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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50325	Truth held forth and maintained according to the testimony of the holy prophets, Christ and his Apostles recorded in the Holy Scriptures with some account of the judgments of the Lord lately inflicted upon New-England by witchcraft : to which is added, Something concerning the fall of Adam, his state in the fall, and way of restoration to God again, with many other weighty things ... / written in true love to the souls of my neighbours and all men, which includeth that love to them and myself, by Thomas Maule.	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.	1695 (1695)	Wing M1354; ESTC W491354	172,116	273

their People to live in a Life of these things which are so contrary to the holy Scriptures and the Spirit of God by which they have been given forth doth manifest that such People are only Christians in the outward Name but not in the inward Li●e and Nature of what God requires that every true Christian should be CHAP. XIX Concerning Prophecying Womens speaking in the Church PRophecying signifies Preaching which is declaring the Word of God as they receive his Will and Mind by his Spirit of Grace in and through the gift of his own Spirit by Jesus Christ whose gift of good spirit of Grace is by measure in the Male and in the ●emale alike who are made partakers of his blessed Truth and in this day called of God by Jesus Christ to declare his Truth as the holy Men and Women were in days past for he hath promised To pour out of his Spirit upon all flesh and among the faithful their old Men dream Dreams and their Young Men see Visi●ns and their Sons and Daughters Prophecy But many have wrested the Apostles words 1 Cor. 14 35 L●t our Wom●● keep silence in the Church for it is not permitted them to speak but are commanded to be under Obedience and if they will lea●● any thing let them ask their Husbands at home for it is a sham● for a Woman to speak in the Church Now the Apostle words do not include all speaking by Women in the Church which if they did it would then follow that every true believing Woman is debarred from improving the gift of Gods holy Spirit among his People which are the Church of Christ for by measure is the gift of God by Jesus Christ to the Man and Woman alike wherefore they may pray and prophecy in the Church of Christ for all may prophecy one by one that all may learn and all may be comforted 1 Cor. 14.31 So that here is no tye nor bar from believing Womens speaking in the Church of Christ but deparred by them which are not the true Church for every Woman that praveth prophecyeth with her Head uncovered dishonoureth her Head 1 Cor. 11.15 By which it is evident that their Women did in that day speak in the Church for it s of no Edification for any Woman to prophecy alone by her self but where two or three are gathered together in the Name of the Lord there will his Spirit be in the midst o● them which proves that where two or three Male or Female are met together in the Lords Name that there is his Church and whether Male or Female if called of him they are to speak which is not that speaking which Women in the Church are not permitted to do For whereas they are not permitted to speak in the Church it is to be understood relating to the Government of the Church in which they are to keep silence and be under Obedience as also in the Law for the outward Government of the Church God hath committed unto men of which if the Women will learn they are to ask their Husbands at home for it is a shame for a Woman to speak in the Church relating to the Government thereof for in so 〈◊〉 she comes to usurp in Government over the man 1 T●o 2.12 for Christ is the Head of his Church and the Head of every Man is Christ and the Head of the Woman is the Man and the Head of Christ is God 1 Cor. 11.3 And as to such Women whose Husbands are Unbelievers or that have no husband a believing Brother hath liberty to inform them in things relating to the Government of the Church in which the Women Prophets in days past did not rule in the Government of the Church as may be read of Miriam and Deborah who were Prophetesses in their day Exod. 15 20. Judg. 4.4 and Haldah the Prophetess which prophesied of the evil to come upon Jerusalem 2 Chron. 34.22.23 And we read of Anah that prophesied concerning Redemption for it is said she coming in that instant gave Thanks likewise unto the Lord and spake of him to all them that looked for Redemption in Jerusalem which all that looked for Redemption did include the whole Church of Christ in Jerusalem and at that instant of her coming in and giving Thanks likewise was when the Church was gathered together and Christ himself at that time in the midst of his Church in which at that time Anah the Woman Prophetess did speak Luke 2.27 to v. 0. And Phillip had four Daughters which did prophesie Acts 21.8 9. And the Lord hath promised That he will pour out his Spirit upon all Flesh and their Sons and Daughters shall prophecy and their old Men shall dream Dreams and their Young Men shall s●e