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A58837	A narrative of the planting of the Massachusetts Colony anno 1628 with the Lords signal presence the first thirty years : also a caution from New-Englands apostle, the great Cotton, how to escape the calamity which might befall them or their posterity, and confirmed by the evangelist Norton, with prognosticks from the famous Dr. Owen concerning the fate of these churches, and animadversions upon the anger of God in sending of evil angels among us / published by Old Planters, the authors of the Old mens tears.	Scottow, Joshua, 1618-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing S2099; ESTC R33724	39,314	86

description of the Ruling Flders Office and Work then here is declared also in the Plat-form of Church Discipline It 's therefore no Humane Invention nor Apochriphal Practice of our Predecessors It 's Remembred by some of the Old Planters Children that there were such men when they were young that were called Ruling Elders but what men they were or what was their work they professed they could not tell What a shame is it to our Churches that through Disuse Misuse and Nonuse of them such a question should be put by any of above Fifty Years of Age now Living among us all which is affirmed for a certain known Truth The same Reverend man of God being imployed the last Narraganset Wars by our Worthy Elders to make Report and Return to the General Court of the provoking evils then found among us did represent to them the Churches incompleatness of Officers to be one of the great evils Provocations grou●● of Displeasure unto God then among us sor● replied unto him That the country and Churc● were poor and could not maintain them he ma●● them a Ready Grave and Divine Answe● True said he were they mens Officers the● were argument in what they said but bei●● GODS Officers there was no ground for fe●● of it he having Promised and said Prove a●●try me if we could but trust him he wou●● open the Heavens and pour down his Ble●sings it 's Robbing of God we are now call●● to an account for we fear that Covetuou●ness Pride and Ambition hinders the Disc●very of our Achan The Lord pour down u●on Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and Suppli● cation and that he would open the Fountain y●● Sin and Uncleanness that Holiness unto the Lo●● may be writ upon our hearts houses and empl●ments whether Sacred or civil and upon our P●● teritys As we have cause to weep over and 〈◊〉 wail our former tears begging that they m●● be washed in the Blood of the Lamb so th● these our faint Sighs and Sobs may be Co●dial and accepted in the Blood of the eve●lasting Covenant that what we say may 〈◊〉 realized in our Souls The good Lord dire our Hearts into the knowledge of his love waiting for the Pouring forth of his Spirit 〈◊〉 on ourselves and the rising generation t●● 〈◊〉 may di●cern and by the Divine Aids there●● be enabled to do the respective work of ●●●r Generation according to the will of ●OD before these things be hid from our ●●yes That we may have the tasts of that Mercy ●●d Grace springing from the Love of the ●●ther who knows the thoughts of his own ●●art and manifests them to poor Penitents ●●at they passing through the heart of him ●●ho layeth in the Fathers Bosome may descend ●●to our hearts by the Holy Spirit dwelling 〈◊〉 us which Blessed Circulation Reverting by ●●e Operation of the same Spirit which ma●●th requests for us who know not to pray 〈◊〉 we ought and passing thro' the heart and ●●nds of our great Mediator may arrive ●●cend into the heart of the Father who is ●●e Origine and Fountain of all Blessedness ●he Father himself loving us That this Spirit may make intercession for 〈◊〉 with Groans which can't be uttered he ●●at searches the hearts knowing what is the ●●nd of the Spirit because he maketh inter●●sion for the Saints according to the Will of ●●d Oh that we might experience these ●●●ngs that this Heavenly Dove sent into our ●●arts may make us grean and mourn like ●●se in the Clefts of the Rocks that as the whole ●●eation growns and travails in pain with ●●cks stretched out waiting to be delivered ●●m their Bondage and Corruption into the Liberty o● the Sons o● God that we receivin the first fruits thereof may with Eyes an Hands lifted up wait for the Adoption eve the Redemption of our Souls and Bodies which Great Grace the GOD OF AL● GRACE Grant to Us and Our Poor Chi●dren with all his ISRAEL