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A77079	A taste of the spirit of God, and of this vvorld, as they have appeared in opposition heretofore, so now latest of all at New-Windsor. Occasioned through the violence, and reproach of evil men, against the temple and tabernacle of God, and them that dwel therein. Presented in a narrative to the honourable committee, for the propagating the Gospel. / By Robert Bacon, preacher by the allowance of God, and the nation, now these five years there.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1652 (1652)	Wing B371; Thomason E669_13; ESTC R207030	41,008	52

confess resisting thrust me out of doors at which I said in my heart and not only so What Communion Sir will you have from which you will excommunicate me He with much heat affirmed the whole Town would agree together and draw up Articles against me as since I hear from him they have done There followed many rude men after us repeating and justifying what the Gentleman said moreover he told me the people and boys of the street would stone me and that Hereticks were wont worthily so to be dealt with of which number Sir said I you remember holy Steven was one but I departed home only telling him I was sorry to see him in so great a passion I perceive the number of Communicants were very few they say since I was a let unto them truly I did not appear upon that account or for that end but meerly sith I saw they were heady and resolved in the business I thought it my duty to God and them to take the opportunity to give them some light in what they did so headily and upon the alone account of custom thrust themselves upon even as the horse that rusheth into the battel SECT XIII OF this I confess the next day I gave notice by letter to the Burgess of this place yet my letter went by Boat wherefore I could not neither had I a thought of doing prejudice to any as it was generally reported I was the cause of Mr. Bream his sending for by a Messenger from the Councel of State that evening yea one of our grave women forsooth very confidently reports Mis. M. I was met in the returning from the great City and told that that had been my business there this is like as true as is the report now fresh in Town that there came a man at the Church door to speak with me but I admitted him not to it who told one of our Neighbors as stout as I was I had taken of him above two hundred pounds for making of Hats for him which I would it were true I confess I would not refuse the employment for I am very well content were I able to work for my living as the Apostle was yet shall not cannot look back from the work I have been hitherto conversant in but had it been for hire I would have left it long agoe About this time was reawakened a certain somthing for what it is I cannot tell produc't as heretofore so upon this occasion by one Mr. Baker who were he as good as rich might be of great use to this Town and Nation having it seems as I have been told and is certainly true procured of some of the late Assembly of Divines about the time of my first coming to this place some kind of subscribing that I was not of them approved as it seems this Gentleman was and is as very sound to God and Man both in his heart and life as it appears he had a great deal more favour with them then I they would not otherwise have fortified such a man against me this note or whatever it be hath of him been made use of if by any means to alienate the people of all sorts from me in the which he hath not a little of late prevailed many in the Town having taken Copies of it though I could never see any yea they have as the people of like nature and spirit heretofore sought by all means into all places where I have been to search and find out the forepast history of my life making special and particular use of my sufferings at Glocester yea at Oxford when I was a youth there as well as of the wrongs and losses I have sustained heretofore in the case of the Common-Prayer and Ceremonies from the Bishops so that the evil that was in them all is risen up and allowed here or connived at at Windsor to the dishonour of God and the shame of the pretended high attainment of Reformation in the things divine and of God but whether this be under the hand of the Assembly or of some of them I cannot tell this they know that I refused not to come before them to a giving testimony of the truth I believe as they well know the great matter they seemed to be offended with was my non-taking the Covenant which I only refused as upon that occasion as though it were even essential to the matter of preaching Some other things they said as to the Catechisms but all they took notice of as displeasing them as may appear afterwards as unsound was the business of Baptisme which they say as indeed I do as to the outwardness of it judg to be in esteem with us of like nature as are other outward rites and observations not such as in them consists the Kingdom of Heaven or the true knowledg of God this was only mentioned as an error in a little Book writ by those convened at Sion Colledg for detecting of the supposed error and false Doctrine of many worthy men in the Land 't is true Mr. Rutherford of Scotland in a large Book of his seems offended not only at it but other passages but the story of the times and the reproach cast of him upon others more eminent a thousand fold then my self as the Lord General Mr. Burton Mr. Dell c. may save me the labor of speaking as to the vindication of my self as to the Assembly yet I will add what will give some hint of the offence they have it seems taken at me viz. my being here without either their allowance or order which yet was not through either my desire or endeavour as it doth appear partly by my being with them in conference from about two till after seven of the Clock but also by the following letter written to Mr. Holland upon that occasion whereby may appear what esteem the Authour of it had of the Assembly and me in those days Sir The Bearer hereof Mr. Bacon is that good man which the Town hath chosen for this place as you will understand further by a Letter from the Mayor and his Brethren Sir Robert Bennet the Governour and divers others we doubt not of your best assistance according to the Contents of the said Letter we have also written to Sir Henry Mildmay hoping that both of you may so carry it as to get him passed by the Committee without any reference to the Assembly c. Subscribed your Servant in Christ John Bachiler Windsor Castle April 13. 1647. which it seems was done accordingly SECT XIV BUt the people to perfect their work of my or rather the truths remove far from them it being Easter week they chose two others but most falsly call'd Church wardens rather truth and Church opposers which is the pillar and ground of it men much more for the purpose Mr. M. these with others get hands not a few some through fear and some for advantage as hath been confest of one eminent in the

