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Show TO TH E Unprejt1diced Reader.: I T was {aid of Jefos Chrift, That never h . Man fpake like him ; fJlhofe Precept to Jo n8 • 46. . hts }o/lorvers was, All things whatfoever ye Mat. 7 . 12 " would that Men fl1oul,d do to you, do ye · even fo to them ; for this is the La'\v and the Prophets : Had this Divine Rule been purfued and obeyed by the former Ma._~ijlrates, Priejls, and Government of New-England, thofe many Cruelties on a ~onfciencious People had not been injlic1ed. But that which mtg make it ajlonifbing to Pojlerity, is, Th4t fo much "fyranny jbould lJe acted by a People, who pretended them.felve; / The moll Refined Pro. feiTors of the Chtillian Church throughout the World; ~s tho" Hanging, Cutting off Ears, t!nparalle/L'd 1-VhippingJ of a// .AgeJ and Sexes, without Remorfe or Pity, Banifhment in Ex~ tremity of Cold into Wilderne!Jes and Vninhabited Places, were the M(lrks or Badges .~} which the Church of Chrifi was to be known" lJut foch grofs Darknefs vails the Reafon and Senjes of Perfecutors, that though the Lip of Truth, Chriji jefus, exprejly declares, Tbat hi~ /)i/cip!es jha/1 be kn01vn by Loving one ana· t.her ; yet the Spirit of Per{ecutiqn, Crrtelty l}fld MQ,/i~e, think; it does God good Se.r'llice_, 7f ~ if) . 2642 ~ d · |
