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A30896	Robert Barclay's apology for the true Christian divinity vindicated from John Brown's examination and pretended confutation thereof in his book called Quakerisme the pathway to paganisme in which vindication I.B. his many gross perversions and abuses are discovered, and his furious and violent railings and revilings soberly rebuked / by R.B. Whereunto is added a Christian and friendly expostulation with Robert Macquare, touching his postscript to the said book of J.B. / written to him by Lillias Skein ...	Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.; Skein, Lillias. An epostulatory epistle directed to Robert Macquare.	1679 (1679)	Wing B724; ESTC R25264	202,030	218

who arrogat righteousness to themselves though it do not belong to them and at these he carpeth saying the very first Exod. 23 7. is spoken of God of himself he should have said it is God speaking of the wicked that he will not justifie them some of them speak of a not justifying Job 9 20. 27 5. and what then the places were marked to shew the import of the word justify and to shew that many of them speak nothing of justifying at all whence he concludes in these words So unhappy is the man in his citations He notes first Esai 5 23 but it seems he has been in hast and therefore to rectifie his mistake let him read the words which are which justify the wicked for reward and what though where many Scripturs are noted together by the mistake of the transcriber or Printer the figurs may be misplaced and so miss Truely they must be very happy that can secure themselvs from this hazzard he has not been so happy who denied the words to be in a place where the knowing of it depended not upon the diligence of others but of his own looking to it as I have just now shewn Pag. 315. to prove that justified is not taken in the epistles of the Apostle Paul to the Rom. Corinth Gal. for making just as I affirmed in the passages cited by me he saith to take it so would make the Apostle contradict himself But this he affirms upon the meer supposition that the Apostle with him excludes all works from Justification which is but to begg the question as will after appear What he adds here and in the following page in answer to the citations I bring out of divers Protestant Authors I need not trouble the Reader with a reply to it because he turns by the most material of them as not having the Authors by him to examin them others he positivly rejects as not agreing with them as Forbes and Baxter and at last insinuats that the trial is not to be by humane Testimonies for such he accounts all the writings of his Brethren whereunto I do very wel agree only I brought some of his own folks not as if I needed them to confirm me in my opinion but as having weight with those among whom they are esteemed Doctors In this page answering what I urge from Rom. 8 30. shewing how in that golden chain sanctification must be excluded or justification must be taken in its proper sense he saith that sanctification is comprehended under Vocation If this be true which he asserts then he gives again away his cause for then no man is sooner called than he is sanctified and since he will not say seing he disclaims to be an Antinomian that any man is justified before he be called it follows then necessarily that no man is justified before he be sanctified and then to what purpose has he been fighting and wrestling all this while Pag. 316 n. 33. he accuses me of unparalleled falshood impudency and boldness for saying that I have sufficiently proven that by justification ought to be understood to be made really just whereas I undertook only to prove that the word might be so understood without absurdity adding I wonderfully conclude a must be from a may be c. but the best is his greatest charges are built either upon forged calumnies or his own pittyfull mistakes I never concluded by justification ought to be understood to be made really just only upon that which I said from the etymology of the word nor by justification there did I understand meerly the word but I conclude from all my Scriptur arguments of the thing as my following words manifest where I say We know it from sensible experience but he may be sure it is not the etymology of the word we know so And if thence he urge that this falleth not under the inward sensation of the Soul he but fights with his own mistake for that the real justification of the Saints falleth under the inward sensation of the Soul I think no man of sense will deny for Christ is formed in the mind where he is said to be revealed inwardly and that gives a sense of justification albeit he seem to wonder at it asking what Scriptur speaketh so he may read Gal. 1 16. Whether was not the Apostle here justified and under the sense of it He is angry p. 317. that I call the life of Christ an inward and spiritual thing but will he say it is an outward and carnal thing But what thinks he of 2 Cor. 4 10 11. He confesseth this Life of Christ supported and carryed the persecuted Apostles through many miseries and deaths will he say then it was not an inward and spiritual thing that carryed them through these trials But he addeth But who except a Quaker could say that the Apostle sayes we are justified by this life I answer all except such absurd men as will deny that where we are said to be saved by a thing we are said to be justified by it Rom. 5 10. Tit. 3 5. we are said to be saved by regeneration And whereas he saith the Apostle saith not that this is the Formal Objective Cause of Iustification these are words the Apostle useth not at all and therefore no wonder there be no word of it here He looks upon it as being absurd for me to think that Reprobation is Non-Iustification but I would know of him if there be any Reprobats who are justified That the marks and evidences are not always taken from the Immediat Nearest and Formal Cause I confess but that therefore the not having Christ revealed in the Soul is only a sign and no cause of Reprobation remains for him to prove wickedness is a signe of Reprobation will he therefore affirm it is not the Immediat nor Formal Cause of it After the same manner he denieth p. 31. 9. that we must lean to that which the Apostle calleth Col. 1 27 28. Christ within the hope of Glory his reason is because the Apostle saith Phil. 1 28. And in nothing terrified by your advarsarys which is to you an evident token of salvation asking must we also lean to that in Justification But will he say there is no difference betwixt that which is only a token and Christ within If there be his reason concludes nothing ¶ 6. Lastly he comes to answer what I say of the necessity of good works to Iustification and what I urge from Isai. 2. he confesseth that Good Works are an Instrumental cause which concession doth prove all I affirm if they be an instrumental cause they must be a cause sine qua non and necessary since the instrumental cause of a thing must be necessary towards its being What though Abraham was justified before he offer'd up his son it will not follow that he was justified without works His absurdity as if it would thence follow that no man is justified when he sleeps or is

