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New England judged, not by man's, but the spirit of the Lord: and the summe sealed up of New-England's persecutions being a brief relation of the sufferings of the people called Quakers in those parts of America from the beginning of the fifth moneth 1656 (the time of their first arrival at Boston from England) to the later end of the tenth moneth, 1660 ... / by George Bishope.
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Bishop, George, d. 1668.
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exrecise Dominion became Lords over the Faith of others as your Cruel Dealings with Anne Hutcheson and that Company stands as a perpetual Record before the Lord against you Who because they differed something from you nothing would serve your turn but presently to Devour them Who after you had long Imprisoned her many Months and set men to keep her Did you not take away very much from her Husband to pay the men wages and then Banished several of them in the sore Cold Winter season into the Wilderness where was no Habitation who some of them were forced to dig a Cave in the Ground on Rhoad Island to preserve their Lives the place then being not Inhabited and did you not cruely deal with J. Collens who because he differed from you in Principle took him up as he passed through your Colony not medling with any and Imprisoned him and fined him 100. l. And when he went but to make his Defence in your Meeting saying Men Brethren and Fathers hear ye my Defence c. ye would not suffer him to speak further for himself but had him to Prison And after that some of your Patents endeavoured to get in that place to wit Rhoad Island under some of your Governments which occasioned some of their farther remove under the Dutch Government where they to wit Anne Hutcheson and her Son Francis and this Collens abovesaid her Son in Law with others were Murdered by the Indians The guilt and weight of whose Blood lies upon you as done by you who were People of an honest Life and good behaviour onely differing from you And it 's like Governor John Wintrope Senior who was an honest man and had some hand in this being drawn to it by your Priests was made sensible of it on his Death-bed when old Dudly a man of Blood and the rest of you sent to the said John Wintrope to set his hand to a Paper for the Banishment of one Matthews a Weltch Man a Priest which he refused telling them he had his hand too much in such things already but nothing of all this will work on you who have more and more gone on in that Spirit to the molesting Whipping Fining and Imprisoning many honest People upon the account of Baptism and the like Whose dealings are and have been so Inhumane so Barbarous so Cruel so Unmerciful as the like hath not been heard of nor can be Parallel'd by the Records of former Ages in this Nation Whose Judgement shall be as are your Presidents The Lord hath spoken it who will fulfil it Now as to Canecticote I have little to say as before I have intimated onely John Copeland John Rous were put under restraint and not suffered to pass the Colony W. Brend and W. Leddra were also there but not suffered to abide Sarah Gibbens and Dorothy Waugh at Hartford in that Colony whitherto they were moved of the Lord were Imprisoned several dayes and some of their Clothes sold to pay their Fees and denied to sojourn there the said Joseph Nicholson and his Wife were who went thither from Rhoad Island being moved of the Lord to place their Sojourning upon all the Colonies and the Commissioners of the Four united Colonies were there and D. Denison in particular who denied them though the Governor was Moderate as did those of Newhaven any being amongst them And so I have done with you and the other Colonies and roled ye up and down in the Blood of the Innocent as ye have roled your selves up and down in Innocent Blood and cloathed you with their Sufferings I have as ye have had to do in their Sufferings And the Cup I have filed to you which ye have filled unto them and have doubled it upon you in the Word of the Lord who will fullfil it upon you and you shall not go haughtily for this time is Evil. For the Lord my God shall come and all his Saints with Him A devouring fire shall go before him and it shall be very Tempestuous round about him He shall call to the Heavens-above and to the Earth that he may Judge his People and the Heavens shall declare his Righteousness for God is Judge himself Selah And he will Reprove you and set your sins in Order before you and will tear you in pieces and there shall be none to Deliver you So shall ye know that the Lord he is God and that there is no other that his Judgements are true and righteous altogether That these are His People and His Truth they Witness That in all their Afflictions He hath been Afflicted with them and that the Angel of His presence hath gone before them That He hath seen their Afftiction and heard their Cry and is come to Deliver them That you are Recompensed justly according to your Deeds That the hour of your Visitation is over That your night is come which shall never have end That Depart ye Cursed into Everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Ye must Receive from the King when he comes in his Glory and all the holy Angels with him then shall he sit upon the throne of his Glory and all Nations shall be gathered before Him and He shall separate them one from another as a Shepherd doth his Seep from the Goats and He shall set the Sheep on his right hand but the Goats on the left And the King shall say to them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the VVorld For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in naked and ye cloathed me I was sick and ye Visited me I was in Prison and ye came unto me Then shall the Righteous Answer him saying Lord when saw we thee an hungred and fed thee and thirsty and gave thee drink when saw we thee a stranger and took thee in or naked and cloathed thee Or when saw we thee sick or in Prison and came unto thee And the King shall Answer and say unto them Verily I say unto you in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren ye have done it unto me Then shall he say unto them on the left hand Depart from me ye Cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels For I was an hungred and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink I was a stranger and ye took me not in naked and ye cloathed me not sick and in prison and ye Visited me not Then shall they Answer him saying Lord VVhen saw we thee an hungred or a thirst or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister unto thee Then shall he Answer them saying Verily I say unto you in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did
