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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85393	A fresh discovery of the high-Presbyterian spirit. Or The quenching of the second beacon fired. Declaring I. The un-Christian dealings of the authors of a pamphlet, entituled, A second beacon fired, &c. In presenting unto the Lord Protector and Parlament, a falsified passage out of one of Mr John Goodwins books, as containing, either blasphemie, or error, or both. II. The evil of their petition for subjecting the libertie of the press to the arbitrariness and will of a few men. III. The Christian equity, that satisfaction be given to the person so notoriously and publickly wronged. Together with the responsatory epistle of the said beacon firers, to the said Mr Goodwin, fraught with further revilings, falsifications, scurrilous language, &c. insteed of a Christian acknowledgment of their errour. Upon which epistle some animadversions are made, / by John Goodwin, a servant of God in the Gospel of his dear Son. Also two letters written some years since, the one by the said John Goodwin to Mr. J. Caryl; the other, by Mr Caryl in answer hereunto; both relating to the passage above hinted.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.; Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1167; Thomason E821_18; ESTC R202307	68,987	94

testimony also of several Divines of the Protestant party as considerable as well for piety and parts of learning and sound judgement as any of their fellows You may see somewhat more then a little upon this account in my Redempt Redeemed pag. 397 398 399 400. d This is a most notorious slander I never taught any man to renounce all interest in the active obedience of Christ Yea I have constantly taught and asserted the absolute necessity of it to render him a justifier of the ungodly and Savior of men My sence in this point is plainly laid down in several places of my Treatise of Justification a Nor are you Christian in the latter part of your charge I no where affirm that Christ needed not to have shed one drop of his bloud for us these are words of your falsification My words in pag. 16. of my Redemption Redeemed to which you refer me are these The Salvation of the world doubtlesse did not depend upon the actualor literal dying or cruoifying of Christ but partly upon the Councel and good pleasure of God to deliver him up unto death in order to this end partly upon the readinesse and perfect submission of will in Christ to suffer death in case any man or men should be found that would inflict it upon him Of this my Assertion I give a sober and Christian account at large in the sequel of the discourse How wide the difference is between the notion and import of these words and that affirmation which you unworthily charge upon me an intelligent person may readily apprehend e This also is a most wretched and daring calumny Never in my daies did I deny the imputation of Christs all sufficient satisfaction I onely denied that most sencelesse and Anti-Scriptural sence of this imputation which was taught by some Ministers about the City but in a regular and true sence I alwaies affirmed it and accordingly declare my self in the second part of my book of Justification pag. 53. 57. f If you had prayed Davids prayer Psal. 119. 29. before your drawing up of this Article I judge that God would have heard you and removed from you the way of lying For certainly never did any word passe from my lips of any such tendency or sound as here you are not afraid to fasten on me That Catholique {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} credere you speak of I alwaies abhorr'd and set my self with the best of my strength and understanding against it Yea I argued against that opinion from time to time which maketh Faith to justifie by vertue of the relation which it hath to Christ upon this very account and ground viz. because of that affinity it hath with the notion of a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} credere Nor did I ever teach men to trust in their own trusting It is very like I may have taught them to trust that upon their beleeving or trusting in God thorough Christ they should be saved you are unsatiable in traducing g All my Anti-Scriptural Blasphemies may have been detected by Mr. Jenkin and yet nothing to be seen by any man Mr. Jenkin according to the Proverb when he went about to detect my Scripture Blasphemies sperans fragili den tem illidere in Solidum impegit thinking to strike his teeth into that which soft met with that which was too hard for them to enter Poor man instead of detecting my Anti-Scriptural blasphemies he detected his own ignorance and perverseness of spirit h Mr. Jenkins Detections and the two Doctors Discoveries are birds of the same feather or rather feathers of the same bird The Grashopper weighs a Talent of Lead in comparison of them They may for a time serve to build up men in errour and obduration against the truth But he that captived captivity a will detect all such detections and discover all such discoveries in his season Book-sellers or Beacon-firers §. XXI 8. The Agreement subscribed by your Church which saith that our faith and repentance is the cause of our Election a is such an absurd Disagreement to sense reason and Scripture that we cannot but adore the Justice of God who hath smitten your intellectuals and your phantasie the glory of your proud felf b and phantastical admirers c with such effectual and grosse delusions d that we wonder you your self do not take notice of it You see your Errors are so innumerable that we can scarce find heads enough whereunto they may be commodiously reduced And we have heard of a great Rabbi who was converted from Cards and Sack Possets to Errors and Blasphemies e but we spare you f Mr. Goodwins Animadversion XXII a You begin this Section with another Sacrifice unto the Father of lies instead of sacrificing to the Father of Lights The Agreement you speak of doth no where say that our Faith and Repentance are THE CAVSE of our Election But what saith it as to this point it speaketh on this wise Our Brethren holding with us as hath been noted that there is no Election of persons but in time though the Decree of Election be from Eternity we cannot conceive what should or can reasonably determine the time when this Election should be made at least in persons living to years of discretion but onely their Faith in the first raising it in the soul and that VPON their beleeving and not before they are numbred amongst the Elect of God Is here any thing that sounds like a making our Faith and Repentance the cause of our Election No both the compilers and subscribers of this Agreement resolved the Election of all those who are Elected into the gracious and good pleasure and Will of God Only we are taught by the Holy Ghost to look upon our selves as Elect according to the foreknowledg of God the Father through the Sanctification of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 2. and that God from the beginning hath chosen us unto Salvation through Sanctification of the Spirit and beleif of the truth 2 Thes. 2. 13. But though we look upon our selves as Elect or chosen by God through Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth yet we judg not either the work of Sanctification wrought by the Spirit of God in us or our Faith or belief of the Truth to be either the the ground or meritorious cause of our Election but the condition only We acknowledg no cause taking the notion of causality properly of our Election but the Grace Wisdom and good pleasure of our good God onely as we suppose your selves do b You charge us with horrid untruths and with such Tenents which never came neer us and then pretend to adore the Justice of God in smiting our Intellectuals Is not this an horrid prophanation and taking the most Sacred Name of God in vain Our Intellectuals through the Grace of God have been opened enlightened and enlarged to see the truth as