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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

with thee doe but keepe my Charge The nations shall come forth at once yea at one birth Truth in the change of one reneweth all the earth Else were not perfect good in every one erect Nor sinne were full through th'fall that great defect If change of one were not a world renew'd What Nation then not brought in and subdu'd When truth is publisht though but unto one Imbrac't receiv'd oh happy State of man All Gentile Jewels brought in who can want The world 's in darkenesse else could ne're be scant But Hypocrites cannot this thing digest In places times and persons they seek wealth and rest And see not how the mighty Lord above Hath cast his skirt o're Ruth yea fild her lap in love Of whom comes Christ that world of Gods goodwill What can she want that heaven or earth doth fill All keepe their stations attend as they have done Neglect no homage or service to the Son All bring their vertues treasures and their glory Centring them all in him a world of Princely Dowry Then walke through Sea or Land by friends or foes Let prisons fast hard irons thee inclose All take thy part yea plead thy cause for thee The world vents its malice in Christs love thou art free The Spirit of this world by these things comes to light Its pomp and glory which earst did shine so bright Appears grosse darknesse unto Christian eyes Down comes its Kingdome up goes its plaints and cryes Helpe Sword and Gun else doth our Kingdome fall Court fire Gangrena we tast worm-wood and gall No marvell for Christ in his native kind Set forth declar'd unto a carnall mind Appears as odious unto such a wight As sinne to him in whom is found the light What sentence shall be given then by sons of men When truth appears if power were found in them No power but that of darknesse then let us to them ascribe What 's in the Church's our Lords all unto them deny'd Take heed yee Judg of Blasphemies aright For Light discerns the darknesse hath no sight If Light and Candlesticke you know not how t' make one Suspend your judgement all your skill is gone And let the Judge of all his Circuit passe apace Who comes not to destroy such is his grace And let that man his own destruction be Who breaks that faith with God cannot be peec'd by thee Cease then your prosecutions seek yee to doe good Save life in any in Church wayes spill not blood In Christ if you consider the Covenant of God You le find that all compulsion is nought but that Nim-rod S. G. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE the Earl of Warwick Lord High Admirall of ENGLAND and Governour in chiefe of the English Plantations in America and upon the coasts thereof and to the rest of that Honourable Committee joyned in Commission with his Excellencie For the wel ordering government and safety of Forrain Plantations RIGHT HONORABLE ACcording to the Fame we have heard of you so have we found in you a spirit of tendernesse and compassion towards the oppressed which ever springs from the courage and fortitude of a heart resolute to suppresse the Oppressor be his power and policie what it may whilst men unsensible of the cause of the Needy ever stand in readinesse to side with the strongest partie and so as occasion serves to become one with the cruell venting the same spirit which for advantage can easily transform it selfe so as if power comply with the just mans cause the vizard of hypocrisie is soon put on by such either to become dumb silent or else to speak so as may best advantage it selfe let the cause be what it will Your wisdom and noble care in those weighty affairs committed to your trust commands and binds us over to make a more particular and full relation then formerly we have done of what hath passed betwixt some other Colonies in NEVV-ENGLAND and our selves that if it be possible to find any leisure hours in a crowd of so great imployments your Honours might be pleased to take a more full view of things in the mean time we stand humbly ingaged as we have done and ever shall in any service that what we are or have can tender to the honour and peace of our Native Countrey or to any true-hearted well-Wisher thereof and if no other service we can may be acceptable yet of this imployment none shall prevent us whilst our God gives us hearts daily to pray for you Your Honours most humble Servants the Inhabitants of Shaw-omet whose names are often expressed in this Narration THE EPISTLE TO THE READER COURTEOUS READER DOe not thinke that we delight to lay open the infirmitie and weaknesse of men except our weaknesses and infirmities as the Son of God sustained them any further nor to other end but as they serve to discover and lay open that one spirit of the God of this world which now works effectually in the children of disobedience which spirit in all its severall wayes of operation may be gathered up and centred in that son of perdition yea in that seven-headed and ten horned beast whose power and policie like unto that deluge in the old world hath so long overspread the face of the earth swallowing up in death every living thing that hath its motion upon the earth after or according to the flesh Nor can any be offended justly with us no not our adversaries themselves for making this true Narration of things that have passed amongst us of which this Treatice truly speaks For actions performed wherein men have cause to glory the further they spread the more satisfactory to the agen●s nor are actions of such publick nature seldom performed but to such end and purpose for if they be good they ought no● only to be reall and essentiall in them amongst whom they are acted and done but also presidentiall and exemplary unto others where ever the Fame of them may come and if they be evill then a whorish Fore-head must needs accompany them being done in the light of the Sun and then can no wise man be offended that a way-marke is cast up to give notice of such desperate and dangerous wayes unlesse himselfe be of the same spirit and is about or else waits for an opportunity for the like design Thou art intreated therefore not to looke upon this Treatise as simply matter of History but as matter of mysterie also For as it was acted to make manifest the operations and workings of a differing spirit to that end it is published also so that if it be narrowly looked into not only a savour of that mysterie of iniquity will appeare which alwayes works effectually to the same end and purpose namely to extinguish and put out the light of divine truth Wheresoever or in whomsoveer it appears but thou wilt find some Foot-steps also of that great mysterie of God whose bright beams of light where ever made

