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A96686	Hypocrisie unmasked: by a true relation of the proceedings of the Governour and company of the Massachusets against Samuel Gorton (and his accomplices) a notorious disturber of the peace and quiet of the severall governments wherein he lived : with the grounds and reasons thereof, examined and allowed by their Generall Court holden at Boston in New-England in November last, 1646. Together with a particular answer to the manifold slanders, and abominable falshoods which are contained in a book written by the said Gorton, and entituled, Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy, &c. Discovering to the view of all whose eyes are open, his manifold blasphemies; as also the dangerous agreement which he and his accomplices made with ambitious and treacherous Indians, who at the same time were deeply engaged in a desperate conspiracy to cut off all the rest of the English in the other plantations. VVhereunto is added a briefe narration (occasioned by certain aspersions) of the true grounds or cause of the first planting of New-England; the president of their churches in the way and worship of God; their communion with the Reformed Churches; and their practise towards those that dissent from them in matters of religion and Church-government. / By Edw. Winslow. Published by authority.	Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.; Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.; Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3037; Thomason E409_23; ESTC R204435	90,941	117

can you with all your libraries give the interpretation thereof but have lost it in the wilderness and accordingly have made the whole way and will of our Lord the ouldnesse of the letter both to your selves and to all that have an eare to lissen unto you Thence it is that the day of Lord is a day of Darkness and Gloominess unto you but of Joy and gladness unto us yea it lifts up our head onely and then is our salvation neere For wee know the worthies of David doubled about the bed of Solomon which expell all feare in the night handling the sword with sucess making the adversaries nothing but meat to feede upon so that the tyme of your feares is the time of our Courage and Conquest for when you feare errour schisme Rents and Confusions in Church and state then do wee know the Messenger of the Covenant the Lord whom wee seek is speeding his passage into his holy temple For who under the terrors of your spirit may abide his Coming hee being like a refiners fire and Fullers sope In that you invite us unto your Courts to fetch your equall ballanced justice upon this ground that you are becomne one with our adversaries and that both in what they have and what they are and wee know them to bee such as profess the day of the Lord an unhallowed thing Now if wee have our opponant to prefer his action against us and not only so but to bee our Counsell our Jurie and our Judg for so it must bee if you bee one with them as you affirm wee know before hand how our Cause will bee ended and see the scale of your equall Justice turned alreadie before wee have layd our Cause therein and cannot but admire to see you caried so contrarie to your owne received principles For you know not how to finde Christ as a Ruling and teaching Elder both in one person therfore he is not Complete amongst you by your owne law except in severall persons and you may thank tradition else you know no more how to finde both a king and a priest in him and yet in your way of making tender of your Justice unto us you know how to become one with our adversaries so as if wee deale with them wee deale with you and if wee have to doe with you wee have to doe with them also yea further wee know that the chiefe amongst you have professed wee are not worthy to live and that if some of us were amongst you wee should hardly see the place of our abode any more Now that they have brooded upon their law to take away life they must much more bring it up in taking away all means of life Witnes our prohibition that no powder should be sould unto us for our money and that in a time when you could not thinke your selves safe in all your owne self provision and worldly furniture except you disarmed a company of poor Indians whom Aaron your Leviticall Sacrificer hath made Naked as hee doth all those which triumph in a Calf though the most costly and beautifull that the Jewells and eare-rings of Learning either in Language or art can possibly bring forth your owne amazements upon meer Rumors may testifie the truth hereof so then wee are Judged by your law before our Cause bee hard or our selves brought forth under the liberties of it which thing is well pleasing unto us to have our Condition conformed unto Moses the man of God who was dead in Pharaohs account before he was brought forth and so it was with Christ our lord in the dayes of Herod also who is our life at which you strike and makes all things yea Death it self lively and advantagious unto us Wee cannot but wonder that you should read the Scripture and not finde them fulfilled in and amongst your selves when as they appeare so apparantly that he that runs