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A84383	Pseudochristus: or, A true and faithful relation of the grand impostures, horrid blasphemies, abominable practises gross deceits; lately spread abroad and acted in the county of Southampton, by William Frankelin and Mary Gadbury, and their companions. The one most blasphemously professing and asserting himself to be the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God who dyed and was crucified at Jerusalem for the sins of the people of God. The other as wickedly professing and asserting her self to be the Spouse of Christ, called, the Lady Mary, the Queen, and Bride, and Lambs Wife. Together with the visions and revelations, to which they did pretend their ways of deceiving, with the names and actions of sundry persons deceived by them. As also their examinations and confessions before the justices of the peace, their imprisonment, and their tryal before the judg of assize, at the last assize holden at Winchester, March 7. 1649. Published for a publique benefit and warning to every one to take heed to himself, that he be not deceived by the errors and deceits of these present times. / By Humphry Ellis, minister of the word in the city of Winton.	Ellis, Humphrey, d. 1676.	1650 (1650)	Wing E579; Thomason E602_12; ESTC R206414	57,353	63

And this and more to the like purpose was spoken by the said Edward Spradbury in the hearing of the said Peter Blake at the dwelling house of the said Edward Spradbury in Andover aforesaid on Monday the 21. of January 1649. Peter Blake For so he subscribed his name The Examination of Richard Cook against Henry Dixon January 26. He saith upon Oath that Henry Dixon said this present Evening in Andover in this Accusants presence and divers others That he the said Dixon was the God of Light and the God himself And now also did Thomas Wilkins deliver in that testimony of his before mentioned wherein he so affirmed upon Oath this Dixon to say That there was neither God nor Devil but all things came by nature Such a Spirit of frenzy and contradiction as well as Blasphemy possesseth these persons as in the same breath to affirm That there is no God and yet that he himself is God That there is neither God nor Devil and yet presently in his cursing to use the names of both of them The Examination of John Lewis taken before the Justices He saith that William Woodward of Crooxeason Minister said that the man who was at his house being one named Franklin was the Lord of Life and Glory and that he had received glorious things from him and that one who beleeved him not to be so was afterward convinced and came to see the glory of the Lord and acknowledged him to be the Lord of glory He farther saith That Edward Spradbury told him that Franklin said in his presence that he had troden the winepress of the wrath of God and that he the said Edward Spradbury was one of the two Witnesses mentioned in the Revelation that he was slain for the testimony of Jesus Christ and that the said man named Franklin was slain dead and risen again in glory I have moreover an information which this John Lewis sent me under his hand concerning the same thing declaring that William Franklin should say That he was the Lord of Life and Glory that he was the Lamb slain from the foundation that he was the ever-living Son of the Father that he had the key of the bottomless pit that it was he who dyed without the gates of Jerusalem This I John Lewis certifie upon my Oath The Examination and Evidence of Mr Thomas Musprat of Winchester He affirmeth that being at Andover he found Mr William Woodward with one Spradbury and one Dixon who joyntly affirmed that the said Franklin was the Christ and Saviour of mankinde And he the said Thomas Musprat finding fault with Mr Woodward to be in company with such men he the said Mr Woodward replyed That he had seen the glory of the said Franklin and did rejoyce in it Whereupon the said Thomas answered that all glory was created or uncreated and demanded which of these two he had seen in the said Franklin to which after some waving the question he at last answered that it was the uncreated glory This Evidence of Mr Musprats was given by him upon Oath before the Judg of Assize also and then I heard his Evidence and taking it in writing finde it somewhat more full then this which I have thus transcribed from the Justices Record of it at least in the first part of it for upon his Oath then he declared that being so in Andover these persons viz. Mr Woodward Dixon Spradbury joyntly affirmed to him Franklin to be the Son of God upon which he distinguished of Sons of God by Adoption and by Nature and would know of them in which of these respects they would have that man to be the Son of God They thus answered to him that they knew nothing of that distinction but that Franklin whom you so call is the Son of God and Saviour of the World Thus I have related the Testimonies and Evidences of several of the Witnesses all which speak very home to discover the great Blasphemy whereof these persons are guilty I shall now also set down their own Confessions in their Examinations before Mr Bottesworth and Mr Cobbe the Justices wherein you will see what these Witnesses testified to be by themselves asserted that in a case so clear as their own Confession makes it we shall not need further witnesses now hearing themselves speak The Examination of Edward Spradbury of Andover Clothworker He affirmed that the man whom some men call Franklin is the Messiah the Lamb slain from the Foundation and that he had the key of the bottomless pit that he shutteth and no man openeth and openeth and no man shutteth the Lion of the Tribe of Iudah He affirmed that he heard the man whom some men call Franklin