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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 7 (No. II)

of it, the Answer was,---it is for Saul and his bloody House; because he slew the Gibeonites. The King then called the Gibeonites, and queried of them what he should do for them? In doing of which he might appease the Wrath of divine Justice.) Their answer was the Man that consumed us and that devised against us; let seven Men of his Sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD, in Gibeah of Saul: This being done, the Lord was pleased, to bless the Land again.” Here we see that the Inanimate Earth must bear the Curse of GOD’s Wrath, for a Time, untill the Blood of Saul’s nigh Relatives made the Atonement, for his Crime. Oh! my esteemed Citizens, if that should be the Case with us, how would you rejoice in secret, to feel the unspeakable Peace, that would arise in your Hearts, when Reflecting on that act of Justice, in obediance to the Royal Law; I mean the saving of the Lives of your Fellow Creatures: I say, it must afford hearty Satisfaction, to know yourselves clear of the Blood of all Men, and that you, by your honest Endeavours, and the blessing of Heaven, hath protected and preserved the Lives of more than one hundred of your Neighbours. One other Instance I shall give; and that was on our own Continent, in Boston Government, where the Quakers were used in the most cruel Manner, that the Serpentine Nature in Man could invent, they bore cruel Whippings, cutting off their Ears, and several were murdered, and for no other reason, then for their faithful obedience to CHRIST: And this was all acted by this Unmasker’s dear Brethren, viz. Envious, Malicious, Hard-hearted,

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