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A letter found in Utopia and from thence recommended by a very good hand to the perusal of the publisher wherein (among other things) a candid testimony to Mr. Sterryes learned and accurate Discourse of the freedom of the will lately printed : as also some reflections upon contending and disputing (as of late) about matters of religion : with a postscript to the reader, published to undeceive and quiet the minds of the people / by one that pities th'inscription upon th'Athenian altar.
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One that pities th'inscription upon th'Athenian altar.
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Psa 62. 11 PRINCE OF PEACE and blessed Son of God to whom of right it u belongs and peculiarly appertains Hence it is that there have been so many Aceldemaes so many fields of Blood in all Times and Ages in this and other Nations Provinces and Countries That the w Joh. 6. 69 Christ of God the x Psal 45. 7. Anointed of the Father that Just and Holy One hath not only been y Act. 3. 14. denied but cruelly z Act. 2. 23. slain and murthered by wicked lawless hands in the street of that a Revel 11. 8. great City which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where also OVR LORD IS CRVCIFIED And the b 2 Thes 2. 3 4. Man of Sin advanced in the interim and put into his Throne or Seat who can never manage or carry on his work without abundance of blood and cruelty and yet not prevail in the issue neither but prevailed against for ever by c Revel 12. 7 8. Michael and his Angels when they come forth conquering and to conquer in the name and strength of that Great and Mighty God who is not only Potent but d Revel 19. 6. Omnipotent not only Mighty but e 15. 3. Almighty Upon which undoubted certainty How good is that of the Psalmist Yea how exceeding worthy even of all mens * 1 Tim. 1. 15. acceptation Let not the Rulers or Potentates or Great Ones of the Earth to whom he there in a special manner directs his speech think it any disparagement to them or any whit below them to stoop and bow hefore it lest inevitable ruine attend them for their neglecting or refusing so to do Be wise now therefore f Psal 2. 10. 11. 12. O ye Kings he says be instructed ye Judges of the Earth Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the g Joh. 14. 6. Way the Truth and the Life When his wrath is kindled but a little what then A short elliptick phrase implying Contraria juxta se posita magis elutescunt That as contraries do best illustrate and set forth one another so none so accursed or unspeakably miserable as they who fall into a way of contradiction or course of absolute contrariety to Blessed are all they that put their trust in him If no Creatures under Heaven be in so low and mean and base and deformed and dangerous and ruinous a condition as they who draw back unto perdition according to the h Heb. 10. 39. rate of the i 2 Thes 2. 3. Son of Perdition by an evil heart of unbelief then it must needs follow by the Rule we are upon That none so exceedingly blessed and happy as they who are k Is 54. 13. Joh. 6. 45. taught of God and inabled thereby to l Heb. 10. 39. believe unto the saving of the Soul And upon that account be it seriously considered of by your self Sir and accordingly by us all that being the Apostle after he had freely and fully debated all matters of outward Order concludes That m Gal. 5. 6. neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love since there is not any thing under a Form or elsewhere to be met with among the circumcised or the uncircumcised that can profit in the least avail or signifie without n Heb. 11. 6. Mark 9. 23. Eph. 5. 8. 1 Pet. 1. 5. faith towards God and o Rom. 13. 10. 1 Cor. 13. 13. Col. 3. 14. love to one another Were I but worthy or any way fit to be an Adviser to the several Partyships among us I would hereupon in a fair and friendly way suggest thus much unto them that as their crossing and contradicting and disturbing especially their hating and being angry with one another can never do any good for the p Jam. 1. 20. wrath of man works not the righteousness of God so let them duly and timely consider how much in opposing and gainsaying one another on this manner they must needs oppose and gainsay the mind and will of God whose q Rom. 14. 17. Kingdom is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost and that hath nothing at all of that strife and contention in it that now we speak of more especially let them take heed that by their * So called Jam. 3. 14. bitter zeal and animosities they ingage not too far or stand not out too long upon a stubborn disobedience to that great counsel and command of r Rom. 13. 8. Love upon which so much of a Christian course depends lest they all perish and fall thereby into the same condemnation See to this purpose Jam. 3. 1. where the words are Å¿ Jam. 0. 1. Expl. My Brethren be not many Masters that is do not that which love forbids who t 1 Cor. 13. 4. vaunteth not her self Be not too Magisterial in obtruding or imposing your own sentiments in point of Opinion and that some call Religion lest ye receive thereby the greater condemnation as there it follows Before I remove or go quite off from hence let me put you in mind Sir or be your Remembrancer once for all of that most excellent and seasonable Advertisement which our Apostle yea our Great u Heb 3 1. Apostle gives us by the mouth or hand-writing of Paul in one of his Epistles which I take to be so pertinent and pretious in opposition to all the monstrous debaâ—cheries and follies and vanities of this Age that the Dawnings of it among us would be more than Aurora-like when ready to bring forth the Sun or the Sun to bring forth the Spring or the Spring the varieties of all the whole Creation The Place that I mean is Rom. 13. from v 12. and so on where it is thus recorded Rom. 13. 12 13 14. and written for our Admonition The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the Armour of light let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof May the Great x Job 33 23 Interpreter one of a thousand the chief y Gen. 49. 24. Psal 23. 1. Heb. 13. 20 Shepherd and z Is 40. 11. Ezek 34. 23. Joh. 10. 11. Feeder of Israel be intreated and prevailed with to lead us into the life and power into the truth and substance of all this or of this all which will otherwise be but vainly read or talked of among the people But Sir one thing more I must add and it shall be the Coronis or Conclusion of the whole for I may not pass so
