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A42186	A glass for the people of New England, in which they may see themselves and spirits, and if not too late, repent and turn from their abominable ways and cursed contrivances that so the Lord God may turn away his wrath, which he will bring upon them, it they repent not, for their blasphemies against himself, and for all the murders and cruelties done to his tender people, ever since they usurped authority to banish, hang, whip, and cut off ears, and spoil the goods of dissenters from them in religious matters, while themselves disown infallibility in those things / by S. G.	S. G. (Samuel Groome), d. 1683.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Tyso, John, d. 1700.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2065; ESTC R10937	29,049	44

Burning with Hot Irons and Banishing the King's Subjects and Imprisoning and Spoiling of their Goods as you have done to them that would not conform to your Devilish Persecuting Spirit And did ever the Bishops Cut off any of your Ears or Brand you with Hot Irons and Hang any of you or Banish any of you under pain of Death if that you did Return and make you pay Five Shillings a Day for not hearing of them and beat you with pitcht Ropes and Cut off the Ears of any that came to visit you when any of you were in Prison in Old England And have not you with your cruel Murderous Persecuting Oppressing Spirit hindred the King's Subjects for Peopling that Place and you to make wor●● Laws against the People of God then ever the Bishops had against you and thus you have acted contrary to the Scriptures and contrary to your Patent and contrary to the Laws of England and are judged of all and of God and the Angels and of all Good Men. And are not you Priests and Profess●rs of New England like unto those Workers of Iniquity that David prayed against as in Psal 64 when he said Hide me from the secret C●●●sel of the Wicked from the Insurr●ctions of the Workers of Iniquity who whet their Tongues like Swords and bend their Bows to shoot their Arrows even with bitter Words that they may shoot in secret at the Perfect c But to talk of Perfect and Perfection amongst you your imperfect Spirit cannot endure to hear And further David saith They encourage themselves in an Evil Matter they commune of laying Snares privily c. but God shall shoot at them with an Arrow suddenly and they shall be wounded so they shall make their own Tongues to fall upon themselves and all that see them sh●ll 〈◊〉 away And does not ●olomon say Th● Expect●tion of the Wicked shall parish and th●ir Y●●●s shall 〈…〉 a●d the Cou●s●ls of the Wicked are Deceit and their T●●d●r Mercies are cruel the Belly of the Wicked shall want the Lamp of the Wicked shall be put out the Sacrifices of the Wicked are Abomination to the Lord the Way of the Wicked is Abomin●tion to the Lord and the Thoughts of the Wicked are Abomination to the Lord the Ploughing of the Wicked is Sin and the House of the Wicked shall be overthrown the Horns of the Wicked sh●ll be cut off saith David and the Rod of the Wick●d sh●ll not rest upon the Back of the Righteous and the Light of the Wicked shall be put out saith Job the Wick●d shall fall by his own Wickedness saith Solomon Prov. 11 5. And therefore consider your selves who have persecuted and do persecute the Righteous whether you m●st not eat the Fruits of your own Doings and whether the L●rd is not doing so to you as you did to his People And are you not as blind as the Jews that crucified Christ and called him a Blasphemer and said Let his Blood be upon us and our Children Did not Christ Weep over Jerusalem when he would have gathered them and did they not cast away all Pity and Tenderness of the Lord towards themselves and when he told them what Misery they would come to which did come to pass in the dayes of Titus when Jerusalem was Destroyed and had not they then Blood to drink who had drunk Blood And have not God's people wept mourn'd travail'd over you and for you New England Priests and Professors and still you remain in your Hardness For what pleasure is it to the Flesh or their own Wills for the Servants of the Lord both Men and Women for them to travail some Hundreds some Thousands of Miles to warn you and exhort you to fear God and leave off your Wickedness and Persecution of people that would be called Christians which have dishonoured both Name and Nature Life and Religion from whom Repentance is hid from many of your Fyes and several of you have dyed in your Sins and Wickedness in the Jews ev●l Thoughts who thought they did God Good Service in Killing ●is M●ss●ngers Oh! you Professors and Priests of New England that the Sun should go down upon you and beset that you should be so dark and not see your selves for the Jews discerned not the Time of the Son 's Coming in the Flesh nor you the Time of his Coming in the Spirit And therefore once more take heed of the Lord God leaving you to your ●elv●s and giving you up to your Hearts Lusts who have been the De●pi●e●s of the Goodne●s and Riches and Forbearance of the Long-sufferings of the Lord God which would have led you to