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A96687	New-Englands salamander, discovered by an irreligious and scornefull pamphlet, called New-Englands Jonas cast up at London, &c. Owned by Major Iohn Childe, but not probable to be written by him. Or, A satisfactory answer to many aspersions cast upon New-England therein. Wherein our government there is shewed to bee legall and not arbitrary, being as neere the law of England as our condition will permit. Together with a briefe reply to what is written in answer to certaine passages in a late booke called Hypocrisie unmasked. / By Edw. Winslow.	Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3038; Thomason E390_8; ESTC R201531	24,205	33

called Hypocrisie Vnmasked concerning the Independent Churches holding Communion with the Reformed Churches at the request of many I came to a resolution as to answer the former passages so to reply to his malicious cavils in this who indeed hath not answered any one thing but rather raised some scruples that may cloud what I did and cause such as are ignorant to doubt where things are most cleare but however I am 〈…〉 with in this case not onely by some of the Independent 〈…〉 to answer yet withall am come to a resolution not to write any more in this kinde partly because the world are wearied with too m●n● controverfies of this nature but more especially because our Salamander so much delighteth in them as a●… by many year●●●●● experience being restlesse and 〈…〉 therein 〈…〉 Answer Hee beginneth with the discovery of a 〈…〉 plot against the Lawes of England and the Liberties of the English Subjects c And then secondly hee would render mee odious to the world as being a principall ●ppos●● of the L●●●● of England in New-England Thirdly hee would make our Government of New-England to bee arbitrary And fourthlyly his malicious cavils and bitter indignation at any thing may tend to union betweene brethren I meane the Presbyterians and Independents but of these in order And First for the subtile plot c. which is contrived saith hee by writing against Gorton a man whom they know is notorious for Heresie that so behinde him they may get a shot at a bigger game c. Answ It is well knowne and our Salamander is not ignorant that however Gorton notoriously abused himself and every Government of New-England where hee lived yet when that Country was grown too hot for him hee came over here and complained against us to that honourable Committee of Parliament to whose care the well ordering the affaires of forraigne Plantations is referred The Right Honourable the Earle of Warwick being Governour in chiefe and Chairman of the same who upon Gorton and his companions complaints sent over to the government of the Massac●●sets whom it most of all concerned to give answer to the same c. Whereupon they to shew their respect to the Parliament sent mee to render a reason thereof which I still attend till their more weighty occasions will permit them to heare But when I came over I found that Gorton had enlarged his complaints by publishing a booke called Simplicities defence against Seven-headed Policy c. which being full of manifold slaunders and abominable falsehoods I tooke my selfe bound in duty to answer it as I did by that Treatise he mentioneth called Hypocrisie Vnmasked which was but an answer to Gorton as this is to him being necessitated thereunto in Vindication of the Country whose Agent I am though unworthy And yet our Salamander would blinde the ignoram and make them beleeve wee tooke occasion to write such a thing to make the Parliament have a good opinion of us as it none of all this had preceded Next that hee might still turne our innocent simplicity into policy hee takes advantage where none is and layes hold on a request of mine which I must still prosecute maugre his malice and I trust in God the Parliament will bee sensible of it viz. That the Committee would take into consideration how destructive it will bee to the wel-being of our Plantations and proceedings there which are growing up into a Nation here to answer the complaints of such Malignant spirits as shall there bee c●●●●red by Authority it being three thousand miles distant so far as will undoe any to come hither for justice utterly disabling them to prove the equity of their cause c. Now if hee had set downe this request as it is I would never have answered word to it nor need at present to any but such as are ready to burst with malice and the more satisfaction I shall give the worse they will bee And for the danger of the State of England is in by this plot he could not more clearely have expressed the unevennesse of his spirit to any indifferent Reader then by such expressions and therefore need no farther answer thereunto Secondly Whereas hee chargeth mee to be a principall opposer of the Lawes of England in New England c. Hee dealeth with mee here in this particular just as he did there For our Salamander having