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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 8 (No. II)
12017-06-28T13:41:00-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-06-28T13:41:01-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aPresbyterians. I don’t remember every reading, or hearing tell, that any one Quaker was ever put to Death, for his Religious Principles, but in Boston Government: beware, beware, my Country-men, keep the Reins of Government out of the Hands of Presbyterians; for I believe they never had it, but that one Time, since the building of Babel; and I pray, they never may have it more, until Time is swallowed up in Eternity. Well what follows? Why the Judgment of GOD upon their Land, as I have heard one of their Inhabitants say; that the Land about Boston was as agreeable too, and bore, as good Wheat, as any Part of the Eastern Colony: But since they had put the Quakers to Death, that same Ground has never brought fourth any Wheat to perfection. This was in the Year 1659, and whether the Judgment will Terminate here, divine Wisdom only knows. How convincing must these Citations be, to every solid thinking Man, that our worthy Citizens could have done no one Thing more pleasing to GOD, then their joining together, as one Man, in Vindicating his Righteous Law, with their Hands and Hearts, lifted up to implore a Blessing on their concentious Endeavours; for we see, by the above cited Instances, that there is no Attonement to be made for Willfull murder, but by sheding the blood of the Murderer; or the Earth must feel the weight of GOD’s Wrath. Although King Saul had been dead a Number of Years, yet infinite Wisdom, in his own Time, made the firtle Soil of Palastine become a dry and barren Land, for that one Man‘s cruel act; and that not parpitrated on a single Israelite, but on Strangers or So-
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12016-08-19T12:59:08-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aThe Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 8 (No. II)1The Quakers assisting to preserve the lives of the Indians in the barracks, vindicated and proved to be consistent with reason, agreeable to our law, hath an inseperable connection with the law of God, and exactly agreeable with the principles of the people call'd Quakers. [Fourteen lines of quotations]2016-08-19T12:59:08-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
