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A85462	Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy. Or, innocency vindicated, being unjustly accused, and sorely censured by that seven-headed church-government united in New-England: or, that servant so imperious in his masters absence revived, and now thus re-acting in Nevv-England. Or, the combate of the united colonies, not onely against some of the natives and subjects but against the authority also of the kingdom of England, ... Wherein is declared an act of a great people and country of the Indians in those parts, ... in their voluntary submission and subjection unto the protection and government of Old England ... Imprimatur, Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused, approved, and licensed to the presse, according to order by publike authority.	Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1308; Thomason E360_16; ESTC R18590	106,374	127

an halfe the spirit of life from God shall enter into them and they shall stand up upon their feet to the terrour of you all Nor doe you thinke that wee only inveigh against the great ones of the world for thus doing for wee know that 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 the world and the basest Peasant hath the same spirit with the greatest of the Princes of this world These wee say are the two witnesses if you can receive it and what dishonour is it to trade so much by meanes of witnesses and yet know not what a true witnesse is which if you did you durst not attempt the things yee doe whereby you cast reproach upon all the world in that you professe your selves a choice people pickt out of it and yet you goe on with such practises as you doe maintaining them as your only glory Our Lord gives you in charge not to sweare at all but it is your dignity to bring men to your seats of Justice with nothing but oaths in their mouths why doe you not ballance the Scriptures in this point It hath beene said of old thou shalt not commit 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 said of old thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe but I say unto you sweare not at all So that if it bee Adultery to looke to lust it is also forswearing of a mans selfe to sweare at all if one be Adulterie 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 dutie of adulterie it selfe So that our Lord plainely evinceth unto all mens consciences not only the guilt but the folly and madnesse of the oath of man to sh●w how farre it is 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 holdnesse to judge in a cause from that Testimonie without the which hee could not have it is as vaine in his thoughts as if hee should hereupon conclude I have now altered the frame of Heaven which is no lesse 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 Ierusalem that choice and peculiar Citie of the great King whose institutions no mortall breath can intrench upon or to professe his authority and skill to be such whereby hee can make a ●●ire of his head black or white viz. cause his age to wax old as a garment or renew it with the Eagle at his pleasure hereby doth man in this point of swearing professe his folly to be such that he is become not onely vaine in his imaginations but to that pride and usurpation therein as to intrude himselfe into the Prerogative Royall of his Maker so tha● howsoever ye boast of the Ordinances of God yet hee t●ls you there is no more then yea yea and nay nay in them for that which 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 howsoever man reckoneth whose accounts shall be called over againe what is once the curse is ever the curse and that which is once the Principality and power of Christ is ever the principalitie and power of Christ as that which is once the principalitie and power of darkenesse is e●er the same what hands soever it commeth into for manifestation measure your Kingdome whether it be eternall and your jurisdiction whether it be illimited for hee hath given him the Heathen for his inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession and a Kingdome of lesse extent hee professeth not nor can he approve or acknowledge any that do no more then light can approve of darkenesse or the Lord I●hovah of the lord Baal Be wise therefore and bethinke your selves while it is called to day harden not your hearts as though you would make your selves Meribba nothing but strife and contention against the Lord rather kisse the So●ne if it be possible lest his wrath kindle and you perish from the way for ever Oh blessed onely they that hope in him so that hee which professeth on this wise it is yea I am a Pastor but it was nay at such a time I was none at all hee renounceth that spirit of the true Pastor yea the only Feeder of Israel but professeth that spirit only that pusheth the weake with the horne and pudleth with his feet the waters where the flocke of God should drink He with whom it is yea I am a Ruler but it was nay when I was none 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 ayre who is now working so effectually in the children of disobedience so also he with whom it is yea I am a Captain or chiefe slaughter-man but it was nay time was I was none at all renounceth that victory and slaughter made by