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A52921	New-England's ensigne it being the account of cruelty, the professors pride, and the articles of their faith, signified in characters written in blood, wickedly begun, barbarously continued, and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possest in the priests and rulers in New-England ... : this being an account of the sufferings sustained by is in New-England (with the Dutch) the most part of it in these two last yeers, 1657, 1658 : with a letter to Iohn Indicot, Iohn Norton, Governor, and chief priest of Boston, and another to the town of Boston : also, the several late conditions of a friend upon the Road-Iland, before, in, and after distraction : with some quæries unto all sorts of people, who want that which we have, &c. / vvritten at sea, by us whom the vvicked in scorn calls Quakers, in the second month of the yeer 1659 ; this being a confirmation of so much as Francis Howgill truly published in his book titled, The Popish inquisition newly erected in New-England, &c.	Norton, Humphrey, fl. 1655-1659.; Rous, John, d. 1695.; Copeland, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing N636; ESTC R3600	97,400	124

Messias who accordingly fell upon one of them with his cruel hands in his Synagogue stopping of his mouth with gloves and haling him by his hair and so thrust them out then an Officer took them and continued them Prisoners untill the next day then had he them to Boston prison it being the 21 of the seventh moneth 1657. and on the morrow the deputy Governour Richard Bellingham and the Secretary with the Elder and Deacon of that Town came to the Goalors house who sent for us apart and examined us apart thinking to entangle us in our words and find us in contradictions but we abiding in the truth which is but one spake one thing so that they had no advantage against us neither could take hold of any thing we had spoken but said our answers were delusive and that the Devil had taught us a deal of subtilty so we were put in prison again and some hours after we were called forth again and was had before the Governour John Indicot with the Deputy Governor and the rest of the Governors of the united Colonies as they call them and sevral other people who after a frivolous examination made a Warrant that we should be severely whipt with 30 stripes a peece which was cruelly done on the 23 of the seventh moneth 1657. with a threefold cord which if unfolded amounts to ninescore which being so cruel as it is said one woman seeing fell down as dead and kept close that none might discourse with us and three days the Goalor not suffering us to have any food nor yet water yet a prisoner upon compassion conveying some water once unto us was much threatned by the Goalor and all this for no transgression not so much as denying to work neither could we according to their wills so adding to this nine weeks cruel bonds without fire all the cold season turning us forth when so they had done this being the second Article of their faith sealed up to purpose Christopher Holder John C●peland Also one Cassandra Southick with her Husband a grave couple were apprehended by their Officer and brought unto Boston for the entertaining the two forementioned strangers her husband being a Member of their corrupt body which they call their Church they returned back again that he might receive the defilement thereof she being as a scape-goat from the scattered Tribes they continued her seven weeks in Prison fining her fortie shillings for owning a Paper which was given forth by the Spirit of truth in these its Messengers for which the Governor said they deserved death such was his cruelty although the thing held forth nothing but what shewed how their Priests and Rulers differed from the holy men of God of old yet if he had not been limited from the extent of his wickedness he had sentenced them unto death such a one is the third Article of their faith Also Ri●hard Dowdney an innocent man serving the Lord in the sincerity of his heart having a necessity laid upon him to go to Boston which in the simplicity of his heart he did having never been in that Town nor Country before in the way was apprehended it seems the wicked betrayed him by his speech and judged him to be a Disciple which he Peter-like could not deny so forthwith was carried after his Saviour before the Rulers they having not against him the least clause or pretence of transgression sentenced him to be severely whipt with thirty stripes which was done unmercifully with the cord of their Covenant threefold amounting to ninety giving charge also to keep him constantly to work and caused him to be searched for Papers and Books and took from him what they would mark how swift they are to shed innocent blood for all this wickedness was done to him in less then three hours after his coming to Town this was the entertainment of this poor pilgrim to the wounding of the hearts of many to hear and see a stranger and a blameless man so barbarously abused whom they continued above twenty days in bonds to add unto him more at large the cup of their