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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

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

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