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A44609	Scotland pulling down the gates of Rome, or, Christ against Antichrist, the Lambs friends against the Dragons followers containing first, Christs herauld proclaiming his second coming, in allarum to most kingdoms of Europe, from the late presaging comet which appeared, December 1680 and January 1681, and now in August 82 ... : secondly, the popish confessions and catechisms, lately dispersed, and their damnable principles examined ...	Houschone, William.	1683 (1683)	Wing H2944; ESTC R4446	18,854	31

professors now would have two Summers in one year Heaven here and Heaven hereafter Yet Christ who had a right to Heaven by both Blood and Birth could not have it without Blood and Blows it s not got without stroke of Sword saith one speaking of affliction yet in all this the way of Free-grace is nothing ragged Christ himself straws to glory as with pleasant flowers it is but a bed of Roses to the Believer Inference the fifth and that for direction as a general rule all the Scripture is not delivered in Aphorisms or Canons which occasion stumbling of many ignorant Souls when Satan with some shadow of the word of God drives home a tentation takes hold of them presently as instance that of Extream Unction Pennance Purgatory all the Fopperies of Rome for our safeguard here take this one argument for all why would we not sacrifice our first-born with Abraham but no farther this being sufficient Now in one word to exhaust all the reason of a Souls declining from the way of God deficiency in holiness truth and holiness being inseparable and reciprocally which produces so many Sects the want of this persons without the habit of Faith are Christless persons duties without the exercise of Faith are duties out of Christ what wonder then Souls can never steam Heaven wards but blind reason deluded fancy enthusiastical injection is their Pilot. Reader travail one hour to the Sanctuary and to the ballance thereof 1. Thy Principle whether from Heaven or from Earth 2. Thy Practice 3. Thy Profession 4. Thy Graces Faith and Patience of the Saints 5. Thy Conversion in the work of Conviction and Compunction 6. Thy decay in Grace My soul melteth away with heaviness Psal 119. 7. Thy experiences and manifestations of Divine Love time year day month upon the Sabbath-morning to record every week all the passages of Gods Providence but much more the enjoyments of his own person all which God will try Amos 9.9 Behold I will command and I will sift the house of Israel like as corn is sifted in a seive yet shall not a grain fall to the ground Inference read that of 1 John 5.1 Beloved try the spirit whether they be of God or no put Preacher and Preaching to proof a Crape profession will not do their Leaders caused them to erre and those that were lead of them are fallen into destruction when Satan glides into Pulpits and sow his fair coloured seed of Free-will universal redemption universal grace objective and subjective he sets the Soul upon the very threshold of Heaven but never further how with specious pretences promising peace and nothing but war safety and nothing but ship-wrackt Salvation and nothing but Damnation which that very Learned man being the Chariot-driver of this League now intended could never effectuate read his own words George Cassander his Legacie being himself ordered by the Emperour to compose the Quarrels of the Church Consultation p. 57. YEt I cannot deny but in the beginning that many out of a godly zeal and care were driven into a sharp and severe reproof of certain manifest abuses and the principal cause of this calamity of the Church is to be laid upon these who being puft up with a vain insolent conceit of their Ecclesiastical power proudly and scornfully rejected them who modestly admonish them for their Reformation Wherefore my opinion is That the Church can never hope for any firm peace unless the beginning which have been the cause of the distraction that is unless those which are in place of Ecclesiastical Government to remit something of these too much rigour and yield somewhat to the peace of the Church but above all to hearken to the Prayers and Admonitions of godly men and to correct manifest abuses according to the rule of Divine Scriptures yea of the Antient Church from which our Cardinals Prelates in Doctrine and Discipline have swerved This we present to your Majesty begging without partiality that ye would sift the Clergy-men those Asses who ride with Golden Bridles when Princes walk on foot from which we infer what peace when they have razed the Fundamentals can we expect for says another Bishops to the end that they might get Proselites the Pagans permitted them to intermingle many of their Superstitions with Christianity Clowis 1 Christian King sent a Crown of Gold to B. Hormisda 513. content that they should change the name of those false Deities into the blessed Martyrs it s ever proper to Errour to retain what has affinity with it self and forasmuch as that pagan people had extream veneration for their Prelates the same way did it tickle Apostatizing Ministers Nay we may take a further reflection look Tertullian in his Chapt. 7. for Christians Tell me where is your Religion where is that reverence due by you to your Fathers into whom ye are become exceeding unlike in your Habit in your course of life in your Manners in your Opinions and finally in your Language Ye still applaud Antiquity and yet engross Novelty as much as ye can deviate from the laudable institutions of our Ancestors ye retain that which is of no value stopping the Channels of life and streams of Salvation stopping the Ministers of Christ in discharge of their Message the Devil has sitten down upon that mans lips who would shut his Brothers But let us view that pious and judicious practice of the Bishop of Lincolne Robert Groasthead containing the Reasons of his Non conformity to Pope Innocent maintaining That hindring of Preaching is the sin next Devilism Paganism Antichristianism Mat. Par. Ann. 12.53 p. 871. Let 's yet take a look of the rise progress and success of those Ceremonies scattered amongst Reformed Churches Ann. 2007. was very fruitful for besides they retained many things that proceeded from the Jews the Pagans also incorporating themselves into the Christian Church intermingled various Pagan Rites having infinite number of Superstitions in their very ordinary converse Christians were promiscously conversant with them not only in the same City but in the same House at the same Table notwithstanding they resolve to be acknowledged for Christians and for the evidence of their Faith they introduced the sign of the Cross and forasmuch as it was judged ignominious Origen Hom 3. in Psal 39. Cypr. 1. de Haeret. Baptiz they formed that badge in their Foreheads going into or coming out of their Baths lying down in their beds and rising from their Tables they thus marked themselves yea Satan gains ground even upon account of Martyr dome very honourable and those who were prisoners for the truth by a frequent intercourse of Letters did maintain a correspondencie with the Church erroneous persons to purchase more credit to their Errours and Delinquents to cloak their knavery sollicited the Martyrs approbation they having influence by Letters interceded with the Church that they would admit such penitents into their Communion but sadly did they abuse the facile nature of the

