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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

's Web And such is the Works and Endeavours of all unconverted and unbelieving persons whatsoever though not to so good an end as hers was and this is as good an Answer as your Objection Add to it the Testimony of Christ Mark 7.7 In vain do they worship me and of Jer. 12.1 2. Object 12. What if this Doctrine be Popery yet if it be true it is not to be rejected Answer Philpot the Martyr said to Bonner Bishop of London That the Papists held not one Truth but the Doctrine of the Trinity and yet they held this of Universal Grace and the Words of a Dying Man are true ut aiunt much more of a Dying Martyr and Christian Man Object 13. 'T is Life and Conversation that saves us and makes us like God and not Opinion Answer The living Principles of the Doctrine of Christ are not Opinions but Fundamentals preached by the immediate in spiration of the Spirit confirmed by the ancient Testimony of the Prophets and sealed with the Signet of real Miracles and attested to by the ancient Fathers of the first 500 years and by all the true Churches to this day and the Scriptures are the rule and ground of Faith Ephes 2.20 But such is the Doctrine of Election ab eterno and Reprobation free and personal a good Life and Conversation built upon Christ is the fruit of Christs Spirit working love in the called Elect But such a visible Conversation built on the Law and mans own Righteousness or mans Faith and Repentance though wrought in time is no other than the superstructures of the Scribes and Parisees of old and of Mistical Papists and Antichristians the Bastards of the great Whore in this day Rev. 17.1 2 3. Rev. 2.26 'T is Christ's works Faith and Conversation in him that gives life to his and not that wrought in them though by the Spirit that does but testifie that they have life in Christ to the World 14 Ob. God then made man to damn him Answer with the Apostle But who art thou man that repliest against God Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made me so And beside the Scripture saith He that made them will not save them Isai 27.11 15. Ob. The easiest way is the wrong but eternal free Personal Election is the easiest Answer you know not what you say no man is saved no man believes no man truly repents but it cost Christ his dearest Heart-blood and must cost us the farewel of dearest delights and sin and the loss of our own hearts self and interests Luke 14.28 29 30. 2. That that is the rationallest way is the easiest because all men have naturally reason but your General Redemption and Conditional Election and Free Will is the most rationallest and agreeable to reason therefore the easiest and the way of God above reason and is only fathomed by Faith as Heb. 11. Chap. appears And that gate is straight and narrow Mat. 7. and few enter into it 16. Ob. That whatever we do or sin we shall be saved by the way of Election Answer that is your carping Calumny against the Truth Gods people cannot sin that sin that God cannot or will not forgive 1 Joh. 5. ult There is a sin unto death and a sin not unto death the Elect are beloved when they do no good or evil they are beloved when they do evil their persons not their sins I mean Gal. 2.20 Rom. 9.11 and 13. 2 Tim. 1.9 10. and they are beloved when they do good and they shall do good because they are beloved Phil. 2.13 Heb. 12. two last verses Again the Truths of Christ believed and received and not Errours is the only ground of sobriety righteousness and godliness Tit. 2.12 and 13. 2 Cor. 5.14 And again pray inspicite vobis look upon your Peacocks feet how much unlike the Devils they are though like the Pharisees your Feathers be fine your envy your malice your pride your errours your instability your factions and schismes and Popish Principles back-biting whispering tale-bearing vain discourse tatling 1 Tim. 5. busi-bodying in other folks matters 1 Pet. 4.15 these and such like are the Ingredients that your holiness and righteousness is composed of crying out with the Pharisees Isai 66. Stand far off me I am more holier than thou art And this is the manners of you Baptists most of you in this latter day and Quakers and others too the more is the pity Ob. But we love one another Answer O! Do you so so do the Papists so do the arrantest Hereticks in the World and 't is but self-love and with dissimulation neither for to prop up Self and honour Self and secure your Reputations that is dearer to you than Christ's Blood or love Prate not thus See you what Christ saith Mat. 5.46 47. Luke 6.30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37. 1 Joh. 2.10 11. and Chap. 4.20 Joh. 5.40 41. Measure your life by these Scriptures and deal truly with your hearts Because you have Free Will answer me these Questions 1. Had the Angels Free Will to stand or fall if they had why did they fall or did the Elect Angels stand by their Free Will the other having no sin to tempt them to fall more than the Elect had and why are they called Elect that stand and the other not that did fall 2. Had Judas free will to believe and repent as much as Peter if he had why did he not do as Peter did or did Christ pray for Judas as he did for Peter Mark that 3. When Satan entred Judas and Saul had they power to resist and abandon him or not if they had why was it so great a burden to them that the one was mad the other hanged himself 4. If no sin be damnable but unbelief against the Gospel how came the Angels to be damned and how came Sodom and Gomorrah to be cast into Eternal Fire if the sin against the first Covenant be only the cause of a temporal death and punishment as is by you asserted Ocellos vobis Jehovah aperito c. Per Johannem H. FINIS

ANIMADVERSIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS UPON A Sheet Printed for Francis Smith CONTAINING A Confession of the Faith of several Catapaedobaptists 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. Tolle Lege Judica LONDON Printed for W. Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-street 1679. THE PREFACE TO all true Protestant and Christian Readers into whose hands this little piece may come I desire to let the World know that it is not for the sake of any Interest I have in the World or in any Sect or Party of People this day in the present Age that engages me to this present Affair No let the World know that I knew long since upon whom I have cast the infinite weight of both my Soul and Body viz. upon Jesus that is upon him as fulfilling and having fulfilled in his mediatory person the whole Law of Works and for justification of Faith and Love for me and for all his Elect that were given to him by the Father before the world was The Truths once delivered to the Saints declared in the Scriptures of truth witnessed by the Fathers and Sons of the true Protestant Church since the Apostles days before the Supremacy of the Pope of Rome to the five or six Centuaries though then opposed by the Arrians Nestorians Sabellians Manichees and others and since by the Papists the Head of Antichrist and by the Kenites and pretending Reconcilers of Protestants and Papists I mean the Bridge-makers for a passable way for Papists o're to us or we o're to them viz. the Grotians Armenians and all that hang that way since those unhappy names as well as persons received their Being in the World are the alone and only Motive that carries me into this Affair at this juncture of time And particularly by providence hearing this man for whom this Sheet was printed by name Mr. Francis Smith a Stationer in London preaching up at the Field Town in the County of Oxford this Novel Papistical Doctrine of Arminianism Free-will and General Redemption and Conditional Election in time under the notion of an Anabaptist or Catapaedobaptist if you rather please and having then opposed him as to his Doctrine and finding him and his Adherents stubborn and Heretical and withal scattering the Poison of their Doctrine in this Sheet under the notion of a Confession of their Faith to the subversion of the unsetled and ignorant people I as a Servant to the royal truths of my Soveraign Lord Christ and for the better information of his Elect have according to my poor abillity cast in this Mite into the Corban as my Testimony to him and his truth in this lowring yet Evening Tide of Antichrist The Apostle Paul is my President Gal. 2.5 6. who would not give place for an hour to the Enemies of the Gospel neither did he respect any mans person though they seemed by their external deportment and manners to be some body in the peoples Eyes My Judge is Christ my Soveraign my Jury the twelve Apostles at that great and approaching Sessions when he shall again descend the pregnant clouds to judge the World Acts 1. Heb. 9. ult and crown his Saints and witnesses If any shall think my Language too harsh or Vnchristian let them know 't is not the Sword of the Flesh but that of the Spirit I fight with The Prophet Isay call'd them in his days dumb Dogs the Apostle of the Gentiles Hereticks and I call but all such as come forth in any of the VVhores Trinckets but barking Dogs who are far worse than those dumb Dogs and Hereticks were because they are stubborn Promoters of the Papal Doctrines though not of Popish Ceremonies according to that ancient definition of Heresic by that ancient witness of truth Bishop Grosthead once of Lincoln Heresis est sententia contraria sacrae scripturae palam docta pertinaciter defensa And as it was said by the Protestant Divines of Germany concerning Grotius Quod Hugo Grotius papizat so say I of all these who promote the same Doctrines as he did who instead of flying out of Babylon as the Holy Ghost exhorts Rev. 18.4 5 6. they hover under her inchanting skirts to whose charge if they repent not all the Blood of the Martyrs will be laid as well as to the direct Papists when the Lords time shall be accomplished And till they have answer'd Jewel White Willet against the Papists in the very same points they say nothing against me or my Animadversions though they attempt a Reply And so Reader Farewel Thine in what I may as to these truths herein defended while I am Joh. Humphrys ANIMADVERSIONS and CONSIDERATIONS upon an Heretical Catabaptistical Pelagian Arminian Papistical Sheet lately published entituled A Confession or Declaration of Faith lately presented to King Charles the Second Printed for one Francis Smith which because the Doctrine therein contain'd is partly Papistical and partly mixed with the Ingredients of of Quakerism as Free-will General Redemption and falling away from Christ and such like Trash against the Doctrine of the Gospel primarily taught by Christ and his Apostles and secondarily witnessed to by the Protestant Christian Divines of all Ages and by the Martyrs in the past times of Popery I think fit to declare to the World for the sake of Gods Elect chosen in Christ by the good will and pleasure of God alone from before the foundation of the World to Eternal Salvation by the Transaction of their sins by the Father on Jesus and the free imputation of the Righteousness of the Law fulfilled in him to them which they do in his time when he gives them Faith receive it by Faith alone LET me tell you you Arminian Pelagian Papistical Baptists are not built on the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Ephes 3. but upon the Foundation of the Papists and Antichrist for the Papists are true in nothing but in the Doctrine of the Trinity as said Mr. Philpot Martyr and dying men especially Martyrs should be believ'd You peep your Heads out to shew your Antichristian Horns because you are in hope that some lately honoured at the Sturn may countenance your Sect as being inclinable to the same Opinions as being newly whasted by Divine Providence from the Transmarine Territories of Papistry upon the Christian Protestant Shores who yet it is yet to be doubted hath too much of the Pelagian dust of S. Omers cleaving to his feet or shooes But this will fail you in the day of the Lord when the true Jesus Son of God and Son of Mary High-Priest Prophet and King in one Person will plead his own Truths that you and such as you have most abominably abused and belied Your first Article professes Faith in one God and the Father of whom are all things which the Turk and Mahometans do acknowledge as much as you or more See the Alchoran