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 wee 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 Arnauld 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 house 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 Ishâ—osheth and Mephibusheth 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 tomorrow and the day following also when a perishing estate cannot arise out of Ierusalem 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 therest 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 until 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 conâ—ists 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 contempt upon us thinking to bow downe our backs under ignominie and reproach Neither of those straits difficulties they have cast us upon in the things which concerne this present life to the taking away of the lives of many if our God had not been seen beyond and above what their thoughts could reach unto as their owne confession hath witnessed doing it in such a way of painted hypocrisie and false glosse unto the eye of the world that wee might seeme unto it self-executioners We RESOLVE therefore to follow our imployments and to carry and behave our selves as formerly wee have done and no otherwise for wee have wronged no man unlesse with hard labour to provide for our families and suffering of grosse idle and idol droanes to take our labour out of the mouths and from off the backs of our little ones to lordaneit over us So that if any any shall goe about to disturbe or annoy us henceforth in our imployments and liberties which God hath or shall put into our hands that can claime no interest in us but by these courses what their businesse is wee know by proofe sufficient to bee nothing else but that ancient errand of Nimrod that rebellious hunter after the precious life which errand of his shall bee no
neare halfe a yeare and before we attempted any thing against them wee advised with the Commissioners of the united Colonies who upon testimony of their insolent and injurious courses and perusall of the letter they sent to us left them to us to proceed according to Justice Whereupon the Court sent againe to them by two of their members who carryed letters to require and perswade them to come and give satisfaction and a safe Conduct withall but they entertained those Messengers as they had done the former threatening to whip one whom they tooke along with them and sent us word that if wee had any thing to say to them wee should come to them and wee should have justice there and that if wee came with force they would meet us half the way Our messengers returning with these scornfull answers the Court resolved to send some force to fetch them in and in the mean time there came a second letter from them the Copy whereof is hereafter also set downe but before wee sent forth our souldiers wee wrote to them to this effect Viz. That although the injuries and provocations wee had indured from them were very grievous yet that our Justice and moderation might appeare to all men wee had condescended so farre to their owne proposition as wee would send some Commissioners to them to heare their answers and allegations and if thereupon they would give us such satisfaction as should bee just wee would leave them in peace if otherwise wee would right our selves by force of Armes And signified withall that wee would send a sufficient guard with our Commissioners for seeing they would not trust themsâ—lves with us upon our safe conduct wee had no reason to trust any of ours with them upon their bare curtesie Accordingly about a week after wee sent three Commissioners and 40 Musqueteers with them with instructions first to speak and treate with them and to require satisfaction according to Justice and if it were denyed then to take them by force and bring them prisoners to Boston and to take with all so much of their substance as should satisfie our charges By the way as they went they met with another letter from them letting them know that they feared them not but were prepared for them And accordingly they had fortified themselves in one house some 12 of them and had lined the walls with earth â—usket proofe and had made Flanckers and provided victualls c. to indure a siege So that when our Commissiâ—ners came to the place they would admit no parly But after a while by the mediation of some of their neighbours they were content to parley and offered to referre the cause to Arbitrators so as some of â—hem might bee of Providence or of Roade Island Our Commissioners were content to send to us to know our minds about it and in the meane time sate still Such of the Court as could meet returned answer that their Proposition was neither seasonable nor reasonable nor could it bee safe or honourable for us to accept thereof 1 Because they would never offer nor hearken to any terms of agreement before our souldiers had them in their power 2 Because the ground of their Proposition was false for wee were not parties as they pretended but equall Judges between the Indians and others who were complainants and themselves and yet in a case of warre parties may bee Judges 3 They were no State or Body politique but a few fugitives living without Law or Government and so not honourable for us to joyne with them in such a way of reference 4 The parties whom they would referre it unto were such as had been rejected by us and all the Governments in the Country and so not likely to