abroad vehemently opposed and yet for all these he went on in his work like another Paul and Athanasius with undaunted resolutions and pains upon occasion he spake thus of his hard usage and ill requitall Certainly if I had served men I had made a bad bargain but 't is well that I have served him who alwayes payes his servants that which he once promised them And 't is enough that I live and die to Christ who is gain to his in life and death Calvin was so hatefull that some named their dogs Calvin others changed Calvin into Cain many out of hatred of him did professe they kept away from the Lords Supper Now for the first of these namely reproaches scorns c. I do certainly expect and prepare for the disciple is not above his Master nor the servant above his Lord it is enough for the disciple that hee be as his Master Matth. 10.24 25. And what am I better then those learned Fathers Augustine Athanasius and those first Reformers Luther Zuinglius Calvin 'T is honour enough for me to be somewhat like to them in sufferings I have had some experience of the Sectaries malice hatred rage upon my former Books and Sermons that I have preached and therefore know that this and other Tractates will inflame them I am in my conscience fully perswaded that this Tractate is at this time both seasonable and usefull in many respects ' yea necessary and that for all sorts of men Magistrates Ministers people both those that stand and those that are fallen yea the very Sectaries themselves and in justice and all reason I might expect thanks and kind acceptance of my labour and pains But I look that the Sectaries of all sorts will storm and cast out of their mouthes floads of calumnies reproaches both against my selfe and book besides all other wayes doe mee all the mischiefe they can and dare yea I fear that too many Brethren partly through their relations to many Sectaries and through that lukewarm tempeâ— in reference to errours of minde that hath long possessed them who think every one too-hot that appears against the Sects will not so cordially approve this work I can truely say that in my former Books and Lectures I have been too much deserted and not received those incouragements which many have done from Brethren upon like occasions but none of these things move mee not the losse of good name not the unkind deserting of friends neither count I my life dear to my self so I may finish my course and the ministry which I have received to testifie the Gospel and the truth of God against the errours of the time And as I know persecutions and afflictions abide mee in this way so it shall be my prayer and endeavour to follow the example of Christ and those servants of his before named and had I not long since set down and counted my cost giving up my name to God to take care of it and my face to the smiters I should not have thus appeared in writing and preaching but I have through the grace of Christ learned to account it an honour to suffer for truth and opposing errours as well from Sectaries as from Popish spirits in this matter of opposing the present errours I slight all the power malice and policie of all the Sectaries in the Kingdome And I am resolved by the grace of Christ which hath enabled mee hitherto to go on in a constant cheerfull opposing and writing against the errours I have determined with my selfe to fear nothing in this cause but to contemn all things yea the higher the errours arise and the more mighty they grow the more to rise up against them I value not my name nor my life if compared to the truth of Christ but shall take pleasure in reproaches necessities sufferings in such a time as this when few are valiant for the truth no gold shall bribe me nor preferments take me off no lack of supplies shall dishearten me I shall maintain this warfare at mine owne charges and this good cause cannot be starved for want of fees And whatever can happen to mee in this cause I shall rejoyce yea and will rejoyce as remembring those speeches of Christ Ioh. 18. To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witnesse to the truth Matth. 5.12 Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven A Catalogue of many of the ERROURS BLASPHEMIES and PRACTISES of the SECTARIES of the time with some OBSERVATIONS upon them NOw for this Treatise I refer it to three heads 1. I shall premise some particulars for the better understanding of the subject matter of this Book and right apprehending of what follows 2. I shall lay down a Catalogue of the Errours Blasphemies Practises of the Sectaries together with a particular Narration of sundry remarkable passages and some Letters concerning them 3. Give some Observations upon and draw some Corallaries from the whole matter In the first head I shall do two things First Lay down eight particulars for better satisfaction and direction about the errours c. Secondly Answer two Objections which may be as stones to stumble at in the entrance to the matter and cause a prejudice against the work The first thing I premise which I would have the Reader to take notice of is that this Catalogue of Errours Blasphemies Practises Letters is not of old Errours Opinions Practises of a former age dead and buried many yeers ago and now revived by this Discourse but a Catalogue of Errours now in being alive in these present times all of them vented and broached within these four yeers last past yea most of them within these two last yeers and lesse It should have been long enough before I would have raked up old Errours from the dead and hell I had much rather