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A42186	A glass for the people of New England, in which they may see themselves and spirits, and if not too late, repent and turn from their abominable ways and cursed contrivances that so the Lord God may turn away his wrath, which he will bring upon them, it they repent not, for their blasphemies against himself, and for all the murders and cruelties done to his tender people, ever since they usurped authority to banish, hang, whip, and cut off ears, and spoil the goods of dissenters from them in religious matters, while themselves disown infallibility in those things / by S. G.	S. G. (Samuel Groome), d. 1683.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Tyso, John, d. 1700.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2065; ESTC R10937	29,049	44

drunk in and was hid through Deceit And the Lord God is making you as I may say as a Sign to many Nations that shall coolly and seriously hear and consider what you have professed and what brought forth and now you would fain hide your selves a little longer and say The Quaker is the chief Cause of our Misery and he joyns his Thresholds to G●d's Thresholds and his Posts to God's Posts and that in the open Meetings of the Quakers whose blasphemous Principles c. But ye have not printed their Principles that ye call so provoking Divine Jealousie no more then you printed Williams his Principles whom you banished nor yet John Wheelwright's Principles which set the Priests and Professors in New-England in an Uproar in the Year One Thousand Six Hundred Thirty Six But John Wheelwright spoke many things which are now come to pass and also bore Testimony to the Light Read part of his Sermon preached at Boston which provoked Jealousie but not Divine but Devilish Jealousie And in his third Use in that ●ermon did he n●t say The second Sort of People that were to be condemned are all such as do set themselves against the Lord Jesus Christ such are the greatest Enemies to the State as can be if they can have their Wills you see what a lamentable State both Church and Commonwealth will be in then we shall have need of mourning the Lord cannot endure these that are Enemies to himself and Kingdom and People and unto the Good of his Church such shall never be able to prevail against the Lord. What will be the End and Issue think you if People do set themselves against the Way of Grace and the Lord Jesus Christ This will be the Issue of it those that oppose the Ways of Grace and resist the Truth they shall wax worse and worse 2 Tim. 3. 8. they may happily proceed a great Way but the time shall come that they shall go no further and by Reason of the Agitation of things it will come to pass that the Church will be cleared and your Folly manifested unto all men so saith the Apostle It is a hard thing to kick against the Pricks Acts 9. 5. Who ever strove against God and prospered If men or women fall upon the Lord Jesus Christ they break but if the Lord Jesus Christ fall on them he will grind them to Powder If any fall upon Christ and will not let Christ alone but fall upon them which hold him and will abuse them and be buffeting the Lord Jesus Christ there is never a Stroke they give but makes Wounds in their Consciences but if they will be heaving out Christ they shall find it the heaviest Stone that ever was it will fall and grind them to Powder if People set themselves against the Lord and the Ways of Grace and his Truth this will be the Issue of it on their Part either those that set themselves against the Ways of God they will be put to silence by the Light that cometh from Christ for such Truths come with such Light and Power that they shall be so convinced as that they shall not be able to speak any more in the Case as Christ put down those that came against him so that they durst ask him no more Questions and so there cometh such a Power from the Word held forth by the Saints of God that it will strick a Fear into their Hearts that oppose it What ailest thou O Jordan that the Floods go back Tremble thou Earth at the Presence of the Lord. They that came to Christ fell back there cometh a divine Power from the Lord that turneth them all back the Lord will strick with Trembling those that come against Jerusalem or if they be not put to silence it will come to pass in time they will fall i●to a wonderful Strong Passion and will quarrel with the Saints of God It was the Case of Zedekiah with Michaiah the Question was which of them had the Spirit of God and he comes and smites the Prophet Michaiah on the Cheek but the Spirit of God is not a smiting Spirit Stephen convinced the Jews and did by the Power of the holy Ghost Evidence his Cause to be the Cause of God and they were not able to resist the Spirit by which he spake and they came and run upon him why do ye resist the holy Ghost saith he what maketh the Sin against the holy Ghost but Enlightning and setting themselves against the way of Truth and persecuting it in Malice and Wrath. It is a fearfull thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God Heb. 10. 31. For our God is a consuming Fire Let every one in the Fear of God have a Care how they set themselves against the Truth and Ways of God and the Ways of Jesus Christ for we must all appear before the Judgement Seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. Thus much of the Sermon preached by John Wheelwright in the Year 1636. By which you Professors of New England may see how prophetical he spake of what is come to pass and fulfilled on you as he said If People did set themselves to Oppose and Resist the Grace of God and his Way and Truth as you have done such shall wax worse and worse And are you not more and more enraged and crying out Blasphemy and Heresie but have not given Account what those Blasphemous and Heretical Principles are against which you have set your selves this Thirty or Forty Years And why did you not print Obadiah Horne's Principles to whom you gave Forty Stripes save one and his Fellow-Sufferer's Principles whom you also whipped in a Cruel Manner So it seems all must fare alike that sute not with your Will-worship But now of late you have printed against the Quakers but give no Account either what they say do or hold which seems to me to be very brutish and below common Civility or Manhood You see I do not so by you but plainly tell what you say do and hold and may enlarge upon all if I have been too scant in my Account neither indeed would I be willing to be otherwise dealt with in such a Case What! are you so Mad-drunk with Blood that ye care not either what you do say or print You have no need to make your selves more naked Could not your Secretary Rawsen which hath partaken with you in your Wickedness and Folly and has had a large scope of Blood with you advised you better then to put in print such a piece of Folly Why did you not set him to work and print the Quakers Abominable bl●sphemies and Idolatries as you call them that so all People might have judged of the Matters or else kept his printed Piece in New-England for People here in England even many Prophane Ones and much more sober Men and Women know the Quakers Principles and Conversation also and are not willing to close their Eyes as Professors in New-England

