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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

the Word or Directions thereof are not the Rule whereunto Christians are bound to conform themselves to live thereafter Confutation 4 5. This is contrary to the Scriptures which direct us to the Law and to the Testimony Esa. 8. 20. which also speaks of Christians as not being without Law to God but under the Law to Christ 1 Cor. 9. 22. Error 6. The Example of Christ's Life is not a pattern according to ‑ which men ought to act Confutation 6. This position those actions of Christ excepted which he did as God or as a Mediator God and man or on special occasions which concern not us is unsound being contrary to the Scripture wherein the example of Christs life is propounded to Christians as a Pattern of Imitation both by Christ and his Apostles Mat. 11. 29. Learn of me for I am meek c. 1 Cor. 11. 1. Be ye followers of me as I am of Christ Ephes. 5. 2. Walk in love as Christ hath loved us 1 Pet. 2. 21. Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps 1 Joh. 2. 26. He that saith he abideth in him ought so to walk even as he hath walked Error 7. The new Creature or the new Man mentioned in the Gospel is not meant of Grace but of Christ. Confutation 7. The false-hood of this Proposition appeareth from the Scriptures which first propound Christ and the new Creature as distinct one from another 2 Cor. 5. 17. If any man be in Christ he is a new Creature Secondly The new Man is opposed to the old Man the old man is meant of Lusts and Vices and not of Adams person Ephes. 2. 22 24. Therefore the new Man is meant of graces and vertues and not of the person of Christ Col. 3. 9 10. Thirdly the new man is expresly said to consist in Righteousness and true Holiness Ephes. 4. 25. and to be renewed in Knowledge Col. 3. 10. which are Graces and not Christ. Error 8. By love 1 Corinth 13. 13. and by the armour mentioned Ephes. 6. are meant Christ. Confutation 8. This position is near of kin to the former but secondly the opposite 1 Cor. 13. meaneth that love which he exhorteth Christians to bear one towards another which if it were meant of Christ he might be said to exhort them to bear Christ one to another as well as to love one another 2. Faith and Hope there mentioned have Christ for their object and if by love be meant Christ he had put no more in the latter word than in the two former 3. And besides it may as well be said Faith in love as Faith in Christ and Hope in love as Hope in Christ if that were the meaning And by armour Ephes. 6. cannot be meant Christ. First Because two parts of that armour are Faith and Hope whereof the Scriptures make Christ the Object Col. 1. 5. Beholding the stedfastness of your Faith in Christ 1 Cor. 15. 19. If in this life only we had hope in Christ c. Now these Graces and the Object of them cannot be the same Secondly A person armed with that Armour may be said to be a sincere righteous patient Christian but if by the armour be meant Christ such predication should have been destroyed and you might more properly say a Christified Christian. Error 9. The whole letter of the Scripture holds for a Covenant of Works Confutation 9. This position is unsound and contrary to the constant tenor of the Gospel a main part of the Scriptures which in the letter thereof holds not forth a Covenant of works but of Grace as appeareth Ioh. 3. 16. 1. Tim. 1. 15. Mat. 11. 28. Heb. 8. 10 11. 12. Error 10. That God the Father Son and Holy Ghost may give themselves to the Soul and the Soul may have true Union with Christ true Remission of sins true Marriage and Fellowship true Sanctification from the Blood of Christ and yet be an Hypocrite Confutation 10. The word true being taken in the sense of the Scriptures this also crosseth the doctrine of Ephes. 4. 24. where Righteousness and true Holiness are made proper to him that hath heard and learned the truth as it is in Jesus Error 11. As Christ was once made flesh so he is now first made flesh in us ere we be carried to perfection Confutation 11. Christ was once made flesh Ioh. 1. 14. no other incarnation is recorded and therefore not to be believed Error 12. Now in the Covenant of Works a Legalist may attain the same Righteousness for truth which Adam had in Innocency before the Fall Confutation 12. He that can attain Adams Righteousness in sincerity hath his sin truly mortified but that no Legalist can have because true Mortification is wrought by the Covenant of Grace Rom. 6. 14. Sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the Law but under Grace Error 13. That there is a new birth under the Covenant of Works to such a kind of Righteousness as before is mentioned from which the Soul must be again converted before it can be made partaker of Gods Kingdom Confutation 13. This is contrary to Tit. 3. 4. where the new birth is made a fruit of Gods love towards man in Christ of any new birth besides this the Scripture speaketh not It is also contrary to 2 Cor. 3. where it is made the work of the Spirit that is the Gospel opposed to the letter that is to the Law to give life the new birth brings forth the new creature and the new creature argueth our being in Christ 2 Cor. 5. 