The bloody tenent yet more bloody: by Mr Cottons endevour to wash it white in the blood of the lambe; of whose precious blood, spilt in the blood of his servants; and of the blood of millions spilt in fromer and later wars for conscience sake, that most bloody tenent of presecution for cause of conscience, upon a second tryal, is found now more apparently and more notoriously guilty. In this rejoynder to Mr Cotton, are principally I. The nature of persecution, II. The power of the civill sword in spirituals examined; III. The Parliaments permission of dissenting consciences justified. Also (as a testimony to Mr Clarks narrative) is added a letter to Mr Endicot governor of the Massachusets in N.E. By R. Williams of Providence in New-England.

Exam: of Chap. 79. Touching the Modell of Church and Civill power, Examined in the first part of the bloudie Tenent, but not defended by M^r Cot∣ton, or any, that the Discusser knowes of. (Book 79)

Peace.

I Had hoped (Deare Truth) that we had gained a* 1.1 peaceable and quiet harbour, after all our tempestu∣ous Tossings in the boysterous Seas of this bloudie Tenent, yet now behold a sharpe and cutting winde of M^r Cottons continuall Censures; For I was not (sayth M^r Cotton) of those that composed the Modell: and secondly, the Ministers say it was not sent by them to Salem, and therefore the Discusser is left of God to a double falshood.

Truth.

Sweete Peace, till sweete Death, in and (often) for Christ, close up the Eyes of his servants, they must not expect to rest fully from their Labours, and expect their workes to follow them.

Once againe therefore let us heare the Discussers plea for himselfe against this blustering charge of double falshood. Ma∣ster Cottons owne words in the End of his Answer to the Priso∣ners▪ Letter, are these;

I forbeare adding Reasons to justifie the Truth, because you may finde that done to your hand in a Treatise sent to some of the Brethren, late of Salem, who doubted as * 1.2 you doe.

Truth.

To my knowledge it was reported (according to this hint of M^r Cottons) that from the Ministers of the Churches (pretended) such a Modell composed by them was sent to Sa∣lem: Hereupon it was that the Discusser wrote on purpose to his worthy friend M^r Sharpe (Elder of the Church of Salem, (so called) for the sight of it, who accordingly sent it to him.

Peace.

If this Modell, of such consequence, were so composed and so sent to Salem, if M^r Cotton directs others thither to re∣paire to make use of it, if he thus approve and promote it, I see not why it might not probably be collected, that M^r Cotton (not the last in such great and publike matters) was amongst, if not chiefe amongst the composers of it, and that he and they were not ignorant of the conveyance of it to Salem.

Truth.

But grant M^r Cotton should have been imagined to* 1.3 have been left out in this so great and publike a service, and that all the former probabilities faile: yet doubtles M^r Cotton will be cast at the barre of Christian Love and Moderation, for so bitter a charge upon the poore Discusser for so easie and harm∣les Mistakes.

Peace.

Such fierce flashes might well issue from the bloudie French Cardinalls against the poore Hugenots, from the English bloudie Bishops against the poore Lollards, from the bloudie Popes against the Hereticks and Lutherans: but a gentler Breath and stile might well beseeme a Protestant to a Protestant, enga∣ged in common principles and Testimonies and sufferings of Jesus against those bloudie Tyrants.

But to the Modell, M^r Cotton seemes highly offended, that the Discusser should say, that the Modell awaketh Moses from his unknowne Grave, and denies Jesus yet to have seene the Earth. For, Moses his Lawes were of force (sayth he) to the Israelites in the Land of Canaan, when Moses was dead: and againe, Christ came not to destroy the Law of Moses, not the Morall Law, nor the Judicialls, such as are of common Equitie: Or els (sayth he) the Conscience of the Civill Magistrate could never doe any act of civill Justice out of Faith, because he should have no word of God to be the Ground of his Act, if the Lawes of Judgement were abrogated, and none extant in the New.

Truth.

