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A just and sober vindication of the observations upon the thirtieth of January, and twenty ninth of May by J.G.G.
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Gailhard, J. (Jean)
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1694
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Wing G122; ESTC R24345
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Churches What is meant by Calvinism I conceive it to be the Doctrine and Opinions of Calvin and do not all Protestant Churches beyond Sea except Lutherans which have Transubstantiation and Ubiquity nay do not we our selves agree in the Doctrinal part with Calvin Let us peruse the Body of the several Confessions of Faith of those Forreign Churches and compare them with our Thirty nine Articles as to the Doctrinal part and we shall find they all agree in Doctrines of Faith Is not this to bring in Popish Batteries amongst us and plainly to betray the Protestant Cause Is not this to help our Enemies and the Wicked We know how Jehoshaphat was reproved for having joyned with Ahab after he was returned in Peace to his House Jehu the Son of Hanani the Seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat Shouldest thou help the Ungodly and love them that hate the Lord Therefore is Wrath upon thee from before the Lord. This Man calls Calvin an Heretick but doth he make it appear he saith but doth not prove we are not Sworn to his words doth he think we will take his bare word for it there is no reason Principles of Truth we stand upon but he understands it no more than Pilate who asked what it was I say this false Accusation is a Libel against other Protestant Churches he doth erect himself into a Goliah who despiseth and defieth all the Armies of the Lord This is highly and openly to appear for the Romish Canse after this rate down with all Protestant Churches and up with Popery O! Tell it not in Gath publish it not in Askelon least the Daughters of the Philistines rejoyce What a Joy for Papists both at home and abroad to hear one in London hath in Print condemned for the worst of Hereticks all Churches that are withdrawn from that of Rome Is it not a Shame to hear it And will it not be a greater Shame to suffer it It is very well worth the Pains of those that are concerned to look to it The Laws do forbid all Commerce with the Romish Church and 't is Treason to be reconciled to it or to Seduce others to do so to write against that Churches Enemies is to write for it to write for it is to go about to Seduce People to be reconciled to it which is Punishable by the Laws this is too much to favour Rome Did the greatest Stickler of the Church of Rome ever call our Holy Religion worse than Heresie herein he justifies the more Violent Papists amongst whom have been many who in this case had more Moderation and less Impudence than he we call Heaven and Earth to record and do Solemnly declare the Protestant Cause to be herein Perfidiously betray'd There are those in the World who being so Hard-hearted as never to be willing to forgive them that really or in their Opinion only have offended them when they say the Lord's Prayer do leave out the fifth Petition because they are not willing to forgive them that Trespass against them though they would have God to forgive them their Trespasses but our Blessed Saviour in his Divine Wisdom hath so twisted them that they must go together There is no Pardon for us except we forgive others Thus our Author as we may reasonably believe doth not joyn with the Church though a pretended high Church-man in that Prayer of the Common-Prayer-Book wherein we Pray God to forgive our Persecutors and Slanderers May be he will give the Reason why he doth not That he hath not nor ever had as to himself occasion to use that Prayer for he never was Persecuted or Slandered having always been and desirous to be on the Persecuting and Slandering side This Man I produce as a Witness to prove what I said of the Violence of the Spirit and the Principles of some of them and I think his Evidence speaks home and what I also said of their Practise against Dissenters In my weak Apprehension this Learned Pen had done better and a more Praise-worthy thing to have written against Socinians but them we do not mind they are our Friends and to make use of his words herein we are in a Levitical Slug but as soon as a Nonconformist's Book exhorting to Union and Reformation comes out then Tooth and Nail against it and would condemn it to the Fite The long and the short of the Business is this They are for Vengeance we are told P 3. something we must expect from an Injured or so thinking himself Loyalist and disturbed Privado They are not for Peace or Reconciliation as P. 13. Trespasses of the first Magnitude must not be forgotten nor petty Injuries forgiven P. 17. 'T is no Christian Logick to say it were better to forget those things than to renew the Memory of them which continues Divisions for Their Gospel-Talents must not be wrapt up in an Idle Napkin of Silence and Oblivion they must Preach and Evangelize the Jews and Miscreants and Exquisite Impostors and Assassines or such Furious Assailants as Presbyterians are as they call us P. 33. and 43. out of the Pale of the Christian Church P. 19. Schismaticks and Factious ibid. We are for Clashing Destruction in Church and State P. 5. In short We are Rogues Murtherers Enemies to the Government infected with Seditious Doctrines P. 23. And what else worse can be conceived of Men He saith much but proveth nothing at all he hath learned the Maxim Calumniare fortiter aliquid haerebit Do but Slander boldly and something will stick If he had given any Grounds which he cannot for such things we would have endeavoured to answer him but our true and short answer to such Men is this formerly made use of by another Mentiris impudentissimè Thou art a most Impudent Lyar. In such a case when Reason doth not prevail these are the last Weapons to be made use of we are for Peace but when we speak they are for War Hereupon we have cause to make a Serious Reflection we are traduced for what we are not they themselves declare they breath out after our Ruin and Destruction and we cannot but see what we must expect from them if ever it was in their Power to Undo and Murther us this is clear out of several places of the Pamphlet If there be any Secular Care of the Scepter if any Pious Regard for the Mitre if there be any Security for their present Majesties P. 3. Whence doth all this arise and to what doth it tend See Page 25. I am afraid he would say I hope e're long they will both that is both divided Church-Parties be upon the Bear that is the Dissenters This is a Healing Spirit a Hellish one rather which is the Author of Jealousies Divisions and Animosities this threatning Noise would awake us if we were asleep but latet anguis in herbâ For what we know there is a Design to work Troubles thereby to make