be sent out to Preach and told us he came to us for that end and we conferred with him in order thereunto 2. The Church saith that he preached before them that is the Ministers for the tryal of his Gifts this is as true for he preached at Nicholas on a Thursday Lecture where divers of the Ministers were present to hear his Gifts and brought relation to the Commissioners and the rest of the Ministers and he was also tryed by personal examination before the Commissioners this also is true 3. That he was by the Propagators and Ministers sent to preach at Hexam and by an Order under the Commissioners hands as other Ministers have and that without the least taking notice of his being sent out by the Church at London These things are so clear that himself cannot and no man will with any face deny it Now how Mr. Tillam dares call this a false Charge and so accuse the whole Church at Newcastle for saying that which so many know to be true I much wonder for I must in this particular clear the Church and deeply blame him And for his saying he can shew my Letter to vindicate him in this my Answer is I known not how he may alter the words or invert the sense but I here challenge him to produce such a Letter from my hand as contradicts what I have here written and I 'll bear the blame but he hath abused the Church and me the Lord give him repentance The truth of these things I affirm on my personal knowledge and subscribe my name Tho. Weld Thirdly he not onely abuseth particular persons Mr. Weld Mr. Hammond Mr. Eaton Hugh Prichard c. but he le ts fly against whole Churches as the Church of Wrexam which he accuses of excissive pride gross errour envy at his person prophanesse strange disorder about Baptism and many other enormities among them pag. 9 10. And the Church at Newcastle they are a company of rigid ones false accusers violent pag. 19 20. And the Church at London they deal irregularly and hastily withdraw without giving him warning they will not hear the truth though not abundantly testified So that their censure is null and void Thus he proceeds to rage and fight and teare and like the drunken man in the Proverbs to cast fire-brands at all that stand in his way Answer all his folly I will not but this First We have neither allowance from the Word or from Reason to beleeve one word of all these allegations against so many godly men where is the mouth of two or three witnesses And if against an Elder onely without two or three witnesses wee must not receive one accusation how dare we receive these so manifold deep and hideous accusations against whole Churches and Elders too The Accuser also being found no competent witnesse being in his hot blood in a way of recrimination and a known lyar as hath been proved therefore if he should say ten times as much it is all nothing without further proof Secondly What hee doth say against those Churches especially that of Wrexam is but a proclaiming his malice and ignorance in Church-discipline For 1. He spends many words to declare he was not excommunicate out of the Church of Wrexam but that he went out of himself and proclaimed himself none of theirs But let me ask this knowing man if he ever learned from Christ that a Member when the Church is dealing with him in order to a Censure and he seeing the blow a comming to award it off withdraws himself saying he rejects the Church and disclaims them and so they proceed against him for contempt whether I say such a one is not justly Excommunicate and whether such a censure be not a reall and lawfull Censure else any man just before the sentence is denounced may withdraw and so no man living need be Excommunicated and then it will follow Christ ordained that Censure in vain yet in this silly sinfull shift he pleases himself and deludes Babes with this pretence Object Yea but they are a very corrupt Church and therefore their Censure is contemptible Answ 1. As before was said we dare not beleeve one word of all he saith out of Gods way 2. If this that you say had been true is this the way for you to reject them and Excommunicate your self No you should first have cleared your self of those gross things laid to your own charge Secondly humbly and with all meckness have presented their disorders to their consideration 3. You should have endeavoured to convince them 4. And have waited with patience if peradventure God would at any time have given them repentance And then 5. Desired leave to referre the matter to other Elders and Churches who might without prejudice or partiality have weighed the strength of what you alledged against them and after all to have desired leave in all humility to withdraw in case no satisfaction could be had and not to fling away disorderly when in a way of censure for your faults and say you renounce the Church This is 1. Plain Schism 2. Intollerable Pride 3. Contempt of the Church 4. Contempt of Christs Ordinances and consequently of Christ himself the Institutor of it and which makes all worse he still justifies himself in all this Besides for a member to cut off it self without consent of the body is a thing unnatural and monstrous never heard of in the Gospel Secondly He grosly abuseth and shamefully bespattered the Church at London in sundry particulars but we see he can do no other We shall observe but two or three things more and conclude First He tells you in a vaunt p. 14. he had not onely 80 l. per annum but 40 l. per augmentation but he tels you not withall that this was before the Commissioners wel knew him that as soon as they saw his spirit and carriage with the same hands they gave him the Augmentation they took it from him again as judging him unworthy of it and how that after it was gone he crouched to the Commissioners and insinuated fawningly to some of the Ministers to get it regained but it never could and whether it was not one great cause of his leaving the North I leave to be considered Truly some of us well know they never saw the Commissioners more ashamed of setling any man than of his settlement at Hexam and resolved for his sake as long as they should sit to know men better before they settled them and never be so cheated by any mans glosing and hypocritical pretences as by his But it was too late to repent after it was done 2. He vaunts often in two or three of his Pamphlets what a company of Saints and precious people he had at Hexam and how his Church flourished but tells you not of his tarrying there so long that so few would come to hear him that it was time to lay the key under the door and give up 3.
