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A43715	Historia quinq-articularis exarticulata, or, Animadversions on Doctor Heylin's quintquarticular history by Henry Hickman.	Hickman, Henry, d. 1692.	1674 (1674)	Wing H1910; ESTC R23973	197,145	271

be accounted the most obedient Sons of the Church is a question in which I would most gladly be satisfied Until such satisfaction be gained it will be at least a pardonable error to suppose that that is not the Doctrine of the Church of England which for above threescore Years after her first establishment was not averred in any one Licenced Book but confuted in many FINIS Postscript I Am given to understand that I seem to some not sufficiently to have taken notice of what the Doctor brings to invalidate the Argument drawn from Barret's Recantation I drew the Argument from the Heads of Houses in Cambridge enjoyning Mr. Barret to Recant what he had delivered against absolute reprobation and against perseverance and some other Calvinian Doctrines not only as false but also as contrary to the Articles of Religion here in England established The Doctor doth not cannot deny but that such Recantation was enjoyned him Now if the Heads of Houses in the University who are authorized to judge of the Sermons preached among them and to censure what they find in such Sermons disagreeable to the Doctrine of the Church did judge Barret's Doctrine denying absolute reprobation and perseverance of Believers to be contrary to the Doctrine of the Church and manifestly contrary to it and passed this judgment upon mature deliberation I leave it to any ones consideration whether this be not a very vehement presumption that Calvin's Doctrine concerning absolute election and perseverance is agreeable to the Articles of our Church and Barret's Doctrine contrary to them If this be granted what need I contend about by-passages relating to the Recantation being in a place where I can have no recourse to the Records of Cambridge Yet to make it appear that I did write nothing in this business rashly and that the Doctor hath me at no such advantage as he pretends I will now review all he saith not already taken notice of It signifies little that he saith 1. That this process was made or procured by the Calvinian Heads inflamed by Mr. Perkins pag. 70 Part 3. Seeing there were then no Heads but what were Calvinistical and no man can think that they should all be guided and acted by Mr. Perkins a poor Preacher in the Town 2. It is to be doubted saith he pag. 71 whether any such Recantation consisting of so many Articles and every Article having its abjuration or recantation subjoyned unto it was ever enjoyned to be made But what reason have we to doubt of this when as the Form of Recantation is exemplified in Mr. Fuller from whom I had it and also in Mr. Prynne's Antiarminianism and was fairly printed in Qu. Elizabeth's daies some printed Copies of it being still extant and seeing Mr. Prynne declares that the Form of Recantation by him inserted into his Book was a Transcript taken out of an Original Copy under Mr. Barret's own hand Why he doubts because though Mr. Prynne say that the Recantation in the same manner and form as we there find it was exemplified and sent unto him under the Register's hand yet he also confesseth that no such matter could be found when the Heads of houses were required by an Order from the House of Commons to make certificate unto them of all such Recantations as were recorded in their University Register and of this Recantation in particular But first Mr. Prynne only tells us that he had been certified and informed that this Order for Recantation could not be found among the University Records 2. Mr. Prynne doth not pretend to have had in his hands the Form of Recantation exemplified under the Register's hand but only the Order for Recantation The Form of Recantation he tells us he had another way and perhaps the Form of Recantation was never put into the University Archives or Register But if the Order for the Recantation should not be found there neither I should much wonder and yet less wonder because Thomas Smith who was Register at this time is branded for one that was very careless in Registring matters that concerned the University as may be found in Mr. Fuller's Hist. of Camb. p. 49. But that which the Historian most contends for is that the Recantation was never made by Barret Pag. 72. It is to be denied as a thing most false that he never published the Recantation whatsoever it was It is to be thought that the Printer hath mistaken his Copy and put never instead of ever for if it be most false that he never published his Recantation then it is to be affirmed as a thing most true that he sometime published it which is that which we believe Let us s●an the reasons of the Doctor to prove that he never read the Recantation ibid. For 1. It is acknowledged in Mr. Prynnes own Transcript of the Acts that though Barret did confess the Propositions wherewith he was charged to be contained in his Sermon yet he would never grant them to be contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England and therefore was not likely to retract the same The Argument framed stands thus He that would never acknowledge his Propositions to be contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England was not likely to retract the same Mr. Barret would not acknowledge his Propositions to be contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of England therefore he was not likely to retract the same The Major certainly is most absurdly false but the Minor cannot be proved For Mr. Prynne's Copy doth not say that he would never acknowledge but only that at first reading of his Charge he denyed his Propositions to be contrary to the Religion of the Church of England Many a man at first denies what he afterwards granteth Secondly saith the Doctor ibid. It is plain from Mr. Barret's Letters the one to Dr. Goad Master of Kings the other to Mr. Chadderton Master of Emanuel that neither slattery nor t●●●at●ings nor the fear of losing his subsistence in the University should ever work him to the publishing of the Recantation required of him The Doctor had in his Certamen Epistolare before told us of two Letters of Barret's written one to Dr. Goad the other to Mr. Chadderton and now he tells us that from them it is manifest that neither flattery c. Yet he gives us only a Copy of the Letter to Dr. Goad and never tells us whence he had that nor doth the Letter to Dr. Goad in the least intimate that any flattery had been used to draw him to make the Recantation but rather it manifests that he used flattery to perswade Dr. Goad to be his Friend and obtain for him that he might stay in the University on solemn promise to keep his Opinion to himself A very sneaking Letter it is and shews that he was a poor low spirited man valuing his Place more than his Conscience and yet his Credit more than his Place Nor doth he if we may judge of him by the

