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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

the 9o. Moneth 1643. Per. cur Increase Nowell Secret A Copie of the Charge SAmuel Gorton being convict as a blasphemous enemy to the true Religion of our Lord ●esus Christ and all his holy Ordinances and also to all civill authority among the people of God and particularly in this ●●risdiction as appeareth by writings and speeches This charge being laid upon us ●t the Ba●●● before we heard of the censure though they came as above in writing to us the Governour asked us whether we bowed under it and whether we would retract we answered and told them as in the presence of God that the charge neither bowed nor touched us at all for we were free and fa●●e from being guilty of any such things and for our r●tracti●n we told them we came not there to deny our Religion in any ●oint of it but to testifie and bear witnesse unto it then did they reade our censure for our confinement as i● above said and when the bolts and chains were made ready they put them upon us in the prison at Boston that so we might travell in them to the severall Towns to which we w●re confined some of us having fifteen miles and some thirty to goe from Boston only we were to stay till Master Cotten his Lecture day and then were all brought to the Congregation in th●t our iron furniture for the credit of the Sanctuary which had set the sword on work to such good purpose and after that were with all speed sent away yea some of us among the people that went from the Lecture that so we might be a spectacle unto them In which condition we continued a whole winter season in which time their Ministers stirred up the people in their publick Sermons to famish us to death out of that place of the Prophet Zephany ● 10. 11. This shall they have for their pride because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of Hosts the Lord will be terrible unto them for he will famish all the Gods of the earth and men shall worship him every one from his place even all the Isles of the Heathen Samuel Gorton having intelligence from Boston to Charles-Town to which he was confined that Master Cotton preached from that text in the prophecie of Zephany and how he applyed the doctrine from it to have all necessaries with-held from him telling some eminent members of the Church that i● they either went unto us to visit us or sent unto us to minister to our wants the curse of God would abide both on them and their posterity for so doing the said Gorton hearing of these things writ a Letter to the ruling Elder in Charles-Towne a Copie whereof verbatim here followeth which was consulted upon by the Ministers immediatly together with the Governour as intelligence was brought unto him but never answer given unto it neither by word nor writing Charles-towne Ianuary the 12. 1643. Mr. Green FOr as much as we know that the Ruler of the Congregation hath power to give utterance and to authorise speech unto edification and that none ought to hinder where ever or whomsoever he permits or giveth Lycense unto and in as much as we also professe that there is one thing that is needfull and whosoever shall make choise of that it shall never be taken away from him which is to hear the words of Christ Neither are we ignorant that none are truly sensible o● know the necessity use and benefit of hearing the word of Christ but only such as are sensible and see the necessitie yea and that in the same subject of speaking and delivering the words of Christ for the heart of every Saint is equally ballanced with these two the same necessitie he finds to speak he also finds to heare the same necessity he finds to heare he finds to speake also the word of God for faith is in hearing and hearing is in speaking the word of God if we deny either of these unto a Christian we deny him the power of ●aith which doth consist in them both nay if he want a tongue to speake or an eare to heare and that equally the one as the other we deny him to be compleat in Christ who as he had an ear open to the voice of the Father in all things so had he a tongue to divulge and declare them unto th● world even so with the heart man beleeves unto righteousnesse that is gives credit to that which he hears to be in another and with the mouth confession is made to salvation that is preacheth or professeth that which God hat● made him to be by faith therefore if thou shalt confesse with thy mo●th the Lord Jesus and beleeve in thine heart that God raised him up from the dead thou shalt be saved nor a● I ignorant of the minds of the people amongst whom I now so journe and am a stranger as all my Fathers have bee●● Hovv earnest they are I should get my bread vvith ●●●●ile vvorke or else to have hunger and famine to cleave unto my bonds vvhich they professe themselves to be very clearly instructed in though in times past it hath been thought sufficient work for a man to be exercised in at one time to lie in ●etters and irons amongst strangers though wife and children were not deprived of all necessaries at home Nor doe I doub● but they may find a time to alter their judgement it may ●e before they are aware especially if the Bride-groom be at the door and it is well known that I have not been acc●●●omed to any servile worke in any part of