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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

have and here in England l●kewise many Professors do It s well known Rawson hath Envy enough in his Heart to lay open Quakers Faults if he could find such great ones but may be he intends to wrap the Lambs in Wolves Skins like one of their Priests who was talking of the Quakers and was asked Why they should suffer so deeply or the like seeing no Evil Thing was proved against them Why said the Priest or words to that purpose in case you have a Wolf in your Trap but may be canno● prove he killed a Lamb or the like but he is a Wolf and of such a Nature as will do Mischief so he must not go and the Quaker must suffer though nothing can be proved against him o● them but in the Trap he is And may be that is the Matter that you go aboard S●ips and Rifle the Quakers and then ca●ry them into Prison and l●ck them up may be when they have been long tossed upon the Sea and would gladly enjoy a little fresh A●r and Victuals Well the Lord God against whom you have done Evil above what can be said or written with Tongue or Pen of man open your Blind Eyes yea if you could come to him who is the Light and Life of all Good Men and Women he I say would anoint your Eyes that the God of this Wicked World to wit the Devil hath blinded and then would you see as you are seen and be h●mbled before the Lord God of Everlasting Pity which hath no Pleasure in him that dyes who indeed would have all return and live A Remnant there is that know he is a very Pitiful God and a Gracious God a Sin-pardoning God a God that blots out Iniquity as it s turned from therefore turn ye all People to the Light for God is Light and his Son is Light so love the Light and ●e love God and his Son who is come a Light into the World that whosoever believes in him and follows him should not abide in Darkness nor Envy nor Anger nor Wrath nor Malice but come to Love which thinks muchless does no Evil to any man and so live in God who is Love but first they must come out of the Devil who was is and ever will be a Murderer of Mankind both Soul and Body without they turn from him and deny his wicked Spirit and indeed the Fruits of his spirit are manifest which are Anger Wrath Whisperings Evil-surmisings c. which being lived in grow to Banishings Whippings Cutting off Ears Hanging and Murdering about Religion and what not that is Aboninable and against such Wickedness there is a Law of God and Man But the Fruits of God's Holy Spirit are Quietness Meekness Lowliness Temperance Brotherly-kindness Merciful as God is Merciful against such there is no Law for all Law is for such I mean not all mens Laws or Decrees which are made against the Innocent but all Good Just and Equal Laws are not against but for all such as truly Fear the Lord and work Righteousness and abide in him who is the Author of all Good to whom be Praise forever Amen Reader be not troubled that I use the word Professor so often for it very often riseth in me so and I mean such as profess God Christ and Scriptures and Ordinances of the Gospel but live in another Spirit and them are the Professors meant but such as possess and then profess what and no more then they do possess such Professors my Soul loves and the Lord my God loves and will love for evermore ANd now I may set down some Tenents which I found written in a Book called The Elders Tenents in the Bay So if they be your Tenents ye Elders of New-England consider of them for some of them appear very uns●und if they be not then disown them and let 's have it under your Hands or if you will own part then let 's know which part and how many they are numbred from One to Forty Six Those of them which I am most dissatisfied in are thus noted ☞ on the Margin Tenent 1. The Promises of Grace are Condition●d and no Promise is absolute but h●th Conditions either expressed or implyed in the Right of which Condition the Promise is performed and so by us to be pleaded II. There are saving Preparations before Union with Christ III. The Law subdues the Will and we may too much cleave to the Gospel IV. Faith is first given to the Soul before Christ V. We are Co-Workers with Christ in our first Union VI. Sanctification is the first Evidence of our Justification ☞ VII Faith is alwayes confirmed by Signs and Promises and not by Spiritual Manifestations VIII Sanct fication is more plain and perspicuous then the Witness of the Spirit ☞ IX There are Delusions in the Witness of the Spirit X. Sanctification must be the Judge of the Witness of the Spirit ☞ XI The Witness of the Spirit is only Mediate and not Immediate ☞ XII The Nature of Man is not capable of Immediate Vision or Spiritual Manifestation ☞ XIII The Seal of the Spirit is not the Holy Ghost in us but the gracious Operations of the Spirit ☞ XIV To say that Christ is our Sanctification is a Damnable Doctrine ☞ XV. God hath tyed himself in an Everlasting Covenant of Grace to the Legitimate Seed of them that be in Church-Covenant 1 Cor. 7. 14. Acts 2. 39. ☞ XVI Children are left under an Everlasting Covenant by leaving them under Church-Covenant ☞ XVII Children are left under a Covenant of Faith by leaving them under a Church-Covenant ☞ XVIII Church-covenant reaches to a Thousand Generations ☞ XIX Children by Church-covenant are born in an Internal Covenant 1 Kings 14. 13. XX John Baptist's Faith was evident by Leaping in the Womb Luke 1. 44. XXI Children born of Believing Parents have no Right to the Seals by that Covenant your Parents entered into after their Birth XXII The Legitimate Seed of Israel were circumcised and none else ☞ XXIII There is a running-over of Grace from the Father to the Children in the way of Church-covenant XXIV The Jailer had right by Church-covenant to the Seals Acts 16. 33. XXV Faith the Cond●tion of the Covenant is before Just●fication XXVI We are justified with respect to Works ☞ XXVII The Spirit of God of it self is not a sufficient Witness although it reveal to the Soul a sure Promise except it reveal the sight of some Graces ☞ XXVIII One that hath the Evidence of Faith if he falls into some Sin it s not a season to look upon his Assurance but his Sin for Recovery XXIX That Faith that justifies my Person and will serve to believe with is not sufficient to come to a Sacrament XXX That Church-covenant is the staple commodity of New-England saith Mr. Ward of Salem or Ipswich XXXI To dismiss a Member of such a Church as holds forth a

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-England for saith Spencer it is commonly taught in 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

