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A65392	A short story of the rise, reign, and ruin of the Antinomians, Familists, and libertines that infected the churches of New-England and how they were confuted by the assembly of ministers there as also of the magistrates proceedings in court against them : together with God's strange remarkable judgements from heaven upon some of the chief fomenters of these opinions : and the lamentable death of Mrs. Hutchison : very fit for these times, here being the same errors amongst us, and acted by the same spirit : published at the instant request of sundry, by one that was an eye and ear-witness of the carriage of matters there.	Winthrop, John, 1588-1649.; Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1270; ESTC R6157	84,225	86

as many as received him even to them that believed on his Name Mark 16. 16. He that believeth shall be saved Secondly to affirm there must be Faith on mans part to receive Christ is not to undermine Christ but to exalt him according to these Scriptures Ioh. 3. 33. He that believeth hath put to his Seal that God is True and so honours Gods Truth which cannot undermine Christ Rom. 4. 20. But was strong in the Faith giving Glory to God c. Error 29. An Hypocrite may have these two witnesses 1 Ioh. 5. 5. that is to say the Water and Blood Confutation 29. No Hypocrite can have these two witnesses Water and Blood that is true Justification and Sanctification for then he should be saved according to these Scriptures Rom. 8. 30. 2 Thes. 2. 13. Acts 26 18. Error 30. If any thing may be concluded from the Water and Blood it is rather Damnation than Salvation Confutation 30. This is contrary to the Scripture last mentioned Error 31. Such as see any Grace of God in themselves before they have the assurance of Gods Love sealed to them are not to be received Members of Churches Confutation 31. This is contrary to Acts 8. 37 38. where the Eunuch saw his Faith only and yet was presently baptized and therefore by the same ground might be admitted Error 32. After the revelation of the Spirit neither Devil nor Sin can make the Soul to doubt Confutation 32. This position savours of Error else Asaph had not the revelation of the Spirit seeing he doubted Psal. 73. 13. whether he had not cleansed his heart in vain and that God had forgotten to be gracious then also Faith should be perfect which was never found no not in our Father Abraham Error 33. To act by vertue of or in obedience to a command is legal Confutation 33. So is it also Evangelical the Mystery of the Gospel is said to be revealed for the obedience of Faith Rom. 16. 25. Also the Lord Jesus is said to be the author of Salvation to all that obey him Heb. 5. 9. If we love Christ we are to keep his Commandments Joh. 14. 29. Error 34. We are not to Pray against all sin because the old Man is in us and must be And why should we Pray against that which cannot be avoided Confutation 34. This is contrary to 1 Thess. 5. 23. 1 Cor. 13. 7. Error 35. The efficacy of Christ's death is to kill all activity of Graces in his Members that he might act all in all Confutation 35. This is contrary to Rom. 6. 4. Our old man is crucified wit●… him that the body of sin might be destroyed that we should not serve sin contrary also to Heb. 4. 14. That he might through death destroy him c. and 1 Ioh. 3. 8. Whence we infer that if Christ came to destroy the body of sin to destroy the Devil to dissolve the Works of the Devil then not to kill his own graces which are the works of his own Spirit Error 36. All the activity of a Believer is to act to sin Confutation 36. Contrary to Rom. 7. 15. as also to Gal. 5. 17. The Spirit lusteth against the Flesh. Error 37. We are compleatly united to Christ before or without any Faith wrought in us by the Spirit Confutation 37. The term united being understood of that spiritual relation of men unto Christ whereby they come to have life and right to all other blessings in Christ 1 Joh. 5. 12. He that hath the Son hath life And the term compleatly implying a presence of all those bands and ligaments and means as are required in the Word or are any ways necessary to the making up of the union we now conceive this assertion to be erroneous contrary to Scripture that either expresly mentioneth Faith when it speaketh of this union Ephes. 3. 17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by Faith Gal. 2. 20. Christ liveth in me by Faith or ever implyeth it in those phrases that do express union as coming to Christ Iohn 6. 35. and eating and drinking Christ vers 47. compared with v. 54. having the Son 1 Iohn 5. 12. and receiving Christ Iohn 1. 12. and Marriage unto Christ Ephes. 5. 