17. It is true indeed Gods Children that are born again must be converted again as Mat. 18. 3. but that conversion is not from that grace which they have received but from the corruption that still remains Error 14. That Christ works in the regenerate as in those that are dead and not as in those that are alive or the regenerate after Conversion are altogether dead to spiritual Acts. Confutation 14. This is contrary to Rom. 6. 11. Ye are alive unto God in Jesus Christ Ephes. 2. 1 5. He hath quickned us 1 Pet. 2. 5. Living stones Gal. 2. 20. The life that I now live Error 15. There is no inherent Righteousness in the Saints or Grace and Graces are not in the Souls of Believers but in Christ only Confutation 15. This is contrary to 2 Tim. 1. 5. The unfeigned Faith that dwelt in thee and dwelt first in thy Grandmoother 2 Pet. 1. 4. Partakers of the Divine Nature which cannot be but by inherent Righteousness 2 Tim. 1. 6. Stir up the Grace of God which is in thee Iohn 1. 16. Of his Fulness we all receive Grace for Grace but if there be no Grace in us we receive nothing from his Fulness 2 Cor. 4. 16. Our inward man is renewed day by day Rom. 12. 2. with Ephes. 4. 24. we are changed or renewed Error 16. There is no difference between

Revelation without concurrence of the Word then it cannot be tried by the Word but we are bid to try the Spirits To the Law and Testimony Esa. 8. 20. To try all things 1 Thes. 5. 21. So the Bereans Acts 17. 11. and the Rule of Trial is the Word Ioh. 5. 39. Error 41. There be distinct seasons of the workings of the several persons so the Soul may be said to be 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 pattern of wholsome words which teacheth a joint-concurrence of all the persons working in every work that is wrought so that we cannot say the Father works so long and the Son works not because the same work at the same time is common to them both and to all the Three Persons as the Father draws Ioh. 6. 44. so the Son sends his Spirit to convince and thereby draws Ioh. 16. 7 8. Error 42. There is no assurance true or right unless it be without fear and doubting Confutation 42. This is contrary to Scripture the Penman of Psal. 77. had true assurance v. 6. And yet he had doubts and fears of God's eternal mercy ver 7 8 9. The best Faith is imperfect and admits infirmity v. 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 be no Grace perfect Ergo doubting may stand with assurance Gal. 5. 17. Error 43. The Spirit acts most in the Saints when they endeavour least Confutation 43. Reserving the special seasons of God's preventing Grace to his own pleasure In the ordinary constant course of his dispensation the more we endeavour the more assistance and help we find from him Prov. 2. 3 4 5. He that seeks and digs for wisdom 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 endeavour be meant the use of lawful means and ordinances commanded by God to seek and find him in then is it contrary to Mat. 7. 7. Ask seek knock c. Error 44. No created work can be a manifest sign of God's love Confutation 44. If created works flowing from union with Christ be included it is against Iohn's Epistles and many Scriptures which make keeping the Commandments love to the Brethren c. evidences of a good estate so consequently of God's love Error 45. Nothing but Christ is an evidence of my good estate Confutation 45. If here Christ manifesting himself in works of holiness be excluded and nothing but Christ nakedly revealing himself to Faith be made an evidence it is against the former Scriptures Error 46. It is no sin in a Believer not to see his Grace except he be wilfully blind Confutation 46. This is contrary to the Scripture which makes every transgression of the Law sin though wilfulness be not annexed and this crosseth the work 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 seal of the Spirit is limited onely to the immediate witness of the Spirit and doth never witness to any work of Grace or to any conclusion by a Syllogism Confutation 47. This is contrary to Rom. 8. 16. to that which our Spirit bears witness to that the Spirit of God bears witness for they bear a joint witness as the words will have it but our spirits bear witness to a work of grace namely that Believers are the children of God Ergo. Error 48. That conditional Promises are legal Confutation 48. Contrary to Ioh. 3. 16. Mat. 5. 3 c. Error 49. We are not bound to keep a constant course of Prayer in our Families or privately unless the Spirit stir us up thereunto Confutation 49. This is contrary to Ephes. 6. 18. 1 Thess. 5. 17. Error 50. It is poverty of spirit when we have grace yet to see we have no grace in our selves Confutation 50. The weak Believer Mark 9. 24. was poor in spirit yet saw his own Faith weak though it were Peter when he was brought to poverty of spirit by the bitter experience of his pride he saw the true love he had unto Christ and appealed to him therein Iohn 21. 