may read them what think you of Herod when the Lord had delivered Peter out of prison and released him of those bonds and brought him from that thraldom which he had so Cruelly imposed upon him to gaine the favour of the Jewes and that by a power supereminent transcending the bounds of his authoritie and by a wisdom surpassing the Depth of his Counsell and policie to fynd out together with his souldiers and Champions he presently goes downe to Cesarea and Herod is angry with them of Tyrus Sidon thumoniachon a heavie Friend or hath a secret grudg or perturbation of mind manifested in an outreaching and circumventing policie to subdue them unto himself that he might Rule over them Finding himself fall short of power and policie to subject the word of God in the messinger of it to satisfy his owne lusts in his lordship over it he pursues with all egarnesse to make himself a god by Raigning over the bodies and estates of men yea though they be but such as Tyrus and Sidon can afford unto him to make subjects of and when they come unto him with one accord to make offer of themselves in yeelding to his affectionate and politicall project he sitting uppon the Judgment seate in his Royall apparell making his oration of what power he hath to protect them what wisdom and Counsell to minister Justice and righteousness unto them which office belongs only unto the Lord the people with a shout crying out the voice of god and not of man the truth and substance of which Cry is this is the ordinance of god and not of man immediately the angel of the Lord smites him and hee that ever acknowledged himself to bee a worme and no man upon the earth Consumes and eates up all his pomp and glory even as those whom you account the Shame and Contempt of the people shall thorow that angell of the Covenant waste and bring to nought all those Rhetoricall though earthly Orations that are made amongst you by your so Learned studious and experienced Clarkes take for illustration of your estate as above the speech of your alderman Oliver in case of committing Francis Hutchinson to prison one of your Church-members wondering that brother Winthrop would do it before the Church had dealt with him Brother saith hee why hee is thy god man Lend your eye yet farther to parallell your practise personated in Pylate and the people when Pylat offereth Jesus unto the people to be judged they profess they have such a law as puts no man to Death they are all for mercy and forgiveness when they are out of the Judgment hall but let Pylat enter in thither and then nothing but Crucifie him Crucifie him be their accusations and witnesses never so false even so in your dealings with men in way of your Jewish brotherhood your law is all for mercie to Redress reform and for preservation both of soule and bodie Do but enter into the Common hall and then as Pylat asked am I a Jew so do you Doe I sit or speake here as a

but more especially because many of the friends children and kindred of the dead are in good esteeme with us whom I am loath to grieve But since by course thou art next to cast thine eye Gentle Reader upon the summe of a Presentment which the Court at Road Iland received from their Grand Jewry being present when Samuel Gorton had so much abused their Government in the face of the Country yea in open Court their owne eyes and eares bearing witnesse thereunto they I say presented these abuses to the Court as such which they conceived ought not to bee borne without ruine to their Government and therefore besought the bench to thinke of some one punishment for examples sake as well as otherwise to bee inflicted on the Delinquent And therefore that thou maist see the occasion thereof take notice that an ancient woman having a Cow going in the field where Samuel Gorton had some land This woman fetching out her Cow Gortons servant maid fell violently upon the woman beating and notoriously abusing her by tearing her haire about her whereupon the old woman complaining to the Deputy Governour of the place hee sendeth for the maid and upon hearing the cause bound her over to the Court The time being come and the Court set Gorton appeares himselfe in the defence of his maid and would not suffer his maid to appeare or make answer but said expresly she should not appeare and that if they had any thing against her they should proceed with him And though hee was lovingly disswaded by some of the Bench not to engage himselfe but let his maid appeare yet hee refused but when hee could not bee prevailed with the action was called and witnesses produced sworne and examined which being done hee moved for another witnesse to bee called which hee perswaded himselfe and the Bench was an honest woman and would speake the truth Now shee being sworne said Mr. Gorton I can speake nothing will helpe your maid And indeed her whole testimony was against her and for the old womans cause whereupon hee openly said Take heed thou wicked woman the earth doth not open and swallow thee up And then hee demanded of the Court if hee should have equity and justice in his cause or no To which was answered if he had either plea or evidence to produce in his maids cause it should be heard