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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

make pictures of hell e. g. I as Christ Godded in God a typicall Christ you are Christed partakers of the divine essence that of God to God and body and soul to the grave fleshly ordinances carnall scriptures c. We need not quote the texts where these phrases are neither need we name the men that handled them thus indeed we cannot they are more in number then we can count The Dr in his printed answer to this article speakes much of the souls union We desire to speak a word not to amaze as he doth but to benefit the Reader We do acknowledge a reall spirituall eternall union between Christ Saints when we think of it sometime a little fire kindles and we say Lord what is man our hearts close with that of a godly learned * Reynold Conf. with Hart. cap. 1. Divis 2. man spoken upon an occasion something like this and very proper to these dayes the unity saith he that the Scripture notes is of three sorts first of persons in one nature secondly of natures in one person thirdly of natures and persons in one quality in the first is one God in the second is one Christ in the third is one Church i. e. The company of the elect called and sanctified by one spirit partakers of one Baptisme knit to Christ by one faith among themselves in one love to serve one Lord in one hope of one eternall glory the first and second of these unions we desire to believe because they are written and to admire because they are exceeding glorious the last union by the spirit and faith we desire to feel and experimentize in our own souls knowing that in these cob webby times of vain speculations one beam of Gods love one drop of the bloud of Christ upon our hearts one witnesse of the spirit in ordinances will doe us more good then all the meteors and notions in the world But as for H. Ns union of being christed in Christ and I. Ps. union of the deity and pure humanity to be one flesh and W. E. union of God is in thee and thee and the N. Qs union to be Christ a part of God we desire to look on them as more abominable then abomination it self nay more ugly then hell it self To the second and third his answers followeth Concerning the little horn Dan. 7. to be Christ This article was four years since exhibited against me from which I was discharged by the Committee Richard Higgs John Higgs and Richard Luington attesting on oath that I paraphrasing on the seventh of Daniel and speaking of the little horn said that some interpreters would have the little horn in the letter to be Antiochus Epiphanes a bloudy and persecuting tyrant others think the little horn to be the Turk who is a great persecutor of Christians * Mark this phantasticall ignorance if not worse for by such a mysticall liberty names may be applyed that we dare not name which how dreadfull is it But in the mystery in regard of his power we will apply it to the power of Christ in a christian who is often in Scripture resembled to the horn of David and to the horn of salvation and that upon three considerations In regard that Christs power in the soul doth appear to be a little horn a small despised instrument to sence and reason for flesh and bloud look upon it as a poor instrument in regard of bringing down the strength of sin in us Secondly In regard of sin and 6 This man belies the Divell who quakes at an ordinance much more at Christ's power his fear that Christ will exert and put forth an act of power into the heart through an ordinance is so great that he even trembles at the thoughts of it the very addresse to the solemn reading of a chapter will make the Divell sad he is afraid of the issue your anti-ordinance men in England are the best friends that he hath had this many a day Sathan who laugh the power of Christ in the soul to scorn yet before him his accursed kingdom must fall 3. In regard of its birth beginning in the soul it is at the first as a very 7 We have heard the parable in regard of grace that to be little at first but never of Christs power to be little till now litttle grain of mustard seed yet in due time it will destroy the kingdom of sin and set up the kingdom of holynesse in us having thus drawn away the vail from this article I hope it appears with a more tolerable and innocent face That I am very ignorant and insufficient for the work of the Ministry I believe those that exhibite this article against me upon tryall will be * All the precedent articles prove it if some of them should not come within the act for blasphemy which plea i● his Diana yet they all prove him to be ignorant and insufficient in a very high degree of both found very ignorant and insufficient to judge of it and as to those that are to be my judges I hope they will not make their wills the rule of ignorance and insufficiency But proceed according to the Canons of pure reason or supernaturall revelation in giving judgement concerning this particular the event of which I leave to God The proofs of the aforesaid articles The aforesaid Mr John Tickhill of Abingdon This Deponent saith that the Dr did deliver that by male and female Gen. 1. We are to understand by male the Deity by female the humanity and that these two are one flesh and being crosse examined he further saith that the Dr did deliver these expressions with approbation and the Deponents hath cause to believe it was his own judgement and as far as he doth remember it was delivered as his judgement The second was fully proved upon oath before the Justices by Francis Smith of Bradfield who went to the Dr about it being much offended and told him the little horn made war with the Saints yet the Dr did still pertinaciously maintain it and spake evill of those that opposed him in it The aforesaid George Aslet of Bradfield further deposeth and saith That the said Dr about a moneth since did deliver that doubtlesse the Apostle in that text 1 Cor. 6. know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the holy Ghost did not 8 Why doth the Dr quarrell at this text unlesse it be urged here as a forcible argument against fornication mean these earthly bodies And this Deponent further saith that the Dr did deliver that by that text Gen. 18. vers 19. I know him that he will command his children and his houshold after him c. was not meant the outward houshold of Abraham but his inward houshold his will and affections which he was Lord Paramount over and he quoted that text in the last of Joshua as for me and my house we will serve the Lord which

