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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

and the Maintainer of it is God and it shall break forth more and more unto the perfect Day and when I was with you it discovered the best Light in your self to be Darkness as your self confessed to me in your own Parlour And whereas you say I speak great swelling Words of Vanity that Scripture is fulfilled in your false Teachers who follow the Way of Balaam and Bozer And that Water holds out the Spirit John 7. 38 39. And Christ Jesus came by this Water or Spirit Mat. 1. 18. And hereby we shall know the Spirit of Antichrist because he confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh And as to that in Rev. 12. which you say must be meant of Constantine and not of Christ being brought forth in the Gentile Church then the Woman that brought forth Constantine must be crowned with Twelve Stars But your Church standing in the City Order by your own Confession must needs be one of those Cities of the Nations which the L●rd hath said should fall Rev. 16. 19. And if what you called Railing or Reviling were a Truth of God acted by him through me then you have called the Spirit of God a Railer and Reviler And so far Ann Hutchinson with much more in her Answer to Leveret's Letter of the 1st Moneth 1646. after they had imprisoned her and banished her So Reader if thou hast an Understanding of what the Woman held forth thou may soon conclude what the Thirty Heretical Opinions were that so much enraged New-England Professors to imprison banish and so in a Sense murther her and her Family by the wicked Hands of the Indians But how shall these People hide their Wickedness from the simple-hearted that they should not see their Wickedness and cry out against their Cruelty well I 'le shew thee honest Inquirer how they hide themselves and the Innocent Blood The Woman before mentioned having been imprisoned and there by the Priests and Professors pumpt and sifted to get something against her laying their Snares to entrap her and having so done take their Opportunity when her Husband Friends were absent as it is said and examined her in the fore-part of the Day and banished her in the after-part Notable quick Work so she goes by Water with many others that perceived they must go to Pot next and providentially fell with Road-Island and there they made a Cave or Caves and in them lived until the cold Winter was past in which time it was known to the Professors where they were and that they had bought the Island of the Indians and the Professors began to stir and endeavour to bring the Island within the Compass of their Patent so the poor molested Woman it 's like let in Fear and thought she would go far enough from their Reach so going Southward to seek a Place to settle upon where she and her Family might live in Quietness fell upon a Piece of Land that was in Controversie between the Dutch and the Natives and the Natives being in a Heat came upon them and were the Executioners of what the New-England Priests Magistrates and Church-Members were an Occasion of through their wicked and cruel proceeding in forcing them to flee from their Rage and Fury And because I promised thee to tell thee honest Inquirer how they hide and cover their Wickedness I 'le do it by rehearsing what Priest Wells a chief Actor in this matter printed in his Book entitled W●lls's short Story page 44. as Samuel Clark in his lying Book quotes his Brother W●lls for his Author of this and such like most Notorious Lyes of which he prints thus Ann Hutchinson Mary Dyer and Midwife Hawkins see Clark's Examples page 249. and they have been known to be honest Women and such as were of good Report and nev●r accounted either Witches or such Persons as these two Priests and Brethren in Wickedness would have People believe that so their Wickedness might be undiscovered Now here Priest Clark after he had writ and printed a most cursed Lye of Mary Dyer whom they banished and afterward hanged at Boston as also of Midwife Hawkins Saith he About the same time and in the same place One Mrs. Hutchinson who held about Thirty Monstrous Heretical Opinions whereof you have a Catalogue set down by the same Author page 59. And growing big with Child and towards the Time of her Labour at last broughtforth Thirty Monstrous Births or thereabouts some bigger and some lesser some of one Shape and some of another few of any perfect Shape none of all of humane Shape This Mrs. Hutchinson was first vanish●d by the Magistrates of New-England into Rhoad Island for her Heresies out not staying long there she removed with all her Family her Daughter and her Children into the Dutch Plantation to a Place called Hell Gate where the Indians set upon them and slew her and her Family her Daughter and her Daughter's Husband with all their Children save only one that escaped So here is the Priests and Professors Cover and they wipe their Mouths and I warrant they would by saying the Indians committed this Murder be thought clear of this Innocent Blood So Reader thou mayest see the Rage and Envy of this professing Generation for they banished imprisoned this tenderly bred Woman in or towards Winter and what with Fears and Tessings to and fro the Woman miscaried upon which they grounded their abominable Untruth many Witnesses might be produced to prove this and to disprove their abominable frequently told Slanders and also printed by Priests and New-England Professors and their Consederates here in England I might i●sert that other Story which the same Lye makers made of Mary Dyer and Midwife Hawkins but it 's not worth while as to his Description of a horrid Monster wherein their Lyes were apparent to many sober People And now let me mind you of your abominable Wickedness committed by whipping Obadi●h Holems the Baptist with forty Stripes save one it seems the old Father of all Whippers about Religion loads his whipping Children in one Way and sets them their deceitful Bounds and may be he and they his Children may bring Scripture and Example for Forty Stripes save one But why would you not dispute the Point with Obadiah when he so fairly offered it at your torturing Place and the man you may remember brought his Bible to your Whipping Post to prove his Principle and Practice by Scripture and disprove your Principles and Practices by the same but your Godly Magistrate as you called him told him that was no Place to dispute in or Words to that purpose and so you whipt him in cruel manner forty Stripes save one And his Fellow that was with him an aged honest man you whipt also in cruel manner and would have whipt Clark as you said had you not had Money given you But where did you learn in Law or Gospel to take Money for not whipping them that deserved Whipping Behold your

