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Show ( 46 ) him, anJ the Needy among_(! Men. Thi1 {hall be written for the Ages to come, and the Children that are Unborn, ]hall praife the L?rd: And your Carka(fes Jh '~ll fall upon the Earth, and re jh.:z~l leave yo;tr Name a Curje umo my Chofm, faith the Lord. Declar.·- Which proving ln(uffi~·ient.--- An(1v. What proving Infufficienr ? Why the Penalty infliCted? So fairh your Declaratim (f~. ) .And the Penalty injiiCfed proving In(ufJicient.- ·- AnfJV. Whac was the Penalry? And, Whar did ye infii8? 0 ye Shtt melefs Men ! who make fo flight of fo heavy Punifhmenrs ! whofe cruel Srrokes pierc'd rhe Air and whofe bloody DrJughrs rhe Hearrs and Souls of thofe who faw it, as they did rhe Rodies of rhem whofe FJefh ye rare, and whofe Blood ye drew. Yet rhis is infufficienr,---the Penlfltr infltCled provint. in-fuf! icient.-·-Never Blood enough ro the Spirit of Wickcdnefs, wh~n once ir Janches our, and dips irs foor in rhe Blood of rhe Innocem: So ir was, and fo ir harh been wirh Men in your Stare from the beginning. Bur the Righteous God will fill ro you again, yea, double in rhe Cup rhar ye have filled, and ye pJa!l furely have your Reward. Therefore deceive not your felves · for, as you have Sown, fo fhall ye Reap ; a; you have Done, fo fhall it be Done unro you · fzekiel 7· anrl ye Jhall kno1v, tgat ] 8111 tfjt lLoab, whe~ s, 9· ] have raken Venge.mce upon you, and rendred unro you according w your Deeds. Then fhall you fee, and be afl1amed for your· Envy at My People : Sh<~me fhall cover b This was fulfilled when K. you 6 , who have {aid unro Ch.zrles II. fent over an Order them, Where is now the to ftop their Proceedings, and L d h G d d they fent Agents to exculc them~ or t Y 0 ? An ye tball felves, as Norton and Bro.td{f're.H be a Defilation; rl-;e Mourh (who when he heard Ti' i!!i.tm of the Lord of Hof!s harh fpoken ( 47 ) fipoken it, who alfc_o . w_ill l{obinfon's Father was coming up c out of the North, to 'all him to do it, and penorm 1[ 1.n HS Account tor Murth~ring hi~ Son, feafon. rktl, and clnrft not Hanel the Trial ) ShurHing, ancl endeavouring to Evade the Guilt of it, as in ~he 2d Pare ~; m.c:nrioncd, being ~lhamed ~o own. it:. So ~hat tht.y (elc\om n:en c10n 1t, .to nny purpo!e, even ~~ thetr Hdtorte~, but rather pals 1t over lltghtl~, if they do touch tt, than relate 1t as .th y oug.ht, and as. oth~r B:t· ftorians ufe to do, even the ruelttes of thur own NatiOn; as m England, the Sufferings of t11e Martyrs, f.5 c. But they ndeavonr to cover it in Deceit; Witnels Morton's Memorials, and Matber's Late , E~rtorj of New~ England, wherein he juft mentionc; it, and runs on a Railing, yet will not Confers their Guilt, nor Know any Shame. Now, as to the Sufferings ; What were they, and your Houfe of Correction, that ye make fo flight of them, and fay of thcm,-,vhich proving Inj ufficient. The firll two that came over afcer rhis your Law, were AmJ Buulm and Mary Dyar, her whom ye afcerwards put to .Dearh. .A'1'J'I'J Burden's Bufinefs was to garher up fame Debts in the Coumry (her Husband ·being Dead, who was a long Inhabitant therein) for the Maimenance of her and her Children, who ha'd lived abour Sixteen Years in Bofton and rhoft pans, ~nd was UnblameabJe before rhem with 'Nhom ihe lived: Nor had ye any rhing wherewithal co Charge her now, but rhar fhe \vas a Plain £2.r!_aker, as Richard Bellingham faid, and that Jhe muft abide your Law: Mary Dyar's Bufinefs was ro pafs that way ro Rhode-Jflantl, having, before fhe arrived th~re, no Knowledge of what ye had done: Thefe two ye Imprifoncd, and kepr clofe Prifoners rhat none might come ar th m · and rho' · William Dyar came for his Wife from Rhode~Ijland, ~fter he heard rhar fhe was rhere, and in Priton ; yet yc: fuffered him nor ro have her, umil he became bound in a great Penalty ( fo great was |