32. if there be no dwelling of Christ in us no coming to him no receiving him no eating nor drinking him no being married to him before and without Faith but the former is true therefore also the latter Error 38. There can be no true closing with Christ in a promise that hath a qualification or condition expressed Confutation 38. This opinion we conceive erroneous contrary to Esay 55 1 2. Ho! every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters Mat. 11. 28. Come to me all ye that are weary and heavy laden John 7. 37. If any man thirst let him come to me and drink Revel 22. 17. Let him that is athirst come Mark 1. 15. Repent and believe the Gospel if the word indefinitely be sanctified for the begetting of Faith if the Gospel it self be laid down in a conditional promise if the Apostles and Prophets and Christ himself have laid hold upon such Promisea to help to Union and closing with himself then there may be a true closing with Christ in a Promise that hath a qualification or condition expressed Error 39. The due search and knowledge of the holy Scripture is not a safe and sure way of searching and finding Christ. Confutation 39. This is contrary to express words of Scripture Joh. 5. 39. Search the Scriptures for they testifie of me Act. 10 43. To him give all the Prophets witness Rom. 3. 21. The righteousness of God witnessed by the Law and the Prophets Esay 8. 20. To the Law and to the Testimony Act. 17. 11. The Bereans were more noble in that they searched the Scriptures daily If the Prophets give witness to Christ if his righteousness be witnessed by Law and Prophets and that they be noble that daily search the Scriptures and that Christ so far alloweth their Testimony of him that the Scripture saith there is no light but in and according to them then the due searching and knowledge of Scriptures is a safe way to search Christ but the former is true and therefore also the latter Error 40. There is a testimony of the Spirit and voice unto the Soul meerly immediate without any respect unto or concurrence with the Word Confutation 40. This immediate revelation without concurrence with the word doth not onely countenance but confirm that opinion of Enthusiasme justly refused by all the Churches as being contrary to the perfection of the Scriptures and perfection of God's wisdom therein That which is not revealed in the Scripture which is objectum adaequatum fidei is not to be believed but that there is any such revelation without concurrence with the Word is no where revealed in the Scripture Ergo. 1 Cor. 4. 16. Presume not above that which is written Again if there be any immediate

the Graces of Hypocrites and Believers in the kinds of them Confutation 16. If this be true then Hypocrites are wise humble merciful pure c. and so shall see God Mat. 5. 8. but they are called fools Mat. 7. 26. Mat. 25. 1 2 3. neither shall they see God Mat. 24. 51. Mat. 13. 20 21 22 23. Heb. 6. 7 8 9. the difference of the grounds argueth the difference in the kinds of Graces Error 17. True poverty of spirit doth kill and take away the sight of Grace Confutation 17. This is contrary to Mark 9. 24. Lord I believe help my unbelief if this were so then poverty of spirit should binder Thankfulness and so one Grace should hinder another and the Graces of the Spirit should hinder the work of the Spirit and cross the end why he is given to us 1 Cor. 2. 12. Error 18. The Spirit doth work in Hypocrites by Gifts and Graces but in Gods Children immediately Confutation 18. This is contrary to Nehem. 5. 15. So did I because of the fear of the Lord Heb. 11. 17. Noah moved with fear prepared an Ark. Error 19. That all Graces even in the truly regenerate are mortal and fading Confutation 19. This is contrary to Ioh. 4. 14. they are Graces which flow from a Fountain which springeth up to Eternal Life and therefore not fading Ier. 31. 39 40. Error 20. That to call into question whether God be my dear Father after or upon the commission of some hainous sins as Murther Incest c. doth prove a man to be in the Covenant of works Confutation 20. It being supposed that the doubting here spoken of is not that of final despair or the like but only that the Position denieth a possibility of all doubting to a man under a Covenant of Grace this is contrary to Scripture which speaketh of God's people under a Covenant of Grace in these or other Cases exercised with sweet Doubtings and Questions David was a justifi'd man for his sins were pardoned 2 Sam. 12. 12 13. yet his Bones waxed old through his roaring all the day long and the heaviness of Gods hand was upon him night and day and the turning of his moisture into the drought of Summer Psal. 32. 3 4. and Gods breaking his Bones by with-holding from him the joy of his Salvation Psal 51 8. shew that he was exercised with sweet Doubts and Questions at least as this Position speaketh of and the like may be gathered out of Psal. 77. 