Governour. _The Jury hath condemned thee._ _Wenlock._ The Lord doth justify me; who art thou that condemnest? Then the Court proceeded to vote as to the Sentence of Death, to which several of them, _viz. Richard Russel_ and others, would not consent, the Innocence and Stedfastness of the Man having prevailed upon them in his Favour. There happened also a Circumstance during this Trial, which could not but affect Men of any Tenderness or Consideration, which was, that a Letter was sent to the Court from _Edward Wharton_, signifying, _That whereas they had banished him on pain of Death, yet he was at Home in his own House in_ Salem, and therefore proposing, _That they would take off their wicked Sentence from him, that he might go about his Occasions out of their Jurisdiction_. This Circumstance, however affecting to others, did only enrage _Endicot_ the Governour, who was very much displeased, and in much Anger cried out, _I could find in my Heart to go Home_. _Wenlock._ It were better for thee to be at Home than here, for thou art about a bloody piece of Work. Governour. _You that will not consent, record it. I thank God, I am not afraid to give Judgment._ Wenlock Christison, _hearken to your Sentence: You must return unto the Place from whence you came, and from thence to the Place of Execution, and there you must be hanged until you be_ dead, dead, dead, _upon the 13th Day of_ June, _being the Fifth-day of the Week._ _Wenlock._ The Will of the Lord be done: In whose Will I came amongst you, and in his Counsel I stand, feeling his Eternal Power, that will uphold me unto the last Gasp, I do not question it. Known be it unto you all, That if you have Power to take my Life from me, my Soul shall enter into Everlasting Rest and Peace with God, where you yourselves shall never come: And if you have Power to take my Life from me, the which I do question, I believe you shall never more take _Quakers_ Lives from them: Note my Words. Do not think to weary out the Living God by taking away the Lives of his Servants: What do you gain by it? For the last Man you put to Death, here are _five_ come in his Room. And if you have Power to take my Life from me, God can raise up the same Principle of Life in _ten_ of his Servants, and send them among you in my Room, that you may have Torment upon Torment, which is your Portion: _For there is no Peace to the Wicked_, saith my God. Governour. _Take him away. ..._ FOOTNOTES: [82] The Watertown church had strong Separatist tendencies (cf. No. 64). Hence, in part, its democratic inclination. [83] The Civil War in England between King and Parliament. [84] The Church of England at this time was Presbyterian.