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A96714	Antinomians and familists condemned by the synod of elders in Nevv-England: with the proceedings of the magistrates against them, and their apology for the same. Together with a memorable example of Gods iudgments upon some of those persons so proceeded against.	Winthrop, John, 1588-1649,; Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662,	1644 (1644)	Wing W3094; Thomason E251_10; ESTC R212499	69,974	70

out to Christ for fresh supply but it is acted by the Spirit inhabiting Confutation 51. Though wee have the Spirit acting and inhabiting us this hinders not but I may and need goe out to Christ for fresh supply of Grace Joh. 1.16 Of whose fulnesse wee have all received and grace for grace 2 Cor. 12.8 Paul sought thrice to Christ for fresh supply Heb. 12.2 Looke unto Christ the Authour and finisher of our faith Wee must looke up to the hils from whence commeth our helpe Ephes 4.16 by whom all the body receiveth increase and to the edifying of it self Error 52. It is legal to say wee act in the strength of Christ Confutation 52. This is contrary to the Scriptures the Gospel bids us bee strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Ephes 6.10 and bee strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 2.1 and Paul saith I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me Phil. 4.13 and that was not legall strength Error 53. No Minister can teach one that is anoynted by the Spirit of Christ more then hee knowes already unlesse it be in some circumstances Confutation 53. This is also contrary to Scripture 2 Cor. 1. It is God that stablisheth us with you c. Ephes 1.13 and 4.12.14 The Corinthians and Ephesians were anoynted and sealed and yet were taught more of Paul in his Epistles then only in some circumstances Error 54. No Minister can bee an instrument to convey more of Christ unto another then hee by his own experience hath come unto Confutation 54. This is contrary to Ephes 4.11 12. the weakest Minister may edify the strongest Christian which hath more experience then himselfe Error 55. A man may have true Faith of dependance and yet not bee justifyed Confutation 55. This is contrary to the Scripture Acts 13.39 Al believers are justifyed but they that have true faith of dependance are believers therefore justifyed Error 56. A man is not effectually converted till hee hath full assurance Confutation 56. This is crosse to the Scripture Isa 5.10 wherein wee see that a man may truely feare God therefore truely converted and yet walke in darknesse without cleare evidence or full assurance Error 57. To take delight in the holy service of God is to go a whoring from God Confutation 57. No Scripture commands us to go a whoring from God but first the Scripture commands us to delight in the service of God Psal 100.2 Serve the Lord with gladnesse Isa 58.13 Thou shalt call the Sabbath thy delight Ergo. Secondly God loves not such as go a whoring from him Psal 73. ult but God loves a cheerful server of God 2 Cor. 8. Therefore such as serve him cheerfully do not thereby go a whoring from him Error 58. To help my faith and comfort my conscience in evill houres from former experience of Gods grace in mee is not a way of grace Confutation 58. What the Saints have done and found true comfort in that is a way of grace but they did help their faith and comfort their conscience from former evidences of Gods grace in them Psal 77.5 6 11. I considered the dayes of old and called to remembrance my songs in the night and by this raised hee up his faith as the latter part of the Psalm sheweth and this was in evil houres ver 2 3. 2 Cor. 1.12 This is our rejoycing that in simplicity and godly purenesse wee have had our conversation and this was in sad houres ver 4 5 8 9 10. Job 35.10 None saith Where is God that made mee which giveth songs in the night here the not attending to former consolation is counted a sinful neglect Error 59. A man may not bee exhorted to any duty because hee hath no power to do it Confutation 59. This is contrary to Phil. 2.12 13. Work out your salvation c. For it is God that worketh in you both the will and the deed Ephes 5.14 A wake thou that sleepest so 1 Cor. 15. ult Error 60. A man may not prove his election by his vocation but his vocation by his election Confutation 60. This is contrary to 1 Thes 2.4 knowing your election because our Gospel came unto you not in word only but in power 2 Thess 2.13 14. God hath elected you to life through sanctification of the Spirit whereunto hee hath called you by our Gospel Error 61. All Doctrines Revelations and Spirits must be tried by Christ the word rather then by the Word of Christ Confutation 61. This assertion of it intends to exclude the word we conceive it contrary to Esay 8.20 John 5.39 Acts 17.11 also to 2 John 4.1 2. Trye the spirits every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh c. where Spirits and Doctrines confessing that Christ is come in the flesh are made distinct from Christ Error 62. It is a dangerous thing to close with Christ in a promise Confutation 62. This is contrary to Joh. 3.16 Act. 10.43 Isa 55.1 2. Matth. 