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Author: Clarke, John, 1609-1676.
Title: Ill newes from New-England, or, A nar[r]ative of New-Englands persecution wherin is declared that while old England is becoming new, New-England is become old : also four proposals to the Honoured Parliament and Councel of State, touching the way to propagate the Gospel of Christ ... : also four conclusions touching the faith and order of the Gospel of Christ out of his last will and testament, confirmed and justified / by John Clark ...
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Print source: Ill newes from New-England, or, A nar[r]ative of New-Englands persecution wherin is declared that while old England is becoming new, New-England is become old : also four proposals to the Honoured Parliament and Councel of State, touching the way to propagate the Gospel of Christ ... : also four conclusions touching the faith and order of the Gospel of Christ out of his last will and testament, confirmed and justified / by John Clark ...
Clarke, John, 1609-1676.
London: Printed by Henry Hills ..., 1652.
Subject terms:
Holmes, Obediah, 1606-1682.
Crandall, John, d. 1676.
Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Massachusetts -- Church history -- 17th century.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33276.0001.001
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To the Right Honorable the House of PARLIAMENT, and COUNCEL of STATE for the Com∣monwealth of ENGLAND, The author humbly craves of that mighty Counseller, that Prince of peace, a large donation of the spirit of Counsell, and of the spirit of courage, with a suitable and happy success for the Peace, Liberty, and enlargement of these three Nations.
To the Honored Magistracy, the Presbytery, and their dependency in the Mathatusets Colony in New-England, The Author wisheth repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth as it is in Jesus Christ.
To the true Christian Reader.
discourse
A Faithfull and True Relation of the Prosecution of Obe∣diah Holmes, John Crandall, and John Clarke, meer∣ly for Conscience towards God, by the principall Members of the Church, or Common-wealth of the Mathatusets in New-England, which rules over that part of the World; whereby is shewn their discourteous Entertainment of Stran∣gers, & how that Spirit by which they are led, would order the whole World, if either brought under them, or should come in unto them: Drawn forth by the aforesaid John Clarke, not so much to answer the Importunity of Friends, as to stop the mouthes, and slanderous reports of such as are Enemies to the Cross of Christ. Let him that readeth it consider, which Church is most like the Church of Christ (that Prince of Peace, that meek and gentle Lamb, that came into this World to save Mens lives, not to destroy them,) the Persecu∣ted, or Persecuting.
Certain Lawes established in the Colony of the Mathatusets in New-England, and drawn forth (by constraint) to prove that the Au∣thority there established cannot permit men, though of never so civill, sober, and peaceable a Spirit and Life, freely to enjoy their under∣standings and consciences, nor yet to live, or come among them, unlesse they can doe as they doe, and say as they say, or else say nothing, and so may a man live at Rome also.
For the suppressing of Anabaptists.
Against Blasphemy, being a capitall transgression.
To raise money for Publick charges in Church and Commonwealth.
Lawes Ecclesiasticall.
Heresie.
Disturbing of Churches.
Torture.
The Testimony of John Clarke, Obediah Holmes, and John Crandall, Prisoners at Boston in New-Eng∣land, concerning the faith and order of the Gospell of Christ Iesus the Lord, as the same was laid down in four Conclusi∣ons, and proffered to be openly and publikly defended against all gain-sayers; when none would comeforth thus to oppose it: now again by the aforesaid John Clarke reviewed, par∣ticularly, and strictly examined by the Word of God, and Testimony of Iesus, and thereby, (as is here at large to be seen) confirmed and justifyed.