I answer; that speech of the Discusser was neither

unreasonable, nor untrue, as M^r Cotton alledgeth: for grant* 1.4 Christ came not to destroy the Morall Law of the ten Commands (for the Substance of it, for all materiall circumstances therein M^r Cotton will not urge nor practice). Nor secondly, the Judicialls of Morall Equitie, that is, such as in deed concerne Life and Manners, according to the Nature and Constitution of the severall Nations and Peoples of the World.

Peace.

Pardon me (Deare Truth) before you proceede, a word of Explication: your Addition [according to the Nature and Constitution of the Peoples and Nations of the World] will not he allowed of.

Truth.

Without this I cannot allow of Moses his Judicialls to binde all Nations of the World, then before, or since Christ Jesus: my reason is: That people of Israel (to which those* 1.5 Judiciall Lawes and punishments were prescribed) was as I may say, a miraculous people or Nation, miraculously brought from one Nation, (the Land of Aegypt) into another (the Land of Canaan) both types, a people furnished with miraculous food and cloathing during their fortie yeares Travell through the Wildernes: The seaven Nations of Canaan wondrously and mi∣raculously destroyed before them; Their Lawes and Institutions miraculously delivered to them, &c.

Beside (not to wade deeper into this Controversie, as in the Examination of the Modell I have done) their Land was typi∣cally holy, and that people the Church of God, the onely Church of God in the World. And therefore being a people of such miraculous considerations, Meanes and Obligations, the breach even of Morall Lawes concerning Life and Manners and civill Estate, might be more transcendently hainous and odious in them, then in the other severall Nations and peoples of the World, many thousands and millions whereof never so much as heard of the Name of the God of Israel.

Peace.

If men see cause to ordaine a Court of Chancerie, and erect a Mercy-seate to moderate the rigour of Lawes, which can∣not be justly executed, without the moderate and equall con∣sideration of persons and other circumstances! Me-thinks, the Father of Mercies (though he be Justice it selfe, yet) cannot be justly imagined to carrie all Judiciall or Civill Lawes or Sen∣tences, by one universall strictnes through all the Nations of the Earth.

Truth.

The Lord Jesus tells us of a more tollerable Sentence, (even for the Sodomites in the day of Judgement, then for the Jewes, who were the people and Church of God: and Paul his servant layes heavier load (Rom. 2.) upon such Adulterers, Thieves, as professe to be Teachers unto others, &c. of the con∣trary Graces and Vertues.

Peace.

Deare Truth, the Scriptures are full, and many Argu∣ments might be drawne out this way, but please you to pitch upon an Instance, whereby we may the sooner finish this Di∣gression.

Truth.

Take that great case of the punishment of Adulterie,* 1.6 and I confidently affirme, that the Conscience of the Magistrate, may out of Faith, execute other punishments beside (stoning to) Death, which was the punishment of that sinne in Israell. For although (as M^r Cotton sayth) That was the Law of Judge∣ment in the Old Testament, and there is no other particularly exprest in the New, yet the Conscience of the Magistrate may know,

First, That the carriage of the Lord Jesus about this case, when the Question was precisely put to him, was extraordinary and strange: For (although unto other Questions, even of the Pharisees, Herodians, Sadduces, the High Priest, and Pilate, he gave more or lesse, first or last, punctuall Resolutions, yet) here, he condemnes the sinne, yet he neither confirmes, nor dis∣anulls this punishment, but leaves the Question (in all proba∣bilitie) and leaves the severall Nations of the World, to their owne severall Lawes and Agreements (as is most probable) according to their severall Natures, Dispositions and Constitutions, and their common peace and wellfare.

Secondly, The Lord Jesus (1 Pet. 2.) approveth of the severall* 1.7 humane Ordinances (or Creations) which the severall peoples and Nations of the World shall agree upon for their common peace and subsistence. Hence are the severall sorts of Governments in the Nations of the World, which are not framed after Israels Patterne. And hence consequently, the Lawes, Rewards and Punishments of severall Nations vastly differ from those of Israell, which doubtles were unlawfull for Gods people to submit unto, except Christ Jesus had (at least in generall) appro∣ved such humane Ordinances and Creations of Men for their common peace and wellfare.

