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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85404	Neophytopresbyteros, or, The yongling elder, or, novice-presbyter. Compiled more especially for the Christian instruction and reducement of William Jenkin, a young presbyter, lately gone astray like a lost sheep from the wayes of modesty, conscience and truth. And may indifferently serve for the better regulation of the ill governed Society of Sion Colledge. Occasioned by a late importune pamphlet, published in the name of the said William Jenkin, intituled Allotrioepiskopos; the said pamphlet containing very little in it, but what is chiefly reducible to one, or both, of those two unhappy predicaments of youth, ignorance, & arrogance. Clearly demonstrated by I.G. a servant of God and men in the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. Wherein also the two great questions, the one, concerning the foundation of Christian religion: the other, concerning the power of the naturall man to good supernaturall, are succinctly, yet satisfactorily discussed. With a brief answer in the close, to the frivolous exceptions made by C B. against Sion Colledge visited, in a late trifling pamphlet, called, Sion Colledge what it is, &c.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing G1183; Thomason E447_27	141,216	147

can exceed the Foundation in strength or continuance Therefore if the Church of God which is built upon the foundation of Religion bee unperishable and which cannot be prevailed against to ruine or destruction which the Scripture every where asserteth most certain it is that the foundation on which it is built is unperishable also If the foundation of Mr. Jenkins Religion be his Bible then is his Religion no such treasure but that theeves may break through and steal it from him For how should it continue or stand the foundation of it being gone Or in case his Bible should be casually burnt with fire the foundation of his Religion and consequently his Religion it selfe should be consumed Diogenes hearing that Plato had given this definition or description of a man Animal bipes implume that he was a living creature with two feet without feathers gets a Cock and pulls off all his feathers whilst he was alive and throwes him in amongst some of Platoes Scholars Ecce hominem Platonicum wishing them to behold their Master Plato his Man If some such odd-conceited fellow as Diogenes should use meanes to get Mr. Jenkin his Bible and having defaced rent and torn it should come and cast it into the midst of his Auditors with this Elogie Ecce fundamentum religionis Jenkinianae Behold the goodly foundation of the religion of your Master Jenkin it might prove a more effectuall conviction unto him of his folly than seven demonstrative reasons administred by a more sober man Thirdly If any booke or bookes whatsoever either that which is called the Scripture or any other be the true and proper foundation of religion then may religion be truly and properly said to have been founded by men But Religion cannot truly and properly be sayd to have been founded by men but by God Ergo. If Mr. Jenkin will deny the Assumption at the perill both of his conscience and reputation be it The consequence in the Proposition is evident For as the Apostle saith concerning houses that every house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is built by some man as our Translators render it So is it as true concerning bookes that every book now extant in the world every Bible in what language soever whether printed or transcribed whether consisting of paper parchment or other like materiall was built and form'd and made into a book by men There is no point letter syllable or word in any of them but is the workmanship of some mans hand or other If Mr. Jenkin hath a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Bible that fell out of heaven written or printed without hands he is defired to produce it for the accommodation of the world Yet he must know that though he could produce such a Bible or copie of the Scriptures as this it would not follow that this book must needs be the foundation of Religion inasmuch as Religion might take place be professed and practised in truth and power by men where this book never came nor was heard of Fourthly Sect. 43. If those Tables of stone wherein the Law was written by the Finger of God himselfe a Exo. 24. 12. 32 16. were not the foundation of this law nor of the obedience exhibited unto it then neither is any Bible or Book whatsoever the foundation of Religion But the Tables of stone written immediatly by God himselfe were not the foundation of the Law written therein nor of the obedience exhibited unto it Ergo. This latter proposition is evident because these Tables of stone were broken in pieces by Moses soon after b Exod. 32. 19 and yet the law stood firme and obedience hath been given unto it untill this day The Consequence in the Major cannot reasonably be doubted or denied For doubtlesse there is as much if not much more reason to judge those two Tables w ch are said to have bin the work of God the writing in them the writing of God graven upon the Tables c Exod. 32. 16 to have been the foundation of the Law written in them and of the obedience either due or exhibited unto it as there is to judge any book whatsoever either written or printed by the hands of men to be the foundation of that Religion the grounds and principles whereof are declared in it and no more but declared especially confidering that this Declaration hath as hath been said been formerly made by God without any such book and might be made again by him if he pleased yea and doubtlesse would be made if there were any just occasion or necessity for it Fifthly Sect. 44 If any booke or bookes whatsoever Bible or other be the true and proper foundation of Religion then is not the true and proper foundation of religion necessarily uniform and consistent in all things with it selfe The reason of this Proposition is because it is very possible that either through negligence ignorance want of memory or the like in Scribes and Correctors of the Presse some such error may be found in every copie of the Scriptures now extant in the world which will render this copie contradictious to it selfe yea it is possible that many such errors as this may be found in the best and truest copies that are I now assume But the true and proper foundation of religion is necessarily uniform and consistent in all things with it selfe Ergo. If this Proposition be obnoxious the true and proper foundation of Religion must be divided in and against it selfe and how then according to our Saviours own Maxime and Rule Matth. 12. 25. can either it or the Religion built upon it stand Sixthly Sect. 45. If any booke or bookes Bible or other bee the true and proper foundation of Religion Then is the foundation of Religion somewhat that is visible and exposed to the outward senses of man This needs no proof unlesse Mr. Jenkin will deny that Bibles or the Scriptures are legible and may be seen But certain it is That the true and proper foundation of Religion is not any thing that is visible or exposed to the outward senses of men but somewhat that is spirituall and apprehensible onely by the mind and understanding of men Ergo. The reason of this proposition is if the proper foundation of Religion be the object of the outward sense then is there nothing necessary to be beleeved by any man to make him truly religious but what either he sees with his eyes handles with his hand or the like For he that beleeves or builds upon the true and proper foundation of Religion questionlesse is truly religious But men are not made truly religious by beleeving onely what they see with their outward sense of seeing otherwise every man or woman that did but look into a Bible and see such and such words and sentences written or printed there and beleeved accordingly that these words and sentences were here written or printed must needs hereby become truly religious Certainly if men may