For the Sa●● of Our Dear LORD JESUS to who● with the FATHER and HOLYSPIRI● Be the Kingdom Power and Glory For Ever AMEN A FUNERAL ELEGY Upon the Death of the truly Reverend Mr. JOHN COTTON Late Teacher of a Church of Christ at Boston in New-England Who Died the Twenty Third was Buried the Twenty Ninth of December 1652. ANd after Winthrop Hooker Shepheards Herse Doth Cottons Death call for a Mourning Verse Thy Will be done yet Lord who dealeth thus Make this great Death expedient for us Luther pull'd down the Pope Calvin the Prelate slew Of Calvins Lapse chief Cure to Cottons due Cotton whose Learning Temper Godliness The Germane Phaenix lively did express Melancthon's all may Luther's word but pass Melancthon's all in our Great Cotton was Whilst he was here Life was more Life to me Now he is not Death hence less Death to me That Comets great mens death do oft forego This present Comet doth too sadly show This Prophet's dead yet must in 's Doctrine speak This Comet saith else must New-England break That e're it be the Heav'ns avert it far That Meteors should succeed our greatest Star In Bostons Orb Winthrop and Cotton were These Lights Extinct Dark is our Haemisphere In Boston once how much shin'd of our Glory VVe now Lament Posterity will Story Let Boston live who had and saw their VVorth And did them hot our both in Life and Death To him New-England trust in this Distress Who will not leave his Exiles Comfortless John Norton FINIS Reader Be pleased in page 18 for Christopher Gardner Read Sir Christopher Gardner ERRATA PAge 2. Lin. 11. for in Churches read in the Churches pag 6. l. 18. for graceful read grateful p. 12. l. 30. for Tarting read Parting p. ●3 l. 11. in●tead of Pectant r. Pec●ant p. 46. l. ●3 for Fathers r Father p. 48. l. 27. for Storm 〈◊〉 Scorn p. 49. l. 26. r. Internal p. 50. l. 17. ● alway p. 69. l. 29. r. Ea●th p. 72. l. 6. r. ●ints ibid l. 8. for twice r. once

ways of Subsistence which ●he first Planters Deserted and not a few did leave all their worldly hopes to come into this Desert unknown Land and smoaky Cotta●es to the Society of Cursed Cannibals as they have proved to be and at best wild Indians what less then a Divine Ardour could inflame a People thus Circumstanced to a work so contrary to Flesh and Blood Infinite Wisdom and Prudence contrived and directed this Mysterious Work of Providence Divine Courage and Resolution managed it Superhumane Sedulity and Diligence-●tended it and Angelical Swiftness and Dispatch finished it Its Wheels stirr'd not ●it according to the HOLY SPIRITS mo●on in them yea there was the Involution of a Wheel within a Wheel Gods Ways were 〈◊〉 Great Depth and high above the Eagle or mans Cockle-shell is infinitely unable to Emptie this Ocean Let us Commemorate their Exodus or Departure from our Nation These Prudent Undertakers sent forth their Forlorn Hope in two Ships Laden with Passengers and Servants two years before they mov'd with their main Body and Pattent Government which were fully Furnished with a Pastor and Teacher Worthy Higgison and Skelton and all Materials for Complea●ing of a Church of Christ according to Divine Institution Who safely Arriving according to their predeterminate Design of Inlargement of Christ's Kingdom and His Majesty of England's Dominion Firstly they set up their Standards Dethroning Satan they cast him out of Heaven which beyond time memorial he had in the Natives Consciences and by Turf and Twig they took possession of this his large Continent and set up the first Church in these Parts in a place they then called Salem at which Convention the Testimony which the Lord of all the Earth bore unto it is wonderfully memorable by a Saving Work upon a Gentleman of Quality Major General Gibbins who afterwards was the Chieftain and Flower of New-England's Militia and an Eminent Instrument both in Church and Commonwealth he being the younger Brother of the House of an Honourable Extract his Ambition exceeding what he could expect at home Rambled bither Before one Stone was laid in th● Structure or our Van-Currier's Arrival he wa● no Debauchee but of a Jocund Temper and one of the Merry Mounts Society who chos● rather to Dance about a May pole first Erected to the Honour of Strumpet Flora than to hea● a good Sermon who hearing of this Meeting though above Twenty Miles distant from it and desirous to see the Mode and Novel of a Churches Gathering with great studiousness he applyed himself