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Show ( 116 ) Spirit of Prophecy fpake ro you: Then ye will know char he fpake not in Vain, anJ that ir had been your WHaom ro have hearkned whilll ye had rime : But now the Things that ar~ coming upon you make hajle. The Blood of the Innocent cries loud againtt you, and the Lord is near ro avenge it ; rhe Fruirs of that Law, which rook f<> wirh the old Man, and which he bore Tefiimony agaidl, and fpake fo of, and whofc Sufferings the Lord will Recompence on you who have cafi him now inro Prifon again, wher~ he remains ro this Day, born up by the Lord, to bear your Cruelty, that your Mt. 1fure may be filled ro the full : For, fuch a thing harh been i"lardly heard of, that Men fhould rake fuch an Aged Man, as he ~ho had fcarce a Toorh ( if · any) in his Head, wbofe Provifion of Meat is fcraped into a Spoon, for him to receive (as I have faid) wherewithal to Nourifh him ; and ro Fine and Banifh him, as aforefaid, in fuch a Seafon of the Year, as the beginning of Wimer, from his Aged Wife, and his .Children· and upon his recurn ( afrer three Years, or 'there~ aboucs) to charge him for depying of Relations, in nqr coming unto his Wife and Children in all that fpace of time, when ye had banifh'd bim fi·om them ; and bting come unro them to take him from them, whom ye had fo charged, even as foon as ye had charged him, and ro keep him in Prifon; and all rhis for no orher ~hing, thiin fQr bearing Tefiimony, and fpeakmg to you, as aforefaid. What Cruelty is this, apd how fcarce ~y to be parallel' d in fonner Ages? But rhde things are found upon you, whom no Mercy moves, nor Bowds melt, who are· as hard as rhe Adamanr; who have fold ~:a:~r [elves :o do wickedly. · Thus ( 117) Thus of the old Man : But as for rhe four The 12th afore-mentioned, on the 1Hh of the 7th Monrh of the 7th (two Oays before the Expirarion of the Time Month, limited by you) after which, if found in your 16 sY· JurifdiCl:ion, rhey fhould fuffc.:r Death ( Whar hard Meafurc is here, to all0w a Man bm rwo Days, to remove for his Life, and upon fo flight an Account, or rather none ar all ? ) ye cau{ed ro be turned out of Prifon, to rry your Law upon them; rwo of whom (viz. Nichol$ Da N. r>.tvi~, vi4 and Mary Dyar) found freedom to depan M. Dy.tr. your JurifdiCl:1on, the one to Plimo~tth - Patent, the other to Rhode-Ijland ; bur rhe ocher rwo ( viz. W. Robinfon and M. Steven/on were con- W. R.._obin-firained in the Love and Power of the Lord, ~n, ~ nOt (0 depart, but to fiay in }'OUr J HifdictiOn, !t:Ve 11 Oil· and ro try your bloody Law unto o~arh: So they pa!fed our of Prifon on rhe 13th ro S~tlem, and remained there, and at Pit{cattaway, and the parts rhereabouts, in theSetvice of rhe Lord, till ye ~ook th~m up: Your Cruelty rowards them, when ye fenrenc'd them to Banifhmenr being fuch, and your monfirous Inhumanity: a Hapdkerchief was put in-to one of rheir Mouths, ro . ~v. J?.2b_infon fiopt from fpeak, keep them from Speaking m~ for l11mf~lf., by a li~ndkerfor themfelves (contrary ro chJef th:uft mto lm Month, ancl II attemptmg yet to [peak was hJd a Law) and when he yet down, and given twe:;ty 1crucl attempted co fpeak (viz.,. Lafl:es with a thre"'-fuld corded W. Robinfon) ye caufed him Whip. to be had down in a great R~ge, ~nd Twenry cruel Stripe~ ro be given htm, .wuh a rhree-foldcorded Whip with Knors, on hts naked Back, and rhen ft.m him to Prifon, wirh his fellow-Sufferer, M. Steven/m, in Order to. D~ar~, if they wc:re found again in your }unfdtcbon, afcer the limirarion of rhe H 4 Days |