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A54842	An impartial inquiry into the nature of sin in which are evidently proved its positive entity or being, the true original of its existence, the essentiall parts of its composition by reason, by authority divine, humane, antient, modern, Romane, Reformed, by the adversaries confessions and contradictions, by the judgement of experience and common sense partly extorted by Mr. Hickman's challenge, partly by the influence which his errour hath had on the lives of many, (especially on the practice of our last and worst times,) but chiefly intended as an amulet to prevent the like mischiefs to come : to which is added An appendix in vindication of Doctor Hammond, with the concurrence of Doctor Sanderson, Oxford visitors impleaded, the supreme authority asserted : together with diverse other subjects, whose heads are gathered in the contents : after all A postscript concerning some dealings of Mr. Baxter / by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2184; ESTC R80	247,562	303

indeed object against him his Dissent from the Doctrine of the Church of England so to their shame if they had any he freed himself from that charge Master P●m's Report to the House of Commons is no proof at all that he was censur'd by the Parliament And the Order of that House in the behalf of the Articles was not hurtfull to him who oppos'd them not but understood them better and declar'd as much for them as the Commoners could doe § 44. To Mr. Hickmans rare Question p. 28. How comes it to pass that those who now follow Arminius did heretofore follow Mr. Calvin I thank him for the occasion to make this Answer That the older men gr●w they grow the wiser and more impartial To what end do men study both men and books but to discover the mistakes of their giddy youth Is it not fit that the aged Bishop of Winchester should understand things better then young Mr. Andrews But he was a Bishop and one who lived at such a Time when it was safe to leave Calvin as King Iames his Great Master had also done And therefore to satisfie Mr. Hickman Let the Question be put of Dr. Sanderson whose change of judgement was never publish'd untill the last and worst times whilst yet the Followers of Calvin had power to persecute their opponents why did he follow the way of Calvin in point of Doctrine I mean his sublapsarian way before he considered and compar'd it with other wayes and at last forsook it after such consideration The very Question suggests the Answer which in all reason is to be made And may suffice for a general answer to the farr greatest part of Mr. Hickman's long Preface Observe Good Reader the most Ingenuous Confession of that so eminently learned and holy man Giving himself to the study of practicall Divinity he saith he took up most other things upon trust And this he did so much the rather because Calvin at that time was not so wholesomely suspected as blessed be God he since hath been But to express it in the words of the Judicious Doctor Sanderson The honour of Calvin's name gave Reputation to his very errours And if so great a Scholar as he did take up opinions upon trust and was carried down the stream of the common errours his weaker brethren could not choose but be swept away with so strong a Torrent § 45. But they were farr from being such whose Questions in the Act Mr. Hickman reciteth from Mr. Prin as he hath done the greatest part of his tedious Preface For Doctor Iackson might well acknowledge all lost in Adam when he supposed a Recovery of all in Christ. And here it is observable that Mr. Hickman hath not stoln fairly For Mr. Prin expressed very honestly what his jugling Transcriber thought it his Interest to conceal It was the very first of the Doctors three Questions An Peccatum originale contineat in se aliquid positivi And this was held in the affirmative The other Act-questions were Doctor Frewin's the now-Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield whom I am never able to name without a preface of honour and veneration Who if he did once Calvinizare as Bishop Andrews and King Iames before the times of their conversion let it suffice that his latter judgement is much preferrable to his former It is no more to the disparagement of Doctor Goad and Master Hales and Daniel ●ilenus the Synodist at Dort and Doctor Potter and Doctor Godwin and Melanchthon himself and the late Primate that as soon as they saw they forsook their errours then it could be to Saint Paul that though as long as in comparison he was a child he spake as a child understood as a child and thought as a child yet when he grew to a perfect man he put away childish things And hence Mr. Hickman may take the reason why I parted