3 4. where the holy Man Asaph mentioneth himself being troubled when he remembred God and that he was so troubled he could not speak nor sleep and expostulateth with God Will the Lord cast off for ever And will he be favourable no more And ver 6 7 8 9. These shew that he had at least sweet doubts as the Position mentioneth and yet he was not thereby proved to be under a Covenant of works for he doth afterward confess this to be his infirmity vers 10. and receiveth the Comfort of former Experiences in former days and his songs in the nights and of Gods former works vers 5 6. 10 11 12. and he resumeth his claim of his right in God by vertue of his Covenant verse 13. Error 21. To be justified by Faith is to be justified by Works Confutation 21. If Faith in this position be considered not simply as a work but in relation to its Object this is contrary to the Scripture that so appropriateth Justification to Faith as it denieth it to Works setting Faith and Works in opposition one against another in the point of Justification as Rom. 3. 27. Where is boasting then It is excluded By what Law By the Law of works No but by the Law of Faith and ver 28. We conclude that a man is justified by Faith without the works of the Law and chap. 4. 16. Therefore it is by Faith that it may be by grace compared with vers 4. To him that worketh is the Reward reckoned not of grace but of debt Error 22. None are to be exhorted to believe but such whom we know to be the Elect of God or to have his Spirit in them effectually Confutation 22. This is contrary to the Scriptures which maketh the Commission which Christ gave his Disciples in these words Go Preach the Gospel to every Creature he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved Mark 16. 15 16. where the latter words imply an Exhortation to believe and the former words direct that this should not only be spoken to men known to be Elected or only to men effectually called but to every creature The Scripture also telleth us that the Apostles in all places called upon men to repent and believe the Gospel which they might not have done had this position been true Error 23. We must not pray for gifts and graces but only for Christ. Confutation 23. This is contrary to Scripture which teacheth us to pray for Wisdom Iam. 1. 5. and for every grace bestowed by vertue of the new Covenant Ezek. 36. 37. as acknowledging every good gift and every perfect giving is from above and cometh down from the Father of Lights The whole 119. Psalm besides innumerable Texts of Scripture doth abundantly confute this by shewing that the servants of God have been taught by the spirit of God to pray for every gift and grace needful for them and not only for Christ. Error 24. He that hath the Seal of the Spirit may certainly judge of any person whether he be Elected or no. Confutation 24. This is contrary to Deut. 29 29. Secret things belong to God and such is Election of men not yet called Error 25. A man may have all graces and poverty of spirit and yet want Christ. Confutation 25. This is contrary to Mat. 5. 3. Blessed are the poor in spirit but without Christ none can be blessed Ephes. 4. 22 24. he that hath Rightoousness and true Holiness hath learned the truth as it is in Jesus and therefore hath Christ. Error 26. The Faith that justifieth us is in Christ and never had any actual Being out of Christ. Confutation 26. This is contrary to Scripture Luke 17. 5. Lord increase our Faith Ergo Faith was in them 2 Tim. 1. 6. Faith is said to dwell in such and such persons therefore Faith was in them Isa. 64. 7. No man stirs up himself to lay hold upon thee Error 27. It is incompatible to the Covenant of Grace to joyn Faith thereunto Confutation 27. This is contrary to Mark 16. 16. Preach the Gospel He that believeth shall be saved Rom 4. 3. Abraham believed and it was accounted to him for Righteousness and Abraham is a pattern to all under the Covenant of Grace Rom. 4. 24. Error 28. To affirm there must be Faith on mans part to receive the Covenant is to undermine Christ. Confutation 28. First Faith is requir'd on mans part to receive the Covenant of Grace according to these Scriptures Ioh. 1. 12. To

