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A33597	A demonstration of true love unto you the rulers of the colony of the Massachusets in Nevv-England shewing to you that are now in authority the unjust paths that your predecessors walked in, and of the Lord's dealings with them in his severe judgments, for persecuting his saints and children ... / written by ... William Coddington of Road-Island [sic].	Coddington, William, 1601-1678.; Bellingham, Richard, 1592?-1672.	1674 (1674)	Wing C4875; ESTC R23269	12,792	22

my Paper to warn you in the Name of the Lord to take heed and not to joyn to that Spirit that then had lead you into Imprisonments Cruelty Whippings cutting off Ears Fines and taking away Goods Banishing on Pain of Death the Servants of the living God for following the Leadings of that Spirit that would lead you to take away their Lives But as none of the former Warnings from sundry of the Servants of the Lord's Messengers that spoak to you in the Name and Power of the Lord so that though the Lord would ye would not for the Friend that brought my Letter being in Company with William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson you imprisoned and cruelly whipped So though I came over with your Governour as an Assistent in Commission with him c. and for seaven Years in Authority as a Magistrate and Treasurer of the Country and equal with you in other respects and parted from you because you would persecute as by a Remonstrance in Court when others and my self were Members of it appears yet notwithstanding my Letter found no better Acceptance then is aforesaid never returned me one Word in Answer to the several particulars therein expressed but have been so filled with the Devices of your own Hearts and Wayes that your Cruelties have filled the Contents of two printed Treatises hitherto which cannot be sufficiently expressed which is the World's Wonder and the Astonishment of all that are Men of Ingenuity and Tenderness I say it hath filled two Books in Quarto though since 1667. your unjust Doings have not been printed of which this is one I shall now write unto you of though my Letter find no better Acceptance then my former did viz. There were so many Books that cost ten Pound Sterling in England sent to Barbadoes which were to have been transported to this Island for me and other Friends in Shipping belonging to this Island but through Mistake was by William Mastra brought to Pascatua No Opportunity presenting for Transportation to us some of your Magistrates or Officers searched his Vessel he informing me thereof that your Officers had taken the said Books and that they were brought to Boston I demanded my Goods of Richard Bellingham then and now Governour Thou not denying to have received them but gave me a scoffing Answer not becoming thy Gravity therefore I shall not only demand them of thee my ancient Friend but of two others of your Magistrates my ancient Friend also viz. Simon Broadstreet no others but him that I know now living in the Massachusets that were in England chosen with me Assistents to the Governour of the Massachusets now above forty two Years past Friend I have often read thy Name in the said Books and of thy being in England when some of the People of God came to confer or examine thee about the putting to Death or murdering of some of their Friends in New-England whether thou hadst a Hand in it and by what Law thou didst it and whether you were subject to the Laws in England and thou answeredst in a fearful Manner Guilt being upon thee and wouldst shuffle it off thy self and saidst you had a Law by which you put Jesuites to Death It was asked you whether they were Jesuites and whether you put them to Death as Jesuites And thy Answer was Nay thou didst not believe they were Jesuites So then it was said to thee that you had murdered them when no Law of England could be instanced by thee by which you had put them to Death And so soon after got out of England before William Robinson's Father came to the City of London and there were some that were in Power in England that were much troubled at our Friends in England because they would not seize upon thee and thy Company as Murderers who had murthered the King's Subjects and forfeited their own Patent and acted contrary to the Laws of England in murdering his Subjects having no Law of England for it and manifested your selves to be Rebels to the King in putting his Subjects to Death without his Laws and denying his Subjects their Appeal to the King of England and his Laws when you murdered them And what was Mary Dyer a Jesuite whom you murdered and put to Death and hanged on your Gallows and when you had done your great Major Aderton came into your Court and boasted to your Court and to them under the Sentence of Death and Examination how Mary Dyer hanged like a Flag who had been that Day executing of her thinking thereby to have terrified them but the