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A96686	Hypocrisie unmasked: by a true relation of the proceedings of the Governour and company of the Massachusets against Samuel Gorton (and his accomplices) a notorious disturber of the peace and quiet of the severall governments wherein he lived : with the grounds and reasons thereof, examined and allowed by their Generall Court holden at Boston in New-England in November last, 1646. Together with a particular answer to the manifold slanders, and abominable falshoods which are contained in a book written by the said Gorton, and entituled, Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy, &c. Discovering to the view of all whose eyes are open, his manifold blasphemies; as also the dangerous agreement which he and his accomplices made with ambitious and treacherous Indians, who at the same time were deeply engaged in a desperate conspiracy to cut off all the rest of the English in the other plantations. VVhereunto is added a briefe narration (occasioned by certain aspersions) of the true grounds or cause of the first planting of New-England; the president of their churches in the way and worship of God; their communion with the Reformed Churches; and their practise towards those that dissent from them in matters of religion and Church-government. / By Edw. Winslow. Published by authority.	Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.; Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.; Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3037; Thomason E409_23; ESTC R204435	90,941	117

can you with all your libraries give the interpretation thereof but have lost it in the wilderness and accordingly have made the whole way and will of our Lord the ouldnesse of the letter both to your selves and to all that have an eare to lissen unto you Thence it is that the day of Lord is a day of Darkness and Gloominess unto you but of Joy and gladness unto us yea it lifts up our head onely and then is our salvation neere For wee know the worthies of David doubled about the bed of Solomon which expell all feare in the night handling the sword with sucess making the adversaries nothing but meat to feede upon so that the tyme of your feares is the time of our Courage and Conquest for when you feare errour schisme Rents and Confusions in Church and state then do wee know the Messenger of the Covenant the Lord whom wee seek is speeding his passage into his holy temple For who under the terrors of your spirit may abide his Coming hee being like a refiners fire and Fullers sope In that you invite us unto your Courts to fetch your equall ballanced justice upon this ground that you are becomne one with our adversaries and that both in what they have and what they are and wee know them to bee such as profess the day of the Lord an unhallowed thing Now if wee have our opponant to prefer his action against us and not only so but to bee our Counsell our Jurie and our Judg for so it must bee if you bee one with them as you affirm wee know before hand how our Cause will bee ended and see the scale of your equall Justice turned alreadie before wee have layd our Cause therein and cannot but admire to see you caried so contrarie to your owne received principles For you know not how to finde Christ as a Ruling and teaching Elder both in one person therfore he is not Complete amongst you by your owne law except in severall persons and you may thank tradition else you know no more how to finde both a king and a priest in him and yet in your way of making tender of your Justice unto us you know how to become one with our adversaries so as if wee deale with them wee deale with you and if wee have to doe with you wee have to doe with them also yea further wee know that the chiefe amongst you have professed wee are not worthy to live and that if some of us were amongst you wee should hardly see the place of our abode any more Now that they have brooded upon their law to take away life they must much more bring it up in taking away all means of life Witnes our prohibition that no powder should be sould unto us for our money and that in a time when you could not thinke your selves safe in all your owne self provision and worldly furniture except you disarmed a company of poor Indians whom Aaron your Leviticall Sacrificer hath made Naked as hee doth all those which triumph in a Calf though the most costly and beautifull that the Jewells and eare-rings of Learning either in Language or art can possibly bring forth your owne amazements upon meer Rumors may testifie the truth hereof so then wee are Judged by your law before our Cause bee hard or our selves brought forth under the liberties of it which thing is well pleasing unto us to have our Condition conformed unto Moses the man of God who was dead in Pharaohs account before he was brought forth and so it was with Christ our lord in the dayes of Herod also who is our life at which you strike and makes all things yea Death it self lively and advantagious unto us Wee cannot but wonder that you should read the Scripture and not finde them fulfilled in and amongst your selves when as they appeare so apparantly that he that runs may read them what think you of Herod when the Lord had delivered Peter out of prison and released him of those bonds and brought him from that thraldom which he had so Cruelly imposed upon him to gaine the favour of the Jewes and that by a power supereminent transcending the bounds of his authoritie and by a wisdom surpassing the Depth of his Counsell and policie to fynd out together with his souldiers and Champions he presently goes downe to Cesarea and Herod is angry with them of Tyrus Sidon thumoniachon a heavie Friend or hath a secret grudg or perturbation of mind manifested in an outreaching and circumventing policie to subdue them unto himself that he might Rule over them Finding himself fall short of power and policie to subject the word of God in the messinger of it to satisfy his owne lusts in his lordship over it he pursues with all egarnesse to make himself