my life till now of l●●e in New-England where through the kindnesse of my countrey men in taking from my family the things of this life which God had bestowed on us I have been necessitated thereunto which I am so upbraided with in this place But it is not grievous unto me whilest they cannot but see in it if God have not blinded th●ir eyes the vanity of those Idol shepherds of the Church of Rome who cannot speak unto the people but in a way of so much study and ease nor had I ever desire to be set up in the world through gatherings and contributions of the people Therefore have these hands ministred to my necessities But however I have been exercised about the bread that perisheth yet hath it not been but with respect unto that which endureth unto everlasting life which I have endeavoured to bre●● and faithfully to impart unto my wife children and servants and to any that had an ear open to listen unto that whol●some word of life which hath made all other travells or losses whatever to be light and easie unto me as at this day which I professe to be the only errant I have to do in this world and however we do preach the Gospel yet have

borne of the Virgin it may be done in few words but to lay out the nature benefit and glory of it no smalspeech or time can serve to expresse and therefore desired in word as before he had manifested his mind unto them so he might give that present answer which God gave unto him in this point also but they told him it must be done in writing and so commanded the Go●ler to convey him to an other room to dispatch the same but as he was going out from them they called unto him and told him he should have the liberty of halfe an hours time to performe i● in when he was come into an other room pen inke and paper being brought unto him as he was going to write word was sent from the Court that if it was brought in on the second day in the morning it should suffice for the Court considering of it that many of them had farre home and it being the day of Preparation for the Sabbath for it was now Saturday in the afternoon and they thought not fit to sit any longer so Gorton was conveyed againe into the Prison to the rest of his friends who continued cheerfully together all the Sabbath day as they had done before in the Prison only some part of those dayes they brought us forth unto their Congregations to hear their Sermons of occido and occidio which was ment not to be digested but only by the heart or stomacke of an Ostrich But upon the Munday morning Gorton tooke pen and inke and writ in answer to every one of the four questions given unto him as here followeth This is a true Copie of answers given to the Court of the Massachusets to the four questions which they required to be answered in writing upon life and death in case of Blasphemy which we were charged with and sentence so farre passed as to take away our lives by the sword in case of not disclayming of our Religion or erroneous opinions as they were pleased to call them the answers are truly set down verbatim TO the first question we answer affirmatively only assuming the l●berty of our explanation namely The Fathers who dyed before Christ was borne of the Virgin Mary were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed and the death which he suffered in and after his Incarnation that is on this wise that the guilt and stain of man is not but with respect unto the holy word of God the disobedience whereof by eating the forbidden fruit breeds an infinit distance between God and his owne worke without the least defect or blame to be found or imputed unto the Word of God but the sole defect and blame is in the creature even in man himselfe yet could he in no case be so miserable but with respect unto the holy Word even so the justification and salvation of the Fathers was by the holy word of God not but with respect and relation unto the seed of Abraham and the Son of David conceived and borne of the Virgin Mary in whom they were justified and saved and yet no vertue nor power arising out of any thing that is humane m●n therefore is a sinner of infinit guilt with respect unto that word which was before all time and no fault to be found in the Word at all the word of God is a Saviour of infinit value with respect unto the seed of the Virgin Mary borne suffering dying and rising againe in the fulnesse of time and yet no vertue in that seed at all unto whom all the Prophets bear witnesse having an eye unto him in all their holy Writings and the faith of the Fathers comprehending Christ both in the one and in the other respect were justified and saved by him alone his death being reall and actuall unto faith God having the same coexistance with the creature in all ages though the creature cannot have the same with him but in time To the second Question depending upon or rather involved in the former we answer Mans rejection of the Word of God being his sinne and separation from God is the only forfeiture of himselfe which could not be but with respect unto the word of eternity even so Gods Righteousnesse revealed by taking man into unitie with himselfe is the only price of our Redemption with respect unto the death of Christ upon the Crosse with the rest of his sufferings and obedience from the time of his Incarnation in the womb of the Virgin Mary