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A85462	Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy. Or, innocency vindicated, being unjustly accused, and sorely censured by that seven-headed church-government united in New-England: or, that servant so imperious in his masters absence revived, and now thus re-acting in Nevv-England. Or, the combate of the united colonies, not onely against some of the natives and subjects but against the authority also of the kingdom of England, ... Wherein is declared an act of a great people and country of the Indians in those parts, ... in their voluntary submission and subjection unto the protection and government of Old England ... Imprimatur, Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused, approved, and licensed to the presse, according to order by publike authority.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1308; Thomason E360_16; ESTC R18590	106,374	127

of ●attle which they took from us was foure-score head or thereabouts besides Swine and Goats which they and the Indians lived upon during the time of their siege also breaking violently into our houses taking away our corne with other provisions provided for our Families to live upon Here followeth an other Testimony of divers of the men of Providence given under their hands set downe here verbatim for the clearing of these matters which writing is extant Providence this present Ianuary the 30.th 1644. We whose names are here under written Inhabitants of the town of Providence in the Nanhyganset Bay in New-England being requested by Samuel Gorton Randal Houlden John Wickes and John Warner with divers others of our countrey men to testifie what we know concerning their late sufferings from the Bay of the Massachusets we take our selves bound in conscience to answer their request and in a word of truth impartially to witnesse FIrst that our Countrey-men aforesaid were peaceably possessed of a Plantation at Shaw-omet amongst the Natives some ten or a dozen miles beyond this Towne of Providence Secondly that the Bay of Massachusets sent up through this Towne of Providence one Captain Cooke and his company in warlike manner who actually assaulted and besieged our foresaid Countrey-men who stood upon their own defence Thirdly that the wives and children of our fore-said Countrey-men upon these hostile courses were affrighted and scattered in great extremities and divers since are dead Fourthly the said Captaine Cooke and his company carried captive our fore-said Countrey-men through this Towne of Providence to the Bay of Massachusets Fifthly Their goods cattle houses and plantations were seized upon by the fore-said Captain and his company their cattle were part killed by the souldiers and the rest by Agents from the Bay disposed of and driven away to the said Bay of Massachusets Richard Scot. William Harris William Field Stutley Wastcote Hugh Bewit Thomas Harris William Barrowes Ioshua Winssor Iohn Field Thomas Angel William Reighnalds Adam Goodwin Now as we passed along on the way to the Massachusets which was about three-score or three-score and ten miles in the common account of men from our Plantation at Shaw-omet after they were come into the Townes within their own jurisdictions in some Townes their Minister which the souldiers brought along with them against us gathered the people together in the open street went to prayers that the people might take notice what they had done was done in a holy manner and in the name of the Lord and when they came to Dorchester there being many people gathered together with divers of their Ministers as Master Cotton and Master Mather c. there they placed us at their pleasure as they thought fit to have us stand and made vollies of shot over our heads in signe of victory z and when we were come to Boston and brought before the Governours doore the souldiers placing themselves and us as they thought fit and orderly the Governour comming forth walking throughout all the company of souldiers blessed them the word which he used as he still passed along was this God blesse you and prosper you God blesse and prosper you when this was done we were brought into the Governors Hall before the Governor Mr. Iohn Winthrope unto whom we complained how the Captain had used us contrary to our Articles but he told us what ever the Captain might expresse unto us his intent was to have us as captives and their captives now we were and unto the common Goale we must goe without either Baile or Mainprize where we continued untill the Court sate and the Countrey comming in on every side to understand the cause why they had so proceeded against us and they labouring to give the countrey satisfaction rehearsed in the ears of the people divers grosse opinions which they had compiled together out of our writing which we abhorred As that we should deny the humane nature of Christ which they gathered from this that we professed his death to be effectuall to the Fathers before the time of his incarnation in the wombe of the Virgin also that we denyed all the Churches of Jesus Christ because we could not joyne with them in that way of Church order which they had established amongst them