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<P>A Brief Repre&s;entation AND DISCOVERY Of the notorious fal&s;hood and di&s;simulation contained in a Book &s;tyled, <HI>The Go&s;pel-Way confirmed by Miracles.</HI></P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by <HI>Nicholas Ware,</HI> and <HI>Matthew Hall,</HI> for the u&s;e of the Church of <HI>Whatfield</HI> in <HI>Suffolk.</HI> BEING The &s;ub&s;tance of the Informations, and free con|fe&s;&s;ions of <HI>Anne</HI> the wife of the above-named <HI>Matthew Hall,</HI> (formerly called <HI>Anne Wells)</HI> and others, taken before <HI>Brampton Gurd<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> E&s;quire, Ju&s;tice of Peace of that County; and now (not without the &s;ame Ju&s;tice his con&s;ent) &s;et forth, for publike &s;atisfaction concerning the &s;ame Book.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Jer. 17.9.</HI></BIBL>
<P>The heart is deceitful above all things, and de&s;perately wicked, who can know it?</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Jude 17, 18, 19.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Remember the words of the Apo&s;tles&mdash; that there &s;hould be mockers in the last time &mdash;walking after their own ungodly lu&s;ts. The&s;e be they who &s;eparate them&s;elves, &s;en&s;ual, having not the Spirit.</P></Q>
<P>Imprimatur. <HI>Edm: Calamy,</HI> June 4. 1649.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>J. L.</HI> for <HI>Philemon Stephens,</HI> at the gilded Lion in <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard. 1649.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THis en&s;uing Relation might &s;ooner have been expo&s;ed to publike view, had not the different Affirmations of &s;ome of the parties therein concerned, (for a &s;ea&s;on) retarded the &s;ame; but tho&s;e ob&s;tructions (being by mutual d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;cu&s;&s;ion) removed, thou &s;halt finde nothing therein related, but what in &s;ub&s;tance the &s;ame Parties (before a Ju&s;tice of Peace) have &s;eemingly yeelded to be freely divulged. Which affirmations are methodically penned, and di&s;tributively &s;et down in this following Treati&s;e: Together with a brief col|lection of the mo&s;t material pa&s;&s;ages contained in the book &s;ty|led, <HI>The Go&s;pel way confirmed by Miracles,</HI> which Book it may be, thou ha&s;t heard of, though not &s;een or read: All which (by the con&s;ent of that Ju&s;tice) are now publi&s;hed to no other intent, then to reduce wandring &s;heep that decline their careful and painful Shepheards, to run after the voyce of &s;trangers: and likewi&s;e to be in&s;trumental in re&s;training others from &s;uch unwarrantable Stragglings; le&s;t, they recei|ving not the truth in the love of it, from the mouthes of Gods Me&s;&s;engers, be de&s;ervedly given up (as the&s;e Parties were) to believe Lyes uttered by &s;educing Imposters. If that which followes effect not this only aym; yet (if the Light of
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Con&s;cience be not totally extinct) tho&s;e dreadful threatnings of the Apo&s;tle cannot but work upon ingenuous Spirits, namely. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 6.4, 5, 6.</NOTE> <HI>*That tho&s;e which have once ta&s;ted of the heavenly gift, and the Powers of the world to come, if they fall away, it is impo&s;&s;ible to renew them again by repentance:</HI> As God ca&s;t down the Angels that &s;inned, drowned the old world, and burnt <HI>Sodom</HI> for their un|cleanne&s;&s;es: So his infinite Maje&s;ty knowes how to re&s;erve the unju&s;t unto the day of Judgment to be puni&s;hed. I &s;hall detain thee in the Porch no longer, but leave thee free pa&s;|&s;age to that which followeth; only, that the Relation follow|ing may attain its forementioned end, &s;hall be the dayly &s;uite and reque&s;t of him, who de&s;ires to approve him&s;elf</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A Real friend to thy precious &s;oul, <HI>T. J.