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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96172	Mr. Tillam's account examined. Or, A brief reply to his unchristian account of some passages of Providence By a friend to truth, and to Mr. Tillam's own soul, if God have not sealed him down under hardness of heart. Written for the sake of such poor honest souls in Colchester, and the parts adjacent, as are misled through his inchantments.	Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing W1268aA; ESTC R231931	19,494	38

He professeth that he receives none to Baptism but such as he judgeth to be pretious Saints and yet it 's proved against him that he baptized some persons at Stokesbey and in Cheshire c. that made no profession of their faith at all and this himself grants pag. 17. How can such be known to be precious Saints and how does this accord with John Baptists practice who Baptized none but such as made confession of their sins Mat. 5. or Philips practice who requires the Eunuch to confess his faith Acts 8.37 But this man it seems dares say any thing or do any thing 't is no new thing to hear him contradicting the practice of others or his own principles But to what end doe I waste Ink and Paper in answering him whom I have so little hopes to reclaim I will therefore turn the stream into another chanel and by way of Conclusion direct my speech to those plain-hearted well-meaning Christians misled by him in the Town of Colchester and elswhere You Colchester Christians and others that have lent your ears to this Seedsman of Sedition and happily think that in entertaining this Stranger you have entertained an Angel of God doe but a little view his face in this glass and see if his countenance be like that of an Angel Is he not here plainly convicted of boasting lying slandering and many other sin Has he not for these crimes been taxed by faithfull Ministers and censured by whole Churches and is all this nothing Can you expect a blessing from the God of Heaven while you harbour such a one in your bosoms as he hath sealed up under a spiritual judgement with which as a rod at his back he ranges up and down the world and is not humbled but rather hardened by it Take heed you bring not the guilt of his sin on your own heads For I call God to witnesse 't is not the man but his sin I all along strike at and a sin both fouly practiced and fully proved against him the horrid sin of Lying among many other a sin so hatefull to God Prov. 12.22 yea so loathsome in the very nostrils of Nature that among the savage Indians he that told a lye thrice was condemned to perpetual silence if Aelian may be credited this is it seems by his own confession in his book the grand crime for which Mr. Tillam stands Excommunicate for which I shall not need to judge him two Churches having already passed sentence upon him guided I suppose by that rule of Christ Mat. 12.34 Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh as the Physician looking on the sick mans tongue when hee sees that foul concludes it is worse within Christians let me deal a little with your consciences doe you take the word of Christ for your rule How then dare you hear him that will not hear the Church Or by what Scripture-ground can you take him for your Pastor whom you are to look upon as a Heathen or a Publican And that by express warrant from Christ himself Mat. 18.17 Yea let me ask you further how unlikely is it that he should be to you a Preacher of truth who has been rejected by others as a venter of falshood Indeed what has he to doe to take Gods covenant into hismouth hating to be reformed And how unfit is he to be a Preacher whom the Churches of Christ have judged unfit to be a Member What Truths he has Preached among you I know not but if he has spoken to you the words of Truth and Sobernesse he is both much manded since he left the North and misunderstood by some of eminent note in the South who have affirmed and will maintain it to his face that he has dealt most unfaithfully in some of the main truths of the Gospel as denying Infants to be guilty of Original sin till they come to act sin and affirming that we are not justified by the same justifying Faith that Luther and the first Reformers were justified by to say nothing of his new Ordinances new Sacraments new Sabbath that he contends for these are no small and petty Errours The good Lord open your eyes that you may see the evill of those dangerous Principles he has scattered among you And let me beseech you in the bowels of Christ as a well-wisher to your souls though a stranger to your persons that you would take heed of being carried about with these divers and strange doctrines yea with any one of them For if Satan can but draw you into one hee will quickly lead you into all He that saith yea to the Devill in a little shall not say him nay when he pleaseth In the fear of God I beseech you consider how you will be able to look Christ in the face another day when your own Consciences will tell you you have parted with his Truths upon the bare word of a branded Lyar. My record is on high that I have not written these few lines out of envy spleen or passion but out of pitty and compassion to your souls Read all before you censure compare Mr. Tillam's Pamphlet with these Papers and I suppose he will be sufficiently answered and all sober-minded Christians abundantly satisfied A Catalogue of many pernicious Principles and false Doctrines publiquely in the Pulpit and elswhere asserted by Mr. Tho Tillam in the Town of Colchester FIrst That we are not justified by the same justifying Faith that our Forefathers were justified by Secondly That Antichrist shall not be destroyed till Christs personal appearing the second time in the flesh that whoever teacheth otherwise is a deluder Thirdly That children are not guiltie of original sin till they act sin Fourthly That Love-feasts washing the Disciples feet the Holy kiss and Annointing the Sick with oyl are Ordinances still to be observed in the Churches of Christ Fifthly That the Lord Christ was a Carpenter but neither House nor Ship-Carpenter but a Yoke-maker to prove which he cited Mat. 11.29 Sixthly That those whom he layes his hands upon and blesses are as really blessed as those whom Christ blessed when he was upon earth Seventhly That Baptizing in the Name of the Eather Son and Holy Ghost as so far from being the substantial form of Baptism that it is scarce a circumstance in Baptism Eightly That there is none truly called to the Ministry but by Visions Dreams Revelations or immediately from Heaven Ninthly That not any Infant-Baptism is of God Tenthly That the First day of the week is not our Christian Sabbath These things can be proved against him by divers witnesses to each FINIS

