New-England Judged, By the Spirit of the Lord,, etc with .WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE WRITINGS OF SEVERAL OF THE SUFFERERS.ALSO, AN ANSWER TO COTTON MATHER'S ABUSES OF THE SAID PEOPLE, IN HIS LATE HISTORY OF NEW-ENGLAND. + 1 3rd part by John Whiting in Reply to Cotton Mather lying over the Abuses of the Quakers 1702 Bishop, George & Whiting, John. America,Humanities,Religion

NEW-ENGLAND JUDGED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. IN TWO PARTS. FIRST, CONTAINING A BRIEF RELATION OF THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE CALL'D QUAKERS IN NEW-ENGLAND, FROM THE TIME OF THEIR FIRST ARRIVAL THERE, IN THE YEAR 1656, TO THE YEAR 1660. WHEREIN THEIR MERCILESS WHIPPINGS, CHAININGS, FININGS, IMPRISONINGS, STARVINGS, BURNING IN THE HAND, CUTTING OFF EARS, AND PUTTING TO DEATH, WITH DIVERS OTHER CRUELTIES, INFLICTED UPON THE BODIES OF INNOCENT MEN AND WOMEN, ONLY FOR CONSCIENCE-SAKE, ARE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED. IN ANSWER TO THE DECLARATION OF THEIR PERSECUTORS APOLOGIZING FOR THE SAME, MDCLIX. SECOND PART, BEING A FARTHER RELATION OF THE CRUEL AND BLOODY SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE CALL'D QUAKERS IN NEW-ENGLAND, CONTINUED FROM ANNO 1660, TO ANNO 1665. Viii pp + 498 pages to parts 1 + 2 and part 3 Truth and Innocency Defended against Falshood (sic) and Envy And the Martyrs Of Jesus and Sufferers For His Sake Vindicated (an Answer to Cotton Mather (a Priest of Boston) on his Calumnies, etc, etc. 212 pages with a 12 page indeces and a publishers advert leaf at the rear, 3 separate title pages to the 2 works, the last two title pages are dated 1702, but were always going to be published together, so 1703 as on main title. Fully collated as complete, contemporary ink inscription on FFEP "John Stanley his book 1775", full calf hinges showing stringing to front board, old gilt panel mottled calf rubbed and worn, contents very good on hand made paper, some damp staining to bottom of some pages at the spine and edges slightly affecting the text in a few areas, but sporadic and not heavy stains. Paper and print very clean and fresh. Octavo. 1703. NOTE* A comprehensive authoritative account of the dastardly deeds of Christian v Christian, namely the killing and persecution of the New England Quakers, (Society of Friends), 1st thus with the 3 part newly printed for this 1703 edition and the first parts by Bishop published separately in 1661-1667, newly published here. See; Howes B481,