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A44804	The popish inquisition newly erected in New-England whereby their church is manifested to be a daughter of mysterie Babylon which did drink the blood of the saints, who bears the express image of her mother, demonstrated by her fruit : also their rulers to be in the beasts power upon whom the whore rideth, manifested by their wicked compulsary laws against the lamb and his followers, and their cruel and bloody practises against the dear servants of the Lord, who have deeply suffered by this hypocritical generation : some of their miserable sufferings for the testimony of Jesus, declared as follows and some of their unjust and vvicked laws set down ... / published by a lover of mercy and truth, and an enemy to envy and cruelty, Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Copeland, J. R. (John R.); Hodgson, Robert.; Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3177; ESTC R14218	58,023	78

believe in the light which Christ hath lighted every man withall that people might wait to receive power from on high again which all the sons of Adam hath lost in the transgression that as many as receive the power may come out of the transgression and for this end hath God chosen and seperated many contrary to their own Wills and from whatsoever was dear unto them in the outward to deny it all and to answer the pure motion of Gods spirit whither soever he leadeth and in so doing many have found the power and presence of the Lord going with them and before them and he hath prospered his own Work in their hands and hath brought many out of Sodom and Aegypt and out of Mystery Babylon to Christ the Mysterie and to the Mysterie of Faith which is held in a pure Conscience And we were not ignorant of this what opposition we should receive from Antichrist and his Ministers Satan and his Messengers and how that the whole World lay in Wickedness and how that Nations Kindreds Tongues and People had drunk the Whores Cup and how that all hirelings deceivers false prophets and seducers would withstand Neither were we ignorant that the Beasts power which got up in the Throne of Iniquity and exaltation since the Man-child was caught up unto God the Woman fled into the Wilderness wherein he hath compelled all both small and great to worship him Neither were we ignorant of his strength and of his great Authority that he had in the Nations and how that the Whore the false Church rode upon him and also we knew that the Nations were as Waters nor of the great Waves which would lift up themselves nor of the multitude of Merchants which makes merchandize of souls for dishonest gain who are greedy of filthy lucre nor of the multitude of ships in which they carry their merchandize and deceitful Ware neither was the servants of the Lord who hath thus deeply suffered as I shall hereafter make mention of the Spirit that ruled in the Professors and Teachers of New-England Notwithstanding all this which was seen before we consulted not with flesh and blood but was obedient to the heavenly call and stood given up to the Lord in life or in death to finish the Testimony which God hath put into our hands that so many may be brought to know the living God revealed in themselves that so they with us and we with them may rejoice in him who is becoming the King and Law-giver and the exceeding great reward of all his People To whom be glory for ever and ever Amen And now Reader I shall give thee a plain and true account of the grievous proceedings of the Rulers of New-England and the miserable sufferings of the Servants of the Lord whereby thou mayest see the Divinity of New-England by the fruits and effects it brings forth the Laws by which they rule their Nation not to be according to the Law of God nor according to that which is equal in every mans conscience for that Law takes hold upon the transgressor but not the innocent and because of unrighteous Rulers and Laws many up right-hearted people in that Nation mourns The grievous Suffering of Robert Hodshon by the Governor of the Dutch Plantation in New-England I Robert Hodshon being moved of the Lord to go to New-England to declare the Word of Truth made known by his Spirit was obedient thereto who after a prosperous Voyage arrived at Long-Island where our own Countrey people did inhabit under the Dutch Jurisdiction finding drawings and two more with me we left the ship and passed to a place called Gravesend wher● our Testimony was received From thence we passed to a Town called Semico where we were received with gladness so we passed to another Town called Hampstead where we were received also so I being left in the Town at a Friends House the other two being passed away the next day being the first day I passing to another Friends House and some Friends following me into an Orchard where we had thoughts to have met together I being walking alone there came a man from the Magistrate and laid hold of me and haled me to the Magistrate and kept me a prisoner in his own house while he himself went to his Worship many staid and heard the Truth the fore-part of the day declared After he came home and see so many with me and could not stop my mouth