Peace.

Me-thinks M^r Cotton, and such as literally stick to the punishment of Adultery, Witchcraft, &c. by Death, must either deny the severall Governments of the World to be law∣full (according to that of Peter) and that the Nature and Constitutions of peoples and Nations, are not to be respected, but all promiscuously forced to one common Law, or els they must see cause to moderate this their Tenent, which else proves as bloudie a Tenent in civill affaires, as persecution in af∣faires religious.

Truth.

Yea, of what wofull consequence must this prove to* 1.8 the state of Holland and Low-Countries, to the State of Venice, to the Cantons of Switzerland, to our owne deare State of Eng∣land, and others who have no King, as Israells last established Government had, especially no King immediately designed, as Israells (in the Roote) was? Yea what becomes of all Christianitie, and of Christs Church and Kingdome in the World for ever, if it want the Government of a King: for sayth Bi∣shop* 1.9 Hall (in his Contemplation on Michaes Idolatrie) in plaine and expresse words: No King, therefore no Church.

Peace.

To end this passage, upon the former grounds, me∣thinks the Conscience of a New English Magistrate (being calld to be a Magistrate in Old England) may in Faith execute any other punishment (according to Law established) beside Death, upon Adulterers. And the New English Colonies may be exhorted to rectifie their wayes, and to moderate such their Lawes, which cannot possibly put on the face of morall Equitie from Moses, &c.

Truth.

Your Satisfaction (Deare Peace) now praesupposed* 1.10 I proceed and grant (with that Limitation forementioned) that Christ Jesus neither abrogated Moses Moralls, nor Judicialls, yet who will deny that Moses established, (beside the two for∣mer) a third, to wit, Lawes meerly figurative, typicall and cere∣moniall, proper and peculiar to that Land and people of Israel? Those Lawes necessarily wrapt up that Nation and people in a mixt constitution, of Spirituall and Temporall, Religious and Civill, so that their Governours of Civill State were Governours of the Church, and the very Land and People were by such Governours to be compelled to observe a ceremoniall puritie and Holines. But Christ Jesus erected another Common-weale, the Common∣weale

of Israel, the Christian Common-weale or Church, to wit, not whole Nations, but in every Nation (where he pleaseth) his Christian Congregation, &c.

Peace.

Deare Truth, I cannot count him a peaceable childe of mine, that rests not herewith satisfied: M^r Cottons next Exception is against your excepting against a Magistrates Mem∣bership in a Church-estate, joyned with an Head-ship over it, to establish, reforme, &c. (as being impossible that a Magi∣strate should sit Head and Supreame on the spirituall Bench,* 1.11 & yet stand as a delinquent at the spirituall Barre of Christ Jesus) M^r Cotton answers, that in severall respects, a Magistrate may be a nursing Father and Judge in causes Ecclesiastiall, and yet be subject to Christs censure in the offensive Government of himselfe against the Rules of the Gospel. And where it might be said, that the Church is subject to the Magistrate in civill causes, and the Magistrate is subject to the Church in spirituall cases, M^r Cotton* 1.12 answers, this easeth not the Difficultie, for suppose, sayth he, the Magistrate fall into Murther, Adulterie, &c. which are civill Abuses, shall the Church tollerate him herein? And he con∣cludes, Let the like Power be granted to the civill Magistrate to deale faithfully with the Church in the notorious Trans∣gression of the first Table, as is granted to the Church to deale with the Magistrate in the notorious Transgression of the second Table, and the Controversie is ended.

Truth.

This Answer and instance of M^r Cotton carries a seem∣ing Beautie with it, but bring it to the Triall of the Testament of Christ Jesus, and it will appeare to be, but a vanishing Co∣lour. For, there is a vast Difference: The sins of each Church∣member,* 1.13 whether against the first or second Table, are proper to the Cognizance and Judgement of the Church, as the sinne of the Incestuous person was punished by Christs Ordinances (in the Church at Corinth) as well as the Abuse of the Lords Supper. But it is not so with the civill Magistrate, whose Office is essen∣tially civill, one and the same, all the world over, among all Nations and people: For, having no spirituall power (as the Au∣thours of the Modell afterwards acknowledge) he cannot possibly act as a Civill Magistrate in spirituall matters, though as a Church∣member, he may in Church-estate, as also may the rest of the Members of that spirituall Body.

