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Show ( ~28 ) ing unto them, when you are about . to k1Ii lhem : And this is New-Englan~, and the: Government of them, who for Religion do ktll. To the So to the foot of the Ladder your Guard ·Tree. brought this Innocent Servant of the Lord, an~ pinioned his Arms, where he rook leave of hts Friend, EdwarJ Wharton, as he w~s about co afcend the Ladder, to whom he fatd, All that wiU. be Chrift• s Difciples,, mufl tt~ke up the Cro[s 1 And ftandina where your Guard ordered htm, wirh' an exceeding frefh :\nd living Countenance, he fpake to the People, ~nd fai~, For bearing· "',1 Tef!imony for the L(lrd t~gaznft Decezv:rs, and the Dtceived, am I brought here to {uffir. Whtch rook mu~h with the People, and wrought Tendernefs_ m many, feeing his meek and c~earful Suffen~g, . and hearing what he faid; whtch an ol~ t Pr~e(l + Satd to which was there whh a Woman behmd htm, be A /len ' • · • l ff thePrieft. auending the Execuuon, percetvmg, to ta (e o rhe edge of the People, and to quench the Tendernefs that fprang in them, with a falfe Tongue, and bloody Heart, cry'd out, and faid, People; I would not have you think it ftrange, .to fee a Man fo wilting to dye, for it is no new Thmg: And you ·may read, how the Apoftle faith, That fome lhould be given up to firong Delufions, and even dar~t to dye for it. Now I would fain know where the At>ofile fo faith, I am fure it is not contained ~n rh.e Scriptures of Truch ; and where then ts r~ts your old Priefis Record, who with a Lye m his Mouth, and that of the Scriptures, and the Holy Man of God, fought to quench t~e Tendernefs that arofe in the People, ro thts Holy Man ofGod, for his Teftimony to the Truth .? Thefe be your Teachers, and thefe are your Guides~ ( J29 ) Guides, Falfe and Blind, Leadc:rs of the Blind ~ and fo it is no marvel that you both fall into the Dirch. Indeed the Apollle fairh, That 1et . . peradventure for a good Man one would even dare l:_om. ~·1~ to Dye. Where hath he faid whar is before af-ferred ? Men had need to know fomerhing elfe than fuch Cheats as thefe, as dare put a Lye upon the Scriptures of Truth, and the Apofile of Chrift Jefus, which commended what he faid to that of God in every Man's Confcience, and dared fo to do ; but this Man dared to beiy them both, to fiifle the Wirnefs of God that arofe .in the People. This is one of the blind Guides of New-England, who lead their · Difciples into Blood, the Blood of the Innocent 1 and this is one of your Shepherds, who caufe you to Err, and hurl you to Blood, to draw rhe \t\·rath of the Lord and his Vengeance upon you, chat there be no Remedy: Thus much for the Priells. But as for William, as a Man who was gathered up to' God, and in Peace wirh him, for whom he fuffered : As the Murtherer was purring the Halter about his Neck, in the Meeknefs and Senfe ·of Chrift Jefus, faid, I com-mit my Righteous Caufe unto thee, 0 God. So your Murtherer making hafte, being Charged fo £0 do, and turning of the Ladder ; as the Ladder was turning off, William Leddra, the [ulfering Lamb, and Servam of Jefus Chrift, who there rhoughc nee his Life dear co DeJrh, for the Tefiimony of his Truth, cry;d our, Lord Jefus H ' 1 ft receive my Spirit. Who refts with rhe Lord, w~~das• and whom he received, who becaufe of him, He is put you would not fuffer to Jive among you, buc to Death.t cut him off from the Earrh ; for which [he Lord will cut you off, and render unto you ac- X c:o.rding |