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

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 Which may be a Warning unto you that you walk not in the same Steps lest you come under the same Condemnation Written by one who was once in Authority with them but always testified against their persecuting Spirit who am call'd William Coddington of Road-Island Printed in the Year 1674. TO THE READER Friend THe Original being burned to satisfie the Desires of my Friends and clear my Innocency I have given forth a Copy thereof It was directed to Richard Bellingham Governour of the Massachusets Simon Broadstreet William Hauthorn Assistents or whom else it might concern which Letter about the middle of the 7th Month 1672. was by a Woman Friend left at the House of the said Richard Bellingham Presently upon the Receipt thereof or some small Time after the same Day he sent for Nicholas Moulder of Boston Merchant and demanded of him a needless Question whose Letter it was for he might have seen whose Letter it was being dated from Road-Island the 12th of the 6th Month 1672. my known Hand and Seal to it but Nicholas answered as he supposed It was mine whereupon the said Richard very furiously in Anger and Passion replyed I was an old sottish Man to that effect and caused his Man to fetch a Candle and light it he being in Augustine Lindal's House the Iron-monger and in Augustine's Presence Nicholas and his Man's opened my Letter then tore it and put it into the Flame of the Candle and burnt all the Writing without reading of it and bad Nicholas to take Notice of it Thus after he had contrary to all Law and Right abused my Letter and his publick Trust in burning a Letter of publick Concernment directed to two in Authority with him and to others of his Spirit that it might concern which shews his great Weakness and Wickedness standing out all Warning from the Spirit of the Lord in his Servants yet notwithstanding it had this Effect the three Beholders have expressed some Tenderness the young Man that then lived with the said Richard and waited on him and lighted the Candle by his Order he was troubled in his Mind and as they termed it Distracted and told the Governour he had deceived him and that he would not pluck off his Hat to him and such like so that he sent him home to Newbery with his Father Thus having abused me as is said he also abused my Friend Nicholas Moulder and asked him where his Security was or else he would send him to Prison to answer the next Court but for what he expressed not nor do I believe he knew and so calling him proud Quaker that durst stand with his Hat on Nicholas being bound to appear at their Court before he therefore let him go Now this Abuse was not done by the Government of the Massachusets but by the Elective Governour as a private Man in a private House before three private Persons without his Counsel and in Anger and Fury an evil Disease I know he hath been long warned of when I was joyned with him in Authority in the Massachusets Now let the rational and impartial Reader judge not leavened with a persecuting Spirit whether I might not so express my self as I have in the ensuing Letter being intrusted in the first setling thereof and with the chiefest in all publick Charges even before Boston was named or any House therein I builded the first good House in which the said Governour and Merchant Brakel now dwell I having spent much of my Estate and Prime of my Age in propagating Plantations and now come to the last Period the 70. Year of my Age in Discharge of my Conscience towards God and in tender Love and due Respect to all I write as I have done to warn you of your general Calamity upon which I parted from you that persecuting Spirit let loose that hath so much indangered and hindered your Good both Spiritual and Temporal and hazard both your Patent Lives and Estates as in my Letter to which I refer you may appear and rest your in true Love William Coddington Oh Friend Richard Bellingham TH● who professest thy self a Christian how can'st thou persecute and banish and imprison such as are Christians whereas by the Command of Christ Jesus thou art to love thine Enemies and how dost thou love thy Neighbour as thy self and God above all and keep the Commandments of God when thou dost persecute and banish his Servants as thou hast Solomon Eccles and Nicholas Alexander of Jamaica a Justice of Peace and a Captain by Commission from the King Is this thy entertaining of Strangers and the King's Commissioners was thou so entertain'd by me at Road-Island when thou wast a Stranger there and I Governour Did I take thee out of one Prison and put thee into another as thou hast done my Friends with Hazard of their Lives being weak and sick and not yet recovered What! Hast thou not innocent Blood enough yet Doest thou think that this will be well taken at Jamaica when your Shipping cometh thither But as Persecutors were ever blind so art thou the Lord will one Day account with thee as it is said by him which is Faithful and Just Luke 12.45 46. The Lord of that Servant will come in a Day when he looks not for him and in a Hour when he is not aware and will cut him in sunder and will appoint him his Portion with Unbelievers mind that seriously as thou wishest thy own Good Now for thee Friend that doest not only profess thy self a Christian but one of the highest Forms and that was against the Bishops in England suffered by them O! how is that Tenderness lost since thy coming into Authority in New-England that thy Collegue John Endicot deceased and thee are numbred among the Persecutors and Wicked whose Names and Memorials shall stink and rot for you two whom I say I did know formerly had some Tenderness in you for I have known you both long thee above this forty five Years I say for you so far to degenerate from Christianity to Hardness and Cruelty as to give Sentence of Death upon five of the Servants of the living Lord four of which were executed barely for their Conscience towards God and only for being such as are called Quakers and coming into your Jurisdiction and you would not suffer the Graves of the Martyrs of Jesus to be inclosed to prevent which I know you had many Warnings from the Lord by Men Women and Children infinites of Dayes and by me William Coddington the Aged for in much Tenderness was I moved of the Lord to write unto you even so mourning over you when I was in writing that my Tears blotted

