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A90683	The divine philanthropie defended against the declamatory attempts of certain late-printed papers intitl'd A correptory correction. In vindication of some notes concerning Gods decrees, especially of reprobation, by Thomas Pierce rector of Brington in Northamptonshire.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing P2178; Thomason E909_9; ESTC R207496	223,613	247

Antiquity that the most learned Anti-arminians have been fain to assert it as well as Arminius or Melanchthon Among us Bishop Davenant and the late Bishop of Armagh This latter a little before his Death having also professed his utter dislike to the whole Doctrine of Geneva in these affairs and the former is plain enough in his parcificatory to Dureus So in France the learned Testard and Amirald and Daille lately in his defence of Amirald Mr. Baxter himself in this point must be an Arminian with Mr. B. and so must Prosper c or St. Hillarie which soever of them writ the Books De vocatione Gentium and so must Dr. Ward and many a noble Divine besides in the confession of Mr. B. who saith they have so many hardsome Orthodox putoffs that he will inquire farther before he passe any damnatory censure upon them thus doth he speak like some Pope out of his porphirie chaire of no lesse men then Bishop Davenant and Dr. Ward and other noble Divines as he himself call's them 15. Arminius held the respectivenesse of God's Decrees yet is it so far from being Arminianism to do the same that it 's confess 't to be the doctrine of all the Fathers of the Church before St. Austin many hundreds of years before Arminius was borne and that as well by the Enemies as by Friends of this Doctrine Beza is faine to say the Fathers are not to be heard And Dr. Twisse professeth to consider none but S. Austin and yet his single Father S. Austin will faile him too who placeth the object of election in Fide praevisÃ¢ in diverse places of his no-babelike writings And so doth Prosper as well as He. And therefore they must fall into the Catalogue of Mr. Barlee's Arminians Nay his beloved Polanus will not escape him any more then Du Moulin could escape Dr. Twisse or any more then Mr. B. can escape himself p. 121. 130. if I or my Reader were at leisure to shew how he is intangled as well in that as in other places by the necessary sequels of his unskilful Talkings To conclude 16. Mr. B. and his Masters have fastned the Name of Arminianisme upon so many very good and very necessary Doctrines that some of the wisest of their own Party have been heard to say that when all comes to all if they intend to preach to the people so as to do them any good they must preach Arminianisme do what they can For if the will of man is not free to avoid the sins which are preached down by the mighty assistance of Gods free grace and to perform the duties which are preached up by the same assistance of the same Grace but so tied and fetter'd and predetermin'd that it cannot possibly be one jot better or one jot worse then now it is all our lawes and precepts consultations and conditions exhortations and admonitions promises and threats praises and dispraises rewards and punishments would not only be useless but ridiculous things And therefore as we tender the good of souls and desire to be useful in what we speak or write we must be so far in danger of being call'd Arminians by such a Correptory Corrector as lies before us as to endeavour by our doctrines of Grace and liberty of liberty by and under Grace that all care and diligence and Circumspection may not be banish't out of the world as nothing else but Names and Notions And Mr. B. doth very ill in saying that Bishop Overal doth play upon Calvin and traduce the Puritans for heterodoxie about Predestination siince the most learned of his own party are grown asham'd of their Doctrines and that Incomparable Bishop doth but speak the very minde of the Church of England Which doth put me in minde of another great and strange Calumnie in Mr. Barlee's Title-page viz. Â§ 4. That the Church of England will exclaim against me to my shame This they say is such a jest as nere was heard of That he should jeere me so often for my over-great Constancy to this my persecuted Mother and publish himself a Presbyterian and yet not allow me to be a dutiful Son 2. If we will hearken to the voice of the Church of England we must hear her speaking to us in the publick monuments of her Doctrine Such are the 39 Articles the Homilies the Liturgie the Catechisme the book of Ordination the book of Canons and Constitutions All which will prove that I if any man living am a dutiful son of the Church of England and that the Correptory Corrector is nothing less Well he may be of the Consistory of Geneva or of the Kirke of Scotland but as a most learned Doctor hath lately told us from the Press he and such as he is are as much of the Church of England as the Irish are English 3. He hath by much the worst luck of any Subsannator