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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

sanctified to finde pardon of sinne 1 Iohn 1. 9. 6. Against Christ Jesus himselfe they condemne our doctrine for affirming that Jesus Christ actually dyed and suffered onely in the dayes of Herod and Puntius Pilate when hee hanged on the Crosse and that hee was crucified in truth and substance onely when hee appeared borne of the Virgin Mary and for this doctrine wee are condemned as Wisards and Necromancers Now what is this but to overthrow not onely the being of Christ in the flesh making him no other then such an one as actually suffered from the begining of the world and shall doe to the end of it but also overthrowing all faith and hope of salvation in the messiah who was incarnate in the dayes of Herod and Pilate and in his death and sufferings and that one perfect offering then once for all Heb. 10. 14. The reader may therefore be pleased to take notice that being asked in open Court what was that Christ who was borne of the Virgin and suffered under Pilate one of them answered that hee was a semblance picture or a shadow of what was and is done actually and substantially in Christians and hence the meaning of the words may bee gathered Pag. 11. which otherwise the wise reader may thinke to bee non-sence viz. that they are Wisards and Necromancers who raise a shadow without a substance viz. to make Christ to bee slaine in types since the world began or who raise the substance of him who dwels in light without a shadow making no more of Christ but a semblance and shadow as themselves call it for further explication of which they affirmed in open Court that as the Image of God in Adam was Christ for God they said had but one Image so the losse of this Image by man was the death of Christ and therefore 't is no wonder if they deny Christ to dye actually onely when crucified under Pontius Pilate because man sinned actually which they make to be Christs death long before meane while the reader may take notice with a holy astonishment and horrour of the heavy curse of God in blinding these bold men with such a palpable and grosse spirit of delusion and mad phrenfies who will make mans sinne and fall which is the cause of perdition of men to be the cause of the Salvation of man for so Christs death is which they blasphemously make mans sinne to bee For further proofe that they make little use of Christ and his death then as hath been said their owne interpretation of the slaying of the two witnesses Pag. 17. 18. seemeth to confirme for they make these two witnesses the life and the death of Christ in men the life of Christ they call his strength and the death of Christ they call his weaknesse viz. as it is and appeares in weake foolish ignorant unexperienced and ill-reported of men and therefore they blame us for killing of Christs death for it seemes it is such a death as may bee killed in that wee chuse honourable wise learned men and of good report to place of rule excluding others Now some of these blasphemies might have been the better borne if they had let Christ and his death alone and his word alone but to call the holy word and Sermons of Salvation tales the Sacrament an abomination madding and making drunke the world to call the Ministers of Christ who dispense Word and Sacraments Necromancers and Magicians and they who hold and beleive him to bee the Messiah and Christ who suffered under Pilate Wisards and all this in coole bloud in the open face of the Court obstinately refusing to alter a title of what they had writ let the world judge if ever Antichrist that beast spoken of Rev. 13. 5 6. did ever speake greater blasphemies against God his name and tabernacle and whether such men deserve to live that live thus to blaspheme may not such civill states that tolerate such feare that sentence of God against them as was pronounced against Ahab for letting blasphemous Benhada● escap with his life thy life for his life however mens charity may enlarge it felse this way yet let wisedome preserve us and make the wisehearted wary of such impostors who want not their wiles to say and unsay as may best sute their advantage for they can hold forth at some time and to some persons wholesome and orthodox truths and beare them in hand that this is all that they hold but they have depths of abomination to give to drinke when they see their seasons in such golden cups they have hidden secrets which their young Proselytes shall not presently see much lesse others for so they tell us Pag. 17. that t is not their purpose to open to every one the house of their treasures the silver and gold and spices and precious ointment nor the house of their armour because they may take them all as execrable and put them to a prophane use nor can every spirit comprehend the breadth of the land of Emanuel as they call it Pag. 12. nor know the Cherubims of glory nor the voice of the oracle from the Mercy-seate and indeed their uncouth tumorous and swelling words as Iude cals them Iude 16. like swellings and tumours of the flesh are the undoubted signes of a secret and seducing humour whereby they are fit to deceive the simple and infect the strong if men bee not watchfull The Publisher to the Reader THE reason wherefore nothing is answered to the great charge in his voluminous Postscript is because it hath been answered already by a former treatise printed but more especially because many of the friends children and kindred of the dead are in good esteeme with us whom I am loath to grieve But since by course thou art next to cast thine eye Gentle Reader upon the summe of a Presentment which the Court at Road Iland received from their Grand Jewry being present when Samu●l Gorton had so much abused their Government in the face of the Country yea in open Court their owne eyes and eares bearing witnesse thereunto they I say presented these abuses to the Court as such which they conceived ought not to bee borne without ruine to their Government and therefore besought the bench to thinke of some one punishment for examples sake as well as otherwise to bee inflicted o● the Delinquent And therefore that thou maist see the occasion thereof take notice that an ancient woman having a Cow going in the field where Samuel Gorton had some land This woman fetching out her Cow Gortons servant maid fell violently upon the woman beating and notoriously abusing her by tearing her haire about her whereupon the old woman complaining to the Deputy Governour of the place hee sendeth for the maid and upon hearing the cause bound her over to the Court The time being come and the Court set Gorton appeares himselfe in the defence of his maid and would not suffer his maid to appeare or