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againft 

SEVEN- HEADED POLICY. 

OR 

Irinoeency Vindicated , being unjuftly Accufed , 
and forely Cetifurea, by that 

Seven - beaded Qhurch - (government 

United in 

NEW-ENGLAND: 

OR 

That Servant fb Imperious in his Mafters Abfence 

Revived, and now thus re-a&ing in N * v v- E n gland. 

or 

Thecombateof the United Colonies, not onely againft 
fomeofthe Natives and Sub jeds, but againft the Authority a!fo 
of the Kingdme of England, with their execution of Laws i in the name an J 
Authority of the fervant, (or of thernfelves) and not in the Name and 
Authority of the Lord, or fountain of the Governtttent. 

Wherein is declared an A& of a great people and Country 
ofthe Indians in thofe partsjboth Princes and People (unanimoafly) 
in their voluntary Subtniflion and Sub/edion unto the Ptote&ion 
and Government of Old England (from the Fame they hear thereof) toge- 
ther with the true manner and forme of it, is it appears under their own 
hands and feals, being itirred up, and provoked thereto, by 
the Cambatc and courfes above-faid. 

Throughout which Treatife is fecretly intermingled) that 
<>reat Oppofition, which is in the goings forth of thofe two grand 
Spirits, that are, and ever have been, extant in the World 
(through the fens of men) from the beginning and 
foundation thereof. 

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Licenfed to the FrefiV, according to Order by publifce Autho itv. 



LONDON, 

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Vpon an occaftonall view, of this un^ 
expeBed, and much unmjhed for 
Story, 

THis Story's ftran^e, but altogether true : 
Old Englands Satnts are banifkt out of NeVr : 
Oh Monftrous Art, tod cunning theDevill, 
What bidden paths he goes, to fpreadjxis evill ! 
The Man ot Sin's the /<n»f, his eldeft S on j 
Both have more (bafts, then be moats, in the Sun. 
Hence disappointed, are the moft(of w<?» ; 
When trouble's ^(fome thinke) theyr*/* sgen. 
Thus v befell thefe Pilgrims, in that Land, 
To Mich they Aid, from perfections hand. 
This note, with Papifts,IeWs and 7»r*/ , 

For in them all, the felfe fame fpirit works : ' 
Thus is the A T "»* of blafpemd, by thefe, 

Who burthen r A* w, to whom they promife eale. 

Oh rbrift arife, &ni fpread thy glorious fame, 
That all m »y the ftoeetnejfe of thy iVaw* : 
*Xj.' *A$ric, Eurepi > vai<iAmtrica 
ExpeB ' and ttwf* the dawnings of that 
That Papifts, Greeks, we the Protefiants 

Of C*/w»* -5^. thofe t00 » the LHtherans * 

And rfc<7 that are a j?m'w above them 

At Ufa feet, at may 4*»«|f fall, 

Thatfo fuch Cfen/r/, which mofim : fancy «4< 

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And all may wor/iip him evn with we jltfrfr* : 
That Co the Nations may this glory fee ; 
And into *>, at length transformed^ i 
Thi%toefe8 ? can # tbe by Mordoi man p 
But ffo* which to mth-ftand, no Kingdomes can. 
For tis the Z*r<// o wne f»*g£f, the fword that doth, 
Ern with Wo edges flow out of Gods mouth, 
By which tre (lain* the toickfdof each Z*»<f, 
And will fare *r*f each Perfecutors band : 
Then England, and 7>* Nations round 
That are now fo lofty, and fo flout : 
At length downfall to foT* thafs ZWof you : 
And learne with him, like meekvejfe for to /&* * : 
If you With iron Rods 9 Saints breaks andbrmfe. 
KnoV then joarfelves % that Chrifl you fo will 




<*A Lover of peace, and one of eminent 
re/j>eB 9 viewing this Treatife at the 
'Prejfe, kindly added this yerfe pre- 
fixed,which hath both fodainly, and 
unexpe&edly drawn from my thoughts 
as here follow eth as a tejlimony of 
my kind refpeBs unto the party jbougb 
but a fir anger unto him • it mayalfo 
ferve as anintelligencer 3 what was the 
only ground of contriver fie, in aBing 
according untOy and publijhing of 
this Treatife. 

Me ferpent With a voyce fo Jlie &ndfine * Hence doth 

, Confultswith»^*«,as though he were divine, ^'jf/IlL,*"' 
. Whil'ft Ihe doth feek for glory ,wealth,and love £z™ s cut 
In things that are MoVt, and not in that Above ; m t he'way of 
' Lending an * ear to liften unto him, this woman, 

The fruit looks fair t ±Q tree feems nothing grim .- G;«.j.P>w.7. 
AndWdo{hhe,at/5^%/«r'-»yi £5teK. 
Through earthly projeds, for to make man wife : Church, but 

Whereas the light of heaven, GOD himfelf ordain'd ufurpeih. 
To be that thinu whereby man is maintain 'd i T>m.x. 

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In wifdom, honor, happinefs, and peace, 
That doth from ferpeut (fin, death, hell) releafe; 
And nor conjectural, doubtful, fubtil notion 
* Theferpents Sec forth, by art, with fignof great devotion, 
voycc tranf- Come from the Prelates % your perfecuting foes; 
ttkS^^L Our Churchy Primitive) Chrift Jefus doth difclofc 
king thcie in Her Ordinances pure, a Church erefted here 
way of Mini- Where you may worfhip, voydof care or fear, 
ftry,as >a t the 0ar Land is large ; Our Magiftraey good ; 
beginning. Come *V* to fa ve that innocent like blood 
From fuch as are to cruelty fo bent, 
Our Way tare meek, and humble y to give all content; 
Thus he appears, apparrelledin White 
To fnare in that, wherein he takes delight. 
An earthly Kingdom, he would fain eredt 
Then spiritual honor, he mult needs reje&. 

man's feT out That when that, * Woman, appeareth in her glory 
the way cf With him in Womb, of Whom intreats all ftorj. 
King Lemuels fhm'shct-dragonred, for to devour 
uTchetif^c- * iMchiU 9 to whom is given, allthepoWer 
pheVe^^.Ta ? n heaven,and%n earth, to rule as King and Lord. 
Piw.jr, who None to the ferpent, no, heaven cannot afford 
may pray and ^ place of reftdence, he muft thence depart 

p J°^u Cy u n 'Down to the earth, full fore againfl his heart, 

the Church ~, , , its 

without ufur- Thac he a P lace cann °t *WS* to frame 

jrgkiiniQir 1 1 Which from the heavens may feecn to take its fame. 
Cruel, Raging, Carnal, now he Cometh forth 
Hispe, andjubtilwifdom, now proves nothing worth* 

This woman, noW in travel, finds not time 
To lift en unto him, nought but the child is mine : 
* For the one Which child in her, can nothing elfeconfefle, 
betakes it felfButT"^ 'one of c glory * mdbare JVilderneffe : 
te heaven, the Which tWain together, give all praife to one ; 

wSSratfi? T , hen * ury ' s in the Ser P cnc > fmo€ >th policy is gone 
No middle place for Sathan now is found, 
Not one With th' manchild 5 down he goes to ground s 



His cunning cannot now intice fo fa*- 9 
But Michael, and bis Angels wil make War 
With Dragon, and with all his Angels great, 
Yea overcome him, never found retreat. 

Moft of his skil he ufeth *, he knows how 
To talk of benefits to receive, although not now , 
And fo from place, and perfon dill delights to wend, 
Where's outward peace, there's ChriK, doth he pretend j 
And if fo be that troubles do arife, 
Himfelf he faves, the ferpent itfo *>ift : 
No tye, to fold, nor flocks, he then wil know ; 
Chrift in an earthly peace, he'l have, where e're he go. 

Whereas our Lord, his voy ce doth fometimes teach 
Go to** 7)*c*/w/w,andthere thoufliak me preach 
Uflto * ten Cities, great the number bee ; 
My Word fhal reach them, and / am Wttti thee. 

For Jam truth 9 md truth thou goeft to (how 
Which makes thee{ree,my prefence thou doft know 
No place decant thee og, then wa ke at large . 
Doubt not, I'm with thee, docbat keepemy Charge, 
The nations (hall come forth nontext one S birth ; 
Truth in the change of one, rene weth all d earth ; 
We were not perfett good, in every ene ereft, 
^ZneweJfX through th'Ml that great defeft, 
If changeof one were not i world renew d 
What Nation then,not brought in.and fubdud, 
When truth is publifhr, though butunto one 
Imbrac't.receiv'dfoh happy Seated man, 
All Gentile \zm\s>brougktin + who can want 
The wM'*£?< 8af«^fe could ne're be leant. 
' Bat Hypocrites cannot this thing ;digtft, 
in pUces y , P time y ,and perfons ,they i«k wealth and *», 
a Jj 'hm not hovitbe miqhtj Lord above 
^IcaTlTsZr) o're Ll.yea fid her laf in Uve . 

XcanfhewWthathaveDorearth dothfill. 



• He ever puts 
off the day of 
the Lord as 
not )ctti.i e 
to build the 

Temple, but 

would live in 
his own feilcd 
Cor artificial) 
houfc of his 
o.vn trannng 
and device. 

Thougli he 
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v.ich Jcfus, yec 
Jefus under- 
{tandmg his 
defire to be 
but nature 
(that is) to ia- 
joy nim^ac- 
cording, to the 
rlell^denies 
him that, that 
fo he mighc be 
with hitn ac- 
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All keepe their Rations, attend as they have done, 

Negleft no homage t or iervice to the Son, 

All bring their vertues 9 tve%{mcs 9 and their glory 

Centring them all in him^ a world of Princely Dowry, 

Then walke through Sea, or Land, by friends or foes 

Let prtfens faft % hard iron? thee inclofe, 

All take thy part, yea plead thy caufe for thee 

The world vents its malice , in Qhrijls love thon art free. 

The Spirit of this world by thefe things comes to light 
Its pomp, and glory, which earft did Chine fo bright 
Appears groffe darkneffe, unto Chriftian eyes 
Down comes its Kingdome, up goes its plaints and cryes, 

* Books fo in- Hel P e SWord and Gun, elfe doth our Kingdome fall 
titulcd written Court) fire,* Gangrena , we tad worm- wood and gall, 
upon unccr- No marvell, for,Chrift in his native kind 

taj n fc ports > s et forth, declared uncoa carnal! mind , 

fturcs toTurt A PP cars as odious unto fuch a wight 

the Church. As finne to him,in whom is found the light : 

What fentence (hall be given then by fons of men, 
Whermuth appears, if power were found in them? 

• A mccr hu ^° P ower ^ ut that of darkneffe then ,let us to them afcribe 
ting' of me" to What's in the Church's our Lords, all unto them denyd ; 
worry your Take heed yee Judg of Blaffhemies aright , 

own k ind; For Light difcerns, the darkneffe hath no fighf. 

fhat hTmTo ^ 1 M ^ Can ^ e fl ic ^* y° u ^ no w not how » l> m *ke one 
the morning Suf Pen<* your judgement, all your skill ugone , 
ftcP/^ii. in And let the Judge of all, his Circuit paffe apace, 
the tilicjthir- Who comes net to deflroy , (uch is his grace, 
fling afccr.the A.nd let chat man his own deftruftion be, 
Com^re^G/ Who breaks th^z faith with God, cannot be peecd by thee : 
io°. s^'with*' ^ ca ^ e tncn your.profecucions, feck yee to doe good ; 
Jer* it.it. Save life in any, in Church wayes fpill not blood; 

In Ch rift, if you confidcr, the Covenant of God, 

Youie find that all compulfion>is nought but that * Nim*rod. 



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TO 

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, 
the Earl of lVarmc\ } Lord High 

Admiral! of England, and Governour 
in chiefe of the Englifh Plantations in America t 
and upon the coafts thereof, and to the reft of 

that Honour -obit Committee , joynedin fommijfton 
with hu Excellencie, For the ftc I ordering , 
government, xnd fafcty of For- 
. r-ainTlaritations* 

"Right HonoHaue, 

| C cording to the Fame we 
have heard of you, Co have 
we found in you, a Ipirit of 
teridernefle and compafsu 
on towards the opprefled, 
which ever fprings from 
the^ourage and fortitude of a heart refolute 
to fuppreite the Oppreflbr , be his power and 
policie what it may , whilft men unfenfible 
of the caufe of the Needy, ever ftand in readi- 
nefie to fide with the ftrongeft partie , and fo 
(asoccafionlerves) to become one with the 
cruell, venting the fame fpirit, which for ad- 
vantage can eafily transform it felfe , fo asif 

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power comply with thejuft mans caufe,the vi- 
zard of hypocrifieis loon put onbyfuch , ei- 
ther to become dumb & filent,or elfe to Ipeak 
fo,as may belt advantage it felfe, let the caufe 
be what it will. Your wifdom and noble care 
in thole weighty affairs committed to your 
truft, commands and binds us over to make a 
more particular and full relation (then former- 
ly we have done) of what hath palled betwixt 
£bme other Colonies in N e vv-E ngland 
and our felves } that if it be pofsible to find 
any leilure hours in a crowd of io great im- 
ployments ,y our Honours might bepleafed to 
take a more full view of things ; in the mem 
time we ftand humbly ingaged , as we have 
done • and ever mail in any fervice, that what 
we are, or have, can tender to the honour and 
peace of our Native Countrey,or toany true- 
hearted well- Wiflier thereof . and if no other 
fervice > we can) may beacceptable,yet of this 
imployment none mail prevent us (whilft our 
God gives us hearts) daily to pray for you. 

Tour Honours moff humble Servants the 
Inhabitants of Shaw-omet, vhofe 
names are often txprejjed in this 
Starr &\ ion, 





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Courteous Reader. 

Oe not thinke that delight to lay open the in* 
firmitie and Veeakneffe of men {except our 
weaknejfes and infirmities, at the Sort of God 
fuflained them ) any further ,nor to other end, 
but as they ferve to e.ifcover and lay of en 
that one fpirit of the God of this %>or/d,which 
noS\> works effeBually in the children of dif- 
^edience^hich fpirit in all its fever all ft ayes of operation, may 
he fathered up, ' and centre din, that f on of perdition, yea.mthat 
feven. headed, and ten horned beafi , Vhofepo*<r andpolicie like 
tintoihatMuge in the old world ,hathjo longoverjreaaihe 
face of the earth Jwallomng up in death every hvtngthiKg that 
hath its motion upon the earth, after or according to the fief. _ 

Nor can any be offended ^fllj mth us ,(no not our adverfanes 
-themfehes) for making this true ^f^ of thngs that have 
lalTed amongft Us, of which this Tretttcc truly /pea&For anions 
iSormeddereinmen havecaufe to glory , the further the, 
tread She more fathfaZtory to the agents;**- are afrons offuch 
UUch^refeldomper^ 

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4// exemplary unto others where ever the Fame of them \ 
may come; ami if they be evilly then a whoriih. Fore- head muft 
needs accompany them , being done in flight of the Sun, and 
then can no wife man be offended , that a way- mar ke is c aft up 
to give notice of fuch defferate, and dangerous wayes > unlejfe 
himfelfe be of the fame fpirit y and is about, or e I few ait S for a* 
opportunity for the like defign. 

Tho» art intreated therefore not to looke upon this Treatife^ts 
(imply matter of Hiftory,£^ ^matter of aiyfterie-alfo : For 
as it was aBed to make manifift the operations and wordings of a 
differing Ipirit, to that end it ispnblifhed alfo : fo that if it be 
narrowly looked into , not only a favour of rhlt myfterie of ini- 
quity will appear? (which alWajes Warty effeftually to the fame 
end and pur pofe , namely , to extingui/b and put out the light of 
divine truth, Whcrefoever ^r in whomfoveer it Appears )but than 
Wilt find fomeFoot- fops alfo of that great -myfterie oi Go& jtohofe 
bright beams of light where ever made manifeft, declare the men 
of the World to fit in the Jhadow of death. Though the myfterie of 
in iquity work* not always in the fame manner and firme y nayfel- 
dome any long time together , without taking a new face , and 
tifing the art of transformation of it felfe into one an other 
ftnpe, and herein lies the policie of Sathan y that When fame time 
hath been fpent ( yea it may be an ago) in hopes and expeSation of 
glorious times of peace, eafe 3 and exaltation^ om the mouths, of 
lymg Prophet /> who alWayes drive the peace,powcr , and prin- 
cipality of the Kingdomeof god feme certaine time before them 
or at the leaft before the common people (as they call them) as 
though they themfelves were the onely men , that for the prcfent 
were admitted into the counfcUs and fecretsof the Kingdoms 
ot ferod, and the people to take it upon their report, where, and 
whenythe appearance of it Jb all be. 

But when the World by due proof finds their prtditlions tofaiL 
*»dfeestronpsofitsancejhrs go down to the erave, not ha- 
ving the poflcflioo put into their hand,*> then Works equally 
for a transformation, tocaftits worfhip of God into another 
torm whenn it hopes in (borter time for to attainting, in Which 
Meitcannot relit* W«it, wUfeh hath the firongefipartie, 

according^ 



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according to the power of the arm of flcfli on its fide, and there- 
fore must of necejfity labour diligently as for life, tomorrow a 
Coercive porter from the civil Magistrate , to be tranferred % 
turned over, and put tnto their hands, Whereby they may fab dm 
other 7, and compell them to foiled their Way ,and to acknowledge 
their Worfhip to be onely divine , yea the onely God of the 
World, for rhere is but one divinitie, which they have now made 
and fet Hp unto themfoJves, or elfe that the Civil Magtflrate 
will be pleafedto detain and keep hi* own poWer upon this 
condition (oinding him unto themfelves ) that he Shall net 
fail, to bind the hands ^tongues, yea and hearts alfo (if they 
tan but fearch and knoW What is in them) that none (ball be per- 
mitted to intermeddle > or any Way todifturb them: But that they 
may peaceably worfhlp y every man in his garden^and under fuch a 
green tree,as he flial choofe unto himld^beingfearfull of trouble 
and difquiet, not knowing better, but that the croffe of Chrilt is 
terr ible, as though the Sonne of God had not taken aWay the ter- 
ror and angry face of it, putting no lejfe difparagement upon him, 
but as though the fting were in death fr'A^being ignorant of this, 
how that by death he overcomes death, even untill now. 

The reafon Why the civil Magiftrate is fo fought after 9 and 
( as Imay jujilyfay ) troubled, if not tortured } in the depopulati- 
on of Kingdoms, andloffe of true-he arte a Subjects by the churchy 
in her formalities, and perfunftory wo: (hips, is this; a naturall 
heart conceives the condition of the Church of£hrift,to be like a 
common weal or Kingdome, Which cannot be well, unleffe e+ 
very individual! within fuch naturall and terrene confines, agree 
in one, for the Well being and glory of each particular in the 
Whole, fo that the humble fubmijfi on of every Subjett becomes 
one, in that one heart and Spirit of the King, who (ubmits to the 
denial! of himfelf (in any thing j for the prefervation of the 
whole, and that one heart, courage , and magnanimity of the 
Kings* in every individual! of the Kingdome, to go forth for the 
honour, peace and prefervation ,of that their one Lord j andfo it 
is in the true Qhnrch rightly confide? ed in its relation with 
the King of Saint?, truly confidered in Spiritual', tnd not in ter- 
nne refpeUsi but that naturall fpirit that Works in a naturall 
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changeable and vanishing Church, judgeth of its peace according 
.to the eonfent of all Wi.hin the compalfe of fitch naturall bounds 
and terrene confines as it felfrefites & abides inland therefore the 
falfe prophet ii f aid to be the Fail, becaufe Which way the hono- 
rable perfon lookt y0 r the head of the place where he « {according 
to man) healtiajes (tears th." body of this people, yea though tc 
be but the body of the beafl chic WW, that he may have firetgth 
according to fence on hit fide, not knowing how to iiveor walk 
according to the power of faith; therefore mufl either have all 
(ifitbepofsible)oratleajl the greateft both for authority and 
mntber on hisfiieifor he fees not the bieflii* of the D./ lie pre- 
ien ce that goes With the ar^ of God t h oug i a m ong m i ny ad vet" 
lariesin a wilderneflejrW/W will he take up nothing but the 
Tabernacle of Molech (or as the Word a ) beare the booth of 
the King, that is, what manner of houfe foever , authority and 
civil power erettethjorworfbip, he k ready to take ;p, and bear 
upon hkfhmldert,fo that <tAntichrif hath as may w.tyes of War- 
psip, as there is or hath been formes of Religion in che world, 
mdin that the feed of the ferpent crufhsth the heel, (or as the 
Wordis) the print of the foot-ioal of Chri/t or feed of the Wo- 
man, for Wherever the footfieps of our Lord have gone, the Wif- 
domeof the ferpent in reforming its religion cafl, it into a form, 
andio aenies the power of godlinefc, tying the Lord 
appeared the very fame print and charter again,whereas the 
Saints watt for his power in What way or form he p/ea'etbto 
make U known and manifefl in, and unto them; therefore the 
vifont and apparitions of God in the holy Scripture , are 
never r wice in the fame form f all circumstances co»ftdered)yea 
tj our Savtour appear one time walking upon the S a, as though 

under the hands of 'Herod, Pontius Mate, and the lews, thruft 
down into me hemof the earthy lm%h into the midfi of the 
Jea, u thongh all things confpired together to annihilate & brin? 
h>mtonought,andintheoneandthe other appeares anaptitude 
Tiri *"?"^™*^** IndinthUthlworld 
tlfZZ^Z 1 ^' 7 that bt Walk - eth ^raifeth him- 
/elf up ont ofwajes thej k»oW w hoWfuch things can be )t o make 

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manifeflhis power and authtrity to be that of the fonne of Cjod % 
wh3 rules irnhs midft of his enemies, andout of Egypt, B .by- . 
Ion* fUhab, Pileftina, Tyre and Ethiopia, \$ brought forth, fo 
that it may be faid this mm wis born there, even as the truth ot ifi, 
the Gofpel hath been broight forth in thole parts, which $ur 
letoifh Reformers of religion bj putting Chrift to death^could ne- 
ver have thought of or apprehended^ mr Will they (Were it never 
fo plainly told unto them) believe it, fo that in this Treatife yon 
may plainly fee , how the myftery of iniquity already works, even 
in NeW England which thought it foit the root of Reformation 
of all the worldy as Babylon alwayes in the entrance of her 
€ ompul five Contraction > artificial I and felf-feeking, conjefturall 
reformation, fets her felf up as a Q^een, and thinks never to fee 
Widdow-hood or forrowany mote >if fhe can but With all her 
art and learning keep the Magistrates confcience in bonds, to tife 
all his poWer and civil policie for her wealth to get riches, and 
honour to Lord it over mens confeiences, and peace tint ftis 
rnay fit in fafety and at reft to inlarge her barns and take her 
fleafure in the things of this life s never dreaming that cvm in 
that night of grafted arkneflc her foul (hall be inatched away 
from her, and then Whofe (hall all thofe things be, Whereof /he 
hath framed fuch a fervice of God to her felf y that muji all leave 
her at death; even fuch as for the mofi part, if not all ( by her 
eWn acknowledgement ) fail y and nevsr paffe along with her in- 
to the Kingdom, and then muft (he either have a new God, 
oreifefindoutanew way of fubmiflion unto him, Whom fhe 
hathfeemedfo zuealouflj to ferve;fuchis that fpirit of the my fie- 
ry of 'iniquity jhe goings forth Wherofhath forced this Treatife to 
come to the light and vieW of the world , as a warning to all 
Christians* to take heed of being beguiled by a voluntary humili- 
ty in worfnipping of Angels, meffengers or minifier? r Who la- 
bour -to make men fubjeB to the rudiments of the world in out- 
ward obfer nations^ touch nor,taft nor, handle noi>rearing up a 
fa bric^ of ordinances in "Divine worfhip; of fuch things which 
ail perifh in the ufe, Negie&mg the body which is Christ, 
by fatisfyingof the wifdom of the fie fh in thefe things r through 
Which the Spirit of the Serpent multiplies it it If into chat three- 
- - -~ fold 



THE EPISTLE TO THE REAVER 



fold fpirit which comes out of ths mouth of the Dragon, and 
out ohhemouthofthebe:tft,tndoutofthe mouth of thefalfe 
Prophet, imitating that Kingly , PrieHly , and Propheticall 
jpirit that is by Ufnt Chrifl } beguiling the world frith its un* 
cleameffe in adulterating the word of God by bringing it into 
carnall copulation with earthly, trtofitory, momentany, fa- 
ding and vaniftiing things; wo is unto them becaule thereof, 
Who like unto frogs, Will never appear ^hold ftp their heads, nor 
utter a voyce, bat where the heat and lufire of the Civil Afagi- 
fir ate, brings forth a pleafantfruitfull and prof} eroits efiate and 
condition^in the things that onely concern this prefent life. 

iAgain> if thou loooknarroWly into this Treatife % there is 4 
pojfibility to perceive in it, fome glimpfe of the light of f hat fpi- 
ritthatopenethatjd unfoldeththe my fiery of God , especially 
Whenittaketh up any Scriptures • look diligently upon what 
hinge it turneth, and yon (ball fee a doore open % another Way, yea a 
nearer & (horter cut to the Kingdom of God,then the common 
miniftery of this world driveth at, and think it not ftrange if 
lefm appear e in fitch places^ andatfuch time ' } Where, and when , 
thedoores are not onely (hut, but faft bolted unto the world, 
as a thing imp iffible> that his real and fubflantiall [though 
fpirituall ) body fhouldcome in % fuch a way^andfo unloosed fir, 
being that in Sodom and £07/* our Lord is crucified, and put 
to dezthiyet let me advije thee % as once our Lorddidjhandle them % 
carefully and skilfully spender % poife % andfeel the Weight of them ; 
**ft*% try and conftder, whether the reality and fubftanaality of 
Chrifl be not there; fure lam that if the minifterie or fervice of 
a ChriBian jpirit lay hands on them, and put it felf into them, 
even as a graft is put into the flock, lt {h&tt find a plain proof, ar- 
fumcntyand demonflration undeny ablest the apparition & reve- 
htion of the Son of God,returned from death to life, never to 
d ie any more, unto Whom Heave thee (in the communication of 
whofe Refnrretlien the feeond death can never exercife power ) 
With my harty Wifhes fir al thofe that have learned the truth as it 
is in J efus , & know that elfewhere no truth ( that is £hriftian) 
can be found for that only abideth for ever % aniis eternised in all 
the lineaments and frhole proportion of it) and happy is he that 
hath fo learned Chrifl^ Aaun. S. G. 




Innocencies Defence, againft 

a (even-headed 

United in 
NEW-ENGLAND. 

1 He moderation of New fag/***// Juftice, 
\ defired to be known to all men*, and * A * y*« may 
what is the principall things pretended f cc . in lh * fol ~ 
in the Execution thereof; namely, To j£ ing lrca ^ 
fuppreffe Hereticks,and to confirm that 
to be truth which the Unity of the mod 
Colonies hold ; plainly declaring and 
fetting forth to the view of all, What 
is the proper bent and drift of that fpi- 
rit that diggs fo deep to hide its fin in fecret, which fo affefteth 
to aflume titles unto it felf, & alfo to give at their pleafure unto 
others • to make themfelves appear, in the eyes of men, more 
holy and honourable in the things of God, then others of their 
Brethren ; commonly crying out, againft that power exer- 
cifed amongft others, for no other end but to affume it unto 
themfelves, to cloth the di&ates of that fpirit therewith, 
whereby themfelves are led ft and fo to exercife it with all zeal 
and wrath in the life, fpirit j and fubftanceof ir, only with 
another face « countenance fet upon it to deceive an d beguik 

B tiic 




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^ the fimple ; Not being able to indure the aire, where Cap, Tip* 

•ig pit, or upper Shirt appeared but can bath themfelves in blood 

and f^dxKexnfdves fat, by devouring the good name, estates, 

•dK and lives of their brethren, who neither do, nor think harme 

33 unto them, nor refide within the compaffe of any of their Ju- 

^ rifdi&ions, evidently proved by a late aflault given ( by the 

Q£ men of the Alajfachufets wd pther Colonies united for facfi 

3* a purf ofe) upon others of tikk 'Countrymen, Inhabitan ts of 

^ a trad of land called Sha^omet^imuQ in the Nanhyganfet 

gjjg Bay in m^England % The truth whereof this Treatife wit- 

^ neffeth, and the fubftance of all is to be feen under their own 

Afr handwriting ; as alfoiathe* writings of others, who were 

#5 eye and ear^witneffes in the Cau|ey and have teftified under 

their Jiandistheftrujh o£ih 

^ Here follotoeth a Narration of the men of Shaw- omet, con- 

^ cerning the ground of tranff laming of themfelves and fa- 

5£g milies, and of their firfi entrance into that fart of America 

igjj m\K> called New- England, 



$ \T 7"Hereas we removed our felves and families out of our 

m V V native Country, about ten or twelve years ago by the 

*; m refpert of our .faith towards Sod, and for no other end not 

m i fctupling any Civill Ordinance, for the seducaticji. ordering, 

^ or government of any (Sivil State. ; "> 

fiS Landing by the providence of l§od at Bofton in the Mafa. 

i£ Bay, we found our Countrymen at great variance in 

point of Religion, profceuting it very hotly huheir publique 
* Courts unto fines and banimments, occafionirtg men thereby 

*, much to vent and bring forth themfelves ; and we underftan. 

(g din § that they had formerly banifhedone Matter Roger Willi. 

S "»', a man of good report both forlife.and dodtrint Ceven a- 

m i^ngft themfelves) ^br .dieting ^tfemjn.fom'epoints 

1 ttoCtach Gavernmea^^djteUn.the eitreiity of 

wmter/orang him tobetake himfelfeinto thevaft wHderhefs 
3& 10 fit down amon S ft th« Indians, in.a place by. their own con- 

; . <: feflioas 



Simplicities Defence, againftfeven- headed Policy. 3 

feffions, out of all their J urifdiftions.- And at that time of our 
arrivall at Bo/ton, they were proceeding againft one Matter 
phn Wheelwright, a man of like life and conversation, whom 
' theyaifo baniftied fordiffering withthem in point of Do&rine, 
the fumm whereof confided in this, That fanftification u not 
the frfi evidence unto a Chriftian of hk fdvation^ and many 
others manifefting their thoughts about fach points then con- 
trovmed amongft them, were alfo imprifoned, fined, banilh- 
ed, difarmed, and caft out from amongft them. 

And we plainly perceiving that the fcope of their doftrine 
was bent onely to maintain that outward forme of worfhip 
which they haderefted to themfelves,tending only to thedut- 
ward carriage of one man toward another, leaving thofe prin- 
ciples of Divinity, wherein we had been mftrudled in our na- 
tive Country, tending to faith towards GodinChrift : and 
we finding-no ground nor warrant for fuch an order in the 
Church ( tabind mens confidences unto) as they had eftablifh- 
ed amongft them ; our confidences could not clofe with them 
in fuch their practices* which, they perceiving, denyed us the 
common benefit of the Country, even fo much as a place to 
refide in, and plant upon, for the maintenance and prefervati- 
on of our felves, our wives and little ones ; as alfo proceeded 
againft us, as they had done to others; yea with more feverity, 
unto confinements, irDprifonments> chains, fines, whipping*, 
and banifhmetxt outof all their Jurifdidions 3 to wander in the 
wildernefle in extremi ty of winter, yea when the fnow was 
up to the knee, and rivers to wade through up unto the midl- 
and not fo much as one of the Indians to be found in that ex- 
tremity of weather to afford us either fire, or any harbor, fuch 
as themfelves had; being removed into fwamps and thickets, 
where they were not to be found; in which condition, in the 
continuation of the weather, we lay diverfe nights together, 
having no viduals, but what we took on our backs, and our 
drink as tjbe fnow afforded unto us, whereupon we were con- 
ftramed With the hazard of oyr lives to betake our felves into 
a part of the Country called the Nanhyganfrt Bay, buying fe- 
yerali parcels of Land of the I ndians there inhabiting ; and fat 

B 2 down 



Simplicities Defence, again {even-headed Policy* 

down in, and neer the place where Maker Roger Williams was 
where we built houfes, and beftowed our labors to raife up 
means to maintain our wives and little ones ( which our Coun 
trymen out of their zeal had deprived us of, and taken a way 
from usjquietly poUeffing them for the fpace of feven or eight 
years(fomeor usjno man interrupting us,but both the Maffa- 
*Jm/eu, mA alfo P/jmomb confeffed ustobeoutofthecon 
fines of their Patents; but when they perceived thofe parts 
tobe arefugeforfuch aswereopprefledand grieved amonaft 
themfelves, who repaired unto us for Aielter, then they went 
about to bring thofe parts to be under their Jurifdidrions, by 
aU poffible pretences, and ftretching iheirline for thatpitr- 
pofe, thinkxng togetfome colour for their proceedings/yet 
fell they Ihort of our Plantations fourteen or fifteen miles as 
did evidently appear, and was by themfelves acknowledged 
and when they faw they could not accomplifh their endf by 
that pro;ecl they then infinuated themfelves into tLmfnds 
of three il-atfeftedperfons amongft us, that they fiSouTd a C ! 
knowledge themfelves to be fub/efts unto them, and todt 
pend uponthemforproteaion and government, whom they 
had formerly caft out from amongtt them, both out of 3 
(Shurches, and cenfured them alfo in their Civil CourtX 
groffe and fcandalous offences, as one Robert C * who* tt 
had cenfured to were a D upon his back for a whole yea ^ 
VmST ^ ^g^fleof thefinofdrunkeneffe 
and had alfo caft him out of their Church, anddelivere I £ 
un o^ Sathan feveraU times, who before and in the times of 



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5 



his fon Benedick^ conftantly trading with the Indians on the 
Sabbath day, being a fadtor for them of the Majf4chufets> 
being fuppLyed with commodity from them,having toleration 
to fell powder to the Indians, butdenyed to be fold unto us, 
unleffe we would fubjeft our felves as they had done • thefe 
pretended fubjedts of the Maffachnfets, thus far fetcht, had 
learned this devife, that whereas fome of us had Imall parcels 
of land laid out to build houfes upon and plant corn, and all 
the reft lay common undivided, as thecuftome of the Coun- 
try for the mod part is, they would not permit us anymore 
land to build upon or to feed our cattell, unle(Te we would keep 
upon that which they would confeffe to be our proper right, 
and they would admit of no divifion, but by the foot or by the 
inch, and then we could neither have roome to fet a houfe,but 
part of itwouldftandon their land, nor put a cow tograffe, 
tut immediately her bounds were broken, and then prefently 
muft the one be pull'd down,tnd the other put into the pound, 
to make fatisfaftion, or till fatisfaftion were made for both. 
So that by this unreafonable and palpable flight of thefe pre* 
tended fubjefts, together with the power of this fo irregular a 
Government^ plainly perceived a (hare was laid to incangle 
us again ; not only to hinder us to provide for our families,bu* 
to bereave us again of what God, through our labour and in- 
duftry, had raifed up unto us as means to maintain our fami- 

^ow when the Majfachnfets had gained thefemea to be 
inftruments in this manner to effeft their end, then did they 
inftitute them as officers to execute their warrants amongft us 
in thofe parts, upon any complaint thefe above named fubjeds 
(hould make unto them upon the grounds above mentioned, 
who prefently fent a Warrant unto us, to command our ap- 
pearance at their (Courts, under the hand of the Governor and 
divers oftheaffiftants in the Majfach»rets> threatnmg toufe 
violence againft us in cafe we obeyed not. 