I ever knew For as if he had forgotten what he here speaks of me he speaks a great deale worse of his beloved selfe and of all his Sympresbyters to whom he Dedicates his Book For whilst he tells them in his Addresse that they do still adhere to the Dogmatical part of the 39. Articles of the Church of England he proclaims to the world that they adhere to a part only and not to the whole and that there is another part of those 39 Articles from which they have Apostatiz'd the particle Yet is very emphatical and im-ports thus much That whereas heretofore they did impartially subscribe to all the 39 Articles without exception and have since accommodated their principles to the great Turnings of the Times so as to violaâ—e their former faith they are not yet so totally fallen off from the Church but that they still adhere to the dogmatical part of the English Creed as Mr. Thomas Rogers himself doth call it which is to say in effect that though they are Schismatical in some points yet they are not in all though they beleeve the Church of England is a very false speaker in many things yet in many other things they beleeve she speaks truly though they have cast off their obedience to their common mother where her commands are not pleasing at least in these times yet to this very day they are loyal to her in part as farr as 't is safe or useful or secularly convenient Though they are not wholy of the Church of England yet they are halfe way And what a complement is this from Mr. B. to all his Sympresbyters to the Seniors of them especially to tell them they have receded from their subscriptions What greater reproach could he have fasten'd on them And how little have many of them deserved this usage at his hands I will take upon me to be an Advocate for the better sort of those Persons whom he hath thus publickly stigmatiz'd as if they were men of his Paste and Patronizers

of his Project and whom for their learning civility and moderation I do really love and honour I can name many Ministers and I beleeve there are others whom from my knowledge I cannot name who notwithstanding they have frequented one or both of those Lectures which Mr. B. doth mention in general Terms as if he were willing to involve them all together in his Guilt not sparing the Reputation of any one are so ingenuous and well dispos'd as to abhorr the blackness of His Designe and withall so rational as to despise the weakness with which 't is manag'd But 4. Since Mr. B. his memory would not serve him from the later end of one page to the beginning of another I desire the Readers of his Title-page to judge betwixt us against which of the two the Church of England is most likely to exclaim whether against him who makes a publick confession that he adheres to no more then one part of her Articles or against me who do cordially adhere to all But 5. What doth he mean by the Dogmatical Part If the Articles of the Trinity the Incarnation the Resurrection and the like he might have said as well that he adheres in part unto the Articles of the Church of Rome unto the Greek and Lutheran Churches or that he adhereth to the Articles of every Church in the world in all those parts and particulars wherein he doth not differ from them if he means those Articles concerning the matters in Debate his absurdity is greater For universal redemption is asserted in no less then 4 distinct Articles viz. the second the seventh the fifteenth the one and thirtieth So also in the Catechâ—sm the Nicene Creed and in several other parts of the Publick Liturgy as is evidently shewed by the right Reverend Doctor Overall whilst he was publick Professor of Divinity in the Vniversity of Cambridge And to this agree the consessions of the Protestant Churches beyond sea reckon'd up by Mr. Rogers upon the 31. Article if not rightly it is his fault Again the liberty of the will and the cooperation of Grace are asserted in the tenth Article wherein there is not the least sound of irresistible working as it is excellently explÃ in'd by the same Dr. Overall a person for Temper Piety and Moderation as well as for wideness and depth of learning as fit to tell us the very minde of the Church of England as any man that can be named Again the possibility to fall from Grace after the reception of the Holy Ghost and to fall into damning sins or into a state of Damnation is clearly asserted in the sixteenth Article and in the Homilies of our Church concerning the Danger of falling away from God and in the Administration of Baptisme as the same Doctor doth demonstrate Affirming the contrary opinion to have been rejected by all antiquity and too much confuâ—ed by the experience of all times and only brought into the Church by the late dissentions which passed betwixt Zuinglius and Martin Luther Lastly con litional Predestination is sâ—fficiently though implicitly asserted by our Church in her seventeenth Article Where it is clearly to be collected that Gods eternal Decree of electing men to life eternal