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Show ( ~20) pJNJe, Wenlock Chriftifon? Wenlock ~aid, ~4. Then faid the Governour, John Endr~ot, unto him after he had acknowledged hts Name ( which he denyed not, though in ~h~ Face of Death ) Wa{l thou not Banijhed upon pam of Death? Wenlock faicl, Yea, I wa~. (See how Truth en~ abies a Man to bear his Teftimony, though the Confequence be Dealh) What d~ft thoH here then? And Said your Governour. He cned, That he Wfl4 warns ~ome to warn themJ that they jbould fhed no more them, Innocent Blopd ; for the Blood that you have jhed already, Cries to the Lord God for Vengean~e to come uP.on you. Whereupon you £aid, Take hzm aw~y, And is J~or : The Recompen~e you returned htm commit-. who came with his Life in his Hand, at {he ~ed tpPn- Command of the Lord, and in his Mighty on. power, to the Afi:onilhment of you, that any 1hould dare thus to come to Warn you, whg came. in Love, and in the Agony of his Soul, ro cry out unto you for your own good, tha~ the Vengean~e of the Lord might nor come upon you; ~qt to Jayl you fenc him, leaving his Friend and FeHow-futferer, of whom he fo ~arned yqu, ~o pe Tried for his Life, and whom you afterwards put to Death, as the fequel manifefl~. E. W!J,zr- So, your Cqqn rofe, and after a while f~ ~or1, &c. ag~in, and ~ailed b~fore yop, Edward Wharton, John Cba"?berlaine, an~ th~ other Three aforefaid ; and Edward Wharta,n ~andin~ at yo~r Bar, wirh hjs l-:fat·on, your peputy-Governour, Bellingham, fiood up, and faid, Wbo is that, ~dward ~h~rwn ? Surely, it is not Edw~rd Whanon : W. Lulqra replied, Thou Jhouldfo not Lye, for thou ~nowPft it is Edward Wharton : Whereupon a great fiir was in you.r Court, and the cry was, '{h(,_l t \y. i~Faq.l ought to ~e f~rrie4, out. a·. 1Jtl frhippf'oqr,, ( )~I ) fo, gwing the Lye ( which he did not, but admoni1bed him in the words of Truth, that he lhould not have Jyed) who fat as Judge, and that upon the Lives, and Liberties, and corporal Punitbments of ochers, and fo thould have been a better Example, and fo had gone without Reproof, which now was juftly given him: But the Depury-Governour did bur }eft (as was faid by fame of the Court ) and Jelling is law ... ful, for Eli~s jefied wirh Baal's Priefts : See your Religion, and the height of it, who put Men to Oeath for Religion ; who force the Scriptures, as if they jufiified what was not Truth ; and produce the Scriptures to prove what is not Truth ; for the Scripture faith, Tbe Devil wtM a :fob 8. 44· Murth~rer from the beginning, and abode not in the C,~1• 3· 9 8 • .-r.. h A d h d ~~v.2l •. • .1. rut • n , Lye not one to anot er. An , AliEph~f.S-4· Lyars Jhall have their part in the Lake that bumeth 'lJJith Fire and Brimfoone. And foolifh jefti~g_, which Things are not convenient, but rather giving of Thanks; for, for thefe Things fake, the Wrath of God comes pn the Children of Difobedience, Thus for Lying : Thus for J efi:ing. So yoij called Edward Wharton to the Bar, and E. Whar~ he Warrant of his Gommitm~nt ye caufed to be ton called read ; which was C!S followeth ; to the Bar · To the Confrables of Salem, or either of them. S~e ho:" · hts MaJe~ ' you · are requ1re d, m· ht'J MtJ.j·e.a· fty is 1iJ s Name, to brought Apprehend the Body of Edward Whanon, and to it; but him fa:fely to bring before me, to anfwer fucb Ob- anon I jeElions no jhall be laid tmto him, concerning the ~all fhew ~aker~. h~;e Yf~~- John Endicot. ved him whom you have called hisMa· Which jefty. |