to be at it where beholding their orderly procedure and their method of standing forth to declare the Work of G●● upon their Souls being pricked at the Heart he sprung forth among them desirous to be one of the Society who though otherwise wel● acomplished yet divinely illiterate was ther● convinc'd and judged before all the secret● of his heart being made manifest fell down and Worshipped God to their astonishment saying That God was in them of a Truth the Verity hereof as long since it hath been affirmed by old Planters so by his own Manuscript found after his Death it 's confirmed he about that time Lamenting his Christless Estate which evidenceth that it ought to be said of that Sion This man was Born there One winterafter these good spies had viewed this Land who sent letters of the prosperous good hand of Providence upon them the taste of the fruits of this Countrie was sweeter and more welcome to their Principalls in England then the Grapes of Eschol were to Israel of ●●ld The Leaders of this People upon serious depate drew up a Determination to settle the Corporation and government upon the Place and Deputy to abide there which being effected and Divinely directed in such a Choice of the Governour the Famous Pattern of Wisdom Justice and Liberality and of a Deputy Governour who by his Experience at Home and Travels Abroad with his Natural and Acquired A●bilities was a Gentleman qualified above others for the chief Rule and Government wherein according to his just Deserts he shared more than others the Fame whereof being come Abroad in the Nation to such whose hearts God had touched this being upon the wing there wanted not Number of Persons of all Occupations skill'd in all Faculties needful for the Planting of a Collony who filled up a Fleet of Eleven Ships of considerable Burthen besides their Attenders some of them about Four Hundred Tuns the rest no● much inferiour some carrying near Two Hundred Passengers the rest proportionably the Wheels of Providence were lifted up very high and also were radiantly magnificent These Tarting Travellers Removal carrying so great a Resemblance of Departure into another World they were not stupid Stoicks but abounded with that which Grace doth no destroy but direct What showers of melting Tears dropt into the Bosomes of each other whose Souls as Jonathan and David clave one to another yet alleviated with consideration though they were Absent in Body yet Present in Spirit and of their mutual access to the Throne of Grace and of Meeting at the Assembly of the First-born and Spirits of Just Men made Perfect Some of their choice Friends as the Reverend Mr. Cotton and others went along with them from Boston in Lincolnshire to South-hampton where they parted and he Preacht his Farewel Sermon That so many Eminent Persons some of Noble Extract should upon Sea-Bridges pass over the largest Ocean in the Universe by the good hand of their God upon them having sought of him a right way for themselves Little Ones and Substance yea above Three Thousand in one Year and that above Three Hundred Ships since that time all Laden with Jewels of Invaluable Value far above the Gold of Ophir that each individual one should have a Caelestial Convoy under the Flaming Swords of Flying Cherubims turning every way to keep them in their way so as they all at their Port safely Arrived Not one Foundered in the Sea Split upon Rocks were suckt in by Sands Over-set by sudden Gusts nor Taken and Plundered by Pirates on Robbers except one called the Angel Gabriel whose Tutular Guardiau Ship failed if any Aboard put trust therein she was Laden with Passengers for Boston but put in at Pemiquid where the Ship and whole Cargo perished but not one Soul of Seamen or Passengers miscarried they met with an Hurricane before or since not known in this Country Raised by the Power of him who holds the Wind in his Hand and Commissioneth the Prince of the Air by Raising Stormy Winds to fulfil his Word it 's said the Tide rose Twenty Foot perpen dicular above its ordinary height The same time another great Ship Laden with Passengers was wonderfully preserved when as ready to be Split in pieces upon Rocks at the Isle of Shoals at the Prayer of the distressed Saints Aboard God caused the Winds to Vere a Point or two about the Compass so as she cleared them they were