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Preface.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Serpent at fir&s;t beguiled <HI>Eve,</HI> wounding the man with his own rib; &s;ince (finding that way pre|valent) he hath u&s;ed the &s;ame Method in all ages of the Church. <HI>Jo&s;ephus</HI> ob&s;erves, that the Phari&s;ees had their <HI>Gynacea,</HI> Colledges or meetings of wo|men; and <HI>Jerome,</HI> that <HI>Marcion</HI> had his female fore-runner; <HI>Apelles,</HI> his <HI>Philumena; Montanus,</HI> his <HI>Maximilla; Donatus,</HI> his <HI>Lucilla; Elpidius,</HI> his <HI>Agape; Pri&s;cillian,</HI> his <HI>Galla; Arrius</HI> the Prince, his &s;i&s;ter; and generally all Arch-Hereticks, &s;ome &s;trum|pet or other, by whom they &s;pread the poy&s;on of their here&s;ie. <HI>Eu&s;ebius</HI> notes, that <HI>Simon Magus</HI> had his <HI>Helena</HI> that wandred to and fro with him, and was termed the principal under&s;tanding: of the like practices, <HI>Paul</HI> &s;peaks, 2 Tim. 3.5, 6.8, 9. <HI>Having a form of godline&s;&s;e, but denying the power thereof; from &s;uch turn away. For of this &s;ort are they which creep into hou&s;es, and lead captive filly women, laden with &s;ins, led away with divers lu&s;ts: Now as Jannes and Jambres with&s;tood Mo&s;es, &s;o do the&s;e re&s;i&s;t the truth; men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith: But they &s;hall proceed no further; for their folly &s;hall be manife&s;ted unto all men, as theirs al&s;o was.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;ame part doth the Devil act in the&s;e times, and in this thing, in&s;tigating the&s;e impo&s;tors, to make u&s;e of this female decei|ver, for the propagating of their Errors. The confe&s;&s;ion of <HI>Anne Wells,</HI> compared with others, of her Anabapti&s;tical &s;ociety, do evidently declare the things contained in that book, called, <HI>The Go&s;pel way confirmed by Miracles,</HI> to be but juglings and collu&s;i|ons. That they may be the better under&s;tood, &s;omething &s;hall be premi&s;ed of her former, and &s;omething of their later practices, be|ing tho&s;e things briefly, which are contained more largely in that book.</P>
<P>She was born and brought up in <HI>Stoke</HI> by <HI>Nayland</HI> in the Coun|ty of <HI>Suffolk,</HI> of very mean parents; &s;he was alwaies (though able of body) indi&s;po&s;ed to labour, and therefore (as &s;ince it appears) attended unto the Mini&s;try of the VVord, and pretended great trouble of con&s;cience for &s;ome years together, that &s;he might be pitied and relieved by others. When tho&s;e among whom &s;he li|ved, &s;u&s;pected her trouble was not real, becau&s;e (though &s;he fre|quently made a &s;hew of hanging and drowning her &s;elf) &s;he &s;el|dome</P>
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<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">rai&s;e up &s;ome in the room of <HI>Hall</HI> and <HI>Ware,</HI> to perfect the work of God: A member pre&s;ent, interrupts her, and de&s;ires &s;he may have liberty to call over <HI>Anne Wells</HI> in the name of Je&s;us, which being done, &s;he re|covers.</NOTE><HI>Margaret,</HI> and others, came to this <HI>Anne Wells,</HI> &s;aying, they were more confirmed now then ever, acknow|ledging her dream to be a <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">They &s;ay, <HI>Anne Wells</HI> made them believe &s;he had a di&s;covery from God, that they were coming back, and that the book was began to print: which was &s;o.</NOTE> di&s;co|very.</P>