Covenant which patiently he did bear and for which he lost not his reward which after further threatning him and the other four turned them forth thus confirming on them the fourth Article of their faith by reading unto them when they were before them another piece of their mischief vvhich they called an addition to the late Order which they wickedly made in the strength of their pride finding that their former was too weak to accomplish their design they put this string to strengthen their Covenant-cord Thus Reader thou mayest see how they go on adding iniquity to sin not at all considering that the rod of God is lifted up over them who will assuredly take vengeance for all these works therefore let all in whom there is any tenderness and bowels of love towards our Lord Jesus Christ deliver themselves from this untoward generation by turning with the whole heart unto the Lord that so they may be saved from the wrath which is to come upon all these things thus having set the righteous law behind their back and broken Covenant with the Lord in departing from him and wickedly rising up and setting themselves against him who once tendered them and while they were little and lo● in their own eyes and walked in his fear he preserved them and for his name and glories sake which then was in the eye of many of them did he rebuke their adversaries and gave them their hearts desire providing for them a hiding place while his indignation was poured out on his and their enemies who are become a desolation and their names an abhorring to all flesh at which work the righteous was glad and rejoyced in the God of their salvation their enemies themselves confessing to it that it was the Lords handy work yea that the Lord wrought this work for his people evidently appears so that it shall be said from this time it is the Lords work and marvellous to behold in our eyes yea and Nations shall confess to it giving glory unto his name thus hath the Lord tried them and proved them yet how soon turned they from him forgetting his loving kindness and his love wherewith be loved them while they were young and tender who growing in years their hearts were hardned their minds by degrees going into the earth was estranged from him whose presence thus departing they became enviers of them in whom he appeared and Cain-like began to smite with the fist their fellow servants at which the Lords soul was grieved yet patiently did the Lord wait for their return to him bearing thei● iniquities which were great not only in forsaking of his righteous law and holy Commandment vvhich saith Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self and the Lord thy God with all thy heart did go on in hatred against him and made Laws whereby to oppréss the stranger fatherless and widow

because he would not see it done the which John Rous taking notice of said Nay turn about and see it done for so was his order so in the strength of God we suffered joyfully having freely given up not onely one member but all if the Lord so required for the sealing of our testimony which the Lord hath given us to finish and said these words They that do it ignorantly we do desire from our hearts the Lord to forgive them but for them that do it maliciously let our blood be upon their heads and such shall know in the day of account that every one of these drops of our blood shall be as heavy upon them as a Milstone So when they had done their bloody Work they slunck away as a dog when he hath sucked the blood of a Lamb and is discovered So here is a Declaration of the dealings of these men who account themselves members of Christ and the Church of God but let that of God in all judge whether these be the fruits of the members of Christ Did Christ ever do so Or did he leave any Precept that his servants should do so Or rather did he not rebuke Peter for being too forward when he smote the High Priest's servant cut off his right ear Did he not tell him They that take the sword shall perish with the sword And doth not the Scripture say He that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed and know this that there is nothing defileth a land or people more then the shedding of innocent blood and nothing brings down the judgments of God sooner on a People or Nation then the cry of innocent blood therefore let not such call themselves the Church of God for God hath no union nor fellowship with such that acteth violence and gather themselves together and condemn the innocent blood as saith the Scriptures shall the Throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which ●rameth mischief by a Law They gather themselves together against the souls of the Righteous and condemns the innnocent blood Let all sober people judge whether these people are not so who hath shed our blood against whom they could prove no evil either in word or action only the breach of their Law which they have made mischievously to ensnare the innocent but it is that they may be made manifest to be of that generation that condemned Christ saying We have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye But our desire is that all