immediately after these tribulations or immediately with these tribulations as the word wil also beare that is the preaching of the crosse and thse things are inseparable no marvell therefore that when ever the crosse is preached the champions of that man of sinne come out against it striving to retain their god for ●s it would be to nature in things of this life to see all chief powers and heavenly bodies so shaken as to remove them out of their place for ever the very thoughts whereof are dismal to the mind of man so infinitely more is it to the soul of a man to have the excellencies noble powers and dominions of God removed out of his heart where he placed them in the act of his first creation are so that the exellencies of Christ are ever shaking and ever removing out of their place in the wicked that the heig●● of their torment may ever appear and remain for these things are shaken and removed in them through the wisdom of the Serpent that those things that cannot be shaken namely the wrath and vengeance of God may remain even so it is in the godly their sins and miseries are ever shaking and removing out of their proper place that those things that cannot be shaken namely the grace and righteousnesse of Christ may rema●● for ever therefore the voice o● the Gospel shakes both heave● and earth in that place alluded unto in your letter Hebr. 12 ●6 27. alluding both to Mount Sinai and Mount Sion so th●● the word yet once more declares a double removall yea and that of things that are made for man was made in the image of God yet the wisdome of the Serpent removed this image that mans righteousnesse which is nothing but abomination in the sight of God might ever remain So also Christ was made sin but the wisdome of God removed this sin in the very act of his being made so that the righteousnesse of God might remain and abide for ever and then and then onely shall or doth appear the signe or the miracle or wonder of the sonne of man in h●aven in those clouds of witnesse or in that cloud of witnesses with power and great glory so as all earthly kindreds shall mourn and wail before him Even so Ame● Now the signe or wonder of the Son of man is this that God made him a wo●ld of life at the f●●st for he breathed into his face the breath of lifes as the word i● for the life of all the world was in him and yet thi● world of life is become nothing else but a world of death in ●●e wicked and no life of God found in them at all so is that son of man in the second Adam made a world of sinne and death and yet this world of sinne and death is become a world of righteousnesse and life unto the godly and no sin nor unrighteousnesse of man found in them for never was guile ●ound in his ●outh Even so Amen and this is the signe or miracle of the Son of man which the world knowes not of and therefore ●●th so many empty conj●ctures what it may be thought to be g●●i●g up into Heaven after it when as it is come down unto us and they know it not Rom 10. 7. 8. Thus have I given you my thoughts as brief as I could concerning what you propounded unto me and blesse the Lord that you ministred occasion to look into the text However we are set apart as a forlorn people in the eyes of by the world yet doubt I not but our God hath singled us out for other ends and uses who hath put us into the Isle of P●●mos or among the nation of the dead or deadly as the word signifies to reveal unto us the great mysteries of his Kingdome that we may declare unto those that now be h●re how to have their hope in God that it may be told unto our childrens children that noble work that he hath wrought for us in our Lord Christ who is over all God blessed for ever Amen Your loving husband in bonds and yet free Samuel Gorton A Post script DIvers Letters were written to friends in answer to questions and resolution of Scripture● which now are not at hand otherwi●e we are very free to publish them to be seen of ●●l that the wise hearted might iudge of what our spirits and practises rellish●d and how they were imployed in the time of our durance amongst these men that were so eagerly minded to make us blasphemers that so they might take away our lives as a part of the glory and beautification of their Religion Only we desire the Readers p●ins to take a view of one other Letter in answer to a friend who seemed to be troubled about that Scripture in Iohn 6. 53. verse what the meaning of it might be desiring resolution thereit since we arived in England The words are these Then Iesus said unto them verily verily I say unto you except ye eat the flesh of the sonne of man and drinke his blood ye have no life in you IN these words consider first the occasion of them Secondly the summe of them and thirdly the parts First for the summe it is a divine sentence exclusive of all men from the life and spirit of God save only such as doe eat the flesh of the sonne of man and drinke his blood Secondly the parts of them for order sake are foure First the occasion of this sentence in these words then Jesus said unto them secondly the confirmation of this sentence laid down in these words verily verily thirdly the manner of the sentence contained in these words I say unto you fourthly the sentence it selfe excluding all from the life of God such only excepted as doe eat the flesh of the sonne of man and drinke his blood For the first which is the occasion of this divine sentence that is the reasonings within themselves which the Jewes had in the operations of their naturall hearts upon the delivering of this manner of doctrine unto them even by the sonne of God himselfe implyed in this word Then looking back upon the verse immediatly going before from which Christ takes occasion to utter this sentence whence we observe That the word of God takes occasion to utter and make it selfe manifest even from the naturall reasonings and argumentations framed in mens minds though they are not the cause yet they are the occasion of the manifestation of it even as the truth righteousnesse power and authority that is in God breedeth occasionally feare terrour jealousie and wrath in mens hearts and minds though these excellencies that are in God are no proper cause hereof but onely an occasion without which they would not be For if there were no Iudge the Malefactor would not have terrour even so the very naturall reasonings of mens hearts are the occasions of the manifestation of the word of God in us but no proper cause of

