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A66680	The danger of tolerating levellers in a civil state, or, An historicall narration of the dangerous pernicious practices and opinions wherewith Samuel Gorton and his levelling accomplices so much disturbed and molested the severall plantations in New-England parallel to the positions and proceedings of the present levellers in Old-England : wherein their severall errors dangerous and very destructive to the peace both of church and state ... together with the course that was there taken for suppressing them are fully set forth, with a satisfactory answer to their complaints made to the Parliament / by Edw. Winslow of Plymouth in New-England.	Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3035; ESTC R33679	88,220	108

that Winter and then in regard of their wives and children who were like to be much distressed by their husbands absence they were set at liberty and banished upon paine of death if they were found in any part of our jurisdiction After the Court had passed sentence upon them for their confinement we sent to fetch so many of their Cattle as might defray the charges they had put us to which amounted to about one hundred and sixty pounds but the Cattle came not to so much for we left every of them a part for the support of their families and some of them had no Cattle at all The Letters follow Mooshawset Novemb 20 1642. To our Neighbours of the Massachusets VVhereas we lately received an irregular note professing its forme from the Massachusets with four mens names subscribed thereunto as principall authors of it of the chiefe amongst you We could not easily give credit to the truth thereof not onely because the conveyers of it unto us are knowne to bee men whose constant and professed acts are worse then the counterfeiting of mens hands but also because we thought that men of your parts and profession would never have prostrated their wisdome to such an act But considering that causlesse enmity you have against us the proofe wherof every occasion brings forth Wee cannot but conclude that no act so ill which that ancient mother will not bring forth her seed unto For wee know very well that it is the name of Christ called upon us which you strive against Thence it is that you stand on tip-toe to stretch your selves beyond your bounds to seeke occasion against us So as you might hide your sinne with Adam bearing the world in hand it is not your desire to contend with us But some civill breach in our courses which you onely seeke to redresse Whereas neither you nor any in way of truth can finde wherewith to bring us under the Censure of a disorderly course of walking amongst men And as for the way of that ancient spirit of accusation of the brethren we weigh it not knowing him to be a lyer or in the abstract a lye from the beginning yea and the father of it also which thing you cannot know though it were told unto you Whereas you say Robert Cole William Arnauld with others have put themselves under the Government and protection of your Jurisdiction which is the occasion you have now got to contend we wish your words were verified that they were not elsewhere to be found being nothing but the shame of Religion Disquiet and Disturbance of the place where they are For we know neither the one nor the other with all their associates and Confederates have power to enlarge the bounds by Kinge Charles limited unto you Behold therfore in this your act a Map of your spirituall estate to use your owne phrase for we know that the Spirituality of your Churches is the Civility of your Commonweale and the Civility of your Comonwealth is the spirituality of your Churches the wisdome of man being the whole accomplishment of them both of which Tree you delight dayly to eate finding it faire and beautifull to gaine Conformity with your maker In these your Dissembling subjects grossly profane amongst us but full of the spirit of your purity when they are with you you may remember the brand your selves have set upon some of them the Cause wherof was never yet removed though it abide not upon their backe Nor yet the Cause of your Commitment of them unto Sathan according unto your Law for if that were removed you should doe them wrong in not resuming your vomit into its former Concoction againe Nor are we ignorant of those disgracefull tearmes they use and give out against you behind your backes their submission therfore can bee to no other end but to satisfie their owne lusts not onely conceived but in violent motion against their Neighbours who never offered the least wrong unto them only the proposition of Amity is object sufficient for these mens enmitie Even so the passions of sin which are by the Law having force in your Members you going about with great labour and industry to satisfie them by your submission unto the word of God in your Fasting and feasting in Contributing and treasuring in retirednesse for Study and bowing of the backes of the poore going forth in labour to maintaine it and in the spirit of that hireling raising up your whole structure and edifice in all which you bring forth nothing but fruit unto death some labouring for a price to give for the keeping of their soules in peace and safe estate and Condition and some to have their bodies furnished with riches honour and ease and further then the Lord Jesus agrees with these you mind him not nay you renounce and reject him and with these according to your Acceptation and practice he holdes no Correspondency at all being the Consultation and operation of that his onely adversarie man being that which you depend uppon and not the Lord Crying o●t in way of Elevation and aplauding his ministers when in the meane time you know not what nor who they are professing them under a mediate Call of Christ though formerly they have beene Called immediately by him herby showing your selves to be those that destroy the Sacred ordinance of God For if you make Christ to be that to day in stateing his ministers which he was not yesterday and that in the tyme of the Gospell also to speake acording to your Law to be found in them both you therin affirm that he hath beene that to his ministers which now he is not and to make the Son of God to have beene that which now he is not is to make a Nullitie of him not to be at all for he is the Lord that changeth not no not a shadow therof is found in him so that you plainely Crucifie unto your selves the Lord of glory and put him to an open shame So that as you know not how Christ conversing with his father in heven is found on the earth amongst the true worshippers no more do you know how in his conversing with Nicodemus on the earth he concludes himselfe to be in heaven with his father On this foundation hangeth the whole building of your Doctrine concerning the sufferings of Christ you Annihilate the Cros● then the which the Saints have no other Consolation and prepare no better a place then Purgatory for the honourable fathers of our Lord For you conclude that Christ dyed in the Decree and purpose God in the time of the Law but actually onely when he hanged on the Crosse in the dayes of Herod and Pontius Pilate that hee was crucified in the ●●pes and shadowes of the law but in the truth and substance when hee appeared borne of the Virgin Mary So must you also conclude that the fathers under the law were only saved in purpose and Decree in Type and shadow