do justice to themselves as wel as right to the injured Author of this Treatise not only in respect to the appeal added to the end of the last Section but also to the many other gross abuses falshoods and railings detected herein to be most impudently asserted by John Brown since he comes forth under no less character than a Presbyterian David and that given him by so eminent a man as Robert Macquare is reputed among them which justice is also the more hoped for since the more moderat Presbyterians have themselvs felt the fruit of J. B. his violent furious and unchristian temper in his fomenting Divisions among them and encouraging Cameron by his Letter whom they repute an Heady Turbulent Incendiary and the effects of whose work strengthened by J. B. have produced no small mischief both to the Cause in general and to many poor People who have been thereby ruined if the occasion some of themselvs represent of the late rising in Scotland be true ERRATA The Reader is desired to correct these following Errors which have escaped the Press other literal ones which do not so much touch the sense are left to his discretion and if any others considerable have not been observed and here remarked it is hoped the courteous Reader will not impute them to the Author because of his absence from the Press In the Preface page 1. line 20. for still read style P. 3. l. 24. for which r. them P. 4. l. 6. r. who that speaks In the Book pag. 16. l. ult r. owne P. 17. l. last save two r. Sects P. 22. l. 6. r. do P. 23. l. last but two r. preparatory P. 26 l. 25. after may d. not P. 32. l. 4. d. of P. 34. l. 25. r. spirits d. of P. 43. l. 26. r. bonds P. 57. l. 9. r. arcady P. 68. l. 9. r. him P. 83. l. 13. d. by which P. 88. l. 11. r. he P. 102. l. 5. after is read not P. 78. l. 2. add after dye for themselvs If he mean a natural death but if not I see no reason of admitting his figure nor is there any strength in it to prove that it imports his dying in their room and stead as he would have it P. 98. l. 34. r. is P. 101. l. 14. r. say l. 15. r. is P. 110 l. 28. r. sine P. 113. l. 16. d. by P. 135. l. 16. r. by Papists against Protestants Pag. 184. l. 15. r. he hath but said it l. 18. r. so as all P. 192. l. ult r. and. P. 168. l. 17. for proof read reply P. 180. l. 3. r. corruptions P. 175. l. 34. for and r. add R. B's. APOLOGY For the true Christian Divinity VINDICATED From J. B's. Examination and pretended Confutation thereof in his book Called QUAKERISME the path-way to PAGANISME Section I. Containing the Introduction and the Method the Author proposeth to himself in this Treatise with the reasons wherefore together with some general Considerations relating to I. B's. whole book and Remarks on his Epistle to the Reader ¶ 1. AMong the many evils that abound amongst those that bear the name of Christians this is a great one that in the unhappy difference they have among themselvs there appears so much malice bitterness and envy and so little of that candor and sincerity true and unmixed zeal and of the meekness peaçablness and gentlness of Iesus so that there is often-times observed an eager willingness to represent their Opposits other ways than they are But among all sorts of such as profess Christianity I know none have more reason to complain of this abuse than we who albeit we have not a little laboured to make known to all the plain Truth held by us yet our words have been most miserably perverted upon many occasions and we most horribly misrepresented as is abundantly manifest to many who are acquainted with the books writ against us and our answers wherein many if not most of the arguments used against us are not levelled at those things we truely hold but at the monstrous and horrid conceptions which our adversarys have framed to themselvs and then would needs fasten upon us as our Principls and doctrins Many of us have been thus exercised in the controversys wherein we have been concerned and I my self in some small rencountres that have heretofore faln to my share have had my part but I confess inferior to many of my Brethren But now that B's work appears I think considering the bulk and natur of it hereafter more particularly to be viewed I may come up with most For I scarçe think that ever a man's words were so horridly and constantly throughout perverted or that ever a book of controversy of its bulk to wit as I take it betwixt 70 and 80 sheets of paper was so stuffed with a continuall strain of Railing from the very first page unto the last Yet when we consider the man's design which appears from the natur of his work perhaps there will be less occasion of wonder ¶ For either he or some brother of his abroad having without any provocation from us the People called Quakers faln into the most gross and vilest sort of railing against us in a Post script to S. R's Letters and that without the least offer of probation it seems they judged themselvs concerned to give the people some reason for their so doing And there could not be a finer knack to beguil the credulous and implicit Multitud than to answer a book writ in Latine and not extant in their Mother-tongue for there a man as to them who can not read understand and compare it with that to which it relates may pervert words as he will draw consequences at pleasur and make to himself what monsters best please his fancy or like his humour best to batter And yet he can not find in it by all his perverting enough to make us so black as he would have us so that he is often-times constrain'd to fish for this by citing the writings of some that have writ against us and bring us up some of their old threed-bare calumnys long ago answered by us in which his injustice shall be afterwards observed And so he being thus furnished can the more easily abuse especially while he is almost secure that the generality of those he writes to are such as will not call in question as to the truth of it what is said by one esteemed by them a pretious and gratious Minister and sufferer for the good cause to boot But blessed be God! the number of such implicit believers groweth daily less and many that had wont to do other-wise begin to love to see with their own eyes and not to pin their faith so much upon the Clergy's sleeve as they had used formerly to do For this cause had I had to do only with the more judicious and Learned who could have wel understood the Latine edition I should have thought my self the less concerned