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Show ( J.oS ) Poor (md tt4rn a fide the Way of the Meek, and laJ ther/,je/lves down upon Clot~es laid to Pledge on eve? .Altar ; and 1lrink the Wme of the Conde~med m ihe Houfe of their God : Becaufe of whtch, rhc Lord faid by the Prophet Amos, He would not ' turn not away the PuniflJment , Thi<> i<> eviclently fulfilled :hereof e (even from Ifrael, by their Wars with rhe Indians where rhefe things were and other Judgments, wherein found (nor will he from the Lord hath not turned away fl their Punifhment from them th;it you) bur the flight Jould have done fuand fo. Perijh from the Swift, mzd the Strong fh"uld not ftrengthm liJ Fo~·ce, neither jiJould tbe Mighty t!eliver himfelf: Neit~er Jhall he that kandltt~ the BoiJJ~ .tnul he that is jwi(t of Foot deltver hzmfelf: ~eztbe)' jhould he that ridetb the Rorfe deliv~r bimfolf: And he 1hat is Couragiom among the M_1ghty Jho"!d flee a"Jvay naked m that Day f. So r This wls allo fulfilled in the fairh the Lord of you, as \V ~rs with~· the Indians, w_hen he did un£0 rhem, and ir neither the :-;trong,nor theM lgh- th· II come [0 pafs. ) So tv, nor .h~ that handletl the Bow, a · . (!fc. coulcl deliver themlelves in read your Pumtbment, and thJtDJy,but the Couragious,0.-. rake your Judgment, ye fled befilrc their Enc:mies; ~e- who ha:ve done: rh.is, and cauf~ the Lord was not Wlth I f . d 1 L d) t~1em, nor went not forth wit~ 1ave nor e~1 e . t 1e or their Armi=s, as they confeff'ed, A~1d others lzkewjfe have been as _aforefaitl ; and one of the ~r fined for (iding 111ith the QuaJ: r!dts, on a Faft-I?Jy, took h1 kers, avd ab/mtin~ themjetves Text out of the 44th Pfalm, h , fi h bl- .( 0 ·d· es ginning at the 9th verf. But t/.11m rom t e pu 1 ' ' mane ,· 1:-.zjt cu.ft tis off~ and yut us to ln Anfwer ttJ 'll-·har jhcuftl b·e Shame, anJ goeth. not forth witiJ done f~r the jatiifa lh1J ()f lht our Armies. Veri. 10 . Thou 11U- Fines the C6urt, upon Pe? uj;lt f. e/f u~ turn back from tbe En my, .1' 'L ( h · b · · d tmd tbry rcbich h,ue u~ Spoil Jor C!J a alP W zc WIIS ma ,e thr:iltj"dves, &c. to the 14th, but preached chiefly on the 9th: Se2 New~E1tgla1zJ's pre[.:11t sufferirgr, p. 6. as alfo, /'ncre,zfc: Marber's Bvok of the Wars,~· 14 72),27, ~0. w.ho confefles, p. 2)· Thi! J~ e ms to · Argue fomet!Jirrg of a divine jorfa.llng and diJilleilfitre m He.tv.:r: ,tgainft them. ( 109 ) upon thr Account of Debts) in An[w·tr, Re{olvu' That the Treafurers of the Jeveral Counties, are antl jhall be fully Impower" d. to i&tU t~e fa!d Perfons tfJ tmy of the E11glijh Nattom, as Vugmta or Barba· does, to Anfwer the [aid Fines, &c. -Edward Rawfon, Secret.- Thus ye ordered to be Sold of your Brethren; of their Sons and their Daughrers, nor among your felves, bur into orher Plancarions ; nm as Servants in your Houfes, bur as Slaves co others: And yer you Cry our, Are not lve the People of the Lord? /J not the Lord in the midft tJf 114 ?---.The Ordinances of God; for not coming to the Or~ (linances of God, nnd Contemning Authority tberein1 therefore b.1ve ,ve done thm and thtH unto you, faid your Govern our in Anfwer to them, when they defired him before the Pe~ple, to declare the l<eal Caufe wherefore you deale rhus with them. And yet rhere is an Ordinance of God, and a very poficive one roo ; yet how contrary is this your Order unto that ? And how have ye ruled over them wirh Rigour (and the height of Cruelcy ) which the Lord faid ye fhaJI not do, ye ihall not rule over them with Rigour; They , jha!J not be Sold for Bond-men. But_ the Jttjf Lord Zeph. 3.1,. t4 in 1be mid{! thereof (indeed ) He will not Ja 2 ' 3, ~ Iniquity : Every Morning doth he bring his Judg-ments to lie:_ht. He failetb not ; but the Unjufo knoweth no Jhame. Said the lord to the filthy anJ polluted (yea, Wo to her) to the Oppre.ffing City ; foe obe7ed not the Voice ; fhe received not Correllion ; Jhe trufled n(lt in tbe Lord; {he drew not near to her God : Her Princes within her are Roaring Lyons, her Judges are Evening Wclvu ;· they gnaw not the bones tilt the Morrow : Her Prophets are light anJ Trgacherom Perfons: Her Pri~fls have poUuted the SanCluflrb |
