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A86881	Animadversions and considerations upon a sheet, printed for Francis Smith containing a confession of the faith of several catapædobaptists, whose names are thereunto subscribed. As also the absurdities of the doctrine of arminianism, free-will, and general redemption; and that it is a popish doctrine; and their objections briefly answered. By J. H.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Humphreys, John, b. 1637.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3666A; ESTC R224279	30,889	102

parts for one may be supposed to be erronious Now what is more cruel than false worship Ergo the Magistrate is to punish false Worshippers or else he must not punish all evil doers forasmuch as such are the greatest evil doers in quality if not in quantity or number But here lies a Falacy occult to most mens judgments false worship say they consists in mode or manner of worship not considering that the greatest evil in worship lies in the substance not in the mode For false worship consists either in the substance as in a false Faith and false Principle or else in false mode or manner of worship the last is bad but the former worst of all because it is the ground of the latter the latter though true is but a form of godliness if the former be wanting Hence all Arrians Socinians and the greatest part of Rattabaptists Arminians Free-willers General Redemptionists Conditional Decretists and Quakers err in the former though some of them may not in the latter therefore at best have but a form of godliness and from such we are commanded to turn away for the Power consists in true Faith and true Principles and true love to God and Man both arising from the diphthongued Union between the Soul and the Man Christ Jesus by the Spirit of the Lord and then mode order and disciplinal method will be soon rectified if the Premises be truly grounded or else not The Doctrine of Quakers Pelagians Arminians Grotians Pharisees Assidians Papists and Justitiaries ABsurdities from your Errours arising That God gave his Son for all Universally upon condition that they believe repent and obey him and so Election upon condition of something in the Creature either naturally as restored by Christ at once as the Pelagians or else wrought in them by the Spirit upon the assent of their free will as the Papists and Council of Trent only by Gods fore-knowledge ab Eterno but not determination and free act and without considering any thing in the Creature and particular free Personal Election from Eternity meerly of good pleasure without any thing in the Creature but to be wrought in the Elected as the purchase of Christs Blood after Election 1. You make Christ the Minister of sin Gal. 2.17 for you make man's act of Faith Repentance and Obedience the formal cause of their Justification not only without which sine quâ non but by which they are justified before God and not by Christs Merits only But man's act of Faith repentance and obedience is sin and filthy rags Isay 64.6 Phil. 3. Ergo that which is sin you make to justifie and consequently Christ must be then the Minister of sin if his Righteousness alone be not sufficient to justifie being imputed by God and received by Faith for something that is sinful and of man's must help to justifie and Christs Merits only make it passable and acceptable so then Christs Merits makes sin passable and acceptable for all our righteousness is but filthy rags Is 64.6 Phil. 3. dung and dross yea loss which is worse than sin for man hath no righteousness except it be wrought in him by the assistance of the Spirit therefore it must be that righteousness wrought in man that the Prophet means and the Apostles for in him we live move and have our being Acts 17. Now the major is proved by all the Testimonies and Writings of Arminians Baptists of that Sect and Pelagians and Papists and is notoriously known The minor is made good from Isay 64.6 and Phil. 3. Ergo the COnclusion is true That they make Christ the Minister of sin The second Absurdity is That those of this Errour do make the Souls of Men before Christ's coming mortal and to dye with the Body which is contrary to the Apostle Phil. 1.23 24. worse than the Papists their Purgatory For a live Dog is better than a dead Lyon and agreeable to Atheists Stoicks and Heathens Besides it makes all Christ's Sufferings on the Cross as they say to remove the first Covenant of perfect works and to bring in a Lex remediens a milder Law to be only Temporal Punishment