us ask you what Rule or Example have you that you walk by let us hear what you can say for your selves What Orthodox men were they that counselled you to these barbarous actions what Counsellors were they that would give counsel to Magistrates to do these bloudy actions of whom did you learn it Come let us hear your strong Reasons for the day is drawing near that you must be further tried for the Almighty God hath put it into the hearts of his Servants to try you whether you will put us to death for disobeying your unrighteous Law We that are free-born English-men we demand our Liberty for the exercise of our pure Consciences in this Country as well as other English-men we being free-born English-men we may by the Law of God claim our Liberty before many other People We who are not transgressors of the Law of God neither of any Law or Decree that is according thereunto what is the Reason that we should be banished upon Death out of your Jurisdiction more than any other people What is it because we are turners of the World up-side down What is it because we are termed Ring-leaders of a People that are in scorn called Quakers What is it because the Laws of our God which we obey are different from all the unrighteous and bloudy Laws of New-England What is it because we cannot obey the Commandment of the Rulers of New-England that have commanded us to bow to the spirit that ruled in Haman which now rules in these bloudy Rulers of Boston and elsewhere in New-England Nay I say the Lord our God hath raised and is raising the Royal Seed and Spirit that ruled in Mordecai that could not nor cannot stoop nor bow to the spirit that ruled in proud Haman I say see and behold if the same spirit rules not in you ye Rulers chief Priests and Inhabitants of Boston and elsewhere mark if the same spirit doth not rule you that ruled in Haman who sought not only the destruction of Mordecai alone but sought to destroy all the Seed of the Jews Are you not of Haman's off-spring and ruling in his nature who was so cruel and so bloody who did give a sum of money for destroying the Seed of the Jews Mark what was it for Because Mordecai could not bow to him nor do him reverence Mark it was not for the transgression of any Law of God yet he disobeyed the Commandment of King Ahasuerus who raigned from Judea even unto Ethiopia over an hundred and twenty and seven Provinces Or is your Law and Commandment of more force than his was who had commanded that they should reverence Haman for so had the King commanded Are you greater than he was Reade the Third of Esther throughout And yet did not Mordecai transgress his Commandment in not bowing to Haman at which Haman was full of wrath Is it not so with you are not you mad and sull of wrath against the People called Quakers because they testifie to your faces that your deeds are evil Are not you now full of wrath and envy because the Quakers will not obey your unlawful Commands and unrighteous Decrees Now you that are in Haman's nature ruled by Haman's spirit in Cruelty seeking and labouring to destroy the Royal Seed and True Jew from off the Earth in this Country of New-England as Haman did labour to destroy the Seed of the Jews the People of Mordecai within the Kingdom of Ahasuerus so do ye seek to destroy the People of God called Quakers that are come or comes into your Jurisdiction Is it not because they cannot bow to you Now did Mordecai in disobeying the King's Commandment disobey the higher Power yea or nay unto which every soul is to be subject for Conscience sake And such as disobey this Power disobey the Ordinance of God Give us in your Answer ye Rulers and chief Priests you that seek and receive Honour from man How can you believe that receive Honour one of another and seek not that Honour that cometh from God only Well is your Commandment and Decree of more force to us than the King 's was concerning Haman to Mordecai seeing they are of one nature We can obey your Commandment no more than Mordecai did bow to Haman though the King had commanded it Now we say are not you preparing a Gallows to hang us thereon as Haman did for Mordecai But take heed We warn you in the Name of the Lord God consider what you are going to do In the Name of the Lord we demand that we may have Liberty for the Exercise of our pure Consciences within your Jurisdiction aswel as other English-men seeing that you cannot lay to our charge the transgression of any Law of God we being men that fear the Lord God of Heaven and Earth and we come not for any thing of yours God is our Witness it is not for any thing that you have that we come for for we do not lack any outward thing for many of us have both Houses and Land of our own and Silver also in Old England so that we seek not any thing that you have God is our Witness whom we serve in the Spirit of Truth who hath constrained us to leave all and to follow Him that it is not the World that doth perish with the handling thereof that we seek or labour for but the Good and Eternal Welfare of the sons of men for the Seed's sake which is oppressed in New-England and other parts of the World do we labour and travel and suffer all manner of hardships for Christ's sake are we become fools and do suffer all manner of Evil to be done unto us as Christ said unto his Disciples they shall do all maaner of Evil to you for my Name sake but those that did it and those that do it