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A90861	Innocencie appearing, through the dark mists of pretended guilt. Or, A full and true narration of the unjust and illegal proceedings of the commissioners of Berks, (for ejecting scandalous and insufficient ministers) against John Pordage of Bradfield in the same county. In which he is justly vindicated from the unjust and horrid aspersions of blasphemy, divelism or necromancie, scandal in his life, and all things else falsly objected against him by his enemies. Published for the clearing of truth, and the detecting of malice and subtilty, and for the prevention of all mispprehensions that may be caused by any scandalous pamphlets, and false relations of the proceedings in his case. As likewise for the information of all sober-minded Christians touching his judgement in many things of high concernment, and particularly concerning chastity, virginity, apparitions of spirits, visions, communion with the holy angels, the invisible worlds, magistracy, &c. / Written by the said John Pordage.	Pordage, John, 1607-1681.	1655 (1655)	Wing P2967; Thomason E1068_7; ESTC R210422	152,492	125

the time of travel sent for Dr. Pordage his Mother to be her Midwife but he would not suffer her to go saying they would not be guilty of such a beastlike life meaning Mistriss Lewyns being with child by her husband 2. The said Dr. Pordage coming to the house of Mistriss Lewyn in his discourse with Mrs. Lewyn blamed her for having children by her husband and argued with her the unlawfulness of having children by her husband 3. In his discourses to Mrs. Leayn concerning the same subject endeavoured to maintain the unlawfulness of their having children and said that Adam was made male and female in himself and had he not fallen he had brought forth children himself and seemed to maintain and prove the same by Scripture and otherwise 4. In his discourses with Mrs. Lewyn which was about the time that one Everard was with him in his house at Bradfield who was generally reputed to be a Conjurer he asked Mr. Lewyn whether he would not be afraid if he should see his own Picture or shape intimating that he himself had used to see his 5. The said Dr. Pordage hath had for some weeks together in his house the said Everard and one Tawny who stiled himself King of the Jews who had been questioned as it is generally reported for holding dangerous and unsound opinions as That there is no Hell and the like A True Copy Math. Langley Regist Ioseph Cook After these were read I desired the Court in the first place to finish the first Paper of Articles urging that if they were sufficient they might save both them and me much trouble But this they denied though I much urged it Whereupon they commanded this subsequent Order to be drawn up viz. BERKS ss By the Committee for ejecting of Scandalous Ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School-Masters in this County Octob. 19. 1654. ORdered that Mr. Iohn Tickle Mr. Iohn Pendarvis Mr. Francis Pordage Iohn Higgs Gifford Luinton Richard Luinton Mary Pocock and Roger Stevens doe make their personal appearance before the said Commissioners on Thursday the second day of November next by eight of the clock in the morning at the Bear in Speenhamland by Newbery to testifie their knowledge of all such matters as shall be propounded unto them concerning Dr. Iohn Pordage of Bradfield in this County whereof they are not to fail Given under our hands and seals the day and year above-mentioned Samuel Wightwick Ar. Evelyn Ed. Mills Samuel Dunch Angell Bell But this I must speak on the behalf of Mr. Wightwick and Mr. Evelyn that by their presence things were transacted that day with much more seeming modesty and calmness then at other times the Ministers then containing themselves within the limits of due silence which gave me some hopes that the latter part of my Tryal might be transacted in some moderation equity and civility but these two sitting no more after that day there broke forth much confusion rashness and incivility in their carriage some Ministers who were bitter enemies against me acting the part of Commissioners and seeming to have great influence upon all their proceedings being suffered to break forth into uncivil scoffs and railings against me in the open Court as it will afterward appear But thus much for my second daies appearance here represented according to the line of truth and equity On the second of November I appeared before them again at the same place according to their last Order at which time Major Fincher was Chairman besides whom there were present Mr. Dunch Mr. Stroud Mr. Cook Mr. Bell with two or three more Commissioners the Ministers were Mr. Fowler Mr. Woodbridg Mr. Hughes Mr. Tickle c. The first thing they demanded of me was to give in my Answer to the second Charge of Articles exhibited the last day against me I replyed that my Answer was ready but I desired that they would keep to their own Order and first hear my Witnesses and so finish my first Charge that we might not run into confusion but they would not hearken to this rational request