Servants of the Lord were carried above all your Threats and Terrors and him who boasted of your murdering of her And the Day will come you will have small Cause to boast in such Murders as he had no Cause as his End made manifest as yours will do as will beseem as his hath been to all New England for when the Servants of God warned him of the Judgments of God to come upon him he boasted and said You tell us of the Judgments of God to come upon us but when will they come we see none yet But they suddenly came upon him and made him a Spectacle to all the Blood-thirsty Priests and Magistrates in New-England for you to look at as he said to you our Friends Mary Dyer hanged like a Flag to look at who soon after was made a Spectacle for you to gase at And was not his Eyes like Sawsers for you to look at And did not his Blood run through the Floor of your Court-House where you had given Sentence for taking away of the Blood of God's People yea in the Place where the said Man had boasted that Mary Dyer hanged like a Flag but soon the Vengeance of God took hold of him and made him a Sign to you and to all other blood-thirsty Persecutors Now Friend though I thus write for clearing my Testimony yet have I nothing but Love in my Heart towards you for thou art my ancient Friend thou wast known to me before thou wast married when thou camest to Boston Lector and after we came to New-England in the Arbella I say when I was informed out of England that G.F. and others of our Friends had been with thee as is said and that they had left you to the Judgments of God which you could not escape it would be too hard for you for the Lord of that Servant would come in a Day he looked not for c. Luke 12.46 for John Norton one of thy Company who when you paused upon the executing of William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson and forbare one Day it may be at the Mediation of my ancient and worthy Friend Jo. Winthrop Governour of Coneticut who did much interceed with you to prevent your Shedding of innocent Blood he encouraged you thereunto and the rest of your cruel Works this bloody Persecutor being at your Worship-House in the fore-part of the Day and intended to go

wherewith you are enlightned that you have contracted and blasphemed as Natural c. Even Christ in you the Hope of Glory which was declared to you by the Servant of the Lord John Cotton on Acts. 4.13 on his Lecture Day the Ships ready to depart for England he stated the Difference it was about Grace he magnified Grace within us the Priests Grace without or upon them So all the Difference in the Country was about Grace notwithstanding the Difference was as great saith he as between Light and Darkness Heaven and Hell Life and Death For as in the Text when they saw the Boldness of Peter and John they perceived they had been with Jesus and from the Spirit of Jesus did he then declare and so do our Friends when they come amongst you and you might perceive had you the spiritual Eye-Salve Therefore turn to the Grace of God within you that as in former Dayes so in this is the Saints Teacher then shall you never be without a Teacher And repent of the Evil of your Doings before your Day be passed over and it be hidden from your Eyes though you seek it with Tears as Esau did And as for me I pass not to be judged of you or of Man's Dayes he that judgeth me is the Lord and his Witness is with me in what I write and as for my Books so taken and so detained by you after demand as is said let me have your Answer in Writing a small Request from him that for seaven Years served with you as a Magistrate and Treasurer of the Country yea and had to this Day if in so doing he could have served the Lord Jesus for I am yours in the Service of Truth W. Coddington Road Island the 12th of the 6th Month 1672. Upon Burning of my former Letter I writ this directed to Richard Bellingham Governour of the Massachusets as followeth FRiend My Letter directed to thee Richard Bellingham Governour of the Massachusets Simon Broadstreet and William Hauthorn Assistents and whom else it might concern which Letter was about the middle of the 7th Month 1672. left at thy House upon the Receipt thereof or not long after thou sentst for Nicholas Moulder of Boston Merchant and demandedst of him from whom that Letter was Nicholas answered from William Coddington whereupon thou very furiously replyed I was an old sottish Man or to that effect Now Friend see what thou art fallen from I have known the time that thou wouldst not have allowed thy self in Fury and nonsensical Discourse and whereas thou reproachest me for my Age thou art older then I and it is a Crown of Glory being found in a Way of Righteousness and it is for Christ's sake thou dost thus reproach me because I bare my Testimony against all persecuting Spirits otherwise thou wouldst have called me as thou knowest I have been called amongst Men these forty five Years and so to