11.28 Joh 7.37 If Christ in these places invite men to come unto him and bids them incline and hearken and tells them their Soules shall live and they shall drinke and be refreshed by hm and by these promises encourageth them to close with him then it is no dangerous thing to close with him in a promise it is no danger to obey a Command of God but we are commanded to beleeve the Gospell Mar. 1.15 1. the promise being a part of the Gospell Error 63. No better is the evidence from the two witnesses of water and blood mentioned 1 John 5.6 7 8. then mount Calvary and the Souldiers that shed Christs bloud and these might have drunke of it poore evidences Confutation 63. Then what God hath ordained or made an evidence is no better then what he hath not made then Christ loseth his end in comming by water and blood vers 6. then the Spirit should agree no better with the witnesse of water and bloud then it doth with Mount Calvary and the Souldiers but the Spirit doth agree with the water and the bloud and not with the other 1 Joh. 5.7 These three agree in one Error 64. A man must take no notice of his sinne nor of his repentance for his sinne Confutation 64. This is contrary to David whose sinnes were ever before him Psal 51. hee considered his wayes and the evill of them that he might turne his feete to Gods Testimonies Psal 119 59. If we confesse our sinnes he is faithfull and just c. If we say we have not sinned we make him a lyar 1 Joh. 1.8 9 10. Job tooke notice of sinne and of his repentance I abhorre my selfe and repent in dust and ashes Job 42 6. David seeth and saith I am sorry for my sinnes Psal 38 28. Solomons penitent must know the Plague in his heart that is his finne and the punishment thereof 1 Kings 8 38. Error 65. The Church in admitting members is not

must keep his wife and children for which hee was presently committed to the Officer The Court reasoned a good while with them both but they were peremptory and would acknowledge no failing and because of their contemptuous speeches and for that they were known to bee very busie persons and such as had offered contempt to the Magistrates for that they were not of their opinion they were dis-franchised and sined William Baulston twenty pounds Ed. Hutchison foety pounds The next morning Ed. Hutchison acknowledged his fault in his mis-behaviour in the face of the Court and so was released of his imprisonment but both were disabled from bearing any publick Office Tho. Marshal Dynely Dier Rich. Gridly ANother day were called foure more of the principall stirring men who had subscribed to the Petition Thomas Marshal the Ferry-man who justifyed the Petition so farre that hee would not acknowledge any fault yet hee answered more modestly then the former therefore hee was not fined but dis-franchised and put out of his place Dynely and Dier had little to say for themselves but perfisting in their justification they were also dis-franchised likewise Rich. Gridly an honest poore man but very apt to meddle in publick affaires beyond his calling or skill which indeed was the fault of them all and of many others in the Country meane condition and weake parts having nothing to say but that he could find no fault c. was dis-franchised Mistris Hutchison ALl these except Mr. Wheelwright were but young branches sprung out of an old root the Court had now to do with the head of all this faction Dux faemina facti a woman had been the breeder and nourisher of all these distempers one Mistris Hutchison the wife of Mr. William Hutchison of Boston a very honest and peaceable man of good estate and the daughter of Mr. Marbury sometimes a Preacher in Lincolnshire after of London a woman of a haughty and fierce carriage of a nimble wit and active spirit and a very voluble tongue more bold then a man though in understanding and judgement inferiour to many women This woman had learned her skil in England and had discovered some of her opinions in the Ship as shee came over which had caused some jealousie of her which gave occasion of some delay of her admission when shee first desired fellowship with the Church of Boston but shee cunningly dissembled and coloured her opinions as shee soon got over that block and was admitted into the Church then shee began to go to work and being a woman very helpfull in the times of child-birth and other occasions of bodily infirmities and well furnished with means for those purposes shee easily insinuated her selfe into the affections of many and the rather because shee was much inquisitive of them about their spiritual estates and in discovering to them the danger they were in by trusting to common gifts and graces without any such witnesse of the Spirit as the Scripture holds out for a full evidence whereby many were convinced that they had gone on in a Covenant of works and were much humbled thereby and brought to inquire more after the Lord Jesus Christ without whom all their gifts and graces all their contributions c. would prove but legall and would vanish all this was well and suited with the publick Ministery which went along in the same way and all the faithful imbraced it and blessed God for the good successe that appeared from this discovery But when shee had thus prepared the way by such wholesome truths then shee begins to set forth her own stuffe and taught that no sanctification was any evidence of a good estate except their justification were first cleared up to them by the immediate