<P>About a fortnight after the re|turn of the afore&s;aid <HI>Ma. Hall,</HI> and <HI>Nic. Ware,</HI> this Informant &s;aith, that &s;he did counterfeit a dead fit; and <HI>Ma. Hall</HI> &s;peaking to her, as former|ly, in the name of Je&s;us, and &s;he re|ceiving no benefit, he then confe&s;&s;ed to her in private, that it was revealed to him at <HI>London,</HI> that &s;he &s;hould not be perfectly recovered of tho&s;e fits, untill &s;he was <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">The&s;e informe, that the mar|riage was carried on by a pretended Revelation from <HI>Anne Wells,</HI> as a thing tending to the work of God: this di&s;covery was made to her about the <HI>4^t^h</HI> day of the week that &s;he mu&s;t be married to <HI>Hall,</HI> and it mu&s;t be di&s;patched upon the next fir&s;t day without delay: the &s;uddenne&s;&s;e of which (they of <HI>Whatfield</HI> &s;ay) was oppo&s;ed by them: then arguments were brought by them for it, that they had been in a work of God toge|ther, and &s;o were &s;till; and that they were to travel together: and put it to their judgments, whether it were not better to be married, then to tra|vel &s;ingle: they did al&s;o urge the marriage of <HI>I&s;aac</HI> and <HI>Rebec|ca:</HI> and that of <HI>Samp&s;on, Judg. 14.</HI></NOTE> married unto him. Accordingly they were mar|ried the next Lords day, in <HI>John Pods</HI> hou&s;e of <HI>VVhatfield,</HI> by <HI>Nich. Ware,</HI> in the pre&s;ence of their members; who then told them, that he found nothing in Scripture concerning marriage, but onely giving and ta|king: then asking the people whe|ther they were willing the match &s;hould go forward, he joyned them together. The &s;ame day after marriage, (as &s;he informs) <HI>Ma. Hall</HI> her husband was taken very &s;ick, and throwing him&s;elf upon a bed in the room, pretended him&s;elf to be in a &s;trange condition, his legs &s;eeming very &s;tiffe: untill <HI>Nic. VVare</HI> had called over him in the name of <HI>Je&s;us,</HI> upon which he ri&s;es up. This was done, (as &s;he &s;aith) that the mar|riage might be confirmed to be of God: though afterward he (the
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&s;aid <HI>Hall)</HI> confe&s;&s;ed unto his wife, (as &s;he informs) that this was only to delude the people.</P>
<P>She further informeth, that the ordinary &s;ubject of their preaching, was chiefly about love, the per&s;onal reign of Chri&s;t, &amp;c. affirming, they needed not to preach <NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">The &s;educed people of <HI>Whatfield</HI> do acknowledg, that their Pa&s;tors taught indeed, it was need|le&s;&s;e to preach faith and repentance to their members; but yet they preach'd it to the world, as they occa&s;ionally did come in among them.</NOTE> faith and repentance, the foundation being already laid: and &s;he further &s;aith, that in all their di&s;cour&s;es, they never fail to rail again&s;t the godly Mini&s;ters, as Antichri&s;tian, and preachers of fal&s;e doctrine; and that none are admitted to be a mem|ber of their Church, before publique profe&s;&s;ion made to hear none of them, except purpo&s;ely to cavil again&s;t them, and di&s;turb them: backing it with this Scrip|ture, <HI>Withdraw from every brother that walks di&s;or|derly;</HI> applying this to the Mini&s;try of the Church of <HI>England:</HI> further &s;aying, they do maintain fal&s;e wor&s;hip.</P>
<P>About a moneth after the marriage, <HI>Nic. VVare</HI> had a <NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">They acknow|ledge &s;uch a Reve|lation, but it pro|ceeded (&s;ay they) from <HI>Anne Wells,</HI> who tempted <HI>Ware</HI> to lye with her, &s;aying it was re|vealed to her, that &s;he &s;hould have a childe, which &s;hould be borne at three moneths end, and at a year old &s;hould &s;peak with tongues, and then they &s;hould all &s;peake with tongues: and that if he had no part in the childe, he &s;hould have no part in the pro|mi&s;e.