throwing ●heir Crowns before his Throne a Lively Emblem and Character of the first Apostolical Churches Organiz●d and Compleated according to Christs Appoint●ent with the Couragious Lion like Ruling Elder ●●e Laborious Ox-like Pastor the humanely Compassi●nate Deacon and the Eagle Eyed Teacher Our ●his exceeding Immoralities are dipp'd in the Crim●●n Tincture of Rebellion no marvel if our punish●ent be so great yet abundantly less then our Iniquities 〈…〉 The dread of Divine Anger and Wrat● with the Guilt of G●nscience which the Scri●ture of Truth declares and dictates unto 〈◊〉 as unknown in its power and that accordi●● to Gods Fear such is his wrath this the w●●dom of our Antients when Paynimes R●presented by Alecto and her two Sister-Furi●● sent out of Tartaras with their Platted Ch●velures and Contorted Locks of Hissing Serpen● and Stinging Adders Hanging below thei● Necks whose Tails Tongues and Teeth we●● full of Deadly Poyson enough to Fright a Sensible Man out of his Wits and our Gallan● out of their Head Gear It 's said to be ce●tainly true that no Rattle Snake ever was see● beyond Merrimak River the Boundary of ou● First Patent nor that there hath been 〈◊〉 Convicted Witch on the other side of Pisc●taquay River but if some Creatures may b● Credited how do we on this Side abound 〈◊〉 how do the Ignatian Loyalists with their Perverted Proselytes Triumph over our ●oor Captives saying We are the true Christians you the false we no Lye Swear but Pray and Pra●se God as indeed at the Late Surprise of York before they fell to Sharing ●f their Plunder they met and Sung Te Deum Laudamus their Praises to God and at their Vespers o● Nocturnal Ri●ings to Smoak it they Sing even Songs and Mattens in the Morning in their own Language with Harmonious Melody a● our Captives Testify how doth this Reflec● upon the Thousands of Non-Praying and Non-Praising Familys of the English they tell us Their Priests are good Men our Ministers are Devils and hung for Witches What will some of our own Nation reproach us with what is become of the New-Heaven and the New-Earth of your Non parralleld Reformation you boasted of whatever Piety your Fathers pretended in the Pia Mater of their Brains to be sure it is Ardled into impious matter of Devilism in their Childrens crack'd Crowns and therefore you are sent into a Region where there is Hellebore enough for all the Mazed Fanaticks in Europe thus is the Name of GOD His Tabernacle and those which dwell in Heaven Blasphemed for our sakes we not giving him the Glory and Honour due unto his Name others do say and they do very ill in their so speaking what is become of your resolved Revolution which God is now Plagueing you for and the Complication of Lies made to encourage and further it which of your Designs have prospered since Had you waited Gods time you should have had it with a Blessing but by your Lyes obtaining it you ●●ve deeply paid for it Finally that which may call for our Higgaion Selah and deep Humiliation is the consideration of the time when as Hells Hurricano seas'd us when after weary waiting in our languishing and bleeding condition above a Time Times and half a Time at length we were brought to Gods Foot our wounds not being healed tho ou● Petitions were not granted yet our prayers were heard as appeareth by their Majesties grant of a Province Charter there declared and here with great acclamation Proclaimed this ve look'd at as a happy Omen of Haloyon-dayes now come to this distressed wounded people in this Junctor of time or about the laying the Foundation of this structure that the great Palmony the wonderful numberer of times who weighs the least minute of humane accidents in the exact ballance of an eternal decree even to the pacing of Ahabs Horses in his Chariot that they must not go faster o● flower then to reach the very spot where the Dogs had lick'd up Naboths Blood there to lick up Ahabs that then this Euroclydon should be raised to the Toral Ruine of the whol● Fabrick that when according to Gods graciou● Promise unto Israel of old the Royal Concession unto us was That our Nobles should be o● our selves and that our Governour should procee● from the midst of us and that God would mak● him to draw nigh unto him and that he di● approach unto him That then Hells rage di● seize us to the breaking us in peices if S●tans Stratagem had taken effect according t● the wasting Progress made that when as w● hoped God should have been ours and o● Childrens God as aforetime and our Congr●gations established for ever that then 〈◊〉 