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A96686	Hypocrisie unmasked: by a true relation of the proceedings of the Governour and company of the Massachusets against Samuel Gorton (and his accomplices) a notorious disturber of the peace and quiet of the severall governments wherein he lived : with the grounds and reasons thereof, examined and allowed by their Generall Court holden at Boston in New-England in November last, 1646. Together with a particular answer to the manifold slanders, and abominable falshoods which are contained in a book written by the said Gorton, and entituled, Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy, &c. Discovering to the view of all whose eyes are open, his manifold blasphemies; as also the dangerous agreement which he and his accomplices made with ambitious and treacherous Indians, who at the same time were deeply engaged in a desperate conspiracy to cut off all the rest of the English in the other plantations. VVhereunto is added a briefe narration (occasioned by certain aspersions) of the true grounds or cause of the first planting of New-England; the president of their churches in the way and worship of God; their communion with the Reformed Churches; and their practise towards those that dissent from them in matters of religion and Church-government. / By Edw. Winslow. Published by authority.	Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.; Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.; Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3037; Thomason E409_23; ESTC R204435	90,941	117

hath been disproved that they were sent out from those places from whence they came for Religion neither are they medled with here for any such matter but rather that they themselves in their bravery are more ready to meddle with others 3 They themselves and others of their followers have rather been troublers and persecutors of the Saints of God that lived here before they came and doe but waite their opportunity to make themselves manifest in that they intend Ergo it cannot bee truly said of any that any persecution is offered by us unto them if it could possibly be said of them that they are Saints Obj. But if it be further objected that we doe not give them the liberty of men neither doe wee afford them the bowells of mercy to give them the meanes of livelihood amongst us as some have said Answ To this I say 1 there is no State but in the first place will seeke to preserve its owne safety and peace 2 Wee cannot give land to any person by vertue of our combination except wee first receive them into our state of combination the which wee cannot doe with them for our owne and others peace-sake c. 3 Whereas their necessity have been so much pleaded it is not knowne that ever they sought to finde out a place where they might accommodate themselves and live by themselves with their friends and such as will follow after them where they may use their liberty to live without order or controule and not to trouble us that have taken the same course as wee have done for our safety and peace which they doe not approve nor like of but rather like beasts in the shape of men to doe what they shall thinke fit in their owne eyes and will not bee governed by any State And seeing they doe but here linger out the time in hope to get the day to make up their penny-worths in advantage upon us we have just cause to heare the complaints of so many of our Neighbors that live in the Town orderly amongst us and have brought in their complaints with many reasons against them and not to admit them but answer them as unfit persons to bee received into our meane State c. Now if these Reasons and much more which have been truly said of them doe not satisfie you and the rest of our neighbours but that they must be received into our Towne-state even unto our utter overthrow c. then according to the order agreed upon by the Towne I doe first offer my house and land within the liberty of the Towne unto the Towne to buy it of mee or else I may and shall take liberty to sell it to whom I may for mine advantage c. William Arnold A PARTICVLAR ANSWER TO THE Manifold Slanders and abominable Falsehoods contained in a Book called Simplicities defence against Seven-headed Policy Wherein Samuel Gorton is proved a disturber of Civill Societies desperately dangerous to his Country-men the English in New-Engl and notoriously slanderous in what he hath Printed of them WHEN first I entertained the desires of the Countrey to come over to answer the complaints of Samuel Gorton c. and to render a reason of the just and righteous proceedings of the Countrey of New-Engl in the severall parts of it against him being a common disturber of the peace of all Societies where hee came witnes New-Plymouth 2 Roade-Island 3 Providence and lastly the Massachusets being the most eminent I little thought then to have appeared in print but comming into England and finding a Booke written by Mr. Gorton called Simplicities defence against Seven-headed policy or A true complaint of a peaceable people being part of the English in New-Engl Old-England against cruell persecutors united in Church-Government in those parts I then conceived my selfe bound in duty to take off the many grosse and publike scandalls held forth therein to the great amazement of many tender consciences in the Kingdom who are not acquainted with his proud and turbulent carriage nor see the Lion under his Lambe-skinne coate of simplicity and peace The Lord knowes how unwilling I was personally to engage and I trust hee will also guide mee in answering his booke as I shall bee farre from bitternesse t is true time was when his person was precious in mine eies and therefore I hope and