witnesse of the Spirit and that to see any work of grace either faith or repentance c. before this immediate witnesse was a Covenant of works whereupon many good soules that had been of long approved godlinesse were brought to renounce all the work of grace in them and to wait for this immediate revelation then sprung up also that opinion of the in-dwelling of the person of the Holy Ghost and of union with Christ and Justification before faith and a denying of any gifts or graces or inherent qualifications and that Christ was all did all and that the soule remained alwayes as a dead Organ and other of those grosse errours which were condemned in the late Assembly and whereof diverse had been quashed by the publick Ministery but the maine and bottom of all which tended to quench all indevour and to bring to a dependance upon an immediate witnesse of the Spirit without sight of any gift or grace this stuck fast and prevailed so as it began to bee opposed and shee being questioned by some who marvelled that such opinions should spread so fast shee made answer that where ever shee came they must and they should spread and indeed it was a wonder upon what a sudden the whole Church of Boston some few excepted were become her new converts and infected with her opinions and many also out of the Church and of other Churches also yea many prophane persons became of her opinion for it was a very easie and acceptable way to heaven to see nothing to have nothing but waite for Christ to do all so that after shee had thus prevailed and had drawn some of eminent place and parts to her party whereof some profited so well as in a few moneths they outwent their teacher then shee kept open house for all commers and set up two Lecture dayes in the week when they usually met at her house threescore or fourescore persons the pretence was to repeate Sermons but when that was done shee would comment upon the Doctrines and interpret all passages at her pleasure and expound dark places of Scripture so as whatsoever the Letter held forth for this was one of her tenents that the whole Scripture in the Letter of it held forth nothing but a Covenant of works shee would bee sure to make it serve her turn for the confirming of her maine principles whereof this was another That the darker our sanctification is the cleerer is our justification And indeed most of her new tenents tended to slothfulnesse and quench all indevour in the creature and now was there no speech so much in use as of vilifying sanctification and all for advancing Christ and free grace and the whole pedegree of the Covenant of works was set forth with all its Complements beginning at Cain If thou dost well shalt thou not bee accepted then it is explained and ratifyed at Mount Sinui and delivered in the two Tables and after sprinkled with the blood of Christ Exod. 24. and so carryed on in the Letter of the Scripture till it bee compleat as the Covenant of Grace by the Spirit seales forgivenesse of sins one of the venters whereon Christ begets children c. and in the end wherefore is all this adoe

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 expresse words of Scripture John 5.39 Search the Scriptures for they testifie of me Acts 10.43 To him give all the Prophets witnesse Rom. 3.21 the righteousnesse of God witnessed by the Law and the Prophets Isa 8.20 To the Law and to the Testimony Acts 17.11 The Bereans were more noble in that they searched the Scriptures daily If the Prophets give witnesse to Christ if his righteousnesse bee witnessed by Law and Prophets and that they bee noble that daily search the Scriptures and that Christ so farre alloweth their testimony of him that the Scripture saith there is no light but in and according to them then the due searching and knowledg of Scriptures is a safe way to search Christ but the former is true therefore also the latter Error 40. There is a testimony of the Spirit and voyce unto the Soule meerely 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 confirme that opinion of Enthusianisme justly refused by all the Churches as being contrary to the perfection of the Scriptures and perfection of Gods wisedome therein That which is not revealed in the Scripture which is objectum adaequatum fidei is not to be beleeved 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 Againe if there be any immediate Revelation without concurrence of the word then it cannot be tryed by the word but wee are bid to try the spirits To the law and Testimony Esay 8.20 to try all things 1 Thess 5.21 So the Bereans Acts 17.11 and the rule of tryall is the word Joh. 5.39 Error 41. There bee distinct feasons of the workings of the severall Persons so the soule may bee said to bee so long under the Fathers and not the Sons and so long under the Sons work and not the Spirits Confutation 41. This expression is not according to the patterne of wholesome words which teacheth a joynt concurrence of all the Persons working in every worke that is wrought so that wee cannot say the Father works so long and the Son works not because the same worke at the same time is common to them both and to all the three Persons as the Father drawes Joh. 6.44 so the Son sends his Spirit to convince and thereby draws Joh. 16.7 8. Error 42. There is no assurance true or right unlesse it bee with out feare and doubting Confutation 42. This is contrary to Scripture the penman of Psal 77. had true assurance ver 6. and yet hee had doubts and feares of Gods eternall mercy ver 7 8 9. The best Faith is imperfect and admits infirmity ver 10. 