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Show ( 210 ) ·them (except HypocrHie and Perfecmion to that degree as they are) and yet they have nO( been punifhed in fo Eminem a Manne.r as. Ne,v-E_n~lancl; which fhews that Perfecunon JS a Capl(al Sin; and rhar rho· c. M . hath,.co_nfdfed largely their other Sins as well as their Judgments ; and alfo, in prer~nce, prefi. an Enquiry into th~ Caufe of it, as if there m1ght be fome furrhei Caufe of rhe1r AffliCtion, than they have yet , . . found om; yer. it<; plain they have ~or ~et ,. t.n h1sin- pirch'd on rhe Rtghr, or confefi the Ch1ef Sms ·ompara- of t"r v·,.y Their Perfecurions and Murrhers; rabk Pre- , ,,._,. . . ~ ce to his and that the accur(ed thing, as he fays, ~til remams HiH:oryof amonfT them. The{e (as Sir Walter Raletgh fays t) heWor_ld, 1Vere ~he lovers of other Mens MifcrieJ; and Mifery laft Ed1t. d h ~fl. 1 ~ . fotm t em out. '" "' And I cannot but obferve, that mofl of rhofe Judgments that have come. upon them, have been fince they put our Fnends ro Death ; as any may fee, if they will. perufe Inc. lt1~ther~s Hifiory of Remarkable Provzdences, an~ thts Cotton's Hi!l01·y of Ne?JJ-England~ wherem the Reader will find very few, if any, before the Year 16 59· the time of the putti~g the firfi ~f ~ur friends w Dearh, or ar leafi before rhe begmnmg ,of their Pedectnion ; which ftill re_nders it and Jhem the more Criminal, by the .Judgmencs that have followed; of which the Lofs of their Char~ ur (having forfeited it, by deny.ing of A p~eals to ~ngland, in cafe of Life, and Tryals by ]unes)&c. ;~ccording to it) is none ~f the leafi ; o_f rhe Confequences of which, he giVes _[Lie? a d1fmal Prof pea, Book II. p. 19, 20. wh1ch1s themorero~e taken nor ice of, in that hey could ~ever obr.am ~he Refioradon of it, even in the Re1gn of Ktng 11':ltiam ( though fo many others were Refio .. ··ed) a q fo chey mufi come ro fllbmic w the . f ?tC ( 211 ) Pate o~ ather Perfecuwrs, w be Ruled over by orh~rs m their turns (for Perfecurion and Tyranny IS commonly fhon-liv'd) who would have Ruled and Tyrannized over mhers ; which, with all the mh_er Judgments that have followed Lhem, 2bove-recned, makes up a Scene of Tragedies, that I have hardly read of the like in any Story, but rhar of the Jews, for Murdering Chrifi: the Son of God, that came to fave rhem; the Confequences of which was fo difmat and deplorable, that one would think it fhould have been fuffi_cient \V~rning to deter any from following theu Steps, m Perfecuting his Followers · But ao C . it wa~ then, he_ that '2VtU bor·n after the FleflJ, 'pe,{ecu- a!. 4•29; ted btm that t~ born after the Spirit ; even fo it 1s . rmv: And all that 2vilt live Gorlly in Chrij! .Jejiu 2 Tnn. 3 ~· ~Mll (ujfer Pe~fecution; for unto 1ou it i& y,iven, in the Phil. I.~;: behalf of Cbrift, not on?y to believe on him, but alfo to [u./fer for hi4 fake : Neve"rtl1ele{s, it i5 a righteous 2 The«. 1hzng '1Vttb God, to recomperJce Tribulation to them tbat I.5:. trouble you ; fmd to them 'JJJho are troublerJ, Rcfl. Thefe things I do nor write, I can truly fay that I Rejoyce in them, or to Vaunt over them: for I am heartily forry for the Occafibn} and them that gave it; nor fl1ould I have brought them .up, or m~mioned it agai~fi them, did they nor fitll appear In the fame Spirit; and had nor rhe faid C. Mather fiill endeavoured to fer himfelf as an Adverfary againfi God,s Truth and People, bJ-: abufin~ of u_s as he hath done ; fo that ir~s JUfily tmprov d agamfi them, as a Check ro rht:ir Envy. And I hope none rhat are of a becrer Mind, w~H be offend~d at my plain dealing with' lhem ; tor to ufe hiS own terms, The Ce;tbolick bttrJ. r·J.i Spirit of Communion 'JVhe,~·with 'tis written, and the c. 2. Liberty ·which I have taken to tax the Scbifm~tticallm-pofitions and Pcrfeo;tiom of a Party, 1vho have alwayr b~tl"1 |