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Show ( ~So) chufing of Conftables, which, that it migh~ effeB: ually be done, that the lnn?cent mtght Suffer and their Laws be as bloodtly executed, as the'y were made by them, and in their Heans ; Wi!/iam Hathorne defired them to chufe one Philip P. Ctonz· Cromwel, Becaufe, faid he, he will fcour the f<3~w: l. kers (fee, a blood-thirhy Perfccuwr., bow he IS not a1hamed, in the Face ?f the Country? ro pour forrh his defired Thtrfi of Pe:fecuuon) . . who being chofen, and heated by thts Hathorne, Pr.1eftfc and ":t0hn Hi(Tgifon, Prieft of Salem ( who blaf- 01£&' on. phem.oI ufly fabid· , That t he ,nu, ak ers L'z g ht w_,u a ft inking Vapour from Hell ( a refifier of the htghet Power, Chrift Jefus, the Light of the World, the true Light tbt~t lightet? everr one !bat cometh into the World· who fauh, The Ltght of the World I "m U:bo is the Covenant of Light to the Gentiles · a' fpeaker Evil of Dignities ; a prefumpru~ us Perfon; a Well without ~arer; a Cloud without Rain, driven abour wah every Tempefi ; a bloody Perfecuro~, who hath had ro do in the Blood and Suffenngs of many of rhe Servants of the Lord, whofe Wickednefs is well known to the Lord, before whom are all his Ways and Wick~dn~fs, who will render u~co him according to hts Dee<ls. ) He made It his Bufinefs to hum up and down the Town, to iind out and difiurb them in their Innocenr Meetings, waiting upon the Lord, whi~h one M. Sl\tffiin Michael Shafftin (a Man of an honeft Converfarion, always tender of thofe who fuffe red for Confcience; who for rhefe twenty Years hath feparated more or lefs from your wicked Priefis, t Being and their t Traditions, in New· England, and demand-ed by_your Court, How long he ha.i. abfem~d Ji'om tf.,eir J.Vorj1Jip ? ~e anrwcred., Ever jiHce J Olt pur t/Je Serwnu of the Lord to Death; wh1ch ·were W. J?..Ebi71fotz and M. Sreveil[or:. their ( ~81 ) th~i r Abominations ) relling this Cromwel of (as he came inro the faid Michael's Houfe) and asking him, Why he would run about, and trouble a harm~efs People that did him no hurt? He reply'd, Of hu Confcience, he muft needs rt~n whom the Devil driv~s. S.o, . ingenuoufly confeffing, what drov~ lum on mto thofe Perfecurions. And although, fomelimes in his Rage, the faid Philip ~ouldfay, He Wotfld ha11e them all hang" a; meanIn~ the il.!!akers; aQd that they J.eferveJ to have thetr Tongues cut out .of their Mouths ; and that, If he had the Whipping of them, he would make th~ Blood rem down a~ their Heels ; yet, at other rimes, w.hen he was cool, he would fay, Of hi1 Confczence, he knew no more what the ~akers htld than h~ Horfe. See what Rage and Fury : prompted by bloody Perfecuring Spirits in Prieth and Magifirates, will run l\1en into, againfi a People o! ~hom they know nothing, and of whof~ Prmctples they are Ignorant. Thts Crom'Jv_el having put a t Deputy into hi~+ Denjaplace, who, hke a Wolf, having hunted forth~ min Ft:lrm: Prey, at the Command of his Mafiers, in he brought to the Courr certain Perfons calleq Qyakers ( fo anf wering to the end fo; which Cromwel was choftn) who beino· before your Magillrates, rhey were dmanded ~herefore they came not to your publici< Ordinances ? This was put to Lawrer~ce and Caj]cmdra Southick's two t Children (of whom, v iz:,. of Lawrence and ! fa~lid C . rr d h · l . a net I ro-aJJan rt~, t eu crue Bamlhmerrr, and Death. v idd. a_nd ~ther Sufferings, and their Children, men: !ton ts made in. the former Trearife; and what ,, now fpoken, IS bur of fom erhing nor menli-on~ d then, ro make up the Sum of your Cru-eler ) tQ whom Daniel anf wered, That if rht)' ba~ not fo perfecuted his Father ana Mather, perhaps A a l be |