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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

the Chu●ebes as before is o●●served and being that which was agreeing 〈◊〉 the Word of God and the principles of th● Congregational Way first practised in o●● Churches for a good time since this Plat fo●● hath been Printed here and in England an● published Abroad to the World there being n●● difference between us and the other Reformed Churches whether the Church of England th● French or Dutch Churches but only in point o● Church Government as to points of Faith an● Doctrine we all agree in one this we though● needful to inlarge upon humbly fearing th● Lords present Controversy with us doth it great measure Center here viz. our deviating and receeding from that which gave us th● Name of New England viz. the Plat-Form and agreed practice of our Churches according to the Word of God The Ravening Wolves of Heresy and the wild Boars of Tyranny being chained up from Devouring the Lords poor I lock and from Rooting up his Heritage The unreconcileable Adversary le ts loose his Foxes with Fire brands at their Tails te●●urn up this peoples standing Corn which no ●aking he sent forth his Foxes the little Foxes ●o spoil this Vine in the time of its tender Grapes but the Keeper of this Vineyard neither slumbering nor sleeping took and destroy'd them ●he Watch'd Warded and every momen Watered it and none did hurt it much less threw down the Stone-Wall thereof tho● many an hard push and shuff was made at it 〈◊〉 our Jerusalem was then a Burthensome Stone their Governours like a Torch of Fire in a Sheaf many an Ebenezar Stones of help di● our Fathers then set up for which the Lords Sacro sanct Name was Celebrated This preceeding Relation is but as a few Clusters of Ephraims Grapes compared with the redundancy of Abiezer our Fathers Helpers Vintage so many unimaginable and unutterable ●acts of Favour and preventing Mercies were in the Revolution of twenty five or about thirty years space vouchsafed to our Fathers as would fill a large Volume yet not without mixture of Fatherly Corrections to evince Paternal Respects unto them as their own words writ into our Nation testify that they were by the Dew from above and Caelestial Influences kept alive and cherished as to the sequel we shall leave it to such Sprightly and Accurate Wits to perform who shall espouse it 〈◊〉 knowing that tract of time will admit liberty of freer Discourse about Matters then this Age will bear the Relator being in hazard of having his Teeth dasht out by Truth liftin● up her heeles if he come too near her as hat been Experienced and Recorded by our Nat●●ons Great Historiographer This was the time of our Fathers Love of thei● Espousals and Kindness of their Youth they wer●●hen Holiness unto the Lord and the First Fruits o●●is Increase God Rode upon the Heavens fo● their help they dewlt safely tho' solitarily 〈◊〉 our Issachar Rejoyced in their Tents and ou● Lebulon in his Going forth but have we brought Sacrifices unto the Holy Mountain though we have sucked of the abundance and treasures of ●he Sea to the enriching of divers This Tribe ●ath aboundantly multiplied to the admiration of all Beholders So as a noted Belgian one of the East India Company who above twenty years since have●ng heard of the fame of thi● place purposely ●ame over to take a view of it and past through ●ll the parts of it and made a particular remark ●pon our sea trade and the incredible number ●f small Vess●ls he then saw besides some Ships ●f considerable Burthen belonging to us Nor is to be forgotten the answer made to a Messenger of the Nations an Attendant upon ●he French Court sent hither by Lewis le●rand to demand the fulfilling of the Articles ●ade at Breda between the two Crowns who ●ere to his astonishment saw what he could ●ot have believed to him it was told That ●od had founded this Sion and that the poor ●f his People did trust in him at his departure with wonderment he said Lo what hath God ●one and if his Masters servants did know how ●●e poor of this Country lived he would not ●ave one left It might be then said who so happy as new New England by the Lord their shield and Sword of their Excellency as our Report hath passed through Holland and France so that Spain is no stranger to it C. Allin appeareth by the Discourse which the Governour of Cuba had with a Prisoner of Note of ours falling into his hands concerning our being a People eminent for great Mo●ality and Reformation but mind you said he ●ow your Children will prove and what will be●ome of them a Speech becoming a Gentleman well Versed in Sacred and Civil History Thus far of the Light and white side of the Pillar which attended us in this our Wilderness Pilgrimage the black and dark side remains ●nd we hope thus far we have cleared our Fathers from being the procurers and peccant causes of these dismal days now befallen us they according to Divine Institution walked with God they did Justice and Judgment and then it was well with them The Lord took delight in our Fathers and