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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

ways of Subsistence which ●he first Planters Deserted and not a few did leave all their worldly hopes to come into this Desert unknown Land and smoaky Cotta●es to the Society of Cursed Cannibals as they have proved to be and at best wild Indians what less then a Divine Ardour could inflame a People thus Circumstanced to a work so contrary to Flesh and Blood Infinite Wisdom and Prudence contrived and directed this Mysterious Work of Providence Divine Courage and Resolution managed it Superhumane Sedulity and Diligence-●tended it and Angelical Swiftness and Dispatch finished it Its Wheels stirr'd not ●it according to the HOLY SPIRITS mo●on in them yea there was the Involution of a Wheel within a Wheel Gods Ways were 〈◊〉 Great Depth and high above the Eagle or mans Cockle-shell is infinitely unable to Emptie this Ocean Let us Commemorate their Exodus or Departure from our Nation These Prudent Undertakers sent forth their Forlorn Hope in two Ships Laden with Passengers and Servants two years before they mov'd with their main Body and Pattent Government which were fully Furnished with a Pastor and Teacher Worthy Higgison and Skelton and all Materials for Complea●ing of a Church of Christ according to Divine Institution Who safely Arriving according to their predeterminate Design of Inlargement of Christ's Kingdom and His Majesty of England's Dominion Firstly they set up their Standards Dethroning Satan they cast him out of Heaven which beyond time memorial he had in the Natives Consciences and by Turf and Twig they took possession of this his large Continent and set up the first Church in these Parts in a place they then called Salem at which Convention the Testimony which the Lord of all the Earth bore unto it is wonderfully memorable by a Saving Work upon a Gentleman of Quality Major General Gibbins who afterwards was the Chieftain and Flower of New-England's Militia and an Eminent Instrument both in Church and Commonwealth he being the younger Brother of the House of an Honourable Extract his Ambition exceeding what he could expect at home Rambled bither Before one Stone was laid in th● Structure or our Van-Currier's Arrival he wa● no Debauchee but of a Jocund Temper and one of the Merry Mounts Society who chos● rather to Dance about a May pole first Erected to the Honour of Strumpet Flora than to hea● a good Sermon who hearing of this Meeting though above Twenty Miles distant from it and desirous to see the Mode and Novel of a Churches Gathering with great studiousness he applyed himself to be at it where beholding their orderly procedure and their method of standing forth to declare the Work of G●● upon their Souls being pricked at the Heart he sprung forth among them desirous to be one of the Society who though otherwise wel● acomplished yet divinely illiterate was ther● convinc'd and judged before all the secret● of his heart being made manifest fell down and Worshipped God to their astonishment saying That God was in them of a Truth the Verity hereof as long since it hath been affirmed by old Planters so by his own Manuscript found after his Death it 's confirmed he about that time Lamenting his Christless Estate which evidenceth that it ought to be said of that Sion This man was Born there One winterafter these good spies had viewed this Land who sent letters of the prosperous good hand of Providence upon them the taste of the fruits of this Countrie was sweeter and more welcome to their Principalls in England then the Grapes of Eschol were to Israel of ●●ld The Leaders of this People upon serious depate drew up a Determination to settle the Corporation and government upon the Place and Deputy to abide there which being effected and Divinely directed in such a Choice of the Governour the Famous Pattern of Wisdom Justice and Liberality and of a Deputy Governour who by his Experience at Home and Travels Abroad with his Natural and Acquired A●bilities was a Gentleman qualified above others for the chief Rule and Government wherein according to his just Deserts he shared more than others the Fame whereof being come Abroad in the Nation to such whose hearts God had touched this being upon the wing there wanted not Number of Persons of all Occupations skill'd in all Faculties needful for the Planting of a Collony who filled up a Fleet of Eleven Ships of considerable Burthen besides their Attenders some of them about Four Hundred Tuns the rest no● much inferiour some carrying near Two Hundred Passengers the rest proportionably the Wheels of Providence were lifted up very high and also were radiantly magnificent These Tarting Travellers Removal carrying so great a Resemblance of Departure into another World they were not stupid Stoicks but abounded with that which Grace doth no destroy but direct What showers of melting Tears dropt into the Bosomes of each other whose Souls as Jonathan and David clave one to another yet alleviated with consideration though they were Absent in Body yet Present in Spirit and of their mutual access to the Throne of Grace and of Meeting at the Assembly of the First-born and Spirits of Just Men made Perfect Some of their choice Friends as the Reverend Mr. Cotton and others went along with them from Boston in Lincolnshire to South-hampton where they parted and he Preacht his Farewel Sermon That so many Eminent Persons some of Noble Extract should upon Sea-Bridges pass over the largest Ocean in the Universe by the good hand of their God upon them having sought of him a right way for themselves Little Ones and Substance yea above Three Thousand in one Year and that above Three Hundred Ships since that time all Laden with Jewels of Invaluable Value far above the Gold of Ophir that each individual one should have a Caelestial Convoy under the Flaming Swords of Flying Cherubims turning every way to keep them in their way so as they all at their Port safely Arrived Not one Foundered in the Sea Split upon Rocks were suckt in by Sands Over-set by sudden Gusts nor Taken and Plundered by Pirates on Robbers except one called the Angel Gabriel whose Tutular Guardiau Ship failed if any Aboard put trust therein she was Laden with Passengers for Boston but put in at Pemiquid where the Ship and whole Cargo perished but not one Soul of Seamen or Passengers miscarried they met with an Hurricane before or since not known in this Country Raised by the Power of him who holds the Wind in his Hand and Commissioneth the Prince of the Air by Raising Stormy Winds to fulfil his Word it 's said the Tide rose Twenty Foot perpen dicular above its ordinary height The same time another great Ship Laden with Passengers was wonderfully preserved when as ready to be Split in pieces upon Rocks at the Isle of Shoals at the Prayer of the distressed Saints Aboard God caused the Winds to Vere a Point or two about the Compass so as she cleared them they were

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