know neither God nor his Son Jesus Christ neither have they the Love of God abiding in them For such as love not him whom they have seen how can they love God whom they have not seen and such have not Eternal Life abiding in them but are of the Devil as their fruits do make manifest and are the thorns of which men cannot gather Grapes except it be such Grapes as Sodom and Gomorrha did bring forth which provoked the Holy One the Most High to arise in his Wrath and consume them in his Anger Come ye Rulers let us further ask you a Question Of whom did you receive or from whence had you your Rule to Imprison any for coming to visit one another did you finde any such Example in the Scripture which you call Your Rule did ever any Magistrate do such a thing to imprison any of the Prisoners Acquaintance or Friends for onely coming to visit them Had not Paul's Friends and Acquaintance liberty to come and visit and to minister unto him Now you do not only hinder that which the Heathen granted but exceed such in Cruelty which imprisoned Paul
ye are naked and bare and who sees your Hearts and knows the bottom of your Intents against these People and accordingly will Judge you whose Judgements are Just You put them to Death These are your Means your all other Means but these are none of the Means which the Spirit of Truth Prescribes in the Scriptures of the Apostles for the Convincing Gainsayers But Exhortation Reproof Admonition the Word of Truth the Sword of the Spirit and these the Apostles used and with these they warred and they wrestled not with Flesh and Blood but with Principallities and Powers and Spiritual Wickednesses in high Places and in Meekness they Instructed them who Opposed themselves if God Peradventure would give them the Knowledge of the Truth And the Son of God tells ye That he came not to destroy mens Lives but to save And when his Disciples would have Fire come down on the men of Samaria He said Ye know not of what Spirit ye are Now these Means failing or you having failed in the using of these Means or you not knowing how to use these Means or you being not in that which would teach you how to use these Means which are the Means ye should have used and would have directed you thereunto Ye betake your selves to other Means Means that you should not have used Means which the using of them cannot Convince the Heart and Conscience of Man nor Instruct the Ignorant nor bring to the Knowledge of the Truth those that Oppose themselves Nor Overcome Principalities and Powers and Spiritual Wickednesses in high Places Nor Subdue the Spirit though it may bring under the Body and through fear of him that can Kill the Body make to Blaspheme Him who can Kill both Soul and Body and cast both into hell fire which was not the Case of these for they feared not you who did Kill the Body and could go no further but Him who can Kill both Soul and Body and cast into hell fire him they feared And Sanctified him in their hearts and made him their Fear and their Dread and he kept them who trusted in Him because they trusted in Him who never failed them who put their trust in Him And Delivered them and they have obtained a good Report and have finished their course with Joy those whom ye have put to Death and kept the Faith and henceforth is laid up for them a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the Righteous Judge will give them in that day and not onely unto them but to all those who love the Lord Jesus Christ and his appearing I say these Means failing you betake your selves to Other Means to the Means which the World useth as aforesaid to shew that you 〈…〉 of this World which never reacheth the Spirit but the Body and because they cannot reach the Spirit they kill the Body When as the Spirit it is that Offers up the Body and presents it a living sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is its reasonable service and by which they offered up their Bodies on the Point which ye offered unto them and on the Tree triumphed over ye all and shewed that Greater was he that was in them then he that is of this World and that they could die to do the will of God And that nothing could separate them no not Death it self from the Love of God which is Christ Jesus And so as your all other so this Means of Cruelty viz. Death it self hath failed you in thinking thereby to Overcome the Saints of the most High God or to keep them from the doing of his Will Fourthly The Point ye offered them was without Ground in Law or that the Law allows ye to put For as I have said Valuable Considerations must precede and such as will weigh down that of taking away of a man's Life which the Law esteems a most precious thing Now here is no such produced by you nor are there any such The utmost is that they are such as are called Quakers who are proved to be another manner of People in this Nation than you Reproach and are so with you whom you have not Convicted of one Principle or Practice that is contrary to Godliness Onely the Hat ye stumble at which is their Reasonable Apparel and by the Hat ye Judged them to be such and put them to Death And this was the Point which ye offered and this was it against which ye offered it and in this they came in their reasonable Apparel in the Will of God upon your Point and passed through it Now where Valuable Considerations are not the Ground neither is Law nor Reason For as I have