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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52921	New-England's ensigne it being the account of cruelty, the professors pride, and the articles of their faith, signified in characters written in blood, wickedly begun, barbarously continued, and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possest in the priests and rulers in New-England ... : this being an account of the sufferings sustained by is in New-England (with the Dutch) the most part of it in these two last yeers, 1657, 1658 : with a letter to Iohn Indicot, Iohn Norton, Governor, and chief priest of Boston, and another to the town of Boston : also, the several late conditions of a friend upon the Road-Iland, before, in, and after distraction : with some quæries unto all sorts of people, who want that which we have, &c. / vvritten at sea, by us whom the vvicked in scorn calls Quakers, in the second month of the yeer 1659 ; this being a confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his book titled, The Popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, &c.	Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.; Copeland, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing N636; ESTC R3600	97,400	124

thee the report as from any other man besides my self that thou mayst know the truth thereof O Theophilus whatsoever thou art it was unto me as the Angell of his presence and caused me to carry the Ark back again into Aegypt and charged me there to abide until he brought the word for he that travels before strives in his owne strength There was I constrained in Mezech to cry Woe is me as one delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the soul might be saved in the day of the Lord He that can receive it let him There left I the leaven of the Pharisees and kneading of do●gh and making of cakes and baking them upon the Altars made unto sin and fed only upon Angels food which I reaped a●tending at the Altar of Incense to receive the Word in the strength whereof Reader to the death of all flesh and self I have obtained mercy peace with God redemption from all filthiness of flesh and spirit an heir of his kingdom a member of his Body a Minister of his Spirit and an inheritor of his Eternal Rest blessed for ever Betwixt this death and this life this heavinese and this help this desolation and restoration are all the Families Kindreds and People upon earth be of what notion or profession they will and having past through the Dragons den and the most vainest and beast liest place of all Bruits the most publikely prophane and the most covertly corrupt the English in New England is the worst especially their Priest and Rulers for for all their feigned and whining profession there we found the Fiery Tryals as from men having past through all their Pattents so called bearing the testimony of the VVord of God of the Indians never received I any harm but freely entertained with such as they had Moreover by such as were by the English accounted the basest of men whom many of them they had barbarously banished from amongst them whom we found in Road-Iland Long-Iland Provindence and elswhere also in Plimouth-Pattent were we received and in severall other places as the Messengers of God and Sephas And what we with these also who have believed our report have reaped from their cruel hands hereafter f●lloweth with the places and parties thus intreated And also a true Copy of the Law whereby they acted thus against us such a one as I am sure never proc●eded out of Sion Shall David want a King to sit upon his Throne for ever Shall not God raise up Judges in righteousness who shall plead his cause with the men of this generation that they may be judged as men in the flesh and their reward given them according to God in the Spirit Shall innocent blood lye buried in the dust for ever Surely nay thou wilt revenge thine own Elect who cries unto thee day and night against these who builds up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with oppression cruelty and iniquity So after the discharging of my conscience towards God in the committing these things to publike view recommending them to the consciences and considerations of all that are in Authority the chief Magistrate and his Assistants who sits in Council with him and who ought in righteousness so much as in them lies to see these grievances and abuses regulated or otherwise these things at their hands will be required for let them be assured that that spirit which hath attempted unto blood in such a high nature as they have done not being called to an account for it will attempt to take away life if still suffered as you may further understand their cruel intent by a Law set forth in this present yeer 1658. and this as surely they seek after as the enemies of God doth after thine or did after thy father O. C. for as little art thou esteemed by the one as by the other further then base and self-ends leads them to seek unto thee for when we were moved of the Lord to make our appeal once and again that our cause might be heard and tryed by the chief Magistrate or whom he pleased to appoint we were utterly denyed it and his Name sleighted and never so much as made mention of in their proeeedings in that bloody and cruel place of Boston and as the least principle of the law of Love bears rule in thee it will lead thee to do for thy neighbors and friends as for thy self and if this thou do not thou canst not be justified in the sight of God nor from our blood cleer in the day of thine account and least thou or any one should question the truth hereof we the Sufferers are the Subscribers who are all of us by name and nature free-born English people whom if thou or any by thy appointment shall call us to question concerning the truth hereof I am satisfied we shall be as ready to do the second as we have been to suffer for the first And it being the honor of a King to finde out a cause finde out this as thou art Noble and if any man can contradict the truth of one passage in this particular I shall freely bear the blame and shame thereof who hath been and am an eye and ear-witness unto them all Called amongst men Humphrey Norton Reader Thou mayst further understand that varietie of Lawes they invent and establish at the least two times every yeer and if occasion seem to present they can do it two times a week as they did by John Rous and Humphrey Norton and severall others having whipt us once according to their former Law soon after our imprisonment as thou wilt further understand in what followeth In the week following their malice was so great against us that they made a second whereby to whip us two times a week but this they read unto us and put in execution upon our bodies but would not suffer us to have a copy of it and I knowing that there is an everlasting Law established and given forth with Statutes and Ordinances attending on it recorded in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and Judah against all transgressions whatsoever committed and uncommitted I could do no less but smile at their blindness So that Reader finding their Lawes not worthy of losing or wasting thy time in I shall commit no more to thy view then necessity puts me upon to certify unto thee the truth and nakedness o● the things herein mentioned And that thou with us may judge of the Tree by its fruits here followeth one of them At a Council held at Boston the 11. of July 1656. VVHereas there are several Lawes long since made and published in this Jurisdiction bearing testimony against Hereticks and erroneous persons yet notwithstanding Simon Kempthorn of Charls-Town Master of the Ship-Swallow of Boston hath brought into this Jurisdiction from the Iland of Barbados two Women who name themselves Anne the Wife of one Austin and Mary Fisher being of that sort of people commonly