A dissuasive from the errours of the time wherein the tenets of the principall sects, especially of the Independents, are drawn together in one map, for the most part in the words of their own authours, and their maine principles are examined by the touch-stone of the Holy Scriptures / by Robert Baylie ...

The CONTENTS of the following Treatise.

The Preface

• THe chiefe and first meane to extinguish the flames of our warre, is, the waters of our heart poured out in prayers to God, pag. 1
• Reformation after mourning, is the second step to a solid peace, p. 2
• The corruption of the Church, is the fountaine of our present mi∣sery, ibid.
• The State cannot be setled till the Church be first reformed, 3
• Every man would help what hee can to recover the languishing Church from her desperate disease, ibid.
• The offer of a strange and easie remedy of a Looking-glasse, 4
• The malignity of Errour, ibid.
• The Authors intention is to set down in a Table for the cleare view of all, the errours which trouble us, ibid.
• And that with Iustice and Love toward all persons, 5
• The partition of the ensuing Treatise, 6
• Episcopacy was the mother of all our present Sects, ibid.
• Presbytery will be their grave, 7
• The Presbyteriall way of proceeding, ibid.
• What England rationally may expect from Presbyteries and Sy∣nods, 8

Chap. 1. The originall and progresse of the Brownists.

• Satan is the great enemy of the Churches Reformation, 9
• His chiefe instruments alwayes have been professed friends to Re∣ligion, ibid.
• Reformation at the begining did run with one impetuous current, ibid.
• What was its first stop, 10
• The fountaine of Protestant discord, ibid.
• ...

• The unhappy principle of the Lutherans, ibid.
• And the more unhappy principle of the Anabaptists, 11
• Somewhat of both these wayes was entertained in England, ibid.
• The originall of the English Bishops and Ceremonies, ibid.
• The originall of the Separatists, 12
• Brownism is a daughter of Anabaptism, 13
• Bolton the first known Separatist in England hanged himselfe, ibid.
• Brown the second leader of that way, recanted his schism, and to his death was a very scandalous person, ibid.
• The humour of Barrow the third master of this Sect, 14
• The strange carriage of Iohnson and Ainsworth, the next two lea∣ders of the Brownists, ibid.
• The horrible wayes of Smith their sixth master, 15
• The fearfull end of Smith his wandrings, 16
• Robinson the last grave and learned Doctor of the Brownists, did in the end undermine his party, 17
• Robinson the authour of Independency, ibid.

Chap. 2. The Doctrine of the Brownists.

• They hold that all Churches in the world, but their own, are so pol∣luted, that they must be separate from, 20
• Their injurious slanders of the Church of England, ibid.
• Yet sometimes they say, that communion maybe kept with her both in preaching and prayer, ibid.
• Their like dealing with all the other Reformed, 21
• Their flattering of forraign Churches is not to be regarded, ibid.
• The matter of a Church they make to be reall Saints only, 22
• Their unreasonable strictnesse in this one point, is the great cause of their Schism, ibid.
• They place the forme of their Church in an expresse Covenant, 23
• Seven may make a perfect Church, yea two or three, ibid.
• The erecting of a Church, requires neither the Magistrates nor Mi∣nisters assistance, ibid.
• They put all Church power in a handfull of people, without any Pastor, 24
• The election, ordination, deposition and excommunication of the Mi∣nister, belongs to his flock, and to it alone, ibid.
• ...

• Every man of the Congragation may preach, and publikely rebuke, not only the Pastor, but the whole flock, yea and separate from it, 25
• Some of them give the celebration of the Sacraments also to private persons, ibid.
• The solemnizing of marriage they give to Parents, but Divorces they commit to the parties themselves, 26
• They make every Congregation independent, and of Soveraigne Authority, ibid.
• Their judgement of Synods, 27
• Their high conceit of their own way, and injurious depressing of all others, ibid.
• Churches, Bels, Tythes, Glebes, Manses, and all set maintenance of Ministers, are unlawfull; not so much as a Church, yard must be kept up for buriall, but all must bury in the fields, ibid.
• The dayes of the week, the months, the yeare of God, they will not name, 28
• No Pulpits, no Sand-glasses in Churches, no Gowns, ibid.
• All set prayer, even the Lords prayer, and all Psalms in meeter, yea in prose, if used as praises, are unlawfull, 29
• Their opinion of preaching and Sacraments, ibid.
• Their strange way of celebrating the Lords Supper, ibid.
• They reject Catechismes, the Apostles Creed, and all reading of Scripture without exposition, 30
• After preaching they prophecy, ibid.
• Then come their Questions, ibid.
• After all, they attend a very tedious discipline, ibid.
• Brown is for liberty of Conscience, ibid.
• His followers are against it, 31
• Their carriage towards the Magistrate, ibid.
• They spoyle Kings and Parliaments of their Legislative power, ibid.
• They oblige the Magistrate to kill all Idolaters, ibid.
• But to spare all theeves, 32
• They will have the Ʋniversities destroyed, ibid.
• Secular Authors and Learning must be abolished, ibid.
• Preachers must study no other books but the Bible, ibid.

