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AMERICA. Painted to the Life.</P>
<P>A True Hi&s;tory of the originall undertakings of the advancement of Plantations into tho&s;e parts, with a perfect relation of our <HI>ENGLISH</HI> Di&s;coveries, &s;hewing their beginning, progre&s;s, and continuance, from the year, 1628. to 1658. declaring the forms of their Government, Policies, Religions, Manners, Cu&s;tomes, Military Di&s;cipline, Warres with the <HI>INDIANS,</HI> the Commodities of their Countries, a De&s;cription of their Townes, and Havens, the increa&s;e of their trading with the names of their Governours and Magi&s;trates.</P>
<P><HI>More</HI> E&s;pecially an ab&s;olute Narrative of the North parts of <HI>AMERICA,</HI> and of the di&s;coveries and plantations of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in <HI>NEW-ENGLAND.</HI></P>
<P>Written by Sir <HI>FERDINANDO GORGES</HI> Knight and Governour of the Fort and I&s;land of <HI>Plimouth</HI> in <HI>DEVONSHIRE,</HI> one of the fir&s;t and cheife&s;t pro|moters of tho&s;e Plantations.</P>
<P>Publi&s;ht &s;ince his decea&s;e, by his Grand-child <HI>Ferdinando Gorges</HI> E&s;quire, who hath much enlarged it and added &s;everall accurate De&s;cripti|ons of his owne.</P>
<P>A work now at la&s;t expo&s;ed for the publick good, to &s;tir up the heroick and active &s;pirits of the&s;e times, to benefit their Country, and Eternize their names by &s;uch honourable attempts.</P>
<P>For the Readers clearer under&s;tanding of the Country's they are lively de&s;cribed in a compleat and exqui&s;ite Map.</P>
<P><Q>Vivit po&s;t funera virtus.</Q></P>
<P><HI>LONDON;</HI> Printed by E. <HI>Brudenell,</HI> for <HI>Nathaniel Brook</HI> dwelling at the Angel in <HI>Corn-hill.</HI> 1658.</P>
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<HEAD>To the READER.</HEAD>
<P>_I Thought it a part of my duty in this my briefe Narration of our Plantations to remember the Originall &V;ndertak|ing of tho&s;e de&s;ignes in the parts of <HI>America,</HI> by &s;uch Noble Spirits of our Nation that fir&s;t attempted it, as well for the ju&s;tification of the right thereof, properly belonging to Kings of our Nation, before any o|ther Prince or State, as al&s;o the better to cleare the claime made thereunto by the Emba&s;&s;adour of <HI>France,</HI> in the behalfe of his Ma&s;ter, in the yeare <HI>1624.</HI> whereto I was required to make an&s;wer (as more at large it appeares in the di&s;cour&s;e it &s;elfe, withall to leave to po&s;terity the particular wayes by which it hath beene brought to the height it is come unte, wherein the providence of our Great <HI>GOD</HI> is e&s;pecially to be ob&s;erved, who by the lea&s;t and weake&s;t meanes, oftentimes effecteth great and wonderfull things; all which I have en|deavoured
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to contract in as &s;hort a compa&s;&s;e, as the length of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ime and the variety of the accidents would give leave, as for the truth thereof, I p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ume it is &s;o publiquely known, as malice i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;elfe dares not onely que&s;tion it, though I know none, I thank my <HI>God</HI> to whom I have given any ju&s;t cau&s;e mali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iou&s;ly to attempt it u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">le&s;&s;e it be for the de&s;ire I had to do good to all without wronging of any, as by the cour&s;e of my life to this pre&s;ent it may appear.</P>
<P>If in the conclu&s;ion of my undertaking and expence of my fortunes to advance the honour and happine&s;&s;e of my Nation, I have &s;etled a portion thereof to tho&s;e that in nature mu&s;t &s;ucceed me; you may be plea&s;ed to remember that the Labourer is worthy of his hire.</P>
<P>That I have not exceeded others not better de&s;erving that I go hand in hand with the meane&s;t in this great worke, to whom the charge there|of was commited by royall Authority.</P>
<P>That I have opened the way to greater imployments and &s;halbe (as a hand &s;et up in a cro&s;&s;e way) in a de&s;ert Country to point all travellers in &s;uch like kind, how they may come &s;afe to fini&s;h their journeys <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd leaving an example to others be&s;t affected to de&s;ignes of &s;uch like nature to pro&s;ecute their intents for further in largement of tho&s;e began Plan|tations, without trenching or intruding upon the rights and labours of others already po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, of what is ju&s;tly granted them.</P>
<P>E&s;pecially of &s;uch, who in &s;ome &s;ort may be termed Benefactours a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Seconda<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y donors of what (by <HI>Gods</HI> favour) is had, or to be had from tho&s;e &s;prings they fir&s;t found and left to po&s;terity to bath them&s;elves in, but if there be any, otherwi&s;e affected, as better delighted to reap what they have not &s;own, or to po&s;&s;e&s;s the fruit another hath laboured for, let &s;uch be a&s;&s;ured, &s;o great inju&s;tice will never want a wofull atten|dance to follow clo&s;e at the heeles, if not &s;tayed behind to bring after a more terrible revenge; But my tru&s;t is &s;uch, impiety will not be &s;ud|denly harboured where the whole work is I hope &s;till continued for the enlargement of the Chri&s;tian faith, the &s;upportation of ju&s;tice, and love of peace, in a&s;&s;urance whereof, I will conclude and tell you (as I have lived long) &s;o I have done what I could, let tho&s;e that come after me doe for their parts what they may, and I doubt not but the <HI>God</HI> that governes all, will reward their labours that continue in his &s;ervice, to whom be Glory for ever, Amen.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>FERDINANDO GORGES.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>VVonder-working PROVIDENCE OF SIONS <HI>SAVIOVR.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD>Being a Relation of the fir&s;t planting in <HI>New England,</HI> in the Yeare, 1628.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>CHAP. I. <HI>The &s;ad Condition of</HI> England, <HI>when this People removed.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHen <HI>England</HI> began to decline in Religion, like luke-warme <HI>Laodicea,</HI> and in&s;tead of purging out Popery, a farther compliance was &s;ought not onely in vaine Idolatrous Ceremonies, but al&s;o in prophaning the Sabbath, and by Proclamation throughout their Pari&s;h churches, exa&s;perating lewd and prophane per&s;ons to celebrate a S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">b|bath like the Heathen to <HI>Venus, Baccus</HI> and <HI>Ceres;</HI> in &s;o much that the multitude of irreligious la&s;civious and pop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h affected per|&s;ons &s;pred the whole land like <HI>Gra&s;hoppers,</HI> in this very time Chri&s;t the glorious King of his Churches, rai&s;es an Army out of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, for freeing his people from their long &s;ervitude under u&s;urp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ng Prelacy; and b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cau&s;e every corner of <HI>England</HI> was filled with the fury of malignant adver&s;aries, Chri&s;t creates a New <HI>England</HI> to mu&s;ter up the fir&s;t of his Forces in; Who&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> condition, little number, and remotene&s;&s;e of place made
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the&s;e adver&s;aries triumph, de&s;pi&s;ing this day of &s;mall things, but in this hight of their pride the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> brought &s;udden, and unexpected de&s;truction upon them. Thus have you a touch of the time when this worke began.</P>
<P><HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us</HI> intending to manife&s;t his Kingly Office toward his Churches more fully then ever yet the Sons of men &s;aw, even to the uniting of <HI>Jew</HI> and <HI>Gentile</HI> Churches in one Faith, begins with our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation (who&s;e former Reformation being vere imperfect) doth now re&s;olve to ca&s;t down their fal&s;e foun|dation of Prelacy, even in the hight of their domineering dig|nity. And therefore in the yeare 1628. he &s;tirres up his &s;ervants as the Heralds of a King to make this Proclamation for Volun|tiers as followeth.</P>
<P>Oh yes! oh yes! oh yes! <HI>All you the people of Christ that are here Oppre&s;&s;ed, Impri&s;oned and &s;currilou&s;ly derided, gather your &s;elves together, your Wifes and little ones, and an&s;wer to your &s;eve|rall Names as you &s;hall be &s;hipped for his &s;ervice, in the We&s;tere<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> World, and more especially for planting the united Collonies of new</HI> England; <HI>Where you are to attend the &s;ervice of the King of Kings, upon the divulging of this Proclamation by his Herralds at Armes.</HI> Many (although otherwi&s;e willing for this &s;ervice) began to object as followeth:</P>
<P>Can it po&s;&s;ible be the mind of Chri&s;t, (who formerly inabled &s;o many Souldiers of his to keepe their &s;tation unto the death here) that now &s;o many brave Souldiers di&s;ciplined by Chri&s;t him|&s;elfe the Captaine of our &s;alvation, &s;hould turne their backs to the di&s;heartning of their Fellow-Souldiers, and lo&s;&s;e of further opportunity in gaining a greater number of Subjects to Chri&s;ts Kingdome?</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding this Objection, It was further proclaimed as followeth: What Creature, wilt not know that Chri&s;t thy King cru&s;heth with a rod of Iron, the Pompe and Price of man, and mu&s;t he like man ca&s;t and contrive to take his enemies at advan|tage? No, of purpo&s;e hee cau&s;eth &s;uch in&s;truments to retreate as he hath made &s;trong for him&s;elfe: that &s;o his adver&s;aries glory|ing in the pride of their power, in&s;ulting over the little remnan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> remaining, Chri&s;t cau&s;eth them to be ca&s;t downe &s;uddenly for|ever, and wee find in &s;tories reported, Earths Princes have pa&s;&s;io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">
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their Armies at need over Seas and deepe Torrents. Could <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> &s;o &s;uddenly fetch over fre&s;h forces from <HI>Europe</HI> to <HI>A&s;ia Pompy</HI> to foyle? How much more &s;hall Chri&s;t who createth all power, c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll over this 900. league Ocean at his plea&s;ure, &s;uch in&s;truments as he thinks meete to make u&s;e of in this place, from whence you are now to depart, but further that you may not delay the Voyage in|tended, for your full &s;atisfaction, know this is the place where the Lord will create a new Heaven, and a new Earth in, new Churches, and a new Common-wealth together; Wherefore,</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. II. <HI>The Commi&s;&s;ion of the People of Chri&s;t &s;hipped for</HI> New England, <HI>and fir&s;t of their gathering into Churches.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ATtend to your Commi&s;&s;ion, all you that are or &s;hall here|after be &s;hipped for this &s;ervice, yee are with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed to imbarque your &s;elves, and as for all &s;uch Worthies who are hunted after as <HI>David</HI> was by <HI>Saul</HI> and his Courtiers, you may change your habit and &s;hip you with what &s;ecrecy you can, carrying all things mo&s;t needfull for the Voyage and &s;ervice you are to be imployed in after your landing. But as &s;oone as you &s;hall be expo&s;ed to danger of tempe&s;tious Seas, you &s;hall forth|with &s;hew who&s;e &s;ervants you are by calling on the Name of your God, &s;ometimes by extraordinary &s;eeking his plea&s;ing Face in times of deepe di&s;tre&s;&s;e, and publi&s;hing your Ma&s;ters will, and plea&s;ure to all that Voyage with you, and that is his minde to have purity in Religion preferred above all dignity in the world; your Chri&s;t hath commanded the Seas they &s;hall not &s;wallow you, nor Pyrates impri&s;on your per&s;ons, or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e your goods. At your landing &s;ee you ob&s;erve the Rule of his Word, for nei|ther larger nor &s;tricter Commi&s;&s;ion can hee give by any, and therefore at fir&s;t filling the Land whither you are &s;ent, with di|ligence, &s;earch out the mind of God both in planting and conti|nuing Church and civill Government, but be &s;ure they be di|&s;tinct, yet agreeing and helping the one to the other; Let the matter and forme of your Churches be &s;uch as were in the Pri|mitive Times (before <HI>Antichri&s;ts</HI> Kingdome prevailed) plainly
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poynted out by Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles, in mo&s;t of their Epi&s;tles to be neither Nationall nor Provinciall, but gathered together in Covenant of &s;uch a number as might ordinarily meete toge|ther in one place, and built of &s;uch living &s;tones as outwardly appeare Saints by calling. You are al&s;o to ordaine Elders in every Church, make you u&s;e of &s;uch as Chri&s;t hath indued with the be&s;t gifts for that end, their call to Office &s;hall be mediate from you, but their authority and commi&s;&s;ion &s;hall be immedi|ate from Chri&s;t revealed in his word; which if you &s;hall &s;light, d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pi&s;e or contemne, hee will &s;oone fru&s;trate your call by taking the mo&s;t able among you to honour with an everla&s;ting Crown; whom you neglected to honour on Earth double as their due, or he will carry them remote from you to more infant Churches. You are not to put them upon anxious Cares for their daily Bread for a&s;&s;uredly (although it may now &s;eeme &s;trange) you &s;hall be fed in this Wilderne&s;&s;e, whither you are to goe, with the flower of Wheate and Wine &s;hall be plentifull among you (but be &s;ure you abu&s;e it not) the&s;e Doctrines delivered from the Word of God imbrace, and let not Satan delude you by per|&s;wading their learned skill is unnece&s;&s;ary, &s;oone then will the Word of God be fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ghted as tra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;lated by &s;uch, and you &s;hall be left wildred with &s;trange Revelations of every phanta&s;tick brain; which to prevent here are to be &s;hipped among you many both Godly. Juditious and Learned, who</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. III. <HI>Of the Demeanor of their Church Officers.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BEing called to Office are in all humility to feed the flock of Chri&s;t, and not for lucre to admit mo&s;tly of &s;uch &s;heepe, who&s;e faire fleeces allure much: nor yet for filling the flocks to crowd in infections &s;heepe, or rather wolves in &s;heepes cloathing, a&s;&s;uredly it will prove bitterne&s;&s;e in the end: neither &s;hall you for feare your allowance will fall &s;hort, hinder the increa&s;e of Churches, that &s;o your fellow brethren indued with like gifts fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l &s;hort of all; But above all beware of any love &s;elfe|conceited Opinion, &s;topping your eares from hearing the Coun|&s;ell of an Orthodox Synod, but by daily communication one
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with another impart Chri&s;ts minde each to other, that you may all &s;peake one and the &s;ame things; heale not lightly the wounds that Wolves make, le&s;t from their fe&s;tering Teeth a Gangrin grow, and further for compleating the Churches of Chri&s;t as well in matters as in Doctrine, there are ancient experienced godly Chri&s;tians &s;hipped among you (but be &s;ure you make choi&s;e of &s;uch, for feare they be de&s;pi&s;ed) and let them not be led by fa|vor or affection (as naturally men are) to Admini&s;ter in your Office partially, for unworthy the name of a Ruling Elder is hee, who lo&s;es his Lyon-like courage, when the &s;ound and whole|&s;ome Doctrines delivered by Pa&s;tor or Teacher are &s;poken again&s;t by any; un&s;eemly behaviour and &s;leepy hearing by private exhortation prevent (if po&s;&s;ible) le&s;t publick example in open pro|fe&s;&s;ors &s;tumb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;ome and hinder the operation of his word, e&s;|pecially in the hearts of tho&s;e who have bin long time led away with the inventions of man in the wor&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">p of God. Be &s;ure you contradict not but confirme with trienall love the Doctrines of Chri&s;t, delivered by your Teaching Elders, which will be a great meanes to make it prevaile, for a three-fold cord is not ea&s;ily broken, tru&s;t not to your own gifts for preventing error, but u&s;e all helpes that Chri&s;t may ble&s;&s;e his own meanes, ca&s;t not away as incorrigible &s;uch as at fir&s;t receive not the word in all points, but wait with patience if at any time the Lord will be plea&s;ed to give them a heart to turne unto him. Beware of a proud cen&s;orious &s;pirit, and &s;hou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d Chri&s;t be plea&s;ed to place in his building more polli&s;hed &s;tones then thy &s;elfe, make it matter of rejoycing and not of envy. And further, becau&s;e the Preaching of the word is to be continued with all diligence, here are like|wi&s;e inbarked with you faithfull &s;ervants of Chri&s;t to attend on the Tables of the Churches, plaine-dealing men, yea, indued with wi&s;dome from above, by which they are inabled to man|nage and improve the Churches Trea&s;ury, not greedily given to hoord up for them&s;elves, but by their own example leading others to liberality, and ho&s;pitality, having the Earth in low e&s;teeme, and Faith in exerci&s;e when Cattell and Corne fayle, not given to magnifie their own gifts, but boldly ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ayning &s;uch &s;ound truths as their Teaching Elders have cleared up from the word of God. And,</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. IV. <HI>How the People in Chri&s;ts Churches are to behave them&s;elves.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOw you his People, who are pickt out by his, provide to pa&s;&s;e this <HI>Westerne</HI> Ocean for this honorable &s;ervice, be|ware you call not weake ones to Office in this honorable Ar|my, nor Novices, le&s;t they be lifted up with pride. You &s;ee how full you are furni&s;hed for the worke, give no eare to any Braggadociaes, who to extoll them&s;elves will weaken the hands of tho&s;e whom Chri&s;t hath made &s;trong for him&s;elfe. Yea, &s;uch will be the phanta&s;ticall madne&s;&s;e of &s;ome (if you take not heed) that &s;illy Women laden with diver&s;e lu&s;ts, will be had in higher e&s;teeme with them, then tho&s;e honoured of Chri&s;t, indued with power and authority from him to Preach; Abu&s;e not the free and full liberty Chri&s;t hath given you in making choyce of your own Officers, and con&s;ent in admitting into his Churches, and ca&s;ting out &s;uch Members as walke di&s;orderly; you are to walke in all humility, le&s;t in injoyment of &s;uch freedoms as you for|merly have not exerci&s;ed, you exceede the bounds of mode&s;ty, and in&s;tead of having your moderation knowne to all, your im|becility, and &s;elfe-exaltation bee di&s;covered by many, in admi&s;|&s;ion of others into Church &s;ociety. Remember your &s;elves were once Aliens from the Covenant of Grace, and in Excommuni|cation, con&s;ider how your &s;elves have been al&s;o tempted: in &s;in|cerity and &s;inglene&s;&s;e of heart, let your words be few, do nothing be had in high e&s;teeme among men; And thinke it no imputati|on of a weake dic&s;erning to be followes of tho&s;e are &s;et over you in the Lord as they follow Chri&s;t; Let your Profe&s;&s;ion out|&s;trip your Confe&s;&s;ion, for &s;eeing you are to be &s;et as lights upon a Hill more obvious then the highe&s;t Mountaine in the World, keepe clo&s;e to Chri&s;t that you may &s;hine full of his glory, who imployes you, and grub not continually in the Earth, like blind <HI>Moles,</HI> but by your amiable Conver&s;ation &s;eeke the winning of many to your Ma&s;ters &s;ervice. Beware of a proud cen&s;orious &s;pirit, make it no part of your Chri&s;tian communication to be in continuall di&s;cour&s;e of others faults; Let all things be done
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in love, and looke not for more &s;moothne&s;&s;e in &s;tones as yet un|placed in Chri&s;ts building then is in thy &s;elfe, who ha&s;t been long layd therein: wait with patience and ca&s;t not off as Reprobates &s;uch as cannot pre&s;ently joyne with you in every poynt of Di&s;|cipline, and yet hold fa&s;t to &s;ound and whole&s;ome Doctrine, if you will be a people to his pray&s;e, who hath called you, &s;eeke the turning of many to Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, purge out all the &s;owre Leven of un&s;ound Doctrine, for the minde of Chri&s;t is to build up his Churches, and breake them down no more; And there|fore be &s;ure there be none to hurt or de&s;troy in all his holy Moun|taine, and as he hath pre&s;&s;ed you for his &s;ervice, that by pa&s;&s;ing through the Flouds of Per&s;ecution you &s;hould be &s;et at liberty, and have power put into your hands. Then let none wre&s;t it from you under pretence of liberty of Con&s;cience, men of per|ver&s;e judgements will draw Di&s;ciples after them, but let your con&s;ciences be pure, and Chri&s;ts Churches free from all Doctrines that deceive. And all you, who are or &s;hall be &s;hipped for this worke, thinke it not enough that you injoy the truth, but you mu&s;t hate every fal&s;e way and know you are called to be faith|full Souldiers of Chri&s;t, not onely to a&s;&s;i&s;t in building up his Churches, but al&s;o in pulling downe the Kingdome of <HI>Anti-Christ,</HI> then &s;ure you are not &s;et up for tollerating times, nor &s;hall any of you be content with this that you are &s;et at liberty, but take up your Armes, and march manfully on till all oppo&s;ers of Chri&s;ts Kingly power be aboli&s;hed: and as for you who are called to &s;ound forth his &s;ilver Trumpets, blow lowd and &s;hrill, to this chiefe&s;t treble tune; For the Armies of the great <HI>Jehovah</HI> are at hand. See you not his Enemies &s;tretched out on tiptoe, proudly daring on their thre&s;holds, a certaine &s;igne of their &s;udden overthrow; be not danted at your &s;mall number, for every common Souldier in Chri&s;ts Campe &s;hall be as <HI>David,</HI> who &s;lew the great <HI>Goliah,</HI> and his <HI>Davids</HI> &s;hall be as the Angels of the Lord who &s;lew. 185000. in the <HI>A&s;&s;yrian</HI> Army.</P>
<P>Finally, all you who are now &s;ent forth by Chri&s;t your <HI>Je|hovah</HI> to enter upon a Ble&s;&s;ed Reformation, if ever you will have the honours to be provokers of his ancient People <HI>I&s;rael</HI> (who are againe &s;uddenly to be honoured by him in believing) kindle the fire of jealou&s;y in their bre&s;ts by your Holy, Heaven|ly
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and humble walking, have you not the mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ede&s;t oper|tunity put into your hands that ever people had? then</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. V. <HI>What Civill Government the People of Chri&s;t ought to &s;et up, and &s;ubmit unto in</HI> New England.</HEAD>
<P>FAyle not in pro&s;ecution of the Worke, for your <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> hath furni&s;hed you with able Pilots, to &s;teere the Helme in a godly peaceable, Civill Government al&s;o, then &s;ee you make choyce of &s;uch as are &s;ound both in Profe&s;&s;ion and Confe&s;&s;ion, men fearing God and hating bribes; who&s;e Commi&s;&s;ion is not onely limitted with the commands of the &s;econd Table, but they are to looke to the Rules of the fir&s;t al&s;o, and let them be &s;ure to put on <HI>Jo&s;huas</HI> re&s;olution, and courage, never to make League with any of the&s;e &s;even Sectaries.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, the <HI>Gortoni&s;ts,</HI> who deny the Humanity of Chri&s;t, and mo&s;t bla&s;phemou&s;ly and proudly profe&s;&s;e them&s;elves to be per|&s;onally Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Secondly, the <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI> who with (almo&s;t) equall bla&s;phemy and pride prefer their own Merits and Workes of Supereroga|tion as equall with Chri&s;ts unvaluable Death, and Sufferings.</P>
<P>Thirdly, the <HI>Famili&s;t,</HI> who depend upon rare Revelations, and for&s;ake the &s;ure revealed Word of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Fourthly, <HI>Seekers,</HI> who deny the Churches and Ordinances of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Fifthly, <HI>Antinomians,</HI> who deny the Morrall Law to be the Rule of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Sixtly, <HI>Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> who deny Civill Government to be proved of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Seventhly, The <HI>Prelacy,</HI> who will have their own Injunctions &s;ubmitted unto in the Churches of Chri&s;t. The&s;e and the like your Civill Cen&s;ors &s;hall reach unto that the people of, and un|der your Government, may live a qulet and peaceable life in all godline&s;&s;e and hone&s;ty, and to the end that you may provoke Kings, Princes, and all that are in authority to ca&s;t downe their Crownes at the Feet of Chri&s;t, and take them up againe at his
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command to &s;erve under his Standard as nur&s;ing Fathers, and nur&s;ing Mothers to the Churches and people of Chri&s;t; when your feete are once &s;afely &s;et on the &s;hores of <HI>America,</HI> you &s;hall &s;et up and e&s;tabli&s;h civill Government, and pray for the pro&s;pe|rity thereof, as you love the peace of his Churches, who hath cal|led you to this &s;ervice, he hath for that end &s;hipped among you, &s;ome learned in the Law of God, and practi&s;ed in rules of good rea&s;on or common Lawes proper to our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation. Be &s;ure you make choyce of the right, that all people, Nations and Languages, who are &s;oonly to &s;ubmit to Chri&s;ts Kingdome, may be followers of you herein, as you follow the Rule of Chri&s;t; your Magi&s;trates &s;hall not but open the Gates for all &s;orts. But know, they are Eyes of Re&s;traint &s;et up for Walles and Bul|works, to &s;urround the <HI>Sion</HI> of God; Oh for <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> her peace, &s;ee that you mind it altogether, you know right well that the Churches of Chri&s;t have not thrived under the tolerating Government of <HI>Holland,</HI> from whence the Lord hath tran&s;lated one Church already to the place whither you are now to goe; <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Plimoth</HI> was planted in <HI>New England,</HI> 8. Yeares be|fore any o|thers.</NOTE> and further it is well known, loo&s;e liberty cannot indure to looke Maje&s;ticall authority in the face. And al&s;o you &s;hall finde er|ronious per&s;ons will contend with authority for upholding truth irrationally, denying it any power to condemne deceiveable Doctrines, and that upon this very ground, becau&s;e Tyranny hath inforced error heretofore; be not borne downe with a multi|tude, neither let any flatter for preferment, which to prevent, honour &s;hall be very chargeable among you; yet let not any de|ny to beare the burden and cumber of governing this people of Chri&s;t; for a&s;&s;uredly, although their recompence fall &s;hort from man, it &s;hall not be forgotten with the Lord. La&s;tly,</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VI. <HI>How the People of Chri&s;t ought to behave them&s;elves in War-like Di&s;cipline.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOu &s;hall with all diligence provide again&s;t the Malignant adver&s;aries of the truth, for a&s;&s;ure your &s;elves the time is at
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hand wherein <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> will mu&s;ter up all his Forces, and make war with the People of God: but it &s;hall be to his utter over|throw. See then you &s;tore your &s;elves with all &s;orts of weapons for war, furbri&s;h up your Swords, Rapiers, and all other piercing weapons. As for great Artillery, &s;eeing pre&s;ent meanes falls &s;hort, waite on the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t,</HI> and hee will &s;tir up friends to provide for you: and in the meane time &s;pare not to lay out your coyne for Powder, Bullets, Match, Armes of all &s;orts, and all kinde <NOTE PLACE="marg">Doctor <HI>Wil|&s;on</HI> gave 1000 l. to <HI>New Eng|land,</HI> with which they &s;tored them with great Guns.</NOTE> of In&s;truments for War: and although it may now &s;eeme a thing incredible, you &s;hall &s;ee in that Wilderne&s;&s;e, whither you are going, Troopes of &s;tout Hor&s;emen mar&s;halled, and therefore fayle not to &s;hip lu&s;ty Mares along with you, and &s;ee that withall dilligence you incourage every Souldier-like Spirit among you, for the Lord <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> intends to archieve greater matters by this little handfull then the World is aware of; wherefore you &s;hall &s;eeke and &s;et up men of valour to lead and direct every Soulder among you, and with all diligence to in&s;truct them from time to time.</P>
<P>Feare not the mi&s;&s;e of men to fill your Townes, and compleat your companies; for although at fir&s;t &s;truglings for truths ad|vance there may but a &s;mall number appeare of &s;ound judge|ment: yet &s;hall you not prefer any to Office, who&s;e zeale is not &s;trong for the truth, for now the minde of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is to put out the Name of <HI>Ammaleck</HI> from under Heaven (I meane &s;uch at have per&s;ecuted the Churches and People of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> in their low condition) and a&s;&s;uredly un&s;ound <HI>Saules</HI> will &s;pare &s;uch as &s;hould not be &s;aved from de&s;truction. Then be &s;trong and of a good courage (all you that are to fight the Lords Battaile) that your Faith faile not at &s;ight of the great Armies of <HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Magog:</HI> and as for you, who &s;hall be preferred to highe&s;t places in his New <HI>England</HI> Regiments, cau&s;e your Captaine and other infe|rior Officers to be diligent in their &s;everall places, that you may lend helpe to your Countreymen, that ere long be will &s;ee a ne|ce&s;&s;ity of contending for the truth, as well as your &s;elves in choyce of Military Officers; Let faithfulne&s;&s;e to the cau&s;e in hand, courage, activity and skill have the prehemency of honours; for although it may &s;eeme a meane thing to be a New <HI>England</HI> Souldier, yet &s;ome of you &s;hall have the battering and bearing
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down, &s;ealing, winning and wa&s;ting the over-topping Towers of the Hierarchy; Lieutenants, En&s;igne and Serjeants, exceed not your places, till Experience, Skill and true Valour promote you to higher honour, to which you &s;hall be daily a&s;piring. As the worthy incouragement of a Souldiers labour, let Militay di&s;|cipline be had in high e&s;teeme among you. Gentlemen, Corpo|ralls and fellow-Souldiers, keepe your weapons in a continuall readine&s;&s;e, &s;eeing you are called to fight the Battails of your <HI>Lord Chri&s;t;</HI> who mu&s;t raigne till hee hath put all his enemies un|der his Feet, his glorious Victories over <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> are at hand, never yet did any Souldier rejoyce in dividing the &s;poyle after Victory, as all the Souldiers of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> &s;hall, to &s;ee his judgement executed upon the great Whore, and withall the Lambs bride prepared for him, who comes Skipping over &amp; trampling down the great Mountaines of the Earth, who&s;e univer&s;all Govern|ment will then appeare glorious, when not onely the <HI>A&s;&s;yrian, Babilonian, Per&s;ian, Grecian</HI> and <HI>Roman</HI> Monarchies &s;hall &s;ub|ject them&s;elves unto him, but al&s;o all other new up&s;tart King|domes, Dukedomes, or what el&s;e can be named, &s;hall fall before him; Not that he &s;hall come per&s;onally to Reigne upon Earth (as &s;ome vainly imagine) but his powerfull Pre&s;ence and Glo|rious brightne&s;&s;e of his Go&s;pell both to <HI>Jew</HI> and <HI>Gentile,</HI> &s;hall not onely &s;piritually cau&s;e the Churches of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> to grow beyond number, but al&s;o the whole civill Government of people upon Earth &s;hall become his, &s;o that there &s;hall not be any to move the hand, not dog his tongue again&s;t his cho&s;en, <HI>And then &s;hall the time be of breaking Speares into Mattocks, and Swords into Sithes;</HI> and this to remaine to his la&s;t comming, which will be per&s;onally to overcome the la&s;t enemies of his Saints, even death, which hee will doe by the word of his Mouth, audibly &s;poken the World throughout.</P>
<P>Then all you, who are now, or &s;hall hereafter be &s;hipped for this Voyage, minde the worke of Chri&s;t, and not &s;ome follow|ing raigne, titles of honour, others eying the be&s;t Gra&s;&s;e-platts and be&s;t Situation for Farmes and large Accommodations, crouding our Gods people from &s;itting down among you. Where|fore above all beware of covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e; all you that will be ad|mitted into the&s;e &s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ct Bands of <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> remember <HI>Achan,</HI>
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whereas Rams Hornes could overthrow the high and &s;trong walles of <HI>Jericho,</HI> before his theft committed, after it the little number of the men of <HI>Ai</HI> could put the Ho&s;t of the living God to flight, &s;ee then you &s;tand upon your watch continually in the &s;trength of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> for a&s;&s;uredly in&s;tead of ca&s;ting downe the enemies of <HI>Christ,</HI> this&s;in will ca&s;t down you utterly, di&s;inable you for &s;triking one &s;troke in the cau&s;e of <HI>Chri&s;t;</HI> and whereas he hath purpo&s;ely pickt ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> this People for a patterne of purity and &s;oundne&s;&s;e of Doctrine, as well as Di&s;cipline, that all &s;uch may finde a refuge among you, and let not any Merchants, In|keepers, Taverners and men of Trade in hope of gaine, fling open the gates &s;o wide, as that by letting in all &s;orts you mar the worke of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> intended: neither &s;hall &s;uch labourers as hee hath pickt out to be Pyoneers in this Campe of his, drinke up like Spunges &s;uch meanes as hee hath &s;ent to maintaine both Officers, and private Souldiers. La&s;tly, let not &s;uch as fight, &s;et foote on Land to compo&s;e Townes for Habitations, take up large accommodations for &s;ale, to inrich them&s;elves with others goods, who are to follow them, but freely as you have received, &s;o give out to others: for &s;o &s;oone as you &s;hall &s;eeke to ingro&s;&s;e the Lords wa&s;t into your hands, he will ea&s;e you of your burden by making &s;tay of any farther re&s;ort unto you, and then be &s;ure you &s;hall have wa&s;t Land enough.</P>
<P>To this Commi&s;&s;ion was added a &s;trong motive to this work as followeth: Namely, the great enmity betweene that on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> truth as it is in <HI>Je&s;us,</HI> and all other un&s;ound and undeceiveable Doctrines, together with the per&s;ons that hold them; in&s;omuch, that they cannot &s;tand in one Common-wealth long together, as &s;ixteene hundred yeares experience will te&s;tifie, the which <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> layes down as one maine rea&s;on, why he might not admit of a toleration to wor&s;hip God in <HI>Egypt.</HI> And therefore all you that believe the Scripture, which &s;o plainly prophecy the de&s;truction of Antichri&s;t and all Antichri&s;tian Doctrines; Pray, pray, pray, pray continually with that valiant worthy <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> that the Sun may &s;tand &s;till in <HI>Gibeon,</HI> and the Moone in the vally of <HI>Aijalon,</HI> for a&s;&s;uredly although &s;ome &s;mall battailes may be fought again&s;t the enemies of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> yet the great day of their finall overthrow &s;hall not come till the bright Sonne of that one cleare
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truth of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> &s;tand &s;till in the Gentile Churches, that tho&s;e who fight the Lords Battells may plainly di&s;cerne his enemies in all places, where they finde them, as al&s;o &s;uch as will continue fight|ing mu&s;t have the World kept low in their eyes, as the Moon in the valley of <HI>Aijalon.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VII. <HI>Of the goodne&s;&s;e of God in helping his People to a large liberty in Spirituall things, under the hopes of gaine in Earthly things.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis <HI>Proclamation</HI> being audibly publi&s;hed through the Ile of Great <HI>Brittaine</HI> by &s;undry Herraulds, which <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> had prepared for that end: the rumour ran through Cities, Townes and Villages; when tho&s;e that were oppo&s;ites heard it, &s;ome cried one thing, and &s;ome another, much like the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">umult in the Town. hall at <HI>Ephe&s;us,</HI> &s;ome &s;aid let them goe, others cryed, &s;weare them fir&s;t, others &s;aid let no Sub&s;idy men pa&s;&s;e, others would have &s;trict &s;earch made for non-conformants, and that none of the late &s;ilenced Mini&s;ters might pa&s;&s;e into the Ships; Amid&s;t this great hurry the &s;incere &s;ervants of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> humbly &s;eeke the Lords a&s;&s;i&s;tance in days of Humiliation, taking up &s;ome &s;erious cogi|tations, how to begin this worthy worke, upon which it was thought meete a patterne &s;hould be procured, compri&s;ed after the manner of a Corporation-company or Brotherhood, with as large liberty for government of this A&s;&s;ociation, as could be got under the Broad Seale of <HI>England,</HI> which accordingly was done by advi&s;e of one Mr. <HI>White</HI> an hone&s;t Coun&s;ellor at Law, as al&s;o furthered by the honoured Mr. <HI>Richard Belinham,</HI> and un|der the name of many worthy per&s;onages, as Governour, Dep. Gov. A&s;&s;i&s;tant and Freemen &amp;c. Granted, Ingro&s;&s;ed and Sealed as holding of the manner of Ea&s;t <HI>Greenwitch,</HI> yeelding by way of homage the &s;ixth part of all &s;uch Ore of Gold or Silver, as might for after time be found within the Limits of the &s;aid Grant bounded on the North, with the mo&s;t Northerly part of the plea&s;ant River of <HI>Merimech,</HI> one mile beyond, and on the South with the mo&s;t Southern part of that oft frequented River
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commonly called <HI>Charles,</HI> one mile beyond with power to rule and govern in all tho&s;e parts both by Sea and Land; To <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lect and &s;et up all &s;orts of Officers, as well Superior as In<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erior; to point out their power and places, to defend and maintaine the &s;aid Land, and Inhabitants thereof with all their lawfull liberties (again&s;t all &s;uch as at any time &s;hould Invade, Mole&s;t or Di&s;turbe the &s;ame) as well by offen&s;ive as defen&s;ive War, as al&s;o to con|&s;titute and ordaine Lawes, &amp;c. Thus the&s;e Souldiers of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> prepared to advance his Kingly Government, much like <HI>Samuel,</HI> when he went to annoynt <HI>David,</HI> took up another errant, with|all that the Malignant &s;pirit of <HI>Saul</HI> might not hinder the worke, &s;o tho&s;e Worthies of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> joyning them&s;elves with Merchants and others, who had an eye at a profitable Plantation, who had not herein been deceived would they have &s;tayed their time, but &s;urely &s;uch mi&s;t not their marke, who&s;e ayme was at the durable intere&s;t, unle&s;&s;e the fault were their owne, neither let any man thinke <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> will not recompence tho&s;e one way or other, who have been any way helpfull to his people in this his work; among&s;t whom the Author will not mi&s;&s;e that good Gentleman, <HI>Matthew Craddock</HI> by the way of thankfullne&s;&s;e to him, Mr. <HI>Goff</HI> and others this Ver&s;e is tendred:</P>
<Q><L><HI>For riche&s;t Jems and gainfull things mo&s;t Merchants wi&s;ely venter:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Deride not then New</HI> England men, <HI>this Corporation <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nter;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t calls for Trade &s;hall never fade, come</HI> Craddock <HI>factors &s;end:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let</HI> May<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ew <HI>go and other more, &s;pare not thy coyne to &s;pend;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Suck Trades advance did never chance, in all thy Trading yet:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Though &s;ome deride thy lo&s;&s;e, abide, her's gaine beyond mans wit.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VIII. <HI>Of the wonderfull Preparation the Lord Chri&s;t by his Providence, wrought for his peoples abode in this We&s;tern world.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOw let all men know the admirable Acts of <HI>Christ</HI> for his Churches, and cho&s;en, are univer&s;ally over the whole Earth at one and the &s;ame time, but &s;orry man cannot &s;o di&s;cour&s;e of them; And therefore let us leave our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation in way
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of preparation for this Voyage intended, and tell of the marve|lous doings of <HI>Christ</HI> preparing for his peoples arrivall in the We&s;tern World, whereas the <HI>Indians</HI> report they beheld to their great wonderment that per&s;picuous bright bl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">zing Comet (which was &s;o famou&s;ly noted in <HI>Europe)</HI> anon after Sun &s;et it appear|ed as they &s;ay in the <HI>South-we&s;t,</HI> about three houres continuing in their Horizon, for the &s;pace of thirty &s;leepes (for &s;o they reckon their dayes) after which uncouth &s;ight they expected &s;ome &s;trange things to follow, and the rather, becau&s;e not long before the whole Nation of the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets</HI> were &s;o affrighted with a Ship that arrived in their Bay, having never &s;eene any before, thus they report &s;ome per&s;ons among them di&s;cerning a great thing to move toward them upon the Waters, wondering what Creature it &s;hould be, they run with their light cannowes, (which are a kinde of Beates made of Birch Rindes, and &s;owed together with the rootes of white Cedar-Trees) from place to place, &s;tir|ing up all their Countreymen to come forth, and behold this mon&s;trous thing; at this &s;udden news the &s;hores for many miles were filled with this naked Nation, gazing at this wonder, till &s;ome of the &s;toute&s;t among them manned ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the&s;e Cannowes, being armed with Bow and Arrowes, they approached within &s;hot of the Ship, being becalmed they let fly their long &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s at her, which being headed with bone &s;ome &s;tuck fa&s;t, and others dropped into the water, they wondering it did not cry, but kept quietly on toward them, till all of a &s;udden the Ma&s;ter cau&s;ed a piece of Ordnance to be fired, which &s;troke &s;uch feare into the poore <HI>Indians,</HI> that they ha&s;ted to &s;hore, having their wonders exceedingly increa&s;ed; but being gotten among their great mul|titude, they waited to &s;ee the &s;equell with much amazement, till the Seamen fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ling up their &s;alies came to an Anchor, mannedout their long bote, and went on &s;hore, at who&s;e approach, the <HI>In|dians</HI> &s;led, although now they &s;aw they were men, who made &s;ignes to &s;tay their flight, that they may have Trade with them, and to that end they brought certaine Copper-Kettles; the <HI>Indians</HI> by degrees made their approach nearer and nearer till they came to them, when beholding their Ve&s;&s;ells, which they had &s;et forth before them, the <HI>Indian</HI> knocking them were much delighted with the &s;ound, and much more a&s;toni&s;hed to &s;ee they would
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not breake, being &s;o thin, for attaining tho&s;e Ve&s;&s;ells they brought them much Bever, fraughting them richly away according to their de&s;ires, this was the fir&s;t working providence of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> to &s;tir up our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, to plant the&s;e parts in hope of a rich Trade for Bever-skins, and this made &s;ome of our Countrymen make their abode in the&s;e parts, whom this Army of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> at their comming over found as fit helps to further their de&s;igne in planting the Churches of <HI>Chri&s;t;</HI> Who by a more admirable act of his Providence not long after prepared for his peoples arrivall as followeth.</P>
<P>The Summer after the blazing Starre (who&s;e motion in the Heavens was from <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> to <HI>We&s;t,</HI> poynting out to the &s;ons of men the progre&s;&s;e of the glorious Go&s;pell of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> the glorious King of his Churches) even about the yeare 1618. a little before the removeall of that Church of <HI>Christ</HI> from <HI>Holland</HI> to <HI>Plimoth</HI> in New <HI>England,</HI> as the ancient <HI>Indians</HI> report, there befell a great mortality among them, the greate&s;t that ever the memory of Fa|ther to Sonne tooke notice of, chiefly de&s;olating tho&s;e places, where the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> afterward planted the Country of <HI>Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">kanoky, Ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;awamg,</HI> it was almo&s;t wholy de&s;erted, in&s;omuch that the Neighbour <HI>Indians</HI> did abandon tho&s;e places for feare of death, fleeing more We&s;t &amp; by South, ob&s;erving the Ea&s;t and by Northern parts were mo&s;t &s;mitten with this contagion, the <HI>Abarginny&punc;</HI> men con&s;i&s;ting of <HI>Mattachu&s;ets, Wippanaps</HI> and <HI>Tarratines</HI> were great|ly weakned, and more e&s;pecially the three Kingdomes, or <HI>Sag|gamore</HI> &s;hips of the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets,</HI> who were before this mor|tality mo&s;t populous, having under them &s;even Dukedomes or petty <HI>Saggamores,</HI> and the <HI>Nianticks</HI> and <HI>Narrowgan&s;&s;its,</HI> who before this came were but of little note, yet were they now not much increa&s;ed by &s;uch as fled thither for feare of death, the <HI>Pecods</HI> (who retained the Name of a war-like people, till af|terwards conquered by the <HI>Engli&s;h)</HI> were al&s;o &s;mitten at this time. Their Di&s;ea&s;e being a &s;ore Con&s;umption, &s;weeping away whole Families, but chiefly yong Men and Children, the very &s;eeds of increa&s;e, their <HI>Powwowes,</HI> which are their Doctors, work|ing partly by Charmes, and partly by Medicine, were much a|mazed to &s;ee their <HI>Wigwams</HI> lie full of dea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Corpes, and that now neither <HI>Squantam</HI> nor <HI>Abbamocho</HI> could helpe, which are
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their good and bad God and al&s;o their <HI>Powwows</HI> them&s;elves were oft &s;mitten with deaths &s;troke, howling and much lamentation was heard among the living, who being po&s;&s;e&s;t with great feare, oftimes left their dead unburied, their manner being &s;uch, that they remove their habitations at death of any, this great mortali|ty being an un vonted thing, feare them the more, becau&s;e na|turally the Country is very healthy. But by this meanes <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> (who&s;e great and glorious workes the Earth throughout are al|together for the benefit of his Churches and cho&s;en) not onely made roome for his people to plant; but al&s;o tamed the hard and cruell hearts of the&s;e barbarous <HI>Indians,</HI> in&s;omuch that halfe a handfull of his people landing not long after in <HI>Plimoth-</HI>Plantation, found little re&s;i&s;tance, of whom the Author purpo&s;es not to &s;peake particularly, being prevented by the honoured Mr. <HI>Win&s;low,</HI> who was an eye-witne&s;&s;e of the worke: onely thus much by the way, they were &s;ent to keepe po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion for their Brethren and fellow Souldiers, who arrived eight yeares after them, as in proce&s;&s;e of this &s;tory will God-willing appeare: and verily herein they quit them&s;elves like men, or rather <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> for and by them, maintaining the place notwith&s;tanding the multi|tude of difficulties they met withall at their fir&s;t landing, being in doubtfull &s;u&s;pence what intertainment the&s;e Barbarians would give them, having with prayer &s;upplicated the Lord in the Name of Chri&s;t their King and guide in this their undertaking, they manned out a Boate to di&s;cover what &s;tore of the Inhabitants were there. Now the&s;e men, who&s;e courage exceeded the num|ber, being guided by the provident hand of the mo&s;t high, landed in &s;ome &s;everall places; and by making fires gave &s;ignes of their approach, now the <HI>Indians,</HI> who&s;e dwellings are mo&s;t neer the water &s;ide, appeared with their Bowes bent and Arrowes one the &s;tring, let fly their long &s;hifts among this little company, whom they might &s;oon have inclo&s;ed, but the Lord otherwi&s;e di&s;po&s;ed of it, for one Captaine <HI>Miles Standi&s;h</HI> having his fowl|ing-peece in a reddine&s;&s;e, pre&s;ented full at them, his &s;hot being directed by the provident Hand of the mo&s;t high God, &s;trook the &s;toure&s;t <HI>Sachem</HI> among them one the right Arme, it being bent over his &s;houlder to reach an Arrow forth his Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iver, as their manner is to draw them forth in fight, at this &s;troke they
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all fled with great &s;wiftne&s;&s;e through the Woods and Thickets, then the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> who more thir&s;ted after their conver&s;ion than de&s;truction, returned to their Bote without receiving any dam|age, and &s;oon after arrived where they left their Brethren, to whom they declared the good hand of God toward them, with thankfull acknowledgement of this great worke of his in pre|&s;erving them; Yet did they all remaine full of incumbred thoughts, the <HI>Indians,</HI> of who&s;e multitudes they had now &s;ome intelligence, together with experience of &s;pirits, and al&s;o knew well without commerce with them they were not like long to &s;ub&s;i&s;t.</P>
<P>But hee, who&s;e worke they went about, wrought &s;o rare a Providence for them, which cannot but be admired of all that heare it. Thus it befell as they were di&s;cour&s;ing in the Bote they had built for &s;helter, all of a &s;udden an <HI>Indian</HI> came in among them, at who&s;e &s;peech they were all aga&s;t, he &s;peaking in the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Language, <HI>Much welcome Engli&s;hmen,</HI> their wonder was the greater, becau&s;e upon tho&s;e Co&s;tes they &s;uppo&s;ed no <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> had &s;o much as &s;et foote, and verily Chri&s;t had prepared him on purpo&s;e to give his people intertainment, the <HI>Indian</HI> having li|ved in <HI>England</HI> two year or thereabout, after which he returned home, and at this time had wandred into tho&s;e parts in compa|ny of other <HI>Indians,</HI> all this, and the condition of the neere adjoy|ning <HI>Indians,</HI> hee &s;oon di&s;covered unto them, at which they were tran&s;ported beyond them&s;elves very much, what with joy and the mixture of their former feare and affection intervening with the other, &s;urpri&s;ed all their &s;en&s;es of a &s;udden, that long it was ere each party could take its proper place, yea, and beyond all this <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> by the power of his ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, did now work upon all their faculties both of Soule and Body, the great im|pre&s;&s;ion of his pre&s;ent Providence might not &s;oon be wa&s;hed off with the following incumbred cares of a Defart Wilderne&s;&s;e; but to contract, they made u&s;e of the pre&s;ent opprotunity, and by the in&s;trumentall meanes of this <HI>Indian,</HI> became acquainted and reconciled with mo&s;t of the Neighbouring <HI>Indians.</HI> And af|terward planted a Church of Chri&s;t there, and &s;et up civill Go|vernment, calling the Name of the place <HI>Plimoth:</HI> under this juri&s;diction there are ten Churches at this very day, this being the
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fir&s;t place any <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> re&s;orted unto for the advancement of the Kingly Government of Chri&s;t in this <HI>We&s;terne</HI> World.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. IX. <HI>Of the first preparation of the Marchant Adventurers, in the</HI> Mattachu&s;ets.</HEAD>
<P>NOw it will be time to returne againe to <HI>England,</HI> to &s;peake further of the people that wee left in way of preparation; who in the yeare 1628. &s;ent forth &s;ome &s;tore of &s;ervants to pro|vide again&s;t the wants of a De&s;art Wilderne&s;&s;e, among&s;t whom came over a mixt multitude, in&s;omuch that very little appeared of the following worke, onely the much honoured Mr. <HI>John In|dicat,</HI> came over with them to governe, a fit in&s;trument to be|gin this Wilderne&s;&s;e-worke, of courage bold undanted, yet &s;oci|able, and of a chearfull &s;pirit, loving and au&s;tere, applying him|&s;elfe to either as occa&s;ion &s;erved. And now let no man be offen|ded at the Authors rude Ver&s;e, penned of purpo&s;e to keepe in memory the Names of &s;uch worthies as Chri&s;t made &s;trong for him&s;elfe, in this unwonted worke of his.</P>
<LG>
<HEAD>John Endicat <HI>twice Governour of the</HI> Engli&s;h, <HI>inhabiting the</HI> Mattachu&s;ets <HI>Bay in</HI> N. England.</HEAD>
<L><HI>STrong valiant</HI> John <HI>wilt thou march on, and take up &s;tation fir&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t cal'd hath thee, his Souldier be, and faile not of thy tru&s;t;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Wilderne&s;s-wants Chri&s;ts grace &s;upplants, the~ plant his Churches pure,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With Tongues gifted, and graces led, help thou to his procure;</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;ndanted thou wilt not allow, Malignant men to wa&s;t:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Christs Vineyard heere, who&s;e grace &s;hould cheer, his well-beloved's tast.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then honoured be thy Chri&s;t hath thee their Generall promoted:</HI></L>
<L><HI>To &s;hew their love, in place above, his people have thee voted.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet mu&s;t thou fall, to grave with all the Nobles of the Earth,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou rotting Worme to du&s;t mu&s;t turn, and wor&s;e but for new birth.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>The place picked out by this People to &s;ettle them&s;elves in, was in the bo&s;ome of the out-&s;tretched arme of <HI>Cape Anne,</HI> now
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called <HI>Glo&s;ter,</HI> but at the place of their abode they began to build a Town, which is called <HI>Salem,</HI> after &s;ome little &s;pace of time having made tryall of the Sordid &s;pirits of the Neighbouring <HI>Indians,</HI> the mo&s;t bold among them began to gather to divers places, which they began to take up for their owne, tho&s;e that were &s;ent over &s;ervants, having itching de&s;ires after novelties, found a reddier way to make an end of their Ma&s;ters provi&s;ion, then they could finde meanes to get more; They that came over their own men had but little left to feed on, and mo&s;t began to repent when their &s;trong Beers and full cups ran as &s;mall as wa|ter in a large Land, but little Corne, and the poore <HI>Indians</HI> &s;o far from relieving them, that they were forced to lengthen out their owne food with Acorns, and that which added to their pre&s;ent di&s;tracted thoughts, the Ditch betweene <HI>England</HI> and their now place of abode was &s;o wide, that they could not leap over with a lope-&s;taffe, yet &s;ome delighting their Eye with the rarity of things pre&s;ent, and feeding their fancies with new di&s;|coveries at the Springs approach, they made &s;hift to rub out the Winters cold by the Fire-&s;ide, having fuell enough growing at their very doores, turning down many a drop of the Bottell, and burning Tobacco with all the ea&s;e they could, di&s;cour&s;ing be|tweene one while and another, of the great progre&s;&s;e they would make after the Summers-Sun had changed the Earths white furr'd Gowne into a greene Mantell. Now the vernall of thirty nine being come, they addre&s;t them&s;elves to co&s;te it as far as they dur&s;t for feare of loo&s;ing them&s;elves, or falling into the hands of unknown <HI>Indians,</HI> being kept in awe by a report of a cruell people, not far of called the <HI>Tarratines.</HI> All this while little like-lihood there was building the Temple for Gods wor&s;hip, there being only two that began to hew &s;tones in the Mountaines, the one named Mr. <HI>Bright,</HI> and the other Mr. <HI>Blaxton,</HI> and one of them began to build, but when they &s;aw all &s;orts of &s;tones would not fit in the building, as they &s;uppo&s;ed, the one betooke him to the Seas againe, and the other to till the Land, retaining no &s;imbole of his former profe&s;&s;ion, but a Canonicall Coate.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. X.</HEAD>
<HEAD><HI>Of the fir&s;t Church of Chri&s;t, gathered at</HI> Salem <HI>in the</HI> Mattachu&s;ets <HI>Government.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis yeare 1629. came over three godly Mini&s;ters of <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> intending to &s;hew his power in his peoples lowe&s;t condition as his manner is, thereby to &s;trengthen their Faith in following difficulties, and now although the number of the faith|full people of Chri&s;t were but few, yet their longing de&s;ires to gather into a Church was very great; And therefore addre&s;&s;ed them&s;elves to finde out the ble&s;&s;ed Rules of Chri&s;t for pre&s;erving herein, who through the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his Ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, found that the Word of God, penned by the Apo&s;tles in many Epi&s;tles, written to particular Churches, con&s;i&s;ting of &s;uch as are beloved. Saints, by calling appearing &s;o in the judgement of Charity, being tryed by the rule of the word, not &s;candalous in their Lives, for the &s;ociety of &s;uch they &s;ought, and in the&s;e beginnings found ve|ry few, &s;even being the le&s;t number a Church can be gathered, or conceived by ju&s;t con&s;equence from the Word of God. Having fa&s;ted and prayed with humble acknowledgement of their own unworthine&s;&s;e to be called of Chri&s;t to &s;o worthy a worke, they joyned together in a holy Covenant with the Lord, and one with another promi&s;ing by the Lords A&s;&s;i&s;tance to walke toge|ther in Exhorting, Admoni&s;hing, and Rebuking one another, and to cleave to the Lord with a full purpo&s;e of heart, accord|ing to the ble&s;&s;ed Rules of his Word made known unto them, and further they &s;eeing by light of Scripture the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> a|&s;cended up on high to give gifts unto men, not onely extraordi|nary as Apo&s;tles, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> before the Canon of the Scripture was perfected but al&s;o ordinary as Pa&s;tors and Teachers, and that &s;uch are to be fitted with gifts according, for &s;o mighty a worke, as is the Feeding and Ruling the Flock of Chri&s;t. Wherefore they Elected and Ordained one Mr. <HI>Higging&s;on</HI> to be Tracher of this fir&s;t Church of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> &s;et up in tho&s;e parts, a man indued with grace apt to teach, and mighty in the Scriptures, Learned in the Tongues, able to convince gain-&s;ayers, aptly applying the word to his hearers, who departed this life not long after, of whom it may be &s;aid.</P>
<LG>
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<HEAD><HI>The Reverend Mr.</HI> Higging&s;on, <HI>fir&s;t Pa&s;tor of the Church of Chri&s;t at</HI> Salem <HI>in</HI> New England.</HEAD>
<L><HI>WHat Golden gaine made</HI> Higgin&s;on <HI>remove,</HI></L>
<L><HI>From fertill Soyle to Wilderne&s;&s;e of Rocks;</HI></L>
<L><HI>'Twas Chri&s;ts rich Pearle &s;tir'd up thee toile to love,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For him to feed in Wilderne&s;&s;e his flocks.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fir&s;t Teacher, he here Sheepe and Lambs together,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fir&s;t crownd &s;hall be, hee in the Heavens of all,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts Pastors here, but yet Chri&s;t folke had rather,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Him here retaine, ble&s;t he whom Chri&s;t hath call'd.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>They al&s;o called to the Office of an Exhorting Elder Mr. <HI>Scel|ton,</HI> a man of a gratious Speech, full of Faith and furni&s;hed by the Lord with gifts from above, to begin this great worke of his, that makes the whole Earth to ring againe at this pre|&s;ent day.</P>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>The Reverend</HI> Mr. Scelton <HI>fir&s;t Pa&s;tor of the Church of Christ, at</HI> Salem <HI>in</HI> New England, 1630.</HEAD>
<L>SCelton <HI>for Chri&s;t did leave his Native &s;oile,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t Grace fir&s;t wrought for him, or he had never</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Pa&s;tor been in Wilderne&s;&s;e to toile,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Where Chri&s;t his Flock doth into Churches gather;</HI></L>
<L><HI>For five yeares &s;pace to end thy war-faire thou,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Must meete with wantes, what wants can be to him?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who&s;e Shepheard's Chri&s;t Earths fullne&s;&s;e hath for you;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And Heavens rich Crowne for thee, with's conquest win.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>This Church of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> being thus begun, the Lord with the Water &s;pouts of his tender Mercy cau&s;ed to increa&s;e and fructi|fy. And now let every Eare li&s;ten, and every heart admire, and inlarge it &s;elfe to the a&s;toni&s;hment of the whole man at this wonderous worke of the great <HI>Jehovah;</HI> That in thrice &s;even yeares (after the beginning of this Worke) wrought &s;uch fear|full De&s;olations, and wonderfull Alterations among our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI>
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Nation, and al&s;o in this di&s;mall De&s;art, wa&s;ting the naturall In|habitant with deaths &s;troke, and that as is former touched, the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets,</HI> who were a populous Nation, con&s;i&s;ting of 30000 able men, now brought to le&s;&s;e then 300. and in their roome and place of abode this poore Church of Chri&s;t con&s;i&s;ting at their beginning, but of &s;even per&s;ons, increa&s;ed to forty three Churches in joyne Communion one with the other, profe&s;&s;ing <HI>One God, One Chri&s;t, and one Gospell,</HI> and in tho&s;e Churches about 7750. Soules in one profe&s;&s;ion of the Rules of <HI>Christ,</HI> and that which makes the worke more admirable in the Eyes of all beholders, mens habitations are cut out of the Woods and Bu&s;hes, neither can this place be entered by our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, but by pa&s;&s;ing through a dreadfull and terrible Ocean of nine hundred Leagues in length.</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XI. <HI>Of the Glorious beginnings of a thorough Reformation in the Churclses of Clori&s;t.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FUrther know the&s;e are but the beginnings of Chri&s;ts glorious Reformation, and Re&s;tauration of his Churches to a more glorious &s;plendor than ever. Hee hath therefore cau&s;ed their dazeling brightne&s;&s;e of his pre&s;ence to be contracted in the bur|ning Gla&s;&s;e of the&s;e his peoples zeale, from whence it begins to be left upon many parts of the World with &s;uch hot reflecti|on of that burning fight, which hath fired many places already, the which &s;hall never be quenched till it hath burnt up <HI>Babilon</HI> Root and Branch, and now let the Reader looke one the 102. <HI>P&s;alme,</HI> the Prophet <HI>I&s;aia</HI> 66. <HI>Chapter,</HI> take this &s;harpe Sword of Chri&s;ts Word, and all other Scriptures of like nature, and fol|low on yee valiant of the Lord; And behold the worthies of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> as they are boldly leading forth his Troopes into the&s;e <HI>We&s;terne</HI> Fields, marke them well Man by Man as they march, terrible as an Army with Banners, croud in all yee that long to &s;ee this glorious &s;ight, &s;ee ther's their glorious King <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> one that white Hor&s;e, who&s;e hoo&s;es like flint ca&s;t not only &s;parkes, but flames of fire in his pat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es. Behold his Crown be|&s;et