the price of a wife and safetie of his owne life adjoyned carryed a Minister along with them of the same rise and breeding together with your owne to adde unto the blood so savagely and causelesly spilt with a company of such as you take pleasure to protect for they are all of one spirit if they have not hands in the same act we say their death is causelesse for wee have heard them affirm that shee would never heave up a hand no nor move a tongue against any that persecuted or troubled them but onely indeavour to save themselves by flight not perceiving the nature and end of persecution neither of that antichristian opposition and tyrannie the issue whereof declares it self in this so● and lamentable Note good Reader that I had order to publish these two Letters of his as well literatim as verbatim but because their Orthography was so bad as it would scarce have been understood I left it to bee corrected by the Printer but no word to be changed And the reason of the word here left out is because it was worne out and so soyled in the originall as wee could not read it and thought good rather to leave it a blanck then to put in a word of our own that was not theirs In the next place I present thee here with certaine Observations collected out of both their Letters by a godly and reverend Divine whereby the Reader may the better understand them and indeed try the spirits of these men whether they be of God or no. Now these his Observations are ranked into three Heads Viz. First their reproachfull and reviling speeches of the Government and Magistrates of the Massachusets which in Gortons Booke hee pretends so much to honour because their Government is derived from the State of England and therefore I desire thee to take the better notice of it The second Head of his Observations directs thee to their reviling language not onely against that particular Government and the Magistrates of it but against Magistracy it selfe and all Civill power And in his third Head thou art directed to take notice of their blasphemous speeches against the holy things of God All which because they are of great concernment I beseech the Reader to take a little paines to compare them with Mr. Gortons and his Companies Letters Certaine Observations collected out of both their LETTERS I. Their reproachfull and reviling Speeches of the Government and Magistrates of the Massachusets 1. THey say our Magistrates did lay their Wisdome prostrate in sending Letters to them which they scornfully call an irregular Note 2. That they bare them causlesse enmity the proofe whereof every occasion brings forth 3. They flily call them the seed of the ancient mother i. of the enmity of the Devill 4. That they know it is the name of Christ call'd upon them against which our Magistrates doe strive 5 That they goe about to hide their sin as Adam bearing the world in hand that they desire not to contend but to redresse something in point of Civill peace 6 That they stand on tip-toe to stretch themselves beyond their bounds to seek occasion against them 7 That those who accuse them are accusers of the Brethren Satan being a lyer and the father of it which thing our Magistrates cannot know though they be told of it 8 That this act of theirs to treat about their land is a mappe of their spirituall estate 9 That they delight daily to eate of the forbidden fruit which they call mans wisdome out of which our Churches and Common-wealth is formed to gaine conformity with their maker 10 They scorn at their purity and godlinesse telling them that Cole and Arnold their dissembling subjects are full of the spirit of their purity 11 They doe not say plainly that our Magistrates are dogs but compare them to dogs in resuming their vomit into its former concoction by receiving Cole and Arnold under our jurisdiction 12 That the whole structure and edifice among us i. the Churches and Common-wealth is raised up in the spirit of an hireling and that by submission to the Word of God in fasting feast-sting retirednesse for study contributing treasuring i. for Church uses in severall Churches they doe nothing else but bring forth fruit unto death 13 That farther then the Lord Jesus agrees with riches honour and ease our Magistrates minde him not nay renounce and reject him 14 That they plainely crucifie Christ and put him to an open shame which the Apostle Hebr. 6. applies to the worst of men who commit the unpardonable sin and for whom men are not to pray 15 That our Magistrates are as farre from yeelding subjection to Christ as Cole and Arnold from being honourable and loyall-subjects whom they call the shame of Religion the disturbance and disquiet of the place dissembling subjects Pag. 10. as also deboist rude inhumane Nabals il-bred apostatised persons and fellonious Page 23. with many such like speeches 16 That the things of Gods kingdome are infinitely beyond the reach of their spirit nor can they heare the lively Oracle and therefore are dumb in telling Justice 17 That the Magistrates are Jewes according to the flesh and stout maintainers of the man of Sin 18 That they know our Magistrates eyes are dazled with envy and their ears open to lyes 19 That they judge them before their cause be heard 20 That in inviting them to their Courts for their equal-ballanced Justice as they scornfully call it they thereby strike at Christ their life 21 That our Magistrates are like Herod whom God smote with wormes for seeking by an out-reaching and circumventing policy to subdue Tyrus and Sidon and like Pontius Pilate and the people who out of the Judgement hall are all for mercy but in it nothing but crucifie him bee their accusations and witnesses never so false so say they in your dealings with men in way of the Jewish brotherhood your law is all for mercy to redresse reforme for preservation of soule and body doe but enter into the Common-hall then if witnesses bee but brought in and oath taken though never so untrue your Consciences are purged by law and your power must have tribute paid it so far as to brand mens names with infamy and deprive women and children of things necessary 22 That the professed clemency and mercy of their law is as much as in them lyes to send both soule and body downe to Sheol i. the grave and hell for ever without redresse and all hope of recovery 23 That their houre and power of darknesse is knowne what it is either to have mens persons in admiration because of advantage or else to seek all occasions against them with all manner of reproach and ignominie 24 That their wayes are wicked and to bee abhorred because in their professed course the two witnesses are slaine by them and put to death and that all their glory is to keep