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Show To the Unprejudiced Reader.· in TyranniZJing over,and De{lroying their FeUcw~ . Creatttres. But that rvhich mofl of all ma~ be . the Aftonifhment and De!eflati.on of Mankmd, is, That it fhould predommate tn thofe, who had Loudly Cried out of the Tyranny and Oppreffion of the Bifhops in Old En~land, .and from whom they fled; bt~t when fe~tled tn 4 Place where they had liberty to Govern, made their 'little Finger of Cruelty bigger than ever th~y found the Loyns of the ~ijhops. Reader What is here dedtcated to th] per· ufa!, is no~ intended tU & Recrimination of the whole People of New-England; for fome th~re t.hen were, who were grieved at thofe Cruelttes, which they had not Power to withjla~d; no more 2 sam. 3 • tht~n David, when the Sons of Zeruta~ ~ere tr!fJ 3~! · hard for him: But the Intent of t~tJ ts, That Truth and her Children may be J«.ftifted. Per~ [ecutors were never fatisfred in J(i/ling; •.vitnejs the Jews, in calling Chrifl, after Crt~cijie~, a Deceiver; the Slanders and Lyes, as weiL a~ ~.Wurder,ing the Primitive Chrifi:ian~, in the 'fen Perjecutions; the like on the Waldenfes, about the middle of the Fifteenth Century; and the MartJrs, in R!!!en Mary's D4JS; the French Maffacred Protefi:ants, about I ) 70 ~ the SaLv4ge Dejlruflion of the di.ftrefJed People ~~Piedmont, hy the Prtke of Savoy, abotJt ~be Tear t6)4· All which,' after their Cruelttes, t:nd utmoft Barbarities, that cotJid be invent~d ttnd aEfed. by Htathenifh and Hellifh Rage, dtd fti!l fay the ~tame ttnd fdult on the Perjecute~~ 'i{tProl~chin~ the~ w;th 1Jnclean Ac1ions in the:t t ~ . - · - - .f1 Jfem~!tef . . .... ,..._ . To the Unprejudiced Reader: 'Affimblies of Worfbip, _with Murders,~Burning of Houfes, Blafphem1es, T reafons, Rebellions, Witchcrafts, Madnefs, Enthufiafms and wh~tt not, to juflifie or le./Jtn their own Cruelties. How little the late Magiflracy and Prieft., hood of the Malfachufets, and other Gov~rnment J of · New .. England, have come jhort ; or how near they have trod in the Jleps of thofe former Perftcutors and Sla11derers of God's Peo ... ple, the following Relations m4J declare; which was fre{en:ly after rhey were af!ed, printed and publifoed tn Two Parts, the firft in the Tear 166r. and the other in 1667. hy that ~alo~~& Servrmt of the ~ord, George Biibop, which 4r" no~ both abrevtafed, aNd put into one Trall; in whtch due Care hath been taken to omit no Mat ... ter of ~act, that related to the Sufferers, nor oth:rwife~ thnn rvh4t might avoid Proli~itJ or Retteratwn. · It. J:vas t~(}ught. convenient to Revi(e and Prejent agatn to the World thefe following Accounts of Antichrifiian Cruelty, for that fome tJj the Stock and Spirit of the former Perfecuting. Przejls have. late? endeavoured to . deftrqy, fJY ~~n.der the .Beltef, of thoje two aforefaid Parts; thtnktng, b1 tts length of Time, to deny 4nd out~ [llce the Truths therein ajJerted. Which is not done, .as abhorring what was then atled: But kn_orvzng,. tiJ~~ by an Over-ruLing Providence" Per(ecutton zs not now pra~;7iftd, 4s formerly . ~Jnd thttt the Power .of their doing the fome, iJ '(Vholly taken from them ; for as limg' as they fO~/d~ tbe!. exe~te~ ~~e fo'!'e J!ifh their ntmoft ltfa.lic~. |
