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Show ( tj6 ) pie could hardly come ~r her.; in w~ich mifet:a. ble Condirion fhe remamed ttll fbe dted. A fad Example of the Vengeance of the Lord, who T'ot~er, renders to every Man according to ~is Work: T~ree :s qrand- alfo of Priefl: Wilfon~s Grand-Chtldren dted with- Children . . 'J"t: h d h r S · of Prieft m a lhort ume a1rer ye a put t e1e two et- Wilfon's, vanrs of the Lord to Death, as fomerhing upon who dyed his Head, who cared not how he bereaved the fhortly af- Mmher, of her Son, and the Children, of their t er. Farher, and the Wife, of her Husband. The Judgment of the Lord in both of which, is to be taken Notice of. Thus have I gone through the Execution ye made of rhe Innocent, and rhe Relation of your fhedding of the Blood of thofe who feared the Lord, and lhall now return from your Field of Blood, ro your bloody-Prifon, and there rake an Account of what ye did to rhe reft of their Brethren, whom they there left behind. And here, by the w~y, you may fee the Infufficiency of your Gallows to refirain the Spirit of rhe Lord, in this remarkable Paifage ; co wir, John Chamber/en, one of your Inhabicanrs of Bofton, being at the Execucion of thefe aforefaid ; who, beholding their Faith, Confiancy, and Comfort at their Death, in the Innocency of their Caufe, whofe Hean the Lord opened, ro receive and imbrace the Truth, for which they fuffered, and in whom Love was raifed rowards the Sufferers, that it drew him to Vifit thofe in Prifon; for the which he was Apprehended, and put in Prifon, and foon rafted of your Cruelry, and hath been much and long Imprifoned by you ; and altho' fiill you have forely lhot at him, yethisBow abides in Strength, being enabled to bear all your Cruelry, and ftand~ ( IJ7 ) fiands a faithful Wirnefs for the Lord, againll you ~ By which you may fee how Infufficient your Endeavours are, to flop the Way and Courfe of the Spirit of Life, which neirher your Whips nor your Gallows is able to reach. There was one Edward Wharton, of the Town E.Wha.rton of Salem whom ye h;td Commirred for going The 31ft up and down from Town ro Town, with rhofe of theh8th two Servants of the Lord, whom ye had Mur- ~~~t.' thered.; and becaufe he could by no means own Apprerhe Guilt of their Blood : Nay, nor for a/J tb.e hende~. World, as he faid, when ye charged ir upon ComnHthim, and fought by Confequence to prove ir, ted. bc:caufe he travelled wirh them, and faid, The Guilt thereof WtU fo great and heavy, that he 'lVtH The 3d of not ttble to bear it ; ye drew his Blood with the 9th Twenty fore Lalhes, wirh your Whip of Cords, ~onth, as aforefaid, and his Purfe wirh Twenty Pounds ~~~f;p'd Fine, as a peremptory Fell w (for fo [peaking with zo to clear himfelf) and . an Enemy ro the Coun- La!bes, try ye charged him m be, rho' he had formerly and fined taken the Oath of Fidelity (as you call h :) And 20 1 " this was on the 3d Day of the 9lh Month, he being Apprehended rht: Iafi Day of rhc M011th before, at Salem, and brought ro Bofton, where he was continued Prifoner rill a friend of his ( againfi his Will) paid ir for him. And as for the refr ot rh~ Prifoners there, . o(The uth whom I have fpoken, on the 1 r th of the 9th of the 9th Month following, viz.. Chrijl~phe1· Holder, Daniel l\~onth, Gold, Robert Harper> and W. KinfT in the Fore- ~~{~~eft noon ; and in the Afrernoon, ""/ilice Cowland, of the Pri · Margaret Smith, Mary Trask, Hannah Phelps, Hope fon~rs Clifton, Mary Scot, and Provided South;ck, whom ~all d. hbe-c ha v·w g Ex amm· ed, and fat·d to rhem whar ye' 1cooreu rtt . e would, ye fenc to Pr1fon again ; and on the Morrqw having them before ye, Raw/on, your Sc~rer;uy, |
