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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

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

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 if 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. Man in the Pride of his Heart will not seek after God but when his Pride is sta●ned and his Lofty Look and Mind brought low then may be he will though many times it proves too late Printed in the Year 1676. 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 Wayes and Cursed Contrivances THey may remember that themselves were here accounted Dissenters from the Episcopal Worshippers and may be many of them in that Day could not in Conscience Comply with the Prelate then in power so took their Flight in that Day in which they were called to bear a Testimony against that they saw to be Evil in that Day and Time But when they came to New-England they I mean the worst and basest-spirited of them which indeed were most in Number fell to Bani●h their Fellows which could not bow to their gilded Calf of Will-worship which in short time grew a great Bull with Horns to push and gore even to the Gallows those that could not worship the Beast notwithstanding the Lord raised up a Testimony in many of their Neighbours and Inhabitants of the same Country who witnessed for the God of Heaven against their Wayes Doctrines and Worships some of which they banished in a barbarous manner others they evilly intreated and accused them of Heresie Conspiracy Muteny Faction and what n●t to hide their Deceit and cover their Persecution withal And to the end they may come to a Sight and Sense of their Abominations I am willing to set a few things in order before them and not only before them but also that all others may hear and learn and fear and do no more so wickedly lest the Anger of the just God break forth as a Flame as it is now happened among that persecuting Generation in New-England So that all may see against whom and what they have set themselves and vaunted themselves at all times even against the Appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ that he should not appear to stain their Pride in which they prided themselves above all Humanity or Tenderness either to Learned or Unlearned Male or Female Old or Young if any questioned what their Hireling Priests and Smiting Prophets said they must be banished slandered and named with reproachful Names at best but how much worse used many can witness and their own Cruelty manifest Many were the Abuses committed by them on those that went over on the same Account as themselves did and had as good a Right to live there as any amongst them although they banished them by what Power they best know that have seen their Patent but I 'le leave that a while and come to their proceeding against John Wheelwright one of the Ministers of the Country whom they charged with False D●ctrine and a Mover of Sedition and what not as you may see at large in a Book in Manuscript in which is all their Proceeding too much here to insert I 'le only give the Reader some Passages by which it may be easily understood against what they set themselves and opposed But I may first give a hint at the manner of their Work J●hn Wheelwright preached of a Light in man and of a Spirit in man at which New-England was in an Uproar and much troubled as Herod and all Judea was when they heard of Christ Jesus who is the ●ight coming into the World So a Jezebel's Fast as you shall see anon was proclaimed under pretence to seek God in this Day of Trouble the Fast was kept ●n the 16th Day of the 11th Moneth 1636. and this Pestilent Man as they deemed him John Wheelwright must preach at B●ston before the Wolves in Sheeps Clothing and indeed however it hath been or may be with him since the man then spoke and preached many sound Truths I 'le here insert some of his Sermon and let the Reader judge He exhorted the Brethren and Sisters To get Christ into their Hearts that they may be happy and exhorts his Brethren and Sisters in the Name of God To endeavour to bring Christ into the Hearts of People and then saith he you shall make the Church and your selves happy And also said That as soon as Christ cometh into the Soul he makes the Creature nothing and said he in the Gospel Works of Sanctification must be pressed no other way but as they grow from the Root Christ Jesus for it is he that worketh in you both to will and to do of his own good Pleasure and said he this is the Covenant of Grace I will forgive their Sins and write my Law in their Hearts and Inward Parts and that is the Gospel in which the Spirit of God is conveyed c. And saith he We must be Meck and Lowly as Christ was lowly and content to receive all from the Father even so must we be meek and lowly and content to receive all from Christ If Duties be pressed any other way they will be Burdens that neither we nor our Fathers were or will be able to bear therefore saith he if we mean to keep Jesus Christ we must keep open this Fountain and held forth this Light And told them in that S●rmon That the Spirit of Christ was no Smiting Spirit and so far John Wheelwright in this place with much more honest true things that were then given him to declare and which indeed he then even in the midst of Woolflsh Professors did boldly and valiantly declare and as honestly and nobly stood unto in your Court when and where you Arraigned him Judged him and Condemned him but could not disprove his Doctrine though he and others often challenged both Priests and Professors from highest to lowest and all or most you had to say was That it was contrary to the rest of the Ministers and therefore was Seditious and Mutinous But because I would be fair and not wrest their words nor meanings I 'le rehearse some of their own Sayings in open Court against Wheelwright's Doctrine exactly as I read in a Book as aforesaid and having also some Knowledge of things done in that Place of N●w-England At a Court at Boston 1636. consisting of Henry Vane Governour Twelve Magistrates Twelve Priests Thirty Three Deputies John Wheelwright was brought into the Court and accused for preaching on the Fast Day a

