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A42186	A glass for the people of New England, in which they may see themselves and spirits, and if not too late, repent and turn from their abominable ways and cursed contrivances that so the Lord God may turn away his wrath, which he will bring upon them, it they repent not, for their blasphemies against himself, and for all the murders and cruelties done to his tender people, ever since they usurped authority to banish, hang, whip, and cut off ears, and spoil the goods of dissenters from them in religious matters, while themselves disown infallibility in those things / by S. G.	S. G. (Samuel Groome), d. 1683.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Tyso, John, d. 1700.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2065; ESTC R10937	29,049	44

Burning with Hot Irons and Banishing the King's Subjects and Imprisoning and Spoiling of their Goods as you have done to them that would not conform to your Devilish Persecuting Spirit And did ever the Bishops Cut off any of your Ears or Brand you with Hot Irons and Hang any of you or Banish any of you under pain of Death if that you did Return and make you pay Five Shillings a Day for not hearing of them and beat you with pitcht Ropes and Cut off the Ears of any that came to visit you when any of you were in Prison in Old England And have not you with your cruel Murderous Persecuting Oppressing Spirit hindred the King's Subjects for Peopling that Place and you to make wor●● Laws against the People of God then ever the Bishops had against you and thus you have acted contrary to the Scriptures and contrary to your Patent and contrary to the Laws of England and are judged of all and of God and the Angels and of all Good Men. And are not you Priests and Profess●rs of New England like unto those Workers of Iniquity that David prayed against as in Psal 64 when he said Hide me from the secret C●●●sel of the Wicked from the Insurr●ctions of the Workers of Iniquity who whet their Tongues like Swords and bend their Bows to shoot their Arrows even with bitter Words that they may shoot in secret at the Perfect c But to talk of Perfect and Perfection amongst you your imperfect Spirit cannot endure to hear And further David saith They encourage themselves in an Evil Matter they commune of laying Snares privily c. but God shall shoot at them with an Arrow suddenly and they shall be wounded so they shall make their own Tongues to fall upon themselves and all that see them sh●ll 〈◊〉 away And does not ●olomon say Th● Expect●tion of the Wicked shall parish and th●ir Y●●●s shall 〈…〉 a●d the Cou●s●ls of the Wicked are Deceit and their T●●d●r Mercies are cruel the Belly of the Wicked shall want the Lamp of the Wicked shall be put out the Sacrifices of the Wicked are Abomination to the Lord the Way of the Wicked is Abomin●tion to the Lord and the Thoughts of the Wicked are Abomination to the Lord the Ploughing of the Wicked is Sin and the House of the Wicked shall be overthrown the Horns of the Wicked sh●ll be cut off saith David and the Rod of the Wick●d sh●ll not rest upon the Back of the Righteous and the Light of the Wicked shall be put out saith Job the Wick●d shall fall by his own Wickedness saith Solomon Prov. 11 5. And therefore consider your selves who have persecuted and do persecute the Righteous whether you m●st not eat the Fruits of your own Doings and whether the L●rd is not doing so to you as you did to his People And are you not as blind as the Jews that crucified Christ and called him a Blasphemer and said Let his Blood be upon us and our Children Did not Christ Weep over Jerusalem when he would have gathered them and did they not cast away all Pity and Tenderness of the Lord towards themselves and when he told them what Misery they would come to which did come to pass in the dayes of Titus when Jerusalem was Destroyed and had not they then Blood to drink who had drunk Blood And have not God's people wept mourn'd travail'd over you and for you New England Priests and Professors and still you remain in your Hardness For what pleasure is it to the Flesh or their own Wills for the Servants of the Lord both Men and Women for them to travail some Hundreds some Thousands of Miles to warn you and exhort you to fear God and leave off your Wickedness and Persecution of people that would be called Christians which have dishonoured both Name and Nature Life and Religion from whom Repentance is hid from many of your Fyes and several of you have dyed in your Sins and Wickedness in the Jews ev●l Thoughts who thought they did God Good Service in Killing ●is M●ss●ngers Oh! you Professors and Priests of New England that the Sun should go down upon you and beset that you should be so dark and not see your selves for the Jews discerned not the Time of the Son 's Coming in the Flesh nor you the Time of his Coming in the Spirit And therefore once more take heed of the Lord God leaving you to your ●elv●s and giving you up to your Hearts Lusts who have been the De●pi●e●s of the Goodne●s and Riches and Forbearance of the Long-sufferings of the Lord God which would have led you to Repentance but after the Hardness and Impenetency of your Hearts have treasured up Wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the Righteous Judgments of God And therefore how can you ex●ect but Indignation Tribulati●n and Anguish upon all you that ●ave done so many Wicked Deeds against the Servants of the Lord and d●unk their Blood And therefore you that b● sober mind and consider