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A86096 Doctor Hill's funeral-sermon. Or a nevv-yeers-gift to all the clergie. Daynus, the reviving feet fo the witnesses past and to come, to shew the day and yeer of the Lord, and his time accepted. Hesselwood, Henry. 1655 (1655) Wing H1134; Thomason E821_19; ESTC R207661 62,538 65

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number of seven yeers that their weapons and power shall have an end Now to accomplish this prophecie look in Ezek. 38. he speaketh of burning their weapons burying of their bones which we hope will be in some short time after 1650. or before 1657. in our Nation We cannot predict the full accomplishment or make out a full discovery of the great designe he hath to do or when it shall fully end yet I hope the time is at hand for a short work will the Lord make upon earth to redeem those dry bones that have been very dry poor Witnesses of Christ killed and troden down by your Priestly power false Christs second-hand Teachers of the letter but can give no spiritual life and yet call your selves Ministers of God you shall fall with great rebuke one witness of Christ shall chase a thousand of you and two witnesses shall put ten thousand of you to flight O down with your false power for Christ Jesus will redeem Israel out of your hands The two Witnesses plead shall bring down your power as lowe as Doctor Hill's bones for the Witnesses shall live without your teachings and shall stand upon their feet a mighty Army O Arm of the Lord every Power shall perish under thee Object Doth Christ need Ministers then where is his power or divine light or spiritual appearances Doth he not appear in all and teach all by a spiritual teaching which is far higher then all fleshly teachers can do I am ashamed to hear your Sorceries to say ye are his Ministers then ye may go and teach him what to do The Heavens preach the Stars preach and the Creatures preach in Psal 14. but what is this to the preaching of God in his power Christ Jesus is in the mount and preacheth to all things John saith he is the Angel fleeing in the midst of heaven and preaching the everlasting Gospel to every kindred language and nation then what need we have so many Preachers When Christ preacheth to all he silenceth the tongues of men and Angels Christ is upon the mount and it cleft asunder shewing that every preaching power shall break and dissolve Now the Angel he preacheth in power Christ Jesus is the Angel of the Covenant therefore let all the earth be silent he will make all quiet before him it is he alone that shall still the rage of the sea and will quiet mens spirits when they shall yield the power of preaching into his hand when Ministers shall strive no more for their own power He is the onely preacher When he stood upon mount Olivet it cleft in sunder so shall every preaching power dissolve before him He is the preacher of light and life but ye Diviners Soothsayers and Flatterers ye call your selvs preachers what need that There is but one preacher he standeth on the mount Christ he shall put all rule and all authority under his feet he leadeth us by his holy Spirit that shall guide us in all truth The Creatures may preach yet not declare forth the invisible power of God for that is proper to Christ alone to preach forth the everlasting Gospel Rev. 14. Therefore stop your mouthes ye Priests for every one shall be taught of God from the greteast to the least even ye high Doctors must come under the teachings of the Son of God he is the Day-star that dawneth from on high If ever thou wilt see life that spiritual life must be from him to transform thee into the likeness of him for the way of all mens teachings shall burn up with their wood and straw and every untempered thing which holds up the abomination that makes desolation And truely Ministers are to blame in this thing of discipline Paul saith Eph. 3.10 that principalities and powers in high places ought to be approved by the Church that is to put forth Queries of Scripture and to quire out every truth by witnesses for every vision shall fail at the beatifical vision Ye sons of Ai must down it is not any visible power that can stand before the invisible nor any created power stand before the Ordained and Created Minister of God Ye sons of Levi must throw down though you have been Legators so long yet now there is an Alligator that teacheth us all things by his bright appearing far higher then you can elevate It is not your literal teachings but it is the invisible teachings of the Son of God that maketh wise to salvation Call not thy self a Minister of Christ for he is a Minister of himself Therefore lay down thy power for he teacheth us in all truth We and our predecessors have been taught by you and such as have called themselves Lord Bishops horrible names and intolerable to call themselves Lords And you Priests call your selvs Ministers of Christ yet you are but of that spawn of Euphrates that shall dry up with thy Lord Bishop Lord of folly Those and such as you be have nuzled up the people to thie day But now God will teach his people to stand and live without your Lordly power Your Bishops are fallen and you must fall under contempt for sitting in the holy place as Ministers or false Christs to deceive and seduce the people Some of you have gone under the notion of Lord Priests great Impropriators of Tythes and Donatives and could license authority and give gifts to men as spiritual Peters that had the keys of Purgatory but not