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A58837	A narrative of the planting of the Massachusetts Colony anno 1628 with the Lords signal presence the first thirty years : also a caution from New-Englands apostle, the great Cotton, how to escape the calamity which might befall them or their posterity, and confirmed by the evangelist Norton, with prognosticks from the famous Dr. Owen concerning the fate of these churches, and animadversions upon the anger of God in sending of evil angels among us / published by Old Planters, the authors of the Old mens tears.	Scottow, Joshua, 1618-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing S2099; ESTC R33724	39,314	86

description of the Ruling Flders Office and Work then here is declared also in the Plat-form of Church Discipline It 's therefore no Humane Invention nor Apochriphal Practice of our Predecessors It 's Remembred by some of the Old Planters Children that there were such men when they were young that were called Ruling Elders but what men they were or what was their work they professed they could not tell What a shame is it to our Churches that through Disuse Misuse and Nonuse of them such a question should be put by any of above Fifty Years of Age now Living among us all which is affirmed for a certain known Truth The same Reverend man of God being imployed the last Narraganset Wars by our Worthy Elders to make Report and Return to the General Court of the provoking evils then found among us did represent to them the Churches incompleatness of Officers to be one of the great evils Provocations grou●● of Displeasure unto God then among us sor● replied unto him That the country and Churc● were poor and could not maintain them he ma●● them a Ready Grave and Divine Answe● True said he were they mens Officers the● were argument in what they said but bei●● GODS Officers there was no ground for fe●● of it he having Promised and said Prove a●●try me if we could but trust him he wou●● open the Heavens and pour down his Ble●sings it 's Robbing of God we are now call●● to an account for we fear that Covetuou●ness Pride and Ambition hinders the Disc●very of our Achan The Lord pour down u●on Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and Suppli● cation and that he would open the Fountain y●● Sin and Uncleanness that Holiness unto the Lo●● may be writ upon our hearts houses and empl●ments whether Sacred or civil and upon our P●● teritys As we have cause to weep over and 〈◊〉 wail our former tears begging that they m●● be washed in the Blood of the Lamb so th● these our faint Sighs and Sobs may be Co●dial and accepted in the Blood of the eve●lasting Covenant that what we say may 〈◊〉 realized in our Souls The good Lord dire our Hearts into the knowledge of his love waiting for the Pouring forth of his Spirit 〈◊〉 on ourselves and the rising generation t●● 〈◊〉 may di●cern and by the Divine Aids there●● be enabled to do the respective work of ●●●r Generation according to the will of ●OD before these things be hid from our ●●yes That we may have the tasts of that Mercy ●●d Grace springing from the Love of the ●●ther who knows the thoughts of his own ●●art and manifests them to poor Penitents ●●at they passing through the heart of him ●●ho layeth in the Fathers Bosome may descend ●●to our hearts by the Holy Spirit dwelling 〈◊〉 us which Blessed Circulation Reverting by ●●e Operation of the same Spirit which ma●●th requests for us who know not to pray 〈◊〉 we ought and passing thro' the heart and ●●nds of our great Mediator may arrive ●●cend into the heart of the Father who is ●●e Origine and Fountain of all Blessedness ●he Father himself loving us That this Spirit may make intercession for 〈◊〉 with Groans which can't be uttered he ●●at searches the hearts knowing what is the ●●nd of the Spirit because he maketh inter●●sion for the Saints according to the Will of ●●d Oh that we might experience these ●●●ngs that this Heavenly Dove sent into our ●●arts may make us grean and mourn like ●●se in the Clefts of the Rocks that as the whole ●●eation growns and travails in pain with ●●cks stretched out waiting to be delivered ●●m their Bondage and Corruption into the Liberty o● the Sons o● God that we receivin the first fruits thereof may with Eyes an Hands lifted up wait for the Adoption eve the Redemption of our Souls and Bodies which Great Grace the GOD OF AL● GRACE Grant to Us and Our Poor Chi●dren with all his ISRAEL For the Sa●● of Our Dear LORD JESUS to who● with the FATHER and HOLYSPIRI● Be the Kingdom Power and Glory For Ever AMEN A FUNERAL ELEGY Upon the Death of the truly Reverend Mr. JOHN COTTON Late Teacher of a Church of Christ at Boston in New-England Who Died the Twenty Third was Buried the Twenty Ninth of December 1652. ANd after Winthrop Hooker Shepheards Herse Doth Cottons Death call for a Mourning Verse Thy Will be done yet Lord who dealeth thus Make