quotes to vindicate and maintain be his cause never so bad and to condemn all his opposers be they never so holy and good and to strike at them as his most inveterate incorrigible enemies as Scribes Pharisecs persecutors of Christ his Apostles and Prophets Do but peruse a little some of the scriptures he cites and see if he would not design his godly adversaries to the bottomless pit Psal 55.20 21. Jer. 9.4 5. Jer. 20 10 11. Hos 4.7 Acts 17.5 Acts 21.28 1 Pet. 4.14 to 18. Mat. 6.4 Mat. 23.27 28. What height of pride arrogancy impudency malice and revenge this man is grown unto I leave to godly tender hearts to judge Is it a small thing to grieve men but wilt thou grieve my God also Isa 7.13 Thus having given you a little tast of the man and truly but a little for it were endless to print him out in all his lineaments but by the Lyons paw you may gather the proportion of all the other parts of the beast I shall now proceed to wipe off such aspersions as he casts without fear upon some dear servants of God in his Book and leave all other things as not worth the while First for Mr. Hammond a man so eminently known that he is above the reach of his slanderous pen yet because he hath so plainly laid him open to the world he must be the mark for Mr. Tillam to shoot his venemous arrows at The cause was this for Mr. Hammond upon this account hath been desired to declare the whole matter who saith as followeth That he with some others having discovered the Conversion of the Jew whom Mr. Tillam baptized and so boasted of to be a cheat published his Popish design to the world but Mr. Tillam perceiving the Romish plot and himself unvailed wrote a most false slanderous Pamphlet against the discoverers charging them with thirteen untruths to which they replyed again revealing the notorious lying boasting slandering spirit of the man to which Mr. Tillam wrote another Reply full of froth lying and folly and sent a Coppy of it in a braving way to Mr. Hammond who returned him a sharp Answer in a private Letter and likewise told him that Mr. Eaton had given a large account of him and withall sent him a copy of Mr. Eaton's Letter wherein Mr. Eaton declares the righteous dealing of the Church of Wrexam against him the substance of which you have in Mr. Robert Eaton's Letter and that he turned Anabaptist upon it and proved a great disturber in those parts Ita testor Sam. Hammond And was not all this plain dealing by Mr. Hammond Thus things lay buried a great while but at last Mr. Tillam and Mr. Anderton having discovered the wickedness one of another his Church at Hexam brake into two pieces He then being discarded of all men writes an insinuating Letter to Mr. Hammond as one begging his favour who out of the goodness of his disposition ready to forget all wrongs upon the least relenting of his worst enemy writes back again that the thoughts of those former quarrels were buried in his heart c. Though at that very time and when he came to this house he still dealt plainly in reproving of him But afterwards Mr. Tillam still proceeding in his old strain of scandal Providence calling upon Mr. Hammond to declare his knowledge of him he judged himself bound in conscience to reveal him to such as desired an account of him the Cause of God calling for it and he doth appeal to the Great God and any gracious spirit whether there were dissimulation gross dissimulation and hypocrisie to amazement in all this his Conscience bears him witness that there was not As for his charge of Feasting and calling Mr. Hammond Vicar of Newcastle which are two evident falshoods it shews he hath not yet left his old trade of Lying His calling him proud Haman with allusion to his name and Pope Boniface in relation to that feature of face which God and Nature hath given him speaks a childish wanton sinful spirit in Mr. Tillam and let him know that God will one day have an account of idle words But he saith Mr. Hammond entertained him kindly and added the courtesie of New wine I say it was ill-bestowed on such an ungratefull man as quarrels with love worthy the next time he comes to be thrust out of doors among the beggars All men that know Mr. Hammond well know him to be a Gentleman and full of courtesie to all that set foot over his threshold and he endeavoured to conquer this unworthy man by kindness especially looking at him as seeming now to repent of his former miscarriages and is not this a trim requital Again his proclaiming Mr. Hammond so rigid against Anabaptists is another great slander for he never preacht against them hee carries it most lovingly in all civill converse towards them his spirit and principle carry much moderation to men of different judgements 'T is true he disputed about the point of Baptism with Mr. Tillam when Providence called him to it wherein Mr. Tillam was so silenced that his denying of it since hath