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
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 Should not the multitude of words be answered and should a man full of talk be justified Should thy lyes make men hold their peace and when thou mockest shall no man make thee ashamed Joh 11.2 3. London Printed for the Author 1657. An Epistle to the Reader Christian Reader PEradventure a Reply to Mr. Tillam's pretended Christian Account was long since expected but upon sufficient reason a delay was made It was some time before the parties most concerned in it living at a distance could know of his Pamphlet But chiefly after it was drawn up it was judged fit by some interessed in the busines to lay it aside hoping that his folly would be made manifest enough by his own proceedings which indeed is already done in great part especially to pious and prudent Christians And I doubt not but it will be discovered more and more daily But in regard of his vain triumphs and because there are many weak harmless and well meaning people in danger of being further deluded by him it is now resolved to present the Man to the open view of the world that his untruths scandals and dangerous designs may make all more cautious whom they confide in and depend upon in so great concernment as that of Religion Upon this and other accounts Reader thou shalt here find such a discovery of Mr. T. T. written not out of envy to him but pitty to others misled by him as I hope will make thee sensible of the bottom of his design in coming to Colchester which he pretends to be guided to by a hand of Providence but upon perusall of this I believe thou wilt find it was rather a Plot than a Providence being the last adventure of a necessitated person that must shift for himself somewhere discarded by those in the North who first gave him credit and having his 40 l. per ann withdrawn by the Commissioners there Yet no doubt a providence it was too but such a one as that of Colchester Siege which prevented the suffering of other places when the Enemy was garrison'd there And I wish that as that party had their last considerable motion terminated within the walls of Colchester the adjacent parts being sufficiently alarumed by their being there so also Mr. Tillam may make your miserable Town the ultimate stage of his progress 'T is pitty other places should ever be troubled with such a guest as sets the house on fire where ever he comes making it his business to divide and sow discord amongst Brethren By which if there were nothing else it may be easily gathered of what fraternitie he is It is abundantly known what their Religion is whose aim is division knowing how to retire into union among themselves and meet together in one centre though the lines drawn from it stand at a distance in the circumference Doubtless Mr. Tillam's slighting Mr. Prin's charge of his being a Papist is a Master-piece 'T is more policity for Mr. T. to contemn than answer so fair a probability His own acknowledgement that hee has been a Papist together with his Romish trinkets Extreme Unction Washing of feet pretences to infallibility the choicest Jewels in the Popes Triple Crown for all he speaks must be taken as the Oracles of God without any consulting others though never so pious and prudent these things I say may strongly perswade a sober man to suspect a papist in the bottom But I shall not judge him Reader let me only perswade thee to lay aside prejudice and thou shalt here find Mr. Tillam passing judgement upon himself for most of the particulars charged upon him in this book are no other but such as dropt from his own Pen or Tongue and therfore if any wrong be done him he may thank himself for it But I shall hold thee no longer in the Porch if thou wilt know more read further let thine own eyes be thy informers That which follows is a Letter written by Mr Robert Eaton to a friend of his which he desired him to print Worthy and endeared Friend I Having at last met with Mr. Tillam's Pamphlet falsly intitled A Christian Account I thought good in the first place to give you an account of him and then of those passages in his Pamphlet which relate to me This Tillam who is not ashamed to call the Censures which the Church People of God have passed upon him The Trials of his grace was for a short time an Aporthecary but fince having assumed to be an Anabaptistical Minister by reason of his fasticusness pride and turbulency of Spirit hath been like a ball of Wild-fire tossed from one end of the Nation to another scattering his peslilent errours with very great impudence and boldness in every place where he hath come Now though I had heard in Lancashire and other places before my removal from Dedham of the dangerous conditions of this man and what disturbance he had made in several places in venting and propagating his Errours yet now I am more fully certified