Covenant of Grace to be absolute without condition and the Evidence thereof without respect to condition is sinful and the nursing them up in Sin XXXII Errors that are ripe to be prayed and fasted against which tend to the Subversion of the Gospel are not fit to be named nor the Persons that hold them XXXIII To question a Ground of Faith to pray and fast against such Errors that come under a pretence of Justification to tread down Sanctification I demand how one should say Amen to a thing doubtful and to bring those Scriptures Mat. 2. 7 1 Cor. 14. 8. 16. Rom. 14. 23. is hideous Blasphemy XXXIV A Member dealt withal for an Offence which is not convinced of the Offence nor sufficient Means of Convict on who was willing to confess so far as Light was manifested and attend for more Light to conviction Jesus Christ censured not ●u●h an one for an absolute Sinner XXXV A Member under the Admonition of a Church if they come to the Sacrament are to be excommunicated XXXVI Sanctification in the Nature is permanent immortal immutable XXXVII The Image of God in Adam was not created but infused and the same way that the Image of God was infused in●o Adam Faith ●● infused ☞ XXXVIII If a Woman being a Member of a Church and dismissed t● another Church be delivered of a Child by the way that Child is a Member of no Church because born between two Churches ☞ XXXIX If upon leave from an Offi●er of a Church a Member may have Liberty to be absent to hear in another Church yet if he ask leave by a Deputy and depart he must give Satisfaction for ending a Mess●nger and not coming himself XL. To hold Justification is not laid up in my self but in God's everlasting Love witnessed in an ab●olute Promise is a doctrine of Liberty and Licentiousness a way to commit all Sins and not to be troubl●d ☞ XLI If a Man see no Christ nor no Faith if he see himself full of Mortification he may safely come to the Sacrament upon that Ground ☞ XLII What the Minister binds in Church-censure is bound and loosed in Heaven XLIII That the Covenant God made with Abraham in Gen. 17. 7. was a conditional Covenant XLIV That Faith must go before Justification as a Means to obtain Justification Gal. 2. 16. XLV That though a man be ungodly before he be called and justified yet not immediately before he is justified for he is called before he is justified Rom. 8. 3. XLVI That Christ stiles his disciples a Faithless Generation and he must needs mean of them because he saith How long shall I be with you c Mark 9. 19. QUERIES by another Hand for the New-England Priests and Elders to Answer 1st VVHether did Christ come to save mens Lives or to destroy them 2ly Whether did not Christ dye for all men to the Intent that all men through him might have Life and believe in him and be saved 3ly whether the Gospel is not a Gospel of Salvation 4ly Where did ever Christ or the Apostles make any Law to put any to Death that did blaspheme against them and would not hear them but rather left them to the Eternal Judgment and Death and the Tares and Wheat to grow together till the Harvest 5ly Whether have not New-England Priests and Elders brought forth a Monstrous Birth of the Flesh worse then Balaam worse then Core worse then Cain Herod Pharaoh and Nebuchadaczar for these never pretended themselves to be Christians and therefore my Query is whether ye New-England Priests and Professors since ye fled out of Old England into the Wilderness of New England whether you have not brought forth many Monstrous Births like Bruit Beasts like Dragons like Cockatrices like Roaring Lyons and Devouring Wolves Let the Fruits of the Birth that they have brought forth in the Wilderness speak For hath not this Monstrons Birth or Births so suddenly brought forth without the Midwise which hath been begotten by the old Serpent devoured Widdows Houses spoiled the Goods of the Innocent People of God Whipt Hang'd Banished Cut off Ears Branded with Hot irons Now if this be the Birth of the Spirit let God and Christ and the Scriptures and all Good Christians judge 6ly Whether or no if these be your Principles that are here laid down you can make them good by Scriptures and if you can in your next give us Chapter and Verse for it 7ly Whether is this t●e God that you have made in the Wilderness of New-England and worshipped it Surely Christ will break it to Powder and put it into your River to drink as Moses did Israel's Calf And over your Red Sea God's Heavenly Israel shall go dry-shod and on the Banks above it they shall stand and praise God and see you wallowing in your own Red Sea of Blood who pursue after the Blood of the Righteous to bring them into your Spiritual House of Bondage but God will bring your Counsel to nought as he did your Fore father Pharaoh and his Host For wherein do ye differ from all the Monstrous Births of the World with your Fleshly Carnal Weapons against the Birth that is born of the Spirit and the Womb of the Morning Jerusalem which is above who is free and her Children which is the Mother of us all True Christians For the most Monstrous Births which have been brought forth in many Ages in all Nations are now brought forth in New-England who out-strip the Turks and far have out-done the Bishops from whose Face you fled And how can you ever any more exclaim against the Cruelty of the Papists And have not the Christians more Liberty amongst the Turks then amongst you 8ly And whether have not you dishonoured Christianity more then the Turks in your Lives and Actions and the Jews who crucified Christ without the Gates of Jerusalem but you who go under the Name of Christians persecute and crucifie him in his Members within your Jurisdiction and every Appearance of God as they and all may see that have taken a Prospect of your Proceedings in New-England YOu Professors and Priests of New-England did the King give you Liberty for your Seditious Conventicle beyond the Seas and give you a Patent for your Liberty and that none others should have their Liberty in New-England but your selves And doth your Patent say That you must Imprison Banish Whip Spoil the Goods of all them that will ●ot conform to your Will-Worship and Blind Zeal and Self Righteousness and Formal●ties and if any do return after that you have banished them then you are to Hang them as you have done and such as come to visit them that you do imp●ison to cut off their Ears and brand them with a Burning Iron as you have done that speak against your Wicked Proceedings Let us see if that your Patent and the Scriptures will bear you out for your Practice for your Hanging and Cutting off Ears and

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