Sanctification than when he doth the darker my Sanctification is the brighter is my Justification Confutation 77. This is contrary to the Scripture of Truth which rather giveth the name of light to Sanctification and Holiness and even for this use to clear our Justification 1 Iohn 1. 6 7. For the Holy Ghost concludes as from a clear and infallible promise and proposition that if we walk in the light as he is in the light then doth the blood of Christ cleanse us from all sin meaning that then and thereby it appeareth that it is done as by the contrary unholiness and unholy walking is like darkness which obscureth all the goodly presumption flourishes and hopes of an unregenerate Man vers 6. For this purpose 1 Ioh. 5. 8. The water of Sanctification is made a witness now the nature of a witness is not to darken and obscure matters in question but to clear them and Psal. 51. 10 11 12. when David saw his heart so unclean and his spirit so altogether out of order his Justification was not then brighter for then he should have had the joy of his salvation more full and not so to sink as that he begs it might be restored to him as implying that his joy for the present was wanting to him Error 78. God hath given six witnesses three in Heaven and three in Earth to beget and build justifying Faith upon Confutation 78. This expression answers not the pattern of wholsom words for if this position be taken thus God hath given all these six witnesses both to beget and also to build Justifying Faith upon it is contrary to Scripture for God hath not given all these six witnesses to beget Justifying Faith because the water of Sanctification which is one of the six doth not go before justifying Faith but followeth after it for our hearts are justified by Faith Act. 15. 9. Error 79. If a Member of a Church be unsatisfied with any thing in the Church if he express his offence whether he hath used all means to convince the Church or no he ●…y depart Confutation 79. Contrary to the rule of our Saviour Matth. 18. If thy Brother effend convictingly admonish whence it is evident that in our carriage towards a private Brother we must convince him before admonish him much less separate from him Therefore our carriage towards the whole Church must upon greater reason be with like prudence and tenderness whence the argument follows thus An offence taken before conviction will not bear an admonition much less Separation from a Brother or Church but the offence in the question propounded is such Ergo. Error 80. If a Man think he may edifie better in another Congregation than in his own that is ground enough to depart ordinarily from Word Seals Fastings Feastings and all Administrations in his own Church notwithstanding the offence of the Church often manifested to him for so doing Confutation 80. It is contrary to the condition and station of a Member of the Body in which he stands 1 Cor. 12 27. A Member must not put it self from the Body upon its own thoughts as the admission of a Member was by the consent of the whole so likewise must his dismission be It is contrary also to the duty of a Member Ephes. 4. 16. there must be an effectual working in every part for the edification of the whole which this departure from the administration of all the holy Ordinances in the Church will necessarily hinder It is contrary also to the good of the whole Church and the rule which the Lord hath appointed for the preservation thereof 1 Cor. 14. 33. God is not the author of Confusion and therefore not of this practice which will certainly bring it for if one Member upon these his imaginations may depart Why may not ten yea twenty yea an hundred Why may not the Pastor upon such grounds leave his People as well as they him considering the Tie is equal on both parts Error 81. Where Faith is held forth by the Ministery as the condition of the Covenant of Grace on Man's part as also evidencing Justification by Sanctification and the activity of Faith in that Church there is not sufficient bread Confutation 81. This position seemeth to deny Faith to be a condition at all or at all active and so if condition in this place signifie a qualification in Man wrought by the Holy Ghost without which the Promises do not belong to Men this is contrary to Scripture for Iohn 6. 48. Christ is the bread of life and yet in the same Chapter Faith is held out as a condition of the Covenant by the Ministery of Christ himself and the activity of it is held forth in these words Verily I say unto you Unless ye eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man you have no life in you and who so eateth c. As for the lawfulness of evidencing Justification by Sanctification if it be understood of that Sanctification which is by Faith in Christ it is contrary to the intent of the whole Epistle of Iohn besides many other places of Scripture which yet hold forth bread sufficient if by sufficient is meant that D●…ctrin which in its right use is wholsom and good food for it was written th●… their joy might be full yet the evidencing of Justification by Sanctification is expresly held forth chap. 1. vers 7. where he saith If we walk in the light as Christ is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Iesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin by walking in the light in