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
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
the Ordinance as their expression is for which Mr. Tillam hath and doth shew so much zeal and therefore more likely to favour Mr. Tillam's cause Yet I say some of them doe disown him as not fit to be communicated withall and others have told me that he is disowned by their whole Church yea some of that sweet society as Mr. Tillam calls them do suspect him to be a Jesuit and several grounds they have of their suspition as themselves have related to me First because he hath acknowledged that once he was a Papist and again he hath confessed as some of them have told me that he hath been at Rome Secondly they have observed him to deliver doctrines in favour of Justification by Works And truly though he so slightly pass over that which Mr. Prin charges him withall yet I think he ought there being so much ground of suspition to have laboured more for his vindication in that particular than meerly to say It is a gross slander Now as for those passages in his Pamphlet which relate to me Though I have understood by several persons that he hath not only a false tongue but also a brazen face yet I conceive he would never have been so impudent as to have uttered such a reproach without the least ground but that he hoped it would never have come to my knowledge I being now so far remote But I have now at last providentially obtained a sight of his Pamphlet and for my own vidication I shall give an account of all that passed betwixt him and me whence he hath taken an hint to forg all those reproaches he casleth upon me I being occasionally with Mr. Malyn Secretary to the Lord Protector and with Mr. Wakering and some other Gentlemen at Whitehall there was mention made of this same Tillam and the Instrument whereby he was authorized to preach in any vacant place which Mr. Malyn hearing of said He was very confident he never had any such Instrument granted him by the Protector And that there never was any granted him he told me and some Gentlemen there after that he had been with his Highness the Lord Protector to enquire about it Yea he added further that an Order should issue out to apprehend him What I then heard I related to some particular persons whom I occasionally had some discourse withal concerning Mr. Tillam Some weeks after Mr. Tillam came to me charging me that I should say hisInstrument was conterfeited To whom I answered it was not so But nevertheless what I had heard and from whom I heard it as I had told others so now also I would acquaint him and all that is above-mentioned touching the discourse with Mr. Malyn concerning him and his Instrument I related to him and added that if any wrong were done him he must seek to Mr. Malyn Secretary to the Lord Protector for reparations Yet I further told him if he would produce his Instrument and if upon the sight of it I should be convinced that it was a reality upon a Christian Account I would tell those persons who heard the former relation from me that I had since seen his Instrument and that it was a real thing Now that this is the truth and the substance of all that which was said by me those two eminent Ministers that Mr. Tillam speaks of in his Pamphlet viz. Mr. Hudson of Capel and Mr. Walker of Assington wil attest And if this be the truth and those fore-named Ministers wil give testimony to it as they say they wil then either both I and they are lyars and stirred up by Satan the Father of lyes as Mr. Tillam expresses it or else Mr. Tillam who for lying among other things was Excommunicate and so given up to the Father of lyes hath not yet repented of nor is delivered from that sin but seems now rather to have habituated himselfe unto it as I shall make appear by a passage or two in his book which savours much of that lying spirit Not to stand to shew how little ground Mr. Tillam had upon my relating of what I heard to bottom those expressions of his upon viz. That I calumniated him that I falsly accused him that I confidently affirmed that his Instrument was conterfeited little untruths are not worthy to be taken notice of when they come from Mr. Tillam's either Tongue or Pen. But such a Forchead of brasse and such a Conscience of brawn has he that he is not afraid nor ashamed to say after my falshood was discovered But when was this discovery made in what place and before what witnesses He that helped him to make that I mean his Father of lyes must either help him with another or else this will appear to be as it is a loud one But Mr. Tillam saith That I with two eminent Ministers laboured for peace To labour for peace I know is a Christian duty yet not with an Excommunicate person And how I and the abovesaid Ministers laboured for peace with Mr. Tillam you shall judge by that which follows First I shall ask Mr. Tillam whether I went from Dedham to him at Colchester or he came from Colchester to me at Dedham If he came to me hitherto Mr. Tillam and not I laboured and took the pains Secondly when Mr. Tillam was at Dedham whether I sought after and went to him or he to me If he to me then hitherto also Mr. Tillam and not I laboured and took the pains Thirdly after Mr. Tillam was at my house whether I laboured any further or took any more pains with him than speaking the words rehearsed before Indeed this I did having heard that Mr. Tillam had been convicted of and excommunicated for lying among other things though then I had not certain proof of it as now I have I desired those two fore-named Ministers being then at my house to hear what should pass in discourse betwixt us lest Mr. Tillam should afterwards according to his manner bespatter me as he had done some others with gross untruths and his Pamphlet may evidence I had good reason so to do But that I laboured for peace myselfe further than is expressed before or that I ever desired either of those eminent Ministers to labour for peace on my behalf is false and it comes from Mr. Tillam's Father of lyes In the third page of his book he mentions a project of mine what it is I know not unless it be this honest one That an Impostor who grows worse and worse deceiving and being deceived may be discovered But what ever project I had this I discern to be one in Mr. Tillam who that he may breed prejudices in his Disciples against the Testimony of those that bear witness against him useth to say they are his enemies as if all those persons that in several parts of this Nation have testified against Mr. Tillam and his waies whereof some are eminent for learning and religion were acted from a principle of envy
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
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