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with Carbunkles, wherein the names of his whole Army are written. Can there be ever night in his Pre&s;ence, who&s;e eyes are ten thou&s;and times higher than the Sun? Behold his &s;wiftnes all you that have &s;aid, where is the promi&s;e of his comming? Li&s;ten a while, hear what his herauld proclaimes, <HI>Babylon</HI> is &s;allen, is fallen, both her Doctrine &amp; Lordly rabble of Popes, Cardinalls, Lordly-B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hops, Friers, Monks, Nuns, Seminary-Prie&s;ts, Je|&s;uits, Ermites, Pilgrims, Deans, Prebends, Arch-Deacons, Commi&s;&s;aries, Officialls, Proctors, Somners, Singing-men, Chori&s;ters, Organi&s;t, Bellows-blowers, Vergers, Porters, Sex|tons, Beads-men, and Bel-ringers and all others who never had name in the Word of God; together with all her fal&s;e Doctrines, although they may &s;eeme otherwi&s;e never &s;o contradictory as <HI>Arians,</HI> who deny the God-head of Chri&s;t, and <HI>Gorteni&s;ts,</HI> who deny the Humanity of Chri&s;t: Papi&s;ts, who thinke to merit Heaven by the Workes of the Law, <HI>Antinomians,</HI> who deny the Law of God altogether as a rule to walke by in the obedience of Faith, and deny good works to be the Frutit of Faith, <HI>Arminians,</HI> who attribute Gods Election, or Reprobation to the will of Man, and <HI>Famili&s;ts,</HI> who for&s;ake the revealed Will of God, and make men depend upon &s;trong Revelations, for the knowledge of Gods Electing Love towards them. <HI>Conformitants</HI> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Formali&s;ts,</HI> who bring in a forme of wor&s;hip of their owne, and joyne it with the wor&s;hip God hath appointed in his Word <HI>Seekers,</HI> that deny all manner of wor&s;hip or Ordinances of <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> affirming them to be quite lo&s;t, and not to be attained till new Apo&s;tles come.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XII. <HI>Of the voluntary bani&s;hment, cho&s;en by this People of Christ, and their la&s;t farewell taken of their Country and Friends.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd now behold the &s;everall Regiments of the&s;e Souldiers of <HI>Christ,</HI> as they are &s;hipped for his &s;ervice in the <HI>We&s;tern</HI> World, part thereof being come to the Towne and Port of <HI>Southamptan</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> where they were to be &s;hipped, that
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they might pro&s;ecute this de&s;igne to the full, one Ship called the <HI>Eagle,</HI> they wholy purcha&s;e, and many more they hire, filling them with the &s;eeds of man and bea&s;t to &s;ow this yet untilled Wilderne&s;&s;e withall, making &s;ale of &s;uch Land as they po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e, to the great admiration of their Friends and Acquaintance, who thus expo&s;tulate with them, What, will not the large income of your yearly revenue content you, which in all rea&s;on cannot chu&s;e but be more advantagious both to you and yours, then all that Rocky Wilderne&s;&s;e, whither you are going, to run the hazard of your life? Have you not here your Tables filled with great variety of Foode, your Coffers filled with Coyne, your Hou&s;es beautifully built and filled with all rich Furniture? (or otherwi&s;e) have you not &s;uch a gainfull Trade as none the like in the Towne where you live? Are you not inriched daily? Are not your Children very well provided for as they come to years? (nay) may you not here as pithily practi&s;e the two chiefe Du|ties of a Chri&s;tian (if Chri&s;t give &s;trength) namely Mortificati|on and Sanct fication as in any place of the World? What helps can you have there that you mu&s;t not carry from hence? With bold re&s;olvedne&s;&s;e the&s;e &s;tout Souldiers of Chri&s;t reply; as Death, the King of terror with all his dreadfull attendance inhu|mane and barbarous, tortures doubled and trebled by all the in|fernall furies have appeared but light and momentany to the Souldiers of <HI>Chri&s;t Ie&s;us,</HI> &s;o al&s;o the Plea&s;ure, Profits and Ho|nours of this World &s;et forth in their mo&s;t glorious &s;plend or, and magnitude by the alluring Lady of Delight, proffering plea&s;ant embraces, cannot intice with her <HI>Syren</HI> Songs, &s;uch Souldiers of Chri&s;t, who&s;e aymes are elevated by him, many Millions above that brave Warrier <HI>Vly&s;&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>Now &s;eeing all can be &s;aid will but barely &s;et forth the im|moveable Re&s;olutions that Chri&s;t continued in the&s;e men; Pa&s;&s;e on and attend with teares, if thou ha&s;t any, the following di&s;|cour&s;e, while the&s;e Men, Women and Children are taking their la&s;t farwell of their Native Country, Kindred, Friends and Ac|quaintance, while the Ships attend them; Many make choi&s;e of &s;ome &s;olitary place to eccho out their bowell-breaking affections in bidding their Friends farwell, deare friends (&s;ayes one) as neare as my owne &s;oule doth thy love lodge in my bre&s;t, with
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thought of the heart burning Ravi&s;hments, that thy Heavenly &s;peeches have wrought: my melting &s;oule is poured out at pre&s;ent with the&s;e words, both of them had their farther &s;peach &s;tran|gled from the depth of their inward dolor, with brea&s;t-breaking &s;obs, till leaning their heads each on others &s;houlders, they let fall the &s;alt-dropping dews of vehement affection, &s;triving to exceede one another, much like the departure of <HI>David</HI> and <HI>Jonathan:</HI> having a little ea&s;ed their hearts with the &s;till &s;treames of Teares, they recovered &s;peech againe. Ah! my much ho|noured friend, hath Chri&s;t given thee &s;o great a charge as to be Leader of his People into that far remote, and va&s;t Wilderne&s;&s;e, I, oh, and alas thou mu&s;t die there and never &s;hall I &s;ee thy Face in the fle&s;h againe, wert thou called to &s;o great a taske as to pa&s;&s;e the pretious Ocean, and hazard thy per&s;on in Battell again&s;t thou&s;ands of Malignant Enemies there? there were hopes of thy return with triumph, but now after two three, or foure moneths &s;pent with daily expectation of &s;wallowing Waves, and cruell Pirates, you are to be Landed among barbarous <HI>Indians,</HI> famous for nothing but cruelty, where you are like to &s;pend your days in a fami&s;hing condition for a long &s;pace; Scarce had he utter|ed this, but pre&s;ently hee lockes his friend fa&s;t in his armes, hold|ing each other thus for &s;ome &s;pace of time, they weepe againe, But as <HI>Paul</HI> to his beloved flock: the other replies what doe you weeping and breaking my heart? I am now pre&s;t for the &s;ervice of our <HI>Lord Chri&s;t,</HI> to re-build the mo&s;t glorious Edifice of Mount <HI>Sion</HI> in a Wilderne&s;&s;e, and as <HI>John</HI> Bapti&s;t, I mu&s;t cry prepare yee the way of the Lord, make his paths &s;trait, for be|hold hee is comming againe, hee is comming to de&s;troy <HI>Anti|chri&s;t,</HI> and give the whore double to drinke the very dregs of his wrath.</P>
<P>Then my deare friend unfold thy hands, for thou and I have much worke to doe, I and all Chri&s;tian Souldiers the World throughout&punc; then hand in hand they leade each other to the San|dy-banks of the brini&s;h Ocean, when clenching their hands fa&s;t, they unloo&s;e not til inforced to wipe their watery-eyes, who&s;e con&s;tant &s;treames forced a watery-path upon their Cheekes, which to hide from the eyes of others they &s;hun &s;ociety for a time, but being called by occa&s;ion, who&s;e bauld back-part none
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can lay hold one; They thru&s;t in among the throng now ready to take Ship, where they beheld the like affections with their own among divers Relations, Husbands and Wives with mu|tuall con&s;ent are now purpo&s;ed to part for a time 900 Leagues a&s;under, &s;ince &s;ome providence at pre&s;ent will not &s;uffer them to goe together, they re&s;olve their tender affections &s;hall not hinder this worke of Chri&s;t, the new Married and betrothed man, exempt by the Law of God from war, now will not claime their priviledge, but being con&s;trained by the Love of Chri&s;t, lock up their naturall affections for a time, till the Lord &s;hall be plea|&s;ed to give them a meeting in this <HI>We&s;terne</HI> World, &s;weetly mix|ing it with &s;pirituall love, in the meane time many Fathers now take their yong <HI>Samuells,</HI> and give them to this &s;ervice of Chri&s;t all their Lives. Brethren, Si&s;ters, Unkles, Nephewes, Neeces, together with all Kindred of bloud that binds the bowells of affection in a true Lovers knot, can now take their la&s;t farewell, each of other, although naturall affection will &s;till claime her right, and manife&s;t her &s;elfe to bee in the body by looking out at the Windowes in a mournefull manner among this company, thus di&s;po&s;ed doth many Reverend and godly Pa&s;tors of Chri&s;t pre&s;ent them&s;elves, &s;ome in a Seamans Habit, and their &s;cattered &s;heepe comming as a poore Convoy loftily take their leave of them as followeth, what dolefull dayes are the&s;e, when the be&s;t choi&s;e our Orthodox Mini&s;ters can make is to take up a perpetuall bani&s;hment from their na|tive &s;oile, together with their Waves and Children, wee their poore &s;heepe they may not feede, but by &s;toledred &s;hould they abide here. <HI>Lord Chri&s;t,</HI> here they are at thy command, they go, this is the doore thou ha&s;t opened upon our earne&s;t reque&s;t, and we hope it &s;hall never be &s;hut: for <HI>Englands</HI> &s;ake they are going from <HI>England</HI> to pray without cea&s;ing for <HI>England,</HI> O <HI>England!</HI> thou &s;halt finde <HI>New England</HI> prayers prevailing with their God for thee, but now woe alas, what great hard&s;hip mu&s;t the&s;e our indeared Pa&s;tors indure for a long &s;ea&s;on, with the&s;e words they life up their voyces and wept, adding many drops of &s;ale liquor to the ebbing Ocean; Then &s;haking hands they bid a|due with much cordiall affection to all their Brethren, and Si&s;ters in Chri&s;t, yet now the Scorne and Derifion of tho&s;e times,
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and for this their great enterpri&s;e counted as &s;o many crackt. braines, but Chri&s;t will make all the Earth know the wi&s;dome he hath indued them with, &s;hall over-top all the humane policy in the World, as the &s;equell wee hope will &s;hew; Thus much &s;hall &s;uffice in generall to &s;peak of their peoples farewell they tooke from time to time of their Country and Friends.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XIII. <HI>Of the charges expended by this poore People, to injoy Christ in his purity of his Ordinances.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd now they enter the Ships, &s;hould they have ca&s;t up what it would have co&s;t to people <HI>New England</HI> before hand, the mo&s;t &s;tronge&s;t of Faith among them would certainly have &s;taggered much, and very hardly have &s;et &s;aile. But behold and wonder at the admirable Acts of Chri&s;t, here it is ca&s;t up to thy hand, the pa&s;&s;age of the per&s;ons that peopled <HI>New Eng|land</HI> co&s;t ninety five thou&s;and pounds, the Swine, Goates, Sheepe, Neate and Hor&s;e, co&s;t to tran&s;port twelve thou&s;and pound, be|&s;ides the price they co&s;t, getting food for all per&s;ons for the time till they could bring the Woods to tillage amounted unto forty five thou&s;and pounds; Nayles, Gla&s;&s;e and other Iron|worke for their meeting-hou&s;es, and other dwelling hou&s;es be|fore they could rai&s;e any meanes in the Country to purcha&s;e them, Eighteene thou&s;and pounds. Armes, Powder, Bullet and Match, together with their great Artillery, twenty two thou|&s;and pounds: the who&s;e &s;um amounts unto one hundred ninety two thou&s;and pound, be&s;ide that which the Adventurers laid out in <HI>England,</HI> which was a &s;mall pittance compared with this, and indeed mo&s;t of tho&s;e that ca&s;t into this Banke were the chiefe Adventurers. Neither let any man thinke the &s;um above expre&s;|&s;ed did defray the whole ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rge of this Army, which amounts to above as much more, onely this &s;um lies &s;till in banke, and the other they have had the income agains; This therefore is chiefly pre&s;ented to &s;atisfie &s;uch as thinke <HI>New England men</HI> have beene bad husbands in mannaging their E&s;tates, a&s;&s;uredly
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here it lies in banke, put out to the greate&s;t advantage that ever any hath beene for many hundred of yeares before, and verily although in ca&s;ting it up &s;ome hundreds may be mi&s;counted (for the Author would not willingly exceede in any re&s;pect) but to be &s;ure Chri&s;t &s;tands by and beholds every mite that (in the obedience of Faith) is ca&s;t into this Trea&s;ury: but what doe wee an&s;wering men? the money is all Chri&s;ts, and certainly hee will take it well that (his) have &s;o di&s;po&s;ed of it to his advantage; by this meanes hee hath had a great income in <HI>England</HI> of late, Prayers, Teares and Prai&s;e, and &s;ome Reformation; <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> have met with much of the profit of this Banke, <HI>Virginia, Bermodas</HI> and <HI>Barbados</HI> have had a ta&s;te, and <HI>France</HI> may &s;uddenly meete with the like. Therefore repent you not, you that have ca&s;t in your Coyne, but tremble all you that with a penurious haud have not onely ca&s;t, in &s;uch as are taking out to hord it up in your Napkins, remember <HI>Ananias</HI> and <HI>Sa|phirah,</HI> how dare&s;t thou doe it in the&s;e dayet, when the Lord hath need of it? Gentle Reader make u&s;e of this memorable Providence of Chri&s;t for his <HI>New England</HI> Churches, where had this poore people this great &s;um of money? the mighty Princes of the Earth never opened their Coffers for them, and the ge|nerality of the&s;e men were meane and poore in the things of this life, but &s;ure it is the work is done, let God have the glory, who hath now given them food to the full, and &s;ome to &s;pare for other Churches.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XIV. <HI>Of the wonderfull pre&s;ervation of Chri&s;t, in carrying his People. Men, Women, Children, through the large&s;t Ocean in the World.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd now you have had a &s;hort &s;urvay of the charges of their <HI>New England</HI> Vayages, &s;ee their progre&s;&s;e being &s;afe aboard weighing Anker, and hoy&s;ting &s;aile they betooke them to the protection of the Lord on the wide Ocean, no &s;ooner were they di&s;per&s;ed by rea&s;on of the widene&s;&s;e of the Sea, but the <HI>Arrabella</HI> (for &s;o they called the Eagle, which the compa|ny
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purcha&s;ed in honour of the Lady <HI>Arrabella,</HI> Wife to that godly E&s;quire, <HI>Izack John&s;on)</HI> e&s;pied foure Ships, as they &s;up|po&s;ed, in pur&s;uit of them, their &s;u&s;pition being the more aug|mented by rea&s;on of a report (when they lay in harbor) of foure Dunkerk-men of war, who were &s;aid to lie wating for their comming forth, at this &s;ight they make preparation, ac|cording to their pre&s;ent condition, comforting one another in the &s;weete mercies of Chri&s;t: the weaker &s;ex betooke them to the Ships hold, but the men one Decks waite in a readine&s;&s;e for the enemies approach. At who&s;e courage many of the Seamen wonder, not knowing under who&s;e command the&s;e their pa&s;&s;en|gers were, even he who makes all his Souldiers bold as Lions, Yet was he not minded to make triall of his peoples valiantey in fight at this time, for the &s;hips comming up with them proved to be their own Countrymen and friends, at which they greatly rejoyced, &s;eeing the good hand of their God was upon them, and are further &s;trengthened in Faith to rely one Chri&s;t, for the future time again&s;t all Leakes, Stormes, Rockes, Sands, and all other wants a long Sea-voyage procures, &s;u&s;taining them with a I meekne&s;&s;e and patience, yet &s;en&s;ible of the Lords frownes, humbling their &s;oules before him, and al&s;o rejoyeing in his de|liverauces in taking the cup of Salvation, and paying the tribute of thankfulne&s;&s;e to the mo&s;t high, who&s;e provident hand was diver&s;ly directed toward them, purpo&s;ely to point out the great hard&s;hips they mu&s;t undergoe in this their Chri&s;tian warfare, and withall to tell them, although their difficulties were many and moumfull, yet their victories &s;hou'd be much more glorious and joyfull, eminently eyed of the whole World, but now keeping their cour&s;e &s;o neere as the winds will &s;uffer them, the billowes begin to grow lofty and rageing, and &s;uddenly bringing them into the vale of death, covering them with the formidable flouds, and da&s;hing their bodies from &s;ide to &s;ide, hurling their unfixed goods from place to place at the&s;e unwonted workes. Many of the&s;e people amazed finde &s;uch oppo&s;ition in nature, that her principles grow feeble, and cannot dige&s;t her food, loathing all manner of meat, &s;o that the vitall parts are hindered from co|operating with the Soule in &s;pirituall duties, in&s;omuch that both Men, Women and Children are in a helple&s;&s;e condition
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for pre&s;ent, and now is the time if ever of recounting this &s;ervice they have, and are about to undertake for Chri&s;t; but he, who is very &s;en&s;ible of his peoples infirmities, rebukes the winds, and Seas for their &s;akes, and then the reverend and godly among them begin to exhort them in the name of the Lord, and from the Lord, being fitted with &s;uch words as much incourrages the worke they are going about, many of their hor&s;es and other Cattell are ca&s;t over-board by the way, to the great di&s;heartning of &s;ome, but Chri&s;t knew well how for his peoples hearts would be taken off the maine worke with the&s;e things. And therefore although he be very tender in providing outward nece&s;&s;aries for his, yet rather than this great worke (he intends) &s;hould be hin|dered, their Tables &s;hall be &s;pred but thinly in this wilderne&s;&s;e for a time. After the Lord had exerci&s;ed them thus &s;everall ways, he &s;ent Di&s;ea&s;es to vi&s;it their Ships, that the de&s;art Land they were now drawing near unto might not be de&s;erted by them at fir&s;t enterance, which &s;ure it would have been by many, had not the Lord prevented by a trouble&s;om pa&s;&s;age: At forty dayes end, or thereabout, they ca&s;t to &s;ound the Seas depth, and find them &s;ixty fadom, by which they deem the bankes of New &s;ound Land are near, where they being provided with Cod-line and Hooke hale up &s;ome &s;tore of fi&s;h to their no &s;mall refre&s;hing, and within &s;ome &s;pace of time after they approach the Co&s;t of <HI>New England,</HI> where they are againe provided with Mackarell, and that which was their greater rejoycing, they di&s;cover Land, at &s;ight thereof they ble&s;&s;ed the Lord.</P>
<P>But before the Author proceed any further in this Di&s;cour&s;e, take here a &s;hort &s;urvay of all the Voyages by Sea, in the tran&s;|portation of the&s;e Armies of the great <HI>Jehova,</HI> for fifteene years &s;pace to the year 1643. about which time <HI>England</HI> began to in|deavour after Reformation, and the Souldiers of Chri&s;t were &s;et at liberty to bide his battells at home, for who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance &s;ome of the chiefe worthies of Chri&s;t returned back: the number of Ships that tran&s;ported pa&s;&s;engers in this &s;pace of time, as is &s;up|po&s;ed is 298. Men, Women and Children pa&s;&s;ing over this wide Ocean, as near as at pre&s;ent can be gathered, is al&s;o &s;uppo&s;ed to be 21200. or thereabout.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XV. <HI>An Exhortation to all People, Nations and Languages, to indeavour the advancing of the Kingdome of Chri&s;t in the purity of his Ordinances, &s;eeing he hath done, &s;uch admirable Acts for the&s;e poore &s;hrubs.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd now all you who&s;e affections are taken with wonder|full matters (Attend) and you that thinke Chri&s;t hath forgotten his poore de&s;pi&s;ed people (Behold) and all you that hopefully long for Chri&s;ts appearing to confound <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> (Con|&s;ider) and rejoyce all yee his Churches the World throughout, for the Lambe is preparing his Bride, and oh <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> yee the antient Beloved of Chri&s;t, whom he of old led by the hand from <HI>Egypt</HI> to <HI>Canaan,</HI> through that great and terrible. Wilderne&s;&s;e, looke here, behold him whom you have peirced, preparing to peirce your hearts with his <HI>Wonder-working Providence,</HI> and to provoke you by this little handfull of his people to looke on him, and mourne. Yet let no man think the&s;e few weake Wormes would re&s;traine the wnoderfull Workes of Chri&s;t, as onely to them|&s;elves, but the quite contrary, the&s;e but the Porch of his glori|ous building in hand, and if hee have &s;hewed &s;uch admirable acts of his providence toward the&s;e, what will he doe when the whole Nation of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;hall &s;et upon like Reformation ac|cording to the direct Rule of his Word? A&s;&s;ured confidence there is al&s;o for all Nations, from the undoubted promi&s;e of Chri&s;t him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>The Winter is pa&s;t, the Raine is changed and gone, come out of the holes of the &s;ecret places, feare not becau&s;e your number is but &s;mall, gather into Churches, and let Chri&s;t be your King, yee <HI>Presbytery,</HI> Lord it not over them or any Churches, but feed every one, that one flock over which Chri&s;t hath made you over-&s;eers, and yee people of Chri&s;t give your <HI>Presbytery</HI> double ho|nours, that they with you may keepe the watch of the Lord over his Churches. Yee <HI>Dutch</HI> come out of your hods-podge, the great mingle mangle of Religion among you hath cau&s;ed the Churches of Chri&s;t to increa&s;e &s;o little with you, &s;tanding at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">
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&s;tay like Corne among Weeds, Oh, yee <HI>French!</HI> feare not the great &s;warmes of <HI>Locu&s;ts,</HI> nor the croking <HI>Frogs</HI> in your Land, Chri&s;t is reaching out the hand to you, look what hee hath done for the&s;e <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and &s;ure hee is no Re&s;pecter of Per&s;ons, &amp;c. yee <HI>Germanes</HI> that have had &s;uch a bloudy bickering, Chri&s;t is now comming to your aide, then ca&s;t off your loo&s;e, and care|le&s;&s;e kinde of Reformation, gather into Churches, and keepe them pure, that Chri&s;t may delight to dwell among you: oh <HI>Italy!</HI> The Seat and Center of the Bea&s;t, Chri&s;t will now pick out a People from among you for him&s;elfe, &s;ee here what won|ders hee workes in little time. Oh! yee <HI>Spaniards</HI> and <HI>Portu|galls,</HI> Chri&s;t will &s;hew you the abominarions of that bea&s;tly Whore, who hath made your Nations drunke with the Wine of her Fornication. Dread not that cruell murtherous Inqui&s;ition, for Chri&s;t is now making Inqui&s;icion for them, and behold, here how hee hath rewarded them, who deale cruelly with the&s;e his people.</P>
<P>Finally, oh all yee Nations of the World, behold great is the worke the glorious King of Heaven and Earth hath in hand; beware of neglecting the call of Chri&s;t: and you the Seed of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> both le&s;&s;e and more, the ratling of your dead bones toge|ther i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> at hand, Sinewes, Fle&s;h and Life: at the Word of Chri&s;t it comes Coun&s;ellers and Judges, you &s;hall have as at the begin|ing to fight for you, as <HI>Gidion, Bareck, Jeptha, Sam&s;on &amp;c.</HI> then &s;ure your deliverance &s;hall be &s;udden and wonderfull, if Chri&s;t have done &s;uch great things for the&s;e low Shrubs, what will his mo&s;t Admirable, Excellent and wonderfull Worke for you be, but as the Re&s;urrection from the dead, when all the miraculous acts of his wonderfull power &s;hewed upon <HI>Pharoah?</HI> for your fore-Fathers deliverance &s;hall be &s;wallowed up with tho&s;e far greater workes that Chri&s;t &s;hall &s;hew for your deliverance upon the whole World, by Fiers and Bloud de&s;troying both <HI>Pope</HI> and <HI>Turke,</HI> when you &s;hall &s;ee great &s;moake and flames a&s;cend|ing up on high, of that great <HI>Whore, Revel.</HI> 14 &amp; 11. <HI>ver&s;e,</HI> and the 17. &amp; 16. <HI>ver&s;e,</HI> and the 18. the 8. and 18. <HI>ver&s;. Then oh! you People of I&s;rael gather together as one Man, and grow together as one Tree.</HI> Ezek. 37. &amp; 23. For Chri&s;t the great King of all the Earth is now going forth in his great Wrath and terrible In|dignation
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to avenge the bloud of his Saints, <HI>Ezek</HI> 38 &amp; 19. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> and now for the great and bloudy Battell of <HI>Gog</HI> and <HI>Magog,</HI> Ri|vers of bloud, and up to the Hor&s;e-bridles, even the bloud of tho&s;e have drunke bloud &s;o long, oh I dreadfull day, when the pati|ence and long-&s;uffering of Chri&s;t, that hath la&s;ted &s;o many hun|dreds of yeares &s;hall end, what wonderous workes are now &s;uddenly to be wrought for the accompli&s;hment of the&s;e things&punc; Then judge all you (whom the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> hath given a di&s;cer|ning &s;pirit) whether the&s;e poore <HI>New England</HI> People be not the fore runners of Chri&s;ts Army, and the marvelous provi|dences which you &s;hall now heare, be not the very Finger of God, and whether the Lord hath not &s;ent this people to Preach in this Wilderne&s;&s;e, and to proclaime to all Nations, the neere approach of the mo&s;t wonderfull workes that ever the Sonnes of men &s;aw. Will not you believe that a Nation can be borne in a day? here is a worke come very neare it; but if you will believe you &s;hall &s;ee far greater things than the&s;e, and that in very lit|tle time, and in the meane time looke on the following Di&s;|cour&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XVI. <HI>Of the admirable Acts of Chri&s;ts Providence, in delivering this his people in their Voyages by Sea, from many foule dangers.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOu have heard of about 198. Ships pa&s;&s;ing the perillous Ocean, of all which I heare of but one that ever mi&s;carried; yet &s;hall you here &s;ee &s;ome of the great dangers they were in the Ship, this Author came in a foggy morning, anon by breake of day was ready to be &s;teamed by a Pirate, but being unready for &s;ight they pa&s;&s;ed by; others by a fog, have been delivered from farther cha&s;e of them, &s;o that of this great number never did any Pirate make one &s;hot at them, according to be&s;t intelligence. Their deliverance from leakes al&s;o hath been no le&s;&s;e wonder|full, &s;ome &s;o neare &s;inking, that the loving affection betweene Husband and Wife, hath cau&s;ed them to fould each other in their Armes, with Re&s;olution to die together, and make the Sea
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their Grave, yet not cea&s;ing to call on the Lord, their pre&s;ent helpe in time of need, who is minded to manife&s;t his great care for this his people to all that &s;hall come to hear thereof. And therefore directs to meanes for freeing their &s;hips, being now ready to founder in the depthle&s;&s;e Ocean. And further, as if the&s;e deliverances were too little to expre&s;&s;e the tender care <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> hath of his, to free them from all dangers, tho&s;e that occupy their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in the deepe, and &s;ee the Wonders of God upon the waters, are taken with great a&s;toni&s;hment to behold the extra|ordinary hand of the mo&s;t High, in tran&s;portation of this people, in that their Ships all of a &s;udden are brought &s;o neer the ground, and yet &s;trike not their Pilots, mi&s;&s;ing ofttimes of their skill on tho&s;e unwandered. Coa&s;ts, but their <HI>Jehovah</HI> hee mi&s;&s;es not to be an exact Pilot in the mo&s;t thicke&s;t foggs and darke&s;t nights, for thus it befell.</P>
<P>The night newly breaking off her darkne&s;&s;e, and the day-light being clouded with a gro&s;&s;e vapor, as if nights Curtaines re|mained halfe &s;hut, the Sea-men and Pa&s;&s;engers &s;tanding on the Decks, &s;uddenly fixed their eyes one a great Boat (as they deemed) and anon after they &s;pied another, and after that an|other; but mu&s;ing on the matter, they perceived them&s;elves to be in great danger of many great Rocks, with much terror and affrightment, they turned the Ship about, expecting every mo|ment to be da&s;ht in pieces again&s;t the Rocks. But he who&s;e pro|vidence brought them in, Piloted them out againe, without any danger, to their great Rejoycing. And a&s;&s;uredly) &s;o extraordi|narily eminent and admirable to the eyes of many beholders, was the wonderfull workes in magnifying the Rich grace toward this his people in prefering them) that many Ma&s;ters of Ships left their See imployment for a time, and cho&s;e rather to &s;uffer the wante of a Wilderne&s;&s;e with the people of God, than to in|crea&s;e their E&s;tates in a full-fed Land, and verily &s;o taken they were, that they fell down at <HI>Christs</HI> Feet, and were placed by him as living &s;tones, Elect and Pretious in his Churches; al&s;o many other Seamen were brought to &s;eeke after <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> in his Ordinan|ces, by which it appeares &s;ome great worke, by &s;ome far &s;urpa&s;|&s;ing all this, hath <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> ere long to doe, that hee thus fitteth In|&s;truments. Then all you that occupy &s;hipping prepare for his
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&s;ervice, who will a&s;&s;uredly prove the be&s;t owner that ever you went to Sea for.</P>
<P>Furthermore, the condition of tho&s;e per&s;ons pa&s;&s;ed the Seas, in this long and re&s;tle&s;&s;e Voyage (if rightly con&s;idered) will more magnifie the grace of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> in this great Worke. Fir&s;t, &s;uch were many of them that never before had made any path through the Waters, no not by boat, neither &s;o much as &s;eene a Ship, others &s;o tenderly brought up that they had little hope of their Lives continuance under &s;uch hard&s;hips, as &s;o long a Voyage mu&s;t needs inforce them to indure, others there were, who&s;e Age did rather call for a quiet Couch to re&s;t them on, than a pinching Cabbin in a Reeling Ship, others who&s;e weake natures were &s;o borne downe with Di&s;ea&s;e, that they could hard|ly craule up the Ships-&s;ide, yet ventured their weake Ve&s;&s;ells to this <HI>We&s;turne</HI> World. Here al&s;o might you &s;ee weakly Wo|men, who&s;e hearts have trembled to &s;et foote in Boate, but now imboldened to venter through the&s;e tempe&s;tuous Seas with their young B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bes, whom they nurture up with their Brea&s;ts, while their bodies are to&s;&s;ed on the tumbling Waves; al&s;o others who&s;e Wombes could not containe their fru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t, being ready for the Worlds-light, travailed and brought forth upon this depthle&s;&s;e Ocean in this long Voyage, lively and &s;trong Children yet living, and like to prove &s;ucceeding In&s;truments in the Hands of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> for furthering this worke; among other <HI>Sea-borne Cotten,</HI> now a young &s;tudent in a Colledge in <HI>Cambridge,</HI> being Son to that Famous and Renowned Teacher of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> M. <HI>John Cotten;</HI> by all this and much more that might be &s;aid, for allmo&s;t every one you di&s;cour&s;e withall will tell you of &s;ome Remarkeable Providence of God &s;hewed to|ward them in this their Voyage, by which you may &s;ee the Worke of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is not to bee laid a&s;ide becau&s;e of diffi|culties.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XVII. <HI>Of the first leading of the&s;e People of Chri&s;t, when the Civill Government was E&s;tabli&s;hed.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BUt to goe on with the Story, the 12 of <HI>July</HI> or thereabout 1630. the&s;e Souldiers of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> fir&s;t &s;et foote one this <HI>We&s;terne</HI> end of the World; where arriveing in &s;afety, both Men, Women and Children. On the North &s;ide of <HI>Charles</HI> River, they landed neare a &s;mall I&s;land, called <HI>Noddells</HI> I&s;land, where one Mr. <HI>Samuel Mavereck</HI> then living, a man of a very loving and curteous behaviour, very ready to entertaine &s;trangers, yet an enemy to the Reformation in hand, being &s;trong for the Lordly Prelaticall power one this I&s;land, he had built a &s;mall Fort with the helpe of one Mr. <HI>David Tomp&s;on,</HI> placing there|in foure Murtherers to protect him from the <HI>Indians.</HI> About one mile di&s;tant upon the River ran a &s;mall creeke, taking its Name from Major Gen. <HI>Edward Gibbons,</HI> who dwelt there for &s;ome yeares after; One the South &s;ide of the River one a point of Land called <HI>Blaxtons</HI> point, planted Mr. <HI>William Blaxton,</HI> of whom we have formerly &s;poken: to the South Ea&s;t of him, neare an I&s;land called <HI>Tomp&s;ons</HI> I&s;land lived &s;ome few Planters more, the&s;e per&s;ons were the fir&s;t Planters of tho&s;e parts, having &s;ome &s;mall Trading with the <HI>Indians</HI> for <HI>Beaver-</HI>Skins, which moved them to make their aboade in tho&s;e parts, whom the&s;e fir&s;t Troopes of <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> Army, found as fit helpes to further their worke. At their arrivall tho&s;e &s;mall number of Chri&s;tians ga|thered at <HI>Salem,</HI> greatly rejoycing and the more, becau&s;e they &s;aw &s;o many that came chiefly for promoting the great Work of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> in hand, the Lady <HI>Arrabella</HI> and &s;ome other godly Women aboad at <HI>Salem,</HI> but their Husbands continued at <HI>Charles</HI> Town, both for the &s;ettling the civill Government, and gathering another Church of <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI> The fir&s;t Court was holden aboard the <HI>Arrabella</HI> the 23. of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> When the much honoured <HI>John Wintrope</HI> E&s;q. was cho&s;en Governour for the remainder of that yeare, 1630. Al&s;o the worthy <HI>Thomus Dudly</HI> E&s;q. was cho&s;en Deputy Governour, and Mr. <HI>Simon Brode&s;treet</HI> Secretary, the people after their long Voyage were many of them troubled
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with the <HI>Scurvy,</HI> and &s;ome of them died: the fir&s;t &s;tation they tooke up was at <HI>Charles</HI> Towne, where they pitched &s;ome Tents of Cloath, other built them &s;mall Huts, in which they lodged their Wifes and Children. The fir&s;t beginning of this worke &s;eemed very dolorous; Fir&s;t for the death of that worthy per|&s;onage <HI>Izaac John&s;on</HI> E&s;q. whom the Lord had indued with ma|ny pretious gifts, in&s;omuch that he was had in high e&s;teeme among all the people of God, and as a chiefe Pillar to &s;upport this new erected building, He very much rejoyced at his death, that the Lord had been plea&s;ed to keepe his eyes open &s;o long, as to &s;ee one Church of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> gathered before his death, at who&s;e depar|ture there was not onely many weeping eyes, but &s;ome fainting hearts, fearing the fall of the pre&s;ent worke. For future Remem|brance of him mind this <HI>Meeter.</HI></P>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>Izaac John&s;on</HI> E&s;quire, beloved of Chri&s;t and his people, and one of the Magi&s;trates of <HI>New England.</HI></HEAD>
<L><HI>WHat mov'd thee on the Seas upon &s;uch toyle with Lady. taking;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Christs drawing love all &s;trength's above, when way for his hee's making.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t will have thee example be, honoured with's graces, yeilding</HI></L>
<L><HI>His Churches aid, foundation laid, now new one Chri&s;t a building.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Faith, Hope, Love, Joy, Meekne&s;&s;e prove improved for thy Lord,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As he to thee, to people be, in Government accord.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Oh! people why, doth Chri&s;t deny this worthies life to lengthen?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t onely tru&s;t,</HI> John&s;ons <HI>turnd du&s;t, and yet hee's crownd and &s;trengthend.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>The griefe of this people was further increa&s;ed by the &s;ore &s;ickne&s;&s;e which befell among them, &s;o that almo&s;t in every Fa|mily Lamentation, Mourning, and woe was heard, and no fre&s;h food to be had to cheri&s;h them, it would a&s;&s;uredly have moved the mo&s;t lockt up affections to Teares no doubt, had they pa&s;t from one Hut to another, and beheld the p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">teous ca&s;e the&s;e people were in, and that which added to their pre&s;ent di&s;tre&s;&s;e was the want of fre&s;h water, for although the place did afford
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plenty, yet for pre&s;ent they could finde but one Spring, and that not to be come at, but when the tide was downe, which cau&s;ed many to pa&s;&s;e over to the South-&s;ide of the River, where they afterward erected &s;ome other Townes, yet mo&s;t admirable it was to &s;ee with what Chri&s;tian courage many of the&s;e Souldiers of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> carried it amid&s;t all the&s;e calamities, and in <HI>October,</HI> the Governour Deputy and A&s;&s;i&s;tants, held their &s;econd Court on the South-&s;ide of the River; Where they then began to build, holding corre&s;pondency with <HI>Charles</HI> Towne, as one and the &s;ame.</P>
<P>At this Court many of the fir&s;t Planters came, and were made free, yet afterward none were admitted to this fellow&s;hip, or freedome, but &s;uch as were fir&s;t joyned in fellow&s;hip with &s;ome one of the Churches of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> their chiefe&s;t aime being bent to promote his worke altogether. The number of Free|men this yeare was 110. or thereabout.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XVIII. <HI>Of the &s;econd Church of Christ, gathered at</HI> Charles <HI>Towne in the</HI> Mattacu&s;ets <HI>Bay,</HI> 1631.</HEAD>
<P>AND now the new-come Souldiers of <HI>Christ</HI> &s;trengthen them&s;elves in him, and gather a Church at <HI>Charles</HI> Towne, who&s;e extent at pre&s;ent did reach to both &s;ides of the River, and in very little time after was divided into two Churches, the Reverend and judicious Mr. <HI>John Wil&s;on</HI> was called to be Pa&s;tor thereof, a Man full of Faith, Courage and Zeale, for the truth of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> per&s;ecuted, and hunted after by the u&s;urping Prelates (and forced for pre&s;ent to part from his indeared Wife) yee honoured by <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and made a powerfull in&s;trument in his hands for the cutting downe of Error, and Schi&s;me, as in the &s;equell of this Hi&s;tory will appeare, in who&s;e weakene&s;&s;e <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> power hath appeared.</P>
<LG>
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<HEAD>The Grave and Reverend Mr. <HI>John Wil&s;on,</HI> now Pa&s;tor of the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>So&s;ton,</HI> in <HI>New England.</HI></HEAD>
<L>JOhn VVil&s;on <HI>will to Chri&s;ts will &s;ubmit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In Wilderne&s;&s;e, where thou ha&s;t Trialls found,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t in new making did compo&s;e thee fit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And made thy Love zeale, for his truth abound.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then it's not</HI> Wil&s;on, <HI>but Christ by him hath,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Error cut down when it o'retopping &s;tood,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou then 'Gain&s;t it did&s;t &s;hew an holy wrath;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Saving mens &s;oules from this o're-flowing floud.</HI></L>
<L><HI>They thee deprave, thy Mini&s;trey dispi&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>By thy thick utterance &s;eeke to call Men back,</HI></L>
<L><HI>From hearing thee, but Christ for thee did ri&s;e.</HI></L>
<L><HI>And turnd the wheel-right over them to crack.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yea, cau&s;ed thee with length of dayes to &s;tand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Steadfa&s;t in's hou&s;e in old Age fruit to bring,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I and thy &s;eed rai&s;e up by his comman<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc;</HI></L>
<L><HI>His Flock to feed, rejoyce my Mu&s;e and &s;ing.</HI></L>
<L><HI>That Chri&s;t doth, dust regard &s;o plentiou&s;ly,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rich gifts to give, and heart to give him his,</HI></L>
<L><HI>E&s;tate and per&s;on thou &s;pends liberally;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t thee, and thine will Crown with la&s;ting Bli&s;&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>This, as the other Churches of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> began with a &s;mall num|ber in a de&s;olate and barren Wilderne&s;&s;e, which the Lord in his wonderfull mercy hath turned to fruitfull Fields. VVherefore behold the pre&s;ent condition of the&s;e Churches compared with their beginnings; as they &s;owed in teares, &s;o al&s;o have they Reap|ed in joy, and &s;hall &s;till &s;o go on if plenty and liberty marre not their pro&s;perity. This Towne of <HI>Charles</HI> is &s;ituated one the North-&s;ide of <HI>Charles</HI> River, from whence it tooke its Name, the River being about five or &s;ix fathom deepe; Over again&s;t the Town many &s;mall I&s;lands lieing to the Seaward of it, and Hills one either &s;ide. By which meanes it proves a very good harbor for Ships, which hath cau&s;ed many Sea-men and Merchants to
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&s;it downe there, the forme of this Towne in the frontice piece thereof, is like the Head, Neck and Shoulders of a Men, onely the plea&s;ant, and Navigable River of <HI>Mi&s;tick</HI> runs through the right &s;houlder thereof, and by its neare approach to <HI>Charles</HI> River in one place makes a very narrow neck, by which meanes the chiefe part of the Towne, whereon the mo&s;t building &s;tands, becomes a Penin&s;ula: it hath a large Market-place neer the wa|ter &s;ide built round with Hou&s;es, comly and faire, forth of which there i&s;&s;ues two &s;treetes orderly built with &s;ome very faire Hou&s;es, beautified with plea&s;ant Gardens and Orchards, the whole Towne con&s;i&s;ts in its extent of about 150. dwelling Hou&s;es. Their meeting hou&s;e for Sabbath a&s;&s;embly &s;tands in the Market-place, very comly built and large, the Officers of this Church are at this day one Pa&s;tor, and one Teacher, one Ruling Elder, and three Deacons, the number of Soules are about 160. wonderfull it is to &s;ee that in &s;o &s;hort a time &s;uch great alterati|ons <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> &s;hould worke for the&s;e poore people of his: their Corne Land in Tillage in this Towne is about 1200. Acres, their great Cattell are about 400. head, Sheepe neare upon 400. as for their hor&s;e you &s;hall hear of them, God willing, when we come to &s;peak of their Military Di&s;cipline.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XIX. <HI>Of the Third Church of Chri&s;t gathered at</HI> Dorche&s;ter, 1631.</HEAD>
<P>THe third Church of <HI>Christ</HI> gathered under this Government was at <HI>Dorche&s;ter,</HI> a frontire Town &s;cituated very plea&s;ant|ly both for facing the Sea, and al&s;o its large extent into the main Land, well watered with two &s;mall Rivers; neere about this Towne inhabited &s;ome few ancient Traders, who were not of this &s;elect band, but came for other ends, as <HI>Morton</HI> of <HI>Merry|mount,</HI> who would faine have re&s;i&s;ted this worke, but the pro|vident hand of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> prevented. The forme of this Towne is almo&s;t like a Serpent turning her head to the North ward; over again&s;t <HI>Tomp&s;ons</HI> I&s;land, and the Ca&s;tle, her body and wings being chiefly built on, are filled &s;omewhat thick of Hou&s;es, onely
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that one of her Wings is clipt, her Tayle being of &s;uch a large ex|tent that &s;hee can hardly draw it after her; Her Hou&s;es for dwelling are about one hundred and forty, Orchards and Gar|dens full of Fruit-trees, plenty of Corne-Land, although much of it hath been long in tillage, yet hath it ordinarily good corps, the number or Trees are neare upon 1500. Cowes, and other Cattell of that kinde about 450. Thus hath the Lord been plea&s;|ed to increa&s;e his poore di&s;per&s;ed people, who&s;e number in this Flock are neare about 150. their fir&s;t Pa&s;tor called to feede them was the Reverend, and godly Mr. <HI>Maveruck.</HI></P>
<Q><L>MAveruck <HI>thou mu&s;t put period to thy dayes,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. <HI>Wareham</HI> and other of their Teaching Elders, you &s;hall reade of when the <HI>Can|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">o</HI> is plant|ed.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>In Wilderne&s;&s;e thy Kindred thee provoke</HI></L>
<L><HI>To come, but Christ doth thee for high ends Rai&s;e;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Among&s;t his worthies to &s;trike many a &s;troke.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy godly Life, and Doctrine speake, though thou</HI></L>
<L><HI>In du&s;t art laid, yet Christ by thee did feede</HI></L>
<L><HI>His &s;cattered Lambes, they gathered are by you;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Christ calls thee home, but flock he leaves to &s;eede.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CAHP. XX. <HI>Of the Fourth Church of Chri&s;t gathered at</HI> Bo&s;ten, 1631.</HEAD>
<P>AFter &s;ome little &s;pace of time the Church of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> at <HI>Charles</HI> Town, having their Sabbath a&s;&s;emblies oftene&s;t o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the South &s;ide of the River, agreed to leave the people on that &s;ide to them&s;elves, and to provide another Pa&s;tor for <HI>Charles</HI> Towne, which accordingly they did. So that the fourth Church of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> i&s;&s;ued out of <HI>Charles</HI> Towne, and was &s;eated at <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> being the Center Towne and Metropolis of this Wilderne&s;&s;e worke (but you mu&s;t not imagine it to be a Metropolitan Church) invironed it is with the <HI>Brini&s;h</HI> flouds, &s;aving one &s;mall I&s;tmos, which gives free acce&s;&s;e to the Neighbour Townes; by Land on the South &s;ide, on the North-we&s;t, and North Ea&s;t, two con&s;tant Faires are kept for daily traffique thereunto, the forme of this Towne is like a heart, naturally &s;cituated for For|tifications, having two Hills on the frontice part thereof next
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the Sea, the one well fortified on the &s;uperfices thereof, with &s;tore of great Artillery well mounted, the other hath a very &s;trong battery built of whole Timber, and filled with Earth, at the de|&s;cent of the Hill in the extreme poynt therof betwixt the&s;e two &s;trong armes lies a large Gave or Bay, on which the chiefe&s;t part of this Town is built, over-topped with a third Hill, all three like over-topping Towers keepe a con&s;tant watch to fore-&s;ee the approach of forrein dangers, being furni&s;hed with a Beacon and lowd babling Guns, to give notice by their redoubled eccho to all their Si&s;ter townes, the chiefe Edifice of this City-like Towne i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> crowded on the Sea-b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">kes, and wharfed out with great indu|&s;try and co&s;t, the buildings beautifull and large, &s;ome fairely &s;ee forth with Brick, Tile, Stone and Slate, and orderly placed with comly &s;treets, who&s;e continuall inlargement pre&s;ages &s;ome &s;ump|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uous City. The wonder of this moderne Age, that a few yeares &s;hould bring forth &s;uch great matters by &s;o means a handfull, and they &s;o far from being inriched by the &s;poiles of other Nations, that the &s;tates of many of them have beene &s;poiled by the Lord|ly Prelacy, who&s;e Lands mu&s;t a&s;&s;uredly make Re&s;titutions. But now behold the admirable Acts of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> at this his peoples landing, the hideous Thickets in this place were &s;uch, that Wolfes and Beares nur&s;t up their young from the eyes of all beholders, in tho&s;e very places where the &s;treets are full of Girles and Boys &s;porting up and downe, with a continued concour&s;e of people. Good &s;tore of Shipping is here yearly built, and &s;ome very faire ones: both Ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Ma&s;tes the Countrey affords from its own &s;oile; al&s;o &s;tore of Victuall both for their owne and Forreiners|&s;hips, who re&s;ort hither for that end: this Town is the very Mart of the Land, <HI>French, Portugalls</HI> and <HI>Dutch,</HI> come hither for Traf|fique.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXI. <HI>Of the Fift Church of Chri&s;t, gathered at</HI> Roxbury, 1631.</HEAD>
<P>THe fift Church of <HI>Christ</HI> was gathered at <HI>Roxbury,</HI> &s;cituated between <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> and <HI>Dorche&s;ter,</HI> being well watered with coole and plea&s;ant Springs i&s;&s;uing forth the Rocky-hills, and with
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&s;mall Fre&s;hets, watering the Vallies of this fertill Towne, who&s;e forme is &s;omewhat like a wedge double pointed, entring be|tweene the two foure-named Townes, filled with a very labori|ous people, who&s;e labours the Lord hath &s;o ble&s;t, that in the roome of di&s;mall Swampes and tearing Bu&s;hes, they have very goodly Fruit-trees, fruitfull Fields and Gardens, their Heard of Cowes, Oxen and other young Cattell of that kind about 350. and dwelling-hou&s;es neere upon 120. Their &s;treetes are large, and &s;ome fayre Hou&s;es, yet have they built their Hou&s;e for Church-a&s;&s;embly, de&s;titute and unbeautified with other buildings. The Church of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> here is increa&s;ed to about 120. per&s;ons, their fir&s;t Teaching <HI>Elder</HI> called to Office is Mr. <HI>Eliot</HI> a yong man, at his comming thither of a cheerfull &s;pirie, walking unblame|able, of a godly conver&s;ation, apt to teach, as by his indefatigable paines both with his own flock, and the poore <HI>Indians</HI> doth appeare, who&s;e Language he learned purpo&s;ely to helpe them to the knowledge of God in <HI>Christ,</HI> frequently Preaching in their <HI>Wigwams,</HI> and Catechizing their Children.</P>
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<HEAD>Mr. <HI>Eliot</HI> Pa&s;tor of the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Roxbury,</HI> in <HI>New England,</HI> much honoured for his labours in the Lord.</HEAD>
<L><HI>GReat is thy worke in Wilderne&s;&s;e, Oh man,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Young</HI> Eliot <HI>neere twenty yeares thou bast,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In We&s;terne world with miccle toile thy &s;pan</HI></L>
<L><HI>Spent well-neere out, and now thy gray hayrs grace&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Are by thy Land-Lord Chri&s;t, who makes u&s;e of thee</HI></L>
<L><HI>To feede his flock, and heathen people teach</HI></L>
<L><HI>In their own Language, God and Chri&s;t to &s;ee;</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Saviour their blind hearts could not reach,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Poore naked Children come to learne Gods Mind</HI></L>
<L><HI>Before thy face with reverend regard;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ble&s;&s;e God for thee may the&s;e poore heathen blind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That from thy mouth Chri&s;ts Gospell &s;weete have heard.</HI></L>
<L>Eliot <HI>thy Name is, through the wild woods &s;pread,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In</HI> Indians <HI>mouths frequent's thy fame, for why?</HI></L>
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<HI>In &s;undry &s;hapes the Devills made them dread;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And now the Lord makes them their</HI> Wigwams <HI>fly,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rejoyce in this, nay rather joy that thou,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Amongst Christs Souldiers bast thy name &s;ure &s;et.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Although &s;mall gaine on Earth accrew to you,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet Chri&s;t to Crowne will thee to Heaven &s;oone fet.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXII.</HEAD>
<HEAD><HI>Of the Sixth Church of Christ, gathered at</HI> Linn. 1631.</HEAD>
<P>THe Sixth Church of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> was gathered at <HI>Linn,</HI> betweene <HI>Salem</HI> and <HI>Charles</HI> Towne, her &s;citnation is neere to a River, who&s;e &s;trong fre&s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> at breaking up of Winter filleth all her Bankes, and with a furious <HI>Torrent</HI> ventes it &s;elfe into the Sea; This Towne is furni&s;hed with Mineralls of divers kinds, e&s;pe|cially Iron and Lead, the forme of it is almo&s;t &s;quare, onely it takes two large a run into the Land ward (as mo&s;t Townes do) it is filled with about one hundred Hou&s;es for dwelling; Here is al&s;o an Iron Mill in con&s;tant u&s;e, but as for Lead they have tried but little yet. Their meeting-hou&s;e being on a levell Land undefended from the cold North we&s;t-wind; And therefore made with &s;teps de&s;cending into the Earth, their &s;treetes are &s;traite and comly, yet but thin of Hou&s;es, the people mo&s;tly in|clining to Husbandry, have built many Farmes Remote there, Cattell exceedingly multiplied, Goates which were in great e|&s;teeme at their fir&s;t comming, are now almo&s;t quite bani&s;hed, and now Hor&s;e, Kine and Sheep are mo&s;t in reque&s;t with them, the fir&s;t feeder of this flock of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> was Mr. <HI>Stephen Batchelor,</HI> gray and aged, of whom as followeth:</P>
<Q><L><HI>THrough Ocean large Chri&s;t brought thee for to feede,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His wandering flock with's word thou ha&s;t oft taught,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then teach thy &s;elfe with others thou hast need;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy flowing fame unto low ebbe is brought&punc;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Faith and Obedience Chri&s;t full near hath joyn'd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then trust on Chri&s;t, and thou againe may&s;t be</HI></L>
<L><HI>Brought on thy race though now far ca&s;t behinde,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Run to the end, and crowned thou &s;halt be.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXIII. <HI>Of the &s;eventh Church of Chri&s;t gathered at</HI> Water-Towne, 1631.</HEAD>
<P>THe Seaventh Church of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> gathered out of this wander|ing Race of <HI>Jaccobites</HI> was at <HI>Water-Towne,</HI> &s;cituate upon one of the Branches of <HI>Charles</HI> River, a fruitfull plat, and of large extent, watered with many plea&s;ant Springs, and &s;mall Rivulets, running like veines throughout her Body, which hath cau&s;ed her inhabitants to &s;catter in &s;uch manner, that their Sabbath-A&s;&s;em|blies prove very thin, if the &s;ea&s;on favour not, and hath made this great Towne (con&s;i&s;ting of 160. Families) to &s;hew nothing de|lightfull to the eye in any place; this Towne began by occa&s;ion of Sir <HI>Richard Saltingstall,</HI> who at his arrivall, having &s;ome &s;tore of Cattell and &s;ervants, they wintered in tho&s;e parts: this Town aboundes in &s;everall &s;orts of Fi&s;h at their &s;ea&s;ons, Ba&s;&s;e, Shad, Alewifes, Fro&s;t fi&s;h, and Smelts: their herd of Kine, and Cat|tell of that kinde are about 450. with &s;ome &s;tore of Sheepe and Goates, their Land in tillage is neere upon 1800. Acres, this Church is increa&s;ed to neer about 250. &s;oules in Church-fellow|&s;hip, their fir&s;t Pa&s;tor was Mr. <HI>Phillips,</HI> a man mighty in the Scrip|tures, and very dilligent to &s;earch out the minde of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> therein contained, of whom as followeth:</P>
<Q><L><HI>THe pennury of Wilderne&s;&s;e &s;hall not</HI></L>
<L><HI>Daunt</HI> Phillips, <HI>and di&s;wade his undertaking</HI></L>
<L><HI>This Voyage long: for Chri&s;t hath made him hot</HI></L>
<L><HI>With zeal for's truth, thy native &s;oile for&s;aken</HI></L>
<L><HI>To follow Chri&s;t his banni&s;ht flock to feede,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With re&s;tle&s;&s;e toile thus honour'd Christ hath thee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then it maintaine though thou thy people neede;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t would thou &s;hould&s;t of them aye honoured be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Till death thou ha&s;t been &s;ouldier in this War,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Darke types the &s;haddowes of good things now come,</HI></L>
<L><HI>By thee have been unfoulded very far;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cleer'd baptimes light from error broch'd by &s;ome.</HI></L>
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<HI>As by thy worke in Print appeares this day,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Though thou thy days ha&s;t ended on this Earth,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet &s;till thou live&s;t in Name and Fame alway;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t thee poore dust doth crowne with la&s;ting Mirth.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXIV. <HI>Of the great cheerefulne&s;&s;e of their Souldiers of Christ, in and under the penuries of a Wilderne&s;&s;e.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e were the beginnings of the&s;e re&s;olute Souldiers of <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us</HI> in the yeare, 1631. Even to lay the Foundati|on of their &s;everall Churches of <HI>Christ,</HI> built onely on him as their chiefe Corner Stone. But as his cho&s;en <HI>I&s;rael</HI> met with many difficulties after their returne from Captivity, in building the Temple and City, which they valiantly waded through; So the&s;e weake wormes (Oh Chri&s;t to thy prai&s;e be it &s;poken) were mo&s;t wonderfully holpen in &s;uch di&s;tre&s;&s;es, as to appear|ance of man &s;eemed to be both hopele&s;&s;e, and helple&s;&s;e, threat|ning de&s;truction to the whole building and far from accompli&s;h|ing &s;uch great things as you have in part &s;eene already, and &s;hall in the following di&s;cour&s;e (God willing) &s;ee more abundantly, adding a &s;trong te&s;timony to the work, that as it was begun by <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> &s;o hath it beene carried on by him, and &s;hall to the ad|miration of the whole World be perfected in his time, and un|le&s;&s;e men will be wilfully blinde, they mu&s;t needs &s;ee and con|fe&s;&s;e the &s;ame, and that the influence thereof hath already run from one end of the Earth unto the other.</P>
<P>This yeare 1631. <HI>John Winthrop</HI> E&s;q. was cho&s;en Governour, pickt out for the worke, by the provident hand of the mo&s;t high, and inabled with gifts accordingly, then all the folke of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> who have &s;eene his face and beene partaker of the &s;ame, remem|ber him in this following Matter.</P>
<LG>
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<HEAD><HI>Iohn Winthrope</HI> E&s;q. Eleven times Governour of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, inhabiting the <HI>Mattacu&s;ets</HI> Bay in <HI>New England.</HI></HEAD>
<L><HI>WHy leave&s;t thou</HI> John, <HI>thy &s;tation, in</HI> Suffolk, <HI>thy own &s;oile,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t will have thee a pillar be, for's people thors mu&s;t toyle,</HI></L>
<L><HI>He chang'd thy heart, the~ take his part,' gain&s;t prelates proud invading</HI></L>
<L><HI>(His Kingly throne) &s;et up alone, in wilderne&s;&s;e their &s;hading.</HI></L>
<L><HI>His little flocks from Prelates knocks, twice ten years rut'd thou ha&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With civill &s;word at Christs word, and eleven times been trast.</HI></L>
<L><HI>By Name and Note, with peoples vote, their Governour to be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy means ha&s;t &s;pent, 'twas therefore lent, to rai&s;e this work by thee.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Well arm'd and &s;trong with &s;word among, Chri&s;t armies warcheth he.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Doth valiant prai&s;e, and weak one rai&s;e, with kind benignity.</HI></L>
<L><HI>To lead the Van,' gainst</HI> Babylon, <HI>doth worthy</HI> Winthrop <HI>call,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Progeny, &s;hall Battell try, When Prelacy &s;hall fall.</HI></L>
<L><HI>With fluent Tongue thy Pen doth run, in learned Latine phra&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To Sweads, French, Dutch, thy Neighbours, which thy lady rhetorick prai&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy bounty feeds, Chri&s;ts &s;ervants needs, in wilderne&s;s of wants</HI></L>
<L><HI>To Indians thou Chri&s;ts Gospell now, 'mongst heathen people plants.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet thou poore du&s;t, now dead and mu&s;t, to rottenne&s;&s;e be brought,</HI></L>
<L><HI>T'ill Chri&s;t re&s;tore thee glorious, more then can of du&s;t be thought.</HI></L>
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<P>The much honoured <HI>Thomas Dudly</HI> E&s;quire was cho&s;en Deputy Governour, and the number of Free-men added was about 83. Tho&s;e honoured per&s;ons who were now in place of Government, having the propagation of the Churches of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> in their eye laboured by all meanes to make roome for Inhabitants, know|ing well that where the dead carka&s;s is, thither will the Eagles re&s;ort. But herein they were much oppo&s;ed by certaine per&s;ons, who&s;e greedy de&s;ire for land much hindered the worke for a time, as indeed all &s;uch per&s;ons do at this very day, and let &s;uch take notice how the&s;e were cured of this di&s;temper, &s;ome were taken away by death, and then to be &s;ure they had Land enough, others fearing poverty, and fami&s;hment, &s;uppo&s;ing the pre&s;ent &s;carcity would never be turned into plenty, removed them|&s;elves away, and &s;o never beheld the great good the Lord hath
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done for his people, but the valiant of the Lord waited with pa|gience, and in the mi&s;&s;e of beere &s;upp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">led them&s;elves with water, even the mo&s;t honoured as well as others, contentedly rejoyeing in a Cup of cold water, ble&s;&s;ing the Lord that had given them the ta&s;te of that living water, and that they had not the water that &s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ckes the thri&s;t of their naturall bodies, given them by mea&s;ure, but might drinke to the full; as al&s;o in the ab&s;ence of Bread they fea&s;ted them&s;elves with fi&s;h, the Women once a day, as the eide gave way, re&s;orted to the Mu&s;&s;ells, and Clambankes, which are a Fi&s;h as big as Hor&s;e-mu&s;&s;ells, where they dai'y ga|thered their Families food with much heavenly di&s;cour&s;e of the provi&s;ions <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> had formerly made for many thou&s;ands of his followers in the wilderne&s;&s;e. Quoth one, my Husband hath tra|vailed as far as <HI>Plimoth</HI> (which is neere 40 miles,) and hath with great toile brought a little Corne home with him, and before that is &s;pent the Lord will a&s;&s;uredly provide: quoth the other, our la&s;t peck of Meaie it now in the Oven at home a baking, and ma|ny of our godly Neighbours have quite &s;pent all, and wee owe one Loafe of that little wee have; Then &s;pake a third, my husband hath veatured him&s;elfe among the <HI>Indians</HI> for Corne, and can get none, as al&s;o our honoured Governour hath di&s;tributed his &s;o far, that a day or two more will put an end to his &s;tore, and all the re&s;t, and yet methinks our Children are as cheerefull, fat, and lu&s;ty with feeding upon tho&s;e Mu&s;&s;ells, Clambanks and other Fi&s;h as they were in <HI>England,</HI> with their fill of Bread, which makes mee cheerfull in the Lords providing for us, being further confirmed by the exhoreation of our Pa&s;tor to tru&s;t the Lord with providing for us; who&s;e is the Earth and the fulne&s;&s;e there|of. And as they were incouraging one another in <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> carefull providing for them, they lift up their eyes and &s;aw two Ships comming in, and pre&s;ently this newes came to their Eares, that they were come from <HI>Jacland</HI> full of Victualls, now their poore heares were not &s;o much refre&s;hed in regard of the food they &s;aw they were like to have, as their &s;oules rejoyced in that <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> would now manife&s;t him&s;elfe to be the Commi&s;&s;ary Ge|nerall of this his Army, and that hee &s;hould honour them &s;o far as to be poore Sutlers for his Camp, they &s;oone up with their Mu&s;&s;ells, and hie them home to &s;tay their hungry &s;tomacks.
