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A43720	Speculem Sherlockianum, or, A looking-glass in which the admirers of Mr. Sherlock may behold the man, as to his accuracy, judgement, orthodoxy by an obedient son of the Church of England.	Hickman, Henry, d. 1692.	1674 (1674)	Wing H1916; ESTC R10759	37,301	72

purpose and that the want of such a life made those Sacrifices abominable to God But it may be questioned whether Mr. T. S. supposed the man who prayed often to be of a blameless innocent honest smooth life yet if he had made that supposition his answer may be good and pertinent for if a man's life be blameless c. if it be not so with relation to God and Men and in every thing his Prayers may avail nothing Plea But I fast sometimes Ans So did the Scribes and Pharisees twice a week Reply It was to devour Widows houses which was not the fast of an honest innocent man It is then granted that a very gross Hypocrite may fast sometimes which is enough to justifie Mr. T. Sh. But where did Mr. Sh. learn that the Scribes and Pharisees did fast twice a week to devour widows houses or that on those fasting dayes they made longer Prayers than other men Yea how doth he prove that the Pharisees devoured widows houses In Mark and Luke this is charged only on the Scribes And though it be charged on the Pharisees Matth. 23.14 yet there is some question made by learned men whether that Verse be not thrust into Matthew Mr. Sh. shall do well to correct Grotius and Brugensis to assert the Authentity of those Greek Copies which our Translators follow and then he may with more confidence say the Pharisees made long Prayers to devour widows houses yet if he will say so before he hath taken such pains I will not reprove him for I am no advocate of Pharisees Plea I hear the Word of God and like the best Preachers Ans So did the stony Ground who heard the Word with joy and for a season believed Mr. Sh 's reply to this is wonderfully delivered in these words This had been well and a good sign of grace if it had continued That is the disposition which was in the hearers compared to the stony ground was a good sign of Grace whil'st it continued but by not continuing it became no sign of Grace Before the scorching Sun came the stony ground was good ground as well as sowed with good seed What is the result of this why Vltima semper Expectanda dies homini est sanctúsque vocari Ante obitum nemo supremáque funera debet Suppose a man doubting of his condition should come to Mr. Sh. and tell him that he rejoyceth in the Word and believeth he will answer this is a good sign of grace if it continue but how shall I know whether it will continue that will appear when tribulation or persecution comes because of the Word of the Kingdom till then hope the best How well this will satisfie a man that is concerned for his Soul we may easily guess none of the Non-conformists whom he so much scorns would have sent away a doubting Christian with so unsatisfactory an answer they can easily out of God's Word lay down Characters by which the joy and faith of an Hypocrite may be discerned before the Hypocrite quite falls from either Plea I read the Scripture often Ans So did the Pharisees who were so perfect in the Bible that Christ needed but to say It hath been said of old times for they knew the Text without intimation If these be Mr. T. S's words which having not the book by me I cannot examine he much mistook himself for as it may be questioned whether Christ ever said it hath been said of old times so it is certain that that form of speech which he used however to be rendred was spoken not to the Scribes and Pharisees but to his own Disciples whom we must account generally good But the Divinity is good he who reads the Scripture often may be an Hypocrite what is it that Mr. Sh. objects or adverteth First he scoffingly saith Men of prodigious Memories certainly better than any Concordance Doth he indeed think that they must be men of prodigious Memories that can tell the Text without intimation if so the Jewish Nation abounded with many prodigies for that there were many in it who if they had been at hand were better than any Concordance for the Hebrew Text I suppose he doth not doubt His answer is still behind Though Knaves may read the Scriptures and be never the better for it yet good men may read it to good purpose and therefore I hope reading the Scripture is no argument that a man is a Hypocrite because the Pharisees were This hope is such as he need not be ashamed of but he shall do well to take shame to himself for endeavouring to put a man famed for Piety into a Fools Coat to see whether he can make people laugh at him O! that he would before it be too late commune with his own heart and search the Scriptures to see whether this Drollery becomes a Preacher Plea I am grieved and sorrowful and repent of my sins Ans So did Judas What saith Mr. Sh. to the case of Judas why that he hanged himself and that indeed was no repentance unto life Indeed the repentance of Judas was no repentance unto life nor did Mr. T. S. say it was but brought it as an instance of a repentance not unto life And I wish all pretending to be the Sons of the Church would well consider what the Homily saith of Judas his repentance 2d part of the Sermon of Repentance It might perhaps move some of them to alter their apprehensions about the Nature of Repentance and not take up with such a Repentance as is so far short of what Judas did In the mean time I am glad to find Mr. Sh. acknowledging that Judas hanged himself because the immortal Hugh Groot goes quite another way as also do Heinsius De Dieu Dr. Lightfoot it seems this Rector is not alway out of conceit with that Translation he reads to the People I wish by minding him that late Criticks deny Judas to have hanged himself I have not laid a stone of offence in his way Plea But I love good men and their company An. So did the foolish Virgins What jest hath Mr. Sh. to break upon this for he is not in the mood of giving serious replies why this The foolish Virgins slept and suffered their Lamps to go out which I hope all that love good men do not If he hope there are any good men who do not sleep he hopes there be some wiser than any of the five wise Virgins as for not letting their Lamps go quite out Mr. Th. S. will allow him not only to hope it of some good men but also to affirm it of every good man Plea God hath given me much knowledge Ans That thou mayest have and never be saved Mr. Sh. denyes not this but adds If a blameless honest man have the keeping of this knowledge it is never the worse for him which if you mark it well is an huge Commendation of good knowledge that a man is not the worse