of the truth of those things which there I heard For brevity sake I shall only give you an account of Mr. Samuel Eaton's who is Pastor of the Church of Duckenfield in Cheshire before whom one of Mr. Tillam's causes was examined and by whom Mr. Tillam's Excommunication out of the Church at Wrexam was declared just and regular Mr. Sam. Eaton's words are these Mr. Tillam was excommunicated first by the Church at Wrexam and afterwards his Excommunication was found and declared just by the Church at Duckenfield The causes of his Excommunication were several among others were these The proof of several untruths told by him intollerable pride together with a visible design to divide the Church c. but that he withdrew himself and that his withdrawing as Mr. Tillam excuses the matter was the cause of his Excommunication is utterly false and a meer evasion fir they were fully resolved to cast him out before he did withdraw himself and he withdrew himself purposely to evade the sentence And many that were his Disciples and Rebaptized by him when they heard things laid open were satisfied to the justnesse of the sentence pronounced against him Thus far Mr. Sam. Eaton gave me an account of him Now whether a man so eminent as Mr. Sam. Eaton in a business where he can have no by-respects is to be believed or Mr. Tillam one cause of whose Excommunication was lying let all men judge As for that Church of Anabaptists in Cheshire which he so much magnifies in his book I shall not meddle with them only this I shall say that some of them though under
and malice against him and not from zeal to God and his truth But that that Great untruth viz. an eminent discovery of my Falshood may not be thought a slip of his Pen but a deliberate birth formed by the Father of lyes he repeats it and puts an emphasis upon it page 3. not dictating any falshood so eminently discovered all that I shall say to this is onely thus much That I never had any discourse with Mr. Tillam in all my life but that which was mentioned before in my own house at Dedham when those two Ministers with some others were there And if those two Reverend Ministers Mr. Hudson and Mr. Walker will not testifie that it is eminently false that there was any falshood discovered in me at that time then let not onely this but all the rest that Mr. Tillam is charged withall be said at my door But I shall not any further trouble my self with him God I hope will in short time lay him open what he is that he may proceed no further inseducing simple and unwary soules Your affectionate Friend Robert Eaton The following sheets were done by another hand in the Vindication of Mr. Hammond when you shall find a satisfactory Answer to the Reminder of Mr. Tillam's abusive Pamphlet Mr. Tillam's Account Examined MR Tillam's glozing Pamphlet within these very few dayes coming to my hands and perceiving with great grief of heart his old spirit of pride vain-glory boasting lying and slandering tunning through the veins thereof and understanding that Mr. Hammond who with a breath could have blown away all his vapourings if he had been willing to have stirred in his own cause not willing to meddle with such an incurable creature hereupon my spirit was drawn forth not so much for his sake as to undeceive such honest hearts as are abused by his hypocrisie to pull off his Mask and let them see the man in his proper shape 1. That he is a man boared in the ear branded and stigmatized in the forehead by the most godly persons wheresoever he yet came when they once knew him well though at the first through his fawning and glozing carriage they were for a while deluded by him For First he is with one consent given up to Satan by the whole Church of Wrexam which though he labour to shuffle off yet the restimony of one twenty godly men for so they will be proved to be in spight of all his aspersions when sober men hold the scales shall over ballance the single testimony of one man in his own cause who is a Lyar upon record Secondly when his case was judiciously heard and scanned by such godly Elders and the Church of Cheshire to which himselfe appealed they concluded the Censure just and rolled the same stone upon him in thse words as Mr. Tillam himself writes p. 6. That he was to be looked upon as neither an Elder nor a Member of the Church of Wrexmham but to be left to the world as a man without Thirdly then after this Conversing with the Anabaptist-Church in Newcastle he so carries himself though at the first who but Mr Tillam that they presented to the Church at London twelve several Artiles against him Fourthly he also falls so foul with the three Congregational Ministers in Newcastle Mr. weld Mr. Hammond and Mr. Durant whom God and his Servants are pleased gratiously to own that they are forced to vindicate themselves to the world in print which they never did against any man before to paint him