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A90683	The divine philanthropie defended against the declamatory attempts of certain late-printed papers intitl'd A correptory correction. In vindication of some notes concerning Gods decrees, especially of reprobation, by Thomas Pierce rector of Brington in Northamptonshire.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing P2178; Thomason E909_9; ESTC R207496	223,613	247

the Apostles or teach their Mother the Church of England any better Catechism then she had taught them 3. I never saw those things which Mr. B. saith I durst not mention But I durst have nam'd any thing that I had known and I durst have shew'd my dislike if I saw occasion And I dare now say in the words of Mr. Cheynell upon another occasion that they might have contented themselves with that Catechism which was before in the Church of England unlesse they could have made a better And if this false saying of Mr. B. was cast out purposely by him to draw me into the danger of saying what I have said I am well pleased with my self that I have not spoken like a Hypocrite § 15. His 15 That in mp 13. 17. 34. pages I cast in Texts by dozens as if Baker-like I were bound to throw in so many fine manchets into a Buttery hatch p. 26. I have survey'd the three pages but cannot find where lyes the jest For in the first I find but six Texts in the second I find but seven and but eleven in the third But suppose that I had thrown in Texts by dozens Had it advantaged his Cause or hindred mine Polybius pardons such falsities as are invented for the good of Religion as he thought they might be in certain cases wherein he spake like himself a Politician and a Heathen But what excuse can he have who speaks untruly to no imaginable end when he gets nothing by the bargain § 16. His 16. That in my p. 35. I have a charitable wish that the absolute Reprobatarians should be shipt over for Turkey p. 27. 1. There is no wish at all 2. There is nothing spoken of any person but meerly of an opinion 3. That opinion there mentioned was no other then that all we doe however sinful is by an absolute Decree which I said and said truly as I yet conceive came out of Turky into Christendome or was at least a Transcript of the Heathen Stoicks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But 4. I spake not a word of shipping thither only said that that opinion would be rooted out in the next Reformation So manifold is each Forgery that if I did not omit many of them and study brevity in those I mention I should be as tedious as the Correptory Corrector § 17. His 17. That I take my selfe to be wiser then Austin whose manlike writings I confute by his more infantile and babelike writings p. 27. Here the unhappy Corrector hath bewrayed himself many wayes For 1. I no where confront S. Austin to himself but alwayes alleage him in behalf of that Doctrine which I assert 2. He calumniates that Father and gives him Correptory Correction calling him a babelike and infant-like writer whensoever his writings are not pleasing to Mr. B. 3. That very passage of S. Austin in my p. 44. which is referred to by Mr. B. was written by him in that book which he writ being a Bishop and not a bare Presbyter and which S. Austin himself commended as very sufficient to confute Pelagius his opinion And was Austin the Bishop a very babe and Infant in the sight of Mr. B. who is at the most but a Presbyterian 4. did Mr. B. know that Austin was a Bishop when he writ to Simplician or did he not if he did why did he meanly prevaricate with me and his Reader by calling those his babelike writings if he did not why was he so dogmaticall in what he did not understand but parachronismes with him are his very best faults So in his p. 117. he would have Calvin be thought to say no more then what multitudes of Schoolmen some hundreds of years before Calvin was born had said quoting only two men and who should they be but. Scotus and Suarez 5. He doth forget or conceal that in my p. 28. I mentioned 4 expositions which Austin made on 1 Tim. 2. 4. preferring that which was written after the time that the heresie of Pelagius was on foot Which was I hope no babelike writing 6. I hope that Austins Retractations being the last thing he writ as I suppose are no Infantile or babelike writings where yet he speaks for me against Mr. B. as much as I could desire him His words are these in the Margin which I thus translate to Mr. B. what I said It belongs to us to will and to beleeve But it belongs to God to give unto us so willing and beleeving the ability of well-doing through the holy Ghost by whom his love is shed abroad in our hearts is indeed very true but by the same rule they are both pertaining unto God because it is he hat prepares our will and both partaining unto us too because they are no● wrought in us unless we are willing If I had used these expressions as mine own they had been branded with Palagia ●…sme at least But since the words are Austins and in his book of Re●racta ions and if not more yet at least as much sounding to the displeasure of Mr. B. as any thing I ever spake I know not how our Corrector can either swallow them down or cast them up Mr. Calvin Beza and Dr. Twis●e have very publickly confessed that all the Fathers before S. Austin a very great number are quite against their way Only they make much of him and of his Disciples by misexpounding some places which fell from him unawares who yet declares himself so plainly even in his Retractations as I could shew more largely if my desires of brevity would permit and may have occasion to doe it hereafter that they have not left them so much as one Mr. Calvin confesseth in effect that all the Latine Fathers did own free-will and that all the Greek ones did speak more arrogantly then the Latins Using the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if it were in man to do what he pleased Nay farther The Greeks and the Latins were so far from speaking as Mr. Calvin would have had them that he even rails at them as drawing too neere the very Heathen Philosophers as in his Anger he is pleased to say when he findes their Doctrine doth ruine his who boasted themselves the Disciples of Christ and speaking of mans will as if he were yet in a stare of Innocence He there particularly singles out S. Chr●s●stome from the Greeks and S. Hierome from the Latins and bestows upon them both some such Correptory Correction as Mr. B. bestows on me As that they ascribed more to man towards the study or desire or love of vertue then it was just for them to doe Which was to accuse them of Pelagianisme or Massilianisme at least although the words of S. Hierome were spoken in his book against Pelagius and indeed did more sound towards it then any thing the Declamator can finde in me Farther yet It was the saying of

