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Show ( Jl4) ~0 nought ; but if it be of God, ye cannot Overthrow it : Bur be careful ye be no~ fou~d Fighters againft God. And the Captam fazd, Why bad you not come to the Pnfo~? The Retzfon was ]Jecaufe I heard, the Man mtghr go if he would ' an4 therefore I ca!Jed ?im down from the Tree, and {aid, Come down Will~am, ~ou m~y go away if you will. Then Captam Ohver fa zJ, It wa~ no fuch matter : And asked, What I had to do with h ? And be(ides, Bad me be gone : And I to/4 them, I was willing ; for I canno~ endure to fee this, 1 [aid. And when I wm zn thB ~·wn, fome did foem t9 Sympatbiz.e with me in mJ Grief. Blft I told them, That they had no Warrant' from the Wor~ of God ; nor ~refiq~nt from our Country ; nor Power from hts MaJe~y, to Hang the Man. I reft? To Mr. George Lad, Mafter of the America of Dartmouth, now at Bar-badoes. · Tour Friend, Thomas Wilkie. Afrer you had put Wi/Jiam Leddra w Death, r.our Court fat, ·and you hoped ( no doubt ) that his Death would cool, or bring under, Wenlock Chrifli{on, ·who came in upon you when you were Trying ·w. Leddrt~, to· Warn you. of ihedding any more Innocent Blood, for whtch you fem him to Prifon; and he fpeaking a few Words to the People, who in great Muidwdes flock' d about the Prifon, when W. Leddra was had out 'for Death, your Jaylor put into a Hole, and now you caufed [0 be brought ro Y?Ur Judgment·Sear, whilft the other was fuffenng · · ·· Death, ~~5 ) Death, and faid ro him, Except you wiU. renounce your Religion, you {hall furely Dye. Your Governour, 1ohn Endicot, and Depmy-Governour, Richard Bellingham, being bmh prefenr, norhing afright· ed Wenlock Chriftifon, bur rhe Power of God in him, for which he fuffered, lifred him up above the fear of your bloody Throne, and threats of Blood, nmwithfianding all the height of your Wcnlo k Cruelty, whom you rhought by Example of Chrifti(o" W. L. rhus co terrific, who, infiead of fl1rinking called.anct from, came upon 'you, and faid, Nay, I [halt charg~cl, not ch a nge my R el t.g z.o n, nor ;re. e k to Jra: ve my L'zt1:e ; aAnndf whe1rs neither do I intentl to deny my Mufter : But if I l~(e foJ his my Life for Cbrift' s fak.p, and the Preaching of the Lif~. Go[pel, I foall {ave it, Which noble Valour for Hep15 .~nt t I1 e Trut h, 1r. 0 rcturne d upon you, an d geve tTo he Il!Ol1. 3 cl. you fuch a Check, that after a few more words, and 4th you fent him ro Prifon again, there to be kept Montn, till your next Court, which was to. be in the ~.6~J: f.el 3d and 4th Months, 1661. A cenatn t Perfon st; ,7o; d in Tendernefs faid to Wenlock, Oh ! thy turn i1 wh~ m;~i~ next: To which he reply'd, The Wjll of the Lord his Grave be done. Clot l:ec, The Court ficti n~, in the 3d .a~d 4th M~m.hs, ~~(~;~~d. 1661. the Lord mmgled a Sptrtr. of Contu{JOn he>forctl -:. amongfi you, thar you were in a manner b ro~ Co'J r-:: aken, and could not hold together to pm to g~in. _ Death the Innocent ; the fenfe of the Innocent 1 h~0c,ou~· Blood fpilr, and rhe Confequence thereof being ~~1~· L. 1l fo weighty on fame of you, that rhey could pot confenr to the puuing of this Servant of the Lord co Death alfo, as afordaid, infnmuch that your Governour, J ohn Endicot~ was Wrath and went away from the Court difconc cmed, and kept from it for the fpace of rwo D,1ys, which forely troubled thofe of you which p2r.r-ed afrer the Blood of the In nocenr, rh ;n rhcr · x 4 pre-- |