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Show ( 78 ) for Ill Will fpet~h welt of none ; and if fuch thingc; l\tlati· had 'b€en to have been taken only from Ad~ Oll of verfaries, or the Perfecmors· words ro be cre- Sl@at· dited, in Reladon ro' the Martyrs, ~here would fpt~. have been no rrue Hiftory of them m the World, as he fays_:., Book III. p. 1 . c. 1. And if a Man jhould havi ~o otbl!r !dells of the Puritan -Cb;·ijlians m our days, than 'what the Tory-Pens ·of the Sons .of Bolfe~us jRfl! have given them, we would think that tt WtU a Jufl S!PUtl· thing to Banijh them into the cold Swamps of the litt!S Nonh~America. So I may fay, If a Man was t t ro have no other account of rhe ~akers, than R~ t~~ what he hath from the Partial and Prejudiktn ced Pens of fuch as C. Mather, rhey might ftolU think it no wonder ( efpecially if they were of gi:llltt· a perfecuting Spirit; like themfelves} to' have !~tie~. them not only · banifhed into the Swamps of · North-America, · but alfo pur ro Dear~ ; ·bur as there is not only better ~elations of ch ~ Purit-ans, and other ·Good People before them, fo then~ is and fhall be of our Friends, which I hope the Impartial will credit before the Tory-Pen~ o.f their Adverfaries, as they have done the Relanon$ pf the People of God in former Ages. . And of the like Nature is his· faying, A ftefce, a raging, a fullen and a·revengful Spirit., ~nd 4 rlegree of Madnefs rather infpired them ; wh~ch I rc· wrn on him, as malicious Slander~ and Calum,nies, and dare him · ro rell where'ln £hey were Fierce, ·R'agir;g or Revwgeful : Did they ever g~ Pent. 32. to Revenge rhemfelves, or ·offer Violence to any : · j ~· No they left Vengeance to the Lord, to whom zt Rom. ~~: belo;1g1, and- ,vbo will repay it, as he hath faid anp Heb. 1o~ done ; and is noc this very l-laugh[y and unfic, 30. ting Language for them rha·t . are ~nder the avenging Hand of God for ir, and who pretends they hl;!V~ qe~~ hu~b.lad ~s the~ h~ve b~en ? ~~~ ( 79 ) ,~he Fierce ( defpijing them that are Good ) 'S.agin$ 'and Revengeful Spirit and MadnejJ, was their own, as he implies, Book II. p. r. c. 1. Thar the Rulers of New# England were Mad ey ,Oppreffion; and that they ?vere Wife Men that WtM not betray' d into that Madnefl : And I fay fo roo ; and what matter rhen what ~e fays co the contrary ? A Lyar had need of a good Me,mory, he may remember; and as to Croefe~s Hiftory, chat he calls Fa/Jaciom, and fays, i; i4 not in tbe/e matters td be credited; l fay, more than his, rho' Gerrar4 (;roefe ha;,, in divers pares of his Hifiory, fhewee; i himfelf very lirde a Friend co us .or our Principle, yec in this parr he harh done: us J U· (jice, which may condemn C •• M.:zther's Envy and Parrialiry, being rruer rhan his in thefe MattcrJ~ tho~ nor jn every thing elfe,pelhaps: · · · ~· M. Ibjp. A great Clamour hath b~e'! raifed illllffL agamfJ · N~w- Englanq, for the Perfecution of the not Q,u~kers, ?n4 if a.ny Man 'fill appear in the Vi11di.- llinbiea: ro') of zt, let ht~n do as he pltafe, for my part, I catt t!J& wzO ~of. ·And , fo, Boo.1~ III. p. 38. c. 1.. That \@ttft~ e wtlJ not, . ke cannot make himje~f a Vir.dicator of C!ttfon1S all the Seventte~, &c. yet hath not only Vindicated) anb ptt by endeavounng to E~tenuat: ir, and Excufe ic,as tJot~. · above; afld commendmg thetr PeT/ectttors, calling them G1od Men, and writing the Lives of many of them, as Endicot, the Governour, that Condem11ed '\[[ t them, .R. Bellingham and J. Leverat, Governours !J afrer huu, and B_road;1reet [har qme over ro'Ex- te~tftcttj~ it CO the King, William J3. radfortl, a\~d TbomtU CU Of!i. Prmce, Governour ot Plimouth- Pat~nt, Priell Nor-t. on, rhar .encourager] ri:em {0 ir, vvhen rhey befi-tated a Jude upon H, and Priell Wilfon that Taunted and Reviled (bern fo, and faid He would ~arry Fire_;, one I-J.a114, and Fti uot.s in the otbcr, to bum a!t the Q.!!a.kcq in &he Wo;i(l> W~lO~l he. com. " · mends • • .I |
