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A44804	The popish inquisition newly erected in New-England whereby their church is manifested to be a daughter of mysterie Babylon which did drink the blood of the saints, who bears the express image of her mother, demonstrated by her fruit : also their rulers to be in the beasts power upon whom the whore rideth, manifested by their wicked compulsary laws against the lamb and his followers, and their cruel and bloody practises against the dear servants of the Lord, who have deeply suffered by this hypocritical generation : some of their miserable sufferings for the testimony of Jesus, declared as follows and some of their unjust and vvicked laws set down ... / published by a lover of mercy and truth, and an enemy to envy and cruelty, Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Copeland, J. R. (John R.); Hodgson, Robert.; Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3177; ESTC R14218	58,023	78

the Prince of darkness to back fortifie all the wicked enterprises they attempted before Who gave you power to order so to enact to apprehend without Warrant So you have made every man a Magistrate and a Ruler in your Jurisdiction and I believe if they should kill or take away the life of any you would give them an Absolution Is this the example of Christ or any Church-members or any Christian-Magistrate And why do you call them a cursed Sect of the Quakers You have cursed them whom God hath blessed whom no Weapon that is formed against shall prosper And as for your legal Tryal we know your rule your own wicked proud arrogant imperious and envious Wills and this must sit as Judge and Tryer. Well you have now set your selves against the Lord in your strength having the old Dragon for your Leader Will this serve you The Angel of the everlasting Covenant hath a Chain in his hand to bind him and to dissipate your wicked Counsel and confound you in the midst of your devises And being convicted to be of the sect of the quakers shall be sentenced to be banished upon pain of death You who are banished from the presence of God your selves and are in Cain's way Vagabonds driven out into the Earth where the Dragon dwells you would banish them out of the Earth whom God hath shewed his face and presence unto and you are a Sect which hath risen from the great Whore your Mother who hath made all Nations drunk she that did drink the blood of the Saints and you are the fruit of her Womb are like your Mother you have drunk the blood of the Saints whom God hath sanctified washed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ and now you are grown so blood-thirsty that nought but banishment and loss of life will satisfie your rage your Cup shall be filled with the Wine of the Wrath of God which shall be poured forth without mixture and that will be your portion to drink Reader stil take notice All these laws mentioned in this Book and the fierce censures and punishments inflicted upon the servants of the Lord is because they will not complement like flattering Courtiers and Roysters Fidlers and use flattering titles to men who are in unbelief who seek respect honor one of another which is below and because they cannot ●oin with them in their hypocritical Assemblies nor partake of the Table of Devils who destroys mens lives nor drink the Whores Cup which hath drunk the blood of the Saints and this is a Fact worthy of banishment and death in the account of these blood-suckers And now they come to their own Inhabitants and thou shalt hear their judgement concerning them and thou shalt see how they love their Neighbours And that every Inhabitant of this Jurisdiction being convicted to be of the aforesaid Sect either by taking up publishing or defending the horrid Opinions of the quakers or the stirring up Mutiny Sedition or Rebellion against the Goverment or by taking up their absurd and destructive practises viz. Denying civil respect to equals and superiors and withdrawing from our Church-Assemblies and instead ●hereof frequent meetings of their own in opposition to our Church-Order Now all may see how these men loves their Neighbours themselves and here is a great deal of aggravating high boasting words packed up together in this unrighteous and ungodly Act as Sedition Rebellion and Absurd and Destructive Principles and like scolds they make a great noise and clamour but if thou enquire into the Fact is it not putting off the hat and disowning their Assemblies and in their account banishment and death is punishment little enough for this transgression These men would set up their Assembly as Nebucha●nezar's Image and whosoever will not bow must into the Fornace or be banished robbed spoiled and killed or like Jeroboam's Calf at Dan and Bethel and if Israel will not come to Da● or Amos cry against Bethel Amaziah will cry to the King He hath uttered Sedition and Rebellion among the people and he hath conspired against the King and the Land cannot bear his words And is not this the same language They will not come to our Church our Assemblies But they meet of themselves and opposes us and breeds mutinies sedition and rebellion in the Government These Priests of New-England a●d Rulers would have banished all the Apostles and have killed Paul and Stephen who said God dwelt not in Temples made with hands neither was worshipped in Temples made with mens hands and drew people out of the Temple into private houses and fields and by the sea side and these men would have killed Christ the same generation did in whose foot-steps they are he said neither at Jerusalem nor at Samaria but they that worship the Father worship him in spirit and truth Might the Jews have replyed Was not the Temple builded by the command of God And is it not so agreed upon by the whole Nation of the Jews And wilt thou say that