in the after-part the Lord came upon him in a Day he looked not for and in an Hour he was not aware of and so cut him off for he fell down dead And did he not say the Judgments of God were upon him which I leave to thy Consideration lest it be said of thee thou hadst Time to repent and yet repentedst not as it is said of Jezebel William Hauthorn my third ancient Friend that I have said I would write to Thy Name is also often mentioned in the said Book or Books I cannot now say how far with my other two ancient Friends thou art guilty of the Death of our Friends before-said but this I can say that though Hand joyn in Hand yet shall not the Wicked go unpunished Friend since thou camest in Authority for in the Ship I know thou wast tender serious and retired as became the Gospel of Christ for I had Speech with thee many times and both then and afterward barest thy Testimony against Persecution and stinting or limiting the Spirit of Prophecy in any viz. to restrain from Preaching but by Allowance of certain Persons if that should take Place in New-England thou lookedst at it as one of the most horridest Acts as ever was done in New-England and would be as great a Token of God's forsaking New-England as any I know where thou spake it and it was a good Speech for this is the Day of God's Appearance in his Sons and Daughters in pouring out his Spirit so they must prophesie and who can withold the Work of the Lord Are you stronger then he What hath all your Persecution come to mentioned in the foresaid Books though Briars and Thorns have set themselves in Battel against the Lord yet he hath gone through you all for since your opposing the Truth in your Jurisdiction have not many been brought to know him whom to know is Life Eternal You may as well withhold the flowing of the Tide into the Massachusets Bay as the Workings of the God of Truth in the Hearts of his People in the Massachusets Jurisdiction or to limit the holy One to a Company or Tribe of Priests who make a trade of the Scriptures keeping People alwayes under their Teaching that they may be alwayes paying of them Now for the Books taken away by your Officers detain'd some years demanded of your Governour is an Act of such Hostility that by me cannot be paralleled Should we seize of your Merchants Goods in other Places as you have done of ours would you not say we had done right as you had done to others so others had done unto you Had I been in Spain as I have been in the great City of Malego and the Inquisitors had come aboard our Ship or Ships and they had found Books that they disliked yet should I not have lost the Propriety of my Books they would seal them up and when the Ship or Ships were ready to sail I should have them again Is this to do as you would be done by The Papists will condemn you in this as contrary to that common Equity that ought to be also the Priviledge of an English Subject You have taken away all Law and Justice and have usurped it into your own Hands for you are Court Jury Judge Accusers Witness and all no Justice is to be had in this Case Oh the Honesty the Honesty of the Papists they will not destroy Proprieties though they be Sectaries out of the pure and undefiled Religion that James speaks of out of the Truth and Worship in Spirit and Truth that Christ set up above sixteen hundred Years ago I appeal to your own Masters of Ships and Merchants if this be not so Did ever any of you loose a Book But we must loose ten Pounds Sterling as they cost in England because they were in your Goverment a Reason against Reason Let me have a fair Arbitration upon it if you will not deliver them up and your own Merchants shall determine it for this Case is properly to be determined by Merchants that know Lex mercatoria the Law amongst Merchants for though the Estate seized is not great yet the Consequence may be great and they that will not do Justice in small Matters will not in greater Matters But it may be I shall receive them again when I receive the Reward promised me for my Pinace which took the Pinace of John Oldams when he was slain by the Indians and Thomas Stanton yet living cut in the Back and set ashore by them of Block-Island whose Pinace and whose Charge was John Oldam's Pinace taken from the said Indians and some of them brought Prisoners to Boston John Gallop Master and John Wood his Mate Indeed John Gallop had a small Island given him in lieu of that Service called it is like Gallop's Island to this Day then was I promised a Reward answerable to my Charge Adventure c. But after a persecuting Spirit arose amongst the Priests and Ann Huchison and John Whelcwrit must be banished and all that stood in their Way must remove and the unclean Spirit like Frogs came out of the Mouth of the false Prophets so that Persecution was ushered in all Persons that were against them were noted as the removing Party so as I am a Man and a Christian I would have no Hand in it so that being against it and a Magistrate after three dayes Debate in Court the Priests animated their Party for of the Priests none but John Cotton was with us some fell from us so that we were the minor we drew up a Remonstrance that our Dissent might appear to succeeding times which after some Debate was admitted according to our Desires to stand on Record so ever since that I hav been none of you that persecute for I would not number my self as a Man amongst Persecutors whose Names shall rot in succeeding Ages much more as I am a Christian to love one another and to love Enemies and my Neighbour as my self and God above all I therefore bare my Testimony as it is said by that Remonstrance against that persecuting Spirit that was let loose to deceive all in Authority And though I was in the greatest Way to be great in the Massachusets to the outward yet the Locusts that were come out of the bottomless Pit blasted all to my Continuance there and my Mind was for removing And the Planters Play and John Cotton's Sermon which was in 1630. printed by John Humphery our Agent to satisfie the Godly-minded of our Removal out of England all did satisfie me to remove as Lot out of Sodom being grieved for your unrighteous Dealings So that as I am or was for that seaven Years I lived in the Massachusets a Merchant and the chiefest theree so by Merchants that walk by the Rule of Righteousness To do unto others as you would have them to do unto you let my Cause be issued for if you were such you would not do as