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A42401	An answer to a printed book, falsely intituled, A blow at the serpent It being truly a blow of the serpent, lately published by one Richard Coppin. Wherein, among many others, these following heresies, and abominable errours of his, are briefly, and plainly confuted out of the word of God. 1 That the deitie of Christ was united to the sinful nature of man, and consequently that his conception was impure. 2 That there is no resurrection of the body. 3 That the pains of Hell are not eternal. 4 That there is no general day of judgement, but such a temporal judgement only as befals men in this world. 5 That God will not destroy any man, but only sin in man. 6 That all shall be saved, the divel not excepted. 7 That the humane nature of Christ is not ascended into Heaven. By Edward Garland M.A. and minister of Gods word at Hartclip [sic] in Kent.	Garland, Edward.	1657 (1657)	Wing G259A; ESTC R223638	61,199	92

Captive into Assyria which is prophetically spoken of the time of grace wherein most of the Jews perished through incredulitie and hardness of heart The consideration whereof caused the Apostle to wish he were cut off from Christ for the Salvation of so great a number that perished Rom. 9. 3. And as there shall not be a universal salvation of the Jews so also not of the Gentiles for there is a fulness of the Gentiles as well as a fulness of the Jews but Plenitudo haec non ad numerum cunctorum pertinet sed ad numerum a Deo praefinitum Haymo Which is plainly shewed in Rev. 7. 4. where it is said that of the Tribes were sealed 144. thousand not that there were no more or fewer but he sets down a definite number for an indefinite 144 thousand as a great number but what are these compared to all the rest in Moses time there were 600. thousand fighting men and in the dayes of David 15. hundred thousand and more it is therefore apparent that but a remnant Rom. 9. 27. Though the children of Israel be as the sand of the Sea a Remnant shall be saved Secondly a fulness of the Gentiles there is also After that I beheld and loe a great number of all nations kindred and people c. Rev. 7. 9. he doth not say there that all nations and kindred and people were sealed but a great multitude of them which multitude compared to them that are left is but as an handful to an harvest and as the gleaning of the Grapes when the Vintage is ended as our Saviour himself testifies Mat. 7. 14 15. if a Prince should press throughout his Dominions three or four out of every parish and then draw them together they would be a great army or multitude but then compare them to those which are left and they will be but a few which should warn us to take heed to our selves the fewer there shall be saved the more careful should we be to make our calling and election sure by well-doing and walking in the wayes of Gods Commandements and also to be thankful to God that hath called us and left others as we see many thousands that have not the means of Salvation both in the east and west Indies and to express our thankfulness by our fruitfulness left God remove away his Candlestick You alledge divers places of Scripture to no purpose unlesse to deceive the ignorant who are commonly taken with it though the places quoted are meerly contradictory to the matter in hand as Rom. 11. 16. For we do not deny but that the generality of the Jews that remain at the latter end of the World shall be called and converted Christ himself hath taught it But what is this for the salvation of those many thousands that have died long before from the time of Christ in their infidelity and hardnesse of heart contemning the Gospel and blaspheming his name doth not the Apostle tell us plainly they shall be cut off and what becomes of branches cut off are they not cast into the fire Iohn 15. 6. If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a Branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned Now I desire to know how these shall be converted who it is that shall preach to them or whether the damned are capable of true Repentance Likewise you quote Psa. 2. 8. Ask of me and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession What doth this make for redemption out of hell God doth not say not say that he shall give him the Devils and the damned for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of Hell for his possession You undertake to commend your Doctrine by the efficacy and fruits of it but first prove the truth of it and we will consider the fruits of it till that be proved I hope no man will be so weak as to approve of it but I doubt not that what hath here been said will save the labour and shew it is apparently false But to give the more seeming Lustre and credit to it you tax us for preaching wrath Hell and damnation to prove souls that are weak in the faith Which is not the first lie that-such black-mouth'd Locusts have cast upon our labours We speak in the spirit of meeknesse to binde up the broken-hearted and poure into their aking wounds the balm of Gilead for the spirit of mourning the blood of Christ to comfort-their hearts and to heal their wounds but we preach wrath Hell and damnation not to the weak in faith but against obstinate sinners dissembling Hypocrites and apostatised Hereticks and for this we have both example and precept from our Saviour himself Mat. 10. 