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Show ( 102 j . Nay, were not fome of you fo Blind, in ~he time of your Calamiry, as ro endea~our to poffefs the People, that rhe Caufe of 1~ was, That ihe Magiflratu did fuffer ihc 0!-akers~ and other Hereticks, as you called rh~m, to. L~ve amongfl you; rho' others ~ere ~.ore ~~f~, and told the People, in rhetr Pu~pns, That the great Ca~{e of God's Difpleafure agamfl them_, 1vas t.he Gu1lt of Innocent Blood which [ro11i tzme to tzme hacl been fhed in the 'Land; and did you not afr~r~ wards in the Year 1677· make a Law or Or~ See G. F's der r~ Relfiuire all Perfons, (14 1velt Inhabitants a! Anfwerto , 1 1 'd l' h c ieveral Strangers, t~ ~aR.e tbe dath ~ffi~~ e tty to,/ ~ o;~de new Laws try, &c. and that all fuch Re ·uJ ers to ta e t i J at orOrders Oath Jhould not have the Benefit, to Implead, Sue, or R;cover any Debts, &c. or have P:oteqion from that Government, &c. And was this Ltbeny of Confcience ro force Men ro Dt:eak Chrifi's Command ( Ma,tth. 5 ,) or be deprived of the Benefir of rhe Law, and put our ofProreajon? And of which I find rhey were warned by Marg.Brewfter, ~~~Jn~:n in rhe Year 167S. riay, later, even in th~.Year Lamen~ t 679 . ( rwenty Years afrer they pur our Fne~1ds tation. ro Death) Did you not tnake. a Law~ agamft EreEling of Meeting-Hou{es w!thout Lzcenfe of the Count')-Court, &c? And m cafe any PerSee G. F's f(ln or Perfons fhoultl be ConviEled of . TranfgrefAnfwerto fing that Law every fuch Houfe or Houfes, &c. that Law. with the La~d 7vhere fuch Houfe or Houfes ftand, &c. fhall b~ Forfeited to the U[e of Country, &c ? And w~at. Liberty of Confcte~ce was this, or Renunctauon of all Laws made againft ir, fo long afrer, and to make new Ones fiill ? And how many fince, I know nor, nor when rhis Solemn Act, Renouncing all fuch L.aws as he fpeaks of, was made, I can nor I mag~.ne ;· yea did nor their Governour, John Lev:ret,.moft , mhu-.. { I6J ) inhumanely and cruelly caufe Margaret Brewfler s : :., · (who was moved of rhe lord w come from Ae:r:;r~~ llarbadou, co Warn you) ro .be llripp'd and aletterof Whipp'd, for going into your Affembly wirh her 'f.Leverer. Face made Blatk, as a Sign of the Black .. Pox that t~ W,Co,d-· foon afier came upon you, and cur off many, dmgson. ~s aforefaid : And of your later Perfecurions man,y Infiances might be given, of which, fame is menrioned in the Pofifcripr, and more mighr; bur I would nor be tedious. . . . ,· Bur when this S.olemn A8, Renouncing aU Laws againft a juft Libeny of Corifcie:11ce Wa6i or what rhey counc Jufr, in that refpect, I can~ nor tell : Is nor this to cover their Sentiments wit b. fucb falit~cious and ambiguous Expu!Jions ( as he· fayi hereafrer ) that alJ rheir grofs Errors can be at once either aj{ertetl or deni!J; feeing their High- Prieft and Champion, Johp . l:fflr,ton (.who was appoinred by the Genera~~Courr to wr~re th~'t . . '. · . .-1 fcurrillous Book t againft the Truth, which .C.M. ~N-'!t_r:t pretends td be a Confutation ; and wifoes it had ~ent .·• • 6een a/J the C~nfutatioh of ~~~~erifm, .as aforefaid~ • tho· fo far from ir, chat it manifefted his own Folly and Ignorance; m·ore chan any thing elfe," as ~ have !hewn before) in his 4th C~apter; Which he calls, The RemeJj again{/ Her.(ti~4l. Do-. Brines, &c. He makes the Magiftrares SWord the only. ~em~dy againft .He~efie; rho' .he pre£ends. to dJfimgutfb, p. 69. berween Confcience, and rhe .Err~r of Oonfcience ; yet what .he provid_es~ agamlt the Error (as he call,s it.) may by rhe fame Argument be uirned by a blin¢1 aqd igoo .. ranr Zealot againft Confcience i~ felf: And rho~ he fays, .P· 7-z.. We knpw that .it pelo_ngetb n,ot; Uf?t~ t~1 Magiftrare to c...ompe.l any Man 1o ~e a, Believer,, (1._ e. beca~fe he cann·c) nor. to punijh any for ?!ot bung a Re/;e'rJer : But ( fays he ) we belie'rJt # .bee P p Jongt |