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Show ( 42 ) would be Enquired inro, and how Repugnant they are to the Laws of England? . Declaration. ·-·Notwitbftanding which, by a back Door they found Entrance, and . the Penalty .i11(liCI_ed on tbtmfelves proving infuffiw:nt to rejlram thezr Impudent and Infolent Obtrujintu, 'JJJas increafed by the lofs of the Ears ofthofe who offindcrl the (~cond ti.me ; 7vhich alfo being too we~k a Defence agamf! thezr Impetuous Frantick Fury, neceffitated Ul to endeavour our Secu .. rity; and upo'J ferious Confider at ion, after the former Experiments by their incejJant Ajfaults, a Law was made, That Juch Perfons fhould be Banifhed upon pain of Death, according to the Example of England, in their Provi(ion again{! 1efuits: Which Sentence being regularly pronounced, at the lap (;.(lurt of .AJfi.flants, againfl the Parties above-nameJ, and ther e:ther returning, or continuing prefumptuouj]y in this JurifdiE/ ion after the time limited, were Apprebtnded, and owning themfelves to be the Per{ons Banifhed, were /entenced by the Court to Death, according to the LalV aforefaid, which hath been Executed upon two of them.- .Anf "er. As the former was the Entrance inro, fo this is the Scene of chis Bloody Tragedy, fo very In. humane and Cruel. Declar.-Notwithft~mding which, by a back Door they found Entrance. Jf.,jw. And, Why a back-Door ? Was not the way by which they came as much before ye, as the Sea from Engla~d? Is Sixty tiles ditlance by ·Land from Rhode· Tjland ( che pld e from whence they cJme) become further than England? One would think lh1t properly and indeed~ the Land ir i~ rl"lt is beron: you., which ye came to Inhabit, a1jd that the Sea it is that is b~hind you, from ( 4~ ) from whence ye came. How come ye then ro fay, a back-Door ? By 11 back-Dof!Y' ther found Entrance.- Is ic becaufe you mift in your Underfiandings, and fo have put the Fore for the Back, and the Back for the Fore? Surely then ye were not wife in your Generation, to bind the Sea, and leave the Land at Liberty. Is it becaufe ye had j(• urnied far enough from Old- EngJa, ul ( the Houfe of Bondage, fo accounted ) inro Nt"JV ( a Land of Liberty ) and now were returning from the Land of Liberty ro the Haufe of Bondage ? Surely then ye are in a bad Stare, to become Perfc curors your felves, who fled Perfecurion? Or, Is ir becaufe Rbode·Tfland is the Place inro which ye Banilh' d rhofe rhat differed from you in Marters of Religion · ( who your fel'ves were nor Banilh'd, who differed in Reli .. gion ) and fo having turned your Backs on their Opprellion, would not hear their Cry, 3S did Jo/iph's Brerhren, when they Sold him into Egypt? Then Juft is the Lord, to bring your Condemnation from the place of thofe whom , ye Oppreft. DecJar.-Not,vitbflanJing which (fay ye) by a back-Door they found Entrance.- An[w. And, Why not ? Are ye Lord's Propriewrs of the Creation ? May noc the Lord of Heaven and Earth fend his Mdfengers among ye, wirhour your leave ? May not an EnglifhMan come into an Engli{h J urifd iCl:ion ? \Vhat Infolency is this, and high Obrrufion on the Crearor of Heaven and Earth, who gave you your beings upon the Nation from whence ye came, and in which ye firft drew your Breath, and the Righr of Narure from which ye are derived, and from whence ye {pring? Delar.' |