a god by Raigning over the bodies and estates of men yea though they be but such as Tyrus and Sidon can afford unto him to make subjects of and when they come unto him with one accord to make offer of themselves in yeelding to his affectionate and politicall project he sitting uppon the Judgment seate in his Royall apparell making his oration of what power he hath to protect them what wisdom and Counsell to minister Justice and righteousness unto them which office belongs only unto the Lord the people with a shout crying out the voice of god and not of man the truth and substance of which Cry is this is the ordinance of god and not of man immediately the angel of the Lord smites him and hee that ever acknowledged himself to bee a worme and no man upon the earth Consumes and eates up all his pomp and glory even as those whom you account the Shame and Contempt of the people shall thorow that angell of the Covenant waste and bring to nought all those Rhetoricall though earthly Orations that are made amongst you by your so Learned studious and experienced Clarkes take for illustration of your estate as above the speech of your alderman Oliver in case of committing Francis Hutchinson to prison one of your Church-members wondering that brother Winthrop would do it before the Church had dealt with him Brother saith hee why hee is thy god man Lend your eye yet farther to parallell your practise personated in Pylate and the people when Pylat offereth Jesus unto the people to be judged they profess they have such a law as puts no man to Death they are all for mercy and forgiveness when they are out of the Judgment hall but let Pylat enter in thither and then nothing but Crucifie him Crucifie him be their accusations and witnesses never so false even so in your dealings with men in way of your Jewish brotherhood your law is all for mercie to Redress reform and for preservation both of soule and bodie Do but enter into the Common hall and then as Pylat asked am I a Jew so do you Doe I sit or speake here as a

these are coaparant now communicating in Christs sufferings in their meaning is onely spirituall and so is therefore all baptismes 2. As for the Lords supper scarce a greater heape of blasphemies in fewer words can come from the mouth of man against that blessed Ordinance wherein Christ is so manifestly and sweetly present for they call it your disht up dainties turning the juice of a sillie grape that perisheth in the use of it into the bloud of the Lord Jesus by the cunning skill of your Magicians which doth make mad and drunke so many in the world 5. Against repentance and humiliation for sinne they speake somewhat obscurely but they that know them may sonne understand their meaning which if it be this that in a way of compunction and sorrow for sinne a Christian is not to seeke for consolation and comfort from Christ and to affirme that this is to make the sonne of God Belial and Segnirim the Devill himselfe as they interpret it then t is most grosse blasphemy against not onely the preaching but practise of repentance and godly sorrow for which the Apostle rejoiced to see in the Corinthians ch 7 v. 9. 10. and which James and Peter command and commend James 4. v. 9. 10. 1 Peter 5. v. 6. and which way not so much Moses in the law but Christ in the Gospell hath sanctified to finde pardon of sinne 1 John 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 Pontius 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 that 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 lesse 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 phrensies 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 we●knesse 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 beene 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 Benhadab escape with his life thy life for his life however mens charity may enlarge it sel●e this way yet let wisedome preserve us and make the wise hearted wa●y 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 Jude cals them Jude 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 beene answered already by a former treatise printed

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 Moleck 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 divulged 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 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 w●e 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 Arn●●ld 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 houses 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 Ishbosheth and Mephibosheth 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 to morrow and the day following also when a perishing estate cannot arise out of Jerusalem 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 the rest 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 untill 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 consists 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

for seeking by an out-reaching and circumventing policy to subdue Tyrus and Sidon and like Pontius Pilate and the people who out of the Judgement hall are all for mercy but in it nothing but crucifie him crucifie him bee their accusations and witnesse never so false so say they in your dealings with men in way of the Jewish brotherhood your law is all for mercy to redresse reforme for preservation of soule and body doe but enter into the Common-hall then if witnesses bee but brought in and oath taken though never so untrue your Consciences are purged by law and your power must have tribute paid it so far as to brand mens names with infamy and deprive women and children of things necessary 22 That the professed clemency an● mercy of their law is as much as in them lyes to send both soule and body downe to Sheol i. the grave and hell for ever without redresse and all hope of recovery 23 That their houre and power of darknesse is knowne what it is either to have mens persons in admiration because of advantage or else to seek all occasions against them with all manner of reproach and ignominie 24 That their