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heart_n	abundance_n	speak_v	tongue_n	2,464	5	7.4469	4	false

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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