preach twice at the Star in Andover and once at Croox-eason at Mr Woodwards at all which several times he took Texts but many other times he hath heard Instructions from him without taking Texts The Examination of Henry Dixon of Stockbridg He affirmeth that about a fortnight since and not at any time before he came acquainted with one which some men call Franklin but he affirmeth him to be the Son of God the Christ crucified for our sins now come down from Heaven He affirmeth that he himself is one of the seven Angels spoken of in the Revelation and that he is sent to plague the Earth and that he is sent by God The Examination of Mr Woodward He affirmeth that Franklin and the woman called Mary Gadbury who came with him did call themselves man and wife and that they lay together in one bed in his house about a fortnight The Examination of Margaret Woodward wife to Mr William Woodward She affirmeth that the man examined before us whom we called Franklin is her Lord and her King and that she is saved by his Death and Passion Farther she saith That the man her Saviour was nothing but dry bones his flesh was clean scrap't away and his skin and bone hanged together and his skin likewise very suddenly fell off from him and that he had nothing left but the hair of his head and of that one hair was not diminished and afterwards new flesh came again as a young childe She doth farther affirm that there was a woman with him which he calleth his Spouse and others call her the Queen and that they continued together and lay together at her House about a fortnight and that she was one night one hour in strong travel and brought forth a spiritual birth which this Examinant received from her She farther saith That he did preach in her house two or three times and that her family did hear him and divers others and that he did often deliver much spiritual discourse when he did not preach But not being satisfied with that Answer in regard that it was suspected that she was delivered of a childe and had destroyed it the Justices were very earnest with her to know the truth farther and told her they did beleeve there was substance in that

birth and that it was not altogether spiritual and did expect that she should satisfie them in it and tell them the Truth She answered that she could best tell in regard she was present and received what the Queen was delivered of and said it was of that man which she called Franklin but in a spiritual manner perswading them that Franklin was transfigured and had no substance left him and that she received him as a Saviour from the woman called the Spouse in the shape of a man and moreover told the Justices that what was in the Scripture of either Old or New Testament was but Types and Shadows which she did not now regard having the Substance Thus far the Examination and Confession of Mrs Woodward of whom it is to be noted that when she was called in by the Justices to be examined by them Mary Gadbury calling her said Come in my Elect Lady And Goody Waterman the woman so often before mentioned said then of her self also that she was the Kings Daughter all glorious within But let us now come to those who were the Principals in all this business and consider what was done with them Concerning them therfore it is to be known that the Justices had much to do with them to get an Answer from them to any the questions they proposed concerning their Names Conditions Callings Habitations they would either answer they had no name no habitation according to the flesh intimating thereby that they were wholly spiritual the flesh wholly destroyed in them and thereby all these things of name relation habitation which were fleshly also But it being intimated to them by one of the Justices that they must then deal with them as with Rogues committing them to Bridewel the house of Correction for so it seems the Law doth judg those to be Rogues that being examined cannot or will not declare their names conditions calling or place of their habitations and accordingly appoints the House of Correction for them William Franklin therefore being soon sensible of this and the danger he was in thereby receded from his before professed Resolution and now became willing to submit to Examination and accordingly being examined made this following Confession The Examination of William Franklin taken the 28. of January 1649. He saith his Living is at Stepney beyond London and that he is by Trade a Rope-maker and that he hath now according to the flesh a wife and three children living He saith farther that about a moneth since he went to the house of Mr William Woodward a Minister at Croexcason and that he had a woman with him which he calleth his Spouse and hath been acquainted with her a long time And doth affirm That it was revealed to him in a Vision that she should be set apart for his use and that he should separate from his own wife which she the said Spouse at the first motion having a great opinion of his integrity believed and consented to go with him whither he pleased And immediately after they had another Vision whereby they were warned to go into the Hill Country into the Land of Ham which they interpreted to be into Hampshire and so being obedient unto that heavenly Vision they came both together in Hunts Wagon to Andover He farther saith That he often preached at Mr Woodwards house in the presence of Mr Woodward and his wife and whole family and sometimes twenty more and sometimes more And saith That he is the Son of God and was crucified without the gates at Jerusalem and that his body hath been wounded broken and often offered up for sin and that it was about three years and an half since that he assumed this fleshly body of his and that he is not to suffer any more