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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Our Fathers Cryed unto God who heard them and they were Saved this Pequod Amalecks Name according to Gods Oath hath been ever since blotted out from under our Heaven Thus was the Lord his Peoples Banners The Dragons old indefatigable Malice appeared in a most subtile Stratagem contrived by letting out of his Mouth a Flood to Drown the Woman and Male Child fled into this Wilderness to be fed which made this little World groan to see it self surrounded with Familestical Antinomian Heresies Errors this chiefly befel Boston and its Vicinity which Church Glorying in their Candlestick being furnished with two such Burning and Shining Lights a Pastor and Teacher who for Love and Light Out-shined all others and in the Gifts of Knowledge and Utterance of divers of their Brethren the Serpents subtilty shew'd it self in a Multitudinarism of Questions started under pretence of seeking Light Error cloath'd it self under disguise of Truth by pretext of Magnifying Grace it was turned into Wantonness and all this under the Umbrage of their ●eacher who tho' he had Sown only good ●eed in Gods Field yet the Enemy came and ●wed Tares as he upon a Fast-Day in Boston Church before the Country vindicated him●elf that whilst men slept this mischief was ●one which was the Subject of that days Dispurse and he discriminated between them ●penly declaring what good Seed he had ●own and its dissimilitude from the Tares which the Enemy had Sown proving by Jerom Authentick Authors That the Tares in Judea were so like the Wheat that until the Harvest without great difficulty they could be distinguished thus Hells Cataracts were set open ●nd a multitude of Errors then were broached ●o the hazard of the ruine of the Churches with many Heresies destroying the Foundation ●ut as of old when Arrianism prevailed the Earth helpt the Woman so many took opporunity to greaten their outward Estates whatever befel them upon any other account oh That men would praise the Lord for his Goodness and for the Work of this Sions Saviour in delivering from this Master-plot of Hell who designed the ruine of these Churches and People but by Divine Benediction upon the measures taken by Magistrates in the Court and the Elders and Churches in the Synod that was prevented which threatned the Destruction of all but chiefly of Boston The Churches and People of New-England had for a considerable time Enjoyed Peace and ●est Trade at Home and Traffick Abroad they greatned their Estate by Building small Vesselt and some considerable Ships Transporting of Timber for the Indies and Islands tho' not without Alarms from the Indians and other Afflictive Providences the Lord took us into his Fatherly Hand by Droughts Blasts upon English Grain yea by Feavers and Small pox and with one great Fire but in the interim being without any Adversary or such evil Occurrent they lookt at it as a Duty incumbent upon them to draw up a Plat Form of Discipline and Church Covernment which might be laid as a Foundation for the Generations to come And the rather because the Way they practised was questioned by some whether it was agreeable to the Rule of Gods Word whereupon a ●●ill was drawn up by the General Court for Assembling of a Synod after debate it was agreed unto and accordingly a Synod of Elders and Brethren according to the first President of a Synod or Council Recorded in the Sacred Leaves of the Acts and Monuments of the Apostles who Assembled at Jerusalem these did Convene to whom we may assign as hath been Observed by one of Note in the Churches of Christ That as these had shewn more Love and Zeal to Communion with God in his Pure Worship in their Hazardous Undertakings into these Parts So God did more for them in shewing them the Scriptural Way of Church Government as a Divine Favour and Boon vouchsafed unto them then he did to any other which Lig●● hath not been hid in a Bushel but resplended not on●● into our Nution but into all the Reformed Church● Concerning these men it may without arr●gancy be affirmed tho' they were of low● stature then our first Refo●mers who are 〈◊〉 immortal Name yet having the advantage 〈◊〉 standing upon their Gigantine Shoulders the● had opportuni●y of seeing further then tho●● Giants did some of them made discovery 〈◊〉 the Papal Antichrist and of his Tyranny ov●● Kings Princes and Prelates others thre● down the Episcopal Usurpation over their Fe●low Presbyters and reduced them to their Pr●mitive Parity and the Church Discipline the● Establi●hed especially the Later at Geneva considering the vast Number in their Churc● Bodies consisting from Eight to Twelve Tho●sand Members in one Congregation so as the● had from two to five Pastors in one Church ● in divers six Ruling Elders the publick Management of Discipline upon Offenders in 〈◊〉 vast an Auditory Assembly would have tende● to the Scandal of the Reformation have hi●dred the progress of Protestantism they pr●dently concluded to commit it into the priva● hands of the Classies viz. Pastors and Ruli●● Elders of each Church if need required f●●ther consideration to be Tryed by the Col●●quoy of the Neighbour Churches viz. the Pastors and Elders there to be Represented 〈◊〉 for a result of it to be determined by the Sy●●● 〈◊〉 the Province which if not there accomplisht 〈◊〉 be finally concluded by the National Synod 〈◊〉 all the Churches could there have been a ●ore prudential way of Church Government ●●ched upon then that which they practised ●●d doubtless God accepted the sincere desires 〈◊〉 his Servants hearts to the Conversion and ●dification of many thousands in their most ●oly Faith but our Reformers circumstances ●ere vastly different our number fewer those ●ninently qualified for further Reformation ●ey being a select choice Company with●it offence it may be said of the Cream and ●ower of our Nation not only for Morality but ●e Piety having been both Ministers People ●●der Sufferings for the Truc● Worship of ●od both Confessors and P●ofessors and in ●rvour of Spirit brought into this solitary ●ace where they had opportunity of the Vi●ns of God freed from Temptations ●hich populous places might have exposed ●em unto and from the Baits of Honours ●rofits which other places might have presented 〈◊〉 They after near two years seeking of God ●●d serious searching out his Will with Una●mity of heart and mind agreed in that ●hich then was and now is called the Plat-●orm of Church Discipline as for their Con●ssion of Faith they wholly agreed with that ●●t forth by the Assembly of Divines at West●●nstee After full Answer was given to every Objection which every individual person cou●● make both in Churches and Towns both 〈◊〉 them having had the consideration of it put u●●to them the Plat Form above mentioned wa● accepted of and declared by the Genera● Court and all the Churches as being fo● the substance of it what they had hithert● practised in all