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A52921	New-England's ensigne it being the account of cruelty, the professors pride, and the articles of their faith, signified in characters written in blood, wickedly begun, barbarously continued, and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possest in the priests and rulers in New-England ... : this being an account of the sufferings sustained by is in New-England (with the Dutch) the most part of it in these two last yeers, 1657, 1658 : with a letter to Iohn Indicot, Iohn Norton, Governor, and chief priest of Boston, and another to the town of Boston : also, the several late conditions of a friend upon the Road-Iland, before, in, and after distraction : with some quæries unto all sorts of people, who want that which we have, &c. / vvritten at sea, by us whom the vvicked in scorn calls Quakers, in the second month of the yeer 1659 ; this being a confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his book titled, The Popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, &c.	Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.; Copeland, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing N636; ESTC R3600	97,400	124

thee the report as from any other man besides my self that thou mayst know the truth thereof O Theophilus whatsoever thou art it was unto me as the Angell of his presence and caused me to carry the Ark back again into Aegypt and charged me there to abide until he brought the word for he that travels before strives in his owne strength There was I constrained in Mezech to cry Woe is me as one delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the soul might be saved in the day of the Lord He that can receive it let him There left I the leaven of the Pharisees and kneading of do●gh and making of cakes and baking them upon the Altars made unto sin and fed only upon Angels food which I reaped a●tending at the Altar of Incense to receive the Word in the strength whereof Reader to the death of all flesh and self I have obtained mercy peace with God redemption from all filthiness of flesh and spirit an heir of his kingdom a member of his Body a Minister of his Spirit and an inheritor of his Eternal Rest blessed for ever Betwixt this death and this life this heavinese and this help this desolation and restoration are all the Families Kindreds and People upon earth be of what notion or profession they will and having past through the Dragons den and the most vainest and beast liest place of all Bruits the most publikely prophane and the most covertly corrupt the English in New England is the worst especially their Priest and Rulers for for all their feigned and whining profession there we found the Fiery Tryals as from men having past through all their Pattents so called bearing the testimony of the VVord of God of the Indians never received I any harm but freely entertained with such as they had Moreover by such as were by the English accounted the basest of men whom many of them they had barbarously banished from amongst them whom we found in Road-Iland Long-Iland Provindence and elswhere also in Plimouth-Pattent were we received and in severall other places as the Messengers of God and Sephas And what we with these also who have believed our report have reaped from their cruel hands hereafter f●lloweth with the places and parties thus intreated And also a true Copy of the Law whereby they acted thus against us such a one as I am sure never proc●eded out of Sion Shall David want a King to sit upon his Throne for ever Shall not God raise up Judges in righteousness who shall plead his cause with the men of this generation that they may be judged as men in the flesh and their reward given them according to God in the Spirit Shall innocent blood lye buried in the dust for ever Surely nay thou wilt revenge thine own Elect who cries unto thee day and night against these who builds up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with oppression cruelty and iniquity So after the discharging of my conscience towards God in the committing these things to publike view recommending them to the consciences and considerations of all that are in Authority the chief Magistrate and his Assistants who sits in Council with him and who ought in righteousness so much as in them lies to see these grievances and abuses regulated or otherwise these things at their hands will be required for let them be assured that that spirit which hath attempted unto blood in such a high nature as they have done not being called to an account for it will attempt to take away life if still suffered as you may further understand their cruel intent by a Law set forth in this present yeer 1658. and this as surely they seek after as the enemies of God doth after thine or did after thy father O. C. for as little art thou esteemed by the one as by the other further then base and self-ends leads them to seek unto thee for when we were moved of the Lord to make our appeal once and again that our cause might be heard and tryed by the chief Magistrate or whom he pleased to appoint we were utterly denyed it and his Name sleighted and never so much as made mention of in their proeeedings in that bloody and cruel place of Boston and as the least principle of the law of Love bears rule in thee it will lead thee to do for thy neighbors and friends as for thy self and if this thou do not