whole and having spent the said day in examination of severall witnesses for proof of the articles they appointed to sit the morrow after upon the same businesse and then adjourned The next day being the twentie third of the said November they made further proceedings in the examination for proof of the articles and after all the witnesses for that purpose that were then present were examined in open Court and in the Doctors own presence and by himself crosse examined the Commissioners required the Doctor to produce his witnesses for his defence and justification if he had any which he refused demanding to have first copies of the depositions against him before he would produce his witnesses which the Commissioners judging to be very unreasonable and irregular thought not fit to grant unto him and though they might then justly have proceeded to give their judgement without giving him further time he making default yet notwithstanding such was their tendernesse in the carriage of this businesse that they gave him further time to produce his said witnesses viz. till the thirtieth of the said November at the Bear in Speenhamland where the Doctor appeared not in person but by his wife and others of his family excused his failer in regard of sicknesse and infirmity of body under which as they pretended he then laboured and could not appear without further danger of his health which excuse although no positive proof thereof was then made was admitted by the Commissioners and further time yet given him till the seventh of December then following at the Bear in Reading At which time the said Commissioners proceeded to examine severall other witnesses then present in behalf of the Prosecutours which having done they examined severall witnesses on the Doctors part and behalf and the Doctor pretending to be ill they adjourned for that time till the morrow morning following But for that the Doctor had the same day produced severall witnesses in his behalf who being sworn neither the questions propounded unto them by the Doctor nor the evidence by them given did lead to justifie the Doctor from the matters charged and proved against him but merely dilatory as was judged by the Commissioners They did therefore require that according to former order he should the next day give in the names of his witnesses together with his interrogatories in writing to which he would have them examined which the Commissioners might first consider of but he peremptorily refused so to do onely instead thereof he offered severall questions which being taken by the Clark were afterwards debated by the Commissioners and by them adjudged to be to as little purpose though they should be admitted to be true as the former evidence already taken in his behalf but only to delay yet notwithstanding they proceeded to examine two of the Doctors witnesses to some of those questions which they judged most tending to his justification which having done and heard patiently what either the Doctor or his counsell could say at large they caused the whole proceedings to be read over publickly and then commanded the company to withdraw that they might resolve on their judgement which was unanimously agreed on for the ejectment of the Dr out of the parsonage of Bradfield for scandall ignorance and insufficiency proved against him The most materiall things charged against him with the depositions thereupon taken on both sides upon which the aforesaid sentence of ejestion was grounded are as followeth 1 Article In the first paper of articles exhibited against the Dr. That the fiery deity of Christ mingleth and mixeth it self with our flesh Answer I was then speaking of the mysticall union between Christ and his Church and in the illustration of this union I applyed that expression out of the 8 of the Canticles He mingled his wine and his milk together so in this union Christs divine nature mingleth it self with our humanity his spirit without flesh This expression Master Tickle was pleased to charge with blasphemy asking me what I meant by flesh I answered in conference by flesh I understood not the sinfull and fleshly part of the soul that lusteth against the spirit for with this there can be no union Secondly nor the outward elementary flesh of the body but by flesh I understand our pure humanity or the regenerated part of the soul the converted part of the spirit and thus the spirit of Christ and the regenerated part were really in union one with the other according to the Apostles phrase We are made partakers of the divine nature At this answer he had nothing to reply The proof of this article Master John Tickle Minister of Abingdon and one of the Assistants to the Commissioners sworn and examined This Deponent saith that Doctor Pordage did deliver in the Pulpit that the fiery Deity of Christ mingleth and mixeth it self with our * The Dr said the deity of Christ mingles it self with our flesh that is execrable blasphemy Then with our pure humanity that 's canting nonsence then with the soul of Christ most unsound and ignorant Flesh and being charged with blasphemy by this Deponent he repeated