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A44804	The popish inquisition newly erected in New-England whereby their church is manifested to be a daughter of mysterie Babylon which did drink the blood of the saints, who bears the express image of her mother, demonstrated by her fruit : also their rulers to be in the beasts power upon whom the whore rideth, manifested by their wicked compulsary laws against the lamb and his followers, and their cruel and bloody practises against the dear servants of the Lord, who have deeply suffered by this hypocritical generation : some of their miserable sufferings for the testimony of Jesus, declared as follows and some of their unjust and vvicked laws set down ... / published by a lover of mercy and truth, and an enemy to envy and cruelty, Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Copeland, J. R. (John R.); Hodgson, Robert.; Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3177; ESTC R14218	58,023	78

the holy Angels justifie and the Church of God It may be you will call this rebellion and so it is against the Prince of darkness from whence you have received your Authority Manifesting thereby their complying with those whose design is to overthrow the Order est●blished in Church and State every such person upon conviction before the said Court of Assistance in manner as abovesaid shall be committed to close prison for one Month and then unless they chuse voluntarily to depart this Jurisdiction shall give Bond for their good behaviour and appear at the next Court where continuing obstinate and refusing to retract and reform the foresaid Opinions shall be sentenced to banishment upon pain of death and any one Magistrate upon information given him of any such person shall cause him to be apprehended and shall commit any such person to prison according to his discretion until he come to tryal as abovesaid And here is an end of their wicked Law which must come to an end You that build up a Nation with iniquity and a Church so called with blood who layes traps for the feet of the innocent and makes Laws to destroy mens Estates and to banish men from the Earth which is the Lords and the fulness of it and furthermore makes Laws to destroy mens lives and shed blood Wo and Misery is to your Church and State and the righteous God of Heaven and Earth will plead the cause of the innocent and needy and overthrow that which you have established and if they will not recant as you call it which is to deny Christ before men then banishment and prisonment and their Estate wasted and they destroyed then you think you are secure your Laws is cursed your Religion cursed and your Enterprises cursed What is not your Gospel able to defend it self but you must take up the Beasts Weapons Cain's Weapons the murderer the Devil's Weapons to defend your Church and State carnal Weapons hellish Weapons the Dragons Weapons Hath your deceitful Merchants the hireling Priests made you believe that this is an Orthodox received Opinion They received this out of the bottomless pit and the Weapons with all that handle them shall go down thither again and the Lamb shall reign over the Beast and his followers though you have established wickedness by a Law and think your selves secure yet God will provoke you that the rottenness of your hearts may be brought forth and that all your deceit may be made manifest that all that fear the Lord may come out from amongst you for wo and misery shall compass your Tabernacle and the dread of God is against you And the next thing whereby the Devil and his Ministers fortifies themselves is certain Articles exhibited by them like the Popes Inquisition although they are full of ignorance and blasphemy and these they intend to impose upon any ●an and if they answer not according to their blind understandings then they say they are convicted as Hereticks and must be sent to prison and if they do not retract banished and whipped in the mean time and his Estate made havock on and then banished not to return upon pain of death and if he do return to be put to death and this is the fruit of their Orthodox received Principles and of the laudable custom of New-England And now I come to the Articles 1. If a●y person or persons besides their refusing to come to the publike Assembly of Divine Worship shall either deny the blessed Trinity of persons in the Divine Essence Ans. And is this one of your Orthodox received Articles Then the Pope is as Orthodox as you And what is there to be found or can be expected in your publike Assemblies amongst a company of envious men whose hearts are filled with envy whose hands are defiled with blood Divine Worship say you like Wolsey Bonner and that bloody crew Divine Service said they But you might more truly have said Humane invention and vain tradition And Trinity of persons in the Divine Essence Where learned you this Article from the Pope from the Mass Book Yet the Father Son and Spirit is owned and these three are one and the Father Word and Spirit and these are one but I challenge all you Orthodox Professors to shew me from Scripture where