these things and consider what Jacob said of the Cruelty and ●ra●h of Simeon and Levi O my Soul come no thou into their Secret unto their Assembly mine Honour be not thou united for in their Anger they slew a Man and in their Self w●ll they digged down a Wall and he said Cursed be their Anger for it was fierc● and their Wr●●h for it was cruel Now Jacob was the second Birth but we do know that you that are born of the Flesh will persecute him that is born of the Spirit but the Birth of the Flesh is not a True Christian neither can enter into the Kingdom of God except ye be born again G. F. The Copy of a Letter which was delivered into the Hands of R. Bellingham late Governour of Boston in New-England for him to read and consider with his Assistants the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston with the rest of their Brethren where this may come THe Powers that are ordained of God are for the Punishment of Evil doers and for the Praise of them that do well But thee Richard Bellingham who art accounted Chief Magistrate in this place hast not acted by this Rule in what thou hast done against me but hast laid thy Sword upon the Innocent for which the Lord God will plea● with thee and your Priest whose Name is Increase Madder who was one with thee in thy Cruelty and the rest of your Brethren who were present but the people who came to hear thou turnedst out of thy Doors that they might not see your Works of Darkness although I desi●ed thee that they might see what was done for Truth is not asham●d neither doth it hide it self in Corners but Cruelty and Oppression seeks to cover it self as Iames Oliver would do who said I was a Woolf and you would k●ll Wolves who had no hing against me to prove me in that beastly Nature but I was a Stranger unto

A GLASS For the People of New-England IN WHICH They may see themselves and Spirits and if not too late Repent and Turn from their Abominable Ways and Cursed Contrivances That so the Lord God may turn away his Wrath which he will bring upon them if they Repent not for their Blasphemies against himself and for all the Murders and Cruelties done to his tender People ever since they usurped Authority to Banish Hang Whip and Cut Off Ears and Spoil the Goods of Dissenters from them in Religious Matters while themselves disown Infallibility in those things By S. G. Man in the Pride of his Heart will not seek after God but when his Pride is sta●ned and his Lofty Look and Mind brought low then may be he will though many times it proves too late Printed in the Year 1676. A GLASS For the People of New-England In which they may see themselves and Spirits and if not too late Repent and Turn from their Abominable Wayes and Cursed Contrivances THey may remember that themselves were here accounted Dissenters from the Episcopal Worshippers and may be many of them in that Day could not in Conscience Comply with the Prelate then in power so took their Flight in that Day in which they were called to bear a Testimony against that they saw to be Evil in that Day and Time But when they came to New-England they I mean the worst and basest-spirited of them which indeed were most in Number fell to Bani●h their Fellows which could not bow to their gilded Calf of Will-worship which in short time grew a great Bull with Horns to push and gore even to the Gallows those that could not worship the Beast notwithstanding the Lord raised up a Testimony in many of their Neighbours and Inhabitants of the same Country who witnessed for the God of Heaven against their Wayes Doctrines and Worships some of which they banished in a barbarous manner others they evilly intreated and accused them of Heresie Conspiracy Muteny Faction and what n●t to hide their Deceit and cover their Persecution withal And to the end they may come to a Sight and Sense of their Abominations I am willing to set a few things in order before them and not only before them but also that all others may hear and learn and fear and do no more so wickedly lest the Anger of the just God break forth as a Flame as it is now happened among that persecuting Generation in New-England So that all may see against whom and what they have set themselves and vaunted themselves at all times even against the Appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ that he should not appear to stain their Pride in which they prided themselves above all Humanity or Tenderness either to Learned or Unlearned Male or Female Old or Young if any questioned what their Hireling Priests and Smiting Prophets said they must be banished slandered and named with reproachful Names at best but how much worse used many can witness and their own Cruelty manifest Many were the Abuses committed by them on those that went over on the same Account as themselves did and had as good a Right to live there as any amongst them although they banished them by what Power they best know that have seen their Patent but I 'le leave that a while and come to their proceeding against John Wheelwright one of the Ministers of the Country whom they charged with False D●ctrine and a Mover of Sedition and what not as you may see at large in a Book in Manuscript in which is all their Proceeding too much here to insert I 'le only give the Reader some Passages by which it may be easily understood against what they set themselves and opposed But I may first give a hint at the manner of their Work J●hn Wheelwright preached of a Light in man and of a Spirit in man at which New-England was in an Uproar and much troubled as Herod and all