the keys of heaven-gates they could lock and unlock they had all in their own hands as if they had been spiritual Lords of heaven and earth And truely what are ye Ministers and high Doctors If the Bishops were the cedars you are the shrubs that must be pluckt up for your power is like to burn as one of the four Constellations for your heavenly power shall go down with your earthly power and shall be consumed by invisible fire from above The universality of God shall so appear in flesh that men shall refuse your teachings and shall repair to the house of the Lord saying He will teach us of his ways which will put an end to your divided Ministery When God teacheth all shall be silenced Ministers silenced and people silenced and every power silenced in heaven and in earth John saith There was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour which declareth Gods wonderful works When Medeum is in the midst of his power in the top of the mountains your elevated powers shall cleave in sunder and every power shall shake and fall at the presence of Christ the great King Oh faithless generation can ye not stand and live in faithfulness to Christ he teacheth thee and me all things how to live he doth inherently teach every one that will savingly come to God and none can come to the Father but by him all other Teachers are but vain ostentation and failable but God inwardly teacheth Ye high Doctors petty Priests Legators and Merit-mongers
but what he was now I cannot tell I hear you say he was Master of Trinity-Colledge This Doctor Hill was very well known and approved of through all the University of Cambridge This Doctor Hill was a man very well beloved in the Town it rung passing-peals for him at five Churches which I have seldome heard so many Bells of Aaron ring for one Priest You tell me he had neither Son nor Daughter what did he do with all his hundreds a yeer did he build Hospitals for the poor Ye tell me he was a man of little Hospitality then I cannot speak much in his behoof The words that I shall treat upon are from the mouth of those four Prophets Ezekiel 37. Matthew 28. Zachariah 11. and Rev. 11. These four Scriptures are the very ground-work of what we shall treat upon We even we the witnesses foreshow the mystery of those Evangelical Prophets and one Angelical amongst the rest Christ the first Ezekiel Zachary and John by inference doth plainly type out the two Testaments of Law and Gospel declaring of two Scriptures one before Christ came in the flesh the other by a Testimony of Christ and John saying I come not to destroy the Law but to fulfil the Law Now we may finde these Prophets were part of the Witnesses that were before and after Christ so that these four Scriptures make out one testimony which one Scripture cannot do so affirmatively for one Scripture must prove another and so make out truth which is undeniable These four Prophets though far distant in their times yet declared out the great things of God to come in our dayes the one by a foolish Shephard that God will raise spoken of by Zachary long before the other are the two Witnesses that God will raise and put life into and shall stand upon their Feet it is not one mans feet but feet of Witnesses it is one Priest one Prophet alone which is Christ Jesus singular of himself not for man to stand as Doctor Definator and as one man cannot prove a truth so two Scriptures must of necessity make out one truth which is a vindicated truth and tolerated of God by Law and testimony But you high Doctors may question me in this thing why one Scripture cannot be tolerable as well as two My answer is because the Mount Sion came between the Law and Gospel and changed the course of Sinai to Mount Sion which is one to the Lord for Christ standeth in power of himself to prove every Scripture which is an allegory or an all-power of himself which man cannot attain unto he is the high-Priest that first entred into rest he hath trod the winepress alone so that none can stand chiefe of himself but he alone after the order of Melchizedeck a Priest for ever ordained and sent of God he is our Minister and no other Doctor I pray throw down your power you are but as other men jointly to plead among your Low equals and not to stand Lord Priest above others preaching in your cause to silence others Therefore take to thy self the instruments of a foolish Shepherd Shewing that God will deliver his mind to some poor despised Shepherd that shall declare his hand of judgement upon the Shepherds to tell them they are but as other men and shall acknowledge themselves as Sheep among others and not think so high of themselves as to be called by the name of Shepherds for Christ is all our Shepherd and we are his Sheep both Minister and People neither shall you have power to tyrannize over the consciences of the People for all things shall be judged by the Church-Community to make out the Prophesie of the Prophet Zachary by way of allusion respondent or responsive to Christ or under Christ that some foolish Shepherd should declare and stand up as a Fool amongst the learned saying Take to thy self the instruments of a foolish Shepherd Now what be those instruments To answer they be two and of no less number for one is not to be numbered but accompted as one instrument it is one witness and that is Christs place from God and it not is tolerable for one man to preach and declare of himself in his own tongue to silence the people if he doth his testimony is not true for I will give power to my two