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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

they are and wee know them to bee such as profess the day of the Lord an unhallowed thing Now if wee have our opponant to prefer his action against us and not only so but to bee our Counsell our Jurie and our Judg for so it must bee if you bee one with them as you affirm wee know before hand how our Cause will bee ended and see the scale of your equall Justice turned alreadie before wee have layd our Cause therein and cannot but admire to see you caried so contrarie to your owne received principles For you know not how to finde Christ as a Ruling and teaching Elder both in one person therfore he is not Complete amongst you by your owne law except in severall persons and you may thank tradition else you know no more how to finde both a king and a priest in him and yet in your way of making tender of your Justice unto us you know how to become one with our adversaries so as if wee deale with them wee deale with you and if wee have to doe with you wee have to doe with them also yea further wee know that the chiefe amongst you have professed wee are not worthy to live and that if some of us were amongst you wee should hardly see the place of our abode any more Now that they have brooded upon their law to take away life they must much more bring it up in taking away all means of life Witnes our prohibition that no powder should besould unto us for our money and that in a time when you could not thinke your selves safe in all your owne self provision and worldly furniture except you disarmed a company of poor Indians whom Aaron your Leviticall Sacrificer hath made Naked as hee doth all those which triumph in a Calf though the most costly and beautifull that the Jewells and eare-rings of Learning either in Language or art can possibly bring forth your owne amazements upon meer Rumors may testifie the truth hereof so then wee are Judged by your law before our Cause bee hard or our selves brought forth under the liberties of it which thing is well pleasing unto us to have our Condition conformed unto Moses the man of God who was dead in Pharaohs account before he was brought forth and so it was with Christ our lord in the dayes of Herod also who is our life at which you strike and makes all things yea Death it self lively and advantagious unto us Wee cannot but wonder that you should read the Scripture and not finde them fulfilled in and amongst your selves when as they appeare so apparantly that he that runs may read them what think you of Herod when the Lord had delivered Peter out of prison and released him of those bonds and brought him from that thraldom which he had so Cruelly imposed upon him to gaine the favour of the Jewes and that by a power supereminent transcending the bounds of his authoritie and by a wisdom surpassing the Depth of his Counsell and policie to fynd out together with his souldiers and Champions he presently goes downe to Ces●rea and Hero● i● angry with them of Tyrus Sidon thumomachon a heavie Friend or hath a secret grudg or perturbation of mind manifested in an outreaching and circumventing policie to subdue them unto himself that he might Rule over them Finding himself fall short of power and policie to subject the word of God in the messinger of it to satisfy his owne lusts in his lordship over it he pursues with all egarnesse to make himself a god by Raigning over the bodies and estates of men yea though they be but such as Tyru● and Sidon can afford unto him to make subjects of and when they come unto him with one accord to make offer of themselves in yeelding to his affectionate and politicall project he sitting uppon the Judgment seate in his Royall apparell making his oration of what power he hath to protect them what wisdom and Counsell to minister Justice and righteousuess unto them which office belongs only unto the Lord the people with a shout crying out the voice of god and not of man the truth and substance of which Cry is this is the ordinance of god and not of man immediately the angel of the Lord smites him and hee that ever acknowledged himself to bee a worme and no man upon the earth Consumes and eates up all his pomp and glory even as those whom you account the Shame and Contempt of the people shall thorow that angell of the Covenant waste and bring to nought all those Rhetoricall though earthly Orations that are made amongst you by your so Learned studious and experienced Clarkes take for illustration of your estate as above the speech of your alderman Oliver in case of committing Francis Hutchinson to prison one of your Church-members wondering that brother Winthrop would do it before the Church had dealt with him Brother faith hee why hee is thy god man Lend your eye yet farther to parallel your practise personated in Pylate and the people when Pylat offereth Jesus unto the people to be judged they profess they have such a law as puts no man to Death they are all for mercy and forgiveness when they are out of the Judgment hall but let Pylat enter in thither and then nothing but Crucifie him Crucifie him be their accusations and witnesses never so false even so in your dealings with men in way of your Jewish brother hood your law is all for mercie to Redress reform and for preservation both of soule and bodie Do but enter into the Common hall and then as Pylat asked am I a Jew so do you Doe I sit or speake here as a brother I tro not I am now in a higher sphere then that though they be acknowledged coheirs with Christ can ataine unto therfore if witness be brought in and Oath taken though never so untrue your consciences are purged by law and your power must have tribute payd unto it so far as mens Names to bee branded with infamie estates depryving women and children of things necessarie and precious lives of men can extend themselves to contribute any thing thereunto so that the professed mercie and Clemencie of your law to exercise censures only for amendment of life and recoverie comes unto this issue as much as in you lies to send both soule and body downe unto hell for ever without redresse and all hope of recovery But your houre and the power of Darknesse is known what it is either to have mens persons in admiration because of advantage or else to seek all occasions against them to brand them with all manner of reproch and ignominie but for the truth taught daily in the Temple you know not how to streatch out your hand or exercise your ministry againstil left it become leprous and you take it back again with losse when it appeares dried and withered And wherefore reason yee amongst your selves saying

