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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

Henry Nicholas founder of the Familists The other execrable Blas●hemy concerning Christs righteousness is either a piece of old h Alphons de castro lib. 7. col 7. 510. Pelagianisme which puts the merits of Eternall life upon the performance of humane nature or rather new i Rutherfords S rvey of the Spirit Antic c. 9. p. 58 59. famil sme which most absurdly and blasphemously saith that Christ is not one man the Son of Mary but all men believing and loving and that Christ is not God and man but the state of perfection in believers what Christian heart can chuse but be affected with some sparkes of holy zeal against such cursed doctrines spit in the facce of Jesus Christ by an handfull of sinfull dirt fit to be cast into the street Psal 18.42 and which impious doctrines do necessarily conclude our religion to be but a fable our faith a fancy our hope a dream and us of all creatures the most miserable To the second as to Visions of angels we believe the Christian Reader will easily perswade himselfe that the Blessed Angels would rather lie down in the flames of hell then come to confirme such wicked antichristian doctrines but this is an old fetch of the Prince of darkness The Angelici were thought by some to have been so called for their pretended communion with angels which agreeth well with that we find in a Epipha cont haeres lib. 2. tom 1. p. 60. Epiphanius v●z that they held themselves to be of the order of angels as being persons in their own conceits angelicall if so t is likely they looked the angels should be * This Doctor doth confesse converse with them familiar with them But the constant phrase of the Scripture still mentioning familiar spirits in an evil sence never in a good teacheth us to take them not for glorified Angels in heaven but for damned fiends in hell The pretense of converse with Angels we find most frequent amongst Mahumetans Papists and Familists take a single instance of each of them First Mahumetans and here most notoriously famous is the grand imposture of that wicked b Forbes instruct hist theol p. 176. Mahomet pretending great familiarity with the Angel Gabriel and that the Alcoran was let fall from heaven into his bosome when he was asleep A great helper of this wretch was Sergius a Nestorian who denied as our Dr. the Godhead of Christ 2. Of the Papists we have a notable history of their S. Francisca who was said to have enjoyed the sight of an Angel c Here is the Drs. match continually he was of an incredible beauty his countenance more white then snow more ruddy then the rose cross'd on his breast his locks long and curled more clear then polished gold shining with such brightnesse that she could read her mattens at midnight 3. As for the Familists we cannot have a fitter example then of their Patriarck a Mr. Rutherford● Survey Antic cap. 9. p. 55. Henry Nicholas who gave out that he had Visions of and conferences with Angels from heaven from whom he learned to expound Scriptures by Allegories but such Angels are quickly d●scovered to be Divels indeed when their Revelations are brought to be tried by the Word of God as they ought Isai 8.20 Mary Wiltshire reported to Dr. Goad and Dr. Featly at Lambeth that there appeared to her one in the shape of a woman w●th very shining l●ght having the moon under her feet and the sun over her head with bright beams about it who gave her being sick in her bed three Benedictions and Fisher the Jesuit told her without doubt it was the Blessed Virgin Mary and it was revealed to him she must be a Nun of the Order of S. Clare b Luther tom 2 in Gen. Fol. 193. Luther being acquainted with this Cheat of Sathan and fearing to be deluded by some Diabolicall imposture under the appearance of Angels daily prayed that God woul● preserve him from such visions contenting himself with reading and meditation of the Scriptures and hearing Sermons and prayer The fancy of c Epiphan con Haeres lib. 2. tom 1. haeres ●9 Quintilla or Priscilla who said that Christ came to her when she was asleep and reuealed to her that Pepuza the Village where she lived was an holy place the city Jerusalem which descended out of heaven is paralel to the vision of Susan Day a● Bradfield and the Drs. conceit that his house should be as Noahs Ark for safety to those that came to dwell under his roof We never read nor heard but these pretenders to Visions did ever scorn and trample on the Word and Ordinances of Jesus Christ the Ordinance of Water Baptisme is totally denied by the Dr. and the other Sacrament is in effect denied because the things sign●fied are denied soe did d Ruther ubi ante p. 60. Henry Nicholas the Oracle of his Sect hold that Scriptures preaching Sacraments were but fleshly elementish ceremoniall and indifferent things The third head of the charge against the Dr. is for Uncleannesse in Doctrine and that in two points the one denying with the * This Marcion had a bastard by a sister for which fact he was ejected and then denied Marriage to Christians Ob stupratam virginem rejectus nuptias interdixit Christianis Erasmus in his epist before Irenaeus Marcionites the remedy against it prescribed by the Apostle 1 Cor. 7.2 the other allowing liberty for it by penalty of women So did Mahomet and the Papists now do by tolerating Stewes allowing many female bedfellowes for one wife as a Sleidan Comment lib. 4. p. 79. Cardinal Campeius did in Germany Pope Hildebrands doctrine was very good news to whoremongers who for one wife might have the use of 600 women b Idem p. 200. John of Leyden the Mechanical King of the Fanaticks in Germany pretended that he received his impure doctrine by Revelation and when some made doubt of