this great Death expedient for us Luther pull'd down the Pope Calvin the Prelate slew Of Calvins Lapse chief Cure to Cottons due Cotton whose Learning Temper Godliness The Germane Phaenix lively did express Melancthon's all may Luther's word but pass Melancthon's all in our Great Cotton was Whilst he was here Life was more Life to me Now he is not Death hence less Death to me That Comets great mens death do oft forego This present Comet doth too sadly show This Prophet's dead yet must in 's Doctrine speak This Comet saith else must New-England break That e're it be the Heav'ns avert it far That Meteors should succeed our greatest Star In Bostons Orb Winthrop and Cotton were These Lights Extinct Dark is our Haemisphere In Boston once how much shin'd of our Glory VVe now Lament Posterity will Story Let Boston live who had and saw their VVorth And did them hot our both in Life and Death To him New-England trust in this Distress Who will not leave his Exiles Comfortless John Norton FINIS Reader Be pleased in page 18 for Christopher Gardner Read Sir Christopher Gardner ERRATA PAge 2. Lin. 11. for in Churches read in the Churches pag 6. l. 18. for graceful read grateful p. 12. l. 30. for Tarting read Parting p. ●3 l. 11. in●tead of Pectant r. Pec●ant p. 46. l. ●3 for Fathers r Father p. 48. l. 27. for Storm 〈◊〉 Scorn p. 49. l. 26. r. Internal p. 50. l. 17. ● alway p. 69. l. 29. r. Ea●th p. 72. l. 6. r. ●ints ibid l. 8. for twice r. once

1000 besides about 140 Slain the other day but leave it to such whose Lot it will be to draw it up our Pequod and Narraganset Wars lasted about three years whose Narrative is faithfully Published by two persons of Worth to the Honour of God King and Country L●s thought no English Pen will hardly Undertake this That the Great God is Departing from us his ●wful Removes demonstrate should be quite leave us we need none to Judge between us but our selves to Justifie him and Condemn us we are the Luxuriant Branches of the Noble Vine here planted but Degenerated into that of Sodom and Gomorrah whom after all Culturing to bring us unto our Pristine Fruitfulness by Impoverishing us by pruning o●ffour Superfluous Branches by Losses at Sea by Defeating our great Canada Design by Gods own Immediate Hand Starving and Freezing to Death the Flower of our Hopeful Youth the Lord from Heaven and the Stars in their Courses Fighting against us yea Cruel Cannibals Scalping and Fleaing of our Bodies burning us as Sacrifices to Habamoch but all this tends only to the killing of our Bodies but when as the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah is Rowz'd up and Roareth upon us who can but fear it exceeds bruitish stupidity if we do not Tremble more especially when as the Devourer out of the Bottomless Pit is let Loose upon us the Compendium of all Calamity and the quintessence of Wrath Anger and Indignation is come upon us to the utmost as if now we were to be made an Execration to God his Holy Angels and good men at the dreadful Claps of this tremendous Thunder whole Flesh is not shattered in pieces How should the ghastly sight of the Tophet and Invisible World within us and of the innate Immate 〈…〉 ●akes ●elf and sin more abominably vile and loath ●ome then Hell or Devil Who can hide from the Wrath of the Lamb Whose Grace upon the Knee in the Ministry of his Ho● Word so oft hath besought us and ours to be Reconciled unto him but we would not we have with our contempt provoked him to deliver us up into the hand of him who hath the Power of Death Let 's consider the Instruments Implied in this Suparlative Plague the Devil is come down against us the Inhabitants of this Earth having great Wrath he is the Do-evil he is the Recorded Liar Tempter Accuser and Murderer of Souls and Bodies and what not They are Spirits no more discerned by us and as unseen as our Souls yet so near piercing and contiguous as the Air Heat or Cold and it 's only want of Divine Permission if not Commission that every one of us hath not had the experience of all this they are Fallen Angels Apostate from their Heavenly First State should not this bring to Remembrance both our Personal Fall in our First Fathers and our Relative Apostacy from our Church-State First Love and First Works Our Fathers were Clothed with the Sun the Apostolical Discipline and Doctrine were their Crown the Moon was under their Feet but we are turned topsy turvy Heads and Heels have changed places a little from Heaven was greater encouragement then a great deal from Earth as then was the reply of a young Preacher to one who questioned him how he could be contented with such poor Fare and mean Maintenance in a ●mall Village we fear that Christ Jesus Indigitates ●t our Churches Apostacy and at our Falling from ●ur First Love And doubtless God calls us now being Alarmed by these Spirits to try our particular Estates wha● Spirit we are of Wh●t●●r of new and