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Show ( 92 ) then two Cardi~als, Richlieu and Mazarine, i~J re~ ~11S Hats; but after tbo(e, there entred ~o1llt~,15frat~~ <ri:out- '(l·i~'~'et~ and lL potu1. ~o that 1t ~eems ad dt. e ·l': ~ · c. ' ·h · n wh1ch en e m ?~at:hOll Governours, al£e'r t etr ow , · 1 ft ;· . £he Lofs 'of their Charter in t68;. or at ea afrer the fmJ Mf)nths Prefident,rllip of Jof. Dudle}J were bur like Wolves, Bears, Tygers, LJons, an. ·f uc h repttct.o ,u s A n1· mal.r,' as he calls • them that lw e.!r. e come into their Government, viz. Str Edm~ Ant< ro;s, Sir Wm: Phips, wm·. Stroughton, Efq; a~d tl~e Earl of Bellemont, at leaft to their Revoluuon m the Y 68 for fome of rhofe he: feepls to com~ inceanr d,1 as 9S·i r Wrn. P·- h·i ps and Wrn. st roug bt on, and who then were l~e Wo~ves, ~ears, Tygers and Lyons ? However' the above IS enough ro ~ew what Rever•Jce and JlefpeCl: they ~ave to Kmgs, their Governours, Powers, Aurh_oq£y, ~c. anq yet muft blame G. Fox for fpeakt~g agamfi doat- 1rw on an ;art hly King, &c. Bur If any Qlaker b;d dropp'd _fuch irreve~·enr Expreffions, as the abovefaid of Kinrrs, or any under them, what a-do would he' have m~de of rhem; but oul-Innocency is fo well" known in England,_ and , el~ewher~, rhat I dare . leave it to be welghed wtth thetr Principles and PraCtices, in· the equal Ba~lance, by the· Impartial thar know qoth. · · · And for any o11e who---hath (as _he fays )-fo far forjaken them, as· to publij(1 a Di[cov~ry of the 11~Uf~ horrible Doings that be hath fou~d among hu Frs:nds. p{~ That 'is in his own Concen, t~ no ~onder ' fe~ ging~ ing c. M. hath publifhe~ horn~le Domgs en~ugh rnuong among the PreJbrreriatu m NeJJ.:-England, tho .. he fbttn·~· hath· nor forfaken them; but I may anf~er him, fr~ttr~. as Nehemi-ab did fnch another, as · ~forefatd, That \ r: .,. - tber'e are·no fucb things done among ZM, as thotl' fay'jl,at Ieafi owned by us; and he fhould have rold who 1hat one is, thar calls himfdf a ~aket> th~~ ha~ i ; ,. L ,·,. . i'' fo fa-r forfaken them, as to publilh fi1cij things, that we might have examined his Credit in whar he fays, viz... That they do not own any Government <lr5ofor God, s Ordinance, but tbat of t~ofe who Wit11efs to lletntbeir Light within. Anfw. All nght Gov.ernment, nttnt. that is God's Ordinance, will witnefs (or an-fwer) w the Light of the Lord in the Heart and Confcience ; and rho' we own Governmel1l to be an Ordinance of God, which u for the Rom.13.3 Puni{hment of evil-doers, and the Praifo of them that do welt: Yet, whatever Government dorh not anf wer or wimefs to the Light of Chrift in the Confdence, we cannot own co be of God, fo far as ir is contrary to Him and his Wicnefs ; and tho' all fuch are part of rhe Corrupt Tree that mufi be cut down by the Sword of rhe Spirit, in the Lord's own time, that rhe Light alone may Rule; yet Rulers, Judges, Jufiices, &c. may Rule in it and wirh it ( as they come w rake heed to it) over Evil-doers; for he that ruletb ~ Sam.23. Qver Mm, rnufl be Juft, ruling in the fear of God. 3• C. M. I Appeal to alt the reafcnable part of Man- af /t.ind, whether the Infant-Colonies of New ... England ~r~ti had not caufe to Guard themfelves again{/ thefe dan- n g~ ' geroua Viliaim. Anfw. Old Infanrs at near Forry O~ngt-rears Old ; and I Appeal ro all the rea.fonabJe part of Mankind too, whether they hac;! ~ny tOU~,. Caufe, from any Carriage or Behaviour of theirs, that ever yet appeared of their .Qeing Dangerous, to be. fo guarded againfi, 'rho' l)e 1:1nwonhily ~alls them Villains; but who is ~he grearell, I Jeave ro o.rhers co judge: Tho' he is (o mud~ worfe rhan his :word, to go to vindicate thqfe Severities again, when he had faid .before, l:l~ 'JJJould not, nor could not, make bimfelf a Vindicator of them; bur who were the VHlains and dapge-rous Ones too, to go ro Imprifon lVIen and WqG .. - , Oo 4 mr:11- |