Chap. 3. The originall and progresse of the Independents, and of their carriage in New-England.

• Independency is the smallest of all the Sects of the time for number, but greatest for worth of its followers, 53
• Independents are the Separatists off-spring, ibid.
• When the spark of Brownism was dying out in Holland, a little of its ashes carried to New-England, broke out there into a lasting flame, 54
• By what meanes these ashes were kindled, ibid.
• Mr Cotton at first a great Opposite to that way, 55
• Mr Cotton with little adoe, became the great Patron of that Errour, ibid:
• Mr Cotton was the mis-leader of Mr Goodwin and others, 56
• Mr Cotton often deceived, hath given his patrociny to divers grosse errours, ibid.
• Why God permits great men to fall in evident errours, ibid.
• His Prelaticall, Arminian, and Montanistick tenets, 57
• His Antinomy and Familism, ibid.
• Independency full as unhappy as Brownisme, 58
• Wherefore so much of the Independent way lies yet in darknesse, 59
• The fruits of Independency in New-England, ibid.
• First, it hath put thousands of Christians in the condition of Pa∣gans, ibid.
• Secondly, it hath marred the conversion of Pagans to Christian Religion, 60
• Thirdly, it did bring forth the foulest heresies that ever yet were heard of in any Protestant Church, ibid.
• A few examples of the many abominable heresies of the New-English Independents, 61
• The greatest part of their Churches were infected with these errours, ibid.
• The piety of these Hereticks seemed to be singular, ibid.
• Their malice against all who opposed them, was singular, especially against all their orthodox Ministers and Magistrates, 62
• Their errours in opinion did draw on such seditious practises, as did well neare overturne both their Church and State, ibid.
• ...

• Their proud obstinacy against all admonitions, was marvelous, p. 63
• In the midst of their profession of eminent Piety, the profanenesse of many of them was great, p. 64
• Notwithstanding of all this we desire from our heart to honour, and imitate all and every degree of truth and Piety, which did ever appeare in any New-English Christian, p. 65

Chap. 4. The carriage of the Independents in Holland at Rot••rdam and Arnheim, p. 75.

• Independency was no fruitfull tree in Holland, p. 75
• Mr Peters the first planter thereof at Roterdam, ibid.
• Their Ministers, Mr. Bridge, Mr Simpson, and Mr Ward, re∣nounced their English Ordination, and as meere private men tooke new Ordination from the people, ibid.
• They did quickly fall into shamefull divisions and subdivisions, p. 76
• The people without any just cause deposed their Minister, ibid.
• The Schismes at Roterdam were more irreconcileable then those at Amsterdam, p. 77
• Anabaptisme is like to spoile that Church, p. 78
• These of Arnheim, admire and praise themselves above all mea∣sure. ibid.
• The easinesse of their banishment and afflictions. p. 79
• The new Light at Arnheim, brok out in a number of strange errors. ib.
• First, grosse Chiliasme. ibid.
• Secondly, the grossest blasphemy of the Libertines, that God is the Author of the very sinfulnesse of sinne. p. 80
• Thirdly, the fancy of the Euthusiasts, in contemplating God as God abstracted from Scripture, from Christ, from grace, and from all his attributes. ibid.
• Fourthly, the old Popish Ceremonies of extreme Unction, and the holy Kisse of peace. p. 81
• Fifthly, the discharging of the Psalmes, and the apointing of a sing∣ing Prophet, to chant the Songs made by himselfe, in the silence of all others. ibid.
• Sixthly, the mortality of the soule. ibid.
• Seventhly, the conveniency for Ministers to preach covered, and ce∣lebrate the Sacraments uncovered: but for the people to heare

• uncovered, and to participate the Sacraments covered. p. 82.
• Their publick contentions were shamefull. ibid.