should render ourselves or be rendred by othe● ●s the Sons of the Sorceress and Children of ●he Adulteress what high songs of praise do we owe unto Sions God for the discovering of Apollions Wiles Depths and Deceits and ●or Spiriting one of the Tribe of Zebulon rais'd ●p from among us by finding out the Treasures ●id in the Sands which hath highly tended ●o the raising of him to Honour and the enrichment of himself and Nation who be●ng Divinely destinated humanely Commissi●nated to be the Pilot and S●eers man of this ●oor Bemisted and Befogg'd Vessel in the Mare Mortuum and Mortiferous Sea of Witch●raft and Fascination by Heavens Conduct ●ccording to the integrity of his heart not trust●ng the Helm in any other Hand ●e being by ●od and their Majesties bestru●●ed therewith ●●e so happily shaped and steadily stee●ed her ●ourse as she escaped Shipw●a●k ●ither up●n the Stygian Scilla or the Ach●rontal Charib●is and now is safely Moa●ed in the Paci●que Sea and under the Cape of Bone Esperance ●●e being also by the same Hand appointed to ●●e this Peoples Chieftain by the Prudence of ●●s hands and strengthned by the A●ms of 〈◊〉 mighty God of Jacob managed the sharp ●wo Edged Sword to him committed in●●mparably excelling that of the Great Alex●●der to the Cutting in sunder of the Circean ●ot of Inchantment abundantly more diffi●●lt to be dissolved then the Famous Gordian 〈◊〉 of Old he being also led by divine inspiration of Our Blessed Gods-Spell and th● most● sure Word of Prophesy infinitely su●passing the Famous Th●ed and Clue of Ariadn● hath extricated us out of the Winding an● Crooked Laby●inth of Hells Meander Let all be improved to the high Honour of him who had he not been on our Side Now may New England say Had he not been on our side when not only men but Devils rose up against us we had been swallowed up quick the proud Waves had gone over our Souls Blessed be the Name of the Lord who gave us not up to be 〈◊〉 prey unto their Teeth let our hel● be in the Name of the Lord who hath made Heaven Earth and Hell Oh that now this token for good may be improved to the quickening of us to breaking off the Covenant made with Death that it may be

disanulled and our Agreement with H●ll that it may not stand and to make sure our Interest in the firm sure precious and tried Foundation and Corner Stone which with a Behold of Attention and Admiration God hath Laid in Sion Let this preventing Mercy Encourage poor Starv'd Prodigals to return to their Fathers House acknowledging our selves unworthy to be his Sons no not his Maenial Servants Own we our selves to be Luke-warm Laodiceans wambl●ng upon the Stomach or our Blessed Lord and no place fitter to ease himself of us then by spuing us into Hell as was said of Caparnaum we are as ignorant as ●●●ogant we are Rich want for nothing but ●●ow not our Poverty Blindness or Naked●ess we trust and boast our selves in lying ●ords of the Temple of the Lord and that we are ●hrist's Non-such Garden for him to Walk ●nd Recreate himself in But alas we are ●either hot nor cold a parcel of Mung●el ●nterpendants we are not of the Episcopal Form we allow no Superiority in our Chur●hes nor Officers where there is but one Of●icer there cannot be Preference nor Dispari●y and how many of our Churches have ●nore We are not Presbyterians for their ●eclared Discipline and their practice is accor●ingly they have one Pastor and two Ruling Elders in their least Congregations and as ●heir Flock increaseth so they multiply their Officers but we on the contrary when a Churches Foundation hath been laid they had not the Number of Forty Members in their Body they solemnly then engaged with hands ●ifted up to Heaven not to be without two Teaching and two Ruling Elders and for a while they publickly practised chusing two Ruling Elders Ordained a Pastor and Ruling Elder and sent the other to bring over a Teacher which was done but when they are now multiplied vastly above the Number more then at first they content themselves with one Teaching and never a Ruling Officer when as there are as it 's said above two thousand Souls under Church Watch none Officially to Rule and Watch over them 〈◊〉 not this Taking Gods Name in vain and as 〈◊〉 the Congregational Way we Nominally pr●fess it but if we Read the Plat-●orm of o●● Church Discipline or the way of the Congr●gational Churches of New-England we m●● see how much we are varyed from it a● gone back from the way our