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A96610	The bloody tenent yet more bloody: by Mr Cottons endevour to wash it white in the blood of the lambe; of whose precious blood, spilt in the blood of his servants; and of the blood of millions spilt in fromer and later wars for conscience sake, that most bloody tenent of presecution for cause of conscience, upon a second tryal, is found now more apparently and more notoriously guilty. In this rejoynder to Mr Cotton, are principally I. The nature of persecution, II. The power of the civill sword in spirituals examined; III. The Parliaments permission of dissenting consciences justified. Also (as a testimony to Mr Clarks narrative) is added a letter to Mr Endicot governor of the Massachusets in N.E. By R. Williams of Providence in New-England.	Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1652 (1652)	Wing W2760; Thomason E661_6; ESTC R206778	290,081	379

own 7 hils haue flown fild all Protestant and Popish ears and hearts and tongues with either admiration exulting or furious rage and indignation Yet what avails these glorious flames and furious whirling of your zealous Chariots if yet they are but Jehu's If Sathan the God of this world possesse the Throne of Pride and Ostentation in your bosoms Come see my zeal which I have for the God of Israel yea though you should go on where Jehu left and shoot home where he fell short yet what avails it that the God of Israel be in Iehu's mouth when God-selfe God-honour c. fill his breast heart What gains he by the slaughter of Princes Priests and Gods when Israel it self is but an Apostate state from the true worship of the God of Israel and Iehu himself according to the purity of Gods word and ordinances at Ierusalem reformed not so much as his own priv●t heart censcience Alas what solid joy most zealous Worthies shall a Crown of leaves a temporal reward Iehu's wages bring to your Noble Heads Breasts if you heare not at last that saving Call to all humble and selfe-denying Followers of Jesus Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Your admired publick patience so wonderfully assaulted so wonderfully loaden with such mightie Trials from Mans from Gods hand with such mighty Losses mighty Defeats mighty Labours Hazards mighty Reproaches c. I say your unwearied Patience hath stood like some mighty Rock or Anvill invincible Yet who can stile this Patince or State-policie if your private Howses and Breasts swell and swarm with rebellious Passions Impatiences Revenges If in the furnaces of your own private afflictions and in the powrings out and changes of the most High upon you your Drosse and Lees of unmortified unsanctified Spirits remain uncleansed if you most humbly kisse not the Rods of the most High chastising you by sicknesses by lesses and other trialls humbly thankfull and longing to declare the Spirits of true Children truly desiring more and more to partake of his Divine Nature and Holinesse Yea what avails the Crown of your enduring Constancy that have rid out so long a storm held out so long a siege not fainted in such tedious Travels Labours Oppositions Treacheries Discouragements but gloriously cast Anchor in the Port of Patience if yet your personall Righteousness passe away as the morning dew melted with the warme beams of victorious and prosperous Success If your own professions of Christ Jesus prove but a fading colour and not died in the right Grain of the pretious blood of the Son of God Your Honours well remember that the main point of Luthers Reformation and before him of the Hussites in Germany and Bohemia and before them of the Wicklevists in England and before them of the Waldenses in France consisted chiefly about Repentance and Faith in the blood of Christ That the main Contentions of Calvin and since him of the most Reformers have turn'd upon the hinge of the Form of the Church and the Administrations thereof the lamentable though pretious Fuell of those fires of strife among the wisest holiest and learnedst of the Followers of Christ Jesus in these times You know the Lord Jesus prophesied That many false Christs should arise and the Scriptures more then once give the title of Christ to the Ghurch whence it is evident That every severall Modell Platform and profession of a Church is the profession of a various and different Christ Your Honours also know he spake most true being Truth it Selfe that said That which is most highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God Luke 16. Hence such may the glorious profession of Christs or Churches be as may ravish the eyes and hearts of men and from which the jealous eys of the true Lord Jesus turn away as from the false and counterfeit with indignation Beside the Counterfeit in holy Scripture how famous was the Pageant of that counterfeit King of England which so haunted with long vexations one of the wisest of Englands Kings Henry the seventh How wonderfully even to astonishment did the imposture of Richard Duke of York proclaiming Henry an usurper and ●alse I say how wonderfully did that monstrous imposture take that not onely Foraigners where that Counterfeit most kept the Arch-Duke the King of France the King of Scots the King of Romanes the Irish Nation c. were deceived with that feigned King but also so many gallant men of our own Nation even to the wisest and highest as that famous Stanley Lord Chamberlain the Preserver and R●iser of King Henry himselfe lamentably lost their Heads and Lives about that pretended King Now counterfeit Spirituall delusions of false and counterfeit Christs as they are deeper and stronger so they find more easie possession of the Ears and Souls of men so wofully prepared by naturall self-deceivings On six principall Pillars or Foundations saith the holy Spirit Heb. 6. 