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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

And so thought the unbelieving Jews under the Law so do you under the Gospel and with the same Irony as the Prophet did them I answer you Go to then make you a clean heart and purge away all your sins clean out of God's sight get you a sinless Faith and Repentance and fulfill the whole Law in your persons perfectly and then God will perhaps receive you But secondly I answer Who art thou that replyest against God Object 4. The Scriptures bids all repent and believe Answer It speaks especially to all the Elect of Jew and Gentile Or ministerially to all universally but spiritually and effectually to the Sheep the Elect. Object 5. God don't desire a Sinner's death but that he repent Answer He dont desire the death of Elect Sinners nor never did for he hath loved them with an Everlasting love a parte ante post Jer. 31.3 Object 6. Then is God a respecter of persons Answer So he is 1. by way of decree for he respected Abel and rejected Cain because he had elected the one and rejected the other and so the person of Jacob and hated the person of Esau before they did good or evil Secondly Officially he respects mens persons for Ministers shall shine as the Stars and I have said ye are Gods to Magistrates and not to all and the Man is the Image and Glory of God according to the place and Authority of an Husband So is not the Wife as a Wife and a Woman See 1 Cor. 11. therefore they that contend and despise and rule over their Husbands are meritricious Gentlewomen and Amazon's terrible Monsters generated out of corruption and the worser part of Evah but the works done by his redeemed and justifyed Children he respects not their persons for their works but for Christs Righteousness imputed he respects both them and their works and will reward them Neither doth he respect the Beauty Riches or Wisdom of any man so as to respect the person for those things though good in themselves Object 7. He gave himself a ransom for all Answer for all his Elect definitively which shall be testify'd in their proper times Kainois idiois that is when he by his Spirit calls and doth convert them Object 8. It is not our works but Christ that works in us Free-will Faith Repentance and new Obedience Answer Though he does it is but filthy Rags Isay 64.6 Phil. 3. but Dross Dung and loss as to our justification Nothing can justifie in any Covenant but a perfect Righteousness performed in a perfect and righteous person that never sinned Rom. 8.2 3. Hab. 1.13 Rom. 7. Object 9. This Doctrine of Election and Reprobation will dishearten people from using the means Answer It will not Gods Elect but rather hearten them Secondly All are commanded ministerially to use the means and have Abilities to do it yea the blind may hear Rom. 10.10 11 12 13. but spiritually the Spirit blows where it listeth John 3. the Spirit is but given to the Sons alone Gal. 4.6 Mat. 13. John 12.40 Object 10. Disobedience to the Law brought and incurred but temporal punishments but to the Gospel Eternal punishments Heb. 12.2 Ans Disobedience to every or to one Tittle of the Law incurs now and ever did Eternal Condemnation for the wages of Sin is Eternal death and Sin is but a transgression of the Law Ergo the transgression of the Law deserves Eternal Death But the Jews as they were under the Law given at Sinai had a Temporal Conditional Covenant to restrain their exhorbitant Spirits and allure them by Temporal Blessings 1 Tim. 1.5 9. There were three ends of the giving the Law at Sinai 1. To shew the dreadfulness of the fall and breach of that Law in Paradise and that at the last Day God shall in Thunder and Flame judge the Bodies and Souls of all that fell and are not reconciled by Christ or covered with his Righteousness Rom. 4.6 7 8. Psal 32. or for whom he hath not fulfilled it in his most sinless and excellent person and so it is a demonstrative Covenant of works Rom. 3.19 shewing Sin and breaking in pieces the self-conceited carnal hearts of Gods Elect that they may receive the Grace of God in Christ by Faith Gal. 3.24 Isay 42.18 19 20. And this was then Externally and Internally and Spiritually and internally now in them that are called the use of the Law to bring them in the hand of Christ to nothing but despiration in and because of sin and self-impotency within and without that so they may in emptiness and poverty receive by Faith a full and able rich Christ Which when it hath done by Faith the Law vanishes out of the Conscience like a baffled Giant and retires into the Flesh to curb that to its duty and is then a Commandment and Law of Love upon the new Covenant heart of a Believer to freely move him according to the External Rule and Matter of the means to glorifie Christ in the World 2 Cor. 3. and 2 Cor. 5. the love of Christ constrains us Secondly a second end of the Law at Sinai was to be a rule to the Elect Believers then to walk with God whose Heart and Will the Law represents And so it was put in the Ark A Type of Christ in whom now the Law is for a Believers Rule Thirdly It was given as a Temporal Conditional Covenant to frighten the stubborn Jews from Rebellion and to engage them to Righteousness a thing God did and does delight in And so the breaches were as in this respect punished but with a Temporal Death and Punishment and the Performers with Temporal Life and Blessings and as such a Covenant its Epoca began at Sinai and did end when Christ came in the Flesh The ignorance of this distinction is the root of all Errours and Heresies And so it was to the Jews under that Testament of Grace as it is now to us under the new and last Testament of Grace sealed and confirmed not with the Blood of Creatures and Beasts but with the Blood of Christ the Son of God to the everlasting Comfort of the Elect Believers Object 11. This Doctrine General Redemption sets all on work to use the means and to endeavour Answer Have ye never read or heard of Penelope that famous Wife that when her Husband was gone to the Trojan-war and thought to have been slain by his long tarrying and she having many Woers perplexing her not delighting her as they do the Ladies of these times was spinning for Ladies in those more ancient times were good House-wifes though now they are many of them Sluts and she put back the sharp importunities of her Rivals with this defence That when she had spun off her Web she would answer them Now to prove her self Loyal to her Husband and deceptious to her Rivals she unspun in the Night what she had spun in the day Hence we call all labour in vain The spinning of Penelope

