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A96686	Hypocrisie unmasked: by a true relation of the proceedings of the Governour and company of the Massachusets against Samuel Gorton (and his accomplices) a notorious disturber of the peace and quiet of the severall governments wherein he lived : with the grounds and reasons thereof, examined and allowed by their Generall Court holden at Boston in New-England in November last, 1646. Together with a particular answer to the manifold slanders, and abominable falshoods which are contained in a book written by the said Gorton, and entituled, Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy, &c. Discovering to the view of all whose eyes are open, his manifold blasphemies; as also the dangerous agreement which he and his accomplices made with ambitious and treacherous Indians, who at the same time were deeply engaged in a desperate conspiracy to cut off all the rest of the English in the other plantations. VVhereunto is added a briefe narration (occasioned by certain aspersions) of the true grounds or cause of the first planting of New-England; the president of their churches in the way and worship of God; their communion with the Reformed Churches; and their practise towards those that dissent from them in matters of religion and Church-government. / By Edw. Winslow. Published by authority.	Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.; Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.; Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3037; Thomason E409_23; ESTC R204435	90,941	117

professeth himselfe to bee a worm and no man the shame and contempt of the people and these faithfull and true witnesses thus slaine you must of necessity deny buriall and keep them both in open view in your streets or otherwise all your pompe and glory falls to the dust whence it came and on which it feeds Nor can you send your presents one to another of your acts of Justice power to protect wealth honour and friends wherewith you gratifie each other and where these are thus slaine and their corps lie in open view none of the gentiles peoples tongues and kindreds suffering their carkasses to bee put in graves there is that great City which spiritually is Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is crucified but after three dayes and an half the spirit of life from God shall enter into them and they shal stand up upon their feet to the terrour of you all Nor doe you thinke that wee onely inveigh against the great ones of this world for thus doing for wee know that the basest peasant hath the same spirit with the greatest Princes of this world and the greatest of the Princes of this world hath the very same spirit wherewith the basest peasant hath laid himselfe open in the view of all men these wee say are the two witnesses if you can receive it and what a dishonour is it to trade so much by meanes of witnesses and yet not know what a true witnesse is which if you did you durst not attempt the things you doe whereby you cast reproach upon all the world in that you professe your selves a choice people pickt out of it and yet goe on in such practices as you doe maintaining them as your onely glory Our Lord gives you in charge not to sweare at all but it is your dignity to bring men to your seates of Justice with nothing but oathes in their mouthes why doe you not ballance the scriptures in this point viz. It hath beene said of old Thou shalt not committ adultery but I say unto you hee that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart already so also it hath beene sayd of old Thou shalt not forsweare thy self but I say unto you sweare not at all so that if it be adulterie to looke to Iust it is also forswearing a mans self to sweare at all if the one be adultery the other is perjury if one be admitted in some cases the other also so that in preaching the toleration nay the duty of an oath you preach the toleration yea the duty of adulterie it self So that our Lord plainly evinceth unto all mens consciences not onely the guilt but the folly and madnesse of the oath of man shewing how farre it is either from investing into place or demonstrating Causes so that hee that concludeth upon honour and power received from the oath of man or upon knowledge and bouldness to judge in a cause from that testimony without the which he could not have it is as vaine in his thoughts as if hee should herupon conclude I have now altered the frame of heaven which is no less stable then the throne of the great God or demolished the earth which is as firme as his foot-stoole for ever or made a fraction in the orders of Jerusalem that choice and peculiar City of the great King whose institutions no mortall breath can intrench upon or to professe his authority and skill to be such whereby he can make a haire of his head blacke or white cause his age to wax old as doth a garment or renew it with the Eagle at his pleasure hereby doth man in this point of swearing professe his folly to bee such that hee is become not onely vaine in his imaginations but unto that pride and usurpation therein as to intrude himselfe into the prerogative royall of his Maker So that however you boast of the Ordinances of God yet he tels you there is no more then yea yea and nay nay in them for what is once