to his ascention into Heaven without which there is no price of our Redemption To the third Question who we thinke that God is that men serve that are not of the faith above said we answer that all mens hearts are awed by the true God to bow in worship therefore when the Apostle looking upon the inscription upon the Altar at Athens it is said he beheld their devotion or as the word is the God which they worshipped though ignorantly yet it was he only that he declared unto them So the Apostle Iames thou beleevest that there is one God thou doest well the Devils also beleeve and tremble The fourth Question therfore is the explanation of the third namely what we mean by Molech and the Star of that God Remphan to which we answer that the Scripture alluded unto * makes difference between those Gain-sayers of the Fathers which fell in the Wildernesse and those of the true seed that gave faithfull Testimony unto the Oracle of God the Rebels of the sons of Levy would not take up nor beare the Arke of God as their duty was nor give the light and lustre of a Star in the Tabernacle when it was pitched for the seven Stars are the seven Angels But as they had the power of a worldly Ruler or Governour to defend them in their worke and to subdue all that were not of their mind under them therefore they tooke up the Tabernacle of Molech or bore the Booth of the King and gave the light of Remphan alluding unto Rapha who in Davids dayes had four sonnes were mighty Gyants warring only by the strength of the Arme of flesh so that they would not give Testimony unto the holy way of God but as they had a King set over them besides Moses to defend them when as a greater then Moses was there And in this they turned backe in their hearts unto Aegypt looking unto the way of Pharaoh that would subdue all that were not of his own way and be a defence unto his wise men in what ever they wrought but the faithfull seed of Abraham had the Tabernacle of witnesse or witnessed unto the Tabernacle even in the Wildernesse where there was no worldly Governour to defend them but all came out against them Ammon and Amaleck Balack Ogg and Sihon and the rest in the which condition Stephen perceived himselfe when he witnessed unto the word of truth in alleadging that place of the Prophet * Samuel Gorton

Upon the finishing of these answers on the Munday morning the Court sent for S. Gorton to come before them and when he was come the Governor asked him whether he had brought in his ansvver to the questions propounded unto him at their last sitting in writing he answered he had brought them then the Governor asked him whether he had put his hand unto them he answered he had not not thinking it would be required else he had done it the Governour called for pen and inke and caused him to put his hand unto them and then demanded them of him Gorton desired he might have liberty to read them first in the Court that he might pronounce the Phrases and words according to the true meaning and intent having had experience of wrong done in reading in way of pronunciation of things not plainly before to the giving of true intelligence to the hearers when the answers were read in the audience of the Court the Court paused and no man said any thing unto them only bade Gorton with-draw which being done they hade some consulta●ion among themselvs and shortly after called for Gorton to be brought in again Master Saltingstone found fault that it was written in the answer what is the Star of that God Remphan whereas it was in the writing your God Remphan Gorton answered the Phrase was only changed for modesty for indeed saith he it is the phrase of the Apostle your God Remphan and so it rested to clear that scruple The Governour told Gorton that they were one with him in those answers for they held as he did Gorton answered he was very glad of it for he loved not differences and divisions amongst men the Governour then asked him whether he would retract the writing that was formerly written unto them Gorton answered that nothing was written before but would suit and agree with these answers so that if there was cause to retract one there was cause to retract all the Governour said no these answers they could agree with him in but not in the former writing whereupon Master Dudley stood up seeming to be much moved and said he would never consent to it whilst he lived that they were one with him in those answers the Governour then asked Gorton what Faith was to which he answered that was nothing that concerned what they had formerly written and that he and the rest had only undertaken to answer to any thing that was in their writing the Governour told him he was bound and ought to be ready to give an answer to any that should aske him a question of the hope that is in him Gorton made answer that the difinition which the Apostle gives of faith was sufficient as he thought to give any man satisfaction he asked him what that was he told him it was this that faith is the hypostasis or subsistance of things that are hoped for and the evidence or argument demonstrative of things that are not seen nor demonstrated at all the Governour told him that was true but he could say more of faith then so Gorton told him it gave him satisfaction and being an other point then they had had to deale about since