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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

are very consciencious to recompense the shedding of blood especially of such personages with blood againe But when wee were come to the old Sachims house we were courteously entertained and from thence conducted to the house of Sachim Pessecus Brother and successor in government to the late Myantonomy when we were there divers Sachims and their chiefe Counsellors took us aside to consult with us and asked what we intended to doe or how we could live seeing the Massachusets had not onely taken our estates from us in goods and ●hattels but also our houses lands and labours where we should raise more for the preservation of our Families and with●ll told us that their condition might in great measure he paraleld with ours else they would willingly have done any thing for our helpe in regard that our Land was bought of the● and we had faithfully paid them for it according to our co●tract But they told us they had not only lost their Sachim so beloved amongst them and such an instrument of their publick good but had also utterly impoverished themselves by paying such a ransome for his life as they then made u● an account of notwithstanding his life taken away and that detaine also we made answer unto them that for our p●●ts we were not discouraged in any thing that had b●faln● us for we were subjects to such a noble State in Old-England that however we were farre off from our King and Stat● yet we doubted not but in due time we should have redresse and in the mean time we were resolved to undergoe it with patience and in what way we could labor with our hands for the preservation of our wives and children the answer that they made unto us was this That they thought we belonged to a better Master then the Massachusets did whereupon desiring our stay they called a generall Assembly to make known th●ir minds and to see the minds of their people and with j●y●t and unanimous consent concluded to become subjects to the State and Government of Old-England in case they might be accepted of we told them we could promise them nothing nor take any ingagements upon us not knowing the minds of that Honourable State but if they would volunt●rily make tender of themselves as they themselves thought meet we would endeavour to convey it safely in case we went over about our own occasions and bring them word what was the pleasure of the State therein whereupon they chose four of us as Commissioners in trust for the safe custody and conveyance of their Act and Deed unto the State of Old-England The Act and Deed of the voluntary and free submission of the chiefe Sachim and the rest of the Princes with the whole people of the N●n●ygansets unto the government and protection of that Honourable State of Old-England se● down here verbatim the Deed it selfe being extant KNOW ALL MEN Colonies Peoples and Nations unto whom the fame hereof shall come that we the chiefe Sachims Princes or Governours of the Nanhyganset in that part of America now called New-England together with the joynt and unanimous consent of all our people and subjects inhabitants thereof do upon serious consideration mature and deliberate advise and Counsell great and weighty grounds and reasons moving us thereunto vvhereof one most effectuall unto us is That noble fame vve have heard of THAT GREAT AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES KING OF GREAT BRITAIN in that honorable and Princely care he hath of all his servants and true and loyall subjects the consideration vvhereof moveth bendeth our hearts vvith one consent freely voluntarily and most humbly to submit subject and give over our selves Peoples Lands Rights Inheritances and Possessions whatsoever in our selves and our heires succ●ssively for ever unto the protection care and government of that WORTHY AND ROYALL PRINCE CHARLES KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND his Heirs and Successors for ever to be ruled and governed according to those ancient and honourable Lawes and customs established in that so renovvned Realme and Kingdome of Old-England vve doe therefore by these Presents confesse and most vvillingly and submissively acknovvledge our selves to be the humble loving and obedient servants and subjects of His Majesty to be ruled ordered and disposed of in our sel●es and ours according to his Princely vvisdom counsel a●d l●vves of ●hat honourable State of Old-England UPON CONDITION OF HIS MAIESTIE● ROY●●E PROTECTION and righting of us in what wrong is or may be done unto us according to his honourable Lavves and customs exercised amongst his subjects in their preservation and safety and in the defeating and overthrow of h●● and their enemies not that we find our selves necessitated hereunto in respect of our relation or occasion we have or may have with any of the natives in these parts knowing our selves sufficient defence and able to judge in any matter o● cause in that respect but have just cause of jealousie and suspicion of some of His Majesties pretended subjects Therefore our desire is to have our matters and causes heard and tried according to his just and equal Laws in that way and order His Highnes●e shal please to appoint NOR CAN WE Y●●●D OVER OUR SELVES UNTO ANY THAT ARE SUBIECTS THEMSELVES IN ANY CASE having ourselvs bin the chiefe Sachims or Princes successively of the countrey time out of mind and for our present lawful enacting hereof being so farre remote from His Majestie we have by joynt consent made choyse of four of his loyall and loving Subjects our trusty and well beloved friends Samuel Gorton Iohn Wickes Randall Ho●lden and Ioh● Warner whom we have deputed and made our lawfull A●●●rnies or Commissioners not only for the acting and performing of this our Deed in the behalfe of His Highnesse but also for the safe custody carefull conveyance and declar●tion ●●ereof unto his grace being done upon the Lands of the Nanhyganset ●t a Court or Generall Assembly called and assemble● together of purpose for the publick enacting and manifest●●ion hereof And for the further confirmation and establishing of this our Act and Deed we the above-said Sachims or Princes have according to that commendable custome of English-men subscribed our names and set our Seales hereunto as so many Testimonies of our faith and truth our love and loyaltie to that our dread Soveraigne and that according to the English mens account Dated the nineteenth day of Aprill One thousand six hundred forty foure Pessicus his Marke Chiefe Sachim and Successor of that late deceased Myantonomy The Marke of that Ancient Conaunicus Protector of that late deceased Myantonomy during the time of his nonage The Marke of Mixan son and heir of that above-said Conaunicus Indians Witnessed by two of the chiefe Counsellors to Sachim Pessicus A●washo●sse his Mark Tomanick his Mark Sealed and delivered in the presence of these persons English Christopher Helme Robert Potter Richard C●rder Here followeth a Copie of a Letter sent to the Massachusets by the Sachi●ns of

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