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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58837	A narrative of the planting of the Massachusetts Colony anno 1628 with the Lords signal presence the first thirty years : also a caution from New-Englands apostle, the great Cotton, how to escape the calamity which might befall them or their posterity, and confirmed by the evangelist Norton, with prognosticks from the famous Dr. Owen concerning the fate of these churches, and animadversions upon the anger of God in sending of evil angels among us / published by Old Planters, the authors of the Old mens tears.	Scottow, Joshua, 1618-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing S2099; ESTC R33724	39,314	86

Subscription Signed was Your Assured Friends and Brethren Iohn Winthrop Governour Richard Saltonstall Isaac Iohnson Tho. Dudley Deputy Governour Charles Fines George Phillips Cum multis ajiis From Yarmouth Ab ard the Arabella April 7th 1630. THese Magnanimous Heroes whose Memory is Plessed whose Names not only during New England hath a Being but shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance they then declared Though there might be some among them otherwise minded yet they were not of them and desired Remembrance in their Prayers as above in this their dangerous Design Not long after this Mr. Cottons Farewel Sermon above mentioned was Printed as London and since Re printed at Boston Entituled GODS PROMISE TO HIS PLANTATION wherein he Exhorted them to Remember England their Mother and that they should not be like those Ingrateful Birds who when they had Swum over a Stream or River forgot the Wing that had Hatcht them The Serpent soon got into this Eden and according to his Maxime acted divide and Overcome he sow'd the Seed of Discord Division among us so as this Heterodoxy was Preached publickly that there was no Communion to be held with the Church o● England and that if any of our Church-members had transiently heard a Minister which Conformed to the Church of England withou● declaring Repentance for it he was to be Excommunicated and that no Communion wa● to be held with any Unregenerate Person that they ought not to Pray or Crave a Blessing at Meals before Wife or any Relation Unconverted of which Conversion their Opinion was the Test and not only so but tha● the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty was not to be taken nor was it lawful to take any other kind of Oath because no Power to be Setled by Oath but Christs Kingly Power only and that our Pattent ought to be sen● back to our King nor ought we to have to do therewith Thus was Now-England Attack by Satan and this from an Eminent Preacher noted for Piety in his Life and Conversation as his strictest Observers Characterisec● him This Child of Light walked in Darkness about Forty Years not only by Rejecting the Church of England and its Baptism bu● his second Baptism also Taking up the Seekers perswasion looking for new Apostles Mr. Roger Williams yet di● not his Root turn into Rottenness the Root of the Matter abode i● him as by his Faithful Defence of the Fundamentals of Christian Religion in a public● Dispute and about the Year 1677. puttin● ●ut a Book against the Quakers Thus the ●ord infinite in Wisdom and Goodness dis●osed of Satans Malice so as he was Out shot 〈◊〉 his own Bow the Lord held the Magistra●y and Ministry in Unity according to the ●ntegrity of their hearts so as this small new ●igged Vessel was preserved against this vio●ent Storm which the Prince of Darkness Raised upon her at first setting forth with Design to have Overset and Foundred her ●hus was Munificent Mercy magnified toward ●is People when sew in Number and in ●heir low Estate such was the Conduct of ●ur Moses and Aaron that they kissed each o●●er in the Mount of God The Report of this admirable Divine Pre●ence with this People in their Civiland Sacred ●dministrations Reach'd our Nation even to ●he astonishment of those who cast no good Eye upon us but to the Encouragement of ●hose otherwise minded so as that the Well-●ffected came over as Clouds and like Doves to ●●eir Windows such was their Increase that in ●even years time the Massachuset Patient could ●ot contain them This Vine spread forth ●er Branches on the other side of this Bay to ●nd a Rehoboth it 's said that about this time 〈◊〉 Two Years there came over Seventy ●odd ●hips who one with another Transported an ●undred Passengers to the astonishment of ●e sober part of our Nation At which time ●●d before as the Harvest was great white so the Lord thereof thrust forth not only L●bourers but multiplied Aholiabs and Bezaliell Robbing our Nation to supply this peop●● with such as were filled with the Spirit 〈◊〉 Wisdom and Understanding in all Spiritu●● Skill in the Structure and Furniture of th● great Work and about setting up the Tabe●nacle of the Congregation and the Ark 〈◊〉 the Testimony according to the Pattern i● the Mount Of whom a Quaternion viz. Mr. Cotton Eminent for Spiritual Clothing and Mather for Caelestial Dying Hook●● for Soul Fishing Stone for Building up i● the Holy Faith three of whom came in th● same Ship and one of them not long a●te● with the Reverend John Davenport the famo●● Rogers of Rowley besides the Worthy Fin● Fruits of New-England the Proto-Pastors an● Teachers whom our Pen fails to Enumerate such was the Cloud of them who came ove● first and last seventy seven Ministers and fou●teen Young Students fit for the Ministry These voluntary Exiles for the Word 〈◊〉 God and Testimony of Jesus having be●● under Exercise of Spirit and Burthened b●● mens setting up their Posts and Thresholds b●● Gods Posts and Thresholds and now War●ed by the Lively Sense of Gods preservin● Goodness and safe Landing of them after ●●tedious passage some Encountred tho' som● had but six Weeks others Twenty and od●● Weeks durance yet without Loss or Famishin● of one person all this while shut up but ●afeguarded about four inches distance from Death These Votaries being under the fervour of their late Obligations they Anointed Jacobs Pillar then they had opportunity and accordingly Bewail'd and were ashamed of their Misdoings begg'd pardon and assistance from the God of the Spirits of all Flesh and direction from on High to set up the Throne and Place of the Soles of Christs Feet after solemn Imploring the Discovery of the Form and Fashion of Gods House the Comings in and Goings out of the Church of God which is the House of God the Ground and Pillar of Truth they agreed upon the practice of that which is called the Way of the Congregational Churches which for Thirteen Years together they Walkt in the practice of before ●he Synod further confirmed the same as is ●fterwards notified which Doctrine and Practice was Published to the Europaean World in the Book of the Keyes and Vindication of the Way of the Congregational Churches in New England pen'd by the Reverend Teacher of Boston Church and other worthy Scripts by divers Worthy Ministers of this Country in Answer to the Reproach put upon them by some Eminent Divines elsewhere of a Mr. Samuel ●nother perswasion yet one Rutherford of their Chieftains for Piety In his Spiri●● and Learning Declared in ●●ual Antichrist Print his full Assent to the Book of the Keyes in all its particularities e●cept in one punc●ilio about of the power of Synods which as he apprehended the book o● Keyes did too much streighten The Lords presence with our Fathers in thei● Civil and Sacred Concerns signally appeared with our Honourable Counsellers our Pruden● and Ancient the Mighty