nay is ever nay in the Ordination of Christ and what is once yea is ever yea with him and according to his account however man reckoneth whose account shall be called over againe what is once curse is ever the curse and what is once the principality and power of Christ is ever the principality and power of Christ as that which is once the principality and power of Darkenesse is ever the same what hands soever it cometh into for manifestation measure your kingdome whether it bee eternall and your Jurisdiction whether it bee illimited for he hath given him the heathen for his inheritance the utmost parts of the earth for his possession and a kingdome of lesse extent hee professeth not nor can hee approve or acknowledge any that doe no more then light can approve of darkenesse or the Lord Jehovah of the Lord Baal Bee wise therefore and be thinke your selves while it is called to day harden not your hearts as though you would make your selves Meriba nothing but strife and contention against the Lord rather kisse the sonne if it bee possible lest his wrath bee kindled and you perish from the way for ever O blessed onely they that hope in him So that hee which professeth on this wise it is yea I am a pastour but it was nay at such a time I was none hee renounceth that spirit of the true pastour yet onely feeder of Israel professing onely that spirit that pusheth the weake with the horne and pudleth with his feet the waters where the flocke of God should drinke Hee with whom it is yea I am a Ruler but it was nay when I was none at all renounceth that spirit of him that rules in righteousnesse professing the spirit of him that rules according to the god of this world that Prince of the power of the Aire who is now working so effectually in the children of disobedience So also hee with whom it is yea I am a Captaine or chiefe slaughter-man but it was nay time was I was none at all renounceth that victorie and slaughter made by the Captaine and High-priest of our profession who as hee is a Lambe slaine from the beginning his victory and slaughter must bee of the same antiquity professing himselfe to bee a chiefe slaughter-man or superfluous Giant made in that hoast of the Philistims standing in readinesse to come out to defie the hoast of the living God yea it is evident that whatsoever is more then yea yea and nay nay not settlingeach upon its Base whereon it standeth for ever without controule but can remove create or make void offices and officers at their pleasure it of that evill or not of Jesus the salvation of his people but of Shedim that waster and destroyer of mankinde for ever know therefore that it is the oath of God which confirmes and makes good his Covenant and promise unto a thousand generations and it is the oath of

may not thinke to lay our purchased plantation to their Iland so neere adjoyning for they come too late in that point though Benedick hath reported that Myantonimo one of the Sachims of whom wee bought it should lose his head for selling his right thereof to us As also a minister affirmed that Mr. Winthrop should say to him that wee should either bee subjected unto you or else removed hence though it should cost Bloud Know therefore that our lives are set apart already for the case wee have in hand so wee will lose nothing but what is put apart aforehand bethinke your selves therefore what you should gaine by fetching of them in case it were in your power for our losse should bee nothing at all For wee are resolved that according as you put forth your selves towards us so shall you finde us transformed to answer you If you put forth your hand to us as country-men ours are in readinesse for you If you exercise the pen accordingly doe wee become a ready writer If your sword bee drawne ours is girt upon our thigh If you present a gun make haste to give the first fire for we are come to put fire upon the earth and it is our desire to have it speedily kindled For your pursuite of us still to come your Courts to receive your parcells of Justice undoubtedly either God hath blinded your eyes that you see not our answer formerly given in that point or else you are most andacious to urge it upon us againe also you may take notice that wee take it in more disdaine then you could doe in case we should importune you yea the chiefe amongst you to come up to us and bee employed according to our pleasure in such workes as wee thought good to set you about and for your grant of freedome unto us to come downe to you and returne in safety wee cannot sufficiently vilifie this your verball and per●unctory offer knowing very well according to the verdict of your owne conscience that what wrongs soever are passed amongst us since our comming into this Country you have beene the violent agents and wee the patients To feare therefore to come amongst you as such as have done wrong the cause vanisheth in us so must the effect also And to feare to come unto you as tyrants which your grant must necessarily implies wee cannot knowing that hee which is with us is stronger then hee which is with you Also the earth is the Lords and the fullnesse thereof and when and where hee shall call wee will goe but not at the will and lust of sorry men to play their parts with us at their pleasure as formerly they have done and as it is apparant you desire