God is not worshipped Thou art mutinous and rebellious And the Samaritans might have said This is the Mount we met in and it is agreed upon by our Rulers and people and it is the laudable Custom of our Country and our Assembly and dost thou teach thy Disciples to seperate from Jerusalem and from this Mount Then thou art seditious and a Mutinier and a stirrer up of Rebellion an Enemy to our Nation and Countrey And wilt thou respect no mans person Nay said the Pharisees tempting We know thou respects no mans person What saist thou of Caesar They might have said What wilt thou not respect thy equals and superiors Then thou art not civil and art against the laudable custom of our Countrey which all our approved Orthodox persons doth allow of thou must be banished and if thou return death Or by adhering to or approving of any known quaker and the tenents and practises of the quakers that are opposite to the Orthodox received Opinions of the godly and endeavouring to disaffect others to civil Government and Church-Orders or condemning the practise and proceedings of this Court against the quakers Now if any like Nicodemus would come but by night who are yet no Quakers if the Rulers and Priests of New-England know of you you must out of the Synagogue and be banished and if return be put to death for this is an Orthodox received Opinion to banish and kill them that comes not to their Assembly and puts not off the hat then the Orthodox received Opinion of the Church-members of New-England is banishment and if return death and he that justifies the practise and proceedings of that Court is not justified of God What Whippers Robbers Spoilers Killers and Destroyers Marrers of the Workmanship of God Wrestlers with flesh blood blood-suckers he that justifies you is condemned of God he that condemns your Court and proceedings and practises will God and all

Scriptures which you ignorantly call the written Word as though all the Scriptures were but one word the Word is Christ which was revealed in the Saints which spake the words forth and he is the Way and the Rule of life to them that believe and his spirit is the leader and guider into all truth and the Rule of obedience and you are they that denies the Scriptures and the Rule of holy walking you own it in words and in works deny him witness all your forementioned deeds of darkness and hypocrites and dissemblers cryes Scripture is the Rule of Faith and Life when their life that they live stands in sin wickedness and deceit 5 Or shall openly revile either Church or State or Church-Worship Church-Officer or Ordinances Divine or the publike Assembly of the people of God to worship him according to the prescription of the Gospel A. Your Church and State Church-Officers and Ordinances and Assembly and your Worship is manifest to be a place where Dragons are who stings devours kills and destroys Gods Workmanship and he that speaks for you God will condemn him for he that justifies you justifies the wicked and that is an abomination to the Lord And let the Nation see your prescription in that which you call your Gospel where Christ commanded the Churches or gave his Disciples such prescripts as these If the rest of the Jews or Gentiles will not come to your Assemblies fine them 5 s. a day and 10. s. a day or 40. s. a Month and if any speaks anywhere in my Name but where you meet let him that speaks be fined 5. l. and if they will not pay fetch away their Goods Beasts Horses break open their Houses and take Hatchets and beat down their doors and take the names of them that meet and hale them to the Court and there fine them 5. l. a man and send them to prison and load their backs with stripes and whip them severely and if any refuse to doff his hat and will not say Reverend Mr. Peter and reverend Mr. Paul and reverend Mr. John or If it please you Mr. Mark or Mr. Andrew and Philip then go you to the Judgement-seat and tell the Magistrates and let them indict them and put in a great deal of aggravating words as Mutiny Sedition Insurrection Rebellion and the like and let them say unto them You are against the laudable custom of our Countrey and last of all banish them and if they return again put them to death and let them say as Richard Bellingham the Deputy-Governor of Boston said to John Copeland and John Rous and Christopher Holder We commanded these men not to come again but they are returned again in contempt of the Magistracy and Ministry and so whatsoever comes upon you loss of ears or loss of life your blood be upon your own heads I say Let the Regions know your Prescript in your Gospel and your Rule of life for these practises and then you will convince the Quakers and satisfie all people 6. Or shall entertain any such in a way of conventicle or private meeting or shall resort unto the conventicle of any such who are known refusers to come to the publike Worship of God in the publike Assembly A. These men would have banished Paul he was a man publikely known to refuse to go into the Temple and Synagogues except to lead people out of them and yet they have got his words in their mouths and these men would have imprisoned the Church of Corinth and Galatia and Thessalonica and the Church of Antioch for they met in houses and denyed the rest of the Synagogues of the Jews and the Temples of the Gentiles and they had private meetings and often by the sea-side Mountains and other places although Bishop Land be dead his spirit speaks and acts in New-England he made such Articles as these against Conventicles and told of the laudable Customs and Worship of the Nation but these men hath far exceeded him in cruelty they have done more wickednesse in one year then he in seven 7. Or shall openly contemn revile or disobey or disswade others from yeilding subjection to the Christian Magistrate as at present established