Then hee nominated one Weekes who could say something to it Weekes was called and required to take his oath before hee spake at which Gorton and Weekes both of them jeered and laughed and told the Court they were skilled in Idols and that was one and stood stoutly a long time to make it good Hereupon some of the Court put him in mind how they had forewarned him of such carriages fearing he would fall into some extreames At length the Governour gathering up the summe of what was witnessed commends it to the Jewry At which time Gorton said the Court had perverted Justice and wrested the witnesses with very many high and reproachfull termes and in the midst of his violence throwing his hands about hee touched the Deputy Governour with his handkerchiefe buttons about his eares who it seemes sate at a Table with his backe towards him whereupon the Deputy said what will you fall about my eares To which Gorton answered I know not whether you have any eares or no and if you have I know not where they stand but I will not touch them with a paire of Tongues The Governour often calling upon the Jewry to attend the Cause was as often interrupted by him Whereupon many of their Freemen being present desired the Court they would not suffer such insolencies professing they were troubled the Court had borne with them so long For which in briefe hee was committed but when the Governour bade the Marshall take him away hee bade take away Coddington which was their Governours name a thing I thought meet to explaine lest thou shouldst not understand it by the Heads of the Presentment here following abusing all and every particular of the Magistrates with opprobrious terms But note when hee was committed upon his mutinous and seditious speeches Weekes Holden c. his abettors stopped the way with such insolency as the Governour was forced to rise from the Bench to helpe forward the Command with his person in clearing the way put Weekes in the stocks and was forced to command a guard of armed men to preserve themselves and the peace of the place And this they did because of some fore-going jealousies and now taking occasion to search the houses of that party that adhered to him they found many of their peeces laden with bullet and by meanes hereof they were forced to continue their guard whilst upon their banishment they were forced from the Island And however it were enough for a Book alone to relate all the particulars of his insolent carriage yet take notice onely of two or three particulars 1 When hee was censured to bee whipt and banished he appealed to England they asked to whom Hee said with a loud voice To King Charles They told him hee should first have his punishment and then afterwards hee might complain To which hee replyed take notice I appeale to King Charles Calo or Selah the party who was present told mee hee could not tell which but that word was spoken with an extraordinary high and loud voice A second thing to be observed was that after hee had been so deservedly whipt some of his faction said Now Christ Jesus had suffered And thirdly although the weather was very cold the Governour going away after execution of Justice upon him yet he ran a good way after the Governour drawing a chaine after one of his legs the upper part of his body being still naked and told him He had but lent him this and hee should surely have it again All this I had from a man of very good repute who then lived with them and was an eye and eare witnesse to all these proceedings In the next place take notice good Reader that when hee went from hence well whipt as before and entred upon his banishment the place hee went to in a sharpe season was a Town called Providence where Mr. Roger Williams divers others lived who in regard of the season entertained them with much humane curtesie but the Gortonians answered all like Aesops snake as thou maist read by the severall Letters of the chief Inhabitants of that place by a notorious faction there also by them raised to the great distraction and amazement of the Inhabitants as appeareth by their dolefull complaints in their own Letters a true Copy whereof I present unto thee The sum of the Presentment of Samuel Gorton at Portsmouth in Roade-Island by the Grand Jury FIrst that Samuel Gorton certaine dayes before his appearance at this Court said the Government was such as was not to bee subjected unto forasmuch as it had not a true derivation