learned then all the men in the world who hath thirty legions at his command perhaps my Master doth consider that it lies in his power to do me shrewd turns and beleeves that I am of his opinion and that by way of prevention I will give him leave to confute me I mean in his way A little Correptory Correction he may hope will be borne to shun a great deal of mischief And therefore all his chief weap●ns are Drums and Trumpets The very Title of the book is Io p●●n victoria a Correptory Correction That 's the motto held forth in the Triumphant Flagg whereby the Reader must understand that He comes not to combat but to chastise me And that the credulous unwary Reader may not take up his Title by the wrong handle it will not be amiss to tell him truly what it means Correptory Correction in this Authors acception of the phrase is the singing an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before a Fight A way of Conquest by meer Contempt When the great Goliath disdained David because he was but a youth and made no doubt of giving David's flesh unto the foules of the Aire and to the Beasts of the Field it was a Correptory Correction When * Hanun took Davia's servants and shaved off the one halfe of their Beard●… and cut their Garments in the middle e●e● to their * Buttocks and sent them away it was intended to King David as a Correptory Correction When Jezebel suborned the two sons of Belial to swear that Naboth blasphemed God and the King and so to rob him of his Vineyard it was a Correptory Correction When Caligula the Brave did thunder back against Jupiter and threaten to banish him into Greece it was a Correptory Correction When he condemn'd a few Gauls and a few Grecians to be killed and then gave out that he had conquered Gallo-Graecia That was Correptory Correction When he march't with his Army against the Ocean and took abundance of Cockles Captive and devoted them to the Capitol as spoyles of a routed and plundered Ocean and erected a mon●ment to the eternal memory of the Fact it was a Correptory Correction When my Excellent Neighbour hath called me all the ill things that he could Name and set me up on a Gibbet in the ugliest guise that he could fancy and reform'd my little Book as He and others would do Religion he tells the world it is a Correptory Correction I find that Correptorie is a new-coyn'd word sent out into the world from Mr. B. his Mint to signifie something in himself peculiarly differing from other men He is indeed an extraordinary Writer I beleeve the Sun in all his Course nee'r saw his peer His book was enter'd with the Title of a Castigatorie Correction and now 't is mended into the worse § 2. Post-Destination is another cast of his Invention and evinseth in its Author a threefold weakness First because a Decree before the Creation of the world is as much and as purely a Predestination although conditional as his absolute Decree can be suppos'd to be and That the word Praescience doth very suffic●ently inforce 2. His terme of Post-destination according to his way of reasoning will fall foule upon all his most venerable Masters who follow the sublapsarian way for that is founded in praescience of Adams fall which doth inferr a Decree not altogether irrespective And though Mr. B. hath not yet Dr. Twisse had sagacity enough to discern this Truth which I am speaking Who therefore rebuketh the Sublapsarians and by consequence Mr. B. in as severe a manner as any Molinist or Arminian hath ever done Yea even all the bitter speeches which Mr. B. hath vented against the respectiveness of Gods Decree will by an easy Violentum as Logicians speak belong directly to himself and to all the whole Colledge or Combination of Postlapsarians For that Decree is respective which is made in Intuition of Adam's sin as well as that which is made in Intuition of a mans own Where then lies the difference betwixt them of the Consistory ●nd us who are of the Church God say they decree'd to reprobate the greatest part of mankinde in consideration of no other then Original sin But say we of the Church of England and the famous Moulin of France it was in consideration of all the sins that were future not only of original but actual also And which of these two respective Decrees is most agreeable to the nature of God Almighty revealed to us in his word That which determin'd the Reprobation of Cain of Pharaoh of Judas and the like in regard of nothing but Adams fall or that which determin'd their Reprobation both in regard of Adams fall and of their actual sins besides viz. the murder of Cain the manifold wickedness of Pharaoh the filthy trechery of Judas and the final Impenitence of all who were eternally the objects of Reprobation The man that laboureth at the Plough may here demand of Mr Barlee and Mr. B. may answer when he is able was God less able to fo●esee the actual sins of wicked men when he decree'd their Reprobation then their Original sin which was actually committed by ●one but Adam and Eve many thousands of years before these Reprobates were born or was he able to connive so as by con●ivance to conceal any thing from himself so as to have no foresight or Intuition of actual sins and yet to have it of original Was he able for a time not to be Omniscient which is only a power of becoming weak and by consequence of not being God Could he eternally foresee the sin of Adam and not foresee at the same Instant the actual sins of his Posterity Or so●eseeing both together which by virtue of his Omniscience he could not but doe could he consider the former and not consider the later Or did he hate Original sin in Cain which he drew only from his Parents more then the murdering of his Brother which he wilfully acted without his Parents Or could he be willing to reprobate the soul of Cain in respect of that sin which was committed by his Parents before his Birth and which by consequence he could not hinder from being naturally derived upon himself and at the same instant be unwilling to decree his Reprobation in respect of his murder and impenitence which were actually and wilfully committed by himself and which by consequence he might have hindred as being a free and voluntary not a necessitated and fatall sinner was original sin only the Condition or the Cause or the object of Reprobation and are all actuall sins to be punished only by the By what need the Cause of Cains Ruine be thrown intirely upon Adam or his being considered as lying in the loynes of Adam when he hath sinne enough besides which is peculiarly his own Did Cain receive the greater damnation for his murdering of Abel or