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calling them swine and hogs for despising the Word
of God, and threatened them with heavy punishment
for their insolence. It is even said that some of
them, and many were men of birth and education,
were gagged to stop their expressions of dissent from
what they heard "
: no very likely method," as Dr.
Whitaker observes, " to predispose men's minds for
the reception of the truth, "i
Fifty sermons in all
were they compelled to listen
to. At the end of the last they were told that it was
my lord's pleasure the sermons should cease till the
spring, an intimation which they probably received
with no little satisfaction. We do not find that the
preaching was ever resumed.
' " Loidis and Elmete," p. 26.