practise at Leyden viz. that one Samuel Terry was received from the French Church there into communion with us also the wife of Francis Cooke being a Walloone holds communion with the Church at Plymouth as she came from the French to this day be vertue of communion of Churches There is also one Philip Delanoy born of French parents came to us from L●yden to New-Plymouth who comming to age of discerning demanded also communion with us proving himself to be come of such parents as were in ful communion with the French Churches was here upon admitted by the Church of Plymouth and after upon his removal of habitation to D●xburrow where M. Ralph Partridge is Pastor of the Church and upon Letters of recommendation from the Church at Plymouth hee was also admitted into fellowship with the Church at Duxburrow being six miles distant from Plymouth and so I dare say if his occasions lead him may from Church to church throughout New-England For the truth is the Dutch and French Churches either of them being a people distinct from the world and gathered into an holy communion and not Nationall Churches nay so far from it as I verily beleeve the sixth person is not of the Church the difference is so small if moderately pondered between them and us as we dare not for the world deny communion with them And for the Church of Scotland however wee have had least occasion offered to hold communion with them yet thus much I can and doe affirme that a godly Divine comming over to Leyden in Holland where a Booke was printed 〈◊〉 1619 as I take it shewing the nullity of Perth Assembled whom we judged to bee the Author of it and hidden in Holland for a season to avoid the rage of those evill times whose name I have forgotten This man being very conversant with our Pastor Mr. Robinson and using to come to hear him on the Sabbath after Sermon-ended the Church being to partake in the Lords Supper this Minister stood up and desired hee might without offence stay and see the manner of his administration ●and our participation in that Ordinance To which our Pastor answered in these very words or to this effect Reverend Sir you may not onely stay to behold us but par●k with us if you please for wee acknowledge the Churches of Scotland to be the Churches of Christ c. The Minister also replyed to this purpose if not also in the same words That for his part hee could comfortable partake with the Church and willingly would but that it is possible some of his brethren of Scotland might take offence at his act which he desired to avoid in regard of the opinion the English Churches which they held communion withall had of us However he rendered thanks to Mr. Robinson and desired in that respect to be onely a spectator of us These things I was earnestly requested to publish to the world by some of thè godly Presbyterian party who apprehend the world to bee ignorant of our proceedings conceiving in charity that if they had been knowne some late Writers and Preacher would never have written and spoke of us as they did and still doe as they have occasion But what they ignorantly judge write or speak of us I trust the Lord in mercy wil passe by In the next place for the wholsome counsell Mr. Robinson gav● that part of the Church whereof he was pastor at their departure from him to begin the great worke of Plantation in New-England amongst other wholsome Instructions and Exhortations hee used these expressions or to the same purpose We are now ere long to part asunder and the Lord knoweth whether ever he should live to see our faces again but whether the Lord had appointed it or not he charged us before God and his blessed Angels to follow him no further then he followed Christ And if God should reveal any thing to us by any other instrument of his to be as ready to receive it as ever we were to receive any truth by his Ministery For he was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to breake forth out of his holy Word He took occasion also miserably to bewaile the state and condition of the Reformed Churches who were come to a period in Religion and would goe no further then the instruments of their Reformation As for example the Lutherans they could not be drawne to goe beyond what Luther saw for whatever part of Gods will he had further imparted and revealed to Calvin they will rather die them embrace it And so also saith he you see the Calvinists they stick where he left them A misery much to bee lamented For though they were precious shining lights in their times yet God had not revealed his whole will to them And were they now living saith hee they would bee as ready and willing to embrace further light as that they had received Here also he put us in mind of our Church-Covenant at least that part of it whereby wee promise and covenant with God and one with another to receive whatsoever light or truth shall be made known to us from his written Word but withall exhorted us to take heed what we received for truth and well to examine and compare and weigh it with other Scriptures of truth before we received it For saith he It is not possible the Christian world should come so l●tely cut of su●h thick Antichristian darknesse and that full perfection of knowledge should breake forth at once Another thing hee commended to us was that wee should use all meanes to avoid and shake off the name of Brownist being a meer nick-name and brand to make Religion odious and the professors of it to the Christian world and to that end said hee I should be glad if some godly Minister would goe over with you or come to you before my comming For said hee there will bee no difference between the unconformable Ministers and you when they come to the practise of the Ordinances out of the Kingdome And so advised us by all meanes to endeavour to close with the godly party of the Kingdome of England and rather to study union then division viz. how neare we might possibly without sin close with them then in the least measure to affect division or separation from them And be not loath to take another Pastor or Teacher saith hee for that flock that hath two shepheards is not indangered but secured by it Many other things there were of great and weighty consequence which he commended to us but these things I thought good to relate at the request of some well-willers to the peace and good agreement of the godly so distracted at present about the settling of Church-government in the Kingdom of England that so both sides may truly see what this poor despised Church of Christ now at New-Plymouth in New-England but formerly at Leyden in Holland was and is how far they were