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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 9 (No. II)

journers, i.e. a Parallel Case with that at Lancaster, only with this odds, Saul, was King of Israel, and had the Rule of Government in his Hands, and it is said, he did it in his Zeal; whereas those Revels had no Power, but what they received from Lucifer: nor no Zeal but to vindicate their Masters Cause: And as to the second Instance, History informs us, that the Judgments of GOD was evidently manifested, on several of those wicked Men in being brought to strange and untimely Deaths: Their Governor, John Endicot, was visited with a loathsome Disease, in so much that he stunk alive, and so died with Rottenness: Richard Billingham, which succeeded Endicot, some Years after went Distracted, and so he died: General Aderton was Riding towards his own House, when his Horse took fright at a Cow, crossing the Way, and threw him down so violently, that he died, his Eyes being started out of his Head, his Brains out of his Nose, his Tongue out of his Mouth, and his blood out of his Ears, John Norton, the high Priest of that infernal Clan had been at his Worship-House, in the Fore-noon, and intended to go out in the Afternoon, and as he was walking in his House, he fetched a great Groan, and leaned his Head against the Mantle-Tree of the Chimney, and was heard to say, the Hand or the Judgments of the LORD are upon me; these were his last Words, and died away. Those were some of the Chief leaders of that cruel Tribe of inhuman Butchers, whose Carrastrophy I have given to my Readers; though but briefly. And I can find no more good Men among all the Boston Presbyterians, than the Angels found in So-

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