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A84758	Dæmonium meridianum. Satan at noon. Or, Antichristian blasphemies, anti-scripturall divelismes, anti-morall uncleanness, evidenced in the light of truth, and published by the hand of justice. Being, a sincere and impartiall relation of the proceedings of the commissioners of the county of Berks. Authorized by the ordinance for ejection, against John Pordage, late minister of Bradfield, in the same county. Published for the vindication of justice, and satisfaction of the conscientious, in the name, and by the order of the said commissioners and assistants. With some notes, and animadversions upon a book of the said John Pordage, initiuled, Innocency appearing, &c. / By Christopher Fowler, minister of the gospel at S. Maries in Reding.	Fowler, Christopher, 1610?-1678.	1655 (1655)	Wing F1692; Thomason E840_1; ESTC R207466	137,560	179

up his spirits What is this to the sight of a great Dragon with a long taile and great teeth Animad 13. Vpon his high Appeale to God p. 112. Concerning his Appeale to God we professe that when we considered the solemnnesse of an Appeale to the most high God of what an important and serious nature an Appeale is in it self and considered the principles and practices of this Doctor we could hardly perswade our selves to reade it and when we did we were astonished to reade such swelling words as to his owne holinesse and his great persecution for righteousnesse but this also in an evill cause is not a new thing we will instance in one and that is Sir * The Narrative of King James Printed by M. Sparks pag. 148. Jervas Yelvis when he was arraigned in the businesse of Sir Thomas Overbury he made solemne Appeales to God and deep protestations of his Innocence yet after the Sentence he confessed his guilt in the Tower and upon Tower-hill gave as large a testimony of sound repentance and reall hearty sorrow as few Histories can shew the like and lamented that sin of protesting and appealing in particular That which we would have the Reader to consider is what Judge Crooke said to him at the Bar when he did call God to witnesse and protest Sir said the Judge It is not your deep Protestations nor your high Appeals to God that can sway the Evidence given upon Oath unto the Jury We have not named this Gentleman to blemish him for his sin but to shew what dangerous courses guilt and feare through guilt will put men upon to blind the world and save themselves and we have mentioned his great repentance not so much for his honour as the Doctors imitation that he if God please may doe likewise and not to be as * V●hementisimis diris devotionibus per salutem damnationem animae omnia verissima esse d●jerabat Camd. An. par 4. pag. 35. Hacket who boasted of his temptations from the Devill and his revelations from God with the highest oathes and protestation that they were all most true when indeed they were all starke false But let us a little debate the matter with this man Doctor how durst you speak thus Eternall Majesty thou knowest it never entred into the intention of my Soule to deny the God-head of Christ the holy Trinity c. shall we believe that you preached and affirmed those Doctrines that never came into your soule Doe you think that your appeal shall weigh down the evidence of five godly persons who would not lye much lesse would they sweare false for God will they doe wickedly for the Gospell did not you confesse that you did say Christ is not Jehovah could Mr. Blagrave deny it were there not Articles of Blasphemy charged upon you and proved against you to which you never offered an answer as this That the liberty of Saints is not a liberty from the curse of the Law the guilt of Sinne the wra●h of God by the death of another meaning Christ and explaining it so And this that the discoveries of the sinfulnesse of sin the death of Christ the free grace of God are but fleshly and flashy discoveries to these and others tending to bestiality and an African monstrousnesse you never so much as offered an answer in your owne defence are not you arrived to the perfection of the Familists viz. That now you are free to doe that which formerly when you were in the dark you looked upon as a sinne 2. Doctor why doe you alter the tense in the next words thus Thou knowest I am not guilty not thus I never was guilty of holding Christ to be imperfect and his righteousnesse to be fruitlesse the truth is we doe not know what any familist is he is such a Proteus more changeable as they say than the Moone for he will change every day as he sees fit tantùm constans in levitate onely constant in being unconstant 3. Why doe you speake thus Oh thou bright-eye dost thou not see the innocent sufferings of my person for thy names sake how often have I been numbred among transgressors for thy truth and life Oh dreadfull did Christs Martyrs ever suffer for such Articles charged and proved against them how unlike are you to them they suffered for affirming Christ to be God and his righteousnesse to be our Salvation and you were sentenced for denying both Aretius calls Val. Gent. and such as he Satanae Martyres the Devils Martyrs the accursed Socinians when they deny Christ to be God they say they do it for the glory of God the Father The Jesuites do glory much in the Martyrdome of some of their Society it is a good Cause It is not