Judea was when they heard of Christ Jesus who is the ●ight coming into the World So a Jezebel's Fast as you shall see anon was proclaimed under pretence to seek God in this Day of Trouble the Fast was kept ●n the 16th Day of the 11th Moneth 1636. and this Pestilent Man as they deemed him John Wheelwright must preach at B●ston before the Wolves in Sheeps Clothing and indeed however it hath been or may be with him since the man then spoke and preached many sound Truths I 'le here insert some of his Sermon and let the Reader judge He exhorted the Brethren and Sisters To get Christ into their Hearts that they may be happy and exhorts his Brethren and Sisters in the Name of God To endeavour to bring Christ into the Hearts of People and then saith he you shall make the Church and your selves happy And also said That as soon as Christ cometh into the Soul he makes the Creature nothing and said he in the Gospel Works of Sanctification must be pressed no other way but as they grow from the Root Christ Jesus for it is he that worketh in you both to will and to do of his own good Pleasure and said he this is the Covenant of Grace I will forgive their Sins and write my Law in their Hearts and Inward Parts and that is the Gospel in which the Spirit of God is conveyed c. And saith he We must be Meck and Lowly as Christ was lowly and content to receive all from the Father even so must we be meek and lowly and content to receive all from Christ If Duties be pressed any other way they will be Burdens that neither we nor our Fathers were or will be able to bear therefore saith he if we mean to keep Jesus Christ we must keep open this Fountain and held forth this Light And told them in that S●rmon That the Spirit of Christ was no Smiting Spirit and so far John Wheelwright in this place with much more honest true things that were then given him to declare and which indeed he then even in the midst of Woolflsh Professors did boldly and valiantly declare and as honestly and nobly stood unto in your Court when and where you Arraigned him Judged him and Condemned him but could not disprove his Doctrine though he and others often challenged both Priests and Professors from highest to lowest and all or most you had to say was That it was contrary to the rest of the Ministers and therefore was Seditious and Mutinous But because I would be fair and not wrest their words nor meanings I 'le rehearse some of their own Sayings in open Court against Wheelwright's Doctrine exactly as I read in a Book as aforesaid and having also some Knowledge of things done in that Place of N●w-England At a Court at Boston 1636. consisting of Henry Vane Governour Twelve Magistrates Twelve Priests Thirty Three Deputies John Wheelwright was brought into the Court and accused for preaching on the Fast Day a

base Dunghil Spirits in which you act And you may remember that when one of your own Members or Brethren though not in Cruelty namely John Spur beheld your Barbarous proceedings and the man 's then Christian like Deportment under the Tyranny of your Tormenter who in violent manner in the Face of the People after your Jezabel Lecture at Boston gave him Forty Stripes save one upon his naked Body the which John Spur beholding was moved with Pity and in the Brokenness and Tenderness of his Heart could do no less then take the man by the Hand and gave thanks in the Man's behalf to God who had carried him through so great an Exercise with so much Joy and Patience for which John Spur was sent for to your Seat of the Whore and Beast at Boston and there was sined for giving Thanks to God as aforesaid the Sum of Forty Shillings and this was for taking the Man by the Hand and giving Thanks to God after he had been whipt Forty Stripes save one So all People may see what blind Zeal will hurry Professors on to do drink Blood and desire to drink more and more and thirst more and more after Blood as will in time be manifest to all sober People Oh drunken Professors and Talkers of God Christ and Ordinances but possess nothing but Cruelty and Deceit How are you made drunk with the Cup of Abomination What more abominable then for men to rent and tear the Flesh off the Backs of Men and Women like Dogs and all about Religion and yet say no infallible ●pirit to be known now adays so then they themselves may be wrong as well as any Oh how have these Professors like Dragons smote with Head and Tail the false Hireling Priests the Head and the Earthly Power the Tail at all Appearances of God ever since they usurped Authority never given nor granted them by God nor man witness their Pattent given them by the King repugnant to such Cruel Proceedings against tender Consciences And how have you vented your Folly and made your Madness manifest by your base reproachful Language commonly vented like Floods after them that could not submit to your Bundle of will-Worship calling that good Island which took up as I may say your Banished and yielded to them through the Blessing of God its Increase which you commonly would call it Rogues Island and in my Hearing some of your Members commonly would say that none but Whores and Rogues went thither A base envious Term and Name by which the Rancor of your Spirits doth appear to all sober People Oh the exceeding Cruelty that appears in your Hearts and because I would have you sensible of your own Iniquity and mourn under it I may set one thing more before you in order and that is this When or soon after you had made your Decree that none should be received to inhabit within your Jurisdict●on but such as should be allowed by some of the Magistrates thinking thereby to keep up your invented B●ilding and Babylonish Tower of Will worship And how bountifully hath the Lord handed forth to you by raising up Testimony after Testimony against all your unequal Proceedings and I may here rehearse one before named viz. John Wheelwright First Saith he This Law doth leave these weighty matters of the Commonw●alth of receiving or rejecting such as come over to the Approbation of Magistrates and suspend those things to the Judgement of Man whereas the Judgement is God's Deut. 1. 