said it is Lawful for any English man to reside come in or be in any of the Dominions appertaining to England and as Natural it is for One as for Another For it is an English man's House and where shall a man be if he shall not be in his House And it is not the Name of a Thing Or the Distinction of Word or Habit put by men that must cut a man off from this his Priviledge which is by Nature Nor should Names of Distinction much less of Reproach be given whereby to raise One Part of a Nation against Another for this Ministers Division and is an Occasion thereof and tends to the Dissolution of Government and is contrary to Law Therefore they who come into a Countrey unto which they have a Natural and Legal Right as these had and any English man hath to come in amongst you and have not done any thing by which by the Law of their Countrey they are justly made uncapable of that Right as these had not for you are in Subordination to England Your Lawes are not to be Repugnant unto it There for such to come reside or to be is no Valuable Consideration or Legal Ground as to his Countrey to be put upon the Point or the Point to be offered unto him and if the Point be offered to such and they come upon it and they be killed therewith such cannot be said to be Fellons de se For the Law will say Quo Warranto On what Ground And the Ground is short as hath been Declared and made to appear Nor Violently or Willfully to rush upon the Point but those who without Law or Ground as to the Law of their Countrey and your Countrey is England shall so offer the Point and run them through who come upon it Such are Ingulatores de se Cutters of their own Throats or Shedders of Blood in their own Wrong your Case in this Particular and the Violence and wilfulness will be attributed unto them by the Law who set the Point not to those that come upon it As of one who sets the Sword where another man may lawsully Pass and he that so Passes is Executed thereupon For he that so cometh cometh upon his Right Lastly Oh ye wretched Hypocrites and Murderers Did ye not put the same Mary
it not to me And these shall go away into Everlasting Punishment but the righteous into Life Eternal And so I have sealed up your Summe THE END A Few Words to the KING and both Houses of PARLIAMENT and the Rulers and People of these Nations as a WARNING from the LORD AND now Ye Inhabitants of these Nations Ye Princes and Rulers thereof and Thou King CHARLES and Thy Two Houses of Parliament be ye all warned in the Word of the Lord Whose Word and Warning it is how ye tread the steps of these or of the Men that have gone before you Medling with Conscience the Dominion of God Persecuting Men for their Conscience to God and causing them to suffer for their Consciences as hath been in these Nations For if you do and Forget the Lord and be Unmindful of Him that formed you of the Rock that begat you who hath done great Things for you and Wonderful Things and Terrible and change your Glory into the Similitude of an Oxe that eateth Grass and persecute His People Who are Innocent as to you and have suffered with you and Desire your Welfare Against whom ye have no occasion of fault but as to the Law of their God which they may not transgress lest Evil come upon them from the Lord and his Hand be upon them Who are Meek and Patient and Resist not Evil because of Him that said it but bear All things and suffer all things and you have tryed and found it so as have those that went before you whom the Lord hath Plucked up much because of what was done unto them of which they were warned in the Day of their Deliverance which was fulfilled upon Them viz. That which they were warned of as of that which should come if they took not Warning And hath made way for you and hath done for you as it is at this Day beyond what ye could ask or think Without your Sword or Bow or Spear or your Habergeon When your Hopes were almost gone and you were Disappointed in your Stratagems and Overthrown in your Power and even at a stand to Consider Whether ever a Return of your Captivity should be Which He hath turned again as the Streams in the South and you are as it were in a Dream now that the Lord hath turned again your Captivity and as those who are so filled with the Apprehension of the thing they have and which they long desired to enjoy and were long kept out of that they are in Doubt whether it be a Dream or the Thing Thus hath the Lord done for you and He that hath done it can undo it again and overturn you as He hath done them that have gone before you and that without Sword or Spear even by the Spirit of the Lord Who hath moved Me to write to You and to warn you of these things For if you do as from the Mouth of the Lord I have said and meddle with Conscience the Dominion of God and impose upon it in Matters of Religion the Worship of God who will be worshipped in Spirit and Truth and the Father seeketh such to worship Him who is Lord of the Conscience and so intrench upon his Dominion which is an Everlasting Dominion and His Kingdom which shall never have end His Hand will be against you and his Fury will come upon you and He will visit you and your Day He will turn into Night and your Joy into Sorrow and your Rejoycing into Heaviness and you shall know that the Most High ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will So in Bowels of Love and Tenderness of Heart as One that desires