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Show ( 140 ) (which I thall not mention) although be halJ been for twenty Years a Member ~f the Church in that place, anJ. kept up mno11g the Holy People of God there, a Reputation for feriom Chrijlianit)', with feveral others for Murders and Adulteries, to the number of about Ten, that he fets dow11, bur I fhall not rehearfe after him, for I love not to rake in fuch Dunghills, but leave it to whom Bo?k of it belongs. To which may be added, the ExeWltches, cution of feveral of their Church-Members fer l.'· S 1' Witches, co the number of 19 or to in all, of which one a Minifier ( fo called ) and two Minifters more accufed, and a Hundred Witchew +In 1693· more in Prifon t (which broke Prifon) committed by Fifcy more of themfelves, being Witches, and two Hundred more accufed, fome '~~,Q!;Ieqtr, of which of 2:reat Eftates in Bofton t, but moft ·vas no ...., . the Go- about Salem, and the Towns adJaCent, InfomucJ., vernour's fays he Book VI. P· St. c. I. that at laft it "JJJas Wif~, and (een, that there mufl be a flop put (viz,. to the Exe-t ch.M 5 ;:to· cutions) or the Generation of· the Childrm of God (as er, 1orne . of them ? he caHs thell1 ) wot4Ztl frll tmder that Cond€mnatton; ir came fo near home, it fcems, · 'twas time to hold ; as alfo rhe many Impofi urcs that have been among them, by his own Confefiion, and yet this one ( with his Father) to Accufe and Reproach us with the wild ACtions of a few extravagant Perfons, that, perhaps, at bell, were never of us, nor owned by us : But I have faid enough of that, and of thefc: things at prefenr, and 1110re than I fho~lld have done, if he had nor given the occafion ; bur I have fuffici .. enrly unfolded his Deceit, in his abufes of us, when they are fo much more ~hargeable th~mfelves. jflO ill . P. 16. c. 1. He fays, He can f oretell what U{age ltCage he flu•ti fin4 a-mo"g the Q3akepl for this Cbapttl.. of f t;OlU tt». h~ ( 141 ) h/4 • Cburcb-Hi~ory. But what-ever he .deferve, w~uch I leave to the Lord, and his own Confcten~ e; I fhall not bring any fuch Railing AcCtlfatwn againft bim, as he prerends tho' he fe~ms ro ~lefs himfelf in his Reviling ; buc rather, bezng Revzled, we Blefs; having learned of him who, '!'hen he was Reviled, Reviled not again; nor ~~~~;:~l.l doth H deferve the Name of a Church-Hi/for 3 efpecially that Chapter, and fome others b~~ rather a Railing Pamphlet, much lefs of our Church- Hi{fory, which is no more fo, than Appian was of rhe J ews, or Porphyre/5 of rhe Chriftians, Baronius of the Prote.Jlants, or Alen Cope of the Martyrs, or than the Tory Pens of the Sons of Bolfecus ( he tells of, Book III. p. I. c. 1.) 1.vas of the Puritans· and when he tells in what Pages of S Fi~1er' .he be flow' d fuch Language on Owen, as he fet~ ~J~n, we may confider it further, nor think-mg tt worth my rime (which I can bellow much betrer, than.) to turn over above eight Hun-died Pages 1n f2..!!arto, and near fo many in Folio., ro fearch after them on his bare fay-fo, who ~arh been proved fo falfe in other things · and m the mean time denying that ever one half of them was ever fo fpoken.j direttly to Dr. Owen , .or any one elfe, as he fets them down. How~ _ever, I can tell him where he may find ren times more, and much. worfe, i!l a Book he lately commended, of his Champ10n, R. Williams, as coJJeCl:ed by G. Fox and]. Burnyet, ar the end of th~ N_ew-EnglanJ fire-brand 0fencbeJ: But, ro bnng. H nea.rer Home, and that he may not go ro fpte ~r _pte~ a More in anorher's Eyt", while a .Beam IS m hi~ own, I lhall ibew him and or hers h1s own Face, by ftrring down fome of his own Language, defirig the Reader's Patience a Iitcle f.O h~ar, vi:y. Mijerable lf.ereti&ks; Hereticks, He ~ R 1 4 retickr |