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A54844	The new discoverer discover'd by way of answer to Mr. Baxter his pretended discovery of the Grotian religion, with the several subjects therein conteined : to which is added an appendix conteining a rejoynder to diverse things both in the Key for Catholicks, and in the book of disputations about church-government and worship, &c. : together with a letter to the learned and reverend Dr. Heylin, concerning Mr. Hickman and Mr. Bashaw / by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing P2186; ESTC R44	268,193	354

Presbyterian Independent and Erastian as not the Scriptural way nor the way of Christ. And if all Protestants are reducible to those 4. Heads as sure they are then 't is clear that you write against all the Protestants and make men run into Popery by way of Refuge Or if you fright them also from thence by your winding-sheet or your Key you leave them to be nothing but Iewes and Heathens And I would very fain know what sort of Christians in all the world you have not endeavour'd to Disgrace at one time or another either in earnest or in jest I do seriously profess I can think of none 5. You do exceedingly commend the very same sort of Papists and with the same kind of Praises which Grotius give 's them You say * Grot. Rel. p. 10. when you read their publick writings you think they are now Blessed Soules with Christ. You read them with a great deal of Love and honour to the writers The French moderation is acceptable to all good men That Nation is an honourable ☜ part of the Church of Christ in your Esteem Much more must yo● honour the Pacificatory Endeavours of any that attempt the healing of the Church Can you blame Mr. Crandon or any reall Presbyterian for thinking or saying you are a Papist when they read such stuffe and compare it with what you say against Grotius will they not shrug or shake their heads with a Totus Mundus exer●et Histrioniam 6. Why should you labor to deceive the vulgar people into a Belief that the ablest Protestants in the land are Grotian Papists in the number of which I am far from reckoning my self unless it were to this end that the simple ones may flye from such as are Protestants indeed and shelter themselves under the Papists for feare of Popery I mean the Papists who march about eject the Protestants and succeed them as well in the profits of their Places as in the priviledge of their Pulpits under the Title and Maske of Presbyterians So very fitly was it said by our Learned and Reverend * See his Unanswerable Preface to the second Edition of his first Sermons Dr. Sanderson That your Party have been the great Promoters of the Roman Interest among us that you have hardened the Papists and betrayed the Protestant Cause 7. You refuse to joyne with us Protestants in the Publick Liturgy of the Church and to Communicate with us in the Sacrament of Eucharist according to the prescription of Lawes and Canons which doth the rather become an Argument of your being turn'd Papist Because in all such s●tatutes as have been made since the first year of Queen Elizabeth against Popish Recusants The refusing to be present at common-Common-Prayer or to receive the Sacrament according to the Formes and Rights mentioned in that Book is expressed as the most proper legal Character whereby to distinguish a Popish Recusant from a true Protestant In so much that Use hath been made of that very Character in sundry Acts since the beginning of the long Parliament for the taxing of double Payments upon Recusants Which very Argument was used by † Reasons of the present Iudgment c. p. 34. the University of Oxford against the Ordinance for the Directory imposed on them 8. In that you profess your self a Protestant and yet declare against all four waies Episcopal Presbyterian Independent and Erastian giving out that the way of Christ must be compounded of all fower you help to justifie the Papists in the reproaches which they cast upon our Religion Ib. p. 5. That we know not what our Religion is That since we left them we know not where to stay and that our Religion is a * Harding confut of Apology part 6. ch 2. Parliamentary Religion Would you have done them so great a service if you had not been of their side A likely matter 9. Your not allowing the Civil Magistrate to be Supreme in all Causes as well Ecclesiastical as Civil doth very clearly discover your partialitie to A Pope The Oath of Supremacy here in England was purposely framed for such as You. 10. It was observed by Bishop Bramhall against * p. ●5 Militiere that the private whispers and printed insinuations of Papists touching the Church of England's coming about to shake hands with the Roman in the points controverted was merely devised to gull some silly Creatures whom they found too apt to be caught with cha●f And That Art which was us'd to begin our Breach you have craftily continued to make it wider For intus existens prohibet Alienum whilst the Episcopal Protestants are kept from being cast out the Roman Religion can never enter 11. You are a Papist as much as Grotius though you should prove as much a Protestant as Grotius was But you do every where contend that Grotius was a Papist and so at least