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Show ' ' Chterchts, againft hu impetuous B~tteries. But who put them? What, is all that they do Mercinary ? So C. M. publifhed his Book of Witche.r at the Command of the Governour, and fo ']. Norton was appointed by the General Court to write his Book againfi: the Ql1akers, to Vindi~ cate their Proceedings againft them, intituled, The Heart of New-England rent, tho' i£ was rather hardned; which fhews their Mercinarinefs. Yet I do not believe, that their writing againft him or the Truth, was any occafion of turning ~1im from h, or altering his mind ; for he de ... fended our Friends againft them 'to the laft, as in his Serious Appeal to the People of New-England, I nrinted in 1692· which I never heard they Anfwered. Tho' ' tis pardy true, (as he fays) lt came to pajj., that afterwards, this very Keith ( hy letting in Envy againfi: his Brethren, and feek ... ing Preferment elfewhere) appeared publickly in .the Confutt!ltion of thofe Q:takers (as he calls it, tho' not truly in that.) But he · might better, and much truer have faid, In oppofition to thofe .Doflrines, he h11.d fo long and lately defended ; and that in the Yea:r r 6 94· he printed a Q_uarto Treatife, i.."l Confutation of above Thirty Grafs Errors, commonly held among them : Which, [ fay, is falfe ; for many of thofe Errors, he pr.etended and fuggefted in that Treatife, were never fo heldby any, that I know of, among them; and inftead of Confuting thofe Truths, that are fin~ cerely held by them, he broached many Grofs Errors of his own therein ; as in the Book, 1ud~ and the Chief Priefts, &c. in Anfwer to him, G. K's is manifell:ed. \!rtllf- C. M. Hu Teftimonies at laft procwed him, and !llOUP hu few Adherents, a Storm of Perfocution from the pr?cured, Friends at Penfilvania., who had fo rmerly made:[uch bemg no Tragical Outcries againft the Perfemtion which NewJ) tt~ft- England had heretof ore ufcd, ltp ort [11r greater Pro .. tu ton. voe~~tion. ( 117) vocatr-on. .An[. This is falfe in tlre whole, and jFlO · eve:y part of it, ~nd only ~4l~ulated to palliate conlthe! r own Perfecutwns. For Ftrft, As to a Storm pattfit: of Perfecution, that could not be, or properly tween fo called,, beca~fe it was not for .Religion. Se- Newtondly, HLs Tejhmony to the Truth d1d not procure En I it; but his Turbulent, Contentious and Provo- anS. king Carriage, Reviling the Magiftrates in fuch Penfil .. Language, as, Impudent Man, Impudent Rafcal, vam.a , Prefomptuous, lnfolent, &c. as the Quakers never a!S to did to the Magill:rates in New-England; and if l_9ttft .c.. M can produc~ any fi.1c.h, let him, (if he is cutio~ nunded to enter mto Particulars, I dare enter . the Lift with him) and telling them, Thatt hu Back did itch to be 1vhipp' d, on purpofe to pro-voke them to it, that he mightt have occafion againft them; and yet they did not whip him,- tho' the New-England Men did many, undefired: ~Cme· And did ever our Friends in New~England give ]n{fau;;. them any fuch Provocation? Surely nay. So re£5 Of that there is no more Compare, as to the Pro~ New ... vocation, ~han the Procedings ; . and confequently Engt · the Trag1calnefs . was on their fide, whatever Outcries the Sufferers made of it, as the Mar-tyrs did before them. Did our Friends in Pen-fi_ Lvania imprifon any on their firft arrival, be-fore they had any thing to lay to their Charge, in order to fend them away the firft opportu-nity, before they knew wherefore they came; and Fine the Ship-Mall:er, and bind him in a Hundred Pound Bond to carry" them away again; and in the mean time, keep them fo dofe, that none muft come at, or vifit them, without Leave of the Court, or Magifrrates; and take away their Goods for Fee' , to their very Bed-din and i ]e · an( r_{ufe to let them have Pen, Ink '31 )fll)' r 'r !trip any ftark naked, and fe -r~h tncn1 ;, Wii:ches, fo immodeftly, as they did t~o Innocent ~omen of good Repute; or |