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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

had his Common-Prayer-Book in the Flames and there hug'd it I will not say I wish Dr. Crisp had had his there too but I could wish his Book had been committed there by his own hand as one when forced so to do said Parve nec invideo sine me liber ibis in ignem I would not say as a stander-by did to him Hei mihi quod Domino non licet ire tuo Had Dr. Crisp been by David he had taught him or the Spirit rather to have given us better Psalms where Sin should not be confest as a Burden Had Alphonses been by God when he made the World it had been better done as he blasphemously said I pray our considering Congregational Brethren to consider what Confusion they have brought things into by giving the People so much Power Mr. Neuton of Taunton told Mr. Ben of Dorset when he complain'd how bitter his Life was through the intolerable Insolencies of his People Brother you would put the Keys into their Hands and they jingle them about your Ears None talk more of the Judgment of Discretion then Jack and Tom that have no Discretion at all What Confessions came Dr. Owen to before he died Lived he or died he at last more like an Independent or Presbyterian These Ships without Ballast are driven before the Winds they bite the Shell but cannot come at the Kernel Who shall compare Ministers to Tinkers have such any work for the Tinker for it is high time to mend their brazen-faces must such into a Pulpit Christ kept his Disciples long at his Feet before he sent them out to preach Workmen such should be that need not be ashamed what Trade could they live by but by this To hear Men of no natural Logick of no Distinctions talk with such Ignorance and Confidence is intolerable I was painted out in the Pulpit as is fam'd as a Drunkard in Coffee-houses that hardly ever drink there Another is call'd an Adulterer A Congregational Friend of mine Mr. C. a Poet whom I had not seen this 25 Years lately coming to visit me he told me he liv'd in Dublin when Mr. Williams liv'd there I ask'd him whether he was suspected to be guilty of any Immoralities He told me no tho his Doctrine he liked not and therefore would not hear him They that tell the Story of the Woman in all its basest Circumstances acknowledg the Fact not done I challenge any one to shew me one Story in History or that they knew of that a Man so vile as they say he is and a Woman so lewd as they and she confess'd she was went so far and there stop'd O Jesus say to these Storms Peace be still When God set up a Tabernacle in the Wilderness he imployed wise Men about it Exod. 31.3 God fill'd them with Wisdom and Knowledg in all manner of Workmanship He gave them Ver. 6. Wisdom to make all God commanded Moses What a Tabernacle had they had if bunglers had had the making it like a Drapers Church Is this a proper Expression in Prayer O God we would not have been without our Corruptions for a World that Free-Grace may be exalted I fear Rantism is come to the birth again Had not his Highness the Protector sent timely the Levellers had overrun all I fear some hope for Winstanley's new Law of Righteousness That he that wants a Horse or a Sheep should go for them to any Field where he can get them See his Book so call'd Thus may they turn Winstanley's Neonomians at last tho not Mr. Baxter's But it may be some will say what have we to do with Dr. Crisp If he set Repentance at nought we justify him not 1. If you have nothing to do with Dr. Crisp I have nothing to do with you I charge you not but the Guilty 2. If calling his Book one of the best Books in the World next to the Bible if flying in the Faces of his Censurers and loading them with all the Ignominy imaginable be not justifying him I pray what is To say at last I never read him will not excuse I and others have and therefore speak These Men here set up for as great zealots for Infant-Baptism and take liberty of Reflecting on me for my Conversation with Antipedobaptists and say they believe They will w●… me at last I assure them the Anabaptists here expect it not And I am not a little disturb'd to see the unfair Management of the late Portsmouth Dispute To clea● my self once more I have reason to believe so wise a Man as Mr. Leigh never there talk'd of the Eunuch's Children tho another blunderer Mr. H. did elsewhere That the Eunuch was in a Journey and his Wife and Children might be a hundred Miles of Did ou● Men talk so weakly and one so strongly as is represented Time will undeceive Men about so vain a Story I am ready to prove to our Brethren the Anabaptists 1. That the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies not to Plunge exclusive of any other way of Washing 2. That there are no certain Circumstances to prove any one Person Plunged by John the Disciples or Apostles but strong ones to make it probable that many were not or could not be plunged 3. As consequent upon all this that their common way of Plunging is so far from being a Duty and necessary that to most Persons and in most Circumstances it becomes a Sin and unwarrantable 4. That if Plunging were a Duty the Anabaptists perform it not for if every part must be baptiz'd because every part is Corrupted and must be Mortified as they say then this Washing must be the Administrator's Work Now their Men and Women go up a great way in the Water not as a part of Baptism for the Word and Element make the Sacrament and the Minister puts in the other part If I saw my Shirt put in by my Maid in a washing Tub and the Sleeves hang out and I put them in do I plunge my Shirt Besides is it true that there is a Washing with Water Then I say the Anabaptists wash not with Water but in it if with there must be an Application of the Water to the Person not the Person to the Water And to say Is sprinkling Washing I know none that do sprinkle if they did it might be justified Is Sirs taking a little bit of Bread a Supper the Lord's Supper A Man may make a hundred such Suppers in an Evening and go to Bed an hungry when all is done And whereas it is said They went down into the Water I think the Holy Ghost anticipates the Anabaptists Objection by telling us they not he and again both Phillp and the Eunuch was the Baptizer plung'd I pray How many times when we were Boys did we go down into the Water when we never put off our Coats or Breeches only wash'd our Feet and came out again and so many Women in some places often do They that say it was