12 13 14 15. Verily I say unto you it shall be more easie for Sodom and Gomorah in the day of judgement then for that City Mark 16. 16. He that beleeveth and is Baptized shall be saved but he that beleeveth not shall be damned Now also what he commands that he himself practises Wo unto thee Chorazin wo unto thee Bethsaida c. Matth. 11. 21. Wo unto the world because of offences Mat. 18. 7. How many woes hath he denounced against the scribes and Pharisees Mat. 23. 13 14 15 16 23 25 27 29. We must not sow pillows under mens elbowes that they may sleep at ease in sin if we do we shall answer for it Eze. 13. 10 20. We have good Counsel in Jude v. 22 23. And of some have compassion making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire To some then a Minister must be a Barnabas a son of consolation to divulge Gods mercies as to the broken hearted Acts. 4. 36. To others a Boanerges the son of thunder to denounce Gods judgements as to obstinate sinners Mark 3. 17. You say that no man can be assured of his own salvation except he see the same Salvation in the same Saviour for all men as well as for himself And again that this Doctrine remains damnable to all that beleeve it not May we not say then that St. Paul was in a very sad condition if this were true for he undoubtedly beleeved it not who taught the quite contrary Rom. 2. 6 7. Rom. 9. 11 12 18. 2 Thes. 1. 6 7 8 9. Yet was he assured of his own salvation as appears out of Rom. 8. 38. and so may any man else that hath the testimony of Gods spirit though he never heard of your Doctrine CHAP. XII In this Chapter you oppose Christs coming to Iudgement in that sense in which it is set down in the Creed confirmed by the Scripture and received by all the Christian Churches in the World and this under the colour of a spiritual judgement which God inflicts upon unbeleevers and obstinate sinners in this life as though

torment me not before the time You say that God hath been with you to make sweet and pleasant your sufferings and Imprisonment to you It is a fearful judgement when God gives up men so far to believe their own lies that their own Poyson becomes pleasant and delectable unto them and that he doth this we find 2. Thes. 2. 10 11 12. Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness You boast of the sufferings as for the truth when they are for your abominable Blasphemie and bearing witness to lies for denying Christ Assention Session and the general day of judgement in that sense which the Scriptures deliver them unto us we know there are Pseudomartyrs as well as true Martyrs and as God comforts and supports the one so the Divel deludes and deceives the other for it is manifest to all sober Christians that read your Book you suffer not as a Martyr but as a Malefactor for rotten and detestable Heresies You complain some have revil'd you as a Blasphemer you should have said rebuk'd you What they have done I know not but I am sure it is their duty to warn their sheep to beware of the Wolf our Saviour himself hath done it Beware of false Prophets that come unto you in Sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening Wolves Mat. 7. 15. and if they neglect to do it and the Sheep perish they shall answer for their blood Eze. 3. 20. But if they do it and the Sheep be slain the Shepherds shall deliver their own Souls Ez. 33. 9. And certainly a more dangerous Wolf or Heretick was not in the Church from the dayes of the Apostles until this time What do I speak of one if Pythagoras's transmigration of souls could captivate my belief I should not judge unreasonably should I judge that the souls almost of all the former Hereticks were transported into you for not any one of them maintained so many damnable opinions God give you a sight of your sin and grace to repent that if it be possible the sin of your heart may be forgiven you As for your Book it is a Labyrinth of errours and you your self a blind guid that run headlong into the pit of perdition and draw others after you For the Aspersions which you and your deceived followers cast upon us the Ministers we regard them not It is an honour to be evil spoken of by such companions especially for the truth and for righteousness-sake But we shall leave our cause to God and pray with the Psalmist Psal. 35. 1. plead thou our cause O Lord with them that fight against us and Psal. 27. 12. Deliver us not over unto the will of our enemies for false witnesses are risen up against us and such as speak wrong Before I enter upon this disputation it will be requisite to say somewhat of Blasphemie because it is much spoken of in the ensuing discourse To Blaspheme God is to detract from his sacred majestie to offer injurie to his holy name and dishonourable and reproachful speeches the sin of Pharaoh Exod. 5. 