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Show ( 86 ) /l.i!Jed either Sheep or Lambs; tmd now ye have thm they will neither Bark nor Bite : Yet they h.,ve the plain Marlu ~f fVOlves. NoJJ' I leave it to your tpon(tderati011- (faid he) 71Jhether ye will let them go alive, rea or Nar? This was as w the Cafe of ~ho(e Friends in Cufiod y, w hofe 2B{oob he and you thirfied afcer, but could not teJl how to come at it, by any Colour of Law, nor to work their Sqfferings, nor jufiify what ye had already ~one unto them ; for Proof of which rhey had already put you, bur ·ye could not make ir; or that they were fuch thaL your Law took no tic~ of. Therefore your Hi~h-Prieft came to do ir, and to ibew you a Way, which is the moft Devilith thar ever was heard of, viz...·--To caufe a Man to fuffer, nor for ·what he is, bur for what he may be :---To Judge a Man to Death without Proof:-·· To kill him left he may do fo and fo :-·-To Execqre Law, where there is no fact :---To deal with a Man, as with a Beaft: ---To pur Man, who was made after the Image of God ; of whom God faith, He that jheddeth Mans Blood, by Man jhtJ/l hi~ Blood be Jbed ; for iJfter the Image of God made he Man---into the State of a Beafi, who is known by his Skin ; bur a Man is nor, buc by the Spirir that is in him; nor by that neither., fo as to judge unro Suffering) bm by rhe Effects, or fome Oven-All ( as the Law of England termetl1. it ; and ic is a good word upon fomerhing done, as is the ~nterpretation) and that upon Proof:---To make ~ M~n as a Beall, as a Beafr of Prey, whom any ~an may kill, and it is Lawful fo to do :---TQ JUdge of Fact by hereafter, and of what a Man may do for ri~e to come; bm as yetdt canno~ be faid of him :---To kill'a Man for hereafrer, ~~q f~r Ages t, o co~m!. ~ ..... Yet this is Prieft Cbanfq \ · · · · · and , I ( 87 ) and the Doctrine of your Priefls, and rhc Practice of you, ~s lhe Sequel makes manifdl > for you had a great ConfuiLadon again; and your Pdefis were puc to it, how to prove them as your Law had faid: And ye had them before you again, and your Priefis were wirh you, every one by his tide ( fo came ye to your Coun ) and John Norton mufr a5k them Qt:ellions, on purpofe to enfnare them, thar by your fianding Law for Hereticks, ye might Condemn them (as your Priefis before conful[cd ) and when this would not do (for the Lord was with them, and mad them Wifer than your Te~chers) ye made a L~w to Ranifh them, upon Pam of Dearh, even all fuch, a~ having fufh.n d your Law, ibould Offend again ; thar is ro C-ty, Com~ inro your Jurifdiction, or be f~ch a one as is called a Q2aker, whom ye fo difiinguifh by the Hat, in rhat Law, viz.,. The not obferv:"K the ~audable Cupom of the Nation (that is, the puttmg. off the Hat) and the Contempt of Author tty C.rhar lS, keeping it on in the Court) and chef~ havmg fu~eted your Law again and again, and that wuhollt Caufe, or Legal Procec.ding ye Ba.nifh'd ~ afrer all) whtltl ye could have 'nothmg agatnfi rhem) either ro jufiifie whar ye had already done, by Venue of your Law or for what ye did fo do untO rhem, under Colour of a Law, made by you, whilfi they were under your Hands, by a Law, a Prftra, made after they were Prifoners, beca?fe the}: had wrongfully f~ffered Y.ou: Law r ~NICe bdore ( \Vhat Abomt~able InJUfitce is th~s, and !Jard ro be parallell d? ) And fo they iuifered, whofc names are Lawrence Southick, Coj]'tmdra his Wjfe, Lhc::ir Son Jofiah .C fee .a Man and his Houfe ; yea, a Man and hts Hencage) Samuel Sbattock, Nichdas F 4 Pbrlps, |