after of the Virgin Mary and suffering c. was but a manifestation of his suffering c. in Adam Another of them said that the Sabbath was Christ and so was borne of the Virgin Mary They called Magistracy among Christians an Idol yet they did acknowledge a Magistracy in the world to bee subjected to as an Ordinance of God but onely as naturall as the father over his wife and children and an hereditary Prince over his subjects Their first appearance before the Court was upon the Lecture day at Boston before a very great Assembly where first the Governour declared the cause and manner of all the proceedings against them and their Letters were openly read and they had liberty to object and answers were given as followeth First to their plea That they were not within our Jurisdiction it was answered 1 If they were not within ours yet they were within the Jurisdiction of one of our confederates who had referred them to us 2 If they were within no Jurisdiction then was there none to complaine to for redresse of our injuries in way of ordinary Justice and then we had no way of relief but by force of Ar●es Secondly to their plea Of persecution for their Conscience c. It was answered that wee did not meddle with them for their opinions otherwise then they had given us occasion by their owne Letters and free speeches amongstus for wee wrote to them about civill Controversies onely and gave them no occasion to vent their blasphemies and revilings against the Ordinances of Religion set up with us Thirdly for their title to the Indians lands wee had divers times desired them to make it appeare but they alwayes refused even to our Commissioners whom according to their owne motion wee sent last to them and since they were in prison wee offered them to send for any witnesses they would name to us for that end but this also they refused So that our title by the Indians surrender appeareth good and having regained possession we need not question them any further about that Their Letters being read and their Subscriptions acknowledged they were demanded severally if they would maintaine those things which were contained therein Their answer was that they would in that sense they wrote them and so were returned to prison The next day they were brought before the Court severally to be examined upon particulars many of the Elders being desired to bee present because they had said they could give a good interpretation of every part of their Letters But the Interpretation they gave being contrary to the words they were demanded if they would then retract those words so plainely different from their pretended meanings But this they refused to doe saying that then they should deny the Truth for instance in one or two Their Letters were directed one of them To their Neighbours of the Massachusets and the other To the great honoured Idoll Generall of the Massa●●usets and by a messenger of their owne delivered to our Governour and many passages in both Letters particularly applyed to our Courts our Magistrates our Elders c. and yet upon their examinations about their meanings in their reproachfull passages they answered that they meant them of the corrupt estate of mankinde in generall and not of us So whereas in their Letter they charged it upon us as an errour that we teach That Christ dyed Actually onely when he suffered under Pontius ●ilate and before onely in Types c. upon their examination they said that their meaning was that his death was actuall to the faith of the Fathers under the Law which is in effect the same which we hold Yet they would not retract their words they had written The Elders conferred many houres with them before the Court and by occasion thereof they discovered divers blasphemous opinions which they maintained we will instance one which was mentioned before delivered by Gorton viz. that the Image of God wherein Adam was created was Christ and Adams loosing that Image was the death of Christ and the restoring of that Image in the Regeneration was the resurrection of Christ and so the death of him that was borne of the Virgin Mary was but a manifestation of the former Master William Tompson one of the Elders had spent some time with them before in the prison about the opinions which they held forth and they had professed their agreement with him for substance in every point so as he came to the Court with a purpose to speak in their behalf but when he heard themselves discover thus upon their publique examinations he shewed how he had beene deluded by them For they excell the Jesuites in the art of equivocation and regard not how false they speake to all other mens apprehensions so they keepe to the rules of their owne secret intentions Being asked why they spake against the Ordinances of the Ministery Sacraments c. seeing the Scripture allowes them They answered that they were ordained onely for the time of Nonage but after the Revelation was written they were to cease because we finde no mention of them in that booke They were unlearned men the ablest of them could not write true english no not in common words yet they would take upon them to interpret the most difficult places of Scripture and wrest them any way to serve their owne turne As for instance Mr. Cotton pressing Gorton with that in Act. 10. Who can forbid water why these should not be baptised c. He interpreted thus who can deny but these have beene baptised seeing they have received the Holy Ghost c. so he allowed them to have beene baptised This shift ●e was put to that he might maintaine his opinion viz that such as have beene baptized with the Holy Ghost need not the baptisme of water Divers dayes were spent both by the Court and the Elders in labouring to bring them to repentance but all in vaine They continued obstinate Whereupon they agreed to sentence them but first they brought them in publique before a great Assembly and there out of their Letters and Speeches they laid upon them