send them back from whence they came and that is my intent in their Discovery I approve well of that rule of Discipline in the French Churches that the Ministers should not in Sermons meddle with confuting of old Errours and of that of Amesius to Ministers That all Errour is not every where to be refuted For old Heresies that are buried are not to be digged up that they may be refuted but seeing these walk up and down in City and Country I may give warning of them Secondly This following Discovery is not only of present Errours which maybe now in 〈…〉 â—hen I would not have troubled the 〈…〉 in this Kingdom as will appear more fully in this Discourse Thirdly More specially in these places of England as London and the Counties adjacent in the Parliaments Quarters in their Armies and Garrison Towns not maintained by persons at Oxford c. for then it had not been so much to us but as the Prophet Ezekiel speaks of Ierusalem Exik 22.7.9 10 11 In thee in thee in thee oft repeated are
who will settle here with them Hereupon they are presently so high flowne that they will have our publike meeting place commonly called the Church to preach a weekly Lecture though we have an Order from the Committee of Parliament that there shall bee none without the consent of both the Ministers in Dover and have acquainthem with it yet some have threatned if the Key be kept away they will break open the doores and since M. Davies journey to London the Members of his Church meeting everie Lords day twice and once in the weeke Mr. Mascall a man employed by the State to bee a perfector of the Customes undertakes to feed the flock expounds the Scriptures and with much vehemencie cries out to the people expressing himselfe thus against the present Ministerie Your Priests your damned Priests your cursed Priests with their fooles Coat Your Levites who if they get an Ordinance of Parliament will thunder it out but they let alone the Ordinances of Christ and perswades the people of the evill that Synods and Learned men have done to the Church and therefore presses them to the uselessenesse of humane learning and at other times in private meetings perswades people that they will fall into most miserable slaverie if they have a Presbytery and saith That hee shall stand and laugh at them when they are under their burthens For our parts if the State will suffer themselves to bee so vilified in what they have by the best advice proposed and will have us trodden under foot for following Christ and obeying them and will have us take Covenants and suffer as many as will to violate them wee shall then thinke that wee are fallen into worse times then ever wee yet saw Wee desire you to counsell us and to improve your power in the Assembly and with the Parliament what you may to stop these violent proceedings here that we may enjoy our priviledges especially the peace of our Consciences and Countrey we rest Your loving Friends Dover April 13. 1646. This Letter is given into the hands of a Peer of this Kingdom The Copie of a Letter written from a learned and godly Divine from beyond the Seas to a speciall Friend of his here in London and translated by him out of Dutch into English VVE do earnestly long for some Ordinances from England for the suppressing of the high growing Sects Heresies and Schismes which get the upperhand We are afflicted in our verie souls that there is such a depth of Distractions and Errors such liberty for Schisme Blasphemie and ungodly Tenents both at London and in the whole Kingdome O blessed holy Holland righteous Amsterdam heretofore accounted the sink of Errours and Heresies but now justified by London With us are punished with banishment or piercing through the tong with a hot Iron those that but slanderously speak of the Virgin Mary Here we burne the books of the Socinians Errours and they may not with knowledge be sold in these parts Here indeed every one is left to enjoy the freedome of his Conscience in his own Family but to keep Conventicles and meetings of divers Families together Amsterdam it selfe will not suffer except in Anabaptists Lutherans and Remonstrants At London is taught Blasphemy against Christ God his Word Worship and Sacraments by Enthusiasts Antinomians Libertines and Seekers There the Socinian tricks are new moulded there all Sects and Hereticks may keep their separated publike and secret Conventicles Whence is it that you are so suddenly led away unto another Gospell Is there no balme in Gilead that the wounds of the daughter of Sion are not healed are the Prayers of the Saints and the Labours of the upright all in vain Gods judgements hang over that Kingdom which feeds and fosters such sins A Passage extracted out of a Letter lately sent from a godly Minister in Colchester to a Minister in London THe last Sabbath day we had one Clarkson a Seeker that preached at Butolph Church the same man I believe that M. Edwards mentions in his Book His Sermon tended to the vilifying of the Scriptures all Ordinances Duties Ministers Church State Hee vilified the Scriptures and would not have the people live upon white and black and that they of themselves were not able to reveal God of which I shall give M. E. a full account the next week An Extract of a Letter written from a Minister in New-England to a Member of the Assembly of Divines DIscipline or Church Government is now the great businesse of the Christian World God grant we forget not the doctrine of Repentance from dead works and Faith in the Lord Jesus I long much to see or heare what is done in England about this matter I shall not fall into particulars as I might do could we speake mouth to mouth I am no Independent neither are manie others who say Communi Presbyterorum consilio Ecclesiae ab initio regebantur nor am I of a democraticall spirit Much have I seene in my almost eleven yeares abode in this Wildernesse and I wish such as maintain an Independen Democracie had seene and found as much experimentally A house like to be well governed where all are Masters but no more of this For my self God hath been here with me and done me much good learning me somthing of himselfe of my selfe and of men N. E. is not Heaven and here we are men still Decem. 