in that Notion you must needs be a Papist as well as He. 12. You † Grot. Relig. profess to approve of pacificatory Attempts between us and the Papists p. 30. and that you are zealously desirous of it p. 20. and that you honour the peaceable Dispositions of the late Episcopal Divines p. 21. Which being duly compar'd with all you say against Grotius and against the late Episcopal Divines and this again being compar'd with what you have written both for and against the Directory as well as for and against the Common-prayer and against the very Covenant which you pretended to be for and for Episcopacy it self which yet you Covenanted against may lay a ground of Suspicion that you have gotten a Dispensation to use your Tongue and your pen as you see occasion you having been both for and against the Papists as well as for and against the Presbyterians 13. Whilst you labour to prove that Grotius turn'd Papist you are doing the Papists a special service by robbing our Churches of such a prop and by tempting as many to turn Papists as do believe that Grotius knew what was best Whereas the true Protestants on the contrary are encouraged to adhere to the Church of England however disgraced and forsaken by a revolting people by the Iudgment of Grotius that she was neerest unto the Primitive in point of purity and pious Order 14. The Design which is laid by you and others for the Introduction of Poperie is driven on by those means which you have * See your Christian Concord p. 46 47. acknowledged your self to be proper and suitable to the work notwithstanding you have hid them with other Names The first part of the plot is to blow up the sparkes of Schism and Haeresie that our Church being divided may become odious and men be prepared for a Remove The second is An Incessant Indeavour to infect all persons especially those in power Civil or Military with the opinion of Libertinism for which look back on Chap. 3. that so your Doctrines and Practises may have

were much contemn'd by one another To say that Mr. Calvin ascribeth Sin to Gods impulse and that Dr. Twisse defendeth Zuinglius affirming God to be the Author of Adultery and Murder and to cite their pages wherein their words are to be seen is to discover their Doctrines and no farther to meddle with the men When the most learned Mr. Hales even whilst he was a Calvinist not yet converted by † See Mr. Farindon's Accompt prefixt to Hales his Remains Episcopius told in one of his Letters t● Sir Dudley Carleton how Gomarus pleaded for this po●ition * See Mr. Hales his Letter of Decemb. 12.1618 p. 47. that God did predestine men to Sin we cannot say that Mr. Hales did load that Synodist with obloq●y by relating the story with his dislike and saying he mended the Question as Tinkers mend Kettles making it worse then it was before But what can be possibly so absurd which Mr. Bagshaw will not dare to put in print when he is Angry He sayes I seem to be enamour'd upon my numerous issue when yet his very Calumny implies his self-Contradiction For he conclude● me the Father of the severall Reflections o● his Discourse although he knows I never own'd them And could he think it my Issue upon which I was enamour'd but would not own Had I indeed been the Author of all those Bookes of which by enemies and friends I have been suspected Mr. Bagshaw might have call'd it a numerous issue And of some of those many he might suppose me to be enamour'd could I have had but the madnesse to think them mine I have disowned so many Bookes since Oxford was visited with the Plague not because I conceiv'd them unworthy of me but because I would not be overvalued nor offend like the old or the new Bathyllus Perhaps indeed I am the Author of as many things which shall be namelesse as those to which I have put my name But doe's it follow I am the Author of those Reflections for which Mr. Bagshaw hath rail'd against me as if I had really been one of his Quondam-Masters I deny that sequel and let him prove it if he is able Or can I seem to be enamour'd of a numerous issue who would not be thought to be the parent of as many as I may but of as few as I think I must But I am probably to be blam'd for taking notice so much at large of so lewd a writer Whose inhumanity towards me without the least shadow or shew of reason I having never provok'd him in any kind unlesse it were by my peaceable and passive silence as it hath antidoted the venome which he hath spit at Mr. Busby so to be hated by such a person with such a person as Mr. Busby will I doubt not procure me his Readers Love Having now done with Mr. Bagshaw I bid him heartily Farewell Nor do I say it as a complement or word of Course but as wishing him Repentance and change of Life Of the other Oxonian I take no leave as having given him no more then a Salutation and as supposing he may deserve a more elaborate entertainment If Sir I have tyr'd you with too much length I will not detain you any longer than whilst I may humbly desire your pardon and very heartily commend you to the special guidance of the Almighty in whom I am and shall be ever Your sincerely affectionate and humble Servant THOMAS PIERCE Brington Iuly 7. 1659. 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