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A96830	Arcana dogmatum anti-remonstrantium. Or the Calvinists cabinet unlock'd. In an apology for Tilenus, against a pretended vindication of the synod of Dort. At the provocation of Master R. Baxter, held forth in the preface to his Grotian religion. Together, with a few soft drops let fall upon the papers of Master Hickman.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3336; Thomason E1854_2; ESTC R204117	284,533	643

being reviled reviled not again * 1 Pet. 2.21 with 23. Nay Michael the Archangel though he had the Devil for his Antagonist in that dispute yet he durst not bring against him a railing accusation Jude epist vers 9. Master Hickman may passe muster for a precious Saint as the present Accounts are made below but I am sure he can gather none of those flowers of Rhetorick from the Discourses of the Holy Angels that converse above He chargeth that Author with impudence in abusing the Triers but I must tell him on his behalf when such Schemes of Rhetorick are used as they may be with wonderfull advantage being not onely instrumentall to illustrate and adorn a Truth but also to make it the more pungent and take impression the abuse imagined to result from them is ever amongst wise men ascribed to him that takes the impudence to make the Application And whereas he saith further that the Synod of Dort which Tilenus writes against is a man made up of his own ugly clouts or to that purpose for I have no list to look upon his Scurrilous language I must tell you he shall find before he hath read these Papers half way thorow that those clouts as ugly as they seem to him are genuine parts of that Home-spun-stuffe which was warpt and woven and mill'd too by that very Synod of the town of Dort Neither hath Tilenus set this web upon the tenter-hocks nor torn any part to make ugly clouts of it but onely used that Liberty which is allowed to all Artists of this kinde fairely to cut out of the whole piece such Proportions as might best serve to cloathe his discourse in that fashion 't is now Represented in This is all I am willing to return to Master Hickman But because I perceive his Pamphlet hath raised a double scruple in you I shall adventure to apply something in order for your satisfaction First you say that his Evidence to prove the Anti-Arminian principles to be according to the Faith of the Church of England is so pregnant that it must needs beget a great prejudice in the minds of men against such as attempt the dissemination of another Doctrine To which I answer 1. Seeing these men have razed the very Foundations of the Church of England upon which it was establisht at the Reformation and made it their design to erect a new Fabrick upon the Platforme of a new Confession a new Catechisme a new Directory a new Government why should such a Seal of Secresie be stampt upon these Controversies alone why may not these be examined by some new Triers in order to a further Approbation before they be admitted to take place of Authority in this Church 2. If these Principles which you call Anti-Arminian were embraced as part of the Faith of the Church of England I might puzle you perhaps by asking you which of them the Supralapsarian or the Sublapsarian Principles But I intend to be brief and clear with you I say therefore though those opinions were Can●ased as Problems of the School yet they were not intertained as Doctrines of the Church much lesse determined to be Articles of the Faith O●e irrefragable Argument to this purpose is as good as ten thousand and it shall be this Doctor Whitaker having obtain'd the Bishops approbation to the Lambeth Articles and not discerning that the Alteration of certain words and Phrases in them had made them capable of a different sense and interpretation to what he intended in their first contrivance big with joy as he was at the apprehension of this conceited victory he addresseth himself to the Chancellour of their University the Lord Burleigh shews him the Theses and acquaints him with all that had been done in favour of his opinions as he thought and the rather because these Theses were drawn up in the absence of some that opposed him in that Convention But contrary to Whitakers expectation Artic. Lambethae exhibit Historia P. 4 5 6 7. that Great man and wise Counseller was extreamly distasted at this transaction and threatned that he would make the Authors repent them of it In pursuance whereof having declared to the Queen how her Majesties Authority and the Lawes of England were hereby violated he added as the very burden of his Complaint That it was no hard matter to discern what they aimed at who stickled in this attempt For saith he this is their Opinion and Doctrine That every humane action be it good or evill it is all restrain'd and bound up by the Law of an immutable Decree That upon the very wills of men also this necessity is imposed ut aliter quam vellent homines velle non possent that men could not will otherwise then they did will Which assertions Madam saith Burleigh if they be true frustrà ego aliique fideles Majestatis tuae Ministri quid in re quaque opus sit facto quid ex usu futurum sit Regni tuo suspensa diu consilia versamus cum de his quae eveniunt necessario stulta sit plane omnis consultatio I and the rest of your Majesties faithfull Ministers do sit in Counsell to no purpose 't is in vain to deliberate and advise about the affairs of your Realm since in those things that come to passe of necessity all Consultation is foolish and ridiculous At this narration of the Lord Burleigh the Queen was much moved and sent for Whitgift and the Councell in her Majesties presence fell sharply upon him At last they came to the Question de Facto meaning the Absolute Decree Dogma u● ipsis videbatur bonis moribus Reique publicae adversum graviter exagitant and did vehemently charge that opinion as opposite to good manners and the Weal Publike The Result of this debate or rather Increpation was this The Arch-bishop begged pardon for his temerity and promised he would write to Cambridge that those Lambeth Articles might be supprest and never come to Publick notice If the Fundamentall point of all these Controversies and that upon which the rest do inseparably depend had had so ill an influence upon good manners in the judgement of this Sage Councell and tended so manifestly as they thought to the frustration of Law Counsell Government certainly such as now sit at the stern are so Prudent they will not be induced to believe that those opinions were ever Adopted into the Articles or Doctrine of This Church though there were alleaged many more instances of single persons that did Pretend to have it so And yet how invalid these Instances are otherwise might easily be demonstrated if I were not onely loath to exceed the limits of an Epistle but also confident that this work will be undertaken by a more accurate hand to the Readers abundant satisfaction As for you my worthy Friend if your scruple about this branch of Master Hickmans Book be not yet removed Let me offer one thing more to your