Cap. 5. The Carriage of the Independents at London. p. 90

• The worke of the prime Independents of New-England, Arnheim, and Roterdam, these five yeares at London. p. 90
• They did hinder with all their power so long as they were able, the calling of the Assembly, ibid.
• When it was called, they retarded its proceedings, p. 91
• That the Churches of England and Ireland lye so long in confusion, neither Papists, nor Prelates nor Malignants have been the cause, ibid.
• But the Independents working according to their Principles, p. 92
• The great mischiefe of that Anarchy wherein they have kept the Churches of England, and Ireland, for so long a time, ibid.
• Independency is the mother of more Heresies and Schismes at Lon∣don, then Amsterdam ever knew, ibid.
• Independency at London doth not only bring forth, but nourish and patronize Heresies and Schismes, contrary to its custome either in New-England or Amsterdam, p. 93
• How hazardous it may prove to the State of England, p. 94

Chap. 6. An Enumeration of the Common Tenets of the Independents. p. 101

• Why it is hard to set downe the Independents Positions, p. 101
• They have declined to declare their Tenets, more then hath ever been the custome of any Orthodox Divines, ibid.
• When they shall be pleased to declare themselves to the full, their principle of change will hinder them to assure us that any thing is their setled and firme Tenet wherein they will be constant, ibid.
• The chiefe Tenets which hitherto they have given out, and not yet recalled, p. 102
• They reject the name of Independents unreasonably, and for their owne disadvantage: ibid.
• When it is laid aside, the more infamous name of Brownists and Separatists will inevitably fall upon them. ibid.
• ...

• They avow a Semi-Separation, but a Sesqui-Separation will bee proven upon them. p. 103
• The Independents doe separate from all the reformed Churches, upon far worse grounds then the Brownists were wont, to separate of old, ibid.
• Their acknowledgement of the reformed for true Churches, doth not diminish but increase their Schisme, ibid.
• They refuse all Church Communion, and Membership in all the reformed Churches, ibid.
• They preach and pray in them as they would doe among Pagans; on∣ly as gifted men to gather materials for their new Churches. p. 104.
• About the matter of the Church, and qualification of Members, they are large as strict▪ as the Brownists, admitting none but who convinces the whole Congregation of their reall regenerati∣on. p. 105
• Beside true grace, they require in the person to be admitted, a suta∣blenesse of Spirit with every other Member, p. 106
• But in this they are laxer then the Brownists, that they can take in without scruple, Anabaptists, Antinomians and others, who both in life and Doctrine have evident blots, if so they be zealous and serviceable for their way. ibid.
• About the forme of the Church (a Church-Covenant) they are more punctuall then the Brownists. ibid.
• They take the power of gathering and erecting of Churches, both from Magistrates and Ministers, placing it onely in the hands of a few private Christians who are willing to make among them∣selves a Church-Covenant. p. 107
• This power of erecting themselves into a compleat and perfit Church, they give to any seven persons, yea to any three; neither admitt they more into a Church then can altogether in one place com∣modiously administer the Sacraments and Discipline. ibid.
• The Independents will have all the standing Churches in England except them of the Sectaries dissolved, and all their Ministers to become meerely private men, and any three persons of their way to be a full Church. p. 108
• Vnto this Church of seven persons, they give all and the whole Church power, and that independently. ibid.
• Vnto this Congregationall Church alone, they give the full power

• of Election and Ordination, of Deposition and Excommunica∣tion, even of all their Officers, and of the finall determination of all Ecclesiasticall causes, p. 109
• The difference of Iohnson and Ainsworth, about the power of the people and Presbyterie distinct one from the other, is not yet com∣posed among the Independents, ibid.
• The common Doctrine of New-England is Ainsworths Tenet, that the people alone have all the power, and may excommunicate when there is cause, all their Officers, ibid.
• Mr. Cotton the other yeare did fall much from them and him∣selfe towards Iohnson, teaching that the whole power of Autho∣rity is onely in the Officers, and the people have nothing but the power of Liberty to concurre; That the Officers can doe no∣thing without the people, nor the people any thing but by the Officers. p. 110
• Yet that both Officers and people or any of them, have power to se∣parate themselves from all the rest when they finde cause, ibid.
• The London Independants give more power of Ecclesiasticall Iuris∣diction then the Brownists, unto woemen, p. 111
• Some of them permit private men to celebrate the Sacraments, ibid▪
• Brownists and Independents doe perfectly agree i•• the point of In∣dependency, ibid:
• If a corrupt or negligent Congregation doe not censure the•• owne Members, all the Assemblies in the world may not attempt to censure any of them, though most apparently they did corrupt a whole Nation with the grosseth Heresies, or most scandalous vices, p. 112
• The point of Independency is either the root, or the fruit of many Errours, ibid.
• To temper the crudity thereof, they adde to it three moderating Po∣sitions, but for little purpose, ibid.
• They grant the being of Synods, but not of Classicall Presbyteries. p. 113
• Their Synods are meerely Brownisticall without all Iurisdiction, wherein every one of the people may voyce; also they are meerely Elective and only occasionall, ibid.
• The Sentence of non-Communion is Mr. Cottons invention, to

