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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

1000 besides about 140 Slain the other day but leave it to such whose Lot it will be to draw it up our Pequod and Narraganset Wars lasted about three years whose Narrative is faithfully Published by two persons of Worth to the Honour of God King and Country L●s thought no English Pen will hardly Undertake this That the Great God is Departing from us his ●wful Removes demonstrate should be quite leave us we need none to Judge between us but our selves to Justifie him and Condemn us we are the Luxuriant Branches of the Noble Vine here planted but Degenerated into that of Sodom and Gomorrah whom after all Culturing to bring us unto our Pristine Fruitfulness by Impoverishing us by pruning o●ffour Superfluous Branches by Losses at Sea by Defeating our great Canada Design by Gods own Immediate Hand Starving and Freezing to Death the Flower of our Hopeful Youth the Lord from Heaven and the Stars in their Courses Fighting against us yea Cruel Cannibals Scalping and Fleaing of our Bodies burning us as Sacrifices to Habamoch but all this tends only to the killing of our Bodies but when as the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah is Rowz'd up and Roareth upon us who can but fear it exceeds bruitish stupidity if we do not Tremble more especially when as the Devourer out of the Bottomless Pit is let Loose upon us the Compendium of all Calamity and the quintessence of Wrath Anger and Indignation is come upon us to the utmost as if now we were to be made an Execration to God his Holy Angels and good men at the dreadful Claps of this tremendous Thunder whole Flesh is not shattered in pieces How should the ghastly sight of the Tophet and Invisible World within us and of the innate Immate 〈…〉 ●akes ●elf and sin more abominably vile and loath ●ome then Hell or Devil Who can hide from the Wrath of the Lamb Whose Grace upon the Knee in the Ministry of his Ho● Word so oft hath besought us and ours to be Reconciled unto him but we would not we have with our contempt provoked him to deliver us up into the hand of him who hath the Power of Death Let 's consider the Instruments Implied in this Suparlative Plague the Devil is come down against us the Inhabitants of this Earth having great Wrath he is the Do-evil he is the Recorded Liar Tempter Accuser and Murderer of Souls and Bodies and what not They are Spirits no more discerned by us and as unseen as our Souls yet so near piercing and contiguous as the Air Heat or Cold and it 's only want of Divine Permission if not Commission that every one of us hath not had the experience of all this they are Fallen Angels Apostate from their Heavenly First State should not this bring to Remembrance both our Personal Fall in our First Fathers and our Relative Apostacy from our Church-State First Love and First Works Our Fathers were Clothed with the Sun the Apostolical Discipline and Doctrine were their Crown the Moon was under their Feet but we are turned topsy turvy Heads and Heels have changed places a little from Heaven was greater encouragement then a great deal from Earth as then was the reply of a young Preacher to one who questioned him how he could be contented with such poor Fare and mean Maintenance in a ●mall Village we fear that Christ Jesus Indigitates ●t our Churches Apostacy and at our Falling from ●ur First Love And doubtless God calls us now being Alarmed by these Spirits to try our particular Estates wha● Spirit we are of Wh●t●●r of new and Heaven-born State and also our Worship whether it be Spiritual such as he who is a Spirit the Father of Spirits se●k ●eth he found our Fathers such of his own Making or they would not have run the risk● of Transplanting themselves or brought us their Children ●hi●her Again are we true Worshipp●rs Principled in th● Truth of what we believe and practice from the Word of Truth can we give a bett●r account of ou● Church Covenant and Fellowship then a B got Papist can of Mass or his Auricular Confession thei● Fathers did so and ●o did ours it was the Custome of the place they lived i● and 〈◊〉 is ou●s let us min● whether by these Hellish Emissaries God doth no● loudly call upon us to consider of these things Let 's ponder upon the Subj●cts or Persons upo● whom this Great Wrath is fallen they are chiefly th● Members of our Churches or their H●arers and D●pendants none of the Episcopal Antipedobaptist● or Quakers perswasion have been