I would have observed concerning Arminius 1. That in the set Conference betwixt him and Gomarus not long before his death he declared that he had never opposed the Doctrine of the certain Perseverance of Saints and that he would not then oppose it because such testimonies might be brought for it out of the Scriptures as he was not able to answer he would therefore only propound such places as made him somewhat to scruple and doubt about that matter 2. He would not then consent to have Adolphus Venator dismissed and to take another Pastor in his place though Venator was at that time as well for the impurity of his life as his Doctrine under the just censure of the Church If the Remonstrants count it any way for their honour to fight under such a Captain or Leader let them enjoy their phantasie Had not our first Reformers been endued with more courage and resolution Religion had never made that progress among us that now it hath I 'le never think any Opinion worth embracing whose Author either doubts of it or durst not suffer for it However glad I should be if they who follow or rather out-run Arminius in the five Points would be of the same mind with him as to the Pope of Rome of whom he thus writes in an Epistle to Sebastian Egbert bearing date Septemb. 24. 1608 Aperte profiteor me Pontificem Romanum pro membro corporis Christi non habere sed pro hoste pro perduelle pro sacrilego pro blasphemo pro tyranno violentissimo injustissimae in Ecclesiam dominationis usurpatore pro homine peccati pro filio perditionis pro exlege illo celeberrimo Well had it been for the Belgick Churches if Arminianism and Arminius had both died together but they did not Breaches as the Doctor truly notes pag. 49 grew wider and wider The Remonstrants having no hopes their cause should succeed if debated in a full and lawful Synod endeavour to shelter themselves under the wing of the Civil Magistrates whose favour that they might be the more sure to gain they ceased not upon all occasions to imbitter the Civil Powers against all the Pastors that were of a perswasion contrary to theirs speaking and Printing of them as if they were enemies to Magistracy and introduced an Ecclesiastical Power collateral and equal to the Civil an Artifice that Hereticks have alway used when they have been put to their shifts Not content thus to reproach their Brethren they further propound if there must needs be a Synod it might consist not of Persons delegated by the Churches but of certain nominated by the Magistrate Thinking that by this device they had put themselves out of all fear of Synodical censure they make an open Schism and present a Remonstrance to the States of Holland and West-Friesland in which they neither nakedly and plainly declared their own Opinions nor candidly represented the Tenents of their Adversaries Much they endeavoured that no Copy of this Remonstrance might be given out but at length a Copy was got and a Contraremonstrance made The Doctor tells us that Dr. H. Pag. 49 50. The Remonstrants gained exceedingly upon their Adversaries for the whole Controversie being reduced to these five Points the Method and Order of Predestination the Efficacy of Christ's Death the Operations of Grace both before and after Conversion and Perseverance in the same the Parties were admitted to a publick Conference at the Hague Anno 1611 in which the Remonstrants were conceived to have much the better of the day Answ. But if a man may be so bold Who were they that conceived the Remonstrants had much the better of the day The Remonstrants themselves Proprio laus sordet in ore The Contra-remonstrants They never so conceived but rather reported themselves Victors When were the Differences reduced to five Heads Not before the Hague Conference I am sure for the Deputies of the Churches charged the Followers of Arminius with Heterodoxies in more Points than the five now mentioned as appears by all the complaints exhibited against them And there fell out something which might justly give the World occasion to think that the Remonstrants were leavened with Socinianism as well as with Pelagianism For care being taken to chose one who might succeed Arminius in his Professors place the Remonstrants thought none so meet as Vorstius a man strongly suspected to be a great favourer of Socinus and who had then newly Printed a Book in the which he ascribed unto God Quantity Composition Mutability Passive Power and such other imperfections as are altogether repugnant to his perfect Essence yet at the Conference the Remonstrants professed unanimously that they had found nothing in the Writings of Vorstius contrary either to Truth or Piety At the Conference also the Contra-remonstrants urged that there were more things controverted betwixt them and the Remonstrants than were contained in the five Articles I shall make a few Annotations on the five Articles of the Remonstrants 1. That Almighty God ordained to save all those in Christ for Christ through Christ who being faln and under the command of sin by the assistance of the Holy Ghost do pers●vere in Faith and Obedience to the very end This Article is such as no Christian would deny yet the Remonstrants do lay down such Assertions as do by most necessary consequence quite overthrow this Decree For Poppius a man of note and renown among them seems much to doubt Whether a late though never so serious Repentance do avail a man to Salvation Nay he expresly affirms in praxi Consolationis aegrotantium that he is destitute of any Promise so universal as that by it any one who dies with but a death-bed serious Repentance can be assured that he shall go to Heaven and that it is uncertain whether such late serious Penitents go with the Thief into Paradise or with those that die in their Sins to Hell Nor is this the singular opinion of Poppius I can shew the same in Episcopius not to mention some of our own here in England The Sublapsarians make the object of Reprobation man fallen into Sin the Remonstrants say that man recovered out of Sin by true Repentance may be the object of Reprobation and Damnation How easily might I if I took pleasure in recriminations tell them of ascribing Tyranny Hypocrisie Respect of Persons unto God But I only desire my Reader to consider whether the Remonstrant do not Preach another Gospel than what hath been hitherto taught in the Churches of Christ Nothing was thought more undoubted than that he who believes shall be saved The Remonstrant saith this is not necessarily true and that thousands and millions of true Believers may go to Hell How will such as these deal with an Unbeliever that is but twenty years old Will they perswade him to believe in Christ He will ask them what encouragement they can give him to believe Will they reply Salvation is promised to Believers in Christ He