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Show • ' ( 14° ) . Gafp, I J(l not Q.ueflion it. Moreover,. he cried, And ~o-, faying, Knoum be it unto rou all, That if you hav-e pThhecy, Power to take mfa Li~"e ~"rom me, that my ·Soul Jhall at no .! ' J' · h G J more.,Q:t.t· enter into ever afting Reft and Peace Wit . o , kersfhould where you your {elves Jhall never come : And i( you be put to have Power to t~ke my Life from me, the wbtcb I Death by do queflion I do believe 'o" jhall never more take them. QEak'eJ"r s L' ives from them ( note my 'vor Js . ) J o no~ think to weary out the living God, by takz~g au:a'Y the Lives of his Servants ! What do you g4m by It ? + Elit· For the laft Man that you put to Death, here are t Hooto1J, Five come in his Room : And if 1ou have Polver to Joan.r. take m'~~ Li~"e from me, God can raife z.~p the fame Broke; up, . . J I ' 1 '. • Tc ,I" b · S tl t: J. Mary Ma· Prmczple of Life m en o1 JS ervants, an 1m lins.l(_ath. them among you, in my r~om,. that you "'!ay h•ve Chattam, Torment upon Torment, whzch t4 Y?ur PortiQH.; for C who . there is no Peace to the Wtcked, [a1th my came m Sackcloth God. ' 1 andAihesj :foh1~ Burfiow, George Wilfon, befides the Inhabitants •. Then your Governour faid , Take him away; fo to Prifon he was fenc; and refiing in fweet Peace, 2nd quietnefs of Spirit, where he was detained from the fith Day to Re is fent to Prifon,, ~~d .<'~ut the third Day of the Week of thence, and that Jun{cliEhon, followin{T at which time driven,with Twenty Seven more, f 0 ' viz. :fohn Chamberlain~, 'J_ohu one o your Mart?als, ~nd smith, and Margaret h1s W1fe, a Confiable, came mro htm, Mary Trask, :fudith Broutz, Peter in the Prifon with an 0rPearf011, G~orge Wilfon' :fohn der frbm th~ Court, for .Bur:{tow, Elt{abeth Hooton, :Joan h" I · Brokefup, Mary Malins, l(g.thu.rine 1S En argemenr, wuh Se· Chattam, Mary Wright, Hannah vea and Twenty mo~·e of lVright, Sarah Burdoo, Sarah Co/e.. lhe Friendc; of Truth, th~n nu~, and Three or F?ur 0~ ~er jn Prifon fo~ their Tefii- Children, ~lph Allzn, W1ll1am · .Allin, FJ.chard .J(!rby. mony ro ~he T~uth, who · f~id, They U/ere Ordered by the ( l41 ) the Court, to m.Jke them acquainted with their new Law. Then faid Wenlock, What mums thi4 ? Have rou a new Law? Yes, faid they. Then you. have deceived mnft People, faid Wenlock. Why? faid they. Becaufe, faid Wenlock, They ditl think the Gallows had been "jour !aft Weapon ; Have you got more ret ? Yes, faid they. Read it, faid Wenlock; which they did. Then We'1llock faid, Your Magi-prates [t~id, That your Law was a good and wholefome Law, made for your Peace, and the fafe- guard of your Country : What, are your HanJs now become weak? The Power of God is over you all. Then the Prifon-doors were fet open, and Twenty Seven more, befides Wenlock, were turned forth, as aforefaid, . whereof two were Two firipp'd to the Walle, and made fall to a Cares ftripp'd& Tail, and whipp'd tHrough rhe Town of Boflon, w~lpp'd, with twenty cruel ftripes on rheir naked Backs ~~~·r}:;:er· and Shoulders ; many Momhs were opened, 'fuditb and the mighry Day of the dreadful Gop was Broun. founded forth by the Servants of rhe Mighry God, who wrought Deliverance for his chofen Veffels: So, into rhe Wildernefs they were dri- By Sroord ven by your Sword and Clubmen, who had re- ~nd Gmt ceived Order from you, thus to force them OU[ w~ l tl~e of your J urifditl:ion ; which they performed : net<:.~ eiG} ory, Glory, be given unro the Lord over aiJ, fauh my Soul, who never leaves nor forfakes the Righteous, bur redeems his fa1rhful Ones out of all their Troubles : Praife rhe Lord all his Saints, who are upon the Rock of Ages : And rhe Gates of Hell cannot prevail againlt you, faich Wenlock Cbrijlifon. One Thing more I rhink convenient ro couct ac, ere I pafs fi'om this particular, which con~ curred in the Wifdom and CounfeJ of the Lord to break this wicked Law of yours for Blood; and |