17. This is made a Ground-work of gross Popery Priests and Magistrates are to judge but it must be according to God's Law Deut. 17. 9 10 11. That Law which gives that without Limitation which is proper to God cannot be just Secondly Because here is Liberty given by this Law to expel and reject those which are most Eminent Christians if they suite not with the Disposition of the Magistrates whereby it will come to pass that Christ and his Members will find worse Entertainment amongst us then Abraham and Isaac did amongst the Philistines then Jacob amongst the Sechemites then L●t amongst the Sodomites then the Israelites amongst the Egyptians These all gave leave to God's People to sit down amongst them though they could not claim Right as the King's Subjects may now That Law the Execution whereof may make us more cruel and tyrannical over God's Children then Pagans and Sodomites therefore it must needs be most wicked and sinful Thirdly This Law doth cross many Laws of Christ Christ would have us to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar 's Mat. 12. 11. but this Law will not give unto the King's Majesty his Right of planting some of his Subjects amongst us except they please them Christ bids us not to forget to entertain Strangers Heb. 13. 2. But by this Law we must not entertain for any continuance of time such Strangers as the Magistrates like not though they be never so gracious allowed of by God and Good Men except we will forfeit them our whole Estates it may be and much more then our Estates come unto Fourthly Christ commands us to do good unto all but especially unto them of the Houshold of Faith Gal. 6. 10. this Law gives Liberty to do hurt unto all especially unto them of the Houshold of Faith Many other Laws there are of Christ saith Wheelwright which this Law dasheth against and therefore is most wicked and sinful And so far John Wheelwright in his Testimony against your Law or ungodly Decree which Sayings of his are come to pass and you have exceeded Philistines Egyptians and Sodomites so it may be truly said who is like unto you Priests Magistrates and Professors of New-England in Cruelty Boldness and Presumption Oh that you would be stirred up to search what the matter is that the Lord is so displeased with you it seems to me and many more he is making you an Example to many Nations I hope and do believe it will be for good to many in these Kingdoms of England Scotland Ireland and Holland with all their Territories when they shall hear behold and consider what the Lord is doing and suffering to come to pass upon a People that made a great shew and a great talk of God Christ and Ordinances but in the very time of this great talk and profession brought forth more Oppression then Egypt and Sodom and have indeed done worse then all the Nations round about and therefore thou must drink of the Cup of terrible Amazement and Astonishment poured out by a Just Hand as from God upon thy Inhabitauts Oh New-England And the Lord God grant for his Mercy sake that the Inhabitants of our poor Lands of England Scotland and Ireland may be warned that so they may no longer follow your pernicious Ways and bring like punishment upon themselves as you oh people of New-England have done by provoking a Longsuffering God who hath indeed born long your unrighteous Ways and Doings Oh

have and here in England l●kewise many Professors do It s well known Rawson hath Envy enough in his Heart to lay open Quakers Faults if he could find such great ones but may be he intends to wrap the Lambs in Wolves Skins like one of their Priests who was talking of the Quakers and was asked Why they should suffer so deeply or the like seeing no Evil Thing was proved against them Why said the Priest or words to that purpose in case you have a Wolf in your Trap but may be canno● prove he killed a Lamb or the like but he is a Wolf and of such a Nature as will do Mischief so he must not go and the Quaker must suffer though nothing can be proved against him o● them but in the Trap he is And may be that is the Matter that you go aboard S●ips and Rifle the Quakers and then ca●ry them into Prison and l●ck them up may be when they have been long tossed upon the Sea and would gladly enjoy a little fresh A●r and Victuals Well the Lord God against whom you have done Evil above what can be said or written with Tongue or Pen of man open your Blind Eyes yea if you could come to him who is the Light and Life of all Good Men and Women he I say would anoint your Eyes that the God of this Wicked World to wit the Devil hath blinded and then would you see as you are seen and be h●mbled before the Lord God of Everlasting Pity which hath no Pleasure in him that dyes who indeed would have all return and live A Remnant there is that know he is a very Pitiful God and a Gracious God a Sin-pardoning God a God that blots out Iniquity as it s turned from therefore turn ye all People to the Light for God is Light and his Son is