demonstrated to many who heard that dispute that he dares say any thing to save himself and slander others And for Mr. Hammond's moderation upon several accounts to Mr. Tillam sure his own conscience will witness against him if he deny it yea his own mouth hath often said it and here he unworthily upbraids Mr. Hammond for it yea he boldly tels the world that Mr. Anderton's ejection was because he called Mr. Hammond Pope Boniface which as Mr. Hammond professeth he never knew Mr. Anderton ever said so till now he read it in Mr. Tillam's Pamphlet But it 's upon record he was ejected for Non-residency and notorious Sabbath-breaking so that it appears Mr. Tillam will say any thing Secondly for Mr. Weld he tels the world pag. 7.20 21. he kindly invited him to his house in a Letter with much seeming affection and yet all but gross dissimulation Since Mr. Tillam's book came out Mr. Weld hath been consulted withall and desired to write the truth of the business whose very words again are these I must sincerely professe being called thereto that although I am not of the Newcastle Churches judgment of the unlawfulness of being sent out to Preach by Commissioners and Ministers yet I cannot clear Mr. Tillam nor vindicate his innocency in denying that he had such an order to Preach as the Newcastle Church charged him withall pag. 20. For when I look into their three first Articles pag. 16. wherein their charge of his receiving order from the Commissioners lyeth I plainly see the full substance of their charge to be true in each Article For whereas the Church say 1. That he came to the Priest they mean Ministers by the way I could wish no such word of contempt were used this is truth for he came to such of us as were appointed to examin Ministers to
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
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 Should not the multitude of words be answered and should a man full of talk be justified Should thy lyes make men hold their peace and when thou mockest shall no man make thee ashamed Joh 11.2 3. London Printed for the Author 1657. An Epistle to the Reader Christian Reader PEradventure a Reply to Mr. Tillam's pretended Christian Account was long since expected but upon sufficient reason a delay was made It was some time before the parties most concerned in it living at a distance could know of his Pamphlet But chiefly after it was drawn up it was judged fit by some interessed in the busines to lay it aside hoping that his folly would be made manifest enough by his own proceedings which indeed is already done in great part especially to pious and prudent Christians And I doubt not but it will be discovered more and more daily But in regard of his vain triumphs and because there are many weak harmless and well meaning people in danger of being further deluded by him it is now resolved to present the Man to the open view of the world that his untruths scandals and dangerous designs may make all more cautious whom they confide in and depend upon in so great concernment as that of Religion Upon this and other accounts Reader thou shalt here find such a discovery of Mr. T. T. written not out of envy to him but pitty to others misled by him as I hope will make thee sensible of the bottom of his design in coming to Colchester which he pretends to be guided to by a hand of Providence but upon perusall of this I believe thou wilt find it was rather a Plot than a Providence being the last adventure of a necessitated person that must shift for himself somewhere discarded by those in the North who first gave him credit and having his 40 l. per ann withdrawn by the Commissioners there Yet no doubt a providence it was too but such a one as that of Colchester Siege which prevented the suffering of other places when the Enemy was garrison'd there And I wish that as that party had their last considerable motion terminated within the walls of Colchester the adjacent parts being sufficiently alarumed by their being there so also Mr. Tillam may make your miserable Town the ultimate stage of his progress 'T is pitty other places should ever be troubled with such a guest as sets the house on fire where ever he comes making it his business to divide and sow discord amongst Brethren By which if there were nothing else it may be easily gathered of what fraternitie he is It is abundantly known what their Religion is whose aim is division knowing how to retire into union among themselves and meet together in one centre though the lines drawn from it stand at a distance in the circumference Doubtless Mr. Tillam's slighting Mr. Prin's charge of his being a Papist is a Master-piece 'T is more policity for Mr. T. to contemn than answer so fair a probability His own acknowledgement that hee has been a Papist together with his Romish trinkets Extreme Unction Washing of feet pretences to