But does he oâ—fer at any proof or at any thing else to supply it's place no nor so much as tells his Brethren what opinion he means of my maintaining Nay he afterwards confesseth He thinks it no way consistent with the ingenuity of a Scholar or of a man to charge me with Blasphemy nay that he cannot without perfect affront to his conscience return me Blasphemer for Blasphemer Book p. 4. If this is reconcileable with what he saith of me in his Epistle Then whatever I have said against Calvin and the rest must be affirmed by this Rhapsodist to be no accusing them of Blasphemy But who is a Blasphemer iâ— he is not who maintaineth an opinion from which the woâ—st of all Blasphemieâ— Reader they are his own words doth unavoidably follow we see the greatest of all memories is exceedingly too lâ—ttle for a man of his Trade For not remembring in his Epistle what he had written in his Book he hath rail'd it out against me to no better purpose then to his own self-condemnation For if in his Book p. 4. he had any truth in him or ingenuity he must needs confess he had none at all whilst he was writing to the Brackleians and boldly committing that very crime which he had called a perfect affront to his conscience and inconsistent with the ingenuity both of a Scholar and of a man It now appears to do him right that all hiâ— Rhapsodie was not stoln for his self-contradictions are all his own § 5. His next irreverence is the morâ— for being shewed to the most learned and truely Reverend Dr. Hammond from whom he pretendeth a Citation which hath no truth in it but is injurious in 4 Respects for the better eluâ—cidating of which I shall first transcribe Mr. Hickmans words The privativenesse of moral evil is not a monster hâ—tched under the wings of a few Disciplinarian Zelots not a perfect pâ—antasy a mere Scholastical Notion as Dr. Hammond is pleased to call it Fundam p. 178. First it is to be observed that all these words from monster to notion are printed in the sâ—me letter which doth discriminate Citations from Mr. Hickmans own text so aâ— no one Reader who looks no further and is not fore-armed with that distrust with which the writings of such a Gamester are of necessity to be read can escape the errour of apprehending that all that passage is Dr. Hammonds and withall to be met with in the page there cited whereas in all his publick works in which I hope I am as perfect as any man of my memory which I confesse is none of the greatest is like to be there is not any such word as Monster hatched under the wings of a few disciplinarian Zelots Nay I am certified by the Doctor in his answer to my request that he would search his own Memory that no such expression hath ever passed from his tongue much less from his Pen on any occasion whatsoever much less on this But on this I lay no weight because it is no other then an implicit Falsification His 2. fault is more gross whilst he citeth the page and misreporteth the words of that Reverend Doctor In lieu of School-notion Mr. Hickman forgeth him to have written a mere Scholastical Notion where t is plain the word mere is a mere interpolation whereby to intimate an enmity betwixt the Doctor and the Fathers of which there had else been no appearance For a Father may say that which is withal a School-notion though not a mere Scholastical notion But neither should I have mentioned this which in a man of his practice is to be reckoned a Peccadillo if it had not stood betwixt me and his third misrepresentation which seemes to me of greater weight and yet to receive some increase by those additions I say it is his third injury that he groundlesly fastens the Doctors censure to the above-said privativenesse of moral evil Upon which it was so far from having been fastned by the Doctor that he neither used any such words nor any other which can bear any Analogy with such unless the privativenesse of sin doth import no more with Mr. Hickman then doth the non-entity or nothingnesse of it which as it will prove him a Carneadist so it is the most that he can plead to that with which I now charge him That Reverend Doctor having but mentioned the perfect Phantasie of some that sin is a Non-entity that is a nothing So that now good Reader thou knowest the meaning of Mr. Hickman whensoever he asserts the privativity of sin He means t is Nothing or a Non-entity or else he wilfully prevaricates as well with thee as with Dr. Hammond § 6. I thought the man had made a difference betwixt a simple negative and a Privative especially when the lâ—tter is not a want of all being but onely of a Rectitude or conformity to a rule else why did he distinguish when it was sutable to his need betwixt a negative and a privative Nothing Besides privativenesse being but a word of relation referring to somewhat that it had but lost or should have had but mist of having that I may gratifie him for once with this distinction And Relation being but an Accident Adveniens enti in actu existenti It follows that that which is privative in relation to something of which it is so may have a positive being praeexistent to that privation in order of nature if not of time Thus in every Transmutation and in corruption more especially there is a privation of a form but not of all for as one goes out another enters Night succeeds Day as Satans image doth Gods And what if the last be a privation in respect of that which was before can it possibly argue no entity of the action by which the Image was introduced or of the Image it self abstractly taken I wish Mr. Hickman would minde his Grammar and know that privo is a verb active as much as pono as privare no less then ponere is an action properly so called and by consequence privatio just as much as positio is Thus the killing an innocent Christ which was we know the sin of murder however t was a privation in one respect was yet as positive an action as the most lawful execution of the blaspheming thief which in one respect was a privation also yet the murdering of Christ was neither a nullity nor was it produced by God himself as Mr. Hickman hath said that every real being is § 7. But there remaines a fourth thing of which our Rhapsodist is to be told to wit that the error on which Reverend Dr. Ham. affixt that Character a perfect phantasie and School notion was not simply and meerly this that sin is nothing or a non entity but together with this addition â— so that all things may be predetermined by God and yet not sin Fundam p. 178 lin 23. where shewing the tricks of those
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 Pâ—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 grâ—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 â—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 Bâ—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 wilâ— 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 lâ—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
