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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

not to be in these after days expected though it be said Wisdom 7.27 Wisdome entreth into holy souls and maketh them friends of God and Prophets and Rev. 18.20 Rejoyce over her thou Heaven and the holy Apostles and Prophets and such also we look for when the new heavens and the new earth cometh wherein dwelleth righteousnesse 2 Pet. 3.13 And when the everlasting Gospel cometh to be better known and preached anew to them that dwell on the earth c. also then will Pastors be given by Christ according to his own heart Jer. 3.15 with such gifts as those had Ephes 4.11 who shall officiate in teaching his Church according to his own order and discipline in the mean time we cannot tel how to perswade our selves that our Presbyterrian publique Ministers or Bishops nor any other divided opinions among us who call themselves Ministers of Jesus Christ are more then Ministers for Jesus Christ in a prudential way which yet we do not despise but honour them if sober and peaceable in their ministration for we believe the said ministration to be very serviceable to righteous and just ends even to have its service until the time of a better reformation then we have yet seen for we see former if not worse deformities acted under other names and imployments of Ministers utinam id verum non esset But we say no more at present save only wish all whom it may concern to mind the words of St. James 2.12 13. So speak and so do as they that are to be judged by the Law of liberty or freedom for there shall be judgement saith the Apostle v. 13. without mercy to him that sheweth no mercy which Christ doth not relate to friends only but to reputed enemies Math. 5.44 c. and mercy rejoyceth over judgment Jam. 2.13 that is from the Father of mercies whose mercy is over all his works Psal 45.9 and if they do so speak and do c. then we doubt not according to that 2 Cor. 10.6 but the messenger of the Lord of Hosts will suddenly return again to his Temple Mal. 3.1 and build up once again the Tabernacle of David which is fallen down c. Act. 15.16 17. but in the mean time their service whose souls are not lifted up Hab. 2.4 in a prudential way of ministrarion will be acceptable to the Lord in their measure according to that Mal. 3.16 c. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name and they shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts in the day when I shall make up my jewels or special treasure and I will spare them as a man spareth his own sonne that serveth him then shall ye discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not Mal. 3.16 17 18. FINIS The Contents of the Integral or of this whole Book is distributed into a Tricotomie and offered to the Readers view that he may primo intuitu perceive what he shall if he please find despersed and argued à capite ad calcem throughout the same THE first part of it is a genuine and fit Paraphrase on the Vindicators Hypocritical Saint like Preface And first a Paraphrase upon the salutation in the Preface To all the Lovers in his sense of Gods truth c. Secondly a Paraphrase on the Preface it felf consisting of many Paragraphs in coloured words of Scripture-phrase to deceive the hearts of the simple The Revindication it self comprehends two parts First the Anasceuastick confutative part i. e. to confute by answering the Vindicators pretended Scriptures and Fathers which he doth rashly and ignorantly produce to justifie his pernicious positions placed in the front of his Vindication wherein we trace him from pag. 2. to p. 146. The second part of the aforesaid Tricotomie is Catasceuastick the confirmative part of our contrary assertions by several Topick heads of Scripture testimonies Secondly by humane testimonies first of the Fathers commonly so called Secondly our English reformed Church in our first reformation from page 146. to p. 200. The last part of the foresaid Tricotomie consists of two sorts of Queries occasioned from our overforward contenders and Censurers and offered to them or whomsoever they may concern to pensitate with serious thoughts The first sort of them are to such as fix two magisterially their own sense before they have deliberately considered it upon some particular Scriptures as if their sense were before they are sure of it the very mind of the Lord in the said places some Scripture instances we have set down mistaken we appeal to all impartial Readers by several persons as that of John 3.5 6. by one Mr. Stevens who doth weakly call the said place their strong reason to maintain his old tradition of original sin in his shallow Book called A threefold defence of original sin Other instances of Scriptures in a mistaken sense are those Isaiah 64.6 Phil. 3.8 9. mistaken by two grave Committee men who have been our back friends in the County of Wilts Thus we have delivered the summe of the Tricotomy of our Book intituled A Revindication