Light so love the Light and ●e love God and his Son who is come a Light into the World that whosoever believes in him and follows him should not abide in Darkness nor Envy nor Anger nor Wrath nor Malice but come to Love which thinks muchless does no Evil to any man and so live in God who is Love but first they must come out of the Devil who was is and ever will be a Murderer of Mankind both Soul and Body without they turn from him and deny his wicked Spirit and indeed the Fruits of his spirit are manifest which are Anger Wrath Whisperings Evil-surmisings c. which being lived in grow to Banishings Whippings Cutting off Ears Hanging and Murdering about Religion and what not that is Aboninable and against such Wickedness there is a Law of God and Man But the Fruits of God's Holy Spirit are Quietness Meekness Lowliness Temperance Brotherly-kindness Merciful as God is Merciful against such there is no Law for all Law is for such I mean not all mens Laws or Decrees which are made against the Innocent but all Good Just and Equal Laws are not against but for all such as truly Fear the Lord and work Righteousness and abide in him who is the Author of all Good to whom be Praise forever Amen Reader be not troubled that I use the word Professor so often for it very often riseth in me so and I mean such as profess God Christ and Scriptures and Ordinances of the Gospel but live in another Spirit and them are the Professors meant but such as possess and then profess what and no more then they do possess such Professors my Soul loves and the Lord my God loves and will love for evermore ANd now I may set down some Tenents which I found written in a Book called The Elders Tenents in the Bay So if they be your Tenents ye Elders of New-England consider of them for some of them appear very uns●und if they be not then disown them and let 's have it under your Hands or if you will own part then let 's know which part and how many they are numbred from One to Forty Six Those of them which I am most dissatisfied in are thus noted ☞ on the Margin Tenent 1. The Promises of Grace are Condition●d and no Promise is absolute but h●th Conditions either expressed or implyed in the Right of which Condition the Promise is performed and so by us to be pleaded II. There are saving Preparations before Union with Christ III. The Law subdues the Will and we may too much cleave to the Gospel IV. Faith is first given to the Soul before Christ V. We are Co-Workers with Christ in our first Union VI. Sanctification is the first Evidence of our Justification ☞ VII Faith is alwayes confirmed by Signs and Promises and not by Spiritual Manifestations VIII Sanct fication is more plain and perspicuous then the Witness of the Spirit ☞ IX There are Delusions in the Witness of the Spirit X. Sanctification must be the Judge of the Witness of the Spirit ☞ XI The Witness of the Spirit is only Mediate and not Immediate ☞ XII The Nature of Man is not capable of Immediate Vision or Spiritual Manifestation ☞ XIII The Seal of the Spirit is not the Holy Ghost in us but the gracious Operations of the Spirit ☞ XIV To say that Christ is our Sanctification is a Damnable Doctrine ☞ XV. God hath tyed himself in an Everlasting Covenant of Grace to the Legitimate Seed of them that be in Church-Covenant 1 Cor. 7. 14. Acts 2. 39. ☞ XVI Children are left under an Everlasting Covenant by leaving them under Church-Covenant ☞ XVII Children are left under a Covenant of Faith by leaving them under a Church-Covenant ☞ XVIII Church-covenant reaches to a Thousand Generations ☞ XIX Children by Church-covenant are born in an Internal Covenant 1 Kings 14. 13. XX John Baptist's Faith was evident by Leaping in the Womb Luke 1. 44. XXI Children born of Believing Parents have no Right to the Seals by that Covenant your Parents entered into after their Birth XXII The Legitimate Seed of Israel were circumcised and none else ☞ XXIII There is a running-over of Grace from the Father to the Children in the way of Church-covenant XXIV The Jailer had right by Church-covenant to the Seals Acts 16. 33. XXV Faith the Cond●tion of the Covenant is before Just●fication XXVI We are justified with respect to Works ☞ XXVII The Spirit of God of it self is not a sufficient Witness although it reveal to the Soul a sure Promise except it reveal the sight of some Graces ☞ XXVIII One that hath the Evidence of Faith if he falls into some Sin it s not a season to look upon his Assurance but his Sin for Recovery XXIX That Faith that justifies my Person and will serve to believe with is not sufficient to come to a Sacrament XXX That Church-covenant is the staple commodity of New-England saith Mr. Ward of Salem or Ipswich XXXI To dismiss a Member of such a Church as holds forth a