the Holy Ghost or Spirit is called a Person be ashamed of your ignorance ye illiterate men 2. Or shall den● the person of Christ to be distinct from the Father and the Holy Ghost or shall deny the Person of Christ to be distinct from every believer Ans. Do but mark the madness and confusion of these mighty Rabbies before there must be three persons in one Essence and now Christ must be distinct from the Father and the Holy Ghost before in God and now distinct from God this is damnable Doctrine which hath been brought in since the Apostacy for the Scripture saith God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself then how was he distinct from the Father when the Father was in him And I am in the Father and the Father in me and I and my Father are one Nay saith New-England Doctors They are distinct An● the fulness of the God head dwelt in him bodily Now prove you that the Father and the Holy Gbost are distinct from Christ Or how is Christ's Person distinct from every believer when he that is a believer hath him revealed in him and he that is a true believer eats his flesh and drinks his blood how is he then distinct What nearer union can there be exprest Is that distinct from a man that he hath in him But it may be they will say as the rest of the dreamers do he is in believers by his Spirit distinct from his body Then I say Christ is not divided for a person without a Spirit or distinct from the Spirit is not Christ but this blind Doctrine came up since the Apostles dayes and was counted as Orthodox by the Councels at Neece and Latteran a company of Apostates and hath been counted by the Beasts followers a great point of Divinity 3. Or deny the manhood of Christ to be a manhood distinct from the manhood of any other man A. The Man Christ Jesus who was of the seed of Abraham according to the flesh and the Son of God according to the Spirit his flesh is distinct from you who live in envy whose flesh is as the flesh of Horses and as the flesh of Dragons who devours you know not the holy flesh of Christ but the man of God doth who is born of the spirit and the flesh of Christ is his meat and they that believe in him are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh you ignorant dreamers how then is his flesh distinct But do you feed upon ashes as your Father doth the cunning Serpent for Gods Wisdom is hid from you 4. Or shall deny the Scripture or the written Word to be the Rule A. We own the

Scriptures which you ignorantly call the written Word as though all the Scriptures were but one word the Word is Christ which was revealed in the Saints which spake the words forth and he is the Way and the Rule of life to them that believe and his spirit is the leader and guider into all truth and the Rule of obedience and you are they that denies the Scriptures and the Rule of holy walking you own it in words and in works deny him witness all your forementioned deeds of darkness and hypocrites and dissemblers cryes Scripture is the Rule of Faith and Life when their life that they live stands in sin wickedness and deceit 5 Or shall openly revile either Church or State or Church-Worship Church-Officer or Ordinances Divine or the publike Assembly of the people of God to worship him according to the prescription of the Gospel A. Your Church and State Church-Officers and Ordinances and Assembly and your Worship is manifest to be a place where Dragons are who stings devours kills and destroys Gods Workmanship and he that speaks for you God will condemn him for he that justifies you justifies the wicked and that is an abomination to the Lord And let the Nation see your prescription in that which you call your Gospel where Christ commanded the Churches or gave his Disciples such prescripts as these If the rest of the Jews or Gentiles will not come to your Assemblies fine them 5 s. a day and 10. s. a day or 40. s. a Month and if any speaks anywhere in my Name but where you meet let him that speaks be fined 5. l. and if they will not pay fetch away their Goods Beasts Horses break open their Houses and take Hatchets and beat down their doors and take the names of them that meet and hale them to the Court and there fine them 5. l. a man and send them to prison and load their backs with stripes and whip them severely and if any refuse to doff his hat and will not say Reverend Mr. Peter and reverend Mr. Paul and reverend Mr. John or If it please you Mr. Mark or Mr. Andrew and Philip then go you to the Judgement-seat and tell the Magistrates and let them indict them and put in a great deal of aggravating words as Mutiny Sedition Insurrection Rebellion and the like and let them say unto them You are against the laudable custom of our Countrey and last of all banish them and if they return again put them to death and let them say as Richard Bellingham the Deputy-Governor of Boston said to John Copeland and John Rous and Christopher Holder We commanded these men not to come again but they are returned again in contempt of the Magistracy and Ministry and so whatsoever comes upon you loss of ears or loss of life your blood be upon