Peace.

Me-thinks it it cleare as the Light, that if that in∣cestuous person in the Church of Corinth had beene a Magistrate of the Citie of Corinth, the Church might justly have procee∣ded against him, because all sinne is directly opposite to the* 1.14 holy Kingdome of Christ. But in that abuse of the Lords Supper (which was meerly unchristian) neither that Magistrate, nor all the Magistrates of Corinth, or the World to helpe him, could justly punish the Church, because that Supper (in the Institution, and Spirituall use of it) was not onely of the Nature of the Suppers, of the meates and drinks of the Citie of Corinth, but also of a divine and spirituall Institution, of a heavenly and mysticall Nature and Observation. But to Conclude this piece and the whole, M^r Cotton corrects himselfe for putting in his Sickle into the Harvest of his Brethren, unto whom he refers the defence of their Modell, and for himselfe ends with desires that Christ Jesus would blast that peace which he sayth the Examiner proclaimeth to all the wayes of false Religion, to Heresie in Doctrine, &c.

Truth.

If Christ Jesus shall please (for the further manifesta∣tion of his holy Truth and Glory) to permit those able and worthy men, to proceed to fortifie and defend their Modell: I hope he will also please to assist the Discusser, or some other of his poore servants, to batter downe (with the Spirituall Artil∣lerie of his Word and Testament) such weake and loose and un∣christian Fortifications.

Peace.

But with what a deepe and unrighteous charge doth M^r Cotton end against the poore Discusser, as a Proclaimer of peace to all the wayes of false Religion, to Heresie in Doctrine, &c.

Truth.

Grant M^r Cotton (in many excellent Truths of Je∣sus) a sweet sounding Silver Trumpet: Grant the Discusser as base a Rams-horne harsh and contemptible: Grant that (for the peace of the Civill State, the being of the Nations, and the World, the safetie of the good Wheate the Righteous, and the calling home of the Elect to God, Jewes and Gentiles!) the Discusser proclaimes a civill being, and civill peace to Erroneous Consciences, not sinning against humane and civill Principles: Yet what Peace hath this Rams-horne proclaimed (as M^r Cot∣ton insinuates) when throughout this whole Booke, from

first to last, the Proclamation soundeth ou•• open warre against all false Worshippers.

Peace.

I am a joyfull witnes of warre proclaimed from the God of Truth, from the Sun of Righteousnesse, from the Spirit of* 1.15 Holines, from the flames of Fire, those mighty Angells, from all the Saints and Witnesses of Jesus, from all his holy Truths and Ordinances. Warre to their Consciences, Preachings, Writings, Disputations, a warre present, a warre perpetuall, and (without Repentance) a warre eternall and everlasting.

Truth.

Deare Peace, our goulden sand is out, we now must part with an holy Kisse of heavenly Peace and Love: M^r Cot∣ton speakes and writes his Conscience: Yet the Father of Lights may please to shew him that what he highly esteemes as a Te∣nent washt white in the Lambes bloud, is yet more black and abominable, in the most pure and jealous eye of God.

Peace.

The Blackmores Darknes differs not in the darke from the fayrest white.

Truth.

Christ Jesus the Sun of Righteousnesse hath broke forth,* 1.16 and dayly, will, to a brighter and brighter Discoverie of this de∣formed Ethiopian: And for my selfe I must proclaime, before the most holy God, Angells and Men, that (what ever other white and heavenly Tenents M^r Cotton houlds) yet this is a fowle, a black, and a bloudie Tenent.

A Tenent of high Blasphemie against the God of Peace, the God of Order, who hath of one Bloud, made all Mankinde, to dwell upon the face of the Earth, now, all confounded and de∣stroyed in their Civill Beings and Subsistences, by mutuall flames o•• warre from their severall respective Religions and Consci∣ences.