in this mortal body It being told him That he could not be the Christ Christ being in Heaven at the right hand of the Father as the Scripture testifieth but he being here bodily must be a Deceiver he answered Those things of the Scripture were gone and were nothing to him but types and shadows And thus you have also the Examination and Confession of W. Franklin But Mary Gadbury not so sensible of the danger she should expose her self unto by refusing to be examined and concealing her name and habitation when required of her refused still to give any direct Answer to those things and therefore all that I can understand at this time to be answered by her was to that of her name that she had no name according to the flesh but a new name to that concerning her husband there being ground enough to judg that she had an husband that she had now no husband according to the flesh but that her maker was her husband the Lord of Hosts was his name and he was within her and being questioned concerning her lying with Franklin every night though he were a married man as it had been witnessed their so lying together which though she could not deny yet she affirmed that it was without pollution or defilement and denyed that there had been any carnal copulation between them Speaking of William Franklin she affirmed that he was crucified at Jerusalem and being demanded whether she had been at Jerusalem and when she answered that she had been there about a week ago of which her Answer she afterward gave this Reason saying that Jerusalem was every where And this is the whole that I can find to have been then taken of her Examination But that one thing of the womans impudence is moreover noted which is That it being supposed by many who were present at her Examination that she was painted her complexion being so very fresh and beautiful that the truth thereof might be discovered one of the Justices took a candle for this their Examination was at night and told her that she looked so fair that he did scarce believe it to be natural whereupon she stept forth presently and very boldly put her face very near to the candle and said That she was glad the glory of God did shine so beight in her face that they were forced to admire it The Examination of these several persons being now thus past the Justices designed and endeavored if possible to obtain from William Franklin the head of this blasphemous company some Recantation of these his many Blasphemies and some acknowledgment of his great evil therein hoping that such an Acknowledgment and Recantation from him the Ring-leader might be a means to startle all the rest of the seduced party that so followed him and hung upon him to this purpose they begin to deal with him They set before him the danger he had now brought himself into by these his wicked practises and endeavor to make him sensible that there is no way for him to obtain favour to save himself from the great danger he was in and to recover liberty unless he be sensible and make acknowledgment of his wickedness in these abominable

practises to the undeceiving of others and put him also in hope that by this means some favour might be obtained by him And indeed William Franklin now at length becoming sensible of his condition and the trouble and danger which he nad plunged himself into apprehends it his best way to hearken to the advice of the Justices as the only means left him to save himself and to obtain favour And therefore doth he in answer to that advise of theirs pretend himself to be sensible of the evil of the way he had thus walked in and professeth himself at least outwardly and seemingly willing to make such an Acknowledgment and Recantation as they proposed to him hoping and expecting thereby as it appears to find favour from them This therefore of his profession being accepted of a form of a Recantation is presently by Justice Bettesworth drawn up offered to him and is in the very words of it subscribed unto by him The Recantation of William Franklin He now confesseth that he is sorry that he hath affirmed himself to be Christ and that he was crucified for the sins of all men and that there was no salvation but by faith in him and doth heartily repent and doth himself hope to be saved by the merits of Jesus Christ crucified as in the Gospel is set forth unto us and that he will openly recant from his former blasphemous Opinions and cause all that have been misled by him to the uttermost of his power to forsake the false Opinions and Delusions which he hath brought them into To this he subscribed his name William Franklin adding also thereunto these or words to the like purpose That what he professed now in this his Recantation he intended by the Grace of God to stand unto By this Recantation presently a great distraction arose amongst the whole party nor can it be imagined but that they should be much confounded hereat not knowing themselves what to do ashamed so suddenly to renounce what but even now with so much con●●dence they asserted and yet how to stick to it they knew not he that was the head of their party having so soon and solemnly as it appeared disclaimed what either he of himself or they concerning him had thus asserted reckoning them to be but blasphemous Opinions no wonder therefore that they are so confounded and know not what to do Mary Gadbury when this was first shewn to her by the Justices at the very time of it looking upon Franklin with a very angry countenance demanded Hast thou done this is this thy hand At which he remaining some time silent at last answered You see what the times are Or you see what condition we are fallen into She also afterward often times professed That she should never have believed this though ten thousand had