Visions and upon the Servants and Hand-maids will the Lord pour out his Spirit Act. 2 17 18. Joel 2.28 29. By which it appears that prophecying is not altogether ceased among the People of God whose promise doth continue among the faithful whom he hath called both Male and Female to preach the everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ and by his good spirit of Life Light and Grace are they lead to preach in order as becometh the Gospel so to do that the Prophets may speak two or three and the others to judge and if any thing be ravealed to another that sitteth by let the first hold his p●ace that all may prophecy one by one that all may learn and be comforted for the Spirit of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets for God is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace as in all the Churches of the Saints but if any he ignorant let him be ignorant 1 Cor. 14 to v. 38. But all covet to prophesie and forbid not to speak with Tongues vers 39. Now among such Professors where these things are not in practise according to the Record of the holy Scriptures which are for Peoples learning that by the Spirit of God they may follow Christ as the Apostles have done for Example and to mark them which walk other ways then whom is it that true Believers should mark but them who pretend to be Gospel Ministers and with their Hearers are not in the holy Practice of the faithful in days past whom they are commanded to follow as they have followed Christ which until such time as they reform in obedience to Gods holy Truth and are found to worship him in the Spirit in the Truth they are to be marked by all true Believers in Christ Jesus To have a form of Godliness but deny the Power who are ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth CHAP. XX. Concerning Powers ALL Power is of God either by commission or permission Let every Soul be subject to the higher Power for there is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God Rom. 13.1 The Apostles words are very weighty for all to Consider and not

planting them where Christ had not been once named But their preaching their Gospel and planting their Churches seemeth to me of the nature of the Spaniards among the Indians in New Spain who destroyed the Natives by Fire and Sword even so was it with them that at first came to preach the Gospel and plant Churches in New-England the effect of which Work is recorded in their Book of Gods Providences towards them in suffering them to destroy the Natives not considering how to love their Enemies and to pray for them unto whom the King of Heaven and Earth had given this Land to possess but as in that day by reason of the Native not understanding the nature of Guns and Powder one English Man with his Gun would put ten Indians to flight so in fifty or sixty years time of being acquainted with the Unrighteousness of the English they are now become so unrighteous in the same way that as a Judgment upon the English their Fire and Sword is so terrible that at the sight of ten Indians do one hundred well armed English men take their flight for the Natives now understanding Trade do say the English cheated them of their Land and also of the many ten Thousand Pounds worth of Furs with which they have traded with the English who were bounded by a Law that only a few of them which were mostly in the Priests and Rulers favour could trade without paying five pounds in Money for every pint of strong Drink they sold to any Indian without lisence from the Rulers who did lisence such as aforesaid to sell what they thought good insomuch that some of the Traders have boasted that their profit was one thousand pound in Furs for one hundred pounds in Rum Gun powder and other Goods with which they traded but of all their trading goods they said Rum was the chief for the Indians nature did so require and desire after strong Drink that all would be drunk in some short time for which cause the English Traders might then buy at any rate and also to lengthen out out their stock by mixing Rum and Brandy with two thirds Water but ill gotten goods do not long remain with the Wicked for the Indian Traders with their great Estates have the Indians destroyed most of them and their Estates with Fire and Sword and if New-England hath been purchased of the Natives as they say after the like nature it hath been how can the English have peace with the Indians until they have repented of their sin and made full restitution to them for their wrong received from the English especially about their Land which all know God gave unto them and before the English came here it s generally acknowledged the Indians were a moral People in way of Trade with each other but since the English undertook the work of reducing them into the knowledge of their Doctrine Principles and Practices they are become the worst of men in stupidity to work ●●ickedness so that it is concluded that those Indians which have complyed with the former Government by which they have gained the Name of Praying Indians have been the greatest Enemies to the English in the late