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After this manner did <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> many times graciou&s;ly provide for this his people, even at the la&s;t ca&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXV. <HI>Of the Lords gracious protection of his people, from the barbarous cruelties of the Heathen.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ABout this time the <HI>Indians</HI> that were mo&s;t conver&s;ant s|mong them, came quaking and complaining of a barbarous and cruell people called the <HI>Tarratines,</HI> who they &s;aid would eat &s;uch Men as they caught alive, tying them to a Tree, and gnaw|ing their fle&s;h by peece-meales off their Bones, as al&s;o that they were a &s;trong and numerous people, and now comming, which made them flee to the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> who were but very few in num|ber at this time, and could make but little re&s;i&s;tance, being much di&s;per&s;ed, yet did they keepe a con&s;tant watch, neglecting no meanes <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> had put into their hands for their owne &s;afety, in &s;o much that they were exceedingly weaked with continued la|bour, watching and hard diet, but the Lord graciou&s;ly upheld them in all, for thus it befell neere the Towne of <HI>Linn,</HI> then cal|led <HI>Saugu&s;t,</HI> in the very dead of the night (being upon their watch, becau&s;e of the report that went of the <HI>Indians</HI> approach to tho&s;e parts) one Lieurenant <HI>Walker,</HI> a man indued with faith, and of a couragious &s;pirit, comming to relieve the Centinell be|ing come up with him, all of a &s;udden they heard the Sticks crack hard by them, &amp; with all he felt &s;omething b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;h hard upon his &s;houlder, which was an <HI>Indian</HI> arrow &s;hot through his Coat, and the wing of his buffe-Jacket. Upon this hee di&s;charged his Culliver directly toward the place, where they heard the noi&s;e, which being deep'y loden brake in pieces, then they returned to the Court of Guard, and rai&s;ed &s;uch &s;mall forces as they had; comming to the light they perceived he had an other Arrow &s;hot through his Coat betwixt his Legs. Seeing this great pre|&s;ertation they &s;tood upon their Guard till Morning, expecting the <HI>Indians</HI> to come upon them every moment, but when day|light appeared, they &s;oone &s;ent word to other parts, who ga|thered together, and tooke coun&s;ell how to quit them&s;elves of
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the&s;e <HI>Indians,</HI> who&s;e approach they demed would be &s;udden, they ugreed to di&s;charge their great Guns, the redoubling eccho rattling in the Rocks cau&s;ed the <HI>Indians</HI> to betake them&s;elves to &s;light (being a terrible unwonted &s;ound unto them) or rather he who put &s;uch trembling feare in the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians</HI> Army, &s;truck the like in the&s;e cruell <HI>Canniballs.</HI> In the <HI>Autumne</HI> following, the <HI>Indians,</HI> who had all this time held good corre&s;pondency with the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> began to quarrell with them about their bounds of Land, notwith&s;tanding they purcha&s;ed all they had of them, but the Lord put an end to this quarrell al&s;o, by &s;miting the <HI>Indians</HI> with a &s;ore D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ea&s;e, even the &s;mll Pox; of the which great numbers of them died, yet the&s;e &s;ervants of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> minding their Ma&s;ters bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, were much moved in affection toward them to &s;ee them depart this life without the knowledge of God in Chri&s;t. And therefore were very frequent among them for all the noy&s;ome|ne&s;&s;e of their Di&s;ea&s;e, entring their <HI>Wigwams,</HI> and exhorting them in the Name of the Lord. Among others one of the chiefe <HI>Saggamores</HI> of the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets,</HI> whom the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> named <HI>Saggemore John,</HI> gave &s;ome good hopes, being alwayes very cour|teous to them, whom the godly, and much honour'd among the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> vi&s;iting a little before his death, they in&s;tructing him in the knowledge of God. Qaoth hee by and by mee Mattamoy may be my two Sons live, you take them to teach much to know God.</P>
<P>Accordingly the honoured Mr. <HI>John Winthrop,</HI> and the Reve|rend Mr. <HI>John Wil&s;on</HI> tooke them home, notwith&s;tanding the in|fectiou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the Di&s;ea&s;e their Father died of. The mortality among them was very great, and increa&s;ed among them daily more and more, in&s;omuch that the poore Creatures being very timorous of death, would faine have fled from it, but could not tell how, unle&s;&s;e they could have gone from them&s;elves; Re|lations were little regarded among them at this time, &s;o that many, who were &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">it<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">en with the Di&s;ea&s;e died helple&s;&s;e, un|le&s;&s;e they were neare, and known to the <HI>Engli&s;h:</HI> their <HI>Pow|wowes,</HI> Wizards, and Charmers, <HI>Athamochas</HI> Factors were po&s;&s;e&s;t with greate&s;t feare of any. The Winters piercing cold &s;tayed not the &s;trength of this hot Di&s;ea&s;e, yet the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> endeavouring to vi&s;it their &s;ick <HI>Wigwams,</HI> helpe them all they could, but as
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they entred one of their matted Hou&s;es, they beheld a mo&s;t &s;ad &s;pectacle, death having &s;mitten them all &s;ave one poore Infant, which lay on the ground &s;ucking the Brea&s;t of its dead Mother, &s;eeking to draw living nouri&s;hment from her dead brea&s;t. Their dead they left oft-times unburied, wherefore the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> were forced to dig holes, and drag their &s;tinking corps into them. Thus did the Lord allay their quarrel&s;ome &s;pirits, and made roome for the following part of his Army. This yeare came over more &s;upplies to forward the worke of Chri&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXVI. <HI>Of the gratious provi&s;ions the Lord made for his people.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe yeare 1632. <HI>John Winthrope</HI> E&s;quire, was cho&s;en Go|vernour againe, and the antient <HI>Thomas Dudly</HI> E&s;quire, was Deputy Governour, a man of a &s;ound judgement in matters of Religion and well read, be&s;towing much labour that way, of whom as followeth:</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The honoured, aged, &s;table and &s;incere &s;ervant of Chri&s;t, zealous for his truth</HI> Thomas Dudly, <HI>E&s;q. foure times Governour of the</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Nation, in the</HI> Mattacu&s;ets, <HI>and fir&s;t Major Generall of the Millitary Forces.</HI></HEAD>
<L><HI>WHat</HI> Thomas <HI>now believe do&s;t thou that riches men may gaine,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In this poore Plot Chri&s;t doth allot his people to &s;u&s;taine;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rich Truth thou'lt buy and &s;ell not, why no richer Jem can be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Truths Champion in campion, Christ's grace hath placed thee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With civill Sword, at Chri&s;ts Word early cut off wilt thou,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tho&s;e Wolvi&s;h &s;heep, among&s;t flocks do creep, and damned doctrine low&punc;</HI></L>
<L><HI>To trembling age, thou valiant &s;age, one foot wilt not give ground,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts Enemies from thy face flies, his truth thou &s;avest &s;ound.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy lengthened dayes, to Chri&s;ts prai&s;e, continued are by him:</HI></L>
<L><HI>To &s;et by thee his people free, from foes that raging bin.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Wearied with yeares, it plaine appeares,</HI> Dudly <HI>not long can la&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>It matters not, Christ Crown thee got, its now at hand, hold fa&s;t.</HI></L>
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This yeare was the fir&s;t choi&s;e of Migi&s;trates by free-men, who&s;e number was now increa&s;ed, fifty three or thereabout, to declare the manner of their Government is by the Author de|ferred till the year. 1637. where the Reader may behold Go|vernment both in Churches and Common-wealth, to be an in|&s;titution of the Lord, and much availeable through his ble&s;&s;ing for the accompl&s;hment of his promi&s;es to his people.</P>
<P>This year the&s;e fore-runners of the following Army of Chri&s;t, after the &s;ight of many of the admirable Acts of his providence for them, begun to take up &s;teddy re&s;olution through the helpe of him to wade through the Ocean, they were farther like to meete withall, and therefore began to plant the yet untilled Earth, having as yet no other meanes to teare up the bu&s;hy lands, but their hands and howes, their bodies being in very ill temper by rea&s;on of the Scurvy (a Di&s;ea&s;e in tho&s;e dayes very frequent) to undergoe &s;uch extremity, but being prick'd on with hungers &s;harpe gode, they keepe doing according to their weake abili|ties, and yet produce but little food for a long &s;ea&s;on, but being per&s;waded that Chri&s;t will rather raine bread from Heaven, then his people &s;hould want, being fully per&s;waded, they were &s;et on the worke at his command. Wherefore they followed on with all hands, and the Lord (who hath the Cattell of thou&s;and Hills, and the Corne of ten thou&s;and Vallies, the whole Earth, and fulne&s;&s;e of it) did now rai&s;e up fre&s;h &s;upplies to be added to the&s;e both of men and provi&s;ion of food, men no le&s;&s;e valiane in Faith then them, the former among&s;t whom was the Reverend Mr. <HI>Welds</HI> and Mr. <HI>James,</HI> who was welcomed by the people of Chri&s;t at <HI>Charles</HI> Towne, and by them called to the Office of a Pa&s;tor, where hee continued for &s;ome yeares, and from thence removed to <HI>New haven,</HI> upon &s;ome &s;eed of prejudice &s;owne by the enemies of this worke. But good Reader doe thou behold, and remember him farther in the following Liues;</P>
<Q><L><HI>THy Native &s;oile, Oh</HI> James <HI>did thee approve,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Gods people there in</HI> Lincolne&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e <HI>commend;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy courteous &s;peech and worke of Christian love,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Till Chri&s;t through Seas did thee on Me&s;&s;age &s;end.</HI></L>
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<HI>With learned skill his mind for to un&s;old,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His people in</HI> New England <HI>thou mu&s;t feed,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But one &s;ad breach did cut that band &s;hould hold;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then part wilt thou lea&s;t farther jars &s;hould breed.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet part thou wilt not with Chri&s;ts Truth, thy crowne</HI></L>
<L><HI>But my Mu&s;e waile that any &s;ouldier &s;hould,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In fighting &s;lip, why</HI> James <HI>thou falle&s;t not downe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Back thou retreats their valiant fighting, hold</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fa&s;t on thy Chri&s;t, who thine may rai&s;e with thee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His bands increa&s;e, when leaders he provides,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Son young &s;tudent may &s;uch ble&s;&s;ing be;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy lo&s;&s;e repayre, and Chri&s;t thee crown be&s;ides.</HI></L></Q>
<P>Although the great &s;traites this Wilderne&s;&s;e people were in for want of food, was heard of among the godly people in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> yet would they not decline the worke, but men of E&s;tates &s;old their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, and bought plenty of food for the Voyage, which &s;ome of them &s;ent before hand, by which meanes they were provided for, as al&s;o the Lord put it into the hearts of &s;uch as were Ma&s;ters, and Undertakers of Ships to &s;tore their Ve&s;&s;ells &s;o well that they had to &s;pare for this peoples need, and further Chri&s;t cau&s;ed abundance of very good Fi&s;h to come to their Nots and Hookes, and as for &s;uch as were unprovided with the&s;e meanes, they caught them with their hands, and &s;o with F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h, wild Onions and other Herbs were &s;weetly &s;atisfied till other provi&s;ions, came in, here mu&s;t labouring men a little be minded, how ill they recompenced tho&s;e per&s;ons, who&s;e e&s;tates helpe them to food before they could reape any from the Earth, that forgetting tho&s;e courte&s;ies they &s;oon by exce&s;&s;ive pri&s;es took for their worke, made many File-leaders fall back to the next Ranke, advancing them&s;elves in the meane time. About this time the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Roxbury,</HI> being a diligent people, early prevented their Brethren in other Churches by calling the Re|verend Mr. <HI>Welds</HI> to be their Pa&s;tor, of whom you may &s;ee &s;ome|what farther in the following lines:</P>
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<L><HI>TO worke oh</HI> Welds! <HI>in wilderne&s;&s;e betime</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t thee commands, that thou his folke &s;hould's follow:</HI></L>
<L><HI>And feede his flock in Covenant bandcombine,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With them through him his glorious name to hallow;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Seven yeares thou &s;toutly didst wade through with toile,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The&s;e de&s;are caros, back by advice againe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou didst returne unto thy native &s;oile,</HI></L>
<L><HI>There to advance Chri&s;ts Kingdome now remeine.</HI></L>
<L><HI>In Pulpit, and with Pen thou ha&s;t the truth</HI></L>
<L><HI>Maintained, and clear'd from &s;candalous reproach</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts churches here, and &s;hew'd their la&s;ting Ruth,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That dare 'gain&s;t Chri&s;t their own inventions broach;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then &s;age, in age, continue &s;uch to be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Till Chri&s;t thee crowne, his gifts to thee are free.</HI></L></Q>
<P>This yeare of &s;ad di&s;tre&s;&s;es was ended with a terrible cold Winter, with weekly Snowes, and fierce Fro&s;ts betweene while congealing <HI>Charles</HI> River, as well from the Towne to Sea ward, as above, in&s;omuch that men might frequently pa&s;&s;e from one I&s;land to another upon the Ice. Here Reader thou mu&s;t be min|ded of an other admirable Act of Chri&s;t for this yeare, in chang|ing the very nature of the &s;ea&s;ons, moderating the Winters cold of late very much, which &s;ome impute to the cutting downe the woods, and breaking up the Land; But Chri&s;t have the prai&s;e of all his glorious Acts. About this time did the valiant in faith, and Reverend Pa&s;tor Mr. <HI>John Wil&s;on</HI> returne to <HI>England,</HI> and &s;urely the power of Chri&s;t hath notably appeared in this weake &s;orry man. You mu&s;t needs &s;ee the Author will flatter no man, yet will he not be wanting to tell the noble Acts of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, in making men &s;trong for him&s;elfe, here is one borne up in the armes of his mercy, often through the perillous Seas night and dayes, yea: weeks and months upon the great deepe, and now having with his owne eyes beheld the manifold troubles the&s;e poore were in, yet at this very time hies him back to his Native &s;oile, where his indeared Wife did yet remaine, purpo&s;e|ly to per&s;wade her to ea&s;t her cares upon the Lord, as he him&s;elf had already done, and then a&s;&s;uredly the wants of a Wilderne&s;&s;e
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would never hurt her: at the departure of this holy Man of God, many of his peoples hearts waxed very &s;ad, and having looked long for his returne; Their eyes now began to faile in mi&s;&s;ing of their expectation, they according to their common cour&s;e in time of great &s;traites, &s;et and appointed a day wholy to be &s;pent in &s;eeking the plea&s;ing Face of God in Chri&s;t, purpo&s;ing the Lord a&s;&s;i&s;ting to afflict their &s;oules, and give him the honour of his All-&s;eeingne&s;s, by a downe right acknowledgement of their &s;innes, but the Lord, who&s;e Grace is alwayes unde&s;erved, heard them before they cried, and the afternoone before the day ap|pointed brought him, whom they &s;o much de&s;ired, in &s;afety to &s;hore, with divers other faithfull &s;ervants of Chri&s;t ready armed for the Battell, the day was turned to a day of rejoycing and ble&s;|&s;ing the Lord, even the mighty God of <HI>Iacob,</HI> the God of Armies is for us a refuge high <HI>Shela.</HI></P>
<P>The yeare 1633. the honoured <HI>John Winthrope</HI> E&s;quire, was cho&s;en Governour againe, and <HI>Thomas Dudly</HI> E&s;q. Deputy Go|vernour, the number of Freemen added, or Souldiers li&s;ted was 46. the Winters Fro&s;t being extracted forth the Earth, they fall to tearing up the Roots, and Bu&s;hes with their Howes; even &s;uch men as &s;carce ever &s;et hand to labour before, men of good birth and breeding, but comming through the &s;trength of Chri&s;t to war their warfare, readily ru&s;h through all difficulties, cutting down of the Woods, they inclo&s;e Corne fields, the Lord having mitigated their labours by the <HI>Indians</HI> frequent fiering of the woods, (that they may not be hindered in hunting Ven&s;on, and Beares in the Winter &s;ea&s;on) which makes them thin of Timber in many places, like our Parkes in <HI>England,</HI> the chiefe&s;t Corne they planted before they had Plowes was <HI>Indian</HI> Graine, who&s;e increa&s;e is very much beyond all other, to the great refre&s;hing of the poore &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, in their low begin|ings, all kinde of Gardens Fruits grew very well, and let no man make a j<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t at Pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was plea&s;ed to feed his people to their good content, till Corne and Cattell were increa&s;ed.</P>
<P>And here the Lords mercy appeared much in that tho&s;e, who had beene formerly brought up tender, could now contentedly feed on bare and meane Diet, among&s;t whom the Honoured
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and upright hearted in this worke of Chri&s;t, Mr. <HI>Increa&s;e Nowell,</HI> &s;hall not be forgotten, having a diligent hand therein from the fir&s;t beginning.</P>
<Q><L><HI>INcrea&s;e &s;halt thou, with honour now, in this thy undertaking,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou ha&s;t remain'd, as yet un&s;tained, all errors foule for&s;aking;</HI></L>
<L><HI>To poore and rich, thy Justice much hath manife&s;ted bin:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Like</HI> Samuel Nathanaell, Chri&s;t <HI>hath thee fram'd within;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy faithfulne&s;&s;e, people expre&s;&s;e, and Secretary they</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cho&s;e thee each year, by which appeare, their love with thee doth &s;tay.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Now</HI> Nowell <HI>&s;ee Chri&s;t call'd hath thee, and work thou mu&s;t for him,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In beating down the triple Crown, and all that his foes ben.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus doe&s;t thou &s;tand by Chri&s;t fraile man, to tell his might can make</HI></L>
<L><HI>Du&s;t do his will, with graces fill, till du&s;t to him he take.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXVII. <HI>Of the gratious goodne&s;&s;e of God, in hearing his peoples prayers in times of need, and of the Ship-loades of goods the Lord &s;ent them in.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HEre againe the admirable Providence of the Lord is to be noted, That whereas the Country is naturally &s;ubject to drought, even to the withering of their &s;ummers Fruits, the Lord was plea&s;ed, during the&s;e yeares of &s;carcity, to ble&s;&s;e that &s;mall quantity of Land they planted with &s;ea&s;onable &s;howers, and that many times to the great admiration of the Heathen, for thus it befell: the extreame parching heare of the Sun (by rea&s;on of a more con&s;tant clearne&s;&s;e of the Aire then u&s;ually is in <HI>England)</HI> began to &s;corch the Herbs and Fruits, which was the chiefe&s;t meanes of their livelyhood, they beholding the Hand of the Lord &s;tretched out again&s;t them, like tender hearted Children, they fell down on their knees, begging mercy of the Lord, for their Saviours &s;ake, urging this as a chiefe argument, that the malignant adver&s;ary would rejoyce in their de&s;truction, and bla&s;pheme the pure Ordinances of CHRIST, trampling down his Kingly Commands with their owne inventions, and in uttering the&s;e words, their eyes dropped down many teares,
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their affections prevailing &s;o &s;trong, that they could not refraine in the Church-A&s;&s;embly. Here admire and be &s;trong in the Grace of Chri&s;t, all you that hopefully belong unto him, for as they powred out water before the Lord, &s;o at that very in&s;tant, the Lord &s;howred down water on their Gardens and Fields, which with great indu&s;try they had planted, and now had not the Lord cau&s;ed it to raine &s;peedily, their hope of food had beene lo&s;t: but at this the&s;e poore wormes were &s;o exceedingly taken, that the Lord &s;hould &s;hew him&s;elfe &s;o neere unto their Prayers, that as the drops from Heaven fell thicker, and fa&s;ter, &s;o the teares from their eyes by rea&s;on of the &s;udden mixture of joy and &s;or|row, and verily they were exceedingly &s;tirred in their affections, being unable to re&s;olve them&s;elves, which mercy was greate&s;t, to have a humble begging heart given them of God, or to have their reque&s;t &s;o &s;uddenly an&s;wered.</P>
<P>The <HI>Indians</HI> hearing hereof, and &s;eeing the &s;weet raine that fell, were much taken with Engli&s;hmens God, but the Lord &s;eeing his poore peoples hearts were to narrow to beg, his bounties exceeds toward them at this time, as indeed hee ever hitherto hath done for this Wilderne&s;&s;e-People, not onely giving the full of their reque&s;ts, but beyond all their thoughts, as witne&s;&s;e his great worke in <HI>England</HI> of late, in which the prayers of Gods people in <HI>New England</HI> have had a great &s;troke; The&s;e people now ri&s;ing from their knees to receive the rich mercies of Chri&s;t, in the refre&s;hed fruits of the Earth; Behold the Sea al&s;o bring|ing in whole Ship-loades of mercies, more being filled with fre&s;h forces, for furthering this wonderfull worke of Chri&s;t, and indeed this yeare came in many pretious ones, whom Chri&s;t in his grace hath made much u&s;e of in the&s;e his Churches, and Com|mon-wealth, in&s;omuch that the&s;e people were even almo&s;t over-ballanced with the great income of their pre&s;ent po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed mercies, yet they addre&s;&s;e them&s;elves to the Sea &s;hore, where they courteou&s;ly welcom the famous &s;ervant of Chri&s;t, grave god|ly and judicious <HI>Hooker,</HI> and the honoured &s;ervant of Chri&s;t, M <HI>John Haynes,</HI> as al&s;o the Reverend and much de&s;ired Mr. <HI>John Cotton,</HI> and the Retoricall, M^r. <HI>Stone,</HI> with divers others of the &s;incere &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, comming with their young, and with their old, and with their whole &s;ub&s;tance, to doe him &s;ervice in
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this De&s;art wilderne&s;&s;e. Thus this poore people having now ta&s;t|ed liberally of the &s;alvation of the Lord every way, they deeme it high time to take up the Cup of thankfulne&s;&s;e, and pay their vowes to the mo&s;t high God, by whom they were holpen to this purpo&s;e of heart, and accordingly &s;et apart the 16. day of <HI>October</HI> (which they call the eighth Moneth, not out of any pe|vi&s;h humor of &s;ingularity, as &s;ome are ready to cen&s;or them with, but of purpo&s;e to prevent the Heatheni&s;h and Popi&s;h ob|&s;ervation of Dayes, Moneths and Yeares, that they may be for|gotten among the people of the Lord) this day was &s;olemnly kept by all the &s;even Churches, rejoycing in the Lord, and ren|dering thanks for all their benefits.</P>
<P>Here mu&s;t not be omitted the indeared affections Mr. <HI>John Wil&s;on</HI> had to the worke in hand, exceedingly &s;etting forth (in his Sermon this day) the Grace of Chri&s;t in providing &s;uch meet helps for furthering thereof, really e&s;teeming them beyond &s;o many Ship-loading of Gold; manife&s;ting the great humility Chri&s;t had wrought in him (not complementing, but in very deede prefering the Reverend Mr. <HI>John Cotton,</HI> many hundreds before him&s;elfe, whom they within a very little time after called to the Office of a Teaching Elder of the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Boston,</HI> where hee now remaines, of whom at followeth:</P>
<Q><L><HI>WHen Christ intends his glorious Kingdome &s;hall</HI></L>
<L><HI>Exalted be on Earth, he Earth doth take,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Evon &s;infull Man to make his worthies all;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then prai&s;e I Man, no Christ this Man doth make,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sage, &s;ober, grave and learned</HI> Cotten <HI>thou:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mighty in Scripture, without Booke repeat it,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Annatomi&s;e the &s;ence, and &s;hew Man how</HI></L>
<L><HI>Great my&s;teries in &s;entence &s;hort are &s;eated.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Gods Word with's word comparing oft unfould:</HI></L>
<L><HI>The &s;ecret truths</HI> Johns <HI>Revelations hath</HI></L>
<L><HI>By thee been open'd, as nere was of old;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Showes cleere, and neere 'gain&s;t Romes whore is Gods wrath.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then Churches of Chri&s;t, rejoyce and &s;ing,</HI></L>
<L><HI>John Cotten hath Gods minde, I dare believe,</HI></L>
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<HI>Since he from Gods Word doth his witne&s;&s;e bring;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Saints cries are heard they &s;hall no longer grieve.</HI></L>
<L><HI>That &s;ong of &s;ongs, 'twixt Chri&s;t and's Church thou ha&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>Twice taught to all, and &s;weetly &s;hewed the way,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t would his Churches &s;hould, in truth &s;tand fast;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And ca&s;t off mans inventions even for aye.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy labours great have met with catching cheats,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mixing their Bra&s;&s;e with thy bright Gold, for why?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy great e&s;teeme mu&s;t cover their ill feates,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Some &s;oile thou gett'&s;t, by comming them &s;o nie.</HI></L>
<L><HI>But i'ts wipt off, and thou Chri&s;ts Champion left,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Faith to fight for Chri&s;t hath arm'd thee well,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His worthies would not, thou &s;houlds be bereft,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of honours here thy Crown &s;hall &s;oon excell.</HI></L></Q>
<P>The&s;e people of God having received the&s;e farther helps, to in&s;truct, and build them up in the holy things of Chri&s;t, being now greatly incouraged, &s;eeing the Lord was plea&s;ed to &s;et &s;uch a broad Seale to their Commi&s;&s;ion for the worke in hand, not onely by his Word and Spirit moving thereunto, but al&s;o by his Providence in adding &s;uch able in&s;truments for furthering this great worke of Reformation, and advancing the Kingdome of Chri&s;t, for which they &s;pent this day of rejoycing, and &s;ure the Lord would have all that hear of it know, their joy lay not in the increa&s;e of Corne, or Wine, or Oyle, for of all the&s;e they had but very little at this time, yet did they not &s;pare to lend &s;uch a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> they had unto the poore, who could not provide, and verily the joy ended not with the day, for the&s;e active in&s;truments of Chri&s;t, Preaching with all in&s;tancy the glad Tidings of the Go&s;pell of <HI>Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> rejoyced the Heart of this People much.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XX VIII. <HI>Of the Eighth Church of Chri&s;t, gathered at</HI> Cambridge, 1633.</HEAD>
<P>AT this time tho&s;e who were in place of civill Government, having &s;ome addition Pillars to under-prop the building,
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begun to thinke of a place of more &s;afety in the eyes of Man. then the two frontire Towns of <HI>Charles</HI> Towne, and <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> were for the habitation of &s;uch as the Lord had prepared to Governe this Pilgrim People. Wherefore they rather made choice to en|ter farther among the <HI>Indians,</HI> then hazard the fury of malig|nant adver&s;aries, who in a rage might pur&s;ue them, and there|fore cho&s;e a place &s;cituate on <HI>Charles</HI> River, betweene <HI>Charles</HI> Towne, and Water-Towne, where they erected a Towne cal|led New-Towne, now named <HI>Cambridge,</HI> being in forme like a li&s;t cut off from the Broad-cloath of the two fore-named Towns, where this wandering Race of <HI>Jacobits</HI> gathered the eighth Church of Chri&s;t. This Town is compact clo&s;ely within it &s;elfe, till of late yeares &s;ome few &s;tragling hou&s;es have been built, the Li|berties of this Town have been inlarged of late in length, reach|ing from the mo&s;t Northerly part of <HI>Charles</HI> River, to the mo&s;t Southerly part of <HI>Merrimeck</HI> River, it hath well ordered &s;treets and comly pompleated with the faire building of <HI>Harver</HI> Col|ledge, their fir&s;t Pa&s;tor was the faithfull and laborious Mr. <HI>Hooker,</HI> who&s;e Bookes are of great reque&s;t among the faithfull people of Chri&s;t; Yee &s;hall not mi&s;&s;e of a few lines in remembrance of him.</P>
<Q><L><HI>COme,</HI> Hooker, <HI>come forth of thy native &s;oile:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Christ, I will run, &s;ayes</HI> Hooker, <HI>thou ha&s;t &s;et</HI></L>
<L><HI>My feet at large, here &s;pend thy last dayes toile;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Rhetorick &s;hall peoples affections whet.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Golden Tongue, and Pen Chri&s;t caus'd to be</HI></L>
<L><HI>The blazing of his golden truths profound,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou &s;orry worme its Christ wrought this in thee;</HI></L>
<L><HI>What Chri&s;t hath wrought mu&s;t needs be very &s;ound&punc;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then looke one</HI> Hookers <HI>workes, they follow him</HI></L>
<L><HI>To Grave, this worthy re&s;teth there a while:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Die &s;hall he not that hath Chri&s;ts warrier bin;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Much le&s;&s;e Chri&s;ts Truth, cleer'd by his peoples toile.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou Angell bright, by Chri&s;t for light now made,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Throughout the World as &s;ea&s;oning &s;alt to be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Although in du&s;t thy body mouldering fade;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Head's in Heaven, and hath a crown for thee.</HI></L></Q>
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The people of this Church and Towne have hitherto had the chiefe&s;t &s;hare in &s;pitituall ble&s;&s;ings, the Mini&s;try of the Word, by more then ordinary in&s;truments as in due time and place (God willing) you &s;hall farther heare, yet are they at this day in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> thriving condition in outward things, al&s;o both Corne and Cattell, N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ate and Sheepe, of which they have a good flocke, which the Lord hath cau&s;ed to thrive much in the&s;e latter dayes then formerly.</P>
<P>This Towne was appointed to be the &s;eate of Government, but it continued not long, this yeare a &s;mall gleane of Rye was brought to the Court as the fir&s;t fruits of Engli&s;h graine at which this poore people greatly rejoyced to &s;ee the Land would beare it, but now the Lords ble&s;&s;ing that way hath exceeded all peoples expectation, cloathing the Earth with plenty of all kinde of graine. Here minde I mu&s;t the Reader of the admirable acts of Chri&s;ts Providence toward this people, that although they were in &s;uch great &s;traites for foode, that many of them eate their Bread by waight, and had little hopes of the Earths fruit|fullne&s;&s;e, yet the Lord Chri&s;t was plea&s;ed to refre&s;h their &s;pirits with &s;uch quickning grace, and lively affections to this Temple-worke, that they did not de&s;ert the place; and that which was more remarkable, when they had &s;carce hou&s;es to &s;helter them|&s;elves, and no doores to hinder the <HI>Indians</HI> acce&s;&s;e to all they had in them, yet did the Lord &s;o awe their hearts, that although they frequented the <HI>Engli&s;hmens</HI> places of aboade, where their whole &s;ub&s;tance, weake Wives and little ones lay open to their plunder; during their ab&s;ence being whole dayes at Sabbath. A&s;&s;emblies, yet had they none of their food or &s;tuffe dimini&s;hed, neither Children nor Wives hurt in the lea&s;t mea&s;ure, although the <HI>Indians</HI> came commonly to them at tho&s;e times, much hun|gry belly (as they u&s;e to &s;ay) and were then in number and &s;trength beyond the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> by far.</P>
<P>Yet further &s;ee the great and noble Acts of Chri&s;t toward this his wandering people, feeling againe the &s;carcity of foode, and being con&s;trained to come to a &s;mall pittance daily, the Lord to provide for them, cau&s;eth the Deputy of <HI>Ireland</HI> to &s;et forth a great Ship unknowne to this people, and indeed &s;mall rea&s;on in his own apprehen&s;ions why he &s;hould &s;o do (but Chri&s;t will
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have it &s;o.) This Ship ariving, being filled with food, the godly Governors did &s;o order it that each Town &s;ent two men aboard of her, who tooke up their Townes allowance, it being ap|pointed before hand, what their portion &s;hould be, to this end that &s;ome might not by all, and others be left de&s;titute of food. In the vernall of the yeare 1634. This people being increa&s;ed, and having among them many pretious e&s;teemed in&s;truments for furthering this wonderous worke of Chri&s;t, they began to thinke of fortifying a &s;mall I&s;land about two miles di&s;tant from <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> to Sea-ward, to which all the Ve&s;&s;ells come in u&s;ually and pa&s;&s;e. To this end the honoured Mr. <HI>John Winthrope</HI> with &s;ome 8. or 10. per&s;ons of no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e, tooke boate and arrived on the &s;aid I&s;land in a warme Sun &s;hineday, ju&s;t at the breaking up of Winter as they deemed, but being they were &s;ulden &s;urpri&s;ed with a cold North-we&s;t &s;torme (which is the &s;harpe&s;t winde in this Country) freezing very vehemently for a day and a night, that they could not get off the I&s;land, but were forced to lodge there, and lie in a heape one upon another (on the ground) to keepe them&s;elves from freezing.</P>
<P>This yeare 1634. the much honoured <HI>Thomas Dudly</HI> E&s;quire, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1634.</NOTE> was cho&s;en Governor, and Mr. <HI>Roger Ludlow</HI> Deputy Gover|nor, the Freemen added to this little Common-wealth this year were about two hundred and foure, about this time a &s;incere &s;ervant of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> Mr. <HI>Stone</HI> was added to the Chureh of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> at New-towne, as a meet helpe to in&s;truct the People of Chri&s;t there, with the above named Mr. <HI>Hooker,</HI> and as he hath hether|to bin (through the ble&s;&s;ing of God) an able in&s;trument in his hands to further the worke. So let him be incourraged with the Word of the Lord in the &s;pirit of his might to go on.</P>
<Q><L><HI>THou well &s;moth'd</HI> Stone <HI>Chri&s;ts Work-man&s;hip to be:</HI></L>
<L><HI>In's Church new laid his weake ones to &s;upport,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With's word of might his foes are foild by thee;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou daily do&s;t to godline&s;&s;e exhort.</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Lordly Prelates people do deny</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts Kingly power</HI> Ho&s;anna <HI>to proclaime,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mens mouths are &s;topt, but</HI> Stone <HI>poore du&s;t doth try,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Throughout his Churches none but Christ mu&s;t raignt.</HI></L>
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<HI>Mourne not Oh Man, thy youth and learning's spent:</HI></L>
<L><HI>In de&s;art Land, my Mu&s;e is bold to &s;ay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For glorious workes Chri&s;t his hath hither &s;ent;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Like that great worke of Re&s;urrection day.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XX IX. <HI>Of the Lords remarkable providence toward his indeared &s;ervants M.</HI> Norton <HI>and Mr.</HI> Shepherd.</HEAD>
<P>NOw my loving Reader, let mee lead thee by the hand to our Native Land, although it was not intended to &s;peake in particulars of any of the&s;e peoples departure from thence, purpo&s;ing a generall relation &s;hould &s;erve the turne, yet come with mee and behold the wonderous worke of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> in pre|&s;erving two of his mo&s;t valiant Sou'diers, namely Mr. <HI>John Nor|ton;</HI> and that &s;oule ravi&s;hing Mini&s;ter Mr. <HI>Thomas Shepheard,</HI> who came this yeare to <HI>Yarmouth</HI> to &s;hip them&s;elves for <HI>New England,</HI> where the people of God re&s;orted privately unto them to hear them Preach, during the time of their aboade the Ene|mies of Chri&s;ts Kingdome were not wanting to u&s;e all meanes po&s;&s;ible to intrap them, in which perilous condition they re|mained about two months, waiting for the Ships readine&s;&s;e, in which time &s;ome per&s;ons eagerly hunting for Mr. <HI>Thomas Shep|heard,</HI> began to plot (for apprehending of him) with a Boy of &s;ixteene or &s;eventeene yeares of Age, who lived in the Hou&s;e where hee Lodged to open the doore for them at a certaine houre in the night; But the Lord Chri&s;t, who is the Shepheard of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> kept a mo&s;t &s;ure watch over his indeared &s;ervants, for thus it befell, the &s;weet words of grace falling from the of lips of this Reverend and godly Mr. <HI>Thomas Shepheard</HI> in the hearing of the Boy (the Lords working withall) hee was per&s;waded this was an holy man of God, and therefore with many troubled thoughts, began to relate his former practi&s;e, although hee had a great &s;ome of money promi&s;ed him, onely to let them in at the houre and time appointed; but the Boy, the more neere the time came, grew more pen&s;ive and &s;ad, in&s;omuch that his Ma&s;ter
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taking notice thereof began to que&s;tion him about the cau&s;e of his heavine&s;&s;e, who being unwilling to reveale the matter, held of from confe&s;&s;ing a long time, till by urgent and in&s;inuating &s;earch of his godly Ma&s;ter, with teares hee tells that on &s;uch a night hee had agreed to let in Men to apprehend the godly Preacher. The good Man of the hou&s;e forthwith gave notice thereof unto them, who with the helpe of &s;ome well-affected per&s;ons was convay'd away by boate through a back Lane, the men at the time appointed came to the hou&s;e, where finding not the doore open (when they lifted up the Latch) as they expect|ed, they thru&s;t their &s;taves under it to lift it from the hookes, but being followed by &s;ome per&s;ons, whom the good man of the hou&s;e had appointed for that end: yet were they boul&s;tred out in this their wicked act by tho&s;e who &s;et them one worke. Not|with&s;tanding they were greatly a&s;hamed when they mi&s;t of their end.</P>
<P>But the Lord Chri&s;t intending to make his <HI>New England</HI> Souldiers the very wounder of this Age, brought them into grea|ter &s;traites, that this <HI>Wonder Working Providence</HI> might the more appeare in their deliverance, for comming a &s;hipboard, and hoi&s;eing &s;aile to accompli&s;h their Voyage, in little time after they were to&s;&s;ed and &s;ore beaten with a contrary winde, to the lo&s;&s;e of the Ships upper worke, with which lo&s;&s;e and great pe|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ill they were driven back againe, the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> intending to confirme their Faith in &s;hewing them, that although they were brought back, as it were into the mouth of their enemies, yet hee could hide them from the hand of the Hunter, for the &s;pace of &s;ix moneths longer or thereabout, even till the Spring of the yeare following, at which time (God willing) you &s;hall hear of them againe, in the meane time the Ma&s;ter, and other Sea men made a &s;trange con&s;truction of the &s;ore &s;torme they met withall, &s;aying, their Ship was bewitched, and therefore made u&s;e of the common Charme ignorant people u&s;e, nailing two red hot hor&s;e-&s;hoos to their maine ma&s;t. But a&s;&s;uredly it was the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t,</HI> who hath command both of Winds and Seas, and now would have his people know he hath delivered, and will deliver from &s;o great a death.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXX. <HI>Of the Ninth Church of Chri&s;t, gathered at</HI> Ip&s;witch.</HEAD>
<P>THis year came over a farther &s;upply of Eminent in&s;truments for furthering this admirable Worke of his, among&s;t whom the Reverend and judicious &s;ervant of Chri&s;t Mr. <HI>Nathaniel Ward,</HI> who tooke up his &s;tation at the Towne of <HI>Ip&s;wich,</HI> where the &s;aithfull &s;ervants of Chri&s;t gathered the Ninth Church of his. This Towne is &s;cituated on a faire and delightfull River, who&s;e fir&s;t ri&s;e or &s;pring begins about five and twenty Miles farther up in the Countrey, i&s;&s;uing forth a very plea&s;ant pond. But &s;oone after it betakes its cour&s;e through a mo&s;t hideous &s;wamp of large extent, even for many Miles, being a great Harbour for Beares: after its comming forth this place, it groweth larger by the in|come of many &s;mall Rivers, and i&s;&s;ues forth in the Sea, due Ea&s;t over again&s;t the I&s;land of <HI>Sholes,</HI> a great place of fi&s;hing for out <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, the peopling of this Towne is by men of good ranke and quality, many of them having the yearly Revenue of large Lands in <HI>England</HI> before they came to this Wilderne&s;&s;e, but their E&s;tates being imployed for Chri&s;t, and left in banke, as you have formerly heard, they are well content till Chri&s;t &s;hall be plea&s;ed to-re&s;tore it againe to them or theirs, which in all rea&s;on &s;hould be out of the Prelates Lands in <HI>England.</HI> Let all tho&s;e, whom it concernes (to judge) con&s;ider it well, and do Ju&s;tice herein.</P>
<P>This Towne lies in the <HI>Saggamoore&s;hip,</HI> or Earldome of <HI>Ag|gawam,</HI> now by our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation called <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI> It is a very good Haven Towne, yet a little barr'd up at the Mouth of the River, &s;ome Marchants here are, (but <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> being the chiefe&s;t place of re&s;ort of Shipping, carries away all the Trade) they have very good Land for Husbandry, where Rocks hinder not the cour&s;e of the Plow: the Lord hath beene plea&s;ed to increa&s;e them in Corne and Cattell of late; In&s;omuch that they have many hundred quarters to &s;pare yearly, and feed, at the latter end of Summer, the Towne of <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> with good Beefe a their Hou&s;es are many of them very faire built with plea&s;ant Gardens and Orchards, con&s;i&s;ting of about one hundred and forty Families.
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Their meeting-hou&s;e is a very good pro&s;pect to a great part of the Towne, and beautifully built, the Church of Chri&s;t here con|&s;i&s;ts of about one hundred and &s;ixty &s;oules, being exact in their conver&s;ation, and free from the Epidemicall Di&s;ea&s;e of all Re|forming Churches, which under Chri&s;t is procured by their pious Learned and Orthodox Mini&s;tery, as in due place (God willing) &s;hall be declared, in the meane time, look on the following Meeters concerning that Souldier of Chri&s;t Ma&s;ter <HI>Nathaniel Ward.</HI></P>
<Q><L><HI>THou ancient Sage, come</HI> Ward <HI>among</HI></L>
<L><HI>Christs folfe, take part in this great worke of his,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Why do'&s;t thou &s;tand and gaze about &s;o long;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Do'&s;t war in je&s;t, why, Chri&s;t in earne&s;t is,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And hath thee arm'd with weapons for that end,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To Wound and heale his enemies &s;ubmitting,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Not carnally, then to this Worke attend;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou hast prevail'd the hearts of many hitting.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Although the Presbytery unplea&s;ant jar,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And errors daily in their braines new coyne:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Despayer not, Chri&s;ts truth they &s;hall not mar;</HI></L>
<L><HI>But with his helpe &s;uch dro&s;&s;e from Gold refins.</HI></L>
<L><HI>What Man do'&s;t meane to lay thy Trumpet downe?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Becau&s;e thy &s;on like Warrier is become,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hold out or &s;ure le&s;&s;e bright will be thy crowne;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Till death Chri&s;ts &s;ervants labour is not done.</HI></L></Q>
<P>At this time came over the much honoured Mr. <HI>Richard Bel|lingham</HI> who&s;e E&s;tate and per&s;on did much further the civill Go|vernment of this wandering people, hee being learned in the Lawes of <HI>England,</HI> and experimentally fitted for the worke, of whom I am bold to &s;ay as followeth:</P>
<Q><L>RIchardus <HI>now ari&s;e mu&s;t thou, Christ &s;eed hath thee to plead,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His peoples cau&s;e, with equall Laws, in wilderne&s;&s;e them lead;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Though &s;low of &s;peech, thy coun&s;ell reach, &s;hall each occation well,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sure thy &s;terne looke it cannot brook tho&s;e wickedly rebell.</HI></L>
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<HI>With labours might thy pen indite doth Lawes for peoples learning:</HI></L>
<L><HI>That judge with skill, and not with will, unarbitrate di&s;cerning;</HI></L>
<L>Bellingham <HI>thou on valiant now, &s;top not in di&s;content,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Eor Chri&s;t with crown, will thee renown, then &s;pend for him, be &s;pent;</HI></L>
<L><HI>As thou hast done, thy race &s;till run till death, no death &s;hall &s;tay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts work of might, till Scripture light, bring Re&s;urection day.</HI></L></Q>
<P>As al&s;o about this time for further incouragement in this work of Chri&s;t, hee &s;ent over the Reverend &s;ervant of his Mr. <HI>Lothrop</HI> to helpe on with the planting of <HI>Plimoth,</HI> which increa&s;ed but little all this time, although &s;hee be the elder &s;i&s;ter of all the united Colonies; Some rea&s;ons in due place may be rendered. This Reverend Mini&s;ter was &s;oone called to Office by the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Scicuate.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>CHAP XXXI. <HI>Of the Church of Christ gathered at</HI> Newberry.</HEAD>
<P>IN the latter end of this yeare, two &s;incere &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, inabled by him with gifts to declare his minde unto his people, came over this broad Ocean, and began to build the Tenth Church of Chri&s;t at a Towne called <HI>Newberry,</HI> their names being Mr. <HI>James Noi&s;e,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Thomas Parker,</HI> &s;omewhat dif|fering from all the former, and after mentioned Churches in the preheminence of their Presbytery, and it were to be wi&s;hed that all per&s;ons, who have had any hand in tho&s;e hot contentions, which have fallen out &s;ince about Presbyterian and Independent Government in Churches, would have looked on this Example, comparing it with the Word of God, and a&s;&s;uredly it would have &s;tayed (all the godly at le&s;t) of either part from &s;uch un|worthy expre&s;&s;ions as have pa&s;&s;ed to the grief of many of Gods people; And I doubt not but this Hi&s;tory will take of that unju&s;t accu&s;ation, and &s;tanderous imputation of the ri&s;e of that floud of errors and fal&s;e Doctrines &s;prung up of late, as flowing from the Independent or rather congregationall Churches. But to follow on, this Town is &s;cituate about twelve miles from <HI>Ip&s;|witch,</HI> neere upon the wide venting &s;treames of <HI>Merrimeck</HI> River,
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who&s;e &s;trong current is &s;uch, that it hath forced its pa&s;&s;age through the mighty Rocks, which cau&s;eth &s;ome &s;udden falls, and hinders Shipping from having any acce&s;&s;e far into the Land, her bankes are in many places &s;tored with Oken Timber of all &s;orts, of which, that which they commonly call'd white Oke, is not in|feriou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Timber; in this River lie &s;ome few I&s;lands of fertill Land, this Towne is &s;tored with Meddow and upland, which hath cau&s;ed &s;ome Gentlemen, (who brought over good E&s;tates, and finding then no better way to improve th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m) to &s;ee upon husbandry, among&s;t whom that Religious and &s;incere hearted &s;ervant of Chri&s;t Mr. <HI>Richard Dummer,</HI> &s;ometime a Ma|gi&s;trate in this little Common-wealth, hathholpen on this Town, their hou&s;es are built very &s;cattering, which hath cau&s;ed &s;ome contending about removall of their place for Sabbath-A&s;&s;emblies, their Cattell are about foure hundred head, with &s;tore of Corne-land in tillage, it con&s;i&s;ts of about &s;eventy Families, the &s;ou'es in Church fellow&s;hip are about an hundred, the teaching Elders of this Congregation have carried it very lovingly toward their people, permitting of them to a&s;&s;i&s;t in admitting of per&s;ons into Church-&s;ociety, and in Church cen&s;ures, &s;o long as they Act regularly, but in ca&s;e of their male-admini&s;tration, they a&s;&s;ume the power wholly to them&s;elves, their godly life and conver&s;a|tion hath hitherto been very amiable, and their paines and care over their flock not inferiour to many others, and being bound together in a more &s;tricter band of love then ordinary with promi&s;e to &s;pend their dayes together (if the Lord plea&s;e) and therefore &s;hall not be di&s;uaited in the following Ver&s;e:</P>
<Q><L><HI>LOe here Loves twinnes by Chri&s;t are &s;ent to Preach</HI></L>
<L><HI>In wilderne&s;&s;e his little flock among,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Though Christs Church-way you fully cannot reach;</HI></L>
<L><HI>So far hold fast as you in's word are &s;trong.</HI></L>
<L>Parker <HI>thy paines with Pen, and Preaching hath</HI></L>
<L><HI>Roomes buildings left in Prelacy cast downe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Though' gain&s;t her thou defer Gods finall wrath;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Keepe warring &s;till, and &s;ure thou &s;halt have crowne.</HI></L>
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<HI>Thy Brother thou oh</HI> Noi&s;e <HI>hast holpe to guide:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t tender Lambs within his fold to gather,</HI></L>
<L><HI>From Ea&s;t to We&s;t thou dost Chri&s;ts Warrier bide;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Faint not at la&s;t, increa&s;e thy fighting rather.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CAHP. XXXII. <HI>Of good &s;upply, and &s;ea&s;onable helpes the Lord Chri&s;t was plea&s;ed to &s;end to further his Wilderne&s;&s;e worke, and particular for his Churches of</HI> Charles <HI>Towne, and</HI> Ip&s;wich, <HI>and</HI> Dorche&s;ter.</HEAD>
<P>YEt farther for the incouragement of the people of Chri&s;t in the&s;e their weak beginnings, he daily brings them in fre&s;h &s;up|plies, adding this yeare al&s;o the reverend and painfull Mini&s;ter of his Go&s;pell Mr. <HI>Zachary Simmes,</HI> who was invited &s;oone after his comming over to a&s;&s;i&s;t in planting of another Church of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> but the place being remote from the pretious &s;ervants of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> already &s;etled, be cho&s;e rather to joyne with &s;ome Church among them, and in a &s;hort &s;pace after hee was called to the Office of a Teaching Elder in the Church of <HI>Christ</HI> at <HI>Charles</HI> Towne, together with Mr. <HI>James,</HI> who was then their Pa&s;tor, as you have formerly heard. Among all the godly Women that came through the perilous Seas to war their warfare, the wife of this zealous Teacher, Mrs. <HI>Sarah Simmes</HI> &s;hall not be omitted, nor any other, but to avoid tediou&s;ne&s;&s;e the vertuous Woman, in|dued by Chri&s;t with graces fit for a Wilderne&s;&s;e condition, her courage exceeding her &s;tature, with much cheerfulne&s;&s;e did un|dergoe all the difficulties of the&s;e times of &s;traites, her God through Faith in <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> &s;upplying all her wants with great indu|&s;try, nurturing up her young Children in the feare of the Lord, their number being ten both Sons and Daughters, a certaine &s;igne of the Lords intent to people this va&s;t Wilderne&s;&s;e: God grant they may be valiant in Faith again&s;t Sin, Satan and all the enemies of <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> Kingdome, following the example of their Father, and Grandfather, who have both &s;uffered for the &s;ame, in remem|brance of whom the&s;e following lines are placed.</P>
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<L><HI>COme</HI> Zachary, <HI>thou mu&s;t reed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fie,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t Churches in this De&s;art Land of his,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>zeale &s;tampt unto du&s;t defie</HI></L>
<L><HI>All crooked wayes that Chri&s;t true wor&s;hip mi&s;&s;e.</HI></L>
<L><HI>With spirits &s;word and armor girt about:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou lay'&s;t on load proud Prelats crowne to crack,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And wilt not &s;uffer Wolfes thy flock to rout;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Though clo&s;e they creepe, with &s;heepe skins on their back.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Fathers spirit doubled is upon</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thee</HI> Simmes, <HI>then war, thy Father fighting died,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In prayer then prove thou like Champion;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hold ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> till death, and Chri&s;t will crown provide.</HI></L></Q>
<P>After the&s;e poore people had welcomed with great joy their newcome Gue&s;ts, all of a &s;udden they &s;py two tall Ships, who&s;e colours &s;hewed them to be &s;ome forrein Nation, at which time this little handfull of people began to be much troubled, deem|ing them to be Rovers, they gathered together &s;uch forces as their pre&s;ent condition would afford, very ill fitted as then to re&s;cue an enemy, but their Lord and Ma&s;ter <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us</HI> would not &s;uffer any &s;uch to come, and in&s;tead of enemies brought in friends, even Dutchmen to furni&s;h them with farther nece&s;&s;ary Provi&s;ion.</P>
<P>For the yeare 1635, the honoured Mr. <HI>Iohn Haines</HI> was cho&s;en Governour, and the honoured Mr. <HI>Richard Bellingham</HI> Deputy Governour, the number of Free-men added to this little Com|mon wealth, were about one hundred forty and five. The time now approaching, wherein the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> would have his people come from the Flaile to the Fan, thre&s;hing out much this yeare, increa&s;ing the number of his Troopes, and valiant Lea|ders, the Ships came thicker and fa&s;ter filled with many worthy par&s;onages; In&s;omuch that the former people began to forget their Poverty, and verily Cold, Purity, Peace and Plenty run all in one channell, Gods people here &s;hould &s;ure have met with none other, but the &s;till waters of Peace and Plenty for back and belly &s;oone contract much mudde, as you &s;hall he are (God willing) in the following Hi&s;tory: this yeare came in the honoured
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Sir <HI>Henry Vaine,</HI> who aboad not long in this worthy worke, yet mind him I will in the following Lines.</P>
<LG>
<HEAD><HI>Sir</HI> Henry Vaine <HI>once Governour of the Engli&s;h People in</HI> New England.</HEAD>
<L><HI>THy Parents</HI> Vaine, <HI>of worthy fame, in Chri&s;t and thou for him:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Through Ocean wide in new World trid a while his warrier bin,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With &s;mall defeat thou did&s;t retreat to Brittaine ground againe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>There &s;tand thou &s;tout, for Chri&s;t hold out, Chri&s;ts Champion a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> remain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>Al&s;o at this time Chri&s;t &s;ent over the much honoured and up|right hearted &s;ervant of his <HI>Richard Saltingstall</HI> E&s;quire, Son to the before-named Sir <HI>Richard Saltingstall,</HI> who being weary of this Wilderne&s;&s;e worke, returned home againe not long before, and now his Son being cho&s;e to the Office of a Magi&s;trate, con|tinued for &s;ome good &s;pace of time, helping on the affaires of this little Common wealth, to the honour of Chri&s;t, who hath called him: both Father and Son are here remembred.</P>
<Q><L><HI>THou worthy Knight,</HI> Salting&s;tall <HI>hight, her's gaine doth gold exceed</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then trifle not, its to be got, if thou can'&s;t &s;ee thy neede.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Why wilt thhu back, and leave as wreck, this worthy worke begun,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Art thou back-bore, Chri&s;t will &s;end more, and rai&s;e in&s;tead thy &s;on.</HI></L>
<L><HI>His Fathers gon, young</HI> Richard <HI>on here valiantly doth War,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For Chri&s;t his truth, to their great</HI> Ruth, <HI>Heathens oppo&s;ers are:</HI></L>
<L><HI>To &s;tudy thou, thy mind do&s;t how, and daily good promote,</HI></L>
<L>Salting&s;tall <HI>why, then do&s;t thou fly, let all Gods people note.</HI></L>
<L><HI>That thou wilt &s;tand, in thy own Land, Chri&s;t there the~ &s;trengthen thee</HI></L>
<L><HI>With grace thee heate, that thy retreate, may for his glory be:</HI></L>
<L><HI>At ending day, he thee array, with Glory will not faile,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Breaking graves bands, with his &s;trong hands, and free du&s;t from death's goale.</HI></L></Q>
<P>Among the&s;e Troopes of Chri&s;ts Souldiers, came at this time, the godly &s;ervant, of Chri&s;t Mr. <HI>Roger Harlackenden,</HI> a young Gentleman valiant in Faith, and appointed by Chri&s;t to a&s;&s;i&s;t his
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people in this De&s;art, he was cho&s;e to the Office of a Magi&s;trate, as al&s;o to be a choi&s;e Leader of their Military Forces, which as yet were but in a &s;trange po&s;ture; And therefore till the yeare 1644. (at which time the Countrey wis really placed in a po&s;ture of War, to be in a readine&s;&s;e at all times) there &s;hall not be any thing &s;poken concerning their Military Di&s;cipline, the con|tinuance of this Souldier of Chri&s;t was but &s;hort, the Lord taking him to re&s;t with him&s;elfe.</P>
<Q><L>HArlackenden, <HI>among the&s;e men of no&s;e Chri&s;t hath thie &s;eated:</HI></L>
<L><HI>In warlike way Christ thee aray, with zeal and love well he ated.</HI></L>
<L><HI>As generall belov'd of all, Chri&s;t Souldiers honour thee:</HI></L>
<L><HI>In thy young yeares, courage appeares, and kinde benignity.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Short are thy days, &s;pe~t to his prai&s;e, who&s;e Church work thou mu&s;t aid,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His work &s;hall bide, &s;ilver tride, but thine by death is &s;taid.</HI></L></Q>
<P>The number of Mini&s;ters that came over this yeare was about eleaven, and many other like faithfull &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, among whom arrived tho&s;e two Reverend and laborious &s;ervants of his Mr. <HI>Norton,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Shepheard,</HI> of who&s;e narrow e&s;cape you have heard the la&s;t yeare: Mr. <HI>Norton,</HI> was called to the Office of a Teaching Elder at the Towne of <HI>Ip&s;wich</HI> to the Church of Chri&s;t there, where Mr. <HI>Warde</HI> as yet remained in Office. Al&s;o the learned labours of this Souldier of Chri&s;t are obvious to our Countreymen, hee Preaching there, the ble&s;&s;ing of God hath not onely built up many in the Knowledge of Chri&s;t, but al&s;o been the meanes of converting diver&s;e &s;oules, turning them from the power of Satan to Faith in Chri&s;t, whom the Lord long continue; you &s;hall further hear of Chri&s;ts gratious a&s;&s;i&s;ting of him in the fir&s;t and la&s;t Synod holden here at <HI>Cambridge,</HI> and in the meane time let no man be offended that the Author quickens up his own dull effections, in telling how largely the Lord hath be&s;towed his Graces upon the&s;e In&s;truments of his, al|though &s;infull du&s;t and a&s;hes.</P>
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<L><HI>THou Noble</HI> Norton, <HI>who art honoured by</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Chri&s;t, with learned Arguments doth fill</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy mouth with might new errors to de&s;troy;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And force deceivers &s;ilently to yeild.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Weake dust waite on thy Chri&s;t for further &s;trength:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who doth his</HI> Davids <HI>make as Angels bright,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To trample down his enemies at length;</HI></L>
<L><HI>All breake or bow unto his Kingdomes might.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Illettered Men and Women that doe love,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Preheminence, condemne thy learned skill,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But Christ hath given his ble&s;&s;ing from above</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;nto thy workes the World with light to fill.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Christs faithfull &s;ervants met in Synod, take</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thee for their Pen-men Scriptures light to cleere,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With Scripture &s;hew what Government Christ gave;</HI></L>
<L><HI>To's Churches till him&s;elfe againe appeare.</HI></L></Q>
<P>Here my indeared <HI>Reader,</HI> I mu&s;t mind thee of the indu&s;trious &s;ervant of Chri&s;t Mr. <HI>John Wil&s;on,</HI> who this yeare landed the third time upon this <HI>American</HI> &s;hore from his Native Country, where now againe by the Divine Providence of Chri&s;t, hee narrowly e&s;caped the Hunters hands, being cloathed in a Country-mans habit, pa&s;&s;ing from places to place, declared to the people of God what great Workes Chri&s;t had already done for his people in <HI>New England,</HI> which made many Chri&s;tian &s;oules long to &s;ee the&s;e admirable Acts of Chri&s;t, although it were not to be injoy|ed, but by pa&s;&s;ing through an Ocean of troubles, Voyaging night and day upon the great deep, which this zealous &s;ervant of Chri&s;t had now five times pa&s;&s;ed over: at this time came over the Sage, grave, reverend and faithfull &s;ervant of Chri&s;t M. <HI>Richard Mather,</HI> indued by the Lord with many Heavenly gifts, of a plaine and upright &s;pirit, apt to teach, full of gratious expre&s;&s;ions, and Re|&s;olvedly bent to follow the truth, as it is in Je&s;us, hee was anon after his comming called to Office in the Church of Chri&s;t at the Towne of <HI>Dorchester,</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t in the Worke of the Lord, with M^r. <HI>Marareck,</HI> who&s;e worke not long after was ended by death, leaving M^r. <HI>Mather</HI> alone to continue the &s;ame.</P>
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<L><HI>WIth cheerfull face</HI> Mather <HI>doth toile indure</HI></L>
<L><HI>In wilderne&s;&s;e, &s;pending the prime of's age,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To build Chri&s;ts Churches, and &s;oules health procure;</HI></L>
<L><HI>In battell thou do&s;t deepe thy &s;elfe ingage.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Marvell not Man that</HI> Mather <HI>through an ho&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of enemies doth breake, and fighting &s;tands,</HI></L>
<L><HI>It's Chri&s;t him keepes, of him is all his boa&s;t;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who power gives to do, and then commands.</HI></L>
<L><HI>With gratious speech thy Ma&s;ters Me&s;&s;age thou</HI></L>
<L><HI>Declarest to all, and all wouldst have &s;ubmit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That to his Kingdome every knee might bow;</HI></L>
<L><HI>But tho&s;e re&s;i&s;this &s;word &s;hall &s;urely hit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Till age doth crown thy head with hoary hairs:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Well ha&s;t thou warr'd, till</HI> Mathers <HI>young againe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy &s;on in fight his Fathers &s;trength repairs;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Father and Son beate down Chri&s;ts foes amaine.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXXIII. <HI>Of the beginning of the Churches of Chri&s;t, to be planted at</HI> Canectico, <HI>and fir&s;t of the Church of Chri&s;t removall to</HI> Hartford, 1635.</HEAD>
<P>THis yeare the &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, who peopled the Towne of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> were put upon thoughts of removing, hear|ing of a very fertill place upon the River of <HI>Canectico</HI> low Land, and well &s;tored with Meddow, which is greatly in e&s;teeme with the people of <HI>New England,</HI> by rea&s;on the Winters are very long: This people &s;eeing that Tillage went but little on, Re&s;olved to remove, and breed up &s;tore of Cattell, which were then at eight and twenty pound a Cow, or neare upon, but a&s;&s;uredly the Lord intended far greater matters than man purpo&s;es, but God di&s;|po&s;es the&s;e men, having their hearts gone from the Lord, on which they were &s;eated, &s;oone tooke di&s;like at every little mat|ter, the Plowable plaines were too dry and &s;andy for them, and the Rocky places, although more fruitfull, yet to eate their bread with toile of hand, and how they deemed it un&s;upportable;
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And therefore they onely waited now for a people of &s;tronger Faith than them&s;elves were to purcha&s;e their Hou&s;es and Land, which in conceipt they could no longer live upon, and accord|ingly they met with Chapmen, a people new come, who having <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ught their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, they highed them away to their new P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tion With whom went the Grave and Reverend &s;ervant of Chri&s;t Mr. <HI>Hooker,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Stone,</HI> for indeed the whole Church re|moved, as al&s;o the much honoured Mr. <HI>Haynes</HI> &amp; divers other men of note for the place, being out of the <HI>Mattacu&s;ets</HI> Patten; they erected another Government, called by the <HI>Indian</HI> name, <HI>Ca|nectico,</HI> being farther incouraged by two honourable per&s;onages, the Lord <HI>Say,</HI> and Lord <HI>Brookes,</HI> who built a Forre&s;t at the mouth of the River, and called it <HI>Say-brook</HI> Forre&s;t: pa&s;&s;ing up the Ri|ver they began to build a Towne, which they called <HI>Hartford,</HI> where this Church of Chri&s;t &s;at down their &s;tation, there went to the&s;e parts al&s;o the Reverend Mr. <HI>Wareham,</HI> and divers from the Towne of <HI>Dorche&s;ter.</HI> The place of &s;etling them&s;elves, and erecting a Towne was far upon the River, the part next the Sea being very Rocky, but on the banke of this River they planted the good Towne of <HI>Hartford,</HI> and e&s;tabli&s;hed civill Government: of their gathering into a Church, you have formerly heard. Onely here minde the gratious &s;ervant of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> Mr. <HI>Wareham,</HI> who&s;e long labours in this worke are expre&s;t.</P>
<Q><L><HI>WIth length of dayes Chri&s;t crowned hath thy head.</HI></L>
<L><HI>In Wilderne&s;&s;e to mannage his great War,</HI></L>
<L><HI>'Gainst Antichri&s;t by &s;trength of him art lead;</HI></L>
<L><HI>With &s;teady hand to &s;ling thy &s;tone from far.</HI></L>
<L><HI>That groveling in his gore may lie &s;mit downe</HI></L>
<L><HI>This mighty Mon&s;ter, that the Earth hath taken,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With's poy&s;ons &s;weet in cup of Gold drunke down;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Dead drunke tho&s;e lie whom Chri&s;t doth not awaken.</HI></L>
<L><HI>But</HI> Wareham <HI>thou by him art &s;ent to &s;ave,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With's word of truth Chri&s;t to their &s;oules apply,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That deadly &s;in hath laid in rotting Grave</HI></L>
<L><HI>Dead, live in Chri&s;t here, and Eternally.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXXIV. <HI>Of</HI> Cambridge <HI>&s;econd Church, being the</HI> 11. <HI>of Chri&s;t gathered in the</HI> Mattacu&s;ets, <HI>and of further &s;upply for</HI> Salem <HI>Church.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e people and Church of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> being thus departed from New-towne, the godly people, who came in their roomes, gathered the eleaventh Church of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and called to the Office of a Pa&s;tor, that gratious &s;weete Heavenly minded, and &s;oule-ravi&s;hing Mini&s;ter, Mr. <HI>Thomas Shepheard,</HI> in who&s;e &s;oule the Lord &s;hed abroad his love &s;o abundantly, that thou&s;ands of &s;ouls have cau&s;e to ble&s;&s;e God for him, even at this very day, who are the Seale of his Mini&s;trey, and hee a man of a thou&s;and, indued with abundance of true &s;aving knowledge for him&s;elfe and others, yet his naturall Parts were weake, but &s;pent to the full as &s;olloweth:</P>
<Q><L><HI>NO loungr Hawke poore Patridge to devoure</HI></L>
<L><HI>More eager is then Prelates Nimrod power</HI></L>
<L>Thomas <HI>to hunt, my Shephard &s;weet pur&s;ue</HI></L>
<L><HI>To &s;eas brinke, but Chri&s;t &s;aves his &s;oule for you;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sending thee Shepheard, &s;afe through Seas awaie,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To feede his &s;tock unto thy ending day,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Where &s;heepe &s;eek Wolves) thy bo&s;ome lambs would catch;</HI></L>
<L><HI>But night and day thou cea&s;e&s;t not to watch.</HI></L>
<L><HI>And Warne with teares thy flock of cheaters vile,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who in &s;heepes cloathing would the weak beguile,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With dropping dewes from thy lips Chri&s;t hath made</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy hearers eyes oft water springing blade.</HI></L>
<L><HI>With pierced hearts they cry aloud and &s;ay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Shew us &s;weet Shepheard our &s;alvations way,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy lovely speech &s;uch ravi&s;hment doth bring;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t gives thee power to heale as well as &s;ting.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou gates &s;ets ope for Chri&s;t thy King to enter,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In hearts of many &s;pirits joy to center,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But mourne my Mu&s;e, hang downe thy head with woe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With teares, &s;ighs, &s;obs lament thy Shepheard &s;o.</HI></L>
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<HI>(Why?) hee's in Heaven, but I one Earth am left:</HI></L>
<L><HI>More Earthly, 'cau&s;e of him I am bereft.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Oh Chri&s;t why do&s;t thou Shepheard take away,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In erring times when &s;heepe mo&s;t apt to &s;tray.</HI></L></Q>
<P>The many Souldiers and Officers of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> that came over this yeare, moved &s;ome wonder in the mindes of tho&s;e, whom he had beene plea&s;ed to give a great mea&s;ure of di&s;cerning, yet here they fell abundantly &s;hort, deeming almo&s;t an impo&s;&s;ibility of improving their Talents in this Wilderne&s;&s;e, the <HI>Indian-</HI>people being uncapable of under&s;tanding their Language, the <HI>Engli&s;h&punc;</HI> congregations that were already &s;et downe, being fully furni&s;h|ed with Teaching Elders, and that which was mo&s;t &s;trange they were per&s;waded they &s;hould meet with no enemies to oppo&s;e them, as if <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> would lead them forth into the Field in vaine. But <HI>Chri&s;t Ie&s;us,</HI> having the hearts of all Men opened before him, &s;oon &s;hewed them, their worke, and withall made roome for them to &s;et downe, I and many more be&s;ide, yea, and beyond expectation made this poore barren Wilderne&s;&s;e be|come a fruitfull Land unto them that waited on him for the ac|compl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hing thereof, feeding them with the flower of Wheat, as in its time and place (God willing) &s;hall be &s;hewed, although it plea&s;ed him this yeare to vi&s;it them, and try them againe with a great &s;carcity of Bread, by rea&s;on of the multitude that came brought &s;omewhat &s;horter Provi&s;ions then ordinary, which cau&s;ed them to be in &s;ome &s;traites. But their <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> gives cut a Word of command to tho&s;e, who occupy their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in the great deepe, to furni&s;h from <HI>Ireland</HI> &s;ome Ships laden with food for his people.</P>
<P>Al&s;o hee commands the Winds and the Seas to beare up the&s;e Ships, and blow them forth on their way, till they arrive among his people in <HI>New England,</HI> who&s;e appetities were now &s;harpe|&s;et for Bread. One poore man among others deeming hee had found out &s;ome for&s;aken Barnes of the <HI>Indians</HI> (who&s;e manner it to lay up their Corne in the Earth, lighteh one a grave, where finding bones of the dead in&s;tead of Corne, hee was taken with feare of this, as a &s;ad omen that hee &s;hould then die for want of food, but in this hee proved no true Prophet, for the
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Lord was plea&s;ed to bring in &s;ea&s;onable &s;upply, and the man is living at this very day. This yeere came over the Famous &s;ervant of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> M. <HI>Hugh Peters,</HI> who&s;e courage was not inferiour to any of the&s;e tran&s;ported &s;ervants of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> but becau&s;e his native Soile hath had the greate&s;t &s;hare of his labours, the le&s;&s;e will be &s;aid of him here, hee was called to Office by the Church of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> at <HI>Salem,</HI> their former Pa&s;tor, the Reverend M. <HI>Higging &s;on,</HI> having cnded his labours re&s;ting with the Lord.</P>
<Q><L><HI>WIth courage bold</HI> Peters <HI>a Souldier &s;tout</HI></L>
<L><HI>In Wilderne&s;&s;e for Chri&s;t begins to war,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Much worke he finds mongst people, yet hold out;</HI></L>
<L><HI>With fluent tongue he &s;tops phanta&s;tickjar.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Swife Torrent &s;tayes of liberties large vent:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Through crooked wayes of error daily flowing,</HI></L>
<L>Shiloes <HI>&s;oft &s;treames to bath in would all bent;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Should he while they in Christian freedome growing.</HI></L>
<L><HI>But back thou mu&s;t, thy Talents Chri&s;ts will have</HI></L>
<L><HI>Improved for him, his glory is thy crowne,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And thou ba&s;e du&s;t till he thee honour gave;</HI></L>
<L><HI>It matters not though the world on thee do frown.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXXV. <HI>Of the Twelfth Church of Christ gathered at</HI> Concord.</HEAD>
<P>YEt further at this time entered the Field two more valiant Leaders of <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> Souldiers, holy men of God, Mr. <HI>Buckly</HI> and M. <HI>Jones,</HI> penetrating further into this Wilderne&s;&s;e then any formerly had done, with divers other &s;ervants of Chri&s;t: they build an Inland Towne, which they called <HI>Concord,</HI> named from the occa&s;ion of the pre&s;ent time, as you &s;hall after heare: this Towne is &s;eated upon a faire fre&s;h River, who&s;e Rivulets are fil|led with fre&s;h Mar&s;h, and her &s;treames with Fi&s;h, it being a branch of that large River of <HI>Morrimeck Allwifes,</HI> and Shad in their &s;ea&s;on come up to this Towne, but <HI>Salmon</HI> and <HI>Daice</HI> cannot come up, by rea&s;on of the Rocky &s;alles, which cau&s;eth