opposition to walking in darkness spoken of before vers 6. Sanctification is evidently meant and this is expresly noted to be an evidence of our good condition when it is said If we so walk the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin Error 82. A Minister must not Pray nor Preach against any Error unless he declare in the open congregation upon any Members inquiry the Names of them that hold them Confutation 82. This is contrary to Scriptures which teach Ministers to Pray and Preach against all errors by whomsoever they be held when it calleth them Watchmen and Stewards in whom faithfulness is required in all administrations yet withal it enjoyneth them if a Brother sin not openly to admonish him in secret first between them two alone and afterward in the presence of two or three witnesses and after that and not before to bring the matter to the Church Mat. 18. 15 16 17. Unsavoury Speeches Confuted These that follow were judged by the Assembly aforesaid as unsafe speeches 1. TO say that we are justified by Faith is an unsafe Speech we must say we are Iustified by Christ. Answer 1. False for the constant language of the Scripture is not unsafe but we are justified by Faith is the constant language of the Scripture Rom. 5. 1. being justified by faith the righteousness of faith Rom. 10. 31 32.

for redress c. was by authority and counsel of the Nobles Ezr. 10. 8. 2. That this course of Mr. Wheelw did tend directly to the great hinderance of publick utility for when Brethren shall look one at another as enemies and persecutors c. and when people shall look at their Rulers and Ministers as such and as those who go about to take Christ and Salvation from them How shall they join together in any publick Service How shall they cohabit and trade together How hardly will they submit to such Over-seers How will it hinder all affairs in Courts in Towns in Families in Vessels at Sea c. and what can more threaten the dissolution and ruine of Church and Common-wealth Lastly if it be alledged that such warlike terms are used by Christ and his Apostles in a Spiritual sense we deny it not but we desire that the usual manner of their applying them may also be considered for Paul saith 1 Cor. 9. So fight I c. I beat down my body c. 1 Tim. 6. 12. Fight the good fight of Faith lay hold on eternal life and 1 Pet. 2. 11. and Iam. 4. 1. there is speech of the fight of our lusts and Ephes. 6. 11. he bids them put on Armour but it is to resist the Devil not flesh and blood not to fight against their Brethren toward whom he forbids all bitterness and clamour c. Ephes. 4. And when he speaks of Spiritual Weapons 2 Cor. 10. he doth not draw them out against the persons of brethren but against high thoughts and imaginations c. And if Mr. Wheelwright had found out any such among us and planted his battery against them by sound Arguments he had followed our Apostolick rule Christ indeed threatneth to fight against the Nicholaitans with the Sword of his Mouth and if Mr. Wheelwright had known any such here as certainly as Christ knew those he might have been justified by the example otherwise not Therefore to conclude seeing there be of those who dissent from Mr. Wheelwright his Doctrines who have denied themselves for the love of Christ as far as he hath done and will be ready by God's grace to do and suffer for the sake of Christ and the honour of free-Grace as much as himself for such to be publickly defamed and held forth as Enemies to the Lord Jesus and persecutors like Herod and Pilate and the uncircumcised Heathen c. cannot proceed from a charitable Mind nor doth it savour of an Apostolick Gospel-like Brotherly Spirit Mistriss Hutchison being banished and confined till the season of the year might be fit and safe for her departure she thought it now needless to conceal her self any longer neither would Satan lose the opportunity of making choice of so fit an instrument so long as any hope remained to attain his mischievous end in darkening the saving truth of the Lord Jesus and disturbing the peace of his Churches Therefore she began now to discover all her mind to such as came to her so that her opinions came abroad and began to take place among her old disciples and now some of them raised up questions about the Immortality of the Soul about the Resurrection about the Morality of the Sabbath and divers others which the Elders finding to begin to appear in some of their Churches they took much pains both in publick and private to suppress and following the scent from one to another the root of all was found to be in Mistriss Hutchison whereupon they resorted to her many times labouring to convince her but in vain yet they resorted to her still to the end they might either reclaim her from her errors or that they