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A84758	Dæmonium meridianum. Satan at noon. Or, Antichristian blasphemies, anti-scripturall divelismes, anti-morall uncleanness, evidenced in the light of truth, and published by the hand of justice. Being, a sincere and impartiall relation of the proceedings of the commissioners of the county of Berks. Authorized by the ordinance for ejection, against John Pordage, late minister of Bradfield, in the same county. Published for the vindication of justice, and satisfaction of the conscientious, in the name, and by the order of the said commissioners and assistants. With some notes, and animadversions upon a book of the said John Pordage, initiuled, Innocency appearing, &c. / By Christopher Fowler, minister of the gospel at S. Maries in Reding.	Fowler, Christopher, 1610?-1678.	1655 (1655)	Wing F1692; Thomason E840_1; ESTC R207466	137,560	179

out his wretched opinions committed him to prison but after a while released him but no sooner was he delivered but he published his blasphemies in print and abused the Governour dedicating his book to the Governour and making men believe as though his book came forth with the Governours consent and authority not long after he goes to Lyons where he was fifty daies and by complying with the * The Papists did tolerate a blasphemer because an Anti-Calvinist and this Dr doth much please himself in his foolish hopes because he is an Anti-presbyterian Papists against Calvin he was released after many journeyes and dissemblings knowing that Calvin was dead he came back to his old quarters to Gaium where by a wonderfull providence the old zealous Governour whom he had abused commanded in chief though out of his turn the Governour cryed Fiat quod justum est and clapt him up in prison this was in the year 1556 eight years after the Senate of Geneva had dismissed him he appeals from the Governour of Gaium his enemy to the Senate of Berne by them he is charged with Blasphemy Heresy Perjury and for joining with Alciate and Bland●ate for the seduc●ng of precious souls he renounced them both a●d said that Alciate was turned a Turk and Blandrate a Sabellian the Senate picked out all his heresies and blasphemies new and old wherein Valentine agreed with Arrius Justo Dei judicio caesus blasphem are simul vivere desiit Aret. the Senate heard him from the fifth of August till the ninth of September he remained stubborn confident and pertinacious The Senate pronounced the sentence of death upon him which was executed accordingly the judicious reader will quickly make the paralell it was a fair warning given him by the Senate of Geneva and their admonition was propheticall viz. Filium Dei quem praedicamus in Diabolum transfiguras Deum quem colimus vocas Deum Turcarum mult aque ejus generis sed vide miser ne te praecipetaverit tuus furor ut voces emitteres quae per jugulum redeant Thou dost transfigure the Son of God into a Divell our God thou callest the God of the Turks wretch beware least thine own mouth cuts thine own throat Secondly Many more might be produced but we shall trouble the reader but only with these late observations First Mrs Hutchinson of New-England defended her opinions with lies and equivocations and pretended she was still of Mr Cottons judgement she professed her repentance but still kept her wicked opinions at last through Mr Cottons and Mr Davenports means she confessed before the congregation her heresies that she was deserted of God deluded by the Divell in her revelations desired the congregation to pray for her yet afterwards she was found to be a lyer giving no satisfaction in her answers but by lying circum locutions denied all Secondly A learned man a professour of religion in Cambridge denied propitiation for sins by the death of Christ made the Lord Christ to be but a figure and a type and being opposed by one now a godly minister he took him by the hand and made this answer if you speak of it to any body I will deny it every word Thirdly That when Mr Erbury for some of his blasphemies against the glorious Divinity and bloud of Jesus Christ was before the Committee for plundred Ministers at Westminster he began to make a solemn profession of his faith in Orthodox language to the admiration of some there that had heard and were ready to witnesse against him the said blasphemies But the then Chair-man took him short off from his protestation and commanded him silence saying we know your tricks well enough Atque adeo hic est unus ex praecipuis capitibus Theologiae ipsorum said † Adver lib. cap. 5. pag. 5●3 Calvin of the Libertines this is one of the master pieces of their divinity that they have the art of dissembling and transforming themselves into any shape quo facilius hominibus imponant and again * Idem ibid. cap. 8. p. 519. Hinc fit ut si hodie Quintinus c. If Quintinus were here to day a prisoner for his blasphemy either before Christians or Papists it would not trouble him at all for he is certain of his freedome because he could assent to either of them and yet for all that never deny his faith and doctrine neque tamen propterea doctrinam suam abnegaret Obj. But what is all this to the Dr either his principles or practise Ans We conceive that to the ingenuous reader the samenesse of doctrine with Blasphemers is a sufficient argument for the samenesse of principles and practises with them also the Devil