they in him we have left the Lord he hath forsaken us they Walkt with him we contrary unto him he Subdued their Pequod and Narraganset Enemies before them gave their Country into our hands but now the Sce●● of Affai●s is turned we are made a Spoil 〈◊〉 our Haters to our Popish and Pagan Neig●●bours a Derision we are sold and scattered 〈◊〉 mong the Heathen can we say All this 〈◊〉 befallen us yet have we not forgotten thee n●● have we done falsely in thy Covenant this w●●● fear is our mortal wound viz. the forget●i●● of our Fathers and of our God we have dea● falsely in our own and their Covenant wh●● stipulated for us this is the quarrel which th● Holy God is now avenging Hath Chittim 〈◊〉 Canada chang'd their Gods Do we thus Requi● the Lord Oh Fo●lish People and Unwise O poor New-England especially Boston i● the Day of it poor to a proverb of being th● lost Town in our first Founding those of ●ther Towns enquired how the Mean On● lived here the Rich had their Farms Abroa● to Subsist by but as for the poor how coul● they subsist The Answer was their Ministry was so sweet unto them and the Bread of Lif● so savoury to their Souls that they forgot thei● Bo●ily Food so welcome was Christian Society to them that he who had but an Acre of Lan● for his House Lot parted with one half of i● to a desirable Neighbour he that had but hal● an Acre did the like Thus were we increast● so as instead of a desolate place where ou● Fathers found no Town to dwell in they Cri●ed unto the Lord hungry and thirsty who le● them forth by a right way that we are become 〈◊〉 small City of Habitation God gave some ●f them then a particular Faith upon Psalm

saved in the Mount the Lord was seen in this Ship was the Reverend Mr. Mather three or four of his Sons and whole Family with a multitude of other precious Souls among whom was the Worthy Jonathan Mitchel then being a Lad. The like Salvation about the same time was vouchsafed to a great Ship Laden with Passengers bound for New-England the Famous Norton and Great Shepheard with their Wives were Aboard of her They were forced back from the Channel into North-Yarmouth Road where though the Wind was off the Shoar the Storm was so violent as all their Anchors and Cables would not bring her up and being in great danger of Foundering in the Sands they were forced to cut both Main Mast and Fore Mast by the Board with Sail● and Rigging this Paul and Silas while able to stand went from Cabbin to Cabbin to Encourage and Pray with the Distressed Passengers and Seamen who by one Wave were washed Over-board and the next Wave threw them Aboard again there was great Crying out then What shall we do to be Saved At the Prayers of these Men of God this Ship and every Soul Aboard was given them the nex● Day they all Landed safe and as soon as Ashoar two Vipers designed not only to Leap upon the hands of them both but to seiz their Persons but how stangely preserved is not unknown to some of us though the House was beset by them when as they were at a pious Meeting then called a Conventicle Next Year they Arrived all safe at Boston the Ship for that Year was Disinable Ought we not now to cry out considering the Circumstances Oh! The Wheel the Wheel He who sits upon the Throne appeared with the Rainbow about his Head and the Spirit o● the Living Creatures was in the Wheels from their Original Motion The Waves obeyed the Voice and the Wind fulfilled the Pleasure of the Lord of the Universe so a the first whole Fleet Arrived safe in a smal time without Loss of any but of one person These Nobly Grateful Passengers appointed ●nd set apart a Day of Thanksgiving to the Almighty God for the great Goodness and nighty Works they had seen in their Vovage ●nd with Noahs Dove having found rest for ●he soles of their Feet ma●ched forth from their Floating Arks and Celebrated the High P●ai●es of him who had thus graciously and won●erfully Safe guarded them and Landed them They Sang the Song of Moses and of the Lamb whom they in this Voyage had followed and ●ow paid their Vows to God to Serve him and ●o Build him an Habitation and according to he Examples of Noah and Abraham who up●n their safe Landing and Arrival each Built ●n Altar to Jehova so they being content ●ith Huts and smoaky Cottages first applyed ●hemselves to Build the Lord an Habitation ●efore they set up their own Houses and Join●d in Church-Fellowship setting up the King ●f Sions Throne in his Order and Worship ●aving six Eminent Ministers who came along ●ith them and divers Hundreds of Choice Materials Thus far an Abbreviate of this Colonies Foundation and manner of its Lay●ng The good News from this far Country and ●om these men of Desires being ca●●ied into ●ngland was as Cold Waters to a thirsty Soul ●e Stile of their Letters was so full of Divine ●ravity and of a Gracious Savour so grateful 〈◊〉 those of full Age who by reason of Use had their Senses exercised to discern both good and evil as it put them upon study to increase their Number stirring up each other to get among them to New England The Grace powred into the Hearts