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Show c..M after Jolm Cottons Anfwer fenfive Spicit, and way of their Officer, (M'. JifliUi.Jmr) both in Judgement, and Praaife. The Church finall>: began to hearken to us, and accordmgly began to addrelfe themlelv.es to the healing of his Spirit. Which he difcerning, renounced communion with the Church of Salem, pretending they held communion <vith the Churches in the J\•y, and th~ Churches in the Bay held commu· nion with the Parith·Churches in England, becaufe they fuffered their members to hcare the word amongft them in Eng/and,asthey came over into their native Countrey. He then refuting to refort to the Publick A!fcmbly of the Church. Soone after lundry began to rcfort to his Family, where he preached to them on the Lorm d1y . . But this carriage ofhis in renouncing the Church upon fuch an occafion, and with them all the Churches in the Countrey,and the fpreading of his Leaven to fundry that reforted to him; this gave the Magiftrates the more caufe to obferve the 'heady unrueli· neffe of his fpirit,and the incorrigllileneffe thereofby any Ohuich· . ._yay, all the Churches in the Countrey being then ·renounced by him. And this was the other occafion which battened the Sentence of his Banifhment, upon the former Grounds. If upon thefe Grounds M'. U'illimJr be ready, (as he profeffeth) not onely to he•bo1111d, and biJnifhed, ,bHt alfo to dye ilz New·Englan~; let him remember, (what he knowes) No~> pa:na, Jed caufa facit M>rtyrem; No Martyr ofChrift did ever fuffer for fuchacaufe. When he feamh not to profelfe, that he did in opm CoHrt mJin· taine the rocky firength of hit groundJ, t•tbe fotilfaelimefbi< onm,•rnl ·( ar be faith J~f othe~ mmr COTJfciences. · lean but wonder at the rocky flimine!fe ofhisfelfe· confidence: To give a talte of the racky ftrength of his maintenance of thefe things; He made complaint in open Col)rt, that he was wronged by a !landerous report up and downe the Countrey, asifhedid hold it.to be unlaw full for a Father to call upon his childeto eat< his meate. Our reverend Brother M'. Hoo~r, (the P•llorof the Church, where the Court was then kept) being mooved tofp .. ke a word ·ro it, Why, faith hr, you will fay as much agaiue, (if you fiand to your own Principles) or be farced to fay nothing. When 1\II'. WilliamJ was confident he lhould never fay it: M'. Hooit' replyed, Hit be unlawful! to call an unregenerate pedon ro_ta.keao Oath, or to·P ray, as being.aaiom of Gods warfhip; ~hen 1lta twlr~un 1-1 to M after Hoge;r~WNiii"Hiii:am::s~.---------~ 1m full for your unregener t h'l his own me ate. If it be un~ e eft1 1d;' to_ pray for a bleffing upon up0n h' aw u ,or htm to p £ bl ffi IS meate ,_ it is unlaw~ ll £ h' ray or a e mg aified by prayer' and witho tu or tm to ·~te it' (for it is fanlfit be_unlawfull for him to ~a!':"i('~r ~nfan&tfied, 1 7"im.4. 4, ~-) upon htm to eatc it , for it i! unla ' ~t t: f,nlawfull for you to call 10 finne. w u or you to call upon him anH AenrfewMe'r.. William1 though t be tter to h old his peace, then to give But thus have I opened the L'l d d Banithment; which whether 1~;: fi s,dn og;aflan&ofhi~ CiyUl vanes ofChrilt judge. Howfoever m an .Y·• or roc~7,.let the ~r· at all to put me upon this Difcourfe ·yfo Le~ter gave htm no_ occaflan only to lhew him the fomlin<Jfo if' th .j. or m my Letter I mxended bimfe/fe fiom the fociety (not f lhe ~e grOHlldJ upon which In /}a1Jifhed Ctn.~cheli~>-theft COtlnlrtyeJ. o . . .•IJirnOIZ·m<ahb:.biu.) ofaJJ the But whether I intended the on . h ' -: fwer for both . If M' Cotto e<,at c e_other, he givetli an An; •itbbafllingfi;m 4g the'< Churnbmea~~~( f~tth he) mj,own voluntary d. fe , . J' c os relo ve" to cominue . b ,r, • "',. '"per wmng_the rr>itne.ffoJ of the Lord P"'fe . I' m I ole eviD'I, J, .. foJJii'"'"'"'ineownvoluntary' a., p.Z1""&/gbt unto tbem. ~fur fo'V'ding forth in me ( a Q ;/'~ ' upe t e aa oft he Lard r>hicbfhaH in hu orr>n hot ft ,r, poore J. ej}ifea Ram~.bome) the b/afl '.Jr ! b T 1 ••Jon cafl """'" theflre h d 1" e •nvemio~>J of men i~> the ..,.,tt.; o~'G d. ngt '"~ confidence b~g ,; to be faitbfu/J in a r p ~ • ' ""'d l<~ftly hM all in maT'J• Ur for bit N.mu fa~. llJ mea(ure to fujfer fuch great, andmigbtie .· Reply, Thu I meimt onely hi & · ~ ' fronr thefe Churches doth pl t1wn a ~n Withdrawing himfelfe rxpreff.: word-~, and from -the •R::;noug .appeare both from my thatal:tofhis,which I called th t"d whtch I exprdly affigne of ' ooilt his Separation M ffi e an y grounds,. upon which he fdfi from the fociety 0j all Jh:'ifte ~ w~rdh ~re, He had bani~Jed bimtbe Church is one thin th trc. er m I H Cozmtrey. The fociety of anutber. And th G g, d e octety of the Common-wealth is e roun s upon which h b 'I h. S , ' Werenotthecaufesofbisbanilh e. Ut ~ rs eparation; th, fociety of the Ch h mem,but ofhJS wuhdrawing from B 'flfc urc e!, • Utt o meant He co rfitC. b · h ~'fiffitb •lfo, it wal ~ r./QH/;k 'fie~~ tht "'L"' it orr>~ 'll•lunt ary all; and a D; t e ~rd Jefut tn him. The |