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Show ( 144) ' anv Rule 01· Command, rendring their fo Pro.: " ceeding indifpen(ably necdfary, under all cir' cumfiances of fines or Places, we are alrogether ' unfatisfied. (c.2.) We only make it our hearry .. Requefi to you, that you would rrufi God whh ' his Truths and Ways, fo far as to fufpend all ' rigorous Proceedings in corporal Refirainrs or ' Puniihments on Perfons that dHfent from you, ( and prael:ice the Prin<;iple of their Diffenr wirh' our danger or difiutbance to the civil Peace ' of the place. Now this was well in them, to ihew their diflike of fuch Proceedings againfr the :Stlt 1\0 Baptifrs, which I commend rhem for; but whofucb ever of them, or their Parry, writ to them to ilitrtua- ihew their dif1ike or diffarisfaaion with their fibt Procedure, tho' ever fo unwarrantable, againft ftOlll the ~akers, rho' they praBiced the Principle pet~e- of their Di!fenr, without danger or difrurbance tuttng to rhe Civil Peace of the Place, as much as any? t!JeQga· Or to endeavour to put a fcop to their ·Perfecuk. ers. rion of them, tho' ir was much funher than Imprifonmenr, even to Whipping, cuning off Ears, Banifhmen; and Death ? Did any of them 1hew their dif1ike to that ? If they did, c. M. is unfaithful ro them and his Reader, as well as to us, in nor fetting it down, but all againfr £hem rhat he can ; nor did I ever hear of any fuch diffwafive from them, as ro rhe Proceedings againfr our Friends ; no, no, they had no Helper in the Earth, nor none ro take their Part, or plead their Caufe, as ro any of them, bur infread lhereof, the faid Party was procee:;ding rigoroufly at home againfc the faid People, as far as they could, not trufting God with his Truth and Ways, tho' they could not proceed fo far as w ~mt rh~m to Death out-righr. yet they aCtually · [QO~ ( 145 ) rDoeoakt ha wofa y£ rh e IL "t ves, or were Guilty• of the F . fl. evera : As, Iru 1 mirte9' byamJ~[~~~naJv: t~;lchefler-Cafcle, com~ \9ttfe. . fpeakmg in the Stee Ie-H :g and others, for cutt-ter Priefr Wi0i4 had ~ oufed, at CoggefhaU, af- onfl to fo ro h h. one, an beat and abufed ~ tl lafc had av~nds Bloo~, as they threatned, and at i:aJd. away his Lif:avo:lr.mg all £he~ caul~ to take Engia d with Quicl fil, g~vt~g or offenng htm Water n went to tl~et ver. m u,. rh~ Morning before he and 1 • AfiJzcs, eighteen Miles on Foor afrer heea vcm g hihm out 1· 0 rh e Court all Night.. ro fit or fi~le b ome, ~here he had no place . 1 • , uc under the Wall . then puc ~~~~1~am in the high Hole in the Wall, wber~ t~o fho. go up and down by a Ladder (fix Foot be in b~) and a R?pe (or Starve ) fo that once he rfil d umbed ( m Wmter) miffing his hold, . own, and was taken up for dead then bpu' t tn {(c he low er Ho 1 e , ca 1I 'd the Oven (n' ot [Q h~g bs. ome Bakers. Ovens, rho' higher) wher~ emg almoft lhfled for wam of Air going oyu r do nce' wh en t 11 e 0 oor was open in' to rhe c;l~' r}"ley lock'~ him ouc all Night, in the C e{t ttme of Wmter, and fo continued their rue ry, n.orwithftanding all Endeavours to the contrary, ull he g~ew weak and dyed; and then they were nm fansfied, buc made Lyes of him as c. M. hath of our Friends ; but miferable wa;~ he end of feveral of his Perfecuwrs . as rVaker-mg, the Gaoler and his Wife, &c. , · 2.dly, Geo:· Harrifon of Suffolk, violently haled our. of a Fneods Houfe, and cruelly beat and brmfed ; and afrer put out of an Inn and fc d (0 T 1 • 1 , orce rave m a co,d wet fnowy Night,being weak and fickly, fuddenly grew weaker and within a MQnth afcc;r dyed. · ' |
