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A58837	A narrative of the planting of the Massachusetts Colony anno 1628 with the Lords signal presence the first thirty years : also a caution from New-Englands apostle, the great Cotton, how to escape the calamity which might befall them or their posterity, and confirmed by the evangelist Norton, with prognosticks from the famous Dr. Owen concerning the fate of these churches, and animadversions upon the anger of God in sending of evil angels among us / published by Old Planters, the authors of the Old mens tears.	Scottow, Joshua, 1618-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing S2099; ESTC R33724	39,314	86

description of the Ruling Flders Office and Work then here is declared also in the Plat-form of Church Discipline It 's therefore no Humane Invention nor Apochriphal Practice of our Predecessors It 's Remembred by some of the Old Planters Children that there were such men when they were young that were called Ruling Elders but what men they were or what was their work they professed they could not tell What a shame is it to our Churches that through Disuse Misuse and Nonuse of them such a question should be put by any of above Fifty Years of Age now Living among us all which is affirmed for a certain known Truth The same Reverend man of God being imployed the last Narraganset Wars by our Worthy Elders to make Report and Return to the General Court of the provoking evils then found among us did represent to them the Churches incompleatness of Officers to be one of the great evils Provocations grou●● of Displeasure unto God then among us sor● replied unto him That the country and Churc● were poor and could not maintain them he ma●● them a Ready Grave and Divine Answe● True said he were they mens Officers the● were argument in what they said but bei●● GODS Officers there was no ground for fe●● of it he having Promised and said Prove a●●try me if we could but trust him he wou●● open the Heavens and pour down his Ble●sings it 's Robbing of God we are now call●● to an account for we fear that Covetuou●ness Pride and Ambition hinders the Disc●very of our Achan The Lord pour down u●on Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and Suppli● cation and that he would open the Fountain y●● Sin and Uncleanness that Holiness unto the Lo●● may be writ upon our hearts houses and empl●ments whether Sacred or civil and upon our P●● teritys As we have cause to weep over and 〈◊〉 wail our former tears begging that they m●● be washed in the Blood of the Lamb so th● these our faint Sighs and Sobs may be Co●dial and accepted in the Blood of the eve●lasting Covenant that what we say may 〈◊〉 realized in our Souls The good Lord dire our Hearts into the knowledge of his love waiting for the Pouring forth of his Spirit 〈◊〉 on ourselves and the rising generation t●● 〈◊〉 may di●cern and by the Divine Aids there●● be enabled to do the respective work of ●●●r Generation according to the will of ●OD before these things be hid from our ●●yes That we may have the tasts of that Mercy ●●d Grace springing from the Love of the ●●ther who knows the thoughts of his own ●●art and manifests them to poor Penitents ●●at they passing through the heart of him ●●ho layeth in the Fathers Bosome may descend ●●to our hearts by the Holy Spirit dwelling 〈◊〉 us which Blessed Circulation Reverting by ●●e Operation of the same Spirit which ma●●th requests for us who know not to pray 〈◊〉 we ought and passing thro' the heart and ●●nds of our great Mediator may arrive ●●cend into the heart of the Father who is ●●e Origine and Fountain of all Blessedness ●he Father himself loving us That this Spirit may make intercession for 〈◊〉 with Groans which can't be uttered he ●●at searches the hearts knowing what is the ●●nd of the Spirit because he maketh inter●●sion for the Saints according to the Will of ●●d Oh that we might experience these ●●●ngs that this Heavenly Dove sent into our ●●arts may make us grean and mourn like ●●se in the Clefts of the Rocks that as the whole ●●eation growns and travails in pain with ●●cks stretched out waiting to be delivered ●●m their Bondage and Corruption into the Liberty o● the Sons o● God that we receivin the first fruits thereof may with Eyes an Hands lifted up wait for the Adoption eve the Redemption of our Souls and Bodies which Great Grace the GOD OF AL● GRACE Grant to Us and Our Poor Chi●dren with all his ISRAEL For the Sa●● of Our Dear LORD JESUS to who● with the FATHER and HOLYSPIRI● Be the Kingdom Power and Glory For Ever AMEN A FUNERAL ELEGY Upon the Death of the truly Reverend Mr. JOHN COTTON Late Teacher of a Church of Christ at Boston in New-England Who Died the Twenty Third was Buried the Twenty Ninth of December 1652. ANd after Winthrop Hooker Shepheards Herse Doth Cottons Death call for a Mourning Verse Thy Will be done yet Lord who dealeth thus Make this great Death expedient