before this time dropped from any mans pen. Very absurd I am sure it is Pag. 58. By this it appears how rigorously just God is that he will never pardon the least sin when he can serve his own Glory by the misery and confusion of sinners By this by what if he can frame any Propositions or Premises of Dr. Owen from which so absurd a conclusion can be drawn then shall I wish that such a creature as Dr. Owen had never been born let him when he next puts out try his skill in Logick I am almost weary of raking in a Dunghill and therefore you must excuse me if I take no notice of any thing else till I come to pag. 107. where thus our Author phrasifyeth If we would get the Blessing we must go to God as Jacob did in the Robes of our Elder Brother though I confess this resemblance doth not please me very well for though Jacob was a good man yet this looks like a cunning trick to rob his elder Brother of the Blessing and to cheat his blind Father and men must not think that God is thus to be imposed on Who they be that have made use of this resemblance he discovereth not yet it is like enough some Non-conforming Divines may be intended nor can I deny that some of them have made use of it sundry of the ancient Fathers had so done before they were born This Author saith it pleaseth him not very well if it do not let all the Non-conforming Ministers have a care that they mention it no more for Mr. Sh. is one that if he be not very well pleased will lay about him and make the whole Nation witnesses of his displeasure But as I said before the Fathers made use of this resemblance before the Non-conformists medled with it and is it come to that pass that a poor Predicant must be jeered for speaking as the Fathers did Time was I am certain when a Minister that was called in question for a Puritanical Sermon came off well enough when he made it appear that the most offensive passages were but St. Chrysostom translated This notwithstanding I am not huge fond of the Resemblance and shall be content it be laid aside if Mr. Sherlock can but prevail to have another Resemblance laid aside which I think I have as little reason to be well pleased with A certain conforming Minister was wont alway to have this in his form of Prayer before Sermon Grant that with the good Thief on the Cross we may steal Heaven when we die By a little enquiry he may find out the man and if he can prevail with him to omit it I will use my interest with any Non-conformist I am acquainted with no more to use the Resemblance of Jacobs putting on the Garments of his elder Brother and in them getting the Blessing Yet I assure him I heard it very largely insisted on in a Sermon made by one of the present Prebends of Canterbury Pag. 119. Mr. Sh. falls upon those who say that Faith justifieth as it brings us to Christ and makes us one with him by whom we are justified Faith apprehends the the Righteousness of Christ and the Righteousness of Christ justifieth Well what hath he against this Distinction he saith It plainly oweth it self to their preconceived Opinions without which no man could ever have stumbled on 't That when the Scripture saith that Faith justifieth the meaning should be that it justifies and saves instrumentally and relatively words which the Scriptures are unacquainted with i. e. not as it is Faith but as it apprehends the Righteousness of Christ which in plain words signifieth that Faith doth not justifie though the Scripture so often sayes it does If this Gentleman think Mr. Baxter hath not sufficiently beaten those who thus misrepresent Faith's concurrence to Justification good leave he hath from me to take his Cudgel and to bang them But let him not lay about him without fear or wit as here he seems to do They will but laugh at him if he tell them That the Scripture often sayes that Faith justifies for they have been told That Scripture no where saith Faith justifieth though it often speak of being justified by Faith Hath this Divine so much forgot his Grammar as to know no distinction betwixt justifieth and being justified And can he imagine that the world will believe his Adversaries to be so simple as to say that the meaning of Faith's justifying is that it justifieth and saveth too But I were best beware how I meddle with this great Author who speaks of himself as if he had read all that ever did write and had heard all that ever did speak Pag. 121. He blames Mr. Watson for saying All that Faith doth is to bring home Christs merits to the soul adding If you can but find out an improper and absurd form of speech in use among the Vulgar or if you can but invent one as this Gentleman doth for I never met with this before it is a sufficient reason to expound Scripture as improperly as unlearned men talk or think If his for have any reason in it and certainly he intended it should have some then it is thus to be formed That which Mr. Watson useth and I never met with before that Mr. Watson invented This phrase Mr. Watson useth and I never met with it before therefore he invented it Just at the same rate he must be conceived to argue pag. 128. That which I never read of before is a very new conceit I never read before of Faith's sucking Justification out of the spiritual Stomack therefore it is a very new conceit This is just according to the old Observation that Young men are confident Sir I am not now Apologizing for Mr. Watson he is of Age and can speak for himself if he count it needfull nor have I Mr. Watsons Books by me if I had perhaps I might find that he is abused for I do assure you Mr Sh. doth not much stick at abusing and wronging those whom he deals with so that when an ordinary Reader would suppose he beats his Adversaries a Scholar may soon find he onely thresheth a man of Clouts of his own makeing Pag. 132. He takes Dr. O. as I suppose to task for saying That though Holiness be neither the cause matter nor condition of Justification yet it is the way appointed by God for us to walk in for the obtaining Salvation Now what hath he against this he confesseth it is home to the purpose but yet there are two little faults in it that it contradicts it self and overthrows their darling opinion which I can very well pardon if he can Really he is a good natured man that can so very well pardon a contradiction he had contradicted himself as I noted before and needing pardon from others will give pardon to others but I pray you what contradiction is there in the Dr's words why this is a contradiction