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their Meddowes to lie much covered with water, the which the&s;e people together with their Neigbour Towne, have &s;everall times a&s;&s;ayed to cut through but cannot, yet it may be turned another way with an hundred pound charge as it appeared, this Towne was more populated once then now it is (&s;ome faint-hearted Souldiers among them fearing the Land would prove barren, &s;old their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions for little, and removed to a new Plantation, (which have mo&s;t commonly a great prize &s;et on them) the num|ber of Families at pre&s;ent are about 50. their buildings are con|veniently placed chiefly in one &s;traite &s;treame under a &s;unny-banke in a low levell, their heard of great Cattell are about 300. the Church of Chri&s;t here con&s;i&s;ts of about &s;eventy &s;oules, their teach|ing <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Concord</HI> the 12. Church.</NOTE> Elders were Mr. <HI>Buckly,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Jones,</HI> who removed from them with that part of the people, who went away, &s;o that onely the reverend grave and godly Mr. <HI>Buckly</HI> remaines.</P>
<Q><L><HI>RIches and honours</HI> Buckly <HI>layes a&s;ide</HI></L>
<L><HI>To plea&s;e his Chri&s;t, for whom he now doth war,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Why</HI> Buckly <HI>thou ha&s;t Riches that will bide,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And honours that exceeds Earths honour far.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy bodies worne, and dayes in De&s;ert &s;pent</HI></L>
<L><HI>To feede a few of Chri&s;ts poore &s;cattered &s;heepe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Like Chri&s;t's bright body, thy poore body rent;</HI></L>
<L><HI>With Saints and Angells company &s;hall keepe.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Tongue, and Pen doth to the World declare:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts covenant with his flock &s;hall firmly &s;tand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>When Heavens and Earth by him di&s;&s;olved are;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then who can hold from this his worke at hand.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Two</HI> Bucklies <HI>more Christ by his grace hath taken,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And &s;ent abroad to mannage his great wars.</HI></L>
<L><HI>I'ts</HI> Buklies <HI>joy that Chri&s;t his &s;ons new making,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hath place&s;t in's churches for to &s;hine as Stare.</HI></L></Q>
<P>This holy and &s;incere &s;ervant of Chri&s;t was put upon the grea|ter tryall, by rea&s;on he and his were tenderly brought up, and now by the provident hand of Chri&s;t were carried far into this de&s;art-land, where they met with &s;ome hard&s;hips for a long time, till the place was well peopled, they lived barely.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXXVI. <HI>Of the laborious worke Chr&s;ts people have in planting this wilder|ne&s;&s;e &s;et, forth in the building the Towne of</HI> Concord, <HI>being the fir&s;t in-land Towne.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOw becau&s;e it is one of the admirable acts of Chri&s;t Pro|vidence in leading his people forth into the&s;e We&s;terne Fields, in his providing of Huts for them, to de&s;end them from the bitter &s;tormes this place is &s;ubject unto, therefore here is a &s;hort Epitome of the manner how they placed downe their dwellings in this De&s;art Wilderne&s;&s;e, the Lord being plea&s;ed to hide from the Eyes of his people the difficulties they are to en|counter withall in a new Plantation, that they might not there|by be hindered from taking the worke in hand; upon &s;ome in|quiry of the <HI>Indians,</HI> who lived to the North-we&s;t of the Bay, one Captaine <HI>Simon Willard</HI> being acquainted with them, by rea|&s;on of his Trade, became a chiefe in&s;trument in erecting this Town, the land they purcha&s;e of the <HI>Indians,</HI> and with much diffi|culties traveling through unknowne woods, and through watery &s;crampes, they di&s;cover the fitne&s;&s;e of the place, &s;ometimes pa&s;|&s;ing through the Thickets, where their hands are forced to make way for their bodies pa&s;&s;age, and their feete clambering over the cro&s;&s;ed Trees, which when they mi&s;&s;ed they &s;unke into an uncertaine bottome in water, and wade up to the knees, tum|bling &s;ometimes higher and &s;ometimes lower, wearied with this toile, they at end of this meete with a &s;corching plaine, yet not &s;o plaine, but that the ragged Bu&s;hes &s;cratch their legs fouly, even to wearing their &s;tockings to their bare skin in two or three houres; if they be not otherwi&s;e well defended with Bootes, or Bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">kings, their fle&s;h will be torne: (that &s;ome being forced to pa&s;&s;e on without further provi&s;ion) have had the bloud trickle downe at every &s;tep, and in the time of Summer the Sun ca&s;ts &s;uch a reflecting heate from the &s;weet Ferne, who&s;e &s;cent is very &s;trong &s;o that &s;ome herewith have beene very nere fainting, al|though very able bodies to undergoe much travell, and this not to be indured for one day, but for many, and verily did not the Lord incourage their naturall parts (with hopes of a new and
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&s;trange di&s;covery, expecting every houre to &s;ee &s;ome rare &s;ight never &s;eene before) they were never able to hold out, and breake through: but above all, the thir&s;ting de&s;ires the&s;e &s;ervants of Chri&s;t have had to Plant his Churches, among whom the fore|named Mr. <HI>Jones</HI> &s;hall not be forgotten.</P>
<Q><L><HI>IN De&s;art's depth where Wolves and Beares abide,</HI></L>
<L><HI>There</HI> Jones <HI>&s;its down a wary watch to keepe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>O're Chri&s;ts deare flock. who now are wandered wide;</HI></L>
<L><HI>But not from him, who&s;e eyes ne're clo&s;e with &s;leepe.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Surely it &s;utes thy melancholly minde,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus &s;olitary for to &s;pend thy dayes,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Much mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e thy &s;oule in Chri&s;t content doth finde,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To worke for him, who thee to joy will rai&s;e.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Leading thy &s;on to Land, yet more remote,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To feede his flock upon this We&s;terne wa&s;t:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Exhort him then Chri&s;ts Kingdome to promote;</HI></L>
<L><HI>That he with thee of la&s;ting joyes may ta&s;t.</HI></L></Q>
<P>Yet farther to tell of the hard labours this people found in Planting this Wilderne&s;&s;e, after &s;ome dayes &s;pent in &s;earch, toy|ling in the day time as formerly is &s;aid; like true <HI>Jacob,</HI> its they re&s;t them one the Rocks where the night takes them, their &s;hort repa&s;t is &s;ome &s;mall pittance of Bread, if it hold out, but as for Drinke they have plenty, the Countrey being well watered in all places that yet are found out, their farther hard&s;hip is to travell, &s;ometimes they know not whether, bewildred indeed without &s;ight of Sun, their compa&s;&s;e mi&s;carrying in crouding through the Bu&s;hes, they &s;adly &s;earch up and down for a known way, the <HI>Indians</HI> paths being not above one foot broad, &s;o that a man may travell many dayes and never find one. But to be &s;ure the directing Providence of Chri&s;t hath beene better unto them than many paths, as might here be in&s;erted, did not ha&s;t call my Pen away to more waighty matters; yet by the way a touch thus, it befell with a &s;ervant maide, who was travelling a|bout three or foure miles from one Towne to another, loo&s;ing her &s;elfe in the Woods, had very diligent &s;earch made after her for the &s;pace of three dayes, and could not po&s;&s;ible be found,
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then being given over as quite lo&s;t, after three dayes and nights, the Lord was plea&s;ed to bring her feeble body to her own home in &s;afety, to the great admiration of all that heard of it. This intricate worke no whit daunted the&s;e re&s;olved &s;ervants of Chri&s;t to goe on with the worke in hand, but lying in the open aire, while the watery Clouds poure down all the night &s;ea&s;on, and &s;ometimes the driving Snow di&s;&s;olving on their backs, they keep their wee cloathes warme with a continued fire, till the renew|ed morning give fre&s;h opportunity of further travell; after they have thus found out a place of aboad, they burrow them&s;elves in the Earth for their fir&s;t &s;helter under &s;ome Hill-&s;ide, ca&s;ting the Earth aloft upon Timber; they make a &s;moaky fire again&s;t the Earth at the highe&s;t &s;ide, and thus the&s;e poore &s;ervants of Chri&s;t provide &s;helter for them&s;elves, their Wives and little ones, keep|ing off the &s;hort &s;howers from their Lodgings, but the long raines penetrate through, to their great di&s;turbance in the night &s;ea&s;on: yet in the&s;e poore <HI>Wigwames</HI> (they &s;ing P&s;almes, pray and prai&s;e their God) till they can provide them hou&s;es, which ordinarily was not wont to be with many till the Earth, by the Lorde ble&s;|&s;ing, brought forth Bread to feed them, their Wives and little ones, which with &s;ore labours they attaine every one that can lift a hawe to &s;trike it into the Earth, &s;tanding &s;toutly to their labours, and teare up the Rootes and Bu&s;hes, which the fir&s;t yeare beares them a very thin crop, till the &s;oard of the Earth be rotten, and therefore they have been forced to cut their bread very thin for a long &s;ea&s;on. But the Lord is plea&s;ed to provide for them great &s;tore of Fi&s;h in the &s;pring time, and e&s;pecially Alewives about the bigne&s;&s;e of a Herring, many thou&s;ands of the&s;e, they u&s;ed to put under their <HI>Indian</HI> Corne, which they plant in Hills five foote a&s;under, and a&s;&s;uredly when the Lord created this Corne, hee had a &s;peciall eye to &s;upply the&s;e his peoples wants with it, for ordinarily five or &s;ix graines doth produce &s;ix hundred.</P>
<P>As for fle&s;h they looked not for any in tho&s;e times (although now they have plenty) unle&s;&s;e they could barter with the <HI>Indians</HI> for Veni&s;on or Rockoons, who&s;e fle&s;h is not much inferiour un|to Lambe, the toile of a new Plantation being like the labours of <HI>Hercules</HI> never at an end, yet are none &s;o barbarou&s;ly bene
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(under the <HI>Mattacu&s;ets</HI> e&s;pecially) but with a new Plantation they ordinarily gather into Church-fellow&s;hip, &s;o that Pa&s;tor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> and people &s;uffer the inconveniences together, which is a great meanes to &s;ea&s;on the &s;ore labours they undergoe, and verily the edge of their appetite was greater to &s;pirituall duties at their fir&s;t comming in time of wants, than afterward: many in new Plan|tations have been forced to go barefoot, and bareleg, till the&s;e latter dayes, and &s;ome in time of Fro&s;t and Snow: Yet were they then very healthy more then now they are: in this Wilder|ne&s;&s;e-worke men of E&s;tates &s;peed no better than others, and &s;ome much wor&s;e for want of being inured to &s;uch hard labour, having laid out their e&s;tate upon cattell at five and twenty pound a Cow, when they came to winter them with in-land Hay, and &s;eed upon &s;uch wild Fother as was never cut before, they could not hold out the Winter, but ordinarily the fir&s;t or &s;econd yeare after their comming up to a new Plantation, many of their Cat|tell died, e&s;pecially if they wanted Salt-mar&s;hes: and al&s;o tho&s;e, who &s;uppo&s;ed they &s;hould feed upon Swines fle&s;h were cut &s;hort, the Wolves commonly fea&s;ting them&s;elves before them, who never leave neither fle&s;h nor bones, if they be not &s;eared away be|fore they have made an end of their meale, as for tho&s;e who laid out their E&s;tate upon Sheepe, they &s;peed wor&s;t of any at the be|ginning (although &s;ome have &s;ped the be&s;t of any now) for untill the Land be often fed with other Cattell Sheepe cannot live; And therefore they never thrived till the&s;e latter dayes: Hor&s;e had then no better &s;ucce&s;&s;e, which made many an hone&s;t Gentleman travell a foot for a long time, and &s;ome have even peri&s;hed with extreame heate in their travells: as al&s;o the want of Engli&s;h graine, Wheate, Barly and Rie proved a &s;ore afflicti|on to &s;ome &s;tomacks, who could not live upon <HI>Indian</HI> Bread and water, yet were they compelled to it till Cattell increa&s;ed, and the Plowes could but goe: in&s;tead of Apples and Peares, they had Pomkins and Squa&s;hes of divers kinds, their lone&s;ome con|dition was very grievous to &s;ome, which was much aggravated by continuall feare of the <HI>Indians</HI> approach, who&s;e cruelties were much &s;poken of, and more e&s;pecially during the time of the <HI>Peqot</HI> wars.</P>
<P>Thus this poore people populate this howling De&s;art,
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marching manfully on (the Lord a&s;&s;i&s;ting) through the greate&s;t difficulties, and &s;ore&s;t labours that ever any with &s;uch weak means have done.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXXVII. <HI>Of the Thirteenth Church of Chri&s;t gathered at</HI> Hingham, 1636.</HEAD>
<P>AT this time al&s;o came to &s;hore the &s;ervant of Chri&s;t Ma&s;ter <HI>Peter Hubbord,</HI> whom the Lord was plea&s;ed to make u&s;e of for feeding his people in this Wilderne&s;&s;e, being called to Office by the Church of Chri&s;t at the Town of <HI>Hingham,</HI> which is &s;cituate upon the Sea coa&s;ts South-ea&s;t of <HI>Charles</HI> River, being a place nothing inferiour to their Neighbours for &s;cituation, and the people have much profited them&s;elves by tran&s;porting Tim|ber, Planke and Ma&s;t for Shipping to the Town of <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> as al&s;o Ceder and Pine-board to &s;upply the wants of other Townes, and al&s;o to remote parts, even as far as <HI>Barbadoes.</HI> They want not for Fi&s;h for them&s;elves and others al&s;o.</P>
<P>This Towne con&s;i&s;ted of about &s;ixty Families, the forme is &s;omewhat intricate to de&s;cribe, by rea&s;on of the Seas wa&s;ting crookes, where it beates upon a mouldering &s;hore, yet have they compleat &s;treetes in &s;ome places, the people joyned in Church covenant in this place, were much about an hundred &s;oules, but have been le&s;&s;ened by a &s;ad unbrotherly contention, which fell out among them, wa&s;ting them every way, continued already for &s;even yeares &s;pace, to the great griefe of all other Churches, who held out the right hand of fellow&s;hip unto them in Bro|therly communion, which may (the Lord helping) demon&s;tate to all the true Churches of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> the World throughout, al|though they be di&s;tanced by place or Nation, yet ought they ne|ver to take up &s;uch an Independent way, as to reject the advi&s;e and coun&s;ell of each other, for although the Lord <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> have compleated his commi&s;&s;ion in giving full power to every par|ticular Church to exerci&s;e all his Ordinances in and toward their owne body, yet hath the Lord &s;o di&s;pen&s;ed his gifts, that when the one want, the other &s;hall abound both in &s;pirituall and tem|porall,
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that by giving and receiving mutuall love may be main|tained, the intire truthes of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> continued, the Churches of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> &s;upported, &s;uperiority of any may be avoided, and all &s;uch as rai&s;e di&s;cord among Brethren may be retarded, the down|fall of Antichri&s;t, and re&s;tauration of that antient people of the Lord furthered, through the Unity of <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> Churches the World throughout: this Church I hope will give &s;ignall to others (the Lord a&s;&s;i&s;ting) that they &s;plit not upon the Rock. Of their Pa&s;tors I &s;hall &s;ay no more, but this at pre&s;ent.</P>
<Q><L><HI>OH</HI> Hubbard! <HI>why do'&s;t leave thy native &s;oile?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Is't not to war 'mong&s;t Chri&s;t's true worthies here,</HI></L>
<L><HI>What wilt give out, thou'lt loo&s;e thy former toile?</HI></L>
<L><HI>And &s;tarve Chri&s;ts flock, which he hath purcha&s;t deare.</HI></L>
<L><HI>What would's thou have, &s;peake plaine, truth bides the light:</HI></L>
<L><HI>To Gods word goe, it's that mu&s;t triall be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hath cruell &s;word, not het one thy &s;ide right,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Increa&s;e in love, and thou wilt Justice &s;ee.</HI></L>
<L><HI>With humble, holy, learned men conver&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thee and thy flock they would in one unite,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And all the fogs of &s;elfe conceit disper&s;e;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thee and thy &s;ons the Lord Chri&s;t guide aright.</HI></L></Q>
<P>Some other of the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t arrived this yeare 1635. As Mr. <HI>Flint,</HI> Mr. <HI>Carter,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Walton</HI> and &s;ome others, of whom we &s;hall &s;peake (by the Lord a&s;&s;i&s;tance) in due time and place, in the meane time here is to be remembred Mr. <HI>Thomas Flint</HI> a &s;incere &s;ervant of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> who had a faire yearly Revenue in <HI>England,</HI> but having improved it for Chri&s;t, by ca&s;ting it in the common Trea&s;ury, as it appeares in the former part of this Hi&s;tory, he waites on the Lord for doubling his Talent, if it &s;hall &s;eeme good unto him &s;o to doe, and the meane time &s;pending his per&s;on for the good of his people in the Office of a Magi|&s;trate.</P>
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<L><HI>AT Chri&s;ts commands, thou leav'&s;t thy lands, and native habitation:</HI></L>
<L><HI>His folke to aid, in De&s;art &s;traid, for Gospells Exaltation,</HI></L>
<L>Flint Hardy <HI>thou, wilt not allow, the underminding Fox,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With &s;ubtill skill, Christsvines to &s;pill, thy &s;word &s;hall give the~ knocks.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet thou ba&s;e du&s;t, and all thou ha&s;t is Chri&s;t's, and by him thou:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Art made to be, &s;uch as we &s;ee, hold fa&s;t for ever now.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXXVIII. <HI>Of the placing down of many Souldiers of Chri&s;t, and gathering the Church of Chri&s;t at</HI> Sanowitch <HI>in</HI> Plimouth <HI>patten, and further &s;upply for the Churches of</HI> Ip&s;wich <HI>and</HI> Linne.</HEAD>
<P>THis yeare 1636. Sir <HI>Henry Vaine,</HI> was cho&s;en Governour, and <HI>John Winthrope</HI> E&s;quire Deputy Governour, the number of Freemen added were about eighty three. This yeare came over the much honoured Mr. <HI>Fenwick</HI> a godly and able in&s;trument to a&s;&s;i&s;t in helping to uphold the civill Government of the &s;econd, and third Colonies here planted, by the Divine Providence of the mo&s;t high God, hee having purcha&s;ed the Plantation of <HI>Say|brooke.</HI> Fore, became a good incourager to the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Hartford,</HI> where the reverend Mr. <HI>Hooker,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Stone</HI> were Officers. In remembrance of whom a few lines take here.</P>
<Q><L>FEnwick <HI>among this Chri&s;tian throng, to wilderne&s;&s;e doth fiee:</HI></L>
<L><HI>There learn'd ha&s;t thou, yet further how, Chri&s;t &s;hould advanced be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who for that end, doth back thee &s;end, their Senator to &s;it;</HI></L>
<L><HI>In native &s;oile, for him &s;till toile, while thou ha&s;t &s;ea&s;on fit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His Churches peace, do thou not cea&s;e, with their increa&s;e to bring,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That they and thee, in la&s;ting Glee may Hallelujaeh &s;ing.</HI></L></Q>
<P>The beginning of this yeare was &s;pent in accommodating the&s;e new come Gue&s;ts in the former yeare, who&s;e numbers was neer about three thou&s;and, and now they began to be per&s;waded they &s;hould be a &s;etled people, not minding the pre&s;ent dangers they were in, as you &s;hall hear anon, onely in the meane time
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take notice of further &s;upply the Lord Chri&s;t was plea&s;ed to &s;end before the cattell increa&s;ed to its &s;trength, among whom the aged, and long continned Souldiers of Chri&s;t Je&s;us Mr. <HI>Partrich,</HI> as al&s;o M^r. <HI>Nathaniel Rogers</HI> an able di&s;putant, who&s;e mouth the Lord was plea&s;ed to fill with many arguments for the defence of his truth, Mr. <HI>Samuel Whiting,</HI> who hath al&s;o, with keeping to the patterne of &s;ound and whole&s;ome Doctrine, much &s;topped the &s;preading Leaven of the Phari&s;es, Mr. <HI>Partrich</HI> was called to Office at a Towne then named <HI>Dukes Berry</HI> in <HI>Plimoth</HI> Go|vernment, &s;cituated upon the Sea-coa&s;t, where the people of Chri&s;t being gathered into a Church, Ordained him to be their Pa&s;tor.</P>
<Q><L><HI>IN thine owne &s;oile well rooted in the truth,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou did&s;t &s;tand fa&s;t by Prelates power unbow'd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But</HI> Laude <HI>layes load on Gods &s;olke to his</HI> Ruth,</L>
<L><HI>By whom thou mayst, no longer, be alow'd.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then</HI> Partrich <HI>thou thy wings begins to &s;pread</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of Faith and Love to flie the&s;e long Seas o're,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To wilderne&s;&s;e where thou Christs Lambes ha&s;t fed;</HI></L>
<L><HI>With's &s;incere Milke this fourteene yeare and more.</HI></L>
<L><HI>But now with age thy Almon Tree doth flouri&s;h,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet &s;preading like the Palme Tree do&s;t thou &s;tand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I'th hou&s;e of God Chri&s;t Roote thy Boughs do nouri&s;h;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And for thy head he hath a Crowne in's hand.</HI></L></Q>
<P>Mr. <HI>Nathaniel Rogers</HI> being landed, after a long and tedious Voyage at Sea, was welcomed by the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Ip&s;|witch,</HI> where the Reverened and Judicious Mr. <HI>Nathaniel Ward,</HI> although a very able Preacher, and much de&s;ired, yet for &s;ome naturall infirmity (him&s;elfe being be&s;t privy unto) de&s;ired to be unbound of his ingagement with his people in point of Office: that being left to his liberty, hee might Preach more &s;eldom, in who&s;e &s;tead the Church called to Office this Reverend and Holy Man of God Mr. <HI>Nathaniel Rogers,</HI> who&s;e labours in this <HI>We&s;terne</HI> World, have been very much: a very &s;weet heavenly minded man, of whom the Author is bold to &s;ay as followeth:</P>
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<L><HI>THrough boy&s;trous Seas thy brittle frame of Man</HI></L>
<L><HI>It &s;afely is in Chri&s;t's &s;weet armes infold,</HI></L>
<L><HI>No wonder then thou weake du&s;t &s;totly can</HI></L>
<L><HI>Preach Chri&s;ts in's truths, why he doth thee uphold?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Why</HI> Rogers <HI>lee thee over-Sea hath fett</HI></L>
<L><HI>Again&s;t the day of Battell, now at hand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>No &s;ooner are thy feet one tho&s;e &s;hores &s;et,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But Leaders do Chri&s;t truth withstand.</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;ndaunted thou the&s;e We&s;terne Fields do&s;t enter,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Filld with the &s;pirits ready &s;word at hand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ingage thou wilt thy &s;elfe, 'mong&s;t hard&s;hips venter;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Valiant thou fought&s;t under thy Chri&s;t's command.</HI></L>
<L><HI>And yet with all men would&s;t have peace thy aime,</HI></L>
<L><HI>If deepe to wound, and &s;weetly then to &s;ay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Come to my Chri&s;t, hee'l heale your wounds againe;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Can&s;t but &s;ubmit hee'l never &s;ay thee nay.</HI></L>
<L><HI>With learned Method thou Gods Word divides:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Long labouring that each &s;oule may take his part,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy gratious speech with grave impre&s;&s;ion bides;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thus Christ by thee is pleas'd to win the heart.</HI></L>
<L><HI>My Mu&s;e lament,</HI> Nathaniel <HI>is decaying:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Why do&s;t thou grutch him Heaven, &s;uch toile hath had,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In Chri&s;t his Vineyard rather be thou praying;</HI></L>
<L><HI>That in Chri&s;ts armes he re&s;ting may be glad.</HI></L></Q>
<P>Mr. <HI>Samuel Whiting</HI> was well welcomed by the Church of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> at <HI>Cawgu&s;t,</HI> which Towne, being now of age to receive an Engli&s;h name, was called <HI>Linne,</HI> where this Reverend man now hath his aboade.</P>
<Q><L><HI>THy ardent Love, the countle&s;&s;e Oceans mea&s;ure</HI></L>
<L><HI>Quench cannot, for thy love on him is &s;et,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who of true love hath aie the depthle&s;&s;e Trea&s;ure,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Doth thine increa&s;e, lea&s;t thou &s;hould'&s;t, his forget.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Love Chri&s;t in's truths my</HI> Whiting <HI>thou ha&s;t done:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou wilt not &s;uffer with their leaven &s;ower,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fal&s;e Doctrines 'mong&s;t thy tender flock to run;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Timely cut off wilt thou all tho&s;e devour.</HI></L>
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Samuel <HI>mourne not thy &s;trength in De&s;art's spent:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rather rejoyce thy Chri&s;t makes u&s;e of thee</HI></L>
<L><HI>Soules to convert, his Kingdomes large extent</HI></L>
<L><HI>From Ea&s;t to We&s;t &s;hall &s;hortly &s;etled be.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thine Eyes and Eares have &s;een and heard great things</HI></L>
<L><HI>Done by thy Christ, &s;hewes he thy toile accepts,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Though thy weake fle&s;h weaker to du&s;t hee'l bring;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy quickned &s;pirit increast in his joy leaps.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXXIX. <HI>Of the fir&s;t appearing in the Field, of the enemies of Christs people in point of-Reformation.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd now to follow our fir&s;t &s;imile of a Souldier, the Lord Chri&s;t having &s;afely landed many a valiant Souldier of his on the&s;e We&s;terne &s;hores, drawes hither al&s;o the common enemies to Reformation, both in Doctrine and Di&s;cipline; But it was for like end, as the Lord &s;ometime drew <HI>Si&s;era</HI> the Captaine of <HI>Jabins</HI> army to the River <HI>Ki&s;hon</HI> for their de&s;truction, onely herein was a wide difference; there <HI>Si&s;era</HI> was delivered into the hands of a Woman, and here <HI>Si&s;era</HI> was a woman; their wea|pons and warre was carnall, the&s;e &s;pirituall; there <HI>Jabin</HI> was but a man, here <HI>Jabin</HI> was the common enemy of mans &s;alvation.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1636. the Angels of the &s;everall Churches of Chri&s;t in <HI>N. England</HI> &s;ounding forth their &s;ilver Trumpets, heard ever and anon the jarring &s;ound of ratling Drums in their eares, &s;triking up an alarum to the battell, it being a frequent thing publikely to oppo&s;e the pure and perfect truths of Chri&s;t (deli|vered by the mouth of his Mini&s;ters) and that by way of que&s;tion as the Phari&s;es, Sadduces and Herodians did Chri&s;t. But to bring this di&s;orderly worke of theirs into &s;ome order, for a&s;&s;uredly could the Author come up to relate the full of the matter in hand, it would through the mercy of Chri&s;t make much for the good of Gods people the World throughout, and helpe to di&s;|cover the la&s;t (I hope) but mo&s;t &s;ubtile practi&s;es of Satan to hin|der the Re&s;tauration of the purity of Chri&s;ts Ordinances in his Churches in all places; As al&s;o u&s;ed by him and his in&s;truments
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to divert the hands of tho&s;e, to whom it belongs, from pulling downe Antichri&s;t, to which end he &s;tirreth up &s;ome of his in&s;tru|ments (well educated in the Masking &s;choole of Hippocri&s;y) to take upon them this long Voyage, giving them in charge by all meanes to carry it more clo&s;e, then his Je&s;uites had done, and for their paines they &s;hould have the honours to be counted &s;uch, as were of a &s;harper fight, and deeper di&s;cerning then any others. Satan, knowing right well that at the fall of Antichri&s;t hee mu&s;t be chained up for a thou&s;and years, &s;trives with all the wicked craft his long experienced maliciou&s;ne&s;&s;e could po&s;&s;ibly invent, to uphold the &s;ame, having already per&s;waded many that his Kingdome was wholy ruinated with our Engli&s;h Nation, and &s;o di&s;waded them a long time from further pro&s;ecuting again&s;t him. But Antichri&s;ts Kingdome, as it plainly appeares by Scrip|ture, con&s;i&s;ts chiefly in two parts, his deceaveible Doctrines, and his Kingly power. The fir&s;t of the&s;e being in mea&s;ure aboli&s;hed, the latter was &s;till retained by the Prelacy, and &s;ome Lording Presbytery in greater or le&s;&s;er mea&s;ure, as they could attaine un|to it.</P>
<P>Now Satan, who is daily walking to and fro compa&s;&s;ing the Earth, &s;eeing how the&s;e re&s;olved Souldiers of Chri&s;t in <HI>New England</HI> with indefatigable paines laboured, not onely the finall ruine of Antichri&s;t, in both, but al&s;o the advance of Chri&s;ts Kingdome, in &s;eting up daily Churches according to his fir&s;t in|&s;titution. Wherefore he &s;ets upon a new way to &s;top (if it were po&s;&s;ible) this worke of Reformation, and &s;eeing no other way will &s;erve, he &s;tirs up in&s;truments to cry down Antichri&s;t as much as the mo&s;t, I and more too, but by this project they &s;hould leade people as much out of the way on the other hand, and in the Doctrinall part of Antichri&s;ts Kingdome, fall to more hor|rid Bla&s;phemies then the Papi&s;t (as God willing) you &s;hall heare &s;ome of them did, namely the <HI>Gorteni&s;t,</HI> who mo&s;t bla&s;phemou&s;ly profe&s;&s;e them&s;elves to be per&s;onally the Chri&s;t: and as for the other part of his Kingdome, namely the power or Dominion of the bea&s;t, this they &s;hould with all violence batter downe al&s;o, but it mu&s;t be none other then to make way for their owne ex|altation, and pay them their wages in the former page promi&s;ed them, as al&s;o withall to overthow the authority Chri&s;t hath or|dained
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to be continued in his Churches, in and under him, and furthermore to lock up the Sword of Civill Government for ever, e&s;pecially in matters that concerne the foure fir&s;t Com|mands of God, a cunning way to &s;ave the bea&s;ts head whole.</P>
<P>You have now heard of the intention, you &s;hall now &s;ee their actions. The <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> in his boundle&s;&s;e mercy give all his people eyes to &s;ee, and hearts to believe, that after they have in mea&s;ure e&s;caped the filthy pollutions of the bea&s;t, they may not againe be intangled with the&s;e damnabled Doctrines, &s;tealing away their hearts by degrees, under a &s;eeming &s;hew of pulling down Antichri&s;t. The Emba&s;&s;adors of <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> having full li|berty to deliver their ma&s;ters minde, Preach unto all the Doctrine of Free grace, be&s;eeching them to be reconciled unto God in Chri&s;t, and that the revealed will of God is, that all &s;hould be &s;aved, and come to the knowledge of the truth, and that God hath given his onely begotten Son, <HI>That who&s;oever believeth in him &s;hould not peri&s;h, but have everla&s;ting Life.</HI> Yet withall mind|ing them that Faith is the gift of God, and none can come un|to Chri&s;t, but &s;uch as the Father drawes, and withall that the whole will not &s;ee any need of the Phi&s;icians, but the &s;ick, adding al&s;o that none can come to the &s;ight of his &s;ickne&s;&s;e or dead con|dition but by the Law of God, unle&s;&s;e they be quicker &s;ighted then the Apo&s;tle; They indevour al&s;o to build up others in their holy Faith, that they might come to &s;ee the Love of God in Chri&s;t, which pa&s;&s;eth knowledge, and to this end they &s;hew them the fruits of Faith which worketh by love, and that love will be obedient to all the commands of Chri&s;t, who &s;aith, <HI>if you love me keepe my Commandements;</HI> And further that Faith purifies the heart, and that a con&s;tant &s;upply mu&s;t be had from Chri&s;t. With the&s;e and the like &s;ound and whol&s;ome truths the Mini|&s;ters of Chri&s;t feeds their &s;everall flocks in <HI>New England,</HI> drawing their Doctrines plainly from their Text, and &s;ub&s;tantially back|ing them with &s;tore of Scripture, and undeniable rea&s;on, and then delivering to every Man his portion.</P>
<P>But this good old way would not &s;erve the turne with cer|taine Sectaries that were hither come, who like cunning Sophi|&s;ters, &s;eeing the bent of the peoples hearts (after &s;o many mer|cies received) was to magnifie the rich Grace of God in Chri&s;t;
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they began to tell the people (yet very privately) that the mo&s;t, if not all the Mini&s;ters among them Preached a Covenant of workes, either cour&s;e or fine, and with a what doe you &s;ay to this. They begin to &s;pread their Errors and Herefies, laying the foundation of them as nere the truth as po&s;&s;ible they can, the ea&s;ier to deceive, but in the pro&s;ecution, to be &s;ure they ran far enough from it, but to begin; Fir&s;t, they quarrell with the Doctrine of Faith in Chri&s;t, and &s;ay, a Soule is ju&s;tified with|out it.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XL. <HI>Of the cunning policy of Satan in that machevillian Principle, divide and overcome, and of the two fir&s;t dividing Principles, by which many errors were brought in.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd verily Satane policy here (as in all places where the Lord Chri&s;t is acknowledged) was to keepe men from that one right way, by the which hee applies him&s;elfe to the &s;oule, no marvell then if &s;o many Errours ari&s;e, like tho&s;e fained heads of <HI>Hidra,</HI> as fa&s;t as one is cut off two &s;tand up in the roome, and chiefly about the uniting of a &s;oule to Chri&s;t by Faith. Their Errors in this point they reported to be the judgement of the Reverend and Judicious Mr. <HI>John Cotten;</HI> But hee having &s;poken for him&s;elfe in his an&s;wer to Mr. <HI>Baily,</HI> I forbeare, onely this by the way, take notice of the&s;e &s;ubtill Projectors, the Erroni&s;t I meane, who perceiving this holy man of God Mr. <HI>Cotten</HI> was, and yet is in great e&s;teeme with the people of God, for the great grace Chri&s;t hath be&s;towed upon him in his deepe di&s;cerning the my&s;teries of godline&s;&s;e, as al&s;o di&s;cerning &s;ome little difference b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tweene him, and the other Elders about this point, commene upon it, and in large at their plea&s;ure, and then in daily venting their deceivable Doctrines, like &s;ubtill Logicians, bring in this as their &s;tronge&s;t argument in the la&s;t place. I'le tell you Friend, Neighbour, Brother, if you will forbeare to &s;peake of it till you hear farther, this is the judgement of M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Cotten,</HI> when he, it may be had never heard of it, or at lea&s;t wi&s;e, when they brought this their ba&s;tardly brat to him, they put another vizard on the face
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of it: but that you may under&s;tand their way of broaching their abominable errors, it was in dividing tho&s;e things the Lord hath united in his worke of conver&s;ion continued, carrying on a Soule to Heaven in the&s;e foure Particulars.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, in dividing betweene the word and the word, under pre|tence <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Dividing betweene the Word, and the Word.</NOTE> of a legall Go&s;pell, per&s;wading the people their Mini&s;ters were legall Preachers, teaching them little better then Popery, and unfit for Go&s;pell Churches, denying them to be any Mini|&s;ters of Chri&s;t that Preach any preparation worke, by &s;hewing men what the Law requires. Here's nothing &s;ayes one of them, but Preaching out of the Law and the Prophets, truly &s;ayes an|other of them I have not heard a pure Go&s;pell Sermon from any of them, but &s;ure they were both troubled with the Lethargy, or read not the Go&s;pell them&s;elves, for they may finde the A|po&s;tles, yea, and Chri&s;t him&s;elfe Preached good Go&s;pell &s;ure, out of the Law and the Prophets.</P>
<P>Secondly, in &s;eparating Chri&s;t and his Graces, in manife&s;ting him&s;elfe to be in the Soule, and this they &s;ay makes much for the <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Chri&s;t and his Graces.</NOTE> magnifying of Free-grace, and indeed they made it &s;o free, that the &s;oule that receives it &s;hall never ta&s;te any of it by their con|&s;ent, but remaine &s;till a dry branch as before; the&s;e legall Phari|&s;es, &s;ayes one of them, tell us of a thing they call inherent grace, and of a man being made a new creature, but I am &s;ure the be&s;t of them goe on in their legall duties and performances &s;till, &s;or|rowing for &s;inne hearing of Sermons, ob&s;erving duty Morning and Evening, and many &s;uch like matters. Tu&s;h man &s;ayes an|other of them, you &s;hall hear more then this, I was di&s;cour&s;ing with one of their Schola&s;ticall Preachers Di&s;ciples, a profe&s;&s;ed con|vert, and yet when he came to pray, he beg'd for forgivene&s;&s;e of his &s;ins, I asked him why he u&s;ed that vaine repetition, &s;ince hee did believe he was ju&s;tified by Chri&s;t already, and hee made me an an&s;wer not worth repeating, but when I told him God could &s;ee no &s;inne in his people, no more then I could &s;ee that which was covered clo&s;e from my eye &s;ight; hee told mee I &s;pake little le&s;&s;e then bla&s;phemy, &s;o ignorant are the&s;e men, and their learned guides al&s;o; who per&s;wade them the more they have of the in-dwelling of the Spirit of Chri&s;t, the better they &s;hall be inabled to the&s;e legall duties. Nay, quoth the other, I can tell you
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more then all this, they make it an evidence of their good e&s;tate, even their &s;anctification, and yet the&s;e men would make people believe they are again&s;t Popery.</P>
<P>By this di&s;cour&s;e of theirs, you may &s;ee the manner how the&s;e Erronious, and Hereticall per&s;ons batter off the fruit from the goodly branches of Chri&s;ts vines &amp; make bare the flouri&s;hing trees planted in the hou&s;e of the Lord, and yet profe&s;&s;e them&s;elves to be Scholars of the upper forme, that have learned as far as their Ma&s;ters can teach them, but let me tell you friends you'l prove but trewants if you fall thus to Robbing of Orchards, and its an offence far beyond petty Larceny to rob Chri&s;ts Garden, let your pretenees be what they will: can it po&s;&s;ible be for the magnifying of Chri&s;ts Grace that the branches growing upon his root &s;hou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d remaine fruitle&s;&s;e? no a&s;&s;uredly, herein God is glorified that his people bring forth much fruit, yet many of the&s;e new Go&s;pel|lers had another plea, hypocrites have a &s;eeming &s;hew of Saints graces by which they deceive them&s;elves and others; And there|fore becau&s;e Felons and Traytors coyne counterfeit Gold, there|fore true Gold &s;hould not pa&s;&s;e for current, but the intent of the Author is to pro&s;ecute the Hi&s;tory, the&s;e errours being con|&s;uted already by the able &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, whom the Lord in his mercy brought hither for that purpo&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XLI. <HI>Of the two latter dividing Principles under which the&s;e Erroni&s;ts fought.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe third dividing tenent by which the&s;e per&s;ons pro&s;ecuted their errors at this time, was betweene the Word of God, <NOTE PLACE="marg">3. The Word, and the &s;pirit.</NOTE> and the Spirit of God, and here the&s;e Sectaries had many prety knacks to delude withall, and e&s;pecially to plea&s;e the Femall Sex, they told of rare Revelations of things to come from the &s;pirit (as they &s;ay) it was onely devi&s;ed to weaken the Word of the Lord in the mouth of his Mini&s;ters, and withall to put both ignorant and unlettered Men and Women, in a po&s;ture of Preaching to a multitude, that they might be prai&s;ed for their able Tongue. Come along with me &s;ayes one of them, i'le bring
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you to a Woman that Preaches batter Go&s;pell then any of your black-coates that have been at the Ninnever&s;ity, a Woman of another kinde of &s;pirit, who hath had many Revelations of things to come, and for my part, &s;aith hee, I had rather hear &s;uch a one that &s;peakes from the meere motion of the &s;pirit, without any &s;tudy at all, then any of your learned Scollers, although they may be fuller of Scripture (I) and admit they may &s;peake by the helpe of the &s;pirit, yet the other goes beyond them. G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ntle Reader, thinke not the&s;e things fained, becau&s;e I name not the parties, or that here is no witne&s;&s;e to prove them, &s;hould I &s;o do: neither of both is the cau&s;e I a&s;&s;ure you, but being &s;omewhat acquainted with my own weakene&s;&s;e, &s;hould the Lord withdraw the light of his word, and al&s;o I verily believe &s;ome of them are truly turned againe to the truth, the which I wi&s;h to all, yet by relating the &s;tory all men may &s;ee what a &s;pirit of giddine&s;&s;e they were given up to, and &s;ome of them to &s;trong delu&s;ions, even to mo&s;t horrid and damnable bla&s;phemies, having itching eares, or rather proud de&s;ires to become Teachers of others, when they gro&s;ly erred in the fir&s;t Principles of Religion them&s;elves. There was a man in one of the farthe&s;t Townes of the <HI>Mattacu|&s;ets</HI> Government, where they had no Mini&s;ters for the pre&s;ent, he being much de&s;irous to &s;hew himfelfe &s;ome body in talking to as many as hee could get to hear him one the Sabbath day, mi&s;|&s;ing &s;ome of his Auditors, he meets with one of them &s;ome few dayes after, they pa&s;&s;ing over the water together, where were you quoth he on the Sabbath day that you were not at the meet|ing? we had a notable piece of Prophecy, quoth the man that was mi&s;&s;ing, who was it that Preached? The other replying not: his Wife being in pre&s;ence, an&s;wered; it was my husband, nay wife, quoth he thou &s;houlds not have told him, teach him to &s;tay at home another time.</P>
<P>By this and divers other &s;uch like matters, which might be here in&s;erted, you may &s;ee how the&s;e Sectaries love the prehe|minence, and for this end &s;eeke to deprive the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t inv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">igling as many as they can in the head, that they take to much upon them (ju&s;t like the rebellious <HI>Korath, Dathan,</HI> and <HI>Abiram)</HI> &s;coffing at their Scholler-like way of Preaching, where|in the gro&s;&s;e di&s;&s;imulation of the&s;e erronious per&s;ons hath ap|peared
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exceedingly, as for in&s;tance fir&s;t of a Woman, even the grand M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is of all the re&s;t, who denied the Re&s;urrection from the dead &s;hee and her con&s;orts mightily rayling again&s;t learning, per&s;wading all they could to take heed of being &s;poyled by it, and in the meane time, &s;hee her &s;elfe would di&s;pute (for&s;ooth) and to &s;hew her skill that way, here is a falacy quoth &s;he in this &s;yliogi&s;me: as al&s;o one of the <HI>Gortoni&s;ts,</HI> as &s;hallow a pated Scholler as my &s;elfe, far from under&s;tanding Latine, much le&s;&s;e any other Language the Scriptures were writ in, yet when hee would hold out &s;ome of the be&s;t of his fal&s;e Doctrines, as name|ly, that there were no other Devills but wicked men, nor no &s;uch thing as &s;in, Quoth he that place in the fourth <HI>P&s;alme,</HI> where men commonly read, <HI>&s;tand in awe and &s;in not,</HI> in the originall it is read <HI>&s;tand in awe and mi&s;&s;e not.</HI> But to go on, at this time there were many &s;trange Revelations told both of Men and Women, as true &s;ome of them &s;aid as the Scripture, &s;o that &s;urely had this Sect gone on awhile, they would have made a new Bible, and their chief Mi&s;tris when &s;he was &s;hipt for <HI>N. England,</HI> what will you &s;ay quoth &s;he, and it hath beene revealed to me that we &s;hall be there in &s;ix weekes, and one of the femall <HI>Gortoni&s;ts</HI> &s;aid, &s;he was a Pro|ph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">te&s;&s;e, and it was revealed unto her, that &s;hee mu&s;t prophecy unto the People in the &s;ame words the Prophet <HI>Ezekiel</HI> did, as al&s;o a lu&s;ty big man to defend this tenent held forth to his Pa&s;tor before the whole Congregation, that the &s;pirit of Revelation came to him as he was drinking a pipe of Tobacco.</P>
<P>The fourth dividing way to bring in their Here&s;ies, was to <NOTE PLACE="marg">4. Chri&s;t, and his Ordinan|ces.</NOTE> devide betweene Chri&s;t and his Ordinances, and here they plaid their game to purpo&s;e, even to ca&s;ting down of all Ordinances as carnall, and that becau&s;e they were polluted by the Ordinance of man, as &s;ome of the&s;e Sectaries have &s;aid to the Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t, you have ca&s;t off the cro&s;&s;e in Bapti&s;me, but you &s;hould do well to ca&s;t off Bapti&s;me it &s;elfe; as al&s;o for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, for to make u&s;e of Bread, or the juce of a &s;illy Grape to repre&s;ent the Body and Bloud of Chri&s;t, they accounted it as bad as Negromancy in the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t to pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">forme it. But &s;eeing there will be occa&s;ion to bring in a bed|roule of the&s;e Bla&s;phemies in the yeare (43) and (44) take the le&s;&s;e here; onely minde that the&s;e per&s;ons being fir&s;t bewildred
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in the deniall of Infants being Baptized, could neither finde right faith to be Baptized into, nor yet any per&s;on rightly con&s;tituted to Baptize remaining. Seekers they came to this, but yet here mu&s;t not be omitted the &s;lights the&s;e Erroni&s;ts had to &s;houlder out the Officers Chri&s;t hath ordained, and &s;et up in his Churches; and verily in this point they &s;ided directly with the Papi&s;t and Prelates, although in mo&s;t of the other they went directly out of the way on the other hand. Ignorance &s;ay the Papi&s;t is the Mo|ther of devotion, its better &s;ay the Prote&s;tant Prelates to have (a blind &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>John)</HI> one that cannot tell how to Preach, provided he will conforme to our Ceremonies, than to have one that will Presch con&s;tantly, and not conforme al&s;o: the&s;e Erroni&s;t, &s;hew|ing them&s;elves to be whelps of the &s;ame litter, Cry out again&s;t a learned Presbitery, as the onely way to captivate liberty, and herein the tran&s;formed Devill came to &s;hew his Hornes for why, his errors would not take where the people were followers of their &s;eeing guids, and if it be well noted, here is the Ma&s;ter-piece of all their knavery, the which comes in after this manner, The Lording Prelacy, Popes, Cardinalls, Bi&s;hops, Deanes, &amp;c. Were ordinarily brought up at the Univer&s;ity to learning, and have mo&s;t tyrannically abu&s;ed it: u&s;urping over the People of Chri&s;t, and exerci&s;ed mo&s;t inhumane and barbarous cruelty up|on them; as al&s;o the Presbyterian Kirke by the&s;e Provinciall Cla&s;&s;es, men of learning having robbed the particular Congrega|tions of their ju&s;t and lawfull priviledges, which Chri&s;t hath pur|cha&s;ed for them. Each Congregation of his being inve&s;ted with full power to Admini&s;ter all the Ordinances he hath ordained, in and toward their owne Members; and further learned men in &s;ome places, feeding the people for their Tith-&s;ake in a Pari&s;hi|oniall way, de&s;ire the upholding thereof, le&s;t their fat Benefices &s;hould grow leane.</P>
<P>Now the Redemption of the people of Chri&s;t out of all the&s;e bondages, being full of difficulty to attaine, as is abundantly wit|ne&s;&s;ed in the great hard&s;hip Gods people have undergon in this Wilderne&s;&s;e-worke; as al&s;o much more by that bloudy war &s;o long continved in our Native Country, and the two adjacent Kingdomes. This makes a very faire bottome for tho&s;e to build upon, who would have the &s;luce of authority in the Officers
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of Chri&s;ts Churches plucked up, that &s;o their errors might flow in like a floud; And therefore they impannell a Jury of their own Sectaries to pa&s;&s;e upon all &s;uch as put a higher e&s;teem upon their Pa&s;tors and Teachers (in point of di&s;cerning the holy things of God) then upon other men, who returne in their Verdit as finding them guilty of the crime above expre&s;&s;ed, either as party, or privy abetters unto them, upon this the Vote goes for ad|vancing &s;uch men as will let them out line enough for &s;uch as will worke without wages, and give to every man liberty to exerci&s;e a large con&s;cience, provided it be his own, and as for authority they would have none u&s;ed, as being a thing two oppo&s;ite to li|berty. My friend ca&s;t off as much of thy owne power as thou can&s;t, and beware of Lording it over Gods Heritage, but I pray thee let Chri&s;t alone with his, which he hath given to his Pa&s;tors and Teachers in admini&s;tring the holy things of God, peculiar to their Office, and tremble all you Presbyterians, who to plea&s;e the people pro&s;trate the authority Chri&s;t hath put upon the El|drs of his Churches as Officers, to the re&s;olute liberty of man: the people may and ought to call them to Office, to the which Chri&s;t hath united double honour and authority, and appointed them to be had in high e&s;teeme for their worke-&s;ake, being Emba&s;&s;adors of <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</HI> This may no man take from them, nor yet they them&s;elves ca&s;t off, and yet all this makes nothing for the Papall, Prelaticall, Cla&s;&s;icall or Pari&s;hionall authority of the Presb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tery, for it holds onely in their ruling well, while they rule for Chri&s;t, they mu&s;t and &s;hall have the power hee hath put <NOTE PLACE="marg">Foure &s;core Errors derived from the&s;e four heads, and &s;pread abroad in <HI>N. England&punc;</HI></NOTE> upon their Office. From the&s;e foure dividing Tenents by the cunning art of the&s;e deceivers, were fore&s;core gro&s;&s;e errours broached &s;ecretly, &s;liding in the darke like the Plague, proving very infectious to &s;ome of the Churches of CHRIST in their Members.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. LXII. <HI>Of &s;ad effects of the pitifull and erronious Doctrines broached by the Sectuaries.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe number of the&s;e infectious per&s;ons increa&s;ing now, have|ing drawn a great party on their &s;ide, and &s;ome con&s;ider|able
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per&s;ons they grow bold, and dare que&s;tion the &s;ound and whole &s;ome truths delivered in publick by the Mini&s;ters of <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI> Their Church-meetings are full of Di&s;putes in points of differ|ence, and their love. Fea&s;ts are not free from &s;pots, in their Courts of civill Ju&s;tice &s;ome men utter their Speeches in matters of Religion very ambiguou&s;ly, and among all &s;orts of per&s;ons a great talke of new light, but verily it proved but old darkne&s;&s;e, &s;uch as &s;ometime over-&s;hadowed the City of <HI>Mun&s;ter;</HI> But ble&s;&s;ed be the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t,</HI> who now declared him&s;elfe to be a helpe at hand for his poore <HI>New England</HI> Churches, being now in their infancy, who&s;e condition at pre&s;ent was very dolorous, and full of difficulties, in&s;omuch that the better part of this new tran&s;ported people &s;tood &s;till many of them gazing one upon another, like Sheepe let loo&s;e to feed on fre&s;h pa&s;ture, being &s;top|ped and &s;tartled in their cour&s;e by a Kennell of devouring Wolves. The weaker &s;ort wavered much, and &s;uch as were more growne Chri&s;tians hardly dur&s;t di&s;cover the truth they held one unto another, the fogs of errour increa&s;ing the bright beames of the glorious Go&s;pell of our <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> in the Mouth of his Mini&s;ters could not be di&s;cerned through this thick mi&s;t by ma|ny, and that &s;weete refre&s;hing warmth that was formerly felt from the &s;pirits influence, was now turned (in the&s;e Erroni&s;ts) to a hot inflamation of their owne conceited Revelations, ulcer|ating and bringing little le&s;&s;e then frenzy or madne&s;&s;e to the pa|tient, the Congregation of the people of God began to be for|&s;aken, and the weaker Sex prevailed &s;o farre, that they &s;et up a Prie&s;t of their own Profe&s;&s;ion and Sex, who was much thronged after, abominably wre&s;ting the Scriptures to their own de&s;tructi|on: this Ma&s;ter&punc;piece of Womens wit, drew many Di&s;ciples after her, and to that end boldly in&s;inuated her &s;elfe into the favour of none of the meane&s;t, being al&s;o backed with the Sor|cery of a &s;econd, who had much conver&s;e with the Devill by her own confe&s;&s;ion, and did, to the admiration of tho&s;e that heard her, utter many &s;peeches in the Latine Tongue, as it were in a trance, this Woman was wonted to give drinkes to other Wo|men to cau&s;e them to conceive, how they wrought I know not, but &s;ure there were Mon&s;ters borne not long after, as you &s;hall hear in the following Hi&s;tory.</P>
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Oh yee <HI>New England</HI> Men and Women, who hath bewitched you that you &s;hould not obey the truth? And indeed Satan, to make &s;ure worke with &s;emblance of Preaching the Doctrine of Free-grce by his in&s;truments, makes &s;hew of our-bidding all the Orthodox, and godly Mini&s;ters in the Countrey, pretending their Preaching to be but a Covenant of workes, &s;uppo&s;ing by this meanes to &s;ilence them without a B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hop, and le&s;t the civill power &s;hould &s;tand up for their aid, they threaten them with the high di&s;plea&s;ure of Chri&s;t for per&s;ecuting his people, which as they &s;aid the&s;e erronious per&s;ons with their new light, were the onely Men and Women that were pure Go&s;pell Preachers. Thus the poore people of Chri&s;t, who kept clo&s;e to his antient truths invironed with many &s;traites, having expended their E&s;tates to voyage far through the perillous Seas, that their eyes might behold their Teachers, and that they might injoy the protection of a godly civill Government, began to deeme them&s;elves in a more dolorous condition then when they were in the Commi&s;|&s;aries Court, and Prelates Pri&s;ons, the hideous waves in which their brittle Barques were &s;ometimes covered, as they pa&s;&s;ed hither, were nothing &s;o terrible in the apprehen&s;ion of &s;ome as was this floud of errors violently beating again&s;t the bankes of Church and civill Government, the wants of this Wilderne&s;&s;e, and pinching penury in mi&s;&s;e of Bread, put them to no &s;uch paine by gnawing on their empty &s;tomacks, with feare of fami&s;h|ing, as did the mi&s;&s;e of the Admini&s;tration of Chri&s;t in his Word and Ordinances, leaving the &s;oule in a langui&s;hing condition for want of a continuall &s;upply of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> in his Graces.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. LXIII. <HI>Of the &s;orrowfull condition of the people of Christ, when they were incountred with the&s;e erroni&s;ts at their fir&s;t landing.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BUt to end this di&s;mall yeare of &s;ixteene hundred thirty &s;ix, take here the &s;orrowfull complaint of a poore Soule in mi&s;&s;e of its expectation at landing, who being incountered with &s;ome of the&s;e Erroni&s;ts at his fir&s;t landing, when he &s;aw that good old way of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> rejected by them, and hee could not skill in that
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new light, which was the common theame of every mans Di&s;|cour&s;e, hee berooke him to a narrow <HI>Indian</HI> path, in which his &s;erious Meditations &s;oone led him, where none but &s;encele&s;&s;e Trees and eccohing Rocks make an&s;wer to his heart-ea&s;eing mone. Oh quoth he where am I become, is this the place where the&s;e Reverend Preachers are fled, that <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> was plea&s;ed to make u&s;e of to rou&s;e up his rich graces in many a drooping &s;oule; here have I met with &s;ome that tell mee, I mu&s;t take a naked <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI> Oh, woe is mee if <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> be naked to mee, wherewith &s;hall I be cloathed, but me thinks I mo&s;t wonder they tell me of ca&s;ting of all godly &s;orrow for &s;in as unbe&s;eeming a Soule, that is united to <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> by Faith, and there was a little nimbled tongued Woman among them, who &s;aid &s;he could bring me ac|quainted with one of her own Sex that would &s;hew me a way, if I could attaine it, even Revelations, full of &s;uch ravi&s;hing joy that I &s;hould never have cau&s;e to be &s;orry for &s;inne, &s;o long as I live, and as for her part &s;hee had attained it already: a company of legall Profe&s;&s;ors, quoth &s;he lie poring on the Law which <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> hath aboli&s;hed, and when you breake it then you breake your joy, and now no way will &s;erve your turne, but a deepe &s;orrow. The&s;e and divers other expre&s;&s;ions intimate unto men, that here I &s;hall finde little increa&s;e in the Graces of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> through the hearing of his word Preached, and other of his ble&s;&s;ed Ordinan|ces. Oh cunning Devill, the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> rebuke thee, that under pretence of a free and ample Go&s;pell &s;huts out the Soule from partaking with the Divine Nature of <HI>Christ,</HI> in that my&s;ticall Union of his Ble&s;&s;ed Spirit creating, and continuing his Graces in the Soule: my deare <HI>Christ,</HI> it was thy worke that moved me hither to come, hoping to finde thy powerfull pre&s;ence in the Preaching of the Word, although admini&s;tred by &s;orry men, &s;ubject to like infirmities with others of Gods people, and al&s;o by the gla&s;&s;e of the Law, to have my &s;infull corrupt nature di&s;|covered daily more and more, and my utter inabillity of any thing that is good, magnifying hereby the free grace of <HI>Chri&s;t;</HI> who of his good will and plea&s;ure worketh in us to will, and to doe working all our works in us, and for us.</P>
<P>But here they tell me of a naked <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> what is the whole life of a Chri&s;tian upon this Earth? But through the power of
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<HI>Chri&s;t</HI> to die to &s;inne, and live to holine&s;&s;e and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and for that end to be diligent in the u&s;e of meanes: at the ut|tering of this word he &s;tarts up from the greene bed of his com|plaint, with re&s;olution to hear &s;ome one of the&s;e able Mini&s;ters Preach (whom report had &s;o valued) before his will &s;hould make choyce of any one principle, though of cro&s;&s;ing the broade Seas back againe, then turning his face to the Sun, he &s;teered his cour&s;e toward the next Town, and after &s;ome &s;mall travel <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ee came to a large plaine, no &s;ooner was hee entred thereon, but hearing the found of a Drum he was directed toward it by a broade b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aten way, following this rode he demands of the next man he met what the &s;ignall of the Drum ment, the reply was made they had as yet no Bell to call men to meeting; and there|fore made u&s;e of a Drum, who is it, quoth hee, Lectures at this Towne. The other replies, I &s;ee you are a &s;tranger, new come over, &s;eeing you know not the man, it is one Mr. <HI>Shepheard,</HI> veri|ly quoth the other you hit the right, I am new come over indeed, and have been told &s;ince I came mo&s;t of your Mini&s;ters are legall Preachers, onely if I mi&s;take not they told me this man Preached a finer covenant of workes then the other, but however, I &s;hall make what ha&s;t I can to heare him. Fare you well, then ha&s;ting thither hee croudeth through the thicke&s;t, where having &s;tayed while the gla&s;&s;e was turned up twice, the man was metamorpho&s;|ed, and was faine to hang down the head often, lea&s;t his watry eyes &s;hould blab abroad the &s;ecret conjunction of his affections, his heart crying loud to the Lords ecchoing an&s;wer, to his ble&s;&s;ed &s;pirit, that cau&s;ed the Speech of a poore weake pale complecti|oned man to take &s;uch impre&s;&s;ion in his &s;oule at pre&s;ent, by applying the word &s;o aptly, as if hee had beene his Privy Coun|&s;eller, cleering Chri&s;ts worke of grace in the &s;oule from all tho&s;e fal&s;e Doctrines, which the erronious party had afrighted him withall, and now he re&s;olves (the Lord willing) to live and die with the Mini&s;ters of <HI>New England:</HI> whom hee now &s;aw the Lord had not onely made zealous to &s;tand for the truth of his Di&s;cipline, but al&s;o of the Doctrine, and not to give ground one inch.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XLIIII. <HI>The Congregationall Churches of Chri&s;t are neither favourers of &s;infull opinions&punc; nor the Lords over any, or many Churches, or mens Con&s;ciences.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd here Chri&s;tian Reader the Author according to his for|mer practice, mu&s;t minde thee of the admirable providence of Chri&s;t toward his <HI>New England</HI> Churches, in pre&s;erving them from the&s;e erronious &s;pirits, that have hitherto in all places dog'd the &s;incere &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, when ever they have &s;et up|on a through Reformation, as &s;tories doe abundantly te&s;tify, which thing the reverend <HI>Calvine</HI> and divers others, have decla|red. But &s;eeing the boa&s;ting Prelates in the&s;e times are ready to &s;ay their Lordly power kept the&s;e errours under, its plaine otherwi&s;e: for Satan &s;aw while people were under their yoake of humane inventions, they were far enough from exalting the Kingdome of Chri&s;t; And therefore he re&s;erved the&s;e errours, for his la&s;t &s;hifts, and further you &s;hall &s;ee in the following &s;tory that the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> re&s;erved this honour for tho&s;e, who&s;e love hee had inlarged to follow him in a dezart wilderne&s;&s;e, even with the &s;harpe &s;word of the Word, timely to cut off the heads of this <HI>Hidra;</HI> but yet there are two &s;orts of per&s;ons in our Native Country, whom the Elders and Brethren here do highly honour in Chri&s;t, and prefer before them&s;elves, namely the godly Pre|byterian party, and the Congregationall &s;incere &s;ervants of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> both which the Author could wi&s;h, (that with bowells of compa&s;&s;ion, &s;weet &s;impathi&s;ing affection of Brethren knit toge|ther in that tran&s;cendent love of Chri&s;t, which couples all his di&s;tanced flockes together) they would &s;eriou&s;ly ponder this Hi&s;tory, which through the Authors weakene&s;&s;e wants much of mea&s;ure, but nothing of the truth of things, &s;o far as a &s;hallow capacity can reach. Of the fir&s;t &s;ort named, I could wi&s;h the Reverend Mr. <HI>Ruterford,</HI> M^r. <HI>Bayle,</HI> M^r. <HI>Rathbone,</HI> M^r. <HI>Paget,</HI> Mr. <HI>Ball,</HI> &amp;c. would but informe them&s;elves further by the truth of this Hi&s;tory, &s;uppo&s;ing they cannot chu&s;e but in a good mea|&s;ure be &s;atisfied already with the pacificatory and meeke an&s;wers of as many Reverend and godly Elders of ours.</P>
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Now that I would they &s;hould take notice of is, that the Churches of Chri&s;t in <HI>New England,</HI> and their Officers have hi|therto been &s;o far from imbracing the erronious Doctrines of the&s;e times, that through the powers of Chri&s;t they have vali|antly defended the truth, and cut down all deceiveable Doctrine; the like hath not been done for many ages heretofore. Reverend and beloved in Chri&s;t, could your eyes but behold the efficacy of loving coun&s;ell in the Communion of congregationall Churches, and the reverend re&s;pect, honour and love, given to all Teach|ing Elders, charity commands me to thinke you would never &s;tand for Cla&s;&s;icall injunctions any more, neither Dioce&s;an, nor Provinciall authority can po&s;&s;ible reach &s;o far as this royall Law of love in communion of Churches: verily its more univer&s;all then the Papall power, and a&s;&s;uredly the dayes are at hand, where|in both <HI>Jew</HI> and <HI>Gentile</HI> Churches &s;hall exerci&s;e this old Mo|dell of Church Government, and &s;end their Church &s;alutations and admonitions from one end of the World unto another, when the Kingdomes of the Earth are become our <HI>Lord Chri&s;ts;</HI> Then &s;hall the exhortation of one Church to another prevaile more to Reformation, then all the thundering Bulls, excomuni|cating Lordly cen&s;ures, and &s;hamefull penalties of all the Lord|ing Churches in the World, and &s;uch &s;hall be, and is the efficacy of this intire love one to another, that the withdrawing of any one Church of <HI>Christ,</HI> according to the Rule of the word from tho&s;e that walke inordinatly, will be more terrible to the Church or Churches &s;o for&s;aken, then an Army with Banners: yea, and it may be added, becau&s;e civill Government is like to turne nur&s;e in more places then one, this royall Law of love &s;hall become the Law of Nations, and none will &s;uffer their &s;ubjects to rebell again&s;t it; but to our beloved brethren in <HI>England</HI> on the other hand, the Reverend M^r. <HI>Burroughs,</HI> Mr. <HI>Goodwin</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>This &s;eemeth you have apprehended our Churches and civill Government, to be too &s;trict in dealing with per&s;ons for their &s;infull opinions, I wi&s;h the offenders be none of your intelligen|cers, who to be &s;ure will make the wor&s;t of things, I know you are in charity with us; And therefore a few words will &s;atisfie, which I hope you want not from your good friends our Reve|rend Elders, who could wi&s;h you as much happine&s;&s;e as our &s;elves
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to expell error before it grew to that height to cry downe the &s;ound and whole&s;ome truths: ca&s;ting durt on our Orthodox and godly Mini&s;tery, I wi&s;h you open your mouths wide enough to be filled with this ble&s;&s;ing, the Lord hath done great, and unex|pected things for you, and why not this? one and twenty yeares experience hath taught us that Errors and Here&s;ies are not broached, and held out here by tender con&s;ciences, &s;uch as are weak in the Faith, but by &s;uch as think them Scholers of the upper forme, &s;uch as would teach the mo&s;t able&s;t Chri&s;tian among us another Go&s;pell, and further we finde our Erroni&s;t wanting a common enemy to contend withall, as you have fallen foule of our godly Magi&s;trates and Mini&s;ters, and will not &s;uffer us quietly to injoy the Ordinance of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> for which wee hither cam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, buz|zing our people in the eare with a thing they call liberty, which when any have ta&s;ted a &s;mack of, they can no more indure to hear of a Synod or gathering together of able, and Orthodox Chri&s;tians, nor yet of communion of Churches, but would be independant to purpo&s;e, and as for civill Government they deem Religion to be a thing beyond their Sphere.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XLV. <HI>Of the civill Government in</HI> N. England, <HI>and their nurture of the people upon their tender knees.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe vernall of the yeare 1637. being now in his prime, and as the &s;ea&s;on of the yeare grew hotter, &s;o the minds of ma|ny were hot in the eager pur&s;uite of their &s;elfe conceited opini|ons, and verily had not authority &s;tept in, it was much to be doubted they would have proceeded from words to blowes, great hold and keepe there was about choice of Magi&s;trates this yeare, the choyce being retarded by a paper call'd a Petition, but indeed a meere device to hinder the election, till the erroni|ous party were &s;trengthened, their number increa&s;ing daily, but the Lord <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> gratiou&s;ly providing for the peace of his people toward the end of the day the honoured <HI>John Winthrope</HI> E&s;quire, was cho&s;en Governour, and <HI>Thomas Dudly</HI> E&s;q. Deputy Gover|nor: the number of free-men added this year was about. 1 25.</P>
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Here according to promi&s;e the Reader &s;hall have an accoumpt of the civill Government of this little Common-wealth, as their whole aime in their removall from their Native Country, was to injoy the liberties of the Go&s;pell of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> &s;o in &s;erving up civill Government, they daily direct their choice to make u&s;e of &s;uch men as mo&s;tly indeavour to keepe the truths of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> pure and unp&s;otted, and a&s;&s;uredly they can dige&s;t any wrongs or in|juries done them in their e&s;tates, or trade, better then the wre&s;t|ing of their right in the freedome of the Go&s;pell, out of their hands, and this the Erroni&s;t knowing right well (to &s;ave their heads whole) per&s;wade men it is not for civill Government to meddle with matters of Religion; and al&s;o to helpe out with their damnable Doctrines, they report it in all places, where they be come, that <HI>New England</HI> Government doth per&s;ecute the people and Churches of <HI>Chri&s;t;</HI> which to &s;peake truth they have hitherto beene &s;o far from, that they have indeavoured to expell all &s;uch bea&s;ts of prey, (who will not be reclaimed) that here might be none left to hurt or de&s;troy in all Gods holy Mountaine, and therefore are ready to put the Churches of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> in minde of their duty herein; yea, and &s;ometimes going before them in their civill cen&s;ures that they may not onely profe&s;&s;e the truth, but al&s;o hate every fal&s;e way, not that they would compell men to believe by the power of the Sword, but to indeavour all may an&s;wer their profe&s;&s;ion; whether in Courch Covenant or other|wi&s;e, by knowing they beare not the Sword in vaine. Neither doe they exerci&s;e civill power to bring all under their obedi|ence to a uniformity in every poyne of Religion, but to keepe them in the unity of the &s;pirit, and the bond of peace, nor yet have they ever mixed their civill powers with the authority pe|culiarly given by <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> to his Churches and Officers of them, but from time to time have laboured to uphold their priviledges, and only communion one with another.</P>
<P>The chiefe Court or &s;upreame power of this little Common-wealth, con&s;i&s;ts of a mixt company, part Ari&s;tocracy, and part Democracy of Magi&s;trates, that are yearly cho&s;en by the major Vote of the whole body of the Free-men throughout the Country; and Deputies cho&s;en by the &s;everall Townes, they have hitherto had about 12. or 13. Magi&s;trates in the Colony
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of the <HI>Mattacu&s;ets,</HI> the other Colonies have not above five or &s;ix, they have hitherto beene Volunteers, governing without pay from the people, onely the Governor of the <HI>Mattacu&s;ets</HI> hath &s;ome yeares 100 l. allowed him, and &s;ome years le&s;&s;e, many of the Magi&s;trates are already remembred, yet with &s;ome of the fir&s;t came hither Mr. <HI>Simon Brode&s;treet,</HI> in this &s;hort Meeter is he remembred.</P>
<Q><L><HI>NOw</HI> Simon <HI>yong, &s;tep in among, the&s;e worthies take thy place:</HI></L>
<L><HI>All day to toile in vinyard, while Chri&s;t thee upholds with grace;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thee wi&s;dom grave betime he gave, and tongue to utter it,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That thou might&s;t be a ble&s;&s;ing free, and for this calling fit.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy coun&s;ell well, advis'd do&s;t tell, with words ordered compleat,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy memory, doth amplifie, meeting with matters great.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Broad liberty, do thou deny,</HI> Brod&s;treet <HI>Christ would thee have,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For's truth contend, &s;trong rea&s;on &s;pend, it from asper&s;ion &s;ave.</HI></L>
<L><HI>He furni&s;h't thee, with the&s;e gifts free, to la&s;t he mu&s;t them make,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Still adding more, to thy old &s;tore, till he thee to him take.</HI></L></Q>
<P>The Lord was plea&s;ed to furni&s;h the&s;e his people with &s;ome able in&s;truments in mo&s;t of their Townes, that were skill'd in Common-wealth work, out of which they cho&s;e their Deputies, who&s;e number was ordinarily between 30. and 40. &s;ome of them there will be occa&s;ion to &s;peake of among their Military Men, but &s;ee here the <HI>Wonder-working Providence of Sions Saviour,</HI> ap|pears much in gathering together &s;tones to build up the walls of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> (that his <HI>Sion</HI> may be &s;urrounded with Bulworkes and Towres) with a whi&s;pering word in the eares of his &s;ervants, he cro&s;&s;es the Angles of <HI>England</HI> from <HI>Cornewall</HI> to <HI>Kent,</HI> from <HI>Dover</HI> to <HI>Barwick,</HI> not leaving out <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Wales;</HI> Wi&s;e men are per&s;waded to the worke without arguing like <HI>Eli&s;ba,</HI> when <HI>Elias</HI> ca&s;t his mantle on him, &s;o the&s;e men make no &s;top, but &s;ay &s;uffer me onely to &s;ell my inheritance, and I will away for <HI>New England.</HI> And now I could wi&s;h our Brethren in <HI>England</HI> would not be angry with us for making &s;uch ha&s;t. Brethren you know how the ca&s;e &s;tood with our Mini&s;ters, as it was with <HI>Gideon,</HI> who could thre&s;h out no Corne, but hee mu&s;t doe it &s;e|cretly, to hide it from the <HI>Midianites,</HI> who &s;pread the Land
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like Gra&s;hoppers, no more could they thre&s;h and cleane up any Wheate for the Lords Garner, but the Prelates would pre&s;ently be upon their backs, and plow long furrowes there, and you may believe it, if you will (for it is certaine) many, had not this little number gone forth to blow their Trumpets, and breake their Pitchers, making the brightne&s;&s;e of their Lamps appeare, &s;urely the ho&s;t of the <HI>Midianites</HI> had never been put to flight, and if &s;till any of our Brethren &s;hall contend with us, wee an&s;wer with <HI>Gideon,</HI> the Lord hath delivered into your hands the chiefe Princes of <HI>Midian,</HI> and what were we able to do in compari&s;on of you; yet &s;hall we not cea&s;e to follow on the worke of Refor|mation, although weake and faint, till the Lord be plea&s;ed to free his <HI>I&s;rael</HI> from all their enemies; and verily <HI>England</HI> hath not wanted the Prayers of the poore people of <HI>Christ</HI> here. And al&s;o &s;ome of our chiefe helpes both for Church-worke, Military and common-wealth-worke; yet through the Lords mercy, we &s;till retaine among our Democracy the godly Captaine <HI>William Hathorn,</HI> whom the Lord hath indued with a quick apprehen|&s;ion, &s;trong memory, and rhetorick, volubillity of &s;peech, which hath cau&s;ed the people to make u&s;e of him often in publick &s;er|vice, e&s;pecially when they have had to do with any forrein Go|vernment, Mr. <HI>Nathaniel Duncan</HI> learned in the Latine and French tongue, a very good accountant. Wherefore he is cal|led to the place of Auditor Generall for the County. Mr. <HI>John Glovar</HI> a man &s;trong for the truth, a plaine &s;incere godly man, and of good abilities. Captaine <HI>Daniel Gogkin,</HI> who was drawen hither from <HI>Virginia,</HI> by having his affection &s;trongly &s;et on the truths of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and his pure Ordinances; being indued by the Lord with good under&s;tanding Captaine <HI>William Tinge,</HI> &s;ome|time Trea&s;urour for the County, but being ab&s;ent for &s;ome &s;pace of time in <HI>England,</HI> Mr. <HI>Richard Ru&s;&s;ell</HI> was cho&s;en in his roome, Mr. <HI>Edward Raw&s;on</HI> a young man, yet imployed in Common-wealth affaires a long time, being well beloved of the inhabi|tants of <HI>Newbery,</HI> having had a large hand in her Foundation; but of late he being of a ripe capacity, a good yeoman and elo|quent inditer, hath beene cho&s;en Secretary for the Country, Mr. <HI>William Hubbard</HI> of <HI>Iph&s;hwich,</HI> a learned man, being well read in &s;tate matters: of a very affable and humble behaviour;
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who hath expended much of his E&s;tate to helpe on this worke; although he be &s;low of &s;peech, yet is hee down right for the bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e, Captaine <HI>&V;mphry Atherton,</HI> one of a cheerfull &s;pirit, and intire for the County M^r. <HI>Edward Jack&s;on,</HI> one who cannot indure to &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e the truths of Chri&s;t trampled under foot by the erronious party, <HI>Eleazar Lu&s;her</HI> one of the right &s;tamp, and pure mettle, a gratious, humble and heavenly minded man M^r. <HI>Jo&s;eph Hill,</HI> a man active for to bring the Lawes of the County in order, Mr. <HI>Whipple,</HI> one who&s;e godly &s;incerity is much approved, Mr. <HI>Francis Norton,</HI> one of a cheerfull &s;pirit, and full of love to the truth, Mr. <HI>Robert Paine,</HI> a right godly man, and one who&s;e e&s;tate hath holpe on well with the worke of this little Common-wealth, M^r. <HI>William Torry</HI> a good penman and skild in the Latine tongue, u&s;ually Clarke of the Deputies, the Survayor Generall of the Armies of the Country, <HI>John John&s;on,</HI> of an undanted &s;pi|rit, M^r. <HI>William Parker,</HI> a man of a pregnant under&s;tanding, and very u&s;efull in his place. Many more would be named, but for tediou&s;ne&s;&s;e, neither will it plea&s;e the men more to be named, then not, for all are very willing to acknowledge their in|ability for the worke, and the be&s;t are not without many imper|fections.</P>