for us Luther pull'd down the Pope Calvin the Prelate slew Of Calvins Lapse chief Cure to Cottons due Cotton whose Learning Temper Godliness The Germane Phaenix lively did express Melancthon's all may Luther's word but pass Melancthon's all in our Great Cotton was Whilst he was here Life was more Life to me Now he is not Death hence less Death to me That Comets great mens death do oft forego This present Comet doth too sadly show This Prophet's dead yet must in 's Doctrine speak This Comet saith else must New-England break That e're it be the Heav'ns avert it far That Meteors should succeed our greatest Star In Bostons Orb Winthrop and Cotton were These Lights Extinct Dark is our Haemisphere In Boston once how much shin'd of our Glory VVe now Lament Posterity will Story Let Boston live who had and saw their VVorth And did them hot our both in Life and Death To him New-England trust in this Distress Who will not leave his Exiles Comfortless John Norton FINIS Reader Be pleased in page 18 for Christopher Gardner Read Sir Christopher Gardner ERRATA PAge 2. Lin. 11. for in Churches read in the Churches pag 6. l. 18. for graceful read grateful p. 12. l. 30. for Tarting read Parting p. ●3 l. 11. in●tead of Pectant r. Pec●ant p. 46. l. ●3 for Fathers r Father p. 48. l. 27. for Storm 〈◊〉 Scorn p. 49. l. 26. r. Internal p. 50. l. 17. ● alway p. 69. l. 29. r. Ea●th p. 72. l. 6. r. ●ints ibid l. 8. for twice r. once

the Chu●ebes as before is o●●served and being that which was agreeing 〈◊〉 the Word of God and the principles of th● Congregational Way first practised in o●● Churches for a good time since this Plat fo●● hath been Printed here and in England an● published Abroad to the World there being n●● difference between us and the other Reformed Churches whether the Church of England th● French or Dutch Churches but only in point o● Church Government as to points of Faith an● Doctrine we all agree in one this we though● needful to inlarge upon humbly fearing th● Lords present Controversy with us doth it great measure Center here viz. our deviating and receeding from that which gave us th● Name of New England viz. the Plat-Form and agreed practice of our Churches according to the Word of God The Ravening Wolves of Heresy and the wild Boars of Tyranny being chained up from Devouring the Lords poor I lock and from Rooting up his Heritage The unreconcileable Adversary le ts loose his Foxes with Fire brands at their Tails te●●urn up this peoples standing Corn which no ●aking he sent forth his Foxes the little Foxes ●o spoil this Vine in the time of its tender Grapes but the Keeper of this Vineyard neither slumbering nor sleeping took and destroy'd them ●he Watch'd Warded and every momen Watered it and none did hurt it much less threw down the Stone-Wall thereof tho● many an hard push and shuff was made at it 〈◊〉 our Jerusalem was then a Burthensome Stone their Governours like a Torch of Fire in a Sheaf many an Ebenezar Stones of help di● our Fathers then set up for which the Lords Sacro sanct Name was Celebrated This preceeding Relation is but as a few Clusters of Ephraims Grapes compared with the redundancy of Abiezer our Fathers Helpers Vintage so many unimaginable and unutterable ●acts of Favour and preventing Mercies were in the Revolution of twenty five or about thirty years space vouchsafed to our Fathers as would fill a large Volume yet not without mixture of Fatherly Corrections to evince Paternal Respects unto them as their own words writ into our Nation testify that they were by the Dew from above and Caelestial Influences kept alive and cherished as to the sequel we shall leave it to such Sprightly and Accurate Wits to perform who shall espouse it 〈◊〉 knowing that tract of time will admit liberty of freer Discourse about Matters then this Age will bear the Relator being in hazard of having his Teeth dasht out by Truth liftin● up her heeles if he come too near her as hat been Experienced and Recorded by our Nat●●ons Great Historiographer This was the time of our Fathers Love of thei● Espousals and Kindness of their Youth they wer●●hen Holiness unto the Lord and the First Fruits o●●is Increase God Rode upon the Heavens fo● their help they dewlt safely tho' solitarily 〈◊〉 our Issachar Rejoyced in their Tents and ou● Lebulon in his Going forth but have we brought Sacrifices unto the Holy Mountain though we have sucked of the abundance and treasures of ●he Sea to the enriching of divers This Tribe ●ath aboundantly multiplied to the admiration of all Beholders So as a noted Belgian one of the East India Company who above twenty years since have●ng heard of the fame of thi● place purposely ●ame over to take a view of it and past through ●ll the parts of it and made a particular remark ●pon our sea trade and the incredible number ●f small Vess●ls he then saw besides some Ships ●f considerable Burthen belonging to us Nor is to be forgotten the answer