the Captaine and High Priest of our profession who as he is a Lambe slain from the beginning his victory and slaughter must be of the same antiquity professing himselfe to be a chiefe slaughter-man or superfluous Giant made in the Hoast of the Philistims standing in readinesse to come out to defie the Hoasts of the ever living God yea it is evident whatsoever is more then yea yea and nay nay not setting each upon his base whereon it standeth for ever without controule but can remove create or make void offices and officers at their pleasure is of that evill one not of Jesus the Salvation of his people but of Shedim that Waster and Destroyer of man-kind for ever Know therefore that it is the oath of God which confirmes and makes good his Covenant and promise to a thousand generations and it is the oath of man that is the bond and obligation of that league and agreement made with hell and death for ever Be ye assured it is not the Tabernacle of witnesse which you have amongst you brought in by Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles but it is Siccuth your King or the Tabernacle of Molech the Star of your God Remphan figures that you have made to your selves which you have taken up and are bearing so stoutly upon your shoulders Now to tell you what an oath according to God is that the Scriptures are delivered upon no other ground or termes of certaintie where ever they are

SIMPLICITIES DEFENCE against SEVEN-HEADED POLICY OR Innocency Vindicated being unjustly Accused and sorely Censured by that Seven-headed Church-Government United in NEW-ENGLAND OR That Servant so Imperious in his Masters Absence Revived and now thus re-acting in NEVV-ENGLAND OR The combate of the United Colonies not onely against some of the Natives and Subjects but against the Authority also of the Kingdme of England with their execution of Laws in the name and Authority of the servant or of themselves and not in the Name and Authority of the Lord or fountain of the Government Wherein is declared an Act of a great people and Country of the Indians in those parts both Princes and People unanimously in their voluntary Submission and Subjection unto the Protection and Government of Old England from the Fame they hear thereof together with the true manner and forme of it as it appears under their own hands and seals being stirred up and provoked thereto by the Combate and courses above-said Throughout which Treatise is secretly intermingled that great Opposition which is in the goings forth of those two grand Spirits that are and ever have been extant in the World through the sons of men from the beginning and foundation thereof Jmprimatur Aug. 3d. 1646. Diligently perused approved and Licensed to the Presse according to Order by publike Authority LONDON Printed by John Macock and are to be sold by LUKE FAVVNE at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the sign of the Parrot 1646. Vpon an occasionall view of this unexpected and much unwished for Story THis Story 's strange but altogether true Old Englands Saints are banisht out of New Oh Monstrous Art and cunning of the Devill What hidden paths he goes to spread his evill The Man of Sin 's the same his eldest Son Both have more shapes then be moats in the Sun Hence disappointed are the most of men When trouble 's past some thinke they rise agen Thus it befell these Pilgrims in that Land To which they fled from persecutions hand This Indians note with Papists Iews and Turks For in them all the selfe same spirit works Thus is the Name of Christ blaspem'd by these Who burthen them to whom they promise ease Oh Christ arise and spread thy glorious fame That all may know the sweetnesse of thy Name As● Affric Europe and America Expect and waite the dawnings of that day That Papists Greeks and we the Protestants Of Calvins Sect those too the Lutherans And they that are a streine above them all At Iesus feet at length may humbly fall That so such Christs which most in fancy make Whence 'tis Men think that Christendome doth shake May at th' appearing of the Lord depart And all may worship him ev'n with one heart That so the Nations may this glory see And into it at length transformed be This to effect can't be by sword of man But that which to with-stand no Kingdomes can For t is the Lords owne might the sword that doth Ev'n with two edges flow out of Gods mouth By which are slaine the wicked of each Land And will sure breake each Persecutors band Then England and Yee Nations round about That are now so lofty and so stout At length downe fall to him that 's Lord of you And learne with him like meeknesse for to show If you with iron Rods Saints breake and bruise Know then your selves that Christ you so will use R. B. A Lover of peace and one of eminent respect viewing this Treatise at the Presse kindly added this verse prefixed which hath both sodainly and unexpectedly drawn from my thoughts as here followeth as a testimony of my kind respects unto the party though but a stranger unto him it may also serve as an intelligencer what was the only ground of controversie in acting according unto and publishing of this Treatise THe serpent with a voyce so slie and fine Consults with nature as though he were divine Whil'st she doth seek for glory wealth and love In things