he is proved by his concession to be a rebell His being a Traytor to the two Huses which he had set up above the King by setting Richard above them when they disowned him And by owning Cromwels Iunto for a full and free Parliament He is evinced out of his mouth to have been perjured over and over His charge against the Lords and commons and his setting aside the King more then the houses ever did His most Notable contradiction about the houses ruling without the King His New Miscarriage against Grotius and the Episcopal Divines He is proved to be a Jesuite by as good Logick as he useth The Jesuites Doctrine of Probability Popery common to Thomas Goodwin with some noted Presbyterians Mr. Baxters Puritanism as well in Life as Doctrin His additional falsehood The Originall of Puritanism among profâ—ssors of Christianity Our English Puritans characterized by Salmasius one of the learnedst of the beyound Sea Protestants Mr. Baxter declared by Gods Anointed to be a factious and schismaticall person His double injurie to Mr. Dance His unparallel'd bitterness against Episcopacy and our Church 7. wayes rebuked The Conclusion giveth the reason of the whole procedure which Mr. Baxter CHAP. I. § THat the Christian Reader may discern with his greatest eaâ—e and convenience in every kind how the whole Case stands betwixt my Adversary and me and may be thereby enabled without the trouble of diveâ—ting to many pages of severall Books unless as his patience and leisure serves him to pasâ— an exact and a speedy Judgement upon the matchless Adventures of this fresh Combatant the unsuffâ—ciency of his Performanceâ— when he pretends to Answer and his grosse Tergiversaâ—ions when he declines it How commonly he aimâ—s beside the mark and affâ—ctedly mistakes the Thing in Question How he is fain to tickle himself on purpose to get into a laughâ—er and how constantly his laughing doth prove to be in the wrong Place How well he justifies me and my whole proceeding whilst he solemnly contradicts and condemns himself How he happens to glory and triumph most when his overthrows fortune to be the greatest How he calumniâ—tes the Faâ—hers in their Iustification as some in the world have been kill'd in their own Dâ—fence How without all Cause but what his Principles and his Displeasuâ— have shap'd out to him his poyson'd Arrows have been sho at my sâ—lf and oâ—hers which yet have lighted on his own head and on the heads of his Predecessors whom he hath vilified in zeâ—l and exceedingly disgraced in meer good will confessing that to be Blasphemy which the mâ—st eminent Presbyâ—erians have taught expresly and in Print nâ—t onely by consâ—quence and in privaâ—e I say that the Reader may be qualified to take up all at one gâ—asp at the least expence that is possible of time or mâ—neâ— I shall prepare him with an Account of what hath past fâ—om the beginning and I shall do it with as much Brevity as I shall find will consiâ—t with Truâ—h and Clearness Nothing shall hinder me in my Dispatch but the Removal of a most Desperate and Groundless slander with which our Actor made his entrance into the Theatre that it might lye as a block in his Readers way And to preserve the most heedless from stumbling at it I think it my duty to give them warning § 2. I had indeavoured in my Notes which I was forc'd to make Publick to prevent the danger by demonstrating the deadliness of certain Doctrines which the most eminent Presbyterians had preached to us from the Press to wit That All things come to pass by God's appointment and Decree That men do sin by God's Impulse That God commandeth to do evil and compelleth obedience to such Commands That he makes men Transgressors That Adultery or Murder is the work of God the Author c. These and multitudes of the like which I produced ouâ— of their wâ—itings in my Defence of the Divine Philanthropie were not the issuâ—s of my Invention or onely horrible Consequences unduely deduced out of their Doctrines as M. Hickman hath dared to affirm in despight of God and his own conscience and in a flat contradiction to all men's eyes but the words of M. Calvin and of a man greater than he Hulderiâ—us Zuinglius whose example in Helvetia M. Calvin imitated in France And how their Followers go before them in asserting God to be the Author of all the wickedness in the woâ—ld as I have plentifully shew'd in my Autocatachrisis so shall I shew in a greater measure if M. Hickman shall adventure to make it needfull Even the worst of those expâ—essions are very publickly conâ—essed by D. Twisse and M. Barlee aâ—d divers others of their way to have been written by those Great ones on whom I charg'd them And I speak it to the praise of their ingenuâ—y who rather chose to excuse at least à tanto what was so gâ—ossly derogâ—tory to the glory of God then to deny what is â—o visible to all mens eyes But the Rhapsodist adventurâ—s beyond all possible expectation and dares to tell us in effect That when we reade the pâ—inted works either of Zuinglius or Calvin of Borrhaeus or D. Twisse There is not any such thing as we clearly see lying before us That what we reade is not written And that the things which I tâ—anscribed from some of the Authors whom he admires were the meer chimaera's of my Brain though near an hundred years printed before I came into the world Had I father'd mine own fancies upon one or more of his Predecessors as M. Hickman hath had the confidence to tell the Lecturers of Brackly I should not have thought my self fit to live And by so much the more it becomes my Duty as well as Interâ—st to clear the innocence of my dealing in this particular although I know not how to do it without the ruine of my Accuser in point of fame The shortest way to this end will be by Noteing the very lines as well as the words and the pâ—ges and the Editions of the Books from whence the Reader may take a specimen whereby to judge of the whole Heap Numen ipsum AVTHOR est ejus quod nobis est INIVSTIA Cum Deus Angelum Transgressoâ—em facit hominem Ipse tamen Transgressor non constituitur ut qui contra legem non veniat ib. lin 4â— Quod Deus operatur per hominem Homini viâ—io vertitur non etiam Deo unum atque Idem Facinus pâ—ta Adulterium aut Homicidium in quantum Dei AVTHORIS MOTORIS ac Impulsoris OPVS est crimen non est Movâ—t Deus Latronem ad occidendum innoceâ—tem etiam ac imparatum ad mortem â—mpellit Deus ut occideret ib. l. 35. pâ—rmitto Latronem coactum esse ad peâ—candum ib. l. 18. Impulsore Deo trucidavit Latâ—o ib. l. 21. movet impellit usque dum ille occisus est ib.
