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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 5 (No. II)

some one or more of the Laws, whereby he looks upon himself injured, the Court will require Facts produced, before they can give Judgment; and this Accuser not being able to produce any Thing, more than calumnious Accusations, without Instancing one single fact, whereby the Defendant hath broke any one Law, or even Transgress’d the Rules of Morality, the Defendant is immediately discharged, and cleared of,and from, all the false seeming Accusations. (I ask what has clear’d him?) and answer, the Accusers own Evidences, given before the Bench, which was upon a strict enquiry, no other but slanderous and unwarantable Expressions, accompanied with bitterness of Heart against his Neighbour: Not one single Fact proved; I look upon this to be a parallel Case with the Quakers and this Enemy to all good, who has been Stigmatizing that Society with being guilty of party Rage, publishing inflamatary Pamphlets, asserting many falshoods to swell the Current of prejudices, nearly a blasphemer of GOD, and a beliar of the Holy GHOST; but has proved not one of those Charges: Nay he has not produced one single position, that has weight enough in it self, to perswade me to forbare asserting, that they are all positive falshoods. Well, what follows? Why a shower of Rain, falling from the Clouds, must lite somewhere, So must these Accusations, that have been uttered, by the Mouth of one of Baal’s priests: They cannot be lost, they must lite somewhere; (I ask were?) He has intirely cleared the Quakers, and accused none else. I answer they must return to the Place from whence

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