such Libertinisme he laid down his cloke upon the new Testament and sware by them both that he had that doctrine delivered to him from God himself Obj. The Dr. is a Professor and is taken notice of for holinesse amongst men of his perswasion at least nay and others very many Ans So was Caspar c Rutherfords Survey of Antic c. 5. p. 15. Swincfield reputed a man grave civil and fervent in prayer yet he became a blaspemous heretique against the nature of Cbrist and against the Scriptures saying that Christ was not only once born but often and that we ought to content our selves with the teaching of the spirit for the vocall word is to be rejected as a killing letter Our English false Prophet d Cambden Annal. l. 4. p. 40. Hacket was a Professor of sanctity a hearer of sermons a reader of Scriptures pray●ng with admirable fervency yet fell from duty to revelation and from revelation to blasphemy such blasphemy against God that

was made flesh from whence I did maintain and publish that Christ was God coequall coeternall and coessentiall with the Father contrary to all those blasphemous and execrable opinions which deny Christ to be God so that now I hope the mere uttering of such expressions by way of dispute before an understanding and judicious Committee doth not make me a transgressour according to the true sens● and meaning of this act Ans 2. Concerning the persons in Trinity I do here professe and avow from the sincerity of my heart that I believe the Trinity of persons as an article of my faith viz. That there are three persons distinct from each other the person of the Father the person of the Son the person of the holy Ghost yet not so as to prejudice the unity in essence and so I believe the unity as not to confound the Trinity of persons I 18 See the first animadversion where it is affirmed by a judicious and pious person as upon oath the Dr said that God in Christ and Christ in Saints is the Trinity in unity and unity in Trinity asserted from John 17. never uttered any such expressions in that way as to give any just ground of suspicion of my denying the Trinity But I remember about four years since before the Committee of Berks Mr Fowler or Mr Gilbert I remember not which desired the Committe to give them liberty to ask me two or three questions amongst the rest they ask me whether there were three persons in the deity I answered them I believed the Trinity as it is recorded 1 Joh. 5.7 There are three that bare record in Heaven the Father the Word and the holy Ghost Thus you see I believe the Trinity but do you believe the Trinity of persons said they I replyed I find not the word persons in the text but to put you out of doubt I do not stumble at the word person and this afterward I told to the above mentioned Mr Grip in a private conference some yeares since to whom I affirmed that I found no such expressions as persons of Trinity in the Scripture and that the word person being a schole term was * And why difficult it being the most apt plain significant term that is persona denote● only substantiam primam intelligentem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any substantiam singularem whether living or dead the fathers Greek and Latine agreed to use the word person as signifiing an underst●nding subsistent There is no term so safe so full Three properties is very improper and dangerous Three qualities absurd and more dangerous Three manifestations Familisticall and hellish Three persons most suitable specially when we adde infinite divine a person in all authours generally denoting a substance living intelligent very difficult to be apprehended by common capacities but I never spake this to prejudice the true notion of the persons in the sacred Trinity which I do cordially believe but only to shew that ordinary Christians should not be too curious in prying into the deep mystery of the three persons in the Trinity but rather content themselves with what the Scripture plainly affirms of the Father Son and holy Ghost as distinct and yet one But to conclude this answer pray consider what hard measure it is thus to pick out a broken sentence out of a long discourse and so to accuse one without relating the circumstance which might serve to clear what otherwise may seem very strange to prejudiced persons The proofs of these Articles The aforesaid Mr John Tickhill of Abingdon This Deponent saith that he heard the Dr deliver before the Committee of this County at Reding that Christ was not God and that he was not Jehovah and being crosse examined he further saith the Dr did endeavour in dispute with great seriousnesse to maintain and defend as his judgement that Christ was not God and that he was not Jehovah and that there was no such expression of the Father mentioned in his this Deponents definition of blasphemy as is mentioned in the Drs answer but saith that his definition was that 19 Observe the Deponents definition of blasphemy and judge whether the Dr did not study an untruth blasphemy was an evill speaking against God derogating from his glory either in his name nature word or works and that the Drs immediate words thereupon were 20 Let the magistrate hearken ruling in the fear of the Lord and let the reader hearken and be astonished at it and grieve what can be more wickedly asserted by the Dr and more punctually proved by any Deponent Hark! he answereth blasphemy is an evill speaking against God and in his paper chargeth me with blasphemy against Christ * That as if is the breath● of the bottomlesse pit as if Christ were God hereupon we began a hot dispute about the Godhead of Christ the Deponent asked the Dr if Christ were God who did deny it and put the Deponent upon proof of it whereupon he cited that Scripture John the first In the