bee equall to us nor able to judge of the cause and their blasphemous and reproachfull writings c. were not matters fit to bee composed by Arbiâ—ement being deeply criminall but either to bee purged away by repentance and publique satisfaction or else by publique punishment For these and other reasons the Commissioners were required to proceed according to their Instructions And thereupon they intrenched themselves about the house and in few dayes forced them to yeeld and so brought them to Boston where they were kept in prison till the Court sate and had their dyet from the Cookes as good meat and drinke as the Towne afforded The next Lords day they refused to goe to the Church assembly except they might have liberty to speake there as occasion should be They were answered by some of the Magistrates that it appertained to the Elders to order the affairs of the Church but they might presuppose they should not bee denyed such liberty speaking words of truth and sobernesse So in the afternoon they came and were placed in a convenient seate before the Elders Mr. Cotton the Teacher taught then in his ordinary course out of Acts 19. of Demetrius speech for Diana her silver shrine After Sermon Gorton desired leave to speake which being granted hee tooke occasion from the Sermon to speake to this effect That in the Church now there was nothing but Christ so that all our Ordinances Ministers and Sacraments c. were but mens inventions for shew and poâ—p and no other then those silver shrines of Diana He said also that if Christ lives eternally then he died eternally and other speeches of like kinde And indeed it appeareth both by his speeches and letters that it was his opinion that Christ was incarnate in Adam and was that image of God wherein Adam was created and that the chiefe worke and merit lay in his Inanition when he became such a thing so meane c. and that his being borne 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 anwers 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 Armes Secondly to their plea Of persecution for their Conscience c. It was answered
sanctified to finde pardon of sinne 1 Iohn 1. 9. 6. Against Christ Jesus himselfe they condemne our doctrine for affirming that Jesus Christ actually dyed and suffered onely in the dayes of Herod and Puntius Pilate when hee hanged on the Crosse and that hee was crucified in truth and substance onely when hee appeared borne of the Virgin Mary and for this doctrine wee are condemned as Wisards and Necromancers Now what is this but to overthrow not onely the being of Christ in the flesh making him no other then such an one as actually suffered from the begining of the world and shall doe to the end of it but also overthrowing all faith and hope of salvation in the messiah who was incarnate in the dayes of Herod and Pilate and in his death and sufferings and that one perfect offering then once for all Heb. 10. 14. The reader may therefore be pleased to take notice that being asked in open Court what was that Christ who was borne of the Virgin and suffered under Pilate one of them answered that hee was a semblance picture or a shadow of what was and is done actually and substantially in Christians and hence the meaning of the words may bee gathered Pag. 11. which otherwise the wise reader may thinke to bee non-sence viz. that they are Wisards and Necromancers who raise a shadow without a substance viz. to make Christ to bee slaine in types since the world began or who raise the substance of him who dwels in light without a shadow making no more of Christ but a semblance and shadow as themselves call it for further explication of which they affirmed in open Court that as the Image of God in Adam was Christ for God they said had but one Image so the losse of this Image by man was the death of Christ and therefore 't is no wonder if they deny Christ to dye actually onely when crucified under Pontius Pilate because man sinned actually which they make to be Christs death long before meane while the reader may take notice with a holy astonishment and horrour of the heavy curse of God in blinding these bold men with such a palpable and grosse spirit of delusion and mad phrenfies who will make mans sinne and fall which is the cause of perdition of men to be the cause of the Salvation of man for so Christs death is which they blasphemously make mans sinne to bee For further proofe that they make little use of Christ and his death then as hath been said their owne interpretation of the slaying of the two witnesses Pag. 17. 18. seemeth to confirme for they make these two witnesses the life and the death of Christ in men the life of Christ they call his strength and the death of Christ they call his weaknesse viz. as it is and appeares in weake foolish ignorant unexperienced and ill-reported of men and therefore they blame us for killing of Christs death for it seemes it is such a death as may bee killed in that wee chuse honourable wise learned men and of good report to place of rule excluding others Now some of these blasphemies might have been the better borne if they had let Christ and his death alone and his word alone but to call the holy word and Sermons of Salvation tales the Sacrament an abomination madding and making drunke the world to call the Ministers of Christ who dispense Word and Sacraments Necromancers and Magicians and they who hold and beleive him to bee the Messiah and Christ who suffered under Pilate Wisards and all this in coole bloud in the open face of the Court obstinately refusing to alter a title of what they had writ let the world judge if ever Antichrist that beast spoken of Rev. 13. 