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A56405	A revindication set forth by William Parker, in the behalfe of Dr. Drayton deceased, and himself of the possibility of a total mortification of sin in this life: and, of the saints perfect obedience to the law of God: to be the orthodox Protestant doctrine, and no innovations (as they are falsly charged to be) of Dr. Drayton and W. Parker; in an illogicall vindication, wherein the necessity of sins remaining in the best saints as long as they live, and the impossibility of perfect obedience to the law of God, is ignorantly and perversly avouched to to [sic] be the orthodox Protestant doctrine; by one who subscribeth his name John Tendring. ...	Parker, William, fl. 1651-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing P486A; ESTC R200724	221,023	288

believer must do as aforesaid 27. Qu. What is the meaning of that Matth. 28.20 ' And lo I am with you to the end of the world The reason of this Querie is because that is the divine record from which a succession of ministration is proved to continue downward from the Apostles to the end of the world from whence the ministers of the word and Sacrament do claim their own office to be Jure divino and that they are the Apostles successors descended lineally from them by vertue of Christs words and promise to the Apostles Lo I am with you to the end of the word But how they will prove what they say from the said words of Christ by rational arguments is the thing for the present we doubt of First because the words are spoken not to the Apostles successors ' Lo I will be with you to the end of the world but it is personally spoken to the Apostles ' Lo I am with you to the end of the world But to this it is said that Christ did intend their successors to be included under those words because the words are not literally true of the Apostles by reason they are fallen asleep with their Apostolical doctrine and are no more personally in this world therefore the words must include say they their successors ' I am with you namely my Apostles in your successors to the end of the world But this is an addition to Christs words for Christ saith no more but Lo I am with you to the end of the world and by what authority they make that addition aforesaid it concerneth them to consider because the curse is heavy whic his charged on them who adde or take from Christs words Rev. 22.18 19. But if they say Christ did intend to continue successors of the Apostles for the good of his Church to put them in remembrance and teach them how to walk in all the commandements of God without offence we then ask if it be so whether Christ hath appointed themselves to be the true successors unto the Apostles by vertue of the said words for to argue meerly from the said words there must be successors of the Apostles for divers good ends ergo we ministers aforesaid and them of our mind order and practise are the men is no better arguing to perswade the doubtful of what they say then he that would perswade himself that his sonne must be the next Bishop of C. because it is appointed by order and authority besides custome that he must be a Cambridge-man or an Oxford-man and if an Oxford-man then of this Colledge or another Colledge if of this Colledge then why not my son as well as another especially since I perswade my self he is the man intended for the Bishop Just so is the former argument Christ did intend to have successors in the Apostles ministration because he said ' Lo I am with you though the Greek text will not justifie that translation to the end of the world and therefore we are the ministers who are their successors Truly the Pope and Popelings argue just so for him to be Peters successor Peter say they was at Rome and governed there and Peter was the prime and chief Apostle for Christ said to Peter ' Feed my lambs feed my sheep Joh. 21.15 and thou art Peter upon this rock I will build my Church Math. 16.18 Now the Pope is a Minister also if you will take his word for it of Jesus Christ by vertue of the words of Christ aforesaid and he sits and rules at Rome where Peter governed Christs Church as they say therefore the Pope is Peters successor and head of the Christian world upon the foresaid account Do not the Protestant Ministers smile at such argumentations for the Popes supremacy and do the Ministers who are in contradistinction to the Pope argue any better for their succession and authority to be the Apostles successors their Ministers Bishops to be jure divino because Christ said to his Apostles ' Lo I am with you to the end of the world for suppose that Christ had said in plain terms ' Lo I will be with you your successors to the end of the world will it be rational to say quia antecedens ideo hoc consequens therefore we are specifically the said successors must there not be something else looked into and to be proved before they conclude ergo we are successors of the Apostles by reason Christ said ' Lo I am with you and your successors to the end of the world What are there no more maides then Maukin may there not be another sort of successors besides these claimers unto it which if there may be then it s but like the arguing of the man aforesaid for his sonne to be the Bishop of C. Surely Haman had a little better ground of argumentation for his perswading himself that he was only the man from former received and peculiar favours fom the King Est 3.1 2. 5.11 that the King would delight still to honour him above all others chap. 6. v. 7. and therefore upon surmise v. 7. he saith to the King upon the Kings asking what should be done to the man the King delighted to honour v. 6. Let the royal apparel be brought forth which the King useth to wear and the horse the King rideth upon and the crown royall which is upon his head and let this apparell and the horse be delivered to one of the Kings most noble Princes that they may array the man whom the King delighteth to honour and bring him on horseback through the streets of the City proclaim before him ' thus shall it be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour what was Haman therefore the man truly he thought he should be the man upon the said same antecedent probability for it but yet he was deceived for it was another whom Haman never dreamed of Hence we say is it good arguing that the Apostles must have successors by vertue of Christs speech which we have not yet well considered of Math. 28.20 therefore we are their successors and so Ministers of Jesus Christ who can there be none but Haman which notes troubling that the King doth delight to honour is there not a Mordecai the hidden contrite teacher that he at last may have the honour conferred upon him that Haman was more then confident was intended for him Therefore he who argues from the general to the special as belonging to it must argue from the general to the special secundum id generis quod est in specie according to that of the generall that is in the speciall which is to be applied thus to our purpose The Ministers aforesaid do claim their ministration from the Apostles because they doubt not though the words they bring will not remove their doubt but the Apostles were to have successors and if successors then they themselves are the successors but how do