labored two years together to draw me to his party and finding hee could no way prevaile he then casts off all his pretended love and made it a part of his worke to make mee of all men most odious that so what ever I did or said might bee the lesse effectuall As for the Law of England I honour it and ever did and yet know well that it was never intended for New-England neither by the Parliament nor yet in the Letters Patents we have for the exercise of Government under the protection of this State but all that is required of us in the making of our Lawes and Ordinances Offices and Officers is to goe as neare the Lawes of England as may bee which wee punctually follow so neare as wee can For our Letters Patents being granted to such and their Associates these Associates are the Freemen whereof there are many in every Town Now take notice good Reader that as every Corporation here send their Burgesses to the Parliament upon summons So divers times a yeere the Governour sending out his Warrants the Towns choose their Deputies viz. two of a Towne out of these Freemen which meeting together with the Governour and his Assistants compose and make or repeale such Lawes and ordinances as they conceive our 〈…〉 require And however wee follow the custome and practise of England so neere as our condition will give way yet as the 〈…〉 of a growne man would rather oppresse and 〈…〉 if put upon him then any way comfort or refresh him being too heavy for him so have I often said the Lawes of England to take the body of them are too ●●w●ldy for our weake condition Besides there were some things supported by them which wee came from thence to avoid as the Hi●rar●●y the crosse in ●●ptisme the holy dayes the booke of Common Prayer c. All which I doubt not but this renowned Parliament will utterly abolish as they have done in part to Gods glory and their everlasting fame I meane whi●●t time shall bee But I have been so farre from sleighting the Law of England as I have brought my owne booke of the Statutes of England into our Court that so when wee have wanted a Law or Ordinance wee might see what the Statutes provided in that kind and found a great readinesse in our generall Court to take all helpe and benefit thereby And never did I otherwise oppose the Law of England nor ever stand against the liberties of the subject but am ready to sacrifice my life for the same when ever I shall bee called thereunto

to his particular offence and carriage in managing the whole and it is not our manner to punish twice for one offence Thirdly take notice that the Government they charge was proved in open Court to bee according to the Law of England and therefore not committed for Petitioning for that they had Fourthly let the Reader know that the Presbyterian Government was as freely tendered them by the Governour in the open Court without any contradiction of any the Assistants or other ●s ever I heard any thing in my life though it appeareth that our Salamander is not a little troubled at it as I shall have occasion to touch in my answer to the Postscript which I verily beleeve hee penned every word Lastly let the Reader take notice that Doctor Robert Childe Mr. John Smith and Mr. John Dand were committed for certaine Papers upon close search of Dands Closet there found the night before the Ship came away which were far more factious seditious then the former Doctor Childe being committed because one of the Coppies was under his knowne hand another Coppy under Mr. Dands hand and both in his custody Mr. Smith in that hee not onely offered to rescue the Papers from the Officers that were sent to make search but when hee saw that hee could not rescue them brake out into high speeches against the Government and amongst other things said hee hoped ere long to doe as much to the Governors Closet and doe as much to him as hee did for them c. or to the like purpose And now Major Childe let the world and you take notice together wherefore your Brother those honest godly persons you pretend to speak of were committed Nor doe I beleeve that any people under the heavens that know what belongs to Government and have the power of it would doe lesse then the Magistrates there did But what the event will bee God onely knowes but this I know they are in the hands of mercifull men however they have beene abused or may by our Salamander whose reports I often meet with or by any other whatsoever And for answer to their relation of the effects this Petition produced much of it is false and answered before the rest not worthy the answering as concerning the Elders their long Sermons to provoke the Magistrates against them c. no wise man will beleeve as they relate And thus much for answer to the second part of their Booke concerning the Petition and Remonstrance A briefe answer to the third head of their Booke concerning the Capitall Lawes of the Massachusets c. HEre I finde the capitall Lawes of the Massachusets reprinted