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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44127	The faith and testimony of the martyrs and suffering servants of Jesus Christ persecuted in New England vindicated against the lyes and slanders cast on them by Nathaniel Morton in his book intituled New England memorial / written ... by ... Christopher Holder.	Holder, Christopher, d. 1688.; Rous, John, d. 1695. A few queries put forth.	1670 (1670)	Wing H2384; ESTC R31117	8,220	11

The Faith and Testimony of the Martyrs and suffering Servants of Christ Jesus persecuted in New England vindicated against the lyes and slanders cast on them by Nathaniel Morton in his Book intituled New Englands Memorial Written for the sake of the honest hearted by a servant of the living God who is a witness of the Resurrection of Christ Jesus and of his appearance the second time without sin unto Salvation Christopher Holder A faithful witness will not lye but a false record will speak lyes Prov. 14.5 they bend their tongues like their bows for lies but they have no courage for truth upon the Earth for they proceed from evil to worse and they have not known me saith the Lord Jer 9.3 THere is no new thing under the Sun as it hath been alwayes so it is now he that is born after the flesh persecuteth him that is born after the Spirit the fruits of which we have found plentifully in New England the beast and false Prophet hath joyned together to war with the Lamb and his followers and the Dragon hath opened his mouth wide to swallow up the woman that is coming up out of the wilderness through whom the man child shall be brought forth to rule the Nations with a rod of Iron In the power of which Dragon I have found one Nathaniel Morton as by the language which proceedeth out of his mouth doth plainly appear in a Book tituled New Englands Memorial where in he undertakes to write against an innocent harmless people whom God hath made choice of to bear witness ●o his Spirit of God are led by the spirit of God and again as many as walk according to this rule peace be unto them and mercy upon the Israel of God 〈…〉 this is Christ by whom man became a new creature as it is ●lea● by the fore going words in that Chapter how can you own it to be a setled permanant rule when as one of your Majestrates William Collier by name said to William Newland and Ralph Allen that in Beza's translation there is eight hundred errours in the last translation three hundred errours surely if there be so many errours in that which ye call your setled permanent rule you had need to have the Spirit of truth to show you wherein the errours are or else you will soon e're from the truth and the rule of life and salvation 3dly Thou sayest they deny the man-hood of Christ and affirm that as a man he is not in Heaven Ans As for the word manhood I know not of such a word in the Scriptures but if thou mean by manhood the man Christ Jesus which was conceived of the holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary who was of the seed of David according to the flesh who took on him the seed of Abraham who was crucified by the Jews and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures then I utterly deny what thou saist and do affirm that that Jesus Christ we own and no other and do verily believe through him and by him to be saved and by no other knowing that he only died for our sins and is risen again for our justification and is ascended into the highest Heavens Angels principallities and powers being subjected unto him where he is glorified with the same glory that he had with the father before the world was who is the express Image of the invisible God the first born of every creature for by him were all things created both visible and invisible and is the head and ●ridegroom of the Church which he hath purchased unto himself by his blood this is our faith concerning Christ and if your faith is other wise then this it is contrary unto the faith of Gods elect that gave forth the Scriptures and then your Christ is not the true Christ but Antichrist and you are of them that deny both the Father and the Son and then your doctrine is damnable and corrupt and so that which you charge others withall you are guilty of your selves 4thly Thou sayest they deny the Resurrection of the dead Ans This charge also I utterly deny do affirm that we believe that as in the first Adam all died so in the second Adam shall all be made alive and shall be raised unto life everlasting or unto condemnation everlasting and that all shall receive from the name of the Lord a just reward for their deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil else were we of all men most miserable if we had only hope in this life and as the Apostle saith if the dead arise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead and why suffered we imprisonments whipings Cuttings of our ears and some of us the loss of our lives whose blood still lies at the doors of our persecutors in New England herein thou may be a witness of the falseness of the charge for if we were such as thou would by thy lies make us to be we might say as the Apostle did it being the consequence of such 〈◊〉 tenant let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall dye but our suffering unto death doth testifie that our hope was not only in this life but that after the desolution of our House of this Earthly tabernacle we should have a building of God a House not made with hands eternal in the Heavens it is evident that they who deny the resurrection cannot with chearfulness offer up their lives to the death as our friends did because then the hope of all their injoyments are at an end but our martyred friends being in the same faith as the ancient worthies were one of them not accepting deliverance but by constraint when offered that she might obtain a better resurrection further we can truly say as Paul did in the like case what did it advantage him of he had fought with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men if the dead he not raised so can we say not what doth it advantage us if we have fought with Beasts at New England after the maner of Men if the dead rise not whom we found more like Wolves Bears and devouring Lyons then like Christian Men as witness your fore mentioned cruelty on the innocent Lambs of Christ whom he sent among you to warn you of the evil of your ways so by what here is written what we also suffered among you I hope it will manifestly appear unto all honest hearted people that not we but you as your practices have shewn do deny the resu●rection and Nathaniel Morton if thou art as grosly false in other things in thy Book called New Englands Memorial as in this it is not worthy to be minded by any but as the Memorial of the wicked perish 5thly Thou sayest they affirm that an absolute perfection in holiness and grace is attainable in this life Ans These are thy own words but