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Show ( te6 ) Rndies, not of Souls: And K. Cbarle~ I; faid, Tn;tr Cbri(! i4 the alone King of Mens Confcrencef. fattcb Howevrr, ro conclude, if any fuch A'~. was, an XlCt it mufl &c after K. Charles f~~r ro ft_?p then Pronot of ceedings, and ih all probab1hry, atr~r K! J-ames t!]dt rook away their Charter for abufing n, and gave J:iwn ac- Llbeny of Confcience, that they could nor Exe- CO!il. cure rhofe Laws any longer,that ~hen they would. ~ prerend., perhaps (if ever they d~d) to Re.nounce them·; but did they ever do H of t~etr own accord ?' Or, did they condemn thetr f?rmer Pro·ceedlngs, or declare Uberty of Confc1~nce, rhc juft Right of all Men? When our Fnends \vould have b:1d them Renounce thofe Laws and Revoke· 'em, They would not hear,. or be p~rfw< Jdcd ro ir, tho' M. Dyar came wtth her Ll'fe in her Hand, the fecond time, to defrre them ro Null rheir wicked Law of Death, and to prevenr fhedding Innocent Blood, t~ey would nor,.bur put her ro Death alfo 1 wh1ch makes me thmk, they never made fLlCh a So!emn Act, Renoun. cing all fuch Laws of . their ov..'n accord, but as they were forced ro 1t ; and I have heard of {everal MalefaCtors that when they have been Taken and Conde'mned, have feem'd ro Condemn their Crimes very much, when they could not fQilow them any longer (whatever they might have clone, if they had not been prevenred ) which yet is more than rhe New· England Men have ever done, that I know of. C. M. I v;o11ld alfo Intreat the World, tkat they u·ould not b~ too ready to receive all Storzes told by the Qualw·s abour their New-England ~erfcm· tirrm. Why ? did they evenell m~re of H thaf was rrue ? Could he ever Convttl: them o ally Ft1lfhood in their Relations ? Of whom I P .... 7.c.2.·may fr~y as he does· in an orher Cafe (as to r?e 1 ' VerzcHy ( 1.07 ) Y~rac.ity of ~~e former) The Author, in whofe Ht(lortcal Wrttmgs the mofl Inqui(itive Envy has ')ever, to this Hour, deteBed fo much as or;e volun-tary and material Mi(lake. His Reafon, Beca.U[e t~ey have complained of a New,England-Per{ecu-tton 11pon. two W~men, .of their. Se£1, who came j!a.rk naked_-mto tbe,r publtck Af!qmblies, and they were -adJ'4~ged unto the Wbipping-Poft: Is no Reafon at all : Dtd rhey Complain of nothiog but that· or of no o~h~r Perfecution than this? How idJ; rh~n ~.n.d nd1culous is ir in him, efpecialJy as an H1fionan, co go ro mention thar, if crue, which I know nor wherher rhe f2.!1akers jufiified if 'rwas · and take no nocice of that which is fo ~uch mon~ confiderable? Why die! he not tell,how they got ~ttipMen to Cal}fe two Innocent Women A A .rl· nfnn ~'~- d . , . uJr m, r ~ ~ an M .. F~fher, ro be firipp~d fiark naked, in tu_bfp-fuch. an tmmo9eft manner, as Modefiy will nor ptng Of adn~It tO tnent1011; more like the Inquilirors in ilill.oSpam, than Chrillians or Prorefiants . and how lllttJ, rl ey whipp'd W. Bre11d One Hundred and Se- ' venreen Sc~okes, wirh .a pit<::h'd Rope, rill his ' ~le~, was l1ke ~Jelly,. fo thar he fuinred away, ~VhiCtl your Htgh-Pnelt, Norton, jnfrified, fay-wg, W. Brend endeavoured to beat their Ordinan- b? bl~ck and. blue, and if be Wt.U beatm !Jlack a11d . u~,. t'\, was JUft upon him; and he ?L'ould appear m hM C rhe. Jaylor's ) Beh,df: And Ann Coleman, whom ( WHh Jof Nicholfon, Jo. Liddal, and 7ane kltllaul) they fo cruelly whipp'd througl~ Sa- :em, Bo;lon .and Dedham, till fhe was nea~ dead 1n~eed, b~mg .almofr, murdered by Hathorn's Or· et' ~.nd ~dlmgh.zrn s A pprobarion, rhe cruel . E~eCLhtonet fo unmercifully Jaying on, rha~ .aintoU. WHh r_he Kr:;ocs of his V~hip he fplir the Nip- t.o pie ?t h<::r .Breafr, which fo tormented her ~ttzt!J. JlJat !C hap l~l§e ro ~vfr her her Life: .tjlfo Mar) ' P P 3 Tl)mki1:r |