Repentance but after the Hardness and Impenetency of your Hearts have treasured up Wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the Righteous Judgments of God And therefore how can you ex●ect but Indignation Tribulati●n and Anguish upon all you that ●ave done so many Wicked Deeds against the Servants of the Lord and d●unk their Blood And therefore you that b● sober mind and consider these things and consider what Jacob said of the Cruelty and ●ra●h of Simeon and Levi O my Soul come no thou into their Secret unto their Assembly mine Honour be not thou united for in their Anger they slew a Man and in their Self w●ll they digged down a Wall and he said Cursed be their Anger for it was fierc● and their Wr●●h for it was cruel Now Jacob was the second Birth but we do know that you that are born of the Flesh will persecute him that is born of the Spirit but the Birth of the Flesh is not a True Christian neither can enter into the Kingdom of God except ye be born again G. F. The Copy of a Letter which was delivered into the Hands of R. Bellingham late Governour of Boston in New-England for him to read and consider with his Assistants the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston with the rest of their Brethren where this may come THe Powers that are ordained of God are for the Punishment of Evil doers and for the Praise of them that do well But thee Richard Bellingham who art accounted Chief Magistrate in this place hast not acted by this Rule in what thou hast done against me but hast laid thy Sword upon the Innocent for which the Lord God will plea● with thee and your Priest whose Name is Increase Madder who was one with thee in thy Cruelty and the rest of your Brethren who were present but the people who came to hear thou turnedst out of thy Doors that they might not see your Works of Darkness although I desi●ed thee that they might see what was done for Truth is not asham●d neither doth it hide it self in Corners but Cruelty and Oppression seeks to cover it self as Iames Oliver would do who said I was a Woolf and you would k●ll Wolves who had no hing against me to prove me in that beastly Nature but I was a Stranger unto

Heretical and Seditious Sermon tending to Mutiny and Disturbance Wheelwright bids them prove it by Scripture and so did the Governour and many others who saw their Wickedness and abhorred and declared against their Proceedings and many Members in the Court gave in their Testimony That his Doctrine was true and according to God and Scriptures and so said John Cotton one of the Twelve Judges of the Matter and a chief man for Learning as they accounted him But so mad was the greatest part of them that they would proceed against Wheelwright and his Doctrine right or wrong but he would not answer to their ensnaring Questions but still offered them to prove his Doctrine by Scriptures And now to make good my word I 'le give the Reader their own words in Court And first let 's hear Collicott one of the Witnesses against him in Court saith Collicott His Vse in his Sermon was to put a Difference between a Covenant of Works and a Covenant of Grace and I do conceive that he did drive against the things now in question And for the Light that is revealed by the Spirit he did plainly and punctually say That in that Case there was nothing to be seen but the Glorious Light of the Spirit breaking in upon the Soul in an absolute Promise So far Collicott But let 's hear Spencer that great Orator and New-England Church Member may be hee 'l be more to the Purpose then his Brother Collicott Well come on Spencer let 's hear what thou canst say against John Wheelwright Spencer Wheelwright teaches that the Knowledge of our Sanctification as well as our Justification is only by Faith in Christ and that in the ●ovenant of Grace nothing is revealed but Jesus Christ and his Righteousness freely given to the Soul and the Knowledge of it comes by Faith And this saith Spencer is contrary to the Doctrine preacht in new-New-England for saith Spencer it is commonly taught in new-New-England That a man may prove his Justificaiion by his Sanctification And so far Spencer in this place Well hear John Endicott This is concluded a False Doctrine because it is a Doctrine against all the Ministers of the Country But here John Endicott told a Notorious Lye in open Court for sure he owned that John Cotton was a Minister and if so hear what he declared in open Court Cotton Brother Wheelwright 's Doctrine was according to God in the Poin●s Controverted and wholely and altogether and nothing did I hear alledged against the Doctrine proved by the Word of God And so far John Cotton with much more which he then spake to allay the Heat of their Raging Spirits but all would not do for when they were so much Challenged to prove by Scripture the Doctrine False which Wheelwright had del●vered or else to acquit him they found out another way to bring their Wicked Ends to pass And said Spencer The Matter in hand is not th● Doctrine whether it be true or false but the Question is Whether or not Mr. Wheelwright hath stirred up Mutiny in the Country and cast Aspersion upon the Ministers