told her so had she not her self seen it That she should have layd down her life for the truth of what she had declared concerning him who did now see her self to be abused by him she kept not company with him as Franklin but was perswaded by him that that name and nature was gone that he would not be called by that name and now to see him subscribe the name of William Franklin and that also to such a Recantation made her see that she had been deceived by him Edward Spradbury when he came to the sight of it looking as angerly upon Franklin yea holding up his hand at him as if he would have striken him said Thou Villain how hast thou deceived us by thy lyes And thus he that even now was their Lord and Christ their Saviour that dyed for their sins is presently even in the same instant of time and place reckoned a Villain that by lyes deceived them So uncertain so changeable are these giddy people and upon such ●andy foundations is their whole salvation layd by them And Mr Woodward who before pretended that he saw his uncreated glory and rejoyced at it could now presently upon this say That he thought there was Witchcraft in it and supposed they were Witches Such a sudden change such a great confusion is thus on a sudden wrought among them After these things of the Examinations of these Persons and Witnesses was thus over the Justices proceeded to dispose of the persons themselves and it was thus That Mr Woodward Edward Spradbury Henry Dixon were bound over to the Assize then to appear and before the Judg to answer these and such like things they should be charged withall but William Franklin and Mary Gadbury were both of them committed to prison upon suspition of having the one two wives the other two husbands which suspition and commitment of theirs thereupon was upon very good grounds and very just for Franklin acknowledged in his Confession his having a wife and three children and there was sufficient information of the woman that she had an husband also and yet for these thus to accompany together to call one another husband and wife and as husband and wife ordinarily to lie together could not but be just ground for such a suspicion and commitment upon it William Franklin therefore having his Mittimus made is presently sent to the Common-Goal where he is received and as a Felon being thus committed upon just suspicion of Felony hath irons upon his legs and in this condition continues so fettered in prison till the time of the Assize but Mary Gadbury having so accompanied with another womans husband and besides the Charge of that suspected Felony and Adultery refusing to declare her name or condition is as a lewd woman rogue in law committed first to Bridewell the house of Correction where she lay a week and in that space several times received the Correction of the house according to the custom of it The Munday after February 4. she is sent for thence by the Justices and brought before them And having now suffered a little hardship and tasted some what of the smart of the whip the height of her spirit begins to be somewhat abated now she with abundance of tears laments her condition wherein she is and desires all favour that may be from the Justices she doth now readily answer to all their Interrogatories concerning her name her calling her husband and children her acquaintance with this man and the occasion of their coming into this Country all which was such as I have before related concerning her that therefore it may be somewhat tedious here again to relate and insert it And besides what she spoke to the Justices in answer to these and the like questions as that which might serve them in their proceedings in Law with her She was very forward of her own accord to declare such things which they because they concerned not them in their proceedings listened not much after but therein discoursing so at large as she did of her Visions Revelations Voyces I who was there by had the patience to hear her at least two hours

passed between us which I shall not now relate onely something in general concerning either of them As for the man William Franklin I found it very hard at all to deal with him for he carried himself very warily jealous of me or any unless well known to him especially if there were any else in company as if there coming were to entrap him and learn somewhat against him He is naturally very slow of speech but now he was very shy of delivering himself at all but in that discourse I could obtain with him I heard some complaints fall from him of the trouble he was now in but very little that might discover any true sence of the great evil he had commited of which I laboured chiefly to make him sensible yea so far for ought I could ever perceive of being sensible thereof that he rather labored to put it off to deny it to make it to be but the mistakes of others that he should say he was indeed a Son of God but never to have affirmed himself to be the Son of God No particular acknowledgment of any thing could be got from him onely he would in general say If I have done any man wrong if I have deceived any one I shall be sorry for it and so sheltered himself under such generals as these without any particular acknowledgment at all notwithstanding he had in his Recantation under his own hand confessed the substance of what he was by any charged In what related to Religion he appeared very ignorant even in the Principles of it but very plausible in his speech that might easily insinuate it self into the mindes of the simple his speech and language was wholy according to the Familists Dialect from whom I suppose he had sucked in all these wicked Principles upon which he was acted He would oftentimes alledg Scripture in his discourse and speak much in the