<P>The Authors end in naming &s;ome few is for none other end, but to make good the title of this Book &amp; to incourage all the &s;ervants of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> for time to come wholely to rely upon him, when they go about any difficult work, which may tend to the glory of his Name. Who could have told the&s;e men, being &s;cattered abroad throughout the I&s;land of Great <HI>Brittaine,</HI> they &s;hould meete on a Wilderne&s;&s;e nine hundered Leagues remote, and there keep Court together to &s;tudy the pre&s;ervation of <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> poore &s;cattered flockes? nay brethren, when you fir&s;t tooke book in hand to learne your Letters, you would have been very dull pates, but for this worke; a&s;&s;uredly, how you came by large inheritances, &s;ome of you, and e&s;tates of hundreds, and thou&s;ands, your &s;elves be&s;t know, but believe it, the Lord intended it for this very work, <HI>The Earth is the Lords, and the fulne&s;&s;e of it,</HI> then let none of the people of <HI>Christ</HI> mourn that they have &s;pent their wealth in this Wilderne&s;&s;e, if it have holpe on the worke, rather rejoyce that <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> hath betru&s;ted thee to be Steward for the King of Kings, &amp;
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that in &s;o noble an achievement the worthie&s;t worke that the me|mory of our &s;elves, and our fore-fathers can reach unto.</P>
<P>And brethren, as for the good parts and gifts the Author hath commended you for, but for the edifying of the body of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and a&s;&s;i&s;ting his people in this work you had been empty of all good.</P>
<P>And now &s;eeing it is the opinion of many in the&s;e dayes of Reformation, that all &s;orts of Sectaries (that acknowledge a <HI>Chri&s;t)</HI> &s;hould be tolerated by civill Government, except Papi&s;t, and this Government hath hitherto, and is for future time re&s;ol|ved to practice otherwi&s;e (the Lord a&s;&s;i&s;ting) having met already with more bla&s;phemous Sectaries, then are Papi&s;ts; wherefore it will not be ami&s;&s;e if our Countrymen be acquainted with the one and twenty yeares experience of this Wilderne&s;&s;e worke, in point of Government. Fir&s;t, it is their judgment, and that from Scripture taught them, that tho&s;e, who are cho&s;e to place of go|vernment, mu&s;t be men truly fearing God, wi&s;e and learned in the truths of <HI>Christ,</HI> (if &s;o) as hitherto it hath been <HI>New Englands</HI> practice, then &s;urely &s;uch will be utterly unfit to tolerate all &s;orts of Sectaries, as becau&s;e they have taken up <HI>Jo&s;huas</HI> re&s;olution, to &s;erve the Lord, &amp; a man cannot &s;erve two Ma&s;ters, much le&s;&s;e many Ma&s;ters; Then &s;urely &s;uch as would have all &s;orts of &s;infull opi|nions upheld by the civill government, mu&s;t be &s;ure to make choi&s;e of the mo&s;t <HI>Athei&s;ticall</HI> per&s;ons they can finde to governe, &s;uch as are right <HI>Gallios:</HI> for <HI>N. E.</HI> hath found by experience that every man will mo&s;t favour his own way of Profe&s;&s;ion, and labor tooth &amp; naile to maintaine it, and if any have complied with other that have been of a contrary &s;infull opinion to their own, it hath been, becau&s;e they would have their own &s;cape &s;cot free, but a&s;&s;uredly the <HI>Lord Christ</HI> will allow of no &s;uch wayes for the favouring the profe&s;&s;ors of his truths, nor may any Magi&s;trate doe evill that good may come of it, in favouring dangerous and deceiveable doctrines, that others may favour the true &s;ervants of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> neither is there any &s;uch need, for it is their honours (if the will of God be &s;o) to &s;uffer, nor can the people of <HI>N. England</HI> (I meane the better part) be per&s;waded to &s;et up any other to governe, but &s;uch as are zealous for the maintainance of the truths of <HI>Chri&s;t;</HI> yet of late there is a buzzing noi&s;e, as if it were injury to the Churches for civill power to medle in matters of Religion, but to
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be &s;ure there are many that &s;trive for a Toleration, yet the people of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> who are the naturall Mothers of this Government, re|&s;olve never to &s;ee their living child &s;o divided, looking at &s;uch a government to be no better to them, a living child divided in twaine; and therefore de&s;ires their loving Countrymen to beare with them in this point, and if any notwith&s;tanding &s;hall force it to be &s;o, we &s;hall &s;hew our natural affection, and leave all to them, chu&s;ing rather to dwell on the back&s;ide of this De&s;ert (a place as yet unacce&s;&s;ible) knowing a&s;&s;uredly our God will appeare for our deliverance. Yet let them al&s;o know the Souldiers of <HI>Christ</HI> in <HI>N E.</HI> are not of &s;uch a pu&s;illanimous &s;pirit, but re&s;olve as that valiant <HI>Jeptha</HI> did to keep in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, the Towns his God had given them, &s;o we are re&s;olved (the Lord willing) to keepe the go|vernment our God hath given us, and for witne&s;&s;e hee hath &s;o done, let this Hi&s;tory manife&s;t: for we cho&s;e not the place for the Land, but for the government, that our <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> might raigne over us, both in Churches and Common-wealth, and al|though the Lord have been plea&s;ed by an extraordinary ble&s;&s;ing upon his peoples indu&s;try to make the place fruitfull (as at this day indeed it is) yet all may know the land in it &s;elfe is very &s;ter|rill, but the upholding of the truths of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> is chiefe cau&s;e why many have hitherto come: and further if the &s;ervants of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> be not much mi&s;taken, the downfall of <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI> is at hand, and then the Kingdome of the Earth &s;hall become the Kingdome of our <HI>Lord Christ</HI> in a more peculiar manner, then now they are, and &s;urely godly civill government &s;hall have a great &s;hare in that worke, for they are exhorted to fill her double of the Cup, &s;hee hath given to them; and al&s;o know our Magi&s;trates, being con|&s;cious of ruling for <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> dare not admit of any ba&s;tardly brood to be nur&s;t up upon their tender knees, neither will any Chri&s;tian of a &s;ound judgement vote for any, but &s;uch as earne&s;ty con|tend for the Faith, although the increa&s;e of Trade, and traffique may be a great inducement to &s;ome.</P>
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<HEAD>VVonder-working PROVIDENCE OF SIONS <HI>SA&V;IO&V;R,</HI> IN NEVV ENGLAND.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>CHAP. I. <HI>The beginning of the relation of the</HI> Pequot <HI>war, and the great &s;traites the&s;e wandering</HI> Jacobites <HI>were in.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe great <HI>Jehovah,</HI> minding to manife&s;t the multitude of his Mercies to the wendering <HI>Jacobites,</HI> and make an intro|duction to his following wonders, cau&s;eth the darke clouds of calamities to gather about them, pre&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ging &s;ome terrible tem|pe&s;t to follow, with eyes full of angui&s;h, they face to the right, upon the damnable Doctrines, as &s;o many dreadfull Engines &s;et by Satan to intrap their poore &s;oules; Then ca&s;ting forth a left hand looke, the labour and wants accompaning a De&s;ert, and terrible Wilderne&s;&s;e affright them, their memories minding them of their former plenty; It much aggravated the pre&s;ent mi&s;ery, when with thoughts of retreating, they turne their backs about the experienced incumbrances, and deepe di&s;tre&s;&s;es of a dangerous Ocean hinders their thoughts of flight, be&s;ides the &s;terne looke of the Lordly Prelates: which would give them a welcome home in a fami&s;hing pri&s;on. Then purpo&s;ing to put on more &s;tronger re&s;olution, facing to the Front, behold a Me&s;&s;en|ger with &s;orrowfull tidings from their fellow brethren, that in|habited
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the bankes of the River <HI>Canectico,</HI> who having audience, informes them of the great in&s;olency, and cruell murthers com|mitted by a barbarous and bloudy people called <HI>Peaquods,</HI> upon the bodies of their indeared friends, the&s;e &s;avage <HI>Indians</HI> lying to the South-we&s;t of the <HI>Mattacu&s;ets,</HI> were more warlike then their Neighbouring Nations, the <HI>Narrowganzet</HI> or <HI>Niantick In|dians;</HI> although they exceeded them in number, al&s;o <HI>Mawhig|gins</HI> (who were the be&s;t friends of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and a chiefe in|&s;trumentall meanes of their &s;itting down there) &s;tood much in feare of the&s;e <HI>Peaquods,</HI> which were big, &s;wollen with pride at this time; facing the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Fort built on the mouth of the River in their large <HI>Cannowes,</HI> with their Bowes and long Shafts, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> being then but weake in number and provi&s;ion, were unable to manage the war again&s;t &s;o numerous a company, be|ing above thirty to one, yet their de&s;ires being beyond their meanes, they made &s;ome &s;hot at them, forcing them to ha&s;t away fa&s;ter then they willingly would. The&s;e <HI>Indians</HI> tru&s;ting in their great Troopes, having fea&s;ted their corps in a ravening manner, and leaving their fragments for their <HI>Sqawes,</HI> they &s;ound an alarum with a &s;ull mouth, and lumbring voyce, and &s;oone gather together without pre&s;&s;e or pay, their quarrell being as antient as <HI>Adams</HI> time, propagated from that old enmity betweene the Seede of the Woman, and the Seed of the Serpent, who was the grand &s;ignor of this war in hand, and would very gladly have given them a large Commi&s;&s;ion, had not his owne power beene limited, neither could he animate them &s;o much as to take off the ga&s;tly looke of that King of terror, yet however at his com|mand they arme them&s;elves: ca&s;ting their qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ver at their backs with Bowes ready bent, they troope up &s;ome of them, being ex|traordinarily armed with Guns, which they purcha&s;t from the <HI>Dutch</HI> (who had a&s;&s;uredly paid deare for this their courteous humour, not long &s;ince, had not &s;ome <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Volunteers re&s;cued them from the <HI>Indians</HI> hands) the mo&s;t of them were armed al&s;o with a &s;mall Hatchet on a long handle, they had a &s;mall num|ber of <HI>Mawhawkes,</HI> Hammers, which are made of &s;tone, having a long pike on the one &s;ide, and a hole in the handle, which they tie about their wri&s;ts, they neede not provi&s;ions follow their Camp; becau&s;e they are continually at home, but for their mats
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to &s;helter them from Ruine or Snow, the Woods are as well|come to them as their <HI>Wigwams,</HI> &s;ire they can make in all places by chafing two &s;ticks together. Their food is ready dre&s;t at all times parching Indian Come in their fire they pound it to meale, and with foure or five &s;poonfull of it ca&s;t into their mouths, and a &s;up or two of water, which they take up with a leafe of a Tree, this is their common repa&s;t, and indeed their chiefe <HI>viaticum.</HI> Thus furni&s;ht for the war they troope away without any goodly equ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">page to effect, as they &s;uppo&s;e, &s;ome great de&s;igne, but with|in &s;ome few Miles of the Towne of <HI>Hartford,</HI> they were di&s;|covered by one of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> who having with him a good Hor&s;e, ha&s;tens away to give intelligence of their approach, and by the way meeting with foure or five per&s;ons, hee advi&s;es them to ha&s;te away with all &s;peed, for the <HI>Peaquods</HI> were at hand, the weaker Se<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> among them, being at this time not &s;o credulous as they &s;hould have been, began to di&s;pute the ca&s;e with him, demanding what <HI>Peaquods</HI> they were, and que&s;tioning how they &s;hould come there; The hor&s;eman deeming it now no time for words, when the battell followed him &s;o hard at the heeles, rod on his way, and &s;oone after the &s;udden approach of the <HI>Indians</HI> forced them with feare to Seale to the truth of this evill tidings, and &s;ome of them with their deare&s;t bloud; three Woemen-kinde they caught, and carried away, but one of them being more fearfull of their cruell u&s;age, afterward then of the lo&s;&s;e of he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> life at pre&s;ent, being borne away to the thicke&s;t of the company, re&s;i&s;ted &s;o &s;toutly with &s;cratching and biting, that the <HI>Indian,</HI> exa&s;perated therewith, ca&s;t her downe on the Earth, and beate out her braines with his Hatchet, the other two maids they led away and returned, their Commi&s;&s;ion reaching no farther at pre&s;ent, having taken the&s;e two pri&s;oners they did not offer to abu&s;e their per&s;ons, as was verily deemed they would, que&s;tioned them with &s;uch broken <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> as &s;ome of them could &s;peak, to know whether they could make Gunpowder. Which when they under&s;tood they could not doe, their prize proved nothing &s;o pretious a Pearle in their eyes as before; for &s;eeing they exceeded not their own <HI>Squawes</HI> in Art, their owne thoughts informed them they would fall abundantly &s;hort in indu&s;try, and as for beauty they e&s;teeme black beyond any colour.</P>
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Wherefore their <HI>Sqawes</HI> u&s;e that &s;infull art of painting their Faces in the hollow of their Eyes and No&s;e, with a &s;hining black, out of which their tip of their No&s;e appeares very deformed, and their cheeke bone, being of a lighter &s;wart black, on which they have a blew cro&s;&s;e died very deepe.</P>
<P>This is the beauty e&s;teemed by them, but yet their pride was much increa&s;ed by this ho&s;tile Act of theirs, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> were more and more contemned of them, notwith&s;tanding the <HI>Dutch,</HI> who traded with the&s;e <HI>Indians,</HI> procured the Maides liberty againe.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. II. <HI>Of the couragious re&s;olutions, the Lord indued the&s;e his People withall being invironed with many deepe di&s;tre&s;&s;es.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AFter this Me&s;&s;age delivered, the&s;e brood of Travilers being almo&s;t <HI>Non-plus't</HI> in their grave and &s;ollid Coun&s;ells; deem it now high time to follow their old way, of making their com|plaint to the &s;upreame judge of all the World, by way of Petition, who they knew right well, &s;tood not as an idle &s;pectator beholding his peoples Ruth, and their Enemies rage; But as an Actor in all actions to bring to naught the de&s;ires of the wicked, but period to their power, divert their &s;troaks from his, to their own heads, bring glory to his Name, and good to his people from their mo&s;t wicked malignity, having al&s;o the ordering of every weapon in its fir&s;t produce, guiding every &s;haft that flies, leading each bullet to his place of &s;etling, and Weapon to the wound it makes; yet he mo&s;t righteous and holy in all his actions to this great Lord Per|amount, had the&s;e poore afflicted people acce&s;&s;e through the in|terce&s;&s;ion of their <HI>Lord Chri&s;t,</HI> who&s;e worke (though very weake to performe) they were now about, wherefore ca&s;ting them&s;elves down at his feet in the &s;en&s;e of their owne unworthi|ne&s;&s;e, that de&s;ire him to doe his owne worke in them, and for them, that the Mountaines in the way of <HI>Zerubbabil</HI> may become a plaine, and then laying open the great &s;traites they were in to him, who knew them far better then them&s;elves, they had this an&s;wer returned them, which if men dare deny, the Lord from
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Heaven hath, and &s;hall further witne&s;&s;e it; But before it be de|clared, let all men lay downe their intere&s;t they &s;uppo&s;e they may have in procuring it, both <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and others, that the glory of our <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> may appeare in its &s;plendor, to the danting of every proud heare, and for the perpetuall incouragement of all the Souldiers of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> even the meane&s;t in his Armies: for the day of his high Power is come, yea; his appointed time to have mercy upon <HI>Sion</HI> is at hand, all you who&s;e eyes of pity &s;o &s;ee her in the du&s;t, &s;treame down with pear like drops of compa&s;&s;ion, a little mixture of the unconceive<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ble joy for the glorious worke of <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Now, now; I now in hand for the exalting of his glorious Kingdome, in preparing his Churches for him&s;elfe, and with his own ble&s;&s;ed hands wiping away the teares that trickel downe her cheekes, drying her danki&s;h eyes, and hu&s;hing her &s;orrowfull &s;obs in his &s;weete bo&s;ome. This rightly believed, and meeting in the &s;oule of any poore Chri&s;tian, will make the narrow aff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ctions of his body too little to containe the pre&s;ent apprehen&s;ions of the Soule; And therefore wanting a <HI>vacuum</HI> to containe the &s;trength of this new Wine, wonder not if it vent if it &s;elfe with &s;wift thrilling teares from the mo&s;t tender part of the ve&s;&s;ell. And here the Author mu&s;t needs intreate the charitable Reader to enlarge in the Clo&s;&s;et of his own heart, for his folly hee con|fe&s;&s;es in medling &s;o meanly with &s;uch waighty matters, being blinded by eager affection, hee lo&s;t the fight of his great inabili|ty to the worke. When hee fir&s;t &s;et Pen to Paper, as the Lord &s;urrounded his cho&s;en <HI>I&s;rael</HI> with dangers deepe to make his miraculous deliverance famous throughout, and to the end of the World, &s;o here behold the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t,</HI> having egged a &s;mall handfull of his people forth in a forlorne Wilderne&s;&s;e, &s;tripping them naked from all humane helps, plunging them in a gulph of mi&s;eries, that they may &s;wim for their lives through the Ocean of his Mercies, and land them&s;elves &s;afe in the armes of his com|pa&s;&s;ion.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. III. <HI>Of the Lords great deliverance of his</HI> New England <HI>People, from the flouds of Errors that were bur&s;ting in among them.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AS for the great Mountaine of proud erronious judgement on your right hand, the prayer of Faith &s;hall remove them, and ca&s;t them into the depth of the Sea, and for the &s;trengthning of your faith herein; becau&s;e the Lord will have you depend on him in the u&s;e of his meanes, not miracle, hee hath purpo&s;ely pitcht out for this very worke, &s;ome of his mo&s;t orthodox &s;er|vants, and chiefe Champions of his truth, able through his mer|cy to weld that bright Weapon of his Word prepared by the &s;pirit for this purpo&s;e, to bring to the block the&s;e Traytours to his truths one by one, and behead them before your eyes, and for this very end they are to gather together as one Man in a Synodicall way, with a deci&s;ive power to undoe all the cunning twi&s;ted knots of Satans Malignity to the truths of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> opening the Scriptures by the power of his &s;pirit, cleering Scrip|ture by Scripture, that nothing but the pure Word of God may take place, and that you may a&s;&s;uredly believe the Lord hath purpo&s;ely called his Servants, and Souldiers to this place by his Providence to cut off this cur&s;ed &s;pirit of Errours and Here&s;ies, which hath but at fir&s;t dog'd all Reformed Churches of <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI> There are for your further aid herein many more of the&s;e &s;in|cere Souldiers floating upon the great Ocean toward you, who will be with you before this Synod is &s;et, that you may declare it in the Eares of all po&s;terity, to be the very Finger of God in catching the proud in their owne craftine&s;&s;e, who had hatch't their devices, thus to ca&s;t all the Mini&s;ters of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> except &s;ome one or two, under this cen&s;ure of being prejudiced again&s;t their per&s;ons, and for the little remnant to labour with flattery to blinde their eyes, that at lea&s;t they might not be again&s;t them; Seeing they could not procure them to take their part, (to be &s;ure when the gro&s;&s;ene&s;&s;e of their Errors were made known, they would not) by this meanes having their hopes exalted (in their owne apprehen&s;ions at lea&s;t) to gaine the mo&s;t of the people on their &s;ide.</P>
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The Lord ca&s;ts them downe from the proud Pinacle of their Machiavilian Plot, by bringing in more men of courage unintere&s;t|ed: yea, unknown to mo&s;t of their per&s;ons, but for their errors, as &s;trong to confute them as any, and more fit to wipe off the fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">me from the eyes of &s;ome of their brethren, which the&s;e Er|roni&s;ts by their Syccophancy had clouded.</P>
<P>The time for the meeting of this Synod was to be in the &s;eventh month following, commonly called <HI>September,</HI> the civill government well approving of their de&s;ires herein, were very willing to further them all they could, and in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> time it was the worke of the&s;e valiant of the Lord, to &s;earch out, not for men and Womens per&s;ons, but their errors, which they gathered up from all parts, willing all that would or could de|fend them to u&s;e their be&s;t meanes, like as <HI>John</HI> when he was to execute the judgements of the Lord upon <HI>Ahabs</HI> bloudy hou&s;e|hold, would have had his &s;ervants defend their Ma&s;ters Chil|dren if they could, onely you mu&s;t under&s;tand there was but 70. Sons, and here was 80. <HI>Errors,</HI> of which you &s;hall further hear when the time comes.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. IV. <HI>Of the abundant mercies of Chri&s;t in providing liberall &s;upply for his</HI> New England <HI>People, in regard of their outward man, Food, Rayment and all other nece&s;&s;aries and conveniencies.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOw for the hard&s;hips on the left hand, they had as good an an&s;wer as in the former; their <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> had not &s;aved their lives from the raging Seas to &s;lay them in the Wilderne&s;&s;e with Famine; your life is much more pretious in the eyes of the Lord then food, and your bodies then rayment: yea, the Lord of Heaven, who hath honoured you &s;o far as to imploy you in this glorious worke of his, knowes you mu&s;t have the&s;e things, and it was not you, deare hearts, that cho&s;e this place, but the Lord, as &s;eeing it mo&s;t fit to doe his worke in, knowing that had you met with a Rich Land filled with all plenty, your heart would
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have beene taken off this worke, which he mu&s;t have done. But to &s;trengthen your Faith in this point al&s;o, you &s;hall &s;ee hee who commanded the Fruits to &s;pring out of the Earth, when none were, can much more cau&s;e this corner of the Earth to be fruit|full to you, and this you &s;hall attaine by meanes, although hee have cau&s;ed the Foules of the Aire, and Gra&s;&s;e of the Field to depend upon him in a more immediate manner, yet you hath he taught to Sow, Reape, carry into Barnes, and Spin, and indeed herein the Lord hath an&s;wered his people abundantly to the wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">der of all that &s;ee or hear of it; And that whereas at their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> comming it was a rare matter for a man to have foure or five Acres of Corne, now many have four or five &s;core, &amp; to prevent men from Sacrificing to their Nets, the Lord hath taught them to labour with more ea&s;e: to great admiration al&s;o inlarg'd it, for it was with &s;ore labour that on man could Plane, and tend foure Acres of <HI>Indians</HI> Graine, and now with two Oxen hee can Plant and tend 30. B &s;ides the Lord hath of late altered the very cour&s;e of the Heavens in the &s;ea&s;on of the weather, that all kinde of graine growes much better then heretofore; In&s;o|much that Marchandizing being &s;topped at pre&s;ent, they begin que&s;tion, what to do with their Corne.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. V. <HI>Of the wonderfull deliverance wrought by the Lord Christ, for his poore</HI> New England <HI>Churches, in freing them from the fear of their Malignant adver&s;aries, who forc't, them to this Wilderne&s;&s;e.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ANd now to the third and great di&s;tre&s;&s;e, which lay behind them by rea&s;on of their back friends, the Lording Bi|&s;hops, and other Malignant adver&s;aries, being daily exa&s;perated again&s;t them, and in e&s;peciall at this time by one <HI>Merton,</HI> who named him&s;elfe the Ho&s;t of <HI>Merrimount,</HI> who wanted not ma|lice, could he po&s;&s;ible have attained meanes to effect it; But the <HI>Lord Christ</HI> prevented both him and his Ma&s;ters, whom with &s;lattery he &s;ought to plea&s;e with &s;currillous deriding the &s;ervants of <HI>Christ,</HI> to bring them into contempt, yet the Lord prevented
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all, and delivered this wretched fellow into his peoples hands againe after all this, who dealt as favourably with him as <HI>David</HI> did with <HI>Shimmei.</HI> Be&s;ides this, the evill u&s;age that many of the beloved &s;ervants of Chri&s;t had from the hands of tho&s;e in office at their departure, declared plainely, that there were &s;ome, who would willingly have pur&s;ued them to bring them under bon|dage againe, herein their an&s;wer was that they &s;hould &s;tand &s;till, and &s;ee the &s;alvation of the Lord, who was now re&s;olved to fight for them again&s;t his and their implacable enemies; although more mighty than they: and indeed all meanes of re&s;i&s;tance in the hand of man being &s;o &s;mall, that it could not po&s;&s;ible bee di&s;cerned by any morcall eye; yet will the Lord worke by means and not by miracle; when the Lord called forth <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> to fight with <HI>Amaleck,</HI> his <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> mu&s;t be in the Mount at Prayers; &s;ee|ing this an&s;wer deeply concernes the dearly beloved of our <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> remaining in <HI>England,</HI> let them li&s;ten to the an&s;wer.</P>
<P>Al&s;o how came it to pa&s;&s;e that the Lord put it into your hearts to &s;et upon a Reformation, was it not by prayer attained? You are not excluded, although the Churches of Chri&s;t here are for the pre&s;ent in the Mount, and you in the Vally fighting, yet &s;urely they had neede of helpe to hold up their hands, whereas the nerene&s;&s;e of the danger to you in the enemies overcoming, is a great motive to keepe up yours &s;tedy, yet may you &s;ay right|ly to the Churches of Chri&s;t here, as <HI>Mordachy</HI> to <HI>He&s;ter</HI> the Queene, if you hold your peace deliverance &s;hall come another way, and thinke not to e&s;cape, becau&s;e you are in <HI>New England;</HI> A&s;&s;uredly the Lord is doing great things, and waites for the prayers of his people that he may be gratious unto them, and ve|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ily the poore Churches of Chri&s;t heere cannot but take notice of the great workes the Lord hath done for you of late, which are famous throughout the whole World; And &s;hould they not take them as an an&s;wer of the&s;e weake prayers, they feare they &s;hould neglect to magnify his mercy toward you, and them: the noble acts of the Lord Chri&s;t, for the freedome of his people from that into lerable Prelaticall bondage, are almo&s;t miraculou&s;ly committed to memory by the able &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, whom hee hath &s;tirred up for that very end, yet mu&s;t you not &s;hut out the valiant &s;ouldiers of Chri&s;t (di&s;ciplin'd in this unwonted Wilder|ne&s;&s;e)
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from having &s;hare with you in the worke, yet no farther but that Chri&s;t may be all in all: who hath cau&s;ed the <HI>Midianites</HI> to fight again&s;t <HI>Midian,</HI> till the true <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> had gathered them&s;elves together, hee it is that hath brought the coun&s;ells of the wicked to naught, hee it is that hath di&s;covered the &s;ecret plo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tings of the King of <HI>A&s;&s;yria,</HI> even in his Bed-chamber; Hee it is that hath declared him&s;elf to be with your mighty men of va|lour, and a&s;&s;uredly all you valiant Souldiers of Chri&s;t, both in one <HI>England</HI> and the other, the Lord hath &s;hewed you as great &s;ignes and wonders for the &s;trengthening of your faith, as was the wetting and drying of the fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ece to <HI>Gedeon,</HI> onely beware of &s;etting up an <HI>Ephod</HI> in the latter end; Let the Churches of Chri&s;t be &s;et up according to his fir&s;t in&s;titution, or you will make double worke, for all may &s;ee by what is done already, there is nothing too hard for him, hee will downe with all againe and againe, till his Kingdom alone be exalted, for the which all the <HI>I&s;rael</HI> of God fight, wra&s;tle, pray, and here you may &s;ee the &s;ervants of Chri&s;t fighting at 900 leagues di&s;tant.</P>
<P>Oh you proud Bi&s;hops, that would have all the World &s;toope to your Lordly power, the heathen Romans your predece&s;&s;ors, after they had bani&s;hed <HI>John</HI> to the I&s;le of <HI>Pathmos,</HI> &s;uffered him quietly to injoy the Revelation of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> there; here is a people that have betaken them&s;elves to a newfound World, di|&s;tanced from you with the wide&s;t Ocean the World affords, and yet you grudge them the purity of Chri&s;ts Ordinances there. No wonder then, nay wonder all the World at the &s;udden and unexpected downfall of the&s;e domineering Lords, who had Princes to protect them, armes to defend them, and almo&s;t three whole Kingdomes at their command; and no enemy of theirs in &s;ight onely, there appeares a little cloud about the bigne&s;&s;e of a mans hand out of the <HI>We&s;terne</HI> Ocean, I but the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> is in it, out of <HI>Sion</HI> the perfection of beauty hath God &s;hined. Our God &s;hall come, and &s;hall not keepe &s;ilence, a Fire &s;hall devour afore him, &amp; mighty tempe&s;ts &s;hall be moved round about him. Now gather together you King-like Bi&s;hops, and make u&s;e of all the Kingly power you can, for the cloud is &s;uddenly come up, he rode upon Cherub and did flie. And now let the Children of <HI>Sion</HI> rejoyce in their King, for the Lord hath plea&s;ure in his
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people, hee will make the meeke glorious by deliverance; And that the whole Earth may know it is the Lords owne worke, the Arch-prelate and his complices mu&s;t begin to war with the <HI>Scots,</HI> and that implacably, the Prelates de&s;ire a <HI>Parliament</HI> thinking to e&s;tabli&s;h iniquity by a Law, but the iniquity of the <HI>Ammo|rites</HI> is already full, and all your cunning coun&s;ells &s;hall but con|trive your owne de&s;truction; They remon&s;trant again&s;t all Acts of <HI>Parliament</HI> that pa&s;&s;e without their Vote, and by this means wind out them&s;elves for ever voting more, they devi&s;e how they may have &s;uch per&s;ons committed to pri&s;on at favour not their proceeding.</P>
<P>But the Lord turned their mi&s;chiefe they had conceived upon their own pates, and they them&s;elves were &s;ent to pri&s;on by halfe a &s;core at a time; And &s;uch was the un&s;avouryne&s;&s;e of this &s;eem|ing &s;alt, that it was good for nothing, but to Lord it over others, their tyranny being taken out of their hands, they could not in|dure to be commanded by any; And therefore unfit for the war which they &s;tirred up, to recover the people againe under their bondage, yet &s;uch was the madne&s;&s;e of &s;ome, that they loved their &s;ervitude &s;o well as to fight for it; but &s;urely &s;uch had never rightly knowne the &s;ervice of the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t,</HI> which is perfect freedome, from all &s;uch tyrannous yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ks, and verily ju&s;t it is with the Lord to cau&s;e &s;uch to be &s;ervants unto <HI>Shi&s;hak,</HI> that they may know the &s;ervice of the Lord, and the &s;ervice of the Kingdomes of the Country. But however an Army is rai&s;ed to defend their Lordly dignity; Let the Saints be joyfull with glo|ry, let the high Acts of God be in their mouths, and a two edged Sword in their hands, to bind their Kings in chaines, and their Nobles in &s;etters of Iron, the Charets of the Lord are twenty thou&s;and thou&s;ands of Angells, the Lord is among them as in <HI>Sinai,</HI> Kings of Armies did flee apace; and now you that have borne &s;uch a wicked &s;pirit of malignity again&s;t the people of Chri&s;t, can your hearts indure, and your hands wax &s;trong in the day that he &s;hall have to doe with you? Oh you proud Pre|lates that boa&s;t &s;o much of your taking the Kings part, mi&s;erable partakers are you; in &s;tead of obeying him, you have cau&s;ed him to obey you, its writ in &s;uch great capitall letters that a child may read it: what was the cau&s;e of the fir&s;t rai&s;ing war again&s;t
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the <HI>Scots</HI> which occa&s;ioned the <HI>Parliament,</HI> when you &s;aw they would not further the war as you would have them, they were &s;oone traytors in your account, and pro&s;ecuted again&s;t with Ar|my after army, and was not all this to make the Scots receive your Injunctions, a very fayer bottom to build a bloudy war upon, that the Prelatticall power might Lord it in <HI>Scotland,</HI> as they of a long time had done in <HI>England:</HI> it was your <HI>Pithagorian</HI> Phy|lo&s;ophy that cau&s;ed the King to loo&s;e his Life, by per&s;wading him his Kingly power lived in your Lordly dignity, as a thing &s;ub|ordinate unto it, and he &s;o deeply taken with this conceit, that it co&s;t the lives of many thou&s;ands more then ever hee, or his Father would doe for &s;aving or recovering the Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">latine Coun|try.</P>
<P>Experience hath taught the &s;avage <HI>Indians,</HI> among whom we live, that they may and doe daily bring Wolves to be came, but they cannot breake them of their ravening nature, and I would your Royali&s;t would learne of them to know, that as your Lord Bi&s;hops, Deanes, Prebends, &amp;c. be right whelps of the <HI>Roman</HI> litter, &s;o let them be never &s;o well cam'd, they will retaine their nature &s;till, to Lord it over all kinde of Civill Government; But woe and ala&s;&s;e that ever any of our Countrymen &s;hould be &s;o blind, that after they are delivered from &s;o great a bondage by &s;uch <HI>Wonder Working Providence of the Lord Chri&s;t;</HI> Ever and anon to indeavour to make a Captaine over them, that they may returne againe into <HI>Egypt,</HI> as appeares by the plots which have beene di&s;covered, and broken in pieces by the right hand of the mo&s;t high, and yet for all this their's &s;uch a hankering after &s;ome|what of the Prelaticall greatne&s;&s;e; by the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Clergy, and the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Cla&s;&s;is, that many of them could afford to rai&s;e ar|other war for it. But brethren I be&s;eech you be more wi&s;er, le&s;t when you are growne hot in your quarrell, the Malignant party come and &s;et you agreed &s;tabli&s;h peace in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and let the word be your rule, heare one another with meekene&s;&s;e, and the Lord will cleare up the whole truth unto you in his due time; And now to declare plainly how far the Lord hath beene plea&s;ed to make u&s;e of any of his people in the&s;e <HI>We&s;terne</HI> pares, about this Worke, for to &s;ay truth they have done nothing in holes and corners, but their workes are obvious to all the World: if
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he &s;ufferings of the Saints be pretious in the eyes of Chri&s;t, &s;o as to provoke him in di&s;plea&s;ure to cut off the occa&s;ioners thereof, then thus his poore unworthy people here have had a great &s;troake in the downfall of their adver&s;aries to the pre&s;ent po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ed truths of Chri&s;t, for this wilderne&s;&s;e worke, hath not beene carried on without &s;ighthings that have come before him, and Groanes that have entred his eares, and Teares trea&s;ured up in his bottles (againe) if the ardent and &s;trong affections of the people of God, for his glorious comming to advance his King|dome in the &s;plendor, and purity of his Go&s;pell, as co cry with the holy Prophet, <HI>Oh that he would broake the Heavens and come down;</HI> be regarded of the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t,</HI> &s;o as to remove with his mighty power the very Mountaines out of the way, and hurle them into the deepe; Then hath the&s;e weake wormes in&s;tru|mentally had a &s;hare in the great de&s;olation the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> hath wrought. For this Hi&s;tory will plainely declare with what zeale and deepe affection, and unre&s;i&s;table re&s;olutions the&s;e Pil|grim people have endeavoured the gathering together his Saints, for the edifying the Body of Chri&s;t, that he may raign both Lord and King for ever.</P>
<P>Yet againe, if the prayers of the faithfull people of God availe any thing for the accompli&s;hment of his promi&s;es, in the de|&s;truction of Antichri&s;t, for the &s;ubduing of Armies without &s;trik|ing one &s;troake; Then a&s;&s;uredly the&s;e <HI>Jacobites</HI> have wre&s;tled with the Lord, not onely (with that good King <HI>Je<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;haphat)</HI> proclaiming one Fa&s;t, but many Fa&s;ts, they, their Wives and little ones &s;tanding before the Lord; Oh our God wile thou not judge them for we have no might, &amp;c. La&s;tly, if the Lord him&s;elfe have roared from <HI>Sion,</HI> (as in the dayes of the Prophet <HI>Amos)</HI> &s;o from his Churches in <HI>New England,</HI> by a great and terrible Earth quake (which happened much about the time the Lordly Prelates were preparing their injunctions for <HI>Scotland)</HI> taking ri&s;e from the We&s;t, it made its progre&s;&s;e to the Ea&s;tward, cau|&s;ing the Earth to ri&s;e up and downe like the waves of the Sea; having the &s;ame effect on the Sea al&s;o, cau&s;ing the Ships that lay in the Harbor to quake, the which, at that very time was &s;aid to be a &s;igne from the Lord to his Churches, that he was purpo&s;ed to &s;hake the Kingdomes of <HI>Europes</HI> Earth, and now by his pro|vidences
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brought to pa&s;&s;e, all men may reade as much and more&punc; as if he &s;hould have &s;aid to the&s;e his &s;cattered people (yet now againe united in Church Covenant) the Lord is now gathering together his Armies, and that your faith may be &s;trengthened, you &s;hall feele and heare the &s;hakings of the Earth by the might of his power: yea, the Sea al&s;o, to &s;hew he will ordaine Armies both by Sea and Land to make <HI>Babilon</HI> de&s;olate; Things thus concurring as an immediate an&s;wer of the Lord to his peoples prayers and endeavours, cau&s;ed &s;ome of this little handfull with re&s;olute courage and boldne&s;&s;e to returne againe to their native Land, that they might (the Lord accepting and a&s;&s;i&s;ting them in their endeavours) be helpfull in advancing the Kingdome of Chri&s;t, and ca&s;ting down every &s;trong hou&s;e of &s;inne and Satan. It matters not indeed who be the in&s;truments, if with the eye of faith the&s;e that go forth to fight the Lords Battailes, can but &s;ee and heare the Lord going out before them again&s;t their enemies, with a &s;ound in the tops of the Mulbery Trees. Here are a&s;&s;u|redly evident &s;ignes that the <HI>Lord Christ</HI> is gone forth for his peoples deliverance, and now Frogs, Flies, Lice or Du&s;t, &s;hall &s;erve to de&s;troy tho&s;e will yet hold his people in bondage, not|with&s;tanding the Lord will honour &s;uch as hee hath made &s;trong for him&s;elfe; And therefore hee cau&s;eth the worthies in <HI>Davids</HI> time to be recorded, and it is the duty of Gods people to in|courage one another in the worke of the Lord, then let all who&s;e hearts are upright for the Lord, ponder well his goings in his Sanctuary, that their hands may be &s;trengthened in the work they goe about, onely be &s;trong and of a good courage.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VI. <HI>Of the gratious goodne&s;&s;e of the Lord Chri&s;t, in &s;aving his</HI> New-England <HI>people, from the hand of the barbarous</HI> Indians.</HEAD>
<P>LA&s;tly, for the fronti&s;piece of their pre&s;ent di&s;tre&s;&s;e, name|ly the Indian war, they with much meekne&s;&s;e and great de|liberation, wi&s;ely contrived how they might be&s;t helpe their fel|low brethren; hereupon they re&s;olved to &s;end a &s;olemne Em|ba&s;&s;age
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to old <HI>Cannonicus,</HI> chiefe Sachem of the narrow Gan&s;et <HI>Indians,</HI> who being then well &s;tricken in yeares had cau&s;ed his Ne|phew <HI>Miantinemo</HI> to take the Government upon him, who was a very &s;terne man, and of a great &s;tature, of a cruell nature, cau|&s;ing all his Nobility and &s;uch as were his attendance to tremble at his &s;peech, the people under his Government were very nume|rous, be&s;ides the <HI>Niantick Indians,</HI> who&s;e Prince was of neare aliance unto him; They were able to &s;et forth, as was then &s;up|po&s;ed 30000. fighting men, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;ought by all meanes to keepe the&s;e at lea&s;t from confederating with the <HI>Pequods,</HI> and under&s;tanding by intelligence, that the <HI>Pequots</HI> would &s;end to them for that end, endeavoured to prevent them. Fit and able men being cho&s;en by the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> they ha&s;t them to <HI>Cannonicus</HI> Court, which was about foure&s;core miles from <HI>Bo&s;ton.</HI></P>
<P>The Indian King hearing of their comming, gathered toge|ther his chiefe Coun&s;ellors, and a great number of his Subjects to give them entertainment, re&s;olving as then that the young King &s;hould receive their me&s;&s;age, yet in his hearing, they arriving, were entertain'd royally, with re&s;pect to the Indian manner. Boil'd Che&s;nuts is their White-bread, which are very &s;weet, as if they were mixt with Sugar; and becau&s;e they would be extra|ordinary in their fea&s;ting, they &s;trive for variety after the Engli&s;h manner, boyling Puddings made of beaten corne, putting therein great &s;tore of black berryes, &s;omewhat like Currants. They ha|ving thus nobly fea&s;ted them, afterward give them Audience, in a State-hou&s;e, round, about fifty foot wide, made of long poles &s;tuck in the ground, like your Summer-hou&s;es in <HI>England,</HI> and covered round about, and on the top with Mats, &s;ave a &s;mall place in the middle of the Roofe, to give light, and let out the &s;moke.</P>
<P>In this place &s;ate their <HI>Sachim,</HI> with very great attendance; the Engli&s;h comming to deliver their Me&s;&s;age, to manife&s;t the greater &s;tate, the Indian <HI>Sachim</HI> lay along upon the ground, on a Mat, and his Nobility &s;ate on the ground, with their legs doubled up, their knees touching their chin: with much &s;ober gravity they attend the Interpreters &s;peech. It was matter of much wonder|ment to the Engli&s;h, to &s;ee how &s;olidly and wi&s;ely the&s;e &s;avage people did con&s;ider of the weighty undertaking of a War; e&s;pe|cially
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old <HI>Canonicus,</HI> who was very di&s;creet in his an&s;wers. The young Sachem was indeed of a more lofty &s;pirit, which wrought his ruine, as you may heare, after the decea&s;e of the old King. But at this time his an&s;wer was, that he did willingly embrace peace with the Engli&s;h, con&s;idering right well, that although their number was but &s;mall in compari&s;on of his people, and that they were but &s;trangers to the Woods, Swamps, and advantagi|ous places of this Wilderne&s;&s;e, yet withall he knew the Engli&s;h were advantaged by their weapons of War, and e&s;pecially their Guns, which were of great terror to his people, and al&s;o he had heard they came of a more populous Nation by far than all the Indians were, could they be joyn'd together. Al&s;o on the other hand, with mature deliberation, he was well advi&s;ed of the Pea|quods cruell di&s;po&s;ition and aptne&s;&s;e to make War, as al&s;o their neere neighbourhood to his people, who though they were more numerous, yet were they withall more effeminate, and le&s;&s;e able to defend them&s;elves from the &s;udden incur&s;ions of the <HI>Peaquods,</HI> &s;hould they fall out with them. Hereupon hee demes it mo&s;t conducing to his owne, and his peoples &s;afety to direct his cour&s;e in a middle way, holding amity with both. The <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> returne home, having gained the old Kings favour &s;o farre, as rather to favour them then the <HI>Pequods,</HI> who perceiving their Neighbouring <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> had &s;ent forth aid to the <HI>Mattacu&s;ets</HI> go|vernment, thought it high time to &s;eeke the winning all the <HI>In|dians</HI> they could on their &s;ide, and among others they make their addre&s;&s;e to old <HI>Cannonicus,</HI> who, in&s;teed of taking part with them, labours all he can to hu&s;h the War in hand, laying before them the &s;ad effects of War; &s;ometimes proving &s;ad and mourn|full to the very Victors them&s;elves, but alwayes to the vanqui&s;h|ed, and withall tells them what potent enemies they had to con|tend with, who&s;e very weapons and Armor were matter of ter|ror, &s;etting their per&s;ons a &s;ide; as al&s;o that Engli&s;h man was no much hoggery yet, and therefore they might &s;oone appea&s;e them, by delivering into their hands tho&s;e per&s;ons that had beene the death of any of them, which were much better than that the whole Nation &s;hould peri&s;h.</P>
<P>For the pre&s;ent the <HI>Pequods</HI> &s;eemed to be inclinable to the old <HI>Sachims</HI> coun&s;ell, but being returned home againe among their
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rude multitude (the chief place of cowardly boa&s;ting) they &s;oon change their minde; yet the old <HI>Sachim</HI> &s;ends the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> word he had wrought with them, and in very deed, the Engli&s;h had rather make choice of Peace then Warre, provided it may &s;tand with Truth and Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: and therefore &s;end forth a band of Souldiers, who arriving in the <HI>Peaquod</HI> Country, ad|dre&s;s them&s;elves to have a Treaty with them about delivering up the murtherers; they making &s;hew of willingne&s;s &s;o to doe, bade them abide awhile and they would bring them, and in the mean time they were conver&s;ant among the Souldiers, and view|ing their Armie, pointed to divers places where they could hit them with their Arrowes for all their Cor&s;lets. But their grea|te&s;t number lying the while at the other &s;ide of a great hill, and anon appearing on the top of the hill, in &s;ight of the Engli&s;h: tho&s;e Indians that were among the Engli&s;h withdrawing to|ward them; no &s;ooner were they come to their Companions, but all of a &s;uddaine they gave a great &s;hout, and &s;hewed the Engli&s;h a fair pair of heeles, who &s;eeing it, would not availe any thing to follow them (they being farre &s;wifter of foot than the Engli&s;h) made their returne home againe.</P>
<P>This bootle&s;&s;e voyage incouraged the Indians very much, who in&s;ulted over them at the fort, boa&s;ting of this their deluding them, and withall, they bla&s;phemed the Lord, &s;aying, Engli&s;h-mans God was all one Flye, and that Engli&s;h man was all one Sqawe, and them&s;elves all one Moor-hawks. Thus by their horrible pride they fitted them&s;elves for de&s;truction. The En|gli&s;h hearing this report, were now full a&s;&s;ured that the Lord would deliver them into their hands to execute his righteous judgement upon the&s;e bla&s;phemous murtherers; and therefore rai&s;ed fre&s;h Souldiers for the warre, to the number of four&s;core, or thereabout, out of the &s;everall towns in the <HI>Matachu&s;ets,</HI> and although they were but in their beginnings, yet the Lord, who fore-intended their work, provided for all their wants, and in|deed it was much that they had any bisket to carry with them in the&s;e times of &s;carcity, or any ve&s;&s;els to tran&s;port their men and ammunition: yet all was provided by the gracious hand of the mo&s;t high; and the Souldiers, many of them, not onely armed with outward weapons, and armour of defence, but filled with
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a &s;pirit of courage and magnanimity to re&s;i&s;t, not onely men, but Devils; for &s;urely he was more then ordinaryly pre&s;ent with this Indian army, as the &s;equell will &s;hew: as al&s;o for their further incouragement, the reverend and zealou&s;ly affected &s;ervant of Chri&s;t, Mr. <HI>John Wil&s;on,</HI> went with the army, who had trea&s;u|red up heaps of the experimentall goodne&s;&s;e of God towards his people. Having formerly pa&s;&s;ed through perils by Sea, pe|rils by Land, perils among fal&s;e brethren, &amp;c. he followed the warre purpo&s;ely to &s;ound an alarum before the Lord with his &s;ilver trumpet, that his people might be remembred before him: the Souldiers ariving in &s;afety at the towne of <HI>Hartford,</HI> where they were encouraged by the reverend Mini&s;ters there, with &s;ome &s;uch &s;peech as followes.</P>
<Q><HI>Fellow-Souldiers, Country-men, and Companions in this wilder|ne&s;&s;e-worke, who are gathered together this day by the inevitable providence of the great</HI> Jehovah, <HI>not in a tumultuous manner hurri|ed on by the floating fancy of every high hot headed braine, who&s;e actions prove abortive, or if any fruit brought forth, it hath beene rape, thefe, and murther, things incon&s;isting with natures light, then much le&s;&s;e with a Souldiers valour; but you, my deare hearts, pur|po&s;ely pickt out by the godly grave Fathers of this government, that your prowe&s;&s;e may carry on the work, where there Ju&s;tice in her righteous cour&s;e is ob&s;tructed, you need not que&s;tion your authority to execute tho&s;e whom God, the righteous Judge of all the world, hath condemned for blaspheming his &s;acred Maje&s;ty, and murthering his Servants: every common Souldier among you is now in&s;talled a Ma|gi&s;trate; then &s;hew your &s;elves men of courage: I would not draw low the height of your enemies hatred again&s;t you, and &s;o deba&s;e your valour. This you may expect, their &s;welling pride hath laid the foun|dation of large conceptions again&s;t you, and all the people of Christ in this milderne&s;&s;e, even as wide as</HI> Babels <HI>bottome. But, my brave Souldiers, it hath mounted already to the clouds, and therefore it is ripe for confu&s;ion; al&s;o their crueltie is famou&s;ly knowne, yet all true-bred Souldiers re&s;erve this as a common maxime, cruelty and cowardize are un&s;eparable companions; and in briefe, there is no|thing wanting on your enemies part, that may deprive you of a compleat victory, onely their nimblene&s;s of foot, and the unacce&s;&s;ible &s;wamps and nut-tree woods, forth of which your &s;mall numbers may</HI>
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<HI>intice, and indu&s;try compell them. And now to you I put the que|&s;tion, who would not fight in &s;uch a cau&s;e with an agile spirit, and un|daunted boldne&s;&s;e? yet if you look for further encouragement, I have it for you; riches and honour are the next to a good cau&s;e eyed by every Souldier, to maintain your owne, and &s;poile your enemies of theirs; although gold and &s;ilver be wanting to either of you, yet have you that to maintaine which is farre more precious, the lives, liber|tyes, and new purcha&s;ed freedomes, priviledges, and immunities of the indeared &s;ervants of our Lord Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and of your &s;econd &s;elves, even your affectionated bo&s;ome mates, together with the thiefe pledges of your love, the comforting contents of harmle&s;&s;e pra|tling and &s;miling babes: and in a word, all the riches of that good|ne&s;&s;e and mercy that attends the people of God in the injoyment of Chri&s;t, in his Ordinances, even in this life; and as for honour,</HI> Da|vid <HI>was net to be blamed for enquiring after it, as a due recompence of that true valour the Lord had bestowed on him: aad now the Lord hath prepared this honour for you, oh you couragious Souldiers of his, to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and correction among the people, to binde their Kings in chaines, and Nobles in fetters of Iron, that they may execute upon them the judgements that are writ|ten! this honour &s;hall be to all his Saints, but &s;ome of you may &s;up|po&s;e deaths &s;troke may cut you &s;hort of this: let every faithfull Soul|dier of Chri&s;t Je&s;us know, that the cau&s;e why &s;ome of his indeared Servants are taken away by death in a ju&s;t warre (as this a&s;&s;uredly is) it is not becau&s;e they &s;hould fall &s;hort of the honours accompanying, &s;uch noble de&s;ignes, but rather becau&s;e earths honours are two &s;cant for them, and therefore the everla&s;ting Crown mu&s;t be &s;et upon their heads forthwith, then march on with a cheerfull Christian cou|rage in the &s;trength of the Lord, and the power of his might, who will forthwith inclo&s;e your enemies in your hands, make their multi|tudes fall under your warlike weapons, and your feet &s;hall &s;oon be &s;et on their proud necks.</HI></Q>
<P>After the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t had, through the grace that was given them, exhorted and encouraged the&s;e Souldiers appointed for the work, they being provided with certaine Indian guides, who with the clo&s;e of the day brought them to a &s;mall river, where they could perceive many per&s;ons had been dre&s;&s;ing of fi&s;h; upon the &s;ight thereof, the Indian guides concluded they
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were now a fea&s;ting it at their fort, which was hard at hand; the Engli&s;h calling a Councill of warre, being directed by the &s;pecialle&s;t providence of the mo&s;t high God, they concluded to &s;torm the fort a little before break of day; at whith time they &s;uppo&s;ed the Indians being up late in their jolly fea&s;ting, would bee in their deepe&s;t &s;leepe; and &s;urely &s;o it was, for they now &s;lept their la&s;t: the Engli&s;h keeping them&s;elves as covertly as they could, approached the fort at the time appointed, which was builded of whole Trees &s;et in the ground fa&s;t, and &s;tanding up an end about twelve foot high, very large, having pitcht their Wigwams within it, the entrance being on two &s;ides, with intricate Meanders to enter. The chiefe Leaders of the Engli&s;h made &s;ome little &s;tand before they offered to enter, but yet boldly they ru&s;hed on, and found the pa&s;&s;ages guarded at each place with an Indian Bow-man, ready on the &s;tring, they &s;oone let fly, and wounded the for&punc; mo&s;t of the Engli&s;h in the &s;houlder, yet having di&s;patch'd the Porters, they found the winding way in without a Guide, where they &s;oone placed them&s;elves round the Wigwams, and according to direction they made their fir&s;t &s;hot with the muz|zle of their Muskets downe to the ground, knowing the Indian manner is to lie on the ground to &s;leep, from which they being in this terrible manner awakened, unle&s;&s;e is were &s;uch as were &s;laine with the &s;hot.</P>
<P>After this &s;ome of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> entred the Wigwams, where they received &s;ome &s;hot with their Arrowes, yet catching up the fire brands, they began to fire them, and others of the Engli&s;h Soulders with powder, did the &s;ame: the day now began to break; the Lord intending to have the&s;e murtherers know he wou'd looke out of the cloudy pillar upon them: and now the&s;e women and children &s;et up a terrible out-cry; the men were &s;mitten down, and flaine, as they came forth with a great &s;laughter, the <HI>Sqawes</HI> crying out, oh much winn it Engli&s;h-man, who moved with pitty toward them, &s;aved their lives: and hereupon &s;ome young youth cryed, I &s;quaw, I &s;quaw, thinking to finde the like mercy. There were &s;ome of the&s;e In|dians, as is reported, who&s;e bodyes were not to be pierced by their &s;harp rapiers of &s;words of a long time, which made &s;ome
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of the Souldiers think the Devil was in them, for there were &s;ome <HI>Powwowes</HI> among them, which work &s;trange things, with the help of Satan. But this was very remarkable, one of them being wounded to death, and thru&s;t thorow the neck with a halbert; vet after all, lying groaning upon the ground, he caught the halberts &s;peare in his hand, and wound it quite round. After the Engli&s;h were thus po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of this fir&s;t victory, they &s;ent their pri&s;oners to the pinnaces, and pro&s;ecute the warre in hand, to the next Battalia of the In|dians, which lay on a hill about two miles di&s;tant, and indeed their &s;toute&s;t Souldiers were at this place, and not yet come to the fort; the Engli&s;h being weary with their night worke, and wanting &s;uch refre&s;hing as the pre&s;ent worke required, began to grow faint, yet having obtained one victory, they were very de&s;irous of another: and further, they knew right-well, till this cur&s;ed crew were utterly rooted out, they &s;hould never be at peace; therefore they marched on toward them. Now a&s;&s;uredly, had the Indians knowne how much weakned our Souldiers were at pre&s;ent, they might have born them downe with their multitude, they being very &s;trong and agile of body, had they come to handy-gripes; but the Lord (who would have his people know their work was his, and he onely mu&s;t order their Coun&s;els, and war like work for them) did bring them timely &s;upply from the ve&s;&s;els, and al&s;o gave them a &s;econd victory, wherein they &s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ew many more of their e|nemies, the re&s;idue flying into a very thick &s;wamp, being unac|ce&s;&s;ible, by rea&s;on of the boggy holes of water, and thick bu&s;hes; the Engli&s;h drawing up their company beleagered the &s;wamp, and the Indians in the mean time skulking up and down, and as they &s;aw opportunity they made &s;hot with their Arrowes at the Engli&s;h, and then &s;uddainly they would fall flat along in the wa|ter to defend them&s;elves from the retalliation of the Souldiers Muskets. This la&s;ted not long, for our Engli&s;h being but a &s;mall number, had parted them&s;elves far a&s;under, but by the providence of the mo&s;t high God, &s;ome of them &s;pyed an Indian with a kettle at his back going more inwardly into the &s;wamp, by which they perceived there was &s;ome place of firm land in the mid&s;t thereof, which cau&s;ed them to make way for the pa&s;&s;age
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of their Souldiers, which brought this warre to a period: For al|though many got away, yet were they no &s;uch con&s;iderable num|ber as ever to rai&s;e warre any more; the &s;laine or wounded of the Engli&s;h were (through the mercy of Chri&s;t) but a few: One of them being &s;hot through the body, neere about the brea&s;t, re|garding it not till of a long time after, which cau&s;ed the bloud to dry and thicken on eitheir end of the arrow &s;o that it could not be drawne forth his body without great difficulty and much paine, yet did he &s;cape his life, and the wound healed. Thus the Lord was plea&s;ed to a&s;&s;i&s;t his people in this warre, and deliver them out of the Indians hands, who were very lu&s;ty proper men of their hands, mo&s;t of them, as may appear by one pa&s;&s;age which I &s;hall here relate: thus it came to pa&s;&s;e, As the Souldiers were uppon their march, clo&s;e by a great thicket, where no eye could penetrate farre, as it often falls out in &s;uch weari&s;om wayes, where neither men nor bea&s;t have beaten out a path; &s;ome Souldiers lingering behinde their fellowes, two Indians watching their opportunity, much like a hungry hauke, when they &s;up|po&s;ed the la&s;t man was come up, who kept a double double double di&s;tance in his march, they &s;udden and &s;wiftly &s;natched him up in their tallens, hoi&s;ing him upon their &s;houlders, ran into the &s;wamp with him; the Souldier unwilling to be made a Pope by being borne on mens &s;houlders, &s;trove with them all he could to free him&s;elfe from their hands; but, like a carefull Comman|der, one Captaine <HI>Davenport,</HI> then Lieutenant of this company, being diligent in his place to bring up the reare, coming up with them, followed with &s;peed into the &s;wamp after him, having a very &s;evere cutlace tyed to his wri&s;t, and being well able to make it bite &s;ore when he &s;et it on, re&s;olving to make it fall foul on the Indians bones, he &s;oone overtook them, but was preven|ted by the buckler they held up from hitting them, which was the man they had taken: It was matter of much wonder to &s;ee with what dexterity they hurled the poore Souldier about, as if they had been handling a <HI>Lacedaemonian</HI> &s;hield, &s;o that the nimble Captaine <HI>Davenport</HI> could not, of a long time, fa&s;ten one &s;troke upon them; yet, at la&s;t, dying their tawny skin into a crim&s;on co|lour, they ca&s;t downe their prey, and ha&s;ted thorow the thic|kets for their lives. The Souldier thus redeemed, had no &s;uch
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hard u&s;age, but that he is alive, as I &s;uppo&s;e, at this very day: The Lord in mercy toward his poore Churches having thus de|&s;troyed the&s;e bloudy barbarous Indians, he returnes his people in &s;afety to their ve&s;&s;els, where they take account of their pri&s;o|ners: the <HI>Squawes</HI> and &s;ome young youths they brought home with them, and finding the men to be deeply guilty of the crimes they undertooke the warre for, they brought away onely their heads as a token of their victory. By this means the Lord &s;trook a trembling terror into all the Indians round about, even to this very day.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VII. <HI>Of the fir&s;t Syrod holden in</HI> New England, <HI>whereby the Lord in his mercy did more plainly di&s;cover his ancient truths, and con|fute tho&s;e cur&s;ed errors that ordinarily dogg the refor|ming Churches of CHRIST.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Lord Chri&s;t deeming it mo&s;t expedient for his people to adde &s;ome farther help to a&s;&s;i&s;t them in cutting downe tho&s;e cur&s;ed errors (that were the next dangerous difficulty they were to meet with) &s;ends in the Reverend and bright &s;hining light Mr. <HI>Davenport,</HI> and the cheerfull, grave, and gracious Sol|dier of his, Mr. <HI>Allen,</HI> as al&s;o Mr. <HI>Thomp&s;on,</HI> Mr. <HI>Browne,</HI> Mr. <HI>Fi&s;h,</HI> with divers other of the faithfull &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, the much honoured Mr. <HI>Eaton</HI> and Mr. <HI>Hopkins:</HI> and now the time being come, the Synod &s;ate at <HI>Cambridge,</HI> where was pre&s;ent about 25. Reverend and godly Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, be&s;ides many other gra|ciou&s;ly-eminent &s;ervants of his. A Catalogue of the &s;everall Er|rors &s;cattered about the Countrey was there produced, to the number of 80. and liberty given to any man to di&s;pute <HI>pro</HI> or <HI>con,</HI> and none to be charged to be of that opinion he di&s;puted for, un|le&s;&s;e he &s;hould declare him&s;elfe &s;o to be. The Weapons the&s;e Souldiers of Chri&s;t warred with, was the Sword of the Spirit, e|ven the Word of God, together with earne&s;t prayer to the God of all Truth, that he would open his truths unto them. The clea|ring of the true &s;en&s;e and meaning of any place of Scripture, it was done by Scripture, for they &s;o di&s;cerned by the grace of God
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that was given them, that the whole Scripture mu&s;t be attended unto. Foure &s;orts of per&s;ons I could with a good will have paid their pa&s;&s;age out, and home againe to <HI>England,</HI> that they might have been pre&s;ent at this Synod, &s;o that they would have repor|ted the truth of all the pa&s;&s;ages thereof to their own Colledges at their return. The fir&s;t is the Prelates, who both in Theorie and Practice might have made their owne Eyes Judges in the ca&s;e, Whether would prevaile mo&s;t, (to the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of Error, and advancing of Unity in the true wor&s;hip of God) either their commanding power backt with the &s;ubordinate &s;word of Prin|ces, or the Word of God cleered up by the faithfull labour and indefatigable pains of the &s;incere &s;ervants of the Lord Chri&s;t, and mightily declared through the demon&s;tration of his ble&s;&s;ed Spi|rit. This well waighed, may (through the Lords ble&s;&s;ing) &s;top the yet running fancie in the brains of many, that their Lordly power is the onely means of &s;uppre&s;&s;ing Error.</P>
<P>Secondly, the Godly and Reverend Presbyterian Party, who, had they made their eye-witne&s;&s;es of this worke, they had a&s;&s;u|redly &s;aved them&s;elves much labour, which I dare pre&s;ume they would have &s;pent worthily otherwayes, then in writing &s;o many books to prove the Congregationall or Independant Churches to be the &s;luce, through which &s;o many flouds of Error flow in: nay, my deare and reverend brethren, might not &s;o much work of yours in writing, and ours in an&s;wering, have been a meanes to have &s;topt the height of this overflowing floud? and through the Lords a&s;&s;i&s;ting have &s;etled Peace and Truth in a great mea|&s;ure throughout the three Nations.</P>
<P>Thirdly, tho&s;e who with their new &s;tratagems have brought in &s;o much old error; for although they had a party here, yet verily they dur&s;t not bring their New Light to the Old Word, for fear it would prove but Old Darkne&s;&s;e, (as indeed they doe.) But here might they have &s;eene the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t (who were &s;o experienced in the Scripture, that &s;ome of them could tell you the place, both Chapter and Ver&s;e, of mo&s;t &s;entences of Scripture could be named unto them) with Scriptures light, cleering up the truths of Chri&s;t clouded by any of the&s;e Errors and Here&s;ies, as had not been done for many Ages before: and verily this great work of Chri&s;t mu&s;t not be lightly over-pa&s;t, the Author of this
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Hi&s;tory pa&s;&s;eth not for the &s;hrewd cen&s;ures of men: nor, can it be any matter of di&s;paragement to the reverend and highly ho|noured in Chri&s;t, remaining in <HI>England,</HI> that their fellow bre|thren have done &s;o worthily here? it is well knowne to all our Engli&s;h Nation, that the mo&s;t able-preaching Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t were mo&s;t pur&s;ued by the lording Clergy, and tho&s;e that have &s;pent all their dayes, even from a child, in &s;earching the Scri|ptures, the Lord Chri&s;t preparing them by his ble&s;&s;ed &s;pirit for this very work. Be&s;ides, their continued practice in &s;tudying and preaching the wayes of truth; and la&s;tly, their meeting with the oppo&s;ition of &s;o many crafty, clo&s;e couched errors, who&s;e fir&s;t foundation was laid cheke by joule with the mo&s;t glorious, heavenly, and ble&s;&s;ed truths, to dazle the eyes of the beholders, and &s;trike terrour into the hearts of tho&s;e &s;hould lift up their hands again&s;t them, for feare they &s;hould mi&s;&s;e them, and hit their &s;troke upon the ble&s;&s;ed truth; and al&s;o to bring up a &s;lan|derous and evil report on all the able Orthodox Min<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rs of Chri&s;t that with&s;tand them, per&s;wading men they with&s;tand the holy, heavenly, and ble&s;&s;ed truth, which they have lodged there, which this Synod did with &s;trong &amp; undenyable arguments fetch from Scripture, to overthrow and pluck up by the roots, all tho&s;e Errors, which you have heard mentioned in the former Book, the which they divided for the more full an&s;wering of them. A|mong all tho&s;e valiant Champions of the Truth whom you have heard named, to &s;ome &s;ix, &s;ome five, &s;ome foure, &amp;c. it had a&s;&s;u|redly been worth the work to have related the particular man|ner of putting to the &s;word every one of them: but be&s;ides the length of the di&s;cour&s;e, there mu&s;t have been a more able Pen|man: but however they were &s;o put to death, that they never have &s;tood up in a living manner among us &s;ince, but &s;ometimes like Wizards to peepe and mutter out of ground, fit for &s;uch people to re&s;ort unto, as will goe from the living to the dead. But ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord Chri&s;t, who girded his people with &s;trength again&s;t this day of battaile, and cau&s;ed the Heavens to cleere up againe in New-England, after the&s;e foggy dayes:</P>
<P>The fourth and la&s;t &s;ort of per&s;ons, who&s;e pre&s;ence I could mo&s;t of all the other three former have de&s;ired, was tho&s;e who&s;e di&s;ea&s;e lay as chiefly in de&s;pi&s;ing all Phy&s;itians, and that upon this
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ground for one, becau&s;e &s;ome for filthy lucre &s;ake have nouri&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Di&s;ea&s;es rather then cured them. Many pamphlets have come from our Countreymen of late, to this purpo&s;e, namely, &s;curril|lou&s;ly to deride all kind of Scholar&s;hip, Presbytery, and Synods. Experience hath taught Gods people here, that &s;uch are troubled with &s;ome &s;infull opinion of their owne, that they would not have touched; but had they been at this Synod, they mu&s;t, <HI>per force,</HI> have learned better language, or their &s;peech and their knowledge would fall foule one of the other; here might they have beheld the humility of the mo&s;t learned of the&s;e &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, condemning the high conceitedne&s;&s;e of their ignorance, and then al&s;o the framing of Arguments in a Schollar like way, did (the Lord a&s;&s;i&s;ting) cleare up the truths of Chri&s;t more to the me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ne&s;t capacity in one hour, then could be clouded again in &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aven yeare by the new notion of any &s;uch as boa&s;t &s;o much of their unlettered knowledge, diver&s;ity of languages, although a correcting hand of God upon the whole world, when they joyned together in that proud Edifice: yet now is it ble&s;t of God, to retaine the purity of the Scriptures; if any man &s;hould goe about to corrupt them in one language, they &s;hould remain pure in another; and a&s;&s;uredly, the Lord intending to have the wayes of the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t to be made more manife&s;t at this time, then formerly, not by tradition of our forefathers, or by mans rea&s;on, but by the revealed will of God in the holy Scri|pture, did accordingly prepare In&s;truments for this work, earthen ve&s;&s;els, men &s;ubject to like infirmities with our &s;elves; &s;orry men, and carrying about with them a body of &s;inne and death, men &s;ubject to erre: yet the&s;e did the Lord Chri&s;t cau&s;e to be train'd up in Learning, and tutor'd at the Univer&s;ities, and that very young, &s;ome of them, as the revererend Mr. <HI>John Cotten</HI> at 13. yeares of age. The mighty power of God &s;anctifyed and ordained them for this work, and made them a defenced city, an iron pillar, a wall of bra&s;s again&s;t all the oppo&s;ers of his truth; and now coupled them together in this Synod, to draw in Chri&s;ts yoke, and warre with the weapons he had furni&s;hed them withall, and cau&s;e the ble&s;&s;ed truths of Chri&s;t to &s;hine forth in their &s;plendour and glory, farre more after the di&s;per&s;ing of this &s;moak, which of a long time hath filled the Temple, and hinde|red
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the entring in of tho&s;e great number of Converts, which &s;hall flow in at the fall of all antichri&s;tian Errors; and verily as the Lord Chri&s;t had called forth this little handfu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l to be a model of his glorious work, intended thoughout the whole world, &s;o chiefly in this &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of Errours, Sects, and Here&s;ies, by the ble&s;&s;ed word of his truth, cau&s;ing his &s;ervants in this Synod, mu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ally to agree; and by his gracious providence, break in pieces a contrived plot of &s;ome, who, by mi&s;-reports, in&s;inuating jealou&s;ies, and crafty carriage of matters to the wrong mark, with a writing of thrice twenty &s;trong, would have drawne away one of the valiant Souldiers of Chri&s;t from this worthy worke, who both then, and &s;ince, hath been very helpfull to ca&s;t downe many a &s;trong fort erected by the Sectaries; but the Lord Chri&s;t would not &s;uffer this blow to be given, intending all people (by way of re&s;titution) for their &s;landerous reports, ca&s;t upon his <HI>New England</HI> Churches (as being the inlet to Errours) &s;hall honour them with this victorious co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">que&s;t, given them by Chri&s;t herein; yet willing they would, their brethren in <HI>England</HI> might win the prize by out-&s;tripping them, more abundantly in length, bredth and height, which the &s;ame God is able to per|forme, that hath been thus abundantly good to us.</P>
<P>About this time the Churches of Chri&s;t began to be diligent in their duty, and the civil government in looking after &s;uch as were like to di&s;turb the peace of this new erected govern|ment; &s;ome per&s;ons being &s;o hot headed for maintaining of the&s;e &s;infull opinions, that they feared breach of peace, even among the Members of the &s;uperiour Court, but the Lord ble&s;|&s;ing them with agreement to prevent the wofull effects of civill broyles; tho&s;e in place of government cau&s;ed certain per&s;ons to be di&s;armed in the &s;everall Townes, as in the Towne of <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> to the number of 58. in the Towne of <HI>Salem</HI> 6. in the Towne of <HI>Newbery</HI> 3. in the Towne of <HI>Roxbury</HI> 5. in the Towne of <HI>Ip&s;witch</HI> 2. and <HI>Charles</HI> Towne 2. others there were, that through the help of the faithfull &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, came to &s;ee how they had beene m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;led, and by the power of Chri&s;t in his Word, returned againe with an acknowledge|ment of their &s;inne; but others there were, who remained ob&s;tinate, to the di&s;turbing of the civill power, and were bani|&s;hed,
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of whom you &s;hall heare farther hereafter. Some of the Churches of Chri&s;t being more indulgent, waited long ere they fell upon the work: and here you mu&s;t tak notice, that the Sy|nod, Civil Government, and the Churches of Chri&s;t, kept their proper place, each moving in their own &s;phear, and acting by their own light, or rather by the revelation of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, wit|ne&s;&s;ed by his Word and Spirit, yet not refu&s;ing the help of eacg other (as &s;ome would willingly have it) &s;ome of the Churches pro&s;ecuting the Rule of Chri&s;t again&s;t their hereticall Members, were forced to proceed to excommunication of them, who when they &s;aw whereto it would come, they would have pre|vented it with lying, but the Lord di&s;covered it; and &s;o they were ju&s;tly &s;eparated from the Churches of Chri&s;t for lying: which being done, they fell to their old trade againe.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VIII. <HI>Of the planting the fourth Colonie of New Englands godly Govern|ment, called</HI> New-Haven.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lord Chri&s;t having now in his great mercy taken out of the way the&s;e mountains that &s;eemed in the eye of Man to block up his Churches further proceedings, they had now lei&s;ure to welcome the living &s;tones that the Lord was plea&s;ed to adde unto this building, and with thankfull acknowledgment to give him of his owne for his mercyes multitude, who&s;e was the work in planting, not onely more Churches, but another Colo|ny al&s;o; for the honoured Mr, <HI>Eaton</HI> being accompanied with many worthy per&s;ons of note, whom the Lord had furni&s;hed with &s;tore of &s;ub&s;tance for this wilderne&s;&s;e-work, although they would willingly have made their abode under the government of the Mattachu&s;ets; yet could they finde no place upon the Sea-coa&s;ts for their &s;ettling: the Lord intending to enlarge his peo|ples border, cau&s;ed them, after much &s;earch, to take up a place &s;omewhat more &s;outhwardly, neare the &s;halles of <HI>Cape-cod,</HI> where they had very flatt water; yet being entred in, they found: commodious harbour for &s;hipping, and a fit place to erect a
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Towne, which they built in very little time, with very faire hou|&s;es, and compleat &s;treets; but in a little time they over&s;tockt it with Chattell, although many of them did follow merchandi|zing, and Maritime affairs, but their remotene&s;&s;e from the Matta|chu&s;ets Bay, where the chiefe traffique lay, hindred them much. Here did the&s;e godly and &s;incere &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, according to the rule of the Word, gather into Church E&s;tate, and called to the office of a Pa&s;tor the reverend, judicious, and godly Mr, <HI>John Davenport,</HI> of whom the Author is bold to &s;ay as fol|loweth:</P>
<Q><L><HI>WHen Men and Devils 'gainst Chri&s;ts flock conspire,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For them prepar'd a deadly trapping net;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then Chri&s;t to make all men his work admire,</HI></L>
<L>Davenport, <HI>he doth thee from thy Country fet</HI></L>
<L><HI>To &s;it in Synod, and his folk a&s;&s;i&s;t:</HI></L>
<L><HI>The filthy vomit of Hels Dragon, deepe</HI></L>
<L><HI>In earths womb drawn, ble&s;t they this poy&s;on mi&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And ble&s;t the meanes doth us from error keep,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy grave advice and arguments of &s;trength</HI></L>
<L><HI>Did much prevaile, the Erroni&s;t confound.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Well ha&s;t thou warr'd, Chri&s;t drawes thy dayes in length,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That thou in learn'd experience mai&s;t abound:</HI></L>
