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Show ( 4)6) God, wbicb is Pure, anJ leadeth. all that y!elll Obe~,. dience to it, into Purity and Hohn~fs of Ltfe; anil f or our dbedience to this Law, whzch the Lord h~th written in our Hcarcs, we are ha[ed and pet(ecuted by you, wbo are in Cain's Nature, .murrhering rhe J uft ; yea, f'urely, the Caufe. IS .rhe . L d, .r. hich' 'ue have fuffered alt thu tzme; or s, 1orw h 'll ;r;, ·' R.nd the Banle is rhe Lord·s, and e w: arzJe a~a Jland up for them tbtJt faithfully bear fonh thetr Teftimony to £he end : And ye Jhall. be as broken VejJels befote him, which cannct be JOJned together again ; tber~(ore Fear and fremb~e be(ore the f:o~d; ,vho is comi71g upon you as a Th1ef . m the Ntght, (rom whom .JC jhall not be .able to hede .rour felveJ, and wilt reward rou. accortlmg ~o y~ur Works, wh~fe. Judgments are juft : And he u rz[en to plead. weth the unju{l Rulers, Priefts and Pe~ple, who are Joynea together in a Profdllon of Godhnefs, 1md of ~lorying in ir, but denying rhe Powe~ rher~of m them where it (lppears : But your Glorymg wzlJ be ttlrned into Shame and Confufion of Face, a~d Y.our Beauty will be 114 the fad inJ;_ Flo'Jver, ·mhzch JudJrmly withereth a1var ; and thzs ru flulll J!nd. to b~ true, in the day when the Lord wzll (lCtomplifo It uron you. And we have written to cle~r our Confct• mt·es, and if ye accotmt us your Enem1es, for f~ea.king the 7'retth, ant! heat the Furnace of our Ajftl8to1J botter, yet kno1v, we jhall not fall down and wor• j1Jip your Wi//s, neither efleem all the dumb Idols after '»Jhich you ate led, of no other ufe, btJt to be tqrown · afide to the Moles and the Bars .; for what are lh~ Shadows, if it 'vere of good Th:ngs to. come, to r;he Subj!ance? And that which feemed glortous, htsth no glory, in rejpeEf of that which excelleth. AntJ aU rhe Sufferings that we have endured from "IOU, for Cbri{t, have not at all marr' a bi.s Vifnge to 111, J,ut '}lJC jliU fce more Reaut} in him. treU tfell know;ng, that as they did unto him, jo they Jo unto w ; and no1v they are come to pafs, 1ve remember that he faid tbefe things. From your Houre of CorreEtion., where we have been unj uftly reftrain'd from our Children and Habitat ions ; one of us above ten Months,and the other about eight, and where we are yet continu'd by you, Oppreffors, that know no Shame. Bofton, the 2r f.t of the wth Month. r66o. Mary Trask, Marga1 et Smith. , Thus much concerning J ohn Endicot, and the Cruelries exercifed by . him, who rhough ~ e is aead, yet rhey fpeak, and will whilft Age and Generation lall, and rime is no more, be as a Tombllone for him; for which caufe I am moved of the Lord ro fet them down, and to Ie~ve them on his and your Heads for Ever ana Ever. , I fhall now give one Inftance oi two m·ore One In" of your bloody Work at Boflon, and fome few ftance or E_xamples of the Judgmenrs of God upon fome two mvre of you, and fome firange Palfages that have ?f Sufferd p~·oceeded om of fome of your Mouths, nor ~~~~~ E~·2- huherro touched ; and rhen I lhall end this amples of ~econd Part of the Relario·n of your Barba- J uclgrous and Inhumane Cruelties exercifed co chafe ments, & People other no- . table Paf-. Th~ firll lhall be of Wenlock Chrif!ifon, \Vho fages .• fo~nenmes after your new Law for Whipping, &c. w.cbr~fliwuh t ochers of the People called n ua .. "ers [on, t M .. C • · ~ 1'- , Tom km A b o~mg to Bojion, were apprehended, and brought Arnbrij~. • e ore vou w be rryed according to your Law · Eofton. Yout Depucy, Bellingham, faid, He fhouJd be whipt: F f Wenlock |