might bear witness against them if occasion were For in a Meeting of the Magistrates and Elders about suppressing these new-sprung errors the Elders of Boston had declared their readiness to deal with Mistriss Hutchison in a Church-way if they had sufficient testimony for though she had maintained some of them sometimes before them yet they thought it not so orderly to come in as Witnesses whereupon other of the Elders and others collecting what they had heard from her own Mouth at several times drew them into several heads and sent them to the Church of Boston whereupon the Church with leave of the Magistrates because she was a prisoner sent for her to appear upon a Lecture-day being the 15th of the first Moneth and though she were at her own house in the Town yet she came not into the Assembly till the Sermon and Prayer were ended pretending Bodily infirmity when she was come one of the Ruling Elders called her forth before the Assembly which was very great from all the parts of the Country and telling her the cause why the Church had called her read the several heads which were as followeth 1. That the Souls of all Men in regard of generation are mortal like the Beasts Eccles. 3. 18. 2. That in regard of Christ's purchase they are immortal so that Christ hath purchased the Souls of the wicked to eternal pain and the Souls of the elect to eternal peace 3. Those who are united to Christ have in this life new bodies and Two bodies 1 Cor. 6. 19. she knows not how Jesus Christ should be united to these our fleshly Bodies 4. Those who have union with Christ shall not rise with the same fleshly bodies 1 Cor. 15. 44. 5. And that the resurrection mentioned there and in Ioh. 5 28. is not meant of the resurrection of the body but of our union here and after this life 6. That there are no created graces in the Saints after their union with Christ but before there are for Christ takes them out of their hands into his own 7. There are no created graces in the humane nature of Christ but he was only acted by the power of the God-head 8. The Image of God wherein Adam was made she could see no Scripture to warrant that it consisted in holiness but conceived it to be in that he was made like to Christ's Manhood 9. She had no Scripture to warrant that Christ's Manhood is now in Heaven but the body of Christ is his Church 10. We are united to Christ with the same union that his humanity on earth was with the Deity Ioh. 17. 21. 11. She conceived the Disciples before Christ his death were not converted Matth. 18. 3. 12. There is no evidence to be had of our good estate either from absolute or conditional promises 13. The Law is no rule of life to a Christian. 14. There is no Kingdom of Heaven in Scripture but only Christ. 15. There is first engraffing into Christ before union from which a Man might fall away 16. The first thing God reveals to assure us is our election 17. That Abraham was not in a saving estate till the 22 oh of Gen. when he offered Isaac and saving the firmness of God's election he might have perished notwithstanding any work

of grace that was wrought in him till then 18. That union to Christ is not by Faith 19. That all commands in the word are Law and are not a way of life and the command of Faith is a Law and therefore killeth she supposed it to be a Law from Rom. 3. 27. 20. That there is no Faith of God's elect but assurance there is no Faith of dependance but such as an hypocrite may have and fall away from proved Ioh. 15. for by that she said they are in Christ but Christ is not in them 21. That an hypocrite may have Adam's righteousness and perish and by that righteousness he is bound to the Law but in union with Christ Christ comes into the Man and he retains the Seed and dieth and then all manner of grace in himself but all in Christ. 22. There is no such thing as inherent righteousness 23. We are not bound to the Law no not as a rule of Life 24. We are dead to all acts in Spiritual things and are onely acted by Christ. 25. Not being bound to the Law it is not transgression against the Law to sin or break it because our sins they are inward and Spiritual and so are exceeding sinful and onely are against Christ. 