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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

was imprisoned from the first of the fifth Month July till towards the latter end of the ninth Month called November and nothing could be charged on us but for meetting together on the first day of the Week and coming before them with our hats on Now in the time of our imprisonment one of us Josiah Southwick sent to the Governor and Magistrates at their meeting desired a little liberty to go home his goods being on the spoile and he would give bond to come again faithfully to the prison at their appointed time but they denyed it Now there was one William Marston that lived at Hampton they finding two little Books in his House one was John Lilburn's little Book sent to his Wife from Dover-Castle and the other was a Sheet of Paper of William Dewsberry's called The mighty day of the Lord for the vvhich they took from him ten pounds this man withdrew from the publike meeting at Hampton they rated him three pounds to the Priest for his Wages and took it violently from him and was also fined five pounds for not coming to their Meeting and took away a Barrel of salted Beef that he had provided to send to sea more moneys they took from him but the true account of all we yet had not besides many other particulars which would be too tedious to mention which the Inhabitants of the Masathusets endure with what more may be expected in the prosecution of this unjust and unrighteous Law which if there may not be an allowance of Appeals from the State of England to the Inhabitants their Subjects in New-England it 's like to be a bloody time amongst us for they have not onely combined to kill and banish amongst themselves in the Masathusets but as we hear have by all means used to hedge up all wayes of succor to us in the Neighbour-Collonyes which some of them had more tenderness then themselves But our trust is in the Most High vvhose living presence is the fulness of all satisfaction to us in all outward straits All these particulars have been since Septemb. 1657. to this present writing 28. of the 9th Month 1658. in which time they drunk thirty and two draughts of cruel whippings of strangers and Inhabitants and three strangers they cut their ears off All these vvhippings and ear-cuttings vvas done privately in the private Prison-Houses This William Marston as is before exprest coming through Salem when we were in prison Josiah Southwick's Wife sent some provision to her Husband and Lau. Southwick's Daughter sent some to her Parents then in prison by this man who was for it carryed before the Governor and by him vvas committed to prison and there vvas kept two Weeks and made pay five shillings Fees to the Gaoler and let go This affirmed under our hands Samuel Southwick Josiah Southwick Laurence Southwick Samuel Gasken Josiah Buffum Now after all this there was a Court held at Salem the last day of November 1658. this Court sent for about fifteen of the Inhabitants for not coming to their Meeting twelve of which did appear of these nine of them were fined for sixteen Weeks absence four pounds a piece one was fined three pounds fifteen shillings and one fined twenty shillings the other did now enter into pay The sum of what was fined by this Court was forty pounds fifteen shillings And now the Devil being let loose for a little season he rages and goes into utter darkness ●nd fetches up all the Powers of darkness and they combine together to fortifie his Kingdom that so none but he who was a murderer from the beginning may have any rule in the Town of Boston or the Jurisdiction thereunto belonging and now he thinks his Kingdom is sure The last piece of Work which the Rulers have done for their Master is as followeth An Act made at a General Court held at Boston the 20th of October 1658. Whereas there is a pernicious sect commonly called Quakers lately risen who by word and writing have published and maintained many dangerous and horrid Tenents and do take upon them to change and alter the received laudable customs of our Nation in giving civil respect to equals or reverence to superiors whose a●●ions tend to undermine the civil Government and also to destroy the Order of the Churches The people called in scorn Quakers are risen up from under the powers of darkness and they are come forth from the rising of the Sun where the morning hath appeared without Clouds and though set at nought by you yet they are a mighty people and of the Royal Off-spring even of his Family who is the first-born of every creature and the heir of all things the Shout of a King is among them who is greater then Abaddon or Appolyon his living presence is with them and they shall come upon you hypocrites and dissemblers as mortar and clay and though you lift up your horns high and pusheth every way with them against the Lamb and his followers yet your horns shall be broken by him who is their King by his horn of Salvation which now is lifted