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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50325	Truth held forth and maintained according to the testimony of the holy prophets, Christ and his Apostles recorded in the Holy Scriptures with some account of the judgments of the Lord lately inflicted upon New-England by witchcraft : to which is added, Something concerning the fall of Adam, his state in the fall, and way of restoration to God again, with many other weighty things ... / written in true love to the souls of my neighbours and all men, which includeth that love to them and myself, by Thomas Maule.	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.	1695 (1695)	Wing M1354; ESTC W491354	172,116	273

wisdom knowledge and reason of Disobedience in its own time with his own words doth apply such means of which himself did never experience imputing the cause to proceed from Witch-craft or a Melancholly humor and withal giveth direction not to give way to comply with the Light within which he saith are the checks of a natural Conscience and reliques of old Adam Thus and of he like nature are the directions counsels advice of such proud covetous men who follow the ways of Balaam that forsook the right way of the Lord to gain the Wages of Unrighteousness for Light is sown for the Righteous and gladness for the Vpright in heart and to them that will not obey it is their Condemnation Joh. 3.19 for it is the gift of God which came by Jesus Christ by whom all that are saved come through the Cross which mortifies and kills every Lust which is mans deadly Enemy by which every covetous and unrighteous man is deceived and of his own lust drawn into this and the other form of Religion which is their cloak to cover hide and shelter all their pride and unrighteous Works of Covetousness And here it is that poor mortal men are become Servants and Slaves to their own Lusts which are Devils Thieves and Robbers the deadly Enemies of mans own House that have drawn a way his mind into the love of carnal things that perish and of this like Nature are they bewitched that they should not obey the Truth for in their own wisdom will and time they can neither see hear nor obey to do those things which are of faith in Christ to make their peace with God because their own wisdom knowledge will and reason is the Righteousness of their works which make a Wall of Partition between Man and his Creator who hath created him to wait upon his Maker to hear and obey God in all things according to his will and time that he may have the honour and praise of his own work done by and of himself on man the omitting of which Duty keeps the Children of men from the true saving Knowledge of God for Man in his own wisdom will and time hath always the eye of Knowledge and Reason open against himself in which state he cannot receive the will and mind of God from above because he giveth way to serve his own Lusts which are his Enemies that ensnare his Soul and keep his Mind in Bondage to serve this and the other thing of his own invention in which abideth Death and Destruction and indeed of this nature is every mans God that liveth not to the true God in thought word and work according to his Word which he teacheth and formeth in all them that abide faithful which without faithfulness to what God hath commanded no man can come unto him therefore it is that every covetous proud and unrighteous man is shut out from having any entrance into the true saving knowledge of God because to him is not the true God retained in any of his Thoughts which of his own lust are moved here and there and indeed every where into this and the other thing which abideth but for a time and then leaveth the Mind or the Mind leaveth it and so in its motion which is swift indeed for another thing of the like nature in which abideth Death So that every proud vain covetous man in the world to him there are Gods many all being of one nature which in his own wisdom will knowledge reason and righteousness to him make but one God which is their own lusts the Prince and Power of Darkness which rules in the Children of Disobedience and is called The God of this World because he is a God to them that are of the World who have yeilded their minds to serve their own lusts therefore is this lust to them the God of this World the Prince and Power of Darkness that rules the mind of every covetous proud and unrighteous man and woman that retain not the true and living 〈…〉 thoughts the moving cause of which 〈…〉 their own Enemies the Devil 〈…〉 away the mind in the swiftness of motion the world over into the many things thereof in 〈◊〉 and with which the mind is besettered and intangled with the love and delight therein that there is not the least measure of freedom in the will for the mind to abide in re●iredness to wait upon God to see his Salvation wrought in his own time according to the will and mind of himself Now to them that abide faithful unto God they keep in a true state of watchfulness waiting upon God and watching against the appearance of every lust which is such an Enemy against God and mans true peace with his maker that lust is ever ready to draw away the mind from God that it may not retain him in its thoughts but to be thinking of this and the other thing in which remaineth death that draws the soul into perdition which as they abide in faithfullness upon their watch their strength by the povver of God will be renevved that they shall not only perceive their Enemies motion but also receive povver to vvith-stand their lusts and cause Gods enemies to scatter And of this nature in the hour of temptation he receiveth strength in and through the Power of God which resisteth such Devils and causeth them to flee and of this nature it is with them that are not carnally minded to live after the flesh but spiritually minded to live after the spirit through which by the spirit they mortifie the deeds of the flesh which vvork of God is only known to them who retain him in all their thoughts that with a holy Resolution and godly zeal for his Cause they are made willing to give up and forsake all for the love of God which is in Christ Jesus him to hear and in all things to obey as becometh his Truth this is it which God would have all men to do that he only may rule in them and the spirit have the government that thereby Man may come to live and abide in peace with his Maker who is willing to be at peace with them that are willing he shall rule whose right it is to have the government for he that will be Christs Disciple must first take up the Cross and follow him in all things according to his wisdom will and time who best knows when where and how to cleanse the house of Thieves and Robbers which rob God of his honour by living to their ovvn lust their own thoughts vvords and vvorks according to the reason of their own vvill and vvisdom of the flesh which desires the Temple of God and makes it become an unfit habitation for the Lord of Life to abide in therefore if any covetous man any unjust man or he that is unrighteous and unholy vvill knovv himself to be purged from his unjustness his covetousness and unholiness he must forsake the