and Lips of these first Planters dropt down into Pens of private Christians like sweet smelling Myrrh so as they began their Letters with Apostolical benediction and concluded them with Salutations a Letter then from New-England and for a considerable time after was Venerated as a Sacred Script or as the Writing or some Holy Prophet 't was carried many Miles where divers came to hear it because the Savour of Christ's Name was as good Oyntment powred forth therefore the Virgins Lov'd Him and a multitude of pious Souls through the whole Nation were in their Spirits pressed to Joyn in this Work so as their Malignant Observers in their Words and Writings Burtons Melancholly Rendred them Furijs Religionis Acti Men acted by Religious Furies and the Festuss's of those Times declared them to be persons Distracted saying of their much Religion as he said of Pauls much Learning that it had made them mad In a short time after their Arrival a Snake crept forth which Lay Latent in the Tender Grass one who pretended himself a Religious Reformado and to withdraw from the Noise of Secular Affairs came over in the first Fleet he offered to Joyn in Church-Fellowship here but was refused upon suspicion to be what indeed he proved to be viz. a Roman Catholick and of such Note among them Christopher Gardner as he had at Jerusalem Received the Orders of the Knighthood there called the Holy Sepulchre which Order he appeared to be of by Letters intercepted sent by a man of Place in England a profest Enemy to this Colony thus Satan's Proto-Emissary against this People was discovered in his prime Plot and secret Snare who designed to smother this Embrio Colony or to Strangle this Babe not yet out of its Swadling Bands for which Deliverance high Praises were Celebrared to the Name of Sions Saviour Not long after a desperate Myne was sprung by this Peoples Grand Adversary according to Advice of a Politician elsewhere to Blow up Religion by Religion Encouraging the Liberty this People had obtained to Leave their Nation saying Let them go by their Parties and Factions as their Brethren at Leyden and Amsterdam had done so they would destroy each other but the Lord most graciously Countermined it for the Design of both the Magistrates and Ministers with the Body of this People was not with the Rigid Separatists to Cast off all Communion with the Church of England but to act the part of the good old Nonconformists who though they could not Close with the Hierarchy nor with the Corruptions in Discipline and Worship yet in her Faith and Doctrine they own'd her to be their Mother and therefore having by Pattent-Charter from His Majesty a Grant to Remove they peaceably Improved the same and left their Native Land and at their Departure they drew up and Published a Manifesto to the whole Nation of the Grounds of this their Undertaking not knowing whether ever they should see Land styling those whom they parted from in their Superscription REVEREND FATHAERS AND BRETHREN The Humble Request of His Majesties Loyal Subjects The GOVERNOUR and COMPANY of NEW-ENGLAND To the rest of their Brethren in and of the Church of England For the obtaining of their Prayers and Removal of their Suspicions and Misrepresentations of their Intentions c. LONDON Printed for John Bellamy 1630. Their

Subscription Signed was Your Assured Friends and Brethren Iohn Winthrop Governour Richard Saltonstall Isaac Iohnson Tho. Dudley Deputy Governour Charles Fines George Phillips Cum multis ajiis From Yarmouth Ab ard the Arabella April 7th 1630. THese Magnanimous Heroes whose Memory is Plessed whose Names not only during New England hath a Being but shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance they then declared Though there might be some among them otherwise minded yet they were not of them and desired Remembrance in their Prayers as above in this their dangerous Design Not long after this Mr. Cottons Farewel Sermon above mentioned was Printed as London and since Re printed at Boston Entituled GODS PROMISE TO HIS PLANTATION wherein he Exhorted them to Remember England their Mother and that they should not be like those Ingrateful Birds who when they had Swum over a Stream or River forgot the Wing that had Hatcht them The Serpent soon got into this Eden and according to his Maxime acted divide and Overcome he sow'd the Seed of Discord Division among us so as this Heterodoxy was Preached publickly that there was no Communion to be held with the Church o● England and that if any of our Church-members had transiently heard a Minister which Conformed to the Church of England withou● declaring Repentance for it he was to be Excommunicated and that no Communion wa● to be held with any Unregenerate Person that they ought not to Pray or Crave a Blessing at Meals before Wife or any Relation Unconverted of which Conversion their Opinion was the Test and not only so but tha● the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty was not to be taken nor was it lawful to take any other kind of Oath because no Power to be Setled by Oath but Christs