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Show ' ( 462 ) of the Bottle ; this ye went over, Children, Peo A r~daur- pie of Years Men Women, Old and Young, gwai ttthoNn ew- infant of Da'y s, as ' it were, and fuch as fioop Enf!J.wd for Age, Witne!fes on ·every Hand, your owt1 upon the Ndghbours, Country-men, Strangers, early and whole. Jare, again and again, for reo Years together, Men, and their Wives, and Families ; Men of dHTolute Converfarions reclaim'd, Word, Sign·, Suffering,Conftancy rhrough all, not fearing your Fears, nor being· afraid of rhe Threats ; Hufbands offering up Wives, Wives their Husbands ; Parents their Children, Children their Parenrs ' Bo11d, Free, laying down Life, Efiare, and all. None of'rhis will you hear, but have fhur your Ears, hardened your Hearts, clofed your Eyes~· that Wrarh may come upon you ro rhe uttermolt. Aclore_,a~ So all thefe Things, and much more which ~o ~heSut- might have been wrircen, ·have the Innocent fuf.:. .. nngs. fered by you, you Anrichrifiia 1 Profe!fors of N ew- England, becaufe chey cannot forfake the way of the Lord, nor walk with you in rhe way of Cain, who flew his Brother ; and fo up.on you is like LO come the Blood of all the Righreous Generarion; bur rhefe horrible Things have you done, ro the incurring the Indignation of rhc Lord agai nfl: your felves, ro 1he etetml Shame -and Rep1'oach of your Religion, and rd Ihe Violation of the King's ilromite, who prol~ tifcd us, in the Word of a King1 That none of tis j];ou!d {uffer f()r cu~· Relig{on; but in all the Things thar have been · fufferttq, Revenge ~8 nor fought; ntirher is a Recompence looked fi'om Man therein, but rhey can be freely forgiven: Nevenhe~ lefs, in the Moving. of the Lord r he~ Things are ·wrinen, that the Generations to come may fee and know whar a great Profdiion may turn Men !!1~ 0 -Ul1CO, .whofe delight is to live in an our-fide form, bur ouc of the true fenfe of rhe Life and ,Power of God. A few won;1s now concerning the , ~ '. A A Retatt- Judgmenrs of rhe Lord on One or , J ~ on odf .,.h o f you, as a 1r. artt1. 1er ra fi e o f your ~ . drea pli 1 - o vt Judgment whar Jodgerh in you, who rhus h av~ · i ')Uf,nL of the to devour and dtfiroy the Innocent, and thtn I Lord on fhall end. · M. G. Ad.- M aJ·O r G enera I A dd erton, who was the Man derton. rhar faid unro Wenlock .Cbri.ftifon, wh~n he was rrye9 for his Life, The Judgmmts of tbe Lord God ar: not co?1Je upon m Jet. Upon a ceuain day, this A~derton having been in his Pomp, exerci-· ling Ius Men of War, and riding on his Horfe, af[er he had done his work, and about rhe Even- . ing was riding home ro his Houfe, about the place where ufually rhey Ioofed Friends from rhe Carr, after they had whipped rhem f1om Boflon, a Cow (as is fu ppofed) came and cro!fed the way, at ~hich h_is Be2!! was thought ro have b.een afnghted, which threw him fo, thar he dyed, h1s Eyes being .fianed out of his Head like Sawcers, his Brains out of his Nofe his T~m~ue our of his Momh, and his Blood' ouc of hi~ Ears. Thus fared it wirh him, who ~erppung the Lord, when he fpake by his Servant, and Seryanrs, of his Judgments, that they ?Vere rtot come, came ro know them fuddenJy, as che Word of the Lord was fpoken to him, in the Coqr,t, by the f:tid Wenlock, as aforefaid t. And Lhus he + It is to be noted that who upqn the Execur~on of C being brought in) hi; moo(t M run through the Floor of their . ary Dyar, told our Friends, c_:ourt-Houfe, where thev had -j 1 f , g1ven S ntcnce for tuking away ~:el~ oo~ o ~od s P~o pl e; yea, in the place wh .... re the f:li~l Man li ~-c- b~a ed, lh,zt l\1ary D ·ar.h.zr!ged like a Fl,tg ( whlch i rery ob ~ t~· i~ e) W. Cod. !Je m ~nfi r,mon, p. 9· !? f 4.· . 1.0at |