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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41777	The forerunner to a further answer (if need be) to two books lately published against Tho. Grantham of Norwich wherein the spirit and temper of the Calvinists is discovered, particularly Mr. Calvin, Mr. Finch, and his little præcursor : to which is prefixed, the solid testimony of Mr. George Wither, against Calvinism, the worst of doctrines / by Tho. Grantham ...	Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.; Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1691 (1691)	Wing G1532; ESTC R39423	9,810	7

and indulged as Orthodox Doctrine until it be repented of Nor shall I marvel if my Words be misunderstood and my good Meaning misinterpreted if God's Word be so mistaken and his Love so ill-rewarded I know the bitterness and uncharitableness of their Spirits who shall be obstinate in this Judgment yet am neither afraid nor ashamed to declare my Conscience therein or in whatsoever else I think may concern God's Glory and the Peace of my Country Thus far Mr. Geo. Wither Th● Forerunner to a further Answer if occasion serve to two Books lately Published against Tho. Grantham of Norwich Briefly shewing the Spirit and Temper of the Calvinists and particularly of Mr. Finch and his Praecursor c. Wickedness proceedeth and cometh forth from the Wicked as saith the Proverb of the Ancients 1 Sam. 24. 13. IN Psal 94. 20 this Question is put Shall the Throne of Iniquity have fellowship with thee which frameth Mischief by a Law The Sense of the place is No such thing can please God c. Now of all Mischief Sin is the worst and indeed the Cause of all the rest It must therefore be exceeding Evil for any to make the Holy God the Ordainer and Commander of all the Sins of Angels and Men and that freely without any Provocation and infallibly and unchangeably also that they must even so come to pass as he hath not only foreseen them but ordained and commanded them This is the Doctrine which I chiefly opposed in my Dialogue And though I have made this very manifestly appear to be the Doctrine of the principal Men of the Presbyterian and Calvinistical Perswasion yet I will here add one Passage more out of Mr. Calvin Inst L. 3. c. 24. Sect. 6. where he boldly tells us That God doth none otherwise foresee the things that shall come to pass than because he hath ordained they shall so come to pass It is vain to move Controversy about Foreknowledge where it is certain rather by Ordinance and Commandment So then let the Action be never so wicked he makes it infallibly necessary by virtue of God's Ordinance and Commandment Than which I do aver nothing can be spoken more dishonourable to God nor more mischievous to Men. Yea Zanchius is as bold as Calvin for he saith Damus Reprobos necessitate p●●candi eoque pereundi ex hac Dei ordinatione constringi atque ita constringi ut nequeant non peccare atque periere That is We grant that Reprobates are held so fast under God's Almighty Decree that they cannot but sin and perish These I call the worst Doctrines in the World And finding this worst of Doctrines to have much prevailed in the City of Norwich I have endeavoured to make the Citizens sensible of the danger of it both by Preaching and Writing For which Work and Labour of Love and to their Souls especially who are most deceived by it I have been ill requited by many Slanders and Reproaches and particularly by a very foolish Pamphlet as a Forerunner to that Book of Mr. Finch which he calls An Answer to my Dialogue which scurrilous Pamphlet was published with his Privity and Allowance as I suppose in both which one great Design is to disgrace my Person by unseemly Epithets and very false Stories and particularly for that which I writ against Calvin for his Rage and Cruelty in procuring one Michael Servetus to be burnt to death at Geneva Anno 1553. Concerning which the Pamphleteer calls Calvin a renowned Man a Star of the first Magnitude and Servetus an infamous Wretch and my self a paultry groveling Fellow And Mr. Finch calls me a boisterous quarrelsom Man one that hath the Spirit of Slumber as a check and punishment to defame such a Man as Calvin and to extol Servetus an Antitrinitarian and says I have lost all Credit and Esteem with all wise and knowing Christians But yet I hope all wise and knowing Christians will hear me speak for what is Truth and so for my self also before they condemn me And 1. Wherein do I defame Calvin That he did certainly procure the death of Servetus a very learned Man and of that exact Life that nothing is objected against him though I doubt he did err in some things I sa 〈…〉 at Calvin did procure his Death is p 〈…〉 he saith I freely confess the Accuser came out from me I hope at the least he shall be put to death I have not then defamed Calvin unless Mr. Finch and his little Lawyer can justify that cruel Action as indeed they seem willing so to do by approving Dr. Owen his Sentence who tells us as Mr. Finch quotes him p. 115. That Servetus is the only Person in the World that he ever heard of that ever died upon the account of Religion in reference to whom the Zeal of them that put him to death may be acquitted And thus Mr. Finch Dr. Owen c. have bathed their Hands in the Blood of poor Michael Servetus Behold and wonder and wonder the more because neither of them ever saw the Book which Servetus died for but take their Grounds from the Pens of his Murderers who would not speak the best of him you may be sure But 2. Wherein do I extol Servetus I said he was a Learned and worthy Man and pious tho mistaken in some things perhaps And do I not call him Pious in conjunction with Calvin Now I conceive that in Charity I may hope many were pious Men who did not rightly understand the Mystery of the Trinity Yea I have the charity to think that Calvin was a pious Man and yet I believe and know that he was very Erroneous in many things and that he was acted by Cain's Spirit when he procured the Death of Servetus who could not deny either the Father Son nor Holy Spirit because he held true Baptism in the Name of all the Three though I fear his Sentiments were not so clear as they ought to have been concerning the Unity of these Three And who can say that he so fully knows this great and glorious Mystery as he ought to do I am far from justifying Servetus in his Error yet I think they ought to have spared his Life though they had laid some Restraint upon him 3. Let us hear what Learned Protestants have said before me in the Case of Servetus 1. Grotius a Man that had but few Equals for Wisdom and Moderation tells us Servetus Libri non Genevae tantum sed in aliis Locis per Calvini diligentiam exusti sunt fateor tamen unum me exemplum vidisse Libri Servetiani in quo certe ea non reperi quae ei objicit Calvinus Vot pro p●ce p. 16. That is By the Diligence of Calvin all the Books of Servetus were not only burnt at Geneva but in other Places Yet I have seen one Copy of Servetus ' s Books in which truly I do not find the Things which Calvin does object against him And