witnesses and they shall prophesie meaning that two or three may prophesie preach or disciply and answer each other in order so that I finde one alone whether he be a Minister or a lay-man of himself cannot be tolerable to speak for the plural number shall extinguish the singular Christ excepted for he saith By the mouth of two or three witnesses every truth shall be established Christ saith his own testimony could not be true except his Father bore witness with him So that he always appeared to two or more the two Maries sought him early in the morning It sheweth to us that these women were two faithful witnesses in that he said Go make known my resurrection which was a calling of them by way of ordination which Calling all you Doctors and Senators cannot shew Again when he appeared to Mary and Elizabeth the babe sprung in her wombe for joy Again he appears to the two that were going to Emmaus which caused them to say Did not our hearts burn within us when he talked with us So that talking of God is the best preaching and will cause all you Ministers to come down from your high places I mean your Pulpits and to plead among your low equals for it is not the partiality of one mans tongue that can be found lawful for Christ ever appeared to two which were the least number somtimes to three somtimes to the twelve that they might make out the truth for the witnesses must prove a true testimony two or three witnesses may make a true discovery but one cannot He saith I will give power to two that is not to one Minister he cannot fully disciply truth for every divine truth is proved by witnesses That which one affirmeth in a Pulpit another may deny it is verily so in our common Churches The truth should be reasoned out by faithful witnesses Christ saith Where two or three be gathered in my name I will be in the midst of them which is a great promise or a calling forth of the witnesses to stand up and plead against the approbation of one Ministers tongue which is unlawful for one man to deffinate or define a truth of himself to sesserate or deceive the people calling himself a Minister of God Ye Diviners Flatterers and Soothsayers that carry the power in your own tongues and yet no faithful witnesses which of you will lose all for the testimony of Christ to vindicate thy life to sacrifice thy liberty or thy parsonage for the truth of Christ Alas you carry on the truth of God by flattery and so deceive the hearers you stand deffinating and temporing
which I suppose wil be betwixt 50. or 57. or sooner that your pulpits wil down Farther To vindicate thy Calling thou sayest thou art the Minister of God so wise who may gainsay it but Solomon saith There is more hope of a fool then of him that is wise in his own conceit If thou beest the Minister of God then Christ must lose his place or thou shalt lose thine for none can say I am a Minister of God without he be sent of him saying Go or go tell them of my resurrection I doubt you will hardly prove any such calling yet we finde Christ was sent God he sent his Son in the similitude of sinful flesh once for all as the Minister of eternal life then why should men hang upon Doctor Speakers that have learned their skill from Oxford and Cambridge Ye Pulpitsayans must down one witness cannot be tolerated for he appeared to the twelve Apostles and David calleth us the Ends of the Earth that God will appear to Where two or three are met in my name I will be in the midst of them which doth debarre one mans speakal tongue for Christ is Divine of himself and man is to be joyntly as one of the Brethren and shall plead for righteousness among the rest and to live by the teachings of the Holy Ghost without Dictators or cunning deceivers And let all the Doctors high Priests and Prelates know they are but as other men and have the same infirmities not able to stand then no high Priest or Minister but faylable Then let us all talk together of the goodness of the Lord and what he hath done for our Souls acknowledging our sins one to another and pray for one another and give to one another the right hand of Fellowship which will be a sweet savour of goodness to laud the Lord together Doctor I know none but Christs Disciples that were tolerated to preach and not any but such as he said unto Go and learn all the Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father Son and holy Ghost Mat. 28. he appeared to the two Maries saying Go which was a lawfuller calling then any you can shew and he gave some of his Disciples gifts of healing which you have not received Doctor one mans tongue cannot comparmise nor comprehend the full truth of God as the Church may do by many voyces and witnesses if Christ himself the eternal Priest denyed himself from his own power of speaking how ought you to be cautelous of speaking your own words though in a Pulpit I marvel how Pulpits first came up they be much a kin to your Fonts where ye disciple Babes in Clouts which is as a Monster that shall never come to perfection There be many things more that I may tell you of Malachy 3. saith Bring the Tythes into my store-house as if by an illusion he should say For the Blind the Lame the Fatherless the Widow and the Aged to relieve the Oppressed that men might be eased of Collection to the Poor in every Parish and for all such as want And you Pulpit-men work with your hands as others do for you are almost at the end of your period having so much of the Letter and so much example of Christ that I wonder with Paul when he said Who hath bewitched