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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

Stocks and I spake to you and requested that I might now speake with you once after all my troubles and your answer or words first were I am glad thou hast renounced thy errors and I answered you nay not so but I disclaimed before the Court those false and evill things which you and your witnesses had charged me with I renounce nothing that I held and so we went together up Cornhill and into the Exchange where I told you of your false and evill dealing toward me and of your false and wicked Sermon full of bitterneste malice and lies which you had published and preached against me and you tooke me up short I confesse and reproved me for my boldnesse saying Dost thou speak thus to a Doctor And upon some words of reproofe that I used unto you for your wicked dealing you told me Thou hast not the keyes I have the keyes c. and then after other words you slung away in a fury threatning me It is true also that I have met with you and you with me oftentimes since when you have given me very currish and threatning words as I passed by you once in Thames-street neere Queen-hive when you said Hetherington I hear you keep Conventicles still I must have you up agaiue And another time in Cornhill by the Conduit when your foule matter concerning the women was in suit in the Court where you said to me I heare thou hast a hand in my businesse and threatning me with something you would do if I had your conscience as it seems accusing you whereas I had no hand in that businesse at all from the begining thereof to the end And once I confesse about two yeers ago since your businesse with the women was past I met you in the street behind the Exchange and you called to me saying not as you say I pray let me speak with you but Iohn Hetherington I would speake with thee and these were the fauell words that ever you spake to me and this was but once not often as you say And I answered you speake with me to what end and so I passed by you but as for grinding at you with my teeth or saying I scorn it is a meere lie I never used any such gesture or words to you or any man else So that in all this you have shewed your selfe to be both foolishly proud to use your own phrase and a false canning equivocator in deed and word As touching your 6 7 and 8 pages I need not say any thing more then what is in my defence And in the ninth page where you mention sundry books as an Epistle to the Church of Rome the tree of Regeneration T. L. upon some part of the Revelation And my booke against Anabaptists I advise the Reader not to beleeve your bare report but to read and consider the bookes and then judge as he findes And concerning the Sabbath and the observation of the first day of the weeke I have declared my minde in my defence and else-where which I request the judicious Reader to thinke of and judge as he seeth cause and not let D. D. be the judge And in the tenth page you say that I vilifie the Sacraments particularly that of Baptisme in that I say it doth not convey grace nor consume it to the heart of any man no more then circumcision did Let the Christian Reader that is not Arminiamish nor Popish but truly Orthodoxall judge if this be a vilifying of Baptisme or if it be a holding of no baptisme but that of Repentance and Regeneration or a point of Familisme as you speake And to say that Caesar may command a place for the publique worship of God so he forbid none in private and explaining my indening as I have done in my ●●●●ence if this be equivocation or a familisticall wicke or that of yours M. Doctor in your Wolvish-Sermon booke page 44. where you quote a page of my booke against Anabaptists where these words Caesar may command a place for the publique c. are and 〈◊〉 out two of my words and put in one of your own instead of them as your reverend witnesse Henry Robrough hath also done affirming them upon his oath to be my words I pray you Master Doctor why do you not answer this and cleere your selfe and your witnesse of this equivocation falsehood and false-witnesse-bearing but smother it over with this new trick of your old lying and scandalous speaking as before in your Pulpits and Sermons so now here in your answer to my defence And I pray you Sir why do you not mention the words of those factious books of mine as you call them that do condemne all Reformers I own no such books or words These are but your old scandalous and false affirmations In my defence it may be seen by my words what I meane concerning the Church of England And whereas in page 11. you affirme that because I say the true Church of Christ consisteth of true regenerate servants of God sanctified by faith in Christ therefore I hereby denie the Church of England to be a true Church of Christ It is manifest by this affirmation of yours that your selfe do deny the Church or England to be a true Church of Christ for if you denie it to be of that holy universall Church which consisteth of Saints regenerate as by necessarie consequence from your words you do then it is you that do it and not I. I say the Church of England as it is and may be called a true Church of Christ is and must needs be a part of that holy universall although in the outward estate thereof there are and may be many in it that are not sanctified and so not of it And it is not your often clamour and scandalous termes of familisme c. that can make your matter good or cleere your witnesse Henry Robrowgh that deposeth this very thing against me upon the same ground whereby he himselfe denies the Church of England to be a true Church of Christ nor prove any thing against me Let the Reader consider and judge of these things And in that you say and your witnesses sweare that I charge the Church of England with teaching false doctrine because I have charged you and some such as you are therewith as if the Church of England consisted of them and you Nay Sir that is not so neither will it so follow though your false witnesse hath sworn it The Doctrine that I except against both in you and them I will mention some part And first this of yours That the fourth Commandement touching the Sabbath was alwaies and in every part mortall and in no part Ceremoniall affirming for proofe thereof and saying It was command in Paradise before any Ceremonie was hatcht 2 That Christ between his resurrection and ascention did alter the Commandement from the seventh day to the first and informed his Apostles thereof 3 That Christians are now bound by