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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85462	Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy. Or, innocency vindicated, being unjustly accused, and sorely censured by that seven-headed church-government united in New-England: or, that servant so imperious in his masters absence revived, and now thus re-acting in Nevv-England. Or, the combate of the united colonies, not onely against some of the natives and subjects but against the authority also of the kingdom of England, ... Wherein is declared an act of a great people and country of the Indians in those parts, ... in their voluntary submission and subjection unto the protection and government of Old England ... Imprimatur, Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused, approved, and licensed to the presse, according to order by publike authority.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1308; Thomason E360_16; ESTC R18590	106,374	127

desiring to speake with the Captain and the officers they utterly denyed to have any speech with us but immediatly intrenched themselves and the same day gave fire upon us whereupon to shew our allegeance to the State of old England we hung out the English colours which they perceiving shot the more violently against us shooting the colours many times through and through Now when the Messenger from the Massachusets returned comming through the Towne of Providence two of the men of Providence came along to Shaw-omet to see how things were carried and what the newes was at his returne and however the Commissioners would not speake with us yet the men of Providence went unto them had speech with them whom they warned to come no more unto us upon their perill for they were resolved of their course therefore who ever came neer unto us they would take them for their enemies For when the Governour and Assistants of the Massachusets perceived that the Commissioners had declared their errand unto us in plainer termes then then they intended it should have beene they thought to make the house we were in our grave was the best vvay to vindicate the moderation of their equall Justice tovvards us as plainly appeared by their practise and course held concerning us Here followeth a true Copy of the testimony of the two men of PROVIDENCE who came to SHAVV-OMET at the return of the Messenger out of the MASSACHUSETS verbatim extant under their own hands WE testifie that upon the return of the Answer from the Bay the Captain refused the former offer of appeale to England or Arbitration in the Country with the said Samuel Gorton and his company but immediately dissolved the truce and the same day proceeded to give fire upon them Richard Scot William Harrisse And so continued for divers days together in their fierce assalt the Sabbath approaching we imagining they would not have continued their assalt upon that day and were very confident that they would go about no such work upon the night before the Sabbath being we knew well that they held the Sabbath begins in the evening going before and that they had no lesse ground for it then Master Cottons judgment as also that it was one of their laws that the breach of the Sabbath is to be punished with death Now what they may judge the killing of their Countrymen causlesly upon that day is whether to keep or break the Sabbath we leave to all men to judge But contrary to our expectation early in the morning having prepared their fire-works they attempted to burn the house wherein we were seconding their fire with the discharge of above four hundred shot against us according to the Souldiers account who afterwards told us how many shots they had made that morning according to the emptying of their band●l●ers all which time they told us Captain Cook stood behind such a great white oaktree whom we heard incouraging his souldiers to come on with courage thinking himself in safety and so he was for we discharged not a Gun that morning nor of al the time of their siege but onlytwo in the nighttime at random to scar them from working their trenches neer unto us for we had concluded to take away the lives of none of our Countrymen unlesse they offered to enter violently upon us which we only ●itted our selves to prevent such assalt or else that we were forced out upon them by the firing of our house only we perceived our words to be shot good enough to keep them aloof For we called cheerfully upon the Captain to come on and bring up his men for he should find vs very cheerfull spirits to deal with and that we would make him as good a Sabbath days breakfast as ever he had in his life our care was only to quench the fire which they had laid to the wall before we were aware But we saw the wind took the flame so from the wal that it kindled not upon the house vvhen the day began to break Captain Cook called to the souldiers to go on with a fresh assalt but we heard some of his Souldiers deny to come on again being the fire took not and the day beginning to be light they thought we might shoot from the house at some certainty we called on the Captain to animate his soldiers for we understood we told him his charret wheels began to drive very heavy and were in danger to fall off and that was all the violence we offered to our Countrymen in this their so eager an assalt though we heard the Captain in the beginning of it give strict charge to the souldiers that they should not let one escape alive but to put all to the sword thinking the fire would have taken and so we have been a prey for them But however we discharged not a peece against them being loth to spill the blood of our Countrymen though to the hazard of our own lives yet were we well provided and could easily have done them much hurt only stood upon our defence so as they durst not make entry upon us afterwhich assalt they sent back into the Massachusets for more ayd But in the mean time another parley was procured wherein we consented to go down into the Massachusets upon Composition to prevent the spilling of blood which we could no longer refrain in the defence of our selves they having approached so neer unto us The condition whereof was this that we should goe along with them as free men and neighbours as though such passages had never been betwixt us which the Captain and his Company consenting unto beat up the Drum and gathered his souldiers together seeming joyfull that things were so concluded whereupon the Captaine desired to see our house which request we lovingly imbraced thinking he intended to refresh him selfe and his souldiers with such provisions as we had before we set upon our journey towards the Massachusets but no sooner was he come into the house but contrary to the Articles of out agreement he seized upon our Armes using us as captives and presently carried us away not suffering us to dispose of any of our goods that were in or about our houses having not so much as a servant left behind and so left them all as pillage to the Indians the Captain giving charge unto the souldiers that if any of us spake a word in our journey to give any of them discontent that they should presently knock us downe and if they saw any of us step aside out of the place designed unto us that they should run us through and he would beare them out in that their action And withall they drove away our cattle into the Massachusets dividing and disposing of them amongst themselves only some of them they had disposed of to such of their subjects as lived near unto us who had been instruments and assistants unto them to bring about and effect this worke The number