your Prosperity for ever and the Wel-being of you and your Posterity after you I beseech you take heed of striking against the Rock of Ages or medling with His Kingdom which is an Everlasting Kingdom or with His Dominion which is for ever and ever or persecuting His People for if ye do Know assuredly from the Lord It will dash you to Pieces and by how much the more his Kindness hath exceeded towards you will be your Judgment Therefore my dear Friends Take heed what ye do be Advised and Cool Refuse not the Counsel of One that is your Friend On whom the sence of these things lies Who would not have God your Enemy Who would have it well with you For here have splitted All that have gone before you and here You will be split the Lord hath spoken it And so I have Discharged my Conscience of what the Lord hath laid on Me and manifested my Love and Good-will to You If ye take it well it will be the better for you if otherwise I am Clear Bristol 11th day 4th Month 1661. GEO. BISHOP AN APPENDEX To the BOOK Entituled New England Judged BEING Certain WRITINGS never yet Printed of those Persons which were there EXECUTED Together With a SHORT RELATION of the TRYAL SENTENCE and EXECUTION OF VVILLIAM LEDDRA Written by Them in the time of their Imprisonment in the Bloody Town of BOSTON LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Windmil in Martins Le Grand 1661. An Appendex To the BOOK Entituled New England Judged This concerns all such Rulers Priests and People in New-England who have joyned hand in hand to Persecute the Saints but especially the Rulers and Priests of Masachusets Bay in New-England who are become more Bloody and Cruel Bold and Impudent in their Wickedness than the rest of their Brethren who have attempted to make a Bloody Law and Unrighteous Decree to Banish the Children and People of God upon Death out of their Jurisdiction and by an unrighteous Decree have made a Law to put the Servants of God to Death if they return again into their Patent Therefore mark the Cruelty which is the fruits of New-England's Professors all you that Read this Paper HEarken and give Ear thou Town of Boston lend an Ear O ye Rulers chief Priests and Inhabitants thereof Listen all you that dwell therein Rich and Poor Small and Great High and Low Bond and Free of what sort so ever Give Ear be attentive to the Words of my mouth which proceed from the Spirit of the Lord and from the Power of the Almighty within me I have often considered your Conditions and your Actings have often come into my remembrance which hath caused me often to Lament because of the hardness of your hearts who do thus slight the Almighty and requite the Most High Oh foolish and unwise ye who do not regard the Lord that made you who hath often sent to you his Servants to give you warning of the mighty day of the Lord of Hosts of the terrible day of the Lord God Almighty which draweth near it hastens apace the Lord hath said it for His Elects sake and for His own Names sake will the Lord arise and plead with all His Enemies in this the day of His Eternal Power Oh
which is according to that of God in every man's Conscience which saith It is more just and meet to obey God than man So being that your Law that you have made is unequal and contrary to the Law of God which he hath writ in our hearts which is equal just and righteous for your Law that you have made against the Innocent People called Quakers is unjust and unrighteous and contrary to that of God in all mens Consciences and contrary to the righteous and Royal Law of God Therefore we say we cannot obey such a Law that doth not agree with the Royal Law of God but herein shall we obey the Lord choosing rather to suffer what you shall be suffered to do unto us than to fulfil the Commandment and unrighteous Law of unrighteous men in flying at your Command when the Lord hath Commanded us to stay Whereby that he may shew his Power in us that his Command and his Righteous Royal Law is of more power virtue and force in us and with us than your unrighteous Laws and Commands can be against us So this know if you put us to death when we return that you will bring innocent blood upon you by so doing which shall not depart from your houses nor from that seed that is guilty thereof So these things we speak that you may no more be guilty of Innocent blood for assuredly know that nothing shall fail of what the Lord hath spoken by us and through us concerning you if you go on still in Rebellion and stiff-neckedness and refuse to hearken to the Voice and Counsel of the Lord God And this know that you have been warned from the Lord of these things before they came to passe For this we know if we disobey the Command of the Lord to fly from you because you have made a Law to put us to Death if we disobey the Lord in this thing he can cut us off and take our Lives from us in his anger and fury Therefore be it known unto you that the Lord hath made us willing to lay down our Lives among you if you be suffered to take them from us and in this thing we know we shall have peace when you shall have sorrow and torment night and day And this shall you certainly know one day that the Lord God of Heaven and Earth whom we serve sent us among you if you see our faces again after we have been Banished from you and that which we have spoken you shall know to be truth whether you will hear or forbear Well if you say we are