Heaven-born State and also our Worship whether it be Spiritual such as he who is a Spirit the Father of Spirits se●k ●eth he found our Fathers such of his own Making or they would not have run the risk● of Transplanting themselves or brought us their Children ●hi●her Again are we true Worshipp●rs Principled in th● Truth of what we believe and practice from the Word of Truth can we give a bett●r account of ou● Church Covenant and Fellowship then a B got Papist can of Mass or his Auricular Confession thei● Fathers did so and ●o did ours it was the Custome of the place they lived i● and 〈◊〉 is ou●s let us min● whether by these Hellish Emissaries God doth no● loudly call upon us to consider of these things Let 's ponder upon the Subj●cts or Persons upo● whom this Great Wrath is fallen they are chiefly th● Members of our Churches or their H●arers and D●pendants none of the Episcopal Antipedobaptist● or Quakers perswasion have been complained of be Accusers or Accused Afflicters or Afflicted th● Devil setting up his Chappel so near to Christ Church declareth his Malice and especially again us it hath been well noted by a Minister of Note that the Devil now contents not himself to imital Jewish or Popish Modes our he will take up the R●formed and Congregational Way a single Parse wi● not serve his turn but he will have Pastor an Teacher if he can't find a Deacon he will not wa● two Widows or Deaconesses his old Diabolism w●●● not do now to Baptise and give Names to the Wit● and her Imps but he brings up a new Derno●iunif●● every Witch shall have her so call'd Spectre attend upon her and to be her Envoye to Torme such as they never knew or saw whereas it hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 old saying Ignoti nulla Cupido No Love to a person unknown and consequently as little hatred Sauls Evil Spirit acting his Eyes to Malignity against David ●ympathised with his hand to murder him but now between sight and touch a vast antipathy But that which we in our short Reading may make our fl●sh to tremble the joynts of ●ur Knees to be loos●d and our very Arfcries and Heart-strings to break in lunder at the very sound of ●t that these Cursed Fiends who in the day of our Lords Humiliation when as he devested his Glory and took upon him ●he Form of a Servant a Poor Carpenter to make new and mend old Houses did then beseech him to give them leave to enter into 〈◊〉 parcel of Swine and that he would not Torment ●hem before their time That this Glorious and Glo●ified Lord Who by Death slew him who had the 〈◊〉 ower of Death that is the Devil and upon and in is Resurrection made Triumph over all Devi●s having ●ed them Captive spoiling Principalities and Powers ●ade shew of them openly after God hath highly Exalted ●im even to Sit at his Right hand and given him a Name above every Name That in the Name of Jesus very knee in Heaven Earth and Hell should bow that 〈◊〉 open defiance of all this now they should insult ●ver Storm and basely affront the Lord of Heaven ●arth and Hell the Scriptures tell us That the Devils Believe and Tremble and this we do and must ●elieve but that a Damned Crew of Devils or ●itches at the Devils Table with Red Bread and

the Chu●ebes as before is o●●served and being that which was agreeing 〈◊〉 the Word of God and the principles of th● Congregational Way first practised in o●● Churches for a good time since this Plat fo●● hath been Printed here and in England an● published Abroad to the World there being n●● difference between us and the other Reformed Churches whether the Church of England th● French or Dutch Churches but only in point o● Church Government as to points of Faith an● Doctrine we all agree in one this we though● needful to inlarge upon humbly fearing th● Lords present Controversy with us doth it great measure Center here viz. our deviating and receeding from that which gave us th● Name of New England viz. the Plat-Form and agreed practice of our Churches according to the Word of God The Ravening Wolves of Heresy and the wild Boars of Tyranny being chained up from Devouring the Lords poor I lock and from Rooting up his Heritage The unreconcileable Adversary le ts loose his Foxes with Fire brands at their Tails te●●urn up this peoples standing Corn which no ●aking he sent forth his Foxes the little Foxes ●o spoil this Vine in the time of its tender Grapes but the Keeper of this Vineyard neither slumbering nor sleeping took and destroy'd them ●he Watch'd Warded and every momen Watered it and none did hurt it much less threw down the Stone-Wall thereof tho● many an hard push and shuff was made at it 〈◊〉 our Jerusalem was then a Burthensome Stone their Governours like a Torch of Fire in a Sheaf many an Ebenezar Stones of help di● our Fathers then set up for which the Lords Sacro sanct Name was Celebrated This preceeding Relation is but as a few Clusters of Ephraims Grapes compared with the