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A56398 A reproof to the Rehearsal transprosed, in a discourse to its authour by the authour of the Ecclesiastical politie. Parker, Samuel, 1640-1688. 1673 (1673) Wing P473; ESTC R1398 225,319 538

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performed by something as liable to your own Scruples as any thing injoyned or practised in the Church of England i. e. by some Symbolical Ceremonies that are not enjoyn'd in the word of God seeing it is plain that all outward Devotion can be express'd by nothing else and seeing it is as plain that there are no more prescribed in the Gospel than barely the two Sacraments from both which Premises nothing can be more plain than that Nonconformity to all customary and establish'd ways of worship whatsoever must upon your Principles be for ever unavoidable Your Sixth and last Play is pushpin-Divinity from this one would conclude I had written at least a Treatise upon this Argument and yet it is so far from being any head of my discourse that I only used it once as the most proper Term to express those childish Controversies that some men manage upon almost all the Articles of Religion and that signifie no more to the Edification of the Church than Boys Play does to the Government of the State But because you have so utterly mistaken the meaning of the Phrase and because I perceive you have not Divinity enough to set you up at Push-pin I will furnish you with a small stock of Instances 1. Whether Conversion be perform'd in an Instant or whether it be divided into several Acts and Scenes As 1. the work of Vocation is the Prologue 2. this vocation infuseth Faith only say some but Faith and Repentance say others and then 3. this Faith must be acted so that it seems Believers may have Faith before they act it i. e. they may believe before they believe then 4. by this Act we apprehend Christs Person and by this Apprehension we are united to him 5. from this Union proceed the Benefits 1. of Justification 2. of Sanctification 6. This Sanctification infuseth all other gracious habits and hath two degrees 1. Regeneration 2. Renascentia as they call it or the New-birth Upon this dispute a great many weighty Arguments are pusht pro and con and a great number of grave Divines engaged on both sides though in my opinion they had been as wisely employed in playing with the Boys at Push-pin as in finding ten real differences in one and the same thing 2. Whether the Word and Sacraments have only a moral Operation in the Conversion of a Sinner as a man draws an Horse to him by the sight of Provender or an Hog after him by the Ratling of Beans or whether they are only the Instrumental Cause to conveigh the Physical Operation of the Spirit as a Conduit-pipe does water But this Heresie the more Orthodox will by no means endure because it is evident to all that understand Metaphysicks that none of Suarez his conditions of an Instrumental efficient Cause are to be found in them and then the case is clear and the Controversie out of danger And yet there is a very moderate man and one that is much given to reconciling who ventures to declare that if any man had rather say that the word is Causa efficiens minus principalis Procatarctica that for his part he will not contend What a Condescension is here Were all the Divines in Christendom of this yielding temper how quickly should we see and rejoyce in that Catholick Unity that you in your deep Wisdome and Policy have set down for as crazy and impracticable an Undertaking as to dig through the separating Istmos of Peloponesus or to make a Communication between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean 3. Whether common and saving Grace differ only gradually or specifically and if specifically then whether it be only by a Moral or a Physical specification and when they discourse upon such heads and points they are wont to set as strong a Guard upon them of Chapter and Verse out of St. Paul's Epistles and to as little purpose as the Assembly-men did upon their darling and fundamental Doctrine of absolute and irrespective Reprobation though they were not satisfied with that but for greater security were solicitous to place it next to the existence of God and the Being of Providence Blessed Apostle shouldst thou but make a visit to the Christian World how wouldest thou stand aghast to see such a vast Body of Modern Orthodox Faith framed out of thy Writings distinct from and for the most part opposite to the old Christian Belief Shouldst thou peruse those strange Glosses and Commentaries that have of late been made upon thy Epistles how would it recover to thy Memory all that Gibberish in which thou wert so idly busie whilst thou sattest at the feet of Rabbi Gamaliel How would it grieve thee to see so many Churches of thy own Plantation over-run with the Barbarism either of Turks or Heathens or School-men Little didst thou dream that ever thy Epistles should be brought upon the Stage to decide the difference between moral and physical Specification But yet to confess the Truth these were not the impertinent Fopperies I intended in that Expression the only thing I then glanced at was the undertaking in the Grotian Religion to prove that the disputes between the Calvinists and Arminians are more about words than matter which is pursued warmly and eagerly enough from Sect. 5. to Sect. 20. of the Preface all which the Reverend Bishop gravely and prudently baulkt as a matter altogether impertinent to his Argument and that would bear Eternal wrangle in the way of playing Scholastick heads and points And that you may be forced to acknowledge his Wisdome I will give you a summary Account of his Adversaries performance Imprimis to reconcile Gods absolute decree of Election of the lesser part of Mankind Antecedently to any Consideration of their Faith and Obedience and his absolute Decree of Reprobation to all the rest Antecedently to the deserts of their Impenitence and Infidelity to the Justice and Goodness of God Item to reconcile Christs suffering death for the Elect only that are the least part of Mankind without having any intent to make satisfaction for the sins of the whole World with the design of Universal Redemption Item to reconcile the loss of free will in all the posterity of Adam so as that they lye under an unavoidable necessity to do or not to do whatsoever they do or do not whether it be good or evil with the first Principles of Morality or the Right of Rewards and Punishments Item to reconcile Gods Method of saving his Elect from the corrupt Mass by begetting Faith in them with a Power equal to that wherewith he created the World and raised up the dead insomuch that such unto whom he gives that Grace cannot reject it and the rest being Reprobate cannot accept it though it be offer'd to both by the same preaching and Ministry with the Power of Election and Free Will Item to reconcile the Impossibility of falling away finally and totally notwithstanding the most enormous Crimes with the Power of Apostasie or the necessity of