language of it but very strangely abusing perverting wresting it from the true sence thereof by his Allegorical fancies But as for the woman M Gadbury she was more free but very uncertain in her discourse sometimes she would seem to plead somewhat for the things wherewith she was charged for her accompanying with Franklin lying with him and the appearance of Adultery and uncleanness that was in it I heard her alledg that of the Apostle Have I not power to lead about a sister a wife c. And it is remarkable what was told me by a godly Minister to be spoken by her unto him when he asked whether she were not ashamed of it viz. That Adam and Eve in innocency were naked and were not ashamed but sin brought shame into the world but when they come to be in Christ it is again taken away For William Franklins being Christ she would plead the union of the Saints and Christ together But at other times especially after she had been a little time in Bridewel and was thence removed to the Gaol she would seem with tears to lament her condition and the trouble she was in and would seem heartily to acknowledg how much she had been deceived and had given the glory of God and Christ to another That it was well with her till she looked down upon the creature and had respect to Franklin by whom she would say she was deceived even undone by him and lay all the blame upon him and that she should not endure to look upon him any more But after a little time of her being in Prison with him she began again to look upon him and be too familiar with him But even then when she seemed most to acknowledg her evils and how much she had been deceived yet she would still stick to those Visions and Revelations she had related that they were not of Satan not delusions but of God it was the Voyce of Jehovah spake so to her all the world should not take her off from it And though both I and others in this labored much with her to make her sensible that these were deceits and rehearsed many of them and declared how contrary for matter and end and unlike in manner to Gods revealing himself to his people they were that if she acknowledged as she did Franklin to be a deceiver her self to be deluded by him she might wel see these to be deceits and to be of the Devil which had so bin the means to draw her from Christ to give her self to another That this was her first error and inlet to all the rest her slighting Scripture to hearken to these deceits and though she did recover from this she might be as apt to fall into the like evil again so long as such ways of Revelation besides and contrary to the Scripture were respected by her and with these and such like Arguments was she often perswaded but nothing would in this prevail but she would stand it out even to the death those Visions to be of God by all which may be easily discerned what little opinion is to be had of her feigned Recantation and how soon she may be expected to fall again into the like or greater evils when that corrupt principle of giving heed to such wicked Visions and Revelations shall be so tenaciously held and asserted by her Thus these persons abiding in prison at length the Assize comes which began here on Thursday March 7. and upon Friday March 8. in the morning were both these persons presented at the Bar before the Lord Chief Justice Rolls then one of the Judges for this Western Circuit and who here sate upon those businesses which relate to life and death William Franklin was first proceeded withall but the business with him held not much debate he renounced what he was charged withall denyed himself now to be the Christ declared that he desired to be a Member of that Body whereof Christ is the Head and hoped to be saved by him he moreover declared himself yet but in general according to his manner to be sorry for his Errors and what he had done amiss his Recantation before mentioned was then again presented to him and owned by him and in the face of the whole Court he subscribed thereunto And this was all that I could learn by way of Examination or Tryal to be done with him for I was not present at it but I came time enough to see and hear the proceedings which followed with Mary Gadbury and the other persons Mr Woodward Spradbury Dixon who as hath been before related were bound over to the Assize Mary Gadbury being presented at the Bar and now both Franklin and she standing there together the Informations were read which were given into the Iustices and which I have before set down divers Witnesses of credit did there also Viva voce deliver to the Iudg what they knew in the business and some confirmed upon Oath what was before testified by them to the Iustices and some spake more fully to what these persons were charged withall

before the Iustices wherein he had affirmed Franklin to be the Son of God was read he acknowledged he had said so but that he did find it otherwise now being asked whether he were one of the destroying Angels as he had before affirmed himself to be he answered that he was not and now acknowledged that he was Harry Dixon of Stockbridg and not such a person Spradbury also being asked whether Franklin were the Messiah acknowledged that he did sometimes say so but would not now affirm him to be so At length both of these received the same sentence that Will Franklin and Mr Woodward before them had viz. To be committed to Gaol and there to lie till they put in good security for their good behaviour and accordingly Mr Woodward Spradbury Dixon are presently seized on by the Gaoler and taken by him into his custody And thus you have the Tryals and Censures of these several persons These three last Mr Woodward Spradbury and Dixon being acquainted in the Country lay not long in prison but the same day wherein they were committed offered such security which would be bound for them and which was accepted and were accordingly the same day released Mary Gadbury was according to order taken to Bridewell and received correction there again according to the order of the house where also she continued till the Quarter Sessions holden here the week after Easter at which time petitioning with tears to the Iustices for her liberty acknowledging also publiquely her errors and wickedness she was discharged by them and the week after the last week on Munday April 22. 