desire onely to make a righteous and just defence to the many unworthy things by him boldly ignorantly proudly and falsly published to the great dishonour of God in wronging and scandalizing his Churches which the Lord Jesus Christ will not leave unpunished I know the world is full of controversies and t is my great griefe to see my dear native Country so engaged in them especially one godly person against another 'T is my present comfort I come not to accuse any but to defend New-England against the injurious complaints of Samuel Gorton c. but as it comes to passe oftentimes that men wound others unavoidably in defending their persons from the violent assaults of such as draw upon them which otherwise they would never have done so if Mr. Gorton receive any such hurt which is unavoidable hee becomes an accessary thereunto by forcing mee to defend the Country without which I should bee unfaithfull I know the world is too full of bookes of this kinde and therefore however I am unfitted of many things I have and could procure at home would well become a relation of the late and present state of New England yet I shall now onely with as great brevity as may bee give answer to such injurious complaints as hee maketh of us And however his Title Preface and every leafe of his booke may bee justly found fault with I shall clearely answer to matters of fact such as hee chargeth the severall Governments withall so as any indifferent Reader may easily discerne how grosly wee are abused and how just and righteous censures were against him for disturbing the civill peace of all societies where hee came in such a manner as no Government could possibly beare and for the blasphemies for which hee was proceeded against at Massachusets they fell in occasionally by his owne meanes without any circumstance leading thereunto And first whereas hee accuseth us in the first page of his booke to got over to suppresse ●ereticks 'T is well knowne we went thither for no such end laid downe by us but to enjoy those liberties the Lord Jesus Christ had left unto his Church to avoid the Episcopall tyranny and the heavy burthens they imposed to which sufferings the kingdome by this ever to bee honoured Parliament have and doe beare witnesse to as religious and just And that wee might also hold forth that truth and ancient way of God wherein wee walke which Mr. Gorton cals heresie Next in the same Pag. hee chargeth us with affection of Titles c. To which I answer either we must live without Government or if wee have

Hypocrisie Vnmasked BY A true Relation of the Proceedings of the Governour and Company of the Massachusets against SAMVEL GORTON and his Accomplices a notorious disturber of the Peace and quiet of the severall Governments wherein he lived With the grounds and reasons thereof examined and allowed by their Generall Court holden at Boston in New-England in November last 1646. Together with a particular Answer to the manifold slanders and abominable falshoods which are contained in a Book written by the said GORTON and entituled Simplicities defence against Seven-headed Policy c. DISCOVERING To the view of all whose eyes are open his manifold Blasphemies As also the dangerous agreement which he and his Accomplices made with ambitious and treacherous Indians who at the same time were deeply engaged in a desperate Conspiracy to cut off all the rest of the English in the other Plantations VVhereunto is added a briefe Narration occasioned by certain aspersions of the true grounds or cause of the first Planting of New-England the President of their Churches in the way and Worship of God their Communion with the Reformed Churches and their practise towards those that dissent from them in matters of Religion and Church-Government By Edw. Winslow Psal 120. 3. What shall be given unto thee or what shall be done unto thee thou false tongue Vers 4. Sharpe arrows of the Mighty with coales of Juniper Published by Authority London Printed by Rich. Cotes for John Bellamy at the three Golden Lions in Cornhill neare the Royall Exchange 1646. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE ROBERT Earl of Warwick Governour in Chiefe and Lord High Admirall of all those Islands and other Plantations of the English in AMERICA Together with the rest of those truly Honorable Members of both Houses of Parliament joyned in Commission with him for ordering the affaires of the said Plantations Right Honourable WEre not your Wisdome and experience in the great and weighty affaires of State so well known and were yee not so much accustomed to the unjust complaints of clamorous persons I might be discouraged to appeare in the righteous cause of the United Colonies of New-England and more especially in the behalf of the Governour and Company of the Massachusets to render a reason of their just and righteous proceedings against Samuel Gorton and his Companions who however where they are unknown they goe here under the garbe of a peaceable people yet if your Honours and the rest ●f the Honourable Committee shall be pleased when more weighty employments shall give way to peruse our just defence against his clamorous complaints and scandalous Treatise called Simplicities defence against Seven-headed Policy c. I make no question but yee will receive full satisfaction in what we have done and be ready to justifie our proceedings against them as godly and righteous The reason wherefore I am forced to appeare in Print before I give a particular answer to your Honou●s and the rest of the Honourable Committee is because I find a more grosse deformatory aspersion cast upon the Countrey to the publick view of our Nation which as it is deare in our eyes witnesse our frequent publick solemn dayes of