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A77079	A taste of the spirit of God, and of this vvorld, as they have appeared in opposition heretofore, so now latest of all at New-Windsor. Occasioned through the violence, and reproach of evil men, against the temple and tabernacle of God, and them that dwel therein. Presented in a narrative to the honourable committee, for the propagating the Gospel. / By Robert Bacon, preacher by the allowance of God, and the nation, now these five years there.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1652 (1652)	Wing B371; Thomason E669_13; ESTC R207030	41,008	52

his reason in general his countenancing not only here but appearing openly in London on the behalf of one that though he seemed said he to walk according to rule yet he is indeed a very great seducer and a marvellous let to all good in this place which when he understood to be spoken of me and that with great heat he told him that he should take time to consider of it but could not for the present give credit to it unless he should understand more then ever he could believe concerning me hitherto The first was this That I should borrow Col. Okeys Horse sometimes and when I had it in my Custody should go with it into Smithfield to sell it there The second was this That I should be present where I saw a man in bed with another mans Wife The third That Mrs. Ceenee sometimes lodged at my house The fourth and the last that no man can tell that hears me whether I will speak from or of God or the Devil All these were named of him with this profession that he would make proof of them telling it him as glad to have somewhat of this nature to report of me 1. Now as touching Col. Okey I scarce ever had any speech with him save only once he spoke to me at Slow going to meet the Lord General coming out of Ireland 2. As concerning his Horse I never borrowed any of him he and the Lord knows 3. Yet I will not deny but being in Glocester I came to London upon a Horse which Colonel Okeys Wife said was hers 4. This Horse Col. Massie now prisoner in the Tower when he seized on me with some 16. of his Troop ordered for my use in this Journey which as I did not so I had no cause to take notice of whose it was being his prisoner and so wholly in this business passive 5. This Horse trotting altogether I road not on till I came to Warwick being till then in the custody of the Corporal and one Trooper two most honest and Christian men riding till then on the Corporalls Horse and he riding on that appointed for me both which did of their own minds offer and endeavour to exchange it for me that I might have one more easie nothing suspecting but that it had been the Governours own who had done me all this wrong which ten Horses could not give me reparation for 6. Col. Massie did himself before the Committee promise to accommodate me well and with a good Horse to London 7. This Horse as I have heard as well as these men were the States for whom and in whose cause I had suffered great loss before at Bristol 8. This matter is fully enough spoken to in a Book I writ of that relation of my sufferings wrong I sustained in that place Mr. Bachiler giving a ready and full approbation of it being the then Licenser of Books 9. When this Book and suffering was I was then justified of the Independents so call'd as an Independent but many of them have seen cause to do since more unwarrantably what they then condemned the Presbyter for whence it is my lot to suffer under some of them as I did of their Fathers that went before I mean those whether Prelatical or Presbyterian of like spirit with them 10. This Horse I refused in London to deliver at the first challenge to Mrs. Okey as I had cause to do neither did I deliver it she being a stranger to me till I had an Order from the Captain-Lievtenant under Col. Massey so to do which when I saw she had her Horse as she desired 11. This Charge was in particular once also brought against me by my loving Neighbor Mr. Bachiler who had himself justified me and the thing in the book he licensed but indeed I was then related to my Honoured Lord Say and he a man then of great power and Mr. Bachiler was not yet fellow of Eaton nor had as yet by a full Table left off trusting in God for from his own mouth it came as God is witness I was told by the Governor in the presence of his Wife and some others that he had trusted in God so long that he was once like to be starved 12. I bless God through his grace I am innocent and without blame in my heart and life as touching this business both as towards God and man I do confess I have thought of some further recompence for this my suffering and wrong at Glocester which hath been so judged heretofore especially of Mr. Bachiler and those of the Independant way that I say not of the whole Nation as it is now but as sure as God is this adulterous and wicked Generation having through Apostacy from God and his people enriched themselves by the spoils of others care not what become of the Israel of God so they may sit in quiet feeding themselves full with the Onyons and Garlick and other the flesh-pots of Egipt Lastly let it be judged of God and man what spirit this is that thus boldly and with a most impudent face reproacheth the truth of God manifested in the extream sufferings of his Saints and people Mr. Wood for I will not refuse now to name him his second charge is That I should be present where there was a man in bed with another mans Wife To this I will say first in general that where the good man soweth as becometh him good seed there cometh the Enemy and soweth tares That which I have innocently and for the furtherance of the truth as it is in God declared That this adversary of God and me hath somewhere picked up to fling as dirt into my face wherefore as the Lord is witness in me I will return it back from whence it came and give out the report truly with the foundation of it whence it hath and doth arise It 's not unknown to some that being to see a Brother sometimes in Wells when I came his Wife my Wives Sister told me he was then a prisoner at Taunton by the means of Mr. Pine which indeed I think cost him his life though he was put forth again and nothing layd to his charge which freedom I obtained by a Letter from the L. Fairfax that then was General wherefore my Sister rode behind me to Taunton but she had ordered it to take Horse at one Garmans a poor man yet much talkt of who came now and then to her house At this mans house I stayd about half a quarter of an hour I had the rather a mind to see him in that among others I had heard Mr. Peters as well as others particularly speaking of him This man about some two or three years after with his Wife as they said came to London of whom I only heard but saw them not but having again with my Wife a Journey into the West we overtook and left behind on foot some half a dozen of men and Women on the Road the