infallibility the choicest Jewels in the Popes Triple Crown for all he speaks must be taken as the Oracles of God without any consulting others though never so pious and prudent these things I say may strongly perswade a sober man to suspect a papist in the bottom But I shall not judge him Reader let me only perswade thee to lay aside prejudice and thou shalt here find Mr. Tillam passing judgement upon himself for most of the particulars charged upon him in this book are no other but such as dropt from his own Pen or Tongue and therfore if any wrong be done him he may thank himself for it But I shall hold thee no longer in the Porch if thou wilt know more read further let thine own eyes be thy informers That which follows is a Letter written by Mr Robert Eaton to a friend of his which he desired him to print Worthy and endeared Friend I Having at last met with Mr. Tillam's Pamphlet falsly intitled A Christian Account I thought good in the first place to give you an account of him and then of those passages in his Pamphlet which relate to me This Tillam who is not ashamed to call the Censures which the Church People of God have passed upon him The Trials of his grace was for a short time an Aporthecary but fince having assumed to be an Anabaptistical Minister by reason of his fasticusness pride and turbulency of Spirit hath been like a ball of Wild-fire tossed from one end of the Nation to another scattering his peslilent errours with very great impudence and boldness in every place where he hath come Now though I had heard in Lancashire and other places before my removal from Dedham of the dangerous conditions of this man and what disturbance he had made in several places in venting and propagating his Errours yet now I am more fully certified of the truth of those things which there I heard For brevity sake I shall only give you an account of Mr. Samuel Eaton's who is Pastor of the Church of Duckenfield in Cheshire before whom one of Mr. Tillam's causes was examined and by whom Mr. Tillam's Excommunication out of the Church at Wrexam was declared just and regular Mr. Sam. Eaton's words are these Mr. Tillam was excommunicated first by the Church at Wrexam and afterwards his Excommunication was found and declared just by the Church at Duckenfield The causes of his Excommunication were several among others were these The proof of several untruths told by him intollerable pride together with a visible design to divide the Church c. but that he withdrew himself and that his withdrawing as Mr. Tillam excuses the matter was the cause of his Excommunication is utterly false and a meer evasion fir they were fully resolved to cast him out before he did withdraw himself and he withdrew himself purposely to evade the sentence And many that were his Disciples and Rebaptized by him when they heard things laid open were satisfied to the justnesse of the sentence pronounced against him Thus far Mr. Sam. Eaton gave me an account of him Now whether a man so eminent as Mr. Sam. Eaton in a business where he can have no by-respects is to be believed or Mr. Tillam one cause of whose Excommunication was lying let all men judge As for that Church of Anabaptists in Cheshire which he so much magnifies in his book I shall not meddle with them only this I shall say that some of them though under
against light of conscience and what not No marvel therfore if he reproach Mr. Weld Mr. Hammond Mr. Eaton Hugh Prichard these are but single persons when he flies like a wasp in the face of whole Churches and that which is under this head remarkable i. e. that all such as bear witness against him he falls soul upon them as envious persons as if there were no evil at all in him to testifie against no no it 's only the good they saw in him his good success the attendance on his Ministry and Gods blessing on his labours these are the things the good things in him as he would fain perswade the world they envy when I preached saith he in Cheshire I saw the power of God and then adds there I incurred Mr. Eaton's displeasure Why darest thou say that holy Man Mr. Eaton was displeased at the power of God in thee And within two lines after he speaks as bad of the Church of Wrexam The Church of Wrexam saith he was troubled at my successe Now to make men envious persons at the grace of God in others is to make them the very devils eldest Sons and himself must needs be God or in Gods place to judge their very hearts that it was Gods grace in him that moved them to bear witness against him Whither will the venome and malice of this mans spirit carry him 6. As he casts down to Hell almost all that oppose him so he lifts up to Heaven all that side with him or favour him in his way witness his extreme flattery of the Magistrates in Coldester that favour him witness also his high elevating those three men at Hexam that certified for him and there