Plantations, murdering many of our Inhabitants of all sorts, and seeming, as it were, to cast us off, and putting us to shame, and not going forth with our Arms, hereby speaking aloud to us, to search and try our ways, and turn again unto the Lord our God, from whom we have depart∣ed with great back-sliding
Obs. That to acknowledge the Truth is well, and well would it be indeed if they were found acknowledging the whole Truth, and to repent of shedding innocent Blood, which is the great sin of New-England Priests and Rulers, as also of the consenting Church Members thereof; but of this there is no mention made in their Preamble-confession of words, without Works of Truth and Righ∣teousness to God and People, according as is at large manifest by their afore-mentioned Laws, the neglect of which Execution was by their Priests imputed to be the main cause of general Judgment to come upon them. But they use to say, If all the Quakers were hanged, and all other Dissenters clear'd out of their Jurisdiction, then would their Land enjoy Peace: Unto which Work the Rulers were bewitched, so far as the Devil was permitted to drive them, who were as willing to run, and to work they went against all Dissenters, and set forth a Book against the Baptists, entituled, The Rise and Foundation of the cursed Sect of Annabaptists, in which was as many Lyes as they use to gather for their Pulpit Work on the first Day against the Quakers, which Lyes to hear also costs the People Money.
None are more blind than those that will not see,
The cause for which Gods general Judgments be.