2. the sin of Rabshaketh 2. Kin. 18. the sin of the Israelitish womans son Lev. 24. 10. The punishment of this sin was death when it was manifest and notorious Lev. 24. 16. Dan. 3. 29. This sin is committed three wayes First when that is ascribed unto God which is repugnant to his nature as if any say he is corrupt or subject unto evil affections Secondly when that is taken from him which is proper unto him as when any shall say God is not merciful good just c. Thirdly when that is attributed to the creature which is proper to the Creator as when any shall say the Angels made the world or that a meer man can forgive sins Or if any shall assume to himself the name of the Messias as did the false Prophets c. moreover I may adde that Heresie is Blasphemie and that Hereticks are Blasphemers First because they manifestly oppose the truth and so God who is prima veritas upon which account St. Paul condemns Hymineus and Alexander 1. Tim. 1. 20. Secondly because they make God the Author of their lies by wresting his word to confirm their errours which is the property of Satan the patron of lies Thirdly because they set Gods stamp upon their counterfeit mettal telling the people it is Gods gold when it is no other then Satans dross of most of which this Heretick is guiltie as will appear by the ensuing discourse these things premised I proceed Christ who knew no sin you say took part of mans flesh and blood which was sinful Again you say Christ took upon him the sinful nature of all that sinned By Christ it seems you mean the Deity And by sinful nature you mean his Humanitie for what else can be your sense Which Proposition is both false and Blasphemous for the Holy Ghost in the conception sanctifi'd the Masse whereof Christ was made and separated it from sin Luke 1. 35. The Angel said the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the most High shall over-shadow thee therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God The holy thing which shall be born of thee implies he was holy before he was born And this was done upon special cause First that it might be joyned to the Person of the Son which could not have been if it had been defiled with sin Secondly Christ was a Saviour as he was both God and man If he had been sinful himself he could not have saved others but should have stood in need of a Saviour himself therefore the humane nature of Christ was not polluted with Original sin but was sanctified And this sanctification hath two parts First the stoppage to the propagation of Original Corruption and the guilt of Adams Sin which was on this manner God in the beginning set down this order concerning man that what evil or defect he brought upon himself he should derive the same to every one of his Posteritie begotten of him and accordingly when any father begets his Child he is in the place of Adam and conveys into it beside the nature of man the very guilt and corruption of nature now for preventing this evil in Christ God provided in great wisdome that he should be conceived by the Holy Ghost without any generation by man and by this means he took the substance of the Virgin Mary and not the guilt and corruption of the substance Secondly as your proposition is false so it is blasphemous for you charge Christ with Original sin for as the soul and body make but one man So the divine and humane nature make but one Christ not the divine nature alone as you erroneously suppose

which you blasphemously and impudently stand to deny Your words are Therefore the Words of Christ are not to be understood carnally but spiritually And again you say concerning his comming to judgement I do believe he is come and comming daily and doth set up his Throne in the hearts of his people c. And thus by your foolish figures and spiritual as you pretend senceless sences you pervert the Scriptures meaning and to your power overthrow two Articles of our faith both necessarie to Salvation First therefore I will shew the veritie of Christs Ascension and that it is to be understood literally and not figuratively and then confute your cavils First for the truth of his Ascension we have the Testimonies of the Evangelists Mark 16. 19. So then after the Lord had spoken to them he was received up into Heaven and sat on the right hand of God Luke 24. 51. And it came to pass while he blessed them he was parted from them and carried up into Heaven The Testimony of Angels Acts 1. 9. St. Luke sets downs the circumstances and the manner of his Ascension The time 40. dayes after his Resurrection Acts 1. 3. The place from whence Mount Olivet near Bethany Luke 24. 50. Acts 1. 12. The manner first He led them out as far as to Bethany and blessed them Luke 24. 50. He went apart from them Verse 51. Thirdly a cloud did over-shadow him Acts 1. 