beginning was the word the word was God To which the Dr replyed he is 21 he is called God so the Arrians of the founder of whom Arrius the godly Emperour Constantine said that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epiphan lib. 2. Tom. 2. Haeres 69. a wicked interpreter the picture of the Divell called God but he is not Jehovah then the Deponent replyed he is Jehovah which the Dr likewise put him to prove then he cited that Scripture his name shall be called Jehovah our righteousnesse Jer. 23.6 and as he remembers the Dr did disallow of that proof as being out of the Old Testament then the Deponent cited that Scripture Rev. 1. He that was is and is to come as being of the same purpose with Jehovah Thomas Trapham Esq one of the Committee sworn and examined deposeth That to his remembrance the word Father was not mentioned in Mr Tickhills definition of blasphemy and he saith the Dr did then deny * Did Dr Pordage speak in the sincerity of his heart as he pretends in his answer to these articles and others that such a thought never entred into his soul let the consciencious judge Christ to be God which he this Deponent acquainted Mr Blagrave with to which Mr Blagrave said if he deny Christ to be God we must take a further course with him then the Dr answered * Why was there not a course taken with him when he denied Christ to be Jehovah Christ is not Jehovah and when Mr Tickhill had confuted him in that argument then he said he was not God the Father The aforesaid Susanna Grip. This Deponent further saith that the Dr came into her kitchin at another time and as she thinks he then came from the Committee and the Dr then said whereas Ministers speak of persons in Trinity there is no such thing there are three that bear record in heaven but there is no such thing as

verses were the text out of that Psalm 51. 51. thus From the subtilty and craft of the fire-root through the prying and searching of it doth arise all Necromancy and all prying into such curious arts springeth from the fiery essence in the will of men and women that stirreth them up to pry into and after such hidden curiosities this is the gate through which all hidden curiosities do enter For this he quotes Exodus 7.11 Then the king called all his wise men c and at another time he preached at Bradfield out of Matt. 4.5 and from thence he observed that one pinnacle of the devils temple was the pinnacle of the unlawfull arts and forbidden sciences His use was this he exhorts the people and that as they love thir own souls to take heed of this door the subtilty of the dark Magicks and bids them consider how the scriptures do condemn the lusting and prying mind and for this quotes Acts 19.19 Those that used curious arts burnt their books For the Divil the Dragon doth labour to carry up mens minds to the top of the pinnacle of dark Magicks What a sad thing is it and who can chuse but pity the case of this Parish to be fed with such husks such allegogoricall unprofitable unsuitable discourses What should be in the Drs mind to tell them of the fire root and fiery essence and the pinnacle of the devils temple and so to conjure them as they loved their souls to take heed of the black Magicks poor creatures we cannot imagine unlesse it be this that the Dr began to smell powder there was a great noise of the Devils at Bradfield and there was the Ordinance for ejecting Ministers preparing the Dr was afraid the Priests would persecute him for his light eclipsed there out of envy he thought they would article against him as a conjurer and therefore he preacheth in his flinty non sensicall way against the Dark Magicks and provides his own family to observe and bear witnesse for in all his thirteen weeks triall there was not one inhabitant a witnesse for him and so in his margent he puts them in rank and file to bear witnesse He complains likewise in the same page p. 71. how Mr Ford went about to stir up the Magistrate against him as a blasphemer And good reason what harm is in that what doth the Dr find himself a grieved at is not he a blasphemer or does not the civile Magistrate want stirring up Mr Ford said his living was possessed why was it not doth not he say that there were an innumerable company of Devils in his house yea but he saith Mr Ford branded him for a conjurer now that is utterly untrue and we believe he had no such thought in his heart The third Article That the discoveries of the sinfulnesse of sin the terrours of the law the death of Christ the free grace of God are fleshly and flashy discoveries To this the Dr gives no particular * In his printed book he doth acknowledge it and gives this reason Because it was not comprehended in the Act against Blasphemies Pity if such a blasphemy should have such a plea. But there pag. 42. he tells the world that even the discoveries of the free grace of God and the death of Christ are but weak in comparison of the more full and clear manifestations and operations of God upon the soul in bringing of it into divine union and fruition Answer For our parts we have ever thought that the discovery of the Fathers rich grace and the most precious death of Christ had been of all discoveries the most glorious St. Paul calls it a height breadth depth and length and these being too short he tells us it passeth all understanding Ephes 1.17 St. Peter tells us That even the Angels do pry into this glorious mystery 1 Pet. 1.12 the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies propenso collo accurate introspicere And for the weaknesse of these discoveries we are content to be in the dark with St. Paul who tells us 2 Cor. 3. the last We beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are transformed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the