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Show ( 306 ) Things had dealt contrary to the Laws of England, and Repugnant thereunro. Now .I thall Treat wirh you after another manner ; and infiead of reducing what I have to fay of the Cruel and Bloody Sufferings you have fince that rime infliCted on the Innocent, to particular Qualities of Suffering, as of Death, Banilhmenr, Whippings, &c. I iball carry the matter according co the Series of Time, and promifcuoufly manage rhe Sufferings as they . were promifcuoully inftitled ; in which I thall obferve what brevity the Nacure of Things of this Concernment, and your Demerits, will admit ; and fo come ro a clofe of this Second Pare of the barbarous Sufferings of the Innocent, chiefly within your Jurifdittion. Indeed one would have thought, that the Weight of the Sufferings, and Blood comained in the former Treatife, and the fenfe of the large . Account you have to give ro God and Man for what you had fo done, and the cruel Necdfities you had reduced your Neighbours and Friends unto thereby ; and the Confiancy you · perceived in them, when they .Suffered, and the Hand that bore them through that, which, all Things confidered, no Age in England ever parallelled, mighc have drawn fome fenfe upon, and moifture from you ; · had you not outworn the Confiderarion of your Reputation, which from a People perfecuted, indeed for your Confcience, and flying into a firange Land, becaufe of Confcience, were come to fie the greate!l Perfecurors of others, for their Confcience ; and if no or her Thing would have done ir, one would . think that the Humanity of Men thould have prevailed, who ufually have fome Senfe, where Humanicy it felf, or the Tendernefs of Na£Ure (0 ( 3°7 ) to its own Flefh, as all Men are made of One Blood~ and, What Man ever hated his own Fle(h? ( that ts ) fianding in the N a cure, or the fenfe of _rhat, in . which all Men .were t:nade, is not quue extingui.ibed and put under, and · they beFame Cruel, lzke the Ojlricbes in the Wildernefs • QUt where the Itch of Blood is once lodged in th~ . Hearts of Men, and that Spirit bears Rule, which ?mh pot to others what it would be done unto It felf; the contrary unro which is the Royal Law ; and where the blood- thirfiy Spirit harh once t:fi~d of the Sufferings of the Innocetjr, there 1C 1s never at reft, unril the Innocent are nor, or char there are no more Innocents left w~ofe Blood it might fuck, and fo the Righ.te~ ?4S be rid from off rhe Face of the Earth · as 1t. was with Cain, who in rhe very Point of Worflup, or the Sacrifice, in which God was wellp~ ea(ed, ~or . had refpect unto, flew his Brother ; a.nd. tho · htmfelf became a Vagabond, and his Guile made him to fly the Face of any Man whom he met with, on the Earth ; yet he re: turned nor. Tht; natural or· cruel Father or the ~dl: of. that Geperadon, in whom the ~ur~ henng S~tric enrred, or .had effect, of all thar or Confctence, or rbe Worfhip of God,. perfecuted them whofe Religion and Confcience \fqS. not accord"ng lO theirs;· and here no Wetgh_t be~rs .senfe, or gives Remorfe, or Picy. bur bemg. m _us own Element, or lha{ which is" Hard, and WJ_rhout natural Affection, Implaca b! e, U nmercJfuJ, being over, no rouch can pterce through, ~ill the J udgmem of God comes t~ break _them in ~ieces ; and then oftenrimes ~ e h uner Defiru~JOn of thofe in whom this at ruled, comes ro be the Confequence aocl t~ey ~0 be rewanled according ro their De~d . And |
