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Show w. r:o~· ( 488 ) dellroy the Work of rhe Lord, and have la· boured ro fupprefs the Sun in its riling : Ye are as Pharaoh and his Magici41u ; . for .you .have withfiood him who is come 111 h1s mtghty Power, co lead Ifrael out of Egypt's Dark?efs and Hmlfe of Bondage. Wo unto you, Pnefis. and Rulers of Ne2v-England, who have cur off the Life of the Prophets from amongll their Brethren, and have cruelly emreared the Children of the Lord, whom he hath fent, and raifed up amongft you : You have flain the Lord's Wonhies upon your High Places; there- . fore upon your Mounrain comes no Dew nor Rain, and your 1:-Ioufe is left defolate, becaufe the Lord is departed from it, for in it is found the Blood of the Martyrs of Jefus; and there it is you have killed the tender Lambs in the Bofom, and the royal and lovely Babes as they were fucking the Breafis of their Mother. For tbefe things Jake wilt I arift and plead 7Vitb you, 0 ye the gre~tefl of r~ine Enemies, f~ith the Almighty, who m. the he1ghr of your Pnde boafted, and faid, There 1vas not fuch another Church in the Jtflorld, as the Church nt Bofion : Bur your bloody Hands have made you manifell ro be the worft, among them callt:d Churches, in the whole World. To which may be added. Jingron's , • JJem.o7t· . R ichard Bellingham, Governour after 1ohn ' ft r,mo7t oj Endicct, who, befides all his Cruelry and {r·uSeLove; ·. • • · d · h t:: T ·r. 7 t1c. Imqumes, menuone m t e 10rmer rearue, "n.1 ' s~ baniibe;d Sol. EccleJ, and Nicb. Alexander of Ja( Irove's maica, a Jufiice of Peace; and when Wi/Jiam ~laft fo~ Coddi11gton ~ of Rbode- Ijland, had Ten Pounds ~/ J~~!-~ worth of Buuk.s fet r from E?Jt,lantl, fome of rhe lJn~land. NMW"' ~' . .( 489 j Ne~-England Magifinues, or Offic~ra, featthe4 the Velfel, feized and delivered them· w rhe faid ~· ~ell~ngha'!',. w,ho deraiped .rhem: f~·om him ; as. ~.e dt.d aifo another par~el from John Tyfo, felz~ng (him and . ~is G<>;ods1by a CoQfbbie, before he came on Shor-e, and committed him co Prifo~ (a ~in.king fmoky hole ) only becaufe ,he ~as a f&.Jker; and he and his Affifiants laid a Fme o~ rhe P?Or Man, in whofe Sh{p he. came~ of .~n I oo l . . tf h~ fenr him nor a way the firft Opportunity ; and ~Q1pdfoned Jamei Ltmcafler, John Stubs, John Rance, Thomdr Eaton, and Roberf Hornden, five Strangers, ail~ alfo George Htathrot, the firft of the 6th Monrh, i 671. atl Owner and ~?m~~nd et of a Ship, for ddiveting Sol' E,_ccles s Letter, aQd pot pu·cing bff his Hac : And when the fa td W. Coddi"t,ton writ tp him for his' B?ok~, ?nd warning hiln and orhets of their, ~erf~cu!t~n, he rote the Letter ro pieces, an~ pur Jt tnro rhe Candie, and burn' d it, wirhouc ~eading ir, and threarned Nicb". Moulder, a Mer· ~hanr of Boft~n, to fen,d him tp· Prifon, . only be ... caufe the letter was lefr . at hts Houfe for him · and fh'orrfy after, the faid R. Bellingham havini C?mpleatecf the Meafute of his Iniquity, dyed dtftracted, rhe jrh of tHe roth Monrh t6-l · ~he hand of rhe Lord cut him off. th~t ocher: Sons of Belial, of his p·erfec~nfng Spirit, ~ighr b~ Warned, not tq pur the Evil Day far ftoltl rhein. \ An~ alfo, th~it diftilal Wats with rile indiam, ~herem they had Blood to drink as was fore• ~old, a~d that theit Carkalfes fh~ufd fail, and De as ~ung on the Earth, and lie buried wilh:· t~e bunal ~a'~ AfS ; and that their foLing Meq. IJloul~ fall by rhe Sword, and their Wives fhouid be Wtdows, and their Children Fatherlefs · and' rhe Cop they had tilled to others, fllotdd ba H·rr fiHCld' |