A Tenent warring against the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus, de∣nying his Appearance and Comming in the Flesh, to put an end to, and abolish the shadowes of that ceremoniall and typicall Land of Canaan.

A Tenent fighting against the sweete end of his comming, which was not to destroy mens Lives, for their Religions, out* 1.17 to save them, by the meeke and peaceable Invitations and per∣swasions* 1.18 of his peaceable Wisdomes Maide••••.

A Tenent fowly charging his Wisedome, Faithfullnes and* 1.19 Love, in so poorly providing such Magistrates and Civill Powers all the World over, as might effect so great a charge pretended to be committed to them.

A Tenent lamentably guilty of his most precious bloud, shed in the bloud of so many hundreth thousand of his poore servants by the civill powers of the World, pretending to sup∣presse Blasphemies, Heresies, Idolatries, Superstition, &c.

A Tenent fighting with the Spirit of Love, Holines, and Meek∣nes, by kindling fiery Spirits of false zeale and Furie, when yet such Spirits know not of what Spirit they are.

A Tenent fighting with those mighty Angels who stand up for the peace of the Saints, against Persia, Grecia, &c. and so consequently, all other Nations, who fighting for their seve∣rall Religions, and against the Truth, leave no Roome for such as feare and love the Lord on the Earth.

A Tenent, against which the blessed Soules under the Altar* 1.20 cry loud for vengeance, this Tenent having cut their Throats, torne out their Hearts, and powred forth their Bloud in all Ages, as the onely Heretickes and Blasphemers in the World.

A Tenent which no Ʋncleannes, no Adulterie, Incest, Sodomie, or Beastialitie can equall, this ravishing and forcing (explicitly or implicitly) the very Soules and Consciences of all the Nations and Inhabitants of the World.

A Tenent that puts out the very eye of all true Faith, which cannot but be as free and voluntarie as any Virgin in the World, in refusing or embracing any spirituall offer or ob∣ject.

A Tenent loathsome and ugly (in the eyes of the God of Heaven, and serious sonnes of men) I say, loathsome with the palpable filihs of grosse dissimulation and bypocrisie: Thou∣sands of Peoples and whole Nations, compelled by this Tenent to put on the fowle vizard of Religious bypocrisie, for feare of

Lawes, losses and punishments, and for the keeping and hoping for of favour, libertie, worldly commoditie, &c.

A Tenent wofully guiltie of hardning all false and deluded* 1.21 Consciences (of whatsoever Sect, Faction, Heresie, or Idolatrie, though never so horrid and blasphemous) by cruelties and vio∣lences practiced against them: all false Teachers and their Fol∣lowers (ordinarily) contracting a Brawnie and steelie hardnesse from their sufferings for their Consciences.

A Tenent that shuts and bars out the gracious prophesies and promises and discoveries of the most glorious Sun of Righteousues, Christ Jesus, that burnes up the holy Scriptures, and forbids them (upon the point) to be read in English, or that any tryall or search, or (truly) free disquisition be made by them: when the most able, diligent and conscionable Readers must pluck forth their owne eyes, and be forced to reade by the (which soever praedominant) Cleargies Spectacles.

A Tenent that seales up the spirituall graves of all men, Jewes and Gentiles, (and consequently stands guiltie of the damnation of all men) since no Preachers, nor Trumpets of Christ himselfe may call them out, but such as the severall and respective Na∣tions of the World themselves allow of.

A Tenent that fights against the common principles of all Civi∣litie,* 1.22 and the very civill being and combinations of men in Nations, Cities, &c. by commixing (explicitly or implicitly) a spirituall and civill State together, and so confounding and overthrow∣ing the puritie and strength of both.

A Tenent that kindles the devouring flames of combustions and warres in most Nations of the World, and (if God were not infinitly gracious) had almost ruind the English, French, the Scotch and Irish, and many other Nations, Germane, Polonian, Hungarian, Bohemian, &c.