Againe that we denyed all the holy Ordinances of Christ because we could not joyn with them in their way of administration as also that we denyed all civill Magistracie because we could not yeeld to their authority to be exercised in those parts where we lived that place being above foure and twenty miles out of their bounds which we should not once have questioned if we had beene within the compasse of their jurisdictions as it well appeared by our carriage all the time we were amongst them as also by our sundry appeals unto this state which have been denyed unto us yea and since that great favour granted and given unto that people of Providence plantations in a late Charter of civill government from this State our humble respects unto al such authority hath been made manifest to all men not only in our unanimous and joyfull imbracing of it but also some of us by the generall vote of the whole Colonie have been chosen into the place of Judicature for the orderly execution of the authority of the Charter yea some of us that are now here present at the publication hereof Now when we desired liberty to speak in the Court to answer to such things as were alleaged and read in the ears of the people such as is above with divers more to the number of about six and twenty all drawn from our writing formerly mentioned in this Treatise we denyed that we either held or had writ any such thing and desired our writing might be read in open Court that it might appear what was in it which was denyed unto us only their charges must appeare by the affirmation of the Bench for no other man nor woman appeared to testifie a word against us and when wee continued to deny the constructions they had given of our writings and abstracted from them denying them to be ours we were commanded silence Master Thomas Dudley one of the Bench standing up charging us to be silent and told us if we were not they would lay irons upon our legs and upon our hands and also upon our necks whereupon the Court for that time was dissolved no man objecting against us in the least in any wrong or injury betwixt man and man neither at that time nor in any time of all our tryall amongst them After which they brought us forth divers times before their Court which then sate more privately in a Chamber the door being kept very carefully that none should enter but only whom they thought fit to permit their Court then consisting of about a dozin Magistrates and about fortie Deputies chosen out of severall Towns as were thought fit and many of their Ministers

will not trust your selves with us upon our safe conduct we have no reason to trust ours with you upon your bare courtesie But this you may rest assured of that if you will make good your owne offer to us of doing us right our people shall returne and leave you in peace otherwise we must right our selves and our people by force of Armes Dated the 19th of the 7th M. 1643. Per cur Increase Nowell Secret The next newes wee had immediatly upon the receipt of this Writing being about our necessary imployments in provision for our families was thi● that one Captaine George Cooke with a company of armed souldiers accompanied with many Indians having Commission from the Massachusets either to bring us away by force of Armes or else to put us to the sword which when we heard we partly beleeved in regard they had given order by publicke Court long before that no Gun-powder should be sold into those parts where we lived but only to such as would become subjects to them whereby the place was not only hindred of means of defence from a forraine Enemy but also to furnish their families with such provisions as the countrey ●ffords we hearing of their approach immediatly sent a Letter to those which we heard they stiled Commissioners which proved to be the Captaine together with his officers desiring to know their intent and what their Commission was to doe in those parts signifying that if they came to visit us in way of neighbour-hood and friendship to cleare any matter or cause they should be welcome to us but if otherwise we wished them not to set a foot upon our Lands in any hostile way A true Copie of our Letter verbatim sent to the Commissioners as they were upon the way comming from the Massachusets towards Shaw-omet Shaw-omet the 28th of September 1643. To certaine men stiled Commissioners sent from the Massachusets now upon the way towards Shaw-omet whose names we know not WHereas you are sent by the government of the Massachusets under pretence of having things ordered amongst us in way of justice and equity to be distributed unto themselves consisting as they say of English and Indians and that upon this ground that we have given them an invitation to that purpose Know therefore our whole intent and meaning therein which may not beare any other interpretation in a rationall mind that as they invited us unto them as Clients to have our causes tryed by them and not as Warriors to fight with them so did we and no otherwise invite them Mistake us not therefore neither deceive your selves through their or your owne pretences for if you come to treate with us in ways of equity and peace together therewith shaking a Rod