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A84758	Dæmonium meridianum. Satan at noon. Or, Antichristian blasphemies, anti-scripturall divelismes, anti-morall uncleanness, evidenced in the light of truth, and published by the hand of justice. Being, a sincere and impartiall relation of the proceedings of the commissioners of the county of Berks. Authorized by the ordinance for ejection, against John Pordage, late minister of Bradfield, in the same county. Published for the vindication of justice, and satisfaction of the conscientious, in the name, and by the order of the said commissioners and assistants. With some notes, and animadversions upon a book of the said John Pordage, initiuled, Innocency appearing, &c. / By Christopher Fowler, minister of the gospel at S. Maries in Reding.	Fowler, Christopher, 1610?-1678.	1655 (1655)	Wing F1692; Thomason E840_1; ESTC R207466	137,560	179

dost not see it but thou shalt see it These upon credible testimony 1. That there is neither good nor evil but as men apprehend it And that he might do any thing if his mind did lead him to it Positions enough to astonish the heavens and shake the earth and tend our very bowels from another guesse man then this Dr. both for life and learning But he is gone to Eternity and to us that knew him out of his grave he preacheth a sermon upon that text Rom. 11.20 Thou standest by faith be not high minded but fear let us pray pray pray that God would keep us in the knowledge love and practise of all divine truth But to return The next witnesse for the Dr to prove that Mrs Grip did rail c. is John Tench p. 63. We wonder that this witnesse also is not encomiasted with the titles of a sober pious Christian we cannot tell what this man would swear but we know with sadnesse of heart what he saith he hath twice in publick denied the bloud of Christ to be the bloud of God and this as we fear not through mistake or ignorance for he was often told and severall scriptures were alledged to that purpose viz. that it was the bloud of a divine person not of the divine nature but he still persisted in his foolish to say no more cavillations and afterwards said to one of us that Christ died and rose again and then became God This is one of John Tawneys followers a blasphemer of the Lord Christ a slanderer of Christians for his sake a late abettor of the Anti-scripturall Quakers at Reding and one whose inconsiderablenesse makes him audacious The rest are Eleanor Burly Mrs Kent ibidem and in another place John Hambleton is quoted What savour these three have among understanding Christians that know them we will leave to others the very naming of the last will make those that know him even to hold their noses Ob. See how bitter these Priests are and how rigid Ans Our reply is this we have concealed many passages that we might have rehearsed to avoid this very objection but we do conceive it inevitable and unreasonable too for this objection will be made by those who have gall and bitternesse and are the most bitter people in the world if our relation be false we yield to suffer if it be true why are we bitter is it because we will not see the everlasting Deity the precious bloud the blessed word and ordinances of Jesus Christ trampled denied blasphemed and sit still with our hands in our pockets but according to our measure speak a word for him and his is this bitternesse then the Lord make us more bitter in these fundamentalls Jesus Christ will give us but little thanks in the day of our account for our Gallionisme or moderation Obj. But grant for once that these witnesses are against ordinances sabboths scriptures grace Christ for so they are some of them against most and every one of them against some yet their testimony is legall Ans It is confessed and their testimony was received as such and we desire it may be weighed with all our hearts Obj. The Commissioners would not receive their witnesse Ans We reply This is a sordid and false imputation of the Drs upon them they were examined the Dr had his liberty to propose any questions and to produce any witnesses it is confessed the Commissioners did refuse some of the witnesses because they could not speak to the matter in hand as when it was deposed the Dr had spoken blasphemy at one time in one place they offered to depose that they heard him speak otherwise at another time and in another place and this is the naked truth yet the Commissioners are clamoured upon by him and his friends in Court in city in town in countrey even for crucifiers c. To conclude that a man of such pretended glories visions sanctity likened even to Christ almost as to have no sin for the Devil hardly to work upon him by should have no more no other to appear in his behalf but as thou