being the same sc the father of all sort of lies from the beginning to this day * Irenaeus ad Haer. lib. 2. c. 34. We know the saltnesse of the sea by the taste of one drop we need not drink up the whole But more distinctly and first as to these destructive principles 1. This hath been the drift of the Drs discourse oftentimes at Mr Blagraves to affirm that a man may say or unsay unto the world 2. The Dr hath said he was called of God and if he did over-reach it should not be laid to his charge for he was called of God 3. The Dr hath said that we may do any thing with the world or we can do well enough with the men of the world These testimonies are the more considerable because of the advantages these persons had that tell them whereby through providence they came to know and through conscience as we hope do reveal these wretched tenets of darknesse Now as to his practise we entreat the reader to observe 1. That his answer given in to the articles faithfully and incorruptly printed and published in this relation are most of them devised forgeries and studied untruths But secondly This very man made a solemn protestation and profession of his faith when he was in his first troubles and since that time he hath vented many of these very horrid things proved against him in this relation against our Lord Jesus we say even since that time some years Now seeing he hath so manifestly violated his first protestation and we see it proves false we leave it to the conseientious to consider whether this printed protestation may passe for true or no only tell him * Luth. tom 4. p 180. Luthers thoughts Fanatici norunt verbis gestibus scriptis simulare dissimulare omnia But yet a little further put the case his protestation be true what is that to the Commissioners are they directed to proceed according to the protestation of the accused or according to the allegations and depositions of the witnesses Obj. Two sober men who were at the first sitting of the Commissioners believed him for they never appeared afterwards Ans True but those many left behind were sober and sound too and that both in

is not meritorious of any mans salvation The fourth article of the last charge That it was a poor thing to live upon the bloud of Christ and fetching it over again in a contemptuous kind of speaking Piff said he thou art a babe thou knowest nothing to live upon the bloud of Christ that is a poor thing Answer To the former of these articles being the fourth of the first charge the Dr gives no particular p And gives this reason in print viz. not being within the act against blasphemy Observe what use this man makes of that act in his printed answer he puts in the word only a notorious untruth pag. 43. studied on purpose to deceive He saith that Mr Tickhill did mistake which is not a mistake in the Dr b●t an impudent untruth answer His answers to the third and fourth articles of the last charge are as followeth viz. To the third I call heaven and earth to witnesse that such thoughts never entred into my soul nor did such words come out of my mouth for my judgement ever hath been and still is that the bloud of Christ is satisfying reconciling and cleansing bloud that it is interceding redeeming meriting bloud in relation to all those who through faith and patience come to inherit eternall life To the fourth I acknowledge that about four years since some such expressions were uttered by me to Mr Grip but without any such intent as may be supposed by my accusers and not with that circumstantiall aggravation of repeating it in a contemptuous manner which is but q Read the proof is not this an interjection of scorning a supposition of my adversary and cannot be attested upon Oath without his witnesse pretends infallibly to r How should we know your thoughts but by your words know my thoughts and purposes Again this being spoken to a particular person upon a particular occasion might be true if the circumstances of the discourse were accordingly added though as here presented it seems very monstrous Therefore to make things clear I shall here insert some particular circumstances which may present this article though in a new yet with a true face I coming to Mrs Grips house she s Untruth took me into a private room to have some conference with me alone where she t False read the animadversion breaking forth into a violent passion of tears weeping and wringing her hands and pouring forth ●itter complaints and invectives against Mr Fowler as that he was a gracelesse man a lier and a slanderer not worthy to come up into a Pulpit or to have the name of a Minister of Christ with other such bitter expressions the cause of which was as she then told me Mr Fowler 's reporting about that she then lived in adultery with a gentleman not far off and after her passion was somewhat allayed she brake out into these or such like expressions of high assurance Christ hath loved me and died for me and justified me by his blood from all guilt of sin I am an elect person a justified person and what is this Mr Fowler to u Oh the invention of man not such a word spoken charge sin upon me these and other expressions fell from her to this purpose from some of which I feared she was drenched with † A mere figment and base contrivance of his own heart Antinomianisme and told her more then once it was a poor thing to live upon the bloud of Christ and to look so much upon