pana but causa nor that onely but conscientia that makes a Man a Martyr his sufferings must not onely be for righteousnesse but also for righteousnesse sake and a gracious Conscience that makes a Martyr you have neither of these 4. Why doe you speak thus they have ejected me out of my estate which was thy gift The Country thinks it was the gift of some other we are no way satisfied that Bradfield Parsonage was Gods gift to you as you pretend and at your re-hearing for which you say boldly some of the greatest eminency in the Councell were p. 111. we shall give in our reasons for it for the present we will propose these Quaeres to you 1. For what did your Tenant by your own appointment give or pay to your use 85. l. to a friend 2. Were not Doctor Twisse's children sordidly defeated of that very money 3. Is it not confessed That you gave a paire of Coach-horses to somebody that cost you 40 l The rowling of your brats conceived and born of your own lusts to the door of Providence with other reasons doth even force us to write almost with the same liberty that men doe live in Why doe you say thus Oh thou eye of Eternity in pure obedience to thy will I have addressed my selfe to the higher powers that they might be left inexcusable what language is here did ever the best of the Prophets give such language as this in their own case to the worst of Princes see the mans fiercenesse against soules and those of Magistrates the Christian the highest Magistrates by his addresses to them he did designe their inexcusablenesse before God! Athanasius would not say so much in his own particular wrong to Julian as this Sathanasius saith to the Councell when he is not wronged at all unlesse it be by indulgence No no it is not the suppressing but the countenancing of and conniving all seducing Blasphemers that will render the Magistrate inexcusable which we unfeinedly desire the Lord to forbid in their hearts by his grace as he hath forbidden them by his command in the word 6. Why doe you speak thus O omniscient Majesty thou knowest that we are neither the better nor

should follow shortly after our dear brother Love Or Coppin to whose book that crawls with blasphemy the Dr gave his approbation Or John Tawney or Everard who set their mouths wide open against God and man or Elizabeth Pool or Goodwife Geffreys who even stink above ground we that live round about him do not know any godly person but shuns him as a very monster it is a frequent blind he puts upon his reader by citing in his own behalf and against the Commissioners the godly party For our parts we dare not say that any Socinian or Familist is or continuing such ever can be a godly man our reason is because such deny the Deity and satisfaction of our Lord Jesus from the sound and feeling knowledge whereof proceeds and streams out all reall and sound godlinesse a godly Familist or Socinian sounding in our ears even as great a contradiction as a godly Turk God forbid that we should speak one pick against holinesse better that our tongues should be dumb then our mouthes utter and our hands wither then our pens should write one tittle to blemish it We desire to look upon it as the most glorious thing in the world and we would rather if our own hearts do not deceive us seek our bread and the bread of our little ones with holinesse in our hearts and lives in a howling wildernesse then to enjoy all the scepters of the world without it yet give us leave to say if it be but to ease our hearts that it is a trouble to us that Blasphemers Antichristians Anti-scripturists should go up and down under the precious name of men fearing God by which artifice they harden themselves in their impieties and infect souls with their blasphemies We do forethink that that expression of a godly Turk will sound harsh but we know not why it should 1 See Dr Calovius Socinis proflig p. 33. 34. Ignatius calls the predecessours of the Familists and Socinians the seducing serpent or the Devil preaching to destruction The Fathers denied the Ebionites to be Christians The Samosatenians were accounted and called God-killers God-deniers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quantum in ipsis quia divinam Christi naturam negabant because they denied 2 Efficitur prob dolor ut Jesu Christi religio Turcis sit ludibrio cap. 1. Johan p. 7. explic Christ to be God by nature Socinus himself saith that the Protestants held opinions that made their religion ridiculous to the Turks what were those opinions why in speciall this that Christ is God so then if we would deny the Deity of our Lord Christ as do the Familists and Socinians we were in a fair way not to be ridiculous to but to agree with the Turks again this 3 Hac ratione Turcas ad Ch. religionem allici posse ibid. p. 2. Wretch tells us that one reason of his writing against the figment as he calls it of Christs divine nature was to make the Turks turn Christians therefore by a parity of reason they that do deny the Divine nature of Christ in this point may quickly turn Turks Valent. Gentil a blasphemer of Christs divinity was not 4 Non puduit eum subsidium petere ex Alchorano Aretius Hist Val. Gent. cap. 1. ashamed to seek arguments to help himself out of the Turkish Alcoran And 5 Alciatus Mahometista sactus est idem cap. 2. Alciate one of his complices as he confessed himself was turned down-right Mahometan Calvin