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__ev. Samud W/zi[i_z£'. 7 I<br />

wrecked, or merchants and public envoys. _<br />

" Take heed," said Governor Endicott to one<br />

who came to Boston with the Quakers,--" take<br />

heed you break not our ecclesiastical laws, for<br />

then ye are sure to stretch by a halter." The<br />

same governor also said to a woman, after she<br />

had been put in prison, and whipped ten<br />

stripes with a threefold corded knotted whip,<br />

" that they were likely to have a law to hang<br />

her, if she came hither again;" to which she<br />

answered, " If God call us, woe be to us if we<br />

come not! but He whom we love will make us<br />

not to count our lives dear unto ourselves for<br />

the sake of his name." To which said gov-<br />

ernor replied, " And we shall be as ready to<br />

take away your lives as ye shall be to lay them<br />

down." I-<br />

" The opinionists," as Hutchinson states,<br />

" were punished for being deluded enthusiasts.<br />

The other side were deluded also by a zeal for<br />

the punishment, for the honor of God, of such<br />

of his creatures as differed in opinion from<br />

* Revised Laws. Edition 1672.<br />

] Bolles's Account of the Persecution in Boston, pp. 13, I4.

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