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Show ( ro6 ) po11s of our Warfare ( faid Paul) ttre 11ot Carnal, but Mighty, through the Spirit. So ye fhew where ye are, who feek ro Compel the Confcience (by the Sword of Man.) Your Govern our faid, They had Rebelled againft the Authority of tbe Country, in not Departing according to their Order (who, as they told rhem, had no orher whcre ro go, and had \Vives, and Children, and Fttmilies and Ellares, to look afrer, and were Con~ fdous of nothing that they had done, that was wonhy of Dearh, Banifhmenr, or of Bonds, or of any of the things which they had fuffered ) yec for keeping Meerings of their own, had ra]( en from rhem upwards of One Hundred Pound. 1\1ajor General Denifon told them, Tbat the) jloorl ngainjJ the Authority of the Country, in not jitbmitting to their La·mJ : That be flJOtJld net ;.o about to [peak much concerning the Error of their 1udgments: D.Derli- But as had been rold them,-That they anrl you Jon's A- 7vere not able well to live together ; and, thtlt at th:ifi.ical prefent the Po,ver WtU in _rour hand, and thfrefore P~·mc1plc. the ftronge(! muft fend off. So no Man fhould live by anmher, on rhe face of the Eanh, where the ocher was the fironger; and where would rhis end, bur in the Defiruction of Mankir:d ? hue how long may your Power hold ? Can y_e cell ? Could nor the Bifhops have faid to? (Ye~ they turned not you out, as I have faid, nor do r~ey keep ye out) Than which, whar can be fatd more Wicked? Or, whar a more DefiruCtive 'Principle, and a more Dangerou~, can· there be in the World? Yet this bath been his word in aJl Cot.tns ; and this is rhe Principle on which ye go~ be~aufe ye ~ave Po1ver in )'Ottr hands; ro whom rhe Wo is, Who devife Iniqui .. Micah 2.1. ty, and 1vork Evil upon your ' Beds ; a11d ·when r!Jc Morning i4 Light, ye praffice it, beclfu,(e it t4 i1J tbe · · · Pvwe: ( 107 ) Power of your Hands? So fee your Porrion, and your Judgmenr from the Mourh of the Lord. Then ye put rhem fonh a lirde while, and called rhem in again, and pronounc'd cheir Semence of Ranifhment, upon Pain of Death; and who depart-ed as aforefaid. Their Senrence was dared, May II ~ Afay 11. r65'9· wichom a Legal Conviction ofi6S9• one Principle or PraCtice rhar was contrary ro ;t.aw, bm becaufe rhey were fuch as were cail-ed f2!!akers.. And this is Ne"1JJ-England, and rhe Juaice of the Court of that parr of it, as is call-ed che Bay of Majfachujets. Yet ye were nor farisfied with what ye had done to Lawrence and Caffandra, and Jo(iah Southick, bm you mull be dealing wich the refi of the Family; and they having more Children that were Friends of Truth, ro wir D~niet and Provieled, the Couns at Ipfi.vich ar.d at Salem fined them Ten Pounds, for nor coming to your Meerings ; bur they having no Vifible Elbres, fo as you could ~nd, to lJy hold upon, ro farisfie it according ro your Law ; and your Refolmion in rhe Cafe bting ddir d, ye ordered 1hem ro be Sold for tbe · Payment thereof : Your Order runs rhus,-H7herea.r Daniel Sourhick ar}(l Providtd Sourhick, Son and Daughter of Lawrence Southick, have been fined by th·e Daniel and Provide.l Southick, Ordered to be Sold for their Fine .• Order of the Court-General for S:::lling for Bond-men and J3ond-women. Cour!·s o{ Sale~ ~nd I pfwkh, pretending they have 110 E(tates, rejolvmg not to Work ( thar is, ro rhe Treafurer, w anfwer che Fines, and you will fell rhe Innoce_nr, where there js nmhing ro be had ; as tho{e did,. who Sold tLe Righteous for A S .l l h p .r; · f l mos 2.4. t Utr, anc, t e oor 1 or a patr o Soo ·s : That pant to the end after the Duft of the E.-mh, 01~ tbc Head ~f" the Poor |