your own heads I say Let the Regions know your Prescript in your Gospel and your Rule of life for these practises and then you will convince the Quakers and satisfie all people 6. Or shall entertain any such in a way of conventicle or private meeting or shall resort unto the conventicle of any such who are known refusers to come to the publike Worship of God in the publike Assembly A. These men would have banished Paul he was a man publikely known to refuse to go into the Temple and Synagogues except to lead people out of them and yet they have got his words in their mouths and these men would have imprisoned the Church of Corinth and Galatia and Thessalonica and the Church of Antioch for they met in houses and denyed the rest of the Synagogues of the Jews and the Temples of the Gentiles and they had private meetings and often by the sea-side Mountains and other places although Bishop Land be dead his spirit speaks and acts in New-England he made such Articles as these against Conventicles and told of the laudable Customs and Worship of the Nation but these men hath far exceeded him in cruelty they have done more wickednesse in one year then he in seven 7. Or shall openly contemn revile or disobey or disswade others from yeilding subjection to the Christian Magistrate as at present established in this Jurisdiction A. Shame and contempt is already come upon the Magistrates of that Jurisdiction and shall more and more encrease who rules not for God but for the Murderer and they who have established wickedness by a Law none can be subject to them nor their Laws for conscience-sake for they that do wrongs their own souls but rather bear their testimony against and suffer under it till God arise and plead their cause It may be they will call this Sedition and Rebellion 8. Or being questioned by lawful Aut●ority shall refuse to give direct Answers or plain to the aforementioned particulars together with their obstinate persisting in any of the premised D●linquencies A. So here is an end of the Inquisition if they will not give plain Answers then to prison but in plainness that is if they will not accuse themselves then to prison so whether answer or not answer directly or indirectly all 's one if they answer contrary to these Articles then Hereticks to prison and whip them and fine them 5. l. and if they will not accuse themselves but answer as the Lord shall give them to answer when asked by such tempters as these then they conclude their Answer is not plain but indirect and if they say nothing at all then conclude them guilty send them to prison cut off their ears whip them with Ropes whip them with Whips take their goods banish them from their Estates and Families and if they return put to death and then say Whether loss of ears or loss of life come to you your blood be upon your own heads Pilate was not clear though he said the like as Richard Bellingham O Lord arise and plead the cause of the poor of the flock for ungodly men is risen up in the pride of their hearts and blasphemes thy Name and thy Tabernacle and them that thou hast redeemed they seek to destroy Here follows a Narration of the sufferings of many godly people of Salem The particulars was sent from one Friend to another DEar Friend I sent thee in the last Information the Fines of the Court to be levied upon Friends which was 40. l. 15. s. but I was likely to have sent thee a larger sum the Marshal promised me a Copy but was not so good as his word for that which I saw in his hand which he hath Order to take I do believe will amount to above one hundred pounds He did secretly attach half of my house while I was in prison I never heard of it till now so when I heard of it I went to him to see whether it were so he told me he had done it and attached my ground about it and told me if I would pay about ten pounds I might have it

W. Brand one hundred and seventeen strokes vvith a pitch Rope on the fifth day vve vvere put in prison and on the seventh day vve suff●●ed and after a vvhile a Warrant vvas given forth that if vve vvould not work we should be whipt once in every three dayes and the first day have fifteen stripes the second time eighteen and the third time twenty one So on the seventh day vvas a Week after our first whipping four of us received fifteen stripes a-piece and on the fourth day after we were released So we returned to Road-Island and continued there a while and after some time H.N. went into Plymouth-Patten to Friends there and I was moved to come to Boston so that day five Weeks as I was released that day five Weeks I was put in again where was Christopher Holder and John Copeland and we do lye according to their Law to have each of us an ear cut off But we are kept in the Dominion of the Lord over all our Enemies This is the proceedings of the great professors of New-England whose fruits declare to all sober people what stock they are of even of Cain that hated and slew the just John Rous. Here followeth the Tryals and Examinations and Sufferings of the three Servants of the Lord Christopher Holder John Rous John Copeland and the cruel and