complained of be Accusers or Accused Afflicters or Afflicted th● Devil setting up his Chappel so near to Christ Church declareth his Malice and especially again us it hath been well noted by a Minister of Note that the Devil now contents not himself to imital Jewish or Popish Modes our he will take up the R●formed and Congregational Way a single Parse wi● not serve his turn but he will have Pastor an Teacher if he can't find a Deacon he will not wa● two Widows or Deaconesses his old Diabolism w●●● not do now to Baptise and give Names to the Wit● and her Imps but he brings up a new Derno●iunif●● every Witch shall have her so call'd Spectre attend upon her and to be her Envoye to Torme such as they never knew or saw whereas it hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 old saying Ignoti nulla Cupido No Love to a person unknown and consequently as little hatred Sauls Evil Spirit acting his Eyes to Malignity against David ●ympathised with his hand to murder him but now between sight and touch a vast antipathy But that which we in our short Reading may make our fl●sh to tremble the joynts of ●ur Knees to be loos●d and our very Arfcries and Heart-strings to break in lunder at the very sound of ●t that these Cursed Fiends who in the day of our Lords Humiliation when as he devested his Glory and took upon him ●he Form of a Servant a Poor Carpenter to make new and mend old Houses did then beseech him to give them leave to enter into 〈◊〉 parcel of Swine and that he would not Torment ●hem before their time That this Glorious and Glo●ified Lord Who by Death slew him who had the 〈◊〉 ower of Death that is the Devil and upon and in is Resurrection made Triumph over all Devi●s having ●ed them Captive spoiling Principalities and Powers ●ade shew of them openly after God hath highly Exalted ●im even to Sit at his Right hand and given him a Name above every Name That in the Name of Jesus very knee in Heaven Earth and Hell should bow that 〈◊〉 open defiance of all this now they should insult ●ver Storm and basely affront the Lord of Heaven ●arth and Hell the Scriptures tell us That the Devils Believe and Tremble and this we do and must ●elieve but that a Damned Crew of Devils or ●itches at the Devils Table with Red Bread and

●ine in derision of our Lords Body and Blood ●ould sport and feast themselves as some of the ●onfessing Witches have said and unsaid with that ●hich is their Torment and Torture we must cry ●t and say Credat Judeus Apella Let an Vncircumcised Jew believe it being no Article of any Unfac●nated Christians Creed Tell not this in Gath pubnish● it not in Askelon lest Philistiahs Daughters Triumph and Rejoyce It 's Historied of our Pagan Progenitors that Gretory the Great th● last of the good and first of bad Popes seeing strange Lads of a comely Countenance produced publickly to be Sold he inquired of what Nation they were of being told they were Angli English looking upon their fair faces he ●aid they were Angeli Angels and pittying them ●hat they were Vassals of Satan he took Order for the Conversion of our Nation to the Christian Faith but as for us Nov Angli New English by ●our smutty deformity and Hells blackness we have ●endred our selves Diaboli Veteram Old Devils New-England will be called new Witch-land Ema●uels Land will be Titled the Land of Abaddon Salem Vi●age and Andover will be called the Swee●ish Mohra and Brokula the Country whose Native and Natural Small was as of a Field which the Lord hath Bless●d a Promenado a broad after Rain would have Revived a mans Spirits as some have experienced it yea the whole Continent which ●ong after our first coming hither was so full not only of Internals but of External Flavour and sweet Odour so as when Ships were divers Leagues distant and had not made Land so fragrant and odoriferous was the Land to the Marriners that ●hey knew they were not far from the Shoar such was the plenty of sweet Fearn Lawrel and other ●ragrane Simples this Land then abounded with specially near the Sea side such was the scent of ●ur A●omatick and Balsome bearing pines spruces ●nd Larch Trees with our Tall Cedars exceeding all ●n Europe But our sweet scent is gone we smell ●ank of Helle-bore Henb●n and poysonful Hemsock as if we were laid out to be the American Antic●ra We were then honoured with Yu only have I known of all the Famities of the Earth but what follows therefore will I punish you Priviledge doth not ex●emp● from punishment and now we are under the ●mart of it we