prayer to the Throne of grace for it together with our private supplications which the Searcher of the heart best knows sympathizing with it in every condition to the losse of Ships Goods c. to the great weakening of our estates so wee desire to remove whatsoever may sadden the thoughts of our Nation against us especially your Honours and all that are godly in Christ Jesus What greater wrong can bee done a poore persecuted people that went into the wildernesse to avoid the tyrannicall Government of the late Hierarchy and to enjoy the Liberties Christ Jesus hath left unto his Churches which these blasphemous Adversaries of ours so much sleight and cast off then to be accounted persecutors of Christ in his Saints yea to go thither to that end to become outragiously cruell barbarously inhumane uniting together to suck the blood of our Country-men c. And yet Right Honorable it will and doth appear in the following Treatise that Samuel Gorton was prosecuted against First at Plymouth as a grosse disturber of the Civill peace and quiet of that Government in an open factious and seditious manner Secondly hee was no lesse troublesome but much more at Roade Island having gotten a strong party to adhere unto him affronting that Government as Plymouth in their publique administration of Justice so foully and grossely as mine eares never heard the like of any to which Relation in the following Discourse I referre your Honours being compiled as briefly as may bee Gorton being there whipt in his person and thence banished with some of his principall adherents they went next to Providence where Mr. Williams and some others have built a small Towne This people receiving them with all humanity in a cold season when the former places could no longer beare his insolencies hee soone undermined their Government gained a strong party amongst them to his owne to the great distraction of Mr. Williams and the better party there contending against their Laws and the execution of Justice to the effusion of bloud which made Mr. Williams and the rest sadly complaine to the Government of the Massachusets and divers of them take the protection of that Government to defend their persons and estates But when they saw Mr. Williams resolve rather to lose the benefit of his labours then to live with such ill-affected people and the neighbour Governments become affected with Gortons mis-rule there also hee and his Companions in evill began then to thinke of buying a place of a great asp●ring Sachim or Indian Prince to the wrong of the proper Owners two infer●●ur Sachims who also as well as divers English of Providence submitted their persons and lands to the Government of the Massachusets and desired their protection not onely against the oppressing tyranny of Myantonimo the foresaid Great Sachim but against Gorton and his Companions who intr●ded into their proper right by unwarrantable meanes c. Now the Government of the Massachusets having used all due meanes and none prevailing but their gentlenesse answered with the greatest contempt that might bee At the next Meeting of the Commissioners for the United Colonies they complained of Gorton and his irregular Companions which the said Commissioners tooke into serious consideration and the more because of Gortons c. extraordinary familiarity with Myantonimo and the rest of the Nanohigganset Sachims who were knowne to bee in a deepe Conspiracy against all the English in the Land at the same time And therefore by a solemne Act gave liberty to the Government of the Massachusets to call them to account and proceed with them so farre as might stand with righteousnesse and justice which they accordingly did Now these Right Honourable c. are the true causes of all the Censures and punishments that befell Gorton in the Countrey onely needlesly in

after of the Virgin Mary and suffering c. was but a manifestation of his suffering c. in Adam Another of them said that the Sabbath was Christ and so was borne of the Virgin Mary They called Magistracy among Christians an Idol yet they did acknowledge a Magistracy in the world to bee subjected to as an Ordinance of God but onely as naturall as the father over his wife and children and an hereditary Prince over his subjects Their first appearance before the Court was upon the Lecture day at Boston before a very great Assembly where first the Governour declared the cause and manner of all the proceedings against them and their Letters were openly read and they had liberty to object and answers were given as followeth First to their plea That they were not within our Jurisdiction it was answered 1 If they were not within ours yet they were within the Jurisdiction of one of our confederates who had referred them to us 2 If they were within no Jurisdiction then was there none to complaine to for redresse of our injuries in way of ordinary Justice and then we had no way of relief but by force of Ar●es Secondly to their plea Of persecution for their Conscience c. It was answered that wee did not meddle with them for their opinions otherwise then they had given us occasion by their owne Letters and free speeches amongstus for wee wrote to them about civill Controversies onely and gave them no occasion to vent their blasphemies and revilings against the Ordinances of Religion set up with us Thirdly for their title to the Indians lands wee had divers times desired them to make it appeare but they alwayes refused even to our Commissioners whom according to their owne motion wee sent last to them and since they were in prison wee offered them to send for any witnesses they would name to us for that end but this also they refused So that our title by the Indians surrender appeareth good and having regained