the oath they administer to their Freemen which I suppose they are sorry they can finde no more fault with And all these Capitalls rehearsed to shew the danger Doctor Childe is under by vertue of the last which followeth in these words If any man shall conspire or attempt any invasion insurrection or publique rebellion against our Common-wealth or shall indeavour to surprise any Towne or Townes Fort or Forts therein or shall treacherously and perfidiously attempt the alteration and subversion of our frame of Policy or Government fundamentally hee shall bee put to death Numb. 162 Sam. 3. and 18. and 20. Now if together with this they had manifestd a liberty the Court gives to any notwithstanding this Law fairely and freely to shew their grievance at any thing they conceive amisse and needeth either alteration or repeale then they had dealt fairly indeed but because they leave it out I take it my dutie to put it in I know our Salamander is not without some exception at any thing wee can doe but because I finde none more then as before I shall passe to the next head of their booke An answer to their Relation concerning the throwing the Petition overboard as a Jonas as they terme it I Acknowledge that Mr. Cotton taught from that Text they mention in 2 Cant. 15. Take us the Foxes the little Foxes which destroy the vines c. and let the Reader understand that this Text tell in his ordinary course of Lecture in going through that Book and not taken on purpose on that particular occasion The points hee delivered from hence as I remember were these two The first was When God had delivered his Church from the danger of the Beare and the Lyon then the Foxes the little Foxes sought by craft policy to undermine the same The second was this That all th●se that goe about by Fox-like craft and policy to undermine the state of the Churches of Jesus Christ they shall all bee taken every one of them The Text as I take it hee shewed belonged to that time of the Church when they returned from Babylon and were building the Temple and proved the first point of doctrine from that of Tobias and Sanballat that would have built with the Jewes the second was amplified by the History of Haman in the Booke of Hester and so brought many other examples and amongst others the story of the Bishops in the dayes of Hen. the eighth Edward the sixt Queen Elizabeth and to the beginning of these warres who under a colour of building and being Master Builders in the Lords house laid heavie burthens upon the Saints corrupted the worship of God and Lorded it over his heritage when they were come to the top of their pride the Lord Jesus could endure them no longer but they were taken even every one of them in the same snare they had set for others But I forbeare the amplifying of it and hasten to the application so farre as it concerneth this scornefull story by them penned of their feigned miracle as they call it His use of Exhortation was twofold First to such as lived in the Countrey to take heed how they went about any indirect way or course which might tend to the prejudice of the Churches of Jesus Christ in the same or the Governments of the land which through Gods mercy was not onely in the hands of such as truely feared the Lord but according to his revealed will so far as we can judge And therefore if any though never so secretly or subtilly should goe about any such thing the Watchman of Israel that slumbreth not nor sleepeth will not take it well at their hands For He that hath brought his people hither and preserved them from the rage of persecution made it a hiding place for them whilst hee was chastising our owne Nation amongst other the Nations round about it manifested his gratious presence so apparently walking amongst his Churches and preserving and prospering our Civill State from forraigne plots of the late Archbishop and his confederates and the domestick of the Heathen where wee live there was no question to bee made but Hee would preserve it from the underminings of false brethren and such as joyned with them And therefore saith hee let such know in the foregoing

which is his sense and that the sixth person is not of the Church meaning amongst them And this saith hee wee have but his word for and makes is a falshood in me but I returne it upon himselfe whose bold spirit dare affirme any thing against the apparent light of the Sunne for however the Dutch baptize the children of all Nations that are presented to them as well as their owne as I shewed in my former Treatise yet this their practise stands not upon the Presbyterian bottome nor doe I know I confesse what they take for their warrant in it yet I affirme and that of my owne knowledge having lived divers yeares amongst them that their Church is a select people gathered together into an holy communion which holinesse hee scoffes at and which they call the ●●ement and that many thousands of those whose children they baptize never are