this charge viz. they were found to be blasphemous enemies of the true Religion of our Lord Jesus Christ and of all his holy Ordinances and likewise of all Civill Government among his people and particularly within this jurisdiction Then they were demanded if they did acknowledge this charge to be just and would submit to it or what exception they had against it They answered they did not acknowledge it to be just but they fell into some cavilling speeches so they were returned unto prison againe Being in prison they behaved themselves insolently towards their keeper and spake evill of the Magistrates so as the keeper was forced to threaten them with Irons to keepe them quiet After all meanes used to reclaime them and not prevailing they were brought before the Court to receive their sentence which was this Gorton and

six more of them were to be sent to severall townes there to bee kept to worke for their livings and to weare an Iron chaine upon one leg and not to depart the limits of the Towne nor by word or writing to maintaine any of their blasphemous or wicked errours upon paine of death except in conference with any of the Elders or any other allowed by some Magistrate to conferre with them and this to continue during the pleasure of the Court. Three of the Company because they had not their hands to the Letters were set at libertie two of them upon a small ransome as prisoners taken in warre and the other freely for that he was amongst them in his Masters house where they were taken a fourth being found to be a plaine ignorant young man was discharged also onely enjoyned to abide a time in one of our Townes but hee went away and returned no more contrary to his promise There were two other who were brought in after but not by force the one of them disclaiming to have any hand in the Letters was discharged presently the other was kept a while in prison and after upon his submission c. was released Gorton and the other six remained in the severall Townes all that Winner and then in regard of their wives and children who were like to be much distressed by their husbands absence they were set at liberty and banished upon paine of death if they were found in any part of our jurisdiction After the Court had passed sentence upon them for their c●●finement we sent to fetch so many of their Cattle as might defray the charges they had put us to which amounted to about one hundred and sixty pounds but the Cattle came not to so much for we left every of them a part for the support of their families and some of them had no Cattle at all The Letters follow Mooshawset Novemb 20. 1642. To our Neighbours of the Massachusets VVHereas we lately received an irregular note professing its forme from the Massachusets with four mens names subscribed thereunto as principall authors of it of the chiefe amongst you We could not easily give credit to the truth thereof not onely because the conveyers of it unto us are knowne to bee men whose constant and professed acts are worse then the counterfeiting of mens hands but also because we thought that men of your parts and profession would never have prostrated their wisdome to such an act But considering that causlesse enmity you have against us the proofe wherof every occasion brings forth Wee cannot but conclude that no act so ill which that ancient mother will not bring forth her seed unto For wee know very well that it is the name of Christ called upon us which you strive against Thence it is that you stand on tip-toe to stretch your selves beyond your bounds to seeke occasion against us So as you might hide your sinne with Adam bearing the world in hand it is not your desire to contend with us But some civill breach in our courses which you onely seeke to redresse Whereas neither you nor any in way of truth can finde wherewith to bring us under the Censure of a disorderly course of walking amongst men And as for the way of that ancient spirit of accusation of the brethr●● we weigh it not knowing him to be a lyer or in the abstract a lye from the beginning yea and the father of it als● which thing you cannot know though it were told unto you Whereas you say Robert Cole William Ar●●●ld with others have put themselves under the Government and protection of your Jurisdiction which is the occasion you have now got to contend we wish your words were verified that they were not elsewhere to be found being nothing but the shame of Religion Disquiet and Disturbance of the place where they are For we know neither the one nor the other with all their associates and Confederates have power to enlarge the bounds by Kinge Charles limited unto you Behold therfore in this your act a Map of your spirituall estate to use your owne phrase for we know that the Spirituality of your Churches is the Civility of your Commonweale and the Civility of your Comonwealth is the spirituality of your Churches the wisdome of man being the whole accomplishment of them both of which Tree you delight dayly to eate finding it faire and beautifull to gaine Conformity with your maker In these your Dissembling subjects grosly profane amongst us but full of the spirit of your purity when they are with you you