up far higher then the horn of an Unicorn and you shall be as ashes under their feet We are not ignorant of the swelling of the Sea nor of the strength of the Beast which hath risen out of the Sea We were not ignorant of his strength in New-England but he is brought among the Quakers and dwells in their Tabernacle who is able to make war with the Beast and his followers though you have cast up your banks very high and fortified your selves as the Pope by his Inquisition yet you must be gone over and be made level and yet not by Clubs nor Staves nor Whips nor hot Irons Cain's Weapons the Weapons of the Murderer which you have taken up which shall be broken though your bows be as steel yet they shall be broken by the arm of the Lord the Quakers strength And what is the horrid tenents and dangerous things they hold out that you open your mouths so wide The horrid and dangerous Tenent is They alter the laudable customs of your Nation Would not thou judge Reader when there hath been so many great Words and Accusations that some capital Fact would be laid down But behold the Capital Crime The Quaker will not put off his hat nor his coat nor none of his clothes to his equals nor to a persecuting fellow who hath a few Buttons and a few Ribbans who calls himself a Superior and here is a crime indeed which deserves banishment and death nothing below this will be able to satisfie Justice for this Crime by the Judgement of the Law-makers of Boston And when became this such a laudable custom that it is worthy of so much praise Ye blind and ignorant have you not read the Scripture He that respects persons commits sin and he that hath mens persons in admiration will transgress for a Morsel of Bread And ye never

learned this of Elihu this laudable Custom as you call it he said I know not to give flattering titles to man for in so doing my Maker would take me away but envy hath eaten out all knowledge out of your hearts And is this your Church-Order to take away mens Beasts Kettles Pots Sheep and Peuter Or is this your Order to fine men five shillings every day they come not to your Synagogue or because men cannot break the command of Christ and swear among a company of cruel covetous blood-thirsty men to fine them five pounds Tell the Nations when this Order was made in the Churches among all the Orders and Directions that Christ and his Apostles gave to believers and to the Churches to be observed I never read of any such as these Oh ignorance folly and madness What fine five pounds a piece if they will not joyne with you in Worship nor come to hear a covetous hireling dream an hour What banish them that will not come to you What put to death if they come again Greater cruelty never appeared among all the persecuting Emperors of Rome in the greatest Apost●cy Well if this be your Church-Order it's time for the Lord to arise and scatter you and blessed shall he be that bears his Testimony for God against you though to the loss of his life his end shall be peace By denying all established forms of Worship and by withdrawing from orderly Church-fellowship allowed and approved by all Orthodox professors of the truth and instead thereof and in opposition thereunto frequent private meetings themselves insinuating themselves into the minds of the simple or such as are least affected to the Order and Government of Church and Commonwealth You that have established such a form of worship and such an Assembly as this that if any come into your Assembly and speak the word of the Lord for the edification of the hearers so that people● minds may be informed you pull them out by the hair of the head and stops their mouths with Napkins or Gloves and if any reprove him that doth so disorderly you send him to prison and fine him its time to withdraw from such disorderly Assemblies as yours are And if this be the Order of your established Form approved of by Orthodox Professors then the Church of Corinth was not Orthodox for there one might speak one by one that all might hear and be edified and comforted but this is accounted disorder in your Church and by your Rulers and they that walk according to that Order approved of among the Saints of old must bear the Name of disorderly persons and the sentence is Prison and be fined and be whipped Indeed Amaziah the Priest of Bethel was of your Priests mind and of the mind of your Rulers and Assemblies you may read your example when Amos the Herdsman said The Songs of the Temple should be turned into howling and prophesied against such a generation as you are Hear this ye that swallow up the needy even to make the poor of the Land to faile Amos 8.4 There is your example you Rulers of New-England who takes away poor peoples Estates their goods and casts them in stinking holes and tears their flesh from off their backs as you have caused to be done unto many poor people who are dear unto the Lord Amos 8.7 Hearken what the Lords sentence was to such a people The Lord hath sworn by the Excellency