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.

The Persecutors Law against the Kings good Subjects.

And if after this he or she shall return again, then to be proceeded against as Ineorrigible Rogues and Enemies to the common Peace, and shall immediately be apprehended and committed to the common Goal of the County, and the next Court of Assistants shall be brought to the Tryal, and proceeded against according to the former Law made 1658. for their punishment on Pain of Death. Psalm 94.20, 21.

Obs. You may understand, that of this nature it hath been in all Ages to the People of God, for as it is written, He that is born after the f••esh, persecuteth him that is born after the Spirit, even so it is now, Gal. 4.2••. and that the People are great sufferers as by these Laws, when they fall into the hands of Hypocrites, which pretend so much

to Religion, as did the wicked Jews to destroy the righteous in that day, which work (as we read in the holy Scriptures, Books of Martyrs, and the like true Histories) ever did, as now it doth, begin at the house of the persecuting Priests, who would have none live save those that are one with them in all things that tend to the upholding them with Money for preaching, which is made up with other mens words, whose Life and experience they witness nothing of, but at random make a sixt days Image with stolen words, with which they fright the People that know no better then to buy of their Ware, which further then they write it down, lose it before the next market day; such like is the preaching and teaching of every Hypocritical Hireling and Persecuting Priest, whose Doc∣trine does leaven every Persecutor of their Church to follow them in the like covetous practice, through whose Hypocrisie and Deceit many have been horribly cheated. Now if New-Englands Churches be not highly guilty of these things, as well as persecuting People to Death for Religion, then the People in Forreign Countries are the more to blame, to cry out at the sight of New-England Vessels, so much as they do against Persecutors, Deceit, Hypocrisie, false Doctrine, Surfeited Horses, and the like of stinking Fish, and other Cheats, with which it is common for Hypocrites and Persecutors to trade.

Hypocrisie Deceit is cloaked with Religion, By men whose wicked Laws, for Blood do make provision; No men more wicked then Persecuters be, To find it true, in Scripture may it see. Mat. 23.32 33.34.35.36