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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33597	A demonstration of true love unto you the rulers of the colony of the Massachusets in Nevv-England shewing to you that are now in authority the unjust paths that your predecessors walked in, and of the Lord's dealings with them in his severe judgments, for persecuting his saints and children ... / written by ... William Coddington of Road-Island [sic].	Coddington, William, 1601-1678.; Bellingham, Richard, 1592?-1672.	1674 (1674)	Wing C4875; ESTC R23269	12,792	22

in the after-part the Lord came upon him in a Day he looked not for and in an Hour he was not aware of and so cut him off for he fell down dead And did he not say the Judgments of God were upon him which I leave to thy Consideration lest it be said of thee thou hadst Time to repent and yet repentedst not as it is said of Jezebel William Hauthorn my third ancient Friend that I have said I would write to Thy Name is also often mentioned in the said Book or Books I cannot now say how far with my other two ancient Friends thou art guilty of the Death of our Friends before-said but this I can say that though Hand joyn in Hand yet shall not the Wicked go unpunished Friend since thou camest in Authority for in the Ship I know thou wast tender serious and retired as became the Gospel of Christ for I had Speech with thee many times and both then and afterward barest thy Testimony against Persecution and stinting or limiting the Spirit of Prophecy in any viz. to restrain from Preaching but by Allowance of certain Persons if that should take Place in New-England thou lookedst at it as one of the most horridest Acts as ever was done in New-England and would be as great a Token of God's forsaking New-England as any I know where thou spake it and it was a good Speech for this is the Day of God's Appearance in his Sons and Daughters in pouring out his Spirit so they must prophesie and who can withold the Work of the Lord Are you stronger then he What hath all your Persecution come to mentioned in the foresaid Books though Briars and Thorns have set themselves in Battel against the Lord yet he hath gone through you all for since your opposing the Truth in your Jurisdiction have not many been brought to know him whom to know is Life Eternal You may as well withhold the flowing of the Tide into the Massachusets Bay as the Workings of the God of Truth in the Hearts of his People in the Massachusets Jurisdiction or to limit the holy One to a Company or Tribe of Priests who make a trade of the Scriptures keeping People alwayes under their Teaching that they may be alwayes paying of them Now for the Books taken away by your Officers detain'd some years demanded of your Governour is an Act of such Hostility that by me cannot be paralleled Should we seize of your Merchants Goods in other Places as you have done of ours would you not say we had done right as you had done to others so others had done unto you Had I been in Spain as I have been in the great City of Malego and the Inquisitors had come aboard our Ship or Ships and they had found Books that they disliked yet should I not have lost the Propriety of my Books they would seal them up and when the Ship or Ships were ready to sail I should have them again Is this to do as you would be done by The Papists will condemn you in this as contrary to that common Equity that ought to be also the Priviledge of an English Subject You have taken away all Law and Justice and have usurped it into your own Hands for you are Court Jury Judge Accusers Witness and all no Justice is to be had in this Case Oh the Honesty the Honesty of the Papists they will not destroy Proprieties though they be Sectaries out of the pure and undefiled Religion that James speaks of out of the Truth and Worship in Spirit and Truth that Christ set up above sixteen hundred Years ago I appeal to your own Masters of Ships and Merchants if this be not so Did ever any of you loose a Book But we must loose ten Pounds Sterling as they cost in England because they were in your Goverment a Reason against Reason Let me have a fair Arbitration upon it if you will not deliver them up and your own Merchants shall determine it for this Case is properly to be determined by Merchants that know Lex mercatoria the Law amongst Merchants for though the Estate seized is not great yet the Consequence may be great and they that will not do Justice in small Matters will not in greater Matters But it may be I shall receive them again when I receive the Reward promised me for my Pinace which took the Pinace of John Oldams when he was slain by the Indians and Thomas Stanton yet living cut in the Back and set ashore by them of Block-Island whose Pinace and whose Charge was John Oldam's Pinace taken from the said Indians and some of them brought Prisoners to Boston John Gallop Master and John Wood his Mate Indeed John Gallop had a small Island given him in lieu of that Service called it is like Gallop's Island to this Day then was I promised a Reward answerable to my Charge Adventure c. But after a persecuting Spirit arose amongst the Priests and Ann Huchison and John Whelcwrit must be banished and all that stood in their Way must remove and the unclean Spirit like Frogs came out of the Mouth of the false Prophets so that Persecution was ushered in all Persons that were against them were noted as the removing Party so as I am a Man and a Christian I would have no Hand in it so that being against it and a Magistrate after three dayes Debate in Court the Priests animated their Party for of the Priests none but John Cotton was with us some fell from us so that we were the minor we drew up a Remonstrance that our Dissent might appear to succeeding times which after some Debate was admitted according to our Desires to stand on Record so ever since that I hav been none of you that persecute for I would not number my self as a Man amongst Persecutors whose Names shall rot in succeeding Ages much more as I am a Christian to love one another and to love Enemies and my Neighbour as my self and God above all I therefore bare my Testimony as it is said by that Remonstrance against that persecuting Spirit that was let loose to deceive all in Authority And though I was in the greatest Way to be great in the Massachusets to the outward yet the Locusts that were come out of the bottomless Pit blasted all to my Continuance there and my Mind was for removing And the Planters Play and John Cotton's Sermon which was in 1630. printed by John Humphery our Agent to satisfie the Godly-minded of our Removal out of England all did satisfie me to remove as Lot out of Sodom being grieved for your unrighteous Dealings So that as I am or was for that seaven Years I lived in the Massachusets a Merchant and the chiefest theree so by Merchants that walk by the Rule of Righteousness To do unto others as you would have them to do unto you let my Cause be issued for if you were such you would not do as