that are below and not in that above Lending an ear to listen unto him The fruit looks fair the tree seems nothing grim And thence doth he at first begin t' arise Through earthly projects for to make man wise Whereas the light of heaven GOD himself ordain'd To be that thing whereby man is maintain'd In wisdom honor happiness and peace That doth from serpent sin death hell release And not conjectural doubtful subtil notion Set forth by art with sign of great devotion Come from the Prelates your persecuting foes Our Church as Primitive Christ Jesus doth disclose Her Ordinances pure a Church erected here Where you may worship voyd of care or fear Our Land is large Our Magistracy good Come o're to save that innocent-like blood From such as are to cruelty so bent Our ways are meek and humble to give all content Thus he appears apparrelled in white To snare in that wherein he takes delight An earthly Kingdom he would fain erect Then spiritual honor he must needs reject That when that woman appeareth in her glory With him in womb of whom intreats all story Then 's he a dragon red for to devour That child to whom is given all the power In heaven and in earth to rule as King and Lord. None to the serpent no heaven cannot afford A place of residence he must thence depart Down to the earth full sore against his heart That he a place cannot devise to frame Which from the heavens may seem to take its fame Cruel Raging Carnal now he cometh forth His slie and subtil wisdom now proves nothing worth This woman now in travel finds not time To listen unto him nought but the child is mine Which child in her can nothing else confesse But Throne of glory and bare Wildernesse Which twain together give all praise to one Then fury 's in the Serpent smooth policy is gone No middle place for Sathan now is found Not one with th' manehild down he goes to ground His cunning cannot now intice so far But Michael and his Angels wil make War With Dragon and with all his Angels great Yea overcome him never sound retreat Most of his skil he useth he knows how To talk of benefits to receive although not now And so from place and person still delights to wend Where 's outward peace there 's Christ doth he pretend And if so be that troubles do arise Himself he saves the serpent is so wise No tye to fold nor flock he then wil know Christ in an earthly peace he 'l have where e're he go Whereas our Lord his voyce doth sometimes teach Go to Decapolis and there thou shalt me preach Unto ten Cities great the number bee My Word shal reach them and I am with thee For I am truth and truth thou goest to show Which makes thee free my presence thou dost know No place can scant thee off then walke at large Doubt not I 'm

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

divulged is a thing out of your jurisdiction you cannot discerne or judge of it therefore according to our Word above wee leave it as a Parable to you as all the holy Word of our God ●● as your conversation in all points as in this daily declareth in a word when wee have to doe in your jurisdiction wee know what it is to submit to the wise dispensations of our God when you have to doe amongst us in the liberties he hath given to us wee doubt not but you shall find him Judge amongst us beyond and above any cause or thing you can propose unto us and let that suffice you and know that you cannot maintaine a jurisdiction but you must reject all inroads upon other mens priviledges and so doe wee in the meane time we● shall as wee thinke good be calling over againe some matters you have had up and had the handling of amongst you to see what justice or equity we find hath beene exercised in them and redresse them accordingly for wee professe right unto all me● and doe no violence at all as you in your prescript threaten to doe to us for we have learned how to discipline our children or servants without offering violence unto them even so doe wee know how to deale with our deboist rude yea inhumane neighbours or if you will Nabals without doing violence but rather rendring unto them that which is their ●●e Nor shall we deprive a witnesse of his modest testimony for the out-cryes and clamours of such a one as ill-br●d apostatized Arnald that fellonious Hogge Killer being the partie to be testified against or for the oath of any interested in the cause nor shall we be forward to come so farre to find you work upon your request till we know you to beare another mind then others of your Neighbours doe with whom we have had to doe in this Countrey whose pretended and devised Lawes we have stooped under to the robbing and spoyling of our goods the lively-hood of our wives and children thinking they had laboured though groaping in great darknesse to bring forth the truth in the rights and equitie of things But finding them to be a company of grosse and dissembling hypocrites that under the pretence of Law and Religion have done nothing else but gone about to establish themselves in wayes to maintaine their owne vicious lusts we renounce their diabolicall practice being such as have denied in their publicke Courts that the Lawes of our native Countrey should bee named amongst them yea those ancient Statute Lawes casting us into most base ●asty and insufferable places of imprisonment for