A Tenent that bowes downe the backs and necks of all civill States and Magistrates, Kings and Emperours, under the proud feete of that man and monster of sinne and pride the Pope, and all

Popish and proud Cleargie-men, rendring such Laicks and Secu∣lars (as they call them) but slavish Executioners (upon the point) of their most imperious Synodicall Decrees and Sen∣tences.

A Tenent that renders the highest civill Magistrates and Mini∣sters* 1.23 of Justice (the Fathers and Gods of their Countries) either odious or lamentably grievous unto the very best Subjects by either elapping or keeping on, the iron yoakes of cruellest op∣pression. No yoake or bondage comparably so grievous, as that upon the Soules necke of mens Religion and Consciences.

A Tenent, all besprinckled with the bloudie murthers, stob••, poysonings, pistollings, powder-plots, &c. against many famous Kings, Princes, and States, either actually performed or at∣tempted, in France, England, Scotland, Low-Countries, and other Nations.

A Tenent all red and bloudie with those most barbarous and Tyger like Massacres, of so many thousand and ten thousands formerly in France, and other parts, and so lately and so hor∣ribly in Ireland: of which, what ever causes be assigned, this chiefly will be found the true, and while this continues (to wit, violence against Conscience) this bloudie Issue, sooner or later, must breake forth againe (except God wonderfully stop it) in Ireland and other places too.

A Tenent that stunts the growth and flourishing of the most* 1.24 likely and hopefullest Common weales and Countries, while Consciences, the best, and the best deserving Subjects are forct to flie (by enforced or voluntary Banishment) from their native Countries; The lamentable proofe whereof England hath felt in the flight of so many worthy English, into the Low Coun∣tries and New-England, and from New-England into old againe and other forraigne parts.

A Tenent whose grosse partialitie denies the Principles of common Justice, while Men waigh out to the Consciences of all others, that which they judge not fit not right to be waighed out to their owne: Since the persecutours Rule is, to take and persecute all Consciences, onely, himselfe must not be tou∣ched.

A Tenent that is but Machevilisme, and makes a Religion, but a cloake o•• stalking horse to policie and private Ends of Jerobo∣ams Crowne, and the Priests Benefice, &c.

A Tenent that corrupts and spoiles the very Civill Honestie and Naturall Conscience of a Nation. Since Conscience to God violated, proves (without Repentance) ever after, a very Jade, a Drug, loose and unconscionable in all converse with men.

Lastly, a Tenent in England most unseasonable, as powring Oyle upon those Flames which the high Wisedome of the Parlia∣ment, (by easing the yoakes on Mens Consciences) had begun to quench.

In the sad Consideration of all which (Deare Peace) let* 1.25 Heaven and Earth judge of the washing and colour of this Tenent. For thee (sweete heavenly Guest) goe lodge thee in the breasts of the peaceable and humble Witnesses of Jesus, that love the Truth in peace! Hide thee from the Worlds Tumults and Com∣bustions, in the breasts of thy truely noble children, who professe and endeavour to breake the irony and insupportable yoakes up∣on the Soules and Consciences of any of the sonnes of Men.

Peace.

Me-thinks (Deare Truth) if any of the least of these deepe charges be found against this Tenent, you doe not wrong it when you stile it bloudie: But since, in the wofull proofe of all Ages past, since Nimrod (the Hunter or persecutour before the Lord) these and more are lamentably evident and undeniable: it gives me wonder that so many and so excellent eyes of Gods servants should not espie so fowle a monster, especially consi∣dering the universall opposition this Tenent makes against Gods Glory, and the Good of all mankinde.

Truth.

There have been many fowle opinions, with which the old Serpent hath infected and bewitched the sonnes of men (touching God, Christ the Spirit, the Church, against Holines, against Peace, against civill Obedience, against chastitie) in so* 1.26 much, that even Sodomie it selfe hath been a Tenent maintained in print by some of the very pillars of the Church of Rome: But this Tenent is so universally opposite to God and man, so per∣nicious and destructive to both (as hath been declared) that

like the Powder-plot, it threatens to blow up all Religion, all civilitie, all humanitie, yea the very Being of the World, and the Nations thereof at once.

Peace.