his sence thus he did not mean with our corruption but with our flesh holding his hand over the Pulpit And this Deponent being crosse examined to severall Interrogatories exhibited by the Doctor farther saith that after the Doctor held up his hand as he hath formerly deposed the Doctor said that he did not mean with our flesh but with the soul of Christ and that this article was delivered without any the least limitation as to the sense of it and that the same was fully and roundly delivered in the Doctors sermon at Ildesly whereupon the Deponent charged him with blasphemy and afterwards they fell into a dispute Article 2. That the imputative righteousnesse of Christ is a sapless righteousnesse The Doctors answer to this article is I thus deliver the truth as I was paraphrasing on that portion of scripture mentioned in the 9 of Daniel and the 24 of everlasting righteousnesse Vntruth notorioussy false read the proof and the he●ds of his sermon in the animadversion I did say words to this effect That the imputative righteousnesse of another was a saplesse and empty righteousnesse to all those th●t had no right or interest in it c. I shall desire a little to explain my self on this proposition that the imputative righteousnesse of Christ will prove a saplesse righteousnesse for he that hath not the spirit of Christ dwelling in his heart by faith notwithstanding all his a That application can there be of Christ and his merits without the spirit application of Christ and his merits yet to him it is but a saplesse righteousnesse so saith the scripture he that hath not the spirit of Christ is none of his though he should apply the imputative righteousnesse of Christ to himself But here I do not deny the imputative righteousnesse of Christ nor his active and

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

should follow shortly after our dear brother Love Or Coppin to whose book that crawls with blasphemy the Dr gave his approbation Or John Tawney or Everard who set their mouths wide open against God and man or Elizabeth Pool or Goodwife Geffreys who even stink above ground we that live round about him do not know any godly person but shuns him as a very monster it is a frequent blind he puts upon his reader by citing in his own behalf and against the Commissioners the godly party For our parts we dare not say that any Socinian or Familist is or continuing such ever can be a godly man our reason is because such deny the Deity and satisfaction of our Lord Jesus from the sound and feeling knowledge whereof proceeds and streams out all reall and sound godlinesse a godly Familist or Socinian sounding in our ears even as great a contradiction as a godly Turk God forbid that we should speak one pick against holinesse better that our tongues should be dumb then our mouthes utter and our hands wither then our pens should write one tittle to blemish it We desire to look upon it as the most glorious thing in the world and we would rather if our own hearts do not deceive us seek our bread and the bread of our little ones with holinesse in our hearts and lives in a howling wildernesse then to enjoy all the scepters of the world without it yet give us leave to say if it be but to ease our hearts that it is a trouble to us that Blasphemers Antichristians Anti-scripturists should go up and down under the precious name of men fearing God by which artifice they harden themselves in their impieties and infect souls with their blasphemies We do forethink that that expression of a godly Turk will sound harsh but we know not why it should 1 See Dr Calovius Socinis proflig p. 33. 34. Ignatius calls the predecessours of the Familists and Socinians the seducing serpent or the Devil preaching to destruction The Fathers denied the Ebionites to be Christians The Samosatenians were accounted and called God-killers God-deniers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quantum in ipsis quia divinam Christi naturam negabant because they denied 2 Efficitur prob dolor ut Jesu Christi religio Turcis sit ludibrio cap. 1. Johan p. 7. explic Christ to be God by nature Socinus himself saith that the Protestants held opinions that made their religion ridiculous to the Turks what were those opinions why in speciall this that Christ is God so then if we would deny the Deity of our Lord Christ as do the Familists and Socinians we were in a fair way not to be ridiculous to but to agree with the Turks again this 3 Hac ratione Turcas ad Ch. religionem allici posse ibid. p. 2. Wretch tells us that one reason of his writing against the figment as he calls it of Christs divine nature was to make the Turks turn Christians therefore by a parity of reason they that do deny the Divine nature of Christ in this point may quickly turn Turks Valent. Gentil a blasphemer of Christs divinity was not 4 Non puduit eum subsidium petere ex Alchorano Aretius Hist Val. Gent. cap. 1. ashamed to seek arguments to help himself out of the Turkish Alcoran And 5 Alciatus Mahometista sactus est idem cap. 2. Alciate one of his complices as he confessed himself was turned down-right Mahometan Calvin in his instruct ad Lib. calls them rake-hells dogs swine we fear that in giving smooth language to villanous seducers of his kind we use more manners then will do the gospel good Dr Twisse a late learned pious man did call them Atheists and he often said to one of us that all gospel Atheisme was against the Lord Jesus Christ in a little measure we find it amongst the Gnosticks and Arrians and for some Centuries their main spight and quarrel was against the Lord Jesus after for more Centuries in the kingdome of the Papacy where their damning errour is in dividing and so by consequence destroying both the efficacy of Christs grace and the fulnesse and compleatnesse of his righteousnesse as to justification