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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52886	A short account of the present state of New-England, Anno Domini 1690	N. N.	1690 (1690)	Wing N57; ESTC R20012	9,099	12

New-England-man boastingly say could not live amongst them They are watchful of all advantages over them they deal with and when they have a Man within their Clutches gripe him unmercifully In their Treats they are very lavish and expensive where they cohceive a prejudice they are revengeful and very Religiously pray for destruction on their Enemies Hence some that knew them very well have given this caution to their Children Above all Persons take heed of a Professor This I say for the generality of them not but that there are many worthy charitable and Religious people among them who as I am fully perswaded serve God with a perfect heart and love their Neighbour with love unfeigned But as in all other places so among the Massachusetts Vice greatly abounds and there is no sin in Old England but what is practiced in the New However some Sins speed worse among them than others Swearing Cursing and Blaspheming are justly discountenanc'd but they who scruple an Oath will make no conscience to Lye or Cheat for advantage The Capital Vices are Sloth and Idleness Cheating and Censoriousness prone they are also to a Sin of Frailty as they term it and Lasciviousness which appears too much in their Common Conversation The Trade of the Countrey is well known and for the most part unlawful Of all the Colonies this has been most prejudicial to the Kings Customes and the Trade of England which hath been sufficiently proved against them Of themselves they bring no considerable Ravenue to the Crown of which more in the Remarks as also of their famous Colledge and great works of Evangelizing Indians The Laws of England are of no Credit among them and when pleaded in their Courts are little regarded but they have Composed a body of Laws for themselves which are Printed together in a thin Folio The Book is scarce to be had here in England and therefore not at all taken notice of otherwise it would move the Publick Indignation to see how the Fortunes and Lives of their Majesties Subjects are disposed of by a Combination of Men that think themselves Wiser than the Parliament of this Kingdom The Government was first by way of Charter which was chiefly Managed by the Teachers These by their power with the people made all the Magistrates and kept them so entirely under Obedience that they durst not act without them So that whenever any thing strange or unusual was brought before them they would not determine the matter without consulting the Teacher For should any be so sturdy as to presume to act of himself without taking their advice and direction he might be sure of it his Magistracy ended with the Year The World justly condemns the Usurped Power of the Popish Clergy over the Laity yet the Priests even in Italy have not a greater Ascendant over the People than the Teachers in New-England And that they might perpetuate the Government to themselves they so brought things about as indeed they might do what they listed that it was past into a Law that none should have any thing to do with the Government that was not a Freeman of the Country and none should be made a Freeman who was not in full Communion with their Churches that is who should not in all points be of the Preachers Opinion The way of making Freeman was after this manner He that desired the Freedom of the Country came and made known his request to the Court whom thô never so sober in Life and Conversation if he favoured not the Independent persuasion he was certainly rejected either as an Enemy to the Church or State But whoever came with such powerful Credentials as these The Bearer is a godly Man and in Communion with such a Church Given under my hand N. N. or under the hands of his Deacons Such a Man needed not to seek for other Arguments to gain the favour of the Magistrates for without any other formality he might be sure to have the grant of his Freedom For this reason many formal Hypocrites who were ambitious of Honour and Preferment would work themselves into the favour of the Teachers To this end besides many costly Treats and Presents they would in the Meeting-Houses frame Stories of their Conversion and enter into Church-Covenant as the Phrase is and make a long Cant how the Work of Grace was wrought on their hearts by the Sermon or Pains of one of the Leading Teachers Whereupon such were admitted into the Fraternity and made Church-Members and there they were in a fair way to the highest Preferment It was pleasant to behold poor Coblers and pitiful Mechanicks which had neither House nor Land struting and making no mean Figure at their Elections and some of the richest Merchants and wealthiest People stand by as insignificant Cyphers or in the words of one of their own who thought he charactariz'd them ingeniously as so many Asses to bear the Loads that should be laid upon them In the late Rising there were many Divisions among the People what Government to erect Many of the Council as they term'd themselves were for declaring themselves a Free-State But Mr. Stoughton well knowing their weakness would not Subscribe the Summons sent to the Governour unless dependance on the Crown of England should be inserted into the Declaration Some were for a Court-Martial and Military-Government because what they got by the Sword they ought to keep by the Sword Others were for Election of Governour and Magistrates by all the People But the Teachers who all along were the Chief in the Councils and carried the Ballance in their hands dislik'd such Proposals for then they should lose their Power and therefore they moved that the old Goyernour and Magistrates formerly of their own making might be restored with the Addition of some confiding Men whom they had proved and found Faithful to supply the Vacancies of those Magistrates which were dead to whom all bowed and paid Obedience So that now the Government is safely lodged in the hands of the Teachers again 'T is hard to give an acccount of the Religion of the Colony where so many know not what Religion they are of and when demanded a reason of their Faith can say little more than that they are Hearers of Mr. Mather or Members of the Old Church or under the watch of the South Meeting-House But having promised an account of the Country it is necessary that I should give some account of their Religion because it is a large Topick of their discourse makes the great noise among the People The first Setlers were a good serious sort of People who had the fear of God before their eyes and firm assurance of his providence otherwise they never had undertaken that hazardous design I cannot say what persuasion they were of but this I know they stil'd themselves Children of the Church of England and counted it their glory to be called after her Name and at their departure from hence in all