B ji tA 



6 Simplicities Defence^ again ft /even- headed Policy* 

ftA true Copy of the fir ft Warrant that ft W fent unto m from 
the Governor and Affittants of the MaffachufetS, into the 
Nanhyganfet Bay\ before we planted upon that tratt of land 
called Shaw-ojuet, fituate upon the fame Bay i The War- 
rant is here fetdoftn verbatim, and is ftil extant* 

Maffachufets, To our Neighbours of Providence. 
*pkcfnTerp Sa \T7' Hsrcas WiUi^m <tArnM of Pavtuxet*, and Robert 
Sphere * Y Co!e > and others > have iare ty P ut themfelves and their 
one or'twoof families, lands and eftates, under theproteftionandgovern- 
thefc their ment of this Jurifdiftion, and have fince complained to us, 
iubjeds had that you have fince (upon pretence of a late purchafe from 
auhcir pic* theIndi3n ?>> gone about to deprive them of their lawful! in- 

fure were both 

tereft confirmed by four years poffeffion, and otherwife to 
in Providence moleft them : We thought good therefore to write to you on 
and Mo in their behalfe, to give you notice, that they and their lands,d-tr. 
vino' houfes !& being ufider our J urifdi(aion > we are to maintain them in their 
land in both. lawfu " n § hts< li therefore y° u &*ve any juft title to any thing 
they poffeffe, you may proceed againft them in our Court, 
where you iliall have equall juftice : But if you (hall proceed 
to any violence, you mutt not blame us, if we (hall take a like 
ccurfeto right them. 

fo. rvinthrop, Governor* 

The. Dudley. 
The 28°. of the '8°. 1641* Ri. t Bellinahanu. 



Incr. Novell. 



This Warrant being delivered unto us by their new made 
officer William Arnald s in the name ot the Mxftachufets, we 
took into (erious cenfideration,having former experience abun- 
dantly of their unkind and inhumane dealing with us, yea to- 
wards our wives and childrcn,when our felves were foraetimes 
in bamfhments, and fometimes in prifon, and irons/by them ) 
before. We thought it meet (for the prefervation of our peace, 
fog ther with that Compaffion we had of our wives and little 
oi*s) to leave our boufes, and the reft of our labors, lytegneer 



Simplicities Defence, again ft [even -headed Policy. 



unto tbofc their pretended fabjefts ("whom we faw malici- 
<wfly bent ) and to remove our felves and families further off, 
from the Maffachnftsts, and fuch their coadjutours, being then 
amongft us: For we faw that they did not only endeavor to 
takeaway our lively hood, but intended to take away our lives 
alfo, in cafe they could find away to fatisfic the Country in 
doing of fuch an aft and execution : For we had never 2ccu- 
Cation brought in againft us, but what rofe from the Magiftraus 
and theMinifters $ for we walked fo, as to do no man wrong, 
only juftified the caufeof our Religion, as we had learned and 
received the principles thereof before we went amongft them; 
as alfo the la ws and government of thisKingdomeof England 
untQ which we ever willingly acknowledged our felves to be 
loyall fub jefts, and therefore could not fuffer our felves to be 
intrenched upon by our fellow fubje&s, further then the laws 
of ourKing and State doth allow. 

Now that they fought the lives of fomeof us, at this time is 
evident ; For John Warner Citizen and Freeman of London a 
man well known, who afterwards was one of thole againft 
whom they now profecuted, having formerly had fome bafi- 
neffe with Mafter Winthrop the Governor of the Maftachnfets, 
he askid the faid Warner(Ymvg then in the Nanhyganfet Bay) 
whether he knew one Samuel Gorton^ fa man alfo againft 
whom they now profecuted) wfeo lived alfo in the faid Bay, 
but at that time- M« Warner had not feenhim, living a mat- 
ter of twenty miles one from the other: The Governor told 
him he was a man not fit to live upon the face of the earth ; al- 
io ope, of the Eiders of the Church of B often told a Minifter oMM.o/^ 
(who reported^ in the place where Gorton lived) That if tbey 
had GortonjX *Bottm in the Maftacknfets, he would hardly fee 
his own houfe any more ; yea one Mafter Collins^ a man of 
excellent parts of learning, and of an unblameable life amongft 
men, being Minifter of one of the Wefternlflands, from that 
report he heard of Religion, came to Ntw-England, who 
macried one of M^tfe&wkinfons daughters,aad being Fran- 
ctiHwhinfon his brother in law, was a member of the Church 
it Brtm Who ferioufly confidering and laying to heart the 
r - wayes 



H»-, ' V« ,". 1 * 1 .HI H i. ' ■ 



Simplicities 'Defence, againft /even- beaded Policy. 



wayes of their Church and the carriage of his brethren con. 
fulting with the Minifter, the two yong men could not have 
reft in their fpiritsdll they went down to advife or debate the 
matter with the Church, though they were come out from 
them and lived on Road Ifland in the Nanbjgmfet Bay, and 
when they came to Bos~lon y and the Brethren were gathered 
together either to give or receive fatisfa&ion , when they faw 
the arguments produced by the Minifter and his brother to 
weigh fomewhat heavy, then the ftrongeft of their Church 
members of Boston ( namely the Governor and Afliftantsjcaft 
them in prifon to regulate their opinion that differed from 
them, and there kept them in durance for many Moneths • 
but at the laft, fetting them at liberty, yet giving out fome 
threatning words afterwards, as though they would fetch 
them again; the yong men could have no reft in their fpirits 
day nor night, till they were gone out further from the Makt- 
cbufett then that ifland was, yea under fome forreign govern- 
ment where the Majfaehttfets could not pretend to have any 
thing to do; for they had heard that the Maffachufets inten- 
ded to take in all the Ntnhjganfet Bay under their Govern- 
ment and Jurifdidion .• Whereupon Mafter Collins came 
where the aforefaid Gorton and his Family were, namely at 
Province; and ferioufly advifed him to go along to the Dutch 
Plantation or elfe to the Steads; for, upon his knowledge, 
the MaJachHfeu intended, in (hort time, to take away his 
life, if he aboad in any of the Englifb Plantations : for he had 
receded certain information thereof, whil'fthewas amonsft 
them ftiewmg great affection to move him thereunto: Gor- 
ton : thanked him kindly for hislove.being but aftranger to him, 

tefhon till he faw further then yet hedidj knowing he had 

SStffft^/^ Reh 8^ of «asGodhtd informed him. 
SSShSSffc a , nd £* Bro£h «. together with their Mo. 
therand whole Family, for fear.removed to the Dutch Plan. 

tanon,withdiycrsotherfriends«ndfamilies; whowaemifc- 
tably maffacredby thofc barbarous Indians^boTh 

and 



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and children; being then it war with the Dutch, who took 
fomeof the Englifb children (out of families of qoodnotej 
as Captives, and keep and train them up amongtTchemfelves 
unto this day, having molt barbaroufly and cruelly fix in their 
Parents, who had been not a little carefull to train them up in 
their life time, both in faith and manners. Bat we removing 
. our lelves, as abovefaid, into another part of the Nanhyganfet 
Bay, further from the Majfachufets , and where none of the 
Englifa nor other Nations had any thing to d o, bur only Indi- 
ans, the true natives, of whom we bough,: apircell of land 
called Shaw-omet (as is abovefaid) not only of Myantonomy % 
chiefe Sachim, or prince of thofe parts of the Country; but 
alfo with the free content of the Inhabitants of the place/ 

Now we plainly perceiving that the drift of the Maffachu-- 
fits, and thofe joyned with them, was not only to take the 
whole Country of the Snglifh Plantations into their Jurifdi- 
ftions 3 but alio to eftablifh what way of Religion themfelves 
thought fit,' to the the taking away (not enly of goods j but 
lives alfo of fuch as were otherwife minded: We made an- 
fwer unto the Writing, they had fent unto us, on this wife; 
which Anfwer was made upon our rem ov all from MoJ- 
JbaWfet (otherwife called Providenci) to Shato- 
omet* 

true Copy of our Anfwer to the Warrant or Writing 
Which the men of the Maffachulets fent unto m, as is above 
noted • Wherein we only take up their oWn exprefftons, to 
/hew unto them the fpirit and power of their Religion, which 
they go about by t he fe means topreferve, inlay ge , and fbeW 
the glory of it to the World: The AnfWer is verbatim ex- 
aminedby the original/ Qopy ; only marginal I Notes added 
to help the Reader to under ft and our true meaning. 

Moofhiwfet, November the 20. 1*42. To our Neighbours tSftt^t 
^/^ MASSACHUSETS, beyond their 

WHereas we lately received an irregular note * profef- Lv ^misand 
fing its forme from the Maffachufets, with four mens i' ,lildi f ionj 

i^t limited liko 
^ Names them. 

^:viy]^vI g A^ ' ■■^.lw»^'n T,^ - « ■ ■»■ » ^ ^^m r i ubiiiibiwi hit — jjjl^uj m ■ ■ 1 ■ — — n— a— ■ 1 1 ■■ ■- 



4ft 1 ° Simplicities Defence^ againft [even-headed Policy. 

; ~ — < - 

fbj That is the Numes lubfcribed thereunto (as principall authors of it) of the 
*3 1 wifdomof the chiefe amongll you, we could not eafily give credit unto the 

P dhc ^ nvrci t " truth thereof ; Not only becaufe the conveyers of it unto us are 
& ihmg's of God known t0 bs men whok conftant and profiled arts are worfe 
ijjj brings forth then the couriterfeitings of mens hands • but aifo, becaufe we 
^ unco cruelty thought that men of your parts and profeflion would never 

all them in hive proftrated their wifdome to fuch an a<ft : But confider- 
^ found fo exer- ing thlt cauflefl k emnit y Y™ againft us, the proof where- 
^ cifed. ot every occafion brings forth, we cannot but conclude, That 

COIcr.14.9. no aft fo ill, which that ancient Mother will not bring forth 
S iP By u ffe,n r her feed unt0 5 T "9 For we know very well that it is the name 
$ Sir pr" ? f . <?* calkd u P° n us O which y° u ftrive *gainft a whence 

ceeding a- it is that you (land on tiptoe to ftretch your felves beyond your 

gainft us to be bounds, to feek occafion againft us (fo J as you might hide your 

another thing fm with Aitnu (*J bearing the world in hand it is not your 

$ waTeven as * l ° C ° mCnd Whh US > but fome CiviU bre * ch in our c OUrfe 

* laid the which you feek to redreffe ; whereas neither you nor any in 

fault upon the w *y °* truth c* n ""d wherewith to bring us under the cenfurc 
woman, wher- of a diforderly courie of walking amongft them. And as for 
as indeed fhe the wav of that ancient fniri* nf mcm<*un>r> *C b re- 



i 




in 

, „ D av . yt 7 v««n« iuv. father 

to be fleih of ot it alio; which thing yon cannot know though it were told 
hM iflejl, a „d unto you 1 ; whereas you fay Robert Colcfrtlliam Arnald, with 
bo"e. oth 5 s » have P ut themfelves under the government and pro- 
(ORev. ii.io. teftlon of y° ur Jarifdiftlon, which istheoccafionyouhave 
<$ (f) )oh. t. 44. now got to contend } we wilh your words were verified, that 
Cft tg) But only they were not elfewhere to be found (t), being nothing but the 
f ££? Jfe ^ ,meof Region difquiet and difturWeoflhe places where 
>E thebo«nds of 'heyare; tor we know neither the one nor the other, with all 
Vg, their own Ju- tfle i r *ffociates and confederates, have power toinlarge the 
« rifdidions, as bounds, by King CHARLES, limited unto you. Behold 
M ' SemtobT 6 therefore > 1 " th ]7°«»a»»Mapofyourfpirituale(tate('toufe 
tl,ough with- y° L ur OWH P hra(e ) » for we kflow that the fpirituality of your 
afc outany Churches, is the civility of your Common wealth,and the civi* 
ground or rule l»y of your Comonwealth is the fpiritHality of your Churches* 
wSSST - he $ m bci °8 *? Whole accomplefenfe of them 




Simplicities Defence, againfi /even- headed Policy. 1 1 

both, of which tree you delight dayly to cat ( h ) finding it fair C*0 lhc 
and beautifull,togain conformity with your maker; in thefe u^££a. 
your diflemblingfub/eftsgrofly profane amongft us, but full C va paiaidl'J 
of the fpirit of your purity when they are with you, you with the wif- 
may remember the brand your (elves have feton fome of them, dom of mari 
the caufe whereof was never yet removed, I* J though it abide ^in^c 
not upon their backs nor yetth.-caufeof your commit- thmg^ofGod. 
ment of them unto Sathan (according to your Law) for if that 0) 1 hat is, the 
were removed you fliould do them wrong in not refuming hs^^t^ 
your vomit into its former concoftion again : ^) Nor are we r^VhT ^ 
ignorant of thofe difgracefuli termes they ufe and give out a- being ttiUoa- 
gainft you behind your backs ; Their fubmiflion therefore can- tinucd in. 
not be to any other end, but to fatisfie their own lufts, not only (l)That is 3 thc 
conceived, but in violent motion againft their Neighbours, malkvvhich 
who never offered the leaft wrong unto them; only the propo- ^dime fc to 
fition of amity ,is objeft fufficient for thefe mens emnity. E- all. 
ven fo the paflions of fin, which are by the law, having force Cm) That is,in 
in your members, ( n ) you going about with great labour and " oc re . ccivin S 
induftry to fatisfie them by your fubmiflion unto the Word of oSdons of 
God, in your fafting, and feafting, in contributing, andtrea- thatboyling 
faring, in retiredneffe for ftudy, and bowing of the backs of the Church- tci- 
poor, going forth in labour to maintain ir, and in the fpirit of lowflli P a g ai 'n, 
that hireling (°) raifing up your whole ftrufture and edifice; JJSS' 
in all which you bring forth nothing but fruit unto death : (V) Rom.r.y. 
Some laboring for a price to give for the keeping of their fouls (<0Joh.io.iV, 
in peace, and lafe eftate and condition : (?) fome to have your W • 
bodies furniflied with riches honor and eafe(<J); and further cirlfuli'iL 
then the Lord Jefus agrees with thefe, you mind him not ; nay bor to pay w* 
you renounce and re jeft him,and with thefe(according to your ges to the Mi- 
acceptation and praftice ) he holds no correfpondency at all; niftcrfbr that 
being the confutation and operationofthat his only adverfa- fn dc j^ ri » 
ry( x J; Man being that which you depend upon, and not the burion or°clfc' 
Lord, crying out in the way of elevation, and lauding his Mi- C<0 That is 
nifters, when in the mean time you know not what,nor who, tnc Miniftcu 
they are ; profefling them under a mediate call of Chrift, i nd M *P m . 

teach,and execute to attain fuch en*. CO That is the wifdom of the flerti excrcifed 
in (he things of God. 

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^ 12 Simplicities Defence^ again fl feven-headed policy* 

^§ though formerly they have bren called immediat ely by hiun. 

$fe f Hereby fhewing your felvestobe thole which deftroy the ia- 

ijg cred ordinance of God; for if you make thrift co be that to 

^ f/Mij.S. day, in ftating of his Miniftcrs, which he was not ( £ ) ycftcr- 
►jg day, and that in the time of the Gofpel alfofeo fpeak according 

to your hw) to be found in them both ; you therein a ffirmej 
hi hath been thatto his Minifterf, which now he is not ; and 
to make the fon of God to have been that which now he is nor, 
j&j ' t MdUcb.s.6. is t0 ma ^ s a.nuliity of him; Not robe at all: For he is the 
fames 1. 17. Lord that changech not ( c ) no not a (hadow thereof is found 
^ id him : So that you plainly crucifb to your felves the Lord of 

!1| ; u Hcb. 6.6, glory, and put him to an openfhame ( u ) fo that as you know 
■4* not how Chrift converfing with his Father in heaven is found 

•^g on the earth amongft the true worfhippers, no more do you 

rJS know how in his converfing with Nicodemw on the earth he 

3? * J ohm 4 2 5- concludes himfeife to be in heaven (w ) with his Father 5 on 
^ « 7 < «• *3- this foundation hangeth the whole building of your doftrine, 
* x Gal 6 1 concerning the Offerings of Chrift, you annihilate the Croffe, 
S ' ' ,I4 ' then the which the Saints have no other confolation (*) and 

prepare no better a place then purgatory for the honourable 
y Pp. %%% 4. Fathers of our Lord (y) • for ye conclude that Chrift dyed in 
the decree and purpofe of God in the time of the law, but 
a&ually only when he hanged on the Crofs in the dayes of He- 
rodmd Pomim dilate , that he was crucified in the types and 
fhadowsof the law : But in the truth and fubftance when he 
appeared born of the Virgine Mary ; fo muft ye alfo conclude 
that the fathers under the law were only faved in purpofe, and 
decree, in types and fliadows, but aftually and fubftantialiy 
3* ' only at the coming of Chrift in the flefh: Therefore deal plain- 

er? • ; ly with thofe that depend upon you for inftruftion, as your an- 

p?tS ceftors in the Papacy have done, and proclame a place of pur- 

f|S ;jj gatory provided for them in the mean ; withouc which your 

•tt do&rine hath no foundat ion:for if you raife up a fhado w with- 

|:J 2i rim.t.i6. out a fubftance, and the fubftance of him that dwelleth in light 
M\ f bfas 1 fSr" ^ without a fhadow, you play the pan of wizards, orNe- 
« i| fctcRcwholi- cromanctrs, not thepart of true naturaliftsin the things of the 
^ ] ved among us. Kmgdome of God t So that as far as your men are (*) from 

M ; king 

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being honourable* and loyall fub/\. j fts,fe far at e you from being 
voluntaries, in theday of Gtfds power and froaiyceldibg 0>) Pfa. 1 
fuh/edion to the beauties of holineflV; facri atfd is your prefer- 
ment rule and government in the things that concern theK; 
dome of our God, they are infinitely beyond and cue of the 
reach of that fpiritthat is gone out amongft you, the capacity 
whereof csn no wayes comprehend the bredthof the land of 
Emanuel ( c ) nor entreth it within the vaile ; ( d ) Therefore it £0 KM.*.*; 
cannot know thofe Cherubims of glory (*) 3 neither can it V*' 2 or ! 
hear the voice of that lively oracle, (peaking only from off the ( e ;Hcb. 9. <: 
covering mercy feat, (*") and not elfewhere'to be heard ; we jfoNabs.?.*, 
fpeak not but what we know, thefe things are not of its Ju- 
rifdidton; therefore dumm in telling Jultice; neither fpcaki 
.it any of that righteoufneffe and glory comprifed in another 
circuit then you were yet made lords of : Therefore long may 
you boaft of your Jurifdiftion before you attain to juris pru- 
dentia in thele things, in that you tell us we offer wrong by a 
pretended purchafe, you are as much miftaken in the purchafe 
as in the wrong; for it is right that we are about to do, neither 
is our purchafe a pretence, but prefidentkll, not only in this 
civ ill reiped, but may alfo admonifli all men to take heed how 
they depfcndupon falfe and felf-feeking interpreters,when both 
themfelves, and they that have the virion are ignorant of the 
contrad and covenant of God (g): Thence it is that you teach, (g) A,mlds 
thattheSpoufeof Chrifi,upon contrad with her Lord, may fonpenedick 
conceive the feed of immortality and bring forth fruit into the heingmter- 
Lord, when as yet the day of marriage, that great feftivityand IfoKdiw^ 
folemnization of the confokt ions of God, is not yet come; bout us, & the 
witneffe your prorogation thereof, if not to thedefcentionot MaQachufets, 
Chrift from heaven to the earth, to raiga certain years, yet to ^^ d ^ ct 
the calling of the Jews, ( whom ye your felves are, according 
to the &t(h) and to the deftrudion of that man of fin, whom us by the u~ 
you foftoutly maintains What is this but to proclame to all dians to blind 
the world that audacious fpir it of whoredome ( h j profefling the Country, 
conception, and bringing forth before the Nuptiall day, in *^ u ff* y 
quarrel, we feeing an& knowing the falfay thereof 3 do apply the thing to their Ipiiitual 
€ourfe they walk ia, 00 Hof** 4- * * »• & f • 4' 

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thit you conclude your clients right toarife out of four years 
poffeffion, we have no fuch order, if you mean the right of 
conqudl only held in that tenure, the true owners were never 
yet lubdued ; for that is the right they expert to injoy by you. 
For lome of them committed part of their fuppofed right unto 
us, profrfling it was that they might have help to injoy the 
reft (\) : But when they faw we would not be abettors unto 
them without, much leffe contrary unto covenant, th^n they 



' (i)\s Robert 
Cole did,their 

fubjectnow ~ ..... -y-— »; »— ' ."V* — — 9 

fince that time unto you for help, (*) their poffeffion being a meer intrufi- 
(b made. on, as all the Natives know, and ever exclaimed againft them 
( k .) Thcitttf-forthe fame; and fo may our Countrymen alfo, whofe eyes 

Ztdme n a gaCare ° 0t d * Zled With eDV y» 80(1 e * rS °P en Unt0 ty eS > as We 

perfed & full know y° ars are > elfe.you had heard both fides fpeak before 
purchafe of you had judged ; but we profeffe right held in no fuch intereft, 
that place but according to the ground of covenant, only known in its 

Se^f^ itis P 1 **** in the poffeffor 

had built hou- and the P°& ffed > with the nature of all fruit arifing from their 
fes, called accord and concurrency, together with their dfftinft, harmo- 
Taiituxet. nicall,reciproctlI, and joynt properties and operations of them 
both; fuch is the tenure that we hold, and maintain it before 
men and angels, and oppofe it againft men and devils; not in 
taking up unto our felves certain offices and officers,which we 
can teach children to be and to performe, and from thence pre- 
fently to conclude the poffeffion of the Kingdome, crying out 
our peace-offerings ire upon us, this day we havepaydouc 
0)Alludingto vows: O But that d * rk clo " d thatdefcendedontheTaber- 
the harlot f>o- nacleC m ; becomes the light and glory of all Ifrael, there being 
ken of in the nothing acknowledged amongft them, but what arifeth out 

■?? * hen onI ^ ,rethe orders 5 asalfothemen 
in fpirituai ot Ifrael dernrcd . from ^fir true fountain, («) which no tongue 

things, as wcl Can 

confeffc butisfalvation^;, and then not elfe is the he- 
as there is a ritage of out Lord in poffeffion (*) yea even the wayleffe wil- 
it 1 fenCC derne . ffe knows how to afford them an habitation, which had 
Pmv " 7 i ? lts bein 8 before lhe hiUs and mountains were borne [<fj which 
to i j . ' ' men begin to fly unto for refuge to hide themfel ves from the 
(m)W.jj.^ l0 . tHbem. 9 .i!. OOP/*.**,**. (o)Kom. m o. fyPf.w*. 



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prefence of the Limb Q J : This is a poflcffion which no man 
can intrude himfelfe into, it is onely covenanted with him £'] Rcv 6 - 16 - 



ere wa* 



through an inlightned eye and boared ear (f ) which man per- hor , th 
formeth not, neither can it be received from him [«j : for we ^Sica 
know that cloud of thick darkneffc, that hides and covers the that Lccmed to 
whole frame and f-ibrick of the work of God Q U T to be the niclccr thcr "- 



clearing and evidencing of every point and particular thereof/f lv ^ u ; / kk / r 
yea to us it iseven that cloud of witnefft [w j which teftifies to j£ but only 
us the like Work to appear, when ever the world hath occafion opening the 



tomakeufeof us: Never doth it (hine but in the night, never Word of Gud 
is it dark to Ifrael but in the day [*} bdt in the one, and the o- ai ??"S ft thtm > 
ther, the only glory andfafety of ail the tribes; but how, you ^aSwiof 
know not, neither can you, with all your libraries, give the the face or 
interpretation thereof , but have loft it in the wildernelTe, and prefence of the 
accordingly have made the whole way and will of our Lord, f* mb ° f 
tie oldneffe of the letter fyjboth to your felvesand all that £ U p . " 
have an ear to liften unto you; thence it is, that the day of the \ t \ ^r^^l 
Lordisadayof darknefleand gloominefle unto you £ z ] but of cai. i. [g n. # 
joy and gladneffeuntousj yeaitliftsup our head only^Jand [uJAlWng * 
then is our falvation near,for we know the Worthies of David to th e Taber- 
doubled about the bed of Solomon, which expell all fear in the nacle w . hlch ic 
night M handling the fword with fucceffe, making the ad- 
verfarics nothing bat meat to feed upon |[<Q , fo that the time rioially in the 
of your fear is the time of our courage and conqueft; for when wa y of Chrift, 
ye fear Error, Schifm, Rents, and Sonfufions in Church and M**.!! r. 
State, then do we know the meffenger of the Covenant, the pO p /78 14. 
Lord whom we feek,is fpeeding his paflage into his holy r« 
Temple ; £ d ]| F or who (under the terrors of your fpiritjmay , A j f x * 
abide his coming, he being like a refiners fire and fullers (aj 

fope? Chrift, & j./r 

In that you invite us unto your Courts, to fetch your equally fcl fl vc ^ lu 
ballanced juftice, upon this ground, that you are become one St'ivA 
wich 

our adverfaries,and that both in what they have and what cant. $.7, 
they are, and we know them to be fuch as profelfe the day of 8. 
the Lord an unhallowed thing («). Now if we have our Oppo- &)T*!? 
nent to prefer hisaftion againlt us, and net fo only, but to be Jj.^ 1 ^" 
met with in this life, tfdtfk 41, a. C<0 MaUebi j. 1. (e) H<b, i?. 

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1 6 S implicities D efe/tce 9 again ft [even* headed Policy. 

our Counfeil, our Jury, and our Judge; for To it muft be, if 
you are one with them, as you affirme, we know beforehand 
howourcaufe will be ended, and fee the fcale of your equall 
juftice turned already, before we have laid our caufe therein ; 
and cannot but admire to fee you carryed fo contrary to your 
own received principles; for ye know not how to find Chrift 
as a ruling and teaching Elder bothinoneperfon, therefore 
he is notcompleat among you(by your own law ) except in fe- 
veralperfons; and you may thank tradition, elfe you know no 
more how to find a King and a Pried in hijn ; and yet in your 
way of making tender of your J uftice unto us,you know how 
to become one with our adversaries, fo, as if we deal with 
them, we deal with you ; and if we have to do with you we 
have to do with them alfo; yea further we know that the 
chief amongft you have profefledwe are not worthy to live- 
and if fome of us were amongft you we (hould hardly fee the 
place of our aboad any more. 

Now they that have brooded upon their law to take away 
We, they muft much more bring it forth in taking away all 
means of lif e,witne(Ie your prohibition that no powder fhould 
be fold unto us for our money, and that in a time when you 
could not think your felves fafeinall your own felfe-provifi. 
on and worldly furniture, except you difarmed a company 
otpoor Indians, whom Aaron your Leviticall Sacrificer hath 
made naked Q) as he doth all thofe which triumph in a Calfe 
th0U ^ he ™ ft «% beautifull that ^ eS 

ncftof the In- "ngs or learning (either in language or art ) can poffibly brine 
dians ,whom torch (g j 5 your own amazements upon meer rumours may te- 
the } difarmed, ftifie the truth thereof: fo then we are iudeed bv vnnr u 

before our caufe be heard or our felves b^ghf forc^n^ 
kednefi which liberties of it, which thing is well pleafing to us to have our 
the wo, ks of condition conformed to Meftt the man of God who W9 * 
wSp-fe J ead in Thara ° S aCCOUnC before he was ^"ght forth / W.«S 

men under, who ls our ^ (') « which you ftrike and makes all things 
who ever they be that are excrciftd in fuch waves. (e\Ex»Ji-, ruw • r>7 ' 
. ob: ed.S and H«* alfo they were flain befo^ rh^^e £ri (0 S '3. 4 

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yea death it felfe lively, and advantageous unto us Q k J: we 
cannot but wonder that you (hould read the Scriptures and not * pW/ '**°»*« 
find them fulfilled in and amongft yourfelvcs, when as they l8 ' 
appear fo apparently, that he that" runs may read them ; what 
think you of Herod, when the Lord had delivered Tcter out 
of prifon, and releafed him of thofe bonds, and brought him 
from that thraldome which he had fo cruelly impofed upon 
him (to gain the favor of the Jews ) and that by a power fu- 
pereminent tranfeending the bounds of his authority and 
by a wifdome furpaffing the depth of his counfell and policy (f)Thn>jd* 
to find out, together with the fouldiers and champions, he auchoriry cf 
prefently goes down to Cafarea, and Herod is angry with 
them of Tyrus and Sjdon (Thumomathon] Aheavyfiiend, or ^.n.Chap, 
hath a fecret grudge or perturbation of mind manifefted in an throughout, 
out-reaching and circumventing policy to fubdue them unto 
himfelfe that he might rule over them , finding himfelfe fall 
fliort of power and policy to fubjeft the Word of God in the 
meflenger of it, tofatisfie his own luft in his lordfliip over it, 
he purlues with all eagerneffe to make himfelf a God by raign- 
ing over the bodies and eftates of men, yea though they be but 
fuch as Tyrm and Sydon can afford unto him to make fubjefts 
of, and when they come to him with one accord tomake offer 
©f themfelves in yeelding to his affeftionate and politicall 
pro/eft, he fitting on the Judgement feat in his royall apparel, 
making his Oration of what power he hath to proteft them, 
what wifdome and counfell to minifter juftice and righteouf- 
nefle unto them (which office belongs only unto the Lord J; 
the people with a fliout crying out, the voice of God, and not 
of man, the truth and fubftance of which cry, is, This is the 
Ordinance of God and not of man, immediately the the An- 
gel of the Lord fmiteshim; and he that ever acknowledged 
himfelf to be a worm,and no man upon the earth m confumes m P/*iiflf| 
and eats up all his pomp and glory even as thofe whom you ac- 7 * 
count the fliame and contempt of the people (hal through that 
Angel of the covenant watte, and bring to naught all thofe 
Rhetoricall ( though earthly ) Orations that are made amongft 
you by your fb learned, ftudious, and experienced Clerks ; 

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Take for illustration of your eftate ('as above) the Ipeechof 
your Alderman,0//z><?r, in cafe of committing, Francis Hnchin- 
fon to prifon, one of your Church members wondring that 
Brother winthrop would do it, before the Church had dealt 
with him ( Brother faith he] why,he is thy God, man. Lend 
your eye yet further to paralell your pratlice perfonated in 

a ItfexS. a8 Pilate t n 3 che P co P le > w ^ en P*^' offers Jefusto the 
1040! ' ' People to be judged, they profefle they have fuch a law that 
puts no man to death, they are all for mercy and forgivenefle 
when they are out of the Judgement hall; but let ^Pilate enter 
in thither, then no:hing but cmcifie him y crHcifie him, be their 
accufat'on and witnefles never fo falfe a even fain your deal- 
ings with men, in way of your jewifh brotherhood, your law 
is ail for mercy, to redrefle, to reforme, and for the prefer vati- 
on both of foul and body ; do but enter into the common hal, 
then as Pilate asked, am I a Je w. ? fo do yee ; do I fit or fpeak 
here as a brother? I trow not; lam now in a higher fphere 
then that[]though they be acknowledged Coheirs withGhriftQ 
can attain unto; therefore if witneflebe brought in and oath 
taken, though never lo untrue, your confciences a r e purged 
by law,and your power muft have tribute paid unto it ; fo far, 
as mens names to be branded with infamy ( eftates ) depriving 
women and children of things neceffary, and the precious lives 
of men can extend themfelves to contribute any thing there- 
unto, fo that they profeffed mercy and clemency of your law 
to exercife cenfures only for amendment of life, and recovery 
comes unto this iffue to fend both foul and body down unto 
Sheoll for ever, without redrefle and all hope of recovery. But 
your hour, and the power of darknefle, is known what it is* 
either to have mens perfons in admiration, becaufe ot advan- 
• Tndi u v l u ge W or <;Ue to feck all occafions againft them to brand 
♦ ■ them with all manner of reproach and ignominy but for the 
truth taught dayly in theTemple,you know not how to ftretch. 
out your hand or exercife your miniftery againft it, leaftit be- 
come leprous, and you take it back again with loffe, when it 
appears dryed and withered and wherefore reafon yeamongft 
your felves, faying we exercife the power of our miniftratians 

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againft none but fuch as are Delinquents, whereby we clear 
the innocent, and cftablifh peace in our borders; (we demand ) 
what think you of thofe twowitneffs proph^fyinginlack- 
clothathoufand two hundred and threeicoredayes, [pI thofe Re v$i i • 
two Olive trees and Candlefticks thnding before the Uoi of zacb: 4 .' I% 
the earth ? are thefe guilty and vile per ions out of whole hands 
by the power of your miniftery, you are delivering and relea- 
fing the world f then indeed are your wayes juftifiable : But if 
thefe be the juft, chofen, and peculiar friends of God, yea, 
fiich as without which his truth and righteoufntffe are not ju- 
ftified, his wifdomeand holyneffe maintained and upheld in 
the world, in point of falvation by Chrift ; then are your ways 
wicked and to be abhorred; for in your profeffed courfe,you 
are they by whom they are (lain and put to death , and all your 
glory is to keep their Corps unburied in your ftreets, and yet 
you know not what you are doing, no more then you know 
what thefe witneffes are whom you are altogether ignorant of; 
for your libraries never faw them (and you fee not but by their 
eyesj <i for thele are two, and never more, noryetleffe, yea T[rd . 
ever the fame, they are Olive trees, elfe no witneffes, andalfo whatS ; 
Candltfticks, elfe both the former fail, yea, are not at all: we they rind in 
muft tell you what thefe are, elle we cannot declare how ye cchcr ^ciu 
kill them : for it is not our intent to open unto you the houfe works- 
of thetreafures,the filverandthe gold , the fpices and the pre- 
cious ointment, nor the houfe of our armor (r) becaufeye x.JIm*\aa % 
take all as execrable, and put all to a prophane ufe, that cometh > 
from us : But thefe two witneffes are the life and death of our 
Lord Jefus Chrift or f in the true language of heaven alfo) /•«,,.. 
the ftrength and the weakneffe of Chrift : for he was crucified LdbeS 
through weakneffe, but liveth by the power of God This Kingdom 2nd 
is the Word of the Lord in Zorobabel, not by an army, nor by Pi feftho&d fee 
power f aad fo deprives him of all ftrength ) but by a fpirit that f or | h unro 
the greateft mountain or lofticft hill in the world cannot ftand hiJSv^t. 
before, but becomes a plain, which with facility and eafe he Zwifaet in 
paffeth upon: thence it is chat he doth not onlylaythe top,or the «hei* rcruni 
nead ftone of all, but alfo the loweft in the foundation, and outof B *tyt** 
the Temples as in Zechary the third and fourth chapters, t % Cor. h 4 - rC ~ c<ii '* c 

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4~ then onely is the voice of (homing heard, Grace, grace, in the 

•J3 ■■ houl'e for ever : and then dosh the day of fmal things become 

rfe the day of joy and triumph, yea of parting the rich ipoils and 

prey of ail the world : for then he that doth but turn and lift up 
33 i; uzttb4>*i%si his eyes, he cannot look befides that great flying book of the 
£ . Curie that is gone forth over the whole earth £ n 3 without 

r£ theietwo witneffes joyntly uttering themielvesin every par- 

^ ticular Scripture undertaken to be divulged by any; no evidence 

r& ]' y ffa i8; i y. nor teftimon y of-God is given or brought in at ail, but a meer 

refuge of lyes,for the fouls of men to betake themfelves unto(w) 
Sjg without thefe two pipes of the Olive trees, emptying into 

r$: the bowl of theCandldT;icks,noun<3ionnoroylataUisfound 

in them, and that being wanting the light of the fanftuaryis 
* gone out, fo that the light appearing amongft you is onely the 

■X x Which fig. Light of 'Baalam whofe eye was open, which you may read 
We '. nifies e , ither e lther Shetbum, or Sethttm \ for'that opening is nothine rife 

% M.x+ lA . yefa«*.Da but communicate only in the light of thatbealt 
& y ffa.6. 9% io. who puts the witneffes to death * as Baalam did in the fight 
m x Revel. „. 7 . of that dumm beaft of his, whofe eyes were fo opened as tofee 
* *m.i*, the Angell before him »: So that while you think it isou? 
That is be- Wifdome to ftoop unto you for light wenever come amongft 
fore Balm, fo y ou > bl " te*W felves in a regiment of grofs and palpable dark- 
that the beaft neffe, and difcern you very plainly how you fcrable upon the 
and Balm wall to find the door of Lots houfe and cannot b , as aim how 

b 8 e«.„.„. ye»fo many other wayes,and have no fight nor difcerning of 
the door ataU, by the which whofoever entietf, becomes afrue 
fo.jl , JdlM ferfcr of the flock, yea none entreth in thereat but he Se 
' ^P^himfelfe. c Mod impious it is toput to death two 
g Inch noble witneffes that have power to Lt heaven thaTS 

«C rain not in the dayes of their prophefvine to turn 

J * Being one of W ' f ?\ J^Jife and power of the Son ef God a, above • 
| I <«»•■*. wh.chismfinite, not admitting of circumfcription o7conte.' 

jg| ;3 I acfles before noted, or his power and kingly authority.. 