to doe for if your lusts prevailed not over you in that kinde you might well thinke that wee have better employments then to trot to the Massachusets upon the report of a lying Indian or English either as your factors and ordinary hacknies doe But know this Oyee that so long as wee behave our selves as men walking in the name of our God where ever wee have occasion to come if any mortall man whose breath is in his nostrils dares to call us into question wee dare to give an answer to him or them nor shall wee faile through God to give testimony even in his conscience of the hope that is in us whether his question may concerne the rice or succession either of Priest or Peere In the meane time we sit in safety under the cloudy pillar while the Nations roare and make a noise about us and though you may looke upon us with the unopened eye of Eliahs servant thinking us as nothing to those that are against us yet wherever the cloud rests wee know the Lords returne to the many thousands of Israel In that you say our freedome granted to come to you takes away all excuse from us wee freely retort it upon your selves to to make excuses whose Lawes and proceedings with the soules and bodies of men is nothing else but a continued art like the horse in the mill of accusing and excusing which you doe by circumstances and conjectures as all the fathers have done before you the Diviners and Necromancers of the world who are gone to their owne place and have their reward But for the true nature rise and distribution of things as they are indeed and shall remaine and abide as a law firme and stable forever wee say and can make it good you know nothing at all therefore such as can delight themselves in preaching professing and executing of such things as must end as the brute beasts doe nay take them away for present and they have lost their honour religion as also their God let such wee say know themselves to bee that beast and false prophet no man of God at all In the meane time wee looke not on the things that are seene but on the things that are not seene knowing the one are temporary the other eternall Nor doe wee thinke the better of any man for being invested into places or things that will in time waxe old as doth a garment neither judge we the worse of any man for the want of them for if we should we must condemne the Lord Christ as so many doe at this day Wee demand when wee may expect some of you to come to us to answer and give satisfaction for some of these foule and inhumane wrongs you have done not to the Indians but to us your country-men not to bring in a Catalogue as we might take this one particular abuse you are now acting in that you abet and backe these base Indians to abuse us Indeed Pumham is an aspiring person as becomes a Prince of his profession for having crept into one of our neighbours houses in the absence of the people and felloniously rifled the same hee was taken comming out againe at the Chimney-top Soccononoco also hath entred in like manner into one of our houses with divers of his companions and breaking open a chest did steale out divers parcels of goods some part whereof as some of his companions have affirmed are in his custody at this time Yet we stand still to see to what good issue you will bring your proceedings with these persons by whom you are so honorably attended in the Court generall as you call it and would honour us also to come three or fourescore miles to stand by you and them wee could tell you also that it is nothing with these fellowes to send our cattle out of the woods with arrowes in their sides as at this present it appeares in one even now so come home and it is well they come home at all for sometimes their wigwams can receive them and wee have nothing of them at all yea they can domineere over our wives and children in our houses when wee are abroad about our necessary occasions sometimes throwing stones to the endangering of their lives and sometimes

Necromancers Judasses men that live by bloud robbers and thieves men without mercy among whom Justice is dumbe delighting in the kingdome of darknesse and the devill like Herod and Pilate in administring Justice whose eyes are dazled with envie and eares open to lies stout maintainers of the man of Sin whose wayes are wicked and to bee abhorred worse then Indians like dogs c. This language speakes loud to what Countrey they belong and of what race they come II. Their reviling Language not onely against the Magistrates and Government here in particular but also against Magistracy it self and all Civill power IF any shall say for them as themselves now for their owne advantage doe that this ill language is directed onely against our particular Government and Magistrates but not against all Civill power it self the contrary may appear notwithstanding their dark language under which sometimes they seek to conceale it in these particulars 1 They expresly affirm that the Office to minister Justice belongs onely to the Lord and that therefore from their instance of Herod men make themselves Gods which themselve● interpret to be onely from the God of this world and to be in flat opposition against God pag. 26. by ruling over the bodies and estates of men and that the people receiving Herod to Government crying out that this was the ordinance