you who are Professors of the Scriptures which say You should not forget to Entertain Strangers but this was the Entertainment I found amongst you a Constable seized on me and my Goods and took them from me before I was on your Shore and brought me before thee Richard Bellingham who hadst nothing against me but that I was a Quaker also asking me what I came here for and how long I would stay and whither I would go my An●wer was I stood in the Will of the Lord and did not know how long I should stay nor whither I should go but as the Lord orders me Thou saidst I spake very meekly and was a sober man yet thou by Tempting Words soughtst to insnare me and scoffingly said you are free from Sin are you not My An●wer was my Faith stands in that Power which cleanseth my Heart from dead Works to serve the Living God in the Newness of Life and the Grace of God which brings Salvation which hath appeared to all men was my Teacher which taught the Saints of old to deny all Ungodliness and Worldly-Lusts and to live godly and soberly in this World but your Teacher Increase Ma●der said There was nothing in him that he hoped to be saved by and that there was none cleansed from all Sin on this side the Grave and there was none good no not One. Unto whom I said Thou art a dark man and speakest ignorantly of th● Things of God at which thou rose up in much Anger and hadst much to do to keep thy Hands off me which was not seemly f●r a man that sitteth on the Seat to do Justice And so thou spake to thy Officer to take me away wouldst not suffer me to speak in my own Desence which was not denyed Paul by Foelix who was counted an Heathen and so thou gavest Order to ●eep me close and let none come at me where I am kept in a stincking smoaky Hole and also thou and thy Assistants I hear have laid a Fine upon the poor man in whose Ship I came as a Passenger of an Hundred Pounds if he send me not away the first Opportunity Oh ye cruel ridged Professors the Lord hath opened an Eye that seeth you and he will redeem his People from under your Bondage who are exercising your Cruelty upon them but the Lord will plead with you and also the Man not willing I should lie in such a nasty Place desired of you to let me be at his House till he had an Opportunity to send me away but ye would not who have nothing worthy of Bonds to lay to my Charge Oh how hath the God of the World blinded your Eves and filled your Hearts with Envy against the Appearance of God! who are Professors of the Scriptures and say They 〈…〉 b●t you know them not nor the Power of God which give them forth as it was said to them of Old who were crying The Templ● of the Lord th● Temple of the Lord and if we 〈…〉 to our Fath●●s Days we would not 〈…〉 the Prophets who were garnishing their Sepulchers and painting their Tombs who slew the Lord of Life and hung im on a Tree And may I not say unto you as Stephen said unto them Ye 〈◊〉 necked and uncircumcised in Heart and Ears ye always resist the holy Ghost as your Fathers did so do ye but they gnash●d upon him with their Teeth and cast 〈◊〉 out of their City and shed his Blood and do not your Fruits make you manifest as theirs did and do not the Scriptures of Truth bear Testimony against you that you are of the Wolf's Nature i● the Sheep's Clothing which devours the Lambs indeed for you do savour of the devouring Spirit and not of the Meek Spirit of Christ Jesus who said I came to save me●s Lives and not to destroy them who is come and his Reward is with him who said It hath been said by them of old time thou shalt love thy Neighbour and hate thy Enemy but I say unto you Love your Enemies pray for them that despightfully use you and persecute you Mat. 5. 43 44. But thee Richard Bellingham a●t of another Spirit the Lord rebuke thee who said thou thoughtst thou didst God good Service in what thou didst against us So the Words of Christ Jesus are fulfilled upon thy Head which he spake saying They shall speak all manner of Evil of you and they will think they do God good Service when they kill you So out of thy own Mouth art thou judged but as for thy causing thy Jailer to read the thirteenth chapter of Zachary to me that will not cover thee in the Day of the Lord for he is come who is the End of the first Covenant and hath brought in the better Hope which destroyes the Devli his Works and saves men alive who rebuked his Disciples when they would have had Fire come down from Heaven as Elias had to destroy them with whom they were offended but he said unto them Ye know not what Spirit ye are of before whom all things are naked and bare who beholds thy Cruelty who wouldst have me give thee under my hand never to come to this Town more or else in Prison it seems I must lie till by your Law I am forced to another Land but unto thy cruel Will herein I dare not bow for I may come again into this Town and honest men who fear the Lord may live here when your Laws are vanished as the Smoak before the Wind and your false Doctrine come to cease which your Priest Increase Madder and some of you held forth when I was before you for he is made manifest whom we bear Testimony unto who is given of God for a Covenant of Light unto the Gentiles and for Salvation unto the Ends of the Earth this is he of whom it was said Of his Fulness we have received and by Grace were they saved not of themselves it was the Gift of God and they had these heavenly Treasures in their Earthen Vessels as the Scripture saith Acts 6. 8. Stephen was a man full of Faith and of Power and the Saints were filled with the holy Ghost and spake as the Spirit gave them Utterance Acts 2. 4. And Christ Jesus said He that beliveth on me out of his Belly shall slow Riv●rs of Living Water John 7. 38. Ye know the Spirit of Truth for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you and I am in my Father and you in me and I in you John 14. 17 20. And the Apostle said Christ was in them the Hope of Glory And he to the Corinthians Christ was in them except they were Reprobates And these were Ministers of the Spirit who had these Heavenly Treasures in them but what a Minister Increase Madder is let them whose Eyes are open judge who saith He hath nothing in him by which he hopes to be saved A dry Tree and miserable Sheep are they who have such