15. Paul was less than the least of all Saints in his own eyes therefore poor in spirit yet saw the grace of God by which he was that he was and did what he did and was truly nothing in his own eyes when he had spoken of the best things he had received and done Ephes. 3. 18. If it be poverty of the spirit to see no grace in our selves then should poverty of spirit cross the office of the Spirit which is to reveal unto us and make us to see what God gives us 1 Cor. 2. 9 10 11 12. then it should make us sin or cross the will of God which is that we should not be ignorant of the gracious workings of Christ in us from the power of his Death and Resurrection Rom. 6. 3. Know ye not c. then would it destroy a great duty of Christian thankfulness in and for all the good things which God vouchsafeth us 1 Thess. 5. 18. Error 51. The Soul need not to go out to Christ for fresh supply but it is acted by the spirit inhabiting Confutation 51. Though we have the spirit acting and inhabiting us this hinders not but I may and need go out to Christ for fresh supply of grace John 1. 16. Of whose fulness we have all received and grace for grace 2 Cor. 12. 8. Paul sought thrice to Christ for fresh supply Heb. 12. 2. Look unto Christ the Author and Finisher of our Faith We must look up to the Hills from whence cometh our help Ephes. 4. 16. By whom all the Body receiveth increase and to the edifying of it self Error 52. It is legal to say we act in the strength of Christ. Confutation 52. This is contrary to the Scriptures the Gospel bids us be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Ephes. 6. 10. and be strong in the grace that is in Christ Iesus 2 Tim. 2. 1. and Paul saith I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me Phil. 4. 13. and that was not legal strength Error 53. No Minister can teach one that is anointed by the Spirit of Christ more than he knows already unless it be in some circumstances Confutation 53. This is also contrary to Scripture 2 Cor. 1. It is God that establisheth us with you c. Ephes. 1. 13. and 4. 12 14. The Corinthians and Ephesians were anointed and sealed and yet were taught more of Paul in his Epistles than onely in some circumstances Error 54. No Minister can be an instrument to convey more of Christ unto

for redress c. was by authority and counsel of the Nobles Ezr. 10. 8. 2. That this course of Mr. Wheelw did tend directly to the great hinderance of publick utility for when Brethren shall look one at another as enemies and persecutors c. and when people shall look at their Rulers and Ministers as such and as those who go about to take Christ and Salvation from them How shall they join together in any publick Service How shall they cohabit and trade together How hardly will they submit to such Over-seers How will it hinder all affairs in Courts in Towns in Families in Vessels at Sea c. and what can more threaten the dissolution and ruine of Church and Common-wealth Lastly if it be alledged that such warlike terms are used by Christ and his Apostles in a Spiritual sense we deny it not but we desire that the usual manner of their applying them may also be considered for Paul saith 1 Cor. 9. So fight I c. I beat down my body c. 1 Tim. 6. 12. Fight the good fight of Faith lay hold on eternal life and 1 Pet. 2. 11. and Iam. 4. 1. there is speech of the fight of our lusts and Ephes. 6. 11. he bids them put on Armour but it is to resist the Devil not flesh and blood not to fight against their Brethren toward whom he forbids all bitterness and clamour c. Ephes. 4. And when he speaks of Spiritual Weapons 2 Cor. 10. he doth not draw them out against the persons of brethren but against high thoughts and imaginations c. And if Mr. Wheelwright had found out any such among us and planted his battery against them by sound Arguments he had followed our Apostolick rule Christ indeed threatneth to fight against the Nicholaitans with the Sword of his Mouth and if Mr. Wheelwright had known any such here as certainly as Christ knew those he might have been justified by the example otherwise not Therefore to conclude seeing there be of those who dissent from Mr. Wheelwright his Doctrines who have denied themselves for the love of Christ as far as he hath done and will be ready by God's grace to do and suffer for the sake of Christ and the honour of free-Grace as much as himself for such to be publickly defamed and held forth as Enemies to the Lord Jesus and persecutors like Herod and Pilate and the uncircumcised Heathen c. cannot proceed from a charitable Mind nor doth it savour of an Apostolick Gospel-like Brotherly Spirit Mistriss Hutchison being banished and confined till the season of the year might be fit and safe for her departure she thought it now needless to conceal her self any longer neither would Satan lose the opportunity of making choice of so fit an instrument so long as any hope remained to attain his mischievous end in darkening the saving truth of the Lord Jesus and disturbing the peace of his Churches Therefore she began now to discover all her mind to such as came to her so that