5 6. did ever speake greater blasphemies against God his name and tabernacle and whether such men deserve to live that live thus to blaspheme may not such civill states that tolerate such feare that sentence of God against them as was pronounced against Ahab for letting blasphemous Benhadaâ— escap with his life thy life for his life however mens charity may enlarge it felse this way yet let wisedome preserve us and make the wisehearted wary of such impostors who want not their wiles to say and unsay as may best sute their advantage for they can hold forth at some time and to some persons wholesome and orthodox truths and beare them in hand that this is all that they hold but they have depths of abomination to give to drinke when they see their seasons in such golden cups they have hidden secrets which their young Proselytes shall not presently see much lesse others for so they tell us Pag. 17. that t is not their purpose to open to every one the house of their treasures the silver and gold and spices and precious ointment nor the house of their armour because they may take them all as execrable and put them to a prophane use nor can every spirit comprehend the breadth of the land of Emanuel as they call it Pag. 12. nor know the Cherubims of glory nor the voice of the oracle from the Mercy-seate and indeed their uncouth tumorous and swelling words as Iude cals them Iude 16. like swellings and tumours of the flesh are the undoubted signes of a secret and seducing humour whereby they are fit to deceive the simple and infect the strong if men bee not watchfull The Publisher to the Reader THE reason wherefore nothing is answered to the great charge in his voluminous Postscript is because it hath been answered already by a former treatise printed 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 Samuâ—l 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 oâ— 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
first â—â—d 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 â—ee found his 〈◊〉 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 a being needlesse to the Saintâ— 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 â—ime to take off these aspersions In pag. 3. hee mentions the procâ—edings of the Massachusets against Mr. Iohn Wheel wright 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. 〈◊〉 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 â—hippings 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 mutinie and sedition in the open Court there also at Providence as factious there though his party grew greater then Mr. Williamâ— 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 there unto 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 râ—medies and yet t is well knowne t is not a full dayes journey from Roade Island to Prâ—vidence And whereas a stranger would thinke hee was then forced to goe to Nauhigaâ—setBay amongst the Indians hee went not from Providence till they were as weary of these Mutiâ—eeres 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 gâ—â—d here to give the Reader to understand what was the ground of his â—roubles there that so all men may know what Religion this 〈◊〉 is of for the tree is best knowne by its fruite The first complaint â—hat came against him for which hee was brought before authority was by Mr. Ralph Smith a Minister who being of Gâ—rtons 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 sâ—outly 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 Gâ—rton 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 practiseand 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 â—orten was called But the Governour being wearied with speech to other causes râ—quested 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 Gâ—rtâ—â— stretching out his hand towards his face said with a loud voice If Satan will accuse the brethren let â—im come downe from Iehoshuabs right hand 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 them not bee parties and judges with many other opprobrious speeches of that kinde Hereupon divers Elders of Churches being present desiring leave of the Governour to speake complaining of his seditious carriage and requested the Court not to suffer these abuses but to inflict condigne punishment And yet notwithstanding all wee did to him was but to take the forfeiture of his foresaid bonds for his good behaviour Nay being but low and poore in his estate wee tooke not above eight or ten pounds of it lest it might lie too heavy upon his wife and children But he must either get new sureties for the behaviour till the next generall Court or such time as he departed the Government or lie in orison till hee could now hee knowing his outragious passions which hee could not restraine procured suretles but immediately left Plimoutb and went to Roade Island where upon complaint of our persecutions hee found present reliefe there yet soone afterward he abused them in a greater measure and had heavier yet too light a punishment inflicted on 〈◊〉 and all for breach of the civill peace and notorious contempt of Authority without the least mention of any points of Religion on the Governments part but as before And whereas in pag. 4. Mr. Gorten further accuseth us that they were deprived and taken away from their