that except she had the nature of Christ and the spirit of Christ asking her where was the meeknesse of Christ the patience of Christ to suffer as an innocent lamb quietly w Oh amazeing that any man could devise such untruths so many and all fore-thought and deliberate not a true word But still she cried out she lived on the bloud of Christ I told her it was a poor thing to be thus exalted with notions of the bloud of Christ without mentioning sanctification and those holy graces which flow from Christs nature dwelling in the soul Now by these expressions of mine my scope was to make Mrs Grip see the necessity of sanctification and of a pure and holy life and not to make void the blessed effect of the bloud of Christ applyed accord●ng to the mind of God and true meaning of the scriptures and now having related the x See what Mrs G●ip deposeth to these circumstances at the end of her deposition circumstances as near as I can rememember I believe a sober and knowing Christian will not judge me either y This fardell of studied untruths is very scandalous scandalous or ignorant for these expressions The proofs of the fore-mentioned articles The aforesaid Mr John Tickhill This Deponent further saith that the Dr delivered that the liberty and freedome spoken of and purchased by the bloud of Christ is not a liberty or freedome from the guilt of sin the curse of the law the wrath of God But the fiery deity of Christ in the center of our souls And this Deponent being crosse examined by the Dr further saith that the very summe and substance of this article was delivered fully and roundly by the Dr in the expresse words for the substance of them and that without any limitation to the best of his remembrance Master Christopher Fowler Minister of S. Maries in Reding and one of the Assistants to the Commissioners sworn and examined deposeth That about three weeks or a moneth since this Deponent acquainted Master Daniel Blagrave the younger that these Commissioners did intend to 2 This gentleman with others was summoned to appear by a warrant from the Commissioners to testify his knowledge as to this article and some others but did not appear The Quae. What that clause intends in the Ordinance viz the Commissioners shall issue forth summons when the persons summoned will appear if they please and if they will not they may chuse for so some have answered had the appearance bin according to the summons the doctrines and deeds of darknesse had bin more dejected by these renowned summon him to testifie what he knew of Dr Pordage's doctrine in relation to Jesus Christ and thereupon among other things the Deponent asked him whether he did not hear the said Dr deliver that the bloud of Christ was not meritorious of any mans salvation to which be answered he had heard him speak to that purpose Susanna Grip wife of John Grip of Reding Joyner sworn and examined This Deponent saith that she told Dr Pordage it was a high thing to live upon the bloud of Christ to which he replyed piff to live upon the bloud of Christ that is a poor thing and repeated the same again and said thou art a babe thou knowest nothing to live upon the bloud of Christ that is a poor thing whereupon the Deponents heart fell almost dead with fear at his words And the said Susanna

dost not see it but thou shalt see it These upon credible testimony 1. That there is neither good nor evil but as men apprehend it And that he might do any thing if his mind did lead him to it Positions enough to astonish the heavens and shake the earth and tend our very bowels from another guesse man then this Dr. both for life and learning But he is gone to Eternity and to us that knew him out of his grave he preacheth a sermon upon that text Rom. 11.20 Thou standest by faith be not high minded but fear let us pray pray pray that God would keep us in the knowledge love and practise of all divine truth But to return The next witnesse for the Dr to prove that Mrs Grip did rail c. is John Tench p. 63. We wonder that this witnesse also is not encomiasted with the titles of a sober pious Christian we cannot tell what this man would swear but we know with sadnesse of heart what he saith he hath twice in publick denied the bloud of Christ to be the bloud of God and this as we fear not through mistake or ignorance for he was often told and severall scriptures were alledged to that purpose viz. that it was the bloud of a divine person not of the divine nature but he still persisted in his foolish to say no more cavillations and afterwards said to one of us that Christ died and rose again and then became God This is one of John Tawneys followers a blasphemer of the Lord Christ a slanderer of Christians for his sake a late abettor of the Anti-scripturall Quakers at Reding and one whose inconsiderablenesse makes him audacious The rest are Eleanor Burly Mrs Kent ibidem and in another place John Hambleton is quoted What savour these three have among understanding Christians that know them we will leave to others the very naming of the last will make those that know him even to hold their noses Ob. See how bitter these Priests are and how rigid Ans Our reply is this we have concealed many passages that we might have rehearsed to avoid this very objection but we do conceive it inevitable and unreasonable too for this objection will be made by those who have gall and bitternesse and are the most bitter