For such as was our Deliverance such was his Passion 1 Thes 1. ult to deliver us from the Wrath to come did he die Ergo our first death is both Eternal and Temporal Again such was Gods promise to Adam had he stood such was his punishment if he fell But if he had stood he had life Eternal Ergo falling Eternal death besides The wages of Sin is Death Rom. 5. and Rom. 6. ult and James 1.13 14 15. But all man's Sin entered with his first fall Rom. 5.12 Ergo the first fall is the ground of Eternal Death And that Unbelief only is the cause of Damnation is a Lye against the Scriptures For 't is true Unbelief is the cause of all sins efficiently And Sodom and Gomorrah were damned instrumentally for Adultery and Fornication Ep. Jude 2. Pet. 2. and not instrumentally and directly for Unbelief in the Son of God Yea Originally because they were reprobated from Faith effectual Calling and Glory 2 Thes 2.10 11 12. and because he did not taste death for them nor deliver them because they were not elected ab eterno 2 Thes 2.13 1 Thes 5.9 John 22.40 Heb 2.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That by the Grace of God he might taste Death for every Son The third Absurdity is 2 Tim. 2.19 then by these mens Doctrine the Foundation of God is not sure if the acceptance of Christ and his Merits depend on mans Free-will for conditional is not certain for Faith is no condition on mans part but a Necessary Qualification wrought in the Elect to apply his Grace and purchased by his Blood too and wholly wrought by his Spirit in them as effectual Calling Rom. 9. Fph. 2. Cratia non offertur Deo singulis animo communicandi eam sed solis Electis Piscator against Papists The fourth Absurdity is That God's Grace is not free which is by his word declared to be most free Rom. 7. and Rom. 4. not at all of our works wrought in us for then it is not free Now Election is the top of his free Grace from whence flows all the other Justification and effectual Calling and Glory Rom. 8.29 30 31 c. for if it be upon any condition in us then it is not free but it is most free Ergo upon no condition in or by us at all Acts 13.48 None can believe but who are pre-ordained to live Ephes 2.8 9 10. The Elect are created unto good works according to his good pleasure Phil. 2. Huberus and Hemingius the great Jesuits and Patrons of this Sophistry say non absolué statuit sed defixit in Christo ut credant in eo salvi fiant but predestination is de scientia Dei voluntate ejus and Act of his Will Ephes 1.4 7. as well as of

his prescience Rom. 8. Whom he knew he did predestinate there is his Knowledge act of Will and determinate Counsel and the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prius denifinivit prepositus signifies an act of his will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pono 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 terminus by his determinate Counsel and it was 500 years before this Errour was seen or heard in the Horrizon of the World till in the fifth Century Pelagius preached it at Rome and all the Fathers then especially St. Augustine opposed it Now saith Tertullian id est verius quod est prius id est prius quod est ab initiis ab Apostolis Then in latter times about six hundred years ago when Popery and the Babylonian Whore brought forth her great Bastard Antichrist she laid him on the Foundation of this Metropolitane Errour And then in Germany Arminius and Grotius lick'd up the Dust of the crooked Serpent and King James tollerating it in England then it began to spread and infect with its poysonous Breath the Universities and Doctors of our Island and then since our Vineyard hath been rifled and undertrod by the croaking Jesuits they have filled every Puddle and Lake not only Fountains anf Rivers with their Horrible Spawn The fifth Absurdity that Man hath power and free will of himself to believe and to convert or help to convert himself he would have all say they to believe then all have power to do it or else God mocks them All in that Text is not Universal but Definitive all the Elect of Jew and Gentile as in 2 Cor. 5. it is used and so is All taken for the whole World lies in wickedness but we are of God there all the World is taken for a part and Christ healed all Diseases and John Baptist baptized all yet Herod and many more were not by him baptized all put for many Isai 53.11 and Joh. 12.40 it is apparent that God doth harden and soften whom he will and it is no derogation to his Justice or Mercy for Rom. 9. he may do with his Clay what he will