hav● been laid in the green bed of Ordinances yea in Ch ist B some under a Conjugal Cove●●ant and we must exp●ct to ●e punished for the breach of it the Lord who w●s je●lous for our Fathers he is jealous against us the wilful neglect of Divine institutions brings under the same breach of the Second Command●ent as the Superstitions le●ing up o● Humane Inventions we may set up Cross o● Surplice as lawfully as n●glect any Gosp●l O dinance the grand Promise of Christ being a way wi●● his Churches unto the End of Ages is conditional and cannot be ●●parated ●rom that which preceedeth nor be claimed without that which is annexed to it viz our Obedience to that Gospel Command which Christ reserved to take leave of his Apostles and all Believers which last wor'ds are or ●ught to b●●affect●ng and soaking to parting Relations Teaching them to observe a●l things whatsoever I have Commanded you to do and LO I AM WITH YOV Here is adjoyned Christs Note of Lo or Behold calling for our greatest attention and consideration as well as being the remark of the highest truth and affirmation and both confirmed by the Amen and last words of him Who is the Faithful and true Witness whose Name is Amen Can it be rationally supposed that had we not receeded from having Pastors Teachers and Ruling Elders and Churches doing their duty as formerly with Family-Government kept up that the Roaring Lion could have gained so much groud upon us he being resisted would have fled and not mu●● plied so many Impieti s in our Towns or such a● Number of real or reputed Wi●e●es amongst us as it 's said in or about two Towns above two hundred Accuted one hundied Imprisoned thirty Condemned and twenty Executed yea some Accused among our Rulers in Commonwealth and Churches as 〈◊〉 they were ●ecome places for Zim Jm and Ohim with the Satyrs to Dance in On whither shall we go● to cover our shame Shall not the stings of those Stygian Scorpions awaken us out of our Laethal Lethergy Are both Wise and Foolish Virgins asleep 〈◊〉 what need is there of Prayer that our Eyes may be opened and our hearts awakened and to crie out Awake awake Deborah awake awake is it not high time as for every particular person so for our Churches to search and try our ways and re urn to our First Husband and the good Old Way we have walked in The place where Satan mad● his first assault and great Ba●tery is to be minded th●re he made his grand Attack where he first was Dethroned and that is Salem his present Rage is against it its Original Name was called Naumkek the Bosome of Consolation being its signification as the Learned have observed It 's now thre●tned to be made a place and ●●osome of Desolation ●nd Turting Christ out of his Throne that where Christs Banner had been displayed there the Devil with found of Trumpet sets up his Ensigns where Spiritual Songs and Sacred Anthoms of Glory to God in the Highest and Peace on Earth and good will towards men with Amsworth Elevated Tunes were wont to be warbled forth that there the horrid Scriekings and Screamings of Oblessed Poss●ssed and Bewitched Persons should be sounded with such hideous yellings to the amazement of the Hearers as if Hell and his Furies had been let loose That the Noise of Mau●es and Hammers beating ●own the Carved Works in the Synagogues of the ●and should be heard where men had been Famous whose Axes had been Lifted up for hewing and squa●ing Souls for Christs Spiritual Building That where the D●vil like Lightning had fallen ●own from Heaven before the Thundering Ministry ●f Christs Boanerges there the B●ack Man or Devil ●hould be pointed at as vinbly sitting or standing on ●he Beams or Seats Though Balac and Balam Changed Stations and Sacrifices they could not Curse but must bless this People how goodly were the Tents and Tabernacles of ●ur Israel when our Tribes according to Scriptural Order were pitch'd about our Tabernacle and the Ark of God in the midst of us when our Churches ●nd Consociations were according to Divine Directo●y and Primitive Practice We looked forth then as ●he Morning fair as the Sun clear as the Moon and ●errible as an Army with Banners no Inchantment or Divination against us until prevailing Iniquity and Transgression against Christs Institutions were found 〈◊〉 mong us our Strength then was as the strength of ●he Unicorn the shout of our King was among us ●tting upon his Throne of Majesty with the Rainbow ●bout his head surrounded with the four living Crea●ures and Twenty Four E●dere prostrating and