importuning me for my Answer resolving to hear nothing till I had given it in so being necessitated to yield to their command I gave in this subsequent Answer My Answer to the second Articles exhibited against me is as followeth IN the first place I shall take liberty to reply to the Title of the Articles which is to prove my ignorance and insufficiency for the Ministry by the Articles produced 1. Part. Ans I do here humbly desire that ignorance and insufficiency for the Ministry may be preserved as distinct Heads from Scandal and Heresie according as it is intended by the Authors of the Ordinance for certainly it is against the judgement of the Lord Protector and the intendment of his Councel who made the Ordinance to confound that which may be called scandal or heresie and insufficiency together We see it is usual this day amongst us for knowing and learned Ministers to differ in their Judgements both in Doctrine Worship and things indifferent who yet thereupon are not accounted ignorant and insufficient for the Ministry So that although these Articles could be proved true they are to be referred either to scandal or heresie and not to ignorance and insufficiency 2. Part. Ans If ignorance and insufficiency for the Ministry be taken for the want of an inward special gift as it is qualified with humane Arts and Sciences attained by much pains and industry in relation to Academical Learning Or if ignorance and insufficiency for the Ministry are taken for the want of inward abilities qualified with spiritual gifts as with those of prayer utterance and Preaching Or if ignorance and insufficiency be taken for the want of a saving principle of grace manifesting it self in convictions of sin Legal terrors or Evangelical illuminations into the free grace love of the Father or into the meritorious death of Christ for the redemption of lost sinners Or if it be taken for those effects flowing from such a saving principle of life as that of saving faith true repentance pardon of sin peace of conscience a holy life in all universal obedience to the holy will and righteous commands of God Then I humbly conceive that meer ignorance and insufficiency without the pretensions of Heresie and Scandal will be found a bed too short and a covering too narrow for my Ejection out of the work of the Ministry according to the true intent of the Ordinance 3. Part. Ans Hence my humble desire to you for time to come is that you would not make your Ephah of ignorance and insufficiency so small that Heresie and scandal may not stand distinct in it and that you would not make your Shekell of ignorance and insufficiency so great as to swallow up Heresie and Scandal into the boundless and endless extent of it For what is this but to falsifie the Ballances of justice and equity by a deceitfull weight in not preserving

before it was heard Hereupon the Chairman commanded Langly the Clerk to read these following Articles in open Court Articles against Dr. Pordage of Bradfield 1. That the fiery Deity of Christ mingles and mixes it self with our flesh 2. That the imputative righteousness of Christ is a sapless righteousness 3. That the discoveries of the sinfulness of sin the terrors of the law the death of Christ the free-grace of God are fleshly and flashy discoveries 4. That the liberty and freedom spoken of purchased by the blood of Christ and applyed by the dinging and cleaving of the soul to is not a liberty or freedom from the guilt of sin the curse of the law the wrath of God but the fiery Deity of Christ in the center of our souls 5. That by Male and Female Gen. 1. we are to understand by Male the Deity by the Female the humanity and that these two became one flesh these things were delivered without any limitation whatsoever 6. That gifts and graces of the Spirit are but flesh 7. That Christ is a Type and but a Type 8. That Christ is not God 9. That Christ is not Jehovah Tickle witnesseth After these Articles were read the Chair-man demanded my answer to whom I replyed That I had been acquitted from all these four years since by the Committee of plundered Ministers and that after a full hearing and debate therefore I desired that according to Law they would pass by these old ones but if they had any that were new told them I was ready and willing to receive and answer them I further replyed I hoped they would give me the liberty of a Felon who after tryall and acquitment cannot be questioned for the same thing again to which Mr. Dunch replyed with much seeming fierceness You are worse then a Felon for ought I know Which language coming from a Judge to the Defendant before tryall let all sober persons judge of who are acquainted with the rules of civility morality or Christianity Here Mr. Hewes the Minister interposed affirming That a Felon might be acquitted at one Assizes and hang for the same thing at the next of which he gave an instance in a story not worth the relating To which I replyed only this That it could not be for the same he was acquitted of before but I seeing that he had gone ultra crepidam beyond his Office and beyond reason said no more to