redundancy of Abiezer our Fathers Helpers Vintage so many unimaginable and unutterable ●acts of Favour and preventing Mercies were in the Revolution of twenty five or about thirty years space vouchsafed to our Fathers as would fill a large Volume yet not without mixture of Fatherly Corrections to evince Paternal Respects unto them as their own words writ into our Nation testify that they were by the Dew from above and Caelestial Influences kept alive and cherished as to the sequel we shall leave it to such Sprightly and Accurate Wits to perform who shall espouse it 〈◊〉 knowing that tract of time will admit liberty of freer Discourse about Matters then this Age will bear the Relator being in hazard of having his Teeth dasht out by Truth liftin● up her heeles if he come too near her as hat been Experienced and Recorded by our Nat●●ons Great Historiographer This was the time of our Fathers Love of thei● Espousals and Kindness of their Youth they wer●●hen Holiness unto the Lord and the First Fruits o●●is Increase God Rode upon the Heavens fo● their help they dewlt safely tho' solitarily 〈◊〉 our Issachar Rejoyced in their Tents and ou● Lebulon in his Going forth but have we brought Sacrifices unto the Holy Mountain though we have sucked of the abundance and treasures of ●he Sea to the enriching of divers This Tribe ●ath aboundantly multiplied to the admiration of all Beholders So as a noted Belgian one of the East India Company who above twenty years since have●ng heard of the fame of thi● place purposely ●ame over to take a view of it and past through ●ll the parts of it and made a particular remark ●pon our sea trade and the incredible number ●f small Vess●ls he then saw besides some Ships ●f considerable Burthen belonging to us Nor is to be forgotten the answer made to a Messenger of the Nations an Attendant upon ●he French Court sent hither by Lewis le●rand to demand the fulfilling of the Articles ●ade at Breda between the two Crowns who ●ere to his astonishment saw what he could ●ot have believed to him it was told That ●od had founded this Sion and that the poor ●f his People did trust in him at his departure with wonderment he said Lo what hath God ●one and if his Masters servants did know how ●●e poor of this Country lived he would not ●ave one left It might be then said who so happy as new New England by the Lord their shield and Sword of their Excellency as our Report hath passed through Holland and France so that Spain is no stranger to it C. Allin appeareth by the Discourse which the Governour of Cuba had with a Prisoner of Note of ours falling into his hands concerning our being a People eminent for great Mo●ality and Reformation but mind you said he ●ow your Children will prove and what will be●ome of them a Speech becoming a Gentleman well Versed in Sacred and Civil History Thus far of the Light and white side of the Pillar which attended us in this our Wilderness Pilgrimage the black and dark side remains ●nd we hope thus far we have cleared our Fathers from being the procurers and peccant causes of these dismal days now befallen us they according to Divine Institution walked with God they did Justice and Judgment and then it was well with them The Lord took delight in our Fathers and they in him we have left the Lord he hath forsaken us they Walkt with him we contrary unto him he Subdued their Pequod and Narraganset Enemies before them gave their Country into our hands but now the Sce●● of Affai●s is turned we are made a Spoil 〈◊〉 our Haters to our Popish and Pagan Neig●●bours a Derision we are sold and scattered 〈◊〉 mong the Heathen can we say All this 〈◊〉 befallen us yet have we not forgotten thee n●● have we done falsely in thy Covenant this w●●● fear is our mortal wound viz. the forget●i●● of our Fathers and of our God we have dea● falsely in our own and their Covenant wh●● stipulated for us this is the quarrel which th● Holy God is now avenging Hath Chittim 〈◊〉 Canada chang'd their Gods Do we thus Requi● the Lord Oh Fo●lish People and Unwise O poor New-England especially Boston i● the Day of it poor to a proverb of being th● lost Town in our first Founding those of ●ther Towns enquired how the Mean On● lived here the Rich had their Farms Abroa● to Subsist by but as for the poor how coul● they subsist The Answer was their Ministry was so sweet unto them and the Bread of Lif● so savoury to their Souls that they forgot thei● Bo●ily Food so welcome was Christian Society to them that he who had but an Acre of Lan● for his House Lot parted with one half of i● to a desirable Neighbour he that had but hal● an Acre did the like Thus were we increast● so as instead of a desolate place where ou● Fathers found no Town to dwell in they Cri●ed unto the Lord hungry and thirsty who le● them forth by a right way that we are become 〈◊〉 small City of Habitation God gave some ●f them then a particular Faith upon Psalm