And the Ministers I mean eleven or twelve were as mad as who was madest and as violent as any in this Matter for which and such like Causes and Out-rages committed by them both in New-England and also here in England the Lord by sundry Wayes and in divers Manners hath pleaded with some of them and some are hardned against a Day of Judgment which certainly will overtake them in this Life or in the Life and Judgment that is to come But that which is most to be lamented that those which once had a Good Testimony in their Hearts and Mouthes for God and his Light and spiritual Appearance and they not being faithful and constant to that which was made manifest and committed to them it s even happened to them according to the Saying of the Lord God by the Mouth of his Prophet That in the Day in which a Righteous Man turns from his Righteousness and doth wickedly all the Righteousness that he hath done shall be forgotten and in the Sin which he doth he shall surely dye the Death And so I 'le leave John Cotton and John Wheel wright and others to that of God in their Consciences if any of them be in the Body as for them that are out of the Body they are gone to their long Home And so you Professors of New-England who are not yet wholely blind may see what your Priests Rulers and Church-members have banded themselves against for this Thirty or Forty Years Even against God who is a Spirit and who is Light in all his Appearances in either Son or Daughter before ever a Quaker came amongst you So the God of Heaven and Earth is clear of all your Blood having raised up Testimony after Testimony even ever since you set up your Inventions and denyed the Light The next Piece of Wickedness I am to mind you of is your barbarous Action committed against Ann Hutchinson whom you first imprisoned then banished and so exposed her to that desolate Condition that she fell into the Hands of the Indians who murdered her with her Family except one Child and after that made a notorious Lye on the destroyed Woman the which one of their Priests put in Print and another of that Tribe Samu●l Clark Priest of London taking the Lye out of his Brother Wells his short Story and must needs put it into his Book called God's Judgments against Heresie in which he also scandalized Mary Dyer and Midwife Hawkins all which were known to be Women of honest Lives and Conversations only protested against their false Church and Worships for which they suffered in their Names and Estates and some lost their Lives for their Testimony sake For Mary Dyer they banished and hanged at Boston for her Testimony against them which she was moved of the Lord to bear amongst them But because you Professors have banished and so been a means of destroying a Woman and her Family as before and have covered your selves by saying she held about Thirty Monstrous Heretical Opinions but have not that I can find laid down so much as One of them for Indifferent Persons to judge So I may do a little of that Work for you and others by which it may be seen what the Ground of your Quarrel was and I will do it in short and honestly as I found it in her Letter to one Mr. Leveret as she writ him in her Answer to his 1st Moneth 1646. It seems by that Letter which Leveret sent to Ann Hutchinson he termed her Haughty Jezebel and said she was a Railer and Reviler and such like Terms and Names and yet in the same Letter asked her what was become of the Light she once shined in in their Parts And now Ann Hutchinson to that Letter of Leveret's If it were the True Light in which you say I did once shine in I am sure the Author thereof

and the Maintainer of it is God and it shall break forth more and more unto the perfect Day and when I was with you it discovered the best Light in your self to be Darkness as your self confessed to me in your own Parlour And whereas you say I speak great swelling Words of Vanity that Scripture is fulfilled in your false Teachers who follow the Way of Balaam and Bozer And that Water holds out the Spirit John 7. 38 39. And Christ Jesus came by this Water or Spirit Mat. 1. 18. And hereby we shall know the Spirit of Antichrist because he confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh And as to that in Rev. 12. which you say must be meant of Constantine and not of Christ being brought forth in the Gentile Church then the Woman that brought forth Constantine must be crowned with Twelve Stars But your Church standing in the City Order by your own Confession must needs be one of those Cities of the Nations which the L●rd hath said should fall Rev. 16. 