Covenant of Grace to be absolute without condition and the Evidence thereof without respect to condition is sinful and the nursing them up in Sin XXXII Errors that are ripe to be prayed and fasted against which tend to the Subversion of the Gospel are not fit to be named nor the Persons that hold them XXXIII To question a Ground of Faith to pray and fast against such Errors that come under a pretence of Justification to tread down Sanctification I demand how one should say Amen to a thing doubtful and to bring those Scriptures Mat. 2. 7 1 Cor. 14. 8. 16. Rom. 14. 23. is hideous Blasphemy XXXIV A Member dealt withal for an Offence which is not convinced of the Offence nor sufficient Means of Convict on who was willing to confess so far as Light was manifested and attend for more Light to conviction Jesus Christ censured not ●u●h an one for an absolute Sinner XXXV A Member under the Admonition of a Church if they come to the Sacrament are to be excommunicated XXXVI Sanctification in the Nature is permanent immortal immutable XXXVII The Image of God in Adam was not created but infused and the same way that the Image of God was infused in●o Adam Faith ●● infused ☞ XXXVIII If a Woman being a Member of a Church and dismissed t● another Church be delivered of a Child by the way that Child is a Member of no Church because born between two Churches ☞ XXXIX If upon leave from an Offi●er of a Church a Member may have Liberty to be absent to hear in another Church yet if he ask leave by a Deputy and depart he must give Satisfaction for ending a Mess●nger and not coming himself XL. To hold Justification is not laid up in my self but in God's everlasting Love witnessed in an ab●olute Promise is a doctrine of Liberty and Licentiousness a way to commit all Sins and not to be troubl●d ☞ XLI If a Man see no Christ nor no Faith if he see himself full of Mortification he may safely come to the Sacrament upon that Ground ☞ XLII What the Minister binds in Church-censure is bound and loosed in Heaven XLIII That the Covenant God made with Abraham in Gen. 17. 7. was a conditional Covenant XLIV That Faith must go before Justification as a Means to obtain Justification Gal. 2. 16. XLV That though a man be ungodly before he be called and justified yet not immediately before he is justified for he is called before he is justified Rom. 8. 3. XLVI That Christ stiles his disciples a Faithless Generation and he must needs mean of them because he saith How long shall I be with you c Mark 9. 19. QUERIES by another Hand for the New-England Priests and Elders to Answer 1st VVHether did Christ come to save mens Lives or to destroy them 2ly Whether did not Christ dye for all men to the Intent that all men through him might have Life and believe in him and be saved 3ly whether the Gospel is not a Gospel of Salvation 4ly Where did ever Christ or the Apostles make any Law to put any to Death that did blaspheme against them and would not hear them but rather left them to the Eternal Judgment and Death and the Tares and Wheat to grow together till the Harvest 5ly Whether have not New-England Priests and Elders brought forth a Monstrous Birth of the Flesh worse then Balaam worse then Core worse then Cain Herod Pharaoh and Nebuchadaczar for these never pretended themselves to be Christians and therefore my Query is whether ye New-England Priests and Professors since ye fled out of Old England into the Wilderness of New England whether you have not brought forth many Monstrous Births like Bruit Beasts like Dragons like Cockatrices like Roaring Lyons and Devouring Wolves Let the Fruits of the Birth that they have brought forth in the Wilderness speak For hath not this Monstrons Birth or Births so suddenly brought forth without the Midwise which hath been begotten by the old Serpent devoured Widdows Houses spoiled the Goods of the Innocent People of God Whipt Hang'd Banished Cut off Ears Branded with Hot irons Now if this be the Birth of the Spirit let God and Christ and the Scriptures and all Good Christians judge 6ly Whether or no if these be your Principles that are here laid down you can make them good by Scriptures and if you can in your next give us Chapter and Verse for it 7ly Whether is this t●e God that you have made in the Wilderness of New-England and worshipped it Surely Christ will break it to Powder and put it into your River to drink as Moses did Israel's Calf And over your Red Sea God's Heavenly Israel shall go dry-shod and on the Banks above it they shall stand and praise God and see you wallowing in your own Red Sea of Blood who pursue after the Blood of the Righteous to bring them into your Spiritual House of Bondage but God will bring your Counsel to nought as he did your Fore father Pharaoh and his Host For wherein do ye differ from all the Monstrous Births of the World with your Fleshly Carnal Weapons against the Birth that is born of the Spirit and the Womb of the Morning Jerusalem which is above who is free and her Children which is the Mother of us all True Christians For the most Monstrous Births which have been brought forth in many Ages in all Nations are now brought forth in New-England who out-strip the Turks and far have out-done the Bishops from whose Face you fled And how can you ever any more exclaim against the Cruelty of the Papists And have not the Christians more Liberty amongst the Turks then amongst you 8ly And whether have not you dishonoured Christianity more then the Turks in your Lives and Actions and the Jews who crucified Christ without the Gates of Jerusalem but you who go under the Name of Christians persecute and crucifie him in his Members within your Jurisdiction and every Appearance of God as they and all may see that have taken a Prospect of your Proceedings in New-England YOu Professors and Priests of New-England did the King give you Liberty for your Seditious Conventicle beyond the Seas and give you a Patent for your Liberty and that none others should have their Liberty in New-England but your selves And doth your Patent say That you must Imprison Banish Whip Spoil the Goods of all them that will ●ot conform to your Will-Worship and Blind Zeal and Self Righteousness and Formal●ties and if any do return after that you have banished them then you are to Hang them as you have done and such as come to visit them that you do imp●ison to cut off their Ears and brand them with a Burning Iron as you have done that speak against your Wicked Proceedings Let us see if that your Patent and the Scriptures will bear you out for your Practice for your Hanging and Cutting off Ears and