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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-Church-covenant XXIV The Jailer had right by church-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-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

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 if 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. Man in the Pride of his Heart will not seek after God but when his Pride is sta●ned and his Lofty Look and Mind brought low then may be he will though many times it proves too late Printed in the Year 1676. 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 Wayes and Cursed Contrivances THey may remember that themselves were here accounted Dissenters from the Episcopal Worshippers and may be many of them in that Day could not in Conscience Comply with the Prelate then in power so took their Flight in that Day in which they were called to bear a Testimony against that they saw to be Evil in that Day and Time But when they came to New-England they I mean the worst and basest-spirited of them which indeed were most in Number fell to Bani●h their Fellows which could not bow to their gilded Calf of Will-worship which in short time grew a great Bull with Horns to push and gore even to the Gallows those that could not worship the Beast notwithstanding the Lord raised up a Testimony in many of their Neighbours and Inhabitants of the same Country who witnessed for the God of Heaven against their Wayes Doctrines and Worships some of which they banished in a barbarous manner others they evilly intreated and accused them of Heresie Conspiracy Muteny Faction and what n●t to hide their Deceit and cover their Persecution withal And to the end they may come to a Sight and Sense of their Abominations I am willing to set a few things in order before them and not only before them but also that all others may hear and learn and fear and do no more so wickedly lest the Anger of the just God break forth as a Flame as it is now happened among that persecuting Generation in New-England So that all may see against whom and what they have set themselves and vaunted themselves at all times even against the Appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ that he should not appear to stain their Pride in which they prided themselves above all Humanity or Tenderness either to Learned or Unlearned Male or Female Old or Young if any questioned what their Hireling Priests and Smiting Prophets said they must be banished slandered and named with reproachful Names at best but how much worse used many can witness and their own Cruelty manifest Many were the Abuses committed by them on those that went over on the same Account as themselves did and had as good a Right to live there as any amongst them although they banished them by what Power they best know that have seen their Patent but I 'le leave that a while and come to their proceeding against John Wheelwright one of the Ministers of the Country whom they charged with False D●ctrine and a Mover of Sedition and what not as you may see at large in a Book in Manuscript in which is all their Proceeding too much here to insert I 'le only give the Reader some Passages by which it may be easily understood against what they set themselves and opposed But I may first give a hint at the manner of their Work J●hn Wheelwright preached of a Light in man and of a Spirit in man at which New-England was in an Uproar and much troubled as Herod and all Judea was when they heard of Christ Jesus who is the ●ight coming into the World So a Jezebel's Fast as you shall see anon was proclaimed under pretence to seek God in this Day of Trouble the Fast was kept ●n the 16th Day of the 11th Moneth 1636. and this Pestilent Man as they deemed him John Wheelwright must preach at B●ston before the Wolves in Sheeps Clothing and indeed however it hath been or may be with him since the man then spoke and preached many sound Truths I 'le here insert some of his Sermon and let the Reader judge He exhorted the Brethren and Sisters To get Christ into their Hearts that they may be happy and exhorts his Brethren and Sisters in the Name of God To endeavour to bring Christ into the Hearts of People and then saith he you shall make the Church and your selves happy And also said That as soon as Christ cometh into the Soul he makes the Creature nothing and said he in the Gospel Works of Sanctification must be pressed no other way but as they grow from the Root Christ Jesus for it is he that worketh in you both to will and to do of his own good Pleasure and said he this is the Covenant of Grace I will forgive their Sins and write my Law in their Hearts and Inward Parts and that is the Gospel in which the Spirit of God is conveyed c. And saith he We must be Meck and Lowly as Christ was lowly and