19. And if what you called Railing or Reviling were a Truth of God acted by him through me then you have called the Spirit of God a Railer and Reviler And so far Ann Hutchinson with much more in her Answer to Leveret's Letter of the 1st Moneth 1646. after they had imprisoned her and banished her So Reader if thou hast an Understanding of what the Woman held forth thou may soon conclude what the Thirty Heretical Opinions were that so much enraged New-England Professors to imprison banish and so in a Sense murther her and her Family by the wicked Hands of the Indians But how shall these People hide their Wickedness from the simple-hearted that they should not see their Wickedness and cry out against their Cruelty well I 'le shew thee honest Inquirer how they hide themselves and the Innocent Blood The Woman before mentioned having been imprisoned and there by the Priests and Professors pumpt and sifted to get something against her laying their Snares to entrap her and having so done take their Opportunity when her Husband Friends were absent as it is said and examined her in the fore-part of the Day and banished her in the after-part Notable quick Work so she goes by Water with many others that perceived they must go to Pot next and providentially fell with Road-Island and there they made a Cave or Caves and in them lived until the cold Winter was past in which time it was known to the Professors where they were and that they had bought the Island of the Indians and the Professors began to stir and endeavour to bring the Island within the Compass of their Patent so the poor molested Woman it 's like let in Fear and thought she would go far enough from their Reach so going Southward to seek a Place to settle upon where she and her Family might live in Quietness fell upon a Piece of Land that was in Controversie between the Dutch and the Natives and the Natives being in a Heat came upon them and were the Executioners of what the New-England Priests Magistrates and Church-Members were an Occasion of through their wicked and cruel proceeding in forcing them to flee from their Rage and Fury And because I promised thee to tell thee honest Inquirer how they hide and cover their Wickedness I 'le do it by rehearsing what Priest Wells a chief Actor in this matter printed in his Book entitled W●lls's short Story page 44. as Samuel Clark in his lying Book quotes his Brother W●lls for his Author of this and such like most Notorious Lyes of which he prints thus Ann Hutchinson Mary Dyer and Midwife Hawkins see Clark's Examples page 249. and they have been known to be honest Women and such as were of good Report and nev●r accounted either Witches or such Persons as these two Priests and Brethren in Wickedness would have People believe that so their Wickedness might be undiscovered Now here Priest Clark after he had writ and printed a most cursed Lye of Mary Dyer whom they banished and afterward hanged at Boston as also of Midwife Hawkins Saith he About the same time and in the same place One Mrs. Hutchinson who held about Thirty Monstrous Heretical Opinions whereof you have a Catalogue set down by the same Author page 59. And growing big with Child and towards the Time of her Labour at last broughtforth Thirty Monstrous Births or thereabouts some bigger and some lesser some of one Shape and some of another few of any perfect Shape none of all of humane Shape This Mrs. Hutchinson was first vanish●d by the Magistrates of new-New-England into Rhoad Island for her Heresies out not staying long there she removed with all her Family her Daughter and her Children into the Dutch Plantation to a Place called Hell Gate where the Indians set upon them and slew her and her Family her Daughter and her Daughter's Husband with all their Children save only one that escaped So here is the Priests and Professors Cover and they wipe their Mouths and I warrant they would by saying the Indians committed this Murder be thought clear of this Innocent Blood So Reader thou mayest see the Rage and Envy of this professing Generation for they banished imprisoned this tenderly bred Woman in or towards Winter and what with Fears and Tessings to and fro the Woman miscaried upon which they grounded their abominable Untruth many Witnesses might be produced to prove this and to disprove their abominable frequently told Slanders and also printed by Priests and New-England Professors and their Consederates here in England I might i●sert that other Story which the same Lye makers made of Mary Dyer and Midwife Hawkins but it 's not worth while as to his Description of a horrid Monster wherein their Lyes were apparent to many sober People And now let me mind you of your abominable Wickedness committed by whipping Obadi●h Holems the Baptist with forty Stripes save one it seems the old Father of all Whippers about Religion loads his whipping Children in one Way and sets them their deceitful Bounds and may be he and they his Children may bring Scripture and Example for Forty Stripes save one But why would you not dispute the Point with Obadiah when he so fairly offered it at your torturing Place and the man you may remember brought his Bible to your Whipping Post to prove his Principle and Practice by Scripture and disprove your Principles and Practices by the same but your Godly Magistrate as you called him told him that was no Place to dispute in or Words to that purpose and so you whipt him in cruel manner forty Stripes save one And his Fellow that was with him an aged honest man you whipt also in cruel manner and would have whipt Clark as you said had you not had Money given you But where did you learn in Law or Gospel to take Money for not whipping them that deserved Whipping Behold your