we befriend them in giving the people occasion to think that they onely are the men who would contend for the Faith once delivered to the Saints p. 5. See how little he understands that easie Text in St. Iude. If Calvin's Doctrine in point of Decrees is the faith delivered to the Saints of which Saint Iude spake then it must not onely be truth but the whole divine Truth delivered to us as we are Christians And so farewell by this Logick to the four Evangelists who have nothing of the Faith that was once delivered to the Saints But welcome Iohn Calvin who hath it all For the whole Doctrine of the Gospel is meant by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jude 2. And unless Mr. Hickman did take it too in that sense how does the affixing the assertions upon Calvin and his following Presbyterians p. 3. and 4. give any occasion to the people to think that they are the ONELY MEN It is no wonder if Bishop Hooper one of the first of our holy Martyrs who suffered from the Papists for our Religion as others have done from the Presbyterians did express these men by the name of Gospellers as having found out another Gospel then what had been written by the four Evangelists to use the words of Sir Edwin Sandys Our Gospellers said Bishop Hooper are better learned then the holy Ghost over every mischief that is done they say it is Gods will And what prodigious stuff it is which Mr. Hickman cals the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints I leave to be judged by the words and lines and pages which I hâ—ve shewed from Mr Calvin and other Writers Had an Angel from heaven taught such a Gospel Saint Paul had set him packing with an Anathema Maranatha § 12. Bishop Carleton saying some take it for a sign of such as are looking towards Popery c. p. 5. gives leave to others to take it otherwise When a thing has two handles one may take it by the right as well as another by the left As I and my Betters are wont to take it Our disclaiming the Doctrines of Presbyterians is the way to stop a Papist's mouth who hath nothing to accuse the Protestants of but what the Presbyterians have introduced and that in a perfect opposition to the true Protestant religion § 13. In the eighth page of his Epistle for the sixth and the seventh are fill'd with one large Transcript verbatim taken from Mr. Prin without acknowledging the Author from whence he took it he appears to be conscious of his scurrility by which he supposeth he hath departed from that meekness of spirit which is required in a Minister But he desires his Brethren to think it as lawfull as they may as if he were acting zeal of the land in his Address to Rabbi Buisy to put some vineger into his ink and so to continue in his departure from Châ—istian meekness supposing he cannot fall totally much less finally from Grace or else in meekness of spirit to call me Bolsec and Fevardentius and what he pleaâ—eth But here I arrest him with one mild Question whilst he is furious Was my saying that their speeches could be no less then Blasphemous who said that God was the Author and cause of sin A making their Graves amongst Blasphemers or a proving by their pages lines and words where they had made their own Graves Perhaps they thought their speeches innocent And thence I censuâ—'d thâ—ir speeches not the thoughts they had of them Suppose the Author of a Dispensatory shaâ—l put a Receipt into his Book which I know hath poyson'd somâ— and is as likely to poyson others will my giving a timely warning to beware of that medicine be censured as the making that Author 's Grave among murderers It will it seems by Mr. Hickman but who can help it I plainly proved to Doctor Reynolds That for all I said of Blasphemous Doctrines I had not onely Doctor Whitakers but Mr. Câ—lvins good leave And so Mr. Hickman unawares hath rail'd it out against both But if Bolsec is reformed I hope he will do the less hurt And that he is so in earnest Bathyllus tells us § 14. He falls again to confession p. 9. that 't is hard for him not to exceede his bounds whereupon he prayes his Brethren to give him a call unto repentance And compares them to the old Puritanes as to the exercise of their patience But who were the old Puritanes were they such as took upon them to ordain Ministers at Brackley or such as took joyfully their neighbours goods if so he said ill That the world was not worthy of such inhabitants The Apostle applying the words to them who suffer'd the spoiling of their own § 15. The malignity which he concludes with against Episcopal Government which yet he holds to be better than none at all and none at all hath been the Government which they have hitherto set up doth onely serve to put us in mind in how many respects they have been perjur'd as well in swearing as forswearing their Scotish Covenant They may be said to be Reformers of Episcopal Government and if they please of Regal too as the Heretick Marcus was said by many women and few men The Reformer of all that had gone before him But what kind of Ministers he ordained and after what an enormous manner and how he Reformed the womens Purses to fill his own would be tedious to tell upon this occasion They that will may consult Epiphanius Haeres 34. And especially Irenaeus lib. 1. cap. 9. My observation is chiefly this That he was reckon'd a great Reformer An Appendix for Master Hickman touching his Preface to the READER § 16. Having gon over the main of Mr. Hickmans Dedicatory Epistle I now proceed to his Praeface his tedious Praeface to the Reader On which I shall make the shortest strictures that I am able untill I meet with such things as do call for length And because Doctor Heylin hath unanswerably spoken to the Historical part both in his Certamen Epistolare wherein he Refutes it ex professo and in his Quinquarticular History wherein he vertually Refutes it though not by name I shall not therefore say more to that than is omitted by Doctor Heylin or at least omitted for ought I am able to remember § 17. He tells his Reader in the beginning 1. how much he had been taken with I know not what rich vein of Rhetorick which he saith he saw running through all my writings which he had seen 2. That he hath not mentioned my name without those prefaces of Respect which are due to a Scholar 3. That notwithstanding his being debased to the Dunghil of Doltisme he is not so much as tempted to detract from my Credit and Reputation c. p. 1. If this hath any Truth in it then there is no truth at all in the far greatest part of his whole performance For Mr. Baxter
