![]() ![]() What had Holmes done to provoke the wrath of colonial Massachusetts? He had preached the gospel of the Baptists. “You have struck me as with roses,” he advised them. When the captors untied him, Holmes stood up and smiled. ![]() Yet Holmes felt God’s presence more strongly than at any other time in his life the pain floated away. Holmes was tied to a post an officer took up the whip and began flailing with all his might. “I am now come to be baptized in afflictions by your hands,” he said, “that so I may have further fellowship with my Lord, and am not ashamed of his sufferings, for by his stripes am I healed.” His captors tried to keep him from speaking, but he would not be silent. Holmes had been alone in prison for weeks that day an unusual calm came over him. On September 5, 1651, Obadiah Holmes was taken from his cell in Boston’s prison to receive 30 lashes with a three-corded whip. ![]()
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