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A31468	A Censure of three scandalous pamphlets I. A defense of Dr. Crisp against the charge of Mr. Edwards of Cambridg, by Esquire Edwards in Wales, II. Reflections on the authors of the late Congregational declaration against antinomianism, and trepidantium malleus, by the A. Club, III. A sermon preached Jan. 30. last, by Canon Gilbert in Plimouth with a tedious preface of Mr. J.Y.		1699 (1699)	Wing C1668; ESTC R35951	35,315	57

A CENSURE OF THREE Scandalous Pamphlets I. A Defence of Dr. Crisp against the Charge of Mr. Edwards of Cambridg by Esquire Edwards in Wales II. Reflections on the Authors of the late Congregational Declaration against Antinomianism and Trepidantium Malleus by the A. Club. III. A Sermon preached Jan. 30. last by Canon Gilbert in Plimouth with a tedious Preface of Mr. J. Y. Haud timeo si jam nequeam defendere crimen Cum tanto commune viro Vlys Gen. 19.7 I pray Brethren do not so wickedly LONDON Printed and are to be sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick-lane 1699. A Friendly Epistle to Esquire Edwards concerning his Defence of Dr. Crisp against the just Charge of Mr. Edwards of Cambridg that Orthodox moderate Conformist GREAT SIR THAT you are a Gentleman a studious one and of unusual Accomplishments natural and acquired cannot and therefore shall not be denied but chearfully granted by me I meddle not with your late large Book with its superfluous Branches Baxterianism Barefac'd for which fault Dr. Chamry was against its publication as we are credibly informed I and other zealous Anti-Baxterians are both troubled and ashamed when we see 1. That any Advocate for Dr. Crisp should thus appear against Baxterianism For which sound Calvinists will give you no thanks knowing you often oppose not Error with Truth You confirm these Men in their Notions when they read your more wild ones 2. That you in that Book drop such words as these They the Baxterians like the Writers against Dr. Crisp mistake Mens sense and misrepresent their words Thus you became rather their Compurgator than Censurer 3. That you should charge Mr. Baxter as a Writer against sound Conformists and Nonconformists about Justification c. and yet vindicate Dr. Crisp much more corrupt than he and more opposite to the Authors you cite This fills us all with amazement that you so strangely forget your self 4. That you have impos'd on us in citing some Authors against Mr. Baxter particularly Bishop Vsher's Body of Divinity p. 58. when it is well known Bishop Vsher told Dr. Bernard on his Death-bed He was not the Author of that Book but that much of it was taken out of Mr. Crook 's Catechism That there were excellent things in it and if any one would be at the pains to cut off some Excrescencies and make some good Additions he might take the credit of the whole See Bishop Vsher's Life By the way was it like a Disputant to write against Mr. Baxter's Doctrin of Vniversal Redemption to tell us plainly That you never saw that Book of his bearing that Title tho you heard it was printed since his death Yes by Mr. Read Again you bring in Mr. Baxter's Objections Christ did not for us do the Duty of a Husband or Wife or Father and cite Mr. Traughton to less purpose when you might do it to better P. 116. Christ says that blind seeing Man that had the Eyes of Angels tho not of Cats and Dogs was habitually dispos'd to do all the Work and perform every Duty for us in that Relation in which it pleas'd the Father to put him and this was virtual Obedience c. Luther Rediv. Part. 2. Was not also your tedious endless Citation of Mr. Herbert Palmer's Memorials of Godliness inexcusable Almost all the Book You say he was an old Presbyterian Puritan and an abhorrer of Baxterianism which say you is a Paradox among some tho not all of them Why a Paradox I know not above four Baxterians among the Ministers in a County where once Providence cast my Lot 5. That you seem to treat Mr. Baxter with less rudeness than Mr. Edwards What is an unexceptionable Calvinist worse with you than a Neonomian And which is worse you damn the Baxterians and little less Calvinists as if lost by a Covenant of Works Yet we are glad seeing you would meddle in these matters 1. To see so many good Strokes in that Book and in a better Style than in some other Books Many things you mention are too bad too true You say right of Barkly the Learned Quaker He linkt the Papists and Baxterians together and himself with both about Justification P. 22. Let others answer for themselves and Master this is not my Work 2. That you are