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A86881	Animadversions and considerations upon a sheet, printed for Francis Smith containing a confession of the faith of several catapædobaptists, whose names are thereunto subscribed. As also the absurdities of the doctrine of arminianism, free-will, and general redemption; and that it is a popish doctrine; and their objections briefly answered. By J. H.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Humphreys, John, b. 1637.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3666A; ESTC R224279	30,889	102

Chap. 17. entitled Of the Voyage by Night and Chap. 18. called the Chapter of the Cave 27 28 29 30 lines To the second that all the misery and death and condemnation of the World brought in by the fall of the first Adam is but temporal corporeal and only as to this life is a Lye against Scripture Reason and the Authority of good and approved Authors This Opinion was held by Jacobus Faber and many other Papists but not by Bellarmine Gen. 2. In the day thou eatest thou shalt die the death is a Hebrew phrase signifying eternal and temporal death moriendo morieris Eph. 2.23 Rom. 8.6 7 8. Rom. 5.6.8 Rom. 6.23 Rom. 7.14.17.20.23 Rom. 5 14. to 21. Ezek. 16.3 to 9 10. Mat. 25.41 Gal. 3.1 the wages of all sin is death in that kind that the gift of God is life But the gift of God is life eternal to all Abraham's Seed ergo the wages of all sin is eternal death by the Rule of compar contrar My Authorities are Calvin Instit lib. 2. cap. 1 2 3. the Assemblies Catechism Quest 19. and Answer to it Dr. Willet against Papists in his eighteenth general Controversie read at large besides Luther Zuinglius Melancthon and more Ancient Augustine Hierom Chrysostom Ambrose Tertul. Justin Martyr The third Article professes General Redemption that the Father gave Christ out of his love to the whole world and a Ransom for all universally wherein 1. The Fathers gift is diminished and 2. The Sons Ransom belied for the Father gave him to be a Propitiation for the sins of the world of the Elect and none else that is to all the Elect of Jew and Gentile so is all taken 2 Cor. 5. definitely and John 17.6 7. and 10. he gave him to the Sheep only whose sins he laid on him Isai 53.6.11.1 Pet. 2.24 25. 2. Cor. 5.21 and to whom only he gave and imputed his Righteousness 2 Tim. 1.9 10. Gal. 1.15 16. The Elect Jews were his Sheep and other Sheep I have that is the Elect of the Gentiles and the Reprobates he called Dogs Wolves Lyons c. which he ransomed not neither was given to ransom so he did more for his Elect than you acknowledge viz. transacted and bore their sins on his own body 2. He did it not for all but only for them whom the Father gave to him and him to them Joh. 17.2.6.8.9.11.29 Joh. 6.44.39.37 Joh. 10.3.11.15 16 26 27 28 29. These only by his Blood hath he cleansed in his sight not by Water-Baptism but by his Blood 1 Joh. 1.7.9 and Chap. 5. and of this is the Water of Baptism a Figure and by his Blood hath satisfied Justice for all their sins past to come and present and redeemed them and of this is the Supper a Symbol or Sign 1 Cor. 11. c. The fourth Article sings the same Song wresting the word All to a false sense that God is willing that all should come to repentance and none should perish and that the pardon of sins should be preached to every Creature that none might suffer in Hell The Word of God is belied making it speak what it intends not and the Gospel sophisticated For first the Gospel is ministerlally offered to all Mark 16.15 but by recommunication of the Spirit only to the Elect Rom. 9.11 12 13 18 19 20. with 1 Pet. 3.17 Mat. 13.11 To the Elect it is given to know the Gospel but not to the Reprobate Joh. 12.40 Rom. 11.7 8 9 10. And Piscator a Protestant Divine saith Gratia affertur à deo animo communicandi eam folis Electis hand quaque singulis To the fifth I say degrees of Christianity abstractively adapt not to the Ministry beside I deny you to be a Church of Christ Ergo have no power to give your approbation in Ordination Beside the Church alone though true cannot by Divine Authority ordain Ministers or Commissionate them to go forth to Preach The sixth Article is ambiguous as most of your Preachments are to deceive the simple and obtain Proselites Rom. 16.17 18 19. Submelli Hybleo venenum latet Faith don't justifie as an Act nor is it the Root of Justification as Papists say it is Christ and his Personal Righteousness that justifies the ungodly being Elected Rom. 4 Rom. 8.33 Psal 32.1 2 3. and they by Faith when God gives it them Ephes 2. apprehend and receive this Righteousness of Christ wrote in his Person for their justification Rom. 8.2.3 Joh. 1.12 where you say Believers commit themselves to his Grace I boldly assirm you Arminians Grotians and Pelagians don't mean by Grace to the imputation of his Righteousness wrought in his Individual Person for all his Sheep and given to them for their justification and received by Faith of them Thus all true Protestants but you with Bellarmine and all the Papists mean that the Act of Faith in this your Opinion and new-fangled Gospel and Christ with repentance and obedience to your holy Baptism this is your justification and the Papists for which you will be ashamed in the day of the Lord Jesus when the Thrones of the Kingdoms of the World shall bow before him Phil. 2. and all that own and receive not his imputed Righteousness shall be slain and cast in the Lake Rev. 21.8 and 22.15 The seventh Article tells a loud Lye like his Fellows for God gives his Spirit to his Elect Sons before you do believe or can believe repent or obey for all these are done by the Spirit or some Power else but no Power else but the Spirit can work these Ergo the Spirit is given first not before their Redemption Reconciliation and Justification but before the Application of this Grace by the Office of the holy Spirit this Grace is revealed received and applied to the Elect only Gal. 4.6 Col. 2.10 11 12. Joh. 14.15 16. Chap. 1 Cor. 2.10 11 12. Rom. 8.15 16. Ephes 1.13.18 19 20. The eighth Article is swoln big with the poyson of Sophistication and Contradiction and that because you hide your Errours under a disguise like a hitter Pill wrapt up in a little Sugar or Wormwoodseeds in Plumbs to deceive the simple and Children for you would make us believe you own the Decrees of God while indeed you deny them 2. Acontradiction because if they be Elected for foreseen Faith works or repentance then it is not of meer mercy and good will and nothing in the Creature but sin So that the second part of your Article contradicts the first and the first is sophisticated You say God Elects from the Foundation of the world such as believe that is when they believe he Elects them that is he hath decreed to Elect all that believe but he Elects them as meer sinners and because he Elects them they believe and not that he Elects them because they believe The ninth is like his Fellows full of falshood for they were ordained to Condemnation before they were ungodly men and because of their Reprobation