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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

a Shephe●d and well may it be said that they that feed and follow such Teachers give their Money for th●t which is not Bread and their Labour for that which satisfi●s not their Souls And Increase Madder saith There is none cleansed from all Sin on this side the Grave but the Scripture saith As the Tree falls so it lies and as Death leaves Judgement fin●s and there is no Repentance in the Grave Where must they be cleansed then I know not except he believes as the Pope doth that there is a Purgatory because he saith not all their Sins for in leed the Papists do believe that their venial Sins as they call them shall be purged away there but the Scripture saith If we walk in the Light as he is in the Light we have Fellowsh pone with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin 1 John 1. 7. And ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free John 8 32. And there is therefore no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit for the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of Sin and D●ath Rom. 8 1 2. And John saith Herei● is our Love made perfe●t that we may have Boldness in the Day of Judgment because as he is so are we in this World 1 John 4. 17. and these were Men l●ving on this Side the Gra●e But Increase Madder saith there is none good no not one It is very true that t●ose that are out of God's Covenant and have none of these Heavenly Treasures in them but are as Clouds without Water Heady High minded men greedy after filthy Lucre whose God is their Belly who mind Earthly things such we have to contend with for the Truth 's sake as the Apostles had in their Day who were Enemies to the Cross of Christ then as you are at this Day I say in that State there is none good no not one and the most upright of them is as a Briar and the justest amongst them as a Thorn-Hedge I find it so but bless●d be the Lord who is my Keeper who hath redeemed me out of their Dwelling-place and opened mine Eves with many mor● and we see where you are and we know God's Controversie is with your blind Guides who cause you to err and you who are led by them who are covering your selves with a Pro●ession as the Phar●see● did but your Hands are full of Cruelty and your Hearts hardned in Persecution unto Blood and are making a Mo●k of Sin who in Derision are calling the Innocent Servants of the Living God Wolves and say you must kill them Oh ye wretched men God will plead with you was ever the Flock of Christ Jesus found in your Practice did ever the Lambs kill Wolves but they that fear God and work Righteousness are accepted of him but always suffered as Evil-doers by them who had a Form of Godliness but resisted the Power in whose Steps ye are but such as you sow such shall you reap God will not be mocked by you for the Day of the Lord is come which burns as an Oven wherein God will plead with all Flesh for his Seed's Sake which he hath and is raising up who hath said unto it live and it shall live though our Bodies may be laid in the Dust yet it shall spring forth in Thousands more So in vain do ye strive ye mortal men the Fruit of your doings will fall on your own Heads a Weight too heavy for you to bear From One that suffers by you for the Truth 's Sake Boston-Prison-House the 15th of the 4th Moneth 1667. John Tyso And Richard Bellingham it is Equity and Justice for thee to return to me the Books thou tookest from me which are mine and is Injustice in thee to take them from me therefore do as thou wouldst be done by and let thy Moderation be seen for the Lord is at hand who is no Respecter of Persons but gives unto every man according to his Doings for he hath given of his Good Spirit to instruct man but many rebel against it but it hath taught us who have believed in it as it did his People of old To do unto all men as we would they should do unto us and gives us Strength and Patience to undergo what Cruel Men may be suffered to inflict upon us who can say f●om our Hearts If it be thy will Lord Forgive them blessed be his Name forever and this is from one that hath learned of Christ and am a Christian though in Scorn by thee called a Quaker yet Quaking and T●embling I have experience of as the holy men of old had and as the Apostle exhorted the Saints to work out their Salvation with Fear and Trembling and so they that are true Christians will not wonder and mock at Quaking and Trembling but God will plead with the Uncircumcised for crying Lord Lord will not save them for it is the Doers of his Will that are just●fi●d in his Sight and Ch●ist Jesus said Except ye cat my Flesh and drink my Blood ye have no Life in you John 6. 