own shadow and what a shame it is for him to have railed so much at Arminian Doctrines to which when he hath done he is fain to yield § 52. To his slanderous insinuation concerning a Book of Doctor Heylin's which he affirms to have been burnt by the hand of the common Hangman as he saith he is informed p. 53. Doctor Heylin himself hath made his own Answer I onely here observe what shift is made by this zelot to revile an aged and Reverend Divine without the least fear of the execution which the Bears made upon the Boyes who made a mockery of Elisha his Reverend Baldness But what they did was less unexcusable For they were little young Boâ—es who wanted teaching But this great Boy is a Boy of years too and professeth with the Gnosticks to be a teacher of others a guide of the blind and an instructer of the foolish Rom. 2.19 20. Those children in years reproached the Prophet with what they saw and were sure of to wit his bald head But this child in manners and understanding makes use of a slander to shew his virulence And hath no more to excuse him then that he Heard it which is possibly as false as the Fact it self But be it so that he heard it what would become of such creatures as Mr. Hickman and Mr. Baxter if other men should put in print whatsoever they hear of their misdemeanours the best of it is he hath gotten no more by his printed hearsay then onely to make the world know how much his ears are too long Nor do I wish him his deserts for then I am sure they would be shorter § 53. To his concluding Question p. 54. I briefly answer three things 1. Dolus versatur in generalibus 2. There is the fallacie plurium interrogationum some are true and some false And by those that are true no advantage accrues to the Calvinian cause 3. Some learned men there will ever be of both the opposite persuasions And therefore the Doctrine of our Church is to be judged of by her Liturgie Homilies and thirty nine Articles In which as very many things are clearly for so there is nothing that I can meet with against the Doctrines which I assert § 54. Having done with his Preface I come to the Remnants of his Book Where setting out with his dislike of Mr. Barlee's sharp stile as if the priviledge of railing had been bequeathed to Mr. Hickman by the proprietarie in chief and presently falling on Mr. Goodwin in such a sharpness of style as he dislikes in Mr. Barlee his elder brother for which I see Mr. Goodwin hath long since made him an example he next arrives at a profession that he never had perused my Defence of the Divine Philanthropie nor ever would he pursue it except he could finde some hours which belong neither to night nor day p. 3 yet besides his Profession of having been conversant in my writings and the use he makes of my expressions as his own he frequently cites the words and pages even of that very Book and farther avows he hath read it over p. 101. Next he quarrels with Mr. B. for printing part of his private letter which if it had not been done by his own consent he might have told me of it in time either by word or by epistle or have conveâ—ghed it to me by them in whose common acquaintance he saith we meet He is a dull Malefactor who is not provided of some excuse and therefore such as Mr. Hickman may finde out many But how his wit will hold out to reconcile the contradiction betwixt â—he fourth page of his Book and the second of his Bookish Preface I am not qualified to guess at so great a distance § 55. At last he falls upon a point which had been very material had it not failed in one Circumstance I mean the truth For telling a story of the Lutherans which he had read in Bp. Hâ—ll he misapplyes it by saying This is the case of the Calvinists They hold an absolute decree of reprobation hence it follows sayes Mr. P. That God is the author of sin p. 5. No hence it follows say the Calvinists faithfully cited by Mr. P. as to their words and pages and very lines that God is the author and câ—use of sin It was not I who drew the consequence though I might rationally have done it as well as they But it was I who observed by whom it was drawn Even by them who have contended for their fanciful decrees I have made this so clear in al my papers and particularly in this Ch. 1. § 2. p. that I wonder with what forehead Mr. H. can say I finde a forehead tosay the Calvinists mâ—ke God the authorof sin Indeed when they hâ—ve said it in plainest termes they sometimes say they never said it and thence I condemned them for so much self-condemnation This the Reader may witnesse for me as by viewing other parts of my Autocaâ—risis so particularly the preface or Introduction p. 7.8 And Ch 3. p. 140.141 142. Now that I am railed at by such a mouth as Mr. Hickmans upon no other ground then my reproving him and others for their often rayling at God himself is a great addition to my contentments And whilst Mr. H. continues either to be what he hath been or to say what he hath said concerning God I hope I shall not be so unhappy as ever to have his good word Sect. 56. Had I met with such Blasphemies in any writings of Bp. Abbot or other men of our Church I should have taken that course which the Rhapsodist tells me had been the wisest p. 6 But haveing met with none such methinks the man should excuse me for my innocent desires to do no wrong Such English writers as I found guilty I very liberally named and as impartially condemned But our Divines at Dort as well as those that are named by Mr. H. were for an Index expurgatorius and so have justified me in my severity to the Doctrines which they condemned Mr. H. is therefore a very strange Person in advising me to passe by the guilt of some beyond the sea and to charge it on some at home who for any thing I know have ever been clear from that offence or if he meanes no more then this that some of our English Anti-Arminians have blasphemed as much as forein Calvinists have done let the Reader take notice that Master Hickman himself is their Accuser § 57. That argument of his if sin is a positive entity either God is the Author of it or it is God He now confesseth to be his own but onely adds that the Iesuits do use it as well as he p. 7. I have often noted the affinity betwixt the Iesuites Presbyterians But why Mr. H. should help my parallel I cannot guess Nor doe I think that that Argument was ever used by any Iesuit unless