1 Cor. 13.10 11 12. Where there is flesh that doth fight against every grace and act thereof and is contrary to it there can bee no grace perfect Ergo doubting may stand with assurance Gal. 5.17 Error 43. The Spirit acts most in the Saints when they indevour least Confutation 43. Reserving the speciall seasons of Gods preventing grace to his owne pleasure In the ordinary constant course of his dispensation the more wee indevour the more assistance and helpe wee find from him Prov. 2.3 4 5. Hee that seeks and digs for wisdome as for treasure shall find it Hos 6.3 2 Chron. 15.2 The Lord is with you while you are with him If by indevour be meant the use of lawfull meanes and Ordinances commanded by God to seeke and find him in then is it contrary to Mat. 7.7 Aske seeke knock c. Error 44. No created worke can bee a manifest signe of Gods love Confutation 44. If created workes flowing from union with Christ bee included it 's against Johns Epistles and many Scriptures which make keeping the Commandements love to the Brethren c. evidences of a good estate so consequently of Gods love Error 45. Nothing but Christ is an evidence of my good estate Confutation 45. If here Christ manifesting himselfe in workes of holinesse bee excluded and nothing but Christ nakedly revealing himselfe to faith bee made an evidence it is against the former Scriptures Error 46. It is no sinne in a beleever not to see his grace except he be wilfully blinde Confutation 46. This is contrary to the Scripture which makes every transgression of the Law sinne though wilfulnesse be not annexed and this crosseth the worke of the Spirit which sheweth us the things that are given us of God 1 Cor. 2.12 and crosseth also that command 2 Cor. 13.5 Prove your faith and therefore we ought to see it Error 47. The Seale of the Spirit is limited onely to the immediate witnesse of the Spirit and doth never witnesse to any worke of grace or to any conclusion by a Syllogisme Confutation 47. This is contrary to Rom. 8.16 to that which our Spirit beares witnesse to that the Spirit of God beares witnesse for they beare a joynt witnesse as the words will have it but our Spirits beare witnesse to a worke of grace namely that beleevers are the children of God Ergo. Error 48. That conditionall promises are legall Confutation 48. Contrary to John 3.16 Matthew 5.3 c. Error 49. We are not bound to keepe a constant course of Prayer in our Families or privately unlesse the Spirit stirre us up thereunto Confutation 49. This is contrary to Ephes 6.18 1 Thes 5.17 Error 50. It is poverty of spirit when wee have grace yet to see wee have no grace in our selves Confutation 50. The weake beleever Mark 9.24 was poore in spirit yet saw his own Faith weak though it were Peter when hee was brought to poverty of spirit by the bitter experience of his pride hee saw the true love hee had unto Christ and appealed to him therein Joh. 21.15 Paul was lesse then the least of all Saints in his owne eyes therefore poore in spirit yet saw the grace of God by which hee was that he was and did what hee did and was truly nothing in his own eyes when hee had spoken of the best things hee had received and done Ephes 3.18 If it bee poverty of the spirit to see no grace in our selves then should poverty of spirit crosse the office of the Spirit which is to reveale unto us and make us to see what God gives us 1 Cor. 2.9.10 11 12. then it should make us sinne or crosse the will of God which is that wee should not bee ignorant of the gracious workings of Christ in us from the power of his death and resurrection Rom. 6.3 Know yee not c. then would it destroy a great duty of Christian thankfulnesse in and for all the good things which God vouchsafeth us 1 Thes 5.18 Error 51. The soule need not to goe

nature of your meeting to the kind of exercise wee will follow you in this and shew you your offence in them for you do not as the Bereans search the Scriptures for their confirming in the truths delivered but you open your teachers points and declare his meaning and correct wherein you think he hath failed c. and by this meanes you abase the honour and authority of the publick Ministery and advance your own gifts as if hee could not deliver his matter so clearely to the hearers capacity as your self Hutch Prove that that any body doth that Court Yes you are the woman of most note and of best abilities and if some other take upon them the like it is by your teaching and example but you shew not in all this by what authority you take upon you to bee such a publick instructer after shee had stood a short time the Court gave her leave to sit downe for her countenance discovered some bodily infirmity Hutch Here is my authority Aquila and Priscilla tooke upon them to instruct Apollo more perfectly yet he was a man of good parts but they being better instructed might teach him Court See how your argument stands Priscilla with her husband tooke Apollo home to instruct him privately therefore Mistris Hutchison without her husband may teach sixty or eighty Hutch