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A86881	Animadversions and considerations upon a sheet, printed for Francis Smith containing a confession of the faith of several catapædobaptists, whose names are thereunto subscribed. As also the absurdities of the doctrine of arminianism, free-will, and general redemption; and that it is a popish doctrine; and their objections briefly answered. By J. H.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Humphreys, John, b. 1637.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3666A; ESTC R224279	30,889	102

Article proclaims loudly falling away from Grace and so speakes perfectly the Language of Rome See Dr. Willet against Papists in his Fifth Absurdity of General Redemption and Universal Grace pag. 912 of his Sinopsis This Errour was detested by the Fathers of the Primitive Times as first Dionysius the Areopagita in his Eleventh Epistle to Apollophanus who as he says of himself was 25 years of Age at Christ's death Next Justin Martyr 163 years after Christ in his Explic. Quest a Gentibus Christ positaram Quest 23. and Quest 98. he declares against it That the Saints cannot fall away being once in Christ Then Ireneus about 182 years post Christ lib. 5. Cont. Heres pag. 550. to 558. and pag. 564. accordingto the Edition at Basil 571. And Clemens Alexandrinus a learned man Anno Christi 200 Then Tertullian about the same time in his Book Adversus Hereticos cap. 2. Editio Beati Rhenati Parisus 1566. Tom. 1. par 161.162 Nemo sapiens nemo fidelis nemo major est nisi Christianus Nemo autem Christianus nisi qui ad finem usque perseveraverit And Origen And Cyprian Anno 270. post Christum Arnobius Hilarie and Basil 370. Ambrose 400 Epiphanius and Chrysostom Anno Christi 230. and Angustine in cent 5. Cyril prosper and Gregory the Great 600. and Bede 700. Anselme 1093. since the Conquest and Bernard Anno 1140. As in a Sermon on Can. 7.9 and Can. 3.4 I held him and would not let him go untill I had brought him into my Mothers house He descants thus Venerunt flumina flaverunt venti impegerunt in eam non cccidit co quod fundata esset supra petram petra autem est Christus Anno Christi 1616. And Luther and Calvin Melancthon Zuinglius and Zanchy and all the Councils as Milivitan Can. 3.4 Jo. Hus and all the Protestants beyond the Seas have wrote against the Papists and defended the impossibility of a Believers falling finally And to shut up all take Christs own words Joh. 10.26 27 28 29. And lastly take August once more lib. de cor rep grat Chap. 7. Eorum qui Electi sunt si quispiam perit fallitur Deus sed nemo eorum perit quia non fallitur Deus 2 Tim. 2.19 Rev. 3.3 Heb. 6.4.5 are with other such places spoken of Hypocrites as Mat. 13.5 6 7. which were never elected or truly converted and called Where are you now can you subvert Christs words Joh. 10.26 Ye believe not because ye are not my Sheep And Rom. 8. latter end My Sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and they shall never perish and none shall pluck them out of my hand And then for that Text Joh. 15. you pervert it as you do other Texts to your own destruction 2 Pet. 3. For every Plant or Branch in Christ the Vine by external profession that brings not forth the fruit of true Faith for Faith is the fruit of the Spirit shall be taken away from that profession to some damnable Heresie or Atheisme And that Scripture is verified in you and hundreds more of you Baptists who since you have forsaken your Baptism and the Covenant of the Grace of God are given up to damnable Heresies to Arminianism Pelagianism a Popish Principle and some to Quakerism and flat Atheism And therefore this day is that Doctrine of Christ fulfilled upon you O! that God would grant you repentance 2 Tim. 2.25 it is God that gives repentance and it is to be feared because you have stoln that Prerogative from God and placed it in your selves that God will harden your hearts as he did Pharaoh's Rom. 9. and give you up to believe a lye that you may be damned 2 Thes 2.10 11 12. and Joh. 12.40 blind your eyes and harden your hearts lest you should be converted For to him is all Power and Glory and Freedom to do what he will in Heaven and Earth for ever and ever Rom. 11. last The nineteenth Article makes provision for the poor and belongs to the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor and to the Kings Justices of the Peace at the Quarter Sessions and Monthly Meetings Nevertheless I desire to give of my Morsel to every one that wants and a Cup of Water to a Disciple in the name of a Disciple This is the Mode of all Sects and Heresies this day in the World to call all their own Brood Saints so do the Papists Arrians Arminians Socinians Quakers and Baptists This is that Christ prophesied of Mat. 2.11 Loe here is Christ loe there is Christ but you are all deceived for Christ is not confined to your secret Chambers to your Societies or to your Wilderness he is where-ever the Faith of Christ is which you deny having brought another Gospel Gal. 1. and are therefore accursed The twentieth Article professes the