were but three in all and how easie a matter it is for any man to bring three men in a whole County to attest any thing in a mans behalf and subscribe what he himself shall draw and bring to them to subscribe all men know Yet alass some of us know what pittifull men some of those three are whom he sets our as if the most eminent in the whole County Alas alas the man dares say any thing bad or good of any man to serve his own turn It this man be not a dawber a scraper with his nails for mens favours an insinuating flatterer for his own ends I never knew any He will verifie what Mr. Hammond writ of him He is saith Mr. Hammond the most fawning man till you discover him and then the most loose-tongued man in reviling Is it not just so 7. Mark his railing The poyson of Alps is under his lips his mouth and stile is full of cursing and bitternesse for these are his usual tearms Men stirred up by the Devil Slanderers Rigid ones False lyars Men born from beneath Sons of the earth Absoloms Joabs Whited sepulchres Full of horrid hypocrisie and iniquity that wofull hypocrite that proud disorderly Church that proud scornfull Haman c. These are his expressions and that against any even against the most godly and eminent in grace that doe but oppose him And though to write or speak such things of a man when matters are proved upon Record against him by a cloud of witnesses as those things are which I hold forth against him as lying boasting vaunting c. which I have proved either directly from his own words or the Testimony of whole Churches although this I say be just against himself and no wrong donetherein yet for him to belch out such vile reproaches when no just cause is given such language in him is plain railing whereas giving him his own tearms when matters are proved against him is but righteous dealing 8. It 's an usual thing with him throughout his whole book to set his own single testimony against all that contest with him be his Adversaries never so holy never so many yet his own bare word must pass for current against the subscription of the one and twenty Members yea the whole Church of Wrexam the Elders of the Church in Cheshire the Baptized Church in Newcastle the three Ministers of the Congregational Churches there the whole Church at London c. whereas Moses Paul and Christ himself tell us that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every truth shall be established here are three ten twenty yea whole Churches and yet all are false and deluded he only speaks the truth himself being witness If this be not the very spirit of his book let any man that has not forfeited his reason judge And from whence do we think comes this from Heaven or from Hell 9. His Instability is notorious He was once by his own confession a Papist then a Protestant again if he may be believed though some of his own friends doe shrewdly suspect him to be still a Papist in his heart and that his turning Church-divider at Wrexam and Dipper afterwards was but a turning every stone and trying every side to see where he might best advance a Popish design at last as if weary of every thing he falls now to the Holy kiss Washing the Saints feet Annointing with Oyl some say to six Sacraments to denyal of the Trinity of Persons Original sin of Infants c. When and where will this man stop Nay so far is he deluded and intoxicated that he calls this giddiness in running out to unsound fancies and dangerous opinions obedience to Christ pag. 13. And as he is weary of truth so of all persons societies and places too where ever he yet came In the Church of Wrexam so much admired by him at the first he stayes but eighteen Months and then it 's such a corrupt society that he is glad he is out of it Then to Cheshire he hastens there 's the only Church but he playes such pranks there that he is soon discovered Then away into the South from the South into the North he goes Hexam is the place and there he has a glorious people if ye will credit his report for still all his Geese are Swans But Hexam grows stale the South is more desirable and Colchester of all places of England is the onely place and there you shall have him as long as you of Colchester shall court him with applause honour liberal gifts for want of which he was pitifully pined at Hexam but as soon as you discover him as others have done you shall find him indeed to goe out like a snuff for do but run through the story of his life or read but his own Pamphlet and you shall see how after a little while he has set fire on every place where he came and run away by the light of it 10. But above all his notorious abuse of Scripture is intollerable making the blessed Holy Ghost the Author of it to serve his lust and execute his revenge upon all such as contest against his sin as if he himself were that righteous one whom the Holy Ghost intended in those Scriptures he