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Show ( :8o ) me,nds f<;> muc;h, and in panicular, hewoultj n;ver Jt4fer his Pi8ure to be · drdl-'vn (perhaps, left he ilit!>uld rcfemble bloody Bonner as much in .his fea'rures as in his Mind ) which, however is preuy yvell drawn in rhe former Book, and 'romewhat touched here, that, like Hercules; by his Foot any may judge of the Propor~ion of his Body ; 'Jo. Davenport, who t<? prevent .a Friend from Speaking, had a Key .t~cd crofs h~s l\1outh ; rhe Hig~enfims, one of whtch, Franc11, was the old Oppofer and ~erfecut.or ofJ.N. F. ~. and other Friends in Wejlmoreland,tn 16 P·· and ht~ Brother 1ohn, now living in N~:w- England, who called the Light, A foinkittg Vnpour from Hell ; Tho. Thatcher, that great Oppofer of ~he Tru£h an~ · People of God, as he renders ~tm ; C. Cbanfey (all PrieO:s) that compared Fnends to Wolves, tho· young Ones that had done no harm, yet of the Nature of fuch as Kill Sheep, and therefore ro be killed for fear what they would do (rho' rhem{dves were rhe \Nolv:s rhat killed o<rk n. the Sheep) and divers others of then Pc:rfecurors, 11· 72. c.x. both Pridl:s and Rulers, 1he Na:mcJ of many of whom (as he fays of Sir William Phips's Adver- ~ t~oft [aries) ·JVill either be buried in ettrna~ Oblivionj8~ tH£!S or be rem.embred but like that of Judas tn the Gofpel~ ;Jrot ll be or Pilate in the Creed, with eternal Inft~my; whoni H kt J u- yet he Applauds and Praifes, even co naufeating, nas antl and Vilifies and Reviles the Sufferers at the "f ilare. bighefi Rate he can, except he wou.ld. fpit no-thing but Fire and Brimfrone., even. ~tth.out _a :. . ~·~. Metaphor, as he fay~ of .the Evil Spnns tn h1s ,..·!·or. 17· Book of Witches; but let hm1 know, That he that 1 S• j t:jfijicth the ~Vic ked, 11nd be that condemnetb the 1uft, even ttt:} both are an .Abomination to th_e Lod,. as Solomon faith : So thac he hath made h1mfelf \1ke the~n and involved himfelf in the Guilr, wharev;; r he prerend~ ; and not on~y fo, but the faid '. ' C!'!tO~ ( 8t ) ,Cotton Mather, and fome Ofh;:!r~, not long a. go ]ulff, pur our a .B?ok, called, Th: PritJciples of the Pro· fit~ teftant. Rel~g1on, &~. where11i they jufiifie the tbtit Hangmg of t~e fa1d Pe?p}e ~rho· he nq·w pre-PUtfends he won r, n~r can c JU!bfie jr) faying, They ttnn to were ~at abufed,. but dealt jufllJ with ; and {hac St,~at!). ' the Cnme for wh!cb they fuffired ')})as comin(J' pur-p. o'rJ: el~ t o~naJe rmm• e ,t ht Ct.v t· t Governm' c·nt, ' &c. (6m ,u ch ALy vee ry hke as the bloody Papifts accufed {orne of che : · M~rryrs, when rhey were Clear of any fuch thmg) and. which ban. Gould of Rbode-Ijlanrl (a Sufferer wuh rhem) bath fuffidendy confuted ~nd clearecl them ot~ in his lare Book Printed Jn ~en~lvania, which being fcarce het:e, ltball fCCHe fome PaffJges of as follows . . ' It has been thoughr, £hat the~e had been ' fame Remorfe, Sorrow or Repentance in the D.~ould's ' Peopl e 0 f H11.rt w-Enrr l anJ, for what · the' y had Bru· f N.zfr" ' ' done . H . . o rtttzon o_ , . ' tn an&mg the People called QEakers, s~fferiut, s : foi fome of thts after-Generation does not care of the Peo' to hear of ir, neither would they be blamed pie caU'l : ~or what their. Fathers or Pre<le~elfors have :;~::;"• , one. Howbeu, we find in a linle Book of Death at ' llare dare, by foqr Priefis of Boflon in Ne1v-ii.-ng- Bofton, in and, namely, Jam. Allen Jofh ~A d, S .. New Eng- ' TI/'.'l'l d l !' • JV.J.00 ), am.} l Yr t ,ar and Cot. Mather who r a·ll . an( ' P· ~ ~ ~ ll"fi , teems 1 to Jll- "., 4 &c i t. e what they have done, in Hanging the_,), ' , ' fatd Peopl.e, for they fay, Th~y were not abufed, 'but .tlealt ptflly wit~. (And alfo fay) The Crime ' ·JIJhzch occaf!onetl thezr Su.lferirw, "JAJIU The"' came Pttrpof'el-. t d · h 6 ' 1 'Jc"' o un ermme t e Ci·vit (J!J"Vernment d ' t .r.. d l , an ~ perJwa e f!:Je Perple to Renounce it,-p. 6-3)6·}· ' }~ow, fomc People of rhe Country, and ' ~ne~s alfo (upon Difcourfe ) have made a ' t . t ley were f~rry, and rroubled for wha·~ t they had done, m. Hanging lhc: faid .t-Jeople ~ bm rhrfe fom· PneUs teem bloody ilill, in 'fayil1o : b'> |