wayes are wicked and to bee abhorred because in their professed course the two witnesses are slaine by them and put to death and that all their glory is to keep their corpse unburied and these two witnesses are the life and death of the Lord Jesus 25 That the light appearing among them is nothing but the light of Balaam so that in seeing they see not but communicate onely in the light of that Beast who put the witnesses to death 26 They tell our Magistrates that they never come amongst them but they see themselves in a regiment of grosse and palpable darknesse and discern you to scrabble on the wall for the door of Lots house 27 That they know not what a true witnesse is 28 That the whole Word of God is a parable to them as their conversation in all points daily declare it 29 That they will not come neare our Magistrates untill they know they beare another minde from their neighbours whom they call robbers grosse dissembling hypocrites who doe nothing but goe about to establish such wayes as may maintaine their owne vic●ous lusts whose laws are pretended and devised and whose practises they say they renounce as diabolicall 30 Yee blind guides say they to our Magistrates as your fathers have ever done so do you 31 You set up Segnirim i. as themselves interpret feare and horrour or the devill by and for the which you hope to bee saved 32 That their carriage towards them is farre worse then that of the Indians whom themselves cry out of to bee thieves and robbers pag. 32. 33 That they are despisers Behold say they yee despisers the vanity and abominations of all your baptismes 34 Yee think say they that the crosse of Christ is nothing but bowing down the back to every burden and cringing and crouching to the lust of every man 35 They call the generall Court the great Idol Generall whose pretended equity in distributing Justice is a meer device of man according to the sleights of Satan 36 They tell the Court that out of the kingdome of darknesse and the devill they had writ another Note to adde to their former pride and folly 37 For taking Pumham and Sachanonoco Indian Sachims under their protection they tell the Court they might have done well to have proved themselves Christians before they had mixt themselves with the heathen but this was too hard for them to doe 38 They advise the Court in scorn to keep the Indian with them where he and they might perform that worthy work of distributing Justice 39 They tell the Court that they live by bloud 40 They tell the Court they renounce the kingdom of darkness and the devill wherein the Court delights to trust 41 They call the Court O ye generation of Vipers 42 They tell the Court they are not a cup fit for their appetite but a cup of trembling either to make them vomit up their owne eternall shame or else to make them burst asunder with their fellow confessor Judas Iscariot 43 That the Court is either blind or audacious in desiring them to come for their parcells of Justice and that they disdain to come to them 44 They professe they cannot sufficiently vilifie the promise of the Court that they shall come down to them and return in safety which they call a verball and perfunctory offer 45 They tell the Court that if their lusts had not prevailed over them they might thinke they had better employment then to trot to Massachusets as their factors and ordinary hackneys doe 46 They tell the Court that their lawes and proceedings with the soules and bodies of men is nothing else but a continued act of accusing and excusing like the horse in the mill which say they you doe by circumstances and conjectures as also your fathers have done before you the Diviners and Necromancers of this world who are gone to their owne place and have their reward 47 They accuse our Magistrates for maintaining Indians in their lying sabbath-breaking grosse whoredomes stealing c. 48 That they are hypocrites having eyes and see not eares and hear not mouths and speak not Now had these men returned a rationall answer it might have been meet perhaps by a few marginall Notes to have returned some short Reply but both their ●etters being fraught with little else then meer raylings and reproachfull language it may be sufficient thus to present them in one view together that so the wise and prudent may take a taste of their spirits and learne from what fire it is that their tongues are thus highly inflamed If our Courts and Magistrates had been in any thing to blame what a faire and easie way had it been to have first convinced them before they had thus bitterly reviled them but thus to cut and shave and cast all this filth in their faces without proof or reason argues a bold and insolent spirit f●tted to make combustions and confusions in the place where they live If indeed the Magistrates had given them any sore provocations of returning ill language there might have been some excuse but alasse all the cause that can bee given of most of this ill language is nothing but writing friendly unto them to send some from themselves to clear up the differences between them and the Indians and to shew their just title to the land they possessed if they had kept this flood within their owne bankes or been but moderate in revilings it might have been winkt at but to fly out into such extremity on so small provocation against their betters so as to call them Idolls blind-guides despisers generation of vipers such as crucifie Christ men that serve their owne lusts hypocrites the seed of the Devill