with those opinions I first embraced which now he reproacheth me withall p. 29. though more to my honour then he imagin'd But he must know that by the first of the three last Questions An praedestinatio ad salutem sit propter praevisam fidem he seems to be ignorant of the difference betwixt the foresight of Faith and Faith foreseen as betwixt ex and propter a condition and a cause secundum praescientiam Fidei propter fidem praescitam And so he is like the vain Ianglers of whom Saint Paul speaks to Timothy that they desired to be Teachers understanding neither what they said nor whereof they affirmed § 46. Of Lambeth Articles that they were caused to be suppress'd by Queen Elizabeth See Doctor Heylin his Examen Historicum p. 164. That King Iames before he dyed was an Anti-Calvinist appears by the Conference at Hampton Court and by his great approbation of all that was preached by Bishop Andrews which was as opposite to Calvin as light to darkness and by his high esteem of B●shop OVERALL who was wont to call the Calvinists The Zenonian Sect and by his singular favour to Bishop Montague whom he imployed in composing his Apparatus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and whose Appeal he adorned with his Royal Patronage and Protection which yet he could not have done if he had not been that which they call Arminian That Bishop Montague was incouraged by the special Direction of King IAMES to Dedicate that Book to his Royal self is most apparent to every man who wil● but read his own words in his Dedication If any Reader can yet be ignorant of King Iames his deliverance from that captivity into which he had been l●dd by his first and worst Teachers let him peruse that Epistle with which the learned Tilenus Senior did dedicate his Book to that learned King even his Book of Animadversions upon the Synod of Dorts Canon There the Reader will be inform'd how Tilenus his Paraenesis had pleas'd that King who gave a proof of his special liking by his speciall command to have it Printed How a little after that the King invited him by a Letter to come over into England and here to try the effects of his Royall Favour How his Majestie took care that care might be taken by other men Not to blaspheme with the Puritanes in making God the Author of sin How he assented to Tilenus whilst he inveighed against the Error of irrespective decrees especially that of Reprobation A more impious errour then which he said a Synod of Divels was not able to invent Thence he styled it the Horrendum illud Calvini decretum and professed to see nothing throughout the whole Calvinian Scheme which did not either flow out of Zeno's porch or from the Tables of the Destinies or from the stinking Mephitis of the Manichees By all which it is apparent that Mr. Hickman is unexcusable as far as his 38. page where he grows less guilty

Idolatry or Perjury or the denying of Christ himself that can make him otherwise then a sanctified and Godly man Now Mr. Baxter it seems resolving not to Answer my Book and yet not able to let it alone hath rather chosen once or twice to gnash upon me with his teeth and to shew he was cut unto the heart and to fling some stones Railing and Calumny at my Head than to be thought by his Disciples to have offended or so little stomachful as to Repent § 3. For first in his Pamphlet of Self-denyal a Pamphlet properly so called he saith a Rogers a Stubb a Pierce not for any other end that I am able to conceive then to give himself Ease by a little vent To express a sharp Writer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a Rogers a Stubb a Pierce can amount to no more then the bare shewing of his Teeth when besides his own Lip there is nothing Bitten From this he could not abstein in his very Dedicatory Epistle p. 11. Nor waded he farther into his Praeface then p. 17. when another sharp pang did thus inspire him If Fits-Simon and other Iesuites and Bp. Bancroft and Dr. Peter Heylin Mr. Thomas Pierce and other such among us are to be believed what an abominable odious sort of people are they the Puritans and especially the Presbyterians who are the greatest part of them intolerable hypocritical bloody men Now to what purpose was all this not so much against Me whom he ranked with Bishop Bancroft as against that excellent Archbishop whom he ranked with the Iesuites but to discover to all the world whereabouts his shooe wring'd him Archbishop Bancroft was a most wise and a most pious Metropolitan whose learned Books have been rayld at but never answered Certainly He and Dr. Heylin are as eminent for the Truth of their several Narratives as any humane Historians that ever writ I have vindicated the Former beyond the power of a Baxter to contradict me The Later