upon the account of which last some learned men when zeal was in request have said That a Papist living and dying in the doctrine of the Councel of Trent can never be saved in this last Century the Libertines and Fanaticks in Germany and the Netherlands the Socinians in Poland and the Familists in England what do they mainly do but pour forth their venome against the Divinity personality and righteousnesse of the Lord Jesus To shut up all the Court Drs in the late Kings time began much to vary their expressions using such in which they might have the company of the Socinians as affecting to call Christ their Great master sometimes their Lord and master that a man could hardly discern by their prayers whether they respected most the Lord Jesus or their very good Lord and Patron God hath found many of them out cast them out the desire of our hearts to God is that Familisticall Allegorizing Antichristian doctrines may be shut out from thence and all Pulpits of the land that the name of our Dear Lord Jesus Christ may be magnified in us and we in him And so we come to the remaining articles of the third and last charge The sixth article of the last charge That it was a weaknesse to be troubled for sin The Drs answer I do not remember that any such expression as this ever dropped from my mouth and I am perswaded that no one dare assert it with an oath which if they could not make much to their purpose for with a charitable construction it might thus be made forth That it is a 3 wretched want of any reall experience for no man is so much troubled for his sin and laments over it and abhorres himself as he that hath the sense of Gods love the more assurance the more repentance weaknesse for one to be troubled for sin who hath the assurance of Gods love his sin pardoned his person justified sanctified and his will converted from and crucified to sin for such a one should be triumphing in the power of faith love enjoying sweet heavenly communion with God and saying oh Death where is thy sting and there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Whereas trouble for sin thus pardoned and mortified may be an engine for Satan to make a soul question Gods love and to bring it out of a spirituall enjoyment of God into a slavish fear and disturbance The proof upon this article Note that Mrs Grip was the witnesse intended for the proof of this article who did and doth attest it and will depose it Mr Benjamin Woodbridge Minister of Newbery and one of the Assistants to the Commissioners sworn and

countrey in that the city air was offensive to her health 2. In that by the counsell of able Lawyers she was advised to retire to some private place she being then in law ingagements and continually subject to arrests by the intanglements of her first husbands estate her brother in law who was her adversary then threatning to seize on her if she were above ground 3. In reference to my ingagement in her law businesse I think it materiall briefly to relate the grounds and occasions of it in the time of her widowhood her brother in law began a suit with her in the Common law which fearing he should be there overthrown he removed to the Chancery Now she being very unfit and uncapable to mannage this her self she earnestly desired me as an ancient and trusty friend to undertake it Upon this I went to Judge Roles and Mr Chuts with her who looking into her evidences and into the will of her late deceased husband found that for want of one clause in it she was liable to many suits and arrests and to great intanglements and that her interest could not be established but by much difficulty and at length this was the result of the Counsell That she must let all her estate which was under morgage be forfeited into the hand of some faithfull friend and so sell it away Hence I through much importunity layed down some hundred pounds rescued the morgage and so became interested in a suit at Chancery which lasted three years Now from this may further appear sufficient ground First why I brought her to that private house Secondly why I came to her in the time of her retirement I then received mony from her to follow her suite Thirdly why I came alone it being then her interest to be concealed being subject to arrests I shall proceed to adde some few circumstances more which may serve to clear me before all sober persons First At my coming I told the people my name and that I dwelt at 6 Could not you have saved all this pains by one certificate where her hushand lived and died had not you four monethes time before your sentence Reding that I was minister of St Lawrence Church knowing the gentlewoman to be sober and pious now had I been as my enemies enviously pretend I might have concealed my name quality and place of residence We discovered to them that the gentlewoman had an estate in the bulwork at London and rents there to receive which they might enquire after as they did for their security now this was not the way to cover a work of darknesse Thirdly She sometime went to London to the Lawyers whilst she vvas there some belonging to that family accompaning her vvho found that as she had related she vvas in great troubles at Lavv and vvere convinced that she retired on that accompt Now in reference to most of those particulars in which I have contradicted and denied the alledged circumstances and further vindicated my self they are exactly agreeing with what I have in writing confessed and acknowledged by Loughton himself from whom this charge is pretended to be received and by the nurse of the child subscribed by them both before witnesses which acknowledgement I shall produce when I see occasion And by this I hope it may appear to moderate sober and judicious men that this libelling charge drawn up so falsly enviously and yet so subtily * It was called upon as