Heaven And rather say I than to wrest them to a sinister Sense disagreeing from the whole Current of the Gospel as you have done with those Texts mentioned often by you for the Confirmation of your Opinion viz. Mat. 7.14 Strait is the Gate and narrow is the Way which leadeth to Life and few there be that find it And Luke 12.32 Fear not little Flock it is your Fathers good Pleasure to give you the Kingdom and Mat. 20.16 Many are called but few are chosen So Mat. 22.14 To shew you your Error in these it is needless here having said enough of it already in my Antidote set forth against you which hath been sufficient in the Judgment of Rational Men to expel the Poison of your corrupt Doctrine Reflector They that hold the Opinion of the small number that shall be saved alledge the Rigour of the Examination at the day of Judgment and the words of St. Paul in the 2 Cor. c. 5. v. 10. For we must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad c. Answer Those who hold it And are not you one of them that hold it Nay do you not in Rigor surpass all men that ever held it by uncharitable Judging and Condemning your confident boldness therein will appear more in the Sequel of this Discourse But to our present Business First I do not like your uncouth word here Rigor as you use it A more Reverend Term might in this Case have easily been thought upon by you and more proper for your purpose but that your rigid Spirit would have an unseasonable Vent according to its Humor whether with Sense or without you cared not There shall it's true be a strickt and severe Examination at that day of all the whole Race of Mankind all their Thoughts Words and Works shall be made manifest and placed in order before them Gods law-Law-Book which may be called his doomsday-Doomsday-Book whether it be the Law of Works for such as are in a Reprobate Condition or the Law of Faith for such as are the Elect of God shall then likewise be opened By both which the sin of the World shall be set out in its Colours I mean as the Apostle It shall be made exceeding sinful for by the Law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3.20 All this and whatever else you Mr. Reflector can be able to add warrantably from the written word of God concerning that most exact scrutiny and search that shall then be into the Hearts and Lives of all Mankind I do readily consent unto for it will be the day of the Lords Vengeance upon all his Enemies who lived and died in their Malice against him and knowing the terror of the Lord we should all be perswaded in this our day to know the things that belong unto our Peace before they be hidden from our Eyes But after all he granted which you can well Imagine what will be the result of this Righteous Examination Will a general Damnation follow upon it Yes must you say for so you have said though most impiously else your arguing comes to nothing As for your alienating the matter in the twenty fourth Page of your Book it is not a retracting of your bold Censure You say indeed the Apostle did by the Consideration of the Terror of the Lord perswade men to fly to Jesus Christ but what 's this to your opinion of the general Damnation That you hold still in worse terms as may be seen in the following parts of your Discourse than any of your Fraternity for ought I know ever did before you and such as cannot enter into the Heart of Man to conceive which is not void of all Humanity I will therefore here tell you what I believe will be the sequel of this great Judgment and Scrutiny I do not say it shall be for your Condemnation or mine because I hope and pray that both you and I shall before we die repent us of our sins you of your misjudging the World and I of my misjudging you if I have offended therein and of my many other failings wherein I am too sure I have very much offended But this I say that when the horrible Ugliness of sin shall then be discovered an Amazement shall generally seize upon men for their folly in committing it insomuch that those who have been tryed by the Law of Works and are found guilty of the Violation of that Law as all unbelievers and impenitent Persons shall be will say to the Mountains and Rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sits upon the Throne and from the Wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his Wrath is come and who shall be able to stand But others that have been tryed by the Law of Faith and have thereupon found their Judge to be their Advocate as I believe a great multitude not one alone amongst many Millions but a great multitude Rev. 7.9 which no man can number of all Nations and Kindred and People and Tongues i. e. The major part of Mankind shall find him to be they shall then lay aside their Amazements at their former Folly and with loud Acclamations Chant out their Hallelujahs ascribing Blessing and Honour and Glory and Power unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever These undoubtedly are some of the immediate Consequents that will follow upon the Righteous Judgment of that great Day Some I say for I do not take upon me to determine of all but only what concerns our present purpose viz. the beginning of everlasting Sorrows to all the Reprobate and the beginning of everlasting Happiness to all the Elect People of God I know there will follow the Justification of the Judge himself for it is called Rom. 2.5 The day of the Revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God which may be taken not only in an active Sense but in a passive which will signifie that which is written he will be justified in all his sayings and be clear saith the Prophet overcome saith the Apostle when he is judged meaning all mouths shall be then stopped which have been apt to cavil against him and be forced even against themselves to confess the Judgment of God is according to Truth But to return to our purpose You 'll say how shall they that have lived all their days in unbelief and the hardness of their Hearts as the greatest part of Mankind made up of those that are without alienated from the Life of God and those that are within living under the Light of Gods Word yet have been Ignorant and Prophane how shall they be able to stand with any Confidence in the Judgment at the last Day Hereto I have already also given an Answer in my Antidote to which I remit you But because you object so much that terrible