Kingly Power only and that our Pattent ought to be sen● back to our King nor ought we to have to do therewith Thus was Now-England Attack by Satan and this from an Eminent Preacher noted for Piety in his Life and Conversation as his strictest Observers Characterisec● him This Child of Light walked in Darkness about Forty Years not only by Rejecting the Church of England and its Baptism bu● his second Baptism also Taking up the Seekers perswasion looking for new Apostles Mr. Roger Williams yet di● not his Root turn into Rottenness the Root of the Matter abode i● him as by his Faithful Defence of the Fundamentals of Christian Religion in a public● Dispute and about the Year 1677. puttin● ●ut a Book against the Quakers Thus the ●ord infinite in Wisdom and Goodness dis●osed of Satans Malice so as he was Out shot 〈◊〉 his own Bow the Lord held the Magistra●y and Ministry in Unity according to the ●ntegrity of their hearts so as this small new ●igged Vessel was preserved against this vio●ent Storm which the Prince of Darkness Raised upon her at first setting forth with Design to have Overset and Foundred her ●hus was Munificent Mercy magnified toward ●is People when sew in Number and in ●heir low Estate such was the Conduct of ●ur Moses and Aaron that they kissed each o●●er in the Mount of God The Report of this admirable Divine Pre●ence with this People in their Civiland Sacred ●dministrations Reach'd our Nation even to ●he astonishment of those who cast no good Eye upon us but to the Encouragement of ●hose otherwise minded so as that the Well-●ffected came over as Clouds and like Doves to ●●eir Windows such was their Increase that in ●even years time the Massachuset Patient could ●ot contain them This Vine spread forth ●er Branches on the other side of this Bay to ●nd a Rehoboth it 's said that about this time 〈◊〉 Two Years there came over Seventy ●odd ●hips who one with another Transported an ●undred Passengers to the astonishment of ●e sober part of our Nation At which time ●●d before as the Harvest was great white so the Lord thereof thrust forth not only L●bourers but multiplied Aholiabs and Bezaliell Robbing our Nation to supply this peop●● with such as were filled with the Spirit 〈◊〉 Wisdom and Understanding in all Spiritu●● Skill in the Structure and Furniture of th● great Work and about setting up the Tabe●nacle of the Congregation and the Ark 〈◊〉 the Testimony according to the Pattern i● the Mount Of whom a Quaternion viz. Mr. Cotton Eminent for Spiritual Clothing and Mather for Caelestial Dying Hook●● for Soul Fishing Stone for Building up i● the Holy Faith three of whom came in th● same Ship and one of them not long a●te● with the Reverend John Davenport the famo●● Rogers of Rowley besides the Worthy Fin● Fruits of New-England the Proto-Pastors an● Teachers whom our Pen fails to Enumerate such was the Cloud of them who came ove● first and last seventy seven Ministers and fou●teen Young Students fit for the Ministry These voluntary Exiles for the Word 〈◊〉 God and Testimony of Jesus having be●● under Exercise of Spirit and Burthened b●● mens setting up their Posts and Thresholds b●● Gods Posts and Thresholds and now War●ed by the Lively Sense of Gods preservin● Goodness and safe Landing of them after ●●tedious passage some Encountred tho' som● had but six Weeks others Twenty and od●● Weeks durance yet without Loss or Famishin● of one person all this while shut up but ●afeguarded about four inches distance from Death These Votaries being under the fervour of their late Obligations they Anointed Jacobs Pillar then they had opportunity and accordingly Bewail'd and were ashamed of their Misdoings begg'd pardon and assistance from the God of the Spirits of all Flesh and direction from on High to set up the Throne and Place of the Soles of Christs Feet after solemn Imploring the Discovery of the Form and Fashion of Gods House the Comings in and Goings out of the Church of God which is the House of God the Ground and Pillar of Truth they agreed upon the practice of that which is called the Way of the Congregational Churches which for Thirteen Years together they Walkt in the practice of before ●he Synod further confirmed the same as is ●fterwards notified which Doctrine and Practice was Published to the Europaean World in the Book of the Keyes and Vindication of the Way of the Congregational Churches in New England pen'd by the Reverend Teacher of Boston Church and other worthy Scripts by divers Worthy Ministers of this Country in Answer to the Reproach put upon them by some Eminent Divines elsewhere of a Mr. Samuel ●nother perswasion yet one Rutherford of their Chieftains for Piety In his Spiri●● and Learning Declared in ●●ual Antichrist Print his full Assent to the Book of the Keyes in all its particularities e●cept in one punc●ilio about of the power of Synods which as he apprehended the book o● Keyes did too much streighten The Lords presence with our Fathers in thei● Civil and Sacred Concerns signally appeared with our Honourable Counsellers our Pruden● and Ancient the Mighty