</NOTE> Revelation, that this <HI>Anne Wells</HI> (now <HI>Halls</HI> Wife) was a Type of the Church of the Jews, her husband of the Gentiles, and he the &s;aid <HI>Ware</HI> a type of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and that <HI>Judah</HI> and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> &s;hould be all one fle&s;h, as well as &s;pirit: and looking into the Bible, and finding in <HI>E&s;dras,</HI> that women had untimely births, that &s;pake with tongues, he told her, that &s;he &s;hould have a childe within three moneths, which &s;hould at a year old &s;peak with tongues; but not un|le&s;s he might have the carnal knowledg of her: where|upon, &s;he asked her husband how &s;he &s;hould yeeld to him, her husband bad her be willing; for if it were for the glory of God, why &s;hould &s;he with&s;tand it. The night following, <HI>Ware</HI> (lying in another bed where &s;he and her husband lay) came to bed to them, but had not his de&s;ire of her, although her husband thru&s;t her &s;everal times towards him, and bad her be willing. The next morning &s;he &s;aid that &s;he was much troubled, becau&s;e <HI>Ware</HI> had lyen in the bed with her, telling her husband, that he &s;hould never do the
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like again: whereupon her husband &s;aid, he &s;hould not; for it was revealed to him, That, as when <HI>Abraham</HI> was willing to offer up his &s;on <HI>I&s;aac,</HI> God accepted the will for the deed; &s;o he being willing that one night to offer his wife to the &s;aid <HI>VVare,</HI> God had accepted the will for the deed, and it &s;hould be &s;o no more: whereupon, acquainting <HI>Ware</HI> with the &s;aid Re|velation, <HI>Ware</HI> &s;mote upon his brea&s;t and wept, &s;aying. What, &s;hall I lo&s;e another wife thus?</P>
<P>This Informant further confe&s;&s;eth, that it be|ing told them, that they &s;hould come into trou|ble for their delu&s;ive book, called, <HI>The Go&s;pel Way confirmed by Miracles, Nic Ware</HI> brought this Scripture, <HI>when you are per&s;ecuted in one city, flee into another:</HI> accordingly this Infor|mant and her husband, and the &s;aid <HI>Ware,</HI> went to Woodbridge: where it was <NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><P>Tho&s;e of <HI>Whatfield</HI> inform, that it was <HI>Anne Wells,</HI> that pretended &s;he had it revealed to her, that there was plotting in the Army again&s;t the hone&s;t party, to de&s;troy them, and then <HI>England</HI> &s;hould be de&s;troyed; and therefore it was di&s;cove|red to her, that they mu&s;t go into <HI>Holland</HI> three years and an half: &s;he &s;aid further, that &s;he was a Type, and to that end, had fine habit bought her, that &s;o &s;he might be admitted into the Jewes Congregation: being come thither, &s;he and her husband wrote a letter to the Church of <HI>Whatfield,</HI> that &s;he could under&s;tand the Jews language, and that the Jews &s;pake the 
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true language, but mixt: The Copy of which letter followes, as it was taken out of the Original.</P>
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<P>Dear &s;i&s;ter, my kinde love to you remembred, hoping of your di&s;cerning spirit in the things of God: I &s;hall &s;end you a few words concerning my hearing of the Jews: I could under&s;tand them, and &s;ee abundance of God: they &s;peake the true language, only mix|ed. And concerning bro|ther <HI>VVare</HI> you know in many things already, I might have found them to be true by experience, which have cau&s;ed a &s;ad burthen to me and my husband, it being the cau&s;e of one tempe&s;t: &s;o now de&s;iring your prayers to God for him and me, le&s;t it hinder the work of God: and now de&s;iring you to con&s;ider my condition in &s;pi|rit and body, for my burthen is very great, and I have no work I can do. So in ha&s;te, de&s;iring to hear from you with all speed; by the Po&s;t at <HI>London,</HI> (you may &s;end to <HI>Rotterdam</HI> every week) with my prayers to God for you, I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your &s;i&s;ter in Chri&s;t, <HI>Anne Hall.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Dated at <DATE><HI>Rotterdam, Octob. 29. 1648.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