A LETTER FOUND IN UTOPIA And from thence recommended by a very good hand to the perusal of the Publisher Wherein among other things a candid Testimony to Mr. Sterryes learned and accurate Discourse of the Freedom of the Will lately Printed As also some reflections upon Contending or Disputing as of late about matters of RELIGION With a POSTSCRIPT to the READER Published to undeceive and quiet the minds of the People By one that pities th' Inscription upon th' Athenian Altar 1. Cor. 1. 20. Where is the Disputer of this World Job 15. 31. Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity for vanity shall be his recompence Isa 44 20. He feedeth on ashes A deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor say Is there not a Lye in my right hand All things Superable below him that is Insuperable and All things Finite below him that is Infinite Bonitas invicti non vincitur infinita misericordia non finitur Fulgent ad Mon. Diffudisti per omnem mundum religiosi nominis membra religionis vim non habentia Salvian ad Eccles Cathol Ecchoing to 2 Tim. 3. 5. Qui Coelum dependenter habet in Revolutionibus suis vari â—â— sibi influentiâ—s impartialiteâ— exhibere tanquam Principi in terris aut Potentatui amplissimâ— Is Terram similiteâ— queat expectare in Laboribus suis fructum ipsius praematurum sibi producere idquâ— tempore tempestivo absque omni solicitudine vel timore sive Hominis aut Bestiaeâ— â— G. Americanus Protomartyr Printed in the Year 1675. The Publishers PREFACE OR APOLOGY THe following Letter might have waited sooner upon the World had the liveliness of the a Exod. 1. 19. Hebrew women been upon it and nothing to hinder the celerity of its Production but it frequently so falls out among men that useful things have but slow beginnings and a Progress proportionable in their going on to maturity Jonah's b Jon. 4. 6. gourd under which he was willing to shade himself as long as he could came up in a night and perished in a night and it may well serve as an Embleme for things of a lower value or such as the darkness of the night produces and that cannot endure the light of the day much Lucifugae might be said about matters of that nature that come forth suddenly and vanish accordingly the ordinary fate of such c Col. 2. 8 20 22. wordly Rudiments as perish in the using and that are seldom long lived But when the Prophet comes to speak of Sions peculiar and supernatural Birth-right he says d Isa 66. 7 8. That before she travailed she brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a Man-child well may this be attended with the succeeding Queries Who hath heard such a thing Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day Shall a Nation be born at once Surely this can never or no where else be but where Time and Eternity are coupled together in marriage e Rev. 22. 13. the beginning and the end the first and the last the highest and the lowest the f Esa 46. 9 10. most antient and honourable with things not yet done or of g 1 Cor. 1. 28. no account in the worlds estimation when h Isa 60. 22. a little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation and i Mic. 5. 7. comp with Job 38. 28. the remnant of Jacob in the midst of many people as a Dew from the Lord that waiteth not for man nor tarrieth for the sons of men and all this most amply aswel as most compendiously in Him who makes the Heavens and the Earth to be but one Globe or God and Man to be but one intire Being or most complete Subsistence in CHRIST OVR 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LORD for ever If such a thing as this be creeping or stealing upon the World like k Rev. 16â— 15. a thief in the night to * Luk. 1. 35. umbrage all the dark shades of the Creature and to l Eph. 1. 10. gather up all that is but seemingly such into the full m Heb. 1. 3. Brightness of the Fathers Glory in Him that Really is so And if a savoury Specimen or Tryal hereof be candidly imparted to us in and by the ensuing Epistle let no man run among the Plot-mongers of the World for some execrable Stratagem or Hell-bred Device whereby to elude the Discovery For the Thing in it self is Spiritual and Heavenly and of a Divine Nature falling sweetly upon us like the n Deut. 32. 2. Dew upon the grass or small rain upon the tender herbs and such must they be that can give it any more than a civil Entertainment and yet surely such there are that can open their doors to such o Jâ—b 31. 32. Strangers as these and be mighty glad of their Company Heb. 13. 2. neither can there be in it matter of Disparagement or Discouragement or Prejudice or Disadvantage in the least to any but such as either p 1 Cor. 2. 14. do not or cannot or r Exod. 5. 2. Jer. 44. 16. 1 Joh 5. 20. will not understand it since of this kind of Å¿ Isa 50. 4. John 6. 45. 1 Thes 4 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Learning above all the rest it is most truly and properly said that non habet inimicum praeter ignorantem i. e. it hath no enemy besides the ignorant man and one whose ignorance is the mother of his Devotion The Letter Worthy Sir I Received your Love in the Lines and * A Discourse of the Freedom of the Will by Mr. P. S Book you sent me for so I do with much thankfulness acknowledge and interpret your accosting me with so free and large and noble a Present the posthumous Work of a Person that was indeed of an a Prov. 17. 27. excellent Spirit whereby b Heb. 11. He being dead yet speaketh as a Man of rich and rare Endowment a Star of the first Magnitude among those that were able to see him and understand his worth I have not yet had time to read the Book throughout but from what I have sedulously and with great delight perused I should not stick to assert if that might signifie any thing that the same Divine Glory appears in the Work that was formerly wont to c Eccles 8. shine upon the face of the Workman in all the true Lineaments of the most perfect and well-accomplished Beauty It needs not to be denied but that the same Vail that was upon his Speakings may still abide upon his Writings like that upon the d face of Moses which the Apostle 2 Cor. 3. 3 14. tells us is to this day remaining untaken away and that it cannot be removed till Christ himself removes it which vail he says is done away in Christ. The Prophet Isaiah likewise speaks of e a vail