in whom the Seed of God is may be kept clear from the guilt of innocent blood that so they may be hid in the day of the fierce Wrath of the Almighty God For behold The Lord cometh out of his place to punish the Inhabitants of the Earth for their iniquity the Earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no more cover her slain From Boston prison this 25. of the 7. Mo 1659. We are Witnesses of it who suffers for the Truths sake by the corrupt wills of men for keeping the Commandments of God and the faith of Jesus the truth of which shall be witnessed in the day when the righteous judgements of God shall be made manifest when all things shall be tryed by fire even the day shall declare it Christopher Holder John Rous John Copeland We are the three that sustained this abuse who the truth of this their action doth declare unto all that though their Law Sentence and Order be to cut off the Ear yet have they made them a lye for they have not taken away the sixt part of our Ears but the member they have defaced and abused which God had formed and made This and all other of our sufferings in Boston Collony hath been done in private by which all may easily judge what sort of people these are whose actions are thus plainly demonstrated Again Katherine Scot an Inhabitant of Providence in the same land a Woman of good report as these her adversaries could not but in some measure confess having lived with an husband the space of twenty years in that Country no people in that nature more circumspect and blameless seeking God in the sincerity of their hearts in every likeness whereinsoever he appeared so fraid were they to miss of him and so ready to fulfil that Scripture Try all things and hold fast that which is good which when that which is good came full ready were they to receive it and those who brought it not accounting any thing they had too good wherewithall to assist the Lord and his Servants for which they lost not their reward for the power of God took place in all their children small and great so far as capacity could receive it which may amount to eight or nine And God trying the faith of this his servant who being both grave in years and Mother of so many children yea and the Wife of a tender Husband full readily and willingly left she all to do the Will of God knowing that they who do it not are not worthy of him Who being called unto Boston and accordingly by the hand of God brought thither upon the 16. of the 7. Month 1658. who coming to the prison when the Hangman some others were going to execute the cruelty upon the aforementioned sufferers to wit Christopher Holder John Rous John Copeland whom she witnessed that the Lord of his large love had sent to gather his scattered seed which had been scattered and driven away in the gloomy day of Antichrists night being strongly pressed in her spirit to visit them in the time of their sufferings and to bear forth her testimony against their cruel and barbarous dealings pressed towards the door amongst other people but by the violence of the Wicked was not suffered to enter who thereupon uttered these following Words saying It was evident they were going to act the works of darkness or else they would have brought them forth publikely and have declared their offence that others might hear and fear With several other Words declaring them and their cruelty to be worse and more barbarous then the Doctors and Bishops This doing all the while their ears were cutting Which Testimony of hers a man of a sober spirit received and after some time standing patiently to hear one of the prisoners minister after they had executed their malice where standing the Marshal came and pulled her down and said that she might go before the Governor This he did leading her away although he had been her brothers servant who bringing her before the Court held for the 4. united Collonies so called the Governor asked her why she came there Ans To witness against the cruel spirit that so abuses Gods faithful Servants and Messengers whom he hath sent so often amongst you He said What are they Apostles or Messengers Answ Yea I have found them so to me He said We will witness against your railing spirit Ans I deny all railing and have

the latter far surmounting the former several times have they endeavoured to starve us to death by famine at the Town of Boston several times under restraint vvhich herein is not mentioned several of us lost in the Wilderness in the Winter-season several nights vvading deep Waters in frost snovv and cold vvhen none could be had to guide us because of the season one of vvhich S●rah Gibbins by Name lost tvvo nights in this nature being alone vvithout man or Woman to comfort her seized on by an Indian vvhich sorely attempted her but the Lord delivered her the English also endeavouring to stirr up the Indians against us all this have vve born and suffered through his strength and for his love vvho hath chosen us vvhereby vve have heaped Coles upon the heads of our Adversaries vvho hath thus entreated us vvho vvas sent unto them for their souls sake vvho hath caused us to say Oh how are the