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Show ( ~0 ) upon you, anJ fo manifeft hil Judgments, btcaufe of what ye have done to his People, That Ill to what he jha!i do therein, Me• (ball glorifie GoJ, and fay; - Righteout art Thou, 0 Lord; Juft and TrMe are thy Wayes, 0 thou King of Saints; Who would not Fear t~nd Tremble before Thee, bect~u{e Thy Jutlgntents ~are maJe ,anifefl? And fo after a long Defcent and Travel in the Deep, an:d an abiding there ; after . a diligent Inquifition through all Religions, Calvinifts,. Lutherans, Papijls ( fo called) Proteftants, Jews, M11hometans ; after a narrow Search among Nations, Kind,reds, Tongues and People; Sweeds, Danes, Gtrmans, Dutch, French, Italians, Jews, Turks, Portt~ g.-ez:,, Indians, whereunto to liken ye, unto what to cbmpare you; from whence to fetch your Judgment, and from what Nation to condemn you ? After a long Courfe from the South-Wefl ~o rhe North-Weft, fromwards the North-We{! ro the Ea{J, and from the Eafl back to the SouthWeft again: Of what I have found this is the Sum, That when they were but few in Number, yuz, ver1 few, and Strangers in tb(lfe Lands ; 'JI)hen they went from oNe Kingdom to another People, the Lord [ujfered no Man to do them harm ; 1ea, bt reproved Kings for their faket, faJing, Touch not mine Anointed ; and, Do my Prophets no Harm. But, as for ye, ye Men of New-England, ye Rulers of BrJjlon, of Plimouth P11tent, of New-Haven, ye Shame of t.:ten, Y_e Refufe of Mankind ;- Higher than the H1ghetl m Profeffion of Godline{s Lowet than the Lowell in the Power thereof ; 'far be- . neath the wortl of Men, whom the Lord· hath rryed in this his Day, by his Melfengers : Ye Serpents, ye Generation of Vipers, What have ye done to the Innocenr, and ·with what Defpighc to thofe whom he hath fent co gatheF you, ~nd to turn you unto God ? Bur. ( Jl ) But to proceed : What are the Opinions and Praltices of thefe People, which ye call Ptrniciow, and of which ye fay , ye receivctJ lnt~l/igence from good HtmJs from Barbado~s and England ? What is your Intelligence, and from whom did ye receive ir ? Seeing char upon this you l1ave grounded all your lllegal and Barbarous Proceedings againft them ? What are their Tenets, which ye caJJ Pro{fj]eJ ? And, What is ir they did Profefs ? What their Behaviour co Amhoricy which ye term Turbulmt anJ Contemptuo~J, and fay, it would have juflifietl a .~verer Animadverfion? What were the Attempts, which ye fay they made againtl the Peace anJ Order efialllijheJ among you, in making Provifion to Secure which, (ye fay) tht Pn~dence of your Court w11s only Exercifed? And how came ye to, or could ye be [ well ] alfured, ~y your own Experience (who had none, nor dtd ye ever fee them before, or any of thofe People, or, the Example of thole of Munf!er, whom ye call their Predecelfors) that thetr Dejign Wa.T to Undermine anJ Ruine the fame? N~w, in thefe things ye ought ·co have been particular (as I have faid ) if ye meant ~ny thing that might fatisfie the Underftand. mgs of Men, or clear your Guilt ; and nor to go and put Men to Death, and cruelly exercife rhem, as a Court of Jujti,e, and then Apologize for whac ye Llave done ; and fo fubmit it to the Judgment of others, which fhould have none to Judge it, had it been Truth · but the Judpm~nt ~ouJd lye in th~ jullice of the thing, w~tch ts h1gher ·than all, and cannot be fubm! tted ~ and when ye have fo done, and fubnutted 1t lO Cha.rge only in the General, and fo |