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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65392	A short story of the rise, reign, and ruin of the Antinomians, Familists, and libertines that infected the churches of New-England and how they were confuted by the assembly of ministers there as also of the magistrates proceedings in court against them : together with God's strange remarkable judgements from heaven upon some of the chief fomenters of these opinions : and the lamentable death of Mrs. Hutchison : very fit for these times, here being the same errors amongst us, and acted by the same spirit : published at the instant request of sundry, by one that was an eye and ear-witness of the carriage of matters there.	Winthrop, John, 1588-1649.; Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1270; ESTC R6157	84,225	86

a Prophetess raised up of God for some great work now at hand as the calling of the Jews c. so as she had more resort to her for counsel about matter of Conscience and clearing up mens Spiritual Estates than any Minister I might say all the Elders in the Country Secondly Pride and Arrogancy of her Spirit 1. In framing a new way of Conversation and evidencing thereof carried along in the distinction between the Covenant of works which she would have no otherwise differenced but by an immediate Revelation of the Spirit 2. In despising all both Elders and Christians who went not her way and laying them under a Covenant of works 3. In taking upon her infallibly to know the election of others so as she would say that if she had but one half hours talk with a man she would tell whether he were elect or not 4. Her impatience of opposition which appears in divers passages before Thirdly Her Skill and Cunning to devise 1. In that she still pretended she was of Mr. Cottons Judgment in all things 2. In covering her Errors by doubtful Expressions 3. In shadowing the true end and abuse of her weekly meetings under the name of repeating Mr. Cottons Sermons 4 In her method of practice to bring the Conscience under a false Terror by working that an argument of a Covenant of works which no Christian can have comfort without viz. of Sanctification or Qualifications as she termed it 5. In her confident profession of her own good Estate and the clearness and comfort of it obtained in the same way of waiting for immediate Revelation which she held out to others 3. In her downfal there may be observed the Lords Faithfulness in honouring and justifying his own Ordinances 2. In that he made her to clear the justice of the Court by confessing the vanity of her Revelations c. and her sin in despising his Ministers 2. In that the Judgment and Sentence of the Church hath concurred with that of the Court in her rejection so that she is cast out of both as an unworthy member of either 3. The Justice of God in giving her up to those delusions and to that impudency in venting and maintaining them as should bring her under that censure which not long before she had indeavoured and expected to have brought upon some other who opposed her proceedings 4. That she who was in such esteem in the Church for Soundness of Judgment and Sincerity of Heart but a few months before should now come under Admonition for many foul and fundamental Errors and after be cast out for notorious Lying 5. That she who was wont to be so confident of her Spiritual Good Estate and ready undesired to hold it forth to others being pressed now at her last appearance before the Church to give some proof of it should be wholly silent in that matter 6. Whereas upon the Sentence of the Court against her she boasted highly of her Sufferings for Christ c. it was noted by one of the Elders who bare witness against her Errors that the Spirit of Glory promised in Pet. to those who suffer for well-doing did not come upon her but a Spirit of delusion and damnable Error which as it had possessed her before so it became more effectual and evident by her Sufferings 7. Here is to be seen the presence of God in his Ordinances when they are faithfully attended according to his holy Will although not free from human Infirmities This American Iesabel kept her strength and reputation even among the people of God till the hand of Civil Justice laid hold on her and then she began evidently to decline and the Faithful to be freed from her Forgeries and now in this last act when she might have expected as most likely she did by her seeming repentance of her Errors and confessing her undervaluing of the Ordinances of Magistracy and Ministry to have redeemed her reputation in point of sincerity and yet have made good all her former work and kept open a back door to have returned to her vomit again by her paraphrastical retractions and denying any change in her judgment yet such was the presence and blessing of God in his own Ordinance that this Subtilty of Satan was discovered to her utter shame and confusion and to the setting at liberty of many godly hearts that had been captivated by her to that day and that Church which by her means was brought under much Infamy and near to dissolution was hereby sweetly repaired and a hopeful way of Establishment and her dissembled Repentance clear detected God giving her up since the Sentence of Excommunication to that hardness of heart as she is not affected with any Remorse but glories in it and fears not the Vengeance of God which she lies under as if God did work contrary to his own word and loosed from Heaven what his Church had bound upon earth FINIS