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nent, for the heaven of heavens cannot contain him; i yet/ 
have ye not dared to grafp and inviron that power in the hea- 
vens, and therefore have refolved and concluded, that tee 
only rules upon the earth in thefe dayes, by his Deputies, Lieu- 
tenants, and Vifegerents , whereby you limit, (s) andfode- g pf a i. 7 g. 4I . 
ftroy the holy one of Ifr*el,tor 9 give him, that in one tima or 
place, which afterwards, or elfe where yee deny unto him, 
and you make a nullitie of him unto your felves , and in fo do- 
ing, you kill the otber witnelfe , namely the death or weak- 
neffe of the Lord Jefus , (*> J for you muft have man to be ho- his 
nourable, learned , wife f experienced , and of good report, w ^ l 1 e c rcin l J 1C , 
elfe they may not rule amongft you; yea, and theie things are deprives hmv 
of man, and by man, as, Peeres in that they only officiate fo, felfcofall 
as man may difanull and take ic away againe, witneffe your powci ofman, 
change of officers, conftantiy fpeaking for us herein ; rfntt^*^8J^ 
have youfhinealfo, the Death, or the weakneffe of Chrift , flelll . 
who profeffeth himfelfe to be a worme and no man, ^faime iz,6 
£3 the fhame and contempt of the people, and thefe faithfull k/W.u.8, 
and true wicneffes thus Qaine, youmuftof neceflitie deny bu- 9^ 
riall , and keepe them both in your ttreets, p]in open view, JJ h *jj£ 
other wife all your pompe and glory f als to the cluft C 1 ] whence G ^ n " t £ c 
it came, and on which it feeds, Q n \] nor can you iend your weakaeffe & 
prefents one to an other, of your ads of Juftice, power to frailty of man 
proteft; wealth, honour, and friends, wherewith yougrati- jhouldnot be 
■fie one another : And where thefe are thus flaine, and their ^ft\\X? ? z £ 
corpslye in open view, none of the Gentiles, peoples,tongues, dead in llg h c 
and kindreds,foffering their corps to be put in grave, £■] there of ali,thcn 
is that great Citie which fpiritually is called Sodom, and£- could o^i die 
&jpt % where our Lord is crucified: But after three dayes and ™* 
anhalfethefpkitof life, from God, (hall enter into chem,and 

creaturej (" as 

they (hall (land up, upon their feet, to the terrour of you all ; vicegerent, 
Nor doe you thinke, that wee only inveigh agiinft the great unto the power 
ones of the world, for thus doing; for wee know, that the gjj^* 
greateftof the Princes of this world , hath the very fame fpi- fcncc ^ ^ fccn 
rit, wherewith the bafeft Peafant , hath laid himfdfe open in fcc U]s md 
the view of all the world, and thebafeft Peafant, hath the made known, 

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famefpirit, with the greateft of the Princes of this world 
(°) Thefe wee fay, are the two witnefTes, if you can receive 
it (P) and what difhonour is it to trade lo much by meanes 
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JW.ii,i 4 . you did, youdurft not attempt the things yee doe, whereby 
you caftrep roach upon all the world, an that you profcfle your 
felves a choice people pickt out of it, and yet you g Qe on with 
fuch pradtifes as you doe, maintaining them as your only glory. 
Our Lord gives you in charge, not to fweare at all, [V| but 
it is your dignity to bring men to your (eats of Jultice 
with nothing but oaths in their mouths ; why doe you 
not ballance the Scriptures in this point? It hath beene 
faidof old, thou (hilt not commit Adultery, but I fay unto 
you, hee that looketh on a Woman to luft after her, hath com- 
mitted Adultery with her in his heart already, J~n Soalfo it 
hath beene faid of old, thou (halt not forfweare thy felfe, £ a* 
J fay unteywi fweare not at aid So that if it bee Adultery to 
iooketoluft, it is aifo forfwearing of a mans felfe, to fweare 
at all; if one be Adulterie, the other is Perjury - if one be 
admitted in fome cafes, the other aifo; fo that in preaching 
the Toleration, nay the duty of an oath, you preach the tole- 
ration, yea, thedutieof adulterie it felfe: So that our Lord 
phinelyevinceth unto all mens confciences, not only the guilt 
but the folly and madneffe of the oath of mtn,to flie w how 
Jarre it is from invcfting into place, or demonftrating caufes. 
So that hee that concludeth upon honour and power, received 
from the oath of man, or upon knowledge, and boldneffeto 
judge, m a caufe from that Teftimonie, without the which hee 
could not have it ? is as vaine in his thoughts, as if heeflioald 
hereupon conclude, I have now altered the frame of Heaven 
which is no kffe (table then the Throne of the great God or 
demolished f he earth, which is asfirmeashis Foot- ftoole' for 
ever, or made a fraftion in the orders of lerufdemjk* choice 
and peculiar Citie of the great King, whofe inftitutions no 
mortall breath can intrench upon , or to profeffc his authority 
and skill to be fuch, whereby heecanmlke ahaireof hishead 
black or wiute,w*,caufe his age to wax old as a garment,or re- 
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new it with the Eagle at his pleafure, [Y] hereby doth man fPjV.toJ.f 
in this point of fwearing, prof effe his folly to be fuch , that he 
is become not onely vaine in his imaginations, bat to thit pride 
and ufurpation therein , as to intrude himfelfe into the Prero- 
gative Royall of his Maker, fo that howfoevtr ye boaft of 
the Ordinances of God , yet hee tels you , there is no more 
then yea yea f and nay nay in them; tor that which is once 
nay isever nay, in the ordination of Chrift ; and what is once 
yea, isever yea with him, and according to his account (how- 
foever man reckoneth , whofe accounts Chill be called over a- 
againe ) what is once the curfc, is ever the cui*fe,and that which 
isonce the Principality and power of Chrift, is ever the prin- 
cipalitie a id power of Chrift ; as that which is once the prin- 
cipalitie and po wer of darkenefle is ever the fame, what hands 
foev^r it commeth into: for manifeftation , raeafure your 
Kingdome whether it be eternall , and your jurifdiftion whe- 
ther it be illimited, for hee hath given him the Heathen for his 
inheritance, and the utmoft parts of the earth for his pofleflion, 
fjQ and a Kingdome of lefle extent hee prof eflcth not,nor can l W* 
he approve or acknowledge any that d»;no more then light can 
approve of darkenefle, or the Lord Iehovah of the lord Waal. 
Be wife therefore and bethinkeyour felves, while itiscalled 
today, harden not your hearts, [>3 thou g h you would ufftfr.j.i* 
make your felves Meribba> nothing but ftrife and contention 
againft the Lord • rather kifle the Sonne, if it be poflible , left 
his wrath kindle , and you perifh from the way tor ever : Oh 
bleflbd onely they that hope in him , (*) fo that hee which wP/>Un. 
profefleth on this wife, it is yea, I am aPaftor, but it was 
my; U fuch a time I was none at all ; hee renounceth that fpi- 
ritof the true Paftor, yea, the only Feeder of tfrael, but pro- 
feffeth that fpirit only that pufheth the weake with the home, 
and pudleth with his feet the waters where the flocke of God 
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it wasnayv when I was none , renounfceth that fpirit of him i^ io u, 
that rules in lVigkeoufnefle,r y ;profefIingthefpiritof him that y |4< 
rules according to the god of this world, that Prince of the 
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l E t e h % ' %% chiidrenof difebedience; (*Jfo alfo,he with whomitisyea, 
unifies W ° 1 am * e *P tain ' or chiefc fliughter-man: (*)but it was nay,time 
2$£ was, I was none at all, renouncethehat vi&ory, andflaugh- 

5$ ter made by the Captaine , and High Prieft of our profeffion, 

b Heb.i. 10. who as heis a Limbe fliin from the beginning , f c ) his vi- 

rf* c Revel. 13.8. ftory and daughter, muft be of the fame antiquity , profefling 
fft himfelfeto be a chief e (laughter- man , or fuperfluous Gianr, - 

& made in the Hoaft of the Philiftims, ftanding in rcidineffe to 

jg come out,to defie the Hoafts of the ever living God, (<* ) yea, 

* - sm.17. it is evident, whatfoever is more then yea yea, and nay nay, 

t$ I0, not letting each upon hisbafe, whereon it ftandeth for ever 

^ without controulc ; but can remove, create, or make void of- 

f# • e 1 John 3.12. fices and oflScers,at their pleafure, is of that evillone, (*) not 

itj f Matt, i.i 1 of Jefus the Salvation of his people, ( f )but of She Jim. (%) that 

$ r As the word Wafter and Deftroyer of man-kind for ever : * Know there- 

i \ in theChir fore ' ^.at it is the oath of God, which confirmes, andmakes 

-JS dean tongue pjf-j 

his Covenant md promife to a thoafand generations, 
for Devil. L h J and it is the oath of man , that is, the bond and obligation 

■* hVfd. ioy 9 . ot that league and agreement made with hell and death for 

jg 10 ever : Be ye allured , it is not the Tabernacle of witneffe 

58 ; i ifay tf.i% L'l wh ."«J you have amongft you , brought in by Jcfus into 

M 1! k AUs 7 44, the Poffeffion of the Gentiles, but it is Siccuth your King 

$ - 1 f r or the Tabernacle of ^/«^, the Star of your God RemphaV 

M:\ *^ 7 -^ figures that you have made to your felves, [H which you have 

1 3 theffchSf S ken " P ' (1 a0d ar f bearin § f0 ftoutl y u P° n yowlhoulders. 

|: accordS Nowtotellyouwhatanoath.accordingtoGodis, that the 

g£ the true in- ^nptures are delivered upon no other ground or termesof 

& ; tem, that is,a, certaintie, where ever they are divulged, is a thing out of your 

M ilylfcWm" ' ur,fdlftion ' y° a cannot Sterne or judge of it ; therefore ac- 

i rruK'^r °I- he K i n B*« of G i> b Y v «tue of that , his office in that fence the 

& truth of thefe things ftand hrme and good, and doth not deny or difallow anv h,Llr.l 

« ■ ordmance of man in this world, fo it be kept in it, bounds anl proper S« fL h.Tw 

3. houle of God w ,l ever m h the Priefts and (ouldiers , lay- hands on Peter ^A tL , 

■at put them m hold . at the leaft if they preach Chrift But IIS k no C, c\ 

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cording to our Word above , wee leave it as t Parable to you, 
as all the holy Word of our God is , as your converfation in all 
points, as in this, daily declareth ; in a word when wee have 
to doe in your juriidi&ion , wee know what it is to fubmit to 
the wife difpenfations of our God ; when you have to doe a- 
mongft us # in the liberties he hath given to us , wee doubt not 
but you (hall find him J udge amongft us, beyond and above a- 
ny caufe, or thing you can propofe unto us ; and let that fuffice 
you, and know* that you cannot maimaine a jurifdiftion , but 
you muft rejeft all 'inroads upon other mens priviledges,and lo 
doe wee ; in the meane time wee (hall as wee thinke good be 
calling over,againe fome matters you have had up, and had the 
handling of amongft you, to fee what juftice or equity we find 
hath beene exercifed in them, and redreffethem accordingly, 
for wee proteffe right unto all men, and doe no violence at all, 
as you in your prelcript threaten to doe to us, for we ha ve lear- 
ned how to dilcipline our children or fervants without offering 
violence unto them ; even fo doe wee know how to deale 
with our dehoift , rude, yea, inhumane neighbours (or if you 
will NaMs) without doing violence 5 but rather rendring 
unto them that which is their due : Nor (hall We deprive a 
witneffeof hismodtft teftimony, f©r the out-cryesand cla- 
mours of fuch a one, as ill-bred apoftatized Amald^ that m As they in 
feilonious Hogge- Killer, being the partie to be teftified againft, lhc Majjacbm 
or for the oath of any intereftcd in the caufe, [>] nor (hall we ££ a * l ^ 
be forward to come fo farre to find you work [ n J upon your dcmneTc^ 
requeft, nil we know you to beare another mind, then others nocentj and 
of your Neighbours doe , with whom we have had to doe in j"fofie fuch 
thisCountrey, whofe pretended and devifed Lawes, we have ^^chcrwifc 
(looped under to the robbing and fpoylirg of our goods , V cd S/^ 
the livf ly-hood of our wives and children, thinking they had felonious 
laboured, though groaping in great darkneffe , to bring forth a#s, even 
the truth in the rights and equicieof things : But finding them lh k thcir 
to be a company of groffe and diffembling hypocrites, that fubjcT^hoCc 
{hame they would not permit to appeare 5 but rather deprive fufficient witnefle of 
thcir teftimony, at the guilty perfons requeft. n That is to their Courts in the 
MaffMhufets, to imploy them about any matters of ouis living peaceably together 
fo farre remote from them, out of all their Jurifdi&ions. 

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under the pretence of Law, and Religion, have done nothing 
elfe but gone about to eftablifhthemfelves in wayesto main, 
taine their owne vicious lufts, we renounce their diabolicall 
pra&ice , being fuchas have denied in their publicke Courts, 
that the Lawes of our native Countrey ftiould bee named a- 
3* mongft them ; yea , thofe ancient Statute Lawes , calling us 

y| jj' into mod bafe,ftafty, and infufferable places of iraprifonmenr, 

j for fpeaking according to the language of them , in the meane 

5jj while breaking open our houfes in a violent way of Hoftility^ 

gfe abufing our wives , and our little ones, to take from us the 

$ volumes wherin they are prdcrved,thinking thereby to keep us 

Ws I ignorant of the courfes they are refolved to runne , that fo the 

m vifiofity of their owne wils might be a Law unto them ; yea, 

tjiey have indcavoured, and that in publicke cxprefsions ; that 
j|5 • a man being accufed by them , fliould not have liberty to an- 

$ fwer for himfcife in open Court dealings of like nature wee 

^ find, in the place whereof you ftile us your Neighbours , on 

i% whofe unbridled malice, we find a higher then you putting a 

£3 cm be, and yet in your account and reckoning we are the par- 

$ *ies that are (till doing the Wrong,and muft beare the guilt in 

yourmoft mature fentence, in whomfoever the fpotarifeth, 
m and abideth j but the God of vengeance , unto whom our 

S caufeis referred, never having our Proteftor, and Judge to 

|S . ; feeke > will fhe w himfelfe in ourdeliverance out of the hands 

^ . of y°« aU; yea, all the houle of that IJbfofheth, [f] and 

! frTbat is,man ' Mtrikbofiitk P nor will he fayle us to utter and make 
of flu»e. knovvne his ftrength wherein we ftand , to ferve in ou r age, 
jMomhof and to miniftcr in our courfe, today andtomorrow, andon 
f^^^y^" 00 ^ deprive us of perfeftion, [VJ forhee 
liJSl J ^h^^^^wwhatitistowalketoday, andtomor- 
9 row, and the day following alfo, when a perifhing eftate 

cannot rife out of Iemfalem, though (he be the only one , yea 
none but (he, that kils the Prophets, and ftones them that arc 
fent unto her : Behold ye that are looking after, and fore- 
celling fo much of ihe coaimiflg of Chrift, driving the day be- 
fore you Lull for certaine years; which fome, youfty, (hall 
attaineuoto, and unto the day of death tor the reft, ye blind 

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Guids, as your Fathers have ever done, iodoeyc : Behold; 
We lay, when he appearerh, your houfewhxh you fo glory 
in, (hall be left unto you delolate, it (hill be turned into no- 
thing but delolationi and conhifion, tor 'Babel is its name, 
£r~] nor ftullyou fee him to your comfort , in the glory of his 
Kiugdome, untillyoucanfay (bleffed is he chat commeth in 
the name of the Lord ) [}^ when the authority and power lu^Cmt^ 
of man, appeareth to be the building of Babel unto you, and fion. 
the name and authority of God only to be that wherein the ix 
bleffing confifts, and that in fuch wile alfo , as is nothing but a 1 £ att 
Way of reproach in the eyesof all the world; that a King 38*39* * 
fhould ride into his chiefe Citie , fo ftrangly furniihed upon an 
Afle , borrowed, her furniture old over- worne Garments, and 
accompanied with none but poore, meane, excommunicate 
perfons, fuch as your Elders, Scribes, Pharifee's, Lawyers, 
and all your credible perfons among you make full account 
they are not only accurfed, by, but alfo deftitute and void of 
all Law, when you cm find Hofanna in the higheft,arifing out 
of fuch contempt, and flume, then, and then only (hall you 
fing unto him with comfort ; in the meane time acknowledge 
your portion, which is to truft and (lay your felves on the 
name of man, and in his heauty to delight and glory , which 
Hull fade as a Leafe , and like the grade, (hall wither when it 
is fitting it felfe for the Oven ; (*) fuch is man whofe i/I/^aj^. 
breath is in his Noftnls, C u l and thefonneof forry man, in uifai.U\ 
whom you have delighr to truft , his power and policie 
brings forth nothing elie, but as you (hall fee and heare, in the 
Countrey from whence we are brought j we are not ignorant 
of thofefhamefulllies, andfalfides gone outagainftus, and 
the daily wreftmg of our words, to call contempt upon us, w ffiLit{$ 
[]wj chinking to bow downe our backs under ignominy, and 
reproach , neither of the ft raits , and d ffi ulties , they have 
caftusupon in the things that concernes this prtfcnr life, to 
the taking away of the livesof many, if our God hid not been 
leene beyond and above what their thoughts could reach un- 
to, (as their owne conf effion hath witnefled ; doing it in fuch 
away, of painted hypocrifie, and falfe gloife , unto the eye 

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of tiie Worid,thu we might feern unto it,felfe executioners; we 
refolve therfore to follow oar imploy meats, & to carry arid be- 
have our felves as formerly we have done,and no other wifejfor 
we hive wronged no min,unleffe with hird labxir, to provide 
for our -families, and fuffering of groffe, idle, and Idoil 
drones^otakeourlaboarsoutoHh^mjuchs, aad from off the 
backsof oucliccleones^olordaneitoverus: fo that if any (h ill 
goe about to difturb, or annoy us, hence- forth inoucimploy- 
mems,and liberties, whichGod hach,orflvil put into ouc hands* 
that can claim no intereft in us but by thefe courfes, (* ) whit 
their bulines is,we know by proof fufficient,to be noching dfe 
but that ancient errand of Nimr&d, thu rebellious Hinter Vter 
the precious life,[> j vhich errand of his (hall be no more deli* 
vereduntous, in thit covert cruelty, andduTembling way of 
hypocrifie; but in direct and open termes of tyrannic we 
Will not be dealt with as before (we fpeake in the name of 
ouc God; we will nor ? for if any ftniidirturbeus,asabove,fe- 
cret Hypocrites (kill becone open Tyrants, ami their" Laws 
appeare to be nothing eife but meet lufts in the eyes of all the 
world s And wherefore doe you murmure among your felves 
atthisiaying, thinking itisnotaChriftian expreflion^itisbe- 
caufeyou are ignorant of the (Sroffeof ourXord Jefus, not 
knowing what it is; therefore it is , while you inveigh againtt 
fuch as fet up a Statue of wood and (tone to bow do wne unto 
it, and are fo vaine as to crofle the ay re (to ufeyour o wne ex* 
predion; upon the faces of Infants, when they fprinkle them 
with water, to as great purpofe , and in the meane time you 
preach, and fet up Seighmrim^ for your Croffe, whom you 
fail do wne unto fo willingly, ani left you let the word paffe 
without expreflion of it unto all, it figciifies Horrour and 
Feire, which is theC-offe you hold ani teach , and by and 
through which you think* to be faved, which name is gU 
venby ourLordtotheDevill himfelfe, fas our Eagliih tran* 
flateit, and the Lord never .gives a name as an empty title, 
but according to the nature of the thing named, fo that if hee 
fpeake, I have faid ye are gods, (*> of any befides himfelfe 
stisto declare , that they have not only the, name , but the 

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very nature of the god of this world , and therefore he frirh, 
they (hill dye even as *Adam , which ifpired and ulurped the 
place of God, and fall alfo as one of the Princes, even as one 
of thole Princes of Midian, whofe carktffes became dung for a P/V.8$. 9 y 
the earth, ( a ) and he that gives that title unto any but the io,ii! 
true God, that made heaven and earth, in any other fenfe, but 
asitdeclareth a flat oppofition againft God, is Re aft ing that 
ancient fpirit of the Serpent; if you eat you (hill be as gods, 
[>3 to judgeof good and evill , for which all men are let up b Genefis 5 . ? 
in that kind ; even fo while you tell the people , that by for- h: tuac 
row, compun&ion , and anxietie of fpirit, and trouble of ^J^ a 
mind , they communicate in the fufferings of Chrift * out of himfehc, 
which condition their comfort is to flow, ic is nothing elfe without re- 
but to conclude , the Sonne of Gjd to hz Belial ; yea to af- r P cd unco 
firmehimtobe Seighnirim himfelfe* this doth he receive at ^^\^ c 
your hands in your Miniftries, for all your fawning upon him wholeglory 
withakiffe, (c) fo that if you will know howfarreyouarethcrotomfift. g 
from* communicating in the death of Chrift, take ic in this fuch ™»d+ad 
Payable, verily as farre as the weaknefle of God is ftroneer dif P?" tio 5 t 
then man ( d ); countrey men, tor weeaennot but call you t - ollowcdt) ks 
fo, though we find your carriage to be fo farre worfe then thefe height, accor- 
Jndianff we advife yon to take things together, and what God <ijng to the 
htth joyned, let none dare to put afunder, ( c ) fo that If ^^£^ n 
youbeafhamed of the Croffe in Baptifme, bealhamedof the c tt ^ 
Baptifme alio, for fuch as the Croflfe is, fuch «s the Biptifme : { oppofici m 
Therefore your Anceftors goe beyond you, in that chey joyne agamftChrift, 
crofling of the ayre , ani fprinkling with the Element of wa- r^. h ^l hat 
ter together: But wherever Baptitme according to the word ^J 1 ^^ 
of Chrift is, there is the Crofle- of -Chrift alfo, [J ] they c 

,n world. 

no more be leparated thenhis Scepcer and Kingdom can , f jr c Mat, 16. 4 9 
where the one is, there is the other alfo; for as they are coin- d j ^ 
cidenc, fo are the coaparant : So that if ever you fee the Bap- c jjjfj *' j 
tifme of Chrift , truly in ufe , and exercifcd upon any , you % », 
doe as truly fee that party partaking in, and communicating Lu ^\i^o. 
with the Croffe and Sufferings of the Lord J c(us Chrift , and 
to fee perfons in fuch eftate, and conclude afterward they are 
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is nothing el (e but to conclude atotall and finall tailing away 
from the grace of God, as your Fathers have done before you, 
for no grate greater then the Croffe of ourLord J (us; Behold 
therfore you Dcfpifersthe vanity and abomination of all your 
Bipcifmcs,how prejudicial! they are to the Crois of Chrilt, 6e 
afliamed,andreturn in time,oi: heftiil be a fwifc witnefsagainft 
you for ever, when your Repentance dial come too latejbut you 
think the Croffe of Chrift is not but in bowing the back under 
every burden, and cringing, and crouching to theluft of every 
man otherwife his Shebet\ [V] is n <> c fit, nor futeth it with 
See 1 ter S r ^ out ^'-'S} ment ac all,unlefleto fervile, that every one may 
Scaftor tribe ^ erve tilcir ^ s °* ^ m 9 to Wealth and Honour, Friends 
and Allies , by letting bounds and limits to the holy Word of 
God j fomeinthe way of one devik, fome in the way of an- 
other, and he that will not walkc as a dumbe beaft , worfe 
then Balams Affe, and fay nothing , or elfe give a fenie of the 
holy Writings to maintaine that devifed Plat-forme, if mercy 
muftbeufed, not to hang and burne , yet baniflhment is ready 
way ting for them : Therefore fhall you know, by the Rod 
h Pfal. no.!, of his power that comes out of Sion , £ h [] that he will be 
Ruler even in the midft of his Enemies. 

By us whom you ftile your Neighbours of Pro- 
vidence, you have faid it , Providence is our hold, 
the Neighbour- hood of the ^Samaritan we pro- 
feffe, and for the lookingson, and turnings afide 
of your Prielts and Levites, without either Un&i- 
on , or Compafsion , all your thine and woun- 
ded in foule finding no remedy , doe plaiaely 
teftifie the nature of your travels, and Neighbour- 
hood what it is; your fpeech to us in generall, not 
ufing our names , when aswc know, it is parti- 
culars you ayme at , gives us phinely to fee the 
word *s£lem , £ * ] Revived and Living in 

that the Phrafe is, doe ye indeed, do dumb Juftice , o Congregation? and fo defcribes 
fuch pei Tons what they are that Ipeakc not a word of Righteonfneflc in their a&s and 
executions , which Pfalme fliewed unto us the fpiric , pra&ife and fuccefle of our 
Adverfaries. 

you 



* the word 
Mem fignifies 
dumbnefTc, fo 



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you , as it (lands with its Coherence, in Pjalmc 
58, ^r/Jrthefirft,&c. 



flohn Wicket. 
1 Randall Hon I den* 

lohn Warner. 

Robert Potter. 

Richard Waterman* 
J William Waddle. 
\ Samuel Gorton. 

Richard Qardcr* 

lohn Greene. 

Nicholas Powar. 
Francis We ft on. 
LSampfon Shatton* 



■ Thefc be- 
ing the Pur- 
chalersof 
Shawo met the 
Sacbim^M] au- 
tonomy , as he 
fold ic co 11. 
men j fohis 
price was thac 
every man 
mould pay 
Ix.Fatlu.n 
of Wamj>pum 
pcagCjt.iac is y 
I44 Fatham, 



as our deed, 

which he made^unto us being extant 3 wkneffeth to be paid unto h.rn. 

This Wiicing fen t to the Maffachufets we have related wr- 
fatim; only what is in the margent is added tor explanation, 
and more eafe to the Reader to underftand our meaning which 
We fent at the time when their general Court (at ; defiring that 
all the Country might take notice of it, doubting they were not 
well informed how the Magiftrates and Minifters had carryed 
frhettrfelves cowards us, nor upon what ground they had, or 
did proceed agiinft us : But the chief of them faking the mat- 
ter into confideration, thought good to call an Affembly of 
Magi&rates and Minifters to confult, in way of a Synod, what 
courfe to take uniting themfelves together that what was done 
by any of them might be the adl of them ail: and they perufing 
of our writings,* ramed oat of them 26 particulars, orther.a- 
bout<?,which they faid wereblafphemous,changing of phraies, 
altering of words and fenfe, not in any one of them taking 
the true intent of our writings; but if thty fpake our own 
Words, it was to fuch purpofe as this ; as though a man woul J 
write the words of the Pfalme, *nd affirm (there u no God) 
fuch words he may find written therein; but if he leave out 
this.That the fool hathfaidinhi* heart /*,hefpoils the feme, 

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and in fuch manner did they deal with our writings, and thofe 
things they were free to divulge and make known amongft the 
people : Thefe things concluded to be herefiesand blafphemies 
before ever they heard a word of what interpretation we could 
give of our meaning therein : The Minifters did zealoufly 
preach unto the people the great danger of fuch things, and 
the guilt iuch lay under that held them,ftirring the people up to 
labour to find fuch perfons out and to execute deathupon them, 
making perfons fo execrable in the eyes ot the people, whom 
, they intimated Should hold fuch things, yea fome of them na- 

W who S ^yed out m lome bf us in their Pu,pits * that people that had 
f I a g ainft G^ not feen us thought us to be worfe by farinany relpeftthen 
1 1 that arch he- thofe barbarous Indians are in the Country, which fome of 
: reticfc,who the Minift ers have rendred unto the people as Hittites, Can4- 
f| S5h?veai nit€ ^ mA t tir€ f ttes > ur S in g it as a duty unto the to put 

I jjf men to be chem to deach > whereupon we heard a rumor that the Maf- 
p! preachers. fachufets was fending out an Army of men to cut us off: 
jjjji But if he had but when they perceived we were removed further into the 
I r u ^rh? is - a Countre y» and had kft cur Lands , Houfes, and Labours, 
I u7cl lho where * thcir P retended fobjefts, by meanes of whom they 
wi(hcd\hat al fou £ ht ™ r fomc tem Porall occafions againft us, lived , they 
HI the Lords thcoght it not fafe to come out againft us, having (how of no- 
Ill P e °P^were thing againft us , but only our Religion • therefore feeing 
I SKi« themlelvsdifappointedin thatdefigne, wherein their Coadju- 
||| plainly ex- lors > had wrought to bring them in, to make an inroad upon 
!| prefl'ed the us i they then wrought by thefe their Agents, who traded for 
I 111 ^ e . nt of his them with lhe > to infinuate themfelves into two, or 

ipmt 3 &what three Indians amongftus, to become fubieds to the govern- 

manner or ~ *. ~L -»j m t ^ * i . . . _ o 



ill: 



*cai he had l ? c ? t 1 of < h ?, MdffMcki/eis , hereby with-dra wing thep from 
their lawful! and naturall Prince, Myantonomy- and the name 
of thefe his fubjefts , who now became fubjefts to the .fifaf- 
fachnfets, were Pumhom, and Soccononocco j and when this 
was accompliftied , then they againe fent forth their war- 
rants unto us, as formerly to command our appearance at 
their Courts, in the Ma(fachufet.f, and that without any con- 
federation or delay , at the firft time of their fending unto us 
after our removal!, the (Sourt being theta filing ac Bofton in the 
Matfachufets. " fa re 



Here folloVPeth a true fopie of the firfi fV arrant Cent unto 
us % by the Generall Court affembled at Bolton , in the 
Maffachufets, after our removeall nnto , and plant %n<j> 
upon our Land at Shaw-omct, verbatim , the Warrant 
under their hand being jiill extant. 