made to a Messenger of the Nations an Attendant upon ●he French Court sent hither by Lewis le●rand to demand the fulfilling of the Articles ●ade at Breda between the two Crowns who ●ere to his astonishment saw what he could ●ot have believed to him it was told That ●od had founded this Sion and that the poor ●f his People did trust in him at his departure with wonderment he said Lo what hath God ●one and if his Masters servants did know how ●●e poor of this Country lived he would not ●ave one left It might be then said who so happy as new New England by the Lord their shield and Sword of their Excellency as our Report hath passed through Holland and France so that Spain is no stranger to it C. Allin appeareth by the Discourse which the Governour of Cuba had with a Prisoner of Note of ours falling into his hands concerning our being a People eminent for great Mo●ality and Reformation but mind you said he ●ow your Children will prove and what will be●ome of them a Speech becoming a Gentleman well Versed in Sacred and Civil History Thus far of the Light and white side of the Pillar which attended us in this our Wilderness Pilgrimage the black and dark side remains ●nd we hope thus far we have cleared our Fathers from being the procurers and peccant causes of these dismal days now befallen us they according to Divine Institution walked with God they did Justice and Judgment and then it was well with them The Lord took delight in our Fathers and they in him we have left the Lord he hath forsaken us they Walkt with him we contrary unto him he Subdued their Pequod and Narraganset Enemies before them gave their Country into our hands but now the Sce●● of Affai●s is turned we are made a Spoil 〈◊〉 our Haters to our Popish and Pagan Neig●●bours a Derision we are sold and scattered 〈◊〉 mong the Heathen can we say All this 〈◊〉 befallen us yet have we not forgotten thee n●● have we done falsely in thy Covenant this w●●● fear is our mortal wound viz. the forget●i●● of our Fathers and of our God we have dea● falsely in our own and their Covenant wh●● stipulated for us this is the quarrel which th● Holy God is now avenging Hath Chittim 〈◊〉 Canada chang'd their Gods Do we thus Requi● the Lord Oh Fo●lish People and Unwise O poor New-England especially Boston i● the Day of it poor to a proverb of being th● lost Town in our first Founding those of ●ther Towns enquired how the Mean On● lived here the Rich had their Farms Abroa● to Subsist by but as for the poor how coul● they subsist The Answer was their Ministry was so sweet unto them and the Bread of Lif● so savoury to their Souls that they forgot thei● Bo●ily Food so welcome was Christian Society to them that he who had but an Acre of Lan● for his House Lot parted with one half of i● to a desirable Neighbour he that had but hal● an Acre did the like Thus were we increast● so as instead of a desolate place where ou● Fathers found no Town to dwell in they Cri●ed unto the Lord hungry and thirsty who le● them forth by a right way that we are become 〈◊〉 small City of Habitation God gave some ●f them then a particular Faith upon Psalm

A NARRATIVE Of The Planting of the Massachusets COLONY Anno 1628. With the LORDS Signal Presence the First Thirty YEARS Also a Caution from New-Englands APOSTLE the GREAT COTTON How to Escape the Calamity which might Befall them or their POSTERITY And Confirmed by the EVANGELIST NORTON With Prognosticks from the FAMOUS Dr. OWEN Concerning the Fate of these Churches and Animadversions upon the Anger of God in sending of Evil Angels among us Published by Old Planters the Authors of the Old Mens Tears Psalm 78.2.3 4. I will utter dark sayings of Old Which we have heard and known and our Fa●hers have told us c. Jer. 6.16 Thus saith the Lord stand ye in the ways and ●ie and ask for the old paths where is the good way walk ●herein and ye shall find rest for your souls but they said ●e will not walk therein ●oston Printed and Sold by Benjamin Harris at the sign of the BIBLE over-against the ●lem-A●ch●r 160● To the Honourable Simon Broadstreet Esq Late GOVERNOUR of the Massachusets-Colony Honoured Sir THE Long Experience of your being the on● Surviving Antiquary of us Nov-Angle the Prime Secretary and Register of our civil a● sacred Records and the Bifronted Janus who saw t● Closure of the Old and the Overture of this Ne● Albion World One who in your Juveni strength ingaged your All to Raise and Bu●● up the Arduous Hazzardous Structure of th● then despised and despicable Fabrique so as its o● servers said of it what will these Feeble me Build if a Fox go up he shall even break dow● the stone-wall of which themselves and all is Spectators must now say Lo what hath Go● done That the Great GOD did then select and adap● Your Person and Enrowle your Name among th● Nursing Fathers of this his Out cast Sion whos● Names are imbalmed to Eternity that you have through nine hard Apprentiships of above