manifest declare the men of the world to sit in the shadow of death Though the mysterie of iniquity works not always in the same manner and firme nay seldome any long time together without taking a new face and using the art of transformation of it selfe into one an other shape and herein lies the policie of Sathan that when some time hath been spent yea it may be an age in hopes and expectation of glorious times of peace ease and exaltation from the mouths of lying Prophets who alwayes drive the peace power and principality of the Kingdome of God some certaine time before them or at the least before the common people as they call them as though they themselves were the onely men that for the present were admitted into the counsells and secrets of the Kingdome of God and the people to take it upon their report where and when the appearance of it shall be But when the world by due proof finds their praedictions to fail and sees troups of its ancestors go down to the grave not having the possession put into their hand it then works effectually for a transformation to cast its worship of God into another form wherin it hopes in shorter time for to attain him in which state it cannot rest to wait unlesse it hath the strongest partie according to the power of the arm of flesh on its side and therefore must of necessity labour diligently as for life to borrow a coercive power from the civil Magistrate to be transferred turned over and put into their hands whereby they may subdue others and compell them to follow their way and to acknowledge their worship to be onely divine yea the onely God of the world for there is but one divinitie which they have now made and set up unto themselves or else that the Civil Magistrate will be pleased to detain and keep his own power upon this condition ●inding him unto themselves that he shall not fail to bind the hands and tongues yea and hearts also if they can but search and know what is in them that none shall be permitted to intermeddle or any way to disturb them But that they may peaceably worship every man in his garden and under such a green tree as he shal choose unto himself being fearfull of trouble and disquiet not knowing better but that the crosse of Christ is terrible as though the Sonne of God had not taken away the terror and angry face of it putting no lesse disparagement upon him but as though the sting were in death still being ignorant of this how that by death he overcomes death even untill now The reason why the civil Magistrate is so sought after and as I may justly say troubled if not tortured in the depopulation of Kingdoms and losse of true-hearted Subjects by the church in her formalities and perfunctory worships is this a naturall heart conceives the condition of the Church of Christ to be like a common weal or Kingdome which cannot be well unlesse every individuall within such naturall and terrene confines agree in one for the well being and glory of each particular in the whole so that the humble submission of every Subject becomes one in that one heart and Spirit of the King who submits to the deniall of himself in any thing for the preservation of the whole and that one heart courage and magnanimity of the King is in every individuall of the Kingdome to go forth for the honour peace and preservation of that their one Lord and so it is in the true Church rightly considered in its relation with the King of Saints truly considered in Spirituall and not in terrene respects but that naturall spirit that works in a naturall changeable and vanishing Church judgeth of its peace according to the consent of all within the compasse of such naturall bounds and terrene confines as it self resides abides in and therefore the false prophet is said to be the ●ail because which way the honorable pe●son looks or the head of the place where he is according to man he alwayes stears the body of the people yea though it be but the body of the beast that way that he may have strength according to sence on his side not knowing how to live or wa●k according to the power of faith therefore must either have all if it be possible or at least the greatest both for authority and number on his side for he sees not the blessing of the Divine presence that goes with the ark of God though among many adversaries in a wildernesse therefore will he take up nothing but the Tabernacle of Molech or as the word is beare the booth of the King that is what manner of house soever authority and civil power erecteth for worship he is ready to take up and bear upon his shoulders so that Antichrist hath as may wayes of worship as there is or hath been formes of Religion in the world and in that the seed of the serpent crusheth the heel or as the word is the print of the foot-soal of Christ or seed of the woman for wherever the footsteps of our Lord have gone the wisdome of the serpent in reforming its religion casts it into a form and so denies the power of godlinesse tying the Lord Iesus to appeare in the very same print and character again whereas the Saints wait for his power in what way or form he pleaseth to make it known and manifest in and unto them therefore the visions and apparitions of God in the holy Scriptures are never twice in the same form all circumstances considered yea if our Saviour appear one time walking upon the Sea as though all things must of necessity bear up their Lord he appeares again under the hands of Herod Pontius Pilate and the Iews thrust down into the heart of the earth as Jonah into the midst of the sea as though all things conspired together to annihilate bring him to nought and in the one and the other appeares an aptitude even in the Disciples themselves to mistake and in this the world is altogether mistaken in that he walketh upon and raiseth himself up out of wayes they know not how such things can be to make manifest his power and authority to be that of the sonne of God who rules in the midst of his enemies and out of Egypt Babylon * Rahab Palestina Tyre and Ethiopia is brought forth so that it may be said this man was born there even as the truth of the Gospel hath been brought forth in those parts which our Iewish Reformers of religion by putting Christ to death could never have thought of or apprehended nor will they were it never so plainly told unto them believe it so that in this Treatise you may plainly see how the mystery of iniquity already works even in New England which thought it self the root of Reformation of all the world even as Babylon alwayes in the entrance of her