It s true we have inserted some personal reflections which do not concern every Reader and therefore it may be said they might have been left out as if they savoured of a like Spirit we answer we must commit that to him who knoweth all things we have much more to say a-against some and to vindicate the deceased whose death we wish them to consider of that were so violent against him who was more knowing I am sure and more meek I am affraid then themselves and we thought it not amisse to name some passages and persons having been so publickly wronged by the same that the world may see what unruly spirits there are in these dayes of reformation against the Doctrine of a possibility of a total mortification of sinne in this life because it hath been for the said Doctrine we have been traduced in the Vindicators senselesse Vindication and also through many counties it hath been sounded and ecchoed out that we are Jesuits and Factors for Rome so strangely and unexpectedly is Rome it seems by the foresaid callumny reduced as to hire us to publish and convince a possibility of a total mortification of sinne in this life and to cry up a possibility of a perfect obedience to the law of God in this life If this be to be vile we are content to be more vile 2 Sam. 6.22 If I have spoken evil bear witness of the evil John 18.23 Here are some Errata referring to the book aforesaid which we desire the Reader to take notice of for the better understanding what we mean in the respective places we confess they might by the mutual and diligent care of all parties of us concerned have been prevented therefore we do not excuse our selves that it could not be helped saying in many things we offend all for our endeavour here hath been to prove a possibility to live in this life through the grace and help of Christ without offence and therefore these Errata we acknowledge did happen by our neglect and oversight who were mutually concerned to have looked better about us Sed nihil factum infectum fiers potest it s too late now to mend them otherwise then by their subscription therefore we desire the Reader when he perceiveth in any page of the book a Crupsis either of inversion redundancy or defect of words to make grammatical construction then to reflect upon these nominated Errata to rectifie the sense of the said place and as for the objectum occupans and adjunctum occupat about the same we leave them to the Readers censure as he pleaseth PAraph p. 2. l 34. r. service l. 36. d. fore l. 37. r. 13.11 p. 7. l. 2. r. to reproch them for l. 29. r. Wilton p. 9. l. 39. after preface r. and positions p. 12. l. 2. for said r. side p. 13. l. 29. r. Act. 19. p. 15. l. 1. r. to do wickedly Book p. 2. l. 6. r. catasceuastically p. 25. l. 18. r. Mat. 22. p. 26. l. 28. r. 1 John 2.22 p. 37. l. 6. r. 1 Cor. 3.1 2 3. p. 39. l. 10. r. Sidkenu p. 35. l. 12. d. not p. 82. l. ult adde be p 100. l. 37. adde is p. 106. l. 21. f. servant r. Son p. 112. l. 23. del not p. 117. l. 30. r. as it is p. 127. l. 19. r. because of him p. 136. l. 1 2. d. it p. 139. l. 15. r. Joh. 5.40 p. 144. l. 17. f. note r. vote l. 30. r. commander l. 31. f. whence r. whom p. 188. l. 25. adde be p. 200. l. 4. f. held r. bold p. 210. l. 20. r. the res testata l. 23. f. prudentia r. constantia p. 217. l. 17. f. rules r. rites p. 228. l. 7. del a. p. 229. l. 22. r. Phil. 3.6 7 8. p. 230. l. 29. d. through the faith of Jesus p. 233. l. 10. after nature r. 2 Pet. 1.4 p. 241. l. 2. r. related p. 16. l. ult r. id bruti p. 243. l. 28. r. before all the people l. 29. d. the people p. 245. l. 10. f. who r. what p. 254. l. 10. r. yea not to be believed they can be c. p. 256. l. 8. after earth r. Rev 14.6

he brings out a testimony that speaks of the ceremonial Law especially which no man could bear or fulfill of himselfe though it was far lighter then the moral Law Act. 15.10 Now therefore why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither we nor our fathers were able to beare It is not saith he the priviledge of the Church militant to have no defect or imperfection remaining It is true of the Church collectively taken but we have proved before that some have ended their warfare here before they goe hence Isai 40.1 2. 2 Tim. 4.7 Ephe. 6.13 Here saith he we pray enter not into judgement with thy servants O Lord. O that my ways were so directed that I might learn thy statutes Make me a clean heart O God But doe the Saints pray so always to the end of their life They that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof Gal. 5.24 and Christ only lives in them Gal. 2.20 Here saith he we still find need of Christ who is our advocate with God the Father 1 Ioh. 2.12 But who are they that need him still as a propitiator or purger out of sin for Ioh. speaks there to the babes My little children and yet he speaks to them not to sin that is not to continue in sin and for that end he sets forth a helper of them there against sin as for the young men he saith that they had