53 And so consider thy Cruelty in keeping me here and thy Goaler William Salli●r who will not suffer a man to bring me work but as Christ Jesus said Go learn what that means I will h●ve Mercy and not Sacrifice J. T. A Copy of this fore going Paper was delivered into the Hands of 〈◊〉 ●●llingham Governour of Boston in New-England the 〈◊〉 of the 4th Moneth 1667. but no Answer I received fr●m 〈◊〉 or any of them but through the Enmity of his persecuting spirit he said I deserved to be Hanged and thus Cruelty and Wickedness they act and would bury it in Darkness with themselves but it is in my Heart to put it to publick View that Wickedness and Hypocrisie might be seen and judged and Righteousness might take place in the Hearts of the Sons and Daughters of men for the Day is come which discovers your Nakedness and will consume your Covering your Out-side Profession and hath and will shatter your old Buildings and Rase your Foundation to the Ground Ye Bloody Men how do ye stink in the Nostrils of the Holy God and are you not become a Hissing to the Nations Your Judgment slumbers not who have been stout against the Lord in his breaking forth in the Hearts of his People And you whose Hands have been dipt in Blood yea in the Blood of the Innocent Servants of the Living God and no Place of Repentance can by you be found Wo is unto you your dayes are and shall be cut off in Darkness forever but the Holy Seed which you have fought against which God hath raised and is raising up and also from amongst you shall replenish the Earth For I do believe there are Sheep which are not yet gathered which the Lord

base Dunghil Spirits in which you act And you may remember that when one of your own Members or Brethren though not in Cruelty namely John Spur beheld your Barbarous proceedings and the man 's then Christian like Deportment under the Tyranny of your Tormenter who in violent manner in the Face of the People after your Jezabel Lecture at Boston gave him Forty Stripes save one upon his naked Body the which John Spur beholding was moved with Pity and in the Brokenness and Tenderness of his Heart could do no less then take the man by the Hand and gave thanks in the Man's behalf to God who had carried him through so great an Exercise with so much Joy and Patience for which John Spur was sent for to your Seat of the Whore and Beast at Boston and there was sined for giving Thanks to God as aforesaid the Sum of Forty Shillings and this was for taking the Man by the Hand and giving Thanks to God after he had been whipt Forty Stripes save one So all People may see what blind Zeal will hurry Professors on to do drink Blood and desire to drink more and more and thirst more and more after Blood as will in time be manifest to all sober People Oh drunken Professors and Talkers of God Christ and Ordinances but possess nothing but Cruelty and Deceit How are you made drunk with the Cup of Abomination What more abominable then for men to rent and tear the Flesh off the Backs of Men and Women like Dogs and all about Religion and yet say no infallible ●pirit to be known now adays so then they themselves may be wrong as well as any Oh how have these Professors like Dragons smote with Head and Tail the false Hireling Priests the Head and the Earthly Power the Tail at all Appearances of God ever since they usurped Authority never given nor granted them by God nor man witness their Pattent given them by the King repugnant to such Cruel Proceedings against tender Consciences And how have you vented your Folly and made your Madness manifest by your base reproachful Language commonly vented like Floods after them that could not submit to your Bundle of will-Worship calling that good Island which took up as I may say your Banished and yielded to them through the Blessing of God its Increase which you commonly would call it Rogues Island and in my Hearing some of your Members commonly would say that none but Whores and Rogues went thither A base envious Term and Name by which the Rancor of your Spirits doth appear to all sober People Oh the exceeding Cruelty that appears in your Hearts and because I would have you sensible of your own Iniquity and mourn under it I may set one thing more before you in order and that is this When or soon after you had made your Decree that none should be received to inhabit within your Jurisdict●on but such as should be allowed by some of the Magistrates thinking thereby to keep up your invented B●ilding and Babylonish Tower of Will worship And how bountifully hath the Lord handed forth to you by raising up Testimony after Testimony against all your unequal Proceedings and I may here rehearse one before named viz. John Wheelwright First Saith he This Law doth leave these weighty matters of the Commonw●alth of receiving or rejecting such as come over to the Approbation of Magistrates and suspend those things to the Judgement of Man whereas the Judgement is God's Deut. 1. 17. This is made a Ground-work of gross Popery Priests and Magistrates are to judge but it must be according to God's Law Deut. 17. 9 10 11. That Law which gives that without Limitation which is proper to God cannot be just Secondly Because here is Liberty given by this Law to expel and reject those which are most Eminent Christians if they suite not with the Disposition of the Magistrates whereby it will come to pass that Christ and his Members will find worse Entertainment amongst us then Abraham and Isaac did amongst the Philistines then Jacob amongst the Sechemites then L●t amongst the Sodomites then the Israelites amongst the Egyptians These all gave leave to God's People to sit down amongst them though they could not claim Right as the King's Subjects may now That Law the Execution whereof may make us more cruel and tyrannical over God's Children then Pagans and Sodomites therefore it must needs be most wicked and sinful Thirdly This Law doth cross many Laws of Christ Christ would have us to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar 's Mat. 12. 