Mr. Baxter answered well Plowing Sowing c. is to profit our selves and asks Whether Christ hath not done all for others as well as for me and whether he wants my help more for another Man tha● for my self This Man toss'd the Doctor like a Dog in a Blanket and here often wrote well Si sic omnia But to return to the other matter of Repentance How shall penitential Tears be wip'd off those Eyes where they never were But if any say I have conversed with many Antinomians and they deny not Repentance 1. All Antinomians be not Crispians no not Toun himself who for ought I know was an upright Man 2. Many that are thought to be so not only by others but themselves to do them right do not believe Crisp was guilty here who had neither time nor sense to read or Understand him 3. Ask right Crispians what they mean by Repentance they will tell you it is Faith They dare not be so impudent as to quarrel with the Word or blot it out of the Bible Observe how rarely any one of them will bring in Sorrow for Sin or Compunction in their definition of Repentance It is a turning from Sin to Christ that is perhaps a believing our Sins are no longer ours but Christ's but if they mean as they speak is it not a sinner turning from Sin then that comes to Christ and so consequently not without a Change Crisp makes Mat. 11.28 Labouring and being heavy laden an Error in them and brings in Christ's saying to this effect You have been legal and so heavy laden cease to be so and come to me So that this labouring and being heavy laden that God by the Prophets often calls Men to and Christ by the Apostles is no gracious Qualification as our Divines expound it but a sinful legal frame of Spirit But I am bold to say to such Antinomians what Christ said to their Elder Brethren the Hypocritical Pharisees O Generation of Vipers bring forth Fruit meet for Repentance or How can you escape the Damnation of Hell Or as Stephen to the obdurate Jews who exalted Christ too as Dr. Crisp did on the Cross to crucify him there Ye stiff necked and uncircumcised i● Heart and Ears how long resist ye the Holy Ghost Vae vobis Hypocritis may be their Motto Repentance from dead Works Paul Heb. 6.1 makes the Foundation and names it before Faith And whereas it is pleaded the Assembly of Divines put Repentance before Faith in their short Cathecism I am sure they did not thus break Scripture Method on any Antimonian design for in their larger and better Catechism they put Repentance before Faith as Scripture always doth Where is it once said Faith and Repentance or Believe and Repent and I say in the order of things God first wounds and then heals shews a Man his Sin and then his Saviour not that true Repentance and Faith are inseparable We are often and foolishly ask'd can there be any true Repentance without Faith No answer you as roundly Can there be any true Faith without Repentance When Stephen call'd with great sharpness on the Council to repent they gnashed upon him with their Teeth Tell false stories of me as you please perhaps I account them some of the greatest Ornaments I carry about with me I challenge any Man that ever saw me Drunk or finds any Lie in my Mouth Conscience accuseth not but justifies here or can testify the idle Story of the Confessions I made to Dr. Bates I am sure he is too good a Man to report any such Story he is so far from being my Confessor that he is not my Friend tho once so for which I have yet a grateful Remembrance through an intemperate Zeal for his bosom Friend Mr. Baxter B. C. the Quaker tells the World That I once acknowledg'd my self to be a proud Man So I do still He that hideth his Sin shall not prosper Did I once say so I wish I had said so a thousand times for I never told a greater truth in my Life But are my Accusers free Who hath a high look Who expects to be bow'd to first in the Street even by their Elders and perhaps betters They or I I may be a proud Man and yet not stink half so much of the Disease as No wonder some Men care not what they say who believe The Sin was forgiven from Eternity Is none of their Sin but Christ's and that it is no Duty but a Sin to be troubled about it as the old Holy Ranters If I Sin let Christ look to it or as I heard one lately say Get into Christ and Sin if you can The very words of the aforenamed old Ranters As in my Apology all now know my very Enemies that I was a true Prophet about the Draper so I believe I shall be found as true about Rantism that already puts forth its hand ready for the Birth God accept of Mr. Gouge and Mr. Trail's true hearty unfeigned Repentance for once countenancing him and comfort the former and prevent the like mischief to the other occasion'd by that infamous Jack A Fire is kindled in his own Congregation already This is he that hath poisoned this poor City with damnable Doctrines and horrid Lies of particular Men vomited out in the Pulpit The grand Incendiary the greatest Plague and Curse that hath happned to it a long time I think the Independents will have their Belly full in time of making Tradesmen Preachers The Presbyterians are more wary Let the Reader think of it have I not a hard task put upon me to prove Repentance I speak not of the name but thing to be no Sin I hear some say Men may Repent that they do Repent How Man That is but adding Sin to Sin according to you for then you must Repent that you repented for your Repentance and so in infinitum The Magnifiers of so unlearned dull and inconsistent a Man as Dr. Crisp was put me in mind of the old Heathen that had their Lares some of them made artificial Monkies as others did Dogs and these they worshipped as their Protectors and the Keepers of the House Now observe their Lares or Monkies were Artificial ones not Inartificial And for the Doctor 's Proofs especially against Qualifications in Coming to Christ they are so feeble never were the like known Which puts me in mind of some Men I have met with who when I have reproved them for the sin of Drunkeness said it was no Sin and they would prove it by plain Scripture Nothing that entreth into the Mouth defileth the Man and when I went to explain that Text said We care not for your Explications the words are plain Their explication was not more vile yet more witty than some of the Doctor 's this is not to argue but Rave like Kellison the Jesuite who says The Protestants have taken away the Church's Bible And sometimes Mr. B. with his wanton Wit What