unhappy Boyes do make Knives when in very deed they do but steal them 2. Had he been made my Receiver by my consent he must have given me an Account as the person to whom his Receipts were due 3. He confesseth An usufructuary doth want the Title and cannot pretend he hath Ius ad Rem So that now in the same sense in which he pretends to the Usus-fructus he doth implicitly confess I am proprietary in chief and I may very well summon so sawâ—y an officer to a Reckoning When Doctor Heylin said of Mr Cheynel that he was the Vsufructuary of the rich Parsonage of Petworth the English of it was usurper and nothing else For 't is a Rule as I remember in the Civil Law Potest proprietas esse Maevii Vsus-fructus Titii tamen usus Sempronii And even where the usus-fructus is duly setled as most unduely in Mr. Hickman it is but jus in re by his confession And usus-fructus is defined by Ius Alienis Rebus utendi fruendi salvâ rerum substantiâ So the Propriety is mine who have jus ad rem The Visitors could not by doing wrong either take away my Right or conferr upon another what they could never take from me To be out of possession is so far from being a prejudice to my Right That God's Anointed himself hath been as long out of his whose Right hath yet been alwayes greater at least by one Title then any subject's § 82. But Mr. Hickman is well satisfied that he wants nothing at all but a Right and Title to his possession pag. 46. And the taking that for a small defect may very probably be the reason why the Assembly Annotators on the English Bible did seem to think it no sin to be God's and the Churches Vusufructuaries in such a figurative sense as in which Mr. Hickman may be called mine For 't is observed by Dr. Gauden and many others that in every place through the Bible where the word and Spirit of God signally commands them to brand the sin of sacrilege with a black marke as one of the Divels hindmost Herd the Presbyterian Expositors do so slily and slightly pass it over as if they had neither seen nor smelt that foul beast as if there were no gall in their pens no Reproof in their mouthes no courage in their Hearts against this sin they scarce ever touch it never state it make no perstrictive or invective stroke against it which could not be saith the Observator their Ignorance or inadvertency but the cowardise cunning and Parasitism of the Times in which they were content for some Presbyterian ends to connive at sacriledge in those good Lords and Masters whose charity they hoped yea Doctor Gauden professeth he heard of them profess they expected would turn all that stream which Bishops ☜ Deans and Chapters injoyed to drive the Presbyterian Mills to keep up the honour of Ruling and teaching Elders These soft fingered Censors saith the Reverend Doctor a little after very gently touch that rough Satyr of sacrilege where t is expresly put in the balance with Idolatry and overweighs it as more enormous Thus farr that Learned and moderate man whom perhaps the Annotators may charge with impudence as Mr. Hickman does me and that against the two Houses too on whom they probably will bestow the Supreme Authority of the Nation It being a Grace which Mr. Hickman was pleased to grant them § 83. Whereas he saith that my being married doth evacuate and nullifie my Title to all Academical Injoyments pag. 46 47. first I must tell him that I was single when I was cast out of my Fellowship which was my Freehold and some years after did so continue even till after I was presented to the Rectorie of Brington my injoymâ—nt of which he seems to envie ibid. And so I hope he will acknowledge my Arrears are due to me till then Nor can he with any Truth that I ever pretended to any more 2. I am not sure my being married can null my Title untill Doctor Oliver and the true Fellows shall so declare it and wise men have thought that by their good leave I am Fellow still till by a lawfull Election they put another into my place For Thomas Goodwin we know is a most scandalous usurper so as the Rhapsodist himself can be hardly worse And so my modus habendi may still be optimus as Mr. Hickmaâ—'s is pessimus in the very worst sense too For I have an Academical enjoyment by Right Mr. Hickman onely by usurpation I am warranted by Vlpian to say I have it though many years together I have not held it Nam eum Habere dicimus qui Rei Dominus est aeque ac eum qui Rem Tenet 3. And it was strange that Mr. Hickman could think me incapable of my own at Magdalen Colledge by my having injoyed a single Parsonage whilst at the very same time he thought himself capable of things which were none of his even a Fellowship in the Colledge a Vicarage of Braâ—kly and a Parsonage at Saint Towles too and all by no other title then what the wickedness of the Times could bestow upâ—n him So Mr. Tombes the Arch-Anabaptist could be qualified by the Times to be Parson of Rosse and Vicar of Lempster and Preacher of Bewdly and Master of the Hospital at Ledbury All which he was somewhat fitter for then Mr. Hickman if but capable of something by being lawfully ordained Whereas Mr. Hickman having been onely made a Minister not a Priest or a Deacon as Doctor Heylin doth well distinguish and made a Minister no otherwise then as the Friaâ—'s Pork was made Pickerill cannot be capable of the least much less of two or three Livings And perhaps in time he may say as much if he will reade Doctor Hammond upon the Ordinance of the two Houses for the ordination of Ministers Pro Tempore Printed at Oxford 1644. For which that Great Author was never yet accused of being impudent though what he writ was against the two Houses § 84. Because he know's I never said I was sâ—spected by the Visitors to be the Author of a Libel which words the man was resolved to use he tells his Reader that my words might look lâ—ke such an Affirmation p. 47. whereas before he confessed my words were no other then that I was secretly suggested to be the Author of some books which to this very day I could never hear nam'd p. 44. were all things Libells which were written for the cause of the King and of the Church or were any way displeasing to those mens Palates who came to Vâ—sit Or is it lawfull to ruine men upon bare suspicion Was this for the credit of the Visitors or them that sent them Be it so that I was suspected as any other man might be I was as innocent as the morning in which I was told by Dr. Râ—yâ—olds of such suspicion And that he told me