precious sons of Sion comparable to fine Gold esteemed as Earthen Pitchers the Clay of the Potter H. N. A Letter to John Indicot and John Norton Governor and chiefe Priest in Boston which yet is not answered FRiends I heard a great noise about a litttle Note I writ to Iohn Indicot after the Brethrens Ears were cut be it known unto you that it was onely unto such as sits in counsel to shed innocent blood with such as votes them up and upholds them therein who deserves the greatest curse of all Crimes as for all such into whose hands my Paper comes let them compare it with the Laws which they of Boston made against us as cursed Blasphemers and Hereticks and Adamites c. as if they made a Libel of their Law And consider how much ever any of you have seen or heard us troubled a● it and I having sent forth but one few lines wherein is laid upon them that which is but their due and see how the Beast roars as if he were wounded in his secret parts and cryed out unto all the Earth for ease and mind you Reader whether their Curses or ours is of more force and whether it 's they or we that lyes under the power of a plague and whether in all ages it was the innocent or the guilty who cried out Help O men of Israel help Humph. Norton John Indicot Cursed is that man which causeth any to be dismembered of the members that God hath formed made given them before he that made them doth remove them sad wil it go with thee if the loss of that member cost any one his life Remember that Scripture thou brought That he that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Think not O miserable man that thou canst cover or hide thy self by saying thou persecutest not nor thou sheds no mans blood for in the condition thou art none of these things can be done without thee or thy consent and at thy hand will all this blood and cruelty be required thou knowest that they are but Officers imployed by thee that executes it thou art the foreman in forging of them of this take warning from the Lord God that in the day wherein thou begins with that bloody Work of dismembering the cry of blood will enter into thy house and the curse of God will be more grievous to thy heart for so doing then all the Earth can add thee comfort As thou tenders pitty to thy poor soul take warning before-hand least thou have cause to repent when it is too late least of these thy actions and proceedings will be unto thee as a burdensome stone in the day of thy account Thou maist remember that thou asked me how thou should know that I was sent of God c. I say Many examples might be giveu thee if thou couldst believe As first The Scripture is fulfilled in hurling and pulling me out of your Affembly in such a manner as never any was out of the Church of God and haling me before the Magistrates and casting me into prison according to that Scripture mentioned by John Norton The Devil shall cast some of you into prison Doth not thou believe that he prophesied what would become of us And is it not now as it was then that he that lives after the flesh persecutes him that lives after the Spirit so that this is no new thing but if there be in him any manhood for God or love to the souls of his people let him come forth and give proof thereof in performing but this reasonable request and if he be a Herdsman either of Abraham or Lot and in his thoughts hath gone all this time to the right hand let him now turn to the left and take his Compass through Piymouth-Patten Road-Island Providence Long-Island and else where they have believed and received our report whom you account and call deluders and I shall freely engage my body for his unto this Patten that he shall not be imprisoned whipped nor dismembred by any of them and the same time that he hath there with any one or more accompanying him let me have the like Liberty in this Town and Collony with my yokefellow and let the fruit shew the effect who is the deceiver the false Prophet the Earthly Epicure or the Worldly belly-god if this he deny let him be ashamed and never more owned by you his hearers to be a Minister of the Spirit of truth Let me have his or thy Answer on his behalf directed unto me who is a friend to thy soul called Hump. Norton but by the scorners a quaker Let him subscribe the Answer and let not these deluded Flocks as you account them be lost for want of his labour Again thou maist remember thou charged me with Blasphe● my against John Norton Whereunto I say Had he been a Minister of Christ and I had hit him on the one che●k or under the fifth rib he should have turn'd unto me the other also and let me have had both place and time with him and the people that he might the more have laid me open and not to have suffered one of his chief members as if it were his heart to have cast me into prison but this and such as this doth but the further make thee and him manifest Dated from Boston prison this 16. of the 5. Month 1658. Another LETTER to the Town of Boston BOSTON is a withered Branch the sap of the Vine is departed from it your profession is become barren and your glory is become withered ye are departed from the Lord and have followed your own inventions How is thy beauty faded thou who was famous among the Nations for thy zeal towards God! But now thy zeal is turned to hypocrisie and envy hath eaten you out and malice is as a Canker among you and the way of peace you know not but are following that which makes desolate therefore return while you have time and let God be truly minded by you lest he break forth with

