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A84135	The deeds of Dr. Denison a little more manifested. By his ansvver to the defence of John Etherington. VVhich he published in Anno Dom. 1641. against his false accusations and the depositions of his false witnesses. Whereupon he was censured by the high commission court. And his reply to the doctors answer. Which answer he hath added to his Woolfe-sermon booke.	Etherington, John, fl. 1641-1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing E3383; Thomason E147_9; ESTC R22317	10,645	17

faithfulnesse in and as touching his covenant to the faithfull and their seed as circumcision in the flesh was to faithfull Abraham and his seed And that it is an outward signe shewing that we must be circumcised or cleansed in heart by the grace and Spirit of God through faith in Christ if ever we be heirs with Abraham And so I hold outward baptisme to be in force unto christians as circumcision was to the Jews contrary to your lying words that say I deny it Neither is this a familisticall trick as you so scandalously speak according to your old customes in your wolvish booke and in your former invective Sermons And although there be now no High-Commission Court as you tell me implying that you would complain against me again there if there were yet let me tell you sir there are other Courts as high and as good as that and lawes also as just and good to judge of these matters unto which you may complain if you please And whereas in your 91 page otherwise the 15 you say I have a fling at the Lords Supper a fine phrase for a Doctor And that under colour of speaking against the carnall eating and drinking the body and bloud of Christ in that Sacrament You say I condemne also the opinion of spirituall eating for say you these are my words Neither do we by the actions of eating the bread and drinking the wine of the Sacrament eat or drink the grace of God purchased by the body and bloud of Christ I confesse these are my words in my defence Now I pray sir do I in these words deny or condemne the opinion as you speak of spirituall eating and drinking the bodie and bloud of Christ or the spirituall enjoyment of the grace and love of God through faith in Christ which that Sacrament of the Supper doth shew forth unto all true christians Nay let the judicious christian Reader judge and consider what is further exprest in my defence But you Mr. Doctor your opinion and doctrine belike is that Christians by the very acts of eating the bread and drinking the wine of the Sacrament eate and drinke the grace of God Is this your orthodoxall doctrine sir is this your opinion of spirituall eating a fit man sure are you not to preach the Lecture of preparation to the Sacrament as you are admitted to do at Buttolphs without Algate and well are the people taught there the while are they not let the orthodoxall Reader judge That religious gentlewoman as I suppose she truly was which gave you that legacie to performe that work had done far better if she had given it to the poore widdow and fatherlesse or have left the same to such over-seers as should have disposed it to some one that could and would have performed the worke better and more found them so Now to make some use of your owne phrase M. Doctor who doth grosly abuse divinitie who is the proud ignorant sott who is meet to be censured to stand at Pauls-Crosse with a paper on his breast expressing his grosly abusing divinitie and venting false doctrine poisoning of others with a thousand eies looking upon him Doctor Denison or who let the judicious reader judge It is true M. Doctor that through you and your false witnesses Henry Robrostgh and Iohn Okeie and by their false depositions false I say as the Reader by my defence may plainly see One Bishop said in passing sentence according as you in your answer at the end of your wolvish booke have set it down which I had my selfe written in a coppie of my defence which you had unjustly gotten and kept among you from me otherwise I suppose you could not so readily have mentioned them but it is no matter I have suffered a great deale more then that by your false and wicked dealing and the rest of your false witnesses Rowland Thomson Thomas Rogers George Dun Peter Worcester Christopher Nicholson and the rest as I have in my defence in some part declared And now M. Doctor let me propound a matter or two unto you You may see and so may others by this and by my defence especiall how plainly and openly I have declared and published the things by you charged by your witnesses deposed and by the High-Commission Court passed in sentence against me and what in part I have suffered and do still suffer through the same And you may see how I refer all to the judicious christian Reader to consider of and judge You know sir that after this cause of yours against me there was as I have a little remembred you of before a Cause or two commenced against your selfe in the same High Comission Court concerning some of the chiefe of your Porish of Creechurch and some severall women whom you were charged to have abused They of your Parish publiquely in your Pulpit and the women secretly in your chamber I will