her opinions came abroad and began to take place among her old disciples and now some of them raised up questions about the Immortality of the Soul about the Resurrection about the Morality of the Sabbath and divers others which the Elders finding to begin to appear in some of their Churches they took much pains both in publick and private to suppress and following the scent from one to another the root of all was found to be in Mistriss Hutchison whereupon they resorted to her many times labouring to convince her but in vain yet they resorted to her still to the end they might either reclaim her from her errors or that they might bear witness against them if occasion were For in a Meeting of the Magistrates and Elders about suppressing these new-sprung errors the Elders of Boston had declared their readiness to deal with Mistriss Hutchison in a Church-way if they had sufficient testimony for though she had maintained some of them sometimes before them yet they thought it not so orderly to come in as Witnesses whereupon other of the Elders and others collecting what they had heard from her own Mouth at several times drew them into several heads and sent them to the Church of Boston whereupon the Church with leave of the Magistrates because she was a prisoner sent for her to appear upon a Lecture-day being the 15th of the first Moneth and though she were at her own house in the Town yet she came not into the Assembly till the Sermon and Prayer were ended pretending Bodily infirmity when she was come one of the Ruling Elders called her forth before the Assembly which was very great from all the parts of the Country and telling her the cause why the Church had called her read the several heads which were as followeth 1. That the Souls of all Men in regard of generation are mortal like the Beasts Eccles. 3. 18. 2. That in regard of Christ's purchase they are immortal so that Christ hath purchased the Souls of the wicked to eternal pain and the Souls of the elect to eternal peace 3. Those who are united to Christ have in this life new bodies and Two bodies 1 Cor. 6. 19. she knows not how Jesus Christ should be united to these our fleshly Bodies 4. Those who have union with Christ shall not rise with the same fleshly bodies 1 Cor. 15. 44. 5. And that the resurrection mentioned there and in Ioh. 5 28. is not meant of the resurrection of the body but of our union here and after this life 6. That there are no created graces in the Saints after their union with Christ but before there are for Christ takes them out of their hands into his own 7. There are no created graces in the humane nature of Christ but he was only acted by the power of the God-head 8. The Image of God wherein Adam was made she could see no Scripture to warrant that it consisted in holiness but conceived it to be in that he was made like to Christ's Manhood 9. She had no Scripture to warrant that Christ's Manhood is now in Heaven but the body of Christ is his Church 10. We are united to Christ with the same union that his humanity on earth was with the Deity Ioh. 17. 21. 11. She conceived the Disciples before Christ his death were not converted Matth. 18. 3. 12. There is no evidence to be had of our good estate either from absolute or conditional promises 13. The Law is no rule of life to a Christian. 14. There is no Kingdom of Heaven in Scripture but only Christ. 15. There is first engraffing into Christ before union from which a Man might fall away 16. The first thing God reveals to assure us is our election 17. That Abraham was not in a saving estate till the 22 oh of Gen. when he offered Isaac and saving the firmness of God's election he might have perished notwithstanding any work

of grace that was wrought in him till then 18. That union to Christ is not by Faith 19. That all commands in the word are Law and are not a way of life and the command of Faith is a Law and therefore killeth she supposed it to be a Law from Rom. 3. 27. 20. That there is no Faith of God's elect but assurance there is no Faith of dependance but such as an hypocrite may have and fall away from proved Ioh. 15. for by that she said they are in Christ but Christ is not in them 21. That an hypocrite may have Adam's righteousness and perish and by that righteousness he is bound to the Law but in union with Christ Christ comes into the Man and he retains the Seed and dieth and then all manner of grace in himself but all in Christ. 22. There is no such thing as inherent righteousness 23. We are not bound to the Law no not as a rule of Life 24. We are dead to all acts in Spiritual things and are onely acted by Christ. 25. Not being bound to the Law it is not transgression against the Law to sin or break it because our sins they are inward and Spiritual and so are exceeding sinful and onely are against Christ. 