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<P>You may &s;end by any, and let no body &s;ee this letter.</P>
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<P>They inform further, that in the time of the ab&s;ence of <HI>Ware, Hall,</HI> and <HI>Anne VVells,</HI> they &s;ent an Epi&s;tle to the Church of <HI>VVhatfield:</HI> the origi|nal copy of which, is here &s;et down in <HI>their own &s;pelling Engli&s;h, letter</HI> for <HI>letter, as followeth:</HI> 
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<HEAD>An Epe&s;ele to the Church of Whatfelede.</HEAD>
<P>UNto the Church at <HI>Whatfelede,</HI> beloved of god, caled to be Saintes, grace, marcy and pea&s;e be multiplyed unto you; our love in the Lord comended unto you: we are bounde to give thinkes to God al|wayes for you, and de&s;tringe you may gr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">w to perfecktion, for <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> we ware pre&s;ante with you, we dead indener to exorte you, and now beinge ab&s;ente, we deffer you that you would exorte one another dayly, and endeuer to quicken the grace of God in you, and intreatinge you that you would walke worthy of the gosple wher vnto you are caled, l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">e|ringe is kept the vnity of the &s;prite in the bande of pea&s;e, and the God of pea&s;e &s;hall dwill in you, and amonge you; and ferder we intrete you to &s;tande fa&s;te in the leberty of the gosple wherin Chri&s;te haue <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> you fre, not &s;uferinge youer &s;elves to be mesled by int<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">nge wordes, for you cannot be ignorante of the confermationes you have had in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of God, by that mighty powr of God manifested among you by &s;ines and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ricles, you ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ege more ca&s;e to rejoy&s;e then any in the worlde: though for the pre&s;eante you may &s;ufer by Sathan or his in&s;trumentes, who will labere to darken that lights, that ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> fo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">th amonge you, whome re&s;e&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;tedfa&s;tely in the faith; for which ca&s;e if you be ca|led to &s;ufer, for you know that Chri&s;te haue &s;ufered before you, and <HI>the
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&s;ervant is not grater then the Master,</HI> and all&s;oe you have a grate cloude of wetneces whoe have gone before you as valiente Conquerers threw Chri&s;te that &s;trenthened them; what if Sathane &s;houlde ca&s;te &s;ome of you in pre&s;on, or take awaye youre life, you have a life in Chri&s;te fer beter, and we knowe that god will &s;trenthin you woe will be with you in all your &s;uferinges, for it is not you that &s;ufer, but Chri&s;te in you, for it is for his &s;ake: therfore let not the rage of men, nor the temtation of Sathen frighte you nor desharten you, or Ca&s;e you to draw backe, for if you doe, the Lorde will take no ple&s;ur in you; for you may know that this is noe place of a bideinge, for we are as pelgrumes and &s;trangers, and owre in heritance is not here, but in the worlde to come: and we &s;eke a Contrey, let us not fainte nor be wary, but be ye faithfule unto the death, and Chri&s;te &s;hall giue you a Crowne of life: and you mu&s;te knowe, that the dayes of trouble is at hande, for the Lorde hath a Con|travercy with <HI>ingelande,</HI> and thay contemning his love, thay mu&s;te drinke depe of the Cupe of Gods anger, and ther abominations ripen apa&s;e, and god will cut them downe, and that &s;hortely; but &s;eke ye iudgment and rightous, it may be you may be hed to the day of the Lords anger; and you that are the Elders home God have Caled to that place, we intreate you that you loocke over the family of god, which he have percha&s;ed with his blode, &s;trenthininge the weak, and comfortinge the feble, and reprouinge tho&s;e that walke desorderly, and we, as owre duty is, &s;hall pray, that god would &s;uply all youer wantes, and &s;trenthinge that worke that is begune in you, untill the Cominge of our Lord Ie|&s;us Chri&s;te.</P>
