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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

and strong I mean in their resolves and purposes as well as in their Actings among us that unless God help as I am sure he will his people we shall all be if not in other things at least in Religion which as it is in God is after all this ado about it of least esteem with men I say again we shall be in statu quo priùs for they say volens nolens vi armis per fas nefasque we will have what we will have the day 's our own who shall withstand us in the way we have agreed on among our selves to take This being of me discerned I minded them openly of the prayer and request of Hosea which is indeed the request of the true Church in all ages concerning the false Give them O God what wilt thou give them give them a miscarrying womb and dry brests of this they had some sense though they usually say of what they hear of me they have no knowledg SECT V. WHerefore a little after we had a solemn meeting of the people which they call a Vestry having made all ready before-hand both as to persons and purposes at which by the will of God I was at which they had as in effect they did express as no expectation so no desire much reasoning and debate they had as to the power by which I stood among them I thought only to mind them of and content my self with declaring this That the authority by which I stood was the same by which I am even that of the grace of God Wherefore said I sith we profess our selves as we do Christians let us together in sobriety calling upon the Name of God having too the Bible among us make tryal of the warrant by the work I have been hitherto taken up with but they wav'd this discourse being indeed altogether unfit for it as it appeared by the uncivil and rude behavior of some at that meeting Wherefore an Order I must produce in all haste which as I neither then had by me so neither did they meet for that intent but what they came for they did at that time frustrate themselves which was the subscribing a Petition already drawn for a Vicar for a Vicar they must needs have what ever came of the Truth among them SECT VI. WHat in words they did express that they had in their paper That they were in very great distress for the more is the pity food poor people for their souls even altogether in such another condition as the mixt multitude were said to be when they wept again for the flesh and other the fish and the like good things they before had in Aegypt but now their Soul was dryed up and nothing left but this Manna whereof they had no knowledg for the colour of it was and is like Bdelium that it dazled their eyes to look on it yea they were they are not able to look upon it at all besides before it become food it will cost them not a little labor for it must be either ground in a mill or pound in a mortar and after all baked well in an even before there can be any taste or true relish of it as they well know whose dayly food it is for which cause it 's wholly disliked among us that the people are fain to go for the bread that 's for their tooth some to one place some to another some to old Windsor where doubtless they meet with many a good meal of onyons garlick the savor of which is manifest every where among them others or the same at another time to Dotchet or Cluet concerning which persons and people I will onely say this That a man may sufficiently that hath any discerning of the things that differ take knowledg of the Priest by the people or which is in effect the same the people by the Priest they adore for without all peradventure neither of all these three call them what you will Parsons Vicars or Curates are of such attainment either in point of knowledg or any good and vertuous life that they should have so many followers of them unless it be for the cause abovesaid Wherefore as I was concerned as sometimes Moses was I declared that for their good I would wholly deny as much as in me was what they did with such eagerness endevor after even as a father hath no regard but is rather seemingly cruel to the childe he loves when he desires though with importunity not bread but a stone not fish but a scorpion a snake a poysonous hurtful thing yet their importunity at length which was so great that I confess I was ashamed as the Prophet spake somewhat in alike case that I consented by such a time to produce the Order as I had it for my being there which I have had as to this place now these five years a Copy of which I got for mony and accordingly at the appointed time it was read among them SECT VII AT which things were for a while hush and still when upon a sudden news was brought that one Mr Woodson had chanced on a man for the turn of all the rest at which though some seemed offended yet after a sight of him he proved in their eye as the Scripture somewhere speaks a desirable young man worthy of and therefore it was reported that he had the great Seal of England for this place but it proved not true neither then nor as yet onely they say they have a good minde to the thing and some hope of it however he had enough to bring him here throgh doubtless the importunity and solicitation of that woman spoken of in the Proverbs that led aside the young man to his hurt as he will it may be in time finde but he having no authority I could not I would not give him my consent to stand in my stead At this second meeting when I was by promise engaged to give them a view of the paper by which I had warrant as to this work from the Nation And having considered and indeed spoken before-hand that this formality and tradition which I could have wish'd to have been removed as a stumbling block out of the way of Christ long ere this I mean the Vicaridg it being in this place that I say not in the whole Land a seed of strife among the people as a Case of Conscience I proposed this to the people then assembled and in particular had some long debate with our late Knight Mr Richard Bream about it he contending in effect that pretence of Conscience was a ground and seed of much trouble and evil in a Land which is true unless we come to some certain Rule for the well guiding and right regulating of it for we that profess our selves Christians ought in all things to have the consent and allowance of God and his Son our Saviour in all we undertake Wherefore Conscience being nothing else then to concur with

