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Show ( ~f ) tbe Wor~Jip of Gotl which rhey ~ccountt'tl Sim. qbf. That the Sufferings of fome tn rhofe Days were fnrd and grievous, is nor to be doubted,~ b~t piried and lamented ; but what were tho. e tq the Sufferings that rhey infii~ed onf ohur Fnends .. 1\o.T E l d 2 1 Lnow none o t em wer1t 111 J.'ICW ~ ng an . ~ ' ( 1 put to Death. If they whipp·d any as t ley did 1oh1t Lilborn) the Presbyteria,s exceeded t.hem, wu• n.e 1rs. rv; Brend Ann Coleman, and orhers ' an<l r • ,, ( B .f h , . If the Ears of fome as urton, 1 t ey cut 0 . d'd ff their BafhJJick and Prm11 ) they 1 n<?t c.uc 0 • d. Heads or Hang rhem, as they dtq our Fnen ~ • 11.T , E l"n • nor that I would go to exrenuace 111 L"e1JJ - ng "' r.~, • · r . 1 their Sufferings, or excufe thetr Penecut~rs . I'" now they went too far, as c. M. fays, of tbemftlves, and fuffered for it,; buc_. know not, but that the Presbyterians learn d rhetr . Cruelty' and ]ubg:- improv'd it ( w ufe one of his own terms). But nttnt \ ( fay·s he ) ibid. I leave it .U1J~O the con(tJera:zon of on \_9£C- Mankind, 'JIJhether th~ forb,Jdmg of fuch. f1c•! to .d~ fetll- their Dut~, 'JJJere no lntretlient of th.at Inz~U,1 ty whtcb toa~. immediately flpon the 'departur<~ of thefe Good Mez, l brou~bt tlpon Great Brirain, and. efpccuslly upon t e greateft Authors of th~ 'Perfecut:on; a Wrath unto the utmoft in the enfui:ng D.efolatloNs. ?bf. And 1 leave it unto the con(itieration of lv!ankmd, whethet the forbidclinu of (ucb Men to do the~r Duty_, when thff Lord fent bthein, bm Impr~fon, Whtp, cur o . Ears, Baniib, and at laft put. th~m to ~~ath, were no . ,. t oftbat Iniqtlity wh=ch tmmedtately upon the mg1·ea1en • B · · tleparture of thoj'e G ooa Men, brought upon Great. n- . (a.!. an--1 Ne·w-England too) a U'rath unto the tam Y, ":' 1 · h h [I l utmoft in the enfuing Defolati6ns, w 11~ . e_ o )mfu.c ~ complains of ; but ( tO procee~ Wlth htm uc 'Wd4 thtJ Ruine 'JJJhich the ccrernomous Perfecu:orsbrcr4g ht upon the mofl cm'J.fci.mcious Non-con_(ormijl s um~, +b";r ,.n rcriptural Cercmcmes; and at latl on ~em • •• '!"' .: • "'elves~ ~ l1 ) (dves, fay I. But (fays he) tY the Khtgdom of D~rknefs u/es to be always at length overthrrmm k1 its o-;vn Policy, {o will be at laf! founrJ n() nrh~antag'e unto that PartJ in the Chur-ch of England ( New as well as OLd) that theOrdersandAC!iom-byrhemthui produced be~ome a1'J Hiflory ; which wiJI fland rather ro rheir Infamy, than Praife, ro fmure Ages; for-Our Martrriof ]efm fbalJ be I kecordetl unto Po(feritr. . . P. 11 . c. 1. I [4w a fearf~Z. Degener11cy, creeping gr,rgtJ cannot Jay, bu~ rufhi"g i~ upon theje Churches, 1 netat~. Jaw to multiply continually our Jangers of our lr'{i?IJ!, no fmaO Points in our Firft Faith, a~· ·welt as our Firft Love. Obf. No Wonder, as I faid before, rhar they that go to ftifle al~ funher Difcovery and breaking forth of Truth, fbould degenerare and grow worfe and wotfe (for oppo!ing more Lighr is a Token of i\pofiacy, as in lhe Papi(fs) foas to lofe rhe Faith, as welJ as lhtir firfi Lov.e, as thofe Anci~nt Chutches did., whofe Candlefiicks · were remoyed, as In. Mather confeffes many of yours have been ; and it it was nor fo, rhey could nor turn fuch great Enemies to Trurh, and PerfecU£e it as you have done; and fo it ~iJJ be, that you wi~l ·.Iofe ~nd go backward~ pll you turn to lhe Ltght of Chrifi ( which you now hare) ~nd Qelieve in ir, rhar rhe Lord ~ay heal YO!Jf' backOiding. · : Pl 38. ~· 1. Having relared Priell Norton'sDuuh an~ mif-cired Friends words (in the Reprefen~ tatzon) ~s ro rhe Judgment of God on him, he tells of Ius Book againfi the f<!!akerJ, called, The Hea;rt 'of New-.Engl_and rent, and fays, Perhaps i' had p:en better zf thu had been a!J the Confutation: Perhaps ~o wo, fay, I ; btl[ ir is a J udgmenr on_ ?erftcutors, ·not to Repent rill 'ris wo I arc ; but 1f rha~ qqrk ~onfufed Difcourfe be a!l the Con~ 1· ' • ., ' f~ation, |