spirit of the Lord. The true and indeed Saints of God the more they behold by the eye of faith in the pure and clear glasse of the Gospel the glory of the Lord Jesus what he is in himself how infinitely blessed and self-sufficient and what he hath done for them in suffering such wrath in conquering such enemies in purchasing such glory with much more and all this so freely so fully so unchangeably for such wretched creatures as themselves who are altogether as bad as the worst in hell we say the more gracious souls do converse with these glories the more they are transformed and that into the same glorious image and there they proceed even from glory to glory and all this is wrought in them by the spirit of the Lord. It is not a weaknesse but a wickednesse in this Dr to call the discoveries of the Fathers grace and the son death weak discoveries im comparison we demand in comparison of what what discoveries are more glorious and powerfull then these doth not the man mean his visions at Beadfield and his tincturation oh detestable in his Epistle Dedicatory he doth intimate the narrownesse systemes formes darknesse of his persecutours Be it so nay it is so we arrogate not to our selves we are nothing and there is nothing more sometimes upon our hearts then this that God would make our hearts to know our own nothingnesse But we do professe to the world that we would much rather by many thousand degrees be in the dark with St. Paul and St. Peter then to be in the light with David George Caspur Swincfield Henry Nicholas John Pordage answer The proof of this article The aforesaid Mr John Tickhill to the third article This Deponent saith that the Dr delivered That the discoveries of sin the terrours of the law the death of Christ the free grace of God are fleshly and flashy discoveries and being crosse examined to the Drs interogatorie he further saith the very summe and substance of this article was delivered fully and roundly by the Dr in the expresse words for the substance to the best of this Deponents remembrance and that without any limitation 4 Article That the liberty and freedome spoken of purchased by the bloud of Christ and applied by the clinging and cleaving of the soul to o Who is that another how basely and with contumely doth this man speak of Christ another is not a liberty or freedome from the curse of the law the wrath of God but the fiery deity of Christ in the center of our souls The third and fourth articles of the last charge being of the same effect shall be here added viz. The third article of the last charge That the bloud of Christ

examined deposeth That Mr William Twysse of Dorcester told this Deponent either that Dr Pordage did maintain it to him or speak in company in his hearing that he is no true Christian that could not commit the greatest sin and not be troubled for the same or words to that effect to this Deponents best remembrance The eighth Article That he knew nothing to the contrary but that a man might keep company with more then one woman being taxed for keeping carnall company in London This witnesse also was not called the Commissioners being abundantly satisfied and tyred out but upon the fight of the Drs book he hath witnessed it under his own hand as you shall see To which we may joyn another of the third charge viz. That Marriage was the way of beasts as also that Francis Knight of Wallingford discoursing with some of Blewbery that use to Dr Pordages they speak very much against the lawfullnesse of marriage he wondring at it asked them whence they now came they answered we came just now from the Dr from Bradfield We shall likewise joyn in this place severall other articles contained in the said third charge preferred by some of the parish viz. That Dr Pordage about eight years past did carry Mrs Flavell behind him on horseback on the road to London and about Hounslow did enquire for a private house and was directed to one Goodman Loughton a smith who lives in Hessen parish halfe a mile out of the road between Hounslow and Branford and when he came asked if his friend behind him being sick might have entertainment 't was answered yes then the Dr left her there Mrs Flavell in in a short time fell in travell but did never own being with child till she was in travell and then desired no company might be called in yet the good woman of the house Goodman Loaders wife called in three or four and Mrs Flavell was then brought to bed of a daughter having then no husband that the world knew of Mr Flavell being dead Thirdly That Dr Pordage came to that house and christned that child and named it Hannah and the Dr came often to visite her there and alwayes alone by himself Fourthly That the child being put to nurse in the same parish the Dr removed Mrs Flavell to Kensington and paid the Smith for her being at his house That a little while after the nurse went to Kensington to enquire for Mrs Flavell to pay her some mony but she was removed and the nurse saying she left a child with her the company smiled and said they thought she was such a woman after this the nurses husband wrote a letter to the Dr to Bradfield that he was twenty weeks pay behind and could not forbear whereupon he vvas paid and shortly after sent for the child avvay from nurse Fifthly That a little vvhile after this Mrs Flavell came again to the Drs family and a little child called Hannah it vvas also brought thither and Mrs Flavell took the care of it ever since and Mrs Flavell being by neighbours asked vvhose child it was said a dear friend of hers but none could ever hear in the house vvhose child it vvas and some telling Mrs Flavell that the child vvas so like her that they should take it to be hers had she not said the contrary she ansvvered as before it vvas a