11. but this Law will not give unto the King's Majesty his Right of planting some of his Subjects amongst us except they please them Christ bids us not to forget to entertain Strangers Heb. 13. 2. But by this Law we must not entertain for any continuance of time such Strangers as the Magistrates like not though they be never so gracious allowed of by God and Good Men except we will forfeit them our whole Estates it may be and much more then our Estates come unto Fourthly Christ commands us to do good unto all but especially unto them of the Houshold of Faith Gal. 6. 10. this Law gives Liberty to do hurt unto all especially unto them of the Houshold of Faith Many other Laws there are of Christ saith Wheelwright which this Law dasheth against and therefore is most wicked and sinful And so far John Wheelwright in his Testimony against your Law or ungodly Decree which Sayings of his are come to pass and you have exceeded Philistines Egyptians and Sodomites so it may be truly said who is like unto you Priests Magistrates and Professors of New-England in Cruelty Boldness and Presumption Oh that you would be stirred up to search what the matter is that the Lord is so displeased with you it seems to me and many more he is making you an Example to many Nations I hope and do believe it will be for good to many in these Kingdoms of England Scotland Ireland and Holland with all their Territories when they shall hear behold and consider what the Lord is doing and suffering to come to pass upon a People that made a great shew and a great talk of God Christ and Ordinances but in the very time of this great talk and profession brought forth more Oppression then Egypt and Sodom and have indeed done worse then all the Nations round about and therefore thou must drink of the Cup of terrible Amazement and Astonishment poured out by a Just Hand as from God upon thy Inhabitauts Oh New-England And the Lord God grant for his Mercy sake that the Inhabitants of our poor Lands of England Scotland and Ireland may be warned that so they may no longer follow your pernicious Ways and bring like punishment upon themselves as you oh people of New-England have done by provoking a Longsuffering God who hath indeed born long your unrighteous Ways and Doings Oh

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

drunk in and was hid through Deceit And the Lord God is making you as I may say as a Sign to many Nations that shall coolly and seriously hear and consider what you have professed and what brought forth and now you would fain hide your selves a little longer and say The Quaker is the chief Cause of our Misery and he joyns his Thresholds to G●d's Thresholds and his Posts to God's Posts and that in the open Meetings of the Quakers whose blasphemous Principles c. But ye have not printed their Principles that ye call so provoking Divine Jealousie no more then you printed Williams his Principles whom you banished nor yet John Wheelwright's Principles which set the Priests and Professors in New-England in an Uproar in the Year One Thousand Six Hundred Thirty Six But John Wheelwright spoke many things which are now come to pass and also bore Testimony to the Light Read part of his Sermon preached at Boston which provoked Jealousie but not Divine but Devilish Jealousie And in his third Use in that ●ermon did he n●t say The second Sort of People that were to be condemned are all such as do set themselves against the Lord Jesus Christ such are the greatest Enemies to the State as can be if they can have their Wills you see what a lamentable State both Church and Commonwealth will be in then we shall have need of mourning the Lord cannot endure these that are Enemies to himself and Kingdom and People and unto the Good of his Church such shall never be able to prevail against the Lord. What will be the End and Issue think you if People do set themselves against the Way of Grace and the Lord Jesus Christ This will be the Issue of it those that oppose the Ways of Grace and resist the Truth they shall wax worse and worse 2 Tim. 3. 8. they may happily proceed a great Way but the time shall come that they shall go no further and by Reason of the Agitation of things it will come to pass that the Church will be cleared and your Folly manifested unto all men so saith the Apostle It is a hard thing to kick against the Pricks Acts 9. 