him though he was very bitter and pragmatical speaking oft as Judge although he was but an assistant and that only in reference to ignorance and insufficiency But afterward applying my self to the Chairman I further urged that these Articles were not within the cognizance of the Commissioners in that I had been discharged from them by those who had full power and authority to do it After this all were commanded to withdraw and about an hour after I was called in again and asked for my discharge I answered I came now only to know my Charge and that I had not my Discharge there but would bring it when they would appoint me Then they declared That notwithstanding my Discharge in another Court yet it was the judgement of the Commissioners that they had power to take cognizance of the Articles exhibited whence they made this Order viz. BERKS By the Commissioners for ejecting of Scandalous Ministers c. October 5. 1654. At the Bear in Speenhamland Dr. John Pordage Rector of Bradfield in this County hath in obedience to our Warrant dated the 18 of September last to him directed this day attended and pleadeth that he hath been already discharged from the Articles that are exhibited to us against him by the Parliament and the late Committee of this County and therefore not again to be questioned or proceeded against for the same by these Commissioners But the said Doctor hath produced no such Discharge Resolved upon the Question That by vertue of the Ordinance of his Highness the Lord Protector and his Councel for ejecting of scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School-Masters The said Commissioners have power to question the said Doctor upon the said Articles and that notwithstanding his Plea as aforesaid of a former Discharge And it is thereupon Ordered That the said Doctor do give his positive answer to the said Articles unto us on this day fortnight being the 19 instant at this place whereof he is not to fail Now this was the substance of the things which were transacted the first day of my appearance which I have here presented in truth and righteousness to the impartial Reader My second appearance before them was the 19 of October at the same place The Commissioners then sitting were these M. Wightwick Chairman M. Danch Mr. Evelyn Mr. Bell Mr. Mils The Ministers Mr. Woodbridg Mr. Fowler Mr. Hughes with some others The first thing they demanded was my Answer to the Articles exhibited against me But I desired them to receive my Discharge which I hoped would be instead of a full and satisfactory Answer So I produced it and it was received by them and delivered to the Clerk who after it was read took a Copy of it and then returned it to me again The Tenor of it was as followeth At the Committee for Plundred Ministers March 27. 1651. VPon hearing the Cause in presence of parties and Councel on both sides concerning Dr. Pordage Minister of Bradfield in the County of Berks And upon reading the Papers and Examinations depending against him before this Committee and full hearing what could be said by both parties This Committee have taken the said Cause into serious consideration and debate and do thereupon Order that the said Cause be dismissed and the same is hereby dismissed GILB MILLINGTON Afterward they asked me how they should know that this was a true Copy I returned answer I received it from their Clerk there present who knew it to be true And besides I had a friend by who being with me when I received it could attest the truth of it by Oath Then they waved my Discharge and called for my particular Answer to the Articles alleadging That notwithstanding the Discharge the Commissioners had judged the Articles under their cognizance So that after I had pressed my Discharge with as much earnestness as in modesty I could they still hastily calling for my further Answer I was necessitated to give in this which followeth My Answer to the Articles exhibited against me consists in these Particulars 1. Partic. I Humbly conceive that none of the Articles exhibited against me are comprehended in the Act Entituled An Act against several Atheistical Blasphemous and execrable Opinions derogatory to the Honour of God and destructive to humane society without the sense and meaning of the words expressed in the Act be stretched and wrested beyond the litteral scope and drift of the Act. And this is not my judgement only but the judgement of some pious and judicious Lawyers of this Land Which thing in

