How were expelled ministers "witnessed" during the Great Ejection of 1662?
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"Confessor" is a technical term in this context. It normally means "a person who suffered for the faith, but not death" -- as opposed to the cited "martyr" who did suffer death.
Therefore, they were confessors because they refused to recant their beliefs to save themselves from ejectment.
Those in the surroundings witnessed this. While, in context, its meaning only that they saw it makes sense, it may also bear the connotation that they could bear witness, testify to its occurring. Repeating stories of such people considered an important way to encourage Christians. It may allude to to the passage in the Letter to the Hebrews, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us."
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Britannica.com describes a witness in the Christian sense as:
a person totally given to God and his fellow men. There are three elements in this Christian witness: message, signs to convince, divine helps to awaken and draw others to God.
Message, signs to convince, and drawing people to God would imply preaching to a congregation and Preaching.com has an article entitled Preaching as Bearing Witness
Seeing the preacher as a witness is not a new idea
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One can quickly see the relationship between preaching and the idea of witness, and in this light it may seem curious that the witness image has not been more prominent in homiletical literature. There are reasons for this, however. To begin with, the terms “witnessing” and “giving a testimony” have often been associated with some of the more aggressive forms of evangelism. Homileticians have sniffed the odor of manipulation around these words and thus have stayed far away from them. As such, “witness” is a good word that has gotten into some trouble through no fault of its own.
The section of your quote in bold states that:
the immediate neighbourhood of which had the honour of witnessing no fewer than four worthy confessors on the memorable Bartholomew-day of 1662: John Rogers, of Croglin; George Nicholson, of Kirkoswald; Simon Atkinson, of Lazonby; and William Hopkins, of Melmerby.
In the context of Christian witness, I think this means that those four 'confessors' preached to the neighbourhood.
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