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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

Burning with Hot Irons and Banishing the King's Subjects and Imprisoning and Spoiling of their Goods as you have done to them that would not conform to your Devilish Persecuting Spirit And did ever the Bishops Cut off any of your Ears or Brand you with Hot Irons and Hang any of you or Banish any of you under pain of Death if that you did Return and make you pay Five Shillings a Day for not hearing of them and beat you with pitcht Ropes and Cut off the Ears of any that came to visit you when any of you were in Prison in Old England And have not you with your cruel Murderous Persecuting Oppressing Spirit hindred the King's Subjects for Peopling that Place and you to make wor●● Laws against the People of God then ever the Bishops had against you and thus you have acted contrary to the Scriptures and contrary to your Patent and contrary to the Laws of England and are judged of all and of God and the Angels and of all Good Men. And are not you Priests and Profess●rs of New England like unto those Workers of Iniquity that David prayed against as in Psal 64 when he said Hide me from the secret C●●●sel of the Wicked from the Insurr●ctions of the Workers of Iniquity who whet their Tongues like Swords and bend their Bows to shoot their Arrows even with bitter Words that they may shoot in secret at the Perfect c But to talk of Perfect and Perfection amongst you your imperfect Spirit cannot endure to hear And further David saith They encourage themselves in an Evil Matter they commune of laying Snares privily c. but God shall shoot at them with an Arrow suddenly and they shall be wounded so they shall make their own Tongues to fall upon themselves and all that see them sh●ll 〈◊〉 away And does not ●olomon say Th● Expect●tion of the Wicked shall parish and th●ir Y●●●s shall 〈…〉 a●d the Cou●s●ls of the Wicked are Deceit and their T●●d●r Mercies are cruel the Belly of the Wicked shall want the Lamp of the Wicked shall be put out the Sacrifices of the Wicked are Abomination to the Lord the Way of the Wicked is Abomin●tion to the Lord and the Thoughts of the Wicked are Abomination to the Lord the Ploughing of the Wicked is Sin and the House of the Wicked shall be overthrown the Horns of the Wicked sh●ll be cut off saith David and the Rod of the Wick●d sh●ll not rest upon the Back of the Righteous and the Light of the Wicked shall be put out saith Job the Wick●d shall fall by his own Wickedness saith Solomon Prov. 11 5. And therefore consider your selves who have persecuted and do persecute the Righteous whether you m●st not eat the Fruits of your own Doings and whether the L●rd is not doing so to you as you did to his People And are you not as blind as the Jews that crucified Christ and called him a Blasphemer and said Let his Blood be upon us and our Children Did not Christ Weep over Jerusalem when he would have gathered them and did they not cast away all Pity and Tenderness of the Lord towards themselves and when he told them what Misery they would come to which did come to pass in the dayes of Titus when Jerusalem was Destroyed and had not they then Blood to drink who had drunk Blood And have not God's people wept mourn'd travail'd over you and for you New England Priests and Professors and still you remain in your Hardness For what pleasure is it to the Flesh or their own Wills for the Servants of the Lord both Men and Women for them to travail some Hundreds some Thousands of Miles to warn you and exhort you to fear God and leave off your Wickedness and Persecution of people that would be called Christians which have dishonoured both Name and Nature Life and Religion from whom Repentance is hid from many of your Fyes and several of you have dyed in your Sins and Wickedness in the Jews ev●l Thoughts who thought they did God Good Service in Killing ●is M●ss●ngers Oh! you Professors and Priests of New England that the Sun should go down upon you and beset that you should be so dark and not see your selves for the Jews discerned not the Time of the Son 's Coming in the Flesh nor you the Time of his Coming in the Spirit And therefore once more take heed of the Lord God leaving you to your ●elv●s and giving you up to your Hearts Lusts who have been the De●pi●e●s of the Goodne●s and Riches and Forbearance of the Long-sufferings of the Lord God which would have led you to Repentance but after the Hardness and Impenetency of your Hearts have treasured up Wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the Righteous Judgments of God And therefore how can you ex●ect but Indignation Tribulati●n and Anguish upon all you that ●ave done so many Wicked Deeds against the Servants of the Lord and d●unk their Blood And therefore you that b● sober mind and consider these things and consider what Jacob said of the Cruelty and ●ra●h of Simeon and Levi O my Soul come no thou into their Secret unto their Assembly mine Honour be not thou united for in their Anger they slew a Man and in their Self w●ll they digged down a Wall and he said Cursed be their Anger for it was fierc● and their Wr●●h for it was cruel Now Jacob was the second Birth but we do know that you that are born of the Flesh will persecute him that is born of the Spirit but the Birth of the Flesh is not a True Christian neither can enter into the Kingdom of God except ye be born again G. F. The Copy of a Letter which was delivered into the Hands of R. Bellingham late Governour of Boston in New-England for him to read and consider with his Assistants the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston with the rest of their Brethren where this may come THe Powers that are ordained of God are for the Punishment of Evil doers and for the Praise of them that do well But thee Richard Bellingham who art accounted Chief Magistrate in this place hast not acted by this Rule in what thou hast done against me but hast laid thy Sword upon the Innocent for which the Lord God will plea● with thee and your Priest whose Name is Increase Madder who was one with thee in thy Cruelty and the rest of your Brethren who were present but the people who came to hear thou turnedst out of thy Doors that they might not see your Works of Darkness although I desi●ed thee that they might see what was done for Truth is not asham●d neither doth it hide it self in Corners but Cruelty and Oppression seeks to cover it self as Iames Oliver would do who said I was a Woolf and you would k●ll Wolves who had no hing against me to prove me in that beastly Nature but I was a Stranger unto