Wars and this I know that some of them called praying Indians have far exceeded them called cursing Indians in Mischief against the English and in general the praying Indians are no more to be credited than they that never prayed in their life so that the great sums of Money or Goods sent from England to promote the Prie●●s and Rulers Work of converting the Indians in New England hath no more answered the end than all the Money and Goods which in the time the Priests have received of their people for preaching for in that day the nearer people were drawn by their Priests to joyn with their Church the further they were drawn from serving God in the true and living way as is sufficiently manifest by their persecuting of People to death so that the more the Indians complyed in joyning with the Church the more subtiler they grew and now in subtilty exceed the Foxes Bears Lyons and Wolves which if a true man were b●● by the one he could have no true recompeace by complaint to the other in which day they accounted their Devotion so holy that if one that was a Member was was reading in his Psalm Book and another that was no Member did but cast his eye to behold what he was reading the prerson that was reading would close his Book as a thing unfit for them accounted as Dogs to partake with with them in their holy things and at that day in the Church of Salem the Women in time of service had their faces covered with a Vail which practice did not many years continue and when this practice was laid aside they had for the more order in their Church to keep people from sleeping a man that wholly tended with a short clubbed stick having at the one end a knop and at the other end a Fox Tayl with which he would stroke the Wemens faces that were drousie to sleep and with the other end would knock unruly Dogs and Men that were a 〈◊〉 in which time the Persecutors were not only known by their persecuting but also by their habit of high crowned Hats and two inch broad Bands with short hair above or even with their Ears and peaked Beards for their manner was to cut their hair by the brims of a dish upon their heads They had also a Law about Men and Womens Apparel by which in wearing of black silk Hoods and Scarfs the Priests and Rulers Wives might be known from others and them accounted rich might be known by their fine Cloth and Gold and Silver Buttons and thereupon came they to receive Honour of the poorer sort which were yearly rated to maintain their Priests c. And in that day a man or woman tho' never so base and wicked yet should they find acceptance of favour with the Priests and Rulers by informing against the Quakers who were recorded as Lyars Blasphemers Seducers Hereticks Rogues and Vagabonds with much more of the like nature Now having related in several places of this Book some what of the unrighteous Laws Acts Orders and Practices of New-England I shall now relate a little concering their last insnaring Law against the same people called Quakers through their pretended zeal for Conformity by chusing Tyding Men in each Town under their Government which were year after year sworn to give true Information vvhere they found the Quakers to meet or any other professing people vvhich vvere not lisenced to meet by the Priests and Rulers vvho for so meeting according to that Lavv did forfeit House and Land to the Country and then the Priests and Rulerrs vvere called the Country and the persons of vvhat quality soever that vvere taken at any of the the aforesaid Meetings were forth-vvith to be vvell vvhipt in the house of Correction the penalty of

received to profit withal Joh. 3.16 17 18 19 20 21. Mat 25. 1 Cor. 12.3 to 9. Ephes 5.13.14 So that if People would but give up in their minds to spend that time in reading the holy Scriptures which they spend in that which only satisfies the Lust of the natural Will which begets from a furder and furder obedience of retaining God in their thoughts by which the mind is fitly framed through Disobedience to veild it self a servant to the Devils Power through which they become Witches and in one degree or another are Instruments of bewitching others in which state of Disobedience the World remains in Wickedness bewitching one the other that they should not obey the Truth of God made manifest by Jesus Christ so that the greatest sort of Witch-craft by the Devil is to make men Instruments for his service and to bewitch into that which is of the most service to promote his Kingdom of Unrighteousness which cannot be higher promoted by any that serve him then when they are by him bewitcht to bewitch others into the like state that when they are destroying the lives of the Lords Children think it is of the greatest Service for God and benefit to their Souls which is the greatest sort of Witch-craft that ever was for People of the Devil so to believe Now for all other sort of Witches they only touch the outward but cannot touch the Spirit of one true Believer in Christ Jesus which according to that command of God for the destroying of Witches and false Worshippers in the time of the Law if it remain the same in