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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34675	A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cavvdrey written by himselfe not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cavvdrey about the nature of schisme, by John Owen ...	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Owen, John, 1616-1683. Of schisme.	1658 (1658)	Wing C6427; ESTC R2830	62,631	184

God be called out unto And therefore being prepared in some measure to go through good report and bad report I shall give him assurance that I am very litle concerned in such attempts from what ever intention they do proceed Only I must needs tell him that he consulted not his owne reputation with peaceable godly men what ever else he omitted in the ensuing Comparing of me to the seducers in Jude called wandring Planets for their inconstancy and inconsistency with themselves according to the exposition that was needfull for the present turne But seeing the Scheme at the close must beare the weight of this charge let us briefly see what it amounts unto and whether it be a sufficient basis of the sustruction that is raised upon it Hence it is that my inconsistency with my selfe must be remarked in the title page of his first Treatise from hence must my Authority which what it is I know not be impaired and my selfe be Compared to cursed Apostates and Seducers and great triumph be made and upon my selfe inconsistency The Contradictions pretended are taken out of two bookes the one written in the yeare 1643. The other in 1656. and are as followes He spake of Rome as a Collapsed Corrupted Church-State p. 40. He saies Rome we account no Church at all pag. 156. Crimen in auditum C. Caesar is it meet that any one should be tolerated that is thus wofully inconsistent with himselfe what speak of Rome as a Collapsed Church in Italy and within thirteene or fourteene yeares after to say it is no Church at all well though I may say there is indeed no Contradiction between these Assertions seeing in the latter place I speak of Rome as that Church is stated by themselves when yet I acknowledge there may be corrupted Churches both in Rome and Italy in the same Treatise Yea I do not find that in the place directed unto I have in termes or in just consequence at all granted the Church of Rome to be a Collapsed Church nay the Church of Rome is not once mentioned in the whole page nor as such is spoken of and what shall we think of this proceeding But yet I will not so farre offend against my sense of my owne weaknes ignorance and frailty as to use any defensative against this Charge let it passe at any rate that any sober man freed from pride passion selfefulnesse and prejudice shall be pleased to put upon it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} But the second instance will make amends and take more of the weight of this Charge upon its shoulders Take it then as it lies in its triple Columne Guifts in the Person and consent of people is warrant enough to make a man a preacher in an extraordinary Case only pag. 15. and pag. 40. Denying our ordination to be sufficient he sayes he may have that which indeed Constitutes him a minister viz Guifts and submission by the People p. 198. I am punctually of the same mind still p. 40. Yet had said in his first book p. 46. as to formall teaching is required 1 Guifts 2 Authority from the Church if he do not equivocate I must Confesse I am here at a stand to find out the pretended Contradiction especially laying aside the word only in the first Columne which is his and not mine By a Preacher in the first Place I intend a minister Guifts and Consent or submission of the People I affirme in both places to be sufficient to constitute a man a minister in extraordinary Cases That is when imposition of hands by a Presbytery may not be obtained in due order according to the appointment of Jesus Christ That the Consent and submission of the people which include Election have nothing of Authority in them I never said the superadded Act of the imposition of hands by a Presbytery when it may be regularly obtained is also necessary But that there is any Contradiction in my words although in truth they are not my words but an undue collection from them or in this Authors inference from them or any colour of Equivocation I professe I cannot discerne in this place Mr Cawdrey {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Passe we to the third He made the Union of Christ and believers to be mysticall pag. 21. He makes the Union to be Personall pag. 94. 95. I wish our Reverend Author for his owne sake had omitted this Instance because I am enforced in mine owne necessary defence to let him know that what he assignes to me in his second Columne is notoriously false denied and disproved by me in the very place and Treatise wherein I have handled the Doctrine of the Indwelling of the Spirit and whether he will heare or forbeare I cannot but tell him that this kind of dealing is unworthy his calling and profession His following Deductions and Inferences whereby he endeavours to give countenance to this false and calumnious charge arise from ignorance of the Doctrine that he seeks to blemish and oppose Though the same spirit dwell in Christ and us yet He may have him in fullnesse we in measure Fulnesse and measure relating to his Communication of Graces and Gifts which are arbitrary to him indwelling to his person that the Spirit animates the Catholick Church and is the Author of its spirituall life by a voluntary act of his power as the soule gives life to the body by a necessary act by virtue of its union for life is actus vivificant is in vivificatum per unionem utriusque is the Common Doctrine of Divines But yet the soule being united to the body as pars Essentialis suppositi and the spirit dwelling in the Person as a free inhabitant The union between Christ and the Person is not of the same kind with the union of soule and Body let our Author Consult Zanchy on the second of the Ephesians and it will not repent him of his labour or if he please an Author whom I find him often citing namely Bishop Hall about union with Christ And for my Concernment in this charge I shall subjoyne the words from whence it must be taken Pag. 133. of my book of Perseverance 1. The first signall Issue and effect which is ascribed to this Indwelling of the Spirit is Union not a Personall Union with himselfe which is impossible He doth not assume our natures and so prevent our Personality which would make us one person with him but dwells in our persons keeping his owne and leaving us our Personality infinitely distinct But it is a spirituall Union the great union mentioned so often in the Gospell that is the sole Fountaine of our Blessednesse our Union with the Lord Christ which we have thereby Many thoughts of heart there have been about this Union what it is wherein it doth consist the causes manner and Effects of it The Scripture expresses it to be very Eminent necre durable