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To our Neighbours, Matter*? amuel Gorton, John jyickes, Ran. * 
dall Houlden, Robert Potter, Francis PTefton, Richard 

Carder, John Warner, and William JVaddle. & 

Wttereas we have received upon good ground f into our * 

Jurifdiftion, and Prote&ion, two Indian Sachimtj £ 
whofe names arc Pumham , and Soccononoco, who have lately 

complained unto us of foaie injurious and unj uft dealing , to- £ 

wards them by your felves; and becaufe we defire to cbc e- fa 

quail right and jiifl; icc to all,and that all parties might be heard. They having $ 
we have therefore thought good to write unto you, to give you baniihc4 feme I* Sfe 
notice hereof , that foyou might make prefent anfwer in the ° fusfiv9 o r 

Generall Court now affembled at Bofion to their complaints, foVand | % 

who ar? now here with us , to attend your comming : And threammg, | « 

becaufe fomc of you have been denyed the liberty of com- rhacif lomc |£ 
roing amongft us, and it may be,others are not willing in other ot us w ^ re 



relpcfts, perfonaily toappeare, £}J we doe therefore here^X & iIicJ hCm If | 




Dated the i 2t fe . j^KM°.l6^. 





This Warrant being delivered unto us, by feme of their fore- 
named Agents,. theEogiifh, we prefently returned them this 
anfwer by word of mouth , by their Me(Tenger r telling them,, 
that we*being fo far out of their j # urifdiftions,could nor ^either 
would we acknowledge fubje&ion unto any in the place where 
we were ; but only the ftatcand government of old England, 



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who only had right unto us, and from whom we doubted not 
but in due ftalon we (hould receive direction, for the well 
ordering of us in all civill relpeftsj and in the meane 
time we lived peaceably together, defiring and indevouring to 
doe wrong to no man, neither Englijh nor Indian , ending 
all our differences in a neighbourly and loving way ot Arbitra- 
tors,mutually chofen amongft us : They receiving our anfwer, 
tookeic dildainfully, as their intent was to take any we fent, 
without our perfonall appearance, being reiolved what courfe 
to runne concerning us ; whereupoa they fent us another 
Writing immediatly from the Court, toinformeus, that they 
were refolved to come downe amongft us, to exercife Juftice 
there. xm* , 

Here follotoeth a true Qo fie of the Writing "tohich they fent 
HKtotu, verbatim, being ftill extant. 

To Samuel Gorton, Iohn Wickes , John Warner , Iohn Green, 
Randall Houlden , Francis Weflon , Robert Totter , Ri- 
chard Waterman, Richard Carder , Samffon Shotton , 2V7- 
cholas Power, and William Waddle. 

WHereas upon occafion of divers injuries, oflfcred by you 
to us, and the people under our juriidiftion, both 
Englifh and Indians , we have fent to you to come ro oar 
Court, and there make anfwer to the particulars charged upon 
you, and fafe condudl to chat end : To which you have retur- 
ned us no other but contemptuous and difdainfullanfwers ; 
andnowatthelaft, that if we would fend to your felves, that 
the caufe might be examined , and heard among your owne 
Neighbours , we fliould then have juftice and fstisfaftien : 
We have therefore, that our moderation and juftice may ap- 
pearetoall men, agreed to condefcend herein toyourowne 
defire^and therefore intend fhortly to fend Com mifsioners into 
your parts to lay open the charges againft you, and to heare 
your Reafons and Allegations , and thereupon to receive fuch 
iatisfra&lon from you, as (hall appeare in juftice to be due. 
WegiveyouaKotounderftand, that vvefhalllendafufficient 

Guard 



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Guard, withourCommiflioners, for their fafety agiinlk any 
violence, or injury ; for feeing you will not truft your felvcs 
with us, upon our fafeconduft, we have no reafon to truft 
ours with, you, upon your bare courtefie: But this you miy 
reft affured of, that if you will make good your o wne off.r to 
us, of doing us right, our people (hall returne , and leave you 
in peace; otherwife wemuft right our felves, aad our people, 
-by force of Armes. 

Dated the 19th. of theJ*K M. 1643. 
?er omlncreafe Nowell, Secret. 

The next newes wee had, ienmediatly upon the receipt of 
this Writing, f being abourour neceffary imployments,in pro- 
vifionfor our Eti#lieij was this; that one Captaine Qeorge 
foot>e , with a company of armed fouldiers, accompanied 
with many Indians, having Commiflion from the Ma)f*chu- 
feu, either to bring us away by force of Armes , or elfe to put 
us to the fword ; which when we heard, we partly beleeved, 
in regard they had given order by publicke Court, long before, 
that no Gun-powder ftiould be fold into thofe parts where 
welived, but only to fuch as would become (ub jefts to them, 
whereby the place was not only hindred of means of defence 
from aforraine Enemy , but alfo to furnifli their families with 
foch provifions as 'the countrey affords : we hearing of their 
approach, immedi*tty lent a Letter tothofe which we heard 
theyftikd Ccmmiffioners, w hich proved to be the Captiine, 
together with his officers, defiring to know their intent , and 
whattheir Commiflion was to doe in thofeparts, fignifying, 
tfflkHi they came to vJfirtisin way of neighbour- hood , and 
Mentifliip^ to cleare any matter or caufe, they fhould be wel- 
come tons; but if otherwif 1 , wewifbed them nottofet a 
foot upon our Lands, in any hoftile way. 

3 w 4«>il;iu6ti G- tic. * f 

-ibrioJ Jon t jnsinos-sitm 10 t <^oivn3 . f : ::i f>r <r .1 n\ 
»d t lrfiib too q^o tu mh F 1 I 

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their united 
body which 
they Lbmiidi 
debgbyuid 
slory in, ccn 
litis by their 
c .-• n£ c^rrei- 
Iion of fuch 
mixture of 
Members, as 
that part arc 
Heathens Uy 
their owne 
report. 



A true fipie of our Letter verbatim, fent to the Commif- 
f oners , & tbej Vcere upon the ftaj comming from the 
Ma[facbufets towards Shawomct. 
Shaw-omec the a8:b. of September, i^4?« 
To certzine men filled Commiffioners , fent from the Maffi- 
chulc s, now upon the ftaj towards Shaw-omet , whofe 
names We know not, 

WHereas ycu are fent by the government of the Maf- 
fachufets t under pretence ot having things ordered 
amongftus, in way of juftice, and equity, to be diftributed 
unco themfelves , (conGfting as they lay) of SngU/hmi In* 
C m 3 and that upon this ground, that we hare given 
them tn invitation to that purpofe ; Know therefore our 
whole Intern, and meaning therein , which may not beare any 
other interpretation in a rationali mind ; thai as they invited us 
unto them , is Clients to have our caufes tryed by them , and 
not as Warriors to fight with them , fo did we, and no 
otherwife invite them:Miftake us not thcrefore,ncither deceive 
yourfclves through their or your owne pretences ; for if you 
come to treatc with us, in ways of equity and peacef together 
therewith, fhaking a Rod over our heads, in aBandot foul- 
dieri:)3e you aflured,we have parted our Child-hood and non- 
nige in that point, and are under Commiflion of the great 
God, not to be children in understanding, neither in carriage; 
but to quit our fclves as men ; we ftraitly charge you therefore, 
hereby, that you fct not a foot upon our Land in any hoftile 
way, but upon your periil ; and that if any blood be flied t upon 
your owne heads thill it be ; and know, that if you let an Ar- 
my of men upon any part of our Land , contrary to our Juft 
prohibition herein , we are under command , and have our 
Commifsion fcaled already, to refift you unto death j for this 
is the Liw of our God , by whom we (land , written in all 
mens hearts, that if you fpread a table before us as friends, we 
fit not as men invective, envious, or male-content > not touch- 
ing a morfell, nor looking for you to point us unto our difh,bot 
we eat with you , byvertueof the unfained Law of relations, 
not only to fatitfie our ftomacks, but to incceafefriendftiip 

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tnd love , the end ot fcafting: So alio if you vifit us,is Com- 
batants, or Warriors, by the fj me Law of relations, wets 
freely tnd chearfully tnfwer you unto death ; not to kill, 
tnd take away the lives ot men , but to increafe wrath and 
horrour, the end of warre, in the loulcs of all men that feeke 
after it, where the peace of our God appeares not; and they 
that worke other wife , and anfwer not unto this Law , they 
are not men of truth, but bafediffembling Hypocrites; ftia- 
dowes* and abominable Idols , fct up in the forme ot men. 

By us ofttiers, and Inhabitants of Shaw-omet, 

This Letter being fent unto thefe Commiflioners to ftiled 
by them , though as yet unknowne unto us , by the hand 
ot one lohn Peife , who lived amongft them in the Majfachu- 
fcts, who hating a Father irt Law amongft us, was willing 
to come and declare unto his Father , out of his tender- 
neffe toward* him , of the nearneffe of the fouldiers ap- 
proach, and as neareashecould, the end of their comming, 
to perfvvade. his faid Father to efcape for his life. 

And when the Captaine, and the reft of the Commiflioners 
had read our Letter,<hcy returned us this anfwer ( by the fame 
MeffengerJ namely that they defired tofpeake with us, to fee 
if they could convert us to be of their minds, (bringing a 
Minifter with them , to accomplifo their ends in fuch defigns) 
which if they could not , then they would account of us, as 
men fitted for the fhughter, and with all convenient fpeed, 
would addreffethemfelvesfor our difpatch in the mine of us, 
and of our families. 

Here folleweth a true Wrf the anfwer made by the Com- 
miffioners* unto our Letter % verbatim, under their hands % 
Which is ft ill extant. 

To our friend John ?6(c.Having conftdered of the jVritingjou 
brought tons the Ufl night, our thoughts concerning*, are 

^{^Stx great defire, that we might fpeake with them, 
Fconeerningthe particulars , which we were fent to them 

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n This Letter about; Q Q 3 certainly perf wading oar felves, that we (hill be 
declare* 'the * ble ^ rou § rt the Lorcls hel P e to convince fome of them, at leaft 
prop« C mcent of evtii °^ tAeir way 5 tnd caufe them to divert their courfc, 
of the Mafa- that fo doing they may preferve their lives and liberties, 
.cbufets in fen- which other wife muft neceffarily ieade to eternall mine of 
band°cf foul thetn and f heirs 5 * or however, through an evillfpiric, that 
tfers agamft" ^ ath P°&& d fome one, or two of them , others aredrawne 
us, namely in defpetate evils, as ismonftrous to thinke of; yet ha- 

thcfalfifying ving better counfell, we hope xhey will be brought to fee their 
of our faith to W eakneffe., and repent of it* that fo we might returne, and 

kft our felves !eaVe them mi lhcifS in P eaCe > which is 00r § reat defire • and 

unto them, the contrary rnoft grievous; but it there be noway of tur- 
(who never ning them, we chfcn (hill looke upon them , as me n prepared 
named the for flvugnttf , and accordingly (hall addrf ffc our felves , with 
w u? aTthou£ ali convenient r P ecd > mt doubting of the Lords prefence with 
the/ came us > being cleare in the way wean; in: This being our minds^ 
againft us in we intreate you to acquaint them with it fpe edily; and if they 
the name of (h 41 , who have fet their names to their book , doe come to 
St!ter n f g nM nd u5j a °dfp^keWith us , we fhail give them leave to returns 
without hurt. 



State of old 
Engl and j but 
in the name of 

the government of the Majfdchufets) or 
clfe to pay the tribute of our? Lives unto 
them, in the utter rjsins of our wives and 
children, which tbefe men having recei- 
ved in Commiffioh, together with inftru- 
£Hon how to accompMli and effeft the 
fame, from thofe that fent them, count ic 
their glory to reveal, and make manifeft 
the fame, which the Majjacbufets had fo 
long gone about to hide,under the colour 
of fome civil roifcarriage in our courfe of " 



Your Friends and Commifsioners 
fent by the government of the 
Maffachttfets.JS&y into thefe 
parts. 

George Coo^e. 
' Edward I ohnfon. 
Hnnrfrey. %Atharton* 



walking towards men in regard themfelves had profefed , to remove into thofe 
parts meerly for the liberty of confeience, which now they fo xea'loufly denyanto 



their neighbours- 



sealoufly deny anto 

^^emnrheof th's an (wet from the Com mifl ferrets, is a- 
9oyt > ^frighted our wives &children,forcing (hem to betake 

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. themiclves, fome into the Woods among the IndUm , fu&* 
r*ft$ luch hard-flup, as occafioned the death of divers of them, 
[VJ and others going to take water, to depart toother \\\vl u ^}% 
cations for fuccour, the fouldiers approached before rh.y could auu tWco< 
takeboat, whoprefented their Muskets ic women gceat with fofa'i l J *uer M 
child, forcing them and their children to Funnc deep into the °*hcr"wQiu«i 
water, to get into the boat for feareof them [p]; we be*- mi 
king our felves to one of our houfes, for our defence, they SekdSm 
prefently appeared in fight ; S. gorton being ouc of the houfe bo alio 
toconvey his Wife (who was great with child J eowardsthe tr&nc\smf!t*n l 
water- fide for her efcape, efpied them about Market- (hot 
from the houfe, the way which they came being full of wood; f"»rS tcU 
they were not fooner difcerned but he called unto them , to into a con- 
keepc without the difiance of Muskerfhot, calling to his fumption, and 
friends in the houfe alfoto ftand fo their Armes, fora'bandof inlholt unK ; 
fouldiers confiftirag of Englijh and Indians 'were in fight; fo f w dycd °* 
committing his Wife to fame of Providence , which came i The wife of 
along with them toconvey her to the boat, betookehim&fe s. Gorton s and 
to the houfe with the reft. Thefeour loving neighbours, inha- fomc of hcr 
biting neere unto us in that Tovvne whsre Matter flrt/W/ 
fatcdowne, being deeply affe&ed with the proceedings of lic^^m* 
the Mafiackufets, comming downe unto us along with them, child bed, was 
to be eye and eare witfteffes how things were carried at our fo dealt with 
meeting ; who inftantly urged the Capraine, and officers for by s ^ c {^ u,di " 
a parley, who denyed to yeeld or grant any inch things but haftte^tf for 
profeffed they would fall upon us prefenf ly , unte{fe u toight be Rare ,° it one 
private betwixt themfelves and us, aninone elfetoheare ir, of ^ knncs 
profefsing to make difpatchof us in one quarter of an hours couldnotha?« 
worke, fq] which we undemanding refuted to enrei info [>^n icJbc" d 

• hind her , fo 

was glad to betake hirnfelfe to the water, though young to recover the Boat, q They 
had fo animated , and incouraged the fouldiers , yea, fo jnccniedthciu againft us, 
that they were loth to eatertaine fpeech or parley , though they (ay in their laft wri- 
ting they came to examine cafes of right and wrong which could not appeare with- 
out parley, nayfomeof their fouldiers, picked out to beat the parley, profcHcdtu 
flfmeof us 3 when they came to"v}fit us as we Jay in bolt?; and irons amungftthem, 
cotrinftrig in the ni^ht, not daring t*> fee us in the day, profefted in thefc wordsj When 
we came fir ft to theground we were madd to %ut, and to fal upon you without fpeech 

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©rpar/ey, but after we Taw you, and heaid you fpeak: , many of us had rather 
have been on your fide > then for the caufc we came , and the Captains iceingforne 
of us difcouraged to fight , would not permit us to difcourfc with any cf Providence 
men, /eft they mould fpeaks on your behalfe ; and this we know A that fome thac 
did fignifie unto them any fraall thing concerning the equity of our caufe the Op- 
taine feized on them for prifoners, and k:pc them in bonds , during the time of 
their aboad there, audmuch adoe to releafc them, that they had not tak:n them, 
downe mo the /&aJfachufttsj.o undcrgoe further punifhraencs. 

parley ,unleffe our did neighbours of Providence might be pre- 
sent to witneffe the paffages of it ^ but at the ltf after much 
affectionate urging , they yeclded to a parley j and foureol 
Providence men to be chofen out as witneffcs,which we freely 
codented unto th&mutuall choyce of them, and accordingly 
we met together; and we demanding of them the end of their 
commiflg* they pretended we had done fome wrong unto 
certaine of their (ubjefts , as alfo that we held blafphemous 
errours, which we muft cither repent of* orgoedownetothe 
Majfacbnfets to be tryed at their Courts, or eife they had Com- 
miffion to put us to the i word , and to pay themlelves out of 
our goods, for their charges in comming thither -> to which 
wc made anfwer, wc could notyeeld thereunto, that they 
that were our profeffed advcrfariesftiould be our Judges, we 
being fofarreoutof all their jurifdi&ions; but freely tend red 
©urappeale to the honourable State of EngUnd, in any thing 
that could be objefted agtinft us, which they peremptorily 
rcf ufed ; We then offered to put our cafe to arbitration, by in- 
different men, mutually chofen in the cmatrty , ingaging our 
goods,our lands,& our perfons,to make full fatisfa&ion for any 
thing that could be brought in, or appeareagainftus; which 
Propofitions feemed fo reafonable , not only in the eyes of 
the wicnefTes, but alfo to the Captaiaand the reft ,. that there 
was a truce agreed upon, untill fuch time as a Meflenger being 
difpatcht tatothe M*jf*chufets ? might returne with the an- 
fwer of the Governour, and Afliftants, during the time of 
which truce, they broke openour houfes, and our desks , t** 
king away our Writings , killed our Cattle for themfelve&and 
die 7*4*4*;, whom they brought with them, to live upon 

taking 



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raking the bedding, with other neceffaries in our houfes,for the 
fooMiers to lie upon , and make u(e of, not only at that time, 
but afterwards in their trenches, during the time of their 
league, aflaulting fomc of our friends, both men,women,and 
children, who only came to fee us , in that fad time of extre- 
mity hearing there was a truce concluded for a (eafon, indea- 
vouringto cut them off, upon the water, (being in a fmall vef- 
fell) by (hooting half e a 1 core or a dozin Muskets at them , be- 
fore they could get out of their reach,which they very narrow- 
ly efcaped;during the time of this trucc,the men of Providence 
funknowne unto us) fent a Letter to the Government of the 
Maffachufets > to informe them how things had been carried 
at our meeting, whereof they were eye and eare witAeflfcs. 

zAtrueCopie of the Letter fent hj the men of Providence, 
chofen to ire tyitnejfes, ofstll pajfages in May of our parley % 
to th£ governonr of the Maflachufcts , in way of mediati- 
on for peace, to prevent Conntrey.men from /pilling one 
an others bloody it isherefet downe verbatim, according to 
the originall Qopie ftill extant* 

Providence the a.of the 8t. M°. 1*45, fo called. 

WOrthy Sir, let it not feeme abfurd , that we whofe 
names are here under written, prefent you with thefe 
infuing lines; we lately hearing read aCopie of your writing, 
direftcd to Samuel Gorton&nd that company , as alfo fome of 
us being requefted by our neighbour Cole (your lubjeft) and 
(all requefted by Samuel Gorton , and his company , to heare 
andfecj th? truth of proceedings on both fides, ourconfeien- 
ces perfwading us, that thefe defires were reafonable, and for 
ought we know, might be a meanesfif God fo wrought) to 
prevent the ftiedding of blood ; thefe things we (ay confide- 
red,may (as before) cau(eour boldneffe. We therefore being 
filled with griefe at fuch afpe&acle, that the (hould 
flied Engliih blood s doe defire to acquaint you with what we 
didobferve, during that refpite, that was condescended to, for 

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atreatie; therefore to proceed, after your Commiision read, 
$. g. his company did defire to know in what particulars, you 
did demand fatisfaftion; the propofitions being declared were 
foure. 

Frft to get them off tht Indians ground, which your Com- 
miisioners faid, they had but intruded*. 

Secondly, for fatisfa&ion about a Booke, wherein your 
Gemmifsionersfaid, were groffe things penned. 

Thirdly, for fat isfaftion^ for wrong done, both to Englijh 
and Indians i under your fubjeftion. 

Fourthly, for charges , which your Commifsioners faid, 
they had caufed by forcing this Army, 

Vnto the iirft they anlwered, that the ground was theirs, 
and they were the true o wners,and that by the fame right that 
you did clayme it, it being long before iubje&ed to the Nan, 
hganfet Saehim, and purchafed by them of Myantontmy^nd 
(to take away all colour of elaime) of Ptsmham alfo , and they 
having quiet poffefsion of the fame r untill this trouble; and 
therefore did conceive you had wronged them, by bringing an 
Army, to force them from their ground ; your Commifsioners 
pleaded, it was your right, by the Indians fubjefting to you , 
and thereupon were very refolute to take them off by force; 
which they queftioned not but immediatly to peiforme ; the 
other as refolute, confidering, they faid they had bought it,and 
vowed to ftand upon their h wfulldefence , though to the laft 
drop of their blood , the refolution on both fides being fo hot, 
that we thought immediatly the Battle would have began; 
they did then appeale to the higheft Court in old England , for 
thetryall of theit right, which when your Commifsioners 
refufed, they did againe offer to put it to the tryallof indiffe- 
rent Judges in this Countrey, which were parties of neither 
fide, and counted it unreafonable, that force fhould be offered 
before the caufo w^re tryed , which they judged you could not * 
doe, being parties in the caufe, and promifed to (land to the 
determination of thole Judges, to the utmoft of their eftates 
and pwfons. 

Secondly, being demanded by your Commifsioners , fatisfa- 

ftion 



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ftion for the Book , wherein they declared groflfe things were y[ 
penned,theyanfwered,thatthey would put it, as the former, to % 
be judged by indifferent Judges, both the cerms^ fatisfaftion £ 

To the third , for fathfaftion tor wrong done, both to /«- # 
Mansznd Engli/h; they anfwered, they would give full fa- % 
tisfa&ion. * 

Concerning the fourth, wherein was great expence and ^ 
charges required; they anfwered likewife, as in the former, ^ 
that they would pay and give to the utmoft fatisfadtion, it the 
Arbitrators judged , that they were thecaufe of rayfing it, and £ 
would as fully and freely fubmit , as to eat and drinke : Thefe 
being in ftiore the heads , we leave the more ample relation to % 
your Commifsioners; Sir fo faire Propofitions offered, we jfc« 
hope will worfce your affedtions to the utmoft end, of preven- < $ 

ting blood- f pilling ; Nay, we hope, if it be but upon the 
point of honour , rather that you will be lofers , then take the 
uunoft; the cafe we cannot but be fadly affe&ed with,know- 
ing it will be dishonourable to the Lord, if thofewhopro- 
fefle themfeives Chriftiani , fhould not take the beft means for 
peace 5 we hope you will not in the lead meafure take it un- 
kindly for any hint unto you ; neither that you will defpife ^ 
tAbigals counfell , for Nabals churlifhneffe ; let the Lord 
fmite them, and his hand be upon them, if they finne againft 
him j If one man finne againfi another , the Judge Jhall judge 
him! hut if a man finne againfi the Lord , Vtho (ball intreatfor 
himi 1 Sam**5. Now their Propofition is for man to judge , * 
as that firft part of the alleadged Scripture doth declare ; fomc 
of their wives and children (if a mornfull Speftacle might ^ 
move you) doe begge for a ferious confideration of their huf- £ 
bands, and fathers Propofitions ; which if not hearkned unto, £ 
were like in mans eye to be left miferable; we wouU they jj & 

were able to write their owne griefe, which now in pitie w« 
have refpeft unto: Oh, how grievous would it be (we hope 
to vouJ if one man (hould be fiaine , confidering the greatcft £ 
Monarch in the world cannot make a man; efpecially grievous, £ 
feeing they offer termes of peace : Sir, we know not how to £ 
end, nomftat to lay, wemuft abruptly leave defirmg your ^ 

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wifdoms to cover onr defers with love , and anfwer for u* , 
m r if any, Qiall challenges 2 7^,2,7. 

^ C&tfdf. 'Browne. Thomas Olney* 

|j William Field, 

»J2 William Wickenden. 

% 

t# JFfrrc follofaeth a. true Copie of a Letter Written by the Go* 

vermur of the Matfachufets > in anftoer to the men of 
^jj Providence , of their Letter Written unto him , in fray of 

'. mediation for peace, Vohich u here fet doxvne verbatim, the 

$ j Letter being extant under hisowne hand. 

jfj Neighbours of Providence, 

$5 W Have received a Letter fubfcribed by four of you, whom! 

^ m hear are not of the conf ederacie with Gorton^Holden^nd the 

f$ reft of that company , wherin as Mediators youihtercede be- 

$ tweenthemfirus,in the differences now between us;the return 

& of the Meffenger is fo hafty,that I cannot make a full anfwer to 

$ every thing you have mentioned in your Letter; only you 

5 m ?y Kft fitisfied. with this , that the Commiffion, and infiru- 

tjt dions given to the Commiffioners now at Providence wis not 

rafhly and inconfiderately drawn up; but by the mature ad- 
vifeof the wifeft and godlieft amongft us , aflfembied in a ge« 
ncrali Sourt, which I have not power to reverfe or alter ; and 
forthe /uftneffe of the Courts proceedings therein , you may 
5# doe wtlL to take further notice, that befides the Title of 

m I^nd , between the Indians , and the Englifi there, there arc 

* twelve of the Englijh, that have fubfcribed their names, to 

^ hornbleand deteftable blafphemies, againft God, and all Ma- 

£ BjJ wicic, who are rather to be judged as Blafphemers, (efpeci- 
3j a % » the y P^fift therein; rather then that they ihould delude 

us , by winning time , under the pretence of Arbitration - 
r WhicR was I doubtnot , but you well know , that we have often fent ta 
only word, them , to plead their title to the Land , and to mike 
SE?£ li W * r * 0T * h t r *Wpfcc«»i and that we lately fent them 
formerly f cm ** te . Y> nd uCte for their commmg, and returning, m f ora U 
unto us\ i Which we have received from them, nothing but (corns con- 
« tempt , and reviiings in the j worft expreffions . they cpuld 

$ ] ^ caft 



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5* 



caft them into ; fo that the promife of proteftion made by us, ^ 
to Tumbam, &c. the vindication of Gods honour, and many 
reafons concerning our lafety f have neceffarily put us upon *, 
this courfs with them j notwithftanding which, if any of jj; 
them will in peaceable manner , rspaire unto us, under the % 
conduft of our Commifsioners , no violence (hall be offered & 
to them , by our lbuldiers there, and our juftice here ; but !fr t 
if they refufe, and offer violence , let the hurt they receive be * 
upon their owne heads; further (which I had forgotten) where 
you fay their ©fFer of arbitration is f aire , you may doe well to 
be better informed, and to know that the botome of it is cafily 
founded , which is to win time , to difcourage the Indians, 
|T| under our fubjedion, and to give them time, and oppor- / Fcan ' n g jjjS 
tunity, toftir up fas much as in them lieth ) the other In 1 



iVw/againft [jQ us; for to whom would they referre their Prince of 
matters? to your felves whom we know not, but havejuft thefe their In 
caufe to feare , in refpeft of your vicinitie unto them, and dianfubjefts 
your now mediation tor them; and to thofeof Road-lhnd, ^ ld t *^ 
divers of whom we know too well , to ref erre any matters folly in SL 
unto; C u l ^ °^ cc y° u can pctforme unto them , is to their Ibbjc- 
perfwade chem to attend their ownefafety, byyeeldingto and to 
thelawiull demand of our Commiflioners, from which as I a " 
iaidbeiorilcartnot vary. So I reft . hknfdEwd 

Your loving Neighbour, thereby leave 

So/Ion S. g.l'&K • l° l Winthrope. them without 

J J this colour 

and pretence ■ 

to worke out their own ends upon us. t Behold here their guiic^in that th;y had unjuftly w ^ 
drawn by iafinuation the Indians from their lawfull Prince , as alio that fubcill wrong ■ 
^they did to us 5 fuggefting fecretiy unto the peop!e,as though there were feare of feme 
combination between- the Indian; and us 3 to ftir up fouldiers by that m.*an^ t > come 1 
©ut a<*ainft us* u Behold how thefe men can evade all faire Proportions to profe- I 7* 
cute and bring forth their own Cpirit j yea , eren to the death of their countrcy men, 1 1 jfc 
if it be but by calling afperfions upon thofe that hold not juft length and breadth in 
religion w ith them, f ^ 

L Now after the enterchangeof thefe Letters,between the men £ 
di frwUeim* and the Governourof the Afajfachvfets 9 w/h\ch ? 

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we at the prefent were ignorant of, when certaine dayes were 
expired, the Mcffengers fent by the Commiflioners into the 
MAffachttfets to acquaint them with ourPropofif iuns,r eturned, 
which we perceived by their {hooting off of Uuns at his com- 
ming .• And the full thing we difcerned m them, they fent out 
and gathered all our Cattle together,and tooke rhem into their 
owne cuftody , tending two fouldiers unto us tog*veus no- 
tice, thatthe time of truce was expired , and that our Propo- 
fltions couli in no caufe be accepted orimbraced by the Maf- 
fachufitt; we then defiriog to fpeake with the Captain and 
theomcers , they utterly denyed to have any fpeech with us ; 
but immediatly intrenched th«nfclw» r and the f*me day gave 
lire upon us; whereupon to (hew our allegeance to the State 
or *\A England, w. hung out the Enghlh colour, which they 
perceiving uwt the more violently againit u v (hooting the co- 
lours many times, through an; imough.- Now when the 
Meffenger from the M^achnfets returned, coin ming through 
"le I owne of Providence, two of the men of Providence 
came along to Sh**-omet,to fee how thmgs were carried, and 
what the newes was at his rtturne; and however the Commif- 
fioners would not lpe,ke with us j yet the men of Providence 
went unto chem,& had fpeech with them, whom they warned 
tocomenomoreuntous, upon their perill, for they were re- 
vived of thai -coarie, therefore who ever came neVuntous, 
they would lobe them for their enemies: For whemheGo- 
vernour and Afsiftaats of Mafcchnfets perceived thauh* 
Commissioners had declared their errand unto us in pi ner 
termes then, then they intended itfhould have beene P . they 
thought tomakethehoufe wewereinour grave, wastheS 
way to vmdicare the moderation of chei Squall jX e n t 



Here 



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" Here folloVoeth a true Cepy of the teftimonj of the two men 

YPHOVIDRKCI ^WwaoSHAVV.OjdlT 

at the return of the Meffenger out of the Ma S $ a c h U- 
SBTS verbatim, extant under their own hands. 

WE teftifie that upon the return of the Anfwer, from the 
Bay, the Captain refufed the former offer of appeale 
tp Sngland^Qt Arbitration in the Country , with the faid Samuel 
qorton and his company, but immediately diffolved the 
truce, and the fame day proceeded to give fire upon 
them. 

Richard Scot 
William Harriffe. 

And fo continued for divers days together in their fierce 
affalt, the Sabbath approaching, we imagining they would not 
have continued their aflalt upon that day, and were very con- 
fident that they would go about no fuch work upon the night 
before the Sabbath ; being we knew well that they held the 
Sabbath begins in the evening going before, and that they had 
no lefle ground for it then Matter Cottons judgment; asalfo 
that it was one of their laws that the breach of the Sabbath is 
to be punifhed with death. Now what they may judge the 
killing of their Countrymen caufkfly upon that day is, whe- 
ther io keep or break the Sabbath, we leave to all men to 

But contrary to our expediationjearly in the morning,having 
prepared their fire* works, they attempted to burn the houie 
wherein we were,, feconding their fire with the difcharge of 
above four hundred (hot againlt us, according to the Souldiers 
account, who afterwards told us how many iTiots they had 
made that morning, according to the emptying of their banda- 
leers ; ail which time they told us Capcain C^ftood behind 
foch a great white oak tree, whom we heard incouraging his 
fouldiers to come on with courage, thinking himfelf in fafety, 
and fo he was, for we difcharged not a Gun that morniag, nor 



48 Simplicities 'Defence, again ft feven* beaded Policy* 

of al the time of their fiege,but only two in the nighttime at ran* 
dom, to fcsr them from working their trenches fleer unto us.; 
for wa had concluded to take away the lives of none of our 
Countrymen, unleffe they offered to enter violently upon us, 
which we only fitted our (elves to prevent fuch affalt, or elfe 
that we were forced out upon them by the firing of our houfe; 
only we perceived our words to be (not good enough to keep 
them aloof. For we called cheerfully upon the Captain to 
come on and bring up his men ; for he fhould find vs very 
cheerf ull fpirits to deal with, and chat we would make him as 
good a Sabbath days breakfaft as ever he had in his life; our 
care was only to quench the fire which they had laid to the 
wall before we were aware ; But we faw the wind took the 
fUme fo from the wal that it kindled not upon the houfej when 
the day began to break Captain Cook^ called to the fouldiers to 
go on with afrefh affalt; but we heard fome of hisSouldiers 
deny to come on again, beitig the fire took not ; and the day 
beginning to be light they thought we might fliopt from the 
houfe at fome certainty ; we called on the Captain to animate 
his foldiers,for we underftoodf we told him J his charret wheels 
began to drive very heavy, and were in danger to fall off, and 
that was all the violence we offered to our Countrymen in 
this their fo eager an affalt 5 though we heard the Captain in the 
beginning of it, give ftrift charge to the fouldiers that they 
fhould not let one efcape alive, but to put all to thefword, 
■thinking the fire would have taken, and fo we have been a prey 
for them : But however we difcharged not a peece againlt 
them, being loth to fpill the blood of our Countrymen, though 
to the hazard of our own lives, yet were we well provided 
and could eafily have done them much hurt ; only flood upon 
our defence fo,as theydurft not make entry upon us; after whick 
affalt they fent back into the Majfachnfets for more ayd: But 
in the mean time another parley was procured wherein we 
confented to go down into xhtMajfacbufits upon Compofition 
to prevent the fpilling of blood , which we could no longer 
retrain in the defence of our felves, they having approached 
foneer unto us ; The condition whereof was \his, that we 

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fliould goe along with them, as free men , and neighbours, is 
though fuch paffages had never been betwixt us, which the 
Captain and his Company contenting unto,beat up the Drum 
and gathered his fouldiers together , feeramg joy full ehic 
things were to concluded; whereupon the Captaine defired 
tofee ourhoufe, which requeft we lovingly imbraced, think- 
ing he intended to refrefh himfelfe and his fouldiers with fuch 
provifions as we had, before we fet upon our journey towards 
the Majfachufetf ; but no fooner was he come into the houfc, 
but contrary to the Articles of our agreement, he feizedupon 
our Armes, ufing us as captives, and prefently carried us a- 
Way , not fuf&ring us todifpofe of any of our goods , that 
were in or about our houfes, having not fomuchasafervanc 
left behind > and fo left them all as pillage to the Indians, * Which thej I 
JX] the "Captain giving charge unto the fouldiers, that it any had P™niftf 1 
of usipake a word in our journey, to give any of themdif- ^ 
concent, that they fliould prefently knock us downe, and if on the way I 
theyfaw any of us ftep afide, out of the place defigned unto wards us to 
us, that they fhould run us through, and he would beare them ''ncouragcthc \ 
out, in that their a&ion ; And withall they drove away cur comcwith 
cattle into the Majfachafets, dividing and difpofing of them t h C m againfl ] 
amongft themfelves; onlyfome of them they had difpofedof us,inthehca- 1 
to fuch of their lub jefts, as lived near unto us, who had been ring of ferae of 
-inftrumenis and afiiftants unto them, to bring about and ef- ourfriendsj. 
f eft this worke* The number of cattle which chey took from 
us was foure-fcore head , or thereabouts, befides Swine and 
Goats, which they, and the Indians y lived upon during the 
time of their fiege, alfo breaking violently into our houles, 
taking away our corne with other provifions provided for our 
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RerefolloYPetb another Teftimonj, of divers of the men of 
Providence,, given under their hands , fit downe here ver- 
batim, for the clearing of thefe matters, Which Writing k 
extant* 

Providence this prefent Ianuary the 3dA 1644, 

We whofi names areftere underwritten, Inhabitants of the town 
of Providence in f^Nmhyganfet-i?^ New-Englind, 
bcing reqftefted by Samuel ISorton, Randal Houldeq^ John 
Wickes, and John Warner ,. With divers others of onrcoun- 
trey men, to tejlifie What We kgo-w concerning their late fuffe- 
ring$ % fromtheHay of the Maffachufets , We take our filves 

t hound in confeience, to anfWer their requefi , and in a Word of 
trutb % impartially to Witnejfe. 