thou canst not be justified in the sight of God nor from our blood cleer in the day of thine account and least thou or any one should question the truth hereof we the Sufferers are the Subscribers who are all of us by name and nature free-born English people whom if thou or any by thy appointment shall call us to question concerning the truth hereof I am satisfied we shall be as ready to do the second as we have been to suffer for the first And it being the honor of a King to finde out a cause finde out this as thou art Noble and if any man can contradict the truth of one passage in this particular I shall freely bear the blame and shame thereof who hath been and am an eye and ear-witness unto them all Called amongst men Humphrey Norton Reader Thou mayst further understand that varietie of Lawes they invent and establish at the least two times every yeer and if occasion seem to present they can do it two times a week as they did by John Rous and Humphrey Norton and severall others having whipt us once according to their former Law soon after our imprisonment as thou wilt further understand in what followeth In the week following their malice was so great against us that they made a second whereby to whip us two times a week but this they read unto us and put in execution upon our bodies but would not suffer us to have a copy of it and I knowing that there is an everlasting Law established and given forth with Statutes and Ordinances attending on it recorded in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and Judah against all transgressions whatsoever committed and uncommitted I could do no less but smile at their blindness So that Reader finding their Lawes not worthy of losing or wasting thy time in I shall commit no more to thy view then necessity puts me upon to certify unto thee the truth and nakedness o● the things herein mentioned And that thou with us may judge of the Tree by its fruits here followeth one of them At a Council held at Boston the 11. of July 1656. VVHereas there are several Lawes long since made and published in this Jurisdiction bearing testimony against Hereticks and erroneous persons yet notwithstanding Simon Kempthorn of Charls-Town Master of the Ship-Swallow of Boston hath brought into this Jurisdiction from the Iland of Barbados two Women who name themselves Anne the Wife of one Austin and Mary Fisher being of that sort of people commonly

earned towards her and shortly after her child was restored unto her as a figure unto her of what the Lord would do for her if she did abide in his Counsel and often since she hath told me with tears that she trusted that God would do good for her and that he should be honoured by her in stead of that great dishonour that she had done to him and us which thing she hath often declared against her self in and said that we had suffered and God had been dishonoured by her Whereupon I told her that insomuch as that of God had suffered in her therein we had suffered by her and in her and the wicked through that have taken advantage to speak evil of the way of God but thou being through the love and power of God made sensible of thine own loss and also of the love of God towards thee we are therein fully satisfied and greatly can we rejoyce in the Lord God on thy behalf And this I can truly say concerning her and as a Testimonie of her That since her Recovery she hath and doth make it manifest that it was not for nor thorow any earthly or evill end that the sad travel came upon her for before that she was never a Licentious Liver and since she is more dead to all those things then ever she was before and her care and industry set how to do just and honest things unto all sorts of People and that which is well-pleasing unto God that the dayes of her appointed Time may be spent to his glory We are Witnesses unto the Truth of this Humphrey Norton John Rous. John Copeland Some Quaeries unto all sorts whatsoever who wants that which wee have by which they may see themselves and know from us where to find it 1. WHERE the Hand is which can help one out of Hell 2. Where is the Arm that can deliver one up thither and there bind him until his flesh be destroyed and in the day of the Lord can fetch his soul from thence and set it upon his Throne 3. Where is the first and second death the lowest highest and nethermost Hell seeing the Scripture speaks of the lowest Hell and the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone c. and Tophet of old which yet remains to the Wicked Shew us where these Hells are and in or under what Climate Circle or Planet or in Earth or Air or where 4. What is that that torments the Wicked there And whether it is the Devil that torments himself yea or nay 5. When or how with safety a soul may be delivered up thither To wit Whether before God hath left striving with him or after Or at what time or instant Answer expresly 6. Whether Christ and all these that have followed him from death to life have not past through all these deaths and Hells yea or nay seeing it is said He can save to the utmost And whether they have seen the utmost yea or nay that have not past through all these things And let none say that they may not be dived into for it is truth that the spirit searcheth all things c. and the hidden things of Esau must be sought out if any say Nay let him tell me what it is may be searched into and seen and what may not 7. And whether the