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B09874 A representation to King and Parliament, of some of the unparralleld sufferings of the people of the Lord called Quakers, in New England together with the remarkable judgments of God upon sundry of their persecutors. 1669 (1669) Wing R1109A; ESTC R224335 6,543 1

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risen up one against another to the endangering of dashing their Babel to pieces And this they know was foretold and certified to and amongst them by Word and Signs by the Lords Servants who testified in the Name and Spirit of Truth That as a Potters Vessel so should they be broken never to be joyned together any more These things are written not in Malice or Prejudice to any of the forementioned Persecutors but in tender love to all Rulers Priests and People that they in the fear of the Lord may be warned by them to take heed how they open their mouths or lift up their hands against the Innocent for God is on their side and although some to their own destruction have been suffered to persecute and put some of the Bodies of the Children of the Living God to death yet against the Life and Power of the Lord in them they nor their weapons shall never prosper the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it And as for them that remain of the dark Persecuting Priests Rulers and People in New-England whose hands have been dyed in the Blood and lives of the Innocent Oh that there were in them an heart truly sensible of their great wickedness against the Lord and against his People that so they might be truly humbled before the Lord and so come to be delivered from the wrath to come which will most assuredly overcome and destroy all them that fight against the Lord. Oh New-England New-England how can the tender-hearted whom thou hast most cruelly Persecuted and despitefully used in the sence of thy sad state forbear to take up a Lamentation for thee who seemed beautiful in thy beginning and lovely wast thou whilst in thy integrity which was but for a moment or as the early dew for thy day was eclipsed in the morning and thou soon went a whoring from the Guide of thy youth and so thou becamest as a monstrous woman in his sight and now thou art unto him as Sodom and thy off-spring as Gomorrah who perished in the morning for thy Wickedness is as Scarlet and thy Iniquities as Crimson before the Lord. Let the ears of Kindred Nations and People that hear of thy horrible Apostacy tingle for thou soon grew'st great and said'st in thy heart I am as Queen of all Nations and in the greatness of thy Pride as thou attempted'st to climb up high even into the Throne of God How art thou fallen oh thou untimely daughter of Babylon Let all People and Professors who hear of thy deadly fall fear and tremble and dread the Living God and with speed come out of their empty Forms the Chambers of Death and come into the mighty Power of the Endless Life of God that in it you may escape the wrath of the Almighty which is coming upon the World which lies in wickedness Wo unto you ye Rulers and Hierling Priests of New-England for the Lord hath found you in the way of Cain who have drunk the blood of Martyrs and Saints and mingled it with your Sacrifices and in the filthy error of Balaam Persecuting and Killing the Just Wo unto you Rulers and Priests of New-England who have taken counsel to destroy the Work of the Lord and have laboured to suppress the Sun in its rising Ye are as Pharaoh and his Magicians for you have withstood him who is come in his mighty Power to lead Israel out of Aegypts darkness and house of Bondage Wo unto you Priests and Rulers of New-England who have cut off the Life of the Prophets from amongst their Brethren and have cruelly entreated the Children of the Lord whom he hath sent and raised up amongst you You have slain the Lords Worthies upon your High Places therefore upon your Mountain comes no Dew nor Rain and your House is left desolate because the Lord is departed from it for in it is found the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and there it is you have killed the tender Lambs in the Bosom and the Royal and lovely Babes as they were Sucking the Brests of their Mother For these things sake will I arise and plead with you O ye the greatest of mine Enemies saith the Almighty who in the height of your Pride boasted and said There was not such another Church in the World as the Church at Boston But your bloody hands have made you manifest to be the worst among them called Churches in the whole World Printed in the Year 1669.