parts for one may be supposed to be erronious Now what is more cruel than false worship Ergo the Magistrate is to punish false Worshippers or else he must not punish all evil doers forasmuch as such are the greatest evil doers in quality if not in quantity or number But here lies a Falacy occult to most mens judgments false worship say they consists in mode or manner of worship not considering that the greatest evil in worship lies in the substance not in the mode For false worship consists either in the substance as in a false Faith and false Principle or else in false mode or manner of worship the last is bad but the former worst of all because it is the ground of the latter the latter though true is but a form of godliness if the former be wanting Hence all Arrians Socinians and the greatest part of Rattabaptists Arminians Free-willers General Redemptionists Conditional Decretists and Quakers err in the former though some of them may not in the latter therefore at best have but a form of godliness and from such we are commanded to turn away for the Power consists in true Faith and true Principles and true love to God and Man both arising from the diphthongued Union between the Soul and the Man Christ Jesus by the Spirit of the Lord and then mode order and disciplinal method will be soon rectified if the Premises be truly grounded or else not The Doctrine of Quakers Pelagians Arminians Grotians Pharisees Assidians Papists and Justitiaries ABsurdities from your Errours arising That God gave his Son for all Universally upon condition that they believe repent and obey him and so Election upon condition of something in the Creature either naturally as restored by Christ at once as the Pelagians or else wrought in them by the Spirit upon the assent of their free will as the Papists and Council of Trent only by Gods fore-knowledge ab Eterno but not determination and free act and without considering any thing in the Creature and particular free Personal Election from Eternity meerly of good pleasure without any thing in the Creature but to be wrought in the Elected as the purchase of Christs Blood after Election 1. You make Christ the Minister of sin Gal. 2.17 for you make man's act of Faith Repentance and Obedience the formal cause of their Justification not only without which sine quâ non but by which they are justified before God and not by Christs Merits only But man's act of Faith repentance and obedience is sin and filthy rags Isay 64.6 Phil. 3. Ergo that which is sin you make to justifie and consequently Christ must be then the Minister of sin if his Righteousness alone be not sufficient to justifie being imputed by God and received by Faith for something that is sinful and of man's must help to justifie and Christs Merits only make it passable and acceptable so then Christs Merits makes sin passable and acceptable for all our righteousness is but filthy rags Is 64.6 Phil. 3. dung and dross yea loss which is worse than sin for man hath no righteousness except it be wrought in him by the assistance of the Spirit therefore it must be that righteousness wrought in man that the Prophet means and the Apostles for in him we live move and have our being Acts 17. Now the major is proved by all the Testimonies and Writings of Arminians Baptists of that Sect and Pelagians and Papists and is notoriously known The minor is made good from Isay 64.6 and Phil. 3. Ergo the COnclusion is true That they make Christ the Minister of sin The second Absurdity is That those of this Errour do make the Souls of Men before Christ's coming mortal and to dye with the Body which is contrary to the Apostle Phil. 1.23 24. worse than the Papists their Purgatory For a live Dog is better than a dead Lyon and agreeable to Atheists Stoicks and Heathens Besides it makes all Christ's Sufferings on the Cross as they say to remove the first Covenant of perfect works and to bring in a Lex remediens a milder Law to be only Temporal Punishment For such as was our Deliverance such was his Passion 1 Thes 1. ult to deliver us from the Wrath to come did he die Ergo our first death is both Eternal and Temporal Again such was Gods promise to Adam had he stood such was his punishment if he fell But if he had stood he had life Eternal Ergo falling Eternal death besides The wages of Sin is Death Rom. 5. and Rom. 6. ult and James 1.13 14 15. But all man's Sin entered with his first fall Rom. 5.12 Ergo the first fall is the ground of Eternal Death And that Unbelief only is the cause of Damnation is a Lye against the Scriptures For 't is true Unbelief is the cause of all sins efficiently And Sodom and Gomorrah were damned instrumentally for Adultery and Fornication Ep. Jude 2. Pet. 2. and not instrumentally and directly for Unbelief in the Son of God Yea Originally because they were reprobated from Faith effectual Calling and Glory 2 Thes 2.10 11 12. and because he did not taste death for them nor deliver them because they were not elected ab eterno 2 Thes 2.13 1 Thes 5.9 John 22.40 Heb 2.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That by the Grace of God he might taste Death for every Son The third Absurdity is 2 Tim. 2.19 then by these mens Doctrine the Foundation of God is not sure if the acceptance of Christ and his Merits depend on mans Free-will for conditional is not certain for Faith is no condition on mans part but a Necessary Qualification wrought in the Elect to apply his Grace and purchased by his Blood too and wholly wrought by his Spirit in them as effectual Calling Rom. 9. Fph. 2. Cratia non offertur Deo singulis animo communicandi eam sed solis Electis Piscator against Papists The fourth Absurdity is That God's Grace is not free which is by his word declared to be most free Rom. 7. and Rom. 4. not at all of our works wrought in us for then it is not free Now Election is the top of his free Grace from whence flows all the other Justification and effectual Calling and Glory Rom. 8.29 30 31 c. for if it be upon any condition in us then it is not free but it is most free Ergo upon no condition in or by us at all Acts 13.48 None can believe but who are pre-ordained to live Ephes 2.8 9 10. The Elect are created unto good works according to his good pleasure Phil. 2. Huberus and Hemingius the great Jesuits and Patrons of this Sophistry say non absolué statuit sed defixit in Christo ut credant in eo salvi fiant but predestination is de scientia Dei voluntate ejus and Act of his Will Ephes 1.4 7. as well as of