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A96172	Mr. Tillam's account examined. Or, A brief reply to his unchristian account of some passages of Providence By a friend to truth, and to Mr. Tillam's own soul, if God have not sealed him down under hardness of heart. Written for the sake of such poor honest souls in Colchester, and the parts adjacent, as are misled through his inchantments.	Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing W1268aA; ESTC R231931	19,494	38

quotes to vindicate and maintain be his cause never so bad and to condemn all his opposers be they never so holy and good and to strike at them as his most inveterate incorrigible enemies as Scribes Pharisecs persecutors of Christ his Apostles and Prophets Do but peruse a little some of the scriptures he cites and see if he would not design his godly adversaries to the bottomless pit Psal 55.20 21. Jer. 9.4 5. Jer. 20 10 11. Hos 4.7 Acts 17.5 Acts 21.28 1 Pet. 4.14 to 18. Mat. 6.4 Mat. 23.27 28. What height of pride arrogancy impudency malice and revenge this man is grown unto I leave to godly tender hearts to judge Is it a small thing to grieve men but wilt thou grieve my God also Isa 7.13 Thus having given you a little tast of the man and truly but a little for it were endless to print him out in all his lineaments but by the Lyons paw you may gather the proportion of all the other parts of the beast I shall now proceed to wipe off such aspersions as he casts without fear upon some dear servants of God in his Book and leave all other things as not worth the while First for Mr. Hammond a man so eminently known that he is above the reach of his slanderous pen yet because he hath so plainly laid him open to the world he must be the mark for Mr. Tillam to shoot his venemous arrows at The cause was this for Mr. Hammond upon this account hath been desired to declare the whole matter who saith as followeth That he with some others having discovered the Conversion of the Jew whom Mr. Tillam baptized and so boasted of to be a cheat published his Popish design to the world but Mr. Tillam perceiving the Romish plot and himself unvailed wrote a most false slanderous Pamphlet against the discoverers charging them with thirteen untruths to which they replyed again revealing the notorious lying boasting slandering spirit of the man to which Mr. Tillam wrote another Reply full of froth lying and folly and sent a Coppy of it in a braving way to Mr. Hammond who returned him a sharp Answer in a private Letter and likewise told him that Mr. Eaton had given a large account of him and withall sent him a copy of Mr. Eaton's Letter wherein Mr. Eaton declares the righteous dealing of the Church of Wrexam against him the substance of which you have in Mr. Robert Eaton's Letter and that he turned Anabaptist upon it and proved a great disturber in those parts Ita testor Sam. Hammond And was not all this plain dealing by Mr. Hammond Thus things lay buried a great while but at last Mr. Tillam and Mr. Anderton having discovered the wickedness one of another his Church at Hexam brake into two pieces He then being discarded of all men writes an insinuating Letter to Mr. Hammond as one begging his favour who out of the goodness of his disposition ready to forget all wrongs upon the least relenting of his worst enemy writes back again that the thoughts of those former quarrels were buried in his heart c. Though at that very time and when he came to this house he still dealt plainly in reproving of him But afterwards Mr. Tillam still proceeding in his old strain of scandal Providence calling upon Mr. Hammond to declare his knowledge of him he judged himself bound in conscience to reveal him to such as desired an account of him the Cause of God calling for it and he doth appeal to the Great God and any gracious spirit whether there were dissimulation gross dissimulation and hypocrisie to amazement in all this his Conscience bears him witness that there was not As for his charge of Feasting and calling Mr. Hammond Vicar of Newcastle which are two evident falshoods it shews he hath not yet left his old trade of Lying His calling him proud Haman with allusion to his name and Pope Boniface in relation to that feature of face which God and Nature hath given him speaks a childish wanton sinful spirit in Mr. Tillam and let him know that God will one day have an account of idle words But he saith Mr. Hammond entertained him kindly and added the courtesie of New wine I say it was ill-bestowed on such an ungratefull man as quarrels with love worthy the next time he comes to be thrust out of doors among the beggars All men that know Mr. Hammond well know him to be a Gentleman and full of courtesie to all that set foot over his threshold and he endeavoured to conquer this unworthy man by kindness especially looking at him as seeming now to repent of his former miscarriages and is not this a trim requital Again his proclaiming Mr. Hammond so rigid against Anabaptists is another great slander for he never preacht against them hee carries it most lovingly in all civill converse towards them his spirit and principle carry much moderation to men of different judgements 'T is true he disputed about the point of Baptism with Mr. Tillam when Providence called him to it wherein Mr. Tillam was so silenced that his denying of it since hath demonstrated to many who heard that dispute that he dares say any thing to save himself and slander others And for Mr. Hammond's moderation upon several accounts to Mr. Tillam sure his own conscience will witness against him if he deny it yea his own mouth hath often said it and here he unworthily upbraids Mr. Hammond for it yea he boldly tels the world that Mr. Anderton's ejection was because he called Mr. Hammond Pope Boniface which as Mr. Hammond professeth he never knew Mr. Anderton ever said so till now he read it in Mr. Tillam's Pamphlet But it 's upon record he was ejected for Non-residency and notorious Sabbath-breaking so that it appears Mr. Tillam will say any thing Secondly for Mr. Weld he tels the world pag. 7.20 21. he kindly invited him to his house in a Letter with much seeming affection and yet all but gross dissimulation Since Mr. Tillam's book came out Mr. Weld hath been consulted withall and desired to write the truth of the business whose very words again are these I must sincerely professe being called thereto that although I am not of the Newcastle Churches judgment of the unlawfulness of being sent out to Preach by Commissioners and Ministers yet I cannot clear Mr. Tillam nor vindicate his innocency in denying that he had such an order to Preach as the Newcastle Church charged him withall pag. 20. For when I look into their three first Articles pag. 16. wherein their charge of his receiving order from the Commissioners lyeth I plainly see the full substance of their charge to be true in each Article For whereas the Church say 1. That he came to the Priest they mean Ministers by the way I could wish no such word of contempt were used this is truth for he came to such of us as were appointed to examin Ministers to