may remember the brand your selves have set upon some of them the Cause wherof was never yet removed though it abide not upon their backe Nor yet the Cause of your Commitment of them unto Sathan according unto your Law for if that were removed you should doe them wrong in not resuming your vomit into its former Concoction againe Nor are we ignorant of those disgracefull tearmes they use and give out against you behind your backes their submission therfore can bee to no other end but to satisfie their owne lusts not onely conceived but in violent motion against their Neighbours who never offered the least wrong unto them only the proposition of Amity is object sufficient for these mens enmitie Even so the passions of sin which are by the Law having force in your Members you going about with great labour and industry to satisfie them by your submission unto the word of God in your Fasting and feasting in Contributing and treasuring in retirednesse for Study and bowing of the backes of the poore going forth in labour to maintaine it and in the spirit of that hireling raising up your whole structure and edifice in all which you bring forth nothing but fruit unto death some labouring for a price to give for the keeping of their soules in peace and safe estate and Condition and some to have their bodies furnished with riches honour and ease and further then the Lord Jesus agrees with these you mind him not nay you renounce and reject him and with these according to your Acceptation and practice he holds no Correspondency at all being the Consultation and operation of that his onely adversarie man being that which you depend uppon and not the Lord Crying out in way of Elevation and aplauding his ministers when in the meane time you know not what nor who they are professing them under a mediate Call of Christ though formerly they have beene Called immediately by him herby showing your selves to be those that destroy the Sacred ordinance of God For if you make Christ to be that to day in stateing his ministers which he was not yesterday and that in the tyme of the Gospell also to speake acording to your Law to be found in them both you therin affirm that he hath beene that to his ministers which now he is not and to make the Son of God to have beene that which

man which is the bond and obligation of that league and agreement made with death and hell for ever bee yee assured it is not the tabernacle of witnes which you have amongst you brought in by Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles but it is Siccuth your King or the tabernacle of Moleck the starre of your God Remphan figures which you have made unto your selves which you have taken up and are bearing so stoutly upon your shoulders Now to tell you what an oath according to God is that the scriptures are delivered upon no other ground or termes of certainty where ever they are divulged is a thing out of your jurisdiction you cannot discerne or judge of it therefore according to our word above wee leave it as a parable unto you as all the holy word of our God is as your conversation in all points as in this daily declareth In a word when wee have to doe in your jurisdiction we know what it is to submit to the wise dispensations of our God when you have to doe amongst us in the liberties hee hath given unto us wee doubt not but you shall finde him judge amongst us beyond and above any cause or thing you can propose unto us And let that suffice you and know that you cannot maintaine a jurisdiction but you must reject all inroades upon other mens priviledges and so doe wee In the meane time wee shall as wee thinke good bee calling over againe some matters that you have taken up and had the handling of them amongst you to see what justice or equity wee finde hath beene exercised in them and redresse them accordingly for wee professe right unto all men and not to doe any violence at all as you in your prescript threaten to doe to us for wee have learned how to discipline our children or servants without offering violence unto them even so doe w●e know how to deale with our deboist rude nay inhumane Neighbours or if you will Nabals without doing violence but rather rendring unto them that which is their due Nor shall wee deprive a witnesse of his modest testimony for the out-cries and clamours of such a one as ill bred apostatized Arn●●ld that fellonious Hog-killer being the partie to bee testified against or for the oath of any interested in the cause nor shall wee bee forward to come so farre to finde your worke upon your request till wee know you to beare another minde then others of your Neighbours doe with whom wee have had to doe in this country whose pretended and devised Lawes wee have stooped under to the robbing and spoiling of our goods the livelyhood of our wives and children thinking they had laboured though groping in great darkenesse to bring forth the truth in the rights and equity of things but finding them to bee a company of grosse dissembling hypocrites that under the pretence of Law and Religion have done nothing else but gone about to establish themselves in wayes to maintaine their owne vicious lusts wee renounce their