hast seen Reader seems to us wonderfull observable The fifth article of the first charge That by male and female Genesis the 1. we are to understand by male the Deity and by female the humanity and that these two become one flesh Adde to this two other articles of the last charge viz. That he preached at Bradfield and did labour to defend it pertinaciously that the little horn in Dan. 7. vers 8. was Christ and being told that the horn made war with the Saints yet he persisted to say that he was Christ That he is ignorant and insufficient for the work of the Ministry The Drs Answer To the first of these the Dr gave no particular answer Animadver 3. The Dr could not tell what to say then but since in his book pag. 44. he answers thus to this article That by male and female might be shadowed forth the Deity and pure humanity the male representing the Deity the female the pure humanity which by union become one the spirit of the soul brought up by Christ into a mysticall union is made partaker of the divine nature Answer What un-edifying matter and language is this is this to speak to edification exhortation and to comfort is not this and all the rest taken out of the euangle of Henry Nicholas and Jacob Behmen is there not a serpent in this grasse Irenaeus observes of the Gnosticks that they did with Scripture words and phrases as if some skilfull Artist should make with precious stones and pearles the most exquisite effigies of some Heroique prince and when it is done and compleated in comes some phantasticall fellow and pulls it all to pieces and with the same stones and pearles goes and makes the picture of an ape or a dog How hatefull is this saith that Father as it was then even so it is now the Gnosticks in the first times and the Familists and Quakers in these last times differing no more some circumstances excepted then Simon Magus differs from Simon the Sorcerer the Familists take Scripture words phrases and expressions which shine as pearles in that place and meaning where the hand of the blessed spirit hath set them and they dismember them and pluck them asunder and with them according to their own whimsies they make sometime an ape or a dog or both sometime non-sence or blasphemy and oftentimes both as for instance such expressions as these Christ in you the fellowes of Christ Christs brethren partakers of the divine nature I in them and they in me you need not that any man teach you taught of God perfect as the Father the letter killeth the spirit to God c. Now consider how our new Gnosticks wrest and rack these scriptures and make them speak what they never meant how do they take these pearles these choise texts of heaven and with them

DAEMONIUM MERIDIANUM SATAN at NOON Or Antichristian Blasphemies Anti-scripturall Divelismes Anti-morall Uncleanness Evidenced in the Light of Truth and Punished by the hand of Justice BEING A sincere and impartiall Relation of the Proceedings of the Commissioners of the County of Berks Authorized by the Ordinance for Ejection against John Pordage late Minister of Bradfield in the same County Published for the vindication of Justice and satisfaction of the Conscientious in the name and by the order of the said Commissioners and Assistants With some Notes and Animadversions upon a Book of the said John Pordage intituled Innocency appearing c. By CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Minister of the Gospel at S. Maries in Reding Mos iste semper viguit in Ecclesia ut quo quisque foret religiosior eo promptiùs novis adinventionibus contrairet Vinc. Lyrin adv Haer. cap. 9. 2 Pet. 2.1 2. False teachers shall privily bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and many shall follow their pernicious waies 1 Cor. 16.22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus let him be Anathema Maranatha 1 Gal. 8. Though an angel from heaven preach otherwise then that we have preached unto you let him be accursed 1 John 2.23 Whosoever denyeth the son the same hath not the father Peccatum nocet personae sed Haeresis communitati Luth. tom 1. p. 260. Hoc est artificiū unicū Satanae fanaticorū quod nolunt videri male docere se jactant sincerissimos fidelissimos cum sunt omniū mendacissimi Id. tom 4. p. 339. LONDON Printed for Francis Eglesfi●ld and are to be sold at the Signe of the Marigold in S. Pauls Church-yard 1655. To his Highness OLIVER Lord PROTECTOR of England Scotland Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging May it please your Highness WE humbly crave leave to acknowledge that we look upon it as an eminent mercy that under your Highness Government a gracious and a wise Providence hath put an opportunity into the hands of men desiring to fear God to effect what is of highest concernment for the