a Shephe●d and well may it be said that they that feed and follow such Teachers give their Money for th●t which is not Bread and their Labour for that which satisfi●s not their Souls And Increase Madder saith There is none cleansed from all Sin on this side the Grave but the Scripture saith As the Tree falls so it lies and as Death leaves Judgement fin●s and there is no Repentance in the Grave Where must they be cleansed then I know not except he believes as the Pope doth that there is a Purgatory because he saith not all their Sins for in leed the Papists do believe that their venial Sins as they call them shall be purged away there but the Scripture saith If we walk in the Light as he is in the Light we have Fellowsh pone with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin 1 John 1. 7. And ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free John 8 32. And there is therefore no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit for the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of Sin and D●ath Rom. 8 1 2. And John saith Herei● is our Love made perfe●t that we may have Boldness in the Day of Judgment because as he is so are we in this World 1 John 4. 17. and these were Men l●ving on this Side the Gra●e But Increase Madder saith there is none good no not one It is very true that t●ose that are out of God's Covenant and have none of these Heavenly Treasures in them but are as Clouds without Water Heady High minded men greedy after filthy Lucre whose God is their Belly who mind Earthly things such we have to contend with for the Truth 's sake as the Apostles had in their Day who were Enemies to the Cross of Christ then as you are at this Day I say in that State there is none good no not one and the most upright of them is as a Briar and the justest amongst them as a Thorn-Hedge I find it so but bless●d be the Lord who is my Keeper who hath redeemed me out of their Dwelling-place and opened mine Eves with many mor● and we see where you are and we know God's Controversie is with your blind Guides who cause you to err and you who are led by them who are covering your selves with a Pro●ession as the Phar●see● did but your Hands are full of Cruelty and your Hearts hardned in Persecution unto Blood and are making a Mo●k of Sin who in Derision are calling the Innocent Servants of the Living God Wolves and say you must kill them Oh ye wretched men God will plead with you was ever the Flock of Christ Jesus found in your Practice did ever the Lambs kill Wolves but they that fear God and work Righteousness are accepted of him but always suffered as Evil-doers by them who had a Form of Godliness but resisted the Power in whose Steps ye are but such as you sow such shall you reap God will not be mocked by you for the Day of the Lord is come which burns as an Oven wherein God will plead with all Flesh for his Seed's Sake which he hath and is raising up who hath said unto it live and it shall live though our Bodies may be laid in the Dust yet it shall spring forth in Thousands more So in vain do ye strive ye mortal men the Fruit of your doings will fall on your own Heads a Weight too heavy for you to bear From One that suffers by you for the Truth 's Sake Boston-Prison-House the 15th of the 4th Moneth 1667. John Tyso And Richard Bellingham it is Equity and Justice for thee to return to me the Books thou tookest from me which are mine and is Injustice in thee to take them from me therefore do as thou wouldst be done by and let thy Moderation be seen for the Lord is at hand who is no Respecter of Persons but gives unto every man according to his Doings for he hath given of his Good Spirit to instruct man but many rebel against it but it hath taught us who have believed in it as it did his People of old To do unto all men as we would they should do unto us and gives us Strength and Patience to undergo what Cruel Men may be suffered to inflict upon us who can say f●om our Hearts If it be thy will Lord Forgive them blessed be his Name forever and this is from one that hath learned of Christ and am a Christian though in Scorn by thee called a Quaker yet Quaking and T●embling I have experience of as the holy men of old had and as the Apostle exhorted the Saints to work out their Salvation with Fear and Trembling and so they that are true Christians will not wonder and mock at Quaking and Trembling but God will plead with the Uncircumcised for crying Lord Lord will not save them for it is the Doers of his Will that are just●fi●d in his Sight and Ch●ist Jesus said Except ye cat my Flesh and drink my Blood ye have no Life in you John 6. 53 And so consider thy Cruelty in keeping me here and thy Goaler William Salli●r who will not suffer a man to bring me work but as Christ Jesus said Go learn what that means I will h●ve Mercy and not Sacrifice J. T. A Copy of this fore going Paper was delivered into the Hands of 〈◊〉 ●●llingham Governour of Boston in New-England the 〈◊〉 of the 4th Moneth 1667. but no Answer I received fr●m 〈◊〉 or any of them but through the Enmity of his persecuting spirit he said I deserved to be Hanged and thus Cruelty and Wickedness they act and would bury it in Darkness with themselves but it is in my Heart to put it to publick View that Wickedness and Hypocrisie might be seen and judged and Righteousness might take place in the Hearts of the Sons and Daughters of men for the Day is come which discovers your Nakedness and will consume your Covering your Out-side Profession and hath and will shatter your old Buildings and Rase your Foundation to the Ground Ye Bloody Men how do ye stink in the Nostrils of the Holy God and are you not become a Hissing to the Nations Your Judgment slumbers not who have been stout against the Lord in his breaking forth in the Hearts of his People And you whose Hands have been dipt in Blood yea in the Blood of the Innocent Servants of the Living God and no Place of Repentance can by you be found Wo is unto you your dayes are and shall be cut off in Darkness forever but the Holy Seed which you have fought against which God hath raised and is raising up and also from amongst you shall replenish the Earth For I do believe there are Sheep which are not yet gathered which the Lord