were known to be I shall now observe in how many respects Mr. Baxter comes to be partaker of other mens sins besides the hideous and frightful nature of his Own I mean the sins of both the nominal Protectors and of that sort of men who had set them up To which end it will be usefull briefly to reckon the severall wayes whereby a man may be Accessory when another is Principal in a transgression 1. By Consent and Approbation so Saul was guilty of Stephens death Act. 8.1 So the Gnosticks were guilty of sins committed by other men because they had pleasure in those that did them Rom. 1.32 2. By Counsel and advise so Achitophel was guilty of Absolons Incest and Rebellion 2. Sam. 16.23 So also Caiphas had a hand in the blood of Christ Ioh. 11.49 3. By Appointment and Command so Pharoah and Herod are said to have slain the little children they never toucht Exod. 1. and Matth. 2. So David is said to have slain Vriah the Hittite though with the hand as well as the Sword of the Children of Ammon 2. Sam. 12.9 4. By Commâ—nding Defending or Excusing the Fact or the Malefactour Wo be to you that call evill Good that put darkness for light and bitter for sweet Esa. 5.20 Wo be to them that sowe pillows to all Armeholes and make Kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls Ezek. 13.18 5. By any kind of participation of any illgotten Goods whether gotten by Rapine or kept by fraud and unjust Title Of this saith the Psalmist when thou saw'st a Thief thou consentedst with him and hast been partaker with Adulterers Psal. 50.18 Thy s Princes are Rebellious and Companions of Thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after Rewards Isa. 1.23 6. By too much Lenity and Connivence which harden's a sinner by Impunity And therefore Ahab was threatned for the unjust Mercy he shew'd to Benhadad with a sentence of Death without Mercy Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a Man whom I appointed to utter destruction therefore thy life shall go for his life and thy people for his people 1. Kings 20.42 This was the sin that brake Eli's Neck 1. Sam. 3.13 and 4.18 The Magistrate is made to be Gods Revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evill And he ought not to bear the sword in vain Rom. 13.4 7. By unseasonable silence and Neglect of the Christian duty of reprehension For this is a sin against those precepts Levit. 19.17 Isa. 58. 1. Ezek. 3.17 and 33.7 Now by how many of these wayes Mr. Baxter hath been Accessarie to the Murder of One King and to the exclusion of another and to the debauching the peoples souls by his scandalous writings and example I leave to be pronounced by the Intelligent Readers Who that they may judge the more exactly shall do well to compare his signal Confessions above recited both with his flattering and blessing the Old and Young Cromwell And with his other Confessions which now ensue § 12. He confesseth he was moved to engage himself in the Parliament Warr Holy Common-wealth p. 456. And yet 2. That the Disorders which on both sides were unexcusable were no just cause to cast the Nation into a Warr. p. 474. Nay 3. That he would have ingaged as he did which was against his natural King and Leige Lord if he had known the Parliament he means the 2. Houses had been the beginners and in most fault p. 480. Nay 4. that the warr was not to procure a change of the constitution to take down Royalty and the house of Lords but clean contrary p. 482. why then did he fawn upon both the Cromwels 5. That all of them did rush too eagerly into the heat of Divisions and warr and none of them did so much as they should have done to prevent it And that himself in particular did speak much to blow the coals for which he saith he daily begs forgiveness of the Lord. p. 485. Nay 6. That he encouraged many thousands to engage against the Kings Army And is under a self-suspicion whether that engagement was lawfull or not yea that he will continue this self suspicion p. 486. Nay 7. he confesseth what he is by solemnly making this Declaration That if any of us can prove he was guilty of hurt to the person of the King or destruction of the Kings power or changing the Fundamental Constitution of the Common-wealth taking down the house of Lords without consent of all three States that had a part in the Sovereignty c. He will never gainsay us if we call him a most perfidious Rebell and tell him he is guilty of farr greater sin than Murder Whoredom Drunkenness or such like Or if we can solidly confute his grounds he will thank us and confess his sin to all the World p. 490. Here then I challenge him to make good his promise For I have proved him as guilty as any Rebell can be imagin'd in divers parts of this Postscript And his grounds I have confuted in my Appendix for Mr. Hickman § 78 79. If he thinks not solidly let him answer it if he is able § 13. What his chief Ground is upon which he goes whilest he speaks of the King as of a Rebell to the two Houses I easily gather from these words which I finde in his Praeface to the same book To this question did not you resist the King His answer is Verbatim thus Prove that the King was the highest power in the time of divisions and that he had power to make that war which he made and I will offer my Head to Iustice as a Rebell He here implicitely confesseth the King was once the highest power and implyes he lost it by the Divisions But that he never could loose it and that demonstrably he had it I have made it most evident in the Appendix of this book which concerns Mr. Baxter as much as Mr. Hickman at least as far as I have proved the Supremacy of the King § 78. which both the Houses of that Parliment did swear to acknowledg and to assert However if his Supremacy had been a Disputable thing yet whilst the most learned of the Land both Iudges and Divines did assert it in books which were never answered Mr. Baxter should have staid for the decision of that dispute before he resisted that power for the resisting of which for ought he knew he might be damned Rom. 13.4 Besides when he knew 't was no sin to abstain from fighting against the King and that fighting against him was a damning sin if it was any in the judgment of such persons as BP Hall BP Morton BP Davenant BP Brownrigg D. Sanderson D. Oldsworth thousands more he should have taken the safest course and rather have strained at a Gnat then have swallowed a Camel In a word That the warr was begun by the two Houses and only followed by
