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New England Judged by the Spirit of the Lord; In Two Parts
New England Judged by the Spirit of the Lord In Two Parts Author:George Bishop General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1703 Original Publisher: Printed and sold by T. Sowle Subjects: Society of Friends New England Religion / Christianity / Quaker Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be... more » typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DEFENDED AGAINST FALSEHOOD AND ENVY, AND THE MARTYRS OF JESUS, AND SUFFERERS FOR HIS SAKE, VINDICATED. In Answer to Cotton Mather, a priest of Boston, his Calumnies, Lies, and Abuses of the People called Quakers, in his late Church History of New England. With Remarks and Observations on several Passages in the same, and his Confessions to the Just Judgments of God on them. BY JOHN WHITING. "Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. lit made a fit and digged it, and is fallen //i the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate" -- Psa. vii. 14 -- 16. "And the rest of the men U'hich were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, neither repented they of their murders" iSrV. -- Rev. ix. 20, 21. See also Rev. xvi. 9. LONDON: Printed and Sold by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court, in Gracious-Street, 1702. INTRODUCTION. FORASMUCH as Cotton Mather, a Presbyterian priest of Boston, has lately published an History of New England, wherein, notwithstanding his many confessions to the judgments of God, and misery that hath come upon them and followed them, which hath been ever since they put the servants of the Lord, called Quakers, to death, and the cloud of infamy that still lies upon them for it; yet he still endeavours to magnify their own Church and State, as renowned ...« less