soon as known calling from the dead a businesse past some nine or ten years since since which though it were criminous as it is not were legally to prejudice by the Act of oblivion or generall pardon as all other things pretended to be spoken or acted by me before 1651. according to the judgement of judicious men which I leave to the Commissioners to consider of I say that this is but the effect of the evil and wicked policy of my accuser brought forth to prejudice and overcloud that pure and innocent principle which I professe and faithfully live to and the better to cover that evil design they have against my person and livelyhood And now I appeal to the Commissioners and to all that are pious and sober minded whether my enemies do not deal very unreasonably enviously and unlike Christians from this businesse so long since past which nothing criminous is positively objected against me to draw such horrid conclusions as commonly to report that I now live in base lust and wantonnesse notwithstanding my commending of and owning the virgin life I say whether this be not exceeding hard measure and ungodly dealing let all judge But I see that design of the Devil in it which mine enemies may be ignorant of which is to overcloud and darken by monstrous lies and scandalls which are the smoke of the bottomlesse pit that 7 We desire the reader if he please to take the pains to consider the animad upon his virgin life with these that follow in answer to his pretended holinesse and swelling words of vanity life of purity chastity mortification self deniall and heavenly enjoyments which God hath favoured me to live in and so to affright all from my acquaintance which otherwise might very much prejudice and overthrow his kingdome For the old serpent knows very well as also my near friends and acquaintance that for above these four years even since the time of my great trialls by the extraordinary temptations and representations of the devil that I have been abstracted more then ordinary from all outward things giving my self up wholly to prayer watchfulnesse mortification and constant self deniall in dying to all earthly pleasures even to things permitted and accounted lawfull as finding many things which ordinarily imbraced to be great hinderances of the souls progresse to God and great burthens to a spirit which tasted much of that tree of life which groweth in the midst of the Paradice of God and great cloys to a soul that sees through the vail of the sensitive nature into the spirituall glory of eternity But what I have enjoyed and experimented in this time of my extraordinary mortification and self deniall in the death of the animall man and rising of Christs image in me is not seasonable now to declare yet for the glory of my God and the undeceiving of those who strangely mistake me Thus much in all humility I must say that did my accusers and my enemies know what I have enjoyed in this way of the crosse of the secret hidden treasure of eternity and of the out-goings of divine goodnesse were they but acquainted with those discoveries of celestiall glory instillations of the heavenly dew and secret touches of the holy Ghost did they but know those bright irradiations of eternall light those strong motions of divine life and pleasant streams of eternall love together with those deep sufferings in bearing Christs crosse which I and many in my family have in this time experienced they durst

certain truth you may do well to acquaint others to take heed how they professedly step out of Gods wayes he wisheth that all his friends may take warning by him Here are symptomes of conversion but the issue we know not reall grace is glorious and rare upon the one hand of it a man may live blamelesse and die Christlesse and upon the other hand a profane person may come to be chained and terrified while he lives and yet to be tormented in chains when he dies But to proceed Either your visions are contrary to or beside the written word or else according to it if the first we demand how are they from God if they be revelations of things contained in scripture we demand why from God the ground of our demand is from that text though we might quote 20 more Luke 16.29 They have Moses and the prophets Dives answered nay Father Abraham but if one come from the dead then they will believe as if Dives had said t is true they have Moses and the prophets but non satis est that is not enough Abraham answered if they will not believe Moses and the prophets neither would they believe though one came from the dead Do we not more certainly see and believe the devil to be prince of the air and do we not more clearly discern spirituall wickednesses in high places upon the account of the most infallible word then by seeing the devil in a postillian at Bradfield do we not know that he is a lion and dragon and old serpent more clearly a thousand times in the word of God then in Dr Pordages glasse windows and sieling is not the discovery of their number power malice fiercenesse more durably laid down in the blessed Bible then in your brick chimney doth not the experience of the saints second the word and they feel it true and see it in others better then in your sulphur soot and salt Is not the hidden manna the smell of Christs garments the white stone the sweetnesse of his ointment the everlasting love of the Father the comforts of the blessed spirit is not one ray one shine one drop of these glories upon the heart through the spirit of grace by the word of grace better shall we say then your dews of Paradice your harmonies we abhorre the comparison Obj. But God may what hinders pag. 67. excellent Logick Ans Dr make your syllogisme if you cannot we will help to make your proposition what God may that he doth we deny it you and all yours will never prove it nay do we not know