9. The Testimony of the whole Church of God who make it an Article of their faith And this was not another body but the same body which he had before as the Angels testifie Acts 1. 19. This same Jesus whom you have seen go into Heaven c. this same Jesus not another not a Phantastical body but his true body Iohn 20. 27. Then said he to Thomas reach hither thy finger and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and be not faithless but believing Revelation 1. 7. They shall see him whom they have pierced Here you see is a whole cloud of witnesses the Testimony of the Apostles of Angels and the spirit of God How is your forehead steel'd that you dare out-face a truth as apparent as the Sun at Noon-day But you except against the Testimony of the Apostles and say they had not received the holy Ghost but were carnal before you Blasphemed Christ now the Apostles for there is a Blasphemie against man also Naboth was falsely charged to have blasphemed God and the King Did not our Saviour breath upon them saying unto them receive the Holy Ghost Iohn 20. 22. though they had not recived him in that manner and measure as they did upon the day of Pentecost yet it doth not follow they had not received him before You say moreover that they were carnal If you mean totally carnal 't is as false as the other for our Saviour gives this Testimony of them that they had followed him in the Kingdome of Regeneration and should sit upon 12. Thrones c. when he should sit upon his Throne of glory Luke 22. 29 30. what can be more plain to prove that they had the Holy Ghost and were regenerated You told us you were a light you are rather a dark Lanthorn or such a light as those Doctors were which St. Paul speaks of 1. Tim. 1. 7. they took upon them to teach the Law not knowing what they taught nor whereof they affirm'd Again you object out of Luke 1. 35. and Ephes. 4. 5 9 10. He that ascended is the same that descended and we do not read of a body of flesh and bones that descended But Sir we read that the second Person in the Trinity descended so low as to take upon him our nature Gal. 4. 4. God sent forth his Son made of a Woman and Heb. 2. 14 16. for asmuch as the Children are partakers of flesh and blood He also himself likewise took part of the same so he took not on him the nature of Angels but he took on him the seed of Abraham Et quod semel assumsit nunquam amisit And he remains a Priest for ever Heb. 5. 6. Then when he had perfected the work of our Redemption he ascended up into Heaven sat down at the right hand of God to make intercession for us Now who doth this He that died or rather he that is risen from the dead and who was that Christ Christ is risen and what is Christ God and Man in one Person read Rom. 8. 34. Instance The second Person descended as he was God ascended God and Man therefore he that ascended was not the same that descended You erre not knowing the Scriptures For though the second Person descended and took our nature upon him yet it was without the confusion of natures or transfusion of essential properties though he was made that he was not God and Man in one Person yet he remained that he was before perfect God And therefore he that ascended was the same that descended The Apostle cryes out Great is the mysterie of godliness God was manifested in the flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the World and received up into glory Next follows the Blasphemous Inference if Christ be at Gods right hand in a body of flesh and bones why then this is to make God to be a body of flesh and bones also and such a one as your self confin'd to a local place Which doth not follow for the Godhead was united unto the Humane Nature without any confusion of natures or transfusion of essential properties The Word was made flesh not by turning the Word into flesh but by taking the Humanitie into the Deitie Which the Antients thus exprest Sum quod eram neceram quod sum nunc dicar utrumque And therefore for a man to say in concreto that Christ hath a body of flesh and bones is true but to say that God hath a body of flesh and bones in abstracto or that God is confined to a place is horrible Blasphemy for which you were seasonably taken off by Captain Harrison The next thing to be considered is the comming of Christ to judgement which Pillar of our faith you endeavour to pull down by turning all into an Allegorie and so overthrow the true sense of the Scriptures You say but I do believe he is come and comming dayly and likewise you say in the foregoing Page all this I know and see to be now he is upon his Throne and hath all nations before him and ever had First I will prove the veritie of this Article and then confute your errours The veritie of Christs comming to judgement is confirmed by these places of Scripture Rev. 20. 10. I beheld a white Throne and him that sat thereon from whose face Heaven and earth fled away I saw the dead both great and small stand before God and the Books were opened The