so good an Example to our Gentry who spend their time in Pleasure Hunting Whoring Drunkenness When you are so sober so serious so contemplative I take you to be a pious but melancholy Man 3. That you are so zealous against Quakerism in your Comparison between Quakerism and Baxterianism I hope now the fit or temptation to turn Quaker so much talk't of is over I leave that Book and apply my self to you about your Defence of Dr. Crisp against Mr. Edwards of Cambridg bound up with it You Sir call this famous Divine and so all of us that own the sound Doctrine he pleads for a Self-Justitiary and tell us That the Truth and that in Fundamentals hath been from Dr. Crisp 's Works maint●…n'd and defended fully That Mr. Edwards 's Doctrin Justification by Faith justifies the Papists Charge against us of Schism from the Church of Rome and Council of Trent and that you will maintain that any Jesuit might unequivocally and safely as well as gladly subscribe What Man is Justification by Faith Popery What shall I do To cite is to confute and therefore I will save the Reader 's Time and Money not to answer such little very little trifles Your Discourse of Fountain Vnion in Election virtual by Redemption manifestative in effectal Calling is unlearnedly and too much Crispianly exprest tho it is true you tell us before of being made actual Members of the Head in time I should think you being a sober Gentleman had written this Book too soon after a fit of Sickness or the Vertigo or the Calenture or had you been a profane Gentleman after a Night's Debauch P. 3. You say Our Author Mr. Edwards and his Jesuitical Fraternity jumble Justification and Sanctification together promiscuously That the Doctor Dr. C. separates them not but as to their Ends and Designs No! why were they sanctified too from Eternity from the Womb in the height of all Wickedness Manasseh when he used familiar Spirits Saul when he breathed out Slaughter against the Church What is imputed Sanctification good Doctrine already This is beyond Crisp Why such a trite Proverb so often repeated Ab Equis ad Asinos What is it from the Baxterians to the Crispians I pray our late Preachers of imputed Sanctification to consider as Christ's Righteousness is so imputed to us for Justification that no subjective Righteousness of ours can justify So if Christ's Righteousness be imputed to us for Sanctification no subjective Righteousness of ours could sanctify There would be no room for inherent Righteousness Sanctification or Holiness were the Elect in the height of all their Wickedness in a state of Unregeneracy sanctified as well as justified was there

before they go on 2. Let me know one way or other my Accusers and for what a Posse Comitatus is rais'd against me by Men baptized into Crisp Is it because I cry of his Book as the Prophet There is Death in the Pot Call it not Sirs a savoury Book What Savour but that of Death can it send Or is it that I have cautioned you against a Jack as dangerous and more ignorant Let these Men please themselves they do not much disturb me and I doubt not some will think I am now with Domitian meanly imployed Paul no doubt was a dull Legal Preacher to him for whose sake Mattocks are brought to erase the Foundation of the Ministerial Function He is for a while honour'd by them as a King but is he not what is said of the King of Spain Rex Asinorum I doubt not but in a little time these little Animals will rise up in Rebellion against their little Man and he shall be the Rogue Drunkard These are Men of crazy Intellectuals tho said to be some of Christ's best sound Members One reply'd They have been well fluxt to be sound Are they more like Epicurus his Swine or Christ's Sheep O sad Case that when some Ministers were followed they could not take a Cup without trouble Now is a time of Liberty Have not some made their Antinomianism a Cloak for Deism or Atheism To say There is nothing in Religion worth suffering for cost One dear in the City who after in terror of Mind did stare with drops of Sweat at his Fingers-ends and so rav'd till he cut his Throat and died Simon Thorvy as Baker in his Chronicle and others tells us boasted that by his Wit he should make void any Law of Christ God so afflicted him with a fit of Sickness that his Animal Spirits were so wasted that after his Recovery he was forced to learn to read Letters again like a Child Some say there is no need of much Wit to be profane but this is not always true we see Give one another good Counsel yet be sober more ways than one study that famous Book of Mr. Perkins Dedicated to some of you viz. To