6. is built the fabrick of of true Christianity On Repentance on Faith on Baptismes on laying on of Hands on the Resurrection and the Eternall Judgement Concerning the two middle ones of these there are and have been mighty and lamentable differences among the Scholars of Jesus who yet agree in the other foure of Repentance and Faith the Resurrection and Eternall Judgement Whatsoever your Honours apprehensions are of the foure last I beseech you as you love your lives to Eternity make sure of the two first and ply with Sails and Oars day and nights and give not rest to your souls till you have anchored in some blessed assurance that although you find not satisfaction in the many frames of Churches pretending yet that you have saved as once you know a wise and honorable personage said the Bird in your Bosome and that those your very eyes which have seen so much of Christ Jesus and so many wonderfull changes and have been rotten awhile in their holes in Death shall joyfully possesse and fill their holes again and be gloriously blessed with the sight of a Redeemer when these Heavens and this Earth shal passe away For which humbly and uncessantly prayes Your Honours most unworthy yet unfainedly devoted Roger Williams Your Honours wanting time to read much may please to view in a few minutes the Portraicture and Map of the whole Bloody Tenent in the latter end of the last Chapt. Chap. 79. To the several Respective General Courts especially that of the Massachusets in N. ENGLAND Honored and beloved Friends and Countreymen WHile You sit drie on your safe American Shoars by Gods most gracious Providence and have beheld the dolefull tossings of so many of Europs Nations yea of our dearest Mother aged England in a Sea of Tears and Bloud I am humbly bold to present your Eyes and Hearts with this not unseasonable discourse of Bloud of the

their dominions that all true Christian meanes be used for the spreading of the name and truth of the Lord Iesus I say this serves not the turn and gives not content except also the Magistrate defend by civil sword the purity of the doctrine and the ordinances of Christ Iesus in his church in punishing and suppressing the contrary by arme of flesh whether within or without the church Peace In this last respect I must speak an high and bold word to wit That the poorest youth or maid who hath more knowledge and gra●e of Christ then a king or Emperour hath as well sometimes it hath and may come to pass may be a greater contender for the truth and a great defender of the faith of Iesus then the king or Emperor and so consequently then all the kings of the whole world Truth Paul was set for the defence of the Gospel and consequently every believer in Iesus according to his measure of grace received and therefore your word is not more bold then true For spiritual defences are most proper to a spiritual estate and so accordingly most potent prevalent and mighty Examination of CHAP. XXXI Peace HEre first Master Cotton will not own it that the title of Iudges of spiritual causes be given to Civil Magistrate Truth The Parliament of England established King Henry the eighth supreame head and Governor over the church of England and what is this but supreme Iudge in all Ecclesiastical causes What though the tearme judge be stumbled at by some and the tearm head will not down with others yet take but what Master Cotton grant● And as the devil himself lay hid under Samuels mantle so under Master Cottons tearm of fathers mothers shepherds that is spiritual fathers mothers shepherds must of necessity be concluded an headship and power and office of judging when this child doth a miss when these sheep go astray who are schismaticks who hereticks who sheep who Wolves that the sheep may be corrected and reduced and the Wolves braines knockt out Peace They may judge saith Master Cotton but not with a church but politick power and for want of which and for giving their kingdome to the Beast Revel 17. 12 13. God saith he opened a way for the Turkes to break in and destroy the third part of Christendome Rev. 9. 