my relating to some that were wise and knowing what I heard from another with much grief to my soul makes me any way culpable or guilty Art 3. That the bloud of Christ was not meritorious of any mans salvation Ans I call heaven and earch to witness that such thoughts never entred into my soul nor did such words ever come out of my mouth For my judgement ever hath been and still is that the bloud of Christ is satisfying reconciling cleansing bloud that it is interceding redeeming meriting bloud in relation to all those who through faith and patience come to inherit eternal life Art 4. That it was a poor thing to live upon the bloud of Christ and fetching it over again in a contemptuous kind of speaking Pish said he thou art a babe thou knowst nothing to live upon the bloud of Christ is a poor thing 1. Part. Ans I acknowledg that about four years since such expressions were uttered by me to one Mrs. Grip but without any such intent as may be supposed by my accusers and not with that circumstantial aggravation of repeating it in a contemptuous manner which is but a supposition of my adversary and cannot be attested by an Oath without this Witness pretends infallibly to know my thoughts and purposes 2. Part. Ans Again this being spoken to a particular person on a particular occasion might be true if the circumstances of the discourse were accordingly added though as here presented it seems very monstrous 3. Part. Ans Therefore to make things clear I shall here insert some particular circumstances which may present this Article though in a new yet true face I coming to Mrs. Grips house she took me into a private room to have some conference with me alone where she brake forth into a violent passion of tears weeping and wringing her hands and pouring sorth bitter complaints and invectives against Mr. Fowler as that he was a graceless man a Lyer a Slanderer not worthy to come up into a Pulpit or to have the name of a Minister of Christ with other such bitter expressions The cause of which was as she then told me Mr. Fowlers reporting about that she then lived in Adultery and after her passion was somewhat allayed she brake forth into these or such like expressions of high assurance Christ hath loved me and dyed for me and justified me by his bloud from all guilt of sin I am an elect person a justified person and what is this Fowler to charge sin upon me These and other expressions fell from her to this purpose from some of which I feared she was drenched with Antinomianism and told her more then once it was a poor thing to live upon the bloud of Christ and to look so much upon that except she had the nature of Christ and the Spirit of Christ asking her where was the meekness of Christ and the patience of Christ to suffer as an innocent lamb quietly but still she crying out she lived on the bloud of Christ I told her it was a poor thing to be thus exalted with notions of the bloud of Christ without mentioning sanctification and those holy graces which flow from Christs nature dwelling in the soul Now by these expressions of mine my scope was to make Mrs. Grip see the necessity of sanctification and of a pure and holy life and not to make void the blessed effect of the bloud of Christ applyed according to the mind of God and the true meaning of the Scripture And now having related the circumstances as near as I can remember I believe a sober and knowing Christian will not judge me either scandalous or ignorant for these expressions Art 5. That one speaking to me of the glorious persons in the Trinity I replyed pish there is no such thing as persons in Trinity 1. Part. Ans I doe here profess and avow from the sincerity of my heart That I believe the Trinity of persons as an Article of my faith viz. That there are three persons distinct from each other the person of the Father the person of the Son the person of the Holy Ghost yet not so as to prejudice the unity in essence and I so believe the unity as not to confound the Trinity of persons 2. Part. Ans I never uttered such expressions in that way as to give any just ground of suspition of my denying the Trinity But I remember about four years since being before the Committee of Berks Mr. Fowler or Mr. Gilbert I remember not which desired the Committee to give them liberty to ask me two or three questions amongst the rest they asked me whether there were three persons in the Deity I answered them I believed the Trinity as it is recorded in 1 John 5 7 There are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost Thus you see I believe the Trinity But doe you believe the Trinity of persons said they I replyed I find not the term Persons in the Text but to put you out of doubt I do not stumble at the word Person And this afterward I told to the above-mentioned Mrs. Grip in a private conference some years since to whom I affirmed that I found no such expressions as persons in Trinity in the Scripture and that the word Person being a School-term was very difficult to be apprehended by common capacities but I never spake thus to prejudice the true notion of the persons in the sacred Trinity which I do cordially believe but only to shew that ordinary Christians should not be too curious in prying into that deep mystery of the three persons in the Trinity but rather content themselves with what the Scripture plainly affirms of the Father Son and Holy Ghost as distinct yet one But to conclude this Answer pray consider what hard measure it is thus to pick a broken sentence out of a long discourse and so to accuse one without relating the circumstances which might serve to clear what otherwise may seem very strange to prejudiced persons Art 6. That it was a weakness to be troubled for sin Ans I do not remember that any such expression as this ever dropped from my mouth either publiquely or privately and I am perswaded that none one dare assert it with an oath which if they did would not make much to the purpose for with a charitable qualification it might thus be made forth That 't is a weakness for one to be troubled for sin who hath the assurance of Gods love his sin pardoned his person justified sanctified and his will converted from and crucified to sin for such a one should be triumphing in the power of faith and love enjoying sweet heavenly communion with God and saying O death where is thy sting and there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit Whereas trouble for sin thus pardoned and mortified may be an engine of Satan

