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A90680	Autokatakrisis, or, Self-condemnation, exemplified in Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Barlee, and Mr. Hickman. With occasional reflexions on Mr Calvin, Mr Beza, Mr Zuinglius, Mr Piscator, Mr Rivet, and Mr Rollock: but more especially on Doctor Twisse, and Master Hobbs; against whom, God's purity and his præscience ... with the sincere intention and the general extent of the death of Christ, are finally cleared and made good; and the adversaries absurdities ... are proved against them undeniably, out of their own hand-writings. With an additional advertisement of Mr Baxter's late book entituled The Groatian religion discovered, &c. By Thomas Pierce rector of Brington in Northampon-shire.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2164; Thomason E950_2; ESTC R210640	233,287	279

Doctrines are indiscriminately the Protestants and that quà tales Nor can I but think it well worth my labour if I have made it more known then it was before that whatever dishonours have been done unto the Protestant Name by those of the Kirk or the Consistory or their adherents here in England yet the dutiful Sons of the Church of England have ever been free from any part of that guilt Besides the chief exclaimers against the Presbyterians for Protestant Divines is an equivocal expression and comprehends those Protestans whom I assert as well as those whom I oppose were the other sort of Presbyterians I mean the Arminians Remonstrants in the Low Countreys who still remained Presbyterian in point of Discipline for ought I can learn although they left their own party for the enormities of their Doctrine Farther yet My clamours were no greater against the Dogmatical sort of Calvinists then were their own clamours against each other nor indeed so great as I conceive I have evinced upon * See The Div. Purity defended ch 4. sect 6. p. 31 c. another occasion And how Doctor Twisse in particular hath made his clamours against his Brethren I have † See the Div. Philan. Def. c 1. p. 12. ch 3. p. 123 124 125. acquainted Mr. Barlee when he wanted that knowledge 3. His party clamour against themselves and affront God with an Epitrope 3. What Mr. W. plead for them doth make their case so much the worse for if they say in some places that God is much more then the Author of sin as the word Author may be expounded and again in other places that he is precisely the Author of it both which I have shewed again and again and yet do say in a third sort of places that God is not the Author of sin they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 self-condemners and contradictors and have justified me in all my sayings as well when I accuse them of breathing hot and cold too as when I accuse them of breathing all Fire Besides to say that God decreed sin by an Absolute Decree that he wills and works it that he is the cause of it that he hath a hand and efficiency in it tempts excites and compells men to it but yet he is a good God and therefore not the Author of it what is this but to affront him with a dishonourable Epitrope If my memory doth not deceive me it was in a speech against Verres where Cicero used such kind of Rhetorick * Sit fur sit sacrilegus sit flagitiorum omnium vitiorumque Princeps at est bonas Imperator felix Cic. in Verr. Be it so that he is a Thief a sacrilegious person the Patron in chief of all villanies and vices yet however he is a good and a happy General c. I clearly find that Mr. W. and many others of that way do not hitherto understand the full importance of the word Author its derivation or use in classick Authors I shall therefore make that a peculiar business when I shall come to demonstrate that I did use them with tenderness in saying no more of their Doctrines then plainly this That they did make the God of purity to be the Author of sin What can I think of that man who shall tell me that I lye and yet affirm when he hath done I am a very true speaker I cannot but think him a very bitter Rhetorician and that he mocks me by an Epitrope Doctor Twisse apologizeth as I lately said for the men of his way by saying that their speeches are but Rhetorical when God is said by any of them to * See the D●v Philan. ch 1. p. 26. compel men to sin And when that Doctor doth plainly say that there is on Gods part a † Twiss Vin. Gr. l. 2. p. 1. sect 2. Cr. 3. Digr 2. c. 15. p. 156. prostitution to sin required which prostitution cannot be perfected without temptations leading up to the act of sinning 't is likely he would alledge that he did yet deny God to be the Author of sin But then I should think it a shrewd Epitrope than which I cannot conceive a greater dishonour to the Almighty 4. Mr. W's clamours against Protestant Divines 4 Mr. W. must call to mind what clamours he and his party have commonly made against Protestant Divines by calling them Enemies to the Grace of God and Introducers of Atheism without a tolerable colour of reason for it nay quite against it since they are enemies to Grace who sacrilegiously inclose it and seek to rob it of its extent and they are rather the Introducers of Atheism who represent God to be such as cannot modestly be owned for when men have been taught such Notions of God which as soon as they believe they cannot conceive him to be good they think it modesty to infer that there is * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no God at all and that the notions which they were taught were but the characters of a Chimaera 5. And jumps in so doing with the Jesuited Papists 5. What Mr. W. saith in his parenthesis that some of his Authors were instruments in advancing the work of Reformation p. 24. it most concern'd him to have conceal'd for in that he joynes hands with the most Jesuited Papists who did purposely infect some noted Protestants with their invention of irrespective Decrees that they might have some little colour for which to defame our Reformation betraying some Protestants into the mire upon a design to accuse them of being dirty But we know as well as Aristotle from whom we learnt it that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be faulty and yet the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without all blame Again we insist upon Melanchthon and the other brave persons of the Augustan Synod upon the Orthodox Bishop Tunstal who helpt to begin our Reformation upon the Confessors and Martyrs such as Cranmer Cooper Latimer and the like who carried it on here in England As we think not the worse of Christianity for what is spoken by Zosimus of Constantine the Great so neither do we conceive our Reformation to be concerned in the personal Aberrations of Mr. Calvin or Zuinglius any more then in the vices of King Henry the eighth If there were any sound arguing from some particular Reformers unto the general work of the Reformation or from the same mans errors in one kind to his being erroneous in all others then which sort of arguing there is nothing more silly Geneva and Helvetia must looke to that But Luther in Saxony preceded both in that work who though he fell into the errors of other men at the first yet he exchanged them for the truth in his riper years as well as Melanchthon and other Worthies Sect. 4. 1. His foulest Imputation cast upon the Scriptures Mr. W. saith further that what expressions they used in this subject were but the same in