not here name the particular abuses they were plainly enough spoken and read in the Court the foulenesse whereof being such as caused all or the most part of the people there present hearing the same to hang down their heads greatly ashamed thereat when you stood holding up your head boldly in the face of the Court not seeming to be ashamed at all which many did wonder at to behold and one Bishop observing you and having heard the foule matters that were deposed against you by so many witnesss as you know not knight of the post sir any more then as you tell me they were not that deposed your Cause against me but such as if the Reader please he may inquire of as you speak This Bishop as you may remember reproved you very sharply and said do you see how boldly he stands here before us facing us he hath a forehead of brasse Now sir if your Cause be so good and your selfe so honest and innocent as you would have all men think which yet they do not wright done all what your accusers have charged you with and what hath been deposed against you and by what manner of persons every thing in their own plain words and what the sentence of the Court was and publish the same openly in print with your defence unto every particular charge and deposition as you see I have done that of yours against me Do this I say if your cause be good and cleane and your selfe honest and upright it will be no greater chage I suppose then the new re-printing of your wolfe-sermon that so all men may see plainly and judge of the cause and you accordingly But otherwise if it be naught and foule and your self justly charged as you in your owne conscience know best then let it alone except in the way of humble confession of your sins unto God in true repentance if it be possible Another thing that I propound unto you is concerning my selfe and you and your witnesses seeing my defence will not silent you nor all that I have unjustly suffered by your meanes satisfie you that you and they will be willing with me to have all matters between us heard and considered of anew in a faire way either before the Bishop of London and some other Ministers chosen on both sides or else by some Committee of the Parliament if it may be obiained that so the blame may be laid rightlie where it ought And as touching your Pauls-Crosse wolvish-sermon that master-peece of yours which you in the conclusion of your answer to my defence say you have for this Cause caused to be new printed that so the Reader may see whether I have answered what concerns me in it or no telling in print of purpose a manifest lie it being not in any part new printed but only the rem under of an old impression printed in Anno 1627. foureteen years agoe to which you have put a new title page dated 1641. and added your answer to the end numbering the pages thereof according to your old booke as if indeed all were printed anew together according to your saying so to delude the Reader as your usuall custome and manner in all your matters is and hath been to do with cunning equivocations falshood and lies whereof that wolvish-sermon book of yours is full agreeable to your Articles against me in the Court and to your witnesses depositions for like master like schollers and servants like accuser like witnesses And for your booke I say no more of it at this time but this let it remaine among the rest of your deeds as it hitherto hath beene a monument to the world of your wickednesse and folly And so I leave you and your witnesses together a while to consider of all what you have done and of my propositions though I have not any beliefe that you will regard my motion or have a thought in your heart to do either the one or the other IOHN 3. For every one that doth evill hateth the light neither cometh to the light least his deeds should be reproved But he that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest FINIS

the same fourth Commandement to as strict an observation of the first day of the weeke as the Jews were of the seventh 4 That Christ when he bid the man that was healed on the Sabbath day take up his bed and walk He commanded the the breach of a mortall precept All this he said in his inveying against me by name in his Pulpits and because I had once many years before done some small worke upon a needfull occasion on the first day of thee weeke which he had heard of he brake out against me vehemently affirming that I could not be of God and saying for proofe thereof using the words of the Pharisees against Christ We know as it is written this man is not of God because he keepeth not the Sabbath day Iohn 9.16 5 That ustifying faith is before repentance and affirming that it is a damnable error to hold that repentance doth necessarily go before justification from our sins by faith or justifying faith 6 That when God to prove Abraham commanded him to offer his Son for a sacrifice he commanded him to murder him and to break the sixth Commandement 7 That the Isralitas in taking such things of the Egiptians as they in favour let them have did steal from them and break the eighth Commandement and that God did approve of the breach thereof 8 That God is not only a spectator but a powerfull agent