FJrft , that our* Countrey-men aforefaid , were peaceably 
poffeffed of a Plantation , at Shav-omet, amongft the Na- 
tives, fome ten or a dozen miles beyond this Towneof Pro- 
vidence. 

Secondly, that the Bay of AQffachufitSifcnt up through this 
Towneof Providence, one Captain Cooke 9 and his company, 
in warlike manner, who a&ualiy affaulted , and befiegedour 
forcfaid Countrey-men, who ftood upon their own defence. 

Thirdly, that the wives and children, of our foresaid Coun- 
trey^menupon thefe heftile coucfes were affrighted and fcatte: 
red in great extremities, and divers fince are dead. 

Fourthly, the faid Captaine Cooke and his company,carried 
captive our fore-faid Countrey-men through this Towne of 
Providence^ to the Bay of Majfachftfits. 

Fifthly, Their goods, cSttle , houfes, and plantations wert 
fcized upoH, by the fore-6id Captain, and his company; their 
cattle were part filled by the foiddicrs , and the reft by Agents 

ftorri 



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1 1 * - . ,, . — » . 

from the Bay difpofed of, and driven a way to the faid Bay of 
giajfachnfctJ. 

Richard Scot. William BarrMes. 

William Barriil To [bun Winder. 

William Field. lohu Field. 

Stmlej Waftcote. Thomas sAngel. 

HugbBewit. William Rcighnaldt. 

Thomas Harris* J *Adam Goodwin. 
Now as we paffed along on the way to the Mafiachufett % 
which was about three-fcore, or three-fcore and ten miles 9 in 
the common account of men, from eur Plantation at Sbaw- 
*met 9 after they were come into the Townes within their own 
jurifdiftions , in iome Townes their Minifter which the foul- 
diera brought along with them againft us , gathered the people 
together, in the open ftreet went to prayers, that the ptople 
might take notice, what they had done, was done in a holy 
manner, and in the name of the Lord ; and when they came to 
Dorchefler, there being many people gathered together , with 
diversof their Minifters, as Matter Cotton, and Matter 
ther % &cc. there they placed us at their pleafure, as they thought 
fit to have us ftand ; and made vollies of (hot over our heads in 
figneof viftory * [V] and when we were come to B oft on, 
and brought before the Governors doore, thefouldierspia- ^J^[ ln ' 
cing themfelves and us , as they thought fir, and orderly ; the 

whole coun- 

Governour com using forth, walking throughout, all the trey ,to cany 
company of fouldiers blefled them; the word which he ufed as away eleven 
he ftill paffed along was this , God bleff* you, and profper you: ^" Ca f " d r ' hal 
©odbleffe and profper you; ZyJ when this was done, we Were conjpofitjoj, 
brought into the Governors Hall,before the Governor, Mr. lohn a if 0j jf t h ef 
winthr ops ,unto whom we complained.how the Captain had had kept 

* touch with us ; 

for one of us, that Is Sampfon SbttHn, was dead before by hardfhip , which fome of 
their fpirit had put him upon) and b«t ten of us that handled arms, y We thought 
he dlddt to imitate Melcbifedeck, comming out to blefle Abraljam , when he came from 
thenaughter of the Kings, in therefcueof Lot, he did it fo gravelyand folemnly, 
only theCaptain wanted the fpirit of Akabam for all his good fuccifle, yet we thought 
he was not uncapable to communicate, in that prayer or bleilinj of thcGovernour; tor 
his errand to us was,to utter and exercife the fpirit of the government in his Comimfsion 
made manif eft, 

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ufedas, contrary to our Articles ; but he told us, what ever 
the Captain might exprcffe unto us , his intent was to have os 
as captives, and their captives now we were; and unto the 
common Goale we muft goe, without either Baile or Main- 
prize, where we continued until! the Eourt fate, and the 
Countrey comtningin on every fide, to underftand chccaufe, 
why they had fo proceeded againft us; and they labouring to 
give the countrey fatisfa&fon , rchearfed in the ears of the 
people, divers groffe opinions, which they had compiled to- 
gether , out ef our writing, which we abhorred : As that we 
(hould deny the humane nature of Chrift, which they gathe- 
red from this , that we profefled his death to be effeftuallto 
the Fathers , before the time of his incarnation in the wombe 
of the Virgin alfo that we denyed all the Churches of J efus 
Chrift, becaufe we could not joyne with them in that way 
of Church order which they had eftablifhed amongft them; 
Againe, that we denyed all the holy Ordinances of Chrift! 
becaufe we could not joyn with them in their way of admi- 
niftration; asalf®, that we denyed all cifill Magiftracie, be- 
caufe wc could not yeeld to their authority, to be exercifed in 
thofe parts where we lived, (that place being above fourc and 
twenty miles out of their bounds ) which we (hould not once 
havequeftioned, if we had beene within the compaffe of their 
jurifdiftions, as it well appeared by our carriage, all the time 
we were amongft them, as alfo by our fundry appeals unto this 
Rate , which have been denyed unto us • yea , and fince that 
great favour granted, and given unto that people of Previa 
^^plantations, in a late Charter of civillgovernment, from 
this State, our humble refpeds unto aliuch authority, hath beea 
made manifeft to all men : not only in our unanimous and joy- 
full imbracing of it, but alfofomeof us by the generall vote of 
the whole Colonie , have been chofen into the place of JudU 
cature, for the orderly execution of the authority of the Char- 
ter^ yea, fomeof us that are now here prefent , at the publi- 
cation hereof : No w when we defired liberty to fpeak in the 
Gourt, to anlwer to fuch things as werealleaged, and read in 
thenars of the people, &ch as is above, with divers moreto the 

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number of about fix and twenty, alldrawn from our writing 
formerly mentioned in this Treatife,we denyed that we either 
held, or had writ any fuch thing, and defired our writing 
might be read in open Court, that it might appear what was 
in it, which was denyed unto us; only their charges muft ap- ij M 
peare, by the affirmation of the Bench; for no other man nor once LcSk 
woman appeared to teftifie a word againft us ; and when wee rcratS^ 
continued to deny the conftrutftions they had given of our wri- d »« Co m 
tings, and abftrafted from them, denying them to be ours, we Lond °n, came 
were commanded filence ; Mailer Thomas Dudley* one of the ^in^ow^nd 
Bench, Itandingup, charging us to befilent , and told us if called tJ him 
we were not , they would lay irons upon our legs, and upon onccf out 
our hands, and alfo upon our necks; whereupoo the Court for Society, name* 
that time was diffolved , no man objecting againft us in the / tf fj^*u 
leaft, in any wrongor injury betwixt man and man ; neither hadoncclivc4 
at that time, nor in any time of all our tryall amongft them, near together 



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After which they brought us forth divers times before their * , M 
Court, which then fate more privately in a Chamber,the door ,r ^ lccn ca 

* r 11 f Vi i i i , to be mufli 

being kept very carefully, that none Ihould enter, but only 
whom they thought fit to permit, their Court then confining 
of aboucadc^inMagiftrates, and about fortie Deputies cho- 
lenoutoi feverall Towns, as were thought fit , and many of 
their Minifters ufually preient with them to aflift in the worke; 
t hey then queftioned , and examined us apart,totheuttermoft Mchatd y that 
they could , to get fome matter agunft us from our owne if he had doi.e 
mouths, and alio ufually fending their Agents as Elder?, or . fai< ! j any 
[YJand Members of their Churches , jjQ unto us in prifon, jj"^* 

with good confeience renounce,he defired h'm to recant it, and he hoped the Gout 
would be Very mercifulljand faith he,it fhal be no difparagement unto. you /or here * 
Reverend Elder^Mr.C^to* who ordinarjiy preacheth that publicity one ycaiyhnt the ne» 
year he publickly repenttof, andfhews himfelfe very forrowful tor it to the Congrega- 
tion Co that(faithhe) it wil be no difgrace for you to recant in fuch a cafe, (a) Vliull) 
comming to us into the prifon, many of ihem together • As aHo 3 whcn we weic put apari 
in the time of our exaroination 5 one of the Members of the Church of B^tejtclling fome o* 
us in his own hoafe, that he was pcrfwaded,that we did not worthip the true God; forfait' 
he then he would not have permitted you to be brought down from your own Plantatu 
amongft us^forCiaith he)I am perfwaded^that ourChurches (rial not b: over-come bf an 




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frequently putting queftions unto us to get occafion againft usj 
thus continuing for the fpace of two or three weeks together, 
during which time Matter Wilfon ordinarily in his Sermons, 
preffed the Magiftrates and the people to take away our lives, 
from that text of the King of Ifrael letting Ben hadadgoe> ap- 
plying it unto them ; that if they let us efcape with life, their 
life (hould then goe for our life , and their people for our peo- 
ple,urging them from that of Samuel and dgagjto hew and cut 
usiapeeces; Matter Cotton alfoin his Sermons, incouraged 
the people in the lawfulneffe of their dialings with us, from 
that in the Revelations^ where it is f&*d , the Kingdoms of this 
world are the Kingdoms of the £ord,*fld his Chrifts, whence 
heobferved , that they being the Kingdom of Chrift, they 
were bound to goe out againft all people, tofubdueallfuch 
unto themfelves as arc weaker theu they*, otherwife they 
might ftay at htfme within themfelves , and ferve God with all 
their hearts; but they could not ferve him with all their might, 
unleflfe they went out to fobdue others > and fo would be guil- 
ty of the breach of that command , vU. Thou, [hah ferve the 
Lord thy God "frith all thy firength. Now after our many con- 
futations, and debating of matters with the Magiftratesand 
Minifters, not only in the Court, fometimes one of us anfwe- 
ring and declaring of his mind , only in matters of Religion 
a whole day together, yea part by Candle- light, befides all 
their more private conferences in the prifon, and at other hou- 
fes, where we vverp put apart , in cuflody one from an ano- 
ther in the time of our examinations the laft the Court fent for 
S. Gorton, out of ptifon, to appeare before them ; and when 
he came before them, the Governour told him, he heard there 
was exception taken, that there (hould be a rumour, that it was 
for feme civill things they had fo proceeded againft us, and yet 
no man appeared to objeft the leaft againft us , in any civill re- 
fpeft ; unto which the Governour himfelfc gave anfvver (not 
expe6ting an anfvver from Gorton) that they had fet their 
fubjefts the Indians in their own Land, and that was all they 
looked after in that refpeft , but they never queftioned in pub- 
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had privately called one of us, which was one of the Inter- 
preters, at the buying of it, and the Indians their fabjefts to- 
gether, to fee what could be faid in it, and found the Indians 
by their ownconfeflioo,to make things fo clear on our behalte, 
that they thought it not fit to bring it into publick (canning of 
the matter. 

TheGovernour then told Gorton, he was now toanfwer 
fome things that fbould be propounded unto him upon his life, 
for it was upon his life that now he was to anfwer; unto 
which Gorton made anfwer, that he was to (hew unto them 
all dutifull fubjefti&n that might be, being under the govern- 
ment of their jurifdi&ion , as he had done fince his comming 
amongfl them , to give them their due honour and refpeft to 
the utmoft, which he could not doe but as he looked upon 
them with relation unto the State of old England; by vertue 
of which poweiyhey fate there, as executioners of juftice, un- 
leffe he looked at them , and carried himfelfe towards them, 
as they had refpeft unto that State, (/rom whom what power 
they had was derived) elfe he could not give them their due ho- 
nour and refpett; for it could no way appearetobefuch, but 
as it was derived from that noble State of old England; and 
therefore, however he had according to what they had deman- 
ded , for the clearing of any thing, been freetoanfwemnto 
them : So now if it was his life that they would now put 
Jhim upon, he did as freely , and in the prefence of them all, 
appeals to the State of old England for his try all in that point, 
by vertue of which State only he conceived they fate there as 
Minifters of juftice; and.therefore might not deny unto him 
fiis juft appeale (undemanding that thedeniallof anappeile, 
nmft either preiuppofe a fuperiority in them that deny it, or an 
equality at the ieaft , with the State appealed untoj unto 
which the Governour made anfwer , as alfo Matter lob* M- 
€dte 9 deputy Governour, and bad qorton never dream,or think 
of any fuch thing , for no appeale (hould be granted unto 

h Now the Minifters afid Magiftrates , having weighed better 
•w Writings, our Examinations in Court,infwers to queltions 

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more privately, with my thing , fpoken in the prifon amongft 
ourfelveSj which daily ear was lent unto, or our carriage and 
demeanure in any refpeft; they had now fummed up, and 
drawn all into four queftions, which were now tobeaofwe- 
red in cafe of life and death. 

The ^Heflions were thefe that here follow, not a Word vary- 
ing in any one of them. 

Whether the Fathers , who dyed before Chrift was 
born of the Virgin Mary, were juftified andfaved only by 
the blood which he toed, and the death which ha fuffered after 
his incarnation. 

2. Whether the only price of our Redemption, were 
not the death of Chrift upon theCrofle, with the reft of his 
fafferings, and obediences in the time of his life here after he 
Was borne of the Virgin Mary. 

3. Who is thai God whom he thinks we fer ver 

4. QT What he means, when he faith, WeWorfbip the Star 
9fourGodRemphan > Chion,Molech. 

To thefe four queftions the Court told Gorton he muft an- 
fwer fpeedily upon life and death, and that under his hand 
writing - he told them he was not willing to anfwerinany 
thing but as before he had done; they told him he muft give in 
fpeedy anfwer under his handwriting; he asked what time 
he muft have for the anfwer of them ; they told him a quarter 
of an houre; he told them he could anfwer them in fo fliort a 
time, but he knew not whether it could give them fatisfaftion ; 
for it was as much as for a man to defcribe Iefns fhrift What he 
u , and the way of Avtichrifi alfo , which might be done io 
few words ; but not to be clear to every man ; for a man may 
defcribe the whole world in thefe words- in the beginning god 
created heaven and earth, and the earth Was Without forme and 
void, and darkened was upon the face of the deep , andthefpi. 
rttof God moved upon the face of the Waters 5 all iht whole 
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glory and beauty that ctmes cut of this, needs many Phrafo ' " £ 

taexprefle if; even fo it is in the defcriptionaf the Son of Co(L 

Iefus fhrifiy borne of the Virginjx may be done in few Words? % 
but to lay out the nature .benefit % *ndglorj of />,no fn^aJ^pecch , 

or timecanferveto exprefle : and therefore dtfired in word i 

("as before helhad manifefted his mind unto them ) fo he might > 

give that prefent anfwer which God gave unto him io this £ 

point alio ; bat they told him it muft be done in writing , and * 

16 commanded the Gsaler to convey him to an •the* room to Th 

difpatch tht fame ; but as he was going oat from them , they £ 
called unto him, and told him he (hould have tha liberty of* 

halfe an hours time to performe it in j when he was come into * 

an other room , pen, inke add paper being brought unto him, £ 

as he was going to write, word was feet from die Court, that £ 

if it was brough t in,on the fecond day in the morning.it fliould & 

fufflcfi, for the Court confidering of it, that many of them jjpi 
had farre home , and it being the day of Preparation fori he 

Sabbath ( for it was now Saturday in the afternoon Jand they % 

thought not fit to fit any longer ; fo Gorton was conveyed a- > $ 

gaine into the Prifon to the reft of his friends; who continued 

cheerfully together, all theSabbath day, as they had done be- £ 

fore in the Prifonjonly fome part of thofe dayes,they brought 

us forth unto their Congregations, to hear their Sermons, of 

occido and occidio, which w*b meat not to be digefted,but only 

by the heart or ftomafke of an Ofirich: But upon the Mun* 

day morning, Gorton tooke pen and inke, and writ in anfwer i? 

to every one of the fo»rqueftions given unto him, ashore' £• 

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This is atrueCopie of anfwers , given to the (fourt of the 
Maffachufets to the four queftions , which they required 
to be anftoered in writing upon life, and death, in cafe of 
Blaffhemj, which We were charged With, andfentence 
fofarrepajfed, as to ta\e away our lives by the fword, 
in cafe of not difc lay ming of our Religion \ or erroneous 
■ opinions, as they Were plea/ed to call them ; the anfwers 
are truly fet doWn, veibacim. 

TO the firft queftion we anfwer affirmatively ( only affii- 
ming the liberty of our explanation) namely {The Father s 
Who dyed before Chrift Was borne of the Virgin Mary , VKrcjm- 
ftifiedandfaved > only by the blood which he [bed, and the death 
b Note, that tyfocb he fuffered , W\ in and after his Incarnation ( that is 
in this anfwer J " , r r <x • i i 

there is a word added to their queftion, which was done of purpofe (knowing how they 
looked.) to regulate thcm,it if were poilible , as it was declared unto them, in the firit, 
reading of the anfwer,how they fell ftiort in it,which they yeeldcd unto j they fay, the 
death Which he fuftered (afteiOhis incarnation, the anfwer faith (in) and after his in- 
carnation. Fortofpeakeof the fufterings cf Chrift, after his incarnation, without 
rdped unto that which was before, we may as well fpe; ke of his Offerings before his 
incarnation, without refped to that which is ate; for the Crofle of Chrift is not, hut 
with refped, both to humane nature and divine, and we cannot know the two natures 
in ChrifLwhat tney are diftindly in themfelves, to give each its proper due , ani what 
they are joyntly united in one,no otherwlfe,but as they are considered in the very adof 
lncai nation,in which appears the Sufterer,and that which is fuftere^tln Sufterer is the 
Son of God made man,the creator becoms a ciearure; the thing fufrered,is to be made 
a curfe,that is to be made fuch a thing as is in it felfe>y nature accurfed, and fo Chrift 
was made a curfe; the fufterings cf Ckrift then,and the fhedding of his blood (as he is 
known after the fpirit) are properly in that one ad of his incamation,which is the pro- 
per adof the humiliation of the Son of God, fo that to fpe; k of his fufterings after 
>|i s incarnation, you may as well fpeakeof his fufterings before his incarnation, for 
it is no iuftering of Chrift , but with refped, both to the one, and the other,and o^ly 
in the ad of incarnation they are made one > y and to fpeake of the fufteringsof Chrift 
vifibly, in his humane nature, inthedayesof Herod jo be the proper fufteringsof 
the Son of God,any further,but as a true dodrine (as in all other holy Writ) to teach 
what that flittering the ad of his incarnation, you may as well fpeak of fufterings 
of Chrift inviftbly,bcfore that ad of his incarnation , for the Crofle of Chrift is not, 
but with rcfped,both to divine and humane nature ; nor can k be faid to be in time, no 
more then it may be faid to be before al time; for the humiliation of the Son of God ad- 
mits not of any bounds or limits,for then werek not of infinit value jand if not of infi- 
nit value and vertue,then not the humiliation of the Son of God,nor could it be faid to 
be the blood of God,as the Apoflle cals it;fothat as he himfelfe is not, but as the firft 
and the laft become one,even fo his fafferiogs are not, but in that one ad , of the curfe 

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hleiline beina made one. l his being prcoifod which .'was GgoiM a u ni o thcta by ES 

a If mouih the anl'wer runs dcar,to umtcrfrand Chrift accord:,,, I , «hc f P „ it.othc,- * 

u doth the whole word of God , to alio the Iced of Hkabam, is to be und 

AfcX» himfclfc is; A6Mb*« istbc Father ol'Chnft , as in the Genealogy * 
as Upon i in thc peribn of Chrift 3 our Fathers truftcd mthcc,,neam, g 
pears ; io lan ^ f ^ Faiher ^ AWww > therefore bee >s called the ; - 

kwforone, a^r,a d forc Uyabam was : am ( fuch sllu is l!x ^ 

feedj0 t ^Xinestorth it; Co is it with the Virgin,(hc is the mother that g , ves form , £ 
produce* ana Dt f . ift he alfo glV es f oim an d being unto her.therefbrc (he cals h a, . jjj 

? nd t And Saviour;the woman brings forth the man, a Virgin concave, and bears a g 

her L ° rdan *S" r t ' OIt h the womanfmade of a rib.outof his innocent fidc;(o that the $ 

Son;the man bung ^ ^ wkhcM ^ mJn •„ (hc Lord • thefc two £ 

man is not w thout ^ » k he Deyorcc is nlad e,and not being rightly urn- « 

being M [ » tt /.5X r ,* d we are in our fin. The myfterie of this anfwer then hes m % 

G ;d,and Saviour ? jfc 

™ fhio wife • that the guilt and (tain of man is not , but w,th £ 

r TfS^th S w 8 ord of God, the dlfobedience where- £ 

rfheZntthe forbidden fruit, breeds an trfmt d, fiance be- $ 

*.*»*.fG* bu»helolede , | 

or any unugu* ^. th t WO rd , which was be- ^ 

finit gu.lt, w« h "Jfj^* %Zi in the Word at .11; g 

^ 8li .Tf God is a Sav our of infinil value, withrefpeft * 
the wordof ood ,s » borne.fufFering, dying, 

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with the creature in all ages, though the creature cannot have 
the lame with him but in time. 

, Tothe/econdgueftion defending upon, or rather involved 
tn the former We anfwer, 

Mans rejection of the Word of God , being his finneand 
reparation from God, is the only forfeiture of himfelfe, which 
emld not be, but with refpeS unto the word of eternity • even fo 
Gods Righteeufneffe revealed by taking man intounuie with 
himfelfe, is the only price of our Redemption, with refpeft un- 
to the death of Chnft upon the Croffe, with the reft of his 
fuffermgs, and obedience, from the time of his Incarnation, 
in the womb of the Virgin Mary ,to his afcention into 
Heaven .without which there is no price of our Redemption. 
To the third Queftion, who we thioke that God is, that men 
m lerve, that are not of the faith above-faid .* we anfwer that 

al1 mef, s hwts- are awed (by the true God ) to bow in wor- 
^ fhip : therefore when the Apoftla looking upon the inferipti* 

% oa apon the Altar at «^>fc»j, it is faid, he beheld their devo< 

& nm ( °r « the word is ) the God which the; Wor/hipped, 

$ though ignorant fa yet it Was he only that he declared ante 

5 them . ! So-BK Apoftla lames, thou beleevefi, that there is one 
m % 9»d, thou doefiwell, the Ts evils alfo beleeve and tremble, 

% ' Ti *> ioQr } h Qaeftion thetf ore is the explanation of the third, 

i ;| n *»ely what we mean bjMolech, and the Star of that God 

* . " , „ , Z"»phan : to which we anfwer, that the Scripture alluded 
|j Jmytig. unto, * makes difference between thofe Gain-layers of the 
^ , fitters which fell in the wilderneffe , and thofe of the true 
^ feed , that gave faithfuU Tefiimeny unto the Oracle of Godi 
4 tfae Rebels <* fons of Levy, would n»t take up, nor beare 

6 r a Ark ? °f GU ' ** their dat ? Was , nor give the light and 
m f teflreofaStartn the Tabernacle, whettitwas pitched (far 
m **> feven $tars are the /even Angels :) But as they had the 

* power of a worldly Ruler, qr Governour to defendthem in 

* their worke , and to fubdae all that were not of their mind 
i , un f r * therefore they tooke »p the Tabernacle, of M: 

% : le . ch *Z io /. e the Bmh °f the Kin z* *»h*™ ikfo >f*n»- 

% ?"** ( alluding unto Kapha , who in David; dayes Jud foar 

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the Arme of flejb) fo that they would not give Teltimo ny un- 
to the holy Way of God ; but as they had it Kingfet over them, 
ktfides Mo fes > to defend them, when as a greater thenMofts 
Wat there : zAndin this they tnrnedbacke in their hearts , unto 
Mgypt, looking unto rhe way of Pharaoh, that would fab- 
due all that werenot of his own way } and be a defence unto 
his wife men in What ever they wrought; but the faithfull feed of 
Abraham , had the Tabernacle of Witneffe , or rtitnefed unto 
the Tabernacle, even in the Wildernefle, where there was no 
worldly Governor to defend them , but all came oat againft 
them, Ammonmd Amakc^, Balack^ Oggj and Sihon, aftd 
&he reft ; in the which condition Stephen perceived himfe If e, 
when he witnefled unto the word ef truth, in alleadging that 
place of the Prophet * • Samuel g$rton. 

Upon the finiftiingof thefe anfwers on theMonday morniog, 
the Court fent ^S.Gortm to come before themjand when he 
was come, the Governor asked him,whe.ther he had brought in 
feisanfvver to thsqueftions propounded unto him (ac their laft 
fitting)in writing, he anfwered he had brought thqm; then thfe 
Governor asked him, whether he had put his hand amp them , 
he anfwered he had not, notthinking it would berequired, 
dig he had dons it ; the Governour called for pen and inke, 
and canted him to put his hand qnto them , and then deman* 
d«d thembf him , Cjorton defired he might have liberty to read 
them firft in the Court , that he might pronounce the Phrafes 
nnd words according to the true meaning, and intent, having 
had experience of wrong done * in reading (in way of pro- 
nunciation of things not plainly) before, to the giving of trie 
intelligence to the hearers , when the anfwers were read in 
the audience of thsCoart , the Court paufed, and no man 
faid any thing unco ehem r oniy bade gorton With-draw, which 
Jseing done,they hade fome confutation among themfdv^and 
ifooqrly after called for Gorton to be brought in ag*in ; Matte? 
SaltingfiOne found fault , that it Was written in theanfwer, 
what is the Star of (that )G&d Remphan s whe:c3i$ it yvas in the 
writiagty^^c^i^ Phrafc was 

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phrjfeof the Apoftle , your God Remphan, andloit retted 
to clear that fcruple. The Governour told Gorton , thtt they 
were one with him , ici thofe anfwers ; for they held as he 
did ; Gorton anfwered he was very glad of if, tor he loved 
not differences and divifions amongft men: the Governcur 
then asked him whether he would rctraft the writing thtt 
was formerly written unto them; Gorton anfwered , that no- 
thing was written before , but would fuit and agree , with 
thefe anfwers ; {o that if there was caufe to retradt one , there 
was caufe to retraft all ; the Governour faid,no, thefe anfwers 
they could agree wifh him in; but not in the former writing ; 
whereupon Matter Dudley hood up,feeming to be much mo- 
ved, and faidhe would never confent to it whilft he lived, 
that they were one With him in thofe anfwers ; the Gover- 
nour then asked gorton what Faith was : to which he anfwe- 
red , that was nothing that concerned what they had for- 
merly written , and that he and the reft had only underta- 
ken to anfwer to any thing that was in their writing : the Go- 
vernour told him , he was bound , and ought to be ready to 
give an anfwer to any that (faould aske him aqueftiondf the 
hope that is in him; gorton made anfwer, that the difinition 
which the Apoftle gives of faith,was fufficient,as he thought to 
give any man fatisfaftion; he asked him what that was, he told 
him it W*sthis;t hat faith /ifkhypoftafis orfubfiflance ofthings 
that are hoped for, and the evidence {or argument demonstrative) 
*f things that are not feen , nor demon fir at ed at all ; the Gover- 
nour told him that was true , but he could fay more oi faith 
thenfo; Gorton told him , it gave him fatisfa&ion , and be- 
ing an other point then they had had to deale about f fince 
their comming amongftthem, and being no queftion produ- 
ced from former writings, defired to be fpared from any fur- 
thet anfwer then the plain words of the Apoftle; whereup- 
on Matter Broadfireet made anfwer, that he thought it was 
not fit to put him upon any new queftions , unleffehe were 
free to fpeake unto them , and fo they difmiffed him from the 
Court to the Prifon againe. 
Shortly after this, there was a day appointed , wherein wee 

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were to receive our fentencc from the Court., which was to be 
given in the afternoon , and in the forenoon Mailer Cotton 
preached, having gathered up the minds of the peoplc,in what 
they had obferved, and perceiving the people took notice, 
that in what we diffeated from them,was out ot tendernt ffe of 
confidence, and were ready to render a reafon and ground for 
what we held and praftifed,& divers fuch like things;to which 
he anfwered , that if we had done it out of ignorance, then 
there had been hopes of regaining us ; but if out of tenders ffe 
of cOnfcience , and able to render reafon p for what wee 
did (and other things of like nature) then were we ripened for 
death , urging them to agree together , and confent in one 
thing , that fo it might be , elfe would not the Angelt carry 
their foules to heaven ; for he was then fpeaking of the office 
of the Angels in that pointjand when by all their examination* 
in Court , Inturgatories put upon us in.Prifon , and publicka 
preaching , they, could find nothig againflus, for thetranf- 
greflSngof any of their Lawes, they then proceeded to caft a 
lot for our lives , putting it to the major vote of the Court, 
Whether w* fhouldlive or die, which was fo ordered by the 
providence ot God, that the number of two votes carried it on 
our fide ; and whereas both by Law , Equitie , and aft of 
Providence, they ought to have fet us forthwith at liberty, yet 
notwithftanding they proceeded further to cenfure ; namely, 
confined us to fever all ToWns^andto wear bolts and irons 3 and to 
work? for our livings^ though it Was in the extremity of winter, 
and not to fpeak^ of any of thofe things which they had dealt With 
us about) and all this during the pleafure of the Court* and that 
upon fain of death. 



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Here folloWeth a true Cope of the cenfure, and of the charg 
as it was given unto us in Writing by the C ourt , being 
extant ; and here fet doWn /verbatifin, as it was given t* 
Samuel Gorton , the reft being the [am 9 but onelj the 
change of the names. 

For Samuel g or ton. 
T is ordered that Samuel gerton (halbe Confined to C^arlf- 
.toivne, thereto be fet on woike, and to wear fech bolts or 
irons, as may hinder hisefcape, and lb to continue during the 
pleaiure of the Court; provided, t hat if he fhall break his faid 
confinement, or (hall in the meane ;me, cither byfpeechcr 
writing, publifli, declare, or maintain any cf thebhfphe- 
tnous or abominable herefies, wherewith he hath fceen char- 
ged by the generall Court, contained in either of thefw© 
C c ] books fent unto us by him, or by Randall Houldenx or 
fhall reproach, or n prove the Churches of our Lord Jefus 
Chrift in thele united Colonies , or the civill government t or 
ihepublicke Ordinances cf God therein (urtleffe it be by an- 
fwer to feme queftion propounded to him, or conference 
with any Elder, or with any other licenfed to fpeafc with him 
privately, under the hand of one of the Affiants) that imme- 
diatly upon acculation of any fuch writing, orfpeech, ha 
fhall by fuch Afliftanr, to whom fuch accufation flhallbe 
brought, be committed to prifen , till the next Court of Afsi- 
ftants, then and there to be tryed by a Jury , whether ha 
thought icrj0£ hathfofpoken or written, and upon his conviflion thereof, 

in "&ea* ^ beCcnde ^d *°dea t h, MdcxcCUtCd. 

tife; for they ^edth 3°» °f the \ Mone$b 9 l6j£. Per. cur. 

had concluded Increafe Nowell, Secret. 

"pon,what 

they would doe unto us. and were gone out for execution befoie that writing ca»>e u*» 
to them for it onely met the fculdicrs on the way towards us 3 with L Ccnniffion to ptit 
us to tjie fword; we fhall defce to publifli it by it felfe 5 for we arc walling to have 
« toown, and we made anfwer to any thing in it, they ctuld fecm to objeft, when Wee 
were amongft them. ThcXtfacbuJets momifcd the people , that however they mighc 

them, yet they fhould fee them ihortlv in print, 

have them 
come,to U 



e Whereas 
they name 
two books 
written unto 
them/heie 
was an other 
writing fent 
uuto them by 
us/but it was 
Jio ground of 
any of their 
proceedings 
againfl 
therefore we 



. not hear cur writings read then among mem, yet they fhould fee them ihort 
'"Stfr^ elfe they cannot be content toWtka 



jjjther things then indeed they are. 



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Simplicities Defence, againsl fevcH-headed Policy. 