and but a Type Being further examined he saith That I endeavoured to prove that Taken Octob. 5 Novemb. 22 Christ was but a Type out of Peter where he is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Further Roger Stevens being sworn to this Article deposeth That Novemb. 22. the Dr. in dispute with Mr. Pendarvis delivered That o This Deponent mistakes the business I endeavoured to prove him a Type but not only a Type as may be seen in my Answer Christ was but a Type and went to prove it by that Scripture 1 Pet. 2. He is our example To which Mr. Pendarvis replyed That is not meant by way of righteousness to justification but by way of example as to reproaches To which the Dr. answered you understand it one way and I another p or words to that effect Now to ballance these Depositions the Reader must take notice 1. That my true sense of this Article may be seen in my Answer to this first Charge in which I have truely shewed in what sense I owned Christ to be a Type viz. as he is a pattern and example for us to imitate and follow 2. That this discourse being with Mr. Pendarvis it is requisite I should here insert his Deposition taken by the Justices of Peace of that County and afterward presented to the Committee of Plundered Ministers which was as follows This examinant which was Mr. Pendarvis further saith that the said Dr. Pordage in a Conference had with him at the same time after his Sermon at Ilsley said that Christ was a Type and but a Type but this expression was immediately waved by him but he constantly affirmed that Christ was a type But because Mr. Pendarvis could not be there to witness vivavoce the Commissioners would not admit this evidence But Mrs. Mary Pocock being sworn and examined on this Article saith Decemb. 7. That she heard the Dr. maintain in that discourse with Mr. Pendarvis That Christ was a type and proved it out of Peter he was an Example and that she heard the Dr. say He would not stand to the word But. And further q Thus the Deposition was wrote by the Clerk John Pordage son to the Doctor aged between 19 and 20. years Decemb. 7. and examined December 7. This Deponent saith that in dispute between the Dr. and Mr. Pendarvis about five or six years since about Christs being a type the Dr. said that Christ was but a type To which Mr. Pendarvis asked Do you say but a Type Whereupon the Dr. answered He did not stand to the expression But a Type it was but the slip of his tongue but he maintained that Christ was a Type You see here are three Witnesses that attest I never owned or stood to that of Christs being But a Type Correspondent to which Testimony I gave in my Answer before the Committee of Plundered Ministers which I offered to prove by three Witnesses then present who heard me who were ready to attest Mr. Francis Pordage Mary Pocock Robert Bolt this which follows viz. That they being present about the 27 of March 1651. before the Committee of Plundered Ministers heard me touching this Article That Christ was a Type and but a Type Deliver my self thus That I had owned Christ to be a Type that is a pattern and example for us Christians to square our lives and conversations by but that I had not owned him to be but a Type or a Type onely But the Commissioners would by no means hear this Evidence After this I earnestly pressed them to hear what my Witnesses could further say touching what I had publickly delivered in my Mynistry about this Subject telling them that such evidence was in justice more to be respected then a mistake in sudden speaking presently retracted but they denied all such evidence and would not hear which clearly shewed their partiality and that they little regarded what my r When I brought such testimonies as these Mr. Dunch the Chairman said It may be Dr. you have changed your opinion since that and are now of another mind but we must judge by what you then spake Thus he said two or three times avowed judgement was Notwithstanding I shall here insert what some were ready to witness in reference to this Article who had been constant hearers of me Whose Testimony was this We confess we have heard the Dr. Preach out of Luk. 1. 68. First this by way of Doctrine viz. That Gods free grace is the first and chief cause of our redemption Then he proceeded thus That the inward man was redeemed in for and through Christ Rom. 3. 