dear friends of hers but never named vvhose Sixthly That this child vvho vvas called Hannah the last summer they changed her name and called her Ruth they have also changed all their names the Dr is called Father Abraham his vvife is also called Deborah and old goodvvife Pocock is called Rahab and so the rest Seventhly That Goodman Loughton's son being a souldier savv Mrs Flavell in Bradfield street and spake to her but she took no notice of it aftervvards Mrs Flavell coming to his fathers house his mother in discourse asked vvhether she lived at Bradfield Mrs Flavell said she knevv no such place I vvill call my son in vvho savv you there Mrs Flavell said people vvere given to lying and vvould not have him called and presently called for her horse and vvent avvay and though before she had resolved to stay all night and never since vvas there except since the Dr hath bin questioned The Drs answers follow viz. To the first I never kept scandalous company vvith any vvoman in London neither vvas I ever taxed for any such thing except one by Mrs Grip vvho I believe is the vvitnesse against me and that upon this occasion At the time I had my former conference with her the heat of passion being over she told me I was also taxed for keeping carnall company with a woman in London I replyed I am a man born to all manner of suffering and told her she saw and knew the manner of my conversation asking her whether she believed it and she answered no truly and then I solemnly protested the contrary and this is all the taxing I ever had from any one at which time I was earnest with Mrs Grip to discover to me from whom she heard it but she put me off telling me she did not believe it and that she would tell me some other time but from that long discourse I had with her fearing she was deeply tinctured with the principles of Antinomianisme and not knowing whether she might not be tainted with some notions of Rantisme which at that time were every where frequently discoursed of I took this occasion to try her telling her as near as I remember that there were some that affirmed they knew nothing to the contrary but that a man might company with more then one woman but to speak the truth she let it fall without seeming to approve of any such thing This I solemnly a vow to be the truth as near as I can remember and I believe Mrs Grip dare not swear that I mentioned any such th●ng as my judgement or produced one Scripture or argument to defend it I professe to the whole world in the presence of that eye that seeth through all hearts that all such loose principles which turn the grace of God into wantonnesse and that run opposite to the lawes morality civility modesty and sobriety or that any way indulge wantonnesse and lasciviousnesse are as inconsistent with my principles as heaven and hell light and darknesse are opposite one to another which will one day clearly appear to the world what ever I am now thought of To the second viz. That marriage is the way of beasts the Dr gives no particular answer To that of Mr Knight That some of Blewbery that spake against marriage said they came from my house I hope I have enough to do to answer for my self what needs the assertions of others be alledged as articles against me they spake against marriage having lately been at my house therefore I must be guilty of it surely this consequence is neither according to naturall artificiall

was as the younger Pordage said the spirituall birth life death resurrection of Jesus Christ in the nature of Mrs Flavell who lies under the scandall of a bastard by this Dr hitherto because they have had nine moneths time to produce a certificate of the town and county where her dead pretended husband Mr Frewin was married lived and died and we suppose that in honour and conscience they are bound to vindicate their innocency if they be innocent This speech of the younger Mr Pordage was the occasion of Mr Traphams speaking what he did which is a truth at which the ignorance of this Dr scoffes It is such a truth that strikes through the loins of Familisme 18. Why doth your learning quote for your receiving tithes Psal 24.1 The earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof from whence you say that tithes are the Lords by an undoubted interest as well the tenth say you as all the rest and all the rest as the tenth most profound reasoning Let the countreyman look to it for as you have had the tithe under this Magistrate and the Farmer all the rest so had you a Magistrate to your own mind by his order you might take all the rest and leave the tithe to the Farmer What did this man mean to say pag. 86. that upon the supposall of his guilt of adultery yet now he is not chargeable and why because he was not accused within a year after the fact It is much that he having such visions of the inward world should be so dark in the justice of the outward world Sir you were not prosecuted as a felon for adultery by a law ex post facto for your life but merely for the scandall of adultery as you was though you never were in any sence a minister in regard of your office before the Commissioners who as such are impowered only to take notice of scandall Your Plea had been rationall before a Judge of Assize but before the Commissioners absurd yet you fill a page with this stuff and clamour upon your betters Suppose a member of a Church should have a pardon as to life for an act of Adultery should this pardon exempt him from the censure of the Church in point of the scandall of adultery this was much your case and to this purpose tended Mr Fords rationall discourse which you in your sillinesse jeere and scoffe at Animad 9. He offered to the Commissioners his protestation which sounds orthodox and since hath published it in