over our heads in a Band of souldiers Be you assured we have passed our Child-hood and nonnage in that point and are under Commission of the great God not to be children in understanding neither in courage but to quit our selves as men we straitly charge you therefore hereby that you set not a foot upon our Land in any hostile way but upon your perill and that if any blood be shed upon your owne heads shall it be and know that if you set an Army of men upon any part of our Land contrary to our just prohibition herein we are under command and have our Commission sealed already to resist you unto death for this is the Law of our God by whom we stand written in all mens hearts that if you spread a table before us as friends we sit not as men invective envious or male-content not touching a morsell nor looking for you to point us unto our dish but we eat with you by vertue of the unfained Law of relations not only to satisfie our stomacks but to increase friendship and love the end of feasting So also if you visit us as ●ombatants or Warriors by the same Law of relations we as freely and chearfully answer you unto death not to kill and take away the lives of men but to increase wrath and horrour the end of warre in the soules of all men that seeke after it where the peace of our God appeares not and they that worke otherwise and answer not unto this Law they are not men of truth but base dissembling Hypocrites shadowes and abominable Idols set up in the forme of men By us owners and Inhabitants of Shaw-omet This Letter being sent unto these Commissioners so stiled by them though as yet unknowne unto us by the hand of one Iohn Peise who lived amongst them in the Massachusets who having a Father in Law amongst us was willing to come and declare unto his Father out of his tendernesse towards him of the n●●rnesse of the souldiers approach and as neare as he could the end of their comming to perswade his said Father to escape for his life And when the Captaine and the rest of the Commissioners had read our Letter they returned us this answer by the same Messenger namely that they desired to speake with us to see if they could convert us to be of their minds bringing a Minister with them to accomplish their ends in such designs which if they could not then they would account of us as men ●itted for the slaughter and with all convenient speed would addresse themselves for our dispatch in the ruine of us and of our families Here followeth a true Copie of the answer made by the Commissioners unto our Letter verbatim under their hands which is still extant To our friend John Peise Having considered of the Writing you brought to us the last night our thoughts concerning it are as followeth FIrst it is our great desire that we might speake with them concerning the particulars which we were sent to them about certainly perswading our selves that we shall be able through the Lords helpe to convince some of them at least of the evill of their way and cause them to divert their course that so doing they may preserve their lives and liberties which otherwise must necessarily leade to eternall ruine of them and theirs for however through an evill spirit that hath possessed some one or two of them others are drawne into such desperate evils as is monstrous to thinke of yet having better counsell we hope they will be brought to see their weaknesse and repent of it that so we might returne and leave them and theirs in peace which is our great desire and the contrary most grievous but if there be no way of turning them we then shall looke upon them as men prepared for slaughter and accordingly shall addresse our selves with all convenient speed not doubting of the Lords presence with us being cleare in the way we are in This being our minds we intreate you to acquaint them with it speedily and if they shall who have set their names to their book doe come to us and speake with us we shall give them leave to returne without hurt

it for the cause is only in God himselfe but without such reasonings and Characteristicall impressions in mans mind the word of God could never have been implanted written or translated in us whereby we come to have the argumentations and conclusions of sonnes of God and not simply or meerly of creatures in our minds being once inlightned by him who is God and the Father of lights where ever it appeareth So that the soule of man is of farre greater sublimitie and naturall excellencie in its creation then any other creature under heaven ever had vouchsafed unto it So that there is an utter impossibility that any creature should receive the impressions of God but man alone This is a large field to walk in for according to the variety of the reasonings of the mind of man by nature which is set forth in all those wayes wherein men have walked and manifested themselves in this present world such it that wonderfull Epistle of Iesus Christ in the various writing and expression of it in the souls hearts and lives of the Saints that are in light through Iesus Christ instance in one for all the spirit of a naturall father reasons thus if my child ask bread to supply nature in the suppressing of hunger I cannot put a stone into