you that you do not obey the truth Ye Doctors are carried away from Christ by Self-ends and personal interest as great Tythes which is utterly unlawful for them that call themselves Ministers of God and yet rob his Store-house and commit Sacriledge against God Under the Law the order of Gods House was changed by the Priests and the Prophets reproved them for it under whose reproach ye Doctors and Ministers lye to this day in that ye rob God of his interest Bring the Tythes into my Store-house for now I reprove you under the testimony of Christ There was a Treasury in the time of the Apostles and Christ which the people ministred unto and brought in their gifts consecrating their love to Gods house as Joanah and Susanna ministred of their substance to the Treasury and the Widow brought in her mite which was received with great acceptation which way of Gods worship you and the Bishops have strangled Gods House and got those priviledges into your own hands Again I must tell you both Minister and People impropriations would make the poor of such places merry if they might or could have their right given them but we have so many devouring Foxes have stoln them away and you have not pleaded for them in the Pulpits but you falsly keep those benefits to your selves ye blind guides of the people that make clean the outside and the inside is full of putrification These Pulpitians have spoyled the Commonwealth of Israel you have been one of the Hornes of Oppression otherwise we might have had the Government of Christ set up before now which is by Four and Twenty as we may call Governallity which is Governation A Parliament of Four and Twenty which should be for commonality but you have stood so high in your Pulpits that the silly World believeth that your Pulpits were ordained of Christ which were nothing so but arose from Bishops Deanes Chancellors Deacons or Doctors of Divinity as ye call them men of low descent yet raised from those two Fountaines Oxford and Cambridge pethy places for learning of the stammering tongue Christ gave gifts of learning which was not to one but to more then one as if he should say Let no man silence the people as he said John was a burning and a shining Light but I have greater witnesses then that of John for the work to finish so that one mans tongue shall not stand but the talking of witnesses shall manifest every truth for Pulpittian Christ questioneth thy Authority thy People shall speak and thou must answer otherwise the truth cannot be established without much trouble and many witnesses which produceth the grand voyce of the Church And therefore ye Taskmasters down with your Hour-glasses many words in your own tongue cannot satisfie the people neither can you make out truth by your own tongue Noah was a Preacher of righteousness but not in a Pulpit and Abraham preached forth Faith he believed and it was counted for him for righteousness The good life of those two Fathers preached righteousness to the people and so should yours be to act in righteousness without partiality of the tongue It is not the hearing nor the preaching but the doing of righteousness for to enquire the way and not to walk in it is a vain thing We ought all to live up to God in truth and that is the best teaching To disciply and distinguish truths is good learning and the best preaching to answer the things of conscience by the grand power of the Church and not to rest upon the mouth of one teacher neither do I know any Minister after the flesh but like Minister like
People all full of frailty then how canst thou be a teacher and art but equal to other men in sin and sensuallity it is the Sheerds of Gods free mercy that redeemeth thee as well as others What is the University more then any other place your Latine tongue is is but an empty thing it must be onely the Divine power that keepeth thy soul alive and causeth thee and me to live which is above any external power neither can godliness be learned it is from the Ministerial power of Christ and from the gift of God and not by the hearing of faith but thou must have a personal faith of thine own and to prove thy self and lay open thy self to the Church and let thy moderation be known to God and openly to the people and pray for one another to Christ thy Minister for by him we have boldness to the Throne of grace and are made capable of his Ministery which cannot be done by any fleshly Priest which is but as all other men though he may smooth up the people as if he were the Minister of God and so commit Blasphemy against the holy Ghost taking away Christs Authority making themselves Pulpittians to tye up the consciences of such as follow them as if they had full power given them of God Ye Doctors and Ministers ye must fall some degrees worse then your Fathers the Bishops the light of the Lord shall so cleerly usher in that you shall be discovered and Christ shall be chiefe Speaker to his flock one Priest one People one Shepherd one Sheep of the elect Abraham called and sanctified by Christ and not by mens teaching For Mr. Speaker Doctor of tongues you may say What do we stand for a Cypher Yes for Christ is all our teacher and you Ministers lye under the vail as well as others Therefore Minister lay down thy false power and deceive the people no longer and know thy self as low as others and much inferiour to Christ Oh take not away his Divine Authority which properly belongeth to the Son of God Christ he preacheth continually to them that are neer and to them afar off he preacheth