all ignorant Persons in the Kingdom of England You see what it is by the poor Draper for Men not to move within their own Sphere or for you to interfere with other Mens Work You could not meddle with the substrate matter or Doctrine of the Book you revile no more than your Lord and Master This Christ-Exalter is like Pilate a Christ-Crucifier who said What I have Written I have Written and so what he hath said he hath said without giving any reason to any that fairly and privately desire it Is this your Gamaliel at whose Feet you sit and hear Impudence and Folly pass for Sense and Demonstration If ever I am printed as a Lunatick by these Men more as twice already I intend to print the ingenious Lampoon mention'd in my Apology about the Draper's Birth and Life who now refuse to she● it to any Man And for these Libellers let them remember the old Romans hanged Men that could not give a satisfactory Account for not payment of Debts and a piece of their Bodies were given to their Creditors let not Men talk of suffering for their Consciences who suffer for their God-pieces None of these trouble themselves with the Learning of Antichrist's Doctors as Mr. Vnworthy Branch phraseth it The old Antinomians as Thomas Taylor in that valuable Book Regula vitae describes them pretended to act as if the Golden Age say I were return'd again Sponte sua sine lege fidem rectumque colebat but soon were Ranters as if Subjectum Pelion Ossae scandalous Men on a sudden come to have Peace not of God's sending no doubt their building on their sandy Foundation will fall to the Ground in the day of Trial their Lamps without Oil will soon go out For Men who are in the chase of worldly Pleasures to cry not indeed Lord Lord but Christ Christ will have a woful repulse I know you not you workers of Iniquity These Men perpetually declaim against the Baxterians and damn them to boot O horrid Censoriousness and Wickedness and yet at the same time corrupt the Doctrine of Justification much more than they in denying the presence of Faith as well as instrumentality in Justification as Crisp doth in plain words Reader it is worth thy Consideration to remember that Arminius himself owned Calvin's Doctrine of Justification as he tells the World in his just Man's Defence and I knew a great Arminian defending this Doctrine against an accurate Baxterian opposing it That for my part I cannot forbear thinking and saying that Arminian sound here was less Corrupt tho he denied Predestination irresistible Grace in Conversion and Perseverance than the Baxterian sound in all these Points but corrupt in this one of Justification which toucheth the very heart of Religion and true Christianity However we three managed our Controversy not in the London but Christian way and Manner without Bitterness or Uncharitableness But my Work is now with the Crispians and about their making Repentance no Duty but Sin One of the most ingenious favourers of Dr. Crisp told me lately He knew not what to say to the three Pages I censure about David and shaking his Head said I know not what to say for the Doctor there And I hope every Man of sense must grant me this that if Repentance be a necessary indispensable Duty without which no Man can be saved Dr. Crisp is one of the foulest Hereticks that ever appear'd in the World worse much worse say I again and again than Socinus If Repentance or having Sin a burden be legal and abominable and Faith only a perswasion we are Justified Rantism comes next Mr. Williams that Man of a sounder Heart than Head is so well pleas'd with the Congregational Declaration against Antinomianism that he hath lately writen his End to Discord wherein he like a Christian and Gentleman that is to say like Mr. Williams tells them he is sorry he or others suspected them guilty of Antinomianism and that they have now purg'd themselves of any such Charge and tells them had they done this sooner many late Books against them and Controversies had been prevented And therefore now no doctrinal Controversies between Presbyterian and Congregational Brethren remain to justify any further Division This is his Opinion I am sure he owns always and to all Men as he hath done in print that the giving of the first Grace is not Conditional and where that is given there is promis'd Perseverance Now let such Men talk what they will of Conditions they must be sound in sense whether in Phrase or no they are hedged in they cannot help it Mr. Lob and he met together some Months since and as I hear were agreed to write one against another no more Mr. Lob put him on this last Work and no doubt had