sixty years durance in the service of your Generation and faithful discharge of that trust for so long a season 〈◊〉 as hath Rendred you a MOOT-MAN 〈◊〉 be dignified with the highest Honour this peo●●● were capable to confer Whither should this narrow Narrative go to ●ake its address for Patronage and Avowry of its ●erity but to Your Honours feet there to Prostrate ●nd submit it self to the touch and test of the Ly●●an Stone thereof its substance being extracted out 〈◊〉 the Records and the rest founded upon the Pubshers certaine knowledge and observation As for the Censure of the whole or part to be the ●elyrious dotage of Bis Puerile and Superannuated ●rains let such please to satisfy themselves with ●●eir own Speculations But for Your Venerable Self that the Ancient of ●ays and the God of the Spirits of all flesh would ●●ase to renew Your Age as the Eagles so as ●●u may be Our New-England Nestor that the ●●cays of Your outward may be made up by recruits 〈◊〉 fresh Anointing from above upon Your Inner man ●●at Your Dayes may be prolonged to remain in the ●●●st of those who actually are Our Fathers Our ●athers the Chariots of our Israel and the ●orsemen thereof and until you are become a full ●●pe Sheaf fit to be safely laid up in Your Lord 〈◊〉 Masters Garner Is the Daily Prayer of Your Honours Humble and Obliged Servant J. S. A NARRATIVE Of the Planting of the Massachusets-Colony c THE Late Series of Divine Disp●sations tending not only to 〈◊〉 dissolving of the Cemer●● but 〈◊〉 the Subverting of the Basis of t●● Fabrick which the Wonder●●● Worker hath here so stupendiously erected n●● to the Cropping off their Branches but to t●● Rooting up of the tender Plant which the He●venly Father here so graciously hath Plante● hath put some of the Old Relict Plante● upon smiting on our thighs and serious co●siderations of what provoking evils we ha●● committed and what special sins God no●● would bring to our Remembrance whereb● we have so highly displeased our Benig ●●l and Gracious Father thus tremenduously ●reat us the Aspect of Providence so ter●y varying from what formerly it was ●●nt to be puts us into an amusing amaze●nt And being in this perple●ed Laby●th of Distracting thoughts of heart there 〈◊〉 darted into our Meditations a Caution ●ich above Eight Septenaries of Years past ●●me from the first Seraphical Doctor of ●●cton Church Mr John Cotton whose name in ●●urches is as Ointment powred forth and if 〈◊〉 word of his successor may pass for Current 〈◊〉 was the greatest Luminary in our New-Eng●●●d Orbs and a great Prophet and the truth is 〈◊〉 most intelligent of those times took them ●●th for no less he in his funeral Elegy upon 〈◊〉 death gave him both these ti●les and De●nting upon Gods Magnifying him in his sick●●ss not only in the sight of this Israel but of 〈◊〉 great part of the discerning world by set●●●g up a Caelestial Flambeau in the Starry Re●●on whither a Signal Minatory or Monitory ●●t may be both the next age will better know ●●directly followed the Reer of the Pleiades the Rising Progress and setting of the Seven ●●●ars as if i● had steer'd their Course 〈◊〉 the most strict observers took notice of he ●●mself on his death bed being Informed of it ●plyed that it did portend to the state of these ●hurches this Comet appeared not only in the ●●ne of his sickness but until his interment and then disappeared thereby Performing the H●●ourable Respects of those Stately Obsequi●● which are only due and not done to any 〈◊〉 to Persons of greatest honour as to the Princ●● Notables and Scavants of the times had the but a shadow of the least Pretext to such thing befaln the Ignation Peter Cotton t●● Famed Jesuite in his life or death it had be●● beyond dispute that his Preference in their R●bricke or Saints Calender had been befo●● Loyala their first Founder This Worthy man of God's successor Reve●end Norton thus versified of him This Prophet's dead now must in 's Doctrine speak This Comet saith Else Must New-England break How near New-England now is to its brea●ing the All-knowing One only knows b●● the muteness of this Prophets Doctrine is wi●● all solemnity and sadness of Soul to be Lamented This Venerable Seer whose method was 〈◊〉 go through the Books of Scripture he Entre●● upon and had in his Ministerial Course i● both Bostons been lengthened our to little le●● then forty years went through near the whole Bible he was then upon Acts 7. concerning Stephens Discourse before the Council about the History of Israel the Church in the Wilderness taking up the Tabernacle of Molock● ●●d the Star of their God Remphan Figures ●hich they made to Worship whereupon ●ods Threatning immediately followed And 〈◊〉 will carry you away beyond Ba●ilon Shewing ●●at this provocation was so great as God then ●●reatned them with the Babylorian Captivity which befel their Posterity divers hundred ●ears after he notified the time when the ●lace where and the persons