24. Through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ How through Christ Ans Through Christs death and passion Isa 53. 5. He was wounded for our transgressions he was broken for our iniquities 1 Pet. 2. 24. Who bare our sins in his own body on the Cross Rom. 4. 25. Who was delivered for our offences to the death of the Cross 1 Cor. 5. 7. Christ our Passeover is sacrificed for us Now this clearly shews that Christ is more then a type and that he is a compleat redeemer So much for this Article To the eight and ninth Article Mr. Tickle saith That he heard me deliver berore the Committee of Taken Octob. 5 this County sitting at Redding That Christ was not God and that he was not Jehovah Being further examined to this Article my Interrogatories to him were these 1. Whether these words were not expressed in a hot dispute before the Novemb. 22. Committee To this Mr. Tickle replyed That I ſ This was no direct answer to my question but he must every where shew his bitterness endeavoured in dispute with great seriousness before the Committee to maintain that Christ was not God that Christ was not Jehovah My second question was this Whether in the same dispute this Article was not limited and explained by me But this question was wholly waved and passed over in silence but whether voluntarily by Mr. Tickle or by the Clerks deceit the Interrogatories being given in in writing I do not know but this I am sure it was much to the prejudicing of my Cause to let such a weighty question pass without an answer 3. Whether this Article was held forth by me as my avowed judgement Ans To this he thus answers The Dr. did maintain and defend t No otherwise then this That Christ was not God viz. the Father nor Jehovah taken for the first person in the Trinity this Article as his avowed judgement Here Mr. Tickle is very peremptory in a rash answer though that Interrogatory before could be slided over in silence the answer to which if Mr. Tickle had not easily incurred perjury would have much cleared the truth in regard I meant and explained my self of God the Father as you shall see afterward This Deponent Mr. Tickle further deposed to the eight and ninth Article Novemb. 22. That

single eye of thy glory All things within and without stand naked and unvailed before thee being more then transparent to thy all-discerning sight I therefore appeal from mans day Iudgement and condemning Sentence to thy day Iudgement and acquitting voice from mans dark erroneous sight to thy penetrating clear all-seeing eye Thou knowest I am not guilty of these Blasphemies and horrid things laid to my charge Thou knowest that my solemn protestation is from the sincerity of my heart Thou knowest that it never entred into the intention of my soul to deny the holy Trinity or the Godhead of Christ whom I own to be God coequal and coeternal with the Father Thou knowest I am not guilty of holding that Christ was not perfect or that his righteousness is not a fruitfull powerfull everlasting righteousness or that his bloud is not cleansing meriting reconciling bloud Thou seest how my innocency in reference to these things is overshadowed with the dark clouds of false aspersions and undue accusations Othou bright Eye of Divine Glory dost not thou see and behold the innocent sufferings of my person name Estate and Family for thy sake Dost not thou know that I have been oft cast into the Den of Lyons and into the fiery Furnace of wrath and envy for thy names sake O gracious God how oft have I been reviled numbred amongst transgressors made as a scorn and odium amongst men looked upon as the off-scouring of the earth and now at last civilly put to death cast out of their Synagogues and by unjust entence ejected out of that Estate which was thy gift and all this for thy truth and life O blessed Majestie dost not thou behold the naked simplicity and simple innocency of thy servants spirit who to the utmost of his power resigns up his body soul and spirit to follow the righteous Law of Sanctity Purity and Virginity through the mortification of the sences the crucifying of the old man and the casting away of the body of sin in conformity to the cross death and resurrection of Christ that so at length by the supply and vertue of thy spirit there might be an actual conquest attained over sin hel and death O thou Eye of Eternity thou beholdest my will resigned to thine without moving this way or that as to the permanency of or freedom from these sufferings O my God thou knowest I can neither desire the continuing censures and condemnation of the world nor the justification of my person and thy cause from the mouthes of the just though in pure obedience to thy will calling me to it I have addressed my self to the higher Powers that they might be left inexcusable and have by writing exhibited the innocency of that life imbodied in flesh which by the envy and subtilty of Satan hath been so much levelled at and over-clouded by the mists and arrows of wrath and darkness And now I stand resigned in obedience to thy will the true rule of righteousness to continue a publick signe and witness-bearer of Christs sufferings and to be made yet more