<P>Brethren and Si&s;ters, we &s;alute you all in the Lord, with an Epe&s;le of love, de&s;tringe your perfection, as you are owre Epe&s;ele wreten in owre hartes, and we &s;hall reioye to heare of your walking together in all thinges well ple&s;inge to god, and de&s;tringe that he woulde fell you with all ioy in &s;prete, &amp; coe remaye your pasters to Comand,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Nicholas Ware. &amp; Mathew Hall.</HI> and <HI>Anne</HI> his wife, &s;alute you all in the Lord.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER></P></NOTE> Revealed to the &s;aid <HI>VVare,</HI> that this Informant (being a Type of the Jews) &s;hould go into the wilder|ne&s;s; and that &s;he &s;hould have Ear-rings, and jewels, and co&s;tly apparel, &s;uch as the Jews had: which were accordingly bought for her at <HI>Wood|bridge,</HI> by <HI>VVare</HI> and her husband. Their mo|ney being &s;pent, <HI>Mat. Hall</HI> went thence to <HI>John Pods</HI> at Whatfield; and (as he told her) he reported there to the Church, that it was di&s;covered to him, that the members &s;hould maintain their Pa&s;tors in their travels, whereup|on he obtained three pounds, with which return|ing to Woodbridge, he told his wife, that he had gained that three pounds by telling an untruth; with this, and other moneys her husband had procured of his friends, they went all three of them into <HI>Holland,</HI> (which they tearmed the wilderne&s;s) where (as the &s;aid <HI>VVare</HI> alledged) they &s;hould continue the whole three years and an half. At their coming to <HI>Rotterdam,</HI> an
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Engli&s;hman pre&s;ented them with a quart of &s;ack and Suger-cakes, and other dainties, which (they &s;aid) was a confirmation to them, that this Informant was a Type of the Jews, in re|gard that as the Jews had gifts pre&s;ented to them, &s;o had &s;he.</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="7">But after they had been in <HI>Hol|land</HI> three weeks, and all their money was &s;pent, they bethought them&s;elves of their returning into <HI>England,</HI> and at the end of &s;even weeks they were returned: and this Informant demanding how three years and an half could be made up of &s;even weeks, her hus|band reckoned every fortnight for a year, and the odde week for half a year, and &s;o made up the three years and an half.</P>
<P>After their return from <HI>Hol|land,</HI> this Informant further &s;aith, that meeting with one <HI>Sudbury Deekes</HI> a Member of VVhatfield Church, (who&s;e wife liveth
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at <HI>Hadley,</HI> and he with one Goodwife <HI>VVebb</HI> of Bri&s;et) he told her, that more miracles had been wrought in her ab&s;ence, by him&s;elf, and one <HI>Henry Hagur,</HI> another member of the &s;aid Church, (who hath one wife at <HI>Norwich,</HI> and <NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">They &s;ay that <HI>Hagur</HI> was fir&s;t contracted by pro|mi&s;e, to one living at <HI>Norwich,</HI> and afterward married to another, that lives now in <HI>Hol|land.</HI></NOTE> another wife in <HI>Hol|land)</HI> and in&s;tanced in one Miracle wrought upon Goodwife <HI>Pod,</HI> who was miraculou&s;ly cured of a great pain in her Che&s;t: And the &s;aid Goodwife <HI>Pod</HI> did likewi&s;e tell this Informant, that when the &s;aid <HI>Deekes</HI> &s;pake unto her, &s;he had much ea&s;e; but when the &s;aid <HI>Hagur</HI> &s;aid unto her in her pain, In the name of Je&s;us, Si&s;ter ari&s;e and walk; then &s;he was fully cured of that pain. The other Miracle was wrought upon Goodwife <HI>VVebb,</HI> who was miracu|lou&s;ly cured of a di&s;ea&s;e in her Eares, called the Weennes, (as &s;he told this Informant) upon their call|ing over her in the name of Je&s;us: but they have both (&s;ince the di&s;covery of the fal&s;ene&s;s of their book, call|ed <HI>The Go&s;pel way,</HI> &amp;c.) denyed any miracles to be wrought upon them; though formerly they had ac|knowledged it to this Informant.</P>
