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Show ( ,s ) dings of rhe Blood of the Innocent. And when rhe Judgments of the Lord fhall be made man i~ fell upon you, This fhall remain as a Witnefs for rhe Lord, and that he hath not wichour Caufe brought rhefe Things on you, who will be Glorified on you, when his J udgmems are made manifell; the Mouth of the Lord of Hofis hath fpoken ir, who wiJJ do ic, and the time is near: Blelfed are all they Lhar Trull in him. Afier this, the People who Suffered were more J oyned together, and Confirmed by your Cruelty, for ir returned as a Tefiimony w them who Suffered, that they were of God, and fo they met roge[her ar Salem, waicing upon the Lord, whofe Prefence there wirh rhem was more Precious than Life ; therefore th~y offer'd up Life, and their All, to Enjoy his Prefcence, who harh been better to them than Life, and made up all th eir Lofs and Sufferings with thar which is Eternal ; and his Peace harh been more to them, than your Trouble ; yea, in the midfr of their Sufferings hath he made them more than Conquerors, through him who loved them, and gave himfelf for them: Therefore iris,_ that they gave their Backs to the Smiter, and their Cheeks to them that plucks off of the Hair. And rho' they knew your Cruelty, and ratled thereof, and were upon your Roll for nor being at your Meeting, and knew your Fines for having Meetings of their own, and your orher Fines) and how ye had and would ExaCt them ; yet they feared nor, neither were afraid of your Threats, bur Sanctified the Lord God of Hofis in their Hearrs, and made him their Fear, and their Dread; who became a Hale Sanctuary unco rhtm, and kept rhem in the midfr of all, and was Good unro them; who never failerh them that puc their Trull: in him. So ( 79 ) So Meet they did, and ye purfued them, and Capt. Hathorn was a Chief, who, like a Dog , called rhe Bloodhound, never lefr fcenting afrer them, rill he found them our, and had his will on them in Perfon and Efiare, whom once he tendred as his good Friends ( as rhey were. ) And the Confiable of the Town of Salem was the next who made fuch Search, and was fo Eager in it, rhar he took an Ax and broke open rbe Door of a Haufe wherein they were mer (who might have had it opened,if he would have ftaid) and rook their Names, and fent them in (by the Ad vice of rhe faid Hathorn, as the faid Conllable fflid ) ro the Court at Jpfwitch, which 1at fhortly afcer; whereunro Four ofrhem were fummon'd ( for it was nor ufual wich them to deal with roo many ar once, l fi the People fhould rake Notice) and Th1 ee of rhofe whom the Confiable fo bronghr, vi~ . Samuel Shattock, S.Sh.J,ttock Nicholas Phelps and J oflma Buffum (for the fourrh, N. Phelps: viz. Ann Needh~m, fhe was in Child-bed, and 'f. Buffum, could nor be broughr) rhe Court kept much 1;ndh a. do, cfpecially about £heir Hats ( rhar being ee am. the only Character ye could make of fuch a one as ye called a (0akcr, and upon which you proceeded ) rhcy waited for their Charge, and wherefore they were f< nr for thither; which ~as for not comin2; to your /i-1eetiny,s, and for Meet-tng by themfelves, contra11 to )'OUr Law. Simon B:Mclflreet pur Q.1efiions to rhtm about rhe Tr·i-nttl, and Chri.ft' .1 Body, &c. They were glad of lhJs Opponuniry ro clear themfelves before the People ( for rhofe of them "' ho were fenr ro / Bo(fon) knew not for wha t jr was, yer thither Were rhey fenr, and whipp'd and derain'd as afortfaid, fince which rime chey had nor Op-porruniry ro fpeak wirh thofe 1 hat fent rhem ; who |