vile and contemptible for his sake who enduring the Cross and despising the shame now sits enthroned at thy own right hand O omniscient Majestie thou knowest we are neither the better nor the worse for the justification or condemnation of our fellow-creatures there is no satisfaction in man or the things of man therefore the spirit of thy servant flyes to thee like a dove into the true Ark of rest to be caught up into thy eye and to be taken into thy heart and bosom-love for in such union oft lies union of hearts union of wils and union of spirits there is satisfaction only O how my soul groans after this union with thee and presential enjoyment of thee O my God even to feed continually on the tree of life to live in the day and light of thy glory to see and behold the beauties of thy inmost holy habitation to eat yea to banquet on Christs flesh and to drink and that abundantly of his holy bloud to be replenished and drencht throughout with the wine and oyle of the holy Ghost for the full enjoyment of which thy servant shall continually wait upon thee retiring from the broken Cisterns of the Creature to thee the Fountain of all good to whom with thy eternal Son and holy Spirit be rendred of Saints Angels and all creatures glory praise and Halleluiahs for ever Now I have run through the substantials of my Appendix in which I have exhibited the reasons grounds and issue of my appeal the last of which hath been a denial of affording me a re-hearing whence I am forced to appeal to the just Judge of heaven and earth who will certainly render to every one according to his works even reward and honour to the innocent but judgement and disgrace to the guilty and though my adversaries may yet proceed to add iniquity to iniquity even to justifie by writing what they have most unjustly acted against me yet I shall have much peace in my conscience in what I have here done to shew impartially the truth of things however the prejudiced world steere their judgement of me which cannot but be very hard and injurious if they believe that late Named M. L. Register c. Though t is certain he never made the Pamphlet nor Epistle to it Pamphletier who reckons me guilty of Sorcery uncleanness blasphemy c. as though they had been proved against me referring the Reader to the whole proceedings which as he saies are shortly to be made publick Now if we may judge of these by their Praecursor I can expect nothing but such a misrepresenting of the proceedings as M. Ford produced before sentence and to be condemned for what I was accused of and for the horrid things exhibited against me which was the rule of the Commissioners proceedings as the Author of the Praecursor in page 5. expresseth in these words Who were to proceed secundum allegata exhibita as really they did for they gave sentence according to the crimes alleadged and exhibited against me not secundum probata or things legally proved and really by the false reports of some of the Commissioners since And by the bitterness and untruths of the Author of the Praecursor sentence concerning what hath been proved against me I cannot expect any thing better then to be represented guilty of blasphemy sorcery uncleanness Rantism and all things that may seem to make me vile and contemptible and worthy of death or See the Praecursor page 1. in the last notes upon the Epistle and pag. 3 at the latter part banishment But in reference to this I desire only the Reader seriously to weigh the proofs on both sides which have faithfully been transcribed by me from the Depositions together with those other evidences I produced to clear things which the Court would not admit of though in equity they ought to have done it I say I desire these may be seriously weighed together because it is unsuitable to that devoted silent life and way I desire to live in to make rejoinders and frame replies by way of contest and dispute being willing rather to enjoy my God in the retired silence of abstract contemplation and to lie under the reproaches sladers revilings and passionate censures of my adversaries then trouble my spirit with any more things of this nature especially in this time when Christ is entring into a severe Judgement with all Isa 66. 16. Isa 65. 18. flesh and making way for his coming in power and glory to make all things new and cause old things to be no more e remembred JOHN PORDAGE FINIS Reader Whereas by the sides of most Articles in the third Charge it is wrote not proved at all the sense is That nothing was said at all to prove them And further know that my affairs not permitting me to attend the Printing many faults have escaped the most considerable of which thou maist here take notice of ERRATA PAg. 5 r. Punietur l. 15 16. a fine for Government r. Parliament and for Parliament r. Government p. 7. l. 9. dele his l. 5 9. a fine r. Pendarvis p. 11. l. 12. r. the want p. 26. l. 2. r. chap. 3. l. 3. r. Rev. 12. p. 27. l. 8. a fine r. As it is here stated p. 30. l. 1. dele when p. 33. l. 11. for returned r. retired p. 36. r. further time p. 41. in marg d for is r. 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