print to the view of the world beginning thus I John Pordage do solemnly avow and protest c. pag. 91. Ans It is confessed that his appeal to God and protestation are apt to beguile the plain hearted therefore we desire the reader to consider these particulars ensuing 1. Arrius whose bowels gushed out at his easment upon the stool according as Constantine the pious Emperour had told him that in case he did a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Epiph n. cont Haer. lib. 2. Tom. 2. H●er 69. dissemble God would find him out speedily This Arrius brought in a paper into the Councell of b Socr. Schol. Hist Eccles lib. penult Nice in the form of sound and wholsome words but reserved his own hereticall opinions in another paper within his bosome protesting he believed all this clapping his hand upon his breast that he believed what there he had written And because we have first mentioned Arrius it may not be altogether impertinent to shew how that wretch and this Dr were alike in their lives we heartily wish in their death they may be divided their likenesse is in these particulars First Arrius was a man pretending to gravity c Epiph. con Haer. lib. 2. Tom. 2. Haer. 69. holynesse contempt of the world so this man Secondly Arrius went about with flattering speeches smooth smiling words and insinuating entisements of meeknesse so this Dr. Thirdly Arrius drew after him seven hundred professing virginity but here the Dr excells him though not in his number yet in his notion for he is familiar with the virgin essence only here is the difference Arrius seduced virgins but did not disswade them from marriage this man disswades the married from the marriage bed and would seduce them to his virginity Fourthly Arrius complained of persecution by the Bishops and that for Christ this complaint he made to Eusebius Bishop of Nicomedia one too much of his own wretched way and in favour with the Emperour so this man complaines of persecution by the poor trampled ministers we blesse God that we have not much fear as to his protection though he and his proselytes and his family do slanderously boast much among the country people Fifthly Arrius complains much of the bitternesse of the magistrate at least by the instigation of the Bishops for ejecting him and his as wicked men and monstrous not fit to live just so doth this Dr in his book pag. 102 103 104. Sixthly Arrius and his complices did abuse the ear of Constantine d Simulate per ●roniam paenitentiam egit Epiph. and by deliberate forgeries did calumniate Athanasius and the orthodoxe so doth this man labour to serve the priests as he termed them in his book Seventhly Arrius was a notorious dissembler in his life and died stinkingly as Fox saith of Dr Gardner at the ●akes For the first of these we leave this Dr to the judgement of Christians For the second Aug. de Haer. Haer. 88. we referre it into the hands of a most wise and gracious God Secondly Thus did Pelagius wretchedly d●ssemble he did seem to unlade his filthy stomach of his proud and wicked heresie by a solemn pulick renunciation afterwards he returned with the Dog to his vomit and the swine to the mire But secondly of later times and there observe the history of Valentinus Gentilis this wretch went further then this Dr for he not only made a solemn and Orthodox confession of his faith but also a recantation of his heresies at last an abjuration under his own hand The Senate of Geneva hoped that his repentance was cordiall and sincere He confessed that he offended in denying Christ to be God He professed he did believe the Doctrine of the Trinity and cryed out Oh my conscience is wounded for my inconsiderate answers to that excellent Divine and servant of God John Calvin I make no question but the searcher of all hearts hath forgiven me and I beseech you likewise to forgive me He walked bare-legged bare-footed and bare-headed through every street in the city with a light in his hand and a trumpet sounded before him he burnt all his hereticall doctrines with his own hand Septemb. 4. 1558. Aret. Hist Val. Gent. 1.2.20 The Senate forgave him only took his oath that he should not depart the city without their leave but he soon brake his oath and fled away the Governour of the Province of Gaium enquiring into and finding

point of science and conscience Again who those two were the Dr names not neither will we but desiring to study and practise that text 1 Gal. 10. we would not be ambitious of any mans praise nor sollicitous for any mans censure We wish that those gentlemen and all Commissioners to whom these presents shall come sadly to consider that text which God did shoot as an arrow into the heart of poor Spira the head whereof did stick to his dying day viz. * Luke 9.26 In hunc textum defixis oculis semper intue●i convenit non est quod callida dissimulatione hic sibi quisquam placeat pietatem se fovere in corde fingens qu●m externis testificationibus prorsus evertit Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed when he shall come in his own glory and in his Fathers and of the holy angels Obj. This man hath some followers and like enough to have more sure they believe him Ans Heresy and lust quickly find entertainment with our naturall hearts which must be wrought upon supernaturally before truth which is supernaturall and they can meet together in love So some did follow Quintinus and other Fanaticks and Calvin gives these two reasons in his dayes which we evidently discern to be the same in ours viz. Satanicall pride and beastly filthinesse * Calv. Ep. 1. pag. 44. 