You will rot in jail, Judge threatened Minister?A Baptist preacher who was told by the presiding judge at his trial, "You shall lie in jail until you rot!" was released after being ably defended by Patrick Henry.
The minister, Jeremiah Moore, was arrested for preaching without authority from the state church of Virginia. During his stirring defense of Moore, Henry cried, "Great God, gentlemen, a man in prison for preaching the gospel of the Son of God!" Henry was not only a champion of liberty, but a defender of imprisoned and persecuted Baptists in colonial Virginia.
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