in his instruct ad Lib. calls them rake-hells dogs swine we fear that in giving smooth language to villanous seducers of his kind we use more manners then will do the gospel good Dr Twisse a late learned pious man did call them Atheists and he often said to one of us that all gospel Atheisme was against the Lord Jesus Christ in a little measure we find it amongst the Gnosticks and Arrians and for some Centuries their main spight and quarrel was against the Lord Jesus after for more Centuries in the kingdome of the Papacy where their damning errour is in dividing and so by consequence destroying both the efficacy of Christs grace and the fulnesse and compleatnesse of his righteousnesse as to justification upon the account of which last some learned men when zeal was in request have said That a Papist living and dying in the doctrine of the Councel of Trent can never be saved in this last Century the Libertines and Fanaticks in Germany and the Netherlands the Socinians in Poland and the Familists in England what do they mainly do but pour forth their venome against the Divinity personality and righteousnesse of the Lord Jesus To shut up all the Court Drs in the late Kings time began much to vary their expressions using such in which they might have the company of the Socinians as affecting to call Christ their Great master sometimes their Lord and master that a man could hardly discern by their prayers whether they respected most the Lord Jesus or their very good Lord and Patron God hath found many of them out cast them out the desire of our hearts to God is that Familisticall Allegorizing Antichristian doctrines may be shut out from thence and all Pulpits of the land that the name of our Dear Lord Jesus Christ may be magnified in us and we in him And so we come to the remaining articles of the third and last charge The sixth article of the last charge That it was a weaknesse to be troubled for sin The Drs answer I do not remember that any such expression as this ever dropped from my mouth and I am perswaded that no one dare assert it with an oath which if they could not make much to their purpose for with a charitable construction it might thus be made forth That it is a 3 wretched want of any reall experience for no man is so much troubled for his sin and laments over it and abhorres himself as he that hath the sense of Gods love the more assurance the more repentance weaknesse 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 love enjoying sweet heavenly communion with God and saying oh 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 for Satan to make a soul question Gods love and to bring it out of a spirituall enjoyment of God into a slavish fear and disturbance The proof upon this article Note that Mrs Grip was the witnesse intended for the proof of this article who did and doth attest it and will depose it Mr Benjamin Woodbridge Minister of Newbery and one of the Assistants to the Commissioners sworn and

our own folly in being so copious upon this subject but that we cannot chuse but stand amazed at the indiscretion of many professors especially in such a day of plentifull light who doe unawares plead for and give countenance to horrid Blasphemers because they walke under the notion and shew of holinesse and pretended mortification as if we had no Bibles to informe us that Wolves devouring wolves should come in Sheeps cloathing and false Prophets should carry their matters with so much speciousnesse that they should bid faire nay and should doe it too if it were possible namely deceive the very elect the Devill is never so much a Devill as when he is white he knowes full well that he can doe nothing to any purpose for his owne Kingdome but in that colour we desire to have a raised esteem of the least dram of true holiness we say that Rubies and all that can be named or imagined are not comparable to it we say as Luther that one single gratious worke is more worth than the whole world onely it is a trouble to our Soules to see people cheated into and hardned in damnable opinions by such shewes and pretences we believe there can be no reall holinesse without the sound and right knowledge of Jesus Christ we conclude this for these dayes with that of d Adversus Francisc p. 570. Calvines in his dayes they have mortification often in their mouths but their mortification is this viz. they have no sense of good or evill Animad 11. As to the Phrase and Language used by the Doctor as for example The fiery Deity burning in the center of the Soule the Godhead mingling it selfe with our flesh the divine union the divine transportation into the glory of the Majesty p. 76. the essentiall essence of love fixation in the love of the holy Ghost divine tincturation eyes fixed upon the being of love the pure life of virginity with many more We desire the Reader to observe that this hath been the guise of Blasphemers and Familists old and new Valentinus in his * Mens in●●●●●b●lis magn●●●●e in b l●bilibus ●●nominatorum supersalestium Epiph l. 1. Tom. 2. Hae● 3● Epistle begins high with swelling unintelligible words thus The unabolishable mind to the in magnitude unabolishable of unnameable supercelestiall secrets I will make mention to you with a fardell of nonsensicall stuffe of his males and females and his triginta saecula This Blasphemer was as errant too at Allegorizing as our Doctor he proves his thirty Ages or Worlds most clearly by the Parable of the Labourers sent into the Vineyard thus Some were sent at the first houre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These they called wonderfull ineffable Mysteri●s some at the third some about the sixt hour others at the ninth some at the eleventh houre Now compute 1. 