26. Sanctification can be no evidence at all of our good estate 27. That her particular revelations about future events are as infallible as any part of Scripture and that she is bound as much to believe them as the Scripture for the same Holy Ghost is the Author of them both 28. That so far as a Man is in union with Christ he can do no duties perfectly and without the Communion of the unregenerate part with the regenerate 29. That such exhortations as these to work out our Salvation with fear to make our calling and election sure c. are spoken onely to such as are under a Covenant of Works All which she did acknowledge she had spoken for a Copy of them had been sent to her divers days before and the witnesses hands subscribed so as she saw it was in vain to deny them then she asked By what rule such an Elder could come to her pretending to desire light and indeed to intrap her to which the same Elder answered That he had been twice with her and that he told her indeed at St. Ives that he had been troubled at some of her Speeches in the Court wherein he did desire to see light for the ground and meaning of them but he professed in the presence of the Lord that he came not to intrap her but in compassion to her Soul to help her out of those Snares of the Devil wherein he saw she was intangled and that before his departure from her he did bear Witness against her Opinions and against her Spirit and did leave it sadly upon her from the Word of God Then presently she grew into passion against her Pastor for his Speech against her at the Court after the Sentence was passed which he gave a full Answer unto shewing his zeal against her errors whereupon she asked for what error she had been banished professing withal that she held none of these things she was now charged with before her Imprisonment supposing that whatsoever should be found amiss would be imputed to that but it was answered as the truth was That she was not put to durance but onely a favourable confinement so as all of her family and divers others resorted to her at their pleasure But this allegation was then proved false and at her next convention more fully for there were divers present who did know she spake untruth Her Answer being demanded to the first Articles she maintained her assertion That the Souls were mortal c. alledging the place in the Eccles. cited in the Article and some other Scriptures nothing to the purpose she insisted much upon that in Gen. 1. In the day thou eatest c. thou shalt die she could not see how a Soul could be immortally miserable though it might be eternally miserable neither could she distinguish between the Soul and the Life and though she were pressed by many Scriptures and reasons alledged by the Elders of the same and other Churches so as she could not give any Answer to them yet she stood to her Opinion till at length a stranger being desired to speak to the point and he opening to her the difference between the Soul and the Life the first being a Spiritual substance and the other the union of that with the body she then confessed she saw more light than before and so with some difficulty was brought to confess her Errour in that point Wherein was to be observed that though he spake to very good purpose and so clearly convinced her as she could not gain-say yet it was evident she was convinced before but she could not give the honour of it to her own Pastor or Teacher nor to any of the other Elders whom she had so much slighted Then they proceeded to the third fourth and fifth Articles about the body and the resurrection of the old which she maintained according to the Articles and though she were not able to give any reasonable answer to the many places of the Scripture and other arguments which were brought to convince her yet she still persisted in her error giving froward Speeches to some that spake to her as when one of the Elders used this Argument that if the Resurrection were onely our union with Christ then all that are united are the children of the resurrection and therefore are neither to marry nor to give in marriage and so by consequence there ought to be community of women she told him that he spake like the Pharisees who said that Christ had a Devil because that Abraham was dead and the Prophets and yet he had said that those that eat his flesh should never die not taking the speech in the true meaning so did he said she who brought that argument for it is said there they should be like the Angels c. The Elders of Boston finding her thus obstinate propounded to the Church for an Admonition to be given her to which all the Church consented except two of her Sons who because they persisted to defend her were under admonition also Mr. Cotton gave the admonition and first to her Sons laying it sadly upon them that they would give such way to their natural affection as for preserving her honour they should make a breach upon the honour of Christ and upon their Covenant with the Church and withal tear the very bowels of their Soul by hardning her in her sin In this admonition to her first he remembred her of the good way she was in at her first coming in helping to discover to divers the false bottom they stood upon in trusting to legal works without Christ then he shewed her how by falling into these gross and fundamental errors she had lost the honour of her