Town though a Reed indeed shaken with every wind for the obtaining the man and Vicar they endeavour after whose contention about him is like the strife had of the people heretofore about their idol Maypole for a May-pole they must have and a Vicar these must have nec possunt dicere quare hoc tantum possunt dicere amo te for their lusts sake this they prosecute at London but had a present repulse from the Burgess of the place but yet have had they hold all men in hand no little encouragement from the Lord Whitlock of whom they report they have his countenance yea the promise of the great Seal which yet as I do not believe so I have cause to the contrary as the testimony of Mr. Cokayn whose abiding is in the same house with him as likewise the Relation of the Lord Whitlock himself not only to Mr. Holland but also to a Gentleman of good note and account in this place who went in particular to him upon this occasion yea it should seem strange and indeed impossible unless the Lord Whitlock should be contrary to himself to allow and permit any violence of the people to be used in any thing least of all in things of this nature as the case is here so the people do in profest opposition against the pretended if not real endeavour of the Mayor and the power civil here as it came to passe the next Sabboth day or rather the third after it the Preacher having in the morning with no little devotion doubtless prayed for the Right Worshipful the Mayor and the Worshipful the Aldermen his Brethren yea for the High Court of Parliament and yet as I spake in the afternoon when only these rude men allow me there he not only himself did act but professedly allowed others in an opposition against the express authority of both wherefore I do confess I had with much struggle at length obtain'd leave of God in my heart to appear again in that place especially the Pulpit which seemed to me as most polluted and defiled with the lies that flow out from thence to the deceiving of the whole Land this I did not refuse when I came there to make known to the people that then were present I was holp in this thing of God for through him I came to understand however I stood in the same place yet I was not there upon the same account with him and others that speak there sed non a Deo but not from God there were present at this discourse as I have been since told two Parliament men that seem as Mr. Bream saith much offended with what ever I said or did at that time they never heard as he saith they say such expounding such preaching such catechising yea there was not which it seems they earnestly looked after so much as a Psalm Now I confess its sufficient for me to mind the work I am conversant in as to God whether it take and be accepted with men yea or no yet I have thought whoever these Gentlemen were for I know neither their persons or names that though they had no great liking to other things yet they should very well resent the discourse I had to uphold and justifie the just power and authority of Parliament whereof these were Members unless as some would have I confess as it hath been the case of the powers of the Nations of a long time that the power of the Parliament whether subordinate or supream should only be manifest and made use of to the upholding of evil both men and things and customs in the Land rather then the good I am sure there is no exercise of it in this place at this time as to the thing I have been now these five years conversant in the power whether Martial or Civil laying at the feet of rude men who have and do beat all the sway in this particular to the great shame and reproach of the Government not only of this place but Nation indeed they hold the people in hand yea they have told me and the Mayor of the Town and Mr. Mills that none have power in that place but the Church-wardens they mean a power of force that of Bulls and Bears now these men may upon the same account make the Church a Castle and carry Guns and Swords to secure themselves in what ere they do as set Ruffians there per force to rule Indeed as I once declared even to the Mayor himself that in the true Church the authority of one is as great as is the authority of another there being acknowledged in it no other authority then that of the Word which is the Scepter of Christ by which it s rul'd not a power of Beasts or a beastly power of force as these men like brutes not either as men or Christians lay claim unto and have been and are allowed in The next Sabboth was sent down a letter from the Burgess of this place to the Mayor of the Town A Copy of which I thought worthy here to express SIR I Vnderstand there is much disturbance in the Town of Windsor about preaching in the Church and therefore I thought fit to write to you to desire you that the peace may be kept amongst them by your Authority That so he that yet hath the sole authority that I know of to preach there may not be disturb'd in the performance of his duty who is Mr. Bacon a man of a pious and peaceable Conversation and so judged by all good men that know him for ought I ever yet heard And the Parliament by their Authority having appointed him to be Preacher there I think it 's your duty to see that he may peaceably execute that which the Parliament hath directed him unto Sir I shall heartily desire that all the people of the Town may have such a teacher as may lead them into truth through the goodness of God And wish they would quiet their own spirits until the Parliament shall settle such a course both there and elsewhere in the Nation as shall be I trust for the glory of God and good of all his which they are endeavouring with all convenient speed to do and had sooner done if the publique preservation of the Nation had permitted Sir I have no more at present but to subscribe my self Your very affectionate friend and Servant Cornelius Holland Kinsington May 1. 1652. This Letter being delivered on the evening of the Sabboth the next morning as I passed by towards the publique place Mr. Mills standing at his door desired me to step a little out of my way said I that I shall not do by any means yet shall not refuse to come to you with whom I found the Mayor who together told me of this Letter and how they had endeavoured to the utmost but could not or rather without all peradventure would not let or hinder the people from their rude resolved purpose confessing they were greatly