to every Kindred Tongue Language and Nation he saith My Sheep hear my voyce not your Sheep he saith My Disciples keep my sayings not your sayings For my part I accompt all you Pulpittians to be but false Christs yet I disparage not the gift of godliness in you but I adhere to any thing that is good in you Christ saith They shall come in my Name and decieve the People And truly ye Ministers and high Doctors must needs be the men for you call your selves the Ministers of God standing in the high place and alas ye are no more then lay-men that never were at Oxford and Cambridge you be men of infirmity as others be and therefore your power will fall and cannot stand O General O Parliament O People why do you commit error against God and his Christ to follow after fained lovers which are but Ministers of the letter and have not the gifts of healing neither are they sent for it is Christ that ministreth the gift to all keepeth all alive by a power from above and every person that is godly shall have a personal power in himself from Christ to stand upon his Feet without a Pulpit-preacher for man cannot preach of himself except he was sent of Christ saying Go or go forth as he said to his Disciples But now in our dayes God hath appeared to us by his Sonne and no other and Christ saith If I go from you I will send you the Comforter that shall teach you in all truth Object What shall he teach the Parsons Answ Yes as well as the People for Minister and People shall be but Sheep in his Fold for Christ is the high Priest his Lips shall preserve knowledge ye shall all know me from the greatest to the least there must be a personal knowing of God by faith as Abraham and Noah lived and walked with God and it was accounted to them for righteousness every degree from the Doctor to the People shall know God and stand upon their Feet without a Preacher whose breath is in their Nostrils silly Guides not able to stand of themselves neither can they Doctor up others but may go teach our Children of seven years old I am but a Fool to speak that which no man hath declared but I can have no rest for Sions sake nor give my self any rest until I see the work of God accomplished in the Earth which is the procreation of the Jews that shall come forth and stand upon their Feet Army Army O Arm of the Lord Almighty Army shall stand upon their Feet Ezekiel 37. which I suppose will be within four or five years after 1650. to the admiration of the World Ye Ministers and Doctors Definators ye would fain hold up your high places but truly your Temple must fall for Christ saith There shall not be one Stone left upon another that shall not be thrown down for your Worldly power will be at an end when Christ the great Shepherd shall call forth his Flock to stand upon their Feet and live without your Declarations when all men shall declare out of the gift and not by the letter to speak the things they have received of God and shall refuse your teachers that are not sent of God but be End-workers and Mony-merchants that shall be dissolved and cast out of the Temple as Mony-changers for God will set up a disciplying when your power lyeth low as Doctor Hill's Bones and we may say with the Prophet Ezekiel Blow Wind and shake the four quarters of the Earth to raise those dry Bones that have been very dry so long that they come up in the Valley of Jesus Christ for he shall sit to judge the Heathen round about Put in the Sickle the Harvest is ripe the Wine-press overfloweth multitudes multitudes shall usher in they shall be a willing People in the day of Gods power but all ye Doctors are so high and justitious that ye keep Christ off from his regal power and Authority therefore ye shall fall with reproach under Armegiddon Oh Arme Arme Arme of the Lord. Finally Doctor you stand in Christs place Man may speak out his judgement that another may answer and Christ he ministreth to all every truth must be proved affirmatively but not by one mans tongue and you shall be called to account by the grand Church for the Prophet John saith There shall be Lightning Thundering Voyces and Witnesses First the Light of the Lord appeares and shall break down the Constellations Secondly he will Thunder forth Justice Judgement and Equity in the Earth by a personal power of Saints under him The Apostle Peter tells you so that the Saints must judge the World and you the Angels of the Churches too Thirdly he will appear by many Voyces that shall give sentence and decide every truth
ordain and appoint without the help of man Let no man say He can teach for no man can teach life and salvation Then down with all teachers that we may live under a peaceable Government our own Vine Christ Jesus for he will teach us of his wayes without all differing disputations Those that call themselves teachers they live as drone-bees by the sweat of other mens brows Therefore let them stop their mouths for the people will not give ear to them but will live under their own vine by a new Sabbath Covenantial and you shall bewitch the people no longer when fulness comes God will teach and the people shall declare what God hath done for their souls Then all these Dromidaries of Midian must break off your heavenly teaching and come under the peaceable Dominion of Christ You high Doctors blame me not for speaking where life is it will branch it self forth Who shall hinder my speaking the truth the silly Worm to the cold Earth the Sallamander to the Fire so all things to their proper use to the honour of God Oh that these rotten