hath vindicated Himself in his Certamen Epistolare by which Mr. Baxter was too much baffled to think of making a Reply Fitz-Simons was a Iesuite with whom Mr. Baxter doth too much cotton Nor doth he answer one word to my Allegations Concerning the Puritans I spent a whole Chapter not a Line of which hath ever been answered by Mr. Baxter wherein I shewed they were as Odious to King Iames and Bp. Andrews Dr. Sanderson and the like as to Arch-Bp. Bancroft or Mr. Pierce And whatsoever he saith of Me for speaking severely of the Puritans doth plainly reflect upon the King and upon all the greatest Persons both for piety and learning Archbishops and Bishops and Reverend Iudges of the Land whose pungent Characters of the Puritans I fairly cited § 4. But suppose Bp. Bancroft and Dr. Heylin and Mr. Pierce are three Iesuites or as little deserving to be believed yet Dr. Sanderson is confessed by Mr. Baxter himself to be both a Moderate and learned Protestant And He hath so preached against the Puritans as well from the Presse as from the Pulpit that I cannot think of any person unlesse King Iames or Bp. Andrews who hath branded that Faction with deeper marks Not only in his Preface to the Second Edition of his Sermons where he placeth us in the middle betwixt the two extremes Papists and Puritans and shew's how the Puritans have extremely promoted the Popish Interests nay how Libertinism it self had overspread the whole Face of the Land by the means of Fiery Turbulent Presbyterians But in the latest of all his writings set out indeed by Dr. Hammond yet with his own speciall likeing and Approbation He sharply speaks of some books against the Liturgy and Ceremonies by giving them the Name of Puritanical Pamphlets with a juster Epithete than which he could not easily stigmatize them And the most Learned King Iames in his Meditations on the Lords Prayer doth piously give a special caveat that we do not make God the Author of sin as certain Puritans are wont to do Of this his Majesty was minded by that Acute and Learned Frenchman Daniel Tilenus in his excellent Epistle to that wise King after their happy valediction to the Calvinian Doctrines Those I hope were no Jesuites Fellows and may deserve to be Believed if they affirmed of the Puritans which Mr. Baxter happily confesseth to have been mostly Presbyterians that they were Hypocritical and Bloody men Only here Mr. Baxter must be taught to distinguish of Presbyterians For with them that are Moderate I have ever had communion and very affectionate commerce as many of them can witness for me But I am ready to consent to what I find said by Dr. Sanderson Such is the Obstinacy and Madness of the Rigid Scotized through-paced Presbyterians that it is vain to think of doing any good upon them by Arguments till it shall please God to make them of more humble and Teachable Spirits These are pungent but very True yea very Necessary expressions They could not else have proceeded from that Exemplary Divine whom hardly any hath ever excelled if we behold him in his latest and ●ipest years for Piety Meekness and Moderation Had Baxter railed at Me alone for my impartiality to the Puritans I might have passed it over in peace and silence But since t is apparent he wreaks his malice upon the Reverend Dr. Sanderson and the Right Reverend Bp. Andrews and all the other great persons whose words I used striking really at Them although through Me as Darius in Horodotus was bid to run at Patizitham through Gobrias sides I could not in Conscience let him escape without some usefull Animadversions § 5. He adds in the Margin of the same page That I had answered his Expectation and from his own Confession not knowing him my self had drawn his picture that he is proud lazy false an Hypocrite unjust c. But why for this am I called Bolsec in the words nex● after since I was only his Echo and did but resound his own Confessions Not his Auricular confessions for he had made none to me but his Confessions even in print and in words at length Mr. Owen had framed a charge against him that he was proud selfish and Hypocritical Mr. Baxter sub dio in open Court pleaded Guilty to the inditement It was not certainly my Fault that I cited his Pages as well as Words that all his favourers might find I had neverwrong'd him Nor could I possibly know him better then by an abundance of his Own both words and works Of which how faithfull an accompt I have given the Reader I leave to be judged of by them who will compare my citations as well as read them Never should I have taxt him either with pride selfishness and Hypocrisie but when he had owned all three I had nothing to do to contradict him I could never have thought him lazy whom I found a Polypragmatick nor