been disturbed and disquieted in their former opinions and purity by reason of the audaciousnesse and impudency of the opposers of his tenents we say it that we were are and we hope shall be bold in the cause of God against sin and Satan and the upholders of his kingdom but we were never so audacious and impudent as himself who in Suffolk changed his name and called himself Doctor Kendall of Pembrook-Hall How beit we will use his pretended motives for our reall incentives who saith and that truly therein that because many of the people are not able to buy volumes nor by reason of the weaknesse of their capacities and small growth in grace are able so readily to apprehend the clearnesse and perspicuity of the truth upon the hearing of them nor yet clearly to distinguish betwixt them and falshood vailed under truths svizard we have therefore for their satisfaction and the edification of all men as also for the confirmation of the truth presented unto publick view some few collections which being seriously weighed considered and digested may by the blessing of God enable the weakest if willing to discover truth from falshood Amen Now whereas he adds he is willing both to spend which is true of his own money and other mens also and to be spent for the Israel of God It is a grosse peece of hypocrisie for it is their way that he opposeth Psal 73.1 Surely God is good to Israel even to them that are of a clean heart And yet he saith it being the end for which we are what we are that is if he speaks of himself his way and practise a very Gusmond Finally he tels his Readers that they are upon the Stage Which is true of the Theatre of this world where we hope they will act Israels part better then he hath hitherto done and we will with him wish them to fight the good fight of faith which is not for sin or Satan as his Vindication tels us but for Christ against both and then we may as truly as he doth deceitfully assure them you and all the Israel of God that the victory shall be glorious more glorious then his hath been hitherto or is likely to be hereafter without a sudden and earnest repentance through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom be glory for ever Amen And now we crave leave to speak a word or two to those that have abetted the Vindicator or do any way favour his doctrine and therein to advertise them of these things in the name and bowels of Christ First that this doctrine is not the Protestants doctrine though it may be called a Protestant doctrine for there are many distinct Churches all whose faith and doctrine are called Protestant because in many things they protest against the Church of Rome of which the Calvinistical is the worst and most erroneous the Lutherans is the next and in some things more orthodox then the former And the third is the ancient English reformed Protestant which is far the best of all the three for our Reformers desired to tread in the footsteps of Antiquity according to their best sight and comprehension which the other and especially the Calvinists were carelesse to do and in many things refractory thereagainst and though we in the point of original sin may seem to differ from our English Church which received that by tradition from many of the Fathers yet when occasion shall serve we shall make it manifest that we have not only divine authority for that and other things also wherein we seem to some to be out of the common road but we have the first Fathers of the Church and the first reformers as well as many of the latter on our side and what dishonour will it bring to God or disconsolation to parents whose children die in infancy that we affirm that all children are now born without original taint or guilt or why should an allegoricall speech Rom. 5. of our naturall and personall Adam or an hyperbolical speech of David Psal 51. so far impose upon us though not rightly looked into by some others in many ages as openly to contradict many other Scriptures vindicating Gods mercy and justice Secondly that this doctrine of the Vindicators which we oppose is bottomlesse like the place from whence it came that is it hath no foundation in the Scripture whereas we have brought some hundreds of Texts and might have brought more to clear up the truth and piety of our tenents for we dare challenge all the Calvinists in the world to prove any of these assertions upon which the contrary doctrine is built by clear Texts of Scripture First that we shall not be perfected in grace till the day of Iudgment so as to be presented without spot or wrinkle or any such thing whereas we have remonstrated two things to the contrary first that many places which our adversaries understand of that day speak clearly of Christs second coming to us in the Spirit and inner-man and secondly that we must be made holy and without blemish not in that day but before it and in order unto it Phil. 1.6 10 11. 1 Thess 5.32 1 Tim. 6.12 13 14 15. 2 Pet. 3.14 and secondly that we shall not be perfected in grace or the righteousnesse of sanctification untill we come into Heaven or the full kingdome of God for we have shewed that justification which is all one with sanctification must of necessity go before glorification Rom. 8.30 Tit. 3.4 5 6 7. and so must full obedience and doing of Gods will if the Lord affords time and means be fore the enjoyment of the promises 2 Cor. 5.10 ' then we must receive the things done in our bodies that is a time not of sowing but of reaping reward Gal. 6.9 to wit of life and glory Heb. 10.36 2 Tim. 4.7 8. Thirdly they say that sin shall be mortified and abolished by corporal death and not by the spirit of grace only contrary to Rom. 8.13 but if ye mortifie the deeds of the body by the Spirit ye shall live and Rom. 12.21 be not overcome of the evil but overcome the evil with the good See 1 Joh. 1.7 9. and chap. 14. and 5.3.4 Rev. 7.14 and 12.10 11. Fourthly they say that the Spirit of God will abolish the remainders of sin in the hour of the corporal death and not before contrary to the import of innumerable Scriptures Psal 31.15 My times are in thine hand deliver me from the hands of mine enemies and 39.13 ' O spare me that I may recover strength before I go hence and be no more seen and 41.5 Mine enemies speak evil of me when shall he die and his name perish and vers 10 11. But thou O Lord be merciful unto me raise me up that I may requite them by this I know thou favourest me because mine enemies do not triumph over me and 54.4 5. Behold God is my helper the Lord is with them that uphold my soul he