in sinne 9 That God did preordaine that Adam should fall and break his commandement 10 That the Prophet Elisha in saying to Naaman the Assyrian Go in peace did say as much as get thou gone thou hypocrite get thee hence 11 That Christ may yet personally descend from heaven to the earth before the day of judgement for any Scripture there is to the contrary and that although it be said the heavens shall receive Christ untill the times of the restitution of all things Yet it is not said they shall contain him till then These are part of Stephen Denisons doctrine which he delivered in his Sermons preached at Creechurch and great Alhallowes while he was reviling and scandalizing of me all which doctrine I account false And by some others whom I will not now name but shall hereafter if occasion require It hath been taught that the Jewes should be delivered every one of them remainig alive out of all Countries to the land of Canaan and be converted all of them to be true christians and dwell in the land in great glory with a great King of their own stocke either Christ himselfe or some other in his stead for a thousand yeares before the end of the world And by others that Christ shall indeed come personally and raise up all the Saints that have suffered or as some of them teach all the Saints in generall that are asleepe and raigne with them on earth a thousand years before the end of the world and resurrection of the unjust which doctrine of these I also account false and contrary to the Scriptures And concerning Robrowghs false doctrine I have in part spoken in my defence and I hope hereafter things shall be manifested more fully concerning that passage betweene him and me And whereas in the end of your eleventh page you affirme of me that I sticke not to say that I hold the Sabbath to be in force and that the last day of the weeke is to be observed I pray Mr. Doctor when or where have I spoken or writ these words that the last day of the weeke is to be observed who juggles and equivocates now And in your twelfe page how you have answered my defence I refer to the judicious Reader that hath or shall reade both to consider Your foule tearms with those that are wise will worke nothing against me And for your false clamours in the thirteenth page that I will have no duties pressed on the Lords-Day neither prayers nor preaching nor comming to the Sacraments but christians left to do what they list I hope the Reader will discerne you in this because he may see in my defence it is otherwise and that you utter out false words of your own inventing having no respect at all unto truth or a good conscience And for those Authors which I have quoated in my defence whom you say I have notoriously abused I refer the Reader to their own Records to see if I have abused them or no. And as touching the two last books of Esdras I have declared my minde already in my defence only this I say further that it is manifest by the account of the Generalogie and other passages in Ezra the 7. compared with 1 Esdras 8. they are one and the same and therfore in sundry former bibles these two last books are numbred the 3 and 4 of Esdras And for those words or names of distinction Canonicall and Apocryphall I take them to intend nothing but this That the one part of Scripture being found written in the Hebrew tongue and being for that cause and sundry other more manifest and certain proofs concluded in the first times of the Church to be the Word of the Lord certainly was therefore called canonicall The other part not so found nor as yet for that present so evidently proved and manifested to the Church to be so certainly the word of the Lord as the other was left as Scriptures yet secret and hidden and therefore called Apocryphall not but that it might at least some part thereof be found and proved certainly to be the Word of the Lord as well as the other and so concluded and received by the church of God though it be not nor hath any need to be called canonicall nor is ever the worse in it selfe for the name Apocryphall nor unto such as understand in their heart and beleeve the truth thereof And in the 14. page or 90. as it stands in the end of your wolvish sermon-book were you speake of private meetings by the lawes prohibited and poisonfull doctrines c. what you please there to speak As touching the first part I referre the Reader to my defence against your last Article But as concerning the other part which you call the seventh thing culpable where you say I affirm and that most pestilently that outward baptisme doth neither confer nor confirme grace to the heart of any man no more then circumcision did c. I pray sir are you a Papist or an Arminian or an Anabaptist for belike you hold it doth as they teach I confesse I hold that it doth not no more then circumcision in the flesh did according as the right Protestants hold neither is this a most pestilent thing as you blasphemously speak but the very truth in this point Grace is confer'd and confirmed to the heart of a christian by a more supernaturall power then is or can be in the outward act of baptisme even by the power and Spirit of God Outward baptiseme I hold to be an outward seal of Gods