that through divine permission and wise ordering the devil may nay do we not find in these dayes he doth nay in this very case before us you cozen your deluded silly women with a may not saints enjoy May not Dr Pordage have his Logick ad unguem dip and understand in Chrysostome render Grammatically five lines in Tully or five verses in Virgil prima facie yet we know he hath not the faculty We speak not this to overstresse that kind of learning very desireable and serviceable nay we should have been ashamed to drop this but that we are ashamed to see the froth and folly of this man even since his coming into the virgin life that in this also he will vain gloriously seem to have that learning which he never had no not to a single sip Obj. But the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles had visions pag. 67. Ans Make your inference what then which of these are you did you never read 1. Heb. 1. God who at sundry times and in * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 per multas partes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quoad formam divers manners spake unto the Fathers by the prophets hath in these last times spoken unto us by his Son Did you never read some pent commentary of the lower form on this text if you did not what makes your outward man to be so censorious if you did what makes your inward man so ignorant take one for all Deus loquutus est Olim per prophetas Tunc Patribus Tunc multifariam Nunc per filium Nunc autem nobis Nunc ut in fine temporum Conditio igitur nostra exhac parte potior est in modo quoque revelationis excellimus after Quum Deum nobis locutum esse dicit in his postremis temporibus significat non amplius esse causam cur expectatione novae revelationis simus suspensi neque enim particularis est sermo quem attulit Christus sed extrema clausula Calvin in locum God spake Heretofore by the prophets Then to the Fathers Then sundry wayes Now by his Son Now to us Now as in the last time fully But you proceed your visions are suitable to the visions of the Prophets and Apostles even to Pauls rapture into the third heaven and Johns voices upon mount Sion you tell us this but pray who told you so give us but one single argument shew us but one single instance of any saint that hath had scripture visions since the vision of John did conclude the scripture As Suetonius in Caligul Hitherto as of a saint now speak we must as of a monster Let the reader observe that before these visions and since this man that tells you pag. 73. the spirituall eye locked up and shut by the fall hath been opened in an extraordinary way to him and his and that ever since their spirituall sences have never been shut we say this man did before and hath since most blasphemously reproached the Godhead and bloud of the Lord Jesus We do not desire that the meanest reader may see by our eyes we referre him to the relation nothing doubting but he will easily observe that the Deponents as to this article by which we conclude his visions to be devilismes were and are consciencious and knowing and their depositions full and clear the D ●s answers where they have any thing like answers false and forged and so we leave him to judge as he sees cause T is some trouble to us that we are no more troubled and affected in our hearts that such contumely should be cast upon our Lord Christ and the sp rits about the throne that the angels of glory must be printed to converse with him who hath spoken wickedly against their Lord even the Lord of glory Obj. But he denies it solemnly Ans So did Arrius in the † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epiphan Haer. 69. very face of Constantine so do malefactours at every assize and sessions Obj. But the Dr is not maintaining and holding now Ans Yes he is till he recant and repent which the Lord grant and hasten Obj. But you see his protestation Ans We do not believe it and we will offer a reason for it too that is this if he did really own that faith which formerly he destroyed he would truly be sorrowfull for destroying that faith which now he saith he owns thus did

mind Animad 10. Upon this Doctors pretence of Holinesse height of mortification abstractednesse from the world living on the tree in the midst of Paradise c. Ans This is not the way of Gods Saints Abraham is dust and ashes Jacob lesse than the least mercy Job abhors hims●lfe David cryes out Lo●d who am I Peter calls himselfe a sinfull man and Paul the least lesse than the least of Sa●nts Thus did not the Fathers or Martyrs boast of but complaine against themselves The richest Mines lye lowest and the deepest rivers make the least noise But he must praise himselfe or else who will that knowes God and how how should he be like his predecessors of ancient and later times As Simon a Epiphan contr haer pag. 18. Tom. ● lib. 1. Magus a horrid blasphemer of Christ a sink of filthiness and Lust a man of very slender parts and a shallow judgement and so fell to deceive the people by Magicall tincturation as the Doctor phrases it he bewitched the people of Samaria This wretch gave out that he was some great one he called himself the power of God and gave out that he came downe from on high and the people presently said so even from the least to the greatest they said this man is the great power of God Acts 8.10 yet Peter tells him he was in the gall of bitternesse and bond of iniquity ver 23. he kept a Harlot whils he lived and was brui ed to pieces when he dyed The false Apostles and b Idem Haer. 31. pag. 56. Tom. 2. lib. 1. Gnosticks by what name soever distinguished from their severall ring-leaders how did they vaunt themselves as the knowing men of the world and the spirituall ones soaring in their notions they had their mysticall stuffe and unintelligible words but very Caterpillars of Hell upon every green herbe let the * Gal. 3. Phil. 3. 