of Jacob Surely I will never forget any of their works Ver. 8. Shall not the land t●emble for this and every one mourn that dwelleth therein And it shall rise up wholly as a flood and it shall be cast out and drowned as by the flood of Aegypt Read the 9 and 10. I say Amaziah was of your mind he sent to Jeroboam and said Amos had conspired against Bethel and the Altar their Church-Assembly and against the Land so that it was not able to bear his words Amos 7.10 And just like the King and Priests then so are you now Church and State is like to be overthrown say you by the Quakers Herdsmen and Plowmen no Orthodox Divines nor Orthodox Professors but seditious say you like as the envious Iews who falsly accused the Apostles in the same words And say you They frequent meetings of their own Why not Did not the Apostles and Saints meet from house to house Went they to the Temple at Ierusalem or into the Jews Synagogues after Christ was ascended to worship You ignorant men and yet cry Scripture is the rule of faith and obedience how is the Scripture your rule now When any worship God anywhere but where you meet banish them fine them five shillings and ten shillings and five pounds a day and if they return Death Where is your rule The generations to come will number you among fools as men that have lost your natural understanding through your madness and envy which one day you will repent of Whereby divers of our Inhabitants have been infected notwithstanding all former Laws made upon the experience of their arrogant and bold obtrusions to deseminate their principles among us prohibiting their coming in this Jurisdiction they have not been deterred from their impetuous attempts to undermine our peace and hazard our ruine And what hath all your unrighteous Decree● done you no good All your lying and invented expressions in your Laws to make your matter hainous not accomplished your purposes Hath not your Law for five shillings a-day brought all to your confederacy nor ten shillings a-day nor fetching away their Beasts Pots and Ketttles will not all this hinder them but they must depart from you Will not all the whippings again and again as John Indicot your Governor did consess to his own shame that you had done will not all serve Call all your Inchanters together and see something is the matter more then ordinary and cannot all this you have done deter them from your Jurisdiction Yet you resolve to make another Law and try what that will do novv have you covenanted with death and hath shaken hands with the destroyer and murderer sure enough your peace is undermined for els all these horrid cruel enterprises you vvould never have followed which you have begun and ruine and wo and eternal misery and everlasting sorrow is to them that are in that nature you live in which is cursed from God for ever For prevention thereof this Court doth order and enact That every person or persons of the cursed se●t of the Quakers who is not an Inhabitant of but is found within this Jurisdiction shall be apprehended without Warrant where no Magistrate is at hand any Constable Commissioner or select man and conveyed from Constable to Constable to the next Magistrate who shall commit the said person to close prison there to remain without bail until the next Court of Assistance where they shall have a legal Tryal Now comes up the Rear of the Beast and the reserve of

the holy Angels justifie and the Church of God It may be you will call this rebellion and so it is against the Prince of darkness from whence you have received your Authority Manifesting thereby their complying with those whose design is to overthrow the Order est●blished in Church and State every such person upon conviction before the said Court of Assistance in manner as abovesaid shall be committed to close prison for one Month and then unless they chuse voluntarily to depart this Jurisdiction shall give Bond for their good behaviour and appear at the next Court where continuing obstinate and refusing to retract and reform the foresaid Opinions shall be sentenced to banishment upon pain of death and any one Magistrate upon information given him of any such person shall cause him to be apprehended and shall commit any such person to prison according to his discretion until he come to tryal as abovesaid And here is an end of their wicked Law which must come to an end You that build up a Nation with iniquity and a Church so called with blood who layes traps for the feet of the innocent and makes Laws to destroy mens Estates and to banish men from the Earth which is the Lords and the fulness of it and furthermore makes Laws to destroy mens lives and shed blood Wo and Misery is to your Church and State and the righteous God of Heaven and Earth will plead the cause of the innocent and needy and overthrow that which you have established and if they will not recant as you call it which is to deny Christ before men then banishment and prisonment and their Estate wasted and