Nevv-England pesecutors [sic] mauled vvith their own vveapons giving some account of the bloody laws made at Boston against the kings subjects that dissented from their way of worship : together with a brief account of the imprisonment and tryal of Thomas Maule of Salem, for publishing a book entituled Truth held forth and maintained, &c. / by Tho. Philathes.

New-England's Anti-christian Law.

7. And every Person that shall publish and maintain any Heterodox Erronious Doctrine, shall be liable to be

questioned, and sencured by the County Court where he liveth, according to the merit of his Offence.

The Reader may hence understand, That the County Courts were plenty of these Persecutors & Plenty of jackalls to hunt for their prey, which was to find out every Person in their Jurisdiction, that departed from the way of their Priests Wor∣ship, such person and Persons became a prey, Is••. 59.15. who were ••ccused to publish or maintain the Heterodox or Fr••onious Doctrine; at the opening of which Courts, were always some of their Priests to pray, pretending that what they did against D••ssente••s, would be the more sanctified through the means of their Prayers, which they pretended was for the honour of God, and good of the Souls of them, on whom the said Court did inflict punishment, both to their Body and Purses, so that what with these Hirelings unsanctified Prayers, and the like Advice to the Magistrates, they would be sure to lay load enough on the backs of the aforesaid Dissenters, especially upon the Innocent harmless Quakers, whom so often in their Law, they call Ac∣cursed! for unto them was the Priests greatest Rage manifested, through their wicked advice to the Magistrates, to have them all hanged, of whom four were put to Death, and more had been, had not their Bloody Hands been stopped through the means of the Kings Order to the Contrary, a Coppy of which Letter will hereafter appear in this Book, which before it came, many were they that were put to cruel Sufferings, both by long Impri∣sonment, cruel Whippings, Cutting off Ears, Branding with Red hot Irons, ordering Men and Women to be sold for bond Slaves, searching the Bodies of Innocent Women for Witches, besides Banishing upon pain of Death, and abundance of their Estate taken for Fines, on which these men, so free to do the Devils Work, did live, eating and drinking at a high rate, whilst others suffered as aforesaid.

This was the work of wicked Priest ••nd Pulpit Lyars, Whose work was like the Jesuites, the Monks and Frayrs.