fill up the Measure of thy Iniquity caused thy Man to fetch a Candle thou being in Augustine Lindal's House the Iron-monger and in the Presence of Augustine and the said Nicholas and thy Man openedst my Letter and tore it and put it into the Flame of the Candle and burntst all the Writing without looking on or reading any of it and bad Nicholas take notice of it Now Friend thou shewest what Spirit thou art of by thy Untrustiness and Wickedness in burning a Letter that concerned others in Authority with thee and the Country to take notice of Is this thy fulfilling of the royal Law To do to others as thou wouldst have others to do to thy self Wouldst thou be contented to be so done by to have thy Letter when thou demandest what is due to thee to be torn and burnt and thou called out of thy Name Is this the Restitution thou makest for the Wrong thou hast done taking away the Goods of another contrary to Law and Justice without Tryal repugnant to the Laws of England contrary to your Patent Shew a Law of England for what thou hast done David saith He that rules over Men must be just ruling in the Fear of the Lord which is to hate Evil Pride and Arrogancy And every evil Way and a froward Mouth do I hate saith Solomon the wisest of Kings then would thy Government be for the Punishment of Evil-Doers for the Praise of them that do well but Justice is turned backward and Equity cannot enter and be that departeth from Iniquity maketh himself a Prey Thy Iniquity is notified already to succeeding Ages thou needst not bid the Standers by Take notice of thy tearing and burning a Letter of publick Concernment What put thee into so much Anger and Fury it was not the Letter if thou hadst been altogether ignorant of the Contents of it thou either knewst or mightst have known whose Letter it was having of it in thy Hand dated from Road-Island the 12 th of the 6 th Month 72. the Place of my outward Abode and my known Hand and Seal to it So that thou either didst or mightst have known certainly whose the Letter was so the Question was needless to require of Nicholas Moulder whose it was that knew not what was in it Now see what Regard thou hast to Justice by what is said and further to threaten to send an innocent Man to Prison and demand where was his Security to answer at your Court but tell him not for what and I believe thou knowst not for what but only that thou wast transported for the present thou wast warned of that Evil when I was in Authority with thee in the Massachusets Now in Coolness Friend Consider if thou be not him that was spoken of in 2 Sam. 23.6 7. That he that comes near thee in thy Fury though he be sent for by thee as Nicholas was had need to be fenced with Iron and the Staff of a Spear thou art utterly burnt with Fire in the same Place Hadst thou not been in the same Place of a Governour thou wouldst not have been so discovered so that the least Child of Light may discover thee to be of a persecuting Spirit Now see if thou canst if thou hast not sinned out thy Day what thy forty five Years Profession of the Scriptures being out of the Life and Power that gave them forth is come to that to speak plain Scripture Languages Thou and Thee to a single Person and to stand with his Hat on is a Crime culpable of Death as in William Leddra's Case Also consider that forty five Years past thou didst own such a suffering People that now thou dost persecute they were against Bishops and Ceremonies and the conformable Priests they were the Seed of God that did serve him in Spirit then called Puritans now called Quakers God having put Enmity between the two Seeds the Serpent's Seed disgraces the Seed of the Woman with Nick-Names which Seed of the Woman the Servant of the Lord John Cotton in Verse describes Of Puritans two Sorts I find The Moral and the Ceremonial Kind The Ceremonial God's great Name to hallow Will strain at Motes as well as Beams not swallow His tender Conscience makes his fleshly Heart At smalest Pricks and Scruples back to start But I will write to thee no more of them at this Time because I would not have thee burn them as thou didst my last Letter These I say thou didst then own these Verses and divers more John Cotton wrote about sixty Years since long before thou camest to dwell at Boston So I am thy ancient Friend and so will be do what Injury thou canst to me Road Island the ●0th of the 8th Month 1672. Still waiting If at any time God may give thee Repentance unto Life W. C. This my last Letter to Richard Bellingham Governour was delivered to John Leverit Deputy Governour who said he would deliver it and speak to him to read it Shortly after the said Richard having compleated the Measure of his Iniquity dyes distracted the 7th of the 10th Month 1672. The Hand of the Lord cuts him off not giving him Repentance to Life that other Sons of Belial of his persecuting Spirit might be warned not to put the Evil Day far from them Idem W. Coddington