they destroyed then you think you are secure your Laws is cursed your Religion cursed and your Enterprises cursed What is not your Gospel able to defend it self but you must take up the Beasts Weapons Cain's Weapons the murderer the Devil's Weapons to defend your Church and State carnal Weapons hellish Weapons the Dragons Weapons Hath your deceitful Merchants the hireling Priests made you believe that this is an Orthodox received Opinion They received this out of the bottomless pit and the Weapons with all that handle them shall go down thither again and the Lamb shall reign over the Beast and his followers though you have established wickedness by a Law and think your selves secure yet God will provoke you that the rottenness of your hearts may be brought forth and that all your deceit may be made manifest that all that fear the Lord may come out from amongst you for wo and misery shall compass your Tabernacle and the dread of God is against you And the next thing whereby the Devil and his Ministers fortifies themselves is certain Articles exhibited by them like the Popes Inquisition although they are full of ignorance and blasphemy and these they intend to impose upon any ●an and if they answer not according to their blind understandings then they say they are convicted as Hereticks and must be sent to prison and if they do not retract banished and whipped in the mean time and his Estate made havock on and then banished not to return upon pain of death and if he do return to be put to death and this is the fruit of their Orthodox received Principles and of the laudable custom of New-England And now I come to the Articles 1. If a●y person or persons besides their refusing to come to the publike Assembly of Divine Worship shall either deny the blessed Trinity of persons in the Divine Essence Ans. And is this one of your Orthodox received Articles Then the Pope is as Orthodox as you And what is there to be found or can be expected in your publike Assemblies amongst a company of envious men whose hearts are filled with envy whose hands are defiled with blood Divine Worship say you like Wolsey Bonner and that bloody crew Divine Service said they But you might more truly have said Humane invention and vain tradition And Trinity of persons in the Divine Essence Where learned you this Article from the Pope from the Mass Book Yet the Father Son and Spirit is owned and these three are one and the Father Word and Spirit and these are one but I challenge all you Orthodox Professors to shew me from Scripture where the Holy Ghost or Spirit is called a Person be ashamed of your ignorance ye illiterate men 2. Or shall den● the person of Christ to be distinct from the Father and the Holy Ghost or shall deny the Person of Christ to be distinct from every believer Ans. Do but mark the madness and confusion of these mighty Rabbies before there must be three persons in one Essence and now Christ must be distinct from the Father and the Holy Ghost before in God and now distinct from God this is damnable Doctrine which hath been brought in since the Apostacy for the Scripture saith God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself then how was he distinct from the Father when the Father was in him And I am in the Father and the Father in me and I and my Father are one Nay saith New-England Doctors They are distinct An● the fulness of the God head dwelt in him bodily Now prove you that the Father and the Holy Gbost are distinct from Christ Or how is Christ's Person distinct from every believer when he that is a believer hath him revealed in him and he that is a true believer eats his flesh and drinks his blood how is he then distinct What nearer union can there be exprest Is that distinct from a man that he hath in him But it may be they will say as the rest of the dreamers do he is in believers by his Spirit distinct from his body Then I say Christ is not divided for a person without a Spirit or distinct from the Spirit is not Christ but this blind Doctrine came up since the Apostles dayes and was counted as Orthodox by the Councels at Neece and Latteran a company of Apostates and hath been counted by the Beasts followers a great point of Divinity 3. Or deny the manhood of Christ to be a manhood distinct from the manhood of any other man A. The Man Christ Jesus who was of the seed of Abraham according to the flesh and the Son of God according to the Spirit his flesh is distinct from you who live in envy whose flesh is as the flesh of Horses and as the flesh of Dragons who devours you know not the holy flesh of Christ but the man of God doth who is born of the spirit and the flesh of Christ is his meat and they that believe in him are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh you ignorant dreamers how then is his flesh distinct But do you feed upon ashes as your Father doth the cunning Serpent for Gods Wisdom is hid from you 4. Or shall deny the Scripture or the written Word to be the Rule A. We own the