in this Jurisdiction A. Shame and contempt is already come upon the Magistrates of that Jurisdiction and shall more and more encrease who rules not for God but for the Murderer and they who have established wickedness by a Law none can be subject to them nor their Laws for conscience-sake for they that do wrongs their own souls but rather bear their testimony against and suffer under it till God arise and plead their cause It may be they will call this Sedition and Rebellion 8. Or being questioned by lawful Aut●ority shall refuse to give direct Answers or plain to the aforementioned particulars together with their obstinate persisting in any of the premised D●linquencies A. So here is an end of the Inquisition if they will not give plain Answers then to prison but in plainness that is if they will not accuse themselves then to prison so whether answer or not answer directly or indirectly all 's one if they answer contrary to these Articles then Hereticks to prison and whip them and fine them 5. l. and if they will not accuse themselves but answer as the Lord shall give them to answer when asked by such tempters as these then they conclude their Answer is not plain but indirect and if they say nothing at all then conclude them guilty send them to prison cut off their ears whip them with Ropes whip them with Whips take their goods banish them from their Estates and Families and if they return put to death and then say Whether loss of ears or loss of life come to you your blood be upon your own heads Pilate was not clear though he said the like as Richard Bellingham O Lord arise and plead the cause of the poor of the flock for ungodly men is risen up in the pride of their hearts and blasphemes thy Name and thy Tabernacle and them that thou hast redeemed they seek to destroy Here follows a Narration of the sufferings of many godly people of Salem The particulars was sent from one Friend to another DEar Friend I sent thee in the last Information the Fines of the Court to be levied upon Friends which was 40. l. 15. s. but I was likely to have sent thee a larger sum the Marshal promised me a Copy but was not so good as his word for that which I saw in his hand which he hath Order to take I do believe will amount to above one hundred pounds He did secretly attach half of my house while I was in prison I never heard of it till now so when I heard of it I went to him to see whether it were so he told me he had done it and attached my ground about it and told me if I would pay about ten pounds I might have it

if there be Used not you and the rest of the Clergy to pray for the conversion of the Jews And are you now angry if any of them be turned from darkness to light But none can escape thy slanderous tongue without reproach Thou saist The juncture between the Jesuits and these Hereticks is strong Thou art nearer joined to the Jesuits then the Quakers for they and you in New-England are working one and the self-same work Will not most people in the Regions know thy lyes Is it not publikely known in many Countreys that two of the Quakers were imprisoned by the Pope and Jesuits at Rome lately and hath been put in the Inquisition and one of them prisoned till death and the other remains in prison under cruel bonds to this day and now read whether the juncture between the Jesuits and you be not great who are acting in one and the self-same Work and brings forth one and the self-same fruit the Apples of Sodom and the Grapes of Gomorah whom God destroyed which will be the end of all the wicked except they repent There is more danger thou saith in this people to trouble and overcome England then the King of Scots and all the Popish Princes in Germany Thy tongue is set on fire of Hell which makes thee utter forth all these horrid Lyes and false Accusations and bitter things against the Lord and his people and will not all sober people in England see thy envy Hath not England had sufficient proof of our fidelity against the King of Scots and the Popish Princes and Confederates with him And thousands in England shall be witness for us against thee and all thy false Accusations Thou saist They strengthen all disc●ntents against the present Government and hatch all Plots and encourages all combinations and insurrections The present Government of these Nations will be a witness for us against thee That amongst all the people in the Nations we have been most passive and suffering and the discontents and plots and combinations from time to time have been amongst the Presbyter-Priests and their Faction of whose stock and off-spring you are And further thou saist They vent horrid blasphemy against God which ought to be persecuted with the severest censures Thou art of that generation that called the Master of the House Beelzebub and in the steps of the persecuting Jews who said He hath spoken blasphemy what need we any more witness But how can we speak evil or blaspheme him who is our life And in the day when he ariseth to judge all the Earth in righteousness he will justifie us and clear us and condemn thy malignity and thy hard speeches and vain thoughts which lodge in thy corrupt heart from whence all these unsavourie words hath been uttered forth and is that New-England-Divinity to teach persecution that thou art so impudent to own it in words That which persecutes with the severest censures is of the Devil and is in Cain's way and dost thou lay down this for a Doctrine to Engl●nd to appease the wrath of God towards it I say Persec●tion and severe Censures ●s that which kindleth the wrath of God against these Nations and did overtake the Bishops the King and all their Confederacy and overthrew the Nobles of the Land the ancient and ●e honorable which were the head and all the false Prophets which were the taile and that same Wrath shall be over you who