men these wee say are the two witnesses if you can receive it and what a dishonour is it to trade so much by meanes of witnesses and yet not know what a true witnesse is which if you did you durst not attempt the things you doe whereby you cast reproach upon all the world in that you professe your selves a choice people pickt out of it and yet goe on in such practices as you doe maintaining them as your onely glory Our Lord gives you in charge not to sweare at all but it is your dignity to bring men to your seates of Justice with nothing but oathes in their mouthes why doe you not ballance the scriptures in this point viz. It hath beene said of old Thou shalt not committ adultery but I say unto you hee that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart already so also it hath beene sayd of old Thou shalt not forsweare thy self but I say unto you sweare not at all so that if it be adulterie to looke to lust it is also forswearing a mans self to sweare at all if the one be adultery the other is perjury if one be admitted in some cases the other also so that in preaching the toleration nay the duty of an oath you preach the toleration yea the duty of adulterie it self So that our Lord plainly evinceth unto all mens consciences not onely the guilt but the folly and madnesse of the oath of man shewing how farre it is either from investing into place or demonstrating Causes so that hee that concludeth upon honour and power received from the oath of man or upon knowledge and bouldness to judge in a cause from that testimony without the which he could not have it is as vaine in his thoughts as if hee should herupon conclude I have now altered the frame of heaven which is no less stable then the throne of the great God or demolished the earth which is as firme as his foot-stoole for ever or made a fraction in the orders of Ierusalem that choice and peculiar City of the great King whose institutions no mortall breath can intrench upon or to professe his authority and skill to be such whereby he can make a haire of his head blacke or white cause his age to wax old as doth a garment or renew it with the Eagle at his pleasure hereby doth man in this point of swearing professe his folly to bee such that hee is become not onely-vaine in his imaginations but unto that pride and usurpation therein as to intrude himselfe into the prerogative royall of his Maker So that however you boast of the Ordinances of God yet he tels you there is no more then yea yea and nay nay in them for what is once nay is ever nay in the Ordination of Christ and what is once yea is ever yea with him and according to his account however man reckoneth whose account shall be called over againe what is once curse is ever the curse and what is once the principality and power of Christ is ever the principality and power of Christ as that which is once the principality and power of Darkenesse is ever the same what hands soever it cometh into for manifestation measure your kingdome whether it bee eternall and your Jurisdiction whether it bee illimited for he hath given him the heathen for his inheritance the utmost parts of the earth for his possession and a kingdome of lesse extent hee professeth not nor can hee approve or acknowledge any that doe no more then light can approve of darkenesse or the Lord Iehovah of the Lord Baâ—l Bee wise therefore and bethinke your selves while it is called to day harden not your hearts as though you would make your selves Meriba nothing but strife and contention against the Lord rather kisse the sonne if it bee possible lest his wrath bee kindled and you perish from the way for ever O blessed onely they that hope in him So that hee which professeth on this wife it is yea I am a pastour but it was nay at such a time I was none hee renounceth that spirit of the true pastour yet onely feeder of Israel professing onely that spirit that pusheth the weake with the horne and pudleth with his feet the waters where the flocke of God should drinke Hee with whom it is yea I am a Ruler but it was nay when I was none at all renounceth that spirit of him that rules in righteousnesse professing the spirit of him that rules according to the god of this world that Prince of the power of the Aire who is now working so effectually in the children of disobedience So also hee with whom it is yea I am a Captaine or chiefe slaughter-man but it was nay time was I was none at all renounceth that victorie and slaughter made by the Captaine and High-priest of our profession who as hee is a Lambe slaine from the beginning his victory and slaughter must bee of the same antiquity professing himselfe to bee a chiefe slaughter-man or superâ—â—uous Giant made in that hoast of the Philistims standing in readinesse to come out to defie the hoast of the living God yea it is evident that whatsoever is more then yea yea and nay nay not settlingeach upon its Base whereon it standeth for ever without controule but can remove create or make void offices and officers at their pleasure is of that evill or not of Jesus the salvation of his people but of Shedim that waster and destroyer of mankinde for ever know therefore that it is the oath of God which confirmes and makes good his Covenant and promise unto a thousand generations and it is the oath of 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 Molâ—ck 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 divolged 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