why do you so But before I proceed any further herein let no man here so far mistake me as if I were pleading for Popery It is only to lay open the plain truth in this case without Partiality The Church of Rome is doubtless faulty enough yea most abominable in her Doctrines and Doings yet will it not become us to make it worse than in truth it is She hath Guilt enough upon her that will certainly in Gods due time bring her down wonderfully so that the World shall say Babilon the Great is fallen is fallen But that the aforesaid Opinion of her is a great untruth and consequently that the Doctors Collections from thence were vain shall be here made manifest from that which is past all Contradiction 1. The Author of the said Canon was not a Pope as it hath been Imagined But it was St. Boniface a faithful Martyr of Jesus Christ as in the Title of the said Canon is expressed which Boniface was never Pope but a Virtuous Learned Englishman who lived about nine hundred years past and was the first Archbishop of Mentz in Germany of which People and Countrey he is called the Apostle by antient Writers for that he publickly converted the Nation Erected that Primate See and suffered glorious Martyrdom by the Heathen for the Faith 2. The Canon Si Papa c. was taken by Gratian out of the Writings of that St. Boniface The Introduction into which Canon is according to the words of that Holy Man in this manner Damnatur Apostolicus qui suae Fraternae Salutis est negligens Plagismultis in aeternum vapulaturus The Pope is damned who is negligent in the Affairs of his own Salvation and of his Brethren after which beginneth the Canon Si Papa suae Fraternae Salutis negligens c. Shewing that albeit the Pope have no Superior Judge in this World which may by Authority check him unless he fall into Heresie Yet shall his Damnation be greater than of other sinners for that by Reason of his high Dignity he draweth more after him into Perdition than any other Whereby we may perceive that this Canon was written not to flatter the Pope but to warn him rather of his Peril c. But how then came the World to mistake this Canon as if it said though the Pope should carry many people with him into Hell yet no mortal Creature may presume to say unto him why do you so To give a short Answer to this demand I might relate the story at large and make mention of the names of those Persons engaged in a Contract about this Canon which occasioned those hard words clean differing from the Intent and Scope of it and which did put some upon a more strict Inquiry into it The Result whereof is briefly this some of the words of the said Canon were mis-placed some omitted and some misquoted The omission of that which is in the Canon is this Cum ipso plagis multis in aeternum vapulaturus that such a Pope is to suffer eternal Punishments and to be scourged with many Stripes together with the Devil himself if by his evil and negligent Life he be the cause of others Perdition which Threat being omitted these words as immediately following in the Canon are misplaced and joyned with the Antecedent words which should have been put after viz. Hujus culpas redarguere Praesumit nemo c. That which is mis-quoted is Praesumet for Praesumit no man shall or may presume for no man doth presume to Control Lastly That which followeth containing a Reason of all that went before is left out viz. Quia cunctos ipse judicaturus a nemine est judicandus nisi deprehendatur a fide devius c. For that whereas he is the Judge of all other men he cannot himself be judged by any except he be found to err from the true Faith Here is the case in as few words as it could possibly be put which clearly shew the sinister Sense that hath been put upon that Canon yet this it was certainly which led the Doctor into this Error For saith he it is that which we learn from the Canon Si Papa c. The second mistake is in that he quoteth St. Austin Lib. 1. de verâ falsâ Poenitentia Cap. 5. Affirming that he hath there an excellent Thought as his usual word is whereas if he meaneth by Lib. 1. the first Book as probably that must be the meaning this must go into the mistakes for there is but one Book of that Subject de verâ falsa Poenitentia Neither is that one any of St. Austin's Work But it is thrust in by others as an Appendix only to St. Austin yea more the Author of that Book whoever he was produceth a Sentence out of St. Austin expresly naming him Cap. 17. to which saying of St. Austin the said Author refuseth to give his Consent which is a clear Argument it is not St. Austin's But instead of this mis-quotation I could wish that the Doctor had thorowly perused that Book de verâ falsâ Poenitentiâ for he would have found in that Book a full Confutation of his Opinion concerning a general Damnation and that which I have written in my Antidote to be as fully confirmed Moreover besides these Mistakes the said Doctor after all the dreadful Clamour made of Millions of Millions that shall perish in their sins addeth that which may well be accounted in Effect a plain Contradiction to his Opinion by shewing what is the concurrent Judgment of some English Divines in this Case whom he nameth calling them The true Barnabasses and to whom he subscribes his Consents viz. That the Justice of Gods Tribunal at the last day is full as much laid open in the Pardon of the greatest sinners that Repent as it is in the Vengeance and Punishment of the Impenitent and those that know not God That when Jesus Christ shall come in the last times he will do the same to those that truly have Repented though even at the last Period of their Lives That the Mercies shewen to Zacheus and the Thief upon the Cross were particular and personal but the Comfort which is to be received from thence is common and publick Adding likewise further in the same Page Pag. 39. that the same English Divines do also agree with all the Casuists c. In one considerable mark of a Child of God and which as he saith is comprehensive all Divinity and the practise of Piety and which may also be shut up in one Period to wit that notwithstanding the Atheism whether Speculative or Practical secret or open that Reigns at this day in the World and all the Difficulties which are met with in the Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures which Human Reason cannot unravel and understand a man ought to be strongly and powerfully perswaded of the Truth Goodness and Excellency of the Christian Religion and of this holy
her faithful Children to bow their Bodies in token of Reverence unto him at the mentioning of his Name in their Solemn Assemblies when they are gathered together for the holy Service of Almighty God I have here given my Reader a sight of some of the ugly Errors contained in that scandalous Pamphlet unjustly called Naked Truth which but a few days past came into my hands And having perceived that a leading man here in our Countrey hath been seduced by it who hath as I have heard spoken these words What will Mr. Lane say to this Let him try if he can answer it I was willing to set Pen to Paper for the Vindication of Truth which hath been miserably abused by this Pretender unto it But having since heard also from some of the Seniors of our College by Winton that one hath already set forth an Answer unto it I shall forbear any further medling therewith And though the Author of it calls them Babies and Boobies such are his immodest terms that will write against him yet I am confident such a work as it may be managed will be acceptable to God and all good men Nevertheless I wish with all my heart that Abuses in our Ecclesiastical Courts those I mean that are not Imaginary but Real if there be any such that they may be removed which I believe the Chief Governours of the said Courts will be heartily willing unto FINIS The Contents of the foregoing Discourse upon the words of our Saviour viz. 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