confess resisting thrust me out of doors at which I said in my heart and not only so What Communion Sir will you have from which you will excommunicate me He with much heat affirmed the whole Town would agree together and draw up Articles against me as since I hear from him they have done There followed many rude men after us repeating and justifying what the Gentleman said moreover he told me the people and boys of the street would stone me and that Hereticks were wont worthily so to be dealt with of which number Sir said I you remember holy Steven was one but I departed home only telling him I was sorry to see him in so great a passion I perceive the number of Communicants were very few they say since I was a let unto them truly I did not appear upon that account or for that end but meerly sith I saw they were heady and resolved in the business I thought it my duty to God and them to take the opportunity to give them some light in what they did so headily and upon the alone account of custom thrust themselves upon even as the horse that rusheth into the battel SECT XIII OF this I confess the next day I gave notice by letter to the Burgess of this place yet my letter went by Boat wherefore I could not neither had I a thought of doing prejudice to any as it was generally reported I was the cause of Mr. Bream his sending for by a Messenger from the Councel of State that evening yea one of our grave women forsooth very confidently reports Mis. M. I was met in the returning from the great City and told that that had been my business there this is like as true as is the report now fresh in Town that there came a man at the Church door to speak with me but I admitted him not to it who told one of our Neighbors as stout as I was I had taken of him above two hundred pounds for making of Hats for him which I would it were true I confess I would not refuse the employment for I am very well content were I able to work for my living as the Apostle was yet shall not cannot look back from the work I have been hitherto conversant in but had it been for hire I would have left it long agoe About this time was reawakened a certain somthing for what it is I cannot tell produc't as heretofore so upon this occasion by one Mr. Baker who were he as good as rich might be of great use to this Town and Nation having it seems as I have been told and is certainly true procured of some of the late Assembly of Divines about the time of my first coming to this place some kind of subscribing that I was not of them approved as it seems this Gentleman was and is as very sound to God and Man both in his heart and life as it appears he had a great deal more favour with them then I they would not otherwise have fortified such a man against me this note or whatever it be hath of him been made use of if by any means to alienate the people of all sorts from me in the which he hath not a little of late prevailed many in the Town having taken Copies of it though I could never see any yea they have as the people of like nature and spirit heretofore sought by all means into all places where I have been to search and find out the forepast history of my life making special and particular use of my sufferings at Glocester yea at Oxford when I was a youth there as well as of the wrongs and losses I have sustained heretofore in the case of the Common-Prayer and Ceremonies from the Bishops so that the evil that was in them all is risen up and allowed here or connived at at Windsor to the dishonour of God and the shame of the pretended high attainment of Reformation in the things divine and of God but whether this be under the hand of the Assembly or of some of them I cannot tell this they know that I refused not to come before them to a giving testimony of the truth I believe as they well know the great matter they seemed to be offended with was my non-taking the Covenant which I only refused as upon that occasion as though it were even essential to the matter of preaching Some other things they said as to the Catechisms but all they took notice of as displeasing them as may appear afterwards as unsound was the business of Baptisme which they say as indeed I do as to the outwardness of it judg to be in esteem with us of like nature as are other outward rites and observations not such as in them consists the Kingdom of Heaven or the true knowledg of God this was only mentioned as an error in a little Book writ by those convened at Sion Colledg for detecting of the supposed error and false Doctrine of many worthy men in the Land 't is true Mr. Rutherford of Scotland in a large Book of his seems offended not only at it but other passages but the story of the times and the reproach cast of him upon others more eminent a thousand fold then my self as the Lord General Mr. Burton Mr. Dell c. may save me the labor of speaking as to the vindication of my self as to the Assembly yet I will add what will give some hint of the offence they have it seems taken at me viz. my being here without either their allowance or order which yet was not through either my desire or endeavour as it doth appear partly by my being with them in conference from about two till after seven of the Clock but also by the following letter written to Mr. Holland upon that occasion whereby may appear what esteem the Authour of it had of the Assembly and me in those days Sir The Bearer hereof Mr. Bacon is that good man which the Town hath chosen for this place as you will understand further by a Letter from the Mayor and his Brethren Sir Robert Bennet the Governour and divers others we doubt not of your best assistance according to the Contents of the said Letter we have also written to Sir Henry Mildmay hoping that both of you may so carry it as to get him passed by the Committee without any reference to the Assembly c. Subscribed your Servant in Christ John Bachiler Windsor Castle April 13. 1647. which it seems was done accordingly SECT XIV BUt the people to perfect their work of my or rather the truths remove far from them it being Easter week they chose two others but most falsly call'd Church wardens rather truth and Church opposers which is the pillar and ground of it men much more for the purpose Mr. M. these with others get hands not a few some through fear and some for advantage as hath been confest of one eminent in the