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Show ( I5g ) ,~b(ent rather than their Death$ prefent, he ?vould · peg th~m of you, and carry them a~JJay_ at his owa Chmge, and give them a Houfe to !we m, and Corn to Feed on, and Land for them and their lleirs to Plant 011, that fo 011ce ?Vithi1t a Year, they Jilould be able to provide for themfelrr:es; and if any ~f them p1Mltl come among (f )'C agam, he would agat~ fetch tbem at his ow1J Cb trge. And was. nor thi" Motion of his well liked by rhe Magtfirares, except rwo or rh1ee, who propounded it ro rhe Depuries rhe next Day ? Bur did not rhe Deputies, and rhofe Magifirates, Over:.Vore ic ? Ard ordered pn:fenr Execmion ro be done upon rhern char afternoon, as foon as yoLlr Worfhip was ended, your Thurfdays Letiure : And fo d1d ye nor put rhem ro Death, a~d Murther rhem as aforefaid ? And yec now> fee ow ye come and fmoorh over the Matter, like rhe Harlor menrion~ d by Soh•mon, as if ye had done 1 o Evil? 0 ye Impudem Hypocrites! As if ir were f,H· from you ro ddite their Deaths, or that you did not defire ir, bur rarher their Lives: And that fuch Cleme1Jcy and l\lercy lodged in you, and fuch Compa1fton and Rowels, that you rook Norice <Jf th leafr Opponunicy, that might give Occalion ro make it manifefi ; and rbat ye did it upon an Incon 1dcrable Imerceffion ( vrz.,. A-fary Dyar) yet notwithfianding rhefe Conftderahle Inrerceflions of fuch Contiderable Men among ye, ·and this mher l nconftderaple One ( as ye term it ) which was of her Son (and rhat is fomerhing Confiderable, for a Child is near, and irs lnr~rceilion of a prevailmg Narure) ye put per ( as I rna y fo f 1 y) the fecond time ro Death. And yer fet how ye bt11 g this as a Demonfiration ; as it ye de fired their Lives abfenr, rat ber Khan their Dea[hs pr ~nt, whenas ye puc them ro ( 1~9 ) to Death ; yea, this very Woman, your Infiance, nmwithfianding the feveral Inrerc ilions aforefaid. And rhen ye fay, Dedararion and Anfwer. Altho' the 1uftice of our Proceedi1if.S again(/ Wjfliam Robinfon, and Marmaduke SrevenfoP, and Mary Dyar, /upported by the Authority of this Court, the Laws ~( thi& Country,and the La'lJl of God (which are all Lyes, for you have no fuch Auchoriry, nor can your Laws fupporr, where Aurhoricy you have none, and the Law of God is againfl: you ; for ic puts _not ro Death the lnnocenr, or gives ye Power fo to do, in Matters of I digion, which are from Man's Cognizance, and in which he hath not to do ) may r~tther pe1jwade u~ to expea Encouragement (from fuch as you are, and who are of your Spirir, but no other) and Commen, Jdltion from aU. .Prudent and Piot-tO Men ( who, thofe who are rruly fo, will do the conrrary ) than Convince us of any necejfity to Apologiv~ ( yer, why do ye do it, feeing chat the very Name of an Apology mars your J ufiice ? ) for the {a me; yet, forafmuch as Men of weaker Parts, out of Pity an.d Comm{eration, a Commendable 1ancl Chri{lia1~ Vertue (why then have ye nor follow d ir? How come ye ro Condemn it in an Apology, ~nd yet ye fer ir above ye, as A polog1zing ro lt?) yet ea(ily abu(ed, and fufceptible of Jim/ler and dangerous Imprej}ions (and ver a ChrHrian Venue, and a Commendable ; Can V cnue be mixr ? Is it fufccprible of unifier 'and dc1ngerous Impreffions?) for want of a full Information (may be lefs ha~ been berrer, for this farisfies nor) may be lefs j atirfied ( what J ufiice is rhar which reacherh not chat of God in the Confdencc, which fhould be the full Information co \Virnef< for you ? Which your Jutlice wanting, your full K 4 Infor- |