A TASTE OF The Spirit of God AND OF THIS WORLD AS THEY Have appeared in opposition heretofore so now latest of all at New-Windsor Occasioned through the violence and reproach of evil men against the Temple and Tabernacle of God and them that dwel therein Presented in a Narrative to the Honourable Committee for the propagating the Gospel By ROBERT BACON Preacher by the allowance of God and the Nation now these five years there Psal 50. I kept silence and thou thoughtest I was such a one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set all in order before thee Assiduum cum mundo bellum gerant necesse est qui propheticam functionem fidelitér sinceré obire volunt Calv. in Esa in Epist ad Edw. 6. Ang. Reg. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1652. To the Honourable the Committee for the propagating the Gospel Robert Bacon of new Windsor wisheth illumination in the things in the which they are concern'd Right Honourable IT is meet that to you above all others in the Land next to those that have entrusted you I should present this following discourse and testimony by which may appear in part what the Gospel is of which men talk so much and know so little in these times as likewise what ado and trouble ariseth in the World from men of corrupt minds concerning it to whom it must needs be it could not be the Gospel else so great a Rock of offence that they would whether Jew or * For as Luther saith the spirit of both remaineth in opposition to the Gospel even till now Gentile that believe not that any other thing should be then it allowed and found among men for as much as it doth detect not only other but the most hidden and secret evils are either in the heart and life of men so that they hate it no otherwise then doth the Malefactor the Judge when he comes not only to discover but to give judgment on him wherefore most honourable men you and the power entrusting you will find it no easie yea a scarce possible thing to secure it from the reproach and violence of evil men as hath been evident from the beginning even till now I shall only crave leave humbly thus much to beg of you in this your so great undertakement that in the things of this nature as well and more then others you rather in your hearts consult with God then man least there be of men introduced another Gospel then that which is indeed the power of God unto salvation wherefore unless you have been in some measure on the Mount with God as Moses and Jesus was I know not how possible you will or can be able to determine of things of so divine and hidden nature if yet indeed you have not hereunto attained without all peradventure you will find and the State entrusting you that your attaining this but to a willing mind that no violence be used of one Neighbor or man against another as touching these things is the best and most excellent attainment hath yet been in the Land since it was first called Christian for you shall find by this discourse what violence would soon be used against the truth as it is in Jesus unless either it be repeld by force of humane power or more Divinely overcome by the patient love and meekness of them with whom is the Lamb Christ Jesus as their head and guide to whom I beseech God you may be willing with others to submit yourselves Amen To the Reader if he understand Reader I Would advertize thee however I make mention of the names of many and those some of them of the greatest note and eminency among men in the Land yet I have done it not in prejudice to any or to defame even the meanest to which this discourse doth relate for there is nothing in the World I mind more then a healing of all the evil and hearts if it were possible in this Land which I am infinitly endeared unto to serve in the Lord and in particular this Town and People of Windsor to whom I am much endebted for the love sake of God unto me that even to them I am ready notwithstanding their strong endeavour to withstand me to continue to preach the Gospel freely only this I have done I most freely acknowledge to no other intent then if by any means at least some of them might awake out of sleep arise up from among the dead in trespasses and sins that they might have life given them even that for evermore and that they might so do I have begged of God that they might hear his voyce if not in my preaching yet in my suffering and if in neither of them then in this my writing which for their sake I have thus produced rather then mine own I could have been exceedingly well content to have continued in the still enjoyment of my most dear Lord in my retirement under the reproach and scorn of men for there is a secret delight given me of God which the World is not a ware of and which I am sure through the grace of God I enjoy that I am as well pleased with a Crown of thorns as with one of Gold yea and a thousand fold more yet it being the will of God to bear the affronts don him in me no longer as heretofore for he hath not hid himself I may say truly here from shame and spitting I am content at his biding to go down as Moses did to reason the matter about Israel with Pharaoh the head and King of the evil people and things in this place a service of my self I would not for a World undertake be it known therefore unto thee who ever thou art that understands that the time of the true Churches freedom or deliverance is come yea the set time of it is come Wherefore thus saith the Lord my sword his sore great and strong * His Word of Might or his mighty Word Sword shal be bathed in heaven behold it shal come down upon Idumea and upon the people of my curse to judgment Wherefore also cry out and shout thou inhabitresse of Zion for great is the holy one of Israel Thy King Jehovah thy trust and hope in the midst of thee The Heads of this whole Discourse Sect. 1. A Brief of the Authours sufferings from his youth with the Testimony of the love of God to him therein pag. 1. Sect. 2. A very brief Relation of whom and in what manner the Ministry hath appeared and been manifest and manag'd in this place since the Authours first coming p. 2 3 Sect. 3. A Letter of enquiry directed to the Ministers after a while combin'd in a Lecture at Windsor together with the event thereof in conclusion p. 4 5 Sect. 4. A discovery of the supposed means and certain manner of