<L><HI>What though thou leave a city &s;tor'd with plea&s;ure,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Spend thy prime dayes in heathen de&s;art land,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy joy's in Christ, and not in earthly trea&s;ure,</HI></L>
<L>Davenport <HI>rejoice, Chri&s;ts Kngdome is at hand;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Didst ever deem to &s;ee &s;uch glorious dayes?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Though thou decrea&s;e with age and earths content,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou live'&s;t in Christ, needs then mu&s;t thy joy rai&s;e;</HI></L>
<L><HI>His Kingdome's thine, and that can ne'r be spent.</HI></L></Q>
<P>This Church and Town &s;oon procur'd &s;ome Si&s;ters to take part with her, and among them they erected a godly and peaceable Government, and called their frontier towne <HI>New haven,</HI> of which the Government is denominated, being inhabited by many men eminent in gifts for the populating thereof, and managing of affaires both by Sea and Land; they have had &s;ome &s;hipping
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built there, but by the &s;ad lo&s;&s;e of Mr. <HI>Lambertons</HI> &s;hip and goods al&s;o, they were much di&s;heartned, but the much honoured Mr. <HI>Eaton</HI> remaines with them to this very day.</P>
<Q><L><HI>THou noble thus,</HI> Theophilus, <HI>before great Kings to &s;tand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>More noble far, for Chri&s;t his war thou leav'&s;t thy native land;</HI></L>
<L><HI>With thy rich &s;tore thou cam'&s;t on &s;hore Chri&s;ts Churches to a&s;&s;i&s;t;</HI></L>
<L><HI>What if it wa&s;t? thou purcha&s;t ha&s;t that Pearl that mo&s;t have mi&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nay rather he hath purcha&s;t thee, and what&s;oever thou ha&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With graces &s;tore to govern o're his people, he thee plac't.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Our State affaires thy will repaires, a&s;&s;i&s;tant thou ha&s;t bin</HI></L>
<L><HI>Firm league to make, for Go&s;pels &s;ake, four Colonyes within;</HI></L>
<L><HI>With Sweads French, Dutch, and Indians much, Gods peoples peace this bred,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then</HI> Eaton <HI>aye, remember may the Child that's yet unfed.</HI></L></Q>
<P>This government of <HI>New-haven,</HI> although the younger Si&s;ter of the foure yet was &s;he as beautifull as any of this broode of travellers, &amp; mo&s;t minding the end of her coming hither, to keep clo&s;e to the rule of Chri&s;t both in Doctrine and Di&s;cipline; and it were to be wi&s;hed her elder Si&s;ter would follow her example, to nurture up all her children accordingly: here is not to be forgot|ten the honoured Mr <HI>Hopkins,</HI> who came over about this time a man of zeale and courage for the truths of Chri&s;t, a&s;&s;i&s;ting this ble&s;&s;ed work, both in per&s;on and e&s;tate; for the which the Au|thor cannot forget him, being oft in commi&s;&s;ion for the good of all the united Colonyes.</P>
<Q><L>HOpkins <HI>thou must, although weak du&s;t, for this great work pre|pare,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Through Ocean large Chri&s;t gives thee charge to govern his with care;</HI></L>
<L><HI>What earthen man, in thy &s;hort span throughout the world to run</HI></L>
<L><HI>From Ea&s;t to We&s;t at Chri&s;ts behe&s;t, thy worthy work is done:</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;nworthy thou acknowledge now, not unto thee at all,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But to his name be la&s;ting fame, thou to his work doth call.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. IX. <HI>Of the planting the fourteenth Church of Chri&s;t under the govern|men of the Mattachu&s;ets Bay, called</HI> Dedham.</HEAD>
<P>THe latter end of this yeare 'twas the Towne of <HI>Dedham</HI> be|gan, an inland Towne, &s;cituate, about ten miles from <HI>Bo|&s;ton,</HI> in the County of <HI>Suffolk,</HI> well watred with many plea&s;ant &s;treames, abounding with Garden fruits fitly to &s;upply the Mar|kets of the mo&s;t populous Towne, who&s;e coyne and commodi|ties allures the Inhabitants of this Towne to make many a long walk; they con&s;i&s;t of about a hundred Families, being generally given to husbandry, and, through the ble&s;&s;ing of God, are much encrea&s;ed, ready to &s;warme and &s;ettle on the building of another Towne more to the Inland; they gather into a Church at their fir&s;t &s;ettling, for indeed, as this was their chiefe errand, &s;o was it the fir&s;t thing they ordinarily minded; to pitch their Taberna|cles neare the Lords Tent: To this end they called to the office of a Pa&s;tor, the reverend, humble, and heavenly-minded, Mr. <HI>John Allen,</HI> a man of a very courteous behaviour, full of &s;weet Chri|&s;tian love towards all, and with much meekne&s;&s;e of &s;pirit, con|tending earne&s;tly for the faith and peace of Chri&s;ts Chur|ches.</P>
<Q><L><HI>ALL you &s;o &s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">te Chri&s;ts &s;anctifying grace,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As legall workes, what Gospel-work can be</HI></L>
<L><HI>But &s;inne ca&s;t out, and &s;pirits work in place,</HI></L>
<L><HI>They ju&s;tifyed that Chri&s;t thus reigning &s;ee:</HI></L>
<L>Allen, <HI>thou art by Chri&s;ts free spirit led</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>M. Allen</HI> a great help a|gain&s;t the Er|rors of the time.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>To warre for him in wilderne&s;&s;e awhile;</HI></L>
<L><HI>What, doe for Chri&s;t, I man thou art in's &s;tead,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sent to be&s;eech, in's Vineyard thou mu&s;t toyle.</HI></L>
<L>John Allen <HI>joy, thou &s;infull du&s;t art taken</HI></L>
<L><HI>To spend thy dayes in exile, &s;o remote,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts Church to build, of him that's ne'r for&s;aken,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nor thou, for now his truths thou mu&s;t promote.</HI></L>
<L><HI>He guides thy tongue, thy paper, pen and hands,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy hearts &s;wift motion, and affections choice;</HI></L>
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<HI>Needs thou thus lead, mu&s;t doe what he commands,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And cry aloud when he lifts up thy voice:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Seven yeares compleat twice told, thy work hath bin,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To feed Chri&s;ts flock, in de&s;art land them keep,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Both thou and they each day are kept by him;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Safe mai&s;t thou watch, being watcht by him ne'r &s;leeps.</HI></L></Q>
<P>This Church of Chri&s;t hath in its bo&s;ome neere about 70. &s;ouls joyned in Covenant together, and being well &s;ea&s;oned with this &s;avoury &s;alt, have continued in much love and unity from their fir&s;t foundation, hitherto tan&s;lating the clo&s;e, clouded woods into goodly corn-fields, and adding much comfort to the lone|&s;ome travellers, in their &s;olitary journey to <HI>Canectico,</HI> by eying the habitation of Gods people in their way, ready to admini&s;ter refre&s;hing to the weary.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. X. <HI>Of the planting of the fifteenth Church of Chri&s;t at the Towne of</HI> Waymoth.</HEAD>
<P>THe Twone and Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Waymoth</HI> had come in among the other Townes before this, as being an elder Si&s;ter, but onely for her &s;omewhat more then ordinary in&s;tabi|lity; it is battered with the brini&s;h billows on the Ea&s;t; Rocks and Swamps to the Southwe&s;t, makes it delightfull to the nimble tripping Deere, as the plowable places of Medow land is to the Inhabitants. This Towne was fir&s;t founded by &s;ome per&s;ons that were not &s;o forward to promote the Ordinances of Chri&s;t, as many others have been: they de&s;ired the reverend Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t Mr. <HI>Gennors,</HI> to be helpfull in preaching the Word un|to them; who after &s;ome little &s;pace of time, not liking the place, repaired to the Ea&s;tern Engli&s;h: but the people of this place, after his departure, being gathered into a Church, they called to office the reverend and godly Mr <HI>Newman;</HI> but many of them unwilling to continue in this Towne, as &s;uppo&s;ing they had found a fitter place for habitation, removed into the next Government, carrying with them their Pa&s;tor; by which means, the people that were left behinde, were now de&s;titute, and ha|ving &s;ome godly Chri&s;tians among them, who much de&s;ired the &s;incere milk of the Word that they might grow thereby: upon diligent u&s;e of meanes they found out a young man able gifted for the work, brought up with the reverend and judicious Mr. <HI>Chancie,</HI> called Mr. <HI>Thomas Thatcher.</HI> Yet againe, after &s;ome few yeares, for want of &s;ufficient maintenance, with mutuall con&s;ent they parted with him, and are forced to borrow help of their Neighbours, wherein all of them to the Author is bold to &s;ay as followeth:</P>
<Q><L><HI>OH people, rea&s;on &s;wayes mans actions here,</HI></L>
<L><HI>You &s;anctifyed, o're the&s;e long &s;eas doth look,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With heavenly things your earthly toyle to cheere;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Will lo&s;e the end for which this toyle you tooke.</HI></L>
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<HI>Christ comes in's Word, let their bright feet abide</HI></L>
<L><HI>Your Towne, among who&s;e grace and gifts excell</HI></L>
<L><HI>In preaching Chri&s;t, it's he your hearts hath try'd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>They want no store that all for him doe &s;ell.</HI></L>
<L>Gennors, <HI>do&s;t love thy Chri&s;t? I hope he's deare</HI></L>
<L><HI>Belov'd of thee, he honour'd would thee have</HI></L>
<L><HI>To feed his flock, while thou remaine&s;t here;</HI></L>
<L><HI>With's Word of truth thy &s;oule and others &s;ave.</HI></L>
<L><HI>With little flock doth</HI> Newman <HI>pack away;</HI></L>
<L><HI>The righteous lips &s;ure might a many feed;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Remov'&s;t for gaine? it's most where mo&s;t men &s;tay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Men part for land why land least helps at need.</HI></L>
<L>Thatcher, <HI>what mean'&s;t to leavs thy little flock?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sure their increa&s;e might thee much profit bring:</HI></L>
<L><HI>What, leave Chri&s;ts Church? it's founded on a rock;</HI></L>
<L><HI>If rock not left, their ebb may &s;uddain spring;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Pa&s;tor and People, have you both forgot</HI></L>
<L><HI>What parting</HI> Paul <HI>and Chri&s;ts deare people had?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Their loves melt teares, it's ve'mently &s;o hot,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His heart-&s;trings break to &s;ee his folk &s;o &s;ad.</HI></L></Q>
<P>This yeare came over, be&s;ides the former, for the furthering of this ble&s;&s;ed work of Chri&s;t, Mr. <HI>William Tomp&s;on,</HI> Mr. <HI>Edm: Browne,</HI> and Mr. <HI>David Frisk,</HI> who were called to office in &s;e|verall Churches, as you &s;hall after hear. And now to end this yeare, that abounded in the wonder-working Providence of Chri&s;t, for his Churches, in the exaltation of his truths, that all may take notice the Lord ca&s;t in by the by, as it were, a very fruitfull crop, in&s;omuch that from this day forward, their in|crea&s;e was every yeare more and more, till the Country came to feed its owne Inhabitants; and the people who formerly were &s;omewhat pincht with hunger, eat bread to the full, having not onely for their nece&s;&s;ity but al&s;o for their conveniency and de|light.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XI. <HI>Of the increa&s;e of the people of Chri&s;t. Printing brought over, and the &s;ixteenth Church of Chri&s;t planted at</HI> Rouly.</HEAD>
<P>FOr the yeare 1638. <HI>John Winthrope</HI> E&s;q. was cho&s;en Gover|nour, and <HI>Tho: Dudly</HI> E&s;q. Deputy Governour; the number of Freemen added were about 130. The peace of this little Com|mon-wealth being now in great mea&s;ure &s;ettled, by the Lords mercy, in overthrowing the Indians, and bani&s;hing of certaine turbulent &s;pirits. The Churches of Chri&s;t were much edified in their holy faith by their indefatigable pains of their Mini&s;ters, in their weekly Lectures extraordinary as well as by their Sabboth-A&s;&s;emblies, and continuall vi&s;iting of their people from hou&s;e to hou&s;e, endeavouring to heale the hurts the&s;e fal&s;e de|ceivers had made, with double diligence &s;howring downe the &s;weet dews of the ble&s;&s;ed Go&s;pel of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to the conver|ting of many a poor &s;oul. and indeed, now were the glorious days of <HI>New England;</HI> the Churches of Chri&s;t increa&s;e dayly, and his eminent Emba&s;&s;adours re&s;ort unto them from our native Coun|try, which as then lay under the tyranny of the Monarchall Arch-prelates, which cau&s;ed the &s;ervants of Chri&s;t to wander from their home. This yeare the reverend and judicious M. <HI>Jo&s;. Glover</HI> undertook this long voyage, being able both in per&s;on and e&s;tate for the work he provided, for further compleating the Colonies in Church and Common-wealth-work, a Printer, which hath been very u&s;efull in many re&s;pects; the Lord &s;eeing it meet that this reverend and holy &s;ervant of his &s;hould fall &s;hort of the &s;hores of <HI>New England:</HI> but yet at this time he brought over the zealous aff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cted and judicious &s;ervant of his, Ma&s;ter <HI>Ezekiel Rogers,</HI> who with a holy and humble people, made his progre&s;s to the North-Ea&s;tward, and erected a Towne about 6. miles from <HI>Ip&s;wich,</HI> called <HI>Rowly,</HI> wanting room, they pureha|&s;ed &s;ome addition of the Town of <HI>Newbery;</HI> yet had they a large length of land, onely for the neere conveniency to the Towne of <HI>Ip&s;wich,</HI> by the which meanes they partake of the con|tinued
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Lectures of either Towne: the&s;e people being very indu|&s;trious every way, &s;oone built many hou&s;es, to the number of about three&s;core families, and were the fir&s;t people that &s;et upon making of Cloth in this We&s;tern World; for which end they built a &s;ulling-mill, and cau&s;ed their little-ones to be very diligent in &s;pinning cotten wooll, many of them having been clothiers in <HI>England,</HI> till their zeale to promote the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t cau|&s;ed them to wander; and therefore they were no le&s;&s;e indu&s;tri|ous, in gathering into Church-&s;ociety, there being &s;crace a man among them, but &s;uch as were meet to be living &s;tones in this building, according to the judgement of man; they called to the office of a Pa&s;tor this holy man of God, Mr. <HI>Ezekiel Rogers, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> whom this may be &s;aid:</P>
<Q><L><HI>Chri&s;t for this work</HI> Rogers <HI>doth riches give,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rich graces fit his people for to feed,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Wealth to &s;upply his wants whilst here he live,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Free thou receiv'&s;t to &s;erve his peoples need.</HI></L>
<L>England <HI>may mourne they thee no longer keep,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Engli&s;h rejoice, Christ doth &s;uch worthyes rai&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His Gospel preach, unfold his my&s;teries deep;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Weak du&s;t made strong &s;ets forth his makers prai&s;e:</HI></L>
<L><HI>With fervent zeale, and courage thou ha&s;t fought</HI></L>
<L><HI>'Gain&s;t that transformed Dragon and his bands,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Snatcht forth the burning thou poore &s;oules ha&s;t caught,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And freed thy flock from wolves devouring hands.</HI></L>
<L>Ezekiel <HI>mourn not, thou art &s;evered farre,</HI></L>
<L><HI>From thy deare Country, to a de&s;art land;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t call'd hath thee unto this worthy warre;</HI></L>
<L><HI>By him o'rcome, he holds thy Crowne in's hand.</HI></L></Q>
<P>For the further a&s;&s;i&s;ting of this tender flock of Chr&s;t, the re|verend Mr. <HI>John Miller</HI> did abide among them for &s;ome &s;pace of time, preaching the Word of God unto them al&s;o, till it plea&s;ed the Lord to call him to be Pa&s;tor of the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Yarmouth,</HI> in <HI>Plimoth</HI> patten, where he remaineth at this very day.</P>
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<L><HI>With courage bold</HI> Miller <HI>through Seas doth venter,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To toyl it out in this great We&s;tern wast,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy stature low one object high doth center;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Higher then Heaven thy faith on Chri&s;t is plac't:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Allarum thou with &s;ilver trumpet &s;ound,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll the World Chri&s;ts Armyes are at hand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With Scripture truths thou Errors dost confound,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And overthrow all Antichri&s;tian bands:</HI></L>
<L><HI>It matters not for th'worlds high reputation;</HI></L>
<L><HI>The World mu&s;t fall and Chri&s;t alone mu&s;t &s;tand;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Crown's prepar'd in him, then keep thy &s;tation,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Joy that Chri&s;ts Kingdome is &s;o neare at hand.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XII. <HI>Of the great Earthquake in</HI> New England, <HI>and of the wofull end of &s;ome erronious per&s;ons, with the fir&s;t foundation of</HI> Harverd <HI>Colledge.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis yeare, the fir&s;t day of the Fourth Month, about two of the clock in the after-noone, the Lord caus'd a great and terrible Earth quake, which was generall throughout all the Engli&s;h Plantations; the motion of the Earth was &s;uch, that it cau&s;ed divers men (that had never knowne an Earth quake be|fore) being at worke in the Fields, to ca&s;t downe their working-tooles, and run with ga&s;tly terrified lookes, to the next com|pany they could meet withall; it came from the We&s;terne and uninhabited parts of this Wilderne&s;&s;e, and went the direct cour&s;e: this brood of Travellers came, the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t many of them could &s;ay at that very time (not from any other Revelation, but what the word holds forth) that if the Churches of <HI>New England</HI> were Gods hou&s;e, then &s;uddenly there would follow great alterations in the Kingdomes of Europe.</P>
<P>This yeare the civill government proceeded to cen&s;ure the re|&s;idue of thofe &s;infull erroneous per&s;ons, who rai&s;ed much com|motion
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in this little Common-wealth; who being bani&s;hed, re&s;orted to a place more Southward, &s;ome of them &s;itting down at a place called Providence, others betooke them to an I&s;land about 16. miles di&s;tant from the former, called <HI>Rode</HI> I&s;land, where having Elbow roome enough, none of the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, nor any other to interrupt their fal&s;e and deceivable Do|ctrines, they hamper'd them&s;elves fouly with their owne line, and &s;oone &s;hewed the depthle&s;&s;e ditches that blinde guides lead into; many among them being much to be pittyed, who were drawne from the truth by the bewitching tongues of &s;ome of them being, very ignorant and ea&s;ily perverted: and al|though the people were not many in all, yet were they very di|ver&s;e in their opinions, and glad where they could gaine mo&s;t Di&s;ciples to heare them; &s;ome were for every day to be a Sab|bath, and therefore kept not any Sabbath-day at all; others were &s;ome for one thing, &s;ome for another; and therefore had their &s;everall meetings, making many a goodly piece of Preachment; among whom there were &s;ome of the female &s;exe (who deeming the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul</HI> to be too &s;trict in not permitting a roome to preach in the publique Congregation) taught, notwith&s;tan|ding they having their call to this office, from an ardent de&s;ire of being famous, e&s;pecially the grand Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e of them all, who ordinarily prated every Sabbath day, till others, who thir&s;ted af|ter honour in the &s;ame way with her &s;elfe, drew away her Au|ditors, and then &s;he withdrew her &s;elf, her husband, and her fa|mily al&s;o, to a more remote place; and a&s;&s;uredly, although the Lord be &s;ecret in all the di&s;pen&s;ation of his providences, whether in judgement or mercy, yet much may be learn'd from all, as &s;ometimes pointing with the finger to the le&s;&s;on; as here the&s;e per&s;ons withdrawing from the Churches of Chri&s;t (wherein he walketh, and is to be found in his ble&s;&s;ed Ordinances) to a fir&s;t and &s;econd place, where they came to a very &s;ad end; for thus it came to pa&s;&s;e in the latter place, The Indians in tho&s;e parts for|warned them of making their abode there; yet this could be no warning to them, but &s;till they continued, being among&s;t a mul|titude of Indians, boa&s;ted they were become all one Indian: and indeed, this woman, who had the chiefe rule of all the roa&s;t, be|ing very bold in her &s;trange Revelations and mi&s;-applications,
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tells them, though all nations and people were cut off round a|bout them, yet &s;hould not they; till on a day certaine Indians coming to her hou&s;e, di&s;cour&s;ing with them, they wi&s;hed to tye up her doggs, for they much bit the man, not mi&s;tru&s;ting the Indians guile, did &s;o; the which no &s;ooner done, but they cruelly murthered her, taking one of their daughters away with them, &amp; another of them &s;eeking to e&s;cape is caught, as &s;he was getting over a hadge, and they drew her back againe by the haire of the head to the &s;tump of a tree, and there cut off her head with a hatchet; the other that dwelt by them betook them to boat, and fled, to tell this &s;ad newes; the re&s;t of their companions, who were rather hardened in their &s;infull way, and bla&s;phemous opinions, than brought to any &s;ight of their damnable Errours, as you &s;hall after hear; yet was not this the fir&s;t loud &s;peaking hand of God again&s;t them; but before this the Lord had poyn|ted directly to their &s;inne by a very fearfull Mon&s;ter, that ano|ther of the&s;e women brought forth, they &s;triving to bury it in oblivion, but the Lord brought it to light, &s;etting forth the view of their mon&s;trous Errors in this prodigious birth. This yeare, although the e&s;tates of the&s;e pilgrim people were much wa&s;ted, yet &s;eeing the benefit that would accrew to the Churches of Chri&s;t and Civil Government, by the Lords ble&s;&s;ing, upon lear|ning, they began to erect a Colledge, the Lord by his provident hand giving his approbation to the work, in &s;ending over a faithfull and godly &s;ervant of his, the reverend Mr <HI>John Harverd,</HI> who joyning with the people of Chri&s;t at <HI>Charles Towne,</HI> &s;ud|dainly after departed this life, and gave near a thou&s;and pound toward this work; wherefore the Government thought it meet to call it <HI>Harverd</HI> Colledge in remembrance of him.</P>
<Q><L><HI>Ip</HI> Harverd <HI>had with riches here been taken,</HI></L>
<L><HI>He need not then through troublous Seas have pa&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But Chri&s;ts bright glory hath thine eyes &s;o waken,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nought can content, thy &s;oule of him must ta&s;t:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ohtast and tell how &s;weet his Saints among,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t ravi&s;ht hath thy heart with heavenly joyes</HI></L>
<L><HI>To preach and pray with teares, affection &s;trong,</HI></L>
<L><HI>From hearts delight in him who thee imployes.</HI></L>
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<HI>Scarce ha&s;t thou had Christs Churches here in eye,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But thou art call'd to eye him face to face;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Earths &s;cant contents death drawes thee from, for why?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Full joy thou would&s;t that's onely in heavens place.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XIII. <HI>Of the coming over of the honoured Mr.</HI> Pelham, <HI>and the planting of the &s;eaventeenth Church of Chri&s;t at the Towne of</HI> Hampton.</HEAD>
<P>THis yeare 1639. <HI>John Winthrope</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> was cho&s;en Gover|nour, and <HI>Thomas Dudly</HI> E&s;q. Deputy Governour, the number of freemen added were about 83. This yeare came over the much honoured Mr. <HI>Herbert Pelham,</HI> a man of a courteous behaviour, humble, and heavenly minded.</P>
<Q><L>HArbertus, <HI>hye on valiant, Why linger&s;t thou &s;o long?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts work hath need of hasty &s;peed, his enemies are &s;trong:</HI></L>
<L><HI>In wilderne&s;&s;e Christ doth thee ble&s;&s;e with vertues, wife, and &s;eed,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To govern thou, at length did&s;t bow to &s;erve Chri&s;ts peoples need;</HI></L>
<L><HI>To thine own &s;oyle thou back dost toyle, then cea&s;e not lab ring there,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But &s;till advance Chri&s;ts Ordinance, and &s;hrink no where for fear.</HI></L></Q>
<P>Much about this time began the Town of <HI>Hampton,</HI> in the Country of <HI>Northfolk,</HI> to have her foundation &s;tone laid, &s;cituate neare the Sea-coa&s;t, not farre from the famous River of <HI>Meri|meck,</HI> the great &s;tore of &s;alt mar&s;h did intice this people to &s;et downe their habitations there, for as yet Cowes and Cattell of that kinde were not come to the great downfall in their price, of which they have about 450. head; and for the form of this Towne, it is like a Flower-de-luce, two &s;treets of hou&s;es wheeling off from the maine body thereof, the land is fertile, but filled with &s;wamps, and &s;ome &s;tore of rocks, the people are about 60. Families; being gathered together into Church covenant, they called to office the reverend, grave, and gracious Mr. <HI>Doulton,</HI>
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having al&s;o for &s;ome little &s;pace of time the more ancient Mr. <HI>Batchelor</HI> (of whom you have heard in the former Book) to preach unto them al&s;o; here take a &s;hort remembrance of the other.</P>
<Q><L>DOulton <HI>doth teach per&s;picuou&s;ly and &s;ound,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With Whol&s;ome truths of Chri&s;t thy flock dost feed,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy honour with thy labour doth abound,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Age crownes thy head in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, proceed</HI></L>
<L><HI>To batter downe, root up, and quite de&s;troy</HI></L>
<L><HI>All Here&s;ies and Errors, that draw back</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;nto perdition, and Chri&s;ts folk annoy;</HI></L>
<L><HI>To warre for him thou weapons do&s;t not lack:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Long dayes to &s;ee, that long'd for day to come</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of</HI> Babels <HI>fall, and</HI> I&s;raels <HI>quiet peace:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou yet mai&s;t live of dayes &s;o great a &s;um</HI></L>
<L><HI>To &s;ee this work, let not thy warfare cea&s;e.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XIV. <HI>Of the planting the eighteenth Church of Chri&s;t at the Towne of</HI> Salsbury.</HEAD>
<P>FOr further perfecting this Wilderne&s;&s;e-work; not far from the Towne of <HI>Hampton</HI> was erected another Towne, called <HI>Sal&s;bury,</HI> being brought forth as Twins, &s;ometime contending for elder&s;hip: This being &s;eated upon the broade &s;wift torrent of <HI>Merrimeck,</HI> a very goodly River to behold, were it not block<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> up with &s;ome &s;uddaine falls through the rocks; over again&s;t this Towne lyeth the Towne of <HI>Newberry,</HI> on the Southern &s;ide of the River a con&s;tant Ferry being kept between; for although the River be about half a mile broad, yet, by rea&s;on of an I&s;land that lies in the mid&s;t thereof, it is the better pa&s;&s;ed in trouble&s;om weather: the people of this Towns have of late, placed their dwellings &s;o much di&s;tanced the one from the other, that they are like to divide into two Churches; the &s;cituation of this Towne is very plea&s;ant, were the Rivers <HI>Navigable</HI> farre up, the branches thereof abound in faire and goodly medowes with
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good &s;tore of &s;tately Timber upon the uplands in many pla|ces, this Towne is full as fruitfull in her Land, Chattell, and In|habitants, as her Si&s;ter <HI>Hampton;</HI> the people joyned in Church&punc; relation or brotherhood, nere about the time the other did, and have de&s;ired and obtained the reverend and graciou&s;ly godly, M. <HI>Thomas Wo&s;ter</HI> to be their Pa&s;tor.</P>
<Q><L><HI>WIth mickle labour and distre&s;&s;ed wants,</HI></L>
<L>Wo&s;ter, <HI>thou ha&s;t in de&s;art's depth remain'd</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy chiefe&s;t dayes, Chri&s;ts Go&s;pel there to plant,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And water well, &s;uch toyle &s;hall yeild great gaine.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Oh happy day! may</HI> Wo&s;ter <HI>&s;ay, that I</HI></L>
<L><HI>Was &s;ingled out for this great work in hand;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Christ by di&s;tre&s;&s;e doth Gold for's Temple try:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thrice ble&s;t are they may in his Pre&s;ence &s;tand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But more, thou art by him re&s;erved yet,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To &s;ee on earth Chri&s;t's Kingdom's exaltation:</HI></L>
<L><HI>More yet, thou art by him prepared fit</HI></L>
<L><HI>To help it on, among our Engli&s;h Nation.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XV. <HI>Of further &s;upply for the Church of Christ at</HI> Waterton. <HI>And a &s;ad acceidnt fell out in</HI> Bo&s;ton <HI>Towne.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Lord intending to &s;trengthen his poore Churches here, and after the overthrow of the&s;e damnable Errors, to trample Satan under their feet; he manife&s;teth his mindefulne&s;s of them, in &s;ending over fre&s;h &s;uplpyes againe and againe: al|though weak and &s;ory men in them&s;elves, yet &s;trong in the Lord, and the power of his might, the la&s;t that this yeare is to be na|med, is the reverend, judicious, and godly-affected, Mr, <HI>John Knowles,</HI> who was de&s;ired of the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Waterton,</HI> to be a two-fold cord unto them, in the office of a teaching Elder, with the reverend Mr. <HI>Phillips,</HI> of whom you have heard in the former Book.</P>
<Q><L><HI>WIth courage bold and arguments of &s;trength,</HI></L>
<L>Knowles <HI>doth apply Gods word his &s;tock unto,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t furni&s;ht hath (to &s;hew his bountyes length)</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thee with rich gifts, that thou his work may&s;t do:</HI></L>
<L>New England <HI>is too &s;cant, for thy de&s;ire</HI></L>
<L><HI>Inkindled is, Christs truths abroad to &s;pread,</HI></L>
<L>Virginia <HI>may his grace to them admire,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That thee through Seas for their in&s;truction led;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy labours</HI> Knowles <HI>are great, far greater hee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Not onely thee, but all his valiant made,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Forth &s;infull du&s;t, his Saints and Warriers be;</HI></L>
<L><HI>He thee upheld, thy strength &s;hall never fade.</HI></L>
<L>John <HI>come thou forth, behold what Chri&s;t hath wrought</HI></L>
<L><HI>In the&s;e thy dayes, great works are yet behinde,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then toyle it out till all to pa&s;&s;e be brought,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Christ crowne will thee, thou then his glory minde.</HI></L></Q>
<P>To end this yeare 1639. the Lord was plea&s;ed to a &s;end a very &s;harp winter, and more e&s;pecially in &s;trong &s;torms of weekly &s;nows, with very bitter bla&s;ts: And here the Reader may take notice of the &s;ad hand of the Lord again&s;t two per&s;ons, who
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were taken in a &s;torme of &s;now, as they were pa&s;&s;ing from <HI>Bo|&s;ton</HI> to <HI>Roxbury,</HI> it being much about a mile di&s;tant, and a very plaine way, One of <HI>Roxbury</HI> &s;ending to <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> his &s;ervant maid for a Barber Chirurgion, to draw his tooth, they lo&s;t their way in their pa&s;&s;age between, and were not found till many dayes after, and then the maid was fonnd in one place, and the man in another, both of them frozen to death; in which &s;ad accident, this was taken into con&s;ideration by divers people, that this Barber was more then ordinary laborious to draw men to tho&s;e &s;infull Errors, that were formerly &s;o frequent, and now newly overthrowne by the ble&s;&s;ing of the Lord, upon the endeavour of his faithfull &s;ervants with the word of truth) he having a fit op|portunity, by rea&s;on of his trade, &s;o &s;oone as any were &s;et downe in his chaire, he would commonly be cutting of their haire and the truth together; notwith&s;tanding &s;ome report better of the man, the example is for the living, the dead is judged of the Lord alone.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XVI. <HI>The great &s;upply of godly Ministers for the good of his People in</HI> New England.</HEAD>
<P>FOr to govern and rule this little Common wealth, was this year cho&s;en the valiant Champion, for the advance of Chri&s;ts truh, <HI>Thomas Dudly</HI> E&s;q. and <HI>Richard Bellingham</HI> E&s;q. Deputy. Governour; the freemen added to the former were about 192. this yeare the reverend Mr. <HI>Burr</HI> (a holy, heavenly-minded man, and able gifted to preach the Word of God) was exerci&s;ed therein for &s;ome &s;pace of time, in the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Dor|che&s;ter,</HI> where they were about calling him to the office of a teaching Elder; but in a very littie time after his coming over he departed this life, yet minde him you may in the following Meetre</P>
<Q><L><HI>WEll did&s;t thou minde thy Work, Which caus'd thee vonter</HI></L>
<L><HI>(Through Ocean large) thy Christ in's Word to preach,</HI></L>
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<HI>Exhorting all their faith on him to center,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Soules ravi&s;ht are by him in thy &s;weet speech,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy &s;peech bewrayes thy heart, for heaven doth look,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t to enjoy,</HI> Burr <HI>from the earth is taken,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy words remaine, though thou hast us for&s;ook,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In du&s;t &s;leep &s;ound till Chri&s;t thy body waken.</HI></L></Q>
<P>There are divers others of the faithfull Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t that came over for to further this his work; &s;omewhat before this time, as the godly and reverend Mr. <HI>Rayner,</HI> who was called to office in the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Plimoth,</HI> and there remaines preaching the Word in&s;tantly, with great paines and care over that flock, as al&s;o the reverend and faithfull &s;ervant of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, Mr. <HI>William Hook,</HI> who was for &s;ome &s;pace of time at the Church in <HI>Taunton,</HI> but now remaines called to office in the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Newhaven,</HI> a man, who hath received of Chri&s;t many gracious gifts, fit for &s;o high a calling, with very a|miable and gracious &s;peech labouring in the Lord; and here al&s;o the Reader may minde how the Lord was plea&s;ed to reach out his large hand of bounty toward his <HI>N. England</HI> people, in &s;up|plying them abundantly with Teachers, able and powerfull to break the bread of life unto them, &s;o long as their de&s;ires conti|nued hot and zealous; but after here grew a fulne&s;&s;e in &s;ome, even to &s;light, if not loath the honey comb; many returned for <HI>England,</HI> and the Lord was plea&s;ed to take away others by death, although very few, con&s;idering the number; but let <HI>N. England</HI> beware of an after-clap, &amp; provoke the Lord no longer. But &s;ee|ing this yeare proved the la&s;t of the yeares of tran&s;portation of Gods people, only for enjoyment of exerci&s;ing the Ordinances of Chri&s;t, and enlargement of his Kingdome (there being hopes of great good opportunity that way at home) it will be expediene onely to name &s;ome others in the Southwe&s;t parts, among the le&s;&s;er Colonyes, and &s;o pa&s;&s;e on to the &s;tory: And fir&s;t, not to forget the reverend Mr. <HI>Eaton,</HI> a man of love and peace, and yet godly zealous, he came over with tho&s;e who planted the Colony of <HI>Newhaven,</HI> &s;pending his labours in the Lord with them in <HI>Plimoth</HI> Plantation: al&s;o here is to be minded the reverend Mr. <HI>Chancie,</HI> a very able Preacher, both learned and judicious; as al&s;o
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the reverend, able, and pious M. <HI>Huet,</HI> who came over this year, or rather, as I &s;uppo&s;e, the yeare before, who did &s;pend his time and labour with a people that came over with him; at length the greate&s;t part of them they &s;ettled downe in the Government of <HI>Canecticoe,</HI> where they planted the Towne of <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> and Church of Chri&s;t there, where this gracious &s;ervant of Chri&s;t con|tinued in his labours, till the Lord laid him in his bed of re&s;t: &s;omewhat before this time came over the reverend Mr. <HI>Smith,</HI> being another of that name, be&s;ide the former, he laboured in the Word and Doctrine with a people at <HI>Withersfield</HI> in tho&s;e parts al&s;o; Mr. <HI>Henry Whitefield,</HI> another Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t, of reverend re&s;pect, who being returned for <HI>England,</HI> the latter of his labours, the Lord a&s;&s;i&s;ting, will &s;ufficiently te&s;tifie his &s;incerity, for the truth and labours of love in the Lord: here may al&s;o be named the reverend Mr. <HI>Peck,</HI> Mr. <HI>Saxton,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Lenten,</HI> the re&s;idue will be &s;poken of in the en&s;uing &s;tory to tho&s;e that yet remaine. Of the&s;e per&s;ons named the Author doth tender this following Meetre.</P>
<Q><L><HI>WHen rea&s;ons Scepter fir&s;t 'gan &s;way your hearts,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Through troublous Seas, this We&s;tern world to enter</HI></L>
<L><HI>Among Chri&s;ts Souldiers, here to act your parts;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Did not Chri&s;ts love on you cau&s;e him to center?</HI></L>
<L><HI>All tho&s;e &s;trait lines of your inflam'd de&s;ire</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;nto his truths, 'cau&s;e him in them you finde;</HI></L>
<L><HI>From wilderne&s;&s;e, not from his truths retire;</HI></L>
<L><HI>But unto death this wonderous work you'l minde,</HI></L>
<L><HI>No place can claime peculiar intere&s;t in</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;ts wor&s;hip, for all nations are his own;</HI></L>
<L><HI>The day's at hand down falls that man of &s;in,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And Chri&s;ts pure Gospel through the world is blown;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Harve&s;t is come, bid ca&s;e and &s;leep adieu,</HI></L>
<L><HI>What, trifle time when Christ takes in his Crop?</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Harvest large of Gentil and of Jew</HI></L>
<L><HI>(You) fil'd of Chri&s;t, let his &s;weet Doctrine drop.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XVII. <HI>Of the planting of</HI> Long-I&s;land. <HI>And of the planting the nineteenth Church in the Mattachu&s;ets government, called</HI> Sudbury.</HEAD>
<P>THis yeare came over divers godly and &s;incere &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, as I &s;uppo&s;e, among whom came over the reverend godly M. <HI>Peir&s;on:</HI> This people finding no place in any of the former erected Colonies to &s;ettle in, to their pre&s;ent content, re|paired to an I&s;land, &s;evered from the continent of <HI>Newhaven,</HI> with about 16. miles off the &s;alt Sea, and called <HI>Long-I&s;land,</HI> be|ing about 120. miles in length, and yet but narrow: here this people erected a Town, and called it <HI>South Hampton,</HI> there are many Indians on the greate&s;t part of this I&s;land, who at fir&s;t &s;et|tling of the Engli&s;h there, did much annoy their Cattel with the multitude of Doggs they kept, which ordinarily are young wolves brought up came, continuing of a very ravening nature. This people gathered into a Church, and called to office Mr. <HI>Peir&s;on,</HI> who continued with them about 7, or 8. yeares, and then he, with the greate&s;t number of the people, removed farther into the I&s;land; the other part that remained invited Mr. <HI>Foor|dum,</HI> and a people that were with him, to come and joyne with them, who accordingly did, being wandered as far as the Dutch plantation, and there un&s;ettled, although he came into the Coun|try before them.</P>
<P>This yeare the Town and Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Sudbury</HI> began to have the fir&s;t foundation &s;tones laid, taking up her &s;tation in the Inland Country, as her elder Si&s;ter Concord had formerly done, lying farther up the &s;ame River, being furni&s;hed with great plenty of fre&s;h mar&s;h, but it lying very low is much indamma|ged with land-flouds, in&s;omuch that when the &s;ummer proves wet, they lo&s;e part of their hay; yet are they &s;o &s;ufficiently pro|vided, that they take in Cattell of other Townes to winter: the&s;e people not neglecting the chief work, for the which they entred this wilderne&s;&s;e, namely, to wor&s;hip the Lord in the purity of his Ordinances, and according to the rule of his Word, entred into covenant with him, and one with another profe&s;&s;edly to walk together in Church-fellow&s;hip; and according to the
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&s;ame rule they called to the office of a Pa&s;tor the reverend, god|ly, and able Mini&s;ter of the Word, Mr. <HI>Edmond Brown,</HI> who&s;e labours in the Doctrine of Chri&s;t Je&s;us hath hitherto abounded, wading through this wilderne&s;&s;e-work with much cheerfulne&s;&s;e of &s;pirit, of whom as followeth:</P>
<Q><L><HI>BOth night and day</HI> Brown <HI>cea&s;eth not to watch</HI></L>
<L><HI>Christs little flock, in pastures fre&s;h them feed,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The worrying wolves &s;hall not thy weak lambs catch;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Well do&s;t thou minde in wilderne&s;&s;e their breed;</HI></L>
<L>Edmond, <HI>thy age is not &s;o great but thou</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mai&s;t yet behold the Bea&s;t brought to her fall,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Earth's tottering Kingdome &s;hew her legs gin bow,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou' mongst Chri&s;ts Saints with prayers mai&s;t her mawle;</HI></L>
<L><HI>What &s;ignes would&s;t have faith's courage for to rou&s;e?</HI></L>
<L><HI>See Christ triumphant hath his armies led,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In wilderne&s;&s;e prepar'd his lovely Spou&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Caus'd Kings and Kingdomes his high hand to dread:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou &s;ee&s;t his Churches daily are encrea&s;ing,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And thou thy &s;elfe amongst his worthyes warring,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hold up thy hands, the battel's now increa&s;ing,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t's Kingdom's ay, it's pa&s;t all mortall's marring.</HI></L></Q>
<P>This Towne is very well watered, and hath &s;tore of plow-land, but by rea&s;on of the oaken roots, they have little broke up, con|&s;idering, the many Acres the place affords; but this kinde of land requires great &s;trength to break up, yet brings very good crops, and la&s;ts long without mending; the people are indu&s;tri|ous, and have encrea&s;ed in their e&s;tates, &s;ome of them, yet the great di&s;tance it lyes from the Mart Towns maketh it burden|&s;ome to the Inhabitants, to bring their corne &s;o far by land; &s;ome Gentlemen have here laid out part of their e&s;tates in procuring farmes, by rea&s;on of the &s;tore of medow: this Church hath hi|therto been ble&s;&s;ed with ble&s;&s;ings of the right hand, even godly peace and unity: they are not above 50. or 60. families, and a|bout 80. &s;ouls in Church fellow&s;hip, their Neat-heard about 300.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XVIII. <HI>Of the planting of the twentieth Church of Chri&s;t at a Towne called</HI> Braintree.</HEAD>
<P>ABout this time there was a Town and Church planted at <HI>Mount Wolle&s;tone,</HI> and named <HI>Braintree,</HI> it was occa|&s;ioned by &s;ome old planters and certain Farmers belonging to the great Town of <HI>Be&s;ton;</HI> they had formerly one Mr. <HI>Whelo|wright</HI> to preach unto them, (till this Government could no longer contain them) they many of them in the mean time be|longing to the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> but after his depar|ture they gathered into a Church them&s;elves; having &s;ome inlargement of Land, they began to be well peopled, calling <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> office among them, the reverend and godly Mr. <HI>William Tomp&s;on,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Henry Flint,</HI> the one to the office of a Pa&s;tor, the other of a Teacher; the people are purged by their indu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">try from the &s;owre leven of tho&s;e &s;inful opinions that began <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;pread, and if any remain among them it is very covert, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> the manner of the&s;e Erroni&s;ts that remain in any place, is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> countenance all &s;orts of &s;inful opinions, as occa&s;ions &s;erves, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">th in Church and Commonwealth, underpretence of Li|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ty of Con&s;cience, (as well their own opinion as others) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> this Symbol they may be known in Court and Country. his Town hath great &s;tore of Land in tillage, and is at pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t in a very thriving condition for outward things, although <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> of <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> retain their Farms from being of their Town, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> do they lye within their bounds, and how it comes to pa&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ow not; their Officers have &s;omewhat &s;hort allowance, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">y are well &s;tored with cattel and corn, and as a people re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">es, &s;o &s;hould they give: And Reader, I cannot but mind <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> of the admirable providence of Chri&s;t for his people in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">, where they have been in a low condition, by their libe|rty they have been rai&s;ed to much in a very little time: again, in withdrawing their hands have had their plenty <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d: The reverend Mr. <HI>Tomp&s;on</HI> is a man abounding in zeal the propagation of the Go&s;pel, and of an ardent affecti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> in &s;o much that he is apt to forget him&s;elf in things that
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concern his own good, both him, and the like gracious M. <HI>Flint</HI> is here remembred.</P>
<Q><L><HI>WIth twofold cord doth</HI> Flint <HI>and</HI> Tomp&s;on <HI>draw</HI></L>
<L><HI>In Chri&s;t's yoke, his fallow ground to break,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Wounding mens hearts with his most righteous Law,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cordials apply to weary &s;ouls and weak.</HI></L>
<L>Tomp&s;on <HI>thou ha&s;t Chri&s;t's folk incouraged</HI></L>
<L><HI>To war, their warfare putting them in mind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That Chri&s;t their King will make his &s;ons the drond,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The day's at hand when they &s;hall mastery find.</HI></L>
<L>Flint <HI>be a &s;econd to this Champion &s;tout,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In Chri&s;t's your strength, while you for him do war,</HI></L>
<L><HI>When first doth faint, a &s;econd helps him out,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Till Chri&s;t renew with greater &s;trength by far.</HI></L>
<L><HI>From</HI> Ea&s;t <HI>to</HI> We&s;t <HI>your labours lasted have,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The more you toil, the more your &s;trength encrea&s;eth,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Your works will bide, when you are laid in grave.</HI></L>
<L><HI>His truth advance, who&s;e Kingdom never coa&s;eth.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XIX. <HI>Of the fir&s;t promation of learning in</HI> New-England, <HI>and the ex|traordinary providences that the Lord was plea&s;ed to &s;end for furthering of the &s;ame.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TOward the latter end of this Summer came over the learned, reverend, and judicious Mr. <HI>Henry Dun&s;ter,</HI> be|fore who&s;e coming the Lord was plea&s;ed to provide a Patron for erecting a Colledg, as you have formerly heard, his pro|vident hand being now no le&s;s powerful in pointing out with his unerring finger, a pre&s;ident abundantly fitted this his &s;er|vant, and &s;ent him over for to mannage the work; and as in all the other pa&s;&s;ages of this hi&s;tory, the Wonder-working Providence of <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ns</HI> Saviour hath appeared, &s;o more e&s;pecial|ly in this work, the Fountains of learning being in a grea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> mea&s;ure &s;topped in our Native Country at this time, &s;o tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;weet waters of <HI>Shilo's</HI> &s;treams mu&s;t ordinarily pa&s;s into
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the Churches through the &s;tinking channel of prelatical pride, be&s;ide all the filth that the fountains them&s;elves were daily incumbred withall, in&s;omuch that the Lord turned a&s;ide of|ten from them, and refu&s;ed the breathings of his ble&s;&s;ed Spi|rit among them, which cau&s;ed Satan (in the&s;e latter daies of his transformation into an Angel of light) to make it a means to per&s;wade people from the u&s;e of learning altogether, that &s;o in the next generation they might be de&s;titute of &s;uch helps, as the Lord hath been plea&s;ed hitherto to make u&s;e of, as chief means for the conver&s;ion of his people, and building them up in the holy faith, as al&s;o for breaking downe the Kingdom of Antichri&s;t; and verily had not the Lord been plea&s;ed to furni&s;h <HI>N. E.</HI> with means for the attainment of learning, the work would have been carried on very heavily, and the hearts of godly parents would have vani&s;h'd away with heavine&s;s for their poor children, whom they mu&s;t have left in a de&s;olare wilderne&s;s, de&s;titute of the meanes of grace.</P>
<P>It being a work (in the apprehen&s;ion of all, who&s;e capaci|ty could reach to the great &s;ums of money, the edifice of a mean <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">olledg would co&s;t) pa&s;t the reach of a poor Pilgrim people, who had expended the greate&s;t part of their e&s;tates on a long voyage, travelling into Forraign Countryes, being unprofitable to any that have undertaken it, although it were but with their nece&s;&s;ary attendance, whereas this people were forced to travel with wifes, children, and &s;ervants; be|&s;ides they con&s;idered the troble charge of building in this new populated de&s;art, in regard of al kind of workman&s;hip, know|ing likewi&s;e, that young Students could make but a poor progre&s;s in learning, by looking on the bare walls of their chambers, and that <HI>Diogenes</HI> would have the better of them by far, in making u&s;e of a Tun to lodg in, not being ignorant al&s;o, that many people in this age are out of conceit with learning, and that although they were not among a people who counted ignorance the mother of devotion, yet were the greater part of the people wholly devoted to the Plow, (but to &s;peak uprightly, hunger is &s;harp, and the head will retain little learning, if the heart be not refre&s;hed
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in &s;ome competent mea&s;ure with food, although the gro&s;s va|pors of a glutted &s;tomack are the bane of a bright under|&s;tanding, and brings barrenne&s;s to the brain) but how to have both go on together, as yet they know not; amid&s;t all the&s;e difficulties, it was thought meet learning &s;hould plead for it &s;elf, and (as many other men of good rank and quality in this barren de&s;art) plod out a way to live: Hereupon all tho&s;e who had ta&s;ted the &s;weet wine of Wi&s;doms drawing, and fed on the dainties of knowledg, began to &s;et their wits a work, and verily as the whole progre&s;s of this work had a farther dependency then on the pre&s;ent eyed means, &s;o at this time chiefly the end being firmly fixed on a &s;ure foundation, name|ly, the glory of God, and good of all his elect people, the world throughout, in vindicating the truths of Chri&s;t, and promoting his glorious Kingdom, who is now taking the hea|then for his inheritance, and the utmo&s;t ends of the earth for his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, means they know there are, many thou&s;ands uneyed of mortal man, which every daies Providence brings forth; upon the&s;e re&s;olutions, to work they go, and with thankful acknowledgment, readily take up all lawful means as they come to hand, for place they fix their eye upon <HI>New-Town,</HI> which to tell their Po&s;terity whence they came, is now named <HI>Cambridg,</HI> and withal to make the whole world un|der&s;tand, that &s;piritual learning was the thing they chiefly de&s;ired, to &s;anctifie the other, and make the whole lump ho|ly, and that learning being &s;et upon its right object, might not contend for error in&s;tead of truth; they cho&s;e this place, being then under the Orthodox, and &s;oul-flouri&s;hing Mini&s;te|ry of Mr. <HI>Thomas Shepheard,</HI> of whom it may be &s;aid, with|out any wrong to others, the Lord by his Mini&s;tery hath &s;a|ved many a hundred &s;oul: The &s;cituation of this Colledg is very plea&s;ant, at the end of a &s;pacious plain, more like a bow|ling green, then a Wilderne&s;s, neer a fair navigable river, envi|roned with many Neighbouring Towns of note, being &s;o neer, that their hou&s;es joyn with her Suburbs, the building thought by &s;ome to be too gorgeous for a Wilderne&s;s, and yet too mean in others apprehen&s;ions for a Colledg, it is at pre|&s;ent in larging by purcha&s;e of the neighbour hou&s;es, it hath
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the conveniencies of a fair Hall, comfortable Studies, and a good Library, given by the liberal hand of &s;ome Magi&s;trates and Mini&s;ters, with others: The chief gift towards the found|ing of this Colledg, was by Mr. <HI>John Harnes,</HI> a reverend Mini|&s;ter, the Country being very weak in their publike Trea&s;ury, expended about 500. l. towards it, and for the maintenance thereof, gave the yearly revenue of a Ferry pa&s;&s;age between <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> and <HI>Charles Town,</HI> the which amounts to about 40. or 50. l. <HI>per annum.</HI> The Commi&s;&s;ioners of the four united Co|lonies al&s;o taking into con&s;ideration, (of what common con|cernment this work would be, not only to the whole planta|tions in general, but al&s;o to all our Engli&s;h Nation) they en|deavoured to &s;tir up all the people in the &s;everal Colonies to make a yearly contribution toward it, which by &s;ome is ob|&s;erved, but by the mo&s;t very much neglected; the Govern|ment hath endeavoured to grant them all the priviledges fit for a Colledg, and accordingly the Governour and Magi|&s;trates, together with the Pre&s;ident of the Colledg, for the time being, have a continual care of ordering all matters for the good of the whole: This Colledg hath brought forth, and nur&s;t up very hopeful plants, to the &s;upplying &s;ome Churches here, as the grrcious and godly Mr. <HI>Wil&s;on,</HI> &s;on to the grave and zealous &s;ervant of Chri&s;t Mr. <HI>John Wil&s;on,</HI> this young man is Pa&s;tor to the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Dorche&s;ter;</HI> as al&s;o Mr. <HI>Buckly,</HI> &s;on to the reverend M. <HI>Buckly</HI> of Concord; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> al&s;o a &s;econd &s;on of his, whom our Native Country hath now at pre&s;ent help in the Mini&s;tery, and the other is over a people of Chri&s;t in one of the&s;e Colonies, and if I mi&s;take not, <HI>England</HI> hath I hope not only this young man of <HI>N. E.</HI> nur|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ng up in learning, but many more, as M. <HI>Sam.</HI> and <HI>Natha|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">l Mathers,</HI> Mr. <HI>Wells,</HI> Mr. <HI>Downing,</HI> Mr. <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rnard,</HI> Mr. <HI>Al|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">,</HI> Mr. <HI>Bru&s;ter,</HI> Mr. <HI>VVilliam Ames,</HI> Mr. <HI>Iones:</HI> Another of the fir&s;t fruits of this Colledg is imployed in the&s;e We&s;tern parts at <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">vis,</HI> one of the &s;ummer I&s;lands; be&s;ide the&s;e named, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">me help hath been had from hence in the &s;tudy of Phy&s;ick, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> al&s;o the godly Mr. <HI>Sam. Danforth,</HI> who hath not only &s;tu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed Divinity, but al&s;o A&s;tronomy, he put forth many Alma|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ks, and is now called to the office of a teaching Elder in
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the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Roxbury,</HI> who was one of the fellows of this Colledg; the number of Students is much encrea&s;ed of late, &s;o that the pre&s;ent year 1651. on the twelfth of the &s;ixth moneth, ten of them took the degree of Batchelors of Art, among whom the Sea-born &s;on of Mr. <HI>Iohn Cotton</HI> was one, &s;ome Gentlemen have &s;ent their &s;ons hither from <HI>Eng|land,</HI> who are to be commended for their care of them, as the judicious and godly Doctor <HI>Ames,</HI> and divers others: This hath been a place certainly more free from temptations to lewdne&s;s, then ordinarily <HI>England</HI> hath been, yet if men &s;hall pre&s;ume upon this to &s;end their mo&s;t exorbitant children, in|tending them more e&s;pecially for Gods &s;ervice, the Ju&s;tice of God doth &s;ometimes meet with them, and the means doth more harden them in their way, for of late the godly Gover|nors of this Colledg have been forced to expell &s;ome, for fear of corrupting the Fountain, wherefore the Author would ye &s;hould mind this following ver&s;e.</P>
<Q><L><HI>You that have &s;een the&s;e wondrous works by</HI> Sions <HI>Savier don,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Expect not miracle, left means thereby you over-run;</HI></L>
<L><HI>The noble Acts</HI> Jehovah <HI>wrought, his</HI> I&s;rael <HI>to redeem,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Surely this &s;econd work of his &s;hall far more glorious &s;eem;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Not only</HI> Egypt, <HI>but all Lands, where Antichri&s;t doth raign,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Shall from</HI> Jehovahs <HI>heavy hand ten times ten plagues &s;u&s;tain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L><HI>Bright &s;hining &s;hall this Go&s;pel come, Oh glorious King of Saints</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy ble&s;&s;ed breath confounds thy foes, all mortal power faints,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The ratling bones together run with &s;elf-&s;ame breath that blows</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of</HI> I&s;raels <HI>&s;ons long dead and dry, each joynt there &s;inew grows,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fair fle&s;h doth cover them, &amp; veins (lifes feuntain) takes there plat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L><HI>Smooth &s;eamle&s;s coats doth cloath their fle&s;h, and all their &s;tru|cture grace.</HI></L>
<L><HI>The breath of Life is added, they no</HI> Antinomians <HI>are,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But loving him who gives them life, more zealous are by far</HI></L>
<L><HI>To keep his Law, then formerly when righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e they &s;ought,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In keeping that they could not keep, which then their dowuf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> brought.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Their ceremonies vani&s;ht are, on Chri&s;t's all their de&s;ires,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Their zeal all Nations doth provoke, inkindled are loves fires:</HI></L>
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<HI>VVith ha&s;t on hor&s;eback, bringing hometheir &s;ons &amp; daughters, they</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rejoyce to &s;ee this glorious &s;ight, like Re&s;urrections day;</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;p and be doing, you young plants, Chri&s;t calls his work unto</HI></L>
<L><HI>Polluted lips, touch'd with heav'ns fire, about this work &s;hall go.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Pro&s;trate in prayer parents, and you young ones on Chri&s;t call,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Suppo&s;e of you he will make u&s;e, whereby that boa&s;t &s;hall fall:</HI></L>
<L><HI>So be it Lord thy &s;ervants &s;ay, who are at thy di&s;po&s;ing,</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVith outward word work inward grace, by heavenly truths di&s;|clo&s;ing.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Awake &s;tand up from death to life, in Chri&s;t your &s;tudies enter,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Scriptures &s;earch, bright light bring forth, upon this hard&s;hip venter.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sound doctrine &s;hall your lips preach out, all errors to confound</HI></L>
<L><HI>And rid Chri&s;t's Temple from this &s;moke, his glory &s;hall abound;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Precipitant doth</HI> D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gon <HI>fall, his triple head off out,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Bea&s;t that all the world admires, by you to death is put:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Put hand to mouth, with vehement bla&s;t your &s;ilver Trumpets &s;ound,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t calls to mind his peoples wrongs, their foes hee'l now con|fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Be&s;trong in God, and his great might, his wondrous works do tell,</HI></L>
<L><HI>You rai&s;ed are unwonted ways ob&s;erve his workings well.</HI></L>
<L><HI>As</HI> Jordans <HI>&s;treams congeal'd in heaps, and</HI> Jerico's <HI>high walls</HI></L>
<L><HI>With Rams horns bla&s;t, and</HI> Midians <HI>Ho&s;t, with pitcher breaking falls;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Like works your faith, for to confirm in the&s;e great works to come,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That nothing now too hard may &s;eem,</HI> Jehovah <HI>would have don.</HI></L>
<L><HI>The rage of Seas, and hunger &s;harp, wants of a de&s;art Land,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Your noble hearts have overcom, what &s;hall this work with&s;tand?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Not per&s;ecutors pride and rage, &s;trong multitudes do fall,</HI></L>
<L><HI>By little handfuls of lea&s;t du&s;t, your Chri&s;t confounds them all,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Not S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tan and his &s;ubtil train with &s;eeming &s;hew reforming,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Another Go&s;pel to bring forth, brings damned errors &s;warming:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Your &s;elves have &s;een his paint wae&s;ht off, his hidden poy&s;ons found,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t you provides with Antidotes, to keep his people &s;ound:</HI></L>
<L><HI>There's nought remains but conquist now, through Chri&s;t's conti|nued power,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His harde&s;t works have honors mo&s;t attend them every hour.</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVhat greater honor then on earth, Christ's Legat for to bo,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Attended with his glorious Saints in Church fraternity.</HI></L>
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<HI>Chri&s;t to behold adorning now his Bride in bright array,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And you his friends him to attend upon his Nuptial day,</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVith crowned heads, as Conquerors triumphant by his &s;ide;</HI></L>
<L><HI>In's pre&s;ence is your la&s;ting joy, and plea&s;ures ever bide.</HI></L></Q>
<P>Mr. <HI>Henry Dun&s;tar</HI> is now Pre&s;ident of this Colledg, fitted from the Lord for the work, and by tho&s;e that have skill that way, reported to be an able Proficient, in both Hebrew, Greek, and Latine languages, an Orthodox Preacher of the truths of Chri&s;t, very powerful through his ble&s;&s;ing to move the affection; and be&s;ides he having a good in&s;pection into the well-ordering of things for the Students maintenance (who&s;e commons hath been very &s;hort hitherto) by his frugal provi|dence hath continued them longer at their Studies then o|therwi&s;e they could have done; and verily it's great pity &s;uch ripe heads as many of them be, &s;hould want means to further them in learning: But &s;eeing the Lord hath been plea&s;ed to rai&s;e up &s;o worthy an in&s;trument for their good, he &s;hall not want for incouragement to go on with the work, &s;o far as a ru&s;tical rime will reach.</P>
<Q><L><HI>COuld man pre&s;age prodigious works at hand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Provide he would for's good and ill provent,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But God both time and means hath at's command,</HI></L>
<L>Dun&s;ter <HI>in time to his</HI> N. E. <HI>hath &s;ent.</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVhen</HI> England <HI>'gan to keep at home their guides,</HI></L>
<L>N. E. <HI>began to pay their borrowed back,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Jndu&s;trious</HI> Dun&s;ter, <HI>providence provides,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Our friends &s;upply, and yet our &s;elves no lack:</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVith re&s;tle&s;s labour thou do&s;t delve and dung,</HI></L>
<L>Surculus <HI>&s;et in garden duly tended,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That in Chri&s;ts Orchard they with fruit full hung,</HI></L>
<L><HI>May ble&s;s the Lord, thy toil gone, them expended,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy constant cour&s;e proves retrograde in this,</HI></L>
<L><HI>From</HI> We&s;t <HI>to</HI> Ea&s;t <HI>thy toil returns again,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy husbandry by Chri&s;t &s;o honored is,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That all the world partaketh of thy pains.</HI></L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XX. <HI>Of the planting of the one and twentieth Church of Chri&s;t at a Town called</HI> Gloce&s;ter, <HI>and of the Church and Town of</HI> Dover, <HI>and of the hard&s;hips that befel a certain people, who thir&s;ted aftor large liberty in a warm Country.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr the Government of this little Commonwealth, this year was cho&s;en for Governour <HI>Richard Belingham,</HI> E|&s;quire, and <HI>John Endiout</HI> E&s;quire for Governors; the number of Freemen added this year, were about 503.</P>
<P>There was another Town and Church of Chri&s;t erected in the <HI>Mattachu&s;et</HI> Government, upon the <HI>Northern-Cape</HI> of the <HI>Bay,</HI> called <HI>Cape Ann,</HI> a place of fi&s;hing, being peopled with Fi&s;hermen, till the reverend Mr. <HI>Richard Blindman</HI> came from a place in <HI>Plimouth Patten,</HI> called <HI>Green-Harbor,</HI> with &s;ome few people of his acquaintance, and &s;etled down with them, named the Town <HI>Glocester,</HI> and gathered into a Church, be|ing but a &s;mall number, about fifty per&s;ons, they called to of|fice this godly reverend man, who&s;e gifts and abilities to han|dle the word, is not inferiour to many others, labouring much again&s;t the errors of the times, of a &s;weet, humble, hea|venly carriage: This Town lying out toward the point of the <HI>Cap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> the acce&s;s thereunto by Land becomes unea&s;ie, which was the chief cau&s;e it was no more populated: Their fi&s;hing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">de would be very beneficial, had they men of e&s;tates to mannage it; yet are they not without other means of main|tenance, having good timber for &s;hipping, and a very &s;uffici|ent builder, but that the&s;e times of combu&s;tion the Seas throughout hath hindered much that work, yet have there <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">en Ve&s;&s;els built here at this Town of late: Their reverend Elder is here remembred.</P>
<Q><L>THou ha&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ky prime and middle age here &s;pent,</L>
<L>The be&s;t is not too good for him that gave it,</L>
<L>When thou did'&s;t fir&s;t this Wilderne&s;s frequent,</L>
<L>For <HI>Sious</HI> &s;ake it was, that Chri&s;t might &s;ave it.</L>
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<HI>Blinman</HI> be blith in him, who thee hath taken</L>
<L>To feed his Flock, a few poor &s;cattered &s;heep,</L>
<L>Why &s;hould they be of thee at all for&s;aken,</L>
<L>Thy honor's high, that any thou may'&s;t keep.</L>
<L>Wait patiently thy Ma&s;ters coming, thou</L>
<L>Ha&s;t hitherto his peoples portions dealt,</L>
<L>It matters not for high preferment; now</L>
<L>Thy crown's to come, with joyes immortal felt.</L></Q>
<P>About this time the people inhabiting the Town of <HI>Do|ver,</HI> although they lay out of any of the&s;e Colonies men|tioned, (yet hearing and &s;eeing with what &s;weet harmony, both in Churches and civil Government, the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets</HI> peopled patten was carried on pro&s;peron&s;ly) de&s;ired greatly to &s;ubmit unto the &s;ame, by putting them&s;elves under their protection; and for that end they petitioned their General <HI>Cort</HI> to admit of them, and admini&s;ter Ju&s;tice as occa&s;ion &s;er|ved, by the hands of their godly Magi&s;trates, which accord|ingly was granted, and they have been partakers of the bene|fit hitherto, having al&s;o the benefit of &s;ome one Mini&s;ter to preach unto them, till it plea&s;ed God to fit &s;tones by the continual hewing of his word for his Temple-work, and they gather a Church according to the rule of the word, and call|ed to office of a Pa&s;tor one M. <HI>Maude,</HI> both godly, both god|ly and diligent in the work: This Town is &s;cituate upon <HI>Pu&s;|cataque</HI> river, lying to the Northea&s;t of <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> which river although it be not nigh &s;o broad as <HI>Merrinaeck</HI> river, yet i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> it navigable, being very deep, and her banks in many place fil'd with &s;tately timber, which hath cau&s;ed one or two Saw Mills to be continued; there they have a good quantity o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Meddow Land, and good ground for <HI>India</HI> corn. To end th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> year 1641. the Lord was plea&s;ed to &s;end a very &s;harp Winte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in &s;o much that the Harbor where Ships ordinarily Anchor, wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> frozen over of &s;uch a thickne&s;s, that it became pa&s;&s;eable, bot for hor&s;e, carts, and oxen, for the &s;pace of five weeks. An here the Reader mu&s;t be minded of the wonder-working pro+vidence of Chri&s;t for his poor Churches, in altering the ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ea&s;on for their comfort, to the wonder of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Ind<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+ans,</HI>
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the Winter and Summer proving more moderate, both for heat and cold, unmasking many by this means, it being a frequent thing with &s;ome, that after the novelties of a new la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d began to be &s;tale with them, and the &s;weet nouri&s;h|ment of the &s;oul by the pre&s;ence of Chri&s;t in the preaching of his Word, began to dry up through the hot heady conceit of &s;ome new conceived opinion: Then they wanted a warmer country, and every Northwe&s;t wind that blew, they crept in|to &s;ome odd chimney-corner or other, to di&s;cour&s;e of the di|ver&s;ity of Climates in the Southerne parts, but chiefly of a thing very &s;weet to the pallate of the fle&s;h, called liberty, which they &s;uppo&s;ed might be very ea&s;ily attain'd, could they but once come into a place where all men were cho&s;en to the office of a Magi&s;trate, and all were preachers of the Word, and no hearers, then it would be all Summer and no Winter: This con&s;ultation was to be put in practi&s;e &s;peedily, as all head&s;trong motions are, but the i&s;&s;ue proved very &s;ad, both to the&s;e and others al&s;o; for thus it befell, when the time of the year was come that a &s;ea-voyage might be under|taken, they having made &s;ale of a better accommodation then any they could afterward attain unto, prepare for the voyage with their wifes and children, intending to land them in one of the Summer I&s;lands, called the I&s;le of Providence, and ha|ving wind and &s;eas favouring them, as they &s;uppo&s;ed, or to &s;peak more proper, the provident hand of the mo&s;t high God directing it, they were brought &s;o neer the &s;hore for conve|nient landing, that they might have heaved a Bisket cake on land; their Pilate wondring he could not &s;ee the Engli&s;h co|lours on the Fort, he began to mi&s;tru&s;t the I&s;land was taken, and more e&s;pecially, becau&s;e they &s;aw not the people appear upon the &s;hores as they u&s;ually did when any Ve&s;&s;el was a coming in, but now and then they &s;aw &s;ome people a far off wa&s;ting to them to come in, till they were even come to an Anchor, and then by the hoi&s;ing up and down the heads of tho&s;e on &s;hore, they were fully confirmed in it, that the I&s;land was taken, as indeed it was by the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> who as &s;oone as they tackt about to be gone, made &s;hot at them, and being in great fear they made all the fail they could, but before they could get out of &s;hot, the Ma&s;ter of the Ve&s;&s;el was &s;lain, the
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main &s;ail &s;hot through, and the Barque al&s;o; the people &s;ome of them returned back again for <HI>New-England,</HI> being &s;ore a|ba&s;hed at this providence that befel them, that they would never &s;eek to be governed by liberty again to this very day; yet others there are were &s;o &s;trongly bent for the heat of li|berty, that they indured much pinching penury upon an un|inhabited I&s;land, til at length meeting &s;ome others like-mind|ed with them&s;elves, they made a voyage to another I&s;land, the chiefe&s;t part of their Charter of Freedom was this, That no man upon pain of death &s;hould &s;peak again&s;t anothers Reli|gion where they continued, till &s;ome of them were fami&s;hed, and others even forced to feed on Rats, and any other thing they could find to &s;u&s;tain nature, till the provident hand of God brought a Ship to the place, which took them off the I|&s;land, and &s;aved their lives: But upon this the Winters di&s;|cour&s;e cea&s;ed, and projects for a warmer Country were hu&s;ht and done.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXI. <HI>Of the &s;uddain and unexpected falt of Cattel, and the great ble&s;|&s;ing of God in giving plenty of provi&s;ion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr this year 1642. <HI>Iohn Winthrope</HI> E&s;quire was cho&s;en Go|vernour, and <HI>John Endicut</HI> E&s;quire Deputy Governor: The number of Freemen added were about 1232. This Spring Cowes and Cattle of that kind (having continued at an ex|ce&s;&s;ive price &s;o long as any came over with e&s;tates to purcha&s;e them) fell of a &s;uddain in one week from 22 l. the Cow, to 6.7. or 8. l. the cow at mo&s;t, in&s;omuch that it made all men admire how it came to pa&s;s, it being the common practi&s;e of tho&s;e that had any &s;tore of Cattel, to &s;ell every year a Cow or two, which cloath'd their backs, fil'd their bellies with more varieties then the Country of it &s;elf afforded, and put gold and &s;ilver in their pur&s;es be&s;ide. Here the Reader it de&s;ired to take notice of the wonderful providence of the mo&s;t high God toward the&s;e his new-planted Churches, &s;uch as was never heard of, &s;ince that <HI>Iacobs</HI> &s;ons cea&s;ed to be a
