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Show have a care for time to come, ofimpoling things on us, that are not in exprefs Scripture-Terms (nor deducible from it by any rrll:eC:onfeq_uence) while they deny wl)at is fo plam m Scnpture. terms, and according ro it. . mua- C. M. That altho' fuch ~ number of 0fukers m ktt!S our Nation be a dreadf~l 'J~d$ment of God upon na]utlg= Men, fmiting them wr.th JP.zrltual Plagues. Ob[o JIJent. But now he pretended, as tf t~ey were com~ ro · nothing; and now reii.s of thetr Numbers bemg ,a fpirirual Plagu·e: Wtlt thou never leave off thy Contr"dit'tions and Confufions, Cotton? And will he fiill make the ~akers the Judgmenrs, when its fo plain that the Judgme~rs of God hath come upon rhem for perfec.u~mg them ? But I can tell him of a greater fpt~ttuai ~Iague that hath fmirren them, and that ts, thet_r own \- 'falfe Hearts he tells of in his Book of W:rches, and the Evil Spirits they were plagued With , as he pretends ; and will he fiill tell of the ~akers plaguii1g them ? Let him have a care t_he Lor.d don'c fend other Plagues upon them to_r the_u· Wickednefs; and for this,among other t~ mg. , m belying and abufing his People, and fay1~g al~o, For if they fhoultl multiply, not only v:ou~d C?rt#•amty be utterly ExtinguifhuJ, but Human:ty 1t .Jelf Exter- mo mintJteJ. Anfw. I am far orherwtfe mmded, and :f~t\n- that upon better Ground than he can have w rhe 1 l. tU \fiJ contrary, even my own Knowled~e and Expet- rience thar where-ever they Muluply, or the J!fa~t- Truth 'they Profefs,Prevail ; Cb~iflianity~ and. Hutp &c. manity, wi!l be fo far fr?m ~emg ExrmgUJflled ; ' or Extermmated, that 1£ wtll be more abun-qandy manifetled, nor only in Profeffion, but ·• Life and Power, that is rhe Heart and Subfiance of it · and I challenge him to tell where.evcr the ~akers mulri~~ieQ, th~t lhere a~e ~ny '(oung~ rp.e~? 177 ) men, twenty rears olJ,among them,that never fo much Jb 'd • 1 (14 once heard Q_{ the Name of Chrift iu all their Lives; c~l. ·t10 as he fays of feveral among them in New-Eng-land : To what purpofe is their Preaching for Hire, if they have loft the very outward Pro-feilion? He might well fay, They were in da,ger of lojing fame Poims of their Firft Faith, tH well u Fir{! Love : And whar do they Preach, if rhev don't hear of fo much as the Name of Chrifi ? Is rhis a fir Perfon w Charge the Q8akers wir~ . Exringuilhing Chrifiianiry, when they have {o linle among themfelves, that feveral among tketn never heard of the Name of Chrifi, the Great Amhor of that Religion ? And nor only fo, but to rell of our Exterminating Humanity roo, when they themfelves have been fo Inhumane, asafore-faid, of which I could enumerate many Inftan~ ces I have not rouch'd, but rhat there is enough given w Convitt him, and for that I hafien w a Conclufion, and when there was fo lirrle Huma-niry w qe found amongfl them, as is fo appa-rent; and among whom (as Priefi Higginfon confe!fes) Much humane 1¥eaknefs and ImperfeEiion Atteftati"' ~atb appeared in all that hath been done by thtm. : on, p. 2. So that they may lay their Hands upon thetr Mouths, and be filenr for Shame, for ever Re. proa<;hing others wirh Extinguilhing ancl Exterminating Chriftianity and Humanity, that have lived fo anf werable w borh, and fuffered fo much for ir, by the 1Jnchriftian and Inhumane Praaice~ of others,that have fo little, except they had more of either among themfelves, than it appears by their Words and At'tions they have ; fo that there j& no need to Tremble, as he fpeaks of, to thin!;. .~hat a dark L11nd t~ey {ho~ld h4-ve, it being fo dar~ already, by his own Confeffion; but rather lik<: E' vi.l. d.o e.rs ," that Tre.m ble for. fear of the Li.g ht. A.~q |