how hath the Father and Author of all Persecution about Religion and your deceitful Hearts fitted you for a Day of Slaughter How are your young as well as your old men become a Scorn and Derision in Cities and Countries and are not the Fruits of the corrupt Tree found among you Is not Drunkenness Gaming Cheating and Cozening found among you that it 's even become a By Word There is a New England Cheat take heed of a New-England Cheat. And how ashamed are your prophane and Professors to hear one tell them of their and your pranks they cannot endure to be told of your Laws to whip banish cut off Ears spoil Goods and hang at last Dissenters from them in Religion while themselves say it's a great and damnable Heresie to hold Infallibility in the things of God and that a man must prove his Just●fication by his Sanct●fication and that there are Delusions in the Witness of the Spirit and Sanctification must be the Judge of the Witness of the Spirit and that the Seal of the spirit is not the holy Ghost in us and the Witness of the spirit is only mediate and not immediate and to say that Christ is our sanctification is a damnable Doctrine And do you not say that God b●und himself in an everlasting Covenant of Grace to the legi●timate Seed of them that be in Church-covenant and that Children are left under an everlasting Covenant by leaving them under Church covenant and that there is a running over of Grace from the Father to the Children in the Way of Church covenant and that Children by Church covenant are born in an Eternal Covenant See the Elders Tenent in the Bay with much more confused Stuff too long to write o● read unless it were better But admit all this were as true as it is false and blasphemous would any sober Man or Woman think this to belong or appertain to that whipping Church and Church-members of New-England Let them lay aside their long Prayers and then tell me what is left among them that will either enchant the Eye or Ear of any sober Man for are they not as Earthly minded as Proud spirited as any as Envious as any and yet would be accounted the Members of the Church of Christ Oh how are you yet pulling down as with a Cart Rope the Judgement begun in your Land and Country witness your new-found ways to torture and tear like Dogs the Flesh of the Conscientious who are clear of your Calamities in the Sight of God though it may be some of their Earthly Houses may fall by the Hands of the barbarous Indians as many have fallen by the Hands of barbarous Professors but I say they are clear of those Calamities and not at all engaged in your Quarrels which you have brought upon your selves through your Pride and unequal Dealing with Dissenters in matters of Religion and by your treacherous Practices toward the Indians all which crieth very loud for Vengeance however you may think to hide your selves with Flattering Printed Papers yet your Filthiness doth appear and cannot be hid And you have now found out a new way to torture the Conscientious People viz. your Gantelop and Whip with which you whip an Hundred Stripes Oh how are you grown in Cruelty from forty Stripes save one and two Pounds Fine to an hundred Stripes and five Pounds Fine and this with your old Laws new revived you have got up at Boston to torture those that are no ways engaged in your Quarrel as I said before and punishmen●s which God hath certainly brought upon you for all your Abominations But through and over all the Cruelty of your Gantelop the Lord hath born a little one and though you had Power to hale this mortal Body through your many whipping professors and prophane yet the Testimony lives ●ver all and is a sweet Savour unto God to whom be praises forever and evermore And I hope all that fear the Lord both small and great will be found in the same Testimony and to it stand to the praise and glory of God who is now requiring at your Hands the Blood of his innocent Servants and Martyrs slain by that murdering ●pirit which in Persecutors hath lived reigned and acted from the Day of righteous Abel unto this Day And now you would pick a new Quarrel with the Quaker● and say They set their Posts by God's Posts and their Thres holds to God's Thresholds and you are troubled that man should joyn his Posts to God's Posts and his Thresholds to God's Thresholds and that in the open Meetings of the Quakers whose damnable Dectrines and Blasphemies provoke divine Jealousie But you have not t●ld us what those pernicious Tenents are that are preached in the Quakers Meetings no more then you did of Ann Hutchinson whom you banish'd for her Testimony as hath been hinted But to whom should man joyn his Posts and Thresholds if he have any to joyn as you say ye have I hope none will be so blind and ignorant as to set their Posts or Threshold to the Devil's Post and the Professors of New-England's Posts viz. their whipping Post or Gallows Posts no nor yet joyn their Threshold to t●eir Goal Thresholds nor their Bridwel Threshold devilish slaughter house Thresholds over which and in which Professors and Talkers of God and Christ do and have haled over Lambs and Followers of Christ and in which they crop their Ears and out of which they bring them in their Wills and Madness and banish whip and hang them in their blind Zeal And you can take God's Posts which he through the Operation of his Everlasting and Eternal Spirit hath fitted and prepared for his holy Building and hang them upon the Devil's Posts viz. your Gallows posts and set them to your whipping-posts and sport your selves with tearing and rending their naked Backs and Arms and tender Breasts of Men and Women with forty Stripes save one and sometimes an hundred Oh bloody Butchers of Professors how do you stinck of Blood of Innocent Blood And now after and for all these Abominations which you have committed against the Lord God and his Appearance in his Sons and Daughters Servants and Handmaids upon whom he hath in these later Dayes poured out of his Spirit according to the Scriptures and the Promise of God and that upon some amongst your selves which called to you to mind the Light and ●pirit and its Teaching and also cried out against your Idolatrous Practices and confused Principles and against your smiting Spirits and that before that reproachful Name of Quaker got up all which you have evilly intreated banishing some and whipping others before the Quakers were sent from God to call you to Repentance and Amendment of Life that you might not dye in your Sins but these you most Evilly Intreated And now the Lord for his own Elect's Sake is risen to take Vengeance and make Inquiry after Innocent Blood which your proud and earthly Hearts have