He that is the Father of Lies, and a murtherer from the beginning, he knowes this well, and that this ugly Blackmore needs a maske or vizard.

Truth.

Yea the bloudines and inhumanitie of it is such, that not onely M^r Cottons more tender and holy Breast, but even the most bloudie Bonners and Gardiners have been forced to arme* 1.27 themselves with the faire shewes and glorious pretences, of the Glory of God, and zeale for that Glory, the Love of his Truth, the Gospel of Christ Jesus, love and pitie to mens soules, the peace of the Church, uniformitie, Order, the peace of the Common-weale, the Wisedome of the State, the Kings, Queenes, and Parliaments proceedings, the odiousnesse of Sects, Heresies, Blasphemies, Novel∣ties, Seducers, and their Infections: the obstinacie of Heretick••, af∣ter all Meanes, Disputations, Examinations, Synods, yea and after Conviction in the poore Hereticks owne Conscience: Add to these the flattring sound of those glosing Titles, the Godly Magistrate, the Christian Magistrate, the Nurcing Fathers and Mothers of the Church, Christian Kings and Queenes. But all other Kings and Magistrates (even all the Nations of the World over, as M^r Cotton pleads) must suspend and hould their hands, and not meddle in matters of Religion, untill they be informed, &c.

Peace.

The dreadfull righteous hand of God, the Eternall and avenging God, is pulling off these maskes and vizards, that thou∣sands, and the World may see this bloudie Tenents Beautie.

Truth.

But see (my heavenly Sister, and true stranger in this* 1.28 Sea-like restles, raging World) see here what Fires and Swords are come to part us! Well; Our meetings in the Heavens shall not thus be interrupted, our Kisses thus distracted, and our eyes and cheekes thus we••, unwiped: For me, though censured, threat∣ned, persecuted, I must professe, while Heaven and Earth lasts, that no one Tenent that either London, England, or the World doth harbour, is so hereticall, blasphemous, seditious, and dangerous to the corporall, to the spirituall, to the present, to the Eternall Good of all M••n, as is the bloudie Tenent (how ever wash't and whi∣ted) I say, as is the bloudie Tenent of persecution for cause of Conscience.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Touching a New English Modell of Church and civill power.
• * 1.2

  Writing to •••••• M^r Hall.
• * 1.3

  Deepe Cen∣sures for none or innocent mistakes.
• * 1.4

  Touching Moses his Judicialls.
• * 1.5

  Israel in a kinde a mira∣culous peo∣ple.
• * 1.6

  Touching punishment of Adulterie.
• * 1.7

  All Civill Government Gods Ordi∣nance.
• * 1.8

  True Repub∣likes & Com∣mon-weales without Kings.
• * 1.9

  A wonderfull•• saying of Bi∣shop Hall.
• * 1.10

  The State of Israel.
• * 1.11

  Of Magistrates being nursing Fathers, &c.
• * 1.12

  Of Magistrates Power in Spi∣ritualls.
• * 1.13

  Of the sins of Magistrates.
• * 1.14

  A case touch∣ing the Magi∣strates punish∣ing the Sin of Church mem∣bers.
• * 1.15

  The direfull state of false Worshippers.
• * 1.16

  The Portrai∣ture of the Bloudie Tenent.
• * 1.17

  Euc. 9.
• * 1.18

  Prov. 9.
• * 1.19

  The Portrai∣ture of the bloudie Tenent.
• * 1.20

  The Portrai∣ture of the bloudie Tenent.
• * 1.21

  The Portrai∣ture of the bloudie Tenent.
• * 1.22

  The Portrai∣ture of the bloudie Tenent.
• * 1.23

  The Portrai∣ture of the bloudie Tenent.
• * 1.24

  The Portrai∣ture of the bloudie Tenent.
• * 1.25

  Peace her Repose and Tabernacle.
• * 1.26

  The Bloudie Tenent of per∣secution com∣pared.
• * 1.27

  The maskes and vizards of the bloudie Tenent.
• * 1.28

  Truth & Peace, their meet∣ings seldome and short in this world.