Isaac Penington the son, whom
Ellwood loved as a friend and reverenced as a father, became a
foremost worker and writer in the Society of Friends. In a note
upon him, written after his death, Thomas Ellwood said that "in his
family he was a true pattern of goodness and piety; to his wife he
was a most affectionate husband; to his children, a loving and
tender father; to his servants, a mild and gentle master; to his
friends, a firm and fast friend; to the poor, compassionate and
open-hearted; and to all, courteous and kind?' In 1661 he was
committed to Aylesbury gaol for worshipping God in his own house
(holding a conventicle), "where," says Ellwood in that little
testimony which he wrote after his friend's death, "for seventeen
weeks, great part of it in winter, he was kept in a cold and very
incommodious room, without a chimney; from which hard usage his
tender body contracted so great and violent a distemper that, for
several weeks after, he was not able to turn himself in bed." "His
second imprisonment," says Ellwood, "was in the year 1664, being
taken out of a meeting, when he with others were peaceably waiting
on the Lord, and sent to Aylesbury gaol, where he again remained a
prisoner between seventeen and eighteen weeks.
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