8. 1645. To his loving brother M. Thomas Edwards SIr that Book which discovereth our generall Gangraena containeth truth which will procure you many enemies it s the fate of Truth But to this end saith our Lord Iohn 18.37 was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should beare witnesse to the truth and so for this Cause are Christians begotten againe by the Word of Truth Everie one that is of the truth should do so espcially such as are his Ministers Revelasse will be superasse I le joyn with one of your adversaries in that alleadged Text. But they shall proced no farther for their folly shall be made manifest to all men as theirs also was 2 Tim. 3 9. I wait for its accomplishment You yea we all must look to suffer for plaine dealing especially now when as truth lieth in the streets and is trampled on by dirty feet when as there are so many adversaries unto it and such an Independent Combination against it The great objection against you is You are too too vehement in your opposition which when I heard I remembred I had read in Luther de servo Arbitrio the same objected to him by old Erasmus The Answer of Luther unto it mee thinkes may well bee ours yours and yeeld us much comfort and encouragement Quod antem vehementius egerim agnosco culpam si culpa est imo testimonium hoc mihi in mundo reddi in causa Des mirificè gaudeo Atque utinam ipse Deus id testimonii in novissimo die confirmaret
argument they may be pressed upon them to draw them off their errours yet they may not be charged upon them and therefore though in the setting down of the errours and the things thereto annexed as Letters some phrases and words may not be so proper nor so good English yet the Reader must not be offended because I would relate things in their own words to take away all cavill Sixthly For the proof and manifestation of the truth and reality of the errours blasphemies and practices contained in this present Tractate that the Reader may not rest upon my bare assertion and relation of them but may have other grounds of satisfaction for their belief and so be more affected with them I propound these following particulars as grounds of proof 1. That for divers of the opinions errours and practices related there is such a notoriety of them being so notoriously known to thousands and maintained by thousands every day and every place witnessing the truth of them that to quote books written and sermons preached for them or persons holding them is to lose time and when all is alledged that can be 't is far beneath the evidences that the mentioning of the things themselves give 2. Many errours and blasphemies contained in this following Catalogue have been complained of and particulars given in by sufficient persons to the Parliament Committees of Parliament Assembly of Divines and others in authority of which errours I have had either perfect copies given me from Ministers both of the Assembly and City or relations from their mouths who have known particularly the story and truth of them which copies I keep by mee to produce if need be and out of which amongst many other papers and books I made up this Catalogue 3. Some of the errours blasphemies and practices are proved and made manifest in the narration of the Stories and Letters following the Catalogue wherein the naming of some persons places occasions of writing the persons writ unto their writing in a publick way and not in a private manner the willingnesse to have them published with many other concurrent circumstances do declare they are not feigned nor counterfeited but reall and certain 4. Of some of these errours and practices here related I my self and other persons of good note and quality have at the same time together been ear-witnesses and eye-witnesses upon the places 5. Other of these errours and opinions are in divers printed books either of the Sectaries themselves or of persons of note and worth for learning and piety who either after conferences with them or hearing them preach upon certain knowledge have printed and attested them to the world diverse of which printed books especially those made by the Sectaries I quote upon the margent by the errours 6. For any of the errours blasphemies put in this following Catalogue which have come to my knowledge by none of the former five wayes above specified which yet are not many I have had the relation of them from godly Ministers and understanding conscientious Christians with many circumstances of names places conditions time and confident asseverations of the certainty of them the relations coming to me by providence and occasionally spoken of in the hearing of others as well as my selfe and so delivered as there can be no reason in the world to think they should be false but much every way to beleeve them true And that the Reader may the more build upon the truth of all things delivered in this Book besides that account I have given him