speaking according to the language of them in the meane while breaking open our houses in a violent way of Hostility abusing our wives and our little ones to take from us the volumes wherin they are preserved thinking thereby to keep us ignorant of the courses they are resolved to runne that so the visiosity of their owne wils might be a Law unto them yea they have indeavoured and that in publicke expressions that a man being accused by them should not have liberty to answer for himselfe in open Court dealings of like nature wee find in the place whereof you stile us your Neighbours on whose unbridled malice we find a higher then you putting a ●● be and yet in your account and reckoning we are the parties that are still doing the wrong and must beare the guilt in your most mature sentence in whomsoever the spot ariseth and abideth but the God of vengeance unto whom our cause is referred never having our Protector and Judge to seeke will shew himselfe in our deliverance out of the hands of you all yea all the house of that Ishbosheth and Merib-bosheth nor vvill he fayle us to utter and make knovvne his strength vvherein vve stand to serve in our age and to minister in our course today and tomorrow and on the third day can none deprive us of perfection for hee hath taught us to know what it is to walke today and tomorrow and the day following also when a perishing estate cannot rise out of Ierusalem though she be the only one yea none but she that kils the Prophets and stones them that are sent unto her Behold ye that are looking after and foretelling so much of the comming of Christ driving the day before you still for certaine years which some you say shall attaine unto and unto the day of death for the rest ye blind Guids as your Fathers have ever done so doe ye Behold we say when he appeareth your house which you so glory in shall be left unto you de●o●●●e it shall be turned into nothing but desolation and confusion for Babel is its name nor shall you see him to your comfort in the glory of his Kingdome untill you can say blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord when the authority and power of man appeareth to be the building of Babel unto you and the name and authority of God only to be that wherein the blessing consists and that in such wise also as is nothing but a way of reproach in the eyes of all the world that a King should ride into his chiefe Citie ● so strangly furnished upon an Asse borrowed her furniture ●id over-worne Garments and accompanied with none but poore meane excommunicate persons such as your Elders ●●cribes Pharisees Lawyers and all your credible persons among you make full account they are not only accursed by but also destitute and void of all Law when you can find Hosanna in the highest arising out of such contempt and shame then and then only shall you sing unto him with comfort in the meane time acknowledge your portion which is to ●ru●● and stay your selves on the name of man and in his beauty to delight and glory which shall fade as a Leafe and like the grasse shall wither when it is fitting it selfe for the Over such is man whose breath is in his Nostrils and the sonne of sorry man in whom you have deligh● to trust his power and policie brings forth nothing else but as you shall see and heart in the Countrey from whence we are brought we are not ignorant of those shamefull lies and falsities gone out against us and the daily wresting of our words to cast contempt upon us thinking to bow downe our backs under ignominy and reproach neither of the straits and difficulties they have cast us upon in the things that concernes this present life to the taking away of the lives of many if our God had not been seene beyond and above what their thoughts could reach unto as their owne confession hath witnessed doing it in such a way of painted hypocrisie and false glosse unto the eye of the world that we might seem unto it selfe executioners we resolve therefore to follow our imployments to carry and behave our selves as formerly we have done

usually present with them to assist in the worke they then questioned and examined us apart to the uttermost they could to get some matter against us from our owne mouths and also usually sending their Agents as Elders and Members of their Churches unto us in prison frequently putting questions unto us to get occasion against us thus continuing for the space of two or three weeks together during which time Master Wilson ordinarily in his Sermons pressed the Magistrates and the people to take away our lives from that text of the King of Israel letting Benhadad goe applying it unto them that if they let us escape with life their life should then goe for our life and their people for our people urging them from that of Samuel and Agag to hew and cut us in peeces Master Cotton also in his Sermons incouraged the people in the lawfulnesse of their dealings with us from that in the Revelations where it is said the Kingdoms of this world are the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christs whence he observed that they being the Kingdom of Christ they were bound to goe out against all people to subdue all such unto themselves as are weaker then they otherwise they might stay at home within themselves and serve