and wrong which could not appeare without parley nay some of their souldiers picked out to be at the parley professed to some of us when they came to visit us as we lay in bolts and irons amongst them comming in the night not daring to see us in the day professed in these words When we came first to the ground we were ma●● to ●ight and to fal upon you without speech or parley but after we saw you and heard you speake many of us had rather have been on your side then for the cause we came and the Captaine seeing some of us discouraged to fight would not permit us to discourse with any of Providence men ●est they should speake on your behalfe and this we know that some that did signifie unto them any small thing concerning the equity of our cause the Captaine seized on them for prisoners and kept them in bonds during the time of their aboad there and much adoe to release them that they had not taken them downe into the Massachusets to undergoe further punishments r Which was only words expressed in their paper formerly sent unto us ſ Fearing lest the true and naturall Prince of these their Indian subjects should shew them their folly in this their subjection and to win them again unto himselfe and thereby leave them without this colour and pretence to worke out their own ends upon us t Behold here their guilt in that they had unjustly drawn by insinuation the Indians from their lawfull Prince as also that subtill wrong they did to us suggesting secretly unto the people as though there were feare of some combination between the Indians and us to stir up souldiers by that means to come out against us u Behold how these men can evade all faire Propositions to prosecute and bring forth their own spirit yea even to the death of their countrey men if it be but by casting aspersions upon those that hold not just length and breadth in religion with them x Which they had promised to do as they came on the way towards us to incourage the Indians to come with them against us in the hearing of some of our friends x A great triumph for a whole countrey to carry away eleven men and that upon faire composition also if they had kept touch with us for one of us that is Sampson Shotton was dead before by hardship which some of their spirit had put him upon and but ten of us that handled arms y We thought he did it to imitate Melchisedeck comming out to blesse Abraham when he came from the slaughter of the Kings in the rescue of Lot he did it so gravelyand solemnly only the Captain wanted the spirit of Abraham for all his good successe yet we thought he was not uncapable to communicate in that prayer or blessing of the Governour for his errand to us was to utter and exerciss the spirit of the government in his Commission made manifest z Old M. Ward once Lecturer at S. Michael in Corne-hill London came to the prison window and called to him one of our society namely Richard Carder who had once lived near together in Essex Mr Ward seemed to be much affected being a man knows how to put himselfe into passion desired the said Richard that if he had done or said any thing that he could with good conscience renounce he desired him to recant it and he hoped the Cour would be very mercifull and saith he it shal be no disparagement unto you for here is our Reverend Elder Mr. Cotton who ordinarily preacheth that publickly one year that the next year he publickly repent of and shews himselfe very sorrowful for it to the Congregation so that saith he it wil be no disgrace for you to recant in such a case a Vsually comming to us into the prison many of them together As also when we were put apart in the time of our examination one of the Members of the Church of Boston telling some of us in his own house that he was perswaded that we did not worship the true God for saith he then he would not have permitted you to be brought down from your own Plantation amongst us for saith he I am perswaded that our Churches shal not be over-come by any people that should come out against them his wife standing by being an ingenuous woman made answer to our content before we could speak Husband saith she pray doe not b●ast before the victory be known it may be the Battle is not yet ended b Note that in this answer there is a word added to their question which was done of purpose knowing how they looked to regulate them it if were possible as it was declared unto them in the first reading of the answer how they fell short in it which they yeelded unto they say the death which he suffered after his incarnation the answer saith In and after his incarnation For to speake of the sufferings of Christ after his incarnation without respect unto that which was before we may as well spe●ke of his sufferings before his incarnation without respect to that which is after for the Crosse of Christ is not but with respect both to humane nature and divine and we cannot know the two natures in Christ what they are distinctly in themselves to give each its proper due and what they are joyntly united in one no otherwise but as they are considered in the very act of Incarnation in which appears the Sufferer and that which is suffered the Sufferer is the Son of God made man the creator becoms a creature the thing suffered is to be made a curse that is to be made such a thing as is in it selfe by nature accursed and so Christ was made a curse the sufferings of Christ then and the shedding of his blood as he is known after the spirit are properly in that one act of his incarnation which is the proper act of the humiliation of the Son of God so that to spe●k of his sufferings after ●is incarnation you may as well speake of his sufferings before his incarnation for it is no suffering of Christ but with respect both to the one and the other and only in the act of incarnation they are made one and to speake of the sufferings of Christ visibly in his humane nature in the dayes of Herod to be the proper sufferings of the Son of God any further but as a true doctrine as in all other holy Writ to teach what that suffering is in the act of his incarnation you may as well speak of sufferings of Christ invisibly before that act of his incarnation for the Crosse of Christ is not but with respect both to divine and humane nature nor can it be said to be in time no more then it may be said to be before al time for the humiliation of the Son of God admits not of any bounds or limi●s for then were it not of infinit