1. Nonnulli stultae curiositati adeo sunt addicti some so much addicted to foolish curiosity applied their minds to superfluous questions who not content with the simplicity of the scriptures did volitare velut in aere in frivolous speculations that they might vaunt themselves of high things se sublimiores esse sublimiora persequi that they were more high then others and did follow more sublime strains The second this Some that began to be seasoned with gospel purity were weary of it and did relinquish it to lead a lustfull filthy life ut effroenem sibi sumerent licentiam vitam ducerent flagitiosam and so it is now that they might take an unbridled licence to themselves and lead at least in secret a flagitious filthy life Before we conclude we would fain have the Countrey reader understand this one thing that the Swincfieldians Henry Nicholas the Familists in New England and the new Quakers do hold that the scriptures are carnall the Bible fleshly element●sh the word of God is to be rejected as a dead killing letter Some scores of places might be cited out of their writings in these words and to this purpose from hence this follows that a man is not bound to the outward command no man is bound to suffer for religion a man may bow to an idol go to Masse any thing so they reason and conclude And by the same reason a man may say and unsay swear and forswear protest and never mean lie kill steal commit adultery if he have an impulse or if it be his light let the countreyman hear what Mrs Hutchinson said in open Court that we are not bound to the law and it is no transgression against the law to commit sin and let him consider what an Enthufiast did the History is this Thomas Schucker a disciple of Rinckius the grand Anaebaptist in the midst of a great throng pretending a rapture and revelation from heaven commanded his brother Leonard Schucker to kneel down being demanded by his father and mother and many others what he meant answered he would do nothing but what was revealed to him from heaven all the people being attent the prophet with a e This was at Sengall a Town in Helvetia in the year 1527. Spanhemius drawn sword cuts off his brothers head at a blow being apprehended by the Magistrate and condemned to die he did nothing relent but professed upon the scaffold that this was the will of God and it was revealed to him from heaven Obj. But what is this to Dr Pordage he hath visions and doth converse with God Ans This Dr did write a letter to a person of honour and piety complaining against Everard that he was a witch a sorcerer and the most dangerous man in England intreating his assistance to apprehend him and within five dayes after to two persons of note denied every word saying he was no such man denied it earnestly and often nay said that Everard of whom you have heard something in these papers pag. 56. was an honest godly man after many denialls being told by them that they admired at him for they lately saw the clean contrary under his own hand in a letter to Col. Evelyn Governour of Wallingford This Dr was surprised and startled at it being not able to deny it but said he was now of another mind Col. Evelyn meeting the Dr told him what a lewd practise this was to affirm and deny at pleasure not to be endured amongst men as men for by this means he might practise any wickednesse He answered that he was in a distemper when he wrote that he was of one mind then and another now and that no man ought to persecute another for his * Witchcraft and sorcery must have liberty of conscience conscience thus adding one lie to another Observe whither will men run when once they come to fall off from the Deity and bloud of Jesus Christ whither will they go deceive affirm deny c. Of what high concernment is it to us for the present and for eternity to use all spirituall means to get and increase in the knowledge of Jesus Christ that knowledge with feeling Phil. 1.9 that savour of the knowledge of the gospel that knowing of the truth as it is in Jesus that spirit of wisdome and revelation to open the eyes of our understanding that we may know the unsearchable riches of Christ to know with all our hearts this knowledge being the spring and source of all evangelicall true and lasting holinesse especially it concerns us in this houre of temptation that is come upon the land Those called Quakers are both Antiscripturists saying the Bible was good for those times but now they are out of date and also Antichristians let no man deceive himself by their pretended mortification they do deny redemption from guilt and hell by the bloud of the Lord Christ without us and so at one blow overthrow all religion and holinesse If we had a voice as loud as the voice of the Archangel as one of the * Chrysost upon Psal 4. v. 2. O mortall men how long will ye love vanity Ancients said upon another text and all the nations for our audience there could not there cannot be a more preserving seasonable sanctifying text then that of 1 Cor. 2.2 I desire to know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified It was the wish of godly Mr Hildersham upon that scripture and we make it ours would to God that all the People in England were of S. Pauls