2 Pet. 2. 1 John 2. Jude the whole Epistle Apostles Paul Peter John and Jude be considered speaking their unerring judgement of them they called them Witches Dogs ungodly wanton bruit-beasts presumptuous ignorant cursed Children Antichrists Lyars filthy Dreamers despisers of Government for whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever This vaunting of heigths hath ever been the way of Heretiques Epiphanius observed long since that the Gnosticks of all sizes and all the rest Dignitate c. they boasted themselves with honourable titles to convey their poysonous Doctrines and Calvin of late sub praetextu nominis c. they labour to raise an esteem to themselves and so to seduce the simple under the pretence of sanctity Thus did Antonius Pocquius hear him speake for himself as one raised of God in these Last dayes thus we are now taught of God I understand nothing for God is my understanding thanks be to God by the spirit of renovation I am raised from the Dead I am quickned with Christ called with Angels I am past the Law an heire of Immortality our Soules are the secret dwellings of Divinity the world is burnt up in me by fire c. You will say what was this Pocquius sure a holy man yes if you will take his own word but heare what Mr. c Furcifer nebulo impius infal x poreus very often Calv. Instr ad lib. cap. 23. his censure of Pocquius Calvines censure was of this high-flown Meteor this Sathan transforming himselfe into an Angel of light Calvin terms him a rake-hell a villain ungodly unlucky a Swine c. yet Calvin was a man of singular patience and meeknesse insomuch as Epiphan said of himselfe that he did compell himself to write the blasphemy and filthiness of Heretiques for the good of future generations so did he even force himselfe to rehearse the ungodly and uncleane practises of the Libertines to name their persons and to set such deserved brands upon their names for the glory of the Lord Jesus and saving souls from being taken in the snare of the Devil David George of Delph in the Netherlands an Impostor a pattern both of detestable Heresies and abominable filthinesse ●parbemius in his naration of the Original of Sects pag. 21. he gave himselfe out for the Christ of God he called the Scriptures imperfect nay childish and carnall he cozened his Disciples of their Money he pretended persecution for the sake of Christ as this Doctor doth in his book and although a man would think that no person could be so irreligious or irrationall to entertain his horrid Doctrine yet a very great multitude were seduced by this vile wretch his meanes of seducing were these three 1. A crafty way of instilling his opinion into others creeping into mens mindes by little and little through subtile and wary insinuations for he would not reveale his horrible mysteries but to those who were totally his owne 2. by counterfeiting a comely majesticall kinde of countenance but 3. and chiefly by an outward shew of a holy life and a mortified conversation and his frequent and seemingly * M●re austere than any Gapucian fasted three dayes together Ruther Sur. cap 4. fervent pouring out his prayers unto God at last when his Vizard began to be torne from his face by some of the Netherlands who knew him who fled to Basil for succour this wretch partly through the gnawings of a tormented conscience and partly through fear of the civill Magistrate pined away and died miserably in the year 1556. Henry Nicholas whose Blasphemies are justly accursed to the pit of Hell and whose secret whoredoms and filthinesse were at last detected yet how did this man pretend austerity holinesse perfection giving out in his gibberish that he was anointed in the hoary age of the holy understanding at the beginning he watched divers nights and fasted and prayed and praised and then came to visions and thence to the Devill Faustus Socinus that wretched Caitiffe and incarnate fiend who made it his businesse to confute that inveterate figment as he calls it more then Satanically of the Deity of Jesus Christ yet this man also pretends much meekness modesty using towards those that did detest and oppose him the sweet compellation of Brethren and that in such a sweet way as many now adayes do language it toward blasphemers he would commend Luther Oecolampadius others and as it were by a side winde of their commendations saile into the port of his own ample praises he † Dr. Cheynect rise and groath of Socianisms pretended to be a reformer of the reformers nay of the reformation it selfe he looked on other men and gave it out amongst his Proselites as low men as the Doctor calls the Ministers of a narrow stamp he saith that God in this last age intends to make many new and glorious discoveries and slily intimates as though he were the man ordained of God to erect the temple of Christ many more might be named but these are too many and truly we should admire at

passive obedience to be the materiall cause of justification Yea I own and acknowledge Christs righteousnesse to be the souls righteousnesse in point of justification when it is applyed upon a true ground according to the true b So Mr Erbery would say that Christ was God according to the Scriptures in his sense sense of the spirit in the Scriptures The proof of this article The aforesaid Master John Tickle examined to this article This Deponent saith that the Doctor delivered that the imputative righteousnesse of Christ was a saplesse righteousnesse And being crosse examined to this article and asked by the Doctor whether these words viz the fiery deity of Christ in the centre of our souls burning c. were not added as some limitation to this second article This Deponent saith he doth not remember any such addition as is mentioned in the interrogatory unlesse it were in * Thus which righteousness Dan. 