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Show ( ~o8 ) And this will prove the Confequence ~f you, who have fo often, and fo long wafh d y~:mr Hands in Innocent Blood, wirhou~ ConfideratiOn or Rernorfe ; and have counted It y-our G~ory, by how much the more you hav~ caufed lt ro be lhed (of which anon I lhall gtve Infianc_e ) and therefore I write nor unco you, ~s hopmg you will rake Warning, or thac I rhmk yo~r Judgment you will mifs, for you mull _bear 1t in the Extremity, the Lord hath fpoken u; bur to Record you for ever, as the moft _unnatural Perfons (all Things being duly wetghed ) as ever the Eanh bore ; and that I may carry on your Judgment, which is begun already, a~d place it upon you for ever and ever, wherem Time lhall be no more, and you tball be rewarded ·as your Work lhall be: So I have drawn the Line once more over you, that Ages to come may fee your Wickednefs, and tJ1at t~ey may Glorifie the Lord over your Defir~ll;10n, when they lhall underfiand w her~fore It was that he fo did unto you, when hts JudgRlfnt on you thall be a~complilhed b : And thts let me tell you , in the Name of the Lord, who hath moved me ro write, and thus to fpeak unto you, That it fhalt never be withdrawn q , till all be IZC• complifhed in this World, ana in the World to come : You, who have Jhed the Blood of the Innocent-, ]hall Perifh for ever. Some of you know it already, who · are gone to their own place, whom b And after Ages do now., and may hereafter k_now the.1r Wickednefs, and Glonfie God m their Deftruaion, and the fulfilling of the Judgments that havt: been denollnced, when they fhall underftand hereby wherefore it was; which is fo plain, tho' they won't confers it, and . which is in great meafure accompliihed already, as before noted ; and the reft that i!i behind, donbtlefs will in its Seafon. c Jt is evident, that it is not yet withdrawn, but his hand is heavy on them ftill, for C. M. confeffes, Book V~, P· 3 2. C. 2. · his his Judgment hath taken hold of (of which in irs place and order ) and the rell of you fhall know it in due feafon : Mock at it whilfi you will, and firetch out your Necks, and make a wry Mouth, your Judg~ ment lingretb not, nor doth 1our Damnation flumber ; and the Hand of Man lhall purfue you d , as it hath already begun, and you lhaU not efcape what his Counfel hath determined, and his Word hath fpoken ; and you fhall be an Hilling, and an Execrarion, and a By-word, and a Taunt r, and your Judgment lhall remain for ever and ever. That their Land fees little Reft; through the J ~dgments of God upon them, tho' he applies it another way, and will not confers wherefore it is ; a frefh In"' ftance of which we have in that ftinking Weed that fprings up there in the Night, in form of a Priefts Head antl Sh.oulders ( as by one lately Travelling there, is related ) which, when broke, ftinki intollerably ; in juft Re,. buke (no doubt) for their calling the Light of Chrift, A ftinking Vapour from EeiJ ( as Prieft Higgenfon did) fo that we doubt not, but it will all bt: accomplifhed in this World, and that which is to come ( except they come to deep Repentance) for all their W icke<lnefs, Cruelty, and ungodly Speeches, a· gainft the Lord, his Truth and People ; ~-;Iock while they will, as G. B. fays, th~ ir Judgment lingreth not, nor doth tbe ir .Damnation flumber. d This is undeniable, that the Hand of Man hath purfued them, particularly in the bloody Wars of the Indians, even for Ten Years together ; yea, fo that when about an Hund red Indians began a War upon all the Colonies, an Army of a Thoufand EnglijiJ muft not Kill One of them; but more of their Soldiers perifhed, than they had 'Enemies in the World; and that when their number afterwards encreated, yet an Handful of them, for many Summers together, con· tinued their unconquerable Spoilers,€5.,·. C.M's Hijf.BookVII.p.li4.C.I. rAnd that they have been, and are a Hilling, and an Execration, and a By-word, and a Taunt, is plain, from c. M's Confetlion, Hift. BookVII. p. 113. C •. I. thatthe Indignation of God harh bewpoured. upon ~ in this Fruit of the Curfe (viz. tba~ which fbould h.~ve been for their Welfare, let it become a '{rap) no lefs jrequemly than fe;zfibly; 'and ' that Evil hath been purfuing of them at fuch a Rate, that in other ' Lands afar off, anlii on the Exchange in London, Strangc:rs have 'made this Reflefiion, Douhtlefs New-England is ,t Coumr:y in Ill ' Terms with Heaven: But fo, fays he, our God hath humbled us. And 'twas welJ, fay I, if they were yet humbled as they ought to be, to this Day·; we fhould then fee better Fruits than !\l'h fowr Grapes, asap .. pears in his Biftory. ·- - Therefore: |