• supply that defect which themselves make in the Ordinances of God, ibid.
• It puts in the hand of every man a power to sentence all the Churches of the World, p. 114
• It carries to the highest degree of Separation, ibid.
• Their supply of the defects of Independency, by the power of the Magistrate, was a remedy which they learned from the Brownists; but now they have cast it aside, denying to the Magistrate all power in matter•• of Religion, p. 115
• The Independents doe advance their fancies, to as high a pitch of glory as the Brownists, ibid.
• They are the Brownists Schollers in many more things, beside the constitution and government of the Church, ibid.
• They give to the Magistrate the celebration of Marriage, ibid.
• Mr. Milton permits any man to put away his wife upon his meere pleasure without any fault, and without the cognisance of any Iudge, p. 116
• Mr Gorting teaches the wife to put away her Husband, if he will not follow her in any new Church-way which she is pleased to em∣brace, ibid.
• They are against all determinations of the circumstances of Wor∣ship, and therefore all Church Directories are against their sto∣macks, ibid.
• The common names of the dayes of the week, of the Months of the yeare, of the yeare of God, of many Churches and Cities of the Land, are as unlawfull to them as to the Brownists, ibid.
• All Tythes and set-mayntenance of Ministers they cry downe, but a voluntary contribution for the maintenance of all their Officers they presse to a high proportion, with the evident prejudice of the poore, p. 117
• In their solemne Worship, oft times they make one to pray, another to preach, a third to Prophesie, a fourth to direct the Psalme, and another to blesse the people. ibid.
• They make it a divine Institution without any word of preface, to begin the publick Worship with solemn prayer for the King and Church, p. 118
• After the Pastors Prayer, the Doctor reads and expounds, ibid.
• ...

• In preaching, they will be free to take a Text or not, as they find it expedient, ibid.
• After the Sermon, any of the people whom they thinke able, are per∣mitted to prophesie, ibid.
• All are permitted to propound in the face of the Congregation, what questions upon the Sermon they thinke meet, ibid.
• About the Psalmes they have divers strange conceits, but the speci∣all is their new Ordinance of a singing Prophet, who is place of the Psalmes singeth Hymmes of his owne making in the midst of the silent Congregation, ibid.
• They grant the lawfulnesse of read Prayers in diverse cases, p. 119
• They will have none to be baptised but the children of their owne Members; so at one dash they put all England except a very few of their way, into the state of Pagans, turning them all out of the Christian Church, denying to them Sacraments, Discipline, Church-Officers and all that they would deny to the Pagans of America, ibid.
• They open a doore to Anabaptisme by three farther Positions. First, they require in all to be baptised a reall holinesse above a foederall, which in no Infant with any certainty can be found, ibid.
• Secondly, they esteeme none for their Baptisme and Christian educa∣tion a Member of their Church, till they have entred them∣selves in their Church Covenant, p. 120
• Thirdly, they call none of their Members to any accompt before their Presbytery for obstinate rejecting of Paedo-baptisme, although the Brownists doe excommunicate for that sinne, ibid.
• They participate with none of the reformed Churches in the Lords Supper, yet they scruple not to communicate with Brownists and Anabaptists, ibid.
• Their way of celebrating the Lords Supper, is more dead and com∣fortlesse then anywhere else, p. 121
• They have no catechising, no preparation, nor thanks-giving-Ser∣mons; ordinarily they speake no word of the Sacrament in their Sermons and prayers, either before or after, ibid.
• They have onely a little discourse, and short prayer in the conse∣cration of both the Elements; thereafter, in the action nothing but dumb silence, no exhortation, no reading, no Psalme, ibid.
• They require none of their Members to come out of their Pewes to

