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Show ( ~42 ) and to wear it out ; you have heard how lfl'enlock Chriflifon,being Banifh'd upon pain of £?each, came in rhe Dread, and Power, and Monon of rhe E£ernal God, upon you, wiLh his Lfe in his Hand, when you had WiUiam Leddra before you, at the rime you fenrenc'd him ro Dye, whom · you had noc Power co pur to. Death, though you bad him before you whtl~ you were Execuring William, bur referved htm ro .h your nexr Courr; and now your nexr Com be- Eto.nr ~a t, wth e t•n g come ( w l1'J1 {t you were rrym. g ~r.el/.n lo c k ~o r Trial of his Life) Edward Wharton, an lnhabuant of Sa~ Venlock. lem, and a Houfe-keeper, and Banith'd upon pain of Dearh, carne upon you alfo for his Life; who being ar his Haufe ar rhe rime of your fining, and being fenftble of rhe Confe .. quence of his being within your J urifdictiol1, afrer rhe expirarion of his Days for fiay, aftn his Senrence, and of rhe Confequence, according ro the rare of your Cruelry; as a Man not afraid of your Law, or his Life, in rhe Noble Spirit of Trmh, which gives to Overcome and ]ook Death in the Face, and makes a Man nor w be afraid whar Man can do unto him, as a Man nor lJmnning, bur feeking you ; nor being rerrified by, bur giving rhe Opponunicy of looking you in the Face, and your Valley of + Tf,omM Acbor, wnich an t Old Priefi of yours faid of 'J hatcher. your Gallows ( as aforefaid) wroce to you, ro . lignifie, That where a! rou had Banijh' d him on pain ~~2~~u~~ t{I Death, dyet 1 wdas he at Home, dat his Ffouji!_ in from SJ- S.a em, an cou not go away; an there10re tn/ cm ,tc• tell ttmared ro you, 1o take off' rour wicked Sentence r!1em he from him, that he might go about his Occajiont was thc::re. 6xt of yotfr Jurifdi8ion ; according as he faid umo you when you fenrenc•d him ; Friends, hiive Q care what you do, for 1 ]halt not go from you·; ( ~4J ) you ; which was when you had Wi/Jiam LeJdra ~~?fh:;s before you, when you fenrenc•d him ro Death on pain of (as hath been faid) So, Five came upon you, Death; as ro Dearh, upon the Trial of Wevlock Chriflifon, but ;as after your barbarous munhering of William Led· fuort t:~ Jra, as Wenlock rold you, as aforefaid; and rhat he' thus if you jhould have Power to put him to De11th (which came uphe rold you, he did 0feflion ; and as ir appears, on them .. he was noc without ground for his Faith ) the Lord would bring Ten more upon you; for tbe Spirit of the Lord can never be wearied out : And you wer~ miltaken, to think char by aiJ your Cru-elties, yea, by Death ir felf, you could wear out the Saints of the Mo!l High God, who with his Power he armed againfi you in the naked proof of Truth, and brought upon you aJJ, which gave you Occafion to think with your felves ; and infiead of cutting off any more of the Ser .. vanes of the Lord, to cut off your own Law with your own Hands. Whi1tl the Hand of the Lord fo wrought ~affa ges with you in Nelv-England, by rhe Blood ofm ~Jdd his Servants, and rheir offering up themfdves, Eng an • breaking your bloody Law ; it will not be amifs to fhew how he wrought in Old- England, and what influence rhe Blood and Sufferings of rhe Innocent had with rhe King, who for fame while before was returned to his Regal Jurif- c;oncurditlion, whom you feemed r.o Kneel before with ~m~ fo rf your Lt.p s, w h en your H earts were c•a r. f rom ttahvem Lgi voe !> him, who by your Agenr, Liveret.1, had pre- of Friend c. fenced him with an Addrefs looking rhis way, f!fc. and by your private InfiruCl:ions ro him, and orhers, rowing anocher, as by and by I fhall give to underfiand. Who being informed of your bloody Work, The Kin~ and what Cruelcy you had exercifed, and how Orders.. .... you |