of God and not of man that he was immediately smitten of God for it As also they tell us p. 26. that to set up men to Judge of good and evil for which all m●n are set up in that kinde that this is re-acting that ancient spirit of the Serpent If yee eate yee shall bee as Gods Now this strkes at all Magistracy for if the office of ministring justice and righteousnesse belongs to God onely then not unto any man for that is to make Gods of men and if to judge betweene good and evill bee to act over againe the ancient spirit of the Serpent then 't is not onely unlawfull but diabolicall to make Judges of what is right and wrong good or evill by any man If it bee objected is it possible that any men should bee so grosly blind and wicked as to abolish all ministration of Justice and righteousnesse Answ 1. These men seeme to acknowledge some way of ministring Justice but the mysterie lies in that word Office they would have no man set up in the Office of Magistracy distinguished from other men but would have such a power common to the B●ethren so that a man may judge as a brother but not as an Officer and therefore they slily justifie him who called one of our chiefe Magistrates in the open face of the Court Brother and condemne all our Magistrates because every man doth not sit there to judge as a Brother pag. 16. and their reason seems to bee drawne from this because that to bee a Brother and consequently a ●olicire with Christ is a higher sphere then to bee a Civill Officer as their owne words intimate pag. 16. Now the rule is evident à quatenus ad omne that if ministration of Justice and judgement belongs to no officer but to a man as a Brother then to every Brother and if to every Brother whether rich or poore ignor●nt or learned then every Christian in a Common-wealth must bee King and Judge and Sherif●e and Captaine and Parliament man and Ruler and that not onely in New-England but in Old and not onely in Old but in all the Christian world downe with all Officers from their Rule and set up every Brother for to Rule which the godly-wise may easily discerne to bee the establishment of all con●usion and the setting up of Anarchy worse then the greatest Tyranny 2. Although these may beare the world in hand that they allow ministration of Justice and righteousnesse by men as Brethren yet some Cakes of these mens dough have been so farre leavened and sowred against all Civill power as that in our Publike Courts being demanded how murderers theeves and adulterers should bee punished if there should bee no Civill power coercive they openly and roundly answered before many witnesses that such persons must be left to the judgment of God both which not long after God himself sate Judge upon being suddenly and barbarously slaine by the bloody Indians in the Dutch plantation First they exclaime against us for choosing men that are honourable learned wise experienced and of good report or else they may not rule among us and this they say is of man and by man and putting the second witnesse to death viz. the dea●h or weaknesse of Christ or in plaine English 't is a killing of Christ Now however the application is made unto our Civill State yet it manifestly strikes at all Civill States in the world who shall choose any Officers for rule and government and administring of Justice although they bee never so honourable learned wise experienced and of good report and consequently most fit for government and that in so chusing them they doe put Christ himself to death So that these men still harp on that string to have every man judge as a Brother whether honourable or not honourable whether wise or foolish whether of good report or evill report otherwise Christs weaknesse is slaine 3. They affirme that they who can create make void and remove offices and officers at their pleasure are of that evill one i. the devill and not of Jesus Christ but of Shedim that waster and destroyer of mankind for ever Their proofe is from that monstrous interpretation of Yea yea and Nay nay and they instance not onely in Church-officers but in Common-wealth-officers whether Rulers or Captaines Their words are these viz. Hee with whom it is yea I am a Ruler but it was nay when I was none at all renounceth the spirit of him that rules in righteousnesse professing the spirit of him that is Prince of the power of the aire who is working now so effectually in the children of disobedience so also hee with whom it is yea I am captaine or chief-slaughter-man but it was nay time was that I was none at all renounceth the victory and slaughter made by the Captaine and High-priest of our profession professing himselfe to bee a superfluous Giant made in the host of the Philistims to defie the host of the living God By which speeches ' ●is evident that they doe not onely oppose Civill officers chosen amongst us here but all such as are chosen Rulers Captaines and Officers at any time in any place and were not so before and such they say are of the Devill the destroyer of man 4. They say men limit and so destroy the holy one of Israel whose life is infinite and without circumscription and containment as they call it if men acknowledge that Christ rules on earth onely by his Deputies Litvtenants and Vicegerents i. by persons invested with Civill authority and office for so they are