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Show ( 98 ) :md Itnprifonments : And thus have they dealt wirh them~ who in Obedience to the Lord came to Warn them of rheir Evil Ways, that they might return and be faved. A Hundred of their villanous Pranks I could Recount, but refer to the Book aforefaid, and lhall only mention one more at prefenr, viz.. A Woman Imprifoned for Thefc, by being among Friends, was like to be Convinced of rhe Evil of her Ways; upon whid~ the Jaylor rook her into his Houfe, and told her, She wru better be m {he WtM before ( a Thief) than a 0:faker; whereupon fhe after .. wards Scole again, and was banifhed for it : And now, Reatler, I hope I have fufficiently !hewn who were rhe Villains, and dangerom Ones too, by their Pratlices. On whofe Proceedings G. J-oJ, aforefaid, ha~ thefe V erfes : .Admire, Oh Heavens! be Earth aftonijheJ .At this profufe Expence of guilrlefs Blood In fuch a cafe, where nothing 14 concern~ d But a Religion they in Scripture leam'd; Chrift' s own aommand, the Apoflles Approbation, .(l!J good J.1ens Care, our lvife King's Tolleration. Why Jhould Men's Liberties be thus abrid£ d, . ~nd Confcience bindred in what's priviledg' J? C. M. It 'VAS alfo thought, that the 0fakers them~ US· [elves would fay, That if they had got into a Corner n~~ O of the World, tmd ma4e a Jfildernefs Habit.able, on tltal n r! purpofe there to be undifturbed in the Exer~ife of their W 'tl Worjhip, they lVould never bear to have the New' ., n. Englanders come amongft tbcm, &c. Anfiv. This is but meer groundlefs Suppofition and· Suggefii .. ons, none ever faid or did fo, or gave him any occafion to think fo of them ; but on the con:. trary, the f!.3akers in Pmftlvania and Nnv-Jer{ey, who made a Wildernefs Habitable as well ~s ~hey ( 99 ) ~hey, and partly to Enjoy Liberty of Confciencc: roo, have fuff~red the New-EnglanJers ro come among them, and Trade wirh them for Bread- Corn, &c .. as they frequently did, and do when rhey want 1t ar Home (their own being blalled) ~nd yet never ufed them as they did our Friends m New-England, when they came on rheir law-ful Occafions: Nor did our Friend, W. Codding- w. c d ton, Governour of Rhode-lfland, do fo by rhem D. 0 .tf. w l R B lJ · b . , emon1 • . ten · .e mg am came thuher, bur enrerrain'd p. 14, i ) u' htm and htsCompany at his Houfe, and J.Dan-fo; t w preach ro rhem,and demanded rhe like for ~tm and his Friends, tho' he would not grant lnntalt, bur molefied them, as aforefaid · and if he tituO~ c~n alledge any fuch thing, lee hi~, or confefs o ht~ falfe Suggefiions in this, as well as mher thtn~s; and his calling their Banifhmenr, ']uft Banijbment, does but fiilllhew his own Injufiice as w~ll as Fallbood, in going frill to jufiifie i~ ~ w~tch he does in the highefi degree, by call-mg It Juft) when he hath faid fo ofcen He will not, nor cannot Juftifte or VinJi,ate it. , And . that .there wM the Phrenfie of the olJ Cir- mus-· cumceJhans zn thofe f0akers, is but his old Sian- kttJS ttO ~er before Refel'd; for rho' chey went from one Circum+. own to ~nocher, and from Nation to Nation, antl cdfians. I rom one Kmgdom_ to another People, as the Prophecs a.nd Apofiles dtd, and endeavoured a Refor~a-tzon lln1 Redrefs of Grievances : Did rhey ever manurmt Slaves without the leav• o'+ th . 71~ fl fi . · " 1 ezr J.vta-ers, orgzve Debts which were none of th . ow_n, or commit a great manY. other Infolencie:r~ Dtd they ever walk out with Staves, or mtlke ufe of all forts of Arms againft the Catholicks or any others ? Or did a miftaken Zeal fo; Mart~rdom make ~hem De(froy themfelves b thro'JJJmg them'fJ''e lves do,.,.,,,., F rec1· p1· ces, or 'l eap' J... mg |