becoming a partaker of their very worst sins whilst he hath railed on the contrary as well at the King as at the Bishopâ— and at all that is really Great or Sacred I think it my Happiness and my Glory not to have my Name slurr'd with his commendations FINIS The Typographical Errata the candid Reader will be pleased either to pardon or to Correct In Praef. p. 2. l. 5. in marg r. Borrhaeus p. 7. l. 22. for good r. God p. 14. l. ult r. needst Pag. 3. l. 18. r. Injustitia p. 4. l. 6. in marg after cap. r. 28. p. 5. l. 13. in marg after pag. r. 20 21. p. 7. l. 5. r. appetitum ib. l. 26. r. be p. 11. l. 1. in marg after promise r. of p. 13. l. ult in marg r. and. p. 22. l. 24. after so r. he ib. p. 9. after will r. not p. 26. l. 26. after conceive r. it ibid. l. ult in marg r. consequens p. 27. l. 35. after is r. so p. 37. l. 24. dele and. p 40. l. 22. r. forbidding ibid. l. 34 in marg r. vetat p. 44. l. ult in marg after 12 r. 4. p. 45 l. ult in marg after 3024. r. chap. 9. p. 47. l. 30. after hating r. God p. 49. l. 3. in marg after sol r. 2. p. 54. l. ult r. c. 6. p. 56. l. 1. in marg after of r. the. ibid. l. 2. in marg after l r. 3. ib. l 3. in marg r. c. 23. p. 57. l. 22 r. thing p. 76. l. 1. in marg r. p. 137. p. 77. l. 4. in marg r. verbis ib. l. ult in marg r. p. 671. p. 78. l. 34. in marg r. aliam ib. l. 3. r. of p. 8. l. 5. r. 2. dist p. 83. l. 30. after original r. sin p. 84. l. 1. after an r. evil p. 85. l. 19. r. unto p. 88. l. 4. in marg r. annum p. 90. l. 7. r. Catachresis p. 104. l. penult r. p. 150. p. 106. l. 18. r. is p. 137. l. 18. after of r. which p. 144. l. 21. r. sybilline p. 145. l. ult in marg r. stealths p. 146. col 2. l. 30. d. ad 10. lineas id genus reliqua p. 149. col 2 l. 31. r. q. 9. p. 153. l. 8. r. endeavour p. 159. l. 7. r. so p. 178. l. 4. r. such p. 203. l. 29. r. p. 32. Errata in the Postscript to Mr. Baxter Pag. 2. l. 4. in marg r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ib. l. 11. in marg r. Boutefeu p. 4. l. 29. r. Patizitha p. 5. l. 14. for and r. or p. 8. l. 4. for tor by ib. l. 8. for the r. thee p. 9. l. 21. in marg after that r. that p. 10. l. 15. r. Traitor p. 15. l. 30. after Demands r. iâ— Isa 11. â— 2 Sam. 15. 23 28. * 1 Cor. 5.5 * See his Ex. cellent long Preface before the second Edition of his fiâ—st Seâ—mons S. 24. * Ezek. 33.7 8. ch 34.3 10 * See the pages and lines cited from Zuinglius Calvin Barrhaeus and D. Twisse with the Editions of their Books in my first ch of this Tâ—eatise Sect. 2. p. 3.4 †Deus homines ad suas pravas Actiones incitat seducit jubet indurat trahit deceptiones immittit quae peccatâ—â— gravia sunt efficit Pet. Vermil Mart. Florent edit Tigur 1561. in Jud. c. 3. v. 9.10 11. fol. 56. pag. 1. lin 7. c. * Si Calvinus aut Martyr aut quisquam nostrûm affirmet Deum esse Authorem Causam peccati non repugno quin simus omnes horrendae Blasphemia scelerisque rei Whitak in Respons sua ad octavam Rationem Campiani edit Genev. 1610. in Tom. 1. operum suorum pag. 33. col lin 34. c. * Mr. Archerâ— Comfort for Believers p. 36 37. †Mr. Thom. Goodwin's Apologetical Narration subscribed by Phil. Nye Will. Bridge Jer. Burrows Sidrach Simpson Licensed by Charles Herle printed by R. Dawlman 1643. p. 22. * Mr Edwards his Antapologia edit 1646. pag. 160. †See him cited by Dr. Heylin in his Hist. Quinquart part 3. ch 16. p. 5. * Mr Edwards his Antapologia edit 1646. pag. 160. * A Brief Declaration of the Table of praedestinati on p. 15. ibid. p. 6. †Ibid. p. 6. See the words in his Book of the 2. Edition which Edition I use in all I cite from this Author p. 93. lin penult ult ‖ Joh. Calvini Tractatus Theologici c. edit Genev 1612. in Libertinos c. 4. p. 436. col 3 lin 50. ib· p. 437. col 1. lin 14. * Ex hoc Articulo Deum sc. omnia operari Tria admodum horrida consequi quorum primum hoc est nullum inter Deum et Diabolum discrimen fore ib. c. 13. p. 445. col 2. lin 63. ‖ Ipsum à se abnegari oportet in Diâ—bolum trâ—nsmutari ibid. cap. 14. pag. 447. col 2. lin 42. †Wisd. 2.11 * Reader Compare the non-seâ—â—e with the impiety of the expression and mark how little they understand what the word prâ—vidence doth import a p. 93 94. b p. 96. c p 93.94 d p. 96. 2 Sam. 13. e p. 77. f p. 96. g p. 93 94. h p. 96. ii p. 103. ii p. 103. kk p. 95. kk p. 95. Some praeparations for the less Intelligent of the People * Ioh. 5. †Rom. 2.6 * Vâ—rs 9. ** p. 7. l. 8 9. p. 79. lin 5 ** p. 7. l. 8 9. p. 79. lin 5 * Se e my whole fourth chapter and comparâ— it with my citations from D. Goâ—d and D. Hammond p. 103. * See c. 5. p. 92. to p. 104. * Ubi supra and also p. 82. ‖ Exod. 20 5. Rom. 1.30 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ‖ Psal. 139 21. * Ut eorum implacabilis adversus Deum inimicitia innotescat c. De animi Medela c. 17. p. 283. a Act. 13.18 14.16 b 1 Pet. 3.20 2 Pet. 3.9 * See Master JENKINS his Petition to the Titular Parliament A. D. 1651 and compare it with the Assembly-men's Confession of Faith ch 3. Artic. 1. which saith that God did unchangeably o dâ—in whatsoever comes to pass From whence the Murder of the King was concluded Gods Ordinance by them that wrought it And Mr. Ienkins was heard to pray at Black fryers O Lord we know that all things come to pass by thine APPOINTMENT ‖ Jer 5 27. Rom. 9.22 The Introduction â—o an Accompâ— of whâ—â— hath passed from the beginning The first occasion of the Dispute †Maleficiumâ—s â—s the word * Chap. 3. p. 128. to pag. â—36 The Remâ—vilt of a most willful and ground less slander * Epist. Ded pag. 2. †Epist. Ded. pag. 4. a Zuingl in Serm. de Prov. edit Tigur August 20. 1530 c. 5. fol. 364. p. 1. lin 28 c. b Ib. cap. 6. fol. 365. p. 2. lin 35. c Ib. lin 40. e lb. fol. 366â— p 1. lin 11. Doct. Twisseâ—efends â—efends the worst of this vin