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people, that in ten or twelve years planting, there &s;hould be &s;uch wonderful alteration, a Nation to be born in a day, a Commonwealth orderly brought forth from a few Fugi|tives, all the Forraign plantations that are of forty, fifty, or a hundred years &s;tanding, cannot really report the like, al|though they have had the greate&s;t incouragements earth could afford, Kings to countenance them, &s;taple commodities to provoke all manner of Merchants to re&s;ort unto them, &s;ilver, gold, precious &s;tones, or whatever might incice the eye or ear to incline the motion of man toward them, his remove, rocky, barren, bu&s;hy, wild-woody wilderne&s;s, a receptacle for Lions, Wolves, Bears, Foxes, Rockoones, Bags, Bevers, Otters, and all kind of wild creatures, a place that never afforded the Natives better then the fle&s;h of a few wild creatures and parch't Indian corn incht out with Che&s;nuts and bitter Acorns, now through the mercy of Chri&s;t becom a &s;econd <HI>England</HI> for fertilne&s;s in &s;o &s;hort a &s;pace, that it is indeed the wonder of the world; but bring already forgotten of the very per&s;ons that ta&s;t of it at pre&s;ent, although &s;ome there be that keep in memory his mercies multitude, and declare it to their childrens children.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t to begin with the encrea&s;e of food, you have heard in what extream penury the&s;e people were in at fir&s;t, planting for want of food, gold, &s;ilver, rayment, or what&s;oever was precious in their eyes they parted with (when &s;hips came in) for this their bea&s;t that died, &s;ome would &s;tick before they were cold, and &s;ell their poor pined fle&s;h for food, at 6.d. <HI>per</HI> pound, Indian Beans at 16.s. <HI>per</HI> bu&s;hel, when Ships came in it grieved &s;ome Ma&s;ter to &s;ee the urging of them by people of good rank and quality to &s;ell bread unto them. But now take notice how the right hand of the mo&s;t high hath altered all, and men of the meaner rank are urging them to buy bread of them, and now good white and wheaten bread is no dainty, but even ordinary man hath his choice, if gay cloathing, and a liqueri&s;h tooth after &s;ack, &s;ugar and plums lick not away his bread too fa&s;t, all which are but ordinary among tho&s;e that were not able to bring their owne per&s;ons ever at their fir&s;t coming; there are not many Towns in the Country, but the poore&s;t per&s;on in them hath a hou&s;e and land of his own,
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and bread of his own growing, if not &s;ome cattel: be&s;ide, fle&s;h is now no rare food, beef, pork, and mutton being frequent in many hou&s;es, &s;o that this poor Wilderne&s;s hath not onely equalized <HI>England</HI> in food, but goes beyond it in &s;ome places for the great plenty of wine and &s;ugar, which is ordinarily &s;pent, apples, pears, and quince tarts in&s;tead of their former Pumpkin Pies, Poultry they have plenty, and great rarity, and in their fea&s;ts have not forgotten the Engli&s;h fa&s;hion of &s;tir|ing up their appetites with variety of cooking their food; and notwith&s;tanding all this great and almo&s;t miraculous work of the Lord, in providing for his people in this barren de&s;art, yet are there here (as in other places) &s;ome that u&s;e the&s;e good creatures of God to exce&s;s, and others to hoard up in a wretched and mi&s;erable manner, pinch them&s;elves and their children with food, and will not ta&s;t of the good crea|tures God hath given for that end, but cut Church and Com|monwealth as &s;hort al&s;o: Let not &s;uch think to e&s;cape the Lords hand with as little a &s;troke, as the like do in other pla|ces.</P>
<P>Secondly, For rayment, our cloth hath not been cut &s;hort, as but of late years the traders that way have encrea&s;ed to &s;uch a number, that their &s;hops have continued full all the year long, all one <HI>England;</HI> be&s;ides the Lord hath been plea|&s;ed to encrea&s;e &s;heep extraordinarily of late, hemp and flax here is great plenty, hides here are more for the number of per&s;ons then in <HI>England;</HI> and for cloth, here is and would be materials enough to make it; but the Farmers deem it better for their profit to put away their cattel and corn for cloath|ing, then to &s;et upon making of cloth; if the Merchants trade be not kept on foot, they fear greatly their corne and cattel will lye in their hands; a&s;&s;uredly the plenty of cloath|ing hath cau&s;ed much exce&s;s of late in tho&s;e per&s;ons, who have clambered with exce&s;s in wages for their work, but &s;ee|ing it will be the theam of our next di&s;cour&s;e, after the birds are &s;etled, it may be here omitted.</P>
<P>Further, the Lord hath been plea&s;ed to turn all the wig|wams, huts, and hovels the Engli&s;h dwelt in at their fir&s;t com|ing, into orderly, fair, and well-built hou&s;es, well furni&s;hed
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many of them, together with Orehards filled with goodly fruit trees, and gardens with variety of flowers: There are &s;uppo&s;ed to be in the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets</HI> Government at this day, neer a thou&s;and acres of land planted for Orchards and Gar|dens, be&s;ides their fields are filled with garden fruit, there be|ing, as is &s;uppo&s;ed in this Colony, about fifteen thou&s;and a|cres in tillage, and of cartel about twelve thou&s;and neat, and about three thou&s;and &s;heep: Thus hath the Lord in couraged his people with the encrea&s;e of the general, although many particulars are outed, hundreds of pounds, and &s;ome thou|&s;ands, yet are there many hundreds of labouring men, who had not enough to bring them over, yet now worth &s;cores, and &s;ome hundreds of pounds; to be &s;ure the Lord takes no|tice of all his talents, and will call to accompt in time: This brief &s;urvey of things will be of good u&s;e when time &s;erves, in mean time you &s;hall under&s;tand,</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXII. <HI>Of the manner of planting Towns and Churches in</HI> N. E. <HI>and in particular of the Church and Town at</HI> Wooburn, <HI>being the three and twentieth Church of Chri&s;t in the</HI> Matta|chu&s;ets <HI>Government.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THere was a Town and Church erected called <HI>Wooburn,</HI> this pre&s;ent year, but becau&s;e all the action of this wan|dering people meet with great variety of cen&s;ures, the Author will in this Town and Church &s;ee down the manner how this people have populated their Towns, and gathered their Chur|ches, that the reverend Mr. <HI>Rathbone</HI> may be better informed, then when he wrote his book concerning the Churches of <HI>N. E.</HI> and all others that are experienced in the holy Scriptures, may lay the actions of <HI>N. E.</HI> to the Rule, and try them by the balance of the Sanctuary, for a&s;&s;uredly they greatly de|&s;ire they may be brought to the light, for great is the truth, and will prevail, yet have they their errings as well as others, but yet their imperfections may not blemi&s;h the truths of Chri&s;t, let them be glorified, and the&s;e his people will wil|lingly
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take &s;hame to them&s;elves, wherein they have mi&s;car|ried: But to begin, this Town, as all others had its bounds fixed by the General Court, to the contene&s;e of four miles &s;qua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, (beginning at the end of <HI>Charles Town</HI> bounds) the grant is to &s;even men or good and hone&s;t report, upon con|dition, that within two year they erect hou&s;es for habitation thereon, and &s;o go on to make a Town thereof, upon the Act of Court; the&s;e &s;even men have power to give and grant out lands unto any per&s;ons who are willing to take up their dwellings within the &s;aid precinct, &amp; to be admitted to al com|mon priviledges of the &s;aid Town, giving them &s;uch an am|ple portion, both of Medow and Upland, as their pre&s;ent and future &s;tock of cattel and hands were like to improve, with eye had to others that might after come to populate the &s;aid Town; this they did without any re&s;pect of per&s;ons, yet &s;uch as were exorbitant, and of a turbulent &s;pirit, unfit for a civil &s;ociety they would reject, till they come to mend their man|ners, &s;uch came not to enjoy any freehold: The&s;e &s;even men ordered and di&s;po&s;ed of the &s;treets of the Town, as might be be&s;t for improvement of the Land, and yet civil and religious &s;ociety maintained; to which end tho&s;e that had land neere&s;t the place for Sabbath a&s;&s;embly, had a le&s;&s;er quantity at home, and more farther off to improve for corn, of all kinds; they refu&s;ed not men for their poverty, but according to their a|bility were helpful to the poore&s;t &s;ort, in building their hou&s;es, and di&s;tributed to them land accordingly; the poore&s;t had &s;ix or &s;even acres of Medow, and twenty five of Upland, or thereabouts: Thus was this Town populated, to the num|ber of &s;ixty families, or thereabout, and after this manner are the Towns of <HI>New England</HI> peopled, the &s;cituation of this Town is in the highe&s;t part of the yet peopled land, neere upon the head-&s;prings of many con&s;iderable rivers, or their branches, as the fir&s;t ri&s;e of <HI>Ip&s;witch</HI> river, and the ri&s;e of <HI>Sha|&s;hin</HI> river, one of the mo&s;t con&s;iderable branches of <HI>Merri|meck,</HI> as al&s;o the fir&s;t ri&s;e of <HI>Mi&s;tick</HI> river and ponds, it is very full of plea&s;ant &s;prings, and great variety of very good water, which the Summers heat cau&s;eth to be more cooler, and the Winters cold maketh more warmer; their Medows
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are not large, but lye in divers places to particular dwellings, the like doth their Springs; their Land is very fruitful in ma|ny places, although they have no great quantity of plain land in any one place, yet doth their Rocks and Swamps yeeld ve|ry good food for cattel; as al&s;o they have Ma&s;t and Tar for &s;hipping, but the di&s;tance of place by land cau&s;eth them as yet to be unprofitable, they have great &s;tore of iron o're, their meeting-hou&s;e &s;tands in a &s;mall Plain, where four &s;treets meet, the people are very labotious, if not exceeding &s;ome of them.</P>
<P>Now to declare how this people proceeded in religious mat|ters, and &s;o con&s;equently all the Churches of Chri&s;t planted in <HI>New-England,</HI> when they came once to hopes of being &s;uch a competent number of people, as might be able to maintain a Mini&s;ter, they then &s;urely &s;eated them&s;elves, and not before, it being as unnatural for a right <HI>N. E.</HI> man to live without an able Mini&s;tery, as for a Smith to work his iron without a fire; therefore this people that went about placing down a Town, began the foundation-&s;tone, with earne&s;t &s;eeking of the Lords a&s;&s;i&s;tance, by humbling of their &s;ouls before him in daies of prayer, and imploring his aid in &s;o weighty a work, then they addre&s;s them&s;elves to attend coun&s;el of the mo&s;t Orthodox and able&s;t Chri&s;tians, and more e&s;pecially of &s;uch as the Lord had already placed in the Mini&s;tery, not ra&s;hly running together them&s;elves into a Church, before they had hopes of attaining an Officer to preach the Word, and admi|ni&s;ter the Seals unto them, cho&s;ing rather to continue in fel|low&s;hip with &s;ome other Church for their Chri&s;tian watch over them, till the Lord would be plea&s;ed to provide: They after &s;ome &s;earch meet with a young man named Mr. <HI>Thomas Carter,</HI> then belonging to the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>VVater-Town,</HI> a reverend godly man, apt to teach the &s;ound and whole&s;ome truths of Chri&s;t; having attained their de&s;ires, in hopes of his coming unto them, were they once joyned in Church-e&s;tate, he exerci&s;ing his gifts of preaching and prayer among them in the mean time, and more e&s;pecially in a day of fa&s;ting and prayer. Thus the&s;e godly people intere&s;t their affections one with the other, both Mini&s;ter and people: Af|ter
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this they make ready for the work, and the 24. of the 6. moneth 1642. they a&s;&s;emble together in the morning about eight of the clock; After the reverend Mr. <HI>Syms</HI> had conti|nued in preaching and prayer about the &s;pace of four or five houres, the per&s;ons that were to joyn in Covenant, openly and profe&s;&s;edly before the Congregation, and me&s;&s;engers of divers Neighbour Churches, among whom the reverend El|der of <HI>Boston,</HI> Mr. <HI>Cotton,</HI> Mr. <HI>VVil&s;on,</HI> Mr. <HI>Allen</HI> of <HI>Charles-Town,</HI> Mr. <HI>Shepheard</HI> of <HI>Cambridg,</HI> Mr. <HI>Dun&s;ter</HI> of <HI>VVater-Town,</HI> Mr. <HI>Knowles</HI> of <HI>Deadham,</HI> Mr. <HI>Allen</HI> of <HI>Roxbury,</HI> Mr. <HI>E|liot</HI> of <HI>Dorchester,</HI> Mr. <HI>Mather:</HI> As al&s;o it is the duty of the Magi&s;trates (in regard of the good and peace of the civil Go|vernment) to be pre&s;ent, at lea&s;t &s;ome one of them (not on|ly to prevent the di&s;turbance might follow in the Common|wealth by any, who under pretence of Church-Covenant, might bring in again tho&s;e cur&s;ed opinions that cau&s;ed &s;uch commotion in this and the other Colony, to the great dam|mage of the people) but al&s;o to countenance the people of God in &s;o pious a work, that under them they may live a qui|et and peaceable life, in all godline&s;s and hone&s;ty; for this cau&s;e was pre&s;ent the honored Mr. <HI>Increa&s;e Nowel,</HI> the per&s;ons &s;tood forth, and fir&s;t confe&s;&s;ed what the Lord had done for their poor &s;ouls, by the work of his Spirit in the preaching of his Word, and Providences, one by one; (and that all might know their faith in Chri&s;t was bottomed upon him, as he is revealed in his Word, and that from their own knowledg) they al&s;o declare the &s;ame, according to that mea&s;ure of un|der&s;tanding the Lord had given them; the Elders, or any o|ther me&s;&s;engers there pre&s;ent que&s;tion with them, for the bet|ter under&s;tanding of them in any points they doubt of, which being done, and all &s;atisfied, they in the name of the Churches to which they do belong, hold out the right hand of fellow|&s;hip unto them, they declaring their Covenant, in words ex|pre&s;&s;ed in writing to this purpo&s;e.</P>
<Q><TEXT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="covenant">
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<HEAD>The Church-Covenant.</HEAD>
<P>WE that do a&s;&s;emble our &s;elves this day before God and and his people, in an unfeigned de&s;ire, to be accepted of him as a Church of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, according to the Rule of the New-Te&s;tament, do acknowledg our &s;elves to be the mo&s;t unworthy of all others, that we &s;hould attain &s;uch thigh grace, and the mo&s;t unable of our &s;elves to the per|formance of any thing that is good, abhorring our &s;elves for all our former defilements in the wor&s;hip of God, and other wayes, and re&s;ting only upon the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t for attone|ment, and upon the power of his grace for the guidance of our whole after cour&s;e, do here in the name of Chri&s;t Je|&s;us, as in the pre&s;ence of the Lord, from the bottom of our hearts agree together through his grace to give up our &s;elves, fir&s;t unto the Lord Je&s;us as our only King, Prie&s;t and Prophet, wholly to be &s;ubject unto him in all thing, and therewith one unto another, as in a Church-Body to walk together in all the Ordinances of the Go&s;pel, and in all &s;uch mutual love and of|fices thereof, as toward one another in the Lord; and all this, both according to the pre&s;ent light that the Lord hath given us, as al&s;o according to all further light, which he &s;hall be plea&s;ed at any time to reach out unto us out of the Word by the goodne&s;s of his grace, renouncing al&s;o in the &s;ame Cove|nant all errors and Schi&s;mes, and what&s;oever by-wayes that are contrary to the ble&s;&s;ed rules revealed in the Go&s;pel, and in particular the inordinate love and &s;eeking after the things of the world; every Church hath not the &s;ame for words, for they are not for a form of words.</P>
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</TEXT></Q>
<P>The 22. of the 9. moneth following Mr. <HI>Thomas Carter</HI> was ordained Pa&s;tor, in pre&s;ence of the like A&s;&s;embly. Hfter he had exerci&s;ed in preaching and prayer the greater part of the day, two per&s;ons in the name of the Church laid their hands upon his head, and &s;aid, We ordain thee <HI>Thomas Carter</HI> to be Pa&s;tor unto this Church of Chri&s;t; then one of the Elders
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Prie&s;t, being de&s;ired of the Church, continued in prayer un|to the Lord for his more e&s;pecial a&s;&s;i&s;tance of this his &s;ervant in his work, being a charge of &s;uch weighty importance, as is the glory of God and &s;alvation of &s;ouls, that the very thought would make a man to tremble in the &s;en&s;e of his own inability to the work: The people having provided a dwelling hou&s;e, built at the charge of the Town in general, welcomed him unto them with joy, that the Lord was plea&s;ed to give them &s;uch a ble&s;&s;ing, that their eyes may &s;ee their Teachers: Af|ter this there were divers added to the Church daily; after this manner the per&s;on de&s;irous to joyn with the Church, cometh to the Pa&s;tor, and makes him acquainted therewith, declaring how the Lord hath been plea&s;ed to work his con|ver&s;ion, who di&s;cerning hopes of the P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;ons faith in Chri&s;t, although weak, yet if any appear, he is propounded to the Church in general for their approbation, touching his godly life and conver&s;ation, and then by the Pa&s;tor and &s;ome bre|thren heard again, who make report to the Church of their charitable approving of the per&s;on; but before they come to joyn with the Church, all per&s;ons within the Towne have publike notice of it, then publikely he declares the manner of his conver&s;ion, and how the Lord hath been plea&s;ed by the hearing of his Word preached, and the work of his Spirit in the inward parts of his &s;oul, to bring him out of that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">|tural darkne&s;s, which all men are by nature in and under, as al&s;o the mea&s;ure of knowledg the Lord hath been plea&s;ed to indue him withal. And becau&s;e &s;ome men cannot &s;peak pub|likely to edi&s;ication through ba&s;hfulne&s;s, the le&s;s is required of &s;uch, and women &s;peak not publikely at all, for all that is de&s;ired, is to prevent the polluting the ble&s;&s;ed Ordinances of Chri&s;t by &s;uch as walk &s;candalou&s;ly, and that men and women do not eat and drink their own condemnation, in not di&s;cern|ing the Lords body. After this manner were many added to this Church of Chri&s;t, and tho&s;e 7. that joyned in Church-fel|low&s;hip at fir&s;t, are now encrea&s;ed to 74. per&s;ons, or therabout; of which, according to their own confe&s;&s;ion, as is &s;uppo&s;ed, the greater part having been converted by the preaching of the Word in <HI>N. E.</HI> by which may appear the powerful effica|cy
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of the word of Chri&s;t in the mouth of his Mini&s;ters, and that this way of Chri&s;t in joyning together in Church-Cove|nant, is not only for building up of &s;ouls in Chri&s;t, but al&s;o for converting of &s;inness, &amp; bringing them out of the natural condition to be ingrafted into Chri&s;t, for if this one Church have &s;o many, then a&s;&s;uredly there mu&s;t be a great number comparatively throughout all the Churches in the Country. After this manner have the Churches of Chri&s;t had their begin|ning and progre&s;s hitherto, the Lord continue &amp; encrea&s;e them the world throughout: The Pa&s;tor of this Church hath much encrea&s;ed with the encrea&s;ings of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, of who&s;e la|bours in the Lord as followeth.</P>
<Q><L><HI>CArtor,</HI> Chri&s;t hath his wayes thee taught, and them,</L>
<L>Ha&s;t not with-held his Word, but unto all,</L>
<L>With's word of power do&s;t cau&s;e &s;tout &s;ouls to bow,</L>
<L>And meek as Lambs before thy Chri&s;t to fall:</L>
<L>The antient truths, plain paths they fit thee be&s;t,</L>
<L>Thy humble heare all haughty acts puts by,</L>
<L>The lowly heart, Chri&s;t learns his lovely he&s;t,</L>
<L>Thy meekne&s;s &s;hews thy Chri&s;t to thee is nigh;</L>
<L>Yet mu&s;t thou &s;hew Chri&s;t makes his bold to be,</L>
<L>As Lions, that none may his truths tread down,</L>
<L>Pa&s;toral power he hath inve&s;ted thee</L>
<L>With, it maintain, lea&s;t he on thee do frown:</L>
<L>Thy youth thou ha&s;t in this <HI>New-England</HI> &s;pent,</L>
<L>Full &s;ixteen years to water, plant, and prune,</L>
<L>Trees taken up, and for that end here &s;ent,</L>
<L>Thy end's with Chri&s;t, with's Saints his prai&s;es tune.</L></Q>
<P>This year the General Court made an order about prepa|ring hou&s;es for Salt-peter, that there might be powder made in the Country, but as yet it hath not gone on.</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXIII. <HI>Of the uniting of the four Engli&s;h Colonies in N, E. and the bat|tel fought between the</HI> Narragan&s;ets, <HI>and</HI> Mawhiggins.</HEAD>
<P>THe yeare 1653. the honored <HI>John Winthrop</HI> E&s;quire was cho&s;en Governor again, and <HI>John Endicut</HI> E&s;quire Depu|ty Governour; the free men added were about 87. this year, the four Colonies, the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets, Plimoth, Canectico,</HI> and <HI>New-haven,</HI> taking into con&s;ideration the many Nations of <HI>Dutch, Zewes,</HI> and <HI>French,</HI> that were on either &s;ide of them; as al&s;o how apt they were to lay claim to lands they never had any right unto, but only a paper po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of their own framing; and further, that the inhumane and barbarous In|dians would be continually quarrelling and contending, could they &s;ee any hopes of prevailing, together with the conte|&s;tion begun in our Native country, and withal, that although providence had ca&s;t them into four &s;everal Colonies, yet Re|ligion had already united them, coming over all for one and the &s;ame end. Hereupon by Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;ent from the &s;e|veral colonies, they concluded a firm confederation to a&s;&s;i&s;t each other in all ju&s;t and lawful war, bearing an equal pro|portion in the charge, according to the number of per&s;ons inhabiting each colony; but herein the <HI>Mattachu&s;et</HI> had the wor&s;t end of the &s;taff, in bearing as much, or more charge, then all the other three, and yet no greater number of Commi&s;&s;i|oners to negotiate and judg in tran&s;acting of affairs concern|ing peace and war, then the lea&s;t of the other, and any one of the other as l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">kely to involve them in a chargeable war with the naked Natives, that have neither plunder, nor ca&s;h to bear the charge of it, nay hitherto the mo&s;t hath ri&s;en from the le&s;&s;er colonies, yet are the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets</HI> far from de&s;ert|ing them, e&s;teeming them highly, &s;o long as their Govern|ments maintain the &s;ame purity in Religion with them&s;elves, for indeed this is that they have &s;pent their whole travel for, and therefore if <HI>Plimoth,</HI> or any of the other &s;hall draw back herein, the chiefe&s;t end of their confederacy would be lo&s;t; for &s;hould it come to pa&s;s (that in venturing their per&s;ons
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and e&s;tates &s;o far for purity in the Ordinances and Di&s;cipline of Chri&s;t) they &s;hould lo&s;e the purity in doctrine, all their co&s;t and labour were lo&s;t: This confederacy being fini&s;hed, there came in certain Indian Sachims, and &s;ubmitted to the Engli&s;h Government, as <HI>Pomham,</HI> and <HI>Soecana<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters">h</HI> to the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets;</HI> al&s;o <HI>Miantonemo</HI> and <HI>&V;ncas;</HI> but between the&s;e two latter Princes aro&s;e a very hot quarrel, the Engli&s;h &s;eeking by all means to quench it, but could not, it being, as is &s;uppo&s;ed, fomented by a &s;mall company of vacabond Engli&s;h, who were then for their crimes bani&s;hed from their own complices at Rhode I&s;land, the Ringleader of them, be|ing one <HI>Samuel Gorton,</HI> by who&s;e mean they were drawn into damnable errors,: The&s;e <HI>Gortoni&s;ts,</HI> as is &s;aid, lent <HI>Miantone|nemo</HI> a Cor&s;let for &s;afeguard of his own per&s;on in the follow|ing fight, and he promi&s;ed each of them a <HI>Mawchiggin</HI> pa|poo&s;e, which was the people. <HI>&V;neas</HI> was Prince of <HI>For,</HI> al|though <HI>Miantonemo</HI> were the more potent Prince by far, and a very an&s;tere man, yet did he chu&s;e rather to take <HI>&V;nca&s;&s;es</HI> life away by treachery if he could; and to that end hired a young man of the <HI>Pegod</HI> Nation to murther him, as is &s;uppo|&s;ed, for in an evening, when it was very neer dark, this Sachim pa&s;&s;ing without any of his Retinue, from one wigwam to a|nother, was &s;uddainly &s;hot through the arm with an arrow, &s;eeing not whence it came; but yet recovering the Palace he was pa&s;&s;ing unto, without receiving any more &s;hot, he had the arrow drawn forth, and the wound cured in a &s;hort time after; the young man, who was &s;u&s;pected to have done the fact, having great &s;tore of Wampumpeage, about this time being que&s;tioned how he came by it, could give no good ac|compt, which encrea&s;ed the &s;u&s;pition the more, that he had received it as hire from <HI>Miantonemo</HI> for this fact; and here|upon the young man fled unto him, which cau&s;ed <HI>&V;neas</HI> to complain to the Engli&s;h, who having the hearing of the ca&s;e at a General Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> holden at <HI>Bo&s;ton,</HI> at the &s;ame time <HI>Mian|tonemo</HI> coming thither with his attendance, and &s;ending one of his Councellors to follow the matter in hand, the young man was examined in pre&s;ence of <HI>Miantonemo,</HI> being, as is &s;uppo&s;ed, tutored by him, he told this tale, that while he was
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in <HI>&V;nca&s;&s;es</HI> Court, on a day travelling alone by a thick &s;wamp, <HI>&V;ncas</HI> call'd him out of the &s;wamp, charging him to be true to him, in declaring to the Engli&s;h what he required to him, which was, that he &s;hould &s;ay he had been hired of <HI>Miantonemo</HI> to kill him, and to make his matter good, quoth the young man, he then cut his arm on the top, and under|neath with the flint of his Gun, to make men think he had beene &s;hot through with an arrow: This tale made the Engli&s;h more to &s;u&s;pect <HI>Miantonemo</HI> then before; and there|fore de&s;ired to examine the young man alone, which he was very unwilling they &s;hould do; but upon further examina|tion alone, they did verily believe this young man had done the fact, yet for pre&s;ent they let him depart with <HI>Miantone|mo,</HI> advi&s;ing him to &s;end him home to <HI>&V;ncas,</HI> but by the way, he in&s;tead of returning him home, cut off his head, and forth|with gathered an army of about a thou&s;and men to fight with <HI>&V;ncas,</HI> who feared not to meet him in the field with half the number; the battel being come within &s;hot one of another, with a great hubbub they let their long &s;hafts fly one at another, and after came to a clo&s;e with other wea|pons, till the Narrowgan&s;ets multitude being forely di&s;tre&s;|&s;ed by the <HI>Mawhiggins</HI> valour, they began to cry out <HI>Wem-meck,</HI> which is to &s;ay, enough: <HI>&V;ncas</HI> like a &s;tout command|er, with others of his bloud-royal that were about him, &s;ought to perfect his victory, by po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing him&s;elf with the per&s;on of their Prince, which he effected, by putting his Life-guard to flight, and taking hold on the Sachim him&s;elf, carried him vi|ctoriou&s;ly away to the Town of <HI>Hartford,</HI> neer the which he kept his re&s;idence at this time, and then made the Engli&s;h ac|quainted there with his noble de&s;ign, and de&s;ired to have the advi&s;e of the united colonies what to do with his pri&s;oner; the <HI>Narrowgan&s;ets</HI> &s;ought to ran&s;om him home, being much aba&s;hed, that &s;o mean a Prince as <HI>&V;ncas</HI> was &s;hould &s;cape &s;cotfree with &s;uch a victory; but the honered Commi&s;&s;ion|ers have had proof of <HI>Miantonemo's</HI> treachery, both toward this Prince that had him in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and toward the Engli&s;h in fal&s;i&s;ying his promi&s;e with them; they advi&s;ed <HI>&V;ncas</HI> to put him to death, but withall, that he &s;hould forbear to exerci&s;e
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my barbarous cruelty toward him, as their manner is, and by this means the Engli&s;h prevented another war, both with Engli&s;h and Indians, which was very neer joyning in battel. Not many years after, the Indian Sachim upon this advi&s;e, cau&s;ed <HI>Miantonemo</HI> to be led forth, as if he would remove him to a more &s;afer place of cu&s;tody, and by the way cau&s;ed him to be executed; the Indians, his kindred and &s;ubjects, were much grieved at his death, yet took it quietly at pre|&s;ent, but the le&s;&s;er Princes, his Neighbours, rather rejoyced, he having tyrannized over them, and enforced them to &s;ub|ject to his will, right or wrong.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXIV. <HI>Of the proceeding of certain per&s;ons called</HI> Gortoni&s;ts, <HI>again&s;t the united Colonies, and more e&s;pecially against the</HI> Matra|chu&s;ets, <HI>and of the hla&s;phemous doctrines broached by</HI> Gorton, <HI>deluding a company of poor ig|nor ant people therewith.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr not long before, tho&s;e per&s;ons that we &s;pake of, who incouraged <HI>Miantonemo</HI> to this war, and with the help of him enforced <HI>Pomham</HI> and <HI>Socananocho</HI> to &s;et their hands to a writing which the&s;e <HI>Gortoni&s;ts</HI> had framad, to take their land from them; but the poor Sachems, when they &s;aw they were thus gull'd of their land, would take no pay for it, but complained to the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets</HI> Government, to whom they had &s;ubjected them&s;elves and their lands: As al&s;o at this time certain Engli&s;h inhabiting tho&s;e parts, with the Indians good leave and liking, de&s;ired to have the benefit of the <HI>Matta|chu&s;ets</HI> Government, as <HI>Dover</HI> formerly had done, to whom this Government con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;cended, in hope they might encrea&s;e to &s;uch a competent number of godly Chri&s;tians, as that there might be a Church of Chri&s;t planted, the place being capable to entertain them in a comfortable mea&s;ure for outward ac|commodation, but hitherto it hath been hindred by the&s;e <HI>Gortoni&s;ts,</HI> and one of <HI>Plimoth,</HI> who forbad our people to plant there: The&s;e per&s;on thus &s;ubmitting, came at this time
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al&s;o to complain of certain wrongs done them by the&s;e <HI>Gor|toxi&s;ts,</HI> who had thus in croached, and began to build on the Indians land; upon the&s;e complaints, the Governor and the honored Mr. <HI>Dudly</HI> i&s;&s;ue forth their Warrant, to &s;ummon them to appear, they being then about five or &s;ix per&s;ons, without any means for in&s;tructing them in the wayes of God, and without any civil Government to keep them in civility or humanity, which made them to ca&s;t off mo&s;t proudly and di&s;dainfully any giving accompt to man of their actions, no not to the chiefe&s;t in authority, but returned back mo&s;t in&s;olent, &s;cornful, &s;currilous &s;peeches. After this, the Government of the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets</HI> &s;ent two me&s;&s;engers on purpo&s;e to per|&s;wade them to come and have their cau&s;e heard, a&s;&s;uring them like ju&s;tice in their cau&s;e with any other; but <HI>Samuel Gorton</HI> being the ring-leader of the rout, was &s;o full gorged with dreadful and damnable errors, (the which he had newly in|&s;nared the&s;e poor &s;ouls with) that &s;oon after the departure of the me&s;&s;enger, he layes a&s;ide all civil ju&s;tice, and in&s;tead of returning an&s;wer to the matter in hand, he vomits up a whole paper full of bea&s;tly &s;tuff, one while &s;coffing and deriding the ignorance of all be&s;ide him&s;elf, that think <HI>Abraham, J|&s;aac,</HI> &amp;c. could be &s;aved by Chri&s;t Je&s;us, who was after born of the Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI> another while mocking at the Sacraments of Bapti&s;m and the Lords Supper, in an opprobrious manner, deriding at the Elements Chri&s;t was plea&s;ed to in&s;titute them in, and calling them Negromancers that admini&s;ter them at all; and in a word, all the Ordinances of the Go&s;pel abomi|nable Idolatry he called, and likened them to <HI>Molock,</HI> and the Star of the Idol <HI>Rempham;</HI> his paper was thru&s;t full of &s;uch filthine&s;s, that no Chri&s;tian ear could hear them without indignation again&s;t them, and all was done by him in a very &s;cornful and deriding manner, upbraiding all that u&s;e them; in the mean time magnifying his own glorious light, that could &s;ee him&s;elf to be per&s;onally Chri&s;t, God-Man, and &s;o all others that would believe as he did: This paper he got to be &s;ub&s;cribed, with about twelve or thirteen hands, his num|ber of Di&s;ciples being encrea&s;ed, for a&s;&s;uredly the man had a very glo&s;ing tongue, but yet very deceitful, for when he had
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but a few with him, then he cried out again&s;t all &s;uch as would rule over their own &s;pecies, affirming, that the Scripture term|eth &s;uch to be Gods of the world, or divels; but after his re|turn from <HI>England,</HI> having received &s;ome incouragement from &s;uch as could not look into the depth of his deceits, being done at &s;o large a di&s;tance, he getting into favour again with tho&s;e, who had formerly whipt him out of their company, turns divel him&s;elf; the godly Governors of the <HI>Mattachu|&s;ets</HI> &s;eeing this bla&s;phemous Bull of his, re&s;olved to &s;end for|ty per&s;ons well-appointed with weapons of war for appre|hending of him, who accordingly, with &s;ome waiting, did ap|prehend him and the re&s;t of his company, except two or three which ran away without any hurt to any per&s;on, although he gave out very big words, threatning them with bloud and death &s;o &s;oon as they &s;et foot on the ground, and yet this bra|zenface'd deceiver publi&s;hed in print the great fear their wo|men were put unto by the &s;ouldiers, whereas they came a|mong them day by day, and had it not been that they intend|ed peaceably to take them, they would never have waited &s;o long upon their wor&s;hips as they did, but being apprehended, and &s;tanding to that they had written (yet would they wil|lingly have covered it with &s;ome &s;hifts if they could) the greate&s;t puni&s;hment they had, was to be confin'd to certain Towns for a few moneths, and afterward bani&s;hed; but to be &s;ure there be them in <HI>N. E.</HI> that have Chri&s;t Je&s;us and his ble&s;&s;ed Ordinances in &s;uch e&s;teem, that the Lord a&s;&s;i&s;ting, they had rather lo&s;e their lives, then &s;uffer them to be thus bla&s;phemed if they can help it; and whereas &s;ome have fa|voured them, and endeavoured to bring under blame &s;uch as have been zealous again&s;t their abominable doctrines, the good God be favourable unto them, and prevent them from coming under the like blame with <HI>Ahab,</HI> yet they remain in their old way, and there's &s;omewhat to be con&s;idered in it to be &s;ure, that in the&s;e daies, when all look for the fall of Anti|chri&s;t, &s;uch dete&s;table doctrines &s;hould be upheld, and per&s;ons &s;uffered, that exceed the Bea&s;t him&s;elf for bla&s;phemy, and this to be done by tho&s;e that would be counted Reformers, and &s;uch as &s;eek the utter &s;ubver&s;ion of Antichri&s;t.</P>
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To end this year, or rather at the beginning of it, the Lord cau&s;ed another Earthquake, much le&s;s then the former, it was on the fifth of the fir&s;t moneth called March in the morn|ing.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXV. <HI>Of the planting the twenty fourth Church of Chri&s;t at the Town of</HI> Readding, <HI>and the twenty fifth Church of Chri&s;t in the</HI> Mattachu&s;ets <HI>Government, called</HI> Wenham.</HEAD>
<P>THis year was cho&s;en to the place of Governor <HI>John En|dicut</HI> E&s;quire, and <HI>Iohn Winthrope</HI> E&s;quire Deputy Go|vernor; the number of freemen added about 145. this year.</P>
<P>The Town of Readding had her foundation &s;tone laid a|bout this time, this and the Town of Wooburn were like the twins in the womb of <HI>Tamar,</HI> Readding thru&s;ting forth the hand fir&s;t, but <HI>Wooburn</HI> came fir&s;t to the birth, this Town is well watered, and &s;cituate about a great pond, be&s;ides it hath two mills, the one a Saw-mill, the other a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">-mill, which &s;tand on two &s;everal &s;treams; it hath not been <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o fruitful for children as her Si&s;ter hath, her habitation is fallen in the very center of the country, they are well &s;tocked with cattel, for the number of people they have they gathered into a church, and ordained a Pa&s;tor from among them&s;elves at the &s;ame time, a young man of good abilities to preach the Word, and of a very humble behaviour, named Mr. <HI>Green,</HI> he having fi|ni&s;hed his cour&s;e, departed this life not long after, who&s;e la|bours are with the Lord; after him &s;ucceeded in the place one Mr. <HI>Hoph,</HI> a young man, one of the fir&s;t fruits of <HI>N. E.</HI> a man &s;tudious to promote the truths of Chri&s;t, they are both re|membred in this following ver&s;e.</P>
<Q><L>ON earths bed thou at noon ha&s;t laid thy head,</L>
<L>You that for Chri&s;t (as <HI>Green)</HI> here toy I have taken,</L>
<L>When nature fails, then re&s;t it in earths dead,</L>
<L>Till Chri&s;t by's word with glory thee awaken.</L>
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Young <HI>Hoph</HI> thou mu&s;t be &s;econd to this man,</L>
<L>In field incounter, with Chri&s;t's foes &s;halt thou</L>
<L>Stand up, and take his bright &s;word in thy hand,</L>
<L>Error cut down, and make &s;tout &s;tomacks bow;</L>
<L><HI>Green</HI>'s gone before, thy warfare's now begun,</L>
<L>And la&s;t it may to &s;ee <HI>Romes</HI> Babel fall;</L>
<L>Byweake&s;t means Chri&s;t mighty works hath done,</L>
<L>Keep footing fa&s;t, till Chri&s;t thee hence do call.</L></Q>
<P>The next Town and church of Chri&s;t planted in this colo|ny, was between Salem and Ip&s;witch, Salem the elde&s;t of all the Si&s;ters was very helpful to this her little Si&s;ter, nouri&s;h|ing her up in her own bo&s;om, till &s;he came of age, being be|neficial to her be&s;ides, in giving her a good portion of Land; this Town is called <HI>Wenham,</HI> and is very well watered, as mo&s;t in land Towns are, the people live altogether upon hus|bandry, <HI>New England</HI> having train'd up great &s;tore to this occupation, they are encrea&s;ed in cattel, and mo&s;t of them live very well, yet are they no great company; they were &s;ome good &s;pace of time there before they gathered into a Church-body, the godly and reverend Mr. <HI>John Fisk</HI> went thither with them, at fir&s;t &s;etting down as a planter a|mong them, yet withal he became helpful in preaching the Word unto them, when they were but a few in number, they afterward call'd him to the office of a Pa&s;tor, with whom he now remains, labouring in the Word and Do|ctrine, with great indu&s;try of whom, it may be thus &s;aid:</P>
<Q><L>TO wade through toyl of Wilderne&s;s, thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ubled thy work, thy wages troble are,</L>
<L>Chri&s;t hath thee call'd, and in his vineyard plac't,</L>
<L>He'l bear thee up above all &s;ai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ting far.</L>
<L><HI>Sions</HI> &s;trong Mount mu&s;t now again be built,</L>
<L>Thy faith, oh <HI>Fisk,</HI> the Lord hath holpen much;</L>
<L>With dreadful &s;igh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">lars power hath &s;pilt,</L>
<L>All pride he'l &s;tain by his almighty touch.</L>
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His truths un&s;tain'd by liberty keep thou,</L>
<L>To plea&s;e the mo&s;t, authority mu&s;t fall,</L>
<L>What Chri&s;t hath given, if &s;afely keep with you,</L>
<L>Till he to thee for thine accompt do call.</L></Q>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XXVI. <HI>Of the military affairs, the forts of</HI> Bo&s;toa, <HI>and</HI> Charles, <HI>the Ca&s;tle erected anew by the &s;ix neere&s;t Towns, with the man|ner of putting the Country in a po&s;ture of war, to be ready upon all occa&s;ions.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e &s;ouldiers of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, having made a fair retreat from their Native country hither, and now being come to a convenient &s;tation, re&s;olved to &s;tand it out (the Lord a&s;|&s;i&s;ting) again&s;t all &s;uch as &s;hould come to rob them of their priviledges, which the Lord Chri&s;t had purcha&s;ed for them at a very high rate, and now out of the riches of his grace was minded to give them, yet would he have them follow him into this Wilderne&s;s for it: although the chiefe&s;t work of the&s;e &s;elect bands of Chri&s;t, was to mind their &s;piritual war|fare, yet they knew right well the Temple was &s;urrounded with walls and bulworks, and the people of God in re-edify|ing the &s;ame, did prepare to re&s;i&s;t their enemies with weapons of war, even while they continued building: This people no le&s;s diligent to make u&s;e of &s;uch means as the Lord afforded them, ordered and decreed, That all the &s;ouldiers belonging to the 26. bands in the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets</HI> Government, &s;hould be exerci&s;ed and drill'd eight daies in a yeare, and who&s;oever &s;hould ab&s;ent him&s;elf, except it were upon unavoidable occa|&s;ion, &s;hould pay 5. s. for every daies neglect, there are none exempt, unle&s;s it be a few timerous per&s;ons that are apt to plead infirmity, if the Church chu&s;e them not for Deacous, or they cannot get to &s;erve &s;ome Magi&s;trate or Mini&s;ter; but a&s;|&s;uredly the generalicy of this people are very forward for feats of war, and many have &s;pent their time and e&s;tates to further this work; the Town of <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> hath afforded many a|ctive, <HI>Charles Town</HI> hath not been inferiour, unle&s;s it be in
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number: This year the Court appointed certain per&s;ons to &s;pend their skill in putting the people po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing this de&s;o|late de&s;art in a ready po&s;ture of drawing their forces toge|ther, upon any &s;uddain accident that might befall them, to mannage, guide, order, and direct all things, as may be be&s;t for the good of the whole, they being a poor and mean peo|ple, laboured to avoid high titles, yet order they knew was nece&s;&s;ary, therefore ordained they only one General Officer in time of war, under the name of Major General, the Go|vernor and Magi&s;trates for the time being are the &s;tanding Councel for peace or war, and either they or the General Court may appoint any to the office of a General; the fir&s;t Major-General was the much honored <HI>Tho. Dudly</HI> E&s;quire, who&s;e faithfulne&s;s and great zeal and love to the truths of Chri&s;t, cau&s;ed the people to chu&s;e him to this office, although he were far &s;tricken in years; the Government is divided into four Counties, which to &s;hew, they would their po&s;terity &s;hould mind whence they came, they have named, <HI>Suffolk, Middle&s;ex, E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and <HI>Northfolk,</HI> each containing a Regi|ment, over whom, the chief Commander is only a Serjeant-Major; the fir&s;t cho&s;en to this office over the Regiment of <HI>Suffolk,</HI> was Major <HI>Edw. Gibbons,</HI> who hath now the office of Major-General al&s;o, he is a man of a re&s;olute &s;pirit, bord as a Lion, being wholly tutor'd up in <HI>N.E.</HI> Di&s;cipline, very ge|nerous, and forward to promote all military matters; his Forts are well contrived, and batteries &s;trong, and in good repair, his great Artillery well mounted, and cleanly kept, half Canon, Culverins and Sakers, as al&s;o field-pieces of bra&s;s ve|ry ready for &s;ervice, his own company led by <HI>Capt. Lievtenant Sarag,</HI> are very compleat in their arms, and many of them di&s;ciplin'd in the military garden, be&s;ide their ordinary train|ings; the Captains under him, are <HI>Caps. Humphry Atherton,</HI> of the Band of <HI>Dochester;</HI> a very lively couragious man, with his &s;tout and valiant Lievtenant <HI>Clapes,</HI> &s;trong for the truth; of the Band of <HI>Roxbury, Capt. Prichard,</HI> and En&s;ign <HI>Iohn&s;on;</HI> of the Band of <HI>Waymoth, Capt. Perkins,</HI> and his proper and active Lievtenant <HI>Torry;</HI> of the Band of <HI>Hingham, Capt. Be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">an Allen;</HI> of the Band of <HI>Deadbam, Capt. Eliazer, Lu&s;her,</HI>
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one of a nimble and active &s;pirit, &s;trongly affected to the ways of truth; of the Band of <HI>Braintree, Capt. william Tinge,</HI> the&s;e belong to the Regiment of <HI>Suffolk;</HI> the fir&s;t Serjeant-Major cho&s;en to order the Regiment of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> was Major <HI>Rebert Sedgwick,</HI> &s;tout and active in all feats of war, nur&s;t up in <HI>Londons</HI> Artillery garden, and furthered with fifteen years ex|perience in <HI>N. E.</HI> exact theory, be&s;ides the help o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a very good head-piece, being a frequent in&s;tructer of the mo&s;t martial troops of our Artillery men; and although <HI>Charles Town,</HI> (which is the place of his own companies re&s;idence) do not advantage &s;uch o're-topping batteries as <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> doth, yet hath he erected his to very good purpo&s;e, in&s;omuch that all &s;hip|ping that comes in, either to <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> or <HI>Charles-Town,</HI> mu&s;t needs face it all the time of their coming in; the co&s;t he hath been at, in helping on the Di&s;cipline of his Regiment hath profited much; his own company are led by the faith|ful Capt. Lievtenant <HI>Francis Norton,</HI> (a man of a bold and cheerful &s;pirit) being well di&s;ciplin'd, and an able man; the companies under his &s;ervice have not all Captains at pre&s;ent, <HI>VVater-Town</HI> Band was led by Capt. <HI>Ienings,</HI> who is &s;uppo&s;ed to be now in <HI>England,</HI> his Lievtenant remains <HI>Hugh Ma&s;on;</HI> the band of <HI>Cambridg</HI> led by Capt. <HI>George Cook,</HI> now Colonel <HI>Cook</HI> in the wars of <HI>ireland,</HI> but now led by Capt. <HI>Daniel Gookin,</HI> a very forward man to advance Mar&s;hal di&s;|cipline, and withal the truths of Chri&s;t; the Band of <HI>Concord</HI> led by Capt. <HI>Simon Willard,</HI> being a Kenti&s;h &s;oul|dier, as is Capt. <HI>Goggin;</HI> the Band of <HI>Sudbury</HI> lately led by Capt. <HI>Pelham,</HI> who is in <HI>England</HI> at pre&s;ent, his Lievtenant re|mains, <HI>Edw. Goodinow;</HI> the band of <HI>Wooburn</HI> led by another Kenti&s;h Captain; the Band of <HI>Reading</HI> led by Lievtenant <HI>VValker;</HI> the Band of <HI>Malden,</HI> being as yet a young Town, who have not cho&s;en their Officers, are led by Mr. <HI>Jo&s;eph Hill:</HI> The&s;e belong to the Regiment of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> the two Counties of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Northfolk</HI> are for pre&s;ent joyned in one Regiment, their fir&s;t Major, who now commandeth this Regiment, is the proper and valiant Major <HI>Daniel Deni&s;on,</HI> a good &s;ouldier, and of a quick capacity, not inferiour to any other of the&s;e chief Officers, his own company are well in|&s;tructed
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in feats of warlike activity, his Capt. Lievtenane de|parted this life &s;ome few years &s;ince, a godly and faithful man, which is indeed the fountain of true validity; named Mr. <HI>VVhitingam;</HI> the Band of <HI>Salem</HI> led by the bold and wor|thy Capt. <HI>VVilliam Hautborn,</HI> a man of an undaunted cou|rage, with his Lievtenant <HI>Lothrope;</HI> the Band of <HI>Lyn</HI> led by the honored and much re&s;pected Capt. <HI>Robert Bridges,</HI> who is al&s;o a Magi&s;trate, being endued with able parts, and for|ward to improve them for the glory of God and his peoples good; the Band of <HI>Nuberry</HI> led by Capt. <HI>Geri&s;h,</HI> with his an|tient and experienced Lievtenant <HI>Greendife;</HI> the Band of <HI>Row|ly</HI> led by Capt. <HI>Brigham;</HI> the Bands of <HI>Gloce&s;ter, VVenham</HI> and <HI>Andover,</HI> have not yet made choice of Superiour Officers, be|ing in their minority; the&s;e are the Bands of the Regiment of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> to the which are joyned the three Bands of the County of <HI>Northfolk, Salsbury, Hampton,</HI> and <HI>Havorhil:</HI> there are none cho&s;en to office in any of the&s;e Bands, but &s;uch as are freemen, &s;uppo&s;ed to be men indued with faith in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, wherefore let all that truly love the Lord Chri&s;t &s;ay with <HI>Deborah,</HI> My heart is toward the Governors of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> that offered them&s;elves willingly among the people, their Officers are cho&s;en by the major Vote of the &s;ouldiers, being in|&s;talled into their place by the Major of their Regiment: There are of late a very gallant hor&s;e-troop li&s;ted, it being a fre|quent thing with the Officers of the foot companies, to turn Troopers, (when their own Regiment is not in exerci&s;e) for incouragement of others, the Regiments are exerci&s;ed once a year by turnes; they are al&s;o very ob&s;ervant to keep their armes in good order; each &s;ouldier is to keep con&s;tantly by him powder, bullet, and match, be&s;ides every Town is in|joyned to have a common &s;tock in like manner, as al&s;o the country have their ammunition exactly looked unto, by Sur|veyor General <HI>John&s;on,</HI> one very well qualified for the work, ready at all times to put the General Court in mind of keep|ing their &s;tore renued by fre&s;h &s;upply, and to &s;ay right, &s;ome particular per&s;ons may be penurious in laying out their e|&s;tates upon ammunition, but the general of Officers and &s;oul|diers are very generous that way; the reverend Doctor <HI>VVil|&s;on</HI>
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gave bountifully for the furthering this Wilderne&s;s-work, the which was expended upon great Artillery, his gift being a thou&s;and pound, be&s;ide many per&s;ons that came over, the Lord was plea&s;ed to indow with a large portion of the things of this life, who were not backward liberally to di&s;po&s;e of it, to procure means of defence, ann to that end there was a ca|&s;tle built on an I&s;land, upon the pa&s;&s;age into the <HI>Mattachu-Bay,</HI> wholly built at fir&s;t by the country in general, but by rea|&s;on the country affords no Lime, but what is burnt of Oy&s;ter-&s;he is, it fell to decay in a few years after, which made many of the Towns that lay out of the defence thereof to de&s;ert it, although their &s;afety (under God) was much involved in the con&s;tant repair and well-mannaging thereof; hereupon the next &s;ix Towns take upon them to rebuild it at their proper co&s;t and charges, the re&s;t of the country upon the fini&s;hing there|of gave them a &s;mall matter toward it; upon this there was a Captain ordained, and put in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion thereof by the coun|try, having a yearly Stipend allowed him for him&s;elf and his &s;ouldiers, which he is to keep in a con&s;tant readine&s;s upon the I&s;land, being about eight acres of ground; the Ca&s;tle is built on the North-Ea&s;t of the I&s;land, upon a ri&s;ing hill, very ad|vantageous to make many &s;hot at &s;uch &s;hips as &s;hall offer to enter the Harbor without their good leave and liking, the Commander of it is one Captain <HI>Davenport,</HI> a man approved for his faithfulne&s;s, courage and skill, the Ma&s;ter Canoneer is an active Ingineer; al&s;o this Ca&s;tle hath co&s;t about four thou|&s;and pounds, yet are not this poor pilgrim people weary of maintaining it in good repair, it is of very good u&s;e to awe a|ny in&s;olent per&s;ons, that putting confidence in their &s;hip and &s;ails, &s;hall offer any injury to the people, or contemn the Government, they have certain &s;ignals of alarums, which &s;ud|dainly &s;pread through the whole country; were there but one Town more erected in this Government, which were one and thirty, it would joyn all the Towns in the &s;ame neighbourly together, excepting Spring-field. Thus are the&s;e people with great diligence provided for the&s;e daies of war, hoping the day is at hand wherein the Lord will give Antichri&s;t the don-chri&s;t the double of all her doings, and therefore they have
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nur&s;ed up in their Artillery garden &s;ome who have &s;ince been u&s;ed, as in&s;truments to begin the work; but that which gives the greate&s;t hope concerning this particular, is this, that the&s;e times afford more &s;ouldiers depending on the Lord Chri&s;t through faith for deliverance and true valour, then any age &s;ince Antichri&s;t began to fall, without which, all the&s;e prepa|rations were but as &s;o many traps and &s;nares to catch a people in, and to the which the&s;e Commanders and &s;ouldiers are dai|ly exhorted, and therefore let all people know that de&s;ire the downfal of <HI>New-England,</HI> they are not to war again&s;t a peo|ple only exerci&s;ed in feats of war, but men who are experien|ced in the deliverances of the Lord from the mouth of the Li|on, and the paw of the Bear; and now woe be to you, when the &s;ame God that directed the &s;tone to the forehead of the Phili&s;tine, guides every bullet that is &s;hot at you, it matters not for the whole rabble of Antichri&s;t on your &s;ide, the God of Armies is for us a refuge high. <HI>Shela.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>VVonder working Providence OF Sions SAVIOUR in New-England.</HEAD>
<HEAD>BOOK III.</HEAD>
<HEAD>CONTAINING The pa&s;&s;ages of Gods providence to|ward this wandering Race of <HI>Jaaco|bites</HI> in the&s;e latter &s;even years, from the year 1645. till toward the latter end of 51.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>CHAP. I. <HI>Of planting the twenty &s;ixth Church of Chri&s;t at the Town of</HI> Haverhil, <HI>and of preparation for a &s;econd war with the</HI> Indians.</HEAD>
<P>THis year that antient, honored and tru&s;ty &s;ouldier of the truth, <HI>Thom. Dudly</HI> E&s;quire was cho&s;en Gover|nor, and the honored <HI>John Winthrop</HI> E&s;quire was cho|&s;en Deputy Governor, <HI>John Endicut</HI> E&s;quire to the office of Major-General. You have heard in the former book
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of the fortifying of the Ca&s;tle, and placing a Captain therein, which was not fini&s;hed till this year; the number of freemen added was 56. The Town of Haverhil was built much about this time, lying higher up then <HI>Salisbury,</HI> upon the fair and large river of Merrimeck: the people are wholly bent to im|prove their labour in tilling the earth, and keeping of cattel, who&s;e yearly encrea&s;e incourages them to &s;pend their days in tho&s;e remote parts, the con&s;tant penetrating farther into this Wilderne&s;s, hath cau&s;ed the wild and uncouth woods to be fil'd with frequented wayes, and the large rivers to be o|ver-laid with Bridges pa&s;&s;eable, both for hor&s;e and foot; this Town is of a large extent, &s;uppo&s;ed to be ten miles in length, there being an over-weaning de&s;ire in mo&s;t men after Medow land, which hath cau&s;ed many towns to gra&s;p more into their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ands then they could afterward po&s;&s;ibly hold; the people are laborious in the gaining the goods of this life, yet are they not unmindful al&s;o of the chief end of their coming hither, namely, to be made partakers of the ble&s;&s;ed Ordinances of Chri&s;t, that their &s;ouls might be refre&s;hed with the continual income of his rich grace, to which end they gathered into a Church-body, and called to office the reverend M. <HI>VVard,</HI> &s;on to the former named M. <HI>VVard</HI> of Ip&s;witch,</P>
<Q><L>WIth mind re&s;olv'd run out thy race at length,</L>
<L>Yound <HI>Ward</HI> begin whereas thy father left,</L>
<L>Left hath he not, but breaths for further &s;trength,</L>
<L>Nor thou, nor he, are yet of hope bereft:</L>
<L>Fruit of thy labours thou &s;halt &s;ee &s;o much,</L>
<L>The righteous &s;hall hear of it, and rejoyce</L>
<L>When Babel falls by Chri&s;t's almighty touch,</L>
<L>All'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> folk &s;hall prai&s;e him with a cheerful voice.</L>
<L>They pro&s;per &s;hall that Sions building mind,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Ward</HI> cea&s;e not with toyl her &s;tones to lay,</L>
<L>For great is he thee to this work a&s;&s;ign'd,</L>
<L>Who&s;e plea&s;ure is, heavens Crown &s;hall be thy pay.</L></Q>
<P>This year, although divers Indian Sachems not long before
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had de&s;ired to &s;ubject them&s;elves and lands unto this Go|vernment, yet the &s;ons of old <HI>Canonicus</HI> having not inherited their fathers prudence, with his &s;ubjects and land, fell to hot contention with their own neighbours and native inhabitants, although they were forbidden by the united Colonies, and pro&s;ecuted &s;o, that they would not &s;tick to wage war with the Engli&s;h al&s;o, which the Commi&s;&s;ioners perceiving, they rai&s;ed an Army of hor&s;e and foot out of the Colonies, and appoint|ed as Commander in chief over them Major-General <HI>Edward Gibbons;</HI> the reverend Mr. <HI>Tomp&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> one of the Elders of the Church at <HI>Braintree</HI> was to accompany them, and to preach the Word of God unto them, during the time of the war; but the Indians hearing of this preparation again&s;t them, &s;ent a certain number of their chief Nobility to treat with the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of the united Colonies about a peace, who then &s;itting at <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> gave them audience, the <HI>Indians</HI> coming into their pre&s;ence, could &s;peak no more Engli&s;h, but peace, peace; the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> were very de&s;irous of an opportunity to &s;hew them mercy, and yet would they &s;hould not de&s;pi&s;e them, in gaining it upon &s;uch ea&s;ie terms, as might cau&s;e them to move war again, and therefore allotted them to pay &s;ome part of the charge of the war intended, and therefore appointed them to give four of their &s;ons for ho&s;tages till they had wholly paid it; the <HI>Indians</HI> gladly accepted of the terms, and ac|cordingly brought their children. Here the Reader &s;hould be minded of the admirable acts of the Lord Chri&s;t in awing the&s;e multitudes of Heathens, for they were the mo&s;t popu|lous of any that are in the&s;e parts; but it is re&s;erved for ano|ther place in this hi&s;tory, the <HI>Indians</HI> being &s;low in their per|formance, had their ho&s;tages returned home before the Wa|pom was paid, yet their two Princes <HI>Po&s;icus</HI> and <HI>Mexanimo,</HI> did upon the &s;ending certain armed men to demand the re|mainder, &s;end the &s;um demanded.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. II. <HI>Of the planting of the twenty &s;eventh Church of Chri&s;t at the Town called</HI> Springfield, <HI>and of the earne&s;t &s;eeking the the Lord by all the Churches of</HI> N. E. <HI>for his gra|cious a&s;&s;istance in the work of Reformation.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ABout this time one Mr. <HI>Pinchin,</HI> &s;ometime a Magi&s;trate, having out of de&s;ire to better his e&s;tate, by trading with the <HI>Indians,</HI> &s;etled him&s;elf very remote (from all the Chur|ches of Chri&s;t in the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets</HI> Government) upon the ri|ver of Canectico, yet under their Government, he having &s;ome godly per&s;ons re&s;orting unto him, they there erected a Town and Church of Chri&s;t, calling it Springfield, it lying up|on this large navigable river, hath the benefit of tran&s;porting their goods by water, and al&s;o fitly &s;eated for a Bever trade with the Indians, till the Merchants encrea&s;ed &s;o many, that it became little worth, by rea&s;on of their out-buying one ano|ther, which hath cau&s;ed them to live upon husbandry; this Town is mo&s;tly built along the river &s;ide, and upon &s;ome little rivelets of the &s;ame: There hath of late been more then one or two in this Town greatly &s;u&s;pected of witchcraft, yet have they u&s;ed much diligence, both for the finding them out, and for the Lords a&s;&s;i&s;ting them again&s;t their witchery, yet have they, as is &s;uppo&s;ed, bewitched not a few per&s;ons, among whom two of the reverend Elders children: The&s;e people inhabiting this Town, having gathered into a Church-body, called to the office of a Pa&s;tor the reverend M. <HI>Moxon,</HI> who remaineth with them at this very day, of whom as followeth.</P>
<Q><L>AS thou with &s;trong and able parts art made,</L>
<L>Thy per&s;on &s;tout with toyl and labour &s;hall,</L>
<L>With help of Chri&s;t through difficulties wade,</L>
<L>Then &s;pend for him, &s;pare not thy &s;elf at all.</L>
<L>When errors crowd clo&s;e to thy &s;elf, and friends</L>
<L>Take up truths &s;word, trifle not time for why</L>
<L>Chri&s;t call'd his people hither, for the&s;e ends,</L>
<L>To tell the world that Babels fall is nigh;</L>
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And that his Churches through the world &s;hall &s;pread,</L>
<L>Maugre the might of wicked men and devils,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Moxon</HI> thou need'&s;t not at all to dread,</L>
<L>But be aveng'd on Satan for his evils,</L>
<L>Thy Lord Chri&s;t will under thy feet him tread.</L></Q>
<P>This year the great troubles in our native country encrea&s;e|ing, and that hearing prophane <HI>E&s;au</HI> had mu&s;tered up all the Bands he could make to come again&s;t his brother <HI>Iacob,</HI> the&s;e wandering race of Jacobites deemed it now high time to im|plore the Lord for his e&s;pecial aid in this time of their deepe&s;t di&s;tre&s;s, and the rather being incouraged hereunto from for|mer deliverances and wonderful mercies received, the which they now pre&s;ented before the Lord with the &s;everal bran|ches, and inlarged bounties thereof to refre&s;h their frozen af|fections, and move a melting heart in their barren bre&s;ts, that began to dry up with a lazy lethargy, and therefore thru&s;ting them&s;elves on to the work by the loving invitation of that godly Government the Lord in his mercy had peaceably pla|ced among them, each Church in their own proper place meeting together in daies of &s;olemn &s;eeking of the Lords plea&s;ing countenance in Chri&s;t (the Lord in his mercy helping them) after a &s;erious acknowledgment of their own unwor|thine&s;s, by rea&s;on of their &s;inful provocations of the Lord to anger again&s;t them aggravated, in that they were committed immediately upon the receipt of a multitude of marvellous mercies, they acknowledg unto the Lord in the audience of the great Congregation the manner of his wonderful provi|dence extended toward them, that as <HI>Iacob</HI> profe&s;&s;es, I came over this Jordan with my &s;taff, and now have I gotten two Bands; &s;o they came over this boy&s;terous billow-boyling O|cean, a few poor &s;cattered &s;tones newly raked out of the heaps of rubbi&s;h, and thou Lord Chri&s;t ha&s;t now &s;o far exalted them, as to lay them &s;ure in thy Sion, a building, to be the wonder of the world, orderly are they placed in five and forty &s;everal Churches, and that in a Wilderne&s;s, where civility &s;carce ever took place, much le&s;s any Religion, and now to the Lord ear|ne&s;tly they cry to be delivered from the cruel hands of tho&s;e
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that would de&s;troy both young and old, the bird and her young together, and as <HI>Iacobs</HI> fear was, the &s;eed of Chri&s;ts Church in the po&s;terity of I&s;rael &s;hould be cut off, and there|fore pleaded the promi&s;e of the Lord in the multiplying of his &s;eed; &s;o the&s;e people at this very time, pleaded not only the Lords promi&s;e to I&s;rael, but to his only Son Chri&s;t Je&s;us; Lord, ha&s;t thou not &s;aid, <HI>Ask of me, and I will give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermo&s;t ends of the earth for thy po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion;</HI> and now Lord, are not the&s;e the Churches of Chri&s;t which thou ha&s;t planced for his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion; and that as <HI>Rachel</HI> and <HI>Leah</HI> built the hou&s;e of I&s;rael, &s;o now &s;hall the&s;e and the like Si&s;ter-churches &s;pread the whole earth, the Lord Chri&s;t raigning as King and Lord for ever over them; <HI>Then why do the Heathen rage, and the people imagin a vain thing, &s;ee|ing the rime of the Lords ari&s;ing to have mercy upon</HI> Sion <HI>is come, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ea his appointed time is at hand;</HI> and he who walks in the mid&s;t of his golden Candle&s;ticks, who&s;e eys are as a flaming fire, will not &s;uffer his Churches to be trodden under feet of that Anti|chri&s;tian Lordly prelacy any longer, nor yet defiled with any transformed Saint-&s;eeming Angels of light with their painted doctrines. Thus did this poor people plead with the Lord, not only for them&s;elves, but for their dearly beloved brethren in England, I and all that are Chri&s;ts cho&s;en people the world throughout; and although they were not unmindful from day to day of them, yet this year 1645. the Lord was plea&s;ed to &s;tir up their affections in more then an ordinary manner, what &s;ucce&s;s their prayers have had, let all (that love and long to behold the beauty of Chri&s;t &s;hining on and in his beloved Bride) declare the loving kindne&s;s of the Lord toward his Churches, and let all the Churches of Chri&s;t, though never &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> more the one from the other, yet joyned together in one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hith and one Chri&s;t, be frequent in prayer one for another, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ongregate together at the Throne of the Lord, be pre&s;ent in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pirit, though ab&s;ent in body; the&s;e Mew-England Churches <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> neer one hundred miles di&s;tant one from another, and yet communicate, coun&s;el, care, love, joy, grieve with, and for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ne another, di&s;mi&s;s &s;ome, and commend others (as occa&s;i|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n &s;erves) to the Chri&s;tian care and watchfulne&s;s, from one
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Church to another, and why may not this be practi&s;ed the world throughout, even from Jeru&s;alem, and round about to Illyricum?</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. III. <HI>Of the oppo&s;ition the Government of the</HI> Mattachu&s;ets <HI>Colony met withal, by certain per&s;ons, under the name of Petitioners.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN place of Governor was cho&s;en for this year <HI>Iohn Win|throp</HI> E&s;quire, and for Deputy Governor <HI>Thomas Dudly</HI> E|&s;quire, the number of freemen were about 72. At the Court of Election there was a Petition drawn, and pre&s;ented to the Court by a Doctor of Phy&s;ick, with &s;even hands to it, the per|&s;ons were of a Linfiwol&s;ie di&s;po&s;ition, &s;ome for Prefacy, &s;ome for Presbytery, and &s;ome for Pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bsbytery, but all joyned to|gether in the thing they would, which was to &s;tir up the people to di&s;like of the pre&s;ent Government, one while envving again&s;t the con&s;titution of the Government as not popular enough, a|nother while again&s;t the Laws or orders of this little Common|wealth as two &s;trict, and then to provoke, at lea&s;t the p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="5 letters">|ous, they tell them of great expence of the publike Trea&s;ury, and intolerable taxations; the matter they petitioned for, was a bottom to build their quarrel upon, under the name of a Presbyterian Government, and this they &s;uppo&s;ed would &s;uit well with their Bill of complaint, which they intended for England, not that they cared for a Presbyterian Church, for had they &s;o done, they might have found out one in the coun|try before they petitioned, but becau&s;e they &s;uppo&s;ed that the Parliament in England would e&s;tabli&s;h that way only and therefore bore them&s;elves bold upon it, that although their &s;editious and &s;candalous words and practi&s;es &s;hould in|cur a penalty (as none could deem any other, unle&s;s it be &s;uch as are all for liberty, and nothing for Government) yet they might bear men in hand, it was for petitioning for a Presby|terian Church-Government, according to this te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or; th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Court being &s;ome what flow in cen&s;uring them, they prepare<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a plot, wrapping in &s;ome few per&s;ons more with them, lay
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ing very gro&s;s matters to the charge of this Government in their Bill of complaint, but being &s;u&s;pected by the honoured Magi&s;trates of this Government, their plot was found out, and writing publikely read unto them, for all which they had a &s;mall penalty laid upon them, hardly countervail the charge they put the country unto; but a&s;&s;uredly it was the Lords gracious goodne&s;s to quell their malice again&s;t his people, and indeed the proud Bi&s;hops &s;ped no better, or not &s;o well, e|&s;pecially &s;ome of them, nor have any other hitherto pro&s;pe|red, who have ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">igned the&s;e poor Churches of Chri&s;t, yet be|cau&s;e the Gortoni&s;t painted over a far wor&s;er cau&s;e, that tho&s;e honorable per&s;onages in England, who had the hearing there|of could not di&s;cern the Government, thought meet to &s;end over this year the honored M. <HI>VVin&s;low</HI> to manife&s;t and declare the naked truth of things, having full power and commi&s;&s;ion from this Government to deal for them in all matters where|in they may be concerned; and verily the chief Gortonian might have returned from England hither, to have triumphed in his bla&s;phemies over the Churches of Chri&s;t; and all the uni|ted colonies, had not the divel &s;hewed his horns in that book he printed, wherein he takes upon him a mon&s;trous interpre|tation of the words of our Lord Chri&s;t in <HI>John, Except ye eat my fle&s;h, and drink my blond, &amp;c.</HI> had the book been well per|u&s;ed before their coming over, &s;urely they had never return'd with &s;o large a commi&s;&s;ion as they boa&s;t of, for the Parlia|ment have puni&s;hed divers per&s;ons for their bla&s;phemies, and very like the&s;e &s;hould not have &s;caped &s;cotfree.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. IV. <HI>Of the &s;econd Synod holden at Cambridg in</HI> N. E. <HI>and the images of the Son that appeared.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis year the General Court of the <HI>Mattachu&s;ets</HI> Go|vernment taking into con&s;ideration the many <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> in point of doctrine that were daily broached by &s;ome of our Engli&s;h Nation, although the churches of Chri&s;t, and the peo|ple under this Government were free, at lea&s;t in open pro|fe&s;&s;ion;
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yet to declare to all the world, and render an ac|compt of their faith and profe&s;&s;ion wherein they walk, it was thought meet, that the churches of Chri&s;t &s;hould meet toge|ther in a Synod, by their Elders and Me&s;&s;engers to hold forth the doctrine and di&s;cipline of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, according to the rule of the New Te&s;tament, with the grounds of Scriptur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> from which they hold the &s;ame; and further to make trial of them by the &s;aid rules and none other: accordingly at the time appointed they a&s;&s;embled together, their di&s;putation was plain and ea&s;ie to be under&s;tood of the meane&s;t capacity, clear|ing up tho&s;e points that were mo&s;t dubious, they having a|greed on all matters, with a full concurrence of the a&s;&s;embly, did appoint them to be put in print, that they might be the better &s;canned and tried of every particular per&s;on in the &s;e|veral congregations or churches, many churches approving thereof for the generality, others there be that have not yet fully viewed the &s;ame, the books are extant, and &s;hew that the churches of Chri&s;t in N. E. are not a&s;hamed to make con|fe&s;&s;ion of their faith to all the world, and are yet ready to re|ceive any further light &s;hall be made known unto them from the Word of God, and none other, nor do they receive this becau&s;e a Synod hath &s;aid it, but becau&s;e the Lord hath &s;po|ken it by his Spirit, and witne&s;&s;ed by the &s;ame Spirit to their &s;ouls that he hath &s;o done; &s;ome &s;orts of per&s;ons have been much oppo&s;ite to this Synod, fir&s;t tho&s;e that are &s;o inured with the broad beaten path of liberty, that they fear to be confined in the &s;traight and narrow path of truth; the &s;econd are &s;uch as have their wills wedded to &s;ome &s;ingular rare con|ceited opinion, for which they have been admired of many, and now they fear their gain will be gone, if this &s;pirit be ca&s;t out; the third and la&s;t &s;ort are more hone&s;t then the two former, and only &s;cared with their big words, who tell them of the Popi&s;h and Prelatical Synods, what a deal of tra&s;h and cannon Laws they have brought in, and that if they will full to receiving books once, they &s;hall have more and more thru&s;t upon them: As al&s;o if any &s;hall &s;ay its only to declare the doctrine and di&s;cipline the churches of N. E. hold, its e|nough, quoth they, that our faith concerning the&s;e things is
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contained in the Bible, and this is all the accompt we need to give to any; but for all the&s;e &s;care-crows, N.E. hath through the ble&s;&s;ing of the Lord received much peace and truth from the former Synod, we wi&s;h our countrymen and our &s;elves may receive the like, and much more from this, which ended not with this year.</P>
<P>This year, about the later end thereof, appeared two <HI>Pare|lii,</HI> or Images of the Sun, and &s;ome other &s;trange apparitions of light about her, like a Rainbow, with the heels upward, which unwonted &s;ights have been interpreted by the provi|dent pa&s;&s;ages &s;ince &s;hewed, among tho&s;e who have had an out&s;ide of profe&s;&s;ion and name, to be &s;ingular for under&s;tand|ing the mind of God, who would overthrow all the Ordi|nances of Chri&s;t, under the name of New-light, and that there can be no re&s;toration of Religion, till new Apo&s;tles come: This de&s;perate opinion doth &s;o fitly re&s;emble the&s;e wonder|ful apparitions, that &s;eemed to be another Sun, yet indeed had no light in them, but vani&s;hed away no man knew how; &s;o the&s;e opinioni&s;ts would make men believe they had found out another Sea from their phanta&s;tical revelations.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. V. <HI>Of the great pains and care taken by tho&s;e in Authority, for the compiling of Lawes for this little Commonwealth.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis year the General Court appointed a Committee of divers per&s;ons to draw up a Body of Laws for the well-ordering of this little Commonwealth; and to the end that th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y might be mo&s;t agreeable with the rule of Scripture, in every County there was appointed two Magi&s;trates, two Mi|ni&s;ters, and two able per&s;ons from among the people, who having provided &s;uch a competent number as was meet, toge|ther with the former that were enacted newly amend|ed, they pre&s;ented them to the General Court, where they were again peru&s;ed and amended; and then another Committee cho&s;en to bring them into form, and pre&s;ent them to the Court again, who the year following pa&s;&s;ed an Act
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of confirmation upon them, and &s;o committed them to the Pre&s;s, and in the year 1648. they were printed, and now are to be &s;een of all men, to the end that none may plead igno|rance, and that all who intend to tran&s;port them&s;elves hither, may know this is no place of licentious liberty, nor will this people &s;uffer any to trample down this Vineyard of the Lord, but with diligent execution will cut off from the city of the Lord the wicked doers, and if any man can &s;hew wherein any of them derogate from the Word of God, very willingly will they accept thereof, and amend their imperfections (the Lord a&s;&s;i&s;ting) but let not any ill affected per&s;ons find fault with them, becau&s;e they &s;uit not with their own humour, or be|cau&s;e they meddle with matters of Religion, for it is no wrong to any man, that a people who have &s;pent their e&s;tates, many of them, and ventured their lives for to keep faith and a pure con&s;cience, to u&s;e all means that the Word of God al|lows for maintenance and continuance of the &s;ame, e&s;pecial|ly they having taken up a de&s;olate Wilderne&s;s to be their ha|bitation, and not deluded any by keeping their profe&s;&s;ion in huggermug, but print and proclaim to all the way and cour&s;e they intend, God willing, to walk in, if any will yet notwith|&s;tanding &s;eek to ju&s;tle them out of their own right, let them not wonder if they meet with all the oppo&s;ition a people put to their greate&s;t &s;traits can make; as in all their undertaking, their chiefe&s;t aim hath been to promote the Ordinances of Chri&s;t, &s;o al&s;o in contriving their Laws, Liberties, and Privi|ledges, they have not been wanting, which hath cau&s;ed many to maligne their civil Government, and more e&s;pecially for puni&s;hing any by a Law, that walk conrrary to the rule of the Go&s;pel, which they profe&s;s, but to them it &s;eems unrea|&s;onable, and &s;avours too much of hypocri&s;ie, that any people &s;hould pray unto the Lord for the &s;peedy accompli&s;hment of his Word in the overthrow of Antichri&s;t, and in the mean time become a Patron to &s;inful opinions and damnable errors that oppo&s;e the truths of Chri&s;t, admit it be but in the bare per|mi&s;&s;ion of them.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VI. <HI>Of the Lords wonder-working Providence, in fitting this people with all kind of Manufactures, and the bringing of them into the order of a Commonwealth.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ON the day of Election for Governor and Magi&s;trates, (which are new cho&s;en every year) the honored <HI>John Winthrope</HI> E&s;quire was cho&s;en Governor, and the like honor|ed <HI>Thomas Dudly</HI> E&s;quire Deputy Governor, <HI>John Endicut</HI> E&s;quire was cho&s;en Major-General, which is an Officer the Freemen make a yearly choice of, all other Military Officers &s;tand for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> of life, unle&s;s any be put out for mi&s;demean|our; the member of freemen added this year were about 85. the Land affording very good <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">on, &s;tone, divers per&s;ons of good <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ack and quality in England, were &s;tirred up by the provident hand of the Lord to venture their e&s;tatee upon an hon work, which they began at <HI>Braintree,</HI> and profited the owners little, but rather wa&s;ted their &s;tock, which cau&s;ed &s;ome of them to tell away the Kmainder, the chief rea&s;on be|ing the high price of labour, which ordinarily was as much more as in England, and in many things treble; the way of going on with &s;uch a work here, was not &s;udd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">inly to be di&s;|terned, although the Steward had a very able eye, yet experi|ence nath out-&s;tript learning here, and the mo&s;t quick-&s;ighted in the Theory of things, have been forced to pay prety mundly to Lady Experience for filling their heads with a &s;it|tle of her active after-wit; much hope there is now, that the owners may pick up their crums again, if they be but made partakers of the gain, in putting off England commodities at N. E. price, it will take off one third of the great price they gave for labour, and the price of their iron; it is &s;uppo&s;ed a|nother third is taken of the abundance of wood had for lit|tle, will &s;urely take off the re&s;idue, be&s;ides land at ea&s;ie rates, and common land free for their u&s;e; it were to be de&s;ired that tho&s;e Gentlemen who have undertaken the work, would con&s;ider the place where their works are, namely in N. E. where the Lord Chri&s;t hath cho&s;en to plant his Churches in,