was made in Inâ—uition of their being in Châ—ist Which is as clearly also to be inferred from the Nature of the Promises which are conditionally expressed in Holy Scripture And the Promises of God are merely the Transcripts of his Decrees revealed to us in time after the pattern and proportion of what he decreed from all eternity Which Mr. B. himself doth very strongly aknowledge by the very great weaknesse of his denials For whilst to this as to other things he hath no more to say then a Bare Noe embellish't with many contumelious words or embolden'd with the suffrages of such as are of his opinions or rather of such whose opinions he is of he declares he is worsted but will not yield But of this I shall speak hereafter and not to dwell overlong upon the threshold mind the Reader of that which he knows already the Exposition of Bishop Over all and the accurate Analysis of Mr. Playfere in his Appello Evangelium Besides that when the Church saith Art 31. that Christ is a perfect Redemption Propitiation and Satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world both originall and actual she doth irrefragably prove that Article being granted that God's Eternall Decrees of man's end were respective and conditionall 6. I will not here reckon up how many other Articles of the 39. exclaime against Mr. B. which I would not say but that it is his own word or how many Articles of our Church M. B. hath often exclaim'd against Nor will I largely insist on the three eminent Articles to which all that entred into sacred Orders and by consequence Mr. B. if he is lawfully ordained were strictly injoyned to subscribe viz. Concerning first the Queens Supremacy Secondly conformity to the Book of Common prayer and the Book of ordaining Bishops Priests and Deacons Thirdly the Book of the 39. Articles of the Church of England not a part only but the whole which three Injunctions were composed by Arch-Bishop Whitgift himself and added to the English Canons by the command of Q. Elizabeth I have already said more then Mr. B. his Calumny required What he is let others now judge by what I am and by what he hath professed himself to be 7. If Arch Bishop Cranmer Bishop Latimer Bishop Hooper and others who suffered Martyrdom in the dayes of Queen Mary were Orthodox sons of the Church of England in their Doctrines of God's Election and Universall Redemption c. of which occasion will be offered to speak anon then it is worse with Mr. B. then I wish it were and better with me then he would have it By what hath hitherto been spoken it will be easie to judge of his Next Invention viz. Â§ 5. That Scripture Antiquity Schoolmen and all Orthodâ—x Neotericks will exclaim against me Here is matter for a whole volume if I would expatiate as I might upon each of these particulars But by how much the longer I am tempted to be I will endeavour to be so much the shorter And first for Scripture I will observe that he useth that as he doth the Neotericks So many Texts as in the letter do seem to make for his opinion that sin is absolutely willed by God Almighty as p. 78. 88. that God did voluntarily decree it as p. 73. that God doth determine it shall be done as p. 79. that God doth tempt men into sin as p. 79. and the like so many Texts in the letter do passe for Orthodox with Mr. Barlee But so many Texts as do evidently make for my opinion that Christ is the Saviour of the World of the whole world of all men of every man and the like so many Texts in the letter do passe

to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God And 't is the joy of my Soul for which I am bound to thank God that my small performance in those Papers hath redounded to the benefit at least of some Â§ 10. He professeth not to put on the Spirit of meeknesse p. 10. much indeed to his commendation but to come against me with the Rod Ibid. Yet he hath made so many Rods for himself that I am even weary to lay them on What I said and meant only of the Accusor of the Brethren Rev. 12. 10. he takes unto himself p. 10. and so is Felo de se as if this were a mark of his being faithful chosen and true Ibid. that he hates his Neighbour not as himself though the Refuser of instruction despiseth his own soul Â§ 11. He is content to have his Cause tried by any ten noted senior Sym-Presbyters who since the times have been upon their Tropicks have been least of all Tropical p. 11. 