possession we need not question them any further about that Their Letters being read and their Subscriptions acknowledged they were demanded severally if they would maintaine those things which were contained therein Their answer was that they would in that sense they wrote them and so were returned to prison The next day they were brought before the Court severally to be examined upon particulars many of the Elders being desired to bee present because they had said they could give a good interpretation of every part of their Letters But the Interpretation they gave being contrary to the words they were demanded if they would then retract those words so plainely different from their pretended meanings But this they refused to doe saying that then they should deny the Truth for instance in one or two Their Letters were directed one of them To their Neighbours of the Massachusets and the other To the great honoured Idoll Generall of the Massa●●usets and by a messenger of their owne delivered to our Governour and many passages in both Letters particularly applyed to our Courts our Magistrates our Elders c. and yet upon their examinations about their meanings in their reproachfull passages they answered that they meant them of the corrupt estate of mankinde in generall and not of us So whereas in their Letter they charged it upon us as an errour that we teach That Christ dyed Actually onely when he suffered under Pontius ●ilate and before onely in Types c. upon their examination they said that their meaning was that his death was actuall to the faith of the Fathers under the Law which is in effect the same which we hold Yet they would not retract their words they had written The Elders conferred many houres with them before the Court and by occasion thereof they discovered divers blasphemous opinions which they maintained we will instance one which was mentioned before delivered by Gorton viz. that the Image of God wherein Adam was created was Christ and Adams loosing that Image was the death of Christ and the restoring of that Image in the Regeneration was the resurrection of Christ and so the death of him that was borne of the Virgin Mary was but a manifestation of the former Master William Tompson one of the Elders had spent some time with them before in the prison about the opinions which they held forth and they had professed their agreement with him for substance in every point so as he came to the Court with a purpose to speak in their behalf but when he heard themselves discover thus upon their publique examinations he shewed how he had beene deluded by them For they excell the Jesuites in the art of equivocation and regard not how false they speake to all other mens apprehensions so they keepe to the rules of their owne secret intentions Being asked why they spake against the Ordinances of the Ministery Sacraments c. seeing the Scripture allowes them They answered that they were ordained onely for the time of Nonage but after the Revelation was written they were to cease because we finde no mention of them in that booke They were unlearned men the ablest of them could not write true english no not in common words yet they would take upon them to interpret the most difficult places of Scripture and wrest them any way to serve their owne turne As for instance Mr. Cotton pressing Gorton with that in Act. 10. Who can forbid water why these should not be baptised c. He interpreted thus who can deny but these have beene baptised seeing they have received the Holy Ghost c. so he allowed them to have beene baptised This shift ●e was put to that he might maintaine his opinion viz that such as have beene baptized with the Holy Ghost need not the baptisme of water Divers dayes were spent both by the Court and the Elders in labouring to bring them to repentance but all in vaine They continued obstinate Whereupon they agreed to sentence them but first they brought them in publique before a great Assembly and there out of their Letters and Speeches they laid upon them this charge viz. they were found to be blasphemous enemies of the true Religion of our Lord Jesus Christ and of all his holy Ordinances and likewise of all Civill Government among his people and particularly within this jurisdiction Then they were demanded if they did acknowledge this charge to be just and would submit to it or what exception they had against it They answered they did not acknowledge it to be just but they fell into some cavilling speeches so they were returned unto prison againe Being in prison they behaved themselves insolently towards their keeper and spake evill of the Magistrates so as the keeper was forced to threaten them with Irons to keepe them quiet After all meanes used to reclaime them and not prevailing they were brought before the Court to receive their sentence which was this Gorton and

them not bee parties and judges with many other opprobrious speeches of that kinde Hereupon divers Elders of Churches being present desiring leave of the Governour to speake complaining of his seditious carriage and requested the Court not to suffer these abuses but to inflict condigne punishment And yet notwithstanding all wee did to him was but to take the forfeiture of his foresaid bonds for his good behaviour Nay being but low and poore in his estate wee tooke not above eight or ten pounds of it lest it might lie too heavy upon his wife and children But he must either get new sureties for the behaviour till the next generall Court or such time as he departed the Government or lie in prison till hee could now hee knowing his outragious passions which hee could not restraine procured sureties but immediately left Plimouth and went to Roade Island where upon complaint of our persecutions hee found present reliefe there yet soone afterward he abused them in a greater measure and had heavier yet too light a punishment inflicted on him and all for breach of the civill peace and notorious contempt of Authority without the least mention of any points of Religion on the Governments part but as before And whereas in pag. 4. Mr. Gorton further accuseth us that they were deprived and taken away from their quiet possessions c. Such was his carriage at Plimouth and Providence at his first settling as neither of the Governments durst admit or receive him into cohabitation but refused him as a pest to all societies Againe in the same pag. he accuseth Massachusets and Plimouth to have denyed them to be in our Government but when wee perceived the place to bee a refuge for such as were oppressed then c. 