• the Table, and they acknowledge no more use of a Table then the Brownists at Amsterdam, which have none at all, ibid.
• They teach the expediency of covering the head at the Lords Ta∣ble. p. 122
• They are as much for the popular Government as the Brownists, ibid.
• All Discipline must be executed in the presence and with the consent of the whole people, and all must passe by the expresse suffrage of every one, p. 123
• Dissenters not onely loose their right of Suffrage for the time, but are subjected to censure if they continue in their dissent, ibid.
• They are much for private meetings; for it is in them that they usually frame the Members of other mens Congregations into their new mould; but the Brownists, and they of New-England having felt the bitter fruits of such meetings, have relinquished if not discarged them, ibid.
• They flatter the Magistrate, and slander the reformed Churches without cause, p. 124
• Some of them are for the abolishing of all Magistracy, ibid.
• All of them are for the casting out, and keeping out of the Christi∣an Church all Princes; all Members of Parliament, all Magi∣strates of the Counties and Burrowes that now are, and that ever have been, and are ever like to be hereafter, except a very few. p. 125
• These few Magistrates which they would admit, have no security but by the errour or malice of a few, to be quickly cast out of the Church without any possibility of remedy, ibid.
• When they have put all who are not of their mind out of the places of Magistracy, yea out of all Civill Courts; the greatest Ma∣gistrates they admitt of, be they Kings or Parliaments, they subject them all to the free will of the promiscuous multitude, ibid.
• When Magistrates will not follow their new errours, they have been very ready to make Insurrections to the great hazard of the whole State, p. 126
• Many of them deny to the Magistrate any power at all in the mat∣ters of Religion, ibid.
• Their principles doe spoile Princes and Parliaments of their whole

• Legislative power; they abolish all humane Lawes that are made, and hinder any more to be made, p. 127
• The Civill Lawes which Mr Cotton permits men to make, binde no man any further then his owne mind is led by the reason of the Law to Obedience. p. 128
• They put the yoke of the Iudiciall Law of Moses on the neck of the Magistrate, ibid.
• They give to their Ministers a power to sit in Civill Courts, and to voyce in the election of the Magistrates, and to draw from Scrip∣ture civill Lawes for the Government of the State, ibid.
• They offer to perswade the Magistrate contradictory Principles ac∣cording to their owne interest; in New-England they perswade the Magistrate to kill Idolaters and Hereticks; even whole Ci∣ties, men, women and children. p. 129
• But here they deny the Magistrate all power to lay the lost restraint upon the grossest Idolaters, Apostates, blasphemers, Seducers, or the greatest Enemies of Religion, ibid.
• No great appearance of their respect to secular Learning and Scholes, ibid.
• Independency much more dangerous then Brownisme, ibid.

Chap. 7. It is unjust scrupulosity to require satisfaction of the true grace of every Church Member.

• The Independents prime Principles, p. 154
• Its unjust scrupulosity to require satisfactorie assurance of the true grace of every Church-Member, p. 154
• Their Tenet about the qualification of Members, is the great cause of their separating from all the reformed Churches, though they doe dissemble it, p. 155
• In this they goe beyond the Brownists, p. 156
• The true state of the question, is, whether it be necessary to separate from a Church wherein we get no satisfaction of the true grace of every Member at their first admission? ibid.
• For the negative, we reason first from the practice of Moses and the Prophets, who did never offer to separate for any such reason, p. 157
• The causes of a just separation were smaller under the Law nor un∣der the Gospell, ibid.
• ...

• Our second reason is from the example of Christ and his Apostles, who did not separate for any such causes, p. 158
• The third reason, It is impossible to finde true grace in every member of any visible Church that ever was, or shall be in the world, p. 159
• The fourth. This satisfaction in the true grace of all to be admitted, is builded on foure errours, p. 160
• The fifth Argument. Their Tenet is followed with diverse absur∣dities, p. 161
• Cottons reasons to the contrary answered, p. 163
• The first reason put in forme, ibid.
• All the parts of it are vitious, ibid
• His second Argument, p. 168
• His third Argument, p. 169
• His fourth Argument, p. 170
• His fifth, p. 171
• His sixth, p. 172
• His seventh, ibid.
• His eigth, p. 173
• His ninth; all his nine or twelve Reasons put in one, will be too weak to beare up the weight of his most heavy conclusion.

Chap. 8. Concerning the right of Prophesying.