he wrote a ●ittimus and gave another man charge to keep me at his house so the latter part of the day I had many came to me and those that had been mine Enemies after they had heard Truth confest to it So that Magistrate that committed me took his Horse and rode away to the Dutch Governor to make his complaint but the other Magistrate and most part of the Town would not joyne vvith him against me but some few of the ruder sort There was I kept a prisoner till the Governor of the Dutch sent a Guard of twelve Musketiers and the Gaoler and the Sheriff came about twenty miles so I was committed to them and they searched me and took away my Knife Books and Papers and pinioned me vvith Cords the next morning they took two Women one having a young child sucking and committed them also and more if they could have found them and thus they entertain strangers in New-England And then a Warrant vvent forth to bring those people that did receive us and so he fined them and commanded them to pay within six Weeks or else depart the Jurisdiction and one man he committed and laid Irons upon him and fined each of them three pounds So I being pinioned till I came near vvhere the Dutch vvere being tyed vvith a Rope to a Cart-tayle thorough the Woods near 30. miles and then I vvas cast into a Dungeon so odious as I never savv for vvet dirt and nasty stink and the next day I was brought to Examination and an English Captain there to interpret and took in Writing in their ovvn Language committing me again to the Dungeon suffering not any English to come to me The next Court calling me out again reading my Accusation in their Language the Captain interpreted some of my Accusation and thus said before the Court That it is the Generals pleasure seeing I did behave my self thus that I must pay 600. Gilders which is 50. pound or else to serve at a Wheel-barrow lock'd with a Chain I did ask him if I might give an Answer and they answered No but shut me up in a Dungeon So on the second day in the morning they took me forth and lockt me to the Wheel-barrovv amongst the slaves to work I told them I was never used to that work and they took a hard Ship-Rope near four Inches about and commanded a Black-More to beat me with it so he beat me so long till I fell down and the Sheriff commanded him to take me up again and

the Prince of darkness to back fortifie all the wicked enterprises they attempted before Who gave you power to order so to enact to apprehend without Warrant So you have made every man a Magistrate and a Ruler in your Jurisdiction and I believe if they should kill or take away the life of any you would give them an Absolution Is this the example of Christ or any Church-members or any Christian-Magistrate And why do you call them a cursed Sect of the Quakers You have cursed them whom God hath blessed whom no Weapon that is formed against shall prosper And as for your legal Tryal we know your rule your own wicked proud arrogant imperious and envious Wills and this must sit as Judge and Tryer. Well you have now set your selves against the Lord in your strength having the old Dragon for your Leader Will this serve you The Angel of the everlasting Covenant hath a Chain in his hand to bind him and to dissipate your wicked Counsel and confound you in the midst of your devises And being convicted to be of the sect of the quakers shall be sentenced to be banished upon pain of death You who are banished from the presence of God your selves and are in Cain's way Vagabonds driven out into the Earth where the Dragon dwells you would banish them out of the Earth whom God hath shewed his face and presence unto and you are a Sect which hath risen from the great Whore your Mother who hath made all Nations drunk she that did drink the blood of the Saints and you are the fruit of her Womb are like your Mother you have drunk the blood of the Saints whom God hath sanctified washed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ and now you are grown so blood-thirsty that nought but banishment and loss of life will satisfie your rage your Cup shall be filled with the Wine of the Wrath of God which shall be poured forth without mixture and that will be your portion to drink Reader stil take notice All these laws mentioned in this Book and the fierce censures and punishments inflicted upon the servants of the Lord is because they will not complement like flattering Courtiers and Roysters Fidlers and use flattering titles to men who are in unbelief who seek respect honor one of another which is below and because they cannot ●oin with them in their hypocritical Assemblies nor partake of the Table of Devils who destroys mens lives nor drink the Whores Cup which hath drunk the blood of the Saints and this is a Fact worthy of banishment and death in the account of these blood-suckers And now they come to their own Inhabitants and thou shalt hear their judgement concerning them and thou shalt see how they love their Neighbours And that every Inhabitant of this Jurisdiction being convicted to be of the aforesaid Sect either by taking up publishing or defending the horrid Opinions of the quakers or the stirring up Mutiny Sedition or Rebellion against the Goverment