‘takers of her Plagues. We are not suffered to go see our Friend
‘in Prison, whom we witness to be a Messenger of the Living God.
‘Now all People, mind, Whether this be according to Law, or from
‘the wicked, perverse, envious Will of the envious Rulers and
‘Magistrates, who are of the same Generation, that persecuted Jesus
‘Christ : for, said he, as they have done to me, so will they do to you.
‘And as he took the love, the kindness and service, that was shewed
‘and performed to any of his Afflicted Ones in their Sufferings and
‘Distress, as done unto himself ; so the Injuries and Wrongs, that
‘were done by any to any of his Little Ones, he resented, as done
‘unto himself also. Therefore you, who are so far from visiting him
‘your selves in his suffering Servant, that ye will not suffer his Bre-
‘thren to visit him ; ye must depart, ye Workers of Iniquity, into
‘the Lake, that burns with Fire. The Lord is coming to thresh the
‘Mountains, and will beat them to Dust : And all corrupt Rulers,
‘corrupt Officers and corrupt Laws the Lord will take Vengeance on,
‘by which the tender Consciences of his People are oppressed. And he
‘will give his People his Law, and will judge his People himself,
‘not according to the sight of the Eye, and hearing of the Ear ;
‘but with Righteousness, and with Equity. Now are your Hearts
‘made manifest, to be full of Envy against the living Truth of God,
‘which is made manifest in his People ; who are contemned and de-
‘spised of the World, and scornfully called Quakers. You are worse
‘than the Heathens, that put Paul in Prison ; for none of his Friends
‘or Acquaintance were hindred to come to him by them : therefore
‘they shall be Witnesses against you. Ye are made manifest to the
‘Saints, to be of the same Generation, that put Christ to death, and
‘that put the Apostles in Prison, on the same pretence, as you act
‘under ; in calling Truth Error, and the Ministers of God Blasphem-
‘ers, as they did. But the day is dreadful and terrible, that shall
‘come upon you, ye Evil Magistrates, Priests and People, who pro-
‘fess the Truth in Words outwardly, and yet persecute the Power of
‘Truth. and them that stand in and for the Truth. While ye have
‘Time, prize it ; and remember, what is written Isa. 54. 17.

George Benson,                 
Anthony Pearson.                  

Not long after this, the Lord’s Power came over the Justices, and
they were made to set me at Liberty. But sometime before I was
set at Liberty, the Governour, and the said Anthony Pearson came
down into the Dungeon to see the Place, where I was kept; and un-
derstand, what Usage I had. And when they were come down to
me, they found the place so bad, and the savour so ill, that they
cried shame of the the Magistrates, for suffering the Jailer to do such
things: And they called for the Jailers into the Dungeon, and
required them to find Sureties for their good Behaviour ; and the Un-
der-Jailer, who had been such a Cruel Fellow, they put into the Dun-
geon with me, amongst the Moss-Troopers.

Now