God with all their hearts but they could not serve him with all their might unlesse they went out to subdue others and so would be guilty of the breach of that command viz. Thou shalt serve the Lord thy God with all thy strength Now after our many consultations and debating of matters with the Magistrates and Ministers not only in the Court sometimes one of us answering and declaring of his mind only in matters of Religion a whole day together yea part by Candle-light besides all their more private conferences in the prison and at other houses where we vvere put apart in custody one from an another in the time of our examination at the last the Court sent for S. Gorton out of prison to appeare before them and when he came before them the Governour told him he heard there was exception taken that there should be a rumour that it was for some civill things they had so proceeded against us and yet no man appeared to object the least against us in any civill respect unto which the Governour himselfe gave ansvver not expecting an ansvver from Gorton that they had set their subjects the Indians in their own Land and that was all they looked after in that respect but they never questioned in publicke whether it was right or wrong to take it from us only had privately called one of us which was one of the Interpreters at the buying of it and the Indians their subjects together to see what could be said in it and found the Indians by their own confession to make things so clear on our behalfe that they thought it not fit to bring it into publick scanning of the matter The Governour then told Gorton he was now to answer some things that should be propounded unto him upon his life for it was upon his life that now he was to answer unto which Gorton made answer that he was to shew unto them all dutifull subjection that might be being under the government of their jurisdiction as he had done since his comming amongst them to give them their due honour and respect to the utmost which he could not doe but as he looked upon them with relation unto the State of old England by vertue of which power they sate there as executioners of justice unlesse he looked at them and carried himselfe towards them as they had respect unto that State from whom what power they had was derived else he could not give them their due honour and respect for it could no way appeare to be such but as it was derived from that noble State of old England and therefore however he had according to what they had demanded for the clearing of any thing been free to answer unto them So now if it was his life that they would now put him upon he did as freely and in the presence of them all appeale to the State of old England for his tryall in that point by vertue of which State only he conceived they sate there as Ministers of justice and therefore might not deny unto him his just appeale understanding that the deniall of an appeale must either presuppose a superiority in them that deny it or an equality at the least with the ●tate appealed unto unto which the Governour made answer as also Master Iohn Indicote deputy Governour and bad Gorton never dream or think of any such thing for no appeale should be granted unto him Now the Ministers and Magistrates having weighed better our Writings our Examinations in Court answers to questions more privately with any thing spoken in the prison amongst our selves which daily ear was lent unto or our carriage and demeanure in any respect they had now summed up and drawn all into four questions which were now to be answered in case of life and death The Questions were these that here follow not a word varying in any one of them 1. Q. Whether the Fathers who dyed before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed and the death which he suffered after his incarnation 2. Q. Whether the only price of our Redemption were not the death of Christ upon the Crosse with the rest of his sufferings and obediences in the time of his life here after he was borne of the Virgin Mary 3. Q. Who is that God whom he thinks we serve 4. Q. What he means when he saith We worship the Star of our God Remphan Chion Molech To these four questions the Court told Gorton he must answer speedily upon life and death and that under his hand writing he told them he was not willing to answer in any thing but as before he had done they told him he must give in speedy answer under his hand writing he asked what time he must have for the answer of them they told him a quarter of an houre he told them he could answer them in so short a time but he knew not whether it could give them satisfaction for it was as much as for a man to describe Iesus Christ what he is and the way of Autichrist also which might be done in few words but not to be clear to every man for a man may describe the whole world in these words in the beginning God created heaven and earth and the earth was without forme and void and darkenesse was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters all the whole worke of creation is in this masse or heape but to set out the glory and beauty that comes out of this needs many Phrases to expresse it even so it is in the description of the Son of God Iesus Christ

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