will gather from off your Barren Mountains dry Hills of your Empty Dark Rusty Cankered eaten Prosessions to rest with the Lord in the Mountain of his Holiness forever and for this End is our Travail in Soul and Body that people might be gathered to God And the Cry of my Spirit is unto the Lord Oh! that his Day might more and more dawn that People might see their Way out of Darkness and the Chains thereof through the Power of God might be broken and the Liberty of the Sons of God which is in Righteousness might be known unto the Sons and Daughters of Men after this Deluge of Darkness and Night of Apostacy which hath been over the World For God Almighty is a fulfilling his Promises and his Day is come unto many and the Night is far spent unto Thousands Glory to God forever though Multitudes yet sit in Darkness and see it not for the God of the World hath blinded their Eyes through the Enmity of the Seed of the Serpent which bears rule in their Hearts whereby they despise the Appearance of God and persecute his Servants who are sent unto them as it was said unto the Jews I will send them Prophets and Apostles and some of them they shall slay and persecute that all the Blood from Righteous Abel unto this day be required at their Hands J. T. Something further as a Testimony against the Cruelty of the New-England Professors ANd now you New-England Priests Professors you are found in the Steps of that old persecuting spirit beyond the rest of the Nations in t●is Age of the World in Cruelty and Bloodshed for you have slain the Prophets of the Lord and drunk the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus whereby the Iniquity of your Fore fathers you have fulfill'd in a large Measure which will not depart from you Reins nor be blotted out in Generations to come no more then the Blood thirsty Chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees and Hard-hearted Jews are but with them you will be recorded and bound under the Chain and Seal of Darkness and numbred with the seed of Cain who Murdered his Brother because his Brother's Works were Righteous and his Evil. But notwithstanding the great Sufferings and cruel hard-hearted Dealings we have received from you Rulers Priests and People of New-England whose Prisons S●ocks Whips and Gallows have been our Portion from you and for no other Cause but our Testimony for God who have been moved of the Lord to come amongst you and in true Love to your Souls But Christ Jesus who is our Lord and Master received such Entertainment amongst the great Professors in the dayes of his Flesh and we know the Servant is not greater then his Lord and these Sufferings seem small in Comparison of the Eternal Weight of Glory which is already revealed and daily God is manifesting to his People wherein we have great Cause to Rejoyce and we seeing the Prosperity of that blessed Work he hath made us instrumental in to his Glory and to the Comfort of many weary and hungry Souls are daily encouraged in this blessed Work and to sound an Alarm against your Babylonish Building and Habitation of Cruelty which God eternal hath determined to Overthrow notwithstanding you are stout against him but the Lord will be too hard for you and your Building must fall who would limit the Holy One of Israel as that Generation of Evil-doers did of old who called Evil Good and Good Evil as you do who say You think God's Judgments are upon you because you suffer that Erroneous People called Quakers to live amongst you so desperately are your foolish Hearts darkned that Judgment is turned backward and Equity cannot enter But behold Cruelty and Oppression covers your Dwelling-place and you grope like Blind Men in the dark although God's Day is come and the Children of it see your Nakedness and whereby your Notion of Profession is vanishing and shall molter away like a Fogg when the Sun ariseth in her Strength and the Mountain of the House of the Lord shall be established on the tops of the Mountains for Sion shall be built and Jerusaiem spiritual shall be inhabited in Defiance of her Foes for God Almighty hath thundred from his Dwelling place and your Old Heavens must depart as a Scrole for notwithstanding your Profession of Gospel Ordinances Death reigns over you and to Moses you are not yet come But the Desire of my Soul is That the Lord may open the Eyes and Hearts of them amongst you who have any Tenderness of Spirit in them and who have not sinned out the Day of their Visitation that they would truly turn to the Lord who smites and then he would truly heal them who hath done Great Things for us who have believed in his Name and waited through the Way of his Judgments his Mercies we have found and our desire is that others might injoy the same blessed be his Name who lives forever London the 28th of the 5th Moneth 1676. From one that desires the Well being of all men John Tyso Page 9. line 9. for 1646. read 1643. page 10. line 1. for 1646. read 1643.