this Gospel Day it reaches the Life of every Persecutor which doth bewitch that they should not obey the Truth in which state though they worship not a false God as in the time of the Law yet they worship the true God in a false way which comes under the same Condemnation of not suffering a Witch and the false Worshipper to live in the time of the Law So that Persecutors are no more the true Worshippers of God in this Gospel Day than Witches and other false Worshippers were in the time of the Law for Publicans and Harlots shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven before them that are of that Persecuting Spirit by which so many Thousands of People are bewitched that they should not obey the Truth but remain in the works of the flesh with which Witch-craft is included Gal. 5.20 for which cause the Devil is permitted to imitate the very form of the way and manner of their former proceedings against the People of God at their general Court in Boston for some of the afflicted bewitched or possessed Evidences say That the black Man i. e. the Devil in a high crowned Hat with his Priests have divers times called together about four or five hanared of their Number at Sa●●m they use to assembl● themselves together breaking R●●ad and drinking Wine which they call the Devils Sa●●ament which practise as the Evidences with some of the confessed say is before they set upon the hight of their intended Work to a 〈◊〉 and torment others thereby to force them to conform to the same practice of the Devils way and some have confessed they have been freed from the Torment of their afflicted state upon conforming to the Devils Will who then baptizeth them into Covenant to do what he and the Priests with him command to be done Which work of the Devils general Court is as like in imitation to the work of the former Priests and Rulers against the People called Quakers as the moving shadow of a wicked man is like to the moving of 〈◊〉 corrupted Body for all that would not conform to the Faith of the Priests and Rulers to do as they did in that day were by them and their followers esteemed no better than Dogs for I never heard of any D●g but received more Mercy than that Servant of the Lord William Breand received at the hands of the Priests Rulers and their Followers in that day who tyed the said W. B. neck and heels sixteen hours and laid upon his naked back thirty stripes with a three cord knotted whip and then from ●●e of their Church Members with a pitcht Roap received one hundred and seventeen stripes only his Shirt to defend the same having his body thus beaten into a Jelly of flesh and blood he fainted away some thinking that he would not have recovered life again and the Doctor said if he did recover it would be a Miracle which through the goodness of God he did recover to 〈◊〉 and strength again whose Testimony was of great courage through the Power of God for the service of his Truth among them that did believe and for the further Condemnation of them that did not believe in which day the work of Unbelievers was of that nature against the said People called Quakers that to read the History of all their Sufferings in that day in and about Bo●on may in Ages to come make men to wonder that such a professing People in New-England should manifest themselves so mad against an innocent people nay in that day did they not appoint their Women Church Members to search the Bodies of the Lords Hand maids for Witches whose Testimony will remain to the end on Record That one of them so searched in the bearing and bringing forth fire Children did not undergo the like trouble as the inhumane cruelty of these Church Women put her to in the searching of her Body for a Witch which she was clear of but now among their own Church Members they have as is supposed Witch-craft upon Wi●ch-craft the which whether true or not is a Judgment of God upon them for their not repenting of their evil Deeds against the Lord and his People who daily desire of God that they may manifest Repentance by the fruits thereof until which time of Reformation that men may come to do even as they would that all men should do unto them the Lords Anger against the Inhabitants of New-England will not be removed for they may expect that as they increase in Unrighteousness against God that as he draws off the lesser Judgment a greater for sin and evil against him will upon the Unrighteous be poured forth for God is not mocked such as men sow such they shall also reap and if the Inhabitants of New-England do not amend and repent the Lord hath yet a Work to do by Pestilence and Famine which will be more terrible than all the Lords former Judgments have been ever since they began to persecute the honest People called Quakers Of which work under Boston Government in that day I have before mentioned proving it to be the moving cause that the Lord hath as with Israel of old left the Inhabitants of New-England to further evils which with the shedding of the Blood of the innocent and their other sins these horrid Accusations of Witch-craft have increased among the Inhabitants and Churches