , who died without male issue . This
explains the phrase , ' * as allowed by law , " and refers to Joseph as the son of H $ li , see Luke iii , 3 . > As to other difficulties ip either ger nealogy , it is observably that both
Hebrews and Arabian were . ftpftto be less precise thau profe ^ Bed heralds are in their genealogies . They often omit several generations fc $ nd c « tU £ > grand son or gre ^ t-gr ^ a ^ pn , and the Ara ^
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On the Genealogies of Matthew and Luke . 75
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/11/
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