Castle by Boston being laid in the heat of the day upon his Bed the Hand of the Lord in a strange manner with a crack of Thunder and flash of Lightning in a moment smote him to death so it 's testified he never spake more On that day the Rulers and Priests of Boston had agreed to mingle their Sacrifice with the Blood and Lives of the Innocent the Persecutors returning and rejoycing in the murdering and hanging of William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson as sundry of them were passing over a great Draw-Bridge it suddainly brake down in pieces with them and divers of them were wounded and bruised with the weighty fall thereof and one or two of them who seemed to joy in the Death of the Innocent it s said That the Bones of their Armes with Thighs and other parts of their Bodies were broken to pieces and after a few days torment of Body and rotting alive died And in this also was the Word of the Lord fulfilled spoken to the Bench by the mouth of that faithful Martyr who said Take heed ye Rulers what ye do and be warned before it be too late and know that in that day you put us to Death shall the Judgements of God come upon this place Old Thomas Wiggin Magistrate a bloody Persecutor who was deeply engaged in the Sufferings and in the taking away of the Lives of the Martyrs of Jesus who often without bowels of pitty would shed the Blood and devour the Goods of the Innocent him also hath the Hand of the Lord cut down and his Children may come to want And this also is according to the Word of the Lord by the mouthes of his Servants to him James Oliver that Beastly and bloody spirited Creature who as one implacable unmerciful without bowels of common natural affection who was so swift to shed Innocent blood that he struck down the Servant of the Lord William Robison as he was taking him out of Prison to hang him Whose inhumane cruelty bloodshed and murderous spirit the Righteous God hath in Remembrance who was fierce to take away the Lives of the Righteous the blasting hand of the Lord is risen up against and over him according to the Word of the Lord spoken by his faithful Servants whom he helped to hang on a Tree John Webb that proud Persecutor whom the Lord hath laid wast who with a Body of Men in Armes led forth Mary Dier to be murdered and hanged 'T is said as he was busie in killing a Whale or great Fish was suddenly after a strange manner carried into the Sea and drowned and here was a remarkable Hand also upon this Persecutor according to the Word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of his Servants Captain Johnson who led forth the Servant of the Lord William Ledra to be murdered and hanged compassing him about with Men of War with Swords Guns and Drums the Just Hand of the Lord for his bloody act hath fallen upon him also for he is as a man unman'd and bereaft of his wonted understanding and so sottish that his Brethren as it s said have degraded him and this is according to the Word of the Lord spoken by his Servants concerning him Marshal Brown of Ipswich who Persecuted the Servants of the Lord and unrighteously took away their Goods soon after the Lord cast him upon the bed of languishing where for a time it is testified he lay in great horror of Conscience and torment of Body and so departed this Life and this is according to the Word of the Lord by the mouth of his faithful Witnesses Samuel Archer Marshal in Salem who was of their Church-fellowship he had often Robbed and spoiled the Goods of the People called Quakers to pay his Masters Reckonings at the Taverns he was suddenly cut off and is come to nought and his remembrance rotts according to the Word of the Lord against such as do resist the Holy One willfully James Underwood a wicked Persecuting Constable who made it his work to disturbe the People of God in their holy waitings on the Lord who would Press one Friend to help him to lead another as Prisoner after this his wickedness against the Lord and his People though he had a considerable Estate yet the hand of the Lord being against him he came to nought this also is according to the Word of the Lord which his Servants testified concerning Persecutors An Eminent hand of Gods displeasure upon some of the Priests also John Norton Chief Priest in Boston and chief in stirring up the Rulers to Murder Hang and Persecute and to take away the Lives of the Innocent He by the immediate power of the Lord was smitten and as he was sinking down by the fire-side being under Just Judgment he confessed the hand of the Lord was upon him and so died and the Word of the Lord by the mouth of his Servant whom he stirred up the Rulers to put to death was fulfilled upon him Old Edward Norris Priest in Salem he stirring up the Rulers and People there to madness saying What was done to the Quakers was not Persecution but Prosecution as he was vindicating his bloody Principle was suddenly and strangely smitten dumb in his Pulpit and after a while died Old Priest Wilson who reviled the Servants of the Lord as they were led forth to be put to death was also by the Hand of the Lord swept away Timothy Dolton Priest of Hampton he hearing it certified that The Light within was the Light of Christ Cried out Oh horrible blasphemy He soon after dies Priest Mitchel of Cambridge who lately stirred up the Rulers to Persecution and Madness soon after was smitten down by the hand of the Lord and it 's testified That his very Tongue while he was alive turned exceeding black in his mouth and soon after he died Sundry others not here mentioned hath the hand of the Lord visited with Judgments upon themselves upon the fruit of their Bodies taking away the Lives of divers of their First-born by unusual deaths and from year to year to this day since they murdered the Servants of the Lord hath the hand of Justice blasted their Corn in their Fields for when their fields of Wheat are in the Ear and near to Blossome then is it in a strange manner smitten with Death at the Root and when the Husbandman seeth the Curse or Blast upon it hasteth to mow it down while it is green for Fodder but its loathsome to the Beasts of the field so that they care not to eat it This is remarkable and a lively Figure of New-Englands Abominable Profession and a true token of Gods displeasure against them according to the Word of the Lord spoken to them by the mouth of his Servants whom they put to death And now hath the Lord in Bloody Boston poured out a sore Plague even a rent between Rulers Priests and People so that in the bitterness of their envious hearts they are