' A Copie of the Charge. | ^ 

SAmuel gorton , being convid: as a blafphemous enemy to 
the true Religion of our Lord J dus C hrift, and all his holy £ 
Ordinances , and alfo to all civili authority among rhc people ^ 
* of God, and particularly in this /urifdiflion , ssapptarcth by fjp. 
writings and fpeeches. ^ 
This charge being laid upon us,at the Earre before we heard £ 
of thecenfure (though they came as above in writing to us: ) & 
the Go vernour asked US, whether We bvWednnderit, and whe- 
ther we Would re watt* we anfweredand told them ( as in the j& 
prefence of Ged) that the charge neither boWed nor touched hs 
at all 9 for we were free, and farre from being guilty of any ^ 
fuck things, and for our rttra&ation, we told them we came not jjg 
there te deny our Religion , in any point of it , bat to teftifie and +fr 
bear Witneffe unto it ; then did they reade our cenfure, for our 2fc 
our confinement , as u above faid ; and when the bolts and ' Jjfe 

chains were made ready, they put them upon us, intheprifon 
at Bo/ton, that fo we might travell in them to the fevcrall 
Towns to which we w re confined , fome of us having fif- 
teen miles, and lome thirty to goe from Bofton; only we were 
tofhytill M*fter fotten his Leftureday, and then were all 
brought to the Congregation in that our iron furniture, for the 
credit of the Sanftuary, which had fet thefwordon work to 
fuch good purpofe , and after that were with all fpeed fent a- 
way * yea , fome of us among the people that went from the ft 
Le&ure, that fo we might be a fpeftacle unto them, JSt 
In which condition we continued a whole winter feafon ; ' #r 

in which time their Minifters ftirred up the people ia their pub- ^ 
lick Sermons to famijh hs to death , out of that place of the 
Prophet Zephany , a. io. 1 1. This {ball thephaS/e for their J? 
pride, becaufethey have reproached , and magnified themf elves 
againft the people of the Lord of Hofls ; the Lord will be ttfrU ^ 
ble unto them, for he Will famifb all the Gods of the earth, and £ 
menjball worjbip him, every one from his plate , even all the rj* 
Ifies of the Heathen. * Samuel Gorton having intelligence, f rotn :V 
K Boslon % 

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rfWc had Ii- 

. bcrty co I'peak 
or wrice to El- 
ders, or fuch 
as the Magi- 
Urates lycen- 
fcd to fpcake 
w/th us, in 
way ©f que- I 
ilion, whom 
they thought 
were fiiteftto 
infnare us, fo 
that this wri- . 
tiug is but a 
quefttcn,only 
it hath a large 
preface. 



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Boston, to Char/es-Town, to which he was confinedjthat Ma- 
Iter Cotton preached fiom that text in the prophecie of Zepha- 
ny,md how he applyed thedoftrine from it to have aline- 
cdfaries with-heid from him, telling fome eminent members 
of the Church, that if they either went unto us, tovifiuis,or 
fent unto us, to minifter to our wants, the curfe of God would 
abide both on them and their pofterity , for fo doing • the (aid 
Gorton hearing of thefe things , writ a Letter to the ruling Ei- 
der -in Charles-Towe, [d] a Copie whereof (verbatim)^ 
followeth, which was confulted upon , by the Mioifters im- 
mediitly, together with the Governour,as intelligence was 
brought unto him, but never aniwer given unto ir, neither by 
word nor writing, 3 

Charles. toVone, January the I * . 1 64 2 . 

Mr. Green T * 

FOr as much as we know that the Ruler of the Congregate 
on hath power to give utterance, and to authorife fpcech 
unto edification^] and that none ought to hinder, where ever 
or whomsoever he permits or giveth Lycenfe unto, m and 
inasmuch as we alfo profeffe, that there is one thing that is 
needfuli , and whofoever Aall make choife of that It (hill 
never be u^n away from him g,which is to hear the wordsof 
Chnth Neither are we ignorant,that none are truly fenfible 
? knoW h theneceiruy uie, and benefit of hearing LZZof 
Chnfi but only fuch as are fenfible, and fee thf neceflitie 

wrtsofChnfi h, for the heart of every Sainr is equally bian 
ced with thefc t wo;the fame necefsitie he finds tofplh he alfo 
finds to W ; the fam,necefsity he finds to he finds to 

ffe*fy alfo the Kordof God, for faith is in hearing , and hear in, 

untoa Chrittian, wedeny him the power of fih, which d fa 
cpnfiftin tiem both; nay, if he warn a tongue or 
aneare to heare (and that equally, the one as the other/we'de 
ny kirn to ^fm^M Chrifi who as he had an ear open 
t* the voice of the Fathers all things pj fo had teamgue 



Simfltcitiet Dtfetie, *g*l»ft fotn-heeiei Solicit. 6 7 | || 

*• and declare them unto the world. Tm-J erftlfo»ii* ,7 t iS 

credit to Out wh,ch hem , to be in «no7her , to. j£ 

or p otcficth ^ ^ w , ^ J £ , f ; J 

r M r ,/ yW, thy mouth the Lordje. p 7>/*/. , , 6. ,| 

f^ andbekeve tn thme heart that Godraifedhim u»from\he 10. ! % 

totdjboHiktlt be favedUl «* am I ,goorant of the minds q * i o.o * 

of the people (amongft whom I now fo/ourne , and am a r Pfal, l9 £ 
ftrangeratallmy Fathers have beene) [ r ] How earned they I*, 
are 1 thou d get my brea d with itrvile vvorkc, or el(e to have 

hunger and Jamme to cleave mto my bonds , which they pro- & 

fefle themfelves to be very clearly inftrufted in , though ,n % 

times paftit hath been thought lutficient work for a man to be & 

exercifed m (tt onetime) to lie in fetters and irons amongft * 

lhangers, though wife andchi/dren were not deprived of all ne- * #j 

ceffartts at home. Nor doe I doubt , but they may find a time ! * 




% 

in any part of my life till now of late in New-Englatd, where • *j 

through the kmdneffe of my countrey men, in taking from my £ 

family the things of this life.fwhich God had bellowed on us J £ 

I have been neceffitated thereunto, which I am fo upbraided £ 

with in this place. % 

; But it is not grievous unto me, whileft they cannot but lee & 
in it ( if God have not blinded their eyes) the vanity of thofe 

Idol (hepherds of the Church of Rome *, who cannot fpeak . w > r £ 

unto the people, but in a way of fo much ftudy and eafe/nor ffi" S 

had I ever dehre, to be fetup in the world, through gatherings fpirit, & row- \ £ 

and contributions of the people : Therefore have thefe hands cr ot " ic Joth [ & 

miniftred to my neceffmes t . But however I have been exerci- a ^ a ' 1 r> 

fed about the bread that ferifbeth u , yet hath it not been but I'"' I £ 
Withrdpeft unto that which enduretb unto ifper/afimo life w, u J„h '1% 

which 1 have endeavoured to breaks *, and faithfully to impai t w ?+> j j.' i £ 

unto my wife, children, and fervants, and to anv that had an 3 6 • 5 1 ■ *• 

car open to liften uncord Wholefome word of 'life y, which I ITS*' 7 ',, % 

K2 hath 3) r ?? 



68 Simplicities Defence^ again/} fev tn* headed policy. 

hath made all other travells or lofles, whatever, to be light an^ 
\f $o 11 28 €a ^ e Unt0 me ( aS aC this ^ Iprofeffe to be the only 

a 1 Cot 6 errant ^ ave t0 ^° tn t ^ ^orldx and however W'e do preach the 
* 1 or. 9 t6 Goffel, yet have ^e nothing to rejoyce in a or to glory andpraife 
b Ibid our fehesfor^ to life up our felves above our Brethren: forne-. 

ceffny u laid upon me That is, 1 am in want, and ftand in 
need of all things 3 and Woe time if I preach not the Go/pel: 
^v ,: L That is, if I receive not this grace fromChrift,as welasany 

^ ; other : for the fame neceffity 1 have of any other, grace, I have 

pi of this grace alfo : For of 'his ftslneffe^e all receive, and grace 

!l j'c; for rrace % for the graces o{ God are a bundle of life in Chrift 

)£< ' Cant. 1. 13. fy"* • Soas i that irl re;e&, or negle&,or put oft anyone 

5 '■ of them to another, as no priviledge or prerogative of mine* 
!# f rMathi - * ^° ^ke to all: For hi* feamleffe coat may not be divided, 

6 J ^ L ,17 '^ buttll goeth by lot or portion the fame way c : And in like man- 

ner I am deftitute of this, lam deftitute of all other grace, 
that proceeds from him : For if I preach the Gofpel willingly, 
•jjj r c I have a regard * : That is, if I do it out of any ability, skil, 

$ f 1 OI ' 9%17 ' or wilofmy own, gotten antfacquired by any painsor indu- 
% , ftry? as men attain to arts, and trades, wherein they are. to be 

S preferred before, and above othe;s, then I have a reward 1 

ritet is, fomething is to be tributed and contributed to me for 
% the fam?, then go I about to deprive my Lord of his right, 

||]jB ^ Luke 16. i.fo ew ' tn g my (elf an unfaithful ft eft ard g; for where an hundreth 

\i i b tuke 16 a ^ He t0 ^' im ' ^ ^ write fifty* X ^ at ^ ma y ta ^ e re ft m y f e tf f * 

§6 '• I 5^7- 5 live upon h ; for even as I propound my own deferts, demerits, 

^ ■ and emmency unto a people, fo do I propound the undeferving 

^ condition of my L*rd j proclaming his bafeneffe^ 

! w'hil'ftlfet forth my pains and good-wil in fo doing, but if 

* i i-Coa:.^ 17% 1 doit again ft my "toil That is, if it be contrary to the mind 

^ r andwil of all men, to undergo the croffeof Chrifi , to preach 
w!H I' ' k 1 Cor 22 to X ^ e Gcfyel in neceffities., reproaches, hard labors ^andperfecuti- 

J ; as. 3 " 3 * w k > f^* « diifenfation committed unto me 1 ; that is, 

^ t| / j Cor.. 5. 37 the right of all admini'lrationsfii!^p^4.i^ in that fountain of 

^ 1,1 difpenftng^ the Cjofjel ) do of right folely belong unto him, and 

Sfi H m m * X% ^' noc unt0 me ^ n an y ca f e >7^> ft « ^ Veil and poWer of another m 

P ■ Ml »r unto whom the praife and glory of right be- 

fjfc <; 77 " ia ' i0 ^' ? - longeth and wholy appercaineth n , and not unto the wil, abi- 

$f:{ lity 



Simplicities Defence, again/} [even-headed Policy. 69 

iky, orskilof any man whatfoever °: and henctit 'is that the i amC si.i8. 
Croffeueafteuntotu P, becaufe we know chat he,as truly,an d lohni.ij a 
totally taketh our reproaches and hardiliips upon himfclfe 1, P MaMiol 
which are only due unto tu : as he coinmitteth the difpenfation 29 * Matt g 
of his grace and glory unto us ; that is none of ours, but only 1 ' " ,7 
due and belongs untohimfelf, fo that We remembredhimthat 
ffifferei fuch gain fay ings of finners, leaf} We fhould be Weary and 
faint in our mind r; yea further, there u a necejftty of [reaching H ^ 
the Gojpel upon every "foul : for as the» e is not any that can be- J *[ 
leeve, for another, unto righteoufnejfe ^ the party being dtfH- y ^{ om 10 l0 
tute of that grace himfelf, fo there is not any that can p reach or 
confeffe for another unto falvation e , the parry himft If being dc- 
ftitureof that gxzct.Q? co?ifejf:on or preachingilndeed the Saints t ibid, 
-communicate in thefe graces one with another, as all of them 
being heirs and inheritors of the fame grace inChrift u, but one u r ow g # , 7> i 
cannot perform any officefor another„as forfuch as are deftitjite 
cfthe fame grace and ejfice them/elves w : for that were infiead of 
a girdle a rent * ; Therefore the preaching of the Gofpel u the w 1 Com 2. z • ^ 
discovering of what men are in Chrijl lefus, and no r only what x : * I4 ' ; 2p 

vftey may or ftial be 7, alfo What men are under the wrath of j John ^ j< 
(Ad that abides upon them, being out of Chrift 2 and not only ^ \<,hr\\*i6. \ ^! 
what they &al be:So that every Chriftian having received this a la;vcs mi 
(as an ingrafted Word a growing up together With it) that is, 
that I may be mutually edified and comforted by the communica- R$m> 1 . 1 1 
cation of your faith & mine b,he grows up in this alfo, namely, 1*. ^ 
that I may be mutually edtfied and comforted by the commmica* c 2 C or ^- 2 ' 
tion of your preaching and mine Sox in the day of the Lord Which d 2 Cor. 6. 3 
is the day of falvation, and behold noW the accepted time, behold e H*9* p. 26. 

. n&W the day of falvation { c ) Wherein We give no offence, or lay 2 7* 
not any ftumbling block before our brethren ( d j; we villtfie Hot f 2 Ccr.6r y . 
thst sacrifice once offered up for all ( e J. That our minifjery may %Zech t \ 2.8 I j» 
not be reprehended ( f ). Or that our miniftery be not blemifbed, ^ ? f*l.x£* 
for fo the word is (momos) fhxt is we can acknowledge no iPj*t*7& 
facrince^but ontly that which is without either fx per fu'ity or de- 7 0, 7 2 75- 

fell; and in that day the feeble (I in lerafalem^ is as Da via S; k 2 Sdm*i S. 
tsi King h ; a leader i, a valiant warrier^a fwcet finger in Ira- 3* 

andthe houfeofDivid asGod, or as the mighties (hr the 1 Sam. \3.J 
Vzofd is p\\XXl\\)yea as the aniel of 'the Lord before them-wevzxy 1 Sam. 23.1. j ffl 



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Simplicities ^Defence again&fevev- headed Telicy. 



one is as the angel or meffenger of the Lord, before the reft of 
the congregation, or as the angel of the Lord before Chimj as ths 
word will alfobeare, that is to fay, as the meflknger of the 
Lord, like unto his fervant Iohn, to prepare or make ready his 
lMal.$.i. Way before him-, I forthc meffenger of theLord,and he only 
Mat.ii.io. knows how to bring down the highejl mount ain^and how to lift 
up the loWejl valley >and that only is a high Way for the Royalty of 
;m£*4,x.i7. onr King topajfeupon S in the wilder neffc. And this is a glory 
p4&I*5.o« that th # e worW ^nnot receive^ neither can it give it n : and it is 
Plohmq. ourrejoycing that we borrow nothing from the world, nor 
I7.27. (land in need of any thing it hath, to make the Gofpel of God 
"John 16, 11. glorious, for it were better for hs to die, then that any man fhould 
make ourrejoycing V am> or emptie °. For it were not full in 
Chrift, if we borrowed any thing of the world , which were 
death to m to thin^of; what is our rejoycing thenar our reward^ 
when as the whole world affordeth nothing at all unto us??e- 
rily this t hap When we preach the Gofpel, We make it free, P Which 
could not be t if it laid claim to any thing the World hath in the 
publication of it fe/fitac then by the Law of relations, the 
world might lay claim unto, and challenge fomething from {it) 
Which were to bring the Gofpel inn bondage ,But as the Lord Je- 
fus wrought that great work of reconciliation freely, fo as the 
world could challenge nothing of it at his hinds at all, fois 
that word of reconciliation, to whomfoever it iscommitted% 
publijhedfreeljy fo as the World can challenge nothing of them at 
all r; So that the fervant of the Lord is free from all menjhough 
he makes him/elf fervant mto all, that he might gain the more. 
i Thence it is that he abufeth not his authority inthe Gofpel but 
I Cor. 7 23. keeps his poWer u*fpotted* $ when the world can require no- 
1 Cor.$ 19 thing at his hands- feereby (hewing alfo the tranfeendencie of 
t i Ctf.j.is. t h a t kingdome, wherein his authority is exercifed, beyond 
the kingdoms of this World which muft borrow on? of ao- 
other.,dfe cannot any be glorious in the height of glory concern- 
ing the things of this life; therefore had Solomon himfelf Gold, 
Silver, Ivory >*pes y and peacocks \br ought from other nations to 
augment his glory u , 'But he that is greater then Solomon * beau- 

]fa 52 14 h - im Wf witb none °f the thin l* °f thu li f e h tho H h he had 

ighp 



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Pi 8. 



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us. 

; 2 Cor. 1 1, 

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18, 

! I Cor. 9,1. 



u I Kin. lo. 

2 2\ 

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rgAf * 4//, *thif fo he might make it manihft to a fo w . 4 l , i& 

Kmgdome is not of this World^ • therefore gives charge unto his 14. Vh 

dlfciples, ihtt as they had freely received, fo they fhonld freely Gal. Ay 2 

w#;bf<wby tow-much we in/oyn people to contribute unto alohmS z6 |S 

us for preaching the Gofpell, by io much we proclaim, that we b Mat. 1 o 8 $ j£ 

havegvvenmto god for What We have received of him, • and « 7^.35.7.8 19 

others: fo po do* namely to bring fome preparations, ope- jjfr 

ration, or fitneffe f * tow to £n*r<r, which is as far from man d Mat * 10 |H 

to^tmnumo^as it Was to prepare and fit himfelf for his creation c Gen i 1 M 

atthefirft,^ fo that the benevolence of the Siinrs in comrau- ' ' |S 
nica ing of the things of this life, is no part of the glory or beau- 

tiffing of the bonfe of god-Jox: then a wicked man might adde % 

fome what thereunto,rior thall the glory in the lead meafure £ 

be diminifhed, 'When thefe things (ball have an end. But it is a jjpi 

declaration of their vilification of the things of this prelent life, ij« 

as things of no account or reckoning, when they come into , % 
competition with the well being of the Saints; and as thefe , f . 

things are confumed^and turned into afhes,upon that golden altar, LevU '9* if » 
{fo doth there afcend up a per/ amatory facrifice of (wee t favour 

unto the Lord, g for accordingto our vilification of the things of o i * 
duationof the Lord Iefus, who is either all^t, **4»*' 



8 : $ 



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/fci/ fo is our valuation 

or none at all in our eflimation and account, and if he be ail**, l^y' 
then he that gathcreth much of the things according unto man • c \* if 
nothing over, i or above him that hath the leaft, and he 1 2 ' 
gathereth little hath no lack** or falls fhort of him that o fjt* 

hath the moft,for the one, and the other confume them in the ' * ;|: SK 

atlof the prefentfupply of their necefsity,knoyfing that if they tp j * 
keep them, in making any account or reckoning of them, for ' * & 
the time to Come, they prefently putrifie and corrupt 1. Learn 19 ' 2 ° # J 
this parable therefore, ^ (/ ** the heavenly Manna m y ohn 6 % 
that the rcbellsmay tat in the Wilder nefs and die eternallym,iswz\ IMS 
as that Which Whofoever eateth {hal never die, but live for ever n, u J*fm 6 . 5 1^ 1 1 5; 
I ea there is a feed tg be fdWn in giving aWay to another, as well ;j« 
as food to receive for the nourishing of our felves;and he that 
/i^/ fparingly in that fh all reap fparingly o, yea he that knows 2 c*f1C \\wl 
not hew te minifler carnall things , tat/f Spirituall ' [ 

things minifipdmto himfyno more then a man can keep bis 17. : V 




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-,i ; — - 1 ■. ■ — — — • — ■ — ~- 

^ ■ q z cor. 14. finite, and have the nghtet&fnejfh of Chrifi alfo.. q Thefe onely 

^ \» therefore that in giving and receiving koow how to per- 

Sjj I form all in the fame aft ,4/ the Woman in ca fling her tWo mites 

igjj I X Lu ^' ll>z ^' into the treafury^ andout of deep pover tie can fee the abound* 

$ t*iCor*$.i. ingof the riches of liberality fj Such can perform an acceptable 

f§ y fervicetothe Lord; but fuchas onely exeicife themfelves in 
piece mealing of the things of God , and the things of man ,co ferve 

j [1 ac times and turns,/*?*- advantage, and referve the reft, this rs as 

3j !.| E the cutting of of a dogs header the offering of [Wines blood in the 

m j « 1 a. 66.$. fo m £ e of god t how ever elfe where the/ may be done without 

[Ij ; any fuch abomination, the Saints therefore depend not upon 

* u Vrov.i z 10. neither defire the worlds benevolcnce,kno wing wel what their 

^ / &Afts\o'.zz\ mercies are in the Winding up, u nor can they expeft from them 

^ 23 • ought elfe, but bonds , imprifonments y x and fpoyling of their 

3jj y goods y (which through the fecret fupplics their mafter makes 

^ uotothem)theyfuffer joyfully, ^notlooking forfo much 

latch et frorru the King of Sodowu to enrich themfelves 
a ^ With all a knowing that the hlefsing of the Lord upon their inde- 

r Vprov, 10 zz V0Hrs b {ball yield fufficieht to convey them through thtsvalley of 

5s c B*ca S which indevour c 5 God direfteth unto times and feafons 

jj§ to uie according to ftrengtb, and conftitution, without any to 

•t d Mxod - £ to taS ^ S U ^° n X y d eVen aS ^ e f **fb*tk the husbandman When 

^ °* * *0 throW in the cummin % and the fitches ^though they know Coot-- 

5^; ] eZfrf.2S.a3. Withftandingj what it is tohave power^not toWork^ and to lead 
^J;. 24,2 i£. about a Wife, that is a fifier as Well as others J Bull am longer 

fill inmy introduftion,then I did intend, my Queftion therefore 

% fl C ^'3'4' in (hart isthis,o*meIy whether I may h vc liberty to (peak and 

jS 5 6 * exprefle the word of the Lord in the publick congregation 

3 . freely without interruption, either on the Lords day, or the or- 

5* gPMioa.ii. dinar y L ^^ure , now wfailft I am kept from my farpily, and 

r h 9 4 P/rf/.ioi. 4 , * friends, with whom I have been formerly exercifed:/^ feeing 

m jI 1 * ^' 3 * * * * *' f * ft> a ^°^ decline, g prefently Withered as 

^ 'llil kPr/ grajfe 9 hwhenina moment We go hence, andare no more i; We 

^ s *ll 1 ** U ' ' are carntft there ^ orc to exprefle f A* ^or^ o/AT(? thatfadeth net, 

*t 1 P/^ ioi . iz nor ^ axet ^> «W *l doth a garment , k &^fc memoriall may 

^5 m x ^5 pofterity 1 fr^;* W« 4rf gone the way of all the 

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imy of chofe things whichit (cms are to he / M W «s in the 
grave for Mprefent,n I Ihill tell you what Scripture urgclb M#l , 
my heart for the pretoit to impart, if God lead not into another, *L*<. 
o before the opportunity be at timed , for we caanot trcafureup »4*'-i*.t7, 
to bring forth at our pleasure unto profit, no more thai we qui l6%1 *' 
fetch doWnatourpleafurefor ourfupply, but onely as our God 
pertormeth, both the one and the other, p f or vvc depend not p /#hr M«*'. 
Upon 'Baal Oboih as Saul did, q but upon the Lord lebovah as q , Stnl 
David did J Hie Scripture intended is the founding of thefitth rPfiU.i£. 
crumpet, Revel.?, out of which I defire (as God Lhall afliltj 
to open and dtclire thefe points following. 

^ WW thefound of the trumpet is, a ^ angel is ^ „ty t ^ e p#A( 

I ;?*>r* */ r^r falls from heaven to the earth 2 T 2 

What tbejall of it is , J how it falls from heaven unto \he 
earth* 

I Whdtthekeyofthebottomlcfepitis.z To whom it is given 3- 
3 The manner kow it is given. 4 HoW the pit is opened* 5 
it can be f aid to be bottomlejfe, feeing nothing can be Without 
banks and bottome but the Lord himfelf 

I toh*tthefmofyofthebottomle(fe pitis. 2 The caufe and 
manner of its rife, even as the fmo^e of a great furnace, 

I What the Smne and the aire are. 2 Hofy they #re darkened 
by the fmeke ofthe ph. 5* 

F What thofe locufts are that come out of the f moke, 2 The nature 
of their poWer^s the fcorpions of the earth have poVverrf how this P 
pofyer is given unto them , feeing th.it all po^er is cf^od. 

X What the injunctions are, that are laid upon the locufts. P**J* 
% The rife of thofe injunftians: $The exercife of thtm: 4 The 
extent ef them* 

I What the nature and property of 'the locufts are .declared by p.g. 
the fever all formes^ afcribed unto them, furniture y ornaments 
and their carriage in them. 

'What their King is, as he is deferred, 1 by his office affignei % T.9. 
% by his titles given unto him. 3 How he is a King feeinr the lo- 
cufts are f aid to have no Ki*g ever them % 
I What that woe is, that isfaid tobeptff, and how it can be P.Kfc 

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rip f*id to be pafi, feeing there never wo to the wicked. 2 what the 
**" ^ aes *re, which arc to come, and how they can be faid to come 
hereafter , feeng the Wrath of God abides upon him already , 

$ that believes not. 

% ' Thus you have my queftion, both with its lntroduftion and 

& ii S equel, and I attend your anfwer, which I hope will not one- 

3 ty be fpeedy in refpeft of time, but fpeeches alio in regird of 

|J ; - matter, to the fatisfying and fulfilling of my defi es 

<# ■ Per me Samud Gorton, 

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%\\ Now daring the time of our confinement, betog difperfed 

% abroad into feverall towns in the countrey, the people came to 

® be informed of the truth of proceedings, whereupon they Were 

£ : unfatisfied with What they had done againfi us, which be- 

|i i°g perceived, they called a generall Court, and without any 

£ appearance, or qucftioning any of us, concluded upon our re- 

% 1 leafe Ending us a writing of it, together with a further banifli- 

^ 1 m ent, not ondy out of all theirown jarifdidlions, but alfb that 

^ wefhould npt come in, nor near Providence, nor our own 

U j plantations at ShaWome t t with other parts thereto ad joy ning, 

% i * which places we were to depart within thefpace 

m | of fourt een dayes, and that upon pain of death, which were 
places out of all their /urifdicliions, as Mailer Iohn Indicate fat 

M that time deputy Governor; confefled, (landing up in pub- 

3 ■ 1,ck Co"", and profeiTed that God had ftirredthem up to go out 

3 of their oWn Iurifditlions, to fetch us from our oWn places un- 

^ to them. 

U Here filloWeth a true f ,pie of our releafe and banifbmenu 

£ '•; f em f * HS from the ^ Generall Court , fet down verbatim , 
and it extant under their hands, 

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% }; ^ft a Generall Court at Bofton the 7* of the €rfi monetk 

% i:J| »*43 "1644. 

ig T T IS ordered that Samuel Gorton and the reft of that com- 

3* ,' ffimy , who now ftand confined, &all be fet at liberty, provi- 

% T Jed that if they or any of them, (hall after fourteen day ts after 

$ mlargement, come within any part of our Jurifdiftion, 

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either in the Maffaehufets, or in, or near Providence, or my ot 
the Lands ; of Pumhom, or Soccononocco * or elfewhere, within Theft were 
our jurifJietion, then fuchperfon, orperfons, fti.ll De-ippre- *e» wo in- 
tended whaefoever they may be taken, and ftnll foflfer death 

ance m our bounds inhibiting for the did time of fourtcenc *eir own £ 

dayes, they fliall be ftill bound, to the reft of the Articles of 1>, incc - thcre - £ 

their former confinement, upon the penal:/ therein expreffed. b /J' t J"^ '$ 

Per Car. tntteafe Nowel Secret, jeft'usum. ] W 

, , , their own flfc 

When this order of the Court was prefented to Samuel Gar- willt > or clfe 1 $ 

t«»,by the Conltable of Charles town, bringing a Smith with 5° T cute * 

him,tofileoffhisbolts, hetoid the Conftable be W^mSS. deltl,u - u, " us; £ 

ling to fart *nh bis irons on thefe termes , [tut expend other % 

news in fairer termes of releafc, then were therein expreffed * 
defmnghim togoto Matter No*el who lived in that town' 

and declare fo much unto him. In (hort time, the Conftable' * 

returned, bringing divers of the chief men in the town with * 

him, and com manded the Smith to fall to Wor^ to file off his * 

bolts, who did acoardmgly, and fo took them from him lea- $ 

vmg the faid Gorton either to walk abroad, on fuch conditions 3r' 

or cite to ftay at his peril!. ' >r. 

Now twoortaree dayes after our releafe, Some of us being % 

returned to Beften, defiring to ftay for the reft of our friends t 

that we might return together, accompanying each oth^r in ? 

par journey, the.people (hewing tbemfelves Joy fall to fee us at * 
liberty, and entertaining us kindly into their houfes, which the 

Oovarnor perceiving prefently fent out his warrant, with ftrift * 

charge to depart from the town, within the fpace of two hours * 

(it being about ten of the clock in the forenoon when the war' £ 
rant came unto us; other wife further psnalty fliould be laid 
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der his hand, word for Word. 

To the Marfliall or his deputie, 

I Am informed that Samuel Gorton* and his company are 
now abiding in the town,and go to divers houfes, giving of- 
fence thereby, andcaufeof fufpicion, of attempting to feduce 
fomc of our peopk;you are therefore tocommand them to de- 
part out of the town, before noon this day, upon pain of being 
apprehended and father proceeded with, according to their 
defervings* ( ijio,-. 43. 

Iohn Winthrop Governour. 

Now althoughby the General! Courf^we had fourteen dayes 
allowed unuo us to inhabit within their Jurifdiaions,«^ limit- 
ed to a*jplace>nor excluded from any pUctfor the [pace offo long 
time y a nocwithftanding upon notice given unco us by this 
warrant we prefendy departed the town'though upon a fudden 
when we were unprovided for virtues & other pro vifions for 
a matter of oM)own} } & being there was no place inhabited by xhtEnglifb 
tfnee,or fourc near the place where our wives and childi en were feat tered^out 
amies fr©m of which they had not expelled us, bur onely a little Ifland cal- 

Indian wig. arrived, within the time limited unco us, but the night before 
wammes,thc we came to Road Ifland we lodged at ShaVoomet in our own 
Sachija being honfes there^ and confidering of the aft of their court in our 
the prime 5a- expelling and banilhm^nt out of thofe parts, we obferved that 
liv« nca^e they had mi ex P rtflfed our ^nd at Shawomet % but onely named 
them, and far the lands of P umhorru. and Soccononocco, (rhelndians whom 
miliar among they chimed g$ SubjcftsJ we thought good therefore to write 
them,wecamc unto them for a further explanation of the Courts aft,rhat ib 
warn IcdL- we might underftand their tme intent being very unwilling 
tally, and he haying taken notice of us aaiongft them how we had been dealt with as 
foon as we came in, called feme of us by our names ) his name being Cofhamhin * we 
aifced him whether captain Cook were a good Captain, he asfwered I cannot tell' but 
Indians account of ihofe as good Captains, when a few dare ftand out againft jmzny. 

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to difcover their dealings towards us in feeking redrefle, if we 
could but fee a way, that through our hatd labours, our wives 
and Utile ones might find a way co lubfilt. 

Here followeth a true Cepie of the Letter fent unto the Go- 
vcrnour of the Maffachufets , verbatim , m it is (Wl ex- 
tant under the hands of the witneffes , Which were tak/n, 
left they fhould put us of, and not make anfwer to our letter. 

Shawomet, March the 16. 1644, 

THe order of your Court laft held , made concerning 
us, being darke andobfeure, which befeems not a mat- 
ter of that concernment, which you have now entred upon , 
and made fome rtiort progrtffe therein ;the iffues whereof are 
prefltng on unto perfection, whofe arrivall is waited for, with 
that hope that never makes afhamed, we may not therefore for- 
beare To require an explanation of Vfhat joh intend , fa the 
Lands of Pumhom and Soccononocco , for we know none they 
have or ever had within your jurifdiUien^ you (hould there- 
fore fo farre forget your felfe , as to intend thereby our Land 
Uwfulh tfbstght, and now in our poffejfton , andinhabited by us, 
calledShWOOiet, together with other parts near adjoynwg: 
Give us your minds, and meaning in plain* : terras, under your 
hands : And whereas you conclude, for fuch our lawfull a- 
boad.andrefidence, toprofecuteagamft usbycourfeof Law 
unto death: we refolveupon your anfwer, with all expedi- 
tion to wage Law with you, and try to theuttermoft what 
rlhtorintereftjoucan /hew to lay claime , either to our L.md: 
or our Lives; and {hall take it as your own Ad urging us 
and containing us thereunto, rolookeaftet ourr.ght, inth, 
Lvock and fpoyls', you have already made amt rig us, which 
oZ Will God hath /aught US, t.fufer joyfully the robbing and 
TyZ of our goods, if you did nocnecelsitateustolook af- 
te {ecLpence^from you : We expect your anfwer by b 
B ^ andin cafe youreturne it not fpeed.ly , weconcude 
yen order of Court to intend ro fuch th„g , as to drive as 



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from our lawfull poffdsions, as above-faid, but thn you tiled 
fuchtermes , as fear-crows , imagining you had children to 
deale with, or as a ftaiting hole to evade part of thac danger 
that may lolue; nor can you put us off for anfwer, till the 
Coo t fit agiine , being a general! Aft, and you but one- 
now to anfwer, tor we know you may better open unto us 
the intent of the Court for our fatisfaftion , then you could 
cxpellusoutof any part of your iurifoiftion, before the time 
fct by the Court, contrary to the liberty it had given unto us. 

Bjtheorderor government of Shaw-omef, John 
Warner, Secretary. Sufficient witneQe be- 
ing taken of our plaine and man-like dea- 
ling wtth you herein. 

A true Copieof a Letter fent to the government , and Gover- 
nor of the Maffachufets, the day and year above. faid- In 
mtnejfe of, or in frefence of Ralph £ ule. 

John Anthony, 

Here FelloMth a true f opie of the Govermurs anfiter to our 
Letter above-faid , fet doVoncherc verbatim, andis extant 
under hts own hand. 

To Samuel Gorton, John Wimer,andtbe reft of that company, 

FOr fatisfaftion of what you require, by your writing of 
March, 26,1644. This is to let you know, that the ex- 
preflioq and intent of the order of our laft generall Court, con- 
cerningyour comming within any part of our jurifdidrion, 
doth comprehend all the Lands of Pumhom,tnd Socconmocc; 
and in the fame are included the Lands which you pretended to 
havepurchated,upon part whereof you had built lome houfes 
(be th;: place called Sba-v-omet or otherwife; fo as you are 
not to come thereupon peril! of your lives. This I teftifie to 
you. 