Diabolicall practice being such as have denyed in their publique Courts that the lawes of our Native Country should bee named amongst them yea those ancient statute lawes casting us into most base nastie and insufferable places of imprisonment for speaking according to the language of them in the meane while breaking open our houses in a violent way of hostilitie abusing our wives and our little ones to take from us the volumes wherein they are preserved thinking thereby to keepe us ignorant of the courses they are resolved to run that so the viciosity of their owne wills might bee a law unto them yea they have endeavoured and that in publique expressions that a man being accused by them should not have liberty to answer for himselfe in open Court. Dealings of like nature wee finde in the place whereof you stile us your neighbours on whose unbridled malice wee finde a higher then you putting a curbe and yet in your account and reckoning wee are the parties that still are doing the wrong and must beare the guilt in your most mature sentence in whomsoever the spot ariseth and abideth But the God of vengeance unto whom our cause is referred never having our protector and Judge to seeke will shew himselfe in our deliverance out of the hands of you all yea all the house of that Ishbosheth and Mephibosheth nor will he faile us to utter and make knowne his strength wherein wee stand to serve in our age and to minister in our Course to day and to morrow and on the third day can none deprive us of perfection for hee hath taught us to know what it is to walke to day and to morrow and the day following also when a perishing estate cannot arise out of Jerusalem though she be the onely one yea none but she that kills the Prophets and stones them that are sent unto her Behold yee that are looking after and foretelling so much of the comming of Christ driving the day before you still for certaine yeares which some you say shall attaine unto and unto the day of death for the rest You blinde guides as your fathers have ever done so doe yee Behold wee say when ever hee appeareth your house which yee so glory in shall bee left unto you desolate it shall be turned into nothing but desolation and confusion for Babel is its name Nor shall you see him to your comfort in the glory of his kingdome untill you can say Blessed is hee that commeth in the name of the Lord when the authority and power of man appeares to bee the building of Babel unto you and the name and authority of God onely to bee that wherein the blessing consists and that in such wise also as is nothing but a way of reproach in the eyes of all the world that a King should ride into his chiefe City so strangely furnished upon an Asse borrowed her furniture old overworn garments and accompanied with none but poore meane excommunicated persons such as your Elders Scribes Pharisees Lawyers and all your credible persons among you make full account they are not onely accursed by but also destitute and void of all law when you can finde Hosanna in the highest arising out of such contempt and shame then and then onely shall you sing unto him with comfort In the meane time acknowledge your portion which is to trust and stay your selves on the name of man and in his beautie to delight and glory which shall fade as a leafe and like the grasse shall wither when it is fitting it self for the oven such is man whose breath is in his nostrills and the sonne of sorrie man in whom you delight to trust his power and his policy brings forth nothing else but as you shall see and heare in the Countrey from whence wee are brought We are not ignorant of those shamefull lies and falsities gone out against us and the daily wresting of our words to cast

Governours wee must give them wee call such Titles as are sutable to their offices and places they beare in Church and Common-wealth as Governours and Assistants Pastors Teachers Rulers Deacons c. these are our highest Titles we give In his second pag. hee chargeth the Massachusets to unite with other Colonies to the end they might bathe themselves in bloud and feed themselves fat with the lives of their brethren c. This is a notorious slander 'T is true that the Massachusets new Plimouth Cone●tacut and Newhaven I meane the severall Colonies there entred into a civill combination and are called by the name of the Vnited Colonies and this was occasioned by a generall conspiracy of the Indians against the body of the English there seated together with the distracted condition of England from whom we could expect no helpe at that time But Mr. Gorton and his company sell at that time into more then ordinary familiarity with the Na●ohigganset Indians who were the principal contrivers of the Villany who where they could not draw others to them by force or flattery they did it by large gifts c. as I could prove by many testimonies of the Indians many hundred miles asunder from each other in which designe had not the finger of God in much mercy prevented I had beene the first had fallen which I forbeare to relate here being what I now doe is but an answer to his invective Next in the same pag. hee tels us at his landing how hee found his Country