unmerciful proceedings of John Indicot who is called a Governor of Boston and their Court called The Court of Assistance but it is of their Father the Devil's work against the above said three servants of God and harmless and innocent Lambs of Christ It came to pass that we two Christ Holder and J. Copeland being moved of the Lord to go to Boston set forth thitherwards on the third day of the sixth month ●nd the same day came to a Town in that Jurisdiction called Dedham and it being near Evening we turned into the Ordinary where we lodged that night and early in the morning came two Constables with some others and demanded of us whither we were going our answer vvas We intend to pass towards Boston Then they said they had a VVarrant to bring us to Boston before the Magistrates Then we required to see it but they would not shew us it so after some hours one Constable and two men with him had us to Boston and brought us to the Governor's house who when he saw us being much perplexed in spirit said in a rage You shall be sure to have your ears cut off then he asked our Names so we told him then he said You have been twice here before and said he looked upon it to be a great judgement of God to them that we were suffered so often to come amongst them to trouble them and asked us why we came seeing you know we would not receive you We answered The Lord hath commanded us we could not but come Then he maliciously said The Lord commanded you to come it was the Devil Then he urged us to prove our call by the Scriptures Our ansvver vvas Our Names are not vvritten in the Scriptures The Governor whose name is John Indicot said he did believe we spoke true for he did think our Names vvere not vvritten in the Scriptures and farther said It vvere something if you could make it appear to me that you are sent of God We answered That vvhile he stood in unbelief though vve speak never so plain to him yet he would not believe it Then one Nathaniel Williams standing by said to this effect Seeing that you knew we would not receive you it must needs be out of malice that you came Our answer was That the Lord God who searcheth the hearts of all knows that we came not in malice but in obedience to him Then J. Indicot asked us Whether vve did believe that Christ's body vvas in heaven Ans. We knovv that his body is in heaven So he sent for the Gaoler and bid him take us avvay and said we should hear from them to morrovv So he had us away and put us in the House of Correction as they call it So on the morrow being the fifth day of the sixth month they had a Court at Boston before vvhich we were brought When we came before them they caused our hats to be taken off and throvvn on the ground Then J. Indicot said You were before me yesterday and I asked you to prove your call but you did not because you said I would not believe it therefore I ask you to prove it before the people it may be they wil believe you Then we asked them if they vvould believe us when we spoke the truth I I if you prove it by Scripture we must as before To prove our call hither by express Words of Scripture we cannot because our Names neither this place is not mentioned in Scripture but that vve have examples in Scripture from the Prophets and Apostles who in obedience to the Lord travelled from place to place as we do that we can prove Then I. I. laughed and said Are you Prophets and Apostles Then he asked us whether we did believe that Christ had a body in heaven distinct from the body of his Members VVe answered That Christ's body is divided from his members we do not believe I.I. turned to the people and said They mea● his mystical body Then we said VVe know no such word in Scripture as Mystical and put them to prove by Scripture that Christ had two bodies Then one stood up like a Priest and asked us whether we did not believe that Christ had a body in heaven made of Sinews Flesh and Bone distinct from the body of his Members Then we asked what the body of his Members was To which they gave no ansvver Then the Secretary made a speech to this effect saying That these men have been here twice before and have received the Law and was sent out of this Jurisdiction and now are come the third time And so vvrote an Order and delivered it to the Governor who delivered it to the Gaoler and bid him take us away and keep us according to his Order but they read not the Order to us then So he had us away to the house of Correction again and the next morning the Gaoler came to us and asked us to work Then we required to see his Order so he shewed us it The Order was to this effect To the Ke●per of the House of Correction You are by vertue hereof to take into your custody the body of Christopher Holder and John Copeland and them safely to keep close to work with Prisoners Diet onely until their ears be cut off and not suffer any to converse with them whilst they are in your custody Then he asked us again to work and said As you are rational men I would wish you not to put your bodyes to so much sufferings saying he had an Order to have us whipt twice a Week if vve vvould not work and shewed