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Show ( 484 ) . t.tld Spoiled che Goods of the People called ~~~k. ers; to pay his Mafters Reckonings at rhe T~verns ; he was fuddenly em off, and is come ro noughr, and his Remembrance rms 1 according to rhe Word of the Lord againft fuch as do refill th.~ holy One wilfully. James Undem;ood, a wicked perfecuring Confiable, who made ic his Work ro difturb the People of God in their holy Wairings on the Lord, who would prefs one Friend ro help him to lead ano[her as Prifoner ; afcer this his Wickednefs againft the Lord and his People, rhougq h~ had a confideraqle Eftate, yet rhe Hand of the Lore} being againlt him, he came to noughr; this alfo is according to che Word of the Lord, which his S~rv~ms teftified concerning P~rfe'\ HO.r3. An Emlnenr Hand of God's Difpleafure harh illfo been manifeft on fome of the Priefts ; as 1ohn N urron, Chief-Prieft in Boflon, and Chief in llirdng up the Rulers to perfe~ute anc,i take away che Lives of rhe Inno!;enr, who funk down, and died fuddenly, confeifing the Hand of rhe Lord was qpon him, as afore-menti .. oned, · p. 4~4"· Old Ed-ward Norris, Prieft in Salem, he fiiring up the Rulers and People rhere to Madnefs. faying, Wbat was done to the ~akers, was noi P~rfocution, but Profecutio?:J; as he was vindicating his bloody Princi"ple., was fuddenly and firangdy fmirten Oumb in h\s Pulpit, and afrer il while died. Qlq Prieft Wilfon, who reviled the Servants of rhe Lol·d, as rhey were Jed fonh to be pm to Pearh, was alfo by the Hand of the Lord f wept f}Way [tho' the Partict4larJ of the manner bow, is no~ t~{nted ~ an4 C. M. hath the c~nning, in his HiftorJ.~ ' • '• t (l to pafs over jlightly the Deaths of mofl of thofe O!J Perfecutors, that he 'JJJrites the Lives of, u;ithout relating the manner how they died ; llnd I appeal to him, if he 'JJJould be Ingenuour, 'JJJhetber there ~VflJ not fomething remarkable in the Deatbr of feveral of them, beyond what he relates.) Timothy Dalton, Priefi of Hampton, who caWd ir B!a{pbemy, to fay, The Light within wa~ th~ Light of Chrifl; and his Brother, Philemon, how they were raken away, one by the fall of a Tree, and the other by another Vifitation ; fee before, p. 467. Prieft Mitchel, of Cambridge, who 1are1y llirr'd up the Rulers to Perfecurion and Madnefs, foon afrer was fmirren down by the Hand of rhe Lo~d ; and it's tefiified, That his very Tongue~ whsle he was alive, turned exceeding black in hil Mouth, and foon after he died. Sundr}' ochers, not here tnentioned, harh rhe Hand of the Lord vifited .with 1 udgmenrs upon themfelves, and upon the Fruit of their Bodies taking away the Lives of divers of their Firfr~ born by unufual Deaths ; and from Year ro Year, ro this Day, Iince they murrhered th~ Servants of the Lord, hath the Hand of Jufiic~ blalled their Corn in rhe Fields · rheir Wheat wI 1 en m. t he Ear near to Bloffo'm , being in a) firange manner fmicten with Dearh at rhe Root and fo wither away, and become fo Loarh: f~me (being cur down) chat the Bealls of rhe F1el~ care. nor to Eat ir, as before hinred, p. 2 1 r. [.Thu . blafi, mg;. of their principal Grain, C. M. con. fef[es t~ _hu Rift. to continue to this Day ( as afore .. fatd, Ibtd.) as 11 juft Judgment, no dottht, for their Wtckednefs and Cruelty, in perfecuting and putting th~ Servants of the Lord to Death :] Which is Remar• kable, and a lively Figure of New-England's Abo·· minabl~ |