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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 6 (No. II)

they came; there is none other place for them; i.e. The Dog must lick up his own Vomit, and the Hog must wallow in the Mire: and this is all I can find his long written Harrangue proveth, that he himself is, (and not the Quakers,) the promoter of party Rage, publisher of inflamatery pamphlets, asserting many falshoods, to swell the Current of prejudices, nearly a blasphemer of GOD, and a beliar of the Holy GHOST. I think the D-------l. acted in a very Rascally manner with this poor fellow; I quite pitty him; it was that Serpent set him to work, in the very beginning; dictated his whole writing, which indeed might seem some Ease or Help to him, for the present, because he had no more to do, then to write after him, and at that Time doubtless shewed a great deal of Love and Friendship to him; but behold! when his faithful Servants was like to be detected, and the Villanous Scheme brought to Light, that old Serpent slipt (as the saying is) his Neck out of the Halter, and leaves the Unmasker a condemned Criminal to answer for the whole, &c. Well what remains, but to consider in speculation the Consequence of that Horrid Act? May not the Hand of Divine Justice afflict this Land of Pennsylvania, for the guiltless blood that was shed therein; I mean the blood of the Indians, that was spilt at Lancaster; as he did Israel with Famine or Pestilence, for the Transgression of Saul, in slaying the Gibeonites, who were in Alliance with them. We may read in the 21. Chap. of the second Book of Samuel, that there was a Famine over the Land of Judea, for three years; and when David enquir’d of the Lord into the Cause

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