'T is true that Plimouth gave way to Mr. Williams and his company to sit downe at Providence and have never molested them to this day but refused Gorton and Weekes c. upon Weekes his sollicitation when I was at Providence for the reasons before mentioned c. And for those particular relations he makes of Robert Cole William Arnold and Benedict his sonne I wave as not being so well acquainted with their cases but see hee writes with a venomous pen onely take notice he would make it a great crime in them to trade on the Sabbath as it is when himselfe at that time denyed the sanctification of it In pag. 5. hee complaines that powder was traded to the Indians and denyed to them Answ If it were traded to the Indians for my part I approve it not it being against the expresse law of the Country and a large penalty annexed but there was good reason to refuse it to them which held such familiarity with Malignant Indians especially during the time of their confederacy against us In pag. 6. he speakes as if hee had beene under some censure of the Massachusets at the time of the warrant there by him specified how truly copied I know not but am sure at this time he was personally under no censure of theirs In pag. 7. hee accuseth Magistrates and Ministers for bringing in all the accusations that came in against them Who but publique persons should take notice of publique insolencies And as for Mr. Collens his story I am a stranger to but beleeve it is misreported as well as others In pag. 8. hee manifests hee durst not live under a forraigne Prince meaning the Dutch having never been false to his King and Country c. with many ignorant swelling words as if it were treason to ones Prince to live under a forraigne State though an Ally And in the same pag. hee would lay the death of Mistris Hutchenson who was mother in law to Mr. Collens on us although they went from Road Island which is not under the Massachusets where shee had lived some yeares after her remove from the Bay and not from the Massachusets to the Dutch of her owne accord where they were cut off by the Indians In pag 9. he shewes how they bought lands of Myantonimo Prince of those parts Answ 1. Hee was not the Prince of that part as was proved publiquely at Massachusets himselfe being present 2. He had no proper right in it as is shewed at large elsewhere In the same pag. he beginneth a large letter full of railing blasphemies which continueth to pag. 31. and however it bee not exactly set downe as it was sent yet I admire at Gods providence for hee is falne into the snare he laid this being brought against him to accuse him of blasphemy before a Committee of Parliament who called in his book and referred him to the House c. but I forbeare to shew his folly here which is referred to another place and his wickednesse discovered therein In pag. 32. hee saith the Government of the Massachusets had no shew of any thing against them but Religion and yet the whole carried on in his owne way as well as what wee now print shewes it was in the right of two Indian Sachims namely Pumham and Socononoco who placing themselves under the protection of the Massachusets complained of violence offered them by Mr. Gort●n and his company it being our manner both in Capitals and Criminals to doe them the like justice wee doe one to another wherein walking by the same rules of righteousnesse towards them they have the lesse cause to take offence at us From pag. 33. forward are many Letters which I cannot beleeve al is in them and therfore remain jealous of his sincerity in Printing them In pag. 37. hee holds forth conversion to be the ground of the Massachusets sending to them now to that end saith hee they sent a Minister 'T is true there was a gracious young man one Mr. Joh. Bulkley then a Student but in no ministery went to teach to the Company they sent to guard their owne Commissioners and to bring in Gorton if need required but I dare not beleeve what hee affirmes And for the Copy of a Letter hee fathers upon the Commissioners sent by the Government of the Massachuset I conclude 't is rather set downe upon memory then right because of some attestations I have by me to make use on elsewhere which seeme to hold forth the contrary and so I doe not credit it In pag. 38 39. hee relates how their wives were frighted at mens presenting their muskets at them c. and suffering such hardships as occasioned death c. Which must also bee false for honest men have deposed there was no such presentment and that their wives came freely and familiarly to them both before and after they were taken So also hee affirmes our men would allow of no parley but private or else they would dispatch them in a quarter of an houre which I will never beleeve because I know the men to bee men fearing God and durst not proceed as hee relateth it In pag. 40 41. he also taxeth the Commissioners and souldiers with