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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96687	New-Englands salamander, discovered by an irreligious and scornefull pamphlet, called New-Englands Jonas cast up at London, &c. Owned by Major Iohn Childe, but not probable to be written by him. Or, A satisfactory answer to many aspersions cast upon New-England therein. Wherein our government there is shewed to bee legall and not arbitrary, being as neere the law of England as our condition will permit. Together with a briefe reply to what is written in answer to certaine passages in a late booke called Hypocrisie unmasked. / By Edw. Winslow.	Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3038; Thomason E390_8; ESTC R201531	24,205	33

respect● it is the Land of 〈◊〉 a Land that is pretious in the eyes of the Lord they shall not prosper that rise against it but shall bee taken every one of them in the snares they lay for it And this said hee I speake as a poore Prophet of the Lord according to the word of his grace in my Text which however in the proper sense of the Holy Ghost belonged to that age of the Church mentioned in the Booke of Nehemiah yet it is written for our example and instruction for God is the same yesterday to day and for ever no lesse carefull no lesse able and no lesse willing to save and deliver his people by ingaging himselfe in their case and who can stand before him In the second place saith he whereas divers our brethren are to goe for England and many others to follow after in another Vessell let mee direct a word of exhortation to them also I desire the gratious presence of our God may goe with them and his good Angels guard them not onely from the dangers of the Seas this Winter season but keepe them from the errours of the times when they shall arrive and prosper them in their lawfull designes c. But if there bee any amongst you my brethren as 't is reported there are that have a Petition to prefer to the High Court of Parliament which the Lord in mercy goe on blessing to blesse as hee hath begun that may conduce to the distraction annoyance and disturbance of the peace of our Churches and weakning the Government of the Land where wee live let such know the Lord will never suffer them to prosper in their subtill malicious and desperate undertakings against his people who are as tender unto him as the apple of his eye But if there bee any such amongst you that are to goe I doe exhort and would advise such in the feare of God when the terrors of the Almightie shall beset the Vessell wherein they are the Heavens shall frowne upon them the billowes of the Sea shall swell above them and dangers shall threaten them as I perswade my selfe they will I would have them then to consider these things for the time of adversitie is a time for Gods people to consider their wayes I will not give the counsell was taken concerning Jonah to take such a person and cast him into the Sea God forbid but I would advise such to come to a resolution in themselves to desist from such enterprises never further to ingage in them and to cast such a Petition into the Sea that may occasion so much trouble and disturbance But it may be hardnesse of heart stoutnesse of spirit may cause such a person or persons with stiffe necks to persist and yet in mercy with respect to some pretious ones amongst you as I perswade my selfe there are many such goe in each Vessell the Lord may deliver the Vessell from many apparent troubles and dangers for their sakes but let such know the Lord hath Land judgements in store for such for they are not now free Hee being the God of the Land as well as of the Sea and if you turne to Numb. 14. 36 37. you shall there see how hee threatned to destroy such as brought a false report upon his land with the Plague and truely God hath still Plagues in store for such as bring a false report upon his Church and people Nay said hee I heare the Lord hath a destroying Angell with the Sword of Pestilence in that Kingdome striking here and there as seemeth good unto him though not vehemently blessed bee his name and who knowes what the Lord will doe and therefore I advise such in the feare of God and I speak it as an unworthy Prophet of His according to that portion of his word I now speake from to lay these things to heart for it is the Lord Jesus hath said Take us the Foxes the little Foxes c. or let them bee taken And beleeve it for a truth all those that goe about by Fox-like craft and subtiltie to undermine the Churches of Christ Jesus they shall all bee taken even in the very snare and ginne they set for others And thus much for what Mr. Cotton delivered on this Thursdayes Lecture in Beston Novemb. 5. 1646. which I have shewed to many eminent persons now in England who were present at this Lecture and judge it not onely to bee the summe of his exhortation but his very expressions and are ready to testifie it on all occasions against all opposers as Mr. Thomas Peters and Mr. William Golding Ministers H●rbert P●lb●● Esquire Captaine William Sayles Captaine Leveret Captaine Harding Mr. Richard Sadl●● c. And take notice withall good Reader that I never heard the good man deliver any thing with more earnestnesse and strength of affection then these things thus sleighted by our adversaries as thou seest And for the second part of their story viz their passage and the passages of Gods providence befell them in it take notice good Reader that however our Salamander turned things into a jest as soone as they were delivered asking whether hee were a great Fox or a little one yet many others that were ingaged to goe but in the Ship their hearts trembled that they were to goe in such company And Mr. Thomas Peeters a Minister that was driven out of Cornewall by Sir Ralph Hopton in these late Warres and fled to New-England for shelter being called back by his people and now in London upon sight of what I have written gave mee leave before many to adde this that upon Mr. Cottons exhortation having shipped his goods and bedding to have gone in the Ship with them amongst other arguments this was the maine that hee feared to goe in their company that had such designes and therefore tooke passage to goe rather by way of Spaine c. And to speake the truth as the ship rode out many fearefull stresses in the Harbour after they were ready before they could goe to saile the wind being faire but overblowing so after they came to Sea had the terriblest passage that ever I heard on for extremitie of weather the Mariners not able to take an observation of Sunne or Star in seven hundred Leagues sayling or thereabouts And when they were all wearied out and tired in their spirits certaine well-disposed Christians called to mind the things delivered by Mr. Cotton before mentioned and seeing the Tempest still to continue thought meet to acquaint such as were conceived to be meant by Mr. Cotton and that had a purpose to persist in such courses that they thought God called them now to consider of the things delivered by him hereupon a godly discreet woman after midnight went to the great Cabbin and addressed her speech in sobrietie and much modesty to them whereupon one of the two answered in these words or to this purpose Sister I shall bee loath to grieve you or any