or by taking up their absurd and destructive practises viz. Denying civil respect to equals and superiors and withdrawing from our Church-Assemblies and instead ●hereof frequent meetings of their own in opposition to our Church-Order Now all may see how these men loves their Neighbours themselves and here is a great deal of aggravating high boasting words packed up together in this unrighteous and ungodly Act as Sedition Rebellion and Absurd and Destructive Principles and like scolds they make a great noise and clamour but if thou enquire into the Fact is it not putting off the hat and disowning their Assemblies and in their account banishment and death is punishment little enough for this transgression These men would set up their Assembly as Nebucha●nezar's Image and whosoever will not bow must into the Fornace or be banished robbed spoiled and killed or like Jeroboam's Calf at Dan and Bethel and if Israel will not come to Da● or Amos cry against Bethel Amaziah will cry to the King He hath uttered Sedition and Rebellion among the people and he hath conspired against the King and the Land cannot bear his words And is not this the same language They will not come to our Church our Assemblies But they meet of themselves and opposes us and breeds mutinies sedition and rebellion in the Government These Priests of New-England a●d Rulers would have banished all the Apostles and have killed Paul and Stephen who said God dwelt not in Temples made with hands neither was worshipped in Temples made with mens hands and drew people out of the Temple into private houses and fields and by the sea side and these men would have killed Christ the same generation did in whose foot-steps they are he said neither at Jerusalem nor at Samaria but they that worship the Father worship him in spirit and truth Might the Jews have replyed Was not the Temple builded by the command of God And is it not so agreed upon by the whole Nation of the Jews And wilt thou say that God is not worshipped Thou art mutinous and rebellious And the Samaritans might have said This is the Mount we met in and it is agreed upon by our Rulers and people and it is the laudable Custom of our Country and our Assembly and dost thou teach thy Disciples to seperate from Jerusalem and from this Mount Then thou art seditious and a Mutinier and a stirrer up of Rebellion an Enemy to our Nation and Countrey And wilt thou respect no mans person Nay said the Pharisees tempting We know thou respects no mans person What saist thou of Caesar They might have said What wilt thou not respect thy equals and superiors Then thou art not civil and art against the laudable custom of our Countrey which all our approved Orthodox persons doth allow of thou must be banished and if thou return death Or by adhering to or approving of any known quaker and the tenents and practises of the quakers that are opposite to the Orthodox received Opinions of the godly and endeavouring to disaffect others to civil Government and Church-Orders or condemning the practise and proceedings of this Court against the quakers Now if any like Nicodemus would come but by night who are yet no Quakers if the Rulers and Priests of New-England know of you you must out of the Synagogue and be banished and if return be put to death for this is an Orthodox received Opinion to banish and kill them that comes not to their Assembly and puts not off the hat then the Orthodox received Opinion of the Church-members of New-England is banishment and if return death and he that justifies the practise and proceedings of that Court is not justified of God What Whippers Robbers Spoilers Killers and Destroyers Marrers of the Workmanship of God Wrestlers with flesh blood blood-suckers he that justifies you is condemned of God he that condemns your Court and proceedings and practises will God and all

bottomles● pit by which Weapons he hath prevailed since the Lamb hath been slain and hath brought all the Creation into bondage which have been subject to his Authority which is out of the truth and he doth not onely make War against the Seed by whom salvation is revealed to the ends of the earth in them that believe in him but also he labours to destroy Gods Workmanship and to deface the creatures which God made and formed by the Word of his Power And thus all the sons of Adam in the transgression having shak't hands vvith the Prince of darkness doth fulfil his unrighteous Decrees being gone from the povver of God although man sees that the Way of the Serpent is unequal yet he hath not power to resist in that nature and so all are in captivity and bondage and slavery unto the noysome lusts which the Devil instigateth and suggesteth into the hearts of all the children of disobedience and so fruits of the flesh and of darkness is brought forth to the dishonor of the Lord of heaven and earth and herein the Devil rejoyceth and the seed of the evil-doer taketh delight and thereby his strength encreases by drinking in iniquity as Water he is nourish'd up in the reign of the shadovv of Death and strives to bring all thither to take up their habitation and to be servants to the Prince of the Ayre vvho vvas a Murderer from the beginning And