of the United Colonies whereof they were part whose meeting would bee ere long by course at the Massachusets which counsell hee followed and entreated the Governour of Coneetacut Myantonimo also desiring it to keep him safe for him till then whereupon hee was brought to Hartford And many gifts were sent to the prisoner which hee bestowed like himselfe some on him that took him some on Vncus some on his wife some on Vncus brother being a great Captaine and some on others where he had received kindnesses and this was all the ransome was paid there being not so much as a ransome proposed by the Nanohiggansets nor set down by Vncus But hee advising with the Commissioners they considering how many ways besides open hostility he had sought the life of Vncus by poyson secret murther witchcraft c. advised him to put him to death there being no safety for him whilst hee lived being so restlesse in his practice against his life and therefore wished Vncus to proceed with him according to their owne Custome towards prisoners of Warre which is to put them to death according to which advice he proceeded knowing now that none of the Engl. would intercede for him And hereupon Vncus went to Hartford and demanded his prisoner and led him to an house of his owne out of the limits of the English and there killed him where was an English man or two by to prevent their accustomed cruelties in cutting off not onely the head and hands of their prisoners when they are dead and make bracelets of the fore-joints of their fingers c. but to torture them whilst living with most inhumane cruelties After this the Nanohiggansets would warre upon him in revenge of his death wee forbade them and at our next meeting of Commissioners to consult about the Weale publike of the United Colonies in regard the Nanohiggansets pleaded they had taken a ransome for his life and his life also which the other denyed Wee sent for Vncus and sent to the great Sachims of Nanohigganset to come also or appeare by Commissioners but they sent foure Commissioners with full authority to treate where we found neither ransome nor colour of ransome in the least measure And so a truce was agreed on if Vncus brake it we were then freed from our engagement to defend him any further for they desired no more And if the Nanohiggansets broke it then it should be lawfull for us the United Colonies to take part with him c. But the truth is though before they had so neare neighbours of the English as Gorton c. and till Myantonimo's Government as they were the most in number and most peaceable of all the Indians yet now they were changed as if they had not been the people and had their Tutors Secretaries and promptors to suggest their greatnesse and our weaknesse to them as his Book witnesseth in such manner as I am confident if the Gortonians for I take the phrase from his owne Book here never hearing it before bee suffered to live so neare them it will bee our ruine or these Indians which we desire not in short time I thought good to insert this Narration thus briefly that the Reader might understand the ground of his many charges calling God to witnesse I know not the least falshood related in it but many things for brevities sake omitted worthy a history but I am now about an answer not an history and therefore thus briefe But to return In pag. 47. see how he scoffes at the Sabbath as if there were no other ground for our religious observation of it then Mr. Co●tons judgement And in pag. 48. hee is full of many scoffs as if hee and his Gortonians would not nor did shoot at all when as I have oath to prove they shot also at the other but the truth is I heard some say that their powder was so dampe and moist as they could not without great difficulty discharge a peece which I well beleeve might bee the reason they shot no more then they did In pag. 49. hee chargeth Captaine Cooke with breach of Articles And yet I have it attested upon oath that there were none agreed on onely they desired they might not goe bound which was easily assented to they behaving themselves quietly And for their cattle I never heard the number to be so great by farre but asking the Governour of the Massachusets about them hee professed they did not amount to halfe their charges And if any aske by what authority they went out of their own Government to do such an act Know that his former seditious and turbulent carriage in all parts where he came as Plymouth Roade-Island a place of greatest liberty Providence that place which relieved him in that his so great extremity and his so desperate close with so dangerous and potent enemies and at such a time of Conspiracy by the same Indians together with the wrongs done to the Indians and English under the protection of that Government of the Massachusets who complained and desired reliefe together with his notorious contempt of all Civill Government as well as that particular and his blasphemies against God needlesly manifested in his proud letters to them one whereof hee hath printed and the other I have herewith published for him All these considered you shall see hereby cause enough why they proceeded against him as a common enemy of the Countrey And as such as one the said Commissioners being then met together at Massachusets by course for the Weale of the whole upon just complaint ordered and thought meet that the Government of the Massachusets should call them to accompt and proceed with them so farre as stood with righteousnesse and justice And by their declaration thou maist easily see they went no further for they refusing safe conduct to come to answer to the matters against them forced them upon this charge needlesly which they made them beare part of as before So that here 's cause enough besides blasphemy for their proceeding with them I suppose In pag. 51. he chargeth New-Engl Ministers to pray in the streets but take notice I have been there these 26 yeares and better but never heard of such a practise till I now reade it in his Book In pag. 52. he saith the Governour to satisfie the people said we were apprehended for divers grosse opinions c. Answ You may see in the last Section but one there was cause enough And yet for Opinions let mee tell you that you held That that Image of God after which man was created was Christ and that when Adam fell Christ was slaine c. And as for your opinion concerning Churches Mr. Williams by way of sad complaint told me you denyed any true Churches of Christ to bee in the world also Baptisme it selfe and the Lords Supper Sabbath Magistracy as it was an ordinance used amongst Christians And for the Lords Supper that it is but a spell the