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Show ( 492 ) t him, being of that perfecuted People. Anc1 'alfo it is very memorable, how one o.f thefe ' perfecuted Servants of the Lord, call_ed ~a- ' Iars,· did" plainly fore-tell, Thr.t the Houfe of Go- ' vernour Endicor, a greater Perfecutm', flioulJ be ' left De folate, and become a Dunghi!J i as did ac~ ' cordingly com~ to pafs, and hath been obfer- ,. ved by divers, ro have been a real Prophecy, ,. divine Jufiice and Providen<;e did fo bring ir ' abour. There are many other Infiance-S and c- Ex~mples ri1ight oe mentioned, fome of which ' I refer" to George Bifhop his Book, caned, J:-fe'lV• ' Eugland 1ud"ed, to be there read and confider- ' ed. I fhaH dnly add one Paffage more, which ,. I was informed of, and had it writ from (orne ' of £he People of' Barttftabte, how that from ,. an bonefi Man, a 0_taker, in the Town of ' Barnjl'able, we're ta!<en four ~?ws, witb fome ~ Calves, rhe Quakers Name oemg Ralph Jones, ' wl1o is yet alive; and thefe Carrie were taken ' away by the Preacher of that To\vn,·. his Son~ 'in-law, who had .marri-ed hi~ Oau~hrer, and ' rerurned ro the Prieft as a pare of his Wage~. ' The Prieft fent to Ralph Jones, ro tell him, He ' miy,ht have t'JIJO of h-kr Cows returned to him, if he ' would fend for them : Bur he never fent, and ' fo the faid Priefi ufed them, and difpofed of ' them as his own, killed one of the Ca·Ifs, and ' fenr a part of ir ro his Daughter, rhat lay in ' Child-bed; fhe no fooner did eat a liccle of ' the Calf, but fell inro a great trouble, and ' cryed,· Return home the Man's Covn, I hear a 'J!,reat Noife of them; and fo died in that Trou' ble. The Priefl: alledged, the Q,uakers had be' wirched' his Daughter, although it cannot be ' proved, that ever they had any bufinefs wilh 'her. But to· what evil Confl:ru~Uon will not · 'Malice !> Malice, and Hypocrifie, and Covetoufi1efs btnd I> a Thing ? Some dme afrer, the faid P!eacher ' .kiiied fome of thefe Cows, to be ear in his ' Haufe, fay.ing, He would trr if the Quakers " c'ould bewitch him ; and not .lo.qg after he died, 'even before the Flelh of thefe Cows was all . ~ ear. The paffage is fo frelh in th.at Town, that ' it is acknowledge,d by divers of rhe NcighbQ~ns \ £O be true: And as great Havock was made ' upon this honefi Man, and upon many in .' Sandwich, a neighbouring Towp, and in many ' ocher places, fo much more might have betn 4 e~petJed, had n,ar their Violence been refirain•.d • ~ by the King's grancjng an Indulgence to all ten.,. • d.er .Cqn(cjences. As alfo, that of the Wirches and Wjrchcrafr, that they have been fo harra!fed with, and which they ufed co Reproach our Fri~nds wirh, and ~rip ~nd f~arch as fuch, notedas ajuftjudgmem: 9n them, from their own Confe.ilion, p. 1 2.. but more here following; infomuch as c. M. 'fays, Book VI. p. 82.. col. 1. That at lafl it 1JJai evi, len:ty feen, t~at there mujt be a flop put (viz,. ro t.heJr Execuuons) or the Generation of the Children of God (as he calls th~l:P) wot~l4 fall u11d~r that Condemnation. A.n4 b.efides' aU tpe abov.e{aic! fulfilling of the Proph~ cJes, noted in tf)e Margent of che Book fore .. go:fg! QUt of In. Mather's Hill. oftheWar~,•676~ a.n h1s Son Cotto,n, &c. For furrh~r Confirma ... uo.n, ta~e the faid c. M"~ Confe(ftqns o( ch~il' Wtckednefs, c.ruel.ty, anp ~he juft Judgmencsof Go9 on rhem, tn h1s Wonders of i~e Iwoifible World l'rimu.l, whtf:h I may term,- · ·· , 169 3. , · <lm~t}Q~~!S ~n tfit J.anll pf Ham. · P. ~~ , All th1s, no{wuhfianding, we mult humbly ' confe_fs tO ~ur God, that we are 111iferably ~~e ~ enerate<! flo~ the firfi Love of our Predecelfor:;, . ~ ~ l, ~ howeve |