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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

became ungodly men because they were afore ordained to destruction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before decreed or afore written for destruction and therefore became ungodly The tenth lies like the father the second Article For Adam's fall brought in Eternal deaths as well as Temporal I said afore and if all are under that Condemation Rom. 5.16 17 18 19. Ex. 16. Rom. 6.21 then Infants for Infants are part of all Beside all that are fallen into Condemation which all are cannot be saved till they are born again of Water and the Spirit or baptized with Fire and the Holy Ghost Mat. 4. Jo. 3.3 5. 1 Jo. 5. Heb. 10. Ez. 36. Water in all which places is not your Baptism but the cleansing of Christ's Blood applied by the Spirit to the Elect in their Conversion and Regeneration of which Baptism is but a meer figure to Abraham and his believing Seed as Circumcision was before the actual payment of the Debts of the Elect by Christ on the Cross at Jerusalem Heb. 13.11 12 13. Heb. 9.26 Heb. 1.3 Heb. 10.54.10 14. see 18 Q. of the Assemblies Catechism and Answer Four things issue to all Adam's posterity by his fall First The guilt of Adam's first sin Secondly The privation of Original Righteousness Thirdly A depravation of the whole nature of Body and Soul by Hereditary descent And fourthly All actual Sins flowing from it Ro. 5.12 19. and 10. Ephes 1.1 2 3. James 1.14 15. Mark 15.29 Ro. 7. See Doctor Willet's 81 Gen. Controversie against Papists the Elect have their Sins transacted on Christ and his imputed Righteousness covering them and the Spirit of Christ in his time converting them to it and the rest great and small are blinded and damned Ro. 11. The whole Law broken by Adam and his Posterity in him comprehends both Faith and perfect and sinless obedience which Covenant being broke he brought both himself and posterity under Condemnation Rom. 5.18 19. temporal and Eternal for such is the Wages of Sin Ro. 6.21 and lying under the breach of the whole Law of God are eternally condemn'd except they be elected called justified and sanctified freely by his Grace Rom. 8.29 30 31. Christ did not come into the World to save men if they would Ephes 2.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. for then none would be saved but he came positively and absolutely to save them that were eternally given to him to save Jo. 17. and Jo. 10.26 to 29. Christ's death and passions were not Temporal and Bodily only Mat. 27.46 and Chap. 26.36 37 38 42. Mark 14.3 4. Luke 22.42 44. Joh. 18.11 but Spiritual and Infernal passions Acts 2.31 Ps 16.10 Lament 1.12 And if Christ's Sufferings were such then Adaw's fall must procure such But this Hellish Doctrine denyeth both By this Doctrine the Covenant of Grace was made since the fall of Adam and not from Eternity as the Scripture inculcates Titus 1.1 2 3. Ps 89. and Zach. 6.13 2 Sam. 23.5 and then the Covenant of Grace is but a new Covenant of Works viz. Faith and Obedience as if Faith was not included in the Covenant of Innocency and fulfilling the conditions of the pardon of Sin in the Gospel upon pain of Eternal Damnation so that by this Doctrine the new Covenant of Grace is a thousand times more bondaged servile and legal than the Covenant of Innocency For the forfeitures of that say they was but bodily and temporal and so was Christ's death that satisfied for it But the forfeitures of this new Covenant of Grace according to their Doctrine is Spiritual and Eternal Damnation and no help or satisfaction neither in the Covenant of Innocency Christ made up the breaches but the breaches of this Covenant of Grace we our selves must make up by our Free-will Faith Repentance and Obedience or else perish eternally And from the Pelagion Arminian Papistical new Covenant of Grace wherein Christ is only or chiefly an example only by his Kingly and Prophetical Offices in Heaven he prays for me my Faith Victory and Repentance but if I do it not or cannot his Prayer is in vain And as for his Priestly Office as Dr. Hammand saith it dyed with him For it was only to remove the Covenant of Works which was by a temporal death easily removed its forfeitures being but a temporal death from such a New Covenant Lord deliver me and his Elect and from the Promulgators of it Another Juggle they have is that Election is not in the Covenant of Works or from Eternity but in Christ since that is they that do believe the Doctrine they preach believe repent obey and be baptized are Elected and this God foresaw and knew and willed And to uphold this Babel and Whores Doctrine of Babylon they turn upside-down the very Heart and Entrails of the whole Scriptures to the last of the tenth Article I say the Jews were under a Covenant of Grace and by the sign thereof Gen. 17. brought by Divine Command their Children into the visible Church We are under the same Covenant of Grace and the matter and manner of the sign was changed under the New Testament or Administration of Grace but not the Subjects for then it had been necessary that Christ should have forbidden Infants Baptism or John Baptist his Messenger for Christ knew it was once commanded as the New Covenant sign but he never repealed the Subject nor his Messenger that came before him or the Ministers that followed after him Ergo what is not repealed by Divine Institution abides stedfast as a Nail fastened by the Masters of the Assembly given by one Shepherd Christ Jesus Therefore till the Catabaptists prove by Scripture that Christ or his Predecessor John Bapt. or his Successors the Apostles forbid the Subjects in Gen. 17. licensed till then you do all of you shamefully beg the Question and you shall be with your Antichristian Spirit famished for me before you shall have a Morsel from me to feed your Heresie wherefore leave that unlawful Trade of Begging and work for your livings that is prove out of the New Testament by Gods Word that Infants are commanded not to be Baptized or that Circumcision was not a Sign and Seal of the Righteousness of Faith Or that Baptism did not come in the room of Circumcision do one of these or be silent before the Lord for ever For because you have rent the Seal of his Covenant God will rend you and your Sect into a thousand pieces This will be the end of you to perish in your own Dung Phil. 3. Except the Elect among you and true Converts they only shall be preserved and in due time come out of your Babylon as well as Rome's or England's Babylon The Eleventh Article builds up your Idol Baptism and sets it on your sandy Foundation for there is not one word of Teach before Baptise but contrary after Baptism to Teach Mat. 28. latter end For the first word rendered to Teach is in the Greek Matheteusate that