good of soules that they may neither be starved by the Ministers insufficiency nor poisoned by blasphemy nor blinded by ignorance nor hardned by scandall Whilest men slept we are loath to say the masters of the house the envious man hath sown Tares tares full of deadly poison and that poison diffused into the very vitalls of faith and godlinesse and that so subtilly conveyed that Sathan fights against Panatici pugnant contra Christum sub titulo Christi Luther Christ under the notion of Christ Among the many sad Instances in this nation this ensuing Relation presents some of those doctrines to your Highness view Doctrines so directly destructive to the very fundamentalls of Religion that we solemnly professe were it a matter eligible we had rather ten thousand times that we and our dearest relations should die stark mad in chains at Bedlam then to live and die in such execrable opinions against our Lord Jesus In all humility we beg the boldnesse to say that your conscientious and solemn pursuance of Reformation that the Gospel of our Lord Jesus may be glorified will be the life and length of your dayes in this time of trouble as a bond of love upon the hearts of the Godly in this hour of Apostasie whilest you live and leave your memory precious to succeeding Generations Your Highness faithfully devoted in the service of the Gospel in the name of your Commissioners and their Assistants and among them the meanest CHRISTO FOWLER The PREFACE to the READER Courteous Reader THou art here presented with a faithfull relation of the Proceedings of the Commissioners of Berks in the business of Dr. Pordage late Minister of Bradfield in the said County we desire that thou maist read as we do write with a sad heart that such prodigious and damnable heresies should be belched forth in such a land of light both publickly and privately against the person and merits of our Lord Jesus Christ as this Dr. hath done We are well assured that neither the former Parliaments nor the present Governours did intend or mean thus to tolerate though they were tender to consciences truly tender their care was and is for the ejection of Scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and in their room placing Godly Learned Orthodox Divines the noblest work that can be undertaken if we may have liberty to express our thoughts in any Common wealth that calls it self Christian This man formerly placed in and now ejected was none of these first not Godly because he denies the Godhead of Jesus Christ vilifies his precious blood which the * Acts 20.28 Scripture calls the blood of God A Doctrine that wants a name black enough to be called by in which any man living and dying can never be saved and certainly there can be no godliness in that religion in which there is no salvation Secondly Not learned we speak not of that great help and ornament of humane learning whereof this man hath no great cause to boast although by a Charientismus he is called Doctor but because he is ignorant of the chief heads of Religion which even some children of ten years old from their catechisme can deliver in more intelligible termes then he hath done Thirdly Not Orthodox because his doctrines are Diametrically opposite to all those that now are or those that have been received as such by the people of God in all former ages and his exposition and application of the Scripture is a meer wretched and sensless corruption of the sacred text Fourthly No Divine because his heresies are if by the example of the * Appietatem aut Lentulitatem Cic. epistol lib. 3. epist 7. Oratour in Latine we may have leave to coyn a word in English rather Divellity then Divinity The Matter of his Charge for which we referre thee to this relation may be reduced to four heads First Blasphemy and of that the most pernicious directly destroying the very foundation Secondly Pretended Visions of Angels to confirme that blasphemy Thirdly The Doctrine and Scandall of uncleanness the † God most justly punishing impiety with impurity Rom. 1.21 to 24. Issue of that blasphemy Fourthly Ignorance and insufficiency the ground thereof For the first Blasphemy he hath often denied the Godhead of our Lord Jesus which may be called antecedent Blasphemy and called his righteousness a sapless righteousness and his precious blood a va●n thing which are most direfull Blasphemies and consequences of the former The first of these was the damned heresie of a Euseb Eccles histo lib. 5. cap. ult Theodotus the tanner b Ibid. Paulus Samosatenus c Epiphan Haeres 71. Aug. haeres 44 45. Photinus d Ibid. haeres 49. Arrius whom Hierome in apol adv Ruffin calls Damonium Meridianum e Mahomet Alchor c. 5. p. 72. if this may be called Heresie Mahomet f Mr. Rutherfords Survey part 1. cap. 9.

