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Title:  New England judged, not by man's, but the spirit of the Lord: and the summe sealed up of New-England's persecutions being a brief relation of the sufferings of the people called Quakers in those parts of America from the beginning of the fifth moneth 1656 (the time of their first arrival at Boston from England) to the later end of the tenth moneth, 1660 ... / by George Bishope.
Author: Bishop, George, d. 1668.
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where Valuable Considerations are not the Ground, neither is Law nor Reason: For, as I have said, it is Lawful for any English man to reside, come in, or be in any of the Dominions appertaining to England, and as Natural it is for One as for Ano∣ther; For it is an English man's House, and where shall a man be if he shall not be in his House? And it is not the Name of a Thing; Or the Distinction of Word or Habit (put by men) that must cut a man off from this his Priviledge which is by Nature; Nor should Names of Distinction (much less of Reproach) be given whereby to raise One Part of a Nation against Another, for this Ministers Division, and is an Occasion thereof, and tends to the Dissolution of Government and is contrary to Law. There∣fore they who come into a Countrey unto which they have a Natural, and Legal Right (as these had, and any English man hath to come in amongst you) and have not done any thing by which by the Law of their Countrey they are justly made un∣capable of that Right (as these had not, for you are in Subor∣dination to England, Your Lawes are not to be Repugnant unto it) There for such to come, reside, or to be, is no Valuable Consideration, or Legal Ground (as to his Countrey) to be put upon the Point, or the Point to be offered unto him, and if the Point be offered to such, and they come upon it, and they be killed therewith, such cannot be said to be Fellons de se; For the Law will say,—Quo Warranto,—On what Ground? And the Ground is short as hath been Declared, and made to appear; Nor Violently or Willfully to rush upon the Point, but those who without Law or Ground (as to the Law of their Countrey and your Countrey is England) shall so offer the Point, and run them through who come upon it, Such are Ingulatores de se, Cut∣ters of their own Throats, or Shedders of Blood in their own Wrong (your Case in this Particular) and the Violence and wilfulness will be attributed unto them by the Law, who set the Point not to those that come upon it; As of one who sets the Sword where another man may lawsully Pass, and he that so Passes is Executed thereupon; For he that so cometh, cometh upon his Right.Lastly. Oh ye wretched Hypocrites, and Murderers! Did yeMary Dyar put to De th after the Re∣prieve. not put the same Mary Dier to Death, when she came again into your Jurisdiction after your Reprieve, and when she was as near 0