14. to 21. Truth Let it be under what cloake or colour or notion soever let it be politick indeed and subtle or plaine and simple yet it seemes it is true that he must judge which will not be owned in plaine tearms but as a Protector a Father or a Shepheard Secondly Those Scriptures quoted do not lay a guilt upon the ten horns or kings for suffering the beast in their dominions but for giving their power and authority unto him Thirdly the civil peace was not dissolved but preserved for many hundred yeers before the Turkes rose to punish either the Eastern or Western part of Antichristian Christendome So that a false religion doth not immediately and instantly dissolve the civil peace but kingdomes and states professing false religions may flourish T is true God in his deep councels and times brings judgements eternal and temporal upon false worshipping states especially where the truth of Christ is presented and persecuted Yet divers ages of temporal prosperity to the Antichristian kingdom prove that common Assumption and maxime false to wit that the church and Commonweale are like Hipocrates twins weep and laugh flourish and fade live and die together Peace I cannot reach the bottome of this next passage of Master Cotton viz. that Magistrates may be subject to the church and lick the dust of her feet and yet be supreme governors of the church also In spiritual matters saith he and in a right administration of them he is subject but is civil things and in the corrupt administration of church-affaires so far corrupt as tendeth to the disturbance of civil peace there the Magistrates saith he are supream governors even over the churches in their own dominions Truth Who sees not here but by this Doctrine Magistrates must judge when the church is rightly administred and when it is corruptly administred And that whatever the Ministers of the church or the whole church judge that is nothing for the Magistrate if he be supream governor he must judge and what is this but even in the very same respect I say in one and the same respect to make them high and low up and down mountaines and vallies supream governors and so above the church anon age● to lick the dust of the feet of the church which Master Cotton will as soon make good as bring the East and the West together Besides as elsewhere I observed what if the people will have no kings governors c. nay no Parliament nor general courts but leave vast interregnums or Ruptures of government yea conclude upon frequent changes as all nations of the world have had great changes this way shall the churches of Christ Jesus be without an head a governor defender protector What a slavery doth this bloody doctrine bring the faire Spouse of Christ into Peace In the passage concerning Saul Master Cotton observeth that Saul was not taken away for exercising civil power against spiritual wickedness in the case of witches Truth Saul was king of Israel the church of God and a typical king the anointed or Christ of God and Master Cotton himself will subcribe to the confession of Nathaniel to Christ Iesus Thou art the king of Israel which he was and is in his own most holy person as also in his Ministers and governors during his absence It was now Sauls duty to put literal witches to death in his Christian Israel his church and Congregation It is true Saul forsaking the God of Israel perished for other wickedness and among other his sins for persecuting or hunting righteous David and therein Saul is a type and warning to all the apostates and persecuting Sauls of the earth that desperation and desperate self-destruction attend them Peace But whither tends this last passage concerning David We read not saith Master Cotton that he did exercise any spiritual power as a King but as a prophet Will he commend Sauls kingly acting in spiritual things as just and shall not David whose name and throne were most eminently figurative of Christ Jesus be found a king in Israel the house and church of God Truth The patern of David Solomon and the good kings of Israel and Judah is the common and great argument of all that plead for Magistrates power in spiritual cases And indeed what power was that but spiritual which he exercised in bringing up the Arke expresly said to be done by king David 2 Sam. 6. What power was that but kingly put forth in ordering and disposing the services of the Priests and Levites and singers 1 Chron. 16 Peace Master Cotton not ignorant of this it may be was not

such members as are visibly foolish Virgins goats c. Peace Master Cottons second answer is that if the Field be the world as the tares Antichristians and false Christians yet they were first sown in the field of the church Truth Not so for although there might be many infirmities and distempers yea some great corruptions in the first Christian body the church of Christ notwithstanding that Antichrist is an Apostate yet it will not follow that the tares were first sown in the true church because Sathan might easily raise up some professors of the name of Christ which the true church would never admit And as Sathan might raise up persons congregations worships which were not according to Christ So might he easily raise up churches congregations and societies of such tares with whom the churches of Christ might refuse society So saith John There are many Antichrists whom yet we cannot well imagine that they were in the churches of the Lord Jesus There came false Apostles to the Church at Ephesus but yet that church examined and found them lyars And so long as the churches were watchful those tares kept in the world But when the churches began to be sleepy the Tares might undiscerned creep into the church This may be as well as when Apostates fall off from the church go out from it because they were never of it and also as well as that the church of Christ may drowzily neglect to purge out the old leaven of persons and things which may soon overspread and over-run the whole lumpe and garden of the church of Christ untill it be turned againe into one common field of the world together Peace Master Cottons third answer is That Antichristians must not be tolerated unto the end of the world because God will put it into the heart of faithful princes to hate the whore and after that we read of a visible state of New Jerusalem before the end of the world Rev. 20. 