eye of God seeth not and searcheth all things yea or nay And whether every man ought not to see with this Eye yea or nay If not Whether he may not be blind in many things yea or nay As for example Adam gave Names to every Creature that stood in Covenant and seeing that there are Names and Creatures and Members with bloody Oaths and Actions vvhich Adam in innocency named not therefore shevv me hovv one shall discern and knovv the innocent Names and Nature of every Member Creature and created thing and also that bloody spirit that invented all these bloody Oaths and beastly and filthy and unclean Words and Actions Ansvver expresly for so speaks the Spirit 8. If any man being a Preacher so called and knovv not these things Whether he be able to judge of what he speaks yea or nay And if so Whether he may not speak amiss and preach and speak that which he ought not and give Names to Creatures and things which are not If he be one that says he knows the things that differ and hath been led into Visions and Revelations and things of the highest lawful and unlawful to be uttered let him answer all these things both former and latter 9. What may be preached and published upon the house top and vvhat may uot and vvhat things are lavvful and what not And seeing there is a time wherein all things are lawful and a time wherein all things are not distinguish each time with its sign that all people may learn to know the signs of the times and the difference between all things that are and are not if any may say that it will bring in doubtful questions and may drive them to dive into things which may strick them distracted or mad I say Nay that is mans Will that drives him thither the light leads him to see the ground and rise of every time and thing and this is the Word of the Lord God and shews him the Spirit which must be divided from the soul from that which must not Mark the Eye of God shews and sees a Spirit and he that sees not with God's Eye sees not that which must be divided from the soul nor the soul which the Word reacheth and searcheth betwixt it and the Spirit 10. The mysteri● of godliness having been hid from ages generations and this being now the day and age and generation wherein God is revealing and revealed in and unto his people and is leading them through all Lands the Land of darkness sin and death the Land of light life and peace and having queried something concerning the former and seen also the scituation of the latter let us stretch forth into the deep and so fathom the whole circuit of Heaven and Hell Earth and Air and all that therein is Come up hither and I will shew thee the place where his Honor dwelleth come and see 11. Seeing the Scripture speaks of the third Heaven it thence appears that there are three my query is Where are they In what place Under what Planet Or above in what Circuit Or below in what Region and the infallible Way to it Which is the easiest query of all 12. And seeing that there is War in Heaven betwixt Michael and the Dragon it seems then that the Dragon that old Serpent the Devil is there I say Where is that Heaven that he is in Answer expresly 13. And seeing that the Serpent was in Paradice and deceived Eve before ever I heard of Hell Tell me how he came there and what Heaven that is and where it is 14. And seeing it is written that Adam was made of the dust c. and that he and she to wit Eve was in this innocent place called Paradice tell me infallibly the wisest of you Wizards How and what way they came there He who can do this in truth can preach salvation without Book 15. And seeing that a Heaven there is of a truth whereinto nothing that defileth can enter tell me expresly where it is the entrance in and how it may be obtained and by whom 16. What the Key of the Kingdom is Seeing Christ is the Door who the Keepers seeing I have heard both David and Peter was 17. And what the Gates of Hell is which shall not prevail against this Door And what the Keys of these Gates is seeing it is written He hath the Keys of Hell and Death And who that He is seeing it 's called an Angel My query is What the nature of an Angel is seeing it is written concerning Christ That he took upon him the nature of Angels c. and concerning the Saints that they shall judge Angels Thou who sees not with the Eye that surrounds these things and comprehends Death and Hell and is in distress concerning thy salvation at a loss not knowing the truth nor who it is that lives in it the cryes are so many and various this know of a truth whatsoever is wanting in thee of any of these things or any other that tends to salvation we have it and with us it is Therefore sit not in darkness nor say not with the multitude Who wil shew us any good thing but come unto us and suffer not thy soul to be lost for want of a Saviour for the place of his presence is with us witnessed By Humphre● Norton The Secrets of the Lo●d are with them that fear him WHat herein is mentioned is now freely recommended to the Common-Wealth of England with all who seekes the good and welfare of the Seed of Israel that as they love the liberty and redemption thereof they will endeavour after doing Justice and Righteousness towards all herein mentioned and in the like case concerned without respect of persons that it may manifestly appeare that you act for God and that in righteousness and not according but contrary to the minds and wills of corrupt men The End