9.24 Is not the saplesse righteousnesse of Christ But the fiery c. opposition to the righteousnesse of Christ which he called saplesse and he farther saith the Doctor did not deliver any such limitation as he makes in his answer thereunto and that there was no such word as c Let the Christian Reader observe this passage except spoken nor any thing like unto it Master Roger Stephens of Reading Gentleman sworn and examined To the second article this Deponent saith that Doctor Pordage delivered in a sermon at Ildesly that the righteousnesse of Christ was a saplesse righteousnesse a mere empty thing Observe what was the drift of the Drs sermon and he doth not remember any thing to the contrary but that the same was an intire sentence and only so and that to his apprehension the drift of his sermon then was to take off the strength and efficacy of Christs righteousnesse And this Deponent farther saith that in the said sermon the Doctor did deliver these words viz you are not to look to this meaning as the Deponent apprehended Christs righteousnesse but to the fiery deity burning in the center of the soul consuming and destroying sin there which last mentioned sentence did not immediately follow the words which he used when he said the righteousnesse of Christ was saplesse but the same was farther off in the midst of his sermon On the defendants part In behalf of the Doctour to this article Mary Pocock sworn and examined This Deponent being asked whether she heard the Dr deliver the second article viz. That the righteousnesse of Christ was saplesse and whether it was delivered with a limitation or not saith it was with this limitation viz. Except the firery deity of Christ be in our souls burning up our lusts and corruptions And this Deponent being asked whether these last words were spoken together with the other words to make up one sentence saith yes thus that the righteousnesse of Christ was saplesse except the fiery deity of Christ be in the center of our souls burning up our lusts and corruptions Richard Higgs of Sulhamsted Turner sworn and examined This Deponent saith that he hath been a hearer of Doctor Pordage at certain times for five or six years last past and that during that time for ought the Deponent knows the scope of the Doctors Ministry hath not been against the right or due application of Christs righteousnesse but against the mis-application thereof for ought he knows But this Deponent being asked whether he hath been a constant hearer of the Dr he saith he hears him very often but he is at his own parish in the mornings and sometimes he is absent at other times but he hath often heard the Dr. And this Deponent being further asked what he hath usually heard the Dr preach concerning the imputative righteousnesse of Christ he saith he cannot charge his memory but hath a note to which he would reflect for recollecting of his memory and thereupon produced a note drawn in the form of an examination in which what he should say was prescribed unto him which note was given him from the Dr as he confesseth and being asked what himself or what the Dr meant by Christs righteousnesse he saith he cannot depose f This witnesse the Dr called godly sober learned was the animadversion But here the Dr interposing saith that Christs righteousnesse is his active and passive obedience Upon which the Deponent was further asked what was Christs active obedience he saith it was his suffering on the crosse Daniel Roberts of Reading feltmaker sworn and examined This Deponent saith he doth not remember he ever heard the Dr preach above once which was about three years since at Bradfield on the g The men of his perswasion keep the Lords day on this account because it is the custome of the nation Sabboth day as the Deponent was going to Wayhill Fair and that then the Drs text was upon that Scripture The Kingdome of Heaven is like unto a treasure hid in the fields which treasure the Dr did soundly apply to the righteousnesse of Christ and that he did very much extoll the righteousnesse of Christ but he doth not remember any expression of imputative righteousnesse and that to his best remembrance the Dr did explain the righteousnesse of Christ to be his obedience to his Fathers will as far as the Deponent could judge and the Deponent being asked whether the Drs drift in his sermon were not to advance an inherent righteousnesse he saith he cannot remember Animad first Animad 1. and that in these three particulars First as to the Articles secondly as to the Drs witnesses thirdly as to his plea. First particular As to the articles we entreat the reader to observe that these two articles deposed and the other two of which anon were not collateral passages but the main heads of Dr Pordage's sermon his text was Malachy 3.1 his Doctrine That God doth usually prepare his way in the hearts of his people before he comes in with his glory to them He proceeds thus There are severall preparations laid down by Divines as the conviction of sin the terrours of the law the death of Christ the free grace of God which are said he but fleshly and flashy discoveries I shall give you said the Dr the preparations according to the six dayes work in the creation the seventh being that glorious rest when God comes in with his glory to the soul The first preparation is a glorious union which union is the fiery deity of Christ mingling and mixing it self with our flesh The second is a glorious righteousnesse Dan. 9.24 which righteousnesse is not that saplesse imputative righteousnesse of another viz. Christ as he explained it but the fiery deity burning in the center of the soul The third is a glorious liberty which liberty said the Dr is not a liberty and freedome from the guilt of sin the curse of the law the wrath of God purchased by the blood of another and applied by the