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cause_n	witness_v	work_n	work_v	30	3	6.2719	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52921	New-England's ensigne it being the account of cruelty, the professors pride, and the articles of their faith, signified in characters written in blood, wickedly begun, barbarously continued, and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possest in the priests and rulers in New-England ... : this being an account of the sufferings sustained by is in New-England (with the Dutch) the most part of it in these two last yeers, 1657, 1658 : with a letter to Iohn Indicot, Iohn Norton, Governor, and chief priest of Boston, and another to the town of Boston : also, the several late conditions of a friend upon the Road-Iland, before, in, and after distraction : with some quæries unto all sorts of people, who want that which we have, &c. / vvritten at sea, by us whom the vvicked in scorn calls Quakers, in the second month of the yeer 1659 ; this being a confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his book titled, The Popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, &c.	Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.; Copeland, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing N636; ESTC R3600	97,400	124

expecting their prey John Norton Priest being then present and speaking yet opened they not the●r mouths until he had done although the burden of the Word vvas much upon them then opened S●rah Gibb●n● her mouth saying the Bu●den of the Word of the Lord to the Inhabitants of Bo●●on because of your pr●de and oppression the land mourns in speaking o● which words the Serjeant laid hands upon her and pulled her down was this a noble Act did he herein shevv forth the spirit of a man Sure I am that a man of a noble spirit vvould condemn it and a man of valour or vvorth vvould be ashamed of such a man then D●ro●●y Waugh spake bidding them Fear God and give glory to his Name c. Several other vvords were uttered as they past out of their Synagogue in their way to Prison multitudes following them vvhere they two were shut up in a close room not being suffered to have food for their money And requiring it of the Jaylor he answered That if vve vvould not eat the prison food vve should famish and then he brought both food and vvork and laid before them but the Lord put a stop to it that they could not meddle with neither knowing the wickedness of their wills against which they were called to stand Witnesses but the jaylor vvould not suffer them to have any for eight days together but said they should leave their carcasses behind them mark this expression yet the Lord preserved them and he found a liar Upon the first of the third moneth they were called to be examined before John Indicot Governor and Ric●ard Bell●●gham Deputie Governour and several others vvho wickedly seeking to ensnare them examined them apart yet were they preserved in boldness and courage and carried forth in the manner following Sarah Gibbins John Indico● asked me if I had not been in those parts before Answe● It is known already vvhether I was yea or nay he asked me again hovv long I had been in their Colonie I told him it was in my breast how long but it is like I shall not tell thee he said he vvould make me tell him before we had done I asked him why he sought to ensnare me and my friends that had entertained me seeing you have made such a Law to oppress them vvhereby to take away their goods for so doing to hold up your oppression and the Governour asked us whether we owned Christ yea or nay Answ Yea He said D● you own him with a humane body sitting at the right hand of God in heaven Ans We own no other Christ then he that sits in heaven at the right hand of the Father Then Rich. Bellingham Deputie Governour asked us If there is a God Answ Yes there is a God which is righteous true and just in judgment which will render vengeance on all the workers of iniquity and your actions are recorded before him as with a pen of Iron and a point of a Diamond for the cry of the oppressed is entred into the ears of the Lord God of Sabbaths then like a man of unclean lips and not one that is fit to sit in the seat of justice told me I was a Witch and said I spake I knew not what Answ I have learned Christ so as to pass through good and evill report then he asked me if I was the light which we so often spake of Answ I bear witness of Christ the light which lighteth every ma●● that cometh into the world as saith the Scripture he pressed much on me saying was I the light yea or nay but he was shut out with all his subtilty John Indicot asked us Why we came to disturb them in the face of both Town and Country Answ Did we disturb or did you make the disturbance in searching and rifling houses six days before we came Did not fear surprize the Hypocrites if you were of the elect and elected and we deceivers it is impossible that the elect should be deceived you should have let us been tryed the other day in your meeting before the Town and Country that the deceivers might have been made● manifest and truth cleared to the simple Then John Indicot said he did not send for me to dispute with me but said how came you by your Learning by revelation Answ Not by the will of man then I demanded of him if it were justice or equity we should be kept and not suffered to have food for our money this being the third day we have been thus kept and have not eaten one morsel of bread you may all see that God is with us and that we came well into this Town several hundreds can witness and if we perish our blood will fall heavy upon you which are the cause of it Then ●●hu Indicot said it matters not but if you will work you shall want for nothing then I told him that he had taken me from the work that the Lord called me unto then he said the Lords work the devils work and called to the Caolor to take me away the sentence being past upon us both to be severely whipt and not spared the second day of the week following they executed their malice upon us ten stripes a piece cruelly laid on with a threefold cord having knots at ends for causing it to tare the flesh so to torment the creature which being done we were moved to praise God for his presence at which the people was astonished after which vve vvas shut up and the windows stopt whereby to prevent us from the aire and all manner of refreshment so continued us for the want of paying of fees certain days in vvhich time God wrought their deliverance by one Robert Westcot of Warvvick in the Collony of Road-Iland Also Horred Gardiner a mother of many children and an inhabitant in Newport upon Road-Iland being moved by the measure of God to go on his message unto Weymouth took with her the youngest babe that fed upon her brest such a journey that no flesh that had looked upon it with the fleshly eye could have expected considering her condition she could have accomplished but her faith was made strong through weakness and according to the will of God finished her testimony at Weymouth in Boston Collony where the witness in the people answered unto her words but the baser sort hurried her away the day following before John Indicot Governor of Boston who after abusing her with unsavory language and much threatening committed her and the girle that assisted her to bear her child Mary Stanton by name with reviling language unto the Gaolor where they receive ten stripes a piece with the threefold cord of their covenant Such a barbarous article of their faith i● this as I have not heard the like as to whip a woman who bare two babes sucking the breast at the time one visible and the other invsible who after that execution of this their cruelty kneeled down saying The Lord