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Show ( ~2 ) nor how your Rage reacheth up co Heaven in caufing them to fuffer; but being Mounred in Blood, ye ride on wirh fpeed, and no Confideration of TendC'rnefs or Bowels can flop your Career no, nm the fad Condition of your Neighbours (the lnhabirams) who had lived long amonglt ye, and were Partakers of the fame difiance froni their Country, and other Inconve~ niencies, and were known w you to be of fober ConverCuions ; your Eye pitied nor, neirher did ye fpare them ; the Cry of their Oppreilions came nm imo your Ears, neither did your Heans relent ; bur as Men given up w a Reprobate Senfe, lmpJJcable, Unmerciful, wirhour nawral Affetlion : So ye proceeded with the lnhabiranrs, as with rhe Srrangers, and more Cruelly wo, neither regarding Age nor Sex, neither the Hoary Head, nor. him that fioopech for Age; neither Child nor Old Woman; neither Infant of Days, nor the Man of Riper· Years; neither a Man and his Houfe, nor a Man and his Heritage ; neirher many Men and rheir Houfes, nor many Men and their Herirages, Wives, Children, families, Relacions, Efiares, Goods, Lands, Per .. {ons, Beings, as I fhall fee in Order before you by and by (though therein you are filenr) and the Rightcott:r Judgments of God, 'lJJhtJ 7Pi0 not [pare you for your Iniquities and Hard·hearttdnefs to th1 Poor ; neirher will his Eye piry you, nor will he fp3re )rou ; bur the Reward of your Hands f11all be given ye, and the Fruit of your Doings, becaufe ye fparc.-:d nor, neirher have had Mercy: And this the Lord will fulfil, whofe Word iris, who is a God of Fairhfulnefs and Trmh : Bldfed are all they who put their Truft in him. 1 .m. Sou- And here Cajj'rmdra Southick and Lawrence her thr.t·, ~nd H ~sband (an Aged Grave Couple, Inhabitants hl$ W1tc:. , of ( 51 ) pf Salem, and Members of your Church ) come to be confidered; who, becaufe rhey enrerraim d the two Strangers ( tpiz.} Chriflnpher Holder and J-ohn Copeland, were co~mirred ro Prifon, and fent ro Bojlon (your Metropolis of Blood) where La·wrence ye rel.eafed (to be dealt wirhal by rhem who reputed him of their Congregation ) but Caffandra ye kept Seven Weeks a Prifoner, and then fined her Fony Shillings, for owning a Pa· per wriuen by the Srrangers, aforefaid, in reterenee to Trmh, 'and rhe Scriprures, which your Governour put to her wherewirhal to Enfnare her, and to bring her under your Law, who had none before, after ye hJd deraincd ht!r as aforefaid ; and which fhe owning ( for rhar fhe could nor deny, unlefs fhe had denycd rhe Trurh) ye fined ·her, rho~ even that Law by which ye fined her, finerh only for Heretic;~! Papers, which rhis was nor proved ro be. Richard Dowdney was the next who felr your RJchard l1and, upon whom there being a Necetliry laid JJorodneJ. from the Lord, ro come from England to you, ye apprehended at Dedham, and brought to Bo· · fton, where he never was before, nor in that Country, and having given him Thiny Srripes at on~e, with fuch a Whip as aforefaid, and laid it on with as much Cruelry as the former, and fearched for his Papers and. Books, and rook from him what y~· would (all which in rhe fpace of Three 1-{ours afrer his coming w Town, w the wounding of the Hearts of many who heard anq faw fo Innocent a Man fi> inhumane-ly abufed.) Ye concinued him Twemy Days a Prifoner, and ·rhen fent him away wirh rhe four . former, afret' ye bad rhreatned him and them ~ith the Lofs of their Ears, ~f they · came there (~ain1 vi~. inco yqur Jurifdiction ; which ~eads . ~ 3 me |