overcome the wicked one Ioh. 2.13 14. how much more had the old men so done Pag. 34. He tels us that what he hath before written may suffice to satisfie them whose eyes the God of this world hath not blinded That sin will have a being in the best of men so long as our souls have a being in these houses of clay But we dare conclude that if any man rest satisfied therewith in that point that his eyes were never yet truly opened to behold the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God 2 Cor. 4.4 But he prays all the faithful to joyn with him in supplications to God for his adversaries that they may see their own sins And so doe we also for our selves and reciprocally for him and them yet will not that follow that we shall be ashamed of our doctrine as he hopes we shall For we have not drawn the same from any such puddles as he is pleased to call them to wit Pelagius Bellarmine Baily Becanns the Jesuits or from the Adamites who conceived that they were renewed to Adams first purity unlesse he will have the second Adam as he cals Christ the Prophets and Apostles to be such Adamites Nor have we learned them from Romes fraternity now crept in amongst us who are as he saith well versed in the old trade of Arch-hereticks what is that even his own handicraft in falsifying of truth or Text rather for the truth may be denyed or abused but not falsified whatsoever he saith to the contrary to maintain lyes But he doth hope and so doe we also that God will discover such in due time by us or some other of his servants and in the interim keep his who are no patrons for sin nor latrons from the due observance of Gods Law by the help of Christ from being subverted by them But he goes on what men without sin saith he Yes the Angel shewed John many thousands that had been such upon the earth as we proved before out of Rev. 7.14 and 14.4 5 6. Yea John did demonstrate some such unto us before of his own society 1 Joh. 4.17 18. and 5.18 But he scoffingly saith it was happy for the woman that was taken in adultery that her accusers were not such as these preachers Why doe we professe our selves to be without sin But it will be found our fault and his also if we live and dye in our sins now that there is such a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem for sin and for uncleannesse Zach. 13.1 And yet it will not follow that if there had been one yea many such impeccant persons there of which none are to be found among the proud and censorious Pharisees that the said delinquent should have had a volly of stones about her ears for who are more sensible of humane frailty then such as have passed through the same or who are more merciful then such as have obtained mercy to put away all cruelty pride and wickednesse through the help of Christ yet must Christs expresse commandements be observed But he comes upon us with the Apostles Creed saying What need is there to believe the Article of the forgivenesse of sin if men may live without sin True if they could come into this world live here many years and goe out again without commiting of sin But if sin that is once in cannot be purged out again nor the image of God renewed nor the Law fulfilled what need is there to beleeve in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth and in Iesus Christ his only son our Lord who is called Jesus because he came to save his people from their sins Mat. 1.21 and called Christ because he is anointed for that very work Isai 61.1 2 3 4. yea why doe we believe that he is risen again for our justification or regeneration Rom. 4.25 or in the Holy Ghost that there is an Holy catholick Church whom Christ came to sanctifie by the washing of water through the word that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing Epes 5.25 26 27. Pag. 34 35. he gives us this advice as a point of good religion To turn the Lords precepts into prayers and to say with holy David who a little before had his secret sins and his foul sins but now is called holy David Psalm 43.3 Send out O Lord thy light and thy truth and let them lead me into the holy mountain and unto thy Tabernacle and as is Psalm 143.10 Let thy good Spirit lead me into the land of righteousnesse To which we say it is a point of good religion indeed for as the whole duty of man by the testimony of Solomon consists herein to wit in fearing God and keeping his commandements Eccles 12.13 So his father David made the 119 Psalm which is the longest meditation extant in the whole book of Psalms a devout prayer for grace to understand and fulfill Gods Commandements and left it to the Church as an holy Alphabet to know their duty both of prayer and obedience thereby But would the Vindicator have men pray in faith or unbeliefe for if the thing be not possible to be had in this life they cannot pray for it in faith and if it is attainable his second position fals to the ground And if Gods light and truth must lead us into the mountain or tabernacle of his righteousnesse then all