out to the life Fifthly after this as if he studied to imitate Ishmael To have his hand against every man and procure every mans hand against him he breaks with the Church at London in whose very bosom he lay for a while till they perceived his frame who cast him off with much indignation as still it appears by his own confession in his book p. 19. for we have most of all these things from his own words Sixthly at last his own Church at Hexam such was his carriage towards them falls into two pieces and one part of the two discards him Now if these be not Black marks or Flesh-brands if these things will not prove him to goe out from all places like a snuff which words he so pittifully snuffs at Let wise and sober men judge 2. Observe all along his course of life and his Book also that whereas all Godly men in Scripture and our own experience so suffer usually from the Enemies of Grace wicked and ungodly men which is an honorable thing 1 Pet. 1.14 Mat. 5.10 11. For the Spirit of God and Glory resteth upon such Now this mans case is quite otherwise For still he is opposed and contested withall and rejected by the Godly yea and most usually the most eminent for godliness in all places wheresoever he comes at wrexam Cheshire Newcastle London and now at Colchester i. e. by godly Christians faithful Ministers Pastor Teachers Elders yea whole Churches and that in the ghest degree of Censures that ever Jesus Christ ordained in his Churches Excommunication it self And again whereas other godly men suffer as Christians for well doing which is a blessed thing this man is still buffered not for his good deeds but for his faults scandals pride slanders c. And. Which is exceedingly to be noted good men usually are opposed and fought against by men of differring judgements and practices from themselves as Congregational men by Presbyterial Paedobaptists by Antipaedobaptists Orthodox by Arminians Socinians and Protestants by Papists but this man as if he were born to strife is still opposed by men of his own judgement and practice in Doctrine and Discipline Were not the Church of Wrexam and that of Cheshire and the three Ministers of Newcastle of his own judgement and practice in point of Discipline Did not the Anabaptist Church nof Newcastle and that of London jump with him in point of Baptism Yet he is a man not onely disgusted by all these but one not sufferable to abide among them and out he must as an incorrigible person without reconciliation which how clear it speaks in point of his intollerable turbulency of spirit and what an alarum it rings in all their ears who are misled through his subtle insinuations I leave to all men to judge 3. A common Lyar is generally accounted a vile person a son of Belial one of the basest among men but to gather up all his gross lies and slanders were too heavy a task for certainly he hath driven an old Trade therein For First he was cast out of Wrexam Church for lying as one principal crime among others Secondly he is rejected by the Church at London for making and maintaining a lye see his own words page 19. It was concluded saith Mr. Tillam himself that I lyed and they presently declared a withdrawing from me with these words added which are he hath grievously sinned against the Rule of Christ Col. 3.9 Lye not
against light of conscience and what not No marvel therfore if he reproach Mr. Weld Mr. Hammond Mr. Eaton Hugh Prichard these are but single persons when he flies like a wasp in the face of whole Churches and that which is under this head remarkable i. e. that all such as bear witness against him he falls soul upon them as envious persons as if there were no evil at all in him to testifie against no no it 's only the good they saw in him his good success the attendance on his Ministry and Gods blessing on his labours these are the things the good things in him as he would fain perswade the world they envy when I preached saith he in Cheshire I saw the power of God and then adds there I incurred Mr. Eaton's displeasure Why darest thou say that holy Man Mr. Eaton was displeased at the power of God in thee And within two lines after he speaks as bad of the Church of Wrexam The Church of Wrexam saith he was troubled at my successe Now to make men envious persons at the grace of God in others is to make them the very devils eldest Sons and himself must needs be God or in Gods place to judge their very hearts that it was Gods grace in him that moved them to bear witness against him Whither will the venome and malice of this mans spirit carry him 6. As he casts down to Hell almost all that oppose him so he lifts up to Heaven all that side with him or favour him in his way witness his extreme flattery of the Magistrates in Coldester that favour him witness also his high elevating those three men at Hexam that certified for him and there were but three in all and how easie a