Resurrection from the Dead which the Quakers do seem to deny that is that the Bodies of the Saints that died shall rise again and together with Christ their Head be glorified and the Bodies of the Unbelievers be raised and their Spirits and Souls be re-conjoyned and suffer together with the Devils to all Eternity But some of you Baptistical Arminians do hold that the Soul is mortal and dies with the Body till the Resurrection contrary to the true Churches confession in all Ages and to the Scriptures Phil. 1.21 22 23. ver If Paul's Soul had died with his Body till the Resurrection it had been no gain to him to die for then there had been more gain to have lived though in a wicked World because here he by Faith enjoyed Christ and his Soul lived with his Body but when dead his Soul also slept at least and then he could enjoy no Communion of Christ till the time of the Resurrection But to die is gain Ergo his Soul did live and enjoy Christ immediately after his dissolution as vers 23. Again Heb. 9. after Death comes Judgment yea a particular Judgment of the particular Soul but if the Soul die with the body though but for a time then no particular Judgment which the Scripture allows if the Soul dies with the Body till the Resurrection what need then is there that Christ should intercede Heb. 9.24 and appear there before God for the Saints Heb. 6.20 What does he appear for the dead then he need not intercede till they live that is till the Resurrection Beside Christs Argument to the Sadduces your half Brethren may serve to confute you God is not the God of the dead but of the living Ergo the Souls of Abraham Isaac Jacob and all do live though their Bodies be dead and Christ in respect of his Body is the Fore-runner because the Bodies of the Saints shall also their Souls being reconjoyned enter with him Joh. 17.24 1 Joh. 3.2 Phil. 3.21 and the Souls of the damned are now in Hell Jude Epist vers 7.2 Pet. 2.7 Ergo the Souls of Saints are now in glory with

Christ the Lord. And lastly the old Whores Purgatory is better than your mortality for a live Dog is better than a dead Lyon Eccles 9.4 The one and twentieth Article acknowledgeth a general Judgment but tacitly denieth the particular Judgment because the Authors of the Article deny the Immortality of the Soul from the time of the death of the Body to the general Resurrection as I said before It is saith Paul appointed once for every man to die and after that death to Judgment that is every particular man for the Premises is particular therefore the Assumption must be particular the death he speaks of is a particular death Ergo the Judgment that follows is a particular Judgment which I say these good Gentlemen tacitly deny It is absurd that the Soul should not live a moment for if the Soul be immortal à parte post that is from the instant of its infusion into the Body it may not desist from life a moment for then it would lose its Immortality If we grant you Mortality of the Soul for a time they may as well beg its Mortality for ever for to unreasonable persons that have not the true Faith of Christ grant an Inch and they will crave an Ell. But I pass to the two and twentieth Article which is like a Jewel in a Swines Snout What the Kingdom of Christ set upon the Foundation of the Whore of Babylon and Antichrist it loaths my Soul to see it The Reign of Christ in the Kingdoms of the World in his Saints in a restorative Apostolical manner before the final dissolution of the World is and ever was the Judgment and Faith of Saints and not only so but at the general Judgment when Christ shall again the second time appear Acts 1. in that glorified body of his and descend from the Throne in that flesh he did ascend with the innumerable Societies of Saints and Angels the then living Saints being changed 1 Thes 4. ult Phil. 3. ult to meet the Lord in the Clouds of Heaven and together with him to return to take the Kingdoms of the World into his possession Dan. 7. Rev. 11. and so to judge the Earth and give his beheaded and suffering Sons Rev. 20. quiet and peaceable enjoyment of the new Heavens and new Earth Isai 63. and 2 Pet. 3. till the second and last Trumpet 1 Cor. 15. whether numerically for a thousand years or less or more may be disputable by some but for the sum and substance hath been owned from the very Apostles days by the Fathers as Papias Justin Martyr and Irenaeus and almost if not all except August and Jerom who yet spake very favourably fo the Chyleasts or fifth Monarchical Judgment Licet non sequamur tamen damnare non possumus quia mult● Ecclesiasticorum virorum ista dixerunt Jer. 23. Ep. de regnand secundo Christi But to set up this glorious Truth and Kingdom of Jesus Christ upon a rotten Papistical Pelagian Arminian Heretical Antichristian Foundation you will receive the reward of the Pharisees Mat. 7. Lord we have prophesied in thy Name and cast out Devils but saith Christ depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for unbelievers The three and twentieth Article pleads for the holy Scriptures to be the Rule of Faith and Life it is one