'T is well he acknowledgeth his Cause so ill as to submit it only to the judgement of his own Dear Brethren to whom he Dedicates his Book But 2. how came he to say they have been least Tropical since the times have been upon their Tropicks Are they the Men that have stood their ground Indeed S. Hierome hath said Bos vetulus fortiter figit pedem But did he not â—ell them in his Addresse that they adhered yet to one part of the 39 Articles implying their Aposâ—acy from all the rest What was that which he call'd an unchristian thing and four things more How many turns and removes have some of them made since they subscribed the three Articles which were contâ—ived by Bishop Wâ—itgift Since they owned the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical agreed upon with the License of Orthodox King Iames in the Synod held at London An. Dom. 1603. and commanded to be observed under the Great Seal of England Since they took their Degrees either in Oxford or Cambridge Since the Day of their Ordinations when they were upon their Knees and the Bishops hand upon their Heads Since they Read Common Prayer like other mortals and preached some Sermons like other men The time would fail me to speak of what I will not here speak of And will he never leave jeering the very men of his way But 3. perhaps he had need to utter his fine Clinch which he therefore mark't with Italick letters and of which he is so amorous as to repeat it verbatim p. 48. lin 7. 8. 9. where he calls them grave Incumbents onely as if he distinguish't betwixt right and possession Had he not done better to have kept his â—est whole then thus to have broken it upon his friends Tropicks and Tropical would sure have kept Â§ 12. He concludes the necessity of railing in that he ought not to be a dumb Dog nor to be toothlesse at his tongues end and pens end and that it is within his commission to be cutting p. 12. lin 45. 6. 8 Thus he squeezeth the Text till blood comes from it Scripture was ever made a Lesbian Rule by which all sorts of men have undertaken to set their Errours right The very Gnosticks and Nicholaitans pretended to it as much as any but hardly ever was it put to viler uses then now by our Correptorie Corrector because Titus a Bishop had the sharpnesse of Rebuke commited to him as part of his Episcopal Censures Tit. 1. 13. Mr. B. a meere Presbyter defends his railing and slandering against a person over whom he cannot pretend a jurisdiction Which abuse of this Text he seems to have borrowed from his first Epist'ler with what successe or Discretion we shall see more hereafter Â§ 13. He is much pleased that our Divines at the Synod of Dort were the visible lawful Representers of our Mother the Church of England there p. 18. I am very glad of this confession because he adds another to it not many lines after That when a motion did but seem to be made somewhat prejudicial to the Hierâ—rchick Flaunt of the English Church they our English Divines in that Synod of Dort did unanimously enter their joynt attestation against it 1. It seemes they were not so much against the Remonstrant as against the Presbyterian party For 2. They were so far at agreement with the former that Bishop Davenant in his Pacificatory to Duraeus is very expressly for universal Redemption and saith that nothing belongs to the Catholick and Fundamental faith in these points of Free-will and Predestination but this one thing that all good is from Gods Grace and all evil from our selves Which as it is the total sum of what I desired to be granted me in the two Grounds of my belief and Book so it is also of what the Bishop there mentions He saith too that the word Calvinist is rather a signe of Faction then a badge of brotherly union and sets down Theses of Gods Decrees which are flatly contrary to many Anti-Romonstrants if not to all So that whatever his opinions might once have been he shewes evident marks of his change as the Primate of Armagh and other great ones have done as well as my very inconsiderable self It s very well known that in the Synod of Dort the English were more moderate then the rest of that way nay sometimes opposite Bishop Hall of late hath publickly shewed his dislike of all that party who ascribe eternal misery to the absolute will of an unrespective power and rebukes them for their distinction of a positive and negative Reprobation Which Mr. B. so much relies on p. 1. he calls it blasphemie as I did to make God the Author of Sin and pleads in effect for my whole second Chapter which Mr. B. hath so much railed at yet he and Bishop Davenant were both at Dort Besides it is certified by a most learned and pious person of that Synod that things were carried at Dort somewhat worse then at Trent it self rather by violence then Reason Their Arguments were all iron their Syllâ—gismes no other then Stocks and Fetters the Pretor made the Major proposition the Lictor was the Minor and the prison was the conclusion 3. Besides if those very few of our men at the Synod of Dort were the visible lawful Representers of our Mother the Church of England how much more were all Those who composed the Catechisme the Communion Book the 39. Articles of our English Church to some of which some Articles of the Synod at Dort have a most evident Repugnance what shall we say of all those who composed our Canons and Constitutions A. D. 1603. which were ratified by the learned and Orthodox King James as Mr. B. calls him when he thinks it is for his turn to which notwithstanding Mr. B. and his Masters do stand in perpetual opposition if so

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