people in the world if our relation be false we yield to suffer if it be true why are we bitter is it because we will not see the everlasting Deity the precious bloud the blessed word and ordinances of Jesus Christ trampled denied blasphemed and sit still with our hands in our pockets but according to our measure speak a word for him and his is this bitternesse then the Lord make us more bitter in these fundamentalls Jesus Christ will give us but little thanks in the day of our account for our Gallionisme or moderation Obj. But grant for once that these witnesses are against ordinances sabboths scriptures grace Christ for so they are some of them against most and every one of them against some yet their testimony is legall Ans It is confessed and their testimony was received as such and we desire it may be weighed with all our hearts Obj. The Commissioners would not receive their witnesse Ans We reply This is a sordid and false imputation of the Drs upon them they were examined the Dr had his liberty to propose any questions and to produce any witnesses it is confessed the Commissioners did refuse some of the witnesses because they could not speak to the matter in hand as when it was deposed the Dr had spoken blasphemy at one time in one place they offered to depose that they heard him speak otherwise at another time and in another place and this is the naked truth yet the Commissioners are clamoured upon by him and his friends in Court in city in town in countrey even for crucifiers c. To conclude that a man of such pretended glories visions sanctity likened even to Christ almost as to have no sin for the Devil hardly to work upon him by should have no more no other to appear in his behalf but as thou hast seen Reader seems to us wonderfull observable The fifth article of the first charge That by male and female Genesis the 1. we are to understand by male the Deity and by female the humanity and that these two become one flesh Adde to this two other articles of the last charge viz. That he preached at Bradfield and did labour to defend it pertinaciously that the little horn in Dan. 7. vers 8. was Christ and being told that the horn made war with the Saints yet he persisted to say that he was Christ That he is ignorant and insufficient for the work of the Ministry The Drs Answer To the first of these the Dr gave no particular answer Animadver 3. The Dr could not tell what to say then but since in his book pag. 44. he answers thus to this article That by male and female might be shadowed forth the Deity and pure humanity the male representing the Deity the female the pure humanity which by union become one the spirit of the soul brought up by Christ into a mysticall union is made partaker of the divine nature Answer What un-edifying matter and language is this is this to speak to edification exhortation and to comfort is not this and all the rest taken out of the euangle of Henry Nicholas and Jacob Behmen is there not a serpent in this grasse Irenaeus observes of the Gnosticks that they did with Scripture words and phrases as if some skilfull Artist should make with precious stones and pearles the most exquisite effigies of some Heroique prince and when it is done and compleated in comes some phantasticall fellow and pulls it all to pieces and with the same stones and pearles goes and makes the picture of an ape or a dog How hatefull is this saith that Father as it was then even so it is now the Gnosticks in the first times and the Familists and Quakers in these last times differing no more some circumstances excepted then Simon Magus differs from Simon the Sorcerer the Familists take Scripture words phrases and expressions which shine as pearles in that place and meaning where the hand of the blessed spirit hath set them and they dismember them and pluck them asunder and with them according to their own whimsies they make sometime an ape or a dog or both sometime non-sence or blasphemy and oftentimes both as for instance such expressions as these Christ in you the fellowes of Christ Christs brethren partakers of the divine nature I in them and they in me you need not that any man teach you taught of God perfect as the Father the letter killeth the spirit to God c. Now consider how our new Gnosticks wrest and rack these scriptures and make them speak what they never meant how do they take these pearles these choise texts of heaven and with them

kingdome of heaven you are of the last sort you were not born so and you were not made so of men but you have made your self so but we tell you again you ignorantly if not wickedly pervert the text for the text is meant of the unmarried nay the very drift of the chapter from the first verse to the ninth is to confirm the bond of marriage as indissoluble against the Pharisees what doth this concern you that have a wife and seven or eight children 9. You are most unhappy in your Marginall text to 1 Cor. 7.38 let them that marry be as though they married not do you think the meaning of the Apostle is that man and wife should not dwell together as man and wife but live as you pretend you and Mrs Pordage have done as though you were not man and wife It is clear that in this you and Mrs Pordage are no more then you and Mrs Flavell 10. Why do you say Christ was born of a Virgin and lived in virginity Christus non duxit uxorem ejus actio est nostra instructio said the Gnostick● Respondet