thing to take the Letter of the Scripture with the Doctrine and sense of the Holy Ghost included and another thing to accept for our Rule the humane glosses of mens natural or deluded spirits the latter of which is equal with their Errour that deny the regular Authority of the Scriptures The Letter of the Scriptures and the Spirit of Jesus are both in Commission from Christ our Prophet to teach his people they that exclude the Spirit and pretend the Letter are as unfortunate as Arminians Socinians Pelagians and other Carnal Hereticks but they that reject the Letter and pretend the Spirit are swallowed up of Enthusiastical Delusions as Quakers and such like For whom God hath joyned together we must not dare to separate asunder without incurring the Curse of adding or diminishing The twenty fourth Article pleads for Liberty of Conscience in spiritual matters It is not to be doubtted but that the Saints of God ought to have their liberty to worship God and to hinder them is the greatest sin next to the sin against the Holy Ghost but the question is who are the Saints 2. Whether false worshippers may have liberty from godly Magistrates 1. Saints are either called to the Faith of Christ and so to the profession of it and such are visible though they may differ among themselves in some circumstances 2. Saints that are Elect but uncalled may be among them that are false worshippers till called the first only worship God truly because none can worship God truly but such as truly believe in the Son of God according to the Declaration of God and that Record he hath given in the Word of his Son viz. that Christ was made Sin and a Curse that he laid their sins on Christ and so freed them and their Curse and so that Righteousness of the Law fulfilled in his Person as God-man is imputed to them for their whole Righteousness which they by Faith alone receiving are visible Saints and do worship God truly they that have not this Faith though Angels in appearance are but false worshippers because the Law of Faith in Christ is the fulfilling of the whole Law directly the first Table towards God Exod. 20. containing first four Commandments that is fulfilled compleatly in a true Believer and forasmuch as Love flows from Faith so is the second Table fulfilled in a true believer but this fulfilling the Law by Faith in a Believer is not his Justification or Righteousness before God for that is Christs fulfilling it in his Person Rom. 8.2 3 4. and Gods imputing it to the sinner Rom. 4.5 6 7. and Faith as an Instrument receives it and applies it to its self So then the Act of Faith in us doth not justifie for then our Works and the Law would justifie but it is still Christ alone that justifies Rom. 8. To the second question the Magistrate may restrain false worshippers See Rev. 2.20 and 2 Cor. 10.5 the Instruments of the Church for this purpose are spiritual 1 Cor. 5. delivering the proud and contemptible to Satan and the godly Magistrate is but a Ruling Elder whether in a Congregation or Nation Let the Tares grow with the Wheat some say is meant of secret Hypocrites but I suppose that blood-shed consiscation or any corporal persecution in this day is not to be in any wise inflicted on deluded Consciences The twenty fifth and last Article seems to contradict his Predecessor for he allows the Magistrate to punish evil doers and incourage the good but his Predecessor flatly denies the Magistrate to have any thing to do with matters of Divine Worship Now among the Pretenders to Spiritual Worship three

I desist to prosecute further only I observe this by the way That your Tribe and Fraternity having sinned most against the Covenant of God's Grace in Christ in founding your selves upon Popish Pelagian and Arminian Principles he hath hardened your hearts and left you to more Horrible Errours than others Your thirteenth Article is double tongued runs with the Hare and holds with the Hound for Communion Prayers and use of Sacraments are the duty of Believers but not the immediate duty of damnable Hereticks For first repent and believe the Gospel if you can according to its primitive Institution then those follow in order To your fourteenth Article I answer that you have neither the true Form or Power and if you had the Form and not the Power it 's enough for us to depart your Tents because they are Tents of Darkness You have not the true Faith ergo not the true Spirit ergo not the true Love ergo not the true Power And for your Form it is not Apostolical or truly Scriptural Antichrist's Foundation ever since the false Apostles seduced the Galatians is that you are built on Your fifteenth Article is a Beggar too and presupposes that which we cannot grant you That you are the true Church and Ministers of Christ 'T is true the true Ministers of Christ are to be free and Hospitable not like your ltnierants who trade it in the World and prate of what you know not and have not observed the Apostles Rule 2 Tim. 2.4 and 15.16 vers for you do not Orthotomounta rightly cut down in twain the Law and the Gospel preaching one to the proud self-conceited Hypocrites and the other the humbled Sinners and as for Hospitality when God shall give us Gosel-wages 1 Cor. 9.12 13 14. 