begin to think the Divell is afraid of the Ordinance and shall take these bold words for an untruth till you produce what Saints when and where and by whom persecuted Ninthly Why do you say pag. 112. and often that the Commissioners have used all means to hinder a rehearing of your cause for our parts we have not heard of any that hath done this neither have we attempted it directly or indirectly there is such a boasting of so many great friends you have between Charing crosse and Westminster Hall that we have expected it every week but for our hindering of it till you prove it it must go for an untruth and a design of your own to harden the Familists and the Quakers in London Bristoll Lechlade Reding c. The thi●d particular covetousnesse First Why did you defraud one of your neighbours in bargaining letting and renting the man was before the Commissioners to make his complaint and hath since made it severall times to understanding Christians Secondly Why did you after you came out of your Familisticall pulpit on the Lords Day presently fall to discourse with one of your neighbou●s of buying and selling were you so full of the world you wanted vent could you not stay for your own day Thirdly Why did you hire out your teams of horse to carry bark and this to the great hinderance of your neighbours who did use to earne mony that way Fourthly Nay why did you when your poor neighbours had agreed to carry at such a price agree at an under price for lesse to get the employment out of their hands are these your parcells of perfection Fifthly Why did you rent land and sow it to halfes when corn was dear and your living worth hundreds by your example you did fearfully harden your people in earthly mindednesse your heart mortified by your visions of darknesse thought you could never have enough Sixthly Why did you tell the people in the pulpit when you came to Bradfield that now the great pot should go over and what a liberall house you would keep a most seraphick argument is it not but they say they could never see pot pan nor kittle indeed they say you are a very miser an earth worm Seventhly When one of your neighbours was taken from his plough oftentimes in your businesse went to Newbery eight miles for you five or six times and to London for you thirty nine miles and you promised to pay him for his labour why did you give him for a hundred and fifty miles travell even two shillings Eighthly But Dr when there was a collection for a poor burnt * Mariborough town and you spake to the people to give liberally and many knowing the place did resolve to do so why were you the leading man so cruell you threw down your twelve pence even to the scorn and table-talk of some rich inhabitants in your parish Ninthly Why did you wring dues from the people beyond the customes of the parish for marrying t is true this was put in as an article against you by your parishioners and t is as true it was put out by your accuser you vapour much upon this in your book can you say that any of your persecutors did take such a sordid way as to bargain before hand and to demand more then their dues Why did you trouble your parishioners that often before the Commissioners when all the difference did not amount to above eighteen pence your visioning family hath been complaining and crying as the Horse-leach give give the Lord cure this dropsie in yours and you in us and ours The fourth particular ignorance taken out of his Book First Why do you say that the law of nature prompts you and your way to require an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth doth the law of nature allow private revenge why are you such an ignoramus as to joyn with the Pharisees to corrupt the text in the Epistle to the Commissioners it seems you have a warrant from the law to revenge your selves it concerns the Magistrate to take care you may not have power too this is not only ignorance but tends to sedition also Secondly What do you mean in saying But the law of grace commands us to deny our selves do you mean that Gospell commands do thwart the commands of the law we know that Jesus Christ did not fill up much lesse contradict the law but vindicate and clear it from the false glosses of the Scribes and Pharisees whom you imitate in this also Thirdly Why do you confound the essentiall word Ibid. and the engrafted word and make them both one we hope it was your ignorance though we have too many reasons to believe that even in this you did lift up your heel and kick at Jesus Christ or else to make no other word but the word within us as Swincfield Gortyn and then if you come to have power let all godly men beware their throats Fourthly Why do you say that Mat. 28.19 Go teach all nations and baptize pag. 27. that baptisme there may very well be understood of the baptisme of the spirit shew what one of all the many expositors received for pious and orthodoxe did ever sense it so in those primitive times either they had those extraordinary gifts of the holy Ghost before they were baptized as in the case of Cornelius Act. 10.47 or else they were baptized before they had these gifts as the disciples at Samaria Acts 8.16 17. Did not you in this maliciously asperse all water baptisme and through pride and ignorance dream that you should receive power from on high to bestow the graces of the spirit on whom you pleased Fifthly Ibid. Why do you say that the Apostles did administer the baptisme of the spirit to all their converts how many visible converts were there and upon that account baptized who never had either the extraordinary gifts or the saving graces of the spirit what do you think of the Familists old acquaintance Simon Magus Sixthly Why did you say that baptisme is a Gospell ordinance instituted by John and now to qualifie the businesse you print it instrumentally do instruments use to institute ordinances thus you labour to support your ignorance by a falsitie fore-thought 7. You say that your judgement is for persons to live as single though in united formes and your deliberate practise is thereafter well but why do you say that this practise is according to that of Christ Mat. 19.12 He that is able to receive it let him receive it Pray tell us doth not our Lord Christ speak to the unmarried read the 10 verse the disciples said if the case be so it is not good to marry Christ answered But all men cannot receive it or abstain from marriage cannot live Batchelours what is this to you that have been a married man these many years 8. So the other of Christian Eunuchisme there be some Eunuchs for the