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Show ( 386 ) Ne'lv-EnglaHJ, and what Pridls ;tre firewed up and down therein, from the o.ne end to the orher, who.m your Example led into Wicked-nefs. · .G.Prefton, George Pr,eflon, Edward Wharton, Mary Tomkins, :e. Wh~r- Alice Ambr:1Jfe, alias Gary, having been at Dover, ;~kin; A as aforefa.id, palfed from thence over the Water, .Ambrod. w a place called Oy(ler-River, where, on the .Dover. firfi Day of rhe Week, the Women went to oy[ter- . Priefi Hults place of Worfbip> who fianding be~ r;ftHull fore the Old Man, he began to be troubled ; and having fpoken fomething againft Womens Preaching, he was confounded, and knew not well whar w fay; whereupon, Mary fi:anding up, and declaring the Trurh to the People, pr 'john Hill, in his wrath, thrufl her down from the place where fhe fiood, wirh his own Hands, an~ rhe Prieft pinched her Arms, whereupon they were had out of the pla~e of Worfbip; bur in the Afternoon, they had Lheir Meedng, unro whi.ch came moft of the Prieft's Hearers, where Truth gave the Prieft fuch a blow that day, chat a Iircle while afrer ;- This 'fohn Eill boafted, That he would ova throw Mary, if he could come to rea[on with .her; Thus pt rformed, ftriking her in the Stomach, anLl fo forcing her backwards ; he was a Church-member. The Prieft for- the Prieft Iefc his Marker-place, and fook h1s Market- .w ent to the Ijle of' Shoales, t h ree Leagues ylace. in the Sea ro another. About twenty Miles frDm Oyfler-River, near .Gorgiantt. the Sea-fide, at Gorgia'!a, fomerimes called Yor~, in the Province of iiJ.ayn, George Preflon and Ed- - . waul Wharton being, and ap- * Tlus Pneft, by agreement, pointing there a Meering was to have two Pounds we1ght f . d * .'' fi · ,f of Butter for every Cow, as part 0 Fnen s, Pue !f.~e,~ on of his Provifion-Rate, and the Prieft's Wife would many time;; come for the Butter befure it was Churn'd, . as the "Prophet ~ompla~ned. an~ ( 387 ) and his Wik endeavoured what they could, with the Magiftrates of that place, w hinder the Meeting, wherein they being not able to prevail, they ~ame to the Meeting-place before they were come together, and the Priefi faid, That George Prefton 'JPM 11 Deceiver ; and by the Scripture unqertook to proYe him fo to be, if he had a Bible ; which George Prefton pl-JIIing out pf his Pocket, and giving to him, he turned to that place, wherein the Apofile fpeaks of Meats and Ma~~iages ; which G. Prefton being nor con. cer~ed ~n, ror he did ne-ither; charged him with L ymg, for that he had not proved him a De .. ce~ver, neirhe~ w,as f~ch a ohe as that Scripture fatd : The Pnefi s Wtfe demanded of him, where Prieft E~ he lived?_ He anfw~red, In the LorJ: That's Blaf- merfo'!'s phemy, fa1d the Pneft (what a heap is here of affertJOn ~lockifh Priefis in . the Cou~t~y ?. One faith af 0~~~~r: the Three Perfons m the Tnnuy, which he af- P 1 firmed,_ !here be Three Somethi,gs. Anorher faid, The SptrJ.t was ?ct his Rule, 13tJJ he hoped it never fh~u~J. ;And th1s (to add no more in this pl2ce) fauh, It s Blafpbemy, when Geo. Prtflon faid He li'!"eJ in !he Lord ; whereas the A pofile fairh, In ht"! we lzve, move ant! have our Being,ABs 1 7·7.8.) Bem~ ~afHed .here, he feU on Edward Wharton, E. Wb.zr~ and fatd to htm, That he might be afhamed to Tra- ton • ve.~ up anJ Jown the Country .fo 114 he did, 1vhilft bi4 Wife anJ Children flarved for Bread ? Who had po ~ife. nor Child. And the Priefi prell him a~am WHh rhe fame Thing; Edward advifed hun to take hted what he faiJ ; and wld him, It WtM g~cJ Coun[el. The Prieft reply' d, He could prove tt ; and rhat therefore he '!.!firmed it. Ed-· ward charged him wich Lying, as he had done ar ~rft, ~hen the Priefi fo faid. Tou have had 4 f:Vi(e, fa1d the ~deft's Wife, to help out her Hus. band. |