say they God is not bound to recompence such if we look upon his Attributes distinct from his Covenant yea also abstract from it Puteanus Summa Theologiae Quest 115. Artic. 1. Drob 5. In vain therefore do the Papists raise dust proclaiming to the world notorious lies which are there refuge as if it were our Principle not to approve and encourage the works of the faithful we grant and approve of a blessed harmony betwixt Faith and Works yea Works and Eternal Life Yet no casual relation but a relation of orders such respect as Mean has to an End This in a sober sense not in a captious nay as instance I have fought a good fight of Faith henceforth is laid for me a Crown of life the fight is needful to obtain the victory the victory in order to obtain the Crown Nor can we say the conflict of it self produces the Victory the Crown according to promise is freely given What madness would it be in any Rational man to impute the cause of a lights entrance to a chamber to reckon I say to the demission letting down or pulling up of the broads and yet the world knows letting down of the broads is Conditio sine qua non That the light of Life the light of Grace and last the life of Glory may enter in those broads of darkness Atheism Ignorance Formality must all be pulled up and this is the sound Doctrine amongst all Orthodox Divines Yea Ludovicus le Blanc de Justitia amongst rational men and Christians where the name Protestant has not been used without holiness we shall never see Gods face in mercy Concessions we grant farther though God doth highly approve of the works of the Regenerate yet we are not to understand them as if God of themselves did so impower them properly to effectuate Eternal Salvation yet herein can we nor shall we not robe those noble actions in the sight of God of their just value and proper operation proportionable to their sphere being as means natively tending to their end which is Eternal life and Salvation consequently following upon Gods appointment and his gracious promise So very solidly do the Doctors of the Reformed Churches speak the truth in calm terms denying denominatively good works to be the proper cause in a strict sense of our Salvation why because they of themselves do not immediately reach the effect Gods gracious promise mediating betwixt yet in a more larger though improper sense with all our Soul and heart do frame this concession if it would make a reformed Catholick honour them with the name of causes efficient of our Salvation but thus nay as an efficient cause in general is described by all the Philosophers and so morally has a name thus that in general to be an efficient cause whatsoever in what ever way has an operation and concourse into one effect Davenant 39. all we deny and from that the word of God a meritorious efficiency or properly so taken against us is excepted what can be more clear from the Word of God that Eternal life is the reward of good works But Reader know to such a reward for which we now dispute there must be those two ingredients absolutely 1. That there be a proportion of equality betwixt the labour and the reward and that by the exact law of Equity it be so distributed so all our works shall be thrown over the bench-bar of Heaven And further we adde this one concession if it can avail though there may not be a proportion of Equality or poize or valour yet as one tearms it a proportion of convenience such as is betwixt the seed and the fruit the sower and the reaper c. Amongst things of the same order flowing from the same principle having some connexion among themselves Grace is glory begun Heaven upon earth A famous man explains it further thus that word according holds out all and every relation amongst two things betwixt the good works of just men and eternal life good works being a certain moral good life eternal a physical good and so both agree though they be not of the same kind and so worth and dignity admits of a twofold sense one consisting in a relation of justice as the workman is worthy of his wages another consisting in a certain convenience of nature facite fructus penitentos dignos Proposition It 's not only our but the worlds wonder what hath infatuated the great persons of the earth with this man of this sin whose life and fortune he still projects considering what singular advantages doth accrue to their own interest in trampling upon the man of sin how does he clip the feathers of honour yea dethrones the greatest of Princes Platina Sabellicus Krantz l. 5. cap. 7. the Senate of Cardinals did not scruple to invest themselves with the power to choose and refuse Emperours at their pleasure as plainly appears by Hildebrand Electing of Ralfe displacing of Henry under which that horrible Idolatry of worshipping and carrying about of Bread came into the Church kneeling to the Bread god Henry stoutly as became a Magistrate resisted and ramcountred them with the point of the Sword of Justice Though for a long time he submitted too much but perceiving how the pulse of the Senate like to the Treachery of that Prelate Thurstan betraying Gospel King and Countrey to the Popes hands he must needs now declaim himself an open enemy to all such pestiferous persons for which there is nothing but fire and fagot grievous Wars against him Excommunicating Deposing displacing choosed a new Emperour to whom he sent a Crown of Gold with this Motto Petra dedit Petrus Diadema Rodulpho What Tumults Combustions Devastations of Churches and States have they been actors of what dreadful villany under the colour of honesty have they learned of the Devil as one reporteth how Satan prescribed some rules to the Papists for the better defence when questioned upon the meaning of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anselme Hermolaus Barbarin Proposition Our Pamphleteer leads us now to salute this Brother a miscreant creature an Arminian Heresie to over-turn Gods Eternal Blessedness Will Wisdom Providence and consequently his whole Essence it shall not suffice them to write their Panegyrick Theams in beating of their paradoxical brains dipping their quills in the blood of Gods Innocents as their old Mother Babel attempted to pull God out of Heaven we must render all the habits of Grace and the Spirit of God superfluous Advance the Throne of Free-will into the Throne of Free grace cut the Throat of Souls and Life If God was avenged for the blood of Jezabel much more for the blood of Abel and this is all their colour of honesty and picture of lawfulness they are say they only useful dispositively and by no co-efficience the efficient being helped by the habit in taking away the impediment yea increasing the vertue of the agent though not as a natural quality yet doth the habit