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Show ( 154) Broad- flab being alfo femenc'd into Banilhme~t up~m ftreet ~all- pain of Death, in the 3d Month, r6 59· dtd wnh ed thts Samuel Shattock and Nicholas Phelps, who were ~rofecu- in the fame Condemnation, go for England, ttan, not . h 1 b Perfecu- there to lay your Cruelnes on t e. nnocenr. e-tion, when fore the then Parliament, and thetr Council of the ~aiel Srare, that being nor ignora~t of your W ~:>rk, .Dante~ it might lie on their fcore, tf Lhey refiramed told h1m . of his Vi- you nor ; but theu Ears were n.ot open, as olence in rhey fhould have been, for rhe helpmg of _rh~m, t~at par- who had no helper in che Earth, and rehevmg t+iC ular. the Innocent fo their Day went over them, as Sec the 1 - h N f 1 "Book In- it was ~r wrote unro them in l e am~ o t 1c tituled, Lord, rhat it lhould ; fo he ftay~~uh the 1he Warn- mher two fomerime after the Kmg s Return, ings of tbe and when Opponunity prefenred, he and Ni- MLeonrdo ftoc brh1e~ cholru _Phelps returned, on r~1e ed g e ~ f your· La ~, Generat i- on pam of Death ( bur Ntcholt14 bemg weak. m on, &c. P· Body, afrer fome time dyed) And Jo(ttU bemg 32 • found by you at Bofl.on where he manfully ap- Amt rc- 'Jv ' 1 'd turns. peared in the Face of your La~, you c app Cnnes to him inro rhe Houfe of Correction, for abour ~ofto~~ is rhe fpace of nine Weeks : Then you~ Court of 1mpnloln- Afliftanrs being come, which was m the 7rh ed anc d l · b r d brought Momh, 1661. you ha nm ecore you, an at bdoreth.e which, according to your former Law, he lhould • Court ot have been rrkd for hi) Life. ~hfftftanhts, But rhc great Occafion you rook againfi him, t c 7t . . d d h' 1\lonth w .1s luft Har, wh1ch you com man e tm to ;66 t. ' pull off: He cold your Governour, He could not. ~i .; Tr i a l . You faid, He woulti not. He rold you, It WtU a l',t1ff:.~gl ." crcji to bu Will to luep it on; and that what he ::.:, -o ll':i , r. Hat. h,,d dcne on that Account, was out of TmderneJ s of C ,njcience; and that he could not do it for,Confcie~'Jcc. fake. Ar chis you wondered ; bur feeing that his .Life lay ar ftake for ir\ you miglu well have . ]udged he would not, if a greater Thing did nor ( ~)S ) nor confirain him, hazard his Life for want of purring off his Hat ; for the keeping on of the Har, you make rhe difcrimination of a (!}faker; and a Quaker coming inro your 1 urifdiClion, or being of your felves fo and fo, fuffering the firft, fecond and third time, &c. mull dye for ir, and fo you pur fev.eral ro Death ; this is no forcing upon you, but whar your Law in broad Letters fpeaks ; for of Principle or Practice, contrary to Godlinefs, you have not convicted them, but of being QJ_1akers, which, that rhey are fuch, the Hat (you fay) difcovers; and fo you rake away their Lives. Much rea[oning he had with you, it being a ridiculous Thing, that Men of Underftanding 1bould fiumble ar, feeing irs pan of a Man's covering, as or her Garments are; yet you mufl: have che HJt, and thar for your Honour, nor knowing the Honour which cometh from God which reacheth Lhe Hearr, who believe not~ For how can ye believe, faid the Son of God who receive Honour from om another, and not that 'which JohiiS ·++· co~eth from God only ? Much reafoning he had w~ch y~m therea~ours, and your unjult Dealings Wl_th htm you la1d open, which you could nor gamfay ; bur your Governour cold him, That he 2vas to have been tryed for his Life, but that )'OU He is fenhad made your late Law to !ave hu Lzifie which you tbenceht~ to c. 'd J' ' ' e w 1pt 1a1 , 2JJas Mercy to him. Then he asked you, · Whether :rou .wer~ not as good to take his Life no2JJ, as to ~hzp hzm after your manner, Twelve or four-teen tJmes at a Cart-tail, through 'JOUr To7J.JnJ and then put him to Death afterwards ? As wa~ che Confequence of your Law, which marr'd the Clamo~r of your Lenity, which you fought ro falve wuh a ~our, ~iz,. That it miglpt be, that. a'lf prder by that tzme r~:nght come to fave hil Life. · So |