his Deeds and that the Struggle this thing met withal in its bringing forth and who were the Fathers Fountains and bringers of it on and thorow the Priests and You may be made manifest I shal now proceed to what Ye did to the Strangers as well as to the Inhabitants and how ye did not only Banish but indeed Put to Death These were the Men of the Country whom I mentioned before with whom ye proceeded as to Banishment upon Pain of Death and upon whom ye began But these were not all but with others Natives of England accounted Strangers by you ye proceeded as with the Inhabitants yea and also put to Death as I shall shew by and by for the Lord God of Life and Power who gives unto all Men Life and Breath and Moving who is the Lord of Heaven and Earth and doth whatsoever He pleaseth in them both And who shall say unto Him What doest Thou VVho saith to the North Give up and to the South Keep not back c. Bring my Sons from far and my Daughters from the Ends of the Earth Could not be limited by you whose Breath is in your Nostrils who are but Dust and whom in a moment He can turn into Dust Nor be restrained by your Laws which were made in your Wills to persecute the Just But the stronger ye made your Laws and the more Cruel ye became the more He weakned you by his Power in his Servants who went thorow Banishment and Death And the more ye sought to keep Him under the more He rose up amongst you in His Servants and broke your Bonds and burst your Cords assunder and ye were mistaken who thought that by such things His Purpose could be disannulled or His Counsel be kept from being brought to Pass Though He suffered ye thus to do for the filling up your Measure and the making bare his Arm and the manifesting of the Glory of his Power who is bringing great and mighty things to pass to whom be Glory and Praise and Dominion for ever So Death was the Thing ye aimed at and their Blood ye would have and their Blood ye had and the Lord suffered ye so to do to try you and to prove you and to let the World see how far Profession will go without the Power of Godliness So saith your Declaration Which Sentence viz. of Banishment upon Pain of Death being regularly pronounced at the last Court of Assistants against the Parties above named and they either returning or continuing presumptuously in this Jurisdiction after their time limited were Apprehended and Owning of themselves to be the Persons banished were sentenc'd by Court to Death according to the Law aforesaid which hath been Executed upon Two of them Mary Dyar upon Petition of her Son and the Mercy and Clemency of this Court had liberty to depart within two dayes which she hath accepted of Answ Now I am come to the Bottom of your Work and the Height of this your Gradual Proceeding from Banishment unto Death and in the Instance of these Three Servants of the Lord viz. VVilliam Robinson Marmaduke Stevenson and Mary Dyar Two of whom viz. VVilliam Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson ye confess to have Executed and the Third viz. Mary Dyar to have sentenc'd to Death but Reprieved whom since ye have put to Death the Relation of whose Sufferings I shall proceed unto and the Merits of their Deaths and then reason with you for the Price of their Sufferings VVilliam Robinson of London Merchant and Marmaduke Stevenson of the East part of York-shire Country-man being moved of the Lord in the Fourth Month 1659. to go from Rhoad Island into Your Jurisdiction came thither accordingly whom ye soon apprehended and with them one Nicholas Davis who came from Plimmouth Patent of which he was to reckon with those with whom he traded in Boston and to pay some Debts and Patience Scot a Girl of about Eleven years old whose business to you-wards from her Father's house in Providence was to bear Witness against your persecuting spirit and sent them to Prison there to remain until the sitting of the Court of Assiststants during which time Mary Dyar aforesaid was moved of the Lord to come from Rhoad Island to visit the Prisoners whom ye Imprisoned also and at the sitting of the said Court of Assistants banished together with VV. Robinson and M. Stevenson and Nicholas Davis upon Pain of Death the Child it seems was not of years as to Law so as to deal with her by Banishment but otherwise in Understanding for she confounded ye all and some of ye confest that ye had many Children and they had been well Educated and that it were well if they could say half so much for God as she could for the Devil so ye Blasphemed the Holy Ghost the Spirit of Truth that spake in her saying it was an Unclean Spirit For saith the Son of God All Sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and Blasphemies wherewithsoever they shall blaspheme But he that shall blaspheme the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness but is in danger of Eternal Condemnation Because they said he had an Unclean spirit For they said He cast out Devils by Beelzebub the Prince of the Devils and that he had a Devil Mark 3. 22. to the 31. If after the Fourtcenth of the Seventh Month following they should be found in your Jurisdiction And Nicholas Upshall the Old Man whom ye imprisoned and fined and banished with such Cruelty as aforesaid returning after the space of Three years Banishment to Boston again to his Wife and Family about the time of the sitting of this Court as it was laid upon him by the Lord ye cast into Prison there to remain till he acknowledged his Offence who only bore a sober Witness against your Persecuting Law as a Freeman of Boston after that your Deputy Governor charged him with denying Relations in not coming to his Wife and Children in all that space of time when as ye had banished him from them upon pain of perpetual Imprisonment if he came back again a wicked thing so to charge him for the suffering of that which ye had done unto him to make him to suffer and then to charge him for so doing To which he answered VVas not thou and the rest of you here the cause of it who banished me so that if I did return I must be kept in Prison till I did acknowledge my Offence which was for bearing witness against a wicked and unrighteous Law made to persecute the Saints of Jesus Christ Then ye sent me to the Gen. Court where I declared unto you That the Prosecution of that Law would be a Fore-runner of a Judgment on the Country Therefore I said in tenderness of Love which I bear to the People and Country I did humbly desire you to take heed what ye did lest ye should be found fighters against God and it had been