already in these six particulars I shall acquaint the Reader with the course and way I have taken to come to the truth of things and not to go upon hearsay When any things of this nature have been related to me though by persons of worth and conscience I have used to enquire of them whether they were ear-witnesses or no if not ear-witnesses who they had the reports from and how they came to know them and where and by whom and upon what occasion these points were delivered if they said they were ear and eye witnesses yet if there were but one single witnesse I have used to question who else was present and to enquire after circumstances and occasions and accordingly have gone to other persons named from one to another to find out the bottome and truth both of Opinions held and practises used where I could with wisdome and probability go to finde out and know the truth I have done it myself and where my appearing might hinder the discovery and cause persons to be shie and more reserved I have set others to enquire and directed them the way and entreated them to aske such and such questions and after particular enquiry according to concurrence of circumstances and witnesses I have entertained such things for truth or else received them as false or suspended them as doubtfull not to be asserted and that I might be the more faithfull Relator of the opinions and wayes of the Sectaries of this time and know when and where to put more or lesse weight or credit upon informations and relations I have a long time used to write down daily the same day yea the same hour when I could get opportunty of privacie the occurrences both of opinions and practises that concern our Sectaries and that in such manner and way that looking upon my papers a yeer after I can judge of what authority the relations are and accordingly I have forborn to put into this Catalogue of Errours some strange Opinions I have heard of from good hands though they may be true because I have not had the opportunity to meet with and further to enquire of some persons concerning their truth and because some whom I have enquired of could give me no further satisfaction I have taken this way to satisfie the Reader rather then all along in the severall Errours Blasphemies and Practises to lay down the particular proofs which I think the better way upon these following reasons 1. Because in many of the Errours even contained under one and the same head the proofs to be given of the truth of the thing doth arise many wayes from printed Books from Manuscripts from Sermons from preaching in private houses from Articles given in by witnesses and from others relations now to quote all these with all particular circumstances of time place c. whereby to make out a full proof would be an endlesse work and be so long and tedious that it would crosse one of my ends in this work which is to have this Discourse but short a Manuall that might be for every ones reading 2. Because some of these Errours and Opinions can be proved only from Manuscripts and relations of honest persons who were ear witnesses which Manuscripts are but in the hands of a few unknown to most of the Readers and to make references to them by quoting them in the margent the Reader were never the neerer and then every man
give more full satisfaction in some particulars to the Reader then yet I am able to doe For the manner of Cretensis Answer how unlike it is to a Minister of the Gospel and how like to one brought up in an Alehouse or in a Bowling-alley not onely on a day of publick Thanksgiving but every day in the week having their terms of art at his fingers ends Score up Tallie on and such foul-mouthd language 'T is a lie You lie A loud lie every impartiall Reader cannot but take notice and many speak openly of it and that which makes Cretensis folly and insolencie the greater and more to be blamed by every indifferent Reader is this that he gives me the lie so often in such a disgracefull scornfull way making the relation all over forgery and that there are so many lies well nigh as words in the story speaking also most confidently though falsly against the worthy Minister who told me this storie That hee Works stoutly at the forge and feeds both himself and the world with all manner of scandals and falshoods against the Independents without fear and in the close vapouring and triumphing at an excessive rate with inferences drawn from his own confutations as if all hee had said in answer to me had been Gospel when as all this high and great building is laid and raised solely upon the weak sandy foundation of Cosens his own relation Cretensis disproving the truth of my relation and sealing the truth of his own Answer in seven particulars by no other way but The man professeth that is Cosens that hee knowes no such man and this counter information I had from the mouth of the said Cosens himselfe and have the particulars under his hand Now I appeal to all the world whether any wise man would ever have made such adoe as Cretensis doth here giving the lye so oft triumphing so confidently in a businesse meerly upon the information of a man in his own case and whether this be not worse then to ask my fellow whether I be a thief Cret p. 11. namely to ask a mans selfe and upon a mans owne testimony to call an honest man a thief and to declare a thiefe an honest man especially considering besides Cosens being a party and in his owne cause hee is a man against whom there are many depositions and complaints against him for other miscarriages and misdemeanours a Copie whereof