26. Sanctification can be no evidence at all of our good estate 27. That her particular revelations about future events are as infallible as any part of Scripture and that she is bound as much to believe them as the Scripture for the same Holy Ghost is the Author of them both 28. That so far as a Man is in union with Christ he can do no duties perfectly and without the Communion of the unregenerate part with the regenerate 29. That such exhortations as these to work out our Salvation with fear to make our calling and election sure c. are spoken onely to such as are under a Covenant of Works All which she did acknowledge she had spoken for a Copy of them had been sent to her divers days before and the witnesses hands subscribed so as she saw it was in vain to deny them then she asked By what rule such an Elder could come to her pretending to desire light and indeed to intrap her to which the same Elder answered That he had been twice with her and that he told her indeed at St. Ives that he had been troubled at some of her Speeches in the Court wherein he did desire to see light for the ground and meaning of them but he professed in the presence of the Lord that he came not to intrap her but in compassion to her Soul to help her out of those Snares of the Devil wherein he saw she was intangled and that before his departure from her he did bear Witness against her Opinions and against her Spirit and did leave it sadly upon her from the Word of God Then presently she grew into passion against her Pastor for his Speech against her at the Court after the Sentence was passed which he gave a full Answer unto shewing his zeal against her errors whereupon she asked for what error she had been banished professing withal that she held none of these things she was now charged with before her Imprisonment supposing that whatsoever should be found amiss would be imputed to that but it was answered as the truth was That she was not put to durance but onely a favourable confinement so as all of her family and divers others resorted to her at their pleasure But this allegation was then proved false and at her next convention more fully for there were divers present who did know she spake untruth Her Answer being demanded to the first Articles she maintained her assertion That the Souls were mortal c. alledging the place in the Eccles. cited in the Article and some other Scriptures nothing to the purpose she insisted much upon that in Gen. 1. In the day thou eatest c. thou shalt die she could not see how a Soul could be immortally miserable though it might be eternally miserable neither could she distinguish between the Soul and the Life and though she were pressed by many Scriptures and reasons alledged by the Elders of the same and other Churches so as she could not give any Answer to them yet she stood to her Opinion till at length a stranger being desired to speak to the point and he opening to her the difference between the Soul and the Life the first being a Spiritual substance and the other the union of that with the body she then confessed she saw more light than before and so with some difficulty was brought to confess her Errour in that point Wherein was to be observed that though he spake to very good purpose and so clearly convinced her as she could not gain-say yet it was evident she was convinced before but she could not give the honour of it to her own Pastor or Teacher nor to any of the other Elders whom she had so much slighted Then they proceeded to the third fourth and fifth Articles about the body and the resurrection of the old which she maintained according to the Articles and though she were not able to give any reasonable answer to the many places of the Scripture and other arguments which were brought to convince her yet she still persisted in her error giving froward Speeches to some that spake to her as when one of the Elders used this Argument that if the Resurrection were onely our union with Christ then all that are united are the children of the resurrection and therefore are neither to marry nor to give in marriage and so by consequence there ought to be community of women she told him that he spake like the Pharisees who said that Christ had a Devil because that Abraham was dead and the Prophets and yet he had said that those that eat his flesh should never die not taking the speech in the true meaning so did he said she who brought that argument for it is said there they should be like the Angels c. The Elders of Boston finding her thus obstinate propounded to the Church for an Admonition to be given her to which all the Church consented except two of her Sons who because they persisted to defend her were under admonition also Mr. Cotton gave the admonition and first to her Sons laying it sadly upon them that they would give such way to their natural affection as for preserving her honour they should make a breach upon the honour of Christ and upon their Covenant with the Church and withal tear the very bowels of their Soul by hardning her in her sin In this admonition to her first he remembred her of the good way she was in at her first coming in helping to discover to divers the false bottom they stood upon in trusting to legal works without Christ then he shewed her how by falling into these gross and fundamental errors she had lost the honour of her