and he only offers Grace universally by the external Ministry but by the Spirit internally only to the Elect and none else Acts 13.48 The sixth Absurdity Man may resist his Effectual Calling if he will and the Jusuit Hemingius brings in Mat. 23.33 but that Bone will not be so picked for Christ speaks that in reference to his external Ministry and Manhood as an external Minister only in that place and so in other places too you may find him acting the part of an external Minister though he was God blessed for evermore The seventh Absurdity is falling away from Election and Faith and Unbelief the only cause of Damnation This last I have elsewhere answered to but to the first part of the Absurdity there are a Cloud of Witnesses against Saints falling away for Hypocrites falling away we admit readily according to which acceptation Heb. 6. and such like places are to be understood Tertul. Ireneus Justin Martyr and Jerom yea all the Fathers of the first five Centuaries yea and all the Orthodox since and Bernard though living in corrupt times in the twelfth or thirteenth Cent. on Cant. 3.4 v. Venerunt flumina venti slaverunt impegerunt in eam non recidit eò quòd fundata supra Petram ea est Christus And Tertul Nemo sapiens nemo fidelis nisi Christianus nemo Christianus nisi qui ad finem usque perseveravit And S. Aug. on Joh. 10.26 Eorum qui Electi sunt si quispiam perit fallitur Deus sed nemo eorum perit quia non fallitur Deus And Bernard on Rom. 5. Seoumdum tempus pro peccatoribus inimicis sed seoundum praedestinatinem pro amicis And August Cent. 5. Electi sunt ad regnandum cum Christo And Ambrose Cent. 4. Omnibus qui sunt ex ejus corpore vitam acquisivit And August Illi Christo intelliguntur dari qui praeordinati sunt And John 10.26 27 28 29. Joh. 17.2.6.9 10. and Jon. 6.29.37.44 cum multis aliis quae nunc longum est praescribendum The eighth Absurdity is general and universal Redemption contrary to the Scriptures and to Joh. the 6.37.44 and Joh. 10.26 27 29. and the whole Chapter and Ephes 1.4.7 and to Acts 13.48 he only Heb. 2. 9 10. tasted death for every Son whom Joh. 17. the Father gave him from Eternity If Christ died for all he either died effectually or sufficiently effectually he did not because all are not saved sufficiently he did not because his death only extends to them the Father gave him who are beloved in the Womb Rom. 9. before they have done good or evil If he died for all and all are not saved then is his Death and Grace in vain but that is against both the Honour of God and Dignity of Christ Compare Isai 49. to Isai 42. The ninth Absurdity that Unbelief is the only cause of Condemnation I have said something to this before but this is contrary to Rom. 2.12 to Heb. 6. to Rom. 5.12.16 Then all the Gentiles before Christ and Faith was preached were freed from condemnation and all the Jews too for ought I know for Faith was not publickly preached to them till Christ came Gal. 3. ult Acts. 17.30 and 14.16.17 Then Infants of Unbelievers cannot be damned contrary to Ezek. 9. for they were slain that belonged to the Parents that did not mourn for sin and if you say that was only but a temporal death I answer God did not even under that temporal conditional Covenant destroy his own People that were saved by Christ so rashly they were certainly the Reprobates The tenth Absurdity Why did the Apostle cry Rom. 11.33 Oh the depths of God c. his Counsels c. if your Doctrine be the truth there is no mystery no depth in that for it s built on Reason and every Creature that hath but common Reason may fathom it easily that God gave Christ for all 1. To put them into a condition of peace and re-instate them in Innocency as before the Fall that they have naturally free will in part or whole to convert themselves and to believe that Christ abolished the Covenant of perfect obedience and purchased a milder Law that it they obey the Command of Christ in the Gospel and repent and be sorry for sins committed which they all have power to do if they will and that but sincerely in your sense for in the sense of Truth sincerely is to do the Will of God without any flaw as the word and the use of it truly imports Sincerè id est sine cerâ all Honey without any drege of wax 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first word is derived of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 splendòr solis and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secerno to do ones works in the light of the Sun A Metap taken from the Eagles that try their young by holding