one to anther Wherefore we have put him away from us and shall have no communion with him that he may be ashamed This from his own words and this was done deliberately after much scanning by a whole Church Thirdly there are many manifest lyes in this his book as that Mr. Hammond was Vicar of Newcastle which he writes to disgrace Mr. Hammond whereas he is only Lecturer and Teacher to a Congregational Church and absolutely refused to be Vicar which Mr. Tillam cannot but know being so oft conversant in Newcastle Fourthly another abhominable lye against that Reverend Man in these words whither have those surseiting feasts of Newcastle saith he transported Mr. Hammond how strangely have those luxurious banques increased choler in this corpulent Gentleman For besides the odious contempt in the manner of his writing which he casts upon this faithfull servant of Christ so much beloved and honoured by the Saints he most impudently and palpably slanders him for intemperance for all Newcastle knoweth that though Mr. Hammond be often and earnestly invited to Feasts yet he hath absolutely refused to avoid all occasions to come at any feast great or small to one or other for these two years together except at one time that was unavoydable Fifthly he boldly vaunts that God made himself an instrument of detecting the false Jew wherein besides that vain-glorious vapouring in assuming to himself what is not due he tells a most manifest falshhood for it 's notoriously known to Mr. Goe Dauson Mr. Hammond Mr. Durant and others that he did what he could when they were about convincing the false Jew to defend him and harden his heart till they were all grieved and ashamed at his practice Sixthly another falshood that Mr. Hammond was basfled in the dispute about Baptism which impudency of his is stupendious for above a hundred persons present will witness the exceeding freedom of Mr. Hammond whose arguments were as a Rod held over him all the dispute and that Mr. Tillam to his utter confusion if he could tell how to be ashamed was so non-pluss'd and baffled to purpose that one of his own party was driven to confess it to chide him off take up the bucklers whiles all the time after Mr. Tillam sate dumb which calls to mind a seventh lye He told Mr. George Hodshan when he came first into the North that he was for the Baptism of the Infants of Beleevers when it manifestly appears he was at the same time an Anabaptist per me Geo. Hodshan Lastly for a full conviction of his lyes see the bundle of urtruths written by the Newcastle Ministers against Mr. Tillam Now this Lying is such a sin as it makes a man so unlike God into whose image all his children are cast and so like the devil who is the Father of lyes and so unlike the Saints who are a generation that will not lye Isa 63.9 that it deserves the heaviest censure of Excommunicaon Rev. 22.15 Without the new Jerusalem shall be dogs and whoremonges and murtherers and idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh lies See Mr. Tillam what copesmates Lyars are matched withall and what is their censure and yet you are angry with the Church at London for rejecting you for lying and giving you no warning whereas the Rule it self you see gives no such direction for any warning but it being once proved as it seems the London Church averred you were to be presently sent without among the dogs 4. observe his proud boasting and vaunting high language almost in every page of his book and indeed all his writings and actings doe fulsomly tang of that spirit In the front of his book he begins Thanks to my Lord and King who hath enabled me so that he counted me faithfull putting me into the Ministery Which are the words of the greatest Apostle on earth and that in the height of his zeal yet this man dares apply them to himself which I beleeve never any Minister that knows himself dares noce doe So that he is if you will beleeve him an able Minister a faithfull Minister and as he saith afterwards a welling Minister and a Minister that labours with his whole soul in the work whereas humble spirits are ever fearfull to think highly of themselves much more to lift up themselves in print by vapouring tearms and high titles Furthermore you have him ever and anon vaunting of the multitude of his hearers and followers great success in his Ministery in every place that he could gather a Church of Saints in a years space in such or such place where he came which by the way shews his doctrine and practice very suitable to carnall hearts that can so easily take with him in all places where hee comes whereas the doctrine of the best Minister under heaven is so cross to corrupt nature that it cannot be digested but his doctrine and opinions goe glib down and can bring in souls tiick and threefold 't is but touch and take And I cannot omit how often this poor man boasTs in high language of his sufferings and calls them sufferings for Christs sake and for his names sake and all in obedience to him whereas presumptuous man thou maist know it was all along for thy faults scandals lyes turbulency faction and disembling from the first till now Was it for Christs sake thou wert given up to Satan by the Church of Wrexam Was it for thy good deeds thou wert condemned by the Church in Cheshire Was it for the honour of Christ that the Church in London rose up against thee and the three Ministers in Newcastle writ against thee was it nor for a lye maintained against so many evidences and hast thou the face to father all thy wretched dealings on Christ wil he maintain thee in a course of sin and crown thee for it what tender heart can digest such impudency and hypocrisie 5. Observe what contempt scorns and base calumnies he all along his book casts out again all that stand in his way be they never so holy never so many be they godly Saints Ministers whole Churches all is one if they speak or a against him the sparkles of his anger in a vile contemptuous manner shall fly in their faces this is the very spirit of his Book So like the Dragon he spews out whole floods of contempt to drown them and their reputations if he could to instance but in two or three particulars 1. How shamefully doth he reproach the whole Church of Wrexam that cast him out and the one and twenty Members as if they were the vilest persons on earth but who will beleeve him they being known godly men and all this to justifie himself and avoyd the dint of their consure as page 9 10. at large 2. Then again how he reproaches the Church at Newcastle because they articled against him page 19. 3. Then when London Church Excommunicated him see his shamefull reproaching of them as acting irregularly and