transgressors of a Law in not obeying your unrighteous Law It is your own and not God's Law For his Law is holy just and good but yours is altogether unholy unrighteous unjust and wicked and is to be set at nought and condemned by the servants of the Lord For this Law of yours which you have made to put the Righteous to death hath not proceeded from the Spirit of the Lord which is meek and lowly and easie to be entreated which doth judge and condemn you and your Law Now if you would know from what spirit this wicked and unnatural Law of yours hath proceeded Well we shall speak plainly it hath proceeded from the murdering spirit which raigned and ruled in the Persecutors of Old from whence all such Lawes did and do proceed Now ye Rulers chief Priests and Inhabitants of New-England this we shall say unto you in the fear of the Lord and Spirit of the Almighty and in the Power of the Lord Jesus Christ that you nor your Law is not to be regarded herein and your Law is to be broken and must be broken by the Power of the Lord God and you must be judged and condemned by the same Power for making such a Law For the Lord of Hosts is coming up against you and your Power must be subdued and taken from you by the Prince of Peace even by Him who is come and coming to rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron who is come and coming whose Right it is to Rule and subdue all Powers and Authorities unto Himself and to take the Government into his Own hand unto whom it belongs who will dash you to pieces ye Rulers that rebel against his Righteous Power and his Holy Law that He is Establishing in the Earth in the hearts of the sons of men that obey his Voice and that hearken unto his Counsel his Righteous and Holy Law must be established and his Righteous Government and Kingdom must be set up and your Unrighteous and Unholy Kingdom and Government must be overturned and destroyed by the Power of the Everlasting God in this day of his Eternal Power who is come and coming to make void all your ungodly inhumane and bloody Laws and to reward you according to your works The Lord God hath spoken it and by Him it shall be accomplished upon you for the Decree of the Most High is gone out against you ye unmerciful men whose Wickedness and Unrighteousness doth exceed the Nations about you for barbarous Cruelty and unmanlike Actions Have you not altogether lost your Senses Reason and Understanding that you are become so bruitish and so unlike Christians You are gone so far in your Cruelties and unnatural Actions that you are a stink and a loathsom smell to all People that have the least measure of Uprightness and of the honest Principle ruling in them and your barbarous and cruel actions and bloody deeds they abhor and at your Cruelty that you have acted against the People of the Lord who are by you in scorn called Quakers many of the common sort of People do stand amazed and wonder to hear of such Cruelty to be acted by such a Generation of men that have made such a noise concerning Religion concerning a Church concerning Ministry and Magistracy and Church-Government and Ordinances Preaching Praying Singing Morning and Evening Sacrifices Family-Duties as you call them that such should become so bloody and so cruel it doth astonish many that are called Heathens that all your Preaching Praying Singing making such a noise concerning Religion that it should come to no more and to produce no better fruits than Imprisoning Whipping Stocking Burning in the Hand Cutting off Ears Banishing upon Death as you have banished Six already from their Wives and Children and from their outward beings So that you do not only intend to destroy the Souls but Bodies also Come let us know what have they done what Law of God have they transgressed that you should banish them upon pain of Death from their Families What was it because their Conversations and Actions were honest and upright and yours are evil What was it because their Practices condemed yours What was it because they owned a People that are by you in scorn called Quakers whom you evilly entreat and such as owns them you banish and despitefully use them Surely these things will be remembred Come let
is your Case For Men who are Relative to Another Country whose Government doth depend upon Others Who receive their Commission elsewhere and are in Subordination to the Power of which they receive their Commission Thus to Exceed all Bounds and Limits of Moderation Law Humanity and Justice upon a People barely for their Conscience and the Exercise of their Religion as ye have done in the Instances aforesaid and much more which could be brought were it not too burdensom to the Reader for I am forc'd to take but the Minutes of many things for the Readers satisfaction And for You to do it who your selves are the Men not Another Generation which so fled which so suffered is beyond a Parallel And yet after all these your Illegal and Unrighteous Proceedings in Blood and Cruelty ye are not ashamed to say Declaration The Consideration of our gradual Proceeding will vindicate us from the Clamorous Accusations of Severity Our Own Just and Necessary Defence calling upon us other Means failing to offer the Point which these Persons have violently and wilfully rushed upon and thereby become Felons de se which might it have been Prevented and the Soveraign Law Salus Populi been preserved Our former