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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

next day or the same day at even we having stayed by the way we overtook them again about Marlborough when of the man that was with us they enquired my name which when they knew they stayed and spoke to me going over a Bridge I willingly went softly to have some speech with them they telling me in effect they were yea that they were Jews and that the time of their gathering together out of all Lands especially this was come and that they should away for Hierusalem yea that they must be circumcised and so forth To all which I replyed that in a sence I approved of all this but not in their sence or as they applied it but said that he is a Jew and of the seed of Abraham that believs whose praise is not of men but of God yea the very same too said I are the Circumcision which worship God in spirit and so have the true Circumcision which is yet that made without hands Lastly the place of these I judged to be no other then Hierusalem but that I mean come down from Heaven into which no unclean thing shall be admitted as they liked not mine so I disowned their sense of these things as I am sure I had the greater cause after about half a miles riding I left them I going another way about a twelve-moneth after I came to London and as I was going to dinner in Fleet-street about eleven of the Clock or a little after there met me a Merchant that formerly I had knowledge of and some acquaintance with told me that there were some at his house had a great desire to speak with me I left my dinner and went with him to a fair and great house where I had never been before he had me into an upper Room where when I came I heard a very great noyse of one speaking I knew not what with exceeding great fervency I would have stayed and heard further there but he urged me to go where it was into the next Room where I saw at the Table the forenamed Garman writing having before him an Hebrew Bible there was some two or three men besides this Gentleman whose house then it was and my self in the Room was a Bed and one sitting up in it speaking as I said before and claping his hands with exceeding seeming height of confidence but the words he spake I did not understand only they seemed to me to be a mixture of Latine and some other tongues they said Hebrew and all other Languages I confess I remembred he mentioned oft Melchise deck the High Priest or Priest-hood the name Judah and Jesus with such zeal that the fire seemed to me even to sparkle out of his eyes he did besides I remember curse with great bitterness the Priest-hood as he said that was not after the order of Melchisedeck by his side there lodg'd a Woman which I confess I did suspect was the Woman I had seen before at Wells and after that upon the Road but not understanding and indeed not approving of yet wondring I confess at the business after less then a quarter of an hour I departed and have never seen them since Now the truth is as I have had opportunity I have related the matter as I here have done to such as I thought good and in particular did so now in my last journey to one at Bristol from whom peradventure Mr. Wood hath had this Relation or else I know not whence it should arise and peradventure this man would I should have gone and made some complaint of these people as the manner of some is to be very severe in complaining against sometimes but the seeming evils of others but in mean time very sparing of their own abominable lusts the Seed and Posterity of Saul who kill and make an end with great zeal forsooth the lesser Cattel of the Herds and Flock of Amaleck but in mean time save alive the fat and strong The Scriptures we all know declare how that our Saviour was himself not only in the Company but left alone in the presence of an Adulterous Woman whom the unseen Adulterers had brought there before him to accuse so that certainly there is no cause of blame for my being as I was and coming as I did to this place wherefore they have the greater sin who have made it first evil and wicked in their own hearts out of which as the root of all filth they have cast it again forth if it were possible for the staining the innocency and truth of God in me so that I confess I do not reject the story as I have given it and as it is as the spirit and end for which it is produc'd The third is Mrs Ceenee's Lodging sometimes at my house Mr. Wood by this minds me of the rule which they say was Matchiavels if a man be never so innocent yet the way effectual to ruine him is audacter calumniare aliquid haerebit lade him with reproach and some if not all will be beleev'd of most verily I have been so dealt with to some purpose by this and some other my friends at Windsor the Scriptures speaking of these latter times says among others there are these two Characters of the evil men found in them that as they are such that have eyes full of adultery or the adulteress so they have an heart exercised with covetous practises Mr. Wood shall find where the latter is in the heart sure it will be found in his which is Adultery as to God for it is covetousness forsooth no sin in these times which yet saith the Apostle is Idolatry and the very radix and root of all sin there I say without all peradventure is the other if not in the body yet in the eye this sure at least was in the eye of Mr. Wood he would else not have reproacht me with the entertainment of this Woman for assuredly she was in my account yea doubtless in the account of those made her the Matron of the Savoy a Woman sober and of good report yea I suppose with the Governour and others here who had speech and acquaintance with her as well as I she having two Children in these parts and one of them at Eaton-School as touching her entertainment at my house I am confident it was design'd if by any means they might by her ensnare me a practice used by the Heathen of old against the holy men and Martyrs of God to find occasion against them to take away their lives she came I confess in an affright to my dwelling in the Castle she being denyed of the Souldiers to return as she said to her Lodging I advised her that being innocent she had no cause to fear to go before the Governour before whom they told her she must appear she did accordingly when being as she said threatned to be put into the custody of the Marshal she desired she might have leave to go to her wonted Lodging which was at one Harrises in the Castle by no means this might be but saith the Governor you may see whether you may not stay at Mr. Bacons wherefore at his moving she came to desire me to go to him when I came the Governors first demand of me was whether I would passe my word for Mrs. Ceenee I told him no nor ye for any one else the next was whether to prevent her going to the Marshal she should abide at my house I said I thought rather then that she should be in distress my Wife would provide some Lodgings for her which she did and I consented to in the simplicity and uprightness of our hearts it was a frequent charge the Pharisees brought against Jesus that he was a friend of Publicans and Harlots God hath had mercy on me in this to drink of the same Cup from men of like spirit with them but rejoyce and be exceeding glad for this hath been the lot of the just from the beginning of the World The last of Mr. Woods good speeches of me is that he and others cannot tell when if at any time they come to hear me whether I will speak either from or of God or the Devil say we not well said the Jews to our Saviour thou art a Samaritan and hast a Devil yet we know that beleeve of what spirit our Saviour was how by the finger of God he cast out Devils yet they said it was by Beelzebub wherefore said he and I say the like to Mr. Wood all sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven unto men save that against the holy Spirit but I will conclude with only these two sayings They that are of God hear and can hear alone his word and he that knoweth God and is born of him heareth us and he that is not of God heareth not us in this or by this we discern betwixt the spirit of God and the spirit of this World the spirit of truth and the spirit of error Mr. Wood and others of the same mind with him professeth in this charge that he hath no discerning of the one of these from the other and so must needs be a peece of that man of sin of which the Scripture saith should come and even now is in the world FINIS