their comming amongst them and being no question produced from former writings desired to be spared from any further answer then the plain words of the Apostle whereupon Master Broadstreet made answer that he thought it was not fit to put him upon any new questions unlesse he were free to speake unto them and so they dismissed him from the Court to the Prison againe Shortly after this there was a day appointed wherein wee were to receive our sentence from the Court which was to be given in the afternoon and in the forenoon Master Cotton preached having gathered up the minds of the people in what they had observed and perceiving the people took notice that in what we dissented from them was out of tendernesse of conscience and were ready to render a reason and ground for what we held and practised divers such like things to which he answered that if we had done i● out of ignorance then there had been hopes of regaining us but if out of tendern●sse of conscience and able to render reason for what wee did and other things of like nature then were we ripened for death urging them to agree together and consent in one thing that so it might be else would not the Angels carry their soules to heaven for he was then speaking of the office of the Angels in that point and when by all their examinations in Court Inturgatories put upon us in Prison and publicke preaching they could find nothing against us for the transgressing of any of their Lawes they then proceeded to cast a lot for our lives putting it to the major vote of the Court whether we should live or die which was so ordered by the providence of God that the number of two votes carried it on our side and whereas both by Law Equitie and act of Providence they ought to have set us forthwith at liberty yet notwithstanding they proceeded further to censure namely confined us to severall Towns and to wear bolts and irons and to worke for our livings though it was i● the extremity of winter and not to speak of any of those things which they had dealt with us about and all this during the pleasure of the Court and that upon pain of death Here followeth a true Copie of the censure and of the charg as it was given unto us in writing by the Court being extant and here set down verbatim as it was given to Samuel Gorton the rest being the same but onely the change of the names For Samuel Gorton IT is ordered that Samuel Gorton shal be confined to Charlstowne there to be set on worke and to wear such bolts or irons as may hinder his escape and so to continue during the pleasure of the Court provided that if he shall break his said confinement or shall in the meane time either by speech or writing publish declare or maintaine any of the blasphemous or abominable heresies wherewith he hath been charged by the generall Court contained in either of the two books sent unto us by him or by Randall Houlden or shall reproach or reprove the Churches of our Lord Jesus Christ in these united Colonies or the civill government or the publicke Ordinances of God therein unlesse it be by answer to some question propounded to him or conference with any Elder or with any other licensed to speak with him privately under the hand of one of the Assistants that immediatly upon accusation of any such writing or speech he shall by such Assistant to whom such accusation shall be brought be committed to prison till the next Court of Assistants then and there to be tryed by a Jury whether ●e ●●th so spoken or written and upon his conviction thereof shall be condemned to death and executed Dated the 3o. of

we nothing to rejoyce in or to glory and praise our selves for to lift up our selves above our Brethren for necessity is laid upon me That is I am in want and stand in need of all things and woe is me if I preach not the Gospel That is if I receive not this grace from Christ as wel as any other for the same necessity I have of any other grace I have of this grace also For of his fulnesse we all receive and grace for grace for the graces of God are a bundle of life in Christ Iesus So as that if I reject or neglect or put off any one of them to another as no priviledge or prerogative of mine I do the like to all For his seamlesse coat may not be divided but all goeth by lot or portion the same way And in like manner I am destitute of this I am destitute of all other grace that proceeds from him For if I preach the Gospel willingly I have a reward That is if I do it out of any ability skil or wi● of my own gotten and acquired by any pains or industry as men attain to arts and trades wherein they are to be preferred before and above others then I have a reward that is something is to be attributed and contributed to me for the same then go I about to deprive my Lord of his right shewing my self an unfaithful steward for where an hundreth is due to him I bid write fifty that I may take the rest my self to live upon for even as I propound my own deserts demerits and eminency unto a people so do I propound the undeserving estate and condition of my Lord proclaming his basenesse whil'st I set forth my pains and good-wil in so doing but if I do it against my wil That is if it be contrary to the mind and wil of all men to undergo the crosse of Christ to preach the Gospel in necessities reproaches hard labors and persecutions then