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A62156	Righteous judgment placed upon the heads of malicious opposers and persecuting apostates in some brief animadversions upon Francis Buggs book, entitled, De Christiana libertate, in which his great weakness and gross wickedness is detected, his foul defamations and uncivil reflections are reprehended : with a seasonable warning to him and the rest of his abettors in their mischievous work of opposition to and separation from, the Lord and his people / by a lover of peace, Robert Sandilands : together with an Ingredient by another hand.	Sandilands, Robert.; Richardson, Richard, 1623?-1689. Another ingredient against the venom in F.B.'s book.	1683 (1683)	Wing S661; ESTC R32326	57,765	142

of the evil of thy doings repent thereof and so obtain Mercy from the God of all Mercy whom thou hast grievously provoked to wrath against thee by the many abusive slanders and unchristian Calumnies reproaching his holy Innocent Heritage But in Case I should not be answered therein and thou rather prove more obstinate perverse and peevish against me and the Lords people and so should take occasion by this to bring forth and Publish to the World more gross lyes impertinent and ridiculous stories or such-like to thy forme I do not intend to take much notice thereof or spend my time so as to enter into a list of Controversie with thee For as I said already it was farr beyond my expectation ever to have been Concerned with thee or any of thy party on this score in these things where there is little or no satisfaction found especially when we have to do with Cross heady and unreasonable brutish Persons And so farr now as I have cleared my Conscience and discharged my Duty I shall enjoy Peace with my God and rest satisfied being singly given up to follow him and honestly to perform that Service he hath allotted for me in my generation and which as most proper for me to attend in that station he shall place me though I should never set Pen to peaper or thus Publicly appear again in these comfortless Contentions and endless debates for I do well understand in my small measure wherein the true Victory is obtained and which I know cannot be by all the blusterings Noises and Clamours of wrong rambling and bragging Spirits detained from such who are kept in a meek quiet harmless and Innocent mind whose Souls are possessed in Patience and whose habitations are preserved in that vertuous Blessed truth in which alone is the true overcoming experienced Everlasting Glory to God on High Amen saith my Soul R. S. ANOTHER INGREDIENT Against The Venom in E. B's Book F. BUGG abetting W. R. c. Like a Conceited man Entitles his Book to the Primitive Discipline but Handles it not but names Evagrius and New Sirnames him Scholasticus as if it were to get himself thereby the opinion of a Schollar And Dedicates his Book to his Honoured Friend H. N. Kt. as writ many years since as if he Honoured Antiquity arguing from it p. 7. If so let him hear the many Authors following many Ages Ancienter disclam the later Author's Error which is also his Author 's which bears its own Evidence of its utmost Age with it The Dutch Wars which it mentions Into whose Errors he leads his Honoured Friend as for his part and his Readers to whom he commends his Book to be read after the Scriptures and Ri. Hub. and F. H s. works p. 215 without any exception caution praemunition or anuotation in his Episile Preface or Margin but owns his judgment as his own in this subject Praef to the 2d part Now Conscience is the Subject of the position that Conscience is free and is not that the Subject of the Book In the beginning whereof he makes the light therein in some at ●ast onely Natural and not Divine Universally in all men Contrary to the Scriptures John 1 9. And makes Conscience at least in some a reflect Act of the Soul Whereas the Scripture saith the Conscience also witnesseth with them Rom. 2 15. and thoughts between themselves accuse or excuse one another Dialogue wise then there must needs be two Diologismos And the word Conscience seemes to be used as it were in the Concrete as they term it that which exercises 2 Pet. 1 4. Jam. 3 4. of God that which is exercised of man as Nature Naturizing the Creator Naturized the creature And Calvin himself though a main man for the Presbyterian Doctrin inclines to the Divinity of the light in men Universally though a little shy of speaking more positively for fear of abuse by Phanaticks as he calls them But to go higher to those Fathers as Clemens Alex. Justin M. and other cited already by our Friends ss by Wm. Pen G. Keith and others of our Friends I hope I may have leave without reflection n = * And let not F. B. swel as raising all the dust because on thewheel For t is to the Reader I bring them whom he seeks to pervert proselyte as Simon did the Deputy make worse than himself Mat. 13. Acts 13. on this occasion to add some other writers I not known or remember have yet observed by others to shew ourjudgment agrees with the ancients though many of late years call it a new light some no mean men as W Prin though it may seem strange that perjudice should so blind such a great Antiquary John Selden the greater if not the greatest of late times is not so blinded but that he both sees and approves the general acknowledgment of the Learned before the year 1400. that the light in the Soul of man Universally is Divine De jure Naturali Gent. lib. 1 cap. 9. As first The Gentiles in whom Paul says that which may be known of God is manifest Epicharmus says mans reason sprung from God which is agreeable to what Paul alledges out of Aratus which reason must be understood of the Divine Reason Acts 17.28 as Justine Martyr Irenaeus and others understand it Logos theos Antoninus Emp says the understanding agent is that which God hath given to every one for a Guide of the Divine Nature So Plato Priscianus Lydus Alexander Aphrodusaeus Marinus Neopolitanus Aristotle Themistius n = * Thought to be about Moses time The Author of Pimander Hermes speaking of Divine Preaching without which men are Ignorant for what they are made and whereby The Antient Hebrews say that the understanding that acts is God and in their later Discipline an intermediate Minister as appears by Maimonides citing their Doctors Shechinah ruahh and that not onely for general principles of good and evil but also for particulars what they are the Conclusions and propositions to be shewen perpetually So the Arabians Avicenno Avorroes Argazel c. say That the understanding that acts is a thing separate by Divine Ordination though they agree not of its degree And that it is not humane form nor a part of it but something more Divine More of the Heathen Arabians John Philoponus hath l. 3. c. 5. de an l. 2 de Intel ag and Albertus Magnus Bonaventure Zabarella and others The contrary opinion That F. Bugg's First part owns his Second disowns not that I find was coming in or growing on about 400 years since Anno 1250. And therefore opposed by the Universities of Oxford and Paris and the Chief in them in those t●mes as Robt. of Lincoln W Avern of Paris Adam de Marisco c. R. Bacon M. S. to P. Clem. 4. c. 28. Cited at large by J. Selden opposes the Modern that said A. 1290. The Agent Intelect was part of the Soul All the Ancients saith he till