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Simplicities Defe nce, againfi feven-headcd Policy. 

Yoa muft know wfchall, that the Coirc did not intend 
their order (hDuiJ be a fwr-crow fas you write ) for you will 
find it reall, and effectual!, if you (hill tranfgrdTc it! 

Thus far the Governors Letter, Written Kith bis own hand. 

Now upon our comming to Road- Hand , the Indiins of 
that great Countrey of the Nanhygatft hearing of our return 
without the loffe of our lives, they wondred , having obfer- 
ved the caufeieffe cruelty they had offered unto us, feme of 
them being within the hearing of the (hot of the Guns, whilft 
they lay intrenched againftus, as alfo how we were uied in 
the Ma(fachufets, and the conftant report, whiilt we laya- 
mongtt them, that tome of our lives (hould be taken away,or 
elfe kept as flaves io long as we lived; confidering thefe ard the 
like things they marvelled uiuch,at our deliverance and rt Icjfe, 
from amongft them ; Now our countrey men having given 
out farmerly, amongft the Indians , that we were not Englifh 
men , to encourage chsm againft us (focaufe the awe of the 
Englifli, hath been much upon them ) and being they could not 
father the name of anySedtary, or Sedt upon us, but we could 
clearly demonftrate, we were no fuch opinionated per font, they 
then called us Gortoneans 9 and told the Indians we were fuch 
kind of men, not Englifh ; now the Indians calling the Eng- 
lifh in their hnguagc Wattacowges, they now called us Got- 
tmoges , and bdng they had heard a rumour of great war to be 
in Old- England, and that it was a land fo furnifhfd with mul- 
titudes ot people, they prelently framed unto themfclvesa 
caufeof our deliverance, imagining that there were two kinds 
of people in Old* England, the one calkd by ffte name of Eng- 
lifh men, andthe other Gortonogesy and concluded that the 
gortonoges were a mightier people then the Englifh, whom 
they call Wattaconoges • and therefore the Majfachufets 
thought it not fife to takeaway ourlivts, becaufe how ever 
there were but a few of usia NeW- England, mcompiiihcioi 
thofe that came out againft us,yet that great people, that were 
if) Old-England would come over, and put them to death , that 

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fhould take away outlives from us, withouujuft caufe. 

Whereupon the Sachlms of the Nanhj/ganfet confuting to- 
gether, prefentiy fent Meflengers unto us, to come and fpeake 
% with them , and being they were thofe of whom wee had 

■ bought our Land (which now the Maffachufets had taken 

$ away from us Jy ) as all that inhabite upon that Bay have done) 

S : they being very importunate to have us tocomeovertofpeak 

« with them , we not knowing what the occafion was,yeelJed 

£ unto their requeft,a matter of halfeadczin,orlevenot ustook 

^ boat to goe over the Bay to them, they feeing the veffell come, 

§j ; ? newes was brought to the Sachim \ who fent aband of lufty 

^ well armed men , whometus, asfoonas we werecometo 

$ ,.. Ltnd, to conduft us to old Sachim fonaunicus his houfe, mul- 

titudes of Indians, aswepaffed along^oming^ortfyand feem- 
ed joyfull, which we taking notice of, ( neither the one nor 
the other being ufuill amongft them) fomeof us began to be 
m i a little jealous, that the Agents of the achats , who%. 

g vcd near unto us > hacI g one about to betray us into their hands, 

^ ; d upon fome faife foggctiion concerning the death of their Sa- 

, chimMyantonomy , who loft his life immediatly before the 

1 2ida^achufets c&wc agiinfi us ^ and however he was fuddenly 

^ : -fr fl*ne by an coming behind him , as he marched upon 

the way , yet Uicre were^Enghfli prelcnt at the doing of the 
$ aft i which we were a lictle jealous, the above- faid Agents 

• might have fuggefted, that we might be confenting thereunto, 

m which all the Indiana tooke for a moft injurious aft , not onely 

3 ' becaufe he was fo famous a Prince amonglt them , but aifo 

^ |j h°W ever he was taken in a ftratagem of warre by the Indians^ 

£g i pt * g r ?M ranfome wxs faid for his Redemption , W k> 

6^ ! ; kf* aWA J Al f°i and they are very confeiencious, to recompenfe 

$ ] *he fliedding of blood , (efpecial/y of fitch pcrfonages) with 

$ blood againcx But when wee were come to the old Sachims 

$ : i houfe, we were courteoufly entertained, and from thence c©n- 

dufted to the houfeot Sachim Pejfecus, Brother, andfuccef* 
$ for in government to the late Myantonomy , when we were 

jSj jj * here » divers J^W^nd their chief e Counfellors. took us a- 

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or how we could live , feeing theAfafachufets had not onely 
Ukmourefiates from us in goods and chattels f but alfo our 
houfeS Jan ids and labours , ^here^e Jhonldraife more , for the 
preservation of our Families, and withaU , told us that thdr 
condition, might (in great meafure) be paraleld without, 
elfc they would willingly have done any thing for our hdpe,in 
regard that our Land was bought of them , and We bad faith- 
fully paid them for it, according to our contract : But they told 
us, they hid not only loft their Sacbim, lb beloved amongft 
them, and fuch an inftrumenc of their publick good • but had 
alfo utterly impoveriihed themfelves, by paying fuch a ran- 
fome fox his life , fas they then made us an account of) not- £fc 
Withftanding, his life taken away , and that detaineaho; we 
made anfwer unto them , that for our parts, we were not dif- 
couraged, in any thing that had bcfalneus, for we were fub- 
jefts toluch a noble State in Old- England , that however we ' g! 

werefarre off from our King and State, yet we doubted not 
but in due time, we ftiould have redreffe, and in the mean time J* 
we were refolved, to undergoe it with patience , and in what 
way we couid a hbor with our hands,for theprefervation of our 
wives and children ; the anfwer that they made unfo us was XV 
this, That they thought we belonged to a better Matter then the % 
Majfachufetsdiii whereupon, defiring our ftay , they called 2r 
a general! Aflembly, to make known thek minds , and to fee & 
the mindsof their people,and with pynt and unanimous con- 
fenf, concluded to become fubjefts to the State and Govern- 
ment of Old-EngUnd f in cafe they m <ghc be accepted of; we ^ 
told them, we could promife them nothing , nor take any in- 
gagementsuponus, not knowing the minds of thatHonou- 
rable State;but if they would voluntarily make tender of I ; ^ 
themfelves, as they themfelves thought meet, we would en- Tp. 
deavour to convey it fafely fin cafe we went over about our :Jr 
ownoccafions) and bring them word what was the pleafure 
of the State therein ; whereupon they chofe four of us, as 
Commilsioners in truft for the fafe cuftody, and conveyance of 
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the chic fe SaehiiB, and there]} of the PrinCes , with the 
whole people of the Nmhy ganfcts , unto the government 
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fet doftn here verbatim, the Deed it felfe being extant. 



K NOW ALL MEN > Colonies , Peoples and 
Nations, unt© whom the fame hereof fhallcomej 
fchit we the chiefe Sachims> Princes or Governours 
of thzNanhyganfet (in that part of America, now 
called NeW-England) together with the joynt and unanimous 
confent of all our people and fubjefts, inhabitants thereof,do 
uponferious confideration, mature and deliberate advife and 
Couricil, great and weighty grounds and reafons moving us 
thereunto, whereof one moft efft&uall unto us, is, That noble 
fame nc have heard of That Great And 
Mighty Prince, CHARLSS, King Of 
Great Britain, in that honorable and Princely 
care he hath of allhisfervants, and true and loyall fubjedtsj 
the confideration whereof moveth & bendeth our hearts with 
one confent, freely y voluntarily , and moft humbly , to fjb- 
mir, (ubjeft, and giye over our felves s Peoples,Lands,Rights, 
Inheritances, and Poflefsion3 whatloever^ inoorfelvesand 
ourheires, faccefsively forever, unto the proteftion f care, and 
government of that Worthy And Royall 
Prince, £H A R L E S, King Of Great 
Britain And Ireland,, his Heirs and Suc- 
ceffors for ever , to be ruled and governed according to thofs 
ancient and honourable Lawes, and cuftoms eftabliihed in that 
fo renowned Reaime and Kingdome of Old-Snglan&fivs doe 
therefore by thefe Preientsconfeffe, and moft willingly , and 
fubmifsiveiy acknowledge our lelves to be the humble, loving, 
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led, ordered, and difpofed of , in our felves an J ours , tccoT^ 
dingtohis Princely vvifdom, counfel,ind Uvvesof ihat ho- 
nourable State of Old- England, Upon Condition 
Op His Maiesties Rotall ^otic- 
t i o n , and righting of us in what wrong is, or may be 
done unto us,according to his honourable lavves and cultoins, 
exercifed imongft his fubjefts.in their prefervation and fafety, 
and in the defeating, and overthrow of his, and their enemies; 
not that we find our felves necefsitated hereunto , in refpeft of 
our relation^, or oectfion we have or may have with any of 
the natives in theft parrs, knowing our felves fulficient de- 
fence, ancfablefo judge in any matter or caufeinthatrefpeft, 
buthave juftcaufeof /ealoufie and (ufpicion , of focneof His 
Majefties pretended fubjefts; Therefore our defire is to have 
our matters and caufes heard, and tried according to his juihnd 
eqail Laws in that way,and order His Highncfli fhal pieafe to 
appoint ; 1$ o * CanWe Ybild Over Oui 
Sblvb^Unto Any, That Are Sue- 
nets t hbmsslves In Any Case ,htving 
ourfeivS bin the chief e Sachims, or Princes fuccelsively , of the 
countrey,titne out of mind,and for our prefent,& lawful enact- 
ing hcreof,being fo farre recuote from His Ma je(tie,we have by 
joynt content made choyfe of four of his loyall and loving 
Sabje£b, our trufty and well bdfeVed'friends, Samuel Go*ton % 
John Wickesj Randall Heuldett, and lohnWarner^ whom We 
have deputed, and made our h wfull Arturnies,or Commifsio- 
ners, not only for the a&ing and performing of this our Deed, 
in the behalfe of His Highneik : but alfo for the faff cuftoJy, 
carefull conveyance, and declaration hereof unto his grace, 
being done upon the Lands of the Na»hyga*fct 9 it a Court or 
Generall Affembly called and affembted together of purpof, 
for the publick enafting, and imnifeftation hereof :' And for 
the further confirmation, and eftiblifliing of this cur Aft and 
Deed| we the abovd faid Sachims, or Princes, have accor- 
ding to that commendable cuftome of English men , fubferi- 
bed our names", and fet our Scales hereunto , asfo msny Te- 
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our dreed Soveraigne, 3nd that according totheEnglifhmens 
account. Dated the nineteenth day of Jpri/l, One thpufand 
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that late deccafed My 
autonomy* 



The Marke of that Ancfent 
ConaunicHs , Proteftor of 
that late deceafed Mymto. 
*omj, during the time of 
bis nonage. 

The Marke of Aiixan, fi>a 
and heir of that above-faid 

Qonaunkns* 



■JL* 



? Witneffed by two of the chiefe Counfdlors to Snebim Teflicm. 

Jxftafioojfe his Mark ; 



Indians 



TommicT^ his Mark 




Sealed and delivered in the prcfence of thefe psrfetffc 

CChrifiopher Helme* 
Mnglifb <Robert T?otter* 
<-Rich*rd Carder^ 



Here 



Simplicities D efence, againfi feven-headed Policy, g j ^ 

Here followeth a Copie of a Letter [ent to the Mafftchufets^ 

by the Sachtms of the Nmhygm{cts((bortly after their fa 

ftib)eB;ion to the State and government of Old- England ) ^ 

they being fentnnto by the Maffachufets , to make their fa 

appearance at their gener all Court, then approaching. ^ 

Weunderftand your defire is , that we fhouli come downe fa 
into the Majfachufett, at the time of your Court now approa- & 
chiflg; ouroccafions at this time are very grear,and the more-, £ 
becaufe of the loffe^in that manner) of our late deceafed .bro- £fc 
ther* upon which occafioryf we fhould not ftirre our klves,to 
give Teftimony of our faithfulnefle unto the caufe , of that ©ur * 
fo unjuft deprivation of fuch an inftrument,ashe wasamongft 
us, for our common good, we Qiouldfeare his blood would ^ 
lie upon our felves; fo that we defire of you , being wee take 
you for a wife people, to let us know your reafons why you fa 
feemetoadvifeusasyoudoe , not to goe out againft our loin- 
humane, and cruell adverfary,who teoke fo great a ranfome to 
relcafehimj and his life alfo, when that was done. Our Bro- ^ 
tfier was willing to ftirre much abroad to converfe with men ; 
and wee fee a fad event at the laft thereupon : Take it not ill * 
therefore, though we refolve to keepe at home (unleffefome 
great necefsitie call us out ) and fo at this time doe not repaire j ^ 
imto you, according to your reqaeft : And the rather becaufc ^ 
we have fubjefted our felves, our Lands and Poffeflions, wit h fa 
all the right and inheritances of us and our people , either by j' 3$ 
conqueft s voluntary fubjeftion, or otherwife, unto that fa- \ Jfc 
mom and honourable government, of that Royall King * 
Charles* and that State of Oid-Englandjo be ordered and go- 
verned according to the Laws and Cuftoms thereof ; not * 
doubting fcf the continuance of that former love that hath J ^ 
been betwixt you and us, but rather to have it increafed here- F 2£ 
by, being fnb)eUs nofy , ( and that With joynt and voluntary ^ 
eonfent ) unto the fame King and State your [elves are : So fa 
that if auy fmall thing of difference (hould fall cue bstwixt £ 



%6 Simplicities *Defe*ce, againsl [even- beaded Policy. 

us, only the fending of s Meffenger may bring it to right t- 
gaine; but if any great matter fliouid fall (which we ho ft and 
defire will not , nor may not) then neither your fdves nor we 
are to bs Judges , but both of us are to have recourfe , and re- 
paire unto that honourable and \ufl Government ; and for the 
paffageof us or our men, to and againe amongii you, about 
ours or their own occafions, to have comerle with you , we 
defire and hope they (hall have no worfe dealing or entertain- 
ment then formerly we have had amongft you, and do refblve 
accordingly to give no worfe refpedt to you or yours, then for- 
merly you have found amongftus, according to the condition 
and manner of our counrrcy • 

N why ganfet this frejent 9 May the 24, 1^44. 

pessicvs 




his Marke. 

Con AYNicrs 



his Marke. 



Now before the affembling of the next generall Court , in 
regard the JMmw had expreffed themfclves is above we heard, 
there were feares and je,loufies raifcd up in the minds of the 
people , of the Mfifftchnfets , and other of their united C*U- 
mes, as though there- was fome danger of the Nanhjianfets 
commingagainft them to dee fomehurt anto them : So that 
when we heard their Court was aflembled, W e writ ante 
taem, as fellows* 



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%A true Co fie of a Letter fent to the MaflhchufetS, *t a gene- 
rail Court held ftortly after the fubmiffion of the peo- 
ple of the Nmhyganfets , unto the State of OkU Eng- 
land, by the Commiffi oners put in truft , for the farther 
publication of their folemne AEl. 

THefe are to let you uaderfhnd, that [nee you expelled us 
out of your Coafts, the Sachims of the Nanhyganfet have 
fent for certain men of the Kings Ms jefties fubjefts, and upon 
advifedCounfellamongftthcmlelves (agenerall Aflemblybe* 
ing called of purpofe for that end) they have j oyntly volunta- 
rily , and with unanimous confent, fubmitted and fu&jcfted 
themfeives,with their Lands and Peffeflions inherited by line- 
all difcent, voluntary fubje&ion, right of Conqueft, purchafe 
or other wife, what ever lands or priviledges appartain and be- 
long unto them , unto that honourable and famous Prince 
Charles, King of Great Britain, and Ireland, in that renow- 
ned State and Government of Old-E#gland , to be ruled and 
ordered, according to thofe honourable Laws and Cuftoms, in 
fhemfelves and their Succeffors for ever, which is performed 
and done, in that folemn, durable y and commendable cuflome of 
Record, under divers and fever all hands and feals , fritneffed 
fajficiently, both by the Natives and Engli/h , folemnly delive- 
red and received on His Majeftits behalf >, holding correfponden- 
cie "frith the Laws and Customs of that honourable State of 
Old- England in all points : We thought good therefore to give 
notice hereof , at your generall Court now affembled , that it 
may ferve to informe your felves, and all your united Colonies, 
of th£ performance of this Aft done,without any further pains 
or trouble, that fo not our felves only, that are eye and ear wit- 
neffes hereof ("but you alfojmay follow ouroccafions and i in- 
payments , without any extraordinary care, or fcare of the 
people above- faid , to offer to make any in-road, or give any 
aflaultuponus; But "frith that indignity of ere d andjone ur.to 

their 



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their Sove'raign, Which cannot be borne, nor put up, without a 
Jharpe and Princely revenge j nor may we upon the like pe- 
nalty , offer to difturbe them in their bounds and territories, 
in their ordinary and accuftomed imployments among them- 
felves, or with any of their neighbouring Natives , Whofe 
grounds of proceed caufes and occafions are better known unt$ 
themfelves, then We can be able to judge of But if either you 
or we find any thing amongft them too grievous to be boi^ne ; 
they not making any violent affault upon us , we know whi- 
ther, and to whom we are to repaire, and have recourfe for re- 
dreffe, as We tender our allege ance and fubjeElion unto our King 
and State, unto which they are become fellow fub/e&s with 
ourfelvesj and therefore of neceffity his Ma jefties Princely 
care muft reach unto them.Furthermore,that it may appeare, 
that our dealings towards you, and all men, have been, and 
fhall prove juft, and true, Whatever your dealings may 9 or have 
manifefied tbemfelves to be towards us : Know therefore , that 
being abroad of late about our occafions, we fell to be Avhere 
one of the Sachims of that great people of the Maukguogges 
Was , Withfome of his men , whom we perceive are the moll 
fierce and warlike people in the countrey, or continent where 
we are, furniflied with 3700. guns, men expert intheufcof 
them, plenty of powder and (hot, with furniture for their bo- 
dies in time of warre, for their fafety, which other Natives 
have not; we underftand that of late they have flain a hundred 
French , with many Indians , which were in league with the 
French, putting many of them to cruell tortures, and have but 
loft two of their own men ; thefe being as we underftand 
deeply affefted with the Nanhyganfets 9 in the loffeof their 
late Sachim, unjuft detaining alfo of fo great a ranfome, gi- 
ven and received for his life , and eife,are refolved (that if any 
people offer to aflault them in their accuftomed courfes a- 
mongft the Natives, or feeking after their ancient rights and 
priviledges, not offering wrong to any of His Majefties fub- 
je&s, nor violating their fubje&ion to that Noble State, which 
they feem to refpeft, and much to adore ) to wage warre with 
themuatp the uttermoft, which itfeemsis the very fpirit of 



Simpnrities'Defence, againft feven- headed Policy. 89 

that people to be exercifed that way , which as we dcfi e to 
make ufe of it our felves, fo doe we hereby give no ice to you 
alfo, to make the belt ufe of it unto your (elves in all your Co- 
lonies united. 

June the 20* I £44, By us the true andlaWfull 

owner t of Shaw- omet. 
foh» IVarner Secret* 

Thefe things being done , we refiding upon ^quethneck^ 
alias, Road- hiring houfes and grounds to phn* upon, for 
the preservation of our Families : The Governour of the 
Majfachufets perceiving that we ftill aboad among the Eng- 
lifti, and were no: gone to the Dutch as others formerly did, 
he then writ a Letter privately to fome in the Hand , whom he 
thought the j had intereji in , being he continued a Member of 
their Church, however removed troxn them, telling him, that 
if he and others ( who were in like relation unto them ) could 
tyorke the people of the Hand to deliver us up into their hands 
again (at le aft fome of us) it Would not only he acceptable unto 
the Court then fitting , but unto moft of the people in general I ; 
the people of the Hand having notice of this Letter, didalto* 
gether dipke and deteft any fuch courfc to be held With ut. 
Knowing very well what they had already done, and ho w 
caufelefly ; So that we abode ftill upon the Jland,and follow- 
ed our imployments , untill fuch time as there appeared a- 
mongft us av harter of civili government, granted by the 
State of Old England, for the orderly .quiet, and peaceable go- 
vernment of the people inhabiting in thofe parts of thecoun- 
trey, called Providence ^plantations , in the Nanhyganfet Bay % 
which Charter being joyfully imbriced , and with all expedi- 
tion, an orderly and joynt courfc was held for the inverting or 
thcpeopleinto the power and liberties thereof unanimoufly, 
for the exercife of the authori y , in the execution of Lawes, 
for the good and quiet of the people, which t^ing give great 
incottragemtnt unto the Planters, to goe on in their imploy- 
ments, hoping to enjoy their lawfull rights and priviltdges 
Without difturbance , which the M4« c W ct! > together with 

N Plymouth 



Simplicities Defense agtitfi feven-kesded Polity 

courage the people, by their endeavouring to weaken, and in, 
yahd-the authority of tie Ciurter, in theeyesof tnecouJ. 
trey intrenching upon thofe phces, to fruftrate and make vSd 
th« Charter as by. maintaining their Cantors y asaforS 
jnoppofingof us, giving themorderto f« up writs upon our 
houfes whereformerly welived, prphibiting.il menforeT 
termedling with thofe Houfcs, Lands, Peoples, either i«S 

WOfent and approbation in thofe parts , whichall phinlv Si 

Rafter the Charter geared arnLgfi^. 

WMereas we underftand that fome of our countrey m-n 
about j P™^,orthofe P arts,doe intend to fit down 
honour Lands at ^.^rthofeparts: This s therefore 
togtvenot.ceto.nyfach, that they forbear , WithoutTclnS 

£SK* ? lU T pt the f,me ' or t0 medd ' e wiSy of our 
peop ethere, either Englifh or 7***,,. for let them be X 

led, that we refolve to maintain our juft rights. ff °" 
<?»'w»^ the Court «Bofton, rfeitfth 

By me Zwtm/p Mw//, ^eeret. 

After this they ceafed not to fend out their Warrants mm**** 
as, afterthe Charter was euablilhed amongft « TJdlTf 
J«s, andlerving themupon the men TSZZ&^fc 
^ndingthetrappearance £ thd, Couris 



Simplicities Defence againjf [even-heeded Tolicie. 



Qopie of one of their Warrants to the men */ Providence 
herefolloWethi Word for Word l and is extant under their 
hand* 

To the Executors of Francis Wefton. 

YOu are required to take notice of an Attachment againft 
the Lands of Francis JVefton , foasto bind you to be re- 
fponfall, at the next Court at Bofton , to anfwer the complaint Oik of their 
*i William Arnald,* for* withholding t dtbt of thirty toil- ^.°^ ed 
lings doe to him, a^nd hereof not to faile at your pcrill. ££5 

Dated the *. (4) 1*45- Per cur. mlliam*s4fiin*all. 

r • , - • - • ■ - - ' . h i . • ; . 

And as they thus goe beyond tfieir bounds , not only to in- 
trench upon the liberties and labours of their countrey men, 
{but alfo upon that authority transferred upon that people by the 
State of Old- England, for the quiet and peaceable ordering and 
government of themf elves) not only in Providence and Shaw- 
but likewifeupon Road- Hand, both in Portfmouth , and 
Newport 1 fpecified in the Charter; theColonieof THmouth 
Joyned in league with the Majfachufets, tofuchendsand pur- 
pofes,fent their Meffengers to Road- Hand, at namely, one Ma- 
fter ]okn Brown, an Afftft ant in government amongft them 
there, who went from houfc to houle (both in Portfmouth and 
Newport) dilceufaging the people for yeelding any obed ience 
unto the authority of the Charter, giving them warning O 
from the Court of Plimoutb) not to fubmit unto any govern* 
meni that Was efiablifhedby venue of a late pretended Charter, 
(ashe very prtlumpnioufly called it J nor unSoanj other author 
ritiey Or government, but only fuck as Was allotted and approved 
ef by them , although formerly they have many, times 
confefled and tcknowledged both by Word and Writing, 
th*t it was out of their Jurifdittionj , without which ac- 
knowledgement, the people would never have ad ventured to 
lay out their eftates, and to have planted themlelves a«d fami- 
lies in thofe parts , fomeof them having too great and cojlly 
experience^ of Plimoutb* dealing s with their countrey met^ tobe- 
'■■ r N * M> 



^ 5>* Simplicities Defence i agamji j even- headed Policy. 

m " ; . .. . .. 

fuch as may be fitly par ale Id With the dealings of the Maffxchu" 
lets , and their praUije fpringing from the fame fpirit , hath 
brought them into league and band,w\\m they were clearly ma- 
nifetted each to other , who before at the time of their firft 
Neighbour- hood there,they were it a diftance,and ftood aloof, 
one from the other, Oi each thinking I am holier then thou, the 
j$ • Men of Plimouth , comming thither from ssfmfterdam and 

S the other out of 4^ perfections of the Bifhops in0/J England. 

Now that thefe men doe not onely intrench cauieUfly 
upon their ountrey- men , but alfo upon the poore Indians t 
inhabiting in thofe parts , it is very plaine by their pro- 
jjg < ceedings againft that people of the Nanhyganfet , whofc 

$ countrey fals within the confines of the Charter , which 

$t people only going about to right themfelves upon inch Indi- 

ans as they conceive have mightily wronged them in taking 
$ v away the life of their Trince % after fo great a ranfome given > and 

g , received for his refcue ; this they make their occafion to go out 

3 againft them to cut them off,and fo to take their countrey into 
g£ , their own juriidiftion ; whereas the Indians t of ourknow- 
^ ! ledge hold themldves bound, to revenge the blood of their 
^ ; Prince, it being fo unlawfully (in their eyes)caken away; nay, 
^ i they are not quiet in themfelves, unleffe they doe revenge it, or 
% elfe fpill their own, in their endeavours thereafter; in the mean 
% i time they ire in a continued aft of mourning, as we know> for 
% the fpace of one whole year, and an halfe, they mourned con* 

' tinually, not only by blacking their faces, in token thereof ; but 

every day their mourning women ^ morning and evening upon 
jtjf their knees, with lamentations, and many tears along time toge- 

^ !! ther> as our fely.es have been eye- witneffes , when we ha ve 

jjjj i hadoccafions amongft them, and in houfes that were more 

4 publick , where the wife and children of the difeafed Prince 
% Were, there did a man continue a fpeeeh (during the time of the 
'ft foment praying , fighing and lamenting with abundance of 
$ tears) declaring what their loffe was in being deprived oi 
J5 | ! \ | fuch a Sachim , and how wrongfully it was done by the ene- 
^1 my, as alfo how they were all of them ingaged to revenge his 
& Moad, elfe Would it fo lie upon their own besas y as to bring more 
j$ M\\ miferies 



Simplicities Defence, againfi [even-headed Policy, 9 3 



4 



miferies 1 and evils upon them: Now tor this th-ir proceed- 
ing agaioft their a j vei fary the /^», that thus deprived them 
of their Sachiai,md fo wrongfully fd* they conceive) the Al>(- 
fachufets, and Plimofttk have offered to goe out again j} the peop/e 
of the Nmhyganfet, to cut them off by the /word , fending 
word to Providence Plantations , true if they fhouli (Und as 
Neuters, and not goe out with them in this work? ,tbey would 
make plunder of thtm : So Captain Standifh fent word in the 
name of Plymouth ( now (ince we came out of thofe parts,) 
unto the men of Providence , as wee are credibly informed by 5] 
Liters from divers hands, as alfo by word of mouth from 
perfonsot good note, who were in the country there pre- 
fent amongft them, when thefe things were done , informing 
usof many paflages, of the proceedings of th$Jd*f*6k*fhsi 
and Plymouth, both towards the people of providence Plan- 
tationf, as alfo the Indians of that countrey of the Nanhygan- 
fets; only one Letter that concernes the Indians, wee defire to 
fetdowo,fo give further intelligence to the Reader of thefe „ || 

mens dealings, who feemed fo meek, and fo mild in their 
native countrey, Old England , in the time of their aboad 
there , as though they could not heave a hand, or wag a tongue 
againft any thing but a Bifhopi Ceremony , that being ooely of- vjr 
fenfive unto them, fa 

$ 

Herefollotoethatrutcopieofa letter fent unto w fi wee our fa 
coming from thofe parts of America called New England. 

WE are all in health at this prefent and chea rfull/ the ^ 
grcateft want is your company ) though men generally ^ 
more invetlive then ever,the Bay had provided an Army to go , Sjfc 

againft \ht Nanhyganfets, had they not been prevented in the 
very interim ^*/,Captain Harding informed the Court of the m Q ^ f thcif f ,. }fe 
difficulty of the enterprife,upon which the Court employed aforcfaja iub. J£ 
him,& W.tVylbonr, to go to Nanhyganfetznd take Benedict^* e asoragc*i 
to interpret ; when they came to Benedict refufedtogo d vciiin^m 
without a hundred men io arms, ontly to poflt fle the n with ***** ' «F : 
danger,;* efftB his bloody plot, upon which W.Wilhams being 
fetir for to Nanhyv'anfn, ani a!fo my felf,co inquire of us,tt*Mt ^ 

* N3 tl " a* 

Wl(l^A^i!^.^wwt»jr.i^«>i<vr.y.vi.^rym,Tn;^a-vtjr:TTJVT,';;nt#,.vrj vi/ , 



cW. * wlifa JVS «W» iVt «W* <TO «WT 



a Chief Sa^ 
chimof the 
^anhyganfet 
b Thac ls 3 the 
the Indian 
who flew their 
Sachim My- 
autonomy, 
when he hai 
received a 
ranfom for his 
life. 

c The Coin* 
called to 
con fa k how to 
cut them off, 
and Souidiers 
they had rai- 
fed up for that 
purpolc. 
d Thus to get 
intereft in 
their land, ei- 
ther to peop lc 
itwjth wno:n 
they pleafe^or 
elfe to get oc- 
casion to go 
out againft 
rhcrn again, 



Simplicities Defence again ft [even- headed^Policy. 

the mindsof thefe maipeoplewrrt m kill men for nothing^ upao 
Which I went toProvidence *,thinking to go with Matter #4/- 
/^w/,but,when I .cam* there, he was gon,with the Captaic & 
Matter pry/ four, upon Benedicks refufall; I ftayed their return 
aqd their agreement was to have Teffecus (*)go into the Bay' 
and Mailer Williams wasnecetfitated to pur himielf Hoftage' 
tilihis return; thisaewscemmg into the B*ydidfo vex the 
Mimfters, chat Matter CW^preached upon it, that it fcfor 
fe Kicked an a% to taly M after Williams with them, be in a- one 
cafl outtftheChareb, if Kas all one as t* ai^cowfeUofa 
witch, and that thole that did it, Were Worthy to die- upxi 
which Matter was ready to die, for fearc he {hould 

be handed; fo then the Indians went do wn, vnd they compelled 
tbemtoceafewarresmthlJtk^ * and to pay them five hundred 
pounds for charges of Court, and provifton for Soulier s c, and 
to leave foure of the chief Sachims children, till the money be 
paid , and to leave foure of his chief men till the chil- 
dren came, andto promife them not to fell any land without 
their covfent : * this being done they came home again, and 
km a man to reli ma what was done, telling me that if the 
Lordsin EngUnd help them not, th-y are like to fuffer at pre- 
fcm, but ftiii they fay they are not afraid of them, but onely 
giv: them their Remands, rather then to war, before the Lords 
hear of r, that ail m*y fee they mean no hurt to Englifb, but 
will iubmit to the La ares of England, concluding it is but 
lent it will come home with advantage b >th to their wif- 
dome and profit. P effects hath been often , with me to defire 
me to inform you of Ebefe things with great defire t© fee you 
again. Thusinhaflelreft, 

I Tour evev loving friend 

• This 2ow f November 1545. J. VV. 

Thus have we given a true report, and made a faithfall re- 
lation, as briefly as we coul^or whit paffages have fallen out 
bet wixt the people- ot Providence plantations, and the reft of 
our countteymen inhabiting about them, which we have ftri* 
fibly ftlf^ni our families are now preffed under, hying'it unto 

heart 



Simplicities Defence, againft fe*ven-headed Tolicj. 



heart, and fcrioud/ taking it hto conli Juration , huh not 
©nely occafioned,butnecefIitated fomeof us to bj here at th^i 
prefent with the confent of many others , accor Jing to cue 
bouaienduty, aud allegiance, to prefent chctruch hjreof to 
« his State. 

LONDON the 14th of Ianuarj 1*45. 



Here cometha letter to hind , was written intta time of our 
eonfinement,& lying ia boks,& irons in the Majf*chvfets } oc~ 
cifioaed by one of our wive$,lhe hearing doftrine delivered da 
that part of the couatrey where (he wasdriven wi^h h?r chil- 
dren) queftioning th* truth of it, writto hsr huibmd to defire 
his thoughts of it; it was gathered from 24. 29. & alluding 
tifo to Hci.\i. 26.27. for the explication of it, the fubftance 
of thedo&rine was,that lucha time of reformation, & reftau- 
ration of the church of God,kere on earth, was coming,the glo- 
ry whereof (hould darken the Sun and Moon,& caufe the itars 
to fall from heaven, that is,faith he,make the Apoftles doftrinc 
& order of the Churches in thofe day es to appeare as darkens 
in comparifon of that light which (hould now appeare,fhe w- 
iag alfo, that the miniftery of the Apoftles wis that which 
might & (hould be removed, that a more excellent glory might 
be brought in,and remain, concluding that the miniftery of the 
Apoftles, was but a miniftery of witneffe, but one (hould here- 
after appeare having the prefence and reality of that which 
they but onely witneflfed, and gave teftimony unto. 