is the dispensation committed unto me that is the right of all administrations wrapped up in that fountain of dispensing the Gospel do of right solely belong unto him and not unto me in any case yea it is the wil and power of another and not my own unto whom the praise and glory of right belongeth and wholy appertaineth and not unto the wil ability or skil of any man whatsoever and hence it is that the Crosse is easie unto us because we know that he as truly and totally taketh our reproaches and ●ardships upon himselfe which are only due unto us as he committeth the dispensation of his grace and glory unto us that is none of ours but only due and belongs unto himself so t●at we remember him that suffered such gainsayings of sinners ●ast we should be weary and faint in our mind yea further there is a necessity of preaching the Gospel upon every soul for as there is not any that can beleeve for another unto righteousnesse the party being destitute of that grace himself so there i● not any that can preach or confesse for another unto salvation the party himself being destitute of that grace of confession or preaching Indeed the Saints communicate in these graces one with an other as all of them being heirs and inheritors of the same grace i● Christ but one cannot perform any office for another ●s for such as are destitute of the same grace and office themselve for that were instead of a girdle arent Therefore the preaching of the Gospel is the discovering of what men are in Christ Iesus and not only what they may or shal be also what men are under the wrath of God that abides upon them being out of Christ and not only what they shal be So that every Christian having received this as an ingrafted word growing up together with it that is that I may be mutually edified and comforted by the communicacation of your faith mine he grows up in this also namely that I may be mutually edified and comforted by the communication of your preaching and mine for i● the day of the Lord which is the day of salvation and behold no● the accepted time behold now the day of salvation wherein we give no offence or lay not any stumbling block before our brethren we villifie not that sacrifice once offered up for all That our ministery may not be reprehended Or that our ministery be not blemished for so ●he word is momo● that is we can acknowledge no sacrifice but onely that which is without ●ither superfluity or defect and in that day the feeblest i● Ierusalem is as Davi● A King a leader a valiant warri●r a sweet finger in Israel and the house of David as God ●r as the mighties for the word is plurall yea as the angel of th● Lord before them every one is as the angel or messenger of the Lord before the rest of the congregation or as the angel of the Lord before him as the word will also beare that is to say as the messenger of the Lord like unto his servant Iohn to prepare or make ready his way before him forthe messenger of the Lord and he onely knows how to bring down the highest mountain and how to lift up the lowest valley and that only is a high way for the Royalty of our King to passe upon in the wildernesse And this is a glory that the world cannot receive neither can it give it and it is our rejoycing that we borrow nothing from the world nor stand in need of any thing it hath to make the Gospel of God glorious for it were better for us to die then that any man should make our rejoycing vain or emptie For it were not full in Christ if we borrowed any thing of the world which were death to us to think of what is our rejoycing then or our reward when as the whole world affordeth nothing at all unto us verily this that when we preach the Gospel we make it free which could not be if it laid claim to any thing the world hath in the publication of it self for then by the Law of relations the world might lay claim unto and challenge something from it which were to bring the Gospel into bondage But as the Lord Jesus wrought that great work of reconcilia●ion freely so as the world could challenge nothing of it at his hands at all so is that word of reconciliation to whomsoever it is committed published freely so as the world can challenge nothing of them at all So that the servant of the Lord is free from all men though he makes himself servant unto all that he might gain the more s Thence it is that he abuseth not his authority in the Gospel but keeps his power unspotted when

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

28 15. x Which signifies either opened or shut as in Numb 24. 3 4. y Isa 6. 9 10. z Revel 11. 7. a Num. 22. 25. 27. That is before Balam so that the beast and Balam have the same light look b Ge● 19. 11. c Joh. 10. 1 2 3 d Revel 11. 6. e Being one of the two witnesses before noted or his power and kingly authority f 1 Kings 8. 27 2 Chron. 2. 6. g Psal 78 41. h which is his Priesthood wherein he deprives himselfe of all power of man or strength of the aime of flesh i Psalme 22 6 k Revel 11. 8 9 10 l That is if the power of God and the weaknesse frailty of man should not be so slaine as to be stil kept as dead in sight of all then could not the power and glory of the creature as Visegerent unto the power and glory of God in his absence be seen set up and made known m Gen 3 14 n Revel 11. 8 9 10 11. o Ephes 2 1 2 3. Rom. 3. 