terrours throughout the voyage from New-England to Silley where they had a great deliverance and yet neverthelesse to shew how they goe on still to abuse Gods mercy patience and long suffering by this prophane title and story colored by your selfe And thus much for answer to your Preface As for the foure heads of your book and the Postscript I shall answer them as they arise An answer to the imperfect relation of the Hingam case Were I not so well acquainted with our New-England-Salamanders wayes and what a puther hee made in the Countrey about this businesse I should stand amazed at the malice of men to see this brought against the government To answer either this case or the next at length would ask so much paines and bee so great a bulke as their booke being but a two penny jeering Gigge penned rather to please the fancy of common understandings then to satisfie any solid judgements would goe much further then ever the answer would bee like to follow that so he might bemire us with a witnesse And if he can cause any reproach to lie upon us whether just or unjust that matters not then hath hee hit the marke hee shoots at And therefore to avoyd the many particulars would fall in a distinct answer by giving an account of the whole businesse I shall desire the Reader to accept this generall The Inhabitants of Hingam were knowne to bee a peaceable and industrious people and so continued for many yeers The Lord supporting them in the midst of many straights in their first beginnings crowning their indeavours with his blessing and raising them up to a comfortable and prosperous outward condition of life and such is their state through Gods mercy and goodnesse this day living very plentifully But Satan envying their happinesse the Lord permitting as it seemes on a suddaine cast a bone of division amongst them which tooke mightily to the great griefe and admiration of their neighbours on every side which controversie indeed arose about the choyce of their Captaine as is related But our Salamander living too neere them and being too well acquainted with them blew up this to such an height by his continuall counsell and advise which the major part of the Towne followed to their owne smart and the great griefe and trouble of Church and Common-weale as they not onely filled their Court with complaints against each other and wearied out the chiefe Magistrates in place but complained openly against one of them viz. the Deputie Governour who upon hearing the Case thought good to bind some of them over to the Court some submitted and gave bond others refused and were sent to prison c. This Gentleman as on all other occasions so in this particular much honored himselfe by leaving his place upon the Bench and going to the Bar and would not bee perswaded to cover his head or take his place till the case was heard and ended which continued many dayes partly by reason of the great liberty the Court gave the Plaintiffes in regard it reflected upon one of themselves and I thinke the first case that ever befell in that kind but more especially because our Salamander was got to Boston where though hee would not openly shew himselfe yet kept close in a private roome where they had recourse unto him many dayes yea many times a day for advice and followed it to the utmost to the great charge of the Countrey which came to much more as I have heard then the hundred pounds fine which was laid upon them in providing the diet of their Court But the Court finding for the Defendant after much trouble in many dayes agitation fined the Plaintiffes in an hundred pound and laid it upon sundry of them in particular amercements according to their severall demeanours in the action and left the Deputie Governour to take his course with them who onely rested in the vindication of his name which the Countrey so farre cleared as not long after their election day falling by course they chose him their Governour a place not strange to him in which wee left him having more often borne it then all others in that Government And for the differences which befell them in their Church whether the Court or the Churches I know not but the one entreated divers of the Elders to goe unto them who through Gods mercy and blessing upon their endeavours prevented a division amongst them though they could not at first settle things so well as they desired And thus much for answer to the Hi●gam case which may bee sufficient to satisfie any judicious Reader and foe those whose hearts are fraught with malice the Lord onely can convict such to whom I leave them An answer to the second head namely the Petition of Doctor Robert Childe c. This Remonstance and Petition of theirs which hath made so great a sound in other places as well as here notwithstanding their golden pretences of respect and reformation was no sooner delivered but before they could possibly exspect an answer from the Court notwithstanding the largenesse of it Copies were dispersed into the hands of some knowne ill affected people in the severall governments adjoyning as Plym●th Con●●tac●t New Haven c. who gloried not a little in it nay the Petitioners spared no paines for before our comming away wee heard from the Dutch Plantation Virginia and Bermudas that they had them here also with such expressions in their Letters as the present governour of Barmudas was bold to affirme to a Gentleman from whom I had it who was then bound for New-England to get passage for England that hee was confident hee should finde New-England altogether by the eares as well as England which hee well knew by a Petition and Remonstrance which hee had received from thence c. Now had a peaceable Reformation beene the marke they aymed at they would not have gone about thus to make the government so much despised farre and neare by casting such contempt upon them as they have endeavoured before ever they knew what acceptation their Remonstrance and Petition would finde which was taken into consideration till the next generall Court where they were answered at large charged with manifold falsehoods and contempts and fined for the same after a solemne hearing of the Cause But however I shall forbeare to give a particular answer in print to the said Remonstrance not because I cannot for I have the whole Case the Courts defence against it c. which would bee larger then both these bookes being as I said before too large in regard of the price of the buyer and therefore shall give such a generall answer as may satisfie the indifferent and equall minded Reader and thereby deceive also our Salamanders expectation to draw out from mee the whole which befell since his comming away that so hee might finde more fewell to baske himselfe in and satiate his contention humors to the full But for answer good