be related for the convincing of People concerning the Truth of God by Jesus Christ but all that hath been with all whatsoever of holy care and means that may be used is but for the further Condemnation of them that refuse Obedience to the gift of Gods divine Light which men have received as a Talent or Talents for them to improve for their Lords use and the benefit of their Souls for the Lord of Life waits with the Tenders of Life and Salvation for every Soul where the heart and mind is willing to forgo all the ways of Unrighteousness and to give up in true Obedience to serve the Lord with an upright heart and willing mind as becometh his People so to do for there is no Salvation of God by Jesus Christ to any mans soul but by true Faith and Obedience to God in Christ who siving● is no● a God to them 〈◊〉 love and delight in any one thing which is not 〈…〉 his holy Commands for as the Lord of 〈…〉 of God in all things for the Servation 〈…〉 so them that witness S●●vation in and through him must through Faith and Obedience come through the Cross even as he hath done for as he was outwardly crucified on the outward Cross for the sins of the People somust the Power of God through Christ come to crucifi● every lustful affection which would exalt it sel● above the Witness of Gods holy Truth which no man can savingly partake of but as he comes through faith and obedience to partake of Gods heavenly Riches which are in store for all them that love the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ whom it any man will hear let him not harden his heart by Disobedience in ●nbelief for the Devils Power is of no other strength than to tempt the mind of man to serve him which if men obey his Temptations to serve him in sin it begets the heart into a hard stare of Unbelief to believe no other but a sinning life all the days of their appointed time in this life the cause of which is altogether through their Obedience to the Devils Temptations whose Power never did neither can force any man to sin but as they yeild their Obedience to his alluring Temptations which if through faithfulness men would watch and pray to God the strength of his Power by Jesus Christ would give them Victory against and over every lustful Desite of the corrupted heart which is by nature inclineable to serve no other save the Devil which seeks all unrighteous ways to destroy the soul of Man which through Faith and Obedience to what God hath of his divine Grace and Light of his Spirit made manifest by Christ Jesus through which they may be saved And though some may despise at my small measure in the aforesaid Work yet this I have an a●●urance of and that from the Lord of Life tha● as 〈◊〉 keep faithful to that measure of his good Spirit of Grace Light and Life which through Faith and Obedience he will increase my Faith and enlarge my Understanding to understand his Will and Mind more and more in the things which concern the wellfair of the Souls well-being with God in Jesus Christ CHAP. XXVIII The Substance of my Letter to the Committee of the Militia in Salem in answer to what they did desire of me I Received yours by one of the Committee relating to my joyning with your laying out Disbursments for a Town stock of Ammunition and Provision against a time of Invasion Now you your selves well know that I never did with-hold the promotion of any Work among you or any other of Power in this place so far as it hath not been inconsistent with the Truth of God according to my Faith which leadeth me to assist and help according to my measure when and where God shall direct until which time if I should conform to your desire where then will follow my Reward And as to your War both Temporal and Spiritual where doth the benefit of it appear to a People whose unrighteous cruel Bloody Laws yet remain only wanting Power against the Lives and Estates of their honest Neighbours whom your Priests esteemed as those of your Church Members whom your selves do now put to Death as Witches which possibly some of them may be so and if that God should further permit the Devils Power against the Rulers Priests and Hearers it would follow to be the greatest of all other of Gods just Judgments that ever have befallen New-England since they began to stock whip cut off Ears banish order for Bonds men and women long and cruel Imprisonment and taking away to the value of twenty hundred Pounds besides the Lives of them four Righteous ●e sons put to Death at Boston all which hath been the afflicted state of the Lords People which in Derision have been known by the Name of Quakers And if the Children of them that destroyed the Lives and Estates of the Lords People in that day will say That they had no hand in the same I say that their assertion is utterly false so long as they condemn not their Predecessors actions and I prove it by the rebellious Jews many thousands of whom had no actual hand in destroying the Righteous in those days and they could say even as these in this day That they had no hand in the same but forasmuch as they did not bear a faithful Testimony for Gods holy Truth against the Unrighteousness of their Priests and Rulers the just Judgments of God hath reacht their Posterity to following Generations even so is it with New England while the Land remains defiled with the Blood of the Lords Servants slain at Bo●on which New-England former Priests and Rulers have done in the Name of God and the Kings Name without any warrant or example from either but in their blind persecuting Spirit have maintained their persecuting way from a command in the Law which relates to false Worshippers in that day which in this Gospel Day they have charged upon the Lords People which worship the only true God in the Spirit and in the Truth which if God should permit the Power of the Devil by the spirit of Persecution then might more than three parts of the People of the World lose their Lives among whom it is evident the Lord hath a Number belonging unto him though at present st●angers to the outward Sufferings of Christ for he is the Light of the Gentiles and Salvation to the ends of the Earth and by him the Remnant of the Nations which fear God and work Righteousness are saved and he hath commanded That Wheat and Tears should grow together until the Harvest of which things I only hint to you for your understanding my Mind concerning the Proceedings in New-England whose former Priests and Rulers have not manifested the like Repentance as that of Judas who repenting himself o● betraying innocent Blood and withal returned the Money which he had unrighteously taken