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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

his reason in general his countenancing not only here but appearing openly in London on the behalf of one that though he seemed said he to walk according to rule yet he is indeed a very great seducer and a marvellous let to all good in this place which when he understood to be spoken of me and that with great heat he told him that he should take time to consider of it but could not for the present give credit to it unless he should understand more then ever he could believe concerning me hitherto The first was this That I should borrow Col. Okeys Horse sometimes and when I had it in my Custody should go with it into Smithfield to sell it there The second was this That I should be present where I saw a man in bed with another mans Wife The third That Mrs. Ceenee sometimes lodged at my house The fourth and the last that no man can tell that hears me whether I will speak from or of God or the Devil All these were named of him with this profession that he would make proof of them telling it him as glad to have somewhat of this nature to report of me 1. Now as touching Col. Okey I scarce ever had any speech with him save only once he spoke to me at Slow going to meet the Lord General coming out of Ireland 2. As concerning his Horse I never borrowed any of him he and the Lord knows 3. Yet I will not deny but being in Glocester I came to London upon a Horse which Colonel Okeys Wife said was hers 4. This Horse Col. Massie now prisoner in the Tower when he seized on me with some 16. of his Troop ordered for my use in this Journey which as I did not so I had no cause to take notice of whose it was being his prisoner and so wholly in this business passive 5. This Horse trotting altogether I road not on till I came to Warwick being till then in the custody of the Corporal and one Trooper two most honest and Christian men riding till then on the Corporalls Horse and he riding on that appointed for me both which did of their own minds offer and endeavour to exchange it for me that I might have one more easie nothing suspecting but that it had been the Governours own who had done me all this wrong which ten Horses could not give me reparation for 6. Col. Massie did himself before the Committee promise to accommodate me well and with a good Horse to London 7. This Horse as I have heard as well as these men were the States for whom and in whose cause I had suffered great loss before at Bristol 8. This matter is fully enough spoken to in a Book I writ of that relation of my sufferings wrong I sustained in that place Mr. Bachiler giving a ready and full approbation of it being the then Licenser of Books 9. When this Book and suffering was I was then justified of the Independents so call'd as an Independent but many of them have seen cause to do since more unwarrantably what they then condemned the Presbyter for whence it is my lot to suffer under some of them as I did of their Fathers that went before I mean those whether Prelatical or Presbyterian of like spirit with them 10. This Horse I refused in London to deliver at the first challenge to Mrs. Okey as I had cause to do neither did I deliver it she being a stranger to me till I had an Order from the Captain-Lievtenant under Col. Massey so to do which when I saw she had her Horse as she desired 11. This Charge was in particular once also brought against me by my loving Neighbor Mr. Bachiler who had himself justified me and the thing in the book he licensed but indeed I was then related to my Honoured Lord Say and he a man then of great power and Mr. Bachiler was not yet fellow of Eaton nor had as yet by a full Table left off trusting in God for from his own mouth it came as God is witness I was told by the Governor in the presence of his Wife and some others that he had trusted in God so long that he was once like to be starved 12. I bless God through his grace I am innocent and without blame in my heart and life as touching this business both as towards God and man I do confess I have thought of some further recompence for this my suffering and wrong at Glocester which hath been so judged heretofore especially of Mr. Bachiler and those of the Independant way that I say not of the whole Nation as it is now but as sure as God is this adulterous and wicked Generation having through Apostacy from God and his people enriched themselves by the spoils of others care not what become of the Israel of God so they may sit in quiet feeding themselves full with the Onyons and Garlick and other the flesh-pots of Egipt Lastly let it be judged of God and man what spirit this is that thus boldly and with a most impudent face reproacheth the truth of God manifested in the extream sufferings of his Saints and people Mr. Wood for I will not refuse now to name him his second charge is That I should be present where there was a man in bed with another mans Wife To this I will say first in general that where the good man soweth as becometh him good seed there cometh the Enemy and soweth tares That which I have innocently and for the furtherance of the truth as it is in God declared That this adversary of God and me hath somewhere picked up to fling as dirt into my face wherefore as the Lord is witness in me I will return it back from whence it came and give out the report truly with the foundation of it whence it hath and doth arise It 's not unknown to some that being to see a Brother sometimes in Wells when I came his Wife my Wives Sister told me he was then a prisoner at Taunton by the means of Mr. Pine which indeed I think cost him his life though he was put forth again and nothing layd to his charge which freedom I obtained by a Letter from the L. Fairfax that then was General wherefore my Sister rode behind me to Taunton but she had ordered it to take Horse at one Garmans a poor man yet much talkt of who came now and then to her house At this mans house I stayd about half a quarter of an hour I had the rather a mind to see him in that among others I had heard Mr. Peters as well as others particularly speaking of him This man about some two or three years after with his Wife as they said came to London of whom I only heard but saw them not but having again with my Wife a Journey into the West we overtook and left behind on foot some half a dozen of men and Women on the Road the

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