2 Cor. 11.7 8. I trust we shall by his help do our duty in that You preach not the true Jesus nor the true Gospel as Paul did 1 Cor. 15.3.17 2 Cor. 11.4 The sixteenth Article opposes his Fellow afore-going and gives him the Lye to his face where Ministers are to be hospitable But here you take the means of hospitality from them and tell them they must preach freely You forbid Tythes that sticks in your throats though Christs Covenant dashed in pieces you can swallow down like the Pharisees Camel ex ungue Leonem But pray where are Tythes forbid jure Humano as a Gospel Maintenance if not jure Divina I would Gospel Ministers had the Tythes by the godly Magistrates Anthority it would be no sin against Christ I ask you a Question Did Constantine sin or not sin in giving the Tythes to the Clergy which thing was done by him 1. Before the Roman Antichrist arose 2. In love to Christ notwithstanding that Voice that is said to tell him that he had by so doing ruined the Church If you say it was a sin then prove against what Law he sinned for where there is no Law there is no Transgression Is it not lawful for Gospel Magistrates to provide for Gospel Ministers if they may not by what Law may they not if they may by what Law may they not give them the Tenths 1. You 'l say perhaps because the Tenths are the Husbandmans own it may be when Christ hath taken the Kingdoms in his own Power he will give it up to them but till then 't is in the power of Kings to dispose it as they will and your duty to be subject to them Rom. 13. And it is a custom è memoria hominum and therefore not ours but the Princes and may not he give it to whom he will 2. You 'l say 't was an Antichristian Maintenance brought in by the Pope This Reason is of most prevalency could you prove it For first 't is apparent that Tythes were given to the Pastors of Churches before the Roman Antichrist rose up So you make Baptism of Infants Antichristian as brought in by the Pope which was practised from the Apostles days and never questioned till about the fifth Cent. and then by the Insurrection of Catabaptists See Calv. Instit 4. lib. 15 16. Chapters But to close all pray why do you bring in and establish the capital Errours of Antichrist and Papists as Free Will General Redemption falling from Grace c. which were established by Huberus Phygius Hemingius Bellarmine and many other Papists Yet wipe your mouths like the Whore in the Proverbs Come let 's take our fill of love I have offered Burnt-offerings and Peace-offerings to day So you Come let 's build on their Foundation for we are baptized with Believers Baptism and have gathered Churches and separated from the Church of England Don't you know that Separation is not a mark of the Spirit sufficient to carry you out Jude Ep. 19. No nor giving your goods or bodies to the fire neither 1 Cor. 13 no nor the multitude of your Party 1 Kings 18.22 and Chap. 23.20.21 23 24. For your pretended holiness prayers and zeal Mat. 6.5 7 8. Phil. 3.6 Now seeing you build upon the Foundation of Antichrist the very Doctrines of the Whore and cloath your selves with his Scarlet Coverings hating all that are not of your Sect especially of the Element of Water and with her Whores Righteousness viz. that of Works for Faith and Repentance are our Works for Justification and yet rail so egregiously against others for holding some of her Ceremonies and Figures which at worst can't be so bad as her Doctrine is therefore sweep your own doors and pluck the Beam out of your own eyes ye Hypocrites Luke 6.42 The seventeenth Article cuts its own Throat for none are more notorious Hereticks than you Pelagians Arminians that have drunk down the Poyson of Antichrist in these damnable Principles which never no true Protestant held since the Reformation till Arminius and Grotius in Germany and the Socinians in Muscovia till King James his days who gave a breathing time to the Promulgators of it and permitted it liberty to the rooting it self in the Brittish Soyls All the Martyrs died professed Enemies against it and charged it upon the Papists who ever owned it as the Foundation of all their Doctrine See Foxes Martyrol O! monstrum horrendum ingens Augustine opposed it in the fifth Cent. wherein Pelagius first broached it in the Western World and being banished from Rome brought it into Britain Not a word of it in the first four hundred years after Christ though the Arrians Nestorians Eutychians and Manechees swarmed with damnable Heresies yet not a word of this new Gospel though I believe the Basis of it was laid by Cerinthus and Cerbion in Primitive times and by the false Apostles before the Apostles death as the Apostle demonstrates in his Epistles to the Galatians Romans and Hebrews Therefore we must leave to do with you after the first and second Admonition and reject you as the poyson of the Church and the greatest Enemies to Christ his imputed Righteousness and our precious Souls The eighteenth