an unresistable flood which you cannot be able to escape Be not proud for thy beauty thou hast lost and thy glory is stained but seek after him who is pure whose Worship stands in the Spirit and no longer worship the Works of your own hands least in the day of your distress your house be left unto you desolate and your habitation waste and then you may wish that while you had time you had minded the things which belongs unto your peace and so cease from your boasting and search your hearts with the light of Christ and let hypocrisie dwell no longer in them least being double minded you be shut out with hypocrites in utter darkness where shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth So while you have time prize it and while you have time repent of your ungodliness and cruelty acted on the Lambs of Christ least you following the Way you now walk in do fall into the pit of perdition out of which there is no redemption And this is written by one who sees thy withered state and hath suffered in thee for the testimony of a good conscience called John Rous. A true discovery and relation of the dealings of God with Goodworth Horndall Wife to John Horndall in Newport upon Road-Island in New-England it being written for the information of the weak and for the help and comfort of all such as may taste of the like distempers and also a warning unto all such as may strive after salvation and the knowledge of the things of God according to the working of their own wills and imaginations wherein it is not to be obtained SHe being formerly a Woman of a discontented mind and inclinable to be led aside with a fretting earthly spirit and of a peevish nature when therein she was crossed as many others in the first birth and nature are and seeing the tryals and travels and emptiness of these transitory things was disquieted in her spirit groaning after that which is more durable and fadeth nor away and I being a Traveller appointed by the Father for that very end to seek out the lost sheep of the house of Israel and so much as in me lyes to gather together and bring home that seed which the Serpent in his servants hath scattered and laid as wast and laboureth to destory and I being drawn by the Father into remote places where his seed lay hid and suffered according to the seed which suffered and that spirit that moved me forth I preached liberty unto the captivated Seed and glad tydings of an acceptable day of deliverance unto the whole House of Israel the which glad tydings the beforementioned Goodworth Horndall as one distrest and opprest in spirit gladly received believed with many more in that place which she as one that had long offended a just terrible God would willingly have acted any thing whereby she might have obtained his Favour and appeased his Wrath but the Serpent being more subtil then any beast in the Field overcame the simplicity in her his power having had place and dominion over her and all flesh in that first nature and birth whereby he led her aside into the imaginations to act strange things yea even such as were beyond her natural strength that such as did labor to withdrawher from did admire at she being convinc't in her own conscience that in and after the course of her former conversation she had been led aside and grievously had offended although in nothing beyond what others in the same nature have been led into which if not repented of they must all likewise perish and she being fearful to offend further then already she had done went about to act in her own Will and in the same spirit whereby she had been captivated such things as were presented to her mind which by the Serpents subtilty was and is always seemingly good whereby the simple hath been led aside to tast although bitter hath been and is the end thereof yet contrary altogether to her knowledge of the evil that therein was these things she did expecting thereby to reap or merit peace and satisfaction but none there was to be had but on the contrary further thraldom so that after information and further advice from such as had travelled through the like tryals and temptations she was prettily setled and savour began to arise in her again so that after hearing the truth further declared she said we spake the language of the heavenly Land and it being so that the servant of God at that present was called away into other remote places where he laboured and suffered a certain space in which time the said Goodworth being of a fretting disconted mind not having been exercised with the patience and faith of the Saints in the midst of such tryals was again led aside into a second relapse which the wise in heart knows is the worst part of a second sorrow She being then in the mixture of the Powers