21 22. Truth It is not said that those princes that shall hate the whore shall be faithful princes and since Master Cotton seems to hold that by way of ordinance and so in obedience the Kings of the earth shall with the sword destroy Antichrist I desire his proof for any such prophecy For 1. It is not said that God will put it into their hearts to hate the whore And we finde that they shall hate the lambe as well as hate the whore For they shall make war with the lambe and the lamb shall overcome them as comes to pass after the ruine of the who●e Rev. 19. 2. Judgement may be executed upon the whore by way of mutual judgement each upon others when in the midst of their spiritual whoredoms and drunkenness with the Saints blood they shall fall out with the whore as useth to be in whoredome and turn their whorish loves into outragious fury and the very description of their fury looks this way for it is not the property of sober and faithful men though repenting of their whoredoms to make a woman naked though a whore and to eat her flesh as it is said those shall do But grant as we most hopefully do the whores consumption by the ten hornes of the Beast and the flourishing of new Jerusalem upon the earth Rev. 20. 21 22. before the end of the world all which are great disputes among the people of God yet I judge it necessary that two or three queries be satisfied for the further clearing of the holy minde of the Lord in this particular 1. Whether as some have and do argue the end of the world in this Parable and other Scriptures do expresly and undeniably signifie the end of the world and judgement-day literally and not some other mystical period of time since the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 usually translated world is of various signification and sometimes signifies and Age. 2. Whether those ten Kings which shall destroy the whore shall be absolutely Christian true Saints followers of Jesus they and their Armies or else remaining Antichristian hornes of the Beast shall yet execute the judgement of God upon the great whore as Jehu remaining both hypocritical and idolatrous yet dashe out the braines of that great whore Iezabel and executed judgement upon Baals Priests yea and even as Henry the eighth tumbled the Pope out of his chaire in England and thousands of his Popelings with him he supprest and threw the whore Iezabel the church of Rome out of Englands window and yet continued to burn the Saints of Iesus upon his six Popish and bloody Articles 3. Whether that mighty Army of Gog and Magog which is mustered up after the thousand yeers raigne of Christ be not in part made up of the ●en hornes even after the whore of Romes consumption as before in Henry the eighth his case which horns with their peoples Christ will have yet to be tolerated as Tares in the field of the world though not in the Church of Christ Peace What think you of Master Cottons grant that the first fruits of Antichristians may be tares sown in the field of the church which afterwards grow to be Briars and Thornes Truth I observe that to be tares of Antichristian worshippers and briars and thornes oppressers and persecutors are both of them of a false and Antichristian nature which ought to be far from imitation of the Rose of Sharon or the Lily of the vallies But 2. Are there no tares that is hypocrites but in the church and must all the briars and thornes oppressors and persecutors c. have no root from the wilde world but from the garden of Christs church Peace Now whereas it was urged that it stood not with the wisdome and love of Christ interpreting this parable and opening what the field was to call the field the world when he meant the church Master Cotton answers that Paul by the same wisdome useth the same word 2 Cor. 5. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself Truth Paul in using that figure of the world for all sorts of men in the world doth not undertake to interpret a Parable which before he had proposed unto and at the request of the Corinthians as the Lord Iesus doth at the request of his disciples And where Master Cotton saith that it is no more an improper speech to call the church the world then to speak of Christ as dying for the world when he dyed for the church Truth I finde it not to be said that Christ died for the world but grant that it hath pleased the Lord in his most infinite wisdome to cause the tearm of the world to be used in various significations yet let any instance be given of any Scripture wherein the Lord opposing the church to the world the wheat to tares doth not distinguish between the church redeemed out of the world and the world it self which is said to lye in wickedness and to be such as for which