5. Who ever strove against God and prospered If men or women fall upon the Lord Jesus Christ they break but if the Lord Jesus Christ fall on them he will grind them to Powder If any fall upon Christ and will not let Christ alone but fall upon them which hold him and will abuse them and be buffeting the Lord Jesus Christ there is never a Stroke they give but makes Wounds in their Consciences but if they will be heaving out Christ they shall find it the heaviest Stone that ever was it will fall and grind them to Powder if People set themselves against the Lord and the Ways of Grace and his Truth this will be the Issue of it on their Part either those that set themselves against the Ways of God they will be put to silence by the Light that cometh from Christ for such Truths come with such Light and Power that they shall be so convinced as that they shall not be able to speak any more in the Case as Christ put down those that came against him so that they durst ask him no more Questions and so there cometh such a Power from the Word held forth by the Saints of God that it will strick a Fear into their Hearts that oppose it What ailest thou O Jordan that the Floods go back Tremble thou Earth at the Presence of the Lord. They that came to Christ fell back there cometh a divine Power from the Lord that turneth them all back the Lord will strick with Trembling those that come against Jerusalem or if they be not put to silence it will come to pass in time they will fall i●to a wonderful Strong Passion and will quarrel with the Saints of God It was the Case of Zedekiah with Michaiah the Question was which of them had the Spirit of God and he comes and smites the Prophet Michaiah on the Cheek but the Spirit of God is not a smiting Spirit Stephen convinced the Jews and did by the Power of the holy Ghost Evidence his Cause to be the Cause of God and they were not able to resist the Spirit by which he spake and they came and run upon him why do ye resist the holy Ghost saith he what maketh the Sin against the holy Ghost but Enlightning and setting themselves against the way of Truth and persecuting it in Malice and Wrath. It is a fearfull thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God Heb. 10. 31. For our God is a consuming Fire Let every one in the Fear of God have a Care how they set themselves against the Truth and Ways of God and the Ways of Jesus Christ for we must all appear before the Judgement Seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. Thus much of the Sermon preached by John Wheelwright in the Year 1636. By which you Professors of New England may see how prophetical he spake of what is come to pass and fulfilled on you as he said If People did set themselves to Oppose and Resist the Grace of God and his Way and Truth as you have done such shall wax worse and worse And are you not more and more enraged and crying out Blasphemy and Heresie but have not given Account what those Blasphemous and Heretical Principles are against which you have set your selves this Thirty or Forty Years And why did you not print Obadiah Horne's Principles to whom you gave Forty Stripes save one and his Fellow-Sufferer's Principles whom you also whipped in a Cruel Manner So it seems all must fare alike that sute not with your Will-worship But now of late you have printed against the Quakers but give no Account either what they say do or hold which seems to me to be very brutish and below common Civility or Manhood You see I do not so by you but plainly tell what you say do and hold and may enlarge upon all if I have been too scant in my Account neither indeed would I be willing to be otherwise dealt with in such a Case What! are you so Mad-drunk with Blood that ye care not either what you do say or print You have no need to make your selves more naked Could not your Secretary Rawsen which hath partaken with you in your Wickedness and Folly and has had a large scope of Blood with you advised you better then to put in print such a piece of Folly Why did you not set him to work and print the Quakers Abominable bl●sphemies and Idolatries as you call them that so all People might have judged of the Matters or else kept his printed Piece in New-England for People here in England even many Prophane Ones and much more sober Men and Women know the Quakers Principles and Conversation also and are not willing to close their Eyes as Professors in New-England

have and here in England l●kewise many Professors do It s well known Rawson hath Envy enough in his Heart to lay open Quakers Faults if he could find such great ones but may be he intends to wrap the Lambs in Wolves Skins like one of their Priests who was talking of the Quakers and was asked Why they should suffer so deeply or the like seeing no Evil Thing was proved against them Why said the Priest or words to that purpose in case you have a Wolf in your Trap but may be canno● prove he killed a Lamb or the like but he is a Wolf and of such a Nature as will do Mischief so he must not go and the Quaker must suffer though nothing can be proved against him o● them but in the Trap he is And may be that is the Matter that you go aboard S●ips and Rifle the Quakers and then ca●ry them into Prison and l●ck them up may be when they have been long tossed upon the Sea and would gladly enjoy a little fresh A●r and Victuals Well the Lord God against whom you have done Evil above what can be said or written with Tongue or Pen of man open your Blind Eyes yea if you could come to him who is the Light and Life of all Good Men and Women he I say would anoint your Eyes that the God of this Wicked World to wit the Devil hath blinded and