one to anther Wherefore we have put him away from us and shall have no communion with him that he may be ashamed This from his own words and this was done deliberately after much scanning by a whole Church Thirdly there are many manifest lyes in this his book as that Mr. Hammond was Vicar of Newcastle which he writes to disgrace Mr. Hammond whereas he is only Lecturer and Teacher to a Congregational Church and absolutely refused to be Vicar which Mr. Tillam cannot but know being so oft conversant in Newcastle Fourthly another abhominable lye against that Reverend Man in these words whither have those surseiting feasts of Newcastle saith he transported Mr. Hammond how strangely have those luxurious banques increased choler in this corpulent Gentleman For besides the odious contempt in the manner of his writing which he casts upon this faithfull servant of Christ so much beloved and honoured by the Saints he most impudently and palpably slanders him for intemperance for all Newcastle knoweth that though Mr. Hammond be often and earnestly invited to Feasts yet he hath absolutely refused to avoid all occasions to come at any feast great or small to one or other for these two years together except at one time that was unavoydable Fifthly he boldly vaunts that God made himself an instrument of detecting the false Jew wherein besides that vain-glorious vapouring in assuming to himself what is not due he tells a most manifest falshhood for it 's notoriously known to Mr. Goe Dauson Mr. Hammond Mr. Durant and others that he did what he could when they were about convincing the false Jew to defend him and harden his heart till they were all grieved and ashamed at his practice Sixthly another falshood that Mr. Hammond was basfled in the dispute about Baptism which impudency of his is stupendious for above a hundred persons present will witness the exceeding freedom of Mr. Hammond whose arguments were as a Rod held over him all the dispute and that Mr. Tillam to his utter confusion if he could tell how to be ashamed was so non-pluss'd and baffled to purpose that one of his own party was driven to confess it to chide him off take up the bucklers whiles all the time after Mr. Tillam sate dumb which calls to mind a seventh lye He told Mr. George Hodshan when he came first into the North that he was for the Baptism of the Infants of Beleevers when it manifestly appears he was at the same time an Anabaptist per me Geo. Hodshan Lastly for a full conviction of his lyes see the bundle of urtruths written by the Newcastle Ministers against Mr. Tillam Now this Lying is such a sin as it makes a man so unlike God into whose image all his children are cast and so like the devil who is the Father of lyes and so unlike the Saints who are a generation that will not lye Isa 63.9 that it deserves the heaviest censure of Excommunicaon Rev. 22.15 Without the new Jerusalem shall be dogs and whoremonges and murtherers and idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh lies See Mr. Tillam what copesmates Lyars are matched withall and what is their censure and yet you are angry with the Church at London for rejecting you for lying and giving you no warning whereas the Rule it self you see gives no such direction for any warning but it being once proved as it seems the London Church averred you were to be presently sent without among the dogs 4. observe his proud boasting and vaunting high language almost in every page of his book and indeed all his writings and actings doe fulsomly tang of that spirit In the front of his book he begins Thanks to my Lord and King who hath enabled me so that he counted me faithfull putting me into the Ministery Which are the words of the greatest Apostle on earth and that in the height of his zeal yet this man dares apply them to himself which I beleeve never any Minister that knows himself dares noce doe So that he is if you will beleeve him an able Minister a faithfull Minister and as he saith afterwards a welling Minister and a Minister that labours with his whole soul in the work whereas humble spirits are ever fearfull to think highly of themselves much more to lift up themselves in print by vapouring tearms and high titles Furthermore you have him ever and anon vaunting of the multitude of his hearers and followers great success in his Ministery in every place that he could gather a Church of Saints in a years space in such or such place where he came which by the way shews his doctrine and practice very suitable to carnall hearts that can so easily take with him in all places where hee comes whereas the doctrine of the best Minister under heaven is so cross to corrupt nature that it cannot be digested but his doctrine and opinions goe glib down and can bring in souls tiick and threefold 't is but touch and take And I cannot omit how often this poor man boasTs in high language of his sufferings and calls them sufferings for Christs sake and for his names sake and all in obedience to him whereas presumptuous man thou maist know it was all along for thy faults scandals lyes turbulency faction and disembling from the first till now Was it for Christs sake thou wert given up to Satan by the Church of Wrexam Was it for thy good deeds thou wert condemned by the Church in Cheshire Was it for the honour of Christ that the Church in London rose up against thee and the three Ministers in Newcastle writ against thee was it nor for a lye maintained against so many evidences and hast thou the face to father all thy wretched dealings on Christ wil he maintain thee in a course of sin and crown thee for it what tender heart can digest such impudency and hypocrisie 5. Observe what contempt scorns and base calumnies he all along his book casts out again all that stand in his way be they never so holy never so many be they godly Saints Ministers whole Churches all is one if they speak or a against him the sparkles of his anger in a vile contemptuous manner shall fly in their faces this is the very spirit of his Book So like the Dragon he spews out whole floods of contempt to drown them and their reputations if he could to instance but in two or three particulars 1. How shamefully doth he reproach the whole Church of Wrexam that cast him out and the one and twenty Members as if they were the vilest persons on earth but who will beleeve him they being known godly men and all this to justifie himself and avoyd the dint of their consure as page 9 10. at large 2. Then again how he reproaches the Church at Newcastle because they articled against him page 19. 3. Then when London Church Excommunicated him see his shamefull reproaching of them as acting irregularly and