An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

My Brethren,¹ it were easy to name many stalks of Hemlock that there are come up instead of Righteousness and Judgment among us. I'll name one or two. What do you think of this.

My Brethren,¹ it were easie to name many stalks of Hemlock that there are come up instead of Righteousness and Judgment among us. I'le name one or two. What do you think of this.

1. 1Some stalks of Hemlock in Engl. spring up since we hoped for reformationSom stalks of Hemlock in Engl. spring up since we hoped for reformatiō

First,¹ That such as have been notoriously Malignant, yea, such as have been upon actual War should yet upon any slight acknowledgement or coming in▪ or for their own ends taking Covenant, should get into Committees, and have power there over the Well-affected party who have been most forward at the first, but now those who hate them and have spirits full of bitterness against them, should have power over them to tax them as they please. Power ⟨p. 374⟩over their estates, their liberty, power to order the affairs of the Country round about them, and that now they should revenge themselves upon them because they were so forward in the beginning; Oh! we may thank you, had it not been for such as you are, we had never gone on so far in the Wars, If you had not come in so freely &c. And now they have opportunity to revenge themselves upon them; What grows in the furrows here but bitter and venomous Hemlock? Where the fault lies, that we cannot determine, but such men, doing such things, in such places, It is nothing but Hemlock in the furrows of the field.