1650. she went from this City of Winchester towards London in the Wagon which weekly travelleth between these places But William Franklin not so acquainted in the Country and his crime so great that there is none but would be ashamed to be bound for him lies in prison yet is there at this present not being yet able to find such sufficient security that may be accepted and how much longer he may continue there is to me altogether unknown Thus have I now presented my Reader with a true faithful impartial Relation of the doings and sufferings of these Blasphemers in respect of the things done rather then of what they suffered indeed a tragical story I shall now conclude the Relation it self with presenting to my Reader a brief Synopsis of it in the names of the Actors in it with the parts acted by them therein which were William Franklin Blasphemously making himself to be The Christ the Messias the Saviour of the world crucified for the sins of the people Mary Gadbury as blasphemously called and calling her self The Spouse of Christ the Bride the Lambs Wife the Lady the Queen the Mother of Christ that bears him the woman clothed with the Sun who travels in birth for the bringing forth of those spiritually that were seduced by them Goody Waterman The Kings daughter all glorious within Mr William Woodward a Minister their Proselyte who professed he saw his glory and rejoyced to see it Mrs Woodward his wife The Elect Lady John Noyce John the Baptist whose office was to declare the coming of this counterfeit Christ into the world Edward Spradbury One of the two Witnesses and an healing Angel Henry Dixon One of the destroying Angels whose office it was to be sent forth to curse and destroy the Earth William Holmes junior Another destroying Angel sent forth also to curse and destroy the Earth Divers other persons also there were engaged in this wicked business of whom not having such clear and particular Information I have not inserted their names in this Relation And having thus concluded the Relation it self let me desire of every one to whom it shall come and who shall be the Reader of it to consider seriously with himself whether he hath ever known read or heard of the like abominations to be acted in the World How great must this wickedness needs be for men professing the Name and Gospel of Christ and so eminent in the profession of it as some of these sometimes were not onely to depart from Christ and renounce him for how could these things have been acted by these persons without a manifest denying of Christ renouncing the Faith and reckoning to be even a fable whatsoever the Scripture hath recorded concerning him but also to proclaim and set up another in his stead to be the Christ and to ascribe to such a person whatsoever is due and proper to Christ and for such an one to assert himself to be the Christ and all of them to assume so wickedly such Titles and Offices to themselves in the service of him Surely what Sleidan hath reported in the tenth Book of his Commentaries concerning the blasphemous Opinions speeches and practices of John of Leiden and the Munsterian Anabaptists is nothing in comparison of the things I have here related concerning these persons David George Tho Muncer William Hacket came very short in their Blasphemies and Wickednesses to what hath thus been by these acted And had they not together with their blasphemous Opinions faln into such wicked practices as might deservedly bring them under the censure of the Magistrate and were so timous●y taken notice of and a stop put to their wickedness by them what the sad effects of these their ways might have been is easie to be imagined We have heard of many strange and blasphemous Opinions vented abroad in these times of ours but surely never any came to such an high degree of blasphemy that ever I could hear of as these persons have done In all which there is surely much to be learned by us great use may be made of this Relation for our Instructions and such remarkable passages as are here represented ought not to pass us without some serious consideration of them and of the use and benefit we are to receive from them First Here may we learn by experience the Truth of Christ and of his Word the Scriptures for how are we fore-warned by them O that we might all be thereby also fore-armed that there shall come false Christs and that they shall come with signs and lying wonders that many shall be deceived by them That men shall creep in cunningly who shall privily bring in damnable Heresies denying the Lord that bought them All which we may see even to the letter verifled in this Relation So that these persons thus eminently fulfilling the Scripture notwithstanding their impugning of it give us ground thereby to be setled in our faith concerning the divine Authority of it Here is the patience and long-suffering of God to be admired who notwithstanding he be so jealous of his glory that he will not give it to another nor communicate to any other besides that Authority which he hath given to the Son whom he hath exalted and anointed to be both Lord and Christ should yet exercise such forbearance towards persons so extreamly guilty in ●●●se their actions of