content to receive all from the Father even so must we be meek and lowly and content to receive all from Christ If Duties be pressed any other way they will be Burdens that neither we nor our Fathers were or will be able to bear therefore saith he if we mean to keep Jesus Christ we must keep open this Fountain and held forth this Light And told them in that S●rmon That the Spirit of Christ was no Smiting Spirit and so far John Wheelwright in this place with much more honest true things that were then given him to declare and which indeed he then even in the midst of Woolflsh Professors did boldly and valiantly declare and as honestly and nobly stood unto in your Court when and where you Arraigned him Judged him and Condemned him but could not disprove his Doctrine though he and others often challenged both Priests and Professors from highest to lowest and all or most you had to say was That it was contrary to the rest of the Ministers and therefore was Seditious and Mutinous But because I would be fair and not wrest their words nor meanings I 'le rehearse some of their own Sayings in open Court against Wheelwright's Doctrine exactly as I read in a Book as aforesaid and having also some Knowledge of things done in that Place of N●w-England At a Court at Boston 1636. consisting of Henry Vane Governour Twelve Magistrates Twelve Priests Thirty Three Deputies John Wheelwright was brought into the Court and accused for preaching on the Fast Day 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

how hath the Father and Author of all Persecution about Religion and your deceitful Hearts fitted you for a Day of Slaughter How are your young as well as your old men become a Scorn and Derision in Cities and Countries and are not the Fruits of the corrupt Tree found among you Is not Drunkenness Gaming Cheating and Cozening found among you that it 's even become a By Word There is a New England Cheat take heed of a New-England Cheat. And how ashamed are your prophane and Professors to hear one tell them of their and your pranks they cannot endure to be told of your Laws to whip banish cut off Ears spoil Goods and hang at last Dissenters from them in Religion while themselves say it's a great and damnable Heresie to hold Infallibility in the things of God and that a man must prove his Just●fication by his Sanct●fication and that there are Delusions in the Witness of the Spirit and Sanctification must be the Judge of the Witness of the Spirit and that the Seal of the spirit is not the holy Ghost in us and the Witness of the spirit is only mediate and not immediate and to say that Christ is our sanctification is a damnable Doctrine And do you not say that God b●und himself in an everlasting Covenant of Grace to the legi●timate Seed of them that be in church-Church-covenant and that Children are left under an everlasting Covenant by leaving them under Church covenant and that there is a running over of Grace from the Father to the Children in the Way of Church covenant and that Children by Church covenant are born in an Eternal Covenant See the Elders Tenent in the Bay with much more confused Stuff too long to write o● read unless it were better But admit all this were as true as it is false and blasphemous would any sober Man or Woman think this to belong or appertain to that whipping Church and Church-members of New-England Let them lay aside their long Prayers and then tell me what is left among them that will either enchant the Eye or Ear of any sober Man for are they not as Earthly minded as Proud spirited as any as Envious as any and yet would be accounted the Members of the Church of Christ Oh how are you yet pulling down as with a Cart Rope the Judgement begun in your Land and Country witness your new-found ways to torture and tear like Dogs the Flesh of the Conscientious who are clear of your Calamities in the Sight of God though it may be some of their Earthly Houses may fall by the Hands of the barbarous Indians as many have fallen by the Hands of barbarous Professors but I say they are clear of those Calamities and not at all engaged in your Quarrels which you have brought upon your selves through your Pride and unequal Dealing with Dissenters in matters of Religion and by your treacherous Practices toward the Indians all which crieth very loud for Vengeance however you may think to hide your selves with Flattering Printed Papers yet your Filthiness doth appear and cannot be hid And you have now found out a new way to torture the Conscientious People viz. your Gantelop and Whip with which you whip an Hundred Stripes Oh how are you grown in Cruelty from forty Stripes save one and two Pounds Fine to an hundred Stripes and five Pounds Fine and this with your old Laws new revived you have got up at Boston to torture those that are no ways engaged in your Quarrel