9. to 19. p Matt. 11. 14. q Matt. 5. 34. to 38. r M●● 5. 27 28. ſ Psal 103. 5 t Psal 2. 8. u Hebr. 3. 15 w Psal 2 12. x Ezekiel 34. 19 10 21. y Isaiah 32. 1. z Ephes 2. 2. a As the word signifies b Heb. 2. 10. c Revel 13. 8. d 1 Sam. 17. 10. e 1 John 3. 12. f Matt. 1. 21 g As the word signifies given in the Chaldean tongue for Devil * Understand these things according to the true intent that is any officer that layes claime to the things of the Kingdom of God by vertue of that his office in that sence the truth of these things stand firme and good and doth not deny or disallow any humane ordinance of man in this world so it be kept in its bounds and proper place for he that is a Captaine of the Temple that is exerciseth force of armes for the helpe of the house of God wil ever with the Priests and souldiers lay hands on Peter and John to put them in hold at the least if they preach Christ But Cornelius is no Captain of that kind or kindred for he is a Gentile of Caesarea and of the band called the Italian Band. h Psal 105 9. 10 i Isay 15. 18 k Acts 7. 44 45 l Acts 7. 43 m As they in the Massachusets had lately done to condemne the innocent and justifie such who otherwise had been proved guilty of felonious acts even these their new made subjects whose shame they would not permit to appeare but rather deprive sufficient witnesse of their testimony at the guilty pers●ns request n That is to their Courts in the Massachusets to imploy them about any matters of ours living peaceably together so farre remote from them out of all their Jurisdictions o That is man of shame p Mouth of shame q Luke 13. 31 32 33 34. r That is as the word signifies Confusion ſ Mat. 21. 5. to 10. Matt. 23. 37. 38 39. t Isay 40. 7. 8. ● 30. Psal 90. 5 6. u Isay 2. 22. w Psal 56. 5 x Knowing our selves to be free subiects to the Laws and government of our native countrey and not unto any government extended out of its bounds and jurisdiction y Ge●● 10 8 9. Jer. 16. 16. z Psal 8 ●● 7. a Psal 83. 9 10 11. b Genesis 3. 5. For he that assumeth a title unto himselfe without respect unto Christ in whom the whole glory therof consists such mind and disposition prosecuted followed to its height according to the rise thereof sets it selfe in direct terme of opposition against Christ and hath the spirit of the god of this world c Mat. 26. 4 9 d 1 Co● 1 25 e Marke 10. f Matt. 20. 2● 23. Luke 12. 50. g That is his Scepter Rod Staffe or tribe h Psal 110. 2. i the word Aelein signifies dumbnesse so that the Phrase is doe ye indeed do dumb Justice o Congregation and so describes such persons what they are that speake not a word of Righteousnesse in their acts and executions which Psalme shewed unto us the spirit practise and successe of our Adversaries * These being the Purchasers of Shawo met the Sachim Myantonomy as he sold it to 12. men so his price was that every man should pay 12. Fatham of Wamppum peage that is 144. Fatham as our deed which he made unt us being extant witnesseth to be paid unto him k As Mr Cobbe● who cryed out against Gorton that arch heretick who saith he would have al men to be preachers But if he had turned his speech against Moses who wished that al the Lords people were prophets he had far more plainly expressed the bent of his spirit what manner of zeal he had l They having banished some of us five or six years before and threatning that if some of us were amongst them we should hardly see the place of our aboad any more m That is their united body which they so much delight and glory in consists by their owne confession of such mixture of Members as that part are Heathens by their owne report n This Letter doth plainly declare the proper intent of the Massachusets in sending out this band of souldiers against us namely in the falsifying of our faith to God to subject our selves unto them who never named the least word unto us as though they came against us in the name of the King and State of old England but in the name of the government of the Massachusets or else to pay the tribute of our Lives unto them in the utter ruine of our wives and children which these men having received in Commission together with instruction how to accomplish and effect the same from those that sent them count it their glory to reveal and make manifest the same which the Massachusets had so long gone about to hide under the colour of some civil miscarriage in our course of walking towards men in regard themselves had professed to remove into those parts meerly for the liberty of conscience which now they so zealously deny unto their neighbours o As the wife of Jo. Green as also the wife of Robert Potter other women miscarrying to the losse of their children So also Francis Weston through cold and hardship in prison fell into a consumption and in short time after dyed of it p The wife of S. Gorton and some of her children she being ready to lie downe in child bed was so dealt with by the souldiers the boat hasting off for feare if one of her sonnes could not have swimmed had been left behind her so was glad to betake himselfe to the water though young to recover the Boat q They had so animated and incouraged the souldiers yea so incensed them against us that they were loth to entertaine speech or parley though they say in their last writing they came to examine cases of right