I am promised from a good hand and shall insert in my large Reply But supposing all that Cretensis saith Cosens told him should prove upon further inquiry to be true and not false the contrary whereunto I shall presently make apparent yet no wise man can excuse Cretensis of a great deal of weaknesse and folly to put so much weight as hee doth upon such a testimony and to declare so much to all the world Certainly great Cretensis is the greatest Manifestarian that I have ever met with and there is no man hath manifested that weaknesse of judgement besides strength of malice against the Presbyterian Ministers and Saints which hee hath done both in this and in many other passages of his Book as to make an Answer to a Book and professe truely he never read one quarter of the Book c. and in my opinion these acts manifest greater weaknesse of judgement farre more injudiciousnesse then the not knowing how to range parts of speech in a sentence nor to put the Nominative case and Verb together regularly in English c. And for a conclusion of what I have to reply against the manner of Cretensis confutation of this story I referre it to the judicious Readers consideration whether Master Edwards for relating a story as a Relation upon the information of a reverend godly Minister well known living also upon the place who could upon no reason be judged to do it out of partiality or for sinister ends be to be accounted a liar and to have the lye often given him or M. Goodwin for denying the whole story and affirming the contrary upon the bare word and relation of a stranger a great Sectary and a party in the cause who according to all reason cannot be thought but he will speak favourably for himself especially being such a one as a man may without breach of charity presume he will speak any thing for himselfe in his own cause when as hee did to mee in the presence and hearing of three godly Citizens alledge in his owne behalfe to cleer himself from all fault in this matter that one of the witnesses who deposed said he was hired to swear against him and had five shillings given him by one of the Justices or some about him and had three or foure cups of sack given him before he swore and was drunk when he took his oath unto whom some of the Citizens then present with me replied he had best take heed what he said to accuse the Justices of Peace that they should make any witnesse drunck or have any hand to give 5. s. to one to sweare against him and that this was noâ— likely nor to be beleeved by any wise man and I suppose if I should reply never a word more to what Cretensis hath objected against this story of Cosens I had said enough to satisfie rationall men by declaring I had my information from a person of worth and by Cretensis nothing is here brought to infringe it but only the parties own testimony who is a man also otherwayes obnoxious as I have already declared Now from the manner I shall come to the matter and for the Relation which I have set down of Cosens in the last leaf of my Book save one I received it from a Reverend Minister who is Preacher at Rochester the place where Cosens lives and a Member of the Assembly who told it me and a Common Counsell man of this City and I writ it from this Ministers mouth that I might neither forget nor mistake it and read it to him after I had done and upon reading he approved it as his sense and that which he had related But now supposing there should be any mistakes in the first relation made to this godly and learned Minister yet I reporting it just as I had it from his mouth he being a man to be beleeved and as an information only not as a thing of my own knowledge I conceive I cannot be taxed for a lyar not according to any acception or definition of a lye and if I be in this kinde to be blamed for lying I desire to know of Master Goodwin by the next in case hee have reported from Cosens a Sectary a loose person a man speaking in his own cause any thing that is untrue which that he hath done I shall infallibly prove how he will free himself from the same crime and not more justly incurre the title of great Master Cretensis then I the brand of lying which he so liberally bestowes upon
upon all the Ordinances of Parliament in reference to the Directorie Ordination of Ministers and Church-government leaving out none but the last Ordinance about Commissioners wherein the Parliament and Assembly are usufferably reviled and railed at and particularly the Parliament charged with speaking blasphemy and being guiltie of many other crimes And lastly The Sectaries are so violent and insufferably insolent that though they abuse persons or things or do the strangest actions either against Lawes or Ordinances if they be but questioned by any in authoritie for these things in stead of confessing their offences submitting and carrying themselves peaceably and humbly they will abuse and miscall Authority to their faces yea set out printed books against them reproaching and reviling them to the open world of which I might give many instances as in the case of one Hawes committed lately by some Justices of Peace upon two witnesses testifying words spoken by him derogatory to the second and third Persons in the Trinity a book was printed wherin they are reviled and clamoured against So upon one Larner's commitment about a dangerous book entituled Londons last warning there is a book put forth aspersing the L. Mayor of London the Committee of Examination and the Right Honourable the House of Peeres And lastly upon Lievtenant-Colonell Lilburns commitment