who was likewise arraigned sentenced and burnt at Litchfield for these blasphemous opinions 1. That Jesus Christ was not the true naturall Son of God 2. That Jesus Christ was a meere Creature 3. That the holy Ghost is not God 4. That he the said Edward Wightman is that person spoken of in Deut. 18.18 I will raise them up a Prophet How did the Parliament in 1643. look upon the denyers of the Divinity of our Lord Christ Anti-Scripturists c. but as felons and worse than felons How did the last Parliament in 1654. three months since look upon Biddle and Tawney reprochers of the Lord Jesus and the blessed Spirit and Scriptures but as Felons Some doe think that they had looked upon them so that in case of their pertinacy no man should have looked upon them in these Nations for some yeares had not the Session been concluded by the expiration of their time They declared their judgment by the commitment of their bodies to the common Gaole and by burning Biddles book by the hand of the Executioner in London and Westminster Nay above all these and which is the ground of these How doth God look on Blasp●emers and Idolaters read Deut. 13.7 8 9 10. Here are two things observable 1. It is evident the Civill Sword was appointed as a remedy against Blasphemy And 2. That it was the appointment of Jesus Christ the Angel of Gods presence whom the Jews tempted in the Wildernesse 1 Cor. 10.9 and therefore it is not true that the Lord Christ never appointed the Civill Sword as a remedy in the case of Blasphemy for he did expresly appoint it in the Old Testament and he never did abrogate it in the New The reason of the Law which is the life of Law is of eternall equity viz. Because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God ver 9 10. If Magistrates be the Ministers of God in the New Testament as they are called Rom. 13.4 and Ministers to punish evill doers then surely either this is no evill viz. to seek to thrust away Gods people from him or else the Magistrate is to execute vengeance on such as evill doers non datur tertium Godly Magistrates of old did take care for the soules of the people and they did it not as types of Christ but as servants of Christ for if they did it as types of Christ then that care is utterly abolished and this very Ordinance by which the Dr is ejected would be as unlawfull as to offer Sacrifice c. which how irreligiously absurd is it That saying of the King of Persia may deserve the thoughts of Christian Magistrates Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven for the house of God let it be done diligently for why should there be wrath against the King and his sons Ezra 7.13 We desire the Reader to observe 1. That God from Heaven and Magistrates of all forms as Emperors Kings Queens free States Parliaments have looked upon Blasphemers Seducers as bad nay worse than Felons and these assisted by the advice of godly able Ministers of the Gospell and these too of all formes Episcopacy Presbytery Independency Object Then was then and now is now Answ We doe foresee this objection because we doe converse with it are well acquainted with it the cryers up of a Toleration The whore of Babylons back-doore as Master Cotton calls it use to speak much to this purpose But we say 1. If the power of the Civill Magistrate in the things of God and Jesus Christ were a truth then it is a truth now the righteousnesse of Gods Testimonies is everlasting unlesse they can produce a repeale from God and they may read till their eyes drop out of their head before they will find that as we beleeve 2. For our parts we would not stand at the Barre of Christ with this guilt upon our hearts sc of exempting of the Civill Magistrate in the case aforesaid That Religion may look to it selfe if it will if she will have a nursing Father and Defender she may seek them we would not thus be guilty for the gaine of the whole world 3. Our thoughts are that this objection will not be able to lift up its face but would think it a friendly office to be buryed under some rock or mountaine at the day of Christs appearing with all his Saints But to proceed The next Commissioner taxed by the Doctor is Master Trapham and that first for the meannesse of his intellectuals What a bold man is this to censure men and his Superiours knowing men and conscientious But of this before 2. For his Passion why because he said he could as willingly run his sword into the bowels of such a Blasphemer as into the bowells of a common enemy a shrewd crime indeed why Doctor is not Blasphemy against God a greater evill than Enmity amongst men the words to any sober understanding can amount to no more than this that Mr. Trapham is more heartily and zealously bent against the Enemies of Iesus Christ than against his owne Enemies and the exercises of Civill liberty that he is more a Christian than an English Man Mr. Trapham saith to you as Mr. Dunch did How durst you be so wicked as to deny the God-head o● Jesus Christ The Devill durst not do it nay did the clean contrary Mark 5.7 Iesus the Son of the m●st high God torment me not The Socinians Familists Quakers doe out dare and out doe the Devill The next is Mr. Cook of Wallingford indeed his charge is high but as false as falsity the Doctor charges him 1 for a supplanter of Mr. Wyer 2. that this Mr. Wyer suplanted is a godly man 1. For his supplanting the naked truth is that the businesse concerning a Minister for Wallingford was made known to his Highnesse the Lord Protector who was pleased to refer it to Mr. Caryl Mr. Peters Mr. Lockier who according to his Highnesses order met and upon hearing on both sides after two houres debate did apprehend and accordingly did order Master Pickney to be the fitter man to be Minister of Wallingford and Mr. Wyer after some convenient time to remove A Copy of this Order we have seen and this the Dr calls subtile supplanting and that the Godly party look upon it so 2. As for Mr Wyers godlinesse we wish it so we are sorry that we are forced to write what he hath delivered viz. that the Death of Iesus Christ is not the procuring cause of Mans Salvation a Doctrine toto coelo inconsistent with reall godlinesse or any one duty of it Object The Man is known to be a blamelesse man Answ Tell us not of that a man may be without Crime and without Christ nay Antichristianisme it is common case now adayes if his life or any mans life whatever in the guilt of such a Blasphemy should out-dazle the holinesse of an Angell yet we will not stick to say that there can be no