matter it is for any man to bring three men in a whole County to attest any thing in a mans behalf and subscribe what he himself shall draw and bring to them to subscribe all men know Yet alass some of us know what pittifull men some of those three are whom he sets our as if the most eminent in the whole County Alas alas the man dares say any thing bad or good of any man to serve his own turn It this man be not a dawber a scraper with his nails for mens favours an insinuating flatterer for his own ends I never knew any He will verifie what Mr. Hammond writ of him He is saith Mr. Hammond the most fawning man till you discover him and then the most loose-tongued man in reviling Is it not just so 7. Mark his railing The poyson of Alps is under his lips his mouth and stile is full of cursing and bitternesse for these are his usual tearms Men stirred up by the Devil Slanderers Rigid ones False lyars Men born from beneath Sons of the earth Absoloms Joabs Whited sepulchres Full of horrid hypocrisie and iniquity that wofull hypocrite that proud disorderly Church that proud scornfull Haman c. These are his expressions and that against any even against the most godly and eminent in grace that doe but oppose him And though to write or speak such things of a man when matters are proved upon Record against him by a cloud of witnesses as those things are which I hold forth against him as lying boasting vaunting c. which I have proved either directly from his own words or the Testimony of whole Churches although this I say be just against himself and no wrong donetherein yet for him to belch out such vile reproaches when no just cause is given such language in him is plain railing whereas giving him his own tearms when matters are proved against him is but righteous dealing 8. It 's an usual thing with him throughout his whole book to set his own single testimony against all that contest with him be his Adversaries never so holy never so many yet his own bare word must pass for current against the subscription of the one and twenty Members yea the whole Church of Wrexam the Elders of the Church in Cheshire the Baptized Church in Newcastle the three Ministers of the Congregational Churches there the whole Church at London c. whereas Moses Paul and Christ himself tell us that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every truth shall be established here are three ten twenty yea whole Churches and yet all are false and deluded he only speaks the truth himself being witness If this be not the very spirit of his book let any man that has not forfeited his reason judge And from whence do we think comes this from Heaven or from Hell 9. His Instability is notorious He was once by his own confession a Papist then a Protestant again if he may be believed though some of his own friends doe shrewdly suspect him to be still a Papist in his heart and that his turning Church-divider at Wrexam and Dipper afterwards was but a turning every stone and trying every side to see where he might best advance a Popish design at last as if weary of every thing he falls now to the Holy kiss Washing the Saints feet Annointing with Oyl some say to six Sacraments to denyal of the Trinity of Persons Original sin of Infants c. When and where will this man stop Nay so far is he deluded and intoxicated that he calls this giddiness in running out to unsound fancies and dangerous opinions obedience to Christ pag. 13. And as he is weary of truth so of all persons societies and places too where ever he yet came In the Church of Wrexam so much admired by him at the first he stayes but eighteen Months and then it 's such a corrupt society that he is glad he is out of it Then to Cheshire he hastens there 's the only Church but he playes such pranks there that he is soon discovered Then away into the South from the South into the North he goes Hexam is the place and there he has a glorious people if ye will credit his report for still all his Geese are Swans But Hexam grows stale the South is more desirable and Colchester of all places of England is the onely place and there you shall have him as long as you of Colchester shall court him with applause honour liberal gifts for want of which he was pitifully pined at Hexam but as soon as you discover him as others have done you shall find him indeed to goe out like a snuff for do but run through the story of his life or read but his own Pamphlet and you shall see how after a little while he has set fire on every place where he came and run away by the light of it 10. But above all his notorious abuse of Scripture is intollerable making the blessed Holy Ghost the Author of it to serve his lust and execute his revenge upon all such as contest against his sin as if he himself were that righteous one whom the Holy Ghost intended in those Scriptures he
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