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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

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

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

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

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