men at great variance at Boston in point of Religion But had not hee holpen to blow the bellowes the flame might never have beene so great And whereas hee said that Mr. Williams was banished thence for differing from us being a man of good report c. In answer 1. take notice I know that Mr. Williams though a man lovely in his carriage and whom I trust the Lord will yet recall held forth in those times the unlawfulnesse of our Letters Patents from the King c. would not allow the Colours of our Nation denyed the lawfulnesse of a publique oath ●● being needlesse to the Saints and a prophanation of Gods name to tender it to the wicked c. And truly I never heard but he was dealt with for these and such like points however I am sorry for the love I beare to him and his I am forced to mention it but God cals mee at this time to take off these aspersions In pag. 3. hee mentions the proceedings of the Massachusets against Mr. John Wheelwright c. Had it beene the will of God I would those differences had never been But the maine difference was about a Petition by way of Remonstrance which the Government tooke very offensive But Mr. Wheelwright and they are reconciled hee having given satisfaction c. In the same pag. hee wrongs the doctrine of our Churches which is well knowne to bee sound But whereas hee tels us in the same pag. of denying cohabitation and of whippings confinement imprisonment chaines fines banishment I confesse all these things befell him and most justly for hee was bound to the good behaviour at Plimouth and brooke his bonds in the face of the Court whipt and banished at Roade Island for mutinle and sedition in the open Court there also at Providence as factious there though his party grew greater then Mr. Williams his better party as appeares by his and their sad letters to the Government of the Massachuset for helpe and advice and afterwards banished the Massachusets all which appeares in another place of this booke and the just causes of their proceedings annexed thereunto Lastly in this pag. hee tels us of his hardship divers nights together that himselfe and the rest of his mutinous companions as Weekes Holden c. endured which was just with God and man for extream evils must have extreame remedies and yet t is well knowne t is not a full dayes journey from Roade Island to Providence And whereas a stranger would thinke hee was then forced to goe to Nauhigauset-Bay amongst the Indians hee went not from Providence till they were as weary of these Mutineeres as either Plimouth or Roade Island had beene before them And because hee often mentioneth the hard measure hee received at Plimouth still carrying it on as if difference in Religion had beene the ground of it I thought good here to give the Reader to understand what was the ground of his troubles there that so all men may know what Religion this man is of for the tree is best knowne by its fruite The first complaint that came against him for which hee was brought before authority was by Mr. Ral●h Smith a Minister who being of Gortons acquaintance received him with his family into his house with much humanity and Christian respect promising him as free use of it as himselfe c. but Mr. Gorton becomming troublesome after meanes used to remove the offences taken by Mr. Smith but to no purpose growing still more insolent Mr. Smith desired him to provide elsewhere for himselfe but Gorton refused saying hee had as good interest in the house as Mr. Smith had And when hee was brought before Authority stood stoutly to maintaine it to our amasement But was ordered to depart and provide other wayes by a time appointed And not long after there comming a woman of his acquaintance to Plimouth divers came to the Governour with complaints against her being a stranger for unworthy and offensive speeches and carriages used by her Whereupon the Governour sent to her to know her businesse c. and commanded her departure and ordered the Sea-man that brought her to returne her to the place from whence shee came at his next passage thither But Gorton said shee should not goe for hee had occasion to employ her c. Hereupon the Governour it being in the time of a Court sent for him and because hee had hidde her stood in justification of his practise and refused to obey the command of the Court who seconded the Governours order He was committed till hee could procure sureties for his good behaviour till the next Court which was a generall Court and there to answer to this contempt The time being come and the Court set Gorton was called But the Governour being wearied with speech to other causes requested one of his Assistants who was present at his commitment and privy to the whole cause to declare the same This Assistant no sooner stood up to shew the Country the cause of his bonds in the great affront hee had given the Government but Gorton stretching out his hand towards his face said with a loud voice If Satan will accuse the brethren let him come downe from Jehoshuahs right ●and and stand here And that done in a seditious manner turned himselfe to the people and said with his armes spread abroad Yee see good people how yee are abused Stand for your liberty And let