a Shephe●d and well may it be said that they that feed and follow such Teachers give their Money for th●t which is not Bread and their Labour for that which satisfi●s not their Souls And Increase Madder saith There is none cleansed from all Sin on this side the Grave but the Scripture saith As the Tree falls so it lies and as Death leaves Judgement fin●s and there is no Repentance in the Grave Where must they be cleansed then I know not except he believes as the Pope doth that there is a Purgatory because he saith not all their Sins for in leed the Papists do believe that their venial Sins as they call them shall be purged away there but the Scripture saith If we walk in the Light as he is in the Light we have Fellowsh pone with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin 1 John 1. 7. And ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free John 8 32. And there is therefore no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit for the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of Sin and D●ath Rom. 8 1 2. And John saith Herei● is our Love made perfe●t that we may have Boldness in the Day of Judgment because as he is so are we in this World 1 John 4. 17. and these were Men l●ving on this Side the Gra●e But Increase Madder saith there is none good no not one It is very true that t●ose that are out of God's Covenant and have none of these Heavenly Treasures in them but are as Clouds without Water Heady High minded men greedy after filthy Lucre whose God is their Belly who mind Earthly things such we have to contend with for the Truth 's sake as the Apostles had in their Day who were Enemies to the Cross of Christ then as you are at this Day I say in that State there is none good no not one and the most upright of them is as a Briar and the justest amongst them as a Thorn-Hedge I find it so but bless●d be the Lord who is my Keeper who hath redeemed me out of their Dwelling-place and opened mine Eves with many mor● and we see where you are and we know God's Controversie is with your blind Guides who cause you to err and you who are led by them who are covering your selves with a Pro●ession as the Phar●see● did but your Hands are full of Cruelty and your Hearts hardned in Persecution unto Blood and are making a Mo●k of Sin who in Derision are calling the Innocent Servants of the Living God Wolves and say you must kill them Oh ye wretched men God will plead with you was ever the Flock of Christ Jesus found in your Practice did ever the Lambs kill Wolves but they that fear God and work Righteousness are accepted of him but always suffered as Evil-doers by them who had a Form of Godliness but resisted the Power in whose Steps ye are but such as you sow such shall you reap God will not be mocked by you for the Day of the Lord is come which burns as an Oven wherein God will plead with all Flesh for his Seed's Sake which he hath and is raising up who hath said unto it live and it shall live though our Bodies may be laid in the Dust yet it shall spring forth in Thousands more So in vain do ye strive ye mortal men the Fruit of your doings will fall on your own Heads a Weight too heavy for you to bear From One that suffers by you for the Truth 's Sake Boston-Prison-House the 15th of the 4th Moneth 1667. John Tyso And Richard Bellingham it is Equity and Justice for thee to return to me the Books thou tookest from me which are mine and is Injustice in thee to take them from me therefore do as thou wouldst be done by and let thy Moderation be seen for the Lord is at hand who is no Respecter of Persons but gives unto every man according to his Doings for he hath given of his Good Spirit to instruct man but many rebel against it but it hath taught us who have believed in it as it did his People of old To do unto all men as we would they should do unto us and gives us Strength and Patience to undergo what Cruel Men may be suffered to inflict upon us who can say f●om our Hearts If it be thy will Lord Forgive them blessed be his Name forever and this is from one that hath learned of Christ and am a Christian though in Scorn by thee called a Quaker yet Quaking and T●embling I have experience of as the holy men of old had and as the Apostle exhorted the Saints to work out their Salvation with Fear and Trembling and so they that are true Christians will not wonder and mock at Quaking and Trembling but God will plead with the Uncircumcised for crying Lord Lord will not save them for it is the Doers of his Will that are just●fi●d in his Sight and Ch●ist Jesus said Except ye cat my Flesh and drink my Blood ye have no Life in you John 6. 53 And so consider thy Cruelty in keeping me here and thy Goaler William Salli●r who will not suffer a man to bring me work but as Christ Jesus said Go learn what that means I will h●ve Mercy and not Sacrifice J. T. A Copy of this fore going Paper was delivered into the Hands of 〈◊〉 ●●llingham Governour of Boston in New-England the 〈◊〉 of the 4th Moneth 1667. but no Answer I received fr●m 〈◊〉 or any of them but through the Enmity of his persecuting spirit he said I deserved to be Hanged and thus Cruelty and Wickedness they act and would bury it in Darkness with themselves but it is in my Heart to put it to publick View that Wickedness and Hypocrisie might be seen and judged and Righteousness might take place in the Hearts of the Sons and Daughters of men for the Day is come which discovers your Nakedness and will consume your Covering your Out-side Profession and hath and will shatter your old Buildings and Rase your Foundation to the Ground Ye Bloody Men how do ye stink in the Nostrils of the Holy God and are you not become a Hissing to the Nations Your Judgment slumbers not who have been stout against the Lord in his breaking forth in the Hearts of his People And you whose Hands have been dipt in Blood yea in the Blood of the Innocent Servants of the Living God and no Place of Repentance can by you be found Wo is unto you your dayes are and shall be cut off in Darkness forever but the Holy Seed which you have fought against which God hath raised and is raising up and also from amongst you shall replenish the Earth For I do believe there are Sheep which are not yet gathered which the Lord