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Ioo Memoir of<br />

conscience, gave no countenanceto the persecutionof<br />

the so-called witches.<br />

In the year following that in which Margaret<br />

Jones was executed, Mr. Whiting delivered a!<br />

Cambridge College, on Commencement Day<br />

a Latin oration in presence of the Governol<br />

and other magistrates, in which he spoke the<br />

following words, which were worthy of being<br />

printed in letters of gold over the entrances<br />

to our courts of justice and legislative halls: *<br />

" Benedicat misericordia tua pientissimis ac<br />

vigilantissimis Dominatoribus nostris, prmcipue<br />

Gubernatori, penes quem summa imperij est:<br />

asta in ccetu fortium, inter deos judica: fluat<br />

tanquam aqua jus, et justitia ut torrens validus<br />

in judiciarijs foris nostris. Sint omnes Magistratus<br />

nostri viri strenui, timentes Dei, viri<br />

veraces, osores turpis lucri: sint omnes<br />

magnates nostri magnetes virtutis, justitiae,<br />

prudentim, charitatis minime simulatae."<br />

About this time the magistrates issued a<br />

Oratlo quam comitijs Cantabrigensibus Amerlcanls Peroravit<br />

reverendissimus D.D. Samuel Whiting, Pastor Linnensis ; in aula<br />

sci!icet tIarvardlana pridie calendas sextiles. Anno MDCXLIX.

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