8. Peter more le••ned to a Covenant of works then Paul, Pauls
doctrine was more for free-grace then Perers.
Answ. To oppose these persons and the doctrine of these two
Apostles of Christ, who were guided by one and the same spirit
in preaching and penning thereof, (2 Pet 1. 21. Holy men of
God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, 2 Tim. 3. 16
All Scripturs is given by inspiration of God) in such a point as
the Covenant of works and grace, is little lesse then blasphemy.
9. If Christ be my sanctification what need I look to any thing
in my selfe to condence my justification?
Answ. This position is therefore unfound, because it holds
forth Christ to be my sanct••fication, so as that I need not looke
to any inh erent holinesse in my selfe; whereas Christ is there∣••••re
said to be our sanctification, bècause he works sanctifica∣••••••••
〈◊〉〈◊〉 us, and we dayly ought to grow up in him, by receiving
new supply and encrease of grace from his fulnesse, according to
2 Pet. 3. 18. Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord
Iesus Christ.
•• These with many other had so infected the Church, that if
God had not wrought wonderfully for his truth, they had over∣whelmed
us that would or nec••••sent into bloudy and ••uell mar∣tyrdome
as their owne Sermons did 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them up, and their
threats gave us occasion to feare.
But God in this did not sit still, as asleep, (saith my Author)
while these Ta••es choakt the Wheat, though he suffered the e∣nemy
to sow them, but he manifested his dislike in notorious
judgements upon the prime fomenters of them.
As first, Mistris Hutchinson, the Generalissimo 〈◊〉〈◊〉 high Prie∣stesse
of the new religion, was delivered at one 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of 30. mon∣strous
Births, or thereabouts, much about the n••mber of her
monstrous opinions; some were bigger, some lesse, none of
them having humane shape, but shap't like her opinions: Mi∣stris
Dier another of the same crew, was delivered of a large
woman-child which was stil-born: it had no head, but a face
upon the breast, and the eares (which were like an Apes) stood in
the shoulders, the eyes and mouth stood farre out, the nose was
looking upwards, the breast and back full of sharpe p••i••••les, the