3 6. 9. 11. and these houres put together make thirty and this among his Sect was as cleare as the Sun to prove his triginta saecula Just as R. Higgs one of the Doctors Disciples and Witnesses when one told him he could not beleeve Abrahams family in that Text to be his Family in him viz. his will and affections Oh said Higgs to him It is cleare as the day so that Pontius Pilate must condemne Christ in us and the Jews put him to death in us all very cleare This Allegorizing and Quakerisme bids faire to drive the Scriptures out of the world the very hopes whereof will make the damned Fiends keep Holy-day in Hell when men thus abuse the Scripture and bewitch the simple It calls to our mind a saying of an Ancient Whosoever speaks the Scriptures in another sense than he that wrote it that man * Austin de Doct. Chr. lib. 1. cap. 37. speaks a lie though he speak the Scripture And againe for this frothy language of Seducers What * Idem de Doct. Chr lib. 4 c x. profit saith he is there in the sublimity of words which are not understandable by the hearers when there is no other cause of speaking if they understand not what we speak for whose sake we speak that they may understand He that teacheth should avoid all words that doe not teach Quintinistae peregrina c. the † Velut cerculatores errones ex Bohemia Cornicantur Quintinists use a strange and uncouth language with which they doe so chough it that there is no more perspicuity in their words than in the chanting of birds and this they doe a malitiously to circumvent novices ●●●●in adv 〈◊〉 cap. 7. 〈◊〉 516. for they reveale not the mysteries of their abominations which lay under the covert of their swollen language but to their own who are bound to them by Oath of Secresie under these they lay hid like theeves in a thicket their novices stand amazed at the sublimity of their words which Peter and Jude compare to bubbles and froth See more So H. Nicholas thus H. b Rutherfords Survey Antichrist cap. 9. pag. 56. Nicholai through the holy spirit of the love of Jesus raised by the highest God from the dead anointed by the holy Ghost in the old age of the holy understanding of Jesus Christ illuminated with the spirit of heavenly truth the true light of perfect being godded with God or the spirit of his love c John Knewstubb in his confutation of H. N. This form of writing is an evident note of a seducing spirit There are Quakers at Bodenham who suffer extreme tortures of body visible to the reporter and many others very often so extreme that if God did not limit the Devill their inwards would burst out trembling and quaking in their agonies as though their flesh would part from their bones and ligatures they call these d The Quakers blazing star by Edmund Skippe teacher at Bodenham pag. 22. agonies the fiery triall and they say it is the power of the Holy Ghost burning up and destroying their corruptions purifying them as gold tryed by the fire seven times They tell you how much joy and pleasure they have mixed with their torment that they could wish to be in it even for ever and ever This they call the drinking of the Cup the undergoing the wrath and curse of God as Christ did most blasphemously and say they must be brought to suffer as Christ did untill there is nothing left them but the pure seed of God Thus reckoning as far as I can determine saith he by their words that upon this account they must be e Just like the Doctor not by the saplesse righteousnesse of another but the fiery deity burning in the center of the soul justified before the Lord. This testimony is unquestionable because of an eye-witnesse and eare-witnesse Like to be seduced into this way by Sathan but delivered out of it by the Lord Christ The Quakers at Reding had the same language of Christ suffering death from the eternall Love and the holy Ghost

burning up their lusts and what were these but Blasphemers saying 1. Your Ministers tell you that Christ died for your sins if so then you may live in them 2. That the Scriptures were not the Word of God 3. That Solomon was a foole for saying To every thing there is a season Eccles 3.1 2. And this is their common principle but the times wil not yet bear it Thus e Cal. ad Lib. cap. 9. pag. 519. Quintinus Porcus ille unumquemque Apostolorum aliquo scommate notavit vacans Paulum vas fractum Joannem juvenem stolidum Petrum abnegatorem Domini Matthaeum foeneratorem We are loth to English it Animad 13. Upon the Doctors pretended great Temptations by severall applications of the Devills to him in the shape and cloaths of Everard and of a Gyant with a Sword in his hand and a great tree lying by him and a great red Dragon with red Eyes and Teeth and a long Taile pag. 73. of his books for three weeks together Observe that temptations of Satan are either ordinary or extraordinary 1. Ordinary are injections to ordinary sins as Sathan tempted David to number the people and the Devill entred Judas to betray the Lord Christ these are frequent and hardly discernable from our own lusts