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Show is Priefc Shove's entertaining of StrangerS', con.,. rr.ary co that of the Apo{i:le, which faith~ Be not forg etful to mtertain Strangers, for thereby {ome have entertained Angels una1vare:· . And, becau~ I am upon the foot of ent_enamtng Strangers, u will not be amif.li, ro fhew m one Inftance more, to what hath been already inferred, the barbarous Inhumaniry of your Law,. even co the Inhabirants and Houfe-keepers tn your own Colony. . . E. w~,ar- Soon afrer Ed,vard Wharton had recetved h1s ton's .lour- Sentence of Banifhment, it came inro his Heart ney mto f E l d the Nor- co go into the Norrhern pans ? Ne'JV- ng an , thern and there ro vifit a People of lude or no Prop~ rt'> of fdlion vi~. fuch as by the loud Profe!fors were i'll e~,-Eug- accom;led as Our-cafrs from all good Govern-a? J v.. . ment of Church and State; w h o l1 av·m g e fcc a-ped the danger of being apprehended in the H . t _ {i::veral Towns, b}' the Profe!fors ; as he paffed 1sen er- · 1 · dl t ainment through, he came to _Saco,_ ~bo _havmg un .Y · ~t saco, treated him, and havmg {tald With them a hrBla• kPoirrt de time, he paffed along the Sea~coaft to Black· Caskoe B.tJ Point and from thence to CaJkoe- Bay, where from' Coafc to Coaft rhefe Our-cafes receiv'd him and his Te:ftimony with Gladnefs; fo, afrer a few Days, he faced towards Bofton again, w!1ich puc great trouble on the render People, m a T eir fence of what he might meet with, as ro his T encler· Life, who parted with him wirh Tears. Here ne[s. was Tendernefs from the s,J.maritons ( fo account-ed) whilfc rhe J-ews. ( thofe who fwod in ~hat Namre that put Chnir ro Death ) were m a manner feeking his Life. So, in the Fear of rhe Lord he pa!fed on, and came near to the place called Black.Poim, where, by the Order of one called Sir Henry Jof(Jin, he was in danger to be apprehended, but was nor ; but on he wenr, and ( ~97 ) ~nd having waded through ~1e dangerous Ri· . vers, came ro a Town on Cape Porpoi{e, where Hts dan-h~ was wifhed to a Profeffor's Houfe. (he ha- ~~~,e~:0, •• vmg heard of no Houfe of Enrenammenr ) poife. who was newly come to £heir Town, to whom when he came,_ the ~an perceiving what he was, would nor recetve htm, bur thewed him a Houfe, where he faid, he might be enrertained; bur rhe People told Edward, That it 'JVtU the Confla-ble's f!oufe ; _fo ~dward feeing his Treachery, norwnhftandmg u was Nighr, and rhat he was Wet, Weary and Hungry, rather rhan to fall into their Hands, turned back a Mile or more into the Wildernefs, ro an Old Man·s Houfe He i~ en· nea r r h e Se a, an d k noc k~d at r h e d oor an d de- ·t crttha mwe·d 1 .fired fome Enrert.ain~1ent for his Mo~ey ; the ~~rn~fs ~; Old Man took htm m, and refrefhed him wirh ;Jn old fuch as he had ; and on che morrow the Man,s Man. Wife~ in rhe Morning went co J;ok ro her Cattle, and meeting wirh the aforefaid Profef-for, he aske~ her, If a Stranger lodged not at her HIJufe tkat N tght ? The Woman fimply rold him, The ?ld There dul ; He is a Quaker faid the Profelfor and Man hke there will be five Pound Fin; lor you to pa'~~ ~'or E~ter- fito be fin'~ · · h' b c J' :; f' or enter-tamzng_ tm. So, . erore the Woman came in, he t:rtining had dtfcov~red h1mfelf, and his Principles w rhe him1 hy Man; but m came rhe Woman in hafie 10 tell r eafon of h M h h ' ~ , aProfe[ or r e. an w at t e Profeffi)r had faid ; fo, after ;1 h:tle fpace, the Woman was Calm and Con-rent; and her Husband faid, It 'vas the Truth that 'JJJas teftijied. And Frimd, faid he, although I may {ujfer for entertaining of you now, y et '}/)hen-ever you come this way, call in, for you Jhall be well-come; and fo Edward, and honeft Old Stephm Batfon and his Wife, parted. But fee ~he di!ference again, between rhe J ew ¥Qd the Sqmarstan; as Edward was travelling B b 3 upoli |