I speak unto them that are wise let them judge what I say the one having long had place and the other having now entered to take place and she not knowing the operation of those powers and being too forward in acting the simplicity suffered a second sorrow and withall such coming about her as was not able to judge of these two powers there being judgement due to the one and mercy and help to the other which they willingly would have made help to her in this distress like the servants of the Lord or housholder Matt. 13. would willingly have been doing dasht down the Wheat with the Cockle which caused the poor creature to say in my hearing although at that time senceless That the blood was spilt upon the Earth When according to the will of the Father I came to that place again and she gone distracted so far that she could not govern nor guide her selfe at that present which troubled me very much and I would gladly have seen her but might not without the drawings of the Father for which I waited and in due time it came upon me and I went to her and sate by her waiting to minister if it were the Fathers will but there was nothing to receive me the ground being barren and altogether left desolate at which instant I was struck exceeding sorrowful being made sensible what the loss of one soul was even as if I had lost so much ou● of my own side and so in plain words from under that sence I spoke it forth withall signifying what a loss it was where the power had reached to the Seed raised the soul out of death which long it had laid under and then to be deprived of it and utterly frustrated and lost by the wiles and subtiltie of the Devil and Satan more then over many who had never tasted of the like power and love and also spoke it forth to the brethren and sisters that she should be visited so often as there

earned towards her and shortly after her child was restored unto her as a figure unto her of what the Lord would do for her if she did abide in his Counsel and often since she hath told me with tears that she trusted that God would do good for her and that he should be honoured by her in stead of that great dishonour that she had done to him and us which thing she hath often declared against her self in and said that we had suffered and God had been dishonoured by her Whereupon I told her that insomuch as that of God had suffered in her therein we had suffered by her and in her and the wicked through that have taken advantage to speak evil of the way of God but thou being through the love and power of God made sensible of thine own loss and also of the love of God towards thee we are therein fully satisfied and greatly can we rejoyce in the Lord God on thy behalf And this I can truly say concerning her and as a Testimonie of her That since her Recovery she hath and doth make it manifest that it was not for nor thorow any earthly or evill end that the sad travel came upon her for before that she was never a Licentious Liver and since she is more dead to all those things then ever she was before and her care and industry set how to do just and honest things unto all sorts of People and that which is well-pleasing unto God that the dayes of her appointed Time may be spent to his glory We are Witnesses unto the Truth of this Humphrey Norton John Rous. John Copeland Some Quaeries unto all sorts whatsoever who wants that which wee have by which they may see themselves and know from us where to find it 1. WHERE the Hand is which can help one out of Hell 2. Where is the Arm that can deliver one up thither and there bind him until his flesh be destroyed and in the day of the Lord can fetch his soul from thence and set it upon his Throne 3. Where is the first and second death the lowest highest and nethermost Hell seeing the Scripture speaks of the lowest Hell and the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone c. and Tophet of old which yet remains to the Wicked Shew us where these Hells are and in or under what Climate Circle or Planet or in Earth or Air or where 4. What is that that torments the Wicked there And whether it is the Devil that torments himself yea or nay 5. When or how with safety a soul may be delivered up thither To wit Whether before God hath left striving with him or after Or at what time or instant Answer expresly 6. Whether Christ and all these that have followed him from death to life have not past through all these deaths and Hells yea or nay seeing it is said He can save to the utmost And whether they have seen the utmost yea or nay that have not past through all these things And let none say that they may not be dived into for it is truth that the spirit searcheth all things c. and the hidden things of Esau must be sought out if any say Nay let him tell me what it is may be searched into and seen and what may not 7. And whether the eye of God seeth not and searcheth all things yea or nay And whether every man ought not to see with this Eye yea or nay If not Whether he may not be blind in many things yea or nay As for example Adam gave Names to every Creature that stood in Covenant and seeing that there are Names and