and therefore in this case it is the truest and safest course to lay all the blame upon our own Soules let no man by the way of extenuation say that when he is tempted he is tempted of the Devill his striking fire could never harme us were it not for the tinder and lint of our own base hearts thus did David I have sinned saith he and I have done exceeding foolishly Nay thus did Judas I have sinned in betraying innocent blood and thus doe the Damned in Hell let us doe it as David did Graciously 2. Extraordinary and these are of three sorts 1. Of Blasphemy such as is not to be named against God Christ the holy Spirit Saints thus tempted would not in cool blood consent to such a thought for 1000. worlds one of the best wayes in this case is the more they are tempted to Blaspheme the more to lift up God in his glory and to magnifie him infinitely above all so to beat the Devills weapon down upon his owne head Though they finde a pronenesse in their nature sometimes to close with such temptations yet this they gain by it even to hate their owne base nature 2. Of violence to lay violent hands upon our selves or our relations this also is very terrible and will make a man sweat for fear and ask a Saint in this case or let him ask his own heart whether he would doe such a thing or no and he would tell you no he would rather choose to be torn in pieces with wilde Horses or be buried alive than doe it and yet it is so violent that they will say sometimes they must doe it The Lord keep such from the evill one 3. Vnreasonable temptations as that a man is not the same person he was that he must shew himselfe as guilty of some notorious fact of which he never was guilty with many more there are many Saints goe to Heaven that never feel them and those that doe feel them God makes them gainers by them exceedingly some learne more in this School than by any books in the world the Devill is but Gods Scullion incomparably better it is to live under these temptations though for the present grievous than to enjoy in a state of since all the pleasures and treasures of a 1000. worlds the frownings of a Father are better than the kisses of an enemy the bitterest Physick how much better is it than the sweetest poyson by these sullyings and besmearments of dark temptations God makes the vessels of mercy to shine the brighter The Lord Christ out-shoots the Devill in his owne bow what he intends for the greatest mischief Christ converts into a soveraigne good Blessed be God But now this Doctor doth not tell us in the least what his temptations were of what kinde they were nay in his book he saith nothing where he had a fit opportunity to declare himselfe of temptations but of a conflict between him and a great Dragon and that he was assisted by the Angels and pag. 76. he saith the great conflict was between the dark world and the Devils thereof afflicting them with dreadfull shapes poysonfull smells and the light world and the Angels thereof relieving them with odoriferous perfumes Angelical harmony c. We deny not but God may suffer the Devill to appear to a Saint but first it is very rare secondly such Saints have been Gods reall ones thirdly if so yet not to fight and contend with Satan mouth to mouth fourthly for a short time not twenty dayes together fifthly they have not an Angel standing by them in their own shape to support them the battell of Saints is within which through grace they fight with spirituall weapons under their Captain the Lord Christ through whom they are more than conquerors as he hath conquered for them by his death so he doth conquer in them by his spirit The Doctor in his answer to these Articles concerning apparitions quoted with much confidence the Lord Lawrence as a friend to this way he must quote him to this purpose or to no purpose and indeed therefore to no purpose because to this purpose that learned Gentleman saith nothing that we can find towards it the hearers much admired and his favourites much simpred at the naming of such an eminent person if he be not of the * Sure this honourable and Leraned Man is not for a visible converse with Angels nor the apparitions of Devils in the shape of Giants Dragons Villains in order to temptations Doctors judgement why did he abuse him to name him before the Commissioners and the Country if he be why did not he prove it in his Printed Book in this indeed he was tempted to deceive The truth is the Articles and Depositions in the Relation considered the result of all his pretended temptations will be this that the Devils spitting fire at him and other Devils under the notion of Angels supporting him was to this purpose That by this meanes he might more deceivingly and plausibly spit fire at Jesus Christ which the Doctor hath done both before and since his Apparitions and Visions and therefore his quoting for his defence the temptations of the Lord Christ Mat. 4. is wicked and borders upon Blasphemy and his quoting of Job Job 6.4 is very impertinent and ignorant Job saith in that Text The Arrows of the Almighty stick in me and the venome thereof drinketh up my spirits by Arrows figuratively we are to understand afflictions inward and outward which like Arrows were upon and in that holy man swift sudden sharp secret wounding afflictions described 1. By the Efficient The Arrows of the Almighty 2. By the Effect They did heat and burnt