Proceedings as well as the sparing Mary Dyar upon an Inconsiderable Intercession will manifestly Evince that We desire their Lives absent rather than their Deaths present So ends your Declaration Printed by their Order Edw. Rawson Secret Answer Had ye not Foreheads of Brass and Faces of Flint and Hearts harder than the Adamant and Consciences Seared with a hot Iron It were wonderful to think that you should dare to utter such Abominable Untruths before God and Man much less to put your Justification of All upon the Consideration of what ye here call Your Gradual Proceedings For First Your Gradual Proceeding is not from the Merits of the Fact for here is none Nor from the Warranty of the Law for that is Grounded upon Fact Nor from the Bottom of Justice for it is founded upon Law But from One Irregular Proceeding to Another For You have proved nothing as I have shewed and there being no Proof there 's no Ground for Law and there being no Law there 's no Justice and so Your Gradual Proceeding contrary to Law serves to Convince You of the Transgression of the Law And the more you have rose up from a Bottom that is wrong and the farther ye have proceeded from step to step and not on a Right Foundation the more ye have swerved from the Right and are from a Right Foundation And so the Consideration of Your Gradual Proceeding from One Punishment to another is but the Consideration of your Gradual Proceeding from One Cruelty to another from Imprisonment to Whipping from Whipping to Cutting off Ears from Cutting off Ears to Finings and Confiscation of Estates from Finings and Confiscation of Estates to Selling for Bond-men and Bond-women from Selling for Bond-men and Bond-women to Banishment upon pain of Death from Banishment upon pain of Death to Death it Self And manifestly Evinces that ye desire their Deaths Present rather than their Lives Absent and is so far from Vindicating you from the Accusations of Severity that it chargeth it yea the greatest upon Ye Secondly Ye were put upon no other manner of Defence than that which is not of this World then that which is Spiritual For They came not to you with Swords nor with Staves neither with Staff or with Spear But in the Name of the Lord and with the Word of Truth as did the Apostles and Disciples of Old and as ye did to the Bishops And onely sought by the Demonstration of Truth to be made Manifest to that of God in every Man's Conscience and they were sent of the Lord in Love to turn you from darkness to the Light and from the Power of Satan unto God that ye might receive Remission of Sins and an Inheritance which is Incorruptible amongst them which are Sanctified by Faith which is in Christ And this was the End of their Coming and the Intent thereof and no Other And no other thing did they do nor have ye Convinc'd them of any Other Now what is this to that which ye pretend and seem to Insinuate by all this Clamor of your Just and Necessary Defence and all other means failing and which might it have been prevented and Salus Populi the Soveraign Law been Preserved As if the whole Countrey and Every Individual therein and your selves in particular were in danger as by a Hostile Enemy Were ye in the Truth or of the Truth the Truth is able to defend its own and its Weapons are not Carnal and Spiritual Mighty through God to the casting down of strong holds and every Imagination that exalts it self against the kingdom of Jesus Christ And it needs not man nor the arm of man to defend it But in that ye have not warred with these but with other weapons and by Cruelty and Blood which the Truth is against have sought to Support your Religion and by such Proceedings as these and Loud Acclamations have endeavoured to Preserve your Religion to bespeak your Justification with the People It is manifest and it plainly shews that your Religion is not Truth that your Clamor is not Right that ye that crie out of Wrong are the greatest Wrong-doers and that there is no such thing as ye pretend and that ye are as Ridiculous in your Fears as ye are Cruel in your Wills Thirdly The other meanes you mention to have used are Imprisonments Whippings Cutting off Ears Fines and Confiscation of Estates Selling for Bond-men and Bond-women for the Payment of Fines where ye had taken all or that there was no other thing to satisfie you which you are Silent in Or ye may pretend ye did it by Virtue of Old Laws but New Fines you laid and whether ye did it upon New Laws or Old that is not the Point but do them you did and are some of your other Meanes and Cruel Ones too as I have shewed Banishment upon pain of Death These are your Means your all other Means yet all they are not And all these your other Meanes failing you say you offered them the Point which they coming upon wilfully and Violently as you say but I say and it is so and time will make it manifest the Lord will make it appear that it was in the Will of God as hath been declared they came into your Jurisdiction and in the Moving and by the Command of Him who is above your Laws and will dash you too pieces Or rushing upon as ye alledge but soberly they came in and in the fear of God thereby became Felons de se or were Guilty of their own Blood of which you are Guilty and must know the price of it for this shift will not serve you before the Judge of all who is drawing near to Judgement and will render to you according to your deeds before whom