many Pamphlets were printed speaking bitterly against the Committee of Examinations and the honourable House of Comons as Englands Birthright severall printed Letters c. The Sectaries have lately put forth two pamphlets with a picture drawne and affixed to them greatly abusing all the Presbyterians The first is called Dictated thoughts upon the Presbyterians late Petitions to the Parliament the other is the book called Tender Conscience religiously affected propounding questions upon the Ordinances of Parliament The maine of the picture is an heart pictured over which is written Tender Conscience religiously affected with some verses over that and under the heart with daggers at it stands the Pope the Prelate and the Presbyter in the midst of them two with a book in his hand where Directorie is written Antichristian Presbyter written by him and the Crown under his foot he treading upon it and a dagger in his hand reaching at the heart of tender conscience but a chaine with a weight hanging at his arm whereby he is hindred and falls somwhat short of pricking tender conscience with his dagger Now I could write a book in giving observations and making a confutation of this picture and these mottoes but I must studie brevitie I will onely hint a few things 1. That I have been informed for certain and it was spoken of by some Merchants on the Exchange that in Holland the picture of an Independent is drawn and set out publikely and he is pictured thus with God written in his mouth the Devill written just upon his heart and the world written and pictured as he holding it in his armes 2. It may be this picture of a Presbyterian will cause the picture of an Independent to be drawne here in London set out with Mottoes as also what he hath under his feet c. and if it prove so 't is but just and the Independents may thank themselves 3. For the Picture it selfe of a tender Conscience which they make the Presbyterian lifting up a dagger to stab I am confident the Presbyterians are as truly tender-conscienced men as any in England yea far above the Sectaries and for the Sectaries take them generally they are far from being tender-conscienced men as I shall shew at large in my Treatise against Toleration under that head of answering that objection that tender Consciences must be â—orn with where I shall prove by many instances they are men of large consciences and have consciences like to Ostrich stomachs that can digest iron that can digest a generall Toleration of all Religions can beare with them that are evill or any thing that is wicked so it will promote the Catholike Cause and in truth in stead of being a truly consciencious people and going upon religious principles they are a meere politike Faction driving on strange designes and having ends of their own 4. Whereas they place the Presbyter in the midst of the Pope and Prelat how might they more truly have placed an Independent and other Sectaries the Independents shaking hands and complying more with Papists and Prelats than Prebyterians as I could prove by many instances of familiar passages and speeches that have passed between some Sectaries and Papists and Prelats and some speeches again of Papists and Prelats of the Independents some wherof the Reader may find in this Book pag. 16 126. 5. That of the Presbyterian trampling the Crown under his feet is a most wicked lye and confuted in the sight of the Sun by the experience of thesâ— times for who stand more for the Crowne the Kings Person and Honour his just greatnesse and his Posteritie after him than the Presbyterian partie and who are more against Monarchy the Kings Person and Honour than the Independent partie A Sectarie indeed may well be pictured with the Crowne under both his feet trampling it and breaking it all to peeces and together with the Crowne trampling the Church Ministerie and the Kingdome of Scotland under their feet and for proofe of Sectaries treading the Crowne under their feet witnesse Londons last warning commended sold dispersed up and down by Sectaries witnesse Walwyns an Arch-Sectaries speeches with othea passages of some of them as giving over praying for the King above this yeare laughing at them who pray for him as one of them praying publikely in the Church that the King might be brought in chains to the Parliament as speaking against his coming in or being received in but under the notion of a Delinquent and that he deserved to die if any man did with such like speeches 6. That of the Presbyter endevouring to destroy the â—â—nder Conscience religiously affected only hindred by a great clog hanging upon him is a wicked scandall for the tendernesse forbearance love indulgence of the Presbyterians when they were in their highest power and the Independents weak and low is known to all this Kingdome and had they been such men as the Independent Painter would make them the Sectaries had never growne to this boldnesse to make such a Picture nor these Kingdoms so troubled with them as now they are but the truth of it is a Sectarie may well be painted with a dagger thus running at the heart of the Presbyterians tender consciences religiously affected and had they not clogs upon their arms we should find it so by lamentable experience they have made violent attempts against Presbyterians and they have given out many threatning words and certainly designed and comforted themselves that ere long they should be able to crush the Presbyterians for proofe whereof besides instances already given in this Book pag. 67. I shall add two or three at present One Smart