Ibid. Councerpoyt. p.u7.& rp. B,zrr.Confc· rence with M. ~ir:h~ilir. writttnp.9. An Apologie againft Brownifh. he fay, but noChriflians ? Your Teachersand Pafr~r (which is awonder )agree: A For your DoCtor Ainfw•rth makesthiS one head of hiS poyfonous Coumerpoyfon rhatChrifr is not the He•d, MediatOr, Prophet, Prie!t,.Kingof the Church ofE:ng~ land : You, rheir Difciple, are not yer promoted to thl!height of immodelty; yer what are your good things ? Even to you weare Apoltates, Traytors, Rebels, Babylonilh: this is well for a Learner: Hereafter (ifyou will heare rtX!) keep our good things to your felfe, and report our evi!l. 1 ~- Yea, that your uncharitablenetfemaybe, above all examples, monltrous, Y on do noc"only deny us any interelt in theChurch ofChrilt,bur exclude us(what youmay) from all hope and poffibility ofattainingthe honor ofChrifrendome : For when a godly Minilter pr~telted to Ma!ier.B•rr•w, rhe truth ofhi.sMinifrery; upon the approbationalfoofhiS people,he rece1v~d thiSanfwer from h~tn: 1 hou&h youhad fuch allowance, it could nothing availe,but rather ovenhrowyour Miniltery, they being B as yet ungarhered roChrilt,and therefore neither may not in this efrate chufe thema Minifrer,norany exercife • Miniltery unto them, withouthainous facrilege. Odefperate judgement;we neither are Chrifrians, nor can be! NoChriltianity without Faith , noFaithwithout theMinilteryof theWord, noWord to us without Sacrilege:What arewe,that theveryoffer ofbringing us toGod lhould be criminal?Thefe areyour acknowledgements ofour good; who have learnedofyour Paltor to kifTe and kill all at once; to bletfe and curfe with one breath: your mercies are cruell. Sr:CTION XV. ~'~~· meafure youmeet toyour owne ? Erroris commonlyjoyned with cruelty: C B Ut whocan wonder ar your unnaturalnetfe to theChurch, that heareswhat /::ttt'u So- The ourragious demenorsofthe CirmmceB;.," in Awg•Jiinet time, and more ••ffin·ob:,.•,- than barbarous tyrannyofthe ArriAIJI beforehim, arewell known by all Hiftories, dtf.HiP·«P·l· and not enoughby any : God forbid,tbat I lhould compare yeuto thefe. Heare raAu.tp.&.Poftd. therof NovattH, the Father ofanot unlikeSell: , ofwhom Cypriafl repom, that he '"''"A"'. would neither beltow bread on his father alive,nor burial!on himdead,but fulfered ••fib. Hift.£<. himboth to frarve and fiinke in theltreer: and for hiswife (1e!t he lhould bemerci· D"""" g'••if- full to any ) he fpurned her with his heele : and !lew his owne childe in her body: ftmu& «dww What need I feeke fo farre ? I grieve to think and report, that your own Paltor bath "t,;"::,~f,- paralleld this cruelty: His own brother (which is no letfe favage) thoughoneof " '"· your Sell:,is tbe publike accufer condemner & ofhim in this crime eo all the world: :;:;:.~~~~: who after a pitiful! relation ofhis eight yeeres quarrels with him, and foure yeeres D ><pi.S. N"""" Excommunication, in his Epirtlebefore a large Volume to this purpofe,writes thus. "'" "' '""{•- After all thefe,hath not our kinde, 'carefull, andolil Father come a long journey ';p;:".%':!i.{:- rornakePeace? Hathhenotlabored with you, the Elders and the Church, to , .....si, opra: bring you to peace ? Hath he not ufed the helpe and counfell of the reformed '·'·'"' '"' '"' Churchesherein? Yetwill you not be reclaimed ; but adding that finne aboveall, ~;"f:t.,~;fit;, havealfo monltrou!ly excornmunicared your Father the Peace-feeker, &c. And &:. frraight; Howoft defired heyou, (as ifhehad been the fonne, tnd you the father) !!;f;"~~~;,. evenwith teares, that you would repent ? In a word, howcame he and I to your b~os &cxcom· doore, !hewing you that it might be upon hisdeparting) you lhould fee his face no munic.tion"' more?&c. Yet you forced himby your ill dealing, ftill to leave upon you hiscurfe, ~;;:,':d'~";'. and all the curfes written in 6ods hooke againfi unthankfull and difobedient chil- E Ibid.p.r . dren. Thus farre abtotherconcerningabrother, againlt father and brother. Other D•iCov<>; of flrangely-unkindeufag~s ofborb,Ihad ra;her leaveto the difcoveryofMalterWh#e, "''"""'"" and thismiferable Planuffe, who havewntten enough to makean enemie alhamed. ;;;,t J.V•f. Butwhereupon was all this fearefull broyle in a pmt Church? For nothing but a little lace, andWhale-bone inhis wives !leeve. The Trojane warre could nor be !landered with fo weighty abeginning. Asfor yourElder , DaDielStudiJ (whom your Paltor fomuch excolleth ) ifMaller Whitu Apoltafiemaybe your fhift againlt Inq.in><>Tb. his Relation; let him fpeake , who fhould have been a FellowEiderwithhim, whitu dif<ov. banilhed fromyourrruch, thoughejeCted by your cenfure: Marke (faith G.J•h•f. Sam<Epill•>· ofthisSt~ti/&) how che Lord bath judged !)im with unnacuralneffe to his owne children,
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