Creatures and Members with bloody Oaths and Actions vvhich Adam in innocency named not therefore shevv me hovv one shall discern and knovv the innocent Names and Nature of every Member Creature and created thing and also that bloody spirit that invented all these bloody Oaths and beastly and filthy and unclean Words and Actions Ansvver expresly for so speaks the Spirit 8. If any man being a Preacher so called and knovv not these things Whether he be able to judge of what he speaks yea or nay And if so Whether he may not speak amiss and preach and speak that which he ought not and give Names to Creatures and things which are not If he be one that says he knows the things that differ and hath been led into Visions and Revelations and things of the highest lawful and unlawful to be uttered let him answer all these things both former and latter 9. What may be preached and published upon the house top and vvhat may uot and vvhat things are lavvful and what not And seeing there is a time wherein all things are lawful and a time wherein all things are not distinguish each time with its sign that all people may learn to know the signs of the times and the difference between all things that are and are not if any may say that it will bring in doubtful questions and may drive them to dive into things which may strick them distracted or mad I say Nay that is mans Will that drives him thither the light leads him to see the ground and rise of every time and thing and this is the Word of the Lord God and shews him the Spirit which must be divided from the soul from that which must not Mark the Eye of God shews and sees a Spirit and he that sees not with God's Eye sees not that which must be divided from the soul nor the soul which the Word reacheth and searcheth betwixt it and the Spirit 10. The mysteri● of godliness having been hid from ages generations and this being now the day and age and generation wherein God is revealing and revealed in and unto his people and is leading them through all Lands the Land of darkness sin and death the Land of light life and peace and having queried something concerning the former and seen also the scituation of the latter let us stretch forth into the deep and so fathom the whole circuit of Heaven and Hell Earth and Air and all that therein is Come up hither and I will shew thee the place where his Honor dwelleth come and see 11. Seeing the Scripture speaks of the third Heaven it thence appears that there are three my query is Where are they In what place Under what Planet Or above in what Circuit Or below in what Region and the infallible Way to it Which is the easiest query of all 12. And seeing that there is War in Heaven betwixt Michael and the Dragon it seems then that the Dragon that old Serpent the Devil is there I say Where is that Heaven that he is in Answer expresly 13. And seeing that the Serpent was in Paradice and deceived Eve before ever I heard of Hell Tell me how he came there and what Heaven that is and where it is 14. And seeing it is written that Adam was made of the dust c. and that he and she to wit Eve was in this innocent place called Paradice tell me infallibly the wisest of you Wizards How and what way they came there He who can do this in truth can preach salvation without Book 15. And seeing that a Heaven there is of a truth whereinto nothing that defileth can enter tell me expresly where it is the entrance in and how it may be obtained and by whom 16. What the Key of the Kingdom is Seeing Christ is the Door who the Keepers seeing I have heard both David and Peter was 17. And what the Gates of Hell is which shall not prevail against this Door And what the Keys of these Gates is seeing it is written He hath the Keys of Hell and Death And who that He is seeing it 's called an Angel My query is What the nature of an Angel is seeing it is written concerning Christ That he took upon him the nature of Angels c. and concerning the Saints that they shall judge Angels Thou who sees not with the Eye that surrounds these things and comprehends Death and Hell and is in distress concerning thy salvation at a loss not knowing the truth nor who it is that lives in it the cryes are so many and various this know of a truth whatsoever is wanting in thee of any of these things or any other that tends to salvation we have it and with us it is Therefore sit not in darkness nor say not with the multitude Who wil shew us any good thing but come unto us and suffer not thy soul to be lost for want of a Saviour for the place of his presence is with us witnessed By Humphre● Norton The Secrets of the Lo●d are with them that fear him WHat herein is mentioned is now freely recommended to the Common-Wealth of England with all who seekes the good and welfare of the Seed of Israel that as they love the liberty and redemption thereof they will endeavour after doing Justice and Righteousness towards all herein mentioned and in the like case concerned without respect of persons that it may manifestly appeare that you act for God and that in righteousness and not according but contrary to the minds and wills of corrupt men The End