then would you see as you are seen and be h●mbled before the Lord God of Everlasting Pity which hath no Pleasure in him that dyes who indeed would have all return and live A Remnant there is that know he is a very Pitiful God and a Gracious God a Sin-pardoning God a God that blots out Iniquity as it s turned from therefore turn ye all People to the Light for God is Light and his Son is Light so love the Light and ●e love God and his Son who is come a Light into the World that whosoever believes in him and follows him should not abide in Darkness nor Envy nor Anger nor Wrath nor Malice but come to Love which thinks muchless does no Evil to any man and so live in God who is Love but first they must come out of the Devil who was is and ever will be a Murderer of Mankind both Soul and Body without they turn from him and deny his wicked Spirit and indeed the Fruits of his spirit are manifest which are Anger Wrath Whisperings Evil-surmisings c. which being lived in grow to Banishings Whippings Cutting off Ears Hanging and Murdering about Religion and what not that is Aboninable and against such Wickedness there is a Law of God and Man But the Fruits of God's Holy Spirit are Quietness Meekness Lowliness Temperance Brotherly-kindness Merciful as God is Merciful against such there is no Law for all Law is for such I mean not all mens Laws or Decrees which are made against the Innocent but all Good Just and Equal Laws are not against but for all such as truly Fear the Lord and work Righteousness and abide in him who is the Author of all Good to whom be Praise forever Amen Reader be not troubled that I use the word Professor so often for it very often riseth in me so and I mean such as profess God Christ and Scriptures and Ordinances of the Gospel but live in another Spirit and them are the Professors meant but such as possess and then profess what and no more then they do possess such Professors my Soul loves and the Lord my God loves and will love for evermore ANd now I may set down some Tenents which I found written in a Book called The Elders Tenents in the Bay So if they be your Tenents ye Elders of New-England consider of them for some of them appear very uns●und if they be not then disown them and let 's have it under your Hands or if you will own part then let 's know which part and how many they are numbred from One to Forty Six Those of them which I am most dissatisfied in are thus noted ☞ on the Margin Tenent 1. The Promises of Grace are Condition●d and no Promise is absolute but h●th Conditions either expressed or implyed in the Right of which Condition the Promise is performed and so by us to be pleaded II. There are saving Preparations before Union with Christ III. The Law subdues the Will and we may too much cleave to the Gospel IV. Faith is first given to the Soul before Christ V. We are Co-Workers with Christ in our first Union VI. Sanctification is the first Evidence of our Justification ☞ VII Faith is alwayes confirmed by Signs and Promises and not by Spiritual Manifestations VIII Sanct fication is more plain and perspicuous then the Witness of the Spirit ☞ IX There are Delusions in the Witness of the Spirit X. Sanctification must be the Judge of the Witness of the Spirit ☞ XI The Witness of the Spirit is only Mediate and not Immediate ☞ XII The Nature of Man is not capable of Immediate Vision or Spiritual Manifestation ☞ XIII The Seal of the Spirit is not the Holy Ghost in us but the gracious Operations of the Spirit ☞ XIV To say that Christ is our Sanctification is a Damnable Doctrine ☞ XV. God hath tyed himself in an Everlasting Covenant of Grace to the Legitimate Seed of them that be in Church-Covenant 1 Cor. 7. 14. Acts 2. 39. ☞ XVI Children are left under an Everlasting Covenant by leaving them under Church-Covenant ☞ XVII Children are left under a Covenant of Faith by leaving them under a Church-Covenant ☞ XVIII Church-covenant reaches to a Thousand Generations ☞ XIX Children by Church-covenant are born in an Internal Covenant 1 Kings 14. 13. XX John Baptist's Faith was evident by Leaping in the Womb Luke 1. 44. XXI Children born of Believing Parents have no Right to the Seals by that Covenant your Parents entered into after their Birth XXII The Legitimate Seed of Israel were circumcised and none else ☞ XXIII There is a running-over of Grace from the Father to the Children in the way of Church-covenant XXIV The Jailer had right by Church-covenant to the Seals Acts 16. 33. XXV Faith the Cond●tion of the Covenant is before Just●fication XXVI We are justified with respect to Works ☞ XXVII The Spirit of God of it self is not a sufficient Witness although it reveal to the Soul a sure Promise except it reveal the sight of some Graces ☞ XXVIII One that hath the Evidence of Faith if he falls into some Sin it s not a season to look upon his Assurance but his Sin for Recovery XXIX That Faith that justifies my Person and will serve to believe with is not sufficient to come to a Sacrament XXX That Church-covenant is the staple commodity of New-England saith Mr. Ward of Salem or Ipswich XXXI To dismiss a Member of such a Church as holds forth a

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