my back when the graver Judicatory had determined mine immunity in that kind and this I hope out of a conscientious sense of my innocency But poore man little doth he know what he hath done not onely to cause his own savour to stink in the eyes of men but to the further discovering of the nakednesse of his brethren also by tearing that covering which they had prudently cast over it Turno tempus erit magno cum optaverit emptum Intactum Pallanta cum spolia ista diemque Oderit i. The time will come when youthfull Turnus shall Wish dearly Pallas ne're had been encountred And when these trophies and this day he 'll call The hatred of his soule Nor can I charge all the 52. Ministers of the Diocesse or Province of London whose names were sub-printed but not sub●scribed to the late Testimony published in their names nor doe I know how many of them I may truly charge with representing me as a man of Errors upon the Stage Because it is very possible that those of them who were the Master-sticklers in the businesse purveyors for subscriptions in which meritorious engagement my Antagonist as it seems by his unparalleld zeale for the vindication of the said Testimony had the principall hand might serue many more of the printed subscribers as slippery a trick as they did Mr. Downham one of the gravest and best spirited men amongst them The legerd● main was this The Architects of the designe present Mr. Downham with their papers wherein they had collected and put down in writing onely some of the wildest and most absurd opinions which are now extant in their Testimony desiring his hand by way of concurrence with them as intending to testifie against them publickly In this draught which they brought to him and whereunto they desired and obtained his hand and subscription there was not the least mention or word of any error of mine or of D r Hamonds From whence by the way it is observable how with as little truth as common sense or good English of which afterwards this young peece of presumption writes thus pag. 41. In which passage you bring in AND THAT TRULY the whole number of 52. as testifying against you c. In which words though not many as you see in number there are two contraries at least unto truth First that in that passage wherein I went about to make Testardus my Patron a passage no where to be found in my book I speak to the whole Colledge or Covent of 52. There is not a word syllable or tittle of any such addresse in that passage wherein I speak of Testardus Secondly that I bring in and that truly the number of 52. to testifie against me For I confesse that if I did in this or any other passage bring in or present 52. as testifying against me I did it not TRULY though I presume pardonably not suspecting forgery in a testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ especially being a testimony also to our solemne League and Covenant and this exhibited by so many calling themselves Ministers of Christ and these all of them solemne pretenders to an inviolable observation of this Covenant because Mr. John Downham whose name they have printed amongst the subscribers and who is one of the 52 did NOT testifie against me and many more of the 52. might be as innocent as hee in this behalfe for ought I know or have reason now to judge Are these false-fingred men these forgers of testimonies these opprobria propudia generis humani the shames and blots of mankind Mr. Jenkin his reverend and beloved Very probably they may so be himself being one and it's like the first born of them But are these the Pastors which the Lord Jesus hath provided after his own heart for his people No great marvell if the forlorn conscience of this man giveth him full liberty of speaking all maner of evill of me when at the infinite holinesse the dreadfull power the incomprehensible majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ himselfe cannot secure him against the reproach of his pen which not onely maketh the vilest of men Pastors of his providing for his people but also asserteth these for Pastors according to his own heart But to the story These Setters having obtained their desires of Mr. Downham in this kind how honourably think we did they reward him for his courtesie First they goe and foyst into that catalogue of errors which he had subscribed what sayings and sentences of other men they pleased without demanding his judgement about them whether he thought them errors or no Yea that which was as base an affront as could have lightly been put upon an ancient reverend and learned man they insert in this catalogue under the name of errors severall passages out of a book of Dr. Hamonds which Mr. Downam himselfe had licensed but a little before and so represent him not only as a man of a desultory and inconsistent judgement in his sedate and best composed yeares but also as a man of no more cōscience or cordialnes to his friend than to blow hot cold with the same breath to kisse and kill in the same houre If this be the measure of Sion Colledge to their friends what may their adversaries expect from them If this be their oyle what are their swords Secondly being conscious it seems that they bad abused him by way of reparation they make him Captain of their black guard conferring upon him the ignoble honour of prenomination amongst all their subscribers Mr. Downham himself related not without much regret this unnaturall and most unworthy department of his Presbyterian brethren towards him to another ancient and grave Minister in the Citie of his acquaintance Hem vosteam fidem Dii Sinoniam Tales neanimis coelestibus artes i. Have heavenly minds such tricks such frauds as these Could but such a piece of forgery as this be found in the tents of Independency how soon should the report of it fill Solis utramque domum both houses of the Sun Presbyterian pens and pulpits would joyne hand in hand to provide that Solis ad occasus Solis caneretur ador●us i. That East and West should ring with the disgrace The story puts me in mind of an old Saw which cuts well Non audet Stygius Pluto tentare quod audet Effraenis Flamen The Prince himselfe of the black Stygian lake Dares not attempt what Priests will undertake But the best is that our Collegrate sons of Sion doe not build up but pull down their Colledge and de number their Society by such unhallowed policies and practices as that lately related Mr. C. Mr. W. c. There are other Ministers I heare in the Citie late of that Consistory who are resolved that their souls shall no more enter into the secrets thereof The cage is already so defiled that the clean birds amongst them begin to loath and forsake it And indeed it stands all those