are of that stock and off-spring manifested by these deadly actions and characters of most horrid and wicked cruelty which the Lord God will confound and blast and set his Truth above it all And Iohn Indicot thou saist The quakers trouble us very much though we cause them te be whipt and sent away again and again yet they return again Thou maist see there is another spirit in them then was in you when you fled from old England from under the Bishops you would suffer nothing for the truth and therefore were you given up to the same spirit that was in the persecutors here in England this is entered into you now and become ten fold stronger but now he that is stronger then all hath appeared and is coming to trouble you and disquiet you of your rest which you have taken up in the Earth What hath your Gospel and the Ministers thereof no more strength in them to convince the gain-sayers then gain-sayers have to seduce them that are in the truth The daie of your trouble is come and the beginning of sorrows is kindled upon you a greater wo follows after for the Rod of God is stretched out over you and shall reach unto you and turn your counsels backward and confound you in the midst of your combinations Where did any Christian-Magistrates whip and imprison any for Religion's sake or conscience-sake or cut off their Ears Where is your Law Did any Minister of Christ perswade the Magistrate it was lawful for him to do so Give us some evidence and let us see your rule and by what Authority you do these things and from whence you have your Authoritie I am sure God never authorized it Christ nor his Ministers nor no Christian-Magistrate that ruled for God never countenanced any such thing as to whip again and again to beat with Ropes till men fall down as dead till mens flesh becomes as jelley as some of your own Nation have said and shall not the Saints be bold to tell you that this is of the Devil who was a lyar and a murderer from the beginning in whose footsteps you are who shall receive a reward according to your works And thou saist Divers of you do think that unless the Court do make a Law to banish them and not to return upon pain of death this Collony will n●t be rid of them Nay nor then neither though you make covenant with death and agreement with hell and shake hands with the Prince of darkness your Covenant shall be broken and your Confederacie disannulled and you confounded in the midst of your counsels What have you your Law yet to make to serve your turns It seems you act not by the Law of God which is made alreadie which is equal just and good and is for the transgressor of Justice Goodness and Equity but takes not hold upon the just equal nor good but you must now have another invented to satisfie your envious minds and to accomplish your wicked determinations and you that think to make a Law to banish and to put to death your thoughts are vain and wicked and God will bring them to judgement and condemn you for them for Christ came not to destroy mens lives but to save them but the Devil makes Laws to destroy and not to save Read your example and let shame cover your faces and astonishment fill your hearts that you should become so brutish and vain in your thoughts as to think to limit the Lord of Heaven and Earth Can you command the wind that it blow not Can you stop the bottles of heaven that they pour not ●orth water If you cannot no more can you limit the Lord And if you make any such Laws to banish or put to death it will procure the indignation and wrath of God more speedily then if the King of Scots and all the Popish Princes in the World did enter into the midst of your Land But this is come to pass that your hypocrisie and deceit might be made manifest in the sight of the sun and that all men may see what profession of words is without the life of Christ to rule in men If it should have been told you when you fled from this Nation what you would do in the time to come against God and his servants you would have said with Hazael Are we Dogs But the heart of man is deceitful unconverted and your deceived hearts hath led you aside Thou thinkest they are the worst Hereticks Thy eye being blinded and thy understanding darkened and thy heart full of envy how shouldst thou think otherwise But thy thoughts shall be discovered to thee and thou shalt be convinced of the evil of them Thou saist One whom many think is a Iesuit pressed for a conference with one of our Teachers called Mr. Norton but the quaker was quickly weary of it You live by your thoughts and knows nothing if he had been a Jesuit it 's like he might have had more favour from you And the Minister might be very bold knowing before-hand no evil was like to befall him having the Rulers with their Clubs on his side the Prison-doors and House of Correction readie to receive the Quakers the Gaolers and Task Masters with their Whips and butcherly fellows with their Knives to cut off their ears at the pleasure and wills of a company of envious men before whose face the fear of the Lord is not But it is like you will make the Quaker weary soon if he would look out at your cruelty if you did as sometime some of your Priests and Rulers caused to be done in New-England stop Napkins in their mouths and bound keys over their mouths that they could not speak and boast and say The Quaker had nothing to answer Well all these things are recorded and are written as with a Pen of Iron and they are engraved where they shall not be blotted out and you are registred among the uncircumcised with Mesech and Tubal the great Princes of Gog which makes war against the Lamb and his followers but the Lamb and the Saints shall have the victory and you shall be trodden as ashes under the Toles of their feet for they shall melt away that hate the Lord Reading the 16. of the 12. Month 1658. The End