was in England in the days of the bishops, hid himself under a bed for fear of an apparitor, but is now thus cruel to the innocent, said to the said Joseph and his wife, after that ye had pronounced on them the sentence of banishment upon pain of death, "That your law was too strong for them, and that they should be assuredly hanged,"-if they should be taken again after banishment," and that they would take a course with his wife hereafter," for she was great with child when she was banished. And 'your jailer rejoiced when he met Joseph after his banishment, telling him, "That he (Joseph) was come again, to see whether the gallows would hold him," as he rejoiced at the sight of some other Friends who were sent to prison for that purpose. And it was boasted in Court, "That ye had men in arms to maintain your laws, and to defend yourselves." What laws are they?— are they against conscience, or for religion? And what religion is it which men in arms must maintain? And against whom are your arms, but those who do not resist you? a few innocent men and women.

Such a generation of bloodthirsty men are ye, who have been long filling up the measure of your cruelty; who, when you had escaped the hands of those you feared in England, and gathered large farms about you, have sat down at rest, and soon begin to exercise dominion and lord it over the faith of others, as your cruel dealings with Anne Hutchinson and that company stand as a perpetual record against you before the Lord; who, because they differed something from you, nothing would serve your turn but presently to devour them; and, after you had imprisoned her many long months, setting men to keep her, did you not take away very much from her husband to pay them their wages, and then banished several of the company into the wilderness in the cold Winter season, where was no habitation? And some of them were forced to dig a cave in the ground to preserve their lives, as the place was then not inhabited. And did you not cruelly deal with J. Collins, because he differed from you in principle, whom ye took up as he passed through your colony, though not meddling with any, and imprisoned and fined him one hundred pounds?

And when he went to make his defence in your meeting, saying, "Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence," &c., you would not suffer him to speak farther for himself, but had him to prison. And, after that, you endeavoured to get some of your patents into Rhode Island, under some of your governments, which occasioned the farther remove of some of the company under the Dutch government, where they, to wit, Anne Hutchinson and her son Francis, and J. Collins aforesaid, her son-inlaw, with others, were murdered by the Indians; the guilt and weight of whose blood lies upon you, as done by you, they being a people of an honest life and good behaviour, only differing from you. And it is likely that Governor John Winthrop, sen., who was an honest man, and had some hand in this, being drawn into it by your priests, was made sensible of it on his death-bed, when old Dudley, a man of blood, and the rest of you sent to the said John Winthrop to get him to set his hand to a paper, for the banishment of one Mathews, a Welshman and a priest, which he refused to do, telling them, "He had had his hand too much in such things already." But of all this nothing will work upon you, who have gone on in that spirit more and more to the molesting, whipping, fining, and imprisoning many honest people upon the account of baptism and the like; and your dealings are and have been so inhuman, barbarous, and cruel, that your judgments shall be even as your proceedings.* The Lord hath spoken it, who will fulfil it.

Now as to Connecticut.-John Copeland and John Rouse were put under restraint, and not suffered to pass through the colony; W. Brend and W. Leddra were also there, but not suffered to abide; Sarah Gibbons and Dorothy Waugh, who were at Hartford, in that colony, whither they were moved of the Lord, were

* And so it was, and hath been; for, as their cruelties have exceeded, so have their judgments from the Lord; so that, as His wonders in the land of Ham are spoken of in Psalm cxxxv. 27, even so, by the judgments of wars, tempests, blastings, fires, sicknesses, sudden deaths, possessions, witchcrafts, &c., which the Lord hath shown upon them, New England may be justly called The Land of Wonders.

imprisoned several days, some of their clothes sold to pay their fees, and denied to sojourn there; and Joseph Nicholson and his wife, who, being moved of the Lord, went thither from Rhode Island, to place their sojourning upon all the colonies: and the Commissioners of the Four United Colonies were also there, and Daniel Dennison in particular, who denied them, (though the governor was moderate,) as did those of New Haven, any being amongst them.

And so I have done with you and the other colonies, and have rolled you up and down in the blood of the innocent, as ye have rolled yourselves up and down in innocent blood, and I have clothed you with their sufferings, as ye have had to do in their sufferings. And the cup which I have filled to you, ye have filled unto them, and I have doubled it upon you in the Word of the Lord, who will fulfill it upon you; and ye shall not go haughtily, for this is an evil time. 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 you know that the Lord is God, and that there is no other; and that His judgments 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 affliction 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 an end; that, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels," you must receive from the King. "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory; and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall sepa

rate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was an hungered, 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 clothed 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 hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed 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, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also 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 hungered, 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 clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, 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, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did 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 sum.

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ND 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 in the steps of the men that have gone before you, meddling with conscience, the dominion of God; persecuting men for their conscience toward God, and causing them to suffer for their consciences, as hath been done in these nations: for if you do, and forget the Lord, and are 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 ox that eateth grass, and persecute His people, who are innocent as to you, and have suffered with you, and who 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