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to hide his people under the covert of his wings, till the ty|ranny of Antichri&s;t be over-pa&s;&s;ed, and any that have disbur|&s;ed pence for the furthering of his work, &s;hall be repayed with thou&s;ands: Be&s;ides, the Gentlemen that govern this Colony are very de&s;irous to be helpful in what they may, and had ra|ther take any burthens upon them&s;elves and the Inhabitants, that in ju&s;tice they ought, then that tho&s;e Gentlemen &s;hould be any wayes damnified: The Lord is plea&s;ed al&s;o to com|pleat this Commonwealth abundantly beyond all expectati|on in all &s;orts of needful occupations, it being for a lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">g time the great fear of many, and tho&s;e that were endued with grace from above al&s;o, that this would be no place of conti|nued habitation, for want of a &s;taple-commodity, but the Lord, who&s;e promi&s;es are large to his Sion, hath ble&s;t his peo|ples provi&s;ion, and &s;atisfied her poor with bread, in a very lit|tle &s;pace, every thing in the country proved a &s;taple-commo|dity, wheat, rye, oats, peas, barley, beef, pork, fi&s;h, butter, chee&s;e, timber, ma&s;t, tar, &s;ope, plank-board frames of hou&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, clabboard, and pipe&s;taves, iron and lead is like to be al&s;o; and tho&s;e who were formerly forced to fetch mo&s;t of the bread they eat, and beer they drink a hundred leagues by Sea, are through the ble&s;&s;ing of the Lord &s;o encrea&s;ed, that they have not only fed their Elder Si&s;ters, Virginia, Barbados, and many of the Summer I&s;lands that were prefer'd before her for fruitfulne&s;s, but al&s;o the Grandmother of us all, even the fir|til I&s;le of Great Britain, be&s;ide Portugal hath had many a mouthful of bread and fi&s;h from us, in exchange of their Ma|deara liquor, and al&s;o Spain; nor could it be imagined, that this Wilderne&s;s &s;hould turn a mart for Merchants in &s;o &s;hort a &s;pace, Holland, France, Spain, and Portugal coming hither for trade, &s;hipping, going on gallantly, till the Seas became &s;o trouble&s;ome, and England re&s;train'd our trade, forbidding it with Barbados, &amp;c. and Portugal &s;topt and took our &s;hips; many a fair &s;hip had her framing and fini&s;hing here, be&s;ides le&s;&s;er ve&s;&s;els, barques, and ketches, many a Ma&s;ter, be&s;ide com|moa Seamen, had their fir&s;t learning in this Colony, Bo&s;ton, Charles-Town, Salem, and Ip&s;witch; our Maritan Towns be|gan to encrea&s;e roundly, e&s;pecially Bo&s;ton, the which of a
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poor country village, in twice &s;even years is become like un|to a &s;mall City, and is in election to be Mayor Town &s;uddain|ly, chiefly increa&s;ed by trade by Sea, yet of late the Lord hath given a check to our traffique, but the rea&s;on may be rendred hereafter; nor hath this Colony alone been actors in this trade of venturing by Sea, but New-haven al&s;o, who were many of them well experienced in traffique, and had good e|&s;tates to mannage it, <HI>Canectiso</HI> did not linger behind, but put forth to Sea with the other; all other trades have here fallen into their ranks and places, to their great advantage; e&s;peci|ally Coopers and Shomakers, who had either of them a Cor|poration granted, inriching them&s;elves by their trades very much, Coopers having their plenty of &s;tuff at a cheap rate, and by rea&s;on of trade, with forraign parts abandance of work, as for Tanners and Shomakers, it being naturalized into the&s;e occupations, to have a higher reach in mannaging their ma|nifactures, then other men in N. E. are, having not chang'd their nature in this, between them both they have kept men to their &s;tander hitherto, almo&s;t doubling the price of their commodities, according to the rate they were &s;old for in Eng|land, and yet the plenty of Leather is beyond what they had, their counting the number of the people, but the tran&s;porta|tion of Boots and Shoes into forraign parts hath vented all however: as for Tailors, they vave not come behind the form|er, their advantage being in the nurture of new-fa&s;hions, all one with England; Carpenters, Joyners, Glaziers, Painters, fol|low their trades only; Gun-&s;miths, Lock-&s;miths, Black-&s;miths, Naylers, Cutlers, have left the husbandmen to follow the Plow and Cart, and they their trades, Weavers, Brewers, Ba|kers, Co&s;termongers, Feltmakers, Braziers, Pewterers, and Finkers, Ropemakers, Ma&s;ons, Lime, Brick, and Tilemakers, Cardmakers to work, and not to play, Turners, Pumpmakers, and Wheelers, Glovers, Fellmungers, and Furriers, are or|derly turn'd to their trades, be&s;ides divers &s;orts of Shopkeep|ers, and &s;ome who have a my&s;tery beyond others, as have the Vintners.</P>
<P>Thus hath the Lord been plea&s;ed to turn one of the mo&s;t hideous, boundle&s;s, and unknown Wilderne&s;&s;es in the world
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in an in&s;tant, as 'twere (in compari&s;on of other work) to a well-ordered Commonwealth, and all to &s;erve his Churches, of which the Author intends to &s;peak of three more, which came to be gathered in the compa&s;s of the&s;e years.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VII. <HI>Of the three la&s;t Churches that were gathered in the compa&s;s of the&s;e years, namely Haverhil, Mal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">en, and another Church gathered in the Town of Bo&s;ton.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis year 1648. <HI>John Winthrope</HI> E&s;quire was cho&s;en Go|vernor, and <HI>Thomas Dudly</HI> E&s;quire Deputy Governor, and <HI>John Endicut</HI> E&s;quire Major General, all three as they were the former year, the number of freemen added were a|bout 94. about this time there was a Town founded about one or two mile di&s;tant from the place where the goodly ri|ver of Merrimeck receives her branches into her own body, hard upon the river of Shaw&s;hin, which is one of her three chief heads; the honored Mr. <HI>Simon Broad &s;treet</HI> taking up his la&s;t &s;etling there, hath been a grrat means to further the work, it being a place well fitted for the husbandmans hand, were it not that the remotene&s;s of the place from Towns of trade, bringeth &s;ome inconveniencies upon the planteas, who are in|forced to carry their corn far to market; this Town is called Andover, and hath good &s;tore of land improved for the big|ne&s;s of it, they &s;oon gathered into a Church, having the reve|rend Mr. <HI>Whodbridg</HI> to in&s;truct them in the wayes of Chri&s;t, till he returned to England, and &s;ince have called to office the reverend Mr. <HI>Deynes,</HI> for who&s;e further incouragement the promi&s;es of the Lord for protecting, providing, increa&s;eing, and continuing, even the very lea&s;t of his Churches going on, according to his precepts, are abundantly manife&s;ted in his Word.</P>
<Q><L>THon Si&s;ter young, Chri&s;t is to thee a wall</L>
<L>Of flaming fire, to hurt thee none may come</L>
<L>In &s;tipp'ry paths, and dark wayes &s;hall they fall,</L>
<L>His Angels might &s;hall cha&s;e thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> countle&s;s &s;um.</L>
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Thy <HI>Shepheard</HI> with full cups and table &s;pread,</L>
<L>Before thy foes in Wilderne&s;s thee feeds,</L>
<L>Increa&s;ing thy young lambs in bo&s;om bred,</L>
<L>Of Churches by his wonder-working deeds:</L>
<L>To countle&s;s number mu&s;t Chri&s;t's Churches reach,</L>
<L>The day's at hand, both Jew and Gentle &s;hall</L>
<L>Come crowding in his Churches, Chri&s;t to preach,</L>
<L>And la&s;t for aye, none can cau&s;e them to fall.</L></Q>
<P>About this time the Town of Malden had his fir&s;t founda|tion &s;tones laid by certain per&s;ons, who i&s;&s;ued out of Charles-Town, and indeed had her whole &s;tructure within the bounds of this more elder Town, being &s;evered by the broad ipread|ing river of Mi&s;tick the one from the other, who&s;e trouble|&s;ome pa&s;&s;age cau&s;ed the people on the North &s;ide of the ri|ver to plead for Town-priviledges within them&s;elves, which accordingly was granted them; the &s;oyl is very firtile, but they are much &s;traitned in their bounds, yet their neerne&s;s to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hief Market Towns, makes it the more comfortable for ha|bitation, the people gathered into a Church &s;ome di&s;tance of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ime before they could attain to any Church-Officer to admi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;ter the Seals unto them, yet in the mean time at their Sab|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th a&s;&s;emblies they had a godly Chri&s;tian named M. <HI>Sarjant,</HI> who did preach the Word unto them, and afterwards they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ere &s;upplied at times with &s;ome young Students from the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">olledg, till the year 16<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">0. one Mr. <HI>Marmaduke Mathews,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oming out of Plimouth Patten, was for &s;ome &s;pace of time <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ith a people at the Town of Hull, which is a &s;mall Port|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">own peopled by fi&s;hermen, and lies at the entrance of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ays mouth, where this Mr. <HI>Mathews</HI> continued preaching, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he lo&s;t the approbation of &s;ome able under&s;tanding men, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ong both Magi&s;trates and Mini&s;ters, by weak and un&s;afe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pre&s;&s;ions in his teaching, yet notwith&s;tanding he was cal|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to the office of a Pa&s;tor by the brethren of this Church of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ri&s;t at <HI>Maldon,</HI> although &s;ome Neighbour-churches were &s;atisfied therewith, for it is the manner of all the Churches Chri&s;t here hitherto, to have the approbation of their Si|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">-churches, and the civil Government al&s;o in the proceed|ings
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of this nature, by the which means Communion of Chur|ches is continued, peace pre&s;erved; and the truths of Chri&s;t &s;incerely acknowledged, yet the Author will not mi&s;s to mind him in the following Meeter.</P>
<Q><L><HI>MAthews!</HI> thou mu&s;t build gold and &s;ilver on</L>
<L>That precious &s;tone, Chri&s;t cannot tra&s;h indure,</L>
<L>Un&s;table &s;traw and &s;tubble mu&s;t be gone,</L>
<L>When Chri&s;t by fire doth purge his building pure.</L>
<L>In &s;eemly and in mode&s;t terms do thou</L>
<L>Chri&s;ts precious truths unto thy folk unfold,</L>
<L>And mix not error with the truth, le&s;t thou</L>
<L>Soon leave out &s;en&s;e to make the truth to hold:</L>
<L>Compleating of Chri&s;ts Churches is at hand,</L>
<L><HI>Mathews</HI> &s;tand up, and blow a crrtain &s;ound,</L>
<L>Warriours are wanting Babel to with&s;tand,</L>
<L>Chri&s;ts truths maintain, 'twill bring thee honors crown'd</L></Q>
<P>The la&s;t Church that compleated the number of 30. was ga+thered at Bo&s;ton, by rea&s;on of the popularity thereof, bein<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> too many to meet in one a&s;&s;embly; the North-ea&s;t part of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Town being &s;eparated from the other with a narrow &s;trea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> cut through a neck of land by indu&s;try, whereby that part i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> become an I&s;land, it was thought meet, that the people in habiting the &s;ame &s;hould gather into a Church-body, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> build a Meeting-hou&s;e for their a&s;&s;embly, the which they hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> already done, but not as yet called any one to office; for &s;in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> the people of Chri&s;t in &s;ome other places, both in Englan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> and el&s;where, have through the goodne&s;s of God obtaine like liberty with our &s;elves, the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t have ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> their labours taken up in other places as well as her<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> which hath cau&s;ed this Church as yet to be de&s;titu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the beginning of this year was &s;ad to the people of N. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> by rea&s;on of the death of their honoured Governo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>John Winthrope</HI> E&s;quire, who&s;e indefatigable paines in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Wilderne&s;s-work is not to be forgotten, nor indeed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> it be, his Funeral was very &s;adly and &s;olemnly performe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> by a very great concour&s;e of the greater part of this Colo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">
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who&s;e mournful looks and watry eyes did plainly demon&s;trate the tender affection and great e&s;teem he was in with the people.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. VIII. <HI>Of the death of divers per&s;onages, who were in great e&s;te em with the people of New-England, famous for their godline&s;s, and ominent parts, both for Magi&s;tracy and Mini&s;te|ry, and of the correcting hand of the Lord upon his N. E. people.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A His year, after the death of this godly Governour, was cho&s;en to &s;ucceed in the place 10. <HI>Endicut</HI> E&s;q. and <HI>Tho. Dudly</HI> E&s;q. to be Deputy Governor, to the place of Major-Ge|neral <HI>Edw. Gibbons;</HI> and &s;eeing that the Lord is plea&s;ed to call this people to mourning, the Author will proceed to relate what further occa&s;ion this people have had to lament their mi&s;carriages, that have cau&s;ed the rod to be &s;tretched out to|ward them, for of a truth they are no Antinomians: The next lo&s;s was the death of that famous Preacher of the Lord M. <HI>Hook|er,</HI> Pa&s;tor of the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Hartford,</HI> and M. <HI>Philips,</HI> Pa&s;tor of the Church of Chri&s;t at Watertown, and the holy heavenly, &s;weet-affecting and &s;oul-ravi&s;hing Mini&s;ter M. <HI>Tho. Shepheard,</HI> Pa&s;tor of the Church of Chri&s;t at <HI>Cambridg,</HI> who&s;e departure was very heavily taken by all the people of Chri&s;t round about him, and now N.E. that had &s;uch heaps apon heaps of the riches of Chri&s;ts tender compa&s;&s;ionate mercies, being turn'd off from his dandling knees, began to read their approa|ching rod in the bend of hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> brows &amp; frowns of his former fa|vourable countenance toward them; their plenty of all things, which &s;hold have cheared their hearts &amp; quickned their &s;pirits in elevating both &s;oul and body to a thankful frame, through the work of his ble&s;&s;ed Spirit; on the contrary, it brought a fulne&s;s on many, even to loath the very honey-comb, in&s;o|much that good whole&s;ome truths would not down, yet had the Lord tho&s;e that were precious unto him, who were not wanting to help one another out of this di&s;temper,
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and with more warmer affections exhort one another, Come let us go up unto the hou&s;e of the Lord, and he will teach us his wayes: Al&s;o the Lord was plea&s;ed to awaken us with an Army of caterpillers, that had he not &s;uddainly rebuked them, they had &s;urely de&s;troyed the husband mans hope, where they fell upon trees, they left them like winter-wa&s;ting cold, bare and naked; and although they fell on fields very rarely, yet in &s;ome places they made as clear a riddance, as the har|ve&s;t mans hand, and uncovered the gay green Medow ground, but indeed the Lord did by &s;ome plats &s;hew us what he could have done with the whole, and in many places ca&s;t them into the high wayes, that the Cart-wheels in their pa&s;&s;age were painted green with running over the great &s;warms of them; in &s;ome fields they devoured the leaves of their pea&s;e, and left the &s;traw with the full crop, &s;o tender was the Lord in his cor|rection; this minded all the&s;e Jacobites of the end of their coming over, but chiefly the husbandman, who&s;e over eager pur&s;uit of the fruits of the earth, made &s;ome of them many times run out &s;o far in this Wilderne&s;s, even out of the &s;weet &s;ound of the &s;ilver Trumpets blown by the laborious Mini|&s;ters of Chri&s;t, for&s;aking the a&s;&s;embly of the Lords people, to celebrate their Sabbaths in the chimney-corner, hor&s;e, kine, &s;heep, goats, and &s;wine, being their mo&s;t indeared compani|ons to travel with them to the end of their pilgrimage, or o|therwi&s;e to gather together &s;ome of their neere&s;t neighbours, and make a preachment one unto another, till they had learn'd &s;o much, that they could away with none other teach|ing: As al&s;o the Lord was plea&s;ed to command the wind and Seas to give us a jog on the elbow, by &s;inking the very chief of our &s;hipping in the deep, and &s;plitting them in &s;hivers a|gain&s;t the &s;hores; a very goodly Ship called the Seaforce was ea&s;t away, and many N. E. people put to hard &s;hifts for their lives, and &s;ome drowned, as the godly and dearly beloved &s;ervant of Chri&s;t, Mr. <HI>Tho, Coitmire,</HI> a very able Seaman, and al&s;o a good Scholar, one who had &s;pent both his labour and e&s;tate for the helping on of this Wilderne&s;s-work: as al&s;o another &s;hip &s;et forth by the Merchants of New-haven, of which the godly Mr, <HI>Lamberton</HI> went Ma&s;ter, neither &s;hip,
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per&s;ons, nor goods ever heard of; another &s;hip al&s;o built and &s;et forth by the inhabitants of Cambridg, &s;plit and ca&s;t away neer the &s;ame place where the Seaforce was loft; as al&s;o ano|ther Barque mo&s;tly &s;et forth by Dorche&s;ter men, &s;ank in the Sea, and never heard of the manner how; with divers others which might be here in&s;erted; this &s;eemed the &s;orer affliction to the&s;e N. E people, becau&s;e many godly men lo&s;t their lives, and abundantly the more remarkable, becau&s;e the Lord was plea&s;ed to forbid any &s;uch things to befal his people in their pa&s;&s;age hither; herein the&s;e people read, as in great capital letters, their &s;uddain forgetfulne&s;s of the Lords former recei|ved mercy in his wonderful pre&s;ervation, bringing over &s;o many &s;cores of &s;hips, and thou&s;ands of per&s;ons, without mi&s;|carriage of any, to the wonderment of the whole world that &s;hall hear of it, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut more e&s;pecially were the Merchants and traders them&s;elves &s;en&s;ible of the hand of the Lord out a|gain&s;t them, who were in &s;ome of the &s;hips, and had their lixes given them for a prey; as al&s;o Vintners, and other men of trade, who&s;e gain is increa&s;ed by Merchants men, being &s;o taken up with the income of a large profit, that they would willingly have had the Common wealth tolerate divers kinds of &s;inful opinions to intice men to come and &s;it down with us, that their pur&s;es might be filled with coyn, the civil Go|vernment with contention, and the Churches of our Lord Chri&s;t with errors, the Lord was plea&s;ed after all this, to let in the King of Terror among his new-planted Churches.</P>
<P>FOr this year 1650. <HI>Tho. Dudly</HI> E&s;quire was cho&s;en Gover|nor, and <HI>John Eudicut</HI> E&s;quire Deputy Governor, Major-General <HI>Edward Gibbous</HI> continned in his office &s;till; the num|ber of freemen added were about 55. Thir year was the fir&s;t noted year wherein any &s;tore of people died, the ayt and place being very healthy naturally, made this correction of the Lord &s;eem the greater, for the mo&s;t that died were chil|dren, and that of an unwonted di&s;ea&s;e here, though fre|quent in other places, the Lord now &s;miting many families with death in them, although there were not any families wherein more then one died, or very rare if it were other|wi&s;e,
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yet were the&s;e pilgrim people minded of the &s;uddain forgetfulne&s;s of tho&s;e worthies that died not long before, but more e&s;pecially the little regard had to provide means to train their children up in the knowledg of learning, and im|prove &s;uch means as the Lord hath appointed to leave their po&s;terity an able Mini&s;ter; as al&s;o to &s;tir them up to prepare for the great work of the Lord Je&s;us in the overthrow of An|tichri&s;t, and calling of the Jews, which in all likelyhood is very &s;uddainly to be performed; as al&s;o in &s;tirring up all the young ones that remain, to con&s;ider for what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the Lord hath &s;pared their lives, when he cut off others by death, name|ly, to pro&s;ecute the work that he hath given them to do in the power of his might, with the greater zeal and cou|rage.</P>
<P>THis year the honored and much de&s;ired &s;ervant of Chri&s;t, <HI>John Endicut</HI> E&s;quire was cho&s;en to be Governour of the Engli&s;h, inhabiting the Colony of the Mattachu&s;ets, and the antient honored and long continued Champion for the truth, as it is in Je&s;us, <HI>Tho. Dudly</HI> E&s;quire was cho&s;en Deputy Go|vernour, by the major Vote of the&s;e wandering Jacobites, with heart and good will the honored Major-General <HI>Ed|ward Gibbous</HI> continued in place this year, the Government &s;hewed their de&s;ire to be a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the State of England, in making orders for e&s;tabli&s;hing their Edict for the&s;e We&s;tern parts of the world among out N. E. people; the Lord in his infinite wi&s;dom &s;aw meet to continue his correcting hand a|mong his N. E. Churches, &s;omewhat more then ordinary in a &s;ore di&s;ea&s;e, of which many (in compari&s;on of what u&s;ed to do) and yet not &s;o many as ordinarily u&s;e to do in other plantations of this We&s;tern world; and whereas the former year young children died mo&s;t, this year tho&s;e of grown years died al&s;o, and although &s;o &s;mall a &s;ickne&s;s might not be ta|ken notice of in other places, yet the rarene&s;s of it in &s;o heal|thy a country as is this, cannot but &s;peak loud in the ears of Gods people, who de&s;ire to hear the rod, and who hath ap|pointed it, and perceive plainly many of them, that the Lord will have us to know, that if his own people tread in the
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&s;ame &s;teps of riot and exce&s;s in the plenty he hath given them, with the men of this world, he will lay the &s;ame &s;ickne&s;&s;es and di&s;ea&s;es upon them; and further they perceive, according to the ordinary di&s;pen&s;ation of his providences toward them, he hath &s;ome further great work to do with his N. E. people, that he is beginning again to a waken, rouze up, and quicken them with the rod of his power: For thus they begin to rea|&s;on with them&s;elves, when the Lord was plea&s;ed to expo&s;e them, their wifes, and little ones to the troubles of a tempe|&s;tuous Sea in &s;o long a voyage, and the wants of a barren Wil|derne&s;s in great penury of food, he brought forth by his mighty power, and &s;tretched-our arm, the glorious fabrick of his New-E. Churches; and therefore now again they look for &s;ome further extraordinary great work of his, if he &s;hall once again be plea&s;ed to refine them in this furnace of his, and would the Lord Chri&s;t would confirm our brethren in England in like faith by our example, yea, and far beyond many de|grees, as the Wonder-working providence of Sions Saviour toward them hath more abundantly exceeded, and that as this in three &s;even years is compri&s;ed, though very weakly in this little book, there's in one &s;even year would require vo|lumes, and as this is wonderful, there is almo&s;t miraculous, and wonderful to the whole world, as if the Lord Chri&s;t did intend to make his power known more abundantly, then ever the &s;ons of men &s;aw Kings and Kingdoms &s;trengthened, with affinity and con&s;anguinity, the valiant of the world, men skil'd in feats of war, as <HI>Goliah</HI> from a child, fierce and pampered hor&s;es, who&s;e necks are covered with &s;trong neighing, and cunning Engeniers, men skilful to de&s;troy with all the terrible engins of war, together with &s;warms of &s;ouldiers flocking together to &s;wallow up the poor remnant of Gods people, all the&s;e hath the Lord cau&s;ed to fall before your eyes, and our ears have heard the noy&s;e of this great fall; and beloved countrymen, and our dear brethren in Chri&s;t, &s;tep into the clo&s;et of your own hearts with us, and &s;ee if there will not be &s;ome things in this following ver&s;e that may &s;uit your con|dition as well as ours, that having &s;own in tears, we may reap with joy the glorious harve&s;t of our Lord Chri&s;t, which is
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hard at hand, for a&s;&s;uredly the Lord is tyed neither to us, nor you, but may, if it plea&s;e him, ca&s;t off both, and rai&s;e up new in&s;truments for his following work, but if he be plea&s;ed to give us melting hearts for our former mi&s;carriages, and renew us with a more zealous courage and earne&s;t contending for the faith, it is very like he hath more glorious works by far for us yet to do.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. IX. <HI>Of the wonder-working providences of Chri&s;t, wrought for his people among our Engli&s;h Nation, both in our Native coun|try, and al&s;o in</HI> N. E. <HI>which &s;hould &s;tir us up to mourn for all our mi&s;carriages much the more.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>FRom &s;ilent night true Regi&s;ter of moans,</L>
<L>From &s;adde&s;t &s;oul con&s;um'd in deepe&s;t &s;in,</L>
<L><NOTE N="A" PLACE="inter">The con&s;ideration of the wonderful providence of Chri&s;t in plant|ing his N. E. Churches, and with the right hand of his power pre&s;er|ving, protecting, favouring, and feeding them upon his tender knees: Together with the ill requital of his all-infinite and unde&s;erved mercies be&s;towed upon us, bath cau&s;ed many a &s;oul to lament for the di&s;honor done to his Name, and &s;ear of his ca&s;ting of this little handful of his, and the in&s;ulting of the enemy, who&s;e forrow is &s;et forth in the&s;e four fir&s;t &s;taffs of ver&s;es.</NOTE> From heart quite rent with &s;ighs and heavy groans,</L>
<L>My wailing mu&s;e her woful work begins,</L>
<L>And to the world brings tunes of &s;ad lament,</L>
<L>Sounding nought els but &s;orrows &s;ad relent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sorry to &s;ee my &s;orrows cau&s;e augmented,</L>
<L>And yet le&s;s &s;orrowful were my &s;orrows more,</L>
<L><NOTE N="A" PLACE="inter">The con&s;ideration of the wonderful providence of Chri&s;t in plant|ing his N. E. Churches, and with the right hand of his power pre&s;er|ving, protecting, favouring, and feeding them upon his tender knees: Together with the ill requital of his all-infinite and unde&s;erved mercies be&s;towed upon us, bath cau&s;ed many a &s;oul to lament for the di&s;honor done to his Name, and &s;ear of his ca&s;ting of this little handful of his, and the in&s;ulting of the enemy, who&s;e forrow is &s;et forth in the&s;e four fir&s;t &s;taffs of ver&s;es.</NOTE> Grief that with grief, is nor with grief prevented,</L>
<L>Yet grief it is mu&s;t ea&s;e my grieved &s;ore;</L>
<L>So grief and &s;orrow, care but how to grieve,</L>
<L>For grief and &s;orrow mu&s;t my cares relieve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The wound fre&s;h bleeding mu&s;t be &s;tauch'd with tears,</L>
<L>Tears cannot come unle&s;s &s;ome grief proceed,</L>
<L><NOTE N="A" PLACE="inter">The con&s;ideration of the wonderful providence of Chri&s;t in plant|ing his N. E. Churches, and with the right hand of his power pre&s;er|ving, protecting, favouring, and feeding them upon his tender knees: Together with the ill requital of his all-infinite and unde&s;erved mercies be&s;towed upon us, bath cau&s;ed many a &s;oul to lament for the di&s;honor done to his Name, and &s;ear of his ca&s;ting of this little handful of his, and the in&s;ulting of the enemy, who&s;e forrow is &s;et forth in the&s;e four fir&s;t &s;taffs of ver&s;es.</NOTE> Grief comes but &s;lack, which doth increa&s;e my fears,</L>
<L>Fear, left for want of help I &s;till &s;hall bleed;</L>
<L>Do what I can to lengthen my lifes breath,</L>
<L>If Chri&s;t be wanting, I &s;hall bleed to death.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou deepe&s;t &s;earcher of each &s;ecret thought,</L>
<L>Infu&s;e in me thy all-affecting grace,</L>
<L><PB N="219" REF="112">
<NOTE N="A" PLACE="inter">The con&s;ideration of the wonderful providence of Chri&s;t in plant|ing his N. E. Churches, and with the right hand of his power pre&s;er|ving, protecting, favouring, and feeding them upon his tender knees: Together with the ill requital of his all-infinite and unde&s;erved mercies be&s;towed upon us, bath cau&s;ed many a &s;oul to lament for the di&s;honor done to his Name, and &s;ear of his ca&s;ting of this little handful of his, and the in&s;ulting of the enemy, who&s;e forrow is &s;et forth in the&s;e four fir&s;t &s;taffs of ver&s;es.</NOTE> So &s;hall my work to good effect be brought,</L>
<L>While I peru&s;e my ugly &s;ins a &s;pace,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;taining filth &s;o &s;potted hath my &s;oul,</L>
<L>That nought can wa&s;h, but tears of inward dole.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How &s;oon my &s;oul ha&s;t thou the Lord forgot,</L>
<L><NOTE N="B" PLACE="inter"><HI>The Rod of God toward us in our Maritine affairs manife&s;ted, not only to our own &s;hipping, but &s;trangers; as the</HI> Mary Ro&s;e <HI>blown up in Charles River, and &s;unk in a moment, with about thirteen men &s;lain therein: As al&s;o one</HI> Capt. Chadwicks <HI>Pinnace, and about four men &s;lain therein, be&s;ide what hath been formerly &s;aid touching our own &s;hipping.</HI></NOTE> Who thee and thine through troublous Seas hath lead,</L>
<L>On earth thy parts &s;hould prai&s;e him, &s;uddain rot,</L>
<L>Why do&s;t neglect his glorious Kingdom &s;pread.</L>
<L>Thy eyes have &s;een the Mountains mov'd with's hand,</L>
<L>And &s;unk in Seas to make his Sion &s;tand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No wonder then thy works with Ea&s;tern wind</L>
<L><NOTE N="B" PLACE="inter"><HI>The Rod of God toward us in our Maritine affairs manife&s;ted, not only to our own &s;hipping, but &s;trangers; as the</HI> Mary Ro&s;e <HI>blown up in Charles River, and &s;unk in a moment, with about thirteen men &s;lain therein: As al&s;o one</HI> Capt. Chadwicks <HI>Pinnace, and about four men &s;lain therein, be&s;ide what hath been formerly &s;aid touching our own &s;hipping.</HI></NOTE> On Seas are broke, and thy be&s;t Seamen &s;lain,</L>
<L>Sith, thou thy gain, and not Chri&s;ts work do&s;t mind,</L>
<L>Lord &s;tay thy hand, I &s;ee my works are vain.</L>
<L>Our &s;hips they &s;hall thy Go&s;pel forth convey,</L>
<L>And not bring home &s;trange errors here to &s;tay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In&s;tead of home-oppre&s;&s;ion, they &s;hall now</L>
<L>Thy Saints abroad relieve, by Sea them &s;end;</L>
<L>No riot &s;hall our Merchantmen allow,</L>
<L>Time in exchange walks, not in Taverns &s;pend:</L>
<L>Godly grief and good purpo&s;e comes from thee,</L>
<L>Lord Chri&s;t command, and then to work go we.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="220" REF="113">
<L>Oh thou my &s;oul how weak's thy faith become,</L>
<L>With &s;catter'd &s;eed of man and bea&s;t, thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>Seen thy great God increa&s;e thy little &s;um,</L>
<L><NOTE N="C" PLACE="inter"><HI>Of the Lords hand again&s;t our Land affairs, as is heretofore expre&s;|&s;ed; and al&s;o in the &s;uddain taking away many mens e&s;tates by fire, and chiefly by a mo&s;t terrible fire which happened in Charles-Town, in the depth of Winter,</HI> 1650. <HI>by a violent wind blown from one hou&s;e to ano|ther, to the con&s;uming of the faire&s;t hou&s;es in the Town: &V;nder the pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ance of being unequally rated, many men murmure exceedingly, and withdraw their &s;houlders from the &s;upport of Government, to the great di&s;couragement of tho&s;e that govern,</HI> 1651. <HI>Pride and exce&s;s in apparrel i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> frequent in the&s;e daies, when the Lord calls his people to humiliation and humble acknowledgment of his great deliverances; and that which is far wor&s;e, &s;piritual pride, to &s;hew our &s;elves to be &s;omebody, often &s;tep <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of our ranks, and delight in new fangled doctrines.</HI></NOTE> Towns clo&s;e compact in de&s;art land hath plac't:</L>
<L>In Wilderne&s;s thy table richly &s;pread,</L>
<L>Thy poor therein hath &s;atisfi'd with bread.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>While firtil lands with hunger have been pined,</L>
<L><NOTE N="C" PLACE="inter"><HI>Of the Lords hand again&s;t our Land affairs, as is heretofore expre&s;|&s;ed; and al&s;o in the &s;uddain taking away many mens e&s;tates by fire, and chiefly by a mo&s;t terrible fire which happened in Charles-Town, in the depth of Winter,</HI> 1650. <HI>by a violent wind blown from one hou&s;e to ano|ther, to the con&s;uming of the faire&s;t hou&s;es in the Town: &V;nder the pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ance of being unequally rated, many men murmure exceedingly, and withdraw their &s;houlders from the &s;upport of Government, to the great di&s;couragement of tho&s;e that govern,</HI> 1651. <HI>Pride and exce&s;s in apparrel i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> frequent in the&s;e daies, when the Lord calls his people to humiliation and humble acknowledgment of his great deliverances; and that which is far wor&s;e, &s;piritual pride, to &s;hew our &s;elves to be &s;omebody, often &s;tep <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of our ranks, and delight in new fangled doctrines.</HI></NOTE> Thy harve&s;t hath with heaps on heaps come in;</L>
<L>Oh mourn, that thou no more thy God &s;hould'&s;t mind,</L>
<L>His gentle rod to teach thee doth begin;</L>
<L>Then wonder not that &s;warms of Locu&s;t fly,</L>
<L>And that earths fruits for want of moy&s;ture die.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A countle&s;s crew of Caterpillers craul,</L>
<L>To rob the earth of her green mantle quite;</L>
<L>Wolves only wont on le&s;&s;er bea&s;ts to fall,</L>
<L><NOTE N="C" PLACE="inter"><HI>Of the Lords hand again&s;t our Land affairs, as is heretofore expre&s;|&s;ed; and al&s;o in the &s;uddain taking away many mens e&s;tates by fire, and chiefly by a mo&s;t terrible fire which happened in Charles-Town, in the depth of Winter,</HI> 1650. <HI>by a violent wind blown from one hou&s;e to ano|ther, to the con&s;uming of the faire&s;t hou&s;es in the Town: &V;nder the pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ance of being unequally rated, many men murmure exceedingly, and withdraw their &s;houlders from the &s;upport of Government, to the great di&s;couragement of tho&s;e that govern,</HI> 1651. <HI>Pride and exce&s;s in apparrel i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> frequent in the&s;e daies, when the Lord calls his people to humiliation and humble acknowledgment of his great deliverances; and that which is far wor&s;e, &s;piritual pride, to &s;hew our &s;elves to be &s;omebody, often &s;tep <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of our ranks, and delight in new fangled doctrines.</HI></NOTE> On great ones prey by day, and eke by night:</L>
<L>Thy hou&s;es are con&s;um'd with much good &s;tore,</L>
<L>By fearful fires, which blu&s;tering winds blow o're.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Lord &s;tay thy hand, and &s;top my earthly mind,</L>
<L>Thy Word, not world, &s;hall be our &s;ole delight,</L>
<L><NOTE N="C" PLACE="inter"><HI>Of the Lords hand again&s;t our Land affairs, as is heretofore expre&s;|&s;ed; and al&s;o in the &s;uddain taking away many mens e&s;tates by fire, and chiefly by a mo&s;t terrible fire which happened in Charles-Town, in the depth of Winter,</HI> 1650. <HI>by a violent wind blown from one hou&s;e to ano|ther, to the con&s;uming of the faire&s;t hou&s;es in the Town: &V;nder the pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ance of being unequally rated, many men murmure exceedingly, and withdraw their &s;houlders from the &s;upport of Government, to the great di&s;couragement of tho&s;e that govern,</HI> 1651. <HI>Pride and exce&s;s in apparrel i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> frequent in the&s;e daies, when the Lord calls his people to humiliation and humble acknowledgment of his great deliverances; and that which is far wor&s;e, &s;piritual pride, to &s;hew our &s;elves to be &s;omebody, often &s;tep <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of our ranks, and delight in new fangled doctrines.</HI></NOTE> Not Medow ground, but Chri&s;ts rich pearl wee'l find,</L>
<L>Thy Saints imbrace, and not large lands down plight.</L>
<L>Murmure no more will we at yearly pay,</L>
<L>To help uphold our Government each way;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Not &s;trive who lea&s;t, but who the mo&s;t &s;hall give,</L>
<L>Rejoyce will we, our hearts inlarged are,</L>
<L><NOTE N="C" PLACE="inter"><HI>Of the Lords hand again&s;t our Land affairs, as is heretofore expre&s;|&s;ed; and al&s;o in the &s;uddain taking away many mens e&s;tates by fire, and chiefly by a mo&s;t terrible fire which happened in Charles-Town, in the depth of Winter,</HI> 1650. <HI>by a violent wind blown from one hou&s;e to ano|ther, to the con&s;uming of the faire&s;t hou&s;es in the Town: &V;nder the pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ance of being unequally rated, many men murmure exceedingly, and withdraw their &s;houlders from the &s;upport of Government, to the great di&s;couragement of tho&s;e that govern,</HI> 1651. <HI>Pride and exce&s;s in apparrel i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> frequent in the&s;e daies, when the Lord calls his people to humiliation and humble acknowledgment of his great deliverances; and that which is far wor&s;e, &s;piritual pride, to &s;hew our &s;elves to be &s;omebody, often &s;tep <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of our ranks, and delight in new fangled doctrines.</HI></NOTE> Tho&s;e wait on th' Altar, &s;hall on Altar live,</L>
<L>Nor &s;hall our riches their good doctrine mar;</L>
<L>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r pride of parts in thought of clear di&s;cerning,</L>
<L>No longer &s;hall di&s;grace their godly learning.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our meaner &s;ort that metamorphos'd are,</L>
<L>With womens hair, in gold and garments gay,</L>
<L><PB N="221" REF="113">
<NOTE N="C" PLACE="inter"><HI>Of the Lords hand again&s;t our Land affairs, as is heretofore expre&s;|&s;ed; and al&s;o in the &s;uddain taking away many mens e&s;tates by fire, and chiefly by a mo&s;t terrible fire which happened in Charles-Town, in the depth of Winter,</HI> 1650. <HI>by a violent wind blown from one hou&s;e to ano|ther, to the con&s;uming of the faire&s;t hou&s;es in the Town: &V;nder the pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ance of being unequally rated, many men murmure exceedingly, and withdraw their &s;houlders from the &s;upport of Government, to the great di&s;couragement of tho&s;e that govern,</HI> 1651. <HI>Pride and exce&s;s in apparrel i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> frequent in the&s;e daies, when the Lord calls his people to humiliation and humble acknowledgment of his great deliverances; and that which is far wor&s;e, &s;piritual pride, to &s;hew our &s;elves to be &s;omebody, often &s;tep <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of our ranks, and delight in new fangled doctrines.</HI></NOTE> Who&s;e wages large our Commonwealths work mar,</L>
<L>Their pride they &s;hall with moderation lay:</L>
<L>Ca&s;t off their cloaths, that men may know their rank,</L>
<L>Axd women that with outward deckings prank,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The worlds imbrace our longing lu&s;t for gain,</L>
<L><NOTE N="D" PLACE="inter">An over-eager de&s;ire after the world hath &s;o &s;eized on the &s;pi|rits of many, that the chief end of our coming hither is forgotten; and notwith&s;tanding all the powerful means u&s;ed, we &s;tand at a &s;tay, as if the Lord had no farther work for his people to do, but every bird to feather his own ne&s;t.</NOTE> No longer &s;hall us into corners draw,</L>
<L>Nor our large herds us from Gods hou&s;e detain</L>
<L>From fellow&s;hip of Saints, who learn thy Law:</L>
<L>Thy righteous Judgments Lord do make me tremble,</L>
<L>Nor word, nor rod, but deep in this di&s;&s;emble.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Two Ma&s;ters, Lord, we will profe&s;&s;ed &s;erve;</L>
<L>How can we Chri&s;t united be to thee,</L>
<L><NOTE N="D" PLACE="inter">An over-eager de&s;ire after the world hath &s;o &s;eized on the &s;pi|rits of many, that the chief end of our coming hither is forgotten; and notwith&s;tanding all the powerful means u&s;ed, we &s;tand at a &s;tay, as if the Lord had no farther work for his people to do, but every bird to feather his own ne&s;t.</NOTE> When from thy Law learn'd we &s;o greatly &s;warve,</L>
<L>With watry tears unclued we will be.</L>
<L>From creature-comforts, Chri&s;t thou art our &s;tay,</L>
<L>Work will and deed in us we humbly pray.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Oh thou, my &s;oul, and every part in me</L>
<L>Lament, the Lord his worthies from the earth</L>
<L>Takes to him&s;elf, and makes our earth to be</L>
<L>E A mourning place left de&s;tituke of mirth;</L>
<L><PB N="222" REF="114">
Are the&s;e the daies wherein that Bea&s;t &s;hall fall,</L>
<L>Lord leave us means, though thou be all in all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What courage was in <HI>Winthrope,</HI> it was thine;</L>
<L><HI>Shopheards</HI> &s;weet Sermons from thy ble&s;&s;ing came,</L>
<L><NOTE N="E" PLACE="inter">The Lords taking away by death many of his mo&s;t eminent &s;ervants from us, &s;hewes, that either the Lord will rai&s;e up another people to him|&s;elf to do his work, or rai&s;e us up by his Rod to a more eager pur&s;uit of his work, even the planting of his Churches the world throughout. The Lord converts and calls forth of their graves men to fight his battels a|gain&s;t the enemies of his truth.</NOTE> Our heavenly <HI>Hooker</HI> thy grace did refine,</L>
<L>And godly <HI>Burr</HI> receiv'd from thee his frame:</L>
<L><HI>Philips</HI> did&s;t thou indue with Scripture light,</L>
<L>And <HI>Huet</HI> had his arguings &s;trong and right.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Grave <HI>Higgin&s;on</HI> his heavenly truths from thee,</L>
<L><NOTE N="E" PLACE="inter">The Lords taking away by death many of his mo&s;t eminent &s;ervants from us, &s;hewes, that either the Lord will rai&s;e up another people to him|&s;elf to do his work, or rai&s;e us up by his Rod to a more eager pur&s;uit of his work, even the planting of his Churches the world throughout. The Lord converts and calls forth of their graves men to fight his battels a|gain&s;t the enemies of his truth.</NOTE> <HI>Maveruck</HI> was made an able help to thine;</L>
<L>What <HI>Harver</HI> had thou gave&s;t, for's people free;</L>
<L>Follow <HI>Green</HI> full of grace, to work thou did&s;t a&s;&s;ign:</L>
<L>Godly <HI>Glover</HI> his rich gifts thou gave&s;t,</L>
<L>Thus thou by means thy flocks from &s;poiling &s;ave&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But Lord, why do&s;t by death withdraw thy hand</L>
<L>From us, the&s;e men and means are &s;ever'd quite;</L>
<L>Stretch forth thy might, Lord Chri&s;t do thou command,</L>
<L>Their doubled &s;pirit on tho&s;e left to light:</L>
<L>Forth of their graves call ten times ten again,</L>
<L>That thy dear flocks no damage may &s;u&s;tain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Can I forget the&s;e means that thou ha&s;t u&s;ed,</L>
<L>To quicken up my drow&s;ie drooping &s;oul;</L>
<L>Lord I forget, and have the &s;ame abu&s;ed,</L>
<L>Which makes me now with grief their deaths condole,</L>
<L>And ki&s;s thy rod, laid on with bowels tender,</L>
<L>By death of mine, makes me their death remember.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Lord, &s;tay thy hand, thy <HI>Jacobs</HI> number's &s;mall,</L>
<L>Powre out thy wrath on Antichri&s;ts proud Thrones;</L>
<L>Here thy poor flocks that on thee daily call,</L>
<L>Bottle their tears, and pity their &s;ad groans.</L>
<L>Where &s;hall we go Lord Chri&s;t? we turn to thee,</L>
<L>Heal our back &s;lidings, forward pre&s;s &s;hall we.</L>
<L><PB N="223" REF="114">
Not we, but all thy Saints the world throughout</L>
<L>Shall on thee wait, thy wonders to behold;</L>
<L>Thou King of Saints, the Lord in battel &s;tont</L>
<L>Increa&s;e thy armies many thou&s;and fold.</L>
<L>Oh Nations all, his anger &s;eek to &s;tay,</L>
<L>That doth create him armies every day.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="224" REF="115">
<HEAD>CHAP. X. <HI>Of the endeavours of this people of Chri&s;t, to inlarge his King|dom the world throughout, and first of their preaching Chri&s;t to the Indians, among whom they live.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e brood of Travellers having thus through the good hand of their God upon them, thus &s;etled the&s;e Churches, according to the in&s;titution of Chri&s;t, and not by the will of man; they now endeavour to be a&s;&s;i&s;ting to others: The reverend Mr. <HI>Hugh Peters,</HI> and his fellow-helper in Chri&s;t Mr. <HI>Wells</HI> &s;teered their cour&s;e for England, &s;o &s;oon as they heard of the chaining up of tho&s;e biting bea&s;ts, who went under the name of &s;piritual Lords; what a&s;&s;i&s;tance the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t found there by their preach|ing, is &s;ince clearly manife&s;ted; for the Lord Chri&s;t ha|ving removed that u&s;urping power of Lordly Prelates, hath now inlarged his Kingdom there, and that not one|ly by the means of the&s;e men, but by divers others, both godly and eminent &s;ervants of his, who never &s;aw New-England; and by divers other godly Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, who have &s;ince gone from hence, both young Students and others, to the number of twenty, or thereabout, in the whole; be&s;ides &s;ome who were eminent in the civil Go|vernment here, both gracious and godly &s;ervants of Chri&s;t, and &s;ome who have been Magi&s;trates here, to the number of five or &s;ix, the Lord Chri&s;t grant they may all endeavour the advancement of his truths, both in Churches and ci|vil Government: But before the Author cea&s;e to &s;peak of England, he is bold to &s;ay, that the Lord Chri&s;t will overturn, overturn, overturn, till he hath cau&s;ed &s;uch a Go|vernment to be &s;et up, as &s;hall become nur&s;ing fathers to his new-planted Churches.</P>
<P>The Indian people in the&s;e parts at the Engli&s;h fir&s;t com|ing, were very barbarous and uncivilized, going for the mo&s;t part naked, although the country be extreme cold
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cold in the winter-&s;ea&s;on: they are onely clothed with a Deers skin, and a little bit of cloth to cover their privy part. The Wo|men for the mo&s;t part are very mode&s;t, although they go as naked as the Men: they are generally very laborious at their planting time, and the Men extraordinary idle, making their &s;quawes to carry their Children and the luggage be&s;ide; &s;o that many times they travell eight or ten mile with a burden on their backs, more fit|ter for a hor&s;e to carry then a woman. The men follow no kind of labour but hunting, fi&s;hing and fowling, in all which they make u&s;e of their Bowe and Arrowes to &s;hoot the wilde creatures of the Trees, as Squirrells, gray and black Rockoones: as for Deer, they ordinarily catch them in traps, with a pole bent down, and a Cord at the end, which flyes up and &s;tayes their ha&s;ty cour&s;e. <HI>Bever, Otter,</HI> and <HI>Moo&s;e</HI> they catch with Traps al&s;o: they are very good marks-men, with their Bowe and Arrows. Their Boyes will ordinarily &s;hoot fi&s;h with their Arrowes as they &s;wim in the &s;hallow Rivers, they draw the Arrow halfe way putting the point of it into the water, they let flye and &s;trike the fi&s;h through; the like they do to Birds le&s;&s;er and great: onely the <HI>Gee&s;e</HI> and <HI>Turkies</HI> being &s;trong of wing, &s;omtimes flee away with their Arrowes &s;ticking in them; this is all the trade they u&s;e, which makes them de&s;titute of many rece&s;&s;aries, both in meat, drink, ap|parell and hou&s;es.</P>
<P>As for any religious ob&s;ervation, they were the mo&s;t de&s;titute of any people yet heard of, the Divel having them in very great &s;ubjection, not u&s;ing craft to delude them, as he ordinarily doth in mo&s;t parts of the World: but kept them in a continuall &s;lavi&s;h fear of him: onely the <HI>Powawes,</HI> who are more conver&s;ant with him, then any other, &s;ometimes recover their &s;icke folk with charmes, which they u&s;e, by the help of the Divell; and this makes them to adore &s;uch; one of them was &s;een as is reported to cure a Squaw that was dangerou&s;ly &s;ick, by taking a &s;nakes skin and winding it about her arm the which &s;oon became a living &s;nake crawling round about her armes and body; another cau&s;ed the &s;ick patient for healing, to pa&s;s bare footed through many burning coals; tho&s;e that cannot cure them, they call Squantams powwons: but if the patient live, he is had in great admiration, and then they cry, Much winnit Abbamocho, that is, very good
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Divell: for Squantam is a bad Divel, and Abbamocho is their good Divell. It hath been a thing very frequent, before the Engli&s;h came, for the Divell to appear unto them in a bodily &s;hape, &s;ome|times very ugly and terrible, and &s;ometimes like a white boy, and chiefly in the mo&s;t hideous woods and &s;wamps: they report that &s;ometimes he hath come into their wigwams, and carryed away divers of them alive: and &s;ince we came hither, they tell us of a very terrible bea&s;t for &s;hape and bigne&s;s, that came into a wigwam toward the North-ea&s;t parts, remote from any Engli&s;h plantations, and took away &s;ix men at a time, who were never &s;een afterward. The Engli&s;h at their fir&s;t coming did a&s;&s;ay and endeavour to bring them to the knowledge of God: and in par|ticular the reverend, grave, and godly Mr. <HI>John Wil&s;on,</HI> who vi&s;ited their &s;ick, and in&s;tructed others as they were capable to under|&s;tand him. But yet very little was done that way, till in proce&s;s of time they by continuall coming to the Engli&s;h, became bet|ter able to under&s;tand them; and now of late yeers the reverend Mr. <HI>Eliot</HI> hath been more then ordinary laborious to &s;tudy their language, in&s;tructing them in their own Wigwams, and Ca|techi&s;ing their Children. As al&s;o the reverend Mr. <HI>Mayhewe,</HI> one who was tutored up in <HI>N. Eng.</HI> and called to office by the Church of Chri&s;t, gathered at a &s;mall I&s;land called <HI>Martins Vineyard:</HI> this man hath taken good pains with them: but the particulars of our godly Mini&s;ters labours, together with the good hand of our God upon their indeavours, being already publi&s;hed, no further need be &s;poken. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>A&s;o Mr.</HI> Wil|liam Leveriry <HI>Pastor of</HI> Sandwich <HI>Church, is very &s;erious therein, and with good &s;ucce&s;s.</HI></NOTE></P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XI. <HI>Of the gratious goodne&s;s of the Lord Chri&s;t, in planting his Go&s;pel in the purety of it, in</HI> Virginia: <HI>and of the fir&s;t Church gathered there according to the rule of the Go&s;pel.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ABout the yeer the Lord was plea&s;ed to put it into the heare of &s;ome godly people in <HI>Virginia,</HI> to &s;end to <HI>N. E.</HI> for &s;ome of the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, to be helpfull unto them in in&s;tructing them in the truth, as it is in Je&s;us. The godly Mr. <HI>Phi|lip Bennit</HI> coming hither, made our reverend Elders acquainted with their de&s;ires, who were very &s;tudious to take all opportu|nities for inlarging the kingdome of Chri&s;t: and upon &s;erious con|&s;ideration, the reverend Mr. <HI>Knowls</HI> of <HI>Watertowne,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Tomp&s;on</HI> of <HI>Braintree</HI> were &s;ent unto them, who ariving there in &s;afety, preached openly unto the people for &s;ome good &s;pace of time, and al&s;o from hou&s;e to hou&s;e exhorted the people dayly, that with full purpo&s;e of heart they would cleave unto the Lord; the harve&s;t they had was plentifull for the little &s;pace of time they were there, till being oppo&s;ed by the Governour and &s;ome other malignant &s;pirits, they were forced to returne to <HI>N. E.</HI> again. It were much to be de&s;ired, that all people would take notice of the hand of God again&s;t this people, after the rejection of the&s;e Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t: and indeed it was none other but the thru&s;ting Chri&s;t from them; and now attend to the following &s;tory, all you Cavaliers and malignant party the world through|out, take notice of the wonderworking providence of Chri&s;t toward his Churches, and puni&s;hing hand of his toward the contemners of his Go&s;pel. Behold ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;pi&s;ers, and wonder. Oh poor <HI>Virginia&punc;</HI> do&s;t thou &s;end away the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t with threatning &s;peeches? No &s;ooner is this done, but the barba|rous, inhumane, in&s;olent, and bloody <HI>Indians</HI> are let loo&s;e upon them, who contrive the cutting them off by whole Families, clo&s;ely carying their wicked coun&s;ells till they had effected their de&s;ires, their bloody de&s;igne taking place for the &s;pace of 200 miles
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up the River: the manner of the Engli&s;h Plantations there being very &s;cattering quite contrary to <HI>N. E.</HI> people, who for the mo&s;t part de&s;ire &s;ociety. The manner of the <HI>Indians</HI> proceeding was thus, they divided them&s;elves into &s;everall companies, and be&s;et the Engli&s;h hou&s;es a little before break of day, waiting for the fir&s;t per&s;on that &s;hould open the doore and come forth, whom they cruelly murdered, beating out their brains, and then forth|with entred the hou&s;e and &s;lew all they found within, &s;ometimes fi|ring the hou&s;es, and leaving the living children mi&s;erably to be con|&s;umed with their dead Parents in the fearfull flames; &s;ome peo|ple fleeing from this barbarous ma&s;&s;acre, as they pa&s;&s;ed by a fired hou&s;e heard a pitifull out-cry of a poor Child, crying, I burn, I burn: although they could willingly have made ha&s;te a|way, yet the mi&s;erable out-cry of this poor babe, cau&s;ed them to haft to the hou&s;e, and re&s;cue it forth the flames, that was even al|mo&s;t ready to &s;corch it: this cruell and bloody work of theirs put period to the lives of five or &s;ix hundred of the&s;e people, who had not long before a plentifull proffer of the mercies of Chri&s;t in the glad tidings of peace publi&s;hed by the mouth of his Mini&s;ters, who came unto them for that end: but chu&s;ing rather the fellow&s;hip of their drunken companions, and a Prei&s;t of their own profe&s;&s;ion, who could hardly continue &s;o long &s;ober as till he could read them the reliques of mans invention in a com|mon prayer book; but a&s;&s;uredly had not the Lord pittied the little number of his people among this crooked generation, they had been con&s;umed at once for this is further remarkable in this ma&s;&s;a|cre, when it came toward the place where Chri&s;t had placed his little flock, it was di&s;covered &amp; prevented from further proceeding, and the Lord by this means did &s;o allay their &s;pirits of ma|lignity toward his people, they gathered in a Church in pre&s;ence of the very governour him&s;elf, and called to office one Mr. <HI>Har|ri&s;on,</HI> who could not long continue among them, by rea&s;on of their fre&s;h renewed malignity, who had formerly an evill eye to|ward them, and could no better refraine from oppre&s;&s;ing them, then <HI>Pharoah</HI> after he had re&s;t from the plagues under which he was. After the departure of Mr. <HI>Harri&s;on,</HI> one Mr. <HI>Duren</HI> became an help unto them; but he and his people al&s;o were forced to remove many hundred miles up into the country, where they
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now remain; but a&s;&s;uredly the Lord hath more &s;courges in &s;tore, for &s;uch as force the people to &s;uch &s;ufferings: and therefore let this Church of Chri&s;t continue in the way of his truth according to the rules of his Go&s;pel, and without doubt the Lord will pre&s;erve and continue them, let the adver&s;aries of his Truth be never &s;o potent. As al&s;o about this time, the Lord was plea&s;ed to gather a people together in the I&s;le of <HI>Bermoodas,</HI> who&s;e hearts being guided by the rule of the word, they gathered into a Church of Chri&s;t according to the rules of the Go&s;pel, being <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mr.</HI> Natha|neel White, <HI>Mr.</HI> Patrick, Copeland, <HI>Mr.</HI> William Gol|ding.</NOTE> provided with able per&s;ons, indued with gifts from the Lord to admini&s;ter unto them the holy things of God; and after they be|gan to be oppo&s;ed, their reverend elder Mr. <HI>Goulding</HI> came in|to the&s;e parts, and from hence he went to <HI>England:</HI> but this lit|tle flock of Chri&s;t not long after being bani&s;hed from thence, went to one of the Southern I&s;lands, where they endured much hard&s;hip; and which the Churches of Chri&s;t in the&s;e parts under&s;tanding, about &s;ix or eight of them contributing toward their want, ga|thered about 800 <HI>l.</HI> to &s;upply their nece&s;&s;ity: the which they &s;hipped in a &s;mall ve&s;&s;ell hired for that end and &s;ent by the hands of two brethren both corne and other nece&s;&s;aries: they arriving in &s;afety by the ble&s;&s;ing of God upon their labours, were well welcomed by their brethren, who abundantly ble&s;&s;ed the Lord for them, and with godly and gratious expre&s;&s;ion returned a thankfull acknowledgement of the pre&s;ent good hand of the Lord Chri&s;t, in providing for them: &s;o that as this book began with the wonderworking providence of <HI>Sions</HI> Saviour, in pro|viding &s;o wonderfull gratiou&s;ly for his Churches the World throughout; &s;o it here endeth with the &s;ame; and it were to be de&s;ired, that the Churches of Chri&s;t in <HI>Europe</HI> would gather up the wonderfull providences of the Lord toward them al&s;o, and more e&s;pecially tho&s;e in our native Country: for a&s;&s;uredly it would make much for the magnifying of his glorious works in this day of his power: and although the malignant and antichri&s;ti|an party may &s;ay, they can &s;hew the like wonders (as <HI>Jannes</HI> and <HI>Jambres</HI> that with-&s;tood <HI>Mo&s;es)</HI> yet were the worke of Chri&s;t for his poor Churches, within the&s;e few yeers, gathered together by &s;ome able in&s;trument whom the Lord might be plea&s;ed to &s;tir up for that end, and laid open the view of all, they would be
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forced to confe&s;s, this is the very finger of God, and no doubt but they would be a great &s;trengthening to the faith of tho&s;e, who are appointed of the Lord for the overthrow of Antichri&s;t (the Lord helping) for a&s;&s;uredly the time of his having mercy upon <HI>Sion</HI> is come.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XII. <HI>Of the time of the fall of Antichri&s;t, and the increa&s;e of the Gentile Churches, even to the prevoking of the twelve Tribes to &s;ubmit to the kingdom of Chri&s;t.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT hath been the longing expectation of many, to &s;ee that nota|ble and wonderfull worke of the Lord Chri&s;t, in ca&s;ting down that man of &s;in who hath held the whole world (of tho&s;e that profe&s;s any Chri&s;t) under his Lordly power, while the true profe&s;&s;ors of Chri&s;t have hardly had any appearance to the eye of the world; fir&s;t, take notice the Lord hath an a&s;&s;ured &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> time for the accompli&s;hment of this work, which is &s;et down in his word, although more darkly to be under &s;tood; wherefore the reverend Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, for the&s;e many yeers have &s;tudied <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rev.</HI> 17.14.</NOTE> and laboured for the finding it out, and that holy man of God Mr. <HI>John Cotton,</HI> among many other, hath diligently &s;earched for the Lords mind herein, and hath declared &s;ome &s;udden blow to be given to this blood-thir&s;ty mon&s;ter: but the Lord Chri&s;t hath un&s;eparably joyned the time, meanes, and manner of this work together, and therefore all men that expect the day, mu&s;t attend the means: for &s;uch hath been and is the ab&s;urdity of many, that they make &s;emblance of a very zealous affection to &s;ee the glorious work of our Lord Chri&s;t herein, and yet them&s;elves uphold, or at lea&s;t &s;ide with tho&s;e that uphold &s;ome part of Anti|chri&s;ts kingdome: and therefore the lordly Prelacy may pray for his fall till their lungs are &s;pent, and their throats grow dry. But while they have a &s;eeming &s;hew (and hardly that) to oppo&s;e his doctrines, they them&s;elves in the mean time, make u&s;e of his power to advance them&s;elves to honour: a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> al&s;o in the&s;e dayes there are divers de&s;perate, bla&s;phemous, and erronious per|&s;ons,
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who&s;e con&s;ciences and their own &s;elf-will are un&s;eparable companions; the&s;e are very hot in their own apprehen&s;ions to pro&s;ecute the work; but in the mean time, they not only batter down the truths of Chri&s;t, and his own Ordinances and In&s;tituti|ons, but al&s;o &s;et up that part of Antichri&s;ts kingdom, which hath formerly had a great blow already, even his deceiveable and damnable doctrines: for as one badg of the bea&s;t is to be &s;ull of bla&s;phemies, &s;o are they, and the&s;e take unto them&s;elves &s;even &s;pirits wor&s;e then the former, making the latter and wor&s;e then the beginning, as this &s;tory may te&s;tifie: and &s;ome &s;tories in our native country much more. But to come to the time of Anti|chri&s;ts fall, and all that expect it may depend upon the certainty of it: yea it may be boldly &s;aid that the time is come, and all may &s;ee the dawning of the day: you that long &s;o much for it, come forth and fight: who can expect a victory without a battel? the lordly Prelates that boa&s;ted &s;o much of the&s;e great atcheive|ments in this work, are fled into holes and corners: <HI>Famili&s;ts, Seekers, Antinomians</HI> and <HI>Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> they are &s;o ill armed, that they think it be&s;t &s;leeping in a whole skin, fearing that if the day of battell once go on, they &s;hall fall among Antichri&s;ts Ar|mies: and therefore cry out like cowards, If you will let me alone, and I will let you alone: but a&s;&s;uredly the Lord Chri&s;t hath &s;aid, <HI>He that is not with us, is again&s;t us:</HI> there is no room in his Army for toleratori&s;ts. But &s;ome will &s;ay&punc; We will never believe the day i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> come till our eyes behold <HI>Babylon</HI> be|girt with Souldiers. I pray be not too ha&s;ty; hath not the Lord &s;aid, <HI>Come out of her my people?</HI> &amp;c. &s;urely there is a little &s;pace left for this, and now is the time, &s;eeing the Lord hath &s;et up his &s;tanderd of re&s;ort: now, <HI>Come forth of her, and he not partakers of her &s;ins:</HI> now is the time, when the Lord hath a&s;&s;embled his Saints together; now the Lord will come and not tar|ry. As it was nece&s;&s;ary that there &s;hould be a <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron,</HI> before the Lord would deliver his people and de&s;troy <HI>Pharaoh</HI> le&s;t they &s;hould be wildred indeed in the Wilderne&s;s; &s;o now it was needfull, that the Churches of Chri&s;t &s;hould fir&s;t obtain their purity, and the civill government its power to defend them, before Antichri&s;t come to his finall ruine: and becau&s;e you &s;hall be &s;ure the day is come indeed, behold the Lord Chri&s;t mar|&s;halling
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of his invincible Army to the battell: &s;ome &s;uppo&s;e this onely to be my&s;ticall, and not literall at all: a&s;&s;uredly the &s;piri|tuall fight is chiefly to be attended, and the other not neglected, having a neer dependancy one upon the other, e&s;pecially at this time; the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t who have ca&s;t off all lording power over one another, are created field-Officers, who&s;e Office is <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Yea every Officer hath his own proper Re|giment.</NOTE> ex|travagant in this Army, chiefly to encourage the fighting Souldi|ers, and to lead them on upon the enemy in the mo&s;t advanta|gious places, and bring on fre&s;h &s;upplies in all places of danger, to put the &s;word of the &s;pirit in their Souldiers hands: but Chri&s;t (who is their general) mu&s;t onely enable them to u&s;e it aright: to give every Souldier in charge that they watch over one another, to &s;ee that none meddle with the execrable things of Antichri&s;t, and this to be performed in every Regiment throughout the Army: and not one to exerci&s;e dominion over the other by way of &s;uperiority: for Chri&s;t hath appointed a parity in all his Regiments, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> let them beware that none go apart with rebellious <HI>Korah.</HI> And further, behold, Kings, Rulers, or Generals of Earths Armies, doth Chri&s;t make u&s;e of in this day of battell, the which he hath brought into the field already al&s;o; who are appointed to defend, uphold, and maintain the whole body of his Armies again&s;t the in&s;olent, bea&s;tly, and bloody cruelty of their in&s;atiable enemies, and to keep order that none do his fellow-Souldier any wrong, nor that any &s;hould rai&s;e a mutiny in the ho&s;ts. Notwith&s;tanding all this, if any &s;hall &s;ay, they will not believe the day is come till they &s;ee them ingage battell with Antichri&s;t; Verily, if the Lord be plea&s;ed to open your eyes, you may &s;ee the beginning of the fight, and what &s;ucce&s;s the Armies of our Lord Chri&s;t have hitherto had: the Forlorne hopes of Antichri&s;ts Army, were the proud Prelates of <HI>England:</HI> the Forlorne of Chri&s;ts Armies, were the&s;e <HI>N. E.</HI> people who are the &s;ubject of this Hi&s;tory, which encountring each other for &s;ome &s;pace of time, ours being overpowered with multitude, were forced to retreat to a place of greater &s;afety, where they waited for a fre&s;h opportunity to ingage with the main battell of Antichri&s;t, &s;o &s;oon as the Lord &s;hall be plea&s;ed to give a word of Command. Immediately upon this &s;ucce&s;s, the Lord Chri&s;t was plea&s;ed to command the right Wing of his Army, to advance again&s;t the left Wing of Anti|chri&s;t:
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where in his former forlorn hopes of proud Prelates lay: the&s;e by our right Wing had their fir&s;t pay (for that they had done to our forlorne before) being quite overthrown and cut in peices by the valiant of the Lord in our right Wing, who &s;till remain fighting. Thus far of the battell of Antichri&s;t, and the various &s;ucce&s;s; what the i&s;&s;ue will be, is a&s;&s;uredly known in the generall already. <HI>Babylon</HI> is fallen, the God of truth hath &s;aid it; then who would not be a Souldier on Chri&s;ts &s;ide, where is &s;uch a certainty of victory? nay I can tell you a farther word of encou|ragement, every true-hearted Souldier that falls by the &s;word in this fight, &s;hall not lye dead long, but &s;tand upon his feet again, and be made partaker of the triumph of this Victory: and none can be overcome, but by turning his back in fight. And for a word of terrour to the enemy, let them know, Chri&s;t will never give over the rai&s;ing of fre&s;h Forces, till they are overthrown root and branch. And now you antient people of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> look out of your Pri&s;on grates, let the&s;e Armies of the Lord Chri&s;t Je&s;us provoke you to acknowledge he is certainly come, I and &s;peedily he doth come to put life into your dry bones: here is a people not onely praying but fighting for you, that the great block may be removed out of the way, (which hath hindered hitherto) that they with you may enjoy that glorious re&s;urrection-day, the glori|ous nuptials of the Lamb: when not only the Bridegroom &s;hall ap|pear to his Churches both of <HI>Jews</HI> and <HI>Gentiles,</HI> (which are his &s;pou&s;e) in a more brighter aray then ever heretofore, but al&s;o his Bride &s;hall be clothed by him in the riche&s;t garments that ever the Sons of men put on, even the glorious graces of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, in &s;uch a glorious &s;plendor to the eyes of man, that they &s;hall &s;ee and glo|rifie the Father of both Bridegroom and Bride.</P>
<LG>
<L N="1">OH King of Saints, how great's thy work &s;ay we,</L>
<L>Done and to do, poor Captives to redeem!</L>
<L>Mountaines of mercy makes this work to be</L>
<L>Glorious, that grace by which thy works are &s;een.</L>
<L>Oh Je&s;u, thou a Saviour unto thine,</L>
<L>Not works but grace makes us this mercy find.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="2">Of &s;inners cheife, no better men they be,</L>
<L>Thou by thy work ha&s;t made thy work to do:</L>
<L>Thy Captaines &s;trength weak du&s;t appears in thee,</L>
<L>While thou art brought &s;uch wondrous works unto.</L>
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Then Chri&s;t doth all, I all is done for his</L>
<L>Redeemed ones his onely work it is.</L>
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<LG>
<L N="3">Doth Chri&s;t build Churches? who can them deface?</L>
<L>He purcha&s;t them none can his right deny:</L>
<L>Not all the world, ten thou&s;and worlds, his grace</L>
<L>Caus'd him once them at greater price to buy.</L>
<L>Nor marvell then if Kings and Kingdomes he</L>
<L>De&s;troy'd, when they do cau&s;e his folke to flee.</L>
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<LG>
<L N="4"><HI>Chri&s;t is come down po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion for to take</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of his deer purcha&s;e; who can hinder him?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Not all the Armies earthly men can make:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Millions of &s;pirits, although Divels grim:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Can</HI> Pope <HI>or</HI> Turke <HI>with all their mortall power,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Stay Chri&s;t from his inheritance one hour?</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L N="5">All Nations band your &s;elves together now,</L>
<L>You &s;hall fall down as du&s;t from bellows blown:</L>
<L>How ea&s;ie can our King your power bow?</L>
<L>Though higher you in mens accompt were grown.</L>
<L>As drop in bucket &s;hall tho&s;e waters be,</L>
<L>Whereon that Whore doth &s;it in high degree.</L>
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<LG>
<L N="6"><HI>Chri&s;ts wrath is kindled, who can &s;tand before</HI></L>
<L><HI>His anger, that &s;o long hath been provoked?</HI></L>
<L><HI>In moment peri&s;h &s;hall all him before,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who touch'd Mount</HI> Sinai, <HI>and it &s;oundly &s;moaked.</HI></L>
<L>New-England <HI>Churches you are Chri&s;ts you &s;ay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>So &s;ure are all that walk in Chri&s;ts way.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="7">No &s;uch need fear fury of men or Divels,</L>
<L>Why Chri&s;t among you takes his dayly walk:</L>
<L>He made you gold, you keeps from ru&s;ting evils,</L>
<L>And hid you here from &s;trife of tongues proud talke.</L>
<L>Among&s;t his he for their defence doth bide,</L>
<L>They need no more that have Chri&s;t on their &s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="8">Man be not proud of this thy exaltation:</L>
<L>For thou wa&s;t dung and dogs filth, when Chri&s;t wrought</L>
<L>In thee his work, and &s;et thee in this &s;tation</L>
<L>To &s;tand, from him thy &s;trength is dayly brought,</L>
<L>Yet in him thou &s;halt go triumphant on:</L>
<L>Not thou but Chri&s;t triumphs his foes upon.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="9">You people whom he by the hand did lead</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Seas with watry wall:</L>
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Apply your &s;elves his Scriptures for to read:</L>
<L>In reading do for eyes enlightned call,</L>
<L>And you &s;hall &s;ee Chri&s;t once being come is now</L>
<L>Again at hand your &s;tubborn hearts to bow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="10">Though &s;cattered you, Earths Kingdoms are throughout,</L>
<L>In bondage brought, cheife by tho&s;e make &s;ome &s;hew</L>
<L>Of Jewi&s;h rights, they Chri&s;t with you ca&s;t out:</L>
<L>Chri&s;t well their Cords for you in &s;under hew.</L>
<L>Through unbeliefe you were to bondage brought:</L>
<L>Believe that Chri&s;t for you great work hath wrought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="11">He will your heart not member circumci&s;e:</L>
<L>Oh &s;earch and &s;ee, this is your Je&s;us &s;ure,</L>
<L>Refu&s;e him not, would God you were &s;o wi&s;e:</L>
<L>None but this King can ought your hope procure.</L>
<L>Once doting on an Earthly Kingdom you</L>
<L>Mi&s;t of your Chri&s;t; be &s;ure be wi&s;er now.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="12">The day's at hand he will you wi&s;er make</L>
<L>To know Earths Kingdoms are too &s;cant and ba&s;e</L>
<L>For &s;uch a price, as Chri&s;t paid for your &s;ake:</L>
<L>Kings you &s;hall be, but in a higher place;</L>
<L>Yet for your freedom Nations great &s;hall fall,</L>
<L>That without fear of foes, him &s;erve you &s;hall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="13"><HI>You are the men that Chri&s;t will cau&s;e &s;ubdue</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tho&s;e Turki&s;h Troops, that joyned</HI> Jews <HI>have been:</HI></L>
<L><HI>His</HI> Gentile <HI>Churches ca&s;t down</HI> Babels <HI>crue:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then you that brood of</HI> Mahumetts <HI>&s;hall win,</HI></L>
<L><HI>De&s;troy his &s;eed 'mong&s;t</HI> Per&s;ians, Turkes <HI>and</HI> Moores,</L>
<L><HI>And for poor Chri&s;tians ope the Pri&s;on doors.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="14">Your Nation prov'd too &s;cant for his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Who&s;e pretious blood was made a price for &s;in:</L>
<L>And Nations all who were in like tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion;</L>
<L>Some of the whole Chri&s;t to his Crown will win,</L>
<L>And now makes way for this his work indeed,</L>
<L>That through the world his Kingdom may proceed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="15">Now Nations all I pray you look about,</L>
<L>Chri&s;t comes you neer, his power I pray embrace:</L>
<L>In's word him &s;eek; he's found without all doubt:</L>
<L>He doth be&s;eech with teares, Oh &s;eek his face:</L>
<L>Yet time there is, the Battel's but begun;</L>
<L>Chri&s;t call thy folke that they to thee may run.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L N="16">Place them in thy &s;trong Armies newly gather'd,</L>
<L>Thy Churches Lord increa&s;e and fill withall:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ed ones are given thee by thy Father,</L>
<L>The wickeds Rod off from their backs recall.</L>
<L>Breake off their yokes, that they with freedom may</L>
<L>Tell of thy workes, and prai&s;e thee every day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="17">Lord Chri&s;t go on with thy great wonders working</L>
<L>Down headlong ca&s;t all Antichri&s;tian power:</L>
<L>&V;nmaske tho&s;e men that lye in corners lurking,</L>
<L>Who&s;e damned doctrines dayly &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ates advance.</L>
<L>For why, thy Folke for this are dayly longing,</L>
<L>That Nations may come in thy Churches thronging.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="18">What greater joy can come thy Saints among,</L>
<L>Then to behold their Chri&s;t exalted high?</L>
<L>Thy Spirits joy with ravi&s;hment &s;tirs &s;trong</L>
<L>Thy Folke, while they thy Kingdomes glory eye.</L>
<L>Angels rejoyce becau&s;e their waiting is</L>
<L>In Saints a&s;&s;embly, where thy name they bli&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="19"><HI>Thy workes are not in</HI> I&s;raels <HI>Land confined,</HI></L>
<L><HI>From Ea&s;t to We&s;t thy wondrous works are known:</HI></L>
<L><HI>To Nations all thou ha&s;t thy grace a&s;&s;igned,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy &s;pirits breathings through the World are blown.</HI></L>
<L><HI>All Languages and tongues do tell thy prai&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Dead hear thy voyce, them thou do&s;t living rai&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="20">Oh ble&s;&s;ed dayes of Son of Man now &s;een,</L>
<L>You that have long'd &s;o &s;ore them to behold,</L>
<L>March forth in's might, and &s;toutly &s;tand between</L>
<L>The mighties &s;word, and Chri&s;ts dear flocke infold.</L>
<L>&V;ndanted clo&s;e and cla&s;h with them; for why?</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t Chri&s;t they are, and he with thee &s;tands by.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L N="21">No Captive thou, nor Death can on thee &s;eize,</L>
<L>Fight, &s;tand, and live in Chri&s;t thou dayly do&s;t</L>
<L>He long ago did lead as Captives the&s;e,</L>
<L>And ever lives to &s;ave thee where thou goe&s;t</L>
<L>His Father &s;till, and Spirit &s;hall with thee</L>
<L>Abide, and crowne thy Head with la&s;ting glee.</L>
</LG>
<P>For thy words &s;ake, and according to thine own heart, ha&s;t thou done all the&s;e great things, to make thy &s;ervant know them, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 7. 21.</P>
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