Fathers and o●●selves have been instructed in and have recei●ed upon the Divine Authority of the Ho●● Word and formerly walked accordingly Let 's not halt between two Opinions if o●● Fathers Ways were Scriptural let us practical●● Justify them if they be not let us be Humbl●● and Reform we pray that the Lord wou●● lead and keep us in his Truth and restore 〈◊〉 to Walk in Christ as we have received him 〈◊〉 though our Rust is so inveterately Cankere● as no scowring will fetch it out let 's Beg th●● the Refiners Fire which the Lord is purgi●● the Sons of Levi with may effectually melt 〈◊〉 down that we may be fitted as Vessels of H●nour Sanctified and Prepared unto every go●● Work and made fit for our Masters Us● Let this stimulate us to hearken unto what t●● Spirit saith unto the Churches not advanci●● mens Polliticks before Gods Institutes nor H●mane Prudentials before Christ's Credentia●● take we heed of disgust against Scripture Pu●●ty and plainness and see that the true Fa●●● and Discipline received from our Godly a●● Holy Fathers may be handed down to us a●● to our Children bringing forth practical Holiness whereby as they Justified their Profess●on so we may in our Lives and Conversations make evident the Holiness a●●● Faithfulness of our and their Heavenly Father tha● Religion and the true Ways of God in Hi● Worship and Discipline may not evaporate into Form without the Power of Godliness no● be Buried in our Predecessors Graves but that it may in the midst of years Revive to that which was New Englands Glory In our first times no complaint of Churches being it compleat of Officers nor for want of Mai●tenance for them nor for want of Materials to choose Officers fit to Rule some have observed this Failure hath been upon private Brethrens Obstructions a discouragement of Discourse among themselves unless it were such as they had from the Press or Pulpit Doth it not reflect upon the Churches King and Law giver who both received and gave gifts to men that the Lord God might dwell among them yea among the Rebellious Shall our Churches lie under the Curse of Barren Wombs and Dry Breasts Is Bethel Barren and Athens Fruitful Shall Cambridge the School of our Young Prophets be pregnant and an Alma Mater a Bountiful Mother with her Breasts exuberating with Radiant Beams and Sacred Streams to the making glad the City of our God in sending forth such as are Accomplished with exquisite and requisite Talents to fit them to the Ministerial Work of Christ's Holy Temple And shall o● Churches which should be Sion Colledges a●● the Mothers of old and young Disciples no●● be sterile Neither capable to bring fort● Nurse or Educate any which may be fit f●●● Rule in them shall they be capable of no ●ther Name but of the Layty or this Peopl● which was imposed upon them by such a●● Arrogated to themselves the Title of the Cle●gy or of being Gods Lot Our King is blameless but how much o●● Churches are blame-worthy the Lord give u● to consider for Brethren of low degree t●● say they know not the way of the Lord the● are of mean Estates and low Capacities thei● Counsel will not meet with acceptance a●● some others might do go to the Brethren o● high degree they know the way of the Judg●ments of the Lord but they cast off the Yok● of the Lord their occasions will not bear o● admit of so mean an Employ as to be a Ruling Elder It 's Recorded to the high Honour of the French Reformed Churches that not many years since at a National Synod held at Charenton very nigh unto Paris the Metropolis of that Nation in the sight of all the French Nobility and Gallantry there appeared twelve or sixteen Barons Lords and Esquires who Esteemed not themselves debased to appear as Members of that Synodical Society and indeed were all of them Ruling Elders of their spective Congregations and truly the Glory Christ in his Churches This is asserted in ●e Synodicon Galliae Reformatae May we not fear that we render our selves ●●ghly Criminal against the Prerogative of this ●ing of Kings and Lord of Lords who be●des what is recorded in the Scripture of ●ruth that when he took leave of his Apostles ●●t his Ascension What he then gave in Charge ●o them he afterward doubled the same ●y the great and last Apostle of the Gentile Churches instructing Timothy in Christ's Name how he should behave himself in the Church and House of God he doth upon ●he highest adjuration which can be mention●ed Enjoyn him as he will answer it