1 Here follomth a true copy of the anfoer given unto the 
thing* propounded as above yin way of fatisfaUion , bo* 
we are to think, offuch kind of do Urine, which the 
World is fo taken up with, and feems to Hand in fuch ex- 
pe Hation and hopes of 

Concerning that point you writ from Mat. the 24 2?, 
asalfoH^.the 12. 26,27. Namely, the tsfpofites 
miniftery, tmmftery of witneffe, we readily grant * to 



S implicities Defence^ againsl [even- headed Policy. 



that it Was no more them a minijlery of fritneffe, we utterly de- 
ny, for it hid noc ondy witnejfe, but judgement alfo of condem- 
nation and abfolution in it, therefore the Apottie faith, God 
jhall judge you according to my Gofpel; for (he Apoftles are 
nor, but through the Spirit of the <Scnne, Who is that faith- 
full and trueftitnefe, yea, and the judge ofall y alfo; and higher 
then his miniftracioi? ( Who comes out of the bofome of the Fa- 
ther) roe looknor nor ever defire t o g *,Thercf ore we onely con- 
f effe him , Who is , and who was, and Who is to come, and there- 
fore re/eft fuch a Gofpell as profcflethjWA per font , times, 
and miniftrations paft, as never (hall come again, and fuels 
perfons , times and miniftrations to come as yet never were, as a 
cunning device andfleight of Sithan to beguile the foulesof 
men,eith'er to ftand in expeftation of things to come, or elfein 
admiration of things paft, whiles in the mean time they arc 
kept void of faith, Which gives being unto the things, yea even 
at theprefent time; otherwile it is but to know perfons and 
things after the R^fh 9 but henceforth knoW we no man after the 
fle/h, no though we have knoWn Chris! lef us after the flejb, yet 
henceforth know we him no more. 

tsfndfor the Sun being darkened, to be the miniftery of the 
Apo'tles becoming dark in refpeft of a greater light appear- 
ing, we may in no cafe allow, for the Sunne there fpoken of, 
is that Sunne of righteoufneffe^ greater then which (hall never 
tpp^r,butwhentbecrojfeof Chrifl (Ypoken of in that Chap- 
ter j is evidently fee forth, and declared to be that which in- 
deed it is ; then is that junne of Right e on fneffe^ that is light in 
it felf, turned into darkneffe, in all the men of the world, even as 
the Saints, Which are darkneffe in themfelves, become light in 
the Lord; for as the wicked turn the truth of God into a lie, 
which is tmth in it felf, and ever will be, fo they transform the 
light of the Lord into darkneffe, Which in it felf is light and can 
never be darkneffe : the Moon alfo, whofe time is to appeare. 
and her place to have dominion in the night, (hall not give her 
light , fee (hall fail in her office to fliine, waxe, waine, 
and to fct bounds to times andfeafons, that is, the wicked 
fiaUfet themfelves deprived of all hope te Attain to a change, 

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time trfeafon, which (hall alter their wofull condition, or re. 
move the Wrath of the Lord from, them, yea in their looking 
back to the changes of their lite before, wherein they hive 
thought themfelves fo well ex-rcifed,^ Moon in that refpetl 
{hall be turned into blood (is Ioel Speaks in the fame cafe) all 
rimes ftult afford them no hing elfc but to fee how they have 
been pradhfing the {hedging of that innocent blood, even from 
the blood of zAbcl, whom his brother flew n the field, where 
they were exercifed in ordinary imploy ments, in the things of 
this life* unto the blood of Zicharias jlaine (between) or in the 
middle of the temple and the altar, even in the very height of 
their worfhip and'ordinances Jo much flood for at this day. No- 
thing but fuch manner of light, or fuch a time or feafon (Hull 
thatlighcof heaven) thetimesind changes which they have 
paffed through afford unto them yea the ftarres {hall fall from 
heaven, tvzncztk to afford their various glories and lights,yea 
that day Flarre [hall never give notice of that dayfpringtng 
from on high to vifit them, or the rife of that Sunne of riojhteonf- 
neffe, frith healing under hissings, nor (hall their ieverall o- 
pe ations,and vertues yield any rtfreftmenr unto theft terrene 
& fublinary chings.that is,ali chofe ieverall glories, and vari- 
ous vertues and operations that are in that bright morning flar 
the Lord lefus 3 and in thofefeven flarrres Which he holds in his 
right hand, they (hill all fall off, and lofe th.ir luttre, light, 
and influence, in and towards earthly fonnes of ^Adam, as 
though they had never been;for as therejoycing of the lamp of 
the righteous is a putting out and ceffation of all ftnne and for- 
row, even fo the putting out of the candle of the wickeJ 9 's a ccfi- 
tion, aud utter demohfbing of all the vertues and excellencies of 
Chri(l unto them, as though they were not at all,my more then 
fo, fir as the fwne and miferies Which men are by nature fubftl 
unt o, are made througe the wif dome of God, ameanes Whereby 
We fee the height And depth , yea a 11 the dimenjions of the love 
of god do appear unto us,(o are the excellencies tha' are in J-fus 
Chrift, mtde (through the wifdom of that (erpenr^) means of 
torture & torment t* the Wicked for ever-even as toe exC' lUn- 
cies of thefe vifisle heavens would be a greater torture t<o man to 

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lofe them then if he had never feen or enjoyed them; and thence 
it is, that the potters of heaven are fhaken or the dominions 
of heaven; for every thing in the heavens hath its Lordfbip, the 
Sanathath dominion of the daj, the Moone and the ftarres ; the 
dominion of the night -the Sunne hath Lord/hip in fhining, when 
the Moon hides her race; but not in fetting bounds to times and 
feafons;fbr the Moon hath Lord/hi? in that, but not in affording 
value and influence to herbs & plants.for the liars have potter 
and dominion in that, yea every ftarre hath its particular pott, 
tr andvertue, yet can they not water the earth.Tae clouds have 
their dominion in that, yet cannot they ierve man to breathe in • 
the aire hath dominion in that; fo it is in the heavenly powers of 
our Lord Chrift, whatfoever is in him hath its dominion fo 
as all the reft have not their glorie without it, fo that whate- 
ver is declared in the Kingdoms of heaven it is the firft and 
the chief, and all the reft do ferve to make up allies potter or 
cZieftie, fo as all the Elders caft down their crownes before 
iti all the excellencies that are in Chrift J ; fo S) as love, wifdom, 
nghteoufnes, hdives power & glorj, all things in him have do- 
minion and power, Sc all thefe heavenly powers whatioever**? 
ftjaken.thtt is removed out of their places, not to appearein 
them any more, for the place wherein God declared his imaee 
at the firsl,tn the beginning ttas man; but when the crofle of 
Chrift is truly declared, then are all thefe hetvenly potters fb a- 
ken out of man ^.removed out of that proper place oiven un. 
to them in the beginning; therforeitis (aid, immediately after 
theje tribulations, or immediately with thefe tribulations, fas 
the word wil alfo beare ; that is, the preaching of the croffe and 
thfe things are infepar able; no rnarvell therefore, that when e- 
ver the crofle is preached, the champions of that man offmne 
come out againfiit, ffi iving to retain their god; for as it would 
be to nature m things of this life to fee all chief powers andhea- 
venly Mies foJh*ken, as to remove them out of their place for 
*ver;tbc very thoughts whereof are difmal to the mind of man- 
to, & infinitely more is it to the foul of a man to have the excel- 
lencies & noble potters and dominions of Godremovedout of hit 
heart where he placed them in the acl of his firft creation, are fo 

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that the exell eftcies of Chrift,^r^ ever [baking and ever removing 
out of their place in the Wicked, that the height of their torment 
any ever appeir and remain : tor thefe things are Chaken and 
removed in them, through the wifdom of the Serpent, that 
thofe things that cannot be (haken, namely, the Wrath and ven- 
geance of God may remain^ even io it is in the godly, their (ins 
and miferies are ever forking andremoving out of their prefer 
place , that thofe things that cannot be fh*ken 9 namely, the grace 
andrighteoufnefeof fhrift may remain for ever; therefore the 
voice ot the Gofyd Jba^es both heaven and eart h, in that place 
alluded unto in your letter Hebr. 12.16,27. alluding both so 
Mount Sinai, and Mount Sion 9 (0 that the word jet once more 
declares * double removall, yea, and that of things that art 
made?, for man Was made in the image of God, yet the wiidome 
of the Serpent removed this image, that mans righteoufneffe 
Which is nothing but abomination in tbe fight of God, might e- 
ver remain, So alfo ChriSi was made fin, but the wifdome of 
God removed this fin in the very aft of his being made fo that 
the righteOT^ndfe of God might remain andabidefor ever-, and 
theft, and then onely Jhall or doth appear the ftgne, or the mira- 
cle or wonder of the fonne of man in heaven, in thofe clouds of 
mtne(fe,or in that cloud of witnejfes With power and great glory , 
fo as all earthly kindreds jhall mourn and wail before him, Even 
fo Amen* Now the figne or wonder of the Son of man is this, 
that God made him a woild of life at the fi ft, for he breathed 
into his face, the breath of lifts, ( as the word is 3 for the life of 
all the World was in hirru>\ and yet this world of life is become 
nothing el(e buca woili of death in the wicked, and no life of 
God found in them at all ; fo is that fonof man in the fecond 
zAdammadeaworldoffianeand death, and yet this world of 
finneand death is becomes World of righteoufneffe and life 
unto the godly, aninofinnor unrighteoufneffe of man found in 
them,for never was guile found in his month, Evenfo. Amen, 
and this is chefigrieor miracle of the Son of man, which the 
World knowes not of, and therefore hach fo many empty con- 
i ^ures what it miy be thought to be, gizingupinto Heaven 

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after it : when as it iscome down unto us, and chey know ic 
not. Rom 10.7. tf. ' ll 

Thus hive 1 given you my thoughts as bricfss I could con- 
cerning wh« you propounded unto me, and bleffe the lord 
th« you mimftredoccafion to look into the texr. However we 
are Cet apart as <t forlorn people in the eyes of,& by the W^.vt t 
doubt I not.but our God hath fingled us out for other ends and 
ules. Mo hath put us into the Ift of? rmo s,or amon<r the nati- 
on of the dead, or deadly, fas the word fignifies ) to reveal un- 
to m the great mysteries of his Kingdoms that we may declare 
unto thofe that no* be hcn>ho* to have their hope in Go%& that 
t l m L ^f e J oldu » to /' i rchildrens children that noble Korkthat 
he hath tor ought for u, in our Lord Chrifl, who is over all, God 
blejfed for ever Amen. • 

Tour loving hufband 
in bonds, andyetfree, 

Samuel Gorton. 



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Divers Letters were written toftiuids friaflfwerfo 
quedions, and rdoluticn of 5-cnpiui c , Which how 
irenot athand ; othirwife we are veiy free to pub- 
lilh them to be feenof all, that the vv ifeliearted 
might iudge of what our fpirns and praftifes rellifli.d , a hd 
how they were imployed in the time of our durance arm 
thefe men , that were fo eagerly minded to make us blafphc- 
Haers, that fo they might take away our lives , as a part of the 
glory, and beaucification of their Religion, 

Only we defire the Readers p drs to take a view of one other 
Letter, in anfwer to a friend, who feemed to be troubled about 
that Scripture, in John 6. %^,verfe y what the meaning of it 
might be, defiringreklution therein, fince we atived in Erg . 
/ and, 

The words are thefe. 
Then Iefus /aid unto them^ verily y verily , I fay unto yov y ex- 
cept ye eat the fle/h of the fonm of man , and drinke hii 
bloody je have no life in you. 

FN thefe words confider 3 firft the occafion &f them . Se- 
condly , the fumme of them, and thirdly the parrs. 
Firft for the fum me, it isa divine fcntenceexclufive, of all 
8oen, from the life and fpiritof God, fave only fuch ai doe 
e at thefiefh of the fonne of man , and drinke his blood. 

Secondly, the parts of them for order fake are foure. Firft 
t he occafion of this lentence, in thefe words, thenjefmfaid 
unto them % fecondly, the confirmation of this fentence, laid 
down in thefe words, verily % verily; thirdly, the manner of 
thefentence, contained in thefe words, J fay unto yon, fourth- 

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iy, the fentence it felfe, excluding all from the life of God, 
iuch only excepted a*4oeeattheflefiof thefoweofman, and 
drinke his blood* 

For the firft, which is theoccafion of this divine fentence ; 
that is, the reafonings within themfelves , which the Jewes 
had in the operationsof their naturall hearts, upon the deli ve- 
riflgof this manner of doftrine unto them, even by the fonne 
of god himfelfe , implyedin this word (Then) looking back 
upon the verfe immediatly going before, from which Chrift 
takes occafion to utter this fentence $ whence we obferve, 
That the Word of God takes occafion, to utter and make it felfe 
manifest even from thenatnrall reafonings^ and argumentati- 
ons framed in mens minds \ though they are not the caufe, ytf 
they are the occafion of the maniftftation of it, even as the 
truth y righteoufneJfe $ pover, and authority that is in God, breed- 
eth occafionally, feare 9 terrour, jealoufie, and Wrath, in mens 
hearts and minds , though cheie excellencies that are in God, 
are no proper caufe hereof, but enely an occafion , without 
which they would not be j For if there Were no Judge ,the Ma- 
If aft or would not have terrour; even fo, the very naturall rea- 
iomngsof mens hearts, are the occafions of the manifcllation 
of the word of God in us , but no proper caufe of it , for the 
caufe is only in God himfclfej but without fuch reafonings, 
and CharaEleriflicall impreffions in mans mind , the word of 
God couli never have been implanted* , Written , or tranflatedm 
us thereby We come to have the argumentations , and concluft- 
ons of fonnes of god, and not /imply 3 or meerly of creatures in 
our minds, being once inlightned by him Who u God, and the 
Father of lights, Where ever it appeareth s So that the fouk of 
pan is of farre greater fublimitk, and naturalkxceliencie in 
its creation , then any other creature under heaven ever had 
vouchlafed unto it $ So that tkire is an utter impojfibilitj that 
any creature fhould receive the impreffims of God % but man a- 
lone. 

This is a large field to walk in, for according to the variety 
of the reafonings of the mind of man by nature, which is fee 
forth in all thole wayes, wherein men have walked, and ma- 

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nifefted themfdves in this prefent world, fitch is that Won- 
der full Epiftle of lefus Chrift, in the various Writing and c.v- 
freffim of it in the fouls, hearts, and lives of the Saint t that 
are in light through lefts Chrift; inftance in one for allelic fpi- 
rit of a naturall father reafons thus, if my chili ask^ bread ( to 
. fupply nature in the fupprefling of hunger ) I cannot put a ftone 
into his mouth, (that Were cruelty ) but bread; if fo be that I 
have it or can procure it; if the child ask fi/b, the father cannot 
put a ferpent into his bofome to bide and lling him, but fome- 
what to cure and refrefh him,if he have it. Now do but 
change this argument into the way of Chrift, and let God be 
the father, and my felfthe child, and then is God, not man, the 
father; the bread heavenly and not from the earth; the wri- 
ting, reafoning or argument; divine and eternall, not humane 
and temporary ; and fo the reafonings and di&ates of our fpi- 
rits are tranflated into the arguments and di&ates of the Spirit 
ofGod,md the arguments and dictates of the Spirit of God 
are tranflated into a mind and fpirit that fpeal^s the very fame 
things naturally in it felf, though onely in a way of death, 
through its naturall ignorance, that now it fpeaketh in that way 
of life) through that light and knowledge that is in the Lord; and 
thus, Chrift by finne condemnes {in in theflefhi for by thofe rea- 
fonings wherewith we juftifie ourfelves naturally, through 
that ignorance that naturally is in ut, by the very fame argu- 
ments and reafonings we condemn our felves, and juftifie the 
Lord , through that light and knowledge We have in him by 
Jefm Chrift* 

2 The fecond thing to be obferved ,is the certainty of this 
fentence kid down in the form of an oath, verily, verily, 
that is, fo it is or fo it (hall be, as if he (houldfay Amen, A- 
men % {o\t island fo it (hall be without alteration or change ^ and 
in that the word is doubled t ic is for the certainty of the 
thing, as Iofeph faid of Pharaohs dreame, and of no Idle cer- 
tainty is all true expofit ion and interpretation of holy &rip- 
ture, whatever men may dream as Pharaoh did and knew not 
the meaning of it, and fpeak at unce: tain ties not bemercfol - 
ved whether things may come to paffe now or then,or hill out 

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to be thus j or fb in the -things of God; for the famefpujtof 
truth and certainty, that gives the Prophefie, Proverbe, Para- 
ble, andadvifr, that records the Hiftory, or gives fentencedi- 
vine , muft alio ipterpref, expound , and declare the meaning 
thereof; elfe is the Booke ihut and fealed up unto us; great fol- 
ly therefore to conclude of certaintieof Scripture, and of no 
infallibility in the interpretation thereof ; For no more then 
we know the truth of an interpretation, no more doe we know 
the truth and certainty of any Hiftory , Prophefie, Proverbe, 
or Parable, which is propounded unto us, but take things up- 
on report,aswe doe other Chronologies of this world, having 
only the traditions of men jor the ground of our Worjhip of 
God. 

The third thing, is the manner of pronunciation of rhefcn- 
tence, I fay unto you % or as the word is 1 fay (in) you • the 
word ufed here , tranflated (I fay) fignifies fuch a faying' as a 
Judge fpeaks upon the Bench , when he gives fentence in a caufe, 
upon dueproofe and evidence , which ft ands fa(t in Law , being 
irrevocable^ fuch is the faying and fpetch of Chrift, the truth 
whereof can never be altered y and whereas he faith, I fay unto 
you, or as the word is , I fay(tn) you, it fignifies that what 
ever the Saints utter in point of Religion, it is, and muft 
be, the voice of the Sonne of God, and not of themfelves* 
fo that as he fuffereth in them , elfe can Ike have no 
death at all , and then no Saviour; evenfo he fpeaks in 
them, or elie ha th no voice, nor language at all ; and there- 
fore without them, no Reveller of rhe will of his Father • 
for where Chrift is filent, there can be no Rev< lation h there- 
fore is he the word , or exprtflion of the Father ; and what 
he faith of him, he faith it in them : therefore he faith , Ifaj 
in you, as in that very Epiftle , or writing, wherein Iexprejfe 
my felfe in the Father unto the Vvorld , for my Father and I are 
one. 

Thefounhthingtobeoblerved, is e he fentence it felfe, ex- 
cluding all from the life of God, fuch only excepted as doe 
eat the flejh of the fenne of man, and drin\e his bloody wherein 
cbkrve five things briefly , firft why he is called the Sonne o 

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.m*n % fecondly, what is meant by his fefh and blood inrhis 1% ^ 

place ; thirdly, what we are to undeiltand by ****** and , ^v! 

drinking; fourthly, what is meant by life in this place \ and / $ 

fifthly how we ire to underftand, that ixccpcion or limitation, / it 

feeing That of our felves We are not able to thinly a good ' 3^ 

thought , how can we then performe fuch i weighty worthy, ^ 
and unknown aftion, that is no ltffe then life it (clfejn the do- 

ingof ic. * 
For the filft, vU* Why he is called the Sonne of man ? 

Anfwi Not only, nor properly, becaufe he had a joule and ' ~£ 
a body as all men have, which indeed was good in thecr\a>ion, 

and fo man is called the fonne of God: But he is called the fon ijn 

ef man, becaufe he is fo produced ana brought forth , as none & 
can be, but fuch as proceed of man alone : Nor can he be a 
Saviour , but in way of fuch produdlion and fenfhip, foe 

Chrift in refped: of his death ( Without which no Saviour ) is f?| 

brought fo! th and produced no other way , but only in , and S 
by man 5 for there is no death to be heard of in God , nor can 

he bring forth or produce of himfelfe, any thing than is deadly, fa 

for he is that F$untaine of life ; yea> life itfelfe, in the abflraS; jjjJ 
nor can it be proper, or competible to the Sonne of God, to 

be brought forth in his death, in any, No, nor in all other 3£ 

creatures in the world, but only in man $ for as no other crea- 2£; 

ture in the creation was made in the Imag^ of God , bur man 2fe 
alone , fono other creature in regard of degeneration , can 

beare the Image of death aod hell but man alone: Therefore ^ 

it is that Chrift is faM>f* defcend into the h&tr- mfi farts of the ^ 
earth for our redemption^ in our redemption, Which is Wrought 

in us 7 or in our nature only ; Therefore he (airh , thou wilt not 5^ 
leave my foule in hell, neither Wilt thou fufer thine holy one t$ 
fee corruption^ therefore of neceffitie mult he be brought forth, 

inrefpeftof his death by man alone. ; j£ 

The fecood thingtobe obferved, is, What is meant byflejb %. ^ 

and blood} '' . >W 

tAnfw. By flefli in Scripture, fomehmes is meant, that ^ 

Which our Lord, or any of his were never nourifheJ , nor in vj 

the leaft refrefhed by 5 and that is the Arme of fkfo, which is » 

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acurfetoali them that ftrengthen themfelvsby it in the things 
of Sod ; for in that fenfe,. (hall fis/b and blood never inherit the 
Kingdoms of God ; nay adde further , in that fence it is true, 
That if you live after the p(h s it is death, which is to live accor- 
ding to the wifdome, skill, Strength:* ftudy, and fore-caft, a* 
bouc the things of God, that a creature fmecrlyashe is a crea- 
ture j isable to produce and bring forth, which is to live ac- 
cording to the wealth, power, and honour of the creature^ 
whote.goodlineffe is as the fbwer of grade that withereth.ccn* 
fumeth, and is brought to nought - for the beft thing that is 
in it ( which is his wiidom ) y emnitie ^ith God, for it is not 
fubjett to the Law of God, neither indeedcan be. But fecond- 
ly, wearetounderftand by fL-ft> f that weakneffe,trailty, and 
imbecillity of mjn,. when he is deprived ^and laid Waftein 
himfelfe, of all created glory , which is only then, when the 
fpirit of the Lord blowes r or breathes upon him ; and fo becoms 
nothing in himfelfe but weaknefle and infirmity: And in 
this fenfe the Ptophet faith ; Now the Egyptians are men r and 
not god, their Horfes fie(h , and not (pirit i So faith the Pfal- 
miftm the fame fence,, myfiejbalfo reftethin hope, that is my* 
weakneffe, and tired out condition y hath reft, and ttrength in an 
other,t hough not in my felfe; for hope that Ufeenis no hope, fo 
that my nature affords nofuch thing, but only that nature to 
which I am united: And in another place, Thou art a God 
thatheareth prayers , ani unto thee (ball alt ' flejb come ,'hatir, 
thou art ftrepgth , and able to fupply abundantly in all thing!*,, 
for thou art God , and we bring nothing but weakneffe and in. 
firmitieuntothec x /*r unto thee nothing but flefb comes ; and fo 
the Sonne of God is truly hi&>to be mads flefh>ihit\$ weak and 
frsyle, in regard of our nature which he tooke, or (as a conti- 
nued aft) takes upon himfelfe* 

Agiine, by blood is here meant the life , sjirit , and poKer 
cf the Sonne of 6W,as he defends from the Father,even as the 
vigour , life and fpirit of the creature runs in tile blood,, in the 
heat thereof : fuch isthe life,fpirir,?ower, w?rtue, and vigor of 
thefonneofm5n,asheisofthelife,defcenr, and power of the 
father from above,, and fo is God blefled for ever *Amen % and. 
m tfus fence is blood taken by our Apoftl^whereJie faufa,r£* 



Simplicities Defence againjl fevcn- heeded Tolicie. 

uhcrthatcame by Water and blood, that is , by weakne(fe and 
firength % not by Water only, but by Water and blood; that i^nor 
by weakneffe only, buc by weakntftfc and llrength, that is 
Wcakncfle in us. 9 or in our nature, but power in Gcd, or in 
that nature divine; foishe faid in the like feofc , tohevruc* 
fiedin the fie fh, but quicknedin the spirit ; and fo is it ilfo fai & 
*Xhat What the Law could not doe , in that it was weake c oncer, 
ningthe flefh, yet the Sonne of (fod taking upon him that firr/ilt- 
tude, and by finne condemned ftnne in the flejh y that the right e- 
oufntjfe of the Law might be fulfilled in m , that is, even as ht 
became flcflxin us , fo doe we become (pirit , and lite in him, 
which is the fulfilling andperfetlion of the Law. 

The third thing obferved is, what it is to eat this fie fh y and 
to drinks this blood? 

zAnfw* Is that as it is in the body of a man naturally in 
thatrefpeft, evenfoalfok is in that my fticall body of Chrilt 
Ipiritinllyj for if a man flioulieat, or communicate in (as 
the meaning is) only in food for the body, and not take in 
moyfture, or drinke, for thedigeftion thereof, it is the dc- 
(ku&ionof the body, becaufemoyfture, as welbs heat,muft 
'be maintmed » thofe being the two Radical! humours * y clfe 
dot>.the Lampegoe cut, and is exdnft ; yea, mute without 
moyfluredothfuffocate, andchoak thefpirits, to the forfei- 
ting of the body,tndfo becomes the over- throw of if, which 
etherwife would maintaine and uphold it. Againe, if wee 
fliould tike in only drinke, without mear, upon which it ope- 
rate th, and worketh , then doth the moyfture prtftntly over- 
flow to the quenching of the heat, and fo breedeth either fomc 
drop fie in the body, to the finking and ovenhrow of it in that 
way, orelfeitfumethupintothehead, and breeds mdneflc^ 
and gidejinefle in the brain, unto allfooliih, wantcn , and lal- 
civious wickedneffe: Even fo it is in that myllicali body of 
Chrift : And hence it is faid {by an elegant allufton) to eating 
and drinking naturally) that We eat the fiefh of the fenne of man, 
And drinke his blood ; thar is,if wc eat or communicate wicfc 
that weakneffe and frailty which is naturally in man, and 
which the Sonne of God affumed and tQoke into unity with 
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- himfelfe, without alike drinking in, or communication with, 
that sfirit • and life wherein he vifus m , and comes mo our na- 
ture from en high {even out of the bofvme of the Father) then 
doe we futfeit, & iuffocste the fpirir ,and die m our felves } and 
in out fiiimes ; and foalfo, if "We negletl that weaknejfe that is in 
m fas though no fuch thing were) and dream of a high and 
fpirituall eltatf, Which doth not arife out of ', and is therefult 
(through the wifdom of God ) of that weakneffe that is in 
us, then doe we either finks in onr folly, and become fouifo in 
the things of God, being drunke up only witii the chinas f 
this niturall life, elfe are we puffed up, and become giddy in 
ourlelve v thinking we know fomething , When as indeed we 
k»oW nothing as We ought to know, but are raeerly , andvainlj 
f>uft up in a carnall,a$Jiring, proud, vaine.ghrious, and fie My 
mud. So that to eat the flrfo and drinke the blood of the Son 
of man, is to communicate in the things that are of Jefus 
Chrift , both as he is God , and as he is man, and to hold the 
unity el arengthand weakneffe; thui', how he is made weak 
in taking our nature , and fo carries and bears our infirmities a- 
way for ever ( he being that (cape-Goat , whofe office it is fo 
to doe:) And alfo, how our natureis, thereby madeftrone 
and mighty, througth that ftrength of the Sonne of God in 
Whom we hod no infirmity, but are furnifhed with his power 
everlafhogly, fo that death which is naturally in us (as we are 
the foanes of men; is [Wallowed up of thatvillorj and life 
Which is in him , as he is th<u victorious , and eternall Sonne of 
god and without a finable correfpondent , and hermonious 
feed ingot thefetwo, asinoneindividuallfubMance, we can- 
not have life in us, no more then our bodies can be fuftamed 

4i by meat without drinke, or by drinke only without meat.- and 
that is the h a th panieuhr.f/^ We cannot have life in us,thnt i< 
we can have no life > spirit , or breathings of the Sonne of that 
living God »«fl For *f the body Without the foule is dead , fo 
alfo the foule witfout the life, and jpirit of the Lord lefmis 
dead, and as the body lives not without meat and drink, heate 
and moykure, fothe foule lives not without communicring 
alike, w this length and Weakneffe, or in this life and death, 

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Simplicities Defence, *g*infi fcven-headed PolUy. ~ rop^ S 

which is in the Sonne of god, Who kies rMft^£ »fr/fa£, ;* 
*/ qmckned in the ffirit the fpirit of God proceeds eve c 

from thde two , when ever it u:tereth ir (cife , in that lively $ 

Or^/(? orfpeech, from off the covering Mercy -feat \ it is ever 3£ 

from between thefe ttoo Cherubims , and never fpeaks evident- % 

ly > What peril Ions times are in the Lift dayes, but only as i t pro- ^* 

ceeds from thefe twain.thr is,from a dying unto the fl Oi,and #3 

a teihg quickn^ed in,and living unto the fpirit , by which life * 
ff>irit,or breath it ever preacheth, from the dayes of Noah,™™ 

untill 00j* s both in our felves, and by our (elves to others- fcr ^ 
as it is a Msxim , that the fpirit proceedeth both from the Fa- 
ther and the Son,fo is it here,for thtfleJh,or infirmity of Chrift 

is the Father, & the fpirit or power is rhe Son,*s he is brought £jfc» 

forth in that way of his death, without which he had never E£ 

been a Saviour, and the Spirit or power is the Father, and the «! 
fb(h is the S<w,in as much as he brings forth life in this death, 

Without which he had never been as he is man , in refpeft pi £ 
that life , by ^hich hee liveth the life of god, never to dye any 
more , lohsve we eating and drinking made one in tha: way 

of the faith of the Son of God, without which we cannot live vjJ 
the lite of that Saint or holy one of Ifrael. 

The fifth particular in this point is, how it can be faid, that j. 2fcr 

roe eat this fte/h of the Son of man, and drinkhis b!ood;m which 2fj 
confider two things, firft who are meant in that he fpeaks plu- 

rally, except eat,8cc. Secondly, how we can be faid to eat & 

and drink in fuch a high nature, kringthatweof ourfelves 3] 

cannot thinks a good thought , much lefle performe fuch an aft ^ 

as this. 2£ 

For the ncft , who are meant in that he fpeaks in the fecond ^ 

perfonplurall f 7>. 2Jfc 

Anfw. It is not properly to be underftood , as being meant 3|? 

*f man and man y no aof asof Saint and Saint,but of one Saint J£ 
as hecanjifts of a two-fold nature, according to that faith off I.e 
Sonne of God ; fo is it, Tee, chacis,every one that is in Chrift, 

add fo through thofeprectom promifes , or gracious Covenant, ^ 

;ij made partaker of that nature divine ; ye», who over is one ^ 
of thoje children that have fbfh andUocd, of Which the Sonne 

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ef God alfo took? part with them , namely, they that are tart*' 
kers of thofe two natures by faith , that are in J efus Chrift, to 
every one of thofe this is fpjken, as to luch&g ire eaters, and 
drinkers in this cafe ; forChrift as he is God, feeds upon no- 
thing but our infirmities; that i?, (lengthens himfeife in point 
of our lalvation, with nothing but our frailties and imperfefti- 
ons, and fo of weak becoms ftrong,yea of an abjecfyhe Lord of 
all, For he in no cafe takfthholdon nAngels , thatis,of any 
power or excellency in the creature to deliver us thereby, but 
only on the feed of Abraham ( a Pilgrim and ftraagerinthe 
Land) he taheth hold ; that is , on our weaknefies,and impetfe- 
ftions,tnd out of them he brings his owne power and ftrength 
and other food the Sonne of God never tooke intounitie, nor 
digefted , to gather ftrength unto himfeife by. Againe , as he 
is aunhednnkftb the blood, thst if, takes in, or receives that 
blood, life,fp t rtt, and power of God, thereby he is inabled to doe: 
all thing/, according to the pttrpofe of hit will, and other drinke 
he never drunke, as he is man ; for our poor nature is of that 
vafi emptwejfe, that nothing but thefulneffe and poKer of *n in- 
fintt andal-fuffictent qod,c*npoffibly fupply andperfecl *>,and fo 
tn«e is a compleat eating ini drinking, which is that full fa. 
tisfaftion and nounfhment,thatcan be found innone,/iv# only 
m the Sonne of Godhimfelfefarh is a weakneffe of that nature 
and latitude, that nothing can fupply and makeup but God 
himfeife; and it is a power of that t uineiTe and perfection that 
can take noting into unitie with itfelfethat may be thought 
to adde any thing (no not in the lead ) unto that ftrength and 
vigour that is m God ; for then it were not an Almighty 
power of God that faves u?. 

And fo it is ( we) that eat and drinke, that is,^, humane 
nature and divine; iot in eating, the word eats up , and con- 
fumes our infirmities, and fo there is a plurality in the aft, not 
only of natures m that one aft, but of eating alfo in fundry 
kinds and wayes; for as ouunfirmiiiesaremulciplyed , and 
that aptitude that is in us to fall, fuch is the multiplication of 
that ttftoration which is in that good word of God; it is (We) 
alfo n drinking, that is, cur vafi emptineffe t drinks and takes 

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inthatfulneffc, powsr, and fpirit that is in the word of God, 
in which we are exprefcd and made manifrft to be the fonncs 
and daughters of Go J, and in that mutuall eating and drinking 
out life,llrength, and comfort doth confil. 

The fifth particular how it is faid ( that We doe eat) that are 
not able to doe any thing; dike aifwer is to be given to this as 
totheformer, when he faith, Tee, he means not only divers 
men, bathe meaneth every one as confiJered,in him, who is 
not only of man,bjtalfoof God ; (o that if wefpeakof man 
feparated from the Word of God ( which hath fofficient 
power in it fdfe ) we miffe of the meaning , and of the mind 
of God , and fo of that communion or eating that is in the 
faith of JefusChrift • and if we fpeak of God divided and 
feparated f rom man, we commit the like errour, and are in the 
fame default; but we mutt hold and maintain the unity of 
them both, in that way of faith in the Sonne of man, then is 
there power and ability, both to eat and to drink, even as there 
is power and ability in the Heavens and the earth , united 
in their operations, to bring forth fruit plentifully , which 
worke cannot be done, if either of them were fet apart, ani 
feparated one from the other: So that the word of God is made 
ftrong through our wcakneffs , that lo it may appeareani 
make manifeft it felfe : and our weakneffe appears , and is ac- 
knowledged through that word of God, that fo all may be gi- 
ven unto God f and he may be all in all ; fo that it is (Tee) as 
man confidered,in and with the power and fpirit of God, in 
which he is inabied to doe all things, and not (Tee) as confiie- 
redone man, in and with another, for fo all flefta is grade, 
forely ift that refpeft the people is vanity. 

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