to as taught in the Article of our Church Loyalty a part of our Religion An accompt to the Reader of the Method observed in all that follows Bp. Tunstal and Bp. Hooper out-weigh Tyndal c. The seventeenth Article two wayes for us So the Liturgie and Homilies and Nowells Catechism which Mr. H. produceth against himself It was not â—he Church of England that put the Calvinists into preferments Arch-Bp Bancroft an Anti-Calvinist Bancrofâ—s Dang Pos. l. 4. ch 10. p 161 162. Dr. RICHARDSON Dr OVERAL both publick Professors and most severe to the Calvinian Doctrins * Sententiae quae exalterâ parte sic aftrâ—unt Decretum Dei absolutum gratiamque efficacem ut tollant voluntatem salutis conditionatam gratiam sufficientem nullo modo in Ecclesiâ Dei â—â—rendae sunt aut tolerandae ut quae pugnent cum bonitate Dei Philanthropiâ cum naturâ hominis aut modo actionis humanae cum verbo revelato tâ—m in lege quà m in Evangelio Deoque aut simulationem mendacium aut malitiam Iniquitatem aut crudelitatem InjustitiaÌ„ affingant Hominibusque aut securitatem carnalem aut desperationem adferant multaque similia Absurda inconvenientia secum attrahant IO. OVERALLVS ad Hug. Gro. Maii. 16 1613. p. 279 280. Dr. SANDERSON no less since his change of Judgement * See Dr. Sandersons letter accorded with by Dr. Hammond p. 10. 11. Persecution is not a mark of Error in those that suffer it Mr Simpson cleared from his Censors as to Falling from Grace and Rom. 7. Barrets Recanting an arrant fable * Hist. Quinquar p. 3. ch 19. p. 72.73 Bp. MONTAGVE'S vindication Mr. Hickman's confession That men follow Câ—lvin in their younger and Arminius in their riper years The causes of it given by Dr. SANDERSON * See Inquifitio Anglicana and other accounts given of the Trieâ—s at Westminster †See Doctor Hammond's Pacifick Discourse of Gods Grace and decrees p. 10. * ibid p. 9. Of Doctor IACKSON'S Act Questions and Doctor Frewein's 1 Cor. 13.11 1 Tim. 1.6 7. Of K. IAMES and Bp. Montague King Iames his conversion from the Calvinian errors * Vid. Epist. Ded. praefix Noâ—is seu Animadvers Danielis Tileâ—i in Canon Syn. Dord * Sâ— coacto immundorum spirituum concilio eorum princeps Diabolus à paredris suis Angelis sive singulatim sive per satyram rogatis sententiis quonam commento odium hominum adversus Deum vehementius incendi atque intendi queat c. A change of judgement in some Divines who were seâ—â— to Dort 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ch 3. p. 103.104 Div. pur Def. ch 4 p. â—29 Mr. H.'s sense of the Vniversity and his unpardonable scurrility to the late Arch-Bp * ☞ Nâ—te the breeding of a lay-preacher ordained at Braâ—kly towards the Primate of all England whom Chamier allows to have been a prince Vniversal Redemption held as well by K. Iames the late Primate of Armagh and Bp. Davenant as by Arminius * Mors sive Passio Christi ut universalis causa salutis humanae Deum patrem ipso facto oblationis eatenus reddit pacatum Reconciliatum Humano Generi ut verè nunâ— dicatur paratus quemvis hominem recipere in gratiam simul ac in Châ—istum crediderit Neminem tamen saltem ex adultis praedicta Christi mors in statum gratiae actualis Reconciliationis sive salutis antequam credat These the words of Bp Davenant by Mr. H.'s confession praef p. 50. * In the COMMVNION BOOK after the act of Consecratâ—on †In the 31. ARTICLE of the 39. See Mr. Clerk's Martyrologie part 2. in the life of Dr. Preston p. 129. to p. 134. for a partiall accompt of the dispute between Dr. Preston Dr. White Mr. Montague Mr. H. grants the whole cause but does noâ— know it His opposiâ—ion to the Assembly-men's confession of FAITH Mr. H. proved to grant the whole cause at which he rails and so to be a Calvinisticall Arminian * See Doctor SANDERSON'S two Reasons why his soul so much abhorr'd and why he was forced to forsake the Sublapsarians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 14 15. * In the Appendâ—x to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Confiâ—med by the confâ—ssions of Du Moulin Paraus and Dr. Reynolds * Act. Synod Dâ—rdr part sess 143. p. 339 †Ib. p. 340. * Vin. Gra. lib. 1. part 1. sect 4. Digr 6. cap. 1 pag 92. who yet confesseth as much as makes himself Arminian too lib. 1. pâ—rt 1. pag. 77. See Pâ—ilan cap. 3. pag. 124. * Vin. Gra. lib. 1. part 1. sect 4. Digr 6. cap. 1 pag 92. who yet confesseth as much as makes himself Arminian too lib. 1. pâ—rt 1. pag. 77. See Pâ—ilan cap. 3. pag. 124. Confirmed fuâ—ther by Dr. Twisse †Paraeus in Explic. Dubior c. 9 ad Rom. p. 880. * Ib. 82. col 2. †Ib. p. 887. Col. 1. * In proof to the corrept cor And by the Synod of Dort †Statutum est pro accuratissimo eo judicio consensu in Doctrinâ gratias esse agendas Sess. 144. pag. 348. * See Divine Philanthropie defended ch 3 p. 124 125. His scurrilous usage of D. Heyâ—in shews the length of his own â—aâ—s His concluding Question childishly fallacious His self-condemnation and contradiction * See his Preface to his Tract of Iustification Pref. p. 1 The Calvinists draw their own consequences from their tenet of Decrees 2 Chron. 32.17 How Mr. H. is their accuser And how is own how an Hobbist and an Arminian How in striving to clear he condemns himself confesseth his m king God to be the Author of sin His own thick darkness touching the darkness in the creation How he makes the most reall things enâ—ia rationis How he obâ—rudes a new Article of Faith And makes it a point of omnipotence to be able to do evil * Compâ—re his words p. 11. with corr copy p. 1. Hâ— proves his own sins to be positive entities by ascribing his rage â—o his sâ—briety * 1 Tim. 6.4 2 Pet. 2.11 1 Pet. 3.9 His slanderous charge against Mr. Tho. BARâ—LOW of â— in Oxford His foul defamation of Dr. REYNOLDS His self-contradâ—ction and blind zeal as to Dr. Martin The nullity of a Priesthood sinfully given by Presbyterians The recantations of â—ome who were so ordained Mr. H 's Disappointment by Dr. SANDERSONS change of judgement ☞ Note that this Section shews his meaning in the seventh ☜ * Note that the Concrete or vitiated Act is here denominated the sin And the sin said to be a compound consisting of two parts act and obliquity not separately but joyntly Note the distinction of Melâ—nchâ—hon The will doth act Deo sustentante non adjuvante God sustaining the faculâ—y but not assisting the choice * Note his exposition of the word affording by not withholding and the word general added to influx and the locomotivâ— faculty which is common to us with Beasts as distinguished from the will which is