his mouth that were cruelty but bread if so be that I have it or can procure it if the child ack fish the father cannot put a serpent into his bosome to bide and sting him but somewhat to cure and refresh him if he have it Now do but change this argument into the way of Christ and let God be the father and my self the child and then is God not man the father the bread heavenly and not from the earth the writing reasoning or argument divine and eternall not humane and temporary and so the reasnings and dictates of our spirits are translated into the arguments and dictates of the Spirit of God and the arguments and dictates of the Spirit of God are translated into a mind and spirit that speaks the very same things naturally in it self though onely in a way of death through its naturall ignorance that now it speaketh in that way of life through that light and knowledge that is in the Lord and thus Christ by sinne condemnes sin in the flesh for by those reasonings wherewith we justifie our selves naturally through that ignorance that naturally is in us by the very same arguments and reasonings we condemn our selves and justifie the Lord through that light and knowledge we have in him by Iesus Christ 2 The second thing to be observed is the certainty of this sentence laid down in the form o● an oath verily verily that is so it is or so it shall be as if he should say Amen Amen so it is and so it shall be without alteration or change and in that the word is doubled it is for the certainty of the thing as Ioseph said of Pharaohs dreame and of no lesse certainty is all true exposition and interpretation of holy Scripture whatever men may dream as Pharaoh did and knew not the meaning of it and speak at uncertainties not being resolved whether things may come to passe now or then or fall out to be thus or so in the things of God for the same spirit of truth and certainty that gives the Prophesie Proverbe Parable and advise that records the History or gives sentence divine must also interpret expound and declare the meaning thereof else is the Booke shut and sealed up unto us great folly therefore to conclude of certaintie of Scripture and of no infallibility in the interpretation thereof For no more then we know the truth of an interpretation no more doe we know the truth and certainty of any History Prophesie Proverbe or Parable which is propounded unto us but take things upon repo●t as we doe other Chronologies of this world having only the traditions of men for the ground of our worship of God The third thing is the manner of pronunciation of the sentence I say unto you or as the word is I say in you the word used here translated I say signifies such a saying as a Iudge speaks upon the Bench when he gives sentence in a cause upon due proofe and evidence which stands fast in Law being irrevocable such is the saying and speech of Christ the truth whereof can never be altered and whereas he saith I say unto you or as the word is I say in you it signifies that what ever the Saints utter in point of Religion it is and must be the voice of the Sonne of God and not of themselves so that as he suffereth in them else can hee have no death at all and then no Saviour even so he speaks in them or else hath no voice nor language at all and therefore without them no Revealer of the will of his Father for where Christ is silent there can be no Revelation therefore is he the word or expression of the Father and what he saith of him he saith it in them therefore he saith I say in you as in that very Epistle or writing wherein I expresse my selfe in the Father unto the world for my Father and I are one The fourth thing to be observed is the sentence it selfe excluding all from the life of God such only excepted at doe eat the flesh of the sonne of man and drinke his blood wherein observe five things briefly first why he is called the Sonne o● man secondly what is meant by his flesh and blood in this place thirdly what we are to understand by eating and drinking fourthly what is meant by life in this place and fifthly how we are to understand that exception or limitation seeing That of our selves we are n●● able to thinke a good thought how can we then performe such a weighty worthy and unknown action that is no lesse then life it selfe in the doing of it For the first viz. why he is called the Sonne of man Answ Not only nor properly because he had a soule and a body as all men have which indeed was good in the creation and so man is called the sonne of God But he is called the son of man because he is so produced and brought forth as none can be but such as proceed of man alone Nor can he be a Saviour but in way of such production and son-ship for Christ in respect of his death with●ut which no Saviour is brought forth and produced no other way but only in and by man for there is no death to be heard of in God nor can he bring forth or produce of himselfe any thing that is deadly for he is that Fountaine of life yea life it selfe in the abstract nor can it be proper or competible ●o the Sonne of God to be brought forth in his death in any No nor in all other creatures in the world but only in man for as no other creature in the creation was