as I said before and punishmen●s which God hath certainly brought upon you for all your Abominations But through and over all the Cruelty of your Gantelop the Lord hath born a little one and though you had Power to hale this mortal Body through your many whipping professors and prophane yet the Testimony lives ●ver all and is a sweet Savour unto God to whom be praises forever and evermore And I hope all that fear the Lord both small and great will be found in the same Testimony and to it stand to the praise and glory of God who is now requiring at your Hands the Blood of his innocent Servants and Martyrs slain by that murdering ●pirit which in Persecutors hath lived reigned and acted from the Day of righteous Abel unto this Day And now you would pick a new Quarrel with the Quaker● and say They set their Posts by God's Posts and their Thres holds to God's Thresholds and you are troubled that man should joyn his Posts to God's Posts and his Thresholds to God's Thresholds and that in the open Meetings of the Quakers whose damnable Dectrines and Blasphemies provoke divine Jealousie But you have not t●ld us what those pernicious Tenents are that are preached in the Quakers Meetings no more then you did of Ann Hutchinson whom you banish'd for her Testimony as hath been hinted But to whom should man joyn his Posts and Thresholds if he have any to joyn as you say ye have I hope none will be so blind and ignorant as to set their Posts or Threshold to the Devil's Post and the Professors of New-England's Posts viz. their whipping Post or Gallows Posts no nor yet joyn their Threshold to t●eir Goal Thresholds nor their Bridwel Threshold devilish slaughter house Thresholds over which and in which Professors and Talkers of God and Christ do and have haled over Lambs and Followers of Christ and in which they crop their Ears and out of which they bring them in their Wills and Madness and banish whip and hang them in their blind Zeal And you can take God's Posts which he through the Operation of his Everlasting and Eternal Spirit hath fitted and prepared for his holy Building and hang them upon the Devil's Posts viz. your Gallows posts and set them to your whipping-posts and sport your selves with tearing and rending their naked Backs and Arms and tender Breasts of Men and Women with forty Stripes save one and sometimes an hundred Oh bloody Butchers of Professors how do you stinck of Blood of Innocent Blood And now after and for all these Abominations which you have committed against the Lord God and his Appearance in his Sons and Daughters Servants and Handmaids upon whom he hath in these later Dayes poured out of his Spirit according to the Scriptures and the Promise of God and that upon some amongst your selves which called to you to mind the Light and ●pirit and its Teaching and also cried out against your Idolatrous Practices and confused Principles and against your smiting Spirits and that before that reproachful Name of Quaker got up all which you have evilly intreated banishing some and whipping others before the Quakers were sent from God to call you to Repentance and Amendment of Life that you might not dye in your Sins but these you most Evilly Intreated And now the Lord for his own Elect's Sake is risen to take Vengeance and make Inquiry after Innocent Blood which your proud and earthly Hearts have

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

you who are Professors of the Scriptures which say You should not forget to Entertain Strangers but this was the Entertainment I found amongst you a Constable seized on me and my Goods and took them from me before I was on your Shore and brought me before thee Richard Bellingham who hadst nothing against me but that I was a Quaker also asking me what I came here for and how long I would stay and whither I would go my An●wer was I stood in the Will of the Lord and did not know how long I should stay nor whither I should go but as the Lord orders me Thou saidst I spake very meekly and was a sober man yet thou by Tempting Words soughtst to insnare me and scoffingly said you are free from Sin are you not My An●wer was my Faith stands in that Power which cleanseth my Heart from dead Works to serve the Living God in the Newness of Life and the Grace of God which brings Salvation which hath appeared to all men was my Teacher which taught the Saints of old to deny all Ungodliness and Worldly-Lusts and to live godly and soberly in this World but your Teacher Increase Ma●der said There was nothing in him that he hoped to be saved by and that there was none cleansed from all Sin on this side the Grave and there was none good no not One. Unto whom I said Thou art a dark man and speakest ignorantly of th● Things of God at which thou rose up in much Anger and hadst much to do to keep thy Hands off me which was not seemly