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A42271 A vindication of the conforming clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie, &c. in answer to some part of Mr. Jenkyn's funeral sermon upon Dr. Seaman : with short reflexions on some passages in a sermon preached by Mr. J.S. upon 2 Cor. 5:20 : in a letter to a friend. Grove, Robert, 1634-1696. 1676 (1676) Wing G2161; ESTC R21762 47,478 87

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unconcernedness as the Rock breaks the Waves that dash against it But that you may see that there are hot-brain'd Men of all parties some of their own Robe will needs suspect them to be shrewdly inclined to Non-Conformity because they are not always railing at the Fanaticks Others hold them to be Soeinians presently because they are able to confute them without running into an unseemly passion Others look upon them as well affected to the Church of Rome because though possibly they believe it yet they do not make it a fundamental Article that the Pope is Antichrist Others imagine they can prove them Heathens because they are not continually passing sentence upon the Souls of Socrates and Cato And thus if you examine them all through you will find that it is nothing but their sober and modest behaviour in Disputes and the greatness of their Charity that can be charged with Heresie or any disaffection to the Church of England For their Opinions cannot be accused of this they are perfectly agreeable to the Nine and thirty Articles as I told you before though not to the false and spurious Glosses that some have been pleased to put upon them I will just mention some few things they hold which may be sufficient to clear them of the grossest of those imputations they have suffered under They hold the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity that the Father is God the Son God and the Holy Ghost God They hold that the Eternal and only begotten Son of God was in the fulness of Time incarnate of the blessed Virgin and that he suffered Death upon the Cross for our Redemption and made there by his own Oblation of himself once offered a full perfect sufficient Sacrifice Oblation and Satisfaction for the Sins of the whole World They hold that we are justified by Faith but not that this Faith excludes the other Conditions of Salvation that are indispensably required in the Gospel I might alledge other Instances but these are enough to take away the scandal of Socinianism at least And thus have I given you my Opinion freely what I conceive to be the Causes of the great Apprehensions that some have entertained as if the Conforming Clergie were turning Hereticks and I can find them to be no other than that there is need enough of some New Pretences for Separation and that many of the Conformists are of more mild and peaceable Dispositions and treat their Adversaries with more Civility and Respect than others do As you know they that have a good Cause and are able to defend it are not troubled but rather pleased to have their Opinions enquired into But those that are conscious of their own Weakness or distrust the Truth of what they maintain cannot endure to have it questioned and are extremely impatient of any Contradiction But it is time to return to Mr. Jenkyn and to make a Reply to some of those reproachful words which he uses against us I shall confine my self chiefly to that part of the Sermon where he shews the insufficiency of his Dwarfish endeavours to reach the height of Dr. Seaman 's worth Where I shall not in the least detract from the Doctor for I observe that Mr. Jenkyn himself however he like them whilst they are living seems to have a special kindness for dead Bishops as appears by divers Instances in this Sermon and some others And I shall not be more uncivil to his departed Friend than he is to ours I had thought had it been possible to have put his Extravagances into some order and to have digested my Answers into the same method But because I find that very difficult I shall content my self to take them generally as they lye Only whereas he usually mingles his Invective and his Panegyrick together I shall take the boldness to part them and first consider some of the things for which he commends the Doctor and then take notice of those matters for which he does inveigh at us And he praises the Doctor for his excellency in the Theological School in his Pastoral Employment and in his Christian Capacity And I shall not question any thing of all this let him be a most acute Disputant a profound Casuist a skilful Interpreter an Orthodox Divine an able Preacher and which is more than all a good Christian I am as glad to hear it as any man is and I could wish for the Doctor 's sake that Mr. Jenkyn had deserved so much credit that we might believe it all upon his authority But yet I am resolved to hope the best But towards the very beginning of this large Encomium he brings in a kind of an unlucky Apology for ill-nature Now if the Doctor had any such defect in his temper as he seems to suppose yet I hope it was corrected in good measure and Mr. Jenkyn might have spared him there But I believe he intended to speak one good word for the Doctor and two for himself for he has as little Reason as any Man I know to be much in love with natural sweetness But let that pass There is something else more material that must be considered And he tells us that when the Doctor kept his Divinity Act The design of his Position which therein he maintained was to assert the Providence of God in disposing of Political Governments a thing which no sober man ever deny'd and yet he says that it was a Point till that time little studied That 's strange did he never hear of the Disputations the Platonists and Stoicks and Epicureans had concerning this And some of these 't is thought were a little before the Doctor 's time But it was not so well understood till the Doctor made this most happy discovery though since that time several have received light therein from this burning and shining light 'T is very well if they have And I believe he could tell us too if he pleases who they are that have been thus illuminated and amongst the rest no doubt he himself has had a very signal advantage by it and has the most Reason of any man living always to admire and magnifie the Doctor 's Opinion 'T is a most excellent prefervative against Tower-Hill But what was this famed Position of the Doctor 's As far as I can learn it was laid down in these very words or to this purpose Regimen Politicum fundatur in Providentiâ Dei Extraordinariâ This Mr. Jenkyn calls his asserting Providential Disposal Though one might conjecture what this means yet it had not been so clear without the Comment which he has made upon it in the beginning of his Humble Petition to the Supreme Authority the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England and in short it is this that whoever they be that get the Power into their hands the Providence of God evidently appears in removing others and investing them with the Government And he looks upon it as his duty to yield to this