• The state of the Question. 174
• The first Authors of this Question. ib.
• The Independents difference among themselves hereabout. ib.
• That none but Ministers may ordinarily prophesye, we prove it first, by Christs joyning together the power of Baptisme and the pow∣er of preaching. 175
• Secondly, These that preach, must be sent to that worke. ib.
• Thirdly, every ordinary Preacher labours in the word and Do∣ctrine. 176
• Fourthly, none out of Office, have the gift of preaching; for all that have that gift, are either Apostles, Evangelists, Prophets, Pa∣stors, or Doctors; and all these are Officers. ib.
• Fifthly, no man out of Office might sacrifice. ib.
• Sixthly, all who have from God the gift of preaching, are obliged

• to lay aside all other occupations, and attend that work alone, 177
• Seventhly, the Apostles appointed none to preach but ••ders. ibid.
• Eigthly, the preaching of men out of office, is a meanes of confusion and errour. ibid.
• The contrary arguments which Mr Cotton in his Catechism and Answer to the 32 Questions borrowes from Robinson, an∣swered. 178

Chap. 9. Whether the power of Ecclesiastick Iurisdiction belongs to the people, or to the Presbytery?

• What is meant by Ecclesiastick Iurisdiction, 181
• The state of the Question, ibid.
• For the Negative, that the people have no power of Iurisdiction, we reason, First, The Officers alone are Governours, and the people are to be governed, p. 183
• Secondly, the people have not the Keyes of heaven to binde and loose, p. 184
• Thirdly, the people are not the eyes and eares in Christs body, for so all the body should be eyes and eares, ibid.
• Fourthly, the people have not any promise of gifts sufficient for go∣vernment, ibid.
• Fifthly, the popular government brings in confusion, making the feet above the head, p. 185
• Sixthly, the people have not the power of Ordination, p. 186
• Seventhly, this power in the people, would disable them in their Cal∣lings, p. 187
• Eigthly, this power of the people would bring in Morellius Demo∣cracy and Anarchy in the Church, ibid.
• Ninthly, this power of the people will draw upon them the power of the Word and Sacraments, p. 188
• Mr Cottons ten contrary arguments answered, p. 189

Chap. 10. Independency is contrary to Gods Word.

• God is the Authour of the union and dependency of particular Churches, p. 196
• Separation and Independency were the Anabaptists inventions, ibid.
• ...

• From them Morellius and Grotius learned the Tenet, p. 197
• The state of the Question cleared, ibid.
• That single Congregations are not independent, is proved, First, from 1 Tim. 4.14. p. 199
• The second argument from the Apostolick Churches, which exer∣cised full Iurisdiction; the chiefe whereof, if not all, were Pres∣byteriall and not Parochiall, p. 202
• Our third argument from the subordination of the Church of An∣tioch to the Synod at Ierusalem, Acts 15. p. 205
• Our fourth argument from the subordination of fewer to more, appointed by Christ, Matth. 8. p. 209
• Our fifth argument from the evill consequents which reason and ex∣perience demonstrate to follow Independency necessarily and na∣turally, p. 212
• Our last argument, Independency is contrary to all the Disci∣pline that ever was knowne in Christendome before the Ana∣baptists, p. 215
• The first objection or argument for Independency from Matth. 18. p. 216
• The second objection is taken from the practise of the Corinthians excommunicating the incestuous man, p. 218
• The third objection from the example of the seven Churches of Asia, p. 220
• Their fourth objection from the practise of the Church••s Thessa∣lonica and Colosse, ibid.
• The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eigth objection, p. 223

Chap. 11. The thousand yeares of Christ his visible Raigne upon Earth, is against Scripture.

• The Originall and progresse of Chiliasme, ibid.
• The mind of the Indep••ndent Chiliasts, ibid.
• Our first reason against the Chiliasts, is, that Christ from his Ascen∣tion to the last Iudgement abides in Heaven, p. 225
• Our second reason is built on Christs sitting at the right hand of God till the day of Iudgement. p. 227
• Our third reason is grounded on the Resurrection of the dead; the

• Godly and ungodly doe all rise together at the last day, p. 228
• Our fourth reason is builded on Christs Kingdome, which is spi∣rituall and not earthly, p. 229
• Our fifth reason is taken from the nature of the Church, p. 230
• A sixth reason from the secrecy of the time of Christs com∣ming, p. 231
• A seventh reason from the Heavenly and eternall reward of the Martyrs, p. 232
• An eigth reason, the restoration of an Earthly Ierusalem brings backe the abolished figures of the Law, p. 233
• A ninth, Antichrist is not abolisht till the day of Iudgement, ibid.
• The Chiliasts first reason is from Revel: 20. 4. p. 234
• Our new Chi••iasts are Inventors of a new Heaven and of a new Hell, p. 236
• Twelve other reasons of the Chiliasts answered, p. 237