f●r a man that sitteth on the Seat to do Justice And so thou spake to thy Officer to take me away wouldst not suffer me to speak in my own Desence which was not denyed Paul by Foelix who was counted an Heathen and so thou gavest Order to ●eep me close and let none come at me where I am kept in a stincking smoaky Hole and also thou and thy Assistants I hear have laid a Fine upon the poor man in whose Ship I came as a Passenger of an Hundred Pounds if he send me not away the first Opportunity Oh ye cruel ridged Professors the Lord hath opened an Eye that seeth you and he will redeem his People from under your Bondage who are exercising your Cruelty upon them but the Lord will plead with you and also the Man not willing I should lie in such a nasty Place desired of you to let me be at his House till he had an Opportunity to send me away but ye would not who have nothing worthy of Bonds to lay to my Charge Oh how hath the God of the World blinded your Eves and filled your Hearts with Envy against the Appearance of God! who are Professors of the Scriptures and say They 〈…〉 b●t you know them not nor the Power of God which give them forth as it was said to them of Old who were crying The Templ● of the Lord th● Temple of the Lord and if we 〈…〉 to our Fath●●s Days we would not 〈…〉 the Prophets who were garnishing their Sepulchers and painting their Tombs who slew the Lord of Life and hung im on a Tree And may I not say unto you as Stephen said unto them Ye 〈◊〉 necked and uncircumcised in Heart and Ears ye always resist the holy Ghost as your Fathers did so do ye but they gnash●d upon him with their Teeth and cast 〈◊〉 out of their City and shed his Blood and do not your Fruits make you manifest as theirs did and do not the Scriptures of Truth bear Testimony against you that you are of the Wolf's Nature i● the Sheep's Clothing which devours the Lambs indeed for you do savour of the devouring Spirit and not of the Meek Spirit of Christ Jesus who said I came to save me●s Lives and not to destroy them who is come and his Reward is with him who said It hath been said by them of old time thou shalt love thy Neighbour and hate thy Enemy but I say unto you Love your Enemies pray for them that despightfully use you and persecute you Mat. 5. 43 44. But thee Richard Bellingham a●t of another Spirit the Lord rebuke thee who said thou thoughtst thou didst God good Service in what thou didst against us So the Words of Christ Jesus are fulfilled upon thy Head which he spake saying They shall speak all manner of Evil of you and they will think they do God good Service when they kill you So out of thy own Mouth art thou judged but as for thy causing thy Jailer to read the thirteenth chapter of Zachary to me that will not cover thee in the Day of the Lord for he is come who is the End of the first Covenant and hath brought in the better Hope which destroyes the Devli his Works and saves men alive who rebuked his Disciples when they would have had Fire come down from Heaven as Elias had to destroy them with whom they were offended but he said unto them Ye know not what Spirit ye are of before whom all things are naked and bare who beholds thy Cruelty who wouldst have me give thee under my hand never to come to this Town more or else in Prison it seems I must lie till by your Law I am forced to another Land but unto thy cruel Will herein I dare not bow for I may come again into this Town and honest men who fear the Lord may live here when your Laws are vanished as the Smoak before the Wind and your false Doctrine come to cease which your Priest Increase Madder and some of you held forth when I was before you for he is made manifest whom we bear Testimony unto who is given of God for a Covenant of Light unto the Gentiles and for Salvation unto the Ends of the Earth this is he of whom it was said Of his Fulness we have received and by Grace were they saved not of themselves it was the Gift of God and they had these heavenly Treasures in their Earthen Vessels as the Scripture saith Acts 6. 8. Stephen was a man full of Faith and of Power and the Saints were filled with the holy Ghost and spake as the Spirit gave them Utterance Acts 2. 4. And Christ Jesus said He that beliveth on me out of his Belly shall slow Riv●rs of Living Water John 7. 38. Ye know the Spirit of Truth for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you and I am in my Father and you in me and I in you John 14. 17 20. And the Apostle said Christ was in them the Hope of Glory And he to the Corinthians Christ was in them except they were Reprobates And these were Ministers of the Spirit who had these Heavenly Treasures in them but what a Minister Increase Madder is let them whose Eyes are open judge who saith He hath nothing in him by which he hopes to be saved A dry Tree and miserable Sheep are they who have such