Clemens conjugium Christus approbavit doctrina miraculis Chem. exam par 3. leaving us an example was that the reason why he did come When we think of the infinity and glory of the Lord Christ how unsuitable marriage was to him and how his work was to give up his soul a ransome we cannot but admire at the blindnesse of this Dr who still is driving at this that Christ is but a type Why do you say that you had two spirituall worlds discovered to you and apply to these worlds that text Heb. 1.2 By whom also he made the world were the worlds in that verse made by Christ your mundi Idaeales your phantasticall worlds at Bradfield pittifull ignorance 11. Why do you quote that text Heb. 5.14 but strong meat belongs to those that are of full age and have their sences exercised to discern both good and evil and wretchedly apply it to your spirituall sensation as you call it and the opening of your inward sences to see cloven feet and dragons is this the meaning of the holy spirit 12. You say among the devils you saw principalities powers dignities and you say this is answerable to the text Eph. 6.12 Tell us who told you which was this and which that did any one point with a rod and say to your inward hearing there goes a prince there goes a power why do you force that text to palliate the matter and cheat your reader this text proves that the devils are by Gods just judgement rulers of this world but it doth not prove any government or princedome among themselves 13. To hasten You say you had an opening of the eternall world the kingdome prepared where you were as Paul once c. pag. 78 and you call it the world to come and quote for it Heb. 2.5 He hath not put in subjection to the Angels the world to come whereof we speak We do confesse this text is controverted Calvin understands it of the world restored by Christ our right being forfeited by sin Piscator of the mundus renovatus as in 2 Pet. 3.11 * So the Annotations on the New Test others of the gospel world because of the context But we conceive it is hardly sence to understand it as you do of the kingdome of glory for how alien and forreign is it to S. Pauls mind to read that text thus he hath not put in subjection to the Angels the kingdome of glory of which we now eak Though this might have passed for a small mistake in another yet in this Dr it is considerable because he pretends his hearing of the unutterable misteries of that kingdome and therefore his ignorance is observable we believe S. Pauls rapture but not his in the least by any means 14. In the same place you say that your divine transportation was agreeable to that of John 17.24 Father I will that those whom thou hast given me may be with me where I am that they may behold my glory What ignorance and wresting of the scripture is this was Christ with you in your chamber at Bradfield what did you behold of the glory of Christ there it is justly charged and fully proved and righteously sentenced against you that you have blasphemed that glory sc his Godhead and bloud and you do not tell us that in this third heaven you saw any thing of either is that sweet prayer to be understood of visions here on earth or of believers coming to and abiding in heaven with Christ for ever 15. So Heb. 10.19 is quoted by you to speak for your entrance into the eternall world by your visions but the text saith no such thing the text doth not say we have an entrance into the holiest by visions which are delusions but by the bloud of Jesus 16. What did you mean to call wisdome and quote for it Pro. 8.20 23. the eternall virgin See the last Annot. Assemb upon the text do you know what you say who is there meant by wisdome is it not Jesus Christ did he shew you the way that leads to the life of virginity to leave your wife why do you call him the eternall virgin is it not to possesse your people against marriage are you out of your wits 17. Why did you insultingly p. 103. charge Mr Trapham a godly person one of the Commissioners and now print him a man of mean intellectualls and why because he never heard of any other death and resurrection of Jesus Christ but at Jerusalem you pittifull ignoramus is not this true doth not the Apostle say Christ being risen from the dead dieth no more Rom. 6.9 and in that he died he died once and Christ was offered once not often Heb. 9. last Now if he died but once he rose but once and both these he did at Jerusalem You say that Mr Trapham never read or never understood these three texts First Heb. 6.6 You Dr is that text understood of backsliders reall crucifying Christ on earth or their wicked trampling and profaning of his bloud now he is in glory was this done by their hands or by their hearts The next you quote is Gal. 3.1 Is this text understood of a crucifying Christ indeed or the shewing forth of his death in the word and Sacraments doth not that very verse say that Christ was set forth amongst them and before whose eyes mark Dr not by whose hands and crucified amongst you not by you For the other text you quote about Christs rising Eph. 2.5 T is true Gods elect were quickened with Christ what then what do you conclude ergo did Christ rise in other places besides Jerusalem The truth is Mr Trapham was transported with a just indignation to hear this mans brother vent such Familisticall stuffe concerning the man child reported by himself to be born at Bradfield sc that this man child