<P>This Informant doth further declare, that &s;he having a brother, a poor boy, about 15. years of age, her husband procured for him a red gawdy <NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">They inform, that this &s;ute of apparel was &s;old to them by <HI>Hall,</HI> before he went into <HI>Holland,</HI> and after his return, <HI>Hall</HI> reque&s;ted it again of them, becau&s;e (as he &s;aid) it was di&s;covered to his wife, that her bro|ther mu&s;t have that &s;ute, being ap|pointed to powre out a vial, &s;poken of in the Revelation.</NOTE> &s;ute of apparel, having it revealed to him (as he &s;aid) that this boy &s;hould do &s;ome &s;trange things.</P>
<P>Thus for a time they went on &s;moothly in their wickedne&s;s, ble&s;&s;ing them&s;elves, and making others believe (by their horrid delu&s;ions) that they were even miraculou&s;ly ble&s;&s;ed by God, in the&s;e mo&s;t accur&s;ed practices; untill Gods wonderful pati|ence (which though it be often long bearing, yet will not be ever bearing) could no longer bear with the&s;e notorious im|po&s;tors: his righteous &s;oul, in &s;eeing and hearing, being vexed from day to day with their unlawful deeds: which he would now &s;uffer to proceed no further, manife&s;ting their folly unto all. For God (who in his infinite Wi&s;dome, never wants means to bring about his ends) &s;o ordered it,</P>
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<P><PB N="8" REF="9"><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">The &s;educed people of <HI>Whatfield,</HI> fully agree in this information about this breaking out among them, that it was thus oc|ca&s;ioned by her dream, as &s;he relates: and further in form, that upon examina|tion before them, <HI>Jan. 23. 1648.</HI> there was &s;o much bea&s;tline&s;s, uncleanne&s;&s;e, &amp; unheard of wickedne&s;s di&s;covered and brought to light, <HI>(viz.</HI> that before marriage &s;he counterfeited a pain in the lower part of her belly, which by Reve|lation <HI>VVare,</HI> and <HI>Hall</HI> mu&s;t cure, by touching it, in the name of Je&s;us. As al&s;o after her marriage to <HI>Hall,</HI> that <HI>Ware</HI> did &s;un|dry times lye with her, which (as they inform) he hath te&s;tified to them with his own hand; with much more notorious villany) which they &s;ay they trem|ble to relate: as being al|together unfit for a &s;ober pen to write, or a mode&s;t eye to read; for it is a &s;hame to &s;peak of tho&s;e things done by them in &s;e|cret. Hereupon (they &s;aid) they dealt with them according to the command of Chri&s;t.</NOTE>That upon <HI>January</HI> 16. 1648. this In|formant <HI>Anne Wells</HI> (as &s;he further confe&s;&s;eth) had a mo&s;t terrible dream in the night, that the day of Judgement was come, and that the balls of fire fell thick about her eares, to her great terror and affrightment. VVhen &s;he awoke, &s;he told this dream with abundance of horror to her husband; further telling him, that if &s;he did not di&s;cover tho&s;e notorious fal&s;ities and di&s;&s;imulations contained in their late book, called <HI>(The Go&s;pel way,</HI> &amp;c.) &s;he &s;hould go to the Devil: all that day following &s;he lay in a &s;ad de&s;pairing condition, &s;till confe&s;&s;ing their delu&s;ions. Then <HI>Nic. VVare</HI> was &s;ent for, to whom &s;he affirmed, that &s;he mu&s;t now declare, that all that was done, was but delu&s;ion. In this perplexed condition &s;he continued for the &s;pace of 4 dayes, before <HI>Ma. Hall,</HI> or <HI>Ni. Ware,</HI> (to whom &s;he had di&s;covered her &s;elf) would