Priests would lay down their power and make Christ all in all Fat Priests that live as Drones belly-godded persons proud and delicious God is angry with you because no power will throw you down God will give his people wisdom to come out from you and to live by a higher teaching which is from the holy Ghost for there will be a great falling away that the iniquity of the Priests may be discovered I have tried all your Ministeryes and can have no rest in them my spirit is so universally taken up with the appearings of Christ that I unfailably see an absolute doing away of your Forms your Sabbaths your Sacraments your Baptism your common-Churches your separate-Churches your Anabaptist-Churches your Papist Churches all your set forms must return to the ancient Church of the Jews which is the stable perfection of Christ for now he apeareth all your forms must be done away Christ at the first came under a state of imperfection yeilding to the laws of men but now he cometh in perfection and will do away all your forms and shadows for when that which is perfect is come the unperfect must be done away My desire is to see the Priests thrown down and let the Lord preach alone for all the Ministers under the cope of heaven are not able to define or make out the truth neither can they speak truth till they give up their Ministery to Christ for all teaching belongeth to him and I know not any as can teach but shall run themselves into errors for it is God that teacheth and not fleshly man for by mans teaching the curse hath continued on the earth to this day neither shall it be till Christ hath the full pre-eminency and all powers yeilded up to him by an endless Covenant saying When that which is perfect is come then that which is not shall be done away when he cometh in power your illegal forms and relecks shall be done away for his formal power shall throw off your shadows as all the creatures declare the glory of God and preach forth his excellency but not as a Priest to Minister in Christs place but to shew what the Lord hath done for the creation and to acknowledge Christ alone to teach life He preacheth forth peaceable dominion to them that are nigh and to them that are afar off from him righteousness doth arise which is the end of all preaching Christ is the stability of the Church I do not say of named Churches but of one Church without difference or dividual dividing he is the husband of one spouse his perfection shall guide us unto all truth and for want of setting up Christ in his oriency of power men set themselves up and destroy his heritage but the chosen people of God must act against every thing that is opposite to Christ for he is Prince of peace and Prince of power and for his cause sacrifice thy life otherwise thou art no Christian for we must look no more upon the Ark of the Covenant it must not be once named amongst us The letter of the Scripture shall be failable when the testimony truly dwelleth in us by faith then all our outward shadows shall be done away Christ hath redeemed us from all typical shadows and from the curse of the letter being once made a curse for us that the blessing may come upon the people by faith and not by literal forms and shadows Gal. 3.13 Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree Shewing the miserable condition of all such that hold so much by the tree of the Law and deny the freedom of the Spirit they might have in the Son of God for as many as rely upon works are men-workers lie still under the curse for Christ is the free Abraham he hath done all the work of renovation and we are free in him without works and saved in him without mens works if once in Christ then free indeed from all mens traditional teaching while we are justified in Christ we acknowledge our selves sinners in that we see nothing in our selves and Christ to be just in all It is the believing Abraham that shall be justified and not the working Abraham For grace is of faith and not by works lest any man should boast for if the inheritance be of the letter it cannot be of faith God gave it to Abraham as he believed so the Lord promised to him and to his seed for ever according to the Covenant of faith which is the Law and Testimony written in the conscience called two Witnesses within which do Christian a creature and baptize him into the promised Covenant of Abraham and Christ which is far above all your teaching forms and shadows I speak to the people saying Stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ hath made you free and be no more entangled with the yoke of bondage but know your selves at liberty as children of the day and rejoyce with Jerusalem all that love her be glad and rejoyce for the amplitude and stability of the Church when all the Churches shall be maried to Christ in the new Covenant that they may suck and be satisfied with the brest of consolation for the Lord will extend peace to his Church as a river and to the people as a flowing stream from a fountain of teaching from above GOod men may sometimes deny Christ not knowing the end of disciplying This Doctor Hill was an eminent man and without all question declared forth many good things in his time yet subject to erre as we be by relation of some of the Souldiers that quartered in the town of Cambridge as they told me I cannot tell but as they related a sad story of this Doctor Hill by relation he was intended to persecute with the tongue whether right or wrong his spirit knoweth it best I cannot prove it yet it was certified me