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Show ( 49°) filled double ro them ,noted before,as (uifilled (and confdfed by themfelves) p. 2 1 r, 7. r 2, &c. and which broke out again, and held them ren Years together, lately, as-C. M. relates, and of which he gives that doleful Account, menrioned,p.182, t 83• G. Keith's Account of the juft j-udgment of God on Presb. ~nd them, in An[uJer to In. Mather. • J.nd. Vif. 'And whereas the faid ln. Mather hath wnt fo Cinh Nur.dEx ns g.' ma.ny remar 1< a b Ie Ju d gments o f G od , t h at h ave brought to ' come upon nororious Offenders, on purpofe to ~be Teft:, ' record them in Print ; and that he faith, Cap. firft Edtt. ' 1 l. We may not Judge of Men meere~y by outward ;~t 2~~it. ' Accidents, which befall them in this U'orld, &c. And p. 22 3 • ' fome Lines afrer, he faith, Nevertbelefi, a Judg- ' ment may be fo circumfianced, m that the dijplea' Jure of He11ven it plainly written upon it in legible ' Cbara8ers: And in this he faith true; but be ' lhould have added, That fuch Men who can read ' the fame, muft nm be blind, but have the true ' Eye {)pened in them, other wife they will make a 'wrongConftruCl:ion ofrhefe things There wants ' robe inferred or added to his Book, the many ' fignal and manifeft Judgments ofGod,that came ' upon the People of New England in general, and ' upon divers particular Perfons, the main AClors, ' for that horrible Perfecution they raifed againft ' that honeft People, called Quakers, and purring ' to Death Four of the. Lord's Servants, for which ' t11e Name of thefe ACtors and Abettors are a ·' Stink over many places of the World : And ' of thefe Judgments in general, the blafting of ' their Wheat generally, ever fince they pur our ' worthy Friends ro Death at Bo(lon ; and rhe 'Tndian-Wars rha£ foon afrer followed, whereby ' many Englifh were ddlroyed ; and afrer that, ' but of late ·Years, a dreadful Vifitadon of the ' Sma/J-Pox, called by fome, the Black-Pox, that - ' cut J • ( s ' 491 ) I - · . , cut off very inany, hoth ar Ijojlqn, and el(e ... ~ when:, of which rhey were fore-warned by a , ~om:tn that came from Barbadoes, and wenc t mto fome of their Meetings, wirh her Face , ~II made Bl~ck, for a Sign of vvhar vyas com' mg upon them, fhe being on.e of thefe Peopl~ . called Quakers, and owned by them in that ~ ~ery Teftimony, which the declared fhe was : moved by the t'brd to come from B~rbadoes cci' · bear ;~mong theJD, her Name being Margaret : Brewfler ;_ to which may be added, the raking , awar thctr Ch~rrer an.d Power (which they fo ~ grolly .;~bufed, m rurmng t~eSword againft rhe , lnn.ocem) one caufe of wh1ch was their perfe .. ' cuttng_ the ~akers unto Death ; and the mani' fell ! u.dgmcms of God that came upon· divers ' particular Perfons, notorious Perfecucors of that ' ~.nnocent People~ are very obfervable ; as Major ' Adderton, ~ho Joyned in palling s-emence of , De~th agamfi fotne Qf thefe Serva·nrs of the ' Lord who fuffered Death at Bofton who not '. lNon g after was killed· with a co·w .,' an d t1 1 at· ' orton,. Preacher at Boflon, a great Perfecuror . ' ~hO' dted fuddenly, as he was walking it~ ' hts Houfe afcer Sermon, and Captain Daven' PO.~t, an?thcr_great Perfecutor, who was killed i wtth Ltgh~tnmg. , And rhough lhe faid lncre~Jfe ' Mather doth relate the fadden Deaths of bor}h' ' ~efe . ~en, he alroget~er omirrerh thefe great ' I;rcum ances, of then· being great Perfecu ' f~l~s;. th~ .which omiffion, whether it was wil= i. • .Y m tm or not, I fhall not determine Buc 'lt IS th~ mm:e memorable, that the faid Ma ·or ' 4Jderton, bemg warned before-hand f ~h , {~1~~~rdt byf yoa, ~e madelighr ofjr: a~ r ~a~ (. . . orne m New-Enr,land h h d the, Relauon of ir ' fir oll1r,o me bth -at d'.td w foo w aar n Hh:r Cl..'~ : w~, |