so Adam when he had lost the Image of God and vvhen the heritage of God vvas laid waste in himself he begat a son in his own Image vvho vvas Cain a murderer who was of that wicked one that went out of Truth he rose up in envy slew Abel the just who was of the Seed And here 's the off-spring the fruit of the Seed of the Serpent for as God is love and all that are begotten by him live in love and all the creatures that he did make was to serve one another in love in the covenant of life and love in which they were made so the Devil lives in envy and all his children and leads into discord and perverteth all the creatures from that end which God made them to serve his end vvhose life stands in discord envy wrath and unrighteousness and whatsoever is evil and herein is the children of God made manifest and their Works and the children of the Devil and their Works they that love God loves the Workmanship of God and cannot hate his Brother but hath eternal life abiding in him but he that 's of the Devil destroys Gods Workmanship kills his Brother a man-flayer and hath not the love of God dwelling in him And this Seed of the Serpent hath spread it self forth over all the earth since the transgression both amongst Jews and Gentiles professors and prophane them that had the Law and them that were vvithout the Law them that have had the Scripture and them that had no Scripture and in that which is called Christendome as well as they which are called Heathens as well amongst the highest professors as amongst the grossest prophane in all times since the foundation of the World that the Lamb hath been slain and the seat of Iniquity raised up and this seed hath been made manifest by its fruits throughout all ages and times throughout all Nations Kindreds Tongues Regions Countreys and Kingdoms and by the fruit which is brought forth in New-England they themselves may read their stock and off-spring and fruits a little of which which is brought to light and evident hereafter I shall declare which when they come to view over their Work again shame may cover their faces and astonishment fill their hearts that such fruits should be brought forth by them who are so high professors of God in words and of the Scriptures to be the Rule of their obedience and Faith now shall you be tryed by the Scripture your Rulers your Teachers and your Church-members and the life of the Saints that gave forth the Scripture will stand a Witness against your Doctrines and cursed practises for evermore you may read your example Cain Herod Murderers Men of blood the persecuting Jews who were zealous for God as they thought who persecuted to death and said they had a Law and by that Law Christ ought to dye but you are worse then they for you had no Law which would take hold upon the righteous and faithful Witnesses of God till you had made one or invented one and digged down to Hell to ask counsel of the Prince of darkness your God And further you may read your example Nimrod who came of the stock of Ham who was cursed as well as the Serpent as well as Cain and your thoughts are vain like the thoughts of your fore-fathers the pharisees whom Christ prophesied of to his Disciples and said The time would come when they should hale them out of the Synagogues and persecute from City to City and sp●ak all manner of evil of them and should go about to kill them and yet think they did God service so void of understanding hath the seed of the Serpent alwayes been in all generations which Words of Christ is fulfilled among you professors of New-England who are thinking as they did that you do God service in killing his members and you are come to that time your fruits has made it manifest Oh! could you have believed in times past if it should have been told you that you above all people should be the greatest persecutors and exceeded in wickedness and cruelty and hard heartedness the Papists the Turks the Heathens who make little or no profession in comparison of you and yet that you should exceed them in rage cruelty and madness It is an abhorrency to all sober people you have stained the Earth and defiled your Land with blood and have caused the Name of the Lord of Heaven and Earth to be blasphemed among the Heathen by your wicked ungodly barbarous and brutish actions and you are in that nature and in their steps which kill'd the Prophets and mock't ●is Messengers and shamefull● entreated his servants upon whose heads all the blood shed from Abel to this day will be required But blessed be the Lord whose Arm hath been stretched forth and hath gathered thousands out of that nature which is cursed from God for ever and hath revealed his Salvation unto them and the everlasting Gospel which is to be preached again after the Apostacy and hath made us partakers of it to wit the Power of God and so we see unto whom the Arm of the Lord is revealed that all Nations since the Apostacy hath drunk of the Whores cup and are bewitch'd with her Sorceries and therefore according to the command of the Lord and the motion of his eternal spirit we have born our Testimony against the Apostates and Deceivers who retain the Words and has lost the life and power to the intent that all that