About the same time I had occasion in London coming not at any time there meerly upon the account of this business to which this discourse doth relate Mr Holland which I crave leave of him to make publique profest it was his Judgment as it was and is I am sure my desire that this Name and Title of Vicar may be in the Land wholly at an end as indeed it is high time it should at this I confess I was not a little glad for it seemed somewhat strange and a matter indeed much to be lamented That after all this ado and turning as a door upon the hinge we should be found both in form and practice not one Iota moved from what we were ten years ago SECT X. HAving had this account given me I returned as heretofore with delight and diligence to the work I was concerned in and as I remember was in particular engaged to the Tuesday Lecture where I confess I appeared though few were there to hear me I will not refuse to make mention of the Text which I judged meet to be minded especially in the times that now are Zeph. 3.18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn Assembly those that are of thee to whom the reproach of it was and is a burthen At this discourse some offence was taken but alone of the Preachers for opening that of Solomons Song as I did Chap. 3. v. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. especially Vers 7. That the Spouse never found her Beloved till she had gone one step beyond the Watchmen of whom she sought him but found him not Verily I was greatly moved and grieved in my heart that they should take offence at this for without all doubt such as they are should not seek their own but the honor of him they say have sent them that is to say the Lord himself which gave me occasion to remember and present the speech of that old dying but wicked Bishop in Queen Maries time when one it seems pressed in spirit said to him Doubtless it were better that the Scriptures were allowed in English replyed with some heat If that door were once open then indeed farewell all as though nothing were more prejudicial to the Clergy then the knowledg of the People At the house of Mr Bream At this meeting I came being particularly invited thereto which is I confess the rule I have hitherto walked by as to those entertainments SECT XI WIthin a little while after this I had occasion and was bent in my heart for the West not onely so much for the cause of other matters as to have a renewed taste of the fruit I hoped and have much longed after to partake of among the people with whom I have had my conversation in times past upon the account of the testimony of the Coming and hope of our most dear Lord and Saviour Among them I was a while with great delight finding them in full expectation of what was much in my heart the dawning of the Day of God and their gathering together in one in him upon that account Before I undertook this I had some promise of supply of one suitable to me and known and much desired of the most enlightened of the people in this place Mr S. but to make it yet more sure I endeavored with some of our Neighbors at Eaton whom I have with a ready minde heretofore served upon the like occasion that in my absence if they thought meet they would stand in my stead but having no promise I could not assure my self of any wherefore as upon the account aforesaid viz. my longing after the people in the West as also because of my assiduity and diligence among the people here unthankfully that I say no more at present entertained of them I resolved to take the opportunity and leave the event and guidance of the matter and people to God himself alone the great Shepherd of the sheep in whose custody alone I am sure we are all safe SECT XII YEt being as far as Newport and Cardiff in Wales I was of the Lord after the second Sabbath strongly moved in my heart to return so as to be at Windsor on the third which was the time is as yet call'd Easter-day for we have in the Land as yet so little of the substance that we are fain still and do with much zeal as elsewhere so especially here retain not the Jewish by no means forsooth that must be said yet it cannot be denyed but that we hold fast to the Popish new-invented Jewish as well as the Heathen types and shadows In my absence they were destitute of one to fill the Pulpit the first day on the second they got with much endeavor having a fit opportunity Mr Kind having been all this while as it were to this place fast asleep but he is awake of them and brought with all speed here when doubtless upon consultation had one with another he gave notice of a Sacrament should be on the next day sure as a seal of that union of theirs which was not is not in God for which intent all things at least without them were made ready the Innen wash'd and the plate and other utensils made bright for the purpose and the wine bespoke because such as they would have was not ready for they must needs have Muskadine there was to be something at least like it made of the Vintner that week at the end of which I unlooked for and unwelcom as to these people came some saying I was sent for and came post-haste though I had no intimation saving onely in my heart from above neither was it possible I should Wherefore others that were as glad of my return likened it somewhat to the man Moses his coming down from the Mount when in his absence Aaron and the people had agreed to make them a Calf in stead of God in Christ to go before them Hence there was not a little ado and talk of the people some advising and they none of the meanest of them to defer it at least to another time others were as much resolved have it they would now what ever it cost them I hearing this on the next day minded to have sent to the Mayor or rather to have come unto him and to have got some five or six more of the chief of the Town to have conferred together to prevent any inconvenience that might hereby arise and for that intent the chief man in this cause as to activeness came to me into a place in town to which I sent for him and told him my resolve wherefore we going together he indeed unwillingly but I of a ready mind Rand. to an ancient man and Professor but he not being within some say willingly I was urged to go to and speak with the Steward but staying a while in the street he being calld came to me with whom after a little discourse I abruptly I confess