admitted to the Lords Supper which they account Church communion nor are ever brought before their Classis and there examined admitted occasionally admonished yea excommunicated if they submit not to the Rule and that all those that are admitted are such as tender themselves and thereupon are examined c. in the Classis as before And for an instance of the truth of it a godly English Minister that had sometimes lived in Rotterdam told me upon this very occasion that the Deacons of the Dutch Church at Rotterdam told him that although there were almost 7000. houses in their City and in many of them divers families yet they had but 2000 persons in Church-fellowship And for the French Churches who know● not that the Nation I meane the body of them are still Papists and yet as blinde as Bayard our malicious Salamander whose tongue is known to be no slander from whence he came doth charge me with falshood herein 'T is true through Gods mercy there are many thousand Protestants amongst them and I wonder that any man should bee so audacious as to affirm these are not a distinct people from the rest that have undergone so many massacres and persecuti●●● for the testimony of their Faith and witnesse they have borne against the abo●inations of Rom● and the Papacy still so much admired in that Nation by the body of it And as I ●●●d of Holland the sixth person is hardly of the Church so in France the tenth man for ought I heare is not a Protestant And how then they should be a Nationall Protestant Church I know not As for his jeere about the Covenant let him goe on in his way of scorn and contempt of the Covenant between God and his people and yet hee shall finde the Church in the Old Testament established by a Covenant and after their greatest desertions and declinings upon solemne dayes of humiliation their Covenants againe renewed throughout the same And the Churches under the New Testament are still the same though the Ceremonies and Ordinances bee altered by the Lord thereof yea the Scottish Churches which hee saith are Nationall and so would make a breach in that respect between them and us are solemne and serious in their Covenant and the English in the late Reformation no lesse serious to Gods glory bee it spoken when as there are many hundred thousands in both Nations that will not take these their Covenants but remain in Popish superstition and wilfull ignorance And for our tenders to the Scots to live amongst us and enjoy their liberty in the exercise of the Presbyterian government formerly and the late tender of the Court of the Massachusets to their Petitioners for the enjoyment of it at present themselves providing for it 't is not so strange as true But whereas they say they hear not of the latter being since they came away 'T is false I have told them and they may heare it by many others but they have not the spirit of peace in them nor will they take notice of any thing that tends thereunto but seeke as appeareth by this Postscript to blow up the coal●s of contention and division so much as possible may bee hindering peace and good agreement between Brethren by all the meanes and courses they can use And for what h●saith concerning Mr. H●bbards censure daring mee to say Whether Mr. Hubbard were not punished directly or indirectly for baptizing some children whose parents were not members of the Churches in New-England For answer I doe and dare affirme in my conscience that I am firmly perswaded hee was not And however I doe not desire to meddle in the case nor to engage in other mens controversies but rather seeke to heale them by all due meanes yet I thought good to answer his challenge in this particular that so that cloud of jealousie might also be dispelled so far as concerneth my own thoughts in the case and had hee but so much charitie in himselfe as becomes a Christian man I am confident hee would bee of the same mind with mee And so much for answer to that particular and the whole Book wherein the Reader may see more malice in our accusers then policy in us whose simplicity is branded with subtilty fallacy and what not but blessed bee God it is by such whose tongues are their owne and will not bee controuled by any and from whom I expect all that malice can invent but am come to a resolution that whatever our Salamander shal vent either in his own name or by others as at this time I wil leave him to God and referre our Vindication to the Lord Jesus Christ who hath all power in heaven and earth committed to him in whose eyes I trust we are precious who undoubtedly will clear up our innocency when these our proud enemies shall bee scattered before him And to whom with the Father and the Spirit God over all blessed for ever be glory and praise to all eternity Amen FINIS ERRATA Page 3. l. 38. for another r. any other p. 4. l. 2. for the r. their p. 11. l. 35. for about r. to put p. 19. l. 24. for our r. their ibid. l. 30. for us r. them p. 21. l. 28. for are r. is