declare it unto any, hoping to &s;mother it; but when they could conceal it no longer, (her hor|ror of con&s;cience &s;till continuing) it was made known to other of their members: hereupon the Church (&s;he &s;aith) was called together: the whole bu&s;ine&s;s was examined, &s;he acknowledg|ed, that &s;undry unclean practices (called by them the Bawdy Miracles) were acted upon her by <HI>Hall</HI> and <HI>ware;</HI> (which though confe&s;&s;ed upon her information, yet are judged unfit to be turned into publique expre&s;&s;ions to any mo|de&s;t reader.) Her husband much di&s;plea&s;ed at the carriage of this bu&s;ine&s;s, frames complaints before the Church again&s;t her: among other things, informs the Church of <HI>Nic. Wares</HI> ly|ing with her, alledging, that &s;he had commit|ed whoredome with the &s;aid <HI>Ware;</HI> and here|upon, did, in the pre&s;ence of the Church, di&s;|own her for his wife.</P>
<P><PB N="9" REF="9">This <HI>Anne Wells</HI> being thus ca&s;t off, both by her husband, and the Church, &s;he was nece&s;&s;itated to return to her poor mo|ther at <HI>Stoke;</HI> where being taken notice of by the Inhabitants, as one likely to become pre&s;ently chargeable to the Town, (be|ing, as &s;he confe&s;&s;ed, with childe) &s;he was brought before the next Ju&s;tice of the Peace, before whom &s;he (upon her free con|fe&s;&s;ion) gave in the&s;e above-mentioned Informations, relating to the proceedings of the &s;educed people of <HI>Whatfield,</HI> together with the mo&s;t remarkable occurrences, during the time of her entertainment among them: hereupon, her husband appearing with many members of the &s;aid Church of <HI>Whatfield,</HI> (who la|boured, as much as &s;hame would let them, to clear both him and <HI>Ware</HI> their Pa&s;tors,) it was ordered by the Ju&s;tice, that this <HI>Ma. Hall</HI> &s;hould take care to provide for his wife: which he &s;hewed much unwillingne&s;&s;e unto. But when he &s;aw there was no other way, but he mu&s;t either &s;uffer, or &s;ecure the Town of <HI>Stoke</HI> afore&s;aid; upon &s;ome private con&s;ultation with &s;ome of the &s;aid members then pre&s;ent, he was coun&s;elled by them, to own her before the Magi&s;trate, though he ran away from her pre&s;ently; which advice he accordingly followed: for engage|ing before the Ju&s;tice to take her home, and maintain her as a wife, the very &s;ame evening returning homeward together, he ran away, and left her in the open fields.</P>
<P>Thus have I as &s;uccinctly and impartially (as a relation of this nature would admit) drawn up the mo&s;t material pa&s;&s;ages, (and as neer as might be in their own words) concerning the&s;e Diabolical practices, collected out of their own Informations taken before the Ju&s;tice; (without any prejudice to the per&s;ons of any) ayming onely at Gods glory, and the prevention of others from being led a way with &s;uch Satanical Revelations and delu&s;ions, for&s;aking the written Word of God, which &s;hould be <HI>a light to our feet, and lanterne to our pathes:</HI> de&s;iring all to who&s;e hands the&s;e papers &s;hall come, &s;eriou&s;ly to read over, and deliberately to ponder the&s;e following Scriptures,
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E&s;ay 8.20. <HI>To the Law, and to the Te&s;timony; if they &s;peak not ac|cording to this word, it is becau&s;e there is no LIGHT in them:</HI> again, 2 Pet. 1.19. <HI>We have al&s;o a more &s;ure word of prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a LIGHT that &s;hineth in a dark place, untill the day dawn, and the day &s;tar ari&s;e in your hearts:</HI> and to name no more, 2 Pet. 3.17, 18. <HI>Ye therefore beloved, &s;ee|ing ye know tho&s;e things, beware le&s;t ye al&s;o being led away with the errour of the wicked, fall from your own &s;teadfa&s;tne&s;&s;e. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t; to him be glory both now and for ever, Amen.</HI></P>
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