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

will gather from off your Barren Mountains dry Hills of your Empty Dark Rusty Cankered eaten Prosessions to rest with the Lord in the Mountain of his Holiness forever and for this End is our Travail in Soul and Body that people might be gathered to God And the Cry of my Spirit is unto the Lord Oh! that his Day might more and more dawn that People might see their Way out of Darkness and the Chains thereof through the Power of God might be broken and the Liberty of the Sons of God which is in Righteousness might be known unto the Sons and Daughters of Men after this Deluge of Darkness and Night of Apostacy which hath been over the World For God Almighty is a fulfilling his Promises and his Day is come unto many and the Night is far spent unto Thousands Glory to God forever though Multitudes yet sit in Darkness and see it not for the God of the World hath blinded their Eyes through the Enmity of the Seed of the Serpent which bears rule in their Hearts whereby they despise the Appearance of God and persecute his Servants who are sent unto them as it was said unto the Jews I will send them Prophets and Apostles and some of them they shall slay and persecute that all the Blood from Righteous Abel unto this day be required at their Hands J. T. Something further as a Testimony against the Cruelty of the New-England Professors ANd now you New-England Priests Professors you are found in the Steps of that old persecuting spirit beyond the rest of the Nations in t●is Age of the World in Cruelty and Bloodshed for you have slain the Prophets of the Lord and drunk the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus whereby the Iniquity of your Fore fathers you have fulfill'd in a large Measure which will not depart from you Reins nor be blotted out in Generations to come no more then the Blood thirsty Chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees and Hard-hearted Jews are but with them you will be recorded and bound under the Chain and Seal of Darkness and numbred with the seed of Cain who Murdered his Brother because his Brother's Works were Righteous and his Evil. But notwithstanding the great Sufferings and cruel hard-hearted Dealings we have received from you Rulers Priests and People of New-England whose Prisons S●ocks Whips and Gallows have been our Portion from you and for no other Cause but our Testimony for God who have been moved of the Lord to come amongst you and in true Love to your Souls But Christ Jesus who is our Lord and Master received such Entertainment amongst the great Professors in the dayes of his Flesh and we know the Servant is not greater then his Lord and these Sufferings seem small in Comparison of the Eternal Weight of Glory which is already revealed and daily God is manifesting to his People wherein we have great Cause to Rejoyce and we seeing the Prosperity of that blessed Work he hath made us instrumental in to his Glory and to the Comfort of many weary and hungry Souls are daily encouraged in this blessed Work and to sound an Alarm against your Babylonish Building and Habitation of Cruelty which God eternal hath determined to Overthrow notwithstanding you are stout against him but the Lord will be too hard for you and your Building must fall who would limit the Holy One of Israel as that Generation of Evil-doers did of old who called Evil Good and Good Evil as you do who say You think God's Judgments are upon you because you suffer that Erroneous People called Quakers to live amongst you so desperately are your foolish Hearts darkned that Judgment is turned backward and Equity cannot enter But behold Cruelty and Oppression covers your Dwelling-place and you grope like Blind Men in the dark although God's Day is come and the Children of it see your Nakedness and whereby your Notion of Profession is vanishing and shall molter away like a Fogg when the Sun ariseth in her Strength and the Mountain of the House of the Lord shall be established on the tops of the Mountains for Sion shall be built and Jerusaiem spiritual shall be inhabited in Defiance of her Foes for God Almighty hath thundred from his Dwelling place and your Old Heavens must depart as a Scrole for notwithstanding your Profession of Gospel Ordinances Death reigns over you and to Moses you are not yet come But the Desire of my Soul is That the Lord may open the Eyes and Hearts of them amongst you who have any Tenderness of Spirit in them and who have not sinned out the Day of their Visitation that they would truly turn to the Lord who smites and then he would truly heal them who hath done Great Things for us who have believed in his Name and waited through the Way of his Judgments his Mercies we have found and our desire is that others might injoy the same blessed be his Name who lives forever London the 28th of the 5th Moneth 1676. From one that desires the Well being of all men John Tyso Page 9. line 9. for 1646. read 1643. page 10. line 1. for 1646. read 1643.