I call them not but if they come to me I may instruct them Court Yet you shew us not a rule Hutch I have given you two places of Scripture Court But neither of them will sute your practise Hutch Must I shew my name written therein Court You must shew that which must be aequivalent … ing your Ministry is publicke you would have them receive your instruction as comming from such an Ordinance Hutch They must not take it as it comes from me but as it comes from the Lord Jesus Christ and if I tooke upon me a publick Ministery I should breake a rule but not in exercising a gift of Prophecy and I would see a rule to turne away them that come to me Court It is your exercise which drawes them and by occasion thereof many families are neglected and much time lost and a great damage comes to the Common-wealth thereby which wee that are betrusted with as the Fathers of the Common-wealth are not to suffer Divers other speeches passed to and fro about this matter the issue was that not being able to bring any rule to justifie this her disordered course she said she walked by the rule of the Apostle Gal. which she called the rule of the new creature but what rule that was she would not or she could not tell neither would she consent to lay downe her meetings except authority did put them downe and then she might be subject to authority Then the Court laid to her charge the reproach she had cast upon the Ministers and Ministery in this Country saying that none of them did preach the Covenant of free Grace but Master Cotton and that they have not the Seale of the Spirit and so were not able Ministers of the New Testament she denyed the words but they were affirmed by divers of the Ministers being desired by the Court to be present for that end The matter was thus It being reported abroad that Mistris Hutchison did slight them and their Ministery in their common talke as if they did preach nothing but a Covenant of workerr because they pressed much for faith and love c. without holding forth such an immediate witnesse of the Spirit as she pretended they advised with Master Cotton about it and a meeting was appointed at his house and she being sent for and demanded the reason why she had used such speeches at first she would not acknowledge them but being told that they could prove them by witnesses and perswaded to deale freely and truly therein she said that the feare of man was a snare and therefore she was glad she had this opportunity to open her minde and thereupon she told them that there was a wide difference betweene Master Cottons Ministery and theirs and that they could not hold forth a Covenant of free Grace because they had not the Seale of the Spirit and that they were not able Ministers of the New Testament It was neare night so the Court brake up and she was enjoyned to appeare againe the next morning When she appeared the next day she objected that the Ministers had spoken in their owne cause and that they ought not to be informers and witnesses both and required that they might be sworne to what they had spoken to which the Court answered that if it were needfull an oath should be given them but because the whole Court in a manner man by man did declare themselves to be fully satisfied of the truth of their testimones they being 6. or 7. men of long approved godlinesse and sincerity in their course and for that it was also generally observed that those of her party did looke at their ministery for the most part as a way of the Covenant of workes and one had beene punished about halfe a yeere before for reporting the like of them The Court did pause a while at it whereupon she said that she had Mr. Wilsons notes of that conference which were otherwise then they had related the Court willed her to shew them but her answer was shee had left them at home whereupon Mr. Wilson with the leave of the Court said that if she brought forth his notes they should finde written at the foote of them that he had not wirtten downe all that was spoken but being often interrupted he had omitted divers passages then she appealed to Mr. Cotton who being called and desired to declare what he remembred of her speeches said that he remembred onely that which tooke impression on him for he was much grieved that she should make such comparison betweene him and his brethren but yet he tooke her meaning to be onely of a graduall difference when she said that they did not hold forth a Covenant of Free-grace as he did for she likened them to Christs Disciples and their ministery before his ascension and before the holy Ghost was come downe upon them and when she was asked by some of them why they could not preach a Covenant of Free-grace she made answer because they had not the Seale of the Spirit upon this the Court wished her to consider that Mr. Cotton did in a manner agree with the testimony of the rest of the Elders and as he rembembred onely so much as at present tooke most impression in him so the rest of the Elders had reason to remember some other passages which he might not heare or not so much observe as they whom it so neerely and properly concerned All this would not satisfie Mistris Hutchison but she still called to have them sworne whereupon the Court being weary of the clamour and that all mouths might be stopped required three of